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12	You know that tube between your head and your body? That thin, easily punctured tube? Yeah, guess what happens -- [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed]], flayed, barbecued, any other method to open said tube, wheezing noises optional.
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14	Authors opened the floodgates of creativity for this trope, as it is done with everything from bare hands to {{Improvised Weapon}}s (pens, screwdrivers, saw blades, pipes, hooks, etc) to actual weapons (knives, arrows, spears, etc).
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16	This is a LogicalWeakness for someone with [[SuperScream voice-based]] or [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull voice-activated]] powers.
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18	A SuperTrope to SlashedThroat. Compare NeckLift.
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20	[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] an actual [[InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy medical tracheotomy.]][[note]]Also called a tracheostomy in [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish some parts of the world.]][[/note]]
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22	!!Examples:
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27	* ''Literature/{{Another}}'':
28	** In [[WhamEpisode episode 3]], [[spoiler:Yukari Sakuragi]] [[StaircaseTumble trips down some stairs]] and [[spoiler:lands neck-first on the metal tip of her umbrella.]] [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank It isn't pretty.]]
29	** At the end of episode 6, [[spoiler: Mr. Kubodera]] enters the classroom and [[spoiler: brandishes a knife.]] This trope comes in to play at the beginning of the next episode. [[HighPressureBlood It isn't]] [[BloodSplatteredInnocents pretty either.]]
30	** In episode 10, during the flashback, Katsumi Matsunaga is shown to have [[spoiler: gotten into a fistfight with a classmate. He then pushes the boy to the ground... and accidentally gets him impaled by a tree branch through the throat. Since that boy turns out to be the "extra", by killing him Matsunaga broke the curse for the class of 1983.]]
31	** In episode 12, [[spoiler:Aki Matsui]] is stabbed through the neck from behind by [[spoiler:Tomohiko Kazami.]] For worse, [[spoiler: she was fatally stabbed right after her best friend Keiko was stabbed InTheBack by Kazami ''and'' when she was about to tell Kouichi what was going on.]]
32	* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': A [[DespairEventHorizon completely broken]] Griffith attempts to commit suicide by shoving his neck into a sword propped up on the ground. [[BungledSuicide He'd been rendered too weak to deal a fatal blow]], the blood he does draw instead triggering his Behelit and [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot The Eclipse]].
33	* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', [[spoiler:Yukio Washimine]] [[{{Seppuku}} kills herself by piercing her own throat with a katana]] while Rock watches helplessly and Revy screams at him to not look at her. In the manga, it's shown directly but [[{{Bowdlerise}} in the anime]], there's a GoryDiscretionShot instead. [[note]]This is TruthInTelevision, [[ShownTheirWork incidentally]]: This was the 'proper' way for a {{Samurai}} woman to commit suicide in feudal Japan because it was less painful and it looked more dignified than the male version (self-disembowling), though in reality it was usually done with a dagger instead of a full katana.)[[/note]] Since [[spoiler: Yukio is a deconstruction of the YamatoNadeshiko archetype]], it makes sense: she preferred to die rather than facing [[spoiler: Balalaika]] in total dishonor [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled and probably dying anyway]].
34	* This is how [[spoiler: Kenpachi]] from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' kills [[spoiler: Berenice from the Stern Ritters]]. According to him, he wouldn't stop talking so [[KilledMidSentence he did it]] to shut him up.
35	** In the manga, Szayel Aporro got an arrow through the neck from Uryuu.
36	** In the anime, this is how [[spoiler: Kaname Tosen]] is wounded in battle, but is killed by Aizen.
37	** When Ichibe's powers prevent [[BigBad Yhwach]] from speaking, Yhwach gets around this by ''ripping out his own throat'' and using Blut Vene to heal it and regain his voice.
38	* This is how Rider summons her pegasus in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. [[spoiler:The mythological Pegasus sprang fully formed from the blood flowing from the decapitated Medusa's neck stump. [[ShownTheirWork And since Rider IS Medusa...]]]]
39	* In the anime ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'' during the fight between Mori and Fukuzawa in season 3 [[spoiler: Fukuzawa]] is hit in the neck and is bleeding out on the floor before the fight is stopped by Natsume.
40	* In the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga, and hence, ''Brotherhood'', [[TheDogBitesBack Heinkel]] pulls this on [[spoiler: Kimblee]] using his fangs.
41	* In the ''Anime/HeroMask'' while transporting witness [[spoiler: Fred]] into custody he is shot in the neck while leaving the hotel. This leads to a major battle in the hospital where he is undergoing surgery between the police and secondary antagonists.
