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* In ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' 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.
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* In ''Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival'', Obi-Wan resorts to this after being cornered by both Darth Maul and Savage Opress at the same time. Jedi master Adi Gallia attacks a weak point on one of Savage Opress' knees, seeking to dislocate it. Savage [[NoSell no-sells]] the attack, apparently, and Master Gallia is killed. Seeing that Savage's knee was already injured, Obi-Wan continually kicks at it during the gaps in their offensive until Savage's knee breaks and Obi-Wan then cuts off his arm, allowing Obi-Wan to retreat as Maul tends to his brother.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In ''Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival'', "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival Revival]]", Obi-Wan resorts to this after being cornered by both Darth Maul and Savage Opress at the same time. Jedi master Adi Gallia attacks a weak point on one of Savage Opress' knees, seeking to dislocate it. Savage [[NoSell no-sells]] the attack, apparently, and Master Gallia is killed. Seeing that Savage's knee was already injured, Obi-Wan continually kicks at it during the gaps in their offensive until Savage's knee breaks and Obi-Wan then cuts off his arm, allowing Obi-Wan to retreat as Maul tends to his brother.
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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.
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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.
fight (so long as you get clear of him fast).
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Azula utilizes this tactic when planing her strategy for a friendly game of volleyball. She recognizes from the way a member of the other team moves that the girl must have suffered an injury in the past, and looks to exploit it. See the page quote.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Azula utilizes this tactic when planing planning her strategy for a friendly game of volleyball. She recognizes from the way a member of the other team moves that the girl must have suffered an injury in the past, and looks to exploit it. See the page quote.
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** Utilised by Obi-Wan in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. During his brawl with General Grevious, he 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 Grevious alive from inside his own casing.
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** Utilised by Obi-Wan in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. During his brawl with General Grevious, Grievous, he 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 Grevious Grievous alive from inside his own casing.
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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.
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* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes'', Holmes uses his SherlockScan to tell that one of Blackwood's guards has a diseased liver and a bad knee. Holmes punches him hard in the liver and dislocates his knee to take him down in seconds.
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** Holmes uses his SherlockScan to tell that one of Blackwood's guards has a diseased liver and a bad knee. Holmes punches him hard in the liver and dislocates his knee to take him down in seconds.
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* ''Videogame/DwarfFortress:'' 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:
-->''An ineffective strike dissuades novice practitioners. This need not be so. Focusing on an area of attack has compounding effect. Muscle and bone are imperfect and enough impact will cause them to yield.''
-->''An ineffective strike dissuades novice practitioners. This need not be so. Focusing on an area of attack has compounding effect. Muscle and bone are imperfect and enough impact will cause them to yield.''
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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 in the shoulder you'll make him scream like a tiny child and also make your fight with him a lot easier.
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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 also make your fight with him a lot easier.
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* In the hypothetical fight played out in the minds of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the climax of ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', Moriarty wins due to his ruthless exploitation of Holmes' existing shoulder injury.
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* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes'', Holmes uses his SherlockScan to tell that one of Blackwood's guards has a diseased liver and a bad knee. Holmes punches him hard in the liver and dislocates his knee to take him down in seconds.
** In the hypothetical fight played out in the minds of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the climax of ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', [[spoiler: Moriarty wins due to his ruthless exploitation of Holmes' existing shoulder injury.]]
** In the hypothetical fight played out in the minds of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the climax of ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', [[spoiler: Moriarty wins due to his ruthless exploitation of Holmes' existing shoulder injury.]]
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* At the beginning of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', the Guardians are fighting a beast that has a hide too thick for their weapons to harm. Then Peter spots a small cut on its neck and has Gamora attack it with her knives. The fight is over soon after.
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* The crew of the ''Pequod'' in ''Literature/MobyDick'' at one point hunt down an old and sickly whale, and [[{{Jerkass}} Flask]] insists on lancing it in an abscess, which proves to be an agonizing death stroke. Another iron harpoon and a stone one are both found embedded in the flesh nearby, indicating that an earlier whaling crew and (Ishmael speculates) a Northwest Indian had both tried the same attack. It's all for naught, as the whale sinks before they're able to strip its blubber.
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* In ''Gotham Knights'' #31, part of the ''ComicBook/BruceWayneFugitive'' story arc, Batman uses this as a BadassBoast, calling out each of his opponents by name and listing the injuries each have that make them vulnerable: knee injury from playing football, bad shoulder from copping a piece of shrapnel, and so on. (Of the last one, he observes: "Perfect medical record. '''So far.'''")
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* In ''Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival'', Obi-Wan resorts to this after being cornered by both Darth Maul and Savage Opress at the same time. Jedi master Adi Gallia attacks a weak point on one of Savage Opress knees, seeking to dislocate it. Savage [[NoSell no-sells]] the attack, apparently, and Master Gallia is killed. Seeing that Savage's knee was already injured, Obi-Wan continually kicks at it during the gaps in their offensive until Savage's knee breaks and Obi-Wan then cuts off his arm, allowing Obi-Wan to retreat as Maul tends to his brother.
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* In ''''Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival'''', Obi-Wan resorts to this after being cornered by both Darth Maul and Savage Opress at the same time. Jedi master Adi Gallia attacks a weak point on one of Savage Opress knees, seeking to dislocate it. Savage [[NoSell no-sells]] the attack, apparently, and Master Gallia is killed. Seeing that Savage's knee was already injured, Obi-Wan continually kicks at it during the gaps in their offensive until Savage's knee breaks and Obi-Wan then cuts off his arm, allowing Obi-Wan to retreat as Maul tends to his brother.
