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A Sub-Trope of Made of Iron, perhaps its most common usage. Whether in a Tap on the Head situation, Use Your Head, or any other, getting hit on the head has no lasting effects whatsoever. If you clobber The Hero, the villain, or assorted small fry, they may be very, very dizzy or even out for a while but they will never suffer worse than a headache once they wake up — unless Easy Amnesia is needed. All right, you can also have Circling Birdies if you want. But nothing else. In short, fictional head injuries are no worse than inconvenient, so have as many as you want. This is in no way Truth in Television. A blow to the head is probably the worst way to render someone unconscious, especially if you're trying to do it "gently". Injuries from even relatively light blows can be serious, permanent, or even fatal. Whether or not you'll actually knock the person out is something of a crapshoot as well. As a rule of thumb, anyone who's involuntarily unconscious for more than a few seconds has a concussion and needs immediate medical attention to ensure they don't have an epidural haematoma or some other time-bomb of a brain injury. In short: If you hit them in the head hard enough to knock them out, they stand a good chance of dying very quickly. A person who appears fine often subverts the trope by abruptly falling down dead. Sometimes hand-waving by having the characters treat it as potentially serious and even lethal, but a statistically improbable number of characters turn out to be lucky and suffer no serious damage. A common source is the Cranial Plate Ability. See How Many Fingers?. Can sometimes be justified in cases of alien biology, superpowers, or artificial enhancement. Not to be confused with Hollow-Sounding Head, Use Your Head, or Bald Head of Toughness. Super-Trope to 'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain, for cases of the head injury in question being a shot to the head. See also Can-Crushing Cranium, when the trope actually works. |
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Happy Days: In the episode where the restaurant burns down due to Chachi being, well, Chachi, Fonzie and the gang are trapped in the bathroom, and the Fonz gets the bright idea to open up a pathway by putting on his motorcycle helmet and bashing a hole in the wall. After crashing through the wall, he pulls his head out, and one of his friends asks what the wall was made out of because it broke so easily. The Fonz calmly replies "Concrete" and falls unconscious. Other than knocking himself out, he suffered no injuries from headbutting through a concrete wall. | |
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Played straight in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, where Batman, being against killing, gets rid of the thugs by combat, which consists of many kinds of strikes, some to the head, and takedowns, which include bone breaking and hitting heads against the floor, letting the enemies lie "unconscious" but totally still on the floor, just breathing and with a blood pressure half the normal. Also, if Batman had decent medical skills, he would surely be aware of the fatal effects of hits to the head. | |
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Eric from The Lost Vikings smashes through the walls with his head on a regular basis. | |
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Hawkeye: Hawkeye: Blind Spot plays this trope somewhat realistically (at least at first). Hawkeye is dealt a head injury during a battle with Ronin, and the resulting brain damage is severe enough that he slowly starts going blind. Of course, since Status Quo Is God, the hero is cured by the end of the story. | |
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The Spirit: Notoriously, the Spirit. | |
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Jagged Alliance 2: Attacks to the head may cause reduction in the wisdom attribute. Also, death. | |
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Parodied in The Gamers. The characters try to knock their friend unconscious, so his "paralysing fear of water" won't get in the way as they cross a shallow river. They try a few times, in vain, with him losing health points every time, till eventually, one character lands in such a strong hit, that he is "very unconscious". But unfortunately, as the player counts the hit points his character lost, it also turns out he is dead. The blow killed him. | |
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Chuck: Although less extreme than many examples, Casey seems to have a very hard head. He's fond of headbutts, and in one fight scene, his opponent punched him in the forehead and clutched at his hand in pain, while Casey ignored it completely. | |
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Dexter: Dexter headbutts Doakes in the face and walks away apparently unaffected by the impact. The only effect on Doakes is to infuriate him into attacking Dexter — in front of everyone else. Then again, Dexter probably didn't ram Doakes very hard, as the point of the attack was to provoke and not to injure Doakes. | |
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The Simpsons: Brought up in "The Homer They Fall" when it's found that Homer has a thick layer of fluid between his skull and brain that gives him enormous resistance to cranial damage, known as 'Homer Simpson Syndrome'. Homer: "Oh, why me?!" | |
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In Dominic Deegan: "I break things with my face." This is basically the sum of Rachel's gimmick. It's not a one-way street, though - things that hit her face of their own free will also break. Like the hand of the guy who tried punching her. | |
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Bobo Brazil was nicknamed "King of the Coco-Butts" for this very reason. The Coco-Butt was his Finishing Move. | |
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Practically a defining trait. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Tom and Jerry — etc. | |
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In Back to the Future, Marty McFly gets KOed when he gets hit by a car belonging to his mom's family, whacking his head on the pavement in the process. There don't appear to be any direct long-term consequences unless you count the risk of Critical Existence Failure from his mom falling for him. | |
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The Beano: It's a Running Gag that Smiffy of The Bash Street Kids is so thick that his head is indestructible. | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, Fighter is a master of the ram technique of Zodiac Kenshido, which consists of breaking your opponent's equipment with your head before he breaks your head with his equipment. He also gets stabbed a lot, and once broke through the Armoire of Invincibility with his head (cheap particle board base notwithstanding). In some cases, getting hit/stabbed/shot in the head has made Fighter smarter. | |
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In Endstone, Cole seems unfazed by a serious blow to the head, and Herrik comments on it. | |
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Rocky Balboa from the eponymous franchise has an incredible chin, which shapes his fighting style of him keep his hands ready to punch instead of up to block. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1 & Sensation Comics: Back in the Golden Age comics there was at least one Tap on the Head doled out per story, often to the entirely human Steve Trevor, without any damage or effect beyond harmlessly knocking out the victim for a bit. At one point Diana herself knocked out Steve this way to keep him out of harm's way. | |
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In Everyday Heroes, Jane first met Mr. Mighty when she was working as a villain. She tried to ambush him with a kick to the head, resulting in a broken ankle for her (and some very unladylike language). | |
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Scrubs: Dr. Kelso apparently has a "head like a mountain goat", as evidenced by an occasion where the Janitor hit him over the head with his mop and it "only made him mad". | |
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Muko from Furry Fight Chronicles takes a lot of beatings, which are mainly focused on her head. She's still able to be in good shape despite the damage. Later subverted when Muko experiences headaches from many blows to the head in a short time span. | |
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Bob Sapp had a legitimately hard head but unlike most examples, getting hit there tended to demoralize him even though it didn't hurt very much because he was a large man used to towering over opponents and thus not used to it. | |
