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* Ciel Phantomhive of ''[[Black Butler]]'' fame does this not once, but twice in the manga. First time was in reaction to witnessing the death throes of [[Jack the Ripper|Mary Jane Kelly]], which happens both in the anime and manga. The second one was manga only: {{spoiler|he vomits in reaction to his [[Stalker with a Crush]] rebuilding a sacrificial chamber, the very one Ciel almost died in pre-series. Combining the mental trauma with the brutal murder of children younger than he is a few chapters before likely did it.}} To be fair, Ciel is [[Improbable Age|only thirteen years old]] and is not technically a cop, though he does investigate on the Queen's orders.
* Detective Suk in ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' does this at a crime scene and is later made fun of for it.
* During the "Jungle Cruise" episode of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'', Togusa, the rookie of the team, has to run to the guardrail clutching his mouth after seeing a particularly gruesome murder caught on video.
** Not just seeing. He was using a direct cyber-link to the investigator on the scene, experiencing everything, including the smell in perfect clarity. The experienced members of the squad just watch the video feed. Ofcourse most of the experienced members could also turn off their sense of smell if they wanted to.
* Mentioned but not seen in ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]: Innocence'', where Ishikawa oversees a crime scene by himself, explaining that the rookie with him got reacquainted with his lunch, and he sent him to personally take the corpse to lab as a "learning experience".
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* George Godly, upon finding the corpse of [[Jack the Ripper]]'s final victim, who had been subjected to then unheard of levels of mutilation in ''[[From Hell]]''. Whether or not the real Godly left his breakfast at Miller's Court or if this was simply an invention for dramatic purposes is one of the few subjects that [[Alan Moore]]'s [[Shown Their Work|lengthy annotations]] to the book is silent on.
* In the Italian horror comic ''[[wikipedia:Dylan Dog|Dylan Dog]]'', this is a [[Running Gag]]: Inspector Bloch, Dylan's former superior from Scotland Yard, is always in need of some anti-emetics and often complains that they don't make them as effective as they used to do.
* Occurs in the ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'' comic when the cops apprehend Charlie Gilmour for the murder of his wife and child.
* [[Garth Ennis]] loves this trope.
* In ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' {{spoiler|When Johnny dies and visits heaven an angel starts vomiting after reading the list of things Johnny did.}}
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* [[Global Frequency|The police officer who arrived on the scene still wets himself whenever he sees cutlery.]]
* In ''[[X-Men]] Noir'', rookie Peter Magnus asks for a mint on the way to the crime scene for his first murder case. His veteran partner Fred Dukes refuses to give him one. When they see the body, Peter pukes; Fred didn't give him the mint because he knew that would happen and he would've just wasted it. This is a case where anyone would have done the same, though - the woman was missing her eyes, her nose, her upper lip...
* In the [[Batman]] spinoff ''Streets of Gotham,'' Robin calls the police for backup after finding that the orphans Humpty Dumpty had taken were actually corpses he'd found and was trying to heal. The boy barely gets half way through the call before handing the communicator over to Batman to go throw up. Mind you this is ''Damian Wayne,'' the resident stab-happy assassin of the Bat clan we're talking about here.
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== Literature ==
* At her first crime scene, [[Anita Blake]] threw up ''on'' the corpse.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Half]]'', when a body of a brutally murdered man was found by Norris Ridgewick, a deputy of a small-town sheriff, he threw up, but managed to avoid the corpse.
** In the later novel ''Gerald's Game'', Norris again throws up, when he finds what is in the truck of Raymond Andrew Joubert, a {{spoiler|necrophiliac cannibal (for example, a sandwich with a human tongue)}}. A character says that "the State Police would have torn him a new asshole if he'd puked on the evidence. On the other hand, I'd have wanted him removed from his job for psychological reasons if he hadn't thrown up."
* The trope also appears in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[From a Buick 8]]'', but there it's due to the cops meeting [[Eldritch Abomination]]s from another dimension.