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* In ''''Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival'''', ''Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival'', Obi-Wan resorts to this after being cornered by both Darth Maul and Savage Opress at the same time. Jedi master Adi Gallia attacks a weak point on one of Savage Opress knees, seeking to dislocate it. Savage [[NoSell no-sells]] the attack, apparently, and Master Gallia is killed. Seeing that Savage's knee was already injured, Obi-Wan continually kicks at it during the gaps in their offensive until Savage's knee breaks and Obi-Wan then cuts off his arm, allowing Obi-Wan to retreat as Maul tends to his brother.
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* ''[[For The Want of A Nail https://archiveofourown.org/series/1633756]]'' brings two examples:
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** ''Fanfic/MastermindStrategistForHire'': Izuku [[spoiler:kills All Might during the USJ attack]] with two stabs to his old injury.
** ''Fanfic/DekuIThinkHesSomePro'': During their fight against All Might in the Final Exam, Izuku aims to shoot him directly in his injury, whilst Bakugou, on Izuku's advice, aims for his left side (where his injury is located).
** ''Fanfic/MastermindStrategistForHire'': Izuku [[spoiler:kills All Might during the USJ attack]] with two stabs to his old injury.
** ''Fanfic/DekuIThinkHesSomePro'': During their fight against All Might in the Final Exam, Izuku aims to shoot him directly in his injury, whilst Bakugou, on Izuku's advice, aims for his left side (where his injury is located).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', Obi-Wan resorts to this after being cornered by both Darth Maul and Savage Opress at the same time. Seeing that Savage's knee was already injured, Obi-Wan continually kicks at it during the gaps in their offensive until Savage's knee breaks, allowing Obi-Wan to retreat as Maul tends to his brother.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', ''''Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival'''', Obi-Wan resorts to this after being cornered by both Darth Maul and Savage Opress at the same time. Jedi master Adi Gallia attacks a weak point on one of Savage Opress knees, seeking to dislocate it. Savage [[NoSell no-sells]] the attack, apparently, and Master Gallia is killed. Seeing that Savage's knee was already injured, Obi-Wan continually kicks at it during the gaps in their offensive until Savage's knee breaks, breaks and Obi-Wan then cuts off his arm, allowing Obi-Wan to retreat as Maul tends to his brother.
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* Self-administered in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Kylo Ren, during his lightsaber fights against Finn and Rey at the climax, repeatedly punches himself in the spot where Chewbacca had shot him with his bowcaster. No canon reason has been given, although one popular fan theory suggests that he was using the pain as a way to tap into additional dark side power.
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** Utilised by Obi-Wan in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. During his brawl with General Grevious, he 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 Grevious alive from inside his own casing.
** Self-administered in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Kylo Ren, during his lightsaber fights against Finn and Rey at the climax, repeatedly punches himself in the spot where Chewbacca had shot him with his bowcaster. No canon reason has been given, although one popular fan theory suggests that he was using the pain as a way to tap into additional dark side power.
** Utilised by Obi-Wan in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. During his brawl with General Grevious, he 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 Grevious alive from inside his own casing.
** Self-administered in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Kylo Ren, during his lightsaber fights against Finn and Rey at the climax, repeatedly punches himself in the spot where Chewbacca had shot him with his bowcaster. No canon reason has been given, although one popular fan theory suggests that he was using the pain as a way to tap into additional dark side power.
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->See that girl with the silly pigtails? When she runs toward the ball there's just the slightest hesitation in her left foot. I'm willing to bet a childhood injury has weakened her. Keep serving the ball to her left and we'll destroy her and the rest of her team.
-->-- '''Azula''' from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' shows how she can turn even a friendly game of volleyball into warfare.
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* Subverted in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga. At the end of the fight between [[TheBigGuy Alex Louis Armstrong the Strong Arm Alchemist]], and [[TheBrute Sloth]], Armstrong is severely weakened by a dislocated shoulder, but Armstrong is able to catch what would be Sloth's finishing blow on his injured shoulder, which pops it back into place and puts him back into the fight.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', Domon dislocates his shoulder trying to save a boy who attempted to steal the God Gundam. Domon's next opponent in the Gundam Fight, Neo India's Chandra Sijiema, witnesses him getting injured as part of his "stalking the enemy before the fight to learn of any weaknesses or just murder them" deal. So when their battle comes, Chandra has his Cobra Gundam target the God Gundam's shoulder so that the Mobile Trace System will transfer the pain to Domon's already-injured shoulder.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', Domon dislocates his shoulder trying to save a boy who attempted to steal the God Gundam. Domon's next opponent in the Gundam Fight, Neo India's Chandra Sijiema, witnesses him getting injured as part of his "stalking the enemy before the fight to learn of any weaknesses or just murder them" deal. So when their battle comes, Chandra has his Cobra Gundam target the God Gundam's shoulder so that the Mobile Trace System will transfer the pain to Domon's already-injured shoulder.
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* Subverted in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga. At the end of the fight between [[TheBigGuy Alex Louis Armstrong the Strong Arm Alchemist]], and [[TheBrute Sloth]], Armstrong is severely weakened by a dislocated shoulder, but Armstrong is able to catch what would be Sloth's finishing blow on his injured shoulder, which pops it back into place and puts him back into the fight.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': Domon dislocates his shoulder trying to save a boy who attempted to steal the God Gundam. Domon's next opponent in the Gundam Fight, Neo India's Chandra Sijiema, witnesses him getting injured as part of his "stalking the enemy before the fight to learn of any weaknesses or just murder them" deal. So when their battle comes, Chandra has his Cobra Gundam target the God Gundam's shoulder so that the Mobile Trace System will transfer the pain to Domon's already-injured shoulder.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': Domon dislocates his shoulder trying to save a boy who attempted to steal the God Gundam. Domon's next opponent in the Gundam Fight, Neo India's Chandra Sijiema, witnesses him getting injured as part of his "stalking the enemy before the fight to learn of any weaknesses or just murder them" deal. So when their battle comes, Chandra has his Cobra Gundam target the God Gundam's shoulder so that the Mobile Trace System will transfer the pain to Domon's already-injured shoulder.
