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Alas, Poor Yorick
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One part squick, one part Tear Jerker, Alas, Poor Yorick takes place when a character picks up the severed head of a loved one and cradles it close to them. Depending on how gross you want to get, blood is optional, and sometimes just a skull or helmet is sufficient to get the point across. This trope is very often used to conjure up pity for the holder and perhaps suggest that they're more than a little off their rocker. Expect angst to follow. In animated adaptations of manga in particular, this part is often left out, presumably because it's too graphic for broadcast. Distinct from A Love to Dismember in that the person does not actually have a long term relationship with the part. Sub-Trope of Shout Out: To Shakespeare, and tends to be confused with the slightly more known "to be or not to be". If the character starts talking to the skull, it can be a Surrogate Soliloquy. Contrast Decapitation Presentation. Not to be confused with Alas, Poor Villain or Alas, Poor Scrappy, although they could overlap. The line is often misquoted as "I knew him well" rather than "I knew him, Horatio." (Although it does sum up the rest of the monologue nicely). As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. |
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In the Tales from the Crypt episode "Top Billing", Jon Lovitz kills his rival for what he thinks is the role of Hamlet in an off production of the play. It turns out he was "up" for the part of Yorick instead. It turns out that the "playhouse" is actually an insane asylum where the patients were putting on the play. The lead didn't like to kiss a plastic skull, and someone kept stealing the one that they had. Needless to say, it doesn't end well for Lovitz's character. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin: Though it occurs off-screen, Aoshi apparently takes the heads of the Oniwabanshu away to bury them after they are killed protecting him. This part was cut from the anime, where their bodies are kept intact. And though he didn't get to hold it, poor Sanosuke witnessed the sight of his adopted father Sagara Souzou's severed head being put on display by his killers. This naturally traumatized him. |
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Parodied in the bizarre "Agnus Redux" cutscene from Devil May Cry 4, where Agnus is doing a monologue to a human skull for no apparent reason other than trying to theatrically one-up Dante in the opera house. Agnus then dramatically crushes the skull with his hand and blows away its dust. | |
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In Resident Evil (Remake), Lisa Trevor picks up and cradles her mother's skull before committing suicide by jumping into a pit. | |
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The ending of School Days features a smiling Kotonoha floating away in a boat with Makoto's head, portrayed in the creepiest possible way. | |
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Chewbacca holds up C-3P0's head in The Empire Strikes Back looking like he's ready to go into a soliloquy. A deliberate Shout-Out to Shakespeare, according to director Irvin Kirshner. | |
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Subverted in Apocalypse Now. At one point, the severed head of one of Willard's men lands in his lap while he's tied to a cage, causing him to panic and throw it away. His reaction was most likely at least partially due to shock, as he had not been aware of the man's death prior to that moment, combined with his current mental state. | |
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The Joker's profile in Batman: Arkham City has him holding a skull to which he added his trademark make-up. | |
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Played with in Slings & Arrows: narcissistic theatrical director Oliver bequeathes his own skull to his theatre company, with instructions that it be used onstage in all future productions of Hamlet. When not in use, Geoffrey keeps it on his desk as an After Eight dispenser. This example also fulfills the "slightly crazy" criteria: Geoffrey has a history of fairly serious mental illness, and is currently being haunted by Oliver's ghost. This doesn't stop the whole thing from being incredibly funny. Then Oliver's ghost has to remind Geoffrey to get the skull to the theatre — just in time to be used in the performance. | |
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In Requiem of the Rose King which is based off of Richard III and Henry IV Richard kisses his father's severed head on the lips. | |
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In episode 37 of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Scooby (the seal from Moby Dick & The Mighty Mightor) retrieves the busted diving helmet of Angel Dynamite (a.k.a. Cassidy Williams), leaving the gang to sadly fear the worst had happened to her. | |
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In Eternal Darkness, a random sanity effect has the player character's head falling off their body; it can then be picked up, where it starts reciting Shakespeare. | |
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In Mystery Men the bowler keeps her father's skull in her bowling ball, and his ghost talks to her. | |
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In Ottori Sousa, Yua Kotegawa's first manga series, done by the 1st Tome's 3rd Psycho of the Week, after being punched by Detective Akiba and stumbling on boxes containing his victims' heads. 20 years before, the murderer's mother eloped from house and got murdered by a psychopath, who sent her severed head in a box to her home : the boy, who was 8 then, was the first person to open the box and discover the head. As a result, he turned mad and developed a Mother Complex : when he became a young man, he started replicating his trauma by murdering women and putting their heads in boxes to send to their homes, in hopes to find his mother in those women. | |
