History Main / DroolHello

In a way, an organic form of ClickHello, typically followed immediately by OhCrap.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

* The ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise is pretty fond of this one, and an early example to boot - most other entries on this list are direct references. Whenever dripping saliva onto the victim won't signal a Xenomorph's presence, the warm air exhaled onto the victim's neck from behind will. And if ''that'' happens, [[LightningBruiser it's already too late to run]].

* The ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise is pretty fond of this one. Whenever dripping saliva onto the victim won't signal a Xenomorph's presence, the warm air exhaled onto the victim's neck from behind will. And if ''that'' happens, [[LightningBruiser it's already too late to run]].

* A particularly squicky variation happens to Jenna in ''Webcomic/BloodyUrban'': she gets slime dripping off of a BlobMonster in her tea. (Not that she's really in any danger -- he was only on the ceiling [[http://bloodyurban.smackjeeves.com/comics/1479574/weird-tea/ so he could charge his iPod.]])
* In ''Webcomic/{{Intragalactic}}'', the Roboticist is alerted to Ben's presence by a drip of ''[[http://intragalacticcomic.com/2010/07/09/162-plip/ ice cream]]''. The author also outlines the trope in the commentary section.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E4TreehouseOfHorrorVIII Treehouse of Horror VIII]]", in a segment spoofing ''Film/TheFly1958'', Lisa discovers the tiny Bart-Fly, who tells her of Fly-Bart's intention to kill the former, and claims that she's not scared of the creature. Cue slime dripping on her, revealing that Fly-Bart has been watching her from the ceiling for some time.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Tangled'', Rapunzel is woken up by [[SapientSteed Maximus's]] sweat dripping off his nose.

* In ''Film/Hellboy2004'', this is how the title character (and the audience) is introduced to the demon Sammael.

* ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth2008'': Sean Anderson hears a noise and hides behind a giant boulder to escape the threat. Said [[TRexpy prehistoric threat]] drools on him while leering down above the boulder.

* In ''Film/KingKong2005'', during the ''Brontosaurus'' stampede, Bruce Baxter takes cover against the wall of a ruin... only to be drooled upon by a hungry ''Venatosaurus'' above, about to attack him, forcing the actor to flee again.

* In ''Film/TheMazeRunner2014'', on his first outing in the Maze, Thomas is stalked by a Griever (spider-like cybernetic monster) climbing above between two walls. He's warned of its presence by some slime dripping on his shoulder, a mere second before it attacks.

* One of the parasites in ''Film/Parasite1982'' makes its presence known to the motel owner by drooling on her hand from the above before attacking her.

* ''Series/TheDayOfTheTriffids2009'': After Torrence [[TheStarscream launches his takeover bid]], Mason and Cocker are taken out to the woods to be fed to triffids. An armed mook is ordering them out of the back of the truck when triffid venom drops on his shoulder, then one of the [[ManEatingPlant Man-Eating Plants]] [[VerticalKidnapping yanks him screaming into the air]].

* Michaelangelo is the drool-ee in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' bonus episode "Mayhem from Mutant Island". The drool-er is a mutant dinosaur [[RightBehindMe right behind him]].

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* A textbook example in ''ComicBook/PS238'', when Malphast accidentally summons a tentacle... thing from a portal opening in the ceiling. [[http://ps238.nodwick.com/?p=417 It naturally drools on Tyler.]]

* In episode 47 of ''Animation/NanaMoon'', the first thing that alerts the gang to the presence of a giant rabbit monster is that the creature drools on Les, which catches her attention.

* This happens in ''Film/TheBlob1988'', just before the Blob kills Paul. It's slime from [[BlobMonster the Blob itself]], making it [[HollywoodAcid much worse]].

* This happens in the 1988 version of ''Film/{{The Blob|1988}}'', just before the Blob kills Paul. There, it is slime from the Blob itself, making it much worse.

* ''Film/DeepRising''. As the remaining group of survivors discuss what to do next, one of the monsters drips slime/drool onto the comic relief's shoulder. The comic relief proceeds to spaz out and opens fire on the monster, causing it to split and spill out the partially digested (but still alive) remains of another character.

* In the first ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' movie, this is how the title character (and the audience) is introduced to the demon Sammael.

* ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'': In the 2008 version, Sean Anderson hears a noise and hides behind a giant boulder to escape the threat. Said [[TRexpy prehistoric threat]] drools on him while leering down above the boulder.

* In the 2005 ''Film/{{King Kong|2005}}'', during the ''Brontosaurus'' stampede, Bruce Baxter takes cover against the wall of a ruin... only to be drooled upon by a hungry ''Venatosaurus'' above, about to attack him, forcing the actor to flee again.

* In ''Film/{{The Maze Runner|2014}}'', on his first outing in the Maze, Thomas is stalked by a Griever (spider-like cybernetic monster) climbing above between two walls. He's warned of its presence by some slime dripping on his shoulder, a mere second before it attacks.

* One of the parasites in ''Film/{{Parasite|1982}}'' makes its presence known to the motel owner by drooling on her hand from the above before attacking her.

* ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' reveals that someone is on the ceiling once a drop of blood falls.
* In [[Film/SpiderMan1 the first film]] of the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'', Spider-Man almost gets discovered by Norman Osborn when blood drips from a wound on his arm he got in a fight with the Green Goblin earlier, as he hangs from the ceiling.

* On ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', episode "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E19TheOnlyLightInTheDarkness The Only Light in the Darkness]]", blood dripping onto Skye's tablet shows her where Koenig's body is.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS01E10PartingGifts Parting Gifts]]". Wes informs Angel that the demon he's chasing can be tracked via the AlienBlood it's leaving behind... like the kind that's now dripping on his shoulder.
* ''Series/{{The Day of the Triffids|2009}}''. After Torrence [[TheStarscream launches his takeover bid]], Mason and Cocker are taken out to the woods to be fed to triffids. An armed mook is ordering them out of the back of the truck when triffid venom drops on his shoulder, then one of the [[ManEatingPlant Man-Eating Plants]] [[VerticalKidnapping yanks him screaming into the air]].

