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** In the middle of UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks, MoralGuardians made the mistake of forbidding DC's Spirit of Vengeance, from killing anyone, but failed to define "killing". Cue BodyHorror, AndIMustScream, TakenForGranite, and the like, as the Spectre began inflicting "nonlethal" transformations on his prey -- though any normal person would consider the results either death, or in some cases a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' has Griffin, the Invisible Man. He gets beaten, and then ''raped'' to death by Mr. Hyde. When he dies he becomes visible, but we only see the contents of one room (and Hyde) covered in blood. Resident BloodKnight Captain Nemo sees what Hyde has done, and is ''disgusted'' by it and wants to execute Hyde for his crime.
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* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' has ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': Griffin, the Invisible Man. He gets beaten, and then ''raped'' to death by Mr. Hyde. When he dies he becomes visible, but we only see the contents of one room (and Hyde) covered in blood. Resident BloodKnight Captain Nemo sees what Hyde has done, and is ''disgusted'' by it and wants to execute Hyde for his crime.
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* [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]] has a penchant for this. Being a Sociopathic AntiHero BountyHunter and a HairTriggerTemper {{Jerkass}} who lives and works across several examples of {{Wretched Hiv|e}}es and {{Crapsack Worl|d}}ds ...InSpace in plots and arcs overloaded with BlackComedy. To the point his fighting style (...or his way to solve ''any'' kind of conflict, for that matter) is precisely '''this same''' trope in spades.
* Deena Pilgrim in ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' gets hits with Cruel and Unusual ''Deaths'' when she goes to confront the now-totally-batshit-insane nearly-omnipotent CaptainErsatz of Superman and Captain Marvel called Supershock. First, he strips her naked and flies her into orbit, exposing her to hard vacuum. He then uses his powers to protect her from the vacuum, but kills her with a heart attack. He brings her back to life, then kills her again with another heart attack. He brings her back to life a second time, and kills her with another heart attack. He then brings her back to life a ''third'' time, and because he's a sadistic prick, keeps her alive while ''physically removing her heart from her chest'' and letting her see him hold it.
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* Deena Pilgrim in ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' gets hits with Cruel and Unusual ''Deaths'' when she goes to confront the now-totally-batshit-insane nearly-omnipotent CaptainErsatz of Superman and Captain Marvel called Supershock. First, he strips her naked and flies her into orbit, exposing her to hard vacuum. He then uses his powers to protect her from the vacuum, but kills her with a heart attack. He brings her back to life, then kills her again with another heart attack. He brings her back to life a second time, and kills her with another heart attack. He then brings her back to life a ''third'' time, and because he's a sadistic prick, keeps her alive while ''physically removing her heart from her chest'' and letting her see him hold it.
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* [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]] ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'': Lobo has a penchant for this. Being a Sociopathic AntiHero BountyHunter and a HairTriggerTemper {{Jerkass}} who lives and works across several examples of {{Wretched Hiv|e}}es and {{Crapsack Worl|d}}ds ...InSpace in plots and arcs overloaded with BlackComedy. To the point his fighting style (...or his way to solve ''any'' kind of conflict, for that matter) is precisely '''this same''' trope in spades.
* ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'': Deena Pilgrimin ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' gets hits with Cruel and Unusual ''Deaths'' when she goes to confront the now-totally-batshit-insane nearly-omnipotent CaptainErsatz of Superman and Captain Marvel called Supershock. First, he strips her naked and flies her into orbit, exposing her to hard vacuum. He then uses his powers to protect her from the vacuum, but kills her with a heart attack. He brings her back to life, then kills her again with another heart attack. He brings her back to life a second time, and kills her with another heart attack. He then brings her back to life a ''third'' time, and because he's a sadistic prick, keeps her alive while ''physically removing her heart from her chest'' and letting her see him hold it.
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** Slowly consumed from the inside by fat-eating worms (Vault of Horror #18)
** Being compacted into a ''bone paperweight and flesh spaghetti'' by an angry, supernaturally shrinking trunk (Tales From The Crypt #38)
** Being turned to flesh putty by an alien planet's extreme gravity (Shock Suspenstories #6)
** Getting force fed rats, and having your mouth sewn shut as the rats chew through your insides (Vault of Horror #27)
** Being stretched out to unnatural lengths on a bed converted to a rack (Haunt Of Fear #18)
** Being covered in honey and eaten alive by giant ants ( Crime SuspenStories #11)
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* ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'': Arcade [[EyeScream gets his eyes torn out]] -- and then is subsequently ran over by all of the [[ComicBook/GhostRider Spirits of Vengeance]] until he's reduced to a bloody smear.
