“You know, I thought there was nothing left of [Tommy]. I thought we'd broken him for good. That he was finally going to stop whimpering all the time. But he just woke up. And you know what, midget? Right now he’s screaming.”
— Essa 412 (in a flashback), Ghost in the Shell
The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Tom's near-death experience is described in gruesome detail; his shattered bones puncture several of his organs, including his brain and lungs.
City of Lost Children
- Essa reminds Tom of an escaped host who shot herself in the head, shattered skull fragments and all, and taunts Tom with the idea that the same thing will happen to Jake.
Ghost in the Shell
- Every motion of Essa snapping a child's neck just to spite Tom is described in visceral detail, from the bones and ligaments breaking to the corpse slumping onto the ground.
- The news shows a clip of the scene from The Ultimate where Essa gives Jake a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. If the descriptions of Jake's ribs cracking weren't enough, Essa told him that Tom just started screaming internally. In the present day, this causes Tom to freak out so much about the possibility of the Yeerks returning that he tries to cut two of his fingers off.
Escape From L.A.
- Tom hits the two-hour time limit while demorphing from a cobra. What follows is a particularly gruesome demorph where his internal organs change before his body resizes itself, leading to most of them falling out of his body and his growing lungs being punctured by too-small snake ribs.
How I Live Now
- Effilit 1318 threatens to trap Rachel's body in morph while it's still inside her. It won't need kandrona any more if it does, nor would it be able to leave, leaving Rachel trapped in her own mind for the rest of her life.
