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Clean Cut

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115 feature instances
94 referencing feature instances

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Clean Cut	label	Clean Cut
Clean Cut	page	CleanCut
Clean Cut	comment	Animating and detailing realistic battles with edged weapons is remarkably difficult. Real-life edged weapons usually leave rough, horrible wounds, and severing arms, legs, or the neck of an individual is a very difficult task requiring either brute strength or significant time to saw at the wound, and that's assuming you manage to line the cut up with a joint, because you are not going to cut through solid bone. Buy a ham from the grocery store and try it yourself. But quite aside from the simulation issues, if realistic blade wounds were done, then a Single-Stroke Battle would be far more difficult to conceive of as trying to go all the way through your victim would be nearly impossible. Nearly. As a result, most bladed weapons in fiction are impossibly finely-edged things, capable of slicing straight through a victim and leaving such a thin cut as to be almost unnoticeable. Passing straight through a spine or rib cage? No problem! Decapitating an individual with a single blow, or even cutting them apart in multiple angles? Can do! Bonus points if it doesn't manifest until the attacker has sheathed their sword, and extra bonus points if the wound does not manifest until the victim (for example) reaches up to feel his neck, at which point his head falls off, or the victim assumes the attacker missed. Even more bonus points if the sword is thick enough (i.e. the sword blade is visible) that no matter what the edge is like, the width of the blade should shove out the pieces of the object as it passes through them, but it somehow doesn't. May be justified (read: Hand Waved) if the swords are explicitly magical, really high-tech, unnaturally large, or absurdly sharp. If weapon is Razor Floss, almost every hit is Clean Cut. See also the delayed version, the Diagonal Cut, and cousin trope Half the Man He Used to Be. See also Paper Cutting. Contrast Like Cannot Cut Like and Blade Spam.
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Clean Cut / int_11d0af1	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_11d0af1	comment	In the His Dark Materials series, the Subtle Knife has two blades edges: one for cutting through anything tangible, and the other for cutting through the fabric separating alternate universes.
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Clean Cut / int_17fa5f0a	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_17fa5f0a	comment	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Neville decapitates Nagini (Voldemort's snake) with a single swipe of a sword.
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Clean Cut / int_1869a077	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack: One of his signature moves is to leap at the enemy, perform a series of lightning-swift slashes in mid-fly, then land and pose dramatically with his eyes closed as the enemy falls apart and explodes behind his back. (Pretty much anything he does with it can be justified, as his sword is magical and forged by the gods, making it an Absurdly Sharp Blade, among other things.)
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Clean Cut / int_186f724a	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_186f724a	comment	Happens in Rurouni Kenshin a few times. One notable example is Kenshin cutting a vegetable in half so cleanly and so quickly that it heals after the pieces are reassembled.
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Clean Cut / int_1b386512	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_1b386512	comment	Happens fairly often in Ranma Â½, though never on a living target, and from all sorts of strange weapons. In his first appearance,Tatewaki Kuno cuts down a tree this way with a single, one-handed back-stroke from his bokken. In a late manga story, Ranma cuts a circular opening in a wall big enough to walk through... with his bare hands.
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Clean Cut / int_1bb6d4b5	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_1bb6d4b5	comment	Happened at least once with Akabane in Get Backers, who carved up (and cut the letter J onto his torso) a Mook without the Mook noticing for at least five minutes or so.
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Clean Cut / int_1beda93b	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_1beda93b	comment	In Sluggy Freelance Torg's magic, talking sword Chaz never seems to just cut partway through something. Either it clangs harmlessly off of demons and aliens, or it cuts them clean in two. Justified by its magical nature, which lets it kill just about anything with one stroke when "powered up."
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Clean Cut / int_2212773a	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_2212773a	comment	Angel features quite a few of these, mostly with beheadings.
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Clean Cut / int_2221ecbd	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_2221ecbd	comment	An episode of CSI: NY featured a man sitting on a park bench who was decapitated by a cut so clean that the head stayed on until Mac lifted it off. It turned out to have been made by a katana.
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Clean Cut / int_261c8d3f	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Realty Bites", Snake attempts to decapitate Homer with a length of piano wire strung across the road. He fails, but he does cleanly slice off the arm of Kirk van Houten's (who was waving a sandwich in the air).
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Clean Cut / int_2bbcacd9	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_2bbcacd9	comment	A couple of Looney Tunes shorts like "Tree for Two" and "The Honey-Mousers" featured a gag where a character would get slashed by a pair of giant claws or a sword. After a few seconds the character appears to be fine and then says the strike missed only to fall into pieces on the ground. They would usually put themselves back together. Done also in De Patie Freleng Enterprises shorts such as The Inspector and The Ant and the Aardvark. Little wonder, as many of DPF's directors were old Warner Bros. alums. One particularly memorable gag involved the Aardvark actually flying through a wire fence and then plucking a small square out of his own hindquarters.
