History Main / BloodierandGorier

%%* The 1978 ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'' cartoon even compared to the live-action ones

->''"How much blood will you shed to stay alive?"''
-->-- '''A tagline for ''Film/SawI'' as seen [[https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/92/27/240238925-movie-scary-horror-blood-saw-quote-gore-trap-death-fb-facebook-timeline-cover-banner.jpg here]]'''

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': The executions from the [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc previous]] [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair two]] main ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' games were brutal and hardly bloodless, but not ''especially'' prolonged (mostly consisting of different forms of crushing, stoning and stabbing), with most of the torment involved being psychological. By contrast, ''V3'''s executions feature things like ''very'' gradual strangulation (over the course of ''hours'', if the clock in the background during this execution is any indication), being forced to climb up a spiked rope while being sliced by buzzsaws, being boiled alive, and being stung hundreds of times by wasps before being impaled and then burned to death with a flamethrower.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' had a satirical take on this in a sketch consisting of a documentary where Creator/MelGibson discusses a movie he made called ''[[Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist The Passion of the Dumpty]]'', which is shown to be a more graphic take on the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty where the egg-man's great fall results in intestines coming out of his egg shell as well as the usual insides of an egg.

** Sister series, ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'', does the same thing but with ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. It's a horror series and has more than its fair share of blood and NightmareFuel.
** ''ComicBook/ArchieVsPredator'' is likewise much more violent than the regular comics, but it gets points for the fact that it's intentionally drawn in the usual artwork style of the regular books. The first issue alone has the Predator gutting [[spoiler:Jason and Cheryl Blossom]] apart leading to the blood of the two corpses to splatter all over the gang... who somehow never put two and two together that something's raining blood on them.

* ''ComicBook/CloneWarsAdventures'': While the series had some high impact violence of its own, the comic was a lot more liberal with depicting not just blood flowing from certain wounds, but vast numbers of brutal, on-page deaths to boot.
* ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'' as done by Marvel Comics. Well into the triple digit years, the company answered fan concerns of why some Joes don't die by having several Joes shot dead. On screen. Through the face. No blood whatsoever.

* The Marvel comics version of ''Film/Jaws2'' is far more violent than the film itself, featuring several panels of the shark tearing it's victims apart.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' is pretty cynical and violent to start with, but ''Magazine/HeavyMetal Dredd'' is packed with LudicrousGibs and everyone being MadeOfPlasticine. That's prettty much all there is to it, all the political themes and moral ambiguity surrounding an AntiHero like Dredd that make the 2000 AD continuity an interesting read have been excised in favor of balls-to-the-wall splatter.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain ComicBook/{{Carnage}} received two one-shots in TheNineties, ''Mind Bomb'' and ''It's a Wonderful Life''. Both were as gory and {{squick}}y as you'd expect from comics which feature ''Carnage'' as the main character.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' story "Body Count" from the mid '90s, which involved Raphael and Casey Jones teaming up with a woman to help her get revenge on her evil twin brother who happened to be the leader of a street gang, is probably the goriest TMNT story to date--people get their heads cut or blown off, gigantic holes blown through them, shredded by machine gun fire, eyeballs being shot or knocked out of their heads, blown to pieces by missiles,etc.

* ''Fanfic/GodsAngelsAndKings'' is much bloodier than Franchise/{{Godzilla}} media, although it is roughly on par with the [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion other franchise]] is crosses over with.

* ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'' was already a bloody book, but in the film there is more focus on the bloody battles and kills off one of the characters who survives in the book.

* While the first ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' quartet isn't devoid of violence (there's an extended battle with pirates in the second book), the danger mostly comes from natural sources and we don't see too much aftermath. Its sequel quartet changes this, since all of the plots revolve around crime sprees. ''Magic Steps,'' the first book, has a scene of bloody and violent assassination early on (without ImprobableInfantSurvival), there are messy stranglings in ''Street Magic'' and ''Shatterglass'', and ''Cold Fire'' goes into terrifying detail about what fire and smoke does to a person.

