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6	->''"They say that, when the throat is cut, the breath escapes it with a sound like the winter wind. I have always wanted to hear that sound. But to hear it coming from my'' own ''neck is ridiculous..."''
7	-->-- ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub''
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9	This {{Death Trope\|s}} is one of the classic ways to kill someone in media. Take a knife, a straight razor, or some other nasty edged weapon and draw it across your victim's throat. In a lot of media, this generally means {{instant death\|Stab}}, but in more realistic works, it is quite slow (unless the carotid arteries are all severed, in which case the target passes out after a few seconds due to lack of oxygenated blood to the brain--though it takes a certain amount of expertise to land such a strike) and VERY messy to boot, particularly if the carotid artery or the jugular vein are severed. Not to mention the victim usually drowns in their own blood ''before'' passing out. Naturally, people with a preference for knives are particularly fond of this method.
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11	A SubTrope of ImpromptuTracheotomy. See also the lethal variant of DangerouslyCloseShave. A ThroatSlittingGesture is pretending to slit your own throat when threatening someone with death or punishment.
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13	!!This being a common way characters are killed, ''beware of unmarked spoilers!''
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15	!!Example subpages:
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17	[[index]]
18	* [[SlashedThroat/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
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21	!!Other examples:
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25	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
26	* In the pudding case of ''Manga/GodChild'', the "pudding killer" commits suicide by slashing his throat with the kitchen knife after his wife learns that he is the killer and that society has broken him, including that he admits that now that he started killing, he'll likely not stop.
27	* In ''Literature/FullMetalPanic: The Second Raid'', this is one of the bloodier killing methods, done by {{Creepy Twin\|s}} Yu Lan to a guard. It is done to an Arm Slave at one point as well.
28	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
29	** [[NoNonsenseNemesis Cang Du]] slices Rangiku around her throat and delivers her dying body to her captain, Toshiro, stating that [[HonorBeforeReason teammates should die together on the battlefield]]. She and Toshiro get turned into zombies, but they get better. [[ScienceMarchesOn Science]].
30	** This is how [[OneManArmy Kenpachi]] kills one of ''three'' Sternritters during the first Quincy invasion - he slashed her throat[[note]]or tears it off with his bare hands, in the anime[[/note]] [[ShutUpHannibal right when she was in the middle of explaining her powers.]]
31	** Captain Kyoraku uses his Bankai to slice Lille Barro across the neck and ''[[YourHeadAsplode make his head explode]]'' shortly afterwards. Not only does this ''[[ImplacableMan STILL not kill him,]]'' but his [[OneWingedAngel Vollständig]] reveals a ''third'' form that proves even more troublesome to deal with.
32	** An anime-only example has [[spoiler: Squad Zero Captains Kirinji, Hikifune and Nimaiya doing this to ''[[HeroicSuicide themselves]]'' to allow Captain Shutara to release her Bankai to kill the Schutzstaffel - the explanation being that each Squad Zero captain is so [[WalkingWasteland absurdly powerful]], that all of them releasing their Bankai at once would destroy the very fabric of reality.]]
33	* In chapter 51 of ''Manga/FutureDiary'' [[{{Yandere}} Yuno]] slashes Akise through the neck rendering him unable to breathe or talk. She later [[OffWithHisHead beheads him]].
34	* From ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
35	** This happens to Riza Hawkeye in chapter 100/101, when the Gold-Toothed MadDoctor tries to force Roy into a SadisticChoice with her life at the stake. She gets better, thanks to emergency treatment from May Chang.
36	** Hughes uses his knives to do this to [[spoiler:Envy, who is disguised as Maria Ross. Unfortunately, Homunculi don't die so easily.]]
37	* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper:'' [[ArcVillain Zamasu]] ''almost'' does this to [[TheOmniscient Zuno]] with a wave of his RazorSharpHand when the latter goes into one of his long-winded explanations regarding the Super Dragon Balls.[[note]]He ''did'' ask Zuno to tell him ''[[LiteralMinded everything.]]''[[/note]] He promptly demands Zuno to quit wasting his time and tell him how they work.
38	* In ''Anime/PsychoPass'', this is how [[TheSociopath Makishima]] disposes of Yuki, one of Akane's friends introduced early in the series, as punishment for the latter's inability to use an actual weapon to kill him instead of using her [[MorphWeapon Dominator]].
39	* In ''[[Manga/{{Domu}} Domu: A Child's Dream]]'', a ''ronin'' student is possessed and [[PsychicAssistedSuicide forced to cut his own throat]] with a utility knife.
40	* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
41	** Bertolt Hoover suffers one. Since he's a Titan Shifter, his HealingFactor allows him to survive and quickly recover from it.
42	** PsychoForHire Kenny [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper the Ripper]] employs this as his trademark method of killing victims, hence his moniker.
43	* Like in the {{Film}} example below, this is how Ogami Itto kills an assassin in ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub''. The assassin, who survives for a short period afterwards, taking about the sound of his last breath.
44	* In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'', the JSDF invasion begins with a commando appearing behind a NERV security guard and opening his throat before letting the rest through the gates. It isn't instant death; the guard's mouth is clamped shut with a hand over it for the amount of time it takes him to bleed out.
45	* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', Frederica Sawyer "the Cleaner" managed to survive this in her past. However, she lost her voice to the injury and the subsequent scar left a rather massive impression.
46	* In the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' anime, after Kotonoha finds out that Sekai killed Makoto, she goes insane. Kotonoha cuts off the dead Makoto's head and brings it to Sekai, revealing that she knows what Sekai did to Makoto. [[PayEvilUntoEvil She then proceeds to take a dozuki and slash Sekai's jugular vein open, killing her.]]
47	* Being a fighting series, this is prevalent in ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'':
48	** While making it through Ayanaka Forest, Shin and Zenmaru stumble in a bunch of dead bandits butchered by [[AxCrazy Muraku Matsumoto]], all of them had their throat sliced open and was then finished off with a hard blow to the back of the skull.
