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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|''"If my head were any harder, you could use it for a cannon ball."''~~\|'''Pazu''', ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky\|Castle in The Sky]]''}}~~ \|'''Pazu''', ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky\|Castle in The Sky]]''}} Concussion? What's that? A subtrope of [[Made of Iron]], perhaps its most common usage. Whether in a [[Tap on the Head]] situation, [[Use Your Head]], or any other, [[The Hero]], the villain, the assorted small fry all spring back from the head injury without further ~~ado -- unless~~ado—unless [[Easy Amnesia]] is needed. (Which will only be retrograde amnesia. He will have no memory problems with events after the injury.) All right, you can also have [[Circling Birdies]] if you want. But ''nothing else.'' Line 14 ⟶ 15: Can sometimes be [[Justified Trope\|justified]] in cases of alien biology, superpowers, or artificial enhancement. Not to be confused with [[Hollow-Sounding Head]]. {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == Anime &and Manga == * Killy, the protagonist from ''[[Blame]]'', takes more physical punishment than any normal human would ever be able to survive. Most notably in one chapter, where he gets half his head ''blown off''. It has its consequences, naturally, but he still gets better. * In one episode, ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is thrown upside down into the air and hits the ground with her head without any lasting consequences. To be fair, all Sailor Senshi are regularly tossed around by the [[Monster of the Week]] and usually don't sport any visible injuries, but that example was particularly jarring. * Averted in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' when Revy actually gets a concussion, rendering her non-responsive for about a whole episode, during her fight against {{spoiler\|[[Ninja Maid\|Roberta]]}}. Granted, in the anime it took no less than a near-direct hit with a grenade launcher (just an armor-piercing round to the shoulder in the manga), but still... ** Not to mention the fact that she fully recovered less than an hour later, immediately after being in ''a car crash''. * The Saiyans from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' generally seem to have this, although ~~Goku -- despite~~Goku—despite the [[Easy Amnesia]] he suffered as a ~~child -- seems~~child—seems to be a notable case, and it was commented on multiple times by other characters, including fellow Saiyan Vegeta. ** He did beat a guy in a combat robot suit by ''headbutting it.'' {{quote\| '''Krillin''': I hope he's got a seat belt in [the Saiyan Space Pod].~~<br />~~ '''Yamcha''': Why? To protect the ship from Goku's head? }} * Ryōga Hibiki of ''[[Ranma ½]]''. Even for someone who uses [[Supernatural Martial Arts]], he's considered insanely tough. His most well-know "technique" is the Bakusai Tenketsu, [[Training ~~From~~from Hell]] in which he slammed himself face-first into boulders so much that he toughened up way into the higher grades of [[Made of Iron]]. There was one gag where he headbutted a concrete pole so hard that he not only dented it (noting that it didn't hurt in the slightest), but it actually cracked in half and fell on his head with enough force to shatter into pieces after he turned around. This resulted in a [[Cranial Eruption]] and him commenting that it hurt a little. In at least the anime version of the "Waterproof Soap" story, after Ryōga's apparent "cure" has been revealed, Ranma [[Cute Bruiser\|casually lifts a huge boulder]] and slams him on the head with it, only for Ryōga to pop back up, completely oblivious, causing it to flip over and crush Ranma instead. * In the manga ''Ironfist Chinmi'', one of the first [[Villain of the Week\|minor opponents]] that Chinmi fights are a pair of identical twin martial artists called [[Meaningful Name\|the Stonehead Brothers]]. They've taken this trope and made a form of [[Martial Arts and Crafts]] based around it. * ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'': Yusuke Urameshi displays this, most notably during the Dark Tournament when an opponent tries to [[Tap on the Head\|incapacitate him with a large rock.]] Not only does this only barely stun Yusuke, the rock crumbles to pieces on impact. Line 46 ⟶ 47: == ~~Comics~~Comic Books == * Notoriously, ''[[The Spirit]]''. "Hand me that chair, Lorelei, this one's got a head like concrete...." * The horrid comic ''Rock Heads'', MiSTed [http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics158.html here.] * The IDW ''[[Transformers]]'' comic series gets a groan-inducing [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] out of this when [[Punny Name\|Hardhead]] gets shot in the face. {{quote\| '''Hardhead:''' Hard. Head. It's not just a name, you know.