History Main / BloodLust

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj6ntDEEfeE "The Red Means I Love You"]] by Music/MaddsBuckley is from the point of view of someone who is obsessed with tasting the blood of the person they're fascinated with.

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* Ladd Russo of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' wears a white suit on board the Flying Pussyfoot so that the blood will show when he starts. When one of his associated is brutally massacred, Ladd dances in glee, on top of his body, no less.
* Andrea of ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' has a scene in the anime where he deliberately squeezes a glass in his hand, breaking it, and causing his hand to bleed. He then licks the blood off his arm.

* Anko in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', possibly inherited from Orochimaru.
** [[AxCrazy Gaara]] as well, [[MinorInjuryOverreaction but not his own]].
** [[CombatSadomasochist Hidan]] certainly revels in blood, but this is somewhat justified by its necessity in maintaining his immortality.
* {{Depraved Homosexual}}s Genkaku and Mockingbird from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' are depicted as having BloodLust.

* There is a certain scene in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' where Shiki definitely invokes this trope ("It was the first lipstick Shiki ever wore"... you imagine the context), though it was most likely a minute's whim rather than full-out blood fetish.
* Belphegor from ''Manga/Reborn2004''. The Bloody Prince? Prince the Ripper? The sight of his own blood makes him even more desirous to rip his opponents apart and see their blood. More likely than not, Bel also likes the taste of it.
* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Evangeline]] of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' licking Negi's wound.
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':
** Alucard would [[BloodBath bathe in the stuff]] if he could.
** In the [[Anime/HellsingUltimate first anime]], a character named Boobanshee/Bubbancy (actually a corruption of a Baobhan sith, pronounced roughly the same way in Japanese) tricks the entire Hellsing organization, save Seras and Alucard, into thinking that she is Integra's sister, Laura (a reference to Carmilla). Later, she attempts to drink Integra's blood, and even bites and licks her chest, after which Integra realizes that she has no sister; shortly after Bubbancy is dispatched and Integra refers to her as Countess Karnstein (another Carmilla reference). She also licks Integra's blood from her hand while saying that Integra's blood is "delicious".
** Almost EVERY vampire in ''Hellsing'' is like this. Granted, they also get a power boost when they do, but that's beside the point. Even Seras shows signs of this!

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In the [[{{Filler}} anime-only]] Invasion Arc, one of the shinigami [[EvilTwin clones]] is revealed to have this. [[spoiler: Yumichika can't attack his clone because he [[TheFightingNarcissist thinks]] his clone is far too beautiful. However, his clone has no qualms about tearing Yumichika to shreds precisely because he thinks he'd look even more beautiful covered in blood.]]
* ''Manga/{{Adekan}}'': Anri and Shiro occasionally lick up blood and there's a flashback where Shiro erotically licks Anri's wounds to heal him up. In one chapter [[HoYay Shiro licks Kojiro's wounds on his face after punching him.]]
* In ''Manga/Brave10'', in Kamanosuke's strange HoYay way, he says he wants to see Saizou cut and bleeding, and is actively [[{{Yandere}} jealous]] and disappointed seeing the massive scars on his back at the onsen because they indicate there was a bloody battle he missed. By the climax, the DeathByAThousandCuts power of his opponent only seems to make him stronger as they fight.
* Frieza from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' gets very excited when his opponents start to bleed, and if some splatters on his face as he's torturing them he will lick it off.
* Rob Lucci from ''Manga/OnePiece'' is this considering after piercing Luffy's body with his claws, he licks his blood off his claws with a satisfying look on his face. This is before he tosses Luffy right out the window.
* [[AxCrazy Himiko]] [[{{Yandere}} Toga]] from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has this in [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] spades. She practically ''craves'' it, and the [[KnifeNut way she gets it]] pales in comparison to the ''obvious'' pleasure she gets from licking it up or sucking it out. [[spoiler: In fact, she ''does'' need it for her Quirk to work: after she drinks enough of a person's blood, she takes their form.]]
** Stain the HeroKiller is no different, although he doesn't get any pleasure from it like Toga. [[spoiler: He ''also'' needs to lick a person's blood for his Quirk to work: once he licks some of a person's blood, they're paralyzed for an amount of time according to their blood type.]]

* In exchange for its massive power, the ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' demands blood. While Sarah from the American comic tries to overcome the feeling as much as possible, Amaha from [[Anime/{{Witchblade}} the anime]] gives in to its insatiable hunger for violence.

