History Main / ImpaledPalm

* ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Devil May Cry 3]]'': After being defeated in an intense battle of SiblingRivalry Dante gets back up and attempts to attack his brother, Vergil with his bare fist. Unfortunately he's not fast enough as Vergil manages to stop his fist by impaling it on his katana. Luckily for Dante, he has regenerating demon powers, so he simply rips his hand out of the blade and it heals almost instantly.

* Used to great effect in ''Film/TheCrazies2010''. The victim even manages to kill his attacker, while the knife is *still* impaling his hand.

* ''Film/TheGeneral1998'': Martin Cahill believes one of his associates betrayed him, so he has someone nail his hands to a pool table.

** [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic So just ask the Bug to put his hand against the wall, and you'll be good.]]

* In ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' [[spoiler: Amber]] did this to Sal in a fit of rage after being goaded to by her father. Sal wears gloves all the time to hide the scar.

* To [[RealityEnsues cause intense pain and incapacitate that person's hand]] without causing irreversible damage.

* ''Fanfic/NeverSayNever'' has an example that overlaps with RealityEnsues and badass endurance, Junko gets saved from Monokuma's trap by Naegi but her hand gets impaled by one of the spears, causing excruciating pain and serious blood loss. After she gets patched up, Junko, [[spoiler: who is actually [[ActionGirl Mukuro Ikusaba]] in disguise]], give a dying Sayaka some much needed First Aid after finding out she's been bleeding out the entire night. Right after that, she races to the Class Trial, [[FastRoping sliding down a cable elevator]] to stop [[spoiler: Leon]] from getting executed, she reopens her wound in the process but none the less [[BigDamnHeroes she successfully stops the execution]].

->''"The enemy cannot push a button, if you disable his hand."''

* In the ''ComicBook/PainkillerJane''/ ComicBook/{{Vampirella}} crossover, Jane shows Vamp that she is tough enough to hang with vampires when she slams her hand through a letter spike then asks to shake on the new partnership with the spike still in her hand.

** Erik PerpSweating the ex-Nazi in Argentina with the man's own dagger in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
-->'''Erik:''' ''[reading what's engraved on the blade]'' Blood and Honor. Which would you care to shed first?\\

* In ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', the [[{{AntiVillain}} "villain"]] Foil has this happen to her twice. Her superpowers allow her to cause any object she touches to break several laws of physics and penetrate clear through solid objects, ignore gravity and friction, and fuse with things they touch. She also has a superhuman sense of timing and aim that allows her to very effectively use this power with flying objects, like darts or crossbow bolts, or blades. So on the first occasion, she fires a gun through her own hand, in order to imbue the bullet with her power; she says this is the only way to effectively use her power on bullets as they move too fast for her to touch otherwise. The second time, she [[spoiler:blocks the [[AxeCrazy villain March's]] rapier with her hand. The space-warping heroine Vista had used her power to shorten the blade, so it didn't penetrate all the way through and only the surface of the palm experienced the effect of March's power, exploding outward.]]

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': When [[EnemyWithin the Other Bakura]] challenges Yugi and friends to a Tabletop RPG where their souls are literally at stake and he's gleefully playing the role of KillerGameMaster, the ''real'' Bakura manages to take back control of his hand and sabotage a roll that would have otherwise resulted in a TotalPartyKill. Unfortunately for him, the Other Bakura prevents him from meddling further by impaling said hand on one of the game board's towers.

* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Kurama throws a rose [[Anime/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask-style]] through Karasu's hand. Karasu is completely unimpressed and pulls it out.

* ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'' has Batman impaling his hand on a piece of glass. The original script called for it to be merely scratched but the art depicted the glass going right through his hand. The reason is to come to his senses after the experience of being psychoanalyzed by ''the Joker''. The model for McKean's art in that panel was Creator/NeilGaiman with a pair of sunglasses.

* In ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', ComicBook/RasAlGhul came back from the dead after his body was destroyed. His first attempt was into the body of a martial artist action star, who had poisoned his own body to foil Ra's plans. Ra's took control of the body, but it was dying and numb of feeling. To demonstrate this, Ra's stabs his own hand, and continues to talk to his daughter Talia while his eye is visible staring out the clean, bloodless hole in his palm.

