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| 11 | [[quoteright:297:[[Series/Castle2009 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/castle_beckett_ear_yank_3423.jpg]]]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:297:Sometimes it's the only way to deal with a writer.]] |
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| 14 | ->'''Willow:''' The coroner's office said she was missing an ear. So I'm thinking, maybe we're looking for a witch. There's some great spells that work much better with an ear in the mix.\ |
| 15 | '''Buffy:''' That's one fun little hobby you've got there, Will.\ |
| 16 | '''Willow:''' Or maybe an ear-harvesting demon that — it's, like, building another demon completely out of ears. Or... Ooh! Thought! We're just assuming someone else cut off the ear. What if it was self-inflicted, like van Gogh?\ |
| 17 | '''Buffy:''' So... she brutally stabs herself, dumped the body, then cut off her own ear? |
| 18 | -->-- ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E8Pangs Pangs]]" |
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| 20 | This trope describes damage or painful actions done to the ears: |
| 21 | |
| 22 | * Someone's ear is cut clean off. |
| 23 | * Someone's ear is otherwise sliced. |
| 24 | * Someone's ear is pulled, yanked, or twisted. Bonus points if the person doing the pulling proceeds to pull the victim away ''by their ear''. |
| 25 | * Someone's ear is bitten (and sometimes torn off). |
| 26 | * Someone's ear has something sharp stuck into it. |
| 27 | * Someone's eardrums burst. |
| 28 | * Something like a virus/parasite [[OrificeInvasion forces itself into someone's ear]] (do not confuse with EarWorm). |
| 29 | * Someone's ear [[CartoonThrobbing comedically throbbing]]. |
| 30 | * [[EarPiercingPlot Someone gets their ears pierced]]. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | Compare EyeScream, for similar nasty things happening to a character's eyes, TongueTrauma when it's the tongue that bites it, or {{Fingore}} and AgonyOfTheFeet, when the targets are the fingers and toes. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | See also ShellShockSilence, its aversion SteelEardrums and LoudOfWar. |
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| 36 | !!Examples: |
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| 38 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 41 | * ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'' seems to like this. Giichi got one of his ears cut off by Sousuke, and Kagehisa gets his ear sliced by Habaki. |
| 42 | * In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Mask de Masculine uses his fingers to poke out his own eardrums to [[DisabilityImmunity render himself immune]] to [[MagicMusic Rose's sound-based Bankai]]. He then has his fan James [[TheMedic restore them]] by cheering on him. |
| 43 | * In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Oiran Warabihime, also known as the demon Daki, punishes a young girl in her house by pinching her ear until blood flows. Zenitsu, who witnessed the act, is furious and specifically brings it up when he faces Daki in combat. |
| 44 | * ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' |
| 45 | ** The titular robot cat's backstory which explains his IronicFear of ''mice''. As it turns out, a younger Doraemon had his ears chewed off by Sewashi's malfunctioning robot mouse, making him the ''only'' ear-less robot cat in Tokyo. |
| 46 | ** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasThreeVisionarySwordsmen'': The powerful elephant demon, General Ganbosu, attempts to attack Nobita and friends while flying around on EarWings, but Nobita managed to slice off his right ear dropping Ganbosu to the ground. It was then Ganbosu reveals his ability to [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever transform into a fifty-foot behemoth]]. |
| 47 | * ''Anime/DragonBallZLordSlug'': To defeat Lord Slug, Piccolo decides to exploit the Namekian race's hyersensitive hearing and tells Gohan to whistle real loud. To make sure he isn't affected, he rips off his own ears. Because Namekians can regenerate lost body parts, it isn't a big deal for him. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/Eyeshield21'': Yamabushi does this to Ikkyu when he's being tactless. |
| 49 | * In the ''Manga/FairyTail'' manga, Erigor use his wind powers to slice Kageyama's ears when the latter made a mistake. |
| 50 | * At the beginning of ''Manga/FushigiYuugiByakkoIbun'', the mysterious traveler [[spoiler: Nirusha]] helps a young girl named Reipin fight off a rampaging tiger [[spoiler: who used to be [[ForcedTransformation her evil older brother]].]] He loses one of his ears in the fight, but [[MajorInjuryUnderReaction he just uses]] a PaperTalisman on the still bleeding stump. [[spoiler: At the end of the chapter, Reipin ([[MeaningfulRename now named Neiran]]) keeps the ear as one of her two {{Tragic Keepsake}}s.]] |
| 51 | * In ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'', Zenmaru manages to chop [[AxeCrazy Sasuke's]] ear along with some flesh around it. [[spoiler: In sequel series ''Shura'', Sasuke's lover and Beninuki's proper master Kitaro carries the severed ear around as a memento and ''eats it'' to prove his love.]] |
| 52 | * A flashback in ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin'' shows that the old hunter Gohei gained his signature scars and missing ear when Akakabuto, his [[AnimalNemesis bear nemesis]], swiped the left side of his face with its claws. |
| 53 | * In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', Meruem is annoyed his opponent continued a game they were playing, despite it being obvious he had won it many turns ago. When the other player stammers too much in fear and is unable to answer, Meruem jabs at him with his needle tipped tail and rips his ear off, then kills him when the man tries to run away. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 55 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': During his battle with Secco, Bucciarati blows up a car tire which was sucked into the earth thanks to an earlier attack by Oasis, and the blast reverberates through the liquid like concrete and blows out Secco's eardrums, disabling his hearing senses. |
| 56 | ** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': After Jolyne obtains her Stand, Stone Free, its first display of [[RazorFloss its powers]] is slicing off the ear of a prison guard who was sexually assaulting Ermes. Later, when held in a chokehold by Viviano Westwood, Jolyne sends a thread into his eardrum to stun him. |
| 57 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': While traveling through the desert, Johnny and Gyro are ambushed by Mrs. Robinson, who fires a shot that takes a chunk of Gyro's ear. |
| 58 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureTheJoJoLands The JoJoLands]]'': When Paco tries stealing from a customer at Iko Iko, Dragona punishes him by using Smooth Operators to stretch his right ear enough to cause pain while lecturing him. |
| 59 | * ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': When the Divine Dog ambushes Reggie Star from behind, it tears out a chunk of his shoulder, including his ear. |
| 60 | * ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': While there's no actual injuries involved, classes 1-A and 1-B base their haunted house for the culture festival around a StringyHairedGhostGirl who chops off other peoples' ears out of jealousy due to her misshapen ones. |
| 61 | * A RunningGag in ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'' involves Miyuki pulling/dragging Hajime by the ear whenever the former wants to keep the latter in check or to demand a mundane favor of some sort -- for example, the first example of this being shown has Miyuki dragging Hajime by the ear to prevent the latter from SkippingSchool. |
| 62 | * In ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime1999'', an angry Roura pulls one of Link's long, Hylian ears in one scene. |
| 63 | * In ''Manga/{{Lovesickness}}'', Ryusuke gets thumbtacks stabbed through his earlobes in his sleep. This was intentionally done [[spoiler:by his friend Tejima]] to make his physical similarity with the Boy In Black more prominent, as his lack of pierced ears was a major difference between them. |
| 64 | * At the very beginning of ''Anime/OneStormyNight'', a wolf actually gets his ear bitten off by an angry mother goat while protecting her kid from him and the rest of his pack before they finally kill the mother goat, who before her death tells said kid, Mei, to run away for his own safety. |
| 65 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''; Kyoka Jiro's AchillesHeel is her ears, as her Earphone Jacks lead directly to her brain and loud noises can stun her easily. A number of opponents ([[SuperScream Present Mic]], [[SuperIntelligence Saiko Intelli]], and [[StuffBlowingUp Katsuki Bakugou]]) have managed to take Jiro out by overloading her hearing with loud blasts of sound into the objects she's plugged in to, leaving it up to her teammates to try and salvage the situation. |
| 66 | * In ''Manga/PandoraHearts'', Retrace LXXXI, [[spoiler:Uncle Oscar]] gets part of his ear shot off when he [[spoiler:redirects the bullet that Oz ([[GrandTheftMe under Jack's control]]) aimed at him.]] |
| 67 | * In ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'', Yoshida cuts Tetsunosuke's ear during their battle. It's later shown bandaged. |
| 68 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 69 | ** A running gag was that Misty would yank on Brock's ear whenever he hit on a girl, which was ''often''. When she made a reappearance in Hoenn and went through the routine again, Max quickly picked up on it. |
| 70 | ** Ash himself gets pulled on the ear by Shaymin in the movie ''Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior''. |
| 71 | * ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland'': To initiate their plan of escaping the farm, Emma cuts off her right ear holding the tracking device and tosses it in a fire to distract Isabella. Afterwards, she covers the wound with hair decorations. |
| 72 | * ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': After Kenshin disables Enishi's sense of balance with a supersonic attack, Enishi decides to reduce the effect by ''pulling out his own eardrum''. Ouch. |
| 73 | * ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': |
| 74 | ** In the first episode, Seiya actually does this to Cassios, cutting off his left ear during their first fight. |
| 75 | ** [[spoiler:Siegfried]] applies this to ''himself'', [[spoiler:piercing his eardrums to not fall victim to Sorrento's MagicMusic.]] |
| 76 | * ''Manga/ASilentVoice'': |
| 77 | ** As a grade schooler, Shouya tore off Shouko's hearing aid. It was bloodier than he expected. |
