Man Bites Man: Difference between revisions

* Invoked in the first ''[[Hellsing]]'' anime, after Alucard shoots off Anderson's arms but Anderson still charges at him, prompting Alucard to taunt him: "Are you gonna bite me next?" Anderson decides to retreat with dignity after hearing this (from a vampire, no less).

** Seras Victoria later bites off half of Zorin Blitz's hand while being punched in the face by her.

* In ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'', Index bites anyone who irritates her. Usually Toma.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'' [[Filler Arc]] Little East Blue, Yoko uses biting as her way to attack.

* In ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'', Shijima occasionally bites people in combat.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''Welcome To Hoxford'': [[Ax Crazy]] killer Ray Delgado of the horror comic has a strange fixation with biting, though notably he isn't a cannibal. In addition to being superhumanly strong, he uses this trope to great effect thorughout the story, chomping down on both his fellow inmates and the [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolves]] that run the Hoxford prison. When one of the transformed guards enters his cell, he smiles … and then by [[Nightmare Fuel|tears out its tongue with his teeth.]]

* In ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', Jesse breaks free of a headlock by biting out a chunk of the holder's arm. Later, Jesse gets one of his eyes bitten out {{spoiler|by God.}}

* In ''[[The Walking Dead]]'', Michonne bites off the governor's ear, and later bites him the neck. Later, Rick rips out a bandit's throat with his teeth. Much later, [[Non-Action Guy|Eugene]] tops them both by biting a Neganist in the dick.

== Film ==

* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'': Shortly after he is crucified upon the Tree of Woe, Conan is pecked at by a vulture and bites into the animal's neck, killing it. This scene was also borrowed from the original story "A Witch Shall Be Born." (They swapped in a dead vulture for the live one when filming this scene, and [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] actually bit into its neck. He had his mouth washed out immediately after to protect him from disease.)

{{quote| "Still, could be worse -- my nose could be gushing blood!"}}

* In ''[[The Bone Collector]]'', Denzel Washington finishes off the killer this way. A [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] since Denzel's character was paralyzed from the neck down.

* In ''[[Dirty Work]]'', Chris Farley plays a man whose nose was bitten off by a Vietnamese whore.

* In ''[[From Beyond]]'', the heroine chews off one of her monster boyfriend's tentacles.

{{quote| [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Now he knows! Now he knows!"]]}}

* In ''[[Kill Bill]]'', the Bride's first kill upon getting out of her four-year coma was a trucker who tried to rape her, whose tongue she ripped out with her teeth.

* Much like ''[[The Bone Collector]]'' example above, the killer monkey in ''Monkey Shines'' is chomped to death by a quadraplegic.

* In ''[[Die Hard 2]]'', John McClane bites the hand of a terrorist.

* In ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'', Mellish is forced to bite the German he's fighting (it briefly stops him, but then the Nazi gets the upper hand and a knife).

* In a rare villainous example, Hannibal Lecter bites a guard on the face in ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]].''

** It's mentioned in the novel that he'd previously done this to a nurse who was administering a medical test, which cost her an eye and most of her face. Why do you think they put that mask on him?

* One of the characters in ''[[Enter the Dragon]]'' bites down while in a leg lock, forcing his opponent to let go. See the [[Bruce Lee]] quote in the Real Life section.

* Sarah rips out a crawler's throat with her teeth near the end of ''[[The Descent (Film)|The Descent]].''

== Live Action TV ==

* In the rebooted ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', a rape is averted when the intended victim bites off her attacker's ear.

* [[Kamen Rider Amazon]] regularly bit the shit out of his foes. Along with the gore, this was likely one reason [[Moral Guardians]] complained; a bite to the neck is a heck of a lot easier for kids to imitate than a Rider Kick.

* [[Buffy|Cordelia]] once held off a vampire by sinking her teeth into his arm.

* [[Solomon Kane]] is not above ripping an opponent's throat out with his teeth when necessary.

* One of Norm's favorite attacks, and apparently also erotic for him, in ''[[Rose Madder]]''.

 

 

 

== Web Original ==

* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' v1, Cody Jenson kills Madelaine Shirohara this way after raping her, ripping out her throat with his teeth.

 

* The infamous "Bite Seen 'Round The World" during the 1997 Mike Tyson/Evander Holyfield match, where Tyson got disqualified for biting Holyfield's ears, one bite being severe enough to rip off a piece of his right ear. The incident in question did not help Tyson's image at all, and made him look like even more of a savage.

* A woman in South Africa bites off her rapist's tongue and hands it to police as evidence.

* Biting incidents also crop up in child care settings.

* [[Bruce Lee]] once said [[Combat Pragmatist|he wouldn't be above biting someone in a fight if he believed it was necessary]].