< Major Injury Underreaction
Major Injury Underreaction/Playing With
Basic Trope: A character has little or no reaction to a major injury.
- Straight: Bob gets his arm cut off, but shrugs it off as Just a Flesh Wound.
- Exaggerated: Bob gets both arms cut off and is impaled but just yawns.
- Downplayed: Bob gets a nasty slash across his chest but only whimpers a little.
- Justified: Bob is immortal or is very resistant to pain.
- Bob has a Healing Factor of some sort.
- Inverted: Minor Injury Overreaction
- Subverted: Bob gets his arm cut off and he starts screaming in pain.
- Double Subverted: But that was only to fake his enemy out. He doesn't seem to suffer any lasting effects from the limb removal.
- Parodied: Bob shrugs off a tactical nuclear strike, then passes out because he broke a nail.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob has a reasonable pain threshhold.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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