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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', the vampires are seen playing hockey with a jack-o-lantern. This was {{bowdlerized}} from the original, deleted version, in which they used the decapitated head of TimBurton.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', the vampires are seen playing hockey with a jack-o-lantern. This was {{bowdlerized}} from the original, deleted version, in which they used the decapitated head of TimBurton.Creator/TimBurton.
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* The lesser-known game ''Hyperblade'' featured this as one of its selling points: the main game was a sport that was some kind of mix of hockey, jai-alai and half-pipe trick skating, using a magnetic "rok" for a puck. Of course, if one or another player ended up decapitated, their head ''immediately became the rok'', including passing and scoring with it. And yes even by the deceased's teammates.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' lets you kick zombie heads and even has a deathmatch map dedicated to head football.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' lets you kick zombie heads and until they [[MadeOfExplodium explode harmlessly into droplets of gore]]. That, combined with Caleb having quite a kicking foot, was one of the game's big selling points. The sequel tried it, even has adding a separate head model for each gibbed humanoid enemy, but the lack of flair to it (like long trajectory arcs, a large blood trail and sound effects, all of which were present in the first game) didn't make it very noticeable. There's even a deathmatch map dedicated to head football.
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* According to JRRTolkien, the game of golf got its name from Goblin commander Golfimbul, who got clubbed by Hobbit Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took. The blow was so severe that Golfimbul was decapitated and his head flew into a rabbit hole. The game of golf was invented.
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* According to JRRTolkien, Creator/JRRTolkien, the game of golf got its name from Goblin commander Golfimbul, who got clubbed by Hobbit Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took. The blow was so severe that Golfimbul was decapitated and his head flew into a rabbit hole. The game of golf was invented.
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* Trolls in the {{Mystara}} setting, which are easily entertained and endowed with HealingFactor, actually do practice a variety of simple SeveredHeadSports among themselves. Presumably the loser gets to provide the ball for the next round of play.
* Trolls in the {{Mystara}} setting, which are easily entertained and endowed with HealingFactor, actually do practice a variety of simple SeveredHeadSports among themselves. Presumably the loser gets to provide the ball for the next round of play.
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* ''Litearture/{{Grunts}}'' has [[BloodSport Orcball]], a game played by victorious orcs after a battle using the heads of their enemies. And if there's a shortage of heads, they can always volunteer an orc for the role.
-->'''Guzrak''': ''[[GoodNewsBadNews The good news is, you made the Orcball team! The bad news is...as the ball.]]''
-->'''Guzrak''': ''[[GoodNewsBadNews The good news is, you made the Orcball team! The bad news is...as the ball.]]''
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* ''{{Angel}}''. In "Shiny Happy People" a vampire is holding up a head in an apparent DecapitationPresentation, only to throw the head down a bowling alley.
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It *is* a jack-o-lantern in the movie proper.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', the vampires are seen playing hockey with a shrunken head.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', the vampires are seen playing hockey with a shrunken head.jack-o-lantern. This was {{bowdlerized}} from the original, deleted version, in which they used the decapitated head of TimBurton.
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* In ''Film/MenInBlack 3'', Jay and young Kay are questioning an alien who runs a bowling alley. They wind up using his head as a bowling ball to get him to answer their questions (don't worry, he's fine afterward, just annoyed).
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Reality check: A human head weighs around 7 kg (or for those living in the US, 15.4 lbs.); however, few shows manage to portray this [[RealityEnsues realistically]].
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Reality check: A human head weighs around 7 kg (or for those living in the US, 15.4 lbs.); , which is as heavy as a bowling ball gets); however, few shows manage to portray this [[RealityEnsues realistically]].
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** One of Larson's childhood cartoons was published which depicted a group of stick men playing volleyball. One the the stick men is holding the severed head of a nearby teammate whilst screaming "Aaaaaa! This isn't the ball!"
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* Belkar from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' does this with a kobold head [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0075.html here]].
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* According to JRRTolkien, the game of golf got its name from Goblin commander Golfimbul, who got clubbed by Hobbit Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took. The blow was so severe that Golfimbul was decapitated and his head flew into a rabbit hole. The game of golf was invented.
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* The head of Kitbuqa Khan, the commander of Mongol forces, ended up as the ball for an impromptu polo game for the victorious Mamluks after the battle of 'Ayin Jalyut, 1260.
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* ''BillAndTed's Bogus Journey'' plays this for laughs, with Evil Robot Bill using Evil Robot Ted's detachable head to play basketball.
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** Similarly, according to some accounts, in the ancient Chinese game called tsuchu (one of the documented ancestors of soccer), decapitated enemy soldier heads sometimes were used for balls.
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* A club of HarryPotter ghosts known as the Headless Hunt enjoy such sports as Head Polo.
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* A club of HarryPotter ''Literature/HarryPotter'' ghosts known as the Headless Hunt enjoy such sports as Head Polo.
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** A deleted scene in "Treehouse of Horror IV" (which was eventually shown in "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular") featured demons using Homer's head as a bowling ball when he spent the day in hell (which then cracked open against the pins and a note came out reading "I.O.U. one brain, signed God").