}} * [[Spider-Man]] villain Hammerhead has an [[Unobtainium\|Adamantium]] plate embedded in his head. Of course that's not the entirety of his ~~shtick -- he~~shtick—he's a mobster movie fanboy, who dresses and acts like Al Capone and often uses a tommy gun. * In ''[[The Beano]]'', it's a [[Running Gag]] that Smiffy of The Bash Street Kids is [[What an Idiot!\|so thick]] that his head is indestructable. * Played with in one of Don Martin's paperback collections. One story tells of Fester Bestertester discovering that Karbunkle has "The Hardest Head In The World". The plot then becomes a parody of the typical movie rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-recovery story ... Karbunkle becomes a star, rich living [[Literal Metaphor\|makes him soft]] (literally, to where his skull can't even stand up to creamed spinach), his [[The Power of Love\|family forgives him]], and he [[Training Montage\|works his way back]] to [[Earn Your Happy Ending\|success again]]. Line 58 ⟶ 59: == Films -- Animation == * In ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]'', after Pazu jumps off a wall, [[Strong Flesh, Weak Steel\|crashes through a brick floor]], and lands on the floor, he give the page quote. He gets plenty other blows to the head throughout the movie. ** In the original Japanese, he says something closer to: "My head is harder than [[Unfortunate Implications\|my boss's fist.]]" * In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: [[Advent Children]]'', Rude has a thick metal billboard ''and its supporting structure'' fall on his head while he's busy fighting Loz. The billboard AND the structure bend/split in half where they connect. He's only momentarily stunned. ** He also gets whacked upside the head by Reno's ~~Nightstick -- which~~Nightstick—which did send him stumbling, but he recovers remarkably fast. * ''Film/Nine'': Even after 9 smacks him in the face with a monkey wrench (by accident, of course), 2 only needs to be helped back onto his feet and walks around, with seemingly no ill effects from the blow, despite the fact he's one of the older stitchpunks. Of course, his head gear might have absorbed a lot of the blow. ** That and for all we know there isn't anything ''in'' his head that would be damaged by it. * Averted in a scene in the [[Pixar]] movie ''[[Up]]''. Early in the movie {{spoiler\|Carl}} in a moment of anger hits a man over the head with a metal object ({{spoiler\|his steel walker cane}}). The injured man makes cries of pain as he stumbles back with blood running from a gash on his head. * Another Pixar film, ''[[Toy Story (franchise)\|Toy Story]] 2'', has Rex being used as an impromptu battering ram. Over his objections. An "outtake" shows them doing this, and ''failing''. ** Justified in that Rex is a toy and can probably take the punishment just fine. * In ''[[Tangled]]'' Flynn takes a [[Frying Pan of Doom\|frying pan]] to the head more than once with out any side effects. Line 74 ⟶ 75: * In the Drew Barrymore movie ''The Boys in My Life'', a guy manages to defeat a jock simply by making him hit his head and break his hand. [[Based on a True Story]]? ** Well, your forehead ''is'' one of the thickest and hardest bones in your body, which is why you use it to headbutt things, so yes, you can probably make someone break their hand if you headbutt their fist. Depending on the other guy's strength it can probably still give you an injury, though. * In ''Ernest Rides Again'', the eponymous Great Redneck Hope ends up shot in the head by a renegade nailgun while pretending to be Indiana Jones at a construction site. He removes his hat to reveal that all three nails bent on impact -- "I'm glad it was the ''hard'' end!" ~~-- and~~—and later, when {{spoiler\|the villainous Dr. Glencliff tries to remove the Crown Jewels of England from his head}} by cutting the top half of his cranium off with a surgical saw, Ernest's head turns out to be hard enough to ''blunt'' it. * ''[[Uncle Buck]]''. John Candy's character survives a bowling ball falling from a tall closet shelf onto his skull. * In ''[[Back to The Future]]'', Marty McFly gets KOed when he