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* Very much ''not'' PlayedForComedy in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'', when [[spoiler:Archie Desnay]] is sliced gorily in half at the waist by [[spoiler:Duke Vedmire]] as his childhood friend Percy watches helplessly.
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** In the CouchGag 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 one of the {{Halloween Episode}}s, Seymour Skinner suffers this after a golem uses him like a yo-yo.
** In another Halloween episode, 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 [[AllJustADream it's revealed to all be Homer's dream]].
** In one of the {{Halloween Episode}}s, Seymour Skinner suffers this after a golem uses him like a yo-yo.
** In another Halloween episode, 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 [[AllJustADream it's revealed to all be Homer's dream]].
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** 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".
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** In one "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror" episode, Seymour Skinner suffers this after a {{golem}} uses him like a yo-yo.
** In the CouchGag of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E16HomerLovesFlanders 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI 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 [[AllJustADream it's revealed to all be Homer's dream]].
** In "The Neptune Adventure" story of the episode"The "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E18TheWettestStoriesEverTold The Wettest Stories Ever Told", Told]]", Krusty's lower half lands on top of his upper half, allowing him to "go out with a sight gag".
** In the CouchGag of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E16HomerLovesFlanders 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 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI 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 [[AllJustADream it's revealed to all be Homer's dream]].
** In "The Neptune Adventure" story of the episode
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** In "Texas", while escaping from Sandy after he and Patrick [[BerserkButton 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=] [[ShaggyDogStory 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 [[ItMakesSenseInContext tore in half by a gorilla]], but [[GoodThingYouCanHeal it doesn't even keep him from talking.]]
** At the end of "Procrastination", after being told that [=SpongeBob=] [[ShaggyDogStory 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 [[ItMakesSenseInContext tore in half by a gorilla]], but [[GoodThingYouCanHeal it doesn't even keep him from talking.]]
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** In "Texas", "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E18TexasWalkingSmall Texas]]", while escaping from Sandy after he and Patrick [[BerserkButton 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", "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E17ProcrastinationImWithStupid Procrastination]]", after being told that [=SpongeBob=] [[ShaggyDogStory wasted all that time writing his essay for naught]], he rips it in half, and then he splits shortly after.
** In"Mermaid "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E5MermaidManAndBarnacleBoyIVDoingTime Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy IV", 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 "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E16BornAgainKrabsIHadAnAccident I Had an Accident" Accident]]", [=SpongeBob=] gets [[ItMakesSenseInContext tore torn in half by a gorilla]], but [[GoodThingYouCanHeal it doesn't even keep him from talking.]]talking]].
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** 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; [[UnexplainedRecovery he is fine later]].
--->'''Squidly:''' (deadpan) [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe 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, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction 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 RuleOfFunny, bisects himself vertically along with it.
** In "Dunces and Dragons", [=SpongeBob=] slices Squidward's medieval counterpart Squidly in half as a demonstration of karate to the medieval Sandy; [[UnexplainedRecovery he is fine later]].
--->'''Squidly:''' (deadpan) [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe 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, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction 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 RuleOfFunny, bisects himself vertically along with it.
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** In "Krabby Land", "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E17 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 "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E6DuncesAndDragons Dunces and Dragons", Dragons]]", [=SpongeBob=] slices Squidward's medieval counterpart Squidly in half as a demonstration of karate to the medieval Sandy; [[UnexplainedRecovery he is fine later]].
--->'''Squidly:'''(deadpan) ''[deadpan]'' [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Ow-eth]].
** In"[=BlackJack=]", "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS5E13PictureDayPatNoPayBlackjack 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", "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS6E13KrustyKrushersTheCard Krusty Krushers]]", one of the two wrestling champs rips the other in half as a display of toughness, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction and the one ripped in half doesn't even flinch]].
** In"Patrick! "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS9E16PatrickTheGameTheSewersOfBikiniBottom Patrick! The Game", 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 RuleOfFunny, bisects himself vertically along with it.
