History CruelAndUnusualDeath / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has many of the examples from the [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire book series]], but adds in its own ones:
** Ser Rodrik ends up being beheaded by Theon, but Theon botches it so it takes three swings and a kick to get his head off.
** Ros gets hung from her wrists to the end of a bed and used as target practice by Joffrey, who shoots her in the breasts and crotch, killing her.
** Talisa gets stabbed repeatedly in the stomach, ''while pregnant''.
** The books' death for Oberyn Martell is bad enough -- having thought that he'd won the fight against Gregor Clegane, he gets caught off guard and has his face punched in and his brains, teeth, and eyes bashed out. The show actually manages to make this ''infinitely'' worse by actually showing Oberyn ''having his eyes slowly gouged out while his head is being crushed by Clegane's bare hands''. He literally dies screaming in slow, horrific agony before it's interrupted by a sudden jerk from Clegane, a simultaneous eruption of blood from between his hands, and Ellaria shrieking at the sight.
** Khal Drogo pulls this off more than once, all of them for slights against his wife. The most memorable ones are when he rips a man's tongue out through his neck and dumps molten gold on someone's head.
** Ramsay Bolton [[spoiler: is torn apart by his own hounds. KarmicDeath at its finest.]]
** Septa Unella was probably [[spoiler:tortured and raped by a zombie Gregor Clegane until she died.]]
** Renly is fatally stabbed by a demonic shadow of his own ''brother'' that snarls with hate before vanishing. It's truly the stuff of nightmares.
** The High Septon is torn apart by an angry mob.
** Xaro and Doreah are sealed in an impenetrable vault.
** Joffrey is killed by a brutal poison that causes bleeding from eyes, nose, and mouth.
** Karl Tanner is impaled through the head by a Valyrian steel longsword.
** Stannis has his daughter Shireen burned alive as a sacrifice to the Lord of Light.
** Lord Rickard tried to win back Lyanna and Brandon in a TrialByCombat. He chose himself as champion. The Mad King chose fire as his champion and had Lord Rickard roasted alive in his own armor.
** During Lord Rickard's death, Brandon was put in a noose with a sword just out of reach. Brandon strangled himself trying to reach the sword to free his father.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has many of the examples from the [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire book series]], but adds in its own ones.
** Ser Rodrik ends up beings beheaded by Theon, but Theon botches it so it takes three swings and a kick to get his head off.

** The book's death for Oberyn Martell is bad enough--having thought he won the fight against Gregor Clegane, he gets caught off guard and has his face punched in and his brains, teeth, and eyes bashed out. The show actually manages to make this ''infinitely'' worse by actually showing Oberyn ''having his eyes slowly gouged out while his head is being crushed by Clegane's bare hands''. He literally dies screaming in slow, horrific agony before it's interrupted by a sudden jerk from Clegane, a simultaneous eruption of blood from between his hands, and Ellaria shrieking at the sight.

** Kahl Drogo pulls this off more than once, all of them for slights against his wife. The most memorable one is when he rips a man's tongue out through his neck.

** In "Sanguinarium", people get killed in gruesome ways. One lady is killed while they perform a liposuction on her and fat being sucked through a tube turns into blood. Other lady got inserted hundreds of straight pins into her stomach; she threw them up and died of blood loss. The last was saved at the last moment, but the demonic doctor got surgical instruments inside of her!

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has many of the examples from the [[ASongOfIceAndFire book series]], but adds in its own ones.

* ''DeadLikeMe''. The main character dies of being hit in the head with the toilet seat from a deorbiting space station... [[FirstEpisodeResurrection in the first episode]].
** DeadLikeMe manages to make this nearly ''OncePerEpisode'', as it's a show about 'Reapers' dealing with ''accidental'' deaths.

* Spike TV's ''[[OneThousandWaysToDie 1000 Ways To Die]]'' is all about this trope. It doesn't shy away from including graphic images of being wrapped in freshly-killed animal skins and left to be pecked to death by vultures, to being asphyxiated by cocoa powder, to jumping from a cliff into a lake and hitting the water at an angle that causes water to rush into the rectum, rupturing the large intestine.

** Anyone who is shot by a Dalek's DeathRay. They don't just kill you, oh no, that would be far too nice. Their weapons are intentionally designed to almost instantly kill any target, but inflict the maximum amount of agony possible. Why? Because as as far as Daleks are concerned, anyone who isn't a Dalek deserves to die in agony for the crime of not being a Dalek. WordOfGod says that they set it at one notch ''just below'' what's required to kill their targets, so that instead of instantly dying, their victims nervous systems are burned out... ''which they can feel before they die''.

** Anyone who is shot by a Dalek's DeathRay. They don't just kill you, oh no, that would be far too nice. Their weapons are intentionally designed to almost instantly kill any target, but inflict the maximum amount of agony possible. Why? Because as as far as Daleks are concerned, anyone who isn't a Dalek deserves to die in agony for the crime of not being a Dalek.

* Also from ''Series/DoctorWho'', the Daleks' energy weapons. WordOfGod says that they set it at one notch ''just below'' what's required to kill their targets, so that instead of instantly dying, their victims nervous systems are burned out... ''which they can feel before they die''.

* In the episode "Where There's Smoke" of ''{{CSI NY}}'', the killer trapped his former foster mother in an elevator and started a fire right next to it, essentially cooking her to death.

** The third season has the world governments incinerating people. The problem? Everyone is immortal and, as far as anyone knows, can still feel pain even as a charred corpse.

* The first episode of ''{{Frasier}}'' has Roz tell the story of Lupe Velez, who wanted a lavish suicide and instead as she was trying to overdose she stumbled into the bathroom and goes head first into the toilet.

** Spike once told Buffy that as soon as he was able to get at her, "they're going to be finding your body for ''weeks''."

** In the episode "52 Pickup" the unsub disembowled young women, then forced them to clean up the mess with their intestines hanging out, before slitting their throats.
* ''{{Community}}'' - in "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps", Annie ends her Halloween story having her defeating vampire Jeff revealing herself to be a werewolf. Her narrative is only made creepier by her perky, button-down demeanor:

** Talisa gets stabbed repeatedly in the vagina, ''while pregnant''.

* Many of the victims in CriminalMinds suffer this:

* In ''Series/CSI'' in Las Vegas, there was a rapist who joined a cooking show with a friend of his (another rapist). The show's producer was the rape victim's vengeful sister, who proceeded to stab the man multiple times with his own knife, before dismembering parts of the man and using those parts as cooking materials for a "mystery meat" challenge. His friend was murdered by the producer as well, albeit in a less violent manner - death by asphyxiation from an allergy to almonds.