Major Injury Underreactions in Fan Works.
- All For Luz:
- Thanks to her "Pain Nullification" Quirk, Luz has a ridiculously high pain threshold, and barely reacts to potentially crippling injuries while her Super Regeneration fixes her body back up. When when an attack manages to bypass it, she's able to bite back screams of pain and power through to keep on fighting as her Healing Factor kicks in.
- Hindter's reaction to Amity breaking his jaw with a Super-Strength powered kick is to chuckle and comment he underestimated the girl.
- In Chapter 54 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant, Adam launches a sneak attack on Terumi, impaling him in the chest. Much to the former's shock, the latter not only barely reacts beyond surprise, but literally laughs off the injury and proceeds to beat him to a pulp, all while he still has the sword impaled in his chest.
- The Bridge: Played with when Gigan slashes Grand King Ghidorah across the back. Ghidorah screams and thrashes around for a minute, then abruptly calms down and starts cordially talking to Gigan and his friends. The sight of Ghidorah nonchalantly walking around with his wound still oozing blood freaks Gigan out.
- In The Butcher Bird, both Kaneki and Captain Vinci display this trope - Kaneki has a potent Healing Factor and regards most injury as inconsequential, while Vinci eventually figures out how to turn off his sense of pain and has his own Healing Factor to take care of injuries, if over a longer time than Kaneki's.
- Discussed by Natsuki in the Doki Doki Literature Club Loops. Because of the Dokis' origins as digital entities, she claims they are not as psychologically connected to physical bodies as others, comparing losing an arm to 'losing a swimsuit in a public pool' — though she is quick to acknowledge that it is a significant issue for most people and does not downplay the trauma. This is demonstrated most clearly with Yuri, whose fascination with sensation means she can be covered in scratches and not slowed down, though all four of them have demonstrated mild irritation at serious injury over the course of the fic.
- In Fate/Starry Night, Ritsuka is more annoyed that Shinji isn't a minion of Beryl's for him to punch than the whole problem of bleeding out through the gaping hole Rider put in his hand. He even forgets that he's bleeding out until he starts feeling lightheaded partway through the fight.Shinji: [grinning evilly] You think that you can come and try to screw with our Holy Grail War?
Ritsuka: [steadily losing interest] Oh, you’re just here about the Grail War? Man, I got my hand stabbed for that? What the hell…? - A Gamer In South Blue: The unnamed and very angsty user of the Doppel-Doppel Fruit has this reaction when Mori lands a lethal blow on him. His last words are as follows:Doppel-Man: Ah....well that wasn't supposed to happen. I.. I hope Captain Valerie doesn't find out. She'll..She'll be mad at me. I don't want.. to be punished.
- In Halo: Halos in Space, Joe Chief leaps at the Spines Alien and gets pierced by the spines, but breaks them off in the process. Both respond with an "Ow."
- Harry Potter in Harry Potter: Geth
learns that his arm from the elbow down was melted by acid and had to be completely regrown. His sole reaction is snark.Harry: Ah, perfect timing. I had a very heavy grease stain from the elevator that wouldn't come off. - Hive Daughter: Taylor treats losing an arm to Lung as inconvenient, then pauses and realizes that she genuinely is merely inconvenienced by losing an arm. Since she's a Hive Mind with over a dozen bodies and the capacity to make far more, she realizes that it's just not a genuine problem. After the fight, she reports to Armsmaster that she has to "Return to base and fix some damage", not telling him she has to reattach an entire limb.
- If Wishes Were Ponies: Harry Potter has a habit of doing this, to the point that Twilight has to stare him down to get him to admit when he isn't feeling well (with the CMC pointing out that he's always saying he's fine even when he has visible injuries). It's especially noteworthy at the beginning of the fic when he's surprisingly calm despite the fact that Dudley's gang has just beaten him within an inch of his life.
- Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily: Alex Shepherd doesn't seem to be in pain after he was electrocuted — as Pyramid Head — or having a stone spear pierce his throat. He treats it like a minor annoyance.
- One yakuza member in Kyon: Big Damn Hero was terrified about how little desire for retribution Kyon possessed after being shot. Justified because he had been healed afterwards and only one of the bullets actually got through, after the skinsuit inside his Yuki-altered wristwatch activated reducing damage.
