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* [[{{Twilight}} Rosalie Hale's]] {{Backstory}} reveals that after being turned into a vampire, she took revenge on her {{Jerkass}} ex-fiancee and his friends after they gangraped and left her for dead in an alleyway. She wore a wedding dress to do so.

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* [[{{Twilight}} [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Rosalie Hale's]] {{Backstory}} reveals that after being turned into a vampire, she took revenge on her {{Jerkass}} ex-fiancee and his friends after they gangraped and left her for dead in an alleyway. She wore a wedding dress to do so.
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* There is an English ballad called "The Rose and the Lily" that invokes this trope. Done by Eliza Carthy and Norma Waterson on the album "Gift".
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* The imaginery is used in DetectiveConan when [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:EP18_Case.jpg a beautiful bride]] is the victim of the week, [[spoiler: having been poisoned by her groom in revenge for her dad's part in the death of said groom's mother, 20 years ago.]] [[[spoiler: Unusually, the bride actually gets better.]]

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* The imaginery is used in DetectiveConan when [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:EP18_Case.jpg a beautiful bride]] is the victim of the week, [[spoiler: having been poisoned by her groom in revenge for her dad's part in the death of said groom's mother, 20 years ago.]] [[[spoiler: Unusually, the [[spoiler: Unusually for this trope, said bride actually gets better.]]
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* The imaginery is used in DetectiveConan when [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:EP18_Case.jpg a beautiful bride]] is the victim of the week, [[spoiler: having been poisoned by her groom in revenge for her dad's part in the death of said groom's mother, 20 years ago.]] [[[spoiler: Unusually, the bride actually gets better.]]



* [[{{Twilight}} Rosalie Hale's]] {{Backstory}} reveals that after being turned into a vampire, she took revenge on her {{Jerkass}} ex-fiancee and his friends after they raped and left her for dead in an alleyway. She wore a wedding dress to do so.

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* [[{{Twilight}} Rosalie Hale's]] {{Backstory}} reveals that after being turned into a vampire, she took revenge on her {{Jerkass}} ex-fiancee and his friends after they raped gangraped and left her for dead in an alleyway. She wore a wedding dress to do so.



* Used in Donizetti's opera ''Lucia di Lammermoor''. Female lead Lucia [[spoiler: snaps after her BreakTheCutie ordeals, goes insane and [[ArrangedMarriage kills the guy she's been forced to marry]] on their wedding night, then comes downstairs from their room [[TheOphelia in her bloody gown, singing about the guy she truly loves]] while all the assembled wedding guests stare in horror]], which makes this OlderThanRadio. The aria she sings is named [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyEtkMWmFL4 "Il dulce suono" ("The sweet sound")]]

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* Used in Donizetti's opera ''Lucia di Lammermoor''. Female lead Lucia [[spoiler: snaps after her BreakTheCutie ordeals, goes insane and [[ArrangedMarriage kills the guy she's been forced to marry]] on their wedding night, then comes downstairs from their room [[TheOphelia in her bloody gown, singing about the guy she truly loves]] while all the assembled wedding guests stare in horror]], which makes this OlderThanRadio. The aria she sings is named [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyEtkMWmFL4 "Il dulce suono" ("The sweet sound")]] sound")]], and it's so dramatic that if a small mis-step happens, the scene goes from a mix of TearJerker and NightmareFuelUnleaded... to pure {{Narm}}.
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If blood is *already* on the dress, I think the disaster is a little more than \"impending\".


There's something about seeing a [[WomanInWhite Woman In a White]] [[FairytaleWeddingDress bridal gown]] which is covered in blood. The juxtaposition of the joyous event the wedding dress is supposed to signify with the brutality or tragedy that the blood indicates makes for a striking image. The fact that the red of the blood stands out well against the white of the dress adds to this. It is also widely believed by the occidental world that the bride's wedding dress being stained in blood during her wedding is sign of impending disaster.

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There's something about seeing a [[WomanInWhite Woman In a White]] [[FairytaleWeddingDress bridal gown]] which is covered in blood. The juxtaposition of the joyous event the wedding dress is supposed to signify with the brutality or tragedy that the blood indicates makes for a striking image. The fact that the red of the blood stands out well against the white of the dress adds to this. It is also widely believed by the occidental world that the bride's wedding dress being stained in blood during her wedding is sign of impending disaster.
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There's something about seeing a [[WomanInWhite Woman In a White]] [[ FairytaleWeddingDress bridal gown]] which is covered in blood. The juxtaposition of the joyous event the wedding dress is supposed to signify with the brutality or tragedy that the blood indicates makes for a striking image. The fact that the red of the blood stands out well against the white of the dress adds to this. It is also widely believed by the occidental world that the bride's wedding dress being stained in blood during her wedding is sign of impending disaster.

