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Alternatively, this trope can also be invoked through a character's particularly gruesome death, where the victim is pierced in a similar manner but does not quite fare as well as their seemingly-invincible counterpart. In this case, the odds and ends stuck in the victim's body underscore the brutal fate, along with adding unintentional [[Nausea Fuel]] for those with weak stomachs.
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Compare [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]] for characters being viciously impaled by various implements, [[Annoying Arrows]] for projectiles being treated untruthfully in fiction, [[Only a Flesh Wound]] for wounds that do little to slow an attacker down, and [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]] for deaths involving a long repetition of small cuts or hits.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'': the first death of soon-to-be Zombie Reg Shoe, when the thwarted revolutionary is stuck with eight arrows but can still shout defiance at his attackers before dying. He soon recovers from this, and as a zombie proves it's impossible to kill him twice. In ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'' he confounds the Klatchians by blithely fighting on even after losing an arm, devising a new form of unarmed combat by using his severed limb as a club to hit people with. As a policeman, he concludes arrests with arrows sticking out of him, often while complaining about the holes in his armour and uniform that he will have to make good himself.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Lord of the Rings]]'': Boromir goes out in a fashion similar to Longinus of the [[Sienkiewicz Trilogy]] while buying the hobbits time to get out of there. (The movie only shows three arrows, while the novel details many more)
* ''[[Sienkiewicz Trilogy]]'': Both in the book and in the movie, Longinus dies from from being shot with multiple arrows after the enemy corner him but dare not approach within the range of his sword.
* King Edmund "the Martyr" of East Anglia supposedly was killed by Viking invaders in this way in 869 AD, when his captors tied him to a tree and riddled him with arrows. Some 120 years later, his biographer Abbo of Fleury gives a particularly vivid description of the event:▼
{{quote|They shot then with missiles, as if to amuse themselves, until he was all covered with their missiles as with bristles of a hedgehog, just as Sebastian was.}}▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[CSI]]'' had an episode with a victim where the cause of death was "gunshot wounds to everything".
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' / ''[[Angel]]'' - vampires die from a stake to the heart, but other methods of impalement don't kill them. Spike got quite a few arrows stuck in him while Buffy was fighting a vengeful Native American spirit. He later took the opportunity to run Angel through with a sword to get to a monster.
{{quote|'''Spike:''' Fuss, fuss. The thing was about to strike. It was on your back. What was I supposed to do?
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* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'': Enemy projectiles such as arrows and spears remain in the [[Player Character]]'s body for a short amount of time after making a hit, so coming under attack from multiple ranged units can easily invoke this trope.
* The cause of {{spoiler|Asch's}} death/defeat (the ending waffled a little bit) in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''. Buying time for the rest of the party he held of a force of replica knights as long as he could, eventually getting impaled with three swords. To cement his badassery though, he managed to pull one of them out of his torso and use it to kill a few knights before finally going down.
* In ''[[Duodecim]]'', the prequel to ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'', this is part of {{spoiler|Desperado Chaos's}} [[Limit Break|EX Burst]], and the impaling...elements happen to be measured in ''stories''. Distressingly, the impaling isn't even ''[[Nothing Is Scarier|close]]'' [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|to being the scariest or most horrifying part of that particular attack]].
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'' characters can be turned into human pincushions with literally dozens of arrows sticking out of them. If their health is high enough they can keep going.
* Ditto in ''[[Mount and Blade
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* Any game with visible arrows/javelin/pointy/non-pointy impalement has a possibility of a character looking like this if the injections stay.
* In ''[[Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath]]'', this can easily happen to Stranger in if he gets hit with enough shots and doesn't [[Walk It Off|shake them off]].
* All too common an occurrence on many user-created courses and boards for ''[[Happy Wheels]]''.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Looking for Group]]'': One scene has Richard in a torture chamber with various sharp objects stuck through his body, telling the torturer there's some room near his thigh. Justified in that Richard is a supremely overpowered undead warlock, for who this is a pleasant experience.
* In ''[[8-
* ''[[Teen Girl Squad]]'': Had this as one of the many possible deaths of the main characters.
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* Benkei, retainer of Minamoto Yoshitsune, died this way while pulling a [[You Shall Not Pass]]. His body, riddled with arrows, was said to be still standing after his death.
* Being simultaneously pierced with multiple implements is actually [[Fetish Fuel]] for some sexually deviant subcultures.
▲* King Edmund "the Martyr" of East Anglia supposedly was killed by Viking invaders in this way in 869 AD, when his captors tied him to a tree and riddled him with arrows. Some 120 years later, his biographer Abbo of Fleury gives a particularly vivid description of the event:
▲{{quote|They shot then with missiles, as if to amuse themselves, until he was all covered with their missiles as with bristles of a hedgehog, just as Sebastian was.}}
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