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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"You made me swallow my gum. It's going to be in my digestive tract [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|for SEVEN YEARS!]]"''
|'''Gideon Graves''', ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]''}}
In dramatic settings, no matter how much punishment a villain takes all that seems to really get them [[Berserk Button|riled up]] is [[It's All About Me|deliberate albeit minor injury]], especially across their face. Extremely potent with [[It's All About Me|egotists]], this tends to send the [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] and [[The Fighting Narcissist]] into a foaming rage. Can also occur with characters who are [[Nigh Invulnerable]], where the overreaction is due to the fact that even inflicting a minor injury on the character is supposed to impossible; it might even be the first time that character has ''ever'' been injured.
Can (un)intentionally coincide with the [[Rant-Inducing Slight]] and/or [[Afraid of Needles]].
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May lead to [[Disproportionate Retribution]], [[Irrational Hatred]] and [[House of Broken Mirrors]].
Contrast with [[Major Injury Underreaction]], and with [[After
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Project
* In ''[[Full Metal Panic
* In ''[[
* Frequently happened with the villains in ''[[
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** Surprisingly averted with Broly, after Goku kicks him in the jaw hard enough to draw blood. Broly barely reacts, even ''smirking'', and licks off the wound. In fact, the one who overreacted was Goku.
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'''Goku''': Eew! That was completely unnecessary! Disgusting! }}
* Dilandau in ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' descends further and further into madness as the show goes on after receiving a wound from Van that resulted in a facial scar. Given that he ''started out'' an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Psycho for Hire]]...
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** Subverted with Nnoitra. Nnoitra constantly boasts that he cannot be harmed and demonstrates by letting opponents hit him to no avail. When Kenpachi finally manages to cut him, he's shocked, then orders Kenpachi not to get cocky and keeps fighting normally.
** Played straight with [[The Fighting Narcissist|Charlotte]]. When a large lock of his hair is sliced off he goes [[Berserk Button|berserk]].
* In the ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' [[OVA]],
* In the ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' episode "Pierrot Le Fou", Tongpu is an [[Psychopathic Manchild|insane super soldier]] who's [[Immune to Bullets]]. When someone manages to injure him for what's probably the first time since he snapped, he's so shocked from experiencing pain that he breaks down crying. Because he has the mind of a child, he reacts like a child would.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''!'s Yugi had an extreme case of this. It didn't even have to be a corporeal wound; several times, when his opponents would take a chunk out of his Life Points, he'd act like he was having a heart attack.
** Let's not forget Bakura's infamous "Check his pulse!" line in the dub.
** Of course some times it's a psychological impact (Kaiba's disks were designed for that effect in the anime) and other times damage to life points rips part of your soul out.
** And other times the common hologram is so realistic that it ''can'' cause heart attacks(see Yugi's grandfather, who was hospitalized after losing a duel).
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* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' has two notable characters like
* Schoen of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' is an incredibly vain former model. She takes Ken trying to kill her in stride, right up until he scratches her cheek. She spends the rest of the series trying to kill him for it - though, since she was trying to do that anyway, Ken doesn't really notice the difference.
* While Vita of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' is naturally aggressive, she gets ''especially'' pissed off when one of Nanoha's attacks damages and knocks off her [[Nice Hat]]. Cue Nanoha's "uh oh". It has sentimental value.
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* In the ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'' anime, Radinov the [[Chaotic Evil]] [[Renegade Russian]] tries to torture Rally to death because our heroine shot her earring off. Then again, Radinov [[Psycho for Hire|isn't the sanest person around]].
** If someone had shot off a chunk of my ear, I'd be pretty pissed, too.
* Accelator in ''[[
* Played humourously in ''[[Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge]]'', where Kyohei is the one whose face gets scratched but ''Sunako'' is the one who takes offense.
* [[Eagle Land|Merika]] from ''Afghanhis-tan'', a one volume manga based on the modern history of Afghanistan, went batshit on Afghanistan after a cat bit her hand. If you didn't notice, this was their depiction of 9/11.
* In the original version of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
* In ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' there's Yzak Joule, who takes HUGE issue with a big scar on his face given to him by Kira Yamato, during a battle in which shrapnel broke his visor. This in a setting where scar tissue can be easily fixed by cell regeneration technology, but he keeps it as memento of being harmed. {{spoiler|Subverted later, when he drops his grudge after getting some [[Character Development]] and gets it healed eventually.}} The injury though not life threatening was a ''very'' painful one.
* Done in the Gali fight in ''[[Monster Rancher (
* For a guy who has literally gone to Hell and back and has the scars to prove it, Guts from ''[[Berserk]]'' can't even stand being ''poked'' with [[Afraid of Needles|pointy edges]] (like the ink quill that Schrieke uses to etch the seals over his brand, [[Achey Scars|that burns like hell]] [[Allergic to Evil|whenever he's close to demons]] by the way) let alone being sewn up with needles after a huge battle. Not even when [[Love Interest|Casca]] is doing the sewing.
