History Main / MortalWoundReveal

* ''{{Gundam 00}}'' has a particularly cruel example, where Lichty's Heroic Sacrifice for and reveal of his cyborg nature to Christina Sierra is then followed by the reveal that she'd been pierced by a chunk of shrapnel and he hadn't noticed before he died in her arms. She then dies shortly after.
* About halfway through the first ''{{Macross}}'' anime, Fokker's plane is hit during a mission. He lands and proceeds to continue his plans for the evening. The fact that he was wounded is only revealed when he dies on his girlfriend's couch.

* In Otonashi's flashback sequence in ''AngelBeats'', Otonashi has just managed to rally and negotiate peace throughout the survivors of the subway cave-in accident and walked off to get a break when he pulls his jacket back, revealing the blood spreading under his skin from the terrible internal injury that eventually kills him.

* ''VForVendetta'' has an example, where initially it appears that V has either superhuman powers, or was secretly wearing a BulletProofVest. He was, of course, but that couldn't stop that many bullets that close. The reveal is very subtle, being his raspy, racked and pained voice as he delivers his KirkSummation.
** This subtlety is then abandoned as he removes his breastplate - riddled with bullet holes and covered in blood - from under his shirt, drops it on the ground, and staggers off to find Evey.

* In ''TheMatrix Revolutions'', Trinity gets a MortalWoundReveal. The reveal is justified, since Neo himself is blinded by that point.

* ''{{Trigun}}'' arguably subverts this, since it's obvious to the viewers that [[spoiler:Nicholas Wolfwood]] isn't long for this world [[spoiler:following his confrontation with Church]], but Vash is to deep into an HeroicBSOD to notice and they're too concerned that he keep up the fight to risk pushing him deeper by pointing it out.

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* ''RomeoAndJuliet'': Mercutio is stabbed under the arm of Romeo during a confused street brawl. It is often played as a MortalWoundReveal, including in [[WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Baz Luhrmann's 1996 version]], and Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version.

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* ''{{Mulan}}'': The eponymous heroine discovers she is seriously injured. The mood dramatically changes as she and her friends realise that she's wounded, and changes again when, in the process of treating her wounds, everyone realizes [[SweetPollyOliver she's a woman]].

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* ''DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'': Horrible grins at the sight of Hammer wailing in pain then turns to see Penny with a mortal wound in her middle from the explosion of the Death Ray.
* ''{{Antz}}'': A soldier who Z is talking to turns out to be [[LosingYourHead missing everything from his neck down]].

* ''MassEffect2'' has several shots set up during the suicide mission that are these if the squad member in question dies.
* ''{{Gundam 00}}'' has a particularly cruel example, where Lichty's Heroic Sacrifice for and reveal of his cyborg nature to Christina Sierra is then followed by the reveal that she'd been pierced by a chunk of shrapnel and he hadn't noticed before he died in her arms. She then dies shortly after.
* Happens [[{{Subversion}} twice, to the same character]] in the ''MetalGear'' series. DoubleSubversion - she doesn't survive the second time.

* Played with in ''DominicDeegan'' with a wound that would have been lethal if the characters weren't already in Hell.
* Happens in ''OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' with Cheyenne, the likable bandit, after his ambush of the the rail baron's private train.

* About halfway through the Macross anime, Fokker's plane is hit during a mission. He lands and proceeds to continue his plans for the evening. The fact that he is wounded is revealed when he dies on his girlfriend's couch.
* In Otonashi's flashback sequence in ''AngelBeats'', Otonashi has just managed to rally and negotiate peace throughout the survivors of the subway cave-in accident and walked off to get a break when he pulls his jacket back and we see blood spreading under his skin in terrible internal injury that eventually kills him.

* ''Film/ResidentEvil'' - The laser room scene in the film has a rather nasty version. All of him falls apart. All of him!

* Following a lengthy fight, Solomon in ''BloodPlus'' staggers into a dark alley and rips open a small cut on his clothing. Turns out a small wound with Saya's [[BloodyMurder blood]] was enough to make his body [[TakenForGranite]] slowly crystallize and crumble.

