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{{trope}}
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{{quote|I will flay the skin from your flesh and the flesh from your bones and scrape your bones dry. And still you will not have suffered enough.|Greven il-Vec
|[[Magic: The Gathering]] (Hatred flavor text)}}
We as humans like our skin to be intact. It protects everything inside the body from various diseases, and contains a great quantity of nerve endings — meaning that to have it forcibly removed is excruciatingly painful, and being stripped of enough of it will lead to a horribly slow death. As a result, flaying is the signature method of [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] for some of the nastiest [[Complete Monster]]s.
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* Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the ''seinen'' manga ''[[Burning Hell]]''. One of the two villain protagonists is a Korean military medic turned serial killer who has this as his ''modus operandi'', priding himself from his ability of keeping his victims alive through the whole process. When sent to a remote island as a punishment, he made a waxhouse-like garden out of the posed and preserved bodies of all the other convicts sent there. Then he tops that when it turns out he can do the same using a sword instead of a scalpel — an over-the-top variation of a [[Clean Cut]] that blows his opponent's whole skin clean off his body.▼
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the seinen manga ''Burning Hell''. One of the two villain protagonists is a Korean military medic turned serial killer who has this as his modus operandi, priding himself from his ability of keeping his victims alive through the whole process. When sent to a remote island as a punishment, he made a waxhouse-like garden out of the posed and preserved bodies of all the other convicts sent there. Then he tops that when it turns out he can do the same using a sword instead of a scalpel — an over-the-top variation of a [[Clean Cut]] that blows his opponent's whole skin clean off his body.
* An episode of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' features a serial killer who removes the skin of women in the shape of a T-shirt. {{spoiler|It turns out he was one among many who were ordered to use the technique as a strategic terror weapon. Batou found the unfortunate survivors, and wasn't very happy...}}
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga, Dark Marik uses the Millennium Rod knife to skin his father, removing the sacred tattoos from his back, then kill him. The father, however, had been stabbing Rishid with red-hot knives just before this, so no one should feel too sorry for him...
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* Just one of the many horrors visited upon {{spoiler|Griffith}} in ''[[Berserk]]'' during {{spoiler|his year's worth of [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]}}.
** Also used in the Retribution arc to a priest of the Holy See.
== Card Games ==▼
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'': The Machine Orthodoxy, New Phyrexia's white-aligned faction, is especially fond of doing this to friend and foe alike. The flavor text of [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=218070 Inquisitor Exarch] illustrates it best.▼
{{quote|''"Skin is the prison of the blessed and the stronghold of the heretic."''|''Argent Etchings, plate 64, passage 17''}}▼
== Comic Books ==
* [[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]] in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]''. The Saint of Killers is so full of pure hate that when he dies and goes to Hell, his mere presence freezes everything in its wake. So the Devil attempts to flay the hatred out of him, whipping him on the back until there's nothing but bone left. {{spoiler|It doesn't work}}.
** Also, shortly before his death, the Preacher came across a group of bandits celebrating mass murder, the leader of which having just scalped a live man.
* ''[[Hack Slash]]'' villain [[Meaningful Name|Doctor Gross]] apparently did this ''to himself''.
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* Happens off-panel in the [[Graphic Novel]] ''[[Joker]]'' to a crime lord who tests [[The Joker]]'s patience just a ''little'' bit too much...
* ''[[Cupcakes]]''. Poor, poor [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Rainbow Dash.]]▼
▲* [[Cupcakes]]. Poor, poor [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Rainbow Dash.]]
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4622121/1/So So]''; leave it to [[Bleach]] to have [[Complete Monster|Mayuri]] operate on Ulquiorra, ''awake'', done just to see what makes Arrancars tick.
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* ''[[Train]]'' opens with this happening to a guy, though unlike the rest of the film's victims, he is mercifully unconscious.
* In ''[[Dagon]]'' the local drunk, Eqezuiel, has his face peeled off with a sharp blade by inhuman captors (who have the same thing planned for the hero).
== Literature ==
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* Used with great enthusiasm in the opening of the [[Night Lords]] book ''Blood Reaver''.