** From a not-very-nice character, Guts' adoptive father, Gambino, got extremely pissed off when little Guts managed to cut him across the cheek while he was training him as a child. Gambino reacted by ''slashing Guts across the bridge of his nose'' incapacitating the kid for quite awhile. [[Scars Are Forever|The resulting scar never healed.]]
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== Comic Books ==
* Subverted in ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'': Johnny explodes regularly; when even slightly insulted he starts to scream and rant ([[Ax Crazy|and kill people]]) injuries don't interest him much.
* Xerxes from ''[[
* In the [[Silver Age]] [[Superman|Superboy]] storyline, Lex's resentment towards Superboy had been building for some time, but he didn't become Superboy's archnemesis until the accident that gave him his trademark baldness (which he blamed on Superboy). A later [[Retcon]] would give Lex better motivations.
* [[Doctor Doom]] was ''going'' to be a case of this at one stage of development, the 'horrible disfigurement' that led him to wear a mask at all times truly being a tiny scar. Doom saw it as worse than it was due to his ego; the slightest marring of his perfect features mean this face was [[Ruined FOREVER]]. However, there was nothing they could do about the many people who recoiled in horror from the times his face was shown, typically saying they'd heard it was bad but ''this'' was much ''worse,'' so nothing came of it.
== Fan Works ==
* [[Death Note
== Film
* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon]]'': Tuffnut reacts this way to a very small dragon biting his nose.
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* Louis the alligator in ''[[The Princess and
* A hair-related version in ''[[
▲* A hair-related version in ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'': After refusing to handle a gun, saying she hates them, Princess Vespa's hair is shot... the resulting reaction? "My hair! He shot my hair! Son of a bitch." Followed by her mowing down her opponents. Her 'droid-of-honor' calls the victory "pretty good for Rambo".
* In more ways than one, this Trope is a driving force behind the events of ''[[Death Becomes Her]]''. Helen Sharp's childhood "friend" Madeline Ashton is always ruining Helen's serious relationships by stealing her boyfriends, {{spoiler|including Helen's fiance near the film's beginning}}, even though Madeline herself has no feelings for them. This prompts Helen to {{spoiler|hatch an elaborate plot to KILL Madeline, a goal she is still pursuing obsessively fourteen years later}}. As extreme as THAT may seem, it somehow manages to pale in comparison to Madeline's amazingly petty motive for repeatedly hurting Helen (arguably ruining her life multiple times) in the first place: {{spoiler|Helen thought Madeline was cheap, and by all indications merely in the sense of not being classy... BACK WHEN THEY WERE SCHOOLGIRLS!!!}}
* ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'': "They broke my watch!"
* In the B-Movie "[[The Horror of Party Beach]]", the lead female Elaine, SCRATCHES HER LEG ON A ROCK, and begins moaning loudly in pain. Well, she moans, anyway; she doesn't moan like she's in pain.
* When ''[[
* In ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'', Robin's first encounter with the Sheriff of Nottingham ends with the former cutting the latter's cheek for no other reason then to piss him off (oh, and to exert the first portion of vengeance for murdering his father, perhaps). Sheriff is (in)appropriately enraged, and utters the famous threat to [[Cut His Heart Out
* ''[[Dodgeball]]'': "Nobody makes me bleed my own blood!"
* During the raid on Mathilda's home in ''[[Léon: The Professional]],'' Mathilda's father manages to shoot [[Psycho for Hire|Norman Stansfield]] in the shoulder. Stansfield is pretty subdued about this until he has the time to notice the damage done to his suit, whereupon he follows the injured suspect through the apartment, shooting him in the back. He does this until he's out of ammunition... and then ''starts to reload so he can continue shooting the guy's corpse.''
* In ''Nothing to Lose'' Tim Robbins' character spends several minutes moaning and crying in agony after being shot in the arm, but once he finally gets his shirt off to inspect the wound, it turns out that the bullet barely grazed him.
* ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' Gideon has one, not to a cut along the cheek that would normally elicit this reaction, but to an earlier attack which left no visible mark. But of course, he did have reason...
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== Literature ==
* Soto, a History Monk in ''[[
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: In ''[[
* In [[Gordon Korman]]'s ''The Zucchini Warriors'', one of the [[Macdonald Hall]] football players (who has ironically given himself the nickname The Beast) gets a bruised elbow. He then insists that it's actually a compound fracture and walks around with his arm in a sling for nine weeks.
