History Main / BloodOnTheseHands

* Iced Earth's "Blood On My Hands".

* OrderOfTheStick: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0547.html O-Chul disclaims responsibility: the act is on your hands, not mine.]]

* The rock opera ''TheProtomen'', Act II, track 4, "The Hounds"

* In ''[[{{Lensman}} Grey Lensman]]'', hero Kimball Kinnison indulges in this when trying to make Clarissa MacDougal understand what marrying him could entail. She basically tells him to can the dramatics; she knows perfectly well what his job entails.

* In ''Grey Lensman,'' hero Kimball Kinnison indulges in this when trying to make Clarissa MacDougal understand what marrying him could entail. She basically tells him to can the dramatics; she knows perfectly well what his job entails.

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* RobertAHeinlein's ''TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' has Bernardo [=deLaPaz=] admit that when they, as the new Lunar government, publicly out members of the revolution, who were actually paid informants of the overthrown government, those they expose as traitors will be murdered by members of the public. "I will not duck the responsibility. Their blood will be on my hands."

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* A major preoccupation of RurouniKenshin, who's been WalkingTheEarth as TheAtoner for ten years when the series starts. The closest he ever comes to actually saying the trope name is during the prologue to the long Bakumatsu flashback sequence within the Jinchuu arc.
--->'''Kenshin:''' This one's wife. Himura Tomoe, who was killed by these two hands.

* RobertAHeinlein's ''The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'' has Bernardo [=deLaPaz=] admit that when they, as the new Lunar government, publicly out members of the revolution, who were actually paid informants of the overthrown government, those they expose as traitors will be murdered by members of the public. "I will not duck the responsibility. Their blood will be on my hands."

A StockPhrase meaning "to lay blame for a death (or several deaths)", with the person on whose hands the blood lies being responsible (though obviously not necessarily ''guilty'', depending on the circumstances) for the loss of life. The phrase is often used in statements of [[DirtyBusiness personal regret]] or accusation, and characters who are particularly plagued by remorse often try to [[ShowerOfAngst wash away]] [[OutDamnedSpot their guilt]], though this usually proves to be a [[HeroicBSOD pointless endeavor]].

A StockPhrase meaning "to lay blame for a death (or several deaths)", with the person on whose hands the blood lies being responsible (though obviously not necessarily ''guilty'', depending on the circumstances) for the loss of life. The phrase is often used in statements of [[DirtyBusiness personal regret]] or accusation, and characters who are [[TheseHandsHaveKilled particularly plagued by remorse]] often try to [[ShowerOfAngst wash away]] [[OutDamnedSpot their guilt]], though this usually proves to be a [[HeroicBSOD pointless endeavor]].

* ''{{Monk}}'': Mr. Monk Meets the Godfather

*** Incidentally, Pilate's act was actually something of a Roman tradition, indicating that the official responsible for an act was not acting for himself, but rather in his official capacity. In other words, he wasn't trying to "wash his hands" of the Crucifixion, but rather saying (more or less): "''I'' didn't do what just happened. That was the Roman State."

** This was the very reason God instructed Solomon to build the Temple instead of his father, David.

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* The rock opera ''TheProtomen'', Act II, track 4, "The Hounds"
-->"There is a flame that I've been fanning/There is a fire waiting to catch
-->There is a hell that has been building/From the moment we first met
-->If there ever was a time/If there ever was a chance
-->To undo the things I've done/And wash the bloodstains from my hands
-->It has past and been forgotten/These are the paths that we must take
-->'Cause you and I, Tom, we are men/And we can bend and we can break"
* MelodicDeathMetal band Arch Enemy's ''Blood on Your Hands''. The first track on the album, and considered to be the best.
-->"You were born your brother's keeper/Why can I see blood on your hands?"
-->"Blood is on your hands/The Wages of Sin"
* IronMaiden's ''Blood on the World's Hands''.
* {{DragonForce}}'s ''Through the Fire and Flames'':
-->Now here we stand with their blood on our hands
* The Used's ''Blood on My Hands'':
-->There's blood on my hands/Like the blood in you!
* Demons And Wizards, a collab of Blind Guardian's Hansi Kürsch and Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer, brought us ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIluk2fYjV0 Blood On My Hands]]''
* The Smashing Pumpkins' "Wound":
-->Wound opens, reveal this broken man
-->And soon, there's notions of blood on his hands

* In the DiscWorld novel ''Wyrd Sisters'', the Macbeth Expy Lord Felmet has blood red hands from the night he murders King Verence until the night he dies. However, the fact that he uses progressively harsher methods to remove the blood (including sandpaper and a metal file) implies that maybe the reason it doesn't come off is because the blood is coming from an actual wound rather than karma.

One {{Harry Potter}}/{{XMen}} [[http://bobmin.fanficauthors.net/Mutant_Storm/index/ crossover]] has Harry killing two Death Eaters - one of them with his bare hands, and then [[ShowerOfAngst sitting in a shower for about an hour making washing motions with his hands...]]

One {{Harry Potter}}/{{XMen}} [[http://bobmin.fanficauthors.net/Mutant_Storm/index/ crossover]] has Harry killing two Death Eaters - one of them with his bare hands, and then sitting in a shower for about an hour making washing motions with his hands...

* Demons And Wizards, a collab of Blind Guardian's Hansi Kürsch and Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer, brought us [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIluk2fYjV0 ''Blood On My Hands'']]