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon does this to one of the villains by throwing his knife. Leon gets it back, since one of said villain's bodyguards [[PressXToNotDie throws it back at him]]. This is a notable example because it's not done for any of the reasons listed above, being instead a ShutUpHannibal showing that, for Leon, the time for bantering with Salazar is over.
* One of the first of many tortures inflicted upon Ethan Winters in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' is his wife driving a screwdriver through his left hand, nailing it to a wall. He manages to pull it out moments before [[AnArmAndALeg she comes back with a chainsaw]].
* It's possible to do this in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' with throwing knives and carefully aimed gunshots.

* An uncommon HEAT action in ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' when Kazuma is holding a knife near a wall is to throw the mook at the wall, then stab his hand against the wall.

* The [[PlayerCharacter Dragonborn]] is victim to this in the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' DLC ''Dawnguard''. [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction They're fine]].
* In a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Passchendaele}}'', a French soldier is seen receiving a German bayonet to his palm during the opening cutscene of the ''VideoGame/Battlefield1'' War Story, "Storm of Steel".

* In the ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' chapter Public Enemy, there's a deviant in the kitchen. However, there are three androids and Connor has to figure out which one is the deviant. If he successfully figures out who the deviant is, then the deviant [[spoiler: rips out Connor's therium pump (essentially his heart),]] and then grabs a knife and stabs it into Connor's hand, pinning it to the counter.
* Happens to Otso Berg with a throwing knife at the end of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate''. He simply [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction pulls the knife out and carries on]].

* Happens to Webcomic/BobTheAngryFlower [[spoiler:repeatedly]] during the Foment storyline.

* ''Webcomic/DrowTales:'' [[spoiler:Ariel]] gets a knife through her hand, pinning her to a table. (The stabber then 'helps' her free herself by ''cutting her entire arm off at the shoulder.'')
* In ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' [[spoiler: Amber]] did this to Sal in a fit of rage after being goaded to by her father. Sal wears gloves all the time to hide the scar.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Fry accidentally nails his hand to a sign. A "No Employee Accidents in X Days" sign.

--->'''Erik:''' ''[reading what's engraved on the blade]'' Blood and Honor. Which would you care to shed first?\\

