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{{trope}}
The '''Five-Finger Fillet''' is when a character places his hand palm-down on a table, spreads his fingers, and begins stabbing between them with a knife, trying to go as fast as possible without hurting himself. Screwing up with certainly result in [[Fingore]].
This can be a way to establish a character as a hardened criminal or a [[Knife Nut]], or just generally [[Badass]]. However, if the work is farther to the silly side on the [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]], it's more likely to be done by a character who doesn't fit the usual stereotypes, playing the contrast for humor.
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* In the BBC documentary series ''Simon Schama's Power of Art'', Pablo Picasso meets his future mistress Dora Maar when she cuts her fingers doing this
* In ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', Jimmy expertly plays the game with his old trenchknife in "Family Limitation," establishing him as a [[Knife Nut]] who's still not over the war. Capone's unfamiliarity with the game tips Jimmy off that he wasn't really in the war.
* In an episode of ''[[Eerie, Indiana]]'' involving supposed subliminal messages in punk rock bands' songs, a character du jour was seen doing this.
* ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' has Moss do this with a steak knife in one episode with surprising skill.
* The unaired pilot of ''[[Fearless]]'' has a bad guy do this to Gaia, in order to get some reaction out of her. Presumably fear, but this is Gaia we're on about.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Marilith]]'': When Dim and Vics are introduced, Vics stabs himself while doing this
* In ''[[Cwen's Quest]]'', one of the new villains shows off by performing this on a [http://www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest/index.php?p=791737 fairy]{{Dead link}}.
* In ''[[Gnoph]]'', Abbey injures her fingers doing this and laments that she used to be able to do it perfectly.
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