History Main / WoundThatWillNotHeal

* Ganondorf as he is seen in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has one. The game works on the premise that when Link from Ocarnia of Time came back from the future he warned everyone about Ganondorf's plan to siege the kingdom of Hyrule and Ganondorf was captured, put on trial, and sentenced to execution by the Sages, they then took him to an execution ground in the Gerudo Desert where the elemental Sages used a supernatural sword to impale Ganondorf with. However Ganondorf did not die thanks to having the Triforce of Power to call upon which saved his life, despite the gaping hole in his chest Ganondorf went on a rampage and the Sages were forced to seal him into another realm. Years later when he finally escapes and sieges the kingdom of Hyrule, as he had always intended, he has the same wound where the Sages impaled him through the heart, where Ganondorf's heart use to be there is only a gaping glowing hole in his chest, fitting that the Sages would remove all illusion that the man had a heart to begin with wouldn't you agree? What makes it even funnier is that Ganondorf uses the same supernatural sword that was used to execute him with as a weapon. He even has it in his beast form. In the end, Link completes Ganondorf's execution by stabbing the Master Sword through the same wound.

* Ganondorf as he is seen in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has one. The game works on the premise that when Link from Ocarnia of Time came back from the future he warned everyone about Ganondorf's plan to siege the kingdom of Hyrule and Ganondorf was captured, put on trial, and sentenced to execution by the Sages, they then took him to an execution ground in the Gerudo Desert where the elemental Sages used a supernatural sword to impale Ganondorf with. However Ganondorf did not die thanks to having the Triforce of Power to call upon which saved his life, despite the gaping hole in his chest Ganondorf went on a rampage and the Sages were forced to seal him into another realm. Years later when he finally escapes and sieges the kingdom of Hyrule, as he had always intended, he has the same wound where the Sages impaled him through the heart, where Ganondorf's heart use to be there is only a gaping glowing hole in his chest, fitting that the Sages would remove all illusion that the man had a heart to begin with wouldn't you agree? What makes it even funnier is that Ganondorf uses the same supernatural sword that was used to execute him with as a weapon.

* A justified non-magical example in TheKnightsOfTheCross . Macko gets ambushed and shot with a crossbow bolt. A broken piece of the tip gets stuck under his rib and causes the wound to fester, nearly costing him his life before the hearoes finally manage to remove it.

* In [=~Robin McKinley~=]'s ''Sunshine'', the title character is given a cut on her chest by a vampire. While the other injuries she takes during the experience heal normally, the cut lingers for months, scabbing over and then cracking and bleeding again, until Constantine helps her purge the taint.

** It happens in ''Sunshine'' too. The eponymous protagonist recieves a nasty wound across her chest. It doesn't heal, and she ends up spending a ''lot'' of time just sun-bathing, with the wound exposed to the open air and sunshine. It's later blatantly stated that the wound ''is'' supernatural [[spoiler: (it was infected with a nasty poison)]] and that the only thing keeping it from killing her was her magical affinity with sunlight.

* In ''Dracula'', the wound to the forehead that Harker gives the count early in the novel never heals. Whether this is because Dracula, being already dead, cannot heal wounds, or simply because not enough time passes, or something else, is never made clear.

** Another version of this story is Philoctetes, who is accidentally scratched by one of these arrows during the siege of Troy. Philoctetes was not caused pain by the scratch, but the never healing wound stank like a mountain of corpses, which was unbearable during a prolonged siege, as there was no way to escape it. Philoctetes was exiled from Troy, and when he left, he took the quiver of Hydra venom tipped arrows with him (they were his property, having been a gift from Hercules), and when the gods tell the Trojans that the only way they can defeat Achilles is with one of these arrows, the Trojans end up having to swallow their pride and beg Philoctetes to return.

* Necrotizing faciitois ([[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Flesh-Eating]] [[BodyHorror Disease]]) bacteria attacks damaged tissue. not only do wounds never heal, they get bigger.

Necrotizing faciitois ([[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Flesh-Eating]] [[BodyHorror Disease]]) bacteria attacks damaged tissue. not only do wounds never heal, they get bigger.

Necrotizing facetous bacteria attacks damaged tissue. not only do wounds never heal, they get bigger.

* The 5 point disadvantage "Wounded" from [[GURPS]].

* The burns inflicted by [[{{Hellhound}} Houndoom]] from {{Pokemon}} never stop hurting and (presumably) never heal. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation You would never know this]] unless you read its pokedex entry.

* The burns inflicted by [[{{Hellhound}} Houndoom]] from {{Pokemon}} never stop hurting and ((presumably)) never heal. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation You would never know this]] unless you read its pokedex entry.

* Ganondorf as he is seen in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has one. The game works on the premise that when Link from Ocarnia of Time came back from the future he warned everyone about Ganondorf's plan to siege the kingdom of Hyrule and Ganondorf was captured, put on trial, and sentenced to execution by the Sages, they then took him to an execution ground in the Gerudo Desert where the elemental Sages used a supernatural sword that they impaled Ganondorf with. However Ganondorf did not die thanks to having the Triforce of Power to call upon which saved his life, despite the gaping hole in his chest Ganondorf went on a rampage and the Sages were forced to seal him into another realm. Years later when he finally escapes and sieges the kingdom of Hyrule, as he had always intended, he has the same wound where the Sages impaled him through the heart, where Ganondorf's heart use to be there is only a gaping glowing hole in his chest, fitting that the Sages would remove all illusion that the man had a heart to begin with wouldn't you agree. What makes it even funnier is that Ganondorf uses the same supernatural sword that was used to execute him with as a weapon.

* In ''TheSpaceTrilogy'' by [=~C. S. Lewis~=], Ransom receives a bite on his heel from [[DemonicPossession the Un-Man]], which never fully heals afterwards.