History Main / TornApartByTheMob

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': ''The Sandman Special'' (later reprinted in ''Fables & Reflections'') tells the story of Dream's son Orpheus. At the end of the story, Orpheus is gruesomely ripped apart by the Maenads after he refuses to cavort with them (echoing the events of the actual Greek myth of Orpheus), leaving only his immortal head.

* In ''ComicBook/SensationalSheHulk'' #20, Jack Serious (a parody of ComicBook/TheJoker) flees from She-Hulk and Nosferata but loses his footing and falls to the ground floor of [[BedlamHouse Dorkham Asylum]], where he is brutally attacked by the inmates he had tormented in his role as Chief of Staff, who beat and tear him to death. (Although he would much later [[BackFromTheDead turn up alive]] in the pages of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''.)

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'' Halloween episode, after spending half the episode chasing Pim, a forest demon gets ripped apart and burnt in a pyre by partygoers [[PoliticalOvercorrectness because they thought he was wearing blackface]].

When a TorchesAndPitchforks mob descends upon a helpless victim, they will often find themselves strung up from the nearest tree or lamppost. However, sometimes the mob is so incensed that they cannot even be bothered with the niceties of the rope, and instead extract and immediate and bloody vengeance with their hands: ripping the unfortunate soul to pieces with their bare hands.

[[caption-width-right:350:He didn't rest in peace he rested in pieces!]]

* In ''Theatre/Bacchae'', this is King Pentheus' fate after he tries to shut down Dionysus' revels in the Glens of Cithaeron; Dionysus has his frenzied followers, including Pentheus' own mother Agave, tear Pentheus apart limb from limb.

* In ''Theatre/TheBacchae'', this is King Pentheus' fate after he tries to shut down Dionysus' revels in the Glens of Cithaeron; Dionysus has his frenzied followers, including Pentheus' own mother Agave, tear Pentheus apart limb from limb.

* ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'': In the audio logs detailing the events in New Mombasa just before the start of the game, the corrupt police chief Kinsler attempts to escape on a train but a furious mob gets him to first and tears him apart.

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': During the Riot of King's Landing, the first High Septon is torn to pieces by starving smallfolk. One even holds up his arm in triumph.

* In 1672, in UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands, Johan de Witt and Cornelis de Witt were beaten to death by a disgruntled mob.

Only applies to sentient mobs (or mobs that would be sentient if they weren't gripped by mob mentality). Zombies, etc. need not apply.

* In ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'', if Abba Kovner's troops manage to capture [[AssholeVictim Jeckeln]] or [[TokenGoodTeammate Meyer-Landrut]], they will be torn to bits by the mob.

* Bomber pilots can often expect this fate from the civilian populations they whose houses they bombed.
* On 1946, most of the Bolivian government, including the President himself, ended up beaten to death by mobs of protesters and strikers.
* On 1672, in UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands, Johan de Witt and Cornelis de Witt were beaten to death by a disgruntled mob.

** In the second book, the High Septon is torn about by the angry mob that is rioting over the lack of food. Preston Greenfield attempts to rescue him, but gets hacked to pieces and his body was barely identifiable.

* This is the fate of Miki Makimura and her little brother in pretty much every version of ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' once the existence of demons is revealed to the world at large. When Akira arrives too late to save them, the mob's parading around of their heads and limbs is the final straw that causes him to snap out and kill the whole mob.

** Ser Glendon Goode was torn apart by a angry mob while trying to retrieve the body of Joffrey Velaryon for his bereaved mother.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'': After Scar's defeat, he is confronted by the clan of hyenas, angry that he attempted to blame them for all the atrocities he committed. The ravenous mob of hyenas descend upon and attack Scar, biting and tearing, as well as presumably eating him despite being engulfed by rising flames.

* ''Film/{{Inception}}'' - In first dream we see it is implied that the projections in Saito's dream ripped Nash apart in the opening dream sequence.

When a TorchesAndPitchforks mob descends upon a helpless victim, they will often find themselves strung from the nearest tree or lamppost. However, sometimes the mob is so incensed that they cannot even be bothered with the niceties of the rope, and instead extract and immediate and bloody vengeance with their hands: ripping the unfortunate soul to pieces with their bare hands.