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Samus recovering Adam's helmet from Metroid: Other M. At least until it's violently interrupted by the ship's self-destruct sequence. | |
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In Angel Sanctuary, Rosiel cradling Kaitan's head. | |
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In Lamplight City, one of the cases Miles Fordham investigates involves a high society woman, a Madam Desiree Lathan, having been murdered by being burned to death. One of the few intacts pieces left of her body is her skull, and examining it causes Miles' rather snarky partner, Bill, to do a riff on the trope namer. | |
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This happens in Transformers: The Last Knight, when Megatron comes across the severed head of Starscream — his long-deceased second-in command who was killed in Dark of the Moon — in the scene where the Decepticons attack the junkyard. Before he battles Hound, Megatron picks it up and takes a moment to talk to it. While he does condescend Starscream, he also wistfully calls him his friend; suggesting that Megatron may have had some affection for his former right-hand man after all. | |
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In the Calvin and Hobbes Print Bonus comic "A Nauseous Nocturne," Calvin imagines being killed in his bed by a monster he read about in a horror comic and his dad coming into his room the next morning and picking up his skull. | |
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In Air Gear, Sora sat holding Kilik's severed head in his lap while he waited for The Hero to come fight him. Needless to say, he was the one who cut it off. | |
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In Animaniacs, one short features the brothers re-enacting the famous scene (complete with Mr. Skullhead), with Dot providing a modern-day English interpretation. | |
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In Your Turn to Die, when Sue Miley attempts to take away the corpse of Mishima, Nao (who had accidentally decapitated the corpse), freaks out and shoves the head into a box and runs off in a fit of insanity. You later have to talk her into calming down, but when Sara and Keiji check the box afterwards, the head is gone, and even Nao doesn't know what happened to it. | |
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In the cover of Supergirl (2005) # 47, Alura In-Ze does this with supervillain Reactron's helmet. | |
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The cover of The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #346. Venom, holding up a skull covered with shreds of fabric in a familiar pattern. | |
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Sesame Street: Patrick Stewart holds the letter B in this style when he makes a soliloquy to it. | |
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Played with in Y: The Last Man, when the protagonists spend the night in a Parisian crypt full of bones and Yorick just has to pick up one of the skulls. Also is Hypocritical Humor (or possibly a Lampshade Hanging on Yorick's part) since earlier when one of the Daughters of the Amazon was about to kill him, she quoted the line and he mocked her for being unoriginal. Additionally, the cover of an earlier issue displays Yorick's pet monkey, Ampersand, dressed in Shakespearean attire while holding a skull — a clear allusion to Hamlet. | |
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In Metalocalypse, Nathan Explosion contemplates going into comedy while holding up the skull of Buddy Hackett, purchased at an auction. | |
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PandoraHearts: Retrace LXXVIII, a flashback to the aftermath of the Tragedy of Sablier shows Jack, the sole survivor, holding Oswald/Glen's head close to his chest despite the fact that he was the one to kill him. It speaks volumes about the state of his mind at that time. | |
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Salome by Oscar Wilde, with a helping of necrophilia, too. ("I have kissed thee on thy mouth, Jokanaan...") In the opera version, Richard Strauss' music makes it even creepier. | |
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In Iron Man, Obadiah Stane (as Iron Monger) does this with Iron Man's separated helmet. Then he crushes it. | |
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In Iron Man 3, after Tony Stark's mansion is destroyed and he appears to have died, his girlfriend Pepper Potts finds a damaged Iron Man helmet in the rubble. She presses her forehead against the helmet's faceplate, mourning for Tony. Pepper's character poster had her cradling an Iron Man helmet looking down. | |
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Done for a laugh in Hot Shots! when Topper says that he is just like his father and even has his father's eyes... in a small case. | |
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Happens in the Inuyasha manga, when two little kids hug the severed heads of their parents. | |
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Marathon Infinity has a level called "Poor Yorick". This is more of a Shout Out: To Shakespeare (of which there are many in the trilogy) than a straight example of this trope, however, as it is otherwise unreferenced. However, the net play mode "Kill the Man with the Ball" could be considered a straight example of this trope: the "ball" is a human skull and is cradled in exactly the manner common to most depictions of the scene from Hamlet. | |
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Implied to have happened in some way in Homestuck, between Tavros just after his death and Gamzee. | |
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Clare carries Teresa's head with her in Claymore after the latter is killed by Priscilla. To top it off, Clare asks to have Teresa's flesh put inside of her so she can avenge Teresa by hunting down her killer. This part was cut from the anime. | |
