Line #1 Main/InjuryTropes


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2	[[caption-width-right:320:[-''The Order of Release'' by Sir John Everett Milais-] ]]
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4	For when you don't quite reach DeathTropes -- or even miss them by a mile.
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6	See also ATorturedIndex, BloodyTropes, {{Indexitis}}, ThisIndexIsARealPain, ToxicTropes, and WeaponsAndWieldingTropes.
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9	[[index]]
10	!!Tropes
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13	Categories:
14	+ AnatomyAgony
15	+ ScarTropes
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18	* AccordionMan: When crushing a cartoon character makes them fold up like an accordion.
19	* AfterActionHealingDrama: After an action scene, a person is seriously injured and must be healed.
20	* AfterActionPatchup: Someone gets helped for injuries after an action scene, but they're not seriously injured.
21	* AgonizingStomachWound: A stomach wound which may lead to a long, painful death.
22	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Someone hurts their foot.
23	* AmputativeSentencing: A criminal is punished by having a limb or appendage cut off.
24	* AmusingInjuries: Injuries are PlayedForComedy.
25	* AndShowItToYou: Someone kills someone else by tearing their heart out and showing it to them.
26	* AnnoyingArrows: A main character gets shot with arrows, but is not killed or seriously injured even when they should be.
27	* AntiRegeneration: HealingFactor is nullified for some reason.
28	* AnArmAndALeg: Someone loses a limb.
29	* AssShove: Sticking something up someone's rectum.
30	* AttackTheInjury: Someone tries to attack an existing injury, usually in an attempt to gain the upper hand in a fight.
31	* AttackTheMouth: Someone is hurt or killed by being attacked in their mouth.
32	* AttackTheTail: An animal gets attacked in their tail.
33	* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: It looks like someone is getting shot, but it turns out that either the gun is not loaded, the shooter gets shot, or someone else gets shot.
34	* BandagedFace: Someone has bandages over their whole face.
35	* BandageWince: Someone winces at getting bandaged up.
36	* BarelyMissedCushion: A character tries to break their fall on something soft, but misses it by ''that'' much.
37	* BeefBandage: Using meat as a bandage.
38	* BelatedInjuryRealization: Someone gets hurt, but doesn't notice.
39	* BlindedByTheLight: Someone is blinded (or at least annoyed) by having a light shone in their face.
40	* BlindingCameraFlash: When Blinded By the Light is caused by a camera flash.
41	* BloodFromEveryOrifice: Someone bleeds out of their mouth, nose, ears and/or eyes.
42	* BloodFromTheMouth: Someone bleeds out of their mouth.
43	* BloodlessCarnage: Violence happens, but nobody bleeds.
44	* BloodyHandprint: A hand-print in blood.
45	* BludgeonedToDeath: Repeated head trauma.
46	* BottledHeroicResolve: A medicine that cures even the worst injuries instantly.
47	* BreastAttack: A woman gets hit in the breast.
48	* BulletHolesAndRevelations: Two characters are fighting over a gun and one gets shot, but it's initially unclear who.
49	* ButtSticker: Someone sits on another character, who ends up stuck to the sitter's rear end.
50	* CareerEndingInjury: Someone gets an injury that makes them unable to do their job or something they wanted to do.
51	* CartoonThrobbing: A character's body part gets injured, turns red, and starts swelling and expanding.
52	* CarvedMark: Someone carves a pattern or words into themselves or another person's body.
53	* ChildhoodBrainDamage: Someone's brain was damaged in their infancy or childhood and makes them [[TheDitz dumb]] or even just [[CloudCuckooLander eccentric.]]
54	* ChokeHolds: Someone chokes.
55	* ChunkySalsaRule: Someone must be dead if their head is ground to a pulp.
56	* ClawingAtOwnThroat: A character scratches their throat.
57	* ClothingConcealedInjury: Someone wears clothes to hide injuries.
58	* ConcussionsGetYouHigh: A concussed person seems like they're high.
59	* CranialEruption: Someone, after getting bumped on the head, gets a huge lump on it.
