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Individual examples:
- Turning Point: Dracula surmises one of these for the old healer that had Lisa accused of witchcraft.Dracula: They tried to burn her alive, and so I think I will leave you alive also. I will spike you up that you might live for hours. Or, mmm. The rain shows no sign of stopping. Perhaps I will force your mouth open to the sky. You cretins like to baptize your witches with fire, but of course, you are a good, faithful woman, aren't you? So let us see how long until you drown.
Crossovers
- Child of the Storm
- Gravemoss as a one... man vehicle of this. In one scene, he internally ratchets up the horror of the death of some poor HYDRA Mook who's had the misfortune to be deemed expendable and sent as an errand boy and the even greater misfortune to annoy Gravemoss, who decides to feed him to zombified rats to see if they devour living flesh faster.
- Then there's the creation of the veidrdraugar, which involves Gravemoss ripping out the victim's heart and replacing it with dark magic. He then bloods his new pets by setting them on a young family driving home for Christmas. As for what happens... well, even Lucius Malfoy, who barely considers Muggles worthy of notice and sees them as akin to animals, is horrified. There are some things you don't do, even to animals.
- In a more subdued, mundane, and arguably more horrifying variant, Luna Lovegood, the last person in all the world who deserves it, gets hit by a stray bullet and winds up choking to death on her own blood.
- In Ghosts of the Past, Wanda fulfills her promise to reduce Sinister to screaming molecules, effectively melting him. He deserves it, but damn...
- Crossoverpairinglover could alternatively be called Crueldeathlover. Characters he doesn't like have a tendency to die horribly; Cornelius Fudge gets 'death by dragon', he comments that the children of Artemis created by the splinter cell of the House of Life died of both rape and Holocaust style gas (by a Nazi), has Lagoon Boy eaten by the Light and has more planned.
- Dante's Night at Freddy's: As is true to the canon of Five Nights at Freddy's, the animatronics of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza seek to do this to Dante, but he ends up inflicting it on all of them instead.
- Fate of the Clans: All or nearly every character who dies goes out in a not-so-desirable way. This excludes any who were Impaled with Extreme Prejudice.
- Okada slices Reisi's legs off and just leaves him to die.
- Kuroh has his belly sliced open so his intestines would spill out.
- Okada cuts Ichigen's throat open.
- Okada cuts up an unknown number of U-ranks from JUNGLE.
- Douhan gets sliced into bloody chunks by Okada.
- When Cú Chulainn Alter rips Mikoto's heart out, he actually makes the hand holding the heart emerge out the man's back.
- Mordred gets her spirit core ripped out then her head cut off by Cú Chulainn Alter.
- Cú Chulainn Alter causes spikes to burst from Iskandar's chest.
- Tenkei is cursed to have his organs eaten up inside his body.
- Cú Chulainn Alter's claws rip into Tamamo's brain.
- Hail to the King (Thuktun Flishithy) (Godzilla & Neon Genesis Evangelion): Seems to be fond of this trope:
- Godzilla rips off one of Sachiel's arms and beats it viciously before the Angel self-destructs.
- Megaguirus is Eaten Alive by a berserk Unit-01.
- Titanosaurus has its jaws broken, its cybernetic arm ripped off and shoved down its throat, and said arm's arsenal detonated by a healthy dose of atomic breath, pulping its insides.
- A Man of Iron (Marvel Comics & A Song of Ice and Fire):
- The second book, A Crack of Thunder, has two such deaths in the same chapter — first, Myranda has her eyes sealed shut with wax and her tongue ripped out after she insulted Asha, and then dies from Vanko wrapping his lightning whip around her neck until the burns kill her. Then Ramsay is whipped repeatedly until the pain and blood loss kills him.
- Later on in Crack, Thor delivers particularly vicious deaths to the men trying to rape Jane on Amora's orders. The first gets struck by lightning strong enough to explode his eyes and balls and set him on fire before Thor rips his heart out, the second one gets all his bones broken before Thor tears out his intestines to literally strangle him with them, and the last one suffers a Blood Eagle
. - Amora herself. Shireen Baratheon puts one of her eyes out with a thrown brand, Loki cuts off one of her hands, then pours venom from one of Skadi's serpents over her face, destroying it, and finishes it with a spear through her stomach. And he states that since Asgardians enter the afterlife in the condition they died in, Amora will spend forever deprived of her beautiful face. A fitting fate for such a Vain Sorceress.
- Rather than succumbing to poison, Joffrey is stabbed in the lung. As such, he's left to slowly choke to death on his own blood.