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** In the Graphic Novel ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}'', how did the titular character react to a man insulting his club, eyeing his girl, and then insulting the Clown Prince himself? By [[Flaying Alive skinning him alive]].
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** In the Graphic Novel ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}'', how did the titular character react to a man insulting his club, eyeing his girl, and then insulting the Clown Prince himself? By [[Flaying Alive ''[[FlayingAlive skinning him alive]].alive]]''.
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** There were two rather cruel murders he committed in the Graphic Novel ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}''. The first involved skinning a man alive because he got on the Joker's bad side by insulting his club, eyeing his girl, and then insulting the Clown Prince himself. The second? He shoots a man in the head, while said man is sitting on the toilet. It might not be the most cruel death, but it's certainly embarrassing. Stay classy, Mr. J.
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* Comicbook/XTwentyThree was bred to be a TykeBomb master assassin, and she certainly lives up to her reputation -- Comicbook/CaptainAmerica spent years ''personally'' hunting her down after her first mission. Usually she's quick, clean and efficient. At least until her creator/mother had enough with the abuse the poor child had been subjected to and turned her loose on the project which created her. When X caught up with Zander Rice, the psychopathic lead scientist on one of her main tormentors, she went to work on him for ten minutes. ''With her bare hands.'' And damned if he didn't deserve every second.
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* Comicbook/{{X23}} Comicbook/XTwentyThree was bred to be a TykeBomb master assassin, and she certainly lives up to her reputation -- Comicbook/CaptainAmerica spent years ''personally'' hunting her down after her first mission. Usually she's quick, clean and efficient. At least until her creator/mother had enough with the abuse the poor child had been subjected to and turned her loose on the project which created her. When X caught up with Zander Rice, the psychopathic lead scientist on one of her main tormentors, she went to work on him for ten minutes. ''With her bare hands.'' And damned if he didn't deserve every second.
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* In Creator/GarthEnnis's ''The Ribbon Queen'', the titular antagonist kills her victims by [[FlayingAlive peeling their skin off one strip at a time until there is nothing left but skin and muscles]].
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* Comicbook/X23 Comicbook/{{X23}} was bred to be a TykeBomb master assassin, and she certainly lives up to her reputation -- Comicbook/CaptainAmerica spent years ''personally'' hunting her down after her first mission. Usually she's quick, clean and efficient. At least until her creator/mother had enough with the abuse the poor child had been subjected to and turned her loose on the project which created her. When X caught up with Zander Rice, the psychopathic lead scientist on one of her main tormentors, she went to work on him for ten minutes. ''With her bare hands.'' And damned if he didn't deserve every second.
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* Despite being the first time the topic was ever covered in a mainstream comic (albeit only in a non-canon story), ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman1961'' features very possibly the cruelest death Superman has ever endured. After being led to believe that Luthor has reformed when Luthor creates the CureForCancer, he gets lured into a DeathTrap where Luthor hits him with a full-strength Kryptonite ray to weaken him, then straps him to a table and leaves the ray on full blast until Superman finally succumbs to radiation poisoning. There's no noble sacrifice or heroic last stand: Superman, the most powerful and goodhearted hero in the world, dies in immense pain, completely helpless and crying out in agony, while his friends are ForcedToWatch. The fact that Luthor clearly enjoyed every moment of it means that when he goes on trial before the people of Kandor and promises to restore their city in exchange for some level of clemency, they throw him into the Phantom Zone without a second thought.
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* In ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'', Colonel Weird's girlfriend is messily torn apart when she tries to enter the [[EldritchLocation Para-Zone]] with him. Her skin is ripped right off her body and her organs seemingly phase out of her to go drifting off in all directions. [[spoiler:Black Hammer dies in the exact same way when he tries to cross the invisible boundary around the Farm, foreshadowing the much later reveal that the Farm is ''within'' the Para-Zone.]]
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* Ch'p, a ComicBook/GreenLantern who looked like a humanoid squirrel, died when he stepped onto a road and was hit by a truck. Just think about that for a second and you'll realize why it qualifies for this trope.