| 78 | ** When Shouya's mother Miyako went to apologize to Shouko's mother Yaeko for Shouya's bullying, Yaeko tore out Miyako's earring in anger. Afterwards, Miyako's earlobe was torn and bleeding. Years later, Shouya briefly remembers his mother's torn earlobe and feels guilty for what his actions put her through. |
| 79 | * After her husband dies in ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'', Shuichi's mother develops a phobia of spirals, because she always sees her husband in them. When she finds out that there's a spiral in the ear (the cochlea), she [[spoiler: drives a pair of scissors through her ears to get them out.]] |
| 80 | * When [[spoiler: Taizo Kuzuki]] from ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'' is captured by {{yakuza}} [[spoiler: from the group that he [[DefectorFromDecadence escaped from]]]], one of the many {{Cold Blooded Torture}}s he's put through is getting one of his ears amputated. [[spoiler: His ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend, Elena, not only bloodily kills their enemies but also reattaches almost all his missing body parts back, his ear included.]] |
| 81 | [[/folder]] |
| 82 | |
| 83 | [[folder:Animation]] |
| 84 | * In ''Animation/BlackCatDetective'', the recurring villain, the One-Eared rat, got his name after having one of his ears shot off by Black Cat in the end of the pilot episode. |
| 85 | * ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': |
| 86 | ** Tok Aba twists [=BoBoiBoy=] Earth and [=BoBoiBoy=] Wind's ears in order to stop them from fighting which was caused by LaserGuidedAmnesia making them argue over who "the real [=BoBoiBoy=]" is. |
| 87 | ** For Kubulus aliens, their antennae act as ears. The main villain of the first film, Bora Ra, is missing one antennae, just a stalk remains of where it was. This [[https://m.facebook.com/BoBoiBoy/posts/pfbid02tEKkjeMRt7iz8mRL7Jq5AetjUf4UvJPgJVyvA8wwkuVgBCPke3ZbcXPQuFUM7g6il bonus comic]] reveals that it was sliced off by Maskmana in the past as the latter rescued Kaizo and Fang from Bora Ra. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 91 | * ''ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}'': Thanos tears off Moondragon's ear and mails it to her father Drax to lure him into a trap. Fortunately for Moondragon, the scientists of Titan are able to grow a new ear for her. |
| 92 | * During the ''Reads'' arc of ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'', Cerebus gets his right ear mostly cut off during a sword-fight. |
| 93 | * ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': A self-inflicted case of this is the original reason for Clint's deafness - faced with a villain with a sound-based weapon, Hawkeye blew out his eardrums by activating a sonic arrow in his mouth. |
| 94 | * ''ComicBook/Hitman1993'': Feekle gets his right ear shot off at the end of the "Local Heroes" arc. |
| 95 | * ''ComicBook/TheImmortalThor:'' In a flashback to their youth, Thor has an effective way of getting Loki to join in on adventures he'd rather pass on; grabbing him by the ear and dragging him around. Loki complains Thor could at least ''alternate'' ears. |
| 96 | * ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'': Lucifer captures Lady Death in "Judgment War" and intends to break her. She proves defiant and bites off a piece of his ear which she then spits back at him. |
| 97 | * ''ComicBook/TheLosers'': [[DarkActionGirl Aisha]] used to collect them from dead Soviet soldiers while she was growing up in Afghanistan as a {{Child Soldier|s}}. She had three-dozen at one point... until a wild dog ate them all. But then she ate the dog. |
| 98 | * ''ComicBook/TheLostBoy'': When Walter sees [[TheBully Curly Bill]] and his gang attacking [[LivingToys Tom Button]], Walter comes to Tom's defence by attacking Curly Bill, even biting his ear hard enough that it draws blood. |
| 99 | * ''ComicBook/SecretSix'': Scandal Savage bites off an enemy's ear in battle; when the enemy cries out for its return, Scandal nonchalantly replies, "Sorry, I've swallowed it." |
| 100 | * In ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' from the Franchise/{{Superman}} comic book titles of 1991, Shrinking Violet of the Legion of Super-Heroes goes inside the ear canal of Dev-Em the Daxamite and claws at his eardrums to give him an earache so painful that he collapses, thus stopping his mad rampage on the Earth's moon. |
| 101 | * The titular character from ''ComicBook/SerafettinTheBadCat'' tortures mice by ripping their ears out, one at a time. |
| 102 | * ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': To break free of Zeena's TechnoPath control, Gemerl smashes his wireless receiver. Said receiver's function and position on his head meant basically had it function as an ear. |
| 103 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': When Circe brainwashed Superman into mindlessly and ruthlessly attacking Wonder Woman the first retaliatory attack on her part to properly stagger him and give her a chance to recover her lasso is when she smashes both of her fists against his ears. |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 107 | * ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': |
| 108 | ** Several horn variations occur among the Titans. It's made clear that Ghidorah's [[MultipleHeadCase middle head]] biting at San's horns as he did in the movie (something which this story reveals he does to San [[spoiler:and San-2/Youngest Brother]] on a frequent basis) is roughly analogous to physical slaps in their kind. San, in desperation, resorts to biting at [[MoralityPet Vivienne]]'s horns to try and snap her out of a psychotic fit, to no avail; and San-2/Youngest Brother inflicts such a Horn Ache on [[spoiler:[=MaNi=]/Elder Brother]] when the latter oversteps himself. [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother bites at Vivienne's horns in frustration when he wants to ''play with'' her. |
| 109 | ** A couple occur amongst the humans. Ren Serizawa and Ford Brody end up getting a sudden explosion of noise from a cellphone and a headset respectively blasting right into their ears and causing them to physically flinch. |
| 110 | * ''Fanfic/BetweenTheLinesMrQuestionMark'': In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10979729/58 Chapter 58]], Touma gets his earlobe pulled: |
| 111 | -->'''Touma:''' [[spoiler:O-Othinus-sama]], my earlobe! You're going to rip it oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooffffffffffffffffffffff! |
| 112 | * ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': |
| 113 | ** In "The Spaceship," Mittens is consumed with passion and runs off to find her sweetheart, Bolt. When she sees the dog ensconced in front of the TV, Mittens dashes up to him and vigorously pulls at his ear, trying to drag the pooch into the study for some alone time. Bolt's reaction suggests he finds this painful. |
| 114 | ** Charlie, the title character in "The Coyote," is described as missing the top of his right ear. Later in the story, it's implied that it was blown off by a shotgun. |
| 115 | ** In "The Seven," the collie puppy tells the Jack Russell terrier youngster play-wrestling with him that she's being too boisterous, hurting his ear in the process. |
| 116 | --->'''Collie puppy''': ''[growling]'' Hey, watch it! You play too rough! I gotta use that ear for listening, y’know? |
| 117 | * The trope is {{Discussed}} in Episode 33 of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''. Bulma grabs Yamcha by the ear when he suggests she shouldn't be where Freeza is arriving on Earth. |
| 118 | -->'''Bulma:''' Anyone want to explain to Yamcha here what ten pounds of torque does to a human ear?\ |
| 119 | '''Gohan:''' Rips it off?\ |
| 120 | '''Bulma:''' Very good, Gohan.\ |
| 121 | ''(several of them chuckle, in a brief break of the tension)''\ |
| 122 | '''Krillin:''' ''(sigh)'' [[DoomedDefeatist We're gonna f]][[SoundEffectBleep *]][[DoomedDefeatist cking die]]. |
| 123 | * ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': In ''Strategy Meeting'', when Ami is removing a frog clamped to her ear, there's some slight pain: |
| 124 | --> Ami sighed, busy with removing the fat frog from her ear. The animal had clamped down on one of her small blue earrings, which added some pain to the general discomfort of being attacked by a slimy amphibian. |
| 125 | * In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Virtual Smurfality", Smurfette pulls on Brainy's ear to get him to leave his Imaginarium fantasy setting before the Imaginarium crystals are destroyed. |
| 126 | * The ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12785530/1/ Every Step of the Way]]'' sees Present Mic subject a villain to his scream point blank after she helped torture Aizawa. This is a guy whose voice can literally level buildings. It’s agonizing, causing her ears to rupture and bleed among other things. Permanent deafness is probably the least of her worries. |
| 127 | * ''Fanfic/FatesCollide'': |
| 128 | ** Jeanne D Arc shares an embarrassing story of a time Jaune Arc tried to get his ear pierced, but it got infected. |
| 129 | ** When Astolfo accuses Weiss Schnee of not caring about Ruby Rose, Marie Antoinette angrily grabs his ear and makes him apologize to Weiss. |
| 130 | * ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'': |
| 131 | ** In "[[Recap/JauneArcLordOfHungerMalachor Malachor]]", Jaune [[DreamingOfTimesGoneBy has a dream of Nihilus' past]] where he witnesses a younger Nihilus use his [[SuperScream Force Scream]] on a group of Mandalorians. It was so loud that the Mandalorians surrounding him to collapse to the ground and writhe in pain as blood pours out of their ears, implying that the sonic attack burst their eardrums. |
| 132 | ** In "[[Recap/JauneArcLordOfHungerDeath Death]]", Nihilus unleashes a Force Scream at point-blank range upon [[spoiler:Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury]], causing their ears to bleed as the sonic blast sends all three flying across the arena they were fighting in. |
| 133 | * ''Fanfic/KwamiMagiHomuraMagica'' has Nooroo do this to [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura]] when she is about to assassinate [[Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica Oriko]] on sight. As Nooroo is ten centimeters tall, this is more successful from the surprise of it than the actual strength involved. |
| 134 | * ''Fanfic/LimitlessPotential'': Roll does it to X in response to him calling her "old". |
| 135 | * ''Fanfic/MiraculousLadybugSaltShots'': ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/44607043/chapters/121613383 A Price to Pay]]'' has Hawkmoth rip the Ladybug Earrings right out of Marinette's ears, leaving them both badly bleeding. Not that Hawkmoth or [[FaceHeelTurn Adrien]] care, with the latter "comforting" Marinette by reassuring her that [[EntitledToHaveYou they'll become a couple]] in the new reality created by his father's Wish. |
