Major Injury Underreaction/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character has little or no reaction to a major injury.

  • Straight: Bob gets his arm cut off, but shrugs it off as Just a Flesh Wound.
  • Exaggerated: Bob gets both arms cut off and is impaled but just yawns.
  • Downplayed: Bob gets a nasty slash across his chest but only whimpers a little.
  • Justified: Bob is immortal or is very resistant to pain.
  • Inverted: Minor Injury Overreaction
  • Subverted: Bob gets his arm cut off and he starts screaming in pain.
  • Double Subverted: But that was only to fake his enemy out. He doesn't seem to suffer any lasting effects from the limb removal.
  • Parodied: Bob shrugs off a tactical nuclear strike, then passes out because he broke a nail.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Bob has a reasonable pain threshhold.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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