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11->''There's a saying in interrogation: "Violence perceived is violence achieved."''
12-->-- '''Michael Westen''', ''Series/BurnNotice''
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14Blood or brains are seen splattering against a wall and the rest is left to the imagination.
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16Most often used with women and children, because [[MenAreTheExpendableGender it's more okay to hurt men in Hollywood]], but available for everyone to control the tone/rating of the work. Often found in the form of a ReactionShot as the reacting characters' expression (or lack thereof) can serve as a commentary on the action, the character, or the world they inhabit. Sometimes combined with BloodSplatteredInnocents, as the gore splatters on or near them.
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18A Japanese variation of this trope involves seeing the silhouettes of the participants from behind a translucent washi screen, typically a shoji sliding door, on which the blood gets spattered. The form has since been widely adopted by the west and is often used to give a sense of art. A similar variation is to have the splatter hit the other side of a pane of glass or a window. Another variation shows blood seeping out under a door, through an opening or across a sill or a threshold to imply that violence has occurred on the other side.
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20A Gory Discretion Shot can serve to keep the rating PG-13 to reach a wider audience. It may also be done for budgetary reasons: red-dyed corn syrup splashed over a window: cheap. Showing someone's head explode: expensive[[note]]Although ''Film/{{Scanners}}'' managed an effective budget version by filling a rubber head with chicken giblets and blood and firing a shotgun at it from below and behind. Still more expensive than the syrup/dye, though[[/note]]. Note that it could also be done to keep the truth hidden from the viewer. Showing the murder in question straight out, so the viewers can see the culprit, doesn't make a good murder mystery in most shows or movies after all.
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22Combine it with BloodlessCarnage, and you get the SoundOnlyDeath -- 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 ScreamDiscretionShot.
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24A related trope is the camera cutting away when things get nasty. Say if someone is getting whipped, we'll only see their face contorting in pain. Alternately, a cut similar to a ScreamerTrailer may be used, showing a split second worth of the carnage. In the same vein, the aftermath of murder may be demonstrated minimally with a DeadHandShot, hopefully [[AnArmAndALeg one still attached to the body]]. Finally, if the camera switches to the dying person's perspective, it's FirstPersonDyingPerspective.
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26Contrast {{Gorn}}. Compare and contrast BattleDiscretionShot, AbuseDiscretionShot, and NothingIsScarier; though this may be less "scary" than not showing anything at all in a less overtly violent work, in splatter works this can be used for horror--with all this overt violence running around, ''what'' is so horrible you don't get to see it...? See also EmpathyDollShot and PinkMist. A MonochromaticImpactShot may be used in tandem to give a general idea of the carnage without getting too gory. May precede a MortalWoundReveal, especially if it's unclear who exactly got injured--note that this is a {{Subversion}} of sorts, when it does happen.
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29!!Example subpages:
30[[index]]
31* GoryDiscretionShot/AnimeAndManga
32* GoryDiscretionShot/ComicBooks
33* [[GoryDiscretionShot/LiveActionFilms Film — Live-Action]]
34* GoryDiscretionShot/LiveActionTV
35* GoryDiscretionShot/VideoGames
36* {{GoryDiscretionShot/Webcomics}}
37* GoryDiscretionShot/WesternAnimation
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40!!Other examples:
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43[[folder:Advertising]]
44* [[http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=15274 The tame, censored version]] of the American ad for ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' used this in the scene where the man (literally) explodes from eating too much food. Instead of seeing what happens, we hear splattering sounds off-screen as two women at a table turn and look, and then we see green slime on a wall that spells out the SNES slogan, "PLAY IT LOUD". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyE3EXTj58 The uncensored version, on the other hand...]]
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47[[folder:Art]]
48* Édouard Manet
49** He unintentionally did this in ''[[http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/edouard-manet-the-execution-of-maximilian The Execution of Maximilian]]''. The section of Maximilian and his dying generals was cut from the canvas. It's odd because he didn't cut the deaths out of later versions of the painting.
