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Often done as a way of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], although ironically the [[Hays Code]] that was in effect for Hollywood movies between 1934 and 1968 made no mention of vomiting or any other bodily functions. This was primarily because the censors took it for granted that filmmakers themselves found bodily fluids so disgusting that [[Like You Would Really Do It|they wouldn't]] ''[[Like You Would Really Do It|want]]'' [[Like You Would Really Do It|to put them in their movies]]. Well, some of these filmmakers ''did'' want that...
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{{noreallife|Real Life does not have [[Discretion Shot]]s of any sort.}}
== Anime and Manga ==▼
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* Used in ''[[Dragon Ball|Dragon Ball Z]]''. Gohan punches Cell in the stomach so hard that Cell literally vomits Android 18 out of his body. In the original Master Roshi vomits out the window offscreen when he finds out that he was watching a man undress through his spy camera.▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
▲* Used in ''[[
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'': Episode 9 has Lucy vomiting because of the stress from everything that's happened thus far and from finding out that Kouta lied to her.
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]] - Flights of Fancy''. In Episode 2, outside of his home, Keiichi finds a very drunk [[Alpha Bitch|Sayoko]], who then tackles him. Before she could say anything further, she become blue in the face, then a cut of a long distance shot of the temple... followed by Keiichi screaming and Sayoko retching. In a later scene, he mentions not being able to get the smell out of his clothes.
** In Episode 4, at a Christmas party she was holding on her estate,
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' spoofs this by [[Relax-O-Vision|cutting to random shot of the show's logo]] during the actual act.
* Subverted in ''[[
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' creatively deals with this, when Simon is {{spoiler|overcome by emotionally-charged nausea in a fight during his nervous breakdown over Kamina's death}}, by giving us a closeup on his face until the crucial moment and then cutting to an outside shot of Spiral Energy spewing from Lagann's mouth due to backflow. Later, after {{spoiler|Lagann has gone berserk, run off, and ejected him into the rain,}} he is seen sprawled on the ground, coughing up the last of it. (Is it any wonder that {{spoiler|Lagann ended up on the junk heap not long after? Not a fun cleanup job for Leeron.}})
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' episode 17, Shion can be heard vomiting into the toilet, and we cut to her slumped over it. Considering that {{spoiler|she had recently been tortured by ''having three of her fingernails torn out/off''}}, her reaction was understandable.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''Amelia Rules!'''s legendary "Sneeze Barf Incident." All you see is reaction-shot, and it's enough.
* In ''Avengers: The Children's Crusade Vol. 1'' Speed uses his powers to vibrate Billy and Teddy's molecules to phase them through a wall. On the other side Billy complains "I'm d-d-definitely going to be s-s-sick.". In the very next panel we see him turning towards the rest of his team and talking to them... with the tiniest bit of puke hanging off the corner of his mouth.
== Fan
* Obviously, this is a described trope in a text work. ''[[Sleeping with the Girls]]'', Volume 2, Chapter 17:
{{quote|The next few minutes were not exactly the highlight of my life. And it's not something I'd really like to get into too much detail about, and I'm sure nobody really wants those kind of details anyway. But for the sake of accuracy, I did indeed spend this time worshiping the All-Powerful Porcelain Goddess.}}
== Film ==
* Mr. Green in ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]'' (The Movie). Vomit Line: "And [[Foreign Queasine|monkey's brains]], while popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, DC." "[[I Ate What?|Is that what we ate?]]"
* ''[[Animal House]]'' uses this to great comedic effect after several of the prominent Delta house members (Bluto, D-Day, etc.) have been informed that they've been expelled from Faber (something Dean Wormer has made the local draft boards well aware of.) Faced with this charming combination, Flounder starts having a panic attack that culminates in him throwing up <s>in front of</s> on Wormer. However, when Flounder starts to retch, we cut to the secretary at her desk, who glances up at that strange splashing noise. Vomit Line: "Out with it!" (Well, he did ask...)
** Later: '''Flounder''': I can't believe I threw up in front of Dean Wormer.
** Strangely, this film has no problem with showing a close-up of horse poop, which is arguably only slightly less disgusting.
