History Main / HumanHeadOnTheWall

* ''Film/ReturnToOz'' combines this with PeopleJars in the form of 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]].
* In ''Film/Predator2'' we get to see the titular villain return to his spaceship after decapitating King Willie, cleaning and polishing his skull, and mounting it on a spike in his trophy rack.

* UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat used a variant of this after having his wife's secretary and chamberlain [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Mons Willem Mons]] 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--which is grimly appropriate given the rumours of an affair between her and Mons, though ironically, Mons was the brother of one of ''[[DoubleStandard Peter's]]'' own mistresses.

* 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 own mistresses]].

* Princess Mombi in Film/ReturnToOz is actually a CompositeCharacter, of the sorceress Mombi in book two, ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'' and Princess Langwidere in the third Oz book, ''Literature/OzmaOfOz''. Despite her display cabinet of thirty interchangeable heads, Langwidere isn't considered an actual villain; though it's never explained where the heads came from, but each one affects her personality, implying that they came from living women. For example, Head no 17, considered the most beautiful head, has 'a terrible temper hidden somewhere underneath the black hair'.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' where Fred and Barney have to spend the weekend in a haunted house with creepy servants who try to kill them, Fred hides by pretending to be a head mounted on the wall next to a row of mounted animal heads.

* In ''Film/TheMostDangerousGame'', Rainsford finds a human head mounted on Count Zaroff's wall as he searches the mansion. This is image shown above that illustrates this trope.

* In ''Film/TheMostDangerousGame'', Rainsford finds a human head mounted on Count Zaroff's wall as he searches the mansion.

* In the WesternAnimation/KimPossible fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12763003/1/Dead-Man-Switch Dead Man Switch]]'', [[spoiler: Warmonga shows Ron the severed head of Kim that's mounted on the wall. She taunts Ron further by patting Kim's head in front of him. They also mount the heads of the 15 girls taken to Lorwardia every year.]]

* WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In one ''Dial M For Monkey'' segment, Monkey faces an alien EgomaniacHunter named Huntor who's favorite prey has always been "the mighty Hero!". While most of the trophies on his ship are standard alien monsters, one tropy is the stuffed body of a FlyingBrick hero, and another, who's head is mounted on the wall, is an Expy of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}.

* WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In one ''Dial M For Monkey'' segment, Monkey faces an alien EgomaniacHunter named Huntor who's favorite prey has always been "the mighty ''Hero!''". While most of the trophies on his ship are standard alien monsters, one tropy is a stuffed FlyingBrick hero, and another, who's head is mounted on the wall, is an Expy of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', this overlaps with WhatMeasureIsANonHuman when Sam Vimes' group stays at a lodge in Uberwald and is horrified to find a mounted troll head. The troll in his squad is familiar enough with FantasticRacism from humans that he simply remarks that he's glad things are better than they used to be -- and shows them his grandmother's human {{Skull Cup|s}} as a reminder that it cut both ways.
** 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.

* In the WesternAnimation/KimPossible fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12763003/1/Dead-Man-Switch Dead Man Switch]]'', [[spoiler: Warmonga shows Ron the severed head of Kim that's mounted on the wall. She taunts Ron further by patting Kim's head in front of him.]]

* In the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' relaunch, ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} is possessed by his son Jericho, who murders Slade's loyal butler Wintergreen and mounts his head on a wall.
* In ''ComicBook/SinCity'', serial killer Kevin mounted the severed heads of six of the prostitutes he's murdered and eaten on plaques and hung them on the wall. This may have been inspired by the already creepy as hell [[http://i.huffpost.com/gen/254621/STUFFED-GIRLS-HEADS.jpg "Stuffed" Girl's Heads ad.]]
* A variant occurs in the ''[[Creator/ECComics Vault of Horror]]'' story [[http://www.backfromthedepths.co.uk/thetheatreofterror/2011/comic-scans/hook-line-and-stinker-from-the-vault-of-horror/ "Hook, Line, and Stinker!"]] where the victim is not a hunter but a fisherman--or so he says. When he claims to be out fishing, he's actually out cheating on his fiancee, and when she finds out she kills him and mounts his ''entire body'' on a plaque on the wall like a fishing trophy.

