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| 16 | ->''"Yeah, that's your ''spinal cord'', baby! '''Dig it!'''"'' |
| 17 | -->-- '''Doomguy''', ''ComicBook/{{Doom}}'' |
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| 19 | It's never enough to kill someone by tearing out their heart. You always, ''always'' have to hold it up in front of their eyes as the life goes out of them. Bonus points if the victim doesn't actually die until the heart is destroyed somehow. |
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| 21 | While the heart is the most common organ by far, this can be done with almost anything that it will clearly mean certain death to remove. |
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| 23 | For bonus points feel free to insert it into the orifice of your choice.[[note]]The mouth is popular.[[/note]] Or crush it in your hand. Or simply ''beat'' [[GrievousHarmWithABody them with it]]. Or even [[ImAHumanitarian eat it.]] |
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| 25 | This trope often turns up among the {{Mayincatec}}. For extra creepy factor, add a BeatStillMyHeart effect. |
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| 27 | A type of AttackOnTheHeart. |
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| 29 | !!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]]. |
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| 32 | !!Examples: |
| 33 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 35 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 36 | * Invoked in ''Manga/SazanEyes'': In the Egyptian Kunlun, Yakumo and Pai find some murals depicting the Egyptian trial of the soul, with Anubis weighting the heart on the scales. While Pai mocks it as a misguided human attempt to mimic the arts of Immortality the Sanzhiyan possess ([[LampshadeHanging "I mean, if you gouge out your heart you'll die for real!]]), Yakumo realises that the murals are actually instructions left by a [[CompleteImmortality Wu]] on how to open the passage: namely, a Wu must cut out his own heart and offer it to the [[{{Golem}} Stone Anubis]] guarding the dungeon. |
| 37 | * Revy from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' threatens to show kid hostage Garcia "the colour of his breakfast" after he throws food at her. |
| 38 | * In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' Chapter 666, Grimmjow impales his arm through Askin De Le Vaar from behind and pulls his heart out in the process, then crushes it. Surprisingly, this does not kill him...not right away at least. |
| 39 | * Happens to most of the main cast in ''Anime/CaptainHarlock: Endless Odyssey'' (though they didn't actually lose their hearts, the BigBad was trying to trick them into making them think it had happened so it could possess their bodies.) |
| 40 | * The fifth episode of ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'' has [[ButtMonkey Fujita]] and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Ebisu]] attacked by a duo of rival magic users. Things look pretty bleak until AlwaysABiggerFish comes into play and the duo is slaughtered by [[BloodKnight Shin]] and [[AmazonianBeauty Noi]], who hate bullies. One dies when Shin stabs his hand through the guy's chest, ripping his heart out in the process and the other is split in half by Noi's hand chop. Then they take the corpses, arrange them together and gleefully call the abomination "[[CrossesTheLineTwice bully sandwich]]". A perfect summation of what Dorohedoro is generally like. |
| 41 | * [[BigBad Araya Souren]] does this to Touko in the fifth movie of ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners''. This being the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} they still manage to have a philosophical conversation before he crushes it. [[BodyBackupDrive She gets better]]. |
| 42 | * Young assassin Killua from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' tears a gruesome serial killer's heart out with his bare hand, without spilling any blood for good measure. The serial killer turns to Killua, motioning in terror to his heart, and basically says, "Hey! Give it back!", before he watches the assassin crush it. Somehow, the man doesn't die until Killua has crushed the (still beating) heart in his hand. The anime censors this scene a little, and arguably makes it ''worse'', having Killua put the heart in a little bag, and making him watch it sloooowly stop beating. Then he puts the bag in the dead man's hand. |
| 43 | * ''Anime/KillLaKill'': |
| 44 | ** [[TheManBehindTheMan Ragyo Kiryuin]] does this to [[AntiHero Ryuko]] in Episode 18, [[TomatoInTheMirror revealing to everyone (including Ryuko)]] that [[BioAugmentation her body was infused with]] [[AppliedPhlebotinum Life Fibers]], and that she was [[LukeIAmYourFather the second child that Ragyo and her husband conceived]], [[AbusiveParents experimented on with Life Fibers]], [[NotQuiteDead presumed a failure]], and [[ParentalAbandonment dropped down]] [[MoralEventHorizon a garbage chute]]. Oh, and this episode [[CrossesTheLineTwice aired the day before Valentine's Day]]. |
| 45 | ** Later on, Nui does this to ''herself'' to show Ryuko that like her, she was also infused with Life Fibers at birth. |
| 46 | ** In the final episode, [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Ragyo rips out her own heart and crushes it after Ryuko defeats her]]. |
| 47 | * ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'': seven words: "PhantomThief Sai [[VideoGame/Persona5 will steal your heart]]!" During the final battle, Sai attacks Sicks and rips his heart out. This doesn't outright ''kill'' the BigBad but weakens him enough for Neuro to get the upper hand and finish the leader of the [[MasterRace New Bloodline]] off for good. |
| 48 | * In ''Manga/OnePiece'', we have Trafalgar Law using his powers to remove the heart of -- of ''all'' people -- Smoker. Yes, ''that'' Smoker -- the badass that series protagonist Luffy never managed to defeat in a one-on-one. He had his heart taken from him by Law shortly after they started fighting in the form of cube-type object with his heart inside flying from his body, leaving a square-shaped hole in his chest. Law, annoyed by Smoker's questioning, then coldly quipped to him "I don't have to tell you anything..." before he slumps to the ground, presumably defeated. |
| 49 | ** This ability allows Law to take the target's heart without killing him, and Smoker eventually gained his back. Presumably, this ability was what allowed Law to acquire the one hundred hearts that he sent to the World Government to gain a position among the Seven Warlords of the Sea. |
| 50 | * ''Literature/Overlord2012'' has the titular VillainProtagonist's favorite Death spell "Grasp Heart", which causes the target's heart (or a projection thereof) to appear within the [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]]'s bony hand, whereupon it attempts to crush it, killing the target instantly upon success or stunning it briefly otherwise. |
| 51 | * Invoked in, of all series, ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', where the Yamasenken style features a technique explicitly used to rip out an opponent's heart. |
| 52 | * ''Anime/RedBaron'': Mechanical example as it's done with robots. Chatatsu's Kung-Fu Tiger uses its FinishingMove to rip out the mechanical heart out of Komei's Shinryu. [[spoiler:The Gold Baron later on does it to the Red Baron]]. |
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| 55 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 56 | * Animation/HappyHeroes: Kalo does a alien variation to ''himself'', tearing his energy cube out of his chest as part of his HeroicSacrifice. |
| 57 | [[/folder]] |
| 58 | |
| 59 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 60 | * Creator/GeorgeCarlin: "You know what you call that? ''Theater!''" |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/AngelAndFaith'': A flashback shows Angelus killing Drusilla's father by tearing out his heart with his bare hands. |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}'': Drax the Destroyer kills ComicBook/{{Thanos}} by [[http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa279/onanthetransmuter/Annihilation4-026.jpg punching through his back and shoving his heart out of his chest.]] Thanos [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction simply looks down at it and says "Interesting."]] |
| 66 | ** Thanos gets it again in ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', with a powered-up Doom ripping out his spine. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 68 | ** A villain named Midnight had this as his (actually a her) gimmick. Everyone in Gotham seemed to be MadeOfPlasticine in that issue because he could remove people's hearts just by poking them with his pointed cane. The sheer impossibility of this, coupled with Midnight's LargeHam nature, made him far too Narmy to take seriously. |
| 69 | ** In a particularly convoluted example, the villain Hush kidnapped Catwoman, used his surgical skills to remove Catwoman's heart, leaving her on life support, and showed it to Batman. Luckily, he was able to get it back. |
| 70 | ** Near the end of ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', ComicBook/TheJoker, as a RealityWarper, rips out ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s heart. Superman survives for minutes, apparently either because of his super-durability or thanks to Joker using his omnipotence for keeping him alive. Supes actually hugged the sun to his chest (he and the Joker were enlarged at the time) to counteract this. |
