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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 [[Recap/HTFSweetRide Cuddles hits a rock on his skateboard and lands on the stairs, splitting him neatly into three pieces]]; [[Recap/HTFAHoleLottaLove when a pane of glass breaks over Cuddles' head he splits into five pieces like an orange]]; [[Recap/HTFEasyForYouToSleigh 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]].

* ''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 polar opposite of MadeOfIron, this trope manifests when the human body is represented as being much flimsier and more easily dismembered than it really is, or when its internal structures are depicted as a mass of bloody, spongy goo, with no sign of supporting bones or recognizable organs. Like MadeOfIron, it is a poster trope for a class on the SuperWeight scale, being -1.

* ''Film/ThreeHundred'' uses this to such a degree it becomes comical. Heads fly off and bodies burst into showers of blood from the slightest contact with a spear or sword. The Persian soldiers are essentially high-pressure balloons of blood.
* In Comicbook/{{Necronomicon}} Henry punches straight through the chest of a [[ReplicantSnatching Mi-Go doppelganger]] of Dr. Armitage, which proceeds to disintegrate 'like hummus'.
* ''Comicbook/YTheLastMan'' tends to be pretty bad with this... unless you've been with the main cast for the past three issues. In which case you're MadeOfIron.
* ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'': Even simple acts result in horrific blood loss and tiny spurts of blood. Jesse Custer produces a spurt of blood by ''breaking a man's finger'', eyes will pop out from a kick to the chin, and bodies will explode with the slightest hit from a bullet. Oddly enough, the major characters gain many debilitating injuries over the course of the series (mainly [[ButtMonkey Herr Starr]]) from similar activities, but don't die instantly. Justified with any victims of the Saint of Killers, whose guns are powered by God Himself and can kill ''anything'' with a single shot. [[spoiler:Including, ironically, God Himself]].
* 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 staff and ripped heads and spines out with his bare hands (''Franchise/MortalKombat'' style), while Swift once ''exploded'' a guy by flying through him. Justified in that the characters all have enhanced physical abilities.
* Most of [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Bullseye]]'s targets. No matter how accurately it's thrown, a tooth wouldn't punch cleanly through a human skull and kill them instantly unless it was [[BallisticBone fired from a gun]] (and even then, it would probably shatter). Erasers, Popsicle sticks, his own feces! Bullseye has managed to kill people with all of these objects. Except, of course, for Characters/{{Daredevil|MattMurdock}}, [[PlotArmor who can take a bullet to the shoulder and three shurikens lodged in his chest and shrug it off like it was nothing]].
* The absurdly gory David Quinn/ Tim Vigil comic [[http://comicimpact.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/7a7556f1-586e-49ed-b2ed-1ecc5cde996c2-193x300.jpg Faust]]. Pretty much everyone is a blood bag in this one!
* In Creator/GarthEnnis' ''Comicbook/TheBoys'', The Female and the Frenchman seem very adept at ripping people's faces right off their skulls, dismembering them with casual ease, jumping ''through'' their torsos to rip out their ribcages, etc. They are heavily augmented with the superpower-creating Compound V, but mostly they are fighting supers with similar powers. When the Female is let loose on ordinary human villains it's...worse.

* ''ComicBook/SinCity'' goes back and forth, depending on the mood of Creator/FrankMiller. Marv has splattered a man's head against a wall and Hartigan mauled the Yellow Bastard with his bare hands. Despite this, it's not uncommon for people to suffer massive injuries and continue to fight, treating it as OnlyAFleshWound.
* Creator/DCComics villain/anti-hero Characters/{{Deathstroke}} has a lot of this in his ''{{Comicbook/Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' mini and post-Flashpoint ongoing title. He's particularly fond of severing the head at, or in a couple of memorable cases, just above the mouth. Not only does Slade effortlessly cut through the bones, tendons, muscles, etc, in heads, necks, and abdomens as he converts his victims into collections of parts, they're rarely in evidence when you see the cut edges, and only in a handful of cases are now loose organs shown spilling out.

* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' is fairly realistic in its depiction of people torn apart by World War 2 ordnance. Once the titular superhumans are introduced, however...they bloodily rip ordinary humans apart like ragdolls made of wet tissue paper.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'', the psychopathic infected of the title love to redecorate major cities with severed heads, dismembered limbs, piles of steaming guts and flayed skin-coats, all casually ripped from the luckless humans they prey upon.
* In ''ComicBook/AgeOfReptiles'' it seems as though every dinosaur is easily torn to shreds. Raptors, in particular, have the ability to eviscerate other dinosaurs with a flying leap and a slash from their claws.
* In the ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Dresden Files]]'' comic miniseries ''ComicBook/WelcomeToTheJungle'', a gorilla tears a hag apart like she was made out of damp tissue paper. To be fair, if an enraged gorilla wants to tear you apart, you ''will'' come apart.
* The [[{{ComicBook/Invincible}} Invincible comics]] seem to run mostly on this trope.

* ''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]].

-->'''Fighter:''' I tried to show the dragon my new trick, but he exploded.
-->'''Thief:''' Bodies explode every day, Fighter. That's just science fact.
-->'''Black Mage:''' Now run along and show your trick to the dozen dragons upstairs.

* [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel "I HAVEN'T EVEN ]][[https://cad-comic.com/comic/overwhelmingly-under-protected/ TAKEN OUT MY SWORD YET!!"]]

* Most of ComicBook/{{Bullseye|MarvelComics}}'s targets. No matter how accurately it's thrown, a tooth wouldn't punch cleanly through a human skull and kill them instantly unless it was [[BallisticBone fired from a gun]] (and even then, it would probably shatter). Erasers, Popsicle sticks, his own feces! Bullseye has managed to kill people with all of these objects. Except, of course, for Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}, [[PlotArmor who can take a bullet to the shoulder and three shurikens lodged in his chest and shrug it off like it was nothing]].

* Creator/DCComics villain/anti-hero ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} has a lot of this in his ''{{Comicbook/Flashpoint}}'' mini and post-Flashpoint ongoing title. He's particularly fond of severing the head at, or in a couple of memorable cases, just above the mouth. Not only does Slade effortlessly cut through the bones, tendons, muscles, etc, in heads, necks, and abdomens as he converts his victims into collections of parts, they're rarely in evidence when you see the cut edges, and only in a handful of cases are now loose organs shown spilling out.

* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': Since the Grimm lack Aura, the weaker ones are highly vulnerable to attacks that wouldn't bother Pokemon or humans with Aura. More than one character kills a Grimm that they're trying to capture for research purposes because they're more fragile than expected.

* ''Series/{{Rome}}'', especially in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3kMY1Owypc the arena]]. Ever seen a man decapitated with a shield?

* In Weird Al's music video for "You Don't Love Me Anymore," the piano player's hand gets chopped off by having the keyboard lid slammed on it. Similar out-of-proportion injuries befall the rest of the band members. {{Justified|Trope}}, of course, in that these are daydream sequences (and movie parodies). The piano player in "You Don't Love Me Anymore" is an {{Homage}} to Creator/MontyPython's ''Sam Peckinpah's Salad Days'' sketch.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'', he's being held in place from behind by another vampire and there's a human present who might want to kill both of them, or might just want to kill the other vampire. She stabs Angel through the chest at such an angle that she hits the other vampire's heart, but not his. She only found out about the existence of vampires the day before, so it's not like her vast Slayer experience was helping her there.

* Played straight in ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' of all places. [[spoiler: There is an episode that features a homegrown 'explosive expert' who ends up with an [=RPG=] stuck in his lung. When it finally detonates at the end of the episode, 3 people are instantly turned into pink mist.]]
* Used to great comic effect by ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. An exaggerated example is the "Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days'" sketch, in which absolutely minimal force (throwing a tennis ball or racquet, grabbing someone's arm, or closing a piano lid) causes limbs to be severed or characters to be impaled with ridiculous ease.

