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15->''"There is no need to say anything more... The first thing I shall incinerate '''is your tongue.'''"''
16-->-- '''[[ColonelBadass Colonel]] [[YouKilledMyFather Roy]] [[KillItWithFire Mustang]]''', ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''
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20The tongue, like the [[{{Fingore}} hands]] and [[AgonyOfTheFeet feet]], is a highly innervated area of the body, and also has an extremely rich blood supply, as to be expected of one of the body's sensory organs. For obvious reasons, injuries inflicted on it [[ThisIsGonnaSuck are gonna hurt.]]
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22Thus, this trope encompasses damage done to the tongue of any kind, including the following:
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24* Someone's tongue getting burnt.
25* Someone biting their own tongue. Bonus points if they intend to to commit TongueSuicide this way. Can be played for comedy if it done accidentally.
26* Someone biting someone else's tongue.
27* Someone ''tearing out'' someone else's tongue.
28* Someone's tongue getting cut off.
29* Someone's tongue getting stabbed.
30* Someone having a really nasty looking piercing on their tongue.
31* Someone ''eats'' their own tongue.
32* Someone eats someone else's tongue. Bonus points if they are [[ForceFeeding force fed]] one.
33* Someone's tongue gets sliced with a knife.
34* Someone's tongue [[TongueOnTheFlagpole getting stuck on extremely cold metal]].
35* Someone's tongue [[CartoonThrobbing comedically throbbing]].
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37Naturally with this trope, you may expect NauseaFuel and/or NightmareFuel.
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39It overlaps with AttackTheMouth if done deliberately.
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41A SisterTrope of EyeScream, and {{Fingore}}.
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43Compare OverlyLongTongue.
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45Unrelated to TongueTwister unless we're being ''literal''.
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53* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygLC54xt8Nw A Dairy Queen commercial]] has a man getting his tongue caught in a mixer while attempting to lick dough off of it.
54* An A1 steak sauce commercial had a guy cooking steak and spilling a drop of the sauce on the grill. Apparently, the sauce is so delicious that [[TooDumbToLive he attempts to lick that single drop off the searing hot grill]] and it {{Smash Cut}}s to him being loaded into an ambulance, asking if his steak is okay with a bandaged tongue.
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58* Played for laughs in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', with [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Oluo]] being prone to biting his tongue whenever he attempts to ride on horseback and speak at the same time. It serves as a sort of instant karma, as it usually occurs when he's running his mouth.
59** Also played straight in ancient Eldian history: the Eldians cut out the tongues of people they have captured and enslaved. This included Ymir, the girl who would become the very first Titan.
60* Happens in the second ''[[Manga/BakiTheGrappler Baki the Grappler]]'' series, during the fight between Muhammad Ali Jr. and Jack Hammer. Ali, already heavily beaten, makes the mistake of taunting Hammer by opening his mouth wide and sticking out his tongue. Hammer responds by punching him in the face, causing Ali's tongue to get almost sliced in half by his own teeth. Ali later ends up getting tongue surgery and still finds it hard to speak afterwards.
61* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': When Guts and the Hawks come to rescue Griffith at Wyndham Tower a year after his capture and torture by the King of Midland we see that he is physically crippled with the tendons in his wrists and ankles severed and his tongue cut out. Guts then proceeds to tear out the torturer's tongue on seeing him ''wearing Griffith's tongue'' around his neck - "I'm not letting you go to Hell two-tongued!"
62* Tsuaiji, a minor character from ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'', bites her tongue and dies while being tortured for information about her former lover. It's '''not''' pretty.
63* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
64** While fighting the hollow Shrieker, Ichigo punches through his teeth and rips off the end of his tongue.
65** When Charlotte Chuhlhourne attempts to [[CallingYourAttacks call one of his ridiculous-sounding attacks]] (for the record, all his attack names are more than ten words long), he bites his tongue.
66* One MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Manga/BusoRenkin'' bites his tongue off after he is captured by the heroes. He forgot that homunculi don't die of blood loss.
67* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
68** During the Deep Blood arc, Touma suckers Stiyl into sticking his tongue out, then uppercuts him.
69** Vento of The Front also did this to ''herself'' by attaching a cross on a length of chain to her tongue in addition to her numerous other piercings. It gives her access to an ability called God's Divine Punishment that causes people who feel hostile towards her to be deprived of oxygen. Over the course of the story she has it forcibly ripped out of her tongue twice, once by Touma and once by [[spoiler:a FaceHeelTurn'ed Fiamma.]]
70* In ''Anime/CrossAnge'', when Embryo uses his powers to force Ange to kiss him, she snaps out of it and angrily bites his tongue off and spits it out. He then uses his powers to restore it a few seconds later.
71* [[spoiler:Misa Amane]] in ''Manga/DeathNote'' tries to bite her tongue off because Rem won't kill her, but Watari gags her just before she can do it.
72* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'' the Noah Fiddler has a rather horrible tongue. It seems to be a deadly parasite that he has infected [[spoiler:Lavi and Chaozii]] with. So far, it has been left up to the reader's imagination how [[BodyHorror they]] [[ForceFeeding got]] there.
73* As in the page quote, Roy Mustang of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' promises to incinerate the mouthy [[spoiler:Envy]]'s tongue first. He then suits actions to words.
74-->'''Roy''': It's kind of interesting how quickly the tongue can be rendered to a bubbling grease. It's surprising how easily it burns, isn't it?
75* Played for laughs in ''Literature/{{Gate}}'', Giselle accidentally bits her own tongue when she's running her mouth against Itami, Rory and others after [[spoiler:they killed the Flame Dragon]], much to her indignation and pain.
76* ''Manga/IchiTheKiller'': Kakihara [[SelfHarm punishes himself]] for a transgression by slicing off the tip of his tongue, lampshading the side effects by noting that this means he won't be able to taste sweetness anymore.
77* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': [[MonsterOfTheWeek Tower of Gray's]] signature attack is a chain hookshot that sticks and splits the victim's tongue in half. Interestingly, its master, Gray Fly, also has his tongue automatically split as well upon his defeat.
78** PlayedForLaughs in ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'' after Romeo, Jolyne's ex-boyfriend and professional DirtyCoward, actually helps her out by providing her with his helicopter and purposefully misleading the police on her position. While she's proud of his CharacterDevelopment, she still decides he may be more trouble than he's worth and uses Hermes' Stand to damage his tongue offscreen.
79* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': [[spoiler:While fighting Sukuna, Yuta rips out the tongue from his second mouth to prevent him from chanting.]]
80* ''The Licking Woman'' is a one-shot from famed horror mangaka Creator/JunjiIto, where the titular character is a deranged, insane woman who ''licks'' her victims and poisons them. The main character Miku managed to take down the woman by tricking her into licking Miku's potassium cyanide-coated arm, which cause the woman's entire tongue to swell and bloat, and in a blind attempt to suppress the swelling the licking woman ends up ripping her own tongue out... [[spoiler:only for the severed tongue to gain a life of it's own. It’s vaguely implies that the woman’s tongue isn’t a tongue at all, but some sort of mind-controlling parasite, and that the Licking Woman was actually the same person who gave Miku the potassium cyanide in order to kill herself and be rid of it]].
81* In ''Manga/{{Murcielago}}'', Koumori gets the tip of her tongue split by a sword strike that she doesn't quite dodge enough.
82* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
83** The Bridge saga has a woman threaten this to save her son. The Generic Thugs say they only need one hostage, so they'll kill the boy, but his mother replies that if they do that she'll bite her tongue off and drown in the blood.
84** Naraka Path's form of torture interrogation (pulling out one's tongue and ripping it out when proven lying).
85** Kisame, after being captured, bites his own tongue to get out of any hypnotic state.
86* Comedic example happens in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' where Yue bites her tongue while she was incanting a magic spell when Makie asked her [[spoiler:if she likes Negi]].
87* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
88** A former pirate captain who was about to [[FateWorseThanDeath be sold as a slave]] opted for biting off his own tongue instead. However, he was shown later alive and well, though with a shorter tongue.
89** Later on, [[{{Fanboy}} Bartolomeo]] stabs someone in the tongue for badmouthing Luffy ([[AdaptedOut only in the manga though]]).
90* Wise Yuri, a villain from ''Manga/OPartsHunter'' gets a piercing for every person he has killed, and has at least twenty on his tongue.
91* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': In "The Diet Syndrome", Stocking jams a fork into Chuck's tongue before kicking him a few times for trying to get into her sweets.
92* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'': In "A Connoisseur's Revenge!", while evaluating Ash's Pokémon, Burgundy criticizes his Snivy's scent and sharp eyes, then attempts to lick her to see how she tastes. Snivy is rightfully incensed and Vine Whips Burgundy's tongue, causing her to remark that Snivy also has zero respect for said tongue.