* ''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.

* In one early ''ComicBook/{{Cattivik}}'' story, the titular character sneaks in the mansion of an eccentric old baron who was a prolific tiger hunter and now that he's retired he's taken the hobby to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt down thieves and criminals who break into his house]] and mount their heads on a wall, and tries to do the same to Cattivik. Played for laughs by the end of the story, where Cattivik's head is seen mounted on the wall... but since the baron's butler accidently died during the hunt, he has hired Cattivik as the new butler and the trophy thing is part-time.

* In the WesternAnimation/KimPossible fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12763003/1/Dead-Man-Switch Dead Man Switch]]'', [[spoiler: Warmonga shows Ron the severed head of Kim that's mounted on the wall. She taunts Ron further by patting Kim's head in front of him.]]

* ''Film/DarkAndStormyNight'': At one point, [[LightsOffSomebodyDies during the brief blackout]], [[spoiler: Jack Tugdon]] is killed, his head taxidermied, and mounted on a wall.
* Appears in ''Film/TheMansion''. The cover depicts [[spoiler:a hallucination seen near the end of the film]] and other heads appear, shown to be earlier victims of the killer.

* 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 NativeGuide.
* ''Literature/VasquezPrivateEye'' [[spoiler:ends with Johnson mounting Martha's head on his bedroom wall]].

* ''Literature/DiogenesClub'': In "Literature/{{Swellhead}}'', a corridor in the ElaborateUndergroundBase is lined with the mounted heads of Swellhead's enemies and [[FreudianExcuse others who mistreated him in earlier years]]. Stacy is disturbed to discover when she returns to the base that [[spoiler:Kydd]]'s head has been added to it.
* ''Literature/TheEnemy''. In the third book in the series, the Collector makes Olivia's severed head into the centrepiece for a macabre collection of body parts.

* ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "Clean Kills and Other Trophies". When an evil trophy hunter forces his son to kill a deer, he is punished by African tribal gods. He is killed and his head is mounted on the trophy wall in his own house.

* On ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything'', the "Economy" episode begins with a man who has several hunting trophies. Adam makes his appearance as a head mounted on the wall, and the Guest of the Week responds with...
--> '''Hank''': Did I kill a man?
* Parodied in ''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.

* Variant in ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman''. In his [[LastVillainStand final episode]], [[BigBadWannabe Tranza]] shoots 4 of the 5 Jetman with a rifle that turns them into plaques on his wall. [[spoiler:They get freed by an EnemyMine between [[TheHero Ryu]] and [[BigBad Radiguet]].]]

* At the end of the MusicVideo of "No One Knows" from ''Music/SongsForTheDeaf'' by Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge, a vengeful deer has mounted the band members heads above his bed after they hit him with their car.

* In ''VideoGame/ACannibalInConcord'', Albert has mounted several raider heads on his wall.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Wet Painters", where Mr. Krabs hires [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick to paint his walls and threatens to cut off their ''butts'' and mount them over his fireplace if he finds even a drop of paint on something other than the walls. [[spoiler:It turns out that even though Mr. Krabs said the paint was permanent, it actually comes off with saliva and he only lied about the paint being permanent to mess with the duo, who promptly leave incensed while Mr. Krabs undoes all the painting by spraying the walls with his spittle as he laughs hysterically.]]
* ''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]]."
** 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'': At the end of "Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike", Malaria Mike has Snafu's head mounted on his wall above his fireplace.

* ''Literature/DiogenesClub'': In "Literature/{{Swellhead}}'', a corridor in the ElaborateUndergroundBase is lined with the mounted heads of Swellhead's enemies and those who have displeased him. Stacy is disturbed to discover when she returns to the base that [[spoiler:Kydd]]'s head has been added to it.

* 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.

* Variant in Series/ChojinSentaiJetman. In his [[VillainsLastStand final episode]], [[BigBadWannabe Tranza]] shoots 4 of the 5 Jetman with a rifle that turns them into plaques on his wall. [[spoiler:They get freed by an EnemyMine between [[TheHero Ryu]] and [[BigBad Radiguet]].]]

* 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.