60	* CranialPlateAbility: When a character acquires new abilities thanks to a steel piece implanted (accidentally or via surgery) in their head.
61	* CripplingCastration: The attacker sterilizes (neuters) the victim.
62	* CripplingTheCompetition: Someone injures someone so they can't do something they're good at, in order to not have competition.
63	* CutHimselfShaving: A wound is explained in a ridiculous way that's often a lie.
64	* DangerousBackswing: Someone gets hit by a weapon's backswing in melee combat.
65	* DeadlyNosebleed: Someone dies or almost dies due to a nosebleed.
66	* DeadlyRotaryFan: Someone gets decapitated by a rotary fan.
67	* DeadlyScratch: A relatively minor injury proves disproportionately dangerous.
68	* DeepSleep: Someone's in a very heavy sleep. Doesn't need to be injury-related, but often is.
69	* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Someone lets themselves get injured on purpose as part of a plan.
70	* DentedIron: Someone appears to be MadeOfIron, but still sustains a few injuries.
71	* DismembermentIsCheap: Consequences to lost limbs? What are those?
72	* DoomedHurtGuy: Someone is injured and attempts are made to help them, but they die anyway.
73	* DraggedByTheCollar: A stubborn character gets dragged away by their collar.
74	* DramaticDislocation: A dislocated joint PlayedForDrama.
75	* DramaticSpineInjury: Someone's back gets badly broken.
76	* EarNotch: A gritty or evil character has a bit out of their ear.
77	* EyePoke: Someone gets poked in one or both eyes.
78	* EyeScream: Someone gets injured in their eye.
79	* FacialHorror: Someone gets hurt in the face.
80	* FakeArmDisarm: Someone's artificial limb gets wrecked.
81	* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Violence that's played seriously.
82	* FeelNoPain: An inability to feel pain.
83	* {{Fingore}}: Someone gets hurt in the finger.
84	* FirstBlood: Two characters are fighting and things turn serious once one bleeds.
85	* FirstInjuryReaction: A character who has not been injured or felt pain in their whole life or a long time, or believes themselves immune to harm or pain, gets hurt and stops whatever else they're doing to react.
86	* FoldSpindleMutilation: Someone gets injured due to being squeezed into a space.
87	* FromDressToDressing: Someone's clothes are used as a bandage.
88	* GameBreakingInjury: A hero gets injured in an important moment.
89	* GardenHoseSquirtSurprise: A character gets pranked by having to look in a hose and then getting squirted.
90	* GettingTheBoot: Someone gets literally thrown out of a door.
91	* GivingUpTheGhost: Someone astral projects for a little bit while unconscious, but neither dies nor has a significant out-of-body experience.
92	* GoodThingYouCanHeal: A character gets seriously injured, but they have powers which means they can heal themselves.
93	* GroinAttack: Someone (usually a man) is hit in the privates.
94	* GroundByGears: Someone gets ground up by machinery.
95	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Someone gets their body split in two. They might survive this.
96	* HammeredIntoTheGround: Someone gets driven into the ground.
97	* HardHead: Someone gets hit in the head, but doesn't get concussed.
98	* HealItWithBooze: Using alcohol as anaesthesia or pouring it on a wound.
99	* HealingHerb: Plants that have healing powers.
100	* HealingPotion: A potion that can heal people.
101	* HealThyself: Someone is injured in a game, but finds a med kit and heals himself.
102	* HesOkay: Someone tells someone else that an injured character is okay.
103	* HoldingYourShoulderMeansInjury: An injured character holds their shoulder with their other hand.
104	* HospitalEpilogue
105	* HowManyFingers: Someone asks a potential injury victim how many fingers he's holding up.
106	* HumanPincushion: Someone gets a lot of weapons, such as arrows, stuck into him.
107	* HurtFootHop: Someone suffers a foot injury and hops around while grasping the injured foot.
108	* ICanStillFight: Someone has serious injuries, but insists they are nothing.
