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---->'''Heimdall:''' You... You ACTUALLY HIT ME!

WhatIsThisFeeling, IsThisWhatAngerFeelsLike, and MyEyesAreLeaking are the emotional variants of this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'': In "World of Pain," Rusty is upgraded with alien technology that allows him to actually feel human senses instead of just detecting things. The next time he enters battle and takes damage, he starts to say, "[[CatchPhrase No pain receptor--]]" then cries out in agony. He becomes terrified of getting hurt until he finds a way to rid himself of the alien tech.

* ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'': Lee is a clone soldier who was designed not to feel pain. After receiving SuperSoldier implants that fixed that feature, he spent the day inflicting pain on himself and testing his new HealingFactor.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': While fighting with Mad Pierrot at the abandoned amusement park, Spike throws a knife that hits Pierrot in the leg, wounding him. Up until that point, Pierrot had been completely invincible thanks to his psychic powers protecting him from bullets and explosions, and the sudden shock of feeling pain for the first time in years reduced him to being unable to do anything beside roll on the ground screaming that it hurt. Unfortunately for him, he rolled right into the path of the park's animatronic mascot parade and was trampled to death by them.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': While fighting with Mad Pierrot at the abandoned amusement park, Spike throws a knife that hits Pierrot in the leg, wounding him. Up until that point, Pierrot had been completely invincible thanks to his psychic powers protecting him from bullets and explosions, and the sudden shock of feeling pain for the first time in years reduced him to being unable to do anything beside roll on the ground screaming that it hurt. Unfortunately for him, he rolled right into the path of the park's anamatronic mascot parade and was trampled to death by them.

* ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'': After Dr Horrible's gun explodes in his face, Captain Hammer's reaction suggests he's never been injured before.

* In ''ComicBook/SupremePower'', a Marvel takeoff of the DC Universe, Hyperion, (the local SupermanSubstitute) feels pain for the first time while fighting Doc Spectrum (their version of ComicBook/GreenLantern). Hyperion, whose senses and biology render him immune or unable to be stimulated by almost anything on Earth, appears thrilled by this and immediately demands that Spectrum do it again. Spectrum is [[OhCrap understandably weirded out]] by this and promptly runs away from the fight.

'''Gaara:''' ''[Screams]'' BLOOD!! IT'S MY BLOOOOOD!!!!!

--->'''Freeza''': That...hurt. It ''hurt''!!!

* In the climax of ''Film/ThreeHundred'', Leonidas hurls a spear at Xerxes, giving him a slash on his cheek this way. Xerxes' reaction is one of shocked incredulousness, as very apparently, he bought into his God-King shtick so deeply he didn't even see getting hurt as possible at all, let alone likely.

* After the climax of ''Film/{{Constantine}}'', [[spoiler: HumanityEnsues for the angel Gabriel as divine punishment for trying to orchestrate the apocalypse. Constantine, on learning this, promptly punches [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous them]] in the jaw, leaving them doubled over in anguish.]] John quips: "That's called pain. Get used to it."

* ''Podcast/DiceFunk'': In Season 5 we meet Vinnie Caravella, a gangster whose [[PersonalityPowers Conduit]] is Invincibility. [[spoiler: During the final battle he confronts his adoptive brother Dregg, unfortunately for Vinnie the Tuff Bastards have found a way to remove people's Conduits and after taking his away Dregg lands one huge punch on Vinnie which leaves him uncontrollably sobbing on the floor from the first pain he's ever felt in his life.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'': Lee is a clone soldier who was designed not to feel pain. When an opposing faction captured and recruited him, they gave him some SuperSoldier implants that fixed that feature; he spent the day inflicting pain on himself and testing his new HealingFactor.

* ''Webcomic/RamTheRobot'': After being temporarily transformed into an organic being, R.A.M. gets scratched up by her pet-alien-that-looks-like-a-cat and feels pain for the first time. [[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMTheRobot/index.html?pg=44#showComic She finds it hilarious.]]

** In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', Heimdall is gifted with CombatClairvoyance and is fast enough to [[NonchalantDodge casually dodge]] most attacks he can see, making him quite [[SmugSuper smug about it]]. At the end of a CurbStompBattle Heimdall serves out to Atreus [[spoiler:the first time he visits Asgard]] (in which Atreus can't hit him once), Atreus decides to fire an arrow at his head from behind. Heimdall manages to [[ArrowCatch catch the arrow]], but he doesn't do it quite right, which means the arrow gives his hand a small nick and sprays a little blood onto his face. Judging by Heimdall's [[BloodUpgrade expression]], he clearly wants to hurt the boy even more, and the only reason he doesn't is that [[GodOfThunder Thor]] shows up and intimidates him into standing down.
** Heimdall has a decidedly less positive reaction to Kratos being the first to land a ''direct'' hit on him in a long time. While he starts the fight taunting and provoking Kratos, confident that the Ghost of Sparta will die before he can even scratch him, [[ThisCannotBe he briefly loses it]] when Kratos eventually punches him hard enough to draw blood.

