History Main / DoomedHurtGuy

* ''Series/{{Combat}}'' did this a few times, with both Allied and enemy personnel on the receiving end:

* The helicopter pilot (named Huntoon in the {{Novelization}}) in the mutant bear movie ''Film/{{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.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': in the episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E02TheShip "The Ship"]], one of Sisko's men, Muñiz, is shot during an engagement with the Jem'Hadar. Unfortunately, Jem'Hadar disruptors leave anticoagulants in their victims' bloodstream, inflicting WoundsThatWillNotHeal. Without access to proper medical treatment, O'Brien is forced to use parts of his uniform as bandages in an effort to slow the bleeding, while Worf believes Muñiz will not survive and that he should be ready to face the end, to O'Brien's chagrin. Ultimately, Muñiz bleeds out from his wound.

* In the movie ''Film/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.

* Thomas Blanky, the ice master, is a rare survivor of an encounter with the tuunbaq in Dan Simmons' ''The Terror'', but throughout the rest of the journey believes he's destined to be killed by it (and is).

Bob is injured, or perhaps infected with ThePlague. He and his companions are far from civilization. What are they to do? Simple, cold pragmatism dictates that there is no hope for Bob, and that his companions ought to go on without him. He may even ''insist'' they go on without him. But no! They must do the decent thing, the humane thing, and take Bob with them in the hope that they can get medical treatment for him.

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

* The poor elderly hermit in ''[[Film/TheBlob1958 The Blob]]'', 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).

* George Ritchie in ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms''. Upon encountering the titular dinosaur, he falls into a crevice and severely injures himself. His colleague Tom Nesbitt eats up quite a bit of screentime in an heroic attempt to rescue him. But, alas, the Beast returns, and as soon as Tom lays eyes on it, it causes an avalanche that critically wounds him and also kills George. As in ''Film/TheBlob'', this is an instance of the trope being required to further the plot: George ''had'' to die so that Tom would be the only person aware of the dinosaur.

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* ''Series/{{Combat}}'' did this a few times:

* In "Headcount," the squad ends up with a buttload of German prisoners, among them the Schiller Brothers, Karl and Kurt. Kurt is injured, suffering from some kind of unspecified injury. However, there's nothing Doc can do for him in the field, so all they can do is try to make it back to their lines. But Kurt dies on the way, much to his brother's anger.

** Marvin Branagh in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''.

* George Ritchie in ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms''. Upon encountering the titular dinosaur, he falls into a crevice and severely injures himself. His colleague Tom Nesbitt eats up quite a bit of screentime in an heroic attempt to rescue him. But, alas, the Beast returns, and as soon as Tom lays eyes on it, it causes an avalanche that critically wounds him and also kills George. This film is an instance of the trope being required to further the plot: George ''had'' to die so that there'd be nobody to corroborate Tom's story.

* Scientist George Ritchie in ''Film/TheBeastFrom20000Fathoms''. Upon encountering the titular dinosaur, he falls into a crevice and severely injures himself. His colleague Tom Nesbitt eats up quite a bit of screentime in an heroic attempt to rescue him. But, alas, the Beast returns, and as soon as Tom lays eyes on it, it causes an avalanche that critically wounds him and also kills George. This film is an instance of the trope being required to further the plot: George ''had'' to die so that there'd be nobody to corroborate Tom's story.

* Purvis in ''Film/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.]]

* Fred Clarkson in both versions of ''Film/{{Sahara}}''. Injured in von Schletow's attempt to strafe the tank, he lasts long enough to get to Bir-Acroma and then bites it.

* Ian Malcolm in ''Literature/JurassicPark''. Although ''[[TheLostWorld1995 The Lost World]]'' reveals he survived and all that talk about a burial in the first book was premature.

* The ''ResidentEvil'' series:
** Richard Aiken 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. Making it so that the player can do nothing but fail underlies the futility of S.T.A.R.S.' situation. In the remake, Richard is cured with the medicine, but still winds up perishing in an apparent subversion of the trope, the idea apparently being that even though you can save someone from one thing, they can still perish from another.
** Marvin Branagh in ''ResidentEvil2''.
** Bob in ''ResidentEvilOutbreak''. Assuming the player bothers with helping him along, he dies anyway, either by committing suicide or turning into a zombie and being killed by his friends.

* Tom in ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis''.

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. Despite them trying to save the guy, the poor bastard eventually dies anyway. 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.

* Karen in ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' is possibly the world's first ZombieInfectee version of this trope.
* The poor elderly hermit in ''Film/TheBlob1958'', 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).