50** While Manet would sometimes cut up paintings by him he felt failed artistically and rework any salvageable fragments (he notably did this with an "Incident" at The Bullfight" from which the Dead Toreador in the National Gallery and the Bull Ring in the Frick come from), [=MoMA=] claims that in this case the London Maximilian painting was cut up ''after'' Manet's death.
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54* In the ''Franchise/BlazBlue''[=/=]''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' crossover, ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'', Terumi rips [[spoiler:Ruby's right eye out]] in Chapter 70, but the scene cuts away moments before he begins. We cut back to see only the aftermath when Yang arrives to rescue [[spoiler:her sister]].
55* In this ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic[=/=]VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' crossover "[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/45907/Mission%3A-Improbable Mission: Improbable]]", the RED Spy interrogates a changeling he captures. However, before we could get into the details of how he tortures it, we get a BRAVE CUT!, courtesy of Saxton Hale.
56* During FanFic/TheNuptialverse story "Families", when Twilight [[EyeScream gouges out Garble's eye]] for [[MamaBear threatening Spike]], we cut away during the act to [[AncientKeeper the Keeper]], who winces in sympathy. This was done for the sake of not forcing the story's rating up.
57* In ''Fanfic/MassEffectHumanRevolution'', the narration cuts away before a combat mech does ''something'' to a mook Krogan, instead having Adam say a horrified "oh God".
58* In [[Fanfic/MassFoundations Mass Foundations: Redemption in the Stars]], the Courier sees his ally Lynch engaging the asari vanguard at the Shadow Broker base before he was forced to turn around. The next time he looks at him, [[AlienBlood purple blood]] is dripping off his armour.
59* In ''Fanfic/DiariesOfAMadman'', Nav refuses to say in his narration what exactly Kat did when interrogating an assassin for information, but it certainly wasn't pretty.
60* [[spoiler:Aldev]]'s death in ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune'' left blood all over the ceiling and floor, but his actual death remains undescribed by the chapter ending right as he gets killed.
61* ''Webcomic/KillLaKillAU'': A six-year old Ragyou is hit by car. Videowise, just as she's hit, the scene cut to black and then a crash is heard.
62* The [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12607187/1/The-Hero-Melromarc-Needs-and-Deserves-Omake-series omake]] of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12451409/1/The-Hero-Melromarc-Needs-and-Deserves The Hero Melromarc Needs and Deserves]]'' shows what would happen at the [[FalseRapeAccusation rape frame-up]] if any of the other Gold Saints were summoned, and some of the reactions get this treatment, with the story cutting to Beloukas the Slave Trader or [[spoiler:[[BigBad Medea Pideth Machina]]]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards reacting in horror and disgust at what just happened]].
63* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', some Root agents are sent by Danzo to kidnap Tsunade's son while he's still in a coma at the hospital. [[TooDumbToLive They seriously overestimate their odds]] in thinking they can take ''[[MamaBear Tsunade herself]]'' in a fight. A few minutes later, a huge hole is blasted into the room (seen from outside), and a nurse comes to check out what happened. While the narration doesn't describe the results, her horrified expression makes it clear it wasn't pretty.
64* ''Fanfic/TheBoyWhoCriedIdiot'': The raccoon is described as attacking Lincoln "off-screen".
65* In the ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' fanblog ''Webcomic/AskTheRyans'', Aran Ryan and Little Mac getting burned by firecrackers is not shown; the only thing shown is Doc Louis's horrified reaction.
66* ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'': In a brief scene from the distant past, a squadron commander orders his soldiers to attack [[spoiler:Omega]]. Their individual deaths aren't seen; instead, all the audience knows is that the ground was soaked crimson half a minute later.
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70* Such a part can be found in ''WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm1954''. When Napoleon's Dobermans execute the animals that attempted to revolt, it's so gruesome that not only do we the audience not see it, but the raven that's watching looks away in fear. A rather clever subversion of [[AnimalStereotypes the raven's connotation with death]], but it's nonetheless one factor that makes the movie unsuitable for minors. Also, [[spoiler:when the animals rebel once again in the end and kill Napoleon, all you can see is the portrait of the BigBad falling to the floor and shattering]].
71* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'''s edited version utilizes this. In the original, [[spoiler:a brainwashed Tim Drake snaps and shoots the Joker in the heart with his flag-gun, killing him]]. In the edited version, [[spoiler:Tim instead throws the gun away and assaults the Joker, spilling various liquids all over the ground, which eventually get in contact with some live electrical wires, electrocuting the Joker off-screen with a hideous scream]]. Some consider the edited version ''worse'', [[spoiler:as we cannot clearly see what happens, ''[[HellIsThatNoise but we can hear it]]'']]...
72* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' when Batman and the Red Hood fight the armored assassins, the Red Hood breaks one of their helmets and sticks a taser into it, the man screams and writhes in pain just before his head explodes, we then cut to his blood splashing on a wall.
73* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', [[spoiler:we're not shown ''how'' Carlos died fighting Chakal, which is probably for the best]].
74* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'' when a completely non-gory scenario uses this to appear violent and frightening. The scene of Mr. St. Peter dismantling a blender and removing its motor is framed exactly like a scene in a horror movie, complete with malevolent shadows and the blender's lifeless "corpse" dripping "blood" to give the blender's dismantling all the gravity of an actual murder.
75* ''WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted'': We don't see the exact moment when Cheetah [[InertialImpalement falls into the construction spikes]], only the aftermath of her impaled silhouette.
76* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'': The chicken Edwina is taken to the chop when she's no longer able to lay eggs. All the audience sees is the shadow of Mr. Tweedy bringing down the axe. Later, a cooked chicken is seen on the farmers' dinner table.
77* Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon: Disney usually accomplishes this through [[DisneyVillainDeath the obvious means]] (where they have a subpage to themselves), but they're also known to dispatch villains in non-gravity-related yet still excessively vicious manners, and still manage to obscure it in a way that makes it perfectly G[=/=]PG-13 as far as the censor is concerned but even worse for the impressionable kiddies who now get to imagine in as much detail as they like what just happened.
78** The oldest example would be its very first animated movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', where the inside of the chest the Huntsman hands the Queen, which contains a pig's heart, is never shown.
79** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': Monstro slams himself into a seaside cliff, and we cut away before we see more than the first part of a decidedly non-comedic accordion effect.
80** ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'': The Headless Horseman throws doom pumpkins at Ichabod. We're to presume they didn't stop midair after the camera left.
81** ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'': Cutaway before the villain's car is smashed by an oncoming train.
82** ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Mercifully, all we get is Ursula's facial reaction and several flashes of lightning to obscure the fact that she's [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice skewered through the gut on a ship's bowsprit]].
83*** ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'': The screen quickly goes to black just before the pirate ship kills Athena. ''Yikes!''
84** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': The camera pans upward just in time for the audience to miss seeing the villain, Scar, get ripped apart by hyenas, only seeing part of it in shadow.
85** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': When Quasimodo's mother is murdered by Frollo, she instantly dies the moment she lands headfirst on the stairs with no hint of gory anywhere, not even when the archdeacon holds her we don't see any hint of blood where her head got hit.
86** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' has more than one example during the "Zero to Hero" music number, all of them cut away just as Herc is about to stab, strangle, or pummel a monster to death.
87** ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'': Shan Yu is shot with a massive rocket into a stockpile of fireworks, and this is carefully only seen from a great distance.
88*** One of the "messengers" Shan Yu sends to the Emperor is killed by an archer.
89*** "How many men does it take to deliver a message?" *readies bow* "One."
90*** When Mulan gets slashed across the chest, she's clearly bleeding.
91** ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': Hopper is lowered into a nest of adorable yet strangely vicious birds.
92** ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': Cutaway as [[spoiler:Syndrome]] is [[TurbineBlender sucked into a jet engine]].
93** ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'': Averted with [[BigBad The Horned King's]] death. You can clearly see his decayed flesh stripped from his bones. The film got a PG rating, which [[AnimationAgeGhetto was quite a feat for animated films at the time]].
94** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Near the end of the movie, [[spoiler: Mother Gothel undergoes RapidAging when Rapunzel's magic hair is cut, [[NoImmortalInertia robbing it of its life-giving powers]]. She glances at herself in the mirror, and [[DontLookAtMe pulls her hood over her rapidly-aging face in horror]], only to [[DisneyVillainDeath stumble out the window]] thanks to Pascal. By the time Gothel hits the ground, there's nothing left but [[EmptyPilesOfClothing her cloak]] and a cloud of dust.]]
95** ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': Rod "Torque" Redline's (an offscreen explosion is reflected onto a computer monitor after he is blasted away by the Lemons' radiation cannon) and Tony Trihull's (another offscreen explosion, this time from an above view of the river Thames in London as he is blown up by Finn [=McMissile=]'s bombs) deaths.
96** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Applied to impressive effect... [[spoiler:when Ralph [[ShootTheDog wrecks the car he and Vanellope made]] with his bare hands.]]
97* Aside from Sparky's death, this is completely averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}''. All other [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath deaths]] are depicted in gruesome, violent, and gory detail. This is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids a PG rated]] film.
98* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1'':
99** Soto being impaled by the falling icicles.
100** Also, Manny's family being killed by hunters.
101* Done in the opening of ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', when Pharoah Seti I orders the massacre of the Hebrew boys. We see the Egyptian soldiers bursting into a woman's house, shoving her aside, and raising their swords above her baby son's crib, before an immediate hard cut to the soldiers calmly walking out of the house, past the sobbing mother.
102** Also done with [[spoiler:the final plague.]] Except for the first victim (which is is so quick and quiet that it might take you a second to realize what just happened) none of the victims of [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination the Angel of Death]]]] are struck down onscreen - we just see [[DeadHandShot someone's hand]] falling through a doorway, two panicked soldiers running behind some pillars, followed seconds after by the bright light, and an exterior shot of a house with a single candle in the upper window, which then blows out. Since the deaths weren't actually gory, not showing them onscreen is presumably due to a combination of artistic preferences and [[spoiler:[[DeathOfAChild all the victims being children.]]]]
103* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' does this when Sharptooth jumps onto Littlefoot's mother and bites a chunk out of her neck (we see it in shadow though). Interestingly, this was not the original plan, it was altered late in production.
104* This happens a couple times in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' first when Simone and Lena's people are forced into the lake by Morgan Moonscar and his pirates and are eaten by crocodiles, as the crocodiles descend upon them it cuts to Simone and Lena's horrified reactions, then later after they become cat people to get revenge they attack Moonscar and his pirates and it cuts to darkness as they pounce on them, and the same thing happens later when they kill some plantation workers they hire.
105* The Direct-to-DVD ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' makes use of this, while still remaining ten times more violent than anything in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' or ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' combined. The most notable part is when the camera cuts away when [[spoiler:the Superman clone removes a piece of kryptonite in his body by using heat vision, x-ray vision, a mirror, and a pair of scissors to perform improvised surgery ''on his own brain'']]. [[{{Squick}} Eww]].
106* In ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', during Zigzag's death scene, he falls into a pit and is eaten alive by a pack of crocodiles; we see him as a silhouette and a pair of eyes being munched by the crocs' teeth until all that remains is his still-talking head, which is then eaten by his pet vulture (also not shown).
107* ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'':
108** General Woundwort's death. While the film is fairly violent throughout, we don't see the outcome of his demise when he picks a fight with the dog that Hazel leads to him and his officers; we see the two about to clash with their jaws open, and the camera then cuts away before the impact. This also makes it ambiguous [[NeverFoundTheBody whether the dog manages to kill Woundwort or not]].
109** We also don't see the hawk kill Violet; as it grabs her, it cuts to Fiver's reaction, then shows the aftermath with some feathers and a few drops of Violet's blood. Nor the aftermath of the two Efrafa officers being hit by the train.
110* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'', when the PX-41 formula is used on a rabbit in the documentary film, it turns into a giant purple monster and attacks the scientist in a hazmat suit. We then cut to Gru and two of the minions' reactions, implying it's pretty gruesome. It then cuts to the monster rabbit dragging the (presumably dead) scientist under a table and attacking the cameraman.
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114* While ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' is no stranger to FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, Marco is conveniently unconscious when [[HeavyWorlder Erek]] removes his pacifist programming and kills the Controllers in #10: ''The Android''.
115* ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' ends with one of these despite being rife with gore, after [[spoiler:the protagonist is horrifically murdered by BigBad and SatanicArchetype Judge Holden]].
116* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', 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.]]
117* ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'': "The children did not see the actual moment of the killing. They couldn't bear to look and had covered their eyes."
118* ''The Miserable Mill'', book four in ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' has the Baudelaire children being threatened by one of Count Olaf's henchmen in an active sawmill. They manage to escape, but not before the henchmen trips and "there came a most gruesome incident indeed."
119* In ''Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'', Huck and Jim come across the [[HauntedHeadquarters House of Death]]. There's a dead body inside the house, and Jim goes to investigate, leaving Huck ([[TakeOurWordForIt and also the reader]], as Huck is the [[UnreliableNarrator 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 naked.
120* A variation is used in ''Literature/TheHardyBoys Casefiles'' and the ''Literature/NancyDrew Files''. Whenever somebody had to die when the Boys or Nancy were present they usually did so in a way that no blood was actually spilt. An example is a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Howard Stern called Ron Minkus getting electrocuted at a mall whilst the Boys were there.
121* In ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'', Carding, an important wizard dies from a horrible curse. The only thing that is described that is his skin began to blister.
122-->''Most of the wizards managed to turn their heads away. A few - and there are always a few like that - watched in obscene fascination.''
123* In ''Literature/ThePlagueDogs'', you never see [[spoiler:the Tod's death. He jumps over the stone fence, pursued by hunting dogs who jump after him, you hear one last agonized yelp, and the dogs' owner holds his dead body up by the tail, angled in such a way that you only see his backside and not what the dogs had likely done to him.]] Which is just a little ironic since there is plenty of gore and horror to be had in the whole story.
124* General Woundwort's death in ''Literature/WatershipDown'': we last see Woundwort clash with a dog. Later no trace of his body is found, there is just blood at the site of the battle -- perhaps he was eaten (being a rabbit).
125* In ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'', forgemaster Inch's rather messy death -- being crushed by the works of [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the waterwheel he was using as a torture device]] -- is not directly observed by the characters; the text relates only the nasty bits raining down out of the mechanism, and the reaction of the soldiers who have to "clean up" the mess afterwards.
126* In the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book ''Armageddon'', Chloe William's televised death was purposely blanked out on the screen by the angel of the Lord.
127* Despite ''Literature/WarriorCats'' having ''many'' HighPressureBlood moments and being built on FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, this occurs during [[spoiler:Needletail's]] death scene. Violetpaw, who narrates that particular chapter, doesn't see the exact moment where she dies because she's ''running for her life.'' She does, however, hear her scream, out of sight.
128* In the ''Literature/DearAmerica'' book ''Hear My Sorrow'', during the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire scene, Angela passes out when she sees her cousin Rosa about to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled jump from the window]] and regains consciousness to be told that Rosa jumped and is dead, which means that the reader is also spared a description of those moments. [[note]]It being a children's book, the descriptions weren't especially disturbing, but the author likely figured that with a named and known character like Rosa, even the cursory description would be too much for readers.[[/note]]
129* ''[[Literature/MarketOfMonsters Not Even Bones]]'': The reader doesn't get to watch Kovit torture Mirella, but Nita hears her bloodcurdling screams echo throughout the building. The same occurs when he tortures Boulder -- the next time Nita sees him, Boulder's missing a front tooth.
