Impaled With Extreme Prejudice / Western Animation

Mutual Kill, indeed!

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• Rampage from Beast Wars, a seemingly-unkillable Predacon mutant meets his end when Depth Charge runs a spike of pure energon through his spark. Depth Charge is killed in the resulting explosion.
• In Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, NOS-4-A2 eventually suffers this fate - the only major villain to be Killed Off for Real.
• The second season premiere for Final Space has Lord Commander meeting his untimely end when Nightfall impales him.
• Futurama:
  • The episode "Anthology of Interest I" (with a section called "Terror at 500 Feet") has a 500 ft-tall Bender impaled on the Empire State Building.
  • Fry was impaled twice: once by a pipe shot from an exploding boiler, and once by a giant space bee. Amusingly, neither injury was treated as serious, though in the latter case, we don't find that out until the end of the episode.

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• The page image is from the Il était une fois... episode "The Quattrocento", in which two enemies fight each other with swords until they run each other through.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "Pixie King" at one point has Ren impaled on a giant bee stinger.
• The Simpsons:
  • Mel Gibson impales a member of Congress on a flagpole, complete with waving Stars and Stripes.
  • Also spoofed, when in a scene from one of Wolfcastle's movies (where he is playing a nerd character in a highschool setting) he impales a bully with...another bully.
  • In "Treehouse of Horror XI", Groundskeeper Willy is cleaning a window when a dolphin jumps through it... and through him.
• Saddam Hussein dies(?) this way in South Park: The Movie.
  • In an episode of the series Kenny dies by getting impaled on a flagpole, then sliding to the bottom of it.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars absolutely loves this trope, doing it mostly to villains (though the impalers are usually other villains) with an alarming frequency and disturbingly graphic portrayals for a kids' show. While the above Qui-Gon example had a Gory Discretion Shot, the show does no such thing, playing up the killings in all their family unfriendly g(l)ory.
• Steven Universe:

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  • Pearl is on the receiving end of this when she loses focus in a sword fight right through the gut. Thankfully, her "death" isn't permanent.
  • Steven is forced to run Bismuth through with Rose's sword in self-defense when she tries to kill him in a rage for disagreeing with her intentions in regard to the Homeworld Gems.
  • After Jasper is corrupted, she charges at Steven, Amethyst and Peridot, who narrowly saves all three of them by impaling Jasper's corrupted form through the chest with a loosened cage bar.
• Happens quite a bit on Sym-Bionic Titan
  • The Titan defeats the monster in Episode 6 by impaling it on a gigantic spear.
  • Lance does it again with a trident in Episode 13.
  • Octus is killed by the monster of episode 18 this way.
• The Season 3 finale of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) has the Shredder impale Splinter right through the back, breaking an Enemy Mine. They were supposed to destroy a black hole generator, and the satisfied Shredder allows it to activate and destroy the Earth; the Turtles are saved by Honeycutt and taken back in time to destroy the generator ahead of time. Splinter, however, gets impaled by Shredder a second time in "Requiem" near the end of the fourth season, killing him for real.
• Done to several Zack-bots by Martin in his Blue Heron mode on Wild Kratts.

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