History Main / HollywoodHealing

* Rocky Balboa. Made even worse by the fact that in nearly every ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' film there is some sort of worry about his health (in ''Film/RockyII'' he already has trouble following his trainer's moving finger, in ''Film/RockyIII'' it's commented that the beatings he took in the first two movies should have killed him( No . It isn't), ''Film/RockyV'' is all about how he has sustained brain damage from his bout with Ivan Drago in ''Film/RockyIV'' and might well die if he ever gets in the ring again). Each time, these health concerns and the physical toll taken on him mysteriously vanish by the next movie.

** Surprisingly, played straight in the 4th edition. In order to avoid forcing one of the players to play the "[[TheMedic Cleric]]" "[[MartialArtsStaff with a blunt weapon]]", the designers decided to embrace this trope and give every player character the ability to spend "Healing Surges" at will when they have a five minute rest. This is one of the most controversial changes in the game.

** Surprisingly, played straight in the 4th edition. In order to avoid forcing one of the players to play the "[[TheMedic Cleric]]" "[[SimpleStaff with a blunt weapon]]", the designers decided to embrace this trope and give every player character the ability to spend "Healing Surges" at will when they have a five minute rest. This is one of the most controversial changes in the game.

No matter how badly he's injured -- be it from gunshot, blade, burning, acid, you name it -- an [[ActionHero action-adventure hero]] ''never'' ends up with [[ScarsAreForever permanent scars]] anywhere that is normally [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished visible to the audience]]. (Although he may have [[GoodScarsEvilScars one or two hidden]] under a shirt so he can [[ScarSurvey take it off and reveal]] just how tough he ''really'' is.) You'd expect at least one missing tooth or broken nose in a lifetime of fighting crime. Yet Bruce Wayne's corporate headshots are perfect time and time again, and James Bond never shows up at an embassy dinner with two shiners and a wad of gauze over his nose, even if he's just been hit in the face by an iron bar.

The BigBad may also be similarly indestructible on screen, but his badness can result in hideous scars or mechanical limbs if he was injured in previous encounters.

* Rocky Balboa. Made even worse by the fact that in nearly every ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' film there is some sort of worry about his health (in ''Film/RockyII'' he already has trouble following his trainer's moving finger, in ''Film/RockyIII'' it's commented that the beatings he took in the first two movies should have killed him, ''Film/RockyV'' is all about how he has sustained brain damage from his bout with Ivan Drago in ''Film/RockyIV'' and might well die if he ever gets in the ring again). Each time, these health concerns and the physical toll taken on him mysteriously vanish by the next movie.

* The Creator/NicholasSparks movie ''Film/TheChoice'', takes this UpToEleven. The heroine is left in a coma following a car accident (in the book, it's for a year, in the movie, it's uncertain for how long). When she finally wakes up... she's perfectly fine. No extensive speech therapy for her to rebuild her throat muscles (which would be severely atrophied after months of disuse and the presence of a breathing tube). No extensive physical therapy for her to rebuild and regain the use of her arms and legs (which would also be weakened after months of inactivity). No sickly pallor despite months without any sun exposure. No indication of any brain damage -- memory loss, slurred speech, etc. It's as if she just took a long nap.

* ''Series/Yellowjackets'': [[spoiler:Van]] is attacked by wolves who leave her with horrible gashes on her face. The teammates [[RoadsideSurgery work together to stitch her wounds]]. By the time episode 1.9 "Doomcoming" rolls around, her scars, while visible, are nowhere near what you'd expect.

** The most horrible and intentionally {{exaggerated}} example is from the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E20FightClub Fight Club]]". Their faces are badly battered, bruised, sewed; Mulder's jaw is even wired, and his arm is broken. They are a sorry sight indeed, and they'be beaten up one another! [[NotHimself Because of some half-sister doppelgängerish encounter]]. Or something. Fortunately, next episode they are fine.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Phoebus is shot in the shoulder with an arrow, falls from his horse into the River Seine, almost drowns, is still unconscious when Esmeralda brings him to the safety of Notre Dame, and seems to be very weak throughout their subsequent scene together and as Quasimodo hides him from Frollo. But after Frollo leaves, he's able to get up and set out to find the Court of Miracles with seemingly only minor pain, and by the next day he's in full condition to fight again.

** Perhaps a more mild form with Mac. It is possible to recover from aphasia over a couple of months, but it still moved somewhat quickly. Not so fast as to make it impossible to believe, especially with the six-month time cut, but a little bit. And, in real life, it can still re-surface when the person is angry or afraid... and Mac seemed fine the whole time he was worried about Christine in the crossover in the next season.

