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Author: xanderiskander

Jun 30th 2014 at 1:42:30 PM

^^ AfraidOfBlood is a character trait. It's when a character is extremely squeamish about any sight of blood to the point of ridiculousness. Dan's example of being afraid of blood in donor packs is a good example.

And what are you complaining about? While I don't see why a horror trope ''couldn't'' have a nonhorror subtrope, if you actually read what I wrote it's not listed that way anyway. You'll notice that the only time it mentions the word "subtrope" in the description is when it says Bloody Horror is a "subtrope of {{horror}}". Some of the related tropes ''are'' subtropes of this like BloodSplatteredInnocents and BloodIsTheNewBlack, but some them aren't (necessarilly) like OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank, and HighPressureBlood. That's why it's under  ''related tropes'', because that's a term broad enough to cover ''both subtropes, variations and sistertropes''. And in cases like SymbolicBlood or BloodyHilarious they're under ''"compare"'' or ''"contrast"''.

Would adding a paragraph like this help at all with making the point that it has to be explicit horror?

[[quoteblock]]Keep in mind that when blood and gore is being used for horror is all up to context. Generally you'll know it's being used for horror when you see it. For example An ActionSurvivor suffering battle damage is not by itself necessarily horror. If that damage causes them to get close to dying or (as an extreme example) become catatonic and unable to fight back that's horror. Character reactions and the genre of the work are also good indicators of whether it's being used for horror or not.[[/quoteblock]]