History Main / DeliberateInjuryGambit

** In ''MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam'' Zeon elite pilot Shiro Amada [[GreviousHarmWithABody rips of his suits arm]] to use it as a weapon.
** In ''MobileSuitGundam00'' used pretty often, e.g. Sergei Smirnov allowing Gundam Exia to cut of his arm only to get the upper hand this way.

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* In the AvatarTheLastAirbender finale, Zuko deliberately provokes Azula to shoot lightning at him, so that he can redirect it back at her.

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* During the assault on Tokyo in ''CodeGeass Code Geass R2]]'', when the AxCrazy Knight of Rounds Luciano Bradley attacks a Black Knight battleship ''by throwing a disabled, friendly ship into it'', Xingke tries to shoot it down, only to have Knight of One Bismarck Waldstein slash him with a {{BFS}}. [[spoiler: Xingke sacrificed half his mech to get a clean shot at the falling battleship, saving everyone below.]]

* [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking American President]] AndrewJackson famously performed this trope in a duel. He wanted to kill his adversary so much that he deliberately waited until ''after'' his opponent had fired (and hit him) so that he could take his time and aim for a killshot; duel etiquette meant you had to wait until your opponent had shot to fire again. It worked, and he survived.
** That's not etiquette. Combatants only loaded one bullet per round. Etiquette was that you wouldn't shoot and then run away like a sissy when your opponent was still able to fight.

* In the ''StreetFighter III'' manga adaptation, ''Ryu Final'', [[spoiler:Ryu deliberately impales himself on Akuma's arm. Why? Because the manga reveals that the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Shun Goku Satsu]] consists of thousands upon thousands of punches that deliver a [[{{Kamehamehadoken}} Hadoken]] at point-blank with each impact, ending with a finishing blow that skewers the opponent's torso. Ryu defeated the technique by lunging forward and letting Akuma punch through him ahead of time, making the Hadoken useless and putting ''him'' in perfect range to blow half of Akuma's body off with a Hadoken of his own]]. Somehow, [[spoiler:Ryu survived, with an enormous scar over his chest]].
* Black Cat: Train lets one of his hands get cut off by Creed so that he can shoot away the invisible sword, then shoot Creed himself.

* From DeathNote, in an unlikely non-fighting anime variation, [[spoiler:L allowed himself a punch in the face from Light in order to nimbly reverse around and kick his opponent across the room.]] He knows [[DanceBattler Capoeira]]

** In 8th MS Team Zeon elite pilot Shiro Amada [[GreviousHarmWithABody rips of his suits arm]] to use it as a weapon.
** In 00 used pretty often, e.g. Sergei Smirnov allowing Gundam Exia to cut of his arm only to get the upper hand this way.
** In one episode of G Gundam, Domon is wrapped up by Cobra Gundam. In order to escape, he dislocates his Gundam's shoulder to give him room to move. Keep in mind that in G Gundam, the Gundam's movements mirror the pilot's, so he had to dislocate his own shoulder in order to do this.

* HunterxHunter: Gon versus Genthru during the Greed Island Arc. Gon gets one of his hands blown off and the other near-destroyed in order to kick Genthru in the jaw.

* Palparepa flies out of his HumongousMecha to stab Guy for the final strike in ''GaoGaiGar FINAL''. Guy takes the opportunity to give [[TroperFanNicknames Doctor God]] some G-Stone to the face [[spoiler:and rip the Loud G-Stone right off his eye, given the motion of his arm.]]
* In part 3 of ''Jojo's Bizarre Adventure'', Jotaro uses his body weight as leverage to snap a cursed sword in half, as touching the hilt would have had him become possessed by it.

* During the assault on Tokyo in CodeGeass R2, when the AxCrazy Knight of Rounds Luciano Bradley attacks a Black Knight battleship ''by throwing a disabled, friendly ship into it'', Xingke tries to shoot it down, only to have Knight of One Bismarck Waldstein slash him with a {{BFS}}. [[spoiler: Xingke sacrificed half his mech to get a clean shot at the falling battleship, saving everyone below.]]