%%* Xenia from ''Film/GoldenEye''.

* In ''Film/ScreamAndScreamAgain'', Keith is obsessed with blood and completely drains all of his victims: seemingly drinking all of it.
* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'': Audrey Two is hungry for human blood , and the song ''Feed Me (Git It)'' is about how much he loves it and why Seymour should get it for him.

* In ''Literature/{{The Guardians|MeljeanBrook}}'', when vampires drink blood from someone attracted to them, they are overwhelmed with lust and sex is inevitable. However, the choice belongs solely to the blood donor; they may resist or succumb, but the vampires cannot resist.
* In Matthew Laurence's ''{{Literature/Freya}}'' series, Sekhmet happily cleans herself after a bloody massacre (she ''is'' part lioness), saying, "It's been so long."

* SociopathicHero [[WickedCultured Alex]] of ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'' is this trope, at least until the government "fixes" him through some good, old fashioned ColdBloodedTorture until he's violently ill at the sight of it.
%%* ''Literature/TheLastDragonChronicles'': [[spoiler:Stygg, after becoming infected by diluted Ix in Gwilanna's blood.]]
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Joffrey Baratheon has a huge appreciation for seeing people in bloody combat and especially when he orders people to be killed or maimed. The [[Series/GameOfThrones HBO series]] takes this even further by implying he has a sexual fetish for seeing bloody corpses, showing a shot of Joffrey with the body of a tied-up prostitute riddled with crossbow arrows.

* [[FeatheredFiend Shrykes]] in ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'' are already dangerous, but when they get a taste of blood they go into horrifyingly violent rages where they rip apart and devour everyone in their path, even each other if the battle-flock is young or badly disciplined.
* Both berserks and ''wąpierze'' in ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'' have overwhelming lust for blood, leading to them often tearing their enemies apart with their teeth or drinking blood of the dead.

* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'': Kari Byron, of all people, expressed an attraction to blood in one episode. But she doesn't taste any, it's just pretty.

* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': Vega[[note]]Balrog in Japan[[/note]], the masked Spanish ninja. He talks about how his enemies should "soak in their blood" and that he can hardly wait to taste it. (Why yes, he's evil.)
%%* ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'': Zagi has this.

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': As an example of a good (sort of) person doing this, Rider seems to find blood a bit of a turn on and also drinks it. When Shinji makes her, it's generally fatal and to get some strength from it, plus not her idea. However, she also seems to simply like the taste and neatly avoids answering Tohsaka about whether or not she's still doing so by saying if she was, Sakura wouldn't find out anyway. Bloodsucking is a bad thing in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} but Rider gets away with it anyway.

* ''VideoGame/TheresiaDearEmile'': The initial protagonist is deeply comforted by the smell of blood. It reminds her of [[TortureTechnician her mother]].
* ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'': Matsui Gou is ecstatic whenever blood is involved, gets nosebleeds frequently, likes to bring it up at every opportunity and is a CombatSadomasochist who enjoys soaking everything with his own and his enemies' blood.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'': [[AscendedGlitch Skarlet]], a DLC character, was created from the blood of Shao Kahn's enemies and gains additional power by [[BloodBath bathing in the blood of her own opponents]], which is taken to logical extremes with her Fatalities.
** [[{{Mayincatec}} Kotal Kahn]] in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' acts like a stereotypical Aztec tribe leader, indulging in the blood of his enemies as a source of ritualistic empowerment. According to the comic series, he passed this along to the Mayans when he was serving as their god, which unfortunately led to a lot of deaths as they began to eat the hearts of their conquered foes from other lands and contracted ailments that their bodies were not prepared to fight.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': During your second fight with Ghirahim, he [[LickingTheBlade licks Link's blood off his blade]] when he lands a strike with it.
* ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'': [[WarGod Melqart]], [[TheHero Hamil's]] SuperpoweredEvilSide says to him a couple of times. "Tear your enemy to pieces. Eat their flesh. Drink their blood." It's NotHyperbole.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' has Henry, whose in-game blurb describes him as "a harrowingly optimistic Plegian who loves blood".
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' has [[AXCrazy Titchy Gren]], priest of Nahr Alma, he's obsessed with blood so much he has a [[MurderInc covenant]] of BloodKnight.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' takes it UpToEleven by having the ''entire'' population of Yharnamites obsessed with blood, from alcohols to medical use, everything is about the use of the blood, to the point calling someone a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] would be ''redundant''.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': An Aggressive Hawke can end up proudly announcing, in combat, that they love the smell of fresh blood.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': In multiplayer mode, Vorcha characters have the Bloodlust power, which causes them to become excited and frenzied for a short time whenever they kill an opponent (mechanically represented by giving a stackable buff to their running and melee attack speeds as well as the rate their HealingFactor works for a short time after every kill).