49	** In ''Shura'', a wounded Jinkuu manages to kill Kaido Rin with a high slash attack aimed at the neck: thanks to the rushing momentum and the sliding motion, he was able to push through his defense and cut the throat open.
50	* In ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016'', Ganondorf takes control of Zelda's body and tries to kill Link this way. Link steps back just in time to walk away with a nick on his neck.
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54	* In the ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' graphic novel, Heyer dies after his throat is slashed, but manages to take his assailant with him.
55	* The Rumor's throat is slashed with a note from a MusicalAssassin in ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy''. It's a rare case when the victim doesn't end up dead though she was immediately rushed to a hospital and [[ScarsAreForever bears an ugly scar afterwards]].
56	* Constantine Drakon slit Arsenal's throat so that he couldn't fight back and had to submit to being kidnapped. Interestingly, it makes use of the slowness of dying from the wound. Constantine instructed Arsenal to put pressure on the wound to keep himself alive (a trick he had already done with an anonymous businessman, who applied too much pressure and died of suffocation instead).
57	* Another example from the DCU is that Jericho was mute due to some of his father's (ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'s) enemies capturing him in order to get Deathstroke to reveal information. Deathstroke refused, and killed the assassins - but not before one of them severed Joseph's vocal cords. This also led to the fight between Deathstroke and his wife where Addie tried to kill him, but only managed to [[EyeScream put his eye out instead]].
58	* In ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'' Clayface, pretending to be Jason Todd (though later retcons make out Jason to have been involved in the plot meaning it may have actually ''been'' Jason), slashed [[ComicBook/Robin1993 Tim Drake]]'s throat after kidnapping him, though the wound wasn't as deep as most of the examples on the page and ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} bandaged it up pretty quickly.
59	* In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' when Tim, Pru, Z, and Owens were ambushed by the Widower he slashed Pru's throat. She managed to survive but her larynx left is badly damaged.
60	* The 2007 revival of the DC Comics series ''ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}'' begins with two Checkmate agents, one of whom is the superhero known as "Fire", slitting the throats of two Kobra soldiers.
61	* In ''ComicBook/BatmanEternal'', the secret mastermind, Cluemaster, has his throat slit by Lincoln March before he can culminate his plan by killing Batman and publicly proclaim his victory, Cluemaster wanting to prove himself more than a C-list villain while March wants to kill Batman anonymously to undermine the myth of the Dark Knight.
62	* ''ComicBook/{{Family}}'': Variation when Silver uses his [[HavingABlast explosive powers]] to silence someone rather than using something sharp.
63	* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' has the infamous prison cell scene where Big Figure's obese henchman Larry gets stuck in the bars of Rorsarch's prison cell when Rorsarch breaks his thumbs and ties his arms in place, blocking the door. Unlike the significantly more brutal scene in the movie where BF's other Mook saws his arms off, in the comic, they just slit his throat.
64	* ''ComicBook/{{Burlap}}'': [[MonsterClown Chuckles]] opens up a woman's throat on Cottontail's command.
65	* ''ComicBook/{{Silverblade}}'': Jealous of his father's power, Adruu slit his throat to take the power for himself.
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69	* ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'': The first kill that Atropos has announced in advance is Coil. Since his power is to run two timelines at once, she cuts his throat with a ''pair'' of bodice shears (after first hanging him with a coil of rope in his backup timeline). The autopsy concludes that even if an ambulance had been on site already, he wouldn't have survived to reach the sidewalk.
70	* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', [[EnemyWithout Satan Girl]] attempts to tear through ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s throat with her sharp teeth during a battle.
71	* In ''Fanfic/IncarnationOfLegends'', Bell kills the man holding Haruhime hostage this way, batting away his spear before dragging his knife across his throat.
72	* In ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', L'le of the Circle survived one of these once; she kept the scar as a reminder of the only truly bad mistake she ever made.
73	* ''Fanfic/LostToDust'': Penny slits Neo's throat with a sword. Irisviel manages to heal her, but her throat doesn't heal all the way, rendering her truly mute.
74	* In ''Fanfic/MedicinalLullaby'', Sakura finishes Sasuke off by cutting his throat.
75	* ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'':
76	** The Slayer rips a Saber's throat out with his bare hands when going subtle, the brutality causing the teacher he just rescued to [[TheScream scream in terror]].
77	** Likewise, he uses Mummy's broken blade to slice his throat open to the point of near decapitation, before [[HoistHeroOverHead grabbing him and lifting him up before slamming him on his knee hard enough]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe to tear him in half]].
78	* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
79	** Hugh miraculously [[SubvertedTrope subverts this trope]] by surviving such an attempt on his life prior to his introduction. It does render him [[TheSpeechless mute]], though. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Surprisingly]] TruthInTelevision.
80	** One of the hunters' [[AnatomyAgony myriad of ways]] to kill a {{mook}}, either by a sneak attack, or when the strike does not [[OffWithHisHead cut off the head entirely]].
81	* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': ''The Tempest'': Chapter 2: The Crown asks about the need for any slashed throats when wondering why madness has happened to him:
82	--> Is there some entity or entities behind all this in dire need of a throat-slitting?
83	* In ''Fanfic/PatroniInWinterfell'', this is how Cersei kills Robert.
84	* In ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', when General Lone Ranger attempts to attack the Mane Six, they effortlessly beat him and Rarity slashes his throat, then reveals she was skilled enough to do it without killing him.
85	* ''Fanfic/{{Pop Quiz\|Debbie418uk}}'': [[Series/Numb3rs Charlie]] suffers a minor version of this, as Robert Evans had a knife to his throat and he ends up with a gash after Don shoots the student in the head and Charlie survives the injury.
86	* ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors'' often do this to their victims. This also how [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Annabeth]] is killed by her opponent in the coliseum.
87	* This is how Ayame accidentally kills Hikaru in ''Fanfic/DespairsLastResort''.
88	* In ''Fanfic/TwoSidesOfACoin'', Eleya slashes the throat of a Romulan soldier with the bayonet she uses as a combat knife after emerging from an AirVentPassageway next to him.