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** What he did to Jason Todd in ''A Death in the Family'' easily qualifies. He brutally bludgeons him with a crowbar then leaves him ''and'' his mother to die in an exploding warehouse.
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* ComicBook/TheSentry is a terrifyingly psychotic individual, as Ares [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/6/69895/1295214-sentry_kills_ares.jpg found out the hard way]] when the Sentry very literally tears him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in half]], reducing him to an explosion of bone, blood, and LudicrousGibs.
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* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': One comic establishes that Roadbuster, [[AnyoneCanDie one of the few survivors]] of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'', once got high on drugs, [[AndShowItToYou ripped out a Decepticon's spine and forced him to eat it]]. This was James Robert's attempt to clear up the NoodleIncident of "the Roadbuster Incident", and then ''ComicBook/TheTransformersSinsOfTheWreckers'' would go on to say that the real Roadbuster Incident was different and, somehow, ''worse''.
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* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': One comic establishes that Roadbuster, [[AnyoneCanDie one of the few survivors]] of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'', once got high on drugs, [[AndShowItToYou ripped out a Decepticon's spine and forced him to eat it]]. This was James Robert's attempt to clear up the NoodleIncident of "the Roadbuster Incident", and then ''ComicBook/TheTransformersSinsOfTheWreckers'' would go on to say that the real Roadbuster Incident was different and, somehow, ''worse''.
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*** His Joker Venom could qualify for this trope, too, considering what it does. First you just start laughing, and you can't stop no matter how hard you try. Then all the muscles in your body begin to seize up, especially in your face, causing you to grin. Then you start to take on the Joker's appearance, white skin, green hair and all. Then the muscle paralysis causes you to stop breathing. THEN you die. Oh, and if you're ''really'' 'lucky', he might [[FateWorseThanDeath merely dose you with the non-lethal version, which can cause not only insanity but puts you into a coma...]]
*** What he did to Alex Luthor. He ambushed him in a dark alley, sprayed him with acid that wound up melting ''half his goddamn face off'', shocked him with an electric joy-buzzer, and finally shot him dead as Lex insulted him for his myopia and lack of foresight in not allowing the Joker to join the Society in the first place. Oh, and Alex? [[AssholeVictim Deserved it.]]
*** What he did to Alex Luthor. He ambushed him in a dark alley, sprayed him with acid that wound up melting ''half his goddamn face off'', shocked him with an electric joy-buzzer, and finally shot him dead as Lex insulted him for his myopia and lack of foresight in not allowing the Joker to join the Society in the first place. Oh, and Alex? [[AssholeVictim Deserved it.]]
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* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': The Lords of the Avenue are used in an illegal drug trail by Strader Pharmaceuticals, and their bodies start slowly degrading. When Tim finds them in their death throes they look like their veins and skin are melting as they lie helpless and pleading in pools of blood.
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* A number of characters in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' are threatened with things like being roasted alive, crucifixion or ([[OncePerEpisode Once An Album]]) being flung to the lions of the circus. Justified as this is AncientRome we're talking about.
* ComicBook/BlackAdam pulls off a few of these during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and later during World War Three. These include:
** Tearing a character's face off with one hand (complete with pun about trying to save face).
** Grabbing [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Young Frankenstein's]] arms and tearing them both off simultaneously (which also qualifies as Narm for some).
** Punching a hole in Terra ala ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist''.
** Tearing Terraman in half at the pelvis.
** And flicking the president of Bialya under the chin hard enough to send him flying into the ceiling with enough force to liquefy his head.
** Psycho-Pirate's fate in "Infinite Crisis". "No more silly faces."
* ''{{ComicBook/Crossed}}'' is ''made'' of this trope. Anyone who falls afoul of the titular psychopathic monsters will die an unthinkably horrible death, usually after being raped and tortured for hours. Some of the non-Crossed characters also prove capable of murdering other survivors in brutally nasty ways.
* The Italian horror comic ''ComicBook/DylanDog'' gets really creative with this trope. Just to list some, Issue #21 has a man being inflated with gas until he explodes like a balloon, Issues #28 and #107 follow a [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]] expy "Pink Rabbit" who kills people in cartoon gag-inspired ways not too unlike ''ComicBook/TheMask'' comic, and both Issues #41 and #73 follow groups of surreal beings driven by BlueAndOrangeMorality that go around killing random citizens in creatively gruesome ways, which include violent mutilations, hanging, decapitation, skinning, melting and disembowelment.