- Metal Gear: Green: Aizawa, having two broken arms, a nearly cracked skull, a collapsed and punctured lung and over a dozen broken ribs, believes he is still eligible to teach. Ocelot and Recovery Girl both disagree, with the former starting to realize that Aizawa is both a horrible teacher and a very irrational man.
- In My Huntsman Academia, Izuku regularly grits through the pain of shattering his own bones to use his Semblance and is perfectly okay with it for as long as he's saving lives. but this is downplayed compared to his home series because Aura can fix him with enough resting time. He regularly gets chewed out for this by his teammate, Weiss, who criticizes his constant recklessness and disregard for his own well-being.Weiss: [as the bones in Izuku's finger pop back into place after being broken] I still find that pretty unsettling. It can't feel pleasant either.
Izuku: It isn't... but doing this gave us a pretty big advantage back there in taking out all those Nevermore. Without it, the fight would've gone on longer and everyone would've probably gotten badly injured. It was more than a fair trade-off, I think.
Weiss: Just... don't make a habit out of it, okay? Pointless to ask I know, you're going to use it if you feel like you have to, but... well, it's not exactly fun for the rest of us to see you break yourself over and over again.
Izuku: I know, Weiss. [sees his friends in trouble five minutes later] Weiss, repeat the old plan!
Weiss: [begrudgingly speeds him up with a glyph] Izuku, your-
Izuku: I know, I promise, I'll only use one finger this time!
Weiss: THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT BY RESTRAINT, YOU DOLT!- Even after he starts getting the hang of using One For All without breaking himself, his use of Go Beyond causes stress fractures, muscle tearing (to the point that his leg muscles briefly tore themselves from his bones), and puts pressure on countless blood vessels. Weiss is quick to point out the absurdity of this.Weiss: So your solution to us worrying about you breaking your fingers and fixing them with Aura is to break your everything and fix it with Aura?
Izuku: [Beat] Ah... I... You see...
- Even after he starts getting the hang of using One For All without breaking himself, his use of Go Beyond causes stress fractures, muscle tearing (to the point that his leg muscles briefly tore themselves from his bones), and puts pressure on countless blood vessels. Weiss is quick to point out the absurdity of this.
- Played for Laughs in an omake in Mythos Effect. A man dating a demigod hears her shout her brother's true name at said sibling in a fit of rage, causing his ears to start bleeding. He merely asks if the other demigod has a name that's "A bit easier to pronounce.. and hear."
- In The Owl Lady's Chick, characters are constantly given serious injuries that would kill a normal person, and react at best with mild annoyance. Two stand out examples are Kikimora getting an axe in her head from Walter and only saying "Ow," and Bill getting his arm bitten off by Tawny Beast Strix, and only whimpering in pain before continuing his assault.
- A Peaceful Afterlife: All over the place. Justified, in that demons can regenerate from just about anything given enough time, and therefore tend to regard things like dismemberment and decapitation as inconvenient. It's telling that Angel is more peeved about blood on his favorite top and his hairdo being ruined than he is about losing an arm.
- Ichigo in To Prey Upon the Dead get his arm broken during a spar with Tatsuki. He mutely snaps the bone back into place to heal. Justified however in that he's Covered with Scars and only one of them (his pinky and part of his left hand were melted off by a Xenomorphs acid) isn't from training or sparring sessions. Note: one of his spars against "Mother Masa" ended with him impaled.
- Roanapur Connection: Oboro Shinozaki/Kirihara in her thoughts of her past in Father, Son and the Mother Hen, merely shrugs off going through the roof of her dojo shrine when she tried to fly an umbrella, breaking her legs for a year with a simple Awe.
- Spiderhead: Peter's tendency to do this drives Bruce as crazy as it does Tony.
- Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K:
- In Episode 8, Crosshairs grunts as though he had merely been punched in response to his left leg suddenly getting sliced off just under the knee by a Not Quite Dead Space Marine wielding an oversized combat knife.
- During his duel with Samael and Hecate in Episode 42, Mace Windu gets a hand cut off and acid in one of his eyes. While Mace is certainly in pain, falling to the Dark Side allows him to not only keep fighting but even draw power from the pain.
