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* One of ''Literature/TheTalesOfBeedleTheBard'', a supplemental book to the ''Harry Potter'' series, is "The Warlock's Hairy Heart", where the title warlock removes his own heart in order not to fall prey to the "foolishness" of love.

->''"Someday I'll meet someone''
->''Whose heart joins with mine''
->''Aortas and arteries all intertwined''

* Subverted in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. While [[spoiler:being struck in the heart by Elsa's magic makes Anna physically freeze, she keeps her energetic, kind personality, enough to sacrifice herself for the very same person who struck her.]] This is actually FridgeBrilliance, considering the theme of the movie, "The heart does not so easily change".

* In ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'', [[BizarreAlienBiology one of the Doctor's hearts]] is [[OrganTheft stolen]]. While he's awake. [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow Normally he'd be dead]]; as it is he's still capable of [[{{Determinator}} putting some serious effort towards saving the world again]], sleeps for a week, and is [[TheStoic quietly traumatized]] and has BadDreams. It also makes him [[HumanityEnsues more like a regular old human being]]. Also, the fact his heart has been transplanted to someone else results in some kind of weird SoulJar arrangement, where [[{{Synchronization}} if one of them is hurt, it hurts the other]], but neither can be seriously harmed as long as the other is okay. Resulting in the Doctor [[TheUndead walking around clinically dead]] for a while, [[TheWoobie poor thing]]. He [[HealingFactor eventually grows a new one]].

* Subverted in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. While [[spoiler:being struck in the heart by Elsa's magic makes Anna physically freeze, she keeps her energetic, kind personality.]] This is actually FridgeBrilliance, considering the theme of the movie, "The heart does not so easily change".

* A rare positive example in [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]]'s ''Literature/VitaNuova''; a dream where Beatrice eats the poet's heart marks the beginning of his love for her and his quest to capture her beauty in any of the dozens of poems in the''Vita Nuova''.

-->--'''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'''

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* In Creator/HansChristianAndersen's FairyTale "Literature/TheSnowQueen", a boy named Kai has a piece of a mirror that shows a negative view of the world pierce his heart, which causes him to become cold and distant towards his childhood friend Gerda, before he's taken away by the Snow Queen. Gerda goes on a journey to find him and eventually rescues Kai, again through ThePowerOfLove. (It's possible the second-season Princess Tutu example was a reference to this fairytale.)

** The Grinch example was pastiched on WesternAnimation/SouthPark. "And what happened next? Well, in South Park, they say Johnny Cochrane's small heart grew three sizes that day!"

* In ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'', [[BizarreAlienBiology one of the Doctor's hearts]] is [[OrganTheft stolen]]. While he's awake. [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow Normally he'd be dead]]; as it is he's still capable of [[{{Determinator}} putting some serious effort towards saving the world again]], sleeps for a week, and is [[TheStoic quietly traumatized]] and has BadDreams. It also makes him [[HumanityEnsues more like a regular old human being]]. Also, the fact his heart has been transplanted to someone else results in some kind of weird SoulJar arrangement, where [[{{Synchronization}} if one of them is hurt, it hurts the other]], but neither can be seriously harmed as long as the other is okay. Resulting in the Doctor [[TheUndead walking around clinically dead]] for a while, [[TheWoobie poor thing]]. He [[HealingFactor eventually grows a new one]].

* In ''Literature/{{Everworld}},'' the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] Myth/{{N|orseMythology}}idhoggr magically replaces the protagonists' hearts with rubies from his TreasureRoom, informing them that they'll die after six days unless he gives them their real hearts back. He does ''not,'' however, take the heart of TokenEvilTeammate [[TheChessmaster Senna]]; David notes that if he knew the reason why, it would "terrify" him. In reality, it's [[spoiler:because witches have "hard hearts," and Niddhogr was too cheap to waste a diamond]].
* In Creator/WilhelmHauff's "The Cold Heart", the protagonist foolishly trades his heart for a stone and immense wealth -- just as many other people are shown to have already done, including some he knows. It affects his character just as one might expect.
* In ''Literature/LightningDust'', Klaus Melfton normally has a weak heartbeat. However, after the [[FreakLabAccident]] that turned him into Lightning Dust, his heart beats incredibly fast. This effectively cured his heart problems and Klaus became cocky and feels invincible.