* Averted in ''Film/{{Stigmata}}''. Frankie's wounds are through her ''wrists'', and she gleefully notes that they should be through her ''palms'' if she has stigmata. However, Father Kiernan notes that historic crucifixions were done through the wrist.
* ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'': You'll never guess which scene.
* In ''Film/{{Colombiana}}'', the heroine is confronted, as a small girl, with the man who has just killed her parents. He asks her to hand over an object her father has given her for safe keeping, and holds out his hand across a table. She unclips a knife hidden under the table and pins his palm to the tabletop. Ouch.
* Alice suffers this in ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'', due to a surprise knife attack by [[spoiler: Bennett]].
* Happens to [[spoiler:Spider]] during ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. It doesn't slow him down for long.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. Max covers his eyes whenever he has a hallucination of his dead daughter. This instinctive reaction saves his life when a War Boy simultaneously shoots him with a crossbow, giving Max an ImpaledPalm [[ArrowCatch instead of an impaled head]].
* In ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'', one of Biollante's vines goes through Godzilla's left hand.
* In the first fight scene of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Cap stops a pirate from throwing an alarm switch by throwing a knife into his hand, pinning it to the wall.
* The killer in the horror film ''Film/ABladeInTheDark'' does this to one of his victims in the bathroom, pinning her hand to the counter with a knife before throwing a bag over her head to suffocate her and then finishing her off with a SlashedThroat.
* In the WWI movie ''Film/{{Passchendaele}}'', a Canadian soldier gets a bayonet to his palm while trying to deflect it from his face. He overpowers his German attacker and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him ''with the same injured fist'' whilst [[ClusterFBomb screaming obscenities]].
* [[BigBad Dukhovich]] in ''Film/TheHitmansBodyguard'' stabs [[spoiler:Assistant Director [[TheMole Foucher]]]] in the palm with a ''pen'' when the latter comes over trying to weasel out on the deal.
* ''Film/{{Parker}}'': During the fight with the hitman in the hotel, Parker blocks an attempt to stab him with his hand. The knife goes all the way through his hand and remains there for the remainder of the fight. He also uses this to his advantage, when he throws said assassin off the balcony.
* ''Film/EscapeToAthena''. Charlie is cautiously opening a door when the SS officer on the other side puts several bullets through it. Charlie is unharmed except for several splinters in his palm, which Charlie pulls out with his teeth (because he's carrying GunsAkimbo) while grimacing in pain.
* In ''Film/TheBeastWithFiveFingers'', Hilary nails the hand to a block of wood in the library.
* In ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'', the Ripper nails James's palm to floor with one of his knives, before killing him by [[EyeScream driving his thumbs through his eyes]].
* In an act of defiance, Marco jabs a fork through his hand at the dinner table in ''Film/SnuffMovie''.
* ''Film/TheKunoichiNinjaGirl'': As Kanna is attempting to crawl away, Shimotsuki pins her hand to the ground with a shuriken.
* During TheTeaser to ''Film/TimberFalls'', the female captive has her hands nailed to the tables on either side of the bed. She is eventually able to pull one palm completely off the nail, and use that hand to free the other.
* In ''Film/{{Rovdyr}}'', Jorgen gets his right palm impaled on one of the hunters' barbwire snares, and has to painfully pull it free with his left hand.
* In ''Film/BloodHarvest'', Jill's stalker shoots [[spoiler:Sarah]] in the back of the hand with an arrow, pinning her to a support in the barn.
* ''Film/HoodedAngels'': During the final fight between Ellie and Wes, KnifeNut Ellie lunges at Wes with her stiletto. Wes, who is lying on the floor, holds up his hand to fend her off and the blade goes straight through his palm.

* Fighting creatures in the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series suffer from this a lot, frequently instead of having a weapon go through more vital areas because the author wants to keep them around or make them suffer. A common variation is having their paws pinned to objects by arrows going clear through.
* In the classic Chinese novel ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', the captain of a besieged city is hurling taunts along with his troops down at Sun Ce's army, leaning on a wooden beam with one hand and making rude gestures with the other. Recently recruited Taishi Ci turns to Sun Ce and says "Watch this" before taking his bow and firing a shot that pins the captain's hand to the beam from fifty yards away.
* Two examples from Creator/StephenKing:
** In ''Literature/{{Thinner}}'', the main character is shot through the hand by a gypsy girl with a slingshot. The resultant hole is later drained into a pie in order to pass on his curse.
** In ''Literature/TheDarkHalf'', Thad stabs himself through the hand with a pencil [[ItMakesSenseInContext while possessed by the spirit of his own dead pseudonym]].

* In ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', Vandemar does this to himself after being unimpressed by Croup's knife-throwing act (in which [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Croup didn't even hit one of his own fingers]]). Being a supernatural whatever-the-hell-he-is, he feels no pain and doesn't bleed.
* Grandma Mazur takes an icepick through the hand in the second book of the Literature/StephaniePlum series. While she rallies, it's also one of the more vulnerable moments for the character, as it forces her to admit that she's not as tough as she claims to be.
* In the SpyFiction ''Running Blind'' by Desmond Bagley, the protagonist captures a man he suspects is TheMole, and shoots him through the palm to encourage him to talk. When he's later captured by the KGB, the mole enters the room, straightaway has the KGB put his hand against the wall and [[{{revenge}} shoots him through the palm]]. This causes problems later when he has to work the bolt of a sniper rifle; he eventually passes out and his girlfriend has to take over.
* In ''The Japanese Corpse'', one of Janwillem van der Wetering's Amsterdam Cop novels, the Comissaris is taken prisoner by a {{Yakuza}} who tries to force him to commit {{Yubitsume}}. The Comissaris pretends to be clumsy until the yakuza reaches over to do it for him, upon which he spikes the guy's hand to the table with the knife.
* In ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', the [[{{AntiVillain}} "villain"]] Foil has this happen to her twice. Her superpowers allow her to cause any object she touches to break several laws of physics and penetrate clear through solid objects, ignore gravity and friction, and fuse with things they touch. She also has a superhuman sense of timing and aim that allows her to very effectively use this power with flying objects, like darts or crossbow bolts, or blades. So on the first occasion, she fires a gun through her own hand, in order to imbue the bullet with her power; she says this is the only way to effectively use her power on bullets as they move too fast for her to touch otherwise. The second time, she [[spoiler:blocks the [[AxeCrazy villain March's]] rapier with her hand. The space-warping heroine Vista had used her power to shorten the blade, so it didn't penetrate all the way through and only the surface of the palm experienced the effect of March's power, exploding outward.]]

