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* Though there were quite a few different deaths in the [[One-Episode Wonder]] ''[[Korgoth of Barbaria]]'', nothing matches the death of a [[Giant Mook]] named [[Punny Name|Scrotus]], who gets interrupted in the middle of a wonderful [[To the Pain]]/[[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]] speech. After the title character is unimpressed by the overly long speech, he proceeds to dish out a brutal murdering by ripping half of the mook's skin off from the ponytail straight down, tossing a full glass of alcohol into the godawful wound, [[Kill It with Fire|then setting the alcohol set on fire]].
* Blurr's death in [[Transformers Animated]]. He was crushed into a cube for crying out loud! And that was after he found out that his "boss" so-to-speak, was a double agent.
* The death of an alternate timeline Danny Phantom in ''[[Danny Phantom
== Real Life ==
* [[The Other Wiki]]'s [[wikipedia:List of unusual deaths|List of unusual deaths.]] Warning: The level of horror is [[The Readings Are Off the Scale|off the charts]].
* Manius Aquillius of Rome was killed by having molten gold poured down his throat. (Counts as a [[Karmic Death]] since the Romans had systematically destroyed and milked Pontus and the surrounding area in their
* Some stories claim the Aztecs poured molten gold down Spanish throats after Montezuma was killed. Doesn't help that Cortez told the Aztecs they wanted the gold because they had a disease that only gold could cure.
** This is relatively mundane compared to their... ''creative'' methods of [[Human Sacrifice]]. Besides the famous "[[Beat Still My Heart|priests rip out lots and lots of peoples' hearts on top of a pyramid]]",<ref>the festival of the warrior god Huitzilopochtli was the biggest example of this</ref> and the similarly mundane burning to death,<ref>Xiuhtecuhtli, the god of fire</ref> they had ceremonies involving flaying alive and priests wearing the victim's skin<ref>Xipe Totec and Chicomecoatl, the god and goddess of corn</ref> and death by [[Hopeless Boss Fight]].<ref>Tezcatlipoca, the god of darkness, chaos, slaves, and rulership, among other things</ref> An honorable mention should also go to the festival of the rain god Tlaloc; while his sacrifices were "only" immolated, he required that they be a) [[Would Hurt a Child|children]] and b) ''[[Loves the Sound of Screaming|crying]]''.
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