The Wedding of River Song": The Doctor shows who told him of the whereabouts of Gideon Vandeleur by displaying the detached eyestalk of the Dalek whose data core he raided.

One possible War Table mission in Dragon Age: Inquisition has Cullen jokingly suggest this. You can tell him to do it. He is not pleased at all. At the end of Hardcore Henry, after Henry has cut Akan's head in half, he tosses the top half at Estelle.

Logan. The Reveal that Laura is actually a mutant killing machine like Wolverine is the Sound-Only Death of the mercenaries sent into a building to find her, followed by Laura walking out holding a severed head which she tosses at their leader's feet. 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.

Barracuda: In "Scars", Maria has a covered tray placed on the table before her husband Ferrango. When she lifts the cloche, the tray holds the severed head of one of the slaves he had used to have her flogged three years earlier. She then has the head mounted on a spike outside his bedroom window, with its dead eyes staring in at him.In :Re, Takizawa's changed state is established by him casually decapitating a high-ranking Investigator. After drinking blood from the severed head and making a bit of casual conversation, he proceeds to massacre all but one member of the squad. Perseus weaponized this trope with the head of the gorgon Medusa, which turned any who looked upon its visage to stone. He eventually gave the head to the goddess Athena for safekeeping, and Athena affixed the head to her shield.