Tropescilloscope: Bloodless Carnage

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

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Canon Foreigner Very Loosely Based on a True Story Casting Gag Film Noir Index Sinister Minister I Have Your Wife Older Than They Look Femme Fatale Not So Different World of Ham Hero of Another Story Covers Always Lie Adaptation Distillation Foregone Conclusion Fun with Acronyms Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Amoral Attorney As Long as It Sounds Foreign Catch-Phrase The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Product Placement The '60s Artistic License – Law Pretty Little Headshots Time Skip Setting Update Darker and Edgier For Want of a Nail N-Word Privileges Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Science Fiction Films Sports Stories War Is Hell Visual Pun Early-Bird Cameo Hidden Depths Destination Defenestration Small Name, Big Ego The '80s Better to Die than Be Killed Plot Hole Man on Fire Body Horror Adaptation Expansion The Un-Reveal Mad Scientist Calling the Old Man Out Cool Car Crucified Hero Shot Pragmatic Adaptation Evil Is Petty Romantic False Lead Domestic Abuse Manipulative Bastard Recycled IN SPACE! Dumb Blonde Only Known by Their Nickname Rated M for Manly The X of Y Same Language Dub Five-Man Band Breaking the Fourth Wall Tagline Tap on the Head Break the Haughty Self-Deprecation Nice Hat Black Dude Dies First Funny Foreigner Neck Lift Defrosting Ice Queen Spiritual Successor The End... Or Is It? Frame-Up Historical Hero Upgrade Married to the Job Parental Substitute Only a Flesh Wound Ship Tease Not So Stoic Comically Missing the Point Extreme Doormat Dutch Angle Heroic BSoD Made of Iron Not What It Looks Like Action Prologue I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Intergenerational Friendship Faux Affably Evil Artistic License – Biology Cool Guns Not Using the "Z" Word Badass in a Nice Suit Improvised Weapon Blatant Lies Alliterative Name Henpecked Husband Gilligan Cut Bloodier and Gorier Left the Background Music On The Stinger Fourth Date Marriage Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Is Serious Business Parental Abandonment Poor Communication Kills Crazy Jealous Guy Damsel in Distress Improbable Weapon User Fake Shemp Punny Name Big Bad Duumvirate Those Two Guys Lampshade Hanging Oh, Crap! Corpsing Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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One-Man Army In Medias Res Leaning on the Fourth Wall Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Interrupted Suicide Dropped a Bridge on Him The Vamp Bavarian Fire Drill Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Chewing the Scenery Adults Are Useless Retcon Adorkable Non-Indicative Name Accidental Misnaming Evil vs. Evil I'm a Humanitarian Sadistic Choice Fanservice Morality Pet Jerk with a Heart of Gold Agony of the Feet Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Artistic License – Military Call-Back All Girls Want Bad Boys Rule of Cool Bottomless Magazines My Greatest Failure Character Development Knife Nut Rasputinian Death Music Stories Pay Evil unto Evil No Antagonist And I Must Scream Crapsack World Belligerent Sexual Tension Fatal Flaw The Stoic How We Got Here Artistic License – History Dogged Nice Guy You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Rewatch Bonus Jitter Cam Sequel Hook Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Sir Swears-a-Lot Karmic Death Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Ambiguous Disorder Obstructive Bureaucrat You Killed My Father Rule of Funny Would Hurt a Child Ass Shove Bring My Brown Pants The Dog Bites Back No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sole Survivor Naked People Are Funny Cassandra Truth Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Plucky Comic Relief Italian Films Adaptational Attractiveness Idiot Ball Sassy Black Woman Eyepatch of Power The Film of the Book Cat Fight Call-Forward Stealth Hi/Bye Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Nothing Is Scarier Moment Killer Bullying a Dragon Red Shirt Reckless Gun Usage Pet the Dog Celebrity Paradox Funny Background Event Double Entendre Vomit Indiscretion Shot Off with His Head! My Beloved Smother Slasher Movie Heroic Sacrifice Love Triangle Good Is Not Nice Arch-Enemy Betty and Veronica Blood Knight Handicapped Badass The Big Guy Red Right Hand Get Out! 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The Great Depression Never My Fault Creative Closing Credits Our Zombies Are Different Chekhov's Skill Peek-a-Boo Corpse Tempting Fate Villain with Good Publicity Actually Pretty Funny Take a Third Option Abusive Parents Serial Killer Fish out of Water Unresolved Sexual Tension Intrepid Reporter German Films A God Am I Beard of Evil Ominous Latin Chanting Word of God Together in Death Maybe Ever After Your Cheating Heart Four-Temperament Ensemble Black and Gray Morality Show Within a Show Fire-Forged Friends Rape as Drama Anachronic Order Jerk Jock Dying Moment of Awesome Token Minority Slap-Slap-Kiss Villain Opening Scene Unreliable Narrator Dissonant Serenity A Father to His Men Real Life Ambiguous Ending Villain Song Does Not Like Shoes Blood from the Mouth Roaring Rampage of Revenge The '70s Disney Death Black Best Friend The Hero Adult Fear Honor Before Reason Men Are the Expendable Gender Deal with the Devil Soundtrack Dissonance Pyrrhic Victory Naïve Newcomer Fan Disservice Hate Sink The Faceless Slasher Smile Shown Their Work Those Wacky Nazis Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Cat Scare Card-Carrying Villain Put on a Bus Animated Credits Opening Insistent Terminology Stalker with a Crush Mercy Kill Hollywood Darkness Humiliation Conga Mythology Gag He Knows Too Much Anachronism Stew Kill 'em All "Well Done, Son!" 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Epilogue Captain Obvious Closed Circle Bald of Evil You Have Failed Me Fat Bastard The Load In the Back Cool Old Guy Nice Guy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Motor Mouth