| 136 | * The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/5989717/chapters/14068302 Name Drop]]'': |
| 137 | -->"I..." Plagg swallowed heavily as Tikki's foot tapped against the wooden floor (he knew he screwed up when she descended from her usual floating state just to make it clear how annoyed she was). "Okay... I can explaiowowowowstoppullingmyearstoppullingmyear--oomph!" |
| 138 | * In ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'', Scootaloo is bitten in the right ear by [[AbusiveParents Brutus Meadows]] and dragged from it so hard that its top half becomes torn. [[spoiler:When Zecora is healing Scootaloo, the torn part of the ear has become necrotic, forcing Zecora to remove it in a painful process.]] |
| 139 | * ''Fanfic/RWBYEpicOfRemnant'': Bay Lupin gets shot in the ear with a crossbow bolt. |
| 140 | * In the party after Antonio's gift ceremony in ''Fanfic/TwoButterfliesGoneWithTheWind'', Dolores suffers a form of PowerIncontinence where her SuperHearing results in a high-pitched whining causing her to ''bleed from her ears''. |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 144 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Implied in the "Arabian Nights" song which originally had the politically incorrect lyric "Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face/It's barbaric, but hey, it's home". The first half was revised to "Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense". |
| 145 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'', when a nurse takes away Harley's iPhone because Harley is supposed to be focusing, Harley responds by biting the woman's ear off. |
| 146 | * In the scene where the Beast takes a bath in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', the coatrack tugs on his ear to bring his head closer. |
| 147 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', Aunt Cass pulls Hiro and Tadashi by their ears to the family station wagon after they're released from jail following their arrest at a bot-fight. |
| 148 | * ''Animation/BoBoiBoyTheMovie'': After the 3 Robs wreck an old woman's groceries by almost running her over, [[WhenEldersAttack she gets her revenge]] after [=BoBoiBoy=] defeats them by twisting Roberto Santanaz's ear. |
| 149 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', TheHighQueen Elinor breaks up a fight by simply StrollingThroughTheChaos and dragging the instigators (her husband and the three clan lords) out by their ears. |
| 150 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'', Alex's father gets part of his ear blown off by a shotgun while attempting to rescue him from poachers. |
| 151 | * During the scene with the frog hunters in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', [[DumbMuscle Darnell]] accidentally smacks his Pa in the ears while trying to get Naveen and Tiana. |
| 152 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', Lois, in an attempt to have a one-on-one with Jimmy right that minute grabs and drags him off by his ''earring''. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 156 | * In ''Film/SixtyEightKill'', Liza murders Ken's wife by stabbing a hunting knife into her ear. |
| 157 | * ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': |
| 158 | ** A horde of spiders erupt from the man's ear when the eggs the spider laid hatch in the "E" segment. |
| 159 | ** ''Film/ABCsOfDeath2'': In "M [[spoiler:is for Mastication]]", the man bites the ear off the bystander he knocked down. |
| 160 | * As in real life, in ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'', the kidnappers cut off J.P. Getty III’s ear. They hope that the mutilation will convince his family to pay his ransom. |
| 161 | * Walter in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' bites off a nihilist's ear and spits it high in the air. |
| 162 | * ''Film/TheBigRedOne'' (deleted scene). The Goums (French native cavalry) cut off the ears of the German soldiers they've killed and swap them for American cigarettes. The Sarge tells him men to stop this trade because the Goums are cutting ears off dead American soldiers as well. |
| 163 | * ''Film/BillyMadison'' gets this from Veronica pulling him out of the classroom by his ear and scolding him for mocking a classmate who can barely read. Billy insists that he's deaf from ear abuse and having the hots for her. |
| 164 | * ''Film/BlindsidedTheGame'' has Walter slice off a mook's ear when they, against his suggestion, try to grab their gun from the floor. Then, he tells him he "[[BondOneLiner should have listened better]]". |
| 165 | * When the killer in ''Film/BloodHook'' tries to catch yet another victim with his fishing rod, his throw misses and he rips the guy's left ear off instead. |
| 166 | * ''Film/{{Bloodsport}} 4'': ''The Dark Kumite'' has John's fight in The Kumite, where he managed to subdue a larger opponent by stabbing him into the eardrums using a pen. Said opponent can somehow still fight, until John finished him off by kicking the entire pen in, possibly penetrating the brain. |
| 167 | * In ''Film/BlueVelvet'', the plot is set off by the protagonist finding a severed ear. |
| 168 | * In ''Film/CabinFever'', Fenster, a Hillbilly Henchman, dies when a screwdriver is jammed in his ear. |
| 169 | * In ''Film/CarryOnScreaming'', the monster Oddbod leaves his own ear behind at the scene, having abducted Slobotham. |
| 170 | --> '''Dr. Watt''' (to Oddbod) What's happened to your ear? Oh well, 'ere today, gone tomorrow. |
| 171 | * In ''Film/{{Circus}}'', Bruno displays his displeasure with Arnie by biting off Arnie's ear. Later on, Troy drives a point home to Leo by grabbing Leo's ear and twisting it while they are both standing naked in the sea. |
| 172 | * In ''Film/CollateralDamage'', Gordon Brewer (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger), while prisoner and trying to escape the FARC terrorists, [[ManBitesMan bites one of his captors]]. Then he spits out the ear. |
| 173 | * In ''Film/Cradle2TheGrave'', Creator/JetLi's character rips an MMA fighter's earring off. |
| 174 | * In ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'', Roger kills a zombie via jamming a screwdriver in through its ear. |
| 175 | * One of the earliest cinema examples of ear-cutting is probably the original ''Film/{{Django}}'', where some outlaws slice off a man's ear and make him eat it. That scene got the movie (which is otherwise no more violent than the average SpaghettiWestern) banned in several countries. It's probably the most sadistic scene in the entire Western genre, and makes the violence in Creator/SergioLeone's movies look tame. |
| 176 | * ''Film/DeepCover'': Gallegos makes it clear to Russell that he considers him beneath him by ripping off his earring. |
| 177 | * Subverted in ''Film/DontBeAfraidOfTheDark'', but only because the unsuspecting father stops listening at the grate and turns away before the evil faeries can shove a sharpened piece of wire into his ear. |
| 178 | * In the film ''Film/EverAfter'', Rodmilla grabs Danielle hard by the ear and throws her into a chair when angry with her. |
| 179 | * In ''Film/FaceOff'', Agent Loomis's left ear is partially sheared off by a bullet during the hangar gunfight between the FBI and Castor Troy. Later, when Sean Archer visits the Walsh Institute about a proposed undercover mission where he takes Castor's face, Dr. Malcolm Walsh demonstrates the Institute's capabilities by showing them using laser surgery to rebuild Loomis's left ear. |
| 180 | * In ''Film/AFairlyOddSummer'', Timmy Turner tries to listen to a seashell, but it has a hermit crab inside which pinches his ear. |
| 181 | * The ears are the AchillesHeel of the Toad, an otherwise invincible kung-fu fighter, from ''Film/FiveDeadlyVenoms''. His skin can deflect blows and even push back iron spikes, but once his ears are damaged he's a sitting duck to all other attacks. |
| 182 | * In ''Film/{{The Fly|1986}}'', one of the earliest parts of Seth's transformation is losing an ear. |
| 183 | * ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': Laurie attacks [[DepravedDentist Bradford "Dr. Suave" Young]] by stabbing him in the ear. |
| 184 | * A recurring trope in ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'': |
| 185 | ** In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', as the heroes are looking at the ghost in the library and wondering what to do: |
| 186 | --->'''Peter Venkman:''' Could you come over here and talk with me for a second, please? ''[grabs Ray Stantz by the ear and pulls him over]'' |
| 187 | ** Venkman does it again in ''Film/GhostbustersII'', painfully grabbing Ray by the ears to get him to tell who he and Egon are investigating a disturbance for. |
| 188 | * In ''Film/GrimPrairieTales'', the dying Indian [[ManBitesMan bites Colby's ear]] and tears a big chunk out of it. |
| 189 | * ''Film/{{Hex}}'' ends with the protagonist's FalseFriend being punished by having her ears ripped off. |
| 190 | * ''Film/HongKong1941'' has a particularly cruel and nail-biting torture scene, when an informant member of the LaResistance is put through ColdBloodedTorture by having a stick of firecracker, butt-first, shoved into his ear, and the wick lit on the other side. |
| 191 | * In ''Film/HowardTheDuck'', when Cherry Bomb's manager tries to attack Howard with an ice pick, Howard grabs it from him and uses it to pin the manager right to the bar's counter through his looped earring, causing him to scream in pain. Howard then threatens to "pierce" the manager's other ear unless he pays the band their money and releases them from their contract with him. |
| 192 | * The Taiwanese Revolution-era film ''Film/HugeBrother'' has a villainous traitor being punished by the LaResistance by having his ears cut off. The whole thing. |
| 193 | * In ''Film/{{If}}'', Mick Travis and his friends discuss really horrible ways to die. Yardley mentions getting a moth caught in your eardrum, and being able to hear it eat into your brain. |
| 194 | * In ''Film/JohnWick'', Viggo references that time John killed three men with a pencil. We finally see John do it on camera in ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'', by ramming it lead-end first into the victim's ear. Ouch. |
| 195 | * ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword''. King Vortigern cuts off Back Lack's ear to [[ColdBloodedTorture encourage him to talk]] and make his son [[BigNo reveal himself]]. Vortigern then [[BlackComedy repeats the question he'd been asking Back Lack into his severed ear]]. |
| 196 | * During the final battle in ''Film/TheKingdom2007'', Janet Mayes bites the ear off a GiantMook terrorist who is constantly throwing her around. During filming, Creator/JenniferGarner accidentally did bite hard on the man's ear. |
