History Main / AttackTheInjury

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': 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.

* ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast'': In the FinalBoss fight in ''Project Altered Beast'', Luke is 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.

* In the ''Series/Forever2014'' episode "The Frustrating Thing About Psychopaths," the killer has stabbed Henry through his chest with a long antique knife, and the handle is protruding from Henry's back. While struggling, the killer swings Henry around so that the knife hilt is pushed sideways by the edge of a door frame. Then, Henry and the killer tumble down a flight of stairs, landing with a sickening crunch. After a few moments, the killer gets up again, but Henry is unable to move. The killer comments that it looks like Henry's back is broken, then places his boot on Henry's shoulders and grinds down with significant weight. Henry emits an agonized groan, and even that cuts off as the injury is aggravated, but he is unable to do anything else but move his eyes.

** ''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.

** 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/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.

*** 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. Realizing there is no way he can win, Holmes surprises Moriarty by [[Main/TakingYouWithMe grabbing him and jumping over the balcony]].]]

*** 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.]]

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** ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'':

* ''Series/JourneyToTheWest1996'' has the Long Armed Ape, who's TheAssimilator and have absorbed the powers of his various victims, one of them being the sacred elephant, Ting-di. However, by doing so he inherits Ting-di's sole weakness, a scar from the sole of his foot, his only weakness. [[spoiler:Sun Wukong emerged victorious by tunneling underground, and shoving his golden staff into said injury, which kills the Long Armed Ape mere ''minutes'' later]].

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** During the fight in in the JerseyDevil's pawn shop in episode 4, Jersey claws at the bandaged part of Bigby's arm.

* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'': In Bigby's fight with Gren, during the first episode, Bigby focuses some of his attacks on Gren's [[Literature/{{Beowulf}} previously injured right arm]].

* ''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.

Compare and contrast with tropes such as AttackItsWeakPoint, UntouchableUntilTagged, InjuredVulnerability, AchillesHeel, FlawExploitation, and SubsystemDamage. 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.

* The climax of ''Film/DDay'' has Gelda shooting Ivan in the leg before deciding to take him on in a fistfight. The subsequent battle have Gelda occasionally kicking Ivan's leg wound to further cripple him.

* ''Film/DirtyHarry'': Harry tortures Scorpio by pressing his boot into a knife wound he received (from Harry) within the past hour. [[TortureAlwaysWorks It's enough to make him give up his hostage's location]], but [[RealityEnsues also gets him released]] due to Harry's [[PoliceBrutality illegal conduct.]]

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* ''Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends'' sees Ultraman Belial attack the Father of Ultra's hip, where his SingleStrokeBattle with Alien Empera left Ken with a WoundThatWillNotHeal at the climax of the Ultimate Wars.

* ''Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends'' sees Ultraman Belial attack the Father of Ultra's hip, where his SingleStrokeBattle with Alien Empera left Ken with a WoundThatWontHeal at the climax of the Ultimate Wars.