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* ''DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'': Horrible grins at the sight of Hammer wailing in pain then turns to see Penny with a mortal wound in her middle from the explosion of the Death Ray.
* ''{{Antz}}'': A soldier who Z is talking to turns out to be [[LosingYourHead missing everything from his neck down]].

* ''{{Equilibrium}}'' - The {{Narm}}tastic final fight has this happen to TheDragon.
* In ''TheMatrix Revolutions'', Trinity gets a MortalWoundReveal. The reveal is justified, since Neo himself is blinded by that point.
* ''MassEffect2'' has several shots set up during the suicide mission that are these if the squad member in question dies.

* ''TristanAndIsolde'': Happens to Tristan near the beginning of the film. His wound initially appears not that serious, but just as we're informed that the weapon was poisoned he collapses, apparently dead. Being the protagonist, [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt he gets better]], but his friends aren't GenreSavvy enough to know that.

* In Otonashi's flashback sequence in ''AngelBeats'', Otonashi has just managed to rally and negotiate peace throughout the survivors of the subway cave-in accident and walked off to get a break when he pulls his jacket back and we see blood spreading under his skin in terrible internal injury that eventually kills him.

* About halfway through the Macross anime, Fokker's plane is hit during a mission. He lands and proceeds to continue his plans for the evening. The fact that he is wounded is revealed when he dies on his girlfriend's couch.

** Then a lot less subtly as he removes his breastplate, riddled with bullet holes and covered in blood, from under his shirt, drops in on the ground, and staggers off to find Evey.

* ''{{Mulan}}'': The eponymous heroine discovers she is seriously injured. The mood dramatically changes as she and her friends realise that she's wounded, and changes again when, in the process of treating her wounds, everyone realizes she's a woman.

* ''{{Mulan}}'': The eponymous heroine discovers she is seriously injured. The mood dramatically changes as she and her friends realise that she's wounded.

* ''ResidentEvil'' - The laser room scene in the film has a rather nasty version. All of him falls apart. All of him!

* ''{{Gundam00}}'' has a particularly cruel example, where Lichty's Heroic Sacrifice for and reveal of his cyborg nature to Christina Sierra is then followed by the reveal that she'd been pierced by a chunk of shrapnel and he hadn't noticed before he died in her arms. She then dies shortly after.

* ''{{Antz}}'': A soldier who Z is talking to turns out to be missing everything from his neck down.

* Played with in the ''LooneyTunes'' short ''ACornyConcerto''. Porky Pig and his hunting dog are hunting BugsBunny, and after a chipmunk gets ahold of Porky's rifle and shoots it, the three of them stand to the camera with their hands over their chest. Porky and his dog both cautiously check under their hands, and realize they're fine. Bugs peeks under his hand, goes green and collapses. [[spoiler: He's faking, of course.]]

* ''RomeoAndJuliet'': Mercutio is stabbed under the arm of Romeo during a confused street brawl. It is often played as a MortalWoundReveal, including in Baz Luhrmann's recent version, and Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version.

* Played with in the ''LooneyTunes'' short ''ACornyConcerto''. Porky Pig and his hunting dog are hunting BugsBunny, and after a chipmunk gets ahold of Proky's rifle and shoots it, the three of them stand to the camera with their hands over their chest. Porky and his dog both cautiously check under their hands, and realize they're fine. Bugs peeks under his hand, goes green and collapses. [[spoiler: He's faking, of course.]]

* In Joseph Heller's ''{{Catch-22}}'', Yossarian attempts to tend to the small wound of a crew member who was hit by flak on a bombing mission. But when he loosen's the crew member's jumpsuit, he finds a huge exit wound, and can do nothing but attempt to comfort the dying man.

* In the ''SherlockHolmes'' parody ''The Very Strange Case of the End of Civilisation As We Know It'', John Cleese as Holmes is shot in the stomach several times with what were ''supposed'' to be blanks as part of a clever gambit. When Watson fesses up that he'd forgotten the switch, Holmes surveys the growing bloodstain on his shirt, and irritably scolds Watson for his bungling.