History Main / SlashedThroat

** Captain Kyoraku uses his Bankai to slice Lille Barro across the neck and ''[[YourHeadAsplode make his head explode]]'' shortly afterwards. Not only does this ''[[ImplacableMan STILL not kill him,]]'' but his [[OneWingedAngel Vollständig]] reveals a ''third'' form that proves even more troublesome to deal with.]

** This is how [[OneManArmy Kenpachi]] kills one of ''three'' Sternritters during the first Quincy invasion - he slashed her throat [[ShutUpHannibal right when she was in the middle of explaining her powers.]]
** Captain Kyoraku uses his Bankai to slice Lille Barro across the neck and ''[[YourHeadAsplode make his head explode]]'' shortly afterwards. Not only does this ''[[ImplacableMan STILL not kill him,]]'' but his [[OneWingedAngel Vollständig]] reveals a ''third'' form, and he doesn't waste any time blasting Kyoraku straight through his chest cavity. He lives through it, but his lieutenant, Nanao, has to finish the job for him.]

* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' features several throat slashings, as it's Todd's M.O. as a barber serial killer.

* Used a few ways in ''Series/Forever2014''. When immortals Henry and Adam die, their body vanishes, including clothing and any spilled blood, so the messy aspect is avoided in their case.
** When Henry is paralyzed by a broken neck, bleeding internally, and in danger of Det. Martinez discovering him and seeing him die and vanish, [[spoiler: Adam slashes his throat to kill him immediately, before he's discovered. The well-practiced technique tells [[ActualPacifist Henry]] that Adam has killed people that way before.]]
** A self-inflicted case when Adam kidnaps [[spoiler: Abigail]] to try to force her to tell him how to find Henry. She tells Adam there are no other immortals and grabs his knife to slit her own throat in order to protect Henry from him.
** Adam casually uses this as a way to escape from the police when cornered, vanishing completely.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'' Clayface, pretending to be Jason Todd (though later retcons make out Jason to have been involved in the plot meaning it may have actually ''been'' Jason), slashed [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]]'s throat after kidnapping him, though the wound wasn't as deep as most of the examples on the page and ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} bandaged it up pretty quickly.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': [[BigBad Frieza]] beats [[VillainProtagonist Vegeta]] to a bloody pulp and raises [[FemmeFatalons his fingernails]] high, seemingly about to finish him off in this manner before [[BigDamnHeroes Goku arrives on the scene]]. [[ShootTheDog He kills Vegeta anyway by shooting a beam of energy through his heart]].
** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper:'' [[ArcVillain Zamasu]] ''almost'' does this to [[TheOmniscient Zuno]] with a wave of his RazorSharpHand when the latter goes into one of his long-winded explanations regarding the Super Dragon Balls.[[note]]He ''did'' ask Zuno to tell him ''[[LiteralMinded everything.]]''[[/note]] He promptly demands Zuno to quit wasting his time and tell him how they work.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': During his covert invasion of [[spoiler: Naqib's compound,]] [[{{Ninja}} Black Noir]] slices the throat of a woman who unknowingly approached him. Her blood spills directly into the empty glass she was carrying, which Noir is quick to catch.

** Lennon had his throat sliced by Sayid

* In ''Webcomic/{{Zelfia}}'', Mayy is killed via this.

* In the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' anime, after Kotonoha finds out that Sekai killed Makoto, she goes insane. Kotonoha cuts off the dead Makoto's head and brings it to Sekai, revealing that she knows what Sekai did to Makoto. [[KickTheSonOfABitch She then proceeds to take a dozuki and slash Sekai's jugular vein open, killing her.]]

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead''
** In "Conquer," [[spoiler: Pete slashes Reg’s throat with Michonne’s katana when Reg tries to calm him down.]]
** In "Wrath," [[spoiler:Rick slits Negan's throat after trying to talk Negan down and into peace as part of Carl's dying wish]]. However, right afterwards, the attacker tells their crew to save the victim's life.

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'':

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the Season 1 finale, Louis de Pointe du Lac unsheathes the knife from his SwordCane and slices Lestat de Lioncourt's throat with it.

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic: The Second Raid,'' this was one of the bloodier killing methods, done by [[CreepyTwins Creepy Twin]] Yu Lan to a guard. It is done to an Arm Slave at one point too.

** During the climax of the ''Literature/WordBearers'' novel ''Dark Disciple'' by Anthony Reynolds, [[DeathbySex Slaaneshi Daemonettes]] attack the prisoners and owners of a Dark Eldar skiff using their crab-like claws to slice their victims throats. [[{{Squick}} The victims writhe on the ground in orgasmic ecstasy as they bleed out.]]

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the Season 1 finale, Louis de Pointe du Lac unsheathes the knife from his cane and slices Lestat de Lioncourt's throat with it.

* ''VideoGame/BladedFury'' ends with your final confrontation against Lord Tian, the main villain responsible for your predicament after slaying all of Tian's summons. Tian instead decides to [[BetterDieThanBeKilled slit his own throat]] in a last act of defiance.