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In Kill la Kill AU, Ragyo is apparently tolerant to head injuries and, according to her, this comes from her being a party girl in the past. | |
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Supernatural: One or both of the Winchesters get knocked out in almost every episode. They do not appear to have serious brain damage. Even when Dean mentioned that he thought he had a concussion in one episode, he didn't seek medical treatment, and he appeared to be fine in the next episode. | |
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Violence Fight has Ron Max, whose character profile says that his head is hard enough to break rocks. | |
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Garfield: Jon's brother Doc Boy once got kicked in the head by a cow. The cow was the one who needed medical attention after that. | |
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Forever Knight: When the vampire protagonist-turned-cop is shot in the head he naturally regenerates, and his friends have to scramble to cover things up. LaCroix steals the X-Ray and hypnotises the doctor into saying that the bullet merely glanced off the protagonist's "exceptionally thick" skull. | |
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Possibly played straight in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. A quest in Vasj'ir has the player relive a naga's memories of fighting kvaldir. The memory starts off with a naga remarking that "The skulls of these kvaldir are hard as rock!" since the player-controlled naga had apparently just broken her trident over a kvaldir's head. Since this event is off-camera whether or not the kvaldir survived the blow to the head isn't known, but naga throughout the memories only kill kvaldir with torso-targeted attacks. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Averted Trope. Kimberly, while practicing after being exhausted by a battle, falls off the balance beam and hits her head. She suffers a concussion and has to be put in the hospital. Played straight two decades later back in Japan's Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, where the local Grey Ranger is themed around a Pachycephalosaurus, and consequently displays this trope even when not suited up. |
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In The Transformers episode "Call of the Primitives", Autobots and Decepticons are united against a common foe. During the battle, the massive Trypticon lands on Grimlock and he is presumed dead. Much later, after the battlefield was abandoned, Grimlock, still alive, manages to blast his way out from under him. Upon freeing himself, he quips, "Good thing me Grimlock have hard head. Otherwise would now be Dino-splatter!" | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja plays with this one. In most instances, a character who takes a wallop to the head (or a chop to the neck) comes out fine. However, the back of Doc's head was once rudely introduced to a piece of wood (pirates and alcohol were involved) resulting in a concussion and a hallucinatory conversation with a roast turkey. (He got better.) In "Why a Gorilla", the trope is parodied by having Doc "wake up" while being pounded into the ground repeatedly by an angry gorilla; he had been unconscious for the better part of an hour but emerges from the experience completely fine. | |
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The Wild Wild West: James West and Artemus Gordon should have been prime candidates for brain damage after the season 1, and the subsequent 3. | |
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Flash Gordon: Thun. Dale, seeing him unconscious, asks after him, and Flash can not only assure her it was a minor head injury, but that he will regain consciousness in a few seconds. | |
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In DuckTales (1987) episode "A Whale of a Bad Time" Scrooge suggests Donald use his head to disable a submarine since Donald knows its controls better. Donald takes the advice too literally and starts beating the control panel with the side of his head. That works too. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, Durkon gets a lump on his head. His only reaction is to feign memory problems, to lack a spell to cast on Belkar. | |
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The Young Ones: Vyvyan who, in one episode, strikes oil by cracking the basement floor with his head, later helps dig it out by headbutting the hole (which leads to Neil accidentally putting a pickaxe through his head), and, from his first appearance, has metal studs on his forehead. | |
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Cry Blood, Apache: During the fight in the river, Billy gets slammed headfirst into a tree hard enough to snap the trunk. All that happens to him is that he is stunned for a while. | |
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Mora from Las Lindas. Bludgeoned in the back of the head with a shotgun? Bludgeoned so hard the shotgun breaks in two!? Feh. Just a minor annoyance. | |
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WWE's Vladimir Kozlov often uses his head as a battering ram to devastating effect on his opponent and no ill effect on him. | |
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In Turning Red, Mei falls flat on her face as a human onto concrete from about a metre up a couple times but appears to be completely uninjured. | |
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Wolverine's skull is nigh-invulnerable to anything, it helps that he has his healing factor to back it up. His skull is so hard that he can take a bullet at point-blank range and it will just bounce off. Of course, given his long-term memory problems, brain damage is a distinct possibility. This is definitely subverted in the World War Hulk storyline. A pissed-off Hulk is in no mood whatsoever for Wolverine's bullshit and curb-stomps Wolverine. He does this with both his superhuman strength and speed, hitting Wolverine in the head multiple times so hard and so fast that Wolverine's brain is still slamming against that Adamantium skull, his healing factor can't even begin to keep up, and he's left completely unconscious and out of action for quite some time. | |
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Hard Head / int_5b344855 | featureConfidence |
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Wolverine (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_5b344855 | |
Hard Head / int_5c897f4a | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_5c897f4a | comment |
Lieutenant Der Trihs in Schlock Mercenary has an artificial skull made of carbonan (a diamond-like carbon material). A doctor comments that in his case, this is like "keeping potato chips in a safe deposit box". | |
Hard Head / int_5c897f4a | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_5c897f4a | featureConfidence |
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Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_5c897f4a | |
Hard Head / int_5e5c195d | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_5e5c195d | comment |
Nate is knocked out by a blow to the head in The Back o' Beyond, and is up and running about soon after, albeit followed by some loss of balance and vomiting. As it later turns out, he does have a Healing Factor, though. | |
Hard Head / int_5e5c195d | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_5e5c195d | featureConfidence |
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The Back o' Beyond (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_5e5c195d | |
Hard Head / int_5e9a5107 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_5e9a5107 | comment |
Parasite: Ki-woo gets struck over the head with a large scholar's rock twice and suffers from massive blood loss and brain damage as a result. However, he survives this after several weeks in the hospital though appears to have recovered a lot faster than most people would've. | |
Hard Head / int_5e9a5107 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_5e9a5107 | featureConfidence |
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Parasite (2019) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_5e9a5107 | |
Hard Head / int_605a32c2 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_605a32c2 | comment |
Yosh!, where the first thing Phil does after knocking out a witch is check that he didn't kill her (she's alright). | |
Hard Head / int_605a32c2 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_605a32c2 | featureConfidence |
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Yosh! (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_605a32c2 | |
Hard Head / int_630a4ab9 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_630a4ab9 | comment |
