History Main / ShowsDamage

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'': Starting with ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]]'', characters start showing bruises and marks after a certain health loss. While it started off as a simple face texture swap, later games elaborated more on the details, like Scorpion losing his mask in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse''.

* The robotic punching bag from Rhythm Boxing in ''VideoGame/WiiFit'' will emit smoke after punching it enough times. More landed punches increases the number of places it emits smoke. Regardless of the number of blows, it breaks down and one of its arms fall off after completing the exercise.

* In the ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' series, ever since ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]]'', characters start showing bruises and marks after a certain health loss. While it started off as a simple face texture swap, later games elaborated more on the details, like Scorpion losing his mask in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse''.
* In both ''VideoGame/BushidoBlade'' games' Story Mode, after each death the player character shows up with bandages over the struck areas.
* In both ''VideoGame/Ready2RumbleBoxing'' games, boxers will get black eyes, missing teeth, and look weakened/tired as the fight goes on.

* In ''VideoGame/QuakeII'', the enemies get bloodier when their hit points drop. However, the blood will always show up on the same spots, since stock painskins are used.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' does this in a neat way. If shot, spots of blood will appear on player models, and if you have the luxury to look close enough while in the middle of frantic multiplayer combat, their facial expressions become increasingly pained as their health drops.
** Can also be subverted due to the Overheal mechanic: it's entirely possible for a character to be bleeding, on fire, covered in [[UrineTrouble Jarate]], covered in "milk," and potmarked with dozens of bullet holes... and still have ''more'' than their maximum amount of health.
* Subverted in the original releases of both parts of ''VideoGame/SeriousSam I'' when they were dropped but played straight in the HD release of these games where they have painskins.
* In the ''VideoGame/RedFaction'' series, most enemies only show blood decals, but the [[NightOfTheLivingMooks nano-zombies]] in the second game can be dismembered piece-by-piece.
* While averted for the hunters, the Monsters in ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'' slowly change as their health drops. When at extremely low health they are bloodstained and battered, with bone showing in some places and bullet holes dotting their bodies.

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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', during the Ganondorf battle, Ganondorf's cape gets more tattered as Link damages him.
** The same thing applies to a boss in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. [[spoiler:It's him again.]]
** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'': Dark Beast Ganon during the first part of his battle. Hit his bomb weakpoint and his left bracer breaks in half. Hit his arrow weakpoint and his right bracer breaks. The hookshot weakpoint rips off the tip of his tail and breaks one of his tusks. The two boomerang weak points break his horns. Once all of his weakpoints are broken he Turns Red and enters the second, more dangerous half of the battle. Land the killing blow, and the jewel on his forehead shatters.

* In the ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' series, cars change into a "battered" version after getting enough damage. They magically return to their "shiny new" version after picking up a Health icon.
* Same for the tanks in ''VideoGame/BattleTanx''.

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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', during the Ganondorf battle, Ganondorf's cape gets more tattered as Link damages him.
** The same thing applies to a boss in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. [[spoiler:It's him again.]]
** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'': Dark Beast Ganon during the first part of his battle. Hit his bomb weakpoint and his left bracer breaks in half. Hit his arrow weakpoint and his right bracer breaks. The hookshot weakpoint rips off the tip of his tail and breaks one of his tusks. The two boomerang weak points break his horns. Once all of his weakpoints are broken he Turns Red and enters the second, more dangerous half of the battle. Land the killing blow, and the jewel on his forehead shatters.

* In ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', ever since ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]]'', characters start showing bruises and marks after a certain health loss. While it started off as a simple face texture swap, later games elaborated more on the details, like Scorpion losing his mask in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse''.
** See the page-top image and [[http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd475/plumbumtheepic/Cybersubsfuckedup.png this one.]]

* The portrait in ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Madou Monogatari]]'' is a visual indication of how much HP you have, looking more worried (or about to keel over even) as stamina declines. Enemies will also look beat up as they take damage. For ''Big Kindergarten Kids'', Arle's movements in battle scenes will look more labored depending on her HP.

->''"...In ''VideoGame/{{El Shaddai|AscensionOfTheMetatron}}'' instead of a health bar you see your armor cracking and shattering, revealing that the protagonist doesn't actually have huge man-boobs."''

* The "vivisection point" of which ''Vivisector Beast Within'' for has the enemies lose big chunks of their armor and flesh with each hit. However, since killing them falls into the CriticalExistenceFailure category, the damage won't actually affect their performance until the killing shot.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'': The Lin Kuei [[CyberNinja robo-ninjas]] bleed MachineBlood, show sparks, and malfunction when they lose all their health.

* '''Particle emit:''' Characters and objects emit or spawn things when they're damaged. For an example, damaged character may start sparking, smoking or being on fire. This is usually more of mechanical objects and characters. DamageIsFire also fits here.

* The zombies in ''VideoGame/{{Waxworks}}'' will lose their arms and head if hit in the right spots.

* One of the trademark touches of Id's FPS series like ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' is the presence of a floating representation of the PlayerCharacter's head in the middle of the HUD, which will become more badly wounded as you soak up damage.
* ''VideoGame/IonFury'' also uses a progressively bloodier face alongside a percentage based health count.

* LOKI mechs in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' show damage in a variety of different ways. Basically, shooting an extremity will make said extremity fall off. Shoot its arms and it marches, armless, at you to self-destruct; shoot its legs and it will painfully crawl toward you till the bitter end. This can be quite fun if you target only the legs and are rewarded with a room full of slowly crawling LOKI mech torsos.

* The "vivisection point" of which ''Vivisector Beast Within'' for has the enemies lose big chunks of their armor and flesh with each hit. However, since killing them falls into the CriticalExistenceFailure category, said damage won't actually affect their performance until the killing shot.