Major Injury Underreaction / Anime & Manga

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Major Injury Underreactions in Anime & Manga.

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• While the setting in Angel Densetsu is pretty much realistic, and it was not a very deep wound, usually you do at least notice when you're being stabbed in the face!. Bloody-faced Kitano is even scarier than normal... if such a thing is possible.
• Attack on Titan:
  • Reiner Braun does this on multiple occasions. The first time, a smaller Titan chomps on his arm and breaks it. He throws it over his shoulder in a fireman's carry and helps chuck it out the window. Hours later, after revealing himself to be The Mole, he's brutally attacked by Mikasa and ends up with one arm missing and the other badly mangled. He still manages to get back up and fight, which is justified since he's noted to be tough as an ox and has a Healing Factor.
  • Levi, humanity's legendary strongest soldier, breaks his ankle during a mission. His response is to wince slightly and keep going.
  • Erwin Smith proves just why he's in charge of the Survey Corps when a Titan bites into his arm and starts carrying him off. He continues shouting orders without pause because he doesn't have time to react to his injuries. He shows up a short time later with his arm completely severed from just below the bicep and saves the day.
• Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost: When Belle finally returns to the living world after the Faceless Arc, she freaks out because Beast's hands was charred to the bone and apologizes profusely, since that happened because he rescued her. He insists that his hand is okay and the most important is that she is alive. Justified, because the curse gave him immortality and, apparently regenerate his body, too. A few moments later, he is talking to Belle again and his hand is perfectly heatlhy, without even a scar.
• In Berserk Guts does this a lot, especially in the Golden Age Arc movies. Multiple arrows pierce his arm, including one which pierces his hand, to which he simply comments that it might make things interesting. At one point Casca stabs him in the chest, and he just remains on his feet and continues talking. All of this is well before obtaining berserk armor, which allows him to completely ignore any pain from his injuries.
  • And he manages to catch Casca before she falls from a cliff with aforementioned chest wound, and pulls her up.
• In episode 4 of Betrayal Knows My Name Zess's response to getting stabbed in the chest with a BFS and bleeding all over the ground is to smile softly at Yuki and say "I'm fine."
  • And in episode 13, Takashiro's response to getting four ice spears stabbed into his back is to wince and tell Yuki "I'm fine." (Turns out he has a Healing Factor.)
• Sebastian on Black Butler loses an arm in the final fight at the end of season one. He doesn't seem particularly bothered by it, displaying no obvious pain, and it ultimately doesn't hamper him in the fight much. His main concern is that it messes up his 'perfect butler' image. He doesn't seem to be able to fix it, though the point quickly becomes moot as once he devours Ciel's soul, he will no longer have need to maintain his butler form.
• Bleach:
  • Chad took a steel girder to the shoulders and a head-on collision with a motorcycle without even the slightest complaint (the cyclist was hurt more than he was) before he even developed his powers.
  • Also, Ishida is surprisingly calm after losing the use of his left hand (cut off in the manga, badly broken and burned in the anime), especially considering he needs two hands to operate his main weapon. He later feels well enough after being impaled to (albeit gently) snark at Ichigo.
  • Orihime too. In her introductory arc she gets hit by a car (one too many times, according to her) yet she laughs it off, claiming that the driver didn't mean to hurt her on purpose.
  • Then there's Kenpachi, who reacts like this after getting jabbed at by multiple blades:
    Kenpachi: Is that all? I'm disappointed.
  • Similarly, in 497 Kyoraku gets shot in the right eye point-blank by a member of the Vandenreich. And he merely smiles and says "Tsk tsk... this is bad".
  • In 580, Giselle from the Vandenreich gets half of her shoulder sliced off without falling off her. What does she do? Smile and giggle. Then she puts herself back together. And uses her Blood Magic/People Puppets powers to drive the guy who harmed her AND his companions to suicide. One chapter later, she's tossed against a building by Ichigo and gets a broken neck outta the deal. She resets it as easily as cricking a joint.
  • Taken up to eleven in 611. Ichibei is brought Back from the Dead after a ferocious battle with Yhwach himself, and treats the injuries he got as well as his revival like something that happens every day. Ichigo and Ganju can't believe it.
• Avoided in Blood+. Several Chevaliers avoid any major reactions (screaming in pain, etc) when they undergo injuries. These injuries include having arms sliced off and giant holes ripped through their stomach. However, many of these aren't major injuries in the first place as they heal extremely quickly.
