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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In the second part of the Vegas/NY crossover, while in the interrogation room, Mac tries to get one of Christine's kidnappers to reveal her whereabouts by squeezing the man's arm where he had just been shot right before being apprehended. Unfortunately, the guy's awfully stoic and all Mac accomplishes (at this point) is to soak the man's bandage with blood and to get himself cussed at.

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': When Saitou first encounters Sanosuke, Saitou first wounds Sano's shoulder and then, when [[WreckedWeapon the sword breaks]] due to the strength of Saitou's thrust, attacks Sano's wound in order to incapacitate him. It's later subverted in a sparring match between the two when they become quasi-allies, as Sano realizes after the match that Saitou actually deliberately avoided hitting the wound, and despite that Saitou was still too much for Sano to handle. This proves to Sano that he is not ready for the battles he is about to face.

* In ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'', this is not an improvisation but an actual well-thought tactic. During the Rugball arc, Cobra obtains the medical files of the OpposingSportsTeam, positing that Rugball being such a BloodSport, long-time practitioners naturally have some old injuries that aren't fully healed even by futuristic medical science. Thus he makes his teammates learn the specific weak spots of every opponent; it doesn't insure victory against the champion team, but it definitely gives the underdogs an edge.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'': At one point in the Optimus Prime vs. Megatron duel, Megatron wounds Optimus by throwing a sharp piece of debris and then slashing him with a LaserBlade. Much later, when Megatron appears defeated, he spots a fallen blaster, and shoots Optimus multiple times in his earlier wound. This ultimately proves fatal for Prime.

* At the climax of ''Film/BlackRain'', the villainous [[{{Yakuza}} Sato]] had been forced to commit {{Yubitsume}} just before the final chase, but despite having recently lost a finger he is more than a match for Detective Nick Conklin in a fist fight, and is happily beating the stuffing out of Nick. However, once Nick manages to aggravate the injury, he turns the fight around and quickly has Sato dazed and then beaten into submission.

* In the martial arts movie, ''Film/DelightfulForest'', the hero, Wu Song, having killed all his enemies, faces his last opponent, Chang the "Door God", while suffering an injury from having a sword shoved through his left shoulder in the process. In the subsequent duel, Chang repeatedly grabs, tears and mains Wu Song's left shoulder, making him bleed.

* ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'': During the climactic brawl, Hansel delivers several punches to Muriel's gut wound that he had caused with his gun at start of the fight as he tries to hang her with a chain.

* ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies'': To kill Smaug the dragon, Bard has to shoot a Black Arrow into a gap on Smaug's underbelly that is missing a scale. In the book, this is a random flaw as Smaug has protected himself with metal treasure embedded in his scales but missed a spot. Whether as in the movie, it's caused by an arrow wound that Smaug sustained during the destruction of the Dale a century prior.

* ''Film/RobRoy'': Before the climactic DuelToTheDeath, Archie takes note of Rob's rib injury, a wound Rob suffered when escaping from captivity not long before. As a result Archie makes sure to aim several slashes at Rob's torso during the SwordFight, and to force Rob to exert himself and breathe heavily by making him chase after Archie, who employs HitAndRunTactics throughout the bout. This leaves Rob in serious pain and winded before long.

* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' offers an inversion: in the final battle between Mal and the Operative, the Operative tries to disable Mal by attacking a pressure point that would normally cause temporarily paralysis - only for Mal to reveal that he previously took some shrapnel there during the war, so the pressure point doesn't work.

** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': During his brawl with General Grievous, Obi-Wan pulls apart some of the armor surrounding the cyborg's abdomen, exposing his organs. Shortly thereafter, he fires multiple blaster shots into this exposed region, causing a chain reaction which burns Grievous alive from inside his own casing.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In one episode, Wesley, Fred and Gunn get into a fight with Skip, an extremely strong demon with a near-impenetrable exoskeleton. He pretty much [[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor with them]] until Wesley manages to shoot him in the spot where Angel broke a spike off the side of his head in an earlier fight. It turns that Skip's impenetrable exo-skeleton is no longer impenetrable at the site of the injury, allowing the bullet to penetrate Skip's brain and kill him.
* ''Series/AgentX'': John Case engages Volker in a fist fight during a terrorist attack in Paris. During the fight, Volker takes advantage of Case's gunshot wound near the stomach by punching it a few times to give him the advantage.
* ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': One episode has Javier Esposito extract information from an injured criminal by sticking the hot barrel of a gun in the hole that gun just made in the man's shoulder.

** Much like in ''Film/{{The Karate Kid|1984}}'', the first season features a member of the Cobra Kai dojo injuring his opponent in the tournament semi-finals, and in the finals another student from the dojo takes advantage of it by attacking the injury. The key difference here is that unlike Johnny and Bobby in the movie, neither was OrderedToCheat. Hawk attacks Robby Keene from behind purely due to frustration that he's losing and happens to separate Robby's shoulder. Then in the finals, Miguel focuses on the shoulder due to a combination of [[CombatPragmatist combat pragmatism]] and wanting to cause Robby pain because he thinks that Robby is a [[LoveTriangle romantic rival]] for Samantha. Johnny Lawrence, who remembers being put in that position by [[EvilMentor Kreese]], and who is also Robby's father, [[EveryoneHasStandards is appalled by the actions of both of his students]], and harshly reprimands Miguel and Hawk afterwards. Miguel slowly weans himself off the thug mentality during season 2 and never succumbs to the mindset of Kreese, Hawk goes all-in, [[spoiler:at least until the very end of season 3]].

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': In the second season, Alfred escapes being pinned by the Tabitha by attacking her arm, wounded a few episodes previously in a gunfight.