* ''Literature/TheLookingGlassWars'' certainly was intended to be this. However, there's only really two acts of violence that stick out from all the books in the trilogy. Otherwise, the violence is pretty standard, and no more different than any other cheap YA series'.
* ''Literature/OliverTwisted'': The most gore the original story, ''Literature/OliverTwist'', contains is Oliver getting shot in the arm, Nancy's murder by Bill's hands and the latter's dog spilling his brains upon falling from a roof. This take on the tale intentionally upscales the gruesomeness with the additions of children having blood harvested from their necks, close encounters with zombies, [[spoiler:gluttonous orphans feasting on each other, and [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation Bill Sikes being blown apart from the inside]]]].

** Serial 11 has a school yard massacre, and we see, via {{Dream Sequence}}, a biological weapon called Red Rain. [[{{Nightmare Fuel}} It's weaponized acid rain, and you get to see how it works in said Dream Sequence]].

** Leela stands out as being an unusually violent companion. There had always been ActionHero companions in ''Doctor Who'', but usually they stuck to wrestling, {{Flynning}} or were generally kept bloodless (for example, Jamie had a knife, but was never allowed to stab people with it). Leela, meanwhile, was allowed to knife villains and poison them with thorns. It didn't help that her {{Stripperific}} leather outfit made her a lot HotterAndSexier than the other companions had been up to that point, as well. And the story she was introduced in had the Doctor threaten people with a crossbow, throw a maneating beast onto someone (with a BondOneLiner) and kick a man into an electrical fence. Both viewers and Creator/TomBaker felt Leela was too violent for the show, and she was toned down considerably in the next season.
** The mid 70's period with Creator/RobertHolmes as script editor and Creator/TomBaker as the Doctor had everything from blood squibs to impalement to severed heads, with stories like "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" pushing the envelope. Seasons 21-22, featuring some incredibly violent stories like "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackOfTheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks Resurrection of the Daleks]]", were also infamously brutal and contributed in part to the show's 18 month hiatus. Suffice to say that the pre-2005 series got away with a lot that wouldn't fly now. Even then, both of those eras were terminated by large-scale media criticism and consequent ExecutiveMeddling.

* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise do have some share of blood and gore, but a few of them stand out:

** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' is ''much gorier'' than other mainline entries (although it's toned down from ''Amazons'' in comparison), since it's a [[CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine]] CombatMedic-themed entry that deals with the diseases and having more body count that's comparable to war films. Some characters do ''bleeding'' in occasions, especially in The Beast Rider Squad special. The main character Emu does bleed as well.
* ''Series/TheLongestDayInChangAn'' has more graphic violence than the majority of Chinese dramas. Among other things it features a man getting [[ImpaledPalm a knife driven into his hand]] on-screen and a woman being BuriedAlive. Not to mention the man who had his eyes gouged out, and who appears in several scenes with his face covered in blood. Or Yu Chang getting her arm caught in the tower's cogs and ''[[LifeOrLimbDecision cutting it off]]'' to free herself.

* ''Series/Roots2016'' is this compared to the original 1977 miniseries. While the original was groundbreaking for its harrowing depiction of slavery, the remake holds no punches in its brutality largely due to it being on cable. For example, Kunta Kinte being tortured into saying his slave name is a longer and far more brutal scene in remake's first episode than it was in the original miniseries.

* The first season of ''Series/StrangerThings'' had its moments of violence and blood, but toed the line as to how graphic it could be and relied more on the GoryDiscretionShot. The second season ramps things up a little bit, particularly with the death of Bob, showing a pack of demodogs chewing on his corpse.. Season 3 has significantly more gore and bloodshed than previous seasons. The monster of the season [[spoiler:has a body formed from [[BodyOfBodies a noxious soup of blood, flesh, and organs]], and it gathers resources for this by]] melting (or [[LudicrousGibs exploding]]) rats ([[spoiler:and people]]) into literal puddles of bloody goo. Note that it's not restricted to the monsters either, in the final episode of the season we get to see a guy being killed when he falls into a [[WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens giant spinning drill machine]]. It's very quick, but he very clearly ''splatters'' everywhere. Of course, the opening scene of season four ups the ante yet again with the depiction of the aftermath of some sort of massacre at Hawkins Lab, seemingly at Eleven's hands, which leaves behind the blood soaked corpses of the majority of Eleven's "siblings".