* During Goku and Vegeta's first battle in the Saiyan Saga of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Goku manages to draw blood from Vegeta, who reacts with indignant fury at being wounded by a "low-class warrior", unleashing the [[WaveMotionGun Galick Gun]] in retaliation.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoysRealJustice'': The beast brought to New York by Felix Faust manages to injure Homelander, who's never been injured in his life. He then sees [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Superman]] and the Justice League take out the monster with no serious effort. The injury plus [[PsychopathicManchild his own unstable mental state]] lead to him having a barely-concealed vendetta against the Justice League, ''especially'' Superman.

* ''Series/Supergirl2015'': Occurs multiple times when nigh-invulnerable Kara gets depowered or realizes she's met her match:
** "Red Faced" ends on the cliffhanger of Kara cutting herself on glass and bleeding, something that hasn't happened since she came to earth. She stares at her finger, uttering a quiet, shocked, "I'm bleeding". In the next episode, "Human for a Day", she discovers she temporarily burned out her powers from excessive use of heat vision.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', when [[spoiler:Baldur is stabbed by the mistletoe arrowhead and feels the pain]], he stops fighting to laugh in glee [[spoiler:at the return of his senses. Also overlaps with NotHisBlood, when Kratos sees blood on Atreus after the exchange, who clarifies whose blood it is]].

->"What is this?... it's so warm and...wet...
->''(A single drop of blood falls)''
->''(Screams)'' BLOOD!! IT'S MY BLOOOOOD!!!!!"
-->'''Gaara, ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'''''

* ''WesternAnimation/JinxyJenkinsAndLuckyLou'': Lucky Lou always has good luck, which keeps her from harm but makes her life boring. When she bumps into Jinxy Jenkins, who has bad luck, she falls down and gets a scrape on her palm. She examines it and gets an expression of wonder.

->"What is this?... it's so warm and... wet...

-> ''(Screams)'' BLOOD!! IT'S MY BLOOOOOD!!!!!"

Oftentimes, when a character has spent much of their story unbothered and unharmed by any challenge, or believes themselves to be beyond harm, lasting harm will bring great pause, accompanied by a lingering shot of their reaction. Even if they're not particularly tough, if they haven't been wounded before that moment and they stop what they're doing to react to this new, painful experience, that is also this trope.

** During the Namek Saga, Freeza is presented as an InvincibleVillain, barely putting any effort into the fights with Krillin, Gohan, Piccolo and Vegeta. Even when Krillin cuts off Freeza's tail with his Kienzan, the latter is more mildly inconvenienced than injured, with the tail growing back when he enters his final form. Goku himself can barely hang on during his own bout with Freeza, the latter [[JustToyingWithThem only fighting him]] with [[WillfullyWeak half of his full power]], the former barely keeping up by using the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Kaioken technique]]. Goku tries using the Kaioken to power himself up even further, firing a giant Kamehameha at the galactic tyrant, though Freeza manages to block it with one hand. Unlike previous attacks Freeza had shook off throughout the Saga, he is actually shocked, wondering how Goku got enough power to even singe his hand. At which point, Freeza stops playing around and takes the fight more seriously.

** Dellinger of Donquixote Pirates was rather smug and feeling untouchable, right before being cut by [[JekyllAndHyde Hakuba (alternate personality of Cavendish which awakes when he's unconscious)]] without realising how it happens. He stopped dead in tracks. Then it turns into a big OhCrap moment then into a VillainousBreakdown before Dellinger [[DeathByAThousandCuts was defeated by repeating cutting]] seconds later.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': In his BravadoSong at the start of the film, Puss boasts that he's never been touched by an opponent's blade. This changes soon after when he meets the Wolf, who manages to outclass him in combat and get a nick on his forehead, complete with blood. This experience, combined with the knowledge that he is down to the last of his nine lives, traumatizes Puss and sends him scurrying for his life and leaves him terrified of the Wolf, to the point that one encounter sends him into a full blown panic attack.

