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* And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda by ''Music/ThePogues'' has this.
-->''How well I remember that terrible day''\\
''When the blood stained the sand and the water''
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* ''Series/MNidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E2 Market for Murder]]", Ginny Sharp receives a blow to the head in her pool. The police find her with clouds of red in the pool.
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* ''Film/TheHitList'': Or milk, in this case. After Gates is shot in his kitchen, his blood mingles with milk spilled on the floor.
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* In the Film/HammerHorror movie ''Film/{{Crescendo}}'', Lillianne the maid is SkinnyDipping in the swimming pool when the killer stabs her. She is shown floating face down with a cloud of red water surrounding her [[DropDeadGorgeous nude]] [[FanDisservice body]].


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* ''Film/NightOfTheStrangler'': After drowning Denise in a bathtub, the killer slits her wrists to make it look like a suicide, turning the bathwater red.
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* ''Music/{{Love}}'s'' "A House Is Not a Motel" from ''Music/ForeverChanges'':

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* ''Music/{{Love}}'s'' ''Music/{{Love|Band}}'s'' "A House Is Not a Motel" from ''Music/ForeverChanges'':
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* Dieter Stark's death at the hands (claws?) of the compys in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. Also, Robert Burke's death has parts of this, as you see his blood flowing down the waterfall.

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* Dieter Stark's death at the hands (claws?) of (claws?)--more likely teeth--of the compys in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. Also, Robert Burke's death has parts of this, as you see his blood flowing down the waterfall.
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* In ''Film/NextOfKin1982'', Linda finds [[spoiler:Connie and Dr. Barton]] dead, having been stabbed to death, in a bloody bathtub. Shortly before that, the water in a fountain turns red and Linda comes across her friend Carol's dead body.
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* In an [[ObviousBeta old build]] of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', a single spattering of blood would turn an entire body of water red. Even the ocean. It's still played straight; blood like any other contaminant lingers where it's washed off, and fills a tile of standing water or flows downstream with running water.

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* In an [[ObviousBeta old build]] build of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', a single spattering of blood would turn an entire body of water red. Even the ocean. It's still played straight; blood like any other contaminant lingers where it's washed off, and fills a tile of standing water or flows downstream with running water.
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* In ''Literature/TheTunnelsOfFear'', if you choose the wrong pool to wade through, you are attacked by flesh-eating piranhas, and the pool turns red with your blood.
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Another common appearance is in an OutDamnedSpot hand-washing, or a post-carnage ShowerOfAngst.

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Another common appearance is in an OutDamnedSpot hand-washing, when ScrubbingOffTheTrauma, or a post-carnage ShowerOfAngst.



* Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'s parallel of his wife's more famous "OutDamnedSpot" soliloquy discusses the trope; see the page quote. Of course, he's talking metaphorically; saying that any attempt to wash out the blood will only serve to stain the water {{foreshadow|ing}}s how [[CrimeAfterCrime every attempt to cover up his crime will result in yet more blood]].

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* Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'s parallel of his wife's more famous "OutDamnedSpot" "Out damned spot" soliloquy discusses the trope; see the page quote. Of course, he's talking metaphorically; saying that any attempt to wash out the blood will only serve to stain the water {{foreshadow|ing}}s how [[CrimeAfterCrime every attempt to cover up his crime will result in yet more blood]].
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** There was an incident at SeaWorld where an orca attacked another orca during a show. The pictures are horrifying.

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** There was an incident at SeaWorld Ride/SeaWorld where an orca attacked another orca during a show. The pictures are horrifying.
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Not to be confused with ''Fanfic/BloodInTheWater''.
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* The second time [[MonsterClown Jester]] pops up in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', he causes a nearby stone fountain (adorned with seemingly decorative gargoyles) to overflow with blood, awakening the now demonic [[OurGargoylesRock Bloodgoyles]] to attack Dante, who isn't very intimidated.

