Basic Trope: When someone gets hurt in a certain part of their body, they say something like "Ow, my [body part]!"
- Straight: Alice bonks her head on something and says, "Ouch, my head!"
- Exaggerated:
- Alice gets clonked around and then says, "Ow, my—" and gives a Long List of body parts that hurt.
- Alice complains about a body part that wouldn't realistically feel pain due to having no pain receptors, like, "Ow, my hippocampus!"
- Downplayed: Alice bonks her head on something. A few seconds later she mutters "My head hurts..."
- Justified:
- Truth in Television.
- Alice is informing others of where she was injured so they could treat her.
- Inverted:
- When a headache Alice had suddenly goes away, she says, "Hey, my head doesn't hurt anymore!"
- Alice bonks her head on something, and Bob says "Ooh, your head!"
- Alice somehow injures her body, arms, and legs all at once. She says, "Well, at least my head is fine."
- Subverted: When Alice says "Ouch, my—", Bob interrupts her.
- Double Subverted: "As I was saying, ouch, my head!"
- Parodied:
- Alice says "Ouch, my soul!"
- Nations as People say "Ow, my region!" or "Ow, my monument!"
- Alice, a Sleazy Politician, is caught making a racist remark on a hot mic. "Ow, my electoral chances", she moans.
- Alice is stripped naked in public. As everyone laughs at her, she says "Ow, my pride." or "Ow, my clothes."
- Zigzagged: ???
- Averted: Alice bumps her head and groans in pain, saying nothing.
- Enforced: Alice is off-screen at the moment, but the audience still needs to know how she gets hurt.
- Lampshaded: "I guess Alice bumped her noggin."
- Invoked: Bob deliberately whacks Alice in the head.
- Exploited: A bad guy knows which part of Alice is injured, and hits her where it hurts the most.
- Defied: Alice practices being The Stoic.
- Discussed: "How come when we get hurt, we're like 'ow, my [body part]!'?"
- Conversed: "Remember when that character said 'ouch, my head!'?"
- Implied: "I didn't quite hear what she said, but I think she hurt her head."
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Amusing Injuries.
- Played for Drama: ???
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