In Air Gear Mimasaka Ryou gets impaled with a helicopter rotor blade.
The most memorable example from the anime version of Akame ga Kill! is Kurome, Akame's little sister. In her final battle with aforementioned big sister, Akame solemnly runs her through with her Imperial Arm katana, Murasame. Kurome dies almost instantly from the cursed blade piercing her gut.
In a flashback, this is how a certain character died: Aguri, who was in the middle of giving a rampaging soon-to-become-Koro-sensei a Cooldown Hug when she was fatally pierced by a tentacle mine. Koro-sensei blamed himself greatly for letting it happen.
In the present story, this happens to Kayano, who was pierced to death by the second Reaper's tentacles. This time however, Koro-sensei managed to save her by way of reattaching all of Kayano's blood and cells to her body, with insane speed and precision he developed precisely in the event that a situation like this happened again.
Okoi dies in this way in Basilisk when Nenki's hair impales her all over her body. It's messy. Very messy.
Her brother Saemon dies this way too, but he's impaled with several lances after his cover is blown, gets mocked by the man he was impersonating (Tenzen) as he dies, and then his body is dumped into a river.
Gara in Bastard!! (1988) gets impaled on a bony spike extruded by an Eldritch Abomination, and does the pulling-himself-along-the-impaling-instrument trick. And then the Eldritch Abomination helps him the rest of the way along it.
In Berserk, while rescuing Griffith, the Hawks get locked in Griffith's prison cell by the butt ugly warden and torturer, where he commences to brag about exactly how he tortured Griffith for a year, including showing off Griffith's severed tongue. The torturer does this under the impression that the door is solid and unbreakable and so he's protected during this Evil Gloating session. But, being Too Stupid To Live, he didn't take into account what Guts' Unstoppable Rage is capable of doing - like ramming his humongous sword straight through the door and impaling the warden right in the heart (keep in mind that Guts' sword isn't meant for piercing and impaling, but rather smashing, cleaving, and smashing). And before Guts lets the warden slowly slide off his sword into the pit below he takes the time to cut off the warden's own tongue.
Later on in the series, Guts impales Slan with the Dragonslayer in Qliphoth. However, being an all powerful succubus, she just gets a orgasm out of it.
Casca does this to Adon Coborlwitz in the second Golden Age movie, right through his bragging mouth.
Casca: Chew on that, bastard.
In Black Butler, in the Luxury Liner Arc, as well as in the movie Black Butler: Book Of The Atlantic, Sebastian Michaelis and Ciel Phantomhive attempt to reach for each other after The Undertaker throws Ciel away, knowing that Sebastian would come over to save Ciel. Sebastian only manages to grasp two of Ciel's fingers before he gets impaled by The Undertaker's Death Scythe, who then proceeds to view Sebastian's Record.
Kenpachi stabs Ichigo through the chest with his Zanpakuto. While having already pierced Zangetsu, even. Ichigo passes out for a bit, but gets better.
Ulquiorra does this to Ichigo with his hand when they first meet in Hueco Mundo. It takes Grimmjow grabbing Orihime and forcing her to heal Ichigo before he gets better. Grimmjow even notes that Ulquiorra loves to impale people in the same location where his own Hollow Hole is.
Grimmjow shoes his hand in Ichigo's stomach as their final fight reaches its climax. This barely slows him down.
Rukia has been impaled many, many times. It's become a rather morbid running joke among fans.
After thwarting Rukia's escape from execution, Aizen shoves his arm into her... in order to extract the Hogyoku that Urahara had hidden within her. He later comments how surprised he is that this method (which Urahara invented) is non-lethal.
Grimmjow impales Rukia with his bare hand when they first meet, having determined that Ichigo, who is standing next to her, is the stronger of the two.
Toward the end of the fight between Rukia and Aaroniero, Rukia is impaled on Aaroniero's trident, but after a flashback, manages to gain enough of her resolve to use a technique to reform her blade and impale him through his head after he carelessly lowers his trident and brings her closer to him.
After Orihime restores his power, the first thing Grimmjow does is shove his arm into Luppi, his replacement as the Sexta Espada, and incinerate him with a Cero. If Ichigo and Rukia receive this trope a lot, Grimmjow loves to deliver it.
Mayuri kills Szayelaporro this way and gets bonus points for combining it with an Impaled Palm.
