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I might be wrong, but didn't Leela break her leg in "A Farewell to Arms"? It's been a while since I last saw that episode.
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El-Man

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I might be wrong, but didn't Leela break her leg in "A Farewell to Arms"? I almost forgot about this thread. She did, but I should have been more specific - everything up until Season 6. The fic is set just after ITWGY.
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Lost My Phone

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I might be wrong, but didn't Leela break her leg in "A Farewell to Arms"? I almost forgot about this thread. She did, but I should have been more specific - everything up until Season 6. The fic is set just after ITWGY. Oh, okay. Well, in "Fear of a Bot Planet" Hermes was somehow severely injured when a bird picked up his hologram (although I'm not really sure why that actually hurt him, though).
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SolidSnake

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And let's not forget his vaporization in Rebirth, leaving only a piece of hair, flesh and skin.
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Beamer

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- Leela is blinded (forget which episode)
Bender Gets Made.
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MeatablePie

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- Fry splatters into a million pieces from fall......about a thousand times
- Leela's hand is severed by a clam.
my job of updating is done here.
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Monster_Robot_Maniac

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- Leela's hand is severed by a clam.
Actually, that never really happened, as Fry hit the Tim Burton Time Button right after her hand was bitten off.
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MeatablePie

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- Leela's hand is severed by a clam.
Actually, that never really happened, as Fry hit the Tim Burton Time Button right after her hand was bitten off. True, but it was in the episode however.
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MeatablePie

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- Professor Farnsworth is vaporized in Meanwhile (though I don't think that would count or even the correct term, eh...screw it)
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Lost My Phone

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I know you only want injuries up until season 6, El-Man, but a thread about character injuries seems like the appropriate place for this question, so I hope you don't mind me asking this here (if so, please go ahead and have this post deleted).  Why did Fry and Leela act so panicked when Leela's hand was severed in Meanwhile? She's had her arm ripped off before, and Fry's been decapitated, so losing a hand should seem like a minor injury in comparison that could be easily fixed with the future's advanced medical technology. I know it would be very painful, but I don't think it would have been a major catastrophe for her. Well, I'm sure it wouldn't have been nearly as painful as having her arm torn off in AFTA. But still, her hand was bitten off by a clam out of the blue, so I imagine she was in major shock at the time. But I think I'd rather lose a hand than an entire arm, as anyone else would. 
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futurefreak

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That's a really good question, Anna. I never thought of that...maybe that's partly why the obnoxious screaming irritated me. Like it would have been plausible had oh I don't know, HER SPINE NOT HAVE BEEN STICKING OUT OF HER BODY BEFORE.
I think we should keep this thread open for character injury discussion, if El-Man is okay with the new proposed direction of it.
In which case, ugh, I was really disgusted at the...splatness of Fry in Meanwhile. Not just once, but repeatedly. I remember when characters dying used to be super serious, like The Sting.
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El-Man

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I think we should keep this thread open for character injury discussion, if El-Man is okay with the new proposed direction of it. It's okay - I know that threads tend to take on a life of their own... But if an injury list does end up being compiled, could the episode be included so we can tell when it happened?
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Quantum Neutrino Field

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In which case, ugh, I was really disgusted at the...splatness of Fry in Meanwhile. Not just once, but repeatedly. I remember when characters dying used to be super serious, like The Sting.
It was a comedic splash, but it was serious, too, in a way as it seemed impossible way out of the situation. Why did Fry and Leela act so panicked when Leela's hand was severed in Meanwhile? She's had her arm ripped off before
In AFTA, she was in more stressful situation and needed to concentrate to getting away from Mars. Also, they both did scream in the end.
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MeatablePie

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In which case, ugh, I was really disgusted at the...splatness of Fry in Meanwhile. Not just once, but repeatedly. I remember when characters dying used to be super serious, like The Sting.
Because the crew realized they had the time button. Whereas Fry wouldn't have to die unless they used it.
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MeatablePie

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True. I remember in TTOBH, nobody gave a shit about Calculon's death. But in Calculon 2.0, everyone went apeshit.
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futurefreak

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I remember in TTOBH, nobody gave a shit about Calculon's death.
Looks like some people did care about Calculon(I am suprised that I never remarked on it), but I do strongly remember being opposed to them killing off Roberto. Roberto!!! It's less painful to watch a piece of metal die/get blown apart/power down than it is to watch a flesh and bones cartoon being plummet to his splattery crushing death.
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« Reply #32 on: 09-15-2013 20:32 »
« Last Edit on: 09-15-2013 20:36 »
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Also, Calculon's not one of the main characters, so his death doesn't need to be taken as seriously as Fry's should be. As for Bender, he's much more durable than Fry is, so whenever he gets injured/mauled, it really doesn't have to be as dramatic as when one of the non-robot characters is seriously harmed. I completely agree with Randi, too, that Fry's "death" shouldn't have been treated so cavalierly in "Meanwhile." Things like that and his "death" in "Lrreconcilable Ndndifferences" seem to take some of the poignancy from episodes like "The Sting."  "The Sting" still gets to me every time I watch it, and it's one of my favorite episodes, but I can't help but be bothered that Fry's "death" as a result of selflessly sacrificing himself for Leela has become a bit meaningless in the newer episodes. While I did love Meanwhile overall, I didn't like Fry repeatedly dying, especially since it was a result of him trying to kill himself. I mean, he's clearly been late to dates before, and Leela had given him no reason lately to suspect she was just declining his proposal, so his jump off the building irritated me.
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SolidSnake

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I didn't mind Fry dying like 10 times in Meanwhile. I don't see the hate that gets. It was actually pretty funny/entertaining in my opinion.
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futurefreak

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I'll say it - I hated it, and treated suicide lightly for its subject matter. They should have rewritten that whole second half, it was terrible.
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Beamer

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I didn't have a problem with it, the repeated splats got funnier and funnier to me as it went. Futurama characters find themselves in life-threatening situations all the time, often by their own doing; the show determines how seriously it wants its audience to take something by the way it delivers it.
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Beamer

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The initial suicide was really stupid though, as I've said numerous times. I might have forgiven it more if Fry thought Leela had died or something, but the way it was done was pretty forced.
It's still practically Shakespeare in comparison to Fry's suicide attempt in Overclockwise, though. 
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