- This is a common trope in My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator (Doom (2016), Darksiders & My Hero Academia), though some deaths do stand out the most.
- In Chapter 16, Nine and his three lieutenants bite the dust at the hands of the Slayer, and they deserved everything they got.
- Slice has her hair ripped off along with her face and eyelids before her head is reduced to paste.
- Mummy has one of his legs blown off, then his throat cut to the point of near decapitation, before being torn in half. And to add insult to injury, his head is impaled on an iron bar.
- Chimera is completely shredded by the Slayer's Chaingun.
- And lastly, Nine gets his Taurus Raging Judge revolver shoved down his throat and the trigger pulled, blowing his brains out.
- In Chapter 18, the Slayer applies this to Wolfram's goons.
- Specs has his brain ripped out before being torn in half vertically.
- Swordkill has his arms ripped off before being decapitated with them.
- Nobu is disemboweled before being hurled into one of Daigo's attacks, decapitating him.
- And lastly, Daigo has his arm broken and the broken bone shoved through his skull like a makeshift shiv.
- In Chapter 19, Wolfram meets this fate after a thoroughly infuriated Slayer destroys his golem of junk and proceeds to explode his organs in an infuriated stomp before headbutting him to oblivion. So brutal was this death that the story even described Wolfram's face as a dropped pie at one point.
- In Chapter 16, Nine and his three lieutenants bite the dust at the hands of the Slayer, and they deserved everything they got.
- Origin Story (Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Power Girl): After Bullseye almost kills Louise in an assassination attempt that is actually directed at Alex Harris, Alex punches Bullseye in the forehead so hard his adamantium skull is caved in, his eyes explode out of his skull, and his brain liquifies. Just goes to show that it doesn't pay to piss off a Kryptonian.
- Rabbit of the Moon (Bloodborne & Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?): In trying to reason with Gascoigne, Bell is exhausted to the point of helplessness when the Old Hunter transforms into a Beast and pounces on him. Bell's eyes are gouged first by the Beast's claws. He then feels himself being eviscerated, screaming all the while until the Beast tears out his throat.
- The Reaping of Hatsune Miku: Honki Kaito dies when a shipping container for frozen goods lands... around him. It doesn't crush him; it traps him inside until he freezes to death.
- Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights (Massive Multiplayer Crossover): Viluy has her eye split open and her throat ripped by an enraged Alph in wolf form... but Viluy is the very definition of an Asshole Victim, so nobody feels too bad about it.
- Later, all of Viluy's former comrades in the Witches 5 are subjected to comprably horrible ends, which are just as richly deserved. To wit: Eudial is lured by Madoka Kaname into an arrow trap which turns her into a Human Pincussion, Homura Akemi shoots Cyprine through the head at contact range and then burns her body for good measure, Tellu has half of her Fusion Dance One-Winged Angel form destroyed and then what little is left of her is slowly and painfully dissolved into dust, and Mimete seemingly escapes from Madoka and Homura but is done in by a C4 explosive that Homura stuck to her back unawares.
- Wizard Runemaster (Harry Potter & World of Warcraft): When Harry Potter and company get visions of their lives had Harry not been summoned to Azeroth, each of view the particularly nasty deaths they would have suffered.
- Arko would have had her soul destroyed in a demonic ritual.
- Jessir would have died fighting C'thun.
- Kudrii would have been raped and killed by bandits.
- Disidra would have been Eaten Alive by Gruul.
- Onyxia would die to Stormwind soldiers.
- Sylvanas would have been the last of her people to be killed by the Iron Horde.
- Ysondre would be killed by Horde adventurers.
- Colette Blaumeux would survive the fall of Naxxramas only to be reabsorbed into Frostmourne.
- Lastly, Fleur would have been captured and tortured to death.
- Alternative Class Despair: Since it's a Danganronpa story, all of the executions fall into this trope.
- "Blast Off!": Remains the same as canon, only with Teagan as the victim rather then Jin.
- "Tonight's Special!": Teruteru is placed onto a large tray, upon which he is covered in food. After being buried, he is then forced into an oven, which cooks him to death.
- "Getting Medieval On Your Ass!": Fuyuhiko starts out chained up, before he approached by two Monokumas wielding bats, who proceed to beat him with them. After this, he is placed on a table, with a vise around his head. The Monokumas then tighten the vise, causing his left eye to pop out. Finally, he is driven off a makeshift cliff by a Monokuma.
- "Dance of Despair": Hiyoko is standing over a spike pit, with a series of wooden platforms being her only way to the exit. She has to dance her away across. When she nearly reaches the exit, the final platform breaks, causing her to fall into the spikes.
