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Seemingly unkillable monster that has, for the entire film, proven itself to be unkillable gets "killed" only to murder the person who is standing ontop of the dead/not dead monster while looking back at the rest of the group.
Like, seriously, you know the thing isn't easy to kill. Why suddenly lose all sense of self preservation and paranoia about the monster's leathal state?
Honorable mention to the "unecessary sacrifice" where a character "bravely" stands in the way of the monster (who tears through them like tissue paper) instead of running away to give the rest of the characters something like .001 second more time to run away.
And they have to stand there arguing about it for a solid minute before running.
And when it actually happens, they have to stand there in horror yelling "No!" Or "(Character Name!)"
yeah the only way to do this believably is to have (char name)'s death make a meaningful delay possible while maintaining tension throughout their escape from danger, and later when the adrenaline subsides you show them having to process the loss of (char name)
When Stranger Things latest season spent like half an hour building up to this trope so they could needlessly kill off the fan favourite character in a storm of bats. It made no sense character or plot wise it was just Metal™