History Main / MutilationConga

** At the end of Season Three, Chilton’s lips are bitten off by Francis "The Red Dragon" Dolarhyde before he’s strapped to a wheelchair and set on fire. Notably, this was Freddy Lounds’s fate in ''Literature/RedDragon'', while the show's [[GenderFlip female counterpart]] ''Freddie'' Lounds [[SparedByTheAdaptation is unscathed]], despite a Season Two fakeout that initially lead the viewer and characters to believe exactly this had happened to her ''and'' the preservation of the plot point that it was Lounds's writing about the Dragon that enraged Dolarhyde in the first place— he just took it out on Chilton instead!

* It’s a bit of a dark RunningGag that each season of {{Series/Hannibal}} ends with SmugSnake Dr. Frederick Chilton being subjected to increasingly debilitating and disfiguring injuries. This is in contrast to the book and film series that inspired the show, where Chilton is probably eaten by Hannibal Lecter at the end of ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' but is otherwise intact through most of the stories in which he appears.

* In ''Film/KillBill'' this happens to [[Creator/DarylHannah Elle "California Mountain Snake" Driver]]'s {{eyes|cream}}: the first gouged out by [[spoiler:Pai Mei as punishment for disrespect when she was studying kung fu under him]] (as shown in a flashback), and the second by [[spoiler:the Bride during a duel]].

%%* This happens to Carl's police car in ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', until it gets eaten by the giant [[IncrediblyLamePun carnivorous]] vines.

* The health meter in ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' is a picture of a guy's face getting progressively bloodier and beaten up the more damage the player took.

* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'': In Major Bludd's first appearance, he loses an eye. In his second appearance and amr gets ripped off by a crocodie.

A character gradually accumulates injuries over the course of a story, but rather than [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished shrug them off]], he shows the traces of every one of them and ends up a bleeding, black-eyed ImplacableMan limping toward his goal. He quite literally looks like the world has [[TheChewToy chewed him up]] and [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth spat him back out]].

Expect a lot of ClothingDamage and an attitude of TranquilFury. Can be just as easily PlayedForLaughs or PlayedForDrama — the latter can work as a subversion of JustAFleshWound, as it shows that what doesn't kill you can still slow you down a hell of a lot.

Compare: CrushParade when characters and objects are repeatedly run over and trampled by different things; CoveredInScars when a character bears the marks of past injuries for the rest of his life. SerialProstheses might result from this. Contrast DeathByDisfigurement, where one lasting wound will spell a death sentence not very sooner.

* [[Film/JohnWick John Wick's]] body takes a lot of abuse during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He gets even more banged up in Film/JohnWickChapter2 and by the end of Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum, Wick's body is decorated with bruises, stab wounds and bullet holes.

* Lisbeth in the film version of ''Literature/TheGirlWhoPlayedWithFire'', after a [[spoiler:gunshot to the head, being BuriedAlive in a shallow grave, and surviving an epic fight with her father]], is so bloodied up that her badass DumbMuscle half-brother takes one look at her and runs for his life, thinking she's a zombie.

* Appears frequently in the works of Creator/JackChalker, though given Chalker's [[AuthorAppeal other interests]], the actual mechanism is frequently (but not always) a BalefulPolymorph. Chalker actually addressed this through an AuthorAvatar near the end of ''The Messiah Choice''; heroic tales require genuine sacrifice on a heroic scale.

* The whole premise of ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'': WhoWantsToLiveForever if you stop healing from your injuries? Taken UpToEleven in the final scene.

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* ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' has [[DeanBitterman Mr. Rooney]] go through this as part of his HumiliationConga. He ends up with a busted nose courtesy of Jeanie and an extensive collection of bitemarks from the family Rottweiler.

* ''ComicBooks/MarshalBass'': First Samson gets a horseshoe to the head. Then a tomahawk to the head. Then several punches to the head. Then a horse kicks him in the head. Finally [[spoiler: he is shot]]. In the head.

* Creator/TimPowers, pick a book, any book, and 4 of 5 times this happens to the main character.

* [[Film/JohnWick John Wick's]] body takes a lot of damage during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He gets even more banged up in the sequels and by the end of the third film, John's covered in bruises, scars and a few bullet holes.
* This happens to Carl's police car in ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', until it gets eaten by the giant [[IncrediblyLamePun carnivorous]] vines.

* The gun-toting mugger in ''VideoGame/DejaVu'' suffers from this. Each of his first three confrontations can and should end with a punch to the face, and he gets both eyes swollen and a bloody nose before the fourth time, when such a punch gets you shot.

* [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] usually gains multiple injuries over the course of individual books, and seeing as magical healing isn’t commonplace, he more often than not ends up in the hospital at the end. His injuries are ''usually'' played for laughs, except the times when [[spoiler:his hand got burned and he broke his back ]]. Good thing he gets time to heal between books.

* [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] usually gains multiple injuries over the course of individual books, and seeing as magical healing isn’t commonplace, he more often than not ends up in the hospital at the end. His injuries are ''usually'' played for laughs, except that one time [[spoiler:he broke his back and was paralyzed]]. Good thing he gets time to heal between books.

* [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] usually gains multiple injuries over the course of individual books, and seeing as magical healing isn’t commonplace, he more often than not ends up in the hospital at the end. His injuries are usually played for laughs, except that one time [[spoiler:he broke his back and was paralyzed]]. Good thing he gets time to heal between books.

* The T'lan Imass from the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', being already a race of {{undead}} [[DemBones walking skeletons]], can take quite a lot of damage before they are considered damaged enough to be put to rest somewhere with a nice vista. In ''Literature/HouseOfChains'', Onrack gets half his skull bitten off, chewed by a [[CanisMajor Deragoth]], and loses an arm, but keeps going cheerfully.

* * [[Film/JohnWick John Wick's]] body takes a lot of damage during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He gets even more banged up in the sequels and by the end of the third film, John's covered in bruises, scars and a few bullet holes.

* ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' has the DeanBitterman go through this.

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* The main character of ''WebVideo/TheHorriblySlowMurdererWithTheExtremelyInefficientWeapon'' is beaten to death with a spoon. For years on end. By the end, his body is just one giant bruise.

* WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades: In Major Budd's first appearance, he loses an eye. In his second appearance and amr gets ripped off by a crocodie.

* [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Damon Wayans' & Kadeem Hardison's characters]] in ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' suffer a series of injuries throughout, mostly by being repeatedly captured and thrown down [[TheWindowOrTheStairs flights of stairs]].