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...cause I'm freaking out, I'm freaking out right now...
Classic creepout device: This heart no longer occupies its usual place. But it still beats. Blood seeping from the severed arteries is optional. This may be supernatural (with the heart functioning as a Soul Jar) or natural (in which case it's usually just a momentary gross-out after the heart is ripped from a living victim's chest), but it's always creepy as hell.
Note that the "just ripped out" variety is Truth in Television: Cardiac tissue, unlike other types of muscle, generates its own muscular impulses, so a heart can continue to beat for a brief time after it is removed from the body.
See also And Show It to You, for times in which tearing the heart out wasn't enough for the killer.
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One episode of Adventure Time revolved around "Ricardio, the Heart Guy", who as the name suggests was a guy who happened to be a living heart. Turns out he used to be the heart of the Ice King, brought to life by a spell gone awry. He makes a second appearance much later on, setting up a Womb Level-like lair and replacing his limbs with muscular arms and legs...but still leaving his body exposed.
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In an alternate-organ variation, the first book of the His Dark Materials series mentions a variant of the Real Life Viking "blood eagle" torture, in which a victim's lungs are pulled out of slits in their back. In the universe of His Dark Materials, where everyone has a daemon-spirit companion, this isn't immediately fatal, as the victim's daemon is reputedly able to prolong life for a time by manually pumping the protruding lungs of its companion.
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Monster Pulse: Not only is Bina Blum's heart still working outside of her body, it's also walking around as a monster twice her size.
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Wonder Woman (2006): Zeus digs Milohai's beating heart out of his chest to use it as the heart for the new incarnation of Achilles he's building.
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Devil May Cry has a room just before the final boss fight with a giant, beating heart.
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Golden Swallow has the scene in the Golden Dragon Branch's underground quarters, where the Branch Chief had a would-be assassin executed by having his heart cut out.
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In Return To Ravenhearst, a heart (implied to be Charles Dalimar's) sits inside a steampunk device which you have to deactivate. It can be seen beating behind a glass porthole, and it speeds up if you push the attached "Adrenaline" pump.
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The Slave King's discarded heart in The Great Slave King. While not strictly a Soul Jar variant, it is implied that it would need to be destroyed before he could be killed.
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Although the heart is never technically removed, the beating heart of Draco the dragon in Dragonheart can be revealed by lifting up a flap on his chest so that Bowen can destroy it.
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Bleach: A werewolf is a creature trapped in animal form because of the sins the clan committed in life. To gain immeasurable power as well as Nigh-Invulnerability, a werewolf can perform a special rite to regain their humanoid form by ripping out their heart and leaving it, still beating, in a safe place. Komamura performs the ritual, leaving his heart with his great-grandfather while he goes off to fight the Quincies. The sight of Komamura taking a full hit to the chest that leaves a gaping hollow-style hole where his heart should be while he lectures Bambietta on the lengths to which he was willing to go in Yamamoto's name abruptly shifting to a scene where an enormous dog watches a still-beating heart sitting on a plate with a dejected air is one of the most serenely creepy moments in the entire story.
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One episode of Black Jack 21 centers around a mysterious, way-ahead-of-its-time artificial heart. Its very existence is creepy enough, but after Black Jack removes it from the owner (replacing it with a more realistic artificial heart), it KEEPS BEATING on the table where he leaves it. It also glows.
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In Angel Wesley comes across a member of a race that worships Jasmine. Who is constructing a flesh and blood mandala as she is 'older than words' out of various bodies. Including those of at least three vampires, one of whom has had his body flayed and ribcage split open to expose his heart. As they haven't been staked, they are still living and conscious. Played for dark humor as the main example endlessly bitches about being trapped before having his tongue ripped out to shut him up.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Guts dropped by monsters — Bokoblin and Lynel ones resemble hearts, while Moblin Guts are livers, Hinox Guts are kidneys, and Molduga Guts are spiraling things that don't resemble anything specific — continue to beat and pulse indefinitely after their owners' deaths.
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The Simpsons:
"Lisa's Rival" had Lisa taking rival Allison's diorama of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and replacing it with an animal heart. Then, in a direct Homage to the poem, she imagines herself hearing the heart in the gym floorboards. So, yeah, subversion.
In "Goo Goo Gai Pan", Homer picks a fight with a group of Shaolin monks during a trip to China - their retaliation concludes with one of the monks ripping his still-beating heart out, showing it to him, and then shoving it back into his chest, whereafter he walks away no worse for wear (and was mildly annoyed that he didn't wipe his hands).
And then there's the episode, "New Kid On The Block", where the girl Bart is interested in, Laura Powers, tells him she has a boyfriend, and worse, it's Jimbo. Bart imagines her tearing out his heart and throwing it in the garbage.
The earliest mention on The Simpsons is "When Flanders Failed", where Bart references a move in the arcade game to cover having ditched karate lessons he was forced to attend: the Touch of Death, where one person rips out the other person's heart in a single jab. He proceeds to threaten Lisa with the move when she disbelieves him.
Happens in an episode of The Itchy and Scratchy Show, of course. Scratchy gives Itchy a heart-shaped Valentine. Itchy responds by plunging his hand into Scratchy's chest and handing him his still-beating heart. The naively grateful Scratchy places it on a shelf at home then picks up a newspaper with the headline "YOU NEED A HEART TO LIVE." In a panic, he reaches for his heart, only to keel over dead.
