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{{trope}}
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A character has something driven into the palm of his hand and right out the other side. Usually a knife, but may be a bullet.
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* To [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|imply some parallel with some guy who once suffered similar wounds.]]
Related to [[Fingore]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* When [[Enemy Within|the Other Bakura]] challenges [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Yugi]] and friends to a Tabletop RPG where their souls are literally at stake and he's gleefully playing the role of [[Killer Game Master]], the ''real'' Bakura manages to take back control of his hand and sabotage a roll that would have otherwise resulted in a [[Total Party Kill]]. Unfortunately for him, the Other Bakura prevents him from meddling further by impaling said hand on one of the game board's towers.
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* In the manga of ''[[Kare Kano]]'', Arima impales his own palm after {{spoiler|raping Yukino}}. Luckily, his dad is a doctor.
* In one episode of ''[[City Hunter]]'', Ryo Saeba fires his gun through his own hand to slow the bullet so he can shoot the bad guy without harming an innocent bystander.
* In an episode of ''[[Durarara!!]]'', Seiji stabs Shizuo through the hand with a pen. He concludes that he'd better buy some band-aids before pulling it out. Or superglue.
** And you actually forgot 'bout [[Fan Nickname|Bosskado]] doing the very same thing to Aoba?
* [[Naruto]] does this in a Shinji-esque "I musn't run away" deal. He is under the influence of a mind-altering ''Genjutsu'' at the time. Inflicting pain by stabbing himself allows him to break the illusion.
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** And again much later on, in Naruto's fight with Pein. This time both hands are pierced. I'm starting to sense a pattern.
* In the Arlong Arc of ''[[One Piece]]'', Nami pretends to stab Usopp to give him the chance to escape from the arc's villains. In order to make it look more believable, she stabs herself through the hand instead.
* In the ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' manga, Cypha of Hückebein activates her powerful React mode by plunging a dagger into her left palm (so that it enters her
* In ''[[D.Gray-man]]'', Miranda Lotto gets her hands nailed to a clock by the sadistic Road Kamelot.
** Later in the Manga, Apochryphos pins Tyki Mikk to the wall by his hands, then ''grows nails out of his hands'' which impale Tyki's palms
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* In ''The Punisher MAX: In The Beginning'', Frank Castle is being attacked by an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Made of Iron|tank]] named Pittsy. Pittsy beats the Punisher's face into hamburger, then grabs a nastily large shard of broken glass and proceeds to stab him repeatedly with it. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when Castle resolves the situation by catching the glass ''in his palm''...then snapping off the larger part of it, {{spoiler|picking up Pittsy and throwing him out a window}}.
* [[Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth]] has Batman impaling his hand on a piece of glass. The original script called for it to be merely scratched but the art depicted the glass going right through his hand.
* In Batman, Ra's Al Ghul came back from the dead after his body was destroyed. His first attempt was into the body of a martial artist action star, who had poisoned his own body to foil Ra's plans. Ra's took control of the body, but it was dying and numb of feeling. To demonstrate this, Ra's stabs his own hand, and continues to talk to his daughter Talia while his eye is visible staring out the clean, bloodless hole in his palm.
== [[Film]] ==
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* Tom Hanks' character in ''[[Cast Away]]'' does this to himself, which leads to the creation of [[Companion Cube|Wilson.]]
* In ''[[The Butterfly Effect]]'', the main character does this ''to himself'', to get stigmata-like scars on his hands as a little kid, as a part of a complex plan to get his religious present-day cellmate to believe him. ([[Time Travel]] is involved.)
* In ''[[Eraser]]'', the heroes take cover from a shuriken bomb under the door of a tipped-over refrigerator. Holding it above their heads, [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s character gets one right through the center of his palm and yanks it straight off.
* Will Scarlet (Christian Slater) in the film ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' has his hand pierced by Robin's arrow.
* Elektra in the ''[[Daredevil]]'' movie with her own knife.
** And Bullseye again, seeing as this scene is derived from the Comic books example up top.
* The title character of ''The Pawnbroker'' does this to himself at the end of the movie.
* The heroine of the movie ''Nikita'' snaps and does this to a policeman with a pencil.
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* ''[[Blood Simple]]'': Abby nails someone's hand to a windowsill with a steak knife.
* ''The General'': Martin Cahill believes one of his associates betrayed him, so he has someone nail his hands to a pool table.
* Used to great effect in remake of ''[[The Crazies]]''. The victim even manages to kill his attacker, while the knife is * still* impaling his hand.