- The Wattpad-hosted Continuation trilogy Danganronpa: Memento Mori, Danganronpa: Komm Susser Tod and Danganronpa: Paradise Lost contains some rather brutal executions:
- In Memento Mori, Prison Escape Artist Ren is, in sequence, hanged, electrocuted and guillotined, airsoft player Yura is tied to a post and pulverized via minigun fire, Depraved Dentist Luka gets her limbs chewed on by several pairs of chattering teeth before being Stripped to the Bone by a wave of acid, snowboarder Yukiharu is engulfed by an avalanche to the extent that only his frost-bitten hands remain, and prosecutor Ayane is restrained to a chair and subsequently crushed by a giant gavel. Averted with Naoya, who decides to peacefully refuse to escape the Nautilus and drowns as it is flooded.
- As for Komm Susser Tod, bartender Shuya is forced to drink increasingly high levels of alcohol before being tricked into shooting himself in the head, heavy metal musician Usagi is locked in a giant wicker statue of a rabbit and burnt alive à la The Wicker Man (1973), baker Nanae is dumped into a vat of chocolate to be grinded up and mixed into cookies, and clockmaker Kira is repeatedly Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by spears and left to bleed out in her best friend Asuka's arms. Subverted for luchador Tetsuo, who goes out with some dignity, remaining standing as he succumbs to his wounds, and averted with kidnapper Sasuke, who is simply crushed underneath a chunk of debris.
- Paradise Lost is no stranger to inventive and gruesome executions: game show host Takeshi is forced into a Monty Hall Problem that culminates in him consuming tablets causing him to swell up and graphically explode, badminton player Ayaka is shot in both of her knees and blown up by an explosive shuttlecock, televangelist Yashiro is crucified, stabbed with spears and then dropped into a fiery pit, weightlifter Goh is crushed under an excessively large amount of weight, stalker Noriko is shot in the heart with an arrow freezing her, before she is then shattered into a million pieces, and cellist Momiji goes through all of them, one after another, alongside an adapted version of her sister Kaede's execution involving her being dragged across cello strings.
- In Danganronpa Rewound Despair, Kotohiko Maizono is liquified by acid and made into printer ink, after having accidentally killing Tokiya Souda with a giant fan that mangled him into a bloody pulp. Koichi Kizakura has his leg caught in a bear trap before his death of unknown causes.
- True to canon, I'd Trade My Life For Yours has these in abundance. Shuichi is shot in the leg, then bludgeoned, stabbed, and lastly shot with a heated arrow, incinerating him from the inside out. Korekiyo receives his canon demise of being boiled alive and then having his soul melted with salt. Angie is slathered with hot wax and shattered. Miu is put into a breaking wheel and beheaded. Kokichi is burned at the stake, but poisons himself beforehand to try and avoid the pain.
- The Outcasts has a few cruel and unusual executions up its sleeve. For example, chemist Kaoru is locked in a glass box and suffocated via toxic gases, seamstress Christina is impaled by a sewing needle going up from her spine to her throat, and stage actor Sora is stoned to death.
- Point of Divergence: In true Danganronpa fashion, all of the executions are gruesome.
- Chapter 1's killer, the Imposter, is placed in a hall of mirrors, where he sees every disguise he's ever taken, along with the real Togami, who commands the reflections to stab him to death.
- Chapter 2's killer, Hiyoko is forced to dance for everyone she ever bullied, until the stage she's dancing on is dissolved, causing her to fall into a pit of acid. All the while, everyone in the audience is shooting at her.
- Chapter 3's killer, Kazuichi is strangled by his true love, Junko.
- Chapter 4's killer, Mahiru is mauled to death by a hoard of Monobears.
- Chapter 5's killer/victim, Nagito is strapped to a dart board and is shot at by everyone who died in the plane crash, including his parents. It goes until either he's fatally shot or the dartboard blows up.
- Three-Point Shot:
- Tsumugi is trapped in a box and then ripped limb from limb with garrote wires.
- Tenko gets slammed against a loose plank, which in turn slams her repeatedly against scrap metal until she's nothing but a bloody smear.
- Angie gets struck by lightning to fall into a volcano-
- Miu gets crushed and melted like scrap metal.
- Kokichi gets sliced up with a sword suspended from the ceiling.
- A New Hope... oh boy.
- We start with Rantaro being made to climb an icy mountain and being hacked to death by Monokumas with pickaxes.
- From there, Angie is drowned and burned alive in a flow of hot wax.