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Parodied in The Order of the Stick, where Belkar carries around the sentient skull of a defeated, undead enemy, listing all sort of practical uses for the thing, and even calling it a third-rate Yorick knockoff. | |
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In Yona of the Dawn, Shin-ah is possessed by the ghost of one of his predecessors as the Blue Dragon Warrior, and learns about how this ancient dragon was trapped in the underground burial chamber of the Blue Dragon with a group of bandits and died alone, fighting them off. Once the ghost releases him, as Shin-ah is about to leave the catacombs, he lifts a skull off the ground and rests their foreheads together, wishing for him to rest well. He lays the skull back down on the ground, right next to the mask the ghost was wearing when he died. | |
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In Undertale, Papyrus says "ALAS, POOR PAPYRUS!" if you kill him on a neutral run, with his head falling into his hand before his body turns to dust. | |
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Referenced in Schlock Mercenary. A talking robot head says, "Alas, poor me." | |
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In one of the stories of Evolution from Stephen Baxter, a prehistoric woman digs out the skull of her dead child and cradles it, later she starts using it as a totem to intimidate and control the other members of her tribe. | |
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The 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives qualifies, though in that case the head belonged to a robot. | |
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In Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, when Uso's mother Mueller gets decapitated in a collision between two battleships, he brings the head (in its helmet) back for burial. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic does this, complete with paraphrased soliloquy, to the DVD of the Tom & Jerry cartoons during his review of the Tom & Jerry Movie. He then ends the moving performance with a quiet "...shitfuckers." | |
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2000 AD: Judge Dredd: Judge Fire is shown to have been in love with a female Dark Judge who destroyed herself to spite him. He kept her skull, staring at it for years to relive the event over and over again. Shakara: Some Buggerian mercenaries find Shakara's skull after his apparent destruction by the Hierarchy. They hold it up and taunt him, but of course he's Not Quite Dead. |
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In Henry VI Part 2, Queen Margaret carries the head of her dead lover Suffolk (recently killed by pirates) around ("Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast, / But where's the body that I should embrace?") King Henry is understandably none too thrilled about it. | |
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Shakara: Some Buggerian mercenaries find Shakara's skull after his apparent destruction by the Hierarchy. They hold it up and taunt him, but of course he's Not Quite Dead. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Iron Man, Obadiah Stane (as Iron Monger) does this with Iron Man's separated helmet. Then he crushes it. In Iron Man 3, after Tony Stark's mansion is destroyed and he appears to have died, his girlfriend Pepper Potts finds a damaged Iron Man helmet in the rubble. She presses her forehead against the helmet's faceplate, mourning for Tony. Pepper's character poster had her cradling an Iron Man helmet looking down. |
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In the fourth season of The Venture Bros., Henchman 21 talks to Henchman 24's (possibly haunted) skull and keeps it in his room. The Monarch even lampshades this, and tells 21 to "knock all this 'Alas poor Yorick' crap off." | |
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The front cover of the fourth Skulduggery Pleasant book, Dark Days, has Valkyrie Cain holding the titular character's skull. Happens again in Dying of the Light, but this time it's Darquesse with Skulduggery's skull in the final battle, after killing him. Turns out it was an illusion, so didn't actually happen. |
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Berserk: After witnessing the beheading of Vargas on the Count's orders, Guts goes to the graveyard and says something to his severed head: | |
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In Archer Woodhouse picks up a grapefruit and states "Alas, Poor Reggie" in the episode 'The Double Douce' | |
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The live-action Devilman movie (like the source material) has the main character carry around his girlfriend's severed head for most of the climax. | |
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Halo: One multiplayer gametype has you playing Oddball... with somebody's skull. In Halo 3, there's even an achievement called "Alas, Poor Yorick", which you get by using the skull as a weapon to kill three people. Many of the games also have hidden skulls that unlock achievements and do different things, from making the game more difficult, to just making it more amusing (like the Grunt Birthday Skull). |
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In the Steven Universe episode "Steven Floats", Steven has an Imagine Spot about not being able to get to the donut shop in time for the first donut of the day. Somehow, it ends with him dying. Sadie then does this with his skull (which still has his hair). | |
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In Web of Spider-Man Annual #1, Spidey holds the head of a robot he just defeated, purportedly because he's impressed with the advanced technology and design. | |
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Norma in Passions treats her father's skull as a Companion Cube and talks to it frequently. As you might expect, she's pretty messed up. | |
