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Since the Vomit Discretion Shot is so common, there's nothing better to show off how edgy you are than show the act directly. The grosser, dirtier, and more nauseating, better.
Comes in two, uh, flavors
- Juicy, continuous fluid, usually yellow or green.
- Chunky, with stomach contents. Anything goes, but blue is still unlikely.
A writer with particular attention to detail will notice that having thrown up the wave of the smell of the stuff is liable to make you...keep on at it.
See Also Vomit Chain Reaction. The distant brother of this trope is Waterfall Puke, which usually applies to anime.
Examples
Anime and Manga
- Naru Taru has a few of these:
- Akira throws up on herself and before passing out in the classroom when she first links with her shadow dragon Ensof, because she feels it plummeting from the sky at high speed.
- Satomi also gets to feel the nasty side-effects of psychic links with Mons; when her shadow dragon Amapola gets cut up by an attack chopper's rotor blades, she vomits, loses consciousness, and wets herself.
- After being forced to ingest a beaker full of worms, Hiroko voids her stomach contents all over the ground as soon as the bullies leave.
- Kagura from Gintama does this in the middle of the street in one episode, grossing everyone out with the stench. The OVA proudly touts the fact that she's the first Shounen Jump heroine to throw up (though she may have been predated by...)
- Orihime, in volume 5 of the Bleach manga, with through-the-fingers spray effect.
- Parodied in DNA^2. Junta Momonari, who's allergic to women, vomits when he sees a girl without many clothes on. Since this is played for laughs, we see a chibi Junta puking his heart out and frequently all over the girl. It's even featured in the OP credits
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- In Spirited Away, the monster No-Face eats and then later barfs up pretty much every single bit of food in the whole bathhouse, along with a few staff members. This scene is more funny than gross though. (Or is it just me?)
- It helps that it's not exactly vomit, since he doesn't appear to have any real digestive system.
- One chapter of Naruto has Tsunade vomiting after drinking too much (pic contains spoilers for an unrelated event) and not only is it clearly visible, it the first thing we see when the narrative switches to her from somewhere else.
- Kabuto before the first test of the Chuunin Exams after getting attacked by a provoked group of Sound Ninja.
- Nyaata does this at one point in Cat Soup.
- Kuroshitsuji has Ciel vomiting due to asthma in the Circus Of Fear arc.
- An early episode of Black Lagoon shows Rock vomiting off the side of the ship. It starts on the vomit and pans up to reveal him leaning over the rail. (It's not seasickness, by the way.)
Comics
- When Garfield found out the Chinese food he ate was octopus.
- Though he could have simply spat it out after chewing.
Film
- Monty Python's Meaning Of Life has Mr. Creosote, who won't stop vomiting. This was apparently high comedy.
- Where the cop being sick in the "Crunchy Frog Sketch" on Monty Pythons Flying Circus is a Vomit Discretion Shot, the same moment in Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl isn't— he visibly pukes into his hat and is then forced to put it back on.
- One of the most famous is the girl in The Exorcist, parodied back and forth.
- Team America: World Police: Gary pukes, on screen, for an entire minute. It also looks like he's done vomiting right before he does it again, turning the scene into an Overly Long Gag.
- By the end it looks it's he's vomited twice his own weight.
- Daryl VanHorne in The Witches of Eastwick, inducing vomiting via magic ("Have another cherry") and later suffering as the spell is used on him.
- Ron Weasley vomiting giant slugs in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
- The "eating contest" scene from Stand By Me.
- The Crazy Dance scene from Problem Child 2.
- Drop Dead Gorgeous
- The ghost of the poisoned girl in The Sixth Sense.
- The Matrix: Neo vomits from excessive mental strain and denial, after learning what the Matrix is and the condition of the real world. On an interesting side note, the vomit was real. Keanu Reeves had eaten some chicken that didn't agree with him earlier that day.
- Osmosis Jones has it both ways. While Frank throwing up on Shane's teacher is done as a Vomit Discretion Shot, a photo on the school paper shows the act in all its nausiating glory.
- Super Size Me has a gratuitous shot when Morgan Spurlock McVomits out his parked car window after consuming an entire Super Sized McDonald's combo. Being a documentary, it was completely real.
