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Florien
Since: Aug, 2019
9th Jan, 2020 11:29:42 PM
Possibly a more specific case of Mutilation Conga.
4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
9th Jan, 2020 11:34:39 PM
The TLP draft "Attack the Injury"
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
Someone receives an injury (typically from an enemy) in a single spot on the body. Then they receive it again. If these instances are spread across a long enough time to recover, it's just a running gag. By contrast, this trope involves someone getting hurt in the same spot in fairly quick succession. This may lead to the escalation of pain, which could be for practical reasons, or just to be a jerk.
Example: In the Tom & Jerry short "Trap Happy," Tom and Butch lift an entire wall to get to Jerry, who smashes Tom's foot with a hammer. Tom leaps away in pain, and Butch can't hold it alone, so the wall comes crashing down on his fingers. Jerry then smashes Butch's trapped fingers, ending on two of them with a loud crunch. Since Jerry is safe for the moment, he has little reason to do this, and the smile he has the whole time makes it clear that he likes dishing out that punishment.