History Main / DramaticDislocation

* In the first ''Film/BestOfTheBest'' movie Alex, whose career as a Taekwondo competitor [[CareerEndingInjury was nearly ended by a past shoulder injury]], gets his shoulder dislocated by his opponent. (With the fairly strong implication that his opponent knew about the injury from scouting Alex and intentionally targeted it.) Despite the protests of the team's head coach, Alex insists on his teammates and the coaching staff popping the shoulder back into place and then finishing the last 30 seconds or so of his bout without the benefit of his right arm. (In a small nod to proper treatment, unlike many cases listed in this article, they do bind his arm very tightly to try to prevent the shoulder from dislocating again.)
* Creator/JetLi's character manages to pull off a relocation in mid kung fu battle in ''Film/FistOfLegend''. After fighting one-handed for a couple of minutes, and still holding his own. When he finally pops the arm back in, his opponent gets a mild OhCrap moment.

* ''Film/Interceptor2022''. The heroine is zip-tied to a chair, helpless to stop a nuclear missile heading towards the United States. She tells the BigBad that [[PastimesProvePersonality she used to be a goalkeeper]] and the most common injury suffered is a dislocated thumb...
* ''Film/JusticeLeague2017''. A low-key version when Wonder Woman puts Bruce Wayne's shoulder back into place in an AfterActionPatchUp.
* Martin Riggs in ''Lethal Weapon'' films can dislocate his shoulder at will, and uses it to escape from a straitjacket and ropes in ''Film/LethalWeapon2''. Of course, afterward he has to pop it back in place (by himself). The fact that he does both of these things without doing more than grimacing serves to underscore how utterly badass (or [[TheBerserker crazy]]) he is. He does cry out in pain when he reduces it, and he cringes and curls up into a standing fetal position when he's not in combat.
* Tiger also relocates his shoulder in a fight in ''Film/ManOfTaiChi''.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}},'' having had his shoulder dislocated in a fight, Crichton "pops" it back in by pushing it against a wall. The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Artificial Intelligence]] that Crichton is trapped inside notes that Crichton did the same when it got dislocated after a motorcycle crash when he was in his teens.

* After Dr. Gorner in ''Literature/DevilMayCare'' tells Literature/JamesBond that he is going to fly the stolen airjet to [[spoiler:destroy Trekhgorniy, the place where Soviets manufacture their nuclear bombs]], Bond points out that he is unable to do so due to because he dislocated Gorner's shoulder. Dr. Gorner then orders his enforcer Chagrin to fix it, which he does. Painfully.