42	* How [[spoiler:Rika]] escapes torture in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': she kills herself by repeatedly jamming her neck to a fixed-placed knife...which is bigger than her neck is wide. So messy.
43	* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', ever the CombatPragmatist, Genthru crushes Gon's throat to prevent Gon from using his voice-activated book full of voice-activated summoning cards and spells. [[spoiler:Gon is still able to muster just enough voice to summon a large boulder to fall on top of Genthru.]]
44	* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'':
45	** A crucial one for ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'', Dio shoots EyeBeams towards [[spoiler:Jonathan]]'s neck, striking him twice. He dies from blood loss not long after.
46	** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'', [[spoiler:Ghiaccio]] is defeated when he's shoved onto a sharp point of a damaged pole. It stabs into the back of his neck and he keeps fighting until [[spoiler:Gold Experience]] lands a series of kicks, forcing him onto the spike until it's punctured all the way through and sticking out of the front of his neck.
47	* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': [[spoiler:[[CuteAndPsycho Nui Harime]] attempts to jab [[HotBlooded Ryuko Matoi]] in the back of the neck with a sewing needle after "faking her out" by [[KickTheDog trying to]] MindControl [[LetsYouAndHimFight the latter's friends]]. While Nui does get the needle through her opponent's neck, it fails to off Ryuko as what she stabbed was an ''[[StealthHiBye afterimage]]''. Seconds later, [[NoIAmBehindYou Ryuko appears behind Nui]] and pays her back in kind by [[AnArmAndALeg slicing both of Nui's arms off]].]]
48	* ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'': [[spoiler:[[{{Yandere}} Vivian]] the sorceress]] is almost killed this way when [[spoiler:Princess Margaret -- who was possessed by Archangel [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ludociel]] so she could rescue her LoveInterest, [[LadyAndKnight Sir Gilthunder]]]] -- does this to her. [[spoiler:In the manga, Margaret stabs Vivian from behind with a rapier, while in the anime, she shoots a beam of light from said rapier that cleanly blazes through the center of Vivian's neck. The victimized sorceress is left in a critical state, and only survives because Dreyfus deems her too valuable a resource to lose, despite her treachery and [[DirtyCoward desertion]].]]
49	* This is how [[spoiler: Lycoris]] from ''Literature/SorcererStabberOrphen Revenge'' intended to commit suicide [[spoiler: so her TrueCompanions and her family wouldn't kill each other over her. Thankfully, Cleao tells Reki to morph Lycoris's blade away and then Esperanza talks her out of it.]]
50	* This is how all the murder victims in ''Audioplay/StrikersSoundStageX'' of the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' franchise were killed: Stab wounds to their throats via PsychicAssistedSuicide.
51	* In the ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' TV series, [[spoiler: Hinoto does this to kill both herself ''[[TakingYouWithMe and]]'' [[SuperpoweredEvilSide her Dark Self]]. Since she's crippled/deaf/blind in the real world, she performs it [[DreamWeaver in the Dream Scape instead]] [[YourMindMakesItReal and her "tracheotomised" body appears on the "real" side]].]]
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55	* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': [[spoiler:Lord Voll]] gets a large crossbow arrow through his throat. Cutter, who happens to be right behind him when it exits, is only saved from a similar fate by his gold torc.
56	* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': In ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'', a [[DemonicPossession possessed]] [[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Sasquatch]] slashes Banner's throat to force him to HulkOut.
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59	[[folder:Fan Works]]
60	* Ash Ketchum in ''The Aura is with the Forgotten'' almost always does this when getting arrow kills.
61	* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': A Beowolf Nox Confuses accidentally stabs a member of its pack in the throat with its back spikes.
62	* [[spoiler:Brolli]] in ''WebAnimation/DiamondInTheRoughTouhou'' dies this way, courtesy [[spoiler:[[Franchise/TouhouProject Tenshi]].]]
63	* ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'': During their fights, [[EnemyWithout Satan Girl]] often attempts to rip ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s throat out with her teeth.
64	-->Satan Girl gave Kara superficial burns with heat-vision, tore at her hair, raked her eyes with her claws, even bit her in the neck. Supergirl managed to tear her throat away from Satan Girl's jaws again but was uncertain how much longer she could hold out.
65	* In ''Fanfic/KancolleAlt'', the 8th Fleet specializes in brutal fighting tactics which include slitting throats.