93* A really terrifying example of how this trope can go FromBadToWorse is the Creator/JunjiIto short story ''Slug Girl''. A girl's tongue turns into a living slug (no explanation is given on how that could happen, but then again, it's one of the usual CosmicHorrorStory tendencies of Ito's stories), robbing her of the ability to talk and eat. She cuts the "tongue" off with scissors (yet another painful example), but it grows out again as a slug. As a DownerEnding, [[spoiler:She is put into a bathtub filled with salt in the hope that the slug will be killed by that. It seems to work, but the salt also makes her body shrink into nothing so only her head is left. Her parents pour water on her in the hope that her body will grow back, but it only resurrects the slug. It now becomes a snail, using what's left of the girl (that is, her slightly ShrunkenHead) as a shell. It's strongly implied that the girl is still alive and aware of what's going on, but since she now only exists as a snail shell, [[AndIMustScream all she can do is send sad gazes to all onlookers]]...]]
94* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'':
95** In chapter 79 [[spoiler:Mutsuki is revealed to have a split personality that likes to cut out the tongues of animals and keep them in a jar. One of the things he does to get revenge on Torso involves cutting out his tongue]].
96** Kijima tortures a man by cutting out his tongue when he wouldn't give him information. His reasoning was that if the man wasn't going to speak then he didn't need his tongue.
97* In episode 11 of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', Rosa is [[spoiler:force-fed the remains of her siblings and daughter which includes "a salad made of Eva's tongue".]]
98* In the manga spinoff of ''seitokai no ichizochi'' character named Saionji Tsukushi bites her tongue by accident during her presentation for the president conceil.
99* In chapter 56 of the manga ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' Haguro Dou decides to up his freakiness by [[spoiler:kissing a battered Chiba, taking that opportunity to tear out his tongue, and then rape him. All because Inugami happened to run into him in the street earlier]]. The term [[{{Yandere}} "serious problems"]] doesn't even begin to describe this guy.
100* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Kuwabara's sister Shizuru takes out a demon harassing her by burning his tongue with her cigarette.
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104* In ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', Roque Ja/Rock Jaw cuts out [[spoiler:Kingdok]]'s, leading to a literal [[{{Pun}} "Cat got your tongue?"]]
105* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': A flashback in the ''Dear Becky'' epilogue miniseries published years after the main series ended its run shows Butcher cutting out the tongue of a [[DirtyKid ten-year-old rapist]] (an expy of ComicBook/{{Shazam}} who turns into a FlyingBrick to have his way with women) to prevent him from saying [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull his magic word]].
106* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler:Harley bites off the Joker's tongue and spits it out in front of him. It doesn't affect his ability to speak]].
107* ''ComicBook/DungeonTwilight'': Marvin use is race power that gives him an ability in exchange of losing one deliberately like this. He rips his tongue off to gain wings and rips his wings to grow his tongue back.
108* [[DeadlyDoctor Murmur]], one of the newer members of ''Franchise/TheFlash's'' RoguesGallery, is a SerialKiller whose M.O. consists of cutting out his victims' tongues and sewing their lips shut, because he believes this to be the best way to silence the voices that only he can hear. [[spoiler:He doesn't exclude himself from this treatment.]]
109* In ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', Mongul II rips off Akrillo's tongue. ''Much'' later, Saint Walker heals it.
110* Pictured above, [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]], who does this to himself during "Batman R.I.P." in ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison''.
111* In ''ComicBook/PrinceOfPersiaTheGraphicNovel'', the Committee on Dangers Past, Present and Future rounds up suspicious persons and punishes them by slicing off their tongues. The severed tongues fill up a bucket.
112* In ''ComicBook/RobynHood: The Hunt'' #6, Robyn puts an arrow through the OverlyLongTongue of one of her attackers.
113* ''ComicBook/XMen'' villain Toad has a long, prehensile tongue as one of his mutations. Sometimes, he uses it to catch insects or as an [[CombatTentacles extra limb]] in combat; sometimes it gets [[CursedWithAwesome grabbed, sliced, electrocuted, or slammed in car doors.]]
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117* ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates'': The event itself is not depicted, but the reason why Big Stoop is [[TheVoiceless mute]] is that he was once a servant of the Dragon Lady; she cut out his tongue when he was young, earning his hatred.
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123* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fanfiction ''[[Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon Abraxas]]'': In Chapter 16, [[TranshumanAbomination Vivienne]] rips apart [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures MaNi's]] tongue and the inside of his mouth while saving San. The damage doesn't stick due to [=MaNi=] having a similar HealingFactor to [[FromASingleCell Ghidorah]], but still...
124* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/CheerileesGarden'': Cheerilee has some fun with this when, in the first chapter, she uses a machine to rip apart [[spoiler:Silver Spoon's]] tongue, and then later in Scarlet Harvest, Part 2 when she causes [[spoiler:Applejack]] to bite off her own tongue. [[spoiler:Even Twilight gets into this at the end when she finally is able to punish Cheerilee and does so by pulling out her tongue with her magic, among other things.]]
125* In the infamous ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' DarkFic ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'' Pinkie said she [[spoiler:had to cut off Gilda's tongue after she mouthed off to her.]]
126* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/DenTaePhobia'': Tae-Young lies about biting his tongue to cover up the fact that his tooth hurts.
127* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'': The monster in Lily's nightmare has pus coming out of his tongue.
128* ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/PastSins'': ''Glimpses'': "Fury": A combatant's mouth was forced to close, which created something loose in her mouth:
129--> It was the tip of her tongue, cut clean off by her own teeth.
130* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4572273/1/Purple Purple]]'' (by kodak-85): Naruto bites down hard on Sasuke's tongue to get the latter to stop kissing him.
131* ''Fanfic/ReBoundRWBY'': Neo's muteness has nothing to do with a vocal cord injury. It's because someone cut out her tongue.
132* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/SpottedleafsPlot'': Spottedleaf tears out Ashfur's tongue.
133* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Invoked by Haara whenever she uses ''disguise self'' to infiltrate a culture where she doesn't speak the language; she always severs the tongue from her illusory appearance, to justify her inability to answer if anyone attempts to talk to her.
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137* In ''Fanfic/BoopTheSnootForCriticalDamage'', Handsome Jack has Jacques Schnee's tongue ripped out as payback for lying and double-crossing him.
138* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': From ''Time Flies'', Ami, noticed that "[[spoiler:Jadeite]], who was sitting across the table from her, had winced while chewing, she put down her own sandwich in concern. “Do the burns still give you trouble?”". After a segment musing on how caring his new boss is, compared to his old BadBoss, he responds:
139--> “If you must know, I bit my tongue.”
140* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' / ''Series/DoctorWho'' crossover fic "Fanfic/MinesOfDragonMountain" a saboteur from a race known as the Grundels is captured. Upon delivering a warning to the magnate whose mine he was attacking [[spoiler:the Grundel gruesomely bites off his own tongue and chokes to death on it.]]
141* In the ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' fanfic ''Murderer's Row'', [[spoiler:O'Malley]] has a chunk of his tongue bitten off by [[spoiler:Donut]] after he tries to force a kiss.
142* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': During one of Kyril's [[{{Gorn}} killing sprees]] in Chapter 4 of the original, a {{mook}} has his [[EyeScream eyes]] and tongue taken by the Hunter [[TearOffYourFace shoving his hand into his face]].
143* ''Fanfic/QueenOfShadows'': Multiple:
144** As one of their many punishments for their dishonor, [[NobleDemon Ikazuki]] has the tongues of the human samurai who [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves sold out to him]] all removed.
145** Shendu apparently had the tongue of the slave girl who scrubs his scales in the bath removed so she wouldn't make noise while doing her job.
146* Louise has some fun with [[spoiler:Ffon]] in ''Fanfic/StarWarsTheSithZero'', and ends up burning his tongue out a la FullMetal Alchemist Roy Mustang.
147* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fanfic titled "Stolen" by [=SekushiAi=] a psychopath presses a scalpel to Light's tongue, cutting it open. And then he pours some liquid which contains ''vinegar'' into Light's mouth right afterwards. Brutal.
148* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6006036/1/The-Sword-of-Damocles The Sword of Damocles]] the Joker's OnlySaneEmployee Ballard mentions that after a {{Mook}} criticized his plan, the Joker [[DisproportionateRetribution sawed the guy's tongue out, threw it to the stray cats outside, and kicked him as he choked to death on his own blood.]] While making a pun about cats having his tongue.