In the "Treehouse of Horror IX" short "Hell Toupée", Homer, possessed by Snake by means of a hair transplant, kills Moe by removing his heart with a corkscrew. The heart beats after its removal.
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The Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation four-part episode "Unchain My Heart" had the Turtles fight a vampire named Vam Mi. She was sealed away without her heart and she spent the episodes trying to get it back into her body before she crumbled to dust.
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Fringe:
In the episode "Power Hungry", a heart sitting on a lab table starts beating due to "residual energy" from the power incontinent electrokinetic who killed the owner.
In the musical noir episode "Brown Betty", a "glass" heart is pulled out of several characters' chests, switched around, popped back in, etc., etc., and continues to beat throughout.
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The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games: Hectan's heart continues to beat after his body melts away.
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Ninjas And Superspies has a top level chi spell introduced in the Mystic China sourcebook that can remove a person's heart and convert it into a gem.
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In Beelzebub, when Lucifer does this to Furuichi, she removes his soul with it, leaving him in a coma. If Furuichi's heart isn't returned by morning, then his soul ascends and he truly dies.
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Hollow Earth Expedition supplement Mysteries of the Hollow Earth. In the city of El Dorado, priests of the Sun God cut out the hearts of Human Sacrifices and hold them up in the air for the Sun God (the Hollow Earth sun) to gaze down upon.
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The Blood Red Queen of Hearts, a Vampirella supervillain, had the habit of collecting the hearts of her victims to offer as sacrifice to the Mad God Chaos. The hearts were preserved in magical jars and kept still beating.
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Disney's Wreck-It Ralph plays this for laughs. To show appreciation for his speech, Kano from Mortal Kombat rips out a zombie's heart, but the zombie is clearly unharmed, and everyone else is mildly grossed out but not too disturbed.
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Naruto:
In a filler episode, a ninja disguised as Kabuto links his heart to Naruto's. Any damage to his heart also happens to Naruto's. The guy pulls his heart out of his chest, arteries intact, and as such, it is still beating. The scene (which was essentially impossible to tone down in a way that doesn't make the scene incomprehensible) is why they put a Content Warning at the beginning of the episode. Near the end of the episode, the ninja in question is revealed to be a female — the same one that had tried killing Naruto and co. in the previous episode. From the context of said episode, she most likely died soon after using what her accomplices referred to as a dangerous technique, but considering that a later scene (if not the next one) shows that said accomplices had brought her to Orochimaru, known by fans to have some medical experience...
In Shippuden, Kakuzu tears the hearts out of his enemies and absorbs them into his own body to extend his life. In a modified Gory Discretion Shot one can see him holding a still-beating heart in his hand.
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In Eternal Darkness, dancing girl Ellia is given one of Mantorok's five hearts, which contains its essence. Since Mantorok doesn't die until just after the end of the game, the heart remains intact for over 1000 years so that Alex can use it in the final battle. Unfortunately, you don't see the heart beating in-game (presumably to match the other essences, which don't move in any way), so this trope is only partly adhered to.
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In Airplane!, a still-beating heart intended for transplant jumps around on a desk.
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Baldur's Gate II has one part of a quest where you need to get one of these from a demon to be able to leave a particular dungeon. The expansion, Throne of Bhaal, requires you to destroy one (in fact, two) in order to make an enemy vulnerable, allowing you to kill him.
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Slightly subverted in the video game adaptation of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. Gorrister's heart was removed prior to the events of the game, but as he's fond of pointing out, that old heart of his don't beat no more.
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Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!, a 2001 Godzilla movie, features this as a Plot Twist seconds before the credits. It's Godzilla's.
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In Toriko, "Taste changed" Teppei appears right behind Komatsu, punches through his chest, and crushes his heart right before his eyes. To make a bad situation worse, he somehow rendered all means of healing such a wound useless. Even forbidden "Dark" techniques can't save him. The only thing that can possibly save him before the temporary replacement organs fail him is Acacia's Soup "PAIR".
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Done for romantic black comedy in Alita: Battle Angel. The eponymous cyborg to show her love for her human boyfriend Hugo offers him her heart. Literally. She pulls down her shirt, opens her upper torso, and takes out her mechanical heart, still trailing blood vessels and pumping blood through her body. Hugo's rather understandable reaction is to just stare at her in complete befuddlement, horror, and uncertainty; before telling her not to. Alita then apologizes for the fact that she can be rather "intense" sometimes, and he doesn't argue.
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In Dark Floors, the mummy Amun rips out the businessman's heart and shows it to him.
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In the Oblivion quest "Mehrunes Razor," you find that the final test that must be passed to obtain the eponymous artifact is to devour the still-beating heart of Mehrunes' previous champion — after you've torn it from his chest, that is. Doing so will turn you into a vampire if you haven't already immunized yourself.
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Rat Race has a subplot about a courier transporting a donor heart for transplant, which gets lost by The Italian Mr. Bean. At one point a character is holding it when he touches an electric fence, which starts it right back up again.
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In BioShock Infinite, the Handyman is a human grafted into a crude cyborg body, including a glass case on the front containing his still-beating heart. Three guesses as to where its weak point is...
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Jenova, in Final Fantasy VII, has a giant mutated heart outside of her body. It can't be seen in cutscenes since she stands on it.
