History Main / MutilationConga

Compare: CrushParade when characters and objects are repeatedly run over and trampled by different things; ScarsAreForever when a character bears the marks of past injuries for the rest of his life. SerialProstheses might result from this.

* By the end of ''{{Fargo}}'', Showalter is not only fuming from the PlethoraOfMistakes, but also limping from Shep's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and bleeding heavily from a gunshot to the jaw.
* Brendan gets repeatedly beaten up in ''{{Brick}}''; by the end of the movie he's limping and coughing up blood.

* The whole premise of ''DeathBecomesHer'': WhoWantsToLiveForever if you stop healing from your injuries? Taken UpToEleven in the final scene.
* Boris the Bullet Dodger in ''{{Snatch}}''.
* Ken suffers from this in ''AFishCalledWanda''
* This happens to Carl's police car in ''{{Jumanji}}'', until it gets eaten by the giant [[IncrediblyLamePun carnivorous]] vines.
* The T-800 in ''{{Terminator}} 2'': first he cuts off the outer flesh of one arm, then he gets shot up by the cops and beaten up by the T-1000. By the end:

* Lisbeth in ''TheGirlWhoPlayedWithFire'', after a [[spoiler:gunshot to the head, being BuriedAlive in a shallow grave, and survivng 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.
* Eric Idle's character from ''NationalLampoon's European Vacation'', who repeatedly runs into the Griswald family. Hilarity ensues, and Idle's character becomes progressively more injured.
* [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Damon Wayans' & Kadeem Hardison's characters]] in ''ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' suffer a series of injuries throughout, mostly by being repeatedly captured and thrown down [[TheWindowOrTheStairs flights of stairs]].
* Both of the ImplacableMan main characters in ''NoCountryForOldMen''. They repeatedly manage to wing each other, escape, take cover and perform horribly squirm-inducing self-surgery on their wounds before limping back into their game of cat-and-mouse.

* It happens as a jump cut rather than extended narration, but ''Literature/{{The First Law}}'' trilogy features an inversion of this: [[ImAHumanitarian an]] [[PowerAtAPrice Eater]] being [[ColdBloodedTorture interrogated]] by [[StateSec the Inquisition]] and [[CursedWithAwesome painlessly]] collecting a series of third-degree burns, deep cuts, broken limbs, and other horrific injuries as her [[Healing Factor]] starts to run down. The session yields questions instead of answers and, in the face of her defiance and apparent immunity to pain, one of the non-plussed [[TortureTechnician Practicals]] even claims to be "half-way to breaking, myself" by the end.

* It happens as a jump cut rather than extended narration, but ''Literature/{{The First Law}}'' trilogy features an inversion of this: [[ImAHumanitarian an]] [[PowerAtAPrice Eater]] being [[ColdBloodedTorture interrogated]] by [[StateSec the Inquisition]] and [[CursedWithAwesome painlessly]] collecting a series of third-degree burns, deep cuts, broken limbs, and other horrific injuries as her [[HealingFactor]] starts to run down. The session yields questions instead of answers and, in the face of her defiance and apparent immunity to pain, one of the non-plussed [[TortureTechnician Practicals]] even claims to be "half-way to breaking, myself" by the end.

* It happens as a jump cut rather than extended narration, but ''Literature/{{TheFirstLaw}}'' trilogy features an inversion of this: [[ImAHumanitarian an]] [[PowerAtAPrice Eater]] being [[ColdBloodedTorture interrogated]] by [[StateSec the Inquisition]] and [[CursedWithAwesome painlessly]] collecting a series of third-degree burns, deep cuts, broken limbs, and other horrific injuries as her [[HealingFactor]] starts to run down. The session yields questions instead of answers and, in the face of her defiance and apparent immunity to pain, one of the non-plussed [[TortureTechnician Practicals]] even claims to be "half-way to breaking, myself" by the end.

* Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s revival of {{ECW}} had Colin Delaney, a {{jobber}} who would take brutal beatings and come out wearing more and more bandages every week.

Compare: CrushParade when characters and objects are repeatedly run over and trampled by different things; ScarsAreForever when a character bears the marks of past injuries for the rest of his life.

* The main character of ''TheHorriblySlowMurdererWithTheExtremelyInefficientWeapon''.

* Ash during the course of the ''EvilDead'' trilogy.

* Vlad {{Taltos}} also seems to be accumulating injuries, to the point that Steven Brust [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] it with a Creator/TimPowers {{pastiche}} as part of an extended joke at the end of ''Iorich''.
* Tlan Imass in The MalazanBookOfTheFallen. Being {{Undead}}, this doesn't necessarily slow them down much.

* The gun-toting mugger in ''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.

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* Barney in the ''HowIMetYourMother'' episode "The [[Film/LethalWeapon Murtaugh]] List" tries to live like a 21-year-old for a weekend, and this is what happens.

* {{WWE}}'s revival of {{ECW}} had Colin Delaney, a {{jobber}} who would take brutal beatings and come out wearing more and more bandages every week.

* RecurringBoss examples include Klungo in ''BanjoTooie'' and King Bulblin in ''TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''.

* Both of the ImplacableMan main characters in ''NoCountryForOldMen''. They repeatedly manage to wing each other, escape, take cover and perform horribly squirm-inducing self-surgery on their wounds before limping back into their game of cat-and-mouse.

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

* TimPowers, pick a book, any book, and 4 of 5 times this happens to the main character.
* Vlad {{Taltos}} also seems to be accumulating injuries, to the point that Steven Brust [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] it with a TimPowers {{pastiche}} as part of an extended joke at the end of ''Iorich''.

* One TomAndJerry cartoon had Tom showing the cumulative effects of each bit of comic mayhem befalling him - completely atypical of the usual business.

* Barney in the ''HowIMetYourMother'' episode "The [[LethalWeapon Murtaugh]] List" tries to live like a 21-year-old for a weekend, and this is what happens.

* John [=McClane=] was pretty beat up by the end of the first ''DieHard'' movie -- the three sequels, not quite so much.

* ''MaxPayne'' is a non-comedic example.

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

Expect a lot of ClothingDamage, and an attitude of TranquilFury. Can be just as easily PlayedForLaughs or PlayedForDrama.