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The Mayor lets Angel throw a letter opener through his hand to demonstrate his newly-gained HealingFactor.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' - A housewife (Terry Jones) shows that tv viewers are indeed idiots by a few demonstrations, one of which involves nailing her own hand to the side of a van and getting dragged away.

* Thomas from ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' got himself shipped home from the trenches of World War One by intentionally getting a German sniper to shoot him through the hand.
* In ''{{Series/Homeland}}'' [[spoiler:Quinn]] does this to [[spoiler:Brody]] with a penknife while interrogating him, either through losing his temper or as a preplanned RabidCop act to give someone else the chance to play [[GoodCopBadCop Good Cop]].
* On ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Peter wins a nasty fight against Sylar by blocking the latter's powers, beating the living daylights out of him, and then pins him to a table by driving a [[NailEm nail gun]] through Sylar's palms and groin.
* From ''Series/TheBorgias'', Cesare stabs Giovanni Sforza through the hand with a dinner knife. Giovanni instinctively pulls back and... [[{{Fingore}} it's not pretty]].
* In ''Series/SpartacusWarOfTheDamned'' [[spoiler: Agron]] is crucified in this manner, rendering him unable to hold a sword after his rescue.
** Notably, the series usually had nails driven through a victim's wrist, [[ShownTheirWork as was more practical for holding the body up.]] [[spoiler: Agron]], however, had promised to chop off Julius Caesar's head, so the latter made a point of ruining his sword hand.
* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Extinction", a budding SerialKiller attempts to murder Clark by sniping him with a Kryptonite bullet. Clark reacts fast enough to catch it, but being made of Kryptonite, it goes straight through his outstretched hand and into his shoulder. His HealingFactor kicks in after his parents [[WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut remove it]], and his palm and shoulder end up being no worse for wear.
* ''Series/{{Luther}}''. Luther is captured by an EvilMatriarch gangster who wants the location of a witness in protective custody. To make Luther know she means business, her grandson opens the conversation by hammering a nail through Luther's palm into a table. Not to be outdone, Luther pulls out the nail with his other hand when it's time to leave.
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': The gang [[WilliamTelling throws darts]] at Dennis's hand as part of their bizarre, abusive homemade boardgame. One hits his palm dead center, and he doesn't flinch. Made even more impressive creepy when you find out [[spoiler: he was sober.]]

* {{Series/Krypton}}: Jayna Zod impales the hand of Lyta Zod to teach her the lesson that Sagittari never ask for mercy, and never give it.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Revival", Luke uses his shapeshifting abilities to create the illusion of stigmata in front of the revival congregations.

* Used very dramatically in ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles'' by [[AntiHero Eretria]]. BloodMagic is required to open a gateway to a PocketDimension where the McGuffin is hidden. Eretria places her hand on a spike, and her blood runs down into a pool. It actually draws so much blood that she faints (perhaps there is an anti-clotting agent on the spike?) She only survives because of Wil's healing magic.

