Impaled With Extreme Prejudice / Live-Action TV

• Too many times to count on 1000 Ways to Die.
• In American Horror Story: Coven, during a test of Transmutation (teleportation), one of the girls accidentally teleports herself on the spiked top of a steel fence, resulting in this.
• Being Human (US) has Aidan being impaled on a metal stub by a guy seeking revenge for his father. Of course being a vampire, this just pisses him off.
  • Bishop's staking Aidan in the second-last episode of Season 1 deserves special mention. Though it's unsuccessful, Bishop jumps through a window into the house uninvited (burning himself as a result), impaling Aidan and just missing his heart. The "extreme prejudice" part is covered for sure.
• In the Boy Meets World episode "And Then There Was Shawn", which serves as an homage to Slasher Movies, this is how Kenny and Mr. Feeny are killed: Kenny with a large pencil driven into his head and Mr. Feeny with scissors lodged in his back. Both deaths were foreshadowed earlier in the episode. Luckily, it was all just a nightmare Shawn had.
  Cory: (examining the mark on the wall from the pencil used to kill Kenny) We'll always remember he was that tall.
  Eric: Oh, my God! They killed Kenny!
  (the gang runs out of the classroom screaming)
  (later in the hallway, the gang finds Mr. Feeny after the lights flicker and the haunting music plays on the PA System)
  Cory: Mr. Feeny, I have got to hand it to you! You have really outdone yourself this time! I mean, killing Kenny, obvious choice. But the pencil, George, I mean, that was genius!
  Shawn: I knew it was you all along! What's the big lesson? What were you trying to teach us? (pats Mr. Feeny's back, only for his body to slump over, revealing scissors impaled in his back; this is followed by Topanga dropping to her knees in shock)
  Eric: Oh, my gosh! They killed Feeny!
  (the gang runs back to the classroom screaming while Shawn looks on in horror at Feeny's lifeless corpse after realizing he isn't really the killer after all)
  Shawn: I was wrong! (the show cuts to commercial break)
• In The Boys, Kimiko/The Female is sent to kill a Russian oligarch disguised as a prostitute. So, after the dude shows her and the rest of the harem a collection of superhero-themed dildos, Kimiko uses her super strength to make one of those sex toys go through the guy's head. And as his security goes on her, another two men get the things shoved into their bodies, one in the eye, the other in the jugular.
• Buffyverse:
  • In "Lover's Walk", Cordelia Chase is impaled on rebar and subsequently lives. This was based on a similar incident that happened to Cordelia's actress, Charisma Carpenter.
  • The same thing happens to Angel on his own show. A Continuity Nod is made.
    Angel: Do you have any idea how hard it is to think straight when have a rebar through your torso?
    Cordelia: Actually, I do. Benefits of a Sunnydale education.
  • Another example is the MoTW in "Gingerbread", who is impaled on the stake on which they were going to burn Buffy, while Buffy is still strapped to it.
  • Also, most vampires, generally in a fairly perfunctory fashion. The Master and Kakistos got the more dramatic version. Angel also got repeatedly impaled, always non-fatally.
    • Well, except that one time, though in that case it wasn't the impalement that killed him. It was a metal sword after all. And probably not through his heart.
  • This happens to Vampire Willow twice.
  • How Forrest was killed by Adam.
  • In the movie, Lothos stabs Merrick with his own stake.
• On Criminal Minds, Agent Prentiss's Roaring Rampage of Revenge ends in her confronting her Irish Mafia nemesis, only to be impaled upon a broken table leg. (The whole thing had more to do with Executive Meddling than Character Development, but at least the fanbase prevailed and it turned into a case of Faking the Dead.)
• CSI: In "The Chick Chop Flick Shop," the first Victim of the Week is impaled when she falls on to a movie prop consisting of sharpened lengths of steel pipe.
• CSI: NY:
  • One Victim of the Week is stabbed to death with an icicle.
  • Another falls off a balcony and lands on a spike in an awning.
  • Yet another is pushed over a railing and lands on a spiked piece of artwork in a hotel lobby.
  • Another time, Mac & Flack work a case with a runaway suspect who had scaled a high fence, only to land on a long piece of rebar sticking out of a chunk of concrete on the other side.
  • In season 9's "The Real McCoy," the victim is impaled in the back of the neck by a Christmas tree stand at a tree lot.
• Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior:
  • The show features a showdown between Shaka Zulu and William Wallace. It ends with Shaka being impaled. On a Claymore.
  • The episode that has the showdown between Sun Tzu and Vlad Tepes discusses how Vlad impaled his victims and even demonstrates it on a ballistics gel body with artificial blood and organs.
