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* 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
*** A hospital variation occurs in ''[[Pet Sematary]]'', with a candy striper being the one who vomits.
* [[Erast Fandorin]], on his first crime scene (in his defense, it was an exceptionally gruesome murder).
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== Live Action TV ==
* Subverted in one episode of ''[[Taggart]]'' when on seeing a guy with the back of his head bashed in, experienced detective DCI Burke suddenly gags, but doesn't vomit. DS Reid says he's seen worse. Burke's reply is that it's indigestion from the falafels he ate- he's on a [[Health Kick]].
* In one episode of ''[[Without a Trace]],'' the
* In the 5th season finale of ''[[CSI]]'', Nick happily examined the intestines at the scene while the experienced cop threw up.
** Nick did have to leave a scene in the first season to throw up, though it is implied that this was due to smell of the blood in the air, not the gruesomeness and Nick ignoring Grissom's advice to "Breathe through your mouth".
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* The opening titles of ''[[Quincy|Quincy M.E.]]'' included a variation in which five police observers are watching an (off-screen) autopsy performed by the title character; as the titles progress they turn away from it one by one, each with an obvious need to vomit and/or faint (again, off screen).
** In the show that shot comes from, it turns out Quincy is doing it to these observers ''on purpose'' so he can get out of doing the demonstration and get back to his cases.
* Parodied in an infamous ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch: the sight of a murder victim provoked a rookie cop to throw up; the sight of the
** One of the cops was 8 months pregnant, and at the end Chris Farley, who was running the spinning newspaper gag, started to puke after watching it spin too much.
* The 'Crunchy Frog' sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where mentions of chocolates such as Cockroach Cluster, Anthrax Ripple, and Rams Bladder Cup causes one of the Hygiene Squad (who actually ate some of the candies in question) to throw up.
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