Basic Trope: Characters never injure their fists during brawls.
- Straight: Alice and Bob get into a fistfight with neither of them getting hurt from the constant punches.
- Exaggerated: Alice punches Bob and does not hurt her hands even though he's wearing a suit of armor.
- Downplayed: Alice simply slaps Bob and does not hurt her hand.
- Justified:
- Alice is Nigh-Invulnerable, so she really does have invulnerable knuckles. Or at least, nigh invulnerable knuckles.
- Alice is using gloves.
- Alice is punching in soft places.
- Alice punched walls as part of her Training from Hell regimen to get those knuckles.
- Inverted: Alice's knuckles are ridiculously vulnerable. She screams in pain from a single punch.
- Subverted: Alice seems fine after punching Bob, but then the pain kicks in.
- Double Subverted: She was pretending to be hurt to lure Bob in and take him down.
- Parodied: Alice goes around, punching everything, including putting holes through walls when There Was a Door but suffers no ill effects.
- 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.
- Averted: Alice punches Bob and hurts her hand.
- 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.
- Lampshaded: "It's weird. The human skull is really hard but somehow, it doesn't hurt to punch someone."
- Invoked: Bob tries to avoid getting punched, knowing Alice would hurt him and not bruise her knuckles.
- Exploited: Alice punches Bob, knowing he will be feel it more than her.
- Defied: Alice knows she could get hurt punching Bob so she wears gloves.
- Discussed: Alice and Bob talk about punching people without getting hurt.
- Conversed: "This movie is unrealistic. Those two have been punching each other so much, their fists should be bleeding and broken by now."
- Implied: "She hammered Bob for hours. The only blood on he hands was his."
- Deconstructed:
- Alice starts to fight Bob but her hands get sore over the course of the fight.
- Alice, after a particularly hard punch, the skin breaks on her fist, causing it to bleed.
- Reconstructed:
- Then adrenaline kicks in and she simply stops feeling pain.
- Alice starts wearing Handwraps of Awesome to stop this mistake from happening again.
- Played For Laughs: Alice punches Bob and he starts whining that his head hurts but her hand doesn't.
- 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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