Severed ear

Severed ear
Classification:	Injury
Associated films:	The Fly
Associated programs:	Defiance The Walking Dead
Related articles:	Severed hand; Severed limbs

A severed ear is an ear that has been deliberately removed from the body. This mostly relates to humans, but may also apply to animals as well. Except for frogs. Frogs don't have ears.

Appearances

Television

• Defiance: The World We Seize: - Rahm Tak decorates his caravan with the severed heads of humans and eats their ears for the simple joy of it.
• Walking Dead: Chupacabra: Daryl Dixon, in a delusional and exhausted state, cuts off the ears from three walkers and strings them on a leather cord, which he wears around his neck. Andrea is one of the first to notice this bizarre trophy when he makes it back to the Greene farm.
• The X-Files: Kitten: In the Vietnam War, John James collected human ears of his victims as trophies and strung them as a necklace.
• Walking Dead: Triggerfinger: Carol Peletier found Daryl's collection of severed undead ears drying on a clothes line at the Greene farm.

Films

• Fly, The: In the remake of The Fly, Seth Brundle began slowly transforming into a large bipedal insect man. As such, his body began eschewing the parts that it deemed unnecessary or redundant, including his ear, which fell off of his head into his hand.
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III: Benny shoots Tinker Sawyer's ear off with a shotgun.

Comics

• Walking Dead 28 - Michonne bites off the Governor's ear.
• Sam and Twitch 1 - Sam Burke and Twitch Williams come upon a murder victim who has his ears severed.

Notes

• Severed ears redirects to this page.

• If one's head is severed, by extension, it could be argued that their ear has been severed as well, as it is no longer attached to the main body.

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