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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]]'' in |Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy]]''. After Danny Phantom's ghost half is separated from his human half by Vlad Masters, and his ghost half merges with Vlad's ghost half to become Dark Danny, he brutally murders his human half. Vlad Masters doesn't explain exactly what happened to Danny Fenton, but his reason for that is that "some things are better left unsaid."
 
== 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 pusuitpursuit of money.)
* 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]]''.