Bandage Mummy: Difference between revisions

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When someone is badly injured and you need to get that across, show him post-accident partly or completely encased in plaster casts and/or bandages. Usually, they'll be in a hospital bed, with maybe one or two arms or legs suspended, and completely immobilised.

* Played for comedy in ''[[The Slayers]]''; Zolf, a.k.a. the "Mummy Man" in the first season of the television series and Naga in the first episode of the [[The Slayers|Slayers Excellent]] [[OVA|OVAs]].

* [[The Social Darwinist|Shishio Makoto]] of [[Rurouni Kenshin]] is covered head-to-toe in bandages. His un-bandaged visage is [[Mr. Fanservice|surprisingly attractive]]... for someone who was [[Rasputinian Death|shot and burned alive and survived]].

* The lepers in ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''.

* In earlier chapters of ''[[Rave Master]]'' Haru usually ends up heavily bandaged after his fights-one time Elie even wraps him up like a mummy. Whether this stopped in later chapters because he became more skilled, Hiro Mashima decided it was too unrealistic, or he just realized that [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now|his characters walked around with massive injuries so much anyway]] that there was no point in 'coddling' them is a mystery.

* Isamu in ''[[Macross Plus]]'' after a crash while flight-testing one of the experimental Veritechs.

* Mr. Shinuhe from ''[[Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service]]''-- who may be a revivified Egyptian mummy, or just a burn victim who knows way too much about ancient Egyptian burial customs for comfort. He seems to enjoy teasing our heroes with evidence either way.

* Played for comedic effect multiple times in [[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]].

 

== Film ==

 

* When ''[[Mad Max]]'' visits Goose in hospital and sees what's left of him wrapped in bandages, he outright refuses to believe it's Goose.

* Played for comedy in ''[[Johnny Dangerously]]'', where Johnny's brother is in a full-body cast, next to another hospital patient with another full-body cast. His mother identifies Johnny's brother by the color of his eyes, and writes his name on the cast.

* Franz Liebkind is reduced to a version of this by the end of ''[[The Producers]]'', although still wearing his Nazi helmet.

* The protagonist of [[Kung Fu Hustle]] is reduced to this state after he gets his ''everything'' beaten thoroughly by the Beast.

 

== Literature ==

 

* Not completely covered, but Mr. Bump of ''The Mr. Men'' fame.

* ''The Way Things Work'' has a picture of a mammoth severely injured in a gliding accident bandaged and posed to look like an airplane.

 

== Live Action TV ==

 

* In ''[[MASH]]'', as a practical joke, Hawkeye and BJ (and Frank?) give Margaret's fianc? three-quarters body cast from the chest down during his bachelor party after he passes out, claiming that he got injured, so he's all plastered up for the wedding and the honeymoon.

** Those lips! Those pillowy lips!

* In ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' [http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode27.htm episode 27], Erik Njorl is called into court to answer charges that he (among other things) assaulted police officers. He's wrapped in bandages from head to toe due to the injuries he received in the fight.

* Otani Yoshitsugu from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' is bandaged head to foot due to him suffering from leprosy. It's pretty damn unnerving.

* Every time your character lost all his energy in the ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' videogame adaptation for SEGA Megadrive/Genesis, he would become covered in bandages. Played for comedy.

 

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', the family visits daredevil Lance Murdock in the hospital when Bart decides to become a daredevil. Murdock's arms and legs are in casts & slings, and he signs a headshot with a sharpie in his mouth.

* It's not a complete body binding, but after Thrust gets his metal butt handed to him by Starscream in ''[[Transformers Armada]]'' his next scene shows him with bandages around his pointed head and his arm in a cast. Given that he's a robot one wonders at the point of putting bandages on at all.

* Lucius on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', but [[Jerkass|he deserves it]].

* One episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has Peggy end up in a full body cast after a skydiving accident.

 

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