89	* Kaneki Tenmaru is murdered this way in ''Fanfic/FracturedFates''.
90	* In ''Fanfic/SummerAndWinter'', Ace "dies" from this in many of his nightmares, usually at the hands of his "family".
91	* ''Fanfic/RemnantsReclaimer'': This is Future!Ruby's finishing blow against Future!Roman Torchwick in Chapter 1.
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95	* ''Literature/TheCorruptedChroniclesOfCocoClaramisa'': The notorious serial killer, Bloody Rose, chooses this as their method of offing their victims, and uses the blood coming from the neck to coat a rose in the victim's blood.
96	* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'': The Count and his guests witness an execution by ''mazzolata'' (based on the RealLife capital punishment known as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazzatello Mazzatello/Mazzolatura]]")--The condemned has his head smashed with a mace, and his throat is slit. The executioner then stomps on the dying man's stomach, and "at every stroke [[HighPressureBlood a jet of blood sprang from the wound]]."
97	* The giant in the fairy tale of "Literature/HopOMyThumb" kills his daughters this way.
98	* Saruman dies this way in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. In the movies, he's stabbed InTheBack and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled on a spike]].
99	* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's novel ''Literature/SixthColumn'', also known under the title ''The Day After Tomorrow'', one of the characters kills a "traitor" this way. This "proves" he is fit to continue as an undercover agent.
100	* In the book ''The Five Fingers'' about combat in Vietnam, the author mentions that the "commonly known" way of cutting a throat, by slashing across it, does not work if you wish quick, silent killing. He says the proper method is to jam the knife into the throat and rip forward, tearing open the windpipe and veins.
101	** The banned book ''Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors'' agrees, and further recommends that a six-inch, double-edged, half-serrated blade be used.
102	* TabletopGame/Warhammer40000:
103	** In the ''Literature/ThousandSons'' novel ''Ahriman: Sorcerer'', Hemellion slits Carmenta's throat with a shiv.
104	** During the climax of the ''Literature/WordBearers'' novel ''Dark Disciple'' by Anthony Reynolds, Slaaneshi Daemonettes attack the prisoners and owners of a Dark Eldar skiff using their crab-like claws to slice their victims' throats. [[{{Squick}} The victims writhe on the ground in orgasmic ecstasy as they bleed out.]]
105	* Averted in Creator/TomClancy's ''[[Literature/JackRyan Without Remorse]]'', where John Clark opts to stab his target through the base of the skull, severing the spinal cord for an instant kill. This tells the investigating policemen that they are dealing with a professional: [[DiscussedTrope a slashed throat is noisy (all that escaping air) and very, very messy, but it's much easier to do than a stab through the base of the neck.]]
106	* This is how Snape (via Voldemort’s snake Nagini) meets his end in ''Literature/HarryPotter ''.
107	* It happens in ''[[Literature/XWingSeries Iron Fist]]''; DeadlyDoctor Ton Phanan cuts a man's throat with a laser scalpel, and the man staggers, glassy-eyed and trying to stop the bleeding, for a moment before he falls.
108	* This is how murder is usually committed in Literature/WarriorCats.
109	* In Creator/DaleBrown's ''Wings of Fire'', Wendy [=McLanahan=] gets her throat slashed with the swipe-along-the-neck method and survives... only for Vasilyeva to throw a knife into her chest and kill her. When Chris Wohl kills Pavel Kazakov, he stabs into the neck before slashing out, slicing it nearly in half.
110	* Happens to Catelyn Stark at the Red Wedding in ''Literature/AStormOfSwords''. [[CameBackWrong It doesn't take.]]
111	** And shortly before that, she does some cutting of her own on one of Walder Frey's grandsons.
112	** This also happens to Lord Manderly in ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'', though, in a subversion, he survives.
113	** The last free king of Astapor was known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin King Cutthroat]]. He got to that position by, well, you know.
114	* Richard Marcinko describes the act of cutting a throat in some detail (emphasizing the difficulty of the act) in one of his early ''Literature/RogueWarrior'' novels.
115	* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/ShardsOfHonor'', Sgt. Bothari slits Admiral Vorrutyer's throat with a pocket knife, spraying blood all over Captain Naismith, whom Vorrutyer was about to rape.
116	* A mugger in ''Virtual Girl'' tries this on Maggie. It doesn't work, her being a robot and all.
117	* Long before ''The Last Dragonlord'', Linden encountered Harper Satha, a harper-healer who had gone into a magical sleep for a century, during which someone had come by and cut his throat. Thanks to the magic, though, he didn't die of it. Linden recalls the whistling bubble of his voice as some air inevitably escaped through the cut.
118	* ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'':
119	** In ''City of Ashes'', Valentine does this to collect Simon's blood. [[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better.]]
120	** Clary comes very close to this in ''City of Fallen Angels'', courtesy of Jace (to be fair, he was under Lilith's MindRape at the time).
121	** Maureen Brown is found in a dumpster with her throat slit.
122	* In ''Literature/TheLastWish's'' short story "The Witcher", Geralt barely survives having his neck ripped open by the striga Princess Adda. He got lucky: The claw swipe in question missed anything ''really'' important, and he got medical attention soon after. He still spent a few months in a hospital.
123	* The Union, a NebulousEvilOrganization from Raymond Benson's ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels, has its victims' throats cut as a CallingCard, even if they were killed by other means.
124	* In ''Literature/GoneGirl'', Desi has his throat slashed by Amy as both are having sex.
125	* In ''Literature/MidnightsChildren'', Zafar kills [[SelfMadeOrphan his father Zulfikar]] this way.
126	* ''Literature/NoGodsForDrowning'': SerialKiller Lilac Antonis finishes off her victim Flip by using her knife to cut his throat open, using his spilled blood as part of a HumanSacrifice.
127	* In the short story ''Fanatic'' set in the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series Victor Cachat mentions that the StateSec academy assassination course recommended the use of a seven-centimeter blade for cutting throats.