* ''Webcomic/UnknownLands'': By nature Inara and Mischief are drawn to blood, though both generally ignore it. When they fight the elves they both give in at different points and lick it from their weapons with Inara eventually biting through an opponents throat.

In real life, licking a cut is an instinctive reaction - the saliva can help to clean the wound. Anyone who've ever had a pet will probably have noticed the same behavior in them if they're ever wounded... and unless you deliberately suppress the instinctive reaction, licking or sucking on a minor cut is a perfectly natural response. So actually, most of us probably know what blood tastes like, without there necessarily being any fetishistic subculture involved. Please note, [[DoNotTryThisAtHome this can get you very sick.]]

Despite this trope being titled like a real word, meaning a desire for violence and bloodshed, this trope is not technically related to that definition - the trope BloodKnight is about people who definitely have bloodlust in the sense of the actual word. For when this ''is'' a {{Fetish}} for a character, see HemoErotic.

* Vega[[note]]Balrog in Japan[[/note]], the masked Spanish ninja in ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. He talks about how his enemies should "soak in their blood" and that he can hardly wait to taste it. (Why yes, he's evil.)
* Zagi out of ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' has this.
* In the original ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Zato's win quote against Millia went along the lines of "Finally! Only your blood can satisfy me!"

* As an example of a good (sort of) person doing this, Rider in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' seems to find blood a bit of a turn on and also drinks it. When Shinji makes her, it's generally fatal and to get some strength from it, plus not her idea. However, she also seems to simply like the taste and neatly avoids answering Tohsaka about whether or not she's still doing so by saying if she was, Sakura wouldn't find out anyway. Bloodsucking is a bad thing in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} but Rider gets away with it anyway.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' series, several of the [[ArtifactOfDoom True Runes]] are stated to cause an insatiable thirst for blood in the bearers, most notably the Beast Rune, which ends up causing an enormous amount of bloodshed through its bearer, [[AxCrazy Luca]] [[OmnicidalManiac Blight]].

* The initial protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheresiaDearEmile'' is deeply comforted by the smell of blood. It reminds her of [[TortureTechnician her mother]].
* Matsui Gou of ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'' is ecstatic whenever blood is involved, gets nosebleeds frequently, likes to bring it up at every opportunity and is a CombatSadomasochist who enjoys soaking everything with his own and his enemies' blood.
* [[AscendedGlitch Skarlet]], a DLC character for ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', was created from the blood of Shao Kahn's enemies and gains additional power by [[BloodBath bathing in the blood of her own opponents]], which is taken to logical extremes with her Fatalities.

* Ghirahim in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' - During your second fight with him, he'll even [[LickingTheBlade lick Link's blood off his blade]] when he lands a strike with it.
* In ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'', [[WarGod Melqart]], [[TheHero Hamil's]] SuperpoweredEvilSide says to him a couple of times. "Tear your enemy to pieces. Eat their flesh. Drink their blood." It's NotHyperbole.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' has Henry, whose in-game blurb describes him as "A harrowingly optimistic Plegian who loves blood". ...Just check the Quotes page. Those are only the ones that ''specifically mention blood''.

* An Aggressive Hawke in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' can end up proudly announcing, in combat, that they love the smell of fresh blood.
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' multiplayer mode, Vorcha characters have the Bloodlust power, which causes them to become excited and frenzied for a short time whenever they kill an opponent (mechanically represented by giving a stackable buff to their running and melee attack speeds as well as the rate their HealingFactor works for a short time after every kill).

* ''Literature/TheLastDragonChronicles'': [[spoiler:Stygg, after becoming infected by diluted Ix in Gwilanna's blood.]]

* [[Literature/{{Dragons}} The Last Dragon Chronicles]]: [[spoiler:Stygg, after becoming infected by diluted Ix in Gwilanna's blood.]]

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* There is a certain scene in ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' where Shiki definitely invokes this trope ("It was the first lipstick Shiki ever wore"... you imagine the context), though it was most likely a minute's whim rather than full-out blood fetish.
* Belphegor from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn''. The Bloody Prince? Prince the Ripper? The sight of his own blood makes him even more desirous to rip his opponents apart and see their blood. More likely than not, Bel also likes the taste of it.
* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Evangeline]] of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' licking Negi's wound.

