History Main / CripplingCastration

* This happened TWICE to Little Chubby on ''MyNameIsEarl''. Little Chubby, the richest guy in Candem, used to be a major asshole until Earl got sick of his abuse and kicked him in the balls while wearing a clownnose and orange clownwig (a reference to the shortlived tv-series ''KickedInTheNuts''). The kick caused enough damage to Chubby's testes that it prevented testosterone from being released, and combined with him realizing how hated he was, it made him a much nicer guy. When he eventually has the injury fixed, he quickly reverts to being an asshole, and deliberatly gets himself re-injured. He has himself fixed a SECOND time off-screen by the time the series wrapped up because people were starting to take advantage of his nicer personality.

* In order to practice the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Sunflower Manual]] of ''[[Creator/JinYong The Smiling Proud Wanderer]]'', male practitioners has to castrate themselves to achieve the agility and behaviour of a woman, this has resulted in various {{angst}} moments for them.
* Provides the FreudianExcuse for the first BigBad in Creator/JackChalker's ''Soul Rider'' series. Castrated as a teenager for the crime of spying on WomensMysteries, and later forced by a sorceress who found his situation amusing to accept an involuntary GenderBender that cannot be reversed, only mitigated, the end result is a psychotic [[{{Transsexual}} transman]] intent on punishing all women for the loss of his testicles.

* {{Webcomic/Tales Of The Galli}}: The Galli are all ritually self castrated eunuchs. Those who apply as novices are initially weeded out by being shown a castration clamp and told that the ritual "can be performed now".

** In the sequel, the Ghoul Nutcracker earned her name as a result of her favorite snack -- crushed testicles.

* A minor plot point in ''ComicBook/SinCity'' "That Yellow Bastard". Hartigan's EstablishingCharacterMoment is removing the gun and penis off 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 (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 (the Senator needed grandchildren). Hartigan defeats him and once again, removes his weapons -- both of them -- before [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge savagely pounding his head into the floor until there isn't a head anymore]].

-->'''Baldrick''': Not to worry, my lord, the arrow didn't in fact enter my body.

-->Well, I'm afraid you're going to have to leave the service, Marine, after that injury.
-->But why, sir? The medics tell me everything else is working and i'll be fit to carry on!
-->(C/O sighs, resignedly). No. you've got to go. (Beat) Didn't you know you've got to be a complete prick to be a Marine?

* Modern asymmetrical warfare, with its emphasis on IEDs and other mine-like devices, has resulted in such a huge increase in what are euphemistically called "urinary tract injuries" that the US Department of Defence has started offering their soldiers the opportunity to freeze eggs or semen prior to deployment.

* In ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', Topper Harley knees a guy in the groin so hard two walnuts come out of his mouth. Ouch.
* ''{{Bananas}}'' - Nancy assures an anxious Fielding that women's rights "do not automatically mean castration" and he nearly doubles over in horror at the mere ''mention'' of the word.
* ''Film/TheHatefulEight'': [[spoiler:Warren]] ends up shot in the balls and bleeding to death. It leaves him confined to a bed for the rest of the movie... but barely kicking any less ass.

-->'''Edmund''': Oh good.
-->'''Baldrick''': No, by a thousand to one chance, my willy got in the way.
-->'''Edmund''': Extraordinary.
-->'''Baldrick''':And I only just put it there. But now, I will leave it there forever.
-->'''Edmund''': It can be your lucky willy.
-->'''Baldrick''': Yes, my lord. Years from now I can take it out and show it to my grandchildren.
-->'''Edmund''': Baldrick, I fear that grandchildren may now be out of the question.

-->'''Creator/SethRogen''': Uh-huh. So that's an average day in the life of you?
-->'''Andy Samberg''': No doubt.
-->'''Seth Rogen''': You chop your balls off and ''die''.
-->'''Andy Samberg''': ''Hell yeah.''

-->'''Geoff''': [[ShareTheMalePain Ooo... no more babies]].

* The infamous "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt Bobbitt case]]", where a woman named Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband John's penis in retaliation for [[MaritalRapeLicense his abuse and rape of her]]. It was soon reattached, and both folks received a fair deal of notoriety, which John tried to spin into a career.

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* Modern asymmetrical warfare, with its emphasis on IEDs and other mine-like devices, has resulted in such a huge increase in what are euphemistically called "urinary tract injuries" that the US Department of Defence has started offering their soldiers the opportunity to freeze eggs or semen prior to deployment.

* The BigBad from Creator/TimPowers's novel ''Last Call'' 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.

* Modern asymmetrical warfare, with its emphasis on IEDs and other mine-like devices, has resulted in such a huge increase in what are euphemistically called "urinary tract injuries" that the US Department of Defence has started offering their soldiers the opportunity to freeze eggs or semen prior to deployment.