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World of Warcraft:
Subverted in Wrath of the Lich King, there's a questline where you find the eponymous Lich King's heart and there's a race to destroy it before he can get it back. Turns out the Lich King destroys it himself anyway, since he sees it as his last shred of "human weakness", but it is not beating: It's frozen.
The big MacGuffin claimed by the Big Bad of the Mists of Pandaria expansion was the still-beating heart of a long-dead Old God.
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In Inuyasha, series villain Naraku controls one of his subordinates, Kagura, by keeping her heart with him at all times. If she displeases him, he tortures her by squeezing it.
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A variation in Iron Man. Obadiah toys with Tony's new arc reactor right in front of him after yanking it out. It wasn't actually his heart, but the reactor kept his heart from failing.
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In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, the heroes deal with a monster called the Hatchasaurus/Dora Antaeus. Both were completely invincible in some manner and would grow stronger unless its heart (unnamed in Zyuranger and called Cardiatron in MMPR) was taken out. Jason/Geki would be forced to hop inside the monster to fight its heart, using the former power of Tommy/Burai to defeat it and also save Dragonzord/Dragon Cesar.
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Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies features it for both cases where Angus rips a heart out of someone's chest.
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In Bride of Re-Animator, the main characters use Meg's preserved heart when creating the Bride. It's an indicator of Dan's inability to move on after Meg's death — he wants to transfer a part of her life into the new body. In the final shot of the film, the heart lies on a table beside the Bride's dismembered body, stops beating, and shrinks slightly before the Fade to Black. Symbolic, baby.
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Grandia II has the Heart of Valmar, amongst other body parts. They're less soul jars, more bits of a god that possess people. And all of them also mutate their human host into a representation of what they are. The Heart is about the closest to just being the organ it's named after. Complete with an attack where it gushes blood at you.
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Somehow Scud the Disposable Assassin manages to combine this trope with tearjerker and Chekhov's Gun: In the end, it turns out that Jeff's heart, being forged by God himself, is completely indestructible. This means that Jeff will never die, and the now-suicidal Scud will never complete his original mission (meaning he won't ever self-destruct), meaning he can't finish the last job given him by the Seraphim: destroying Earth. Even as Jeff's body is ripped open and finally dies, the heart beats on. Of course, later Scud takes the heart with him into battle with the Seraphim, which in the end proves to save his life: by placing the heart in Sussudio's ribcage it reanimates her, and the first thing she does is greet Scud cheerfully. Of course, the second thing she does is PUNCH AN ANGEL IN THE BRAINS. Who Wants to Live Forever? indeed!
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Homestuck: The Land of Pulse and Haze is this. Not only are there oceans of blood, but there are broken ramparts and bridges from which beating hearts peek out of the masonry. Bonus points for the fact that this entire construct is basically one big fuck you to the player for this land.
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Dreamscape. After Tommy Ray kills a security guard by ripping his heart out of his chest, the heart continues beating.
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In the John Dilworth short The Dirdy Birdy, the one time Purdy doesn't court Fergurina by mooning her is by removing his own heart and offering it to her.
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Everworld: The cast makes a deal with Niddhoggr to find the treasures stolen by the fairies. To ensure they'll return, Niddhoggr brings up several rubies from his Dragon Hoard, which start slowly beating even as the heroes realize they can't feel their own heartbeats anymore. Senna is exempt, though... because Nidhoggr is too cheap to use a diamond for her.
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At the end of Rambo: Last Blood, Rambo kills Hugo Martinez by disemboweling his chest and ripping out his still-beating heart.
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Bit: Vlad's heart is still alive and beating even when separated from his body (which has been destroyed, in fact).
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In one of the most brutal scenes of the The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim expansion Dragonborn, the climax of the "Old Friends" quest has you killing Ildari Sarothril by ripping out the Heart Stone that she's been using to keep herself alive.
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James Bond:
Licence to Kill: Franz Sanchez's Establishing Character Moment is ordering his mistress's lover's heart cut out. We don't actually see it happen though, just a Scream Discretion Shot.
Bond gets threatened with this in Tomorrow Never Dies, as the villain orders The Dragon:
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Part of the game mechanics in ObsCure: The Aftermath: each dispatched monster dissolves into black powder, leaving behind a still-beating heart. A few scenes after this is introduced, the player is given a syringe with which fluid can be drawn from the heart to create a healing serum.
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In Exalted, one of the weirder things the Sidereal Exalted can do with their Martial Arts and Crafts is to inflict "Jigsaw Organ Condition" on a victim, which causes their body parts to be very easily separable. Said parts still function when detached, making it possible for them to pull someone's heart out and hold it hostage against their good behavior.
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In Seven Mortal Sins, Lucifer enslaves Maria Totsuka by extracting her heart. As long as nothing happens to it, Maria is immortal and ageless, but Lucifer can torture her by squeezing it.
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Mars Attacks!: when we first see Donald's severed head, the camera tracks back to reveal his various dismembered body parts suspended around him including his still-beating heart.
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Shade, the Changing Man: Shade's heart is stolen by a squatter in his home after a battle. He embarks on a half-hearted rescue of it, and when he finally catches up to it, has a heart-to-heart talk with it. And then steps on it when he decides he's better off heartless. It appears from time to time, still beating, moving under its own power, and even has internal monologues.
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Several scenes in Apocalypto feature these.
