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Heart in the Wrong Place
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Anatomically, the human heart is located beneath the lower sternum, with only a very slight tilt to the left. Because of this, anatomists, being very precise people, say that the heart (meaning the centre of the heart) lies to the left of the sternum. In fiction, this position is greatly exaggerated, and it is common to depict it as lying just under the left shoulder, level with the armpit, in a position where the left lung ought to be. The thumping sensation that people feel in the upper-left chest that creates this impression is actually the aortic pulse. A case of Artistic License – Biology so commonplace as to constitute Reality Is Unrealistic. If a character's heart is in the wrong place because they've hidden it for safekeeping, that's a Soul Jar. If a character's heart is in a different place because they aren't human, it's Bizarre Alien Biology. This trope can overlap with CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable when nobody involved does the research beforehand. Often mistakenly conflated with dextrocardia situs inversus, a condition where a human's heart tilts towards their right side instead of their left; depictions in fiction fall under Bizarre Human Biology and, if it leads to avoiding what would've been a fatal injury, Organ Dodge. See also Attack on the Heart. |
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In "Dig That Cat, He's Real Gone", a Tales from the Crypt episode, a bear-shaped archery target has a valentine-shaped cutout on the left side of its chest. | |
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In Batman: Arkham Knight, one of Professor Pyg's victims has the remnants of a cardiac pacemaker affixed to his right ventricle. The deep tissue scanner shows this physical anomaly's position to be quite far to the left. | |
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Jack Ryan: Discussed in Without Remorse. One of the reasons the police are sure that their killer is ex-military is because the death wounds are exactly where the heart should be and not where the average person thinks it is. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Treehouse of Horror IV", Homer tries to stake Vampire Mr. Burns. He hammers in a stake with a dramatic declaration, only for Lisa to point out he just staked Burns' groin. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: Ocelot shoots Fortune in the left side of the chest. This fails to be an immediate kill, but that's not because he shot off-center but because the victim had a case of Situs Inversus. | |
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Averted in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. When Coulson shows May the scar on his chest left by Loki stabbing him in the heart, it is just barely left of center. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent has a variation on this. At some point, Sigrun tries to indicate her heart by putting her hand on the right side of her chest, only for Mikkel to correct her by telling her it's actually "on the other side". "The other side" to where Sigrun initially had her hand is the area in which the heart is usually depicted to be when the trope is played straight. | |
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In Fist of the North Star, this is an important plot point in one of Kenshiro's battles: when Kenshiro first fights Thouzer, his Pressure Point attacks have seemingly no effect. It is later revealed that Thouzer has dextrocardia: because his heart is inverted, so too are his pressure points. With this knowledge, Kenshiro is able to adjust his attacks and defeat Thouzer. | |
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In Attack on Titan Connie gets chastised by Drill Sergeant Nasty Keith Shadis for holding his fist at the wrong spot when doing the hand-on-heart salute. | |
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In Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, one of the proofs that the Lex Luthor Superman is speaking to is from an Alternate Universe is that his heart veers towards the right side of his body, showing a subtle difference in anatomy between universes. | |
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The Seven Deadly Sins: While the Anime averts this trope for the most part, showing characters getting in the sternum, in episode 8, when Holy Knight Gulia kills herself to follow our heroes into the land of the dead, her gauntlet goes just under her shoulder, even though she's supposed to be stabbing herself in the heart. | |
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The Dresden Files: In Storm Front, the victims slain by the exploding-heart curse are described as having holes on the upper left side of their chests. (Fortunately, the graphic novel adaptation rectifies this mistake.) Harry himself apparently believes this trope, as he refers to his barbarian PC's attack as a "perfect heart strike" — two inches under a Mook's left nipple — while role-playing in the short story "Day Off". |
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Emulated by SCP-2295, an anomalous organ-replacing teddy bear with a pin resembling an anatomically-correct heart pinned to its left breast. | |
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Two characters in Django Unchained are killed by being shot through their hearts... a couple of inches above the left nipple. | |
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Discworld: Discussed in Monstrous Regiment when The Medic considers mercy-killing the team vampire before it goes mad with hunger, explaining that people typically aim too far to the left. Used in Carpe Jugulum, when the Old Count turns out to have an anatomical chart showing where the heart is to help would-be heroes, otherwise he might end up leaky as a colander. |
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James Bond: Dr. No tells James Bond how he survived reprisal from the Tong after being caught embezzling funds - they chopped off his hands and shot him through the heart... or thought they did, but he was a rare case with his heart on the right side of his body. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "The Deserter": Captain Rex gets shot in the upper centre of his chest, seemingly slightly above where the heart would be. This doesn't stop Hardcase (who, admittedly, is not a medic) from telling him that if the shot had been "an inch to the left" it would have gone through his heart. "The Soft War": Saw Gerrera is subjected to Electric Torture after being captured. A screen showing stress to his heart during the process locates his heart quite firmly on the left side of his chest, even though he's human. |