* Try comparing the Mexican world wrestling council, Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, where any blood spilled will be edited out of the regular TV show, with the Puerto Rican world wrestling council, WWC, which all but invented the [[GimmickMatches barbed wire match]]. Even though WWC is an old school promotion, considered "the last of the territories", CMLL is the oldest continuously extant promotion in the world, so it still fits this trope.

* While never reaching the insanity of FMW, the Wrestling/{{CZW}} managed to eclipse the Wrestling/{{ECW}} shows in the sheer amounts of blood letting and mutilation, largely thanks to the efforts of one "Sick" Nick Mondo. CZW's Cage Of Death is also this to CMLL's version.
* Big Japan Pro Wrestling, a more direct successor of FMW, likes to take other promotion's GimmickMatches, and make them even bloodier. Where Nick Mondo got the weed whacker banned from sports in the United States while working for CZW, Big Japan decided to top it with buzz saws!

* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' {{invert|ed trope}}s this trope. Over the course of the RP, there has been a bigger emphasis on realism as it reached the end of Season 3, so deaths such as ripping out someone's heart and feasting on it, [[TheresNoKillLikeOverKill then ripping out their own heart, then shooting it and themselves in the head]], [[GroinAttack castration through many bloody means such as the use of firecrackers or someone's own arm]], and overabundance of torture and amputations, have been less prevalent over the years. These are supposed to be [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary High-school students]], remember?

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': The executions from the [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc previous]] [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair two]] main ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' games were brutal and hardly bloodless, but not ''especially'' prolonged (mostly consisting of different forms of crushing, stoning and stabbing), with most of the torment involved being psychological. By contrast, ''V3'''s exeuctions feature things like ''very'' gradual strangulation (over the course of ''hours'', if the clock in the background during this execution is any indication), being forced to climb up a spiked rope while being sliced by buzzsaws, being boiled alive, and being stung hundreds of times by wasps before being impaled and then burned to death with a flamethrower.

* ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'' is this along with DarkerAndEdgier by the 5th instalment. Early on, Monty made a point that the girls were "[[LetsYouAndHimFight just having fun]]", like some sort of [[RuleOfCool ridiculously awesome]] bloodless sparring match between superhuman opponents. The 5th instalment introduces a dark conspiracy plot, not to mention the episode ends with [[spoiler:Tifa]] seriously injured and bloodied after a long and brutal fight.

* For its first season, ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' usually had characters "disappearing" after getting blown up with BloodlessCarnage thrown in. Starting with "Super Birthday Snake" in Season 2, the deaths became much more violent with tons of blood added; some deaths include the cast's bodies blowing up after getting stuffed with mermaid eggs, Shake getting all of his blood sucked out of his body with a vacumm cleaner, and the group getting their skulls ripped out of their heads.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Compared to ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'''s stylized cartoon violence, getting hurt is depicted much more realistically here. Characters are visibly injured on-screen, spit blood when hurt, and generally react realistically to being punched, stabbed, knocked and thrown around violently.

** Special mention should go to their parody of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', where just about every single injury of people who weren't wearing full-body armor had pretty realistic-acting bloodspill. This was probably to compensate for all the pain Creator/SethMacFarlane had with Ewoks and [[ExecutiveMeddling FOX's pressuring]].
* In the sixth season ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode "Prisoner of Benda" a member of a stage audience gets his arm cut off, however all you see are rings representing his skin, muscle/blood and bone. Later, in the Season 7 episode "Tip of the Zoidberg", Zoidberg is forced to give Fry a liver transplant for his [[spoiler:Simpson's Jaundice]] brought on by excessive bleeding, with Leela as the donor. [[AccidentalPun Cut]] to the rather catastrophic end result: Leela is [[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody sawed in half at the waist, her upper torso hopping around the operating table]], with blood dripping from incision area into a clearly visible pool of it.

