History Main / ImpaledWIthExtremePrejudice

*** ''[[NostalgiaCritic "I also would have accepted 'I'm so steaming mad.' Well, goodnight."]]''

When a person is impaled through their... ahem... alimentary canal (starting at either end), it qualifies as a CruelAndUnusualDeath.

* Happens to an AssholeVictim in DetectiveConan, who is thrown off a balcony by his killer and ends up impaled on a flagpole. (See RealLife below.) [[spoiler: It actually was a coincidence, as a strong wind was blowing when he was dumped off said balcony and made him hit the ground. Conan used this detail to find out ''which'' one he fell off, thus guessing who killed him as well.]]

** [[spoiler: Her brother Saemon]] dies this way too, but [[spoiler: he's impaled with several lances after his cover is blown, and IIRC his body is dumped into a river.]]

* There exist a number of tall buildings with flagpoles in front of them in RealLife. Invariably, urban legends (sometimes true) spring up of suicide jumpers missing the ground and hitting the pole instead, resulting in this trope.
* A hand rail impaled Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in a bus accident.
** Which was probably the least painful of her injuries.

* A humorous double example: In ''Klaus the Forklift Driver'', a parody of safety videos, Klaus first impales a man with a chainsaw on the fork, followed by a man with sound-proof headphones. At the end, Klaus [[spoiler:now headless, thanks to said chainsaw]] keeps driving away from the factory with both of them still impaled.

[[caption-width:567:Hanging around with Dracula really takes some guts.]]

[[caption-width:567:Yeah, this happens a lot.]]

** The most recent victim of this is [[spoiler: Hinamori]]. For the ''second'' time, we must add. [[spoiler: First, it was her EvilMentor Aizen, who hugged and then stabbed her to kill her right before revealing his treachery. Later, Aizen himself uses his zanpakuto's [[MasterOfIllusion shikai powers]] to fool Momo's childhood friend Hitsugaya into stabbing her.]] [[BreakTheCutie Poor kid DEFINITELY has no luck]]

** Don't forget the part where he telekinetically impales an ''entire Brazilian police commando team'' on the flagpoles outside the hotel.

* In [[DeadAgain Dead Again]] the [[DerekJacobi main villain]] is impaled by a [[IAmNotMakingThisUp giant pair of scissors]].

* ''StarWars Episode I: The Phantom Menace'' had a hero, Qui-Gon Jinn, die this way, when Darth Maul ran him through with his lightsaber. The moment was accompanied by extremely dramatic music and a BigNo from Obi-Wan, just to play up the shock value of the moment, though Qui-Gon does survive for about the next ten minutes until Obi-Wan gets close to him and gets his last words.
** ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' absolutely LOVES this trope, doing it mostly to villains (though the impalers are usually other villains) with an alarming frequency and disturbingly graphic portrayals for a kids' show. While the above Qui-Gon example had an actual discretion shot, the show does no such thing, playing up the killings in all their [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath family unfriendly]] [[IncrediblyLamePun g(l)ory]].

* ''{{Halo}}'' had this with the death of Truth.

** This was based on a similar incident that happened to Cordelia's actress, Charisma Carpenter.

* A not entirely uncommon, though very harsh, medieval punishment. A certain Wallachian Voivode named Vlad III, whose nickname would later be used for [[{{Dracula}} the lord of all vampires]], used this punishment to put the fear of god into his numerically superior enemies. And just anyone he hated. Or was annoyed by.
* Indians of Northeasten America would impale captives, then burn them alive.
* There exist a number of tall buildings with flagpoles in front of them in RealLife. Invariably, urban legends (sometimes true) spring up of suicide jumpers missing the ground and hitting the pole instead, resulting in this trope.
* A hand rail impaled Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in a bus accident.
* Gather round and hear the story of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage Phineas Gage]]. While working on a railroad crew laying track in 1848, a dynamite mishap projected a metal rod 1.25 inches wide through his cheek and jaw, then behind his left eyeball, finally exiting through ''the top of his skull'' and landing 80 feet away. Despite both of his frontal lobes being damaged, Gage was sitting up and speaking within a few minutes. His skull is on display at [[https://www.countway.harvard.edu/lenya/countway/live/menuNavigation/historicalResources/warrenAnatomicalMuseum.html#Photos the Countway Library of Medicine.]]

*** ''[[NostalgiaCritic "I also would have accepted 'I'm so steaming mad.' Well, goodnight."]]

Sometimes it's done to a good guy (or girl) in a type of visible StuffedIntoTheFridge moment in order to [[KickTheDog tick off the audience]].

** Aragorn also impales the Uruk-hai leader in ''Fellowship of the Ring'', only for the orc to survive and pull himself down the sword to get at Aragorn.

* Not a bad guy, but Trinity in ''TheMatrix''.

* Rampage from ''BeastWars'', a seemingly-unkillable Predacon mutant meets his end when Depth Charge runs a spike of pure energon through his chest. Depth Charge is killed in the resulting explosion.