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Clean Cut / int_2da80bd2	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_2da80bd2	comment	Wolf Hall shows the Real Life execution of Anne Boleyn in its final episode. They specially hired an executioner from France who was an expert in beheadings. He does tell Cromwell that even he can't guarantee a perfect cut if she's not steady, but he uses an Absurdly Sharp Blade and a special technique to misdirect the condemned so that they aren't tense when he makes the swing.
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Clean Cut / int_31313512	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: Ann's Weapon of Choice are blue-colored blades that can slice through certain enemies.
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Clean Cut / int_32c541e6	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Wrath jumps through a rain of bullets at a group of soldiers. Four of them (or more, hard to tell with all the flying body parts) simultaneously fall to pieces two panels later.
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Clean Cut / int_34b7ce64	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_34b7ce64	comment	Used as a metaphor in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; Michael Wenton-Weakes calls his mother an old battleaxe, but the narrator says that if she was a battleaxe, she'd be a very elegant one, with a blade so sharp that you only realise it's hit you when you try to check your watch and notice you don't have an arm any more.
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Clean Cut / int_35af2104	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_35af2104	comment	In The Fifth Elephant, a highly trained assassin uses a karate chop on an opponent and decapitates him with his bare hands; At least, that's what it looks like, until we find out later about his palm dagger. Which was apparently remarkably sharp.
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Clean Cut / int_3662453e	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_3662453e	comment	There is a scene in Resident Evil (2002) which traps several characters in a Laser Hallway. The first is decapitated, the second cut in half through the waist, and the third gets "cubed" when the lasers make a grid that passes right through him.
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Clean Cut / int_366a284d	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_366a284d	comment	Nanto practitioners from Fist of the North Star are more than capable of doing this with their bare hands.
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Clean Cut / int_39c20861	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_39c20861	comment	Happens in pretty much every episode of Highlander: The Series.
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Clean Cut / int_39e3b5ff	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_39e3b5ff	comment	The most important blows are delivered this way in Kill Bill. O-Ren Ishii beheaded a mutinous henchman with a single swipe, and the Bride cut an arm off Sofie Fatale, chopped another sword into pieces like it was a straw, and then sliced off the very top of O-Ren's head.
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Clean Cut / int_3afb0bd2	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_3afb0bd2	comment	Recurring Alpha Flight character Nemesis uses a mono-molecular blade that can slice through practically anything.
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Clean Cut / int_3d675ac1	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_3d675ac1	comment	In The Dark Lords of Nerima Mousse defeats a youma called the Darkmistress this way.
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Clean Cut / int_432e5c6f	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_432e5c6f	comment	Stone Ocean: In the last fight, Enrico Pucci manages to kill Jotaro and Ermes merely by cutting through them with Made In Heaven after slicing off their face and arms.
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_432e5c6f
Clean Cut / int_43628937	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_43628937	comment	All blades in Greek Ninja seem to have this ability. The most profound example is Sasha cutting off Creon's arm with ease, near the end of the battle.
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Clean Cut / int_4522fd1	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_4522fd1	comment	The Whateley Universe has a few weapons that can pull off a Clean Cut: The magical sword Destiny's Wave, in the hands of its rightful wielder, the Handmaid Of The Tao, it can cut through anything (even unstoppable superhuman bricks) if the Tao requires it. At other times, it is as blunt and harmless as you'd expect of a blade made of white jade. The sword wielded by Tennyo, which is made of anti-matter.
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Clean Cut / int_468bebb0	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Taken to the logical extreme with Death's scythe — so thin and fine that it sharpens on daylight and can cut a person's words to pieces. His sword too, introduced in Hogfather is only visible at the edge, due to it cutting tiny pieces of the air in half. Said sword cut through, without any effort on the part of the wielder, in fact by accident, a large portion of the dining table at UU, as well as numerous forks, knives etc. So little effort was needed, in fact, that the wielder was rather surprised to find a large chunk of table falling away. In The Fifth Elephant, a highly trained assassin uses a karate chop on an opponent and decapitates him with his bare hands; At least, that's what it looks like, until we find out later about his palm dagger. Which was apparently remarkably sharp. In Carpe Jugulum, a rather unimpressive priest completely decapitates a vampire with a simple axe without harming a baby the vampire was holding or even knocking the vampire's head off his shoulders. Said vampire is told not to nod quickly. It's suggested that narrative causality and/or Granny Weatherwax had something to do with that, though. Lampshaded in Interesting Times. A messenger delivers bad news to Lord Hong. Lord Hong picks up the sword he's working on. The messenger, who thinks he knows what's about to happen, has his eyes frozen open in terror. Lord Hong readies the blade, the messenger shuts his eyes, and hears the swish of the blade swinging. When he opens his eyes, he's still alive. He gingerly touches his neck... "you heard terrible stories about Lord Hong's swords." Turns out he had cut the head off a would-be assassin, who Lord Hong had seen reflected in the messenger's eyes. Toward the end of Guards! Guards!, Carrot's sword is used to block another sword. The attacker's sword is cut clean in two, leaving its wielder flabbergasted. It's never been used for such, but imagine what it could do if turned against a villain (in a cut, not a thrust, which it has been used for).