* Lots and lots of Creator/ECComics stories (and other pre-UsefulNotes/ComicsCode horror comics, for that matter), often as KarmicDeath for good measure.
* In the ''ComicBook/ElfQuest: Shards'' storyline Two-Edge builds a particularly nasty execution device for the human tyrant Grohmul Djun. It consists of two large urns in the shape of birds with upraised beaks, between which the prisoner is strapped. The urns are slowly filled with water, the weight causing them to tip outward, putting greater and greater force on the prisoner's limbs until he is eventually torn in two.
* Ch'p, a ComicBook/GreenLantern who looked like a humanoid squirrel, died when he stepped onto a road and was hit by a truck. Just think about that for a second and you'll realize why it qualifies for this trope.
* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' {{Implied|Trope}}. We don’t see Lisa Elsten or Chris Krank body’s, due to them being under the covers, but they were killed by [[TortureTechnician Doctor Gross]], and there’s copious amounts of blood.
* ComicBook/TheJoker's had his fair share of dealing these types of deaths like... well, like playing cards. This may be because he has two main beliefs: 1. [[ForTheEvulz Do anything for the funny]]. 2. ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill.
** There were two rather cruel murders he committed in the Graphic Novel ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}''. The first involved skinning a man alive because he got on the Joker's bad side by insulting his club, eyeing his girl, and then insulting the Clown Prince himself. The second? He shoots a man in the head, while said man is sitting on the toilet. It might not be the most cruel death, but it's certainly embarrassing. Stay classy, Mr. J.
*** His Joker Venom could qualify for this trope, too, considering what it does. First you just start laughing, and you can't stop no matter how hard you try. Then all the muscles in your body begin to seize up, especially in your face, causing you to grin. Then you start to take on the Joker's appearance, white skin, green hair and all. Then the muscle paralysis causes you to stop breathing. THEN you die. Oh, and if you're ''really'' 'lucky', he might [[FateWorseThanDeath merely dose you with the non-lethal version, which can cause not only insanity but puts you into a coma...]]
*** What he did to Alex Luthor. He ambushed him in a dark alley, sprayed him with acid that wound up melting ''half his goddamn face off'', shocked him with an electric joy-buzzer, and finally shot him dead as Lex insulted him for his myopia and lack of foresight in not allowing the Joker to join the Society in the first place. Oh, and Alex? [[AssholeVictim Deserved it.]]
* The French comic ''ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}}'' has its share of graphic deaths and bloody scenes, but one of the most cruel and unusual is when [[BigBad Thanos]] forces [[FakeDefector Cixi]] to execute his brother Bascrean by ''boiling the man's blood inside his body'', leaving a charred, messy skeleton behind.
* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' has Griffin, the Invisible Man. He gets beaten, and then ''raped'' to death by Mr. Hyde. When he dies he becomes visible, but we only see the contents of one room (and Hyde) covered in blood. Resident BloodKnight Captain Nemo sees what Hyde has done, and is ''disgusted'' by it and wants to execute Hyde for his crime.
* ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'' runs on this trope.
* Deena Pilgrim in ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' gets hits with Cruel and Unusual ''Deaths'' when she goes to confront the now-totally-batshit-insane nearly-omnipotent CaptainErsatz of Superman and Captain Marvel called Supershock. First, he strips her naked and flies her into orbit, exposing her to hard vacuum. He then uses his powers to protect her from the vacuum, but kills her with a heart attack. He brings her back to life, then kills her again with another heart attack. He brings her back to life a second time, and kills her with another heart attack. He then brings her back to life a ''third'' time, and because he's a sadistic prick, keeps her alive while ''physically removing her heart from her chest'' and letting her see him hold it.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher''
** The Punisher has his share of brutal kills, but the one that takes the cake is actually his own RasputinianDeath in "[[ComicBook/DarkReign The List]]", he continues trying to stab Daken after -- in less than a half hour -- having being shot, hit with grenades, punched around, cut across the chest by Daken, broke a leg, getting his throat slashed, lost an arm and about 3 gallons of blood.
