History Main / VomitingCop

* Thunder from the Creator/JuddWinick run on ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' threw up on one of her first crime scenes. It was a crime scene where people had been sealed into a city bus and burned alive.

* Crops up in ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' during the mission "Sign Of The Times," in which one of D.I. Shelley's men vomits over the railing after the sight of the newest occult murder - narrowly missing a passer-by below. According the Shelley herself, the murders she and her squad witness on a daily basis are so grisly that most of her officers insist on being transferred away, meaning that she always ends up having to look after a fresh round of queasy recruits.

* The rookie variation was once seen on ''Series/{{Hunter}}''.

* In ''ComicBook/XMen Noir'', rookie Peter Magnus asks for a mint on the way to the crime scene for his first murder case. His veteran partner Fred Dukes refuses to give him one. When they see the body, Peter pukes; Fred didn't give him the mint because he knew that would happen and he would've just wasted it. This is a case where anyone would have done the same, though - the woman was missing her eyes, her nose, her upper lip...

* In the [[https://truecrimeenthusiast.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/the-ossett-exorcist-murder Ossett Murder case,]] when a man who supposedly believed he was possessed by demons killed his wife with his bare hands, the police constable who apprehended the perpetrator arrived on the scene and saw a senior officer vomiting. The senior officer then warned him, "You don't want to see this one, son. I've seen nothing like it before and I've seen a few."

* In the ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' collaborate fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8256980/15/Hunters-in-the-Dolomites Hunters in the Dolomites]]'', Elio kills two terrorists in a toilet and has to get a couple of headquarters staff as an improvised CleanUpCrew. Despite being forewarned the first man through the door throws up on the corpses, so Elio tells him to just get it out of his system using the nearby sink. The second man enters and is about to do the same when the first man grabs him and shoves his head over the sink. Elio congratulates him on being a quick learner.

* In ''Literature/TheLadyInTheLake'', after a month-old corpse is pulled out of the lake, the sheriff takes it in
stride but the sight and smell prompt his deputy to go and throw up behind a tree.

* ''Series/QuincyME'': The opening titles 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 "[[Recap/QuincyMES1E1GoFightCityHallToTheDeath Go Fight City Hall...To the Death!]]" (the episode from which it comes) 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.

** Season 5: Cira Manzon, a young Hispanic officer, vomits after she saw one of the Santa Muerte murders. This is the rookie variant of the trope.

** In another episode, a beat cop claims, "14 years on the job and it's the first time I threw up", upon discovering an especially butchered victim. Not surprising, since the killer was being compared to UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.

** In "Mr. Monk and the Foreign Man," where the characters are covering their mouth due to the stench of a corpse that has been decaying in a house for two weeks. Except for Randy, who tries to act indifferent to the stench to impress a CSI tech.
** In "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man," a cop can be seen dry-heaving when facing the sight of a dead man that had been shot once, then burned.

* Done on ''Series/PoliceSquad'' when shown a picture of Alaxander Haig.

* ''Series/QuincyME'': The opening titles 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 "[[Recap/QuincyMES1E1GoFightCityHallToTheDeath Go Fight City Hall...To the Death!]]" (the episode from which it comes) 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.
* Used on ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'', this is a RunningGag where Frost is concerned, as he frequently losses it at many, many crime scenes and autopsies. He even faints once. Jane's brother Frankie also has a weak stomach, but not to the degree of Frost, once being involved in a VomitChainReaction. Jane has it happen to her once, although in that case she was also suffering from morning sickness.

** 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.

* Subverted in one episode of ''Series/{{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.

* ''Series/{{Wallander}}'': in the Swedish series, Isabelle vomits at a gruesome murder scene made worse by the ongoing heat wave. She blames it on the stench.

* Diesel vomits at a dismembered Gundam, and in a flashback Furaya appears to be gagging at a similar sight in the first season finale of ''WebVideo/AnimeCrimesDivision''.

* Used in the Season One finale of ''Literature/ShadowUnit'', in which the ever-impeturbable Nikki Lau vomits outside the old Villette house after [[spoiler:Chaz is evacuated]]. Subverted somewhat as her reaction is not just about the awfulness of what's been done in the house (and the mess it's made), but the fact that it was done to [[spoiler:and by]] a colleague and friend.

** There is a tradition in some police forces (etc.) that if a rookie doesn't have 'the worst' happen to them, they'll take them to a diner and order scrambled eggs & brains with hash browns; and lots of ketsup. ''That'' usually does the trick.

** Among {{Website/Reddit}} users, the infamous story of [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xo41d/doctorsnursesredditors_what_has_been_your_most/c5o66p2/ the Swamps of Dagobah]] has become legendary. One night, an OR nurse and their team were operating on a morbidly obese, drug-addicted woman with a perirectal abcess. When the surgeon opened her perineum with a scalpel, a gigantic torrent of pus, blood, rotten tissue, and fecal matter ''exploded'' out of her nether regions. Both nurses and the anesthesiologist ran vomiting out of the room. The unfortunate OR nurse ran for the bottle of peppermint oil,[[note]]which doctors rub on the inside of their masks to cover bad smells[[/note]] found it ''completely empty,'' and had to resort to huffing Mastisol (a liquid adhesive) to keep from throwing up in their mask while they finished the surgery. Afterwards, the surgeon and nurse had to take baths with four or five bottles' worth of 70% isopropyl alcohol just to get the smell out of their skins. ("It's probably the only scenario I can honestly endorse [[INeedAFreakingDrink drinking a little of it, too.]]")

