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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,
This trope is often used to show one of many things: the patient is a badass [[Made of Iron]]
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 was severely injured in a fight, which included getting ran over by a car. She even woke up during the middle of emergency surgery, which she just [[Shrug Take| shrugs it off]]. Of course, this request was later declined when she finds herself in a different hospital, who gives the medication by force. Melanie complains that the medication was making her even worse, wanting to vomit at one point. However, considering one of the reasons for admission against her will was due to her eating disorder, she wasn't able to do so.
* In ''[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1535231 Spice Fortress Series]'', none of the women are given any medicine, even during surgery
* 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.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' Gordon mentions in the hospital that Harvey Dent refuses to take any pain medication, despite having
* ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' has Palpatine forbid the medical droids from using anesthetics or pain-killers while they rebuild Darth Vader
* ''[[Tank Girl]]''
* In ''[[The Wolverine]]'', Logan skips pain killers to perform open-heart surgery
* In ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'', after [[We Need a Distraction|
* ''[[Cast Away]]'' had
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin''
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* This is true of Barry Allen in the [[CW]] series ''[[The Flash (2014)|The Flash]]''
== [[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". This rush of pain proves beneficial
== [[Visual Novel]]s ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Cotton Hill from ''[[King of the Hill]]'',
{{quote|"Did Lincoln ask for girly gas when they blow'd his head off?"}}
== Other Media ==
== [[Real Life]] ==
* During [[
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