130* ''Literature/TroubledBlood'': When Robin is reading a salacious book about Dennis Creed's multiple murders, she reaches a point where he kidnaps a teenage girl and tortures her for months before killing her in his TortureCellar. She skips these pages.
131* In ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', [[spoiler:[[ChessmasterSidekick the Marquis de Carabas]]]] is captured by Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar and wakes [[CrucifiedHeroShot crucified to a makeshift wooden frame]]. The two hitmen finish hammering in the nails, make a few threats, step aside to reveal a pile of [[ColdBloodedTorture small, sharp metal implements]]...and the chapter ends and cuts to the protagonists continuing with their quest. By the time the narrative makes it back, [[spoiler:the Marquis's dead body is described as nothing more than a "bloody thing" hanging from the wooden frame]].
132* ''Literature/NotNowBernard'': We never actually get to see the monster eating Bernard. Instead, there’s just an illustration of the monster licking its lips and clutching one of Bernard’s trainers.
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136* In Music/GarthBrooks' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIHfRnf_-IU ''The Thunder Rolls'']], it jumps from a woman pointing a gun at her husband to a window that suddenly shatters, thus avoiding the onscreen shooting.
137* At the end of Music/PearlJam's "Jeremy" music video, Jeremy [[AteHisGun shoots himself in the mouth]], splattering blood on his classmates. In the edited-for-TV version, the shot of him putting the gun in his mouth is cut.
138* Due to MTV's restrictions on violence, the live-action version of Snoop Dogg's music video for "Vato" employs Non-gory gory discretion shot. The camera shows Snoop walking towards one, ''PLOW'', the person falls. Snoop turns to face another, ''PLOW'', the person falls. Only scene contains a split-second image of Snoop Dogg lowering his pistol.
139* [[https://youtu.be/hgF1HI_kW6s The video]] for Bella Poarch and Sub Urban's "INFERNO" ends with the latter having to scrape some sleazy businessmen out of an elevator after they were subjected to some not-so-HarmlessFreezing while trying to sexually harass the former. We don't see him do it, but the sound effects and the disgusted reactions of a passing bellhop let us know that it's not a pleasant process.
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143* In ''Pinball/TheGetawayHighSpeed2,'' collecting the "Getaway" Jackpot and then shooting a ball into the Tunnel will get the [[HellishCopter police helicopter to follow you and crash.]] The display cuts away before the actual crash, however.
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147* OlderThanFeudalism: In a very early version, Ancient Greek Tragedies often used this trope. In the ''Medea'' a woman is given a dress that melts her skin; in the ''Bacchae'' a group of women tear a man to pieces and prance about with his body parts; in ''Oedipus Rex'', Oedipus uses pins to claw out his eyes; in the ''Agamemnon'' the title character is brutally murdered in his bed. All of these gruesome scenes are described but never seen, given all the more detailed description precisely because they are hidden from sight; the death of Agamemnon is noted for being particularly gruesome.
148* During the fight between Crystal and Gary in ''Bethany'', the lighting momentarily amplifies then blacks out when one deals a blow to the other.
149* Notably for an opera, the final knife fight between Turiddu and Alfio in ''Theatre/CavalleriaRusticana'' is not shown at all, it and Turiddu's death taking place offstage. We only know about the latter because a ScreamingWoman informs us that Turiddu was killed.
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153* In ''Ride/TheGreatMovieRide'' at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's Hollywood Studios]] when a gangster/bandit attempts to steal a cursed jewel in the ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' scene, a cloud of smoke surrounds them once they touch the cursed jewel, hiding the process of them getting roasted into a skeleton.
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157* Inverted in ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors''. Although you never see the pieces of the exploded characters, they will give you its run for money in DescriptionPorn. Fleshy, bloody description porn.
158* Zigzagged with ''VisualNovel/LiarLiar''. It goes into descriptive detail about some of the scenes instead of showing them, however the few scenes that actually are bloody aren't ''too'' violent (they're mostly just characters being stabbed or being covered in blood). {{Bad End}}s usually fade to black before anything is actually shown and several deaths aren't depicted in the art themselves.
