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== Literature ==
* Neville's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in ''[[Harry Potter and
** Let's not forget Nearly Headless Nick. He's decapitated, but his head stays attached to his body by a narrow strip of remaining flesh and remains that way in his ghostly form. There are also properly decapitated ghosts that can throw their heads around at will.
* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Barrayar]]'', the heroine not only orders the decapitation of the enemy leader, she brings the head back to her base as evidence. In a ''shopping bag''. The woman has style.
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** "Withdrawn": A bank robber (obviously based on Brian Wells) wears a C4 bomb collar around his neck to convince the tellers and cops that he was being forced to commit the heist. When one freaked-out teller deactivates her car alarm to get away from the madness, she unknowingly activates the collar's remote blast cap (which was on the same frequency as her alarm remote), causing it to explode and take the robber's head clean off. Well, not exactly clean, but you get the picture...
* The Immortals from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' can only be killed by decapitation.
* ''[[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]]'': In "Death Defying Feats", a magician's assistant is decapitated when the killer sabotages the prop guillotine being used in the act, turning it into a [[Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon]].
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* In the ''[[Draconia Chronicles]]'' web comic, this is how {{spoiler|Gaia}} is killed.
* ''[[Axe Cop]]'' [[Catch Phrase|will chop your head off]]!
* Demonstrated [https://web.archive.org/web/20121019103412/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/4806540/ here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20121019103434/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/4820482/ here] in ''[[The KAMics]]''
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', this was how {{spoiler|the Black King, the White King, the Draconian Dignitary (by Dave), the Aimless Renegade, and the Hegemonic Brute (twice)}} were killed.
* In ''[[Erstwhile]]'', the bride orders this for Maid Maleen. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131004060700/http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-34/#.T2-Bhdm6SuI And gets it herself.]
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* Another [[Formula One]] death happened this way. Tom Pryce struck a track marshal who had foolishly run onto the race course to extinguish a minor fire on the other side of the track. Pryce hit the man at full racing speed, the impact ripping him in two. The fire extinguisher the marshal had been carrying entered the cockpit of Pryce's car and struck his helmet, ripping it up and out of the car. The helmet's strap partially decapitated Pryce and his now driverless car careened down the track before hitting another car and coming to a stop. There is footage of the incident on [[YouTube]] and various other video sites, but in the interest of good taste this troper decided not to provide any links.
* Although the stories about decapitated bodies walking on their own may be the stuff of legend, during the guillotine era it was scientifically confirmed that the heads can retain consciousness for several minutes after being removed, as a doctor reportedly was able to communicate with a removed head for several minutes, with the soon-to-be-dead man's eyes actually focusing on him. This was featured in ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]''{{'}}s case "Miss-ur Head" (its alternative title being exactly the same as this trope).
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* The brutal social/political scandal known in Chile as [[wikipedia:Caso Degollados|"caso degollados"]] ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"case of the slit throats"]]). In 1985, three well-known professionals affiliated with the opposition to [[General Ripper|Pinochet's]] dictatorship (artist Santiago Nattino, teacher's union leader Manuel Guerrero and sociologist/activist Jose Parada—also the son of a famous stage actor ''and'' father of a then very well-known child actress) were kidnapped by a national police agency, and the day after that their lifeless, torture-marked bodies were found semi-decapitated.
* Similarly to Vic Morrow, film director [[wikipedia:Boris Sagal|Boris Sagal]] (father of actress [[Married... with Children|Katey]] [[Futurama|Sagal]] died via being decapitated by the tail rotor blades of a stunt helicopter.
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