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Despite the prominence of [[Only a Flesh Wound]] in media, there are some things that even writers would concede as pretty fatal. For example, if a character gets shot in the head or stabbed in the chest, they're pretty much done for, hopefully with enough time to give a [[Final Speech]] before their death.
Unless of course, if they're the [[Determinator]] or someone [[Good Thing You Can Heal|as tough]]. For them, that little hole where their heart was supposed to be is just another chance to show off how [[Badass]] they are. Even that is [[Only a Flesh Wound]], and the guy that injured them, likely to be pissing in his pants right now, is about to receive a world of hurt. When this occurs in a climactic battle, you often see a [[Heroic Second Wind]] sequence.
Killing the character after their display of [[Heroic Willpower]] for extra dramatic effect, or to show that the the wounds [[Living on Borrowed Time|were fatal after all, just not right away]], is optional.
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* In the third fight in ''[[Claymore]]'', a youma holds Raki hostage in order to force Clare to throw away her sword. She throws it some ways downhill, and the youma proceeds to impale her with its claws. Except then Clare grabs its arm, dives down the hill dragging it with her, retrieves her sword, and promptly kills it. It would not be fatal to a Claymore, who can self-regenerate. Also, Ophelia had her neck twisted and didn't die.
* The wolves in ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'' are pretty tenacious, often fighting like crazy despite severe wounds. The (posthumous) prize must go to {{spoiler|Toboe}}, who keeps on fighting even after being shot in the chest at point blank range. [[Tear Jerker|And then dies]].
** Kiba is even more dramatic. He has been practically torn to pieces and ''still'' got up and continued fighting. You [[Determinator|just can't stop him!]]
* In ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'', Onizuka is about to take a national test in which he needs to have the highest score in the nation so he doesn't lose his job. One of his students is kidnapped, and he goes in pursuit. {{spoiler|While saving the female student from a very dark situation, he is shot three times.}} He manages to {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|make it back to the testing station, finish the test, and get a perfect score in half the given time of anyone else... while bleeding profusely.]]}}
** {{spoiler|Although he didn't really get a perfect score, but 231 out of 500.}}
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', the greatest example has to be Roronoa Zoro. This man according to the [[Word of God]] lost what amounted to ''five liters'' of blood fighting Hatchan, mostly due to an earlier wound given by the greatest swordsman in the world, Dracule Mihawk, who stabbed him ''in his heart'' and ''slashed him across the chest'', permanently scarring him just to finish him off. Mihawk seemed to sense he was [[Badass]] enough to survive by asking him to surpass him and challenge him again.
** Zoro also fought [[Made of Iron|Mr. 1]], an assassin and [[Bounty Hunter]] formerly known as [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Das Bones]], who during the fight turned his arms into buzzsaws and ''drove them into his chest''.
** Perhaps the greatest example is when Bartholomew Kuma, a designated [[Psycho for Hire]] (known to do psycho things, but now calm and now loyal to [[The Government]]) pushed all the pain and fatigue away from Monkey D. Luffy's body from his battle with the [[Big Bad]], and Zoro who himself took some punishment from the [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|zombie giant]] Oz, and Kuma's shockwave, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|took all the pain in]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|and survived]]''. When asked by Sanji what happened to him, he replied [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"Nothing. Nothing at all."]]
** Some [[Lampshade Hanging]] on Zoro's case when [[A God Am I|self-proclaimed god]], [[Psycho Electro|Eneru]] blasted [[Lightning Can Do Anything|a large column of lightning]] through an upper level of Giant Jack and Zoro, Wiper, Chopper and the giant snake came crashing with massive debris, no less. As he crashed on the ground, he pushed a giant rock away from his body and yelled "Damn rock! I could have died!" Nico Robin [[Genre Savvy|agreed]].
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* Hiro Mashima ''loves'' this trope. Honestly, after reading a few volumes of ''[[Rave Master]]'' you'll realize that you can never be sure--no matter how much pounding, shooting, blasting, or [[Explosive Overclocking]] a character gets--whether they're seriously dead/about to die or [[Only Mostly Dead]]. Plue can stop bleeding and pain. But it does not explain Shuda surviving the loss of a limb and a 1000 foot fall, or Lucia being up and murderous after his beating from Haru, or the numerous times Sieg is kicking ass again after having a vital organ severely damaged.
* Hiro Mashima's ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' - There's also no explanation for how Gray took ''[[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|being impaled]]'' '''[http://www.mangareader.net/135-7154-20/fairy-tail/chapter-39.html through his stomach]''' without even slowing down while fighting {{spoiler|Leon}}. In fact all he apparently did to treat the wound was ''sealing it with ice'' (a seal which broke before the end of the fight), leaving no explanation for why he did not lose two or three vital organs. Just to makes this even more ridiculous, he then fights better against his opponent than he ever did uninjured and starts by beating the hell out of him with just his fists.
* ''[[Rosario
** He was also burned to a husk (while still human) by a four-tailed yoko. Ouch. {{spoiler|And it looks like he's about to have it happen again.}}
* ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' - Played for laughs: Shingen punches Yukimura who flies through a shoji wall(?), across a courtyard and into a stone wall, which crumbles a bit from the impact. Sasuke comments mildly that this would kill a normal man. Yukimura, however, comes running right back into Shingen's fist so he can do it all over again, although he's in a slightly rotated position when he hits the stone wall the second time.
