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{{trope}}
[[File:fear-of-needles-trypanophobia.jpg|frame|[[Blatant Lies|This won't hurt a bit.]] [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|Now, hold still...]]]]
{{quote|''"Oh, quit your whining. I have a three-year-old daughter that complains less than you!"''|''[[Ranma
You're tough. Tougher than tough. You're [[Made of Iron]]! What's more, nothing, and we mean ''nothing'' can surprise you or unsettle your [[The Stoic|Stoic]] countenance. Except for injections, that is. Those make you [[Screams Like a Little Girl|scream like a little girl]] and [[Cower Power|hide behind]] your [[Love Interest]]. Trypanophobia, the fear of injections and hypodermic needles, is a recognized disorder in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the psychiatrist's bible) which is estimated to afflict up to 10% of adults.
For some reason, the [[Fatal Flaw]] of many a [[Badass]] is fear of hypodermic needles and antiseptics. [[Never Bring a Knife To A Fist Fight|Not knives]], [[BFG|not absurdly large guns]], not even ''[[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Snakes!]]'' There's just something deliciously ironic about a [[Big Damn Heroes]] who routinely gets [[Minor Injury Overreaction|cut up]] with [[BFS|huge knives]], [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|beat to]] [[One
Even the [[Fearless Fool]] can fear needles.
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A subset of [[Fatal Flaw]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Edward Elric from [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime)|the 2003 anime adaptation]] of [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] acts like an adult, but betrays his young age when he has to be restrained to have an injection. This is the child, who, after performing an unholy ritual and ''losing a limb'', does it ''again'', even offering his ''heart'' to bring back his brother... Then, when being fitted for automail to replace the arm and leg and having things connected to his nerves, didn't cry once. Mustang commented he had seen grown men break down crying from this process.
* A creepy example is ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]] 's'' Pierrot Le Fou, an insanely violent assassin who is impervious to guns - and yet, when he gets hit with a small knife, he starts bawling his eyes out. This event reveals his [[Psychopathic Manchild|true nature]]. The stab was bad enough to fully justify his collapsing and screaming. Flailing around and calling for mommy, not so much.<br /><br />His suit deflected bullets flying at him before they could even touch him, which probably meant he doesn't feel any pain from them at all. The knife actually penetrated the force field, which meant it really did hurt, and was possibly the first instance of pain he's felt since his 'conditioning'. More of a fear of pain, then a fear of needles.
* ''[[Ranma
* Not only is he afraid of needles, but Yogi from ''[[Karneval]]'' utterly fears being anywhere ''near'' Doctor Akari, which provides humor for the readers insofar (though there could be more to it). Gareki is probably correct to guess that it's the after-effect of a traumatic surgery done or headed by said doctor.
* The [[Hot Blooded]] [[Kid Hero]] Jin from ''[[Zettai Muteki Raijin Oh]]'' is turned to a screaming freak at the sight of needles. This fear even incapacitated him for a while in a [[Humongous Mecha|mecha]] battle when he was made to face a ''syringe''-themed [[Monster of the Week]].
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* Possibly Keiichi from [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]. When he's {{spoiler|hallucinating from Hinamizawa syndrome he thinks there's needles in the ohagi and that a marker as an injection needle. Hinamizawa syndrome makes you hallucinate some of the things you're most afraid of.}} So it would make sense.
** It's actually explained that when he was younger, Keiichi saw a movie where a guy was killed when he swallowed needles that had been hidden in his food. The scene freaked him out to the point he's since had an irrational fear of finding needles in his food.
* [[Berserk|Guts]]: [[Badass|A guy]] who's [[Covered in Scars]], [[Made of Iron]], and whose [[Attack Attack Attack|ultimate attack]] is basically [[Foe
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* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Gaunts Ghosts]] novel ''The Guns Of Tanith'', Gaunt arranges to have his shot before his men rather than in his cabin to set a good example; Dorden says they've had a few shirkers.
{{quote| ''They'll bayonet anything, but the sight of a needle --''}}
* In [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]]'s novel ''A Fall of Moondust'', the passengers of a buried moon rover are sedated to conserve oxygen until rescue can arrive. One passenger has to be physically knocked out to bypass his fear of needles {{spoiler|which was hypnotically imposed as a cure for drug addiction.}}
* Surprising, Bex of ''[[The Gallagher Girls]]'' has a slight case of this.
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{{quote| '''Rachel:''' You don't say! [[Sarcasm Mode|Because MINE was licked on by kittens]]!}}
** Ross doesn't like needles either. In one episode, he has a severe allergic reaction to kiwi fruit and doesn't want to go to the hospital for a shot. He suggests that they could "take the needle and squirt it into my mouth, you know, like a squirt gun" instead. Monica says he can hold her hand while he gets the shot; he grips it so tightly that she ends up with a bone bruise and a puncture wound from her ring.
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* In [[Sanctuary]], Will's date can't stand needles, so she stays away while he's forced to function as doctor by their captors. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, she still gets stuck by a different kind of needle, in an effort to get Will to work harder.}}
* Early in ''[[Smallville]]'', Clark uses this as an excuse to get out of a blood drive.
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* In the ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' episode ''Needle Point'' it reveals that the leader of the penguins is deathly afraid of shots. Even to the point that he almost had his team leave their home forever, then viciously fights them to get out of getting one. The other three even were afraid he might leave the zoo on his own and never return.
* ''[[Transformers Cybertron]].'' Done with [[Humongous Mecha]], no less, with the [[Hand Wave]]-by-[[Techno Babble]] version of a needle. The team ''dreaded,'' the idea of injection, especially Leobreaker. He's not the worst, though: Red Alert has to ''chase Jetfire down''.
* ''[[Batman:
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