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{{quote|''At your command<br />
before you here I stand<br />
my heart is in my hand.. (yeech!)''|'''[[Tom Lehrer (Music)|Tom Lehrer]]''', "[[The Masochism Tango]]"}}
 
[[File:FireHeart.jpg|link=Indiana Jones and Thethe Temple of Doom (Film)|frame|[[Narm|And it's]] [[Incendiary Exponent|on fire]].]]
 
 
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* This, along with many other horrifically [[Gorn|violent]] happenings, occurs in the first 10 minutes of the anime, ''[[Elfen Lied]]''.
** Anybody else notice [[Groin Attack|where it landed]]? Granted, it had no actual force of impact, and so it probably didn't physically hurt the unlucky target, but smart money says that guard couldn't get it up again for weeks.
* In volume five of ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]: Gold Experience'', Bruno Buccarati uses his Stand's ability to create zippers to remove his own heart and ''pick it apart'', just to stop it from beating and thereby alerting the enemy of his position. Earlier, during ''Starlight Crusaders'', Jotaro had his Stand grab his own heart and stop it for the very same reason.
* In the fifth ''[[Kara noKarano Kyoukai (Literature)|Kara no Kyoukai]]'' movie, {{spoiler|Araya does this to Touko. Her heart keeps beating until he crushes it.}}
** Bonus points that the victim ''still'' manages to hold a philosophical conversation. Welcome to the Nasuverse!
* During the Hunter Exam in ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'', Killua must fight against a criminal who can crush limbs, and [[Ax Crazy|very much loves it]]. His response? [[Not-So-Harmless Villain|Taking his heart out, still beating, and destroying it in front of his face]].
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** Hey, this is a world where [[Functional Magic|Nen]] is regularly used by the characters. Who's to say that the criminal wasn't a Nen user or something?
* Also during one of the early episodes of ''[[Trinity Blood]]'', since a Methuselah can't be killed by just shooting it or cutting it, you have to do something to the heart. Abel Nightroad does it as a finishing move, and [[...And Show It to You|rips out the Methuselah's heart, holds it in his hand right in front of the Methuselah, and crushes it while the other watches.]]
* In one strip of ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', Russia's heart somehow falls out and splats onto the meeting table, to the horror of the other Allies. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/axis_powers_hetalia/v01/c004/2.html Shown in a silly yet still creepy way.]
* Dark Schneider, the title character of ''[[Bastard!!]]'', is also known as 'The Immortal', for very good reasons. When he tears his own heart out to save his adopted daughter/lover, we are treated to a double-dip into this trope. Not only does his heart continue to beat for a while outside his body, splattering blood all over her, but later, when he regenerates, he couldn't just regrow his heart inside his body, nooo... instead, his heart reforms in the air over his gaping chest-wound, and starts BEATING, before tendrils shoot out of the hole to grasp the newly-formed heart...
* When Linna starts virtual reality training in ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]] Tokyo 2040'', she is battling against a rogue robot/artificial intelligence. It's not exactly a heart, but she rips out something organ-like and squeezes it in her hand until brown liquid comes out, and then recoils in horror at what she just did.
 
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* ''[[Angel Heart]]''. Twice. Once to Margaret, {{spoiler|the other time, before the events of the film when Johnny ate Harry's still beating heart to steal his soul.}}
* Davy Jones uses the [[Soul Jar]] variant in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''.
* ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (Film)|Last of the Mohicans]]'': "When the grey-hair dies, Magua will eat his heart." And he does, cutting the still-beating heart from his body.
{{quote| '''Magua:''' Grey-hair! [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|Before you die]], [[Just Between You and Me|know that I will]] put to the knife your children so that your seed is wiped from the earth forever.}}
* In ''Bride of [[Re-Animator]]'', the main characters use {{spoiler|Meg}}'s preserved heart when creating the Bride. It's an indicator of Dan's inability to move on after {{spoiler|Meg}}'s death -- he wants to transfer a part of her life into the new body. In the final shot of the film, {{spoiler|the heart lies on a table beside the Bride's dismembered body, stops beating, and ''shrinks'' slightly before the [[Fade to Black]]}}. Symbolic, baby.
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* In ''Dark Floors'', the mummy Amun rips out the businessman's heart and shows it to him.
