History Main / CripplingCastration

* ''Film/ThePerfectWeapon 2016'' uses this as a threat, from the TortureTechnician interrogating the captured hero. After pulling out the hero's [[{{fingore}} toenails]] and a [[TheToothHurts tooth]], and failing to get the hero into a confession, said technician then orders his men to pull down the hero's pants before bending over himself while brandishing a wicked set of pliers. He's ''this'' close in castrating the hero before several resistance allies barges in and kills everyone, ending with the torturer getting a BoomHeadshot

* Jones in ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}'' takes a bullet that ends up going through her uterus, making her sterile.
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': In "That Yellow Bastard", Hartigan's EstablishingCharacterMoment is removing the gun and penis of a pedophile (who happens to be the only son of a powerful US Senator, landing Hartigan in prison for years) to save his victim Nancy. Years later, Hartigan believes Nancy to be in danger and looks for her, trailed by a grotesque little man who stinks and whose skin is bright yellow ([[SplashOfColor in a black-and-white comic]]). It turns out the yellow man is the Senator's son, whose appearance is due to the multiple treatments needed to grow a new penis ([[IWantGrandkids the Senator needed grandchildren]]). Hartigan defeats him and once again, removes his weapons -- both of them, with his bare hands this time -- before [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge savagely pounding his head into the floor until there isn't a head anymore]].

* The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31181048/ Snowbound]]" features a "positive" form of castration after Draco Malfoy and his mother realise that Draco is a "[[AdaptationalGenderIdentity soulwoman]]" (a magical term for someone born into the wrong gender) who chooses the name Aquaria; part of the blood ritual necessary to help a soulwoman become their true self involves Aquaria castrating ''herself'' before being properly transformed into a natural woman.
* The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11500457/1/ Gratitude Is A Disease of Dogs]]" has Draco Malfoy (and by implication, Gregory Goyle) emasculated in revenge for leading a rape gang at Hogwarts. He's ultimately sold to an Arabian shaikh for "training."

* ''Film/{{Teeth}}'': The protagonist Dawn discovers she's evolved a defense mechanism against rape: [[VaginaDentata teeth in her vagina]]. A fortuitous tool for her, as the film is set in a world where AllMenArePerverts and don't have any problems with attempting to rape her (except her dad, fhew!) [[spoiler:By the end of the film, Dawn has castrated three men, two of whom died from it, and seems to start a career of seeking out rapists to make them pay for their crimes.]]
* Both the original and the remake of ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'' have Jennifer castrating one of her rapists, killing him by making him bleed out.
* In ''Film/TheIcePirates'', the two protagonists are captured and it is decided that they are to be made into eunuch slaves. They are bound to a conveyor belt and metal jaws above proceed to emasculate the hapless victims before them, filling the factory-like setting with screams. Luckily, the princess intervenes and covertly lets them keep their crown jewels.
* ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'': Topper Harley knees a guy in the groin so hard two walnuts come out of his mouth. Ouch.

* A partial example befalls one of the escaping convicts in ''House of Blood'' when he's shot in the groin by one of the prison-transport guards. The doctor inspects his wound, noting that one of his testicles has been destroyed, then [[{{Squick}} has to debride the wound]] and extract the mangled testicular tissue.
* French-Italian movie ''Film/TheLastWoman'' (1976) infamously ends with the protagonist Gérard [[spoiler:cutting off his own penis with an electric knife.]]
* In ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', Rabbi Tuckman offers to circumcise Robin and his group of Merry Men, only for them to refuse when he demonstrates the circumcision as putting one's manhood through the chopping end of a small guillotine in order to "nip the tip".

* In ''Film/RoboCop1987'', two would-be rapists attack a woman when the titular policeman drives up. One of the rapists dares Officer Murphy to attack him as he holds the poor woman at knifepoint. All it took was a quick scan, [[ImprobableAimingSkills one single shot through the lady's skirt with his Beretta Auto-9]], and the crook's... manhood... is forever destroyed. The other guy surrenders willingly, scared beyond belief.
* ''Film/{{Immortals}}'': Hyperion orders his henchman to smash the traitorous Lysander's testicles with a hammer to brand him as untrustworthy.
* ''Film/{{Hostel}} Part II'': Beth turns the tables on her torturer, buys her way to freedom, and becomes a member of the hunting club by cutting her torturer's groin off with a pair of garden shears and then tosses the organ to hungry guard dogs.

* In [[RapeAndRevenge exacting revenge against their rapists]] in ''Film/AsianSchoolGirls'', the girls cut the genitals off several of them.
* ''Film/{{Farinelli}}'' is a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory movie about a ''castrato'', namely, a male singer who was castrated as a child to keep his voice from changing. He has to deal with the trauma his whole life, and it gets worse when he finds out that his own brother (a composer) did it to him for the sake of the act.

