History Main / MortalWoundReveal

!!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].

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Compare AlmostDeadGuy, SecretStabWound, AfterActionHealingDrama, AgonizingStomachWound, BelatedInjuryRealization, ZombieInfectee (where the injured party deliberately hides that they've received a wound, rather than the author/director hiding it from the audience), and GameBreakingInjury (where it's specifically the Hero who receives a significant—though ''not'' necessarily mortal—wound).

Non-lethal examples will usually go under either SecretStabWound or GameBreakingInjury, or if they ''really'' don't fit either of those tropes for some reason, go here as a PlayingWith of some kind, invoking either NoOneCouldSurviveThat, or NoOneShouldSurviveThat. May result in the dying character doing TheDyingWalk. Sometimes foreshadowed by ImColdSoCold.

* In ''Film/TheHungerGames'', the lethal arrow stuck in [[spoiler:Rue]]'s chest is revealed this way.

* In the final episode of ''Series/ForeverKnight'', VampireDetective Nick Knight is trying to talk a criminal into handing over his gun, but he fires instead causing Nick to vamp out and kill him. He then turns to see his human partner Tracy Vetter (who knows that vampires exist, but not that Nick is one) staring at him in shock. She then does a WallSlump to reveal the bullet passed through Nick and hit her.

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* In the ''Literature/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.

Compare AlmostDeadGuy, SecretStabWound, AfterActionHealingDrama, BelatedInjuryRealization, ZombieInfectee (where the injured party deliberately hides that they've received a wound, rather than the author/director hiding it from the audience), and GameBreakingInjury (where it's specifically the Hero who receives a significant—though ''not'' necessarily mortal—wound).

* In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', following an explosion caused by the Green Goblin's bombs, Peter sees to Aunt May, who seems to be alright. It’s here that she gives him the WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility speech, and soon begins to weaken. Cue Peter's hands on Aunt May's back, being soaked in blood. She then dies.

--> In ''SpiderManNoWayHome'', following an explosion caused by the Green Goblin's bombs, Peter sees to Aunt May, who seems to be alright. It’s here that she gives him the WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility speech, and soon begins to weaken. Cue Peter's hands on Aunt May's back, being soaked in blood. She then dies.

Compare AlmostDeadGuy, SecretStabWound, AfterActionHealingDrama, ZombieInfectee (where the injured party deliberately hides that they've received a wound, rather than the author/director hiding it from the audience), and GameBreakingInjury (where it's specifically the Hero who receives a significant—though ''not'' necessarily mortal—wound).

* PlayedWith in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Ed fights Kimblee only to be taken by surprise when Kimblee reveals he has a Philosophers Stone, which he uses to collapse the mineshaft serving as their battleground. After the collapse, Ed wakes up on the floor of the mineshaft, suitably pissed off. When he tries to get up, blood pools around him, and the camera pulls back revealing that he's been impaled with a metal bar from the collapsed mine. He actually manages to live--by using his own soul as energy to boost his medical alchemy, saving his life now [[CastFromLifeSpan at the expense of a shortened lifespan.]]

* ''Film/ResidentEvil'' – The LaserHallway scene in the first film has two of these. As the first laser goes by and shears off one commando's fingers, the leader turns to TheMedic asking her to help, but she doesn't respond. They look again, and the camera shows a paper-thin red line appearing through [[OffWithHisHead her neck]] [[DelayedCausality before]] her head falls off. A few seconds later, after a laser grid passes through the leader, he falls apart into chunks of flesh.

* 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.

* In ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' episode 'A Is For Answers' after the assasin escapes to another rooftop,Aria walks to Ezra as he turns around,it's revealed that one of the bullets hit him in the stomach,though he survives.

* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081237/ The Ninth]] [[Film/TheNinthConfiguration Configuration]]'' ends with Colonel Kane saving Capt. Cutshaw from [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels a biker gang at a bar]]. Following the brawl, Cutshaw carries the battered Kane back to the asylum wrapped in a blanket, but it isn't until he's alone that Kane [[DeathEqualsRedemption lets the blood-stained knife drop to the floor]] and begins composing a farewell letter. In the film's original ending (and the story on which it was based), Kane palmed the knife and committed suicide, but [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio insisted at the last minute]] on changing a line of dialogue to imply that he was actually stabbed in the chaos. (Some argue this was actually an improvement, since Kane's intended lesson—that humans are capable of selflessness—would be [[BrokenAesop broken]] by suicide.)

* In the finale of ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'', Dean and Sam fight a battle against some monsters, and immediately after the monsters are slain, Dean reveals to Sam that he has a spike through his body and he will die.

* In the finale of {{Supernatural}}, Dean and Sam fight a battle against some monsters, and immediately after the monsters are slain, Dean reveals to Sam that he has a spike through his body and he will die.