| 71 | * ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Wismerhill finally defeats Haazheel Thorn by tearing his heart out of his chest. |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': Late in the run, Butcher confronts a mortally wounded Black Noir, the man who raped his wife. He reaches into the man's head, and pulls out a chunk of his brain, noting that it probably contains Black Noir's memory of doing the deed, before crushing it in his fist. It seems Black Noir was, somehow, at least cognizant enough to recognize what Butcher was doing before he finally died (then again, he is superhuman). |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'': A man trying to protect his family from the HatePlague infected with a SaltSolution ends up getting raped to death ''and'' disemboweled with [[CruelAndUnusualDeath his rapist holding his intestines in front of his face as he's bleeding out next to his also-being-raped wife angrily calling him an idiot]]. |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'': Jackie takes out some dude's skeleton and shows it to him. "Pop." |
| 75 | * ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': This is the M.O. for the [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lanterns]]. [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Atrocitus]] survives due to the powers of his red ring. |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/MysTechWars'': ComicBook/SpiderMan, like many other heroes in Marvel's miniseries, is killed when he is overpowered by invading demons and has his heart ripped out. |
| 77 | * ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', among Barracuda's many, many horrible deeds, there was the time Ebbing paid him to ensure his peace and quiet. Two convicts who'd been bothering Ebbing were later found with their eyes plucked out, their testicles in each other's eye sockets, and their eyelids sewn up. Their eyeballs were never found, and they were still alive after that. |
| 78 | * ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': |
| 79 | ** After a NoodleIncident known simply as "the Roadbuster Affair" was added to canon, James Roberts tried to pin it down by outlining an incident where Roadbuster, high on the drug syk, ripped out a Decepticon's spine and not only showed it to him but forced him to ''eat'' it. Then ''ComicBook/TheTransformersSinsOfTheWreckers'' clarified that no, ''the'' Roadbuster Affair was ''much'' worse. [[UnscrupulousHero Very few of the Wreckers are nice people.]] |
| 80 | ** Played for laughs when Fulcrum is introduced when he wakes up in the middle of being stripped for parts and [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction has to politely ask the Scavengers for his vital organs back]]. In particular, he instantly spots that Misfire is holding his fuel pump, which is in many ways the equivalent of a heart for Transformers. |
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| 83 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 84 | * It's pretty much routine in any {{gorn}} fic that involves decapitation for the victim (almost AlwaysFemale) to be shown her own headless body before she loses consciousness. Usually while someone is still... [[{{Squick}} making use of it]]. |
| 85 | * ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': |
| 86 | ** In chapter 12, Luz kills Daniel by ripping out his still beating heart after he his attempt to kill her for the prize money fails thanks to her SuperToughness and crushes it with her bare hands with her newly acquired SuperStrength, then [[PowerParasite stealing his Quirk]]. |
| 87 | ** In chapter 21, she also kills [[SilentAntagonist Charlie]] by tearing out her heart from behind and crushes it with her bare hands as the Wittebane assassin is ForcedToWatch in horror, then stealing her Quirk not long after the woman expires. |
| 88 | ** During the climax of the Ten-Year War for the Boiling Isles, [[spoiler:Eda was on the receiving end of this, courtesy of All For One. Luckily, he didn't crush it, which allowed her her curse's HealingFactor to save her from certain death.]] |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/ButcherOfTheWards'': Taylor didn't ''intend'' to seize Butcher's heart and rip it out of her chest, it was an accident with her {{intangibility}} power. The Butcher voices now sitting in the back of her head, however, are impressed. |
| 90 | * Doing this is a necessary way to create ''veidrdraugr''[[note]]Super-strong, super-fast zombies animated by BlackMagic [[/note]] in ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm''. [[HumanoidAbomination Grave]][[EvilSorcerer moss]] does this to Sif under Paris, but thankfully [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] blows him sky-high before he can do anything else. (This is NotHyperbole, by the way; he ''literally'' punted Gravemoss into the stratosphere. Because he's awesome like that). |
| 91 | * In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' fanfic ''[[FanFic/CissneisPath Cissnei's Path]]'', Rosso the Crimson rips the Protomateria out of Vincent's chest. Since he's undead and that was the only thing allowing him to control Chaos, she's as good as killed him unless he gets it back. |
| 92 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5985759/4/Colors-and-Capes Colors and Capes]]'', [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]] recounts an incident when he made such a threat to a demon whose mystical protections weakened when you told him how you were going to kill him. Since there was also a [[ItOnlyWorksOnce "no backsies"]] clause, Xander had to study up on how to rip out someone's heart with your bare hands. He explains there's a trick to snapping off the arteries and veins so that the heart comes out cleanly, and he accidentally skipped that step; he pulled off the "and show it to you" part, and then the guy's heart snapped back into his chest like a slingshot and Xander finished him off with a stake. |
| 93 | * In the infamously gory ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'', Pinkie Pie does this to Rainbow Dash's entrails while cheerfully cracking jokes. The fact that the jokes are entirely in-character makes it that much creepier. |
| 94 | * Invoked and subverted in ''Fanfic/TheEndingOfTheEndLoveAndToleranceEdition'', while the LegionOfDoom is trying to unlock the power of Grogar's Bell, Cozy Glow reads a part of the instructions saying Tirek and Chrysalis have to tune their magic to the beat of a pony's heart. Prompting Cozy (the one pony out of the trio) to wonder what that means while Tirek and Chrysalis exchange a look, before lunging at her while reaching for her chest... so they could gently feel her frightened heart beat and get the magic frequency right. |
| 95 | -->'''Cozy:''' G-golly, I thought you guys were gonna… heh, nevermind. |
| 96 | * ''Fanfic/EverythingTurnsToGold'': [[spoiler:Exor]] tries to do this to Scott, by physically digging his claws into his chest and trying to tear out his heart. [[spoiler:Fortunately, [[BigDamnHeroes Pix and the others intervene before he can]].]] |
| 97 | * ''Fanfic/FateOfTheClans'': Cú Chulainn Alter punches a hole through Mikoto's chest and rips out his [[BeatStillMyHeart still-beating heart. The last thing he sees is the Alter eating it.]] |
| 98 | * ''Fanfic/MortalKombatKhronicles'' While Kano has Sonya Blade and her brother, Daniel, dead for rights, she spits in his face. Hoping to goad Kano into [[HeroicSacrifice killing her and buying more time for backup to come and rescue her brother.]] Instead, Kano cuts her brother's heart out, right in front of her, out of spite. |
| 99 | * This is how Voldemort bites it in FanFic/MutantStorm, as Harry uses his mutant ability to pull the former's heart out of his chest. |
| 100 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10554509/14/Never-Betray-A-Fox Never Betray A Fox]]'' a feral Harry rips out Bellatrix's heart and taunts her husband and brother-in-law with it. |
| 101 | * ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': If anyone has the [[{{Pun}} guts]] to face the Good Hunter who is [[TranquilFury silently enraged]] or [[SuperMode has eaten some ball wrapped in cloth]] (it's the Beast Blood Pellet), they better pray that their insides are in one piece. And no, he doesn't even need to stab them in the back, or shoot them with a gun to perform a visceral attack. Give him an opening, and they shall kiss their guts goodbye. |
| 102 | * ''FanFic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': Sunset Shimmer ''threatens'' to do this to Princess Celestia's killer once she returns to Equestria, unaware (until Page informs her) that Chrysalis has been dead for a thousand years. |
| 103 | * The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' has this as one of the only ways the [[BadFuture Dark World]] mane cast can actually die, due to having CompleteImmortality and their hearts replaced with [[SoulJar the Elements of Chaos]], the other being destroying their Element (easier said than done). Ironically, the only two it's actually happened to ended up surviving. [[spoiler:Angry Pie ends up doing it to Twilight, leaving her to die afterwards, but Twilight finds a replacement. Rainbow Dash later ''inverts'' this by tearing her own out and showing it to Rarity to shock her out of her self delusion, but puts it back.]] |
| 104 | * Attempted by [[spoiler:Team GRVE]] in ''Fanfic/RemnantInferisDOOM'', as they tried to cut out Ruby's womb and force her to watch as they did it. Thankfully, Beacon's instructors [[BigDamnHeroes arrive just in time]] to stop them. |
| 105 | * In the ''Fanfic/ResurgenceSeries'', Victoria literally rips Bella's heart out of her chest before even drinking her blood, [[spoiler:requiring Bella to receive a full-blood transfusion from Claire Bennett to bring her back to life]]. |
| 106 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1143478/2/Time-out-of-Place Time out of Place]]'' Death Eaters cut out a Muggle's heart and he dies watching its final beat. |
| 107 | * ''Fanfic/ToForgetIsUnforgivable'': Izuku's method of dealing with powerful cursed spirits is to rip their hearts out of their chest cavities and eat them. Katsuki sees this twice, and is traumatized for life. |
| 108 | * In ''Fanfic/UnnaturalDisaster'' 2.8, [[spoiler:Sophia pulls Egbert's heart out of his body and lets him see it, finishing him off.]] |