128	* In the Literature/ElsabethSoesten novel ''Bait And Switch'', Elsabeth kills Husson in a duel this way after he and Maerten betray her, by slashing out his throat with her sword.
129	* In Creator/RichardLaymon's ''Literature/{{Savage}}'', this is the fate of Roderick Whittle, aka UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
130	* In ''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'', Johnny does this to ''himself''.
131	* ''Literature/RetiredWitchesMysteries'': Olivia's body is found with a slit throat in the first book. Her ghost later explains that she didn't see them, but they came up from behind her.
132	* ''Literature/WhileMyPrettyOneSleeps'':
133	** Renata Kearny's throat was slashed twice with a blade, in a V-like pattern, with one cut going up to her left ear and slicing through her jugular vein.
134	** Ethel Lambston's throat was cut with an ornate Indian dagger she used as a letter opener, which she kept on her desk; a medical examination finds that her throat was slashed first horizontally then vertically, in a V-like shape, severing both her jugular vein and her windpipe. [[spoiler:The fact she was killed in the exact same way as Renata eventually leads the police and the Kearnys to suspect it was the same killer. They're right]].
135	* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'':
136	** Joslyn cut the throat of her {{sadist}} master Captain Samwin before escaping from slavery.
137	** [[spoiler:Wise Man Evrart kills his friend Crestin this way when he raises the alarm upon discovering that he's sneaking Tasia out of the palace.]]
138	* In "The Invisible Intruder" by Creator/EdwardDHoch the BodyOfTheWeek has his throat slashed with a [[GardeningVarietyWeapon pruning hook]] when he sticks his head out of the window.
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142	* ''Series/TwentyFour'' made repeated use of this trope. In season 5, Jack Bauer actually instructed a Naval engineer young enough to be his son how to discreetly slit the throat of a mook who was in his way. The boy carried out the kill successfully.
143	* Happens ''far'' too many times to even count in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory''.
144	* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Wesley gets his throat cut. He survives, though he is unable to speak for some time afterwards.
145	* In the ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' episode "Bastogne," one of the Easy men has his throat graphically ''ripped out'' by an [=MG42=] when their patrol stumbles across a German machine gun nest. It takes him several minutes to die, while wordlessly pleading for his buddies to save him. However, they're pinned down by the machine gun and ultimately forced to withdraw, leaving his body behind.
146	* Jimmy from ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' has done this ''multiple'' times. Notable ones include killing one of the D'Alessio brothers during a montage of their assassination, cutting the throat of [[MuggingTheMonster a would-be mugger]], and disposing of a [[TheMole Mole]] within an ally's organization.
147	* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': During his covert invasion of [[spoiler: Naqib's compound,]] [[{{Ninja}} Black Noir]] slices the throat of a woman who unknowingly approached him. Her blood spills directly into the empty glass she was carrying, which Noir is quick to catch. He does the same to another [[spoiler: terrorist]] before subsequently splitting his partner's head in half.
148	* In [[Recap/BreakingBadS4E1BoxCutter the first episode]] of ''Series/BreakingBad'''s fourth season, [[AffablyEvil Gustavo Fring]] does this to one of his [[DumbMuscle goons]] to [[YouHaveFailedMe punish him for not preventing Gale Boetticher's murder]] but also to create a PastVictimShowcase and [[MakeAnExampleOfThem scare the crap out of]] Walt, Jesse, and Mike so that they never step out of line again. The goon on the receiving end of this treatment was not only [[DidntSeeThatComing not expecting it]], but the throat-slitting was [[ImprovisedWeapon conducted with a box cutter]] (complete with a [[HighPressureBlood blood spurt]]). [[NightmareFuel Just to make this throat-slitting creepier]], Gus simply removes his bloodied hazmat suit, puts on his business suit, tells Jesse and Walt to clean up the mess, and calmly returns to work.
149	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
150	** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E21BecomingPart1 Becoming Part 1]]", [[spoiler:Kendra]] gets her throat slashed by ''fingernails'' and dies instantly. Though to be fair, she was under hypnosis at the time, and they were [[FemmeFatalons vampire fingernails]].
151	** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E9WhatsMyLinePart1 What's My Line Part 1]]", Buffy used her ice skates to slit the throat of her attacker. He grabs his throat and falls to the ground, seemingly dead. Notable (and lampshaded in the DVDCommentary) in that there is no blood from his wound.
152	** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E20Touched Touched]]", Giles cuts the throat of a Bringer [[GoodIsNotNice they've taken prisoner]] once he's given the information they want. The Bringer was [[DemonicPossession psychically linked to Andrew]] at the time, who complains loudly and demands a lozenge.
153	* Francis Wolcott likes to off prostitutes this way in ''{{Series/Deadwood}}''.
154	* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':
155	** This is how Dexter kills [[spoiler: his brother, the Ice Truck Killer]]. It's staged as a suicide.
156	** This happens to a hostage after Debra falls prey to PutDownYourGunAndStepAway. He survives and is able to speak quite soon after.
157	* ''Series/EyeCandy'': The killer murders multiple victims by this method.
158	* ''Series/TheFollowing'': When [[spoiler: Jacob]] tells [[spoiler: Emma]] that he's leaving the cult, she pulls him close for a kiss, and slits his throat open with a knife while doing so.
159	* Used a few ways in ''Series/{{Forever\|2014}}''. When immortals Henry and Adam die, their body vanishes, including clothing and any spilled blood, so the messy aspect is avoided in their case.
160	** Threatened by the killer in "Look Before You Leap" when holding Henry hostage with a scalpel right over his carotid artery.
161	** How Adam kills [[spoiler: Henry]] quickly in "The Frustrating Thing About Psychopaths" when [[spoiler: Henry is paralyzed and close to dying, in danger of being discovered by Det. Martinez and potentially having her see him die and vanish.]] Adam considers this to be doing Henry a ''favor''.