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Clean Cut / int_46e14af0	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_46e14af0	comment	Anywhere one of the four invincible swordsmen shows up in Twelve Dragons.
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Clean Cut / int_49a0a477	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_49a0a477	comment	Raven's weapons of choice in Snow Crash are glass knives, invisible to millimetre-wave radar and not much thicker than a molecule along the cutting edge. Usually mounted on an Aleut whaling harpoon for armour-piercing death at a distance.
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Clean Cut / int_4f115950	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_4f115950	comment	Robin (1993): Tim tosses batarangs which effortlessly slice straight through the guns and sights of the private contractors Strader had hired to "clean up" the homeless victims of their illegal human experimentation who had survived the process.
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Clean Cut / int_5022a2c4	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_5022a2c4	comment	Xena: Warrior Princess featured numerous instances of unusually clean cuts, however one of the most graphic of these examples was in the (incredibly controversial) episode "The Way", in which Xena's arms were cut clean off by Indrajit, the King of Demons. It's alright though, not two minutes later into the episode she has six arms. By the end of the episode, all is well again and she has her own two arms back.
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Clean Cut / int_51455a02	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_51455a02	comment	Claymore has, with virtually EVERY SINGLE CUT, those on the business end not realizing they've been cut until they blast High-Pressure Blood/suddenly lose an appendage or three. Sometimes both at once.
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Clean Cut / int_5783585a	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_5783585a	comment	IDW's G.I. Joe gives us the ninja Snake-Eyes. He slices up some practice dummies and seemingly misses. Until he stomps the floor and they slide apart. In the same issue, one of the characters referred to Snake-Eyes as the "Master of the Subtle Cut." "True subtlety is when you have to remind the target that it's been cut."
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Clean Cut / int_5c600b17	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_5c600b17	comment	In Digimon Adventure Wargreymon takes out Mugenmon (Machinedramon) with a You Are Already Dead attack that Mugenmon assumed had missed. Wargreymon charged straight through Mugenmon without leaving a visible scratch and reverted to Koromon on the other side. Queue Mugenmon taunting the uselessness of the attack, followed by promptly falling into several pieces. As the dub put it:
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Clean Cut / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Happens in Soul Eater, only accentuated by the author's early simpler style and (fairly) bloodless carnage. Stein slicing up Medusa into very neat pieces is a good example in the series. Although in that case there is a delay before the High Pressure Blood-loss.
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Clean Cut / int_5d21fab8	comment	Wolf Hall: In conjunction with Off with His Head!. It's averted with Anne's accused lovers. It takes three swings to remove George Boleyn's head, but the rest come off in one. Anne herself is executed by an expert from France who uses a specially-designed sword and a technique to misdirect the condemned so that they'll be best positioned for the strike. He does tell Cromwell that even he can't guarantee it if they aren't steady in position.
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Clean Cut / int_5ed0937c	comment	The ease with which Blade dices his enemies may be justified since he was upgraded with super strength (thanks to the movies), once punching the jaw off some charging creature in Midnight Sons Unlimited. Weapons sometimes don't hold up against some of the tougher enemies he fights, even when he clearly beats them.
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Clean Cut / int_60152eae	comment	Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman: In "Gothamazon" Diana has a brief Imagine Spot where she pictures killing or maiming the murderous and irritating Bat-Rogues she's fighting and pictures splitting Two-Face in two with a sword, right down the middle.
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Clean Cut / int_61028f2	comment	Johnny Mnemonic: the Big Bad has a sort of laser whip that cuts through almost anything. At a certain point he swings it near a minor baddie in an attempt to cut open a chain; said minor baddie is shocked that the Big Bad did that without regard to the baddie's safety, and says so. Not showing much respect for his opinion, the Big Bad slices through the baddie with his whip. He briefly glances up, before falling apart in three clean pieces.
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Clean Cut / int_6300d32a	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_6300d32a	comment	Variant: Practically all the dismemberment in 300 is like this. No matter how strong you are, cutting a man's limbs or head off is a remarkably difficult task, but Leonidas in particular is a walking Cuisinart despite the small, none-too-fine sword he uses.
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Clean Cut / int_65608478	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_65608478	comment	Choujin Sensen: Sasamura's sword style is dedicated to the [Void] technique in order to cut his opponent down.
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Clean Cut / int_66b7b92d	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_66b7b92d	comment	In Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, there is a cheat setting that allows the lightsaber to do this, accurately slicing models along the cuts, making it possible to filet enemies and friends alike. The setting to allow this implies that it was a feature of the game that was censored.
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Clean Cut / int_68c7e5cd	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_68c7e5cd	comment	Macross Frontier has Brera's Absurdly Sharp Blade Below the Shoulder do this to a Hydra in episode 10. Lengthwise and his knife is barely larger than a combat knife.
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Clean Cut / int_694ab80	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_694ab80	comment	Curare in Batman Beyond has a sword that can cut through anything (e.g. cutting a moving car in half). Examination by Wayne reveals that the blade terminates in an edge thinner than a molecule.
