Tropescilloscope: Blood from the Mouth

...Usually means you're going to die. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Motor Mouth Butt-Monkey Greater-Scope Villain Cool Old Guy Fake Shemp MacGuffin Unreliable Narrator Action Genre Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Ass Shove My Beloved Smother Translation Convention Badass Normal Drugs Are Bad Serial Killer Blood from the Mouth All There in the Script War Is Hell Foreshadowing Improbable Aiming Skills Reality Ensues Big Damn Heroes I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Papa Wolf Evil Cannot Comprehend Good A Date with Rosie Palms Actor Allusion Your Cheating Heart Lock and Load Montage Heroic Sacrifice Attempted Rape An Arm and a Leg Spiteful Spit Those Two Guys Horror Films Jerk Jock Neck Lift Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Imagine Spot Film Noir Action Survivor Eiffel Tower Effect Playing Gertrude Say My Name Boom, Headshot! Cain and Abel Empathic Environment In Name Only No Name Given May–December Romance Heroes Want Redheads This Is Gonna Suck The Great Depression Shell-Shocked Veteran Smug Snake The Lancer Russian Films Noodle Incident Visual Pun No-Sell Frame-Up Get Out! Dark Is Not Evil Dutch Angle Kill 'em All Mexican Standoff Black Comedy Adaptational Badass Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Darker and Edgier Credits Gag Author Appeal Eureka Moment The Sociopath Defrosting Ice Queen Covers Always Lie Abusive Parents Film Series Composite Character Getting Crap Past the Radar Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Does This Remind You of Anything? Extremely Short Timespan Word of God Token Minority The Musical Anachronism Stew Male Frontal Nudity Evil Is Hammy Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Dragon Maybe Ever After Guile Hero Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Does Not Like Shoes Monumental Damage Catapult Nightmare Crapsack World Wham Line Romantic False Lead Twist Ending Babies Ever After Real Life Stepford Smiler Retired Badass Random Events Plot The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite And I Must Scream Ambiguously Gay Insane Troll Logic Bolivian Army Ending Dogged Nice Guy Jerkass Has a Point Soundtrack Dissonance Foil After the End Cool Shades Line-of-Sight Name Berserk Button Ungrateful Bastard Brutal Honesty The Hero Casting Gag Pet the Dog Psycho for Hire Skewed Priorities Hooker with a Heart of Gold Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Unusually Uninteresting Sight Eagleland Closed Circle Only Known by Their Nickname Instant Death Bullet No Antagonist Alliterative Name I'm a Humanitarian Parental Incest Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies From Nobody to Nightmare All Men Are Perverts Undying Loyalty Honor Before Reason Spell My Name with an "S" Belligerent Sexual Tension Hell Is That Noise Missing Mom Trailers Always Spoil Evil Is Petty One-Word Title Ironic Echo Drives Like Crazy Genre Shift Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Crazy Jealous Guy Facial Horror Eldritch Abomination Hope Spot Dirty Coward Animal Motifs Have a Gay Old Time Redshirt Army Extreme Doormat Meaningful Background Event Soft Glass Spared by the Adaptation Distracted by the Sexy Lampshade Hanging Canon Foreigner Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience All Just a Dream Married to the Job Not Even Bothering with the Accent Black Best Friend Animated Credits Opening Wretched Hive As You Know Naked People Are Funny Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome From Bad to Worse Tempting Fate Action Prologue Beard of Evil Not So Above It All Antagonist Title Rich Bitch Mind Screw Black Comedy Rape Adaptational Attractiveness Improvised Weapon The Smart Guy Darkest Hour Blatant Lies Kids Are Cruel Bilingual Bonus Vomit Indiscretion Shot Red Shirt Anti-Hero Call-Forward The '80s Epic Movie In Medias Res Psychological Thriller Red Herring Fatal Family Photo Up to Eleven World of Ham Outrun the Fireball It's Personal Beauty Is Never Tarnished Red Oni, Blue Oni Silent Movie Toplessness from the Back The Alleged Car Taking You with Me Mad Scientist Stalker with a Crush Fainting Love Triangle Country Matters Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Television Movie Index Artistic License – Biology Brainless Beauty Villain Protagonist Scenery Porn Disney Villain Death Badass Grandpa Mooks Epic Fail Crazy-Prepared Spanner in the Works Public Domain Feature Films The Cameo Off with His Head! Implacable Man Fire-Forged Friends Deal with the Devil Artistic License – Gun Safety Eyepatch of