* ''Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah'', a 2001 [[Godzilla]] movie, features this as a Plot Twist seconds before the credits. {{spoiler|It's Godzilla's.}}
* ''[[Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Temple of Doom]]'', Mola Ram. Oh, god, the horror. ''It was on fire''. And when you're watching that as an 8-year-old? Ladies and gentlemen we have a new definition for "good old-fashioned [[Nightmare Fuel]]".
{{quote| '''Mola Ram''': Kali Ma, Shakti Deh! Kali Ma, Shakti Deh!<br />
'''Sacrifice Victim''': Om Namha Shivaye, Om Namha Shivaye, Om Namha Shivaye...'''''' }}
* When the [[Mayincatec]] cut out the hearts of their sacrifical victims they will often be shown still beating.
* ''[[From Dusk Tilltill Dawn]]'', people! Ripping a vampire's heart out from his own ribcage, and after seeing it still beating (and the vamp still kicking), staking it with a sharpened pencil, sure counts here.
** ''[[wikipedia:index.html?curid=21044418|Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer]]'', maybe?
* Although the heart is never technically ''removed'', the beating heart of Draco the dragon in ''[[Dragonheart]]'' can be revealed by lifting up a flap on his chest so that Bowen can {{spoiler|destroy it.}}
* In ''[[JasonFriday Goesthe to13th Hell(film)]]: The Final Friday'', after Jason is splattered by a S.W.A.T. team in the beginning, his remains are taken to a morgue. The mortician, while inventorying the bloody mess, begins dictating a description of [[Faux Symbolism|the rotten, twisted black heart of Jason Voorhees]]. As he's staring at it, it begins to beat, gradually at first, then faster, mesmerizing him into picking it up ''[[Squick|and eating it]]'', at which point he becomes possessed by the spirit of Jason and resumes the killing spree.
* ''[[Dreamscape]]''. After Tommy Ray kills a security guard by ripping his heart out of his chest, the heart continues beating.
* In ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]]'', while not exactly taking out his heart, Obidiah takes out Tony's generator, the thing that's keeping him alive.
* In ''[[Queen of the Damned]]'', when Akasha rips another vampire's heart from his chest, the heart continues to pulse for a few seconds before she feasts on it gleefully and ''sets fire'' the bloody residue in her hand.
* The bad guys in ''[[The Living Daylights (Film)|The Living Daylights]]'' successfully transport diamonds across borders, mixed with ice in a medical cooler containing a beating (animal) heart - even in this clinical state, it gets hastily waved through by squicked-out officials.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Robots]]''. The whole implication that Rodney Copperbottom is really carrying out ''extensive surgery'' on the outdated robots isn't really made clear until he brings out a still-active red pump from the body of a robot, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and Fender faints from the sight]].
* Played for laughs with a transplant heart that hops off a table in ''[[Airplane!]]!''.
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== Literature ==
* A gag in [[Christopher Moore]]'s ''[[Lamb: theThe Gospel According To Biff (Literature)|Lamb the Gospel According To Biff]]'' is that during Biff and [[Pals Withwith Jesus|Joshua]]'s time at a monastery, one of the monks teaching them self defense claims to know a trick involving tearing out someone's heart. Most people are skeptical. Every day he asks the class if anyone is willing to help him demonstrate. Nobody ever is, on the off chance he isn't lying.
* In Neil Gaiman's short story ''Snow, Glass, Apples'' (in which ''Snow-White'' is shown from the perspective of the evil queen), the Queen has Snow-White's heart cut from her chest, but it continues to beat, and the girl lives on. When she finally kills the girl with a poisoned apple, the heart stops -- but when the prince revives her, the heart begins to beat once more.
* In [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', the killer-protagonist imagines he [[Terrible Ticking|still hears]] the beating of his victim's heart.
* Seen in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' when Dany visits the warlocks.
* The creepiest story in the [[Defictionalization]] of ''[[The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Literature)|The Tales of Beedle the Bard]]'' is ''The Warlock's Hairy Heart'', in which a warlock takes his heart out of his chest to preserve his youth and life (very Horcrux-like), as well as to prevent himself from the embarrassment of acting lovesick (which is his original intention for his action). He keeps the heart in a little box under his house, and, because the shrivelled, still-alive thing is so cold, it starts growing hair. It has a particularly gory ending.
