History MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness / Literature

* ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'' [[note]]Named characters have been stabbed, disemboweled, dropped from a fatal height, killed by giant ants, eaten by a ManEatingPlant, and ''stripped to the bone by [[TheSwarm a swarm of ravenous mites]] in a matter of seconds''. The fourth and fifth books include [[ANaziByAnyOtherName genocide via poisonous gas]], and the third involves a [[spoiler:SyntheticPlague]]. By the last book, the 12-year-old protagonist reflects that he can never go to a doctor, since they'd want to know the story behind him being CoveredInScars. The violence is mitigated by the fact that it befalls non-human creatures - a hard 5.[[/note]]
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' [[note]]Usually Level 4, but the violence and {{Family Unfriendly Death}}s can get brutal, such as cats bleeding to death (one cat instantly loses [[HighPressureBlood all nine of his lives in the process]]), being impaled and being disembowelled.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/Overlord2012'' [[note]]Ainz and his cohorts, and sometimes other random characters murder and torture people in an exceptionally gruesome manner, most notably with Ainz's brutal murders of Clementine and the Re-Estize army, Demiurge's "happy farms", and the "Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth" brutally slaughtering the Holy Kingdom using the Holy Queen's body as a weapon. Rape scenes and AttemptedRape are present, but uncommon. The original books differ from the anime adaptation that they are filled with chapter-long descriptions of the atrocities, unlike said anime which holds it back with {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s and [[SpecialEffectsFailure poorly-rendered CGI graphics]].[[/note]]

* "Literature/FevreDream" [[note]]It lands on this very because of a very sickening and gruesome scene where a vampire brutally mutilates and murders a baby.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/Overlord2012'' [[note]]Ainz and his cohorts, and sometimes other random characters murder and torture people in an exceptionally gruesome manner, with the nightmarish atrocities being described in gross detail. Rape scenes and AttemptedRape are present, but uncommon. Would be a hard 10 if the forced murder and rape in Demiurge's human farms occured on-page.[[/note]]

* "Literature/FevreDream" [[note]]It lands on this very because of a very sickening and gruesome scene where a vampire brutally mutilates and murders a baby.[[note]]

** "Literature/FevreDream" [[note]]It lands on this very because of a very sickening and gruesome scene where a vampire brutally mutilates and murders a baby.[[note]]

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' [[note]]Characters, including teenagers, are often held in contorted positions or tortured - some sustain bloody injury to their bodies, most notably in the case of Ron, whose bare muscle and flesh is described after being 'splinched'. Another has a bloody hole blasted into his head by a spell. A moment of intense BodyHorror in the image of a large snake being hid in the hollowed out corpse of an old woman. A character is repeatedly bit in the neck by a snake, and he bleeds out in a character's arms - blood and other liquids are said to be gushing out of his orifices. Others burn to death, fall from heights, or die in explosions. A man is forced to strangle himself to death with his own prosthetic hand - this is described disturbingly, with some mention of bruising and eyes going bloodshot. A humanoid character is stabbed and killed, with mention of blood, and there are other miscellaneous descriptions of beating, injury (puncture wounds, severe burns) and blood-letting, including characters being punched until bloody and injured by a falling chandelier. Mentions of murder by throat slitting and suicide by hanging in a wizarding folk tale, and Helena Ravenclaw recounts being stabbed by The Bloody Baron - who later turns the knife on himself in remorse. Miscellaneous mention of dead bodies, including children. A man repeatedly describes his obscene love for eating children while menacing a teenage girl. A lot of the violence is enhanced by heavy themes, elements of fantasy horror, darker implications (the non-graphic murder of a family with young children), emotional meltdowns, etc, so the book teeters on the edge of a 7.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/TheOutsider2018''
[[note]]Children are brutally raped and murdered.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/Overlord2012'' [[note]]Ainz and his cohorts, and sometimes other random characters murder and torture people in an exceptionally gruesome manner, with the nightmarish atrocities being described in gross detail. Rape scenes and AttemptedRape are present, but uncommon. Would be a hard 10 if the forced murder and rape in Demiurge's human farms occured on-page.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/TheOutsider2018'' [[note]]Children are brutally raped and murdered.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/{{Hoot}}'' [[note]] Here purely for a road accident the protagonist remembers, featuring a mangled corpse described without extreme detail. Other violence would be at level 3. [[/note]]

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' [[note]]The entire original series fits at a 3, though some individual moments inch into a four (Medusa is beheaded, and bones and skulls being mentioned for "set-dressing", for example). For the most part, the violence is purely fantastical, not depicted in great detail, and often dealt with lightheartedly.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' [[note]]The entire original series fits at a 3, though some individual moments inch into a four. For the most part, the violence is purely fantastical, not depicted in great detail, and often dealt with lightheartedly.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/TheTaleOfDespereaux'' [[note]] A human child is abused over a long period of time by having her ears clapped, eventually deforming them. A mouse has his tail cut off; the description isn't graphic, but there's a brief mention of a "bloody stub" where his tail used to be.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/{{Hoot}}'' [[note]] Here purely for a road accident the protagonist remembers, featuring a mangled corpse described without extreme detail. Other violence would be at level 3. [[/note]]

