You Can Barely Stand: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"It's conceivable, you miserable, vomitous mass, that I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. But, then again... perhaps I have the strength after all."'' |'''Westley''', ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''}}

 

'''Lt. Boomer''': A Viper is flown from the ''seated'' position, sir."|''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (1978), "Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 2"}}

 

* [[Gintama]] has its main character Gintoki have several moments like this when there's serious arc and he's so badly beaten he can barely stand. Yet somehow, he always gets up from the ground. Never mind the countless broken bones and him throwing up blood...

* The cast of ''[[Inuyasha]]'' get this a ''lot''. One example is when Inyasha is human and must fight the Peach Man. During that time, he is shrunk, eaten, thrown back up, bled, tossed around, and fell from a cliff. Not even Sesshoumaru is [[Not So Invincible After All|immune]]. He finally comes up against an enemy that [[The Strategist|knows how to fight]] a [[Handicapped Badass|one-armed man]] {{spoiler|- by [[Badass in Distress|tearing that arm to shreds]], then entwining him in tentacles to [[Shoot the Hostage|prevent Inuyasha from using his sword]], before finally [[No One Could Survive That|stabbing him through the heart]].}}

* The various Egrigori experiments in ''[[Project ARMS]]'' get this bad. Ryo has especially bad luck. His ARMS - the Jabberwock - will only come out if he is in serious danger. The result of this is that almost every enemy sent to kill the Jaberwock will try to make it come out by beating the stuffing out of Ryo. And since he hates the Jabberwock, he always puts in a great deal of effort to just let himself get pummeled and not release the ARMS.

* [[Sword of the Stranger]] invokes this during its famed final fight sequence. Nanashi, after already being completely spent fighting the other soldiers and sustaining a few fairly series injuries, not only stands up to Luo-Lang, but refuses his offer of performance-enhancing drugs that would dull his pain and {{spoiler|still ends up the victor in the end.}}

* ''[[District 9]]'' does this rather well.

* ''[[Sin City]]'' gives us a gem, when Detective Hartigan, an aging cop with a heart condition, staggers over to confront the [[Big Bad]] of his arc.

'''Hatigan''': ...Sure I can. }}

 

* When ''[[Angel]]'' loses his soul for the umpteenth time, his sidekick calls in [[The Atoner|fallen Slayer]] Faith to hunt him down. This might have been a short fight, since Angel has a long record of getting soundly beaten every time he fights a Slayer (Faith herself managed to bounce him ''off the ceiling'' while attempting [[Suicide by Cop]]) so before the big fight she gets beaten to a bloody pulp by [[The Juggernaut]]. Oh, and {{spoiler|gives herself a massive dose of magical opiates}}. She still nearly beats him, because Slayers are just that [[Badass]].

* On ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]],'' Buffy gets a rather cool line in the season four opener:

''[[The Hero|Buffy]]:'' Let me answer that with a head butt. (''she does and sends Sunday staggering'') And for the record, the arm is ''hurt,'' (''punches Sunday, sending her flying'') not broken. }}

* When Shaw has taken over the Buy More and has chained Sarah to a thick bar at the base of the Nerd Herd desk, Sarah tells Shaw that Chuck won't show up to save her because [[You Can Barely Stand|he can barely stand.]] Yet, lo, and behold, Chuck shows up while injured, gets a [[Heroic Second Wind|reboot]], and [[Technical Pacifist|takes the Paragon Path]] when he won't kill Shaw. [[Action Girlfriend|Of course that doesn't stop Sarah from whacking him across the skull with the object of her restraint.]]