| 109 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13916559/30/Voldemort-s-Daughter Voldemort's Daughter]]'' Lucius does this to Telemachus Jugson during a duel and then ''presents the heart to Belladonna''. Turns out this sort of thing happens often enough to be part of a Dark bonding ritual. |
| 110 | * In the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fanfic [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?34086-MSPA-Fanfiction-IV&p=4484031#post4484031 "A Wound For Two,"]] Vriska rips out Karkat's heart. Incredibly, he still lives long enough to kiss her (and, it's implied, to be saved through cyber-prosthetics). |
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| 113 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 114 | * ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': When Mater meets Finn [=McMissile=], he describes a karate move in which he reaches into a car's hood, pulls out his battery and shows it to him before he stalls called, "What I accidentally did to my friend Luigi once". |
| 115 | * In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Steve rips the "heart" out of a gummi bear. |
| 116 | * Perhaps a combination with HoistByHisOwnPetard, in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', Mr. Incredible tricks the Omnidroid prototype into ripping ''its own heart'' out. (Or at least a particular component that stayed lit up red for several seconds after being ripped out). |
| 117 | * During the Bad-Anon meeting in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', [[Franchise/MortalKombat Kano]], as of his traditional {{F|inishHim}}atality, playfully rips the heart out of a zombie. |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
| 119 | |
| 120 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 121 | * At one point in ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'', Alita takes out her own [[BeatStillMyHeart still-beating heart]], attached to her via wires, and shows it to her beloved Hugo, suggesting that they sell it to earn enough money to get to Zalem, where she thinks they could get a cheaper alternative. Hugo is understandably befuddled. |
| 122 | * ''Film/TheBananaSplitsMovie'' has [[spoiler:Snorky fighting off Bingo to save the civilians, in which Bingo proceeds to rip Snorky’s robotic "heart" out before Snorky gives him the final blow. Snorky then collapses and dies from this.]] |
| 123 | * Once ''Film/BehindTheMaskTheRiseOfLeslieVernon'' shifts from documentary into full-blown slasher film, Leslie Vernon does this to one of his victims with a ''post hole digger''. |
| 124 | * ''{{Film/Bit}}'': Duke rips the heart from a newly-made male vampire's chest in the film's opening scene, then lets him view it while he dies. |
| 125 | * ''Film/BordelloOfBlood'': Lilith tears the heart out of Caleb's friend by forcing her tongue through his body while they're kissing and pushing it out. She then grabs and promptly eats it. |
| 126 | * ''Film/{{Braindead}}'': this happens to a victim when the zombies crash the party. |
| 127 | * In "The Fright Before Xmas" segment from ''Film/CampfireTales1991'', Satan Claus lifts Steve [[NeckLift by the neck]] and rips out his heart. |
| 128 | -->'''Satan Claus:''' [[BondOneLiner You're a heartless bastard, Steve]]. |
| 129 | * In ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick2004'', the Lord Marshall does this to a Helion Prime native who refuses to convert -- except instead of his heart, he pulls out ''[[YourSoulIsMine his soul]]''. |
| 130 | * Subverted in ''Film/CrankHighVoltage''. While Chelios does wake up during the operation that installs his artificial heart and see his original heart being examined, he gets up and clobbers the surgeon before his other parts can be fatally removed. |
| 131 | * ''Film/DeadtimeStories'': In "Peter and the Witches", Peter defeats the revived Magoga by driving his hand into her chest and pulling out her heart, which is still beating. [[OrganAutonomy He is then attacked by the heart]]. |
| 132 | * ''Film/DemonKnight'': The Collector's threat [[spoiler:(and final words)]] are that, since Jeryline won't love him, at ''least'' he can have her heart -- and extends a finger with a large scalpel on it. |
| 133 | * In ''Film/DumbAndDumber'', Jim Carrey's character daydreams about fighting the staff of a restaurant, culminating in him ripping the chef's heart out, putting it inside a doggy bag, closing the bag up, and handing it back to the chef just before he falls over. |
| 134 | * In ''Electra'' (no, [[Film/{{Elektra}} not that one]], the 1996 film with Shannon Tweed), the hero's {{Love Interest|s}} tears off the heart of a female {{Mook|s}}, setting up a [[BondOneLiner "heartless bitch!" line]]. |
| 135 | * ''Literature/TheEmpiriumTrilogy'': One of the stories about Queen Rielle that survived the centuries is how she ripped out her own husband's heart. |
| 136 | * In ''Film/{{Faceless}}'', [[HerrDoktor Dr. Moser]] not only cuts the face off Florence Guerin, but he then holds it up in front of her flensed face, with her eyes moving to follow it, as he tells her how pretty it will make Ingrid once he transplants it on to her. |
| 137 | * In ''Film/FreshMeat'', Hemi slices Glenn's chest open and rips out his beating heart, taking a bite out of it, believing that feasting on the heart, flesh and blood of his own offspring will render him immortal. |
| 138 | * In ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'', Jason punches his hand through Hawes' torso, grabbing his heart in the process. |
| 139 | * The character Frost in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' rips out the heart of one of the vampires, paired with BeatStillMyHeart, after which, Sex Machine kills the vampire by stabbing the heart with a pencil. |
| 140 | * ''Film/GiveEmHellMalone'': Malone has a fearsome reputation from hunting down the people who killed his family and ripping their hearts out with his bare hands. [[spoiler:Though since his family are not dead, he probably never killed anyone that way.]] |
| 141 | -->'''Whitmore:''' And, [[ScaryBlackMan Boulder]]... ripped out a man's heart and ate it? The physics of punching through a man's sternum alone make that an impossibility. Next time, spare me the hyperbole. |
| 142 | * In the film ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'', the title character cuts out parts of Ray Liotta's brain and feeds it to him while still alive. |
| 143 | * In the Creator/ChuckNorris supernatural thriller ''Film/{{Hellbound}}'', the demonic villain Prosatanos murders a Rabbi by ripping out his heart and [[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter laughing at the old man]]. |
| 144 | * ''Film/{{Holidays}}'': In ''Valentine's Day'', [[spoiler:Maxine cuts AlphaBitch Heidi's heart out while she is still alive, before presenting to Coach]]. |
| 145 | * ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' features a famous scene in which the villain pulls a man's heart out during a HumanSacrifice ritual. Due to the supernatural nature of the ceremony, the victim survives for several minutes before being lowered into lava, at which point his [[BeatStillMyHeart still-beating]] heart burns up in the BigBad's hand as the body is incinerated below. |
| 146 | * Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: |
| 147 | ** ''Film/IronMan1'': [[spoiler:Obadiah Stane]] pulls out Tony's artificial "heart", the arc reactor, and then taunts Tony while holding it out in front of him. |
| 148 | ** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': Wanda Maximoff destroys Ultron Prime's vibranium body by pulling his "heart" (really a power source) out through his chest. Ultron is an AI, though, so he manages to exist through one final drone before he meets his final fate upon encountering Vision. |
| 149 | * In ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'', the warrior Magua cuts out the heart of Colonel Munro in the midst of a pitched battle. |
| 150 | * In Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'', the monster does this to Elizabeth and holds it up to Victor before diving out a window. |
| 151 | * An organ donor in ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' answers the door only to get his liver ripped out painfully, despite his protests that "I'm using it." Not only does his wife stand by watching impassively, but one jaunty musical number later, she's agreed to donate her liver as well. |
| 152 | * ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonightII'': While Mariusz is waiting for Zosia to come out and go after [[TheBait Janeczka]] so he can shoot her (shoot Zosia, of course), Zosia attacks Mariusz from behind, driving her hand through his back and out his front, clutching his still beating heart. |
| 153 | * ''Film/ProWrestlersVsZombies'' has Angus eating the still-beating heart of a woman in front of her as she dies. Twice. |
| 154 | * The single goriest moment of the first ''Film/PsychoCop'' film has this, but it's not saying much. |
| 155 | * At the end of ''Film/RamboLastBlood'', Rambo kills [[BigBad Hugo Martinez]] by disemboweling his chest then ripping his heart out. |
| 156 | * During the climax of ''Film/RoboCop2'', Murphy defeats the Robocop-ified Cain by detaching the module containing the villain's brain, then smashing it on the ground. The module is still wired up to Robocop 2's cameras, and Cain's OhCrap expression can be seen on a video screen, confirming he's watching his own brain being spiked. |
| 157 | * In ''Film/SerialKilling4Dummys'', Grimaldi threatens Casey by declaring he will "rip your heart out, show it to you, and use it as a sock puppet!" Given the circumstances, it is not clear if he is indulging in hyperbole. |
| 158 | * In ''Film/SinbadOfTheSevenSeas'', Sinbad defeats the leader of the demonic ghouls attacking his ship by ripping out its heart and crushing it in front of it. |
| 159 | * A variation is done in the ''Film/TalesFromTheCrypt'' segment "Poetic Justice". Arthur Grimsdyke rips out James Elliott's heart, and although he doesn't show it to ''James'', he ''does'' leave it as a nasty surprise for James' father. |
