History Main / BloodFromTheMouth

* ''{{Ever17}}'' features a (usually) fatal disease called Tief Blau, the primary symptom of which seems to be coughing up and sneezing blood. Until you choke to death on it, usually clawing your throat out at the same time.

* Unsurprisingly, Okita Souji in ''VideoGame/{{Hakuouki}}'' inevitably starts coughing up blood as his tuberculosis sets in. In his final bad ending, he takes a sword to the chest and bleeds from the mouth (in addition to bleeding copiously from the actual wound) as he dies.

Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood\\

* Brilliantly played with in ''[[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld Scott Pilgrim]]''. Instead of bleeding from the mouth, people [[MoneySpider spit out coins.]] (The movie is styled as a living video game.)

* Happens to Lance in ''{{Sym-Bionic Titan}}'' after getting a JackBauerInterrogation onboard G3's ship. Although it appears to be black blood, it's still quite shocking when you consider this show originally aired on CartoonNetwork (which made it less out-of-place on {{Toonami}}).

* In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', the death of Severus Snape is preceded by both blood and the silver fluid of a memory bubbling out of his mouth. As well as this, in ''HarryPotter/{{Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}'', Harry is described as wiping a trickle of blood from Dumbledore's mouth after the latter is hit with a Killing Curse and blasted off the Astronomy Tower.

* The father from ''TheRoad'' coughs through most of the movie, but his fate becomes absolutely apparent when he coughs out a large amount of blood near the end.

See also: FirstBlood, SoapOperaDisease and IncurableCoughOfDeath. Saying ImColdSoCold is another very bad sign. Occasionally overlaps with DeadlyNosebleed. Not generally related to the PsychicNosebleed; combine the two and get BloodFromEveryOrifice. If it's the only sign the character gives that they're injured, it's a MortalWoundReveal. Blood from the mouth is also an increasingly popular way to show damage taken from a DeadlyUpgrade, or over reliance on a SuperMode.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Well, ''that's'' not a good sign.]]

In RealLife, a coughing blood can indeed indicate life-threatening damage. It can result from organ and tissue damage from disease or trauma; punctures in the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts; and massive trauma to the body as a whole. This is an especially big warning if the lungs have been punctured, as the victim can drown in their own blood if not treated. As a death trope it's caused by any fatal injury, and is less a symptom than a signal to the audience that this dude's a goner. Much like the chest-clutching and doubling over in days of old, Blood From the Mouth is a sign of death that won't horrify us with the specifics, keeping our focus on the story itself.

-->-- '''Theatre/HenryVIPart3, Act V, Scene 2'''

In RealLife, a bloody mouth can indeed indicate life-threatening damage. It can result from organ and tissue damage from disease or trauma; punctures in the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts; and massive trauma to the body as a whole. This is an especially big warning if the lungs have been punctured as the victim can drown in their own blood if not treated. As a death trope it's caused by any fatal injury, and is less a symptom than a signal to the audience that this dude's a goner. Much like the chest-clutching and doubling over in days of old, Blood From the Mouth is a sign of death that won't horrify us with the specifics, keeping our focus on the story itself.

However, not all RealLife bloody mouths are immediately dangerous. Damage to the gums in a fistfight or getting blood in your throat due to a bloody nose can just as easily replicate the appearance. When it's not a death trope, blood around the mouth simply indicates the character has just taken a worse beating than usual. Our hero gets smacked around some and ends up with a bloody lip - not a big deal unless there's staggering involved. She might even spit out the blood defiantly, along with a tooth, just to showcase her resolve. Was that hit fatal? If the character wipes the blood away and it ''does not return'', it's cosmetic Blood From the Mouth. Expect to hear MyNameIsInigoMontoya any second now.

A stream of blood trickling from the mouth is also a shorthand for "I am a vampire."

!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

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* In ''TheCityHunter'', Young-ju is left drooling blood after a fatal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. In this case, however, the blood from the mouth is clearly from superficial wounds, and the least of his problems.

* ''[[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Batman Returns]]'' has the Penguin hacking up something nasty and black right before he finally dies.

* In ''TheCityHunter'', Young-ju is left drooling blood after a fatal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. In this case, however, the blood from the mouth is clearly from superficial wounds, and the least of his problems.

* In ''Series/BreakingBad'', it demonstrates that Walter's lung cancer is getting worse, convincing him that he needs to make the most of the time he has remaining.

* In ‘’Webcomic/{{UC}}’’, there is a non-lethal version with Nicodemus after some bullies [[http://www.wanderingchaos.com/uc/050504.html beat]] him up.

* In Wong-Kar Wai last movie "TheGrandmaster", Gong Er, played by Zhang Ziyi, spits blood on her white scarf.

* In Wong-Kar Wai last movie "The Grandmaster", Gong Er, played by Zhang Ziyi, spits blood on her white scarf.

* In the last episode of ''ChoujinSentaiJetman'', Radiguet's otherwise-unstoppable OneWingedAngel form is impaled through a weak spot on its back, and blood starts pouring from the mouth of the human face that's still there on his torso. Ya don't see ''that'' in Power Rangers..

* Pretty much every time a character in ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' got a nice hit in the gut, they'd fall to their knees and start hacking up blood. They are usually fine a few seconds later, strangely enough. It makes more sense in the dub, where the blood is edited out so that it seems like they are coughing just because the wind got knocked out of them.