149* In "Walk the Shadows", a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [=jharad17=] after Harry pisses off Nott, a Death Eater, Nott responds by casting a spell which damages his [[EyeScream eyes]] and removes his tongue.
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153* In ''Film/AgainstACrookedSky'', the aptly named Cut Tongue used to be a member of the Crooked Sky tribe, until his tongue was cut out by his rival for the position of chief, and he was LeftForDead in the desert.
154* During the climax of Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', the Jabberwock's tongue gets cut off by Alice just right before their battle... which is a shame, since it was voiced by Creator/ChristopherLee.
155* Invoked in ''Film/AlienResurrection''; after joining up with the pirates, Ripley tears out the tongue of a recently-killed xenomorph with her bare hand and presents it to Call.
156* ''Film/AngryWhiteMan'': While in the washroom, waiting for his turn at singing, [[TheProtagonist Skeeter]] slips and falls, biting his tongue when he crashes. In doing so, he rendered himself unable to sing properly, so [[spoiler:Maxine decides to sing in his stead]].
157* In ''Film/{{Audition}}'', there is evidence that this may be the ''least'' horrible thing Asami does to her boyfriends. Her ex got his tongue cut out and Aoyama got an injection of something paralytic under ''his'' tongue.
158* One of the first sign that something ''very wrong'' happened in ''Film/TheAutopsyOfJaneDoe'' is when the two coroners discover that Jane Doe's tongue has been torn off.
159* Creator/HerschellGordonLewis's ''Film/BloodFeast,'' features one kill in which the killer pulls a young woman's tongue out, leaving an excessively bloody mess.
160* ''Film/CannibalTheMusical'': In the FakeOutOpening, Alfred kills one of his men by ripping his tongue out and eats it.
161* ''Film/AChristmasStory'': one of the boys goes through with a triple-dog-dare to lick a lamppost during winter, with catastrophic results.
162* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': When the group finds Chiara in a hay cocoon in the attic, they deduce she had her tongue removed... because they see it in a mason jar full of water. [[spoiler:It's actually a prop.]]
163* ''Film/TheClimax'': After kidnapping Angela from the theatre, Dr. Hohner takes a scalpel and is preparing to cut out her tongue when Luise intervenes.
164* ''Film/ClownMotel'': Casey gets her tongue ripped out by one of the clowns in the mine.
165* In ''Film/DeadSilence'', Mary Shaw's prime method of killing is ripping out her victims' tongues.
166* In ''Film/TheDentist'' Dr. Alan Feinstone, the crazed titular dentist, spots his wife Brooke [[CheatingWithTheMilkman having sex with the pool boy]]. He decides to punish her by cutting off her tongue. She survives for the sequel, but she's left mute for life.
167* Discussed in ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', where Stephen mentions that "one word of sass" from the slaves at the [=LeQuint=] Dickey Mining Company gets their tongues cut out. They're good at it, too, so the poor saps don't even get the mercy of bleeding out.
168* In ''Film/DrGiggles'', Dianne is killed when Dr. Giggles shoves a sharpened thermometer through the base of her tongue. And onward.
169* In ''Film/EasternPromises'' Nikolai puts out a cigarette on his own tongue. It doesn't faze him at all, but it was traumatic enough to show up on the Parents Guide on IMDB.
170* The opening massacre of ''Film/EbolaSyndrome'' concludes with the villain, Kai, having killed his ex-boss after being caught having an affair, snipping off the mistress' tongue with a pair of scissors. Accompanied by a small geyser of red sauce. It's on the film's [[NightmareFuel/EbolaSyndrome Nightmare Fuel subpage]].
171* ''Film/EdenLake'': After capturing Steve, Brett orders Cooper to cut his tongue. Cooper doesn't quite manage it, but does severely mangle Steve tongue.
172* ''Film/Emperor2020'': The first person to help Shields is a slave who had his tongue cut out because of how talkative he was.
173* In the ''Film/EvilDead2013'' remake, Mia slices her tongue in half before [[ForcefulKiss forcibly kissing]] her brother's girlfriend, Natalie. [[FanDisservice It is the least sexiest thing ever.]]
174* ''Film/TheFinal'': After Riggs opens his big mouth once too often, Dane orders his tongue to cut out. Jack seizes the tongue with a pair of tongs, and Andy prepares to cut it out with a knife. [[spoiler:Riggs is saved by the return of Kurtis.]]
175* Discussed in ''Film/Frankenstein1970''. Victor keeps making veiled threats to Gottfried about what happened to an overly inquisitive commandant at Belsen. He eventually reveals that the commandant disappeared for several days and, when his body was found, his tongue had been cut out.
176* In ''Film/TheGoonies'', Mama Fratelli threatens to sever Mouth's tongue.
177* In ''Film/HalloweenEnds'', [[spoiler:Corey kills the DJ by smashing his head repeatedly into his equipment, resulting in his jaw becoming unhinged and his tongue flopping loose. He cuts off the tongue with a pair of scissors before finishing him off, and the tongue falls on the record player, causing the song playing to skip.]]
178* In ''Film/TheHazing'', Roy bites off his own tongue after Professor Kapps transforms it into an OverlyLongTongue with [[OrganAutonomy a mind of its own]].
179* In ''Film/IchiTheKiller'', protagonist Kakihara slices off the tip of his own tongue. Being a masochist he enjoys it immensely.
180* ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'': In a revenge kill, Jennifer puts lye in a bathtub one of her rapists is suspended over and lets him fall in. Cue his face burning off, including his [[EyeScream eyes]], and his tongue.
181* In ''Film/JeepersCreepers'', the Creeper uses his teeth to remove the tongue from a cop's [[OffWithHisHead severed head]].
182* In ''Film/JohnDoeVigilante'', members of the [=S4D=] movement start attacking the lawyers who had defended John Doe's targets. In at least one case, they cut out the lawyer's tongue.
183* In ''Film/JuliaX'', Jessica seizes Sam's tongue in a pair of pincers and is about to rip it out when Julia stops her.
184* In ''Film/KillBill'', The Bride bites a rapist's tongue when he tries to French Kiss her.
185* ''Film/KingKong2005'': King Kong rips out an attacking T Rex's tongue with his teeth.
186* In ''Film/MarkOfTheDevil'', an accused witch has her tongue pulled out with crocodile shears.
187* In ''Film/TheMidnightMeatTrain'', Bradley Cooper's character gets his tongue ripped off by another character's teeth.
188* ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'': [[spoiler:After she's paralyzed, Maggie tries to commit suicide by biting through her tongue.]]
189* ''Film/MirrorMirror1990'': After murdering Kim in the bathroom, Megan cuts her tongue out with a shard of broken mirror.
190* In ''Film/{{Mohawk}}'', Colonel Holt forces his son Myles to pour boiling water into Calvin's mouth as part of his ColdBloodedTorture.
191* Kharis's tongue was cut before he was wrapped in shrouds and entombed alive in ''Film/TheMummy1959''.
192* In ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'', Imhotep has his tongue cut out among other things before he is BuriedAlive. Imhotep also cuts someone else's tongue and keeps it for himself after he resurrects.
193* In ''Film/NeverGrowOld'', Dutch's henchman Dumb-Dumb [[TheSpeechless can't speak]] because his tongue was cut out by a Cherokee.
194* In ''Film/Oldboy2003'', Dae-su cuts out [[spoiler:his own]] tongue with scissors.
195* In ''Film/PacificRim'', Gipsy "disarms" Otachi's acid-spewing ability by ripping out her tongue and associated gland.
196* In ''Film/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs'', it is explained that the owners of the house preferred to cut off / out the "bad parts" of their children and lock them in the basement. In at least one case, the "bad part" was the kid's tongue.
197* In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1998'', the laundry woman Paulette loses her tongue because of the Phantom biting it off.
198* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
199** Cotton has had his tongue cut out and trained his parrot to talk for him. "[[LampshadeHanging No one's yet figured how]]."
200** One of the Pirate Lords named Gentleman Jocard is infamous for doing this to his enemies and demonstrates it when he is so displeased with Barbossa that he shouts for someone to cut out his tongue. Jack Sparrow gleefully encourages doing this to his mortal enemy. "Shoot him. Cut out his tongue. [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs And shoot his tongue]]."
201* In ''Film/ThePitAndThePendulum1991'', Torquemada cuts out Maria's tongue with a pair of shears so she can tell no one of his impotence.
202* In ''Film/RatRace'', Randall Pear has a heated up car cigarette lighter fall into his mouth.
203** Blaine has already endured this as he shows off his tongue piercing which he did himself.
204* ''Film/ResidentEvil2002''. When the mutated experiment shoots out its tongue at Alice in the train car, she stabs the tongue with a pipe, pinning it to the grating. Later the experiment falls through the hole in the floor and the door is closed, cutting off part of its tongue.