- Wander over Foster's AU One-Shot: This is Wander's reply to Frankie's concern over him. He has enough injuries to be covered in bandages, but he says it's "just a scratch".
- A Moth to a Flame: During the big fight in Andrias' castle in Chapter 7, Sasha bashes Marcy in the face with the Calamity Box several times, eventually doing enough damage that she spits out two of her molars. Marcy's only reaction is to quip that her parents know a good dentist.
- In Eleutherophobia: Ghost in the Shell, Jake's reaction to being shot is to morph and then yell at the emergency medical technicians that he's okay and has been shot many times before.
- Captain Unohana in Vow of the King has her limbs sliced off repeatedly while in combat and only seems to take notice if it actively hampers her ability to keep fighting.
- All the remaining Scoobies largely ignore their fatal injuries in The Last Ones Left by virtue of a spell that leaves them incapable of feeling pain.
- Fire Emblem Rekka No Ken: A Story Retold: In chapter 2, Lyn gets bashed over the head with the flat of an axe, but simply shrugs it off to save Michael from another bandit, completely failing to notice her head wound until Michael inspects the back of her head and sees that her hair is covered in blood; Lyn promptly takes a sip of a vulnerary, and it's only when the wound closes that she feels the pain.Lyn: Oh yes, I was hurt!
- Family Guy Fanon: In "Do and Die", Adam West tries to swing down to Town Hall from a rope in his helicopter for his Establishing Character Moment, but misses, crashes on the roof and smacks hard on the wooden podium. But he recovers quickly.Adam West: I meant to do that!
- In Altered Histories a goblin calmly walks into the Gringotts medical facility waiting room while carrying his severed arm.
- In Harry Potter and the Sisters Black, Luna gets her shoulder dislocated during some bondage sex and treats the injury as if she broke a nail.
- In the AU fanfic Red Dead Virgo, Kanaya is more concerned with her rapid blood loss leaving an easy trail to follow and worrying her friend Vriska, than the fact that she is losing so much blood that it causes her to pass out.
- One fic has Eridan wearing a shock collar to curb his swearing. Since the collar was made by Equius, it sets off at words as innocuous as "darn", and after a major accident Eridan resorts to "Goodness, you've cracked my skull!"
- At one point in Webwork, one of Jade's hands gets cut off. Her only reaction is to complain as to how much growing it back is going to itch.
- Anyone who spends a significant amount of time in The Zone in Death Need Not Apply will have an outright inhuman pain tolerance because The Zone is an area where no one can die and all injuries eventually heal. Izuku gets hit in the face with Ashido's acid and barely grunts on top of commenting that Bakugou's blown his legs off plenty of times, apparently having a phase where he liked creating nitroglycerin minefields. Later, Izuku cheerfully shows Hagakure how to properly snap someone's neck, using himself as the test dummy, and compliments her first attempt, saying she definitely cracked a vertebra and was close to doing it perfectly.
- In Chapter 6, Izuku shows no sign of pain despite having so much broken glass stabbed into him that he clinks when he moves and Aizawa remarks that it looks like he's replaced his blood with glass.
- Due to Izuku becoming far too used to how his Quirk works in Nutricula, he barely reacts to his various deaths. Perhaps the most shining example is when he bounces back from Kurogiri executing him via Portal Cut, convincing a shell-shocked Aoyama to help him with an Indy Ploy while still clearly injured to the point of being just a head.
- Izuku in The Undead Schoolgirl: Dead Pulse has a Healing Factor and doesn't feel pain so she's extremely cavalier about injuries, including dismembering herself to show off her Quirk.
- Yesterday Upon The Stair: Izuku gets horrifically injured a bit less often than in canon (due to having more foreknowledge from his ghosts), but when he is injured he tends to push it aside for more important things. Ghosts, likewise, are rather flippant towards injuries, caring more about emotional pain. The crowner comes when Overhaul kills Izuku, and his ghost keeps beating up Overhaul for a minute before he realizes what happened. He looks down at his own corpse, says "Okay, that's a problem for later," and just continues to try to take down Overhaul.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- When Pinkie Pie cuts off Rainbow Dash's wings in Rainbow Dash Presents Cupcakes, Rainbow's more disappointed in Pinkie than hurt, and quickly gets over it when she learns Pinkie's making a hat out of them. And even when she's killed and comes back as a ghost she's more concerned with what she's going to do now than the fact that she was just murdered.
