Films in which a major character performs a substantial medical procedure on his/herself.

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the film
the character
the procedure

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Al from NJ

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:30 (twelve years ago)

prometheus
what's her name
caesarean section

― the late great, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:33 (twelve years ago)

heaven can wait
don ameche as some guy
lobotomy w/o anaesthesia

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:33 (twelve years ago)

american graffiti
ron howard as some kid
gender reassignment surgery

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:34 (twelve years ago)

No Country for Old Men
Anton Crazy-Guy
stitched himself up

Affliction
Wade
pulled a tooth

― clemenza, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:34 (twelve years ago)

the jolson story
larry parks as al jolson
hacks off gangrened left arm

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:35 (twelve years ago)

the fugutive
dr. richard kimble
doing stuff to self in hospitals

― From the Album No Baby for You! (Matt P), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:36 (twelve years ago)

127 hours
hiker dude
amputation

― nickn, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:37 (twelve years ago)

ronin
Sam
digs bullet out of side

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:38 (twelve years ago)

the 400 blows
antoine
tears of face of homeless bum, uses it to replace his own face

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:40 (twelve years ago)

The Terminator
The Terminator
cuts out his own eye and does something with it that I don't remember

― (Fascinating) (Insightful) (Thought-Provoking) (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:44 (twelve years ago)

pi
That dude
Drills his head & removes some brain

― 龜, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:44 (twelve years ago)

The Wizard of Oz
The Scarecrow
re-implants straw into his body

― (Fascinating) (Insightful) (Thought-Provoking) (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:46 (twelve years ago)

first blood
John Rambo
stitching up arm wound

― tbd (Eazy), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:47 (twelve years ago)

his girl friday
cary grant as newspaper editor
stitches live grenade into his calf

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:49 (twelve years ago)

Pi
The main dude
Self-trepanation

― Walter Galt, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:49 (twelve years ago)

Yankee Doodle Dandy
George Cohan
hacks off his lower jaw with a bread knife

― (Fascinating) (Insightful) (Thought-Provoking) (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:50 (twelve years ago)

Actually, at the risk of party-pooping your thread (and in the event you were asking for research purposes!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-surgery#In_fiction

― Walter Galt, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:50 (twelve years ago)

The Smurfs 2
Brainy
Self-circumcision

― Walter Galt, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:51 (twelve years ago)

Jesus sorry

― Walter Galt, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:51 (twelve years ago)

The Abyss
Dr. Lindsey Brigman
letting self drown/freeze, to be resuscitated

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996)
"Hyena-Swine"
gouging tracking/control device out of leg

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:53 (twelve years ago)

First legit thing I thought of was that story in Skeleton Crew. Which isn't a movie. But probably should be.

― (Fascinating) (Insightful) (Thought-Provoking) (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:53 (twelve years ago)

umberto d.
umberto d., il professore
hacks off big toe, feeds it to his starving dog

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:56 (twelve years ago)

two-lane blacktop
warren oates as GTO
cauterizes gaping neck wound while driving at 120mph

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:57 (twelve years ago)

got to be tons of "hacking off part of self to get free," with Saw (and sequels?) only the most obvious

Is this going to be for some awesome Youtube supercut? Ideally with only like 2-4 seconds of each, just catching the climactic scream/grimace and then the body part flopping to the floor (or whatever).

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:58 (twelve years ago)

amateurisssssst

― VENIET IMBER (imago), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:00 (twelve years ago)

Evil Dead 2
Ash
removes and replaces possessed hand with chainsaw

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:02 (twelve years ago)

robocop
robocop
grafts skin from foot to replace rough patch of psoriasis on scalp

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:07 (twelve years ago)

12 monkeys
james cole
tooth extraction

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:10 (twelve years ago)

rambo 3
rambo
cauterizes arm wound with gunpowder from bullet

― Euler, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:11 (twelve years ago)

all that heaven allows
rock hudson as nature boy
performs emergency triple bypass after having heart attack and tumbling down snowy hill

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:11 (twelve years ago)

Uh, probably some Cronenberg. I thought eXistenZ with removal of bio-port but that seems to be mostly the two main characters doing it to each other rather than to themselves. One of the Jeremy Ironses in Dead Ringers, maybe?

(sorry for serious answer)

― emil.y, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:19 (twelve years ago)

Leonard Part 6
Leonard Parker
reverse hysterectomy

― (Fascinating) (Insightful) (Thought-Provoking) (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:37 (twelve years ago)

xp I was trying to recall whatever the relevant part of Videodrome was but it's eluding me. I'll have to stick with Freud's hysterectomy for now.

― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:44 (twelve years ago)

Hannibal
Paul Krendler
brain tissue relocation

― (Fascinating) (Insightful) (Thought-Provoking) (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:56 (twelve years ago)

Pi
the main guy
drills an ole in is ead

― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:01 (twelve years ago)

π
man from π
takes his brain off with a tool

― it was a cool and cutting-edge prank in October 2013 (wins), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:04 (twelve years ago)

Darren Aronofsky's Pi
Johnny Pi
drill surgerys on his skull

― it was a cool and cutting-edge prank in October 2013 (wins), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:07 (twelve years ago)

Pie
Pie Man
eats a piece of his own head (which is delicious pie)

― Pork Scabbard (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:08 (twelve years ago)

3.14159265359
Main dude from that numbers thingy
Bores in his noggin

― emil.y, Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:09 (twelve years ago)

Life of pi
protagoniser
does like a brain amputation on HIMSELF OMG but with a drill or something

― it was a cool and cutting-edge prank in October 2013 (wins), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:09 (twelve years ago)

driller killer
drill killer
kills pi with drill then gives himself vasectomy for lols

― it was a cool and cutting-edge prank in October 2013 (wins), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:10 (twelve years ago)

Castaway
Tom Hanks
rock-->tooth-->all better!

― DNP-dizzy (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:19 (twelve years ago)

Have we mentioned the Texas Chainsaw Massacre yet?

― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:19 (twelve years ago)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Barbara Bush
deltoid grafts

― Pork Scabbard (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:21 (twelve years ago)

Cronenberg's The Fly
Brundlefly
pulls off his fingernails

{I think)

― nickn, Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:15 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/I9F7saV.jpg

― 龜, Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:16 (twelve years ago)

Bulletproof
Gary Busey as (i swear) "McBain"
pulls bullet out of self, drops it into a jar of bullets pulled out of self

― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:56 (twelve years ago)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Neither-Irish-Nor-Spy Doctor Maturin
musket ball removal from abdomen

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 9 January 2014 22:42 (twelve years ago)

battleship
audience
removes brain cells, one by one

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2014 23:47 (twelve years ago)

Terminator 2
The Terminator
uses crowbar to prise off part of arm trapped in some big machinery thing

Terminator 3
The Terminator
cuts open own chest, removes and throws away battery

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 10 January 2014 00:15 (twelve years ago)

Spiderman 3
Spiderman
Bell-assisted removal of symbiotic alien skin

― 3 4 A £ (onimo), Friday, 10 January 2014 00:50 (twelve years ago)

pinocchio
pinocchio
auto-rhinoplasty

― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2014 00:55 (twelve years ago)

Pi
Main dude
Side head lobotomy

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 10 January 2014 02:45 (twelve years ago)

Post Tenebras Lux
Some poor criminal
Head removal

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 10 January 2014 02:46 (twelve years ago)

Videodrome
James Woods
Gun removal from abdomen

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 10 January 2014 02:47 (twelve years ago)

Face Off
Face On

― tbd (Eazy), Friday, 10 January 2014 03:10 (twelve years ago)

Total Recall
Arnie S
that thing with the nose thing

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 10 January 2014 03:12 (twelve years ago)

how many FPs for amateurist?

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 January 2014 04:03 (twelve years ago)

Poo
protagonist removes poo with a drill

― massaman gai, Friday, 10 January 2014 07:30 (twelve years ago)

tetsuo: the iron man
not really sure what this dude does

― massaman gai, Friday, 10 January 2014 07:32 (twelve years ago)

Poi
Protagonist removes gloppy substance with his fingers

― nickn, Friday, 10 January 2014 08:06 (twelve years ago)

zed & two noughts
kid self-circumcizes

― massaman gai, Friday, 10 January 2014 09:11 (twelve years ago)

with a drill

― massaman gai, Friday, 10 January 2014 09:11 (twelve years ago)

Predator / Predator 2 / etc
The Predator alien
Fixes himself using mud / bathroom tiles / silly putty / etc

― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 10 January 2014 11:11 (twelve years ago)

Altered States
William Hurt
Uses a sensory deprivation tank to reverse evolve into an ape creature

The Thing
dude with the beard (probably)
Slices his thumb open to get a fresh blood sample

There must be a million movies where wounded characters stitch themselves up.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 January 2014 14:34 (twelve years ago)

The Howling
werewolf guy
digs bullet out from his head

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 January 2014 14:36 (twelve years ago)

Dog Soldiers
Can't remember
Sticks his split-open belly back together with superglue

― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 10 January 2014 14:55 (twelve years ago)

Dong Solders
he solders his dong on
with a drill

― massaman gai, Friday, 10 January 2014 14:57 (twelve years ago)

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