In the anime, Hiyori got impaled by Gin's shikai. It was to censor the more... gruesome version from the manga.
Aizen stabs Yamamoto during their fight. Yamamoto takes the chance to grab his arm so that he can't escape until Wonderweiss interferes and separates them.
Gin does it to Aizen in order to steal the Hogyoku while he's weakened from Kamishini no Yari's destructive poison. It failed.
Byakuya defeats Tsukishima with his bare hand - albeit full of Senbonzakura blades. The only reason Tsukishima is caught by surprise was because Byakuya was improvising, something he had never had to do before.
Sun-Sun jams one of her sai through a Quincy soldier's skull.OUCH.
As of 492, the most recent victim of this is Apacci, "thanks" to Quilge Opie.
And we have another victim in 549: Oomaeda's sister Mareyo, "courtesy" of BG9 from the Wandenreich.
Yhwach impales Ichigo during their final fight after cutting off his left arm. To his surprise, the one who's impaled in Yhwach's arm is actually Aizen, who used Kyoka Suigetsu's power to distract Yhwach and give Ichigo an opening.
Happens at least once during the Elder Bairn's destruction of Saya's hometown in Blood-C.
As an unfortunate victim of The Worf Effect, poor Haji in Blood+ falls victim to impalement on a regular basis (read: pretty much every single fight), sometimes with actual weapons, but just as often with things like sharpened logs and people's arms.
Haji redeems this trope when he turns the tables on the villain Amshel in the penultimate episode by dramatically impaling him on the tip of a skyscraper. Which is then struck by lightning. It slows him down for about ten minutes.
Happens once in a while in Case Closed. The two most notorious examples are the deaths of Tokio Ebara from the Night Baron Virus case ( who is first thrown off a VERY high balcony and is impaled in a huge statue's sword thanks to a wind current and Mitsuaki Nagato from the Distinguished Family case ( who is tossed off a second floor one that is juuuust under the fence his body is found stuck into.)
Towards the end of Ceres, Celestial Legend, Shiso stabs Aya and by extension, her and Tooya's unborn child big time. And what's worse is the blade in the anime is much bigger than the one he used in the manga. She and her baby got better.
Frieza runs Krillin through on one of his horns after his first transformation (good thing Dende was there). Unsurprisingly, most of the video games have this attack (called "HAIL Frieza!") as that form's ultimate move.
Frieza is fan of this in general, actually. Just ask his Mooks.
Yamcha gets nearly killed by Dr. Gero this way, the latter of whom stuck his hand through where his lung should be. While he survived, Yamcha was completely demoralized by how he'd merely been taken out so quickly, and retired from fighting for a long while shortly after that. He didn't come back to help fight bad guys until years later.
Majin Buu gets a spear put through his torso by Dabura. Being gum-like, it merely tickles him.
Goku does this with his fist to Android 13 and Broly in the movies. Gohan, following in the old man's footsteps, does the same to Bojack.
Future Trunks kills Kogu this way in Bojack Unbound, by ramming his fist clean through him.
Happens to the Ginyu Force in a filler episode, when Pikkon impales them on spikes after they've been causing a ruckus in Hell. They are later shown with bandages covering their wounds.
Super Buu's Human Extinction Attack killed nearly everyone on Earth by impaling them through the abdomen.
In Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry, Natsu Dragneel gets impaled by one of Animus's dragon spikes. Natsu survives his injury, gets back up and continues fighting Animus.
Seeing Satellizer sexually abused and humiliated publicly by Miyabi Kannazuki, Kazuya responds by paralyzing everyone except Satellizer with his powerful freezing field. She proceeds to Curb-Stomp Battle the frozen Miyabi & her three Limiters. The battle ends when she buries her Nova Blood sword into the chest of Miyabi and continues twisting the blade until Kazuya intervienes (extreme prejudice indeed). Averted in the anime version when Kazuya Freezes Satellizer and talks her down.
A Brainwashed and Crazy Satellizer stabs Kazuya Aoi right through the chest, mortally wounding him. The shock of doing so is enough to let her shake off the brainwashing, only to Freakout seconds later when she realizes what she did.
In Fullmetal Alchemist, this is how Marcoh tries to kill Lust early on in the manga. Too bad she's immortal.
Lust manages to impale Havoc through the spine, paralyzing him.