| 160 | * Stamper plans to do this to Film/JamesBond in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' through a form of torture that Stamper's mentor Dr. Kaufman perfected. Bond escapes before he can, obviously. |
| 161 | * Film/TheToxicAvenger does this sort of thing with various body parts. However, the first and arguably funniest instance occurs in the first movie, in which he grabs a man's arm and rips it off with such ease that the man has time to break out of a grapple and shout a threat to the titular monster before he even realizes his arm is still in Toxie's hand. As soon as he notices, Toxie smacks him to the ground with the disembodied limb. |
| 162 | * Viktor from ''Film/Underworld2003'' doesn't even realise that Selene's {{s|ingleStrokeBattle}}wing had hit until she shows him the blade covered in his blood. He then dies. |
| 163 | * ''Film/VampireInBrooklyn'': Combined with an invitation to "[[BondOneLiner Put a little heart in it]]" |
| 164 | * At the end of ''Film/VampiresVsZombies'', a zombie rips out Jenna's heart and takes a bite out of it while it is still beating; in front of her still living face. |
| 165 | * ''Film/WaynesWorld'' |
| 166 | ** Ed O'Neill's character suggests that a man who got fired do it to his boss. The man replies that he'd rather file a grievance with his union. |
| 167 | ** Wayne does it to Cassandra's father in the [[Film/WaynesWorld2 sequel]] during a daydream sequence. |
| 168 | * In the climax of ''Film/TheWoman'' [[spoiler:the feral woman kills Chris by ''stabbing her hand'' into his gut, rifling around with his innards, ripping out his heart, and eating it in front of him just before he dies.]] |
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| 170 | |
| 171 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 172 | * ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'': Patrick Bateman does this with a chainsaw and [[spoiler:a woman's entire lower half]]. [[UnreliableNarrator Maybe]]. |
| 173 | * Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Literature/CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness'' had a very darkly humorous scene in which the god Horus [[spoiler:consults a fortune-teller, specifically a reader of entrails. The entrails belong to the fortune-teller's chief rival, who gives accurate predictions while berating the fortune-teller for messing up. (Classic Line: "Those are my entrails! I will not have them misread by a poseur!")]] |
| 174 | * Referenced in Literature/{{Discworld}}'s ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' (they're discussing the meaning of "drawn and quartered"): |
| 175 | -->"I think your innards are cut out and shown to you."\ |
| 176 | "What for?"\ |
| 177 | "I don't really know. To see if you recognize them, I suppose."\ |
| 178 | "What... like, 'Yep, that's my kidneys, yep, that's my breakfast'?" |
| 179 | * Apparently occurred in the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''The Adventuress Of Henrietta Street''. The Doctor lived to have nightmares about it. |
| 180 | ** In the Ninth Doctor Adventures novel ''Only Human'', the [[spoiler:batshit insane villainess removes one of the Doctor's hearts and shows it to him. This actually isn't a problem for him, as said villainess comes from a future where medical science is ridiculously advanced, to the point where they can ''separate a head from a body without killing the victim, with the two parts still somehow remaining connected''. The Doctor is also drugged up with some pretty trippy stuff to the point that he only registers mild discomfort at this. The scene is still strangely horrific, what with the description of the Doctor feeling his insides being mauled about and feeling that he maybe ought to be upset by this.]] |
| 181 | * In ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'', the villainous Taoist Ma Yuan likes to kill his opponents by tearing them in half with his bare hands, rip their hearts out of their chests and devour them whole, terrifying all witnesses with this gruesome show. It is used against him twice, first by Yang Jian (who uses his transformation skills to regrow a new heart and turn the heart eaten by Ma Yuan into a diarrhea-inducing drug, and later by Wenshu Guangfa Tianzhun, who tricks him with a fake woman whose gaping wound closes on Ma Yuan's hands as he's looking for her heart. |
| 182 | * In ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms -- Spine Of The World'', a guard grabs a decapitated man's head and turns it towards the rest of the decapitated body in the hopes that the severed head lives long enough to see it. |
| 183 | * In ''[[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms The Subtle Blade]]'', there's a character in Artemis's old assassin's guild who calls himself "The Heart" because he''claims'' he can rip a man's heart out so quickly that he can show it to the victim while it still beats. Artemis isn't remotely impressed and kills him with little effort. |
| 184 | * Anna Nimity from ''Literature/InTheRealmOfCarnalHorror'' does this [[{{Gorn}} several times in a row to multiple victims.]] |
| 185 | * In ''Literature/JurassicPark'', Nedry gets his stomach slashed open and gets to see/feel his own organs before he dies. This is decidedly more graphic than [[Film/JurassicPark the movie]], which used a GoryDiscretionShot. |
| 186 | * In ''[[Literature/MonsterHunterInternational Monster Hunter Nemesis]]'', a security guard's heart is ripped out of his chest [[spoiler:by Kurst]], and briefly stares in disbelief at the still-beating organ before he dies. |
| 187 | * Non-fatal example in the ''Literature/MyTeacherIsAnAlien'' series: Peter undergoes a voluntary surgery to allow the aliens to study his brain, only to wake up and have them off-handedly show him it [[BrainInAJar in a jar]], connected back to his body with wires. He's a bit freaked out, but they put it back in shortly thereafter and he's no worse for the wear. |
| 188 | * In ''Literature/TheNekropolisArchives'', in the novel ''Dead Streets'', the Frankenstein creation Baristastein rips out a minotaur's heart and holds it up so he can watch it stop beating. |
| 189 | * Mother Lenka, in ''Literature/PaladinOfShadows -- Unto the Breach'', rips the heart out of a captured Chechen fighter, and bites into it while the former owner is dying. |
| 190 | * At the end of the climactic fight in ''Literature/OldScores'', the vampire Salem rips out fellow vampire Shafax's heart, holds it before his eyes, gives him a PreMortemOneLiner, and drops the heart into a torch. |
| 191 | * About a third of the way through the first ''Literature/ThePaperMagician'' book, a villain shows up and rips out the heart of magician Emery Thane. Thanks to some hastily-crafted magic from his apprentice, this is not ''immediately'' fatal, though it's made clear he has only a day or so to live unless his heart is returned. |
| 192 | * ''Literature/SaintessSummonsSkeletons'': The Sabbath of the Hollowed Heart doesn't quite work out normally [[spoiler:in Sofia's case. First, instead of taking the heart from a willing HumanSacrifice as instructed, she cuts out ''her own heart'' (hey, she's a willing human) and places that on the altar, using a special magical item to revive herself from death once. Then, once her offered heart has absorbed the essence of hundreds of undead and changed into something unrecognisable, she has to eat it, raw, while falling to her death again. Once completed, she is transformed into an Apostle of Sorrow -- except that it took place inside the virtual world of the first filter trial, so once the trial is complete, she's back to normal. Sorrow is intrigued by her, however, and grants her the ability to temporarily transform again, with certain restrictions. Each transformation involves her heart leaping out of her chest and her taking a bite out of it.]] |
| 193 | * ''{{Literature/Silverwing}}'': The Vampyrum do that to their sacrificial animals in the second book. At one point (after a dream) Goth becomes obsessed with [[BeatStillMyHeart ripping Shade's heart out of his chest]] and eating it while Shade watches. |
| 194 | * In The80s HeroesRUs series ''Soldiers of Barrabas'', a Soviet officer tries to rape and murder TheSquadette, so she rips off his testicles and, after he's passed out in agony, leaves them in his coat pocket for him to find later. Whereupon he faints again. |
| 195 | * ''Literature/SwordOfTruth -- Wizards' First Rule'' |
| 196 | ** The BigBad Darken Rahl practices divination by reading the entrails of living humans. If his prisoners won't talk, he can use this as a last resort to get information from them, but can only get one or two words, like a name or the answer to a yes/no question. |
| 197 | ** Later, Kahlan castrates [[TheDragon Demmin Nass]] and feeds him the removed parts. Before you feel pity for him, a minute before that she asked him how many little boys he raped and murdered, and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday the only answer he could provide was "a hundred or so"]]. |
| 198 | * In the first poem of ''Literature/LaVitaNuova'', [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Love]] appears out of thin air holding Dante's heart in his hand while it burns. Dante doesn't seem to mind losing the heart and seeing Love feed it to someone because dreams are weird like that. |
| 199 | * In ''Literature/VoidCity'', Eric kills some werewolves by using his super-strength to rip their hearts right out of their chests, holding the organs up in front of them as they die. |
| 200 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'' ''Literature/GotrekAndFelix'' book ''Demonslayer'', a greater demon was defeated and banished by a dwarf lord a century ago, at which point the demon promised it would one day return to eat his liver while he watched. The eponymous heroes arrive just as the demon has returned to make good on its promise. [[spoiler:It does so, shortly before they manage to kill it]]. |