159* In ''VisualNovel/AtomGrrrl'', it's implied in the text that Big E's killings are quite brutal, though all the audience sees is a splatter of blood on top of the current background.
160* Used on multiple occasions in ''VisualNovel/{{Sickness}}'', though the text does not hold back from describing the brutality.
161* Used in the executions of [[spoiler: Celeste]] and [[spoiler: Kyoko]] in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''
162* In Reika's bad ending in ''VisualNovel/WhiteWings'' she jumps off of the school roof. Cue credits... and the ''sound'' of her body hitting the ground and breaking.
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166* In ''WebAnimation/DoraNoMore'' Dora is not seen dying while on the train track nor after running with scissors.
167* Mostly avoided by ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', as just about every death and injury, no matter how gory (and gory they almost always are) is shown onscreen with no discretion. However, there have been moments where the deaths happen offscreen.
168** The first example of this in the series was in "Nuttin' Wrong With Candy" where Nutty gets trapped under a vending machine as its spiked dispensers lower towards him; the closest one scrapes his eye before we cut away, blood leaking out from under the vending machine.
169** Another happens in "Party Animal" when Flaky, after swelling up due to an allergic reaction, is accidentally popped by The Mole with a pin; we cut away just as the pin pokes her eye and see blood, limbs and other body parts flying across the screen.
170* ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'':
171** In the Volume 5 finale, [[spoiler:[[MoleInCharge Professor Lionheart]]]] attempts a VillainExitStageLeft. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler: [[BigBad Salem]]'s [[MissionControl Seer Grimm]] is waiting for him, and he has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Outlived His Usefulness]]]]. Begging for mercy, he's dragged offscreen. The wet, visceral sounds that ensue suggest that he's being repeatedly stabbed by its [[CombatTentacles tentacle spines]].
172** In Volume 6, [[spoiler: Salem's many suicide attempts]] and the battle that [[spoiler: [[OffingTheOffspring killed]] their children]] are both portrayed primarily through shadows on the wall and Ruby's horrified reaction.
173** During the finale of Volume 8, [[spoiler:[[TheHeavy Cinder Fall]] uses the Staff of Creation to start a massive fire that kills [[EvilGenius Arthur Watts]]. All we see is his silhouette trying desperately to break through the doors. He presumably failed]].
174* One of the things [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] has [[FourthWallMailSlot often been asked by fans]] is that he remove the wrestling mask he always seems to wear. He has repeatedly insisted that it's [[NotAMask actually his face]], but eventually he finally chose to oblige the perennial request... after having bought a fancy high-backed chair that obscured almost the entire view of his usual set-up. But judging by the horrific gargling screams of pain he makes during the attempt, this may have been a blessing in disguise.
175* At the end of the short ''WebAnimation/{{Voodont}}'', the doll rips her own arm off, Ellie is heard screaming in pain off-screen. Considering Ellie actually got a cut when Sam slit the doll's arm at the beginning, not to mention Sam's satisfaction with what is going on, it should be pretty obvious what happened.
176* In ''WebAnimation/{{Chadam}}'', the shot of Bella being crushed is off-screen; all the audience sees is Chadam's terrified face, and blood splattering the screen.
177* ''WebAnimation/DearRabbit'': At 2:25-2:30, the wolf looks down at the rabbit with a vague expression, but the screen slowly warps and the rabbit looks more frightened. After a fade to black, it's shown that the wolf killed the rabbit after all.
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181* During Entry #49 of ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'', Jay [[spoiler: removed a scene of Alex smashing a stranger's head in with a rock. We were only told what happened.]]
182* ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'': The very end of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h86hPXHywFU Strange Nicktoons Network Anomaly (2007)]]" features a cropped photo of Jenica Wakeman's corpse with her face censored by a red box.
