History Sandbox / FiveFingerFilletWickCheck

* VideoGame/WorkTimeFun: In "4 Fingers", you stab between your fingers with an ice pick, earning 1 point per poke.
* Manga/Parasyte: When Shinichi first tries to confirm whether his right hand has been taken over by an alien, he places his palm on the table and prepares to stab a knife between his fingers, reasoning that it will dodge of its own volition if it isn't his.
* VideoGame/AliensInfestation: As a shout-out to the film ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', there is a playable mini-game where you get to imitate Bishop and stab a knife in the spaces between fingers.

* This is the IncitingIncident for the investigation in ''Series/TheNightOf''. The first episode shows, well, the night of: Nasir gets lost in Manhattan and meets a beautiful woman who gives him drugs and booze and persuades him to play '''FiveFingerFillet''' with her ([[{{Fingore}} badly]]) before they have sex. He wakes up hours later in the kitchen, goes upstairs, and finds her brutally murdered. Freaking out at finding himself in a crime scene so damning only a TV writer could come up with it, he grabs the bloody knife they played with the night before and flees the scene. He's convinced he didn't do it but has no other explanation for what could have happened while he was blacked out.
* Film.TheWorldsEnd, ShoutOut: Gary mentions the '''"[[FiveFingerFillet knife game]]"''' from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', a scene in which it is revealed that [[spoiler:Bishop]] [[RoboticReveal is a robot]].
* Pantheon.TraitorArchetypes, Lance Bishop: For a pacifist, [[HiddenDepths he's surprisingly skilled]] at the FiveFingerFillet. [[FridgeBrilliance Of course he'd have to be so as to not harm humans]]. Because of how he's programmed it's unclear how much of his courage is his directive and how much is fully his own. Either way, he wants to be treated as human as the rest of the crew. Given his kind personality, the pantheon is happy to oblige.
* Literature.AliensBugHunt, MythologyGag: In ''Broken'', one of the first things Bishop realizes upon being activated is what his nature is, with several terms for it available. "Android, Synthetic, Artificial Person, Robot." He decides he likes "Artificial Person" best. At the end, Hudson teaches Bishop FiveFingerFillet.
* ImpaledPalm: Maybe be caused by FiveFingerFillet.
* SwordTropes: '''Index'''
* ShoutOut/FallOutBoy: The titles of both "Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea" and "Bishops Knife Trick" are references to ''{{Film/Aliens}}''. "StayFrosty" was coined in the movie as a futuristic version of "keep cool," and the character Bishop's EstablishingCharacterMoment involves his cohorts asking him to show off his [[FiveFingerFillet "knife trick."]]
* Trivia/AliensColonialMarines, FandomNod: As noted on an [=XBox Magazine=] pre-release feature about the game, Bishop's first line was supposed to be the ad-libbed "Don't ask me to do [[FiveFingerFillet the knife trick]]. I can see it in your eyes." This references actor Creator/LanceHenriksen's constant requests to do said trick by many of the fans he met over the years. However, the line itself does not appear in the final game.
* PsychoKnifeNut: Many knife nuts do the FiveFingerFillet to showcase their dexterity and general disregard for safety.
* DexterityGame: Index
* WeaponsAndWieldingTropes: Index
* Recap/TheSimpsonsS32E8TheRoadToCincinnati: AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Parodied. Skinner and Chalmers enter a biker bar, but instead of bikers, the bar is full of ''cyclists'', who nevertheless act like {{Badass Biker}}s. One cyclist [[CanCrushingCranium crushes an oxygen can with his forehead]], and two others play FiveFingerFillet with a wrench.
* Recap/TheSimpsonsS32E7ThreeDreamsDenied: FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Homer and Marge talk about Lisa, Maggie can be seen playing FiveFingerFillet with her pacifier, even pretending to have cut off her finger.