| 197 | * During their final fight in ''Film/TheKunoichiNinjaGirl'', Karasagi breaks the hold Shimotsuki has on her by grabbing his ear and twisting it violently. |
| 198 | * In the movie ''Film/LastManStanding'', one of the two crime bosses, Strozzi, does this to his girlfriend, Lucy Kolinski, after he learns of her affair with the protagonist. It's implied that this is when Smith decides that both of the gangs he's dealing with are better off dead. |
| 199 | * ''Film/LegendaryWeaponsOfChina'' has the Monk Ti Tan getting defeated when Uncle Yu lands a FingerPokeOfDoom into his left ear. One scene later, Monk Ti Tan is visibly bleeding out his ear hole. |
| 200 | * Played for laughs in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing''. After Merry and Pippin set off one of Gandalf's fireworks without his permission, he lifts them up by the pointy tips of their ears and glares down at them like they are misbehaving children. |
| 201 | * ''Film/{{M3gan}}'': During [=M3GAN=]'s fight with Brandon, she grabs his ear and stretches it painfully until she ''breaks off his lobe''. |
| 202 | * In ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|2016}}'' (2016), Faraday shoots off Earl's ear to teach him a lesson. |
| 203 | * In ''Film/TheManTheyCouldNotHang'', Kearney, the jury foreman, is murdered when the telephone receiver fires a poison dart into his ear. |
| 204 | * The kung fu movie, ''Film/TheMightyOne'' has a hardcore example in the ending. The main villain, Abbot Lung, gets a sword entering one ear, ''through his brain'', and coming out of another. And it somehow doesn't kill him! That was actually part 1 (of between 5 to 8) of his excessively long RasputinianDeath. |
| 205 | * ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': |
| 206 | ** In ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'', Carlos gets a giant cotton swab shoved into his ear, and then has to wear a killer hearing aid. |
| 207 | ** Happens to Freddy in ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' when Lori grabs him by the ear and accidentally brings it to the real world. |
| 208 | * In ''Film/OnlyGodForgives'', Chang brutally interrogates a henchman by shoving a metal rod into his ears but only after stabbing needles into his arms, thighs, and [[EyeScream eyeballs]]. Unsurprisingly, this scene was highly controversial for its disturbing violence. |
| 209 | * In ''Film/OurManFlint'' the title character sneaks up behind a mook in the communication room and takes him out by suddenly turning up the volume on his headphones. |
| 210 | * In ''Film/{{Parker}}'', Carlson gets his ear shot off when Parker deflects Ross' shotgun in the back of the getaway car. |
| 211 | * VillainProtagonist Porter from ''Film/{{Payback}}'' is a CombatPragmatist who ''loves'' using tactics like ripping out piercings. Early in the film he rips out a bodyguard's earring when the bodyguard won't let him see the guard's boss, the guy spends the rest of the movie walking around with his entire ear covered in bandages. |
| 212 | * In ''Film/PineappleExpress'', Dale has part of his ear shot off by Matheson. |
| 213 | * Junior of ''Film/ProblemChild'' gets dragged out of the cafeteria by his ear after his salisbury steak (which he'd thrown up to the ceiling to keep from eating) lands on the face of a nun. This gets the nuns to petition Mr. Peabody for getting rid of him. |
| 214 | -->'''Junior:''' OWWW! Hey, lady, hands off the merchandise! I've gotta hear out of that thing! OWWW! |
| 215 | * Mr. Blonde cuts off the captive policeman's ear with a razor in ''Film/ReservoirDogs''. While singing and dancing to "Stuck in the Middle with You". [[RefugeInAudacity And then he starts singing into it]]. |
| 216 | * In the 2017 French RapeAndRevenge movie ''Film/Revenge2017'', one of the men gets behind the heroine and shoots her in the head with a high-powered rifle. [[FakeKillScare However we then see]] the shot [[OnlyAFleshWound took off an earlobe instead of killing her.]] |
| 217 | * At the beginning of ''Film/ScannerCopII'', Sam Staziak causes a hostage taker's ear to melt off by scanning through his earpiece. |
| 218 | * ''Film/ScaryMovie'' parodies a scene from ''Film/Scream2'' by having a character [[InOneEarOutTheOther getting his head trespassed]] near [[{{Squick}} a glory hole]]. [[UnexplainedRecovery He still appears intact at the end of the movie]], just with a bandage over one ear. |
| 219 | * The first victim from ''Film/Scream2'' gets stabbed in the ear through a bathroom stall. |
| 220 | * One of the villains in ''Film/{{Slashers}}'' is killed by being stabbed in the ear with a wooden stake. |
| 221 | * ''Film/{{Speed}}'': Howard Payne's first onscreen kill is an unfortunate security guard who gets a screwdriver shoved through the ear. It's incidentally the only onscreen death in the film to contain any traces of gore, given the [[StuffBlowingUp nature of Howard's other kills]]. |
| 222 | * In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', the mind-control parasites enter Chekov's and Terrell's heads through their ears. |
| 223 | * ''Film/{{Tamara}}'': Under Tamara's influence, Roger cuts his own ear off, Van Gogh-style. |
| 224 | * In ''Film/{{Ted}}'', after [[LivingToys Ted]] is abducted by [[StalkerWithACrush Donny and Robert]], the latter rips Ted's ear off and throws it to punish him for swearing. Ted then distracts Robert so he can sneak out and staple his ear back on. |
| 225 | * ''Film/TianDi'': Wu Jun, after being captured alive by Paul and his mooks and threatened with rape, instead chose to end her own life by shoving a chopstick into her ear, all the way into her eardrums and brain, with gory results. |
| 226 | * Happens in the 2009 HeroicBloodshed film, ''Vengeance'', in the opening hit on Irene's family. Irene tries fending off the assassins sent to wipe out her family unsuccessfully, where she managed to shoot off one of their ears before getting pumped full of lead and barely surviving. Later on Irene father, Francis (an ex-hitman) visits her in the hospital, she told him one of the assassins is missing an ear, leading to Francis searching around Hong Kong for the one-eared assassin. |
| 227 | * In ''Film/UpPompeii'', Gorgo twists Lurcio's ear during their wrestling match. |
| 228 | * In ''Film/WhoAmI1998'', Creator/JackieChan's character grabs one of the CoDragons by the earring, and keeps twisting it around and around. This causes such crippling pain that the guy surrenders afterward. |
| 229 | * In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie Valiant repeatedly grabs Roger Rabbit by his long ears and swings him around. |
| 230 | * In ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}'', Nicolas Cage's character has a badly shaped left ear from a grenade explosion when holding the lines during the beginning of the film. He continues fighting while taking painkillers instead of taking medical leave. |
| 231 | * In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', Elektra King reveals to James Bond that during her kidnapping they cut off part of her ear. [[spoiler:She actually did it herself and is now in league with the kidnapper.]] |
| 232 | * During a tense negotiation in ''Film/YellowHairAndTheFortressOfGold'', the Pecos Kid makes his point by shooting Tortuga's earring off (along with a chunk of his ear). |
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| 235 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 236 | * ''Literature/AdrianMole'': In ''Cappuccino Years'', Adrian's son William inserts a coffee bean into his ear, to "see if it would rattle". The bean has to be removed in hospital. |
| 237 | * ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': |
| 238 | ** The Yeerks enter your head via the ear canal, secreting a painkiller so it doesn't hurt. |
| 239 | ** In a later book, after [[spoiler: the sixth Animorph, David, turns traitor]] there's this little gem from Rachel: |
| 240 | --->I grabbed his head with one arm and jammed the fork against his ear. I fought a nauseating urge to twist the fork, to make him scream in pain. |
| 241 | * Early into ''Literature/AnnieOnMyMind'', a girl named Sally decides to give cheap ear piercings in the girl's bathroom. She tried to be hygienic but still gave multiple girls infections. This caused both her and the student president Liza to get in trouble. Sally later becomes [[TheAtoner quite repentant]]. |
| 242 | * In the Creator/StephenKing novella ''Literature/TheBody'' (source material for the film ''Film/StandByMe''), Teddy Duchamp has nasty scars where his abusive father held his ears to a burning stove. |
| 243 | * ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': |
| 244 | ** We have [[ChurchMilitant battle nuns]] who, in order to counter Index's spell, sticks pens into their ears to break their eardrums. |
| 245 | ** Later, Shizuri Mugino rams a ''screwdriver'' into Shiage Hamazura's ear. It renders his ear canal bloody, but fortunately didn't go in deep enough to break his eardrum. |
| 246 | * ''Literature/CityOfNoEnd'': Sark Leviticus gets his ear chopped off in the final battle of book 1. |
| 247 | * In ''Literature/CloudAtlas'', Sonmi~451 loses an earlobe when her drunk master is goaded by his friends into shooting a plum off of her head. Thankfully, the technology exists to replace it. |
| 248 | * In ''Literature/TheDeadZone'', the villain's henchman Sonny Ellison jams his thumb into Warren Richardson's ear as one of his intimidation tactics. He then chastises Richardson for his poor hygiene. |
| 249 | -->'''Sonny: '''You oughtta get some Q-Tips in there, man. I got wax all over my thumb. Pretty gross. |
| 250 | * In ''Literature/TheEndOfThePierShow'', Richard, Vanessa and Fred are hassled by a group of UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}} at a roadside diner. Vanessa deals with one by grabbing the ear of one and twisting it till he falls out of his booth. |
| 251 | * ''Literature/FateRequiem'': When Erice Utsumi was a small child, her grandmother gave her a haircut, but accidentally nicked her ear with the scissors. She has a scar from it. |
| 252 | * ''Literature/FaultLine'': Kip tries to grab Becky during an argument, but he instead ripped out one of her ''earrings'' out. |
| 253 | * One of [[spoiler:Sully]]'s ears gets blown off with a gun in ''Literature/{{Firstborn}}'' when he is mistaken for [[spoiler:his brother Blue Boy]]. |
| 254 | * In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', Moist passes by some fighters preparing for a bar-room brawl in the Mended Drum, one of whom recommends clapping a dwarf on the ears to stun them. |
| 255 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': |