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'' is aimed towards older audiences, and the trailers already provides a couple of examples demonstrating the show's violence, such as Joker getting roughed up from Harley batting him in the face, Joker killing one of his mooks with a gun, a Harley-looking doll getting decapitated by a closing elevator door, and so on.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' had this throughout its run, with characters' organs flying into the air and characters getting shot. There's one episode where Ren and Stimpy get their heads impaled on spears, and in some episodes blood is even seen.

** Creator/GenndyTartakovsky decided to one up himself with his next Adult Swim project, ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal 2019}}'', where main characters Spear and Fang get into plenty of gory and brutal fights with all sorts of [[PrehistoricMonster Prehistoric Monsters]]. One episode where Spear [[HulkingOut Hulks Out]] on a prehistoric SuperSerum has him charge into a group of hostile ape men, punching them so hard most just explode into a cloud of shredded meat and bone when hit.
* In the early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'', the characters underwent AmusingInjuries, but in later seasons, more graphic violence began appear on the show.

** In one episode, Ned Flanders makes a movie retelling events of Literature/TheBible in incredibly gory fashion. For example, when King Solomon gives his [[JudgmentOfSolomon legendary judgement]] , he simply [[WouldHurtAChild cuts the baby]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in half]] then and there - and then has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and ''[[DrivenToSuicide cuts himself in half]]''.
** ''The Simpsons'' in general was much more violent than any mainstream cartoon series that had preceded it when it first aired in 1989-1990. Even if you leave out the ''Itchy & Scratchy'' sequences (which often take the BloodyHilarious trope and run with it), there have been quite a few examples of bloody violence being PlayedForLaughs and/or shock value. "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E8BartTheDaredevil Bart the Daredevil]]", for example, ends with Homer falling down a cliff, much as [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] or WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} once did. But instead of BloodlessCarnage, we have Homer getting busted open with every rock and crag his body impacts on the way down, so that by the time he hits the bottom he is grotesquely bruised and has blood smeared on his face. Then the skateboard he rode down on bonks him on the head. (And ''then'', after they airlift Homer out of the gorge on a stretcher, the ambulance hits a tree, causing Homer to roll out and fall down the cliff ''again'', [[CrossesTheLineTwice getting his bandages torn open and accumulating even more injuries]]!) It was obviously intended to depict Homer as an IronButtMonkey, but it almost certainly frightened or unnerved many children.

* Though still child-friendly, ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' is rather violent compared to its [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse original counterpart]], as it shows a chemical burn (with blood red tissue clearly visible in a few frames), a nosebleed that lasts for quite a while and a necrotic arm.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJusticeOutsiders'' moved the series from Cartoon Network to the DC Universe streaming service, giving the production team less restrictions regarding the amount of violence shown (although the first two seasons did push the limits of what could be shown on Cartoon Network). Examples of harsher violence include:

* ''WebAnimation/{{Cupcakes}}'', an animation based on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Pinkie Pie slowly and brutally mutilate her friend Rainbow Dash.

* ''Fanfic/BreakMyHeartBreakYourHeartreak'' is an ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' fanfic that ''far'' exceeds the usual level of violence from the T-rated game. Most of this is due to the fic's treatment of [[WasOnceAMan Reaper]], who, contrary to the fandom's portrayal of him as a walking edgelord joke, has his AxCrazy tendencies turned UpToEleven and is utterly ''[[NightmareFuel terrifying]]''.

* [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling]] took everything WWC did, got some more ideas from Wrestling/JerryLawler's USWA, turned them all UpToEleven, added explosives and set out to put on a show bloodier than Wrestling/{{New Japan|ProWrestling}} and Wrestling/{{All Japan|ProWrestling}}.

** Creator/GenndyTartakovsky decided to [[UpToEleven one up himself]] with his next Adult Swim project, ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal 2019}}'', where main characters Spear and Fang get into plenty of gory and brutal fights with all sorts of [[PrehistoricMonster Prehistoric Monsters]]. One episode where Spear [[HulkingOut Hulks Out]] on a prehistoric SuperSerum has him charge into a group of hostile ape men, punching them so hard most just explode into a cloud of shredded meat and bone when hit.

