History Main / SelfSurgery

* In ''Manga/{{Fullmetal Alchemist}}'', Roy Mustang uses flame alchemy to cauterize a major injury to his own abdomen after [[spoiler:Lust stabbed him below Laboratory 3]] and gets up again minutes later.
** Mind you, he still had to be rushed to the hospital afterward.
* In ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind]]'', villain Cioccolata not only sews his limbs back on, but even manages to ''stitch up his blood vessels''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because not only is he a [[DeadlyDoctor Deadly Doctor]], he has the [[FightingSpirit Fighting Spirit]] Green Day that allows him to create unlimited suture material and operate his severed limbs.

* Hush from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' can perform surgery on himself, including plastic surgery to make himself look like others as he did in the comics and [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'']].

* ''Series/BlackMirror''. In "Metalhead", the protagonist is being hunted by an [[ImplacableMan implacable]] [[KillerRobot killer]] RobotDog, and has to cut out a piece of shrapnel containing a TrackingDevice using a knife and pliers. [[spoiler:She's able to destroy the Dog, but [[TakingYouWithMe not before it detonates another shrapnel bomb]] peppering her body with similar trackers, one of them next to her carotid artery. Realising she can't cut them out without fatal injury, she uses the knife to commit suicide rather than wait for other Dogs to arrive.]]

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* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce.'' The evil doctor [[MeaningfulName Doctor Weird]] tells his assistant "Gentlemen! I have decided to lose weight...manually!" And he promptly pulls out a chainsaw and begins cutting away at his fat.
** Other instances include: [[OffWithHisHead removing his head]], [[NegativeContinuity twice]], once on his own and once via his assistant Steve; injecting himself with gallons of BBQ sauce and only realizing it's a bad idea about a second and a half before he explodes; doing ''something'' that turned himself into a giant head that spat laser beams; and various other things that can't even be explained as being done "ForSCIENCE!"

* Any veterinarian who treats cats is bound to resort to this sooner or later.

* A bottle of alcohol, superglue, and duct tape will fix most deep muscle cuts.

* Bob has his character stitch his own wounds in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''. After being awarded experience points for exercising his first aid skill, Bob decides to rip out the stitches and sew them again.

* ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'' provides two examples:

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'' it never happens for real, but [[spoiler:Naoto's]] Shadow expresses a desire to [[spoiler:carry out a [[GenderBender sex change operation on her(self)]]]]. Representing her insecurity from being patronized by the police.
* At one point in ''Videogame/RedDeadRedemption2'', Arthur is forced to remove a bullet from his own shoulder after being kidnapped. He heats a file in a candle flame and uses it to dig out the bullet, then uses some gunpowder from a shotgun shell and the candle flame to cauterise the wound.

* ''[[spoiler:Clementine]]'' has to do this in the first episode of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead Season 2'', [[spoiler:disinfecting and suturing her own arm up to help heal a dog bite.]] She screams and cries while it happens, too, which just makes it all the more horrific. [[spoiler:''You need to force her to do every stitch, and then a walker tried to get her two seconds later''. Talk about dark.]]

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Higgs is seen stitching up a gash in his own arm at Mamma Gkika's while [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110309 waiting for Zeetha to wake up.]]
* Characters sewing up their own wounds (and whether you get XP for it) is a running gag in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''.

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* In ''Film/Revenge2017'', Jen uses a hunting knife to cut out the broken branch that is stuck through her abdomen, and then uses a heated aluminium can to cauterize the wound.

* ''Film/TheFugitive'': After he reaches the hospital, Richard Kimble sews up the wound he received in the bus crash. {{Justified|Trope}} because he's a doctor.

* Film/{{Clock}}: Ella does this after Dr. Simmons refuses to [[spoiler:remove the implant from her uterus, which was inserted to "fix" her lack of desire for children.]] Despite being warned that removing the implant would [[spoiler:leave her infertile]], Ella pulls it out of herself right there in the clinic's dining room.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' provides two examples:

* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'': The now-infamous scene of [[spoiler:Shaw's]] self-administered emergency surgery, albeit using an {{autodoc}}. [[spoiler: The tense buildup to the eventual cutting of the stomach and removal of the ''[[CosmicHorror thing]]'' she "births" is bad enough, but it gets even worse when it bursts out of its sac in the Medpod's claw inches from her face and ''starts trying to attack her midway through the surgery.'']]

* Miss Gard of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' series once stuffed a portion of her own intestines back into her body and used Super Glue to seal the wound. [[spoiler: Probably made easier by being a Valkyrie, but still damn impressive.]]