| 256 | ** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', Filch, upon spotting Malfoy being out in the Hogwarts corridor in the nighttime without invitation to Slughorn's party, drags him by the ear to meet Slughorn. To Filch's disappointment, Slughorn lets Malfoy stay without applying any disciplinary actions on the latter. |
| 257 | ** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', [[spoiler:Snape]] does this to [[spoiler:George]]. The required "I lost an ear" humor happens the moment the victim awakes. |
| 258 | * In ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Haruhi]] occasionally bites on [[{{Moe}} Mikuru]]'s ear, though it's more like [[SkinshipGrope foreplay]] than injury. |
| 259 | * In ''Literature/IslandInTheSeaOfTimeSeries'', Marian Alston loses most of one of her ears in a vicious swordfight. |
| 260 | * ''Literature/JamesBond'': |
| 261 | ** In ''Literature/ColonelSun'', the eponymous TortureTechnician starts Bond's evening of pain by prodding his ear canals with a metal spike. |
| 262 | ** Chagrin in ''Literature/DevilMayCare'', when he was still working for Viet Minh, popped the eardrums of kids who listened to French priests back in Indo-China by slamming chopsticks into their ears, permanently deafening some of them in the process. Bond almost becomes a recipient of this procedure. |
| 263 | ** After Bond crashes his car in the ''Literature/YoungBond'' novel ''Literature/DoubleOrDie'', Wolfgang Smith checks the burning wreck to see if he's in it. The heat from the fire then sends a spark plug flying out of it, tearing Wolfgang's right ear off. |
| 264 | * ''Literature/JoePickett'': In ''Literature/FreeFire'', Nate drags AmoralAttorney Clay [=McCann=] out his cell by grabbing his ear and dragging on it hard enough to draw blood. Later, he makes good on a threat, and literally tears [=McCann=]'s ear off during an interrogation. |
| 265 | * ''Literature/TheLiesOfTheAjungo'': Asilah, Lami, and Funme come from a city that made a deal with the Ajungo for iron to protect themselves from monsters in exchange for the ears of its women. So any girls who come of age have their ears cut off and the leftover holes burnt shut, leaving them all deaf. Asilah and Funme were able to escape before their own deafenings, but they were unable to rescue Lami before her's. |
| 266 | * In Creator/MarkPfetzer's ''Literature/MyEverestStory,'' Mark's father develops a nasty infection in his ear. [[spoiler:It eventually becomes cancer, but he successfully gets it treated...until it turns out that the doctors FailedASpotCheck, and now realize that he has ''brain cancer,'' which ultimately does him in.]] |
| 267 | * ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'': |
| 268 | ** Ear torture is just one of the many ways Miss Trunchbull is sadistic with the children in her care. Most notably, she lifts Eric Ink into the air by his ears. Miss Trunchbull casually dismisses Miss Honey's protests, affirming that little boys' ears are stuck very firmly to the sides of their heads. This is exaggerated in the musical, where the boy's ears stretch considerably. |
| 269 | ** Hortensia mentions that Miss Trunchbull grabs her by one ear when escorting her to the Chokey. |
| 270 | * In ''Literature/ANightInTheLonesomeOctober'', Snuff practically rips the vicar's ear off after he abuses Graymalkin. Snuff himself has scars on one ear from a past encounter with (implied) a voodoo-animated zombie. |
| 271 | * ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': Selvi's threat to Gwen, a half-elf, who has PointyEars, when Gwen snarked that the librarian might by afraid that Selvi, a half-orc would rip all the pages of their library books: |
| 272 | -->'''Selvi:''' I prefer ripping ears. Pointy ones make for good handholds, too. |
| 273 | * ''Literature/{{Red Moon Rising|Holt}}'': The Kihuut cut homesteaders' ears off. |
| 274 | * ''Literature/RevancheCycle'': Felix's exceptionally unwise decision to challenge the mayor of Winter's Reach to a duel ends with her sawing his left ear off. Adding insult to injury, she tosses it to the audience as a souvenir. |
| 275 | * In the book ''Savage Sam'', the sequel to ''Literature/OldYeller'', little Arliss bites off the ear of an Indian who kidnapped him. And swallows it (accidentally). |
| 276 | -->'''Arliss:''' You reckon I'm part Injun now? |
| 277 | * ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'': "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" sounds like a fairly innocuous story (not nearly as ominous as "The Devil's Foot" or ''The Valley of Fear'', for example), until you discover that the titular box contained a couple of severed ears. |
| 278 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': When Vargo Hoat tries to rape Brienne, she bites off his ear. The wound becomes infected and drives him mad. In general, the ear is a common victim of various fights that break out through the series. |
| 279 | * ''Literature/SurvivorDogs'': |
| 280 | ** In the second book, Lucky challenges Snap to a fight so he can rise in the pack and take over as a hunter. Snap turns out to be stronger than she looks, but Lucky wins through taking advantage of this trope. He bites her ear so viciously that Snap has to call mercy for him to stop. Later in the fight, he gains the advantage by biting at her injured ear and pinning her down. Lucky wins because Snap's legs aren't long enough to reach his underbelly and push him off. |
| 281 | ** The Dobermann's bite Fang's ears in a crude attempt at cropping them. |
| 282 | ** When giving Mulch a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, Alpha and Sweet in particular target his long ears. |
| 283 | * In one of the ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' books, one of the kids tells a story of a hippie who got his ear cut off by a barber. |
| 284 | * Creator/JamesCarlosBlake's ''Literature/WildwoodBoys'': |
| 285 | ** Riley Crawford made himself a necklace from severed Yankee ears and wore it all the time. |
| 286 | ** Arch Clements accidentally bit a chunk of someone else's ear off. He at least said he was sorry. |
| 287 | * One of Jack Vance's eponymous ''Demon Princes'' suffers this fate ''twice''. To make it worse, the protagonist rubs this fact in ''to his face'' just before their final confrontation, in order to goad him into confirming his true identity. |
| 288 | --> '''Kirth Gersen:''' "He became a ''rachepol'', an outcast, and lost an ear. He lost the other one recently at Tintle's Shade on Rath Eileann. How do I know? I cut it off myself." |
| 289 | * ''Literature/WatershipDown''. In order to save his warren from King Darzin's army, rabbit trickster hero El-ahrairah tries to bargain with the [[TheGrimReaper Black Rabbit]]. Every time he loses a bet, the Black Rabbit removes a body part, including his ears. El-ahrairah replaces them with a pair of dock leaves and then tries to steal the white blindness (myxomatosis) to destroy Darzin's army, until the Black Rabbit calmly informs him that the white blindness is spread by the fleas in rabbit's ears--they won't nest in dock leaves. |
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| 292 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 293 | * One ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' skit featured a boy's ear accidentally being cut off while he was getting his hair cut. The barber then puts it into a ''barrel full of the ears of past customers that were accidentally cut off''. |
| 294 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 295 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/AngelS02E11Redefinition Redefinition]]", Darla and Drusilla enter a demon fight club to recruit the fighters as minions. When one says he's never heard of them, Drusilla rips both of his ears off, and Darla quips, "Now you never will." |
| 296 | ** In "[[Recap/AngelS03E20ANewWorld A New World]]", after Connor returns from hell, he sees a girl about to get raped by a drug dealer. Connor beats up the drug dealer, then cuts off his ear to keep as a trophy. |
| 297 | * ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': |
| 298 | ** Cally bites off part of an attempted rapist's ear. |
| 299 | ** Gaius Baltar is tortured at one point by a device inserted into his ear. |
| 300 | * ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': It's a signature M.O. of Nucky's season 5 bodyguard Archie Ortiz to cut off a single ear of those who he kills. Such is the fate of Tonino Sandrelli when Archie kills him on Nucky's orders as revenge for Tonino's assisting Gyp Rosetti in blowing up Babette's. |
| 301 | * In season 4 of ''Series/{{Bosch}}'', a lawyer is murdered while preparing to represent a man suing the LAPD. The client falsely confessed to a murder when a cop jammed a sharpened pencil in his ear. |
| 302 | * ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Homelander inflicts a nasty one on [[Characters/TheBoys2019Supes Blindspot]], who has [[SuperSenses super-hearing]]; slamming his hands against Blindspot's ears hard enough to make his eardrums explodes and leave him writhing in a puddle of his blood on the floor. |
| 303 | * Mike from ''Series/BreakingBad'' gets the tip of his ear shot off when hiding inside a meth truck that a rival cartel attacked with a spray of bullets. |
| 304 | * The saga of Moe's ear in ''Series/{{Brotherhood}}''. Granted, [[JerkAss he really had it coming]]. |
| 305 | * As mentioned in the page quote, the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Pangs" has a killer that likes to remove ears from his victims. It turns out to be Hus, a spirit of the extinct Chumash tribe; when the white men killed his people, they cut off ears to prove they'd done the job, so he's repaying them in their own token. |
| 306 | * In ''Series/Castle2009'', Detective Beckett has a tendency to yank Castle's ear when he irritates her by listening in on conversations, getting close to her, and generally annoying her. Which is often. |
| 307 | * ''Series/{{Copper}}'': In "Home Sweet Home," Eva jumps on to Buzzy Burke's back and bites a chunk out of his ear. |
| 308 | * In an early episode of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', Theo rebelliously gets his ear pierced. As he had it done by a non-professional, his ear gets painfully infected. |
| 309 | * ''Series/CriminalMinds'': The SerialKiller of the week of the episode "A Real Rain" was a vigilante who murdered people who got away with murder by stabbing them through the ear canal and straight to the brain with a stone knife. |
| 310 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': |
| 311 | ** In "[[Recap/CSINYS01E05 A Man a Mile]]," one miner bites part of another's ear off during a fight. Danny says he got "Tysoned." |
| 312 | ** The younger brother of the victim in the panic room in "[[Recap/CSINYS02E11 Trapped]]" got his ear cut off when he was kidnapped as a child; it was later [[FingerInTheMail sent to his family]], who kept it in a jar. After the parents both died in an accident, the older brother held onto it. |