During a fight aboard a train, Scar nails Kimblee to a wall with a pipe. It missed anything vital, though, so Kimblee is able to escape and receive medical attention.
This also happens when Edward got caught in an explosion causing the mine he was in to collapse. When he started to get up after the explosion, he found that he had a huge metal beam through his gut. It took a risky trick with alchemy that shortened his overall lifespan to heal himself.
This is how Sloth is finally killed. After already being impaled a dozen times in the preceding fight, so it fails to be really spectacular...
Also in this version, Envy kills Ed in this manner with his fist after revealing that he was actually Ed's half brother, Hohenheim's son from a previous relationship. He got better, though.
Marcoh tries this on Lust in the anime version as well, in a slightly different scenario but with similar results.
In Fushigi Yuugi: Tamahome kills Nakago by running his fist riiiiiiight through the latter's chest. He did promise to kill him with his own bare hands, right?
Gemmu in the second Galaxy Fraulein Yuna OAV is impaled on one of the giant spikes she herself had raised throughout the city. Karmically appropriate, both for the irony, and for how she'd killed her sister.
Survived in Haruhi Suzumiya, when, during her chronologically first on-screen battle, Yuki was suddenly run through with a big collection of nasty-looking shards of metal. It is a testament to this character's awesomeness that she was undeterred by this development.
Played straight in the Disappearance film, where Asakura manages to stab Kyon as he's about to shoot alternate Nagato with a gun to fix the broken timeline. She nearly succeeds in killing him too, if not for the meddling of a future Kyon, robo-Nagato, and young Mikuru, who then successfully fix the timeline for the dying Kyon.
Both the Anime, the Manga and the OVAs of Hellsing shows this, mostly because of Alucard being Vlad the Impaler.
The manga and the OVAs also presents a few examples:
When Alucard confronts Rip Van Winkle he defeats her, disarms her and impales her with her own rifle through her left breast... The amount of rape imagery that's squeezed into this scene is likely one of the reasons why this scene is considered the undeniable proof that Alucard is a Villain Protagonist.
When he telekinetically impales an entire Brazilian police commando team on the flagpoles outside a Brazilian hotel.
And near the end when he impaled all citizens of London after they were turned into ghouls. He did this to Enrico Maxwell as well.
Inuyasha gets impaled several times, the most extreme example being early in the manga when Sesshoumaru plunges his hand all the way through Inuyasha's torso, in what is Sesshoumaru's signature unarmed attack. Inuyasha is hard to kill, however.
Late in the story, this happens to Sesshoumaru, who gets impaled three times through his only arm, requiring him to be rescued by Inuyasha. He tries to claim he can still fight but Inuyasha doesn't buy it. When Inuyasha has no more luck against Magatsuhi, Sesshoumaru does keep fighting but is promptly impaled twice through the chest. Sesshoumaru, however, is even harder to kill than Inuyasha.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventureadores this trope. The fandom, for its part, made a meme out of comparing the victims of this trope to donuts.
The first time is in part 1 when fighting Johnathan was fighting him in the burning mansion and struggling with DIO's Healing Factor as a Vampire, Jonathan plummets DIO with into the inferno and Jonathan impales him on a statue of the goddess Venus and leaves him in the burning building. This put DIO out of action for a good while.
In Part 3, DIO gets a hole punched through him, by Star Platinum (though once again his healing factor helps him survive it). He was also the one who, minutes before, killed Kakyoin in the exact same way. Revenge, anyone?
The most famous example is Noriaki Kakyoin, in the end of Part 3, has a hole punched through his stomach, and dies a few minutes after (not before giving out his Dying Clue). As gruesome as the scene is, it's frequently mocked by fans.
First, Josuke punches a hole through a bandit's stomach with Crazy Diamond, fixing it right after, though not before putting a knife inside the hole.
Then, in order to protect his mother from Aqua Necklace, Josuke doesn't hesitate in doing the same to her.
Later,When Red Hot Chili Pepper tries to kill Okuyasu, his brother Keicho takes the hit and gets punched through the back and electrocuted.
Finally, Kira's beating of Koichi ends with Killer Queen impaling the latter. When Jotaro shows up to see the scene, one could say it brought back memories: a blond villain, that says the word "muda" and counts seconds, has just impaled a high school student that wears a green uniform and was a close friend of Jotaro's... though, contrary to Kakyoin's case, Koichi did survive this, because Josuke appeared to heal him.
