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A subtrope of [[He's Dead, Jim]].

 

 

A stream of blood trickling from the mouth is also a shorthand for "I am a vampire".

** 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.

** 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 ''[[Bobobo Bobobobo|Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo]]'', where pretty much every attack causes characters to spew ridiculous amounts of blood.

* Played with in ''[[Pandora Hearts (Manga)|Pandora Hearts]]'': Break sometimes does this after a battle, but it doesn't mean he's lost; in fact, it's a pretty good sign that he just [[Curb Stomp Battle|stomped someone into the ground]] with Mad Hatter. It's just that using Hatter puts such a strain on his body that he'll probably be dead in a year.

* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin (Anime)|Rurouni Kenshin]]''

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

* Hyatt from ''[[Excel Saga (Manga)|Excel Saga]]'' does this ''constantly''. She also has the tendency to die, sometimes ''from'' this; in the final episode, she [[High-Pressure Blood|bleeds so much]] from her mouth that the ''world floods''.

* 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.

* 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]]'':

** 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.

* In the [[Sega CD]] game [[Snatcher]], the Benson that turns out not to be a snatcher begins to bleed from the mouth as he says his final words to Gillian. The blood is a modest drip; which is strange considering his injuries are so devastating, that Metal Gear Mk. II can't even get the words out.

* 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 the ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' Fighting Game by Capcom, if you finish off your opponent with a Super Move, you are treated to a Manga style (complete with black and white shading) close up of your opponent's face, generally with blood coming out the mouth, very satisfying to see, too!

* 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.

** It's also a symptom of tuberculosis.

** And not the little dribble of blood normally used in the trope either. There was a ''lot'' of bleeding from the mouth involved.

* Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan I invoked this to avoid an assassination/usurpation attempt by his stepmother Empress Nur Jahan. He faked an illness over a period of about three weeks while various officials of the court visited him. On the morning of day one of the closest to his stepmother visited, he allegedly drank three goblets of goats blood, then vomited it up while the official was with him, faking his death well enough to fool the doctors attending him.

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