• Case Closed: During the climax of the case he debuted, Makoto Kyogoku gets his upper arm stabbed with a knife and he treats it like as if it's just a scratch. He beats and kicks the shit out of the criminal while the knife is still stuck in his upper arm. After the criminal is knocked out, Makoto pulls out the knife like if it's nothing.
• Claymore: Lose an arm? Don't worry: Claymores will look shocked for a moment and continue fighting. If they're offensive, they can easily reattach the limb, or even better, if they're a defensive type, they'll just regenerate the limb later. Legs are a different deal entirely - because they won't be able to escape without them! Also when they lose both arms, so now they can't hold their sword or reattach their other arm. The realization hits them at that point.
  • Perhaps best exemplified by Roxanne's reaction to Awakened Cassandra biting off and eating her left arm: "Oh?" Her facial expression at that moment amounts to what one usually has upon someone calling out to you by name.
• In episode 5 of The Devil is a Part-Timer!, Ashiya is shot by Lucifer with a magical beam and has a rather large hole in his chest. In his dying moments, he tells his friend Maou different ways to save money. He actually managed to recover later.
• In Dragon Ball Z, Goku accidentally injured his wife Chi-Chi by attempting to give her a reassuring pat on the back, only to instead send her flying through a wall, a tree, and half a boulder. Normally Goku does know his own strength so such accidents don't happen, but he actually forgot that he was in Super Saiyan form at the time. Chi-Chi doesn't even scream in pain or go to the hospital. However, in the next scene, she's seen with a few bandages and her arm in her sling. Of course, she's a martial artist herself.
  • Freeza plays this trope straight when he's cut in half by his own attack; he lies on the ground and can barely speak due to a lack of energy rather than being in pain. After Goku gives him a bit of energy, Freeza doesn't even appear to notice that he's missing an arm and his lower half as he's floating in the air.
  • Initially averted when Vegeta uses his Final Flash on Cell and blows an enormous chunk out of his body. However after a few seconds of chewing the scenery, Cell cuts the crap and invokes this trope, explaining that he has Piccolo's regeneration ability.
  • Due to his insane regeneration combined with his relatively fragile body, Majin Buu barely reacts to things like having holes punched in him or being reduced to bits.
• Most people scream in agony when someone drives ballpoint pens through their hand and thighs. Durarara!!'s Shizuo Heiwajima, on the other hand, casually wonders if it would be better to patch the wounds up with band-aids or superglue. In a later episode, after Horada shoots him, Shizuo casually strolls into Shinra's house drenched in his own blood.
  Shizuo: Yo.
  Shinra: Oh my God! What happened to you?
  Shizuo: Eh, you know. Got shot.
  Shinra: Your leg and abdominal muscles have taken considerable damage. How are you even walking around like this!?
  Shizuo: Why? ...'Cause I can.
• In the Fate/stay night anime, Shirou and Saber open the door to their house to see Tohsaka Rin beaten to a bloody pulp in the corner by Kotomine. She's smiling when they walk in. Admittedly, this is because they finally got here to help her, but the image is quite jarring. Shirou is an actual example; for instance, in the game's Unlimited Blade Works route, Shirou takes a spike to his hand defending Tohsaka, and his utter lack of reaction to having a hole in his hand (instead being more concerned about her condition) completely freaks Tohsaka out. It is around this point that she realizes that Shirou is a completely broken person, and begins to take measures to fix this deficiency.
  • Another example, later in the same arc, is when Saber, under mind control, cleaves into his shoulder before cutting towards his neck, and his first thoughts are "That's... not good".
    • The best is in Heaven's Feel, with this direct quote:
      Shirou: Man, I panicked too much. All I lost was my left arm.
  • Gilgamesh finds being fatally sniped by Tiamat in Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia to be quite amusing more than anything. Then again, this is Gilgamesh we're talking about.
  Gilgamesh: Worry not! It's only a mortal wound!
  • Lancer in Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] is ordered by Kotomine via Command Seal to commit suicide, so he uses his spear to stab himself in the heart. But due to his Battle Continuation skill, he's Not Quite Dead. He ends up stabbing Kotomine in the heart a short time later.
  Lancer: If a scratch like that did me in, I wouldn't be much of a hero.
  • In Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel, when Sakura slices off Gilgamesh's leg, he doesn't react in pain and instead gets pissed because doing that almost made him bow to her.