- Tsumugi is spun on a roulette wheel, and has her limbs sawn away and her head sliced open (and it's implied this was meant for Celestia).
- Yasuhiro falls off a giant tarot card onto spikes.
- Mondo is torn apart by motorcycles at high speed.
- Korekiyo is eaten alive by scarabs.
- Sayaka and Sonia are trapped in iron maidens.
- Gonta is repeatedly shot with a nail gun.
- Where Talent Goes to Die:
- Sprinter Akito Sakuragi is ran over by a steamroller.
- Proofreader Reiko Mitamura is crucified, impaled by a paintbrush, and finally crushed by a stamp.
- Astronomer Sora Hoshino is set ablaze via sunlight reflected from a giant magnifying glass.
- Rock climber Daichi Fukuda falls to his death after the cliff he was forced to climb is blown up.
- Waitress Anzu Sugiura is force-fed poison and simultaneously attacked by several poisonous animals, left to succumb to them.
- And the kicker? The mastermind, Sousuke Kagami goes through all of the above.
- Silent Partner, Unfinished Business: Light Yagami is compelled by the Death Note to drown himself in an unflushed toilet. Just as he planned. It may not have been the best plan, but he didn't have time for a better one.
- Fairest (Afterandalasia) is a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs fanfic based on the ending for the Brothers Grimm version. The Evil Queen is forced into red-hot shoes. Snow White tells her that she'll save her if the Evil Queen dances for her, but it's implied to be an empty gesture. The Evil Queen dies of her injuries, but, unlike in the original, it's Played for Horror.
- Quite a few disturbing examples in The Lion King Adventures:
- Zazu has all the bones in his body crushed by the Writer.
- Ugaidi and Sarafina have their souls burned into nothingness.
- The Hermit of Hekima has his soul ripped clean from his body.
- The Family of Blood melt away into piles of bones.
- Another Day in Bluffington Duology: As revealed in "The Convert, Percy Femur died of alcohol poisoning from a vodka-soaked tampon that Roger shoved up his rectum.
- Authors Of Our Own Fate: Has Kemal Pamuk die of a heroin overdose induced by John Bates on Sybil Crawley's orders after he tried (unsucessfully) to rape Mary Crawley. We get to see his thoughts as he dies.
- Requiem: Poor, poor Chet Kelly. Pinned by a flaming beam while fighting a fire and burned over 70% of his body, a fatal thing in The '70s without today's technology. The worst part? He's fully conscious almost until the end. He's fully feeling the agonizing pain of the areas that still have nerves to feel it with and fully aware he's about to die. He only slips into a morphine coma right near the end.
- A Brighter Dark: Every death has a high probability of being this. People who die rarely ever die in a way that would be seen as pleasant. Being stabbed is portrayed as extremely painful leaving the victim shocked and horrified before they finally close their eyes, electrocution leaves body spasming and drooling even after their heart stopped, and being set on fire is... well, not fun.
- Five Nights At Freddy's: Lost Souls: While it's never shown what exactly the entity does to its victims, the brief shot of the bleeding deer implies that it violently mauls them.
- Danganronpa: In Harmony's Wake (Danganronpa & My Little Pony: Equestria Girls): The deaths start strong with Wallflower Blush having her brain stem broken via beating the inside of her throat with a long, narrow piece of ice. Then Timber Spruce is hacked apart with a chainsaw, Apple Bloom impaled by a spear like a shish kabob, Sweetie Belle gutted before landing on a bed of spikes, Fluttershy shot to pieces by gatling guns, Pinkie Pie half-baked to death in a sauna and then finished off with an overdose of drugs, Twilight Sparkle tortured with magic until she's lit on fire. Rainbow Dash bleeds to death from a pair of ice skates cutting open her femoral arteries, Flash initially seems to die from a burst spleen only to be saved from death just so he can be beaten to death by a zombified Rainbow Dash, Adagio Dazzle gets her senses overwhelmed then stabbed in the back of the neck, and finally Trixie is subjected to fireworks explosions until she's blasted into the sky and is chomped in half by a giant magical firework monster.
- Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons (Fallout & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): This story is chock full of these, starting with Scootle getting torn in half by ghouls a la Captain Rhodes. It gets worse from there.
Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
- An Empire of Ice and Fire:
- Medger Cerwyn is burned alive on Viserys' orders.
- Littlefinger doesn't get to go out with something as simple as a slit throat like in canon. Instead, he's mauled to death by Ghost.
- The Mountain and the Wolf:
- Gregor Clegane had his teeth punched out before the Wolf's thumbs burst through his temples and then eyes.