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Clean Cut / int_69a38c9d	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_69a38c9d	comment	In a fight scene of Serenity: Leaves on the Wind, the Operative gets into a swordfight with one of his former fellows named Denon. He ends the fight with a Delayed Causality cut through Denon's entire head, front to back.
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Clean Cut / int_69a38c9d	featureConfidence	1.0
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_69a38c9d
Clean Cut / int_69f5f841	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_69f5f841	comment	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and World at War kind of exhibits this trope for bullets, as the game allows you to shoot through certain materials - many things make sense for the bullets to go through, like wood and sheet metal, and they always do so with reduced damage. However, once they start shooting through stone, it kinda stretches it since the bullets can still go through and actually hurt. If they implemented a mechanic that allows you to permanently damage all material, it might make more sense with continuous shooting, but, there currently isn't.
Clean Cut / int_69f5f841	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_69f5f841	featureConfidence	1.0
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Video Game)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_69f5f841
Clean Cut / int_6ac55ec7	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons there is the Sword of Sharpness (which can sever an opponent's limbs with ease) and the Vorpal Sword (which can decapitate an opponent with ease); while the official description does not specifically say that either makes a clean cut, most sources where they are mentioned claim that they do. (Maybe it depends on the individual Sword.)
Clean Cut / int_6ac55ec7	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_6ac55ec7	featureConfidence	1.0
Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_6ac55ec7
Clean Cut / int_6bcd58c7	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_6bcd58c7	comment	Miho in Sin City is known for having such clean cuts that her victims don't know they've been slashed. She often only has to make one sword thrust before a head or arm comes off. In one instance, she threw her shuriken and chopped a man's head clean in half to the point that even his eyeballs were sliced and still in their sockets.
Clean Cut / int_6bcd58c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_6bcd58c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Sin City (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_6bcd58c7
Clean Cut / int_6d832403	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_6d832403	comment	The parasites in Parasyte/Kiseijuu can turn parts of their bodies into blades that can slice and dice multiple humans in the blink of an eye. This happens a lot.
Clean Cut / int_6d832403	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_6d832403	featureConfidence	1.0
Parasyte (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_6d832403
Clean Cut / int_701f0ece	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: While the wounds (pieces?) left by Guts' BFS are notably rough around the edges, most other talented sword users cut limbs cleanly to pieces.
Clean Cut / int_701f0ece	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_701f0ece	featureConfidence	1.0
Berserk (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_701f0ece
Clean Cut / int_77d76e46	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_77d76e46	comment	Thir13en Ghosts features this Karmic Death for the cast member whose ulterior motives put the whole diabolical clockwork into action, in exchange for money. A sheet of glass descends from the ceiling, and for a few seconds he's frozen and can't move. His eyes blink, and then his front half succumbs to gravity as his back half remains suspended. Complete with Gallows Humor when an oblivious cast member asks, "Did the lawyer split?"
Clean Cut / int_77d76e46	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_77d76e46	featureConfidence	1.0
Thir13en Ghosts	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_77d76e46
Clean Cut / int_7832b74c	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: In "The Return", Jasper's Gem destabilizer neatly bisects Garnet before her body disintegrates apart entirely.
Clean Cut / int_7832b74c	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_7832b74c	featureConfidence	1.0
Steven Universe	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_7832b74c
Clean Cut / int_7d122312	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_7d122312	comment	In an episode of The Flintstones, Wilma warns Fred not to tease the cat, it will scratch him. Fred denies that the cat would do that. After Fred teases the cat several times, the cat emits its razor-sharp claws and slices across him. "He never touched me," Fred says, before falling apart like sliced bread.
Clean Cut / int_7d122312	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_7d122312	featureConfidence	1.0
The Flintstones	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_7d122312
Clean Cut / int_81202666	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_81202666	comment	Chainsaw Man: Denji's chainsaws are powerful weapons that he typically swings around and stabs enemies with to shred their flesh, but his targets will be neatly sliced apart when dramatically appropriate.
Clean Cut / int_81202666	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_81202666	featureConfidence	1.0
Chainsaw Man (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_81202666
Clean Cut / int_83968f3f	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_83968f3f	comment	Asian Saga: In the adaptation of Shogun, Englishman John Blackthorne is shocked to see a samurai slice the head off an oldster who did not bow when he was supposed to. The audience gets a great look at Blackthorne's face (and that of the Jesuit priest accompanying him) and just a glimpse of a headless neckâ€”and vertebraâ€”before the body falls out of camera shot.
Clean Cut / int_83968f3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_83968f3f	featureConfidence	1.0
Asian Saga	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_83968f3f
Clean Cut / int_86c3beca	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: One panel of Count Beausoleil's Death Montage shows one of his remote bodies being sliced through horizontally many times over into lots of clean cut pieces.
Clean Cut / int_86c3beca	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_86c3beca	featureConfidence	1.0
Girl Genius (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_86c3beca
Clean Cut / int_89fed4d1	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_89fed4d1	comment	Avania: Eiserne's magically-charged sword slashes are shown to cut through flesh, bone, and steel alike.
