History Main / CruelAndUnusualDeath

* In the ''{{End of Evangelion}}'', Asuka and her EVA dies rather... [[{{Understatement}} horribly]] at the hands of the Mass-Production EVA. At a sync ratio of 300% (meaning she felt everything the EVA felt) her EVA first gets [[EyeScream impaled through the eye]] with the thrown Lance of Longinius, causing Asuka's own eye to bleed heavily. Then, the EVA gets [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel EVISCERATED]] and [[NauseaFuel EATEN ALIVE]]. Oh yeah. And after all this Asuka is still alive enough to try and [[GraspTheSun reach up]] and attack them. Then one of the Mass Production units throws a spear which not only splits the EVA's arm, but also Asuka's arm. And then all the other seven units [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice throw their spears]] into the immobilised and crippled EVA. And later, when Shinji emerges from Nerv HQ inside EVA-01, we are threated to a brief sight of the Mass-Production EVA chewing on the fragmented and horribly mutilated remains of EVA-02 which signalizes the ending of the first half of the film...Hope I didn't put you off your food...

* In the ''{{End of Evangelion}}'', Asuka and her EVA dies rather... [[{{Understatement}} horribly]] at the hands of the Mass-Production EVA. At a sync ratio of 300% (meaning she felt everything the EVA felt) her EVA first gets [[EyeScream impaled through the eye]] with the thrown Lance of Longinius, causing Asuka's own eye to bleed heavily. Then, it gets [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel EVISCERATED]] and [[NauseaFuel EATEN ALIVE]]. Oh yeah. And after all this Asuka is still alive enough to try and [[GraspTheSun reach up]] and attack them. Then one of the Mass Production units throws a spear which not only splits the EVA's arm, but also Asuka's arm. And then all the other seven units [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice throw their spears]] into the immobilised and crippled EVA. And later, when Shinji emerges from Nerv HQ inside EVA-01, we are threated to a brief sight of the Mass-Production EVA chewing on the fragmented and horribly mutilated remains of EVA-02 which signalizes the ending of the first half of the film...Hope I didn't put you off your food...

* In the ''{{End of Evangelion}}'', Asuka dies rather... [[{{Understatement}} horribly]] at the hands of the Mass-Production EVA. At a sync ratio of 300% (meaning she felt everything three times as much as normal) first she gets [[EyeScream impaled through the eye]] with the thrown Lance of Longinius. Then, she gets [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel EVISCERATED]] and [[NauseaFuel EATEN ALIVE]]. Oh yeah. She's still alive enough to try and [[GraspTheSun reach up]] and attack them. Then one of the Mass Production units throws a spear through her arm. And then all the other seven units [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice throw their spears]] into the immobilised and crippled Asuka. And later, when Shinji emerges from Nerv HQ inside Eva-01, we get a brief sight of the Mass-Production EVA chewing on the fragmented and horribly mutilated remains of Eva-02 which signalizes the ending of the first half of the film...Hope I didn't put you off your food...

* In the ''{{End of Evangelion}}'', Asuka dies rather... [[{{Understatement}} horribly]] at the hands of the Mass-Production EVA. At a sync ratio of 300% (meaning she felt everything three times as much as normal) first she gets [[EyeScream impaled through the eye]] with the thrown Lance of Longinius. Then, she gets [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel EVISCERATED]] and [[NauseaFuel EATEN ALIVE]]. Oh yeah. She's still alive enough to try and [[GraspTheSun reach up]] and attack them. Then one of the Mass Production units throws a spear through her arm. And then all the other seven units [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice throw their spears]] into the immobilised and crippled Asuka. [[KillEmAll Then the World Ends]]...Hope I didn't put you off your food...

* In "Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory" by Orson Scott Card, the AssholeVictim protagonist becomes forever plagued by monstrous, grotesquely-deformed infants whose sucker-like suction cup appendages rip off his skin when they make contact with it, as well as cause pus-filled sores to appear. And only HE can hear...and see...and experience these things. causing everyone else to believe him to be insane.

