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Originally Posted by trebor8273  The one thing I don't understand is in the other films all seven daggers are needed to kill him while here one will do the job. |
Yeah, that has always seemed strange. The best way of looking at it is this.
The seven daggers are supposed to be used in the form of a cross with the centre dagger the one that extinguishes physical life.
The other daggers extinguishes spiritual life.
So when Damien was stabbed by one dagger it extinguished his physical life, therefore killing the Anti Christ in body. By using only one dagger the ritual was not completed correctly and so even though the physical body on Earth was destroyed the soul of the Anti Christ actually lives on.