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* A gender-swapped version happens to Stephanie Brown/Spoiler, where her boyfriend Tim Drake ([[{{Comicbook/Robin}}Robin]]) tended to her wounds as she talks about her villainous father.

It also affords time for a tender moment after an action-packed scene, or merely for people to talk about discoveries made during the heat of battle. The first is usually a [[AlwaysMale man]] getting patched up by a [[AlwaysFemale woman]]; it often advances the FlorenceNightingaleEffect, but seldom goes all the way from nothing to love because it's only one scene. If not, or if there is no {{UST}}, it's commonly the second, used for exposition, since they can talk.

* Played for laughs on ''Series/{{Angel}}'', when Cordelia is patching up Angel from an arrow wound.

It also affords time for a tender moment after an action-packed scene, or merely for people to talk about discoveries made during the heat of battle. The first is overwhelming a [[AlwaysMale man]] getting patched up by a [[AlwaysFemale woman]]. If not, or if there is no {{UST}}, it's commonly the second, used for exposition, since they can talk.

Compare FlorenceNightingaleEffect; it is not unknown from this, but usually this scene is only a stage in the development. Contrast MinorInjuryOverreaction.

Regardless of how she feels about him, she may inform him that [[FearLeadsToAnger it was really stupid]] to [[FearlessFool get into trouble]] in the first place, which may or may not be followed by an acknowledgement of his courage, or even the SmoochOfVictory. This is less likely if it was on her behalf, where appropriate gratitude may be expressed. She may, however, deny that his intervention was needed; that sometimes is true.

It also affords time for a tender moment after an action-packed scene, or merely for people to talk about discoveries made during the heat of battle.

It is usually a [[AlwaysMale man]] getting patched up by a [[AlwaysFemale woman]]. If not, or if there is no {{UST}}, it's commonly used for exposition, since they can talk.

Contrast MinorInjuryOverreaction.

It is usually a [[AlwaysMale man]] getting patched up by a [[AlwaysFemale woman]]. A lack of {{UST}} commonly means it's being used for exposition, since they can talk.

It is overwhelming a [[AlwaysMale man]] getting patched up by a [[AlwaysFemale woman]].

Jill often has to tell him to hold still when she treats the injuries -- often with a warning, in advance, that it will hurt. If she doesn't sympathize with him -- either in general or because she disapproves of how he got injured -- she may briskly inform him not to be a baby. Regardless of how she feels about him, she may inform him that [[FearLeadsToAnger it was really stupid]] to [[FearlessFool get into trouble]] in the first place, which may or may not be followed by an acknowledgement of his courage, or even the SmoochOfVictory. This is less likely if it was on her behalf, where appropriate gratitude may be expressed. She may, however, deny that his intervention was needed; that sometimes is true.

* This is Jack and Kate's first interaction in {{Lost}}.
* Lampshaded and parodied in ''{{Community}}'', when Jeff suffers an ACTUAL injury during the PaintballEpisode and Britta patches him up, commenting on how the "wounded soldier fantasy" clearly means they're moments from doing it. [[spoiler:They do it.]]
* Played for laughs on {{Angel}}, when Cordelia is patching up Angel from an arrow wound.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Helpless" when Buffy discovers [[spoiler:that Giles injected her with a drug that removes her superpowers on the orders of the Watcher's Council, she threatens to kill him if he ever touches her again.]] At the end of the episode, after Giles is fired for his "fatherly love" for Buffy, she allows him to clean her forehead where she's bleeding.

-->'''Cordelia''':Stop breathing

-->'''Cordelia''':Then stop flexing your manly boob muscle.
* Giles does it to Buffy at least once in {{Buffy The Vampire Slayer}},wiping at her forehead where she's bleeding.

* ''The Thirteenth Warrior''. The protagonist is being treated by a Viking woman who tells him he's sounding like a woman, so he quips, "How come you're not doing it then?"

* ''TheThirteenWarrior''. The protagonist is being treated by a Viking woman who tells him he's sounding like a woman, so he quips, "How come you're not doing it then?"

* In RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story ''A Witch Shall Be Born'', much of how Salome took over is told by Valerius to Ivga while she tends his wounds, though they are unusually severe for this trope.

Jill often has to tell him to hold still when she treats the injuries. If she doesn't sympathize with him -- either in general or because she disapproves of how he got injured -- she may briskly inform him not to be a baby. Regardless of how she feels about him, she may inform him that [[FearLeadsToAnger it was really stupid]] to [[FearlessFool get into trouble]] in the first place, which may or may not be followed by an acknowledgement of his courage, or even the SmoochOfVictory. This is less likely if it was on her behalf, where appropriate gratitude may be expressed. She may, however, deny that his intervention was needed; that sometimes is true.

Jill often has to tell him to hold still when she treats the injuries. If she doesn't sympathize with him -- either in general or because she disapproves of how he got injured -- she may briskly inform him not to be a baby. Regardless of how she feels about him, she may inform him that [[FearLeadsToAnger it was really stupid]] to get into trouble in the first place, which may or may not be followed by an acknowledgement of his courage, or even the SmoochOfVictory. This is less likely if it was on her behalf, where appropriate gratitude may be expressed. She may, however, deny that his intervention was needed; that sometimes is true.

Jill often has to tell him to hold still when she treats the injuries. If she doesn't sympathize with him -- either in general or because she disapproves of how he got injured -- she may briskly inform him not to be a baby. Regardless of how she feels about him, she may inform him that [[FearLeadsToAnger it was really stupid]] to get into trouble in the first place, which may or may not be followed by an acknowledgement of his courage. This is less likely if it was on her behalf, where appropriate gratitude may be expressed. She may, however, deny that his intervention was needed; that sometimes is true.

* In DanAbnett's {{Warhammer 40000}} novel ''BrothersOfTheSnake'', after the battle with the orks, Priad talks with Petrok while an apocathery tends his wounds, to tell him something he realized during the battle.

* In DanAbnett's {{Warhammer 40000}} novel ''Brothers of the Snake'', after the battle with the orks, Priad talks with Petrok while an apocathery tends his wounds, to tell him something he realized during the battle.

-->'''Beast:''' ...You're quite welcome.

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