1 | ->''"As you can see, I have in my hand here, your commanding officer's head. I didn't catch his name, so we'll just call him Teddy. Teddy was very brave. Teddy didn't want to do as my friends and I asked. ''*drops head on the floor*'' Don't be like Teddy. Don't be brave. We're looking for cowards here today. Cowards listen to us. And more importantly, cowards get to live."'' |
2 | -->-- '''[[AgentProvocateur Desmond]]''', ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'' |
3 | |
4 | ->'''Kchula-Tzaatz:''' ''[to the Pride Circle]'' The Honor War has been declared, fought and won. See what dishonor has brought to Rrit Pride! Behold the head of Meerz-Rrit. Behold the head of First-Son-of-Meerz-Rrit. The head of Myowr-Guardmaster. The head of Patriarch's Telepath...\ |
5 | '''Rrit-Conserver:''' I would leave this sorry demonstration, Ftzaal-Tzaatz.\ |
6 | '''Ftzaal-Tzaatz:''' And miss the ascension of the [[PuppetKing next of the Rrit Dynasty?]] Have you no curiosity?\ |
7 | '''Rrit-Conserver:''' It is Second-Son. He has betrayed his own blood. Spare me this shameful demonstration.\ |
8 | '''Ftzaal-Tzaatz:''' You seem so sure.\ |
9 | '''Rrit-Conserver:''' Your brother would have raised his head after First-Son's had it not been so. |
10 | -->-- ''Literature/KnownSpace: Literature/DestinysForge'' |
11 | |
12 | ->''"If I want to go the extra mile, I can cut off the leader's head and wear it around my neck. I think even among ''[[StarfishAlien complete]]'' aliens that still sends a pretty universal message."'' |
13 | -->-- '''Gordon Freeman''', ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' |
14 | |
15 | ->'''Chiana:''' You are being paid to work together!\ |
16 | '''Rygel:''' That's right...\ |
17 | ''[Durka's severed head rolls to a halt in front of the assembled mercenaries]''\ |
18 | '''Rygel:''' And that's what we do to people who don't. You're here to do a job: ''start acting like professionals.'' |
19 | -->-- ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', "[[Recap/FarscapeS02E20LiarsGunsAndMoneyWithFriendsLikeThese Liars, Guns, And Money: With Friends Like This]]" |
20 | |
21 | ->'''Drug Dealer:''' Why in the hell should we listen to you?\ |
22 | ''(Red Hood throws a duffel bag in front of them. The criminals look inside and recoil in horror. One throws up.)''\ |
23 | '''Red Hood:''' Those are the heads of all your lieutenants. That took me two hours. You wanna see what I can get done in a whole evening? |
24 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' |
25 | |
26 | ->'''Jek:''' The people of Androzani Major will not wait for their Spectrox. Long before then, they will rise in protest and the Praesidium will be forced to agree to my terms.\ |
27 | '''Peri:''' What are your terms, Sharaz Jek?\ |
28 | '''Jek:''' They can have all the Spectrox they want when I have the head of Morgus here at my feet. I want the head of that perfidious, treacherous degenerate brought to me here, congealed in its own evil blood. |
29 | -->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani The Caves of Androzani]]" |
30 | |
31 | ->''Where is Kishnar? I want your report on him. Tell him I will give him twenty-four hours. I want that man's head.''\ |
32 | The translator put emphasis on the last word.\ |
33 | ''"We have not found the body of the third agent, but his head was delivered to my office in a cardboard box."'' Major-General Vasuratna, Thai Military Intelligence.\ |
34 | "Part of their culture," Pepperidge told me, trying, I suppose, to make light of it. "Once you're snuffed, you won't care where the bloody thing is." |
35 | -->-- ''Literature/{{Quiller}}'s Run'', by Adam Hall |
36 | |
37 | ->Kurt Semmler was forty, and it was he who, in the early days back in the enclave, had devised the [[SkeletonMotif skull-and-crossbones motif]] that the mercenaries and their African trainees wore. It was also he who had cleared a five-mile sector of Federal soldiers by marking out the front line with stakes, each bearing the head of one of the previous day's Federal casualties. For a month after that his was the quietest sector of the campaign. |
38 | -->-- ''Literature/TheDogsOfWar'' |
39 | |
40 | ->''"The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or my American heritage as a negative is: I collect your fucking head. [''holds up Tanaka's head''] Just like this fucker here."'' |
41 | -->-- '''O-Ren Ishii''', ''Film/KillBill'' |
42 | |
43 | ->Ra's tented his hands. "I would think not. My ranks are more disciplined than that. However, I will give you this, [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Detective]]. If one of my men is involved in this matter, I will send you his head in a box, and a note of apology. This, I promise." |
44 | -->-- ''Fanfic/DanceWithTheDemons'' |
45 | |
46 | ->''"The minute... the second I get out of here, I'm going to take your head and mount it in the Normandy CIC. Then I'm going to mount his/her head next to yours! Then I'm going to take both your heads and space them out the airlock!"'' |
47 | -->-- '''Commander Shepard''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3: Citadel'' |
48 | |
49 | ->''"I agree with Pilot Soryu, we must reave apart the Angel and display its head so that all will be aware of the folly it committed against us."'' |
50 | -->-- '''Rei''', ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'' |
51 | |
52 | |
53 | ->''"When I go hand-to-hand with you, I go HAM-mer!'' |
54 | ->''Knock off his dome, wrap it up in his own banner!'' |
55 | ->''Send it back to Rome with a message from the '''Zulu''':'' |
56 | ->''If you battle ('''Shaka!'''), this what happen ('''to you!''')'' |
57 | -->'''Shaka Zulu''', ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' |
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