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== Webcomics ==
== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[Cuanta Vida]]'', Scout is shot in the arm. He doesn't want to go to the Medic, so Pyro removes it for him. Possibly justified as Pyro (probably) isn't a doctor, and might not know any better.
* In ''[[Cuanta Vida]]'', Scout is shot in the arm. He doesn't want to go to the Medic, so Pyro removes it for him. Possibly justified as Pyro (probably) isn't a doctor, and might not know any better.
* In ''[[Last Res0rt]]'', Scout Arael in her civilian wear removes a sniper's bullet from Jigsaw's chest -- of course, it may be justified not only because we don't know if it's some kind of futuristic bullet, but also in that [[Our Vampires Are Different|Jigsaw is a vampire]] -- so it's possible she was "staked" by the bullet, requiring its removal.
* In ''[[Last Res0rt]]'', Scout Arael in her civilian wear removes a sniper's bullet from Jigsaw's chest—of course, it may be justified not only because we don't know if it's some kind of futuristic bullet, but also in that [[Our Vampires Are Different|Jigsaw is a vampire]]—so it's possible she was "staked" by the bullet, requiring its removal.
* Possibly justified in ''[[Freak Angels]]'', as apparently the bullet remaining in the wound screws up their [[Healing Factor]] somehow or other, and in any case the two individuals we see getting shot are neither in the presence of [[The Medic]] or especially well-equipped with brains.
* Possibly justified in ''[[Freak Angels]]'', as apparently the bullet remaining in the wound screws up their [[Healing Factor]] somehow or other, and in any case the two individuals we see getting shot are neither in the presence of [[The Medic]] or especially well-equipped with brains.


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{{quote|'''Charles Guiteau:''' The doctors killed Garfield, I just shot him.}}
{{quote|'''Charles Guiteau:''' The doctors killed Garfield, I just shot him.}}
** [[William McKinley]]'s doctors elected to remove only one of two bullets, fearing they would do more harm than good. They had the right idea, but he inevitably died of gangrene anyway, because the shot had punctured his intestines and antibiotics had not yet been discovered.
** [[William McKinley]]'s doctors elected to remove only one of two bullets, fearing they would do more harm than good. They had the right idea, but he inevitably died of gangrene anyway, because the shot had punctured his intestines and antibiotics had not yet been discovered.
** [[Theodore Roosevelt]] got shot and--[[Genre Savvy|remembering what happened to Garfield]]--decided not to have the bullet removed, and survived. [[Memetic Badass|(In his case, the bullet was too afraid of Roosevelt to kill him.)]]
** [[Theodore Roosevelt]] got shot and--[[Genre Savvy|remembering what happened to Garfield]]—decided not to have the bullet removed, and survived. [[Memetic Badass|(In his case, the bullet was too afraid of Roosevelt to kill him.)]]
** Some researchers claim this is what killed [[Abraham Lincoln]], though it's not very likely. They speculate that the teeny bullet merely rendered the President unconscious, and his doctors killed him when they dug into his brain to find it. However, given the state of medicine at the time, the bullet hole in his head would have been inevitably fatal no matter what. Even with modern medicine he might never have regained functionality.
** Some researchers claim this is what killed [[Abraham Lincoln]], though it's not very likely. They speculate that the teeny bullet merely rendered the President unconscious, and his doctors killed him when they dug into his brain to find it. However, given the state of medicine at the time, the bullet hole in his head would have been inevitably fatal no matter what. Even with modern medicine he might never have regained functionality.
** [[Ronald Reagan]] ended up being a rather unusual case where politics ended up playing a part. After he was shot through the armpit, doctors decided to probe for the bullet since they did not have the equipment to find out what it had damaged. After fifteen minutes of not finding it, the doctor doing the probing wanted to stop, since Reagan was a very old man and it was unlikely his body could handle too much. They decided to continue, partly out of fear that the media would claim incompetent doctors had left a bullet inside the President.
** [[Ronald Reagan]] ended up being a rather unusual case where politics ended up playing a part. After he was shot through the armpit, doctors decided to probe for the bullet since they did not have the equipment to find out what it had damaged. After fifteen minutes of not finding it, the doctor doing the probing wanted to stop, since Reagan was a very old man and it was unlikely his body could handle too much. They decided to continue, partly out of fear that the media would claim incompetent doctors had left a bullet inside the President.
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