162	** Self-inflicted in "The Night In Question" by [[spoiler: Abigail, when Adam tries to kidnap her to force her to tell him how to find Henry. She kills herself to protect Henry, telling Adam he's alone, meaning there is no other immortal.]]
163	** Casually used by Adam as a quick way to disappear when about to be discovered by Jo in "The Last Death of Henry Morgan."
164	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
165	** This happens to Catelyn Stark, at the hands of Black Walder Frey.
166	** How Arya Stark kills Ser Meryn Trant, Lord Walder Frey, and [[spoiler:Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish]].
167	** Not exactly slashed, but Ramsay kills Osha by stabbing her in the throat.
168	** Since Aerys Targaryen believed he would turn into a dragon upon death, Jaime did this just to make sure it wouldn't happen.
169	** This seems to be the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Sons of the Harpy's]] preferred method of killing their victims.
170	** How Irri was killed by Doreah.
171	* ''Series/GenV'': Cate [[PsychicAssistedSuicide makes Indira Shetty kill herself]] this way.
172	* ''Series/GoodbyeMyPrincess'': This is how Xiao Feng commits suicide.
173	* ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': This is how the VictimOfTheWeek is murdered in "Aurum Potestas Est" ("Gold is Power"). Her body is then dumped on the railroad tracks in an attempt to mask the cause of death.
174	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
175	** This happens to [[spoiler:Nathan]], with the throat-slashing being done telekinetically.
176	** At one point when the powers are off, HRG slices Sylar's throat with a box cutter. Not quite ruthless enough; he really should have followed that up by destroying the brain and/or burning the body...
177	* ''Series/HighlanderTheSeries'' had Kalas, the third season BigBad, who had a nasty scar on his throat after a fight with Duncan in the 1920s. Since his head wasn't cut off, he didn't die, but neck wounds don't heal properly on Immortals, so he was stuck with an ugly scar and a messed-up voice. As Kalas was always proud of his singing voice (he was an opera singer at the time of the fight with Duncan), this was the big issue for him and why he still held a grudge against our hero.
178	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill the Season 1 finale]], Louis de Pointe du Lac unsheathes the knife from his SwordCane and slices Lestat de Lioncourt's throat with it.
179	* ''Series/TheKilling'': How the Pied Piper kills his victims, cutting their throats ear to ear so deeply some of the victims are nearly decapitated.
180	* ''Series/TheKingsWoman'': Min Dai commits suicide this way.
181	* Happens a ''lot'' on ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker''. Most people who get it simply clutch at their profusely bleeding throat before falling to the ground. [[spoiler:Cara]], on the other hand, manages to put off death long enough to beat the hell out of the attacker, and get information out of him as well.
182	* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': In season 4, [[spoiler: Neron does this to Ray while possessing his body]], Constantine then instinctively heals him with his magic.
183	* ''Series/TheLongestDayInChangAn'': Wang Run Xiu takes Wen Ran hostage and holds a knife at her throat. Wen Ran uses the knife to cut her own throat.
184	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
185	** Zoe gets her throat cut by the Man in Black.
186	** Lennon had his throat sliced by Sayid.
187	* ''Series/LostLoveInTimes'': Yuan Ji commits suicide by cutting his throat.
188	* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'':
189	** Two people (and several sheep) were killed this way [[spoiler:with the skull of a smilodon]] in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E3 Secrets and Spies]]".
190	** The method used by the murderer to dispose of his two victims in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E7 The Great and the Good]]".
191	* Jessica's pushy suitor in ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' ends up with his throat slashed. Alisha also dies like this.
192	* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': The Fixer in "Mother Mycellum" demonstrates how important their role is to the cadets by slashing one's throat as they watch in horror. She lets the young woman bleed for a while before healing it.
193	* This pops up occasionally on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':
194	** One episode involved the murderer using the Marine sentry removal technique (described in The Five Fingers example above) to kill the victim...while she was [[OutWithABang having sex with him.]]
195	** In an episode revolving around a revenge plot against Ducky, [[spoiler:when the team rescued Ducky, one of the perps slashed his own throat with a scalpel rather than go back to jail.]]
196	** In one episode, Abby pretends to do this with a fake knife, getting the attention of her audience.
197	* Happens several times in ''Series/{{Oz}}''.
198	* ''Series/ScholarWhoWalksTheNight'':
199	** The king kills himself by cutting his own throat.
200	** Hye Ryung dies after Gwi cuts her throat.
201	* ''Series/{{Search}}'': Corporal Oh discovers Private Gwon's body with his throat slashed open.
202	* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', ''Stiletto'', a thug tries to do this to Chloe Sullivan, but he probably got the message that it is a bad idea when [[spoiler:Doomsday]] emerges, drags him away, and kills him messily.
203	* ''Series/SpecialOpsLioness'': Cruz finishes off Amrohi by cutting his throat after stabbing him repeatedly.
204	* ''Series/{{Spooks}}'': [[spoiler: [[TheMole Connie]] does it to Ben with garrote wire ''from her bra''.]] It's ''very'' realistic.
205	* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Apophis slashes the throat of one of Sokar's Jaffa using a [[BladeBelowTheShoulder concealed blade]].
206	* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E06TheImpossibleBox The Impossible Box]]", at least two out of three Romulan guards die in this manner when Elnor severs their jugular vein with his [[AbsurdlySharpBlade tan qalanq]], and green arterial spray gushes out from their wounds.
207	* ''Series/StrangersFromHell'':
208	** Deuk-jong dies of a cut throat and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill several stab-wounds.]]
209	** Moon-jo dies after Jong-woo cuts his throat.
210	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
211	** The demon "Meg" does this in season 1 on-screen while hitchhiking
212	** In season 2 after the Croatoan Virus is introduced. Two of the survivors are driving away from the empty town, one asks the other to pull over so he can make a call and once the driver does, [[spoiler: the man is revealed to be possessed by an unnamed demon (possibly "Meg") who then slashes the driver's throat]] reminiscent of the season 1 usage.
213	** In "The French Mistake", this happens to Misha Collins. Yes, [[SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness Misha]] [[RealWorldEpisode Collins]].
