Tropescilloscope: Major Injury Underreaction

Belittling a normally serious wound. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Improvised Weapon Blood Knight Show Within a Show Pretty Little Headshots Woman Scorned Gorn Psychological Thriller Accidental Misnaming Hell Is That Noise Hero Antagonist Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Bowdlerise Fingore Hate Sink Bare Your Midriff Earn Your Happy Ending Fat Bastard Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Mooks Expository Hairstyle Change Important Haircut Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Ominous Latin Chanting Russian Films My Beloved Smother Butt-Monkey Jerk with a Heart of Gold Genre Shift Establishing Character Moment Contrived Coincidence Parental Abandonment Moment Killer Bury Your Gays Back from the Dead Morality Pet Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Death of a Child All Just a Dream Only in It for the Money Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Empathic Environment The Un-Reveal Broken Bird Ambiguously Gay Vomit Indiscretion Shot Big Brother Instinct Rewatch Bonus Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Getting Crap Past the Radar Victoria's Secret Compartment Bad "Bad Acting" A.I. Is a Crapshoot Spanner in the Works Kids Are Cruel All There in the Script After the End Wretched Hive The Alleged Car He Knows Too Much Rasputinian Death Jerkass Has a Point Amusing Injuries Children Are Innocent Spell My Name with an "S" Evil-Detecting Dog Our Zombies Are Different Unreliable Narrator Sadistic Choice Wham Shot Five-Man Band Storming the Castle Gainax Ending B-Movie Chekhov's Skill Blonde, Brunette, Redhead N-Word Privileges Immune to Bullets Big Damn Heroes Your Cheating Heart Killed Mid-Sentence Random Events Plot Aluminum Christmas Trees Anguished Declaration of Love The '60s Big "NO!" Arc Words Boom, Headshot! Papa Wolf No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Say My Name Lock and Load Montage Historical In-Joke Eagleland Kick the Dog Dark and Troubled Past Abusive Parents Deconstruction As You Know Well-Intentioned Extremist Cowboy Cop Due to the Dead Men Are the Expendable Gender Damsel in Distress Plot Hole Drowning My Sorrows Cat Fight Mundane Made Awesome Mystery and Detective Films Diabolus ex Machina Took a Level in Badass Spiritual Successor Double-Meaning Title Cruel and Unusual Death Credits Gag The Musical Karma Houdini Leave the Camera Running Enemy Mine Fire-Forged Friends Posthumous Character Shoot the Shaggy Dog Freudian Excuse Artistic License – Law Death by Adaptation Serious Business Market-Based Title All Men Are Perverts Those Wacky Nazis Ripped from the Headlines Wrong Genre Savvy Older Than They Look Determinator Pay Evil unto Evil The Cameo Time Skip Action Girl Nothing Is Scarier Brick Joke What Happened to the Mouse? Evil vs. Evil All Girls Want Bad Boys I'm a Humanitarian Extremely Short Timespan Informed Ability Fish out of Water Sinister Minister Aside Glance All There in the Manual Canadian Movies There Is No Kill Like Overkill Country Matters Not So Above It All Author Appeal She Cleans Up Nicely Ascended Extra Easily Forgiven Sequel Escalation Protagonist Title Meaningful Name No Name Given Soft Glass Artistic License – History Fantastic Racism As Himself Gold Digger folderlabel You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Married to the Job Malevolent Masked Men Pimped-Out Dress All for Nothing Sealed Evil in a Can And I Must Scream Big Applesauce The Great Depression Pretty in Mink Abhorrent Admirer timeperiod Hollywood Law Sci-Fi Horror Police Brutality Domestic Abuse Drill Sergeant Nasty Brutal Honesty Historical Villain Upgrade Dramedy Actually Pretty Funny Deadpan Snarker A Date with Rosie Palms The Bad Guy Wins Book-Ends Epic Movie Babies Ever After Sexy Discretion Shot Stealth Hi/Bye May–December Romance Implacable Man Smug Snake Politically Incorrect Villain Slashed Throat Beware the Nice Ones Spiteful Spit Eiffel Tower Effect Scary Black Man Those Two Bad Guys Stepford Smiler The Hero Dies Captain Ersatz Artistic License – Biology "Awesome McCool" Name Foil Eye Scream Historical Hero Upgrade Badass Boast Insult Backfire The Smart Guy Bloodier and Gorier Curse Cut Short Bunny-Ears Lawyer Not What It Looks Like Dissonant Serenity Peek-a-Boo Corpse Hope Spot Attempted Rape Call-Forward No Antagonist Trailers Always Spoil I Need a Freaking Drink Dumb Blonde In Name Only It's Personal Offscreen Moment of Awesome Darker and Edgier Ironic Echo Setting Update The Starscream No Celebrities Were Harmed Evil