Tropescilloscope: Bloodless Carnage

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

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