- In Meet The Feebles, Harry tries to perform in the show despite being extremely sick, and ends up puking on the stage.
- Dead Bang (1989). The alcoholic cop played by Don Johnson runs down an outlaw biker and is immediately sick on him. The biker is so grossed out he agrees to spill the beans as long as Johnson doesn't spill his a second time.
- This troper never thought she'd see puking outright in a Disney film, then came Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest where Elizabeth's ex-fiance had more rum than he could handle the previous night.
- In Holy Smoke, right after the main character discovers that her father isn't actually ill, she chunders into a trash can in extreme close-up. The fact that it's very obviously phony somehow doesn't make it any better. At all.
- Used for waaaay TMI in Murder By Numbers. Justin is so disgusted by having to mutilate the girl's body (despite having been the one to strangle her) that he throws up— and manages to throw up blood. Beats the hell out of dropping your glasses.
- Millers Crossing. The protagonist Tom Reagan takes Bernie Bernbaum out to Miller's Crossing to kill him, but lets Bernie go after he shamelessly begs for his life. Later The Dane hears a rumor that Bernie is still alive, so he takes Tom back to the site to either find Bernie's body or leave Tom's there. Tom Reagan appears to be taking his impending death a lot more bravely than Bernie, when he suddenly stops and throws up all over the ground.
- In both Jackass movies there have been people vomiting on screen.
- In Big Daddy the little boy Julian vomits after eating too much junk food and jumping on the bed.
- Four Rooms has Tim Roth throwing up over the sight (and smell) of a dead hooker. This gets extra funny points for being shot and flash-cut (in the style known from the "what did you do to our hostage" scene in From Dusk Till Dawn) by Robert Rodriguez and for coming completely out of nowhere.
- Drag Me To Hell has the shot of the creepy old gypsy lady puking worms all over the protagonist's face. It turns out to be Only A Dream, but still...
- Name a Judd Apatow movie. Any one will do.
- The Hangover features three of these.
- In the rather terrible horror film Junior, the protagonist not only vomits onscreen, but directly onto the camera lens. Lovely.
- The Sam Rockwell vehicle Moon has a no-holds-barred blood vomiting scene about halfway through. When I went to see it, some poor girl actually fainted in the theater.
- District 9 uses this rather effectively.
- Every John Waters movie. Even Hairspray. Multiple Maniacs actually has a character who eats puke. Literally the Prince of Puke.
Live Action TV
- Oz is a very mature show, so when people get sick we tend to see it. For example, Ryan has frequent bouts of nausea after receiving chemotherapy for his breast cancer. Averted in the case of Adebisi after he was rejected by Shirley and called a racist term, he becomes so upset that he trashes his room, smokes pot, and crawls over to his toilet where he vomits, but we don't see it.
- Happens in the mini-series Helter Skelter (a dramatization of the Charles Manson murders). When a friend of the victims sees the body of Sharon Tate at the opening crime scene, he rushes offscreen and outside for what the viewers think will be a Vomit Discretion Shot. Instead, he stops in front of a window and hurls the contents of his stomach in full view.
- Law And Order: SVU: In one episode, a young man learns that his murdered girlfriend was, unbeknownst to him, his sister. Cue the facial contortions of disgust and vomiting.
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien features "Vomiting Kermit" as an occasionally-used sight gag.
- Torchwood: "Dead Man Walking" features an 8-second long shot of Owen spraying out a ridiculous quantity of beer while standing on his head because that's the only way to get the beer out, since his current status as undead means he has no gag reflex or digestive functions.
- In Little Britain, there are characters who copiously vomit whenever it's mentioned the food they ate was prepared by someone from a minority. It's one of those jokes that might work once, but when you've seen one you've seen them all.
- Dexter has a blatant vomit shot in the second season, when Harry hurls after seeing young Dexter's handiwork(a partially dismembered corpse) for the first time. The camera is even staring up for the garbage can.
- In the first episode of Brideshead Revisited Sebastian throws up after binge-drinking. Presumably the reviewer who wrote "every frame is a Rembrandt" was forgetting those few frames.
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer vomited upon finding her mother's dead body, then put down a paper towel and watched it soak up the vomit.