| 201 | * Occurs twice in ''Literature/{{Watersong}}''. In ''Lullaby'', when Lexi kills Sawyer by thrusting her arm through his chest and ripping his heart out, holding it for a moment before sliding her arm out and letting him fall. She then considers eating his heart but decides that would take too much time when she has more important things to be doing. In ''Tidal'', Penn kills Lexi in the same manner. Since sirens don't die until they both have their heart torn out and are decapitated, Penn lets Lexi take a good, long look at her heart before finishing her. |
| 202 | * ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'': Inigo starts cutting out Count Rugen's heart alive as they duel. Downplayed as terror and blood loss kill Rugen before he can finish. |
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| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 206 | * In a detention-level in ''Series/{{Angel}}'', prisoners have their hearts torn out and shown to them regularly (once a day?) by a torture demon. They recover with no ill-effects and almost no memory of the event except a lingering sense of dread about going into the cellar. |
| 207 | ** Notably, Spike invokes this trope on [[spoiler:Lindsey]] ''without even realizing it'', as he holds up a human heart from a pile of them and asks whose it is. |
| 208 | * In the ''Series/{{Bizaardvark}}'' episode "Unboxing", this is one of the techniques Frankie does while shadowboxing after joining a mixed martial arts program. When Paige later considers having to break it to Frankie that she doesn't want to train with her because she specifically turned to MMA to have some alone time, she has an ImagineSpot of Frankie screaming hysterically at Paige before ripping out her heart. |
| 209 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. |
| 210 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E21Primeval Primeval]]", Buffy [[spoiler:kills Adam, the Season 4 BigBad, by ripping out his Uranium-235 power core and holding it up in front of him]]. [[AchillesHeel Adam promptly keels over dead.]] |
| 211 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E22BecomingPart2 Becoming Part 2]]", Buffy threatens Whistler with something similar. Specifically, she threatens to pull out his ribcage and wear it as a hat. |
| 212 | * Michael Kepler on ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' has a CatapultNightmare in which he reaches into a woman's chest and withdraws her beating heart. As it's a dream, she just keeps standing there. |
| 213 | * Probably as a reference to a similar event in the novel, ''{{Series/Hannibal}}'''s title character feeds [[spoiler:Abel Gideon]] his own severed and cooked leg. The victim is surprisingly cordial throughout the whole event. |
| 214 | * ''Series/HemlockGrove'': Olivia rips out [[spoiler:Norman]]'s heart after he turns against her, complete with corny BondOneLiner. |
| 215 | * In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' the legend of Takezo Kensei features a self-inflicted version of this. Kensei learns his sword skills from a dragon, who returns years later to take Kensei's wife as payment. Instead, Kensei cuts out his own heart, hands it to the dragon, and tells him, "My love is in here. Take it", before dying. |
| 216 | * In ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' "Aruba", Thawne murders [[spoiler:Doomworld!Ray]] by ripping his heart out. |
| 217 | * A non-fatal example occurs in the ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' episode "791". The prisoners on the crashed transport have their hearts removed and their bodies put on life support to make sure they can't escape -- and to make matters worse, they're fully conscious when their hearts are removed. |
| 218 | * ''Mary Rice Hopkins and Puppets With a Heart'', a Christian children's show airing on Smile of a Child TV, has the titular singer rip out some of her puppet friends' hearts, then open them to show what symbolic objects are inside, i.e. insects to indicate that they're "bugged" by something. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It makes a lot more sense in context]], especially for a kids' show. |
| 219 | * The ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Imprint". After Christopher shoots Komono through the head in his madness, she picks out a few pieces of her brain in shock before she dies. |
| 220 | * The Evil Queen of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' does this with the Huntsman's heart after she pulls it out of him. However, because of her magic, she's able to do it without killing him [[spoiler:At least not then...]] |
| 221 | ** Her mother Cora was also fond of this and used it to Regina's one true love. In front of Regina. Cora and Regina both learned this from [[ManipulativeBastard Rumplestiltskin]]. |
| 222 | ** Rumplestiltskin used this on his ex-wife after she tells him [[TooDumbToLive she never loved him]]. |
| 223 | ** Cora does this to ''herself'' in her youth due to her belief that LoveIsAWeakness. |
| 224 | ** As noted above, ripping the heart out isn't fatal. Destroying the heart afterward is. |
| 225 | * ''ComicBook/PainkillerJane'': In the TV adaptation, they quickly show that a neuro who can walk through walls uses her power to kill needlessly. |
| 226 | * In "Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond" the Chigs ritually gouge out dead humans' eyes and heart as a form of scalping and because they think it'll prevent them from coming back to life (their misinterpretation of our heaven beliefs). In one instance a Chig ambushes a Marine, hacks his heart out with an axe, and thrusts it into the air triumphantly while his friends cheer. |
| 227 | * A ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode shows a girl with the GeneticMemory of the Go'uld System Lord Sekhmet threatening the evil scientist who created her with ripping out his heart and making him eat it. |
| 228 | * In a ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode, Sally asked her boyfriend how he would feel if she were suddenly out of his life. When he said he would be unhappy, she asked if it would be like "someone ripped out your heart and showed it to you", to which he replied, "well... not showed it to me." |
| 229 | * ''Series/TrueBlood'': |
| 230 | ** Sam VS Maryann in the Season 2 finale. Transformed into a giant bull with enormous horns, he tricks her into coming closer and dropping her guard. As soon as she's close enough, he rips through her body with his horns, shifting back into a human that changes the horn into his arm. He grasps Maryann's black heart while she is still alive. She utters " Was there no God?" before he finally destroys the heart, turning her into a corpse. |
| 231 | ** Eric did this to Marnie's companion Roy in Episode 4x11 who attempts a: "You'll have to GoThroughMe " tactic. Bonus points for casually ''[[{{Squick}} sipping his blood]]'' ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice through the detached aorta]]'' while looking Marnie in the eye. |
| 232 | * ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls''. Mentioned metaphorically when Caroline meets David in the episode "And the Broken Hearts". He jokingly says she "tore his heart out and shook it in front of his face." |
| 233 | * ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' and ''Series/TheOriginals'' abuse this trope. It appears almost every time a vampire wants to kill another vampire, a werewolf, or anyone else, for that matter. It saves the trouble of getting a piece of wood to stab a vampire in the heart with, plus this trope and decapitation are the only ways to kill a vampire/werewolf hybrid. |
| 234 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'' "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E18Milagro Milagro]]", Mulder and Scully begin discussing a case the pair are working on, wherein the heart of the victim had been removed with the absence of any significant physical evidence. Mulder believes the heart was removed with a technique known as psychic surgery. Meanwhile, Padgett, who is Mulder's neighbor, stands on a chair with his ear to an air vent, listening to the conversation. Padgett converses with the killer from his book, a deceased Brazilian surgeon named Ken Naciamento (Nestor Serrano). It is revealed that through some sort of psychic connection, Padgett's Naciamento has come back to life and has been removing hearts from victims. |
| 235 | * ''Series/TwinPeaks'' has the denizens of [[spoiler:the Black Lodge]] demonstrate this ability with people's souls. It may be tied to the actual place, as [[spoiler:Windom Earle, not known to be supernatural, does it to Dale Cooper when he offers Dale Annie's life in exchange for Dale's soul. BOB immediately undoes this, telling Cooper that Earle doesn't have the authority to do it and proceeds to take Earle's soul in return.]] |
| 236 | * ''Series/VanHelsing2016'': |
| 237 | ** Ivory and Scab do this when they kill Scarhead and his lieutenant in order to [[KlingonPromotion take over]] the [[DaywalkingVampire Daywalker]] horde. |
| 238 | ** Julius, hopped up on a SuperSerum, does this to his vampire opponent in "Graveyard Smash". |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 242 | * The cover of Music/EaglesOfDeathMetal's album ''Heart On''. |
| 243 | * The video for Gnarl's Barkley's "Who's Gonna Save My Soul Now" has a guy doing this to the girl that dumped him. |
| 244 | * Rarely seen with Music/{{GWAR}}. |
| 245 | * The Album cover for Music/GreenDay's "Music/AmericanIdiot" features this, although it's actually a heart-shaped grenade. |
| 246 | * "And the last thing I see is my heart still beating uh breakin' outta my body and flyin' away" from Meatloaf's ''Bat Out Of Hell'' |
| 247 | * According to Music/{{Weird Al|Yankovic}}'s song [[Music/{{Alpocalypse}} "CNR"]] and as demonstrated in the music video, [[MemeticBadass Charles]] [[Series/MatchGame Nelson Reilly]] can do this to you. |
| 248 | ** Weird Al also proposes this as a method of suicide in [[Music/DareToBeStupid "One More Minute"]]: "I'd rather rip my heart out of my ribcage with my bare hands and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it 'till I die." |
