Minor Injury Overreaction: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Kanokon]]'' this happens when an attack causes a slight rip in a villains jacket. "YOU WILL COMPENSATE WITH YOUR LIVES!"

* Frequently happened with the villains in ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' (mainly in Z and GT), and was most often prompted by outrage that Goku or whoever was fighting them actually managed to not only hit them, but do some damage (in Frieza's case it made sense, as by the current scale he was so stupidly powerful that he hadn't had a decent fight in decades. When a 20-x-Kaioken Kamehameha actually burns his hand, he flips out.). Vegeta tried to ''destroy the Earth'' because Goku made him bleed a little.

** 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.

'''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]]...

** 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).

* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' has two notable characters like this -- the fat man, Mr. Heart, is almost invulnerable to most attacks, but the mere slight of his own blood changes him from genial and polite into a bloodthirsty psychopath. Juda, a Red Haired Pretty Boy, similarly goes berserk when his face gets some minor cuts.

* 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.

== Film -- Animated ==

* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon]]'': Tuffnut reacts this way to a very small dragon biting his nose.

* Louis the alligator in ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' goes into death throes when he gets a single bur in his finger.

 

* 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...

 

 

* In the introductory video to ''[[Sid Meier's Pirates!]] Live the Life'', the evil captain's slapping of the main character is what sets off mutiny. Of course, it's previously established that he's a complete bastard to his crew, so that was probably a Last Straw moment as much as anything else.

* 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.

** 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.}}

* Geoff did this in an episode of ''[[Total Drama Island]]'', while walking he suddenly fell over and grabbed his leg, screaming in pain. While all the other contestants rush to his side and agree he's way too injured to move on, the camera man zooms in on his leg and scans it over several times, confused that nothing's actually wrong. Finally, we see zoomed-in he has a tiny splinter. Needless to say, he's pampered for the rest of the episode.

* Edd from ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' tends to react this way at times.

'''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.