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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''That right hand of yours... I've got it displayed in my bedroom. I go to sleep with it every night. Doesn't that make you hard?''|'''Barus'''
{{quote|''The only motive that there ever was was to completely control the person - the person I found physically attractive - and keep them with me for as long as possible. Even if it meant just keeping a part of them.''|'''Jeffery Dahmer'''}}
A character has a... physical relationship with a severed body part of some sort, taken off some person. This is about the most pleasant way of putting
See also [[I Love the Dead]], [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]] and the more literal examples of being [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]].
{{noreallife|All The Tropes does not care to [[squick]] its readers.}}
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Seiji from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' is quite a bit obsessed with Celty's head. Then again, Celty ''is'' a [[Headless Horseman|dullahan]]...
* At one point in ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'', Creed, Train's [[Stalker with a Crush]], tells Train that he would at least want to have Train by his side even as a dead body rather than let Saya have him.
* ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'': During an interrogation scene between the two Genkaku licks some blood from Nagi's arm while saying that Nagi's hand has become very cute (after Nagi's hand was cut off by Hibana).
* In the ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'' manga, Suzu recovers the head of Yoshida (who was decapitated during the Ikedaya Incident), has it varnished and carries it around, in a rather affectionate way.
** Later in chapter 24 of the sequel manga Itou orders Hijikata to have "Kondou-kyokuchou beheaded in apology for betraying me." And then tells him that he'd "like that idiot's head to be given to me to do with as I please."
* Threatened, but not really acted upon in ''[[Blood
** Mentioned in the manga as well, where a villain promises to bring Van Argeno the [[Squick|lower half of Saya's body.]] Argeno is [[Even Evil Has Standards|less than pleased.]]
* One [[Depraved Homosexual]] villain from ''[[Inuyasha]]'' threatened to cut off Miroku's face, make it into a wall hanging, and kiss it every day. Eep.
** Something like this happened thousands of years ago: [[The Roman Empire]] was executing Torah sages, and the Emperor's daughter found one of the rabbis to be exceedingly handsome, and so asked her father to spare him. He refused, so she asked instead if his face could be kept; the Emperor agreed and ''they skinned his face off and preserved it in a jar of brine''.
* Yoshikage Kira from Part 4 of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' has a bizarre hand fetish, and will carry around his latest victim's severed hand with him.
* In the ''[[School Days]]'' anime, at the end, Kotonoha {{spoiler|cuts off Makoto's head from his corpse, and carries it around. The final scene shows her cradling it in her arms on a yacht, saying, "we're finally alone together, Makoto."}}
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* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', Mao decides he wants to take C.C. to a "quiet, white, immaculate, special house" he built in Australia. Unfortunately, to get to Australia, he needs to take her on a plane, and she's apparently too big to bring aboard. So he's going to have to make her compact. Cue him revving a chainsaw. Mind you, C.C. does have a [[Healing Factor]], so being "made compact" won't actually ''kill'' her. Of course, [[And I Must Scream|in some ways]] that's even ''worse''...
* Rex Godwin of [[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]] {{spoiler|''worships'' his brother's severed arm, and 62 episodes in Rex forcefully removes his prosthetic left arm in order to make his brother's arm his own.}}
* Wietoo, in the ''Eden's Bowy'' manga, milks this one for extra mileage. {{spoiler|After an artificial human 'puppet' he builds rips his younger sister into pieces and splatters them over the room, Wietoo is seen first cuddling, [[Brother-Sister Incest|and then passionately kissing, his sister's severed head]]. Later, he uses her retrievable body parts to make a new 'puppet' which he continues to sexually molest at intervals.}}
* Barus of CLAMP's ''[[Clover]]'' severed Kazuhiko's hand; telling him when next they meet that he's been sleeping with it every night. [[Squick|"Doesn't that make you hard?"]]
* The body part in question isn't ''quite'' severed, but in one chapter of ''[[Nightmare Inspector]]'', a man bricks his wife up in a wall, killing her. Her rotting hand and forearm, however, still jut out from the wall, and the man stays with them and talks to them at times.
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== Film ==
* Before the action starts in ''[[High Tension|Haute Tension]]'', the apparent antagonist is seen in his truck getting fellated by a disembodied head.
* The [[Villain Protagonist
* The film version of [[Re-Animator]] had Barbara Crampton straddling an undead head. (But it was the head's idea.)
