Tropescilloscope: Bloodless Carnage

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

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