** Frank himself was probably at his most brutal in the "Slavers" arc in ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX''. With the AssholeVictims smuggling women into the US to be sex slaves, including an hours-long gang rape on each slave to start out, you don't really feel for them at all when Frank, among other punishments, throws a woman who oversaw this horror into shatterproof glass enough times that finally ''the frame bends enough'' for the pane to fall out and she plummets to her death. Or when Frank gets information from a slaver by disemboweling him and hanging his intestines from a tree ''while still attached''. The interrogation is implied to begin at sunrise which makes things worse when Frank casually mentions in the next issue that it took him until '''NOON''' to bleed out.
* ComicBook/TheSentry is a terrifyingly psychotic individual, as Ares [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/6/69895/1295214-sentry_kills_ares.jpg found out the hard way]] when the Sentry very literally tears him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in half]], reducing him to an explosion of bone, blood, and LudicrousGibs.
* In the middle of UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks, MoralGuardians made the mistake of forbidding ComicBook/TheSpectre, DC's Spirit of Vengeance, from killing anyone, but failed to define "killing". Cue BodyHorror, AndIMustScream, TakenForGranite, and the like, as the Spectre began inflicting "nonlethal" transformations on his prey -- though any normal person would consider the results either death, or in some cases a FateWorseThanDeath.
** To punish Doctor Light, the Spectre transformed him into a candle, with his head as the wick and his body made of wax. The results were obvious after a while. At other times, he transformed a criminal into wood, and chucked him into a grinder. A pedophile was brutally ripped apart by his collection of dolls. He once judged a country guilty (it had a long history of blood feuds and ethnic cleansings). His answer? Burn it to the ground, men, women, and children included, and [[CruelMercy leave the two top politicians alive, damning them to rule over the devastated land]]. He even threatened to do the same to the whole of the state of New York (a convicted criminal, who turned out to be innocent, was slated to be executed; this would mean '''the people of the State of New York''' would be guilty of homicide by the Spectre's book).
** This was always the Spectre's specialty; some classic stories feature, in no particular order: being turned to glass and [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]], being turned into a mannequin and burned alive, melting as if made of wax, drowning in the clutches of a giant octopus; being cut in half by a giant pair of scissors (pictured above), being beheaded by a falling decorative sword, being sliced and diced by a spectral meat cleaver, aging to a pile of dust and simply being reduced to a skeleton in the blink of an eye while being center of attention on a crowded airplane.
* This is the modus operandi of Comicbook/StardustTheSuperWizard, a public domain Golden Age superhero, punishing AssholeVictims that deserve it. An example is in punishing a villain who tried to kill everyone in Washington D.C. by depriving them of oxygen, Stardust grew his head until his body was enveloped by it, flew with him very far into space, and threw him in the direction of a headless space giant that envelops heads where its neck should be.
* ''{{ComicBook/Uber}}'':
** The American superhuman Colossus tries to take on the German "living battleship" Sieglinde when the Nazis attack Paris. Colossus ambushes Sieglinde and at first seems to be winning against her, knocking her to the ground and strangling her... until she rips both of his arms off and uses her matter-disruption powers to twist his entire body into a gory sculpture of pulped flesh and shattered bone. By the end, he's so mutilated it's almost impossible to tell he was once human. The worst thing of all? He's ''still alive''. His skull is so tough it takes five hours for the Allies to euthanize him with an industrial drill.
** In another scene, Hitler has another of his "battleships", the SociopathicSoldier Markus/Siegfried, burn off the face of a disobedient general. The man's death is depicted in loving detail. Similar deaths are suffered by thousands of ordinary soldiers who go up against the battleships.
** [[spoiler:Siegfried]] is put down this way in ''Invasion #7'', combined with DeathOfAThousandCuts. It takes the combined efforts of a team of SuperSpeed Zephyr Ubers to [[SlashedThroat slit his throat]], his disruption halo backfiring on him to blow up half of his face and the subsequent massive blood loss to finally do him in.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Hurricane is ''liquefied'' by Quicksilver.
* Overmastery in ''ComicBook/WhiteSand''. Sand Mastery dehydrates the user, and when you Master too much, magic reaches for all water reserves in your body, quite literally drying you out to death.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Queen Clea loves doling these out, though her attempt to creatively kill Diana and Steve doesn't work out. She has Diana encased in molten metal while Steve is forced into the arena to be eaten by monsters with not but a small sword so that Di will have to hear Steve die as she suffocates. Things go sideways due to Diana being entirely unaffected by the heat and then breaking out of her restraints and Steve being far more competent with a blade than anyone expected.
