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[[File:EV_CO06A_1_omdEV CO06A 1 omd.jpg|link=Ever 17|frame|Well, ''that's'' not a good sign.]]
 
{{quote|''Thou lov'st me not; for, brother, if thou didst,
''Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood
''That glues my lips and will not let me speak.
''Come quickly, Montague, or I am dead.''|'''Part Three of Henry VI''', Act V, Scene 2}}
|'''Part Three of Henry VI''', Act V, Scene 2}}
 
A character is either dying or badly injured when they start bleeding from the mouth.
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** He somehow does it ''through a face-concealing mask'' in his later fight with Grimmjow.
** Censorship in the anime gets a bit silly with this. When Uryu's stomach is destroyed by Szayel Aporro, blood pours out of his mouth; in the anime, WATER comes out instead.
** [[Fan Nickname|Captain Tuberculosis]]--better—better known as Ukitake--doesUkitake—does this on a regular basis because of, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well, what do]] [[wikipedia:Tuberculosis|you think]]?
** In Chapter 392, Hinamori has a bit of a trickle, though considering she had just been stabbed in the chest, she had a good reason.
* Hilariously done in the manga version of ''[[Bobobobo Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo|Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo]]'', where pretty much every attack causes characters to spew ridiculous amounts of blood.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]''
** Happens a few times in the final story arc. Whenever one of their monsters are destroyed, many of the characters cough up a small amount of blood, often shortly before dying. The most extreme example would be ''Bakura (or at least one of the numerous versions of him), who, upon losing a duel against Yuugi, coughs up a huge glob of blood, not long before dying''.
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* Subverted in ''Metal Armor Dragonar'', in which a somewhat minor [[Humongous Mecha]] pilot is shown coughing up blood constantly within the two episodes he is in. However, getting blown up when his giant robot is destroyed is what finally does him in.
* The dying type shows up a few times in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', most notably when Keiichi is shot by Takano.
* Since the demons of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' have the ability to regenerate, this trope is often used to show when someone's given them a serious blow. It's rarely used for humans, however--thehowever—the only time is when Mary Magdalene is given a fatal blow by Aion in the manga.
* ''[[Madlax]]'' ascends to [[Nigh Invulnerability]] towards the end of the series (through being just that [[Badass]], no kidding) but does Blood From the Mouth to demonstrate to the [[Big Bad]] that inside, she is still a human being. [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|It's symbolic, really.]]
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'':
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* This is shown to be a symptom of the virus in the manga ''[[Bloody Monday]]'', as well as that of those suffering from neutron radiation.
* Happens at least twice in ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]'', when Fujino was dying due to her appendicitis, and when Araya was impaled by Shiki.
* ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu noMagical Index]]'': Index, in bit of a creepy moment when she's in her 'self defense' personality, is going through the magical requirement to heal her slashed internal organs - and hello proper reason to actually have such bleeding. She's trying to get Komoe to perform magic when she pauses to cough up blood and then instantly continues in her former robotic manner.
* Played with in ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]''.
** Towards the end of the first season, after November 11 has killed his treacherous boss, he's seen staggering down the street, trying to get call someone on his cell phone. He stops and coughs up blood, and smiles sadly--thensadly—then the camera angle changes to show that he's been shot in the stomach and there's blood all over his suit. Blood From the Mouth was the least of his worries.
** Also happens to Havoc earlier in the season when November 11 kills her.
* ''[[Rave Master]]'' abuses this one. In a ''sword fighting manga'' blood from the mouth is more common than ''cuts''.
* ''[[Soul Eater]]''
** This happens occasionally. Notable examples include when [[Super OCD|DeathTheKid]] realised he'd had part of his hair cut (makeing it [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|asymetrical]]), Maka after the fight with [[Big Badass Wolf|Free]] on London Bridge, where the blood was black, indicating she was affected by...[[The Corruption|black blood]]] and Mifune after being defeated by Black Star for the third time in the anime he lives, in the manga he does not.
** In the anime, the [[Weird Moon|moon]] constantly has blood dripping out of the corner of its mouth. [[Trailers Always Lie|Except in the opening]].
* In ''[[Ookamikakushi]]'', Shigetsu bleeds heavily from the mouth before dying.
* Alice in ''[[RODR.O.D the TV]]'' after getting [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|the mother of all papercuts]].