* ''[[Love and Honor]]'' does this twice in a row, yet almost elegantly: When he recieves a warning that there's poison in his food, the lord immediately sticks a finger down his throat and then, following the clerk, the camera pans to the food taster collapsed and gagging and then into the kitchen to the horrified cooks.
* In ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'', Earl hugs his son Cal, who just woke up from a food coma (brought on by too much junk food), and Cal vomits down his dad's back, which is hidden from the camera by Earl's head.
* In the movie adaption of [[The Outsiders]].
* In ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' Rex averts his face and makes retching noises when seeing Buzz's severed arm. The discretion is there, but it's likely that there would be nothing to see anyway, given that Rex is a toy dinosaur who lacks a stomach.
* [[A Goofy Movie]]: When Goofy lets Max picks the stops on the road trip, one involves a roller coaster. We see Goofy turn green and lean over the side of the coaster car...Cut to him walking out of the men's room. And of course, Max immediately offers him a plate of greasy carnival food which makes him rush right back in.
* In [[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]], Milo is shown ducking below the camera to puke off the side of a ship. Even though about half of the movie takes place in or on water, his sea-sickness is [[
* ''[[Heathers]]'' uses the "drop below screen" version when Veronica throws up at a [[Wild Teen Party]] after drinking too much.
* ''[[Ramona Quimby]]'': Ramona and Beezus has one when Ramona gets sick.
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* [[Ironic Nickname|Razor]] in ''[[Flight of the Intruder (film)|Flight of the Intruder]]'' is considerate enough to ask before hurling in the back of a taxi: ''Hey, you got room in there for a six-pack and a pizza?''
== Live
* The episode Hyde School Reunion of ''Charmed'' opens with Piper flushing the toilet, exiting the bathroom, and saying "I don't remember having morning sickness this bad with Wyatt." A few minutes later, there is the sound of her stomach gurgling, and she grabs her belly and runs to the bathroom.
** A variation of this trope is used in The Eyes Have It. While in the hospital, Piper's morning sickness gets the better of her, and she quite clearly throws up in her mouth.
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* ''The Royal'': Subverted in this British period medical [[Dramedy]]. Aman in a suit is inspecting the hospital he stops to ask the nurse about the patient at hand. Pan to the patient, who throws up in a discretion shot. Pan back over to the man in the suit, standing stock still with vomit all over his top, several feet away from the patient. The nurse then notes how projectile vomiting is one of the symptoms of the illness.
* On ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'', Barth's Diner usually has the kids puking into buckets provided by Barth himself over a wall. Vomit Line: "What do you think's ''in'' the burger?"
* Parodied on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' when Stephen, who has just [[Written
* ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|The Suite Life on Deck]]'': Something of a [[Running Gag]]. To wit:
** In the episode "The Wrong Stuff," Woody's off-screen projectile vomiting is implied to be quite profuse when Cody holds up an umbrella at the edge of the frame to protect himself and London, having to reposition the device several times.
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** "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose". The titular psychic runs out of the room and throws up after seeing a vision of the murder (in which the victim had their eyes gouged out), a sign that his visions are a bit more authentic than those of his predecessor, the Stupendous Yappi.
** "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'". A conspiracy nutter eagerly videos what he thinks is an alien autopsy—until it turns out to be a [[Man in A Rubber Suit]], whereupon he puts his hand over his mouth and runs out the door.
* ''[[
* ''[[ER]]'': On a show that otherwise loved its Indiscretion Shots it also had several of the discreet variety, usually involving the medical staff. Notable examples include Carter's leaning over the ambulance-bay trash can in the pilot, and Weaver quietly excusing herself from a mass-casualty involving burned sweatshop workers.
* ''[[Firefly]]'': Simon and River take a drug that will make them appear dead so that they can be snuck into an Alliance hospital. When they're given the antidote and wake up, River just sits up gracefully, but Simon doesn't fare as well. The camera shows him hunched over on his stretcher, coughing violently, then moves up to show Jayne's face as he vomits. And as soon as Jayne comments that River seems to be doing fine, cue her violent off-screen retching and splashing.
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* An episode of ''[[Good Luck Charlie]]'' has Charlie get sick off bad fishsticks as Teddy uses her in a book report presentation to her class. Teddy's best friend likewise gets sick. The former is offscreen, but the latter is onscreen, just using a handy container to vomit into. This triggers a [[Vomit Chain Reaction|chain reaction]] of ''everybody in the class'' barfing into their backpack, hat, hood, etc.
