1 | '''Basic Trope''': Characters never injure their fists during brawls. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice and Bob get into a fistfight with neither of them getting hurt from the constant punches. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice punches Bob and does not hurt her hands even though he's wearing a suit of armor. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice simply slaps Bob and does not hurt her hand. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Alice is NighInvulnerable, so she really does have invulnerable knuckles. Or at least, nigh invulnerable knuckles. |
7 | ** Alice is using gloves. |
8 | ** Alice is punching in soft places. |
9 | ** Alice [[PunchAWall punched walls]] as part of her TrainingFromHell regimen to get those knuckles. |
10 | * '''Inverted''': Alice's knuckles are ridiculously vulnerable. She screams in pain from a single punch. |
11 | * '''Subverted''': Alice seems fine after punching Bob, but then the pain kicks in. |
12 | * '''Double Subverted''': She was pretending to be hurt to lure Bob in and take him down. |
13 | * '''Parodied''': Alice goes around, punching everything, including putting holes through walls when ThereWasADoor but suffers no ill effects. |
14 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice punches Bob and gets hurt. She goes to a fighting champion to learn the proper way to punch and comes back, punching Bob without injury. Then Bob goes off and learns a technique to take a punch. When they next meet, Bob uses a new technique, somehow making himself super tough so that Alice would hurt herself punching him. |
15 | * '''Averted''': Alice punches Bob and hurts her hand. |
16 | * '''Enforced''': The writers want an exciting, prolonged fistfight and the only way to do that is if the fighters continue to punch each other with no problems. |
17 | * '''Lampshaded''': "It's weird. The human skull is really hard but somehow, it doesn't hurt to punch someone." |
18 | * '''Invoked''': Bob tries to avoid getting punched, knowing Alice would hurt him and not bruise her knuckles. |
19 | * '''Exploited''': Alice punches Bob, knowing he will be feel it more than her. |
20 | * '''Defied''': Alice knows she could get hurt punching Bob so she wears gloves. |
21 | * '''Discussed''': Alice and Bob talk about punching people without getting hurt. |
22 | * '''Conversed''': "This movie is unrealistic. Those two have been punching each other so much, their fists should be bleeding and broken by now." |
23 | * '''Implied''': "She hammered Bob for hours. The only blood on he hands was his." |
24 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
25 | ** Alice starts to fight Bob but her hands get sore over the course of the fight. |
26 | ** Alice, after a ''particularly'' hard punch, the skin breaks on her fist, causing it to bleed. |
27 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
28 | ** Then adrenaline kicks in and she simply stops feeling pain. |
29 | ** Alice starts wearing HandwrapsOfAwesome to stop this mistake from happening again. |
30 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Alice punches Bob and he starts whining that his head hurts but her hand doesn't. |
31 | * '''Played For Drama''': Alice is so enraged, she doesn't feel pain or at least it doesn't bother her when she hits Bob. |
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