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{{quote|Leonidas: I trust [[Eye Scream|that scratch]] hasn't made you useless.<br />
Dilios: It's [[Eyepatch of Power|only an eye]], my lord. The gods saw fit to grace me [[Only a Flesh Wound|with a spare]]. }}
* Humorously by the Black Knight in ''[[Monty Python and
* Time and time again in ''[[Zulu]]''.
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* [[wikipedia:Jack Cornwell|Jack Cornwell]], a sixteen-year-old sailor in World War One, fought in the Battle of Jutland aboard the HMS Chester. Even though huge pieces of steel shrapnel were embedded in his chest, he remained at his gun sight and waited for orders. He died two days later.
* Cervantes (the author of ''[[Don Quixote]]'') was in bed with a high fever when the Holy League's navy shipped out for the Battle of Lepanto, but insisted on coming along. He was wounded three times, including losing a hand.
* Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden and one of the major players in the early [[Thirty Years' War]] had a musket ball lodged in his neck that prevented him from wearing armour, since a cuirass pressing on the ball caused excruciating pain. He led cavalry charges wearing a [[Hell-Bent for Leather|leather jacket]] instead.
* Nusaybah bint Kaab was a female warrior who fought in the armies of the Prophet Muhammad in the early days of Islam's expansion. During the battle of Uhud in the 7th century, she was nearly killed defending Muhammad. Lying near death the day after the battle, she heard the Prophet call for reinforcements and got up to answer to call, at which point she keeled over from blood loss. She eventually recovered.
* The sports world is full of this; especially [[American Football]], where the ability to play through pain is considered to be a job requirement. One particularly famous example is when San Francisco 49ers safety Ronnie Lott, a player noted for hitting opponents so hard that he sometimes knocked himself out, was to be held inactive for the [[Super Bowl]] due to a broken finger; he instead [[Badass|asked doctors to amputate it]] so that he could compete.
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