Basic Trope: A nosebleed is used to indicate a character being aroused.
- Straight: Bob sees Alice in her underwear and blood starts gushing from his nose.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob sees Alice in her underwear and he passes out while the contents of his entire circulatory system evacuate his body through his nostrils.
- The above and Overdrawn at the Blood Bank.
- Downplayed: Bob sees Alice in her underwear and a little trickle of blood flows down from his nose. He quickly wipes it away.
- Justified: Bob has a medical condition.
- Inverted: Bob's nosebleed stops when he sees Alice in her underwear.
- Subverted: Bob sees Alice in her underwear and takes out a tissue to wipe his nose. He was actually wiping snot since he has a cold...
- Double Subverted: ...except Bob actually hadn't registered that Alice was in her underwear yet. Once he does his nose starts bleeding.
- Parodied: Bob gets high-pressure nosebleeds whenever he sees a girl in any situation. Nobody ever remarks on it.
- Zig Zagged: Bob gets nosebleeds around some of the girls he's attracted to, but not all of them.
- Averted:
- Aroused characters do not have nosebleeds.
- The characters aren't shown being aroused at all.
- Enforced: "We need a humorous, but non crude way to indicate that Bob finds Alice sexy."
- Lampshaded: "Jeez, why does Bob always get nosebleeds when I'm around?"
- Invoked: Charlie wants to ridicule Bob, so he sets up a situation in which Bob walks in on an undressing Alice, causing him to pass out from the blood loss.
- Exploited: Charlie needs a sample of Bob's blood, and takes advantage of him seeing Alice in her underwear to collect it.
- Defied: Bob sees Alice in her underwear. He immediately pinches his nose and rushes to the bathroom.
- Discussed: "You're going on a date with Alice? Try not to bleed all over her dress..."
- Conversed: "I'm so glad that my nose doesn't bleed whenever I see Alice. How can those anime characters live with this?"
- Implied: Bob is often seen wiping his nose when around attractive girls.
- Deconstructed: Bob's frequent nosebleeds have caused trouble, both for his personal life and his health.
- Reconstructed:
- Played For Laughs:
- Bob gets nosebleeds when in the presence of half-naked girls... and large amounts of food.
- The nosebleeds actually leave Bob's clothes bloodstained. The more they happen, the more drenched he looks.
- Bob gets nosebleeds whenever he's aroused, even if it's just "morning wood" or similar.
- Played For Drama:
- Bob's constant nosebleeds whenever Alice does anything slightly suggestive have strained the relationship between the two.
- The nosebleeds actually leave Bob's clothes bloodstained. He's later falsely accused of murder after finding a dead body and neglecting to change clothes.
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