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The movie Ninja Assassin featured multiple people with the medical condition Dextrocardia situs inversus, which occurs in approximately 1 in 12,000 people. In an inversion of both normal human anatomy and this trope, their hearts were tilted towards the right side of the chest, which saves each of them when a ninja tries to stab them in the heart. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Forsworn Briarhearts, who, through a magical process replace their real hearts with a magic substitute, can clearly be seen with these hearts located a good three inches to the left of where it would really be, and too high up the chest. | |
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Averted in Royal Heights, where it's stated that the witches have their hearts in the middle of their chests, allowing a magic source they call the Darkness to better circulate throughout their bodies. Their blood also activates their immortality and having their heart removed is the only way they can properly die. | |
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Tamara from Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan paints herself with some sketchy approximations of internal anatomy before attempting to seduce (and get blackmail footage of) Charles. Justified in that she couldn't care less if the illustrations on her "biology project" are correct. | |
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Averted by Iron Man, whose heart-sustaining arc reactor is located in the center of his chest. Although the sheer size of the device means his heart would have to be pushed to the side to fit | |
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Subverted in Telltale's The Wolf Among Us where Prince Lawrence shoots himself in the left side of his chest hoping to hit himself in the heart. When he is discovered by Bigby, he says that the heart is in the centre of the chest and he probably hit his lung. | |
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An Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfic used it as a plot point, where Zuko did not die from being stabbed in the chest, with the attacker going for his heart, since his heart is "on the wrong side" and thus it was missed entirely. No word on if he had actual situs inversus or it was just his heart. (see Real Life). | |
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Harry himself apparently believes this trope, as he refers to his barbarian PC's attack as a "perfect heart strike" — two inches under a Mook's left nipple — while role-playing in the short story "Day Off". | |
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In Jeepers Creepers, the Creeper rips the heart out of one of the policemen at the sheriff's office, leaving a gaping hole through the left side of the man's chest. The hole is far enough off-center that the unlucky cop doesn't even keel over instantly, because his spine is still intact. | |
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Discussed in Monstrous Regiment when The Medic considers mercy-killing the team vampire before it goes mad with hunger, explaining that people typically aim too far to the left. | |
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Averted in Warehouse 13: when Artie gets stabbed through the chest by a sword, it goes though where most people think is the placement of the heart. While he is seriously injured, he makes a very rapid recovery. | |
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Iron Man: The arc reactor is housed within a wide, wrist-deep hole exactly where Tony's heart should be. The sheer size of the device means his heart would have to be pushed to the side to fit. | |
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Used in Carpe Jugulum, when the Old Count turns out to have an anatomical chart showing where the heart is to help would-be heroes, otherwise he might end up leaky as a colander. | |
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I Am Legend: Discussed, as the protagonist has been killing vampires by stabbing them in the heart but realizes that he doesn't actually know human anatomy well enough to guarantee hitting the heart every time, yet they always die. This leads him to realize that any deep stab wound to the chest is instantly lethal to them, regardless of whether it hits an organ or not. | |
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Averted early in Lost. The US Marshall that was on the plane was critically wounded in the crash, so Sawyer shoots him in the upper left part of his chest to put him out of his misery. Only for Jack to tell him that he missed the heart and hit his lung. | |
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My Hero Academia has an episode with a focus shot of Izuku where his heartbeat is heard. However, his heart is indicated as being in the upper left of his chest in said shot. | |
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In Storm Front, the victims slain by the exploding-heart curse are described as having holes on the upper left side of their chests. (Fortunately, the graphic novel adaptation rectifies this mistake.) | |
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Deltora Quest: One bit of Glamour Failure the shapeshifting Ols have is that their hearts are on the right sides of their bodies instead of the left. The heroes have to keep this in mind when they recognize Ols and try to kill them by stabbing said hearts. | |
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In Manon des Sources, Ugolin becomes a Stalker with a Crush for Manon, and stitches a discarded hair ribbon directly to his skin, supposedly over his heart but actually on the left side of his chest. Not that the exact position really matters, as all it gives him is a revolting infection. | |
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In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, when the acorn is abandoned by Scrat and Scratte, it drifts out to sea and washes up inside an intact ribcage on the beach, right where people who believe this trope expect a heart to be. | |
