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* WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} doesn't notice there's an arrow on his butt until it's pointed out.

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Shizuo Heiwajima is inhumanly strong, durable, and pain-resistant and is thus able to shrug off most injuries. During his character introduction, he's hit over the head with a baseball bat hard enough to break it, and despite bleeding all over the place, his reaction is to kick the crap out of everyone. Later, he's stabbed through the hand with a pen and he's more amazed that someone was able to do that than in pain. He also ends up kicking the crap out of the stabber. When he is shot several times, his first thought is that he ''slipped in the rain'' until he realized he was bleeding. Even then, Tom had to explain the dangers of lead poisoning to him to make Shizuo get the bullets removed. In the conclusion, however [[spoiler:after breaking his arm in Izaya's deathtrap, he still decided to come after the informant]].

* An interesting inversion of this comes in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. When a Number One gets fatally wounded at one point, he's too impatient to wait to bleed out, so he ''cuts open his own carotid artery with a spent shell casing'' in order to die quicker so he can download into a new body.

See also MajorInjuryUnderreaction, OnlyAFleshWound, MortalWoundReveal, SecretStabWound and ICanStillFight.

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Shizuo Heiwajima is inhumanly strong, durable, and pain-resistant and is thus able to shrug off most injuries. During his character introduction, he's hit over the head with a baseball bat hard enough to break it, and despite bleeding all over the place, his reaction is to kick the crap out of everyone. Later, he's stabbed through the hand with a pen and he's more amazed that someone was able to do that than in pain. He also ends up kicking the crap out of the stabber. When he is shot several times, his first thought is that he ''slipped in the rain'' until he realized he was bleeding. Even then, Tom had to explain the dangers of lead-poisoning to him to make Shizuo get the bullets removed. In the conclusion, however [[spoiler:after breaking his arm in Izaya's deathtrap, he still decided to come after the informant]].

* In the ''Anime/SonicX'' fanfic ''FanFic/DontKeepYourDistance'', which is otherwise largely pretty sanitized in content, protagonist Paint punches through her truck's windshield and crawls through to retrieve the keys to the trailer in order to rescue her friend, a reformed robot of Dr. Eggman's named Star, who is being kept inside. Only minutes later, when they are both (along with thousands of others in the city they're staying in) captured and taken aboard to his aircraft, does she realize she's bleeding all over.

* ''Literature/TheThebaid'': The battle between Tydeus and fifty assassins sees both side brutally injuring each other, but while the assassins die from their injuries, Tydeus is too enraged to even notice the cuts and bruises covering his entire body until he's killed every man gunning for him.

* On ''Series/TheWestWing'': When President Bartlett is shot in the first season finale, he doesn't realize it until the guy in the back of the car with him notices he's bleeding. This was based on the real-life assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.

* A ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon had Tom inviting Toots to dinner. During the ensuing melee, Jerry substitues a candle in a candelabra with Tom's tail and lights it. Tom doesn't feel it until it reaches his butt. Yelping in pain, Tom brings a bucket of ice on which to sit, only Jerry quickly switches it with a bunsen burner. Again Tom is oblivious until he asks "What's cookin'?" And Toots replies "''You'' are...stupid!"

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Justified. Granny Weatherwax uses magic to suppress injuries gained in a fight until she has time to deal with them. Basically, she invokes this trope in the most literal way. Of course, with Granny what she does with magic is vastly outweighed by what she does by force of will; pain she handles by handling it. But if necessary, (i.e. in case of vampires in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''), she can hold hot iron and put off being burned until she has time to have a burned hand. At that point, she's also laid out a burn treatment kit. Earlier in the book, she had scoffed at the idea of holding hot iron and not being burned; the distinction between separating cause and effect by an arbitrary span of time and rejecting the effect altogether is stressed.

See also MajorInjuryUnderreaction, OnlyAFleshWound, and ICanStillFight.

* Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was shot apparently through the chest at Quaker Road. Thanks to the contents of his pocket, the bullet took a truly bizarre route under the skin but over his ribcage, resulting in a very bloody but survivable wound. He continued leading his troops in the assault and got treatment after he was done. He came to be known as "Bloody Chamberlain" because this kind of thing happened to him several times, though not to such extremes in the other cases. He eventually died due to complications from his Civil War wounds...in 1914 at the age of 85.

* ''Literature/{{City of Thieves|2008}}'': The main character, Lev, doesn't notice [[spoiler:losing half of a finger in a fight.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Shizuo Heiwajima is inhumanly strong, durable and pain-resistant and is thus able to shrug off most injuries. During his character introduction, he's hit over the head with a baseball bat hard enough to break it, and despite bleeding all over the place, his reaction is to kick the crap out of everyone. Later, he's stabbed through the hand with a pen and he's more amazed that someone was able to do that than in pain. He also ends up kicking the crap out of the stabber. When he is shot several times, his first thought is that he ''slipped in the rain'' until he realized he was bleeding. Even then, Tom had to explain the dangers of lead-poisoning to him to make Shizuo get the bullets removed. In the conclusion, however [[spoiler:after breaking his arm in Izaya's deathtrap, he still decided to come after the informant]].

