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This can help make the pain of the fight more recognizable. Few viewers will have been riddled with bullets or been hit by a speeding motorcycle, but most will have had antiseptic rubbed on a wound or a bandage removed, and know how much '''that''' hurt.
This is a common enough fear among many people, called ''trypanophobia'' and a particularly fun example of [[Truth in Television]]. It may be related to the fact that while combat injuries and the resulting pain are usually suppressed by adrenaline, the pain that comes along with tearing off bandages, or putting peroxide into wounds is not.
A subset of [[Fatal Flaw]].
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