gets hit by a car belonging to his mom's family, whacking his head on the pavement in the process. There don't appear to be any direct long-term consequences, unless you count the risk of [[Critical Existence Failure]] from his mom falling for him. In the second film, Biff KOs him when he visits the clock-tower hotel and casino. Later, he is briefly KOed by a door when his earlier self opens it; this is probably less disabling than not getting hit by the door would have been. And these are probably not all the examples. Line 82 ⟶ 83: * In ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'', the eldest of the Shaolin monks is "Iron Head", who has a seemingly impervious cranium. His abusive boss repeatedly breaks bottles over his head to chastise his poor performance, with no effect. * Handled somewhat more realistically in ''[[Paul Blart: Mall Cop]]'', when Paul headbutts a [[Mook]]: {{quote\| '''Paul:''' ''(holding his head in pain)'' Nobody wins with a headbutt!}} * ''Conspiracy Theory'': Mel Gibson goes around knocking people out with blows to the head. A few hours later they are just fine. * In ''[[Home Alone]] 2'', Marv gets hit by several bricks dropped by Kevin from three stories above, which normally should've killed him (but then again, so should a lot of the other traps). Line 93 ⟶ 94: Played half straight in ''For the Emperor'', where Jurgen takes a glancing hit to the head. He would have died if not for his thick skull. Other than that, it is played realistically. * Uhm, no mention of the Carapace armor helmet he was wearing at the time? ** In William King's ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~40,000]]'' novel ''[[Space Wolf]]'', when Ragnor considers that injuries can be more severe than they look, he remembers stories of men who suffered a light blow to the head, fought through a ~~battle -- and~~battle—and dropped dead. * Subverted and [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshaded]] in [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]' ''Murder Must Advertise''; [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] comments on how the hero in an in-universe piece of fiction lightly shrugs off all injuries, while Charles Parker has been incapacitated by one head injury. * ''[[Discworld]]'': ''[[~~Discworld]]'', ''[[Discworld/Maskerade\|~~Maskerade]]'': Nanny Ogg is hit over the head with a champagne bottle. It does stun her, but she recovers quite quickly because there is some Dwarf in the Ogg ancestry. Earlier, in ''[[~~Discworld/Witches Abroad\|~~Witches Abroad]]'', Nanny has a house land on her. Turns out her witch-hat is reinforced, and Nanny survives because all the hat had to do was bust through the rotton floorboards of the lowest floor. Averted in ''[[~~Discworld/Monstrous Regiment\|~~Monstrous Regiment]]'': the medically-trained Igorina very carefully taps a guard's head in the right spot to knock him out without badly injuring him. (It helps that he stands still to let her do it, wanting it to seem like he put up a fight against the title regiment.) Also averted in "[[~~Discworld/~~Night Watch (Discworld)\|Night Watch]]", where Vimes stops his younger self from hitting someone on the head in a sneak attack due to him knowing the risk of it killing the man. * Kahlan, in ''[[Sword of Truth]]'', becomes determined to sneak out of a palace at one point, and is very reluctant to hit any guard who might insist she stay inside for her own safety, as she knows that she could as easily kill them as knock them out. * In the two-part ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''Interference'', Sarah Jane [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshaded]] this, by pointing out the risk of severe damage, and asks an alien exactly how they manage to do it without inflicting said severe damage, ''every damn time''. * In P.C. Hodgell's ''[[Chronicles of the Kencyrath]]'', heroine Jame is hit over the head at least twice per book, and recovers just fine. However, she's not human, and is or a race with a powerful [[Healing Factor]]; furthermore, even with that, she suffers realistic concussion effects from the worse beatings (ones that a normal human would have died from). * Played straight in the works of German author Karl May, where a knockout blow to the head is practically the [[Author Avatar]]'s signature move. (His ''nom de guerre'' in the fictional West is "Old Shatterhand" for a reason.) Very occasionally subverted when a suitably nasty villain dropped by this does ''not'' come to his senses anymore... but usually it works just fine, in line with his stated aversion to killing other human beings. ** Occasionally, he hits his targets too ''lightly'', and they wake up too soon, usually adding humor to an otherwise suspenseful scene. Or it could make it even ''more'' suspenseful, if he ends up being caught by the enemy. * [[Playing with a Trope\|Played with]] all over the place in ''[[The Belgariad]]''. [[The Hero\|Garion]] has a habit of hitting his head on things to no long-term effect, which eventually becomes a [[Running Gag]] and is even [[Lampshaded]] by Belgarath. The heroes also knock out whole swathes of [[Mooks]], who conveniently come to when it's necessary to interrogate them. It's averted in a few notable cases, however: King Korodullin gets brained at the battle of Thull Mardu and has difficulty hearing afterwards; later in ''[[The Malloreon]]'', a Cherek assassin gets hit over the head with an axe and Polgara proclaims him incapable of being revived. * Averted in Susan Dexter's ''The Prince of Ill Luck''. Leith, the eponymous unlucky prince, gets hit on the head twice during the course of the book; both times, it renders him so sick as to be incapacitated for several days following. ** All of Susan Dexter's books seem to approach this one pretty well; in ''The Wind-Witch,'' Kellis is so incapacitated by a blow to the head that he is unable to escape his prison when his fellow pirates do, and remains sick and nearly crippled for the week that follows his release. Admittedly, he was also {{spoiler\|hit by cold iron, which has poisonous effects on shapeshifters.}} * In ''[[Otherland]]'', a drinking game could be made from the number of times a scene transition occurs through one or more protagonists getting knocked out, then reviving later with no ill effects. They are [[Inside a Computer System]], so it's all technically virtual, although [[Your Mind Makes It Real]] is in play and many characters do indeed die in [[Real Life]] from fatal injuries in the Grail Network. * Lampshaped in the ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. The hero, Harry Dresden, tends to get very much beat up over the course of a book. He's been shot, bitten, had bones broken, intentionally wrecked, near explosions, tossed around by supernatural powerful creatures, burned, frozen, and almost dissected while he was still alive. Thanks to [[Functional Magic]], he recovers from ~~these -- slowly~~these—slowly, but he still continues to heal (at a normal human rate), until a wound's traces have gone away. Despite his injuries (he comments there are phonebooks smaller than his medical file, when he sees a doctor struggle to lift it), Harry has never broken his skull. He says he thinks someone snuck in and did an adamantium bone-coating on his skull somehow. {{quote\| Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.}} * In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''The Hour of the Dragon'', [[Conan the Barbarian]] is dazed and has his vision blur after a head ~~injury -- but~~injury—but that hardly stops him. * Subverted in Justin Cronin's [[The Passage]]. When Michael is said to have been unconscious for several days but has no slurring, unfocused eyes, or signs of a concussion, it tips off Sara, a nurse, that something isn't right. * Averted in the ''[[Gone (novel)]]'' series. In the second book, Hunter is knocked out by a crowbar to the head. When he wakes up, he can barely speak coherently, and even after receiving [[Healing Hands\|supernatural healing]], he is left with permanent brain damage. * In ''[[Shannara\|The Wishsong of Shannara]]'' Garet Jax [[Establishing Character Moment\|establishes himself]] as a [[Badass]] when he rescues Jair from a group of gnome warriors, killing them all with a [[Simple Staff]]. All but the leader of the group that is, when they're inspecting the bodies Jax notices that the leader is unconscious but still alive, and comments that the gnome must have a particularly thick skull. * Justified in ''Supernaturalist'', when Cosmo has a metal plate implanted in his skull during surgery. It becomes a [[Chekhov's Gun]] later on when he needs to headbutt his way out of a containment vat. == Live -Action TV ==▼ ▲== Live Action TV == * In the episode of ''[[Happy Days]]'' where {{spoiler\|the restaurant burns down due to Chachi being, well, Chachi}}, Fonzie and the gang are trapped in the bathroom, and the Fonz gets the bright idea to open up a pathway by putting on