Tropescilloscope: Bloodless Carnage

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

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