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* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': When [[EnemyWithin the Other Bakura]] challenges Yugi and friends to a Tabletop RPG where their souls are literally at stake and he's gleefully playing the role of KillerGameMaster, the ''real'' Bakura manages to take back control of his hand and sabotage a roll that would have otherwise resulted in a TotalPartyKill. Unfortunately for him, the Other Bakura prevents him from meddling further by impaling said hand on one of the game board's towers.
** This nearly happens to Ushio in a Shadow Game against Yugi's SuperpoweredEvilSide in which the players have to stab stacks of money on their hands without hitting any flesh. Ushio realizes that he's about to stab full-force, which would send the knife through his hand, so he tries to TakeAThirdOption and stab Yugi. In doing so, however, he incurs Yugi's [[MindRape wrath]].
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Roy Mustang is stabbed through his palm, damaging the design on his gloves, and impeding him from using his powers. He was also pinned in a CrucifiedHeroShot and used as a human sacrifice, so it's probably deliberate symbolism.
** Major General Armstrong shoves her sword through a hapless official while attacking the heads of Amestris's government.

* In the manga of ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'', Arima impales his own palm with his boxcutter after [[spoiler: his massive heart-to-heart with Yukino in the school library finishes with him pretty much ''raping'' her]]. Luckily, his dad is a doctor and patches him up. [[spoiler: But not before the still shell-shocked Arima tries to go to school while hiding his injury (read: wrapping his injury in a bandage and then keeping both hands in his pockets, which sends Yukino in a full GetAHoldOfYourselfMan mood.]]

* In the ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' manga, Cypha of Hückebein activates her powerful React mode by plunging a dagger into her left palm (so that it enters her wrist -- ouch). However, thanks to her crazy HealingFactor, she doesn't even wince.
* ''Manga/DGrayMan'':
** Miranda Lotto gets her hands nailed to a clock by the sadistic Road Kamelot.
** Later in the manga, Apochryphos pins Tyki Mikk to the wall by his hands, then ''grows nails out of his hands'' which impale Tyki's palms
* During the infamous "Hundred Man Killer" fight in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', Guts catches a crossbow bolt in his palm to prevent it from hitting him in a more vital area. He kills the archer, breaks the bolt and continues to fight one-handed.
* In ''Manga/{{Sanctuary}}'', Hojo Akira must prove his resolve to join the Yakuza. He does this by stabbing his own hand through and through with a knife, without hesitation. He sweats a little bit from the effort, and thinks 'it hurts so much I could cry.' But Hoja's expression does not change throughout the ordeal. His mentor, Mr. Tokai, notes later that no-one else has ever shown him the guts Hoja demonstrated.
* In ''Manga/MaidenRose'' after Berkut puts his hand beneath Taki's chin mid-fight and mocks him, [[PintsizedPowerhouse Taki]] hurls Berkut across the cabin and pins his hand to the ground with his [[KatanasAreJustBetter sword]].

* Showcasing how mind-fucked all three characters involved are, the first team called Zero drives a nail into Soubi's palm in ''{{Manga/Loveless}}''.
* In ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', [[spoiler: Asakura]] stabs [[spoiler: Kyon]] in the chest ''through'' his hands.
* Similarly to the above, in ''Manga/DogsBulletsAndCarnage'' Badou got a sword stabbed through his hand and [[EyeScream into his eye]].
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': When [[spoiler: a clone of]] Himiko Toga is about to stab Rock Lock, he reacts in ''just'' enough time for her to stick the knife through his palm, instead. [[spoiler: However, the ''real'' Toga stabs him InTheBack mere seconds later (which he just barely survives).]]
* In ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' at one point when Drosselmeyer takes control of Fakir and forces him to write the story of Ahiru's death, which would then come true, he stabs his own hand with a letter-opener to stop it from writing.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Kurama throws a rose [[Anime/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask-style]] through Karasu's hand. Karasu is completely unimpressed and pulls it out.
** Also Hiei does this to himself. When he first talks to Shigure, he insisted Hiei won't make it through the surgery for the Jagan eye. In order to prove himself Hiei stabs his left palm with his sword and says he'll be able to handle it.
* During one fight in ''Manga/{{AIKI}}'', Hou Mei blocks a dagger with her bare hand... which lets her counterattack freely now that the opponent's weapon is stuck through her palm.

