History Main / HumanHeadOnTheWall

* SteamPunk EgomaniacHunter Lord Cockswain massacres the rare game of Venus in ''Doctor Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory''. At the end of his illustrated journal, we see Cockswain's living room full of their mounted heads, including his alien guide.

* In one of the crepeiest scenes in the ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' Sanctuary arc, Seiya and Shiryu find out that the walls of the Cancer Temple are ''full'' of human faces. There's one face per each person that Cancer Deathmask, the BloodKnight among the Gold Saints, has killed - [[AndIMustScream and their souls are bound to them]]. Understandably, [[OhCrap neither of the boys react well to the discovery]] or to [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Deathmask's flippant reaction to their horror]]. [[spoiler: When Shiryu kills Deathmask, he and Seiya soon see that the "heads/faces" are gone, [[UndeathAlwaysEnds meaning that the souls of these people are finally free]].]]

* ''Film/ReturnToOz'' features a variant with Princess Mombi's hall of [[FaceStealer stolen heads]] in display cases. [[AndIMustScream They're still alive]], and Mombi can [[LosingYourHead take off her own head]] and [[SwissArmyAppendage replace it with one from her collection]].

* UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat used a variant of this after having his wife's boyfriend executed, albeit preserving the head in a jar of alcohol rather than mounting it on a wall. According to some reports, he even put the jar on display in his wife's bedroom. For extra irony, [[DoubleStandard said boyfriend was the brother of one of Peter's mistresses]].

* The video for Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "CNR" has a brief look at a wall in Charles Nelson Reilly's house which is covered with trophy heads. One of them is human. Even better: it's [[Creator/ChuckNorris Chuck]] [[ChuckNorrisFacts Norris]].

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* In ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', Mort the gravedigger has four heads mounted on his wall, one of which is human -- but don't worry, three of them are fake.
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* There's a rather famous [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joker_copy_4176.jpg piece of comicbook artwork]] drawn by Brian Bolland featuring ComicBook/TheJoker lounging in a chair in front of a trophy wall mounted with the decapitated heads of various Creator/DCComics heroes and villains, all of them painted white and their faces distorted into a smile like the Joker himself. It's even been [[ArtImitatesArt parodied a bunch of times]] with other comic supervillains sitting in Joker's place.

* There's a rather famous [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joker_copy_4176.jpg piece of comicbook artwork]] drawn by Brian Bolland featuring ComicBook/TheJoker lounging in a chair in front of a trophy wall mounted with the decapitated heads of various Creator/{{DC}} heroes and villains, all of them painted white and their faces distorted into a smile like the Joker himself. It's even been [[ArtImitatesArt parodied a bunch of times]] with other comic supervillains sitting in Joker's place.

* PlayedForLaughs (of course) in the Music/TomLehrer song "The Hunting Song":
-->''And there's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now,''
-->''Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a pure-bred guernsey cow.''

OffWithHisHead meets DeadGuyOnDisplay meets TaxidermyIsCreepy.

A favourite pastime of {{Serial Killer}}s and {{Egomaniac Hunter}}s. Sometimes it is not enough to merely stalk and kill your targets. Sometimes you want to have a permanent memento. So what better way to preserve the moment than to decapitate your victim, flense the skin off the head, preserve it, re-affix it to the skull, mount it on a plaque and hang it on your den wall?

Tends to happen disproportionately often to hunters, as a form of LaserGuidedKarma.

A SubTrope of DeadGuyOnDisplay and CreepySouvenir. Compare DecapitationPresentation, which is usually a bit more informal, and ShrunkenHead, which is the primitive tribal equivalent of this trope.

* ''Film/ReturnToOz'' features a variant with [[FaceStealer Princess Mombi's]] hall of heads in display cases. [[AndIMustScream They're still alive]], and Mombi can [[LosingYourHead take off her own head]] and [[SwissArmyAppendage replace it with one from her collection]].

* ''Film/ReturnToOz'' features a variant with [[FaceStealer Princess Mombi's]] hall of heads in display cases. [[AndIMustScream They're still alive]], and Mombi can [[LosingYourHead take off her head]] and [[SwissArmyAppendage replace it with one from her collection]].

* ''Film/SinCity'' segment "The Hard Goodbye". Marv finds his parole officer Lucille trapped inside a room on a farm. The heads of six hookers are mounted on the walls: her captor ''ate'' the rest of them.

A SubTrope of DeadGuyOnDisplay and CreepySouvenir. Compare DecapitationPresentation, which is usually a bit more informal.

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* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', where in one of Spongebob's panicked {{Imagine Spot}}s he pictures Mr. Krabs mounting his and Patrick's ''butts'' on his wall as punishment for screwing up.

LosingYourHead meets DeadGuyOnDisplay meets TaxidermyIsCreepy.

A SubTrope of DeadGuyOnDisplay and CreepySouvenir.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CatCity'', Gatto, the cat mob boss, has mounted cat heads on his wall.

* PlayedForLaughs (of course) in the Creator/TomLehrer song "The Hunting Song":