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That blip about Avatar The Last Airbender wasn't describing a subversion but when the trope simply wasn't used. Since it's impossible and pointless to list all absences of any trope, how did it belong?
Seth: I'm glad someone agrees with me.
Ununnilium: It's not pointless to list especially notable absences - as indicated by the "Exception"s in the example areas of most tropes on the wiki.
Keenath: I edited the Avatar reference. Though the show does subvert the instant-healing trope with regard to Zuko, his eye-scar is an example of Good Scars, Evil Scars, not a lack of instant healing.
Seth: That never occurred to me, great catch.
Wiki: Yeah thanks for fixing that up, I believe it was put in before the page was created.
Mister Six: I was going to put in the Fallout games as an exception, in that body parts (eyes, legs, arms) can be crippled, affecting your ability to move, fight and communicate. However, they can be fixed again and put good as new by a qualified doctor (or by the player if he has a medical kit and high physician skills). Does that still count as an exception?
Also, does anyone know the name of that Amiga 1200 game that had you walking through an FPS wilderness fighting dinosaurs and what not, in which you could be forced to amputate your leg or an eye?
Deus Ex Biotica: Isn't that video game stuff all Heal Thyself?
Fire Walk: I think the second is, but not the first, as it's a cutscene. Heal Thyself is instant healing from medipacks, and the first is notably a good example. The second, not so sure.
JohnCKirk: I don't think that the DS 9 reference is fair; there was an entire episode ("It's only a paper moon") about Nog coming to terms with his missing leg.
Mark Sutton: It's worse than that- the baseball episode that's the source of the complaint is four episodes before the one where he loses his leg
Haven: I almost want to give a Made Of Win point to whoever described Simon's medical technology as postmodern. Joss Whedon is postmodern in many ways, but surgery isn't one of them. But how awesome would it have been if he'd gone that route?