* Not cops per-se, but along the same theme. In April 1945 Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton visited the Ohrdruf-Nord [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust concentration camp]].[[note]]One of the ''least'' brutal camps of the Reich.[[/note]] Despite being a tremendous badass and a hardened war veteran, Patton was still so horrified at what he witnessed that he walked behind the barracks and threw up there.
** Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Konev got detailed reports of Auschwitz once the Soviet troops liberated it in January 1945. He decided he won't visit the camp and wrote: the strain of command was enough, seeing with his own eyes something worse than gore of the battlefields would [[UnstoppableRage impair his military judgment]].

-->[[spoiler:In the back of a run-down house in Plant City, officers found a skeletal child, curled on a moldy mattress, covered with maggots and flies. She had nothing on but a swollen diaper. Feces dribbled down her legs. "What’s your name, honey?" asked Detective Mark Holste, bending over the girl. [[EmptyShell She didn’t react.]] Roaches crunched under his feet. Lice crawled in her black hair. It was the worst case of neglect Holste had ever seen.]]

** [[https://books.google.com/books?id=XgScsbrXH_wC&lpg=PA19&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false In one case]] an EMT was too embarrassed to admit to puking at a crime scene. Since the vomitus wasn't linked to the killer and nobody took responsibility at first the defense tried to argue the it came from the true killer. While the EMT ended up confessing, the puke could have easily resulted in the jury returning a not guilty verdict.

* Novice slaughterhouse workers are generally directed to the proper waste receptacle in which to barf on their first day, to ensure that ''when'' the sights, smells and textures get too much for them they won't contaminate the work area.
* Astronauts training for zero G often experience vomiting. Unlike most examples it is not due to disgust but because the movement disrupts the inner ear and induces extreme nausea.

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'': Happens to Waver Velvet when he and Rider first come across Ryunnosuke's and Caster's [[{{Squick}} "artwork"]]. Waver's embarrassed by it, but Rider tells him that he has nothing to be sorry for: "If there were any man who could witness this and not react, I would punch him in the face."
* Happens early in part two of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' to an unnamed cop who discovered the newest handiwork of the resident JackTheRipoff.

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* The Website/{{Cracked}} feature ''8 Bits'' episode "The Horrifying Crime Behind Every Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Game" has a rookie cop woof his cookies when he opens a dusty Pokeball, presumably with a dead animal inside.
* Diesel vomits at a dismembered Gundam, and in a flashback Furaya appears to be gagging at a similar sight in the first season finale of ''WebVideo/AnimeCrimesDivision''.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' spoofs this when Rick ''brutally'' fights back against Revolio Clockberg Jr. after the latter turns on the former, replacing his mouth gears with the gears from his ''groin.'' When two Gearhead cops burst in and see what Rick had done to Revolio, they vomit oil and cogs.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'': When the police burst into King Shark's hotel room and find all of the bodies strung up, one of the cops can be seen spinning around about to vomit.