214	* ''Series/TidelandsNetflix'':
215	** [[spoiler:Colton]] is murdered this way at Adrielle's command.
216	** It turns out that [[spoiler:Durborrow]] was really killed this way too.
217	* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'': In the eighth episode of the series, as Viktor Hargreeves [[spoiler:learns that his adoptive sister Allison was complicit in making him believe he was a normal human when he actually had the god-like ability to turn sound waves into energy all along, he lashes out in rage and accidentally slashes Allison's throat with his violin bow (which was in turn powered by the surrounding sounds of wind and a song he was practicing), and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone immediately regrets it.]] Thankfully, Allison manages to survive through a blood transfusion, but is rendered mute.]]
218	* Happens to [[spoiler:Therese]] in ''Series/{{Vikings}}''. [[spoiler:She is garotted from behind, and the wire cuts so deeply into her neck while she's strangled that her carotid is severed.]]
219	* In ''Series/{{Ultraseven}}'', this is how Seven finished off the monster Starbem Gyeron, resulting in a ''massive'' geyser of [[HighPressureBlood high pressure]] [[AlienBlood yellow blood]] all over the Ultra's face. [[https://youtu.be/YA6scW8chfQ?t=154 Pretty nasty for a kid's show]].
220	* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'':
221	** In "Conquer", [[spoiler:Pete slashes Reg’s throat with Michonne's katana when Reg tries to calm him down]].
222	** In "Wrath", [[spoiler:Rick slits Negan's throat after trying to talk Negan down and into peace as part of Carl's dying wish]]. However, right afterwards, the attacker tells their crew to save the victim's life.
223	%%* ''Series/WaywardPines'': Beverly's "reckoning".
224	* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'':
225	** Thom relates to Rand that his nephew Owyn killed himself by cutting his throat after he was [[DePower gentled]].
226	** Lan's throat is cut accidentally while Logain escapes, with Nynaeve healing this.
227	* ''Series/TheXFiles:''
228	** In "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E10Chinga Chinga]]", one character gets her throat cut by a broken phonograph record.
229	** This is how the alternate version of Reyes is killed in the opening of "[[Recap/TheXFilesS09E044D 4-D]]".
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231
232	[[folder:Music]]
233	* In Music/TheProtomen's Act II, Emily dies in this manner. [[spoiler: The Sniper does too, in a sense.]]
234	* In the music video for the Music/InsaneClownPosse song "In Yo Face", there are a pair of showgirls with the classic "slashed throat" blood trails. It's just there to make them look creepy.
235	* Music/{{Macabre}}‘a song about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kürten Peter Kürten]], names after his alias, "Vampire of Düsseldorf", tells how Peter would slash his victim’s throats because the blood helps him [[HemoErotic get off]].
236	* In "'97 Bonnie and Clyde", Music/{{Eminem}} is disposing of the body of his ex-wife [[spoiler:as well as her husband and stepson]], whose throat he slit.
237	** The above is referenced in "Stan": "I didn't slit her throat, I just tied her up; see, I ain't like you. 'Cause if she suffocates she'll suffer more and then she'll die, too".
238	* "Otherside" by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers: "Slit my throat, it's all I ever..."
239	[[/folder]]
240
241	[[folder:Theatre]]
242	* ''Theatre/TheBat'': This is how the Bat murders his victims; slashing their throats with his [[WolverineClaws steel-taloned glove]].
243	* Invoked by Theatre/JuliusCaesar who offers his throat, and averted by Casca:
244	-->'''Casca''': Marry, before he fell down when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown,\
245	He plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his throat to cut.\
246	An I had been a man of any occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word,\
247	I would I might go to hell among the rogues.
248	* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' features several throat slashings, as it's Todd's M.O. as a barber serial killer. [[spoiler:Sweeney himself would suffer this fate at the end of the musical...though since by then he found out he accidentally killed his wife Lucy, Sweeney no doubt welcomed the death...and in a few productions, ''[[SuicideByCop does]]''.]]
249	[[/folder]]
250
251	[[folder:Video Games]]
252	* ''VideoGame/BladedFury'' ends with your final confrontation against Lord Tian, the main villain responsible for your predicament after slaying all of Tian's summons. Tian instead decides to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled slit his own throat]] in a last act of defiance.
253	* It's possible to do this in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''. It's not possible to see it in the console version since the third-person camera view obscures the sight, but it sounds pretty messy. The PC port, on the other hand, allows for the player to see it in full – it's an initial deep stab followed by CJ ripping the blade out the front of the victim's neck.
254	* ''VideoGame/GladiatorSwordOfVengeance'' has Arruntius the main villain [[OffingTheOffspring sacrificing his own daughter]] in a cutscene for more power, by slashing her throat.
255	* ''VideoGame/HeroOfSparta'' allows you to pull this off as a special FinishingMove on centaurs and gorgons, where after dealing enough damage on them and landing an execution blow you then get s CoupDeGraceCutscene of you slicing their jugulars out.
256	* Quite a few {{Stealth Based Game}}s allow you to do this to some unsuspecting {{Mook}}s. The first ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' game does not encourage such, however, because slashed throats leave a lot of blood behind in comparison to the Fiber Wire that a true Silent Assassin uses for close-up killing. (Later Hitman games, however, don't take this into account and a throat-slit is treated as an effective stealth kill.)
257	* In ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games (from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' and onward), the player can choose to grab an enemy soldier and then kill them by cutting their neck with a knife.
258	* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' has unique [[BackStab stealth kill]] animation for each melee weapon, and the one you get with a knife is the good ol' throat-slashing with lots of blood (if the enemy has it). However, since stealth kills generally go unnoticed by the enemies, nobody will give a damn even if you shower them from head to toe with their colleague's blood.
259	* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' it is possible to cut the throat of a grabbed enemy. Quite amusingly, this can be done with a mace or war hammer. Or with a ''[[GoodBadBugs broom]]''.
