Cruel And Unusual Death / Anime & Manga

Cruel and Unusual Death in Anime & Manga.

Shows/franchises with their own pages:

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

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• The anime version of AKIRA turns Kaori's death into this. While she was shot by Tetsuo's treacherous lieutenant in the manga, the anime has her get accidentally absorbed when Tetsuo's power goes out of control and he begins mutating horribly. Poor Kaori is crushed into a bloody pulp inside Tetsuo's horrifically mutating body, while Tetsuo can do nothing to stop it. And it's all shown in detail.
• Angel Sanctuary has this be the death resulting from the highest and worst punishment an angel can receive: Wing-Dropping. It involves chopping off the angel's wings, which serve as the angel's immune system. With them gone and leaving behind open wounds, the angel is helplessly subjected to any virus and all bacteria in the world. They become infected and slowly rot from the inside out.
• Attack on Titan:
  • Characters are under constant threat of being messily torn apart and Eaten Alive by Titans. Worse, Titans do not digest their prey, and their bodies produce immense heat, so anyone not bitten in half is either drowned in a soup of human remains, or boiled alive in said human remains. To add insult to injury, since the Titans seemingly don't have any digestive organs nor derive any actual nutritional value from eating humans, whatever's left of the remains is eventually regurgitated back up.
  • What makes the Female Titan so despicable is that she's prone to subjecting her victims to horrendous deaths. Petra was very cruelly crushed like an ant under her foot. Another poor unfortunate on Petra's team was swung around on his grapple-cables like a yo-yo.
  • The Colossal Titan also met a bad end in Chapter 84 (his fourth appearance, BTW). He got ripped out of his titan form by Eren, who then cut off his arms and legs to keep him from Shifting. When he came to a little while later (still with no arms and legs) it was just in time for his own death; the protagonists had left him to be eaten alive by a mindless titan. He went out begging and crying for help that would never come, just like the thousands of people who died when he kicked a hole in Wall Maria. Additionally the mindless titan? A titanised Armin Arlert, who the Colossal Titan had just almost burned to death. Consuming the Colossal Titan healed Armin from the brink of death and granted him that power in turn.
  • The deaths of Sofia and Udo are particularly cruel because of their relative youth and innocence. The first is crushed by wreckage from Eren's attack, and the second stops in an effort to help. They end up trampled to death by panicked nobles, who had previously mocked the child for their lower status.
  • The victims of the Rumbling suffer this, as they either get crushed by a legion of Colossal Titans walking in lockstep or burn to death as the Titans approach (with an unlucky number suffering from both at the same time).
• Baccano!: Claire Stanfield is angry and in need of information when a Smug Snake mook shows up wearing the uniform of one of the few people Claire cares about. So he subjects the guy to a brutal "interrogation" session involving his limbs and a set of railroad tracks. And when Claire finds out who the guy is and just how he got the uniform, he does the same thing with the bastard's face.
• Berserk:
  • The worst deaths are typically reserved for those sacrificed to the Godhand. And many Apostles go on to do ugly things to people. The few human villains in this saga, such as Mozgus, are not much better. Quite frankly, it's easier to count those who don't suffer this fate. The rest have already been beaten to a pulp, epically curbstomped, hacked to bits, ripped to shreds, Eaten Alive, burned to a crisp, Impaled with Extreme Prejudice, and many other types of atrocious shit. The vast majority, if not ALL of them are condemned to an eternity in hell! Berserk's like that... Despite suffering the grand majority of these, our protagonist is still going strong.
• In Bi no Kyoujin, Kabu executes Xiao Chen by slashing off his hands and then repeatedly slashing at his tummy until his entrails cover the floor. A quite rare occurrence in a Yaoi series.
• Black Lagoon:
  • What Hansel and Gretel did to Makhalov, some poor bastard from Hotel Moscow. They started hammering nails into poor Makhalov's head when he was still alive, and just didn't stop when he died from it because his body still responded to it due to spinal reflex, which amused the Creepy Twins greatly. This act is so vile that even members of the local Mafia didn't like it.
  • Balalaika, said poor bastard's leader (to whom he kept calling out in his last moments), went Mama Bear on the twins and dealt one of these to Hansel... by having his arm and leg blown off by one of her snipers as punishment, then having him bleed to death as she gave him a Breaking Speech. Gretel's own death (merely being shot in the head when she thought she had pulled a Karma Houdini) was fast and painless in comparison.
  • Later on, in the Japan arc, Chaka meets a horrible fate, with his hands cut off by Ginji's shirasaya blade, he's shoved into a pool and held under to drown. He did have it coming...
• Bleach:
  • Mayuri kills Szayelaporro Granz via this trope. Szayelaporro accidentally ingests a performance-enhancing drug during the fight. This increases mental processes so far that a second is like a century. Mayuri spends a few minutes explaining this and slowly impales Szayelaporro, who is standing there the entire time, unable to do anything but fervently wish for death to come faster. When he finally does die, in his mind he is a shrivelled old man driven mad by the pain and begging for death.