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* Subverted in In ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'', not an improvisation but an actual well-thought tactic. During the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga. At Rugball arc, Cobra obtains the end medical files of the fight between [[TheBigGuy Alex Louis Armstrong the Strong Arm Alchemist]], and [[TheBrute Sloth]], Armstrong is severely weakened OpposingSportsTeam, positing that Rugball being such a BloodSport, long-time practitioners naturally have some old injuries that aren't fully healed even by a dislocated shoulder, but Armstrong is able to catch what would be Sloth's finishing blow on futuristic medical science. Thus he makes his injured shoulder, which pops it back into place and puts him back into the fight.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': Domon dislocates his shoulder trying to save a boy who attempted to steal the God Gundam. Domon's next opponent in the Gundam Fight, Neo India's Chandra Sijiema, witnesses him getting injured as part of his "stalking the enemy before the fight toteammates learn of any weaknesses or just murder them" deal. So when their battle comes, Chandra has his Cobra Gundam target the God Gundam's shoulder so that specific weak spots of every opponent; it doesn't insure victory against the Mobile Trace System will transfer champion team, but it definitely gives the pain to Domon's already-injured shoulder.underdogs an edge.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': Domon dislocates his shoulder trying to save a boy who attempted to steal the God Gundam. Domon's next opponent in the Gundam Fight, Neo India's Chandra Sijiema, witnesses him getting injured as part of his "stalking the enemy before the fight to
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* ''Film/Scream1996'': When fighting Billy at the end, Sidney gouges her fingers into the wound that she gave him when she stabbed him with an umbrella earlier.
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* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': In the climax of "The Future", Mystery and Shiromori go at each other, injuring them both. When Vivi realizes just ''how'' Mystery injured her - tearing off part of her back, exposing her heart - Vivi pulls herself up and [[spoiler:goes in swinging, separating Shiromori from her heart; without it, she falls apart and dies]].
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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Zola keeps striking at the stab wound she gave Higgs earlier in their fight as the fight progresses and he catches back up to her in a different room.
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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 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 in the shoulder you'll make him scream like a tiny child and also make your fight with him a lot easier.
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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 in the shoulder you'll make him scream like a tiny child and also make your fight with him a lot easier.
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* ''ComicBook/CombatKellyAndHisDeadlyDozen'': When Kelly refuses to throw his fight against the Nazi champion, the Nazis rough him up and [[CripplingTheCompetition break his ribs]], giving their boxer an easy target to aim for during the bout.
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* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. During the sequence where Indiana Jones hijacks the truck carrying the Ark, one German soldier shoots him in the left arm and a few seconds later another soldier repeatedly punches him in the bullet wound.
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* Film.JamesBond Film/JamesBond receives a shoulder injury during ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. Later, the villain Renard gets a BondOneLiner to torture Bond: "I knew you couldn't ''shoulder'' the responsibility". This makes Bond realize that [[spoiler:Renard was working for Elektra, who told him about Bond's injury]].
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* Before the climactic [[DuelToTheDeath duel]] in ''Film/RobRoy'', Archie takes note of Rob's rib injury, which Rob suffered when escaping from being Archie captive 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 breath heavily by chasing Archie, who employs HitAndRunTactics throughout the bout.
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* In the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', [[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 care of an old ankle injury until Spinerella's ankle gives under the assault. It works.
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* In the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', [[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 care of an old ankle injury until Spinerella's ankle gives way under the assault. It Combined with [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight the emotional pleas]] that Netossa makes throughout the fight, it works.
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* ''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]].
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->See that girl with the silly pigtails? When she runs toward the ball there's just the slightest hesitation in her left foot. I'm willing to bet a childhood injury has weakened her. Keep serving the ball to her left and we'll destroy her and the rest of her team.
-->-- '''Azula''' from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' shows how she can turn even a friendly game of volleyball into warfare.
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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 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 in the shoulder you'll make him scream like a tiny child and also make your fight with him a lot easier.
All that said, it's not just the Pragmatist who does this. Sometimes it's more a move of desperation by someone who ''prefers'' to fight fair, but this is the only way out of a predicament. In any event, you can usually expect this to come up precisely once in a fight. After all, doing the same thing over and over is boring, no matter how effective it might be.
You can also expect this to show up during ColdBloodedTorture. Why make a new wound when you can take advantage of one that already exists? Bonus points in that it lets the victim (and audience) cringe in anticipation as your weapon of choice inches closer to a spot that already hurts like the dickens.
In video games, this is usually the implied in-universe justification for InjuredVulnerability gameplay mechanics.
Compare and contrast with tropes such as AttackItsWeakPoint, UntouchableUntilTagged, InjuredVulnerability, AchillesHeel, and FlawExploitation. This may be a follow up to an attempt at CripplingTheCompetition. OrganDodge can operate as the inverse of this, as due to an old injury an attack at a specific spot may no longer work.
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!Examples
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* In ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'', Hatanaka Kouhei threatens to do this to Chiharu Shiba after breaking his arm. Shiba responds by smashing his broken arm against a wall to show that he doesn't care about pain, then delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatDown to Kouhei.
* ''Franchise/OnePiece'': In the earlier chapters, Zoro is fighting Cabaji of Buggy Pirates, where the latter always aims at the wound on the stomach that Buggy inflicted earlier on Zoro. Zoro, getting pissed off, decides to cut the wound ''deeper'' just to prove that he'll win even with that big wound - and he does.
* In ''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.
