Tropescilloscope: Bloodless Carnage

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

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