Ear Ache: Difference between revisions

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This trope describes damage or painful actions done to the ears:

 

* Something like a virus/creature [[Orifice Invasion|forces itself into someone's ear]]

 

Compare [[Eye Scream]], for similar nasty things happening to a character's eyes, or [[Fingore]] and [[Agony of the Feet]], when the targets are the fingers and toes.

 

See also [[Shell-Shock Silence]], and its aversion [[Steel Ear Drums]].

 

* In ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'', Yoshida cuts Tetsunosuke's ear during their battle. It's later shown bandaged.

* A running gag in ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' was that Misty would yank on Brock's ear whenever he hit on a girl, which was ''often''. When she made a reappearance in Hoenn and went through the routine again, Max quickly picked up on it.

** In the first episode, Seiya actually did this to Cassios, cutting off his left ear during their first fight.

* In the ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' manga, Erigor use his wind powers to slice Kageyama's ears when the latter made a mistake.

* ''[[Blade of the Immortal]]'' seems to like this. Giichi got one of his ears cut off by Sousuke, and Kagehisa who gets his ear sliced by Habaki.

* In ''[[Gamaran]]'', Zenmaru manages to chop [[Axe Crazy|Sasuke's]] ear along with some flesh around it.

 

* [[Secret Six|Scandal Savage]] bites off an enemy's ear in battle; when the enemy cries out for its return, Scandal nonchalantly replies, "Sorry, I've swallowed it."

* During the ''Reads'' arc of ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]'', Cerebus gets his right ear mostly cut off during a swordfight.

 

* Mr Blonde cuts off the captive policeman's ear with a razor in ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]''.

* In the film ''[[Ever After (film)|Ever After]]'', Rodmilla grabs Danielle hard by the ear and throws her into a chair when angry with her.

* One of the villains in ''Slashers'' is killed by being stabbed in the ear with a wooden stake.

 

* Peter does this to a Roman soldier in [[The Bible]] when they try to take Jesus away. Jesus heals the guy.

* ''[[Animorphs]]'': The Yeerks enter your head via the ear canal, secreting a painkiller so it doesn't hurt.

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* In one of the ''[[Wayside School]]'' books, one of the kids tells a story of a hippie who got his ear cut off by a barber.

* In the [[Stephen King]] novella ''[[The Body]]'' (source material for the film ''[[Stand by Me]]''), Teddy Duchamp has nasty scars where his abusive father held his ears to a burning stove.

 

* ''[[Firefly]]'': In the episode "War Stories," Adelai Niska cuts off Mal's ear after Zoe rescues Wash, because the ransom she paid was "too much for just one man."

* The saga of Moe's ear in ''[[Brotherhood]]''. Granted, [[Jerkass|he really had it coming]].

* In ''[[Friends]]'', Phoebe stops a [[Cat Fight]] between Rachel and Monica by grabbing them by their ears.

* In ''[[Wild Boys]]'', 'Mad Dog' Morgan claimed he got his nickname because he once bit a man's ear off in a fight. later in the episode, he actually does a bite a man's ear off, indicating that this may be a regular thing for him.

* In ther first series of ''[[Luther]]'', Alice Morgan does this to {{spoiler|Luther's wife, Zoe}}

 

== Music ==

* This was one of the injuries sustained by the protagonist of [[Johnny Cash]]'s "A Boy Named Sue" during the big fight with his father.

 

== Theatre ==

* In ''[[Hamlet]]'', the ghost of Hamlet's father, the late king. tells Hamlet that his brother Claudius, Hamlet's uncle and the present king, usurped the throne by pouring poison in his ear while he was asleep. Doesn't make much sense from a medical perspective, but it allows Hamlet to say things like "the ear of Denmark is much abus'd".

 

* The friendly demon Buwaro in ''[[Slightly Damned]]'' is introduced with a bite taken out of one of his ears. Eventually, a flashback explains how he got it--{{spoiler|his foster sister bit him, blaming him for the apparent death of their parental figure.}}

 

== Western Animation ==

* Part of Zuko's scar in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' is that his ear is half burnt-off and shriveled.

* In [[The Simpsons]] episode "Guess Who's Coming To Criticize Dinner" after Homer insults a chef's cooking he attacks Homer with a meat cleaver, Homer thinks all his strikes missed only to discover he has a chunk cut off one of his ears.

 

== Real Life ==