| 313 | ** The victim in "[[Recap/CSINYS05E13 Rush to Judgement]]" had cauliflower ear due to having it yanked on so much when he was a wrestler. |
| 314 | ** The female victim in "[[Recap/CSINYS06E14 Sanguine Love]]" had part of her ear bitten off by her killer. |
| 315 | * ''Series/DarkHole'': The zombies have mutilated ears [[BodyHorror with what looks like worms sticking out of them.]] [[spoiler: Their ears explode and kill them after the monster dies.]] |
| 316 | * ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': In "First Dance," the VictimOfTheWeek is murdered by being stabbed in the ear with [[spoiler:the wire in her floral headpiece]]. |
| 317 | * ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': In "[[Recap/FireflyE10WarStories War Stories]]," Adelai Niska cuts off Mal's ear after Zoe rescues Wash, because the ransom she paid was "too much for just one man." |
| 318 | * In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe stops a CatFight between Rachel and Monica by grabbing them by their ears. |
| 319 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 320 | ** Brienne bites off her opponent's ear during their CombatBreakdown over Arya in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS4E10TheChildren The Children]]." |
| 321 | ** Tormund bites the ear off Smalljon Umber. |
| 322 | * ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': June cuts the tag from her ear with scissors as part of going on the run. |
| 323 | * In ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' at the end of the first season, Will Graham vomits up a severed ear. Due to his increasing mental instability, it's not immediately clear to the viewers whether this is real or a hallucination. [[spoiler: It turns out the ear belongs to Abigail, who had recently gone missing, and it kicks off TheReveal that Hannibal has been gradually planting evidence to frame Will as the serial killer.]] |
| 324 | * On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney pierces his own ear as part of a bet. Throughout the episode it becomes more and more infected, until he moans in agony that "it hurts so much I can hear it! ''I can hear my own ear!''" |
| 325 | * ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E3IsMyVeryNatureThatOfADevil Is My Very Nature That of a Devil]]", Louis de Pointe du Lac severs the ear of Alderman Fenwick with his [[AbsurdlySharpClaws vampire fingernails]] in revenge for supporting laws that target colored businesses in Storyville. |
| 326 | * Hyde's first outing in ''Series/{{Jekyll}}'' results in the prolonged beating of a man who'd humiliated Jackman earlier that day -- biting off one of ears as a finishing move. For added horror, Jackman wakes up the next morning to find the severed ear in his pocket. |
| 327 | * ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'': At one point while Jessica is under Kilgrave's control, Kilgrave commands her to start cutting her ear off. He makes her stop before she can finish cutting it off. In the present day, Jessica still retains the scar from that wound. |
| 328 | * ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'': [[SecretKeeper Hina Izumi]] is prepared to pull on or yank [[TokenEvilTeammate Ankh]]'s ear when he gets out of the line too much. This is CallBack to her precedessors with same goals, [[Series/KamenRiderDouble Akiko Narumi]] with [[ShoeSlap Shoe Slap Of Doom]] and [[Series/KamenRiderDenO Hana]] who used punches. |
| 329 | * [[Recap/TheLastOfUs2023S1E1WhenYouReLostInTheDarkness In the premiere episode]] of ''Series/{{The Last of Us|2023}}'', after a shootout, one of the surviving Fireflies offers to take Ellie to the State House instead of Joel and Tess, but leader Marlene vehemently objects. |
| 330 | -->'''Marlene''' (''angrily''): Kim, you don't have a [[ClusterFBomb fucking ear on your fucking head!]] Could you ''please''?\ |
| 331 | ''(camera pans over to Kim's right side, showing she really'' doesn't ''[[BlackComedy have a fucking ear on her fucking head]].'' |
| 332 | * In the first series of ''Series/{{Luther}}'', Alice Morgan does this to [[spoiler:Luther's wife, Zoe.]] |
| 333 | * In the ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Bride of Ida", Grandma Ida subjects Malcolm and Reese to the Ritual of Pain, which consists of tying strings to their ears and pulling. The boys are surprised at how painful it is. |
| 334 | -->'''Malcolm:''' I didn't think anything above [[GroinAttack my waist]] could be so sensitive! |
| 335 | * ''Series/TheMandalorian'': At the start of "[[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E8Chapter16TheRescue Chapter 16: The Rescue]]", the blaster bolt that kills the Imperial pilot holding Doctor Pershing hostage takes a good chunk out of the latter's right ear. |
| 336 | * The ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS2E4SoundsLike Sounds Like]]" ends with Larry Pearce, having fallen into insanity due to his SuperHearing increasing to unbearable levels, cutting his own ears off and rendering himself deaf to finally be free of the constant noises. |
| 337 | * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': The third VictimOfTheWeek in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS11E2 Blood Wedding]]" is killed by having a hatpin thrust into her ear. |
| 338 | * ''Series/MrBean'': In "Mr Bean in Room 426", Mr Bean wears Danny La Rue's drag outfit; until Danny La Rue approaches, and pulls one of the clip-on earrings off Mr Bean's ear. |
| 339 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "This One Goes to Eleven", three victims are murdered by having a long sharp spike (similar to a carpenter's awl) thrust into their ears. Crabtree muses on what an unpleasant way to die this would be. |
| 340 | * ''Series/NewTricks'': In a flashback in "Last man Standing - Part One", a young Gerry Standing is forced to watch as a LondonGangster cuts the ear off a rival. |
| 341 | * ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': There was the time Dwight brought a gun into the office, and after finally agreeing to put it up, he [[RecklessGunUsage accidently fired it when pulling it out of the holster]], which wound up blowing out (from the sound) one of Andy's ear drums. |
| 342 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E15Afterlife Afterlife]]", Stiles and the aliens have an ability to emit a high-pitched sound is painful for humans. |
| 343 | * ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': In "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E12 Aletheia]]", Root is being tortured to gain access to the [[ArtificialIntelligence Machine]]. When Root says the Machine is talking to her directly, Control does a stapedectomy without anesthesia, making Root deaf in one ear and [[ToThePain making it clear the other will follow]] if she doesn't cooperate. |
| 344 | * ''Series/RadioEnfer'': Giroux does this to both Carl and Dominique during separate Season 5 episodes: |
| 345 | ** When Carl claims on the radio that Giroux has drawn a mustache on a poster of Creator/PamelaAnderson, Giroux angrily interrupts the radio show by pulling Carl's ear. |
| 346 | ** After everyone realizes they've been manipulated by Dominique, they agree with Giroux's suggestion of making her do a week of community service after school. The principal then drags Dominique out of the radio crew's room by pulling her ear. |
| 347 | * In ''Series/{{Salem}}'', John Alden shoots off part of the magistrate's left ear before he and Isaac escape from having witnessed the witches performing a ritual. |
| 348 | * ''Series/{{See}}'': In Season 1, Tamacti Jun plants a stiletto in both of the inner ears of an old man from a village he burned down in his search for Jerlamarel and his children. |
| 349 | * ''Series/SilkStalkings'': In "Going to Babylon'', a HighClassCallGirl is murdered by having a hatpin shoved through her eardrum. |
| 350 | * ''Series/SportsNight'': In the first season finale "What Kind of Day Has it Been?", when Jeremy is making snarky remarks about Dana's attempts to take a picture of the staff, Natalie [[BeQuietNudge shuts him up by grabbing his ear and tugging on it]]. |
| 351 | -->'''Jeremy:''' Ow ow ow pain pain pain! |
| 352 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Invoked in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever City on the Edge of Forever]]", when Kirk tries to explain Spock's PointyEars by claiming that as a child he got his head caught in a mechanical rice-picker. |
| 353 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The [[ProudMerchantRace Ferengi]] have very sensitive ears, which gives them [[SuperHearing keen hearing]], but are also a big weakness if someone thinks to use them to inflict pain, such as when Lwaxana Troi grabs Quark by his ear in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' while grilling him over a stolen brooch. |
| 354 | * In the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "[[http://youtu.be/tL4BstcMCDw For Cryin' Out Loud]]", the bad guy tries to [[NoIndoorVoice silence his conscience]] (voiced by Creator/SamKinison) by using cotton swabs to clear out his ears, [[spoiler:but pushes them in too deep and destroys his ear drums]]. To add insult to injury, he becomes totally deaf, but can still hear the voice. |
| 355 | * In ''Series/WildBoys'', 'Mad Dog' Morgan claimed he got his nickname because he once bit a man's ear off in a fight. later in the episode, he actually does a bite a man's ear off, indicating that this may be a regular thing for him. |
| 356 | [[/folder]] |
| 357 | |
| 358 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 359 | * This is on the cover for the Music/ButtholeSurfers album ''Electriclarryland'', complete with blood. |
| 360 | * During the big fight with his father in Music/JohnnyCash's "A Boy Named Sue", the protagonist loses a piece of his ear when the father pulls a knife. |
| 361 | * Johnny Paycheck's song "Colorado Kool-Aid" (also covered by Red Sovine) takes place in Texas and has the protagonist witness this when a big mean drunk decides to spit his beer into a Mexican man's ear. Said Mexican responds by taking out a switchblade, cutting off one of the drunk's ears, and then picking it up and handing it over to him, telling him that if "you get the urge to spit a little beer, just open up your hand there and spit it in your own ear". |
| 362 | [[/folder]] |
| 363 | |
| 364 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 365 | * ''Literature/TheBible'': |
| 366 | ** In the Old Testament, a Hebrew servant would have his ear pierced through with an awl as a sign that he is now a bondservant for life. |
| 367 | ** In the New Testament, Peter cuts off the ear of a Roman soldier's servant with a sword when they try to take Jesus away. Jesus heals the guy. |
