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== Anime & Manga ==

* Heero fixes his own broken leg in ''[[Gundam Wing]]''. Heero's leg was dislocated and he relocated it by himself, which is technically possible but extremely painful. (But because Heero's [[The Stoic]] he didn't bat an eye and, unrealistically, was able to walk fine afterwards)

* Though perhaps different, Franky of ''[[One Piece]]'' {{spoiler|completely rebuilt himself as a cyborg after suffering tremendous injury from being hit by a sea train. He did this with his own hands, without any assistance, and was thus only able to modify everything but his back, which he couldn't reach or see to work on.}}

== Comics ==

* During a battle between [[Lobo]] and his daughter they slash each other up so badly their regenerative powers can't keep up, so they take a break to stitch themselves up.

 

 

* [[Career Killer]] [[Leon]] returns to his apartment and is seen patching himself up in the shower, showing that he had been injured carrying out one of his hits.

* Chigurh does this in ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'', as if he wasn't [[Badass]] enough. He [[We Need a Distraction|torches a car so he can steal the antibiotics he needs from a chemist shop unobserved]]. Moss has to patch himself up as well, but his attempt is considerably more amateur.

* Played with in ''[[Silent Running]]'' when the protagonist reprograms a robot to perform surgery on his badly injured leg.

* ''[[Predator]] 2''. The Predator applying hot coals to the stump of its amputated hand to cauterize the wound.

* ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]'' has a parody of the above Rambo scene when Jack Spade digs a splinter out of his finger.

* The title villain in ''[[Dr. Giggles]]'' is shot in the leg at one point, and not only does the surgical work to remove the bullet and stitch up the wound himself, but he does it as if he had a full medical staff, down to requesting (and handing himself) various tools to work with. Of course, this was less him being [[Badass]] and more him being [[Ax Crazy|bat-shit insane]].

* In ''[[Legion]]'', the archangel Michael sews stitches into his back after ''cutting off his own wings''. It's his second scene in the movie, as if they wanted to establish right away that he's a badass.

* Happens in ''[[Gladiator]]''.

* Near the end of ''[[Grindhouse|Death Proof]]'', Stuntman Mike pours liquor on a wound to prevent infection. Subverted in that he was cringing the whole time.

* Sally from ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' completely sews herself back together... but then she ''is'' a rag doll.

* Miss Gard of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' series once stuffed a portion of her own intestines back into her body and used Super Glue to seal the wound. {{spoiler|Probably made easier by being a Valkyrie, but still damn impressive.}}

* Eve Dallas does this after being injured by a random criminal in one ''[[In Death]]'' book. Her captain later calls in an actual medic to look at the wound, much to her displeasure.

* [[Stephen King]] had a grisly short story about a doctor who survives some kind of wreck and winds up on a flyspeck island in the middle of the ocean. Eventually the good doctor has to [[No Party Like a Donner Party|turn cannibal]] on ''himself'', cutting off certain parts, eating them, then taking care so that the area around the sacrificed part wouldn't get infected or anything. At the very end of the story the doctor, who is a surgeon and has been taking very good care of his hands the whole time, finally gets desperate enough to start looking at them... (Apparently when King first had this idea, he ran into a local doctor he knew at the supermarket and asked about whether the idea was at all feasible in real life. The doctor gave him a very odd look before replying that yes, it was theoretically possible).

* Igors in [[Discworld]] do surgery on themselves all the time. Subverted, in a way, in that they don't actually feel any pain while doing this, so it's never an ordeal unless they have difficulty keeping the mirror steady. Even the visible scars are an affectation - they're perfectly capable of stitching seamlessly.

 

 

* Possibly subverted on ''[[Lost]]''. Jack insists on being awake so he can talk Juliet through performing an appendectomy on him, but after she begins they decide to knock him out as he's in too much pain.

* This seems to be the only kind of medical attention the boys of ''[[Supernatural]]'' ever receive.

 

 

== Webcomics ==

* Characters sewing up their own wounds (and whether you get XP for it) is a running gag in ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]''.

 

 

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3: Snake Eater''. Part of the gameplay is that, rather than just [[Hyperactive Metabolism|eating Rations to heal]], you have to perform first aid on yourself to recover from most injuries. That includes digging out bullets and arrows with your knife, sewing up wounds, and the like.

 

 

== Real Life ==

* Professional chefs regularly keep superglue in their knife kits just in case they give themselves a serious knife wound while working. And by serious, we're talking "cut to the bone" serious. Anything less and its "slap a blue bandaid on it and move on".

* The top four entries of [http://www.cracked.com/article_19218_6-insane-diy-surgeries-you-wont-believe-actually-worked_p2.html this] article.

 

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[[Category:Injury Tropes]]