History Main / HighVoltageDeath

** At the end of the episode “[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]” Frank Grimes is [[VillainousBreakdown outraged]] at how Homer is constantly rewarded for his stupidity, goes insane, and starts mockingly mimicking risky things Homer would do and saying he's "Homer Simpson". While doing this he grabs a high voltage cable without safety gloves in Homer's office and unintentionally electrocutes himself to death.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson", the title character rigs the television so that it will electrocute her unfaithful husband Joe when he touches the knob. When the electrocution process begins, 'Becka realizes that what she has done is wrong but is electrocuted herself in her failed attempt to save Joe.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': in "Dagger of the Mind," Kirk sends Dr. Helen Noel through the ventilation ducts of the Tantalus Penal Colony, to find the power shutoff. He warns her that "megavoltage" was involved, and that touching the wrong line would be fatal. Sure enough, it is: to the guard who tries to stop her.
* [[BlackComedy Played for]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice comedy of all things]] on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', where in one episode Dean dies multiple deaths while Sam is trapped in a GroundHogDayLoop. One of the ways he dies is by plugging a electric shaver into a faulty outlet. And yes we do see XRaySparks.
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': In "The Man Who Was Death", Niles Talbot, an executioner put out of work when the state outlaws the death penalty, becomes a VigilanteMan who electrocutes people he believes have gotten away with murder. He is eventually arrested and given the chair himself after the state reinstates the death penalty.

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** This is the "easy" way to defeat Draygon in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'': ''Samus'' touches the current while Draygon is touching her, and then gains VictoryByEndurance while both are electrified.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': in "Dagger of the Mind," Kirk sends Dr. Helen Noel through the ventilation ducts of the Tantalus Penal Colony, to find the power shutoff. He warns her that "megavoltage" was involved, and that touching the wrong line would be fatal. Sure enough, it is: to the guard who tries to stop her.

** [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Miles Morales]] vs. WesternAnimation/StaticShock: Miles is launching into the sky by Static's [[FinishingMove Nova Burst]], being disintergrated once it explodes.

** At the end of the episode “[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]” Frank Grimes is outraged at how Homer is constantly rewarded for his stupidity, goes insane, and starts mockingly mimicking risky things Homer would do and saying he's "Homer Simpson". While doing this he grabs a high voltage cable without safety gloves in Homer's office and unintentionally electrocutes himself to death.

** The electric chair is still on the books as a possible method of execution in a few U.S. states, but only as a secondary method if the inmate chooses it instead of lethal injection. It has mostly fallen out of favor due to several infamous cases where it [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]], leading to objections that electrocution violates the Constitution's ban on [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Cruel And Unusual Punishment]]. Wiki/TheOtherWiki has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair the gory details]]. To date, the last use was in 2013.

* ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'': In ''The Final Scene'', Nancy has to disarm an electrified gate. Nancy will die if she attempts to do so [[FailedASpotCheck without rubber gloves]].

* The ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' featured such a death in the season 2 episode "[[Recap/TheWildWildWestS2E16TheNightOfTheTotteringTontine The Night of the Tottering Tontine]]". One of the members of said tontine, mystery writer Edward Baring, found a book in his room titled ''[[SchmuckBait The Death of Edward Baring]]''. He opened it and was immediately electrocuted.