* In ''The Knight of the Swords'' by Michael Moorcock, Corum has to kill the Chaos God Arioch. To do this he must destroy Arioch's heart. Which he keeps locked in a tower, so it will be safe. Corum is running around with the Hand of Kwll and the Eye of Rhynn, two other disconnected god body parts, so there's a lot of this sort of thing going on.
* Brutally inverted in Matthew Woodring Stover's ''[[The Acts of Caine (Literature)|Blade of Tyshalle]]''. Tell ya what, just go to the [[Literature/Nightmare Fuel|Literature]] section of [[Nightmare Fuel]] and search for the Tyshalle example. It would have been less nasty if he {{spoiler|took the heart out}}...
* In the [[Stephen King]] novel ''[[IT]]'', {{spoiler|Stuttering Bill kills the eponymous [[Cosmic Horror]] by tearing out Its heart and smashing it between his hands.}}
* The second of Barry Sadler's Casca series, ''God of Death'', had Casca sacrificed by pre-Aztecs who cut out his heart. But {{spoiler|Casca was cursed by Christ to live until the Second Coming. The priest cuts out his heart, and it keeps beating. And beating. And then Casca stands up, takes his heart out of the priest's hand, sticks it back into his chest, and announces, "No more human sacrifices."}} Nobody dares to argue very hard.
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* In ''[[The Gates]]'' {{spoiler|Officer Leigh keeps a beating heart in a box. It's implied to be her own, as she later says that her ex-boyfriend [[False Confession|"ripped her heart out"]].}}
* In ''Angel'' Wesley comes across a member of a race that worships Jasmine. Who is constructing a flesh and blood mandala as she is 'older than words' out of various bodies. Including those of at least three vampires, one of whom has had his body flayed and ribcage split open to expose his heart. As they haven't been staked, they are ''still living and concious''. Played for dark humour as the main example endlessly bitches about being trapped before ''having his tongue ripped out to shut him up''.
* In ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'', the Queen does this so that she has power over them and keeps the hearts in a special vault. It is revealed that {{spoiler|this vault also exists in the real world.}}
 
 
== Music ==
* The music video for the Nine Inch Nails song "Closer" features a heart on a board attached to a bunch of electrodes, since most of it is [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* The [[Tom Lehrer (Music)|Tom Lehrer]] song "The Masochism Tango", as quoted above.
* Hard 'N Phirm's "El Corazon" is a song all about the heart, sung Spanish-ballad style. Part of the translation is: "It can continue to beat long after its removal from the body, as we see with this turtle's heart." (It makes more sense if you're seeing it performed live; there's a video going on behind them that illustrates the line.)
* Ludo's "The Horror of Our Love" is a song about a serial killer/kidnapper/rapist who falls in love with one of his victims. The climax of the protagonist's experience comes at the following lyrics:
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== Mythology ==
* Koschei the Immortal, out of Russian myth -- his soul/heart (a vortex of flame) is hidden inside a needle, which is hidden inside an egg, which is hidden inside a duck, which is hidden inside a [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears|bear]], which is kept in an iron chest, which is buried under an oak tree(or chained to the branches), on an island that flickers in and out of existence. Someone ''still'' manages to find it and destroy it. Koschei is immortal until his soul is destroyed.
** See above [[Shout-Out]] by '"[[Bridge of Birds]]''.
* [[Older Than Dirt]]: In the ancient Egyptian text called ''The Tale of Two Brothers'', the younger brother Bata removes his own heart and places it on top of a tree. He tells his older brother Anpu/Anubis that he will receive a sign if anything happens to the heart, and that if something ''does'' happen, he is to revive the heart by putting it in a bowl of water. Of course, the heart is eventually knocked down when the [[Femme Fatale]] cuts down the tree, and it dries up into something resembling a date. Anpu finds it and puts it in water, whereupon it grows to its original size and starts beating again, hence reviving Bata. This could be classified as Literature as well, but the story contains a number of mythological elements.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)|Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' has the Setites, whose custom Discipline, Serpentis, includes an ability that allows them to remove their heart and place it in a jar, which keeps them from being sent into torpor when staked. At elder levels, they can do this to someone else for one hell of a bargaining chip.
