History Main / HalfTheManHeUsedtoBe

* In the video game ''{{Spider-Man}}: Web of Shadows'', the 'evil' option at the end of a boss battle against a Symbiote-possessed Wolverine involves you tearing him in halves at the waist - duplicating the Hulk's impressive feat from years before, in a demonstration of just how strong your Symbiote is becoming... or maybe the designers just forgot about the whole 'Unbreakable adamantium spine' thing and went with RuleOfCool. Either way, [[GoryDiscretionShot you don't get to see the actual damage]] - just the separate halves of him, pointing in opposite directions, while Wolverine bitches at you.

* Happens to Miss Collins in ''{{Carrie}} at the Prom.

** A fantasy of Bart's involves Skinner getting chopped in half by a robot ant

* In an episode of the {{PowerPuffGirls}} Buttercup slices a cyclops monster in half, it's two halves then hop away.

*** In fact, most hospital ERs have standing "do not resuscitate" orders for patients who have been bisected in accidents.

** [[spoiler: Poor Hiyori. In the manga, she got cut in half literally by Gin, not noticing until ''[[NightmareFuelUnleaded her legs went flying past her]]''. In the anime she gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice, but still....]]

** In a somewhat rare example of this happening to a female character, Menoly is not cleanly blasted in half by [[spoiler: Grimmjow}}, but it's [[http://www.onemanga.com/Bleach/274/12/ close enough.]] What makes this an even rarer example is that [[spoiler: Orihime]] manages to put her back together again.

* FridayThe13th Part 4 -- [[spoiler: The guy who walks on his hands gets a machete between the legs down through the shoulder]]

* What, no mention of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story? A huge part of the movie hinges on the fact that he accidentally cut his brother in half with a machete. (I doubt this is a spoiler, as it takes place within the first ten or fifteen minutes of the movie, but if this should be hidden as a spoiler, feel free to edit and change it accordingly.)

** [[spoiler: Poor Hiyori. She got cut in half quite literally.]]

** In a somewhat rare example of this happening to a female character, Menoly is not cleanly blasted in half, but it's [[http://www.onemanga.com/Bleach/274/12/ close enough.]] What makes this an even rarer example is that Orihime manages to put her back together again.

* The protagonist in TheGodwhale. He survives... and is actually called "hemihuman" through much of the book.

* In ''InuYasha'', [[spoiler: Jaken]] gets cut in half, and is brought back to life by Sesshomaru with the Tenseiga.

** Long before "half-golem" became a standard template in 3E, the {{Ravenloft}} setting was home to Desmond LaRouche, an NPC from Nova Vaasa who'd lost one side of his body in a laboratory explosion, and had it replaced with a golem half.

** He'll also say "You're half the man you used to be!" as a ShoutOut to the {{Nirvana}} song.

** [[spoiler:Doubleujah]] did the same to [spoiler:Hilling Care]] in the GrandFinale. The former gives the latter TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before finishing the job.

* [[spoiler: Nena Trinity]] of Gundam 00 died after being ripped in half by [[spoiler: Louise Halevy, using the claws of her mobile suit.]] The novelizations add more gruesome detail to this, stating that [[spoiler: the only thing holding her torso together was a few strands of muscle, right before her mobile suit was blown up.]]