* ''Film/TheCell'': As one of Stargher's demonic personalities tortures and mocks Peter, Catherine breaks free from Stargher's control, sneaks up behind, and stabs him in the arm with one of his surgical implements. Stargher pauses, looks at his wound with disbelief (since nothing in his dreamworld has ever fought back before), then looses a ''hellish'' high-pitched scream of pain and surprise.

* Legolas has this reaction in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'', when he meets his WorthyOpponent in the form of Bolg, who manages to actually give Legolas a nosebleed. Legolas is clearly confused by the experience, and briefly looks at his own blood with surprise before going after Bolg again.
* ''Film/KingKong2005'': During the Empire State Building showdown, Kong is clearly shocked to find out airplane bullets left a gaping hole on his chest, a clear sign he won't get out of there alive.

* In ''The Hope of the Redoran'', one of ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' [[Literature/TheElderScrollsInUniverseBooks In-Universe Books]], Andas is impervious to disease, poison and magic, and "his blood shall never drop on the ground." When he is injured for the first time in his life [[LogicalWeakness by an opponent armed with a simple club]], he's so stunned that he drops his sword.

* ''Literature/TheReckonersTrilogy'': In the prologue of ''Literature/{{Steelheart}}'', the titular Epic is grazed by a bullet shot by David's father, after a hail of bullets failed to affect him moments earlier. He wipes the wound and is visibly astounded to see blood on his hand. It's enough for Steelheart to deem David's father important enough to kill with his own gun, and he sets to destroying the bank they're in within the span of a few seconds to ensure that no witnesses to his weakness will be left alive.
* ''Literature/RedDwarf'': In ''Last Human'', Kryten uses a DNA modifier to transform him from a mechanoid to a human. Soon after, an accident caused by the Cat's clumsiness causes Kryten to fall down a flight of stairs, sustaining many injuries one after the other (in what the narration calls his "introduction to pain"). Kryten is not just in agony, but outraged that his pristine new body is already a "write-off" due to a nasty scar on his leg.
* In the first ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' book, Teela has never experienced serious injury or pain thanks to her inborn [[BornLucky natural luck]]. When their spaceship crashes, she blithely attempts to climb out of the burning hot crater without protection, and is shocked when it burns her feet.

* ''Series/{{Barry}}'': Downplayed, as Barry isn't unfamiliar with injury (getting beaten up hand to hand and stabbed with a kitchen knife among other things). But despite pouring boxes of bullets into various enemies over the series, Barry doesn't get shot himself until he takes one to the shoulder in the last episode; he flops into a chair, looks bemusedly at his own blood, amd simply says "Oh, wow." Also his last words, as [[spoiler:Gene]] delivers the [[BoomHeadshot coup de grace]].

** In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', Heimdall is gifted with CombatClairvoyance and is fast enough to [[NonchalantDodge casually dodge]] most attacks he can see, making him quite [[SmugSuper smug about it]]. At the end of a CurbStompBattle Heimdall serves out to Atreus [[spoiler:the first time he visits Asgard]] (in which Atreus can't hit him once), Atreus decides to fire an arrow at his head from behind. Heimdall manages to [[ArrowCatch catch the arrow]], but he doesn't do it quite right, which means the arrow gives his hand a small nick and sprays a little blood onto his face. Judging by Heimdall's [[BloodUpgrade expression]], he clearly wants to hurt the boy even more, and the only reason he doesn't is because [[GodOfThunder Thor]] shows up and intimidates him into standing down.

* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. After being fatally stabbed by Raiden, one of [[spoiler:Jetstream Sam's]] last motions before he collapses is to stare at his own bloodsoaked hand. Though this is not his first severe injury ever, it is the first he's sustained since [[spoiler:gaining his robotic arm. The shot is more meant for the player's reaction, as they discover he was still mostly human.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In [[Recap/FuturamaS3E11InsaneInTheMainframe "Insane in the Mainframe"]], Fry is mentally broken into thinking that he's a robot. At the end, this allows him to fend up RoboticPsychopath Roberto, but the robot manages to cut his arm. As a result, it is seeing the blood coming out of it which convinces Fry that he's human all along, since robots aren't able to bleed that way.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "Grounded Vindaloop", Cartman tricks Butters into thinking he's in a VR simulation, leading him to go on a reckless rampage through town, thinking there won't be any consequences. When Butters gets stabbed by a prostitute, he comments how the real the pain feels before realizing that the blood coming out of him is ''not'' virtual.

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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'': Eddy's older brother is [[GlassCannon quickly knocked out]] after being hit in the face with a steel door. WordOfGod has said that this is because he's been torturing people all his life, but never felt any real physical pain himself, so he hadn't gained much of a resistance to it then.