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* In ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes gives a reality check to the [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Caltech geeks]] Sheldon, Leonard, Howard and Raj. Their only previous experience of handling bladed weapons is with useless replica swords at Renfaires. Johanna provides the real thing and a target designed to simulate the resistance and solidity of a human head. Howard Wolowitz barely dents it, ''and'' manages to get the blade stuck in the target. Apparently Assassins' Guild students don't do much better at their first go either, and encountering something carefully crafted to simulate reality is yet another corrective to over-confidence.

** One of the [[SarcasmMode best]] is in the episode where Willow, who at the time is barely capable of moving a pencil via telekinesis kills a vampire by flying said pencil into his back. The pencil wasn't moving with enough force to penetrate the vampire's leather jacket, let alone his flesh.

* ''Manga/MagicalGirlApocalypse'': The Magical Girls, as well as the people they resurrect as zombies, can [[{{Gorn}} crush and tear people apart]] quite effortlessly.

* Creator/RichardLaymon made an entire literary career out of over-the-top {{Gorn}} involving people who tend to come neatly apart into discrete body parts when subjected to violence. His books are full of scenes like this, with people getting shot through the head and leaving a neatly-severed ear stuck to the wall behind them, victims being decapitated with the single stroke of a blunt firewood axe, and one hilarious example of a man's ear being surgically removed in his sleep ''without waking him up''.

* ''VideoGame/BrutalDoom'' is a mod that takes the gore of ''Doom'' and runs with it into a meat grinder. With new and re-worked weapons, Doomguy can now [[MemeticMutation rip and tear]] apart every enemy in-game. Unfortunately, ''so can they''. From blasting chunks off a Cacodemon to blasting an Imp's leg off, to the finishers of the Berserk Pack, ''Brutal Doom'' earns its name.

* [[MadeOfPlasticine/LiveActionFilms Films - Live-Action]]

