- Basic Trope: A handprint made of blood.
- Straight: Alice finds a bloody handprint on the door to Bob's house and then discovers his body.
- Exaggerated: Alice finds dozens of bloody handprints and then stumbles on a massacre.
- Downplayed: Alice finds a half-handprint made in blood and discovers Bob has been wounded.
- Justified: When Bob got injured, he instinctively clutched the spot, getting blood on him.
- Inverted: Alice finds a room covered in blood but with a void of a handprint.
- Subverted: Alice finds a red handprint on the door and enters apprehensively...only to find Bob with red paint on his hands, which is what made the mark.
- Double Subverted: It turns out Bob got the red paint on him while fighting a cartoon monster; the handprint was made with blood, it just wasn't human blood.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Parodied: An obvious toddler's fingerpainting horrifies everyone who sees it. When the red isn't even remotely the color of blood.
- Averted: No one gets hurt in a way that draws blood.
- Enforced: The author wants a way to lead into a Gory Discretion Shot.
- Lampshaded:Alice: Is that handprint made of blood? Uh oh...
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob specifically wipes up his own bloody handprints and cleans his hands as he is dying.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Bloody Handprint. Just follow the marks.
