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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Zoe''': Preacher, don't [[The Bible]] have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?<br />
'''Book''': [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|Quite specific.]] It is, however, somewhat [[Technical Pacifist|fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.]]|''[[
{{quote|''[[Memetic Mutation|I used to be an adventurer, like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee.]]''|'''Guards''', ''[[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim]]''}}
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In real life, it is often not the kneecap itself that is the target of these attacks, as opposed to the joint and tissue beneath it. A piece of [[Common Knowledge]] is that kneecaps don't repair when broken/shattered. They do when treated properly, it just takes a very long time.
A sub-trope of [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]]. Compare [[Agony of the Feet]] for other mobility hampering injuries, and [[An Arm and
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Chinatsu from ''[[Jormungand]]'' brings us a particularly zealous example: When she's not gunning people down as part of her hitman duties, she apparently likes to build complex mechanical torture devices... including one designed to shoot a bound captive in the knee. In the same spot. ''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|27 times]]''.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', [[The Chick|Kaoru]] ends up fighting [[Villainous Crossdresser|Kamatari]] in a one-on-one matchup after Misao is taken out. Her final move (after her bokken and Kamatari's scythe are both broken) is to break Kamatari's kneecap with the handle of her wooden sword.
== Card Games ==
* The ''[[Munchkin (
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== Fanfiction ==
* In the ''[[
== Film ==
* In ''[[
* There's an ''ensemble'' knee-capping scene in ''[[Terminator 2]]''. The Terminator has promised John Connor he won't kill anyone. But they still need to get into heavily guarded areas, so he starts shooting people in the knee instead.
* The protagonist of ''[[Nobody Will Speak Of Us When Were Dead]]'' gets her knee corkscrewed during a torture scene.
* ''[[
* ''[[Die Hard With a Vengeance]]'': "[[Not
* A new and unusually intelligent mook looking to join [[Big Bad|Bucho's]] drug gang in ''[[Desperado]]'' gets put into [[Initiation Ceremony]] that consists of having to win a savage fight against an [[Threshold Guardian|established member]] of the cartel. He gets his knee cap completely smashed during the fight, (prompting Bucho to quip "He'll never dance again") but manages to win and earn a spot anyway. For the rest of the movie he wears a crude brace by his knee and has issues moving around.
* Referenced in [[Reservoir Dogs]], where Mr White tells Mr Orange that his gut wound is the second most painful place to be shot after the kneecap.
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== Literature ==
* In one of the [[Raymond Chandler]] short stories, the protagonist stops one of the crooks from escaping by shooting in the most painful spot he could think of that wouldn't kill him: the back of the knee.
* In Todd Strasser's book ''[[Give a Boy
* In [[The Dresden Files|''Death Masks'']], [[Anti-Hero|Harry]] favors this method when dealing with a [[Smug Snake]] of a Denarian.
* In ''[[Stardoc|Blade Dancer]]'', this has ''already'' happened a few times to Jory, over the course of her [[Blood Sport|shockball career]], by the time the story begins. {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|And then]], it happens a few ''more'' times. By the last chapter, the [[An Arm and
* Tywin Lannister from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' issues this as punishment to deserters.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[24
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[Carnivale]]'', Jonesy's limp is the result of being kneecapped by mobsters when he refused to [[Throwing the Fight|take a dive]].
* ''[[
** Darla threatens to do this to Buffy in the episode "Angel":
{{quote| '''Darla''': So many body parts, so few bullets. Let's begin with the kneecaps. No fun dancing without them.}}
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== Videogames ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', this is the general modus operandi of the [[Everything's Better
* In the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series, the player can kneecap the infected/infested/zombies/abominations to pull off kicks and tricks against the enemy although kneecapping is also arguably justified when fighting zombies. This is especially useful in [[Resident Evil 4]] where Leon (and Ashley) can suplex the infested after a kneecap shot.
* ''[[Carn Evil]]'' specifically models damage to the kneecaps, with a successful blowout treated as a kill. Oddly, shooting one kneecap will visibly and gruesomely damage both of them simultaneously.
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** Also, throughout the series aiming at a leg has always been a viable strategy.
* Renegade!Shepard threatens this near the beginning of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' to get Fist to tell him/her where Tali is.
* The Scout in ''[[
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[The Beast Legion]]'' : In issue 4, [http://www.thebeastlegion.com/issue-04-page-44gorgoraths-final-wish/ Dragos intentionally breaks Xeus' knee after defeating him so that he cannot escape].
* In ''[[
* In a March 2011 ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' there's a distant flashback that shows Jin, before she became part of the Chimera, being shot through the back of the knee with an arrow. [[Squick]].
** It gets worse on the next page where her feet/ankles are knifed.
* ''[[
* {{spoiler|Gamzee}} in [[
== Web Original ==
* In the deleted scenes montage in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
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