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* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIITidesOfDarkness'': During the mission briefing for the Tomb of Sargeras level, the player is asked to "return with the head of Gul'dan." His skull goes on to be a powerful artifact that corrupts the environment around it, houses Gul'dan's lingering spirit, is used to close the Dark Portal that allowed the Orcs to invade Azeroth. It is even an obtainable item in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.

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* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIITidesOfDarkness'': During the mission briefing for the Tomb of Sargeras level, the player is asked to "return with the head of Gul'dan." His skull goes on to be a powerful artifact that corrupts the environment around it, houses Gul'dan's lingering spirit, and is used to close the Dark Portal that allowed the Orcs to invade Azeroth. It is even an obtainable item in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.
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* {{Discussed|Trope}} in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E22ForTheCause "For the Cause"]]. In a side plot, The exiled Cardassian spy-turned-tailor Elim Garak, who was responsible for the torture and death of Gul Dukat's father years ago, is befriended by Dukat's daughter, Tora Ziyal. Consequently, Garak fears that Ziyal has been instructed by her father to kill him, believing that she's going to present his severed head to Dukat as a birthday gift. Ultimately, however, Ziyal convinces Garak that she is sincerely interested in being his friend, as the only other Cardassian on Deep Space Nine.

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* {{Discussed|Trope}} in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E22ForTheCause "For the Cause"]]. In a side plot, The exiled Cardassian spy-turned-tailor Elim Garak, who was responsible for the torture and death of [[Characters/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineGulDukat Gul Dukat's Dukat]]'s father years ago, is befriended by Dukat's daughter, Tora Ziyal. Consequently, Garak fears that Ziyal has been instructed by her father to kill him, believing that she's going to present his severed head to Dukat as a birthday gift. Ultimately, however, Ziyal convinces Garak that she is sincerely interested in being his friend, as the only other Cardassian on Deep Space Nine.
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* The BlackComedy ''Film/EightHeadsInADuffelBag''. Creator/JoePesci works for TheMafia and has been ordered by his superior to bring back the heads of eight decapitated victims as proof of their deaths. HilarityEnsues.

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* The BlackComedy ''Film/EightHeadsInADuffelBag''. Creator/JoePesci works for TheMafia and has been ordered by his superior to bring back the heads of eight decapitated victims as proof of their deaths. HilarityEnsues.
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* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', the leader of a [[MushroomMan myconid]] colony named Spaw (or Glut if he succeeds in usurping Spaw) will demand for the head of Nere, a drow True Soul who leads a band of duergar slavers that recently attacked the colony when one of their deep gnome slaves sought refuge there, as retribution for said attack. Once the party meets Nere in Grymforge and kills him and his allies, they may then cut his head off and deliver it to Spaw/Glut.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': In a 1991 strip, Dilbert is trying to schedule a meeting with his boss, but the boss' secretary says she won't put him on the calendar until he brings her the head of Willy the Mailboy.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': In a 1991 strip, Dilbert is trying to schedule a meeting with his boss, but the boss' secretary says she won't put him on the calendar until he brings her the head of Willy the Mailboy.Mailboy; one compilations takes its name from that line of dialogue.
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* During the mission briefing for the Tomb of Sargeras level in ''VideoGame/WarcraftII'', the player is asked to "return with the head of Gul'dan." His skull goes on to be a powerful artifact that corrupts the environment around it, houses Gul'dan's lingering spirit, is used to close the Dark Portal that allowed the Orcs to invade Azeroth. It is even an obtainable item in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.

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* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIITidesOfDarkness'': During the mission briefing for the Tomb of Sargeras level in ''VideoGame/WarcraftII'', level, the player is asked to "return with the head of Gul'dan." His skull goes on to be a powerful artifact that corrupts the environment around it, houses Gul'dan's lingering spirit, is used to close the Dark Portal that allowed the Orcs to invade Azeroth. It is even an obtainable item in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.
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* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'': In ''Nine Princes in Amber'', Corwin negotiates with the appropriately named Caine, one of his brothers, asking him to stand aside as Corwin and Bleys move their army to take Amber. Caine is willing to do so, but asks for the head of another brother in turn. The extent to which Caine is series and the extent to which he is playing a role are never quite clear.
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* The cover of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'' issue #113 (a UK original) features Rodimus Prime demanding Galvatron's head.
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* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': Played for BlackComedy when a villain demands "substantial biomaterial" from hit men as proof of death, being unfamiliar with Earth biology. Cheryl somehow [[https://bogleech.com/awfulhospital/w15 produces]] a copy of her own severed head via unexplained [[TheMultiverse Multiverse]] shenanigans that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even creep out the hit men]].
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* At the start of ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', the corrupt governor of Del Mar crashes the party Puss is throwing in his own mansion with his men and orders them to "Bring me the head of Puss in Boots!" (a ShoutOut to ''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfAlfredoGarcia'' below).
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