History Main / AfterActionPatchup

* PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/{{Angel}}'', when Cordelia is patching up vampire Angel from getting rebar through his chest.
-->'''Cordelia''': Stop breathing.
-->'''Angel:''' I don't breathe.
-->'''Cordelia''': Then stop flexing your manly boob muscle.

* In the ''Series/Supergirl2015'' episode [[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E8Medusa "Medusa"]], Alex stitches up Maggie's wound after the latter got shot by the Cyborg Superman. Alex uses the time to thank Maggie for helping her realise her sexuality, and that she finally understands herself now because of it.
* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': Princess Diana is sent to America specifically to deliver Steve Trevor to an American hospital after patching him up on Paradise Island following him being shot by a Nazi soldier.

-->'''Bruce''': And in that moment...I knew no matter what he did to me, that he couldn't break me. That no one can.

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* The famous "Well, dammit, Indy, where ''doesn't'' it hurt?!" scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''

* Happens in the background after the climactic battle of ''Anime/YuOiOhTheMoviePyramidOfLight''. Mokuba can be seen bandaging Kaiba's arm, which was injured when Anubis threw him into the ground arm-first.

* A very mild version occurs in ''Film/ShedderOrpheus'' after one of Orpheus's concerts where Orpheus massages Eurydice's feet, which are worn-out from dancing.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'':
** Fuschia cleans off Crimney's [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-28 injuries,]] giving him a chance to tell her YouAreWorthHell.
** And again after [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-04-22 dealing with bullies.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-04-18 Crimney treats Fuschia's leg wound after she comes out of Hell.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-06-24 Ninja theater:]] they leave to tend injuries and bruised egos.
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-17 After Seymour hammered his finger,]] for an unusual reason: to showcase CharacterDevelopment. (Compare [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-19 this]] to get the joke.)

* In ''Webcomic/WoodenRose'', [[http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/comic.html Lillian must stitch up the doctor.]] Unusually, she had to be persuaded to do it, never having had to give stitches before.

* In ''Webcomic/CityUnderTheHill'', this happens in what ''would'' usually be considered an AfterActionHealingDrama moment, if Seamus wasn't a Werewolf and therefore already healing his heavy wounds by the time he reaches HQ, M.T. still patches him up.

* In ''Webcomic/DocRat'', [[http://www.docrat.com.au/default.asp?thisItem=906 one advantage of having a doctor for a boyfriend]] when you've been mugged.

* In ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'', [[http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/archive/chapter-0-bonus-3/ parodied with Tomato, who gets a papercut.]]
* Webcomic/{{Evon}} has to patch up Herodotus quite a lot. At one point she says he's "becoming more bandages than fur".
* In ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'', [[spoiler: Sigrun gets bitten during the battle with Leaftroll. After the battle, we get a scene of [[TheMedic Mikkel]] stitching up her arm.]]
* In case you doubted her badassery, Emily from ''Webcomic/{{Astray3}}'' does this to [[SelfSurgery herself]]. Using dental floss, a bottle of water and the [[FromDressToDressing remains of her hoodie]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'': In the aftermath of Ceres' brutal ColdBloodedTorture and Sun's rescue, Earth patches up Mars' wounds and tries to convince him (and herself) that things will be okay.
* Zig-zagged in ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'' when Thistle treats Brent's bite wound. It's [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/210 tense]] at first since Brent is angry at having taken an injury that can't be immediately {{Heal|ingHands}}ed and Thistle is badly shaken by the whole encounter, but it leads them to open up to each other a lot more [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/725 while she's checking his recovery]] later.

* ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'': After Arthur first unleashes the power of the sword in battle, he and the Mage have a quiet scene together where they discuss what just happened while he helps her tend to a wound on the back of her shoulder.

* ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'': After Arthur first unleashes the power of the sword in battle, he and the Mage have a quiet scene together where they discuss what just happened while he helps her clean up a wound on the back of her shoulder.

* In ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'', [[spoiler: Sigrun gets bitten during the battle with [[FanNickname Leaftroll]]. After the battle, we get a scene of [[TheMedic Mikkel]] stitching up her arm.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', after getting an arrow stuck in him [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight after refusing to follow an order to burn an innocent family's house down with them in it]], Phoebus is escorted back to the Cathedral and has the wound treated by Esmerelda. This is where the LoveTriangle between them and [[TheHero Quasimodo]] starts to show up.

