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"Slay" is a funny word. I think of it mostly having a connotation of a just person killing something evil. So I could slay a dragon, but not a chicken.

It has connotations of heroism.

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Chickens can be proper evil buggers. Slaying is júst the word you are looking for.

"And lo, it was an evil chicken before my eyes. And as he was evil, I slew him."

Thank you! Remember they are, in essense, dinosaurs. Evil little dionsaurs with mad, beady eyes!

IDK, many serial killers are known as The Foo Bar Slayer.

Maybe it's actually that it's archaic and, therefore, used only for grandiose things? Serial killers are usually given "cool" names.

I don't know exactly what the connotation is, but it's real.

It almost becomes fully inverted in the Legend of Zelda games. I think this behavior is there in the whole series, but in Ocarina of Time in particular, if you kill a chicken, there's a dramatic cutscene of the chicken dying which foreshadows the chicken's brethren registering your evil. They then chase and attack you. You can't fight the horde back, so they eventually kill you unless you get indoors before that occurs.

Minor correction: When you attempt to kill a cucco (chicken) after a few hits it'll crow for the backup ones which kill you. The first one never dies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFRI3byJgYA

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