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Avenged Sevenfold's song about murder, necrophilia, zombies, and love, "Little Piece of Heaven" includes this gem:
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Dungeons & Dragons:
1st Edition Mayfair Games' Role Aids supplement Lizardmen. In the Twilight Jungle, clerics of the lizardman deity Twillus perform sacrifices in which the victim's still-beating heart is removed from their chest right in front of their eyes.
3rd Edition sourcebook Book of Vile Darkness
One of the spells listed in the is the Grip of Orcus, which gives the target a heart attack. If the target dies from the spell, their smoking heart appears in your hand.
Another spell is Heartclutch. The caster just "holds forth his empty hand, and the still-beating heart of the subject appears within it." The victim dies in 6-18 seconds.
3rd Edition Relics and Rituals supplement. The spell Sacrificial Heart rips the still-beating, living heart from the victim's chest and causes it to fly through the air to the caster's hand.
Tiyet, darklord of the Ravenloft domain of Sebua, is cursed to hunger for the still-beating hearts of others. And her own, which was removed and hidden long ago, and which she'll be compelled to consume if she ever comes across it: the only way she can be destroyed.
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Mortal Kombat:
Kano's fatality in the first game is to rip out his opponent's still-beating heart. Jarek and Kobra both used this as one of their fatalities, as well. This is Hand Waved by how they're also members of the Black Dragon, like Kano.
Deception has the Hara-kiri moves, where dazed characters kill themselves to deny the fatality to their opponent. When it's performed with Kobra, he rips his own heart out.
Kotal Kahn from Mortal Kombat X has this as a fatality as well, with added squishing of the heart, dripping the blood in his mouth. Not surprising considering the civilizations he was based on.
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In The Venture Bros., this is the final fate of King Gorilla at the hands of The Investors.
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In Parasyte, Shinichi sees a parasite kill his friend Kana with a giant blade through the chest as she's running away from it. He performs this on the parasite before throwing it through a concrete wall.
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In The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus demonstrates His status as the Son of God and His newfound sense of purpose as the Messiah by tearing His own heart out in front of His disciples. Jesus' heart continues to beat and bleed after being removed, representing the concept of the Sacred Heart in the most literal manner possible.
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Dark Schneider, the title character of Bastard!! (1988), is also known as 'The Immortal', for very good reasons. When he tears his own heart out to save his adopted daughter/lover, Arshes Nei, we are treated to a double-dip into this trope. Not only does his heart continue to beat for a while outside his body, splattering blood all over her, but later, when he regenerates, he couldn't just regrow his heart inside his body, nooo... instead, his heart reforms in the air over his gaping chest-wound, and starts BEATING, before tendrils shoot out of the hole to grasp the newly-formed heart...
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Vampire: The Masquerade has the Setites, whose custom Discipline, Serpentis, includes an ability that allows them to remove their heart and place it in a jar, which keeps them from being sent into torpor when staked. At elder levels, they can do this to someone else for one hell of a bargaining chip.
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In The Vampire Diaries this is the best way to kill a vampire/werewolf hybrid.
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Threatened at the beginning of Red Dragon, although it never happens.
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In Grim Fandango, Manny's driver, Glottis, in a fit of despair after losing his job, rips out his heart and throws it into the woods. This does not kill him but puts him in a catatonic state instead. Manny must then retrieve his heart in order to revive him.
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The Legend of Zelda:
The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games: Hectan's heart continues to beat after his body melts away.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Guts dropped by monsters — Bokoblin and Lynel ones resemble hearts, while Moblin Guts are livers, Hinox Guts are kidneys, and Molduga Guts are spiraling things that don't resemble anything specific — continue to beat and pulse indefinitely after their owners' deaths.
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Transformers: Energon features Jetfire rescuing Inferno's spark after Inferno does a sun-dive. Good news for Inferno, but Jetfire holding Inferno's life essence casually in his hand is a bit weird.
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In Dies Irae's first route, Father Trifa kills Lisa by ripping her still-beating heart clean out of her chest and then using it to open the fourth Swastika.
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In The Gates Officer Leigh keeps a beating heart in a box. It's implied to be her own, as she later says that her ex-boyfriend "ripped her heart out".
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Angel Heart. Twice. Once to Margaret, the other time, before the events of the film when Johnny ate Harry's still-beating heart to steal his soul.
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In Shadow Warrior (1997), one of the 'weapons' you could acquire — the final one, in fact — was the still-beating heart of a type of demon. By squeezing the heart, you could summon a demon to fight for you. The demon in question is called a Ripper and is so named because if it kills you, it will rip out your heart.
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In the Shadow Warrior remake, you can use a Demon Heart, which you can get off dead demons, as a one-shot weapon that kills every lesser enemy in front of you.
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A living heart-in-a-jar appears as a throwaway bit of weirdness early in Doctor X.
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When Linna starts virtual reality training in Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, she is battling against a rogue robot/artificial intelligence. It's not exactly a heart, but she rips out something organ-like and squeezes it in her hand until brown liquid comes out, and then recoils in horror at what she just did.
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Toward the end of BioShock, one villain activates "Code Yellow", which commands your heart to stop beating, little by little. This reduces your maximum health until you find an antidote, at which point the lost health returns.
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Savaged: During the showdown at the mine, Zoe kills Wes, and then emerges from behind cover and extends his still-beating heart towards Trey.