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** However in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'', Tom was bleeding after being cut in half!
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* A RunningGag with [[HarmlessVillain Warren Stone]] in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Every episode he appears in will invariably have him get cut in half. Fortunately, he's a worm, [[HealingFactor so he regenerates]].
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** At the end of "Procrastination", after being told that [=SpongeBob=] [[ShaggyDogStory wasted all that time writing his essay for naught]], he rips it in half, and then he splits shortly after.
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** "Yule. Tide. Repeat." sees Stan in a 5-minute GroundhogDayLoop 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 the tree, causing one of the steel wires holding it down to come loose and bisect most of the people there. 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.
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** Exaggerated in "Yule. Tide. Repeat." sees ": In the episode, Stan is in a 5-minute GroundhogDayLoop 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 the tree, causing a metal fence into one of the steel wires holding the tree down, cutting the wire and causing it down to come loose fly out and bisect most of the people there.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.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', one of the main character's various freak-outs involves him pulling on his ears and splitting himself in half.
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* On In ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', one of the main character's Courage's various freak-outs involves him pulling on his ears and splitting himself in half.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Buttercup slices a cyclops monster in half, and its two halves then hop away.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', Buttercup slices a cyclops monster in half, and its two halves then hop away.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' 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 ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E22TheAdvice 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 "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS6E12ThePact The Pact]]", she willingly splits in half to avoid sharing a bus seat with Principal Brown.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** In "A Ward Show", Roger pays back some teachers that beat up Steve by [[ExternalCombustion 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 SheetOfGlass 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 [[MadeOfPlasticine 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 [[AndroclesLion some kids that they helped earlier]] launch a ball into it before she fires, causing it to backfire and blow up her torso.
** "Yule. Tide. Repeat." sees Stan in a 5-minute GroundhogDayLoop 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 the tree, causing one of the steel wires holding it down to come loose and bisect most of the people there. 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 ''WesternAnimation/{{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 ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' cartoon, Beetlejuice and Lydia meet several oddball characters representing the plays of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, including ''Theatre/HenryVIPart1'' [[LiteralMetaphor (The top half of Henry VI's]] body.) and ''Theatre/HenryVIPart2'' [[VisualPun (The lower half.)]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', one of the main character's various freak-outs involves him pulling on his ears and splitting himself in half.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'' 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 WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** 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. [[TemptingFate 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 TheGrimReaper, 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:''' ''(ScreamsLikeALittleGirl)'' That's not what I meant!
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", one of the people that Peter sees at a synagogue is half of Music/LennyKravitz.
** In a parody of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', 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 EvilTwin escapes, he stops a woman driving and cuts her down the middle with a machete before stealing her car.
* Happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode "Salute to Sports", as a result of him being kicked in the chest by WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} while attempting to show the audience her karate skills. Moments later, he is completely bandaged up.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' featured someone erasing characters in ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' [[spoiler:, 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': In "The Wasteland", Mace succeeds in handcuffing MT, only to be bisected by one of the train's wheels shortly after. [[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody 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 ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' 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 Silhouette}}s in a nearby wall.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{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 [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight he just]] [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction shrugs it off]].
-->'''Jinks''': Hey, I've got a nice butt!
* This happens to Red Tornado in the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "The Return". (Fortunately, he's an android, and got better later.)
* [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' does this to the [[NighInvulnerability indestructible]] Quack Quack in several episodes using a chainsaw.
* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': 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.
* A recurring gag of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons'', usually as a result of the SawAWomanInHalf 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 WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'s audition for a circus act, he uses Spike/Butch, his competitor, for a [[SawAWomanInHalf 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 ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. 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 ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short "One-Man Band", Mickey has an ImagineSpot of being pulled by a medieval rack until it breaks him in half.
* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' has a moment where K.O.'s alter-ego T.K.O. does this... to the '''sun.'''