  • Yhwach the Quincy King is a progenitor whose blood flows through every Quincy. Whenever he wants to make himself stronger, he performs the Auswählen to easily transfer the power of his blood back from any Quincy, permanently de-powering and even killing them. Six years before the story begins, on the 17th June, all Quincies deemed "useless" by him (All Gemischt Quincies and those Echt Quincies that were against him) in the world are murdered by this ability, including Masaki (Ichigo's mother) and Kanae (Uryuu's mother). Masaki dies quickly because she's de-powered during a fight with the Hollow Grand Fisher, but Kanae lapses into a coma as those struck by the Auswählen's Pillar of Light have a chunk of Still Silver (A metal poisonous to all Quincies) form inside their hearts. It takes her three months to die.
  • The Sternritter, Äs Nödt of The Fear, kills his victims by impaling them on hovering spikes, which paralyze them with an effect of intense, paralyzing terror. The fear it induces is actually powerful enough to kill most victims outright.
• Blood-C: Chances are if your name isn't Saya or Fumito this is your fate, Elder Bairn or not. Humans, however, often get the worst due to their inability to stand up to the Elder Bairns. Special mentions go to Saya's class and the main cast, as well as Nene and Nono, the first of whom is smashed to a bloody pulp after Nono knocks her into its path to save her own hide, and the other of whom gets an even worse death by being pulled apart by the legs from the crotch up when another Elder Bairn gets its hands on her.
• Bungo Stray Dogs: The terrorist organization Decay of Angels murders several government officials in extremely gruesome ways, based on the signs indicating the imminent death of angels in Buddhism; a legislator was skinned alive then had his skin back sewn on inside-out and a deputy commander in the coast guard had his face melted by an extremely corrosive poison; the cause of death was shock due to the intense pain.
• Many deaths in Case Closed are seriously unpleasant.
  • There's the Rich Bitch who was gagged and taped up inside a very deep bath tub... and left there covered with a wooden cover... as it very, VERY slowly got filled with water... therefore dying in an improvised Drowning Pit in the span of hours.
  • There were two victims who were stabbed in the lungs and left to die. Just an FYI: it takes several minutes to die of asphyxiation. The first victim who died in this manner was still conscious from the attack and the weapon was a knife. The second had a pin puncture.
  • The very first episode had the principal second victim have his head decapitated by a combination of piano wire and a falling roller coaster.
  • A victim committed suicide by willfully launching himself into a knife wedged inside an ice block.
  • How about getting slashed and then impaled on a painting by a knight in shining armor. Best part? The murderer was a freaking 80 year old museum owner. How the hell did he carry that BFS?
  • At some point a fake wig was used as a means of strangulation.
  • Shinichi's first case was the iconic example of the trend of impossibly unintuitive murder weapons (severed brain nerve from being stabbed by a sharpened bra wire).
  • One victim was decapitated (head and other limbs) and the murderer actually had the gall to transport the severed limbs as his trick to avoid suspicion.
  • Freefalling from a high story hotel room and then impaled by the lance fixture on a horse statue — thank goodness the guy was drugged asleep.
  • What's worse then getting stabbed with a pen in your wrist? Falling into a sharpened picket fence.
  • Instead of hanging someone normally, one murderer had to go and wrap the rope with gagging paper around the victim's mouth so that when he could not hold the bite grip anymore, his teeth got ripped open.
  • A guy got smashed by a tampered truck.
  • One victim was offered a eating treat and he got a bullet through the mouth instead.
  • Using an insane complicated rope system, the murderer tripped the victim and the momentum caused him to be dragged through a bunch of obstacles before being hanged high above a Buddhist pagoda.
  • One guy died of a PURE heart attack — no electric shock, no induced poisons, the victim had a poor heart condition and so was literally bound and gagged. To add insult to injury, the murderer spilled his heart medicine in front of him and just waited for him to die.
  • Throat slit by a box cutter blade — or an extremely sharpened fingernail.
  • Potassium Cyanide — BORING!! Okay, how about we introduce it as ice cubes?
  • A Molotov cocktail made out of garden fertilizer — if the blast hadn't killed him, the shrapnel would have finished him off.
  • Very suave to get crushed by a chandelier, or a steel beam for that matter.
  • Tricking the asshole victim to shoot himself in the head from point blank range.
  • Snapping a neck with a clothes hanger and later silk threads in a slingshot mechanism.
  • Your everyday bike machine is attached to a string tied to a bookcase with a knife jammed inside a book at the top of said shelf.
  • A poison needle embedded inside a headphone set — enjoy your last song!
  • Instead of shooting someone with a bullet, attach that fired bullet inside a bed mattress and use its springs to create a giant crossbow machine — wait for victim to take a peek.
  • Trapped in a locked car with carbon monoxide exhaust pouring inside.
  • Wrapped in a net with a boat placed on top of you as the shore tide ebbs in to drown you.
  • Such a lovely pearl necklace — too bad it's attached to a raising curtain...
  • A victim gets bludgeoned in the head and is cremated by a bomb in the shape of a match lighter.
  • Victim was set in a time trap where a concrete pile driver would cave his face in (subverted).
  • Chinese Bamboo Torture is insane: so is being hanged by one growing so quickly.
