History Main / FingerSuckHealing

* ''LightNovel/ImoutoNiFianseWoYuzureToIwaremashita'': Greed sucks on Eliana's finger in order to remove a splinter, much to her embarrassment.

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* In reality, sucking on someone else's cut is unsafe; while saliva actually contains growth factors and anti-septic compounds which are beneficial, your mouth is also full of microorganisms which could contaminate the cut, and there is a risk of contracting blood-borne diseases. Sucking on your own wounds is a lot safer, if less sensual.
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* In ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'', Issei has to have the magic sucked out of his left arm routinely to stop it mutating back into a dragon limb in public. He usually gets the team's magic expert, Akeno, to do it. She usually does it [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything kneeling in front of him with his hand near his crotch]]. [[TheTease She's fully aware of what she's doing, too]].

* In one chapter of ''Manga/SasamekiKoto'', Sumika and Miyako have a contest to see who can prepare a better meal. Sumika [[DaydreamSurprise imagines]] cutting her finger while chopping vegetables, followed by Ushio sucking on the finger in question.

* In episode 5 of ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan W'', Cuuko starts sucking on Mahiro's finger after he accidentally cuts it. She explains that her body temperature would sterilize the wound, due of her being, you know, [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthugha]], [[PlayingWithFire the Burning One]].

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Used for laughs and ShipTease when [[LesYay Konoka does it to Setsuna]]. Knowing [[TheTease Konoka]], she's totally aware of the flirtatiousness of the action.

* In ''Manga/AyashiNoCeres'', Yuuhi does this to Aya without thinking. Granted, no one should have given her a knife since this was soon after Touya lost all his memories of her, and she stirs from her [[HeroicBSOD stupor]] to freak out a bit.

* ''Manga/NinjaNonsense'': Kaede's mother sucks Shinobu's finger this way after a cooking accident.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Used for laughs and ShipTease when [[LesYay Konoka does it to Setsuna]]. Knowing [[TheTease Konoka]], she's totally aware of the flirtatiousness of the action.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Gaara does this to his uncle Yashamaru.
* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'':
** Alto attempts this on Sheryl, but she slaps him away [[spoiler:because she has a fatal V-Type infection, which can be spread by blood]].
** Played straight in the first movie. During a date scene, Alto sucks the blood from Sheryl's finger when she cuts them after falling off a scooter. All the while overlooking a breathtaking meadow and lakeside landscape.

* ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'' has Lavinia plant an invisible tack on a control pad so that Sara will injure her finger in order for Lavinia to play out this trope with her. It doesn't work, as someone else gets to Sara first.

* In one chapter of ''Manga/SasamekiKoto'', Sumika and Miyako have a contest to see who can prepare a better meal. Sumika [[DaydreamSurprise imagines]] cutting her finger while chopping vegetables, followed by Ushio sucking on the finger in question.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': In one just for fun {{doujinshi}} short by Crazy Clover Club, Shiki does this for Arcueid the vampire; suddenly realizing that by licking her blood, he's probably doomed himself to becoming a vampire.
** Another 4Koma reverses it - Shiki gets injured, Arcueid sucks his finger, and the romantic moment is ruined by her bloodlust flaring up at that exact moment.
*** Both of which are likely references to the finger-sucking scene in the original game, as told below (which became MemeticMutation for Hisui).

* In ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'', the female ninja Hotarubi sucks the wounded finger of her lover (who was bitten by her pet snake, crossing this trope over with SuckOutThePoison). Her "''pissed but devoted''" face is striking.
* In one episode of ''Manga/JunjouRomantica'' Usagi gets Misaki to suck his injured finger. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything It's just as awkward as it sounds.]]
* In a similar anime, ''VisualNovel/GakuenHeaven'', Keita gets thrown and locked into a shed by two bullies, injuring his elbow. Another student frees him, and as they're walking in a wooded area notices Keita holding his elbow. He then grabs Keita, pulls his sleeve down, and licks the wound several times, claiming to have been disinfecting it, which Keita seems to believe...but really, saliva doesn't do a very good job as a disinfectant.
* ''Anime/InuYashaTheMovieAffectionsTouchingAcrossTime'': Inu-Yasha does this to Kagome in the first movie when she accidentally cuts her finger, causing her to blush.
* In the ''All-New Anime/TenchiMuyo'' manga series, a robotic Tenchi devised by Washu does this with Ayeka when she cuts her finger. Both Ayeka and Sasami (who just returned with the first-aid kit) both blush at the action.
* In ''Manga/AyashiNoCeres'', Yuuhi does this to Aya without thinking. Granted, no one should have given her a knife since this was soon after Touya lost all his memories of her, and she stirs from her [[HeroicBSOD stupor]] to freak out a bit.
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': The twins do this for their fangirls.
* ''Manga/StrawberryShakeSweet'': Ran does it to Julia in chapter 4, for instant {{Nosebleed}}.
* Ren attempts this in ''Manga/SkipBeat'' to his co-star, during a test run on how to act his own character of the series out. Before any lip contact can happen, though, the co-star freaks out and pulls her hand away.
* Done in ''Anime/SailorMoon'', when Haruka gets her hand injured with a glass shard [[spoiler: from Nehelenia's MagicMirror.]] Michiru then sucks on her injury to try getting the shard out and succeeds, then spits it out on her handkerchief. [[spoiler: Then Haruka notices dark energy coming from the shard and knocks it away from Michiru; it transforms into a glass monster, and they have to fight it alongside others.]]
* In ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'', Judas can actually heal wounds by placing his lips on them, making it a pretty effective strategy actually.
* Mizutama does this to Miharu in ''Pump Up'' when she pokes herself with a sewing needle.
* Rei does this for Kira in the first volume of ''Manga/{{Mars}}''.
* In ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'', Issei has to have the magic sucked out of his left arm routinely to stop it mutating back into a dragon limb in public. He usually gets the team's magic expert, Akeno, to do it. She usually does it [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything kneeling in front of him with his hand near his crotch]]. [[TheTease She's fully aware of what she's doing, too]].
* In episode 5 of ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan W'', Cuuko starts sucking on Mahiro's finger after he accidentally cuts it. She explains that her body temperature would sterilize the wound, due of her being, you know, [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthugha]], [[PlayingWithFire the Burning One]].

