Minor Injury Overreaction: Difference between revisions

 

Contrast with [[Major Injury Underreaction]], and with [[After-Action Patchup]], where the reaction tends to be [[Afraid of Needles|humanizing]]. Compare with [[Blood Upgrade]].

 

* In ''[[Project A-ko]]'' there was the "My Cheek... It's cut!" moment.

* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]] ? Fumoffu'''s second [[Fan Service]] episode, Kurz Weber takes a small laser burn to his backside, and convinces Shinji Kazama to go on without him as if he were dying.

* 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.

* 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 [[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|Light]] in ''[[The Prince of Death]]'' Justified: [[Nightmare Fuel|because he is undead his wounds never heal and he has to be sewn back together.]]

 

== Film -- Animated ==

{{quote|"Oh, I'm hurt! I am very much hurt!"}}

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

 

== Film -- Live Action ==

* ''[[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...

{{quote|'''Gideon''': You made me swallow my gum. That's going to be in my digestive tract for seven years!}}

 

== Literature ==

* 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 ==

* In ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', [[Big Bad]] Oiles Gill freaks out when Gokai Red manages to graze his arm with a single bullet, and spends the rest of that episode (as well as the next one) whining about how much it hurts and how he'll make the Gokaigers pay. This is, of course, done to show how much of a [[Spoiled Brat]] Gill is.

* Deliberately invoked by Klinger in the ''[[MASH]]'' episode "It Happened One Night." Klinger is accidentally shot by a nervous private who isn't used to night sentry duty. The resulting superficial graze wound prompts Hawkeye to say, "Could you at least bleed?" while examining him. Since Klinger is constantly trying to get discharged from the Army, he acts like he's just received a mortal wound and starts swooning all over the place and describing visions of his deceased relatives. Naturally, nobody buys it.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* Linus van Pelt, in an early ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip, panics big-time after bumping his head.

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* The pedestrians in ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]]'' will occasionally [[Artificial Stupidity|trip on the sidewalk or other low obstacles]] and then ''lay there squirming in pain'' until the player heals them.

* In [[Wild ARMs 2|Wild Arms: Second Ignition]], after you fight Judecca in his Devil Spire, he notes that he's bleeding and [[Driven to Suicide|shoots himself]].

 

== 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 ==

* In [[Chimneyspeak]], a small cut across the nose of wealthy heiress Chelsea Grinn caused her to go absolutely insane, and turn into an absolutely insane woman who is now covered in scars, is nigh unstoppable, and kills for basically no reason at all. The voice in her head representing what is left of her reason at one points gets angry and reminds her that they could have had a perfectly normal life if they just applied a small amount of makeup.

* [[Three Word Phrase]]: [http://threewordphrase.com/deathzone.htm Chapped lips while mountain climbing?] [[Cut the Safety Rope|Something must be done!]]

 

== Web Original ==

* In [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged]], Joseph was stabbed through the throat and bleeding to death. His complaint that was making him wail in pain? ''He sprained his ankle''.

* ''[[What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?|"You shot me in the dick!"]]'' (It was a Nerf dart.)

 

== Western Animation ==

** 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 ==