Clean Cut / int_89fed4d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_89fed4d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Avania (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_89fed4d1
Clean Cut / int_8a39c411	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_8a39c411	comment	In Endymion a trap made of monomolecular wire gets noticed when one of the heroes realizes he doesn't have an arm any more.
Clean Cut / int_8a39c411	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_8a39c411	featureConfidence	1.0
Hyperion Cantos	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_8a39c411
Clean Cut / int_8ad6e76f	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_8ad6e76f	comment	In Carpe Jugulum, a rather unimpressive priest completely decapitates a vampire with a simple axe without harming a baby the vampire was holding or even knocking the vampire's head off his shoulders. Said vampire is told not to nod quickly. It's suggested that narrative causality and/or Granny Weatherwax had something to do with that, though.
Clean Cut / int_8ad6e76f	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_8ad6e76f	featureConfidence	1.0
Carpe Jugulum	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_8ad6e76f
Clean Cut / int_8d001a97	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_8d001a97	comment	Slither, except only partially, has a guy slashed open in the front of his body, but not his half, resulting in all of his innards falling out.
Clean Cut / int_8d001a97	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_8d001a97	featureConfidence	1.0
Slither	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_8d001a97
Clean Cut / int_8fda7950	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_8fda7950	comment	In the Known Space series of short stories by Larry Niven, there is a type of thread referred to as "Sinclair molecule chain" — a thread that is one molecule wide, and can slice through anything with just a gentle tug. How they manage to attach handles to it is a different story... This is also used in the "variable-knife" and "variable-sword" from the same series, which is nothing more than Sinclair chain spun out from a handle, with a "stasis field" to support it. Not to mention a red ball at the end, so you can tell where the thread ends. In another Larry Niven story, the 'attach handles' part is explained when we find out that Sinclair had no trouble designing the monomolecular chain, but the hard part was devising molecular links for the ends so handles could be attached and the chain wouldn't unravel.
Clean Cut / int_8fda7950	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_8fda7950	featureConfidence	1.0
Known Space	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_8fda7950
Clean Cut / int_905cf99c	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_905cf99c	comment	Arguably inverted in The Fifth Element. Leeloo kicks a sword perfectly in half.
Clean Cut / int_905cf99c	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_905cf99c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fifth Element	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_905cf99c
Clean Cut / int_920bdb7c	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_920bdb7c	comment	Students of Sword Lore in Kill Six Billion Demons are capable of doing this through learning the act of Cutting. Skilled students of Cutting can do this without using a sword at all, as Maya demonstrates by cutting through an entire building — including the extremely irate angel standing in the middle of it — using only a scabbard.
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Clean Cut / int_920bdb7c	featureConfidence	1.0
Kill Six Billion Demons (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_920bdb7c
Clean Cut / int_93e8b35e	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_93e8b35e	comment	Alice in Wonderland features the Vorpal Sword, a Parody of this trope. Capable of removing the head of a Jabberwock with little more than a snicker-snack.
Clean Cut / int_93e8b35e	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_93e8b35e	featureConfidence	1.0
AliceInWonderland	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_93e8b35e
Clean Cut / int_98e2fba4	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_98e2fba4	comment	Most bladed weapons shown on Deadliest Warrior leave jagged, messy wounds; even those that hack limbs off. Of course, more often than not they're cutting through gel torsos. Though in a few instances, this was played straight. The samurai cleanly cut through two pigs with a katana.
Clean Cut / int_98e2fba4	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_98e2fba4	featureConfidence	1.0
Deadliest Warrior	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_98e2fba4
Clean Cut / int_9b4ab849	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_9b4ab849	comment	Goemon, in Lupin III, does this regularly. In one movie, he cuts through a helicopter's blades in such a way that they stay on for a few seconds while still turning and keeping the chopper in mid air.
Clean Cut / int_9b4ab849	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_9b4ab849	featureConfidence	1.0
Lupin III	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_9b4ab849
Clean Cut / int_9db1766a	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_9db1766a	comment	Devil May Cry: Yamato is a katana that is so sharp that it can cut through several feet of stone from about half a mile away and separate dimensions. At one point, Vergil swishes the sword, turns around, puts it in his scabbard, waits a second... and then as he clicks it in the enemy is slashed apart by the attack — multiple times. It's like a time delayed series of slashes. One of the enemies even manages to speak several lines after the slash, before its head goes in pieces. Dante's Rebellion. It cuts a cubic meter of solid steel/stone/magic die neatly in half.
Clean Cut / int_9db1766a	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_9db1766a	featureConfidence	1.0
Devil May Cry (Video Game)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_9db1766a
Clean Cut / int_9e2f90f4	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: In his first appearance, Mihawk effortlessly holds off Zoro's three swords with a knife, deflects bullets with his sword, and slices through a ship the size of a building with just one swing.
