Basic Trope: A character is shown vomiting onscreen.
- Straight: Alice throws up onscreen.
- Exaggerated:
- The vomit is very realistic-looking.
- Alice vomits for an exceedingly long time.
- Every time someone throws up in the work, it is shown on camera.
- Alice vomits on the camera.
- Downplayed:
- The vomit is unrealistic-looking.
- Alice only throws up for a very short amount of time.
- This only happens once or twice in the work.
- Even though the act of vomiting is shown onscreen, it's only in the background.
- Alice pukes into the toilet offscreen and it cuts to the toilet before the last of the chunks swirl down.
- Justified: Alice was sick, and had no time to run off-camera.
- Inverted:
- Vomit Discretion Shot
- Alice picks up entire pot of vomit, boils it on stove, and then eats it all. "Tastes better than my previous cooking experiment".
- Subverted:
- Alice makes multiple gagging noises, but runs off-camera right before she throws up.
- The scene ends up being cut from some broadcasts of the show.
- Double Subverted:
- The camera later cuts to Alice puking.
- The scene gets added back into broadcasts.
- Parodied: Alice throws up something comically unrealistic, such as rainbows.
- Zig-Zagged:
- In this work, this trope is often used alongside Vomit Discretion Shot.
- Alice gags and runs off camera, but the camera cuts to her, then Bob stands between her and the camera. The scene is then cut from some broadcasts of the show.
- Averted: No one vomits.
- Lampshaded: "That's a lot of puke!"
- Invoked: Alice forces herself to vomit and she does it on-screen.
- Exploited: Alice vomits while fighting against the enemy, which disgusts him too much to keep fighting.
- Defied:
- Alice refuses to vomit on-camera.
- Right before Alice is about to throw up, Bob switches off the camera.
- Discussed: "That's really gross!"
- Conversed: "Why is it so common for characters to throw up on camera?"
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