History Main / DoomedHurtGuy

* Luke from Season 2 of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead''. Survives a stray bullet to the leg in a shootout with some bandits, but the injury dramatically reduces his strength and mobility, and he consequently drowns after falling through ACrackInTheIce.

* Luke from Season 2 of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead''. Survives a stray bullet to the leg in a shootout with some bandits, but the injury dramatically reduces his strength and mobility, and he consequently drowns after falling through ACrackInTheIce.

* Karen in ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' is possibly the world's first ZombieInfectee version of this trope.

* Luke from Season 2 of ''[[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead]]''. Survives a stray bullet to the leg in a shootout with some bandits, but the injury dramatically reduces his strength and mobility, and he consequently drowns after falling through ACrackInTheIce.

* The poor elderly hermit in both versions of ''Film/TheBlob'', although he's an example where, debatably, it's needed for the plot to progress (although subsequent BlobMonster stories and films managed to do without it).

* As noted above, this is averted in ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone'' wherein TheLoad Major Roy Franklin survives.

* In the movie ''The Lost Continent'', the ship's cook is injured by mutineers, receiving a nasty head wound. He's tended to by his shipmates and a sheleter is built for him in the lifeboat after the passengers and crew are forced to abandon the ship in a violent storm. When they become briefly trapped in a vast expanse of flesh-eating seaweed, the cook suffers some kind of fever-induced freakout, stands up in the boat, and promptly falls overboard and is dragged down and devoured.

* The pilot in ''TheGiantClaw'' who bashes his head against the control panel. Mitch drags him from the wreckage after making an emergency crash-landing, but the poor guy dies anyway.
* Jake in ''[[EvilDead Evil Dead II]]''. All that effort to (very painfully) drag him through the house after accidentally stabbing him, and he winds up being lain down right next to the trapdoor leading into the basement. Henrietta then gets 'im.

** Richard in the [[ResidentEvil first game]]. When he's found dying from the venomous Yawn's bite, the player is sent to get anti-venom for him, but he ends up croaking anyway. In the remake, he is cured with the medicine, but still winds up perishing in an apparent subversion of the trope.
** In ''ResidentEvil2'', the player comes upon wounded cop Marvin in the RPD. He ends up transforming into a zombie.
** Bob in ''ResidentEvilOutbreak''. Assuming the player bothers with helping him along, he dies anyway, either by committing suicide before he can transform into a zombie, or turning into a zombie and being killed by his friends.

