History Main / HumanPinCushion

* ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'': Returns home looking like this sometimes (usually axes, spears and arrows), showing that his last pillaging foray wasn't as successful as he'd hoped.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The first death of soon-to-be Zombie Reg Shoe, when the thwarted revolutionary is stuck with eight arrows but can still shout defiance at his attackers before dying. He soon recovers from this, and as a zombie proves it's impossible to kill him twice. In ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' he confounds the Klatchians by blithely fighting on even after losing an arm, devising a new form of unarmed combat by using his severed limb as a club to hit people with. As a policeman, he concludes arrests with arrows sticking out of him, often while complaining about the holes in his armour and uniform that he will have to make good himself.

* ''Literature/{{Heimsringla}}'': After the Birchlegs have lost the Battle of Re to King Magnus Erlingsson, one Birchleg survivor sneaks into the King Magnus' camp and makes an attempt at Magnus' life. He fails, "and then weapons were so thick around the Birchleg that he could hardly fall down."

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', this is usually what happens to victims of Polnareff's [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Silver Chariot, thanks to it's high speed.

* Takes place thrice in the animated versions of the visula novel ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'':

** ''Film/SawIV'' has a {{Domestic Abuse|r}} and his wife strapped back to back in a trap with both having spikes impaling their bodies as punishment for his abuse and her becoming complicit in allowing him to abuse their young daughter, as well. While the spikes went through his major arteries, hers didn't and she had the task of pulling out the spikes [[spoiler: which will kill him, but allow her to escape and seek help for her and their child. She ultimately does.]]

** ''Film/SawIV'' has a DomesticAbuser and his wife strapped back to back in a trap with both having spikes impaling their bodies as punishment for his abuse and her becoming complicit in allowing him to abuse their young daughter, as well. While the spikes went through his major arteries, hers didn't and she had the task of pulling out the spikes [[spoiler: which will kill him, but allow her to escape and seek help for her and their child. She ultimately does.]]

* Subverted by RebelliousPrincess [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philomena Saint Philomena of Mugnano.]] Her ([[YouFailhistoryForever almost surely false]]) myth says that she ''was'' to be executed just like Sebastian (after [[ATasteOfTheLash flogging her to almost death]] and [[KillItWithWater tossing her into a river]] didn't work), but God used His Powers to save her [[RuleOfThree by the third time]] and [[KarmicDeath shoot the arrows back to the archers, killing several of them.]] So Philomena "had" to [[OffWithHisHead be decapitated]] instead.

* Monkey D. Luffy ended up looking like an actual pincushion in the sixth ''OnePiece'' movie thanks to a RainOfArrows.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': the first death of soon-to-be Zombie Reg Shoe, when the thwarted revolutionary is stuck with eight arrows but can still shout defiance at his attackers before dying. He soon recovers from this, and as a zombie proves it's impossible to kill him twice. In ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' he confounds the Klatchians by blithely fighting on even after losing an arm, devising a new form of unarmed combat by using his severed limb as a club to hit people with. As a policeman, he concludes arrests with arrows sticking out of him, often while complaining about the holes in his armour and uniform that he will have to make good himself.

* ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'': Boromir goes out in a fashion similar to Longinus of the Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy while buying the hobbits time to get out of there. (The movie only shows three arrows, while the novel details many more)

-->''Arrow'd Guy:''' ''[[UnsoundEffect ARROWED!]]''\\

** It happens again in ''Side Despair's'' episode 10, when [[spoiler: [[http://amirn.tumblr.com/post/150450446562/nanamis-death-dr2-dr3 the real Chiaki Nanami]] is first stabbed through the chest and ''then'' impaled from the ground by many other lances, as [[KillTheCutie the corollary]] to a huge BreakTheCutie process.]]

* Arrows in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' will persist in your character for a while. Fighting with a group of [[DemBones skeletons]] will often leave you looking like a pincushion.

* ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'': Boromir goes out in a fashion similar to Longinus of the SienkiewiczTrilogy while buying the hobbits time to get out of there. (The movie only shows three arrows, while the novel details many more)

** Probably subverted, seeing as he enjoys it.