* In ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'', the entrances to [[spoiler:the temples in South America and under Mt. Fuji]] can only be unlocked by vampire blood...provided by twin blades skewering the hand of the vampire in question.
* In ''Manga/IchiTheKiller'', Kakihara likes to do this to people with his needles. At one point, he puts a needle through the clasped palms of his henchmen [[CreepyTwins Jiro and Saburo]] as punishment for killing someone he wanted kept alive.
* In ''LightNovel/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'', when Zion [[AttemptedRape tries to rape Titta]], Tigre rescues her by firing an arrow through Zion's hand.
* In ''Anime/RurouniKenshin'', Okina does this during his fight with Aoshi after he finds himself backed into a corner, and this wins him a free hit with his most powerful attack. It doesn't work though, as Aoshi immediately unleashes the most powerful attack of his own and slashes Okina down.
* In season 3 of ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'', [[spoiler:a crazed fan attempts to kill Retsuko with a razor while she's walking through the business district to be picked up from work.]] [[spoiler:Haida, while protecting her, gets his hand stabbed, not noticing that he was injured until Inui points it out to him.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': Bad guy drives a knife all the way through Tulip's hand ''into a car dashboard''. [[ActionGirl Tulip]] eventually gathers the strength to ''pull it off by herself'' (excruciating pain included) in order to get free and save her boyfriend.
* Bullseye gets a taste of his medicine and then some, when ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} pushes his hands into the path of a bullet. While [[BloodstainedGlassWindows fighting in a church]]. In another instance, ComicBook/ThePunisher (who was going through a difficult period in his life and decided not to kill him) shot Bullseye in both hands in revenge for framing him for the murder of an innocent family.
* In the ''ComicBook/PainkillerJane''/ ComicBook/{{Vampirella}} crossover, Jane shows Vamp that she is tough enough to hang with vampires when she slams her hand through a letter spike then asks to shake on the new partnership with the spike still in her hand.
* In ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'', Shuna willingly subjects herself to this trope when Strongbow is falling to his death from a cliff. With nothing but bare stone for him to aim a cord-trailing arrow at, she extends her hand and allows him to shoot it through her palm, after which other elves can pull the archer to safety.
* In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' story arc "In the Beginning", Frank Castle is being attacked by an AxCrazy [[MadeOfIron tank]] named Pittsy. Pittsy beats the Punisher's face into hamburger, then grabs a nastily large shard of broken glass and proceeds to stab him repeatedly with it. Castle resolves the situation by catching the glass ''in his palm''...then snapping off the larger part of it, [[spoiler:picking up Pittsy and throwing him out a window]].

* In Franchise/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/RasAlGhul came back from the dead after his body was destroyed. His first attempt was into the body of a martial artist action star, who had poisoned his own body to foil Ra's plans. Ra's took control of the body, but it was dying and numb of feeling. To demonstrate this, Ra's stabs his own hand, and continues to talk to his daughter Talia while his eye is visible staring out the clean, bloodless hole in his palm.
* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} once put some sugar on his hand and described an old trick of killing a fly without scratching one's self while at a bar, then when the fly landed he demonstrated that he was nowhere near that subtle by pinning his hand to the table with his knife (killing the fly) and getting up to confront the man behind him. (To be sure, physical injuries are [[GoodThingYouCanHeal less of an issue for him]] than for most people.)
* ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye: Whirl shoots an arrow through the captain's, [[spoiler:Megatron's]] hand, to piss him off and goad him into a fight.
* {{ComicBook/XIII}} does this to himself : the pain keeps him from falling asleep on a sinking boat.
* In ''[[ComicBook/RobynHood Robyn Hood: I Love NY]]'' #11, Robyn stabs Fuchs through the palm with a piece of splintered wood. This doesn't even slow Fuchs down, as he pulls a LodgedBladeRecycling by pulling the shard out of his hand and slashing Robyn with it.
* In ''ComicBook/BatwomanRebirth'', Batwoman gets her right hand impaled by a sword.
* In ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'' #10, [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Shredder]] nails the assassin Headhunter to a table by driving a sai through her hand into a table.

* Happens to young Obi Wan Kenobi during a torture session in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11358273/1/Rebellion-on-Rindega Rebellion on Rindega]]''.

