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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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* 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 [[Uncancelled]] [[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!
== 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
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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:Impaled Palm]]
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