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Played for laughs in Dumb and Dumber. During one of Lloyd's dream sequences, he imagines himself in a romantic dinner with Mary, when the waiter decides to get daring and Lloyd hands his ass to him, as well as many other people. So far, so good. Further down the scene, out comes a Chinese cook who outmatches Lloyd, until he jams his hand into the cook's chest, rips his heart out, puts it in a food bag, and returns it to the cook - who only drops dead when he picks up the bag.
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In Howl's Moving Castle Howl sells his heart to a demon in exchange for more magical power.
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Appeared in an old Batman comic where Batman is fighting a vampire, but can't stake him because he transplanted his heart somewhere else. He has to find the heart by listening for a heartbeat when he gets the vampire excited. Batman notices that a clock is ticking louder. The vampire put his heart into the clock...
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Also during one of the early episodes of Trinity Blood, since a Methuselah can't be killed by just shooting it or cutting it, you have to do something to the heart. Abel Nightroad does it as a finishing move, and rips out the Methuselah's heart, holds it in his hand right in front of the Methuselah and crushes it while the other watches.
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Inverted in Matthew Woodring Stover's The Acts of Caine: Blade of Tyshalle. It would have been less nasty if he took the heart out...
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In the fifth The Garden of Sinners movie, Araya does this to Touko. Her heart keeps beating until he crushes it.
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In Star Wars: Bounty Hunters Issue #18, the bounty hunter Beilert Valance has his heart removed, and placed in a vat onboard the Executor, Darth Vader's starship.
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Licence to Kill: Franz Sanchez's Establishing Character Moment is ordering his mistress's lover's heart cut out. We don't actually see it happen though, just a Scream Discretion Shot.
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Ursula Vernon's Digger inverts this: the heart is not beating on its own, nor is it a sign that its owner is alive. Instead, a team of slaves pull on ropes that force it to beat and keep an otherwise dead god alive against his will, even though the rest of him has rotted away to bones. When the protagonist skeptically lampshades this, pointing out that the heart isn't even hooked up to anything, she receives the explanation that it's the metaphor of the thing that makes it work.
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Employed in the second episode of Darker than Black, where the episode's antagonist can teleport things into each others' places, resulting at one point in a woman with a chunk of concrete in her chest and her heart lodged in a nearby wall. It is still beating since it hasn't gotten a stop signal yet.
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Played for laughs in Robots. The whole implication that Rodney Copperbottom is really carrying out extensive surgery on the outdated robots isn't really made clear until he brings out a still-active red pump from the body of a robot, and Fender faints from the sight.
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Paper Mario (the original) has a heart separated from its owner, Tubba Blubba. The idea is that he can't be defeated as long as his heart is hidden elsewhere. Like most things in the game, the heart has its own personality and has to be fought. And it has a lot more HP than its owner does.
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Russian tales like The Death of Koschei the Deathless and Tsarevich Petr and the Wizard have Koschei the Immortal. His soul/heart (a vortex of flame) is hidden inside a needle, which is hidden inside an egg, which is hidden inside a duck, which is hidden inside a hare, which is kept in an iron chest, which is buried under an oak tree (or chained to the branches), on an island that flickers in and out of existence. Someone still manages to find it and destroy it. Koschei is immortal until his soul is destroyed.
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The initial framing device for Crypt Of The Necrodancer is that an inexperienced adventurer goes in search of her father, falls into the titular crypt... and has her heart removed before she can react before the game even starts. The standout mechanic of the base game is that your heart (visibly beating on the HUD) is no longer under your control; it now beats in time with the crypt's music, and you have to synchronize all of your movements to your heartbeat or they'll fail... or in some circumstances kill you outright.
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Kano's heartrip (see above) was performed by Luna on The Boondocks. Not in the game, but on a live person she had defeated in a mystical martial arts tournament on a mysterious island... Shang Tsung shouted at her to "finish him".
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Rolemaster campaign setting Shadow World. The Shards of Viour rip out the hearts of their victims and eat them while they're still beating.
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Frankenstein Conquers the World has the immortal heart of Frankenstein's Monster shipped to Japan by the Nazis. Unfortunately, the lab the Japanese are examining it in is in Hiroshima...
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Elizabeth finds them tasty in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but only if they belong to ninjas.
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Ninja Gaiden (2004) had an upside-down tower in what was presumably Hell that had the walls of a floor covered with these. And they follow you closely.
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The Elder Scrolls:
The still-beating heart of the dead creator god, Lorkhan, was ripped from his chest by the other spirits who participated in creation for his perceived treachery and cast down into the world he helped to create. A Cosmic Keystone of unimaginable divine power, the Dwemer would discover it beneath Red Mountain and devise a means to tap into its power. They constructed "Anumidum", a colossal mechanical golem, which they intended to use the Heart to power, transforming it into a new god. However, something happened when they attempted to tap into the Heart, causing their entire race to disappear in an instant. The Heart would remain there for thousands of years, at least until the events of Morrowind.
In the Oblivion quest "Mehrunes Razor," you find that the final test that must be passed to obtain the eponymous artifact is to devour the still-beating heart of Mehrunes' previous champion — after you've torn it from his chest, that is. Doing so will turn you into a vampire if you haven't already immunized yourself.