* A 46 year old German zookeeper died while trying to relieve an elephant of constipation. Eventually the animal unloaded while he was trying to give it an enema and did it with such force it knocked him to the ground and he hit his head on a rock. The creature then continued and he was eventually buried under the stuff and drowned. Seems funny to those that haven't almost suffocated, drowned or otherwise been unable to breathe. If he managed to regain consciousness during the ordeal he would have awoken to burning lungs, eyes and every time he'd struggle to breathe he would be inhaling and eating elephant dung. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel It was probably better for him that he wasn't.]]
** [[http://www.snopes.com/critters/malice/feces.asp Well, it'd be horrible if it were true.]]
*** Well, it might be proven false then. Still doesn't stop the horror that happened in an incident in which a guy got his head stuck up an elephant's ass in a zoo in Mexico. Guy didn't die but imagine if he had!

** Oh and Number 28 just Number 28

** But seriously which death sequence isn't cruel and unusual in Elfen Lied? Kisaragi (the clumsy secretary who's [[TooDumbToLive]]) thinks she's going to die honourably when Lucy has her hostage befrore Lucy pulls off her head and uses her as a human shield.

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* The main character's sister in ''Mirrors'' died by having her jaws ripped open by the mirror demon-this results in a double dose of gore as we see both her reflection breaking its own jaws and the real person [[NightmareFuel seemingly having her mouth torn in half by invisible hands.]]

* In the ''Vampire Diaries'' Anna gets tortured by a sonic ear-bleeder device, injected with poison, and is lying on the floor feebly begging for her life when she is staked and burned.

** There were two rather cruel murders he committed in the Graphic Novel ''Joker''. The first involved skinning a man alive because he got on the Joker's bad side by insulting his club, eying 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.

* In ''Cube'', Alderson (who serves no real purpose in the film other than serving as a {{Decoy Protagonist}}, enters a red-lit room from a hatch in the ceiling. When he hits the floor, a loud sound is heard, and for a while, he just stands erect and in place. He then collapses into a loose pile of bloody chunks that fall to the floor. It is only then the audience sees a razor-wire trellis silently folding up and realise how he has been killed.

* A simple Gunshot wound may not be a particularly cruel and unusual way to go...but in the case of Mr. Orange from ''Reservoir Dogs'' we may need to make an exception. He begs to be taken to the hospital only to be left on the cold floor for hours, slowly bleeding from a gunshot wound to the stomach.

** A few other episodes with notably gross and unsettling deaths include "Malleus Maleficarum" (teeth fall out, chokes on blood), "Red Sky At Morning" (brutal bathtub drowning), "Bugs" (beetles burrow into brain), "The Magnificent Seven" (chugs drain cleaner in a very HighOctaneNightmareFuel scene), and "Crossroad Blues," "Time Is On My Side," and "No Rest For The Wicked," all three for hellhounds ripping people apart, though "Time Is On My Side " also features a gross old man surgically removing the heart from his still-breathing victim. Classy.
**Sadly, the cruelty and strangeness of deaths has gone way down in the past few seasons, along with the Gorn levels.
*** And then Season 5 happened, with ''My Bloody Valentine.'' [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel *Shudder*]]

* Judge Holloway got a drill shoved through her jaw in ''SilentHill Homecoming''.

* ''Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain'' gives you several lovely options for inflicting deaths like these on your enemies (or even random villagers), with "suck the blood out of their wounds from 10 feet away" being the most mundane. Other highlights include instantly flaying their flesh from their bones, and crushing their bodies into the size of a marble.

** In ''IT'', Patrick Hockstetter recieves what is quite possibly the [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel most horrific death in the whole book]]. He is killed by the titular BigBad, who has taken the form of what can only be described as giant, flying leeches who possess ''extremely'' large and ''extremely'' sharp proboscises, which proceed to completely swamp him and almost completely drain him of his blood. It's made even ''worse'' by the fact that one of them ''penetrates his eyelid'' and [[EyeScream utterly destroys his eyeball]], and another lands his his mouth and ''drains all the blood from his tongue''. He eventually dies after fainting, being dragged away to It's lair, and then being devoured alive when he awakens.