- Ramsay gets utterly humiliated, brutally overpowered and beaten down before being flayed alive and emasculated.
- Baelish is stabbed in the back and has his throat slit by the man he intended to betray during a Hope Spot, and the last thing he sees is Arya smiling at him.
- Euron gets his ass handed to him twice by the Wolf, nearly killed several times by Warp daemons but sadistically rescued just in time, and then is brutally castrated and slowly drowned near the very islands where he was crowned King.
- Robb Returns: One old Ironborn was claiming that he was going to take his ship to help the North. Damphair kills him by nailing two Weirwood stakes through his eyes.
- The wonderfully cathartic death of Littlefinger in Sean Bean Saves Westeros. After he tries to kidnap Sansa, Sandor guts him like a pig then pisses down his throat.
- Fates Gambit (fic here): Lucius Malfoy is fleeing through the Quibbler printing room after murdering Xenophilius Lovegood when his hair gets caught in a printing press; he is subsequently pulled into the machine to be crushed and mangled.
- My Immortal: Ebony kills Snaketail by stabbing him in the heart. Sounds normal, right? Well, the author forgot that the only weapon Ebony had on her possession was a gun.
- Hivefled has a lot. Special mention probably goes to Dualscar, who was shot with a gun lodged somewhere very unpleasant; Vanate, who died when his body's attempts to expel the tainted water he'd drunk expelled most of his intestines with it; and Rasasi, who was drowned in a bucket of "genetic material" (read: the troll equivalent of semen).
- Phoenix Fire (fic here): Mercury casually mentions how he once promised some pirates that had captured him that if they let him go, they would each receive a necklace made of gold, and that after they did, they would want to give it back to him, but he would not let them give it back until they learned to "breathe water". Accordingly, after he was released, he gathered his troops, captured the pirates, bound their hands and feet, put a heavy golden necklace on each of them and then drowned them in shallow water.
- The Stronger Evil: When Daolon Wong makes the mistake of trying to enact Revenge by Proxy on Shendu by shooting his Love Interest Valerie, Shendu flies into a blind rage and repeatedly slams the dark wizard into the ground, reducing him to a bloody pulp. And then he tears what's left in half.
- Ambience: A Fleet Symphony: Even by the usual standards of War Is Hell, the Re-class is prone to killing people in an excessively brutal, gory and visceral manner. Impalements, limb removals, biting and eating people... You name something, it's done it.
- In the infamous Kimagure Orange Road Revenge Fic, Revenge Road, Hikaru, after having snapped out due to being rejected by Kyousuke and trying one last time to get with him, decides to serve up a heaping helping of horrificness. After shooting Madoka in the head, she proceeds to stab Kyousuke in the throat before violently torturing him to death with knives.
- The Vow: Lord Shen kills Lord Juan this way: after the pheasant is pinned to the ground by a knife thrown through his wing to the ground and Shen's iron claws dug into his stomach, his tail feathers are cut from the root and discarded in a heap to the ground, and a slice of his throat ends it. It also has Death by Irony vibes in it because the blade used for the last two aforementioned parts was given to Shen by Lady Lianne, Juan's fiancée.
- The Legend Of Link Lucky Number 13 (Fic here):
- Fate attempts to defeat God of Fear Link by extending magical threads from his body into every living creature across all of reality to suck out their souls for a power boost. Link responds by removing Fate's godhood and immortality, causing each thread to snap off one by one... each taking a piece of the former god with them. Apparently the pain drove him so irrevocably insane that it actually stuck with him into the afterlife.
- Also, Link kills Rampart by sticking him to the floor with a sword and then overloading his mind and body (in a sort of Exposition Beam combo) with all the rage, hate and despair he felt over seeing his son's murdered corpse, causing the poor kid to cry tears of blood while his scorched heart blasts right out of his chest and the back of his head explodes.
- Hadrian is killed when the shadow demon forces his body to melt away into sand.
- Link (again) kills a bunch of guards by driving them into a fear-induced frenzy and forcing them to eat each other.
- A Crooked Man:
- Johann turns Norman Osborne into sand.
- Dr. Abraham Cornelius is forced fed with molten adamantium.
- The Purifers are crucified.
- Malcolm Colcord is suffocated to death from all of his orifices being sealed up.
- Mass Effect: End of Days:
- A former slave takes revenge by shooting his former master in the belly and leaving him to die of infection in a dark cell, alone. And reminding him he has a family, and his estate also has slaves to be liberated.
- Not to mention Diana Allers, after going missing in Batarian Space.