66	* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
67	** Original version:
68	*** Chapter 2: A Black Dog merc comes to exchange shifts with the Hunter, only to be responded with a throwing knife to the throat.
69	*** Chapter 20: Hugh is told that he beat his record by shooting one of the Leaping Lizard slavers in the throat with an arrow [[ImprobableAimingSkills from a mile away]].
70	*** Chapter 29: Soren stabs a {{mook}} in the throat to bypass the defence provided by the man's shield and armour.
71	** Remastered version:
72	*** Chapter 4: Kyril uses his off hand to punch a greenskin in the throat, so powerful that its windpipe is crushed from the impact.
73	* ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': Night Blade rips out a pony's throat with his teeth during the battle between the new Bearers and Sharp Point's gang.
74	* In ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors'', [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Rachel]] kills the in-universe representation of Idiosy by stabbing him "in the throat, and then [[GroinAttack in the balls]]". A "{{demon\|icPossession}} [[RougeAnglesOfSatin processed]]" Grover is killed by being stabbed in the throat.
75	* In ''Fanfic/RoninKorra'', the titular character shoots one Bandit in the neck to save Asami.
76	* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'':
77	** During the battle at Snowpoint, Jade leaps behind a rebel soldier from his shadow and impales his throat with her katana.
78	** Some of the Ninja Khan incapacitate several escaped prisoners in Chapter 31 by throwing shuriken at their necks.
79	* How Jessie is killed in ''Fanfic/TheSunSoul''.
80	* In ''Fanfic/TorqueJakAndDaxter'', [[spoiler:Erol meets his end when Keira stabs him in the neck with a screwdriver.]] He struggles for a bit, resulting in [[spoiler:Keira]] being covered in blood.
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84	* In ''Film/Batman1989'', the Joker assassinates a mob boss by jamming a quill pen into his throat. It kills the dude a lot faster than it would be expected to, meaning the Joker most likely poisoned the tip.
85	* ''Film/TheBurning'':
86	** Eddy gets his throat pierced with a garden shear blade.
87	** Cropsy pierces Glazer's throat so hard with his shears that he is lifted from the ground.
88	* In ''Film/CentralIntelligence'', Creator/DwayneJohnson's character threatens to do this to the BigBad (as part of his overall obsession with ''Road House.'') He makes good on the threat.
89	* In ''Film/ConfessionsOfAPsychoCat'', Virginia kills Buddy by shooting a crossbow bolt through his throat.
90	* When the serial killer in ''Film/EyesOfAStranger'' drives his car on a beach, it gets stuck in sand. When a guy from nearby comes and offers his help, he gets stabbed on the throat with a switchblade.
91	* The final fight between Sammo Hung and Jacky Wu in ''Film/FatalMove'' ends with [[spoiler: Wu getting a hollow metal pipe shoved through his throat, where Wu's blood ends up filling the entire pipe and pouring out]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT8uo5Mmy20 Watch it here]].
92	* Happens multiple times in the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series; in [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 the first film]] alone, for example, we see on-screen at least one throat-slitting and a man having an arrow jabbed through his throat from behind.
93	* ''Film/FullCircle'' opens with the main character trying to save her daughter from choking with a literal one... only to end up killing her.
94	* ''Film/TheGodfather'' has Captain [=McCluskey=]'s death scene, when Michael shoots him in the throat. It isn't fatal, ''so there's a few seconds of wheezing'' from [=McCluskey=] before Michael puts a round into his head.
95	%%* Happens in ''Film/{{Inside\|2007}}''.
96	* ''Film/IntoTheSun'' (trashy Creator/StevenSeagal DTV movie meant to cash-in on the success of ''Kill Bill'') has a scene where Seagal shoves a pair of chopsticks into a Yakuza's throat.
97	* In the climactic fight scene of ''Film/TheIsland2005'', [[Creator/SeanBean Dr. Merrick]] is [[spoiler:shot through the throat with a grappling hook [[KarmicDeath normally used by his guards to bring down "products."]]]]
98	* In the Creator/JetLi film ''Film/KissOfTheDragon'', one mook gets stabbed in the throat with a pair of chopsticks by Li.
99	* ''Film/MacGruber'' often brags about his ability to rip out throats, which considering his general incompetence and cowardice comes off as simply another boast. Near the end, however, he demonstrates that he can in-fact rip throats out bloodily and messily, to the horror and disgust of his HypercompetentSidekick.
100	* During the BlastOut in ''Film/{{Mohawk}}'', Colonel Hawkes gets dropped by a Mohawk arrow through his throat.
