Half The Man He Used To Be / Western Animation

• In the Action League NOW! episode "The Quarky Syndrome", Quarky the Lab Girl gains superpowers after she gets hit with nuclear waste from The Mayor's nuclear reactor. When Bill the Lab Guy looks over her, Quarky accidentally zaps him with her laser eyes, splitting him in half down the middle. Bill spends the rest of the episode bandaged together.
• Happens to Teri twice in The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Advice": being made out of paper, she does a split on an oiled floor and splits in half, then after she's taped back together Darwin accidentally tears her torso off in the infirmary. Later in "The Pact", she willingly splits in half to avoid sharing a bus seat with Principal Brown.
• American Dad!:
  • In "A Ward Show", Roger pays back some teachers that beat up Steve by planting bombs in their cars. The first two are killed in the resulting explosions, the third tries to make a break for it and his torso explodes instead.
  • One scene in "The Wrestler" has Stan inadvertently restoring an old man's mobility, who then gets sliced in half when he runs into a Sheet of Glass that two guys decided to hold laying flat instead of vertically. A legless student then takes his severed legs and runs off.
  • In "Naked to the Limit, One More Time", a guy in a flashback rips Jeff in half at the waist after Jeff protests him wearing a fur coat, and in the present, he's showing Roger the scar where he was sewn back together. Later in "The Devil Wears a Lapel Pin", he's bisected again by a roided-up Bullock.
  • In "Eight Fires", when Stan's brain is pierced by a nail and he loses the ability to speak in exchange for developing piano skills, he meets the manager of a Nordstrom at the mall who exploits his newfound talent. When the nail is removed, Stan immediately loses his skills, and when the guy tries to put another nail in his head, Stan throws him and he gets quite graphically torn in half between two escalators. In the same episode, when Roger is mauled by a bear on a remote island, he and Francine have to eat his bottom half to survive. Roger shrugs it off because his body will just grow back, then freaks out at the thought that it might not.
  • In "Downtown", a woman who's been pursuing Steve and Hayley all episode attempts to kill them with a bazooka, but some kids that they helped earlier launch a ball into it before she fires, causing it to backfire and blow up her torso.
  • Exaggerated in "Yule. Tide. Repeat.": In the episode, Stan is in a 5-minute "Groundhog Day" Loop that keeps ending with him dying or his family dying in the explosion of a giant Christmas tree at the mall catching fire. At one point, he tries to break the loop by cutting the power, but the head of the celebration gets angry and kicks a metal fence into one of the steel wires holding the tree down, cutting the wire and causing it to fly out and bisect the whole audience. Roger simply puts himself back together and runs off, but a polar bear picks him up and his legs run off sans the rest of him, then he dies when his organs fall out and the polar bear splits shortly after.
• This has happened a few times in Animaniacs; in "Scare Happy Slappy" a bomb blows Walter Wolf in half and he later sews himself back together, and in "Rest in Pieces" Sid Squid is cut in half by a statue's sword.
• In one Beetlejuice cartoon, Beetlejuice and Lydia meet several oddball characters representing the plays of William Shakespeare, including Henry VI Part 1 (The top half of Henry VI's body.) and Henry VI Part 2 (The lower half.)
• In Courage the Cowardly Dog, one of Courage's various freak-outs involves him pulling on his ears and splitting himself in half.
• In The Crumpets episode "No Pffuture", T-Bone the dog (whose fur coat was already pulled off by Li'l-One and the twins Bother and Blister) gets sliced inside his doghouse by a runaway chainsaw. After his front part chased and caught Ma's shoes (which are tangled by a moving red thread) and the rear part followed the front part, the halves rejoin just before going back to the fur coat.
• In The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse, Count Duckula gets DM to saw him in half (as part of an act for the TV show the Count wants). DM obliges, only Duckula is sawed in half vertically.
• The Dick Tracy Show: Joe Jitsu mixes an invisibility formula that the Brow and Oodles drink. But it makes only the bottom half of Oodles and the top half of the Brow disappear. Joe points out that it will save the city money as they will only need one striped prison suit between them.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • In the episode "Cosmo Rules", Jorgen caught the trick-ups and had to pass on his duties of enforcing the rules to a family member, the only available one being Cosmo. After giving Cosmo his wand, Jorgen said without it he felt like half the man he used to be. Then he hiccupped, making a magician's saw cut him in half (a symptom of trick-ups is doing a magic trick every time one hiccups). Jorgen then commented he literally was half the man he used to be.