* The [[So Bad It's Good]] horror film ''[[Bloodsucking Freaks]]'' has a depraved dwarf use a severed head to fellate himself.
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* In Lamberto Bava's ''Macabre'', a woman's lover is beheaded in a car crash. She continues to have the affair with his head...
* Oogie Boogie does this by accident in ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''. He finds Sally's [[Show Some Leg|bare, flirtatious leg]] quite attractive until he finds out it's not actually attached to anything.
* [[The End - or Is It?]] ending of ''[[Psycho III]]''.
* In the movie ''[[May]]'', the titular character dismembers different people so she can sew all the parts together and create the perfect friend. Those parts are all things she particularly admired and desired, such as her crush's hands and her co-worker's neck.
* King Stefan in ''[[Maleficent]]'' keeps Maleficent's amputated wings in a glass case for nearly twenty years -- and apparently spends quite a bit of time ''talking to them''.
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{{quote|"Ah! thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan. Well! I will kiss it now."}}
** Christian tradition from the 4th century was that Salome asked for his death because he spurned her. (And probably factually inaccurate: according to the Jewish historian Josephus, Antipas executed John for political reasons.)
* The tale of ''Isabella and the Pot of Basil'' from [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio]]'s ''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]'' (and later on, a [[John Keats|Keats]] poem) tells of the titular character preserving the head of her lover inside the aforementioned pot. 19th and 20th century depictions such as those painted by Prerraphaelites like [[wikipedia:Isabella and the Pot of Basil|William Holman Hunt]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705171241/http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil-1907.html Waterhouse] or [[wikipedia:Image
* Subverted in the ''[[Black Dagger Brotherhood]]'', Zsadist keeps a skull in his room. The skull being {{spoiler|the skull of his former owner, who he killed and cut the head off of to make sure she was dead.}} He keeps the skull around so he can remind himself that she's dead, often by stroking it.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Magister Illyrio mentions that he still has the hands of his second wife, who died of plague many years earlier. It's not implied that this is anything more than a weird keepsake though.
== Live
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Love & Monsters" has a variant in this, in that the main character's girlfriend is attacked by a monster which leaves her as a just a concrete head (but still alive) - yet it's stated (see the page quote) that they still have a "love life". Interpret it however you will.
* In the ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "Day One", Jack holds the Doctor's hand... after the jar he usually keeps it in is broken.
* The Hitcher of ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' has been known to simulate the act during the stage shows, yielding the following memorable quote... "Yeah, I'm a stump fucker! Which is a concept we couldn't quite get past BBC3!"
* In ''[[Dexter]]'', the Ice Truck Killer is referred to as having chosen not to kill a hooker when he realised she was an amputee. She says that he "started worshipping it (her fake hand)" and did "some freaky stuff with it (as well as her stump)". Given his obsession with dismemberment, it is implied that he may have used the parts of his victims for this as well.
** Hell, Dexter himself seemed turned on by the Ice Truck Killer's earlier victims. He also considers cutting up his victims part of the ritual.
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{{quote|"I'm sorry now I killed you, for our love was something fine/But till they come to get me I shall hold your hand in mine!"}}
** Lehrer made it a point to joke that, of all the songs he'd ever sung, that was the one he got the most requests ''not'' to.
* "Bowling Balls" by [[Insane Clown Posse]] is about a man who has a disturbing obsession with human heads, and keeps them as his friends. [[I Love the Dead|Sometimes girlfriends.]]
* "TV Set", by [[The Cramps]]:
{{quote|"Oh baby, I see you in my TV set, oh baby, I see you in my TV set,
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* Turns up in the "Shuinji and the Suicide Girl" stories on ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' once or twice (probably more).
* The page image is from ''[[Contemplating Reiko]]''
* [[Oglaf]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130328211545/http://oglaf.com/salome/1/ did a take on this] which involved an adult [[The Bible|Salome]] secretly making out with a severed head presented to her with the intention of mocking her adolescent follies.
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Gamzee finds the dead body of Tavros, who had been one of his best friends in life, and with whom he was in love. He rips off his head and is then shown [[Flash Step
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* Averted in ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]''. The thief, Maria keeps her husband's severed hand around with her. Averted in that the hand is ''alive.'' It isn't her husband's hand, the hand ''is'' Mano, her husband.
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