History Main / BloodSplatteredInnocents

* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', you're quickly shown the newcomer Athena Cykes as a kid getting splattered with large amount of blood in a FlashBack [[spoiler: as she witnessed her mother's death and at same time confronted the murderer]], and later [[spoiler: we get a JumpScare memory from Simon Blackquill depicting her smiling creepily while covered in blood.]] Little wonder why the series suddenly got an [[BloodierAndGorier "M" ESRB rating]] all of a sudden.

* Waylon Park in ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}''. He's not really innocent as he was the one to contact Miles Upshur and kick-start Outlast 1. However, he was forcefully committed by his superiors and forced to undergo the Morphogenic Engine Project. By the end of the game, he's covered in his, other people's and [[spoiler:Blaire's]] blood.

* PlayedForLaughs in the music for Music/{{Starbomb}}'s "Smash!", acknowledging how often the Mario Brothers get confused.

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* PlayedForLaughs in the Music/{{Starbomb}} song "Smash!", acknowledging how often the Mario Brothers get confused.

-->'''Fox:''' ''Hey, Mario, stop crying! Just mam up and fight instead!''

* Of all ''[[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]]'' it's NaiveNewcomer Hughie Campbell who seems to be splattered with gore the most, starting with the PlotTriggeringDeath of his girlfriend after a superhero runs into her at SuperSpeed, turning her into LudicrousGibs. Other examples include Hughie blowing up a man who had Semtex shoved up his behind, having [[YourHeadAsplode someone's head exploding]] all over him, and being [[CrossesTheLineTwice covered in whale guts after Billy Butcher rams said whale with a speedboat]] causing Hughie to have a major HeroicBSOD.

* Of all [[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]] it's NaiveNewcomer Hughie Campbell who seems to be splattered with gore the most, starting with the PlotTriggeringDeath of his girlfriend after a superhero runs into her at SuperSpeed, turning her into LudicrousGibs. Other examples include Hughie blowing up a man who had Semtex shoved up his behind, having [[YourHeadAsplode someone's head exploding]] all over him, and being [[CrossesTheLineTwice covered in whale guts after Billy Butcher rams said whale with a speedboat]] causing Hughie to have a major HeroicBSOD.

* Of all [[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]] it's NaïveNewcomer Hughie Campbell who seems to be splattered with gore the most, starting with the PlotTriggeringDeath of his girlfriend after a superhero runs into her at SuperSpeed, turning her into LudicrousGibs. Other examples include Hughie blowing up a man who had Semtex shoved up his behind, having [[YourHeadAsplode someone's head exploding]] all over him, and being [[CrossesTheLineTwice covered in whale guts after Billy Butcher rams said whale with a speedboat]] causing Hughie to have a major HeroicBSOD.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''

** Joss Whedon appears to be a fan of this--in the episode Hell Bound a medium trying to reach Spike spits blood all over Fred's face before dying.

** Lindsey in "Blind Date". He's hardly innocent, but he ''does'' look appropriately traumatized when the man next to him is shot and it ''is'' one of the rare occasions he's trying to do the right thing.
** And Fred [[BloodFromTheMouth coughs blood]] over Wesley before collapsing in "A Hole in the World".
** In the episode Inside Out, Connor's face is splattered with the blood of an innocent girl, who he allowed to be killed. Briefly before death, she appeared as his mother, adding insult to injury.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. [[FamousLastWords "Your shirt..."]] To explain: [[spoiler:When Tara is fatally struck by a stray bullet, her [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth only concern]] is for Willow's ruined, blood-splattered shirt.]]

* One of the most vivid images from [[TheWarOnTerror the US war in Iraq]] is of [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110718103624/http://www.wunrn.com:80/news/2008/08_08/07_08_08/072808_face.htm a blood-splattered little girl]] crying as a US soldier walks past her--her parents were killed moments earlier. That's their blood.

->'''TheMedic''': Did all this blood come from your eyebrow and your head?\\
'''Captain Phillips''': No, not all of it. [[HeroicBSOD That’s not mine!]]

* Played for dark comedy in [[http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF050-An_End_to_Gopher_Trouble.gif this]] ''[[ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' comic.

* B.J. goes through this before even arriving at the 4077th ''Series/{{Mash}}'' in "Welcome to Korea", when he, Hawkeye, and Radar stop to help a group of soldiers on the side of the road.