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* This one is extremely prevalent in the horror genre, hence the term ''Splatter'' film. See the ''Film/FinalDestination'' series for good examples of the 'accidental' variety.
** ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'': Remember poor Captain Rhodes, for instance? Ripped apart by a mob of zombies living and screaming. And it's not like that's the only zombie film in which that kind of thing happens, either.
** ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' has several scenes, particularly during the early scenes in the apartment building, where zombies bite off chunks of flesh that come off as easily as if they were made of silly putty.
*** Another memorable moment in Dawn is when one very unluckly (and very dumb) biker gets DevouredByTheHorde while attached to a machine that reads a person's blood pressure, leaving one of his arms still hooked up to the device.
** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' the zombies bite through skulls like the skin of an apple.
* War films aiming to up the ante on ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', which mostly did a very good job of accurately depicting the horrific effects of modern weaponry on the poor sods at its receiving end.
** At one point, a 20mm anti-aircraft gun is turned on a squad of American soldiers overrunning a Tiger. After a salvo, one guy was instantly decapitated and the rest were mutilated so badly that the Germans finishing them off seemed like a MercyKill. Another guy trying to attach a sticky bomb to a tank is blown to PinkMist when the improvised bomb explodes in his face.
* While ''Film/ThePunisher2004'' was comparatively understated, the next film, ''Film/PunisherWarZone'' plays this very, very straight. Frank at one point even punches a man ''through'' the face, shattering it like a clay pot filled with raspberry jam. The violence plays out like a live-action version of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''.
* A mook is killed by the hero in ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct132005'' when he's bench pressed up into a hanging icicle, which impales his skull.
* Laughably gratuitous ''Film/{{Platoon}}'' B-ripoff, ''Film/DeadlyPrey'' has Mike Danton, at one point, kill an enemy {{mook|s}} by stabbing him through the heart with a ''twig''.
* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'' does a LampshadeHanging on this concept. Near the beginning, the hero ''punches a foot-wide hole through a man'' -- and the {{Narrator}} is so stunned that he can't talk about anything else:
--> '''Narrator:''' I mean, CRAP MAN. Look at that! That's, like, his stomach-plug, on the ground back there, you don't see that every day!... I mean, tha- that doesn't really even seem possible if you think about it. I mean with body organs and cartilage and bones and- I mean I'm no doctor, but it was like one clean chunk!
** The movie itself subverts this at the end: there's a confirmed fake trailer for a sequel, which features the man who had his stomach punched out ''spinning the stomach plug around on a chain''.
* The martial arts movie ''Film/RikiOhTheStoryOfRicky'' is infamous for indulging in this. Aside from a famous clip of a man smashing another man's head between his palms (used on ''Series/TheDailyShow'' during the Kilborn years), one scene shows a disemboweled man trying to ''strangle the hero with his intestines''.
** The original manga went even ''further'' with this, including such gruesome spots as the titular character uppercutting a man, causing his fist to go up through the bottom of his opponent's jaw, through his mouth, or another time when he cut open an absurdly large opponent's stomach with a slash of his hand. And those are only the tamer examples. There's a reason that each issue is called "Violence #" instead of Chapter #...
** The man faces more obese bastards than Kenshiro can shake his fist at (one even helps him after displaying some sense). In fact, he does something kind of similar to another of these dudes, but instead of treating his arm like a needle of sorts, he horizontally chops him in two starting with the stomach... Yeesh. On the other hand, the two OVA episodes are generally seen as less violent (the first episode merely has the first guy punched in one of the pectorals).
** The intestines scene is based on an old Japanese legend, in which a fighter, facing his nemesis in combat, suffers a mortal wound to the abdomen. Rather than let his enemy escape, he then follows one of the basic precepts of bushido, that one should have the conviction of purpose to be able to commit a final action even after being decapitated, and proceeds to strangle his nemesis to death with his own intestines, dying in the process.
* It's somewhat alarming how easily Arthur hacks apart the Black Knight in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. But then again, "It's ''Film/{{Excalibur}}''... Sort of. Well, it would have been if we had the budget."
** Creator/MontyPython uses this trope a lot, including Mr. Creosote[[note]]who, in a partial exception, has visible ribs and other internal bits after he bursts[[/note]] in ''The Meaning of Life'', the ''Sam Peckinpah's Salad Days'' sketch, and more than one instance in ''[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Flying Circus]]'' where people explode for no reason. Case in point:
--->'''Mother:''' ''Oh, she was my best friend!''\\
'''Minister for Overseas Development:''' ''Mother, don't be so sentimental. Things explode every day.''\\
'''Mother:''' ''Yes, I suppose so.''
* Creator/UmaThurman certainly played out her share of this in ''Film/KillBill''. Refer to her semi-satirical "your limbs belong to me" speech after completely tearing apart the Crazy 88. In addition, Yakuza boss O-Ren Ishii calmly [[OffWithHisHead cuts a fellow boss's head off in one stroke]] for insulting her Chinese-American/Japanese heritage.
* In ''Film/ShootEmUp'', the main character kills a mook with a ''carrot''. In one of the first scenes, he puts a carrot in a bad guy's mouth and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7zbCeyYTys punches it through the back of his head]]. Extra plasticity.
* Averted in ''Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight'', where multiple messy chops are needed to sever heads. Unlike ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}''.
* ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' may have a viable explanation. They've been training and fighting to be able to do just that for hundreds of years, and often have very exceptional weapons that they've collected or been given.
* In ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' [[spoiler: a woman appears to bloat up like a balloon and then explode due to some form of toxic, poisonous, or infectious bite]].
* Parodied in ''Film/TopSecret'', a guard falls off a building, lands on the ground on his back, and shatters like a clay statue.
* Any Sonny Chiba grindhouse film made in the United States. One notable example: ''The Bodyguard'', in which Chiba's character grabs a man's hand as it busts through a door, and cleanly breaks it off in two fluid snapping motions.
* Played straight and parodied in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''. Broken records can easily penetrate zombies' faces, and pool cues are viable, reusable bludgeoning weapons. However, after the zombies spend [[MoodWhiplash most of the film being highly ineffectual]], they completely tear apart a person with their bare hands and consume him entirely, minus a severed head that gets passed into the crowd and a leg that his friend was clinging. (She proceeds to brandish the leg as a bludgeoning weapon and charges into the horde. And, [[AllThereInTheManual according to the DVD special features, survives by climbing up a tree and munching on the leg for sustenance.]]
* Played with, subverted, and lampshaded in ''Film/HotFuzz'': No one who saw it will ever forget [[YourHeadASplode Tim Messenger's sendoff]], although, from the weight and [[DeathByLookingUp height]] of the murder device, the result is not too unrealistic. More often, strangely, the film tends to play this the other way- one might expect an old woman, having received a flying kick to the head, to suffer worse than a broken nose. And of course, lampshaded repeatedly (along with numerous other action film tropes) through the character of Danny: "Is it true there is a place in a man's head that if you shoot it, it will blow up?"
* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' has a rare example of MechaMooks being made of plasticine: the "Blanks" are made of a brittle plastic-like material that shatters when struck with a good punch or blunt object, and their limbs are held together with joints similar to cheap action figures that easily pop off with enough force.
* In ''Film/TheHappening'', a man's arms are torn off by lions as if they were attached to his body by velcro. He doesn't even get pulled off his feet.
* Creator/WesCraven's ''Film/DeadlyFriend'' has robot strength capable of [[YourHeadAsplode demolishing a person's head]] with a ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSW2pPlZF-M basketball]]''.
* One memorable scene from ''Film/TheMachineGirl'' involves a man ''exploding'' after being hit with a shuriken barrage. One can only wonder what his [[HighPressureBlood blood pressure]] must have been like.
* ''Film/FinalDestination2'':
** A falling pane of glass completely liquefies one of the characters.
** A subversion later on, where a woman is decapitated in an elevator...but it is far from a clean cut.
** Or the flying tire which causes one of our heroes' head to disintegrate into PinkMist. Because apparently a broken neck and/or skull fracture isn't visceral enough for TheGrimReaper.
* ''Film/FinalDestination4'': There's a guy who gets strained through a metal grid fence, with one chunk falling out to show that he was apparently boneless (since it's a plug of solid flesh where his ''rib cage'' should have been.)
* In the first ''Film/Underworld2003'' movie, during the climax, Selene [[spoiler: slices clean through Viktor's skull and brain]] with a sword. [[spoiler: Viktor]] apparently doesn't even feel or notice it to the point that he thinks she missed. Until [[spoiler: the top of his head slides off]].
* In ''Film/DeadMan'', Cole Wilson smashes a fresh corpse's head into a pancake merely by stepping on it.
* In ''Film/{{Hancock}}'', Ray Embry has little trouble [[spoiler: cleanly slicing off a man's hand using a fireman's axe]]. Not that the moment isn't played for laughs.
* ''Film/{{Pterodactyl}}'':
** One of the characters is snapped up by the titular reptile in a fell swoop, leaving behind his strangely-detachable legs.
** Later on, a teenage girl is snatched by the shoulders...and tears in half at the waist. Apparently, the human body is simply too fragile to handle '''its own weight.'''
** One of the flying reptiles decapitates a man with ITS WING. Apparently, not only are Pteranodons made of iron, they are razor sharp as well.
* ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead'' is full of this trope, having people casually impaling people several times in a row with a blunt IV stand. Also, the vertical slice through a skull with seemingly no effort on the character doing it. Not forgetting the elderly man that managed to shove a scythe through both his own head and that of a zombie with minimum effort.
* Some have [[LampshadeHanging hung a lampshade]] on this, most notably in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' when Creator/TomSavini's character talks about vampire bodies being "pushier and mooshier" than humans, despite their superior strength.
* Creator/PaulVerhoeven used to be very fond of this trope:
** ''Film/RoboCop1987'':
*** Among other things, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEdLuqK1RQ Emil drives into a toxic waste vat]], which dissolves the guy so badly that when he climbs out and is struck by a car, [[NightmareFuel/RoboCop1987 he falls apart into a splatter of goo like a blister pricked by a hot needle]]. (FridgeLogic: how was he still standing?)
** ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' (1997): Oh Lordy... despite wearing what's presumably military-grade armor, it seems your average mobile infantry grunt can be decapitated or impaled by even casual contact with a bug.
* Sci-Fi channel direct-to-video feature ''Dead Men Walking''. Zombie outbreak in prison. If zombies grab you, one of two things will happen. Your limbs will be pulled off like taffy or your chest will be torn open in the same exact way as the fifty victims before you. If your death is meant to be slow, big marshmallow chunks will be taken out of your neck.
* ''Film/TheHitcher'' remake. It's a fair bet that if you chained someone to two different trucks, then set off in two different directions, ''something'' bad would happen. It would not, however, look like that. Averted in the original, as we simply [[GoryDiscretionShot don't see the gruesome results]].
