Line #9 PlayingWith/InvulnerableKnuckles


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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