* Comicbook/{{X 23}} was bred to be a TykeBomb master assassin, and she certainly lives up to her reputation -- Comicbook/CaptainAmerica spent years ''personally'' hunting her down after her first mission. Usually she's quick, clean and efficient. At least until her creator/mother had enough with the abuse the poor child had been subjected to and turned her loose on the project which created her. When X caught up with Zander Rice, the psychopathic lead scientist on one of her main tormentors, she went to work on him for ten minutes. ''With her bare hands.'' And damned if he didn't deserve every second.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** In ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', a lackey failed Magneto. He was unlucky to have an implanted pacemaker.
** And yet again Magneto: In the ''X-Men'' graphic novel ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills'', he catches a group of thugs who have just murdered two mutant children. He tells one of the thugs that there is enough iron in an average human being's blood to make a small nail... and then he shows them.
** A feat "repeated" by Magneto in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', the second ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' movie, with the death of prison guard Mitchell Laurio. Magneto arranged for Mystique to load Laurio's body with ''extra'' iron so he'd have enough to escape with.
** The mutant-hating CorruptChurch the Church of Humanity captured several young mutants, sometime after the Xavier Institute was closed, including Jubilee, Skin, Magma, Bedlam, and several unnamed victims, crucifying them on the lawn of the mansion simply to MakeAnExampleOfThem. (See the RealLife section of this trope for details on this horrid execution method.) Jubilee and Magma survived due to Archangel's healing abilities; the others weren't so lucky.
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* ComicBook/BlackAdam pulls off a few of these during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and later during World War Three. These include:
** Tearing a character's face off with one hand (complete with pun about trying to save face).
** Grabbing [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Young Frankenstein's]] arms and tearing them both off simultaneously (which also qualifies as Narm for some).
** Punching a hole in Terra ala ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist''.
** Tearing Terraman in half at the pelvis.
** And flicking the president of Bialya under the chin hard enough to send him flying into the ceiling with enough force to liquefy his head.
** Psycho-Pirate's fate in "Infinite Crisis". "No more silly faces."
* ''{{ComicBook/Crossed}}'' is ''made'' of this trope. Anyone who falls afoul of the titular psychopathic monsters will die an unthinkably horrible death, usually after being raped and tortured for hours. Some of the non-Crossed characters also prove capable of murdering other survivors in brutally nasty ways.
* The Italian horror comic ''ComicBook/DylanDog'' gets really creative with this trope. Just to list some, Issue #21 has a man being inflated with gas until he explodes like a balloon, Issues #28 and #107 follow a [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]] expy "Pink Rabbit" who kills people in cartoon gag-inspired ways not too unlike ''ComicBook/TheMask'' comic, and both Issues #41 and #73 follow groups of surreal beings driven by BlueAndOrangeMorality that go around killing random citizens in creatively gruesome ways, which include violent mutilations, hanging, decapitation, skinning, melting and disembowelment.
* Lots and lots of Creator/ECComics stories (and other pre-UsefulNotes/ComicsCode horror comics, for that matter), often as KarmicDeath for good measure.
* In the ''ComicBook/ElfQuest: Shards'' storyline Two-Edge builds a particularly nasty execution device for the human tyrant Grohmul Djun. It consists of two large urns in the shape of birds with upraised beaks, between which the prisoner is strapped. The urns are slowly filled with water, the weight causing them to tip outward, putting greater and greater force on the prisoner's limbs until he is eventually torn in two.
* Ch'p, a ComicBook/GreenLantern who looked like a humanoid squirrel, died when he stepped onto a road and was hit by a truck. Just think about that for a second and you'll realize why it qualifies for this trope.
* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' {{Implied|Trope}}. We don’t see Lisa Elsten or Chris Krank body’s, due to them being under the covers, but they were killed by [[TortureTechnician Doctor Gross]], and there’s copious amounts of blood.
* ComicBook/TheJoker's had his fair share of dealing these types of deaths like... well, like playing cards. This may be because he has two main beliefs: 1. [[ForTheEvulz Do anything for the funny]]. 2. ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill.
** There were two rather cruel murders he committed in the Graphic Novel ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}''. The first involved skinning a man alive because he got on the Joker's bad side by insulting his club, eyeing his girl, and then insulting the Clown Prince himself. The second? He shoots a man in the head, while said man is sitting on the toilet. It might not be the most cruel death, but it's certainly embarrassing. Stay classy, Mr. J.