Eddie Kingston, considered the biggest Badass in CHIKARA, tried headbutting Hallowicked in their Falls Count Anywhere match at CHIKARA Chapter 11, November 18, 2007, and King was the one who sold it. | |
Hard Head / int_630a4ab9 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_630a4ab9 | featureConfidence |
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Eddie Kingston (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_630a4ab9 | |
Hard Head / int_64593b84 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_64593b84 | comment |
In Ernest Rides Again, the eponymous Great Redneck Hope ends up shot in the head by a renegade nailgun while pretending to be Indiana Jones at a construction site. He removes his hat to reveal that all three nails bent on impact — "I'm glad it was the hard end!" — and later, when the villainous Dr. Glencliff tries to remove the Crown Jewels of England from his head by cutting the top half of his cranium off with a surgical saw, Ernest's head turns out to be hard enough to blunt it. | |
Hard Head / int_64593b84 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_64593b84 | featureConfidence |
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Ernest Rides Again | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_64593b84 | |
Hard Head / int_6a669f53 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_6a669f53 | comment |
In The Man Who Turned to Stone, Tracy smashes a glass jug over Eric's head to no effect, as his skin is turning to stone. | |
Hard Head / int_6a669f53 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_6a669f53 | featureConfidence |
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The Man Who Turned to Stone | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_6a669f53 | |
Hard Head / int_6b4450fe | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_6b4450fe | comment |
In the 1992 boxing film Gladiator (1992), Brian Dennehy claims that a punch to the top of the head will do more damage to the fist than the head in a bare-knuckle brawl. In his fight with the hero, he tilts his head forward before several punches so that the hero injures his hands on his skull. | |
Hard Head / int_6b4450fe | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_6b4450fe | featureConfidence |
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Gladiator (1992) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_6b4450fe | |
Hard Head / int_6c1234ed | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_6c1234ed | comment |
Subverted in Dwarf Fortress, where a headshot can K.O. a creature. Creatures with permanently injured brains also fall unconscious more frequently (and for less reason) than their healthy peers. | |
Hard Head / int_6c1234ed | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Hard Head / int_6c1234ed | featureConfidence |
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Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_6c1234ed | |
Hard Head / int_6c1d09b1 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_6c1d09b1 | comment |
In Fallout 2, scoring a critical hit with an aimed attack to the head may cause stunning, unconsciousness for several rounds, or death. If you're the recipient of the second and manage to wake up before your foes kill you off completely, you will have suffered no obvious loss from the trauma, other than hit points. There was also a perk that could be taken called Bonehead, which made you much more resistant to the effects of crits to your head. | |
Hard Head / int_6c1d09b1 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_6c1d09b1 | featureConfidence |
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Fallout (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_6c1d09b1 | |
Hard Head / int_6ccaea9f | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_6ccaea9f | comment |
In Randie and Ryan, the concussion is treated very realistically. That is, after a period where Randie appears to be fine after her fall, she, subverting this trope, starts to act and speak in a confused and incoherent manner. Fortunately, Spill is driving and very quickly changes route to the ER. A prolonged recovery ensues. | |
Hard Head / int_6ccaea9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_6ccaea9f | featureConfidence |
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Squid Row (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_6ccaea9f | |
Hard Head / int_6d5d0e13 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_6d5d0e13 | comment |
In Treasure Planet, Jim thinks Bones is babbling after a head injury, but he proves to be all too accurate. | |
Hard Head / int_6d5d0e13 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_6d5d0e13 | featureConfidence |
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Treasure Planet | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_6d5d0e13 | |
Hard Head / int_6e1b33e1 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_6e1b33e1 | comment |
It takes two solid blows from a blackjack to knock out protagonist Vito Cipriani in Revolver (1973). | |
Hard Head / int_6e1b33e1 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_6e1b33e1 | featureConfidence |
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Revolver (1973) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_6e1b33e1 | |
Hard Head / int_6e657b27 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_6e657b27 | comment |
Averted in the case of Chris Benoit. Benoit was known for his Diving Headbutt finisher, but using it so often throughout his career contributed to the massive number of concussions he suffered, resulting in brain damage and one of the factors in his ultimate fate. | |
Hard Head / int_6e657b27 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_6e657b27 | featureConfidence |
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Chris Benoit (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_6e657b27 | |
Hard Head / int_6f734712 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_6f734712 | comment |
Smallville: People get knocked unconscious Once per Episode. No exceptions. | |
Hard Head / int_6f734712 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_6f734712 | featureConfidence |
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Smallville | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_6f734712 | |
Hard Head / int_701bf5d6 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_701bf5d6 | comment |
In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Marv gets hit by several bricks dropped by Kevin from three stories above, which normally should've killed him (but then again, so should a lot of the other traps). | |
Hard Head / int_701bf5d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_701bf5d6 | featureConfidence |
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_701bf5d6 | |
Hard Head / int_70814599 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_70814599 | comment |
Stargate SG-1: Teal'c at one point "blocks" a punch by simply bowing his head and allowing the fist to hit him square in the emblem he has embedded in his forehead, which seems to break the attacker's hand. That emblem is made of solid gold. | |
Hard Head / int_70814599 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_70814599 | featureConfidence |
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Stargate SG-1 | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_70814599 | |
Hard Head / int_72262aee | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_72262aee | comment |
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Zuko has gotten more than a few neck or head impacts but was never shown to have any serious effects from them. In a demonstration of earthbending, Toph jumps head-first at a boulder being used for Aang's earthbending training, unaffected by the self-inflicted blow used to split the rock. |
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Hard Head / int_72262aee | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_72262aee | featureConfidence |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_72262aee | |
Hard Head / int_735a44a9 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_735a44a9 | comment |
Played straight two decades later back in Japan's Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, where the local Grey Ranger is themed around a Pachycephalosaurus, and consequently displays this trope even when not suited up. | |
Hard Head / int_735a44a9 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_735a44a9 | featureConfidence |
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Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_735a44a9 | |
Hard Head / int_739d3822 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_739d3822 | comment |