* ''Literature/OneHundredPercentMatch'' ends on a torture sequence where [[spoiler:Bart]] has his penis cut off.

* In ''Literature/TheRunelords'', invader and first-book main villain Raj Ahten has a harem of wives whom no one is allowed to look upon lest they suffer castration or death. In the second book, there is a plot to curb the invasion by sending a group led by TheLancer Borenson to convince Raj Ahten's favourite wife to convince him to stop, using her [[{{Glamour}} magically enhanced beauty]] to hypnotize him. When he gets wind of this, Raj Ahten punishes Borenson personally by ripping out his genitals bare-handed. Borenson nearly bleeds to death but receives last-minute medical aid.
* The BigBad from Creator/TimPowers's novel ''Literature/LastCall'' gets shot in the groin at the start of the book, leaving him unable to sire biological children. This is particularly problematic for him because he'd planned to use magic to commit GrandTheftMe on his offspring when he got old.

* Geoffrey Haldane, the first BigBad in Creator/JackChalker's ''Literature/SoulRider'' series, has a FreudianExcuse where he was castrated as a teenager for the crime of spying on WomensMysteries and was later forced to accept a permanent GenderBender by a sorceress who found his situation amusing. The end result is a psychotic [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trans man]] intent on punishing all women for the loss of his testicles.
* At the end of ''Literature/IsAMan'' by Creator/JTEdson, Annie Singing Bear castrates the {{Bandito}} who [[RapeAndRevenge raped her best friend]]. She does this like castrating a bull; cutting open his scrotum, removing his testicles, and sewing him back up.
* It is ''heavily'' implied in ''Literature/TheElenium'' that the literal emasculation of the Elder God Azash by the Younger Gods of Styricum (as marked on the clay statue he is bound into by the crotch area being shiny) is connected to their metaphorical emasculation of him in some symbolic but divinely important fashion.
* Castration comes up a lot in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', as one of the great number of horrible things that happen to people in Westeros.
** Varys was castrated as a boy, as part of a sorcerous ritual.
** The Unsullied are also all castrated at the start of their TrainingFromHell.
** During Daenerys' conquest of Slaver Bay, she forbids her mercenaries to loot and rape. Looters are punished by having a hand cut off; the punishment for rapists is likewise the removal of the body part used in the crime...

* In one of the ''Literature/{{RCN}}'' novels, a {{mook}} gives Adele and her sociopathic NinjaMaid Tovera a PervyPatdown. The first opportunity she gets, Tovera stabs him with a writing stylus before castrating him.

* In the infamous Creator/RobertHeinlein novel ''Literature/FarnhamsFreehold'', the villain is going to castrate both the protagonist, Hugh, and his teenage son, Duke to reinforce their status as slaves but decides not to do it at the last minute. [[spoiler: The villain ends up doing it to Duke later to make him more docile after he tries to rebel]].
* In Creator/DerekRobinson's novel ''Literature/ASplendidLittleWar'', two RAF pilots flying for the White Army in the Russian Civil War are shot down behind enemy lines. They are given sanctuary in a Russian village where there seem to be an awfully large amount of religiously inclined people. Despite the language barrier, they are made welcome. And are finally invited to join the religion. Who are called the ''Skoptsy'', whose route to salvation and one-ness with Christ is to ritually castrate themselves.
* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': Averted with Sadi, chief eunuch of Queen Salmissra and one of the series protagonists. He's named as "The Man Who is No Man" as part of Mrin Codex prophecy, and is utterly unconcerned with the loss of his manhood, instead considering it a relief to avoid "all the bother" of sexuality, much to the discomfort of his male allies such as Silk and Mandorallen. Part of it is that, as he was born into a desperately poor family, being castrated as an infant meant he had the chance to serve in Queen Salmissra's court (where all the servants are eunuchs) and thus lead a much better life than his family could provide.

* ''Series/TheLegendOfXiaoChuo'': Zhi Mo is castrated (by his ''[[EvilUncle uncle]]'') for having an affair with An Zhi.

* ''Series/HillStreetBlues'': A female detective is playing DirtyHarriet to try and get close to someone who got OffOnATechnicality by claiming he spoke no English and therefore hadn't understood his Miranda rights, hoping to get him on tape speaking English. When he catches on and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere kicks off]], she draws her sidearm and ''tries'' to put one in his leg, but inadvertently scores a direct hit on his testicles. She spends much of her screentime in the next episode trying to convince everyone she didn't do it on purpose. Not that anyone would have been all that upset if she had, except maybe [[DaChief Captain]] [[ByTheBookCop Furillo]]: [[LaserGuidedKarma The guy was a rapist.]]
* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': [[spoiler:Ofglen]], a [[BreedingSlave handmaid]], is discovered to be having an affair with a Martha. As punishment for being "gender traitors", the infertile Martha is [[BuryYourGays hanged]] whereas fertile (and therefore valuable) [[spoiler: Ofglen]] receives a clitoridectomy.
* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Ramsay cuts off Theon's penis (and [[FingerInTheMail sends it back to Theon's father]]), as part of some ColdBloodedTorture. This causes Theon to lose his (already shaky) status within House Greyjoy and causes him a lot of insecurity and trauma. Alson, Varys and Grey Worm were both castrated as small boys, under different circumstances.
** In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', ThePurge of criminals (or alleged as such) in King's Landing carried out by the City Watch under Daemon Targaryen sees a few being castrated and their "member" being put on carts along with heads and other body parts.
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': As part of being the general ButtMonkey of the show, Detective Charles Boyle has received crotch injuries more than once in the line of duty. He's not impotent, but it did eventually render him infertile, leaving his only hope for children with the sperm samples he had previously frozen... until he lost them to his cruel and spiteful ex-wife. Rather than further kowtowing to her, he and his new fiancee decide to adopt instead.

