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* Captain Janeway in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]].'' (To the Doctor: "[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I'll be coming back with severe burns]]."

* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in ''[[Firefly]]''. Captain Mal, who is unquestionaly a [[Badass]], tends to [[Determinator|power through pain to get a job done]]. However, after being rather viciously stabbed during a [[Sword Fight|"Duel of Honour"]], he simply ''will not shut up'' about how he got cut, and how much it hurts.<ref>Jokingly though. He's just trying to milk it for all the sympathy it's worth</ref>

'''Mal''': ''Absolutely''. I got stabbed, you know! ''[points to bandage]'' Right here! }}

 

* During a 1912 campaign speech, [[Theodore Roosevelt]] was the victim of an assassination attempt; he was shot in the chest, and survived [[Pocket Protector|due to the bullet hitting the eyeglass case and folded speech in his breast pocket]]. Reaction? He wasn't spitting blood, so he ''stayed on the podium'' and finished his speech before going to the hospital. [[Badass]].

** Finished? When he got shot, he ''hadn't even started.'' You know it's a [[Badass]] talking when he begins a ''90 minute'' speech with:

* The [[wikipedia:Purple Heart|Purple Heart]] award is essentially a patriotic incarnation of this. It's generally not a medal anyone particularly ''wants'' to get.