Tropescilloscope: Bloodless Carnage

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

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