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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is shot in the shoulder with a high caliber bullet. The arm is dangling limply by a thread, but after a few bandages is completely healed.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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Bob is shot in the shoulder with a high caliber bullet. The arm is dangling limply by a thread, but after a few bandages is completely healed.
** Bob has his head blown clean off. He reattaches it with no problem whatsoever.
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* '''Intended Audience Reaction''': Bob shrugging off such a seemingly deadly wound is indeed as unnatural in this universe as it would be to the audience, [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowing]] his [[HumanoidAbomination true]] [[TheyLookLikeUsNow nature.]]
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** Bob is shot in the shoulder, and his friends quickly work to stop the bleeding. Once the wound is patched up, Bob is able to get up without much help.

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** Bob is shot in the shoulder, and his friends quickly work to stop the bleeding. Once the wound is patched up, Bob is able to get up without much help.help, needing only a bottle of water for the blood loss.



** Bob can regenerate damaged nerves and heal wounds at a superhuman rate.

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** Bob can regenerate damaged nerves and heal wounds at a superhuman rate. He can heal from torso wounds, the process is just a lot more difficult and painful.
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** Bob was shot in the ass or forearm, where this can realistically happen.

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** Bob was shot in the ass buttocks or forearm, where this can realistically happen.
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** Bob was shot in the buttocks or forearm, where this can realistically happen.

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** Bob was shot in the buttocks ass or forearm, where this can realistically happen.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is shot in the shoulder with a high calibere bullet. The arm is dangling limply by a thread, but after a few bandages is completely healed.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is shot in the shoulder with a high calibere caliber bullet. The arm is dangling limply by a thread, but after a few bandages is completely healed.



** The Hero has an adrenaline rush going, allowing him to shrug off serious injuries.

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** The Hero Bob has an adrenaline rush going, allowing him to shrug off serious injuries.


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** It's the future, and advanced medical tech heals Bob's bullet wound in a matter of moments.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is shot in the face several times at point-blank range with a shotgun. What is left of his mouth insists that he's okay.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is shot in the face several times at point-blank range shoulder with a shotgun. What high calibere bullet. The arm is left of his mouth insists that he's okay.dangling limply by a thread, but after a few bandages is completely healed.



* '''Parodied''': A man casually shows up to work with a bullet hole in his knee, and nobody makes a big deal out of it.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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A man casually shows up to work with a bullet hole in his knee, and nobody makes a big deal out of it.it.
** Bob is shot in the face several times at point-blank range with a shotgun. What is left of his mouth insists that he's okay.
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** Bob gave himself a shot of Morphine so he could continue fighting.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob collapses in pain after getting shot in the shoulder, but it is not treated as life threatening.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Bob collapses in pain after getting shot in the shoulder, but it is not treated as life threatening. threatening.
** Bob is shot in the shoulder, and his friends quickly work to stop the bleeding. Once the wound is patched up, Bob is able to get up without much help.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Bobappears to be able to fight normally after being shot, until he realizes that he can't move his arm. So he bandages it up, but that only does so much to help. He gets better by the next episode, until the wound gets infected, but that's what medicine is for.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bobappears Bob appears to be able to fight normally after being shot, until he realizes that he can't move his arm. So he bandages it up, but that only does so much to help. He gets better by the next episode, until the wound gets infected, but that's what medicine is for.
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* '''Subverted''': Bob appears to be able to fight normally after being shot, until he realizes that he can't move his arm.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Bob appears to be able to fight normally after being shot, until he realizes that he can't move his arm.
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** Bob is shot in the arm, there's a beat...and then blood starts gushing out of his body, as the mook he was fighting severed an artery.
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* '''Straight''': The hero is shot in the arm, but it's treated as nothing more than an inconvenience.
* '''Exaggerated''': The hero is shot in the face several times at point-blank range with a shotgun. What is left of his mouth insists that he's okay.
* '''Downplayed''': The hero collapses in pain after getting shot in the shoulder, but it is not treated as life threatening.

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* '''Straight''': The hero Bob is shot in the arm, but it's treated as nothing more than an inconvenience.
* '''Exaggerated''': The hero Bob is shot in the face several times at point-blank range with a shotgun. What is left of his mouth insists that he's okay.
* '''Downplayed''': The hero Bob collapses in pain after getting shot in the shoulder, but it is not treated as life threatening.



** The Hero can regenerate damaged nerves and heal wounds at a superhuman rate.
** The Hero really is that tough, and thus the bullet did much less damage than appearances would suggest.
** The Hero was shot in the buttocks or forearm, where this can realistically happen.
** The 'Hero' is a HumanoidAbomination; the injury does affect his/her body, but that sort of injury could never kill the hero, or have any sort of meaningful effect.