260	* This is how [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy4BdOVsZI GDI collaborator Hassan is executed]] in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer: Tiberian Sun''.
261	* B.B. Hood's ''standard throw'' is this in ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' and ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom''.
262	** Also used by Taki in the ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur'' games.
263	* One of the executions you can inflict in ''VideoGame/Sharpshooter3D'', if you happen to be using a sharp weapon (knife, broken bottle, etc.) and aim it at enemies' jugulars. Mooks killed this way even have a special death animation where a small waterfall of red bursts from their throat as they grab their necks before keeling over.
264	* The magazine ad for the first ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}'' game is an image of main character Rikkimaru shown through a narrow slit, which it's caption states is the view seen from some poor guard's vocal cords. Indeed, while Rikkimaru has used many different stealth kills across the games (some more spectacular than others), [[BoringButPractical approaching the enemy from behind and slitting their throat with his sword]] has remained a constant part of his moveset since the first game.
265	* ''VideoGame/WingCommander IV'' has Captain Paulson being killed this way by Seether in a cutscene. In some versions of the game (such as the Playstation version and versions sold in Europe), the slashing uses BloodlessCarnage; in the American PC version, ''quite a bit'' of blood spurts out of Paulson's neck.
266	* ''VideoGame/MafiaII'' has both the Hollywood way and the "real" way to do this. It happens in a cutscene where a minor villain pulls a knife on the main character, who disarms the chump and kills him with his own knife. At first he cuts the guy with the usual Hollywood "ear to ear" slice, but this is just to torture the guy; afterwards, he kills the guy the "proper" way by jamming the knife sideways into his neck.
267	* Happens rather frequently in the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' series.
268	* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', there is a chance for this to happen in one of the knife and sword backstab animations. [[GoodBadBugs However]], only about half of the knives in the game have edges on both sides, so by the time you're using [[InfinityPlusOneSword Daedric]] and [[InfinityMinusOneSword Ebony]] weapons, you're slaughtering people with the non-sharp side of a knife.
269	** They also don't account for height differences, which means you'll slit someone's neck after drawing your knife across their ''torso'', or rather disturbingly, their face!
270	* ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' has the much faster and more realistic side-stab variant as one of Thorton's lethal takedowns.
271	* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', Corvo prefers to [[CombatPragmatist end fights quick and cleanly]], and will throat stab someone if he manages to stealth kill them from the front, he'll also do this to several major assassination targets as special parry-finishers.
272	* Done ''very'' brutally in one of the infamous "Bad Endings" from ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays''. [[spoiler: If Makoto doesn't find out how Sekai's friends are bullying Kotonoha to keep her away from him and Sekai, Kotonoha will ''snap'' due to the harassment and her own mental/emotional instability... and confront both Sekai and Makoto in broad daylight. Then she'll uncover a cleaver and slash Sekai's throat, ''bloodily'' killing her in front of everyone.]]
273	* ''Videogame/Waxworks1992'' pits you against UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper in one of its stages, and losing all your HP to him, or [[TooDumbToLive turning your back on him]], will end in an unpleasantly detailed description of this as your death scene.
274	* In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', Hiyoko Saionji is killed this way by Mikan Tsumiki (who has been infected with Despair Fever) after she sees Ibuki Mioda being strangled by Mikan.
275	* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' has Talion, his wife and son [[HumanSacrifice ritually killed]] by the Black Hand slowly drawing his sword across their throats at the opening of the game, in order to summon up the elven wraith that shares Talion's body for the rest of the game.
276	* Happens to Chieftain Vol'jin in the ''Mists of Pandaria'' expac of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', at the hand of one of Warchief Garrosh's assassins. Luckily thanks to his troll regeneration he survives but exhausts himself so much that he ends up bedridden for weeks after his escape. It also convinces him that Garrosh needs to go ''down''.
277	* This is Jenny's fate in ''VideoGame/{{GUN}}'' at the hands of Reed.
278	* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'': This is UsefulNotes/{{Jack\|TheRipper}}-of-Smiles' usual preferred method of killing. [[HarmlessVillain Unfortunately for him]], DeathIsCheap in the Neath, and while there are ways to [[KilledOffForReal kill people for real]], a slit throat is decidedly ''not'' one of them.
279	* The fifth ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' game, due to suicide being one of its central themes and it being set near a suicide hot-spot, has this apply to 3 characters (2 of them were DrivenToSuicide, while one of those 2 forced the last one into a PsychicAssistedSuicide), who all become hostile ghosts after dying this way.
280	* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'': Several characters, such as Jade and Kollector, inflict this on their opponents in the new [[DesperationAttack Fatal Blow]] attacks.[[note]]"Fatal Blows" are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what they sound like]] - attacks that would undoubtedly kill a normal human being. They're ''far'' more gruesome than the X-Ray attacks of the previous [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 two]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombatX games]], and you can only use them when your health is at 30% or lower.[[/note]] Of course, this being [[WorldOfBadass Mortal Kombat,]] [[MadeOfIron they're back on their feet in no less than 2 seconds.]]
281	* ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'': You can do this if you happen to nail an opponent in the neck with the same move as drawing your katana from its scabbard. Notably, it's neither quick nor clean, as the enemy will stagger choking on blood for a few seconds before collapsing.
282	* This happens to Aisha in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''. She attempts to alert Johnny and the Boss that they're walking into a trap, only for Jyunichi, who's holding her hostage, to slit her throat [[KilledMidSentence mid-sentence]].
283	* Extremely early in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2,'' Isaac's shrink does this to ''himself,'' having been driven insane by [[ArtifactOfDoom the Marker]] playing on his guilt in regards to the memory-supressant medication he'd been giving Isaac until the containment breach. He makes ''absolutely sure'' to get the arteries in his neck, too. He probably nicked a cervical vertebra.
284	[[/folder]]
285
286	[[folder:Webcomics]]
287	* Stunt from ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' is fond of this method. Pictured above is him killing Urban Eddie as part of his HeelFaceTurn; this particular case also counts as HoistByHisOwnPetard, since Urban Eddie's the one who taught him to slash throats.