  • Send a tied body down a waterfall with rope around neck for epic hanging display.
  • Getting choked by fishing line in a driver's seat.
• A Certain Magical Index: Chances are if you fight Accelerator and your name is not Touma, expect this trope. Case in point: one guy Accelerator especially hated was launched into the sky at such speeds that his body was incinerated due to air friction. He's also done fun things like shooting a person's jaw off at point-blank range and then throwing them in a hydraulic press just to be cruel, or reversing the bloodflow in his victim (read, all the blood rips itself right through the skin). In his fight against Touma, he was similarly going for a flashy death: compressing air into plasma with the intention of throwing it at Touma.
• Chainsaw Man: Denji was killed by the Yakuza, who betrayed him by chopping his body into pieces and throwing them into a trash bin, and this is before he merged with Pochita and was revived.
• Cowboy Bebop: Mad Pierrot from the episode "Pierrot le Fou" is an assassin with the mind of a child who's never known pain. In their final fight, Spike stabs him in the leg, reducing him to a crying little kid. His last moments are spent writhing around on the ground screaming for his mom before being crushed under a parade of animatronic animals.
• Daltanious: Kento's mother and sister were killed when the supermarket they owned was shot at by the Zaal's airships. Kento and his mother exited the building after it began crumbling, having no idea what was going on. Seeing human survivors fleeing for their lives, the Zaal shot at them with lasers. Kento's mother was then hit by the building's debris in her stomach. A crying Kento screamed upon seeing her die, but was helpless as the Surveillance Robots began eliminating any remaining survivors. It was only thanks to the wildfires hiding him that he wasn't eliminated too.
• Anyone who runs out of points in Darwin's Game will have their body painfully disintegrated and left as nothing but pixelated version of themselves.
• Death Note:
  • Light hands out possibly the cruelest death in the series to one of his own Co-Dragons, Kiyomi Takada after she calls him begging for help by instead giving her a Psychic-Assisted Suicide via self-immolation, just to destroy the evidence linking them.
  • Light himself gets a well-deserved one at the end, being shot multiple times, left to thrash and bleed on the floor for a while and get finished off by Ryuk writing his name in the Death Note.
• Delicious in Dungeon: Discussed in Chapter 5 — most of the Dungeon Crawling team has died and been resurrected at least once, but personal experience left Chilchuck especially leery of boiling oil traps because he didn't die right away, which made it much worse.
• Digimon:
  • Digimon Adventure:
    • WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon defeat Myotismon a second but not final time by tearing up the crotch, kicking the Fuji tower into it, and finally simultaneously freezing and burning up the torn area.
    • The first Dark Master, MetalSeadramon, gets drilled through nostril-down by War Greymon.
  • Digimon Ghost Game:
    • Episode 21 has GulusGammamon kill Archnemon by shoving his fist into her mouth and blasting Hellfire down her throat with such force that her abdomen nearly bursts before she disintegrates.
    • Discussed in Episode 43. According to Ruli, the terminal symptoms of being infected/possessed by Eyesmon is the victim's entire body disintegrating. The symptoms before that consists of some insane Body Horror and a subtle dose of Mind Rape.
• Dragon Ball: Temporary though they may be, many of the deaths in the series, especially in Dragon Ball Z, are cruel and unusual:
  • When Frieza murders Krillin, he captures him inside a beam and controls his movements with his fingers, ending in him causing Krillin's body to inflate and then explode into tiny pieces. He then threatens to do the same to Gohan, crossing the line that sends Papa Wolf Goku into Super Saiyan.
  • His own death at the hands of Future Trunks is by no means pretty, for he was sliced in half lengthwise, sliced into itty bitty pieces, and then blasted into oblivion. Justified though but sheesh.
  • The standard death in the series consists of people being vaporized, Cell’s death provides a horrifying visual of what happens to the victim.
  • Vegeta's preferred method of killing is the above-mentioned vaporization. From what we see of his victims, such as Nappa and Dodoria, they briefly suffer before they turn to dust. His execution of Zarbon is his most brutal kill because he blasts a hole through his body, cooking his insides and destroying his back, and then sends him flying into a watery grave.
  • The assistant of the guy who shot Bee. His death is by far one of the worst deaths in the show's history. Buu turns himself into ooze and forces himself down the man's throat and expands inside him till he explodes.
  • Before that, there was Spopovitch, whose death was especially gruesome. After Babidi no longer had any use for him he cast a spell on Spopovitch that caused his body to graphically swell up until he splattered apart. His distorted screams, bulging eyes, and gurgles of agony only made it worse. But given that he had previously inflicted heinous Cold-Blooded Torture upon a teenage girl, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
  • While we don't see exactly how he killed them, Babidi's ship is surrounded by the corpses of civilians. One memorable example was a dead farming family◊; the father had his arm torn off and head cut open, the child had apparently been bludgeoned to death, and the wife was bisected at the waist, with her intestines hanging out. Adding to this is that her legs aren't visible in the shot despite clearly being recently and messily separated, implying she survived long enough after being bisected to crawl away towards the corpses of her son and husband.
