Cranial Eruption: Difference between revisions

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In a classic cartoon, any [[Amusing Injuries|non-fatal (which is to say, just about every) head injury]] immediately results in a huge swelling the size of an orange or larger, usually pushing its pink, fleshy way through the victim's hair. Sometimes they come [[Instant Bandages|pre-bandaged]]. May also erupt in the exact shape of the object that caused them. Attempts to shove the lumps back into one's head will usually be answered with a lump of equal-size appearing on the other side of the head... or sometimes somewhere else entirely.

 

Not to be [[I Thought It Meant|confused]] with [[Your Head Asplode]].

 

* In the first ''[[Astro Boy]]'' anime, this happens to a ''telephone''.

** Rather [[Freud Was Right|phallic]] ones at that

** Then there's guitars. Electric guitars.

** Which are used to destroy said me- you know what? [[Widget Series|Just go watch it]].

* In one episode of ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'', Bo-Bobo hits Don Patch on the head multiple times to make him get not only a lump on his head, but multiple lumps on top of that lump. Then Bo-Bobo tries to use it as a sword of some sort. When that doesn't work, he uses a bat to whack the lumps off of Don Patch's head like a bunch of baseballs. And, like everything else in that show, this carries the disclaimer .

* This is common in ''[[Detective Conan]]'', used whenever Conan gets whacked on the head for interrupting investigations.

** One moment has Naruto get one from a log, which also gets a bump.

* Happens to Kafuka Fuura in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' in the few occasions she gets hit in the head.

** An amusing instance in the manga, when Happōsai's Cranial Eruption is hit by a little splash of water from the Spring of Drowned Twins. Instead of duplicating him, it duplicates his lump.

** And one cannot forget Luffy versus the [[Mix-and-Match Critters|Sphinx]]. When Luffy was done with it he was literally standing on the poor thing's head, atop a mountain of these.

* in ''[[NieA 7]]'', Niea gets knocked over the head by Mayuko quite a bit, leading to this. Of course, Niea [[Jerkass|deserves]] it ''every single time''.

* The titular character in ''[[Crayon Shin-chan]]'' gets hit in the head a lot by his mother which always shows an off-screen cutaway sound effect.

* These happen from time to time in [[Mai-Otome]], such as in one piece of official art in which Haruka, sparring with Shizuru during her time as a Coral, fails to block Shizuru's staff and gets hit in the head (resulting in the staff bending on impact). In [[Mai Otome Sifr]], Lena gives one to Elliot while repelling her advances.

** Yui has been on the receiving end of it once on New Year's Day at a temple... [[Completely Missing the Point|because she was praying for the exact things that the the band unanimously agreed that it won't pray for]].

** When Ritsu and Tsumugi hung out together for the first time without any of the others, Tsumugi asked Ritsu to hit her, taking it as a form of physical intimacy that Ritsu and Mio practice. Ritsu initially can't bring herself to do it, but Tsumugi later gets her wish after telling Ritsu that she was "a really good date", and that if she were a boy, the girls would be crawling all over her. At the end, there's a picture of her with it, captioned "Me and My Lump".

* It happens to Tulip the giant in [[Jack to Mame no Ki]] when Jack smashes a wedding decoration over his head.

 

* In ''[[Leonard Le Genie]]'', Basile suffers these very often, sometimes in multiple layers. In one instance, a (self-inflicted) strike with [[Anvil on Head|an anvil]] resulted in a lump larger than his head!

* Also very, very common in ''[[Mortadelo Y Filemon]]''.

* Appears frequently in Italian [[Disney Comics]] (known as "bernoccolo"), and at least one story has [[Donald Duck]] hit upon a one-in-a-million chance of one turning him into a genius. Too bad they fade away in time.

 

* In the ''[[Paper Mario]]'' series, you can find a rare creature called a Whacka. Hitting it on the head causes it to produce (and drop) one of these. It's actually one of the best and most profitable-to-sell items in the game. Downside is, you can only get so many of these from a single wacka before it disappears forever, and there's only one in each game...

** There's also the bit about [[You Bastard|the game guilt-tripping you about it]].

* During the {{spoiler|hard mode}} ending in [[Puyo Puyo|Puyo Pop]] Fever, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwFxoGX3CZY&t=10m14s Raffine gets this after being knocked out by Ms. Accord,] and Raffine [[Easy Amnesia|ends up losing her memory about the flying cane.]]

 

 

* In quite a few episodes of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''. Spike the Bulldog is probably the most common victim of this, usually while caught in the crossfire between Tom and Jerry's antics, leading into the gag where Tom sheepishly tries to push the bump down only for it to grow back. But it becomes much more frequent in the [[Chuck Jones]] era.

* An amusing Cranial Eruption happens in the [[Donald Duck]] short ''Fall Out, Fall In''. As Private Duck builds his tent, he's shot like an arrow headfirst into a tree. The resultant bump makes a dent in his helmet. (See image above.)

* These are a mainstay of ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts, especially [[Road Runner vs. Coyote]]... or at least, Coyote.

*** Averted slightly when Pete [[Paper-Thin Disguise|disguises himself as the young bunny's mother]]. Pete is asked for lumps in her coffee, but Pete was armed with an ACME Stove Lid on her head. {{spoiler|Three guesses who had an ACME Stove Lid Lifter on himself.}}

** In "Sahara Hare", <s>Yosemite</s> Riff-Raff Sam hits his camel over the head, and as the lump grows, its hump shrinks.

** The comic book played with this in the special "Masters of Time and Space" issue. Ren gets hit on the head twice, causing him to have two Cranial Eruptions. When another Ren, having just dropped in from a time warp, laughs at him, the first Ren bops his head, causing a bump to sprout from that Ren's head. This, in turn, creates a ''third'' bump on the first Ren's head.

* In ''Goofy Gymnastics'', Goofy gets one of these on the noggin after a set of chin-ups, when it's revealed that the horizontal bar was loose, and it promptly falls on his head. He even pushes the lump down and flexes his bicep, which makes it pop up there.

* ''[[The Flintstones]]''. Fred gets one for storing his bowling ball at the ''top'' of the closet.

 

* Another such incident is the aftermath of a boxing match between Evander Holyfield and Hasim Rahman, in which Holyfield's headbutts caused a swelling hematoma on Rahman's forehead.

 

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[[Category:Amusing Injuries]]

[[Category:Injury Tropes]]