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{{trope}}
A character gradually accumulates [[Amusing Injuries]] over the course of a story, but rather than [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished|shrug them off]], he shows the traces of every one of them, and ends up a bleeding, black-eyed [[Implacable Man]] limping toward his goal. He quite literally looks like the world has [[The Chew Toy|chewed him up]] and [[Too Spicy for Yog
Expect a lot of [[Clothing Damage]], and an attitude of [[Tranquil Fury]]. Can be just as easily [[Played for Laughs]] or [[Played for Drama]] - the latter can work as a subversion of [[Just a Flesh Wound]], as it shows that what doesn't kill you can still slow you down a hell of a lot.
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Compare: [[Crush Parade]] when characters and objects are repeatedly run over and trampled by different things; [[Scars Are Forever]] when a character bears the marks of past injuries for the rest of his life.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Herr Starr in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]''.
== [[Fanfic]] ==
* Happens to the hero of ''[[Sleeping
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Ferris
* By the end of ''[[Fargo]]'', Showalter is not only fuming from the [[Plethora of Mistakes]], but also limping from Shep's [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]] and bleeding heavily from a gunshot to the jaw.
* Brendan gets repeatedly beaten up in ''[[Brick]]''; by the end of the movie he's limping and coughing up blood.
* Ash during the course of the ''[[Evil Dead]]'' trilogy.
* John McClane was pretty beat up by the end of the first ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' movie -- the three sequels, not quite so much.
* The whole premise of ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'': [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]] if you stop healing from your injuries? Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the final scene.
* Boris the Bullet Dodger in ''[[Snatch]]''.
* Ken suffers from this in ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]''
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