  • Babidi himself is grabbed by the throat by Buu, who squeezes hard enough that Babidi can't even speak while Buu carefully explains how screwed he is, and then has his head punched off. But it's not a clean energy blast decapitation/disintegration like many others in the series. Instead, Buu's fist simply obliterates the guy's skull, sending fragments of brain matter flying everywhere. We're then treated to a shot of his headless body, gushing blood from the neck and twitching in the torso and arms, implying that even after the decapitation Babidi was still alive like a headless chicken. After laughing a bit at his work, Buu then tosses the body into the air and finishes him off with a ki blast.
  • All the people sucked dry by Cell. Or in 17's case, swallowed whole.
  • All the people on planets during its destruction.
  • Getting Hakai by a God of Destruction, shows the victim being slowly disintegrated down to their soul.
• Elfen Lied:
  • Lucy/Nyu/Kaede uses her powers too much, with the predicted results of her body cells starting to disintegrate. Though the effect becomes apparent when one of her hands falls off, she decides to go down in a final battle than to live with the consequences of all her horrible deeds. When she finally gave up, what remained of her was only held in the air by her telekinetic powers with most of her body already liquefied or fallen off. During her dying speech she's covered by a jacket, as her face had started melting some time ago.
  • But seriously, which death sequence isn't cruel and unusual in Elfen Lied? Kisaragi-san (the poor clumsy secretary who's Too Dumb to Live) thinks she's going to die honorably when Lucy has her hostage... before Lucy pulls off her head and uses her body as a Human Shield.
  • Tomoo ends up on both ends. He subjects Kaede's dog to one by literally kicking it and then beating it to death For the Evulz seconds before Kaede destroys his body, first by detonating his head and then ripping the rest of his body into pieces. This fills him with such rage that Kaede is tormented by Tomoo's undead ghost in the next chapter.
• An anime/manga franchise well known for some gruesome ways to go is Fist of the North Star.
  • The main character's mastery of pressure points due to being trained in the horrifying kung fu form known as Hokuto Shinken means a punch in the right place can make your blood pool in disfiguring ways, causing you to scream in agony before Your Head Asplode. Other schools of martial arts in the series can be gruesome in other ways: such as being able to freely push your fingers through people (which was how Kenshiro got the Seven Scars), or using them like Razor Floss.
  • Special mentions go to Ryuga, whose martial arts style consists of scooping pieces out of people while they are still alive as though they were wet clay and making them suffer freezing cold before they die even though the series takes place in a post-apocalyptic desert, and the Colonel of Godland, who receives one of the most absurdly gruesome deaths in the manga when Kenshiro literally punches his entire skeleton out of him. All at once, still all in one piece.
  • The biggest example of this in the series, though, is Rei. He's the only hero to not leave a presentable corpse, on account of being killed by Raoh, who is just as deadly with Hokuto Shinken as Kenshiro himself. The manner in which he dies is also gruesome and inhumane; forcing all of the blood in his body to hemorrhage after three days, leaving him to dread his impending mortality.
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • The first Greed dies in a vat of molten metal. Laughing hysterically.
  • Scar's trademark Facepalm Of Doom. He uses alchemy to "deconstruct" a person's body, causing wounds to open up all over the body, followed by part of the body bloodily bursting. A few of his victims are described as being "in pieces, or getting that way."
  • Lust and Envy learn the hard way why you shouldn't piss off Roy Mustang. Though the latter was stopped from being killed finally. Envy's treatment is far worse. While Lust is merely hit with walls of flames until she dies, Envy has an outraged Mustang specifically target different parts of his body with pinpoint explosions, and even boils the fluid in his eyes multiple times before Envy commits suicide.
  • Additionally, the human villains who side with the Homunculi come to some very sticky ends as well. Not that they didn't deserve every single second of it, of course.
    • General Raven, the head of Central Command, gets stabbed through the arm by General Armstrong, slashed across the chest, and knocked into a cement foundation beneath Fort Briggs, which Olivier points out gives new meaning to his motto, the weak will provide the foundation for the strong.
    • Solf J. Kimblee gets his throat torn open by Heinkel, and left to bleed out while paralyzed. Then Pride walks over and proceeds to mock how ironically weak and lowly he was in the end, before slowly consuming him with his shadows and absorbing his soul for his Philosopher's Stone. It really does say something about Kimblee that he's able to keep up a grim smile when he shows up in Pride's mind later.
• In Gamaran, Muraku Matsumoto use his flail to whip the eyes out of some mooks. There's also Saizo the Ninja who paralyse and tortures to death some goons offscreen. Among various things, he turned their eyes into a pincushion.
• In Gankutsuou, corrupt banker Dangler is left adrift in space on an empty ship he can't steer to starve to death surrounded by his precious gold. Hanging Judge Villefort is poisoned by the illegitimate son he tried to kill at birth and left for his mind to slowly rot away in an asylum.
• There are quite a few in The Garden of Sinners, but the worst has got to be Cornelius Alba, who is eaten alive by one of Touko's creations. He deserved it, though.
• Gantz: The manga and anime is filled to the brim with this trope,as every member dies in the most brutal of fashions, such as having your head torn off, crushed, or broken, as well as being squashed, torn in half by a powerful alien acid, lasers slicing you to bits, impaled, being eaten alive, or being blown to bits, and that's doesn't even cover half of it...