288	* Komiyan of ''Webcomic/{{Darken}}'' eventually kills Blackshard this way with a pair of daggers.
289	* Freija in ''Webcomic/TheSenkari'' had her throat slashed in her DeathByOriginStory
290	* A somewhat subverted example happens in ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow''. Mandy, upon finding that her time was up in her hourglass, slashes her throat. The somewhat subversion is that Mandy finds she's immortal and cannot die unless Grim says so.
291	* In ''Webcomic/{{Terra}}'', Agrippa Varus uses this as a CoupDeGrace against Kaleb Ceros, bloodily slashing his throat with a swipe of his combat knife.
292	%%* In ''Webcomic/{{Zelfia}}'', Mayy is killed via this.
293	* In ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'' Shala subverts the "instantly fatal" part when [[AxCrazy Kalki]] [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10262 cuts her throat]] as a taunt, managing to keep up the pressure on her throat to avoid passing out and manages to stop the immediate bleeding. She does, however, die later as she's being carried to safety by her brother and boyfriend, [[DistractedFromDeath who don't realize she's died until]] [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10346 they set her down]].
294	* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': [[AxeCrazy Azurai]] kills the angel Sanjulo by slicing his neck with his [[WolverineClaws extending claws]] after Kazai [[BerserkButton cuts off part of his horn.]]
295	* Both Kale and Krunch have been on the receiving end of these in ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup''. Kale survived. Krunch did not.
296	* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Chalmer was killed by having his throat slashed by Iori when he got back up to keep trying to attack the girls after Sette cut his thigh and Sara stabbed his face, through his cheeks.
297	* ''Webcomic/{{Muted}}'': Camille has her throat slashed by Athalie/Strix; in a last ditch attempt to stop the bleeding, she wraps a vine around her throat. The bruising this causes leaves her unable to speak for a while.
298	[[/folder]]
299
300	[[folder:Western Animation]]
301	* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'', ComicBook/TheJoker kills a mobster by breaking a glass and slicing his throat.
302	* In Season 5 of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', Jack kills one of the Daughters of Aku by slicing her neck with her own sword, making her the first human he's ever killed.[[note]]Unless you count the Season 4 episode "The Princess and the Bounty Hunters", where the latter group are countered by Jack's attacks and lay unconscious on the ground.[[/note]] Jack's reaction is one of shock and horror.
303	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
304	** Kyle kills [[KungFuJesus Jesus]] this way in "Fantastic Easter Special". It was willing on Jesus' part, since it would allow him to resurrect outside his cell and use his [[DeathActivatedSuperpower divine powers]] to stop Snowball's execution, but Kyle was reluctant to do so at first, him being Jewish and all.
305	** In "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut", several people with gashed throats can be seen in the hospital's waiting room... somehow being alive long enough to ''be'' waiting in the first place.
306	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Francine accidentally slits Steve's throat with a butter knife after practicing being left-handed for the first time in years. Of course, he's perfectly fine by the next episode.
307	** A non-lethal example occurs when Steve does this to a VC with a marker in a Vietnam paintball reenactment.
308	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'': When Percy discovers that Professor Anders has [[spoiler:his sister Cassandra]] as a hostage, Anders decides to twist the knife by slitting her throat in front of him. RealismInducedHorror fully applies here -- [[spoiler:Cassandra]] spends a good ten minutes of screentime writhing around on the floor while drowning in her own blood, and only survives due to Keyleth's intervention.
309	[[/folder]]
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311	[[folder:Real Life]]
312	* The brutal social/political scandal known in Chile as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso_Degollados "caso degollados"]] ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "case of the slashed throats"]]). In 1985, three well-known professionals affiliated with the opposition to [[GeneralRipper Augusto Pinochet's]] dictatorship (artist Santiago Nattino, teacher's union leader Manuel Guerrero and sociologist/activist Jose Manuel Parada -- also the son of a famous stage actor ''and'' father of a then very well-known child actress) were kidnapped by a national police agency, and the day after that their lifeless, torture-marked bodies were found with their throats slit.
313	* The {{seppuku}} ritual for women didn't have the ladies slitting their bellies like the {{samurai}} since it would be seen as an UndignifiedDeath in the face of defeat. Instead, the woman about to commit suicide would go through ''jigai'' to avoid being taken alive by tying her legs to not fall in a spread-eagle position and invoke this trope on herself, via slashing her own throat with a dagger. On several occasions, invaders would storm a castle only to find the lady of the house sitting quietly, having already ended her own life before they got there.
314	* UsefulNotes/IceHockey skates are sharp metal blades and the people wearing them fly down the ice at high speeds, frequently running into each other and getting knocked over. It's amazing that so few throats have been slashed by errant skate blades throughout the sport's history. The unlucky few include [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Malarchuk Clint Malarchuk]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Zednik Richard Zednik]], who fortunately survived their brushes with death.
315	* As stated in the main description, this isn't nearly as quick (or painless, or clean) a manner of death as Hollywood would like people to believe. In fact, there are ''many'' recorded cases of failed suicide attempts using this method where the victim didn't damage their carotid arteries at all, merely ruining their trachea and [[TheSpeechless making themselves mute]] (sometimes permanently) and ended up having to walk to the hospital since calling 911 wasn't an option.
316	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_and_Gleb Saint Gleb Vladimirovich, Prince of Murom]], is said to have been murdered like this by one of his servants, in the middle of a ''brutal'' SuccessionCrisis in Kievan Rus.
317	* [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Dromaeosaurs]] have a sickle-like claw on their feet that allowed them to perform this on prey. One famous fossil has a ''Velociraptor'' with its claw embedded in the throat area of a ''Protoceratops''.
318	* While the main purpose of a garotte is strangulation, depending on the material it's entirely plausible for the cord to slice through the throat of the victim and sever the carotid and jugular, resulting in not only being strangled to death but death from exsanguination ([[OffWithHisHead if not outright decapitation]]).
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