his motorcycle helmet and bashing a hole in the wall. After crashing through the wall, he pulls his head out, and one of his friends asks what the wall was made out of because it broke so easily. The Fonz calmly replies "Concrete" and falls unconscious. Other than knocking himself out, he suffered no injuries from headbutting through a concrete wall. * ''[[Dexter]]'': Dexter headbutts Doakes in the face and walks away apparently unaffected by the impact. The only effect on Doakes is to infuriate him into attacking Dexter -- [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit\|in front of everyone else]]. Line 125 ⟶ 126: Giles has been KO'd by blows to the head many, many times. He never suffers any ill effects. He actually lampshades it in the game by suggesting he had built up a tolerance for cranial trauma. Lampshaded by Cordelia in the episode ''Gingerbread'': {{quote\| '''Cordelia:''' How many times have you been knocked out, anyway? I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.}} * ''[[Lost]]'': Headbutting, [[Pistol-Whipping]], and other [[Tap on the Head\|Taps on the Head]] are (usually) of no consequence. For instance, in the season 5 finale, Jack is hit with {{spoiler\|a flying toolbox}}, but gets up moments later. May be [[Justified Trope\|justified]] in that the island has healing powers and won't let people die if their destinies are not yet fulfilled. * Vyvyan of ''[[The Young Ones]]'' who, in one episode, strikes oil by cracking the basement floor with his head, later helps dig it out by headbutting the hole (which leads to Neil accidentally putting a pickaxe through his head), and, from his first appearance, has metal studs on his forehead. Line 131 ⟶ 132: * ''[[Forever Knight]]''. When the vampire protagonist-turned-cop is shot in the head he naturally regenerates, and his friends have to scramble to cover things up. LaCroix steals the X-Ray and hypnotises the doctor into saying that the bullet merely glanced off the protagonist's "exceptionally thick" skull. * In ''Scrubs'', Dr. Kelso apparently has a "head like a mountain goat", as evidenced by an occasion where the Janitor hit him over the head with his mop and it "only made him mad". * ''Doc West'' trains three guys for a fight match, making them focusing on their stronger point: kicks for one, [[Berserk Button]] for another, and [[Hard Head]] for the third. This last is trained to ''get punched in the face for several minutes, without countering or dodging on purpose, to tire the opponent''. It works. * Avon of ''[[Blake's ~~Seven~~7\|Blakes Seven]]'' was knocked out an impressive number of times through the series, apparently without damaging his IQ (although he did go slightly off the edge in the last season). * Averted in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': Kimberly, while practicing after being exhausted by a battle, falls off the balance beam and hits her head. She suffers a concussion and has to be put in the hospital. * Prince Arthur on '''[[Merlin (TV series)\|Merlin]]'''. Repeatedly. Like, every time Merlin has to do a spell in front of him, he's conveniently knocked out. ** Morgana as well. Between the two of them, it's not wonder the show can run on [[Idiot Plot~~\|Idiot Plots~~]]s. == ~~Pro~~Professional Wrestling ==▼ * Generally considered a trait of all Samoans, whether they are [[Wild Samoan~~\|Wild Samoans~~]]s or not.▼ ▲== Pro Wrestling == * [[World Wrestling Entertainment\|WWE]]'s Vladimir Kozlov often uses his head as a battering ram to devastating effect on his opponent and no ill effect on him.▼ ▲* Generally considered a trait of all Samoans, whether they are [[Wild Samoan\|Wild Samoans]] or not. ▲* [[WWE]]'s Vladimir Kozlov often uses his head as a battering ram to devastating effect on his opponent and no ill effect on him. * The Missing Link also famously used his head as a weapon. * Japanese indy wrestler Keni'chiro Arai has a head so hard that hitting him over the head with a chair revitalizes him. Line 147: * Averted by Al Madril of Pacific Northwest Wrestling: he was known to lose matches when he attempted to head-butt his opponent and then fell back unconscious. * Tragically averted in the case of [[Chris Benoit]]. Benoit was known for his Diving Headbutt finisher, but using it so often throughout his career contributed to the massive number of concussions he suffered, resulting in brain damage and one of the factors in his [[Pater Familicide\|ultimate]] [[Tear Jerker\|fate]]. == Tabletop Games == * Averted in ''[[GURPS]]''. Blows to the head do quadruple damage, have a good chance of causing unconsciousness and the "critical head blow" table is pretty nasty. == Toys == * Nearly all characters in ''[[Bionicle]]''- [[Justified Trope\|Justified]] due to their being heavily armoured cyborgs with [[Artificial Intelligence]]. Hitting one of them in the head tends to knock them out with no adverse side effects. ** [[Boisterous Bruiser\|Hewkii]], in particular, has been known to smash rocks with his head- ''for fun''. == Video Games == Line 180 ⟶ 177: * Played straight in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' and ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'', where Batman, being against killing, gets rid of the thugs by combat, which consist in many kinds of strikes, some ones on the head, and takedowns, which includes bone breaking and hitting heads against the floor, letting the enemies like "unconcsious", but being absolutley still in the floor, just breathing and with a blood pressure half the normal. Also we had to consider Batman had so much medical skills, so, he would must be aware of the fatal effects of the hits on the head. * Possibly played straight in ''[[World of Warcraft]]: Cataclysm''. A quest in Vasj'ir has the player relive a naga's memories of fighting kvaldir. The memory starts off with a naga remarking that "The skulls of these kvaldir are hard as rock!" since the player controlled naga had apparently just broken her trident over a kvaldir's head. Since this event is off-camera whether or not the kvaldir survived the blow to the head isn't known, but naga throughout the memories only kill kvaldir with torso-targeted attacks. == Web Comics == * Played with in ''[[Girl Genius]]''. After Oggie knocks Lars unconscious, the next scene starts with Lars awakening in a bed with Oggie assigned to watch over him to make sure he was OKokay. After confirming this, Oggie excitedly informs another character of it: "See? He's avake und talking und no more schtupid den he vos ''before!''" Of course, he may be an expert - a Jäger is likely to have more than a century of field experience in putting people down both permanently and temporarily. Oggie is in the position to give ''professional opinions'' on stupidity, judging by the fact that he told Lars he was knocked out by a brick from the bridge that exploded shortly before he was knocked out. HeAnd ~~attempted~~proceeded to prove it by showing him a brick with a confession note (reading "I HITT MR LARZ (SYNED) A BRIK") written on it. * Justified in that Oggie ''is'' a ~~Jaeger~~Jägermonster. When a ~~genetically engineered~~ monstrous-looking ~~featured super~~[[Super ~~soldier~~Soldier]] offers you an obvious lie as part of an overture of friendship, it's generally considered a smart idea to accept it. * In ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'': "I break things with my face." * ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' plays with this one. In most instances a character who takes a wallop to the head (or a chop to the neck) comes out fine. However, the back of Doc's head was once rudely introduced to a piece of wood (pirates and alcohol were involved) resulting in a concussion and a hallucinatory conversation with a roast turkey. (He got better.) * [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_896.php Dan] from ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'' has such a hard head that he actually has to ask if another character tried to knock him out. ** "Gnnngh! It was like hitting a solid rock!" * In ''[[8-Bit Theater ~~(Webcomic)~~\|Eight Bit Theater]]'', Fighter is a master of the ram technique of Zodiac Kenshido, which consists of breaking your opponent's equipment with your head before he breaks your head with his equipment. He also gets stabbed a lot, and once broke through the Armoire of Invincibility with his head ([[Justified Trope\|However]], it ''was'' just the cheap, particle board base, but it still should have been ''invincible'' particle board). In some cases, getting hit/stabbed/shot in the head has made Fighter ''smarter''. * Very much [[Deconstructed]] in [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=207 this] ''[[VG Cats]]'' comic. * Shelly of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' turns out fine after [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/04222005/ taking a bowling ball to the head.] However, the injury is treated as potentially serious, and she is taken to the