* Subverted in ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'': the one-eyed Bontenmaru claims that so many people have tried to attack his eyepatch that he might actually be better at parrying from that side.
* In ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'', [[spoiler:Touka Bergatt]]'s assassins target [[spoiler:his brother Tariga]]'s injured shoulder when trying to kill him. They themselves had injured his shoulder previously to divert suspicion from the family before [[spoiler:Touka]] decided he needed to be killed outright.
* Subverted in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga. At the end of the fight between [[TheBigGuy Alex Louis Armstrong the Strong Arm Alchemist]], and [[TheBrute Sloth]], Armstrong is severely weakened by a dislocated shoulder, but Armstrong is able to catch what would be Sloth's finishing blow on his injured shoulder, which pops it back into place and puts him back into the fight.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': Domon dislocates his shoulder trying to save a boy who attempted to steal the God Gundam. Domon's next opponent in the Gundam Fight, Neo India's Chandra Sijiema, witnesses him getting injured as part of his "stalking the enemy before the fight to learn of any weaknesses or just murder them" deal. So when their battle comes, Chandra has his Cobra Gundam target the God Gundam's shoulder so that the Mobile Trace System will transfer the pain to Domon's already-injured shoulder.
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* In ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', several Justice League reservists are getting their asses kicked by Deathstroke, until ComicBook/GreenArrow jabs Deathstroke in his previously-wounded eye with an arrow, which throws him off and allows the Leaguers to pile onto him.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'' during the final battle with Onslaught the Hulk manages to crack Onslaught's armor, which up until then was impervious, allowing him, the Avengers, and the Fantastic Four to enter Onslaught's non-corporeal form in order to defeat him/it.
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* In ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'' when Jon Snow gets in a fight with [[TheBerserker a Norscan berserker]], he sees the Norscan's arm has been injured recently and badly healed (it was broken by the Wolf during the attack on Euron's ship a few weeks earlier) and chops it off. Unfortunately, it barely slows the berserker down, and the fight only ends once Jon manages to decapitate him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'': During Optimus Prime and Megatron's climactic final duel, Megatron pulls a LaserBlade from nowhere and uses it to slash Prime's abdomen. Far later into the fight when Megatron is at Prime's mercy, Megatron spots a random blaster on the ground and turns the tide by unloading it into Prime's wound to inflict further damage that would prove to be fatal.
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* During the tournament at the end of ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'', one member of the [[ThugDojo Cobra Kai dojo]] was OrderedToCheat and to deliberately injure Daniel's leg in order to knock him out of the tournament. When Daniel is able to participate in the final match after all due to Mr. Miyagi's HealingHands, in the finals Johnny is ordered to attack Daniel's injured leg, after initially ignoring Daniel's injury, and nearly wins the match by doing so.
* During the climactic brawl in ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'', 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.
* In ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies'', when Bard has to hit a spot on Smaug's skin that is not covered by scales with the black arrow. Whereas in the book, this is an unexplained flaw, in the movie it's caused by an arrow wound that Smaug sustained during the destruction of the Dale a century prior.
* ''Film/LethalWeapon'':
** When Murtagh is tortured in the first movie, not only is he beaten until he's a bloody mess, but salt is poured in his wounds. Literally. They upended a carton of salt into the bullet hole in his shoulder.
** In the final fight of the fourth film, Jet Li's character dislocates Riggs' shoulder and then repeatedly punches Riggs right in that same shoulder.
* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. During the sequence where Indiana Jones hijacks the truck carrying the Ark, one German soldier shoots him in the left arm and a few seconds later another soldier repeatedly punches him in the bullet wound.
* ''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.
* In the hypothetical fight played out in the minds of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the climax of ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', Moriarty wins due to his ruthless exploitation of Holmes' existing shoulder injury.
* James Bond receives a shoulder injury during ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. Later, the villain gets a BondOneLiner to torture Bond: "I knew you couldn't ''shoulder'' the responsibility". After that pun, the actual attack on the injury must have been inconsequential.
* Slightly downplayed in ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''. The fight is more or less over, but Snake took an arrow above the knee and the Duke of New York has his minions hold Plissken down for questioning. The Duke forces the arrow in deeper when Snake refuses to talk.
* At the beginning of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', the Guardians are fighting a beast that has a hide too thick for their weapons to harm. Then Peter spots a small cut on its neck and has Gamora attack it with her knives. The fight is over soon after.
* In ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'', Suzy stabs one of the Khaki Scouts with lefty scissors. Later on in the film, the Khaki Scouts pull a HeelFaceTurn and try to help Suzy and Sam elope -- except for the guy she stabbed, who betrays them and initiates a chase. To incapacitate him, Sam punches him in his open wounds.
* Self-administered in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Kylo Ren, during his lightsaber fights against Finn and Rey at the climax, repeatedly punches himself in the spot where Chewbacca had shot him with his bowcaster. No canon reason has been given, although one popular fan theory suggests that he was using the pain as a way to tap into additional dark side power.
* ''Film/NeverBackDown'': During their fight in the film's climax, Ryan hits Jake's ribs which had been injured in a prior fight with a different opponent.
*''Film/SawIII'': Amanda's fight with Detective Matthews pretty much ends when she kicks his broken foot (which he purposely crushed to avoid being shackled in [[Film/SawII the last movie]]) causing it to break even further.
* ''Film/TangoAndCash'': while storming Perret's warehouse, Cash takes a bullet in his arm that exits clean. During a fistfight with Requin minutes later, Requin gouges the wound with his thumb and makes Cash scream in pain.
* In the climactic action sequence of ''Film/JupiterAscending'', Jupiter shoots Balem in the leg. Later, when she tries to climb the structure as the whole refinery collapses, Balem catches up to her and pins her down, to which she presses her thumb on the injury she caused earlier, gaining the upper hand against him in the process.