| 249 | * In the Music/AvengedSevenfold song ''A Little Piece of Heaven'', there is a line which says, "Ripped her heart out right before her eyes! Eyes over easy, eat it, eat it, eat it!" |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 253 | * {{Inverted|Trope}} in the ''Podcast/AliceIsntDead'' episode "Omelet," when HumanoidAbomination The Thistle Man slowly and casually inflicts a mortal injury on a hapless victim as a private "demonstration" for the CharacterNarrator after asking if she wants to "see sumthin' funny." He bites off a chunk of a man's flesh at the site of an artery, and as his victim exsanguinates, keeps digging out flesh from the wound [[ImAHumanitarian to eat]], purely to show off. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 257 | * In ''Roleplay/FellowshipOfTheRaven'', the Baron of Vallaki dies this way when he attempts to lie to [[BigBad Strahd von Zarovich]] and blame the injuries ''he'' inflicted on [[MacGuffinGirl Ireena]] while interrogating her (for [[InterrogatedForNothing information she didn't even have, no less]]) on her monstrous older brother Izek, his own enforcer, before he realized [[StalkerWithACrush who she was to Strahd]]. Strahd sees through it in an instant and tears the Baron's heart out before crushing it and feeding his body to his vampire spawn. |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 261 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': the ''Book of Vile Darkness'' supplement featured a Cleric spell called Heartclutch which magically transported the target's heart to the caster's hand, causing the unfortunate victim to die within 1 to 3 rounds. (Or just take a chunk of damage if the target succeeded on its save.) |
| 262 | * One of the many bizarre things you can do in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' with high-powered SupernaturalMartialArts is to inflict "Jigsaw Organ Condition" on a person. This will allow you to pull their heart out and show it to them, ''without'' this necessarily doing them any permanent harm. |
| 263 | * Flavor text for the ''TabletopGame/{{Netrunner}}'' card "Black Dahlia": |
| 264 | -->She broke my heart -- but at least she showed it to me first. |
| 265 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} TabletopGame/BlackCrusade'' describes a drug that is made from a space marine's organs while he is made to watch. It is never clarified if making him watch actually does anything to the drug itself; but then, the Emperor's Children and their kind would do it anyway. |
| 266 | ** Roboute Guilliman does this to Kor Phaeron as a truly ''epic'' ShutUpHannibal in the Horus Heresy novel ''Know No Fear''. |
| 267 | ** Less lethally, at the end of ''Fear to Tread'', Horus peels off Erebus's face and waves it in front of him. |
| 268 | ** In *The Outcast Dead*, a World Eater keeps telling a Custodes that he will rip his spine out through his chest. He does this. ExactWords. Then shows him his spine. Custodes are literally superhuman, so he remained conscious long enough to see it. |
| 269 | [[/folder]] |
| 270 | |
| 271 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 272 | * At [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's]] Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights, this is the signature kill of "The Caretaker", who will slowly and painfully rip out the heart of his victims and then show it to them (and to the watching audience) just before they die. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 276 | * In ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'', when you finally find your children (or visions of them), they tear out their own hearts to show you. And do it again in subsequent meetings. |
| 277 | * In ''VideoGame/CharlieMurder'', at later levels you can choose a skill called, appropriately, "Heart Rip". It can only be done as a FinishingMove on especially weakened enemies. During that ability, your character rips out the enemy's heart, shows it to them, and ''eats it''. A later version of the skill eventually provides healing for eating the heart too. |
| 278 | * At the end of ''Videogame/{{Deltarune}}'' Chapter 1, [[spoiler:Kris falls out of bed after having a seizure-like fit, slowly struggles to their feet, shuffles around like a zombie, and then ''plunges a hand into their own chest and '''tears their soul out of their body!''''' They hold it up almost triumphantly, before flinging it into a birdcage in the corner of their room.]] |
| 279 | * In ''VideoGame/Doom2016,'' the Glory Kill for the Mancubus involves ripping its heart out of its bloated gut and shoving it down its mouth. |
| 280 | * During the endgame of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', Oghren caps off a surprisingly touching speech (for him, anyway) to the Warden with "Let us show them our hearts, and then show them ''theirs!''" |
| 281 | * At the beginning of ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'', the Dragon plucks out your heart. You get to witness the Dragon then eat your heart before passing out. The game then becomes about slaying the Dragon and reclaiming your heart as the Arisen. |
| 282 | * Beating people to death with their own severed limbs is extremely common and satisfying in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' adventure mode. Even better is to [[CrossesTheLineTwice beat a mother to death with the body of her child you just killed in front of her]]. No heart-ripping (or other organ extraction) antics are implemented ''yet'', but Toady intends to throw some appropriate mechanics in once martial arts proper enter the picture. |
| 283 | * The only reason why [[BigBad Gilgamesh]] manages to avoid this, in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'''s UBW route, is because [[spoiler:he forcibly removes Illya's eyes before ripping out her heart.]] Yes, he's [[ExaggeratedTrope far worse in this route than the others.]] |
| 284 | ** Oh, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynHRFInVHuY here's]] the scene from the movie adaptation. In the adaptation, it fits better as [[spoiler:he ''doesn't'' "forcibly remove" Illya's eyes first, so the sobbing girl has to see him "de-heart" her before dying]]. No wonder Shirou is horrified. |
| 285 | * In ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver2'', Janos dies when Raziel's past self tears his heart clean out. |
| 286 | ** One of the Stealth kills in ''VideoGame/BloodOmen2LegacyOfKain'' involves sneaking up behind an enemy, punching through their back, grabbing their heart and pushing it out through the front of their ribcage, where presumably the victim has a good view of it. |
| 287 | * One of the many, many over-the-top mook finishers available in ''VideoGame/MadWorld''. And it's one of the ''tamer'' ones. |
| 288 | -->'''[[CombatCommentator Howard "Buckshot" Holmes]]:''' That's what I call a ''[[{{Pun}} heart attack!]]''\ |
| 289 | '''Kreese Kreeley:''' [[DeadpanSnarker That's what I call a dickwad comment]].\ |
| 290 | '''Howard:''' You're a hateful man. |
| 291 | * Raiden kills [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]] in this manner in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', but said character is too busy giving a MotiveRant and NotSoDifferentRemark speech to even notice. |
| 292 | * In ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', Kano and his various imitators can rip people's hearts out, while they don't directly hold the hearts in front of their victims, they ''do'' hold the hearts up for everyone to see (Including the victim, if that particular game makes him fall backward afterwards). Kobra takes it one step further by shoving the heart into the victim's mouth. |
| 293 | ** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} for dark comedy in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'', where the 'important organ' being removed from the victim was ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpbrGgaHGRo their entire skeleton]]'', somehow removed intact via the mouth (including the cyborg ninjas, whose faces were replaced with helmet masks and therefore had no mouths to begin with) and proudly brandished while the hapless victim observes their cruel and bizarre fate before collapsing into a floppy pile of skin. The sheer absurdity of the act (and the remarkable cleanliness of both the skeleton and the hyper-degloved victim) keeps the move from being too horrific to show. |
| 294 | ** In ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' [[TokenMinority token white guy]] Lance is so enraged at being called a sissy towards the end of the movie, he performs various fatalities from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' on the guards; including Kano's And Show It to You move. |
| 295 | ** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', Kano's heart rip fatality actually fits the "Show it to 'em" criteria, as he spins them around, so he faces his opponent's back, and then rams his fist through their back and out their chest, clutching their heart in his hand right in front of their face. |
| 296 | ** This move even managed to get into the PG-rated ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IatYS3Kylk although it may have helped that Kano used it on a zombie.]] |
| 297 | ** In ''Videogame/MortalKombatX'', Kotal Kahn's fatality has him cut a hole in his victim's chest, rip out their heart, hold it up high and pop it with a squeeze so that he can drink their blood. |
| 298 | ** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'', Havik's fatality rips out both his opponent's heart ''and his own'', and swaps them, causing his heart to explode inside the victim body. |
| 299 | * ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}'' has a modified version of [[OriginalGeneration Elque]], who rips out his opponent's heart, shows it to them, then crushes it as a special finisher. |
| 300 | * ''VideoGame/RedEarth'': Kenji, ''a la'' [[Franchise/MortalKombat Kano]], has a FinishingMove in which he tears out his enemy's heart and holds it out for a while before crushing it in his fist. |