* ''Manga/NininGaShinobuden'': Kaede's mother sucks Shinobu's finger this way after a cooking accident.

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This trope is often a form of ShipTease and/or IntimateHealing. Compare KissOfTheVampire for a supernatural variant. Sometimes not entirely unrelated to EroticEating. Contrast RomanceInducingSmudge.

* Weaponized by SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in ''ComicBook/{{Batman}} [[{{Crossover}} Versus]] ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'', where he tosses a rose to one of his henchmen, who pricks his fingers on its thorns. Said henchman instinctively sucks on the affected finger -- absorbing the poison on the thorns, and dying with a rictus grin.

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* Anime/{{InuYasha|TheMovieAffectionsTouchingAcrossTime}} does this to Kagome in the first movie when she accidentally cuts her finger, causing her to blush.

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* Weaponized by SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in ''ComicBook/{{Batman}} [[{{Crossover}} Versus]] ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'', where he tosses a rose to one of his henchmen, who pricks his fingers on its thorns. Said henchman instinctively sucks on the affected finger - absorbing the poison on the thorns, and dying with a rictus grin.

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* The introductory cinematic for ''VideoGame/{{Rule Of Rose}}'' shows Meg cut her finger on a rose thorn, with Diana ([[SchoolgirlLesbians who she is in love with]]) sucks the wound. She doesn't love her back. This scene reaffirms Meg's devotion to Diana, but also Diana's status as a ManipulativeBitch. The fact that she was the one who made Meg cut herself (by squeezing her hands onto the rose stalk) makes it even more evident.

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* Maki of ''ShojokyuuKurigeNoShiofukiShoujotachi'' does Finger Suck Healing on ClassRepresentative Tomoe to flirt with her after the latter suffers a paper cut.

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* The introductory cinematic for ''{{Rule Of Rose}}'' shows Meg cut her finger on a rose thorn, with Diana ([[SchoolgirlLesbians who she is in love with]]) sucks the wound. She doesn't love her back. This scene reaffirms Meg's devotion to Diana, but also Diana's status as a ManipulativeBitch. The fact that she was the one who made Meg cut herself (by squeezing her hands onto the rose stalk) makes it even more evident.

* In ''MySuperExGirlfriend'', Hannah sucks on Matt's finger to remove a splinter.

* Done in ''InterviewWithTheVampire'' by Claudia to a seamstress who pricked her finger, before she killed her.

* In ''AyashiNoCeres'', Yuuhi does this to Aya without thinking. Granted, no one should have given her a knife since this was soon after Touya lost all his memories of her, and she stirs from her [[HeroicBSOD stupor]] to freak out a bit.

* In reality, sucking on someone else's cut is unsafe; while saliva actually contains growth factors and anti-septic compounds which are beneficial, your mouth is also full of microorganisms which could contaminate the cut, and there is a risk of contracting blood-borne diseases.

* Despite all the injuries Kouta was suffering from at the time, Seiji of ''MidoriDays'' does this to him.

* Done by Karasuma to Tenma in ''SchoolRumble''.

* In one episode of ''JunjouRomantica'' Usagi gets Misaki to suck his injured finger. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything It's just as awkward as it sounds.]]

* ''StrawberryShakeSweet'': Ran does it to Julia in chapter 4, for instant {{Nosebleed}}.

* In a similar anime, ''GakuenHeaven'', Keita gets thrown and locked into a shed by two bullies, injuring his elbow. Another student frees him, and as they're walking in a wooded area notices Keita holding his elbow. He then grabs Keita, pulls his sleeve down, and licks the wound several times, claiming to have been disinfecting it, which Keita seems to believe...but really, saliva doesn't do a very good job as a disinfectant.

* In ''SaintBeast'', Judas can actually heal wounds by placing his lips on them, making it a pretty effective strategy actually.

* ''AoiShiro'' has Nami do this to Syouko. It works a little better than most because of [[HealingHands Nami's healing powers]].

* ''PonyoOnACliffByTheSea''. Interesting because Ponyo's still a goldfish and the main character's cut actually heals instantly. The fact that she drank his blood is actually [[BloodMagic a significant plot point.]]