• The Getter Robo series has numerous examples of such deaths. From people being assimilated forcibly by Invaders and then getting pulped by the Black Getter to unsuccessful Getter pilots who get crushed by failed combination attempts, there are many, many unpleasant ways to go. Even the villains aren't exempt — Invaders are subject to so much Getter radiation they spontaneously "over-evolve", develop cancer, and die, Dinosaur Empire warriors melt from exposure to Getter Radiation at various points, and various major enemies are destroyed in quite wince-worthy ways when they pick fights with the Getters. The most notable cruel and unusual death in the series was Musashi's, as he melts in the cockpit during his last stand.
• Goblin Slayer: when Goblin Slayer's party find themselves backed into a corner by a powerful goblin mage, the Priestess casts Purify to transform the goblin's blood into water, killing it almost instantly and very painfully. So grievous was this particular use of what should be a healing spell that the Priestess's patron goddess warned her that if she ever used Purify in this way ever again, her magical powers would be permanently revoked.
• Green Box: As shown on the news, targeted people get their entire flesh twisted until it's compacted into a cube.
• Hamatora is full of these. Its main antagonist Moral killed several people to rob them of their brains. He also places a bomb inside of one the people he wanted by his side. The same bomb explodes in season 1's finale covering everybody in the area with the victim's blood. In the sequel, Re: Hamatora, a man is given the ability to remove the blood from people's bodies.
• Hell Girl is all about this. Sure some more than deserve it, but the actual prerequisite for this to happen to you is that some one has to hate you enough to make a Deal with the Devil to send you to hell, no real reason needed.
• Hellsing in general loves this trope, with most of the more horrific deaths being courtesy of Alucard himself:
  • Rip Van Winkle is impaled through her breast with her own large-caliber smoothbore musket by Alucard and then eaten alive (plus the rather brutal rape implications).
  • Tubalcain Alhambra gets his knee smashed to smithereens, one arm split in half lengthwise, and is finally eaten alive and burned to ashes.
  • Luke Valentine is eaten alive and turned into a bloody smear by Alucard's Eldritch Abomination form after his legs are blown off. If that wasn't enough, Luke gets revived during the final battle between Walter and Alucard, only to be used (along with the demonic dog that ate him) as a gruesome puppet via Walter's wires — then killed again.
  • Zorin Blitz, an illusionist from the Quirky Miniboss Squad, has her head grated against a wall by a vamped-out and supremely pissed off Seras until only an ear and a tiny bit of lower jaw remains. By Kouta Hirano's account, she received a notably cruel death because he had grown to loathe drawing her.
  • Incognito from the first anime series gets the full Vlad the Impaler treatment from Alucard, getting impaled on a pole in vicious fashion just like the real Vlad did to his victims — namely into the groin and out the mouth.
  • Maxwell goes out in very karmic and very nasty fashion at the hands of Alucard's familiars, who skewer him alive with multiple spears.
• A lot of people in Hunter × Hunter die in nasty ways, but the Chimera Ant Pike's death takes the cake. Shizuku makes a bunch of small cuts on his body and uses Deme-chan to suck the blood out of his body. It's not very quick either. Zazan's death isn't much better. She gets slowly roasted alive by Feitan's "Pain Packer", a miniature sun that emits heat proportional to Feitan's pain.
• Most of the deaths in Innocents Shounen Juujigun apply. The fact that most of these poor souls are children makes it much worse.
  • Etienne: whipped, tied to a post, carvings cut into his chest, sent to wander the wilderness and die of starvation, and when all that finally failed, impaled through the middle and mounted on a post as an example.
  • Luc: Cornered by bandits in an attempt to protect the crusade's money. Shot through the chest with an arrow and halfway beheaded by a group of adult men more than twice his size.
  • Henri: Tortured, beaten to within an inch of his life for fighting back, thrown out with the trash, impaled through the neck in a botched suicide attempt, and finally finished off by one of his friends.
  • Christian: Impaled through the stomach with a large, wooden stake after Michael found out about his preferences. The part that really makes this gruesome is that is took the relatively tiny Michael a good couple tries to get the stake all the way through. Ouch.
  • Guillaume: Stabbed through the throat by Lillian in their death battle, and thrown out with the trash to succumb to his injuries.
  • Pierre: Sliced open by Guillaume (his best friend) in their death battle and left to bleed out on the floor, guts spilling out of him. Later thrown out with the trash as well.
  • Lillian: Had his left hand chopped off at the wrist by Guillaume in their death battle, and was impaled through the stomach as he did the same in self defense. Like the other two, was thrown out like garbage to die.
  • Remy: Succumbs to his leprosy after a three month trek with the crusades. What really makes his death horrifying is that, after yanking off his bandages while dying, we learn that his entire face has nearly rotted away, including a prominently missing nose.
• In Inuyashiki, Hiro kills a whole family just for entertainment, especially a young boy that was taking a bath with his father by letting him drown under the corpse of his father despite the father's sacrifice to try to spare him.
• Isabelle of Paris is a Shoujo anime, but it does not have a happy ending.
