Neck Snap: Difference between revisions

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Next to "[[Off with His Head]]", snapping a person's neck is one of the surest ways to kill someone in media.

 

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* Kirika snaps a man's neck using his own tie and a fall down an elevator shaft in the first episode of ''[[Noir (anime)|Noir]]''.

* Balalaika, in a truly ruthless and [[Badass]] moment from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', snaps the neck of {{spoiler|the leader of the Washimine group}} in one of the final episodes of the anime.

 

== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5659751/1/Knightfall_The_Movie Knightfall: The Movie]'', Bane does this to a guard at Arkham, by wrapping his arms around the guy's head and neck, and twisting, similar to Jason Voorhees in ''[[Friday the 13th (film)]]''.

* In ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2953859/1/Metal_Gear_Solid_Fight_of_Metal_Gears_2 Metal Gear Solid: Fight of Metal Gears 2]'', Jake Snake breaks one bad guy's neck and arm and [[Grievous Harm with a Body|throws them at another]] before snapping off his head.

* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', Tristan can break necks ''with his mind''.

 

== Films -- Animation ==

* Prince Xizor does this to a would-be assassin in ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]''.

* Near the end of ''[[The First Law|The Last Argument of Kings]]'', {{spoiler|Frost}} does this to a maimed and tearful {{spoiler|Severard. Both turn out to have been informing on Glokta, though he at first didn't realize that Frost was a traitor, too, and was seemingly going to let Severard live. Then the epiphany hits, and Frost silences Severard before going for Glokta.}}

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[Man Eaters of Zamboula|Shadows in Zamboula]]" Baal-pteor offers [[Human Sacrifice]] like this, to save [[The Power of Blood|blood]] for the god; he has killed hundreds.

* [[George R. R. Martin]]'s Haviland Tuf short story "A Beast for Norn". During a fight between a strangling ape and an ironfang, the ape kills the ironfang by breaking its neck.

* In the final duel between Corwin and Strygldwyr in [[Book of Amber|The Guns of Avalon]] the combatants end up grappling, and each tries to do this to the other. Corwin succeeds, if only barely.

* In ''[[The War of the Ancients]]'' novel trilogy, [[The Dragon|Archimonde]] kills {{spoiler|Malorne}} this way, who was trying to protect his son {{spoiler|Cenarius}}. Subverted in that it still took considerable effort, despite Archimonde being a giant demon. {{spoiler|Malorne}} was no pushover either.

* Appears and is discussed in ''Term Limits''. After a Senator gets his neck broken by an assassin, a soldier comments that the one time he tried to do that in the field, he failed miserably and had to cut the man's throat instead. The fact that people with the strength and skill needed to break a man's neck with one's bare hands is so rare helps point to the discovery that the killers were {{spoiler|ex-US Special Forces}}.

* In the [[Noughts and Crosses]] series, {{spoiler|Jude, as general of the Liberation Militia,}} does this to a subordinate who has betrayed them. He does this one handed, by jerking her upwards while he was standing behind her chair and she was turning to look up at him. He is a fit, strong man, the attack came totally by surprise, and one might suspect that her neck might be less muscled and more fragile than the normal victims of this trope, so it's difficult to tell how realistic this example is.

** Earlier in the same volume, Peter does this to Sylar. With '''[[Super Strength|one hand.]]''' (He [[Unexplained Recovery|gets better]] though.)

* Duncan uses this in a ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' ep to mercy kill a suffering friend at the Andersonville prison camp.

** Number Six does this to a Caprican baby in the opening few minutes of the pilot by reaching into the stroller and twisting when the mother isn't looking. Justified in that babies' necks are ridiculously easy to break.

** Appears to be the preferred unarmed killing technique of Cylons. Of course they are stronger than humans. Examples include Caprica killing Boomer when the latter threatened Hera, Gina killing the guard outside her cell, and Boomer killing a Simon in the [[Grand Finale]].

 

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