* ''Film/{{Triangle}}'': When Jess is being strangled by the wounded Victor, she manages to break his grip by jamming her finger into the hole at the back of his skull.
* ''Film/Scream1996'': When fighting Billy at the end, Sidney gouges her fingers into the wound that she gave him when she stabbed him with an umbrella earlier.
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* ''Literature/CiaphasCain''
** "Caves Of Ice": When the ork gargant is going through the facility wall, Cain notices a relatively small hole in its armor from a previous attack, and orders all heavy weapons to fire at it, successfully disabling it by exploding an ammo dump inside.
** During "The Last Ditch", a tervigon is hit with two anti-tank missiles and Cain immediately orders the troopers with him to target the wound. Justified in that nothing the troopers were carrying could have punched through the tervigon's armor before the missiles opened it up for them. Overlaps with UntouchableUntilTagged.
* In the final battle in ''Literature/{{Headhunters}}'', [[spoiler:Roger Brown shoots Clas Greve in his badly-damaged groin]].
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* In ''Series/{{Agent X}}'', 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.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' 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.
* In the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series ''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.
* In the second season of ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', Alfred escapes being pinned by the Tabitha by attacking her arm, wounded a few episodes previously in a gunfight.
* Towards the end of ''Series/NecessaryRoughness'', 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.
* In the ''Series/Supergirl2015'' episode "Survivors", Kara has trouble taking on an Draaga until Mon-El tells her he has an old leg injury
* In ''Series/{{Quantico}}'', Vernon James of the High-Value Interrogation Group authorizes the brutal torture of FBI Special Agent Ryan Booth by having his gunshot wound punched several times in addition to the risk of being infected in order to get Alex Parrish to talk about the possibility of another bomb in New York. When the rest of the FBI finds out about this, they're pissed off.
* ''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.
* Sometimes the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' would do this, especially for Ultras who tends to be more of a CombatPragmatist.
** ''Series/UltramanEighty'' had Ultraman 80 fighting Zatan Silver, a powerful Cyborg monster whose body is layered with impenetrable armour. After repeatedly kicking the monster's side, Ultraman 80 managed to break away part of its armour, revealing Zatan Silver's internal circuitry, at which point 80 decides to unleash a freezing mist into the monster's damaged surface, damaging its circuits enough to eventually destroy it.
** ''Series/UltramanTiga'': An episode had Tiga fighting the nigh-invulnerable Juggernaut kaiju, Fire Golza. After the monster shrugged off most of Tiga's attacks, Tiga decides to launch a concentrated, energized punch into Fire Golza's chest cavity, finally, ''finally'' penetrating the monster's thick hide. Tiga was then able to turn the battle around to his favour by repeatedly attacking the wounded spot and finally firing his [[FinishingMove Zeppelion Ray]] into Fire Golza's chest wound.
** The BigBad of ''Series/UltramanMebius'' is Alien Empera, who is invincible and easily delivers one CurbStompBattle to every single one of the good guys of the series... until Ultraman Hikari, Mebius' mentor, manage to land a lucky slash in Empera's side re-opening an old injury. In the final confrontation, Ultraman Mebius and Ultraman Zoffy can finally defeat Empera when they unleash their attacks on the now-visible injury on Empera's side.
** Greeza, the BigBad of ''Series/UltramanX'' 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.
** In the second episode of ''Series/UltramanOrb'', 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.
* Similarly to the ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'' movie, the first season of the DistantSequel ''Series/CobraKai'' features a tournament where a member of the Cobra Kai dojo injures his opponent in the 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 neither was OrderedToCheat; Hawk attacks Robby from behind purely due to frustration that he's losing and happens to separate Robby's shoulder, and 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, whom Miguel has fallen for quite hard. Johnny Lawrence, who remembers being put in that position by his EvilMentor Kreese, [[EveryoneHasStandards is appalled by the actions of both of his students]].
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* Discussed during an interview with Wrestling/ChrisAdams in Wrestling/{{UWF}} shortly before he and Wrestling/TerryTaylor break up. Adams tells their opponents from a recent match that everyone knew Taylor's leg was injured, so they should have focused on his leg rather than the general brawling style that they had used. Taylor gets upset with this.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': This is the in-game explanation for Knight Commander Pask's increased ballistic ability: he looks for weak spots like repair seams and aims for them, even on alien tanks.
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* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'': Mata Nui defeats Tuma by striking at a back injury Tuma suffered before their battle, which supplementary materials reveal that it was from a Baterra attack.
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* ''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.
* ''Videogame/GodOfWar3'': During his spectacular battle with [[spoiler:Cronos]], Kratos has to slash a pimple on the big fella's arm, rip off his usured fingernail and hit a wound opened by an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead cyclops]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'', each boss' weak point is indicated by an X-shaped scar with a SicklyGreenGlow.
* During the Galdon boss battle in ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'', after Fox gets EatenAlive and makes Galdon spit him up by attacking the Spellstone in his stomach, Galdon gets a slit on his throat. Whenever his wound opens wide when he starts breathing in for his fire breath attack it can be blasted with fire from Fox's staff.
* In Bigby's fight with Gren, during the first episode of ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'', Bigby focuses some of his attacks on Gren's [[Film/{{Beowulf}} previously injured right arm]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Watch_Dogs}}'', when Aidan sees Damien shortly after the start of the game, Aidan immediately takes a cheap shot at the brace on Damien's leg. Sure enough, Damien is dropped to the ground in pain.
* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': Geralt has the option of attacking Dijkstra's injured leg, which he had previously caused in [[Literature/TheWitcher the books]].
* ''[[VideoGame/AlteredBeast Project Altered Beast]]'': In the FinalBoss fight, our hero Luke was caught in the boss' big hands until his comrade/rival Brad slashes at the boss with his Weretiger claws, leaving a huge gash that serves as the boss' weak point for the later part of the fight.