• In an Episode of [1] a cloaked Kenshiro walks in on a Mohawak ready to saw a guys head in half. Kenshiro (Either intentionally or accidentally) pisses off the Mohawak who then orders Kenshiro to saw the guys head instead in exchange for letting him live. Kenshiro after picking up the saw proceeds to swing it and lodge it right into the Mohawks head. The Mohawks reaction despite having a saw in his brain:
  Mohawk: I'm-I'm not the one...

• At the start of Fly Me to the Moon, Tsukasa saves Nasa from being hit by a truck, although Nasa's badly hurt in the process. Despite blood gushing from his head, Nasa is able to chase after Tsukasa to ask her name and offer to go out with her, although when the adrenaline gives out, he collapses. Tsukasa, who took the brunt of the impact, is even less affected, although it's strongly implied that she is no ordinary human.
• In chapter 15 of Franken Fran, Fran is nearly decapitated. Her reaction is to croak out "Begin... oper...ation" and sew her head back on. By the time her sister/bodyguard Veronica shows up, Fran is more worried about the woman who hired the guy to kill her because she's afraid an experimental medical treatment might not work properly. Justified in that Fran's an Artificial Human, it's not even a given that she feels pain and having backup systems in case of decapitation is not out of the question, so her lack of reaction makes sense.
• In Fullmetal Alchemist most of the Homunculi embody this trope. Being practically invincible they don't have to worry about things that would kill any normal human. The exception seems to be Envy, who reacts quite realistically to having his eyeballs boiled and blown apart multiple times, and Lust, who seems to be reacting rather realistically to being burned over and over, albeit as long as she's actually on fire. Once she heals, she seems to have stopped feeling the pain.
  • Also Lan Fan for when her arm is cut off she cares nothing of her own safety. Further reinforced by the fact she was the one who cut her own arm (which had previously been wounded and rendered unusable by Wrath's attack) off without a second thought.
  • Major Armstrong gets into a bit of this as well, while fighting Sloth; Sloth dislocates his shoulder. His response? He lets Sloth continue to hit him there until Sloth knocks it back into place.
  • Captain Buccaneer gets some points when he wakes up after a fight to find himself run through with a sword and a growing pool of blood around himself. His only comment is "Oh... better leave it in." (Actually good medical advice: if a person is impaled by something, taking it out will only make them bleed more.) He pulls out the sword and stabs Bradley while the latter is distracted by Fu's attempted Heroic Sacrifice, which results in Buccaneer bleeding to death in short order.
• In Gamaran, a member of the Muhou Ryu's 47th Division punches a stone boulder so hard that his whole hand turns into a pathetic, broken waste. He reacts with a dull "Uh... Broken...". Justified as, like all the members of the 47th, he uses a deadly drug that prevents him from feeling pain at all.
• In Haou Airen, Hakuron is shot to death. His reaction is to calmly go towards the church where he was supposed to get married. There, he spends his last moments next to his weeping bride Kurumi, comforting her about the fact that they won't spend the rest of their life together.
• Haruhi Suzumiya: Yuki Nagato's reaction to six sharp poles passing through her body: "I am fine." Shortly after, she turns her opponent into a pile of sand. Her opponent likewise has minimal reaction to this.
• Hellsing often has Seras getting stabbed and wounded but barely reacting, 'cuz you know, she's a a vampire-hunting vampire and she's freaking cool. And let's not even talk about Alucard. Most grievous injuries will at best make him laugh. Sometimes, he'll pretend to be defeated, then suddenly regenerate and start killing the enemy much harder, taunting him to also up the ante. Sir Integra gets Shot in the eye by Major in OVA 10 and barely flinches.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • Lithuania gets all his fingers broken by his date, Belarus. He considers the date to be pretty good and goes to tell his friend Poland about it. While she's still doing it.
  • In one comic, Russia's heart falls out of his chest. While the other nations are freaked out, not only is he unconcerned but says that this happens on a semi-frequent basis. Russia's also fine one scene after having broken all his bones jumping out of a plane, implying there's a Good Thing You Can Heal factor involved, and barely reacts to a polar bear gnawing on his head.
• Played with in Higurashi: When They Cry. When Shion tears off her own fingernails, she reacts realistically to the first one. When told she has two more to go, she insists it doesn't hurt. When she misses the second nail and doesn't tear it off completely and is told she needs to do it over, she flips out and starts screaming and flailing. She's restrained with a blanket over her head and it's implied that the task is completed by force.