** Also Ikkyu Soujun in the OVA when Nancy squeezes his heart.
* In the ''[[Love Hina]]'' manga, Keitaro [[Crash Into Hello|crashes into]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Mutsumi]], knocking her over. Keitaro apologzes, then sees that blood is trickling from her nose and mouth. This, combined with her (temporarily) [[Blank White Eyes]] ([[Fridge Logic|plus the fact that she seems to have no pulse]]) convinces Keitaro and Naru that she has died. Of course, it's really just one of her fainting spells.
* Happens in ''[[Gintama]]'' particularly when Gintoki takes [https://web.archive.org/web/20090406173217/http://www.onemanga.com/Gintama/90/13/ a serious] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090407081149/http://www.onemanga.com/Gintama/90/14/ body shot]. He always [[Unexplained Recovery|gets better]].
* In ''[[Hellsing]]'', Alucard causes this to happen to Rip Van Winkle when he is killing her.
* In ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'' after Kazune finally [[Heroic RROD|pushes himself too far]] while fighting the [[Big Bad]], he coughs up blood, and then continues bleeding from the nose and mouth for a while afterwards.
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* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', Siphon suffers this before the end.
 
== [[Fan FictionWorks]] ==
* Happens to Mercutio in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6063565/1/Pattern_Broke this] Romeo and Juliet fanfic.
* A less serious variety happens in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5036837/4/Its_A_Grand_Old_Team_to_Play_For this] [[Digimon Adventure]] fanfic in chapter 4. Tai gets kicked in the face during a major soccer match and notices something's wrong when he spits out blood. He's forced to leave the game because of it.
* In the ''[[Tamers Forever Series]]'', Takato's deteriorating health is shown from him coughing up blood several times during ''Silent Sorrow''. During his torture by the Kurasarimon, the author showed he was [[Darker and Edgier|Not Pulling His Punches]] by using this (more so even than Takato's screams of agony).
* Happens to both Patchouli Knowledge (though she was just badly injured) and Koakuma in the Touhou fanfic [http://flygonmaster122.deviantart.com/art/Scarlet-in-Black-Part-1-295004758 Scarlet in Black]{{Dead link}}'s first part.
* ''[https://www.wattpad.com/story/163260272-astral-journey-it's-complicated Astral Journey: It's Complicated]'', [[Spice Girls]] FanFic, the narrator (Emma) is bleeding from the mouth thanks to what happen. [[Alanis Morissette| Alanis]] is also seen coughing up blood, {{Spoiler|but she gets better.}}
 
 
== Film ==
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* In ''[[The Bucket List]]'', Edward confirms he has cancer when he coughs up blood into a handkerchief.
* In ''[[Blade Runner]]'', blood flows from Deckard's mouth into a backlit shot glass. Possibly the most beautiful Blood From the Mouth scene ever shot.
* After being impaled by Shelob in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Frodo starts frothing from the mouth before collapsing.
** Boromir has blood from the mouth when he gets shot by multiple arrows.
* In ''The Silence of the Lambs'' Buffalo Bill coughs up some blood right after Clarice shoots him.
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** And Rawne coughs up some when a Chaos sorcerer is trying to control him.
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Ravenor]]'' novels, [[Language of Magic|Enucia]] is so horrifically chaos-warped that using it often causes bleeding at the mouth.
* In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', 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 ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince (novel)|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.
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] novel ''[[Brothers of the Snake]]'', the seriousness of Inquisitor Mabuse's injuries shown by having him bleed at the mouth though he lives long enough to provide the Marines with evidence that they were working for him.
* [[Older Than They Think]]! In Act V, Scene 2 of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] Henry VI, Part 3, as Warwick dies he complains that he cannot speak clearly for all the blood and sticky stuff erupting from his mouth.
* Even older than that. ''[[The Song of Roland]]'' has the titular character blow a horn so hard he gives himself an aneurysm. A stream of blood flies out through the horn, and his brains start leaking from his ears. Roland wanders around a bit more, pays his respects to his fallen, climbs a hill, tries to destroy his sword, ''fails'' and destroys a very large rock instead, [[The Runt At the End|kills one more stray bad guy by bashing him with the horn]], and symbolically faces the land yet to be conquered before the cranial hemmorhaging and displaced brains catch up with him.
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Ultramarines (novel)|Ultramarines]] novel ''The Warriors of Ultramar'', the [[Blood Magic]] used by the Mortifactors causes Blood From the Mouth for a seer -- revoltingseer—revolting the Ultramarines who witness it.
** In ''Dead Sky Black Sun'', Leonid coughs up blood. While he fights on, it is not much later when he persuades Uriel to [[No One Gets Left Behind|leave him]], because he will only slow them and die.