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Buttercup slices a cyclops monster in half, and its two halves then hop away.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RocketMonkeys'' episode "Trick or Trixie", Wally's ExtremeOmnivore PetMonstrosity tries to eat Gus, who afterward walks away with his torso severed from his legs and hovering commenting that [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction he needs a bandage]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheShiveringTruth'' 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the CouchGag 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 one of the {{Halloween Episode}}s, Seymour Skinner suffers this after a golem uses him like a yo-yo.
** In another Halloween episode, 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 [[AllJustADream it's revealed to all be Homer's dream]].
** A fantasy of Bart's involves Skinner getting chopped in half by a robot ant.
** 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".
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "Texas", while escaping from Sandy after he and Patrick [[BerserkButton 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.
** 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 [[ItMakesSenseInContext tore in half by a gorilla]], but [[GoodThingYouCanHeal 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; [[UnexplainedRecovery he is fine later]].
--->'''Squidly:''' (deadpan) [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe 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, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction 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 RuleOfFunny, bisects himself vertically along with it.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Obi-Wan bisects and dismembers Durge in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars''; it only slows him down [[PullingThemselvesTogether until he can regenerate.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
*** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E19Counterattack "Counterattack"]]: One unfortunate clone trooper gets cut in half by the security doors in the Citadel's vents, hidden by a ScreamDiscretionShot.
*** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E22Revenge "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.
*** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E7DangerousDebt "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 GoryDiscretionShot) when he gets caught between the lift's edge and one of the stairwell beams.
** ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': While [[GoryDiscretionShot it's not directly shown]], Maul himself kills the Seventh Sister this way in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E19TwilightOfTheApprentice "Twilight of]] [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E20TwilightOfTheApprenticePartII the Apprentice"]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' episode "Lord Stingray Crash Party", this is how Alice kills the titular character's wife ''with her bare hands no less''!
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', this is how the Demon Shredder meets his demise, with green fire substituting for the expected shower of blood.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''
** In the short "Touché, Pussy Cat" Jerry cuts Tom in half with an axe while saving Nibbles. [[UnexplainedRecovery He is fine later]].
** However in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'', Tom was bleeding after being cut in half!
** 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, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard getting himself cut]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'': To create a FrankensteinsMonster to be his friend, Puppycorn takes half of Richard's entire body, and the latter doesn't even notice.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson does this to mercenary [=LeTour=] with his own sword. "A 7-10 split, good luck picking up that spare."
* Zig from ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'' has been cut in half on multiple occasions. He is sometimes seen taping himself back together afterward.
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* Happens to Teri twice in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E22TheAdvice 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 "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS6E12ThePact The Pact]]", she willingly splits in half to avoid sharing a bus seat with Principal Brown.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** In "A Ward Show", Roger pays back some teachers that beat up Steve by [[ExternalCombustion 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 SheetOfGlass 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 [[MadeOfPlasticine 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 [[AndroclesLion some kids that they helped earlier]] launch a ball into it before she fires, causing it to backfire and blow up her torso.
** "Yule. Tide. Repeat." sees Stan in a 5-minute GroundhogDayLoop 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 the tree, causing one of the steel wires holding it down to come loose and bisect most of the people there. 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 ''WesternAnimation/{{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 ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' cartoon, Beetlejuice and Lydia meet several oddball characters representing the plays of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, including ''Theatre/HenryVIPart1'' [[LiteralMetaphor (The top half of Henry VI's]] body.) and ''Theatre/HenryVIPart2'' [[VisualPun (The lower half.)]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', one of the main character's various freak-outs involves him pulling on his ears and splitting himself in half.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'' 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 WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'': 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** 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. [[TemptingFate 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 TheGrimReaper, 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:''' ''(ScreamsLikeALittleGirl)'' That's not what I meant!
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", one of the people that Peter sees at a synagogue is half of Music/LennyKravitz.
