[ SECRET POST #5066 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5066 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[(Anonymous)]

It's long been a peeve of mine in anime, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk why this is so funny to me.

I keep imagining some super serious person getting madder and madder whenever anyone turns green to show they've been poisoned and just being like OMG POISON DOESNT DO THAT HOW DARE YOU

[(Anonymous)]

Does that happen in live action?

[(Anonymous)]

Does that matter? It's unrealistic visual shorthand

If you need live action examples, how about constantly being knocked out without suffering concussions, brain damage, or even bruising from falling over?

Going into any drama expecting medical accuracy then being mad when it's not is a waste of time

[(Anonymous)]

Taking the time to argue with someone online about how stupid they are to be annoyed by mouth bleeders is a waste of time too, but here you are.

[(Anonymous)]

It's just a visual short-hand for showing that the character is seriously wounded or dying, sometimes it resulting in actual death. It's no more annoying to me than characters, who are ordinary humans, in western shows/movies getting skewered/shot/slammed into shit who are still able to run/jump around at full tilt like it never happened.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like this happens a lot in Victorian novels too. Somebody would cough blood, die of some wasting disease, and leave a beautiful corpse.

[(Anonymous)]

I think in most of those it is usually meant to be consumption/TB, which does actually involve coughing blood and slowly dying. Also weight loss.

[(Anonymous)]

That would be Tuberculosis...

[ibbity]

I hate the victorian "beautiful consumptive" trope...tuberculosis doesn't make you beautiful, it destroys your body in gross ways. Just a nasty way of fetishizing female suffering imo.

[(Anonymous)]

I've read enough fiction featuring Byronesque, pale/feverish, dramatic men to think that the Victorians and Edwardians in general just had a real need to romanticize debilitating pulmonary lesions regardless of gender.

[(Anonymous)]

It made me laugh a lot at first but like the wigs and the reading of the pulse to diagnose medical conditions, I just kind of shrug it off as part of the territory in Cdramas. Very convenient for them, too because coughing up blood is a dramatic visual effect on a low budget.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a useful bit of shorthand, but I think it's been overused to the point of cliché. It's not really alarming or interesting anymore to have a character cough weakly and then do a dramatic pause (though who knows what sort of impact covid will have on public reaction to disease in media), it's just faintly laughable.
Still, coughing is also way easier to convey quickly in any medium compared to 'mysterious bruising' or 'hair falling out', as far as symptoms of terminal illnesses go.

[(Anonymous)]

Characters in western shows get constantly hit over the head with various heavy objects are are completely fine when they wake up however much later the show needs them to wake up.
It's one of those things that just happens and I shrug it off.

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha yes. It always makes me laugh. Weirdly I don't mind the unrealisticness of it though. I prefer it over realism.

[(Anonymous)]

On a side note, every time someone "fixes" a dislocated shoulder by just... shoving the arm back in (with crunching sound) I cringe. I cringe hard.

[(Anonymous)]

This just made me think of Excel Saga, where the running gag was one character just bursting with blood/close to dying every episode.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man. That takes me back! That was a fun, ridiculous show.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not not a shorthand to portray injuries. The spitting blood thing is basically a shorthand for anything - characters in novels are regularly mad/angry to the point of spitting blood and it's the go-to reaction for internal energies being out of whack. It's absolutely meant to be more symbolic than anything else most of the time and is basically something that's just super common it's basically a figure of speech as well.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, there’s a lot of medical inaccuracies in fiction in general. The blood from the mouth thing is prevalent in Asian media... but gunshot wounds wackiness is what annoys me in Western media. Getting shot in the arm or leg is not a minor injury, you can’t keep running/punching with those limbs wtf.

[(Anonymous)]

They paid for the full case of blood squibs, and by god they’re going to use them!