* How the [[DownerBeginning police found Bridgette and Megan]] in ''Fanfic/FallinginDeeper''.

* How the [[DownerBeginning police found Bridgette and Megan]] in ''[[Fanfic/FallinginDeeper Falling in Deeper]]''.

* [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Jackie Kennedy]] in her pink suit, November 22, 1963. She had the opportunity to change it, but refused, telling Lady Bird Johnson: "I want them to see what they have done to Jack."

* Waylon Park in ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}''. He's not really innocent as he was the one to contact Miles Upshore, the other protagonist, and kick-started the whole game. However, he was forcefully committed by his superiors and forced to undergo the Morphogenic Engine Project. By the end of the game, he's covered in his, other people's and [[spoiler:Blaire's]] blood.

Can be a GoryDiscretionShot, although not always--the most common way it will play out is that someone will have a gun to their head, ready to commit suicide. The innocent one begs them to stop, we hear a gunshot, and then see the blood hit the face.

* ''Manga/BlackButler'': During the end of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper arc Ciel and Sebastian are standing outside of Mary Kelly's building so they can catch The Ripper. Following a scream Ciel flings the door open only to be hit with a splatter of blood on his face. Ciel's not necessarily innocent, per se (he has no qualms with killing 'bad guys'), but he was only 12 years old at the time, and it obviously affected him to the point of freezing up in terror for the whole next scene.

** The first time Lelouch uses his Geass [[PsychicAssistedSuicide to order a bunch of soldier to kill themselves]], he ends up with some blood on his face, as he looks in horror the people he killed, and realizes his life would change after that. Then he [[PsychoticSmirk grins the most evil grin in the world]], revealing the ''[[MagnificentBastard other]]'' [[MagnificentBastard side of his personality]].

** If you think on it a certain way (i.e. an insane way), Shinji Ikari is one during the destruction of Unit 03. Even though he was doing the destroying. Sorta. [[spoiler:He was in the Eva, meaning he felt EVERYTHING that happened; him ripping his friend to pieces, the blood spraying all over him etc etc, but he wasn't in control of his Eva. His dad was.]] And Gendo did this to teach Shinji to follow his orders. Have we mentioned that Gendo is a bastard?!

* 7 year old Maria in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/EchoesOfEternity The Promise]]'' is splashed with blood when her adult friend Rei saves her [[spoiler:from AttemptedRape]] by killing a man in front of her. In his rage, Rei [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shoots him repeatedly]]. This traumatizes Maria to the point where she can't talk for several days.

* The last straw for Film/{{Carrie|1976}} is when a bucket of pig's blood is dumped on her by the AlphaBitch and her JerkJock boyfriend at the prom, after she had been made the prom queen. Carrie proceeds to [[BewareTheNiceOnes snap]] and turn her telekinetic powers into a weapon of revenge and destruction.
* ''Film/{{Dogma}}'': A nameless innocent is splattered with blood during Loki's 'smiting'. As the only 'pure' person in the boardroom of executives she is allowed to survive, although Loki does consider shooting her for not blessing him when he sneezed...

** In the episode Inside Out, Connor's face is splattered with the blood of an innocent girl, who he allowed to be killed. Briefly before death she appeared as his mother, adding insult to injury.

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': Dexter and his brother watch their mother and her drug-dealing buddies chopped to pieces with a chainsaw. Then they're left there for days. Neither of them grow up to be well-balanced individuals.

* An episode of ''Forensic Files'' had a child arrive to preschool in his pajamas covered in blood. His grandparents had been murdered and he ran the two miles to the school.

** They also do this in Season 1 when Arzt is blown up by dynamite. Hurley, Locke, Jack and Kate are covered with pieces of him, leading Hurley to exclaim "You've got a piece of... Arzt... on you."

* Cloud plays the part of the blood-splattered innocent in Crisis Core: ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', though in his case he wasn't actually within range when Zack was shot, and ended up with blood on his face because he was embraced by his friend before he died. The image was still just as striking, though.

* ''InASkyOfAMillionStars'': In the first chapter, Katsuki is covered in Izuku's blood due to performing CPR on him in an attempt to save his life after he tries to commit suicide via jumping off the roof. He stays that way for several hours while waiting for news from the doctors while in the hospital, and it's only at the insistence of the nursing staff that he exchanges his middle school uniform for a clean pair of scrubs. The sight of him like that nearly caused Inko to collapse.