History Main / ClawingAtOwnThroat

* It was documented during [=WW2=] that Japanese soldiers taken prisoner by the Allies were prone to attempting suicide by whatever means were available, so as to wipe out the shame to their families that they had not died in combat. [[note]]The Allies observed the Geneva Code convention of informing the Japs of who they'd taken prisoner; when they knew the news would reach home that they had not died in action, this was often the trigger for captured Japanese to contemplate suicide[[/note]]. Japanese soldiers picked up unconscious and wounded on the battlefields and sent to Allied field hospitals for treatment would often seek death when they awoke and realised where they were. A documented case from a British military hospital in Burma describes the death of a Jap patient who really did manage to claw his own carotid artery open, bleeding out through his neck.

* In Mother Hitton's ''Littul Kittons'', the terminal madness the titular planetary defense system induces in intruders makes this the least you do to yourself.

* It was documented during [[WW2]] that Japanese soldiers taken prisoner by the Allies were prone to attempting suicide by whatever means were available, so as to wipe out the shame to their families that they had not died in combat. [[note]]The Allies observed the Geneva Code convention of informing the Japs of who they'd taken prisoner; when they knew the news would reach home that they had not died in action, this was often the trigger for captured Japanese to contemplate suicide[[/note]]. Japanese soldiers picked up unconscious and wounded on the battlefields and sent to Allied field hospitals for treatment would often seek death when they awoke and realised where they were. A documented case from a British military hospital in Burma describes the death of a Jap patient who really did manage to claw his own carotid artery open, bleeding out through his neck.

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Lastly, it's not always played for self-harm: It's also a frequent reflex for characters that are strangled, [[PsychicStrangle especially telekinetically]].

Lastly, it's not always played for self-harm: It's also a frequent reflex for characters that are strangled or [[Franchise/StarWars force-choked]].

* Tomura Shigaraki from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' is the image source for this page, and has a habit of scratching his neck when irritated.

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* In ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', [[spoiler: advanced stages of the HatePlague infection manifest themselves in the infected]] clawing at their own skin, particularly the throat. This is shown repeatedly throughout the series:

* Tomura Shigaraki from ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' is the image source for this page, and has a habit of scratching his neck when irritated.

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* Tomura Shigaraki from ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' is the image source for this page, and has a habit of scratching his neck when irritated

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* In Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons the terminal madness the titular planetary defense system induces in intruders makes this the least you do to yourself.
* In ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'', [[spoiler:this is how Joffrey Baratheon meets his end]] when the character drinks poison that prevents them from breathing. In a desperate attempt to breathe, the character claws at their own neck. It just kills them faster.

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* Tomura Shigaraki from ''Anime/{{MyHeroAcademia}}'' is the image source for this page, and has a habit of scratching his neck when irritated

* Tomura Shigaraki from [[Anime/MyHeroAcademia]] is the image source for this page, and has a habit of scratching his neck when irritated