History Main / CripplingCastration

* French-Italian movie ''The Last Woman'' (1976) infamously ends with the protagonist Gérard [[spoiler:cutting off his own penis with an electric knife.]]

* In the ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' fic ''FanFic/ShadowOfTheDragon'', Sakura arrives JustInTime to save Tomoyo from being raped by Satome, their school's [[TheBully bully]] and a SerialRapist. After she kicks him into a wall, the Mirror Card manifests in the form of Tomoyo, shatters a mirror, and declares that Satome will ''never'' hurt a girl [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil like that]] again before stabbing him in the groin with the mirror shards; the next chapter outright confirms that the Mirror castrated Satome.
-->'''Shinji Asaba:''' Satome is a girl now.
* ''FanFic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'''s Blackjack tends to dish out {{groin attack}}s whenever sufficiently angry or drunk, but the most memorable one is the one she gives [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss Deus]]]], which drives him [[VillainousBreakdown completely berserk]].
* ''Fanfic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': In the later sequel ''Scavenge for the Future'', Ray Blaster justifiably gets shot in the crotch with his own gun, courtesy of [[spoiler:Downpour, the owner of Doa's Bar. Who is actually Spliced Genome.]]

* ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'': This is the method Kuroha Diana Shiratori uses to kill her victims, using a cigar cutter to do so. She probably sees it as some sort of KarmicDeath as she goes after [[SerialKillerKiller men who have raped or sexually abused women]].

* Played for laughs in ''Theatre/TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier'' with the thief. He lists increasingly horrifying and disgusting things that happened to him on his journey to acquire the golden scarab, but always reassuring Jafar that they are just common idioms. That is, until he says that a salesman "chopped his dick off," and becomes offended when Jafar starts laughing, thinking that it is another strange saying. He then reveals the horrifying bloody mess of his injury to Jafar and walks away angrily.

* The infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt Bobbitt case]] involved Lorena Bobbitt cutting off her husband John's penis in retaliation for [[MaritalRapeLicense his rape and general abuse of her]]. It was soon reattached, and both folks received a fair deal of notoriety. John tried to spin his fame into a career, briefly joining a band, the Severed Parts, and acting in two porno spoofs, one called ''John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut'', and another called ''Frankenpenis''. Lorena went on to found the Lorena Gallo Foundation, a foundation and support group for victims of domestic violence. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Boronda Several]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_and_Xie_case other]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Kieu cases]] have also involved women cutting off their husbands' penises in retaliation for infidelity or abuse.

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. This is likely a reason AnimalsFearNeutering. Expect InstantSoprano to persist as a way to suggest the victim's condition without explicitly stating it. See FreudianThreat if castration is used as a threat.

* In ''[[Film/RoboCop1987 RoboCop (1987)]]'', 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 knife-point. 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.

* A variety of male mammals, from rabbits to sea lions, sometimes attempt to bite rival males' testicles off when they fight over mates.
* Some snails and slugs do the same, with the added twist that they're also hermaphrodites: the one which succeeds in gelding its opponent then inseminates its defeated rival, who's stuck with the more-costly task of laying the eggs.

* 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 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 ([[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]].

-->'''Shinji Asaba''': Satome is a girl now.

* 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.

-->--'''Dwight [=McCarthy=]''', ''Film/SinCity''

* ''Fanfic/BetweenThreeRogues'': Aika foils Vigoro’s canon AttemptedRape by grabbing his balls and literally burning them off. It’s enough to make the veteran air pirate Gilder throw up.

* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/JohannesCabal'': The title character magically regenerates an [[EunuchsAreEvil evil eunuch sorcerer]]'s genitalia to DePower him and render him vulnerable to a [[HornyDevil succubine devil]].

* 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 [[{{Transgender}} trans man]] intent on punishing all women for the loss of his testicles.

** When Gaia the Earth was sick of her husband Uranus the Sky (who was also her son) ramming their children back into her womb (or in other versions of the myth, eating them) because he hated and feared them, she fashioned a sickle and asked her children to avenge her. The youngest and boldest one, Cronus, then took the sickle, and ''castrated his father'' when Uranus let his guard down. Uranus then cursed them with the name "Titans", or "Over-reachers".

In Creator/DerekRobinson's novel ''A Splendid Little War'', 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.

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->''"I'll cut em off... I'll rip 'em off... I'll smash 'em!"''
-->--'''Cloud, Aerith, Tifa''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''

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->''"I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman."''
-->--'''Dwight [=McCarthy=]''', ''Film/SinCity''

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[[caption-width-right:350:Batman please I'll toss you my side arm- BLAM- AAAAGGHH MY NUTS!!!!]]

->''"I'll cut em off... I'll rip 'em off... I'll smash 'em!"''
-->--'''Cloud, Aerith, Tifa''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''

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->''"I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman."''
-->--'''Dwight [=McCarthy=]''', ''Film/SinCity''

* Rulers who belong to the Byzantine culture group in ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII'' (including, naturally, the Byzantine emperors themselves) have the option of castrating rebels, traitors, and other prisoners held in their dungeons.