  • Marie is crushed to death by a chandelier, and unable to avoid it as she's tied to a chair. Her corpse then burns with the building as Léon is to grieved to move. Great work, Count Red!.
  • Jules and Geneviève are executed separately; the former through a firing squad in public because it's found out that he led La Résistance and the latter through the military firing upon Parisian civillians. Geneviève's child also dies with her.
• Jujutsu Kaisen has these examples:
  • In Chapter 6, some of the inmates from Eishuu Juvenile Detention Center are brutally murdered and parts of their bodies are crushed.
  • In Chapter 18, three high school students are found dead in a cinema, with their body parts deformed by a cursed spirit. A little bit subverted, however, as those three students are actually experiencing a Fate Worse than Death condition where their bodies are completely deformed but their consciousnesses are still alive.
  • In Chapter 27, Yuuji's friend, Junpei, is turned into a blob-like creature by a curse named Mahito, much to Yuuji's disgust and anger.
  • Gojo kills Hanami by using the Limitless to push him against the wall until he pops like a water balloon.
• Tomoe in Kamisama Kiss likes to turn people into a game animal of some kind and cook them alive.
• As Kemonozume can attest, turning into an Eldritch Abomination then getting eaten alive (on-screen) by the nice young woman you had helped out is not the nicest way to go.
• While the manner of deaths in The Kindaichi Case Files lessen in cruel category over the years, Murders Committed by Inspector Kenmochi is made in order to bring suffering for the victims. Three potential victims in this case committed violent tortures on a high school girl for a month three years prior to the case. The culprit who now target those three used several torturing methods they used as their manners of death. One victim was tied by tape inside a bathtub with filling water whose trick is even more of a torture because the water keeps flowing and the drain is unplugged until the murderer made it plugged from the distance (torture by drowning), another one was burned alive from a car explosion (the manga is more cruel by showing the victim actually jumping out from the car, rolling and writhing in agony asking for help, also torture by fire) and another one suffering a slow asphyxiation from hanging with his hands tied on the back (torture by hanging).
• La Seine No Hoshi: Count Crozier meets his end when he's trapped in a burning mansion and the ceiling collapses overhead. Given he's a Hate Sink who's willing to murder children, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
• Macross Plus: Movie Edition has Guld's Heroic Sacrifice. His organs are very graphically crushed by insane G-forces, and then his eyes pop out and he presumably just gives up and dies.
• The Gundam franchise is no stranger to brutal, horrific methods of death...
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED shows any victim of the Cyclops System being caught in a microwave field that makes them literally swell until they burst, their entire bodies popping like balloons. The Gamma Emission by Nuclear Explosion Stimulate Inducing System, or GENESIS, can do the same thing to any human being caught in the line of fire.
  • One notable example in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 showed Allelujah Haptism giving into his alter-ego as Hallelujah, then shifting his Gundam Kyrios' GN Shield into its claw mode to latch onto the Tieren unit of a very unlucky Lieutenant Ming; the concealed, superheated blade of the shield is then made to slowly penetrate the cockpit, melting its way in as Ming begs for his life. Hallelujah just mockingly taunts Ming with the inevitability of death before finally skewering him and causing Ming's Tieren to explode, but once Allelujah comes back to, he is horrified by what he just did.
  • Many in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, but especially anyone killed by the Gundam Gusion's giant scissor shield or Gundam Barbatos' wrench mace. Not only do the victims get bludgeoned horribly, they also get crushed. Alive. Inside the cockpits of their own Mobile Suits.
  • Even though she was just trying to save her dear Miorine, Suletta shocked viewers in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury's twelfth episode when she has the Aerial Rebuild pulverize a terrorist by slamming its hand down on the man, squashing him into a pool of blood.
• Naruto has several cases of nasty death, including...
  • Being ground to a paste by Gaara's sand and being trapped inside the puppet that suddenly becomes an iron maiden.
  • Hidan was blown to pieces and had his disembodied but still-living head buried.
  • And we have his partner, Kakuzu who had every cell of his body destroyed. Kakuzu himself also caused deaths like this when he ripped people's still beating hearts out.
  • Baki ripped off the sick Hayate Gekkou's chest at night-time. In the morning, his dead body was serving as food for crows.
  • The Nuibari and Shibuki which the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Hidden Mist use. The first is a giant needle which can pierce three people at once and then sew them together. And the second blasts a point-blank explosion right into the victim's faces.
  • Deidara's C4 will blow every cell in your body to dust.
  • His first partner Sasori; one cut and it will causes you to writhe in a painful paralysis for THREE DAYS before killing you.
  • Edo Tensei, judging by Fuu's screams is... "unpleasant" for the sacrifice.