hospital. The doctors find nothing unusual save for [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/05022005/ an abnormally thick skull.] * Lieutenant Der Trihs in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' literally has an artificial skull made of carbonan (a diamond-like carbon material). A doctor comments that in his case, this is like "keeping potato chips in a safe-deposit box" - he got serious brain damage before that implant, and it shows. * ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': Elliot is whacked when found by a guard in the 'Sister' arc. [[Wrong Genre Savvy]], perhaps? When he comes to, he's worried about concussions, brain damage, et cetera. Tedd brushes him off and gets on with some exposition. * ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)\|Precocious]]'': [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2009/10/21 You must have a pretty hard head] Line 200 ⟶ 196: * In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0682.html Durkon gets a lump on his head]. [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0683.html His only reaction is to feign memory problems, to lack a spell to cast on Belkar.] * Mora from ''[[Las Lindas]]''. Bludgeoned in the back of the head with a shotgun? Bludgeoned so hard the shotgun ''breaks in two!?'' Feh. Just a minor annoyance. == Web Original == Line 206 ⟶ 201: * Subverted in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' in the case of Sean O'Cann. Upon his introduction to the game, Sean is already suffering from a head wound as a result of landing on something hard after being thrown onto the island. After this wound is bandaged, it's seemingly forgotten... up until a couple of days later, when Sean ''really'' starts to suffer, his vision blurring frequently and he himself collapsing on more than one occasion. ** Averted in the v4 Pregame when Christopher Carlson gets the crap beaten out of him by Monty Pondsworth at lunch; he's stated to have spent a good week with a headache and spent the rest of the day having trouble walking. == Western Animation == * Practically a defining trait. [[Looney Tunes\|Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote]], [[Tom and Jerry]] ~~-- etc~~—etc. * In the ''[[The Transformers (animation)\|Transformers Generation 1]]'' episode "Call of the Primitives", Autobots and Decepticons are united against a common foe. Druing the battle, the massive Trypticon lands on Grimlock and he is presumed dead. Much later, after the battlefield was abandoned, Grimlock, still alive, manages to blast his way out from under him. Upon freeing himself, he quips, "Good thing me Grimlock have hard head. Otherwise would now be Dino-splatter!" * Brought up in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', where an episode reveals that Homer has thick layer of fluid between his skull and brain that give him enormous resistance to cranial damage. Known as 'Homer Simpson Sydrome' Homer: "Oh, why me?!" * Subverted humorously in ''[[Beast Wars]]'', where Blackarachnia falls unconscious shortly after knocking out Silverbolt with a headbutt, and feeling rather stupid about trying it in the first place. Even though this is the one series where you might get away with ignoring the KO considering that they're [[Mechanical Lifeform~~\|Mechanical Lifeforms~~]]s. * In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', the kids get smashed in the head all the time, but it doesn't seem to have much effect on their fighting. The frequent [[Reset Button\|Returns to the Past]] certainly help staving off any long-lasting effects. * While he unsurprisingly has yet to be knocked out by a blow to the head, Hammerhead from ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' has used his to smash through brick walls without ill effects. Line 222 ⟶ 216: == Real Life == * [[Truth in Television]] for certain ~~animals -- such~~animals—such as bighorn ~~sheep -- but~~sheep—but ''emphatically'' not so for humans. If something knocks you unconscious, seek medical attention immediately. [[Fridge Logic\|How are we supposed to do that if we're unconscious?]] * [[Fridge Brilliance\|Call the paramedics beforehand.]] Line 235 ⟶ 229: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Television Is Trying to Kill Us]] [[Category:~~Stay~~Head ~~Ahead of This Index~~Tropes]] [[Category:Injury Tropes]] [[Category:Comedy Tropes]] [[Category:Fight Scene]] [[Category:Artistic License Biology]] [[Category:~~Hard~~Alliterative ~~Head~~Trope Titles]]