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', one of the weirder things the Sidereal Exalted can do with their [[Martial Arts and Crafts]] is to inflict "Jigsaw Organ Condition" on a victim, which causes their body parts to be very easily separable. Said parts still function when detached, making it possible for them to pull someone's heart out and ''hold it hostage'' against their good behavior.
* In ''[[Scion]]'', the Aztec Scions have the ability to, once an enemy is defeated, rip out their still beating heart and eat it to gain supernatural powers, that make them rip open their chests and expose their beating heart, which is on fire. No other internal organs are shown.
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* In ''Shadow Warrior'', one of the 'weapons' you could acquire -- the final one, in fact -- was the still-beating heart of a type of demon. By squeezing the heart, you could summon a demon to fight for you. Nifty.
** The demon in question is called a Ripper, and is so named because if it kills you, it will rip out ''your'' heart.
* ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]] II'' has one part of a quest where you need to get one of these from a demon to be able to leave a particular dungeon. The expansion, ''Throne Of Bhaal'', requires you to destroy one (in fact, two) in order to make an enemy vulnerable, allowing you to kill him.
* One of the "decorations" in ''[[Doom]]'' ''1'' & ''2'' is a still-beating heart on a pedestal.
* The object of the game ''Vexx'' is to collect hearts that still beat.
* Red Falcon, a recurring ''Contra'' boss, is a giant beating heart that may or may not be attached to anything.
** There is also a giant beating heart in the depths of a Strogg Factory in ''[[Quake IV (Video Game)4|Quake IV]]'', You have to destroy it before you can move on by increasing the electric shocks it receives to keep it beating until it beats so fast that it dies of a heart attack. To make it creepier, you can hear a distant scream from some unseen source as you do this.
* In ''Gothic'', the demon final boss is protected by five hearts that must be slain before he can be killed.
* In ''Grand Theft Auto IV'' the beating "heart of the city" can be found in the Statue of Happiness.
* Slightly subverted in the videogame adaptation of ''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]''. Gorrister's heart was removed prior to the events of the game, but as he's fond of pointing out, that old heart of his don't beat no more.
* In ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'', dancing girl Ellia is given one of Mantorok's five hearts, which contains its essence. Since {{spoiler|Mantorok doesn't die until just after the end of the game}}, the heart remains intact for over 1000 years so that Alex can use it in the final battle. Unfortunately, you don't see the heart beating in-game (presumably to match the other essences, which don't move in any way), so this trope is only partly adhered to.
** If you examine the heart you get to see it beating. And it's nightmarish.
* In ''[[Clock Tower (Video Gameseries)|Clock Tower]]'' when Jennifer enters the trophy room, you can click on a jar on the shelf which she'll pass by and accidentally knock down. The game then cuts to a scene of a heart that was in the jar give a single beat.
* ''[[Paper Mario (Video Gamefranchise)|Paper Mario]]'' (the original) has a heart separated from its owner, Tubba Blubba. The idea is that [[Soul Jar|he can't be defeated as long as his heart is hidden elsewhere]]. Like most things in the game, the heart has its own personality and has to be fought.
** And it has a lot more HP than its owner does.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', however they're the cartoonish variety but this is so common, we have [[The Heartless]].
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* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' has a room just before the final boss fight with a giant, beating heart.
* ''[[Grandia II]]'' has the Heart of Valmar, amongst other body parts. They're less soul jars, more bits of a god that possess people. {{spoiler|And all of them also mutate their human host into a representation of what they are. The Heart is about the closest to just being the organ it's named after. Complete with an attack where it gushes blood at you.}}
* Happens in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]''. Twice.
** It's weird to say this, but one occurrence of this is actually the most beautiful and touching moments in the series.
* Part of the game mechanics in ''Obscure: The Aftermath'': each dispatched monster [[Everything Fades|dissolves into black powder]], leaving behind a still-beating heart. A few scenes after this is introduced, the player is given a syringe with which fluid can be drawn from the heart to create a healing serum.
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* You can collect these in [[Vexx]].
* [[Ninja Gaiden|Ninja Gaiden on Xbox]] had an upside down tower in what I'm assuming was Hell that had the walls of a floor covered with these. And they follow you closely.
