Tropescilloscope: Bloodless Carnage

Severe injuries and death, but no splattered blood. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Dropped a Bridge on Him Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Musical Laughing Mad Evil Is Petty And Starring Adult Fear Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Expy Adaptation Name Change Evil Is Hammy The Voiceless Easily Forgiven Market-Based Title The Ditz Deconstruction Married to the Job Names to Run Away from Really Fast Sports Stories Black and Gray Morality Rousing Speech Storming the Castle Take a Third Option Word of God Earn Your Happy Ending Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Nice Hat The Alleged Car Loophole Abuse Heel–Face Turn Eye Scream Victoria's Secret Compartment Disappeared Dad Moment Killer Bittersweet Ending Bare Your Midriff Outrun the Fireball Stepford Smiler Armor-Piercing Question The Brute Really Gets Around Badass Normal Deliberate Values Dissonance Truth in Television Romantic False Lead One-Word Title Villain Ball Age Lift Face Death with Dignity "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Developing Doomed Characters Black Comedy Rape The Cameo Brutal Honesty Would Hit a Girl Humiliation Conga Dissonant Serenity Ax-Crazy Bowdlerise Ambiguous Ending Hypocritical Humor Reasonable Authority Figure The Chessmaster Anguished Declaration of Love Does This Remind You of Anything? All Men Are Perverts What the Hell, Hero? Hair-Trigger Temper Framing Device Groin Attack Implacable Man Chekhov's Gunman Gone Horribly Right Parental Abandonment Final Girl Christmas Movies Index For the Evulz Mama Bear French Films Bad Boss Australian Movies How We Got Here Poor Communication Kills The Vamp It's Personal folderlabel Twist Ending Unusual Euphemism Beware the Nice Ones Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Demoted to Extra Car Fu Enemy Mine Psycho for Hire Artistic License – History Hero of Another Story Decoy Protagonist What You Are in the Dark Leaning on the Fourth Wall Badass Boast Screw the Rules, I Have Money! My God, What Have I Done? Kick the Son of a Bitch Artistic License – Gun Safety Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Anti-Hero Foreshadowing Trailers Always Spoil Fingore Half the Man He Used to Be Ms. Fanservice Pay Evil unto Evil Asshole Victim Your Cheating Heart Superhero Unreliable Narrator Babies Ever After '80s Hair Genre Throwback He Who Fights Monsters In the Back Film Noir Index Insult Backfire Abhorrent Admirer Ominous Latin Chanting Pretty Little Headshots Jerk with a Heart of Gold Evil Brit Death by Adaptation Red Eyes, Take Warning Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Action Survivor The Faceless The Un-Reveal Empathic Environment Broken Pedestal Crazy Jealous Guy Accidental Misnaming Guile Hero Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Naïve Newcomer Last-Name Basis Spanner in the Works Catapult Nightmare Drowning My Sorrows Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Captain Obvious Card-Carrying Villain Sole Survivor Dark Is Not Evil Character Development The Sociopath Brainless Beauty Drugs Are Bad Damsel in Distress Dramatic Irony Smoking Is Cool Lampshade Hanging Parental Incest Daddy's Girl The Load Credits Gag Cool Old Lady Training Montage Corrupt Corporate Executive Affectionate Parody Big-Bad Ensemble Shout-Out Plot Hole Animal Motifs Death Seeker N-Word Privileges Facial Horror Morality Pet Department of Redundancy Department The Lost Lenore Those Wacky Nazis My Beloved Smother Not So Stoic Epic Movie Made of Explodium The Big Guy Punny Name Continuity Nod Together in Death Manly Tears There Is No Kill Like Overkill Anachronic Order Dying Moment of Awesome Ironic Echo Corpsing The Casanova Make It Look Like an Accident Hong Kong Films Sealed Evil in a Can Taking You with Me Faking the Dead Psychopathic Manchild Alpha Bitch Defrosting Ice Queen Obviously Evil Soft Glass Creepy Child All There in the Script The Power of Love Annoying Younger Sibling Parental Substitute Happily Married Eyepatch of Power Arc Words Only in It for the Money Good Is Not Nice Hell Is That Noise The Dreaded Gorn Silent Movie The Lancer Documentary Bilingual Bonus Becoming the Mask Offscreen Teleportation Never Found the Body Death of a Child Crucified Hero Shot Despair Event Horizon Noodle Incident Foregone Conclusion Scare Chord Stylistic