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

* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' has this in spades. In fact, the only ones who don't seem to be made of plasticine are the gladiators themselves. Averted twice:
** Season 1 had the death of [[spoiler:Theokles]], whose neck was so thick, it took Spartacus four swings to fully decapitate him.
** The most recent season saw the decapitation of [[spoiler:Ashur by Naevia]] after three hard swings. Granted, the [[spoiler:females]] are not as strong as the gladiators, and [[spoiler:Crixus offers to teach her how to "remove a man's head in one swing"]].
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' oddly combines this with MadeOfIron in the episode ''Suspicions''. Fighting for her life, Dr. Crusher blasts a sizable hole clean through an attacker's torso. It barely slows him down.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' is inconsistent; [[spoiler: Ned Stark]] is beheaded cleanly, (justified by the executioner being very experienced and using a massive, two-handed [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Valyrian steel]] greatsword) while [[spoiler: Ser Rodrik]]'s decapitation requires several strikes (and eventually has to be kicked loose). However, the Battle of the Blackwater shows many examples of a CleanCut through armour, and with no AbsurdlySharpBlade to justify it.

* ''[[LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan]]'' employs this trope in spades.

* 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 frozen turkey falling from the sky and some good old faith-based magic to defeat the Black Court {{Mooks}}.

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' you'd be hard-pressed to find a fight that doesn't involve someone getting torn apart or splattered. Even the protagonists quite frequently take beyond lethal amounts of damage (but they seem to be fine a few panels later)

*** As well as Vegeta in the Namek saga. Krillin blew a hole right through Vegeta to give a power boost strong enough to beat [[BigBad Frieza]] who was [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown tearing into Piccolo at the moment]]. You can see through the hole and view behind Vegeta and clearly see his spine is nowhere there yet he manages to walk over to [[TheMedic Dende]] for healing.

* At the end of ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' [[spoiler:Greed was reabsorbed into Father in an attempt to give him more power. However, Greed retained control of his ability to manipulate the carbon in his body and used it against Father. Ordinarily he would turn his skin into diamond, but instead, he started turning Father's body into graphite which crumbled quickly, making this a reasonable use of the trope]].

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' features this in its [[ShowWithinAShow Cheat Commandos]] series with "civilian contractor" Reynold, about whom it's said, "You can't shoot and you can't fly, if you came with us, you'd prob'ly die!"

Vampires and zombies in any media are great examples of this. (Some) zombies at least have the excuse of being, well, rotten, but the ease with which vampires can be staked through the heart and pristinely decapitated makes one wonder if they even ''have'' bones. Also very common with characters who have a HealingFactor so they can be shown recovering from [[GoodThingYouCanHeal all manner of brutal injuries]] on a regular basis.

* Used to great comic effect by ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.

* 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 MartialArtsStaff and ripped heads and spines out with his bare hands (''Franchise/MortalKombat'' style), while Swift once ''exploded'' a guy by flying through him. Justified in that the characters all have enhanced physical abilities.

* 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. Justified in that the characters all have enhanced physical abilities.

** ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': While main characters tend to be MadeOfIron, especially Guts, less plot-armored characters such as {{Mooks}}, {{Red Shirt}}s, and helpless victims are easily reduced to LudicrousGibs as if their bone or muscle didn't offer any resistance. Usually, this is done to show the sheer appalling power of Guts', Apostles', and other inhumanly strong attacks. Guts routinely hits people so hard that their eyeballs and entire intact ''brains'' pop out of their shattered skulls. Perhaps the craziest example of this is Irvine's ability to ''decapitate'' enemies by headshotting them with his ''arrows'': The arrow pierces the skull and keeps moving so that it rips the head right off the body by pure momentum with no regard for the neck muscles or spine, leaving the neck looking as if it had been CleanCut by an edged weapon. However, the trope is averted in the most gruesome way possible when Guts amputates his own forearm during the Eclipse, especially in the third ''Golden Age'' [[Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc film]] where he's shown having to hack through every last strand of resisting sinew before he can free himself.

** ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': While main characters tend to be MadeOfIron, especially Guts, less plot-armored characters such as {{Mooks}}, {{Red Shirt}}s, and helpless victims are easily reduced to LudicrousGibs as if their bone or muscle didn't offer any resistance. Usually, this is done to show the sheer appalling power of Guts', Apostles', and other inhumanly strong attacks. Guts routinely hits people so hard that their eyeballs and entire intact ''brains'' pop out of their shattered skulls. Perhaps the craziest example of this is Irvine's ability to ''decapitate'' enemies by headshotting them with his ''arrows'': The arrow pierces the skull and keeps moving so that it rips the head right off the body by pure momentum with no regard for the neck muscles or spine, leaving the neck looking as if it had been CleanCut by an edged weapon. However, the trope is averted in the most gruesome way possible when Guts amputates his own forearm during the Eclipse, especially in the [[Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc third ''Golden Age'' film]] where he's shown having to hack through every last strand of resisting sinew before he can free himself.

** ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': While main characters tend to be MadeOfIron, especially Guts, less plot-armored characters such as {{Mooks}}, {{Red Shirt}}s, and helpless victims are easily reduced to LudicrousGibs as if their bone or muscle didn't offer any resistance. Usually, this is done to show the sheer appalling power of Guts', Apostles', and other inhumanly strong attacks. Guts routinely hits people so hard that their eyeballs and entire intact ''brains'' pop out of their shattered skulls. Perhaps the craziest example of this is Irvine's ability to ''decapitate'' enemies by headshotting them with his ''arrows'': The arrow pierces the skull and keeps moving so that it rips the head right off the body by pure momentum with no regard for the neck muscles or spine, leaving the neck looking as if it had been CleanCut by an edged weapon. However, the trope is averted in the most gruesome way possible when Guts amputates his own forearm during the Eclipse, especially in the third ''Golden Age'' film where he's shown having to hack through every last strand of resisting sinew before he can free himself.

* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' is fairly realistic in its depiction of people torn apart by World War 2 ordnance. It takes it UpToEleven once the titular superhumans are introduced, however...they bloodily rip ordinary humans apart like ragdolls made of wet tissue paper.

* A good example of the disorders mentioned above that can make the skin rubbery and fragile are certain types of Ehlers-Danlos Syndroms, or EDS. These genetic disorders affect the collagen in a person's body, usually leading to joint problems and skin texture abnormality, though there are different types that affect different things. Hypermobile type is known to make joints dislocate much more easily, as well as causing skin to be a bit stretchier and thinner than normal. Other types take the skin elasticity [[UpToEleven to a whole other level]], Classical type being the best example. People with cEDS have been known to be able to stretch their skin a couple of inches from their body, most notably [[https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/72387-stretchiest-skin Garry Turner]], who holds the world record at over 6 in, nearly 16 cm. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Brittle Cornea Syndrome]] is another type of EDS, and Vascular EDS causes, many cardiac issues.