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "The Body" straddles the line. Buffy throws up shortly after {{spoiler|finding her mother's dead body}}, ducking out of camera range, but then she puts a paper towel over it and we get a quite disgusting close-up of the vomit being absorbed.
* ''[[Waterloo Road]]'': Lindsay James (played by Jenna Louise Coleman) arrives for her first day after transferring from another school. As she enters the school she rushes
* ''Zoey 101'': Disc Golf, at the first scene the kids are jogging laps, and one girl, Nicole, comes back on camera after throwing up. Zoey puts her finger on Nicole's shirt saying she spilled oatmeal on it, but Nicole responded by saying that it wasn't oatmeal, it was vomit. That joke is used two more times in that episode. Though the mess on Nicole's outfit would kinda count as a Vomit Indiscretion Shot.
* ''[[Angel]]'': Angel does this once, while {{spoiler|[[Brought Down to Normal|temporarily human]]}}. He throws up off-camera at the sight/smell of {{spoiler|a demon's gory victim, then explains to Doyle: "It's the blood."}}
* On ''[[Heroes]]'', Mohinder staggers outside and doubles over puking, partially obscured by the front of his car, when he discovers the mutilated corpse of {{spoiler|Dale, after Sylar kills her and steals her Super Hearing}}.
* ''[[
* ''Eretz Nehederet'': A running gag on the sixth season, there was a series of skits titled ‘Mai’s Blog’, consisting almost entirely of the vain teenage girl Mai’s vlog entries, featuring two of her close friends. A running gag in those skits would include Mai mocking one of said friends for being allegedly fat (she ''is'' played by a grown man, but he certainly isn’t fat; Mai is played by a grown woman with a waist slimmer than his), followed by said friend saying, ‘Excuse me for a sec,’ and vomiting aloud into a paper bag.
: This was eventually turned [[Up to Eleven]] on the last episode of the season and the final skit in the series, when Mai had to see her much dreamed of prom [[Humiliation Conga|dwindling in front of her eyes]] (she lost the title of prom queen to her worst enemy, said worst enemy got together with the boy she was into, and her own mother [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|took a very unpopular boy’s virginity]]). When vomit-girl asked her how she felt, Mai went overboard and said something to the effect of, ‘Just imagine all the hamburgers, all the pizzas, all the shawarmas and ''lafot'' you’ve ever gobbled down just came up against you!’ The result? A huge amount of vomit just gooshing out and utterly destroying her prom dress.▼
▲This was eventually turned [[Up to Eleven]] on the last episode of the season and the final skit in the series, when Mai had to see her much dreamed of prom [[Humiliation Conga|dwindling in front of her eyes]] (she lost the title of prom queen to her worst enemy, said worst enemy got together with the boy she was into, and her own mother [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|took a very unpopular boy’s virginity]]). When vomit-girl asked her how she felt, Mai went overboard and said something to the effect of, ‘Just imagine all the hamburgers, all the pizzas, all the shawarmas and ''lafot'' you’ve ever gobbled down just came up against you!’ The result? A huge amount of vomit just gooshing out and utterly destroying her prom dress.
* Kids' shows are even more unlikely than TV for adults to show the act of vomiting. ''[[Horrible Histories]]'', for example, has a sketch all about a bunch of pirates who actually ''escaped capture'' because they had stolen a herd of cows, and their ship was so disgusting that the Navy couldn't bear to take it... but the sketch cuts away from them vomiting and then back to show their clothes covered with it. Even ''[[Dick and Dom in da Bungalow]]'', which featured [[Sarcasm Mode|tasteful]] games like "Make Dick Sick" (and once or twice was gross enough to make a contestant actually throw up) was careful to cut away from the act.
* A particularly nasty one in ''The National Anthem'', the first episode of Charlie Brooker's ''[[Black Mirror (TV series)|Black Mirror]]'', immediately after the Prime Minister {{spoiler|is forced to engage in beastiality to save the life of a much-loved member of the Royal family.}} The sound effects are stomach-turning.
* A part of most eating tasks on ''[[The Amazing Race]]''. Occasionally a [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]] (or, at times, as close as it could get without trying to cram the cameraman into the bathroom stall with the racer).
