Should we separate swallowing the tongue from biting it? There might be cases where both happens.
Also should we change the name to something more general and broaden the description? There is an example where someone is killed by someone else by having his/her tongue removed. We could just leave it as is and claim it's close enough for Tropes Are Flexible to apply.
I think I'd support a rename something more inclusive. Suggestions: Death by Tongue, Extonguination?
Extonguination sounds like it might be referencing Exsanguination. But the death doesn't have to be blood loss. If someone bleeds and drowns or otherwise asphyxiates on their own blood, that counts too. If someone chokes on their tongue that also counts.
It wasn't intended to suggest death by blood loss. It was intended as a pun.
I thought that was the case. And I still think that might lead to confusion.
Hm. I think that would be a sister trope to this, with the key difference being that Tongue Trauma is non-fatal damage, where this is lethal.
Ah, okay. I suppose it would be overhasty to add a note to that effect to Tongue Trauma before this trope is finalized?
Might be a sub-trope of Tongue Trauma. I don't see anything about Tongue Trauma saying it can't be lethal in the article.
Five months since this was last touched on. Can we please settle on a new name, or no change at all, just so we can launch this one?
I'd add more examples if I knew were to look, maybe merging the Wuxia stuff together stating that "There's many examples of tongue suicide in this genre, like that (insert title with Chang Yue)." Other than that, I don't know what else to add.
I'll launch and hope a better name -- per the earlier part of this thread -- comes along later.
Jade, you've been really good before with back-linking to a new trope from the works listed in it; could you take care of that for this one, too? Thank you.