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* A villain version occurs in ''Film/TheShining''. Jack sprains his ankle after Wendy knocks him down the stairs with a baseball bat, giving him a LimpAndLivid gait that [[OminousWalk drags things out]] when he's stalking his intended victims [[AxeCrazy with an axe.]]
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* ''Literature/TheHike2023'': Due to the poor visibility when she and her friends reach the mountaintop at nightfall, Maggie slips over and twists her ankle. Luckily, the groups finds a nearby DNT hut to spend the night in, though Maggie's injury will make their journey down the mountain and back to the lodge even more difficult, [[spoiler:especially with a dangerous drug trafficker on their trail]].
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* ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1998'': While fleeing from the Phantom, Paulette gets her foot trapped between two rocks; allowing the Phantom to catch up to her.
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* ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1998'': While fleeing from the Phantom, Paulette gets her foot trapped between two rocks; allowing the Phantom to catch up to her.
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* ''Literature/TheMurderbotDiaries''. In ''Network Effect'', Murderbot is shot full of holes and suspended upside down in a pit to be taken over by [[TheAssimilator TargetControlSystem]]. It's able to free itself, but has suffered damage to a knee joint which later slows Murderbot down when [=TargetControlSystem=] starts chasing it in an infected body.
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* ''Literature/TheMurderbotDiaries''. In ''Network Effect'', Murderbot is shot full of holes and suspended upside down in a pit to be taken over by [[TheAssimilator TargetControlSystem]]. It's The MadeOfIron cyborg is able to free itself, but has suffered damage to a knee joint which later slows Murderbot it down when [=TargetControlSystem=] starts chasing it in uses an infected body.body to chase after Murderbot.
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* ''Literature/TheMurderbotDiaries''. In ''Network Effect'', Murderbot is shot full of holes and suspended upside down in a pit to be taken over by [[TheAssimilator TargetControlSystem]]. It's able to free itself, but has suffered damage to a knee joint which later slows Murderbot down when [=TargetControlSystem=] starts chasing it in an infected body.
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* ''{{FanFic/Anglerfish}}'': Tim breaks his ankle after getting shot in the ankle while fleeing. His armored boot helped deflect the initial shot but it knocked him off a ladder to a bad landing on the pavement beneath. He is unable to put any weight on it for at least the rest of the night even with a splint.
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* ''{{FanFic/Anglerfish}}'': ''Fanfic/{{Anglerfish}}'': Tim breaks his ankle after getting shot in the ankle while fleeing. His armored boot helped deflect the initial shot shot, but it knocked him off a ladder to a bad landing on the pavement beneath. He is unable to put any weight on it for at least the rest of the night even with a splint.splint.
* ''Fanfic/FivePetalsNaruto'': Sasuke suffers a bad fall in the Forest of Death that leaves him with one of these. Unfortunately, his stubborn {{pride}} complicates matters: not only does he prove to be [[UngratefulBastard rather ungrateful]] for all the help he receives from others [[BigDamnHeroes bailing him out]], he refuses to drop out of the Chuunin Exams, insisting [[ICanStillFight he can still fight]] in the tournament. This results in [[BreakTheHaughty more than his ankle being broken]], as he faces the prospect of his leg being ''permanently'' crippled.
* ''Fanfic/FivePetalsNaruto'': Sasuke suffers a bad fall in the Forest of Death that leaves him with one of these. Unfortunately, his stubborn {{pride}} complicates matters: not only does he prove to be [[UngratefulBastard rather ungrateful]] for all the help he receives from others [[BigDamnHeroes bailing him out]], he refuses to drop out of the Chuunin Exams, insisting [[ICanStillFight he can still fight]] in the tournament. This results in [[BreakTheHaughty more than his ankle being broken]], as he faces the prospect of his leg being ''permanently'' crippled.
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* Happens to Naomi from ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'' when [[spoiler:she falls into Heavenly Host Elementary School.]]
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* In the ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' VN, this was originally the reason Rosa decided to stay put and try to fight the goat-headed butlers. While she and Maria were running through the rose garden, Rosa tripped on the steps and broke her ankle, so she couldn't make it to the beach as she had initially planned.
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* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': This was originally the reason Rosa decided to stay put and try to fight the goat-headed butlers. While she and Maria were running through the rose garden, Rosa tripped on the steps and broke her ankle, so she couldn't make it to the beach as she had initially planned.
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* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': This was originally the reason Rosa decided to stay put and try to fight the goat-headed butlers. While she and Maria were running through the rose garden, Rosa tripped on the steps and broke her ankle, so she couldn't make it to the beach as she had initially planned.
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* Happens to Yasmin in ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' while the kids are scrambling to get across the island to the ferry in time. As she was previously the best runner, the injury hurts her psychologically as well as physically because it makes her feel that she's suddenly a burden and she pushes herself overly hard for a while after that. Made worse by Kenji [[TheLoad slacking off]] and making her feel like she's got to do his share of the work as well.