The Gentlemen: During the fight in the flat, Dave gets hit in the head with a ball-peen hammer and it doesn't do more than stagger him. | |
Hard Head / int_739d3822 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_739d3822 | featureConfidence |
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The Gentlemen | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_739d3822 | |
Hard Head / int_7445e9a9 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_7445e9a9 | comment |
In Lady in Cement, a cop slugs Gronski six or seven times over the back of the head with his pistol before he finally passes out. | |
Hard Head / int_7445e9a9 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_7445e9a9 | featureConfidence |
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Lady in Cement | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_7445e9a9 | |
Hard Head / int_7460586f | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_7460586f | comment |
Lampshaded in Archer: When the title character knocks out a colleague in order to take his place on a mission, he advises, "Try not to stay unconscious too long. It's like, super bad for you." Others later comment on how he could have serious head injuries and he agrees about that and already has a medical appointment to make sure there's no permanent damage. | |
Hard Head / int_7460586f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_7460586f | featureConfidence |
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Archer | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_7460586f | |
Hard Head / int_74f7210c | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_74f7210c | comment |
Link in the 3-D The Legend of Zelda games will often ram into walls with his head while performing an Unnecessary Combat Roll. He is never harmed in any way by this, despite taking damage from falls and some other impacts. | |
Hard Head / int_74f7210c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_74f7210c | featureConfidence |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_74f7210c | |
Hard Head / int_755cbdcf | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_755cbdcf | comment |
Precocious: You must have a pretty hard head | |
Hard Head / int_755cbdcf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_755cbdcf | featureConfidence |
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Precocious / Web Comic | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_755cbdcf | |
Hard Head / int_791fca45 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_791fca45 | comment |
BioShock 2: Alpha Daddies are the only enemy in the game that use headbutts. It's more than just their hard helmets - they're so insane from the loss of their pair-bonded little sisters that they can't take head trauma brain damage. | |
Hard Head / int_791fca45 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_791fca45 | featureConfidence |
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BioShock 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_791fca45 | |
Hard Head / int_7a55e957 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_7a55e957 | comment |
In Blood Bowl, characters can have an ability called Thick Skull. Thick Skull means that your head is so hard that you have a 50% less chance of getting KO'ed. | |
Hard Head / int_7a55e957 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_7a55e957 | featureConfidence |
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Blood Bowl (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_7a55e957 | |
Hard Head / int_7a63f7 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_7a63f7 | comment |
Jake LaMotta (whom the movie Raging Bull is based on) had the reputation of being impossible to knock out. He was famous for simply "bull rushing" his opponent and withstanding any punches they hit him with, with little to no effect. Many accounts describe opponent who tired themselves out beating on Jake's head with little to show for it. Most famously, when Jake faced "Sugar" Ray Robinson (whom many boxing experts pick as the greatest fighter ever) for the sixth time, Robinson beat LaMotta so savagely in the later rounds that newspapers afterward dubbed the fight (which happened on Valentine's Day) "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre". The fight was stopped by the referee, but afterward LaMotta taunted Robinson about how in that fight, and all their other bouts, Robinson had never been able to knock LaMotta down. | |
Hard Head / int_7a63f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_7a63f7 | featureConfidence |
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Raging Bull | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_7a63f7 | |
Hard Head / int_7bdcc46e | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_7bdcc46e | comment |
Diego from Because I'm Depressed smashed his head against the bathroom counter and spent hours lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood before being discovered, and the only long-term damage he seems to have suffered is a scar over his right eye. | |
Hard Head / int_7bdcc46e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_7bdcc46e | featureConfidence |
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Because I'm Depressed (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_7bdcc46e | |
Hard Head / int_7dd72e8d | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_7dd72e8d | comment |
Seven Ways from Sundown: When Flood tries to escape, he punches Seven in the head and knocks him out, only for Seven to wake a minute or so later and clock Flood with a lump of wood. When Flood wakes up, he compliments Seven; saying the last man he hit like that was out for three hours. | |
Hard Head / int_7dd72e8d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_7dd72e8d | featureConfidence |
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Seven Ways from Sundown | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_7dd72e8d | |
Hard Head / int_7f574499 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_7f574499 | comment |
In Castle in the Sky, after Pazu jumps off a wall, crashes through a brick floor, and lands on the floor, he gives the page quote. He gets plenty of other blows to the head throughout the movie. In the original Japanese, he says something closer to: "My head is harder than my boss's fist." | |
Hard Head / int_7f574499 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_7f574499 | featureConfidence |
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Castle in the Sky | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_7f574499 | |
Hard Head / int_8501afb1 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_8501afb1 | comment |
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: Rude has a thick metal billboard and its supporting structure fall on his head while he's busy fighting Loz. The billboard AND the structure bend/split in half where they connect. He's only momentarily stunned. He also gets whacked upside the head by Reno's Nightstick — which did send him stumbling, but he recovers remarkably fast. |
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Hard Head / int_8501afb1 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_8501afb1 | featureConfidence |
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_8501afb1 | |
Hard Head / int_86c3beca | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_86c3beca | comment |
Girl Genius has a few. Played with when Oggie knocks Lars unconscious — the next scene starts with Lars awakening in a bed with Oggie assigned to watch over him to make sure he was OK. After confirming this, Oggie excitedly informs another character of it: "See? He's avake und talking und no more schtupid den he vos before!" Lampshaded when Agatha needs something to hammer her newest device into the ground, so it can knock out their enemies. Dimo has a prosthetic metal arm, so Agatha asks him if he can... She doesn't finish her sentence before he uses his head to hammer it into the rock. |
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Hard Head / int_86c3beca | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_86c3beca | featureConfidence |
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Girl Genius (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_86c3beca | |
Hard Head / int_88609c3d | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_88609c3d | comment |
In Shaolin Soccer, the eldest of the Shaolin monks is "Iron Head", who has a seemingly impervious cranium. His abusive boss repeatedly breaks bottles over his head to chastise his poor performance, with no effect. | |
Hard Head / int_88609c3d | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_88609c3d | featureConfidence |
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Shaolin Soccer | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_88609c3d | |
