The least cruel method is apparently to shine a torch in the creature's face and dispatch it with a high-powered rifle.
A killer is stalking them, prowling underlighted interiors in a mask with a cherub's face and dispatching the "Valentine" cast one by one.
With an on-court microphone in his face after dispatching Roddick in late night, Djokovic came off as angry and ungracious when he should have been playful, perhaps leaving Arthur Ashe Stadium with a fake limp.
No one really needed to see Travis cave Brandon's head in with a boot, or a zombie rip a guy's face off, or Nick dispatch an opponent by putting thumbs through his eye sockets, or Andreas try to hack into Oscar's skull with a box cutter.
In his first outing, 1962's Cover Her Face, he is dispatched to Martingale manor house in Essex to investigate the violent death of a young woman; in The Private Patient, published in 2008, he lights out for Cheverell Manor in Dorset to apply his brand of thoughtful, practical logic to a similar crime.
Yet in the short but eventful span since winning the cup last month, Coutts has learned that the shoreside realities of such a role can be more imposing than anything his team faced while dispatching Italy's Prada Challenge in a five-race sweep.
Instead, the vicar for education, Msgr. Thomas Bergin, was dispatched to face more than 500 angry parents, students and other supporters who vowed to save the school.
Maybe novels are where our selves get to put up their feet, take off their clothes and makeup and dentures, cut loose with an echoing fart, and be a little truer to what they are for a bit, before they are once more pressed into service, sealed in their uniforms, and dispatched to face a reality in which they can't, for good reason, entirely believe.
After two hours, Homer took a break, having faced seven opponents and dispatched them all.
There are few shots in cinema as bone-chilling as the closeup on Stanwyck's face as Neff dispatches Phyllis's husband in the back seat of a car.