101	* ''Film/RamboIV'': A Burmese soldier who performs an AttemptedRape on Sarah ends up having Rambo suddenly grabbing him from behind just as he's unzipping his pants, and clawing his throat out in graphic detail. The audience even gets an uncensored frontal view of his opened-up throat.
102	* The heroine of ''Film/RedEye'' escapes her captor by stabbing him in the throat with a pen. It completely ruins his voice, but doesn't stop him for long, since nothing vital was pierced.
103	* ''Film/RedHill'': When Old Bill, Manning, and Willy attempt to draw Jimmy into an ambush, [[spoiler:Willy]] is waiting in the dark when he gets an Aboriginal spear through the throat.
104	* ''Film/RoadHouse1989'': Dalton rips [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Jimmy's]]]] throat out with his bare hands.
105	* ''Film/RobinHoodTheRebellion'': During their final fight, Robin grabs an arrow that had been fired at him but missed, nocks it to his bowstring, and fires it at the Sheriff: nailing him through the throat.
106	* Boddicker's death in ''Film/RoboCop1987'', via [[ChekhovsGun middle finger computer interface blade]].
107	* In the climax of ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', an American soldier is shot this way. During the ensuing melee, the audience gets what feels like ''upwards of half a minute of horrible choking sounds''.
108	* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'':
109	** The chances of a character getting their throat harmed in some way (including the SlashedThroat type) is just as common as them dying in a DeathTrap. Specific examples include Tapp in the [[Film/SawI first movie]], Xavier in ''Film/SawII'', Amanda and Jigsaw in ''Film/SawIII'', [[spoiler:Erickson]] in ''Film/SawVI''[[note]]Although it was targeted to the jugular vein in this case.[[/note]] and [[spoiler:Heffner]] in ''Film/Saw3D'', to name a few.
110	** ''Film/SawV'' has a rare example of someone doing this to ''survive''; Strahm quickly disassembles the pen from his pocket as the cube his head is sealed in is quickly filling with water, and stabs himself in the throat with the tubing, allowing him to survive the intentionally unwinnable trap.
111	* The climax of ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' has Mal fake out The Operative and non-lethally defeat him with an absolutely brutal elbow driven into his throat, the shock of which is enough to completely incapacitate and temporarily mute him.
112	* In ''Film/TheShadowOfChikara'', Teach gets shot through the throat with one of the mysterious black arrows, which leaves him [[PinnedToTheWall nailed to the tree behind him]].
113	* In ''Film/{{Superstition}}'', one "accident" has a circular saw getting off from its hinges and lodging itself on one unfortunate man's throat.
114	* In ''Film/{{Tamara}}'', Allison stabs [[spoiler:Patrick]] in the throat with a screwdriver when he attacks her in the basement. He then pulls the screwdriver out and stares at it blankly as he bleeds out.
115	* Chief Xi-zao from the ''wuxia'' ''Film/ToKillAMastermind'', who is known for his skills in the Iron Fingers style of kung fu. The film had him pulling out at least two people's throats with his bare hands ''onscreen'', with graphic results.
116	* ''Film/UnderSiege'': The fate of a terrorist who tries fighting Steven Seagal from up close is to have Seagal using his ''bare hands'' to pull out a chunk of his throat, leaving a gaping hole in his trachea.
117	* In ''Film/{{Valentine}}'', [[spoiler:Ruthie Walker]] is killed when she is thrown through a shower door, then has her head/neck shoved onto a glass shard left behind from the impact. The blood eventually flows in the shape of a heart when her body is found.
118	* In ''Film/WeWereSoldiers,'' a French bugler gets one courtesy of a Vietnamese bullet while trying to sound retreat. Bonus points for hearing him still exhaling through the hole as the bugling stops.
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122	* ''[[Literature/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Identity]]''. The trademark of the notorious terrorist Carlos is that he shoots his target in the throat. Bourne is alarmed to discover this fact, as he's already instinctively shot a man this way.
123	* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In ''Literature/BattleGround'' Mab gets a length of rebar launched through her throat during the battle. Butters has to put his foot on her head in order to pull it out as her body tries to heal around it as the iron content has effectively disabled her.
124	* In ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'', Belphoebe kills the rapist giant just as he's about to escape by shooting an arrow that splits his throat in twain. We get a not-so-pretty description of the blood gushing out right after.
125	* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', Blake Thorburn kills his enemy Laird Behaim this way, by forcing a wooden splinter into his throat, small enough that it almost disappears from sight when the end breaks off and the only sign that something's wrong is when Laird collapses and starts to split blood.