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There's something about seeing a [[WomanInWhite Woman In a White]] [[ FairytaleWeddingDress [[FairytaleWeddingDress bridal gown]] which is covered in blood. The juxtaposition of the joyous event the wedding dress is supposed to signify with the brutality or tragedy that the blood indicates makes for a striking image. The fact that the red of the blood stands out well against the white of the dress adds to this. It is also widely believed by the occidental world that the bride's wedding dress being stained in blood during her wedding is sign of impending disaster.
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There's something about seeing a [[WomanInWhite Woman In a White]] [[PimpedOutDress FairytaleWeddingDress]] which is covered in blood. The juxtaposition of the joyous event the wedding dress is supposed to signify with the brutality or tragedy that the blood indicates makes for a striking image. The fact that the red of the blood stands out well against the white of the dress adds to this. It is also widely believed by the occidental world that the bride's wedding dress being stained in blood during her wedding is sign of impending disaster.

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There's something about seeing a [[WomanInWhite Woman In a White]] [[PimpedOutDress FairytaleWeddingDress]] [[ FairytaleWeddingDress bridal gown]] which is covered in blood. The juxtaposition of the joyous event the wedding dress is supposed to signify with the brutality or tragedy that the blood indicates makes for a striking image. The fact that the red of the blood stands out well against the white of the dress adds to this. It is also widely believed by the occidental world that the bride's wedding dress being stained in blood during her wedding is sign of impending disaster.
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There's something about seeing a [[WomanInWhite Woman In a White]] [[PimpedOutDress bridal gown]] which is covered in blood. The juxtaposition of the joyous event the wedding dress is supposed to signify with the brutality or tragedy that the blood indicates makes for a striking image. The fact that the red of the blood stands out well against the white of the dress adds to this. It is also widely believed by the occidental world that the bride's wedding dress being stained in blood during her wedding is sign of impending disaster.

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There's something about seeing a [[WomanInWhite Woman In a White]] [[PimpedOutDress bridal gown]] FairytaleWeddingDress]] which is covered in blood. The juxtaposition of the joyous event the wedding dress is supposed to signify with the brutality or tragedy that the blood indicates makes for a striking image. The fact that the red of the blood stands out well against the white of the dress adds to this. It is also widely believed by the occidental world that the bride's wedding dress being stained in blood during her wedding is sign of impending disaster.
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* [[Left4Dead2 The Passing]] features a [[NightmareFuel Witch]] in a wedding dress. Playing the wedding music [[BerserkButton startles her]], and startling her provokes a [[OhCrap Horde]] attack.

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* [[Left4Dead2 The Passing]] ''Left4Dead2'' DLC ''The Passing'' features a [[NightmareFuel Witch]] in a wedding dress. Playing the wedding music [[BerserkButton startles her]], and startling her provokes a [[OhCrap Horde]] attack.
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* One of the sample characters in the [[{{Ptitlewq2rtfgps5q9}} Hunter: The Vigil]] sourcebook ''Slasher'' is the Painted Bride, a woman possessed by the spirit of a murdered bride who manipulates other brides into murdering their groom-to-be. For her, the blood splattered dress look is permanent; if she wears other clothes, the colors turn white after a couple hours, and red streaks begin to appear on her chest after that.
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* In ''Dead End'', a woman in a bloody wedding dress repeatedly appears to a family lost in the woods on vacation.

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* In ''Dead End'', a woman in a bloody wedding dress repeatedly appears to a family lost in the woods on vacation.
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* In ''Dead End'', a woman in a bloody wedding dress repeatedly appears to a family lost in the woods on vacation.
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*In ''TheDeerHunter'' some not-so-subtle foreshadowing occurs during a wedding when a bride accidentally spills red wine on her dress during a drinking ritual. (The ritual was to ensure luck, of course and since this is a movie about the horrors of Vietnam the groom's fate should come as no surprise.) Yeah, it's not exactly ''blood'' that spills on the dress per se, but the imagery and the resulting bad luck echo this trope.
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** And yet another, HelenMirren's character in ''Film/{{Red}}'' is shot in the gut and bleeds on her white dress (she survives, though).
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* The second ''Firekeeper'' book, Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart starts off with a wedding between the new heir to Bright Bay and Hawk Haven, former enemies. Low and behold, it is interrupted by assassins from the former ruler of Bright Bay not happy with losing her kingdom to a proper leader. The bride takes a massive wound, bleeding all over her dress, while her husband suffers only a very minor wound. Which, you know, is bad, because the weapons were poisoned, and bleeding all over her dress allowed the bride to get the poison out of the blood stream.

