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

J

 * Just a drop (single tear)

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

U

 * Undercover

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)