* In ''Anime/{{Samurai Champloo}}'', this gets taken to an extreme in the final episode: Mugen winds up suffering multiple lacerations, a broken arm, and is ''gut shot''. Jin gets ''gut stabbed''. Before the invention of the I.V., gut injuries like this were usually fatal. Even with IV feeding, these injuries would take ''weeks'' if not ''months'' to recover from, especially considering that they had been going all out and not really resting for months previous to this. At the end, it's mentioned that Jin and Mugen have been out for about a week, and they get up and go about their business.
* Priss from the original ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' {{OVA}}s was bad for this, especially in episode 6: "Red Eyes". She is nearly hit by an orbital strike, thrown from her bike, stabbed in the gut, has her own railgun spike driven through her shoulder, is thrown through a window to fall several stories, is beaten by three large cyberdroids, hit by a multi-spectrum laser that strips most of her armour off, and still wins the fight. She was supposed to die in that episode.

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'':
** Subverted in ''Trigun'' where, underneath his BadassLongcoat, Vash the Stampede's body is absolutely riddled with scars. ''Badly''. Some patches are actually held in place by ''metal implants''. Plus you know, he's missing his freaking left arm! The only odd thing is that his face stays suitably {{Bishonen}}. Until Hang Fire, that is, where he ''does'' suffer from repeated punches to the face. He gets better, though.
** Vash's brother suffered severe injuries from being blasted by the Angel Arm cannon from Vash, injuries which he doesn't fully regenerate from until 23 years after the fact. This implies that all of those injuries could be healed if Vash tried.
* ''WebVideo/BerserkAbridged'' parodies this:
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm afraid you've suffered some very serious injuries. You'll need several weeks of bed rest, followed by months of intense physical therapy, and even then, there's a very real possibility that you may never make a full recovery.
-->'''Casca:''' Are you sure?
-->'''Doctor:''' Of course I'm sure! I'm a doctor! I've got my doctor hat on! I'm always sure!
-->'''Casca:''' Well, you know, he ''is'' the main character of an action anime.
-->'''Doctor:''' Oh! Well hell, that's different then. I'm sure he'll be up and about very soon.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** It's a subtle RunningGag that no matter how badly beat-up the characters get, all they ever need to recover after regaining consciousness is a small first-aid kit that has some cotton wads, disinfectant, band-aids, and very little else.
** At one point, early in the series, Ranma was sent flying into a wall hard enough to leave a sizable crater; the foes claimed he had broken every bone in his body, and, indeed, his bones and joints kept popping and snapping audibly. However, he recovered from these injuries (even ''after'' being [[GenderBender turned into a girl]]) only a few minutes later, and was still in perfect condition to punch through ice boulders, take [[MadeOfIron Ryouga's]] kicks and suplexes, and have a skating rink's worth of ice collapse on top of him with no ill effects.
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' is absolutely full of this. Revy gets a few gunshot wounds and several stab wounds that are wrapped up and never mentioned again. The most blatant example, however, is her bare fist fight with [[BattleButler Roberta]], which lasts for hours, resulting in only some bruising, black eyes and bloody noses. By the next episode, she's fine. Then again, there is no indication of how much time has passed between the episodes.
* Shizuo from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' spent most of his childhood utterly ''destroying'' his body via [[HeroicRROD habitual overexertion]] -- everything from ripping apart muscle and ligaments to shattering his pelvis and spinal column. Most people who receive such injuries understandably never walk again. Shizuo, on the other hand, slowly developed {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'' Mello gets caught in an explosion that gives him burns, but they're gone within a week.
* In ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', a few characters receive critical injuries during fights and are fine by their next appearance.

* Subverted in the anime version of ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' where Masamune obtains a gunshot wound that leaves him bedridden for two episodes and [[spoiler: serves a major handicap during the final battle with Nobunaga]].
** Played straight where Yukimura had bandages on his arm in a sling after [[spoiler: his defeat by Masamune]] but it takes a punch from Takeda to provide instantaneous healing.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', during the fight against Omega Shenron, the dragon extends the spikes on his back to impale Vegeta in multiple places and throw him far away. When Vegeta gets up, he looks exactly like he did before he got stabbed with no signs of any gaping wounds.

* More of an editorial oversight than true Hollywood Healing, but in the first volume of ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'', Dane [=MacGowan=] gets the tip of his little finger cut off and devoured. Subsequent artists forgot this and would draw it in from time to time.
* ''ComicBook/{{Hitman}}'': Hacken's hand (which he chainsawed off after it was bitten by a zombie seal) would sometimes be drawn as a stump/prosthetic and sometimes drawn in as if it were healed.