*''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'' pulls a plot-based one. When battling Demon General Bloodis, a stray shot from Seraphina hits him in the ribs, forcing the nigh-unbeatable general to retreat after a follow-up strike from Killia. When it's revealed that Bloodis is actually Goldion, Killia's mentor and father to the BigBad, Void Dark, they decide to free him from his brainwashing with Killia and Zeroken performing a Double Avidya Holy Water. The first step in the plan is, after another lengthy battle, hitting his rib wound again to keep him from retreating long enough for the plan to go off.
* ''VideoGame/{{Deponia}}'': towards the end of the third game, [[spoiler:one of the two remaining Rufus clones has a gunshot wound. As the clone you play during this scene disagrees about pushing the switch of a car, you have to punch him in this wound in order to proceed. It's a case of ApologeticAttacker, but still very painful for the wounded clone.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': In the climax of "The Future", Mystery and Shiromori go at each other, injuring them both. When Vivi realizes just ''how'' Mystery injured her - tearing off part of her back, exposing her heart - Vivi pulls herself up and [[spoiler:goes in swinging, separating Shiromori from her heart; without it, she falls apart and dies]].
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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Zola keeps striking at the stab wound she gave Higgs earlier in their fight as the fight progresses and he catches back up to her in a different room.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Azula utilizes this tactic when planing her strategy for a friendly game of volleyball. She recognizes from the way a member of the other team moves that the girl must have suffered an injury in the past, and looks to exploit it. See the page quote.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', Obi-Wan resorts to this after being cornered by both Darth Maul and Savage Opress at the same time. Seeing that Savage's knee was already injured, Obi-Wan continually kicks at it during the gaps in their offensive until Savage's knee breaks, allowing Obi-Wan to retreat as Maul tends to his brother.
* ''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.
* In the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', [[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 care of an old ankle injury until Spinerella's ankle gives under the assault. It works.
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-->-- '''Azula''' from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' shows how she can turn even a friendly game of volleyball into warfare.
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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 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 in the shoulder you'll make him scream like a tiny child and also make your fight with him a lot easier.
All that said, it's not just the Pragmatist who does this. Sometimes it's more a move of desperation by someone who ''prefers'' to fight fair, but this is the only way out of a predicament. In any event, you can usually expect this to come up precisely once in a fight. After all, doing the same thing over and over is boring, no matter how effective it might be.
You can also expect this to show up during ColdBloodedTorture. Why make a new wound when you can take advantage of one that already exists? Bonus points in that it lets the victim (and audience) cringe in anticipation as your weapon of choice inches closer to a spot that already hurts like the dickens.
In video games, this is usually the implied in-universe justification for InjuredVulnerability gameplay mechanics.
Compare and contrast with tropes such as AttackItsWeakPoint, UntouchableUntilTagged, InjuredVulnerability, AchillesHeel, and FlawExploitation. This may be a follow up to an attempt at CripplingTheCompetition. OrganDodge can operate as the inverse of this, as due to an old injury an attack at a specific spot may no longer work.
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* In ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'', Hatanaka Kouhei threatens to do this to Chiharu Shiba after breaking his arm. Shiba responds by smashing his broken arm against a wall to show that he doesn't care about pain, then delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatDown to Kouhei.
* ''Franchise/OnePiece'': In the earlier chapters, Zoro is fighting Cabaji of Buggy Pirates, where the latter always aims at the wound on the stomach that Buggy inflicted earlier on Zoro. Zoro, getting pissed off, decides to cut the wound ''deeper'' just to prove that he'll win even with that big wound - and he does.
* In ''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.
* Subverted in ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'': the one-eyed Bontenmaru claims that so many people have tried to attack his eyepatch that he might actually be better at parrying from that side.
* In ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'', [[spoiler:Touka Bergatt]]'s assassins target [[spoiler:his brother Tariga]]'s injured shoulder when trying to kill him. They themselves had injured his shoulder previously to divert suspicion from the family before [[spoiler:Touka]] decided he needed to be killed outright.
* Subverted in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga. At the end of the fight between [[TheBigGuy Alex Louis Armstrong the Strong Arm Alchemist]], and [[TheBrute Sloth]], Armstrong is severely weakened by a dislocated shoulder, but Armstrong is able to catch what would be Sloth's finishing blow on his injured shoulder, which pops it back into place and puts him back into the fight.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': Domon dislocates his shoulder trying to save a boy who attempted to steal the God Gundam. Domon's next opponent in the Gundam Fight, Neo India's Chandra Sijiema, witnesses him getting injured as part of his "stalking the enemy before the fight to learn of any weaknesses or just murder them" deal. So when their battle comes, Chandra has his Cobra Gundam target the God Gundam's shoulder so that the Mobile Trace System will transfer the pain to Domon's already-injured shoulder.
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* In ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', several Justice League reservists are getting their asses kicked by Deathstroke, until ComicBook/GreenArrow jabs Deathstroke in his previously-wounded eye with an arrow, which throws him off and allows the Leaguers to pile onto him.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'' during the final battle with Onslaught the Hulk manages to crack Onslaught's armor, which up until then was impervious, allowing him, the Avengers, and the Fantastic Four to enter Onslaught's non-corporeal form in order to defeat him/it.
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* In ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'' when Jon Snow gets in a fight with [[TheBerserker a Norscan berserker]], he sees the Norscan's arm has been injured recently and badly healed (it was broken by the Wolf during the attack on Euron's ship a few weeks earlier) and chops it off. Unfortunately, it barely slows the berserker down, and the fight only ends once Jon manages to decapitate him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'': During Optimus Prime and Megatron's climactic final duel, Megatron pulls a LaserBlade from nowhere and uses it to slash Prime's abdomen. Far later into the fight when Megatron is at Prime's mercy, Megatron spots a random blaster on the ground and turns the tide by unloading it into Prime's wound to inflict further damage that would prove to be fatal.