| 301 | * After Ethan defeated [[TheStarscream Heisenberg]] in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'', he encountered [[BigBad Mother Miranda]], who proceeded to tear his heart out, before drinking the blood out of it. He comes back long enough to kill her due to his [[HeroicWillpower will to rescue his daughter]] and the fact that he was [[HealingFactor already infected by the mold]]. |
| 302 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Revenant}}'' the player's character repeatedly threatens people with the sight of their own organs. |
| 303 | * In ''VideoGame/SeriousSam3BFE'', you can do this to Beheaded Rocketeers. And then you can toss it at others for an [[CosmeticAward achievement]]. |
| 304 | * In ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997'' Rippers, gorilla-like monsters who love to rip you to shreds with their claws, rip out your heart while killing you. You still see it beating in their hands as you lie dead. |
| 305 | * Done in ''VideoGame/SuperCosplayWarUltra'', where one attack by Erus has her re-enact Killua's heart-ripping scene in ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' with her opponent. [[MadeOfIron The attack only takes a 5th of their lifebar,]] [[RuleOfFunny and can be done multiple times.]] |
| 306 | * In the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' video [[SupplementalMaterial/TeamFortress2 "Meet the Medic"]], the Medic has removed the Heavy's heart in order to connect it to a [[{{Phlebotinum}} scientific doodad]] that, in conjunction with a surge from his medigun, can render the Heavy invulnerable. The Heavy is awake the whole time, being kept alive by the [[JustifiedTrope running medigun]] [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration mounted over the operating table]]. [[spoiler:Too bad the Heavy's heart couldn't handle the power and it blew up. The Medic replaced it with a spare Mega-Baboon's heart with the Heavy none the wiser.]] The Heavy does wonder if he really should be awake during this procedure. |
| 307 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Tenchu}} Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven]]'' features [[GeniusBruiser Tesshu]] as an [[SecretCharacter unlockable character]]. While he uses needles as his main weapon, he also uses his brute strength for stealth kills, the most brutal is perhaps the one performed from the front of a target, where he rips out their heart and crushes it, accompanied by an [[{{Squick}} x-ray of their beating heart as Tesshu grabs it]]. |
| 308 | * ''VideoGame/WindChildBlack'' has the Black Knight do this to a military commander as revenge for the commander's participation in the genocide of the Knight's people. Being a sprite-based game made with UsefulNotes/RPGMaker, it's not terribly graphic. |
| 309 | * In the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' Goblin starter storyline for the "Cataclysm" expansion, your character has a lover that eventually betrays you to Gallywix(even hooking up with him if you're a male Goblin). Eventually, you get a mission to go after your ex and literally rip the cheating heart right out of their chest. You even get the heart as a quest reward. |
| 310 | [[/folder]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 313 | * ''WebAnimation/BentoBanana'': President Rei holds Bento Banana up to the lockers after he tries rushing towards Plumpy and pulls out Bento's heart right in front of him. Then after the girls [[OminousVisualGlitch freakishly glitch out]] for a moment and Plumpy runs away, Rei then crushes Bento's heart, but he's still alive despite that. |
| 314 | * ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': |
| 315 | ** At the end of "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure DIO]] VS [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Alucard]]", [[spoiler:DIO jabs his fist [[TorsoWithAView through Alucard's chest]] after he had already activated Level 0, grabs his heart, and squishes it to a pulp behind his back, his fist still rammed through Alucard's chest, before finally finishing Alucard off with a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from [[FightingSpirit The World]]]]. |
| 316 | ** Near the end of "[[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} Omni-Man]] VS [[ComicBook/TheBoys Homelander]]", [[spoiler:Omni-Man rips out Homelander's heart, and then proceeds to make good on his PreAsskickingOneLiner from the beginning of the fight by [[{{Autocannibalism}} feeding it to him]]]]. |
| 317 | --->[[spoiler:'''Omni-Man:''' Remember what I promised you? Now...''swallow''.]] |
| 318 | * In Episode 5 of ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePortal'', [[spoiler:Chrysalis does this to Shining Armor]]. |
| 319 | * Tex from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' reportedly once beat a man to death with ''his own skull''. [[spoiler:Turns out [[FalseMemories that's not exactly what happened]]...though Jimmy [[AndIMustScream probably would have preferred that over having his mind overwritten by the Alpha/Church's own]].]] |
| 320 | -->'''Tucker:''' Wait a minute, how do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible.\ |
| 321 | '''Church:''' That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming.\ |
| 322 | '''Pvt. Jimmy:''' ''[in flashback, being beaten to death with his own skull]'' This doesn't seem physically possible! |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 326 | * In the Great Outdoor Fight story arc on ''{{Webcomic/Achewood}}'', one of the competitors threatens to tear off [Ray's] Legs and piss up the stumps, to which Ray replies thusly |
| 327 | --> "Man, that's crazy talk! A leg ain't got no holes where your urine can go." |
| 328 | * Butch R. Mann of ''Webcomic/ChoppingBlock'' has tried this, but the victims never live long enough to see their own hearts. |
| 329 | * Stories exist of Jeanne Noelle from ''Webcomic/TheDreadful'' force-feeding people pieces of themselves. |
| 330 | * In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Bangladesh Dupree is a terrible patient until the head doctor explains he is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070718 willing]] to use this trope if she doesn't behave. |
| 331 | * ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': [[https://www.lfg.co/page/252/ Done]] by an EnfantTerrible UndeadChild, no less. |
| 332 | --> "The look on your face when a toddler rips out your heart and shows it to you. Priceless." |
| 333 | ** [[https://www.lfg.co/page/473/ Apparently it's not as easy as it looks.]] |
| 334 | * ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has a non-lethal foot example where a robotic law enforcement agent, Officer Basilisk, goes to a repair shop run by Faye and Bubbles due to her malfunctioning foot. She expresses discomfort about seeing people work on her foot, which eventually results in her [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3572 actually fainting when Faye disconnects her foot and shows it to Basilisk.]] (The intent was benign but still traumatic). |
| 335 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Ruck kills Chorley by ripping out his heart, giving Chorley just enough time to see the bloodly mess before expiring. |
| 336 | [[/folder]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 339 | * The Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-953 SCP-953]], which does this with her victims' livers, and eats them. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 343 | * ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' does this to ''himself'' after playing a 3-in-1 NES game based on Literature/TheBible, finally managing to beat one of the games, and getting a different ending than he expected: |
| 344 | -->'''Nerd:''' But I'm aware that the last screen is supposed to be plain text that says "Give your heart to Jesus", but I'm not seeing it, so I'm assuming I'm supposed to beat all 3 games to see the true ending, and I'm not going through all ''that'' trouble, although I ''will'' give my heart to Jesus. ''[plunges his hand into his chest and rips out his own heart, then starts screaming in pain]'' GAH! AAHH JESUS! |
| 345 | ** In the episode on ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'', James adapts the ''Wayne's World'' quote to express his frustration at the game's legendary difficulty: "...they don't even have the fucking courtesy to refill your life bar! That is sadistic! Whoever programmed this thing, I wanna rip their fucking heart out of their ass and show it to them so they can see how cold and black it is before they die!" |
| 346 | * ''WebVideo/EscapeTheNight'': In Season 2 Episode 7, "Automaton Love Story", the person who loses the death challenge is killed by having their heart ripped out by a Promethean. It's notoriously one of the most brutal and quite literally heart-wrenching elimination methods in the entire series. |
| 347 | %%* ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'': "Dude, that's my heart." |
| 348 | [[/folder]] |
| 349 | |
| 350 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 351 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', ComicBook/{{Ultron}} is defeated ([[JokerImmunity the first time]]) by the Hulk ripping his body open and ComicBook/AntMan tearing out his power source, which is located where his heart would be. |
| 352 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' episode "Tornado", this is what Beavis thinks tornadoes can do to people. |
| 353 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' |
| 354 | ** "Family Guy Viewer Mail No. 1" has a scene where, as his first wish from a genie, Peter wishes to see what Creator/KellyRipa is like off-set. She's revealed to be an alien who rips out the heart of a guy who's BoundAndGagged in her dressing room before eating it. |
| 355 | ** "Family Goy" does this as a throw-away gag/''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Temple of Doom]]'' homage: Stewie, annoyed by Meg's interrupting his pre-meal prayer, rips out her heart, turning her into a chanting zombie. |