* A whole roomful of cops nearly succumbed to this trope on ''Series/TheCloser'', when an ice cooler containing a folded-up human corpse was opened in the middle of Brenda's office. Justified even for the most hardened veterans, given how long the body had been decomposing in a tiny airtight space. Hilariously averted by [[SeenItAll Lieutenant Provenza]], who while everyone else is dashing out the door, grumbles about finding someone to clean up the mess.
** Also done in the episode "Head Over Heels," where Brenda and a colleague are interrupted at a diner when the mutilated body of a victim is discovered in a nearby dumpster. While discussing what they've found, Brenda eventually succumbs to her disgust and turns away to vomit. Justified in that they having breakfast only shortly before.
* Happened at least once in MASH, when a [[NewMeat fresh-off-the-plane]] B.J. Hunicutt barely has time to turn around to throw up after examining a dead soldier in the middle of an active battle.
* Twice subverted on ''Series/{{Monk}}'':
** In "Mr. Monk and the Foreign Man," where the characters are covering their mouth due to the stench of a corpse that has been decaying in a house for two weeks. Except for Randy, who tries to act indifferent to the stench to impress a CSI tech.
** In "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man," a cop can be seen dry-heaving when facing the sight of a dead man that had been shot once, then burned.
* Cadaver-free, serious variant: On ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', an amnesiac Gibbs threw up after his old mentor, bringing him up to speed on events since he'd lost his memory, told him about 9/11.
* Used on ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'', this is a RunningGag where Frost is concerned, as he frequently losses it at many, many crime scenes and autopsies. He even faints once. Jane's brother Frankie also has a weak stomach, but not to the degree of Frost, once being involved in a VomitChainReaction. Jane has it happen to her once, although in that case she was also suffering from morning sickness.
* A variation is seen in an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' with a vomiting firefighter at a fatal arson scene.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': TV Scientist Dr. Bunsen Jude, "the Science Dude" acts as Brennan's Squintern-of-the-week to convince her to come on his show to talk about how fun science is. After looking at a corpse for a few minutes and giving his expert opinion, he grabs a bucket.
-->When science gets icky it's all right to get s--'''''bleh'''''
* This happens to the cop of the week a few times on ''Series/CriminalMinds''. "No Way Out" has a particularly brutal scene, a where the sheriff remarks that the vomiter had driven sixty miles to get to the crime scene, threw up in the bushes, and was about to be sent home. She's rather scornful, as he isn't even from her department, meaning he drove to another jurisdiction just to see a dead body and promptly threw up.
** Possibly invoked by Prentiss in one episode. The corpse is an old friend of hers who she sent to the apartment where she was killed in the first place, making it justified that she might lose her lunch. However, she then uses going home to change her pants and shoes as an excuse to grab her insurance policy against Ian Doyle and go rogue, implying that she might have done it on purpose.
* Parodied on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', when Jerry's car is stolen and a similar model turns up torn apart in a garage.
* Done on ''Series/PoliceSquad'' when shown a picture of Alaxander Haig.
* ''Series/TheWire'':
** Everyone's listening to the tape of [[spoiler:Kima]] getting shot. [=McNulty=] is distressed enough that he immediately vomits into a garbage can.
** In a non-crime scene variant, at the start of "Dead Soldiers," Major Colvin goes to the bathroom to wash up prior to a Comstat hearing. When he goes there, Major Taylor is vomiting into a toilet because he's on thin ice with Rawls and knows he's about to be roasted in front of everyone.
* In the first season finale of ''Series/CityHomicide'', Matt throws up upon learning the corpse they dug up was his mother, who disappeared when he was a teenager.
* Happened in ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' when Friday and Gannon find a neglected baby drowned in a bathtub.
-->'''Gannon:''' After twenty-five years on the job, it's finally happened.\\
'''Friday:''' What's that, Bill?\\
'''Gannon:''' [[CallingYourNausea I'm going to be sick.]] ''[hands evidence to Friday and runs from the room]''
* Spoofed in ''Series/ATouchOfCloth'', where it isn't the horrifically mutilated corpse that makes the detectives gag -- it's a framed picture of Piers Morgan.
* ''Series/TwinPeaks'' has Deputy Andy. While he rarely throws up he always cries at murder scenes.
* Gus from ''Series/{{Psych}}'' usually gets queasy at the sight of dead bodies. He's not a cop, but he and [[SherlockScan "psychic detective"]] Shawn work closely with the police to investigate murders.
* In a less-messy medical counterpart to this trope, one of the nurses on ''Series/KingdomHospital'' would faint every time she had to enter the operating room and saw a gruesome surgical procedure in progress.
* In the season finale of ''Series/{{Broadchurch}}'', Ellie retches and nearly vomits when the murderer is found. Considering [[spoiler:the killer murdered a friend's eleven-year-old son, who he'd been in love with, and ''was her own husband'']], it was justified that she was so shocked.
* On ''Series/EmptyNest'', fed up with her sister Barbara's bullying, Carol Weston publicly humiliates her by forcing her to admit that she threw up on the coroner the first time she saw a dead body.
* ''Series/{{Longmire}}'': Happens to Ferg when he dscovers the body of a man who has been mauled to death by a bear in "The Worst Kind of Hunter".
* ''Series/{{Wallander}}'': in the Swedish series, Isabelle vomits at a gruesome murder scene made worse by the ongoing heat wave. She blames it on the stench.
* ''Series/NewTricks'': A severely hungover Gerry throws up after the team opens a fridge and discovers a head that has been in there for several years in "Romans Ruined".
* A variant on ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': In the pilot episode, Chuck disarms a bomb controlled by a computer by using a virus transmitted through internet porn to kill the laptop, effectively defusing the bomb. Chuck is actually quite calm and collected throughout the entire scene...until he realizes what could have happened if he had been wrong. ''Then'' Chuck turns green.
-->'''Casey:''' Don't puke on the C4.
* Parodied like everything else in ''Series/AngieTribeca'', where a young cop vomits at EVERY crime scene, including that of an art theft.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Hank is appalled at the sight of Tortuga's decapitated head placed on top of a turtle in Juarez by the local drug cartel and leaves the scene to throw up (he mutters something about getting an evidence bag). The [[InterserviceRivalry El Paso agents mock him relentlessly]], but he survives unscathed when the head explodes, killing several agents and severely wounding others. {{Deconstructed}}, as Hank's reaction seems to be a panic attack, and his resulting [[MenAreTough feelings of weakness]] and SurvivorGuilt plague him for the rest of the series.
* ''Series/TheNightOf'': We see one of the young arresting officers flee the gruesome crime scene and dry heave in the street. Various cops mock him through the next few episodes, and he usually [[InsistentTerminology protests that he was only gagging, not puking]]. The trope is then deliberately {{exploited|trope}} by the lead detective: when the cop in question asks to leave the detail out of his report, he's told to leave it in, because it humanises him as a witness and thus helps the prosecution's case.
* At a particularly gruesome crime scene on ''Series/HomicideHunter'', Lt. Joe Kenda notes that several of the cops threw up and that he himself had to struggle to not do this.
* Narrowly averted in one episode of ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' when the precinct's detectives are confronted with a nun who was raped and brutally beaten when she disturbed a couple of burglars. The normally unflappable [[DaChief Captain Frank Furillo]] (who was raised Catholic) attends in person, and is clearly badly shaken by what he learns from the detectives on scene.
--> '''Furillo''' (to Detective Caitano, as they return to their car): "Get me out of here, Ray, I think I'm going to be sick."
** The impact isn't limited to the immediate afthermath either, as the story arc following this case involves normally ByTheBookCop Frank [[BlackAndGreyMorality resorting to some rather questionable tactics]] to find the perpetrators and get them off the street.
* In the ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'' episode "Death by Miss Adventure", the CluelessDeputy Hugh Collins loses his breakfast at the thoroughly splattered body of a factory worker who'd [[GroundByGears fallen into the machinery]]. Unfortunately, this causes him to overlook [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident signs of foul play]], like the fact that safety equipment was put in place ''after'' the death.

