Basic Trope: A character throws up, but the actual act is offscreen.
- Straight: Bob is about to throw up, but the camera switches to Alice witnessing Bob throwing up.
- Exaggerated: It's not even clear why Bob ran off-camera in the first place; only Word of God has confirmed he threw up.
- Downplayed:
- Bob throws up into a toilet/bucket/garbage can onscreen. None of the actual vomit is shown, but the sound is heard.
- Bob throws up onto the ground onscreen, but the camera only shows him from a far distance as he does so.
- Bob throws up onto the ground onscreen, but he (and his vomit) is only rendered in silhouette as he does so.
- Bob doesn't actually puke, but he looks like he's about to.
- Justified: Bob didn't want to throw up in front of anyone.
- Inverted: Vomit Indiscretion Shot. Like Vomit Discretion Shot, but the vomit is shown.
- Subverted: Bob runs offscreen to puke, but the next shot shows him explicitly about to throw up.
- Double Subverted: Alice comes in to tell the viewers, "Hey, you don't wanna see that!"
- Parodied: The sounds made when Bob throws up are cartoony-sounding.
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes vomiting is shown offscreen in this work. Sometimes it isn't.
- Averted: There is no vomiting.
- Enforced:
- The work calls for a scene in which vomiting might be expected, but the author is too grossed out by explicit vomiting and therefore only wants it implied.
- Likewise, viewers might find a Vomit Indiscretion Shot too disgusting.
- Actual vomiting is not allowed to be shown in the work for whatever reason.
- Lampshaded: "Ew, Bob threw up!"
- Invoked: Bob is about to throw up, but he runs off-camera to do so.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Bob refuses to vomit off-camera.
- Right when the camera changes to Alice, she switches the camera back to Bob.
- Discussed: "I think Bob threw up."
- Conversed: "I wonder why they didn't show him throwing up."
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