205* In ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', Robin is subjected to the [[ColdBloodedTorture "tongue looseners"]] -- a pair of pliers which seize his tongue and stretch it out a good foot. It snaps back into his mouth when released.
206** One of Don Giovanni's men had his tongue cut out. Why? He was making a funny face.
207* In ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' the Sherrif threatens to cut out Will Scarlet's tongue. [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon This is one of his more plausable threats]].
208* In ''Film/{{Rovdyr}}'', Roger, Camilla and Jorgen find one of the hunters' previous victims strung up on a tree. The AlmostDeadGuy has had his tongue cut out.
209* A PlayedForLaughs example is featured in ''Film/ScaryMovie'', where Cindy kisses Bobby and gets her tongue tied up with his.
210* The "Sloth" victim from ''Film/Se7en'' bit off and ate his own tongue--due to muscle spasms, because he was [[AutoCannibalism desperate for solid food]] after months of intravenous sustenance, or simply as an [[TongueSuicide attempt to commit suicide]].
211* ''Film/TheSilence2019'': The Hushed cult have cut out their own tongues to avoid speech that can draw the monsters infesting the world. [[WouldHurtAChild Even children are not exempt]].
212* In ''Film/SilentTongue'', the title character had her tongue cut out for lying to the headman.
213* In ''Film/Snatched2017'', retired special ops agent Barb has cut out her own tongue to prevent herself from being interrogated. When Emily asks, "Couldn't they just torture her into writing down the information?" her partner Ruth stares awkwardly for a few seconds before changing the subject.
214* ''Film/SpeakNoEvil'' plays this trope ''for horror''. Patrick and Karin's son, Abel, is incapable of speech and appears to be attempting to communicate with Bjorn and Louisa; when enquired, Patrick claims that his son has congenital aglossia (born with a tongue defect). [[spoiler:Turns out that's not the case, Abel isn't the biological child of Patrick and Karin, he's abducted after the couple killed his ''biological'' family and severed his tongue, forcing Abel to play along as their fake son to lure other families to their doom. A further EvidenceDungeon scene reveals Abel to be the 50th-ish or so child victims whose families were killed by Patrick and Karin, before having their tongues cut and forced to pose as the two murderers' children]].
215* In ''Film/Spiral2021,'' the opening trap involves a DirtyCop who lied under oath having to either rip out his own tongue or be hit by an oncoming subway train. After much struggling, agony, and BloodFromTheMouth, he finally succeeds, only to be hit by the train anyway, screaming as he disappears in a shower of gore.
216* ''Film/{{Tamara}}'': Under Tamara's control, Roger cuts out his own tongue.
217* In ''Film/TenDeadMen'', Ryan cuts out Bruiser's tongue with a piece of broken glass and keeps it as a CreepySouvenir.
218* The most persistent Graboid in ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' is nicknamed Stumpy because one of its three grasping tongues got torn off when it first tried to eat Val and Earl's pickup truck. The ripped-off tongue is mistaken for a snake-like mutation when it's found tangled around their axle, and is bought by Walter for $15. We don't see how Stumpy reacted to it, but another Graboid gets one of its tongues blown off by Heather Grummer shooting it repeatedly with a shotgun to save her husband Burt, and it briefly stops attacking them to jerk its head up and smash through their basement ceiling with a loud scream.
219* The newest version of ''Film/TrueGrit'' has [[spoiler:the Texas Ranger bite his own tongue while being dragged behind a horse.]] It only results in him talking funny for the remainder of the film.
220* ''Film/TruthOrDare2018'': In an effort to return Calux whence he came, [[spoiler:Carter starts cutting his own tongue out (the same as Inez had done during the original game). He his killed when he is part way through]].
221* TheEighties schlock-fest ''Film/TruthOrDareACriticalMadness'' has an early scene in which the protagonist is dared to cut his own tongue out, which he promptly does. Later, he is able to talk normally after work with a speech therapist. Seriously.
222* The first thing The ''Film/{{Warlock|1989}}'' does in the movie of the same name is bite some poor shmuck's tongue off and make an omelet of it.
223* Freddy gets a knife through his extra-long tongue in a scene from ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare''.
224* ''Film/{{Winterskin}}'': Near the end of the movie, Agnes cuts [[spoiler:Pete]]'s tongue off and [[ImAHumanitarian eats it]].
225* ''Film/Wishmaster4TheProphecyFulfilled'': The Djinn uses his powers to force someone over the phone to rip out his own tongue.
226* ''Film/WrongTurn4BloodyBeginnings'': Kyle has his tongue cut out by the cannibals.
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230* In at least two ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebooks, ''Literature/TrialOfChampions'' and ''Literature/TheCrimsonTide'', you will have to fight the massive, fleshy tongue of some unknown monster that sticks out of the mouth of a face-shaped doorway. Said tongues can constrict and throttle you in an attempt to kill you, but their stats are both quite low and slinks away upon being slashed enough times.
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234* Myth/KingArthur was in Merlin's laboratory where the great wizard was showing him his latest creation. It was a chastity belt, except it had a rather large hole in the most obvious place which made it useless. "This is no good, Merlin!" the King exclaimed, "Look at this opening. How is this supposed to protect my lady, the Queen, when I'm on a long quest?" "Ah, sire, just observe," said Merlin. He then selected his most worn out wand, one that he was going to discard anyway. He inserted it in the gaping aperture of the chastity belt whereupon a small guillotine blade came down and cut it neatly in two. "Merlin, you are a genius!" said the grateful monarch. "Now I can leave, knowing that my Queen is fully protected." After putting Guinevere in the device, King Arthur then set out upon a lengthy Quest. Several years passed until he returned to Camelot. Immediately he assembled all of his knights in the courtyard and had them drop their trousers for an informal 'short arm' inspection. Sure enough, each and every one of them was either amputated or damaged in some way. All of them, except Sir Galahad. "Sir Galahad," exclaimed King Arthur. "You are my one and only true knight! Only you among all the nobles have been true to me. What is it in my power to grant you? Name it and it is yours." But, alas, Sir Galahad was speechless.
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238* In the ''Literature/AlexRider'' story "Stormbreaker", Mr Grin is a former circus performer who's signature trick was catching a knife between his teeth as part of a KnifeThrowingAct. The trick went horribly wrong one night, and he was left with an injured tongue, difficulty speaking, and a GlasgowGrin.
239* In ''Literature/TheAnubisGates'' by Creator/TimPowers, Dog Faced Joe chews up the tongue of his current body before abandoning it and [[BodySurf possessing a new one]].
240* The Bird Woman tears out Spider's tongue in ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' after she gets tired of him trying to talk his way out.
241* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': In Ourdh it's common for slaves to have their tongues removed-"muted" as they call it.
242* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', a male corpse is discovered. As he is half-naked, they first suspect that he was overdosed with date-rape drugs, but then someone notices a trace of blood coming from his mouth - his tongue has been cut, with the intent to silence him, but so badly that he died from it.
243* In ''Literature/DaggerStar'' by Elizabeth Vaughan, Ezren the Storyteller was MadeASlave, and his cruel master cut off his tongue. The heroes rescue him and restore his tongue with a healing spell. After getting his tongue back, he complains that his voice doesn't sound as good as it used to be. Since the heroes have never heard his original voice, they can only take his word on this.
244* Occurs during the demise of [[spoiler:Randall Flagg]] near the end of ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series.
245 * The Romanian fairy tale [[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/016.htm The Death of the Sun-Hero]] features the titular Sun-Hero getting his tongue ripped out by a crab, resulting in his death.
246* In ''[[Literature/TheDinosaurLords The Dinosaur Princess]]'', the evil Duke Falk von Hornberg tries to prevent the escape of Duke Karyl Borgomirsky and Baron Rob Korrigan. Karyl may possibly be the WorldsBestWarrior and engages Falk in a sword battle. Karyl easily strikes past Falk's guard and stabs through an opening in Falk's helmet. Which happens to be the mouth and Karyl's sword ends up severing Falk's tongue.
247* Nicodemus's human followers in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' have had their tongues removed as part of their initiation in order to encourage secrecy and isolation. During ''Literature/SkinGame'', we learn that Deirdre (his daughter) does it to them with her Denarian form, while in the middle of a kiss.
248** Additionally, during ''{{Literature/Changes}}'', Susan grabs a Red Court Vampire by the tongue in its true bat-monster form, and then rips said tongue right out with her bare hands.