Clean Cut / int_9e2f90f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_9e2f90f4	featureConfidence	1.0
One Piece (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_9e2f90f4
Clean Cut / int_9ebb8e6f	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_9ebb8e6f	comment	Discussed in X-Force:
Clean Cut / int_9ebb8e6f	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_9ebb8e6f	featureConfidence	1.0
X-Force (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_9ebb8e6f
Clean Cut / int_9f19f7b1	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_9f19f7b1	comment	Happened a lot in Lone Wolf and Cub, especially with Ogami Itto, the protagonist. Justified occasionally in that in his old line of work, cut:ting heads clean off with a single strike was his job.
Clean Cut / int_9f19f7b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_9f19f7b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Lone Wolf and Cub (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_9f19f7b1
Clean Cut / int_a1970a85	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_a1970a85	comment	Fading Suns has wireblades - monomolecular swords that will cut through anything with ease. In game mechanics, this means they ignore any armor the opponent is wearing.
Clean Cut / int_a1970a85	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_a1970a85	featureConfidence	1.0
Fading Suns (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_a1970a85
Clean Cut / int_a28b92ae	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_a28b92ae	comment	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: the sword Green Destiny, in the hands of the right wielder, can be drawn, cut pieces of iron in half, and sheathed again all in the one movement.
Clean Cut / int_a28b92ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_a28b92ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_a28b92ae
Clean Cut / int_a3748187	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_a3748187	comment	Golden Wind: Diavolo's King Crimson is able to slice off someone's arms and legs when thrusted with enough force.
Clean Cut / int_a3748187	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_a3748187	featureConfidence	1.0
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_a3748187
Clean Cut / int_a81325d3	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_a81325d3	comment	Recurring Final Fantasy summon Odin tends to do this, slicing (non-immune) enemies in two or three pieces when summoned. Odin's sword, the Zantetsuken, also appears elsewhere in the franchise, either as an equippable weapon with the same effect, or in the hands of Gilgamesh. Yojimbo's Zanmato attack works similarly, with the bonus of working on bosses as well, if it occurs.
Clean Cut / int_a81325d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_a81325d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy (Franchise)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_a81325d3
Clean Cut / int_ac614030	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_ac614030	comment	GoLion/Voltron loves this, as it occurs every time he uses the Juuohken/Blazing Sword, which is just about Once per Episode.
Clean Cut / int_ac614030	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_ac614030	featureConfidence	1.0
GoLion	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_ac614030
Clean Cut / int_b0028436	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Anubis's sword allows him to cleanly slice through a stone pillar. Diamond is Unbreakable: Okuyasu's Stand, The Hand, when utilized, anything along the target path will vanish, and the resulting gap will close. Golden Wind: Diavolo's King Crimson is able to slice off someone's arms and legs when thrusted with enough force. Stone Ocean: In the last fight, Enrico Pucci manages to kill Jotaro and Ermes merely by cutting through them with Made In Heaven after slicing off their face and arms.
Clean Cut / int_b0028436	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_b0028436	featureConfidence	1.0
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_b0028436
Clean Cut / int_b0e508bf	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_b0e508bf	comment	Stargate: Continuum features Que'tesh warning Ba'al that her sword's blade has been sharpened to the width of an atom and that it would be very easy to cut a body in half as she later does.
Clean Cut / int_b0e508bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_b0e508bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Stargate: Continuum	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_b0e508bf
Clean Cut / int_b1058237	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_b1058237	comment	Temeraire: The first time Will Laurence fights with an exquisite sword he was gifted in Imperial China, he is shocked to decapitate a man with almost no resistance.
Clean Cut / int_b1058237	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_b1058237	featureConfidence	1.0
Temeraire	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_b1058237
Clean Cut / int_b11e29d2	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_b11e29d2	comment	Twilight Suzuka of Outlaw Star clean cuts through a delivery truck (among other things), lengthwise as it drives at her, with a wooden sword.
Clean Cut / int_b11e29d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_b11e29d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Outlaw Star (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_b11e29d2
Clean Cut / int_b30ae4db	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The show appears to measure general awesomeness by whether you can do this or not; Stannis and Tyrion are both able to cut ridiculously cleanly in the Battle of Blackwater (sometimes through armour,) and Brienne and the Hound also achieve this easily but Theon requires a lot of frantic hacking to remove Ser Rodrik's head, and Gregor Clegane, despite being the strongest man in the series and wielding a BFS, fails to completely decapitate his horse. Justified by anyone using a Valyrian Steel blade such as Ice, since any of these swords are a semi-magical Absurdly Sharp Blade. In the books Robb Stark requires several swings during his execution. It's subverted in the show and the show writers had already did that with Theon and wanted to show Robb was better than Theon.
Clean Cut / int_b30ae4db	featureApplicability	-0.3
Clean Cut / int_b30ae4db	featureConfidence	1.0
Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_b30ae4db
Clean Cut / int_b36952af	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_b36952af	comment	In the teaser for Cube, a character is in one room when something happens. The character freezes in shock, and seconds later falls apart in neatly diced cubes. The something turns out to be a moving grid made of razor wire.
Clean Cut / int_b36952af	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_b36952af	featureConfidence	1.0
Cube	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_b36952af
Clean Cut / int_b5761a40	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_b5761a40	comment	Final Destination 2 features a similar scene, except with two fenceposts with barbed wire spun in between, slicing apart one of the destined to die.
