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Also note that in RealLife nothing dies instantly from a fractured neck unless it sends vertebrae fragments into, or contorts, the brain-stem in such a way as to shut down all lower brain functions. A broken neck is no guarantee of a "silent kill" either as, if the aforementioned brain-stem damage is not inflicted, all you are left with is a quadriplegic victim, severely injured but not dead, and still able to speak and scream. There's also a good chance that the attacker fails to break the victim's neck ''or'' paralyse them at all, instead inflicting just a temporary pain that will pass... leaving the target thoroughly ''pissed off'' if they haven't used the opportunity to escape. In addition, as mentioned above it takes a lot of strength to pull this off - fail to incapacitate the target, and you've given yourself away in a seriously vulnerable situation. Furthermore, if the spinal cord is not damaged at all, a cervical fracture can heal with proper treatment. This can lead to a lot of HesJustHiding sentiment toward characters who suffer such injuries.
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Finally, in RealLife nothing dies instantly from a fractured neck unless it sends vertebrae fragments into, or contorts, the brain-stem in such a way as to shut down all lower brain functions. A broken neck is no guarantee of a "silent kill" either as, if the aforementioned brain-stem damage is not inflicted, all you are left with is a quadriplegic victim, severely injured but not dead, and still able to speak and scream. There's also a good chance that the attacker fails to break the victim's neck ''or'' paralyse them at all, instead inflicting just a temporary pain that will pass... leaving the target thoroughly ''pissed off'' if they haven't used the opportunity to escape. In addition, as mentioned above it takes a lot of strength to pull this off - fail to incapacitate the target, and you've given yourself away in a seriously vulnerable situation. Furthermore, if the spinal cord is not damaged at all, a cervical fracture can heal with proper treatment. This can lead to a lot of HesJustHiding sentiment toward characters who suffer such injuries.
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* Walter and Phyllis kill her husband Herbert this way in ''Film/DoubleIndemnity''. Since UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was in place at the time, it is not shown on-screen in the film.
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* ''Series/EastEnders'': Gray Atkins apparently killed [[spoiler:Tina Carter]] with this method: if the BBC's official UsefulNotes/AudioDescription of the scene is to be believed.
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* ''Series/EastEnders'': Gray Atkins apparently killed [[spoiler:Tina Carter]] with this method: if the BBC's official UsefulNotes/AudioDescription MediaNotes/AudioDescription of the scene is to be believed.
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* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': During the first battle trials at UA, [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku]] uses [[VideoGame/LikeADragon Majima]]'s neck snap technique on Bakugou to knock him out. However, everybody watching, including All Might, thinks that Izuku [[MistakenForMurder murdered Bakugou]], and it takes Izuku kicking Katsuki to the point be groans to convince them he's alive. He is fine by the end of the class. Later, Aizawa tells Izuku that he needs to work on that hold because civilians will panic if they hear a hero snapped someone's neck, and there may be lawsuits too. And in the next days the entire school has heads what Izuku did, and they sll think he's a psycho.
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* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': During the first battle trials at UA, [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku]] uses [[VideoGame/LikeADragon Majima]]'s neck snap technique on Bakugou to knock him out. However, everybody watching, including All Might, thinks that Izuku [[MistakenForMurder [[MistakenForMurderer murdered Bakugou]], and it takes Izuku kicking Katsuki to the point be groans to convince them he's alive. He is fine by the end of the class. Later, Aizawa tells Izuku that he needs to work on that hold because civilians will panic if they hear a hero snapped someone's neck, and there may be lawsuits too. And in the next days the entire school has heads what Izuku did, and they sll think he's a psycho.
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* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': During the first battle trials at UA, [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku]] uses [[VideoGame/LikeADragon Majima]]'s neck snap technique on Bakugou to knock him out. However, everybody watching, including All Might, thinks that Izuku [[MistakenForMurder murdered Bakugou]], and it takes Izuku kicking Katsuki to the point be groans to convince them he's alive. He is fine by the end of the class. Later, Aizawa tells Izuku that he needs to work on that hold because civilians will panic if they hear a hero snapped someone's neck, and there may be lawsuits too. And in the next days the entire school has heads what Izuku did, and they sll think he's a psycho.
