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== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Thorgal]]'' uses a hot knife to amputate an injured man's mangled fingers.

* In one ''Superman/Batman'' collection a [[Serial Killer]] cuts off a thief's hand and [[Superman]] uses his heat vision to cauterize the wound.

 

* ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' showcases prisoners getting their hands cut off by a searingly-hot scimitar. Next they put Robin on the chopping block and let's just say that the wardens were sent into early retirement.

* In ''[[Braveheart]]'', [[The Big Guy|Hamish's father]] needs to have a wound cauterized with a red hot iron after receiving an arrow to the shoulder. In a nice nod to how such a thing might have played out in those days, alcohol gets a lot of use both as an anesthetic and disinfectant. Unusually for this sort of scene, it's played more for laughs than drama, as a whole line of brave Scottish warriors get handed the iron and told that they're going to be the one to use it, only to immediately pass it on to the next guy, saying "You do it... I'll hold him down". When they finally get some poor sap to actually do it, there are half a dozen men holding the patient down. Sure enough, the first thing he does when he gets up is to punch the guy who applied the iron even though the guy is in the middle of frantically apologizing.

* ''[[The Boondock Saints]]'' has [[Power Trio]] Conner MacManus, his brother Murphy, and Rocco all take turns under an iron to cauterize wounds they received during a disastrous firefight with The Duke.

* Stephen Baldwin's character in ''John Carpenter's Vampires'' does this pretty much every time he's wounded, once with a lighter, and once by firing his sub-machine gun into the air then holding the hot barrel to the wound.