Random Nastiest Things Hannibal Lecter Has Ever Don (15 items)

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  (#1) Hannibal Feeds Krendler His Own Prefrontal Cortex, Which He Prepares With Shallots And White Wine, In 'Hannibal' (2001)

  After Justice Department official Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) attempts to take Hannibal down and ruin Agent Starling's career, Dr. Lecter sets up a disturbing sequence of revenge. 

  Lecter incapacitates Starling and takes her to Krendler's lake house, where he's planned a delectable dinner for them. When she wakes up, she finds Krendler alive and smiling at the head of the table. Lecter reveals that he's removed the top of Krendler's skull, exposing the deputy's brain. With Krendler impaired beyond comprehension, Lecter proceeds to sauté his prefrontal cortex in a pan with shallots before feeding him his own cranial organ. 
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  (#2) Hannibal Convinces Mason Verger To Serve His Face To Will’s Dogs In 'Hannibal'

  Mason Verger appears in both the 2001 film, Hannibal, and the TV show of the same name. While some of the minor details differ, the incident in which Verger removes his own face is portrayed in largely the same manner in both versions.

  Verger is a sadistic offender, and Dr. Lecter has had enough of him. In the Hannibal TV series, Lecter incapacitates Verger with a powerful hallucinogen. While Verger is in a state of mind-bending euphoria, Lecter convinces him to feed his own face to Will Graham's dogs. Lecter also talks him into eating his own nose before snapping Verger's neck and leaving him permanently paralyzed.
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  (#3) Hannibal Serves Abel Gideon His Own Clay-Roasted Leg For Dinner In ‘Hannibal’

  Abel Gideon is a deranged transplant surgeon who acts as a recurring antagonist throughout the first two seasons of Hannibal. During his stay at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, a group of guards break his back. While Gideon is being treated in a medical hospital, Lecter kidnaps him and takes him to his home.  

  Lecter treats Gideon as his guest of honor at a dinner where the main course is the surgeon's own clay-roasted leg. At first, Gideon refuses to indulge in the meal, but eventually relents, telling Lecter, "My compliments to the chef."

  Lecter slowly ends Gideon, holding him captive while preparing and serving each of his remaining limbs one by one. 
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  (#4) Hannibal Wears A Guard's Face To Escape Custody In ‘The Silence of the Lambs’

  While the majority of Lecter's screen time in The Silence of the Lambs is spent speaking with Starling, he eventually orchestrates one of the most terrifying escapes in film history. The infamous doctor is in Tennessee and is being held in a cage inside the courthouse.

  When a couple of guards, Sgt. Pembry and Officer Boyle, come to deliver his dinner, Lecter escapes his handcuffs. He bites Pembry's face and sprays him with mace before rendering him incapacitated. Lecter then ends Officer Boyle with his own baton.

  Lecter wears Pembry's face and uniform and pretends to be deceased when the other police arrive. They think Lecter is Pembry and rush him outside to an ambulance. Later, they find Pembry's faceless body wearing Lecter's clothes and realize the doctor is on the loose.
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  (#5) Hannibal Leaves A Valentine For Will In ‘Hannibal’

  When a prolific offender like Lecter wants to send a message that speaks volumes, you can expect it to be a truly disturbing spectacle. When Anthony Dimmond confronts and tries to influence Lecter in Italy, he ends up as a Valentine's Day gift for Will Graham.

  Without much hesitation, Lecter takes Dimmond out, dislocates all of his joints, removes his skin, and folds him into a sort of anatomically correct broken heart. He leaves the horrifying creation - which he refers to as a "Valentine written on a broken man" - in the middle of a museum for Will to find.
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  (#6) Hannibal Lets A Child Eat Some Of His Special Plane Food In 'Hannibal' (2001)

  In Hannibal (2001), Dr. Lecter prepares Justice Department official Paul Krendler's frontal lobe with shallots and white whine, and he keeps the leftovers for himself.  

  Later, while sitting in coach on a plane, Lecter indulges in his own specially prepared boxed lunch, which appears to include what's left of his meal with Krendler. The young boy seated next to him notices Lecter's strange-looking food and asks if he could have a bite. Lecter gives the boy a taste while explaining that it's important to "try new things."
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  (#7) Hannibal Slices And Displays Beverly Katz For Jack Crawford In ‘Hannibal’

  The TV series Hannibal is famous for creating some of the most hauntingly stunning and deeply grotesque imagery on network television. In one of the most striking examples of this sort of artistic depravity, Lecter takes out FBI agent Beverly Katz after she discovers that he is the Chesapeake Ripper.

  He freezes her body and slices her into thin cross sections, placing each between two panes of glass and erecting them like a museum display. For good measure, he also cooks and eats her liver, replacing her internal organs with James Gray's, another offender she was hunting at the time of her demise. 
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  (#8) Hannibal Eats Frederick Chilton’s Lips, Uncooked, In ‘Hannibal’

  After Frederick Chilton is taken by Francis "The Tooth Fairy" Dolarhyde, the wannabe Red Dragon sinks his teeth into Chilton's lips and pulls them clean off. Dolarhyde sends the lips in a care package to Dr. Lecter, who is being held at the Baltimore State Hospital.