• On Desperate Housewives, Gabby's evil mayor husband ends up impaled by a white picket fence. Symbolism anyone?
• The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "Measure Twice," a suspect is driven so viciously down on to a star picket that it pierces his back and comes out his chest. Lucien and Charlie arrive in time to save his life, just.
• Doctor Who:
  • The show goes even more extreme in its impaling in "State of Decay" when the Doctor impales the Great Vampire with a rocketship.
  • Rory Williams, the Last Centurion has one of his own in "The Pandorica Opens". To summarize, a view of the scene from the side: Tip of sword, gargantuan-and-thick-as-hell door, torso of a Cyberman hanging off the ground, hilt. "Extreme Prejudice" indeed, but then, that's what that Cyberman gets for messing with the woman he loves.
  • In "The Church on Ruby Road", the Doctor drags a goblin airship down onto a church's spire to save adult Ruby as a baby from them, which skewers their King through the chest.
• The Eternal Love: Lian Cheng gets impaled by an arrow. Luckily he survives.
• In the Fate: The Winx Saga episode "A Fanatic Heart", the duel between Silva and Andreas at Aster Dell ended with Silva catching Andreas off-guard and stabbing him through the gut with his sword.
• In First Kill the hunters attack a meeting of Legacy Vampires in the hopes of killing them with a collection of silver spears, leading to many of them getting stabbed through the heart with them. It doesn't stick, however.
• In The Flash (2014), this is the favorite method of execution of both the Reverse-Flash and Zoom. Done with their arms, no less. The same is true of Savitar, although unlike them he uses a blade.
• A few cases in Forever (2014):
  • The pilot starts with Henry in a subway accident, getting impaled through the chest on a torn metal railing. He later records in his journal the nature and location of his injuries and the level of pain on a scale of 1-to-10 (the pole is rated a seven). Presumably, he does this with each new type of death he experiences.
  • When Mark Bentley stabs Henry in the back as he's leaving the Frenchman's in "The Frustrating Thing About Psychopaths," you can see the tip of the blade emerge from the front of Henry's abdomen; his hand is over it when Bentley twists the blade to speed Henry's death.
  • Adam runs taxi driver Raj Patel through with a katana in "Skinny Dipper" as part of his plan to frame Henry. The blade goes through the entire driver's seat and then through Raj's chest, emerging through his sternum, all in a single smooth blow. Henry lampshades how much strength and skill this would take to do, but Adam does have over two thousand years of experience.
• Forever Knight had this, Nick did it to Lacroix with a burning rod after Lacroix came into his apartment in the pilot and the place caught fire. Somehow, despite what usually happens to vampires that catch fire, Lacroix survived, though, and came back to haunt Nick in season two.
• Game of Thrones:
  • Ser Mandon Moore receives a spear through the head courtesy of Podrick in "Blackwater."
  • Dagmer jabs Maester Luwin in the guts with a spear for no other reason than to shut him up.
  • On separate occasions, Jon Snow runs Longclaw right through Othor's wight, Qhorin Halfhand, Orell the warg, and Karl Tanner.
  • Ygritte, Ramsay, and Oberyn all do this to their victims in "The Mountain and the Viper."
  • During "The Watchers on the Wall," one black brother is unlucky enough to be hit with an arrow the size of a ballista bolt. The giant who shot him is later impaled by an actual ballista bolt.
  • Arya's sword Needle is specifically made to pierce opponents.
  • Rickon was killed by a fatal arrow to the heart that pierced through him. After he dies, his corpse was hit by a few of the Rain of Arrows that the Bolton army fired.
  • The Freys and Boltons shoot Grey Wind with arrows until he dies.
  • Obara Sand is fatally impaled with her own spear by Euron Greyjoy.
  • The Night's King manages to kill Viserion in a single throw with an ice spear.
  • The Night King kills Theon by impaling him with his own spear.
• General and I: Lu Ke dies like this, and later so do Murong Su and the Queen of Yan. He Xia is responsible for all three deaths, and he dies the same way when he falls onto a spear.
• The Glamorous Imperial Concubine: Qi Xing tries to stab Qi You, but instead he accidentally impales himself on Qi You's sword.
• Goodbye My Princess:
  • Some of Cheng Yin and Cheng Ji's guards are impaled when their group is attacked.
  • Li Yan gets impaled by an arrow.
  • A Du and Gu Jian are impaled by arrows. A Du survives. Gu Jian doesn't.
  • A Du kills Gao Xian by stabbing him, and she dies when he stabs her.