* {{spoiler|True Assassin}} in ''[[Fate/stay Stay Night (Visual Novel)night|Fate Stay Night]]'' has a Noble Phantasm that does this to people by exchanging their heart with a magical double and keeps the heart alive and beating while {{spoiler|Assassin}} destroys it at his leisure. We see it get used on {{spoiler|Lancer and Kotomine -- unfortunately for Assassin, it doesn't work on the latter ''since he hasn't got a heart''.}}
* In ''[[Mystery Case Files|Return To Ravenhearst]]'', a heart (implied to be {{spoiler|Charles Dalimar's}}) sits inside a steampunk device which you have to deactivate. It can be seen beating behind a glass porthole, and it speeds up if you push the attached "Adrenaline" pump.
 
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== Webcomics ==
* Though not actually seen, one has made an appearance in ''[[Fox Tails]]'', kept in a case by the [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Morally Ambiguous Doctor]], revealing how he is able to control one of the otherwise uncontrollable Kitsune. It's her heart, and apparently, squeezing it is quite painful to her. (Probably inspired by the [[Inuyasha]]-example above.)
* Ursula Vernon's ''[[Digger (Webcomic)|Digger]]'' inverts this: the heart is not beating on its own, nor is it a sign that its owner is alive. Instead, a team of slaves pull on ropes that force it to beat and keep an [[Only Mostly Dead|otherwise dead god]] alive [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|against his will]], even though the rest of him has rotted away to bones. When the protagonist skeptically lampshades this, pointing out that the heart isn't even hooked up to anything, she receives the explanation that [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|it's the metaphor of the thing that makes it work]].
* Freddy gets his heart torn out on the first day of the job in ''[[Carnies]]''. It's a little different from other examples in that he was already undead to begin with.
* ''[[Monster Pulse (Webcomic)|Monster Pulse]]'': Not only is [[Alliterative Name|Bina Blum]]'s heart still working outside of her body, it's also walking around as a monster twice her size.
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': The Land of Pulse and Haze is this. Not only are there oceans of blood, but there are broken ramparts and bridges from which beating hearts peek out of the masonry. Bonus points for the fact that this entire construct is basically one big fuck you to the player for this land.
 
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*** {{smallcaps| YOU NEED A HEART TO LIVE.}}
** Another Simpsons example: In the Treehouse of Horror short Hell Toupe, Homer, [[It Makes Sense in Context|possessed by Snake by means of a hair transplant,]] kills Moe by removing his heart with a corkscrew. The heart beats after it's removal.
* In ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'', [[The Juggernaut|Rampage]]'s [[Our Souls Are Different|Spark]] is treated by [[Magnificent Bastard|Megatron]] this way. Since his Spark is said to have mutated (and supposedly indestructible) Megatron cuts it in half with an Energon knife, and keeps one half [[Soul Jar|in a spiked cage]] which he squeezes at will to keep Rampage under his control.
** And ''[[Transformers Energon]]'' features Jetfire rescuing Inferno's spark after Inferno does a sun-dive. Good news for Inferno, but Jetfire holding Inferno's life essence casually in his hand is a bit weird.
** The ''Transformers'' series seems to be quite fond of the trope. The second movie used it on two separate occasions.
* A ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' show featured the heart of a vampire.
* One episode of ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' revolved around "Ricardio, the Heart Guy", who as the name suggests was a guy who happened to be a living heart. Turns out {{spoiler|he used to be the heart of the Ice King, brought to life by a spell gone awry.}}
 
 
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* ''[[Battle Angel Alita]]'' at one point pulls out her robot heart to use as stakes in an arm wrestling game - placing it directly on the table, on her right side. It's still attached and functional though.
** In a similar (but grosser) vein to the trope, she also attaches a severed head to her circulatory system to keep it alive.
* One episode of ''[[Black Jack (Manga)|Black Jack]] 21'' centers around a mysterious, way-ahead-of-its-time artificial heart. Its very existence is creepy enough, but after Black Jack removes it from the owner (replacing it with a more realistic artificial heart), it KEEPS BEATING on the table where he leaves it. It also ''[[Power Glows|glows]]''.
* Employed in the second episode of ''[[Darker Than Black]]'', where the episode's antagonist can teleport things into each others' places, resulting at one point in a woman with a chunk of concrete in her chest and her heart lodged in a nearby wall. It is still beating since it hasn't gotten a stop signal yet.