They'd made her eat her own eyes. Then they had started working on her for real. - Weightless:
- In ME2, Sidonis can be killed by a shot to his head, but in the fic ", Shepard first led him to believe that he is gonna escape safely before letting Garrus beat him to a pulp with his bare hands while reminding him how it feels to trust someone only to get betrayed. His life finally ends with a throat slash from inside out.
- Before that, Shepard kill the volus who acted as Fade for Harkin by severing his intake atmospheric pressure compressor. He imploded before the oxygen had time to poison his blood.
- Jack killed Warden Kuril (she probably had tortured him first) by ripping his body into two with her biotics.
- Ghost/Kai Leng strapped young Shepard's doctor to the chair where she had taken her treatment and let her burn him alive.
- Mierin's artery was served as her leg crushed beneath a crate. They had to amputate it then or she would burn. Melanis cauterized it with her omniblade, but the vein had already retracted up into her thigh so she lose all of her blood without spilling a drop.
- In Spellbound (Lilafly), Felix is invited to a fae revel, and can't easily get out of the invitation. He gets to see firsthand what the fae consider to be entertainment, such as people being force-fed addictive fruit and transformed into animals that are then chased down by gleeful hunting parties. What really traumatises him, though, is the girl he was tasked with rescuing; before he can get her out, she spots a white horse, and despite begging her, Felix can't persuade her to follow him instead of the horse. As soon as she touches the kelpie, her hand sticks to its hide, and it pulls her screaming under the mud, where it proceeds to eat her. The girl finds the whole experience so horrible that after she dies, her disembodied soul begs Felix to devour it and put her out of her misery.
- Just a Child features the death of a missing girl who was ripped open and had everything inside of her removed from her body.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- Monster X dishes out some of these during the story, particularly to Alan Jonah's men early on — ripping them in half, reducing them to unrecognizable viscera, blowing them away with lightning — not to mention the Rasputinian Death Monster X delivers to MaNi/Elder Brother. It's also confirmed in the story that Vivienne didn't die too quickly when Ichi/Eldest Brother ate her alive in Antarctica.
- This Recursive Fanfiction short by cowabungaitis sees Jonah's men use a modified Active Denial System on a group of Disposable Vagrants who were doused in gasoline at full power, microwaving and liquifying their internal organs.
- Besides the Will of Evil: This is what Reiziger does to Chrysalis when she attempts to betray him. He burns her alive, and the story makes it abundantly clear what a horrible, agonizing death that is.
- I Did Not Want To Die (fic here)'': An absolutely heartbreaking example of this. The protagonist is shot early in the story and spends the rest of it gradually bleeding to death, regretting his life and early death.
- In MLP Collateral Damage, Queen Chyrsalis inflicts this upon Thermal Soar, specifically to test the loyalty of Princess Ceymi and impress upon her the Queen's absolute power over life and death within the Hive. It is so terrible that it triggers Ceymi's Heroic BSoD, in part because it coincides with Ceymi's Love Epiphany regarding Thermal Soar.
- In Pages Of Harmony, in order to extract the Elements of Harmony Twilight has killed characters through Mind Rape (eventually causing Rainbow Dash to be Driven to Suicide through Autocannibalism, skinning, Electric Torture, one certain pony being killed by their sibling through having their skull sliced in half, a spell that causes a pony's flesh to melt and fire to burn from inside their bodies, and putting Fluttershy through an alphabetical list of tortures from A to Z. And Twilight has a certain reason for performing these acts, and it is not pretty.
- Popped: Applejack and Rainbow Dash eventually find themselves beheaded and buried alive, respectively.
- Pony POV Series:
- Dark World is full of this, including Discord having thrown one in a giant blender and more or less everything Fluttercruel does. By present Discord has long since tried to stop doing this, but Nightmare Eclipse copy and pastes them from past loops to force him to.
- Discord, when enraged at her effectively humiliating him, killed Mimic by turning her bones to glass and pulverizing her at super sonic speeds into the ground.
- Your Human And You : The Archmage paralyzes Dusty Withers before slowly draining the blood from her body, while she is still conscious.
- A Growing Affection: Kills Madara by slowly disintegrating him in an artificial black hole.
- In Happy Familes Are All Alike (fic here) we don't know how Tsunade died, only that Orochimaru was responsible for it, that it was very messy, and that Shizune saw the whole thing and won't talk about it. It gave Kakashi nightmares just looking at the aftermath.
- Always Visible: Unlike the film, Delia dies, and her death is unexpected even for the characters themselves, especially Galbraith. It’s not surprising, because she simply had her uterus removed...
