History Main / EarAche

* At the beginning of ''Manga/FushigiYuugiByakkoIbun'', the mysterious traveler [[spoiler: Nirusha]] helps a young girl named Reipin fight off a rampaging tiger [[spoiler: who used to be [[BalefulPolymorph her evil older brother]].]] He loses one of his ears in the fight, but [[MajorInjuryUnderReaction he just uses]] a PaperTalisman on the still bleeding stump. [[spoiler: At the end of the chapter, Reipin ([[MeaningfulRename now named Neiran]]) keeps the ear as one of her two {{Tragic Keepsake}}s.]]

* A memorably tragic sequence in ''[[VideoGame/ItTakesTwo2021 It Takes Two]]'' has [[spoiler:Cody and May [[KillTheCutie dragging Cutie the toy elephant to her death]] as part of a scheme to [[BalefulPolymorph return themselves to normal from their doll-like transfigurations]]. Along the way, Cutie has her ear pierced through by a fallen screwdriver, and it's slowly and painfully torn off through the main duo pulling too hard on [[AnArmAndALeg her one remaining leg]] as [[AintTooProudToBeg she unsuccessfully begs them to stop]]]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[spoiler:Emperor Belos' ears are noticeably scarred and misshapen, being pointed like a witch but small like a human's. A memory portrait in "Hollow Mind" implies that he ''cut them'' to better look like a witch's.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGilrs1998'': In one episode, when the trio have themselves shrunk to battle micro-machines, The Professor trying to speak with them causes them ear ache since their eardrums are much smaller now they're shrunken.

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'', during his battle with Secco, Bucciarati blows up a car tire which was sucked into the earth thanks to an earlier attack by Oasis, and the blast reverberates through the liquid like concrete and blows out Secco's eardrums, disabling his hearing senses.
** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'': After Jolyne obtains the Stand, Stone Free, it's first display of [[RazorFloss its powers]] is slicing off the ear of a prison guard who was sexually assaulting Ermes.

* In ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', an angry Roura pulls one of Link's long, Hylian ears in one scene.

* The kung fu movie, ''Film/TheMightyOne'' has a hardcore example in the ending. The main villain, Abbot Lung, gets a sword entering one ear, ''through his brain'', and coming out of another. And it somehow doesn't kill him! That was actually part 1 (of between 5 to 8) of his excessively long RasputinianDeath...

* In "Literature/TheEndOfThePierShow", Richard, Vanessa and Fred are hassled by a group of UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}} at a roadside diner. Vanessa deals with one by grabbing the ear of one and twisting it till he falls out of his booth.

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* ''Series/CobraKai:'' In "Take a Right," Johnny yanks out the ear gauge of a pool-playing douchebag who thought it would be a good idea to make fun of Tommy's sickly condition. A BarBrawl ensues.

* ''Film/TianDi'': The film's ActionGirl and [[TheLancer lancer]], Wu Jun, after being captured alive by Paul and his mooks and threatened with rape, instead chose to end her own life by shoving a chopstick into her ear, all the way into her eardrums and brain, with gory results.

* ''Fanfic/BetweenTheLines'': In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10979729/58 Chapter 58]], Touma gets his earlobe pulled:

* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' Lois, in an attempt to have a one-on-one with Jimmy right that minute grabs and drags him off by his ''earring''.

* In the party after Antonio's gift ceremony in ''Fanfic/TwoButterfliesGoneWithTheWind'', Dolores suffers a form of PowerIncontinence where her SuperHearing is turned UpToEleven, a high-pitched whining causing her to ''bleed from her ears''.

* It's pretty hard to discuss Mike Tyson ''without'' running into this trope. In his 1997 rematch with Evander Holyfield, Tyson was disqualified for biting both of Holyfield's ears, first taking off a chunk of the guy's right ear and then scarring his left. Nowadays, any mention of Mike Tyson will probably elicit references to this incident.

* In the 2017 French RapeAndRevenge movie ''Revenge'', one of the men gets behind the heroine and shoots her in the head with a high-powered rifle. [[FakeKillScare However we then see]] the shot [[OnlyAFleshWound took off an earlobe instead of killing her.]]

** The series revival also does this at the end of its intro sequence, only Oscar notices Puff about to bite his ear before the camera goes off, and his babies and the dog also yank both of his ears the moment the photo is taken.

* ''Literature/JoePickett'': In ''Free Fire'', Nate drags AmoralAttorney Clay [=McCann=] out his cell by grabbing his ear and dragging on it hard enough to draw blood. Later, he makes good on a threat, and literally tears [=McCann=]'s ear off during an interrogation.
* In Mark Pfetzer's ''My Everest Story,'' Mark's father develops a nasty infection in his ear. [[spoiler:It eventually becomes cancer, but he successfully gets it treated...until it turns out that the doctors FailedASpotCheck, and now realize that he has ''brain cancer,'' which ultimately does him in.]]

* James Carlos Blake's ''Wildwood boys'':

* The ears are the AchillesHeel of the Toad, an otherwise invincible kung-fu fighter, from ''Film/FiveDeadlyVenoms''. His skin can deflect blows and even push back wooden spikes, but once his ears are damaged he's a sitting duck to all other attacks.

* The ears is the AchillesHeel of the Toad, an otherwise invincible kung-fu fighter, from ''Film/FiveDeadlyVenoms''. His skin can deflect blows and push back wooden spikes, but once his ears are damaged he's a sitting duck to all other attacks.

* ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword''. King Vortigern cuts off Back Lack's ear to [[ColdBloodedTorture encourage him to talk]] and make his son reveal himself with a BigNo. He then [[BlackComedy repeats the question he'd been asking into the severed ear]].

* Tok Aba in Animation/BoboiBoy twists [=BoboiBoy=] Earth and [=BoboiBoy=] Wind's ears in order to stop them from fighting which was caused by LaserGuidedAmnesia.

* When the killer in ''Blood Hook'' tries to catch yet another victim with his fishing rod, his throw misses and he rips the guy's left ear off instead.

* The Taiwanese Revolution-era fiilm ''Film/HugeBrother'' has a villainous traitor being punished by the LaResistance by having his ears cut off. The whole thing.

* ''Series/StarTrek'': the [[ProudMerchantRace Ferengi]] have very sensitive ears, which gives them keen hearing, but are also a big weakness if someone thinks to use them to inflict pain, such as when Lwaxana Troi grabs Quark by his ear in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' while grilling him over a stolen brooch.