  • While Tajiki was battling a reanimated Gari, he took a single punch from him, which turned out to be an instant bomb, blowing him up and scattering his remains in his friend's face.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • In End of Evangelion, Asuka and her EVA die messily at the hands of the Mass-Production EVA. At 300% synchronisation with her EVA (100% the level control and feedback one has with one's own body) she is impaled through the eye. Then all the Mass-Production EVA swoop down on Unit 02, tearing its armour off and tearing at its flesh with their hands and teeth, eating it alive and consequently rupturing her vital organs in unimaginable ways. When they're finished with her, Asuka is amazingly still alive. She reaches out to attack them with her good hand, glaring them down with her uninjured eye. Then an MP EVA throws its spear and splits Unit 02's arm... and Asuka's... and then the others throw throw their spears into Unit 02, skewering the hell out of it and finishing her off. Shinji gets a good look at the corpse when he emerges from NERV HQ in Unit 01. There's not much left... of Unit 02, Asuka, or poor Shinji's sanity by that point.
  • Evangelion Unit 03 is in each continuity beaten down and ripped apart by the Dummy Plug System controlling Unit 01 whilst Shinji begs his father to stop it. In the manga, the synced-in pilot gets it too — that would be Touji. In the anime, he's merely horribly wounded — though you can only see it in one scene (he's missing a leg).
• Reika in Ode to Kirihito has a stage act called the "Human Tempura", in which she repeatedly survives being coated in batter and fried due to her contortionist skills and impeccable timing. And then in her last performance, the 'spoon' breaks, causing her to get fried for real when she gets accidentally dropped back into the boiling oil. Thankfully we don't see the horrifying results inside the "dumpling".
• In One Piece:
  • Admiral Akainu decides to punish a deserter by melting him alive with Magma; offscreen though it may be, the event is still very disturbing. He also drives a magma-punch through Ace, burning his innards.
  • Big Mom's Establishing Character Moment has her eat some of her henchmen alive. We're mercifully spared from seeing the event, but the screams are terrifying enough. Not to mention the heavy and very disturbing implication that she ate her caretaker Mother Carmel and the children Carmel was also taking care of at the age of six, in a flashback to her past. Finally, those she doesn't eat or maul tend to instead get their lifespans literally ripped out by her Devil Fruit power, which is shown in rather unnerving detail when she kills Moscato in this manner. And that's not mentioning some of her kids, who enjoy such methods of execution as "mochi suffocation", "encased in candy that slowly converts you into more candy and then eaten" and "slowly burned alive by whipped cream so sweet it's caustic".
• In the world of Overlord (2012), you can be eaten by a girl's breasts, have your blood flying out from your wound or be eaten from within by cockroaches. Probably tons of other examples happen off-screen because of the guardian's cruelty or for experimentation.
• Lots of criminals from Psycho-Pass love making their victims into works of art. The deaths are so disturbing that some of them are only fully detailed in the novelization.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
  • Mami Tomoe has her head bitten off by a monstered-out Witch in the third episode. It's a moment that's equal parts Cruel and Unusual Death, nightmarish, and Tear Jerker. And the manga version isn't much better.
  • The Puella Magi Oriko Magica manga deals several of these, like Yuma's abusive parents being melted alive by a witch, sweet Kazuko-sensei being chomped on by another witch's familiars in front of her students until only a bone remains of her, or Madoka being impaled in the chest with a HUGE shard of said another witch's body.
• Episode 3 of Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace features a pedophile named Watanuki who kidnapped several elementary school girls and forced them to become his "daughters". Any of the girls who didn't want this had their bodies crushed and cement poured over their corpses and then hung on a wall like paintings.
• Sieg Hart from Rave Master who slowly starves to death and could have avoided the situation by opting out of helping the male and female lead. He's the only character who appears in more than just flashbacks to die in any way other than instantly, and the only former villain to die who doesn't really count as a Redemption Equals Death victim, since he redeems himself 19 volumes before he bites it.
• Re:Zero is full of these. Quite a few are inflicted on Subaru, since his main power is "Return By Death". Whether it’s being sliced open and having his organs “caressed” as he dies, having his limbs sliced off before being killed, or even being Eaten Alive by a swarm of Killer Rabbits, Subaru suffers increasingly worse deaths as the story goes on. Even worse, because of Subaru's aforementioned power, he has the added misfortune of actually remembering all of his deaths in vivid detail, which takes its toll on him.
• In the Sailor Moon manga, running afoul of Sailor Venus tends to end in death... And messy ones at that:
  • The Crescent Beam is the finisher she uses in Codename: Sailor V, usually a One-Hit Kill... But some particularly strong youma survive, and thus slowly melt until finished off by the Crescent Shower of Love. Venus herself is openly disgusted the first time this happens.
  • In one occasion, Sailor V killed a group of youma not with the Crescent Beam but with the Crescent Boomerang... That is, throwing her compact at them and see them being cut by its razor-sharp edges, suffering such damage they just melt.
  • Wan-Wan was sentenced to Harakiri... And then Venus visually cut him in half.
  • Chuu-Chuu was a mosquito youma... So she was hit by magically overpowered anti-mosquito incense and suffucated.
  • Danburite was hit by the Crescent Beam and didn't die immediately. Not being a youma he did not melt... But slowly disintegrated.
  • Her first kill in the main series is Zoisite, who is hit by the Crescent Boomerang... But as he's not a youma, Venus has the attack hit him multiple times and cuts him into pieces.
