->''Get this damn thing off my neck''\\
''I'm the head of the board now I'm bored of my head''\\
''Sharpen up the blade, boys''\\
''What are you waiting for?''\\
''Here's where we all get ahead!''\\
''Wipe that damn smile off your face''\\
''Or we'll lop it off clean with our new guillotine''\\
''Sharpen up the blade, boys''\\
''Bells are now tolling, soon heads will be rolling''
-->-- '''Music/{{Voltaire}}''', ''The Headless Waltz''

->'''Wing:''' What about the assassin... Ghost?
->'''Shelby:''' She's... erm... a little shorter than she used to be. (looks at Raven, who just cut off the assassin's head.) Remind me never to annoy her again.
-->-- ''{{Literature/HIVE|Series}}: Rouge''

->''They're going to lose their heads, for painting the roses red, it serves them right, they planted white, the roses should be red. Oh, they’re going to lose their headsssss...''
->'''SILENCE!'''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''

->''"I'm gonna knock his head clean off!"''
-->-- '''Br'er Bear''', ''Film/SongOfTheSouth''

->''"[[BerserkButton The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or my American heritage as a negative]] is: I collect your fucking head. Just like this fucker here. Now if any of you sons of bitches got'' '''ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY''', '''''NOW'S THE FUCKING TIME!''''' ...''I didn't think so."''
-->-- '''O-Ren Ishii''' from ''Film/KillBill Vol. 1'', after taking Boss Tanaka's head.

->''Off with his Head! So much for Buckingham.''
-->-- '''Creator/ColleyCibber''', ''Line added to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/RichardIII''

->''"That man is a head taller than me. That may change."''
-->-- '''Film/AguirreTheWrathOfGod'''

->''(Mario is staring down [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganon]] and his minions while holding the Master Sword. The Moblin charges with a halberd.)''\\
'''Moblin''': Getya! I'm a get'cha!\\
''(Cue SingleStrokeBattle and the Moblin's head falls off in the process.)''\\
'''Moblin''': Oh, my head!
-->--''[[WebAnimation/BowsersKingdom Ganon's Kingdom]]''

->"The most interesting thing about King Charles I is that he was five foot six inches tall at the start of his reign, but only four foot eight inches tall at the end of it.
-->-- ''Creator/MontyPython'' - '''Oliver Cromwell'''

->''"Well I guess decapitation works." ''
-->-- '''Samuel''' after cutting a demon's head off, '''{{Series/Supernatural}}'''

->''"You fear the cross. The sun. Fire. And, oh yes... ''(Adam pulls a vampire's head off through sheer strength)'' I believe decapitation is a problem as well."''
-->--'''Adam''', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

->''A man is lying on the street, some punk has chopped off his head,''\\
''I'm the only one who stops to see if he's dead.''\\
''Hmmm.... turns out he's dead.''
-->-- '''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''', "''Think About It''"

-> ''"'I'M GOING TO CHOP YOUR HEAD OFF!"''
-->-- '''Webcomic/AxeCop'''

-> ''"Blanka, no, not the headbite!"''
-->-- '''Guile,''' the ''WesternAnimation/StreetFighter'' cartoon

->'''Rorf:''' What are you doing with that head?\\
'''Rygel:''' He's an old enemy. I like that he doesn't talk back.
-->-- ''Series/{{Farscape}}''

->To the axeman, all supplicants are the same height.
-->-- ''Literature/GuardsGuards''

->The Axedwarf hacks the goblin in the head with his ¤steel battle axe¤ and the severed part sails off in an arc.
-->-- ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''

->''[[DemandingTheirHead Bring me Neo's head, now!]]''
-->-- '''The Merovingian''', ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo''

->''You have stolen painted eggs in a time of famine. Off with their heads, Frank.''
-->-- '''Doctor Forrester''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'''

->''"It seems every year I'm at camp someone loses their head."''
-->-- '''Angela Baker''', ''Film/SleepawayCampIIITeenageWasteland''

->"Every person condemned to death shall be beheaded."
-->-- ''[[UsefulNotes/FrenchCourts 1810 French Penal Code]]'', art. 12

->From a biological standpoint, hagfish - ''Myxine glutinosa'' - are fascinating and evolutionarily significant entities. From an aesthetic standpoint, [[NauseaFuel they're pretty damn gross]]. I'm sure Wexler, former [[ProudWarriorRace Brujah]] [[CouncilOfVampires primogen councilor]] of this city, would agree with me if he could: after all, the haggish are swarming in and out of his mouth, battening themselves on his lips and spinal tissue, sucking the rich vitae from his medulla oblongata. But decapitation silences even our kind, and so, Wexler's eyes merely stare blindly at the slimy parasites.
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Tzimisce''

->''Where is Kishnar? I want your report on him. Tell him I will give him twenty-four hours. I want that man's head.''
->The translator put emphasis on the last word.
->''"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.
->"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."
-->-- ''[[Literature/{{Quiller}} Quiller's Run]]'', by Adam Hall

->''"I'll have you shaved with the big razor!"''
-->-- '''Julius Heide''', ''Blitzfreeze'' by Creator/SvenHassel

->''"Edd, fetch me a block."''
-->-- '''Jon Snow''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

->''How they loved to promise heads, these men who would be king. ''
-->-- '''Catelyn Stark''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