Suck In Medias Res Bad "Bad Acting" Camera Abuse Older Than They Look Bring My Brown Pants Film Noir Driven to Suicide Impaled with Extreme Prejudice No-Sell Jerk Jock Small Name, Big Ego Fun with Acronyms Mad Scientist Skewed Priorities Rated M for Manly Ambiguous Disorder Artistic License – Law Mystery and Detective Films Dumb Blonde Index of Film Westerns Dirty Coward Beauty Is Never Tarnished Revenge Bait-and-Switch Even Evil Has Standards Slasher Smile Broken Aesop Frame-Up The '80s Redemption Equals Death Death Glare Freudian Excuse Pimped-Out Dress Femme Fatale Distracted by the Sexy An Axe to Grind Batman Gambit Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Darkest Hour Interrupted Suicide She's Got Legs Genre Shift Boom, Headshot! All Just a Dream Sequel Escalation Cruel and Unusual Death Cool Car Demonic Possession Gory Discretion Shot Sassy Black Woman Kubrick Stare Mooks Take That! Precision F-Strike Badass Longcoat Cool Guns Bland-Name Product Not What It Looks Like Eureka Moment No Ending Cluster F-Bomb Woman in White Bald of Evil Action Girl Well-Intentioned Extremist Dirty Old Man Break the Haughty Better to Die than Be Killed Grey and Gray Morality Riddle for the Ages Blatant Lies Artistic License – Military After the End Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Gender Flip A Date with Rosie Palms Dual Wielding Suspiciously Similar Substitute Wicked Cultured Monumental Damage Wretched Hive Sir Swears-a-Lot Back from the Dead Italian Films Artistic License – Geography Hollywood Law Yandere Match Cut Horror Films Heterosexual Life-Partners For Want of a Nail Adaptational Badass Historical Hero Upgrade A God Am I Oh, Crap! One Steve Limit Vitriolic Best Buds Chiaroscuro Motor Mouth Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Bully Handicapped Badass Visual Pun Fatal Family Photo The Chick Unresolved Sexual Tension Thriller Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Getting Crap Past the Radar Russian Films Hollywood Darkness Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Stoic Fate Worse than Death Too Dumb to Live The Remake Fanservice Zombie Stories You Killed My Father Laser-Guided Karma Stealth Pun Hidden Depths Brick Joke Say My Name Alliterative Name Soundtrack Dissonance Authority Equals Asskicking Star-Crossed Lovers Big Brother Instinct Betty and Veronica Properly Paranoid Kill It with Fire Heroic BSoD Fan Disservice And I Must Scream Vomit Discretion Shot Our Zombies Are Different All There in the Manual German Films Reality Ensues Retcon World of Ham In Name Only Up to Eleven Fatal Flaw Casting Gag Leitmotif Made of Iron Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Logo Joke Ghost Fiction No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Instant Death Bullet Pyrrhic Victory Offscreen Moment of Awesome A.I. Is a Crapshoot Bar Brawl Badass Grandpa Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dark Action Girl Red Herring Deliberately Monochrome Race Lift Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Accidental Murder Off with His Head! 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Big Bad From Bad to Worse Posthumous Character Bond Villain Stupidity Police are Useless Redshirt Army Irony Beard of Evil Important Haircut Anyone Can Die Contrived Coincidence Daylight Horror Actually Pretty Funny Pragmatic Villainy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Shipper on Deck Fanservice Extra Rule of Cool Knight Templar The Ace Dutch Angle Fantastic Racism Killed Mid-Sentence Stealth Hi/Bye Rape as Drama Green-Eyed Monster Unwitting Instigator of Doom Unspoken Plan Guarantee Calling the Old Man Out Kick the Dog Book-Ends You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! "Shaggy Dog" Story Evil Sounds Deep Vacation Films Fantasy Films Straight Gay BFG Woman Scorned Not Quite Dead Deal with the Devil Large Ham Rule of Three Retirony Cat Scare Five-Man Band Determinator aka: The Determinator Sanity Slippage Cain and Abel Fainting The End... Or Is It? Cool Shades Adorkable Destination Defenestration Everyone Has Standards Let's Get Dangerous! Adapted Out Spared by the Adaptation Badass Bookworm Intergenerational Friendship Honor Before Reason Red Oni, Blue Oni Romantic Comedy Historical Villain Upgrade Dressing as the Enemy Dogged Nice Guy Famous Last Words Psychological Thriller Maybe Ever After Pre-Mortem One-Liner Whole Plot Reference Ambiguously Gay I'm a Humanitarian Disney Villain Death Wrong Genre Savvy I Have Your Wife Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Not So Different Heroes Want Redheads Neck Lift The Bad Guy Wins Homage Heroic Sacrifice Amoral Attorney Rich Bitch Recycled IN SPACE! Wham Line No Celebrities Were Harmed Mugging the Monster Villain Protagonist Genre Savvy "The Reason You Suck" Speech You Have Failed Me As the Good Book Says... Guns Akimbo Double Entendre O.O.C. 