126	* Both ''Literature/SeaFire'' and ''Literature/ZeroMinusTen'' has a moment where Literature/JamesBond kills a bad guy by throwing a knife into their throats.
127	* ''Literature/VanasHeritage'': Nirvy kills a Skjall by hitting his throat with her sword.
128	* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Hawkfrost, the main villain of the second series, dies by way of his older half-brother Brambleclaw driving the stick of a fox trap into his throat.
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132	* ''Series/GhostsUK'': Pat died when [[spoiler: one of the scouts he was teaching archery accidentally shot him through the neck with an arrow.]]
133	* [[spoiler:President Hassan]] in Season 8 of ''Series/TwentyFour''.
134	* In the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode "Ending Happy", it happens with a crossbow bolt. Unbeknownst to his attempted murderer, the man was having a severe allergic reaction at the time and they managed to shoot it just right to save his life... or, rather to extend it by a few minutes since [[NecroNonSequitur he died a few minutes later of something else, unrelated.]] The coroner was astounded that the bolt managed to miss everything else in his neck by pure chance.
135	* ''Series/{{Sharpe}}'': In ''[[Recap/SharpeS1E1SharpesRifles Sharpe's Rifles]]'', being charged by a mounted French Trooper and not having time to load his rifle properly, Harper opts to discharge his ramrod along with the ball. The ramrod goes straight through the Trooper's throat at exactly the Adam's Apple. It is rather disturbing to watch.
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139	* In ''Roleplay/FellowshipOfTheRaven'', Yevgeny dispatches Arrigal and Luvash this way with arrows after they manage to sneak up on the party and OneHitKill Ivan and Riki, with Yevgeny intentionally choosing this method of death due to how painful it is.
140	* As one might expect, this has shown up in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' quite a bit. Examples include Sally Connelly getting stabbed in the throat with a sai, and Nigel Gillespie getting stabbed with a shattered ocarina.
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144	* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': Assassins' preferred method for killing? Using the Hidden Blade to stab a man's neck. Ezio takes it further with his rather graphic killing of Checco Orsi, where he pushes the blade into Checco's throat slowly. In the sequel, he can cut multiple throats spinning a spear, and even jump towards an enemy and prick his throat open with a sword. It goes without saying that all of this is pretty awesome.
145	* Early in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireDragonQuarter'', Bosch (1/64) gives one to [[spoiler:[[TheHero Ryu]]]]. Things don't go as planned, however, as instead of dying [[spoiler: it awakens his ability to channel the powers of the dragon Odjn]]. The character transforms into his OneWingedAngel form and proceeds to ''slaughter'' the rest of Bosch's unit, including his commanding officer.
146	* In ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'', shooting an enemy in the throat nets you a "Gag Reflex" skillshot, complete with a [[HighPressureBlood geyser of blood]] coming from the punctured throat.
147	* Past about the halfway point of the first future level in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'', Erik Breighner takes a bullet through the sides of the throat once he hands the Celerium drive to Section.
148	* The "Faster" enemies in ''VideoGame/CryOfFear'' are young women with their forearms and shins replaced by metallic spikes. They normally use these to stab and slash at you, but their death animation has them impale their own throats with the forearm spikes before keeling over.
149	* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive: Dimensions'': After a spat with Hayate, Ayane is so depressed over it that she attempts to stab herself in the throat with a kunai, but her mother Ayame [[InterruptedSuicide arrives at that exact moment]], forcing her to stop and put it away.
150	* Speaking of stealth kills, Jensen can sneak to an enemy and do this as a melee action in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''.
151	* ''VideoGame/GameOfThronesTelltale'' has it shockingly happen to [[spoiler:the playable character, Lord Ethan,]] at the end of the first episode, courtesy of [[spoiler:Ramsay Snow.]] Made worse in that [[spoiler:Ethan]] is [[WouldHurtAChild no more than thirteen or fourteen]] at the time.
152	* The same goes for ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'', only when wielding a katana and coming from behind.
153	* Has happened twice in ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'':
154	** In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters96'', there's [[http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/neogeo/b/kof96yaga.htm the ending]] for [[spoiler:the Yagami Team]]. [[spoiler:Once the dust settles, Mature and Vice both notice that Iori seems to be losing his mind... and then he enters the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Riot of the Blood]] and fatally mauls them. While [[ShadowDiscretionShot we only see shadows]], it's rather clear that he's targeting their necks...]]