• In the Harper's Island episode "Sploosh," Madison's jerkass dad Richard is killed when he is impaled through the chest with a harpoon and pinned to a tree. Then again, he kind of had it coming with the affair.
• Peter in Heroes. Good thing he can heal.
• The Imperfects: In Episode 7, Hannah is impaled on a large metal pipe.
• Interview with the Vampire (2022): In the climax of the Season 1 finale, Claudia stabs Antoinette, who has just fallen to the ground after being punched, with a fire poker which goes through Antoinette's chest, which pins the latter to the floor.
• Into the Badlands: Sunny impales the River King on a mounted Narwhal's head at the end of "Dragonfly's Last Dance" in season 3.
• The King Loves: Huratai gets stabbed through the chest, thanks to Song In.
• The King's Woman:
  • This is how Ying Zheng kills Lü Bu Wei.
  • Li Zhong gets impaled twice. First Jing Ke stabs him, then Ying Zheng runs him through to stab Jing Ke.
  • In the final episode Gongsun Li attacks Ying Zheng. Just when it looks like she's going to stab him, she turns the sword around and stabs herself.
• Lost:
  • Phil gets a magnetically-thrown iron through his chest in the season 5 finale.
  • Bram gets impaled on a piece of wood. That guy never had a chance.
  • Sayid runs Flocke through with a sword. Flocke calmly pulls it out of his chest.
• Lost Love in Times:
  • Yuan An does this to himself, using Yuan Ling's sword. It's part of Yuan Zhan's plan to claim Yuan Ling is a usurper. As soon as Yuan An is dead, Yuan Zhan accuses Yuan Ling of killing his own father.
  • Mei Ya dies this way when a soldier throws his sword at her.
  • Ding Shui ( actually a puppet controlled by the real Ding Shui) dies when Yuan Ling stabs her.
  • Happens to Xiao Ji, courtesy of Yuan Ling.
  • Yuan Ming falls off a building and lands on a piece of wood with enough force for it to stab right through his armour and his chest.
  • Mu Ke Sha runs onto Duo Xia's sword during their battle.
• The A&E production of The Lost World has an allosaurus falling into a deep, spiky trap at the beginning of Episode 2. Toward the end of the episode, another allosaurus gets a spear through the upper jaw, but survives that. It later gets killed with an elephant gun.
• Major Crimes: In "Dead Drop," the Victim of the Week is an obese man who is found impaled on a branch at the top of a tall tree. It turns out he was dropped out of a helicopter.
• In the Masters of Horror episode "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road," the Young Woman is impaled through the thigh by one of Ellen's traps, which was intended for Moonface.
• Midsomer Murders:
  • In "Judgement Day", Peter Drinkwater is done in by a pitchfork to the chest. Within the first 10 minutes.
  • In "Death in the Slow Lane", D.J. Dogboy is killed when the murderer puts the vintage car he had just started in gear, causing it to move forward and resulting in his being impaled on the crank handle.
  • The third Victim of the Week in "The Ballad of Misdsomer County" is killed by having a beach umbrella thrust through his chest.
  • In "A Vintage Murder", Louis Paynton is pushed out of a hotel window and lands onto the pointed wooden stake that is holding up the flower trellis, killing him instantly.
  • In "A Climate of Death", the killer murders Danny Tarleton, the first Victim of the Week, by impaling him with a weather vane.
• In the superhero drama Misfits
  • A day after being unburied from previously dying by impalement on a metal spike, poor Nathan is impaled again- on a metal pipe by Simon's crazy stalker friend. He is immortal by now, but still. This time wasn't instant. Extra brutality points for the fact that this happens to one of the good guys.
  • In the season two finale, Daisy gets impaled on her own "Mother Teresa Young Humanitarian of the Year" award.
• The short-lived Discovery Channel series More Than Human highlighted a few cases of survivors. Perhaps the most amazing of these, Neil Pearson of Scotland, was impaled in the armpit and out the neck by a metal garden stake. Not only did he survive, but the stake missed all of his vital organs, arteries, and veins, he drove himself to the hospital, and the removal consisted of merely pulling the damn thing out. The show's researchers chalked up his miraculous survival to the fact that the stake was planted in dirt, and therefore was able to move along with Neil's body as he fell onto it. If it were, for example, planted in concrete, it would have been more likely to puncture a lung or vein.
• Motive: The Victim of the Week in "Interference" is shoved on to a jagged branch that stabs her in the back. In a fit of anger, the killer continues to push the victim till the branch comes all the way out her chest.
• My Country: The New Age:
  • A man gets impaled by a arrow through the chest in episode two.
  • General Jung gets stabbed through the chest by Hwi.