- Ben vomited upon his arrival in Tunisia in the Lost episode "The Shape of Things to Come." This was repeated when Locke arrived in Tunisia the same way.
- Puke all over the place in Farscape. This troper is trying to recall a main character who hasn't vomited on-camera outside of Sikozu, Zhaan, and Moya, and is failing.
- Is there an episode of Jackass that doesn't feature Steve-O spewing his guts up?
- Bunk Moreland in the fourth season of The Wire, during a policeman's wake. Thankfully, he did it outside the bar, not inside.
- Roger Sterling of Mad Men, after eating a lunch consisting of a few dozen oysters and cheesecake (and at least three martinis), returns to his building only to find the elevator out of service. Unfortunately, his office is on the 23rd floor. Some viewers, apparently, cannot infer outcomes like these for themselves.
- One Saturday Night Live sketch involved cops seeing a body so mutilated that it caused them to vomit uncontrollably (from a tube running up their sleeves), and continued for several minutes and others entered the scene, saw the body, and themselves began vomiting.
- The Comic Strip Presents is fond of this — more episodes than not seem to feature a character vomiting on screen.
- Peep Show takes this to the logical extreme, and gives us the wonderful image of vomiting from the vomiters POV.
- In Battlestar Galactica (Re-Imagined), during the final episode, Admiral Adama is shown in a flashback getting severely drunk and vomiting all over himself after a night out with the Tigh's. Whether it's a moving dramatic scene or a completely gratuitous shot is entirely up to you.
- On ''24, Jack did it after shooting Curtis.
- Breaking Bad had a drunk teen puking in a swimming pool, and later on another character choked to death on her own vomit, in rather graphic fashion.
- Lots of onscreen throwing up in House MD. At lease they have the excuse of being a medical show.
- On The Sopranos, when Adriana La Cerva is graphically pressured to become an informer for the government, she blows chunks all over an FBI conference room, and an FBI agent.
- Can't believe You Cant Do That On Television hasn't been mentioned.
- If Myth Busters doesn't show the vomit, it's because they couldn't get a decent camera angle.
Video Games
- In Metal Slug 3, you face off against waves of zombies in Mission 2. Getting attacked by one of them while in human form turns you into a zombie that pukes blood as part of its C-button attack.
- Similarly, City Of Heroes has zombie mooks who glory in spewing acidic, DoT-causing vomit. Conveniently enough, they're mostly encountered in the sewers.
- Condemned: Criminal Origins has a segment near the beginning of the game where the main character, after a particularly violent vision, vomits in first-person perspective.
- And let us not forget Breakdown!
- For some reason, characters in the video game sequel to The Thing tend to vomit on a regular basis. Even if they aren't infected with the Thing.
- Even in the movie, the infected never really vomited- as a symptom it would have been a clear sign that something wasn't right and they wanted to keep a masquerade going. The puke-o-rama is merely a reaction that the NPCs have to gruesome and even outright mind-damaging sights like carcasses, splatterage, and even the occasional roasted Thing-bits here and there. It's up to you as Blake to calm down their nerves by usually taking them away from where the offending sight for a breather.
- Lying somewhere between this and the Vomit Discretion Shot, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has Samus getting more and more corrupted by the radioactive Phazon as the game goes on. After some bosses die, they dump a load of liquid Phazon on her, driving the corruption forwards. Once she reaches 75% corruption, she kneels on the ground, the camera cuts to a shot diagonally from behind and pulls back; while we can clearly see Samus spewing up a pool of neon-blue liquid.
- World of Warcraft characters vomit in a bright green stream accompanied by a rather disgusting noise. Since the game features fully positionable camera angles, you can get as close to (or as far away from) the action as you desire. Also, puking on players is a standard combat tactic of certain Undead units.
- In Fable, the main character will vomit occasionally if you drink to much. If you drink so much that the screen is completely pixelated, he will stop and continuously vomit until the screen clears.
- Dwarf Fortress is frank about it. "(Target) vomits." and then there is a pool of vomit on the ground.
- Do your dwarves suffer from cave adaptation? Congrats, the front of your fortress is now caked with layer upon layer of dwarf barf.