* ''Series/NecessaryRoughness'': Towards the end, Terrance King is facing his former teammates for the first time since defecting to a new team. Enraged by his defection, one of them deliberately attacks his previously-injured shoulder, tearing it and effectively ending his football career.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In "[[Recap/StargateAtlantisS05E14TheProdigal The Prodigal]]", after being disarmed by Michael, Sheppard is having trouble in a fistfight against the super-strong hybrid. Sheppard manages to regain the advantage, though, by hitting the bullet wound he'd inflicted to Michael shortly before.

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': In ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' the giant OneWingedAngel form of the villain Radiguet at first glance seems to be NighInvulnerable to the attacks of the Jetman's mecha. However, a chance hit on his lower back revealed that he had a weak spot, a stab wound that Radiguet sustained earlier while human size, with the wound not only not having healed, but grown in proportion when Radiguet became his giant monster form. With great difficulty, the Jetman defeat and kill Radiguet by having the Jet Garuda grabbing a hold on him long enough for Jet Icarus to impale him in the wound with the Birdonic Saber.

** ''Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends'': The aformentioned Father of Ultra confronts [[FallenHero Ultraman Belial]], and has the upper hand for most of their fight, until Belial attacks his scars he got from fighting the aformentioned Alien Empera, turning the tide in the fight into his favor.
** ''Series/UltramanX'': Greeza, the BigBad who is also TheAssimilator and can absorb all attacks into its body, is finally wounded when Ultraman X, in a last-ditch attack, manage to stab Greeza's core, finally exposing its vilnerability. A few more attacks on Greeza's now-vulnerable core is what finally took down the monster for good.
** ''Series/UltramanOrb'': In the second episode, Orb fights the Demon Beast of Earth, Grand King, which deflects all of Orb's attacks single-handedly until Orb manage to deflect Grand King's energy beam back into itself, opening a hole in the otherwise indestructible monster's torso. Orb then focus his Spherion Ray into the monster's exposed interior which eventually destroys the monster.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Glenn and Nicholas's fight in the climax of Season 5 starts with [[DirtyCoward the latter]] luring the former out into the woods and shooting him in the shoulder. When Glenn ambushes him later and turns the confrontation into a fist fight, Nicholas gets the upper hand over the fiercer fighter by grabbing onto Glenn's wounded shoulder. Fortunately, Nicholas also runs off when some zombies show up, and Glenn (after [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome fighting off the zombies offscreen]]) catches up to him and ambushes Nicholas a second time, without giving him an opportunity to pull the same trick again.

* One time in 2008, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels hit Wrestling/ChrisJericho with his finisher, Sweet Chin Music, a kick to the chin, then Jericho immediately had to face Wrestling/{{Umaga}} in a match. Umaga spent most of the match hitting and grabbing Jericho's chin, making him scream in agony. Jericho won the match, but walked to the back clutching his chin.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': This is recommended in Adventure mode, as even bruises are cumulative enough that repeated attacks upon the same spot will cause compounding damage. With enough repeated hits, the limb or body segment can be sliced, shattered or even outright pulped into uselessness, which compounded with the pain and bleeding will likely win you the fight. As the [[FantasticFightingStyle Kisat Dur]] manual says:

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': When Ganondorf turns into his beast form, the scar from when he ripped the Sages' sword from his body is not only still there but much bigger. But as it's on his underside, you have to toss him aside first. Link also finushes off Ganondorf in his human form by impaling him in that same wound.

* ''VideoGame/SplinterCellDoubleAgent'' (Version One): Attempting to grab Carson Moss in the bonus mission will cause him to manage to resist Fisher by sheer strength, until Sam knees him in his knee that was injured from playing football in high school. This causes Moss to fall from the pain and gives Sam an opening [[NeckSnap to snap his neck]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': During his fight with Wonder Woman in "Another Shore", Devil Ray squeezes the shoulder where he shot her with a poison stringer earlier in the episode. It doesn't do much to slow her down, but she does let out a very pained sounding scream.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': In season 3, Megabyte holds Matrix at his mercy and is about to stab his wrist blades on his face. Matrix then savagely punch Megabyte's wounds the virus has received earlier, causing him to lose his grip on Matrix.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In the final season, [[AscendedExtra Netossa]] is revealed to be a CrazyPrepared [[TheStrategist strategist]] with plans for how to defeat most members of the Princess Alliance, which comes in handy since at that point in time [[spoiler:most of them have been implanted with a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brain washing chip]] from [[BigBad Horde Prime]]]]. Her plan for defeating Spinerella is to take advantage of an old ankle injury by repeatedly attacking it until Spinerella's ankle gives way under the assault. Combined with [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight the emotional pleas]] that Netossa makes throughout the fight, it works.

* In the first volume of ''ComicBook/TheGoodAsian'', Edison Hark suffered a bad wound from a hatchet in his shoulder the first time he tangled with [[ProfessionalKiller Hui Long]]. Near the start of the second volume, he gets into a fight and reopens the wound, and immediately thinks that he needs to end the fight before his opponent can notice the heavy bleeding and take advantage. As soon as he has finished thinking that, the guy he's fighting notices and promptly jabs a finger right into the wound.

The CombatPragmatist uses any tools at their disposal. This means going after any weak points. People have plenty of those built in, whether it be that [[GroinAttack oh so sensitive groin]], those [[GoForTheEye soft and squishy eyes]] that can be damaged so easily, especially if [[AHandfulForAnEye you have something to toss at them]], etc. And if the natural weaknesses that we all have aren't enough, some people get new ones. For example, have you noticed that your [[GiantMook enormous opponent]] over there is holding his arm kinda funny? Maybe if you punch him hard in the shoulder you'll make him scream like a tiny child and shorten the fight (so long as you get clear of him fast).

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-->-- '''Azula''' (showing how she can turn even a friendly game of volleyball into warfare), ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''