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[[folder:Film - Live Action]]
* During the tournament at the end of ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'', one member of the [[ThugDojo Cobra Kai dojo]] was OrderedToCheat and to deliberately injure Daniel's leg in order to knock him out of the tournament. When Daniel is able to participate in the final match after all due to Mr. Miyagi's HealingHands, in the finals Johnny is ordered to attack Daniel's injured leg, after initially ignoring Daniel's injury, and nearly wins the match by doing so.
* During the climactic brawl in ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'', 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.
* In ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies'', when Bard has to hit a spot on Smaug's skin that is not covered by scales with the black arrow. Whereas in the book, this is an unexplained flaw, in the movie it's caused by an arrow wound that Smaug sustained during the destruction of the Dale a century prior.
* ''Film/LethalWeapon'':
** When Murtagh is tortured in the first movie, not only is he beaten until he's a bloody mess, but salt is poured in his wounds. Literally. They upended a carton of salt into the bullet hole in his shoulder.
** In the final fight of the fourth film, Jet Li's character dislocates Riggs' shoulder and then repeatedly punches Riggs right in that same shoulder.
* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. During the sequence where Indiana Jones hijacks the truck carrying the Ark, one German soldier shoots him in the left arm and a few seconds later another soldier repeatedly punches him in the bullet wound.
* ''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.
* In the hypothetical fight played out in the minds of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the climax of ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', Moriarty wins due to his ruthless exploitation of Holmes' existing shoulder injury.
* James Bond receives a shoulder injury during ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. Later, the villain gets a BondOneLiner to torture Bond: "I knew you couldn't ''shoulder'' the responsibility". After that pun, the actual attack on the injury must have been inconsequential.
* Slightly downplayed in ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''. The fight is more or less over, but Snake took an arrow above the knee and the Duke of New York has his minions hold Plissken down for questioning. The Duke forces the arrow in deeper when Snake refuses to talk.
* At the beginning of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', the Guardians are fighting a beast that has a hide too thick for their weapons to harm. Then Peter spots a small cut on its neck and has Gamora attack it with her knives. The fight is over soon after.
* In ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'', Suzy stabs one of the Khaki Scouts with lefty scissors. Later on in the film, the Khaki Scouts pull a HeelFaceTurn and try to help Suzy and Sam elope -- except for the guy she stabbed, who betrays them and initiates a chase. To incapacitate him, Sam punches him in his open wounds.
* Self-administered in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Kylo Ren, during his lightsaber fights against Finn and Rey at the climax, repeatedly punches himself in the spot where Chewbacca had shot him with his bowcaster. No canon reason has been given, although one popular fan theory suggests that he was using the pain as a way to tap into additional dark side power.
* ''Film/NeverBackDown'': During their fight in the film's climax, Ryan hits Jake's ribs which had been injured in a prior fight with a different opponent.
*''Film/SawIII'': Amanda's fight with Detective Matthews pretty much ends when she kicks his broken foot (which he purposely crushed to avoid being shackled in [[Film/SawII the last movie]]) causing it to break even further.
* ''Film/TangoAndCash'': while storming Perret's warehouse, Cash takes a bullet in his arm that exits clean. During a fistfight with Requin minutes later, Requin gouges the wound with his thumb and makes Cash scream in pain.
* In the climactic action sequence of ''Film/JupiterAscending'', Jupiter shoots Balem in the leg. Later, when she tries to climb the structure as the whole refinery collapses, Balem catches up to her and pins her down, to which she presses her thumb on the injury she caused earlier, gaining the upper hand against him in the process.
* ''Film/{{Triangle}}'': When Jess is being strangled by the wounded Victor, she manages to break his grip by jamming her finger into the hole at the back of his skull.
* ''Film/Scream1996'': When fighting Billy at the end, Sidney gouges her fingers into the wound that she gave him when she stabbed him with an umbrella earlier.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/CiaphasCain''
** "Caves Of Ice": When the ork gargant is going through the facility wall, Cain notices a relatively small hole in its armor from a previous attack, and orders all heavy weapons to fire at it, successfully disabling it by exploding an ammo dump inside.
** During "The Last Ditch", a tervigon is hit with two anti-tank missiles and Cain immediately orders the troopers with him to target the wound. Justified in that nothing the troopers were carrying could have punched through the tervigon's armor before the missiles opened it up for them. Overlaps with UntouchableUntilTagged.
* In the final battle in ''Literature/{{Headhunters}}'', [[spoiler:Roger Brown shoots Clas Greve in his badly-damaged groin]].
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/{{Agent X}}'', 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.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' 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.
* In the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series ''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.
* In the second season of ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', Alfred escapes being pinned by the Tabitha by attacking her arm, wounded a few episodes previously in a gunfight.
* Towards the end of ''Series/NecessaryRoughness'', 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.
* In the ''Series/Supergirl2015'' episode "Survivors", Kara has trouble taking on an Draaga until Mon-El tells her he has an old leg injury
* In ''Series/{{Quantico}}'', Vernon James of the High-Value Interrogation Group authorizes the brutal torture of FBI Special Agent Ryan Booth by having his gunshot wound punched several times in addition to the risk of being infected in order to get Alex Parrish to talk about the possibility of another bomb in New York. When the rest of the FBI finds out about this, they're pissed off.
* ''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.
* Sometimes the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' would do this, especially for Ultras who tends to be more of a CombatPragmatist.
