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* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': At the end of "[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] vs VideoGame/ShovelKnight [[spoiler: Scrooge decapitates Shovel Knight with his own shovel blade and leaves his head on a pike outside his money bin with a sign that says "Robbers beware"]].

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* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': At the end of "[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] vs VideoGame/ShovelKnight VideoGame/ShovelKnight" [[spoiler: Scrooge decapitates Shovel Knight with his own shovel blade and leaves his head on a pike outside his money bin with a sign that says "Robbers beware"]].
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* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': At the end of "[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] vs VideoGame/ShovelKnight [[spoiler: Scrooge decapitates Shovel Knight with his own shovel blade and leaves his head on a pike outside his money bin with a sign that says "Robbers beware"]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' has an episode where they meet Little Red Riding Hood. Turns out the house they broke into belongs to the Three Bears. The episode ends with the trio's heads mounted on the wall.



* A ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CutawayGag has a parody of ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' where one of the nuns, after they disable the Nazis' car, whips out Rolfe's severed head.
-->'''Nun:''' ''(reacting to the other nuns' shocked expressions)'' Hey, I didn't start this war but ''it's on!''
** In "Fresh Heir", Peter tries to brown-nose Chris by beheading a schoolmate who had been bullying him, which freaks him out.
--->'''Chris:''' That's not even him! That's the deaf kid!



* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "A Rickconvenient Mort", Morty lobs Eddie's mostly-charred skull onto the conference table where the other Tina-teers were planning to sell Planetina. The wielder of the Water ring is able to recognize the skull from the cheekbones alone.



* A ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CutawayGag has a parody of ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' where one of the nuns, after they disable the Nazis' car, whips out Rolfe's severed head.
-->'''Nun:''' ''(reacting to the other nuns' shocked expressions)'' Hey, I didn't start this war but ''it's on!''
** In "Fresh Heir", Peter tries to brown-nose Chris by beheading a schoolmate who had been bullying him, which freaks him out.
--->'''Chris:''' That's not even him! That's the deaf kid!
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "A Rickconvenient Mort", Morty lobs Eddie's mostly-charred skull onto the conference table where the other Tina-teers were planning to sell Planetina. The wielder of the Water ring is able to recognize the skull from the cheekbones alone.


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* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': When Carmilla Carmine summons her fellow Overlords for a meeting a week after the latest [[ThePurge Extermination]] in order to discuss their next course of action, Velvette derails the meeting by tossing the severed head of an Exorcist killed during the Extermination across the table for everyone to see, attempting to use this as undeniable proof that [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll the Exorcists can be killed]] in order to spark a war against Heaven. Carmilla ends the meeting after Velvette points out that [[OhCrap the sight made her uncomfortable]]; after all, [[spoiler:it was Carmilla herself who killed the Exorcist, and she would prefer that this remained a secret since she knows damn well Hell wouldn't stand a ghost of a chance against the full might of Heaven]].



* A ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CutawayGag has a parody of ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' where one of the nuns after they disable the Nazis' car, whips out Rolfe's severed head.

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* A ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CutawayGag has a parody of ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' where one of the nuns nuns, after they disable the Nazis' car, whips out Rolfe's severed head.
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** Turned into a RunningGag in the episode "Caesarion", where multiple severed heads are displayed on spikes above the door of the Egyptian royal palace because the owners of the heads kept pissing the wrong people off. In the same episode, the Egyptians present Julius Caesar with the head of his enemy UsefulNotes/PompeyTheGreat. Rather than being grateful, Caesar is furious that a consul of Rome was desecrated in this manner and demands the head of the man who killed him.

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** Turned into a RunningGag in the episode "Caesarion", where multiple severed heads are displayed on spikes above the door of the Egyptian royal palace because the owners of the heads kept pissing the wrong people off. In the same episode, the Egyptians present Julius Caesar with the head of his enemy UsefulNotes/PompeyTheGreat. Rather than being grateful, [[EveryoneHasStandards Caesar is furious that a consul of Rome was desecrated in this manner manner]] and demands the head of the man who killed him.

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* Turned into a RunningGag in the ''Series/{{Rome}}'' episode "Caesarion", where multiple severed heads are displayed on spikes above the door of the Egyptian royal palace because the owners of the heads kept pissing the wrong people off. In the same episode, the Egyptians present Julius Caesar with the head of his enemy UsefulNotes/PompeyTheGreat. Rather than being grateful, Caesar is furious that a consul of Rome was desecrated in this manner and demands the head of the man who killed him.

