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** Another Archie universe story inverted this trope with Alex Cabot, one of the managers of [[Josie and the Pussy Cats]]. When Alex gets a black eye, he claims that he got it in a fistfight, while everyone else thinks that he walked into a door. Alex continually denies it, but when he gets up to leave he gets nailed in the ''other'' eye by a door. The last panel shows a dazed Alex sitting on the floor with two black eyes, mumbling that it was the same door that got him the first time.

* In ''[[The Question]]'', it's a running gag for Victor Sage to have a snappy response when someone notes he has no face (the desired look of his special mask) such as "Dang those safety razors, you really have to watch them."

* An arc of ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' had a [[Running Gag]]/subplot of Peter Parker attempting to explain to his boss his injuries from battling super villains the night before. His excuses included a pot exploding in the microwave, to falling into the gorilla cage at the zoo.

 

* In [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s [[Warhammer 40,000]] novel ''Scourge The Heretic'', in face of a corpse that had been torn to shreds, Kyrlock guesses that he didn't cut himself shaving. (Drake appreciates it; he had been on the verge of vomiting.)

* In ''[[The English Patient]]'', the title character acquires a number of scars during his affair with Katharine Clifton (ranging from punches to a stabbing with a fork). He explains them away as accidents; the rest of the group seem to believe him, and decide he's incredibly clumsy.

* In [[Simon Green]]'s [[Hawk And Fisher]] series, one-eyed Hawk tells a noblewoman who asks him what became of his eye that he lost it in a card game.

* Subverted in ''[[Dolores Claiborne]]'' by [[Stephen King]]. Although Joe does have a history of beating her, she stopped him from doing so months before. She really, honestly did simply injure herself on accident. But the checkout lady refuses to believe her. However, both her and Joe do use the large bruise to let him save face by ''pretending'' that he gave it to her. It's complicated.

{{quote|I fell down some stairs. Stairs filled with doorknobs. Doorknobs shaped like fists?}}

* Subverted in [[Questionable Content]], where Hannelore really does just [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1207 bump her head]. The officer has good reason to be concerned, though.

* Played with in ''[[Least I Could Do]]''.

{{quote|'''Rayne''': I fell down some stairs.

11:16 Ook: Them little bugs what take apart machines?

11:16 Chris:..repeatedly.. }}

* In the zombie parody ''[[Dusk Of The Dead]]'', a survivor has a conversation with a bitten person that goes something like this:

{{quote|"That's a pretty nasty cut."