Is Hammy Badass Bookworm What You Are in the Dark Brainless Beauty An Aesop Bring My Brown Pants Fake Shemp Heroic BSoD Insane Troll Logic It Can Think An Axe to Grind Pyrrhic Victory Get Out! Shout-Out Department of Redundancy Department Neck Snap Precision F-Strike Dark Reprise True Companions Token Minority Never My Fault Creative Closing Credits Handicapped Badass French Films Disguised in Drag Bolivian Army Ending Improbable Weapon User Knight Templar Leaning on the Fourth Wall Obfuscating Stupidity Badass Grandpa Real Life Writes the Plot Cloudcuckoolander Stylistic Suck Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Major Injury Underreaction Didn't Think This Through The Hero Disproportionate Retribution Action Prologue Outrun the Fireball Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Calling the Old Man Out Jitter Cam Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Friend to All Children How We Got Here Fun with Acronyms Face Death with Dignity No-Sell Cool Car Heroes Want Redheads Motor Mouth Defrosting Ice Queen My God, What Have I Done? Improbable Aiming Skills Slasher Smile Narrator Honor Before Reason Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Body Horror Unspoken Plan Guarantee Nice Guy Took a Level in Jerkass Not Even Bothering with the Accent Grievous Bottley Harm Adapted Out Failed a Spot Check Grey and Gray Morality Shipper on Deck Fate Worse than Death Silence Is Golden The Casanova Affectionate Parody Laser-Guided Karma Action Genre Leitmotif Rated M for Manly Extreme Doormat Bullying a Dragon The Dragon Badass in a Nice Suit Dirty Cop Cold-Blooded Torture Faking the Dead Black and Gray Morality For the Evulz Asshole Victim Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dutch Angle Video Credits Reality Ensues Exactly What It Says on the Tin Author Avatar Beard of Evil Never Found the Body Slap-Slap-Kiss The Voiceless Hollywood Darkness Adaptation Name Change Comically Missing the Point Dark Action Girl Film Noir Index Those Two Guys Anti-Hero Decoy Protagonist The Load Darkest Hour Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Male Frontal Nudity Accidental Murder Manchild Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Artistic License – Military The Mole Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Animal Motifs The Bully Big-Bad Ensemble Public Domain Feature Films The Faceless Sequel Hook Big Bad Duumvirate Did Not Get the Girl Vacation Films Adaptation Expansion Every Car Is a Pinto Dramatic Irony Imagine Spot Black Comedy Early Installment Weirdness Scenery Gorn Heterosexual Life-Partners MacGuffin Silent Movie Off with His Head! Badass Longcoat Cool Guns Not So Different Corrupt Corporate Executive Ambiguous Ending Instant Death Bullet Final Girl Logo Joke Agony of the Feet Adaptation Dye-Job Fiery Redhead Line-of-Sight Name Truth in Television Properly Paranoid Determinator aka: The Determinator Depraved Bisexual Too Dumb to Live My Greatest Failure Zombie Stories Awesome, but Impractical Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Man on Fire Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! As Long as It Sounds Foreign Heel Realization Product Placement Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bound and Gagged The Chessmaster Romantic False Lead The Lancer And Starring Beauty Is Never Tarnished Shower Scene Bond Villain Stupidity Poor Communication Kills Offscreen Teleportation Rousing Speech Even Evil Has Standards Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Adaptational Badass Love at First Sight I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Oner Eldritch Abomination Historical-Domain Character Obstructive Bureaucrat Dull Surprise Ms. Fanservice Age Lift Adaptation Distillation The Mafia Sassy Black Woman Chekhov's Gunman Death by Sex Noodle Incident Flipping the Bird The Atoner Red Right Hand Translation Convention Put on a Bus Catapult Nightmare Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Place Ungrateful Bastard Toplessness from the Back Up to Eleven Disappeared Dad Once More, with Clarity! Self-Deprecation Non-Indicative Name Last-Name Basis I Have Your Wife Broken Aesop Good Is Not Nice Word of God Superhero Happily Married Not So Stoic World of Ham Meaningful Background Event Vampire Fiction Evil Is Petty Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Sir Swears-a-Lot Mistaken for Gay Only Sane Man Advertised Extra Names to Run Away from Really Fast Unusually Uninteresting Sight Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Almost Kiss Foreshadowing Mexican Standoff Red