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Turned into a RunningGag in the ''Series/{{Rome}}'' episode "Caesarion", where multiple severed heads are displayed on spikes above the door of the Egyptian royal palace because the owners of the heads kept pissing the wrong people off. In the same episode, the Egyptians present Julius Caesar with the head of his enemy UsefulNotes/PompeyTheGreat. Rather than being grateful, Caesar is furious that a consul of Rome was desecrated in this manner and demands the head of the man who killed him.him.
** Deconstructed in season 2, after Vorenus decapitated Erasmus Fulmen for killing his children (he lied and he had merely sold them to slavers). He kept the head in his house and let it rot. Mark Antony had to come and throw the head out.
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* Similar to Ace Ventura, ''Film/TheJungleBook1994'' has a scene where Mowgli finds Boone's trophy room, filled with mounted heads of big game. Mowgli imagines the noises of the poor animals moments before they were shot.
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* In ''Film/AceVentura: When Nature Calls'', Ace is taken to Cadby's trophy which is decorated by countless mounted heads of big game he had killed. Ace has a FreakOut because of this. He retaliates by getting an elephant to sit on Cadby's car.
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* In ''Film/ConAir'', serial killer Garland Greene claims to have driven through three states while wearing the head one of his victims as a hat.
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* The climax of ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' is when her enemies are rounded up, sentenced to death for treason and executed. Three of them are beheaded and their heads stuck on pikes.


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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has a RealTrailerFakeMovie about a live action remake of "Bambi". There is horrified to see his mother's head has been mounted.


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* ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' has an episode where they meet Little Red Riding Hood. Turns out the house they broke into belongs to the Three Bears. The episode ends with the trio's heads mounted on the wall.
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*** Maelor Targaryen was either crushed to death or torn apart by a mob while being evacuated to Oldtown. His head was sent to his aunt Rhaenyra.

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*** Maelor Targaryen was either crushed to death or torn apart by a mob while being evacuated to Oldtown. His head was sent to his aunt Rhaenyra. Other accounts say that the head was then presented to Queen Alicent, his grandmother, in a [[ToiletHumor chamber pot]].
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* Kurtz from ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' shows Willard "the horror" by tossing Chef's severed head at his feet.


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* The alien from ''Film/{{Predator}}'' is confirmed to be a headhunter when it rips out Billy's spine with his skull still attached, and waving it around in triumph.

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* ''Series/TwentyFour'' season 2 episode 2. Jack gains a terrorist gang's trust by doing this.

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* ''Series/TwentyFour'' season 2 episode 2. Jack gains a domestic terrorist gang's trust by doing this.killing a federal witness who was going to testify against them. The man was a child rapist and killer, so there's no guilt in his death. Jack presents the head as proof


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* In ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}} 2'', Tatsumaru vows to take Lord Toda's head. Toda is instead beheaded by Lady Kagami. She sets the head on fire and flings it down a cliff as a signal for her ninja to rise up against the samurai.
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* Artemis Gordon in ''Film/WildWildWest'' presents Jim West with the severed head of a missing scientist that they had been searching for. It has been mounted on a crude projector which allows them to see what the man last saw. This grotesque display creeps Jim out.
-->"That's a man's head..."
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* ''Film/JakaSembung'' has the ''hero'', Jaka Sembung, subjected to being killed by Soca Indrakusuma the Blind Swordsman, who then marches to his employer with the hero's cranium in a sack to reclaim his bounty. When Soca is betrayed and survives an assasination, he steals Jaka Sembung's head and partakes in a revival ritual to reattach it.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "A Lying Witch and a Warden", The Warden held Eda's severed head up by her hair. However, she's not dead.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "A Lying Witch and a Warden", The Warden held Wrath holds Eda's severed head up by her hair. However, [[LosingYourHead she's not dead.dead]] (though she does complain about how uncomfortable it is when that happens).
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* At the end of Act 2 of ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'', a council member's head is presented to the citizens of Heaven. [[spoiler:By ''Gabriel'' at that, after he went through a deep epiphany from his latest defeat at V1's hands; he wanted to make sure the denizens knew they were free from the Council's tyranny now that he'd wiped them out]].

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* At the end of Act 2 of ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'', a council [[CouncilOfAngels council]] member's head is presented to the citizens of Heaven. [[spoiler:By ''Gabriel'' at that, after he went through a deep epiphany from his latest defeat at V1's hands; he wanted to make sure the denizens knew they were free from the Council's tyranny now that he'd wiped them out]].

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