Hard Head / int_88652dbc | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_88652dbc | comment |
Balk from Mixels shows why you need Required Secondary Powers to have this ability. He's a hammerhead shark, so he headbutts and rams into Nixels...and has killed off most of his brain cells thanks to this. | |
Hard Head / int_88652dbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_88652dbc | featureConfidence |
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Mixels | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_88652dbc | |
Hard Head / int_8d817ccb | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_8d817ccb | comment |
Lost: Headbutting, Pistol-Whipping, and other Taps on the Head are (usually) of no consequence. For instance, in the season 5 finale, Jack is hit with a flying toolbox but gets up moments later. May be justified in that the island has healing powers and won't let people die if their destinies are not yet fulfilled. | |
Hard Head / int_8d817ccb | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_8d817ccb | featureConfidence |
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Lost | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_8d817ccb | |
Hard Head / int_8dd462a9 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_8dd462a9 | comment |
Batwoman: Kate Kane's training to become Batwoman involved her getting regularly beaten, to the point that she became effectively immune to concussions. | |
Hard Head / int_8dd462a9 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_8dd462a9 | featureConfidence |
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Batwoman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_8dd462a9 | |
Hard Head / int_8f4ee60f | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_8f4ee60f | comment |
The Back to the Future trilogy: In Back to the Future, Marty McFly gets KOed when he gets hit by a car belonging to his mom's family, whacking his head on the pavement in the process. There don't appear to be any direct long-term consequences unless you count the risk of Critical Existence Failure from his mom falling for him. In the second film, Biff's goons KOs him when he visits the clock-tower hotel and casino. Later, he is briefly KOed by a door when his earlier self opens it; however this is a just a temporary stun without loss of consciousness. And these are probably not all the examples. In one of the series' famous sets of parallel events, Marty is knocked out cold in each movie, followed each time by a scene of him recovering with Lorraine (in Part III it's Maggie) at his bedside. In Part III the concussion happens when his head hits a fencepost. Needless to say, Marty will need a CT scan when he gets back to 1985. |
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Hard Head / int_8f4ee60f | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_8f4ee60f | featureConfidence |
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Back to the Future (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_8f4ee60f | |
Hard Head / int_9049c40e | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_9049c40e | comment |
Conspiracy Theory: Mel Gibson goes around knocking people out with blows to the head. A few hours later they are just fine. | |
Hard Head / int_9049c40e | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_9049c40e | featureConfidence |
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Conspiracy Theory | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_9049c40e | |
Hard Head / int_909b004d | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_909b004d | comment |
The Transformers (IDW): The series gets a groan-inducing Pun out of this when Hardhead gets shot in the face. | |
Hard Head / int_909b004d | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_909b004d | featureConfidence |
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The Transformers (IDW) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_909b004d | |
Hard Head / int_920bdb7c | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_920bdb7c | comment |
Kill Six Billion Demons: The Rant once mentions a martial art school called Head of John (taken from the official spinoff RPG), which involves having three metal studs hammered into your skull, rendering your head (and only your head) invincible via magical acupuncture, as well as making your headbutts stone-pulverizingly powerful. Supposedly its oldest master was once decapitated but survived four weeks as a severed head and regained all bodily functions after being sewn to someone else’s headless corpse. Incubus is reportedly another master, and has the three studs to prove it, but it hasn’t come up in the story yet. | |
Hard Head / int_920bdb7c | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_920bdb7c | featureConfidence |
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Kill Six Billion Demons (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_920bdb7c | |
Hard Head / int_945f2d42 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_945f2d42 | comment |
Shelly of Wapsi Square turns out fine after taking a bowling ball to the head. However, the injury is treated as potentially serious, and she is taken to the hospital. The doctors find nothing unusual save for an abnormally thick skull. | |
Hard Head / int_945f2d42 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_945f2d42 | featureConfidence |
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Wapsi Square (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_945f2d42 | |
Hard Head / int_95521c97 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_95521c97 | comment |
While he unsurprisingly has yet to be knocked out by a blow to the head, Hammerhead from The Spectacular Spider-Man has used his to smash through brick walls without ill effects. | |
Hard Head / int_95521c97 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_95521c97 | featureConfidence |
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The Spectacular Spider-Man | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_95521c97 | |
Hard Head / int_9799ebfe | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_9799ebfe | comment |
In one of the series' famous sets of parallel events, Marty is knocked out cold in each movie, followed each time by a scene of him recovering with Lorraine (in Part III it's Maggie) at his bedside. In Part III the concussion happens when his head hits a fencepost. Needless to say, Marty will need a CT scan when he gets back to 1985. | |
Hard Head / int_9799ebfe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_9799ebfe | featureConfidence |
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Back to the Future Part III | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_9799ebfe | |
Hard Head / int_989298d3 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_989298d3 | comment |
The T29 Heavy Tank in World of Tanks is infamous for how heavily armored its turret is. It has so much frontal armor on the turret that when it's hull-down it's effectively immune to all but the most powerful guns, and even they won't be able to reliably damage it. | |
Hard Head / int_989298d3 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_989298d3 | featureConfidence |
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World of Tanks (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_989298d3 | |
Hard Head / int_99949d04 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_99949d04 | comment |
In Wakfu, a Hard Head seems to be one definite trait of Iops. Sadlygrove defeated Rubilax in his true form — a huge demon made of stone — by repeatedly head-butting him. Not that the other heroes are slouch either, and regularly receive some serious beating with barely a trace a few frames later. | |
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Hard Head / int_99949d04 | featureConfidence |
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Wakfu | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_99949d04 | |
Hard Head / int_9b29d6b8 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_9b29d6b8 | comment |
In Dragon Mango, we are assured that concussions will just wear off, which will leave the patients fine. | |
Hard Head / int_9b29d6b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_9b29d6b8 | featureConfidence |
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Dragon Mango (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_9b29d6b8 | |
Hard Head / int_9ceb5ee3 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_9ceb5ee3 | comment |
Valhalla: The Jotun Hymir has the thickest skull in Jotungard, both figuratively and very, very literally. A beer mug made from the skull of his grandfather is solid enough that it can serve as a bludgeoning weapon, and even Thor isn't able to break it because everything he tests it against breaks before the skull does. Until he gets the bright idea of testing the mug against Hymir's head, which sees the cup lose. Even then, having the mug chucked at his head at ballistic speed doesn't harm Hymir — he's just upset that his mug is broken. | |
