One of the interrogation techniques employed by the protagonist of Warren Ellis' Jack Cross is shooting a suspect's fingers off one by one. Gross cutting Cassie's toes off one by one. Hack/Slash starts right off with Cold Blooded Torturer Dr. One of the best ways to neutralize the threat of a Green Lantern (or any of the other Colored Corps) is to destroy their Ring of Power, often when they are still wearing it. JLA (1997) sees that Batman in the Bad Future of "Rock of Ages" is missing parts of some of his fingers as the result of Dessad's torture. Good thing Swamp Thing can heal any damage. Unfortunately, when he taps on his shoulder, Superman spins around, and mistaking him for an enemy, grabs his hand and crushes his fingers. In Superman storyline The Jungle Line, the Man of Steel has been infected with Bloodmorel disease, which causes hallucinations and eventually death, and Swamp Thing enters his mind to calm him down. Kara grabs his hand and accidentally crushes two fingers of his. One of them mistakes her for a prostitute and reaches for her. In The Supergirl from Krypton (2004), Kara Zor-El wanders confused into an alley, and is spotted by three workers. He then cuts off the worker's fingers for not trying to stop them. One member stops a robbery at a 7/11 by shooting the robbers dead with a shotgun. The Dark Knight Returns shows the extreme measures of the Sons of The Batman, a vigilante splinter group of the Mutants. He cut off her index finger with a ring on it, presents it to young Barbara Gordon, and asks her if she'll marry him. In Death of the Family, Joker has Barbara Kean-Gordon hostage. loses an index finger when the heroes fire energy at his hands through the portal he created. In Infinite Crisis, Alexander Luthor Jr. However, a button man only has three markers, after that, it's death. a finger in lieu of being killed (unless something else has been agreed. In Button Man, a disgraced button man can leave a "marker", i.e. The loss of hands can also be extremely disabling for the same reasons above, just as the loss of an eye can be. As a result, fingers are so sensitive they could even be considered to be sensory organs on par with the eyes. There's also the fact that in humans, fingers have the highest number of touch receptors of any part of the body, primarily as an evolutionary consequence to the human species' tool biased survival strategy that required the use of the hands. Most people have no idea how something like that would feel, but we pretty much all can imagine what a having a section of your finger cut off would feel like, and it seems very unpleasant. 
This makes finger severing and other injuries a lot more cringe-inducing than something as over the top as limb dismemberment or decapitation.
The fun lasts five times longer! And that's not counting the toes.Īlso, most people can relate to finger and toe injuries, since they tend to be very common in everyday life. What makes fingers so attractive for horror writers is that unlike the eyes, we generally have ten of them.
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