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Someone is hurt pretty bad, yet still conscious. They need medical help, likely need surgery. They're getting ready for a major operation, but they order the doctor not to use pain killers, let alone major anesthesia. Sure, they know they're in serious pain and need to be treated - but for these folks,
This trope is often used to show one of many things: the patient is a badass [[Made of Iron]]; they simply [[Feel No Pain|don't feel any pain]]; or, in some cases, pain killers are in short supply, and they want them saved for someone who ''really'' needs them. [[Macho Masochism|Maybe ego -- or the need to look tough for someone -- won't let them.]] It's often seen when a character engages in [[Self-Stitching]], where such medication is either rare or not present. This is can go [[Up To Eleven]] if it's a [[Life or Limb Decision]].
See also [[Macho Masochism]].
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the [[Real Person Fic]] ''[[Just Taken]]'', [[Spice Girls|Melanie]] strictly requests that she isn't given pain medication after she
* In ''[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1535231 Spice Fortress Series]'', none of the women are given any medicine, even during surgery, yet seem [[Major Injury Underreaction|not to care]].
* Though understanding why she had to be on them, Emma wants the doctors to either reduce or stop giving her medication when she got out of a coma in ''[[Astral Journey: It's Complicated]]'', as they were just making her very sick, even worse than being in a coma.
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* In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' Gordon mentions in the hospital that Harvey Dent refuses to take any pain medication, despite having [[Facial Horror|half his face burned off]]. He isn't willing to get a skin graft, either.
* ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' has Palpatine forbid the medical droids from using anesthetics or pain-killers while they rebuild Darth Vader, leaving him [[And I Must Scream|fully aware of what is happening to him during the multi-day surgery.]]
* ''[[Tank Girl]]'': Kesslee is badly injured, resulting in the loss of his arm and face, but he orders his doctor not to give him painkillers.
* In ''[[The Wolverine]]'', Logan skips pain killers to perform open-heart surgery on himself and remove a parasite that was compromising his [[Healing Factor]].
* In ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'', after [[We Need a Distraction|destroying a car to steal antibiotics without being seen]], Anton Chigurh goes forward with performing [[Self-Stitching]] on his knee in a very calm matter.
* ''[[Cast Away]]'' had Chuck removing a bad tooth with an ice skate and rock without any
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'':
* In ''[[Saga of the Forgotten Warrior]]'', Lok's Protectors of the Law can draw on the Heart of the Mountain to increase their strength, speed, stamina, senses, healing,
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* This is true of Barry Allen in the [[CW]] series ''[[The Flash (2014)|The Flash]]''. Thanks to the effect his [[Super Speed]] has on his metabolism, pain
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance]]'': The cyborg warrior Raiden is impaled by a sword during his fight against {{spoiler|Monsoon}}, and he asks his [[Mission Control|support team]] over radio to "turn off his pain inhibitors".
== [[Visual Novel]]s ==
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== Other Media ==
* A joke circulating during the late 1960s and the 1970s (and still
== [[Real Life]] ==
* During [[World War II]], Colonel von Stauffenberg refused to take morphine, out of fear of developing an addiction to the stuff.
* According to ''I'll Take Your Questions Now'', a 2021 tell-all book by former [[Donald Trump|Trump]] White House staffer Stephanie Grisham, the then-President refused to be sedated while undergoing a colonoscopy, because he
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