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!!As this is a DeathTrope, expect unmarked spoilers.
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!!As this is a DeathTrope, {{Death Trope|s}},, expect unmarked spoilers.
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** The BigBad of the final story does this to [[spoiler: the Doc's SitcomArchNemesis, the "birdosaurus", just so that the Doc can never have his revenge on it.]]
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* Parodied in an untitled and uncredited comic shared on Facebook, where, in a world of PettingZooPeople, a secret agent style guy sneaking around manages to do this to a hyena guard, but then tries it on another guard who turns out to be an owl. The owl is unfazed at having his neck turned 180 degrees and shoots the guy.
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* "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32369281/ darkly, darkly, dawn glittered in the sky]]" features Sansa Stark (''Series/GameOfThrones'') being reborn in 1960s Britain as the twin sister of Lily Evans (''Franchise/HarryPotter''). After forming a close bond with Severus Snape, when [[spoiler:Sansa is struck by Snape's father Tobias, Sansa is able to force Tobias to the ground with a GroinAttack and then delivers a variation of this by forcing her boot down on Tobias's neck until he dies]].
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* The holotype specimen of the mosasaur ''Tylosaurus kansasensis'' (FHSM VP-2295) was found with bite marks on its skull and a neck bent at an unnatural angle of 40 degrees, suggesting that the mosasaur was killed this way by another member of its species.
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* ''Literature/{{Quarters}}'': Vree kills Kars through breaking his neck with her hands. As he's a very old man, this works easily.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Sette's First Silver enhanced haunted pymaric snaps a soldier's neck while he's trying to rape Ilia.
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** Sette's First Silver enhanced haunted pymaric snaps a soldier's neck while he's trying to rapeIlia.Ilia.
** Nary snapped Clink's neck to punish her brother for disobeying him and demonstrate to other gang members watching that they cannot predict what punishment for failing him will be.
** Sette's First Silver enhanced haunted pymaric snaps a soldier's neck while he's trying to rape
** Nary snapped Clink's neck to punish her brother for disobeying him and demonstrate to other gang members watching that they cannot predict what punishment for failing him will be.
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SisterTrope to DramaticSpineInjury, which can have the same effect but is less likely to be lethal.
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* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': When they met for the first time in 20 years, Blitzo twisted Stolas's neck 180° in order to shut him up when he started getting ''too'' frisky. Stolas being an owl demon, [[ExorcistHead it didn't even faze him]].
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* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Keeper Mercury's power to move her minions around at will is so total that she can use it to kill one by twisting his head around 180 degrees. She wouldn't normally take an action like that, but [[spoiler:after trawling through the memories of the defeated Keeper Malleus, she is so horrified, disgusted, and traumatised by his rampant unrepentant atrocities that she executes him this way on the spot.]]
--> "He," she gestured toward the corpse in a strange, inflectionless tone of voice, "had angered me ''greatly''."
--> "He," she gestured toward the corpse in a strange, inflectionless tone of voice, "had angered me ''greatly''."
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* ''Fanfic/{{Luminosity}}'': Bella actually ''asks'' Edward to break her spine during her transformation into a vampire, since no chemical anaesthetic is effective in safe doses against the agony of vampire venom. Since Edward has medical training and vampiric SuperStrength, he's able to break her neck with a precise pinch, giving her partial respite until the venom heals the break.
--> My neck and head burned still, unimproved, but the loss of torso and limbs was such a dramatic relief that I felt as though I'd been plunged into a tub of ice water.
--> My neck and head burned still, unimproved, but the loss of torso and limbs was such a dramatic relief that I felt as though I'd been plunged into a tub of ice water.
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* ''Literature/HiveMind2016'': Forge kicks Riley in the head and breaks his neck, killing him instantly. Not that he would have lived much longer, as Adika's kill shot hit him in the head, but it is confirmed that he died from the broken neck.