* Seen in ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'' during one of the Miami Mutilator investigation scenes.
* In the remake of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', Jill vomits in the toilet after stomping on the bathtub zombie's head.
* Crops up in ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' during the mission "Sign Of The Times," in which one of D.I. Shelley's men vomits over the railing after the sight of the newest occult murder - narrowly missing a passer-by below. According the Shelley herself, the murders she and her squad witness on a daily basis are so grisly that most of her officers insist on being transferred away, meaning that she always ends up having to look after a fresh round of queasy recruits.
* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', the PlayerCharacter will vomit upon first finding the body of the victim whose murder you're investigating, unless you pass a very difficult test. Unlike most examples it's not because he is a rookie, but because the corpse in question has been decomposing for a week and he is suffering from a truly ''titanic'' hangover. Even his normally extremely stoic partner, Kim, barely manages to hold on.

* Seen in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0339.html this]] ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' strip, titled "C.P.P.D. Blue".
* The third chapter of ''Webcomic/ParadigmShift'' has a throwaway line about the officers attending the scene being offered ''counselling''. And for [[JustifiedTrope good reason]]; there's dead bodies, and then there's ''half-eaten dead bodies in several pieces''.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* During the "Jungle Cruise" episode of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', Togusa, the rookie of the team, has to run to the guardrail clutching his mouth after using a direct cyber-link to the investigator on the scene, experiencing everything, including the smell in perfect clarity. He didn't throw up, but came pretty close. The experienced members of the squad just watch the video feed, but most of them could also turn off their sense of smell if they wanted to.
* Mentioned but not seen in ''Anime/{{Ghost in the Shell|1995}}: Innocence'', where Ishikawa oversees a crime scene by himself, explaining that the rookie with him got reacquainted with his lunch, and he sent him to personally take the corpse to the lab as a "learning experience".

* Happens early in part two of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' to an unnamed cop who discovered the newest handiwork of the resident JackTheRipoff.
* ''LightNovel/FateZero'': Happens to Waver Velvet when he and Rider first come across Ryunnosuke's and Caster's [[{{Squick}} "artwork"]]. Waver's embarrassed by it, but Rider tells him that he has nothing to be sorry for: "If there were any man who could witness this and not react, I would punch him in the face."

* George Godly, upon finding the corpse of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's final victim, who had been subjected to then unheard of levels of mutilation in ''Comicbook/FromHell''. Whether or not the real Godly left his breakfast at Miller's Court or if this was simply an invention for dramatic purposes is one of the few subjects that Creator/AlanMoore's [[ShownTheirWork lengthy annotations]] to the book is silent on.

* Occurs in the ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'' comic when the cops apprehend Charlie Gilmour for the murder of his wife and child.
* Creator/GarthEnnis loves this trope.
* In ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' [[spoiler:When Johnny dies and visits heaven an angel starts vomiting after reading the list of things Johnny did.]]

* Thunder from the Creator/JuddWinick run on ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' threw up on one of her first crime scenes. It was a crime scene where people had been sealed into a city bus and burned alive.
* Albrecht in ''ComicBook/TheCrow'', after seeing Gideon's corpse.
* The police officers who found ComicBook/TheJoker's early experiments in ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: The Man who Laughs''.

* In the Franchise/{{Batman}} spinoff ''Streets of Gotham,'' Robin calls the police for backup after finding that the orphans Humpty Dumpty had taken were actually corpses he'd found and was trying to heal. The boy barely gets half way through the call before handing the communicator over to Batman to go throw up. This is ''Damian Wayne,'' the resident stab-happy assassin of the Bat clan we're talking about here.
* Averted by Deena Pilgrim of ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}''; she's slipped and fallen into blood and brains and the only thing she did was curse out the cop who didn't tape off the crime scene, and even the worst murder scene she's ever been to, all she did was step outside. But anytime that she's been teleported (or even just near someone who's teleporting), [[TeleportationSickness she pukes]].
* In ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', after the Joker's massacre of the audience at the David Endochrine Show, Commissioner Yindel is told that one of the rookie cops has gotten sick; she says for him to be sent home and told it's all right.
* The titular ''Agent 212'' suffers this in a comic where they see a grisly murder scene. It gets worse as his boss demands he draw a ChalkOutline around the corpse.

* A Mad Magazine spoof of ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' has Tracy tossing his cookies in his hat after confronting the one villain he's truly unable to apprehend: Mucous Face.

* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'' has a variation. While Twilight is excited to take part in an investigation, when she and Phoenix come across a [[ChalkOutline body-shaped tape outline]] and asks what it means, Phoenix's explanation isn't of her liking.
-->'''Twilight:''' Ugh... I think I'm going to be sick...\\
'''Phoenix:''' ''[[[FirstPersonSmartass Inner monologue]]]'' And all that eagerness seemed to go away in one fell swoop...

