A character is either dying or badly injured when they start bleeding from the mouth. In Real Life ,

Welcome To TV Tropes Ask The Tropers white beard Forum Trope Repair Shop Recent Discussions Latest Reviews You Know, That Thing Where... Remember That Show? Lost And Found Administrivia Works That Need A Summary What Goes Where
Title Search Customize Wikiword Cut List Trope Repair Shop New Edits Edit Reasons Recently New Launches Get Known Your Profile Add Email Address Indexes Image Uploader Images List Referral Count for This Page Crowner Activity Folderize Un-typed Pages Recent Page Type Changes Editing Overview Good Style Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment Text Formatting Page Templates Wiki Sandbox
Animation (Western) Anime Comic Book Fan Fics Film Game Literature Music And Sound Effects New Media Print Media Radio Sequential Art Tabletop Games Television Theater white beard Videogame Webcomics Topical Tropes
log in
A character is either dying or badly injured when they start bleeding from the mouth. In Real Life , coughing blood can indeed indicate life-threatening damage. It can result from organ and tissue damage from disease or trauma; punctures in the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts; and massive trauma to the body as a whole. This is an especially big warning if the lungs have been punctured, as the victim can drown in their own blood if not treated. As a death trope it's caused by any fatal injury, and is less a symptom than a signal to the audience that this dude's a goner. Much like the chest-clutching and doubling over in days of old, Blood From the Mouth is a sign of death that won't horrify us with the specifics, keeping our focus on the story itself.
However, not all Real Life bloody mouths are immediately dangerous. Damage to the gums in a fistfight, biting your tongue, or a particularly copious nosebleed can just as easily replicate the appearance. When it's not a death trope, blood around the mouth simply indicates the character has just taken a worse beating than usual. Our hero gets smacked around some and ends up with a bloody lip - not a big deal unless there's staggering involved. They might even spit out the blood defiantly, along with a tooth, just to showcase their resolve. Was that hit fatal? If the character wipes the blood away and it does not return , it's cosmetic Blood From the Mouth. Expect to hear My Name Is Inigo Montoya any second now. A subtrope of He's Dead, Jim .
See also: First Blood , Soap Opera Disease and Incurable Cough of Death . Saying I'm Cold... So Cold... is another very bad sign. Occasionally overlaps with Deadly Nosebleed . Not generally related to the Psychic Nosebleed white beard ; combine the two and get Blood from Every Orifice . If it's the only sign the character gives that they're injured, white beard it's a Mortal Wound Reveal . Blood from the mouth is also an increasingly popular way to show damage taken from a Deadly Upgrade , or over reliance on a Super Mode .
Happens a lot in Shonen series that focus on combat. Used to show that a character really white beard has lost a battle. Naruto The Hyūga families fighting style uses chakra white beard to inflict internal injuries rather than external ones. You only know you have been hit after you cough up blood. white beard When Naruto fights Sasuke white beard in an effort to stop him from defecting to Orochimaru, the first hit Sasuke gives him is a Megaton Punch that causes this in addition to sending him flying. We later see it happen to Itachi during his final fight with Sasuke. white beard No, he hadn't been hit by a Hyūga, he just had tuberculosis or something the entire time. And he still kicked ass. Also happened to Kimimaro who had a fatal disease. Jiraiya has quite a bit of blood coming from his mouth when he dies, as a result of his throat being crushed. Hinata, while appearing to be dead in the eyes of many viewers, had a trickle of blood coming from her mouth. Pain coughs up blood after using Chibaku Tensei, having already used up most of his chakra. In one of the more recent chapters Naruto is bleeding from his mouth after a brutal beat-up white beard from a Cloud ninja. Who can forget Part 1's Big Finale, after which Sasuke coughs up blood near Naruto, who is passed out on the ground? (It was a rough fight.) white beard Danzo starts drooling the red stuff after getting squeezed by Sasuke's Susano'o. white beard But it's apparently not fatal nearly as what happens at the end of the chapter ( He's okay ). He starts again (for real) after taking a fatal hit and Karin does as well (she lives though). Asuma's death. After Kushina restrains Kyuubi and later Minato when they both are using their bodies to stop Kyuubi from killing their son Naruto. white beard Tsunade has Blood From the Mouth in her battle with Orochimaru after she jumps out in front of his Kusanagi sword to protect Naruto. Subverted, though, in that she gets up and continues white beard to fight (and even heals herself). Sakura after being impaled with Sasori's sword. The preview has other characters talk like they're white beard mourning her death, only to be interrupted: "Cut it out, you guys! I'm still here!" Bleach Happens white beard a few times to Ichi