* In ''Film/CabinFever'', a young woman is ''completely'' torn apart by an average sized Alsatian; this happens off screen and a few seconds after the attack, when the hero reaches the scene, the largest visible intact part of the girl is her bitten off foot still in its sandal. Granted, the flesh-eating-virus premise almost justifies this trope, but not to that extreme.
* The obscure 1981 Hong Kong cult classic ''Day of the Tiger'' and its 1989 sequel are literately made of this trope. The movie opens with a white-suited waiter ''exploding'' from being shot, once, in the chest. Over the course of the first movie, a man is thrown through another man, people are killed by fingers, decapitated by kicks to the head, a ninja ''explodes'' from being punched in the back, the protagonist bites off somebody's leg, a man is pulled ''through a fist-sized hole in a concrete wall'' and a man's chest muscles are ripped completely off, as a tiny sample. And this is the first movie; the sequel had three times the budget and featured a very obese man being sliced in half and releasing several hundred pounds of guts onto the ground.
* ''[[Film/TheManWhoSavesTheWorld Turkish Star Wars]]'' takes this trope to the extreme. The protagonist doesn't have any problem karate-chopping limbs off enemies and sometimes even karate-chopping them in half. Both horizontally and vertically.
* ''Film/{{UHF}}'':
** In the opening scene, someone pulls a gun on {{Music/Weird Al|Yankovic}}, who turns around and uses a whip to knock the man's arm off, though it was the WRONG arm. Al is also completely flattened by a boulder later on, and anyone shot with a regular bullet in his Rambo dream [[MadeOfExplodium blows]] to [[LudicrousGibs chunks]].
** And in the Conan the Librarian segment, a man is not only sliced in half lengthwise with casual ease, but his insides are also just [[MadeOfBologna red spongy stuff with no sign of bone or organs]].
* In ''Film/{{Feast}}'', a baby monster no bigger than a spaniel runs past a woman, striking her on the leg in passing, and its claws shear through her shin so cleanly that neither she ''nor the amputated limb'' fall over. Moments later, it peels the skin from a man's face in a single swipe, like pulling off a band-aid.
* Strangely enough, it's Creator/UweBoll who takes this to its logical conclusion in ''Film/BloodRayne'' - any battle scene without a main character is of mooks swinging at red sponges in clothing with plastic swords.
* ''Film/RamboIV'' loves this. Rambo's machine gun shreds bodies to pieces and makes them explode into geysers of blood if there's a head shot. Kinda justified though, since he's using an M2 Browning, which has been used to take down snipers by chopping down the trees they're hiding in (albeit when chained with three others). Rambo ripping the throat out of a rapist with his bare hands, however, firmly qualifies.
%%* ''Film/NinjaAssassin''. Sweet Jesus, ''Ninja Assassin''
* ''Undead'' is a comedy in the mold of ''Film/{{Braindead}}''. Best scene is when a zombie girl punches an old lady in the face, and its fist goes clear through her head! The fist emerges through the back of the old woman's skull, holding a big chunk of brain to boot.
* Subverted in ''Film/MyBlueHeaven''; Creator/SteveMartin's character tells the court about a RealLife mob execution procedure, where they shoot you in that opening in your skull right behind your ear with a low-caliber gun, and the bullet bounces around inside your head, "eating up your brain like VideoGame/PacMan", with no cleanup.
* Played straight and then lampshaded in Creator/PeterJackson's no-budget indy gorefest ''Film/BadTaste''. Two characters, when trying to silence a struggling enemy, not only rip off his head but also extract his entire spine. A member of the group notes, "Gee, they come to bits easy!"
* ''Film/DeadSnow'': Very present in this Norwegian zombie film.
** At one point a zombie plunges its fingers into a man's eye sockets and pulls outward, which results in the man's head splitting in half vertically. Apparently, human skulls come apart like clam shells.
** The protagonist who apparently brushed against a broken branch -- with enough force to tear through his jacket, shirt, and torso, and then sufficiently anchor in his intestines and drag about fifteen feet of it out when he kept running.
* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series -- at least after the first two films. The human body is apparently nothing but flesh-colored play-dough filled with blood-bags and a skeleton of Styrofoam.
* ''Film/{{Predators}}'' - A predator defeats a man, who then lies face-down on the ground. The predator reaches into the guy's back, grabs his spine, and pulls, managing to rip the whole spine out, with the skull attached to the spine, as if pulling a spoon from dishwater.
* A similar thing happens in ''Film/{{Species}}'', attributed to Sil's monstrous strength (although giving no reason why attachment between the victim's spine and the rest of their body is apparently so fragile).
* ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'':
** The human body is often presented this way, especially the skin, which is treated like a garment, especially in ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth'', where Pinhead plants a hook in a girl's forehead and pulls on said hook, which yanks the girl's entire skin from her body like a sheet from a mattress.
** Pinhead's pins. In ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII'', these are shown to be fairly long nails that are driven into the skull. In real life, they are, basically, half-nails glued to Creator/DougBradley's face, and therefore move around a lot more than nails actually would if they were sticking into the bone, creating the sensation that Pinhead's head is just a big water balloon, an elastic casing filled with goo.
* Heartbreakingly averted in ''King of the Ants'', in which a character is hired for an assassination, despite having no business even attempting such a thing. His heart really isn't in the task, and to make it worse, his target does not die easily.
* Practically every victim in the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series is this.
