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* In the first poem of the ''Literature/VitaNuova'', [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Love]] appears out of thin air holding Dante's heart in his hand while it burns. Dante doesn't seem to mind losing the heart and seeing Love feed it to someone because dreams are weird like that.

* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz:

* The Aztecs did this on a daily basis with their captives. They thrust a dagger under the ribs of the victim, yanked their heart out, and held it up as an offering of blood to their gods.

* In ''[[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms The Subtle Blade]]'', there's a character in Artemis's old assassin's guild who ''claims'' he can rip a man's heart out so quickly that he can show it to the victim while it still beats. Artemis isn't remotely impressed and kills him with little effort.

* Music/GreenDay's "Music/AmericanIdiot"

** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} for dark comedy in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'', where the 'important organ' being removed from the victim was ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpbrGgaHGRo their entire skeleton]]'', somehow removed intact from the mouth and proudly brandished while the hapless victim collapses into a pile. The sheer absurdity of the act (and the remarkable cleanliness of both the skeleton and the hyper-degloved victim) keeps the move from being too horrific to show.

* A variation is done in the ''Film/TalesFromTheCrypt'' segment "Poetic Justice". Arthur Grimsdyke rips off James Elliott's heart, and although he doesn't show it to ''James'', he ''does'' leave it as a nasty surprise for James' father.

-->'''Whitmore''': And, [[ScaryBlackMan Boulder]]... ripped out a man's heart and ate it? The physics of punching through a man's sternum alone make that an impossibility. Next time, spare me the hyperbole.

* At the end of ''Videogame/{{Deltarune}}'' Chapter 1, [[spoiler: Kris falls out of bed after having a seizure-like fit, slowly struggles to their feet, shuffles around like a zombie, and then ''plunges a hand into their own chest and '''tears their soul out of their body!''''' They hold it up almost triumphantly, before flinging it into a birdcage in the corner of their room.]]

-->'''[[CombatCommentator Howard "Buckshot" Holmes]]''': That's what I call a ''[[{{Pun}} heart attack!]]''\\
'''Kreese Kreeley''': [[DeadpanSnarker That's what I call a dickwad comment]].\\
'''Howard''': You're a hateful man.

* [[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/05/31/2010-05-31_mma_fighter_jarrod_wyatt_allegedly_ripped_out_training_partner_taylor_powells_he.html MMA fighter Jarrod Wyatt]]apparently ripped out his training partner's heart (along with tongue and most of his face) because he thought Satan was in him after getting high on "mushroom tea". According to the [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/US-cage-fighter-Jarrod-Wyatt-rips-training-partner-Taylor-Powells-heart.html#ixzz0pWlIykDe Daily Mail]] ([[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers so take that as you will]]), Taylor Powell was still alive when the heart came out, so it might fit under [[BeatStillMyHeart here]] as well.

* At the end of ''Videogame/{{Deltarune}}'' Chapter 1, Kris falls out of bed after having a seizure-like fit, slowly struggles to their feet, shuffles around like a zombie, and then ''plunges a hand into their own chest and '''tears their soul out of their body!''''' They hold it up almost triumphantly, before flinging it into a birdcage in the corner of their room.

* Attempted by [[spoiler:Team GRVE]] in ''Fanfic/RemnantInferisDOOM'', as they tried to cut out Ruby's womb and force her to watch as they did it. Thankfully, Beacon's instructors [[BigDamnHeroes arrive just in time]] to stop them.

* In the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fanfic [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?34086-MSPA-Fanfiction-IV&p=4484031#post4484031 "A Wound For Two,"]] Vriska rips out Karkat's heart. Incredibly, he still lives long enough to kiss her (and, it's implied, to be saved through cyber-prosthetics).

* Doing this is a necessary way to create ''veidrdraugr''[[note]] Super-strong, super-fast zombies animated by BlackMagic [[/note]] in ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm.'' [[HumanoidAbomination Grave]][[EvilSorcerer moss]] does this to Sif under Paris, but thankfully [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] blows him sky-high before he can do anything else. (This is NotHyperbole, by the way; he ''literally'' punted Gravemoss into the stratosphere. Because he's awesome like that).

* Invoked and Subverted in ''FanFic/TheEndingOfTheEndLoveAndToleranceEdition'', while the LegionOfDoom is trying to unlock the power of Grogar's Bell, Cozy Glow reads a part of the instructions saying Tirek and Chrysalis have to tune their magic to the beat of a pony's heart. Prompting Cozy (the one pony out of the trio) to wonder what that means while Tirek and Chrysalis exchange a look, before lunging at her while reaching for her chest... so they could gently feel her frightened heart beat and get the magic frequency right.
--> '''Cozy:''' “G-golly, I thought you guys were gonna… heh, nevermind.”

* ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'': "Dude, that's my heart."

* ''Comicbook/{{Annihilation}}'': Drax the Destroyer kills ComicBook/{{Thanos}} by [[http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa279/onanthetransmuter/Annihilation4-026.jpg punching through his back and shoving his heart out of his chest.]] Thanos [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction simply looks down at it and says "Interesting."]]

* ''Comicbook/PainkillerJane'': In the TV adaptation, they quickly show that a neuro who can walk through walls uses her power to kill needlessly.

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* In TheEighties HeroesRUs series ''Soldiers of Barrabas'', a Soviet officer tries to rape and murder TheSquadette, so she rips off his testicles and, after he's passed out in agony, leaves them in his coat pocket for him to find later. Whereupon he faints again.

** Near the end of "[[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} Omni-Man]] VS [[ComicBook/TheBoys Homelander]]", [[spoiler:Omni-Man rips out Homelander's heart, and then proceeds to make good on his PreAsskickingOneLiner from the beginning of the fight by [[{{Autocannibalism}} feeding him it]]]].