 
 
== Film ==
* In ''[[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|Friday the 13 th]] Part VI'', Jason shoves his '''hand''' through a guy's chest and rips his heart out.
* In ''[[Airplane! (Film)|Airplane!]]!'', a still-beating heart intended for transplant jumps around on a desk.
* In ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] is threatened with this. "He should stay alive just long enough to see it stop beating."
* Several scenes in ''[[Apocalypto]]'' feature these.
* While it's a [[Indulgent Fantasy Segue|dream sequence]], ''Dumb And Dumber'' has Lloyd removing a heart (which beats), putting it in a doggy bag and returning it to the victim...
* Sci Fi Channel movie ''Yeti''. The [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|title monster]] rips the heart out of a victim's chest and it continues beating in his hand.
* In probably the best-known instance of this trope, [[Big Bad|Mola Ram]] does this during a cult ritual in ''[[Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Temple of Doom]]''.
** And somehow his victim remains [[Narm|alive and screaming]] as he's lowered, sans heart, into the pit.
*** Since he also didn't break the victim's skin, let's just call it 'magic'. The heart was still magically connected to the body until the body burned up in the lava, whereupon the heart promptly burned up too.
* Threatened at the beginning of [[The Silence of the Lambs|Red Dragon]], although it never happens.
* ''[[Rat Race]]'' has a subplot about a courier transporting a donor heart for transplant, which gets lost by [[Captain Ersatz|The Italian Mr. Bean]]. At one point a character is holding it when he touches an electric fence, which [[Magical Defibrillator|starts it right back up again]].
* ''[[Cloudy Withwith a Chance of Meatballs]]'' parodies this, when Steve the Monkey, {{spoiler|while fighting a semi-sentient Gummy Bear, shoves his hand into its "chest" tears out a glob shaped like a heart, and ''eats it''.}}
* A living heart-in-a-jar appears as a throwaway bit of weirdness early in ''[[Doctor X (Film)|Doctor X]]''.
* In ''[[Film/Theatreof Blood|Theatreof Blood]]'', Edward Lionheart cuts out the heart of one of his victims while he's strapped to a chair.
 
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== Music ==
* [[Meat Loaf]]'s ''Bat Out Of Hell'' features the lines: "And the last thing I see is my heart,/Still beating,/Breaking out of my body,/And flying away,/Like a bat out of hell."
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song ''CNR'' paints the late actor Charles Nelson Reilly as a Chuck Norris-style [[Memetic Badass]] who, among other things, could "rip out your beating heart, and show it to you right before you died".
* [[Avenged Sevenfold]]'s song about murder, necrophilia, zombies, and love, "Little Piece of Heaven" includes this gem:
{{quote| "Ripped her heart out right before her eyes/ Eyes over easy, eat it, eat it, eat it!"}}
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** ''Deception'' has the Hara-kiri moves, where dazed characters kill themselves to deny the fatality to their opponent. When it's performed with Kobra, he rips ''his own'' heart out.
** Almost every fighting game with fatalities has used a similar move at least once. ''Mace: The Dark Age'' gives it to the heroic priest. ''[[Primal Rage]]'' and ''War Gods'' have variants where the character eats the heart afterward.
* ''[[Serious Sam (Video Game)|Serious Sam]] 3 BFE'', when a beheaded rocketeer's heart is removed with a melee kill, it still beats a couple of times.
 
 
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** Not quite as creepy as it sounds, as lungs can't inflate and deflate under their own power even when they're inside the body. The machine makes them expand by altering the pressure surrounding the (passive) organs, which would work just as well for a couple of balloons as for lungs.
** They've done it with hearts too for the same reason. And they beat hard, strong, and fast within their chamber.
** And I thought what they did in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' was fake...
* When scientists use stem cells to grow cardiac tissue, they look for [[Creating Life|spontaneous beating in the plate]] to see if/where it worked.
* While any human organ harvested for transplant will be packed in ice slurry for transport, this is particularly crucial for donor hearts. Because it keeps on beating, a heart that isn't chilled down immediately will quickly exhaust its available oxygen, resort to glycolysis to make ATP, and fill its tissues with destructive levels of lactic acid, effectively suffering the ill effects of a heart attack ''while outside the body''.
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