History Main / AmusingInjuries

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' Ozzie bumps into things constantly on account of his lacking depth perception and reduced mobility.

-->-- ''Series/WandaVision'', "[[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode8PreviouslyOn Previously On]]", as Wanda and Vision watch the ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Health Insurance"

* Subverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxnfGghO5gQ this ad campaign]] by the NSPCC, which combines footage of a real actor physically abusing a terrified cartoon child. The child reacts with Amusing Injuries throughout, until the very end, where a real kid lies in a broken heap at the bottom of the stairs. It's downright uncomfortable to watch, but SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

Injuries in {{slapstick}} comedies never have any lasting effects, are only painful for a short while, and are often a source of visual humor. Occasionally, you will see a character in traction or on crutches or sporting InstantBandages; however, this is strictly for punctuating a gag or putting a cap on an episode, and will never last more than 10 seconds. Gunshots and explosives in particular can lead to Amusing Injuries; what would normally destroy a large chunk of someone's face in real life often does little more than [[AshFace blow soot all over a cartoon character]]. Guns in these shows often inexplicably emit directed explosions to the face rather than firing bullets.

->'''Vision:''' It's funny because of the grievous injuries that man [Hal] just suffered?\\

-->-- ''Series/WandaVision'', "[[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode8PreviouslyOn Previously On]]", as Wanda and Vision watch the ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Health Insurance".

->'''Vision:''' It's funny because of the grievous injuries that man just suffered?\\

-->-- ''Series/WandaVision'', "[[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode8PreviouslyOn Previously On]]"

This can lead to ''very'' jarring circumstances within a show. Like say when the plot of an episode rides on a character getting injured and taken out of an event, or when there's a character who's a physician of all things, or in the rare event that a permanent death [[RealityEnsues actually occurs]]. It'll be treated at least [[DudeNotFunny somewhat]] seriously in that particular instance, but next thing you know it, they're back to jumping off cliffs and juggling chainsaws. ...Or trying to see if they can do both at the same time.

* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' novel ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheCrookedWorld The Crooked World]]'', the TARDIS lands in a world where CartoonPhysics is the norm... for its inhabitants ([[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve at least at first]]), who can get machinegunned at point blank range and only come out with some soot on the face. The TARDIS crew, on the other hand, [[RealityEnsues is not that lucky]].

-->-- ''Series/WandaVision''

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Soapy's attempts to get himself arrested so he can spend the winter in a warm jail cell are continually thwarted in "The Clouds." Among other indignities, he gets whacked repeatedly on the head with an umbrella by a woman whose groceries he tries to pilfer.

* ''Fanfic/DuelingTriggerFinger'': By the time he catches up to Nagito, the Rare Hunter that was chasing him has been bit by a dog, trampled, fallen into a river and caught a cold, got bird poop in his eye, hit by a car and knocked over a man's cabbage stand. Marik really ought to offer him hazard pay for all that he had to go through.
* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaUnfinishedBusiness'': This being a fanfic of the ''Total Drama'' series, there are too many instances of this to count.

->''"You call that breaking my spine? [[TemptingFate You RED team ladies wouldn't know how to break a spine if]]-- ''(CRACK!)'' '''AAAAAAAAAGH, MY SPIIIIIINE!'''"''
-->-- '''BLU Soldier''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prZ0JrbQrU Meet the Sandvich]]"

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->''"You call that breaking my spine? You RED team ladies wouldn't know how to break a spine if-- ''(CRACK!)'' '''AAAAAAAAAGH, MY SPIIIIIINE!'''"''

* Justified in ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''; the inhabitants of the Land of the Dead are [[DemBones "living" skeletons]], and so [[{{Understatement}} they don't react to injuries the same way as the living]].

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