10 Most Brutal TV Weapons

By sword, sidearm, or spiky thing, TV series aren't afraid to dispatch their cast members in some pretty gruesome ways. One only has to type in 'Game of Thrones deaths' into YouTube for videos to assault their eyes by numerous beheadings, stabbings, and toilet patricides.

Yet from the darkest corners and characters in television shows, come weapons designed to bring down the hurt on unsuspecting victims. Suddenly, having your head crushed like a pumpkin is the preferable option.

Showrunners are happy to make their audiences squirm at some nauseating kills. As our desensitized minds become more used to the ever-present violence in our entertainment, writers must brainstorm the goriest torture devices to give audiences their carnage fix - what a world we live in.

This list contains an arsenal of the most painful, horrific weaponry that have killed, maimed, and struck fear into the hearts and minds of TV characters. We're leaving poisonings and doomsday devices for another time. However, if these items designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage - the dictionary's words, not mine - then they are fair game.

Phasers are set all the way up to 16 - let's dive in.

The Shelby family's Peaky Blinders gang aren't afraid to get their hands dirty to expand their criminal empire across Birmingham and the rest of England. The head of the family, Thomas Shelby, has used his cunning to remove more than his fair share of nemeses in the show's five seasons.

But why do they call themselves the Peaky Blinders? Well, in the show, that's attributed to the razors in their hats, that can be used as a quick blinding tool to get the edge in hand-to-hand combat. First used to blind Lee family members who insulted the Shelby brothers' mother, these barbed bonnets are grimly effective in slashing the faces of those that cross their path.

Perhaps the silver lining to this weapon is that there's no historical evidence that the real Peaky Blinders had access to razors due to how expensive they were in the early 20th Century. The word "blinder" could either derived from Midlands slang for something impressive, or how gang members would sneak up behind victims and put the hat over their face so they couldn't identify who they robbed.

Whatever the case, many enemies of the show's Peaky Blinders aren't so lucky in avoiding swipes from these pointed flat caps. Blink, and they'll miss it.