* MacrossPlus: Movie Edition has Guld's HeroicSacrifice. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHQGUmJgoBE His organs are very graphically crushed by insane G-forces, and then his eyes pop out and he presumably just gives up and dies]].

* In ElfenLied Lucy/Nyu/Kaede uses her powers too much, with the predicted results of her body cells starting to desintegrate. Though the effect becomes apparent when one of her hands falls off, she decides to rather go down in a final battle than to live with the consequences of all her horrible deeds. When she finaly gave up, that what remained of her was only held in the air by her telecinetic powers with most of her body allready liquified or fallen off. During her dying speech she's covered by a jacket, as her face had started melting some time ago.

* MahouSenseiNegima have recently entered this state blowing people (only those from [[AnotherDimension Magical]] [[MagicalLand World]]) to ''feathers'', as of yet there've been killed at least 4 named characters.

* The main character's sister in "Mirrors" died by having her jaws ripped open by the mirror demon-this results in a double dose of gore as we see both her reflection breaking its own jaws and the real person [[NightmareFuel seemingly having her mouth torn in half by invisible hands.]]

* ''Troll 2'' for all its poor production values still manages a disturbing death scene when a young woman is forced(?) to drink a potion that turns her into vegetable goop from the inside out.

* A simple Gunshot wound may not be a particularly cruel and unusual way to go...but in the case of Mr. Orange from "Reservoir Dogs" we may need to make an exception. He begs to be taken to the hospital only to be left on the cold floor for hours, slowly bleeding from a gunshot wound to the stomach.

* TheGreenMile: Eduard Delacroix's botched execution. See details under Literature below.
* AmericanHistoryX: [[CurbStompBattle Curb-stomping scene]]. 'Nuff said.
* Jet Li kills the BigBad in ''Kiss of the Dragon'' by sticking a needle into a specific point in the back of his neck. Said needle is part of the DangerousForbiddenTechnique that [[TitleDrop gives the movie its name]], [[TheParalyzer which paralyzes him]] as [[ToThePain Jet Li explains]] that once he takes out the needle, all the blood in the BigBad's body will go directly to his head causing him to die of a painful aneurysm as blood leaks from ''every'' [[BloodFromTheMouth orifice in]] [[TearsOfBlood his head.]] Jet Li then proceeds to take the needle out...
* In "License to Kill", Benecio del Toro tries to drop James Bond into a massive rock crusher being used to pulverize cocaine: naturally, he ends up falling in himself, feet first, hanging on for a few moments before evaporating into a cloud of red. (Ignore the fact that what with all the powdered cocaine flying up into the air, everyone in the room should probably be dead of a cocaine overdose.)

* There is one particularly nasty death in Ghost in the Machine which involves a middle-aged man microwaving some popcorn. The serial killer is somehow in the electrical circuit and starts a fire. When the man returns his face starts to literally bubble like the popcorn in the microwave. Then to make his death seem more pathetic he slips and hits his head on the kitchen bench. If you're after a night of good old fashioned {{Gorn}}, I would recommend this classic.
* In StarWars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Jabba the Hutt condemns Luke and Han to be thrown into the mouth of the sarlacc, where they'd be slowly digested over a thousand years. You might comfort yourself with the fact that you'd die quickly, but that's not the case - the sarlacc's digestive system will ''keep you alive'' for all those years to attain maximum nutrition.

* In one of the Miles Vorkosigan books, he is investigating the mysterious death of a soldier found stuffed in a drainage pipe. Turns out the soldier had been hiding contraband (homemade cupcakes) and went to save them when the rain started, got lost in the dark, panicked, and managed to wedge himself in the drain pipe so that he suffocated.

* MagicTheGathering's tie-in novels feature a heavy dose of this. The Kamigawa trilogy was probably the high point: a minor god is devoured by disembodied mouths, a monk is drowned by a water mage while restrained, a telepath gets ''being frozen to death'' sent to her via telepathy, an immortal king is [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] and [[AndIMustScream shattered, breaking his mind and his sight into thousands of tiny bits]]... Choryu, the water mage, suffers a fate almost beyond comprehension: he is bound with life-sustaining spells, burned beyond recognition, cursed a thousand different ways, has poison soaked into every inch of his flesh, and is slowly fed his own limbs. His actual death is a MercyKill, making this an inversion.
* In the [[TheDraka Domination series]] by S.M. Stirling the stock punishment for any dissent is to be staked. The victim slowly dies, but if they tire and relax they'll just fall onto the stake more. It takes some skill to make the stake just the right length so as not to kill the victim too soon.