Buccellati gets impaled by Diavolo when the former tries to save Trish's life. He lives on for some time because Giorno partially fixes him (and because Mista broke Rolling Stone, thus sort of postponing Buccellati's death), but eventually dies, again by being impaled.
Narancia gets this treatment everywhere, also at the hands of Diavolo. He's dropped in an iron fence, since his Stand could've turned the whole situation into a Curb-Stomp Battle.
Part 6 gets two examples, for the sake of the tradition:
Weather Report gets it first, when his own brother, Pucci, pierces his chest, in order to stop the effects of Heavy Weather.
Narciso Annasui's plan to give Jotaro an opening, in order to defeat Pucci, ends up with his sacrifice when he's punched through by Stone Free's fist.
A sort-of good guy example in Kamen no Maid Guy episode 12. In a surprisingly serious moment, Kogarashi is paralyzed by a special whistle and impaled by several spikes, apparently killing him. Since he's Kogarashi, MaidGuy, he gets better.
Happens often in various Kamen Rider manga. In Kamen Rider Spirits alone, we have Kazami Shiro getting impaled through the side with a giant spike, the replica of King Dark having a harpoon kicked through his head, Kamen Rider Stronger taking a grappling spike and chain shot through the chest, and... Needle. Needle's entire deal is that he can make spikes shoot from the ground. Anyone that pisses him off gets impaled. Many, many times. Hell, even the original Kamen Rider manga featured a scene with Rider 1 impaling a monster through the back with the cross of a church.
In Karakuridouji Ultimo, Eko, on two occasions, gets impaled; the first time, by Rage, the second time, by Vice. This also happens to Iruma, who gets stabbed by Jealousy.
Just like in the game Sephiroth is stabbed though the torso by Cloud's Buster Sword in Last Order: Final Fantasy VII as a sneak attack in the Nibleheim Reactor. However being the Big Bad Sephiroth manages to recover and — naturally pissed off — impales Cloud twice as payback, but Cloud being the The Hero (and Determinator) uses the second impalement to pull himself down Seph's blade and throw him into a nearby wall.
The main villain, Mr. Burton, in Lupin III: The Columbus Files, meets his end this way; impaled on the hull of his submarine after he's become a giant monster.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS has Vita's surprise impalement from behind by a Type IV Gadget Drone's massive, sickle-like arms immediately after Tempting Fate. Considering how the impalee had the body of a little girl, the blade punched through around half the length of her upper body. Cue Vita having to show just how much of a goddamn Determinator she really is.
All four of the Wolkenritter are impaled by the Book of Darkness' vines when they're absorbed in The Movie 2nd A's. Right in front of Hayate.
In Force, Signum and Hayate follow suit.
It's implied that Due was killed this way toward the end of StrikerS, after inflicting this on Regius.
One of the Mechanical Beasts, Toros D7, had a huge metallic spike on the front side to ramming the enemy and impaling it.
Great Mazinger: Big Booster -Great Mazinger's Mid-Season Upgrade- consisted of a Jet Pack with a huge, retractable metal spike. One of the Tetsuya's favorite moves was throwing the Big Booster suddenly and impaling his enemy when it was flying.
Shin Mazinger Zero gave a horrific example when in one of the first chapters Sayaka was impaled by several huge, metallic rods.
The first instance of this trope being used in this series was in Mobile Suit Gundam, after Amuro Ray scored his first kill by slicing a Zaku IIin half with the RX-78-2 Gundam's Beam Saber; unfortunately, this caused a low-yield nuclear explosion as he had accidentally hit the engine. This happened to blow a hole in the colony where the battle took place, opening a hole into space. To avoid causing more possible destruction, Amuro opted to disable the other Zaku he was fighting by running the Beam Saber through the cockpit, killing the pilot.
In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Treize Khushrenada's Tallgeese II meets this fate in the penultimate episode, when Chang Wufei impales the Mobile Suit on the Altron Gundam's Twin Beam Trident. It also doubles as an Inertial Impalement, as it was actually a result of Treize throwing the fight so he would meet his death, as he charged Wufei and pretty much flew right into the Altron raising its Beam Trident. Wufei, as a result of the fight's final outcome, is left in a mix of utter shock and outrage as Treize allows himself to be consumed in the Tallgeese II's explosion.