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Peek-a-Boo Corpse Here We Go Again! Suspiciously Specific Denial The Stinger The Oner Bond One-Liner Abusive Parents Children Are Innocent Didn't Think This Through Pretty in Mink Adaptation Expansion Call-Forward Epic Fail Ripped from the Headlines Expository Hairstyle Change Flashback Domestic Abuse Camp Gay Works Set in World War II Extreme Doormat Hoist by His Own Petard Naked People Are Funny The Smurfette Principle Dark and Troubled Past Nothing Is Scarier Break the Cutie I Did What I Had to Do Vampire Fiction Only a Flesh Wound Almost Kiss Canadian Movies Attempted Rape Big Fancy House Flipping the Bird The Dog Bites Back Male Gaze Manipulative Bastard Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Deus ex Machina Vomit Indiscretion Shot Would Hurt a Child The Ghost All Girls Want Bad Boys Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Neck Snap Action Prologue The Cavalry Every Car Is a Pinto Protagonist Title Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Science Fiction Films Henpecked Husband Television Movie Index Awesome, but Impractical Breaking the Fourth Wall Red Shirt Funny Foreigner Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Coming-of-Age Story The Hero Male Frontal Nudity Leave the Camera Running Insane Troll Logic Throwing Your Sword Always Works Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Your Head A-Splode Badass in a Nice Suit Brother–Sister Incest Cold-Blooded Torture Dramatic Gun Cock Have a Gay Old Time Meaningful Background Event Novelization Sci-Fi Horror Author Appeal Malevolent Masked Men Men Are the Expendable Gender Downer Ending Villain Song Big Eater Grievous Bottley Harm Karmic Death Costume Porn Advertised Extra Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Room Full of Crazy Knife Nut Blackmail Early Installment Weirdness No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! It Will Never Catch On Friend to All Children Military and Warfare Films More Dakka Adaptational Attractiveness Stock Footage Diabolus ex Machina Unusually Uninteresting Sight Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Serious Business Foil Adults Are Useless Did Not Get the Girl Plucky Comic Relief Dark Reprise "Well Done, Son!" Guy Blood from the Mouth The '70s Overly Long Gag Get Out! Sequel Hook Line-of-Sight Name La Résistance Stuff Blowing Up The '50s Defiant to the End An Arm and a Leg Butt-Monkey Taking the Bullet No Name Given Sacrificial Lion Title Drop The Place Country Matters timeperiod Intrepid Reporter Re-Cut Faux Affably Evil Chewing the Scenery Needs Wiki Magic Love Silence Is Golden Big Damn Heroes Beta Couple Early-Bird Cameo The Quiet One One-Man Army Loads and Loads of Characters Those Two Guys A Father to His Men Double-Meaning Title The Stoner Body Horror Air-Vent Passageway Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Artistic License – Biology Sadistic Choice Shower Scene Due to the Dead Time Skip Shirtless Scene Random Events Plot Mundane Made Awesome Catch-Phrase All for Nothing Stalker with a Crush Villainous Breakdown Tagline Show Within a Show An Aesop Drill Sergeant Nasty Exactly What It Says on the Tin Antagonist Title Gold Digger Smug Snake The Film of the Book Evil Plan Aluminum Christmas Trees Running Gag Slasher Movie Wounded Gazelle Gambit Animated Credits Opening Alas, Poor Villain It Can Think Bolivian Army Ending I Need a Freaking Drink Those Two Bad Guys Bound and Gagged Spiritual Successor Historical In-Joke Tap on the Head Author Avatar Politically Incorrect Villain Rasputinian Death Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Took a Level in Badass Suddenly SHOUTING! Establishing Character Moment Race Against the Clock Rule of Funny Slashed Throat Black Best Friend The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The X of Y Tempting Fate Danny Peary Cult Movies List