Basic Trope: Character bleeds from the mouth to show seriousness of their illness/injury.
- Straight: Alice coughs blood after few weeks of Incurable Cough of Death.
- Exaggerated: Alice catches a cold. The amount of blood spilled is roughly equal to that of lethal radiation poisoning.
- Downplayed: Alice takes an Enhanced Punch to the gut. She has just enough blood for one Spiteful Spit.
- Justified:
- Alice, the Badass Normal, was Punched Across the Room by the Flying Brick General Drake and took internal injuries from the blow.
- Alice got hit in the mouth, busting her lip.
- Inverted: Alice uses blood to attack her enemies.
- Subverted: Alice suffers blunt trauma that would otherwise cause such consequences for average human. She walks it off...
- Double Subverted: ... And then kneels in pain, spitting blood all over the floor.
- Parodied: Vampire Alice suffers from a disease that combines Overdrawn at the Blood Bank with Bloody Hilarious. Hilarity Ensues.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: A character with a serious injury does not bleed from their mouth.
- Enforced: "We must show the audience how dire the situation is! We have some room for blood in each episode, but open injuries are a no-no. I know, let's make Alice cough blood!"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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