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* A club of HarryPotter ghosts known as the Headless Hunt enjoy such sports as Head Polo.
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* Although the heads aren't severed, ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' has the fire-starters who remove their heads and use them to play something akin to volleyball. While singing. Naturally, this concerns the protagonist. She gets even more concerned when the they try to remove ''her'' head.
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* Although the heads aren't severed, ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' has the fire-starters who remove their heads and use them to play something akin to volleyball. While singing. Naturally, this concerns the protagonist. She gets even more concerned when the they try to remove ''her'' head.
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* The Romans had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirria Equus October]], a festival of the god Mars, in which the right hand horse of the winning ChariotRace team was sacrificed the inhabitants of two competing neighborhoods would fight over possession of the severed horse head.
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* The Romans had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirria Equus October]], a festival of the god Mars, in which the right hand horse of the winning ChariotRace team was sacrificed and the inhabitants of two competing neighborhoods would fight over possession of the severed horse head.
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** Although [[{{Necromancer}} Dr. Hix]], who'd be qualified to talk about this sort of thing, does discuss the fact that human heads would be very impractical to play football with, as they're heavy and, of course, nobody wants to be bitten in the foot.
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** Yet another "Treehouse of Horror" had the zombified bullies use Zombie!Principal Skinner's head like a hacky sack.
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* In the ECComics story "Foul Play", an evil baseball player is murdered by the members of the opposing team. After killing him, they play a game where they use his head for as the ball, his leg as the bat, his intestines to mark the base liner and his organs to mark the bases. They even use his scalp to dust off home plate.
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* In the ECComics story "Foul Play", "[[http://cacb.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/ec-comics-foul-play/ Foul Play]]", an evil baseball player is murdered by the members of the opposing team. After killing him, they play a game where they use his head for as the ball, his leg as the bat, his intestines to mark the base liner and his organs to mark the bases. They even use his scalp to dust off home plate.
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Related to OffWithHisHead. See also DecapitationPresentation for another fate of the severed head.
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* The cover of the "Balls Out Bootleg Edition" of ''Film/{{Gutterballs}}'' shows a head being used a bowling ball. This doesn't occur in the actual film, which instead has the victim's head get shot out of a ball return.
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* The cover of the "Balls "[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/GutterBalls2008.jpg Balls Out Bootleg Edition" Edition]]" of ''Film/{{Gutterballs}}'' shows a head being used a bowling ball. This doesn't occur in the actual film, which instead has the victim's head get shot out of a ball return.
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* The cover of the "Balls Out Bootleg Edition" of ''Film/{{Gutterballs}}'' shows a head being used a bowling ball. This doesn't occur in the actual film, which instead has the victim's head get shot out of a ball return.
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** Also happens on one of the "Treehouse of Terror" episodes, again with Moe as the victim of a Mayan sacrifice. His head rolls down the stairs and is used by kids as a soccer ball.
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* A deleted scene from ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' showed soldiers playing soccer with a severed head.
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* Played for laughs in a ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon about the invention of basketball - one caveman notes that no one brought a ball, and one of the bystanders has a round, bulbous head...
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After violence, either to emphasise how much one character glorifies in it, or to lighten the mood, one or more characters will kick around a severed head as if it were a soccer ball. Alternatively, if there's a hoop conveniently nearby they may try to throw it in like a basketball. Other options are only limited by the number of ball games requiring something close to the size of a head.
Often also a side-effect of certain video game physics engines is to allow you to do this.
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* In ''Anime/ShinMazinger'', [[{{Gonk}} Boss,]] [[ThoseTwoGuys Macha and Nuke]] play a round of soccer with Count Brocken's head. It was played for laughs since Brocken is [[LosingYourHead still alive despite this]], and was not happy about it.
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* In the ECComics story "Foul Play", an evil baseball player is murdered by the members of the opposing team. After killing him, they play a game where they use his head for as the ball, his leg as the bat, his intestines to mark the base liner and his organs to mark the bases. They even use his scalp to dust off home plate.
** In another ECComics story, this happens with a bigamist who is found out by his golf and bowling-playing wives.
[[AC:Film]]
* The second ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' film ends with [[spoiler: a group of juvenile delinquents playing soccer with the head of the woman that betrayed the protagonist and her friends to an organization of serial killers.]]
* ''Film/NightOfTheDemons'' has the basketball variety.
* In ''Film/TheManWhoWouldBeKing'', people in Kaffiristan are shown playing soccer with the head in a bag of a chieftain who was deposed. [[spoiler: Part of the reason the narrator takes his friend's severed head with him, is so that he avoids his dishonor.]]
* Although the heads aren't severed, ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' has the fire-starters who remove their heads and use them to play something akin to volleyball. While singing. Naturally, this concerns the protagonist. She gets even more concerned when the they try to remove ''her'' head.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' there is a rule explicitly stating that any object that has been kicked by at least three players in a row during an official football match is to be considered the ball. Guess which kind of object triggered the creation of this rule...
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* ''DropTheDeadDonkey'': After Damien finally convinces Helen that there is a lighter side to his nature, it emerges that he has done so while editing footage of some soldiers playing football with a man's head.