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Played for laughs in Galaxy Quest when Sarris reveals what happened to his former lieutenant (who failed to raise the ship's shields in time). | |
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Done in The Revenger's Tragedy, which is a parody of Hamlet. Vindici carries around the skull of his wife, who was poisoned by the villain. He later tricks the villain into kissing the skull, which still carries traces of poison. It's a strange play. | |
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Boba Fett picks up his (sort of) father Jango's helmet in Star Wars Episode II after he's decapitated. It seems that it wasn't his actual head, since you can see a shadowed ball falling one way, and the helmet rolling the other. | |
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In L.A. Noire, Cole Phelps quotes the first sentence verbatim to a Shrunken Head (a movie prop, used as evidence) in an attempt to be funny. It is not well-received. | |
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When Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert were exhumed, so they could be moved to be buried together at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Anton Bruckner was there and reverently held both of their skulls in his hands. | |
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Eko cradles his brother Yemi's decomposed remains in the Lost episode "The 23rd Psalm." | |
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Superman: In Justice #12, Superman does this with Brainiac's head. Subverted because he isn't sorry at all, and he crushes the metal head angrily. In the cover of Supergirl (2005) # 47, Alura In-Ze does this with supervillain Reactron's helmet. In Many Happy Returns, Xenon does this with the skull of a Supergirl he has just killed. The Hunt for Reactron: After her father's death, Kara holds the metallic skull of one of the Brainiac drones which raided her city, before slamming it into the floor and heading out. Her friend Thara picks the skull and keeps staring at it as flashing back to the early days of their friendship with Kara. |
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Seven Little Monsters featured a reference in the episodes "April Fools" and "A Pony Tale", which both had Three's persona of the day being a William Shakespear pastiche named William Three and featured a scene of him holding Seven's head in a similar way to Hamlet holding Yorick's skull. | |
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Red vs. Blue has a variant once Caboose enters with a skull (from the Halo mode Oddball, see Video Games above) which he claims to be his friend's, and asks for help. Doc replies "Uh, I don't know what I can really do to help him, my first aid procedures aren't very effective after decomposition." | |
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Sarah Lund, an actual Dane, does this in the second season of Forbrydelsen with a child's skull. | |
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Batgirl: Year One: Parodied in the second issue's cover when Batgirl holds Killer Moth's shattered helmet. | |
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Three Headed Monster has a living, humanoid ginseng-man as a prominent character, right before he gets hunted and killed, with his head being all that remains which the main character cradles. | |
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When the skull that heralds the start of the Skypia arc lands on the Going Merry's deck in This Bites!, Jeremiah Cross and his partner Soundbite can't help themselves to use the skull for reenacting the Yorick bit to the rest of his crew's annoyance. | |
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In the Rugrats episode, "When Wishes Come True", Tommy and the babies believe Angelica had turned into a statue after making a wish for something bad to happen to her after she topples Tommy's block structure. They spend the episode trying to revert Angelica to her normal self and hiding the statue from the adults when they accidentally shatter it. Tommy holds the statue's severed head and laments. | |
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In Planescape: Torment, Morte, the floating skull, says this if Dak'kon, the most somber and unfunny character in the game, dies. An inversion considering who is saying it. | |
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In Justice #12, Superman does this with Brainiac's head. Subverted because he isn't sorry at all, and he crushes the metal head angrily. | |
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In Doomsday, Sol the cannibal leader does this after he finds the decapitated body of Viper. He reattaches her head and straps her corpse into the passenger seat of his car for his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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In Murry Purry Fresh and Furry, Melvin gives an... abbreviated soliloquy to a skull during a Hamlet parody. | |
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In The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren keeps the helmet of Darth Vader, his idol and grandfather, with him on his Star Destroyer. | |
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Played for laughs: "The Four Tasks Of Danger Mouse" has Count Duckula trying to strike a bargain with DM in getting his own TV show in exchange for two of his tail feathers. He attempts Shakespeare: | |
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Game of Thrones: Dany, Jorah and especially Irri expressed their grief over Rakharo's severed head. | |
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Happens in the first chapter of Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, when Naomi manages to save Seiko from her original death by hanging, only for Seiko to run away in terror and fall down the stairs, where some razor sharp piano wire was strung up beforehand. The chapter ends with Naomi clutching Seiko's severed head and wailing in despair. | |