* Music/{{Macabre}}'s "Nero's Inferno" tells how, when he was a SerialKiller, UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} would have people tied to poles and ''bite their genitals off''.

* In Myth/EgyptianMythology, Osiris was cut to pieces by his brother, Seth. His wife Isis finds and buries all parts of his body in order to resurrect him. However, his phallus was eaten by fish by the time she found it and was therefore unable to be returned. So she had to carve a new one from wood. It worked, somehow, as they had sex and conceived Horus.
** Later in the same myth, [[ChaoticStupid Seth]] gets one or both his crown jewels ripped off by [[YouKilledMyFather Horus]] in a fight, [[ContinuitySnarl depending on the version]]. [[LaserGuidedKarma What goes around comes around, eh?]]

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' has always been full of GroinAttack's thanks to fan favorite [[Characters/MortalKombatJohnnyCage Johnny Cage]]. Over the years though, they've turned from simple punches to the crotch to this trope incarnate. Starting in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatShaolinMonks'', Cage had a fatality that made him use his opponent's gonads as a punching bag until their lower torso was rendered useless. Come ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' his daughter Cassie takes her father's unethical teachings to the extreme in her X-Ray attack, showing a realistic pair of testicles that pop yet seem to regenerate each time the move is performed. Finally, ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' turns this trope up to... well, eleven. Not just limited to the Cage family anymore, plenty of kharacters use fatal groin attacks that result in testicular ruptures. Even guest characters such as [[Characters/TerminatorT800Model101 The Terminator]] will step on his enemy's sack, causing significant damage, and [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] has spiked boxing gloves that he will use to crush your family jewels as well. This time it's worse too, as [[FateWorseThanDeath they don't inexplicably regenerate.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Mewgenics}}'': One of the permanent injuries your cats can suffer after being downed in combat is having their nuts ripped clean off. This renders them unable to reproduce.
* ''VideoGame/TheWarriors'': The wheelchair-bound Turnbull lieutenant Birdie has the habit of crushing his enemies' nuts by rolling over them.

* ''Literature/TailsSeries'':
** ''Literature/TailsOfFame'': In chapter 13, [[spoiler:Seamus]] gets his penis cut off with a pair of bolt cutters.
** ''Literature/TailsOfTheBountyHunter'': In chapter 12, [[spoiler:Gobor Grizzer]] is shot in the groin with a plasma gun, seriously mutilating his testicles and penis.

* ''The Website/DarwinAwards'' has castration as one of the conditions for eligibility. As the awards are given to exceptionally stupid people who have weeded themselves out of the gene pool, each "winner" must either be dead or otherwise unable to reproduce and pass on their stupid genes. Most non-fatal awards typically involve castration because men are far more likely to engage in the requisite idiocy and women are far less likely to survive the requisite injuries.

* In the short "[[MiniGolfEpisode Minister Golf]]" from the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Sports Shorts", Baby Plucky is learning how to play miniature golf, and at one point, he accidentally hits his father hard in the groin with a golf ball. After the ball goes down the hole, we get this line:
-->'''Mr. Duck:''' Congratulations, Son! You're going to be an only child!
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Taken to extremes in one episode where Kenny endeavors to completely shatter his dad's testicles in order to thwart his parents' plans to have a new baby. On the other hand, in a later episode, Randy Marsh deliberately gives himself testicular cancer to get a prescription for medical marijuana, and his balls swell to the point where he can only [[BizarreAlienLocomotion move around by bouncing on them]]. He eventually has them amputated, but he's surprisingly nonchalant about it and casually mentions getting a prosthetic pair. He even [[GenuineHumanHide has his old scrotum made into a coat for his wife]], which actually makes her feel better about the situation.
** "Ike's Wee-wee": The boys ''think'' that Ike is getting his penis cut off as part of his circumcision due to poor information, and it gets to the point of Kyle faking Ike's death and hiding him in Nebraska. They're more accepting after it's fully explained, though Stan and Cartman still faint during the ceremony.