History Main / BandageMummy

* ''Film/InspectorGadget''--John Brown got this before becoming Inspector Gadget.

* The lepers in ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''.

When someone is badly injured and you need to get that across, show him post-accident partly or completely encased in plaster casts and/or bandages. Usually, they'll be in a hospital bed, with maybe one or two arms or legs suspended, and completely immobilised.

** After being [[BearsAreBadNews mauled by a bear]] in Season 1, Cody is entirely covered in bandages except for his eyes, and is wheelchair-bound. His arms are also immobile, presumably in casts. His mouth is initially uncovered so he can speak in the confessional, but is later covered so he cannot speak intelligibly when his wheelchair rolls into the lake.
** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaXtremeTorture X-treme Torture]]", two things do not go in Trent's favor during a challenge that requires him to jump from a plane. Firstly, DJ accidentally pushes him out of the plane. Therefore, Trent can't gather himself timely to open his parachute. Secondly, Owen's fallen asleep on the mattress the Screaming Gophers were to prepare for Trent's landing. As a result, the mattress remains some meters away from the impact zone. All of this cumulates in Trent hitting the ground hard. He is wheeled away on a stretcher to get "re-boned", bandaged up fully except for his head. He is none the worse in the next episode.
** In Season 3 (''Total Drama [[NewSeasonNewName World Tour]]''), Blaineley falls from the plane without a parachute and spends the rest of the season bandaged everywhere except her eyes. She is completely immobile, so the Peanut Gallery carts her around on a hand truck.
** In Season 5 (''Total Drama [[NewSeasonNewName All-Stars]]''), a challenge accident leaves Cameron covered in bandages except for his eyes. The bandages over his mouth act as a gag, so Cameron cannot warn the others when the season's villain reveals himself.

** After being [[BearsAreBadNews mauled by a bear]] in Season 1 (''Total Drama [[NewSeasonNewName Island]]''), Cody is entirely covered in bandages except for his eyes, and is wheelchair-bound. His arms are also immobile, presumably in casts. His mouth is initially uncovered so he can speak in the confessional, but is later covered so he cannot speak intelligibly when his wheelchair rolls into the lake.
** A few episodes after Cody's mishap, Trent is entirely bandaged except for his head, and is completely immobile, after falling 5,000 feet from an airplane without a parachute. The paramedics take him away to be "re-boned", and he is none the worse in the next episode.

* Brainy after getting sunburn in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Mummy Dearest", and Jokey in "Jokey's Funny Bone". Also Clumsy in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute''.

* While infiltrating a Nazi compound in German occupied France, the crew in ''The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission'' hide their sole black member under layers of bandages as if he was heavily wounded.

* That Advertising/GotMilk commercial with the guy in the full body cast, where the idiot family shoves a cookie into the mouth hole, but don't pay attention when he starts choking for lack of milk? There's a carafe of it ''right next to him''.

* Horrifyingly used in ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies''.

Not to be confused with BandagedFace or BandageBabe, or with a literal {{Mummy}}.

** In the OVA "Training of the Dead", this is Midoriya's fate after he hits Bakugou after the events of a Zombification Quirk have worn off, and Bakugou takes this as a direct attack on him.

** "Training Daze" (from ''Pokémon Chronicles'') has a rare dramatic example after James goes off a bridge, but the drama takes a hit when he shows up afterwards and rips off the bandages to reveal his Rocket uniform. Maybe he dressed and then re-bandaged himself for the showmanship.

* In ''Film/NowYouSeeHimNowYouDont'', this happens to Druffle after an accident with the [[BeeAfraid bumblebees]] that he was using for his science project, making him look like the InvisibleMan. To add insult to injury, Druffle is actually allergic to bee stings.

* In ''[[Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie Little House in the Big Woods]]'', a kid who [[BeeAfraid gets swarmed by bees]] is shown all wrapped up in the illustrations.

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* First ''Film/MadMax1'' has Max visiting Goose in hospital and sees what's left of him wrapped in bandages, he outright refuses to believe it's Goose.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' - Rei at the beginning and [[spoiler:the Eva itself after its armour comes off]].

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Chocolate with Nuts," Spongebob and Patrick try their hand at selling chocolate bars door to door, and eventually hit upon the scheme of lying to customers to push their product. At one point, they use crutches and bandages to pass themselves off as injured, only to discover that their customer is ''completely'' wrapped up (he claims to have [[UpToEleven glass bones and paper skin]]--"every morning I wake up and break both my arms"). The customer explains that he funds his expensive medical bills by...selling chocolate bars, which Spongebob and Patrick buy. Once they're gone, it's revealed that they were {{Outgambitted}} by the customer, who is actually a con man from earlier in the episode pulling a scheme.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea|HourOfDarkness}}'', [[RecurringBoss Mid-Boss]] appears like this after one of the fights against him (the third, I think).

-->'''Bubbles:''' Besides, it hurt us a lot more than it hurt you.
-->'''Everyone:''' Well, now, we wouldn't say ''that!'' ''[[EveryoneLaughsEnding (they all laugh)]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Petarded", Lois has her entire body wrapped in bandages when Peter accidentally douses her with scalding-hot french-fry grease.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Chocolate with Nuts," Spongebob and Patrick try their hand at selling chocolate bars door to door, and eventually hit upon the scheme of lying to customers to push their product. At one point, they use crutches and bandages to pass themselves off as injured, only to discover that their customer is ''completely'' wrapped up (he claims to have [[UpToEleven glass bones and paper skin]]--"every morning I wake up and break both my arms"). The customer explains that he funds his expensive medical bills by...selling chocolate bars, which Spongebob and Patrick buy. Once they're gone, it's revealed that they were {{Outgambitted}} by the customer, who is actually a con man from earlier in the episode pulling a scheme.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Robozuna}}'' Slick gets accidentally beat up by his [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength robot partner Spanner]] one too many times and ends up in this by the second season.

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* 'Manga/BusoRenkin'': When [[GenkhiGirl Mahiro]] is looking after an injured [[ActionGirl Tokiko]], she overuses the bandages to such an extent that Tokiko ends up totally covered in them, and [[ShoutOut looks like Shishio Makoto]] from the author's previous work ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''.

* 'Manga/BusoRenkin'': When [[GenkhiGirl Mahiro]] is looking after an injured [[ActionGirl Tokiko]], she overuses the bandages to such an extent that she ends up totally covered in them, and [[ShoutOut looks like Shishio Makoto]] from the author's previous work ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''.

** It gets a ShoutOut in ''Manga/BusoRenkin'', from the same author, in which at one point Mahiro bandages Tokiko so much she ends up looking like Shishio.

* In ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'', [[spoiler: one of the students of Magic College Kyoto School who controls a doll called Ultimate Mekkamaru covers himself with many bandages due to his sensitive and fragile skin.]]