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1->''"Of pain, you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm."''
2-->-- '''Winston Smith''', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''
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4An index pertaining to tropes dealing with different kinds of pain.
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14* AcheyScars: Scars that continue to hurt in the long term.
15* AgonizingStomachWound: Wounds to the abdomen are messy, gruesome, and a very slow, painful way to die.
16* AgonyBeam: A beam or other projection that causes intense pain in those it hits.
17* AgonyOfTheFeet: Someone suffers pain in their feet.
18* BandageWince: Somebody winces while being bandaged up.
19* ButtBiter: Someone gets bitten in their butt.
20* CactusCushion: Someone gets injured on a cactus' spines.
21* CigaretteBurns: Putting out a cigar/cigarette on someone else, often as a form of abuse or torture.
22* CookedToDeath: Killing someone with a fryer, oven, or other cooking device.
23* CorporalPunishment: Someone hurts someone else as punishment.
24* CrackOhMyBack: Old people are prone to back pain.
25* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Someone dies in a way that is undignified, often horrific, and very painful.
26* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: If someone is used to living in the dark, normal daylight is painful to them.
27* DeliberatelyPainfulClothing: Wearing clothes to deliberately hurt oneself.
28* DIYDentistry: Trying to remove one's own tooth.
29* EarAche: Hurting people in the ears.
30* EarPiercingPlot: A young character wants their ears pierced (which will hurt).
31* EyeScream: Hurting people in the eyes.
32* FashionHurts: Painful clothes.
33* FeelNoPain: Someone is completely insensitive to pain.
34* FingerExtinguisher: Using one's hands to douse flames.
35* {{Fingore}}: Something nasty and painful happens to a character's fingers.
36* GroinAttack: Hurting someone in their crotch.
37* HeadacheOfDoom: If a character has a headache, something serious is going on.
38* HighHeelHurt: A woman (or crossdressing man) gets hurt and/or has trouble walking while wearing high heels.
39* HurtFootHop: Someone hurts their foot and hops around on the other while holding their injured appendage.
40* ImHavingSoulPains: A character feels pain in an abstract way, or in a body part that normally doesn't feel pain.
41* InjuredSelfDrag: A gravely-injured character will not only feel pain because of it, but will continue feeling it (and potentially more so) as they limp or drag to find a safe spot.
42* InPlaceOfAnEye: Something in your eye socket.
43* InstantSoprano: A GroinAttack causes the person's voice to become much higher.
44* LiteralAssKicking: Literally kicking someone's ass.
45* MachoMasochism: Undergoing painful experiences, or downplaying how much pain you're in, as proof of manliness.
46* MiserableMassage: Massages that hurt.
47* NasalTrauma: Hurting people in the nose.
48* OfCorsetHurts: Corsets are painful.
49* OwMyBodyPart: A character in pain yells out the body part that hurts.
50* PainfulAdhesiveRemoval: Removing adhesives from skin hurts.
51* PainfulBodyWaxing: Yanking your hairs out with sticky wax hurts.
52* PainfulConfession: An admission that is emotionally painful for the admitter.
53* PainfulTransformation: Shapeshifting ''hurts''.
54* PainMistakenForSex: Sounds of discomfort (moaning, screaming, etc.) are mistaken for sounds of sexual pleasure.
55* PainPoweredLeap: When a character is hurt on their butt, they leap into the air.
56* PainToTheAss: Butt injuries.
57* PopGoesTheHuman: Someone gets blown up like a balloon until they burst.
58* RampageFromANail: It turns out that the creature was only acting hostile because they were reacting from pain caused by something stuck in a sensitive part of their body.
59* RumpRoast: Someone gets their rear end set on fire.
60* SeaHurtchin: Sea urchins are the painful, painful caltrops of the sea.
61* ShareTheMalePain: Someone reacts to witnessing a GroinAttack by covering their own groins.
62* SkipTheAnesthetic: An operation with no anaesthesia.
63* SympatheticWince: A character cringes upon seeing another one in pain.
64* TestOfPain: A character is subjected to pain as a way to test their endurance, willpower, or resolve.
65* ThatsGottaHurt: A character comments that someone else's injury must have been painful.
66* TheatricsOfPain: During a staged fight, the actor on the receiving end of an attack exaggerates the pain.
67* TongueTrauma: Painful damage to the tongue.
68* TheToothHurts: Hurting people in the teeth.
69* ToThePain: A torturer describes to their victim in detail what they're doing, or going to do, to their body.
70* TwistedAnkle: A character gets injured and falls while being chased.
71* YouWontFeelAThing: A character is about to do something nasty to another, but claims it won't hurt or will only hurt a little.

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