* In [[Robert Munch]]'s children's book ''Zoom!'', the main character's older brother pricks himself with a fork, causing a small amount of blood to come out, and everyone freaks out and takes him to the hospital. [[Played for Laughs]], of course.
* One of the Queens in ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' freaks out excessively over a small cut...''before'' she receives the "injury." Afterward, she pays little heed to it.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* On ''[[Friends]]'', Rachel accidentally head-butts Ross while giving birth, and he moans "you have ''no'' idea how much this hurts." All of the women in the room give him epic [[Death Glare|death glares]], and he shuts up.
* In ''[[The Office]]'', Michael Scott burns his foot on a George Foreman grill and is dismayed when nobody takes his injury seriously. He even tries to monopolize the doctor's attention at the hospital when Dwight is taken there with a pretty serious concussion.
* Adam Savage tends to ham it up whenever he gets a minor injury on ''[[
* Variant: In ''[[Top Gear]]'', under hypnosis, presenter Richard Hammond was led to believe the tiny toy car he was riding was his new car, and that co-presenter Jeremy Clarkson had dinged it (by bumping it with another tiny car). He pitched a credible minor fit.
* In ''[[Chuck]]'', the title character is dodging bullets on a regular basis, and actually sees many people get shot, but when pretending to be a doctor and kidnapped by the bad guys, he is accidentally cut in the hand with a scalpel and immediately freaks out and starts babbling about how he gets woozy at the sight of blood. Needless to say, the baddie is not amused. At least, not until they both inhale an almost lethal amount of Nitris Oxide, and start laughing about how they're both about to die. This is sort of reversed when Chuck ends up hurting his leg when a windowsill closes on it. He tells everyone that it is only sprained, but later learns that it is actually a hairline fracture. He openly objects to having it treated at first, and later expresses unhappiness at having to wear a cast.
* The short-lived sketch show ''Fridays'' had a sketch in which guest star [[William Shatner]] played a man at a disco who overreacted to minor pain. When his dance partner (played by cast member Brandis Kemp) accidentally steps on his foot, Shatner's character reacts so violently that he tosses Kemp onto the ground and accidentally exposes her butt [[Thong of Shielding|clad only in thong underwear]] (when the episode that had that sketch reran, the shot of Kemp on the ground with her thong exposed was cut).
* In ''[[
* Deliberately invoked by Klinger in the ''[[
== Newspaper Comics ==
* Linus van Pelt, in an early ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip, panics big-time after bumping his head.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* At one point in [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'s history, Chris Jericho and Kane had a long and bloody feud over the fact that Jericho had accidentally spilled coffee on Kane at the catering table backstage. Seriously.
* Pretty much any move ever taken by Shawn Michaels, Marty Janetty, or Curt Hennig.
* A lot of the finishers are essentially sold to the crowd by doing this. The Stone Cold Stunner is a notable example (as is the hilarious way The Rock always flopped across the ring after receiving one).
* Almost anytime someone uses a grapple in pro wrestling, it's this. Grapples are usually applied lightly without using too much pressure, while the other wrestler screams and writhes as if it's agonizing. It's done for the [[Kayfabe]].
* In WWE, this was the basis for Cody Rhodes's former character. After [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.|Rey Mysterio]] broke his nose, the narcissistic Rhodes believed his good looks were forever ruined, and went insane. He's no longer a smug pretty boy, but destructive and perpetually brooding (while a broken nose is no picnic, it's nothing big in pro wrestling terms).
== Theatre ==▼
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' and ''A Very Potter Sequel'' are rife with this. A [[Running Gag]] in both plays involves a character {usually Malfoy} being hit in the face by something and repeating this routine a few times before someone tells him to shut up: putting his hands to his nose, taking them away, looking at them in shock,and turning to someone else while constantly repeating "I'm bleeding! Look at this!" in an incredulous tone.
== Video Games ==
* The primary tactic involved in fighting ''[[Punch
* The vain antagonist Vega from the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' series is so afraid of this happening to him that he wears a protective mask in the ring (the mask is shown shattered in his loss scenes). This becomes a plot point in ''Street Fighter The Animated Movie'' where the only thing that really saves Chun-Li is a good set of injuries to Vega's face that send him into a [[Berserk Button|berserker rage]] she can counter.
* Yaga-Shura the fire giant in ''[[
* In the introductory video to ''[[Sid
* Subverted with Kuja in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]''. When {{spoiler|Queen Brahne}} summons Bahamut to blow him to atoms, Kuja simply steps protectively in front of his dragon and takes [[No One Could Survive That|the full blast]]. He is smirkingly uninjured, until a trickle of blood runs down his forehead, causing him to react in shock for a moment... then immediately sing the praises of the powerful summon monster.
