OH GOD NOT THE EYES (And other physical injuries that make you cringe)

[Soviet Heavy]

I like to think that I have a very strong stomach. I can handle watching zombies tear a man limb from limb, or seeing the horrific things a sword can do to a body. But the one thing that always makes me recoil is eye damage. There's just something about fucking with a person's eyeballs that freaks me the hell out.

The worst part is when it comes and you're not expecting it. Case in point: Farscape. Not afraid to shy away from blood at times, and it can get really freaky quite often, but I was not prepared for the scene in "A Clockwork Nebari" that straight up homaged the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange.

Spoiler: If you don't want to watch a man get his eyeballs removed and surgically altered by a torture device, do not open this

I mean, JESUS. The show whiplashed from a goofy scene with an emotional D'argo to Crichton getting his eyes yanked out.

Anything weaknesses to physical injuries you guys have, lay 'em on me, but I don't think anything will affect me the way eyeball attacks do.

 

[Lynx]

Well, there's the scene in the manga book Uzumaki where a woman rams a pair of scissors into her ear. That really gives you the chills...

Also, broken teeth.

 

[Thaluikhain]

http://abstrusegoose.com/45

First thing to come to mind. Not quite as bad, though.

...

Oh, wait, chimpanzee attacks, where they gouge out your eyes, then they eat your nose, lips, fingers and genitals. Not even all at once, they take their time doing it.

(May or may not have spent time planning for chimp attacks)

 

[Guffe]

As a dude...
Hit in the balls! Always makes me hold my breath and do into defensive mode...

Other than that are the legs, like twisting knees and if someones leg breaks in half and gets twisted.
That might be due to real life experience (knees twisting)

And of course also the "stick under toenails" thing is pretty damn grose!

 

[Colour Scientist]

And of course also the "stick under toenails" thing is pretty damn grose!

There's a scene in The Wind that Shakes the Barley where one of the characters has his fingernails torn out with a pliers.
That one makes me cringe.

 

[ABLb0y]

Gunna have to say damage to fingers... Scenes like the one in Outlast (you know what I'm talking about) and Theon's scenes in season 3 of Thrones (Again, anyone who watches it knows what I'm on about).

 

[Gaijinko]

Anything to do with teeth for me, I remember watching a scene from one of my dads thriller selection where a guy is tortured by dentistry (Something to do with nazis I think). Makes my jaw tighten even now thinking about it. The marathon man I think it was,called.

 

[Thaluikhain]

And of course also the "stick under toenails" thing is pretty damn grose!

Or splinters.

Back when I was in my early teens, I was at school and we were throwing pens at each other. One landed near the skirting board, so I reached down to pick it up, which meant my fingernails slid along it for a bit. It was very old and splintery, and got splinters under my nails. Not much fun.

 

[RoonMian]

As a dude...
Hit in the balls! Always makes me hold my breath and do into defensive mode...

Other than that are the legs, like twisting knees and if someones leg breaks in half and gets twisted.
That might be due to real life experience (knees twisting)

And of course also the "stick under toenails" thing is pretty damn grose!

As someone who has once broken my kneecap right in two and once got into a knife fight where my eyelid was sliced open I... Sorry, I can't tell you, what's worse... Sorry... Nothing to see here...

As long as I know it's just simulated I am pretty tough. I might shudder a bit but I can watch the sickest horror movie no problem while still gobbling down chocolate covered almonds. Even that thing in the movie "Hostel" where that Japanese girl's eyeball was hanging out of her burned face didn't even gross me out.

But the very millisecond I know that what I am watching actually happened in reality I can't even watch a kid wiping out on a skateboard. I can't even watch stuff like Jersey Shore because it is "kinda" real because I cringe like crazy. But stuff like fail compilations on youtube are absolutely unbearable. I've got too much empathy for my own good.

Anything to do with teeth for me, I remember watching a scene from one of my dads thriller selection where a guy is tortured by dentistry (Something to do with nazis I think). Makes my jaw tighten even now thinking about it. The marathon man I think it was,called.

Yes, Marathon Man. Dustin Hoffman was tortured by alternating the drill with clove oil to give up some diamonds he IIRC didn't even know about. By a former KZ physician.

 

[Erttheking]

For some reason any description of a man's teeth getting broken makes me cringe. It's just...EGH!

 

[The Funslinger]

Imagine putting a toothpick under your toenail...then kicking a wall...

Just thinking about it makes me cringe.

