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* In the film version of [[Doom]] Duke, one of the most likeable and sympathetic characters in the film, gets the most brutal and horrible death out of the entire cast. In the middle of a firefight, an Imp grabs his feet and pulls him ''through'' the metal grate he was unlucky enough to be standing on, shredding him.
* ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' and its sequels revel in this, taking full advantage of its dream world killzone to make some of the most ludicrous and creative deaths in cinema history, and then upping the ante by having the victim's actual body reacting to the death in a (usually) more realistic manner. Some particularly fun examples include: arms getting torn off, replaced by beetle legs, then being trapped inside a roach hotel which is crushed by Freddy; having flesh torn out of your arms and legs and used as puppet strings, then being led up to a high point and dropped to your death; getting reduced to a comic book paper human by one slash, wherupon your ink drips out of you entirely and you are immediately slashed into a whirlwind of paper strips; having a hearing aid dig itself into your ear, and then amplify sounds to such a level that they cause head-exploding pain; and of course, being pulled into your bed and winding up reduced to more blood than the average body can hold, which is splattered all over the ceiling. Yow.
* Art the Clown from the ''[[Terrifier]]'' franchise ''LOVES'' this trope and may be the most sadistic slasher in movie history. For him, it's not even about the body count, but how long he can make someone suffer before they die. If he lets you live, chances are it's because he's put you in a state where [[Fate Worse Than Death|death is preferable]].
** In the first ''Terrifier'' film, he
** In the [[Terrifier 2|sequel]], Allie gets possibly the most violent death in horror history, getting her eye sliced in half, her head scalped with scissors, has her back flayed, her arm broken and torn off, her other hand split in half, and slashed repeatedly. Art then leaves and leaves a [[Hope Spot]] where Allie might be able to phone for help, only to return and pour bleach on her wounds along with some salt and then tears off half her face. By the time her mother gets home, Art is cutting chunks out of her legs, and she's still barely alive, only able to call out to her mother very weakly.
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The Masters: One is impaled by Jack and forced to use his powers to toss the other around, then they're thrown together and kind of explode.
Martin: Also exploded.
The Black Baron: Demonstrates ''all'' of the above methods (with the help of his [[Lovely Assistant]] Mathilda), but somehow survives them all, until the [[Final Battle]] where he is used for Man Darts. }}
* In ''[[Space Quest]] III'', getting shot by the pirates will trap you in a solid block of green jello. For not heeding your janitorial duties, [[Have a Nice Death|death]] by suffocation is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|just desserts]].
** The endodroid in ''[[Space Quest]] VI'' will eagerly tear all of Roger's internal organs out of his body.
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* Spiders inflict this on their prey. Spiders don't just "suck the liquids out. They ''inject the prey with acid, which dissolves the bug's insides.'' They then suck out the resulting goop.
* Lobsters get boiled alive...but this is a ''merciful'' death compared to how you ''broil'' lobsters; tie their claws down, slit them open with a knife and then put them into the oven while they're still alive.
* Burning at the stake is well-known in fiction as a form of execution for witches, and was known to be Joan of Arc’s fate, but fiction leaves out the gory details. Done mostly to women for serious crimes (in cases where rules of public decency prohibited the form of execution given to men) burning was a slow and painful death from shock, blood loss, or heatstroke (though when condemned were burned as groups, some might die of carbon monoxide poisoning before the flames got to them). This was a favoured method of Henry VIII's elder daughter, "Bloody" Mary I, who killed hundreds of English Protestants this way.
* From the Middle Ages to the 19th Century, execution by elephant was a favored method in Southeast Asia for rebellion, tax evasion, or theft, as it was symbolic of a ruler's power, even over nature. Elephants are rather easy to train, so depending on the whims of the ruler, this form of execution was either an Inversion, where the condemned man's death was mercifully quick (the elephant swiftly crushing the skull) or played horribly straight, the elephant being trained to prolong the unfortunate victim's agony by slowly crushing him.
* [[Flaying Alive|Flaying,]] when a victim is skinned alive, literally, has been done by the Aztecs to prisoners of war, to traitors in medieval Europe and by some Chinese emperors, again to POWs. While no longer legal in any part of the world, there was an incident in 2000 where Burmese troops flayed every male inhabitant of the village of Karenni. Generally, an attempt is made to keep the victim alive while removing the skin in one piece, causing death by shock, blood loss, hypothermia, or infection, often days afterwards. Saint Bartholomew is generally said to have been martyred this way.
* Death from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomslang boomslang] venom. Don't let the silly name fool you, for while the boomslang is a shy, non-agressive, and almost cute-looking reptile, it is one of the deadliest snakes known. Its venom is hemotoxic, meaning it destroys red blood cells, disrupts the clotting process and causes tissue and organ degeneration. What this means to anyone unlucky enough to be bitten by it starts to bleed from every orifice. It isn't quick either, some victims taking up to five days to die from internal bleeding, respiratory arrest, and/or cerebral hemorrhaging. A world-renowned herpetologist named Karl P. Schmidt was he first to find this out, having kept a journal of his symptoms during his last days alive. Anyone with a taste for [[Nightmare Fuel]] can still read it at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Museum_of_Natural_History the Field Museum of Natural History] in Chicago.
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