1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/medicalhorror_2219.jpg]] |
2 | [-[[caption-width-right:350:Image by [[http://www.jean-claude-claeys.com/ Jean-Claude Claeys]].]]-] |
3 | |
4 | ->''"Take off all your clothing,''\ |
5 | ''We've only just begun.''\ |
6 | ''We have no anesthesia,''\ |
7 | ''It's 1841!"'' |
8 | -->-- '''Music/EmilieAutumn''', "Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches" |
9 | |
10 | The glint of a sharpened scalpel, the whine of a dull, rusty dentist drill, [[OhCrap the look of terror on a patient's face when he realizes just what that saw is for.]] There's something about being helplessly StrappedToAnOperatingTable, with the surgeons looming over you cutting you up and anesthesia slowly dulling your mind, that seems to have a certain appeal to horror authors. Expect plenty of [[AfraidOfNeedles hypodermic needles]], oversized bone saws, and of course the good old {{lobotomy}} tools. |
11 | |
12 | Psychological horror, involving soothing happy pills and a nice padded room, also fits in this index. Most of the things here are also MedicalTreatmentTropes. |
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14 | ---- |
15 | !!Tropes: |
16 | |
17 | [[index]] |
18 | * AbandonedHospital |
19 | * AbandonedHospitalAwakening |
20 | * AfraidOfBlood |
21 | * AfraidOfDoctors |
22 | * AfraidOfNeedles |
23 | * AmputationStopsSpread |
24 | * AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing |
25 | * AnArmAndALeg |
26 | * ArtificialLimbs |
27 | * BackAlleyDoctor |
28 | * BattleaxeNurse |
29 | * BedlamHouse |
30 | * BioAugmentation |
31 | * BizarreAlienBiology |
32 | * BodyHorror |
33 | * BodyOfBodies |
34 | * CATTrap |
35 | * ChemicalMessiah: A drug that people hoard and worship insanely even though it does more harm than good. |
36 | * ComicallyIneptHealing |
37 | * ConjoinedTwins: Twin siblings who are born fused together. |
38 | * ContaminationSituation |
39 | * CreepyPhysical |
40 | * CreepySouvenir |
41 | * CrisisPointHospital: A hospital overwhelmed and failing in the face of a crisis - or maybe just by nature. |
42 | * CuckooNest |
43 | * CyberneticsEatYourSoul |
44 | * {{Cyborg}}: A being who is half-human and half-machine. |
45 | * DeadlyDoctor |
46 | * DepravedDentist: A dentist who enjoys causing their victims pain. |
47 | * DoctorsDisgracefulDemotion: A MadDoctor or MadScientist loses their license for malpractice. |
48 | * DrPsychPatient |
49 | * ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture |
50 | * EscapedFromTheLab |
51 | * EvilutionaryBiologist: An evil geneticist whose goal is to improve the human race on their terms. |
52 | * EyeScream: Violence inflicted on the eyes. |
53 | * FleshGolem |
54 | * FrankensteinsMonster |
55 | * FreakLabAccident |
56 | * GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke |
57 | * GiantMedicalSyringe: "Big needle, big needle!" |
58 | * GuineaPigFamily: A scientists conducts his experiments by using his relatives as test subjects. |
59 | * HarmfulHealing |
60 | * HumanResources |
61 | * InfectionScene |
62 | * InPlaceOfAnEye |
63 | * KidnappedForExperimentation: When the MadScientist resorts to abducting test subjects. |
64 | * LegoGenetics: Genetic modification, far from the intricate process in real life, can be performed quickly and haphazardly in media and still turn out okay (most of the time, at least). |
65 | * LifeOrLimbDecision: A character gets one of their limbs trapped and has to choose between dying by staying where they are or cutting off the trapped limb to escape. |
66 | * {{Lobotomy}} |
67 | * MadDoctor |
68 | * MadScientist |
69 | * MadScientistLaboratory |
70 | * MagicGenetics |
71 | * MalevolentMutilation |
72 | * MeatgrinderSurgery |
73 | * MedicalRapeAndImpregnate: Using medical equipment to impregnate women without their consent. |
74 | * MegaMicrobes |
75 | * MonstrousGerms |
76 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: A villain who happens to be a doctor of some sort. |
77 | * ObsceneOBGYN: A morally-compomised gynecologist or urologist. |
78 | * OrderliesAreCreeps |
79 | * OrganAutonomy: Body parts that are sentient and able to live independently of the bodies they belong to. |
80 | * OrganTheft: Stealing people's organs. |
81 | * PatientZero |
82 | * PlayingWithSyringes |
83 | * PredatoryBigPharma |
84 | * ProfessorGuineaPig: A scientist tests their experiment on themselves. |
85 | * ProstheticLimbReveal |
86 | * PsychoPsychologist |
87 | * PsychoSerum: A serum that makes people powerful at the cost of also stripping away their sanity. |
88 | * QuackDoctor: A "doctor" whose medical legitimacy is quite questionable. |
89 | * RaisedInALab |
90 | * RoadsideSurgery |
91 | * RoomFullOfCrazy |
92 | * ScaryStitches |
93 | * SelfSurgery: Someone ends up having to perform surgery on themselves. |
94 | * SkipTheAnesthetic: A character undergoes surgery or some other painful medical procedure without any sort of pain-reliever being used on them. |
95 | * StrappedToAnOperatingTable |
96 | * SuperSerum: A serum that enables super powers. |
97 | * SymbolicMutilation |
98 | * TheyWouldCutYouUp |
99 | * TwoBeingsOneBody |
100 | * UnwillingRoboticisation |
101 | * UnwittingTestSubject |
102 | * ViralTransformation |
103 | * TheVirus |
104 | * WalkingTransplant |
105 | * WrongfullyCommitted |
106 | * YouWontFeelAThing |
107 | [[/index]] |
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