->''"My mother wishes me to let [[spoiler:Lord Eddard]] join the Night's Watch. Stripped of all titles and powers, he would serve the realm in permanent exile. And my lady Sansa has begged mercy for [[spoiler:her father]]. But they have the soft hearts of women. So long as I am your king, treason shall never go unpunished. Ser Ilyn... '''''[[WhamLine bring me his head]]'''''!"''
-->-- '''Joffery Baratheon''', ''Series/GameOfThrones''

->''Kings Landing: Live Free or Die Headless''
-->-- ''[[ParallelPornTitles Game of Bones]]''

->'''Blackadder:''' That Farrow bloke you executed today; you sure he's dead?\\
'''Baldrick:''' Well, I chopped his head off. That usually does the trick.
-->--''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'', "Head"

->'''Over-Scholar Polorta:''' They divided us up, T'mani from R'larri, and made us sit on the road while they marched the R'larri out into the jo-stalk fields. It was harvest time you see. The jo fruits were ready to be cut. They use an automated laser; they can do that because every gene-sequenced stalk grows to exactly five and twenty joints. They lined the R'larri in rows, like the jo-stalks, and made each one hold up a leaf as if they were a plant. Then they sliced off their heads with the harvest lasers. Have you ever seen a hundred thousand people decapitated at once, Captain Chakotay?
->'''Chatokay:''' Not that many.
->'''Polorta:''' Ahh yes. But the problem is a R'larri is not a jo-stalk. Not everyone in that field was fortunate enough to be five and twenty joints high, especially the children. You see, the [[BizarreAlienBiology R'larri secondary nervous system is set lower than the main brain]], so you can have the top of your head cut off and still be alive, [[EmptyShell in a fashion]]. I watched children stumbling about that field, alive yet dead, for five hours until they let us go.
-->-- '''Over-Scholar Polorta''', ''Fanfic/TheFluxOfMortalThings'', a ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' fanfic.

->Abruptly the wind was there again, a savage gust of it that made me stagger to my knees. Something silver flickered past my eyes, moving so fast it was only a blur, and at the same moment, the air was full of noise and water again. But I was staring at the postie. I'd never seen a man decapitated before - well, not right in front of me, anyway. But that's cyclones for you. Nothing is more dangerous than a loose sheet of tin.
->The other mailman was gawping now. [[TheDyingWalk His colleague's body took a few odd steps against the wind, and then fell over]].
-->--''Literature/UndergroundAndrewMcGahan''

->''The last time [[SealedEvilInACan they buried you]], they made one big mistake, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Thibor Ferenczy]]. They left your fucking head on!''
-->--'''Boris Dragosani,''' ''Literature/{{Necroscope}}''

->''"Lao Tzu said: 'You must find the way.' I've found it. You must find it too... So I'm going to cut off your head. Then you'll know the truth!"''
-->-- '''Didi''', ''[[ComicBook/{{Tintin}} The Blue Lotus]]''

->''"YOU DIDN'T USE YOUR HEADS! NONE OF YOU DID! '''PEOPLE WHO DON'T USE THEIR HEADS... DON'T NEED THEM...'''"''
-->-- '''Bernard''', "Just Desserts!" (''[[Creator/ECComics Shock SuspenStories]]'' #3)

->'''Ax:'''
->'''Visser Three:'''
-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #20: The Discovery''

->'''Rocket:''' What did you do?\\
'''Thor:''' I went for the head.
-->--''Film/AvengersEndgame''

->''"You! Leave her, or I'll cut your head off and hang it from my belt!"''
-->-- '''Sirella''', ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'', "You Are Cordially Invited"

->The herald muttered in my ear - these were the last words my fleshly ear would ever hear - "Drop your shoulders, lad." [[PetTheDog He spoke kindly, I believe]]. It is of course better if the cut does not pass through the shoulders as well as the neck. But it was hard for me to comply: every muscle in my frame had tensed taut as hardwood. This was something beyond my conscious control.
->I heard the hum of the Clapper behind me, floating up and positioning itself. I almost called out, but I did not, and then the blade spun and bit, and my world went [[AndIMustScream instantly dark and silent]].
->I did not feel any pain.
-->--''Literature/LandOfTheHeadless,'' by Adam Roberts

->''"Now, men, chase her down. Return to me what is mine and send these von Carstein beasts a message... by taking her head!"''
-->-- '''Karl Franz''', ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer''

->''"I want him dead! [[DemandingTheirHead I want his head cut off and brought here!]] I want his head on this piano so that every man in my organization understands, once more, that no Katana gets captured alive or talks! Got that?"''
-->--'''Fujiyama''', ''Film/SamuraiCop''

->''"It ate him... bit off his head... like a gingerbread man!"''
-->--'''Crawford Tillinghast''', ''Film/FromBeyond''

->'''Annie Porter''': Where's Payne?\\
'''Jack Traven''': He lost his head.
-->-- ''Film/{{Speed}}''

->''[[{{Catchphrase}} "Leave your head here!"]]''
-->--'''Shimazu Toyohisa ''', ''Manga/{{Drifters}}''

-> '''Oh my God, you guys, seriously, he actually wants to chop my head off! *{{Beat}}* I mean...I guess he just really liked [[DoubleEntendre my head.]]''
-->-- '''Anne Boleyn''', ''Theatre/SixTheMusical''

-> '''''DECAPITATIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!'''''
-->--'''Edward "Eddie" Riggs''', VideoGame/BrutalLegend

->''"When decapitating an enemy, it is severe impoliteness to use more than one blow."''
-->-- '''Meti's Sword Manual''', ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''
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