* Several [[SuperSpeed speedsters]] have a HealingFactor as a side effect of their speed, by the reckoning that their body's metabolism works fast enough that they heal faster (questions about why they don't, say, age faster tend to get {{Handwave}}d). However, this explanation still invokes Hollywood Healing, since they recover from injuries that would /never/ heal as an extension of natural healing processes, no matter how sped up. One especially blatant instance, from ComicBook/UltimateMarvel, is Magneto blasting Quicksilver point-blank in the kneecaps with a shotgun, which puts him out of action for the rest of the miniseries but doesn't leave any permanent damage at all.
* Parodied in French comic strip ''Rubrique à Brac'' (by Creator/{{Gotlib}}): it says that even after a horrifying car crash or similar accident, the hero will only ever need a Band-aid on his upper left arm (or right arm if he's left-handed!)
* The protagonists in ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' appear to be pretty healthy considering that they are virtually the only crime fighters in LA to stop various supervillains while living in various underground bunkers which probably lacks resources to deal with serious medical emergencies. On the other hand, the series subverts this when Chase is shown with his arm in a sling an unspecified amount of time after having his arm pulled out of his socket by a Doombot and Klara Prast is shown to be rather black and blue from her husband's various abuses. There's also the fact that most of the hideouts were designated and stocked by their parents who were filthy rich and geniuses, so it's not too much of a stretch that they included some stuff to deal with serious injuries.
* In ''ComicBook/SinCity'', people can be grazed by machine gunfire, fall out of buildings, and get hit by cars and get up once they caught their second wind and slapped a band-aid on the wound.

* [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Hua Mulan]] takes a sword-slash to the side from Shan Yu. It's implied that the adrenaline of escaping the avalanche she triggered to bury the Huns powered her through, and she [[PostVictoryCollapse falls unconscious almost as soon as it's over.]] However, a few hours in the doctor's tent seems enough to completely fix it--not only does she run, ride, and leap around palace roofs without pain the next day, she shows no sign of fatigue from the blood loss that resulted in her fainting.

* Rocky Balboa. Made even worse by the fact that in nearly every ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' film there is some sort of worry about his health (in ''Film/RockyII'' he already has trouble following his trainer's moving finger, in ''Film/RockyIII'' it's commented that the beatings he took in the first two movies should have killed him, ''Film/RockyV'' is all about how he has sustained brain damage from his bout with Ivan Drago in ''Film/RockyIV'' and might well die if he ever gets in the ring again). Each time, these health concerns and the physical toll taken on him mysteriously vanish by the next movie.
* In ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' Bond gets shot in the leg and has unusually quick reflexes on the dance floor.
* In ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' Bond lands on his shoulder on a tent from a hot air balloon. He later makes due in several action scenes despite not really being cleared by the doctor.
* Averted in ''Film/KnightandDay'' as Tom Cruise's character is such a good shot, he tells his victim that he shot him in the exact location where he'd heal.
* Parodied in ''Film/LastActionHero'' when the titular hero gets shot in the [[RealLife Real World]]... and rapidly goes into shock from massive blood loss. The GenreSavvy sidekick manages to save him by bringing him back into the world of movies, where he gets right up and shrugs it off since it's [[JustAFleshWound only a slight flesh wound]] according to action movie tropes.
* ''Film/MillersCrossing'': Tom is beaten repeatedly by almost every other character in the film, even taking a hard kick to the face at one point, but doesn't have so much as a black eye to show for it.
* {{Lampshaded}} in the DVD commentary on ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' by Creator/JossWhedon when asked by Baldwin about how long after the big battle the final scene happened.
--> Let's see, the ship is all fixed up and you are completely healed... about 3 days.

* In the original ''Film/{{Shaft}}'', the title character gets shot once in the shoulder at close range by a machine gun and hits the floor, apparently unconscious. After minimal medical attention, it doesn't seem to take long for him to get back in action.

* ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle'' has at least a couple examples of this, with Seamus O'Grady walking through a wall of fire, and with Natalie looking all prettied-up for the red carpet even after we saw her pull a hand-sized chunk of glass out of her abdomen mere minutes before.
* The ''Film/{{Darkman}}'' movies have a particularly blatant example of this. The character Durant appears to have been killed in a ''helicopter explosion'' during the first movie. He returns in the second movie with a limp, but no scarring or disfigurement whatsoever. Durant's survival may have been a {{retcon}}, but it's still very jarring when you consider that the title character got [[NightmareFace the way he is]] also because of an explosion.
* In ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'', the protagonists locate Beth who is impaled by a length of rebar. The protagonists simply heave her off this spike, a process which would almost certainly kill her IRL. She is able to limp out of the wrecked building with minimal assistance. Once they reach the street and the monster threatens, she is able to ''run'' along with the others.

