After being killed by the Turks, Vlad III Dracula's severed head was said to have been sent to the Turkish sultan Mehmed II for proof that he had finally been slain. The history writer Simon Schama describes de Launay as a "reasonably conscientious if somewhat dour" [14]

Furthermore, she and Alden decide in this episode to make their relationship official, so her death is going to hurt him. The Highwaymen From a purely strategic standpoint, the Highwaymen’s deaths may be the greatest, or at least among the greatest, losses. They were protecting the roads to and from the Kingdom. With two of their own dead, especially their leader, Ozzy, their future ties to that community may be up in the air.Parker: At the end of The Man with the Getaway Face, Parker unzips a travel bag to show May the severed head of Wells, proving that he has upheld his end of the bargain and Wells is dead. In a matchup against Quan Chi, he would carry a head of Moloch upon exiting a portal before tossing it aside. The trailer for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings ends with Lethos holding up the severed head of King Demavend of Aedirn for a few long moments before jumping overboard to escape.

Seraph of the End: Chapter 46 reveals that Ferid has Akane's severed head which he tries to goad Yuu and Mika with. It works. At the end of Hardcore Henry, after Henry has cut Akan's head in half, he tosses the top half at Estelle. The Legend of the Princess: In a past life, Ganondorf gave Princess Zelda the disembodied head of her fiancé. Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink, Rolf Reichardt, Nobert Schurer. 1997. The Bastille: A History of a Symbol of Despotism and Freedom, P.43Depicted in the banner for Mann Up mode in Mann Vs. Machine in Team Fortress 2, with the RED Heavy brandishing the severed head of a Heavy-bot that he presumably pulled off just prior. Also happens after a fashion with the Botkiller weapons, which have the heads of Robot Heavies or (more rarely) Robot Engineers hanging off their barrels or jammed onto melee weapons as trophies in full view of everyone. Turned into a Running Gag in the Rome episode "Caesarion", where multiple severed heads are displayed on spikes above the door of the Egyptian royal palace because the owners of the heads kept pissing the wrong people off. In the same episode, the Egyptians present Julius Caesar with the head of his enemy Pompey the Great. Rather than being grateful, Caesar is furious that a consul of Rome was desecrated in this manner and demands the head of the man who killed him. In Simon R. Green's Shadows Fall, the Warriors of the Cross send Father Callahan a box containing the severed head of his good friend and childhood hero, Lester Gold. It's only then that Callahan realizes that the Warriors with whom he'd been collaborating are not the God-serving crusaders he'd been led to believe, but a horde of invaders out to exterminate everyone in the town who dares defy or offend them.

The Divine Comedy: In the ditch of the Sowers of Discord in Inferno, one of the damned holds 'his own head' up, "in the manner of a lantern," and speaks to the narrator's horror. Rage of the Master: At the end of the climatic casino fight, Tiger Wong defeats the main villain's number two, the same person who killed Wong's mother, and for good measure proceeds to remove his victim's head, intending to put the head at his mother's grave during the funeral. The Scots predominantly used shorter spears in their schiltron formation; their attempt to adopt the longer Continental pike was dropped for general use after its ineffective use led to humiliating defeat at the Battle of Flodden. The marquis Bernard-René Jordan de Launay was born on the night of 8/9 April 1740 in the Bastille where his father, René Jourdan de Launay, was governor. At the age of eight, he was appointed to an honorary position in the King's Musketeers ( mousquetaires du roi). He subsequently entered the French Guards ( gardes-françaises), a regiment that was permanently stationed in Paris except in time of war.Sub-Trope of Off with His Head!, which is about death by decapitation. This trope is about presenting the severed head in some way, be it by holding it up, or showing it stabbed on a pike, or throwing it casually to the one it is presented to, etc... She also had one of the most important jobs in this world as the community’s doctor, so that’s going to be a major loss for everyone. Axtell, Daniel Gibbs (2006). "Selections from the Trial and Execution of Col. Daniel Axtell in October 1660" . Retrieved 16 September 2016. from An Exact and most Impartial Accompt Of the Indictment, Arraignment, Tryal, and Judgment (according to Law) of Twenty Nine Regicides, The Murtherers of His Late Sacred Majesty Of Most Glorious Memory... (As reprinted in London, 1679ed.). London: Andrew Crook & Edward Powel. 1660.

Cromwell Association (5 March 2011). "What happened to Cromwell's body after his death? Where are his mortal remains now?". Cromwell Association and the Cromwell Museum Huntingdon . Retrieved 16 September 2016. In The 100 Commander Lexa reveals that the Queen of the Ice Nation kidnapped her lover, Costia, tortured her for information, and when this failed, beheaded her and delivered her severed head to Lexa.Jehu having the heads of Ahab's seventy sons displayed at the entrance of the gate of the town of Jezreel.