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* The Shadow Pokémon in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Colosseum]]'' and ''XD Gale of Darkness'' have their hearts sealed off by the bad guys, which prevents them from leveling up, gives them different moves and causes them to go into a periodic self-injurious state similar to Confusion. Forming an emotional bond with the Pokemon is required (but not sufficient) to cure them.
* Hisao Nakai, the protagonist of the VN ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', finds out in the very first scene (where he gets a life-threatening heart attack in the middle of being confessed to by his crush, no less) that he suffers from chronic arrhythmia. This results in him being transferred into a school that specializes in accommodating students with various physical disabilities, where the game itself is set. The first Act revolves in large around Hisao's coming to terms with his now suddenly-frighteningly-tangible mortality (represented by his defective heart) and the fact that he must now start thinking of himself as "disabled" and completely change his lifestyle (no more playing soccer, watching his diet, having to take all his medicines every day, etc.), and each of the game's routes continues his internal conflict regarding this in a different fashion (because in each route his personality is slightly changed by falling in love with a very different sort of girl - although in all cases he does eventually learn to accept his short life expectancy one way or another, except for the extremely short "Bad Ending" route, which is achieved by constantly making choices implying Hisao cannot deal with his problem and ends up becoming a lonely, depressed man). Hearts are a constant theme in the game, especially where Hisao is concerned, and in fact, the game's very logo is that of a heart with a band-aid on it.

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* In ''{{Everworld}},'' the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] Myth/{{N|orseMythology}}idhoggr magically replaces the protagonists' hearts with rubies from his TreasureRoom, informing them that they'll die after six days unless he gives them their real hearts back. He does ''not,'' however, take the heart of TokenEvilTeammate [[TheChessmaster Senna]]; David notes that if he knew the reason why, it would "terrify" him. In reality, it's [[spoiler:because witches have "hard hearts," and Niddhogr was too cheap to waste a diamond]].

* ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' doesn't usually [[ArtisticLicenseBiology fail biology forever]] to quite ''this'' extreme, but The Stepford Cuckoos were forced to keep their hearts in diamond form all the time to contain the Phoenix fragment within them, resulting in loss of emotions (instead of the more probable effect of loss of ''life.'')

* In the Polish fantasy-steampunk RPG ''[[TabletopGame/TabletopGame/WolsungSteamPulpFantasy Wolsung]]'', the dwarves value logic over emotions and often implant {{magitek}} prosthetics into their bodies. If they overdo with the implants, they turn into ''uhrwerk'' - "clockwork dwarves", completely and irreversibly [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul losing their emotions and, to a slightly lesser extent, morality]]. Heart replacement is the most common reason for becoming ''uhrwerk''.

* One of the tales of ''TalesOfBeedleTheBard'', a supplemental book to the ''Harry Potter'' series, is "The Warlock's Hairy Heart", where the title warlock removes his own heart in order not to fall prey to the "foolishness" of love.

* In the Polish fantasy-steampunk RPG ''Wolsung'', the dwarves value logic over emotions and often implant magitek prosthetics into their bodies. If they overdo with the implants, they turn into ''uhrwerk'' - "clockwork dwarves", completely and irreversibly losing their emotions and, to a slightly lesser extent, morality. Heart replacement is the most common reason for becoming ''uhrwerk''.

* In TowaKamoShirenai, Kosumo has a very weak heart, which she describes as "a defective product". She has a near fatal seizure and must get a transplant... and it happens. Then, the heart that was given to her turned out to belong to a {{Miko}} and MagicalGirlWarrior...

* In ''{{Everworld}},'' the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] {{N|orseMythology}}idhoggr magically replaces the protagonists' hearts with rubies from his TreasureRoom, informing them that they'll die after six days unless he gives them their real hearts back. He does ''not,'' however, take the heart of TokenEvilTeammate [[TheChessmaster Senna]]; David notes that if he knew the reason why, it would "terrify" him. In reality, it's [[spoiler:because witches have "hard hearts," and Niddhogr was too cheap to waste a diamond]].

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* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest'', Davy Jones is said to have cut out his heart and hid it partially so he could stop the pain he felt from his lover's betrayal.

* Subverted in ''{{Disney/Frozen}}''. While [[spoiler:being struck in the heart by Elsa's magic makes Anna physically freeze, she keeps her energetic, kind personality.]] This is actually FridgeBrilliance, considering the theme of the movie, "The heart does not so easily change".

* The animated TV series based on Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' had an episode where Aladdin's head is magically separated from his body. The head and the body both survive as independent beings, but without the influence of his heart Aladdin's head becomes logical and emotionless. Meanwhile, his body without the head's influence becomes headstrong and impulsive. And clumsy.

* Hefty in ''TheSmurfs'' goes through some heart trouble when a flea carrying Gargamel's hate juice bites him and causes his heart tattoo to change into a yellow X, also changing Hefty into a hateful abusive Smurf. Near the end of the story, when Hefty sees that Papa Smurf is being threatened by Gargamel, his true natured self and his heart tattoo return just in time for Hefty to rescue Papa Smurf.

* The Tin Woodsman from ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' is entirely convinced he falls under this trope. He doesn't -- in fact, he's very nearly TheMessiah, endeavoring to be kind to all living things so that he doesn't do anything horrible without a heart to guide him.

