History Main / MajorInjuryUnderreaction

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': After Fiona fights off Robin and his Merry Men, both she and Shrek are surprised to discover he'd sustained an injury. Justified in that Shrek's thick skin wouldn't necessarily feel the arrow going in.

--> '''Anthony''': Some sort of laser thing. Absolute rubbish. Anyway, spot of healing, I'll be fine. Hit me up Mendant and I'll be on my way.\\
'''Mendant''': You'll be here for at least a day. I'm assuming your healing gland is empty?\\
'''Anthony''': I think it needs to regrow…
* In ''Literature/{{Redliners}}'', Creator/DavidDrake has a character mention that a bad sunburn can cause more pain than some combat injuries. Doubtless due to the sunburn being restricted to nerve-rich skin.
* In ''Literature/LukeSkywalkerAndTheShadowsOfMindor'', X-wing pilot [[Literature/XWingSeries Hobbie Klivian]], disabled in combat, has a shot fired through his cockpit that takes off his hand. He sighs, the narration says that it's been quite some time since he had a real left arm, and sticks the sparking stump into the new hole in the ceiling so that his pilot's suit will seal off the hole. Then he sticks his right foot into the new hole in the floor, and although his boot gets sucked off this gets sealed too. At some point, he collides with something and thinks that his foot may have just been sheared off, but that's okay. It's been a long time since he's had a real right foot.
** In ''Darklighter'', Hobbie is utterly nonchalant about losing his entire left arm and needing an [[ArtificialLimbs artificial one]]. In the same issue, he [[EjectionSeat ejects]] only to have a passing TIE fighter swipe off his leg. His reaction?
--->'''Hobbie:''' I lost -- I don't believe this! -- My right shin and foot got clipped off! My suit's self-sealer worked... the wound's [[SpaceIsCold frozen already]]. No bleeding, minimal pressure loss. But it's starting to hurt.
*** And very soon after that, after a medpac was applied to the stump, he helped steal X-Wings by flying them out of storage. After that, he got a horrible infection, but again, he reacted very minimally. Hobbie is very [[CaptainCrash prone to this sort of thing]].
* K.J Parker's ''Literature/TheScavengerTrilogy'': several characters maintain cool, sophisticated conversations after traumatic injury.
* In ''Literature/{{Angelfall}}'', after a few days, the amputation of his wings doesn't seem to bother Raffe much, at least physically.
* In the fourth book of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', the character Phil gets his leg crushed. He reacts to this with, "Well, this isn't too bad. My left leg is broken, but at least I'm right-legged." Somebody comments, "Gee, I thought he'd say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My leg! My leg!'
* ''Literature/CodexAlera:'' [[spoiler:Aquitainus Attis]] matter-of-factly describing his mortal injuries to Amara and Ehren in excruciating, even slightly snarky, detail. [[JustifiedTrope Justified here]] [[AWizardDidIt by magic]]: [[ElementalPowers Metalcrafters]] have the ability to suppress their own feelings, including pain.
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/WhiteNight'', Ramirez looks down and says, "There's a knife in my leg", then "There's a knife in my gut", then "Holy crap, they match". Justified, because he's in shock.
** Later on, in ''Literature/ColdDays'' [[spoiler:Mac]] gets shot in the stomach. He just looks mildly perturbed for a {{Beat}}, then seems to remember this ''should'' incapacitate him and drops to a knee.
*** Which could be foreshadowing, depending on what WMG one subscribes to regarding [[spoiler:Mac's]] identity.
** There's a double instance also in ''Cold Days''. Thomas, Harry, and Butters talk for several pages after a fight, while Butters stitches up Harry's wounds. Harry doesn't even ''notice'' having a three-inch gash in his ribs stitched up without anesthetic, a side effect of [[spoiler:the Winter Knight mantle]]. After finishing, Butters finally notices Thomas had been walking around and talking for close to an ''hour'' with a gunshot wound in his torso.
--->'''Butters:''' You've been ''shot!''\\
'''Thomas:''' Well. A little.