155	** In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters97'', there's [[spoiler:the New Face Team]]'s [[http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/neogeo/b/kof97face.htm ending]]. [[spoiler:Yashiro gives these to Chris and Shermie ''with his bare hands'', so their life energy will power up Orochi. After comforting the dying Shermie and delivering his FinalSpeech, Yashiro commits suicide in the same manner; we're even treated to an illustration where he puts his hand on his throat, and then to another where we see his upper body but his neck and face are out of sight but what's going on is clear...]]
156	* In ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'', if you are caught by an EMMI and miss the frame-perfect PressXToNotDie, Samus gets a needle through the throat.
157	* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': One of Liu Kang's [[FinishingMove Fatalities]] has him punch through the opponent's neck to physically ''rip their throat out''. And [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill to add the cherry on top]] punches the ripped trachea inside the opponent's mouth. Yikes.
158	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has the move Throat Chop, which deals good damage and prevents the opponent from using sound-based attacks for two turns. Appropriately enough, it's a pretty brutal [[CombatPragmatist Dark-type]] attack.
159	* In ''VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn'', [[spoiler:as the mermaids are attacking the lifeboats of [[BigBad Edward Nichols]] and his fellow mutineers in a kidnapping plan gone horribly awry, one of the creatures throws a javelin at Patrick O'Hagan's neck, killing him. Nichols' steward Samuel Galligan, unaware of this, asks the dead O'Hagan if he can still row, but calls his master out for being a DirtyCoward, commanding him to shoot the mermaids "for God's sake!" Meanwhile, one of the Formosan captives, It-Beng Sia, manages to break free of his bindings with the spear that had killed Topman Li Hong before grabbing the knife Alarcus Nikishin had dropped upon getting pulled underwater by a mermaid and uses it to stab Galligan in the throat, ending his life.]]
160	* ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6'' introduces Jamie, an all-around very fun and mellow [[DrunkenBoxing Drunk]] [[DanceBattler Breakdancer]] with some slick moves. …And then comes the Critical Art version of his secret art, Getsuga Saiho, where he swiftly and ''brutally'' snaps the opponent's windpipe in half, which would absolutely kill them if this were any game other than ''Franchise/StreetFighter''.
161	* Lara Croft can receive an incredibly gruesome one in the [[VideoGame/TombRaider2013 2013 reboot]] of the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series. Failing to avoid certain obstacles on the river and gondola scenes will lead to Lara being impaled through the throat on the end of a jagged piece of debris. Watching it is made even worse by her gasps and struggling. And the fact [[ThatOneLevel you're probably going to see it a lot]].
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165	* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': In "[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Lucario]] vs [[Franchise/{{Digimon}} Renamon]]", this is how the loser gets killed, courtesy of [[spoiler:Lucario jamming an Aura-formed bone (via Bone Rush)]] through the throat.
166	* In the {{machinima}} ''WebAnimation/DeusExMachina2007'', a {{Mook\|s}} is shot in the neck at one point. We get to hear this horrible gurgling sound for about 20 seconds before Deus [[MercyKill shoots him in the face.]]
167	* ''WebAnimation/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicCinematicUniverse'': When Darth Verteri overpowers Meetra Surik in ''Episode VI: Knights and the Darkness Pt. I'' and is about to kill her with Meetra's own [[DualWielding two lightsabers]] [[spoiler:(one of which Verteri used as the Jedi Master Lonna Vash before her FaceHeelTurn)]], Meetra telekinetically forces Verteri to stab her own throat with said lightsabers, killing her for good.
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171	* The janitor in the first chapter of ''Webcomic/{{Shadownova}}'' is suddenly stabbed in the neck by Cam, even though he was bleeding to death anyway, interrupting his last words to Iris.
172	* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Lemuel gets stabbed in the base of his throat when he's mobbed during the fight at Grenzlan. He manages to kill those attacking him and escape to another part of the battlefield, but is last seen surrounded and with his known allies all dead.
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176	* In ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', Sylvester mentions (after getting his throat crushed and then getting an actual amateur tracheotomy) that this apparently happens to him a ''lot.'' The first time was just a cut throat, the second involved a ''dog,'' and the third something called a "burrower worm." After this, his doctors decided to relocate some anatomy so he can talk with a hole in his throat.
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180	* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': In the season 7 finale, Brock breaks a Guild {{Mook}}'s windpipe and proceeds to interrogate him about the [[EliteMook blackout team]] that's been sent to kill him. When he's gotten the info he needs, he "fixes" the guy's crushed windpipe by ''stabbing him in the throat'' so he can at least get some oxygen.
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