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1	'''Basic Trope''': Violence occurs, but no blood or major wounds are shown.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob gets stabbed and falls down, but does not bleed or have visible wounds.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is shot five times from point blank range [[GrenadeLauncher with a grenade launcher]], then stabbed profusely, fed through a large meat grinder, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill overkilled through]] [[KillItWithFire cremation by flamethrower]], [[FedToPigs fed to a sty full of starving swine]] and [[ToiletHumour the resulting pig crap]] gets repeatedly [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking poked with a spatula]]. His dead body appears to be completely intact, with no blood to be seen.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Being stabbed leaves a small amount of blood on Bob's wound, looking more like a ketchup stain from a particularly sloppy lunch. Alice's knife is stained red, but a few swipes with a cloth make it clean.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Bob is some sort of inhuman entity who has no blood, and so when he is shot, he does not bleed.
7	** Bob is shot with an AgonyBeam that does not cause physical damage to the tissue, but disintegrates the tissue to atom levels.
8	** Bob was cut by a very hot weapon, so his wound was instantly cauterized.
9	** Bob is literally MadeOfBologna somehow.
10	* '''Inverted''':
11	** HighPressureBlood sprays from even the slightest wound.
12	** Bob bleeds profusely and constantly without even being struck.
13	** {{Gorn}}: The deaths, injuries and wounds of any characters are enormously bloody and gory and caused in terrifying ways.
14	* '''Subverted''':
15	** Bob gets stabbed and appears not to be bleeding, but he's wearing several layers of clothing and it just hadn't soaked through yet.
16	** Bob appears not to be bleeding, but he's suffering an internal tissue bleeding.
17	* '''Double Subverted''': ...Except the dark splotch on his red jacket isn't blood, because the sword also stabbed through the canteen of tomato juice carried from the string around his neck.
18	* '''Parodied''': [[BlackComedy Alice stabs Bob repeatedly]], getting increasingly frustrated that he won't bleed or show signs of damage, even though he's long dead. Eventually, she just gives up.
19	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice stabs a mook who bleeds out, yet when Bob shoots her several times and leaves her to die she never bleeds. Bob ends up finishing Alice later and she bleeds then.
20	* '''Averted''':
21	** People are wounded in perfectly normal amounts when they are injured.
22	** The blood is hidden in other ways, such as a GoryDiscretionShot.
23	** The work doesn't have any violence.
24	* '''Enforced''':
25	** It's a family-friendly show, and they need to keep it that way, so blood can't be shown even if violence does pop up.
26	** The game is for a low configuration portable console, and it doesn't have the resources to display blood.
27	** Animating blood is difficult and takes time, so not showing blood at all is easier and quicker.
28	** The work just [[NoBudget doesn't have the budget]] for the required special effects, and has no choice but to show characters getting wounded and killed without bleeding.
29	* '''Lampshaded''':
30	** "AUGH! Even if I'm not bleeding, this invisible stab wound hurts like a bitch, so help me out, guys!"
31	** [[DeadpanSnarker Charlie]] [[AsideGlance looks at the camera]] and says, "I'm more amazed by the lack of blood than the fact that Alice stabbed Bob."
32	* '''Invoked''': An AxCrazy character makes sure to be very clean when he attacks people, to save him the trouble of too much cleaning up the evidence.
33	* '''Exploited''': Bob [[SecretStabWound successfully hides his injuries]] since they're not visibly bleeding.
34	* '''Defied''': An AxCrazy character won't stop until the crime scene is covered in blood, and can't stand to make just a small, clean wound.
35	* '''Discussed''': "Oh my god, you've been stabbed!" "Why am I not bleeding? Why do we never bleed here?"
36	* '''Conversed''': Before his first big battle, the hero's mentor reminds him that even though fiction might not show blood when people get shot and stabbed, reality is different.
37	* '''Implied''': Dave dies offscreen and is explicitly stated to have been killed, but when his body is found later, there's no blood on it.
38	* '''Deconstructed''':
39	** Because his violent deeds don't cause any unsightly blood or large wounds, the villain becomes desensitized to killing and [[MoralEventHorizon starts mass-murdering people]].
40	** Bob's team doesn't notice his injury due to the lack of bleeding and fails to give him medical care, leading to his death.
41	* '''Reconstructed''':
42	** A program is put in place to make sure everyone knows the horrors of violent actions despite the fact that nobody ever bleeds or shows major external injury.
43	** The team healer learns to recognize people's injuries more carefully or starts using medical imaging technology, ensuring this won't happen again.
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49	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
50	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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