** With particular mention to the victims who are decapitated in one clean cut, and Nora from ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' who loses so much blood after being stabbed, multiple characters slip on it towards the end of the film.
** Averted in the first film, instead having (almost) BloodlessCarnage.
* In ''Film/TheThing1982'', we see the team doctor trying to resurrect an unconscious team member via defibrillation. As he attempts to strike the patient's chest with the defibrillator, the patient's stomach [[BodyHorror opens up]] and grabs hold of the doctor's arms with a massive set of teeth, tearing his arms off. Now sure, this would probably be legitimate, alien strength and all...if the arms hadn't torn off a few inches ''above'' the teeth grip.
* ''Film/SuicideClub'' does this with the opening scene, but when you're running over 54 girls with a train in a low-budget movie, you can't afford to have them turn into anything but a bloody paste.
* Played straight and averted in ''Film/FrightNight2011'', as Evil Ed's arm gets cut off by Peter Vincent's panic room door, but Charley's axe-swing fails to decapitate him.
--> "Bone is a motherfucker, eh, Charley?"
* The "Play-Doh effect" of early zombie films is probably the earliest modern example of the trope. Thanks to technological restraints, bodily dismemberment often looked fairly unrealistic, with the zombies tearing through completely healthy human bodies with ease.
* The {{wuxia}} ''Film/TheSwordOfSwords'' have the blinded HandicappedBadass hero killing mooks about to sneak up on him... by flinging dinner plates into their faces. Said plates embeds into their flesh and through the skull, for some reason.
* At the beginning of Creator/OrsonWelles' classic ''Film/TouchOfEvil'', the murder whose investigation forms the basis for the plot is committed with a bomb. Afterwards, one character remarks of the victim, whose remains aren't shown, as he looks down into the camera: "Once he ran this town. Now you could strain him through a sieve."
* The ''{{Film/Hatchet}}'' series has a bizarre mix of this trope and its opposite, MadeOfIron; bodies come apart like wet kleenex, but the victims endure this somehow without passing out from shock before they die, likely to heighten just how damn '''''SADISTIC''''' the films are.
* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'': This trope is in effect throughout the series with both the killers and the victims. Certain shining examples include...
** [[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives Part 6]] Jason punches through a man's chest and out his back, holding the man's heart.
** [[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan Part 8]] Jason punches a guy in the face with a fist, which acts to decapitate him cleanly at the neck as if he just encountered a guillotine.
** [[Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday Part 9]] Jason punches a young woman through the torso with a dull fencepost, under the ribcage, making it this trope. The post is then pulled upward and out of her shoulder, ripping her in half when it should have simply lifted her up.
* In ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', Dracula's death both averts it and plays it painfully straight. The heroes try to stab him in the heart with a bowie knife and decapitate him with a kukri (which is accurate to the book, which did ''not'' kill him with a wooden stake,) but neither penetrates cleanly, leaving him only wounded with a cut throat and a knife stuck in his chest. [[spoiler: Mina Harker]] eventually strikes the deathblow by pushing the knife further into his heart (absolutely fine, he was lying down, not struggling, and she put her full weight behind it,) but then pulling the knife out of him with no apparent effort, and then ''cutting his head off with it'' with one blow. Given that she is a woman with no extreme strength or training, and the bowie knife was nowhere near the size of a meat cleaver, much less a proper sword, the decapitation looks completely ridiculous.
* You might as well be if you're unfortunate enough to cross paths with the werewolves in ''Film/TheWolfman2010''.
* All over the place in ''Film/IBoughtAVampireMotorcycle'', but especially in the scene where a tea lady gets crushed between her tea trolley and a wall by the demon-possessed motorcycle, and the trolley cleanly bisects her.
* ''Film/ExMachina'': The gynoid is actually designed to be more fragile than an actual human to avoid the possibility of her overpowering her creator and escaping.
** [[spoiler:Ava takes a blow that would break an arm for a human but completely removes hers.]]
** Played for horror with [[spoiler:Jade, banging on the door to her cell until her arms disintegrate. Though the recording is sped up, it only took a few minutes]].
* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Magneto slowly moves a coin all the way through a man's head without even the slightest bit of resistance. It slips right in and out the back, with barely even any blood, as if the guy was a human slot machine. Considering the victim was standing in the middle of the room with nothing holding him in place but MindControl, poking him in the forehead with a blunt object should've just pushed him back and made him fall over.
* In ''Music/SnoopDogg's Hood of Horror'', a tagger trips while drinking from a large bottle of booze, lands face-first on the bottle's open spout, and it punches ''through his skull'' without cracking or tipping over. Its ''blunt, unbroken'' spout, mind you, after an ordinary stumble that shouldn't have done worse than bloodied his nose.
* The zombies in ''Film/DanceOfTheDead'' are remarkably easy to tear apart, even with one's bare hands. Of course, that could just be due to Coach Keel being a OneManArmy.
* In ''Film/DeathSpa'', the haunted spa kills its patrons in various physically impossible ways. Stand-out examples include a man somehow suffering a rupture while using [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32m8J_1PIyY a butterfly press]], and a woman having her head blown to pieces by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue6hnDEnZkc an exploding mirror]].
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* Subverted in Literature/TheDresdenFiles. When "making like {{Series/Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}" against a group of Black Court Vampires (basically living corpses), Harry and Inari both try to stake a Black Court Vampire a piece. They hit the ribcage and nothing happens. It takes a [[CrazyAwesome frozen turkey falling from the sky]] and some good old faith-based magic to defeat the Black Court {{Mooks}}.