* A gender-swapped version happens to [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown/Spoiler]], where her boyfriend [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake/Robin]] tends to her wounds as she talks about her villainous father.
** [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim (Robin III)]] [[LikeBrotherAndSister and]] [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cass (Batgirl III)]] help patch each other up after a battle while ''she'' explains a bit about her villainous father:

* In an early episode of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' the titular character has his brother stick his arm straight through his chest. Kagome tries to patch him up the next day only to find that the wound has healed due to Inuyasha being half-demon. She still has to wrestle him to get his shirt off though.

* A double version in ''Film/GeminiMan'' after the [[UpgradeVsPrototypeFight first confrontation between Henry Brogan and Junior]], with both characters trying to puzzle out with the person patching them up why their opponent was NotSoDifferent.

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E12Helpless Helpless]]", when Buffy discovers 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 by the Council for his [[BeingPersonalIsntProfessional "fatherly love" toward Buffy]], she allows him to clean her forehead where she's bleeding.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf:'' Happens [[FlorenceNightingaleEffect more than once]] between Akane and Ranma. The most notorious example happens in the [[MartialArtsAndCrafts martial ice-skating]] arc: he's moping after a fight because a man named Mikado gave him [[SacredFirstKiss his first kiss]] and then defeated him (not knowing that Ranma and the girl he'd kissed were the same person), so Akane comes in to snap him out of his funk and bandage any wounds. This results in several [[AlmostKiss Almost Kisses]] between them before [[MomentKiller their families interrupt]].

* In an early episode of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' the titular character has his brother stick his arm straight through his chest. Kagome tries to patch him up the next day only to find that the wound has healed due to Inuyasha being half-demon. She still has to wrestle him to get his shirt off though.
* In ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', Momoshiro receives this after winning against Sengoku with an injured leg. His sempai Inui, the one doing the patch-up work, can barely ''believe'' that Momo was able to even '''play''' with an injury like that.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. A [[LoveEpiphany significant change]] in the relationship between Hilshire and his cyborg Triela happens after she [[WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut removes a bullet from his chest]] after Hilshire is wounded carrying out an assassination mission he was supposed to assign to Triela.
* In ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'', After thanking Godai for saving the day by returning her bikini top to her earlier in the day (which Godai had thought he had accomplished anonymously), Kyoko treats Godai's arms, which he scraped in the process of trying to remain anonymous while returning it.
* ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'' has [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed Rose Red]] finding a PrincelyYoungMan unconscious, watching over him until he wakes up, and then patching up his leg. [[spoiler: He is the Bear Prince's younger brother, and they marry in the end.]]
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'': This is how Jonathan reunites with his childhood sweetheart, Erina, after his first battle with Dio in the Joestar Manor.
** Humorously, Speedwagon also rushes to Jonathan's aid but finds that Erina actually beat him to it. He suddenly becomes cognizant that this trope is in play, and [[MemeticMutation withdraws coolly]] to leave the two lovebirds alone.

* In ''Anime/Sk8TheInfinity'' this is done between protagonists Langa and Reki more than once, and leads to a focus on an important conversation between them, whether heartfelt or painful. Reki does it with adhesive bandages after Langa first gets cut, leading to a quiet conversation in which Langa opens up for the first time. Later, Langa fixes the injury wrap on Reki's arm when they're hiding from the cops, which leads to a conversation on recklessness, and Reki's quiet relief that Langa is okay (and Langa smiling quietly to himself when he hears it), before transitioning to an important promise.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', after getting an arrow stuck in him [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight after refusing to follow an order to burn an innocent family's house down with them in it]], Phoebus is escorted back to the Cathedral and has the wound treated by Esmerelda. This is where the LoveTriangle between them and [[TheHero Quasimodo]] starts to show up.

* Lampshaded and parodied in ''Series/{{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.]]
* PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/{{Angel}}'', when Cordelia is patching up vampire Angel from getting rebar through his chest.
-->'''Cordelia''': Stop breathing.
-->'''Angel:''' I don't breathe.
-->'''Cordelia''': Then stop flexing your manly boob muscle.
** Definitely not played for laughs is Wesley treating Illyria in the GrandFinale rather than spend his last day alive doing whatever he wants. Since [[spoiler: Winifred Burkle died due to Illyria taking over her body]], Wesley has lost interest in life and so spends his final hours tending to what's left of his loved one.