* Sven from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' survives being stabbed through the chest by Eve's mutated knife-arm, because it "Eve intentionally avoided his vital organs", although it is unclear how a knife a little over half the size of his entire chest could avoid anything.
* Itou Komataro from ''[[Gintama]]'' was shot repeatedly, lost an arm, got a lot of sword wounds but hey, he died... eventually... after three episodes to which he was given an honorable death of being given the chance to defend himself from the Shinsengumi.
* Shi woon has even lampshaded this several times in ''[[The Breaker]]''. But his [[Determinator]] drive keeps him going long after he should have been knocked out cold
** In New Wave, he can now {{spoiler|heal from practically any wound in about half a day}}.
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* On the first episode of ''[[Deadwood]]'', a prostitute named Trixie shoots a customer in the head. The Doctor is summoned, and observes in fascination as the customer continues to babble half-coherently despite the bullet going straight through his head (demonstrated after he dies by sticking a metal probe straight through the wound channel.) The customer does die after some minutes, but even the Doctor seemed to think he should be dead, or at least not babbling.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''; That second heart time-lords have comes in handy. How many times have the villains managed to stop one of them, not to realise he's got a second?
** Jack Harkness might have bits of this trope as well. Normally, he would be dead, but comes back anyway.
*** Jack gets it MUCH worse in ''[[Torchwood: Children of Earth|Children of Earth]]'': He gets blown up by a bomb '''inside his body'''. One of the villains observes later, having discovered that his remains are now a skeleton with shreds of bloody flesh, "This was a bag of bits!" Later he wakes up...some time before his skin is restored.
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** {{spoiler|Kotomine}} in Heaven's Feel is {{spoiler|cut off from his source of life by Dark Sakura, which effectively stops his heart.}} Next day, he's still moving around and able to give Shirou a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]].
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'': Shiki is impaled in the guts by a black deer, has some animals eating him and then gets up and starts fighting in a rather [[Badass]] fashion. After winning, he falls down and gets back to bleeding to death. Obviously, he doesn't but...
** Kohaku pulls off one of these in the doujin game [[Battle Moon Wars]], when she takes a blast from [[Fate/stay night|Gilgamesh's]] [[Wave Motion Gun|Enuma Elish]]. Granted she was pretty goddamn torn up afterwards but the fact that she wasn't completely atomized makes this something of a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for her.
* ''[[Saya no Uta]]'': When {{spoiler|Dr. Tambo survives long enough to kill Saya after having her shoulder smashed and her left lung popped like a balloon by AN AXE.}} Sure, all she had to do was pull the trigger, but still. This is a game where humans are just human.
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* ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'' has {{spoiler|Ben being shot through the torso with an energy weapon, after already having been shot and barely patched up. He manages to stay conscious just long enough get Haas to surrender before he finally collapses. He only survived because of Martian nanotech being able to stabilize him long enough to get replacements for the organs that got speared.}}
* The more extreme injuries Oasis and Kusari take in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' are justified, since they seem to possess an as-yet unexplained ability to come back from the dead. However, Kusari ''did'' get stabbed through the chest four times and was still able to ask for someone to pry her off the wall she'd been stuck to. Oasis, meanwhile, managed to survive for several days with untreated knife wounds in her stomach.
* Used as a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Used frequently in ''[[Girl Genius]]''. For instance, Higgs [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101027\] manages to keep fighting despite what are realistically deadly wounds to the torso, and manages to (apparently) suffer no real ill effects only a few minutes later [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110126\]
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Transformers Armada]]'', Smokescreen takes an almost point-blank hit from the Requiem Blaster that blasts a hole clear through his abdomen. He still manages to stagger upright as molten metal drips down his torso and stagger towards Megatron for another attack, and winds up surviving after having his body rebuilt. While they ''are'' robots, other Transformers in the series have died from lesser wounds. Laws of Fatality are not consistent in Transformers. Same person can be unharmed by some attack at one point and next dying after being hit by same attack.
* In [[The Movie]] of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' Shego is kicked from the roof of a building that is several stories high, into an electrical signal tower, which not only electrocutes her but also collapses right on top of her. And she comes out of the incident with slightly torn clothes and frazzled hair...
* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', Silver Sable is hit twice in the course of one episode by a limo but still gets up and continues fighting as if nothing's wrong.<br /><br />This also applies to Spidey himself in nearly every single episode, he can be beaten, scratched, smashed, burned, and hit with explosives from every villain he encounters, and he can still shake it off and fight normally. Most notably is one episode where he defeats the Sinister Six while sleepwalking. [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Granted, it was the symbiote doing all the work for him, but the fact that Peter still had all of his bones in the right place the next day is nothing short of a miracle.]]
* ''[[Ace Lightning]]'': Chuck Mugel is hit by Ace's lightning bolt attack ''twice''. The first time (a "deflected shot") it ''gave him'' temporary superpowers. The second time just knocked him out for a few minutes, though granted, it freaked the main characters out a bit anyway.
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