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Eyes and teeth are not the only human body parts that are extremely sensitive and fragile. Our fingers are, too. This trope includes all the nasty things that can happen to them: * Fingers broken one by one; * Fingers cut off; * Fingers shot off; * Fingers bitten off or eaten; * Fingernails pulled off; * Fingernails torn off; * Long sharp objects hammered into the finger bones; * The hand nerves are exposed and pulled to make the fingers move; * Fingers crushed between heavy objects or machine parts; * Any combination of the above.

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  • Eyes and teeth are not the only human body parts that are extremely sensitive and fragile. Our fingers are, too. This trope includes all the nasty things that can happen to them: * Fingers broken one by one; * Fingers cut off; * Fingers shot off; * Fingers bitten off or eaten; * Fingernails pulled off; * Fingernails torn off; * Long sharp objects hammered into the finger bones; * The hand nerves are exposed and pulled to make the fingers move; * Fingers crushed between heavy objects or machine parts; * Any combination of the above.
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  • Eyes and teeth are not the only human body parts that are extremely sensitive and fragile. Our fingers are, too. This trope includes all the nasty things that can happen to them: * Fingers broken one by one; * Fingers cut off; * Fingers shot off; * Fingers bitten off or eaten; * Fingernails pulled off; * Fingernails torn off; * Long sharp objects hammered into the finger bones; * The hand nerves are exposed and pulled to make the fingers move; * Fingers crushed between heavy objects or machine parts; * Any combination of the above. What makes fingers so attractive for horror writers is that unlike the eyes, we generally have ten of them. The fun lasts five times longer! And that's not counting the toes... Also, most people can relate to finger and toe injuries, since they tend to be very common in every day life. This makes finger severing and other injuries a lot more cringe-inducing than something as over the top as limb dismemberment or decapitation. 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. The title is a portmanteau of "finger" and "gore", and is a cheap pun, too. See Mutilation Interrogation for Cold-Blooded Torture that often involves this. For this done as a ritual, see Yubitsume. Fingers are a fairly common Creepy Souvenir. Compare An Arm and a Leg, where an entire limb is lost; and Agony of the Feet, where it's the toes that are lost. Contrast, among other things, Intertwined Fingers. Examples of Fingore include:
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