* ''Film/AKnightsTale'': William is stabbed in the shoulder with a lance, and the tip breaks off inside, causing sufficient injury that he can no longer grip his own lance unaided. As soon as he wins the competition, he is able to dismount without difficulty and fiercely hug his love interest. No further mention of the wound is made.
* In ''Film/BlackCaesar'', Tommy [[spoiler:dies from a gunshot wound]]. He magically returns for the sequel, ''Hell Up In Harlem'', which offers a RetCon that he's able to get patched up via Hollywood Healing and seek revenge.
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bruce has no cartilage left in his knee and requires a motorized brace to walk around. Later, he gets his vertebrae dislocated. His spine is popped back into place and [[ThrowingOffTheDisability his knee heals]] while in the pit prison. He also gets over [[spoiler: a severe stab wound]] in pretty short order.
* In ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' Scarlett's face, badly battered by a brutal beating from the Baroness, is magically all better in time for the next big action set-piece.
* The Creator/NicholasSparks movie ''Film/TheChoice'', takes this UpToEleven. The heroine is left in a coma following a car accident (in the book, it's for a year, in the movie, it's uncertain for how long). When she finally wakes up. . .she's perfectly fine. No extensive speech therapy for her to rebuild her throat muscles (which would be severely atrophied after months of disuse and the presence of a breathing tube). No extensive physical therapy for her to rebuild and regain the use of her arms and legs (which would also be weakened after months of inactivity). No sickly pallor despite months without any sun exposure. No indication of any brain damage--memory loss, slurred speech, etc. It's as if she just took a long nap.
* While Literature/{{Ivanhoe}} is bedridden for the better part of the novel after his tourney wounds, in [[Film/{{Ivanhoe}} the 1952 adaptation]], he’s wounded and half-delirious, Rebecca and Rowena fear he’ll die, he’s carried into the Sherwood Forest to avoid capture… and arrives at Torquilstone bright and early on the next morning, perfectly healthy, to do serious badass fighting till the end of the film. Bois-Guilbert does mention that Ivanhoe’s shoulder was still bandaged when he appeared, but apart from that, nobody ever remembers these wounds.

* During ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', Tash Arranda's [[spoiler: brain is removed and [[BrainInAJar jarred]] while someone else's brain [[GrandTheftMe is put in her body]].]] When this is resolved, it's noted that the monks did such a good job that there aren't even scars or shaved patches, even though other characters put through the same procedures had scars. It might be because this was done by a team of monks practiced in these techniques, while the others were worked on by a lone one who was motivated by {{Greed}}.
* Averted in ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'' by Suzanne Collins. Midway through the five-book children's fantasy series, the 12-year-old hero Gregor realizes to his shock that he's acquired enough scars as [[ChosenOne "the warrior"]] that he can no longer wear a swimsuit or light summer clothing without a really good cover story. By the final book, he's simply given up ... it would take a car accident or falling through a plate glass window to explain everything.

* {{Justified}} in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. While wizards don't heal notably ''faster'' than vanilla mortals, they do apparently heal more ''thoroughly'', so even wounds that would result in permanent disfigurement or debilitation can be recovered from in time. This is speculated to be one of the main reasons Wizards are able to live hundreds of years, as unlike normal humans, who slowly accumulate scars and lasting injuries over their lives, Wizards have no such chronic health issues. For example, in ''Literature/BloodRites'', Harry's left hand gets ''severely'' burned by a flamethrower, leaving it a useless lump of flesh. Harry's {{Muggle}} doctor advises that it will probably never recover any degree of functionality after burns that severe, but over the next several books (and several in-universe years), the burn scars fade and Harry gradually regains use of the hand.