*Ghostgirl - She chokes on a friggin ''gummy bear'' while distracted by the guy she likes.
*In his short story [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotism_%28short_story%29 Patriotism]], writer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima Yukio Mishima]] describes the act of seppuku in excruciating detail, to the point where this troper actually started to feel physically uncomfortable in the stomach region. (Also of interest is the fact that the now infamous author ended his own life via seppuku, after a failed coup d'état).
*The Short Story "Jericho" has the titular hero exiled by his own people, captured by humans, beaten, whipped, and eventually castrated and skinned alive.
* Failing to bind an Andat in TheLongPriceQuartet can have some pretty horrific consequences. For example, having your veins fill up with crushed glass. Or growing twisted mouths all over your body that vomit up you blood. Or slowly filling up with seaweed and black ice until your stomach ruptures.

* In the "Vampire Diaries" Anna gets tortured by a sonic ear-bleeder device, injected with poison, and is lying on the floor feebly begging for her life when she is staked and burned.

* The majority of the deaths in {{Supernatural}}. One of the most noticeable examples in the episode ''Nightmare'', where a man is decapitated by a window slamming shut.

* Argentinian miniseries "Epitafios"

* {{GURPS}}: Ultratech has a weapon that releases nanites into your blood. After a few minute your blood ''explodes''.

* Half the stuff that can kill you in {{Warhammer40000}} counts as this. From flesh-eating worms to bio-acids that melt the skin off your bones, to razor-sharp shards of psychically charged material which will not only tear you to pieces but make you feel unimaginable pain, to guns that flay you apart molecule by molecule, or open a portal to what is essentially hell and suck you in.
* The WorldOfDarkness has several extremely horrifying deaths for the very unfortunate humans that run foul of its supernatural denizens. Certain vampires can eat restrain a human while eating his flesh, then wear it as a cloak to protect from sunlight. Abyssal entities can do all sorts of unpleasant things to people. The grand prize, however, has to go to the Shartha, or the hosts, who can possess humans by getting into their bodies and slowly eating their hearts or brains.

* Pick a dead end in any {{Nasuverse}} VisualNovel. Almost ''any'' dead end will do. Some of them are so implausibly over-the-top that they cross the line into {{Narm}} territory... And it only gets better when the [[HaveANiceDeath Tiger Dojo or Teach Me, Ciel-sensei]] segments come next.

* NoMoreHeroes features - in cutscenes - disembowlment, vertical bisection, suicide by grenade-in-mouth, another vertical bisection followed by being blown up, an EyeScream followed by ''another'' vertical bisection performed by a huge buzzsaw, being TRISECTED, and a fist shoved through somebody's sternum (but Travis survives that last one) along with the usual beheadings and impalement. There's also Cranberry Chocolate Sundae, a LimitBreak based on the concept of killing as many {{Mooks}} this way as possible.

* MadWorld, full stop.

* MortalKombat and every other fighting game with fatalities in it exist by this trope.

* NinjaGaiden 2 is full of this, [[BloodierAndGorier cranking the violence from its prodecessor]] {{Up To Eleven}}, from getting your [[OffWithHisHead head cut off]], dismembered limb from limb, or [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn in half]] vertically OR horizontally {sometimes both} with a [[ExoticWeaponSupremacy variety of different weapons]], such as the [[KatanasAreJustBetter Dragon Blade]], [[SinisterScythe Eclipse Scythe]], [[WolverineClaws Falcon Talons]], [[DualWielding Dragon's Claw and Tiger's Fang]], [[SimpleStaff Lunar Staff]], and more. Also, the Ninpos can cause enemies to be [[IncendiaryExponent burned alive]], [[LudicrousGibs torn to chunks]] [[BlowYouAway by wind blades]], and more, and that's just for the {{Mooks}}. For bosses, you have plenty of [[EyeScream facial mutilation]] and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalation]] to go around. Oh, and did I mention the [[HighPressureBlood ridiculous amounts of]] human and [[AlienBlood monster blood]] that [[MadeOfPlasticine accompanies each kill]]? God, this game fucking [[RuleOfCool rules]]!