* The Hollows in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', who have developed a big hole in their chest where their heart ought to be, in a not-so-subtle symbol of their heartlessness.
** Note that the Hollows are also TheHeartless and the hole is just a symbol.

* ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' doesn't usually [[YouFailBiologyForever fail biology forever]] to quite ''this'' extreme, but The Stepford Cuckoos were forced to keep their hearts in diamond form all the time to contain the Phoenix fragment within them, resulting in loss of emotions (instead of the more probable effect of loss of ''life.'')

* In ''The Grinch Who Stole Christmas'', the {{Narrator}} guesses that the Grinch might be nasty and hate Christmas because his heart is "two sizes too small". When the Grinch learns the Aesop about what Christmas is all about, his heart grows "three sizes larger" and he becomes a lovable, kindhearted, heroic figure.
** The Grinch example was pastiched on South Park. "And what happened next? Well, in South Park, they say Johnny Cochrane's small heart grew three sizes that day!"

* In ''[[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures The Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'', [[BizarreAlienBiology one of the Doctor's hearts]] is [[OrganTheft stolen]]. While he's awake. [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow Normally he'd be dead]]; as it is he's still capable of [[TheDeterminator putting some serious effort towards saving the world again]], sleeps for a week, and is [[TheStoic quietly traumatized]] and has BadDreams. It also makes him [[HumanityEnsues more like a regular old human being]]. Also, the fact his heart has been transplanted to someone else results in some kind of weird SoulJar arrangement, where [[{{Synchronization}} if one of them is hurt, it hurts the other]], but neither can be seriously harmed as long as the other is okay. Resulting in the Doctor [[TheUndead walking around clinically dead]] for a while, [[TheWoobie poor thing]]. He [[HealingFactor eventually grows a new one]].

* In ''{{Everworld}},'' the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] [[NorseMythology Nidhoggr]] magically replaces the protagonists' hearts with rubies from his TreasureRoom, informing them that they'll die after six days unless he gives them their real hearts back. He does ''not,'' however, take the heart of TokenEvilTeammate [[TheChessmaster Senna]]; David notes that if he knew the reason why, it would "terrify" him. In reality, it's [[spoiler:because witches have "hard hearts," and Niddhogr was too cheap to waste a diamond]].

* Captain Picard of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' fame had a WonderfulLife episode about the incident that resulted in his having to have his original heart replaced with a mechanical one. The episode had Q give Picard the chance to go back to his youth and prevent the fight where he was stabbed through the heart. He avoids the fight and his future is changed. Instead of being Captain, he is just a lowly science officer who never takes any risks, always plays it safe, and leads a boring, mundane life. Realizing that it was his near-death experience that made him appreciate life and taught him to live life to the fullest even if means taking risks, he begs Q to take him back to the fight in his youth again. This time, he goes through with the fight, and as he is laying on the ground with a knife through his heart, he realizes this event is what makes him the man that he is.

* Mildly subverted, in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Silverhawks}}'' Steelwill's and Steelheart's hearts fail while they're being cyborgized and are replaced with mechanical ones. The doctor then points the appropriateness of their names. However they seem unaffected (possibly the only bit of good science in the series).

* Hisao Nakai, the protagonist of the VN ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', finds out in the very first scene (where he gets a life-threatening heart attack in the middle of being confessed to by his crash, no less) that he suffers from chronic arrhythmia. This results in him being transferred into a school that specializes in accommodating students with various physical disabilities, where the game itself is set. The first Act revolves in large around Hisao's coming to terms with his now suddenly-frighteningly-tangible mortality (represented by his defective heart) and the fact that he must now start thinking of himself as "disabled" and completely change his lifestyle (no more playing soccer, watching his diet, having to take all his medicines every day, etc.), and each of the game's routes continues his internal conflict regarding this in a different fashion (because in each route his personality is slightly changed by falling in love with a very different sort of girl - although in all cases he does eventually learn to accept his short life expectancy one way or another, except for the extremely short "Bad Ending" route, which is achieved by constantly making choices implying Hisao cannot deal with his problem and ends up becoming a lonely, depressed man). Hearts are a constant theme in the game, especially where Hisao is concerned, and in fact, the game's very logo is that of a heart with a band-aid on it.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', [[spoiler:Tobi, who is revealed to be ''Obito'', causes Kakashi to pierce him through the chest, to show him that he no longer has a heart. He claims to have removed it to stop feeling the pain caused by losing [[TheLostLenore Rin]], and he plans to fill the hole left behind with a LotusEaterMachine where he can [[IRejectYourReality pretend Rin is still alive]]]].

* Tsubaki Kakyouin from ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' also got a heart transplant due to hers being too weak. [[spoiler: It belonged to her best friend Eileen, the local InnocentFlowerGirl, who was kidnapped and killed for it. Tsubaki came to learn about it and was so emotionally crushed... that she developed a SplitPersonality that called herself "Eileen" and started killing people.]]