  • Yeon dies after being stabbed in the chest.
  • Seong-rok dies by being stabbed several times, including through the chest.
  • Seon-ho dies by being stabbed in the chest and stomach at least three times.
• NCIS: New Orleans: In "Second Chances," the Victim of the Week is tossed into a pit on a construction site, where he is impaled on the rebar at the bottom of the pit.
• Novoland: Eagle Flag:
  • Asule's adoptive parents both die this way, his mother by being stabbed through the chest and his father by being shot through the head.
  • The Chi Ya soldier in episode six gets thrown onto Ji Ye's spear with such force that he slides past the blade and all the way down the shaft.
• In Orphan Black, Helena impales Sinister Minister Pastor Johannsen either anally or through the perineum (the show has the good taste not to show it) with a long artificial insemination tool before setting the building on fire and leaving him to die.
  • Sarah also impales Helena with a rebar in Season one. Helena pulls the rebar out herself, and lives.
• In Agatha Christie's Poirot's 2008 adaptation of Cat Among the Pigeons, the murderer, Ann Shapland, kills Grace Springer this way by throwing a sports javelin through her chest. The second time the action is shown, Miss Springer spits out blood from her mouth as she is impaled. So sickening.
• On Primeval, a Future Predator is killed by a Columbian Mammoth in this fashion, impaled on one of its tusks.
• Princess Agents:
  • Curly dies this way after Yuwen Huai shoots her.
  • Yan Hong Xiao dies the same way as Curly, thanks to Zhao Xi Feng.
  • Zhao Xi Feng himself gets impaled twice. First by Chu Qiao's arrow, then by Yan Xun's sword.
  • Yue Qi gets impaled by General Cheng's spear. He doesn't die immediately, so General Cheng then stabs him with a knife. A few minutes later Cheng himself gets impaled by Chu Qiao's sword.
• Princess Silver:
  • Long Yue stabs herself rather than be executed for helping Rong Le.
  • Xiao Ren tries to kill Fu Chou, and as a result he gets stabbed by Lin Shen.
• The Rise of Phoenixes:
  • Ning Qiao died by being stabbed repeatedly by dozens of guards.
  • Zhu Yin dies when Chang Hai stabs her.
  • The Crown Prince gets impaled with multiple arrows.
  • Shao Ning dies when Ning Qi shoots her.
  • The emperor apparently dies after an assassin stabs him. It turns out he survived the stabbing and was Faking the Dead.
  • Zhangsun Hong dies when Ning Cheng stabs him.
  • Helian Zheng gets impaled with an arrow.
• Rizzoli & Isles: In "There Be Ghosts," the first Victim of the Week is impaled on a length of rebar in a deserted hospital wing.
• In the BBC's Robin Hood Maid Marian is impaled on Guy of Gisbourne's sword. He gets a Karmic Death at the end of the series in which he's likewise impaled on the Sheriff's sword.
• Super Sentai:
  • In Choujin Sentai Jetman, Back Dimensional Count Radiguet is destroyed for good this way, by way of the Jet Icarus running him through his Weak Spot on his back with the Birdonic Saber. The blade goes through both Radiguet and the Jet Garuda, which was holding him in place long enough for Jet Icarus to run them both through.
  • In Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, the Gouraijers sacrifice themselves and Gouraijin to kill Sandaaru this way, by running Gouraijin's Sword Slasher through itself and the treacherous Seventh Spear. Thankfully, the Gouraijers narrowly survive the destruction of both their mecha and their adversary.
  • In Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, Shiba Takeru is impaled in the shoulder by Juzo's sword Muramasa in order to defeat Juzo.
  • This tends to happen a lot, typically by way of a really powerful Monster of the Week or villains above them on the threat scale impaling the Humongous Mecha somehow, often disabling it (temporarily or permanently); other times, it'll be the heroes who impale the monster, typically as part of a special attack, though Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger had this as the regular finishing move of one of the mecha combinations via a drill staff. However, this almost always gets cut for Power Rangers (presumably because of the censors being concerned that the kids watching would try to imitate it), and thus cut and ignore it as much as possible; this could lead to awkward situations, not the least being the aforementioned Megazord finisher from season 1 of Mighty Morphin (they'd try to cut around it, but it was still obvious what happened).
• Shaka Zulu: This is the worst form of execution available to the African tribes, and it's only used to punish particularly heinous crimes, such as political assassination. The pikes are injected from the bottom upwards, not through the torso.
• In Sleuth 101, one of the victims is a rock star who was impaled on one of his own ARIA awards.
