Impaled Palm: Difference between revisions

Related to [[Fingore]].

* 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.

* 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.

* In the ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force (Manga)|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 wrist -- ouchwrist—ouch). However, thanks to her crazy [[Healing Factor]], she doesn't even wince.

* In ''[[D .Gray Man-man]]'', Miranda Lotto gets her hands nailed to a clock by the sadistic Road Kamelot.

* In [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya]], {{spoiler|Asakura}} stabs {{spoiler|Kyon}} in the chest ''through'' {{spoiler|his}} hands.

* Bullseye gets a taste of his medicine and then some, when [[Daredevil]] [[Gorn|pushes his hands into the path of a]] [[Bullet Time|bullet]]. While [[Bloodstained -Glass Windows|fighting in a church]]. [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|There is no symbolism or anything.]]

* [[Arkham Asylum: aA Serious House Onon 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.

* 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.

** And Bullseye again, seeing as this scene is derived from the Comic books example up top.

* ''[[From Dusk Tilltill Dawn]]'': [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s character gets a bullet through his palm. In one scene, he looks through it at his brother.

* 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 (Filmfilm)|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.

* Solozzo did this to Luca Brasi in the movie version of ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' to prevent him reaching for his gun. This is, of course, pure [[Rule of Scary]]: in the book Solozzo simply held Brasi's arm.

* 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.

* When a sudden eye grows out of protagonist's palm in ''[[The Gate (Film)|The Gate]]'', he promptly stabs it with a knife. Oh, and he's just a kid.

* Among the more disturbing images in [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''[[Persona (Filmfilm)|Persona]]'' is a hand being nailed to something.

* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'', Carrot deliberately sticks his hand in the path of a villain's silver-tipped crossbow bolt to shield Angua, a werewolf for whom even a superficial wound would've been toxic.

** Also used in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Truth|The Truth]]'', when William's hand gets impaled by The Spike during the struggle with Mr. Pin. {{spoiler|This backfires on Pin when William frantically smacks at his attacker, and "spikes" him in the neck!}}

* In one episode of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', Holtz does this to a new recruit as a test of loyalty.

* In an episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (TVtelevision)|Mash]]'', Colonel Blake gets a syringe through the palm courtesy of an uncooperative patient.

* Happens to Ducky in ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]''. He's a little miffed as a doctor but since he specializes in forensics, he says he will be fine.

* At the tail end of one ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' episode, Col. O'Neill interrupts Heru'ur's attempted [[Hand Blast]] by throwing a combat knife through said villain's hand.

* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', Von PinPinn [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040903 does this purposely] to catch Bang's sword. Since she's a metal-reinforced construct, this injury isn't crippling for her.

* In one of the first episodes of the [[Un CancelledUncancelled]] [[Beavis and Butthead]], [[The Ditz|Beavis]] accidentally screws a screw into his hand when trying to screw it into the butt of one of Stewart's action figures. Then Butthead tries to unscrew it, but ends up [[Too Dumb to Live|screwing it into Beavis' OTHER hand]]. After the screw is removed (and Beavis overdoses on painkiller pills) he's mistaken by a cult for the reincarnation of their leader - and he's [[Split Personality|Cornholio]], to boot!

*** 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 cantcan't breathbreathe easily, and eventually suffocate. alsoAlso, their legs are nailed to the side of the cross.