History Main / MeatgrinderSurgery

* The ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' video ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc Meet the Medic]]''. Roughly half the video involves the RED Medic performing surgery on the Heavy, in a procedure involving a device ([[spoiler:which, as it turns out, enables the Ubercharge in-game]]) getting shoved onto Heavy's still-beating heart, said heart ''exploding'' and being replaced with a "Mega-Baboon" heart, and Medic pushing the organ into the Heavy's chest cavity so hard he breaks off a rib. All while the Heavy is awake, mind you.
** Not to mention he brings his pet doves along with him. [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous Archimedes]], pictured above, even likes to hang out inside patient's ribcages. The only thing the Medic finds objectionable about this is that "It's filthy in there!".
** Mind you, the Medic's night magical medi-gun, plus the CartoonPhysics of the ''Team Fortress 2'' universe pretty much allows him to throw caution out the window.

'''Medic''': ''"[[HerrDoctor Vell]], no. But as long as you are, [[CrossesTheLineTwice could you hold your rib cage open a bit?]] I can't... seem to..." [[[WorstAid Heavy screams as rib snaps]]] "Oh, don't be such a baby... [[HealingFactor ribs grow back!]]" [[[TwoFacedAside whispering to pigeon]]] "No zey don't.''"

* A [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel non-comedic]] example occurs in ''[[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR 2: Project Origin]]'', while [[PlayerCharacter Michael Beckett]] is undergoing surgery to awaken his Harbinger powers, he has a hallucination in which demonic creatures in surgical uniforms claw and hack at his flesh.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Anyway, that's how I lost my medical license."]]

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* Also used for ''amateur'' plastic surgery in the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Super Model".

* Wilbur in ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'' is threatened with MeatgrinderSurgery by a group of mice, before he decides he feels fine and decides to check out early.

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* Wilbur in ''Disney/TheRescuers Down Under'' this threatened with MeatgrinderSurgery by a group of mice, before he decides he feels fine and decides to check out early.

* Comes up in {{Sharpe}} once or twice, set as it is in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe himself removes a man's shattered arm with a sword (it's easier to stop the bleeding from one large wound than lots of little ones) and Harper pulls out one of his own teeth with pliers.

* Used in ''CowAndChicken'' for plastic surgery during a plastic surgery contest.

[[caption-width-right:350:Archimedes, no! It's filthy in there!]]

'''Medic''': ''"[[HerrDoctor Vell]], no. But as long as you are, [[CrossesTheLineTwice could you hold your rib cage open a bit?]] I can't... seem to..." [[[WorstAid Heavy screams as rib snaps]]] "Oh, don't be such a baby...[[HealingFactor ribs grow back!]]" [[[TwoFacedAside whispering to pigeon]]] "No zey don't.''"

* Orthopedic surgery can appear this way, with the use of both power tools, hand tools, and hardware similar to those seen in a workshop (although sterile and much more expensive), as well as the use of what appears to be strenuous amounts of physical pulling and tugging by surgical staff (to ensure proper alignment of joints and bones, etc.).

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->'''Heavy''': [[LampshadeHanging "Should I be awake for this?"]]\\
'''Medic''': "[[HerrDoctor Vell]], no. But as long as you are, [[CrossesTheLineTwice could you hold your rib cage open a bit]]?"
--> -- ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc "Meet the Medic"]]

->'''Heavy''': "Should I be awake for this?"\\

* Also used for ''amateur'' plastic surgery in the ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Super Model".
* ''{{Futurama}}'' -- Professor Farnsworth decides the best way to carry out Bender's delicate gender reassignment is with a sledgehammer. Yeah, he's a robot, but ''a sledgehammer''.
* Wilbur in ''The Rescuers Down Under'' this threatened with MeatgrinderSurgery by a group of mice, before he decides he feels fine and decides to check out early.
* [[TheSimpsons Dr. Nick Riviera]] is basically the living avatar of this trope.

--> -- ''TeamFortress2'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc "Meet the Medic"]]

* The ''TeamFortress2'' video ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc Meet the Medic]]''. Roughly half the video involves the RED Medic performing surgery on the Heavy, in a procedure involving a device ([[spoiler:which, as it turns out, enables the Ubercharge in-game]]) getting shoved onto Heavy's still-beating heart, said heart ''exploding'' and being replaced with a "Mega-Baboon" heart, and Medic pushing the organ into the Heavy's chest cavity so hard he breaks off a rib. All while the Heavy is awake, mind you.

'''Medic''': "Vell, no. But as long as you are, could you hold your rib cage open a bit?"

* In ''AfroSamurai'', when [[spoiler: Jinno is turned into a cyborg]]. This might qualify as BlackComedy, or the cartoonish nature of the scene might make it worse.

** Mind you, the Medic's night magical medi-gun, plus the CartoonPhysics of the TF2 universe pretty much allows him to throw caution out the window.

Don't expect to see what's going on with the patient during the operation or an explanation on why piercing his head is going to help with his HiccupHijinks, but he'll step away from the operation room completely healthy (or at least not horribly mutilated) and his medical problem will be gone, or at least not horribly mutilated.

Naturally, expect this aspect of medicine to be thrown away in the name of [[RuleOfFunny comedy]]: the nurse will give the surgeon a [[DropTheHammer hammer]] and he'll immediately proceed to whack away violently, then an [[AnAxeToGrind axe]] and proceed to hack away, then a [[ThisIsADrill drill]], then a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], then NoodleImplements, then...