* Anyone killed by [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Alma]] in {{FEAR}}. Doug Holiday, and later Jin Sun-Kwon are mangled and thrown around like GarrysMod puppets by invisible monsters. Half of TheSquad in FEAR 2 endure a similar rag-doll treatment before being shredded by black spectral tentacles. The [[RedShirtArmy Delta Force escorts]] get off lightly - Alma just liquefies the flesh off their bones.
* The adventure mode of {{Dwarf Fortress}} allows for a combination of Cruel and Unusual Death and {{Ludicrous Gibs}}. [[http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=27591.msg941291#msg941291 Obok Meatgod]], on his way to being a a {{MemeticBadass}} is a prime example of this.
* The clown (I believe his name is Adam) from {{Dead Rising}}, after he is defeated, he drops his still working chainsaws and falls on them laughing like a maniac all the while as blood is spraying everywhere.

* DeadOfSummer has a lot of deaths, being a ZombieApocalypse story. One among them stands out, though. [[http://www.deadofsummer.org/2007/11/14/comic-2107-man-in-the-box/ Getting your eyes torn out]], [[http://www.deadofsummer.org/2007/11/16/comic-2108-zip-zap/ then having a huge electrical wire]] [[http://www.deadofsummer.org/2007/11/19/comic-2109-new-world-order/ jammed into your mouth]].
* The Asperpedia Four in {{Sonichu}}. After a deeply biased trial, Alec, Evan, Mao and Sean are sentenced to death. Alec is strapped to an electric chair, as each of the main characters tell him to go to hell. Sean is killed by firing squad. But that's small potatoes compared to the last two. Mao is torn apart by Chris's psychic powers, and worst of all, Evan is chained up and brutally tortured to death, by an ''eight year old girl, nonetheless.'' And this is after Chris criticised Asperchu for its excessive violence. [[MoralEventHorizon Just... damn, Chris.]]

**Said courtier also died a gruesome death under Isabella's orders. He was dragged behind some horses to a gallows, hung, cut down before he could die, strapped to a ladder in front of a crowd, had his genitals cut off and burned in front of him, then was cut open, had his entrails pulled out, and finally, his heart was cut out and burned. [[{{Understatement}} Ouch.]]

* In ''The Cone'', by HGWells, a man gets deliberately roasted to death by a blast furnace. [[NightmareFuel Don't read it if you're the slightest bit squeamish]]. You're welcome.

* In Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Jabba the Hutt condemns Luke and Han to be thrown into the mouth of the sarlacc, where they'd be slowly digested over a thousand years. You might comfort yourself with the fact that you'd die quickly, but that's not the case - the sarlacc's digestive system will ''keep you alive'' for all those years to attain maximum nutrition.

* The Asperpedia Four in {{Sonichu}}. After a deeply biased trial, Alec, Evan, Mao and Sean are sentenced to death. Alec is strapped to an electric chair, as each of the main characters tell him to go to hell. Sean is killed by firing squad. But that's small potatoes compared to the last two. Mao is torn apart by Chris's psychic powers, and worst of all, Evan is chained up and brutally tortured to death, by an ''eight year old girl, nonetheless.'' And this is after Chris criticised Asperchu for it's excessive violence. [[MoralEventHorizon Just... damn, Chris.]]

* There is a, hopefully apocryphal, tale of an assasin who attempted to kill a Dutch royal in the 17 hundreds, who was then stuffed into a barrel along with hundreds of rusty nails, and then repeatedly rolled down the steepest hill to be found. Not a pleasant way to go.

* {{Fallout}} series, especially the first two games. The "Bloody Mess" trait makes pretty much every death cruel and unusual. Besides, there are the Lieutenant, the Master, Frank Horrigan and (sweet zombie Jesus!!!) the Overseer from the first game.