Basic Trope: A character has little or no reaction to pain.
- Straight: Bob gets shot multiple times, but acts like nothing is wrong.
- Exaggerated: Bob doesn't even realize he is getting shot.
- Downplayed: Bob feels pain, but he doesn't let it bother him.
- Justified:
- Bob has a genetic condition that prevents him from feeling pain.
- One of the bullets ruined one of the pain-nerve clusters in Bob's neck, any pain below that won't be reaching his brain.
- Inverted:
- Bob is abnormally sensitive to pain. Getting so much as a paper cut is a torturous experience to him.
- Bob is incapable of feeling anything but pain.
- Subverted: Bob doesn't show that he's in pain, but it's because he just has a high pain threshold.
- Double Subverted: Bob also has fragile pain transmitting nerves which cut out beyond a certain level. Any pain he couldn't get used to is blocked.
- Parodied:Alice: You just got shot. Doesn't it hurt at all?Bob: Oh yeah. Thanks for letting me know. AAAAAAAAARGH!
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob feels pain whenever he gets injured.
- Enforced: Bob's actor is woefully incapable of convincingly acting out pain, so they don't even try.
- Lampshaded: "Y'know, shouldn't you be passing out by now?"
- Invoked: Bob takes painkillers.
- Exploited: To test Bob's ability to feel pain, he gets electrocuted with maximum voltage shock therapy, knowing it won't hurt him in the slightest.
- Defied: "This one will hurt very bad, and you will feel the pain!"
- Discussed: "Imagine if Bob couldn't feel any pain at all. He would just keep fighting and fighting until he died."
- Conversed: "It's a good thing Bob can't feel any pain. Otherwise he'd be down in one hit, and then the story would be over."
- Deconstructed:
- Bob can't feel any injuries; this also includes crippling injuries, like a sliced Achilles' tendon.
- Bob can't feel anything, including emotions, which slowly drives him insane.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob's opponent assumes Bob is defeated due to his critical injuries. However, Bob's inability to feel pain gives him enough strength to pull a Taking You with Me on his opponent once their guard is down.
- Bob is actually The Stoic, meaning he never needed emotions or the ability to feel pain in the first place.
