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[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Wasn't there a movie or show where someone kept ears as trophies and wore them around their neck like a necklace?

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago

The movie you're thinking of is the amazing art film Universal Soldier starring the superb actors Jean Claude Van Damme, and Dolph Lundgren.

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably. It happened in two games that I played, once in Far Cry Primal by one of the allies and once in Titanfall 2 by one of the foes.

I'd not be surprised if there's many more such examples.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

There was a String of Ears belt in Diablo 2 (2000).

https://diablo2.io/uniques/string-of-ears-t950.html

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

In Diablo II duels, killed players would drop an ear.

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Witcher 3: Wild Hunt had some Baba Yaga-type characters with strings of ears around them given as tribute

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I vaguely recall the same thing from something fantasy, but can't recall what. I decided to brave TV Tropes to see. I got this:

[In A Song of Ice and Fire,] Chella daughter of Cheyk wears a necklace of ears from defeated enemies. Unusually for the trope, all of them had been left alive — they can come back to challenge her and get their ears back if they ever find the courage.

and then again in the TV show section:

[In Game of Thrones,] Chella daughter of Cheyk, the chieftainess of the Black Ears, stays true to her tribe's custom of stringing the ears of defeated foes on a necklace. She can be seen taking a new pair in "Baelor".

And in Western Animation:

At one point in Blue Eye Samurai, Heiji Shindo tries to buy Mizu off from her revenge quest, offering a fortune in gold and a position as a lord, with the price being that she must cut off her right thumb, so she can never wield a sword against Shindo and Fowler again. After making the offer, he shows Mizu and Taigen a box with a small collection of severed thumbs, in various states of decay.

In "Lair of Grievous" [in The Clone Wars], Kit Fisto and Nahdar Vebb discover that Grievous collects the padawan braids from young padawan learners he's killed.

But that's the best I could find. Definitely not ringing a bell for me.

[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

There's a squad of elite soldiers in a book series (Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind) who collect ears as trophies, so definitely out there in some other literature as well

[–] johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Daryl in the first season of the waking dead

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I remember a Vietnam movie where someone wore an ear necklace, I guess it was Universal Soldier, where Dolph Lundgren wore one.

[–] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Recently there was a show called The Great which had Elle fanning which had a character that wore a necklace of ears

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Blood Meridian

[–] reptar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm surprised at how many other answers there are to this! I thought for sure you were referring to Charles White in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle.

A bit of a trope I guess.

[–] apex32@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've seen it in Twisted Metal (TV series):

https://youtu.be/L7AFM4zTSZM

Ear necklace shows up about halfway through the clip.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Found the one nut who watched the ‘Twisted Metal’ TV series.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

There's dozens of us!

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What? It's great.

The only role I liked Mackie in

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a big fan of the OG games, namely the second one: I even had the rare PC edition. But the characters and stories always felt like thought up by a thirteen-year-old boy who's bored in class.

[–] PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

In The Walking Dead, Daryl had a zombie ear necklace briefly