Hard Head / int_9ceb5ee3 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_9ceb5ee3 | featureConfidence |
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Valhalla (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_9ceb5ee3 | |
Hard Head / int_9f89a5f0 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_9f89a5f0 | comment |
A Pokémon with the ability "Rock Head" will not take recoil damage from its own attacks. Quite useful, as attacks that cause recoil damage tend to be very powerful. | |
Hard Head / int_9f89a5f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_9f89a5f0 | featureConfidence |
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Pokémon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_9f89a5f0 | |
Hard Head / int_a04b0ca3 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_a04b0ca3 | comment |
Tintin, Tintin, Tintin. Barely a page went by without someone suffering a Tap on the Head, and they'd usually be back on their feet within five minutes, nursing the bump and watching the birdies circle. | |
Hard Head / int_a04b0ca3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_a04b0ca3 | featureConfidence |
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Tintin (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_a04b0ca3 | |
Hard Head / int_a0ae46f | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_a0ae46f | comment |
Toy Story 2 has Rex being used as an impromptu battering ram. Over his objections. An "outtake" shows them doing this, and failing. Justified in that Rex is a toy and can probably take the punishment just fine. | |
Hard Head / int_a0ae46f | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_a0ae46f | featureConfidence |
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Toy Story 2 | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_a0ae46f | |
Hard Head / int_a201a0af | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_a201a0af | comment |
Hi-Fi RUSH: Chai accidentally runs Korsica's head into two door frames while carrying her, and then a set of heavy closing doors hit her head again for good measure. She experiences no apparent brain damage from all this; about the only reaction she has to it is groaning in pain. | |
Hard Head / int_a201a0af | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_a201a0af | featureConfidence |
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Hi-Fi RUSH (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_a201a0af | |
Hard Head / int_a3667e99 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_a3667e99 | comment |
Handled somewhat more realistically in Paul Blart: Mall Cop, when Paul headbutts a Mook: | |
Hard Head / int_a3667e99 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_a3667e99 | featureConfidence |
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_a3667e99 | |
Hard Head / int_a7bb29ae | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_a7bb29ae | comment |
Mega Man X and Mega Man X8 justified this by giving X a reinforced helmet upgrade. | |
Hard Head / int_a7bb29ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_a7bb29ae | featureConfidence |
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Mega Man X (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_a7bb29ae | |
Hard Head / int_aa8a643c | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_aa8a643c | comment |
Bryan Danielson uses both the flying headbutt and the Junk Yard Dog ram. He's seemingly passed this trait onto one of his proteges, Sara Del Rey, who has survived headbutting contests with Manami Toyota. | |
Hard Head / int_aa8a643c | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_aa8a643c | featureConfidence |
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Bryan Danielson (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_aa8a643c | |
Hard Head / int_ab863e74 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_ab863e74 | comment |
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: Legolas slams Bolg's face into a wooden beam in Lake-Town repeatedly until it cracks, but Bolg himself shows no signs of injuries. Even more perplexingly, Bolg appears to have had his head injured at some point before the film, judging by the metal straps holding it together. | |
Hard Head / int_ab863e74 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_ab863e74 | featureConfidence |
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_ab863e74 | |
Hard Head / int_b4996199 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_b4996199 | comment |
Spider-Man: Hammerhead has an Adamantium plate embedded in his head. That's not the entirety of his shtick — he's a mobster movie fanboy, who dresses and acts like Al Capone and often uses a tommy gun. | |
Hard Head / int_b4996199 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_b4996199 | featureConfidence |
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Spider-Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_b4996199 | |
Hard Head / int_b632d739 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_b632d739 | comment |
Christina Von Eerie is both kinds of hardheaded, as she will continue to headbutt opponents even if their heads are hard enough to hurt hers too, such as Santana Garrett's. | |
Hard Head / int_b632d739 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_b632d739 | featureConfidence |
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Christina Von Eerie (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_b632d739 | |
Hard Head / int_b712435c | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_b712435c | comment |
Averted in the Leverage episode "The Blue Line Job". The team has to protect a hockey enforcer who already has serious brain damage from the fights his manager gets him into, and throughout the episode, Eliot has a lot of work cut out for him in keeping anything from hitting his head. He doesn't even fight back when the guy attacks him. | |
Hard Head / int_b712435c | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_b712435c | featureConfidence |
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Leverage | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_b712435c | |
Hard Head / int_bcadd7cb | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_bcadd7cb | comment |
Warhammer 40,000: Orks have surgeons capable of replacing parts of of their patient's skull with adamantium (and in one case this caused the patient to receive visions from the ork gods), and some people have been known to joke that an ork just needs to land on his head to survive a fall. | |
Hard Head / int_bcadd7cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_bcadd7cb | featureConfidence |
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Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_bcadd7cb | |
Hard Head / int_bd3f6ba4 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_bd3f6ba4 | comment |
In the Gensokyo 20XX Series, it was mentioned that Ran had this as a child and presumably still does, though, it is noted to be kind of a deconstruction in that a rock hard skull may protect from long-term brain injuries but not from pain or, for that matter, concussions, seeing as she had gotten three of them in her childhood. | |
Hard Head / int_bd3f6ba4 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_bd3f6ba4 | featureConfidence |
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Gensokyo 20XX / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_bd3f6ba4 | |
Hard Head / int_bd9ff8c8 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_bd9ff8c8 | comment |
Bad News Brown often simply got angry when his head was slammed into a turnbuckle. | |
Hard Head / int_bd9ff8c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_bd9ff8c8 | featureConfidence |
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Allen Coage (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_bd9ff8c8 | |
Hard Head / int_c6f7e804 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_c6f7e804 | comment |
Blake's 7: Avon was knocked out an impressive number of times through the series, apparently without damaging his IQ, although he did suffer from increasingly severe Sanity Slippage during the final season. | |
Hard Head / int_c6f7e804 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_c6f7e804 | featureConfidence |
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Blake's 7 | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_c6f7e804 | |
Hard Head / int_c8f642ca | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_c8f642ca | comment |