* Provides the FreudianExcuse for the first BigBad in Creator/JackChalker's ''Soul Rider'' series. Castrated as a teenager for the crime of spying on Women'sMysteries, and later forced by a sorceress who found his situation amusing to accept an involuntary GenderBender that cannot be reversed, only mitigated, the end result is a psychotic [[{{Transexual}} transman]] intent on punishing all women for the loss of his testicles.

* ''The Website/DarwinAwards'' has this as its other condition for eligibility. As the awards are given to exceptionally stupid people who weeded themselves out of the gene pool, the conditions are thus that the "winner" must be either dead or castrated because of their actions, in order to be unable to reproduce and pass on their stupid genes.

* ''Film/{{Teeth}}'' centers around this. The protagonist Dawn discovers she's evolved a defense mechanism against rape: teeth in her vagina. A fortuitous tool for her, as this is set in a world where apparently AllMenAreRapists (except her dad, fhew!) [[spoiler:By the end of the film Dawn has castrated three men, all of whom died from it, and seems to start a career of seeking out rapists to make them pay for their crimes.]]

{{Groin Attack}}s are often funny and rarely long-lasting. However, there is a darker version of them: castration, which is less rarely ([[BlackComedy though not always]]) played for laughs. Usually in fiction it's utilized in attempt for horror to show how sick the villain is, or inversely for [[PayEvilUntoEvil revenge to a sicko who had it coming]]. If given to a rapist, it will also count as LaserGuidedKarma, maybe even a KarmicDeath if they die from the blood loss. As with {{Groin Attack}}s in general, male examples are more common than female ones. EunuchsAreEvil is when a villain may lose his ability to procreate but not his ability to show his evil.

* In order to practice the [[DangerouslyForbiddenTechnique Sunflower Manual]] of ''[[Creator/JinYong The Smiling Proud Wanderer]]'', male practitioners has to castrate themselves to achieve the agility and behaviour of a woman, this has resulted in various {{angst}} moments for them.

* ''Film/TheHatefulEight'': [[spoiler:Warren]] ends up shot in the balls and bleeding to death. It leaves him confined to the bad for the rest of the movie... but barely kicking any less ass.

* ''Film/HatefulEight'': [[spoiler:Warren]] ends up shot in the balls and bleeding to death. It leaves him confined to the bad for the rest of the movie... but barely kicking any less ass.

* A minor plot point in ''ComicBook/SinCity'' "That Yellow Bastard". Hartigan's EstablishingCharacterMoment is removing the gun and penis off a pedophile (who happens to be the mayor's only son, 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 (in a black-and-white comic). It turns out the yellow man is the mayor's son, whose appearance is due to the multiple treatments needed to grow a new penis (the mayor needed grandchildren). Hartigan defeats him and once again, removes his weapons. "Both of them."

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-->'''Mr. Duck:''' "Congratulations, Son! You're going to be an only child!"

--> Well, I'm afraid you're going to have to leave the service, Marine, after that injury.

--> (C/O sighs, resignedly). No. you've got to go. (Beat) didn't you know you've got to be a complete prick to be a Marine?

* Another rare female example from 1995's ''Film/{{Species}}''. The rogue alien hybrid Sil has captured a woman, and tied the victim to her bed while taking her identity and her car. Before leaving, though, Sil is shown jabbing one hand between her victim's thighs; the next scene shows Sif carrying a handful of fleshy stuff to a trash bin. Doctor Baker explains Sil's gynocidal tendencies: "She's eliminating the competition."

* ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'': The husband's attempt to cure his wife of her trauma goes awry, and she eventually goes nuts and crushes his balls with a block of wood. Later on she feels guilty about doing this and as self-punishment gets a pair of scissors and...

* The rogue alien hybrid Sif from 1995's ''Film/{{Species}}'' has captured a woman, and tied the victim to her bed while taking her identity and her car. Before leaving, though, Sif is shown jabbing one hand between her victim's thighs; the next scene shows Sif carrying a handful of fleshy stuff to a trash bin. Doctor Baker explains Sif's gynocidal tendencies: "She's eliminating the competition."

{{Groin Attack}}s are often funny and rarely long-lasting. However, there is a darker version of them: castration, which is less rarely ([[BlackComedy though not always]]) played for laughs. Usually in fiction it's utilized in attempt for horror to show how sick the villain is, or inversely for [[PayEvilUntoEvil revenge to a sicko who had it coming]]. If given to a rapist, it will also count as LaserGuidedKarma, maybe even a KarmicDeath if they die from the blood loss. As with {{Groin Attack}}s in general, male examples are more common than female ones.