Clean Cut / int_b5761a40	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_b5761a40	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Destination 2	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_b5761a40
Clean Cut / int_b86b5220	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_b86b5220	comment	Discussed, Averted, and Played Straight in Spartacus: Blood and Sand, most notably with Crixus and Naevia. He originally tries to woo her by bragging that it isn't easy to cut someone's head off in a single blow, but that he can. Naevia later decapitates Ashur, and it takes her three times. She then immediately tells Crixus that he was right, and it isn't easy to do. Crixus lovingly responds "Then I will teach you". He somehow makes it sound like the most romantic thing ever.
Clean Cut / int_b86b5220	featureApplicability	-1.0
Clean Cut / int_b86b5220	featureConfidence	1.0
Spartacus: Blood and Sand	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_b86b5220
Clean Cut / int_b9353ff6	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_b9353ff6	comment	The web only comic strip Pibgorn has seen this at least once.
Clean Cut / int_b9353ff6	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_b9353ff6	featureConfidence	1.0
Pibgorn (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_b9353ff6
Clean Cut / int_bac444b9	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_bac444b9	comment	The Cell: That poor, poor horse. Or was it? I mean, it didn't appear to actually die...
Clean Cut / int_bac444b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_bac444b9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Cell	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_bac444b9
Clean Cut / int_bcb32dc6	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun had monomolecular whips which were often as dangerous to the user as they were to the enemy, but its Crowning Moment of Awesome has to be the monomolecular Axe, an axe with a monofilament edge capable of cutting through virtually anything. It tended to lose its edge quickly, though.
Clean Cut / int_bcb32dc6	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_bcb32dc6	featureConfidence	1.0
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_bcb32dc6
Clean Cut / int_bdbcdadf	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_bdbcdadf	comment	In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Tatsu Yamashiro's twin swords cleanly slice through as many as four people at once and were previously shown to carve up robots like tofu.
Clean Cut / int_bdbcdadf	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_bdbcdadf	featureConfidence	1.0
Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku! (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_bdbcdadf
Clean Cut / int_c0cb3ba4	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_c0cb3ba4	comment	Sweet Home (2020): Jae-heon slices off half a monster's head with ease. Especially notable because his sword is a keepsake, therefore he probably doesn't sharpen it regularly.
Clean Cut / int_c0cb3ba4	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_c0cb3ba4	featureConfidence	1.0
Sweet Home (2020)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_c0cb3ba4
Clean Cut / int_c2463c55	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_c2463c55	comment	Yojimbo's Zanmato attack works similarly, with the bonus of working on bosses as well, if it occurs.
Clean Cut / int_c2463c55	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_c2463c55	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy X (Video Game)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_c2463c55
Clean Cut / int_c3c3dfc	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_c3c3dfc	comment	Stardust Crusaders: Anubis's sword allows him to cleanly slice through a stone pillar.
Clean Cut / int_c3c3dfc	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_c3c3dfc	featureConfidence	1.0
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_c3c3dfc
Clean Cut / int_c41214bf	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_c41214bf	comment	In Kick-Ass, Hit Girl's swords are implausibly sharp for a comic that claims to be set in reality. There's also the fact that even a grown adult wouldn't be able to generate enough force to cut through bone in one swing (at least with those weapons), let alone a ten year old girl.
Clean Cut / int_c41214bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_c41214bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Kick-Ass / Comicbook	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_c41214bf
Clean Cut / int_c4b82575	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_c4b82575	comment	Underworld: Selene slashes the Big Bad as she leaps over him, and he has time to turn around, draw two swords, then look shocked before half of his head slides off.
Clean Cut / int_c4b82575	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_c4b82575	featureConfidence	1.0
Underworld (2003)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_c4b82575
Clean Cut / int_c61eedbe	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_c61eedbe	comment	Until Death Do Us Part features a cutting edge (no pun intended) katana that uses tech to maintain a blade a single molecule in width. And it's wielded by a blind guy.
Clean Cut / int_c61eedbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_c61eedbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Until Death Do Us Part (Manga)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_c61eedbe
Clean Cut / int_d43be22a	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_d43be22a	comment	Michael Myers from the Halloween series is fond of this trope. A particularly memorable example had him decapitate Jen in Halloween: Resurrection in one clean swipe with a kitchen knife.
Clean Cut / int_d43be22a	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_d43be22a	featureConfidence	1.0
Halloween (Franchise)	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_d43be22a
Clean Cut / int_d78af2ac	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_d78af2ac	comment	In Kingsman: The Secret Service, Gazelle is introduced by slicing Lancelot, a Kingsman, lengthwise. We get to see his shocked expression and a drop of blood from his nose before the two halves break apart.
Clean Cut / int_d78af2ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_d78af2ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Kingsman: The Secret Service	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_d78af2ac
Clean Cut / int_d8c349bd	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_d8c349bd	comment	This is how the Ultimateblade, the only male Wielder in Witchblade, bites it, courtesy of Masane.