* The Fire Swamp scene in ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' is much darker than in the film. After being attacked by a trio of R.O.U.S.es, Westley begins packing mud onto his wounds, lest more of the creatures smell the blood and come after them. He screams at Buttercup (to pull her out of her shocked stupor) to help him. As they continue their journey, she asks about his wounds.
-->'''Westley:''' I'm in something close to agony, but we can talk about it later.
* Somewhat subverted with Arthur Dent in ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'', where upon activation of the Infinite Improbability Drive, causes him to lose an arm and overreact... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because he wouldn't be able to operate his digital watch.]] (The old kind, with red [=LEDs=] which only light up when you press a button.)

* [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6zeCttri5yc/TaMbbRh4urI/AAAAAAAABRk/7-d0mVtY3U0/s1600/Trex2.jpg This image]] from the 1965 dinosaur book ''Dinosaurs of the Earth''. The dinosaur blog ''Blog/LoveInTheTimeOfChasmosaurs'' [[DeadpanSnarker dryly comments]]:
-->''....although [Monoclonius] looks rather unconcerned about the whole thing, just standing idly by while T. rex takes a nibble.''
* In ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', pedophile Quilty is shot several times but continues to speak to his killer Humbert politely while dying.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', the Greatjon insults Robb Stark and has two of his fingers bitten off by Robb's direwolf. Defeated, the Greatjon grips his bleeding hand, makes a wisecrack, and laughs it off. Bran, who watches the whole thing, is flabbergasted.
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/MenAtArms'':

** From the same novel, Vetinari trying to dismiss the gunshot that's just shattered his thigh with "No need, it's [[OnlyAFleshWound just a flesh wound.]]"

* Thanks to "weeviltech", humans from ''[[Literature/PumpSixAndOtherStories The People of Sand and Slag]]'' are virtually indestructible. The story opens with the main character ''jumping off a speeding aircraft'' without a parachute, breaking half of the bones in his body and smashing most of his internal organs... and getting up as if nothing happened. The story then examines how this kind of ability would affect humanity as a species.

* In the third book of ''Literature/TheSeventhTower'', [[ActionGirl Milla]] stabs [[BigBad Shadowmaster Sushin]] through the chest with her sword. His response? He laughs it off, yanks the sword out, and proceeds to go about his business for the rest of the series ignoring the hole in his chest (greatly unsettling his minions, who do their best not to stare). [[spoiler:Justified; he was possessed by Sharrakor at the time. Milla didn't actually injure the intangible Sharrakor, and he could make Sushin's body continue to function no matter how beat up it got, so why ''should'' he have made a big deal about it]]?
* Drake from ''Literature/{{Gone}}'' might as well be the poster boy for this trope. [[spoiler:We see signs of it in book 1 when he gets his arm cuts off, and the only real result is his CombatTentacles. But it doesn't really show up until ''Plague'' when he ''leers'' while pulling a knife out of himself and shows no sign of pain while being literally ''cut to bits''. It was pretty creepy.]]
* In ''Literature/TheOutsiders,'' Ponyboy takes part in the huge greaser/Soc fight and then hitchhikes to the hospital to see his dying friend. On the way, the driver comments that Ponyboy is bleeding all over the car's seat. Ponyboy, who hadn't even noticed the injury, looks at the blood and dully apologizes.
* In ''Literature/CompanionsCodex'', [[spoiler:Tos'un Armgo]] is folded in half when his dragon mount crashes on a mountainside, even musing on how his ''buttocks have hit his shoulderblades'' and his hips are pulverised. After the fact, he lies in the snow and watches [[spoiler:Afafrenfere]] fight Aurbangras without so much as a groan of pain. It is implied, however, that he's in shock since he starts feeling pain some time afterwards.
* In ''Literature/Catch22'', Snowden [[spoiler:literally has his guts blown out of his body]] after being hit with anti-aircraft fire. His only reaction is to moan softly, "I'm cold, I'm cold", over and over again.
* ''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 men that when they spill his guts for a wound, they don't even worry, they will stuff them back in a moment.
* Ysbaddaden the Giant in the ''Literature/{{Mabinogion}}'' displays this several times. Early in the story, he throws three poisoned javelins at the protagonists, who catch them and throw them back at him, piercing him through the kneecap, chest, and eye (the last one going right through his head). Instead of screaming, passing out, or dropping dead like a normal person, he just yells a little about how much pain he's in. Even moreso near the end, [[spoiler:he finally gets his "shave" when a minor character with a grudge shears the flesh from his face. While obviously not happy, he doesn't even yell this time, but speaks to Culhwch pretty calmly before being dragged off to be beheaded]].
* Creator/{{Amoridere}} plays with this in her poem ''Syrup On Pancakes''. The subject's injuries aren't too severe (only bad enough to need stitches) but she makes the titular comparison while she's bleeding from a head wound. Though, she's already dazed, so who knows what her reaction would have been.
* In David Feldman's ''Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?'' an illustration accompanying the entry on why paper cuts hurt so much depicts a man yelping after getting one while the woman on his left reacts to the knife sticking out of her back with a quiet "ouch".
* ''Literature/TruthOrDare2000'': Patrick, a boy who died mysteriously decades ago, never reacted to being hit, according to his sister Joanna. Once another child threw a rock at him and left a large gash on his temple. His only reaction was to tilt his head so that the blood fell into the stream rather than onto his shirt, because he'd get in trouble for staining his clothes.

