Tropescilloscope: Blood from the Mouth

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

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