Shout-out to Seymour from Little Shop Of Horrors for his encounter with the evil dentist and how it only nominally follows the trope of “hero doesn’t end up having to kill the villain because the villain conveniently gets himself killed through his own bad decisions”

because 1. he went to that dentist office fully intending to shoot the guy dead and 2. that choice directly set in motion the series of events leading to dentist dying from his own bad decisions and 3. Seymour got to watch him die begging for help and actively refuse to save him

Only movie death I can think of where killing the villain was both the hero’s intention and the ultimate result of his actions, and yet he still comes out of it with narratively clean hands….. getting to say “I didn’t kill him! (but i did chop him up)!” for all the actual difference that makes, lmao