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11065365/2/Grim-Grinning-Ghosts Grim Grinning Ghosts]]'' a cop throws up after finding seven-year-old Harry's strangled and mutilated body stuffed in the cupboard under the stairs at Privet Drive.
* In ''[[http://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/Blue_Steel/Chapter_6/ Blue Steel]]'' Tonks throws up after she and several other Aurors see Harry kill fifteen Death Eaters with a sword.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11033616/30/You-re-my-Density You're My Density]]'' a younger Auror throws up after they find ears and fingertips in Walden [=MacNair=]'s house, some of which are small enough to belong to ''children''.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7665632/34/Potter-s-Protector Potter's Protector]]'' Harry heals a dying Muggle girl while visiting an Australian hospital - surgical incision and all. This forces a magical policeman with medical training to create a new incision so hospital staff won't be puzzled, sending his younger partner in search of a bucket. Unfortunately said partner forgets that they and Harry are currently invisible and has to memory-charm several Muggles who witness [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomit appearing from mid-air]].

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* Subverted in one episode of ''Series/{{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.
* Several times in ''Series/WithoutATrace'':
** In "Suspect", one agent does this, paired with VomitIndiscretionShot after forcing himself to act like he admires a pedophile so that the guy will admit where he stashed the VictimOfTheWeek.
** In "Bait", the Vomiting Cop (in fact a vomiting Coast Guardsman) was actually involved in the case - [[DetectiveMole as an accessory]].
** In "A Tree Falls", an agent does this upon finding a missing child alive, but horribly mutilated.
** In yet another episode, the same agent gets ill in another episode, due to being in withdrawal from painkillers, though he tries to play it off as not feeling well.

* ''Series/QuincyME'': The opening titles 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 "[[Recap/QuincyMES1E1GoFightCityHallToTheDeath Go Fight City Hall...To the Death!]]" (the episode from which it comes) 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 ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch: the sight of a murder victim provoked a rookie cop to throw up; the sight of the Vomiting Cop churned other characters' stomachs and ''[[VomitChainReaction they]]'' [[VomitChainReaction threw up]], causing everyone who saw ''that'' to throw up, making even ''more'' witnesses throw up - it was implied at the end of the sketch that all of New York City was vomiting. Notable cock-up: Chris Elliot's vomit tube didn't deploy right away, causing him to ad-lib a line about dry heaving. It then deployed while he was distracted.
** 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.

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':
** Harry, a hardened cop and a legend of his force, walks in on Dexter killing a murderer that kept getting away. He proudly trained him; however, seeing and realizing ''what'' he's created, Harry is violently sick.
** Season 5: Cira Manzon, a young Hispanic officer, vomits after she saw one of the Santa Muerte murders. This is the rookie variant of the trope.
* Done on ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' as the fourth member of a hit squad describes how the other three were killed to Danko. [[spoiler:The man a shapeshifter and is actually the killer. Though whether he's vomiting as part of his act or out of guilt is never made clear.]]
* Happened to an off-screen investigator in the pilot of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' upon inspecting a plane whose passengers fell victim to a flesh-rotting something-or-other.
* Parodied in a sketch of ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'', where a cop vomits at the sight of a corpse and then at an expired parking meter.

* In the episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' where she loses her powers ([[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E12Helpless Helpless]]), Giles, an experienced Watcher, is overcome when he sees the mutilated body of another Watcher. [[GoryDiscretionShot The body was left offscreen]], but there's blood all over the walls.
* Connor on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' vomited at one crime scene where an entire family had been brutally murdered for being unknowing {{Living MacGuffin}}s. It's not the gore - Connor grew up in a demon dimension and takes [[spoiler:his daughter being a rotted, maggot-infested corpse without qualm]], but the realization that they were a family, which he has massive unresolved issues with.
* DS Dan Twentyman in ''MosesJones'' does this - [[VomitIndiscretionShot visibly]] - upon discovering a mutilated corpse.

* In the first episode of the series, ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' had Benson vomiting in some bushes after interviewing a particularly brutalized rape victim.
** A few seasons later, a couple cops start throwing up after entering the house full of dead cult children.
** Elliot spent much of one episode sick as a dog because he's on anti-AIDS medication (after being exposed [[ContinuityNod in the previous episode]]).
** In another episode, a beat cop claims, "14 years on the job and it's the first time I threw up", upon discovering an especially butchered victim. Not surprising, since the killer was being compared to UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
* In the ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' episode "Major Case", Nichols asks his very pregnant partner to sniff a body left in a dumpster to confirm something he thought he smelled. She confirms his suspicions and then promptly throws up.

'''Gannon:''' I'm going to be sick.\\
''[hands evidence to Friday and runs from the room]''

* At her first crime scene, Literature/AnitaBlake threw up ''on'' the corpse.
* Very common in Creator/StephenKing's works:
** In ''Literature/TheDarkHalf'', 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 ''Literature/GeraldsGame'', 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)]] but he manages to get out of the truck just in time. 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."
** A cop in King's short story Literature/TheMangler throws up on the job for the first time in his fourteen years as a policeman after seeing the remains of one particularly grisly death, where the poor individual had been run through the titular machine and was hardly recognizable as human anymore.
** The trope also appears in Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/FromABuick8'', but there it's due to the cops meeting [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] from another dimension.
** A hospital variation occurs in ''Literature/PetSematary'', with a CandyStriper being the one who vomits after seeing a victim of a car accident who has a head injury so severe that his brain is visible.
* Literature/ErastFandorin, on his first crime scene (in his defense, it was an exceptionally gruesome murder).

