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* A comedic yet gruesome example happened in volume 7 light novel of ''Eiyuu Kyoshitsu'' where Earnest and Lunaria fused into a single girl but despised each other so badly that they end up pushing their fused forms apart vertically via brute force. The audience around them watched in horror throughout the process, with sounds of tearing flesh, bones and ligaments. When they did successfully split vertically into half, their shared halves twitching, with a spinal cord seen in the middle of them. [[Main/GoodThingYouCanHeal Thankfully, they both have the powers of demons to regenerate their bodies instantly.]] This scene was entirely omitted and changed in the manga version. Despite their differences, they attempted fusion again in the later story against tough opponents.

* A comedic yet gruesome example happened in volume 7 light novel of ''Eiyuu Kyoshitsu'' where Earnest and Lunaria fused into a single girl but despised each other so badly that they end up pushing their fused forms apart vertically via brute force. The audience around them watched in horror throughout the process, with sounds of tearing flesh, bones and ligaments. When they did successfully split vertically into half, their shared halves twitching, with a spinal cord seen in the middle of them. [[Main/GoodThingYouCanHeal Thankfully, they both have the powers of demons to regenerate their bodies instantly.]] This scene was entirely omitted and changed in the manga version.

* A comedic yet gruesome example happened in volume 7 light novel of ''Eiyuu Kyoshitsu'' where Earnest and Lunaria fused into a single girl but despised each other so badly that they end up pushing their fused forms apart vertically via brute force. The audience around them watched in horror throughout the process, with sounds of tearing flesh, bones and ligaments. When they did successfully split vertically into half, their shared halves twitching, with a spinal cord seen in the middle of them. Thankfully, they both have the powers of demons to regenerate their bodies instantly. This scene was entirely omitted and changed in the manga version.

* A comedic yet gruesome example happened in volume 7 light novel of ''Eiyuu Kyoshitsu'' where Earnest and Lunaria fused into a single girl but despised each other so badly that they end up pushing their fused forms apart vertically via brute force. The audience around them watched in horror throughout the process, with sounds of tearing flesh, bones and ligaments. When they did successfully split vertically into half, their shared halves twitching, with a spinal cord seen in the middle of them. Thankfully, they both have the powers of demons to regenerate their bodies instantly. This scene was entirely omitted in the manga version.

* A comedic yet gruesome example happened in volume 7 light novel of ''Eiyuu Kyoshitsu'' where Earnest and Lunaria fused into a single girl but despised each other so badly that they end up pushing their fused forms apart vertically via brute force. The audience around them watched in horror throughout the process, with sounds of tearing flesh, bones and ligaments. When they did successfully split vertically into half, their shared halves twitching, with a spinal cord seen in the middle of them. Thankfully, they both have the powers of demons to regenerate their bodies instantly.

* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': The Pendant of Courage gives Link the jolt he needs to cut a soldier in half. This sends the other mooks wailing out of the temple in terror.

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* Happens to Alternate Tuyet in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' after a PortalCut.
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* In ''Fanfic/{{Fractured}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[=/=]''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover]], Samantha Shepard's lower half is turned into paste by an angry Brick. Only some fancy [[TimeStandsStill time-stopping technology]] saves her from certain (second) death.

* ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'': Boy Jerry is killed via an axe swing that splits him in half, head to toe.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' fic, ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'', Teth Adom's people are attacked with technology from Apokolips, which Queen Bee had dealings with, so he was already pissed at her. [[spoiler:When she tried using her [[CharmPerson powers]] against him, he ''literally'' tore her in half]].

* Jewish tradition upholds that the prophet Isaiah met his end up being sawn in two, as one of the deaths of the heroes of faith in the ''Literature/BookOfHebrews''.

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': A BrainwashedAndCrazy Amber horizontally bisects Killer with a gamma ray burst. He puts himself back together by [[TeleFrag Tele Fragging]] his two halves together!

** Yet again for the "[[VideoGame/{{Warframe}} Excalibur]] v. [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Raiden]]" ([[NamesTheSame no, the other one]]). After several minutes of trading off hits, it finally ends with Excalibur's supercharged Slash Dash cutting Raiden in half, after which he explodes.

* In ''Fanfic/DespairIsland'', a dark reimagining of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', contestants who have been voted off are killed in front of their team-mates. In the case of best friends Katie and Sadie, this involves them being sawn in half. (This is not a double elimination. Sadie is the first of the two girls to die, leaving Katie grief-stricken. When it's her turn for the chop, Katie tries to attack Chris (the host) but is quickly overpowered. Chris then orders that she be subjected to the same fate as Sadie.

** [[spoiler:Delicieu]] was cut in half lengthwise by Cutter as Cutter's first spell while [[spoiler:Delicieu was distracted trying to kill Bastion]].

** ComicBook/{{Ultimate|XMen}}'s ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} went up against his universe's [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]]. And gets pulled in ''half''. He then proceeds to [[GoodThingYouCanHeal crawl up a]] mountain to find his legs.

* Another highly inspirational, heartwarming example with the story of [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/qian-hongyan-the-inspiring-story-of-chinas-basketball-girl-2013-9%3famp Qian the Basketball Girl]], a Chinese girl who lose the lower half of her body due to an accident at age 4, where her legs are replaced by a basketball. Against all odds, she continued living and grew up to become a champion swimmer.

** ''ComicBook/StarWarsInvasion'': During the battle on Dibrook, Tsalok sends a message to his New Republic foes by hoisting one of their soldiers over his head, making sure he's well in view of them, and ripping him in half.

* ComicBook/BlackAdam tears Terraman in half at the pelvis.
* Nekron tries to do this to Sinestro in ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''. Sinestro uses the power of the white light to heal himself and resume his attacks.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', Grandma Rose's sister Briar is cut in half, then the Lord of the Locust has his insects [[TheWormThatWalks inhabit her body]] to resurrect her, but [[YouHaveFailedMe when they leave]] the halves of her body fall back apart. However, the Lord decides he still needs her, and [[PullingThemselvesTogether puts her back together]], for her to later do this herself to Tarsil.

* After [[spoiler: Gammid kills Javi]] in ''ComicBook/{{Negation}}'', one of Javi's Ligis-bearer teammates, a teleporter, uses one of her portals to cut Gammid in half. He dies.
* ComicBook/ScottPilgrim:

* Done to Zombie Venom in the second issue of ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015''.
* ComicBook/TheSentry
** The Void, possessing The Sentry, pulls this on Ares. Vertically. With his hands.

* ComicBook/SimonDark tears Gus' first successful revived human in half, when the deformed man proves to be a remorseless furious murderer who nearly kills Tom and does kill Gus. It works out as a bit of karma since tearing his victims in half was the murderer's favorite way to kill his own victims.
* Jedi Knight Empatojayos Brand in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends: ComicBook/DarkEmpire'' was mutilated by Darth Vader after the Clone Wars, losing the entire lower half of his body along with his arms. [[WeCanRebuildHim He was rescued by the Ganathan people and outfitted with a cybernetic floating body.]]
* A couple of examples happen in ''ComicBook/SullivansSluggers''. When the townsfolk transform, one guy sitting in the bleachers is bitten in half. Later, in the farmhouse's CreepyBasement, among all the corpses of victims past, is the upper half of a cheerleader.
* Superboy-Prime uses his heat vision to cut the superhero Bushido in half in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.

* In ''Franchise/XMen'' arc ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', Magneto finishes Apocalypse off by ripping his cyborg body in half vertically.