* In William King's [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Space Wolf]] novel ''Wolfblade'', [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|the invasion of the house]] begins with [[The Mole]] shooting a guard, who bleeds from the mouth.
** In Lee Lightner's ''Sons of Fenris'', when Jeremiah fights Cadmus, blood from Cadmus's mouth is the sign that he got in a telling blood -- thoughblood—though he is actually killed by the next blow.
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''Legion'', questioning a wounded Nurthene ends when he bleeds from the mouth and dies.
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] novel ''Storm of Iron'', the Chaos sorcerer Kelmaur bleeds from not just the mouth but from every orifice in his head when his scrying leads to a psychic attack.
* In [[James Swallow]]'s [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Blood Angels]] novel ''Red Fury'', Corvus dies with blood forming a pink froth at his mouth -- thenmouth—then, his throat had been cut.
* In [[James Swallow]]'s [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] novel ''Faith & Fire'', when Vaun is hit with a psycannon, he coughs a red mist.
* A strange subversion happened in a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel: Fitz smokes thirty a day, so maybe it's no huge surprise when he suddenly starts coughing up blood for no reason in particular. The weird thing is that it's [[What Happened to the Mouse?|never brought up again]] and whatever was the matter with him apparently clears itself up between books.
* Played with in [[Darkness Visible]] - when putting his brain under extreme stress, Lewis bleeds from the nose and the eyes, but not actually from the mouth. The sense of this being a [[Oh Crap|Bad Thing]] remains the same.
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** It's probably not the first time Mike has done this; before the game starts while Tim is lecturing Mike not to take things too seriously and get himself banned again, one of the things he tells him is "not to eat the paintballs".
* After Archie Kennedy is shot in "Retribution" (the 6th ''[[Horatio Hornblower]]'' TV movie). He lasts long enough to perform a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], however.
** Earlier in the series, this is used after Clayton and Simpson's duel -- atduel—at first Simpson collapses and Clayton appears uninjured, but then a trickle of blood comes from his mouth and it turns out he's been fatally shot.
* And, providing proof that being a Jamie Bamber fangirl means a hard, hard life, 10 years later [[Law and Order UK]] sent off Matt Devlin in nearly the exact same manner as Archie. The last we see of him on screen in "Deal", he's bleeding from the mouth (and elsewhere); in the beginning of the next episode, "Survivor's Guilt", we are told he died of his wounds.
* This is used literally almost every episode in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''.
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* In the last episode of [[Choujin Sentai Jetman]], Radiguet's otherwise-unstoppable [[One-Winged Angel]] 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..
* Chris's death in the second series of the British ''[[Skins]]''.
* From an episode of ''Forensic Files'', where a teenager has killed his father :<ref> I only saw the 911 transcript so it's possible the body was right next to the door</ref>:
{{quote|'''Killer''': I think he's dead! I see blood around his mouth!
'''911 Operator''': Okay, where is he?
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* The first ''[[Mega Man X]]'' game has Zero with blood/mech fluid/oil/some red substance running from the corner of his mouth after sacrificing himself to destroy Vile's Ride Armor. Notably, he does not bleed from anywhere else despite having been [[Half the Man He Used To Be|torn in half]].
* In ''[[Breath of Fire IV]]'', resident [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] [[God-Emperor]] Fou-lu has this after his [[Fantastic Nuke|Hex Nuking]]. In fact, it's copious enough that it ''also'' counts as a [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]].
** In the manga adaptation of ''IV'', Fou-lu has this after his Hex Nuking ''and'' after being [[Back Stab|Back Stabbed]]bed with an [[Evil Weapon]] by [[The Emperor]] Soniel. (The manga depiction is far [[Bloodier and Gorier]] than in game, and is an apparent [[Take That]] to the outright [[Bowdlerization]] of this scene altogether from international versions of the game.)
* In ''[[Prince of Persia]]: The Sands of Tim''e, in the first few cutscenes the Vizier is shown coughing violently, getting blood in his handkerchief. Since he wasn't in a fight beforehand and this has nothing to do with his later death - either of them - it may fall under [[Vader Breath]].
** Actually, this particular case of Blood From the Mouth ''is'' death related. Specifically, the Vizier knew he was dying, which was part of his motivation for finding the Sands, and thus immortality. I'm sure the whole ultimate-god-like-power thing also had something to do with it, though.
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* In ''[[Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]]'', Hanna throws up quite a bit of blood pretty early on in the story. Subverted in that he doesn't die / isn't apparently dying and is pretty fine afterwards.