| 368 | * ''Myth/JapaneseMythology'': In the story of Hoichi the Earless, the eponymous Hoichi was a minstrel who was haunted by a ghostly samurai who was forcing Hoichi to play for his dead master. Hoichi had a priest friend of his cover his body in protective sutras to render him invisible to the undead. However, the priest couldn't properly paint the sutras on Hoichi's ears, which were cut off and taken by the samurai's ghost. |
| 369 | [[/folder]] |
| 370 | |
| 371 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 372 | * The earliest known example of this trope in pro wrestling happened in 1952, when Yukon Eric lost part of his ear as the result of a botched knee drop by Killer Kowalski. |
| 373 | * Wrestling/MickFoley had lost part of his ear during a wrestling match with Wrestling/{{Vader}}. The ropes were wound too tight already, so when Vader tied Foley up in the ropes and his ear was part of that? You can figure out the rest. |
| 374 | * Another good example was the [[GimmickMatch dog collar match]] between Wrestling/RoddyPiper and Wrestling/GregValentine. Piper, already nursing an injury to his left ear from an earlier match with Valentine, would lose most of the hearing in his ear after several stiff shots with both Valentine's fists and the chain that was holding the two men together. It was because of this injury that led to the creation of ''[[TalkshowWithFists Piper's Pit]]'', as a way to keep him on TV while he recovered. |
| 375 | * Pippa L'Vinn sometimes holds onto an ear while performing a snap mare. |
| 376 | * [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] bit Adam Pearce's ear in retaliation for Hang Men 3 stapling his mask to his skin and hanging him with a chain. |
| 377 | * During Tracy Taylor's defense of the WXCW and PGWA title belts against Nemesis, there were at least two calls from the audience for her to punch Nemesis's ear. |
| 378 | * Kyle O'Reilly suffered an injury that resulted in his ear needing regular draining, an injury Wrestling/AdamCole, Gedo and Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada made a point to aggravate. Cole just because he hated O'Reilly, the latter two trying to win the Wrestling/RingOfHonor TagTeam Title belts. |
| 379 | * Sakura Hirota is an opponent that requires headgear. Take her 5/13/18 match in Marvelous against Natsumi Maki. Level 5 may be underhanded, but not even that they considered grabbing a downed opponent's head and scream into her ear legitimate offense. |
| 380 | * On July 17, 2018, Wrestling/RandyOrton assaulted Wrestling/JeffHardy, which included Orton dragging Hardy around by his ear and then mounting him and pulling on it. During their feud, Orton would repeatedly attack Hardy's ears. At ''Hell in the Cell 2018'', Orton stuck a screwdriver into Hardy's earring hole and twisted it several times. |
| 381 | * At ''Clash of Champions 2020'', during a ladder match, Wrestling/SamiZayn attached Jeff Hardy's ear to a ladder with handcuffs. |
| 382 | [[/folder]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 385 | * In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', Daigo's vampiric superpower grants him enhanced senses. This works against him when a fire alarm is so loud that it causes his ears to bleed. |
| 386 | [[/folder]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | [[folder:Sports]] |
| 389 | * It's pretty hard to discuss Creator/MikeTyson ''without'' running into this trope. In his 1997 rematch with Evander Holyfield, Tyson was disqualified for [[ManBitesMan biting both of Holyfield's ears]], first taking off a chunk of the guy's right ear and then scarring his left. Nowadays, [[NeverLiveItDown any mention of Tyson will probably elicit references to this incident]]. |
| 390 | * Many sports such as netball require players to remove all earrings and ear piercings, to avert accidental damage to ears. |
| 391 | * A common chronic injury to the earlobes is "cauliflower ear". That's where the ears have been bruised so often that they become brittle. Continued impacts to cauliflower ears could lead them to swell and bruise rapidly, or even burst bloodily. This kind of injury is common these days in mixed martial arts; less often in boxing due to more heavily-padded gloves. |
| 392 | [[/folder]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 395 | * In ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', the ghost of Hamlet's father, the late king. tells Hamlet that his brother Claudius, Hamlet's uncle and the present king, usurped the throne by pouring poison in his ear while he was asleep. Doesn't make much sense from a medical perspective, but it allows Hamlet to say things like "the ear of Denmark is much abus'd". |
| 396 | [[/folder]] |
| 397 | |
| 398 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 399 | * One of the NCR quests in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' involves collecting the ears of Legion soldiers as trophies. The questgiver chose ears solely because of the {{pun}} "Legion ears". |
| 400 | * At the start of ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'', Takkar the caveman's hunting party is attacked by the Bloodfang Tiger, who kills two of his friends effortlessly. Takkar runs up to the Bloodfang Tiger and sticks a spear in its ear, but the Tiger just shrugs it off and lashes out at Takkar. |
| 401 | ** Takkar's friend Sayla the gatherer has a tendency to [[CreepySouvenir collect the ears of Udam warriors]] whenever she kills one. Apparently, she's HearingVoices of her loved ones who the Udam killed before the game takes place, and collecting ears soothes the screams. Sayla's obsession with ears is PlayedForLaughs when [[spoiler:Takkar brings Warchief Ull's children back to the Wenja village, and she complains that their ears are too small for her to collect.]] |
| 402 | * A memorably tragic sequence in ''[[VideoGame/ItTakesTwo2021 It Takes Two]]'' has [[spoiler:Cody and May [[KillTheCutie dragging Cutie the toy elephant to her death]] as part of a scheme to [[ForcedTransformation return themselves to normal from their doll-like transfigurations]]. Along the way, Cutie has her ear pierced through by a fallen screwdriver, and it's slowly and painfully torn off through the main duo pulling too hard on [[AnArmAndALeg her one remaining leg]] as [[AintTooProudToBeg she unsuccessfully begs them to stop]]]]. |
| 403 | * ''VideoGame/ManOfMedan'' has a trio of pirates take [[EarNotch a piece of Conrad's ear off]] if he constantly antagonizes them when they are beating the hell out of him. |
| 404 | * ''VideoGame/MyFriendPedro'': [[spoiler:The blood on the area at one end of Pedro as shown on the page image of the game drops the disturbing implication that the vigilante erased his memory by jamming a banana far into his ear]]. |
| 405 | * In ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheTombRaider'', Lara wins a battle with a [[PantheraAwesome jaguar]] by jamming her makeshift [[MacheteMayhem machete]] through its ear and into its brain, killing it instantly. |
| 406 | * In a cutscene near the end of the first chapter of ''VideoGame/TrueCrimeStreetsOfLA'', Nick Kang hurls a chopstick right into a Triad thug's ear. |
| 407 | * The Crones in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3'' are paid tribute in the form of a severed ear, which the Whisperess keep on a necklace around her neck. |
| 408 | * In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' while questing on the Borean Tundra, killing any hunter from the [[EvilPoacher Nessingwary Expedition]] may yield one or two of their ears. Give 15 of these to the head of [[AnimalWrongsGroup D.E.T.H.A.]] and he'll cast a temporary status buff on you. |
| 409 | * ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'': The [[TheYardies Sons of Samedi]] leader "[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname The General]]" cuts off his [[TheDragon Dragon]]'s ear as punishment for failure, who willingly accepts the punishment and takes it like a champ. |
| 410 | * In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', a succesful invasion as a Blade of the Darkmoon will earn you a Souvenir of Reprisal, ostensibly the dried-up, shriveled ear of the guy you just invaded. They return in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', renamed to "Proof of a Concord Kept". |
| 411 | * Partway through ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', villain Salazar drops Leon into a spiked pit, then puts his ear to an earphone so he can hear Leon's screams. Leon, however, saves himself with a grappling line, and when Salazar wonders where the screaming is, Leon fires a pistol next to the earphone's outlet, blowing out Salazar's eardrum. Naturally, [[VillainousBreakdown Salazar doesn't take this well.]] |
| 412 | [[/folder]] |
| 413 | |
| 414 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 415 | * Anya of ''[[http://www.mgcomics.com/WTF Double-U Tea F]]'' is one to pull on her children's ears when they act out of line, or as a LamePunReaction. Of course, this pain [[AmusingInjuries never sticks]]. This even works when she tries it on [[spoiler:Skreel, Khran's SuperpoweredEvilSide, who was kowtowed by an ear pull just as easily as Khran is]]. |
| 416 | * [[http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/199 In the last panel of]] an ''Webcomic/EarsForElves'' page, Elon grabs and pulls Myari's ear quite hard because he's angry at her/worried about her, and has finally found where she was hiding. |
| 417 | * In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', Ysengrin is missing his right ear. The side story ''Coyote!'' reveals that [[spoiler:Coyote tore that ear off in anger after Ysengrin was mean to Renard, ''long'' before the Court was fully formed]]. |
| 418 | * In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', Miranda [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1211.html chomps the ear]] of the driver of a van carrying a kidnapped Carl. |
| 419 | * In ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', [[http://www.ma3comic.com/strips-ma3/twice_a_day Zii pinches DiDi's ear]] (link SFW, but NSFW webcomic) as a form of BeQuietNudge, while [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to convince Kiley that the both of them are lesbians]]. |
| 420 | * ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'': |
| 421 | ** When Madeline the Paladin tries to convince the reluctant Roxy and Presti to go save their {{Monster Adventurer|s}} friends, she notably grabs Roxanne's [[PointyEars elven ear]] and twist hard. |
| 422 | ** Madeline tries this again in Level 9 on Y.T. the lamia, who'd rather lounge than help, but the paladin gets more than she bargained for when she apparently rips the ear off. Fortunately, Y.T. is a [[SnakePeople snakewoman]] and she is shedding, so it's just dead skin. |