El Goonish Shive: Elliot is whacked when found by a guard in the 'Sister' arc. Wrong Genre Savvy, perhaps? When he comes to, he's worried about concussions, brain damage, etc. Tedd brushes him off and gets on with some exposition. | |
Hard Head / int_c8f642ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_c8f642ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
El Goonish Shive (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_c8f642ca | |
Hard Head / int_ca47629 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_ca47629 | comment |
Fritz in Brain Dead 13. During the confrontation on the stairs, Lance uses a big, strong iron hammer to whack Fritz on the head, which only makes him suffer a minor concussion until he gets up and chases him again. This is even lampshaded by Frankomatic. | |
Hard Head / int_ca47629 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_ca47629 | featureConfidence |
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Brain Dead 13 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_ca47629 | |
Hard Head / int_cb6abef3 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_cb6abef3 | comment |
In The Avengers, Hawkeye gets his head smashed into a metal railing and is then knocked out with a punch to the face. Despite the fact that Black Widow mentions that she hit him hard enough to reset his brain and undo Loki's brainwashing, he is somehow still able to rush into battle and effectively take down multiple targets with a bow and arrow. | |
Hard Head / int_cb6abef3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_cb6abef3 | featureConfidence |
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The Avengers (2012) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_cb6abef3 | |
Hard Head / int_cba3559b | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_cba3559b | comment |
Subverted in Survival of the Fittest in the case of Sean O'Cann. Upon his introduction to the game, Sean is already suffering from a head wound as a result of landing on something hard after being thrown onto the island. After this wound is bandaged, it's seemingly forgotten, up until a couple of days later, when Sean really starts to suffer, his vision blurring frequently and he himself collapsing on more than one occasion. Averted in the v4 Pregame when Christopher Carlson gets the crap beaten out of him by Monty Pondsworth at lunch; he's stated to have spent a good week with a headache and spent the rest of the day having trouble walking. | |
Hard Head / int_cba3559b | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_cba3559b | featureConfidence |
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Survival of the Fittest (Roleplay) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_cba3559b | |
Hard Head / int_cf69b21e | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_cf69b21e | comment |
Subverted humorously in Beast Wars, where Blackarachnia falls unconscious shortly after knocking out Silverbolt with a headbutt and feeling rather stupid about trying it in the first place. Even though this is the one series where you might get away with ignoring the KO considering that they're Mechanical Lifeforms. | |
Hard Head / int_cf69b21e | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Hard Head / int_cf69b21e | featureConfidence |
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Beast Wars | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_cf69b21e | |
Hard Head / int_cfb3439a | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_cfb3439a | comment |
The first recruitable units in Brütal Legend were once enslaved miners, forced to break rocks with their heads instead of proper tools. Freed from the mine, they now use their heads for ramming attacks in battle. (It's a setting that runs on The Power of Rock, so they're referred to as "headbangers.") It's made clear that they aren't the brightest bulbs on the stage, though they do occasionally pull of surprising feats of intelligence, like constructing the Skullsplitter. | |
Hard Head / int_cfb3439a | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_cfb3439a | featureConfidence |
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Brütal Legend (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_cfb3439a | |
Hard Head / int_d472a34b | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_d472a34b | comment |
In The War Wagon, Levi Walking Bear gets a bottle smashed over his head during the Bar Brawl and takes it without blinking. | |
Hard Head / int_d472a34b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_d472a34b | featureConfidence |
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The War Wagon | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_d472a34b | |
Hard Head / int_d4caf593 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_d4caf593 | comment |
Bully: Jimmy Hopkins can take a bat to the head, yet he can't stay up past 2 AM. | |
Hard Head / int_d4caf593 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_d4caf593 | featureConfidence |
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Bully (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_d4caf593 | |
Hard Head / int_d4d8ce5f | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_d4d8ce5f | comment |
Blows to the head in Deadlands added two dice to the weapon's damage. Since having more dice increased the shooter's chances of getting 'exploding' dice, this meant that headshots could do far more damage than initially advertised. A headshot was how an inexperienced saloon gal once got nearly 80 damage with a derringer, a weapon that only does 2d4 damage. For reference, a human only needs 30 damage to kill them (if shot in the torso or head) or have that limb completely destroyed (anywhere else). | |
Hard Head / int_d4d8ce5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_d4d8ce5f | featureConfidence |
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Deadlands (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_d4d8ce5f | |
Hard Head / int_d4f9ccf | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_d4f9ccf | comment |
In Aladdin, it's implied that the titular protagonist landed on his head when he, Abu and the magic carpet became trapped in the Cave of Wonders, he actually remarks "I must have hit my head harder than I thought!" when the genie demonstrates what he's capable of. Later, Aladdin is knocked unconscious by the palace guards after they capture him on Jafar's orders. The shock of landing in the ocean brings him round just in time for him to realise he's about to drown. | |
Hard Head / int_d4f9ccf | featureApplicability |
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Aladdin | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_d4f9ccf | |
Hard Head / int_d57d722e | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_d57d722e | comment |
In Ōkami, Amaterasu can hit boulders, vases, and jars with her head. A late-game ability learned in Kamui allows her to gradually strengthen her head as she keeps hitting objects. | |
Hard Head / int_d57d722e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_d57d722e | featureConfidence |
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Ōkami (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_d57d722e | |
Hard Head / int_d98c0a73 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_d98c0a73 | comment |
Teen Wolf: All of the characters have been bashed in the head one time or another with no repercussions. Justified case as most of them are supernatural creatures with healing powers, particularly all the werewolves. However, there's no excuse for Stiles, the Token Human of the pack, who gets knocked out multiple times thanks to being the Non-Action Guy but shakes it off within minutes. | |
Hard Head / int_d98c0a73 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_d98c0a73 | featureConfidence |
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Teen Wolf | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_d98c0a73 | |
Hard Head / int_de9a7807 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_de9a7807 | comment |
Flashpoint: In one episode, Sam is caught in a bomb blast and knocked out for about fifteen minutes. When he comes to he's completely fine. Notably out of place in a series that treats injuries more or less realistically. | |
Hard Head / int_de9a7807 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_de9a7807 | featureConfidence |
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Flashpoint | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_de9a7807 | |
Hard Head / int_e293455a | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_e293455a | comment |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles has been KO'd by blows to the head many, many times. He never suffers any ill effects after regaining consciousness. He actually lampshades it in the game by suggesting he had built up a tolerance for cranial trauma. Lampshaded by Cordelia in the episode "Gingerbread": |