- Rise of the Galeforces: Mr. Ludlow, after about a dozen chapters of making everyone's lives hell, runs afoul of three ravenous and extremely angry baby tyrannosaurs — and at Violet's kill command, they eat him alive without hesitation. Granted, most of the casualties aren't for the faint of heart to stomach, but this one goes the extra mile by not only occurring in front of the entire cast, but also taking up four paragraphs of exquisitely horrifying detail with absolutely NO Gory Discretion Shot at ALL!
- Latias' Journey:
- Early on, Latias reduces a living Skarmory down to liquid metal.
- Ein's head explodes Scanners-style.
- The major members of Team Rocket are trapped in a virtual reality prison by Mewgle with the task of reaching the exit alive; all of them, save Jessie and James, die horrible deaths. Amongst them are Cassidy getting torn in two and eaten by Mewgle, Oakley executed in a Saw-esque death trap, and the Iron Masked Marauder getting his face chewed off by a living mask.
- Deoxys transports the world's leading authorities in just about everything into a giant cage and airs their getting crushed to death on live television.
- The female Ho-Oh betrays the other Chosen to become immortal, but makes the deal with Dark Latios, a sadistic little bastard. Dark Latios rips out Ho-Oh's skeleton, killing her instantly, then devours her body and promises that she'll remain immortal as long as he endlessly recycles her.
- Meowth gets eaten by a mutated Chimecho, and the heroes present witness the digestion process since Chimecho's body is see-through.
- Latias and May are both cruelly tortured and murdered by a zombified Latias, both of whom she once regarded as her best friends.
- Natural Liberated: Rourke and Clemont are tortured to death by N's own blows and psychic powers. Rourke's bones are gradually broken as N mocks his lack of bravery, culminating in N psychically smashing his skull, while Clemont is broken in half at the chest.
- Poké Wars: Very'' common due to how powerful the undampened pokémon attacks are. The ones below are standout examples though.
- Impregnated then eaten alive from the inside out by Weedle and Wurmple.
- Liquified and then slurped up by an Ariados.
- Being dissolved alive by a Muk's poisonous touch..
- Being burned alive, from the inside out, by Will-O-Wisp.
- Burned alive by a highly toxic and reactive incendiary weapon then dying from cardiac arrest and corrosive lung damage induced by fluorine poisoning.
- In The Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys fan-fiction, In The Dark, Melanie witnesses someone getting Gutted Like a Fish. It would been her fate, had she not escaped.
- Rugrats: The Legend of the Reptar: Scar Snout and a family of two V-Wolves who attacked the babies and the truck and fought Reptar and Spike all suffered gruesome deaths: the Juvenile V-Wolf had its skull crushed by a giant rock thrown by Reptar before sending it off the cliff. The Bull V-Wolf gets its large jaws forced open until they snap apart by Reptar, before fully crushing the V-Wolf's skull with his mighty arms. Scar Snout gets his head slammed and crushed against a cliff face during the vine battle while attempting to eat the riders in the attraction. Scar Snout, and the Juvenile V-Wolf at least had quick deaths, but the Bull V-Wolf must have perished in absolute agony.
- Ruby and Nora: The Aswang's death isn't seen, but after a few seconds of crying out in agony, a sickening pop is heard, and Salem is covered in his blood.
- The Fragility Of Time (fic here) has quite a few:
- Ail is impaled upon the Doom Tree's tentacles though this death turns out to be a Disney Death.
- Mimete is executed by having dark energy spheres run through her body courtesy of Rubeus.
- Eudial is killed when Rubeus explodes the back of her Fire Buster and then uses the attack he used on Mimete.
- Rubeus himself is impaled upon a sword multiple times with no Gory Discretion Shot.
- The sequel has Fish Eye and Iron Mouse have their throats torn out messily by Ranma as a Senshi with the mind of a cat.
- Discussed in the Sonic X fanfic Don't Keep Your Distance: Paint and Alice, shackled up inside the administrative building of a child labor camp, escape only because their friend Arrowhead burns the building down to finally rid them of their captors and sneaks back in to save them. However, if he had not rescued them, the metal would have become red-hot before melting to their skin.
- Sonic X: Dark Chaos,
- In episode 73, Tsali rampages through the Blue Typhoon searching for Tails and Cosmo. When he corners them and Tails tries to stop him, Tsali throws the fox to the floor and graphically rips his heart and lungs from his chest. With his bare hands.
- The death of Cosmo's sister Galaxina is shown this time around in Episode 62. Tsali grabs her head and shoves it into a ruptured fuel line. The result is not for the faint of heart.
