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* One remarkable TearJerker moment from RurouniKenshin comes from [[TheLancer Sanosuke Sagara's]] flashback as a child, who was adopted by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekihōtai Sekihoutai]] leader [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagara_Sōzō Sagara Souzou]] ([[spoiler:here given a HistoricalHeroUpgrade and HistoricalBeautyUpgrade]]). After the Sekihōtai was accused of being a "false army" by the Restoration government of the Ishin Shishi (making them the fall guys for the failure of the government in service delivery), [[spoiler:they were executed in the mountains, with Sagara's head chopped off and displayed in public]]. It would be Sanosuke's [[FreudianExcuse excuse to sabotage any Ishin Shishi he meets and live as hired muscle codenamed "Zanza," [[DefeatMeansFriendship until he meets]] [[TheHero ex-assassin Kenshin Himura]] and gets a WorldOfCardboardSpeech.

* One remarkable TearJerker moment from RurouniKenshin comes from [[TheLancer Sanosuke Sagara's]] flashback as a child, who was adopted by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekihōtai Sekihōtai]] leader [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagara_SSōzō Sagara Sōzō]] ([[spoiler:here given a HistoricalHeroUpgrade and HistoricalBeautyUpgrade]]). After the Sekihōtai was accused of being a "false army" by the Restoration government of the Ishin Shishi (making them the fall guys for the failure of the government in service delivery), [[spoiler;they were executed in the mountains, with Sagara's head chopped off and displayed in public.]] It would be Sanosuke's [[FreudianExcuse excuse to sabotage any Ishin Shishi he meets and live as hired muscle codenamed "Zanza," [[DefeatMeansFriendship until he meets]] [[TheHero ex-assassin Kenshin Himura]] and gets a WorldOfCardboardSpeech.

* One remarkable TearJerker moment from RurouniKenshin comes from [[TheLancer Sanosuke Sagara's]] flashback as a child, who was adopted by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekihōtai Sekihōtai]] leader [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagara_S%C5%8Dz%C5%8D Sagara Sōzō]] ([[spoiler:here given a HistoricalHeroUpgrade and HistoricalBeautyUpgrade]]). After the Sekihōtai was accused of being a "false army" by the Restoration government of the Ishin Shishi (making them the fall guys for the failure of the government in service delivery), [[spoiler;they were executed in the mountains, with Sagara's head chopped off and displayed in public.]] It would be Sanosuke's [[FreudianExcuse excuse to sabotage any Ishin Shishi he meets and live as hired muscle codenamed "Zanza," [[DefeatMeansFriendship until he meets]] [[TheHero ex-assassin Kenshin Himura]].

* Dracula's skeleton, with a stake through where his heart would have been, was displayed in a traveling medicine show in ''House of Frankenstein''. When the stake was removed he came back to life, including flesh, hair, moustache, and [[{{Wall Banger}} tuxedo]].

* Hitler had his body cremated so the Russians ''couldn't'' parade him around.

* Although it doesn't happen, Darkseid gloats that he will put Superman's head on a pike in his throne room at the climax of JusticeLeagueUnlimited.

*** Meghren the usurper also favoured placing the severed heads of "traitors," including Maric's own mother, on the walls of Fort Drakon in the prequel novel The Stolen Throne. When Maric slays Meghren, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he returns the favour.]]

* Gawkers take pictures of Jesse James' body on display at the climax of TheAssassinationOfJesseJames.

* Gawkers take pictures of Jesse James' body on display at the climax of TheAssassinationOfJesseJameByTheCowardBobFord.

* In DragonAgeOrigins the amount of bloody human displays of burning carnage left by the blight can really only be seen to believe.

** Elmer [=McCurdy=] is one of the most notorious examples. After performing an utterly failriffic robbery (take: $40 and a bottle of booze), he yelled "[[TemptingFate You'll never take me alive!]]" at the posse. They didn't bother. His embalmed corpse ("The Man Who Would Not Be Taken Alive") became an extremely popular touring exhibit, until finally it ended up hanging in a funhouse wrapped up as a mummy. They found it during filming of a ''TheSixMillionDollarMan'' episode. He is now buried in a concrete-sealed tomb.

** There's a pub in Ankh-Morpork called "The Klatchian's Head". The current pup sign is wooden, but it used to be a genuine war trophy. More recently, a trophy troll's head was removed from the Morporkian embassy in Bonk, Uberwald, during the events of ''The Fifth Elephant''.

** [[spoiler:Mark Antony and Cleopatra]] ended up Type 2'd during the SeriesFinale as part of [[strike:Octavian's]] Augustus Caesar's triumphal parade.

** Mark Antony and Cleopatra ended up Type 2'd during the SeriesFinale as part of [[strike:Octavian's]] Augustus Caesar's triumphal parade.

**[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus He's got beautiful plumage]].