* [[Main/AxCrazy Himiko]] [[Main/{{Yandere}} Toga]] from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has this in [[Main/NightmareFuel nightmarish]] spades. She practically ''craves'' it, and the [[Main/KnifeNut way she gets it]] pales in comparison to the ''obvious'' pleasure she gets from licking it up or sucking it out. [[spoiler: In fact, she ''does'' need it for her Quirk to work: after she drinks enough of a person's blood, she takes their form.]]

* In exchange for its massive power, the ''Comicbook/{{Witchblade}}'' demands blood. While Sarah from the American comic tries to overcome the feeling as much as possible, Amaha from [[Anime/{{Witchblade}} the anime]] gives in to its insatiable hunger for violence.

* Himiko Toga's bloodlust is a problem [[AdaptationalHeroism she is trying to deal with]] in ''FanFic/GreenTeaRescue''. It's noted that her thirst is so strong that the U.A. staff gives her artificial blood to drink to keep her calm, and she has therapy sessions to make sure she doesn't go off the wagon and knife one of her fellow students for a drink.

* Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate is an extreme case. This cost him a girlfriend, and he barely avoided killing [[BadassNormal his only "normal" friend's]] grandmother.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', Bruce the great white acts like a junkie craving a hit when he smells Dory's blood after she accidentally scratches herself. [[VegetarianCarnivore The sharks had been treating their desire to eat other fish like an addiction]], and the smell triggers a relapse.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', Bruce the great white acts like a junkie craving a hit when he smells Dorie's blood after she accidentally scratches herself. [[VegetarianCarnivore The sharks had been treating their desire to eat other fish like an addiction]], and the smell triggers a relapse.

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* ''Manga/KarateShoukoushiKohinataMinoru'': During their fight Kevin squeezes Minoru's throat hard enough to make him [[BloodFromTheMouth cough up blood]], catches some on his tongue, and drinks it. In his words "Delicious flavor...LET ME DRINK MORE!"

* [[Main/AxCrazy Himiko]] [[Main/{{Yandere}} Toga]] from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has this in [[Main/NightmareFuel nightmarish]] spades. She practically ''craves'' it, and the [[Main/KnifeNut way she gets it]] pales in comparison to the ''obvious'' pleasure she gets from licking it up or sucking it out. [[spoiler: In fact, she ''does'' need it need it for her Quirk to work: after she drinks enough of a person's blood, she takes their form.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': When Rei confessed to Shinji that the dummy plug system used her brain patterns he could not believe it because the dummy plug program fought with a savagery and thirst for blood he did not manage to associate with demure, quiet, stoic Rei.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Joffrey Baratheon has a huge appreciation for seeing people in bloody combat and especially when he orders people to be killed or maimed. The [[Series/GameOfThrones HBO series]] takes this even further by implying he has an sexual fetish for seeing bloody corpses, showing a shot of Joffrey with the body of a tied-up prostitute filled with crossbow arrows.

* [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Winter]] in Wrestling/{{TNA}} developed TheGimmick of drinking(out of a glass during her free time) and spitting(during matches as a cheat) blood on her opponents and was all too happy to drain it out of other people. Not quite so happy to see her own spilt, however.
* While wrestling for Wrestling/{{TNA}} in the UK during 2015, Wrestling/BobbyRoode promisecd to make Eric Young bleed. It ended up being ''Young'' who bit open Wrestling/TommyDreamer and continued to gnaw at his open wound though.[[/folder]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has the Blood Angels chapter of SpaceMarines, who have numerous unspecified rituals surrounding blood. Additionally, a genetic defect known as the Red Thirst has a random chance of triggering a usually temporary overwhelming need to kill and spill blood, sometimes leading to a LeeroyJenkins style destruction of battle plans.

** [[{{Mayincatec}} Kotal Kahn]] in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' acts like a stereotypical Aztec tribe leader, indulging in the blood of his enemies as a source of ritualistic empowerment. According to the comic series he passed this along to the Mayans when he was serving as their god, which unfortunately led to a lot of deaths as they began to eat the hearts of their conquered foes from other lands and contracted ailments that their bodies were not prepared to fight.

* IN a more prosaic case, the traditional diet of the Maasai people of Africa consists in large part of cow blood and cow milk.

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