  • In one of the answer arc episodes, after getting hit in the head by a chair, Keiichi and his friends don't seem to care, compared to their fear before he got hit in the head, especially considering that it was Shion doing the hitting, of all people. A very angry Shion.
• Hunter × Hunter:
  • Hisoka's response to getting his arm ripped off in a tournament fight is to grin, take a bite out of it, and wave it around for a while with his other arm while mocking his opponent. He then fakes reattaching it to mess with the guy's mind, plays with him until he breaks, and then leaves and calls in a specialist to sew it back on with microscopic energy stitches. Then he has a shower scene.
    • Hisoka does this a lot, actually. In the Greed Island arc, during a deadly game of dodge ball, he uses his Bungee Gum to catch and ricochet a speeding cannonball, calmly stating that he "only broke three fingers."
  • Later in the manga Kaito gets his arm lopped off, he shows near to no reaction.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • In Part 1, Dio Brando pretty much ignores the fact that he's been vertically sliced in half for nearly a whole chapter. Once he gets the opportunity to patch himself up, he expresses some annoyance at getting himself to line up again.
    • In Part 3, he notices that one of his legs is cut off. He simply asks a nearby person to pick it up and give it to him, because it was placed far away from him so that he can put it back on.
  • In Part 2, Straizo gets shot at by the tommygun Joseph pulls out from behind himself and when that doesn't work, he gets blown up by grenades planted on his back and still gets up with his legs disabled. The Pillar Men, due to Kars's manipulations, can survive grievous injuries. One example is when Esidesi swallows a stick of dynamite and his belly swells like a cartoon character would in that scenario.
  • Even mere mortals in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure tend to regard gunshot wounds, blunt trauma, severed limbs, and dangerous amounts of blood loss as mere annoyances distracting them from winning the current fight. It's so commonplace that when an aversion occurs, it happens to characters meant to be seen as pathetic or weak, such as Illuso from Part 5 freaking out over having to cut off his hand or D an G from Part 6 bawling his eyes out after his left arm was mutilated by Guccio's ribs. Somewhat justified in that the majority of these people are Stand Users, for whom extraordinary willpower is part and parcel.
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes gives us this. If you haven't noticed yet, Reuenthal is kind of badass.
• In Love Hina, whenever Keitaro's mentor Seta crashes his van (which is quite often), he emerges from the wreckage cheerfully oblivious to whatever gruesome Amusing Injuries he's suffered.
• In the English dub of Lupin III: Part II, Inspector Zenigata would usually say a very nonchalant "Ow..." whenever he got comically injured.
• Medaka Box breathes this trope in regards to its often absurd and unorthodox "fight" scenes. Characters will sometimes make it a point to state that they are suffering from several severe injuries (and often with abnormal specificity), but will typically continue fighting at full force, throwing punches with shattered fists and taking hits in disintegrated shoulders, then hop on a gurney and into an ambulance with a reaction that boils down to "I'm gonna go get patched up now" once all the fighting is over.
  • The antagonist Kumagawa is a special case because 1) he reacts to almost everything with the same smile and inscrutable tone of voice, and 2) he has a Reality Warper power that lets him write things out of existence...like say, "that time I got stabbed through the chest". During Medaka's fight with Kumagawa, where he throws a three-foot-long screw through her chest, and it doesn't really affect her; justified because the attack does little to no physical damage — its main function is something else entirely.
  • Averted in the final main arc. The heroes fight a 5,000-year-old Fallen Hero, and it's said that the damage he inflicts never heals — so when he dislocates Medaka's right shoulder during one battle, it stays dislocated. When things are looking desperate in the final battle, a former enemy uses her de-aging power to make Zenkichi two days younger, which was before he got injured in the first place. Of course, after the enemy is defeated, No Ontological Inertia kicks in and the injuries heal as normal again...which is a good thing, because pretty much the entire cast was on death's door at that point.
• In episode 20 of Future Diary, Uryuu Minene gets her hand blown off. Her reaction? "My hand..." Spoken in a whispered voice, with only a slight wince.
• Rin from Mnemosyne does a preemptive snark: just before being sucked into a running air jet turbine, she utters with hysterical calm, "This... may be too much even for me..." Makes sense, since she doesn't exactly have anything to speak with afterwards. Of course, being an immortal helped her a lot, but she still felt every millimeter of her body being ripped into watery dust.
