History Main / Kneecapping

* In the {{Resident Evil}} series, the player can kneecap the infected/infested/zombies/abominations to pull off kicks and tricks against the enemy although kneecapping is also arguably justified when fighting zombies. This is especially useful in {{Resident Evil 4}} where Leon (and Ashley) can suplex the infested after a kneecap shot.

* LifeAndDeath: [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Life_and_Death/index.php?p=804249 Death disables someone this way.]]

In real life, it is often not the kneecap itself that is the target of these attacks, as opposed to the join and tissue beneath it. A piece of CommonKnowledge is that kneecaps don't grow back when broken/shattered. They do, it just takes a very long time.

* In ''RurouniKenshin'', [[TheChick Kaoru]] ends up fighting [[VillanousCrossdresser Kamatari]] in a one-on-one matchup after Misao is taken out. Her final move (after her bokken and Kamatari's scythe are both broken) is to break Kamatari's kneecap with the handle of her wooden sword.

* Manga/{{Ibitsu}}: When the Strange Lolita corners Hikari and a classmate in the gym after school one night, she takes the classmate out of the picture by smashing her kneecap with a sledgehammer.

* In the Resident Evil series, the player can kneecap the infected/infested/zombies/abominations to pull off kicks and tricks against the enemy although kneecapping is also arguably justified when fighting zombies. This is especially useful in Resident Evil 4 where Leon (and Ashley) can suplex the infested after a kneecap shot.

* Figure skater and olympic hopeful Tonya Harding attempted to [[IncrediblyLamePun get a leg up]] on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan by paying off her bodyguard to attack Kerrigan's knee shortly before the 1994 Winter Olympics, in hopes of taking Kerrigan out of competition. She failed, but managed to get on the US Olympic team anyway. Kerrigan still won the silver medal; Harding came in 10th.

* LifeAndDeath: [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Life_and_Death/ Death disables someone this way.]]

* [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Life_and_Death/ Death disables someone this way.]]

* [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Life_and_Death/ Death disaables someone this way.]]

* In ''Film/UndeadOrAlive'', after the protagonists finds out that the zombies pursuing them can't be killed with a bullet to the brain as one would expect, Sue opts to shoot out the zombified sheriff's kneecaps to make it much harder for him to catch up. This lead's to a humorous scene later in which Cletus is forced to carry him piggy-back while chasing the heroes.

* There an ''ensemble'' knee-capping scene in ''{{Terminator}} 2''. The Terminator has promised John Connor he won't kill anyone. But they still need to escape from armed men so... he shoots a bunch of guys in the kneecaps. At once. With a machine gun.

* There an ''ensemble'' knee-capping scene in {{Terminator}} 2. The Terminator has promised John Connor he won't kill anyone. But they still need to escape from armed men so... he shoots a bunch of guys in the kneecaps. At once. With a machine gun.

* In KingdomOfLoathing, this is the general modus operandi of the [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Penguin Mafia]].

* Book does it during the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "War Stories", leading to this exchange:
-->'''Zoe:''' Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?
-->'''Book:''' Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.

[[folder: Card Games]]
* The ''Game/{{Munchkin}}'' card game gives us the Hammer of Knee-capping, usable only by dwarves.