* Season 3 of ''Series/StrangerThings'' has significantly more gore and bloodshed than previous seasons. The monster of the season [[spoiler:has a body formed from [[BodyOfBodies a noxious soup of blood, flesh, and organs]], and it gathers resources for this by]] melting (or [[LudicrousGibs exploding]]) rats ([[spoiler:and people]]) into literal puddles of bloody goo. Note that it's not restricted to the monsters either, in the final episode of the season we get to see a guy being killed when he falls into a [[WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens giant spinning machine]]. It's very quick, but he very clearly ''splatters'' everywhere.

* Though still child-friendly western style, ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' is still rather violent compared to its [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse original counterpart]], as it shows a chemical burn (with blood red tissue clearly visible in a few frames), a nosebleed that lasts for quite a while and a necrotic arm.

* The ''Comicbook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' story "Body Count" from the mid '90s, which involved Raphael and Casey Jones teaming up with a woman to help her get revenge on her evil twin brother who happened to be the leader of a street gang, is probably the goriest TMNT story to date--people get their heads cut or blown off, gigantic holes blown through them, shredded by machine gun fire, eyeballs being shot or knocked out of their heads, blown to pieces by missiles,etc.

* While ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'' was no slouch when it came to BodyHorror, ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' really turns up the amount of {{gor|n}}e and blood. The Kubitarou case has on-screen decapitations, to name just one example, and children and animals aren't safe from bloody, explicit deaths either.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': The executions from the [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc previous]] [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair two]] main ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' games were brutal and hardly bloodless, but not ''especially'' prolonged (mostly consisting of different forms of crushing, stoning and stabbing), with most of the torment involved being psychological. By contrast, ''V3'''s exeuctions feature things like [[spoiler:''very'' gradual strangulation (over the course of ''hours'', if the clock in the background during this execution is any indication), being forced to climb up a spiked rope while being sliced by buzzsaws, being boiled alive, and being stung hundreds of times by wasps before being impaled and then burned to death with a flamethrower]].

** Special mention should go to their parody of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', where just about every single injury of people who weren't wearing full-body armor had pretty realistic-acting bloodspill. This was probably to compensate for all the pain Creator/SethMacFarlane had with [[TastesLikeDiabetes Ewoks]] and [[ExecutiveMeddling FOX's pressuring]].

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': The executions from the [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc previous]] [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair two]] main ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' games were brutal and hardly bloodless, but not ''especially'' prolonged (mostly consisting of different forms of crushing, stoning, and stabbing), and most of the torment involved was psychological. By contrast, ''V3'''s exeuctions feature things like [[spoiler:''very'' gradual strangulation (over the course of ''hours'', if the clock in the background during this execution is any indication), being forced to climb up a spiked rope while being sliced by buzzsaws, being boiled alive, or being stung hundreds of times by wasps before being impaled and then burned to death with a flamethrower]].

* The executions the first two entries were hardly bloodless, ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' were previously brutal, but generally not ''especially'' prolonged[[note]] mostly variations of crushing, stoning, and stabbing[[/note]]and most of the tormet involved was psychological. By contrast, V3's exeuctions feature things like [[spoiler: ''very'' gradual strangulation[[note]]over the course of ''hours'', in the clock in the background is any indication[[/note]], being forced to climb up a spiked rope while being sliced by buzzsaws, being boiled alive, or being stung hundreds of times by wasps before being impaled and then burned to death with a flamethrower.]]

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* ''Literature/OliverTwisted'': The most gore the original story, ''Literature/OliverTwist'', contains Oliver getting shot in the arm, Nancy's murder by Bill's hands and the latter's dog spilling his brains upon falling from a roof. This take on the tale intentionally upscales the gruesomeness with the additions of children having blood harvested from their necks, close encounters with zombies, [[spoiler:gluttonous orphans feasting on each other, and [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation Bill Sikes being blown apart from the inside]]]].

-->-- '''A tagline for ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' as seen [[https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/92/27/240238925-movie-scary-horror-blood-saw-quote-gore-trap-death-fb-facebook-timeline-cover-banner.jpg here]]'''

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