* Anime.PopeeThePerformer: Played for laughs. And using a frog.
* Series.EerieIndiana: In "Heart on a Chain", Devon does this in the classroom. When Marshall tells him to slow down, Devon replies, "Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse." After Devon's heart is transplanted into her body, Melanie does the five finger fillet herself in the World O' Stuff and uses the same phrase.
* Fingore.LiveActionFilms: In ''Film/TheHangoverPartII'', Teddy loses a finger by [[spoiler:attempting the FiveFingerFillet]].
* Series.BoardwalkEmpire: Jimmy expertly plays the game with his old trenchknife in "Family Limitation," establishing him as a PsychoKnifeNut who's still not over the war. Capone's unfamiliarity with the game tips Jimmy off that he wasn't really in the war.
* Roleplay.WeAreOurAdventuringAvatars: One of Kris' many skills with a knife. '''Commented out on page itself'''
* Fanfic.TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland: Whilst the contestants who have completed the 20K run are waiting for the stragglers to finish, Duncan teaches teammates D.J. and Ezekiel how to play this knife game. The three boys then play for a time.
* Recap.GravityFallsS2E15TheLastMabelcorn: The gnome dealer does this with an acorn.
* YMMV.TheSimpsonsS11E21ItsAMadMadMadMadMarge, NauseaFuel: Homer stabbing his fingers with a knife while playing FiveFingerFillet and getting part of his tongue ripped off (after [[TongueOnTheFlagpole getting it stuck on the ice sculpture]]).
* RedDeadRedemption2/TropesAToL: BettingMiniGame: Several, including Poker, FiveFingerFillet, and Dominoes.
* Characters/MortalKombatMileena: One of her moves in ''[=MK11=]'' is to pin her opponent down and perform this ''on her opponent's face'', and with a multi-bladed sai to boot. She gets nine stabs in two seconds, and she pauses a bit to check that her fingers are unscathed before [[NoKillLikeOverkill jamming in a tenth for good measure.]]
* Recap/RedDwarfSeasonITheEnd: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Petersen can be seen doing this (badly) with a pen. '''Also on RedDwarf.TropesAToI'''
* Characters/{{Wayne}}, ImpaledPalm: When challenged to a game of FiveFingerFillet by a golf course groundskeeper's vegan Satanist girlfriend, Wayne intentionally stabs himself through the hand in an interesting interpretation of doing what she did "faster and better."
* Webcomic/{{Gnoph}}: Abbey injures her fingers doing this and laments that she used to be able to do it perfectly.
* Recap/XenaS03E15KingCon: Xena does this to Eldon, performing the deed at inhuman speed.
* Webcomic/Marilith: When Dim and Vics are introduced, Vics stabs himself while doing this.
* Film/Populaire: Louis wants his friend Marie to train Rose in piano for greater dexterity, and until she says yes, he performs this trick faster and faster (much to her chagrin). [[GilliganCut Cut to]] Rose bandaging his hand in the next scene. But at least Marie said yes.
* Characters/LiveAHeroMHA, TheGadfly: Izuku can be this when he's feeling more cheerful, playing FiveFingerFillet as his friends (sans Kirishima, who's used to it and nudged him into doing it) looked on and screamed (or in [[CuteMute Kouda's]] case, signed) in horror.
* Film/MyBloodyValentine: Played by Axel and Hollis.
* Series/Barry: Subverted in episode 2-1. When Esther of the Burmese crime gang busts out the knife and puts her hand on the table palm down, Hank rolls his eyes, anticipating the FiveFingerFillet cliche. Esther then proceeds to instead stab her own hand. In reaction, Hank yelps, "Oh sweet baby Jesus!" '''does not describe what the FiveFingerFillet is. If it did it would be a perfectly fine example'''
* Literature/Deathmoor: You need to challenge Fang-Zen to this game -- and win -- in order to obtain King Jothane's letter.
* Recap/AdventureTimeS5E11BadLittleBoy: At the party, Male!Tree Trunks is seen doing this wimpily with a spoon. '''Also has a {{Characterization Tag|s}}'''
* Recap/InsideNo9S3E2TheBill: The game used to settle the bill when things really escalate out of control. Namedropped along with [[IHaveManyNames a number of other names the game goes by]].
* Film/KnifeInTheWater: The young man plays this game with his switchblade. Andrzej is jealous and tries to do it himself, but can't manage very well.
* Film/DeathGrip: One of the cult members, Dominic, is obsessed with playing this game, generally with someone else's hand. He later employs the knives against Kenny.
* Film/Aliens: Done by Bishop, leading to his RoboticReveal.
* Webcomic/CwensQuest: Done on a fairy [[http://www.cwensquest.com/?comic=chapter-11-page-19-cutting-edge here]].
* Film/DarkStar: Boyler sucks at it. '''Commented out on page itself'''
* Literature/LaFuerzaSeries: Lily does this with one of her own claws and accidentally stabs herself.
* VideoGame/FullThrottle: Emmett is playing this when he appears at the Kickstand, though he's not very good. In a hidden minigame, Ben can show him how it's done.

* Recap/RedDwarfSeasonITheEnd: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Petersen can be seen doing this (badly) with a pen.

* YMMV.TheSimpsonsS11E21ItsAMadMadMadMadMarge, NauseaFuel: Homer stabbing his fingers with a knife while playing FiveFingerFillet and getting part of his tongue ripped off (after [[TongueOnTheFlagpole getting it stuck on the ice sculpture]]).