• Mobile Suit Gundam Wing played with this once. After Heero self-detonated his Gundam, his limp body was thrown some distance away. He wakes up a month later. When Trowa, the one who was caring for him during that time, tells him about his planned "Self-detonation show", Heero's only comment was, "It hurts like hell."
• In Muhyo and Roji, Vector, a powerful half-ghast, barely survives getting crushed by the Hands of Hades, which results in him bloodied and having Blood from the Mouth. He remarks that he's glad the rest of the Magical Law practitioners he's up against aren't as powerful as Muhyo.
• In My Hero Academia, #5 Pro Hero Mirko has her left arm rather gruesomely mangled and torn off by a High-End Nomu. She proceeds to decapitate the Nomu with her legs and then calmly notes that she'll need to stop the bleeding to keep fighting. So Mirko uses her hair as a tourniquet on the remaining stump and keeps on going.
• In general, characters in Naruto don't seem to consider losing limbs anything other than a minor annoyance:
  • Inverted by Hidan, who is relatively immortal and is extremely whiny about the pain caused by deadly injuries. Interestingly enough, it's often not the pain he should be complaining about, such as when he complains about Kakuzu picking up his head by the hair, whereupon Kakuzu notes that being decapitated should have hurt more.
  • Taken to ridiculous levels at the start of the encounter. Hidan's only reaction to being impaled by two large swords is "Who the hell are you?"
  • Deidara takes to an extreme, even knowing that he could probably get his limbs replaced by Kakuzu or use it as part of his plan. Gaara rips his arm off and he merely grins, Kakashi sends the other arm to an alternative dimension and he barely even acknowledges it. Nutter.
  • Done in a completely badass way when the Raikage has his arm set on fire by Amaterasu and is forced to cut it off to keep the fire from spreading which happens without him even flinching and his next line is to tell his medic to quit gawking and stop the bleeding.
  • And Kisame barely reacts at all to Killer Bee throwing a sword into his shoulder, apparently just because it would have gone even further in if Samehada hadn't eaten the chakra the blade was enhanced by. Likewise, his reaction shortly afterward to Killer Bee launching an attack so strong it smash through Samehada and blew open his chest was to calmly let his opponent know this surprised him before Samehada fused with him to heal his injuries. And his reaction to getting his head popped off was to compliment Raikage and Killerbee's speed.
  • Shortly thereafter, Tobi did pretty much the same thing as the Raikage, except he didn't even stop: he just notice his arm was infected with microscopic poison insects, snapped it off at the shoulder with his one other hand, and then drop-kicked it at his opponent. This is probably because, as we later discover, he can regrow the thing. When fighting Konan, the same arm gets destroyed again, and he just seems slightly annoyed.
  • Shisui Uchiha was just a bit exhausted when Danzo ripped out his right eye. To top of that, Shisui then ripped off his remaining eye by himself and gave it in Itachi's care, so Danzo wouldn't get it. Shisui did that like it was nothing.
  • Madara Uchiha endures an incredible amount of injuries without a wince of pain:Shukaku swiss-cheeses him; the tailed beasts smack him around and drop him into corrosive slime; a sand seal suffocates him; and collaborative tail-attack smashes him. He comes out with a lost arm, many bleeding holes, and several broken bones, yet he suffers only exhaustion and shows excitement over being able to fight as a living human again. His crowning under reaction is when he fights Might Gai, with both characters at full power. Gai's final attack bends space, shatters every bone in his leg, and obliterates most of Madara's torso. Madara just laughs while regenerating the damage, relieved that Gai didn't manage to kill him and complimenting him on his Charles Atlas Superpower.
  • It's not just with missing limbs, the Naruto characters in general seem to have an inhumanly high tolerance to getting thrown around like ragdolls. Even being pulled out of the air by the ankle and hulksmashed into the hard earth repeatedly did very little to stop Kakashi in episode 85.
    • Speaking of Kakashi, he didn't seem to mind too much when Madara plucked his left eye from his socket. In fact, while Sakura clearly worried about it Kakashi seemed wholly unconcerned and more focused on what was happening around him. In real life, such injuries tend to lead to death from shock and blood loss if left untreated.