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* Andy Stevens in ''TheGunsOfNavarone'' is hurt during the climb up the cliff. He later sacrifices himself to hold off the pursuing German soldiers so his comrades can get away. This is averted in the film, wherein Roy Franklin (as Stevens is so christened) manages to actually get medical treatment - from the Germans! - and survives.
* Ian Malcolm in ''JurassicPark''. Although ''TheLostWorld'' reveals he survived and all that talk about a burial in the first book was premature.
* A rare example of a non-physical sort of injury, there's Otto Grunstadt in ''TheKeep''. He survives the Germans' initial encounter with Rasolam, but is left [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]]. Captain Woermann makes plans to send him away from the keep for mental treatment, but Rasolam comes for him the next night.
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* In the movie ''TheLostContinent'', the ship's cook is injured by mutineers, receiving a nasty head wound. He's tended to by his shipmates and a sheleter is built for him in the lifeboat after the passengers and crew are forced to abandon the ship in a violent storm. When they become briefly trapped in a vast expanse of flesh-eating seaweed, the cook suffers some kind of fever-induced freakout, stands up in the boat, and promptly falls overboard and is dragged down and devoured.
* George the cop in the movie ''{{Daylight}}''. A sinkhole opens beneath his feet and a truck falls on him, paralyzing him. Despite a big setpiece wherein everyone joins together to rescue him, it turns out they must leave him behind. The last we see him, he's lying on a stretcher on the roof of a car as the tunnel fills with water.
* The helicopter pilot (named Huntoon in the {{Novelization}}) in the mutant bear movie ''{{Prophecy}}''. He gets injured during said bear's attack on the Indian village, and so the good guys have to carry him through the forest, eventually strapping him to the top of a truck they find. When the bear attacks again and overturns the truck, John Hawks makes a rather halfhearted effort to free him from the stretcher, then runs as the bear comes along and gobbles up the poor pilot's head.
* Fred Clarkson in both versions of ''{{Sahara}}''. Injured in von Schletow's attempt to strafe the tank, he lasts long enough to get to Bir-Acroma and then bites it.
* German tourist Matthias in ''TheRuins''. Possibly one of the nastiest and cruelest examples. There's an extended sequence of his friends crudely amputating his legs and burning the stumps to cauterize them, but a few scenes later, he gets strangled by the killer vines while the other campers are arguing and not paying attention to him.
* Purvis in ''AlienResurrection'' [[spoiler:although he at least gets a really BadAss (if somewhat out of left field) HeroicSacrifice to kill the main human villain, Dr. Wren.]]
* As noted above, this is averted in ''TheGunsOfNavarone'' wherein TheLoad Major Roy Franklin survives.
* Another notable aversion is in ''CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' with Dr. Thompson.
* Karen in ''NightOfTheLivingDead'' is possibly the world's first ZombieInfectee version of this trope.
* The poor elderly hermit in both versions of ''TheBlob'', although he's an example where, debatably, it's needed for the plot to progress (although subsequent BlobMonster stories and films managed to do without it).
* Linda in ''{{Proteus}}''. Injured by Charlie's claws, she's put in the rig's infirmary where she gets taken over (a la ''TheThing'') by a tendril that oozes down from a vent above her head. Similar to Matthias in ''TheRuins'', the other characters are busy talking about something unrelated to Linda, and by the time they notice the frantically beeping heart rate monitor signalling her demise, she's already been completely taken over.
* Pancho in ''{{Predator}}'', although the time from his injury to his death is unusually short for this trope.
* Speaking of short time-from-injury-to-death ratios, there's Udesky in ''JurassicParkIII''. Injured by raptors and left out as bait for the other characters in a tree, when they realize it's a trap (mostly due to the raptors jumping the gun and attacking ''before anyone is even completely down'') and don't come down, the raptors finish Udesky off and depart.

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The Doomed Hurt Guy is a trope that mainly shows up in war, horror and adventure fiction. It more or less stipulates that a character (usually a minor one) is injured badly and the heroes can't do much for him. This presents them with a SadisticChoice, wherein they must either choose to abandon him or bring him with them. Regardless of which choice they make, the poor bastard is almost always still gonna die. The reasons for this vary from example to example. Sometimes it's just for pure AnyoneCanDie shock value - the audience may not be willing to believe that injured Bob (or whoever) will bite it. Other times, it's to elicit a strong emotional reaction - the death of an injured or sick character who the story has invested a lot of time in can really pull at those heart strings. Also, it can be used to show the futility of the characters' situation, the hopelessness they face, that after all that, the person they've tried to desperately to save ends up perishing anyway, proving that fate is entirely out of their hands.

A sub-trope of TheLoad.

* ''TheXFiles'' loved this trope.
** Deputy Greer in the episode ''Agua Mala'', although that was mainly due to interference from Dougie the looter.
** Gary Sacks in the episode ''Alone''. [[spoiler:Despite being the person Doggett is searching for, the poor guy ends up getting dissolved and slurped up offscreen.]]

* Ian Malcolm in ''JurassicPark''.

* Linda in ''{{Proteus}}''.

* The poor elderly hermit in both versions of ''TheBlob''.

* George the cop in the movie {{Daylight}}. A sinkhole opens beneath his feet and a truck falls on him, paralyzing him. Despite a big setpiece wherein everyone joins together to rescue him, it turns out they must leave him behind. The last we see him, he's lying on a stretcher on the roof of a car as the tunnel fills with water.

* German tourist Matthias in ''TheRuins''. Possibly one of the nastiest and cruelest examples. There's an extended sequence of his friends crudely amputating his legs and burning the stumps to cauterize them, but a few scenes later, he gets strangled by the killer vines while the other campers are arguing and not paying attention to him.