249* The poet Malfont in Edmund Spenser's ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' has his tongue nailed to a post for criticizing Queen Mercilla (who, like most of the female figures in the poem, is reminiscent of Elizabeth I). This is often read as either Spenser setting himself apart from seditious poets (he had been in trouble in the past for writing poetry critical of the Queen) or a critique of state censorship.
250* The protagonist of ''Literature/FightClub'' challenges a club to fights at the end of the book, and bites off half his tongue when hit with an uppercut.
251* ''Literature/{{Gatling}}'': In ''Outlaw Empire'', the attorney Metcalf has his tongue pulled out by the roots by members of the Sydney Ducks because he knows too much.
252* In ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'', this is part of [[SerialKiller Xue Yang]]'s MO. He removes the tongues of his living victims so they can't reveal they're actually human when he tricks his blind nemesis into [[MurderByMistake killing them under the assumption that they're dangerous zombies]]. It doubles in his favour when one of his victims comes back as a VengefulGhost, as she can't verbally ask anyone for help.
253* ''Literature/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids'': In ''The Barber of Civil'', [[spoiler:the barber cuts off tongues of naughty children. The tongues are still squirming inside a jar in which he keeps.]]
254* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' (which takes place in a futuristic dystopia) criminals have their tongues cut out and become Avoxes.
255* The High Priest [[AmbiguousGender (Priestess?)]] from the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' had part of their tongue cut out as part of a self-mutilation ritual. However, that's barely noticeable considering that they're also missing all four limbs.
256%%* The Ritual of Chüd in Stephen King's ''Literature/{{IT}}''.
257* ''Literature/JamesBond''
258** In ''Literature/NoDealsMrBond'', former operatives from a HoneyTrap mission are being killed and their bodies are found with their tongues surgically removed. In the climax, this threatens to happen to several of them when they are still alive.
259** Before he started to work for Dr. Gorner, Chagrin in ''Literature/DevilMayCare'' worked with Viet Minh in Indo-China, where he went around ripping off the tongues of the priests sent there by the French with pliers (the children who listened to their preaching got [[EarAche something else]]). He continues doing so in his current employment to remind people to keep their mouths shut.
260* The adult ''Tyrannosaurus'' in ''Literature/JurassicPark'' finally falls asleep from the tranquilizer that hit it an hour as it's about to pull Tim into its mouth using a [[OverlyLongTongue long, prehensile tongue]]. As it gets knocked out, it clamps down on its tongue unconsciously, causing severe bleeding from biting itself with its huge teeth.
261* ''Literature/TheLiesOfTheAjungo'': The people of Tutu's hometown, the City of Lies, made a deal with the Ajungo for water in exchange for the tongues of its people. So those who turn thirteen have their tongues cut out, leaving them all mute.
262* The original fairy tale of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' has the sea witch cut off the mermaid's tongue as payment for the human legs. It's given a MythologyGag in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' when Ursula takes Ariel's voice purely by magic, without harming her physical tongue...but ''does'' throw a tongue into the cauldron, [[FridgeHorror presumably from someone/something else.]]
263* ''Literature/AMasterOfDjinn'': The djinn Siwa is [[{{Geas}} forced to]] repeatedly cut off his own tongue when he gets asked any question about Al-Jahiz, so he can't answer it (but gets around this by other means).
264* ''Literature/Mermaid2011'' is a retelling of ''The Little Mermaid'' that includes the tongue-cutting scene.
265* ''Literature/TheMermaidsDaughter'': Fand, also known as the Little Mermaid, gave up her tongue so she could take on human form. Her descendants have intact tongues, but they all feel bursts of horrible pain in their mouths. It's the payment for being a mermaid who lives on land.
266* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/MethuselahsChildren''. When a member of the Howard Families is taken captive, he bites his own tongue almost in half so he can't be forced to tell the truth about the Families' secrets.
267* In the short story "The Midnight Meat Train" by Creator/CliveBarker, the protagonist Leon Kaufman gets his tongue ripped out and then ''eaten in front of him'' by one of the Elders in order to ensure he stays silent about his new job as their butcher.
268* ''Literature/OliverTwisted'': The Sowerberrys plan to cut off Oliver's tongue to get a reaction out of him, but they are interrupted before they could do so.
269* ''Literature/TheOriginOfLaughingJack'': Isaac's mouth bleeds from injuries to the tongue twice.
270** Isaac attempts a ForcefulKiss on the woman he picked up from the bar, but as she wants nothing to do with his sexual advances, she bites his tongue with all her might before trying to escape.
271** Isaac yells insultingly at Laughing Jack for nailing him to the torture bed, to which the clown replies, "If you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all!" before stretching out Isaac's tongue and slicing it off with a knife.
272* In Creator/TedDekker's ''Literature/ThePriestsGraveyard'', Danny Hansen drugs a man into unconsciousness and cuts out a piece of tongue before deciding that the man didn't didn't deserve to live on even like that and kills him anyway.
273* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': In volume 9, Ursule Valois becomes so enraged fighting Oliver towards the end of their match that she accidentally bites her own tongue off, leaving her TheUnintelligible for the remainder of the fight.
274* In ''Literature/TheRomanMysteries'', [[StreetUrchin Lupus]] had his tongue cut out before the stories start.
275* In ''Literature/SewerGasAndElectric'', a corporate raider who'd claimed he could even get rich selling pencils from a cup is forced to prove it by the BigBad. He's kidnapped, dressed like a bum, has an explosive collar fitted around his neck, and left in a train station with a cup full of pencils to try to earn enough cash to unlock the collar before it blows. To ensure he can't explain the situation, his tongue is stapled so he can't speak coherently.
276* Happens off-page in ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', where an imprisoned Hannibal Lecter somehow talks his fellow inmate, "Multiple" Miggs, into committing suicide by swallowing his own tongue. Lecter is very mad at Miggs for acting inappropriately around Clarice. There is also mention made of a past incident of Lecter attacking a nurse and eating her tongue, among other damage.
277* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
278** Ser Ilyn Payne had his tongue ripped out with hot pincers as punishment for making a joke about [[TheCaligula King Aerys II]].
279** The trope is lampshaded frequently -- Tyrion advices Cersei not to tear out the tongues of those spreading rumors of her BrotherSisterIncest because all it does is convince people that the tongueless people had something important to say.
280** The Silent Sisters supposedly have their tongues removed, but a septon points out this is an UrbanLegend, as the Sisters take a vow of silence -- such a vow would be meaningless if they weren't able to talk.
281** Roose Bolton cut out the tongue of Grunt, one of his men-at-arms, because he talked careless within his earshot. Roose also did the same to the brother of the woman who bore him Ramsay, to silence him from discussing Ramsay's parentage.
282** It is hinted that [[EnfantTerrible Varys' little birds]] had their tongues mutilated to prevent them from spilling secrets, even under torture.
283** In the preview chapters of ''The Winds of Winter'', Falia Flowers has her tongue cut out by Euron Greyjoy and is tied naked to the prow of ''Silence'', a galley populated by tongueless people.
284** Shrike, a priest of the Drowned God, led a rebellion against King Harmund II Hoare of the Iron Islands, who was raised in the Faith of the Seven. Deciding that he had committed blasphemy, he cut out his tongue "so he may never again speak lies and blasphemies". The king he installed, Hagon the Heartless, who happened to be Harmund's brother, approved for [[AntagonisticOffspring their mother, Lelia Lannister]], to be gruesomely mutilated, losing not only her tongue but also her lips, ears, and eyelids. Eventually, Hagon was deposed, and before his execution, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he was forced to suffer the same fate as his mother did]].
285** During Aegon's Conquest, Marla Sunderland tried to take the advantage of the chaos in the Vale by crowning herself Queen of the Three Sisters, an island chain between the Vale and the North. However, after Aegon sent Torrhen Stark to pacify the islands, Marla's brother Steffon chose to bend the knee while Marla was exiled and had her tongue cut, before spending the rest of her days as a Silent Sister.
286** It was rumored that Maegor I ordered the tongue of his first wife, Ceryse Hightower, cut after she did something to offend him. When she was restrained, however, she struggled and her executioner accidentally slashed her throat, killing her.
287** For loudly bringing up the question about the parentage of Rhaenyra Targaryen's three eldest children, Vaemond Velaryon was executed and fed to Rhaenyra's dragon, Syrax, while his wife, sons, and cousins all had their tongues removed under the orders of [[PapaWolf Rhaenyra's father, Viserys I]].
288** Sandoq the Shadow, an ex-slave in service to Larra Rogare, the Lysene consort of Viserys II, was lipless and tongueless. Suffice to say, his presence unnerved everyone in the court.
289* ''Literature/SplitHeirs'': Mungli lost most of her tongue to her lover's senior wife, who cast a spell on her after she'd insulted her.