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** Vamp had a similar reaction to Kuja in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' when Raiden managed to have one shot graze him on the cheek with his SOCOM.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' Kefka gets lightly stabbed. He spends half a minute running around the screen, screaming: "I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE YOU!" in one translation, and an extremely long list of insults in the other translation. {{spoiler|Shortly afterward, he destroys the world. Though this probably had more to do with his general [[Ax Crazy|insanity]] than anger at that particular wound.}}
* ''[[Suikoden IV]]''. [[Dirty Coward|"Ow, my arm!"]]
* Possibly the best example would be the Witch from ''[[Left 4 Dead]]''. All you need to do to flip her crazy switch is to get too far inside her personal bubble. Stay there for a second too long and you'll be wondering how the pale, weeping waif just tore out your entrails.
* In ''[[
* Dwarves in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' will stay bedridden for years over broken toes or bruised fingers. This leads many players to design their hospitals to include magma-powered euthanasia devices.
* The pedestrians in ''[[
* In [[Wild
▲== Theatre ==
▲* ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' and ''A Very Potter Sequel'' are rife with this. A [[Running Gag]] in both plays involves a character {usually Malfoy} being hit in the face by something and repeating this routine a few times before someone tells him to shut up: putting his hands to his nose, taking them away, looking at them in shock,and turning to someone else while constantly repeating "I'm bleeding! Look at this!" in an incredulous tone.
== Web Comics ==
* ''Starcross'd Destiny'' has Juno warning the cops not to scratch or dent her Shelby Daytona, or else...
* Hannelore from ''[[Questionable Content]]'' once [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1207 ran down Main Street screaming terror because of a small cut on her head]. [[Justified Trope]], since she suffers from [[Super OCD]]. Blood is awful to wash off.
* In [[
* [[Three Word Phrase]]: [http://threewordphrase.com/deathzone.htm Chapped lips while mountain climbing?] [[Cut the Safety Rope|Something must be done!]]
== Web Original ==
* Captain Hammer from ''[[
* In ''[[Awesome Series|PokeAwesome - Just a Pokemon Battle]]'', [[Pokémon|Ash's Pikachu]] is hit by a Solar Beam, causing him to hurt his knee. Half of the short is just Pikachu cussing out his opponent and Ash in his anger. This happening after [[Hypocritical Humor|whaling on a Venusaur with his "Thunder Smash."]]
* In [[
* ''[[What
== Western Animation ==
* The original [[Legacy Character|Hunter]] in ''[[
* Spoofed in ''[[Drawn Together]]'' when Xandir, while trying to escape from a [[Terminator]] spoof, sprains his ankle, acting as if it were life threatening (despite the fact that over the course of the show Xandir has suffered some of the worst injuries to any of the main characters).
** Subverted in the episode "Orphan Hero", when Captain Hero during his childhood montage, falls off of his bike and scrapes his leg. When he reveals his scrape, it turns out that a large section of his leg is missing, [[Major Injury Underreaction|but his mother treat it as a minor injury anyway]].
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* ''[[Hulk vs. Wolverine]]'' has Deadpool trying to stop Hulk by sticking a grenade in Hulk's mouth. This naturally fails, Hulk being [[Nigh Invulnerable]] and having a [[Healing Factor]], and makes him angrier than before. This is a minor injury because earlier Hulk was stabbed and slashed by Wolverine in several vital areas, and actually screamed in pain, despite the [[Healing Factor]]. The overreaction is justified because, well it's the friggin' ''[[Unstoppable Rage|Hulk]]''.
* An episode of ''[[Nightmare Ned]]'' revealed that Ned panicked every time he lost one of his baby teeth, despite his parents' reassurances.
* In one episode of ''[[
* Geoff did this in an episode of ''[[
* Edd from ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' tends to react this way at times.
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'''Edd:''' Eddy! It was ''horrible'' Eddy! LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO MY SHIRT!! }}
** It's almost the whole plot of the episode 'Cry Ed', when Jimmy manages to hurt his foot with a ''clothespin'', and everybody in the Cul-de-sac starts fussing over him, leading Eddy to decide to get "injured" and sympathy, too.
* [[Transformers Prime|Knock Out]] actually has this as his [[Berserk Button]]. He's very proud of his paint job and takes any damage to it very seriously.
== Real Life ==
* The cast commentary of the first ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' film had a humorous example of this, with a story about Dominic getting a splinter and grossly exaggerating how bad it was.
* In [[Association Football]], players often try to draw free kicks, etc. by "diving" - falling to the ground and pretending to be much more seriously injured than they actually are. The trope is effectively [[Lampshaded]] when, more often than not, said player gets up and runs off at full tilt when their pleas are ignored.
** This is known as "flopping" in basketball circles. Former Laker and Hornet Vlade Divac was considered the best around at drawing fouls from fleeting or non-existent contact.
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[[Category:Injury Tropes]]
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