Get this damn thing off my neck
I'm the head of the board now I'm bored of my head
Sharpen up the blade, boys
What are you waiting for?
Here's where we all get ahead!
Wipe that damn smile off your face
Or we'll lop it off clean with our new guillotine
Sharpen up the blade, boys
Bells are now tolling, soon heads will be rolling
I'm the head of the board now I'm bored of my head
Sharpen up the blade, boys
What are you waiting for?
Here's where we all get ahead!
Wipe that damn smile off your face
Or we'll lop it off clean with our new guillotine
Sharpen up the blade, boys
Bells are now tolling, soon heads will be rolling
— Voltaire, The Headless Waltz
Wing: What about the assassin... Ghost?
Shelby: She's... erm... a little shorter than she used to be. (looks at Raven, who just cut off the assassin's head.) Remind me never to annoy her again.
— HIVE: Rouge
They're going to lose their heads, for painting the roses red, it serves them right, they planted white, the roses should be red. Oh, they’re going to lose their headsssss...
SILENCE!
"I'm gonna knock his head clean off!"
— Br'er Bear, Song of the South
"The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or my American heritage as a negative is: I collect your fucking head. Just like this fucker here. Now if any of you sons of bitches got ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY, NOW'S THE FUCKING TIME! ...I didn't think so."
— O-Ren Ishii from Kill Bill Vol. 1, after taking Boss Tanaka's head.
Off with his Head! So much for Buckingham.
"That man is a head taller than me. That may change."
(Mario is staring down Ganon and his minions while holding the Master Sword. The Moblin charges with a halberd.)
Moblin: Getya! I'm a get'cha!
(Cue Single-Stroke Battle and the Moblin's head falls off in the process.)
Moblin: Oh, my head!
Moblin: Getya! I'm a get'cha!
(Cue Single-Stroke Battle and the Moblin's head falls off in the process.)
Moblin: Oh, my head!
"The most interesting thing about King Charles I is that he was five foot six inches tall at the start of his reign, but only four foot eight inches tall at the end of it.
— Monty Python - Oliver Cromwell
"Well I guess decapitation works."
— Samuel after cutting a demon's head off, Supernatural
"You fear the cross. The sun. Fire. And, oh yes... (Adam pulls a vampire's head off through sheer strength) I believe decapitation is a problem as well."
—Adam, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
A man is lying on the street, some punk has chopped off his head,
I'm the only one who stops to see if he's dead.
Hmmm.... turns out he's dead.
I'm the only one who stops to see if he's dead.
Hmmm.... turns out he's dead.
— Flight of the Conchords, "Think About It"
"'I'M GOING TO CHOP YOUR HEAD OFF!"
— Axe Cop
"Blanka, no, not the headbite!"
— Guile, the Street Fighter cartoon
Rorf: What are you doing with that head?
Rygel: He's an old enemy. I like that he doesn't talk back.
Rygel: He's an old enemy. I like that he doesn't talk back.
— Farscape
To the axeman, all supplicants are the same height.
The Axedwarf hacks the goblin in the head with his ¤steel battle axe¤ and the severed part sails off in an arc.
Bring me Neo's head, now!
— The Merovingian, The Matrix: Path of Neo
You have stolen painted eggs in a time of famine. Off with their heads, Frank.
— Doctor Forrester, Mystery Science Theater 3000'
"It seems every year I'm at camp someone loses their head."
— Angela Baker, Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
"Every person condemned to death shall be beheaded."
— 1810 French Penal Code, art. 12
From a biological standpoint, hagfish - Myxine glutinosa - are fascinating and evolutionarily significant entities. From an aesthetic standpoint, they're pretty damn gross. I'm sure Wexler, former Brujah primogen councilor of this city, would agree with me if he could: after all, the haggish are swarming in and out of his mouth, battening themselves on his lips and spinal tissue, sucking the rich vitae from his medulla oblongata. But decapitation silences even our kind, and so, Wexler's eyes merely stare blindly at the slimy parasites.
—Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Tzimisce
Where is Kishnar? I want your report on him. Tell him I will give him twenty-four hours. I want that man's head.
The translator put emphasis on the last word.
"We have not found the body of the third agent, but his head was delivered to my office in a cardboard box." Major-General Vasuratna, Thai Military Intelligence.
"Part of their culture," Pepperidge told me, trying, I suppose, to make light of it. "Once you're snuffed, you won't care where the bloody thing is."
— Quiller's Run, by Adam Hall
"I'll have you shaved with the big razor!"
— Julius Heide, Blitzfreeze by Sven Hassel
"Edd, fetch me a block."
— Jon Snow, A Song of Ice and Fire
How they loved to promise heads, these men who would be king.
