"Of pain, you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm."
— Winston Smith, Nineteen Eighty-Four
An index pertaining to tropes dealing with different kinds of pain.
Tropes:
Related:
- Achey Scars: Scars that continue to hurt in the long term.
- Agonizing Stomach Wound: Wounds to the abdomen are messy, gruesome, and a very slow, painful way to die.
- Agony Beam: A beam or other projection that causes intense pain in those it hits.
- Agony of the Feet: Someone suffers pain in their feet.
- Bandage Wince: Somebody winces while being bandaged up.
- Butt Biter: Someone gets bitten in their butt.
- Cactus Cushion: Someone gets injured on a cactus' spines.
- Cooked to Death: Killing someone with a fryer, oven, or other cooking device.
- Corporal Punishment: Someone hurts someone else as punishment.
- *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": Old people are prone to back pain.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Someone dies in a way that is undignified, often horrific, and very painful.
- Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: If someone is used to living in the dark, normal daylight is painful to them.
- Deliberately Painful Clothing: Wearing clothes to deliberately hurt oneself.
- DIY Dentistry: Trying to remove one's own tooth.
- Ear Ache: Hurting people in the ears.
- Ear-Piercing Plot: A young character wants their ears pierced (which will hurt).
- Eye Scream: Hurting people in the eyes.
- Fashion Hurts: Painful clothes.
- Feel No Pain: Someone is completely insensitive to pain.
- Finger Extinguisher: Using one's hands to douse flames.
- Fingore: Something nasty and painful happens to a character's fingers.
- Groin Attack: Hurting someone in their crotch.
- Headache of Doom: If a character has a headache, something serious is going on.
- High Heel Hurt: A woman (or crossdressing man) gets hurt and/or has trouble walking while wearing high heels.
- Hurt Foot Hop: Someone hurts their foot and hops around on the other while holding their injured appendage.
- I'm Having Soul Pains: A character feels pain in an abstract way, or in a body part that normally doesn't feel pain.
- Injured Self-Drag: A gravely-injured character will not only feel pain because of it, but will continue feeling it (and potentially more so) as they limp or drag to find a safe spot.
- Instant Soprano: A Groin Attack causes the person's voice to become much higher.
- Literal Ass-Kicking: Literally kicking someone's ass.
- Macho Masochism: Undergoing painful experiences, or downplaying how much pain you're in, as proof of manliness.
- Miserable Massage: Massages that hurt.
- Nasal Trauma: Hurting people in the nose.
- Of Corset Hurts: Corsets are painful.
- Ow, My Body Part!: A character in pain yells out the body part that hurts.
- Painful Adhesive Removal: Removing adhesives from skin hurts.
- Painful Body Waxing: Yanking your hairs out with sticky wax hurts.
- Painful Transformation: Shapeshifting hurts.
- Pain Mistaken for Sex: Sounds of discomfort (moaning, screaming, etc.) are mistaken for sounds of sexual pleasure.
- Pain-Powered Leap: When a character is hurt on their butt, they leap into the air.
- Pain to the Ass: Butt injuries.
- "Pop!" Goes the Human: Someone gets blown up like a balloon until they burst.
- Rampage from a Nail: It turns out that the creature was only acting hostile because they were reacting from pain caused by something stuck in a sensitive part of their body.
- Rump Roast: Someone gets their rear end set on fire.
- Sea Hurtchin: Sea urchins are the painful, painful caltrops of the sea.
- Share the Male Pain: Someone reacts to witnessing a Groin Attack by covering their own groins.
- Skip the Anesthetic: An operation with no anaesthesia.
- Sympathetic Wince: A character cringes upon seeing another one in pain.
- Test of Pain: A character is subjected to pain as a way to test their endurance, willpower, or resolve.
- That's Gotta Hurt: A character comments that someone else's injury must have been painful.
- Theatrics of Pain: During a staged fight, the actor on the receiving end of an attack exaggerates the pain.
- Tongue Trauma: Painful damage to the tongue.
- The Tooth Hurts: Hurting people in the teeth.
- To the Pain: A torturer describes to their victim in detail what they're doing, or going to do, to their body.
- Twisted Ankle: A character gets injured and falls while being chased.
- You Won't Feel a Thing!: A character is about to do something nasty to another, but claims it won't hurt or will only hurt a little.
