im workin on a game:

http://www.geocities.com/fivehitcombo

but when you shoot the badguy while he is already in a death animation, he will restart the death animation. so i was thinkin need a statement on the enemy's mc that said "if frame is greater than 18(begining of death animation) then dont play the animation again...how do i do this? surely the use of ! somewhere???