— Catelyn Stark, A Song of Ice and Fire
"My mother wishes me to let Lord Eddard join the Night's Watch. Stripped of all titles and powers, he would serve the realm in permanent exile. And my lady Sansa has begged mercy for her father. But they have the soft hearts of women. So long as I am your king, treason shall never go unpunished. Ser Ilyn... bring me his head!"
— Joffery Baratheon, Game of Thrones
Kings Landing: Live Free or Die Headless
Blackadder: That Farrow bloke you executed today; you sure he's dead?
Baldrick: Well, I chopped his head off. That usually does the trick.
Baldrick: Well, I chopped his head off. That usually does the trick.
—Blackadder II, "Head"
Over-Scholar Polorta: They divided us up, T'mani from R'larri, and made us sit on the road while they marched the R'larri out into the jo-stalk fields. It was harvest time you see. The jo fruits were ready to be cut. They use an automated laser; they can do that because every gene-sequenced stalk grows to exactly five and twenty joints. They lined the R'larri in rows, like the jo-stalks, and made each one hold up a leaf as if they were a plant. Then they sliced off their heads with the harvest lasers. Have you ever seen a hundred thousand people decapitated at once, Captain Chakotay?
Chatokay: Not that many.
Polorta: Ahh yes. But the problem is a R'larri is not a jo-stalk. Not everyone in that field was fortunate enough to be five and twenty joints high, especially the children. You see, the R'larri secondary nervous system is set lower than the main brain, so you can have the top of your head cut off and still be alive, in a fashion. I watched children stumbling about that field, alive yet dead, for five hours until they let us go.
— Over-Scholar Polorta, The Flux Of Mortal Things, a Star Trek: Voyager fanfic.
Abruptly the wind was there again, a savage gust of it that made me stagger to my knees. Something silver flickered past my eyes, moving so fast it was only a blur, and at the same moment, the air was full of noise and water again. But I was staring at the postie. I'd never seen a man decapitated before - well, not right in front of me, anyway. But that's cyclones for you. Nothing is more dangerous than a loose sheet of tin.
The other mailman was gawping now. His colleague's body took a few odd steps against the wind, and then fell over.
The last time they buried you, they made one big mistake, Thibor Ferenczy. They left your fucking head on!
—Boris Dragosani, Necroscope
"Lao Tzu said: 'You must find the way.' I've found it. You must find it too... So I'm going to cut off your head. Then you'll know the truth!"
— Didi, The Blue Lotus
"YOU DIDN'T USE YOUR HEADS! NONE OF YOU DID! PEOPLE WHO DON'T USE THEIR HEADS... DON'T NEED THEM..."
— Bernard, "Just Desserts!" (Shock SuspenStories #3)
Ax: <You aren't getting the box.>
Visser Three: <Then this human will be separated from his head. I understand that's usually fatal in humans.>
—Animorphs #20: The Discovery
Rocket: What did you do?
Thor: I went for the head.
Thor: I went for the head.
"You! Leave her, or I'll cut your head off and hang it from my belt!"
— Sirella, Deep Space Nine, "You Are Cordially Invited"
The herald muttered in my ear - these were the last words my fleshly ear would ever hear - "Drop your shoulders, lad." He spoke kindly, I believe. It is of course better if the cut does not pass through the shoulders as well as the neck. But it was hard for me to comply: every muscle in my frame had tensed taut as hardwood. This was something beyond my conscious control.
I heard the hum of the Clapper behind me, floating up and positioning itself. I almost called out, but I did not, and then the blade spun and bit, and my world went instantly dark and silent.
I did not feel any pain.
—Land Of The Headless, by Adam Roberts
"Now, men, chase her down. Return to me what is mine and send these von Carstein beasts a message... by taking her head!"
— Karl Franz, Total War: Warhammer
"I want him dead! I want his head cut off and brought here! I want his head on this piano so that every man in my organization understands, once more, that no Katana gets captured alive or talks! Got that?"
—Fujiyama, Samurai Cop
"It ate him... bit off his head... like a gingerbread man!"
—Crawford Tillinghast, From Beyond
Annie Porter: Where's Payne?
Jack Traven: He lost his head.
Jack Traven: He lost his head.
— Speed
"Leave your head here!"
—Shimazu Toyohisa , Drifters
'Oh my God, you guys, seriously, he actually wants to chop my head off! *Beat* I mean...I guess he just really liked my head.
— Anne Boleyn, Six: The Musical
DECAPITATIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
—Edward "Eddie" Riggs, Brütal Legend
"When decapitating an enemy, it is severe impoliteness to use more than one blow."
— Meti's Sword Manual, Kill Six Billion Demons
