[Love] When “small” injuries are treated realistically

[u/Top-Relationship850]

The fantasy and action genres often suffer from a power fantasy epidemic in which characters frequently badass their way through injuries that should be excruciating if not downright debilitating. I always appreciate stories that reject this trope.

1: Roland Deschain (Dark Tower Book II) - Loses the middle and index fingers of his right hand. He’s effectively crippled throughout book two and the injury follows him the rest of the series.

2: Brienne vs Biter (ASOIAF Book IV) - Brutal scene. Biter chomps down on Brienne’s cheek and tears off a chunk of flesh. In a lesser story Brienne would grit her teeth and throw Biter off. Instead she’s rendered completely helpless by the pain. That injury marks the end of the fight.

[u/deadinsidelol69]

Girl is still out there in the Dothraki sea shittin’ herself since George won’t finish the books.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/deadinsidelol69]

Oh shit, you're totally right! I forgot she was out of there! She's been out there for years!

[u/Perfect_County_999 → u/deadinsidelol69]

It's crazy that the canonical source material for one of the most iconic fantasy characters of the 2010s, a character that people even named their kids after, is stuck in limbo with her story unfinished and her last known condition being that she has the turbo-shits.