* Not a murder mystery, but in the Literature/XWingSeries, Gavin Darklighter throws up when he sees and smells someone in the worst throes of the [[ThePlague Krytos Plague]]. He's not a cop, but an extremely green pilot who, during the crisis, was sent to try and help the sufferers. He'd seen some bad ones before, but this was the worst. Gavin ''was'' able to pull himself together and do his job after, and later he told his love interest that he'll be all right, and that scares him.
--> "There is a Gammorean in there who has been [[BodyHorror turned into a mass of jelly]]. The disease killed him, but it did so in a way that didn't let him die until he could experience every fragment of pain possible. [...] I've seen more death in my time with Rogue Squadron than I have ever seen before, but nothing was so hideous as this. A year ago I would have run screaming. Now I [[ItGetsEasier just clean my boots and wait]] for guys with sterilizer units to show up. I'm changing and I'm not sure I like it."
** In ''[[Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy I, Jedi]]'', it's shown to take a lot to rattle Corran Horn (a former cop, turned pilot, turned Jedi). Even witnessing the grisly remains of one of Luke's other students doesn't disturb him that much, as he is able to point out a few key facts to Luke about the body. What does it take for Corran to lose his lunch? A vision in the Force of the destruction of Carida--seeing the aftermath of a grisly death is one thing; seeing many such grisly deaths ''happen before you'' is another thing entirely. If that sort of thing was what Obi-Wan Kenobi sensed as the ''Falcon'' neared Alderaan, ''he'' had quite the stomach.

* Literature/InspectorMorse has been sick in the novels, and even on good days he is pretty squeamish about crime scenes.
* Happens occasionally to Chief Hanks of Joan Hess's Maggody mysteries, particularly in ''The Merry Wives Of Maggody'' [[spoiler:in which she has morning sickness as well as corpses to deal with]].
* On several occasions, [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] has surveyed crime scenes, and other cops mention that they had a bucket waiting. It's implied that the reason that the bucket was there in the first place was because the other cops had already used it.
* Happens occasionally in Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novels, usually to a young police officer who isn't used to seeing dead bodies (at the beginning of ''A Dedicated Man'' for example). Happens to Banks himself in the short story "Like A Virgin", though this is partly due to a hangover.
* In W.E.B. Griffin's Men In Blue series, the first time brand-new police officer Matt Payne sees a murder victim, he not only throws up, he faints as well. What surprises him is the mild and totally sympathetic reactions of all of the senior police officers and detectives on the scene, who tell him of their own similar reactions to their first encounter with a murder victim.
* In ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth'', there was a serial murderer whose style made a ''hardened combat general'' throw up.
* In Creator/MercedesLackey's ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Changes]]'', four spies are [[YouHaveFailedMe murdered by their replacements]] and left to decompose in a sealed room for a couple days in summer. The result makes several of "the most experienced and hardened Guardsmen ... violently ill." The crime scene investigators aren't fazed at all, though.
* Deconstructed in Simon Hawke's ''The Wizard Of Rue Morgue'', in which a gendarme ponders how cops who throw up at their first sight of a murder victim are often ''glad'' to have done so later on in their careers, when they've become desensitized to such things. Having that memory helps veteran police to reassure themselves that they're still human, however hardened they become; it's the rare officer who '''doesn't''' barf, cry, freak out or otherwise react to the sight of their first corpse that other cops find worrisome.
* Frederick Forsyth's ''The Negotiator'' has an example when the President's son blows up due to a bomb set in his person. However, the vomiting was induced to have an excuse to kneel and hide the detonator chip in the nearby mud.
* In Robert B. Parker's ''Literature/{{Spenser}}'' novels, the title gumshoe sometimes throws up -- not because of what he sees, or what he does. Specifically, though Spenser's a fan of resolving problems through fisticuffs, he's not a fan of killing. In at least two books (''Mortal Stakes'' and ''A Catskill Eagle'') he loses his lunch after killing someone. In the first case it was arguably self-defense (he knew the victims were trying to set him up to be murdered, and simply acted more quickly than they did); in the second case it was outright murder (done to protect a pair of prostitutes he had put in peril of their lives). By his lights both were morally justified, but he still wasn't easy about it.
* The ''Literature/{{Dexter}}'' novels: Almost every crime scene where Dexter arrives has a vomiting cop nearby. Dexter is so used to the sight that he doesn't see anything out of the ordinary with it. He simply snarks about the mess and noise.
* In ''Literature/UnnaturalIssue'', a squad from the White Lodge in London is sent to investigate the Yorkshire Manor of a reclusive former member that has [[FaceHeelTurn gone around the bend]]. When they find that he had killed all the household servants a couple of days ago (in high summer) Dr. Maya Scott (physician and Earth Master) bolts outside to become violently ill; which is [[JustifiedTrope understandable]] given that the victims were still [[OurZombiesAreDifferent going about their jobs]], she could tell that their souls were [[AndIMustScream locked into their rotting bodies]], and the perversion of Earth Magic the [[{{Necromancer}} renegade Whitestone]] had gone in for would sicken even a (sane) Earth Master inured to the filth and pain of London's slums. The Air Master in the squad follows her a minute later to do the same.
* Played with in ''[[Literature/RiversOfLondon Broken Homes]]'', in which Peter retreats from a body-dump site with his hand clamped over his mouth and other officers nod sympathetically, assuming it's this trope. It's not -- he's holding back ''giggles'' after resisting the urge to make a tasteless crack about zombies -- but he opts to let the other police ''think'' it is.
* In the second ''[[Literature/RizzoliAndIsles Rizzoli]]'' novel, ''The Apprentice'', the titular character prides herself on NOT being this, being loathe to display any form of weakness in front of her male colleagues, to the point where she won't even swipe Vicks Vaporub under her nose to block out the stench of a decomposing body. However, it's neither the sight nor stench that finally makes her lose control, it's when the coroner reveals that the rape/murder victim they're examining was sexually assaulted AFTER she was strangled. In a later book, she blasts another female cop for throwing up at an especially gory crime scene, telling her she's making all female cops look bad -- yet she's very sympathetic when her male partner has a similar reaction.