- Chris gets impaled through the chest by Beelzebub's stinger in Episode 67, which injects corrosive acid into his body with very Squick-y effects. He gets better when Beelzebub saves him with Chaos Regeneration - so Beelzebub can torture him some more.
- Episode 68 reveals what the the Demons do to runaway slaves; the women and children are nailed to crosses and the men are hanged by their ribs before being lashed to the outside hulls of Demon warships.
- The Muslims are pretty much the king of this trope - among other barbaric punishments, they often rend non-Muslims down in flesh troughs for construction material, or strap them into literal mechanical rape spiders called ankaboot that slowly molest them to death with pistons.
- Queens of Mewni: Quite a few examples, considering Game of Thrones was a heavy influence on this fic:
- Hemera the Builder was poisoned by her own sister Nixie after years of resentment because Hemera 'stole' Nixie's crush from her (in reality, Nixie was Hoist by Her Own Petard by pushing Hemera toward him because she was too shy to talk to him herself) and anger that her son and Hemera's daughter were allowed to marry.
- Etheria the Knight was assassinated by a princess she had shown mercy to after slaughtering her family.
- Something happened when Galaxia the Clairvoyant had her last vision that caused her to become clinically brain-dead, and then her daughter Venus had to Mercy Kill her by smothering her with a pillow.
- Meteora the Relentless had her eyes gouged out and her head caved in by a bearicorn.
- Solaria the Monster Carver was crushed to death by a rock thrown by a size-shifter during a hunt for criminals.
- 101 Ways to Kill Jar Jar Binks: This happens countless times to the eponymous Jar-Jar. Among them:
- Being eaten alive by Jabba the Hutt.
- Being imploded.
- Being fooled by a Jedi Mind Trick into committing suicide.
- Tintin and Alph-Art (Yves Rodier): Subverted. The Big Bad reveals that his plan to kill Tintin by pouring molten plastic on him isn't actually as bad as it sounds, as it isn't hot enough to burn Tintin to death. However, the actual fate intended for Tintin, slowly suffocating under a crushing mass of still-uncomfortably warm plastic, isn't a whole lot better.
- The Heart Trilogy: During the climax of the second part, Heart of Ashes, Smaug exacts bloody vengeance on Andraya for crossing him one too many times. He snatches her in his jaws, breaks her legs by throwing her thirty feet away, and punctures her stomach with a talon. He then throws her into air before swallowing her whole and letting the fire in his stomach scorch her.
- Pagan Vengeance: Juvage has one man drawn apart by horses, another placed under a tent and walked on to death,and killing the duke's son by throwing him into a cesspit with his father's body wrapped around his shoulders.
- A Scotsman in Egypt has the death of Horkhudagh Khan, the figurehead of the Timurids. Aodh is very much pissed off at the death of his brother, so when he finds the khan (a Non-Action Guy) he first gives him a sword, but easily disarms him. He then breaks each of the joints in the khan's limbs, one by one, and then fills his mouth with snow, packing it down until he stops moving. His generals, who witnessed the whole thing, are sickened, understanding, disapproving but resigned... except Angus the Mauler.
- More Fragging Paperwork: One of the problems Optimus faces while writing commiseration letters about his fallen warriors is that while he'd like to write that they went down in a blaze of glory, they actually died when their supply run got ambushed and they were repeatedly shot by "some power-hungry lunatic with more testosterone than sanity".
- you can only use your own portrays buttercup poisoning realistically, and it's a terrible way to die. Chara chose it for their suicide plan after accidentally poisoning Asgore with the flowers and realizing that a lethal dose in a monster would be a quick death, unaware that a human dying from buttercup poisoning is anything but quick. This ends up giving Asriel time to save Chara, but they're still disabled for life.
- A Darker Path: As Atropos' targets prove too stubborn to just leave after being warned, she steadily escalates from simple executions like a cut throat, to more horrifying options like being burnt alive by fluoroantimonic acid from the inside out, or being repeatedly run over by a van until your remains are spread over a hundred yards of asphalt. The emergency response teams get traumatised, veteran law enforcement officers throw up, and the villains who are still alive and not yet on her target list start to get the idea and leave town.
- Yognapped (fic here):
- Peva's Establishing Character Moment has him murdering Sips by slowly emptying a pistol clip into his arms and legs, waiting until his vocal cords give out from the screaming, and splitting his skull in half with a sword.
- Later, Martyn is slowly and painfully drained of most blood and other fluids by scientists attempting to clone him. Teep, the resulting Humanoid Abomination, then finishes him off by crushing his skull.