* Juuza of the Clouds from FistOfTheNorthStar does this in the second part of his duel with Ken-Oh, in which he intentionally drops all of his guard just so Ken-Oh would hit him straight in the chest. This gives Juuza the leverage needed to perform an armbar and attempt to destroy Ken-Oh's arm.

* Shatterstar from Marvel comics, not being exactly human, pulls this trick a few times in order to skewer people bear-hugging him.

* As [[GoodThingYouCanHeal easily repairable]] robots, the MetalMen have this as their trademark. They'll take any risk, and even sacrifice their "[[ImmortalLifeIsCheap lives]]," because so long as the necessary parts aren't damaged they'll be back in the next issue, no worse for wear.

* Done as a counter by the [[VoluntaryShapeshifting T-1000]] in {{Terminator 2}} - he gets punched through the face by the T-800, then morphs so that what was his head is now his hands gripping his opponent's wrist.

* In RogerZelazny's {{Chronicles of Amber}} our hero finds himself in a sword fight with a demon of some sort. At length, he impales it. The demon laughs at him, says "I do not keep my heart where men do" and (now that his sword is stuck in its chest) nearly manages to kill him in the continued fight.

* In ''Sharpe's Gold'', Richard Sharpe is fighting a superior swordsman, El Catolico, who is armed with a rapier. Sharpe is struggling to defend against the lightning-fast rapier with his rather clumsy heavy cavalry saber, so he allows El Catolico to stab him in the thigh. He traps the blade there and slays El Catolico. Every single one of his allies tells him during his convalescence what a stupid move it was.

* In "Smith and Jones," [[DoctorWho The Doctor]] mimics a human and allows a plasmavore to drink his blood, [[CPRCleanPrettyReliable nearly]] killing him. The plasmavore is trying to use his blood to disguise herself as a human; since the Doctor ''isn't'' human, her disguise fails and she is executed.
* {{Torchwood}} - Jack Harkness sometimes uses his ability to come back from the dead to get one over on his opponents.
* Ziva allows a foreign operative to beat the crap out of her for a few minutes in one episode of {{NCIS}}. Once the other woman gains enough confidence to reveal her plan, Ziva laughs and dispatches her easily.

* Common in {{Warhammer 40000}} in the cases of Tyranids, Orks, and Space Marines.

* In the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjmRXrpWj7g opening cinematic]] for DragonBallZ: Budokai Tenkaichi, Piccolo lets Cell punch him in the stomach so that he can grab Cell's arms and hold him in place while Gohan fires a Kamehameha at him.

* In ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', the Shinkenger allow the BigBag to impale Shinken-Oh, leaving him open to a finishing slash from th Mecha.

** Deidara pulls this on Gaara.

* The [[RenamedTropes (former)]] TropeNamer is ''WeissKreuz Gluhen'': Hidaka Ken remarks, "It's okay, I have two kidneys," after doing a KillUsBoth variant and letting Aya impale him to make sure of getting the villain too. In real life that kind of injury to a kidney would be very serious due to blood loss and the rupture releasing toxins into your bloodstream, but realism has never been Weiss Kreuz's strong suit.

** Kabuto, himself, kinda pulled this off a little earlier in the same battle twice. "Kinda" because the injury was self-inflicted. First time was when he fought [[SuperStrength Tsunade]] and he slit his own wrist in order to splash her with the blood and exploit her [[AfraidOfBlood severe blood phobia]] for a quick victory. The second time was when Naruto used his MesACrowd technique and he splashed some blood in the eyes of one clone, effectively blinding it.

* In PathOfRadiance and RadiantDawn, there is the skills Wrath, which boosts critical hits, and Resolve, increasing by half speed, skill and strengh. Both only work when the one using them lost at least half his HP. Guess some players order their soldiers to pull these off for devastating effect on the battleield.

* The TropeNamer is ''WeissKreuz Gluhen'': Hidaka Ken remarks, "It's okay, I have two kidneys," after doing a KillUsBoth variant and letting Aya impale him to make sure of getting the villain too. In real life that kind of injury to a kidney would be very serious due to blood loss and the rupture releasing toxins into your bloodstream, but realism has never been Weiss Kreuz's strong suit.

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