  • In "Man's Worst Friend", when The Grim Reaper, currently working at a pet store in Anti-Fairy World, pays Foop and Anti-Sparky $2,000 to take all of the evil pets off his hands, Anti-Sparky takes all of it. When Foop asks if they can go halfsies, Anti-Sparky shoots a laser from his tail and splits Foop down the middle.
    Foop: (Screams Like a Little Girl) That's not what I meant!
• Family Guy:
  • In "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", one of the people that Peter sees at a synagogue is half of Lenny Kravitz.
  • In a parody of Two and a Half Men, two guys and a third who's missing his lower body scream in horror.
  • "Brian Sings and Swings" opens with Peter waking up from a dream about eating a sheep. He then sees a sheep missing its legs dragging itself around the bedroom.
  • In "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair", after Stewie's Evil Twin escapes, he stops a woman driving and cuts her down the middle with a machete before stealing her car.
• Happens to Donald Duck at the end of the House of Mouse episode "Salute to Sports", as a result of him being kicked in the chest by Mulan while attempting to show the audience her karate skills. Moments later, he is completely bandaged up.
• An episode of I Am Weasel featured someone erasing characters in Cow and Chicken , the Red Guy. The entire episode ends by revealing it was a nightmare by Cow who dreamt Mom and Dad were only half there. The screen pans out to reveal they are. The only other episode that showed this was the pilot.
• Infinity Train: In "The Wasteland", Mace succeeds in handcuffing MT, only to be bisected by one of the train's wheels shortly after. It doesn't kill him, however, and he spends most of the rest of the episode this way until MT kills him herself.
• In the Inspector Gadget episode "Bad Dreams Are Made of This", Gadget uses a laser to do this to a robot. Both of the robot's halves then make separate Impact Silhouettes in a nearby wall.
• Jellystone!: In "Must Be Jelly", when Mr. Jinks gets turned into gelatin, he is leaning over the edge of a couch and he splits in half at the waist. He is still in this state when he is restored to normal, but he just shrugs it off.
  Jinks: Hey, I've got a nice butt!
• This happens to Red Tornado in the Justice League Unlimited episode "The Return". (Fortunately, he's an android, and got better later.)
• Mr. Cat from Kaeloo does this to the indestructible Quack Quack in several episodes using a chainsaw.
• Kid Cosmic: In Episode 3, Chuck ends up losing his body from the waist down. He's not hurt in any way, because his species can survive dismemberment pretty easily.
• Very much not Played for Comedy in The Legend of Vox Machina, when Archie Desnay is sliced gorily in half at the waist by Duke Vedmire as his childhood friend Percy watches helplessly.
• A recurring gag of Looney Tunes and Tex Avery MGM Cartoons, usually as a result of the Saw a Woman in Half trick, the character believes he is unharmed and his body separates as he walks away.
  • In the Looney Tunes short Show Biz Bugs, Daffy Duck offers to be sawed in half in Bugs' trick only to try and prove it's an illusion. When Daffy comes out and jumps up and down yelling for the audience to stop applauding, he finds his body separated. Good thing he has Blue Cross.
  • In the Egghead cartoon "Believe It Or Else", he volunteers to participate in an illusionist's saw-in-half trick (only to attempt to debunk it). His lower half walks off on its own as his top half chases after it.
  • In the Tex Avery MGM Cartoons short Daredevil Droopy, during Droopy's audition for a circus act, he uses Spike/Butch, his competitor, for a sawing a person in half routine. After the act ends, the upper and lower halves of Spike/Butch's body walk in opposite directions.
• A very weird version of this trope appears in "Sea Legs" from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. A giant apparently left his legs behind and Captain K'nuckles decides to steal them to substitute for his wooden legs. The giant wasn't happy about this when he returned.
• In the Mickey Mouse (2013) short "One-Man Band", Mickey has an Imagine Spot of being pulled by a medieval rack until it breaks him in half.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes has a moment where K.O.'s alter-ego T.K.O. does this... to the sun.
• In an episode of The Powerpuff Girls (1998), Buttercup slices a cyclops monster in half, and its two halves then hop away.
• A Running Gag with Warren Stone in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Every episode he appears in will invariably have him get cut in half. Fortunately, he's a worm, so he regenerates.
• In the Rocket Monkeys episode "Trick or Trixie", Wally's Extreme Omnivore Pet Monstrosity tries to eat Gus, who afterward walks away with his torso severed from his legs and hovering commenting that he needs a bandage.