* In a Christmas episode of ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', America says this word-for-word after jumping through a window at England's house while dressed as Father Christmas - and subsequently getting a shard of glass stuck in his forehead.
* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Way too many people do this.
** Shizuo Heiwajima is inhumanly strong, durable and pain-resistant and is thus able to shrug off most injuries. During his character introduction, he's hit over the head with a baseball bat hard enough to break it, and despite bleeding all over the place, his reaction is to kick the crap out of everyone. Later, he's stabbed through the hand with a pen and he's more amazed that someone was able to do that than in pain. He also ends up kicking the crap out of the stabber. When he is shot several times, his first thought is that he ''slipped in the rain'' until he realized he was bleeding. Even then, Tom had to explain the dangers of lead-poisoning to him to make Shizuo get the bullets removed. In the conclusion, however [[spoiler:after breaking his arm in Izaya's deathtrap, he still decided to come after the informant]].
** Masaomi [[spoiler:attempts to shake off his injuries to stop a suicidal Mikado, however, due to already having broken his leg and Mikado shooting him, Masaomi is unable to get through the pain]].
** Anri is able to [[spoiler:shake off Haruna's slashes with no trouble and then cut her to stop the Saika zombies]].
** Played straight with Izaya in the conclusion. [[spoiler:Izaya is thrown off of scaffolding and hit by a metal beam into a building, causing internal bleeding. He is able to force himself to get out of the building, run down the street while dodging flying vending machines and do parkour across several cars to escape Shizuo. He then engages Shizuo in a fight, getting both his arms broken in the process and only succumbs after Vorona stabs him. He still lives, anyway]].
** After recently undergoing surgery, Mika is able to sneak out of Yagiri Pharmaceuticals and escape Namie.
** Shinra, [[spoiler:while still being heavily injured with at least two limbs badly broken as well as being wheel-chair bound for several days, is kidnapped and possessed by Kasane, yet still is able to break free of her mind control and then walk at several miles to find Celty and get Shizuo to throw him into the sky to slice off Celty's head]].

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** Granny Weatherwax uses magic to suppress injuries gained in a fight until she has time to deal with them. Basically, she invokes this trope in the most literal way. Of course, with Granny what she does with magic is vastly outweighed by what she does by force of will; pain she handles by handling it. But if necessary, (i.e. in case of vampires in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''), she can hold hot iron and put off being burned until she has time to have a burned hand. At that point, she's also laid out a burn treatment kit. Earlier in the book, she had scoffed at the idea of holding hot iron and not being burned; the distinction between separating cause and effect by an arbitrary span of time and rejecting the effect altogether is stressed.
** She does it again in ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'' when she does a BareHandedBladeBlock to the astonishment of all present (everyone knows witches can't use magic on steel -- it doesn't occur to them that they ''can'' use magic on flesh). It's not until she's home a few days later that she rolls out the salve and bandages and lets the wound happen. The scenario is probably a ShoutOut to the TropeNamer -- after preparing the first aid gear, she remarks, "I reckon I've got time now."
** Detritus of the Night Watch is injured at one point, which is no mean feat since he's made of stone. When his cracks begin oozing some strange liquid, he invokes the trope name by saying he "Ain't got time to ooze."

* In ''Literature/TheLastFullMeasure'', Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's "Bloody Chamberlain" wound at Quaker Road is depicted: the bullet went ''around'' his ribcage, so despite being apparently shot through the chest he continues leading his troops into battle. (He actually seems more worried about the wound to his horse.)
* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'':
** In ''Honor of the Queen'', Captain Honor Harrington narrowly survives [[spoiler:an attempted assassination attempt on Protector Benjamin that costs Honor an eye and [[YouShallNotPass most of the assassins their lives]], and immediately after must come to the aid of the Grayson Space Navy, defending Grayson from a surprise Masadan/Havenite attack.]].
** A few books later, in ''Flag in Exile'', she survives [[spoiler: having her pinnace shot out from under her, followed by a would-be assassin trying to shoot her dead as she escapes the wreckage of her ship, followed by a sword duel to the death with a political opponent, and only ''then'' does she learn of a Havenite fleet which has arrived in the system, leading her to take command of the Grayson fleet to fend the invaders off.]] Honor is due for some first-rate medical care, hot cocoa, [[BigEater and a platter of cookies]] when all is said and done.
* ''Literature/MartinFierro'': At Song III of the First Book of this NarrativePoem, Martin Fierro describes [[BadassNative the Mapuche and Ranquel Indians (Natives from Argentina)]] as [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction men that when they spill his guts for a wound, they don't even worry, they will stuff them back in a moment]].

* PlayedForLaughs in the episode "Alice Quits" of ''Series/{{Workaholics}}'', during an airsoft gun battle.
-->'''Adam:''' ''[macho voice]'' I ain't got time to bleed.\\
'''Ders:''' You're bleeding?\\
'''Adam:''' ''[normal voice]'' No, because ''[macho voice]'' I ain't got ''time to bleed.''
* Benjamin Sisko does this in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Adversary".

* Parodied in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' digital skit, appropriately titled, "Time To Bleed", in which a CowboyCop is shot during a confrontation, then spends the remainder of the movie refusing to seek medical attention because he's determined to solve the case. He goes through all the standard cop show tropes like this, including bedding his gorgeous partner--after which he finally dies.

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* During his match with Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr at WWE Over the Limit 2010, Wrestling/CMPunk collided with the ring barrier quite hard which busted him open fairly badly. As is the case with all bleeding in WWE since its switch to a PG rating, medics were quickly rushed out to conceal the blood before the match could continue. However, growing tired of waiting, Punk pushed the medics aside mid-check up and dropkicked Mysterio out of the ring in frustration.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3:'' During the attack on the Citadel, if Javik's in the squad along with EDI, she'll note he received a concussion when the car they're in crashes. Javik just responds that since medi-gel isn't going to help, there's no point bothering him about it, and just powers through for the remainder of the mission.

* The ''Sherlock'' example in TV, above, is remarkably similar to what happened to Empress Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi") in 1898; she was stabbed by an [[BombThrowingAnarchist anarchist]] with an extremely fine, sharpened needle file and the flow of blood was slowed by her extremely tight corset.