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Firefly in the Marvel G.I. Joe series does his own version of this while holding a skull he claims belomgs to Dr Mindbender. | |
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Legacy of Kain: "Alas poor Nupraptor, I knew him well...well, not really." | |
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Spider-Man: The cover of The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #346. Venom, holding up a skull covered with shreds of fabric in a familiar pattern. In Web of Spider-Man Annual #1, Spidey holds the head of a robot he just defeated, purportedly because he's impressed with the advanced technology and design. |
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Three of the Boneheads use their own skulls to quote Shakespeare on a stage. Though they quote "to be or not to be" rather than "alas, poor Yorick". | |
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Suzu Kitamura of Peacemaker Kurogane carries around the lacquered skull of his mentor after said mentor dies in the raid on the Ikedaya. | |
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The Cuphead Show!: As a preview for punishment, The Devil turns Miss Chalice to dust and bone and takes her noggin, dryly saying “Alas Poor Chalice, I knew her well,” before apathetically dropping her head back on her remains and restoring her body and soul. | |
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Both the Japanese version and The Remake of The Ring feature this, as the protagonist discovers Sadako/Samara's remains at the bottom of the well. Reiko cradles Sadako's skull (still matted with her trademark long hair) to her bosom. Rachel finds Samara's body in perfect condition... but as she cradles it, the 8 year-old girl's body rots away to its real state. | |
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In the Duckman episode "Hamlet 2: This Time it's Personal", the entire episode is a parody of Hamlet. The Yorick in this case is a school clown named Yelnick Honk, with the clown's skull having been exhumed and laminated by Ajax as an art project. | |
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In Another Country, Rupert Everett's character contemplates the empty bed of a character that committed suicide a few scenes earlier, then sighs "Poor Martineau!". In the first few minutes of the movie his character also uses the Band of Brothers quote from Henry V, so the Shakespearean allusion seems very much deliberate. | |
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The Wicked + The Divine: Laura's "Shakespeare in the Dark" scene from #3 is a direct reference to the trope namer. She picks up the fake Morrigan head, makes a Shakespeare-esque speech, which convinces Baph and Morri to stop fighting. | |
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In an unused version of Team Fortress 2 promotional video for the Medic, the Heavy ends up holding an enemy Spy's head Yorick-style when said Spy is decapitated while attempting to attack him and the Medic. | |
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In the Bump in the Night episode "Farewell, 2 Arms", Squishington finds Molly Coddle's head and picks it up to say "Alas, poor Molly. I knew her well." | |
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Judge Dredd: Judge Fire is shown to have been in love with a female Dark Judge who destroyed herself to spite him. He kept her skull, staring at it for years to relive the event over and over again. | |
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Happens in the fourth chapter of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair when Owari holds Nidai's head in her arms. The Squick factor is lessened by the fact that it's a robot head, however. | |
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Blackadder features this in the first episode when Edmund kills Richard III not knowing who he is and picks up his head, only to realize who he just beheaded. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him... in America!" | |
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The Hunt for Reactron: After her father's death, Kara holds the metallic skull of one of the Brainiac drones which raided her city, before slamming it into the floor and heading out. Her friend Thara picks the skull and keeps staring at it as flashing back to the early days of their friendship with Kara. | |
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Done in Survival of the Fittest version three, where Alice takes the severed head of Guy Rapide and starts talking to it as if Guy were still alive. She then stuffs the head in her daypack. | |
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Daredevil: In Daredevil: End of Days, The Owl, after using his connections to get Daredevil's mask and keep it as a trophy, does this to a statue wearing Daredevil's mask, and let's say it's not as heartfelt as otherwise expected of this trope. | |
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The Curse of Monkey Island: Parodied with this exchange: Later, Slappy is seen juggling three skulls. |
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In Beast Wars, Dinobot performs a similar scene while holding Tarantulas' legs, when the Predacons were all assumed to be destroyed, complete with "This is the leg [sic] that stalked so many victims". Of course, Dinobot being Dinobot, this is nowhere near the only Hamlet based turn of phrase. | |
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In the original Soul Blade/Edge game, Siegfried's backstory as a bandit has him proudly holding the head of the knight he just beheaded... and finding out it was his own father's. He promptly snaps and goes looking for 'the real killer'. | |
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Appears in Battle Angel Alita. The guy was still alive (being a Cyborg) had always been nervous and never wanted to fight, just to get home to his family and sobs and begs for forgiveness as he goes. | |
