Line #19 ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice/ComicBooks


1	* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Red She-Hulk is impaled by Skaar's massive sword, prompting her to revert back to Betty. However, she transformed back to Red She-Hulk (who has HealingFactor).
2	* Kendra Saunders (also known as Hawkgirl) ended up experiencing this in the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' storyline. See [[http://www.comicvine.com/hawkgirl/29-6903/all-images/108-216978/hawkgirl___death/105-880405/ here]].
3	* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'':
4	** In issue #181: [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qZK742rc1hc/Sc66FetQwcI/AAAAAAAAJIc/kTR6-U3ehaY/s1600-h/Daredevil+181-24+.jpg The death of Elektra.]]
5	** Daredevil ended giving this treatment to Bullseye. See [[http://www.comicvine.com/images/1300-1263561/ here]]. Bullseye will NeverLiveItDown when it comes killing ComicBook/{{Elektra}}.
6	* ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} has killed a couple of heroes via impalement:
7	** Ryan Choi (also known as ComicBook/TheAtom) was killed by Slade Wilson (also known as Deathstroke the Terminator) via a sword through the torso. See [[http://www.comicvine.com/ryan-choi/29-2352/all-images/108-218227/death/105-1227823/ here]]. Is this Slade's modus operandi or something?
8	** Dee Tyler (also known as ComicBook/PhantomLady) was killed by Slade this way. See [[http://www.comicvine.com/dee-tyler/29-29468/all-images/108-218630/95686-sandra-knight/105-306016/ here]].
9	* ''ComicBook/DeepSea'': The captain of the ship [[TheProtagonist Patricia]]'s working on gets skewered through the torso [[spoiler:on one of the EldritchAbomination [[AppliedPhlebotinum Crudelis]] was being farmed from's spikes]].
10	* Steppenwolf does this to ''ComicBook/Earth2'' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'', killing poor Diana instantly.
11	* ComicBook/{{Elektra}} eventually returned the favour to Bullseye. See [[http://www.comicvine.com/images/1300-853226/ here]]. Sweet revenge!
12	* ''ComicBook/{{Elephantmen}}'' has Lieutenant Trench getting impaled through the back by a spire while he's suffering from a drug overdose in Issue #76. Amazingly, he ''doesn't'' die.
13	* Also not bad guys, but there are two examples from ''ComicBook/ElfQuest''. In the first Lord Voll and his giant bird get run through by a giant ground-to-air crossbow bolt. Since the bird is in flight at the time and also carrying Cutter and Ember, this gives them a bumpy landing. Shortly afterward in a climactic battle scene Cutter gets speared through the gut and subsequently lives. Artist Wendy Pini once joked that she did it so they could put a pencil sharpener in the character's action figure.
14	* ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'': Snake Eyes actually does this to Scarlett! See [[http://www.comicvine.com/scarlett/29-11061/all-images/108-212359/img_new_0014/105-1017212/ here]]. ItMakesSenseInContext[[note]]Scarlett was a FakeDefector at the time, and Snake Eyes knew it, but he wasn't happy about being put in that position[[/note]].
15	* In ''ComicBook/TheGoldenAge'', Liberty Belle rammed Starman's broken cosmic rod through Dynaman's body after Green Lantern softened him up, electrocuting him to death.
16	* A [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] hero named ([[YouAreNumberSix or numbered]]) #711 is probably most famous for killing a crook by throwing a harpoon through him once.
17	* ComicBook/{{Magik}} does this to Karma.
18	* Non-bad-guy Creator/MarvelComics example: Openly-gay hero Freedom Ring fought an evil AlternateUniverse version of ComicBook/IronMan, with neurokinetic (controlled by his brain) armor.
19	* Franchise/MonsterVerse: In the ''Godzilla Awakening'' tie-in graphic novel, [[Characters/MonsterVerseKaiju Shinomura]] kills one of the crew of the Japanese tanker this way.
20	* Happens in ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' to a hero, but doesn't work out the way the villain hoped.
21	-->[[spoiler: '''Aaron Stack:''' Excuse me. Have you really ever met a robot you could kill by stabbing it through the chest? My beer-deprived robot brain says: No, pusbag, you haven't.]]
22	* Norman Osborn the Green Goblin in ''ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied'', impaled on his own glider. [[spoiler: He gets better however.]]
23	* The Widower stabs Tim Drake with a sword and leaves him for dead after a sneak attack on Tim and those accompanying him in ''ComicBook/RedRobin''. While Tim did wake up next to [[spoiler: a Lazarus Pit]] the attack only really cost him his [[UselessSpleen spleen]].
24	* Done humorously in ''ComicBook/{{Reyn}}'', where the eponymous character is impaled in the chest with a sword. His first reaction is to nonchalantly utter a PrecisionFStrike.
25	* In ''ComicBook/SimonDark'' the Geo Populous cult shoves Tom Kirk into a room that then has long spikes shoot from the holes in the walls, which go through his head, arms and torso. This is used to immobilize him since while impalement hurts it's more of an inconvenience than a danger given his undead status.
26	* ''ComicBook/BatmanVampire'';
27	** In ''Red Rain'', the now-vampiric Batman defeats Dracula by pushing him down onto a splintered utility pole (the pole had previously been struck by lightning), the stake so large and thick that it goes straight through Dracula's back and out the other side.