- Boomers in Left 4 Dead.
- Um Jammer Lammy had Kathy Pillar.
- In Postal 2 there are two variations first if a more squeamish citizen comes across one of your murders they will occasionally vomit they also tend to vomit sometimes when you shock them with a taser, the other variation is when you throw a diseased cow head at them they will vomit blood and die.
- Spore has a vomiting emote (of the "greenish-yellow liquid" variety) in the creature creator's test drive mode. It also happens in Creature Stage if a carnivore tries eating fruit (presumably if a herbivore eats meat, as well).
Web Comics
Western Animation
- In an episode of Family Guy, Peter, Brian, Stewie, and Chris have a contest where they drink Ipecac to see who could go the longest without throwing up. Chris won, but everyone lost.
- Hell, on Family Guy this is more the rule than the exception (the only Vomit Discretion Shot I can think of when Brian started drinking a lot after becoming a singer), so much that it's beginning to lose its edge.
- A Season 3 episode of Rugrats, "Chuckie Loses His Glasses", involves Angelica stealing Chucky's glasses, wearing them herself throughout episode. However they cause her to feel dizzy and nauseated by the time her father returns to take her home. He notices she seems unwell and picks her up. Angelica then proceeds to spew straight into the camera and onto her dad's shirt. The actual vomiting part is cut in some showings of the episode.
- You can almost guarantee that every episode of Drawn Together will feature at least a dozen exaggerated vomit scenes (being a Grossout Show), sometimes in one scene. This is taken to extremes in a third season scene in which Toot vomits at least 10 times, basically accounting for each line that she gives.
- Total Drama Island usually makes its vomit scenes clearly visible (not a surprise, considering the challenges they have to go through). Heck, in one instance, Bridgette let fly while standing on her head.
- It should be noted that these happened often in the first season.
- In one episode The Simpsons had a Show Within A Show called Danger Dog. The villain in the show had a "puke ray".
- Also done in a Harry Potter parody in one of the Treehouse of Horror episodes. Bart is tasked to turn a frog into a prince but just makes a bloated frog monster that vomits every three seconds.
- Robot Chicken, off my memory, has had at least two episodes with this.
- In Rockos Modern Life Heffer and Spunky have vomited onscreen on several occasions.
- This has happened a few times in Beavis and Butthead such as in Washing The Dog in which after going inside a dryer Beavis vomits on Tom Anderson's poodle and in one where they attend a rock concert while waiting in line a drunk guy vomits on them and passes out.
- In the film Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi depicts herself violently projectile vomiting as she recalls how bad her ex-boyfriend's "literature" was.
- Happened quite a few times in Metalocalypse.
- Can't believe Ren And Stimpy hasn't been mentioned yet.
- In an episode of the VentureBros after his battle suit gets out of control the Monarch vomits all over himself as he comes crashing down to the ground.
- This happens all the time in South Park; most notably in the earlier episodes whenever Wendy would talk to Stan he would vomit on her. It still happens sometimes, but Stan appears to be getting better at not doing it.
- In an episode of Ben10:AlienForce the transformed Decka vomits up everything he ate onscreen after eating Echo Echo clones which were made of silicone which makes their species sick.
- Done in Futurama a few notable examples include Dwight vomiting after smoking a joint, Leela planting a chemical that induces vomiting inside Mushu the sperm whale so he will upchuck Amy's watch which he had earlier eaten, and in response to seeing Leela slaughter the mutant Zoidberg in "Bender's Game" Bender pukes nuts and bolts.
Truth In Television
- This troper's college has an Annual Milk Chug, to see if anyone can drink an entire gallon of milk in an hour. Most of the spectators show up solely to watch the Vomit Chain Reaction that ensues. This year, they dyed the milk various colors to make it even more epic. Watching someone projectile vomit half a gallon of orange milk is a truly spectacular sight.
- In a similar vein, an old swim team I used to be on would have Eggnog relays. Basically, you chug a whole bunch of eggnog just before you dive in and then swim a fifty as fast as you can.No one ever finishes without puking.
Music
- Kyo, lead singer of Japanese metal band Dir En Grey, uses fake vomit of varying color and consistency during music videos and stage shows.
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