* Creator/StephenKing had a grisly short story about a doctor who survives some kind of wreck and winds up on a flyspeck island in the middle of the ocean. Eventually, the good doctor has to [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty turn cannibal]] on ''himself'', cutting off certain parts, eating them, then taking care so that the area around the sacrificed part wouldn't get infected or anything. At the very end of the story the doctor, who is a surgeon and has been taking very good care of his hands the whole time, finally gets desperate enough to start looking at them... (Apparently when King first had this idea, he ran into a local doctor he knew at the supermarket and asked about whether the idea was at all feasible in real life. The doctor gave him a very odd look before replying that yes, it was theoretically possible).

** And two chapters later, [[spoiler: Bonesaw]] performs several procedures on herself to [[spoiler: hide the fact that she didn't go into cryogenic sleep with the rest of the Slaughterhouse Nine.]]

** Early on in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', a medic within the city is talked to regarding a patient, who is apparently a doctor, who has been stealing supplies and cut off his own face. [[spoiler: It's Tommy Elliot, AKA Hush, who later uses pieces of other people's faces to surgically reconstruct his own into a copy of Bruce Wayne's.]]

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'' it never happens for real, but [[spoiler: Naoto's]] Shadow expresses a desire to [[spoiler:carry out a [[GenderBender sex change operation on her(self)]]]]. Representing her insecurity from being patronized by the police.

** In "The Bob Next Door", [[spoiler: Sideshow Bob cuts off his own face so he can switch it with the face of a fellow inmate as part of his latest plan to kill Bart. The first time around, though, he sewed the new face on upside-down.]]

* Film/TheTerminator can do this as he FeelsNoPain. He's an android with a meat suit -- so it doesn't really affect him when he takes his own injured eye out.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-542 SCP-542,]] a stitched-together [[FrankensteinsMonster Frankensteinian]] HerrDoktor type who routinely did this in order to replace his organs as they failed before he was taken into the care of the foundation.

* ''Film/{{Ronin}}''. Robert de Niro's character, Sam, gets shot at one point and has to operate on himself to remove the bullet. Fortunately, he is in the care of Jean Reno's character Vincent (and a friend of his) so once he's removed the bullet he can pass out from the pain and let the others stitch him back up again.

* ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. Magneto uses his powers to stitch up a scalp wound on the back of his head.

--> '''George''': Why is he suturing his own face?
--> '''Christina''': [[GeekyTurnOn To turn me on?]]
--> '''Alex''': [[MrExposition Cause he's Mark Sloan! He's, like, the go-to plastic surgeon on the East coast.]]
--> '''George''': That's the guy Adison was sleeping with?
--> '''Izzie''': [[TheCasanova You can't really blame her, can you?]]
--> '''Christina''': No, not really.
--> '''George''': [[DoggedNiceGuy Yes, you can!!]]

* Mark Sloane makes his debut on ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' like this, immediately establishing everything you need to know about him:

--> '''Alex''': [[MrExposition Cause he's Mark Sloane! He's, like, the go-to plastic surgeon on the East coast.]]

* Happens semi-regularly on ''Series/{{House}}''. Perhaps one of the most unpleasant examples came when House discovered he had several small tumours in his leg and was forced to cut his leg open to remove them.
** And hovering somewhere between hilarious and absolute nightmare is the clinic patient who attempted to ''circumcise himself'' to mollify his girlfriend.

* Possibly subverted on ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Jack insists on being awake so he can talk Juliet through performing an appendectomy on him, but after she begins they decide to knock him out as he's in too much pain.

** Hanna tries to remove a bullet from her own abdomen, but is unable to get it out; she just stitches herself up and injects penicillin so she can keep going. By the time the SRI rescues her, she's developed a serious infection and needs immediate medical attention.
** Samantha Finn treats her own pneumothorax after being shot and LeftForDead, but she is only able to aspirate the wound while waiting for rescue.
* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': The Renegade protagonist gets shot with a radion weapon, which is poisonous to New Gods and leaves a hole large enough to stick his fist in. And since his body is full of magic, [[ImmunityDisability his power ring can't heal him, and he can't use anaesthetic]]. He has to resort to sharpening and sterilising a piece of armour plating and cutting out the damaged tissue, so that his HealingFactor can kick in. It becomes his new benchmark for "most painful experience", even beating contenders like having his [[EyeScream eyeballs crushed]], or getting crisped by a nuclear explosion.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': It is implied that the medic has done this on his HEART to make him a candidate for ubercharge. Other background materials also suggest that Soldier has had to treat his own injuries before, by virtue of stuffing fourteen feet of his intestines back into himself and presumably holding the wound closed until something worked out.