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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]. Bakura, a character who has a spirit possessing him on and off, is stabbed and passes out. He wakes up in a hospital as the spirit, who promptly knocks out the old man who was watching over him, stands up, ''[[Squick|violently rips the IV out of his arm]]'', and sets off to find the guy he's planning to defeat.
* When Lady Une comes out of a coma in ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', she pulls out her IV and goes to rescue Treize.
 
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== Film ==
* In ''[[Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Film)|Resident Evil Apocalypse]]'', Alice wakes up alone in a hospital [[Late to Thethe Party|Late To The]] [[Zombie Apocalypse]], and the first thing she does is yank out the IV. Albeit she ''does'' seem to feel pain.
* Pretty sure this shows up in the ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]] 2'' (remake). Of course there it's {{spoiler|a nightmare sequence}}.
* The Bride does this in ''[[Kill Bill (Film)|Kill Bill]]'' during the hospital sequence after killing Buck's latest "customer," who he'd been pimping out her comatose body to, just before getting into position (with no working legs, mind you) to ambush and take revenge upon Buck.
* [[Played for Laughs]], naturally, in ''[[Airplane! (Film)|Airplane!]]''. There's a young girl being transported to a hospital, whose IV line keeps getting knocked out by the stewardess playing the (borrowed) nun's guitar.
* In ''[[The Matrix (Film)|The Matrix]]'', Neo has a similar setup, but fed directly into a port in his arm (and facing the wrong way). Removing it does seem to cause pain though.
* [[Inception]]: The dream machine appears to involve an IV-like device, which appears to be simply pulled out when not needed.
** Raises [[Fridge Logic]] issues as to how the dream machine could feasibly be used on someone without their ever realizing it, if their arm is bandaged and sore when they wake up.
*** Saito is shown checking his arm after waking up from the extraction. There's no mark and he feels no pain. The fact that Cobb and his crew were able to do this without leaving a trace clearly impresses him. How they do it isn't explained, but it's clear they've developed a way to do it painlessly and without marking the target.
*** Looking at the schematics of the device itself, one will notice the 'needle' is more like a pair of very small fangs, presumably small enough to go between the cells.
* Jim of ''[[28 Days Later (Film)|28 Days Later]]'' does this, though not right away. It's not like anyone's coming to tend to him, and we see him wrapping a bandage around his arm where the IV had been.
* ''Harry Brown'' of the eponymous film removes his monitors and goes home after waking in hospital following an emphysema attack.
* In the first ''[[X Men 1 (Film)|X -Men 1]]'' movie, Wolverine wakes up at the medical room of the X-Men base and promptly rips out the needles. Doesn't bleed thanks to his hyper regeneration.
* [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] does this when escaping from the MI6 medical facility in ''[[Die Another Day (Film)|Die Another Day]].''
* Bob Lee Swagger does this to himself in ''[[Shooter]]''; he's been shot and knows he's going into shock from blood loss, so he improvises an IV set using aquarium tubing, plastic soda bottles, and a ''basting needle.'' Once he's bolused himself with a liter or so of homemade sugar-salt solution, he yanks the line out and continues on his merry [[Badass]] way.
 
== Live Action TV ==
* Averted in an episode of ''[[Moonlighting]]'', where a hospitalized gangster gets into a fight and drags his IV drip around with him. [[Played for Laughs]], obviously.
* Faith in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', although in her case it might not just be a matter of [[Badass|Bad Assery]] but also of not particularly ''caring'' what happens to her.
* A variation on the theme happened in an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]],'' with a serial killer who yanked out his ''breathing tube''.
* Naturally, any TV series featuring an emergency department will show this at least once; notable examples include ''[[GreysGrey's Anatomy]]'' and ''[[ER (TV)|ER]]''.
* The breathing tube variant also appears in an episode of ''[[Royal Pains]].'' Jill asks Divya to have them take her breathing tube out; Divya explains she can't, and so Jill gives her a distraction so she can remove it herself.
* In the 00's remake of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', Starbuck does this when breaking out of the Cylon farm.
* In an episode of ''[[Psych (TV)|Psych]]'', Henry Spencer, not wanting his son to embarrass him by this whole "barely poisoned" foolishness (thus resulting in his son languishing in a hospital rather than solving the case) yanks the IV out of Shawn's arm. Notably, it has quite painful results.
 
== Theater ==
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