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* The second time [[MonsterClown Jester]] pops up in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', he causes a nearby stone fountain (adorned with seemingly decorative gargoyles) to overflow with blood, awakening the now demonic [[OurGargoylesRock Bloodgoyles]] Blood-goyles]] to attack Dante, who isn't very intimidated.
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* The ''VideoGame/DeathInTheWater'' series is set entirely underwater. Nail an onscreen enemy (sharks, sirens, octopus, etc) with your HarpoonGun and you'll see a fine cloud of blood spreading out where you hit, although the blood cloud dissolves after a few seconds.
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* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'', Altair's first target, Tamir, [[KickTheDog stabs a man to death]] and lets the body fall into a shallow pool of water which rapidly becomes red with blood.

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* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'', Altair's Altaïr's first target, Tamir, [[KickTheDog stabs a man to death]] and lets the body fall into a shallow pool of water which rapidly becomes red with blood.
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One way to show LudicrousGibs without [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank breaking the laws of biology]] is to have a character die in a body of water, thus diluting the blood and causing it to billow out in clouds. As a bonus, this tends to look very [[FauxSymbolism symbolic... of nothing in particular]]. Perhaps it stems from the PrimalFear of [[AfraidOfBlood blood in general,]] and the illusion that there's more blood than there really is.

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One way to show LudicrousGibs without [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank breaking the laws of biology]] is to have a character die in a body of water, thus diluting the blood and causing it to billow out in clouds. As a bonus, this tends to look very [[FauxSymbolism symbolic... of nothing in particular]]. Perhaps it stems from the PrimalFear of [[AfraidOfBlood [[BloodyHorror blood in general,]] pouring out from wounds,]] and the illusion that there's more blood than there really is.
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* ''Film/GhostShip'': When [[spoiler:Munder]] is killed and his body sucked into the pumps that are pumping out the ship, the water in the clear hose turns pink.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': In the aftermath of tearing through the Deadly Nevergreen and its occupants the Selver swims away in the River Jarla, trailing and gathering gory detritus.
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* This is part of the game mechanics in ''VideoGame/{{Ultrakill}}''. Your character heals by being covered in the blood of its victims. If you kill an enemy underwater, it creates a red pool that lasts longer (meaning you can kill a target from a distance and then move into the blood), but doesn't heal as much (because the blood is diluted).
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* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', the shower scene ends with bloodied water going down the drain. It was made possible with chocolate syrup. An inversion of this is also why the movie is in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome Black and White]], since Hitchcock felt that "pink wasn't scary".

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* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', the shower scene ends with bloodied water going down the drain. It was made possible with chocolate syrup. An inversion of this is also why the movie is in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome Black and White]], since Hitchcock felt that "pink wasn't scary".[[note]] Well, he definitely ''said'' that, but it was also because it was much cheaper to shoot it that way - the project was considered likely to be a flop, right up until it became a smash hit.[[/note]]

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* There was an incident at SeaWorld where an orca attacked another orca during a show. The pictures are horrifying.
* ''Film/TheCove'', a documentary about secret dolphin killing in a town in Japan. At one point there's an underwater camera, which seems like it serves no purpose other than to look into the very clear water at the bottom of the cove. A few seconds later, ''the entire view of the camera turns a bright, opaque red from the top down due to the quantity of blood in the water''.

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* For aquatic mammals, this trope is TruthInTelevision when they get injured to the point of bleeding, since - especially in scenarios where predators are involved - a great deal of blood might be shed into water over a short amount of time.
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There was an incident at SeaWorld where an orca attacked another orca during a show. The pictures are horrifying.
* ** ''Film/TheCove'', a documentary about secret dolphin killing in a town in Japan. At one point there's an underwater camera, which seems like it serves no purpose other than to look into the very clear water at the bottom of the cove. A few seconds later, ''the entire view of the camera turns a bright, opaque red from the top down due to the quantity of blood in the water''.

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