** Subversion in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': There is one episode in which the liquid dribbling from the ceiling is a dead shapeshifter (their true form is liquid).
** Subverted again in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', in "The Runaway": The dripping is revealed to be [[spoiler:blood dripping from an alien castaway's wound. The alien doesn't want to fight and immediately retreats to a new hiding place.]]

* Sort of in ''Series/TheXFiles''. In "Squeeze", Scully is alerted to the fact that [[spoiler:Tooms in in the air vent]] when a bit of bile drips out of the ceiling.

** In "Treehouse of Horror VIII", in a segment spoofing ''[[Film/TheFly1958 The Fly]]'', Lisa discovers the tiny Bart-Fly, who tells her of Fly-Bart's intention to kill the former, and claims she's not scared of the creature. Cue slime dripping on her revealing Fly-Bart has been watching her from the ceiling for some time.
** In "Treehouse of Horror XXIX", in a segment spoofing ''Film/JurassicWorld'', the Simpsons try to escape Mr. Burns' new retirement complex when the seniors turn into dinosaurs. When it appears it's starting to rain, they realize it's actually drool from a transformed Grampa.

* Michaelangelo is the drool-ee in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}'' bonus episode "Mayhem from Mutant Island". The drool-er is a mutant dinosaur [[RightBehindMe right behind him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime: The Secret of Saurus Rock'': Although Cera's companions see the Sharptooth standing right behind her, she doesn't notice it (thinking it's a gag) until it starts to drool on her.

* In ''Theatre/{{The Girl of the Golden West}}'' ([[AdaptationDisplacement a play before it was an opera]]), Minnie is trying to hide the wounded Johnson in a loft from Jack Rance, who is also the sheriff and comes looking for him after having shot at him. She is just saying goodnight to Rance, and he holds out his hand to her, when a drop of blood falls on it from the boards above. Minnie says that [[CutHimselfShaving she must have scratched him]], but then another drop of blood falls from the loft on his hand, betraying Johnson's hiding place.

* "A Nauseous Nocturne", from ''The Essential ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
-->''From the darkness, by the closet,\\

** Fittingly, one of the smaller collections included in the book is titled "Something Under The Bed Is Drooling".

* ''Film/IStillKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''. Frightened teenager peers into her closet. Seems like a red herring, until blood drips under her feet and out pops a bloody hung corpse.
* ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''. In the 2008 version, Sean Anderson hears a noise and hides behind a giant boulder to escape the threat. Said [[TRexpy prehistoric threat]] drools on him while leering down above the boulder.

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* As things go south in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', a dinosaur containment team is sent after the GPS tracker implanted in the ''[[MixAndMatchCritters Indomitus Rex]]''. They find the tracker lying on the ground in a chunk of flesh -- the ''I. Rex'' [[ItCanThink remembered where they implanted it and dug it out]] -- and as the team leader ponders this, a drop of fresh blood splats onto his arm, he slowly looks up... [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]- the blood drip was just from where the Indominus had bled onto a plant while the creature itself was using its camouflage ability to hide in the background]].

* In ''Film/KingKong2005'', during the ''Brontosaurus'' stampede, Bruce Baxter takes cover against the wall of a ruin... only to be drooled upon by a hungry ''Venatosaurus'' above, about to attack him, forcing the actor to flee again.

* One of the parasites in ''Film/Parasite1982'' makes its presence known to the motel owner by drooling on her hand from the above before attacking her.

* Happens to Sissi in the ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' episode "End of Take" with an ''Alien''-ripoff puppet controlled by XANA, added to a helping of TemptingFate a few seconds before, providing the page quote.

* Michaelangelo is the drool-ee in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' bonus episode "Mayhem from Mutant Island". The drool-er is a mutant dinosaur [[RightBehindMe right behind him]].

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': As shown above, ComicBook/{{Venom}} is fond of this, particularly with Eddie Brock in the '90s.

* In ''Film/{{King Kong|2005}}'' (2005), during the ''Brontosaurus'' stampede, Bruce Baxter takes cover against the wall of a ruin... only to be drooled upon by a hungry ''Venatosaurus'' above, about to attack him, forcing the actor to flee again.

* One of the parasites in ''Film/{{Parasite|1982}}'' makes its presence known to the motel owner by drooling on her hand from the above before attacking her.

* In [[Film/SpiderMan1 the first film]] of the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'', Spider-Man almost gets discovered by Norman Osborne when blood drips from a wound on his arm he got in a fight with the Green Goblin earlier, as he hangs from the ceiling.

* In ''Film/{{The Maze Runner|2014}}'', on his first outing in the Maze, Thomas is stalked by a Griever (spider-like cybernetic monster) climbing above between two walls. He's warned of its presence by some slime dripping on his shoulder, a mere second before it attacks.

* One of the parasites in ''Film/{{Parasite 1982}}'' makes its presence known to the motel owner by drooling on her hand from the above before attacking her.

* In the original version of ''VideoGame/WildArms1'', [[spoiler: Zeikfried wakes up in the ruins of the Photosphere after falling through a black hole. One of the telltale signs he is not alone is some kind of fluid dripping from a gap in the ceiling and a very familiar laugh. Mother's remains drop down behind him and then [[DevourTheDragon eats him alive.]]

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[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* In episode 47 of ''Animation/NanaMoon'', the first thing that alerts the gang to the presence of a giant rabbit monster is that the creature drools on Les, which catches her attention.
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