* Vyvian from ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' does this with his own severed head after it talks back to his body.
* One episode of ''BigWolfOnCampus'' had Tommy, Merton, and Lori play "Keep Away" with the head of a crazed robotic school counselor (ItMakesSenseInContext).
* In ''Series/RulesOfEngagement'', Jeff and Adam play hockey with a mannequin head.
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* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin builds a snowman that plays ten-pin bowling with another snowman's head.
* Played for laughs in a ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon about the invention of basketball - one caveman notes that no one brought a ball, and one of the bystanders has a round, bulbous head...
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* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': An easter egg is to be found by picking up the severed head of a serial killer's victim and throwing it through a nearby basketball hoop.
* At the end of ''[[VideoGame/{{Banjo-Kazooie}} Banjo-Tooie]]'', Banjo and Kazooie, along with Mumbo, Humba, and Jamjars, go back to the scene of the final battle, and play with Grunty's skeletal head (which has been detached from her body) like it was a ball. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3U0puptTKU#t=1m30s See for yourself]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' lets you kick zombie heads and even has a deathmatch map dedicated to head football.
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* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': Two undead children after a battle are seen in the background playing soccer with a soldier's head.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', the vampires are seen playing hockey with a shrunken head.
* The end of a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' episode which was spoofing {{MMORPG}}s shows Marge's player character playing with the head of Moe's.
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* Several Mesoamerican cultures played a game of sport similar to soccer using human skulls as the ball.
* The Romans had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirria Equus October]], a festival of the god Mars, in which the right hand horse of the winning ChariotRace team was sacrificed the inhabitants of two competing neighborhoods would fight over possession of the severed horse head.
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Often also a side-effect of certain video game physics engines is to allow you to do this.
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[[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* In ''Anime/ShinMazinger'', [[{{Gonk}} Boss,]] [[ThoseTwoGuys Macha and Nuke]] play a round of soccer with Count Brocken's head. It was played for laughs since Brocken is [[LosingYourHead still alive despite this]], and was not happy about it.
[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* In the ECComics story "Foul Play", an evil baseball player is murdered by the members of the opposing team. After killing him, they play a game where they use his head for as the ball, his leg as the bat, his intestines to mark the base liner and his organs to mark the bases. They even use his scalp to dust off home plate.
** In another ECComics story, this happens with a bigamist who is found out by his golf and bowling-playing wives.
[[AC:Film]]
* The second ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' film ends with [[spoiler: a group of juvenile delinquents playing soccer with the head of the woman that betrayed the protagonist and her friends to an organization of serial killers.]]
* ''Film/NightOfTheDemons'' has the basketball variety.
* In ''Film/TheManWhoWouldBeKing'', people in Kaffiristan are shown playing soccer with the head in a bag of a chieftain who was deposed. [[spoiler: Part of the reason the narrator takes his friend's severed head with him, is so that he avoids his dishonor.]]
* Although the heads aren't severed, ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' has the fire-starters who remove their heads and use them to play something akin to volleyball. While singing. Naturally, this concerns the protagonist. She gets even more concerned when the they try to remove ''her'' head.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' there is a rule explicitly stating that any object that has been kicked by at least three players in a row during an official football match is to be considered the ball. Guess which kind of object triggered the creation of this rule...
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''DropTheDeadDonkey'': After Damien finally convinces Helen that there is a lighter side to his nature, it emerges that he has done so while editing footage of some soldiers playing football with a man's head.
* Vyvian from ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' does this with his own severed head after it talks back to his body.
* One episode of ''BigWolfOnCampus'' had Tommy, Merton, and Lori play "Keep Away" with the head of a crazed robotic school counselor (ItMakesSenseInContext).
* In ''Series/RulesOfEngagement'', Jeff and Adam play hockey with a mannequin head.
[[AC:NewspaperComics]]
* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin builds a snowman that plays ten-pin bowling with another snowman's head.
* Played for laughs in a ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon about the invention of basketball - one caveman notes that no one brought a ball, and one of the bystanders has a round, bulbous head...
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': An easter egg is to be found by picking up the severed head of a serial killer's victim and throwing it through a nearby basketball hoop.
* At the end of ''[[VideoGame/{{Banjo-Kazooie}} Banjo-Tooie]]'', Banjo and Kazooie, along with Mumbo, Humba, and Jamjars, go back to the scene of the final battle, and play with Grunty's skeletal head (which has been detached from her body) like it was a ball. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3U0puptTKU#t=1m30s See for yourself]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' lets you kick zombie heads and even has a deathmatch map dedicated to head football.
[[AC:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': Two undead children after a battle are seen in the background playing soccer with a soldier's head.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', the vampires are seen playing hockey with a shrunken head.
* The end of a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' episode which was spoofing {{MMORPG}}s shows Marge's player character playing with the head of Moe's.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* Several Mesoamerican cultures played a game of sport similar to soccer using human skulls as the ball.
* The Romans had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirria Equus October]], a festival of the god Mars, in which the right hand horse of the winning ChariotRace team was sacrificed the inhabitants of two competing neighborhoods would fight over possession of the severed horse head.
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