Shirt Taking You with Me Evil Counterpart Bloodless Carnage Slasher Movie Demoted to Extra Gory Discretion Shot Face–Heel Turn Hero of Another Story Dogged Nice Guy The End... Or Is It? Arch-Enemy Despair Event Horizon I Did What I Had to Do Reckless Gun Usage The Alcoholic Pragmatic Adaptation Villain with Good Publicity Destination Defenestration Index of Film Westerns Rule of Funny Kubrick Stare The Film of the Book Green-Eyed Monster No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Real Life Gilligan Cut Running Gag Betty and Veronica Film Noir Groin Attack Fatal Flaw Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Re-Cut One Steve Limit Anyone Can Die Chewing the Scenery Casting Gag Recycled IN SPACE! Visual Pun Cool Shades Freeze-Frame Bonus Chiaroscuro Even Evil Has Loved Ones Artistic License – Gun Safety Insistent Terminology Black Dude Dies First Plucky Comic Relief Meaningful Echo Vitriolic Best Buds Half the Man He Used to Be Composite Character Evil Sounds Deep "The Reason You Suck" Speech Central Theme Left the Background Music On Mythology Gag Lampshade Hanging Eyepatch of Power Brother–Sister Incest The Cavalry Animated Credits Opening Punctuated! For! Emphasis! BFG Chekhov's Gun Canon Foreigner Suddenly SHOUTING! Retired Badass Madness Mantra Rich Bitch Romantic Comedy Reality Has No Subtitles Missing Mom Heel–Face Turn Fainting Red Herring Blackmail You Killed My Father Anachronic Order Becoming the Mask Alpha Bitch Blatant Lies Guns Akimbo What the Hell, Hero? Fourth Date Marriage 20 Minutes into the Future Roaring Rampage of Revenge Coming-of-Age Story From Nobody to Nightmare Break the Haughty The '70s Yandere Evil Brit Corpsing Famous Last Words Fanservice Bond One-Liner Rule of Cool Auto Erotica Red Oni, Blue Oni Framing Device Adults Are Useless Unwitting Instigator of Doom Taking the Bullet Double Entendre Reality Is Unrealistic Sanity Slippage Maybe Ever After Only Known by Their Nickname The Dog Bites Back Kick the Son of a Bitch The '80s Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Gratuitous English "Shaggy Dog" Story Wounded Gazelle Gambit Cat Scare Biopic Television Movie Index Rule of Symbolism Adaptational Attractiveness Very Loosely Based on a True Story Karmic Death Demonic Possession Berserk Button Black Best Friend Broken Pedestal Smoking Is Cool Mood Whiplash "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The '90s Military and Warfare Films NO INDOOR VOICE Creepy Child Spared by the Adaptation A God Am I Kill 'em All Daddy's Girl Stalker with a Crush Air-Vent Passageway Hypocritical Humor Your Head A-Splode Playing Gertrude Make It Look Like an Accident Deus ex Machina Big Eater Race Against the Clock Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Four-Temperament Ensemble Shirtless Scene You Have Failed Me Drives Like Crazy Authority Equals Asskicking Affably Evil Hypocrite Jump Scare Greater-Scope Villain Oh, Crap! Foregone Conclusion Downer Ending Bald of Evil Bittersweet Ending Dirty Old Man Bad Boss Stuff Blowing Up Crapsack World Needs Wiki Magic Love The Quiet One Italian Films Tempting Fate Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Daylight Horror Redemption Equals Death Drugs Are Bad "Well Done, Son!" Guy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Refuge in Audacity Australian Movies Large Ham Mr. Fanservice Funny Background Event Curb-Stomp Battle Action Survivor Mr. Exposition Mad Scientist Funny Foreigner Novelization Animal Title Index Psychopathic Manchild Deal with the Devil Love Triangle Film Series Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Psycho for Hire Disney Villain Death Artistic License – Physics Sacrificial Lion Award-Bait Song It's All About Me Ax-Crazy Twist Ending Male Gaze Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Rape as Drama Japanese Films The Ditz The Stoic Star-Crossed Lovers Genre Savvy Hair-Trigger Temper The Reveal Punny Name Suspiciously Similar Substitute Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hong Kong Films Interrupted Suicide Early-Bird Cameo British Films Mind Screw Hoist by His Own Petard War Is Hell Everyone Has Standards The Lost Lenore The Smurfette Principle Homage Pet the Dog The Vamp From Bad to Worse Beta Couple Call-Back Suspiciously Specific Denial One-Word Title Conspicuous CG Fanservice Extra And the Adventure Continues Lighter and Softer Wham Line Undying Loyalty Made of Explodium Unresolved Sexual Tension The Big Guy Mighty Whitey Villain Ball Shown Their Work Apocalypse How Evil Plan Death by Irony O.O.C. Is Serious