** Buffy and Angel's FirstKiss is preceded by her bandaging Angel's shoulder ("[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E7Angel}} Angel]]"). Similarly, an ice rink skirmish is followed by Buffy tending to Angel's bleeding, [[GameFace bumpy]] forehead ("[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E10WhatsMyLinePart2}} What's My Line, Part 2]]").

** And yet again, in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E11Ted}} Ted]]" Buffy redresses Angel's hands from his wounds sustained in the episode before. She's babbling on about what's happening in her life before it turns into a sweet moment between the two of them.
** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E12Helpless}} Helpless]]", when Buffy discovers 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 by the Council for his [[BeingPersonalIsntProfessional "fatherly love" toward Buffy]], she allows him to clean her forehead where she's bleeding.
** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E9NeverLeaveMe}} Never Leave Me]]", Buffy cleans the blood off Spike after kicking her vampire boyfriend in the face, then chaining him in the basement. This seemed [[DestructiveRomance rather symbolic of their relationship at the time]].
* Happens a couple of times in ''Series/TheXFiles'', since Mulder tends to get himself into stupid situations and Scully ''is'' a doctor.
* Practically a way of life on ''Series/{{Outlander}}'', where Claire is constantly tending to Jamie's wounds after conflicts: most notably in the first episode when she sets his dislocated shoulder, after his duel on behalf of the Duke of Sandringham when he is mildly stabbed, and reversed at the end of season 3 when Jamie gives Claire an injection and brings her soup after a small cut gets infected. Romance almost always ensues.

* Janine does this for Michael in "Eastenders" following his beating from Derek.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
** Arya Stark cleans and sews up Sandor Clegane's neck wound in "Mockingbird". Given that all their previous interactions have involved either killing people or engaging in SnarkToSnarkCombat, it's their first moment of actual bonding.
** Samwell Tarly gets severely beaten trying to stop the AttemptedRape of Gilly, who later treats his wounds and has RescueSex with him.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' uses a SelfSurgery version of this to teach the player how to use the Cure screen. After being [[spoiler:thrown off a bridge]], Snake speaks to Para-Medic over his radio while lying in a quiet riverside meadow. It serves the same dramatic purposes in that it slows down the action and allows a little bit of flirtation, albeit from afar.

* Happens ''twice'' in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', when Madison patches Ethan up after each of the first two challenges. Ethan also suffers from PostVictoryCollapse (or possibly post-FAILURE collapse) after the second challenge, but there's little that Madison can do besides disinfect his wounds and wait.
* Implied in ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance 2'', as all your [[TheMedic medically trained team members]] can do while in combat is stop bleeding. Restoring HP and removing any stat penalties incurred from getting hit in a particular location requires a full-sized medical kit and a fair amount of time, up to two or three in-game days if a merc has taken a really bad mauling. Any [[UnresolvedSexualTension Unresolved]] or BelligerentSexualTension is, perhaps mercifully, left to the player's own imagination.

*** The aforementioned Saizo is in the receiving end again if the player builds the support chain with [[DanceBattler Azura.]] This time it's different: Azura is ''not'' a healer so she rips her own skirt to dress Saizo's wound. [[spoiler: Which is a turning point in their support chain, as he sees a huge scar she has and they discuss their issues.]]

* Seen in ''VideoGame/OperationWolf'', where a villager bandages your wounds (completely refilling your health bar) after the Village mission.

* One of the first things that happens to Markus in ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' upon discovering Jericho. He falls off a very high catwalk and gets a nasty cut on his side, so he's encouraged to see [[TheMedic Lucy]] to get it fixed. Said fixing involves [[WorstAid nothing more than a hot poker]] and a bottle of [[AlienBlood thirium]], but it also results in her telling Markus' [[MessianicArchetype fortune]].

* In ''Anime/Sk8TheInfinity'' this is done between protagonists Langa and Reki more than once, especially from Reki's side, and leads to a focus on an important conversation between them, whether heartfelt or painful. Reki does it with adhesive bandages after Langa first gets cut, leading to a quiet conversation in which Langa opens up for the first time. Later, Langa fixes the injury wrap on Reki's arm when they're hiding from the cops, which leads to a conversation on recklessness, and Reki's quiet relief that Langa is okay (and Langa smiling quietly to himself when he hears it), before transitioning to an important promise.