109	* ImHavingSoulPains: Someone gets hurt in a place that shouldn't be hurt, either a body part that doesn't feel pain (like his hair) or some part that's not a body part (like his soul).
110	* ImpaledPalm: Someone gets stabbed in the palm of his hand.
111	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Someone is impaled all the way through.
112	* ImOkay: Someone states he's okay even if he logically shouldn't be.
113	* ImprovisedBandage: Using unconventional objects as bandage.
114	* InjuredLimbEpisode: A character's arm/leg/wing/flipper is injured.
115	* InjuredSelfDrag: Someone has received numerous and/or severe wounds on their body, but will continue moving forward regardless.
116	* InstantBandages: Someone instantly gets bandages after being injured.
117	* InstantSoprano: When a man gets hit in the balls, it makes his voice higher.
118	* InvisibleHoles: Someone is stabbed with no apparent injuries, but when they take a drink, it pours out of holes in their body.
119	* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Someone is injured and left unable to walk on his own during a fight or a chase scene, but asks to be abandoned as he believes that being healed or carried would slow the pursuer(s) down.
120	* JawBreaker: When a monster tries to eat someone, that someone stops it by forcing its jaws open until they break.
121	* KarmicInjury: A character is injured in a manner identical or similar to injuries they have inflicted on someone else.
122	* KickingMyOwnButt: Someone hits himself on purpose.
123	* {{Kneecapping}}: Deliberately hurting someone's knee(s) to slow them down.
124	* KneeFoldFallOfDefeat: A defeated fighter falls to his knees before collapsing.
125	* LipLosses: Someone suffers wounds to the lips -- or has them severed entirely.
126	* LiteralAssKicking: Someone injures another on their butt.
127	* LiteralDisarming: Lopping off someone's limbs to remove their ability to wield weapons or fight.
128	* LodgedBladeRemoval: Removing a knife or some other edged object from someone who's been stabbed with it. Generally, not a good idea unless done by trained medical personnel in a hospital environment.
129	* MadeOfIron: Someone is able to get injured a lot, but still function, or do things that would lead to injury, but not get injured.
130	* MadeOfPlasticine: Someone is a lot weaker and easier to injure than would be realistic.
131	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Someone shrugs off a serious injury.
132	* MindYourStep: Someone gets injured due to stepping on a wonky stair.
133	* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Someone freaks out over getting a minor injury like a paper cut or a stubbed toe.
134	* MoeGreeneSpecial: Someone is shot in the eye.
135	* MutilationConga: Someone gradually gets more and more injured, and it's often PlayedForLaughs.
136	* NamedAfterTheInjury: A character has a name, nickname, or alias related to an injury they've sustained.
137	* NasalTrauma: Someone suffers damage to their nose.
138	* NauticalKnockout: Someone on a ship is knocked by the boom (the bit under the sail).
139	* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: Someone gets into a situation that should be lethal, but it doesn't kill them.
140	* NoOSHACompliance: An extremely unsafe industrial area.
141	* NoProductSafetyStandards: A new product is not tested and it injures or kills someone.
142	* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Determination and/or toughness prevents a character from dying from extremely serious injuries.
143	* NoseShove: Someone, usually a child, ends up in hospital from shoving an item up their nose.
144	* TheNotCatch: Someone tries to catch a falling character, but misses.
145	* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: Additional injuries are inflicted upon a corpse to mask the true cause of death.
146	* OnlyAFleshWound: Someone gets injured, but seems finer than they should be.
147	* OrganDodge: A potentially fatal injury is avoided because the organ in question is not there.
148	* OrganTheft: A character's organ(s) is/are stolen. Depending on the organ/species of the victim, this may or may not result in a serious injury.
149	* OutSick: Someone is unavailable due to being injured, ill, or otherwise compromised.
150	* PainAndGain: You get stronger as you receive damage.
151	* PalmBloodletting: When you need a little bit of your own blood, how do you get it? By slicing up your hand, of course!
152	* PaperCutting: Someone gets a tiny cut from an attack that couldn't logically have made that small a cut.