| 356 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 357 | ** Done for comedy in the episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E19RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell that Ends Well]]". Apparently, Zoidberg has a LOT of redundant organs, as he is able to provide a running commentary on his autopsy, while the doctors take out at least 5 organs and place them aside. |
| 358 | --->'''Doctor:''' One heart.\ |
| 359 | '''Zoidberg:''' Take, I've got four of them! |
| 360 | ** Also: |
| 361 | --->'''Zoidberg:''' Get ready Fry; I'm going to rip your swim bladder out AND SHOW IT TO YOU! |
| 362 | ** And during a war reenactment: |
| 363 | --->'''Darth Trocious:''' I shall rip out your heart and show it to you! [taps Scruffy with toy lightsaber] It is done! |
| 364 | * This is the nightmare demon Spooky Dookie's M.O. in ''WesternAnimation/MajorLazer.'' Of course, [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010 when you die in your dreams, you die for real]]. |
| 365 | * In the extended version of "Robot Riot" from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'', Danny of [[MyspeldRokband Love]] [[HeavyMetalUmlaut Händel]] gets one of these on a Norm-bot: |
| 366 | --> '''Danny:''' I'm gonna shut you down, I'm teaching you a lesson: Rip out your CPU and show it to you still processing! |
| 367 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 368 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E8NewKidOnTheBlock New Kid on the Block]]", after Bart learns the girl next door (whom he has a crush on) has a boyfriend, Bart imagines her ripping out his heart and kicking it away to land in a wastebasket. |
| 369 | ** After angering a temple of Shaolin monks in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E12GooGooGaiPan Goo Goo Gai Pan]]", one of them rips out Homer's heart, shows it to him, and puts it back. Homer just hopes he washed his hands first. |
| 370 | ** ConversationalTroping about Bart's karate lessons in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E3WhenFlandersFailed When Flanders Failed]]": |
| 371 | --->'''Bart:''' I learned that thing where you rip out a guy's heart and show it to him before he dies!\ |
| 372 | '''Homer:''' That'll learn 'em! |
| 373 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E3MidnightTowboy Midnight Towboy]]", Homer becomes a tow truck driver and is warned by a rival; |
| 374 | --->'''Rival:''' If I catch you on my turf, I'll rip your head off, vomit down your neck, rip out your heart, show your heart to your head, and shove 'em both down your neck-hole, to which I previously alluded. |
| 375 | ** In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E4TreehouseOfHorrorIX Treehouse of Horror IX]]" segment "Hell Toupee", Homer, possessed by the recently deceased Snake after obtaining a hair transplant from him following the latter's execution, kills Moe by removing his heart with a corkscrew. |
| 376 | ** In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E5TreehouseOfHorrorXXVI Treehouse of Horror XXVI]]" segment "Wanted: Dead, then Alive", after impaling Bart with a HarpoonGun, Sideshow Bob adds insult to injury and twists it further by yanking the projectile from Bart's chest, ''ripping out his heart as he does so!'' Bonus points as Bart sees the hole in his chest, then looks at Bob holding his heart as he utters out his last words before dying. |
| 377 | ** In "How I Wet Your Mother", Homer finds himself wetting his bed and thinks it's guilt-induced, so he throws a barbecue with a piñata of himself that was complete with a papier-mache heart. Carl removes it and then beats it with the bat that he hit the piñata with. |
| 378 | * A variant in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongebobSquarePantsS3E8NoWeeniesAllowedSquilliamReturns No Weenies Allowed]]": in order to be allowed entrance into the Salty Spitoon, Reg the doorman asks people how tough they are. When Sandy comes up, she proves her toughness by ripping the "MOM" heart tattoo off Reg's chest and putting it back on upside-down so that it now reads "WOW". |
| 379 | * A variant in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' when Raven pulls Beast Boy's heart out through his mouth, but it's still connected to his circulatory system and it slings back into place when she lets it go. |
| 380 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', [[TheBigGuy Bulkhead]] once tore the [[HeartDrive spark chamber]] out of a Vehicon he was fighting. The round object with several wires attached to it very much resembles a heart. |
| 381 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' showed [[spoiler:Past!Good!Chase Young]] ripping a heart-shaped rock out of a golem in one move. The next shot is from the golem's POV, which blurs and dims as it collapses. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids The only possible way they got away with that]] is because it was a rock monster rather than a flesh-and-blood human. |
| 382 | [[/folder]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 385 | * The old English execution method of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath hanging, drawing, and quartering]] reserved for male commoner traitors and a few particularly odious male noble ones, did this with the condemned's intestines and [[UnusualEuphemism "Privy-Members"]] as part of the "drawing" section of the punishment (which started after the victim had been hanged only ''half'' to death). In many cases, they would set the aforementioned organs on fire as they did so. |
| 386 | ** Other organs could get into the "drawing" as well, at least according to some accounts: One story has it that when Sir Everard Digby, one of Guy Fawkes' gunpowder plotters, was hanged, drawn, and quartered, the executioner got really into the "drawing", tore out Digby's heart, and cried, "Here is the heart of a traitor!" The slightly implausible part of the story is that Digby came back to life just long enough to shout "Thou liest!" |
| 387 | * The Khmer Rouge (allegedly) used to cut out their enemies' livers and gall bladders, and sometimes are reported to have put the liver on a stick and parade around with it. It's apparently surprising how long someone can survive while their liver is outside their body. |
| 388 | * [[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/05/31/2010-05-31_mma_fighter_jarrod_wyatt_allegedly_ripped_out_training_partner_taylor_powells_he.html MMA fighter Jarrod Wyatt]] apparently ripped out his training partner's heart (along with tongue and most of his face) because he thought Satan was in him after getting high on "mushroom tea". According to the [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282647/US-cage-fighter-Jarrod-Wyatt-rips-training-partner-Taylor-Powells-heart.html#ixzz0pWlIykDe Daily Mail]] ([[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers so take that as you will]]), Taylor Powell was still alive when the heart came out, so it might fit under [[BeatStillMyHeart here]] as well. |
| 389 | * The Aztecs did this with their captives. They thrust a dagger under the ribs of the victim, yanked their heart out, and held it up as an offering of blood to their gods. |
| 390 | * A prisoner named Henri Languille, condemned to the Guillotine, became part of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine#Living_heads a scientific experiment]]. Immediately upon decapitation, Dr. Beaurieux took the head and spoke the prisoner's name until the eyes stopped responding and looking in the doctor's eyes. Because no EEG was attached, nobody knows whether it was a conscious mental or unconscious muscle/nerve response. One might assume the prisoner got a glimpse of his own body in those few seconds between being severed and unconscious. Since it takes a few seconds for the brain to run out of oxygen after blood flow is cut off (either literally, as in the case of decapitation, or in the form of the heart stopping), it's at least ''possible'' that a severed head would be able to see and recognize its own body in that brief time. |
| 391 | ** Which is why the Guillotine is now considered by many to be an unnecessarily cruel death, despite having been specifically chosen for the opposite purpose: in a search for a painless execution method, it ends up being mentally painful because it's not physically painful enough. Of course, it could be averted by simply, you know, ''not'' lifting the head up for everyone to see. |
| 392 | * With the chemical magic of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastination plastination]], someone's heart can be shown to many people for as long as required! |
| 393 | * Occasionally, a heart-transplant patient with sufficient scientific and/or morbid curiosity will request, and perhaps even be granted, the chance to see their original heart after their operation. |
| 394 | ** Some, mostly biology teachers, even keep their original hearts in Tupperware containers. |
| 395 | * When the leaders of the Dutch Republic caught Balthasar Gérard, the assassin of William the Silent, they decreed that among other things his heart was to be cut out and flung in his face. |
| 396 | * In 1966, American Dr. Sam Axelrad amputated the arm of Viet Cong soldier Nguyen Quang Hung, who had been shot by American soldiers. The arm was amputated to prevent further infection, and Axelrad took the arm home as a souvenir. 47 years later, Axelrad [[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/us-army-doctor-returns-arm-to-vietnamese-soldier-fifty-years-after-he-took-it-as-a-souvenir-8681787.html returned the bones of the arm to Hung]]. |
| 397 | * A surprisingly benign example: a doctor in Dallas wants to show heart transplant patients their old hearts in person in order to encourage them to eat healthier and exercise more. |
| 398 | * For a non-horrifying variant: dentists will sometimes show a patient the tooth they just extracted if they ask, as some people are legitimately curious. |
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