** In a parody of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', 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 EvilTwin escapes, he stops a woman driving and cuts her down the middle with a machete before stealing her car.
* Happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode "Salute to Sports", as a result of him being kicked in the chest by WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} while attempting to show the audience her karate skills. Moments later, he is completely bandaged up.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' featured someone erasing characters in ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' [[spoiler:, 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': In "The Wasteland", Mace succeeds in handcuffing MT, only to be bisected by one of the train's wheels shortly after. [[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody 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 ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' 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 Silhouette}}s in a nearby wall.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{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 [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight he just]] [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction shrugs it off]].
-->'''Jinks''': Hey, I've got a nice butt!
* This happens to Red Tornado in the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "The Return". (Fortunately, he's an android, and got better later.)
* [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' does this to the [[NighInvulnerability indestructible]] Quack Quack in several episodes using a chainsaw.
* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': 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.
* A recurring gag of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons'', usually as a result of the SawAWomanInHalf 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 WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'s audition for a circus act, he uses Spike/Butch, his competitor, for a [[SawAWomanInHalf 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 ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. 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 ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short "One-Man Band", Mickey has an ImagineSpot of being pulled by a medieval rack until it breaks him in half.
* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' has a moment where K.O.'s alter-ego T.K.O. does this... to the '''sun.'''
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Buttercup slices a cyclops monster in half, and its two halves then hop away.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RocketMonkeys'' episode "Trick or Trixie", Wally's ExtremeOmnivore PetMonstrosity tries to eat Gus, who afterward walks away with his torso severed from his legs and hovering commenting that [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction he needs a bandage]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheShiveringTruth'' 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the CouchGag 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 one of the {{Halloween Episode}}s, Seymour Skinner suffers this after a golem uses him like a yo-yo.
** In another Halloween episode, 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 [[AllJustADream it's revealed to all be Homer's dream]].
** A fantasy of Bart's involves Skinner getting chopped in half by a robot ant.
** 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".
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "Texas", while escaping from Sandy after he and Patrick [[BerserkButton 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.
** 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 [[ItMakesSenseInContext tore in half by a gorilla]], but [[GoodThingYouCanHeal 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; [[UnexplainedRecovery he is fine later]].
--->'''Squidly:''' (deadpan) [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe 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, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction 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 RuleOfFunny, bisects himself vertically along with it.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Obi-Wan bisects and dismembers Durge in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars''; it only slows him down [[PullingThemselvesTogether until he can regenerate.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
*** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E19Counterattack "Counterattack"]]: One unfortunate clone trooper gets cut in half by the security doors in the Citadel's vents, hidden by a ScreamDiscretionShot.
*** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E22Revenge "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.
*** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E7DangerousDebt "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 GoryDiscretionShot) when he gets caught between the lift's edge and one of the stairwell beams.
** ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': While [[GoryDiscretionShot it's not directly shown]], Maul himself kills the Seventh Sister this way in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E19TwilightOfTheApprentice "Twilight of]] [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E20TwilightOfTheApprenticePartII the Apprentice"]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' episode "Lord Stingray Crash Party", this is how Alice kills the titular character's wife ''with her bare hands no less''!
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', this is how the Demon Shredder meets his demise, with green fire substituting for the expected shower of blood.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''
** In the short "Touché, Pussy Cat" Jerry cuts Tom in half with an axe while saving Nibbles. [[UnexplainedRecovery He is fine later]].
** However in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'', Tom was bleeding after being cut in half!
** 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, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard getting himself cut]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'': To create a FrankensteinsMonster to be his friend, Puppycorn takes half of Richard's entire body, and the latter doesn't even notice.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Brock Samson does this to mercenary [=LeTour=] with his own sword. "A 7-10 split, good luck picking up that spare."
* Zig from ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'' has been cut in half on multiple occasions. He is sometimes seen taping himself back together afterward.
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