How can I murder VLC?

I’m trying to kill vlc, but it won’t die

$ pkill vlc
$ pgrep vlc
498043
498044
526260
526261
567691
1261617
1268257
1282412
1282413
1852470
1982044
2074146
2074147
2074148
2924157
2924158
3044953
3044954
3082241
3082242

I’ve also done it with sudo, but still unable to assassinate.

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Did you try pkill -9?

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wow, thanks; that worked.

I’m used to using killall -9, but that command stopped working some time ago;)

Thanks.

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