28	** In ''Crimson Mist'', after Batman surrenders to his vampire instincts and feeds on his old enemies, he ultimately kills Killer Croc by running him through with a stalactite, and then sticks two crossbow bolts in either side of Two-Face's head (as he observes "Two crossbow bolts... one for each face").
29	* Subverted in the early 1990s ''ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}'' comics when a villain attempts to impale the alien hero on a roasting spit and appears to succeed. After the villains leave, Sleepwalker gets up, revealing that he merely warped the spit around his body to make it look like he'd been skewered, as a means of getting the villains to leave so no InnocentBystanders would be hurt by their fight.
30	* ''ComicBook/{{Snowman}}'': One of the ways the titular [[AnIcePerson Snowman]] likes to kill people is by impaling them on ice spikes.
31	* Examples found in ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' stories:
32	** It almost happened in ''ComicBook/Supergirl1972 #1'' when a serial killer attempts to murder someone by dumping him on metal spikes; but ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} manages to catch the would-be victim in time.
33	** Kara herself is on the receiving end in [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 "Girl Power"]] when Lex Luthor impales her with a Kryptonite spike in his gauntlet. She recovers thanks to her HealingFactor.
34	** Kara is likewise impaled by a Kryptonite giant talon in ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' Creator/MarkWaid story arc, ''ComicBook/TheLordsOfLuck''.
35	** At the end of ''[[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Reign of the Supermen]]'', Superman jams his arm through the chest of the cyborg Hank Henshaw and vibrates so fast that Henshaw is torn apart into individual atoms. Worth noting that Henshaw's then-current body was largely made of cloned Kryptonian tissue, meaning he was almost as tough as Superman himself.
36	** In ''ComicBook/TheThirdKryptonian'', villain Amalak murders Karsta Wor-Ul's husband by running an energy spear through his chest.
37	** ''ComicBook/TheGreatPhantomPeril'': After getting them out of the Zone, Faora greets her fellow inmates by embedding psychic bolts through their chests. However, she holds back to "merely" cause them unbearable pain instead of killing them.
38	** Superman murders the Joker in ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' by shoving his entire arm through Joker's chest.
39	** ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'': While exploring some ruins, Z'ndr Kol finds a holo-vid where a settler is trying to send a distress call before being speared to death by one of the invaders.
40	** Subverted in ''ComicBook/TheGirlWithTheXRayMind''. Jax-Ur is frightened of being impaled when Supergirl starts throwing giant trees at the PhantomZone criminals, but Kru-El mockingly reminds him they have become invulnerable after breaking out of their prison.
41	** In ''ComicBook/SupermanSupergirlMaelstrom'', Kara drives a wooden spear into the head of a giant alien squid which is trying to eat her.
42	* ''ComicBook/TrakkMonsterHunter'': In northern Spain, 1853, Trakk pins Vaquoul to a stone wall while he slays a werewolf that was about to kill a woman. When he's finished, he turns back to Vaquoul, only to discover the upper half of his body getting away.
43	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
44	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel UK'': After a ZombieApocalypse and nearly causing an EarthShatteringKaboom, one of the revenant Transformers--former Wreckers leader Impactor--uses most of his remaining un-life force to fire his HarpoonGun ArmCannon at the rogue Autobot Flame. BoomHeadshot, [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:FlameUK_HARPOONED.jpg a ten-foot long harpoon straight to the forehead and all the way out the other side]].
45	** In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron'', [[MadScientist Jhiaxus]] is fighting Starcream while wearing reactive armor, which gives him {{Doppelganger}} abilities. Unfortunately for him, when he uses his [[BladeBelowTheShoulder arm-blades]] against Starscream, he tips Starscream off to their existence (Starscream having only just upgraded to a new body and didn't know its new abilities yet). Screamer responded by stabbing both blades right through his chest and ripping him apart.
46	* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'':
47	** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''
48	*** When Valkyrie got free from Amora's mind control, she attacked Loki. He simply took her blade and impaled her with it.
49	*** Red Skull was impaled by Captain America ''with a plane''. And even that did not kill him.
50	** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''
51	*** At some point in the past, Charles Xavier turned against Magneto in the hidden mutant city and escaped towards civilization. Magneto impaled him, which left him a cripple.
52	*** Lady Deathstrike used this attack with Dazzler. Doesn't kill her, but it does put her out of action for a long while.
53	* Angela del Toro (also known as ''ComicBook/{{White Tiger\|MarvelComics}}'') was killed by Lady Bullseye this way. See [[http://www.comicvine.com/white-tiger/29-1925/all-images/108-199481/dd_0018b/105-624450/ here]]. She was revived soon after though.
54	* Most of Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}'s. Comicbook/{{X 23}}'s, and Comicbook/{{Daken}}'s enemies die like this.
55	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': Alkyone shoves her sword through Achilles' chest, impaling his heart. Luckily, Achilles had the heart of a god and healed from it.
56	* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTheOnceAndFutureStory'': Findabar gets run through to the hilt with a sword from the back during the slave revolt, her killer's weapon ends up stuck through her ribcage as she falls leaving him disarmed.
57	* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
58	** Omega Red frequently impales people with his tentacles and drains their life right out of them but what happens to his captive, Jubilee, isn't his fault as the building they're in is bombed and a beam falls through her chest.
59	** ComicBook/{{Mystique}} did this to ComicBook/{{Rogue}} at one point. ComicBook/{{Gambit}} and Rogue both received this [[http://rogue666.narod.ru/195.jpeg simultaneously]] at another point, which is quite the TearJerker as they're TogetherInDeath.

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