Clean Cut / int_d8c349bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_d8c349bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Witchblade	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_d8c349bd
Clean Cut / int_d9c85cfa	type	Clean Cut
Clean Cut / int_d9c85cfa	comment	The Gears of War novel Aspho Fields averts this, as a character's attacking a Locust with the chainsaw bayonet on the game's infamous Lancer Assault Rifle is an extended pushing of the chainsaw into the Locust, and they later found out they had a piece of bone stuck in them that flung off during the altercation.
Clean Cut / int_d9c85cfa	featureApplicability	1.0
Clean Cut / int_d9c85cfa	featureConfidence	1.0
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Clean Cut / int_da9864b	comment	In Clash of the Titans when the hero slashes Medusa, she's standing right up for a few moments before her head finally falls off her shoulders.
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Clean Cut / int_de4fe77e	comment	Taken to extremes in the various Hammer's Slammers stories by David Drake. In many of the stories, the mercenaries are shown to have knives so sharp that they can cut leaves hanging on trees without disturbing them. In addition, there is a "cutting bar" used that can slice through things such as chain link fencing without stopping. Though the cutting bar is said to have "vibrating, interlocking teeth" in it, making it a combination of a Machete and a chainsaw in action...
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Clean Cut / int_df2eb6f4	comment	In Highlander, Connor 's final fight with the Kurgan ends with the Kurgan giving an ambiguous smile, just before his head slowly flops off. You see, Katanas Are Just Better.
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Clean Cut / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer has a few good examples. Notably Anya's death in "Chosen".
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Clean Cut / int_e6318baf	comment	An episode of Midsomer Murders had a person decapitated by a wire strung across the area where he rode his motorcycle.
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Clean Cut / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi has Negi's arm severed cleanly ( and later re-attached), but here it's magic, so it kind of makes sense.
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Clean Cut / int_e76706e4	comment	This is most definitely not the standard in Adventure Dennis, where there is generally a lot of bloody wounds, but it does occur during the fight with Shadow Dennis.
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Clean Cut / int_e8343108	comment	Angel Beats!: In the Heaven's Door manga and Track Zero light novel, Shiina does this to Hinata. The cuts are so clean that he doesn't feel them, and thinks she missed until Yuri tells him to fall down already.
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Clean Cut / int_e9d7acf9	comment	Lone Wolf: Can happen with the Sommerswerd due to Cutscene Power to the Max â€” especially to The Undead. The Sword of the Sun can sever limbs with minimal efforts, cut a shield in twain with one blow, or tear off armor like paper.
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Clean Cut / int_ee819261	comment	In John Carpenter's Vampires, the Big Bad slices somebody in half vertically using his hand.
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Clean Cut / int_f3ae2950	comment	Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance The game has this as one of its main gameplay features, allowing you to cut enemy cyborgs/the environment/giant robots cleanly in two (or however many more) pieces. Notably, at one point this actually works against the person who made the cut. At the end of the Jetstream DLC, Sam manages to cut off Armstrong's hand, leaving a stump. However, Armstrong's body-hardening nanomachines then turn the stump into a razor-sharp shiv, which Armstrong then uses to skewer Sam, taking off his arm in return. This, along with Armstrong's subsequent Breaking Speech, sends Sam over the Despair Event Horizon and makes him join up with Desperado.
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Clean Cut / int_f3e1a2a5	comment	In the 1998 Merlin miniseries, the titular wizard demonstrates this with Excalibur, cutting cleanly through a regular sword used by an enemy just by parrying it.
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Clean Cut / int_f4a728d6	comment	Justice decapitates the title character's dad in Afro Samurai... with a pistol. Or so it looks. He actually has three arms, the last one holding a sword and tucked under his cape.
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Clean Cut / int_f6fb4731	comment	In Ghost Ship, the opening sequence has a group of partygoers dancing in the ballroom of an ocean liner. An unseen person hooks up a spool of wire cord level with the ballroom deck. The spool snaps and flails across the room, and the guests look around to see what's wrong. It turns out that all of the guests (save for one little girl) have been bisected, falling apart more than ten seconds after the incident. Of note is the captain of the ship, who has been dancing with the little girl. He looks down at her in concern, then half of his head falls off.
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Clean Cut / int_f8705c18	comment	Integra Hellsing is Badass enough a Normal to easily slice apart Nazi vampires. She was using a sabre, though. Her butler can do the same, but uses apparently limitless razor wires with enough skill to earn the nickname "Angel of Death." And Luke Valentine as well, although he's a supernaturally strong and fast vampire.
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Clean Cut / int_fb32ec22	comment	In the remake of The Omen (2006), photographer Keith Jennings gets his head sliced cleanly off... by an unhinged sign post. Seeing as the momentum wasn't terribly large, that thing must've been sharp as hell. Then again, higher powers are also at work, which might help explain it.
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Clean Cut / int_fe5f7909	comment	Toward the end of Guards! Guards!, Carrot's sword is used to block another sword. The attacker's sword is cut clean in two, leaving its wielder flabbergasted. It's never been used for such, but imagine what it could do if turned against a villain (in a cut, not a thrust, which it has been used for).
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