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Monster trying to get its teeth into you? Here's an unusual solution; force the creature's jaws apart until they break.
Oddly, this is almost always portrayed as causing instantaneous death (in which case it's usually taken to be a [[Rule of Cool|"cooler"]] version of a [[Neck Snap]]), when it should leave them alive but in crotch-stompingly horrible pain.
For some reason, [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Reptilian monsters]] are especially prone to this.
A [[Bloodier and Gorier|nastier variant]] is to simply tear the jaw off altogether.
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== [[Comic Books]] == ▼
* In ''[[52]]'', after {{spoiler|Sobek}}'s [[Eldritch Abomination|true colors]] are revealed, Black Adam finishes him off this way.
* Pictured above: in an issue of ''[[The Walking Dead]]'', upon being tackled by a zombie, Martinez ''sticks his hand in its mouth and breaks its jaw before it can bite his fingers''. Okay he had gloves on, [[Badass|but still.]]
* In ''[[Secret Six]]'', Jeanette breaks King Shark's jaw this way. Somewhat subverted, as this doesn't kill him, but it obviously leaves him in excruciating pain.
* Thragg does this to Dinosaurus in an issue of ''[[Invincible]]'', but he lives.
== Film ==
* [[King Kong
▲* [[King Kong|King Kong's]] signature move. He does it to dinosaurs and giant snakes in the 30s version, the 70s version, the 00s version and the video game based on it.
▲* Mecha-Godzilla does this to Anguirus in ''Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla.'' He lives, though.
* Derek kills a man in a disturbing scene in ''[[American History X]]'' with a curb stomp.
* One of the deaths in ''[[Mirrors]]''.
* Yoko in ''[[The Grudge]]'' suffers this, as does Kanna in ''[[
* The "reverse beartrap" in ''[[Saw]]''.
== Literature == ▼
* In ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', Iorek tears his rival's jaw off. Symbolic, because the other was a liar.
* Samson does this to a lion in [[The Bible]].
== Video Games ==
* This is one possible [[Finishing Move|execution animation]] for Ork Nobz in ''[[Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine|Warhammer 40000 Space Marine]]''; [[Agony of the Feet|pin their foot with your Power Axe]] and then break that jaw for the Emperor.
▲* This is one possible [[Finishing Move|execution animation]] for Ork Nobz in ''[[Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine|Warhammer 40000 Space Marine]]''; [[Agony of the Feet|pin their foot with your Power Axe]] and then break that jaw for the Emperor.
** And [[Super Soldier|Titus]] does it with so much force that it makes the Nob'z head ''[[Your Head Asplode|explode]]''.
* In ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'', Kratos finishes Cerberus this way, in order to steal the artifact held within its mouth.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': Doc does it to a zombie. Since it was undead, it doesn't really kill the thing, but it does prevent it from biting him.
** He doesn't stop with just removing the jaw, though. He proceeds to ''punch through it's spinal column'', which is the part that kills it.
* Part 4 of ''[[Left 4 Dead|The Sacrifice]]'' has one of Bill's surgeons turn just as he's getting anesthetics.{{context|reason=Are you sure he was given a drug that made him not like nice things?}} The ensuing struggle between her and the doctor has him tear her jaw off before she kills him and moves on to Bill.
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