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** The Hero **Bob can regenerate damaged nerves and heal wounds at a superhuman rate.
** The Hero Bob really is that tough, and thus the bullet did much less damage than appearances would suggest.
** The Hero Bob was shot in the buttocks or forearm, where this can realistically happen.
** The 'Hero' Bob is a HumanoidAbomination; the injury does affect his/her body, but that sort of injury could never kill the hero, him, or have any sort of meaningful effect.



* '''Subverted''': The hero appears to be able to fight normally after being shot, until he realizes that he can't move his arm.

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* '''Subverted''': The hero Bob appears to be able to fight normally after being shot, until he realizes that he can't move his arm.



* '''Zig Zagged''': The hero appears to be able to fight normally after being shot, until he realizes that he can't move his arm. So he bandages it up, but that only does so much to help. He gets better by the next episode, however.
* '''Averted''': The hero is realistically wounded after being shot.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': The hero appears Bobappears to be able to fight normally after being shot, until he realizes that he can't move his arm. So he bandages it up, but that only does so much to help. He gets better by the next episode, however.
until the wound gets infected, but that's what medicine is for.
* '''Averted''': The hero Bob is realistically wounded after being shot.



** Alternatively: The character is wearing body armor or is totally MadeOfIron.

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** Alternatively: The character is wearing body armor or is totally MadeOfIron.armor.



* '''Defied''': The gun is powerful enough that it blows the hero's arm off.

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* '''Defied''': The shooter uses a high caliber gun to make sure it is powerful enough that it blows the hero's arm off.''much more'' than a flesh wound.



** Alternatively, it may only be a flesh wound but it becomes infected, which ''does'' lead to death.

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** Alternatively, it It may only be a flesh wound but it becomes infected, which ''does'' lead to death.
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** The Hero has an adrenaline rush going, allowing him to shrug off serious injuries.

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** The hero can regenerate damaged nerves and heal wounds at a superhuman rate.

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** The hero Hero can regenerate damaged nerves and heal wounds at a superhuman rate.



** The hero was shot in the buttocks or forearm, where this can realistically happen.

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** The hero Hero was shot in the buttocks or forearm, where this can realistically happen.happen.
** The 'Hero' is a HumanoidAbomination; the injury does affect his/her body, but that sort of injury could never kill the hero, or have any sort of meaningful effect.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Gun control becomes obsolete, leading to a significant increase in firearm-related crimes.

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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
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Gun control becomes obsolete, leading to a significant increase in firearm-related crimes.



* '''Reconstructed''': Medical science and law enforcement minimize the number of victims and effectively punish offenders.

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* '''Reconstructed''': '''Reconstructed''':
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Medical science and law enforcement minimize the number of victims and effectively punish offenders.
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** Alternatively, it may only be a flesh wound but it becomes infected, which ''does'' lead to death.


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** Modern medicine helps with the infection caused by the flesh wound, and the recovery may take a while but the character eventually gets better.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???The hero collapses in pain after getting shot in the shoulder, but it is not treated as life threatening.

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* '''Justified''': The hero can regenerate damaged nerves and heal wounds at a superhuman rate.

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* '''Justified''': '''Downplayed''': ???
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The hero can regenerate damaged nerves and heal wounds at a superhuman rate.



* '''Deconstructed''': Gun control becomes obsolete, leading to a significant increase in firearm-related crimes.
* '''Reconstructed''': Medical science and law enforcement minimize the number of victims and effectively punish offenders



* '''Invoked''': The guns are actually non-lethal pellets or beanbags, simply meant to disorient.

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* '''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
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The guns are actually non-lethal pellets or beanbags, simply meant to disorient.



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



* '''Deconstructed''': Gun control becomes obsolete, leading to a significant increase in firearm-related crimes.
* '''Reconstructed''': Medical science and law enforcement minimize the number of victims and effectively punish offenders.



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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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the forearm is actually safer than the buttocks due to the arteries involved


** The hero was shot in the buttocks, where this can realistically happen.

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** The hero was shot in the buttocks, buttocks or forearm, where this can realistically happen.
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** The hero was shot in the buttocks, where this can realistically happen.
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** The Hero really is that tough, and thus the bullet did much less damage than appearances would suggest.
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Back to OnlyAFleshWound

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Back Let's head on back to OnlyAFleshWoundOnlyAFleshWound and don't worry- it's only a gallon of napalm and a few anti-tank rounds, and maybe a couple of land mines worth of shrapnel and [[{{Overly Long Gag}} only enough bullets to kill every soldier on Earth twenty times over]]...
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* '''Exaggerated''': The hero is shot several times all over his body, and merely shrugs it off.

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* '''Exaggerated''': The hero is shot in the face several times all over at point-blank range with a shotgun. What is left of his body, and merely shrugs it off.mouth insists that he's okay.

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