Basic Trope: Wounds bleed to an unrealistic degree.
- Straight: Alice cuts off Bob's hand, causing a geyser of blood.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice gives Bob a papercut, causing a bloody tsunami.
- Bob has hemophilia, as well as insanely high blood pressure. By the time his blood stops spraying, his entire house looks like the scene of a particularly grisly murder.
- Downplayed: Bob suffers an arterial bleed, which actually can (and in fact does) realistically spurt blood, albeit very briefly.
- Justified:
- Bob is an alien with much higher blood pressure than a human.
- Bob is Overdrawn at the Blood Bank.
- Inverted: Bloodless Carnage
- Subverted: Alice cuts off Bob's hand and blood fills the screen ... wait, that's just a close-up. The camera pulls back, and he's bleeding profusely, but not unrealistically.
- Double Subverted: The camera pulls back to show Bob bleeding normally ... and then it pulls back even further to show that he's been bleeding for a long time.
- Parodied:
- The force of the bleeding sends Bob flying backwards and down the street, screaming, "Hooooooowwwww do you sssssstooooooop this thiiiiiing?"
- Bob's hand gets cut clean off, and there is a Delayed Reaction before the blood starts spurting like a volcano erupting."AAAAAAAGH! Fucking hell, you cut my hand off, you goddamn-" *A geyser of blood starts pouring out* "HOLY FUCK!"
- Bob accidentally sprays Harold in the face with his blood.
- Zig-Zagged: There appears to be no correlation between the severity of wounds and the presence of blood geysers.
- Averted: When Bob gets hurt, he bleeds like any normal human.
- Enforced: The show is meant to be Bloody Hilarious.
- Lampshaded: "Geez, how much blood do you have?!"
- Invoked: Bob is faking his own death, and it has to be visible and convincing to people several hundred feet away.
- Exploited: Bob cuts off his hand and uses the spray of blood to put out a fire.
- Defied: Bob goes on a low-sodium diet to reduce his blood pressure and prevent this sort of thing.
- Discussed: "I guess his blood pressure was ... OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAND!!!!"
- Conversed: "With all the blood being sprayed around on this show, you would think they'd be getting dizzy by now."
- Implied: Alice walks into a room with Bob's body lying on the floor without a hand, and every inch of the room painted red with blood.
- Deconstructed: Bob bleeds to death in seconds.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob bleeds to death in seconds, but he has an Unexplained Recovery, and is in the next scene.
- Bob recovers because he has a Healing Factor.
- Plotted a Good Waste: The show normally operates within the strict realm of reality. Bob's gushing blood is meant to be used to alert the audience that this is just a Nightmare Sequence. Later, however, he gets in a situation where he runs the risk of incurring this consequence for real...
- Played for Laughs: Bob has a Major Injury Underreaction.
- Played for Drama: Bob was Nigh-Invulnerable to every other danger he'd faced, and when he dies, the others angst about the scale of the threat they're now facing.
Here's a towel and some leeches. Now go back to High-Pressure Blood and get that looked at!