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* The second ''Firekeeper'' book, Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart starts off with a wedding between the new heir to Bright Bay and Hawk Haven, former enemies. Low Lo and behold, it is interrupted by assassins from the former ruler of Bright Bay not happy with losing her kingdom to a proper leader. The bride takes a massive wound, bleeding all over her dress, while her husband suffers only a very minor wound. Which, you know, is bad, because the weapons were poisoned, and bleeding all over her dress allowed the bride to get the poison out of the blood stream.
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* The second ''Firekeeper'' book, Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart starts off with a wedding between the new heir to Bright Bay and Hawk Haven, former enemies. Low and behold, it is interrupted by assassins from the former ruler of Bright Bay not happy with losing her kingdom to a proper leader. The bride takes a massive wound, bleeding all over her dress, while her husband suffers only a very minor wound. Which, you know, is bad, because the weapons were poisoned, and bleeding all over her dress allowed the bride to get the poison out of the blood stream.
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* In the old JeanetteMcDonald movie ''SmilinThrough'', McDonald's character is shot dead at her own wedding.

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* Torchwood, season 2 episode "A Day In the Death" has Owen on the rooftop with a woman on the verge of suicide. She's committing suicide because not an hour after she got married, there was a car accident and her husband died. She is shown stumbling away from the wreckage in a bloodied wedding dress.




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* Magda's white nightgown in ''TanzderVampire''.

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* Used in Donizetti's opera ''Lucia di Lammermoor''. Female lead Lucia [[spoiler: snaps after her BreakTheCutie ordeals, goes insane and [[ArrangedMarriage kills the guy she's been forced to marry]] on their wedding night, then comes downstairs from their room [[TheOphelia in her bloody gown, singing about the guy she truly loves]] while all the assembled wedding guests stare in horror]], which makes this OlderThanRadio. The aria she sings is named [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyEtkMWmFL4 "Il dulce suono" ("The sweet sound")]]
** While it's certainly more effective on stage and with a lot of coloratura soprano singing, let us not forget that Donizetti's opera is based on WalterScott's novel ''[[http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/novels/lammermoor.html The Bride of Lammermoor]]'', which in turn is apparently based on a real-life story passed down in Scott's family.

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* Magda's white nightgown in ''TanzderVampire''.

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* Used in Donizetti's opera ''Lucia di Lammermoor''. Female lead Lucia [[spoiler: snaps after her BreakTheCutie ordeals, goes insane and [[ArrangedMarriage kills the guy she's been forced to marry]] on their wedding night, then comes downstairs from their room [[TheOphelia in her bloody gown, singing about the guy she truly loves]] while all the assembled wedding guests stare in horror]], which makes this OlderThanRadio. The aria she sings is named [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyEtkMWmFL4 "Il dulce suono" ("The sweet sound")]]
** While it's certainly more effective on stage and with a lot of coloratura soprano singing, let us not forget that Donizetti's opera is based on WalterScott's novel ''[[http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/novels/lammermoor.html The Bride of Lammermoor]]'', which in turn is apparently based on a real-life story passed down in Scott's family.
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* In the JamesBond film ''OnHerMajestysSecretService'' featuring the first and only time to date where Bond marries, his wife Tracy is gunned down on their wedding night while driving home following the service.

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* In the JamesBond film ''OnHerMajestysSecretService'' featuring the first and only time to date where Bond marries, his wife Tracy is gunned down [[spoiler:gunned down]] on their wedding night while driving home following the service.
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* In ''TheUndying,'' Lizbeth wears one of these.

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* In ''TheUndying,'' ''CliveBarkersUndying,'' Lizbeth wears one of these.
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* In ''TheUndying,'' Lizbeth wears one of these.
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* [[http://wedinator.com/2010/08/22/funny-wedding-photos-celebrate-the-divorce/#comments This set of photos]] on Wedinator submitted by the lady pictured, she decided to wreck her wedding dress this way to celebrate the finalisation of her divorce. It appears to be cow blood.

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** Appeared on Houlihan in ''[[{{MASH}} M* A* S* H]]'', during a DreamSequence as well.



* Appeared on Major Houlihan in ''[[{{MASH}} M* A* S* H]]'', during a DreamSequence.
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* Kate Bush's "The Wedding List": "God help the bride / She's a widow, all in red / With his red still wet."
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I came into your room that nigt and made such a mess\\

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I came into your room that nigt night and made such a mess\\
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* MASH - In the episode "Margaret's Marriage," Head Nurse Margaret Houlihan is being married in the MASH's mess tent, when the ceremony is interrupted by incoming wounded, and after the ceremony is sped up, Houlihan, still in her wedding dress, and the rest of the doctors and nurses, still in their dress uniforms, have to rush to operate on the wounded. They all end up with blood on their clothes.
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* Torchwood, season 2 episode "A Day In the Death" has Owen on the rooftop with a woman on the verge of suicide. She's committing suicide because not an hour after she got married, there was a car accident and her husband died. She is shown stumbling away from the wreckage in a bloodied wedding dress.
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