History Main / EarAche

* ''LightNovel/FateRequiem'': When Erice Utsumi was a small child, her grandmother gave her a haircut, but accidentally nicked her ear with the scissors. She has a scar from it.

* It's pretty hard to discuss Creator/MikeTyson ''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 ''Literature/CloudAtlas, Sonmi~451 loses an earlobe when her drunk master is goaded by his friends into shooting a plum off of her head.

* The Sound and the Fury -- the infamous 1997 rematch between Creator/MikeTyson and Evander Holyfield, which ended in Tyson's disqualification after twice [[ManBitesMan biting Holyfield's ears]], with the second time tearing ''off'' the upper part of it.

* It's pretty hard to discuss Creator/MikeTyson ''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.

* A common chronic injury to the earlobes is "cauliflower ear". That's where the ears have been bruised so often that they become brittle. Continued impacts to cauliflower ears could lead them to swell and bruise rapidly, or even burst bloodily. This kind of injury is common these days in mixed martial arts; less often in boxing due to more heavily-padded gloves.

* Many sports such as netball require players to remove all earrings and ear piercings, to avert accidental damager to ears.

* ''Series/{{The Outer Limits|1995}}'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E15Afterlife Afterlife]]", Stiles and the aliens have an ability to emit a high-pitched sound is painful for humans.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "Aletheia", Root is being tortured to gain access to the [[ArtificialIntelligence Machine]]. When Root says the Machine is talking to her directly, Control does a stapedectomy without anesthesia, making Root deaf in one ear and [[ToThePain making it clear the other will follow]] if she doesn't cooperate.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Invoked in "City on the Edge of Forever", when Kirk tries to explain Spock's pointed ears by claiming that as a child he got his head caught in a mechanical rice-picker.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': 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.

* Happens in the 2009 HeroicBloodshed film, ''Vengeance'', in the opening hit on Sophie's family. Sophie tries fending off the assassins sent to wipe out her family unsuccessfully, where she managed to shoot off one of their ears before getting pumped full of lead and barely surviving. Later on Sophie's father, Francis (an ex-hitman) visits her in the hospital, she told him one of the assassins is missing an ear, leading to Francis searching around Hong Kong for the one-eared assassin.

* 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, and he has ''quite'' the pained expression as he's doing so]].

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** We have [[ChurchMilitant battle nuns]] who, in order to counter Index's spell, sticks pens into their ears to break their eardrums.
** Later, Shizuri Mugino rams a ''screwdriver'' into Shiage Hamazura's ear. It renders his ear canal bloody, but fortunately didn't go in deep enough to break his eardrum.

* In ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Haruhi]] occasionally bites on [[{{Moe}} Mikuru]]'s ear, though it's more like [[BlackComedyRape foreplay]] than injury.

* Someone's ear is cut clean off
* Someone's ear is otherwise sliced
* Someone's ear is pulled, yanked, or twisted
* Someone's ear is bitten (and sometimes torn off)
* Someone's ear has something sharp stuck into it
* Someone's eardrums burst
* Something like a virus/parasite [[OrificeInvasion forces itself into someone's ear]] (do not confuse with EarWorm)

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the third episode, Louis de Pointe du Lac severs the ear of Alderman Fenwick with his vampire fingernails in revenge for supporting laws that target colored businesses in Storyville.

* One of the NCR quests in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' involves collecting the ears of Legion soldiers as trophies.

* ''Literature/WatershipDown''. In order to save his warren from King Darzin's army, rabbit trickster hero El-ahrairah tries to bargain with the [[TheGrimReaper Black Rabbit]]. Every time he loses a bet, the Black Rabbit removes a body part, including his ears. El-ahrairah replaces them with a pair of dock leaves and then tries to steal the white blindness (myxomatosis) to destroy Darzin's army, until the Black Rabbit calmly informs him that the white blindness is spread by the fleas in rabbit's ears--they won't nest in dock-leaves.

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-->'''Jeremy''': Ow ow ow pain pain pain!

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* [[http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/199 In the last panel of]] a ''Webcomic/EarsForElves'' page, Elon grabs and pulls Myari's ear quite hard because he's angry at her/worried about her, and has finally found where she was hiding.

* 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 making them argue over who "the real [=BoBoiBoy=]" is.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasThreeVisionarySwordsmen'': The powerful elephant demon, General Ganbosu, attempts to attack Nobita and friends while flying around on EarWings, but Nobita managed to slice off his right ear dropping Ganbosu to the ground. It was then Ganbosu reveals his ability to [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever transform into a fifty-foot behemoth]].