* Constable Angel in ''Film/HotFuzz'' is stabbed in the palm by a MallSanta[[note]] played by Creator/PeterJackson. [[/note]] with some scissors.
* Eric Draven in ''Film/TheCrow'' first demonstrates his regenerating powers by getting shot through the middle of the palm of his hand.

* In ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'', the main character does this ''to himself'', to get stigmata-like scars on his hands as a little kid, as a part of a complex plan to get his religious present-day cellmate to believe him. (TimeTravel is involved.)

* Will Scarlet (Creator/ChristianSlater) in the film ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' has his hand pierced through by Robin's arrow.
* ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'':
** Elektra, with her own knife. Pulling it out looks agonisingly painful.
** Bullseye again, seeing as this scene is derived from the comic books example up top.
* The title character of ''The Pawnbroker'' does this to himself at the end of the movie.
* The heroine of the movie ''Film/{{Nikita}}'' snaps and does this to a policeman with a pencil. She actually stabs it into the ''back'' of his hand, which paradoxically looks as though it would hurt more.

* ''Film/BloodSimple'': Abby nails Visser's hand to a windowsill with a steak knife.
* ''The General'' (1998): Martin Cahill believes one of his associates betrayed him, so he has someone nail his hands to a pool table.
* Used to great effect in ''Film/TheCrazies2010''. The victim even manages to kill his attacker, while the knife is *still* impaling his hand.
* In ''Film/TheHandmaiden'', [[spoiler: Uncle Kouzuki]] drills a hole into one of [[spoiler: Fujiwara's]] hands.

* In ''Film/RikiOhTheStoryOfRicky'', Ricky gets stabbed in the hand and just nonchalantly rips the object out while [[KubrickStare staring at his aggressor.]]
* In ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth'', Pinhead pulls two nails from his head and shoves them through the palms of his hands, deliberately mocking the resultant crucifixion imagery to freak out Joey.
* In ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead3'', Julie shoves a shard of glass into her hand to drown out the pain of her HorrorHunger.
* Solozzo does this to Luca Brasi in the movie version of ''Film/TheGodfather'' to prevent him reaching for his gun while another henchman garrotes Brasi from behind. This is, of course, pure RuleOfScary: in the book Solozzo simply held Brasi's arm. There is a further practical purpose to the impalement; it caused Luca to scream in agony, and given that he's immediately garrotted afterward, he dies all the quicker for being unable to take a breath.

* The titular protagonist of ''Film/ElMariachi'' is shot through the hand by his lover's vengeful ex, preventing him from ever playing guitar again. [[spoiler: El Mariachi responds by shooting the man through the chest]].
* Happens in a fight in ''Film/YoungGunsII'', and Chavez y Chavez, Lou Diamond Phillips' character, gets stabbed in the hand with a knife. He then proceeds to knock the fuck out of the guy who stabbed him, one of the other young guns, and casually asks if the fight is over and offers the knife back. By pulling it out.
* Ripley 8 does this to herself in ''Film/AlienResurrection'' to demonstrate her inhuman nature.
* When a sudden eye grows out of protagonist's palm in ''Film/TheGate'', he promptly stabs it with a shard of glass. Oh, and he's just a kid.

* Among the more disturbing images in Creator/IngmarBergman's ''Film/{{Persona|1966}}'' is a hand being nailed to something.

* In the manga of ''Manga/KareKano'', Arima impales his own palm with his boxcutter after [[spoiler: his massive heart-to-heart with Yukino in the school library finishes with him pretty much ''raping'' her]]. Luckily, his dad is a doctor and patches him up. [[spoiler: But not before the still shell-shocked Arima tries to go to school while hiding his injury (read: wrapping his injury in a bandage and then keeping both hands in his pockets, which sends Yukino in a full GetAHoldOfYourselfMan mood.]]

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': When [[spoiler: a clone of]] Himiko Toga is about to stab Rock Lock, he reacts in ''just'' enough time for her to impale him through his palm, instead. [[spoiler: However, the ''real'' Toga stabs him InTheBack mere seconds later (which he just barely survives).]]