Power Loophole Abuse Curb-Stomp Battle Deliberate Values Dissonance Cool Old Lady Manly Tears The '90s Shipper on Deck Dramatic Irony Sequel Escalation Smoking Is Cool Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Heterosexual Life-Partners Karmic Death Immune to Bullets Amusing Injuries Overly Long Gag All There in the Manual Unresolved Sexual Tension As Himself Once More, with Clarity! Adaptation Name Change It's All About Me Insistent Terminology Italian Films Ambiguous Ending I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Protagonist Title And the Adventure Continues Gold Digger Demoted to Extra Neck Snap Half the Man He Used to Be Rule of Symbolism Amoral Attorney Hypocritical Humor The Casanova The '60s Hair-Trigger Temper Artistic License – Military Contrived Coincidence Catch-Phrase Adapted Out Tagline Aside Glance Oh, Crap! Naïve Newcomer Ascended Extra Hidden Depths Cool Guns Shown Their Work You Have Failed Me Villain with Good Publicity The Quiet One Hollywood Darkness Dressing as the Enemy Henpecked Husband Determinator Paper-Thin Disguise Works Set in World War II Establishing Character Moment Gory Discretion Shot Interrupted Suicide Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Crucified Hero Shot Recycled IN SPACE! Four-Temperament Ensemble Shout-Out The Voiceless Deliberately Monochrome The Remake Gilligan Cut Mystery and Detective Films Storming the Castle Ripped from the Headlines Dark and Troubled Past Sports Stories Pay Evil unto Evil Show Within a Show Eye Scream folderlabel Sinister Minister Christmas Movies Index Made of Iron All for Nothing The Cavalry Big Bad Camp Gay Shoot the Shaggy Dog Daddy's Girl Deus ex Machina Leitmotif What You Are in the Dark Advertised Extra Reality Is Unrealistic Very Loosely Based on a True Story And Starring More Dakka The Stoic Disproportionate Retribution Military and Warfare Films The Chessmaster Femme Fatale Grievous Bottley Harm Downer Ending Bowdlerise Even Evil Has Standards Mighty Whitey Fate Worse than Death Disguised in Drag Ominous Latin Chanting Fourth Date Marriage Historical Villain Upgrade In the Back Important Haircut Needs Wiki Magic Love "Awesome McCool" Name The Alcoholic Cruel and Unusual Death Genre Savvy Accidental Murder Bring My Brown Pants Biopic Logo Joke Awesome, but Impractical Adaptation Dye-Job Arch-Enemy The Faceless Handicapped Badass The Dog Bites Back Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Cold-Blooded Torture Disappeared Dad Call-Back Bunny-Ears Lawyer Peek-a-Boo Corpse Sci-Fi Horror Tranquil Fury Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Offscreen Moment of Awesome Ax-Crazy Only a Flesh Wound Death by Adaptation No Celebrities Were Harmed Bi the Way Black Dude Dies First Bare Your Midriff Market-Based Title A.I. Is a Crapshoot Adaptational Heroism Pretty in Mink Breaking the Fourth Wall Adorkable Martial Arts Movie Alpha Bitch Adults Are Useless Annoying Younger Sibling Coming-of-Age Story No OSHA Compliance The Power of Love Exactly What It Says on the Tin Authority Equals Asskicking Chiaroscuro Only One Name Stealth Hi/Bye For Want of a Nail Rewatch Bonus Nice Guy Race Against the Clock Big Fancy House Only Sane Man The Starscream Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Nice Hat Gender Flip Never Found the Body Bloody Hilarious Music Stories Action Girl Evil-Detecting Dog Not Quite Dead Made of Explodium A God Am I Superhero Setting Update I Have Your Wife Take a Third Option Enemy Mine Obviously Evil He Knows Too Much Combat Pragmatist Same Language Dub Hero Antagonist Self-Deprecation Creepy Child Heel Realization Psychopathic Manchild Hollywood Law Properly Paranoid Running Gag Mercy Kill Informed Ability Anyone Can Die Cassandra Truth Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Unwitting Instigator of Doom Broken Pedestal The Ghost Famous Last Words Freeze-Frame Bonus Did Not Get the Girl Alas, Poor Villain Bland-Name Product Sacrificial Lion Face–Heel Turn Kill It with Fire Ghost Fiction Adaptational Villainy Badass in a Nice Suit Danny Peary Cult Movies List "Well Done, Son!" Guy Man on Fire Stealth Pun Woman in White Your Head A-Splode Straight Gay Artistic License – History Science Fiction Films Roaring Rampage of Revenge Driven to Suicide Villain Song "The Reason You Suck" Speech Narrator Time Skip Scary Black Man Unusual Euphemism Artistic License – Physics Corpsing Bar Brawl Animal Title Index Training Montage Age Lift Canadian Movies 20 Minutes into the Future Exact Words Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Card-Carrying Villain Dies Wide Open timeperiod Book-Ends Older