** By the season 6-7 all bets are off. Sandor Clegane heals multiple open fractures after falling from a cliff, which, mind you, rendered him unable to stand up or even kill himself, and being left to die in the middle of nowhere. Arya Stark recovers from multiple stab wounds to the gut, followed by a swim in a dirty river, within a few days at most. To top them all off, it takes Jorah Mormont a day to recover from having large sections of his skin flayed off after contracting a deadly disease that, judging by his external condition, should've already affected all his innards.
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'''s particularly bad at this. In one episode half the characters were shot at and beaten up by cannibals, and in the next they were scratch-free. While Owen's [[spoiler: death-related]] injuries were consistent in the second season, in a scene where he was shirtless he showed no signs of the gunshot wounds he received at the end of the first season and the start of the second.
* Characters on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' get shot, have appendectomies, and have blast doors crush their legs, but are traipsing around the jungle the next episode. This is sometimes addressed in the dialogue and attributed to the island's proven healing powers. At other times, it's {{Hand Wave}}d with a throwaway "You can't go running off into the jungle! You just had surgery!"
* In ''Series/MrRobot'', Elliot was shot in the stomach; after being in a coma for a week, he wakes up with only a bandage on his stomach and is able to walk through a DefCon without any difficulties. In a later episode, when he strips down on a drug dealer's orders, he doesn't have any scar on his stomach.
* On ''Series/{{Bones}}'', Booth was shot in the chest; a couple of weeks later he was completely fine with only a tiny bandage to show for it.
** In the season five premiere Bones gets stabbed in the arm by a scalpel and bleeds heavily - two scenes later she wears a dress and doesn't even have a bandage.

** In Season Two, [[spoiler:Foreman]] got infected with [[spoiler:Naegleria - the brain-eating amoeba]] - and spent the greater part of a two-part episode progressing through the disease symptoms until he could be diagnosed and treated. They completely overlooked the fact that his symptoms were being caused by [[spoiler:the amoebic infection actually ''eating his brain'']], which was conveniently all healed up by the next episode.]]

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Dean claims that after [[spoiler:having been brought back from Hell]] all of his scars have vanished. Dean never had any visible scars in any of the earlier episodes.
** A particularly glaring example in season 1's ''Shadow'', where Sam gets deep, bleeding claw marks down his face. Come the next episode (apparently a couple of days later by the way they're talking), he doesn't have a scratch.
* The third season of ''Series/GossipGirl'' ends with Chuck Bass being shot. When the fourth season begins we find out that he's recovered from his gunshot wound thanks to a hooker pouring [[HealItWithBooze alcohol over the wound]]. Impressive.
* Towards the end of the sixth season of ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', Rory's boyfriend Logan gets injured base jumping off a cliff and getting a punctured lung, some broken ribs, and bruises over most of his body, but he's able to magically heal within an episode with only a limp by the season finale when he has to go to London.
* In ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' Nikki is able to leave the hospital almost instantly upon receiving a heart transplant, and the scar from the operation disappears after that episode. Given the short time frame the episodes take place in, it also seems very unlikely that the rest of the cast's injuries would have healed completely from episode to episode.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
** Happens to a point with Danny when he's shot. He does walk with a cane for a few eps after ditching his wheelchair, but still seems to have learned to walk again a bit fast.
** Perhaps a more mild form with Mac. It is possible to recover from aphasia over a couple of months, but it still moved somewhat quickly. Not so fast as to make it impossible to believe, especially with the six-month time cut, but a little bit. And, in real life, it can still re-surface when the person is angry or afraid...and Mac seemed fine the whole time he was worried about Christine in the crossover in the next season.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Characters frequently recover from staff blasts and the like with no scars or long-term side-effects, which SGC Chief Medical Officer Janet Fraiser {{lampshades}} to documentarian Emmett Bregman in "[[Recap/StargateSG1S7E17HeroesPart1 Heroes, Part 1]]". The same episode also introduces staff blast-resistant inserts for flak vests, [[spoiler:which save Jack O'Neill's life in the second half]].
-->'''Dr. Fraiser:''' ''(reading Jack O'Neill's medical file)'' Okay, three gunshot wounds. Four staff weapon burns. [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E17Solitudes Severe hypothermia.]] And I'm quite surprised he's actually authorized me to discuss all this. It's just... [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E8BriefCandle Nanite technology artificially aged him...]] [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E7MessageInABottle He had his shoulder punctured by an alien time capsule device.]] Um, three knee operations. ''(quickly puts another folder aside)'' Oh, that's [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E13Hathor the whole Hathor incident]] which [[OldShame he's asked me never to discuss]]. And, oh yeah, this was a good one. Last year, [[Recap/StargateSG1S6E4Frozen he was exposed to an Ancient incurable disease]].
* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
** Mulder, Scully and Skinner get shot and beaten up very badly many times but don't worry, neither of them has any nasty permanent scars whatsoever.
** The most horrible and intentionally {{exaggerated}} example is from the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E20FightClub Fight Club]]". Their faces are badly battered, bruised, sewed; Mulder's jaw is even wired, and his arm is broken. They are a sorry sight indeed, and they'be beaten up one another! [[NotHimself Because of some half-sister doppelgängerish encounter]]. Or something. Fortunately, next episode they are fine.
* Josh on ''Series/TheWestWing'' has some impressive healing skills. He gets shot and the bullet damages his pulmonary artery, requiring extensive surgery. After surgery, he spends one two-part episode in the hospital and one at home and then goes back to work 100% even though he would have needed months to heal (the chest bone, for instance, would take at least three months). (In fairness, those three episodes span from May to November, so there is some recovery time, but probably not enough.) In one episode the surgeon general compliments him on how nice his scar looked while he was still under sedation from the surgery and in season seven the scar has completely vanished.
** Donna's surgical scar are also mysteriously absent in season seven. She does spend several episodes in a wheelchair after an open femur fracture but once she's out of the wheelchair she walks around like normal with no need for physical therapy or any signs of pain.
* Similar to ''Series/TheWestWing'' example above, Meredith Grey on ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' has her chest opened in order to be placed on heart and lung bypass, and not only does she not get a scar from this, she's fully healed and back to working in the very next episode, taking place ''one week'' after the procedure. Especially egregious considering it is a medical show.
* An early episode of ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'' had Shane Ramsay receiving spinal damage from a car crash, and the prognosis was that he ''might'' walk again but his diving career was over. Two episodes later - and remember, this is a daily, half-hour SoapOpera - he was out of bed and on a camping trip with his younger brother.