- Under the Northern Lights: On first finding Wiglek, Tuva buries an axe in his head. The former, who is an immortal undead, just looks at the weapon for a moment and then drily comments that he thinks that seems to want to kill him.
- Naruto casually lists his broken bones, despite only being ten, in Blue Skies simply because he's been injured so many times while trying to fly.
- Somewhat lampshaded in Dreaming of Sunshine by Sasuke after Shikako's fight with Muku.Sasuke: [irritated and exasperated] Shikako! You can't just stand around and have a conversation while your arm bone is sticking out! You have to say something!
Shikako: It's called a humerus. But I don't suppose it's that funny. - Glass Marionette: When Kankuro gets a hand lopped off, he carefully controls his reaction, not wanting to set his brother's bloodlust off. So he calmly informs his siblings that Takara is apparently attempting to assassinate him, with his assailant blithely confirming it.
- Uchiha Fugaku in Naruto and the Overpowered Academy Three plucks out his own eyes without even a flinch or a hitch in his speech as he offers them to Itachi.
- Misty is going through either this or Minor Injury Overreaction, depending on how you interpret her situation in Broken Legs, Unbroken Love. The story doesn't make it quite clear how grave Misty's injuries are, save apparently that they'll take a full year to recover.
- In Spice Girls and Ace of Base, AU/RPF, Just Taken, the women are violently attacked by a group of random men with Melanie taking the worst, even being run over. How does she handle this? Melanie just flipped off the driver and just goes to the hospital with the others, on foot. Melanie even wakes up in the middle of surgery, just shrugs it off, and tell the doctors to just forget about the rest of the anesthesia and move on.
- Breaking The Chains: Weiss tries to underplay her injuries from Adam as "just a scratch", but Blake sees through it and heals her anyway.
- RWBY: Reckoning: The protagonist, Darrel Conway, is injured by a Giant Nevermore slicing a talon into his side, but he doesn't even notice until it's pointed out to him. Though it's somewhat justified, as Darrel would most likely be charged with adrenaline throughout the fight.
- Snow Blind: It's noted by Raphael and Splinter that Donnie tends to pull this whenever he's hurt, no matter how bad (such as when he tried to keep it a secret from Raphael that he fell off of a building and into a dumpster).
- Laura of legolas by laura fame doesn't react at all to being whipped, raped, beaten, poisoned, and left with a broken arm, except to say, "Go away, you bastard".
- My Ridonculous Race: In London teams are tasked with getting a large stone slab up the hill where Stonehedge lies. Fabian winds up dropping it and dislocates his shoulder (courtesy of the Ice Dancers). His only response? "I've been better". One of his friends also remarks how he once hobbled around on a broken ankle for nearly half an hour when they were 5 before going to the hospital.
- Coming Back, Broken: When Jim and Claire return from the Darklands, Barbara inspects their bodies and finds many injuries, including bruises, broken ribs and a fractured leg in Claire's case. She claims that the only thing keeping them going was adrenaline, but Claire does not seem too bothered by her leg after getting a few nights' sleep, implying that she has since grown used to it.
- In Chapter 4 of Growing Daylight, Blinky is treating a troll whose entire shoulder was completely gone from a training accident, his arm only hanging on by a small grand of stone. While Blinky chews him out over it, the troll seems more proud of it if nothing else.
- With This Ring:
- Ambrose Bierce attempts to scry for Blaze's location, but is hit by her magical defences and finds that he can't see. He reassures his employer that "struck blind" curses generally wear off in a day or two, not realising that his eyeballs have been totally destroyed.
- The protagonist has many times shrugged off injuries that would ordinarily be debilitating and mortal because his power ring allows him to suppress pain nerves and rapidly rebuild his body.Paul: Six months ago an angel shoved a burning sword through my skull, while I was in hell and defended by an army of demons. I'm sorry, but no matter what you do you're not going to get the emotional reaction you're looking for.
Other/Unsorted
- Thanks to No Punctuation Period, the works of ultamite nineball feature a character whose response to being stabbed to death is merely "Ahh".