Business Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bilingual Bonus Death Seeker Crazy-Prepared Ragtag Bunch of Misfits As the Good Book Says... Red Eyes, Take Warning Alas, Poor Villain Amoral Attorney Henpecked Husband Together in Death Race Lift Police are Useless Bloody Hilarious The Ace Based on a True Story Riddle for the Ages Artistic License – Geography Anachronism Stew No Ending Dies Wide Open He Who Fights Monsters Parental Incest Guile Hero Bland-Name Product Big Bad Sports Stories Be Careful What You Wish For Small Name, Big Ego Fan Disservice Ass Shove Title Drop In the Back Faux Affably Evil Documentary Punch-Clock Villain Off-into-the-Distance Ending Skewed Priorities Dramatic Gun Cock Not Using the "Z" Word Never Trust a Trailer Crazy Jealous Guy Not Quite Dead Adult Fear The Brute Card-Carrying Villain The Ghost Laughing Mad Pragmatic Villainy Bait-and-Switch Parental Substitute Retirony Cluster F-Bomb Bar Brawl Manipulative Bastard Intrepid Reporter Dirty Coward Celebrity Paradox Tranquil Fury Heroic Sacrifice Shell-Shocked Veteran Loads and Loads of Characters Sole Survivor Neck Lift Fantasy Films It Will Never Catch On Soundtrack Dissonance She's Got Legs Overly Long Gag Reasonable Authority Figure Dual Wielding Ghost Fiction Stealth Pun The Chick Here We Go Again! Villainous Breakdown Arranged Marriage '80s Hair Jerk Jock Martial Arts Movie Overprotective Dad Adaptational Heroism This Is Gonna Suck Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Character Development Adaptational Villainy Death Glare Music Stories Belligerent Sexual Tension Match Cut Annoying Younger Sibling Fatal Family Photo Big Fancy House Antagonist Title Only a Flesh Wound Blood from the Mouth Works Set in World War II Villain Song Paper-Thin Disguise Super Strength Dressing as the Enemy Made of Iron Have a Gay Old Time Evil Laugh Nice Hat Combat Pragmatist Femme Fatale More Dakka Bavarian Fire Drill Take a Third Option Break the Cutie Defiant to the End Developing Doomed Characters For Want of a Nail Epic Fail Deliberate Values Dissonance Would Hurt a Child Let's Get Dangerous! Cassandra Truth Hooker with a Heart of Gold Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Captain Obvious Genre Throwback Rule of Three Shut Up, Hannibal! Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Idiot Ball Only One Name Horror Comedy The Stinger Light Is Not Good Worthy Opponent Room Full of Crazy Badass Normal Obviously Evil Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Tagline Dwindling Party Science Fiction Films Creator Cameo Chase Scene A Father to His Men Does Not Like Shoes Woman in White Alliterative Name Manic Pixie Dream Girl Flashback Anti-Villain Camera Abuse Eureka Moment German Films An Arm and a Leg Car Fu The '50s Unusual Euphemism The Dreaded Expy Deliberately Monochrome Really Gets Around Thriller Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Take That! Cool Old Guy Stock Footage Retcon Horror Films Bottomless Magazines Adorkable Catch-Phrase Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Scenery Porn Mercy Kill Black Comedy Rape Humiliation Conga Manly Tears Gone Horribly Right Whole Plot Reference Intergenerational Friendship Christmas Movies Index A Minor Kidroduction Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Tap on the Head Batman Gambit You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Mugging the Monster The Remake The Power of Love Meet Cute Camp Gay Armor-Piercing Question Loophole Abuse Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Continuity Nod Cain and Abel Kill It with Fire Facial Horror Irony The X of Y Ambiguous Disorder The Sociopath Our Vampires Are Different Villain Opening Scene Frame-Up Scare Chord Would Hit a Girl Vomit Discretion Shot Naked People Are Funny Redshirt Army Mama Bear Parental Neglect Costume Porn The Stoner One-Man Army Actor Allusion Breaking the Fourth Wall Cool Old Lady Driven to Suicide Distracted by the Sexy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Knife Nut Pre-Mortem One-Liner Same Language Dub Training Montage Does This Remind You of Anything? Humans Are Bastards Crucified Hero Shot La Résistance In Medias Res Disney Death Hidden Depths Wicked Cultured Jerkass Straight Gay The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Monumental Damage Totally Radical Dropped a Bridge on Him Covers Always Lie Villain Protagonist Dying Moment of Awesome Danny Peary Cult Movies List Naïve Newcomer Serial Killer No OSHA Compliance Gender Flip Closed Circle Ship Tease Dark Is Not Evil Exact Words Better to Die than Be Killed Bi the Way Revenge