Tidus in your avatar looks like he just tried it.

 

[Flatfrog]

Freaky parasites for me. The weird scarabs in The Mummy or the wiggly creatures in Wrath Of Khan, for example. Huuuuurgh.

 

[Headsprouter]

I'd have to say eyes, too. That scene had me feeling nervous, so I paused, but after a break from the thread I watched the rest. Not nearly as bad as I expected.

I'm likely going to have to get blood taken on Wednesday, so naturally that makes be nervous, seeing as the bit opposite the elbow is one of the body's "no-no" areas. I've had blood taken from there several times before but...deugh.

Nails are pretty bad, too. Can't stand the thought of a finger/toe without a nail. And I don't even know what it looks like.

 

[Rattja]

I like to think that I have a very strong stomach. I can handle watching zombies tear a man limb from limb, or seeing the horrific things a sword can do to a body. But the one thing that always makes me recoil is eye damage. There's just something about fucking with a person's eyeballs that freaks me the hell out.

The worst part is when it comes and you're not expecting it. Case in point: Farscape. Not afraid to shy away from blood at times, and it can get really freaky quite often, but I was not prepared for the scene in "A Clockwork Nebari" that straight up homaged the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange.

Spoiler: If you don't want to watch a man get his eyeballs removed and surgically altered by a torture device, do not open this

I mean, JESUS. The show whiplashed from a goofy scene with an emotional D'argo to Crichton getting his eyes yanked out.

Anything weaknesses to physical injuries you guys have, lay 'em on me, but I don't think anything will affect me the way eyeball attacks do.

No, no, NO, NO NO!! Why did I click this thread, ABORT ABORT!

I know eaxtly what you mean, I'm the same way. Not sure why, but there is just something about the eyes.
When I first saw this in Farscape I freaked out and just closed the damn thing, skipped the episode eniterly. It's really not something you expect in a series like this. Actually I had even forgotten that this was even in there.
I can watch this clip now, just because of the bad CGI, but it still creeps me out like nothing else.

Anything else is fine, just leave the eyes alone...

 

[AT God]

Eyes and teeth are really the only cringe-worthy injuries when in fiction, most injuries that are real are unsettling to me, unless funny like those fail videos the kids all make on the youtubes. One interesting one is bone breaks, I don't mind them in video games because I know the difference between real and make believe but seeing people with broken arms or especially compound fractures really bother me, although I still occasionally watch fail videos despite those being common.

The one injury that specifically bothers me is the thought of losing use of my hands, that terrifies me because I enjoy being able to type, write, and hold things. Seeing hands get hurt isn't terrifying but the thought of not having hands terrifies me, although I am really interested in those crazy robotic hands from science fiction.

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

Freud would say that that stems from a fear of castration. But eff Freud.

I agree with you on the eyes, potential injury to those makes me shudder. The other one is to the spine. There's a particularly horrific scene in exploitation film "Wolf Creek", where the antagonist inflicts a spinal injury on someone so that she becomes paralysed (with the words "Head on a stick" describing the end result). I endured most of that film without much revulsion, but that scene freaks me the heck out.

I found the scene:

Spoiler: Wolf Creek scene

 

[OneCatch]

Nails are pretty bad, too. Can't stand the thought of a finger/toe without a nail. And I don't even know what it looks like.

I did accidentally tear a toenail off before. And then it was flapping about so I pulled the rest off with pliers. That hurt, but actually not as grim as you might expect. And it grew back!

On topic; this isn't a particular body part, but it's a film moment that properly gave me the chills:

Spoiler: Minor-to-moderate spoilers for the film Looper

The film features single timeline, non-self-consistent time travel. A younger version of the character has been captured by *nasty* people, and they're trying to coerce the older him to give himself up.

 

[Saetha]

Anything to eyes, teeth, and finger or toe nails. I dunno man, I can watch someone get stabbed and gutted and not even flinch, but that one episode of Supernatural where Sam gets his fingernail ripped out? God, I get queasy just thinking about it. And I always get uneasy when people have sharp objects anywhere near my face, even if it's something mundane like a pen, because of this irrational fear that it'll end up stabbing me in the eye. Luckily the vast majority of violence shown in the media is stuff I find (Bizarrely) tame, like dismemberment or stab wounds. That stuff's not too bad... well, I mean, it'd probably be bad to suffer it, but watching it, knowing it's happening to purely fictional people, that's just... whatever.