In Skyrim, the Forsworn Briarheart warriors are granted great strength and magical power through a ritual that involves replacing their heart with a Briar Heart. If you manage to sneak up on one, you can pickpocket the Briar Heart. Doing so successfully kills them instantly.
In one of the most brutal scenes of the The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim expansion Dragonborn, the climax of the "Old Friends" quest has you killing Ildari Sarothril by ripping out the Heart Stone that she's been using to keep herself alive.
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Seen in A Song of Ice and Fire when Dany visits the warlocks.
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In One Piece, Trafalgar Law is able to do this to people using his Devil Fruit ability. Granted, due to the nature of the power, this doesn't kill the person unless you then destroy the heart. He can even switch people's hearts around to pull a "Freaky Friday" Flip.
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In Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, after Jason is splattered by a S.W.A.T. team in the beginning, his remains are taken to a morgue. The mortician, while inventorying the bloody mess, begins dictating a description of the rotten, twisted black heart of Jason Voorhees. As he's staring at it, it begins to beat, gradually at first, then faster, mesmerizing him into picking it up and eating it, at which point he becomes possessed by the spirit of Jason and resumes the killing spree.
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In Chapter 8 of Jujutsu Kaisen, the king of curses, Ryomen Sukuna, kills Yuuji by tearing his heart out while controlling his body, as payback for using him carelessly.
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In one strip of Hetalia: Axis Powers, Russia's heart somehow falls out and splats onto the meeting table, to the horror of the other Allies. Even more frighteningly, Russia himself doesn't seem bothered at all; he only blushes and says that it just "pops out of [him], sometimes."
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In Queen of the Damned, when Akasha rips another vampire's heart from his chest, the heart continues to pulse for a few seconds before she feasts on it gleefully and sets fire the bloody residue in her hand.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs parodies this, when Steve the Monkey, while fighting a semi-sentient Gummy Bear, shoves his hand into its "chest" tears out a glob shaped like a heart, and eats it.
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In Chapter 24 of Luz Belos: Princess of the Boiling Isles, Burner was forced to work for Nathaniel in exchange for his heart being returned to him.
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Tiyet, darklord of the Ravenloft domain of Sebua, is cursed to hunger for the still-beating hearts of others. And her own, which was removed and hidden long ago, and which she'll be compelled to consume if she ever comes across it: the only way she can be destroyed.
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In Theatre of Blood, Edward Lionheart cuts out the heart of one of his victims while he's strapped to a chair.
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The second Bastard Swordsman film have it's main villain, Mochitsuki Soryu Han, having the Red Baron title of the "Master of the Heart Throw-Up Skill", which forces his victims' hearts out of their bodies in graphic details, as a few unfortunate challengers found out moments before their deaths.
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In Neon Exodus Evangelion: Apotheosis Now, Lucifer does this to the Artificial Human Matthieu, but instead of a heart, he pulls out a sphere like an Angel's core. He continues to live until Lucifer crushes it.
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In Clock Tower when Jennifer enters the trophy room, you can click on a jar on the shelf which she'll pass by and accidentally knock down. The game then cuts to a scene of a heart that was in the jar give a single beat.
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In Volume 5 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Gold Experience, Bruno Buccarati uses his Stand's ability to create zippers to remove his own heart and pick it apart, just to stop it from beating and thereby alerting the enemy of his position. Earlier, during Stardust Crusaders, Jotaro had his Stand grab his own heart and stop it for the very same reason.
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Near the end of Book III of The Faerie Queene, a woman in Cupid's parade is prodded along while holding her ever-bleeding heart in a silver basin. Said heart is pierced by a dart (presumably Cupid) and probably kept alive by a similar enchantment to the one the evil enchanter Busirane uses to torture his Damsel in Distress.
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In Robin Jarvis' Hagwood trilogy, the evil High Lady of Hollow Hill, Rhiannon, is literally heartless. That's because she used magic to remove it from her body and place it in a casket where it still beats. To open the casket and stab it is the only way to kill her.
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'The Heart of Darkness' from Legacy of Kain. In the first game, it was nothing more than an extra life/healing-potion with creepy graphics and a nifty description: "Torn from the chest of the greatest vampire to have ever existed, Janos Audron, the Heart of Darkness restores vampiric un-life. Life is precious, Janos discovered, as it was torn — throbbing and bleeding — from his own body." In the later games, it becomes an important MacGuffin, since Janos Audron can be revived by putting the still-beating heart back into his chest. Raziel eventually gets to watch his past self tear Janos' heart from his body, and later learns that Mortanius used the Heart of Darkness to resurrect Kain...by placing it inside him. Further hilariously touched on during the outtakes of the Soul Reaver 2 voice sessions for mook dialogue for the scene for Janos: "Look at his black heart! How still it beats!... How it STILL beats!"
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This happens to Eddie Murphy after Nick Nolte rips out his heart on Celebrity Deathmatch.
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In the web-novel Domina, the Composer is fond of ripping out people's hearts bare-handed. And, on occasion, eating them.
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From Dusk Till Dawn, people! Ripping a vampire's heart out from his own ribcage, and after seeing it still beating (and the vamp still kicking), staking it with a sharpened pencil, sure counts here.
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Fate/stay night:
True Assassin has a Noble Phantasm that does this to people by exchanging their heart with a magical double and keeps the heart alive and beating while Assassin destroys it at his leisure. This gets used on Lancer and Kotomine — unfortunately for Assassin, it doesn't work on the latter since he hasn't got a heart.
