Ripping Out Someone's Heart

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Originally Posted by JCurwen3

What would it take to rip someone's heart out of their chest (killing them, unless they have some exotic advantage) in RAW GURPS? I know the heart is normally -5 to hit, although this is probably more difficult than just hitting the heart, and involves targeting the area with a fist, breaking through the rib cage, finding the heart within, and ripping it out of the chest cavity. Since the fist generally does crushing damage, by RAW it doesn't seem like there'd be any wounding modifier, although in this instance the fist is acting more like an impaling weapon.

Instant kills happen at -HPx5, same as for decapitation.

Originally Posted by JCurwen3

I know that to do this requires superhuman ST, so the next question would be: how much ST to do this to an average human?

Assuming a ST10/HP10 target, you'd need to do 60 injury. Minimum ST to unfailingly do this is thereby ST 570. Minimum ST to do so consistently is thereby ST 150.

Presuming they aren't wearing armor.