Check out the tropes

Here is an initial list of Whump Tropes. Before checking out the actual pages, please be aware that some of them might be triggering, be safe.

## **A**

* Abuse
* Addiction
* All part of the plan
* Attacked (by animals or creatures)

## **B**

* Beaten and bruised
* Begging for someone else
* Behind bars
* Betraying your organization
* Better me than you (a form of self-sacrifice)
* Big crash (any crash other than of cars)
* Bleeding
* Blindfolded
* Blinding pain
* Blood from the mouth
* Bloody tears
* Boiling hot (heat situations)
* Bow and arrow
* Buried alive
* Burning

## **C**

* Cage sweet cage
* Captured by the enemy
* Car crash
* Caught in the middle (hitten by accident)
* Choking
* Concussion
* Coughing
* CPR
* Crying
* Cuts

## **D**

* Dangerous waters (drowning whumpee)
* Delirium
* Did someone hit you?

## **E**

* Electrocution
* Exhaustion

## **F**

* Falling
* Fever
* Field medicine
* Fighting
* Final goodbyes
* Flatline (the whumpee's heart stops)
* For the greater good (a form of self-sacrifice)
* Found and care
* Framed
* Freezing (cold situations)
* Friendly fire

## **G**

* Gasping for air
* Generalized angst
* Grief
* Groundhog day (whump originated by a "time loop")
* Guilt trip
* Gunpoint

## **H**

* Hanging by a thread (whumpee is about to fall from some high place)
* Hanging from the ceiling (way of being restrained)
* Helping hand (the one trying to prevent the other from falling is also a whumpee)
* Hey, they'll get through this (bedridden whumpee)
* Hit on movement (subtrope of being shot, with and bullet or arrow)
* Hope you're not claustrophobic (whumpee trapped inside a small space)
* Hospital

## **I**

* I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you (carried)
* I can take it all! (a form of self-sacrifice)
* I can't do this, I can't, I just can't
* I don't want to be alone anymore...
* I had no idea... (past whump revelation moment)
* I will protect you! (the whump comes from trying to desperately protect someone/something)
* If you die I'll kill you! (very worried whumpee)
* Impalement
* Intubation/Oxygen mask

## **K**

* Kicked while down (whumpee in on the ground)
* Kidnapping
* Kryptonite factor

## **L**

* Lab rat (experiments)
* Lifeboat (whumpee is drifting in the sea)
* Long live... (immortal whumpee)

## **M**

* Manhandling
* Memory loss
* Mind control
* My blood is my resolution (stubborn whumpee)
* My head is killing me (headaches)

## **N**

* Natural disaster
* No hospital (whumpee refuses to go to the hospital)
* Nothing a few bandages won't fix (broken bones)
* Nothing to see here (whumpee hiding injuries/condition)

## **O**

* On the run
* On your knees
* Overdoing

## **P**

* Panic attack
* Passing out
* Pick one
* Pierced. And not the fashion way (whumpee pierced with smaller objects)
* Pleading
* Poisons and drugs
* Possession
* PTSD

## **R**

* Ragged doll (whumpee is thrown around as a ragged doll)
* Right hook (whumpee gets punched)
* Ritual sacrifice

## **S**

* Sadness and sorrow
* Scars
* Seizure
* Self-care
* Self-harm
* Sensory loss
* Sensory overload
* Shh I got you (a form of care)
* Stab with the pointy end
* Stitches
* Sudden collapse
* Supernatural conexion

## **T**

* Take me instead
* Tell me you can see that (hallucinations)
* The hair pull
* The night is dark and full of terrors (nightmares)
* There are strings on me (restrained whumpee)
* This collar wasn't on the list
* Till I bled
* Torture

## **W**

* Waking up restrained
* What a blast! (explosion)
* What is this blade doing here? (whumpee under knifepoint)
* Whipping
* With a bang (whumpee is shot with any kind of fire gun)

## **Y**

* You broke my heart (whumpee is betrayed)
* You don't look so well (sick whumpee)