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{{trope}}
{{quote|(Operative stabs Mal) ''"Do you know what your sin is, Mal?"''
''"Aw, hell. I'm a fan of [[Seven Deadly Sins|all seven]].'' (pulls sword back out) ''But right now, I'm gonna have to go with WRATH!"'' (attacks)
|The Operative and Malcolm Reynolds, ''[[Serenity]]''}}
A character has been stabbed with a knife or some other bladed weapon and left for dead. Then, however, instead of just kicking the bucket, he suddenly pulls the weapon out of his body and uses it to fight back, firmly establishing himself as a [[Determinator]] and/or [[Made of Iron]].
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Compare [[Catch and Return]] and [[Human Pincushion]].
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== [[Anime]]
* The regenerative immortal Rin does it in in episode three of ''[[
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII
* ''[[Shootfighter Tekken]]'': actually played realistically with a fist-against-knife fight. Knife guy somehow ends up with the knife deep in his side, and proceeds to demonstrate his badassery by expulsing it using just his abdominal muscles. The other characters, including the [[Heir to
* Nanashi pulls Luo-Lang's broken sword from his arm for a final attack in [[Sword of the Stranger]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* [[Batwoman|Kate Kane]] does it in the final volume of ''[[
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* [[Batwoman|Kate Kane]] does it in the final volume of ''[[Fifty Two]]'', {{spoiler|pulling a sacrificial knife out of her own chest to throw it at Bruno Mannheim, who (almost) performed the sacrifice}}. Note that she ''does'' recognize it as a stupid idea that almost costs her her life, but does it anyway because {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice|her lover Renee's life is more important to her]]}}.
* In the graphic novel ''[[Jonah Hex]]: No Way Back'', Jonah stabs el Papagayo with the same knife Papagayo just stabbed him with: while its still ''stuck through his arm!''
* The [[Savage Dragon]] once did this in a [[Crossover]] with [[Hellboy (
* The ''[[Suicide Squad]]'' has once wound up on Apokolips, and Count Vertigo is stabbed by Kanto (a minion of Darkseid who has kind of a Italian Renaissance Assassin thing going.) Some time later, Vertigo turns out to have been playing possum and stabs Kanto in the back with his own dagger. Darkseid approves of this. Note that Count Vertigo was a [[Death Seeker]] at that point in his history and wouldn't care about the potential lethal side effects of pulling out the knife.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* In ''[[Knight and Day]]'', June accidentally impales an assassin with a knife, followed by the assassin pulling it out of himself to attack June with.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Terminator (
* In ''[[Strange Days]]'' this is used at the climax of the movie when {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] Max is hanging on to hero Lenny's tie to stop from falling off of a balcony.}} Lenny (who had previously been stabbed by Max) then {{spoiler|''pulls the knife out of his own back'' and cuts his necktie off, sending Max plummeting to his death.}}
* In ''[[Ladyhawke]]'', a character gets hit with a crossbow bolt, pulls it out, rides up to his opponent, and stabs him in the stomach with the bolt.
* In ''[[House of Flying Daggers]]'', near the end, {{spoiler|Leo attempts to rape Mei}} and is punished by having a dagger embedded in his shoulder by the leader of [[La Résistance]] (who informs him that if he ever removes it he'll bleed to death). After {{spoiler|murdering Mei}} he pulls it out as a last resort in his [[Duel to
* In the first ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* Ironhide in ''[[Transformers
* ''[[Shoot
** Although this doesn't really do the scene justice... {{spoiler|After having all his fingers broken, his torturer decides that the next step is to cut out an eye. Smith waits until the knife is close before headbutting the guy and getting the scalpel lodges in his forehead. Since his hands are broken and he's unable to hold the knife, he stabs it through his hand to be able to use it to fight back.}} [[Serial Escalation|The film is full of this kind of craziness.]]
* Malcolm Reynolds pulls<ref>Pardon the pun.</ref> this during his fight with the Operative in ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* Done by sheer accident in ''[[Discworld
* In one of the ''[[Casca the Eternal Mercenary]]'' books, an enemy stabbed Casca in the back, the sword's point coming out of Casca's chest. Because Casca was cursed by Christ to be immortal, this didn't significantly slow him down, and he didn't even bother pulling the blade out of himself. He just turned around and gave his terrified enemy a '''big''' hug.
==
* In season 8 of ''[[
▲* Done by sheer accident in ''[[Discworld (Literature)|The Truth]]'', when Mr. Pin knocks William back against his desk and William's arm is pierced by the newsman's spike. Aware only that his arm suddenly hurts a lot, William moves to shove the paid killer away from him, and the protruding tip of the spike cuts his attacker's throat.
* ''[[Stargate SG
▲* In season 8 of ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'', Jack kills one of [[The Mafiya|Vladimir Laitanin]]'s men using a knife that he'd just been stabbed in the stomach with.
▲* ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'': Overlapping with [[I Am Not Left Handed]], Bra'tac did this in "Lost City" after being stabbed in his empty symbiote sac (tretonin having taken the place of his symbiote). Teal'c did almost the exact same thing in "Talion".
** Unlike most examples, [[Justified Trope|they may have an excuse for not bleeding to death]]. Jaffa heal much faster than normal humans.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* The [[Player Character]] Soap does it near the end of ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' to {{spoiler|kill General Shepherd with the same knife he stabbed him in the chest with}}. In ''MW3'', he almost dies from it, flatlining during the prologue, and there's a level where you have to get him to safety before he bleeds out.
* Early on in ''[[Saints Row the Third]]'', Gat gets stabbed by Loren during a tussle, but being a [[Made of Iron]] [[Badass]], he just pulls the knife out and throws it at a guard with a machine gun so the others can escape.
* The sword Ganondorf uses in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'' is the one that was used for his execution. Thanks to the Triforce of Power, he survived, pulled it out, and slew one of the Sages holding him before the rest were able to [[Sealed Evil in
* Played with repeatedly in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' during {{spoiler|Raiden's}} fight with Vamp. Towards the end of the fight, {{spoiler|Raiden}} is pinned to the ground via a knife through the foot. He proceeds to {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|yank his foot out of the ground and stomp on Vamp repeatedly... with the knife still sticking out.]]}}
* In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 5'', one animation you can get during the final boss fight is of Nero getting stabbed, upon which he pulls the offending sword out and stabs the boss right back.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
▲* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'', [[The Captain]] does this [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-08-15 when he gets a knife] thrown into his ''[[Eye Scream|eye]].''
▲{{quote| '''Tagon''': Thank you. Now ''I'' have a knife.}}
** Note that he paid for it in surgery later.
* A rare double version occurs in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' when [https://web.archive.org/web/20150910145402/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=061107 Oasis fights] [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=061108 Nash Straw].
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'' one airship hijacker [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160718 shot] the Lord High Conservator of The Immortal Library - who happens to be an obvious construct... and also ''huge'' - with a crossbow bolt in trachea. Though still relied more on poison. On the next page, the payback ensues.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* At the end of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-is63goeBgc Ryan Vs. Dorkman 2]'', {{spoiler|Dorkman is being cruelly stabbed by Ryan, but he manages to push Ryan back, pull out the lightsaber from his chest, and kill Ryan will a well-placed [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|saber throw]]}}.
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