In the Unlimited Blade Works route, this◊ is how Gilgamesh kills Ilya. In the movie version, it gets "upgraded" to And Show It to You.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE, when a beheaded rocketeer's heart is removed with a melee kill, it still beats a couple of times.
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In the Blackest Night, Starman issue, the Shade's heart gets ripped out by the zombie Black Lantern Starman... then the heart promptly engulfs the zombie, trapping it in the Shade's shadow void.
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In the Dramatic Audio version of the Left Behind book Armageddon, Nicolae Carpathia holds the still-beating heart of a Global Community loyalist that he personally murdered for calling him "impotent".
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Team Fortress 2: Meet the Medic features the Heavy having an operation to strengthen his heart in order to sustain an Übercharge. When the Medic exposes the Heavy's heart to the Quick Fix's beam, it starts beating rapidly once before exploding. He then replaces the heart with a Mega Baboon's, which starts to beat vigorously and continues beating even while the Medic holds it in his hand, detached from the Heavy.
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In Mystery Skulls Animated Lewis's glowing "heart" beats to the rhythm of the music and rests on the outside of his ribcage. It is eventually shown to actually be a locket though it is still integral to his continued existence as his ghostly form can retreat into it and its condition reflects his moods and state.
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Starlight Over Detrot, Hardy finds the heart of Cosmo's brother, surrounded by Zebrican runes and still very much beating. The reaction is exactly as you'd expect, though it does get Played for Laughs later.
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The Doctor Who episode "The Girl In The Fireplace" features the repair robots of a damaged starship repairing its systems with the organs of the crew - an eye as the lens of a camera, and a beating heart as a pump wired into the pipes.
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Red Falcon, a recurring Contra boss, is a giant beating heart that may or may not be attached to anything.
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Attempted and failed by Lord Vladimir Smurfula in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Smurphony Of The Night" when he tries to magically rip Empath's heart out of his chest, only to be repelled by Empath's holy symbol.
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Under this header because the characters react like it's a biologically natural occurrence, and no supernatural powers are stated to have been used, but in Hunter × Hunter, Killua rips a man's heart clear out of his chest during one of the tests in the Hunters Exam, and stands several feet away from him, holding the still-beating heart in his hand. The guy, however, is still very much alive (if in extreme pain), even begging for Killua to "give that back" and doesn't die until Killua crushes the heart to bits, at which point he instantly falls over, dead as a doornail. What the hell are humans in Hunter × Hunter made of, anyway?
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In Gothic, the demon final boss is protected by five hearts that must be slain before he can be killed.
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A variation is found in an old Superman comic. In an attempt to live forever, a character is implanted with a pacemaker that is remotely tied to a device at the Earth's core. Too bad that every heart murmur he experiences now sends shockwaves throughout the planet, and vice-versa. Ouch.
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In Beast Wars, Rampage's Spark is treated by Megatron this way. Since his Spark is said to have mutated (and supposedly indestructible) Megatron cuts it in half with an Energon knife and keeps one half in a spiked cage which he squeezes at will to keep Rampage under his control.
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In Kill la Kill Ragyo does this to Ryuko immediately after meeting her and realizing Ryuko is actually her lost daughter but since Ryuko has life fibers in her body it's not fatal. Later on Nui demonstrates that she and Ryuko are similar by casually ripping out her own heart and showing it to her.
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Silverwing: The Vampyrum do that to their sacrificial animals in the second book. At one point (after a dream) Goth becomes obsessed with ripping Shade's heart out of his chest and eating it while Shade watches.
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Battle Angel Alita:
At one point Alita pulls out her robot heart to use as stakes in an arm wrestling game - placing it directly on the table, on her right side. It's still attached and functional though.
In a similar (but grosser) vein to the trope, she also attaches a severed head to her circulatory system to keep it alive.
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Which: There is a still beating disembodied human heart in one of the rooms. It is one of the two body parts you can give the woman.
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In The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, the heart has been removed to protect his life.
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The bad guys in The Living Daylights successfully transport diamonds across borders, mixed with ice in a medical cooler containing a beating (animal) heart - even in this clinical state, it gets hastily waved through by squicked-out officials.
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Done to magnificent levels of horror in the season 2 finale of True Blood; Sam pulls out Maryann's utterly black heart and squishes it.
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Once Upon a Time:
The Queen does this so that she has power over them and keeps the hearts in a special vault and it's revealed that this vault also exists in the real world. Her (far more evil) mother was also fond of this and also had a special vault for them which apparently included her own. The most excruciating deaths seen on the shown is when someone's heart is crushed a move that not even Regina herself ever used...and was how her first True Love was killed by Cora.
It's never elaborated on whether it's the person's literal heart or something more magical in nature, but one theme is Color-Coded Wizardry with the heart being some reflection of the person. All of the heroes' hearts are shown as red like rubies from a distant while evil characters will have black hearts. Henry, a True Believer and an Author has a gold heart while his grandfather Rumplestiltskin the Dark One had a faint purple glow but looked like a black stone from the corruption of the Darkness killing him.
One key effect is that removing one's heart also removes their ability to feel emotions. Cora became The Sociopath after removing her heart noting her emotions would undermine her ambitions to be queen, turning her into the Evil Sorceress Abusive Parent she was feared as. Regina herself is tempted to due to spare the grief of being separated from Henry across realms permanently but is talked out of it.