* In the film ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'', the main characters are in basic training, learning how to throw knives. One cadet asks Sergeant Zim why throwing knives is important in an age when pressing a button can unleash nuclear weapons with far more power. Zim orders him to lay his hand against a wall, and throws a knife through his palm, pinning it. He explains (while the cadet moans painfully in the background) that by disabling a hand, you can prevent that button from being pressed.
* In ''[[Hellraiser III Hell On Earth]]'', Pinhead pulls two nails from his head and shoves them through the palms of his hands, deliberately mocking the resultant crucifixion imagery to freak out Joey.
* In ''[[Return of the Living Dead]] 3'', Julie shoves a shard of glass into her hand to drown out the pain of her [[Horror Hunger]].
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* In the film ''[[Total Eclipse]]'', which is based on the [[Masochism Tango|dysfunctional relationship]] between poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud stabs Verlaine's palm with a knife. Verlaine later returns the favor with a bullet.
* The titular protagonist of ''[[El Mariachi]]'' is shot through the hand by his lover's vengeful ex, preventing him from ever playing guitar again. {{spoiler|El Mariachi responds by shooting the man through the chest}}.
* Happens in a fight in [[Young Guns]] 2, and Chavez y Chavez, Lou Diamond Phillips' character, gets stabbed in the hand with a knife. He then proceeds to knock the fuck out of the guy who stabbed him, one of the other young guns, and casually asks if the fight is over and offers the knife back. By pulling it out.
* Ripley does this to herself in ''[[Alien|Alien: Resurrection]]'' to demonstrate her inhuman nature.
* When a sudden eye grows out of protagonist's palm in ''[[The Gate]]'', he promptly stabs it with a knife. Oh, and he's just a kid.
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** In ''[[Thinner]]'', the main character is shot through the hand by a gypsy girl with a slingshot. The resultant hole is later drained into a pie in order to pass on his curse.
** In ''[[The Dark Half]]'', Thad stabs himself through the hand with a pencil [[It Makes Sense in Context|while possessed by the spirit of his own dead pseudonym]].
* In ''[[
** Also used in ''[[
* In the fourth ''[[Dresden Files]]'' novel, Harry gets a letter opener driven through his hand by the Winter Queen. Here it definitely demonstrates the stabber's badassery, not the victim's.
* Jack Shandy does this to himself, ''twice'' in 'On Stranger Tides' as part of the voodoo magic needed to take Blackbeard down. He essentially wields a sword with a spike in the hilt that goes through his hand, because it needs to be touching his blood to cancel out the bad mojo that Blackbeard is using.
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* In one episode of ''[[Angel]]'', Holtz does this to a new recruit as a test of loyalty.
** Angel also saved somebody from being killed by an arrow by catching it through his palm in "War Zone".
* In an episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'', Colonel Blake gets a syringe through the palm courtesy of an uncooperative patient.
* Happens to Ducky in ''[[NCIS]]''. He's a little miffed as a doctor but since he specializes in forensics, he says he will be fine.
* In ''[[Rizzoli and Isles|Rizzoli & Isles]]'' Rizzoli bears the scars from being stabbed through both her palms by a serial killer.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Scrubs]]'' : Dr. Cox' brother-in-law is introduced after he's nailed a piece of wood to his hand with a nail gun. He doesn't seem to care too much about it (because he's been shot full of painkillers). JD, however, immediately faints.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', Von
** Violetta tried to sneak up to Lucrezia controlling Agatha's body, and was [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191011 stabbed]<sup>spoilers!</sup> for her trouble. [[Offhand Backhand|Without looking]], at that.
* Happens to ''[[Bob the Angry Flower]]'' {{spoiler|repeatedly}} during the Foment storyline.
* Invoked twice in the same [[Sluggy Freelance]] [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/061107 strip] to different characters.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* On ''Futurama'', Fry nails his hand to a sign. A "No employee accidents in x days" sign.
* In one of the first episodes of the [[
== Other Media ==▼
* One of the many versions of [[Pick a Card]] [[Penn & Teller]] did had a blindfolded Penn ready to stab a card on the table while Teller spreads them out and shuffles them around. Naturally, he stabs down before Teller's finished, driving the blade right through Teller's hand
== [[Real Life]] ==
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** Or people would be tied with rope around the wrists.
** Unless the feet were nailed the right way to support the weight of the body.
*** The feet are not supposed to support the body, the whole point of crucifixion is that the person hangs by their arms, making it so they
▲== Other ==
▲* One of the many versions of [[Pick a Card]] [[Penn & Teller]] did had a blindfolded Penn ready to stab a card on the table while Teller spreads them out and shuffles them around. Naturally, he stabs down before Teller's finished, driving the blade right through Teller's hand-- and impaling the Three of Clubs on the blade.
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[[Category:Injury Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Impaled Palm]]
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