Tropescilloscope: Bloodless Carnage

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

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