* In ''[[Kushiel's Legacy|Kushiel's Dart]]'', {{spoiler|Waldemar Selig attempts to do this to Phedre.}}
== Live-Action TV ==
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* The satyr Marsyas challenged [[Greek Mythology|Apollo]] to a music contest, flute against lyre. There are several versions (either Apollo made a new condition that made it impossible for Marsyas to keep up, like singing or playing the instrument upside-down; or the judge was Midas who declared Marsyas the winner), but both end in the same way: Apollo flays Marsyas alive.
* The apostle Bartholomew is said to have been flayed alive by an Armenian prince after the latter's brother, the king, converted to Christianity; and indeed, he is often represented in art as [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Last_judgement.jpg holding his own flayed skin].
== Tabletop Games ==
* The Dark Eldar of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' use flaying as a standard torture technique. Fabius Bile even has a lab coat made of human skin.
** Necron Flayed Ones have this as their signature ability. They use their long flensing knive-like talons to skin their victims and then they ''wear'' the skin as a terror tactic. It works. They also like burrowing out of the ground while wearing the skins of their new victims friends. Flayed Ones [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!|have no concept of 'torture']], however, and their victims tend to be quite dead by the time they go to work.
** Chaos is unique in that they have learned how to [[Human Resources|power
* In the ''[[Eberron]]'' setting of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', members of Dragonmarked Houses who commit a terrible crime against the House would be expelled from membership. This was known as "excoriation," after the (mostly) discontinued practice of having the shamed member's Dragonmark flayed from the skin. If the excoriate survived, the Mark would grow back elsewhere, but would be very painful to use.
* In the ''[[Planescape]]'' setting of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', this is often the fate of those who run afoul of Sigil's de facto ruler, the mysterious Lady of Pain.
** Although to be fair to her, this is not a torture method but an execution one: Anyone whom the Lady's shadow falls on dies quite instantaneously (if painfully).
▲* ''[[Magic: The
▲{{quote|''"Skin is the prison of the blessed and the stronghold of the heretic."''|''Argent Etchings, plate 64, passage 17''}}
== Videogames ==
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* A few fatalaties in the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series flay instead of directly kill. Unsurprisingly, they are among the cooler looking ones.
* The ''Lonesome Road'' expansion for ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' introduces the Marked Men, whose skin has been torn off by the vicious sandstorms constantly ravaging the Divide. Unfortunately the area's background radiation has also [[Our Ghouls Are Different|ghoulified]] them, prolonging both their lives and their suffering.
== Western Animation ==
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* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|Despite it's status as a kids show,]] In the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "[[Family-Unfriendly Violence|Plankton's Regular]]," Plankton's new customer moves the Chum Bucket door over the lying Spongebob, peeling his yellow flesh. [[Squick|It was]] [[Nightmare Fuel|very,]] [[Gorn|very]] [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|detailed]]
** In the same episode, Plankton flays ''himself''.
** In another
** The Krusty Crushers has a wrestler blow the skin of another one off.
* In "A Yard Too Far" from ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', Ren, in a [[Zany Scheme]] to steal hog jowls from a windowsill, tears off Stimpy's skin. The camera pans away from Stimpy before his skin is pulled off... and after Ren pulls it off, [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|it pans back to Stimpy, who is now completely skinless]]. [[Serial Escalation|Skinless Stimpy shows up again later, reacting to his skin being mauled by the baboon.]]
* In an ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Itchy and Scratchy]]'' [[Show Within a Show|episode]], Itchy nails Scratchy's feet to an escalator, which peels away his fur and skin, but doesn't kill him. Later on, the skinless cat is wearing his fur as if it were a coat, [[Butt Monkey|and then]] is beaten to death by anti-fur militants.
* During the ''[[Regular Show]]'' [[Halloween Episode]], {{spoiler|Muscle Man}} is dragged of by The Wizard. He returns a few moments later, ''[[media:TOLD YA I WAS RIPPED 2021.png|totally skinned,]]'' declares "I told you I was ripped" and falls over dead.
== Real Life ==
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