Slashed Throat: Difference between revisions

[[File:stuntslit_115stuntslit 115.gif|link=Dominic Deegan|frame]]

This [[Death Tropes|Death Trope]] is one of the classic ways to kill someone in media. Take a knife, a straight razor, or some other nasty edged weapon and draw it across your victim's throat. In a lot of media, this is generally instant death, but in more realistic works, it is generally quite slow (unless the carotid arteries are all severed, in which case the target passes out after a few seconds due to lack of oxygenated blood to the brain--thoughbrain—though it takes a certain amount of expertise to land such a strike) and VERY messy to boot, particularly if the carotid artery or the jugular vein are severed, though of course this depends on the work. Not to mention the victim usually drowns in their own blood before passing out. Naturally, [[Knife Nut|Knife Nuts]]s are particularly fond of this method.

* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]: The Second Raid,'' this was one of the bloodier killing methods, done by [[Creepy Twins|Creepy Twin]] Yu Lan to a guard. It is done to an Arm Slave at one point too.

* V, in the [[V for Vendetta]] movie, just ''can't get enough'' of this.

* The giant in the fairy tale of [[Hop O -o'-My -Thumb]] kills his daughters this way.

* During the climax of the [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] novel ''Dark Disciple'' by Anthony Reynolds, {{spoiler|[[Death by Sex|Slaaneshi Daemonettes]] attack the prisoners and owners of a Dark Eldar skiff using their crab-like claws to slice their victims throats. [[Squick|The victims writhe on the ground in orgasmic ecstasy as they bleed out.]]}}

** One episode involved the murderer using the Marine sentry removal technique (described in The Five Fingers example above) to kill the victim...while she was [[Out with a Bang|having sex with him.]]

* On ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''

* In ''[[Dexter]]''

** The demon "Meg" does this in season 1 on screen while hitchhiking

* It's possible to do this in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''. It's not possible to see it in the console version, since the third-person camera view obscures the sight, but it sounds pretty messy.

* Quite a few [[Stealth Based Game|Stealth Based Games]]s allow you to do this to some unsuspecting [[Mook|Mooks]]s. The first ''[[Hitman]]'' game does not encourage such, however, because slashed throats leave a lot of blood behind in comparison to the Fiber Wire that a true Silent Assassin uses for close-up killing. (Later Hitman games, however, don't take this into account and a throat-slit is treated as an effective stealth kill.)

* It is far too easy to accidentally do this in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''. In the first two ''Metal Gear Solid'' games the player could hold a guard in place by just holding the grab button. In the third game, [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!|attempting to do this causes Snake to slit the guard's throat.]]

* This is how [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy4BdOVsZI GDI collaborator Hassan is executed] in ''[[Command and& Conquer]]: Tiberian Sun''.

* B.B. Hood's ''standard throw'' is this in ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' and ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]''.

* The magazine ad for the first ''[[Tenchu]]'' game is an image of main character Rikkimaru shown through a narrow slit, which it's caption states is the view seen from some poor guard's vocal cords.

[[Category:Slashed Throat{{PAGENAME}}]]