  • All of the above have been attacks where Sailor Venus was trying to take down an enemy as quickly as possible, without feeling hatred or anything but a wish to get it done. Queen Beryl, on the other hand, got her angry... And Venus brutally disemboweled her. This is made worse by the simple fact it's the second time it happened: in their past lives Beryl got Venus angry once again for being responsible of the fall of the Silver Millennium and princess Serenity's suicide, so Sailor Venus cut her open and left her for dead.
• Saint Seiya has more than one example of this trope.
  • Auriga Capella's death is one of these... His favoured weapon is a pair of shields attached to his armor, which can be also thrown as projectiles and always come back to him — so far so good, huh? Well, Phoenix Ikki uses his Mind Rape powers to trick the guy into cutting off his own hands with said disks/shields (on screen, no Gory Discretion Shot here... which considering this is a TV series of The '80s... hardcore for the day), and goes further when Capella ends up even more Hoist by His Own Petard by having said shields fatally impale him in the chest and stomach before he falls off the cliff he and Ikki were fighting on. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! URGH.
  • And that's in the TV series/early manga. The Hades Saga has Frog Zelos killing Camus, a Golden Saint who's An Ice Person, and then facing Camus's very pissed off disciple Cygnus Hyoga, who performs his ultimate technique Aurora Execution. However, Zelos is still alive after receiving it... then he tries to move despite being a borderline Human Popsicle at this point, breaking his frozen feet off before falling down and shattering. Can we say, "Yikes"?
• School Days pulls this on two of its lead characters in the last episode of the anime. First, Makoto is viciously stabbed to death by Sekai in a fit of jealousy. Then, Kotonoha confronts Sekai, having taken Makoto's head and stuffed it in a bag, and calls out Sekai's claim of being pregnant with Makoto's child before slashing her throat, then cutting her open to confirm that she's "empty inside".
• Norio from Shadow Star was crippled by having his tendons cut, then was raped, castrated, eviscerated, injected with drugs to make sure he don't slip away by losing consciousness and finally decapitated, all done by a thug that had no relation to the plot and killed Norio for no other reason than satisfying his sadistic urges. And to top it off Norio could defend himself from most of that if only he had recalled his Shadow Dragon back to his side, instead throughout all the agony inflicted upon him he was concentrating on making that Shadow Dragon defend the girl who was the love interest of the guy he was in love with and his last thoughts before his death were that he won't be able to tell his love interest his true feelings anymore.
• Episode 25 of Space Adventure Cobra has the villain dunk his sexy bikini clad henchwoman into liquid nitrogen then smashes her to pieces, Cobra nearly suffers the same fate but his robot Lady is able to save him and gets his doctor friend to unthaw him.
• Spy X Family: Knocker, the assassin disguised as a room service worker gets one of Yor's daggers right through the head, pinning him to a wall. His feet are shown twitching after this, for his sake hopefully just post-death spasms.
• Self-inflicted example in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime when Smug Super Master Swordsman Kyoya finally met his match against Old Master Hakurou. Getting his head cut off would have been fairly quick and painless normally, but he had the Super-Reflexes skill [Hyperspeed Thought] active, meaning his thought process was so hyper-accelerated that from his perspective, his death took fifteen whole minutes.
• Tokyo Ghoul is a series about creatures that eat humans, and are particularly difficult to kill due to their Healing Factor. Horrible deaths are to be expected.
  • The other two "Guests" invited to the "dinner" at the Ghoul Restaurant, along with Kaneki. The man is hacked to pieces, while the woman is thrown face down onto a grill and cooked Teppanyaki-style.
  • Rize specialized in inflicting these, often slowly torturing her victims before eating them.
  • Victims of the One-Eyed Owl were said to die slow, painful deaths before having the mangled pieces of their bodies scattered all around the area.
  • The victims of Donato Porpora were said to be tortured brutally prior to being eaten. What makes it truly cruel was that he pretended to be a Catholic Priest, and ran an orphanage where the children adored their beloved "Father". Then, one by one, he would tell the children they had been adopted and take them away.....
  • In the sequel, Serial Killer "Torso" is revealed to enjoy terrorizing his victims before cutting off their limbs, and their heads. It's probably better not to think of what he did with their bodies, though.
  • Also in the sequel, a female Ghoul is nicknamed "Nutcracker" for her preferred method of killing her male victims. She also kills a woman by eating her face off.
• As a story set in the European Middle Ages, Wolfsmund features many cruel executions, mostly courtesy of Wolfram. To give you an example, two victims are fed to a pack of wild wolves. Wolfram himself falls victim to this after he's defeated and captured by Swiss rebels. More specifically, he's slowly Impaled with Extreme Prejudice via a stake being pounded through his rear end.
• In Yuureitou, Rika tied her mother to the hands of a clock tower, and she died when her back broke. Two years later, someone else begins repeating her actions.
• YuYu Hakusho
  • Karasu inflicts one of these on another competitor in the Dark Tournament, causing localized explosions to remove his opponent's arms in an excruciatingly painful manner, before blowing his head off.
  • Around the time of the Dark Tournament, Kurama begins favoring slipping the seeds of magical plants into his opponents bodies and letting them die when the plant starts tearing through their bodies and draining their energy.

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