* It's worth noting that although we humans ''are'' [[RealityIsUnrealistic tougher than we look]], any human [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill subjected to sufficient force]] will certainly ''seem'' made of plasticine. Everything from heavy blunt impacts, to industrial accidents, to (of course) military weaponry can [[RealityEnsues easily reduce an entire human being]] to [[LudicrousGibs bone fragments and smears]]... or even [[NoBodyLeftBehind vapor.]]

* The titular Gundam Victory from ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam''. Compared to its {{Super Robot|Genre}} predecessors and even the {{Elite Mook|s}} variant we had from the 8thMobileSuitTeam, this series of Gundams gets more damaged and totaled in ''any'' series. A running joke seems to be 'How long will Uso go after combining to just toss a busted leg segment into the enemy?'
** Of course, this was in part because the Victory's entire gimmick was being three-piece modular. In order to show it off, the people who made the Gundam made tons of spare parts, allowing Usso (and other pilots) to use them as giant missiles.

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* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' might as well be the {{Trope Namer|s}}: even the slightest injury will leave a character seriously wounded or dead. Some examples include when Cuddles hits a rock on his skateboard and lands on the stairs, splitting him neatly into three pieces; when a pane of glass breaks over Cuddles' head he splits into five pieces like an orange; and when Shifty is dissected and skinned by Flippy with... a Christmas tree cookie! This is justified by the simple fact that the show [[RuleOfFunny wouldn't be funny without it]].