* In the novel ''Literature/{{Jaws}}'', upon finding the corpse of Chrissy, Officer Hendricks vomits. When Officer Brody and Cassidy come to investigate, [[VomitChainReaction both of them vomit as well]].
* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', this is a common occurance and ofthen the outcome of watching the Taxxons [[HorrorHunger eat]], though the kids have other reasons to do this. Gets Lampshaded when Jake gets sick from a virus and not a mission sight. While carrying him home, Marco points out that he long ago realized there are a lot of UnusualEuphemism s he used to describe throwing up and now that there was nothing gross from Animorphs work that sparked the vomit session, he could bring this topic up. He, Cassie, and Jake (who is still queasy mind you) begin to list all the various terms they heard in the past and have a good laugh at it until Marco gives us "A yawn in Technocolor" which seems to be the one that causes Jake to vomit again.

* In ''Literature/InfiniteJest'', Hal says a forensic investigator at the scene of his father's [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] threw up. Understandable, given [[MadArtist James Incadenza]] killed himself by rigging a microwave so [[YourHeadAsplode he could run it with his head inside]].
* In ''Literature/{{Jago}}'', one of the cops who find what's left of Danny Keough has to go outside and vomit.
* ''Literature/GhostsOfTomorrow'': During his first crèche raid, Griffin finds hundreds of child corpses stacked in 140-degree heat. The stench is so overpowering that he vomits inside his helmet, as does half the squad.
* ''[[Literature/FelseInvestigates The Knocker on Death's Door]]'' by Creator/EllisPeters: One of the constables at the uncovering of the second corpse.
* In ''Literature/TheLadyInTheLake'', after a month-old corpse is pulled out of the lake, the sheriff takes it in stride but the sight and smell prompt his deputy to go and throw up behind a tree.

* Ciel Phantomhive of ''Manga/BlackButler'' fame does this not once, but twice in the manga. First time was in reaction to witnessing the death throes of [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Mary Jane Kelly]], which happens both in the anime and manga. The second one was manga only: [[spoiler: he vomits in reaction to his StalkerWithACrush rebuilding a sacrificial chamber, the very one Ciel almost died in pre-series. Combining the mental trauma with the brutal murder of children younger than he is a few chapters before likely did it.]] Justified since Ciel is [[ImprobableAge only thirteen years old]] and is not technically a cop, though he does investigate on the Queen's orders.

* Mentioned but not seen in ''Anime/{{Ghost in the Shell|1995}}: Innocence'', where Ishikawa oversees a crime scene by himself, explaining that the rookie with him got reacquainted with his lunch, and he sent him to personally take the corpse to lab as a "learning experience".

* In the Italian horror comic ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Dog Dylan Dog]]'', this is a RunningGag: Inspector Bloch, Dylan's former superior from Scotland Yard, is always in need of some anti-emetics and often complains that they don't make them as effective as they used to do.

* A version appears in the ''Thor'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7004930/1/All_Earthly_Things_Above All Earthly Things Above]]'', in which the stoic, nigh-omniscient Heimdall ends up vomiting for half an hour while seeing what Loki does to his erstwhile captor.

** In the later novel ''Literature/GeraldsGame'', 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)]] but he manages to get out of the truck just in time. 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."

* Happens occasionally to Chief Hanks of Joan Hess's Maggody mysteries, particularly in ''The Merry Wives Of Maggody'' [[spoiler: in which she has morning sickness as well as corpses to deal with]].

* Done on ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' as the fourth member of a hit squad describes how the other three were killed to Danko. [[spoiler: The man a shapeshifter and is actually the killer. Though whether he's vomiting as part of his act or out of guilt is never made clear.]]

* Connor on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' vomited at one crime scene where an entire family had been brutally murdered for being unknowing {{Living MacGuffin}}s. It's not the gore - Connor grew up in a demon dimension and takes [[spoiler: his daughter being a rotted, maggot-infested corpse without qualm]], but the realization that they were a family, which he has massive unresolved issues with.

* This happens to the CopOfTheWeek a few times on ''Series/CriminalMinds''. "No Way Out" has a particularly brutal scene, a where the sheriff remarks that the vomiter had driven sixty miles to get to the crime scene, threw up in the bushes, and was about to be sent home. She's rather scornful, as he isn't even from her department, meaning he drove to another jurisdiction just to see a dead body and promptly threw up.