* * ''Series/MadTV'' plays it for BlackComedy in "Paul Timberman's Workshop". Paul Timberman is a [[LethalKlutz horribly inept]] handyman hosting a DIY show. He maims himself while using tools, then hastily bandages the injury to [[TheShowMustGoOn keep the show rolling]]. Doesn't matter to him if his blood [[BloodyHilarious spurts]] all over his latest project...

* In ''WesternAnimation/HulkVsWolverine'', we get Deadpool, who lost an arm, and was stomped by Hulk. His reaction? A joke ("Could you give me a hand?") And "Ow..." Justified by his HealingFactor. All he has to do is reattach it. Deadpool was more depressed that Wolvie slashed his favorite gun than losing his arm.

Contrast with MinorInjuryOverreaction, which is a direct [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of this trope. Compare OnlyAFleshWound, BelatedInjuryRealization, ICanStillFight, ObviouslyNotFine, and DissonantSerenity.

!!Examples:

-->'''Mr. Brittas''': Colin! You alright?
-->'''Colin''': Fine, thank you, Mr. Brittas. I've just been shot through the head, that's all. Well, as they say, a mere flesh wound. I'll be back to work on Monday, can't let the side down when we're understaffed, eh?
* A dramatic example comes from the ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' episode "Faith". A Number 6 encounters Barolay who had tortured and killed the 6 on New Caprica. After an exchange of insults, the 6 gives Barolay a brutal beating, including grabbing her head and slamming it to the side of a Raptor. After the fight is broken, Barolay gets up and says "I'm ok. I'm ok" before collapsing and dying of a fractured skull.

** In "What's My Line, Part 2", Oz [[TakingTheBullet gets shot in the arm]] and [[TheStoic comments]], "It's odd. And painful."
** In the episode "Consequences", Mr. Trick is staked by Faith before he can drain Buffy. His last words?

** In "The Freshman", when Sunday is staked, she looks at the stake sticking out of her chest, rolls her eyes, and puts her hands on her hips in annoyance as she turns to dust.

** In Season 6, Tara has a ''Fatal'' Injury Underreaction when Warren unintentionally shoots her through the heart after trying to kill Buffy. She has just enough time to frown in confusion and say "Your shirt," when seeing the blood spatter on Willow's blouse before collapsing and dying.
** Willow's evil selves have a habit of doing this. Vamp!Willow's reaction to being shot with a crossbow, perilously near her heart, was a whiny "Bitch!" at her prime self. Dark!Willow did it twice, once when Giles blasted her across the room with magic ("That was....rude! I forgot what I was saying!") and when Warren axes her in the back trying to get away ("Axe? Not gonna cut it.").

** The Tenth Doctor's reaction to having his hand cut off is a mildly annoyed "You cut off my hand!" Of course, he immediately proceeds to grow himself a new one, which probably accounts for his lack of concern (though you'd think it would still hurt).
** [[spoiler:Auton]] Rory gets one when relating his own ''death'' when he reappears to the Doctor's shock in "The Pandorica Opens".

** This seems to run in the family. Rory's daughter [[spoiler:River Song]] reacts quite similarly throughout "Let's Kill Hitler". She gets shot in the chest and doesn't tell anyone for minutes, before finally saying, "Hitler. Lousy shot." Later, after [[spoiler:regenerating]], she gets riddled with bullets but just smiles smugly at the Nazi guards.