  • Naruto takes this to extremes in Gaiden. He is impaled in the stomach with Sasuke's sword by the villain, and Naruto doesn't even feel it at all and reacts with mere disappointment. He even tries to feign a painful reaction to get some sympathy from others, but Kurama wasn't having any of it and tells him his battle senses have been dulled enough to let something like that happen to him in the first place.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
  • When Negi gets his right arm chopped off in a fight, he just exclaims that he still has his left and continues to fight. Granted, a severed arm can be re-attached with only moderate difficulty in the Magic World, but he didn't know that!
  • Fate Averruncus is completely unconcerned when Tsukuyomi cuts off one of his arms (basically for giggles). He actually uses the severed limb as a comedic prop via patting one of his minions on the head with it when she (rather understandably) freaks out and seems more worried that he did the joke wrong than the fact that his arm is severed. Especially odd considering his earlier reaction to being punched in the face for the first time.
• No Longer Allowed in Another World: When Waldelia runs Sensei through him her claws, he manages to stand back up and emotionally connect with her before collapsing from blood-loss.
• In One Piece the Main Characters and villains being Made of Iron always seem to shrug off things that would kill other Shonen characters, let alone real people.
  • Characters who lose arms (like Shanks, Jozu, Nekomamushi, Perospero) or people who lose legs (like Zeff, Kyros, and Inuarashi) have grand reactions ranging from just wincing in pain to "Oh well it's just a limb" or in Kyros' case not even reacting at all and just keeping on fighting.
  • Justified with Logia Users who thanks to their intangible nature tend to just smile and chuckle at getting their heads cut off or being bisected at the torso.
  • Among the Straw hats The Monster Trio are the most guilty of this.
    • Luffy at one point punches Don Krieg in the face when he was covering himself a spiked cape, the result was Nausea Fuel for everyone except Luffy who didn't even look pained. Later on, Luffy gets a Finger Poke of Doom to the throat from Rob Lucci and just violently coughs, Lucci states if Luffy wasn't a Rubber Man he'd be dead from that. Though that's nothing compared to Luffy's fight with Magellan where he doesn't even cry out in pain at getting his arms melted.
    • Zoro does this a lot, the most notably when Mihawk's BFS autographed his torso and he spends the next arc running around and fighting with a wound that even Arlong the Big Bad of the arc finds horrifying. There's also the time he cut halfway through his shins to escape a trap and could still walk afterward. Most remember the time he took all Luffy's pain and claimed while bloodied that's "It's nothing", averted though as two of Zoro's crewmates heard him screaming in agony before then.
    • Sanji has a remarkable tolerance for pain, at one point after beating his opponent he casually comments that he broke several ribs, in Real Life a jagged edge of rib cage can puncture major blood vessels or internal organs but Sanji kept fighting as normal. Hell, one arc earlier, Sanji was running around after getting his spine cracked and post Time Skip he just clenches his teeth at getting his tibia cracked. Not to mention the time Sanji's response to getting scorched by a massive lightning beam, was to thank the God who did it for lighting up his cigarette.
  • Interesting example with Action Girl Nami as she gets impaled straight through the foot and it clearly hurts but she determinedly shrugs it off saying that compared to what her friend Vivi is going through, it's nothing.
  • Usopp does this occasionally, in his first arc he gets shot in the arm and just keeps running, in a later arc he gets skull smashed by a 4-ton bat to the face and he still stands up again and has a Rousing Speech.
  • Franky after becoming a Cyborg has many moments of this, like just crying in pain at getting shot in the back or when his face gets blasted off and he isn't even winded and the people around him are more concerned.
  • During the climax of the Dressrosa arc, Doflamingo gets his internal organs sliced apart by Law and instead of dying, he just stitches them back together with his Devil Fruit power and doesn't slow in the slightest
  • Saint Saturn one of the Greater Scope Villains of the series’s reaction to Franky ventilating him with a Radical Beam in Egghead is a simply a Fascinating Eyebrow. He has an insane Healing Factor.
  • Whitebeard is the undisputed winner, as he gets half his goddamn face blown off and his reaction is simply irritation and he has no problem having a big Final Speech while lacking most of his head.
• In Princess Mononoke, Ashitaka gets shot through the chest and treats it like a minor inconvenience. While he does eventually pass out, he manages to not only make it out of Irontown first, he does so by lifting a gate made of thick logs one-handed while carrying an unconscious San with his other arm. It's unclear how much of this was the demonic essence afflicting him and how much was just sheer refusal to stop going.