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The title of Infinite Jest alludes to this speech, although the exact reason why will probably elude first-time readers: the "Entertainment" that everyone's searching for throughout the book is buried with its creator, James Incandenza, hidden inside his skull. | |
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Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur has the Time Police agent, Jill, whose office has a velociraptor skull as a paperweight which he occasionally picks up to converse with. | |
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One multiplayer gametype has you playing Oddball... with somebody's skull. In Halo 3, there's even an achievement called "Alas, Poor Yorick", which you get by using the skull as a weapon to kill three people. | |
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The infamous Highlander II: The Quickening has the scene being played out for an audience using Ramirez's skull. He comes back to life during the performance, much to the annoyance of the actor playing Hamlet. | |
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A variant in Pluto. With Epsilon's head bitten off, Wassily uses the robot's detached hands to perform this trope. | |
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X/1999: Used often, especially in the original manga. First we have the young Fuuma picking up his mother Saya's head and licking the blood (which turns out to be Foreshadowing of his eventual Face–Heel Turn) and then his little sister Kotori, who's gone slightly nuts after being super broken, carrying around Tokiko's head, and then Kamui holding Kotori's head after she is very graphically killed and dismembered afterwards. In the anime adaptation, all three of these instances were removed, presumably because it was too graphic for TV. The movie ended with Kamui holding Fuuma's head, and during a vision he winds up holding Kotori's after she gets torn apart. To a "lesser" degree, we have Kamui caressing the bloodied face of Daisuke Saiki's severed head after Fuuma murders him. Also removed from the TV series. CLAMP probably got the idea from either Jonathan Joestar holding Dio Brando's detached head in Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Phantom Blood (though that's not quite an example of this trope because Dio isn't actually dead at the time), or Devilman, where Akira holds Miki's head, since the situation is much closer to that in X: boy holding his beloved's head and all. That was one of the defining moments of the Devilman saga, by the way. CLAMP even did fanart of Satan holding Akira's head at one point, and they did doujinshi for both series before making it big on their own. |
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Rusty Pete does this with Captain Slag's head in the Ratchet & Clank. It starts getting a little weird Pete not only starts talking to the head, but makes the head talk back. | |
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In Many Happy Returns, Xenon does this with the skull of a Supergirl he has just killed. | |
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In Quest for Camelot, after the skeleton falls on them, the two headed dragon cradles a dragon skull and the skinny head says, "Alas, poor Yorik! I knew him well!" and the other head says "Oh no! Not Uncle Yorik!". | |
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In one of the 1950's Felix the Cat cartoons, "Felix Out West", the Professor tries to blow up a pinnacle Felix is trapped on with a bomb, failing to realize until after the fact that Felix escaped using the Magic Bag as a helicopter. After the rubble settles, Professor quips "Alas poor Felix, I knew him well." | |
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The film Antz has this, because the character whose head was severed was an ant, and while still alive (thanks to nifty biology) he's dying as Z holds him. | |
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Subverted in Transmetropolitan when Spider gets ahold of his ex-wife's cryogenically frozen head. They hated each other, and she had her head frozen under specific instructions that it was not to be thawed until Spider was dead. Remembering that, Spider throws it off a bridge into the City reservoir. | |
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Starscream does this to Megatron in a story in The Transformers (Marvel) 1986 UK Annual. | |
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The taking of heads as trophies is referenced in Horslips' Daereg Dhu about the great Celtic hero Cu Chullain. See Mythology, below. | |
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In Afro Samurai, after seeing his father beheaded in a duel for the headband, Afro carries his severed head around, until it's destroyed in a fight with some thugs (which takes a while to happen). | |
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Mocked by Vegeta in Hero House, as he cradles Piccolo's head. | |
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Seras in Hellsing picks up Alucard's head after the first fight with Anderson. Luckily, he got better. | |
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For a while Deadpool wound up carrying around the zombified head of himself from another dimension, though being Deadpool it could talk and make wisecracks. | |
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Referenced in the lyrics to "Jack's Lament" in The Nightmare Before Christmas - "And since I am dead/I can take off my head/to recite Shakespearean quotations..." | |
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In Avatar: The Way of Water, a Recombinant Avatar clone of the late Miles Quaritch comes across the site of the original Quaritch's death from the first film. The clone then briefly holds the original Quaritch's skull... and then crushes it. | |
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice has the protagonist Senua carrying the severed head of her dead lover, Dillion, to Helheim in an effort to save his soul. Allegedly. | |
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