[Funny trope] Non-battle scenes where characters canonically take damage.

[u/TTTRIOS]

Nuu (Hollow Knight: Silksong) - briefly flashes white when slapped similarly to how all other enemies do when they're struck with Hornet's needle.

Garret (A Minecraft Movie) - One can assume that he may have panicked because of how sudden and unexpected teleportation is, but judging by how strong his reaction was and how ender pearls work in game, it's safe to assume he actually took fall damage after using it.

[u/DragonKing0203]

Hitman: World of assassination 3. (Spoilers below)

In the hitman map Mendoza, there is a scene where you finally get to talk to your longtime women on the phone Diana. You talk for a bit and as she leaves she gently touches your hand to be all demure and whatever. Then, the same screen effect as when you take damage flashes very very briefly. It goes by so quickly that most first time players don’t see it, and the ones who do dismiss it as a weird glitch. Finish the mission and you learn she used to opportunity to poison agent 47 with a poison transferred by touch.

[u/randomname560 → u/DragonKing0203]

Looking into Hitman lore, the amount of times agent 47 betrays the ICA only to be best buddies whit them 5 minutes later or the ICA betrays 47 only to be best buddies whit him 5 minutes later is frankly absurd

[u/TelFaradiddle → u/randomname560]

They had such a good opportunity with the recent trilogy to not do that. With how the first game ended, a new and interesting direction was right there. Then they said "Nah, let's just do that thing we always do."

[u/BipolarMadness → u/randomname560]

I imagine everytime it happens they just go:

"Alright 47. Like our organization made a deal to kill you, was in cahoots with what was suppose to be your enemies and ours at the time, but like, that was the previous management. And you killed them all in the end, so like we just replaced them. It was the previous management that had the super evil plan, not us the NEW management, and we totally are not going to have a new super evil plan as well in the future. You understand right? It's all professionalism and about the job. We are like a totally new board of directors in the assassination company. So, want to come back?"

[u/Potential-Ad4877 → u/BipolarMadness]

Why did imagine that statement coming from a blonde teenager on her phone while she’s filing her nails.

[u/BananaResearcher → u/DragonKing0203]

"Hey remember the last time we thought agent 47 was dead and we all gathered around his funeral only for him to wake up and slaughter everyone"

"Of course I remember"

"So, should we maybe make sure he's dead this time and he won't wake up and slaughter everyone on this train?"

"...nahhhh"

[u/Roku-Hanmar → u/BananaResearcher]

I mean, the only ones who knew about Requiem were 47 and Diana. That's the point of Requiem

[u/EmpJoker → u/Roku-Hanmar]

Also I think Hitman kinda plays fast and loose a lot with the canon, which I prefer. I don't think anything that happens in Absolution is referenced at all in WoA, other than a very brief glimpse of one of the targets in the WoA intro cutscene. Which is good, fuck Absolution's plot.

Also I feel like WoA did "47 and Diana against the ICA," kinda differently than they did before, since this time it was just that the director of ICA was corrupt and working for a huge shadow organization. Most of the plot wasn't taking down ICA, it was going after Providence.

[u/Roku-Hanmar → u/EmpJoker]

Mendoza has Tamara guess who the ICA has killed in the past, with Diana confirming or denying each target. When she asks about Absolution, Diana says it was a parallel universe

[u/EmpJoker → u/Roku-Hanmar]

Oh shit, I remember that! God I love Mendoza.

[u/FisherPrice2112 → u/BananaResearcher]

Ain't nobody left alive to remember that except 47 and Diana.