Basic Trope: Something nasty and painful happens to a character's fingers.
- Straight: Bob is tortured by having his fingers crushed with a hammer.
- Exaggerated: Bob's fingers are broken, have their nails ripped off, skinned, and finally cut off.
- Downplayed:
- Bob's pinky finger is bent backwards.
- Bob gets a cut on his finger.
- Justified:
- Someone wants to ruin Bob's dexterity.
- Someone wants to cause Bob pain without the risk of killing him.
- Bob is performing Yubitsume.
- Inverted: Bob manages to get damage to every part of his body apart from his hands.
- Subverted: A hammer swing down towards Bob's hand, and slams into his palm.
- Double Subverted: The palm injury leads to complications and Bob has to amputate his finger anyway.
- Parodied: Bob's damaged finger is his middle one and now he's constantly Flipping the Bird.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob's fingers remain intact.
- Enforced: "We need a gory injury that will really make the audience flinch. Let's crush Bob's fingers with a hammer."
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Our goal is to force him to write out a confession, he can't do that with broken fingers".
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played For Laughs: During a slapstick scene you can hear Bob going "oww my pinky!" after a cavalcade of other injuries.
- Played For Drama: Bob's occupation required dexterity, an injury to his finger ruins his career.
- Played For Horror: Bob is clinging to a ledge when someone steps on his fingers till he lets go and falls to his death.
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