| 423 | * The friendly demon Buwaro in ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' is introduced with a bite taken out of one of his ears. Eventually, a flashback explains how he got it -- [[spoiler:his foster sister bit him, blaming him for the apparent death of their parental figure.]] |
| 424 | * ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Onni gets his ear hurt while fighting ghosts in the mage-space in Chapter 10 [[spoiler:and his host's children accidentally cut his ear in real life due to deciding to cut his hair while he's in trance]]. |
| 425 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Starfish bites and yanks on Jivi’s ear and the wound is never properly treated. In the final chapters the injury is reopened in an echo of the original attack. |
| 426 | * In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', Ben performs a dramatic version of the otherwise comedic 'ear yank' version of this trope: when he finds Alex beaten down by Forrest, he grabs Forrest by the ear with a grip like a vice and demands to know if he was responsible for the beating. |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 430 | * ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends:'' In "[[Recap/HTFSnipSnipHooray Snip Snip Hooray]]", Pop accidently cuts off Cub's ear while cutting his hair. |
| 431 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/371-the-three-little-witches The Three Little Witches]]: |
| 432 | --> Foxfire and the other Lit Chix dragged Palantir and Abracadabra over to the web. Foxfire had Palantir by her ear, and wasn't letting go. |
| 433 | * ''WebAnimation/OnTheEdge'': In the episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYc2_njssRw Legendary Delinquent vs the madman that wants to murder Satake]]'', Hirofumi gets his ear bitten clean off by a guy who accused him of "doing bad stuff to Misa". [[spoiler:Turns out the guy contracted HIV from his girlfriend Misa, who accused Satake of raping her to cover up her cheating]]. |
| 434 | [[/folder]] |
| 435 | |
| 436 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 437 | * ''Series/CobraKai'': In "Take a Right," Johnny yanks out the ear gauge of a pool-playing douchebag who thought it would be a good idea to make fun of Tommy's sickly condition. A BarBrawl ensues. |
| 438 | * In the second installment of ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'', the teacher of the video silences a dissenting student by screeching louder and louder until the student's ears begin to bleed. |
| 439 | * In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' episode "[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedE33 Cold Cuts]]", when Yamcha is acting concerned about Bulma being present near a battle with some powerful, dangerous opponents who out measure his strength by several thousand fold, Bulma shuts him off by grabbing his ear and asking a question to the group: |
| 440 | --> '''Bulma:''' Anyone want to explain to Yamcha here what ten pounds of torque does to a human ear? \ |
| 441 | '''Gohan:''' ... Rips it off?\ |
| 442 | '''Bulma:''' Very good, Gohan!\ |
| 443 | ''(everyone but Yamcha laughs)'' |
| 444 | [[/folder]] |
| 445 | |
| 446 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 447 | * The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Every Which Way But Lose" has Steve losing an ear during a baseball play. |
| 448 | -->'''Roger:''' Steve, before the game, how many ears did you have? |
| 449 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'', Vixen gets in a fight with Scarface's mate, Lady Blue, and wins the fight by biting the blue vixen's ear off, sending her fleeing in tears back to her mates. |
| 450 | * ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 451 | ** Part of Zuko's scar in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is that his ear is half burnt-off and shriveled. |
| 452 | ** Zaheer, the ArcVillain of Book 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', has rather obviously cauliflowered ears. |
| 453 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', Terry defeats Shriek in their first encounter by throwing a batarang onto his suit, amplifying its range making him hear everything in the city at full blast, effectively turning him deaf. |
| 454 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': |
| 455 | ** In the episode "Pierced", the duo destroy each other's ears with a drill in an attempt to get them pierced. |
| 456 | ** Later on during the MouseTrap montage of "The Rat", Beavis somehow manages to [[TooDumbToLive snap the trap onto his ear]]. |
| 457 | * In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'''s "Plagued", Jim, thinking a random student just walked into the library willy-nilly, grabs the person's ear and tells him that they have a couple hours of detention, [[OhCrap only to realize that it was Mr. Delmas]], the school ''principal''. |
| 458 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': |
| 459 | ** In one of the ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, Wanda pulls Cosmo by the ear after he catches him flirting with Vicky as part of the plan to get Wanda's wand back. |
| 460 | ** In another short, the Tooth Fairy picks up Jorgen by the ear at the end. |
| 461 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 462 | ** The 150th episode has a scene with Brian trying to pierce Stewie's ear, and getting the pin lodged inside his ear canal and getting it stuck. |
| 463 | ** Another episode had Stewie show Brian he was missing an ear because he was walking home with a bag full of burgers and "a lot of hungry deer were walking around this time of the night". A deer bit off his ear and Stewie mentions he was able to pull the ear out of the deer's mouth and put it into a cup with some ice he got at a 7-Eleven. |
| 464 | --->'''Stewie:''' So, when you're ready to apologize, just talk into this cup. |
| 465 | ** Stewie once also had his ears involuntarily pierced with a pair of sewing needles in the aftermath of a car crash. |
| 466 | ** Yet another episode had Brian cut off his own ear under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms because he thought doing so would prevent UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 467 | * ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': To defeat Magnanimous, Coop uses a HollywoodToneDeaf amplifier to counteract his mech, despite it causing himself, Jamie, and Kiva, to temporarily lose their hearing. |
| 468 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[spoiler:Emperor Belos' ears are noticeably scarred and misshapen, being [[PointyEars pointed like a witch's]] but small like a human's. A memory portrait in "Hollow Mind" implies that he ''carved them into points with a knife'' to blend in with the witch population, and he has ''quite'' the pained expression as he's doing so]]. |
| 469 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In one episode, when the trio have themselves shrunk to battle micro-machines, The Professor trying to speak with them causes them ear ache since their eardrums are much smaller now they're shrunken. |
| 470 | * The intro to ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' features the titular family taking a photo together towards its end, with the dog, Puff, biting on Oscar's ear as soon as the camera goes off, causing his smile to vanish the moment the camera goes off and making him scream. |
| 471 | ** [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder The series revival]] also does this at the end of its intro sequence, only Oscar notices Puff about to bite his ear before the camera goes off, and his babies and the dog also yank both of his ears the moment the photo is taken. |
| 472 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 473 | ** "Bart After Dark": Belle, owner of the ''Maison Derrière'', catches Bart trespassing on her property and drags him by the ear all the way home. |
| 474 | ** "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?": after Homer insults a chef's cooking, he attacks Homer with a meat cleaver. Homer thinks all his strikes missed, only to discover he has a chunk cut off one of his ears. |
| 475 | --->'''Homer:''' Uh, not bad. If Lasagna is Italian for pile of puke!\ |
| 476 | '''Chef:''' I choppa you good!\ |
| 477 | '''Homer:''' Well, I hope you cut me better than you did these string beans!... [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Hmm, I seem to be missing part of my ear]]... {{Touche}}! |
| 478 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 479 | ** In "Sing a Song of Patrick", after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick play [[BrownNote Patrick's song]] for a radio station, they're shown getting thrown out and [=SpongeBob=] [[TakeOurWordForIt mentions]] that the song turned the DJ's ears inside-out. |
| 480 | ** In "Drive Thru", one of Pearl's friends decides to prank Squidward by taking her order with a megaphone, which, going through the drive-thru's TinCanTelephone that Mr. Krabs added in lieu of proper sound equipment, blows out Squidward's eardrum. He's then shown sticking Mr. Krabs with the bill for the surgery to replace it. |
| 481 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': In "[[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E2TheTripleDark The Triple Dark]]" and "[[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E5TheChildrenFromTehar The Children from Tehar]]", [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tam]] grabs [[ButtMonkey Kaz]] by the ear when she's annoyed with him. |
| 482 | %%* Raven yanked on Cyborg's ear in ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}'' once. |
| 483 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 484 | ** While hiding behind a bush, Heather and Harold are witness to another team finding the briefcase with the prize money in "[[Recap/TotalDramaTotalDramaDramaDramaDramaIsland Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island]]". Harold is willing to accept defeat while Heather plans for a little thievery. She pulls Harold by the ear down to the ground to discuss the details. |
| 485 | ** Rodney, Amy, and Samey are put in charge of getting the wheelbarrow and the wood needed to build their team's shelter in "[[Recap/TotalDramaSoUhThisIsMyTeam So, Uh, This Is My Team?]]", but Rodney's preoccupied with flirting with Jasmine. Annoyed, Amy grabs him by the ear, tells him to move it, and drags him along to the supply stash. |
| 486 | * ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In "Mom App", Panda manages to get rid of Tank by using her own phone to call her mother, who scolds her for being so hard on the Bears and drags her out by the ear. |
| 487 | [[/folder]] |
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