History Main / LodgedBladeRecycling

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Sadoc stabs the Nomad in the foot with the same blade she'd previously struck him in the chest with.

* ''VideoGame/{{Gloomwood}}: The Accursed Beast has a number of melee weapons lodged in its back, and will tear these out and [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throw them as a ranged attack]] if the player is out of reach.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'', during ''The Second Dream'' quest, after the player's Warframe [[spoiler:is impaled with the Stalker's War sword, the Warframe [[BackFromTheDead reawakens,]] snaps the sword lengthwise, and pulls the sword straight out of its torso. Once the quest is over, you acquire the Broken-War Sword to use normally and to craft War, which is [[InfinityMinusOneSword quite a good sword itself.]]]]

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Overlapping with IAmNotLeftHanded, Bra'tac did this in "Lost City" after being stabbed in his empty symbiote sac (tretonin having taken the place of his symbiote). Teal'c did almost the exact same thing in "Talion".
** Unlike most examples, [[JustifiedTrope they may have an excuse for not bleeding to death]]. Jaffa heal much faster than normal humans. Also they both very nearly died anyway, and needed medical treatment for it.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** [[RubberForeheadAliens Nausicaans]] have a culture that revels in violence, moreso than even the [[ProudWarriorRace Klingons]]. One episode of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space 9]]'' features a pair of Nausicaans playing a game similar to darts, except using each other as targets. They don't even try to dodge, or anything, just casually removing the dart and returning the attack. Doubles as a FunnyBackgroundEvent.
** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': When Elnor runs to [[spoiler:Hugh's]] aid after Narissa throws a knife into his throat, she pulls a disruptor on him [[InTheBack while his back is turned]]. He responds by pulling the knife out and throwing it at her, which she avoids thanks to a TeleportationRescue.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Giles is fighting off a vampire in the park, Jenny aims a crossbow at it -- and in the chaos, shoots Giles in the back. As he stands reeling in agony, the vampire laughs mockingly -- until Giles [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome yanks the bolt from his back and stakes him with it]].
* Played realistically in the ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "Epilogue". A security guard is stabbed and pulls the knife out and uses it to stab his attacker. He then bleeds to death from the wound he had suffered which he might have survived if he had left the knife in.

* ''Series/MissionImpossible'': In "The Golden Serpent (Part 1)", Max gets hit in the leg by a shuriken while fighting atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Later he is dangling off the side of the bridge with TheDragon about to stomp on his hands. He pulls the shuriken out of his leg and throws it into TheDragon's chest, killing him.

* In the ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' episode "Broke Joy's Fancy Figurine", Earl is trying to help a little girl (Candy) win a beauty pageant so he can make up for breaking Joy's beauty pageant trophy, with the act she's doing for the "talent" portion involving knife-throwing. Upon realizing Candy ''doesn't'' want to win[[note]]she wants to breakaway from family line of showbusiness, and would rather be a doctor[[/note]], Earl instructs her to throw a knife into his leg so she'll lose. Candy's concerned she'll hurt Earl, prompting him to explain that he's been stabbed by lots of girls before, and that "it only really hurts when you twist it, pull it out, and stick it back in." [[spoiler:And as it turns out, Earl misremembered.]]

Compare CatchAndReturn and HumanPincushion. Sister trope to LodgedBladeRemoval, wherein the object is removed, but ''not'' recycled.

** Aragorn impales the cave troll with a spear; the troll pills it out and uses it to eventually stab Frodo, who only survives because of his mithril shirt.

Compare CatchAndReturn and HumanPincushion.

A character has been stabbed with a knife or some other bladed weapon and left for dead. Then, however, instead of just kicking the bucket, he suddenly pulls the weapon out of his body and uses it to fight back, firmly establishing himself as MadeOfIron, {{Determinator}} or has a HealingFactor. Of course, the characters who pulls something like this don't neccesarily have to be human, they can be either undead, robotic or alien. Who may be able to easily shrug off any kind of harm involving being stabbed or impaled by sharp implements.

A character has been stabbed with a knife or some other bladed weapon and left for dead. Then, however, instead of just kicking the bucket, he suddenly pulls the weapon out of his body and uses it to fight back, firmly establishing himself as MadeOfIron and a {{Determinator}}.

Note that in RealLife, this [[WorstAid is a very bad idea]] because the knife sticking in the wound slows down the bleeding considerably. Pulling it out runs a high risk of bleeding yourself to death within minutes. Additionally, touching the lodged blade can result in you surviving the stab wound only to finish the job yourself by cutting into something important inside. (Imagine, for example, someone stabs you in the chest but manages to miss anything vital. You start yanking on the blade to try removing it and it creates a back and forth sawing motion, cutting right through a lung or massive blood vessel. NiceJobBreakingItHero)

** Aragorn impales the cave troll with a spear; the troll pills it out

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'', Lurtz pulls Aragorn's knife out and throws it back at him -- but only after [[LickingTheBlade licking it]].

** In ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse of the Black Pearl]]'', Barbossa does this with the knife Elizabeth used on him. Also doubles as TheReveal of the ''Black Pearl'''s curse. He then does this ''again'' at the end of the movie. [[spoiler:This is TheReveal for the fact that ''Jack'' is now cursed.]]

* ''Webcomic/BlondeSunrise'': When [[spoiler:Xavier]] has Michelle by the hair and is preparing to shoot her dead, Michelle reluctantly pulls the knife she's been stabbed in the abdomen with out and uses it to cut her hair off before the gun goes off right where her head was a couple seconds ago. [[RealityEnsues While it does save her life in the immediate term, it also makes the wound bleed out faster.]]

* Averted in ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie''. When [[spoiler:Rich]] is stabbed, [[RealityEnsues not only does he collapse to the ground with the knife still in his chest]], Jack makes sure to ''ask'' the 911 operator if he should leave it in.

* In another ''wuxia'' film, ''Film/TheWanderingSwordsman'', the titular hero gets a sword shoved through his back, sticking out through his chest. He then twists the blade around so that it faces the surprised stabber, before grabbing his opponent and pushing the entire blade through his opponent's midsedction.
* ''Film/{{Polar}}''. Mr Blut has Duncan Vizla chained in shackles so he can slowly torture him to death over several days. However a knife he's using snaps off due to a piece of metal left in Duncan's body from an old injury. Duncan later removes the broken blade and uses it as an ImprovisedLockpick on his shackles.
* When stealing the getaway boat in ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone'', the commando Brown stabs a German sailor guarding the boat with a stiletto, but the dying German manages to pull it out from his body and stab Brown back fatally.
* Played with in Creator/AbelFerrara's 1987 film '''China Girl''', when a mob enforcer plunges a ''very large'' knife into the stomach of a troublemaker street-gang tough. This kid manages to ''slowly'' pull the knife out and then raises it to use back on the enforcer, who's just standing there and watching the kid doing that. And then the tough is ''skewered through'' from behind by a second enforcer.
* ''Film/VampiresVsZombies'': In a fit of fury, the General pulls out the stake that is stuck through Mary's heart and rams it into Travis' shoulder. Later, he and Travis have to extract the stake because it is the last one they have left and need it to kill Carmilla.

* ''Film/TheLovedOne'': When he escapes, Brent stabs Lola's father with the knife [[spoiler:the father had hammered through his foot to [[AgonyOfTheFeet literally nail his feet to the floor]]]].