In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, this is how Kira Yamato finally kills Rau Le Creuset... by running the Freedom Gundam's double-edged Beam Saber through the cockpit of Rau's Providence Gundam. Averted in Rau's case, as the Beam Saber missed him by inches; what killed him was exposure to the vacuum of space after the force of Kira's thrust shattered his helmet's glass. But played straight with the Providence itself, as the Freedom's Beam Saber goes all the way through the Providence's back as its engines sputter and shut down. Kira leaves the Beam Saber stuck in the Providence right before the GENESIS — which both Gundams were right in front of the barrel of — fires its last shot before exploding, and said final shot obliterates the Providence. Kira wisely got out of the way before it fired, but the Freedom still sustained heavy damage to the point of non-functionality.
Yzak Joule and his Duel Gundam also do this to Shani Andras and the Forbidden Gundam; after slicing off the Forbidden's arms, Yzak drives one of his Beam Sabers into the Forbidden's cockpit, missing Shani... until Yzak drives the blade sideways and incinerates him.
In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, Shinn Asukaloves doing this with his Gundam, Impulse. He takes down the Abyss Gundam this way, spearing it along with its pilot, Auel Neider, with a beam javelin. Later on, after acquiring the Destiny Gundam, Shinn also administers some powerful impalements to some massive Destroy Gundams. He also kills Auel's comrade Sting Oakley, who was piloting a Destroy himself, this way.
Louise Halevy exacts her revenge on Nena Trinity this way after outright curbstomping her with her Regnant Mobile Armor. After calling the panicking Nena out for not wanting to die after callously murdering so many (including Louise's own parents), Louise rams her Regnant's massive claws into the Throne Drei's cockpit: they are big enough to tear Nena almost completely in two. Nena still manages to scream a raging "DAMN YOU, YOU BITCH!" before the Throne Drei explodes, violently ensuring Nena's well-deserved death.
Big Bad Ribbons Allmark is also killed this way by Setsuna F. Seiei and the repaired Gundam Exia R2, when Setsuna shoves the Exia's GN Sword Kai through Ribbons' 0 Gundam, right through the core and the cockpit. At the same time, right before being impaled, Ribbons thrusted the 0 Gundam's Beam Saber through the Exia, but missed any vital machinery while the Exia gutted him. Though we never see Ribbons' corpse, the 0 Gundam powering down and summarily exploding is enough to tell the audience that Ribbons is finally dead. Afterwards, an unconscious Setsuna and his powered-down Exia are propelled away from the explosion and off the asteroid where their duel ended.
The Dainsleif launcher system from Season 2 can infamously dish this out with impunity. Usually rigged onto modified Graze frames, the system involves launching a solid rod towards a target by way of a magnetic railgun. Though the system has been deployed with absolute impunity during Tekkadan's Last Stand, all it did to the said faction's Gundams were a couple of dismembered arms, though the latter did eventually fall due to Explosive Overclocking.
Speaking of Dainsleifs, the Gundam Flauros has two of these back-mounted launchers. Its pilot Norba Shino calls it instead as the "Super Galaxy Cannon", probably to skirt away from the potential taboo the weapon entailed.
The Gundam Kimaris, along with two of its upgrades, are capable of dishing this out by way of their corresponding lance weapons: The Gungnir for the base Kimaris, the Destroyer Lance for the Kimaris Trooper, and the massive Drill Lance for the Kimaris Vidar (which also has built-in side-mounted Dainsleif launchers)
Kakashi uses his Raikiri against an immobilized Zabuza, only for Haku to take the blow for him. In the anime this gave him a sizeable chest wound, but in the manga, Kakashi's forearm went most of the way through his chest, nearly touching Zabuza!
This happens again almost identically when Zabuza and Haku are revived as part of Kabuto's zombie army.
Sasuke does something similar to Naruto in their fight at the end of Part I, with a similar degree of censorship in the anime. He aims for the heart, but Naruto jolts his arm at the last second and it "only" takes out a lung. Good Thing He Can Heal.
Killer Bee turns Sasuke into a pincushion by impaling him with six swords at once.
In the Rescue Gaara arc, Sasori impales Sakura with a poisoned sword. Luckily, Chiyo is able to save her with a forbidden life-giving technique.
