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When someone is badly injured and you need to get that across, show him post-accident partly or completely encased in plaster casts and/or bandages. Usually, they'll be in a hospital bed, with maybe one or two arms or legs suspended, and completely immobilised.

If the tone of the work is lighter or more comedic, [[Amusing Injuries|expect it to be played for laughs]]. For example, screams muffled by the bandages as a visitor accidentally sits on an injured limb, or the patient trying and failing to crane his neck forward to eat his dessert.

 

 

Not to be confused with [[Bandaged Face]] or [[Bandage Babe]].

 

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* That "Got milk?" commercial with the guy in the full body cast, where the idiot family shoves a cookie into the mouth hole, but don't pay attention when he starts choking for lack of milk? There's a carafe of it ''right next to him''. Pure [[Nightmare Fuel]].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpPhin1p2ok This] ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]'' US commercial shows the misuse of Djinn will lead to.

 

* Horrifyingly used in ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]''.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' - Rei at the beginning and {{spoiler|the Eva itself after its armour comes off}}.

** Also after he fell out of a window in "Ballad of Fallen Angels".

* Played for comedy in ''[[The Slayers]]''; Zolf, a.k.a. the "Mummy Man" in the first season of the television series and Naga in the first episode of the [[The Slayers|Slayers Excellent]] [[OVA]]s.

** It gets a [[Shout-Out]] in ''[[Busou Renkin]]'', from the same author, in which at one point Mahiro bandages Tokiko so much she ends up looking like Shishio.

* The lepers in ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''.

* Isamu in ''[[Macross Plus]]'' after a crash while flight-testing one of the experimental Veritechs.

* An early episode of the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime ("Ignorance is Blissey") has a Blissey wrapping most of Ash's body in bandages, then he turns around to a Nurse Joy who screams at the sight of him.

* Usopp in ''[[One Piece]]'', after the fight with Mr. 4 and Ms. Merry Christmas, in which he, among other injuries, is grabbed, smashed through some walls and hit with a four-ton bat, sending him flying into the air and falling to earth.

 

* When ''[[Mad Max]]'' visits Goose in hospital and sees what's left of him wrapped in bandages, he outright refuses to believe it's Goose.

* Played for comedy in ''[[Johnny Dangerously]]'', where Johnny's brother is in a full-body cast, next to another hospital patient with another full-body cast. His mother identifies Johnny's brother by the color of his eyes, and writes his name on the cast.

* Franz Liebkind is reduced to a version of this by the end of ''[[The Producers]]'', although still wearing his Nazi helmet.

* Happened to the dog in ''[[There's Something About Mary]]''.

 

* One example played simultaneously for laughs and [[Squick]] is from ''[[Catch-22]]'', in which a fully-bandaged wounded flier has one tube going in and one tube going out, and once a day the bottles of fluid attached to each tube are switched around.

* In ''[[Little House on the Prairie|Little House in the Big Woods]]'', a kid who [[Gosh Hornet|gets swarmed by bees]] is shown all wrapped up in the illustrations.

 

* ''[[Get Smart]]'': Max gets the full-body treatment a few times.

* This happens when Jerri runs Mr. Jellineck over in ''[[Strangers with Candy]]''.

** Those lips! Those pillowy lips!

** Done several other times, including the hilarious sketch with fully bandaged patients being forced to wait on the doctors hand and foot, with the most seriously injured among them forced to compete in sports, such as running obstacle courses.

* An episode of ''[[Mr. Bean]]'' had one of the patients of a [[Take a Number]] hospital in a full body cast. He tries jumping the queue by stealing that patient's ticket, among other tactics.

 

* In ''[[Disgaea]]'', [[Recurring Boss|Mid-Boss]] appears like this after one of the fights against him (the third, I think).

* Otani Yoshitsugu from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' is bandaged head to foot due to him suffering from leprosy. It's pretty damn unnerving.

* Joshua Graham of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', due to being burned alive [[You Have Failed Me...|for his failure]] by Caesar. By passing a speech check, he tells you that every night he has to replace the bandages and upon exposing his wounds to the air he feels the pain of being burned alive once again.

 

 

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', the family visits daredevil Lance Murdock in the hospital when Bart decides to become a daredevil. Murdock's arms and legs are in casts & slings, and he signs a headshot with a sharpie in his mouth.

* It's not a complete body binding, but after Thrust gets his metal butt handed to him by Starscream in ''[[Transformers Armada]]'' his next scene shows him with bandages around his pointed head and his arm in a cast. Given that he's a robot one wonders at the point of putting bandages on at all.