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[[caption-width-right:350:I guess he did have guts- pity they're all over the street now!]]

--->'''Captain''': "You! Show me how you execute a deadly abdomen attack with your bayonet!"
--->'''Soldier''': "Jawhol!" (ripping sounds are heard)
--->'''Captain''': [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction (with his intestines dangling out)]] " On the mannequin, you moron!"

-->I wrench the blade from the chest to the crotch
-->Organs and entrails fall to the ground

--> For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name—
--> Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,
--> Which smoked with bloody execution,
--> Like valor’s minion carved out his passage
--> Till he faced the slave;
--> Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
--> '''Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops''' [from the navel to the jawbone],
--> And fixed his head upon our battlements.

--> '''Squid''': Knife-a goes in, Guts-a come out, That's what Osaka Seafood Concern is all about! (anguished scream)
** In an early episode, Moe threatens a prank-caller (who he doesn't know is Bart) that if he ever finds out who he is, he will "gut (him) like a fish and drain (his) blood."

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': After his enclave are confined to a single cavern for the actions of three teenagers, and told they will be kicked out into a supernatural storm in a country that is currently burning their people in the streets [[spoiler:Masek]] tries to ally with Aldish invaders. Instead the fanatics gut him while snidely professing not to treat with the help.

* ''Film/Begotten'' contains what very well may be the most disturbing example of this in the opening scene.

* Minor slasher villain Speed Freek tries this on The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk once. The Hulk has no problem holding his guts in, but then his skin heals ''over'' his hand...

* ''Series/{{Slasher}}'': Sarah's father was murdered by Tom Winston, the original Executioner, by stabbing him in the chest from behind with a machete and then carving down to his groin.

* ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'' provides the trope name (where the killer threatens to gut Casey like a fish if she hangs up on him again) and two examples right in the opening scene, which has both Casey and her boyfriend Steve being murdered this way, with Casey's body being hung from a tree for extra nasty points.
** It happens again quite explicitly with [[spoiler:Olivia]] in ''Film/{{Scream 4}}''. A deleted scene shows that [[spoiler:Jenny and Marnie]] suffered the same fate.

* ''Webcomic/{{TREVOR}}'': What [[spoiler: Trevor]] does to [[spoiler: Colin]] before finishing him off by tearing him in two.

** A similar fate befalls Nicky Cavella, a wannabe crimelord [[BullyingADragon who thought pissing Frank off]] (by digging up and [[DesecratingTheDead desecrating his family's bodies]]) [[TooDumbToLive was a good idea]]. He takes a bullet to the gut for his troubles and left in the wilderness to die of infection of blood loss, whichever comes first.

* In ''Manga/SazanEyes'' during the LotusEaterMachine arc set in the past, the climax has a battle between the two immortal Wu [[CruelElephant Ganesha]] and [[ActionGirl Madurai]]: the former manages to get the upper hand and put the former out of the game by using [[HotBlade Huo Yuan Hou Zhao]] to gain fiery claws and grafically eviscerate Madurai, pulling her organs out of the wound and sadistically crushing them.

* In ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}} Gaiden'', this is how Marshall Tenpou winds up dying: after cutting down an entire hallway's worth of soldiers and suffering only superficial wounds, he faces off against their leader in a SingleStrokeBattle. At the end of it, the other man falls down dead, but Tenpou's taken a slash to the gut that graphically drops his innards to the floor. [[TearJerker We get to watch him gradually bleed out as he continues crawling down the hallway in a final attempt to rejoin his friends.]]

* In ''Film/{{Rovdyr}}'', the AlmostDeadGuy Roger, Camilla, and Jorgen rescue from the tree is finally killed when one of the hunters literally guts him like a deer: slicing him open and pulling out all his viscera.

* Invoked in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where Lien threatens to do this then specifies that [[NotHyperbole she literally knows how to (her parents were fishers) and will do it]].

* ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacre2022'': Leatherface does this to Ruth when she was trying to escape.

* ''Film/Turistas'': Graphically performed on Amy with a surgical scalpel while she is restrained, sedated, but still conscious.

* In ''Film/{{Rambo}}'', [[spoiler:Major Pa Tee Tint, the BigBad of the film]] goes out this way while trying to escape Rambo's wrath. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

* Mr. Bradimore's death in ''Film/SilentNight''.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'', containing a lot of {{Gorn}}, has a few instances of exposed intestines. Probably the most memorable example comes when [[spoiler: the Hound]] saves [[spoiler: Sansa]] from being gang-raped, he announces his presence by performing a one-handed NeckLift on one of them and knifing him with his other hand. [[GoryDiscretionShot We don't see the wound itself]], [[SubvertedTrope but we do see a tube of intestine drop out.]]

* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', [[spoiler:Negan]] has a pretty much shot-for-shot recreation of the first example for the [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead source material]].

* Near the beginning of ''Film/JurassicPark'', Dr. Grant gives an impromptu lecture about the possible links in ancestry between the velociraptor and birds while at an archeological dig site. He gets interrupted by an obnoxious kid, who quips the raptor, "looks like a big turkey." So Grant, much to the amusement of his students, teaches the boy a lesson in respect by explaining exactly how that "turkey" hunted and killed its prey. Grant shows him the raptor's middle toe claw and swipes it across the boy's belly then down his midsection to illustrate the cutting motion it used to spill the victim's intestines; finishing his tutorial by telling him that, [[ChekhovsGun "The point is]], [[EatenAlive you are alive when it starts to eat you."]]