• In The Shivering Truth episode "The Diff", a geek is split down the middle by another character, with one half still retaining his original meek personality and the other now being a macho alpha. They go on to live their own lives but are both paranoid that the other is having a better life than him.
• The Simpsons:
  • A fantasy of Bart's involves Skinner getting chopped in half by a robot ant.
  • In one "Treehouse of Horror" episode, Seymour Skinner suffers this after a golem uses him like a yo-yo.
  • In the Couch Gag of "Homer Loves Flanders", there are two couches in the living room, so the family split themselves down the middle so they can sit on both at the same time.
  • In "Treehouse of Horror XVI", a cyborg Bart comes home to challenge his robotic replacement, who holds up Homer in an "if you want to kill me, you have to kill him" gambit. Bart bisects them both without a second thought and Homer has to use the robot's legs to replace his own, before it's revealed to all be Homer's dream.
  • In "The Neptune Adventure" story of the episode "The Wettest Stories Ever Told", Krusty's lower half lands on top of his upper half, allowing him to "go out with a sight gag".
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • In "Texas", while escaping from Sandy after he and Patrick insulted Texas, SpongeBob hides behind a tree that Sandy karate chops in half, and him with it. His two halves go back to running before rejoining.
  • At the end of "Procrastination", after being told that SpongeBob wasted all that time writing his essay for naught, he rips it in half, and then he splits shortly after.
  • In "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy IV", Squidward is cut in half by a pair of scissors when SpongeBob uses Mermaid Man's utility belt on him while trying to bring him back to normal size.
  • In "I Had an Accident", SpongeBob gets torn in half by a gorilla, but it doesn't even keep him from talking.
    SpongeBob: Is it too late to go back inside yet? [rip] It's too late.
  • In "Krabby Land", SpongeBob pays two muscular guys to tear him in half to please a crowd of kids who enjoy seeing him in pain.
  • In "Dunces and Dragons", SpongeBob slices Squidward's medieval counterpart Squidly in half as a demonstration of karate to the medieval Sandy; he is fine later.
    Squidly: [deadpan] Ow-eth.
  • In "BlackJack", SpongeBob envisions his criminal cousin BlackJack now being huge and ripping him in half in the same manner as the gorilla above.
  • In "Krusty Krushers", one of the two wrestling champs rips the other in half as a display of toughness, and the one ripped in half doesn't even flinch.
  • In "Patrick! The Game", during the montage of Patrick tearing up game boards to combine for his own board game, he cuts one with a pair of scissors and, due to Rule of Funny, bisects himself vertically along with it.
• Star Wars:
  • Obi-Wan bisects and dismembers Durge in Star Wars: Clone Wars; it only slows him down until he can regenerate.
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars:
    • "Counterattack": One unfortunate clone trooper gets cut in half by the security doors in the Citadel's vents, hidden by a Scream Discretion Shot.
    • "Revenge": Said almost verbatim by Asajj Ventress to Savage Oppress about his brother, Darth Maul; now sporting a General Grievous-esque pair of cybernetic legs conjured for him by Mother Talzin.
    • "Dangerous Debt": A Pyke guard on a moving elevator who gets into a struggle with Rafa, Trace and Ahsoka over his baton is cut in half (via Gory Discretion Shot) when he gets caught between the lift's edge and one of the stairwell beams.
  • Star Wars Rebels: While it's not directly shown, Maul himself kills the Seventh Sister this way in "Twilight of the Apprentice".
• In the Superjail! episode "Lord Stingray Crash Party", this is how Alice kills the titular character's wife with her bare hands no less!
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), this is how the Demon Shredder meets his demise, with green fire substituting for the expected shower of blood.
• Tom and Jerry
  • In the short "Touché, Pussy Cat" Jerry cuts Tom in half with an axe while saving Nibbles. He is fine later.
  • In another short, Tom used a laser beam to cut a hole on the wall Jerry was hidden in. On his hurry, he forgot to turn off the laser before chasing Jerry, getting himself cut.
• Unikitty!: To create a Frankenstein's Monster to be his friend, Puppycorn takes half of Richard's entire body, and the latter doesn't even notice.
• On The Venture Brothers, Brock Samson does this to mercenary LeTour with his own sword. "A 7-10 split, good luck picking up that spare."
• Zig from Zig & Sharko has been cut in half on multiple occasions. He is sometimes seen taping himself back together afterward.

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