* ''Series/{{LOST}}'': In "Sundown" Sayid stabs "Locke" right in the chest; his reaction?

* How ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' interpreted the Humphrey Bogart-type getting shot in

* ''Film/OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank''.
-->'''Mike:''' I guess I'm more disappointed than shot.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest:'' "Relevance"

** This exchange:

** Also, the last words of waxwork Noel Coward after being shot in the chest:

* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Nemesis", Clark is weakened enough by Kryptonite dust that his left arm is [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice skewered]] by a piece of shrapnel, but doesn't even notice it until Lex calls his attention to the blood running down his arm.

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', during the episode "Samaritan Snare", Captain Picard relates the story of how he received his artificial heart, explaining that when he was a [[FormerTeenRebel rebellious cadet]], he got involved in a bar fight and ended up getting stabbed through the heart. Strangely, the thing he remembers most about it is wondering why he started ''laughing?!'' This is later shown in a flashback in "Tapestry", where even ''Q'' seems oddly disturbed by this bizarre reaction.

* ''Series/{{Haven}}:'' Thanks to his FeelNoPain Trouble, Nathan invariably has this reaction to very serious injuries. In one episode, he's impaled by half a dozen industrial nails. At his partner Audrey's horrified reaction, he casually tells her he's fine and the wounds will bleed less if the nails are left in until the case is over.

-->'''Taiga:''' ...[[SorryThatImDying sorry]], [[TearJerker I can't take care of you anymore]].

* When [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Jack Russell]] a.k.a. ComicBook/WerewolfByNight is run through with several [[AchillesHeel silver katanas]] in ''[[Comicbook/ThePunisher Punisher]]'' vol. 7 #13, he tells his attackers: "Acupuncture. Tickles."

* In one ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' issue, "Tenderfoot", a young British heir with [[StiffUpperLip a very stiff upper lip]] participates in a Flintlock Pistol Duel (only one shot). His opponent shoots first, but when he sees that he hasn't killed the Briton, who calmly stands still with his pistol firmly held in the right hand, he freaks out and surrenders, giving the Greenhorn victory by forfeit. When Luke asks the heir why he didn't shoot, he calmly responds: "I couldn't. [[OnlyaFleshWound He shot me in the arm]] and the pain is unbearable."

** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' thanks to being a PlantPerson Groot’s reaction to Gamora hacking off his arms with her CoolSword is only mild pain. If anything he just looks more ''saddened'' that someone would do that to him. Similarly, Nebula being a {{Cyborg}} has no reaction to hacking off her own arm or resetting her jaw after it gets dislocated.[[note]]Not to mention she's used to pain and torture from growing up as TheUnfavorite under Thanos, who made her into a cyborg by removing a part of her body every time she lost a battle[[/note]].

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** When Cliff Bleszinski is being burnt at the stake: [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/27 "The heat is tremendous. I believe it is fire-related."]]

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

** [[spoiler:Anemone's]] reaction to [[spoiler:Tessa Alter's monster]] piercing her stomach is to glare at her and say "that ''hurt'', you little brat.]]

** Captain Tagon treats his ocular cutlery (read: [[EyeScream fork in eye]]) with nothing more than [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-02-07 mild irritation]]. The practice comes in handy when someone gives him more ocular cutlery with [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-08-15 much more malicious intent]]/

* In March of 1989, Buffalo Sabres goalkeeper Clint Malarchuk was involved in a goal-crease collision with another player, which resulted in his jugular vein being sliced open via errant hockey skate and blood pouring out onto the ice. The paramedics were racing him to the hospital when Malarchuk asked them, "Can you have me back for the 3rd period?"

* Continues in ''Film/Deadpool2'', where his response to being repeatedly shot by Cable while trying (and failing) to deflect his bullets is to just nod and say "Your bullets are ''really'' fast!"[[note]]The original version of the movie had him saying ow in a more casual, yet a bit pained tone[[/note]]. Later on, he's mostly just annoyed when [[spoiler:the Juggernaut]] literally tears him in half.