* The {{wuxia}} ''Film/TheSwordOfSwords'' have the blinded HandicappedBAdass hero killing mooks about to sneak up on him... by flinging dinner plates into their faces. Said plates embeds into their flesh and through the skull, for some reason.

** Season 1 had the death of [[spoiler:Theokles]], who's neck was so thick, it took Spartacus four swings to fully decapitate him.

* In ''Film/TheHobbit'', when it comes to fighting orcs, every one of them except named ones are dispatched within 3 swings of a weapon or a single arrow.

* In ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', [[VulnerableCivilians civilians]] (lumped in with other "critters") have under 100 hit points, compared to the average of 500-1000 hit points of combat units. Even player-controlled {{Worker Unit}}s are tougher at 180-250 HP.

* In the short freeware side scroller '''[[http://www.squashysoftware.com/bert.php Bert the Barbarian]]''', your enemies are quite literally made of plasticine AND fall under this trope.

** But don't forget that the guy she slapped was a fishman, who generally are ten-times as strong as humans. It was her rather weak body, combined with the fact that the fishman was much stronger than normal humans that fractured her hand. She wouldn't have fractured it if she had slapped a human.

** This is also true of everyone in Anime/NinjaScroll... unless your name is [[MadeOfIron Jubei]].

** In Hellsing ultimate Integra Hellsing manages to deeply stab herself in the finger with a BUTTER KNIFE! it was so deep that she was to feed Seras Victoria with all the blood that came from the wound.

* ''Franchise/Dragonball'':

* While it may feel like this trope is merrily used and abused in ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}/Battle Angel Alita'', especially the early Scrapyard volumes, it is probably not too unrealistic a depiction of normal human physiology vs crazy enhanced cyborgs. Also justified in that the organic element most frequently targeted in cyborg combat is the remaining human brain... which is very much squishy. Especially when hitting a [[BloodSport Motorball]] track at high velocity and ''sans'' the usual skull encasing Nature intended...

* Pretty much anyone Comicbook/TheAuthority gets their hands on. To list just a few examples, Jack Hawksmoor punches a guy's head off, Midnighter has decapitated people with his SimpleStaff and ripped heads and spines out with his bare hands (''Franchise/MortalKombat'' style), while Swift once ''exploded'' a guy by flying through him.

* ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' is a prime example, almost to TropeCodifier status. Bodies of humans, aliens and necromorphs alike seem to be all held together with paper glue and a prayer, being dismembered with a single arm swing or stomp after they hit CriticalExistenceFailure. It's so bad that someone actually created a [[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/280511.html?playlist=featured montage]] of [[TheManyDeathsOfYou Isaac's deaths]]![[labelnote:+]]Notice how in ''every single death scene'' save for the Swarmer's, Isaac gets decapitated. And more bizarrely, the Immature Guardian's wimpy flailing will ''dismantle his entire body'' on a kill.[[/labelnote]] ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' also invokes this ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y3-Y7aQy4Y with the first onscreen death]]'' ([[NotSafeForWork NSFW]]); the player is given an up-close view of a man transforming into a necromorph right in Isaac's face, wherein appendages push out of his shoulders without difficulty, before most of his face easily crumbles away like pastry.

* Although humans are tougher than we look, the fact is we ''are'' made of plasticine when it comes to the brute forces of physics. Everything from heavy blunt impacts to industrial accidents to (of course) modern weaponry can easily reduce a human being to LudicrousGibs.

* Any adult-oriented, violent anime. Especially any anime involving {{Samurai}}, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, or TheLegionsOfHell. In fact, the physiology of anime humans sometimes seems to revel in adding Made Of Plasticine flesh to its already gratuitous HighPressureBlood.

** Any mook in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is Made Of Plasticine, and usually destined to be ripped apart by Kenshiro or one of the other MadeOfIron badasses of the series.

* Averted in ''Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight'', where multiple messy chops are needed to sever heads.
** Unlike ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}''.

* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' has a rare example of MechaMooks being Made of Plasticine: the "Blanks" are made of a brittle plastic-like material that shatters when struck with a good punch or blunt object, and their limbs are held together with joints similar to cheap action figures that easily pop off with enough force.

* The fourth ''Film/{{Rambo}}'' movie loves this. Rambo's machine gun shreds bodies to pieces and makes them explode into geysers of blood if there's a head shot. Kinda justified though, since he's using an M2 Browning, which has been used to take down snipers by chopping down the trees they're hiding in (albeit when chained with three others). Rambo ripping the throat out of a rapist with his bare hands, however, firmly qualifies.

* In ''Death Spa'', the haunted spa kills its patrons in various physically impossible ways. Stand-out examples include a man somehow suffering a rupture while using [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32m8J_1PIyY a butterfly press]], and a woman having her head blown to pieces by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue6hnDEnZkc an exploding mirror]].

** Played with in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', when Mr. Nutt (practically the embodiment of AwesomenessByAnalysis) pauses in his tussle with a vicious football hooligan, to discuss the precise mechanical forces and tissue-resistance involved if he were to invoke Made Of Plasticine and yank the ruffian's head off.

* In one of the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Eighth Doctor Adventures, a villain [[HeartTrauma rips the Doctor's heart out]] bare-handed. [[AWizardDidIt It's never explained how this was managed]] -- the Doctor certainly isn't usually Made Of Plasticine. He got better, of course, and in a week at that, as he has a HealingFactor (not to mention having [[BizarreAlienBiology a second heart]]), and [[{{Synchronization}} other factors were apparently involved]].

* ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' features a lot of death via accident that falls under the Made Of Plasticine category. For instance, a man who was killed by a high heel shoe impaling him through the forehead.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' might as well be the TropeNamer: even the slightest injury will leave a character seriously wounded or dead. Some examples include when Cuddles hits a rock on his skateboard and lands on the stairs, splitting him neatly into three pieces; when a pane of glass breaks over Cuddles' head he splits into five pieces like an orange; and when Shifty is dissected and skinned by Flippy with... a Christmas tree cookie! This is justified by the simple fact that the show [[RuleOfFunny wouldn't be funny without it]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': If you're on the wrong side of Brock Samson when he's in a mood to kill people, you will be Made of Plasticine. Notably, he decapitated somebody [[ImprobableWeaponUser with a dead shark's open mouth]].