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* The ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' games. The fighters are MadeOfIron during matches, but the games are ''very'' fond of doing gruesome things to defeated fighters when it comes time to [[FinishingMove "FINISH HIM!"]] -- ripping someone's head off and taking his spine with it, punching right into someone's chest and ripping out his heart, ripping someone's arms right out of their sockets, ripping someone in half, and even pulling someone's ''skeleton'' right out of his body! Some moves will cause as many as a half dozen ribcages to fly out of the victim. And that's not even going into the weird weapons and powers that many Mortal Kombat fighters employ.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' series has this in spades -- [[ExplodingBarrels toxic barrels]], rockets, the {{BFG}} and even ''your fists'' (with the berserk pack) can [[LudicrousGibs splatter most enemies into a pile of giblets]]. CHUNKY!
** ''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.
* ''VideoGame/SmashTV'' and its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/TotalCarnage'' are even more ridiculous. Most of your weapons (e.g. the triple shot) would chunkify most of the {{Mooks}}. And, [[MusclesAreMeaningless despite sporting massive muscles]], [[CollisionDamage mere physical contact]] with some of these games' enemies will chunkify ''them''.
* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' (and probably his other appearances). Out of nine guns, three of them actually leave a corpse behind; there are four explosives that will [[LudicrousGibs gib]] enemies, a shrink ray that lets you step on them, and after freezing someone with the freeze ray you have to kick or shoot them to make their entire body shatter (and if you don't do that fast enough they will come unfrozen still intact). Not to mention explosive level elements and the fact that if someone gets crushed by a piston instead of a body they will leave a sticky, stretchy string of miscellaneous gore attached to it as it continues going up and down. To top it off, if you played on the hardest difficulty any enemy who ''did'' leave a corpse would respawn, so you were strongly encouraged to gib as many as possible.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}: Wrath of Heaven'' features the doctor character Tesshu. While other characters use bladed weapons for their stealth kills, Tesshu uses only his fists, so how is he going to kill someone quietly? Well, by either jamming both hands into their back, pushing his whole fist into the bottom of their spine, breaking both arms and then their neck while watching them stagger, or even the truly ridiculous plunging his hand into their chest and pulling out their heart, then squishing it. About the only thing he does that is even conceivable is jab a needle into their neck and hitting vital nerves.
* ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament''. Especially ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'' with the Ballistic Weapons mod, or ''VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII''... the flak cannon and impact hammer in particular. Splorch. Although, strangely enough, in ''2004'', the abdomen is completely indestructible. Presumably a limitation of the engine, but it's quite hilarious to see the remains of a player blown to bits with a rocket launcher: an unharmed, fully armored crotch lying in a pile of bloodied gibs.
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Los Ganados and other hosts of Las Plagas alternate between this and being MadeOfIron. Sure, those first three shotgun blasts in the chest were just annoying, but that last fan-kick decapitated two of them at once!
* The so bad it's good ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' {{UsefulNotes/N|intendoEntertainmentSystem}}ES game. All of it. In one punch enemies will pulse strangely and then explode into blue fragments that fly across the screen. Why blue? Nobody knows.
* Applies in some ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' cutscenes. Also applies to [[ArmorIsUseless any armor.]]
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''VideoGame/UrbanChaosRiotResponse'' for [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]], UsefulNotes/XBox, and PC. When you get a headshot on a gang member (which you will, as there is a bonus for doing so) the hapless target's head bursts like an overripe melon; other gang members in the area will proceed to yell out something along the lines of "HOLY SHIT, HE JUST BLEW THAT GUY'S HEAD OFF!"
* ''VideoGame/{{Toribash}}'' makes dismemberment very easy, and fighters can still exert control over their own severed limbs. This opens up endless possibilities for attacks, including tossing your own arm at the opponent, making it grab onto him and bash him repeatedly - one built-in replay even has the player character tossing his own ''head'' to bowl over his opponent. Half the fun of the game is figuring out new ways to dismember the opponent (or even yourself, if you're that bored).
* Oddly subverted in ''VideoGame/SpaceSiege''. A main character gets pushed off a railing (Read thrown back by an alien punch) lands on a transit car eight feet down then lands on the station another seven feet down. He's not dead by he is really bad shape. The alien dies a gruesome death from the player character's rage.
* As the title implies, ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}''. Check out the image on its page for a good example.
* The squad level strategy game ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance 2'' features special death animations for certain forms of killing an opponent. Killing an enemy with certain ammo (for example assault rifle ammo like 7.62 or 5.56), by firing at an unprotected head, will sometimes cause said head to explode. Also firing in rapid succession (burst) at an enemy's unprotected chest will sometimes cause the follow-up bullets to burst through his/her chest with the person dramatically flying backwards. Also using explosives like certain grenades or bombs will blow the bodies up with only blood remaining. Heavy explosives can also reduce enemies to ash. This is all commented by the player's characters as not very nice. Luckily the game has only pixel animation graphics.
* ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' of course. The Kid explodes into LudicrousGibs when [[OneHitPointWonder touched once by an enemy]]... [[EverythingTryingToKillYou or nearly anything else, for that matter.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' it's possible to cause limbs and heads to come off in a shower of gore with any weapons, including your character's bare hands. Not to mention taking the "bloody mess" perk has a chance of causing anyone the player kills to explode into LudicrousGibs. The first 2 ''Fallout'' games have more reasonable subdued weapon effects unless you're using a powerful weapon, in which case you can do things like cutting people cleanly in half with just a short burst from your chaingun. If you take the aforementioned "bloody mess" perk, you'll be able to vaporize half a person's body with a pistol.
** Dead bodies in this game are so ridiculously fragile, it is even well possible for one's legs to break off ''under its own weight!''
* ''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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDq-15Osck 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.
* In ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', the players are assaulted by hordes of zombies, who have a tendency to gib rather spectacularly when hit at close range with, say, an auto fire shotgun.
** The sequel takes this trope and turns it UpToEleven, as can be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XtoEaH4zd0 seen here]]. Partially subverted in that the skeleton and most organs are clearly visible through the gore, which just adds to the effect.
* 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.
* The arcade game ''Who Dunit'' stars Max, a character who is instantly skeletonized after being killed by anything, including dog bites, falling books, flying pimp hats, and even a '''beach ball'''.
* ''VideoGame/MadWorld''. Even if you don't use the default {{chainsaw|Good}}, you can still dismember your opponents with your bare hands. Like ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', you can rip out a man's beating heart, then crush it in your fist. Or hold him up against a moving train and watch his limbs fly off from the friction. Or hit the skulls off of zombies with a golf club...
* In the [[VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame Lego video games]], death causes characters to fall to pieces, and Chewbacca rips arms out easily. Justified, obviously, in that ''they're made of plastic.''
** Anyone who has ever struggled to separate two Lego bricks that were connected with the equivalent bonding strength of arc welding will agree that this trope is still very much played straight in the game.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'', most flesh & blood units practically explode on death, even if they were killed by [[DeadlyGas toxic gas]] (i.e. Irradiate from a Science Vessel).
* In ''VideoGame/DeadRising'', freelance photojournalist Frank West can kill zombies in all sorts of hilarious dismembering ways, including with his bare hands. Heads can be kicked off, intestines ripped out, faces pulped, etc. If anything, [[VideoGame/DeadRising2 the sequel]] ups the ante.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' tends to do this-- at least in the cutscenes.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' was originally going to take this literally, with all of the mercenaries replaced by claymation models of themselves. It's slightly more realistic now, but still full of LudicrousGibs.
** The Halloween 2011 update added a badge that, when worn, causes players to explode violently (with a flashy, loud explosion) when they die, regardless of the cause of death.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Harvester}}'', so much as getting hit on the head with a baseball bat will make a character's organs explode out of them.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' justifies this trope, as Alex Mercer has the strength to easily throw a tank, while much of his arsenal consists of {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s, meaning many of his enemies seem like this trope in comparison. Specific examples include:
** Your claws have no trouble shredding an armored soldier in one swipe, and your extend-o-tentacle can sweep round a big circle that instantly separates the upper and lower torsos of every enemy within a certain radius.
** And then there's the Musclemass ability, which can ''dissolve regular mooks with a simple punch'' One of the muscle mass consume animations, in which Alex simply pulls someone in half, right down the middle.
** The trope is less justified with less supernatural weapons as ordinary assault rifles cut someone in half, a grenade liquefies them, and being hit by a car leads to their organs spread across the hood and windshield...
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', Townie [=NPCs=] explode in a shower of blood should you attack them. Even if it is only a measly ''punch''.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'':
*** Some of the "Kill Cam" animations qualify. For instance, it may trigger and show you beheading an armored NPC enemy with a low-level ancient axe which has been sitting unused in a tomb for the past 3000 years.
*** Grelod the Kind, the nasty old orphanage headmistress in is the weakest NPC you meet in the game. She is so weak, that you can kill her with the weakest version from your first Dragon Shout, which normally inflicts no damage and only causes a slight stagger. (Though, given her nasty nature, you will be tempted to do a little more [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill or a lot more]] than that...)
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' was pretty intense on the blood and guts, but ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' takes it to ridiculous levels; when you kill somebody, they freaking ''explode'' into body parts and gallons of blood, even if they were only a hit by a small dagger. This is most likely thanks to the {{Narrator}}'s admitted embellishment of the events in the story.
