Tropescilloscope: Only a Flesh Wound

A character is unrealistically functional after being severely injured. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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