Basic Trope: A character gets stabbed and pulls the blade out without bleeding.
- Straight: Bob accidentally drops a knife on his foot, then pulls it out. His foot hurts slightly less after removal.
- Exaggerated: Blades can only hurt people if they're inside them, and removing the blade means instant healing.
- Downplayed: Bob pulls the knife out of his foot, but he is clearly weakened, limping and bleeding.
- Justified: Bob has a Healing Factor, allowing him to heal quickly.
- Inverted: Bob suffers a gunshot wound, and inserts a knife into his wound to stop the bleeding.
- Subverted: When Bob reaches to pull the knife out of his foot, Alice begs him not to, citing that he will bleed profusely if he does.
- Double Subverted: But Bob pulls it out anyway with little consequence.
- Parodied: Alice removes the blade, but Bob tells her to put it back in.
- Averted: Bob never attempts to pull out the knife, and leaves it in until surgeons can make a decision on it.
- Enforced:
- Leaving a knife in the main character for a while will look too gruesome for the show, and they can't simply leave him offscreen, so it's removed quickly.
- A video game shows a knife sticking out of a character to show that they're weakened, and removing it indicates they are healed.
- Lampshaded: "Removed with minimal bleeding".
- Deconstructed: Bob removes the knife from his foot, which causes him to die from blood loss.
- Reconstructed: Bob suffers a knife to the chest, which caused dangerous internal bleeding. Surgeons manage to remove the knife and stabilize the wound before it kills Bob.
- Exploited: Lodged-Blade Recycling
- Defied: When Bob tries to remove the blade himself, Alice restrains his arms, knowing blade removal is the wrong idea.
- Discussed: "That looks pretty nasty, let's remove the knife."
- Conversed: "Those characters removed the knife without consequence? Definitely sets a bad example for people watching."
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