Timeline for Origin of movie trope where impaled character pulls/pushes blade/spear further into body?
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| Jul 11, 2016 at 13:44 | vote | accept | RobertF | ||
| Jun 10, 2016 at 22:13 | answer | added | DeHaan | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 24, 2016 at 1:44 | comment | added | user34921 | Just as a note..... There's a REALLY early related trope. In medieval tales and ballads when the author wanted to get rid of a character and there wasn't a convenient war or other convenient plot device going on, he would simply write "And then Sir Bert went hunting the wild boar and was killed." Quick, simple, and to medieval listeners perfectly believable and common. | |
| May 23, 2016 at 13:44 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | The oldest movie where this happened that I can remember is Terminator 2. If you count a metal rod as "spear". | |
| May 23, 2016 at 9:44 | comment | added | alex9311 | gotta mention the ending of LOTR 1 when Aragon is fighting the uruk hai bossman - combination of the two goals you mention I think | |
| May 20, 2016 at 4:03 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMovies/status/733508355969409024 | ||
| May 20, 2016 at 3:03 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | "In the world of the warrior, seppuku was a deed of bravery that was admirable in a samurai who knew he was defeated, disgraced, or mortally wounded. It meant that he could end his days with his transgressions wiped away and with his reputation not merely intact but actually enhanced. The cutting of the abdomen released the samurai’s spirit in the most dramatic fashion, but it was an extremely painful and unpleasant way to die, and sometimes the samurai who was performing the act asked a loyal comrade to cut off his head at the moment of agony." | |
| May 20, 2016 at 2:57 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | @PavelJanicek - Interesting suggestion. I don't know much about Japanese military history, but my understanding was that generally, when a samurai was badly wounded, he allowed his opponent to decapitate him, rather than the movie-style "I'll take you with me" mentality. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 22:15 | answer | added | Wad Cheber | timeline score: 213 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 18:53 | answer | added | Michael Stern | timeline score: 131 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 18:27 | comment | added | Pavel Janicek | My personal guess would be inspiration from Japan. But from top of the head I remember I saw it in Flash Gordon movie | |
| May 19, 2016 at 16:51 | history | asked | RobertF | CC BY-SA 3.0 |