There was also the time Snow was forced to recast the Dark Curse and use Charming's heart, only to realize that their "hearts being one" could be literal and split her heart in two and share it, bringing him back to life.
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In Padak, this is how the fish are Eaten Alive. Their heart and internal organs are left intact, leaving them squirming and alive on the plate even though their bodies have been sliced into sashimi and mutilated beyond recognition. Yes, this is Truth in Television (it's called ikizukuri) and it is as controversial in real life as you would expect.
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In Grand Theft Auto IV the beating "heart of the city" can be found in the Statue of Happiness.
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One of the "decorations" in Doom 1 & 2 is a still-beating heart on a pedestal.
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You can collect these in Vexx.
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In Scion, the Aztec Scions have the ability to, once an enemy is defeated, rip out their still-beating heart and eat it to gain supernatural powers, that make them rip open their chests and expose their beating heart, which is on fire. No other internal organs are shown.
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Quake IV: There is also a giant beating heart in the depths of a Strogg Factory, You have to destroy it before you can move on by increasing the electric shocks it receives to keep it beating until it beats so fast that it dies of a heart attack. To make it creepier, you can hear a distant scream from some unseen source as you do this.
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The Voynich Hotel:
The heart of Suspiriorum kept beating even after she was beheaded and dismembered, and was recovered by her sister Lachrymarum and used to create Berna.
Played for Laughs in one chapter when Elena extracts her boyfriend Taizou's heart as she performs Psychic Surgery to relieve his hangover. She's so giddy that she kisses and caresses it gently as the Nightmare Fetishist she is, but when he starts to show distress, she panics and slams it back into his chest...somewhere on the right side of his chest. This ends up saving his life when he gets stabbed in the chest near the end of the story.
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In The Last Witch Hunter, the Witch Queen's heart continues to beat — loudly — even after the witch herself is dead because as long as the heart isn't destroyed, she's still "alive" and can be brought Back from the Dead.
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In the Culture novel Matter, the story begins with a king being killed by his Evil Chancellor. The king was wounded in battle, and when the Chancellor visits him, he sticks his hand into the king's chest and squeezes on the king's heart until the king dies in agony.
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In Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart removing one's heart is a key to invulnerability. Alas, the ritual renders the person heartless both literally and figuratively. Also, the heartless tend to long for the "cold" things (treasure) above all else. Also the usual fairy-tale choice of hiding places for the removed heart is lampshaded:
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has Raiden ripping out Armstrong's heart after beating him, still connected to the man by some unnaturally long blood vessels. Raiden lets it beat a few times before crushing it in his hand.
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Kingdom Hearts, however they're the cartoonish variety but this is so common, we have The Heartless.
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In Bordello of Blood, a heart begins beating while outside of the owner's body. (In fact, it reconstructs itself first.)
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The second of Barry Sadler's Casca series, God of Death, had Casca sacrificed by pre-Aztecs who cut out his heart. But Casca was cursed by Christ to live until the Second Coming. The priest cuts out his heart, and it keeps beating. And beating. And then Casca stands up, takes his heart out of the priest's hand, sticks it back into his chest, and announces, "No more human sacrifices." Nobody dares to argue very hard.
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Hellsing (the OVA): How Alucard finishes Father Alexander Anderson off. Anderson used Helena's Nail on his own heart, turning him into a "Monster of God" made of vines to destroy Alucard. Victoria Seras prevents him from finishing off Alucard, which gives Alucard enough time to regenerate, charge and tear Anderson's heart out of his chest, taking the nail with it and making the vines disappear. The heart still beats for a second in Alucard's hand before he crushes it, and what's left of Anderson lives long enough to make a tear-jerking speech.
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Chapter 29 of Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force has Hades cutting out Veyron's still-beating heart after the latter was just hit with anti-EC bullets that stops his Healing Factor, leaving him in critical condition.
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In Tomorrow Never Dies, James Bond is threatened with this. "He should stay alive just long enough to see it stop beating."
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Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer has the demon's heart, which starts beating in Crowley's hand.
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Transformers:
In Beast Wars, Rampage's Spark is treated by Megatron this way. Since his Spark is said to have mutated (and supposedly indestructible) Megatron cuts it in half with an Energon knife and keeps one half in a spiked cage which he squeezes at will to keep Rampage under his control.
Transformers: Energon features Jetfire rescuing Inferno's spark after Inferno does a sun-dive. Good news for Inferno, but Jetfire holding Inferno's life essence casually in his hand is a bit weird.
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Last Train Outta' Worm Town: Pardners who get devoured by a Worm can leave their heart behind, conveniently contained within a jar. If this jar is taken to the Church grounds, they can be revived; however, this only works once. Should the Pardner get gobbled up a second time, their heart goes with them.
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Freddy gets his heart torn out on the first day of the job in Carnies. It's a little different from other examples in that he was already undead to begin with.
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The third film of the Swordsman wuxia trilogy, Swordsman: The East is Red has a scene where Asia the Invincible rips out a man's heart with her qi.
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The Chronicles of Dorsa: An undatai fighting a man rips his heart from his chest.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Mola Ram pulls the still-beating heart out of a human sacrifice. It even caught on fire when the victim was lowered into the Lava Pit.
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