153	* PatheticallyWeak: Someone is phenomenally feeble and weak by the standards of their demographic.
154	* PianoCoverSlam: Someone's fingers get crushed by a piano's keyboard cover.
155	* PlankGag: Someone is carrying a long item like a plank and accidentally hits someone else with it.
156	* PlasterCastDoodling: After someone's limb is injured and is encased in a plaster cast, they have their cast doodled on either by themselves or someone else.
157	* PointlessBandAid: Someone has a band-aid on even though they're not hurt.
158	* PopGoesTheHuman: Someone is inflated like a balloon or force-fed until they explode.
159	* PostInjuryDeskJob: Had to work from a desk thanks to an injury.
160	* PrankInjuries: Pretending to be injured as a prank.
161	* RealMenGetShot: Getting hurt proves how tough or "cool" someone is.
162	* RevealingInjury: Someone reveals something because the person they're talking to is injured.
163	* RoadsideSurgery: Injury so bad it gets immediate surgical attention, regardless of location.
164	* SecretStabWound: Someone hides a serious wound.
165	* SelfHarm: Someone injures themselves on purpose.
166	* SelfHarmInducedSuperpower: Someone harms themselves to trigger their superpower.
167	* SelfMutilationDemonstration: Someone proves they can heal themselves or are immortal by injuring themselves.
168	* SelfSurgery: Someone tries to treat their own injuries.
169	* ShareTheMalePain: When a guy gets hit in the privates, it makes other men's privates hurt in sympathy.
170	* SickeningCrunch: A cracking noise is heard when a character breaks their bone.
171	* SleepSquashing: A character gets crushed by a bigger character that unknowingly rolled over on top of them in their sleep.
172	* SquashedFlat: A cartoon character gets squashed flat, but survives.
173	* StaircaseTumble: Falling downstairs.
174	* StandardBleedingSpots: In manga or {{anime}}, bleeding in the mouth, cheek, shoulder, forehead, or (for women) the back, chest or stomach is most common.
175	* StopHittingYourself: Forcing someone to hit themselves.
176	* SweepingAshes: A cartoon character gets turned to ash, swept up, but revives themselves.
177	* SymbolicMutilation: Someone gets mutilated in a symbolic way.
178	* TapOnTheHead: Someone gets knocked out via a hit on the head, but suffers no damage from it.
179	* TearOffYourFace: Someone gets the skin on their face torn off.
180	* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: Someone survives being shot in the head.
181	* TongueTrauma: Someone gets hurt in the tongue.
182	* TheToothHurts: Someone gets hurt in the tooth.
183	* TorsoWithAView: Someone gets a hole through their torso, but neither falls down nor dies.
184	* TreadmillTrauma: Someone who gets hurt by running on a treadmill.
185	* TwistedAnkle: Someone who must flee hurts their foot or leg and it slows them down.
186	* VerbalSaltInTheWound: Deliberately offending someone by bringing up a past injury -- often one you inflicted.
187	* VictoryByFirstBlood: A person loses a duel by being made to bleed.
188	* VillainousMedicalCare: A hero is injured; the villain either treats them or gets them treatment (the reasons why vary).
189	* UndressingTheUnconscious: A unconscious character has their clothes removed to check or treat their injuries.
190	* WakingUpElsewhere: Something bad happens, which leads to someone getting hit on the head, {{fainting}} and then waking up somewhere else.
191	* WhatADrag: Someone tortures or kills someone else by dragging them along.
192	* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: Someone survives despite literally not being all in one piece.
193	* WipeTheFloorWithYou: Someone drags another character against the wall or floor.
194	* WoundThatWillNotHeal: A wound that never heals or takes a long time to heal.
195	* WoundedHeroWeakerHelper: Someone is injured and must be healed by a weaker or more inexperienced character.
196	* YouCallThatAWound: Someone can be resurrected if they're a main character in a video game.
197	* YouWontFeelAThing: Someone tells someone else "you won't feel a thing", which may or may not be a lie.
198	* {{Yubitsume}}: Cutting your own pinky off.
199	[[/index]]

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