Blood From the Mouth: Difference between revisions

However, not all [[Real Life]] 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 [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]] any second now.

 

 

See also: [[First Blood]], [[Soap Opera Disease]] and [[Incurable Cough of Death]]. Saying [[I'm Cold So Cold]] is another very bad sign. Occasionally overlaps with [[Deadly Nosebleed]]. Not generally related to the [[Psychic Nosebleed]]. If it's the only sign the character gives that they're injured, it's a [[Mortal Wound Reveal]]. Blood from the mouth is also an increasingly popular way to show damage taken from a [[Deadly Upgrade]], or over reliance on a [[Super Mode]].

 

=== '''As a [[Death Trope]], all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.''' ===

 

== Anime and Manga ==

** Sakura after being impaled with Sasori's sword. The preview has other characters talk like they're mourning her death, only to be interrupted: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Cut it out, you guys! I'm still here!"]]

* ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]''

** 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.

** Also happens with Sanosuke during his battle with Anji.

** Over the course of the ''Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal'' OVA, one of Kenshin's allies (erstwhile boss, really) Takasugi Shinsaku coughs up blood regularly, and eventually dies of his illness while overlooking a battlefield. [[Justified Trope|Completely justified]] in that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinsaku_Takasugi the actual historical figure the character is based on] also died of tuberculosis before the end of the Meiji Restoration.

* Pretty much every time a character in ''[[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.

** This happens so frequently that when a DBZ character hacks up blood, it's treated with about the same concern as if they just had the nonlethal, busted-lip variety. One notable instance was in the first Broly movie; blood is dripping down Broly's face, and he stares at his opponent...then abruptly smiles and licks it off, getting a fairly entertaining [[Squick]] reaction from Goku.

** Resident [[Ill Girl]] Chrome suffers from this whenever her illusionary organs give out. Immensely freakier in the manga where they actually ''show'' her coughing up quite a bit of blood.

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''

** Greed vomits up red stones ''and'' blood.

** Izumi coughs up a lot of blood due to her missing internal organs.

** [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|Evangeline McDowell]] displays this in an early arc after keeping Negi from [[Taking the Bullet|taking a stalactite]] meant for her. Of course for [[Red Baron|someone called the Undying Mage]], getting a sharp piece of stone marginally less wide than her torso rammed through her gut is a [[Good Thing You Can Heal|transitory irritation]].

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Gundam 00]]''

** Also happens to Sergei Smirnov, after his son "fatally wounds" his mobile suit. He is killed in the ensuing explosion.

* In ''[[Zombie Loan (Manga)|Zombie Loan]]'', Michiru exhibits this in the second episode. Although it's not as much of an indicator as the ''massive pool of blood'' around her after she [[Taking the Bullet|took a sword strike]] for another character. She got better.

* ''[[Rave Master (Manga)|Rave Master]]'' abuses this one. In a ''sword fighting manga'' blood from the mouth is more common than ''cuts''.

* ''[[Soul Eater (Manga)|Soul Eater]]''

** 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 ''[[Ookami Kakushi]]'', Shigetsu bleeds heavily from the mouth before dying.

* Subverted constantly in [[Berserk]]. Whenever Guts takes a massive blow from an enemy, especially if it slams him into the wall or floor, blood pours vigorously from his mouth, and he certainly appears dead most of these occasions. But ''[[Made of Iron|he never dies]].''

* ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler II]]'': Alois does this at the end of the 7th episode after being stabbed by Ciel.

* In ''[[Beyblade]]'', blood drips from Kai's mouth when he is battling Brooklyn.

* In ''[[Magical Pokaan]]'', ''[[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires|Pachira]]'' squirts out liters of blood... because she had athletes' foot.

* Tsukune from ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'' coughs up a decent quantity after getting his shoulder crushed via an enraged half-breed monstrel.

* Happens to Takiko in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden]]'', since she {{spoiler|caught TB after taking care of her mother, who died of the disease.}}

 

 

** 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 [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] novel ''[[Brothers of the Snake (Literature)|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.

* In [[James Swallow]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] [[Blood Angels (Literature)|Blood Angels]] novel ''Red Fury'', Corvus dies with blood forming a pink froth at his mouth -- then, his throat had been cut.

* In [[James Swallow]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] novel ''Faith & Fire'', when Vaun is hit with a psycannon, he coughs a red mist.

* 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.

* ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'':

* In ''[[The House of Night]]'' series, if a fledgeling vampyre gets the [[Incurable Cough of Death]], they will start coughing up blood, then they will die.

* The Spencer Dunmore novel 'Bomb Run' is about the crew of an RAF Lancaster in WWII. One of the gunners is injured by flak and when the others attempt to contact him he tries to speak 'but his mouth was full of blood.'

* In ''There Is a Happy Land'' by Keith Waterhouse, the [[Nameless Narrative|unidentified narrator]] finds Marian's body in this condition. It's implied that she had an extremely brutal and horrifying death, but the very young narrator [[Innocent Inaccurate|doesn't realise this.]]

* This is one effect of the fictional disease Chimera in the novel ''Gravity'' by Tess Garritsen.

== Live Action TV ==

* The death of Honey Harman in ''[[The Bill]]''

** 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.

* In ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', the dying Shingo Izumi has blood pouring from his mouth - though he's resurrected via a [[Puppeteer Parasite]] shortly afterwards.

** Later, Akira Date spits up blood after being injured by the Greeed, but he survives ''and'' is far less badly wounded than Shingo was.

* 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>:

'''911 Operator''': Okay, where is he?<br />

'''Killer''': He's in the bedroom and the door's locked! I can't get in!<br />

* The first season of the Australian drama ''[[Underbelly]]'' is ridiculously fond of this trope. Greg Workman, Alfonse Gangitano, Nick The Russian, Mark Moran, Dino Dibra, Paul 'PK' Kallipolitis and Carl Williams all get shot and end up with blood pouring from their mouths. Carl is the only one who survives, but to be fair he's the only one who receives a single bullet wound.

* [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]] - in the 'Church Police' sketch, a husband (Eric Idle) and wife (Terry Jones) bicker over dinner:

** Ryu has a very simillar experience long before that - blood from a mouth and a nightmare face, as Bosch stabbed him before he went "[[Oh Crap]]" as Ryu started to transform.

* The first ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|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 the manga adaptation of ''IV'', Fou-lu has this after his Hex Nuking ''and'' after being [[Back Stab|Back Stabbed]] 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]].

* At the end of ''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', Ganondorf coughs up blood as he collapses in defeat. In some versions this was changed to green.

* Used a couple of times in ''[[Last Scenario (Video Game)|Last Scenario]]'', once with the [[Sacrificial Lamb]] and once with Ortas, who turns out to be so badass that he can [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|still manage to put up a very good fight anyway]].

* In ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' there are several characters who die with blood from the mouth. Duke Larg and Duke Goltana both die coughing a burst of red pixels, and in his final character portrait, Islude is also portrayed as bleeding from the mouth.

* During the period [[Prototype (Video Game)|Alex Mercer]] is infected with the "Cure"/Supreme Hunter, he coughs up blood before collapsing during one of the cutscenes. [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|This doesn't actually mean he's any weaker than he was on the previous mission]], but it's a pretty big clue that if he doesn't get rid of it soon, it'll eat him alive. Yes, [[Person of Mass Destruction|Alex]] [[I Am a Humanitarian|Mercer]] [[Irony|being eaten alive]].

* In ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', a trickle of blood is coming from {{spoiler|Asch's}} mouth as he dies.

* ''[[Crisis Core (Video Game)|Crisis Core]]'': Zack bled all over the place, including from his mouth.