Basic Trope: The human body is damaged much more easily than it would be in real life.
- Straight: Bob lightly slashes his sword at Charlie's neck, and Charlie's head comes clean off.
- Exaggerated: Bob slaps Charlie across the face, and Charlie immediately explodes.
- Downplayed: Charlie gets what looks like a papercut when Bob punches him in the face.
- Justified:
- Charlie is a zombie, and his rotten flesh has trouble holding itself together under any kind of force.
- Charlie is actually a golem made of paper.
- Charlie's body has been weakened by disease or malnutrition.
- Charlie is being torn apart with inhuman strength.
- Inverted: Bob swings his sword with all his might at Charlie, but all Charlie gets is a small cut.
- Subverted:
- Charlie trips and falls onto a large twig and it looks like it's gone right through his body, until we see that though it went through his jacket, it passed around his actual flesh.
- Bob attacks Charlie with his sword, hoping to slice him in half. It doesn't work.
- Double Subverted:
- ...Then Bob runs up to help, trips, and the twig really does impale him all the way.
- ...at first. Turns out, it was a case of Delayed Causality.
- Parodied:
- Charlie tries to do something utterly mundane, like taking a walk to the park, and ends up ripped into bloody bits by equally mundane events, such as brushing against an untrimmed bush alongside the path.
- Charlie is a combat droid that, due to a manufacturing error, really is made of plasticine.
- Charlie used to be a blue plasticine figurine, but he was turned into a fragile Humanoid Abomination via magic.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes a light sword chop will cause instant dismemberment, sometimes it won't. It switches back and forth from episode to episode.
- Averted: People neither fall apart instantly when hit, nor seem to be impervious to all damage. They get hurt in realistic amounts.
- Enforced:
- "We really, really want to show some violence, but none of the characters and weapons are strong enough to do damage like that!" "Let's just go with it."
- "We need to exaggerate the direct effects to minimize the risk of the kids watching (who most likely wont understand the, even more gruesome, indirect effects) trying to copy the actions we're warning against."
- Lampshaded: "That decapitation was actually really easy. Weird."
- Invoked: Someone forces a poisonous substance down Charlie's throat that makes his body brittle.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Charlie takes vitamins to boost his strength.
- Discussed: "I hardly hit these people and they fall apart! The human body's supposed to be a lot stronger than that, it's really weird."
- Discussed Subversion: "Dang. Movies make chopping heads look so easy."
- Conversed: "Even though you won't fall apart like people in some movies, Charlie, you should still stay away from pointy objects."
- Implied: Bob threatens Charlie by poking him with a spoon until he dies. Having done the deed offscreen, Bob checks his watch and sees that only two minutes have passed.
- Deconstructed: Charlie becomes paranoid because of his vulnerability to damage and ends up too scared to even leave his own bedroom.
- Reconstructed: Charlie makes sure to wear heavy armor all the time because he knows how easily he'll fall apart if hit.
- Played For Horror: The sheer ease by which human bodies can be torn apart causes characters to suffer frequent and horrifying deaths at the hands of the monsters.
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