History Main / NasalTrauma

* [[MultipleGameOpenings The Street Kid prologue]] of ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' starts with V having to manually reset their broken nose after a fight they had just been in.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi_Aisha Bibi Aisha]] made headlines back in 2009 and 2010 when it was revealed that her husband, father-in-law, and three other family members sliced her ears and nose off and left her to die in the mountains after trying to flee their abusive household.

* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': in "[[Recap/TheBradyBunchS4E18TheSubjectWasNoses The Subject Was Noses]]," Marsha gets a football in the nose, leaving it to swell up and ruining a date. Plus, it leads to the fondly-remembered, near-memetic line: "Ooh, my nose!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", after being betrayed by Philip Wittebane and used as bait for a Slitherbeast, Luz and Lilith confront him. When Philip is completely unrepentant, Lilith socks him in the face so hard she breaks his nose. [[spoiler:[[ScarsAreForever This facial trauma persists in the modern day]], where Philip, now Emperor Belos, still has a very obviously crooked nose, and the scar that was left on his face that day would eventually expand into the band of necrotic flesh stretching across his face.]]

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': During their fight, Touma Kamijou rips Shiage Hamazura's nose ring out and then punches him in the nose, causing it to gush blood.

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': AlphaBitch Stephanie Fou Offrey decides to drive a wedge between Olivia and Angelica out of spite for the former. Angelica gets pissed at this and punches her in the face, breaking her nose. [[BullyingADragon And even then Stephanie doesn't learn her lesson]].

* So extremely prevalent in the works of "German father of comics" [[Creator/WilhelmBusch Wilhelm Busch]] that one begins to speculate about a Freudian issue.
* There is a RunningGag in ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' where Tim Drake's new ally, [[HitmanwithaHeart Prudence]] continuously gets her nose broken by various characters.

* During the prison sequence in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Groot rescues Quill from a fellow prisoner by jamming his root-fingers up the guy's nostrils and hoisting him into the air, complete with nasty sound effects. The aftereffects leave the prisoner slumped on the floor in a sobbing heap, hands clasped over his nose.

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-->-- '''The Penguin,''' ''Film/BatmanReturns''

* ''Film/InspectorGadget'': Claw pinches Kramer's nose in the first and [=McKible's=] nose in the second. Both instances are PlayedForLaughs.

* ''Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance'': During Riggan's opening night show, he loads the prop gun with real bullets, intending to commit suicide onstage. Instead he ends up shooting his nose off [[BungledSuicide and fainting]], waking up to find he's still alive, his play is getting incredible reviews for [[EnforcedMethodActing "super realism"]], and he's been surgically given a new nose.

* ''Film/{{Anazapta}}''. The manservant Randall Bacon wears a patch over the hole in his face where his nose was cut off in punishment. The man who did this suffers some LaserGuidedKarma when his nose starts gushing blood after the antagonist [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane apparently gave him the evil eye]].

* ''Film/{{Anazapta}}''. The manservant Randall Bacon wears a patch over the hole in his face where his nose was cut off in punishment. The man who did this suffers some LaserGuidedKarma when his nose starts gushing blood after the antagonist [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane apparently gave him the evil eye]].

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi_Aisha Bibi Aisha]] made headlines back in 2009 and 2010 when it was revealed that her husband, father-in-law, and three other family members sliced her ears and nose off and left to her die in the mountains after trying to flee their abusive household.

* In ''Film/PansLabyrinth,'' Captain Vidal bashes a rebel's nose in with a glass bottle.

* In the ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' episode "Sense and Senility," at any mention of the name of [[TheScottishTrope the Scottish Play]], the two actors must ward off evil spirits with a bizarre series of motions that conclude with them twisting each other's noses. Naturally, [[{{Troll}} Blackadder]] goes out of his way to mention it at every possible opportunity, and the actors are left clutching their noses in pain.

* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': when Battousai first emerges when fighting [[AxCrazy Jin'ei Udo]], the first thing Kenshin does is to suddenly smash him across the face with his blunt Reverse Blade, bending his nose in half. Jin'ei yells in pain, before complimenting his opponent and putting the nose back in shape with an audible "crock" sound.

* ''Literature//GracelingRealm'': Katsa recounts the story of how she discovered her Killing Grace: she panicked as a child when an older, royal man seemed to be taking interest in her... and proceeded to smash his nose into his face so hard it killed him. She was just a child at the time.