290* In Terry Goodkind's ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series of novels, the hero Richard kicks a sadistic little princess on the chin hard enough to smash most of her teeth and sever her tongue completely. Normally you don't condone child abuse, but she had it coming. She gets better.
291* The Japanese fairy tale [[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/sparrow.html The Tongue-Cut Sparrow]] features the wicked wife of a kindly old man cutting off a sparrow's tongue.
292* In ''Literature/{{Triptych}}'', set in Atlanta, Georgia, the detectives are hunting a killer who bites out his victims' tongues.
293* ''Literature/TwelveDays'': During his fatal convulsions, Fiodor Nabokov bites off his tongue.
294* Ellen James in ''Literature/TheWorldAccordingToGarp'' had her tongue cut out by rapists to prevent her from identifying them. They didn't take into account that she could still write.
295** Some of her supporters cut their own tongues out in solidarity.
296* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': In ''Forest of Secrets'', in the battle against Tigerclaw's rogues, Graystripe gets a scratched tongue that won't stop bleeding. The medicine cat apprentice doesn't know what to do for it, so she sends Fireheart to fetch her mentor.
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300* In ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'', a criminal tries to run from a cop, but ends up falling into a sewer hole and hits his lower jaw on the way down, causing him to bite his own tongue off and die of a broken neck.
301* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
302** Defied in "[[Recap/AngelS03E15Loyalty Loyalty]]". When Wesley turns up alone at Holtz's hideout, one of his {{mooks}} suggests cutting out his tongue as a message to Angel. Wesley punches him in the throat. "Or perhaps you could lie on the floor and gag for a while."
303** In "[[Recap/AngelS04E20Sacrifice Sacrifice]]", a demon cuts up several people, including a few vampires, to make a mural from their body parts. As the vampires haven't been staked or beheaded, [[AndIMustScream they are still alive]]. One of the vampires begs to be put out of his misery, but the demon rips his tongue out of his mouth to get him to shut up.
304* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': In "[[Recap/TheBoysS03E02TheOnlyManInTheSky The Only Man In The Sky]]" Stormfront killed herself by biting through her tongue.
305* ''{{Series/CSI}}'': A human trafficking victim had her tongue cut out in one episode. It’s tough for Morgan to see and harder to get any information from the girl.
306* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had two instances of this.
307** In the season 4 premiere, "Can You Hear Me Now?", the perp cuts one of his victims' tongue out for not reporting a crime he'd witnessed. Mac is visibly shaken when telling Stella the man died after being taken to the hospital.
308** In the second part of the season 8 crossover with ''Series/{{CSI}}'', "Seth and Apep," when his girlfriend is kidnapped, a tongue is sent to Mac at the precinct. Thinking it's hers, he gets the same look on his face.
309* An episode of ''Series/TheEricAndreShow'' had him shear off the tip of his tongue for seemingly no reason.
310* [[DiscussedTrope Talked about]] in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "[[Recap/FireflyE03Bushwhacked Bushwhacked]]". The Alliance personnel inform Mal that this happened to the guy who the crew pulled off the converted freighter, assuming that they had done that prior to being caught. As we later see, [[FromBadToWorse that was just where it started]]. [[spoiler:He did it all to himself. Yes, ''all of it.'']]
311* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
312** Khal Drogo slices an adversary's throat and rips out his tongue through the hole. Sort of a Dothraki version of a Columbian Necktie.
313** Later in the season, Joffrey forces a bard to replay a satirical song about Robert and Cersei he'd been heard singing in a pub. He then asks the bard if a man's tongues or fingers are more important. When the bard answers fingers, Joffrey order Ser Ilyn to rip out his tongue -- which happens right there, in the middle of court, while everyone tries very hard to look the other way.
314** It is said that Euron cut out the tongues of his crew.
315* In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', Larys Strong has the tongues of the criminals he recruits from prison cut off before sending them to kill his father and brother at Harrenhal so they will never be able to talk about it.
316* An episode of ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' had a patient of the week have tongue cancer that would cost her her tongue. Fortunately the gang come up with an experimental procedure that avoids that.
317* In ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'', Bedelia Du Maurier retired from psychiatry after a patient had a breakdown and attacked her, only to choke to death on his tongue. As she later observes, [[spoiler:"It wasn't attached at the time."]]
318* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': In "The Last of the Watermen", Pembleton and Felton investigate the murder of an old woman, whose tongue had been cut out and shoved back in her mouth. They eventually find out her teenage grandson had killed her; when they question him as to why he did, he simply shrugs and admits he didn't really have a reason. The closest he can think of is [[DisproportionateRetribution that she talked too much.]]
319* The ''Series/{{House}}'' episode "No Reason" has a patient with a swollen tongue that swells so much it fills up his mouth.
320* ''Series/TheLongestDayInChangAn'': Cui Liu Lang died of blood loss after his tongue was torn out. When Xiao Jing examines the body he sees two cuts on his neck, implying the Wolf Squad [[BodyHorror pulled Liu Lang's tongue out through his throat.]]
321* ''Series/{{Luther}}''. A gang hoping to get their hands on a stash of diamonds let the husband know they're serious by cutting out his wife's tongue.
322* In the 2000s Taiwanese Palace Drama, ''Princess Huai-Yu'', the vile head concubine Cheng Yun, after her attempt to have the titular Princess exiled was uncovered by an innocent handmaiden whom the Princess is close to (and considers a younger sister), then had the handmaiden framed, thrown into a dungeon and for good measure, have her tongue sliced off because SheKnowsTooMuch. The poor maid ends up dying of blood loss within a day, but her death serves to alert Huai-yu that one of her "friends" in the palace is actually plotting behind her back.
323* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'' Titus Pullo rips out a mans tongue with his teeth then keeps him in a cage for years. Pullo is one of the good guys, by the way.
324* In the last episode of season 5 of ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', [[spoiler:Otto Delaney]] bites off his own tongue and throws it at a two-way mirror when he's formally interrogated about his murder of a nurse.
325* In the fourth season of ''Series/TrueDetective'' after scientists at a research station in Alaska all vanish a severed human tongue is found at the scene. Chief Danvers can immediately tell it belongs to an indigenous woman due to the grooves on it from mending fishing nets, and it's eventually tied to a Iñupiak woman who was murdered several years prior and found with her tongue missing.
326* Several monsters in the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' has long, prehensile tongues which allows them to grab onto different Ultras, but most of the time this only results in those kaijus getting their tongues sliced off instead. Like Sabotendar in ''Series/UltramanAce'' (via laser), Jirenma from ''Series/UltramanTaro'' (via horn beam), Gabishale from ''Series/UltramanEighty'' (via palm blaster) and Black Garon from ''Series/UltramanLeo'' (this one results in the tongue ''exploding'', causing a chain of detonations that kills this monster).
327* ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}'': Roger Lococco has a mute Vietnamese woman working for him. Later he admits to Vinnie that she was his lover during the Vietnam War, but his superior in the CIA thought she was a VC spy so ordered Roger to cut her tongue out.
328* In the first episode of ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', Trina Vega uses a Chinese herb garble that was supposed to help her sing better before her showcase performance, but she is revealed to have an allergic reaction and her tongue ends up swollen and throbbing. Thus, Tori had to take her place.
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332* The original artwork for [[Music/{{Autopsy}} Autopsy's]] debut album ''Severed Survival'' features a man being ripped apart by hooks, with one of them stretching his tongue agonizingly far out of his body.
333* The cover artwork for Hellion album ''Will Not Go Quietly'' depicts some poor guy getting his tongue ripped out.
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337* The Indian/Bengali legend of Lilavathi is a fun example. Lilavathi was the daughter of an enemy-of-the-state of Sri Lanka, kidnapped as a young girl, raised in Sri Lanka, and marrying a noble's son. Lilavathi being an accomplished scholar, and her father being a total hellion, some higher-ups decided to punish Lilavathi's father by making it so Lilavathi could never express her teachings again. Lilavathi, however, decided to go down like a badass and managed to buy another day before she had her tongue cut off. She spent that day dictating all her lessons and discoveries to her husband. After that, her work was compiled into a sort of all-purpose almanac (which exists today). Nowadays, she is almost universally recognized and beloved in Bangladesh as a bit of a folk hero. Her work is still valuable to agriculturalists today.
338* ''Literature/TheBible'':
339** "The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the treacherous tongue shall be cut off." ([[Literature/BookOfProverbs Proverbs 10:31]])
340** The first of the seven brothers to be martyred for remaining faithful to God's Law in the face of King Antiochus forcing all Jews to be Hellenized in the apocryphal [[Literature/SecondMaccabees book of 2nd Maccabees]] had his tongue cut out before he was roasted in the fire.