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' [[note]]Characters, including teenagers, are often held in contorted positions or tortured - some sustain bloody injury to their bodies, most notably in the case of Ron, whose bare muscle and flesh is described after being ‘splinched’. Another has a bloody hole blasted into his head by a spell. A moment of intense BodyHorror in the image of a large snake being hid in the hollowed out corpse of an old woman. A character is repeatedly bit in the neck by a snake, and he bleeds out in a character’s arms - blood and other liquids are said to be gushing out of his orifices. Others burn to death, fall from heights, or die in explosions. A man is forced to strangle himself to death with his own prosthetic hand - this is described disturbingly, with some mention of bruising and eyes going bloodshot. A humanoid character is stabbed and killed, with mention of blood, and there are other miscellaneous descriptions of beating, injury (puncture wounds, severe burns) and blood-letting, including characters being punched until bloody and injured by a falling chandelier. Mentions of murder by throat slitting and suicide by hanging in a wizarding folk tale, and Helena Ravenclaw recounts being stabbed by The Bloody Baron - who later turns the knife on himself in remorse. Miscellaneous description of dead bodies, including children. A man repeatedly describes his obscene love for eating children while menacing a teenage girl. A lot of the violence is enhanced by heavy themes, elements of fantasy horror, darker implications, emotional meltdowns, etc, so the book teeters on the edge of a 7[[/note]]

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' [[note]]Characters, including teenagers, are often held in contorted positions or tortured - some sustain bloody injury to their bodies, most notably in the case of Ron, whose bare muscle and flesh is described after being ‘splinched’. Another has a bloody hole blasted into his head by a spell. A moment of intense BodyHorror in the image of a large snake being hid in the hollowed out corpse of an old woman. A character is repeatedly bit in the neck by a snake, and he bleeds out in a character’s arms - blood and other liquids are said to be gushing out of his orifices. Others burn to death, fall from heights, or die in explosions. A man is forced to strangle himself to death with his own prosthetic hand - this is described disturbingly, with some mention of bruising and eyes going bloodshot. A humanoid character is stabbed and killed, with mention of blood, and there are other miscellaneous descriptions of beating, injury and blood-letting, including characters being punched until bloody and injured by a falling chandelier. Mentions of murder by throat slitting and suicide by hanging in a wizarding folk tale, and Helena Ravenclaw recounts being stabbed by The Bloody Baron - who later turns the knife on himself in remorse. Miscellaneous description of dead bodies, including children. A man repeatedly describes his obscene love for eating children while menacing a teenage girl. A lot of the violence is enhanced by heavy themes, elements of fantasy horror, dark implications, emotional meltdowns, etc, so the book teeters on the edge of a 7[[/note]]

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' [[note]]Characters, including teenagers, are often held in contorted positions or tortured - some sustain bloody injury to their bodies, most notably in the case of Ron, whose bare muscle and flesh is described after being ‘splinched’. Another has a bloody hole blasted into his head by a spell. A moment of intense BodyHorror in the image of a large snake being hid in the hollowed out corpse of an old woman. A character is repeatedly bit in the neck by a snake, and he bleeds out in a character’s arms - blood and other liquids are said to be gushing out of his orifices. Others burn to death, fall from heights, or die in explosions. A man is forced to strangle himself to death with his own prosthetic hand - this is described disturbingly. A humanoid character is stabbed and killed, and there are other miscellaneous descriptions of beating, injury and blood-letting, including characters being punched until bloody and injured by a falling chandelier. Mentions of murder by throat slitting and suicide by hanging in a wizarding folk tale, and Helena Ravenclaw recounts being stabbed by The Bloody Baron - who later turns the knife on himself in remorse. Miscellaneous description of dead bodies, including children. A man repeatedly describes his obscene love for eating children while menacing a teenage girl. A lot of the violence is enhanced by heavy themes, elements of fantasy horror, dark implications, emotional meltdowns, etc...[[/note]]

* ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' [[note]]Level 7 violence inflicted on children by other children.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/TheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes'' [[note]] Teeters on the edge of 7 and 8. The most violent part comes when a boy is bludgeoned with a board - this involves brief gory mentions of blood splatter, facial fracturing, and bruising. Another girl is bitten by a kind of synthetic snake, with only minor injury detail. Peacekeepers shoot at people - one girl is killed. A tribute dies of a rabies-like condition, another is tortured off-page and left hanging in the arena as a warning - he is later said to have been mercy killed by two other tributes. The games, viewed from the outside, involve somewhat less confrontational violence this time around, though there is brief mention of attacks by tridents and blunt objects, to somewhat gruesome effect (a bloodied skull is once mentioned). A girl's throat is slit (not overly bloody, but upsetting). "Avoxes" are found in a lab (humans with different animal parts grafted to them). A gothic tale is told about cannibalism as a result of starvation during wartime.[[/note]]