*** Early in season 3, Wilson Fisk pays Jasper Evans to shank him as part of a gambit to manipulate the FBI into moving him to the Presidential Hotel. There's a few points in later episodes where Fisk clutches his hand to his chest in the approximate location of the stab wound, implying that he still feels some lingering pain from the wound.

*** Turk Barrett's second appearance in ''Luke Cage'' appears to take place ''after'' the season 2 finale of ''Series/Daredevil2015''[[note]]''Daredevil'' season 2 overlaps with season 1 of ''Luke Cage''[[/note]] where he nearly got his foot cut off by the Hand ninjas trying to get his tracking bracelet off. When Turk appears in "Soliloquy of Chaos", he doesn't even have so much as a limp when he's interacting with Zip and Diamondback, or later when Luke interrogates him for information on Diamondback's base. And the whole thing with the Hand happened fairly recently, as dialogue establishes that Claire came to Harlem not too long after the Hand attacked Metro-General.

* ''Series/MelrosePlace'': Jake falls from a roof and gets a few bruises and cracked ribs, but is back up and at it in the next episode.
* Many straight examples occur in ''Series/KillingEve'':
** After being stabbed by Eve in the Season 1 finale, Villanelle spends half a day being stitched up in the hospital after spending days wandering around Paris. Her wound is clearly giving her serious trouble, plus she jumped on a guy's car to disguise her injuries. Apparently she can still sneak into a passerby's car and be driven across to England, in a trunk. Then, when she gets to England, she spends another few days wandering around until being taken in by Julian, without collapsing or even arousing suspicion.
** By this point, it's implied that her wound is infected, but Julian won't get any medicine for her. She spends days in his house getting sicker and sicker...but is still able to overpower and kill him when necessary. Then Raymond comes to pick her up, and he got her medical assistance in the time skip, but she manages to kill a guy by breaking his neck with his own tie merely ''a couple of days later''.
** Although a Non-Action Guy in Season 2, Konstanin appears to have suffered no ill effects of Villanelle shooting him, despite the fact that she aimed for his heart, despite the fact that he reappears to Eve mere days after the shooting, according to the show's chronology.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', Snake gets his arm broken in the animated intro sequence and has to be airlifted to hospital, but is back in the field two weeks later. During the game, Snake can set broken bones and sew up injuries without any problems.
* In ''VideoGame/ThePunisherCapcom'', like most arcade {{Beat Em Up}}s, you will get a game over after losing enough "lives". During the countdown (the time left to insert another quarter), you will actually see a medic performing CPR on your character. Insert a coin before the time runs out and you are back to full health. Amazing how pushing on someone's chest for ten seconds can magically make the hundred bullets lodged in their flesh disappear...

* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_Island Stunt Island]]'' was a flight simulator by Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios set on a fictional island where movie aircraft stunts are filmed. If you crashed while attempting a stunt, the island's HerrDoktor would rattle off a random list of injuries: ''"You haf a crushed spleen, a pierced kidney, and three broken ribs. Ve'll haf you patched up and flying again tomorrow."''
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has [[SubsystemDamage the odd system of 'health' and 'limb health' being somewhat separate]]. It is quite possible to be at full health but not full limb health as some methods heal regular health but not limb health (e.g drinking water). Other things heal limb health but not overall health. Healing a limb with a stimpak restores some overall health, but mostly limb health.
** If you help out Moira with her survival guide research and return to her with over 600 rads of built-up radiation, she accidentally [[CursedWithAwesome gives you a mutation that heals wounded limbs.]]
* Justified for the Medic in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. If in-game healing took even a tenth of the length of RealLife battlefield surgery, nobody would play the class.