Than They Look The Un-Reveal Badass Bookworm The Big Guy Aluminum Christmas Trees Unspoken Plan Guarantee La Résistance Rated M for Manly Damsel in Distress Heel–Face Turn Only in It for the Money Bury Your Gays Jerkass Precision F-Strike Five-Man Band Overprotective Dad French Films Black and Gray Morality Knife Nut Jitter Cam Department of Redundancy Department Cloudcuckoolander Fat Bastard Framing Device Cowboy Cop Blackmail Mood Whiplash Comically Missing the Point German Films Everyone Has Standards The Mafia Chekhov's Gunman Conspicuous CG Truth in Television Due to the Dead The Stoner Romantic Comedy Rasputinian Death Bittersweet Ending Even Evil Has Loved Ones Light Is Not Good Manic Pixie Dream Girl Final Girl Dissonant Serenity Took a Level in Badass Parental Abandonment Cat Scare One Steve Limit Intrepid Reporter Author Avatar Revenge Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other It Will Never Catch On Riddle for the Ages Woman Scorned The Ditz The Dreaded The Bad Guy Wins Back from the Dead Politically Incorrect Villain Let's Get Dangerous! Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Kick the Dog Funny Background Event Mythology Gag As Long as It Sounds Foreign Evil Laugh Face Death with Dignity Chewing the Scenery Evil Brit Gorn Serious Business Death by Sex Large Ham Death by Irony Despair Event Horizon O.O.C. Is Serious Business Domestic Abuse Genre Throwback Death of a Child Whole Plot Reference Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Zombie Stories One-Man Army Malevolent Masked Men Big Applesauce Arranged Marriage Make It Look Like an Accident Air-Vent Passageway Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Improbable Weapon User The Mole Index of Film Westerns Bad Boss Green-Eyed Monster Those Wacky Nazis Funny Foreigner Drowning My Sorrows Race Lift Shirtless Scene The Lost Lenore Pretty Little Headshots Kubrick Stare Arc Words Historical-Domain Character Evil Counterpart Becoming the Mask Re-Cut Major Injury Underreaction An Axe to Grind A Minor Kidroduction Adaptation Distillation I Did What I Had to Do Leave the Camera Running Totally Radical Spiritual Successor Every Car Is a Pinto "Shaggy Dog" Story Bond Villain Stupidity Fiery Redhead Rule of Funny Broken Aesop Historical In-Joke Our Zombies Are Different Determinator aka: The Determinator Title Drop Jump Scare Dark Action Girl Bavarian Fire Drill Stylistic Suck Flashback Adult Fear Central Theme Punch-Clock Villain Meet Cute Small Name, Big Ego Hoist by His Own Petard Plucky Comic Relief Big Brother Instinct The Atoner Film Noir Index Bald of Evil Big Eater Put on a Bus Laughing Mad Dramedy Love at First Sight There Is No Kill Like Overkill Groin Attack '80s Hair Vampire Fiction Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Novelization Bottomless Magazines Cluster F-Bomb He Who Fights Monsters As the Good Book Says... Manchild NO INDOOR VOICE Creator Cameo Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Artistic License – Geography Affectionate Parody Demonic Possession The Stinger Obstructive Bureaucrat Betty and Veronica Armor-Piercing Question Character Development Bullying a Dragon BFG Dying Moment of Awesome Based on a True Story Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Calling the Old Man Out Plot Hole Rule of Three The X of Y Names to Run Away from Really Fast Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Freudian Excuse Apocalypse How Wounded Gazelle Gambit Meaningful Echo Too Dumb to Live It Can Think Chase Scene Mistaken for Gay Deconstruction Evil Sounds Deep Horror Comedy Brick Joke Poor Communication Kills Death Glare Sir Swears-a-Lot Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Suspiciously Specific Denial Morality Pet Rape as Drama Depraved Bisexual Cool Car Batman Gambit Police are Useless How We Got Here Police Brutality Affably Evil Dwindling Party Bloodier and Gorier The Vamp Homage Cat Fight Killed Mid-Sentence Diabolus ex Machina Here We Go Again! British Films Gainax Ending Costume Porn Big-Bad Ensemble Pre-Mortem One-Liner A Father to His Men Those Two Bad Guys What Happened to the Mouse? Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Mr. Exposition Reckless Gun Usage Stock Footage Sexy Discretion Shot Disney Death Nothing Is Scarier Real Life Writes the Plot Anachronic Order For the Evulz Dirty Cop Kick the Son of a Bitch The Smurfette Principle Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Throwing Your Sword Always Works Non-Indicative Name Never My Fault Refuge in Audacity Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Accidental Misnaming Bait-and-Switch Easily Forgiven Big Bad Duumvirate Car Fu Not Using the "Z" Word Red Eyes, Take Warning Ms. Fanservice My God, What Have I Done? Insult Backfire Worthy Opponent Not So Different Artistic License – Law What the Hell, Hero? Bad "Bad Acting" Retirony My Greatest Failure Hong Kong Films Heroic BSoD Not What It Looks Like Parental Neglect Rousing Speech The End... Or Is It? Hero of Another Story She Cleans Up Nicely Anti-Villain Obfuscating Stupidity Pyrrhic Victory Shut Up, Hannibal! Ship Tease Death Seeker Abhorrent Admirer Drill Sergeant Nasty Dramatic Gun Cock Deadpan Snarker Wicked Cultured Redemption Equals Death Early-Bird Cameo Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Villain Opening Scene I Need a Freaking Drink Pragmatic Adaptation Offscreen Teleportation Beware the Nice Ones Tap on the Head Ambiguous Disorder Took a Level in Jerkass Scenery Gorn Be Careful What You Wish For Mundane Made Awesome Good Is Not Nice The Place Break the Haughty The Film of the Book Sequel Hook Auto Erotica Fatal Flaw The Bully No Ending Left the Background Music On Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Together in Death Wham Shot Male Gaze Retcon Our Vampires Are Different You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Double Entendre Dull Surprise B-Movie Fantasy Films Knight Templar Irony Captain Obvious Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Bloodless Carnage Take That! Parental Substitute The Load Humans Are Bastards Fanservice Badass Longcoat The Oner Double-Meaning Title Pragmatic Villainy Grey and Gray Morality The Ace Video Credits You Killed My Father Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Never Trust a Trailer Mr. Fanservice Dumb Blonde Would Hurt a Child Laser-Guided Karma Not So Stoic Documentary Leaning on the Fourth Wall Chekhov's Skill Guns Akimbo Dropped a Bridge on Him Slashed Throat Corrupt Corporate Executive Suspiciously Similar Substitute Really Gets Around Yandere Rule of Cool Curse Cut Short Fantastic Racism Destination Defenestration The '70s Red Right Hand Beta Couple Almost Kiss The Reveal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Karma Houdini Taking the Bullet Dirty Old Man Body Horror Moment Killer Sadistic Choice Happily Married Dual Wielding Vitriolic Best Buds Men Are the Expendable Gender Fun with Acronyms Children Are Innocent Posthumous Character Humiliation Conga No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Hero Dies Earn Your Happy Ending Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Loads and Loads of Characters Silence Is Golden Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Room Full of Crazy Decoy Protagonist Idiot Ball Japanese Films Bond One-Liner Slap-Slap-Kiss Thriller Bound and Gagged Broken Bird Didn't Think This Through Faking the Dead Brother–Sister Incest Slasher Smile Continuity Nod Victoria's Secret Compartment Gratuitous English Award-Bait Song Manipulative Bastard Super Strength Captain Ersatz Scare Chord Camera Abuse Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Hypocrite All Girls Want Bad Boys Evil Plan Big "NO!" Reality Has No Subtitles Villainous Breakdown Well-Intentioned Extremist An Aesop Mugging the Monster Would Hit a Girl Wrong Genre Savvy Chekhov's Gun Australian Movies Developing Doomed Characters Villain Ball Expository Hairstyle Change Sanity Slippage The Brute Sassy Black Woman Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Actually Pretty Funny Dark Reprise Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Fanservice Extra Fish out of Water Daylight Horror Slasher Movie She's Got Legs Badass Boast "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Chick Vacation Films Early Installment Weirdness Creative Closing Credits Fan Disservice Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Last-Name Basis Friend to All Children Stuff Blowing Up Agony of the Feet Meaningful Name Flipping the Bird Defiant to the End Sealed Evil in a Can Gone Horribly Right Fingore Failed a Spot Check Off-into-the-Distance Ending Reasonable Authority Figure Suddenly SHOUTING! Lighter and Softer Vomit Discretion Shot Madness Mantra Anguished Declaration of Love Mama Bear Better to Die than Be Killed Expy Adaptation Expansion Faux Affably Evil Star-Crossed Lovers Sole Survivor N-Word Privileges Intergenerational Friendship Blood Knight The '50s Pimped-Out Dress Evil vs. Evil Jerk with a Heart of Gold Break the Cutie True Companions Historical Hero Upgrade Celebrity Paradox Match Cut Product Placement Foregone Conclusion Asshole Victim You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Hate Sink Punny Name Shower Scene