* [[Homestuck]] features [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005770 five] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005233 instances] so far.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130826062148/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006500 And a sixth time,] though in this case, it's more a matter of getting conked on the head and spitting out teeth than any kind of serious injury.
* Seen in [[Juathuur]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20190711031615/http://oneway.juathuur.com/1/?strip_id=140 here]. He survives, barely.
* Fairly common so far in [[Shadownova]], despite the comic still being fairly new. So far it seems to be justified in most cases. Karen is impaled on a pointy bit of metal and while Carver and Scruffy both only seem to have light external injuries when you conider that the both crawled out of the wreckage of a destroyed building damage from shockwaves and hits from falling debris isn't really a stretch. In Cam's case it's made obvious it's just a split lip.
* Valeska Köhler in ''[[Panthera]]'', as seen [http://www.pantheracomic.com/?p=1334 here].
* Seen a few times in [[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle for Hire. In one of the more memorable instances, Szark's infernal wound acts up and causes him to yark blood in his parents' living room. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20101216000137/http://dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2006-02-16 It's the last thing Dominic needs.] It's non-fatal, though, and he even apologizes for the carpet he ruined.
* In Mitadake Saga, Koji spits up blood after being stabbed.
* {{spoiler|Page 627}} of [[Haru-Sari]] has {{spoiler|June}} throwing up a LOT of blood.
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** More reasonable to assume it's a split lip, or accidentally biting his tongue or cheek hard enough to draw blood when he gets hit, especially since they seem to come more often after blows to the face.
*** That and the fact his mouth is the only visible part of his body. This was even [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] at one time in a comic where after fighting Clayface, an unmasked Bruce showed he had received a black eye from their confrontation, (as well as several other bruises around his chest and torso); something that his [[Expressive Mask]] covered up.
* [[Animation Age Ghetto|Amazingly,]] the cosmetic variety is even found in [[The Powerpuff Girls]], in the episode Bubblevicious. [[Genki Girl|Bubbles]] is trying to prove she's [[Badass|hardcore]], and so turns the this-episode-only-training-chamber [[Up to Eleven]]. [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|After taking a significant beating]] from the simulations (somehow), she has a small trickle of blood running from her mouth (though the lighting purposefully makes this difficult to see), which she wipes off, right before [[Unstoppable Rage|unleashing all hell]] on the simulated monsters. [[Beware the Nice Ones]], [[Took a Level Inin Badass|indeed.]]
** In the intro, Him spits out a bunch of teeth and a little blood from a kick in the face from Bubbles, though it could be coming from his nose.
* In an episode of [[Metalocalypse]], Nathan vomits blood after seeing the others vomit. It turns out he has a bad liver and gets it replaced later on.
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* Attila the Hun actually died this way. It's unknown exactly why he died but he was found drowning in his own internal blood.
* [[Truth in Television]] for anyone who's done high school wrestling, in which it's common for wrestlers to be wearing metal braces, and one of the principal moves is the cross-face, which is basically a jab across your opponent's mouth. There are mouth pieces designed to prevent this, but most eschew them because it makes it harder to breathe. Most teams have, during a match, at least one person on duty just to clean up blood from the mat.
* When President [[Ronald Reagan]] was shot in 1981, the Secret Service agents whisking him away didn't immediately know he had been hit--untilhit—until he started spitting up blood, whereupon the limo was diverted to the hospital. Reagan survived a bullet wound in his lung.
* When Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot by Gavrilo Princip at Sarajevo in 1914, the fatal bullet entered the Archduke's neck under his tunic collar, severing his jugular vein and badly damaging his trachea (windpipe) before lodging in his spine. This caused blood to spray out forcefully from his mouth, striking one of his staff officers in the cheek. His wife, Duchess Sophie, saw that and cried out, "For heaven's sake, what's happened to you", before collapsing to the floor of the automobile, the victim of a bullet in the abdomen which caused her death within minutes from massive internal bleeding.
* Several serious lung conditions, including pleural effusion (fluid in the lung cavity) and pneumothorax (air between the lung and the chest wall, collapsing the lung) present with pinkish-red, frothy sputum as a critical sign. When a patient actually bleeds from the mouth, it's usually from ruptured esophageal varices (swollen, fragile blood vessels in the esophagus) in the context of liver failure. Neither situation is anything to laugh off, as you can't breathe with a collapsed lung, and you can lose a major portion of your blood volume from bleeding varices very quickly.
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