Hidan pretty much makes this trope his way of life. He does this to himself but, through a combination of immortality and a voodoo-like technique, he gets the pleasure of it happening to whoever he used for a ritual.
Pain does this quite brutally against both Jiraiya and Fukasaku, although it's unclear whether Hinata was actually impaled or just "poked". Later the same metal stakes nail Naruto to the ground.
A flashback shows Madarawas impaled after fighting the first Hokage, and everyone assumed he must have died.
Jugo was partially impaled by the Raikage's arm, even after it went all the way through his shield. Luckily for Jugo, he can survive that.
In chapter 504, Minato and Kushina sacrifice themselves to save Naruto by letting the Kyuubi impale them on his claw.
A flashback to the 8-Tailed Beast before Killer Bee was its host showed impaling Motoi's father was the last thing it did with its left horn before A cut it off.
Konan was killed from impalement with a broken pipe.
Neji was impaled multiple times by Tobi/Obito's wood release technique. The next chapter reveals that many of his fellow ninja suffered the same fate.
Obito and Kakashi later impale themselves on each others' weapons. They both survive... kinda.
The anime version of the final fight between Naruto and Sasuke gives us a lovely shot of a Kurama clone being pierced through the roof of his mouth by a large lightning rod.
Negima! Magister Negi Magi does a variation of this on a good-ish character. Of course, Evangeline is a vampire with regeneration powers, so when Fate impales her with a chunk of stone, she just gets pissed off at him. note She's called "The Undying Mage" for a reason.
Later on, Fate also impales Negi with a stone spear. Unlike Evangeline, Negi nearly dies of blood loss before Konoka heals him.
Negi has Jaculatio Fulgoris and Titanoktonon spells, both having shape of spears made of lightning. Titanoktonon is actually huge enough to leave the target hanging a few feet above ground.
It's also subverted in chapter 225. Dramatic use of black makes it look like Setsuna got impaled by a stone spike, but it really just ripped her suit.
Neon Genesis Evangelion does it twice: first with the Mind Raping Angel, where Rei throws the Spear of Longinus at it; then, in The End Of Evangelion, one of the vulture-esque Mass-produced EVAs attacks with a blade that turns into a replica of the Spear of Longinus and impales Asuka's EVA-02 right through the eye. When Asuka manages to move her powered down and crippled EVA with her sheer force of will/hatred, another one strikes, slicing the EVA's and Asuka's arm in two. And then they throw about a dozen more...
And then in Rebuild Of Evangelion 2.0, Kaworu shot Shinji's now God-level Unit 01 through with a lance that, curiously, does not seem to be the Spear of Longinus that featured so prominently in the original series.
And then in Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0, Unit 13 impales itself with two Spears of Longinus. For bonus points, both were pulled out of the Mark.06, which also impaled itself with them previously.
In Nijigahara Holograph, Maki is saved from being raped or even killed by her boss when Kohta runs him through with an umbrella, causing enough damage that it's remarked by the police later that if he survives, he'll be essentially a vegetable.
The first of Luffy's three battles with Crocodile ends with Crocodile impaling Luffy on his pirate hook. Crocodile soon does the same to Nico Robin after he realizes she won't tell him where Pluton is.
Nami gets impaled through the shoulder and through the foot by Miss Doublefinger while fighting her, it's first time Nami becomes officially becomes a Action Girl and takes injuries the males usually receive.
Robin uses her power to make it seem like she just put her hand through Vivi in Alabasta, it works as Pell goes into a blinding rage.
Blackbeard gets two lances made out of fire pierced through him by Ace which is also burns his insides. Blackbeard recovers however and defeats Ace with his black hole powers.
Sanji gets stabbed in the back with a knife long enough reach through his chest by Absalom, kudos to Sanji for just pulling it out like it's thumbtack.
But that's nothing compared to happens to Sanji in Sabaody where a Pacifista shoots through his chest with a laser beam, Sanji still shrugs it off.
In a Wham Episode, Whitebeard gets impaled with a BFS, wielded by one of his own allies, no less.
The rest of these are tame compared to Admiral Akainu punching a hole through Ace with his Lava powers, destroying most of his torso in the process. Ace actually dies because of this. He later pulls the same trick on Jinbei, managing to not only burn through his chest but hit Luffy, too. Both barely survive with medical attention.
Poor Hachi being attacked by a hail of arrows sent by Van Der Decken, almost killing him.
