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{{quote|''There's a saying in interrogation: "Violence perceived is violence achieved."''
Blood or brains are seen splattering against a wall and the rest is left to the imagination.
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Sometimes, a variation occurs where blood seeps out of the bottom crack of a door or some opening in order to imply that someone is either severely wounded or killed.
The Western usage is also to show violence but still keep the rating PG-13 so as to reach a wider audience than an R-rating would. It may also be done for budgetary reasons: red
Combine it with [[Bloodless Carnage]], and you get the [[Sound-Only Death]]—the audience ''hears'' the gunshot and the body hitting the deck, but what they ''see'' is (for instance) the victim's hat falling to the ground with a hole through it. Or the killer walks through a door and we hear gunshots and screams after it closes behind him. Also crosses paths frequently with [[Scream Discretion Shot]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[So Ra No Wo To]]'', Filicia's old tank platoon's communications officer, Anna, is killed by a HEAT round (along with everyone else). The viewer gets a [[Lightning Reveal]] of Anna's arm, still holding her trumpet, protruding from under a heap of twisted metal.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', Harry, Hermione and Ron looked away when {{spoiler|Buckbeak was being slaughtered}}. This, of course, serves the narrative purpose of {{spoiler|preventing them from seeing Harry and Hermione's future selves rescue Buckbeak.}}
* ''[[Narnia|The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'': "The children did not see the actual moment of the killing. They couldn't bear to look and had covered their eyes."
* Apparently [[Older Than Radio]] in ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'', when Huck and Jim come across the [[Haunted Headquarters|House of Death]]. There's a dead body inside the house, and Jim goes to investigate, leaving Huck ([[Take Our Word for It|and also the reader]], as Huck is the [[Unreliable Narrator|narrator]]) to the side. All we learn of the body is what Jim tells Huck: He was shot in the back, dead for two or three days and [[Nightmare Fuel|naked]].
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