Tropescilloscope: Bloodless Carnage

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

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