* Likewise to ''Family Guy,'' ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad,'' and to a far more absurd degree. Gunshot wounds, arrows stuck in the shoulder, and stabbings are all just part of the territory. The only exception is the episode where Jesus returns and Stan has to battle demons to survive--he's decked with battle scars and lost a hand, replaced with a robotic clamp.
* The Joker in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' consistently loses teeth when he's punched. They ''all'' grow back. Then again, those are ''very'' white teeth. They could be fakes. Earlier portrayals show diseased yellow teeth, which could also be fake (this ''is'' The Joker, after all).

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' the duo have suffered many injuries throughout the series including knocked out teeth, severed fingers, eye trauma, broken limbs, gaping wounds, etc, but they heal quickly, completely, and sometimes within the same episode.

* In 'the Texas Skilsaw Massacre on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill,'' Dale Gribble accidentally got his finger sliced off by Hank's circular saw. His finger is re-attached and bandaged, but by the next episode, the bandages are off and the stitches are removed. It would take weeks or months on end for that finger to completely heal in reality- though given the episodic nature of the show, it's understandable.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' typically averts this with side characters [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Ray]], but plays it entirely straight with the rest of the main cast.
-->'''Archer''': Since I started working at ISIS, I've been shot, stabbed, set on fire, poisoned, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment shot]], sexually assaulted, partially chewed, [[RuleOfThree shot]], ''and'' [[NoodleIncident declared legally dead - twice on the same day!]]
* Rainbow Dash from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' seems to be constantly injuring herself, yet never shows any long-term effects of all this damage. In "Read It and Weep" she explicitly suffers a compound fracture to her wing, which leaves her incapacitated for a ''few days''. She can't fly on it afterwards, but it's still mentioned to be a problem that should clear up in another week.
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->'''Dr. Hartman:''' Mrs. Griffin, I'm afraid your husband has amnesia.\\
'''Lois Griffin:''' Oh my God! Is it permanent?!\\
'''Dr. Hartman:''' Well, there's no telling for sure. His memory could return in days, weeks, years, or never. ''[beat]'' ''Or weeks.''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''

* ''Webcomic/{{MAG ISA}}'' -- Eman gets [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119635 beaten]], has [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119727 entire clips of ammo]] emptied on him... and [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119742 survives it all as if nothing's happened]]. Also, Claudita gets [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119598 chomped by demon plants]]... and gets healed and looks good [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119602 like nothing's happened]].

* ''Webcomic/{{VG Cats}}'' subverts this big time in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=207 this strip.]]

* Rocky Balboa. Made even worse by the fact that in nearly every ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' film there is some sort of worry about his health (in ''Film/RockyII'' he already has trouble following his trainer's moving finger, in ''Film/RockyIII'' it's commented that the beatings he took in the first two movies should have killed him, ''Film/RockyV'' is all about how he has sustained brain damage and might well die if he ever gets in the ring again), and each time these health concerns and the physical toll taken on him mysteriously vanish by the next movie.
* In ''Film/Thunderball'' Bond gets shot in the leg and has unusually quick reflexes on the dance floor

** The early seasons mostly avert this. Even relatively minor injuries (by modern standards) are treated as severe, and if someone is injured they're likely going to stay injured for at least a few episodes if not permanently. However as the series goes on characters shrugging of wounds between episodes becomes more and more common.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hitman}}'': Hakken's hand (which he chainsawed off after it was bitten by a zombie seal) would sometimes be drawn as a stump/prosthetic and sometimes drawn in as if it were healed.

* ''VideoGame/DuckHunt'': If you shoot the dog in ''vs'', he will be given an AshFace and wind up hobbling on crutches, but he's fully healed afterward.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' has a truckload of injuries that heal up in a jiffy--usually AmusingInjuries- that heal up anywhere from the next scene (Kevin the Sea Cucumber getting stung beyond recognition, only to be unharmed following scene transitions) to the duration of the episode (Mr. Krabs's arms fall off and he spends an episode getting them surgically re-attached, only to have them fall off again right as he leaves the hospital). In Spongebob's case, he can regenerate limbs and reproduce by budding, exempting him from this. Patrick might also count, given real-life starfish can regenerate severed parts.