* In ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'', after you find [[spoiler: Becky]], [[AmbiguouslyGay Thomas]] heads over to the toilet and barfs. This same scene is used for the results screen.

* Appears in ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' at the end of episode 1; when Bigby returns to the Woodlands and discovers a group of Mundie cops who have [[spoiler: found Snow's (actually Lily's) head,]] one of the cops can be seen dry-heaving as he leaves the scene.

** [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20031022.html Some characters are immune]], though.

* Both Sanchez and an unnamed cop become this upon discovering the titular character's crimes in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpTsUsPSSdo&feature=video_response episode 2]] of Waverly Films' ''Puppet Rapist''.
* Used in the Season One finale of ''Literature/ShadowUnit'', in which the ever-impeturbable Nikki Lau vomits outside the old Villette house after [[spoiler: Chaz is evacuated]]. Subverted somewhat as her reaction is not just about the awfulness of what's been done in the house (and the mess it's made), but the fact that it was done to [[spoiler: and by]] a colleague and friend.

** Among {{Website/Reddit}} users, the infamous story of [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xo41d/doctorsnursesredditors_what_has_been_your_most/c5o66p2/ the Swamps of Dagobah]] has become legendary. One night, an OR nurse and their team were operating on a morbidly obese, drug-addicted woman with a perirectal abcess. When the surgeon opened her perineum with a scalpel, a gigantic torrent of pus, blood, rotten tissue, and fecal matter ''exploded'' out of her nether regions. Both nurses and the anesthesiologist ran vomiting out of the room. The unfortunate OR nurse ran for the bottle of peppermint oil[[note]]which doctors rub on the inside of their masks to cover bad smells[[/note]], found it ''completely empty,'' and had to resort to huffing Mastisol (a liquid adhesive) to keep from throwing up in their mask while they finished the surgery. Afterwards, the surgeon and nurse had to take baths with four or five bottles' worth of 70% isopropyl alcohol just to get the smell out of their skins. ("It's probably the only scenario I can honestly endorse [[INeedAFreakingDrink drinking a little of it, too.]]")

* Not cops per-se, but along the same theme. In April 1945 Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton visited the Ohrdruf-Nord [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust concentration camp]][[note]]One of the ''least'' brutal camps of the Reich[[/note]]. Despite being a tremendous badass and a hardened war veteran, Patton was still so horrified at what he witnessed that he walked behind the barracks and threw up there.

-->[[spoiler: In the back of a run-down house in Plant City, officers found a skeletal child, curled on a moldy mattress, covered with maggots and flies. She had nothing on but a swollen diaper. Feces dribbled down her legs. "What’s your name, honey?" asked Detective Mark Holste, bending over the girl. [[EmptyShell She didn’t react.]] Roaches crunched under his feet. Lice crawled in her black hair. It was the worst case of neglect Holste had ever seen.]]

* In the [[https://truecrimeenthusiast.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/the-ossett-exorcist-murder/ Ossett Murder case]], when a man who supposedly believed he was possessed by demons killed his wife with his bare hands, the police constable who apprehended the perpetrator arrived on the scene and saw a senior officer vomiting. The senior officer then warned him, "You don't want to see this one, son. I've seen nothing like it before and I've seen a few."

** Taken UpToEleven in the ''Hollywood Bowl'' live performance, where the unfortunate Hygiene Squad inspector can't rush out of the room but instead eventually vomits into his helmet - to which his superior gives a glare, causing him to put the helmet back on his head. (SFX material: beef stew.)

* Taken UpToEleven in the third chapter of ''Webcomic/ParadigmShift'', with a throwaway line about the officers attending the scene being offered ''counselling''. And for [[JustifiedTrope good reason]]; there's dead bodies, and then there's ''half-eaten dead bodies in several pieces''.

** According to one account by a crime scene supervisor in the book [[https://books.google.com/books?id=XgScsbrXH_wC&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Every Contact Leaves a Trace"]], this once jeopardized a double homicide case. The EMT puked in the sink of the victims home and was too embarrassed to admit it to anyone at first ([[NauseaFuel his nausea might have been related to the bodies being in a closed up apartment during summer]]). When it went to court, the defendants attorney tried to argue that the real suspect must be whoever the vomit belonged to. Thankfully, the EMT came clean after the people on the scene were reinterviewed and the trial ended in a guilty verdict.

There are two variations:

* After the "serial killer" butchers someone in ''Videogame/HotlineMiami'', a cop is seen vomiting outside the building when the detective shows up.

* Deputy Bradimore, when she finds what's left of Deputy Jordan in ''Film/SilentNight''.

* During the July 2005 child abuse investigation of Michelle Crockett's house, a rookie officer ran out to puke in the weeds upon seeing the building's disgusting state. A ''Tampa Bay'' article on Danielle Crockett, her severely-neglected daughter, described her dilapidated room as follows:
-->In the back of a run-down house in Plant City, officers found a skeletal child, curled on a moldy mattress, covered with maggots and flies. She had nothing on but a swollen diaper. Feces dribbled down her legs. "What’s your name, honey?" asked Detective Mark Holste, bending over the girl. [[EmptyShell She didn’t react.]] Roaches crunched under his feet. Lice crawled in her black hair. It was the worst case of neglect Holste had ever seen.