  Once the package is delivered, Lecter - who has long despised the vindictive and bitter Chilton - swallows one of his lips whole in front of BSU Agent-in-Charge Jack Crawford.

  As Crawford watches Lecter, the psychiatrist displays an unusual level of mirth: "I'm sorry Jack, but the tragedy of what happened to Frederick has put me in an excellent humor."
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  (#9) Hannibal Hangs Rinaldo Pazzi Out A Window After Disemboweling Him In 'Hannibal' (2001)

  While in Italy, Lecter is targeted by an Italian police detective named Rinaldo Pazzi - an ancestor of the infamous Pazzi family - who strikes up a deal with Lecter's enemy and only surviving victim, Mason Verger.

  Lecter, posing as a library curator and historian in Florence, details for Pazzi how his notorious ancestor, Francesco de' Pazzi, was gutted and slain for his part in a conspiracy to take out Lorenzo de' Medici. Lecter then knocks him out with ether and presses him for information before opening his stomach and sending him over his balcony. Pazzi's intestines go splashing down on the sidewalk - mirroring the fate of his infamous distant relative.
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  (#10) Hannibal Stuffs Abigail’s Ear Down Will’s Throat In ‘Hannibal’

  During the first season of Hannibal, the eponymous doctor seemingly ends and eats Abigail Hobbs - daughter of serial cannibal Garret Jacob Hobbs - and severs her ear with a special intention for Will Graham.

  After a particularly disturbing and surreal dream sequence that leads to Will regurgitating Abigail's ear into his sink, he recalls that Lecter, at some point, incapacitated Graham and stuffed a tube down his throat so he could plant the ear in his stomach. 
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  (#11) Hannibal Sends Miriam Lass’s Amputated Arm To Jack Crawford In ‘Hannibal’

  After FBI agent Miriam Lass comes to question Lecter about a victim of the so-called Chesapeake Ripper, Lecter inadvertently reveals that he is the man she's been hunting. Before she's able to act on this information, however, Lecter incapacitates her.

  It's later revealed that he did not end Lass, but rather kept her in captivity inside a wall for two years. At one point, long after her disappearance, rumors begin to circulate that the Chesapeake Ripper has actually been caught. To show that this is untrue, Lecter sends FBI boss Jack Crawford - who hired the young Agent Lass personally - taunting clues that lead Crawford to Lass's severed arm.

  Crawford later finds and rescues Lass after years of imprisonment and psychological anguish.
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  (#12) Hannibal Eats The Liver Of A Census Taker With Some Fava Beans And A Nice Chianti Prior To ‘The Silence of the Lambs’

  Easily one of the most infamous lines in cinematic history comes from Lecter's first meeting with Special Agent Clarice Starling when she visits him in his secure cell at the Baltimore State Hospital.

  Lecter explains to Starling, "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

  Interestingly enough, Chianti doesn't actually pair well with liver. In Thomas Harris's novel of the same name, Lecter shares this same anecdote, but says he drank Amarone, a dry red that would be more appropriate for the meal in question. Even when he's cannibalizing someone, Lecter is going to be a refined, cultured gentleman about it.
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  (#13) Hannibal Eviscerates A Man For Insulting His Aunt In 'Hannibal Rising'

  As a teenager in 1949, Lecter is living with his widowed aunt, Lady Murasaki, in France, and learning about the culture of his Japanese ancestry. While walking around a marketplace, foul-mouthed seller Paul Momund hurls demeaning and inappropriate insults toward Murasaki.

  Lecter follows Momund to a lake and watches him fish before confronting him. When Momund pulls a blade on Lecter, Lecter draws a katana and opens Momund's stomach. He circles Momund, slashing him several times. Eventually, as Momund falls to his knees, Lecter shows him a sketch of his removed head. He proceeds to make the sketch a reality.
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  (#14) Hannibal Strangles A Man With A Horse In ‘Hannibal Rising’

  Years after Enrikas Dortlich and his comrades ended and ate Lecter's little sister Mischa in order to survive the harsh winter near the end of WWII, a now-teenaged Lecter finds Dortlich, incapacitates him, and presses him for information on the location of his old buddies.

  Lecter ties a rope around Dortlich's neck, loops the rope around a tree with Dortlich pressed up against the trunk, and ties the other end to a horse. As the horse tightens the rope against Dortlich's throat, he finally reveals what he knows about the other men's whereabouts - though that doesn't save him from Lecter's hunger for revenge. 
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  (#15) Hannibal Removes His Own Hand In 'Hannibal' (2001)

  After Lecter feeds Justice Department official Paul Krendler his own brain as Starling watches, the weakened FBI agent attempts to apprehend the doctor. After a brief struggle, she ends up handcuffing herself to his wrist. Unable to free himself, and with the police closing in on the house, Lecter grabs a cleaver and asks Starling if he wants him to chop above or below the wrist.

  As he's about to remove Starling's hand, Lecter appears to hesitate, presumably due to his deep-seated infatuation with her. Though the scene ends abruptly, Starling has both hands when the cops arrive. 

  Lecter is later seen flying on a plane with a bandaged arm in a sling, implying he took off his own hand to escape - although it is possible that he could have simply removed his thumb and slipped out. 

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