* ''Film/ASeriousMan'' opens with a Jewish couple in 19th-century Poland being visited by an elderly acquaintance. The wife claims that the man died three years ago and that their visitor is a dybbuk, a demonic spirit possessing his corpse. To prove her point, she stabs the old man in the heart with an ice pick...and he simply laughs it off and leaves. Whether or not he really was a dybbuk or if something else was at play is not explained, setting the tone for the rest of the film.

** Tycho demonstrates in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/11/17/ this strip.]]
--->'''Tycho:''' 911? [[{{Fingore}} I've cut off all my fingers]]. They are all gone. It '''''is''''' excruciating, yes! Please send an ambulance to... Oh. Well yeah. They should definitely finish their quest first.

* Whenever James May is injured on ''Series/TheGrandTour'', he lets out a deadpan "ow." Even when he gets a dumpster dropped on him while sitting in his car. Or when his co-presenters are working him over with sledgehammers. Or when his car goes off the edge of a cliff and down the side of a very steep mountain with him still in it...

* ''[[InvokedTrope Invoked]]'' in the ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' episode "Mork's Mixed Emotions", where Mork demonstrates to Mindy that he has subdued all of his emotions by hitting himself in the hand with a blunt object, at which (having developed a bit of a CreepyMonotone) he affirms, yes, you bet that hurts. "Ow."
* ''Series/{{Patriot}}'': When John is on his way to steal the pistol of a grocery clerk, he provides narration in the form of a folk song about how easy it's going to be, and that he'll probably have beers with his friends afterwards. In the grocery, John and several of his friends get shot at before they manage to take the clerk down and grab his pistol. The group then calmly exits and walks down the street nonchalantly. With no change in the song's pitch, John's narration suspects that several of his friends have been shot, and he's pretty sure that he's missing two fingers. The song concludes that they probably won't be getting beers.
* ''Series/ChicagoFire'' has a particularly spectacular example in the episode where the crew have to deal with the aftermath of a tornado. A teenage boy comes running up to the fire truck to let them know that his mother is trapped in a partially-collapsed house. They take some further details and are getting ready to send a couple of firefighters to the address to assess the situation when one of them happens to look the right way... [[OhCrap and sees a shard of plate glass sticking out of the boy's back.]] Sheer adrenaline had prevented him from even feeling it.
* ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}'': Baby Sinclair's only reaction to being flung across the room or set on fire is usually a cheery [[WasntThatFun "Again!"]]
* ''Series/{{Haven}}:'' Thanks to his FeelNoPain Trouble, Nathan invariably has this reaction to very serious injuries. In one episode, he's impaled by half a dozen industrial nails. At his partner Audrey's horrified reaction, he casually tells her he's fine and the wounds will bleed less if the nails are left in until the case is over.
* In the fifth season of ''Series/TheWire'', a homeless marine suffering from PTSD tells one of his war stories that haunts him to a reporter. The story is about a friend of his being wounded by an IED and having both his hands blown off. The friend responds by laughing hysterically and shouting "Look, ma! No hands!"

* In an early episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'', "Blizzard", a young black man nonchalantly walked up to Dr. Doug Ross with a loose bandage around one hand. Dr. Ross removed it, to find the man's thumb missing. He was keeping it in a small plastic bag. Doug had Malik wheel him straight upstairs to surgery.
* There is a particularly '''harsh''' example in the German Crime Series ''Polizeiruf 110'', where a bomb explosion in a crowded Munich pedestrian underpass throws a brick against the back of the head of a young woman. In the minutes following the detonation, she stumbles around among the dead and dying, nonchalantly looking for her purse. [[TimeDelayedDeath A few minutes later, she is dead herself.]]
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
** In one episode, Jordan gets her face Botoxed so much that she isn't able to make facial expressions. At one point, another character accidentally hurts her and she says with a straight face (and a fairly monotonous voice): "I think you separated my shoulder. The pain is excruciating."
** Similarly, when Cox tests this by asking her to show him "funny, sad, etc". When he asks for angry, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard she kicks him]] [[GroinAttack in the nuts]] and he remarks "you got angry down" as he falls.
** There was also a brief sequence in an earlier episode in which a Japanese chef with a butcher's knife embedded in his shoulder flatly replies to the obvious question: "Does what hurt?" This is part of a series of examples of how different people deal with pain differently, another example given was a husband standing next to his wife who is in labor when he happens to bite his lip and exclaim "[[MinorInjuryOverreaction Nothing has ever hurt this much!]]"
** The first appearance of Ben has him act nonchalant despite having accidentally nailed his hand to a plank of wood. In fact, it's actually J.D. who faints at the sight of it. Dr. Cox mentions doping Ben up with drugs so he wouldn't feel it, but he's still fairly blase about the whole thing, at one point even telling JD to lick the tip of the nail.
** In one fantasy sequence, Janitor cuts off J.D.'s arm with a circular saw. As blood comically squirts from the wound he simply replies "Aw, man... Give it back" while Janitor slaps him in the face with his own hand asking him "Only after you tell me why you're hitting yourself"
* Jack O'Neill, ''Series/StargateSG1''. The episode where Carter and O'Neill discover the second Gate. When Carter sets O'Neill's broken leg, he groans, "Jagged bone grinding into nerves hurts. Who knew?"
* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
** This exchange:
--->'''Lister:''' Kryten! Are you OK?\\
'''Kryten:''' I have a medium-sized fire axe buried in my spinal column. This sort of thing can really put a crimp on your day.
** Also, the last words of waxwork Noel Coward after being shot in the chest:
--->'''Noel Coward:''' Oh, [[GoshDangItToHeck shot]]!

* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Tenth Doctor's reaction to having his hand cut off is a mildly annoyed "You cut off my hand!" Of course, he immediately proceeds to grow himself a new one, which probably accounts for his lack of concern (though you'd think it would still hurt).
** [[spoiler:Auton]] Rory gets one when relating his own ''death'' when he reappears to the Doctor's shock in "The Pandorica Opens".
--->'''Rory:''' Well, I died. And then I was a Roman. ''It's very distracting''.
** This seems to run in the family. Rory's daughter [[spoiler:River Song]] reacts quite similarly throughout "Let's Kill Hitler". She gets shot in the chest and doesn't tell anyone for minutes, before finally saying, "Hitler. Lousy shot." Later, after [[spoiler:regenerating]], she gets riddled with bullets but just smiles smugly at the Nazi guards.
--->'''[[spoiler:River Song]]:''' Here's a tip. Don't shoot a girl when she's [[spoiler:regenerating]]!
* The Greatjon, in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', has two fingers bitten off by a direwolf when he draws his sword on Robb Stark. He then has the presence of mind to de-escalate the situation before it gets further [[IncrediblyLamePun out of hand]] by making a joke at his own expense while he stands there with a bleeding maimed hand.
-->'''Robb:''' My Lord Father taught me it was death to bare steel against your liege lord. Doubtless, the Greatjon only meant to cut my meat for me.\\
'''Greatjon:''' ''[holding a hand with ''two ragged stumps'']'' Your meat... is ''bloody tough''. ''[laughter]''

* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'' season 4, after he gets fatally shot by Wesley through a [[AttackItsWeakPoint broken spot in his armored skin]], Skip simply deadpans, "Well, that ain't right," before dropping dead.
* ''Series/MythBusters'': In keeping with his role as TheStoic, Jamie Hyneman is prone to these. Example from the "Exploding Jawbreaker" myth:
-->'''Jamie:''' Ouch. Okay, that's really hot. Yeah, you could get a serious burn from that. ''[{{beat}}]'' In fact, I think I just did.
* In the fifth season of ''Series/TheWire'', a homeless marine suffering from PTSD tells one of his war stories that haunts him to a reporter. The story is about a friend of his being wounded by an IED and having both his hands blown off. The friend responds by laughing hysterically and shouting "Look, ma! No hands!"
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', during the episode "Samaritan Snare", Captain Picard relates the story of how he received his artificial heart, explaining that when he was a [[FormerTeenRebel rebellious cadet]], he got involved in a bar fight and ended up getting stabbed through the heart. Strangely, the thing he remembers most about it is wondering why he started ''laughing?!'' This is later shown in a flashback in "Tapestry", where even ''Q'' seems oddly disturbed by this bizarre reaction.
* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Nemesis", Clark is weakened enough by Kryptonite dust that his left arm is [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice skewered]] by a piece of shrapnel, but doesn't even notice it until Lex calls his attention to the blood running down his arm.
* ''Series/{{LOST}}'': In "Sundown" Sayid stabs "Locke" right in the chest; his reaction?
-->'''"Locke":''' Now, what'd you go and do that for?
* ''Series/TheAmazingRace'':
** In one season, Gretchen fell down in a cave and was shown with blood on her face from a head wound. Her response was more of "I always wanted a facelift."
** Season 17 had Claire trying to topple a knight's armor with watermelons thrown from a slingshot. One of the watermelons backfired and ''hit Claire point-blank in the face''. It didn't slow her down one bit as she and Brook ended up finishing second during that race.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Series/PrisonBreak'' when Charles Westmoreland is stabbed by Brad Bellick. He can't go to the infirmary or he'll blow the escape plan, which seals his fate, but he's able to stay alive and conceal his injury long enough for the Fox River Eight to enact their escape plan.
* In ''Series/TheInvisibleMan'', Darien and Hobbes come across a young woman who has been injected with a retrovirus designed to make her smarter. In addition to her tattered clothes and off-putting manner, the fact that she's walking across glass barefoot without noticing makes it clear that something is very wrong.