• Zack in The Promised Neverland is the most active member of the Goldy Pond kids, and as such, he's gotten quite used to horrible injury to the point where breaking his wrist is a minor annoyance. Played with in that he's The Medic, primarily because of being used to treating his many, many wounds.
• Corporal Oland from Pumpkin Scissors doesn't feel pain when under the influence of the Blue Lantern and is so used to coming out of it with horrific injuries that he barely even notices them anymore. For example, during the ballroom arc, he gets hit in the head and shoulder with a sledgehammer, hit in the face and stomach with a mace, run over by horses, and thrown through a window. He barely even acknowledges most of these.
• Ramen Fighter Miki: Kankuro hits the ball Miki was pitching him... with his arm. It breaks:
  Kankuro: It’s a home run, isn’t it? It’s my victory. But my left arm seems to have bent in a way it isn’t supposed to. Then it’s a tie, Nya!
• A Running Gag in early Ranma ½ was Kuno would suffer massive damage and only respond with a deadpan "That hurt, you know."
  • Once while in Dr.Tofu's clinic Ranma gets his neck bent when Kasumi came in which unintentionally distracts him. Pointing out his mistake only got his neck bent the other way. He jogs out of the clinic with his head still bent looking for Akane, even asking for her to Nabiki. His neck gets fixed by Akane when she slams his head on the ground when he annoys her (trying to cheer her up). But at the end of the chapter, he once again gets his neck sprained by Akane after he again angers her enough to get beaten up by her.
• In Reborn! (2004), Gokudera, while rushing over to the hospital to give Tsuna roses, got run over by cars a couple of times and is covered in blood. This didn't seem to deter him, and when told by Tsuna that he should go see a doctor, he replies that "this is nothing."
  • The first time Hibari summons his Box Animal, the hedgehog accidentally stabs one of its spikes straight through his hand. Hibari doesn't even blink. The hedgehog, on the other hand, goes batshit; it started multiplying rapidly, freaked out and crying over having hurt its owner, even though, Hibari tries to calm it down.
• Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Played for laughs in episode 4 of the anime. Nanao barely even notices that the garuda took a chunk out of her right side before she killed it, and starts spurting High-Pressure Blood out of the wound—but is still crowing about their victory while the other Sword Roses are all panicking. (In the original novel she walked away from the fight without any injuries worth mentioning.)
• In The Seven Deadly Sins, if Meliodas or Ban react to a wound in the appropriately pained way, that means shit's getting real. Regardless of how long it takes for them to register.
• In Soul Eater, Chrona does this at times. Chrona's reaction to a surprise scythe to the gut is, "Where did that come from?"
• Early in Space Adventure Cobra, Cobra gets impaled on his chest by a sword. He nervously acknowledges his luck that it isn't fatal, but not before turning to his enemy like nothing happened to mock and immediately kill him. The other two times he's seen being Impaled with Extreme Prejudice, however, do knock him out a little more.
• Thanks to their super pain-nullifying pills, the baddies in Sword of the Stranger do this several times, often getting shot by multiple arrows and just continuing to fight or casually chat about something else. In one scene, a man's arm gets lopped off; he hardly notices and seems more upset that he didn't get to finish firing his gun.
• In Trigun, Knives had an odd reaction when Vash shoots him for the first time: instead of writhing in pain, he became totally distraught that his own brother would raise a gun against him.
  • Of course said brother had been very serious about being an Actual Pacifist for most of his (very long) life, so it would be legitimately shocking if not for the fact that Knives had been trying to drive Vash to kill for about the same time
• In Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Pharaoh is knocked from a high cliff by Bakura. He wakes in a cave with a bloodied head and wounds and promptly decides the best thing to do is follow Bakura to his base, to prevent him from attacking the city again. Several other characters display this reaction throughout the series when at their most altruistic - Jonouchi in particular takes a lot of damage throughout the series, in one instance being pummeled by yo-yos from all directions before going off to fight an old gang friend of his.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: While the original Japanese dub already has shades of this, the German dub took it further when it came to the scene when the Three Emperors of Yliaster introduced themselves to Team 5D's. In that scene, Jose and Placido take it very lightly that their fellow emperor Placido had his lower torso removed. Justified, since he's an android and can be repaired, but them saying that "he will be fine" and "he's not feeling so good" cements this trope.

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