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Obliquely referenced in the 1947 film of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in which one of Walter's magazine stories features a vampire that got staked early in the serial, but returns because the villagers pierced his left lung, not his heart. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, when Will Turner reappears after becoming captain of the Flying Dutchman, the scar from impromptu heart surgery is visible high on the left side of the chest. | |
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Likewise, Kroenen from Hellboy doesn't seem to have a working heart or blood in the film adaptation, but the clockwork device that keeps his body going ... somehow ... is in the upper left side of his chest. | |
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In Mystery Skulls Animated Lewis' heart is where his left lung would be in addition to hovering on the outside of his ribcage. Justified in that it's not really his heart — it's a locket. | |
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| Heart in the Wrong Place / int_d1490551 | type |
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In the sci-fi novel Doorways in the Sand, someone attempts to murder the main character, Fred Cassidy, by shooting him in the left side of the chest. Fortunately for Fred, he'd recently passed himself through an alien matter-mirroring machine and his heart was now on the right side. | |
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On the makeup-F/X game show Face/Off, a costume of a re-imagined, horror-themed Tin Woodsman featured a bare chest with a gaping hole where the character's heart is missing. Naturally, it's very high on the left side. | |
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In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Katniss supposedly shoots President Coin directly in the heart, and yet when we see her the arrow is just under the left shoulder, level with the armpit, in a position where the left lung ought to be. Sure, she could have died from a punctured lung instead, if proper medical attention wasn't available, which would be rare, considering who she was, but certainly not from heart related wounds. | |
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| Heart in the Wrong Place / int_dc4363c5 | type |
Heart in the Wrong Place | |
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Averted in True Blood. Every time someone is stabbed in the heart or a heart is ripped out, it's in the correct place. | |
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| Heart in the Wrong Place / int_e084daa6 | type |
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In the Dune (1984), the heart plug of the unlucky Harkonnen slave is too far to the left. It also spurts out dark blood when pulled out by the Baron, not the bright crimson high-oxygen blood which is propelled by the left atrium and ventricle. | |
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| Heart in the Wrong Place / int_e293455a | type |
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Committed repeatedly and with extreme prejudice in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the location of the heart in vampires seems to vary from more-or-less right, to the upper-left chest, to (in one particularly egregious case) the stomach. | |
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| Heart in the Wrong Place / int_e5ae92df | type |
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Among the many other failings of F.A.T.A.L. is the lungs on the critical hit chart; you're twice as likely to hit the right lung as the left lung (to make room for the heart, see?). While the left lung really is smaller than the right one, it's not as drastic a difference as FATAL is trying to pass off. | |
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| Heart in the Wrong Place / int_e8af156 | type |
Heart in the Wrong Place | |
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In Jennifer's Body, Jennifer places Jonas' hand above her left breast and asks him to feel her heart. | |
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Rat-Man: Boda Valker, while teaching his son Janus how to become a killer, explained that the idea of the heart being on the left is a stupid legend, and a lot of people got killed for it, since the victim didn't die immediately from a hit on the left and could shoot back. | |
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Family Guy: Exaggerated in the episode "Friends Without Benefits", which portrays Meg's heart as being at the top of her head, hence why she's seldom seen without her hat. | |
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| Heart in the Wrong Place / int_eb47aa19 | type |
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The Voynich Hotel: Played for a joke when Helena Rearranges Taizou's internal organs to help clean up up his system and ends up placing his heart far in the right of his chest. Becomes a Chekhov's Gun when the Yakazua clan catches up with him. A torturer attempts to stab in the heart in the anatomically correct place but it isn't there allowing Helena to get back in time and save Taizou. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. In "Ex Post Facto", Tom Paris is accused of murdering an alien. Among the evidence that exculpates him is the fact that the victim was stabbed in the heart which is in a different place in that species, a fact that Tom wouldn't know. | |
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Heart in the Wrong Place | |
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Justifiably used in Primeval, when the Future Predators' Bizarre Alien Senses pinpoint the beating hearts of its human prey on the left side of their chests. While the heart isn't actually on the left side, the left side of a person's heart is typically louder than the right, so the Future Predators' sound-based senses really should indicate it's a bit farther off-center than in reality. | |
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In Terminator Salvation, when the T-800 visualizes Marcus's heart, it's too high and too far to the left. Then again, Marcus isn't entirely human, so he might have been built that way. On the other hand, when John Connor is stabbed and his heart is explicitly damaged, it's from being stabbed in the center of the chest. | |
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In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the villainous cult leader Mola Ram snatches the heart from the left side of the sacrificial victim's chest. His attempt to do the same to Indy likewise uses this trope. | |
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