History Main / HumanHeadOnTheWall

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'': While trying to work out how to catch a worm, Owen has a an ImagineSpot where he bites a worm on the end of a fishing line and ends up mounted on the wall like a trophy fish.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries'', OmnicidalManiac Van Pelt has [[WouldHurtAChild mounted child heads]] in his hunting collection. And the African-looking masks are probably mounted Manjis, who are AmbiguouslyHuman, too.

* The of the Minotaur fate at the hands of the Custodians of the Chronology in an altered timeline in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''.

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* In one of the creepiest scenes from ''Manga/SaintSeiya's'' 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]].]]

* There's a rather famous [[https://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|Comics}} 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.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hunted}}'', the 2019 story event from ''ComicBook/NickSpencersSpiderMan'' has its opening issue with Kraven seated beneath a wall with multiple animal themed heroes and villains mounted on walls like trophies.
* During his run on ''[[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]]'', John Byrne introduced a corporate villainness named Headhunter, who had the heads of former business execs mounted on her wall, and each head was able to talk and provide Headhunter with information about their corporations. In a twist, it's revealed that her victims were never beheaded; their bodies were tied up on the other side of her office wall, with the heads poking out of holes in her wall, in a hypnotic state so they would surrender any information she asked of them.

** Also in ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', Vimes meets a local werewolf clan in their pack leader's castle, and notices there are empty nails and patches of paler plaster on the wall around them, suggesting several ''hunting trophies'' have been taken down so as not to impede the smooth flow of diplomacy. Later in the book he learns about The Game, where werewolves hunt down humans.

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* Parodied on ''Series/RaisingHope'' with a novelty Sabrina has on the wall in her house. It has the usual "plaque" part of a hunting trophy, only instead of a deer head, it has a pair of breasts wearing a coconut bra, and a button on the bottom which plays "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" and makes the breasts jiggle when pressed. Burt asks her if it's for sale, and she says no...but he [[NoodleIncident somehow]] gets it anyway. All the men in town come by to watch it, until Virginia questions what kind of example this is setting for Hope, and Burt sees Hope holding her stacking cup toys to her chest and has an ImagineSpot of her at age 20 as a stripper dancing to a cover of "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts," and decides to get rid of it.

** One of the Halloween Specials features a story in which what seems to be the entire adult male population of Springfield is forced into a DeadlyGame which involves Mr Burns hunting them down and killing them. Their heads will be mounted on wall plaques at the Burns mansion.

* In ''Literature/{{Swellhead}}'', the heroes exploring the supervillain's lair find a trophy room containing the preserved, mounted, and carefully labelled heads of everyone who has ever crossed him, starting with one of his grade school teachers and so on down to [[spoiler:the freshly-mounted head of the guy the heroes left guarding their escape route]].

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* Seen as the page image for SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
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* ''Literature/TheEnemy''. In the third book in the series, the Collector makes Olivia's severed head into the centrepiece of a macabre collection of body parts.

* ''WEsternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer Simpson has a nightmare about Bart doing this to him ([[ComicallyMissingThePoint after a trip to the guillotine factory, which was the perfect place to shoot him]]) in the episode "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E12TennisTheMenace Tennis the Menace]]."

* The ‘’Film/TheThreeStooges’’ short ‘’[[Recap/TheThreeStoogesIllNeverHeilAgain I’ll Never Heil Again]]’’ ends with Hailstone (Moe), Pebble (Larry) and Herring’s (Curly) heads mounted as trophies.

* The ‘’Film/TheThreeStooges’’ short ‘’[[Recap/TheThreeStoogesIllNeverHeilAgain I’ll Never Heil Again]]’’ ends with Hailstone (Moe), Pebble (Larry) and Gallstone’s (Curly) heads mounted as trophies.

* The ‘’Film/ThreeStooges’’ short ‘’[[Recap/TheThreeStoogesIllNeverHeilAgain I’ll Never Heil Again]]’’ ends with Hailstone (Moe), Pebble (Larry) and Gallstone’s (Curly) heads mounted as trophies.

* The ‘’Film/ThreeStooges’’ short ‘’Recap/IllNeverHeilAgain’’ ends with Hailstone (Moe), Pebble (Larry) and Gallstone’s (Curly) heads mounted as trophies.

* Homer Simpson has a nightmare about Bart doing this to him ([[ComicallyMissingThePoint after a trip to the guillotine factory, which was the perfect place to shoot him]]) in the episode "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E12TennisTheMenace Tennis the Menace]]."

* [[http://www.comics.org/issue/794734/cover/4/ This cover]] of ''ComicBook/GrimmFairyTales Holiday Edition'' #2 shows Sela with the head of {{Krampus}} mounted on the wall behind her.