183* ''WebVideo/PizzaTimePizza'': In Pizza Time Pizza 10, after [[AncientEvil The Pizza Man]] [[spoiler:jumps hosts from Alex to Julien, Julien, under the control of the Pizza Man, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness shoots Alex]], resulting in a few drops of blood splattering Julien’s face.]]
184* ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' tend to do this with more violent or disturbing fics - sometimes a violent scene in a mission will consist mostly of descriptions of the agents vomiting, with a few NoodleImplements from the fic thrown into the description.
185* Episode 8 of ''WebVideo/SexHouse'' has one where the camera goes black as [[spoiler:Frank attempts to castrate himself with a hammer]].
186* ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'':
187** In part two, 8-Bit Mickey is looking like he's about to snap from Prick's barrage of short jokes. Cut immediately to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic wondering what's taking him so long, at which point Mickey walks in, covered in blood, and throws Prick's severed hand to Paw.
188** Then there's the scene where Mechakara does...''something'' to the Nostalgia Chick involving a power drill.
189* ''Website/SFDebris'' uses [[RelaxOVision playful kittens]] when discussing particularly gruesome events.
190* The Website/SCPFoundation's reports on the things they keep the world protected from include descriptions of what happens when an SCP's behaviour is left unchecked resulting in [DATA EXPUNGED], or a line of research into what it does leads to [REDACTED], with implications of casualties, injuries to researchers, property damage and reprimands for allowing it to happen.
191* This has happened at least a couple times in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', such as in the ''Second Chances'' game, when [[spoiler:[[HotLibrarian Nicole Husher]] was found hiding under a bed by Adam Reeves, who proceeded to brutally dispatch her, possibly raping her first]].
192* ''WebVideo/RomeoAndJulieta'': This is how [[spoiler:Roméo]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB9nTSn7sgw dies]], complete with SymbolicBlood splatter and a shot of the rope he's hung on swinging back and forth.
193* Averted in ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/625770 Starbarians Episode 2]]'' when the Eternoid shoots the spear back -- you think it won't show anything, but it really does.
194* His review of the original ''Back to the Future'' video game, WebVideo/TheIrateGamer goes back in time to [[DisproportionateRetribution kill the main developer of the game because it is so bad.]] Using a Nintendo Zapper, he shoots "him" and we only see blood splatter on the back wall...[[SpecialEffectsFailure which closely resembles grape jelly.]]
195* Used in the ''WebVideo/TheKeyOfAwesome'' video "Modern MonsterMash", which has Frankenstien's monster's attempt at inviting modern movie monsters to the party ending in disaster. Most of the modern monsters' violent actions are done off-screen with the video cutting to the other monsters' appalled reactions once the violence starts (such as Franchise/HannibalLecter eating a woman's face and [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Jigsaw]] ripping off a man's jaw), the only on-screen violence being when [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Meyers]] beheads the Wolf Man.
196* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eVvk3JxNI This video]] presents itself as a {{Retraux}} instructional VHS for an invention called the "Scalpere 2000". Soon after its [[AmputationStopsSpread true purpose]] is revealed, the tape promises a "live demonstration", but is thankfully damaged during this section to the point that nothing is recognizable.
197* In WebVideo/SolidJJ's video "[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy]]'s Last Brain Blast", whenever the characters' heads explode, the video immediately cuts to an outside view of the Neutron residence, although the sound of heads exploding can still be heard.
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201* An interesting, ''completely unintentional'' real-life [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3Hyxuf5AE example]] happened with a [[PapaWolf father who had discovered that his son was molested by a family friend]], then lay in wait at an airport to [[VigilanteExecution execute him with a shot to the head]]. As a news cameraman filmed the arrested man being escorted through an airport by an officer, the father lifts his gun and shoots the guy in the head just as the officer passes in front of the camera and obscures the actual headshot, only letting us see the guy subsequently fall to the ground.
202* Happened during the execution by firing squad of {{UsefulNotes/Romania}}'s dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena. A TV crew who were to film the execution only managed to catch the end of it, as the Ceaușescus lay on the ground shrouded by dust kicked up by the bullets striking the wall and ground.
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