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* Happens to Yasmin in ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' while the kids are scrambling to get across the island to the ferry in time. As she was previously the best runner, the injury hurts her psychologically as well as physically because it makes her feel that she's suddenly a burden and she pushes herself overly hard for a while after that. Made worse by Kenji [[TheLoad slacking off]] and making her feel like she's got to do his share of the work as well.
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* Happens to one of the girls in ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' while the kids are scrambling to get across the island to the ferry in time.
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* In ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' book ''Five Go Adventuring Again'', Anne twists her ankle while running along the Secret Way to escape the villains. Julian firmly hustles her along, and when they see that the villains are going to catch up with them, George uses Timmy to hold them off.
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* Happens in ''Film/{{Predators}}'' to Edwin. He blunders into a trap designed to maim, and gets his leg messed up. However, the hero Royce knows the point of the trap is to wound one person to slow the group down as they try to help him. Royce refuses to make himself vulnerable that way and leaves Edwin to be hobbled around by the sniper Isabelle.
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* ''Film/IntoTheGrizzlyMaze'': While the group is fleeing from the bear, Kasey falls down the mountainside and impales her leg on a broken branch. They bandage her leg and stop the bleeding, but for the rest of the film, she has to be helped to walk by one of the other members of the group.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': In [[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E03ThankYou "Thank You"]], while the Alexandrians are traveling through the woods, Annie trips over a tree root and hurts her ankle. [[spoiler:This leads directly to her death later in the episode when the group is fleeing from a horde of walkers in an abandoned town: Annie's improvised crutch breaks, and she elects to go down fighting rather than slow the others down.]]
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The fact that it happens while fleeing is in fact TruthInTelevision - it's very easy to overextend your foot on uneven surfaces, trip, or land on it wrong. Especially in a panic.
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** Happens to male companion Adric in "The Visitation" while the TARDIS crew are fleeing from hostile locals on 17th Century Earth. He limps away with Nyssa's help, but his race's HealingFactor means the injury soon ceases to be an issue.
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** Happens to male Male companion Adric stumbles and injures his ankle in "The Visitation" while the TARDIS crew are fleeing from hostile locals on 17th Century Earth. He limps away with Nyssa's help, but his race's HealingFactor means the injury soon ceases to be an issue.
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* Happens at least twice to Fiona Belli in the game ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' as part of her massive amounts of CutsceneIncompetence.
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** Kinda justified becauseCutsceneIncompetence. Downplayed in that she actually gets up and runs even if hurt. The second time time, she tries to get crawl away on all fours. She also [[BrokenHeel trips a lot]] when scared in gameplay, too.
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* In a Season 2 episode of ''Series/ElInternadoLasCumbres'' Paul, Amaia, and his sister Adèle sneak away from school to go look for their friend Manu. They almost get caught but manage to get away. All of a sudden, Amaia's foot is caught right at the ankle in a bear trap, and the other two have to carry her to where Manuel might be held captive.
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* In ''Fanfic/OSMUFanfictionFriction'', Orla gets a twisted ankle directly upon landing on the island of Hy-Brasil. Before she can move any further, however, a dragon advances on her and attacks her, and by the time Oswald finds her, she's badly injured.
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* ''{{FanFic/Anglerfish}}'': Tim breaks his ankle after getting shot in the ankle while fleeing. His armored boot helped deflect the initial shot but it knocked off a ladder to a bad landing on the pavement beneath. He is unable to put any weight on it for at least the rest of the night even with a splint.
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* ''Film/{{Urban Legend}}'' features a chase scene involving sexy radio host Sasha. At one point, she's tossed over the railing of a stairwell and twists her ankle after falling. Unable to run, she opts to return to a third floor room to hide before being cornered and murdered by the masked killer.
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* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Parodied in "We Got Hacked!" when the Bodega crew are fleeing from some "glitch zombies" created by malware getting into Dendy's Hack-Pack. Rad sprains an ankle fleeing from the monsters, then tries to keep going but sprains his other ankle. He stubbornly tries to get around this by doing a hand-stand, and proceeds to sprain his ''wrists''.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': Smurfstorm's leg is injured when she falls out of a tree in ''The Betrayal of Smurfblossom''. Though she insists that it's 'just a sprain' and won't slow her down, she winds up slipping when her group is fleeing the destruction of the Growlers' den and is nearly swept away by the floodwaters.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': Smurfstorm's leg is injured when she falls out of a tree in ''The Betrayal of Smurfblossom''. Though she insists that it's 'just a sprain' and won't slow her down, she winds up slipping when her group is fleeing the destruction of the Growlers' den and is nearly swept away by the floodwaters.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'', Heidi fakes a twisted ankle to [[WoundedGazelleGambit get Igor away from Eva.]]
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* ''Film/BloodyHomecoming'': In a RealityEnsues moment, Nora twists her ankle when she jumps out of the bed of a pickup truck while wearing a pair of stiletto heeled ankle boots, which severely restricts her ability to run away from the killer. She is reduced to crawling under parked cars in an attempt to hide.
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