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*** Near the end of the episode, {{spoiler|the ninja in question is revealed to be a ''female'' - the same one that had tried killing Naruto and co. in the previous episode. From the context of said episode, she most likely ''died'' soon after using what her accomplices referred to as a dangerous technique, but considering that a later scene (if not the next one) shows that said accomplices had brought her to Orochimaru, known by fans to have some medical experience...}}
** In Shippuden, [[Psycho for Hire|Kakuzu]] tears the hearts out of his enemies and absorbs them into his own body to extend his life. [http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/336/05/ In a modified] [[Gory Discretion Shot]] one can see him holding a still-beating heart in his hand.
* In ''[[Inuyasha]]'', series villain Naraku controls one his subordinates, Kagura, by keeping her heart with him at all times. If she displeases him, he [[Cold
* 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
* In the fifth ''[[Kara no 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
** To drive the oddity of this example home: The criminal was alive, stumbling around, and begging Killua to give him his heart back until the moment it was crushed, at which point he [[No Ontological Inertia|fell down dead]]. No one present seemed confused or even surprised by this, including the guy who's studying to be a doctor. Apparently, in their universe, this is normal cardiac behavior.
** I assumed that it was just [[Rule of Cool|coincidence for drama's sake]].
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* ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]'' discovers that his heart has been stolen by a squatter in his home after a battle. He embarks on [[A Worldwide Punomenon|a half-hearted rescue of it and when he finally catches up to it, has a heart-to-heart talk with it]]. {{spoiler|And then steps on it when he decides he's better off heartless}}. It appears from time to time, still beating, moving under its own power, and even has internal monologues.
* An issue of ''Nightmares & Fairy Tales'' tells the twisted tale of Snow White, in which the Evil Queen is told that beauty reflects the heart, so she has Snow White's heart cut out of her body and then procedes to rip her own heart out and replace it with Snow's, making herself beautiful and leaving Snow in a zombie-like state. {{spoiler|Snow later gets her revenge when she burns the Queen's original heart and rips out and reclaims her own.}}
* Somehow ''[[Scud the Disposable Assassin]]'' managed to combine this trope with [[Tear Jerker]] and [[Chekhov's Gun]]: In the end it turns out that Jeff's heart, {{spoiler|being forged by God himself, is completely indestructible. This means that Jeff will never die, and the now-suicidal Scud will never complete his original mission (meaning he won't ever self-destruct), meaning he can't finish the last job given him by the Seraphim: destroying Earth. Even as Jeff's body is ripped open and finally dies, the heart beats on. Of course, later Scud takes the heart with him into battle with the Seraphim, which in the end proves to save his life: by placing the heart in Sussudio's ribcage it reanimates her, and the first thing she does is greet Scud cheerfully. Of course, the second thing she does is [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|PUNCH AN ANGEL IN THE BRAINS]]}}. [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]] indeed!
* In Book Two of [[Suehiro Maruo]]'s ''The Laughing Vampire'', a female vampire uses the freshly-extracted heart of her victim for...self gratitfication.
* In the ''[[Blackest Night]]'' ''[[Starman (Comic Book)|Starman]]'' issue, {{spoiler|the Shade's heart gets ripped out by the zombie Black Lantern Starman... then the heart promptly engulfs the zombie, trapping it in the Shade's shadow void.}}
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* Davy Jones uses the [[Soul Jar]] variant in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''.
* ''[[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
* 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.
* In ''Bordello of Blood'', a heart ''begins'' beating while outside of the owner's body. (In fact, it reconstructs itself first.)
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* Played for laughs with a transplant heart that hops off a table in ''[[Airplane!]]!''.
* Also [[Rule of Three|played for laughs]] in ''[[Dumb and Dumber]]''. During one of Lloyd's dream sequences, he imagines himself in a romantic dinner with Mary, when the waiter decides to get daring and Lloyd hands his ass to him, as well as many other people. So far, so good. Further down the scene, out comes a Chinese cook who outmatches Lloyd, until he jams his hand into the cook's chest, rips his heart out, puts it in a food bag and returns it to the cook - who only drops dead when he picks up the bag.
* [[B
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* In one of Gustav Meyrink's short stories, we can find {{spoiler|a very grotesque clock. In fact, it's composed of the severed internal organs of a guy, which were then stiched together by some crazy alchemist-like Moor and connected with wires and tubes in order to allow the head of the poor guy to go on living. The only thing he's able to say it's the time. Imagine the reaction of his two friends when they find him. His organs are all working, by the way.}}
* Elizabeth finds them tasty in ''[[Pride and Prejudice And Zombies]]''.
** Only if they belong to [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|ninjas]].
* In ''[[The Culture]]'' novel ''Matter'', the story begins with a king being killed by his [[Evil Chancellor]]. The king was wounded in battle, and when the Chancellor visits him, he sticks his hand into the king's chest and squeezes on the king's heart until the king dies in agony.
* In Lawrence Watt-Evans' ''The Obsidian Chronicles'' there exists a form of magic that allows a person to remove their heart from their body in order to protect it from harm and thus their lives. This proves to be an effective method of purging the human body of [[Body Horror|dragon venom]].
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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 [[
** 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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== Webcomics ==
* Though not actually seen, one has made an appearance in ''[[Fox Tails]]'', kept in a case by the [[Morally
* 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.
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== Film ==
* In ''[[Friday the
* 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 (Film)|James Bond]] is threatened with this. "He should stay alive just long enough to see it stop beating."
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