• Many a Smallville character has died this way: it seems everyone is Made of Plasticine and metal rods (however blunt) will punch right through you as if you were made of tissue paper. This even extends to Jimmy Olsen, of all people, though he turns out to be the older brother of the Jimmy we know - James is his middle name. He and Davis killed each other this way. It is a pretty bad Retcon.
• In the Stargate Atlantis series premiere "Rising", the Wraith Queen gets impaled on the rather large poky bit on the back of a Wraith Stunner rifle by Sheppard, killing her.
• In season 8 of Stargate SG-1, RepliCarter's preferred way to kill is to turn her forearm into a sword and run the poor bastard through with it. It can be assumed that she got the idea from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
• It seems to happen a lot on Supernatural, although often because it's literally the only way to kill something. They do it to Gabriel some four or five times before it actually works. And this is a character who's in a total of four episodes.
• Sweet Home (2020):
  • Jin-ok's daughter and Su-ung, who came to her rescue, both get impaled by a monster's tongue.
  • The Beefcake falls onto a sharp piece of metal and gets stabbed through the chest. That doesn't kill it, so Yi-kyung pushes burning wood on top of it.
  • Hyun-su's monster form has spikes on his wings. He uses them to impale Ui-myeong. Du-sik gets impaled on them too.
• In Teen Wolf, Peter Hale literally slams his entire arm straight through Derek's chest and then flings him into a building.
• Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms: Ling Yu gets impaled with multiple arrows.
• In an episode of 24, this happens off-screen. As part of Jack's Roaring Rampage of Revenge, we are led to a display of the entire Russian Delegation massacred, only one survivor who makes a trail of blood trying to reach the phone of The Dragon Minister Novakovich... who is then shown to be dead, impaled with a FIRE POKER!!!
• The Twilight Zone (1959):
  • In "The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms", Private Michael McCluskey is struck in the back with an arrow when he enters a Sioux encampment during the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876.
  • In "The Encounter", when Arthur Takamori attempts to kill Fenton with the samurai sword for the second time, Fenton manages to subdue him and knock the sword out of his hand. He then bends down to pick it up and is impaled when Arthur pulls at his feet.
• The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Hunters", one of the prehistoric hunter ghosts impales Dr. Klein with a spear. The sheriff discovers her body lying face down with the spear still in her back.
• The Ultra Series have a few monsters being executed in this manner.
  • Return of Ultraman have Ultraman Jack's signature weapon being the Ultra Lance, which Jack used to skewer various monster, including Yadokarin (effectively nailing it into the floor so Jack can blast it with his Spacium Ray) and Draculas (which is appropriate, since this is a kaiju alien-vampire-monster, his death is akin to being staked in the heart). Jack executes Alien Bat with the same weapon in the series finale.
  • Ultraman Ace has a monster called a Gammas which Ace impales with his own spear.
  • Ultraman Leo notably does this to kaiju using their own body parts. By ripping off Alien Tsuruk's arm-blades and sending those into his own body, and driving Alien Karly's severed tusks into its skull.
  • Ultraman 80 have the titular Ultra having a Finishing Move called the Ray Lance, an energy lance meant for throwing, capable of impaling monsters. He killed off the octopus kaiju Daron via impaling it through the monster's forehead, and in his reintroduction in Ultraman Mebius, impales Roberuga through the torso in the same manner.
  • Ultraman Mebius, in addition to the aforementioed Roberuga by Ultraman Eighty during the Ultra's guest appearance), also have this happening to Mebius himself, when Mebius lose a fight to the ruthless Alien Grozam who then impaled Mebius to the side of a dam.
  • Ultraman Orb has the titular Ultra surviving an impalement from Galactron, a nigh-unstoppable Mechanical Monster who defeats Ultraman Orb via electrified blade through Orb's torso.
  • If a nigh-powerful juggernaut monster has a Prehensile Tail, sometimes they'll use their tails in inflicting impalements on other monsters. Notable, Hellberus skewering Zegun in Ultraman Taiga and Zeppandon nailing Five King in Ultraman Z.
• Truth in Television examples of people who survive being impaled have been featured on Untold Stories of the E.R..
• In the second season of Vikings, Rollo, under the influence of Berserker mushrooms, impales a former comrade of his on a spear during battle. Rollo then lifts the poor bastard up into the air until he dies, although it starts to cause Rollo to snap out of his berserker rage and do a My God, What Have I Done?. The scene communicates quite well what a horrifically painful and terrifying way to die it would be.
• Word of Honor: Happens twice in rapid succession. Mo Huaiyang stabs Wen Kexing. Wen Kexing snaps the sword in half, pulls out the part embedded in his chest, and stabs Mo Huaiyang with it.

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