*** His Joker Venom could qualify for this trope, too, considering what it does. First you just start laughing, and you can't stop no matter how hard you try. Then all the muscles in your body begin to seize up, especially in your face, causing you to grin. Then you start to take on the Joker's appearance, white skin, green hair and all. Then the muscle paralysis causes you to stop breathing. THEN you die. Oh, and if you're ''really'' 'lucky', he might [[FateWorseThanDeath merely dose you with the non-lethal version, which can cause not only insanity but puts you into a coma...]]
*** What he did to Alex Luthor. He ambushed him in a dark alley, sprayed him with acid that wound up melting ''half his goddamn face off'', shocked him with an electric joy-buzzer, and finally shot him dead as Lex insulted him for his myopia and lack of foresight in not allowing the Joker to join the Society in the first place. Oh, and Alex? [[AssholeVictim Deserved it.]]
* The French comic ''ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}}'' has its share of graphic deaths and bloody scenes, but one of the most cruel and unusual is when [[BigBad Thanos]] forces [[FakeDefector Cixi]] to execute his brother Bascrean by ''boiling the man's blood inside his body'', leaving a charred, messy skeleton behind.
* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' has Griffin, the Invisible Man. He gets beaten, and then ''raped'' to death by Mr. Hyde. When he dies he becomes visible, but we only see the contents of one room (and Hyde) covered in blood. Resident BloodKnight Captain Nemo sees what Hyde has done, and is ''disgusted'' by it and wants to execute Hyde for his crime.
* ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'' runs on this trope.
* Deena Pilgrim in ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' gets hits with Cruel and Unusual ''Deaths'' when she goes to confront the now-totally-batshit-insane nearly-omnipotent CaptainErsatz of Superman and Captain Marvel called Supershock. First, he strips her naked and flies her into orbit, exposing her to hard vacuum. He then uses his powers to protect her from the vacuum, but kills her with a heart attack. He brings her back to life, then kills her again with another heart attack. He brings her back to life a second time, and kills her with another heart attack. He then brings her back to life a ''third'' time, and because he's a sadistic prick, keeps her alive while ''physically removing her heart from her chest'' and letting her see him hold it.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher''
** The Punisher has his share of brutal kills, but the one that takes the cake is actually his own RasputinianDeath in "[[ComicBook/DarkReign The List]]", he continues trying to stab Daken after -- in less than a half hour -- having being shot, hit with grenades, punched around, cut across the chest by Daken, broke a leg, getting his throat slashed, lost an arm and about 3 gallons of blood.
** Frank himself was probably at his most brutal in the "Slavers" arc in ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX''. With the AssholeVictims smuggling women into the US to be sex slaves, including an hours-long gang rape on each slave to start out, you don't really feel for them at all when Frank, among other punishments, throws a woman who oversaw this horror into shatterproof glass enough times that finally ''the frame bends enough'' for the pane to fall out and she plummets to her death. Or when Frank gets information from a slaver by disemboweling him and hanging his intestines from a tree ''while still attached''. The interrogation is implied to begin at sunrise which makes things worse when Frank casually mentions in the next issue that it took him until '''NOON''' to bleed out.
* ComicBook/TheSentry is a terrifyingly psychotic individual, as Ares [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/6/69895/1295214-sentry_kills_ares.jpg found out the hard way]] when the Sentry very literally tears him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in half]], reducing him to an explosion of bone, blood, and LudicrousGibs.
* In the middle of UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks, MoralGuardians made the mistake of forbidding ComicBook/TheSpectre, DC's Spirit of Vengeance, from killing anyone, but failed to define "killing". Cue BodyHorror, AndIMustScream, TakenForGranite, and the like, as the Spectre began inflicting "nonlethal" transformations on his prey -- though any normal person would consider the results either death, or in some cases a FateWorseThanDeath.
** To punish Doctor Light, the Spectre transformed him into a candle, with his head as the wick and his body made of wax. The results were obvious after a while. At other times, he transformed a criminal into wood, and chucked him into a grinder. A pedophile was brutally ripped apart by his collection of dolls. He once judged a country guilty (it had a long history of blood feuds and ethnic cleansings). His answer? Burn it to the ground, men, women, and children included, and [[CruelMercy leave the two top politicians alive, damning them to rule over the devastated land]]. He even threatened to do the same to the whole of the state of New York (a convicted criminal, who turned out to be innocent, was slated to be executed; this would mean '''the people of the State of New York''' would be guilty of homicide by the Spectre's book).