* In ''Series/{{Justified}}'''s Season 3 finale, BigBad Robert Quarles has his arm severed by Elston Limehouse's meat cleaver. His reaction is to stare at it in shock and then try to grab it back from Raylan Givens, who is holding it. Likely justified by the number of pain killers in Quarles' bloodstream at the time, coupled with his blatant insanity.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The "Appeal for Sanity" sketch features the Reverend Arthur Belling, who seems largely unperturbed by [[RevealShot the axe stuck in his head]].
* In one episode of ''Series/SirensUS'' Johnny, Hank and Brian respond to a call at a construction site where one of the workers has been impaled by a piece of re-bar. Impaled Guy, however, is more concerned about his coworker who fainted after witnessing the impalement. He also expects to receive a big payout from the city over the accident and talks with the paramedics about the bar he plans to buy all the way to the hospital.
* One episode of ''Series/ToddAndTheBookOfPureEvil'' has a girl get her heart ripped out. She just says "Hey! I need that!".
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest:'' "Relevance"
-->'''Shaw:''' We need to move. Now.\\
'''Cole:''' ''[suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, and seconds from bleeding out]'' Ah, that's gonna be tough.
* One episode of ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' sees inept security guard Barney fall through a trapdoor that [[StalkerWithACrush Penelope Taynt]] has created backstage. The hole goes all the way to a family's house in Beijing, China, which means that Barney must have passed through the center of the Earth itself--but his only response is to get up, ask for his location, and, noticing the family having lunch, say "Whatcha eatin'?"
* How ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' interpreted the Humphrey Bogart-type getting shot in ''Film/OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank''.
-->'''Mike:''' I guess I'm more disappointed than shot.
* When Cotyar gets shot in the stomach in the season 2 finale of ''Series/TheExpanse'', he doesn't even notice until Bobbi points it out to him.
* This DescriptionCut from ''Series/CornerGas'':
-->'''Emma:''' Knitting never hurt anyone!\\
''[WhipPan]''\\
'''Old Woman:''' ''[with knitting needle driven completely through her arm, confused]'' Now how did I do that?

-->'''Taiga:''' ...[[SorryThatImDying sorry]], [[TearJerker I can't take care of you anymore]].
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Castiel]] takes the brothers back in time, a difficult feat at his current power level. Upon landing in the past with a PsychicNosebleed, Dean asks if he's okay, and he says he's fine, and a lot better than he expected. He then [[InstantlyProvenWrong immediately]] [[BloodFromTheMouth spits out blood]] and collapses against a car. Which begs the question of what he ''expected''...

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Upon being caught in the explosion of a homemade bomb, [[spoiler:Gus]] has half his face blown off to the bone. His only reaction is to [[FaceDeathWithDignity calmly walk out of the room and adjust his tie, before dropping dead.]]

* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'' gives us this exchange in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS7E2ReviewingTheSituation Reviewing The Situation]]":
-->'''Mr. Brittas''': Colin! You alright?
-->'''Colin''': Fine, thank you, Mr. Brittas. I've just been shot through the head, that's all. Well, as they say, a mere flesh wound. I'll be back to work on Monday, can't let the side down when we're understaffed, eh?