* In ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', the Vomit Discretion Shot is so discreet it's confusing. In "Gourmet Night", Basil is asking inebriated chef Kurt how to prepare the mullet ("do we fry it? Just go 'ungh'"). We barely see Kurt's head move, the camera cuts to Sybil, while the audience howls with disgust. According to the director's DVD commentary, Kurt vomited on the plate, but the BBC wouldn't even let them show enough to properly suggest it.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Street Fighter II]]'', certain grievous blows will cause the target to vomit if they take them. The—uh -- "hurk"... does not ever fall past a few in-game inches (such it does not put excessive load on the game hardware and gross out the players too much by just staying on the ground or getting all over one the the characters, no doubt), but [[Unfortunate Implications|we do not see the tail end of what does come out]].
* In ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'', the first cutscene featuring Eddie Dombrowski involves him vomiting (seemingly endlessly) into a toilet in the bathroom of Apt. 101 in the Woodside Apartments. There's no visible gunge, but the sound of him vomiting is audible in adjoining rooms.
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* In the remake of ''[[Resident Evil 1]]'', the player character vomits in the toilet after being attacked by the zombie in the bathtub.
* ''[[Dungeon Keeper]] 2'': One of the cutscenes has a bile demon turning away from the camera to vomit after a fairy constantly flies around him.
*
** [[Vomiting Cop|Adachi's]] introduction has him running off-screen to throw up, followed by sound effects. {{spoiler|Possible subversion as he may have been faking it.}}
* In ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)|Fahrenheit]]'': Lucas Cane vomits in a toilet, in the bathroom of a bank.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]'' with its online mode makes it so the protagonist can wake up vomiting in the toilet of their motorcycle club house, night club and various other places after getting too drunk and passing out.
* In ''[[Detroit: Become Human]]'', Connor helps a drunken and passed out Hank get to the bathroom to throw up in the toilet in the chapter "Russian Roulette". Downplayed in that it's possible to get a very brief glimpse of Hank vomiting as Connor leaves the bathroom.
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* ''[[Out at Home]]'' subverts this somewhat in [http://www.out-at-home.com/archives/438 this strip], where the actual vomit is off-panel, yet the SOUND EFFECT is goopy and a sickening shade of green.
* ''[[Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl]]'': Subverted in the webcartoon version of one of Roman Dirge's comics—although the character in question does vomit from well off-camera, he does it with such force that portions of it quite noticeably splash into view.
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* ''[[Think Before You Think]]'' uses a rather grotesque [http://thinkbeforeyouthink.net/?comic=20101001-sushi sound effect bubble], but the actual vomit is out of sight.
* Even happens to White Bomberman in [http://coyotemag.deviantart.com/art/Comic-4-Crystaljetters-Page-1-157326747 the art made by the editor's friend Maggie Nettles], where he accidentally ran over the poison power-up. Another art of him was removed from deviantART.
== Web Original ==
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* Maggie Nettles strikes again folks! She made a [http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5200030/ surprise picture] for the editor in [[Fur Affinity]] about Bomberman vomiting! Even Dani Bowman made these [http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4979182/ pics] [http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4984254/ with him] on there, too! Not even made to the artists, even the editor herself made several pics of characters throwing up off-screen.
* Happens twice in the first two episodes of ''[[RWBY]]'' for Jaune Arc—the first occurs off-screen in the final moments of the very first episode, and in the beginning of the second he bends over a trash can, hiding the action with his body.
* At the end of the ''[[Board James]]'' episode where they play "Splat" the Play-Do Bad Luck Bootsy had been eating takes its toll on him causing him to vomit offscreen. James said it burnt a hole through the floor.
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': While the Titans are battling Control Freak in a video store, an army of evil candy attacks Cyborg. After struggling with the possessed candy for a while, he starts eating it to scare the rest off. Naturally, he gets sick to his stomach and sprints out of the store to throw up. After they've beaten Control Freak and brought home a movie to watch, Starfire offers Cyborg some candy, with predictable results. "Make it go awa-a-a-ay..."
* Happens on ''[[Nightmare Ned]]'' after a [[Incredible Shrinking Man|doll-sized Ned]] gets spun around in an RC car.
* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' had a fish vomiting off camera when she ate Plankton's chum.
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''
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