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* Happens occasionally in Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novels, usually to a young police officer who isn't used to seeing dead bodies (at the beginning of ''A Dedicated Man'' for example). Happens to Banks himself in the short story "Like A Virgin", though this is partly due to a hangover.
* In [[The Sword of Truth]], there was a serial murderer whose style made a ''hardened combat general'' throw up.
* In [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Heralds of Valdemar|Changes]]'', four spies are [[You Have Failed Me...|murdered by their replacements]] and left to decompose in a sealed room for a couple days in summer. The result makes several of "the most experienced and hardened Guardsmen ... violently ill." The crime scene investigators aren't fazed at all, though.
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** In an audio recording of a live performance, an announcer notes that the constable's reaction is "the longest continuous vomit on stage since John Barrymore puked over the corpse of Laertes during a performance of ''[[Hamlet]]'' in 1941."
* Somewhat lampshaded in the ''[[Dexter]]'' novels. Almost every crime scene Dexter arrives has a vomiting cop nearby. Dexter is so used to the sight that he doesn't see anything out of the ordinary with it. He simply snarks about the mess and noise.
** Slight variation in the television show: Harry walks in on Dexter and, realizing what he's created, is violently sick.
** There is one occasion in the TV show where Dexter loses his composure upon seeing a crime scene covered in blood, but that is more of a [[Heroic BSOD]] because {{spoiler|the crime scene was made to remind Dexter of his [[Dark and Troubled Past]]}}.
* Done on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' as the fourth member of a hit squad describes how the other three were killed to Danko. {{spoiler|The man a shapeshifter and is actually the killer. Though whether he's vomiting as part of his act or out of guilt is never made clear.}}
* Happened to an off-screen investigator in the pilot of ''[[Fringe]]'' upon inspecting a plane whose passengers fell victim to a flesh-rotting something-or-other.
* Parodied in a sketch of ''[[Kids in The Hall]]'', where a cop vomits at the sight of a corpse and then at an expired parking meter.
* In an episode of ''[[Smallville]]'', Clark impersonates a coroner's assistant and it is assumed he leaves the area to vomit when he goes in search of his own clues.
* Played dead straight early in ''[[John Le Carre|Smiley's People]]'' after a Russian defector's head is blown to pieces.
* In the episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' where she loses her powers ("Helpless"), Giles, an experienced Watcher, is overcome when he sees the mutilated body of another Watcher. [[Gory Discretion Shot|The body was left offscreen]], but there's blood all over the walls.
* Connor on ''[[Angel]]'' vomited at one crime scene where an entire family had been brutally murdered for being unknowing [[MacGuffin Girl|MacGuffin people]]. It's not the gore - Connor grew up in a demon dimension and takes {{spoiler|his daughter being a rotted, maggot-infested corpse without qualm}}, but the realization that they were a family, which he has massive unresolved issues with.
* DS Dan Twentyman in ''[[Moses Jones]]'' does this - [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|visibly]] - upon discovering a mutilated corpse.
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== Western Animation ==
* Danny, the Safety Patrol photographer and [[Plucky Comic Relief]] in ''[[Fillmore!]]'', is often subject to this trope, often after seeing minor acts of vandalism.
* Spoofed a couple of times in ''[[South Park]]'' in one Officer Yates vomits after uncovering some toilet paper used on a house, and again after finding out Michael "Jefferson" isn't black.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' - a squad of cops break in on Comic Book Guy and Mrs. Skinner naked in bed - Lou promptly throws up, and Wiggum reassures him "It's okay, you wouldn't be human if you didn't react like that."
* In one ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch, [[The Smurfs|Brainy]] throws up after seeing Baker Smurf [[Se7en|stuffed with cream and baked]]. This [[Vomit Chain Reaction|causes Papa Smurf to throw up too]]. The police photographer throws up [[Refuge in Audacity|after Baker explodes]].
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