History Main / AlasPoorYorick

* WallBanger riddled ''Highlander 2'' has the scene being played out for a audience using Ramirez's skull. He comes back to life during the performance, much to the annoyance of the actor playing Hamlet.

[[caption-width-right:330:Alas, poor [[StarWars Jango Fett]].]]

* In ''BeastWars'', Dinobot performs a similar scene while holding Tarantulas' leg.

-->-- Christopher Reeve as Hamlet, on ''TheMuppetShow''

* When Catherine of Siena saw a young man named Niccolo di Toldi being taken to execution, she went to keep him company to the end, and when he had been beheaded, received and embraced his severed head. So...OlderThanPrint.

* Parodied by DavidBowie: When he performed "Cracked Actor" on tour in 1974, he was dressed as a hybrid of Hollywood star and Hamlet, being "filmed" as he sang to a prop skull. The segment climaxed with him ''French-kissing'' the skull. (This act was later revived for the 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour, with the twist that his stagehands suddenly strip him of all the revelant props/costume pieces when he starts kissing the skull, leaving him a bit bemused.)

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* {{Oglaf}} [[http://oglaf.com/salome/1/ did a take on this]] which involved an adult [[TheBible Salome]] secretly making out with a severed head presented to her with the intention of mocking her adolescent follies.

This trope is very often used to conjure up pity for the holder and perhaps suggest that they're more than a little off their rocker. Expect {{wangst}} to follow. In animated adaptations of anime in particular, this part is often left out.

* In George Whetstone's play, ''Promos and Cassandra'' (on which, in part [[WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] ''MeasureForMeasure'' is based), Cassandra (the analogue of Shakespeare's Isabella) cradles and kisses the severed head that she thinks is that of her brother, Andrugio (Claudio). [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Yucketh]].

* In StephenKing's ''TheDarkTower/TheDrawingOfTheThree'', the second book in the TheDarkTower series, Eddie cradles Henry's head after the gunfight at Balazar's bar.

* In StephenKing's ''Drawing Of The Three'', the second book in the Dark Tower series, Eddie cradles Henry's head after the gunfight at Balazar's bar.

->'''Bandit Keith:''' "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him... In America!!"
->'''Bonz/Zombieboy:''' "I graduated from Zombie School for this?"
-->-- ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}''

* In Bill Cain's ''Equivocation'', right after [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Gunpowder conspirator Thomas Wintour]] is executed, his severed head delivers a WhamLine, causing the man who sent him to his death to drop the cranium. [[ShakespeareInFiction Shag]] catches it and cradles it, looking horrified and speechless as the lights black out and intermission begins.