** ''Series/UltramanEighty'' had Ultraman 80 fighting Zatan Silver, a powerful Cyborg monster whose body is layered with impenetrable armour. After repeatedly kicking the monster's side, Ultraman 80 managed to break away part of its armour, revealing Zatan Silver's internal circuitry, at which point 80 decides to unleash a freezing mist into the monster's damaged surface, damaging its circuits enough to eventually destroy it.
** ''Series/UltramanTiga'': An episode had Tiga fighting the nigh-invulnerable Juggernaut kaiju, Fire Golza. After the monster shrugged off most of Tiga's attacks, Tiga decides to launch a concentrated, energized punch into Fire Golza's chest cavity, finally, ''finally'' penetrating the monster's thick hide. Tiga was then able to turn the battle around to his favour by repeatedly attacking the wounded spot and finally firing his [[FinishingMove Zeppelion Ray]] into Fire Golza's chest wound.
** The BigBad of ''Series/UltramanMebius'' is Alien Empera, who is invincible and easily delivers one CurbStompBattle to every single one of the good guys of the series... until Ultraman Hikari, Mebius' mentor, manage to land a lucky slash in Empera's side re-opening an old injury. In the final confrontation, Ultraman Mebius and Ultraman Zoffy can finally defeat Empera when they unleash their attacks on the now-visible injury on Empera's side.
** Greeza, the BigBad of ''Series/UltramanX'' 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.
** In the second episode of ''Series/UltramanOrb'', 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.
* Similarly to the ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'' movie, the first season of the DistantSequel ''Series/CobraKai'' features a tournament where a member of the Cobra Kai dojo injures his opponent in the 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 neither was OrderedToCheat; Hawk attacks Robby from behind purely due to frustration that he's losing and happens to separate Robby's shoulder, and 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, whom Miguel has fallen for quite hard. Johnny Lawrence, who remembers being put in that position by his EvilMentor Kreese, [[EveryoneHasStandards is appalled by the actions of both of his students]].
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Discussed during an interview with Wrestling/ChrisAdams in Wrestling/{{UWF}} shortly before he and Wrestling/TerryTaylor break up. Adams tells their opponents from a recent match that everyone knew Taylor's leg was injured, so they should have focused on his leg rather than the general brawling style that they had used. Taylor gets upset with this.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': This is the in-game explanation for Knight Commander Pask's increased ballistic ability: he looks for weak spots like repair seams and aims for them, even on alien tanks.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'': Mata Nui defeats Tuma by striking at a back injury Tuma suffered before their battle, which supplementary materials reveal that it was from a Baterra attack.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''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.
* ''Videogame/GodOfWar3'': During his spectacular battle with [[spoiler:Cronos]], Kratos has to slash a pimple on the big fella's arm, rip off his usured fingernail and hit a wound opened by an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead cyclops]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'', each boss' weak point is indicated by an X-shaped scar with a SicklyGreenGlow.
* During the Galdon boss battle in ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'', after Fox gets EatenAlive and makes Galdon spit him up by attacking the Spellstone in his stomach, Galdon gets a slit on his throat. Whenever his wound opens wide when he starts breathing in for his fire breath attack it can be blasted with fire from Fox's staff.
* In Bigby's fight with Gren, during the first episode of ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'', Bigby focuses some of his attacks on Gren's [[Film/{{Beowulf}} previously injured right arm]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Watch_Dogs}}'', when Aidan sees Damien shortly after the start of the game, Aidan immediately takes a cheap shot at the brace on Damien's leg. Sure enough, Damien is dropped to the ground in pain.
* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': Geralt has the option of attacking Dijkstra's injured leg, which he had previously caused in [[Literature/TheWitcher the books]].
* ''[[VideoGame/AlteredBeast Project Altered Beast]]'': In the FinalBoss fight, our hero Luke was caught in the boss' big hands until his comrade/rival Brad slashes at the boss with his Weretiger claws, leaving a huge gash that serves as the boss' weak point for the later part of the fight.
*''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'' pulls a plot-based one. When battling Demon General Bloodis, a stray shot from Seraphina hits him in the ribs, forcing the nigh-unbeatable general to retreat after a follow-up strike from Killia. When it's revealed that Bloodis is actually Goldion, Killia's mentor and father to the BigBad, Void Dark, they decide to free him from his brainwashing with Killia and Zeroken performing a Double Avidya Holy Water. The first step in the plan is, after another lengthy battle, hitting his rib wound again to keep him from retreating long enough for the plan to go off.
* ''VideoGame/{{Deponia}}'': towards the end of the third game, [[spoiler:one of the two remaining Rufus clones has a gunshot wound. As the clone you play during this scene disagrees about pushing the switch of a car, you have to punch him in this wound in order to proceed. It's a case of ApologeticAttacker, but still very painful for the wounded clone.]]
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': In the climax of "The Future", Mystery and Shiromori go at each other, injuring them both. When Vivi realizes just ''how'' Mystery injured her - tearing off part of her back, exposing her heart - Vivi pulls herself up and [[spoiler:goes in swinging, separating Shiromori from her heart; without it, she falls apart and dies]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Zola keeps striking at the stab wound she gave Higgs earlier in their fight as the fight progresses and he catches back up to her in a different room.
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[[folder: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Azula utilizes this tactic when planing her strategy for a friendly game of volleyball. She recognizes from the way a member of the other team moves that the girl must have suffered an injury in the past, and looks to exploit it. See the page quote.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', Obi-Wan resorts to this after being cornered by both Darth Maul and Savage Opress at the same time. Seeing that Savage's knee was already injured, Obi-Wan continually kicks at it during the gaps in their offensive until Savage's knee breaks, allowing Obi-Wan to retreat as Maul tends to his brother.
* ''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.
* In the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', [[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 care of an old ankle injury until Spinerella's ankle gives under the assault. It works.
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