* Enemies in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' are blown to pieces if enough damage is done to them all at once. Since the damage can come from anything from swords to daggers to bows, this can make sense in some cases--such as when a high-powered magical attack causes this--and in some cases it's ridiculous--such as when a few arrows hit one creature at the same time and it explodes.
** It gets really absurd when you start doing this with tiny rocks from slings or darts.
* One thing that makes ''VideoGame/HappyWheels'' so challenging (besides the chaotic levels) is the fact that the smallest wipeout from a bike, wheelchair, or Segway can cause your character to lose limbs, break their neck, or sometimes explode into a bloody mess of gibs.
* The now shut down ''Arctic Combat'' featured soldiers losing arms, legs, and heads to even weapons firing the relatively anemic 9mm round. Half of the fun of the game was running around and watching heads disappear from other players after you thwacked them with the stock of your weapon.
* Bryce, the protagonist of ''Videogame/NeverDead'' is easily dismembered by any particularly strong hit. Good thing that he's an immortal who can pick himself up back together just by rolling over body parts or regrow them at will.
* A lot of physics-based games have frail enemies so it wouldn't be overly difficult to crush the enemies and objects. Examples include ''VideoGame/{{Gish}}'' and ''Crush the Castle''.
* The ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' games have this with execution moves. While it's reasonable to have explosions or a heavy machinegun blow people apart, anyone is able to reduce an enemy's head to paste with a single stomp, even when they're [[ArmorIsUseless wearing a helmet]].
** Unless the One Shot fires high-explosive shells, there's no reason why an oversized sniper rifle would instantly turn someone's entire upper body into a shower of red mist.
* The cheap game ''OMG-Z'' is ''entirely'' based around this. It's a ZombieApocalypse, and the screens are overrun with hordes of zombies. However, in this game, zombies fall apart with a light touch--some even ''explode'' outright, so the goal of the game is to clear hundreds of zombies out by starting an exploding zombie chain reaction. Note that not all zombies explode, though: some, like the soldier and policeman, just fall to the ground and their gun-arm comes off, firing the gun into the nearby crowd of zombies. Others melt into acidic goo puddles. Basically, zombies are totally weaksauce. The only reason the plague spread at all is because of the highly-infectious spray that results when one falls apart.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' falls victim to this. You can shoot a man in the head with your crossbow, and [[RuleOfCool his head will be taken clean off and speared to the wall behind him.]]
* Enemies in ''VideoGame/PaintTheTownRed'' are simultaneously this and MadeOfIron. It's remarkably easy to maim and mutilates people, to the point that you can shave the skin off people's voxel heads with nothing with a plastic comb. However, enemies can also potentially take a ''ton'' of punishment before they actually die (''especially'' bosses,) meaning it's not unusual to remove an enemy's face, one of their arms and have several blades sticking out of them and ''still'' see them get back up to single-mindedly kick your ass.
* ''Videogame/DwarfFortress'': The game is particularly weird about both this and MadeOfIron, depending on the current bugs and system implementation. Pre-material overhaul, people's heads would explode into gore from thrown socks, and even now the occasional thrown pebble will cause horrible bruises. At one point, plant seeds dropped from a couple of z-levels high struck people like bullets, breaking bones and piercing brains. And more persistently, people can be killed by being bludgeoned with silk clothing or empty backpacks, and if anything knocks you back even by one tile [[DeathByFallingOver you can skid head-first across the tile and brain yourself messily]].
* ''VideoGame/IAmBread'' features no living creatures (besides, arguably, the eponymous slice), but ''dishes'' will shatter at the slightest impact or pressure.
* In the storyline for ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' grenades, explosives, and even some of the firearms will sever limbs with ease.
* ''VideoGame/ShellshockNam67'' also features mooks and even the main character being easily dismembered and/or decapitated by machine guns or sniper rifles.
* ''VideoGame/CookingSimulator'' by default has plates and bottles that break so easily that actually using them as plates and bottles represents the main obstacle in the game. You can buy kitchen upgrades to make this stop.
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* ''Manga/BokuNoHeroAcademia'': Midoriya panics when Monoma copies his Quirk, not because he's afraid of what the other boy will do with it, but because Monoma isn’t trained to handle One For All and Midoriya is terrified the sheer power of it will blow his limbs off. Luckily, Monoma's inability to copy stockpiled resources makes the Quirk useless in his hands and he doesn't get torn apart.

* [[HumanoidAbomination The Titans]] of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' fall apart surprisingly easily. It's a plot point, hinting at their peculiar nature and origins, and they've got a worryingly effective HealingFactor [[GoodThingYouCanHeal to compensate]]. Downplayed, however, in that the main reason they seem to be this way is due to them being ripped apart by the military's AbsurdlySharpBlades, and other titans; at one point in the series, Sasha takes several swings at a Titan's weak spot with a conventional axe, and fails to kill it.

* [[HumanoidAbomination The Titans]] of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' fall apart surprisingly easily. It's a plot point, hinting at their peculiar nature and origins, and they've got a worryingly effective HealingFactor [[GoodThingYouCanHeal to compensate]].