After having the worst day in the last 13 years of his life, Doflamingo gets back on his feet from the beatdown Luffy gave him and walks across Dressrosa to find and kill him. The Corrida Colosseum gladiators try to gang up on him to at least slow him down; Doflamingo responds by using his String-String powers to skewer them, furiously ranting that he doesn't need to put in the effort to take care of the likes of them.
Luffy is unlucky enough to get this again, many arcs later in Whole Cake Island when Charlotte Katakuri shish kebabs him with his spear leaving a sizable chunk in his torso. Luffy could've dodged if not for Flampe's interference; seeing this, Katakuri impaleshimself to even the odds and be fair.
Happens to Madoka Kaname in the Puella Magi Oriko Magica manga, when Oriko gets the last laugh before dying at Homura's hands by shooting a huge shard of the already dead Kirika's witch body and hitting Madoka in the torso from beyond the witch barrier.
And right before that, Oriko allowed herself to be impaled by Kyouko's spear to prevent her from destroying Kirika's body and breaking the barrier. Then Homura shot her Soul Gem and destroyed it, killing her... but she still wasn't able to stop Oriko from checkmating her and killing poor Madoka.
In the official manga adaption, Oktavia von Seckendorff impales Kyouko.
The revelation in Revolutionary Girl Utena of Anthy being a... goddess?... who put herself between a mob and her love, and thus got impaled (onscreen but in silhouette) with "The Million Swords of Humanity's Hatred". Of course, only some of them are actually visible in most of these scenes, but in the Grand Finale all one million are shown in their full glory, all seeking to impale poor Anthy simultaneously.
The ultimate villain of Saint Seiya, Hades, dies when Athena hurls her Staff of Nike through him. Quite a mean feat, considering the artwork depicts him run through with the staff portion (with a hole about one or two inches wide) even though the headpiece of the staff is a golden circle about two feet wide.
In The Seven Deadly Sins quite often happens to Ban, due to him being immortal. One particular time he was impaled by enemy tentacle, and he pulled himself closer so he could get in hitting distance.
The entire group except for Carrot in episode 24 of the Sorcerer Hunters anime. They get better, though.
In the Soul Eater anime, Crona is impaled by Medusa's arrows which had been aimed at Maka (they got better). Maka, naturally, is not very pleased (as if she needed more of a reason to go after Medusa). Actually the second time Crona got run through with something sharp, poor thing.
Can't forget Asura impaling Death The Kid near the end of the anime.
Black Star kills Mifune in the manga this way.
Asura does this to Maka in the manga.
Strider: Yggdrasil, the Heart of the ZAIN Mind Control Project, lets loose one of its cables and impales Matic, who desired control of it, in the heart.
Kirito kills Kuradeel this way by impaling him with a laser bladed spear-tip hand!
Kirito pulls a much more brutal impalememt on Sugou/Oberon as part of his Finishing Move combo on him; after having bisected him, Kirito tosses Sugou in the air before raising his sword; Sugou falls on the blade, which runs through his eye and kills him in-game. Sugou survives in the real world, but is left with the actual injury and scars from what Kirito did to him in the game. The eye he was stabbed through in-game is blind now in the real world.
Taimanin Asagi: Asagi kills off her Arch-Enemy Oboro in this way at the end.
The hero-as-victim (and very Faux Symbolism) instance in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, when Kamina is fatally wounded by way of being impaled, both mech and body, by Thymilph.
Again in the finale, to a certain extent, after Simon's last bad-ass boast, the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Granzeboma each create 2 drills and impale each other with them. Of course, this doesn't prevent Simon from launching in the smaller versions of Gurren Lagann.
In Utawarerumono a villain is slowly impaled with a folded metal fan. While we don't actually see the impaling, we can definitely hear his ribs cracking under pressure. Ouch.
In YuYu Hakusho, The Movie: Poltergeist Report, Kurama grows an entire bamboo forest in the battlefield he's in, impaling one of the villains with several bamboo shoots. Pissing off Kurama is never a good idea.
Elder Toguro curb stomps three members of the Gorenja team by stretching out his body to impale them. One dies instantly, and Toguro offers to spare one of the other two. He impales the one who begs for his life through the head, then, despite claiming to respect the other one's warning him to kill him lest he take revenge, kills him too because he is not a man of his word.
. Then it got even worse.