** This was always the Spectre's specialty; some classic stories feature, in no particular order: being turned to glass and [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]], being turned into a mannequin and burned alive, melting as if made of wax, drowning in the clutches of a giant octopus; being cut in half by a giant pair of scissors (pictured above), being beheaded by a falling decorative sword, being sliced and diced by a spectral meat cleaver, aging to a pile of dust and simply being reduced to a skeleton in the blink of an eye while being center of attention on a crowded airplane.
* This is the modus operandi of Comicbook/StardustTheSuperWizard, a public domain Golden Age superhero, punishing AssholeVictims that deserve it. An example is in punishing a villain who tried to kill everyone in Washington D.C. by depriving them of oxygen, Stardust grew his head until his body was enveloped by it, flew with him very far into space, and threw him in the direction of a headless space giant that envelops heads where its neck should be.
* ''{{ComicBook/Uber}}'':
** The American superhuman Colossus tries to take on the German "living battleship" Sieglinde when the Nazis attack Paris. Colossus ambushes Sieglinde and at first seems to be winning against her, knocking her to the ground and strangling her... until she rips both of his arms off and uses her matter-disruption powers to twist his entire body into a gory sculpture of pulped flesh and shattered bone. By the end, he's so mutilated it's almost impossible to tell he was once human. The worst thing of all? He's ''still alive''. His skull is so tough it takes five hours for the Allies to euthanize him with an industrial drill.
** In another scene, Hitler has another of his "battleships", the SociopathicSoldier Markus/Siegfried, burn off the face of a disobedient general. The man's death is depicted in loving detail. Similar deaths are suffered by thousands of ordinary soldiers who go up against the battleships.
** [[spoiler:Siegfried]] is put down this way in ''Invasion #7'', combined with DeathOfAThousandCuts. It takes the combined efforts of a team of SuperSpeed Zephyr Ubers to [[SlashedThroat slit his throat]], his disruption halo backfiring on him to blow up half of his face and the subsequent massive blood loss to finally do him in.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Hurricane is ''liquefied'' by Quicksilver.
* Overmastery in ''ComicBook/WhiteSand''. Sand Mastery dehydrates the user, and when you Master too much, magic reaches for all water reserves in your body, quite literally drying you out to death.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Queen Clea loves doling these out, though her attempt to creatively kill Diana and Steve doesn't work out. She has Diana encased in molten metal while Steve is forced into the arena to be eaten by monsters with not but a small sword so that Di will have to hear Steve die as she suffocates. Things go sideways due to Diana being entirely unaffected by the heat and then breaking out of her restraints and Steve being far more competent with a blade than anyone expected.
* Comicbook/{{X 23}} was bred to be a TykeBomb master assassin, and she certainly lives up to her reputation -- Comicbook/CaptainAmerica spent years ''personally'' hunting her down after her first mission. Usually she's quick, clean and efficient. At least until her creator/mother had enough with the abuse the poor child had been subjected to and turned her loose on the project which created her. When X caught up with Zander Rice, the psychopathic lead scientist on one of her main tormentors, she went to work on him for ten minutes. ''With her bare hands.'' And damned if he didn't deserve every second.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** In ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', a lackey failed Magneto. He was unlucky to have an implanted pacemaker.
** And yet again Magneto: In the ''X-Men'' graphic novel ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills'', he catches a group of thugs who have just murdered two mutant children. He tells one of the thugs that there is enough iron in an average human being's blood to make a small nail... and then he shows them.
** A feat "repeated" by Magneto in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', the second ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' movie, with the death of prison guard Mitchell Laurio. Magneto arranged for Mystique to load Laurio's body with ''extra'' iron so he'd have enough to escape with.
** The mutant-hating CorruptChurch the Church of Humanity captured several young mutants, sometime after the Xavier Institute was closed, including Jubilee, Skin, Magma, Bedlam, and several unnamed victims, crucifying them on the lawn of the mansion simply to MakeAnExampleOfThem. (See the RealLife section of this trope for details on this horrid execution method.) Jubilee and Magma survived due to Archangel's healing abilities; the others weren't so lucky.
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