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* '''Enforced''': "There are tons of enemy archers! If the arrows did wound people severely, the battle would be one-sided, and we need the battle to take up the whole episode!"

* '''Double Subverted''': ...After he collapses, though, one of Steve's comrades removes the arrow, and Steve quickly leaps up and resumes fighting.

** Arrow injuries incapacitate by default or against a BadAss slow them down enough to give them a chance to lose. ImprobableAimingSkills or giving a SedgwickSpeech are the only things that make them directly lethal.

** Steve is shown to be wounded and in pain from being hit by arrows, but needs only peremptory first aid before he's [[JustAFleshWound fixed up as good as new]].

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Parodied''': Steve charges towards the enemy archers with his sword and ends up nearly covered in arrows. He complains about how it's going to take ''forever'' to pull them all out of his skin, what a waste of time.

* '''Downplayed''': Steve is shown to be wounded and in pain from being hit by arrows, but needs only peremptory first aid before he's [[JustAFleshWound fixed up as good as new]].

** Steve is being hit by arrows from weak bows, some of which fail to even draw blood.
** Steve isn't human; he's an android, demon, alien, or some other type of entity that can shrug off such attacks with ease.
** Steve is friggin' enormous and hopped up on adrenaline and drugs.

** Steve isn't human; he's an android, demon, alien, or some other type of creature that can shrug off such attacks with ease.

** Steve is friggin' enormous.

* '''Exaggerated''': Steve is hit by a barrage of arrows from a group of enemy archers. He pulls each one out, and doesn't even seem to be bleeding.
* '''Downplayed''': Steve is shown to be wounded and in pain from being hit by arrows, but still just pulls them out and continues fighting, not being in life-threatening danger.

** Alternatively: An arrow barely grazes Steve's shoulder. He loses use of that arm permanently.
** Steve is immune to all weapons the enemy uses, except arrows. The BigBad knows this, and takes advantage of it.

* '''Subverted''': The arrow hits Steve, and he seems only slightly bothered by it, but then the pain kicks in and he collapses.

* '''Deconstructed''': It turns out that the enemy's arrows are nearly painless because they were tipped with a poison that numbs the area of the injury and causes the wounds to often swell closed and bleed only a minimal amount. Shortly after the battle, however, people start dying.
* '''Reconstructed''': ...until an antidote is discovered, and when administered, people can charge into battle treating arrows as simply annoying again.

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* '''Straight''': Steve gets hit by an arrow. He barely flinches, quickly pulls it out, and continues fighting.

* '''Straight''': Steve gets hit by an arrow. He barely flinches and quickly pulls it out and continues fighting.

* '''Downplayed''': Steve is shown to be in pain from being hit by arrows, but still just pulls them out and continues fighting, not being in life-threatening danger.

* '''Straight''': Steve gets hit by an arrow. He pulls it out and continues fighting.

* '''Justified''': Steve is wearing heavy armor, which the arrows are unable to penetrate.

* '''Inverted''': Steve is seemingly unfazed by sword wounds, but when he gets hit by an arrow he collapses at once.

** Steve is undead, so arrows aren't very effective against him.

* '''Averted''': Steve gets hit by an arrow, and needs immediate medical attention.
** Or he needs medical attention, but [[TooDumbToLive waves it off despite his comrade's insistence]]. Pulling the arrow out results in massive bleeding from the now-open wound, and he gets dragged to the pissed-off healers just in time to survive. It takes several weeks to get back to normal, and even then there's a nasty scar that serves to remind a much-wiser Steve against future stupidity.
** Steve dies from an arrow wound.

* '''Reconstructed''': ...Except that there was very little poison on each arrow, and everyone therefore hardly suffers from it.

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