* The protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', [[ExaggeratedTrope to ridiculous levels.]] Gumball has been set on fire, hit by a truck, thrown off a cliff, eaten, decapitated, blown up, ''disintegrated'', and '''''nuked'''''. The only time he got a semi-permanent visible injury was when he [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hit his head on a tree branch]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Bandages fix everything. Even if you just exploded or got hit by a missile, you should be fine with bandages.

* The newest Creator/NicholasSparks movie, ''The Choice'', takes this UpToEleven. The heroine is left in a coma following a car accident (in the book, it's for a year, in the movie, it's uncertain for how long). When she finally wakes up. . .she's perfectly fine. No extensive speech therapy for her to rebuild her throat muscles (which would be severely atrophied after months of disuse and the presence of a breathing tube). No extensive physical therapy for her to rebuild and regain the use of her arms and legs (which would also be weakened after months of inactivity). No sickly pallor despite months without any sun exposure. No indication of any brain damage--memory loss, slurred speech, etc. It's as if she just took a long nap.

* {{Justified}} in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. While wizards don't heal notably ''faster'' than vanilla mortals, they do apparently heal more ''thoroughly'', so even wounds that would result in permanent disfigurement or debilitation can be recovered from in time. For example, in ''Literature/BloodRites'', Harry's left hand gets ''severely'' burned by a flamethrower, leaving it a useless lump of flesh. Harry's vanilla doctor advises that it will probably never recover any degree of functionality after burns that severe, but over the next several books (and several in-universe years), the burn scars fade and Harry gradually regains use of the hand.

-->'''Dr. Fraiser:''' ''(reading Jack O'Neill's medical file)'' Okay, three gunshot wounds. Four staff weapon burns. [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E17Solitudes Severe hypothermia.]] And I'm quite surprised he's actually authorized me to discuss all this. It's just... [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E8BriefCandle Nanite technology artificially aged him...]] [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E7MessageInABottle He had his shoulder punctured by an alien time capsule device.]] Um, three knee operations. ''(quickly puts another folder aside)'' Oh, that's [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E13Hathor the whole Hathor incident]] which [[OldShame he's asked me never to discuss]]. And, oh yeah, this was a good one. Last year, [[Recap/StargateSG1S6E4Frozen he was exposed to an Ancient incurable disease.

* Usually played straight on ''Series/StargateSG1'' with characters recovering from staff blasts and the like with no scars.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', Mulan takes a sword-slash to the side from Shan Yu. It's implied that the adrenaline of escaping the avalanche she triggered to bury the Huns powered her through, and she [[PostVictoryCollapse falls unconscious almost as soon as it's over.]] However, a few hours in the doctor's tent seems enough to completely fix it--not only does she run, ride, and leap around palace roofs without pain the next day, she shows no sign of fatigue from the blood loss that resulted in her fainting.

* WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy [[ExaggeratedTrope loves this one.]] Anything from cuts and bruises to broken bones or [[spoiler:Evil Stewie cutting off Brian's tail]] will be gone by the next scene, unless it's a plot point.

* The Joker in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' consistently loses teeth when he's punched. They ''all'' grow back. Then again, those are ''very'' white teeth. They could be fakes. Earlier portrayals show diseased yellow teeth, which could also be fake, this ''is'' The Joker after all.

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* Wrestling/JohnCena has made a career of not just being a {{Determinator}}, but when he DOES get legitimately injured, he almost always ends up coming back surprisingly fast through sheer grit and pushing his rehab. In one case he had surgery on the ''vertebrae in his neck''. Granted, it was a much-improved procedure that left him with just a small scar on the side of his throat (described by other wrestlers "looking like a bad mosquito bite or he CutHimselfShaving or something"), but he was still told he'd be out for at least a year to 18 months. Less than six months later he makes a return to win the Royal Rumble.
* Due to (modern-day) quick intervention of emergency services, people [[RealityIsUnrealistic can fully recover]] from a lot of types of fractures, organ damages and concussions (there are surviving car crash victims who survived 30-40 simultaneous fractures). The prevalence of the trope had the unfortunate effect of people taking ''more'' risks and suffering spinal or internal-organ damage which led to [[FateWorseThanDeath a crippled life worse than death]].
* Advances in surgical techniques, as well as in plastic and cosmetic surgery, can greatly reduce the visible effects of injury and surgery. For example, a few decades ago an appendectomy would usually leave a large and clearly visible scar, while today it's common to have no visible scarring at all (the first keyhole appendectomy was carried out in 1981).
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