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Hard Head / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_e293455a | featureConfidence |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_e293455a | |
Hard Head / int_e5c5bc22 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_e5c5bc22 | comment |
Averted in GURPS. Blows to the head do quadruple damage, have a good chance of causing unconsciousness and the "critical head blow" table is pretty nasty. That said, there aren't any lasting effects (such as brain damage) unless optional rules in the Martial Arts supplement are in play. |
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Hard Head / int_e5c5bc22 | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_e5c5bc22 | featureConfidence |
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GURPS (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_e5c5bc22 | |
Hard Head / int_e5c6748d | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_e5c6748d | comment |
The Three Stooges used this a lot. Curly in particular dulled and blunted axes, saws, and chisels galore. In one short, he headbutted a charging bull - and the bull was instantly knocked unconscious. | |
Hard Head / int_e5c6748d | featureApplicability |
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Hard Head / int_e5c6748d | featureConfidence |
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The Three Stooges | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_e5c6748d | |
Hard Head / int_e6685dd8 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_e6685dd8 | comment |
Reign has the advantage Thick Headed, which grants an extra wound box at the head location. The head location normally has the fewest wound boxes, and filling it up with damage will take you out. Even so, shock (nonlethal) damage to the head still goes away just as quickly and cleanly as it does to any other body part, so Reign characters can still get knocked out without any long-term effects. Even killing (lethal) damage to the head doesn't actually impede you until all your wound boxes are filled there. | |
Hard Head / int_e6685dd8 | featureApplicability |
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Reign (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_e6685dd8 | |
Hard Head / int_e8595ff9 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_e8595ff9 | comment |
In Tangled Flynn takes a frying pan to the head more than once without any side effects. | |
Hard Head / int_e8595ff9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_e8595ff9 | featureConfidence |
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Tangled | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_e8595ff9 | |
Hard Head / int_ea4f62db | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_ea4f62db | comment |
In the Family Guy episode "Big Man on Hippocampus", Peter gets amnesia from a blow to the head. This amnesia is cured when the Giant Chicken clobbers him in the head with a rake. It's then immediately reinstated when Peter insults the Giant Chicken and the latter beans the former with a length of pipe. This is repeated multiple times. Peter suffers no ill effects, except for amnesia from every other bonk, which is reversed upon the very next bonk (fortunately, the Giant Chicken had an odd number of objects to strike Peter with). | |
Hard Head / int_ea4f62db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_ea4f62db | featureConfidence |
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Family Guy | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_ea4f62db | |
Hard Head / int_eab90aec | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_eab90aec | comment |
Yakuza: Exaggerated by Kiryu, who has proven resilient to head-hits to the point where he can just No-Sell having a bottle smashed over his head and block a punch by headbutting his assailant's fist. | |
Hard Head / int_eab90aec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_eab90aec | featureConfidence |
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Yakuza (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_eab90aec | |
Hard Head / int_ec00290d | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_ec00290d | comment |
The Killing: During the brawl, he stages to distract the guards, Maurice gets a beer bottle smashed over his head, and pays it no attention at all. | |
Hard Head / int_ec00290d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_ec00290d | featureConfidence |
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The Killing | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_ec00290d | |
Hard Head / int_ec2a1c9e | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_ec2a1c9e | comment |
9: Even after 9 smacks him in the face with a monkey wrench (by accident), 2 only needs to be helped back onto his feet and walks around, with seemingly no ill effects from the blow, despite the fact he's one of the older stitchpunks. His headgear might have absorbed a lot of the blow. That and for all we know, there isn't anything in his head that would be damaged by it. | |
Hard Head / int_ec2a1c9e | featureApplicability |
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9 | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_ec2a1c9e | |
Hard Head / int_ecd2d797 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_ecd2d797 | comment |
Averted by Baldur's Gate. Minsc took a blow to the head in the defense of his witch Dynaheir, and ended up a little off as a result. Permanently. | |
Hard Head / int_ecd2d797 | featureApplicability |
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Baldur's Gate (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_ecd2d797 | |
Hard Head / int_f0841a69 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_f0841a69 | comment |
"Primeval": Connor gets an unfortunate amount of concussions, especially in season 3. Half of the time, these knock him unconscious, but as soon as he wakes up he's got nothing more than a headache. | |
Hard Head / int_f0841a69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Primeval | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_f0841a69 | |
Hard Head / int_f3e1f424 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_f3e1f424 | comment |
Merlin: Prince Arthur. Repeatedly. Like, every time Merlin has to do a spell in front of him, he's conveniently knocked out. Morgana as well. | |
Hard Head / int_f3e1f424 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_f3e1f424 | featureConfidence |
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Merlin (2008) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_f3e1f424 | |
Hard Head / int_f724b70d | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_f724b70d | comment |
In Code Lyoko, the kids get smashed in the head all the time, but it doesn't seem to have much effect on their fighting. The frequent Returns to the Past certainly help staving off any long-lasting effects. | |
Hard Head / int_f724b70d | featureApplicability |
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Code Lyoko | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_f724b70d | |
Hard Head / int_f9103f08 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_f9103f08 | comment |
The Bushwhackers had heads so hard, their Battering Ram finishing move involved one grabbing the head of the other and running it into their opponent. | |
Hard Head / int_f9103f08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Bushwhackers (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_f9103f08 | |
Hard Head / int_fa68c844 | type |
Hard Head | |
Hard Head / int_fa68c844 | comment |
Uncle Buck. John Candy's character survives a bowling ball falling from a tall closet shelf onto his skull. | |
Hard Head / int_fa68c844 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hard Head / int_fa68c844 | featureConfidence |
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Uncle Buck | hasFeature |
Hard Head / int_fa68c844 | |
Hard Head / int_fcd2ef99 | type |
Hard Head | |
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Arianna in Castoff gets hit on the head a lot, often times with blood. She just shrugs it off like it's nothing. | |
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Revolution: Charlie must have a bionic skull. In Episode 9, not only does she survive getting shot in said noggin - a grazing wound only, but she then hits her head on concrete steps hard enough to cause bleeding and a near-death experience, yet she eventually wakes up and shrugs it off, even though in real life (as has been proven in the sad case of actress Natasha Richardson and many other cases) a head wound of that nature has the potential to be fatal. | |
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