341* In Japanese Buddhist folklore, a superstition to prevent children from lying is that if you do so, the King of Hell, Enma (based on the Hindu god Yama), will cut your tongue.
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345* Clan Giovanni have this down to a fine art in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade.'' The standard punishment for vampires who make the mistake of calling [[ThePatriarch Augustus Giovanni]] "[[BerserkButton Uncle Augie]]" ''begins'' with the offender having their tongue cut out with a pair of pliers; the second half involves a severed finger forced into the offender's mouth, so that once the vampire body starts to heal, the finger will be merged with the stump of the tongue. The victim is left humiliated and mute until such time as they can remove the finger themselves. There's another variant based on the "[[RealLife/CruelAndUnusualDeath Colombian Necktie]]" - once again leaving the victim disfigured, mute and humiliated until they can cut their own throat all over again and put their tongue back in place.
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349* Hieronimo, the protagonist of ''Theatre/TheSpanishTragedy,'' bites his own tongue out after [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge killing most of the rest of the cast to avenge the murder of his son]], so that he won't talk under torture.
350* In ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'', Lavinia has her tongue chopped out [[spoiler:(along with being raped and having her hands cut off)]].
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354* [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's]] Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights:
355** The Storyteller (AKA Elsa Strict) has twice in the event done a performance where she cuts out the tongue of a helpless victim with scissors.
356** The haunted house ''Ride/TheMummy'' from 1999 had mummified priests tearing out the tongues of some unlucky excavators.
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360* The [[http://images.wikia.com/amnesia/images/1/1d/AmnesiaServent.jpg servant grunt]] from ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' has a pretty gruesome mouth area in general.
361* ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'': Seems to be Sachiko's favorite way of tormenting her victims. [[spoiler:It happened to her, as well.]]
362* Anastacia of Astora from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' had her tongue cut out to prevent her from saying anything blasphemous. Apparently she consented to this, since [[spoiler:if she is killed by Lautrec and then revived by you, she will get her tongue back, and begs you not to speak to her so that she can keep silent and refrain from using her "impure" tongue to answer you]].
363* In ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}: Overture'', a scientist trapped in the North-Western Iron Mine began eating a species of spider when searching for food, only to eventually discover that the chemicals inside the spiders were toxic, forcing him to amputate his own tongue with a pen knife. For bonus points, you can find this tongue in another room and play around with it.
364* In ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'', the Raincoat Killer bites out his victims' tongues.
365* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', [[DeathbringerTheAdorable Mean Sonofabitch]], the [[GentleGiant friendly Super Mutant]] had his tongue cut out by NCR soldiers, which explains his generally unintelligible dialogue.
366* The first boss of ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' 4 is a hulking, gigantic zombie who is completely invincible... save for its tongue. You spend the boss fight pumping Uzi rounds into the tongue as it tries to chomp on you, and it goes down after having its tongue riddled by what seems to be two hundred or so bullets.
367* In ''VideoGame/LaytonBrothersMysteryRoom'', [[spoiler:the "other" Alfendi]] will sometimes threaten the main suspect even the protagonist (if she gets the answer wrong) by slicing their tongues.
368* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': The Deku Toad miniboss' WeakPoint is located on the tip of its tongue, and can be hit with sword, arrows, bombs, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs arrows with bombs]]...
369* In ''VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns: Hong Kong'' the PlayerCharacter can learn about [[DemonicInvaders the Yama Kings]], [[TheHeartless beings made from pure misery]] that reputedly haunt [[WretchedHive Kowloon Walled City]]. One such Yama King is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Qian Ya, The Queen of a Thousand Teeth]], Yama King of the enslaved, whose cultists/victims bite off their own tongues in homage to her. [[spoiler:You encounter some of those during the endgame, who all appear to have done so.]]
370* Swollen tongues get chopped off in ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital''.
371* ''[[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour The Walking Dead: The Final Season]]'': If you picked [[spoiler: Violet]] over [[spoiler:Louis]] to save from the Delta at the end of Episode 2, Clementine is horrified to learn upon rescuing Louis, Omar, and Aasim that [[spoiler: Louis']] tongue was cut out for being too talkative. It's incredibly heartbreaking to see how traumatized and broken [[spoiler: he]] is by the experience, cowering in the corner when you find [[spoiler: him]] and clinging onto Clementine for dear life. Especially heartbreaking since [[spoiler:[[BreakTheCutie Louis is the joker/singer of the group, who has now been rendered voiceless.]]]] But if you play your cards right to help [[spoiler: him]] survive Episode 4, in the final scene, you can [[spoiler: see him [[BittersweetEnding smiling while eating dinner with everyone else, so at least not all of his happiness and hope has been dashed.]]]]
372* The [[FinishingMove Memento Mori]] of The Oni from ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' has him rip the unlucky survivor's tongue out with his bare hands before crushing it. And then crushing them with his Kanabo. In his backstory, he likewise ripped out the tongue of the Lord who gave him the nickname 'Oni-Yamaoka'.
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376* In ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', this is [[spoiler:how the Kims "silence" the Pale Bride]].
377* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'':
378** In the first arc, one of Keiichi's friends gives him riceballs. They have an ominously threatening conversation, and after she leaves his house, Keiichi tries one. There's a piercing sensation on his tongue, so when he looks to see what he's bitten into... There's a ''needle'' in it. [[spoiler:It turns out that because of the HatePlague causing {{hallucinations}}, Keiichi perceived the conversation as hostile when it actually wasn't (Mion was teasing him), and the riceballs had hot sauce inside.]]
379** Later on, [[spoiler:Rika]] threatens to bite her tongue and commit suicide but she's gagged beforehand.
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383* This is Sniffles' gimmick on ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''.
384** Other characters suffer this fate sometimes.
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388* Dum from ''Webcomic/DumCat'' licks a chainsaw in one installment, though is somehow uninjured.
389* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'':
390** A young Illhar'dro girl named Ishii nearly [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7945 has her tongue cut out]] after attempting to use her CompellingVoice to calm some angry commoners. She shows up [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=8017 later]] alive but WordOfGod says her tongue was not completely removed but damaged enough that she's never quite the same.
391** Later, another drow named Verthandi [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10805 almost gets subjected to this]] when her kin decide she's a traitor and decide to cut her tongue out to silence her, but their clan leader intervenes before it can go any further.
392* In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', main character Sydney reacts to being surprised by a bank robber by grabbing him by the tongue and shoulder throwing him to the ground. [[spoiler: The fact that he shows no sign of injury as a result of this is what clues Maxima to the fact that he's actually her teammate [[RubberMan Mr Amorphous]] in disguise who was there to [[EngineeredHeroics fake a robbery in order for her to thwart]].]]
393* In the ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' arc "The Hot Springs Episode", Sasha yanks Fox into a shower stall in the portable spa Keene was renting, and [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2018/12/14/alone-time/ convinces him to smooch with her.]] When Sasha's boyfriend, Kevin, walks in on them, Fox bites Sasha's tongue.
394* ''Webcomic/TouhouJournal'' has Reimu [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/686767 burning herself on a hot cup of tea]]. This being a very light-hearted webcomic, Reimu makes a particularly cute face in reaction.
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398* Landis, of ''Literature/AntlersColorado'' [[spoiler:bites his tongue nearly in half as part of a plan to escape police custody]] in his third POV section of Chapter Two. His plan works, though it's mentioned in subsequent Landis POV sections of Chapter Two that his tongue still hurts and he has trouble talking.
399* In the incredibly disturbing short film ''Film/TheCatWithHands'' the titular cat (probably not even a cat at all) bites off a guy's tongue to complete its repertoire of body parts which it has been collecting for years to become a human.
400* In the ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' video "The Drone", Junior cuts his tongue off by putting it on the blades of...take a guess. [[TooDumbToLive Even after Cody told him not to.]]
401* One of [[PsychopathicManchild Cillian Crowe's]] kills in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v1 has him rip out a guy's tongue, and then slicing open his skull.
402* In ''Literature/{{TOT}}'', [[BigBad Maximus Slade]] tears [[spoiler:Umberton's]] tongue from his mouth, and then brutally eviscerates him.
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406* In the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Unremarkable Voyage", Meatwad forces Master Shake to cut his own tongue from his head with a chainsaw.
407* In ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', Courage occasionally gets his tongue stomped on, electrocuted, or burned to a crisp. He also got his tongue caught in a bear trap in one episode, and ''ripped off'' by a lollipop as a puppy.
408* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Eddy bites a wooden nickel, but it breaks and he gets splinters on his tongue. In another episode, Eddy gets a door closed on his tongue.
409* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "The Griffin Winter Games", Stewie trips while figure skating, causing him to bite off and swallow the end of his tongue.
410* One of the least-fortunate residents of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' has tongues for his ''feet''. Not only does it hurt him to walk on them, but he can actually taste whether anyone's cleaned the floor recently.
411* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' Bender offers to share his food with Fry and Fry politely declines saying that robot food is different from human food, but Bender dumps some in his mouth causing his tongue to catch on fire (once Fry stops screaming in pain he seems to quite enjoy the food).
412* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
413** In "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", Li'l Gideon tries to use his telekinetic powers to cut out Dipper's tongue.
414--->'''Gideon:''' I'm gonna make sure you ''never'' lie to me again...[[TermsOfEndangerment friend]].
415** In "Carpet Diem," Dipper says an owl tried to eat his tongue while he was sleeping outside. That poor tongue can not catch a break.
416** In "Sock Opera", Bill Cipher offers Dipper a disembodied "head that's always screaming", which also ties its tongue in a knot as it does so.
417* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'':
418** In "The Really Odd Couple", Mandy deals with Billy's tendency to keep stepping over his line of the room by pulling his tongue out more than a tongue should go.
419** In "Which Came First?", Billy gets his tongue burned off by acidic egg yolk from the mutant chickens' eggs thanks to him wanting to sample them. First, it gets blisters, then it turns gray and swollen and falls apart.
420* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 119, Mr. Cat threatens to rip out Stumpy's tongue to prevent him from telling Kaeloo a secret, but settles for just stretching it out as far as it will go and then [[{{Squick}} having a sheep lick it.]]
421* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'', Professor Anders' tongue has been enchanted by the Briarwoods to allow him to control people (a literal silver tongue), and he uses it to charm the rest of Vox Machina into trying to kill Percy. Percy eventually manages to pull off an impressive trick shot that shoots Anders' tongue out of his mouth; it [[LivingApart moves across the floor on its own]] before Grog stabs it with an arrow.
422* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', Sheldon is looking for Jenny when he trips over a crack in the sidewalk and bites his own tongue as he falls flat.
423* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Family Appreciation Day", Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle decide to help Apple Bloom fake being sick so she doesn't have to come to school (and risk being embarrassed by Granny Smith). They heat up a thermometer and stick it in her mouth, and it burns her tongue.
424* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "The Boys Are Back In Town", after getting sick of being beaten by the recently-resurrected Rowdyruff Boys, Buttercup punches Butch, causing him to bite his tongue.
425* This happens quite a few times in ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'':
426** In "Mad Dog Hoek", during a rant, Stimpy's tongue stretches and snaps off.
427** In "The Magical Singing Cheeses", Stimpy rips his tongue off a frozen flagpole during a showdown of stupidity with the Village Idiot.
428** Ren has had his share, too. In one episode, his tongue got burned off and in another, he got stung in the mouth and tongue by [[ScaryStingingSwarm bees]] that were somehow in his and Stimpy's canteen.
429* Silencio, one of the main characters of ''WesternAnimation/SeisManos'', [[MeaningfulName is mute]]. A flashback in the third episode reveals that this is the result of getting his tongue mutilated with a knife [[spoiler: at the hands of El Balde]].
430* According to Lisa Simpson in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode where she exposes founder Jebediah Springfield as an evil pirate named Hans Sprungfeld, Sprungfeld actually wore a silver tongue because his real one got bitten off by a Turk.
431* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
432** In "Sandy, [=SpongeBob=], and the Worm", Sandy has a fight with an Alaskan Bullworm and leaves its body tied in a knot. Turns out it was only the worm's ''[[ThatsNoMoon tongue]]''.
433** In "Krabby Land", [=SpongeBob=] injures himself to entertain some kids. One of the ways he does so is to repeatedly get his tongue run over by a truck.
434** In "Cephalopod Lodge", Squidward gets kicked out of the episode-naming club. In an attempt to cheer him up, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick start their own club and invite him to join in. They even invented an "initiation rite", which has the new member's tongue stung by a jellyfish. [=SpongeBob=], Patrick and Squidward (by force, ''twice'') went through this rite.
435* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', Beast Boy ([[{{Shapeshifting}} as an aardvark]]) got his tongue stepped on.
436* Plucky Duck has several of these in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation''. [[LampshadeHanging "Tongue Joke no. 10."]]
437* In the short cartoon ''Tongue Twister'' by Sean Scott, a character whose [[TongueOnTheFlagpole tongue is stuck to a flagpole]] takes a saw to it.
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441* Erik "The Lizardman" Sprague is a sideshow performer who has modified himself to resemble a lizard, including a bifurcated tongue. Actually a more-common-than-you'd-think form of body modification; it's done by gradually splitting the tongue with a razor-sharp blade after a procedure similar to a normal tongue piercing. Given time, the split tongue muscles adapt and you can wiggle the two halves ''independently from each other''.
442* The parasitic crustacean ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua Cymothoa exigua]]'' (WARNING: [[SchmuckBait Do not click the link]] if you plan to sleep soundly tonight) actually latches on to a fish's tongue and causes it to shrivel up and atrophy. The crustacean then clings to the stub and serves as the fish's new tongue in a manner not dissimilar to a corporate takeover.
443* Veterinarians use tongue-clamps to affix pulse monitors to unconscious dogs and cats that are undergoing surgical procedures. Not harmful, but rather uncomfortable even to look at, never mind wear.
444* There are probably few people who haven't experienced the pain of biting their own tongue by accident. Likewise for accidentally burning their own tongue on something that was just a little too hot.
445* Biting too hard on a glass thermometer while it's warming up under one's tongue can cause nasty cuts to its underside, possibly contaminated with mercury if it's an older model.
446* Creator/{{Cicero}} received a posthumous version of this trope. Fulvia, the wife of Marc Antony, took Cicero's head, pulled out his tongue, and jabbed it repeatedly with a hairpin for writing the Philippics.
447* Upon killing a baleen whale, orcas will often eat nothing but the dead whale's tongue. Granted, that's a ''big'' tongue, and usually the only part of the whale that's easily accessible without chewing through skin as thick and tough as a car tire.
448* Subverted in people with epilepsy, despite what "[[WorstAid common knowledge]]" would say. Cramming something into someone's mouth when they're having a fit won't prevent them from swallowing their tongue (it's attached to the inside of the mouth), rather, you're running a very high risk of being bitten, knocking out their teeth, or even [[{{Irony}} asphyxiating them by accident]]. The only risk that the tongue faces during an epileptic fit would be if the person were to accidentally bite down on it.
449* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals Vandals]] were famously accused of doing this when they swept into North Africa. The Vandals were Christians, but they belonged to the Arian sect that the Catholic Church deemed heretical; when then-Catholic North Africa was conquered, some of the locals began to mock them. Not wishing to kill more fellow Christians than strictly necessary, they cut out a bunch of Catholic tongues.
450* Creator/DickYork, the first actor who played Darrin Stevens on ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', was forced to retire due to back problems. The pain was so bad that he ended up falling and biting through his tongue.
451* Classic Maya religion included ritual bloodletting, often from the tongue. One carved lintel at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaxchilan_Lintel_24 Yaxchilan]] shows the ruler's consort pulling a barbed rope through her tongue as part of a ritual.
452* Like any organ, the tongue can sometimes develop cancer which may necessitate the removal of the afflicted portion.
453* Can happen to a frog, toad, or chameleon that extends its tongue to capture a stinging insect or spider. Also to bears lapping honey from wild beehives, and to feeding anteaters, aardvarks or pangolins that keep on lapping up prey even after soldier ants or termites have mustered for a counterattack.
454* Children with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain often unintentionally inflict this on themselves.
455* At UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}'s infamously brutal {{Assimilation Academ|y}}ies for UsefulNotes/{{Native|Americans}} students, a needle through the tongue was a common punishment for speaking a Native language instead of English. Worse, this was only one of the residential school system's [[http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/ innumerable abuses]].
456* During TheCavalierYears, some communities in UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} used a device called a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scold%27s_bridle scold's bridle]] to punish "scolds"--an actual legal designation for disruptive women back then. The device was a mask (sometimes resembling grotesque faces to add insult to injury) with a spiked mouth gag, so the wearer couldn't talk without wounding her tongue.
457* A [[https://old.reddit.com/r/Undertale/comments/6akpsc/a_fan_literally_tried_to_murder_a_fanartist_over/ Taiwanese fanartist]] known as Avimedes was offered homemade cookies at a convention. The needles hidden inside the cookies pierced her tongue. It's believed that she may have been given the cookies because she draws [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Sans/Frisk]] art, which a fellow fan [[MoralGuardians really didn't like]].
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