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* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has {{spoiler|Negi's}} arm severed cleanly ( {{spoiler|and later [[White Magic|re-attached]]}}), but here it's [[A Wizard Did It|magic]], so it kind of makes sense.

* ''[[Go Lion (Anime)|Go Lion]]/[[Voltron (Anime)|Voltron]]'' loves this, as it occurs every time he uses the Juuohken/Blazing Sword, which is just about [[Once Per Episode]].

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': In the manga, Wrath jumps through a rain of bullets at a group of soldiers. Four of them (or more, hard to tell with all the flying body parts) simultaneously fall to pieces two panels later.

* Goemon, in ''[[Lupin III (Anime)|Lupin III]]'', does this regularly. In one movie, he cuts through a helicopter's blades in such a way that they stay on for a few seconds ''while still turning and keeping the chopper in mid air.''

* This is how the Ultimateblade, the only male Wielder in ''[[Witchblade (Anime)|Witchblade]]'', bites it, courtesy of Masane.

* ''[[Macross Frontier (Anime)|Macross Frontier]]'' has Brera's [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]] [[Blade Below the Shoulder]] do this to a Hydra in episode 10. ''Lengthwise'' and his knife is barely larger than a combat knife.

* Happens in ''[[Soul Eater (Manga)|Soul Eater]]'', only accentuated by the author's early simpler style and (fairly) bloodless carnage. Stein slicing up Medusa into very neat pieces is a good example in the series. Although in that case there is a delay before the High Pressure Blood-loss.

 

== Film ==

* In the teaser for ''[[Cube]]'', a character is in one room when ''something'' happens. The character freezes in shock, and seconds later falls apart in neatly diced cubes. The ''something'' turns out to be a moving grid made of razor wire.

* ''[[The Cell (Film)|The Cell]]'': That poor, poor horse. Or was it? I mean, it didn't appear to actually die...

* ''[[Underworld (Film)|Underworld]]'': Selene slashes the [[Big Bad]] as she leaps over him, and he has time to turn around, draw two swords, then look shocked before half of his head slides off.

** It's generally assumed that he's using a monomolecular whip as described below, with added visual effects because slashing ''nothing'' around while people are getting dismembered would look stupid. The weapon is quite popular in the cyberpunk game ''[[Shadowrun (Tabletop Game)|Shadowrun]]'', too (among psychos no-one wants to have anything to do with, that is.) Light is probably being routed along the wire, fiberoptic style, so the ''wielder'' can see where it is. That said, yes, just pretending it's there wouldn't have had the same impact.

*** In the Gibson short story, it's a weighted monomolecular wire concealed in his thumb. It's worth noting that you would be able to ''feel'' the location and movement of a device like that, in much the same way as one can feel how a set of poi are moving.

** In theory, this is because the Green Destiny Sword is extremely hard and sharp ''steel'', cutting not-quite-as-hard iron.

*** Even the finest steel doesn't cut the poorest iron this way. Also, the sword is only effective in the hands of a right bearer. Master Li Mu Bai defeats an opponent wielding Green Destiny with a thin branch of wood.

* [[Badass|Raven's]] weapons of choice in ''[[Snow Crash]]'' are glass knives, invisible to millimetre-wave radar and not much thicker than a molecule along the cutting edge. Usually mounted on an Aleut whaling harpoon for armour-piercing death at a distance.

* ''Headhunter'': Michael Slade's serial killer can take a victim's head off with one blow. Possibly justified, as the cutlass-like killing blade is equipped with a sliding weight on its blunt side, which shifts from hilt to tip when the weapon is swung and dramatically increases the force of impact.

* In the short story [http://dailysciencefiction.com/story/desmond-warzel/epinikion "Epinikion"] by Desmond Warzel, the alien Squids have natural weaponry that not only does this to their human opponents, but leaves them alive for several hours after being bisected.

* This is what the [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|Shardblades]] in ''[[The Stormlight Archive (Literature)|The Way of Kings]]'' do to anything not living. If it is alive, it [[Clean Cut|Cleanly Cuts]] the ''[[Soul Cutting Blade|soul]]''.