History Main / OffWithHisHead

* Guts of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' is powerful enough to shear off the head of a horse with one blow from his {{BFS}}, as evidenced during the rampage at the end of the first Black Swordsman story. He pulls off an extremely spectacular decapitation in his fight against General Boscone during the Golden Age Arc; taking a sword lent to him by [[NobleDemon Nosferatu Zodd]], he uses it to chop off the heads of both Boscone and his horse in one mighty swing!

** At the end of the manga, this is Eren's final fate (as he has become the BigBad at this point after spending most of the manga as TheHero) when Mikasa enters his mouth during his battle with Armin in Colossal Titan form and separates his head from his spine.

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: When Sophist receives a prompt to draw himself [[ExcrementStatement peeing on Vernias]] in their first ''Gartic Phone'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOfPfz30VzY video]], he draws himself [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sophist_pees_on_vernias.png hitting Vernias with such an excessive stream of urine that it ends up decapitating him]].

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: When Sophist receives a prompt to draw himself [[ExcrementStatement peeing on Vernias]] in their first ''Gartic Phone'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOfPfz30VzY video]], he draws himself [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sophist_peeing_on_vernias.png hitting Vernias with such an excessive stream of urine that it ends up decapitating him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': How Bushido Brown meets his end.
* Implied to have happened offscreen to Chef Puree in ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' "The Fancy Restaurant."

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: When Sophist receives a prompt to draw himself [[ExcrementStatement pissing on Vernias]] in their first ''Gartic Phone'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOfPfz30VzY video]], he draws himself [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sophist_peeing_on_vernias.png hitting Vernias with such an excessive piss stream that it ends up decapitating him.]]

* In ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'', the State of Clerville carries out death sentences via guillotine (TheArtifact from the early issues, when the story was supposed to be set in France). Every time Diabolik is arrested, the police needs only to file the paperwork to try and behead him, as when he was arrested the second time he was held long enough to be tried and sentenced to death - though actually carrying out the deed is easier said than done. This becomes an especially important plot point in two occasions:

* ''ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}} Returns'' begins with Dreadstar defeating a tyrant named Plunndo Tram by decapitating him.

* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' comics:

* In ''ComicBook/LastDaysOfTheJusticeSociety'', Starman uses his cosmic rod in the battle of Ragnarok to decapitate Loki, whose [[HornAttack horned head]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice then stabs]] [[InTheBack Starman in the back]].

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' Franken-Castle arc shows ComicBook/WerewolfByNight tearing off a {{mook|s}}'s head ''with his bare hands''.

* In ''ComicBook/SachsAndViolens'', the girls in the {{Snuff Film}}s are killed by being decapitated with an executioner's axe.

* In the ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' tie-in ''ComicBook/MrsDeadpoolAndTheHowlingCommandos'' Marcus gets his head chopped off by Dracula with one clean sword-swing.
* Due to his strength ComicBook/SimonDark uses his garrote wire to decapitate people. He does so rarely as he is opposed to killing humans, but he makes exceptions for those who have been killed by possessing entities and a rapist targeting the local high school.

* Occurs regularly in ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'', especially if a ZergRush is involved.

* ComicBook/{{X 23}} wordlessly beheads a pimp she catches beating a prostitute in her self-titled one-shot. As her claws are coated in adamantium, she has little trouble slicing through his neck in one blow.
* Jiro from ''ComicBook/GetJiro'' is introduced beheading a customer for his lack of sushi etiquette and asking for a california roll. This is apparently a regular occurrence.

* At one point in the LetsPlay/PartyCrashers[='=] first ''Gartic Phone'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOfPfz30VzY video]], Sophist receives a prompt to draw himself [[ExcrementStatement pissing on Vernias]]. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sophist_peeing_on_vernias.png His drawing]] consists of him hitting Vernias with such an excessive piss stream that it ends up decapitating him.

* At one point during the LetsPlay/PartyCrashers[='=] first ''Gartic Phone'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOfPfz30VzY video]], Sophist receives a prompt to draw himself [[ExcrementStatement pissing on Vernias]]. His drawing consists of him hitting Vernias with such an excessive piss stream that it ends up decapitating him.

* ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'': At one point during their first ''Gartic Phone'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOfPfz30VzY video]], Sophist receives a prompt to draw himself [[ExcrementStatement pissing on Vernias]]. His drawing consists of him hitting Vernias with such an excessive piss stream that it ends up decapitating him.

If you're dealing with any sword-oriented media, whether it be fantasy, medieval, kung fu, or something else, and it's more violent than a PG-13 rating, chances are, someone is going to get his head chopped off (and it may not even need the R rating if you're [[NotEvenHuman dealing with nonhuman enemies]]). One of the most common methods of execution back in the medieval era next to hanging, decapitation is usually one of the surest ways to ensure someone is DeaderThanDead barring some very potent magic or divine intervention. Indeed, in RealLife, it is one of the very few ways that death can be instantly diagnosed (since it's impossible for humans to live without a head.)

** A government official is assassinated through being shot in the head with a bullet .50 caliber. That alone destroys his head overall-then the assassin fires into his head ''again'', to completely destroy it.