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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Adam Taurus' [[SoulPower Semblance]], Moonslice, allows him to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb kinetic energy]] into his sword, which he then unleashes in a [[IaijutsuPractitioner single attack]]. Usually, this causes the background to turn red with him as a black silhouette (save for his hair and the markings on his mask which glow a brighter red). This gets twisted around in Volume 6 with his fight against Blake and Yang, where he uses his semblance on Yang, but when the flash of red from his attack fades, [[spoiler: Yang has [[BareHandedBladeBlock caught his sword]] in her [[ArtificialLimbs robotic hand]].]]
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': [[Characters/RWBYAdamTaurus Adam Taurus' Taurus]]' [[SoulPower Semblance]], Moonslice, allows him to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb kinetic energy]] into his sword, which he then unleashes in a [[IaijutsuPractitioner single attack]]. Usually, this causes the background to turn red with him as a black silhouette (save for his hair and the markings on his mask which glow a brighter red). This gets twisted around in Volume 6 with his fight against Blake and Yang, where he uses his semblance on Yang, but when the flash of red from his attack fades, [[spoiler: Yang has [[BareHandedBladeBlock caught his sword]] in her [[ArtificialLimbs robotic hand]].]]
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Compare SingleStrokeBattle. Also due to the sister genres of samurai and westerns, could be part of a ShowdownAtHighNoon, or gun duel. In which case you may sub in red for yellow for all that dust. See also RedFilterOfDoom for red lighting in a more general sense, and BlackScreenOfDeath when the screen flashes to hide the action rather than stylizing it.
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A specific type of MonochromaticImpactShot. Compare SingleStrokeBattle. Also due to the sister genres of samurai and westerns, could be part of a ShowdownAtHighNoon, or gun duel. In which case you may sub in red for yellow for all that dust. See also RedFilterOfDoom for red lighting in a more general sense, and BlackScreenOfDeath when the screen flashes to hide the action rather than stylizing it.
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* The ''Anime/OnePiece'' anime famously depicted Luffy's [[spoiler:first loss to Crocodile, possibly the first time he's genuinely come close to ''dying'' in a fight]] this way.
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* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Sometimes an added effect for the OneHitKill, Lethality assassin skill. [[https://youtu.be/ls0Nn_-hv-8?t=300 Played straight particularly]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. The screen turns stark red and all the characters become silhouettes. On impact there's a blood splatter effect before the scen returns to normal.
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* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Sometimes an added effect for the OneHitKill, Lethality assassin skill. [[https://youtu.be/ls0Nn_-hv-8?t=300 Played straight particularly]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. The screen turns stark red and all the characters become silhouettes. On impact there's a blood splatter effect before the scen scene returns to normal.normal.
* Die in ''VideoGame/{{Infernax}}'' and the screen becomes black silhouettes against a red backdrop as [[HaveANiceDeath whoever killed you finishes you off]]. Ironically enough, the same technique is used in [[GoldenEnding the Ultimate Good ending]] as [[spoiler:[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Alcedor pulverizes Baphomet's skull]]]].
* Die in ''VideoGame/{{Infernax}}'' and the screen becomes black silhouettes against a red backdrop as [[HaveANiceDeath whoever killed you finishes you off]]. Ironically enough, the same technique is used in [[GoldenEnding the Ultimate Good ending]] as [[spoiler:[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Alcedor pulverizes Baphomet's skull]]]].
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This isn't just for killing strokes however. Sometimes its a way to introduce a samurai rather than end him. In this sense the red background is more evocative of a setting sun or a bloody moon effect.
Either way it let's you know you're dealing with either a serious fighter, or a serious attack.
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This isn't just for killing strokes strokes, however. Sometimes its it's a way to introduce a samurai rather than end him. In this sense the red background is more evocative of a setting sun or a bloody moon effect.
Eitherway way, it let's lets you know you're dealing with either a serious fighter, or a serious attack.
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* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': When Vegeta takes a blast from Zamasu to protect Trunks, [[https://youtu.be/vhUtNSOoARY?t=22 the screen switches to black and red]]. The blast was actually non lethal, so it was more for dramatic effect.
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* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': When Vegeta takes a blast from Zamasu to protect Trunks, [[https://youtu.be/vhUtNSOoARY?t=22 the screen switches to black and red]]. The blast was actually non lethal, non-lethal, so it was more for dramatic effect.
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* ''Samurai Fiction'': This film's iconic opening sequence is arguably the TropeMaker, featuring a duel with silhouetted figures against a red backdrop. Throughout the film other killing strokes are accented by a flash of red in an otherwise black and white movie.
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* ''Samurai Fiction'': ''Film/SamuraiFiction'': This film's iconic opening sequence is arguably the TropeMaker, featuring a duel with silhouetted figures against a red backdrop. Throughout the film other killing strokes are accented by a flash of red in an otherwise black and white movie.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Adam Taurus' [[SoulPower Semblance]], Moonslice, allows him to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb kinetic energy]] into his sword, which he then unleashes in a [[IaijutsuPractitioner single attack]]. Usually, this causes the background to turn red with him as a black silhouette (save for his hair and the markings on his mask which glow a brighter red).
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Adam Taurus' [[SoulPower Semblance]], Moonslice, allows him to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb kinetic energy]] into his sword, which he then unleashes in a [[IaijutsuPractitioner single attack]]. Usually, this causes the background to turn red with him as a black silhouette (save for his hair and the markings on his mask which glow a brighter red).
red). This gets twisted around in Volume 6 with his fight against Blake and Yang, where he uses his semblance on Yang, but when the flash of red from his attack fades, [[spoiler: Yang has [[BareHandedBladeBlock caught his sword]] in her [[ArtificialLimbs robotic hand]].]]
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* While [[DownplayedTrope it doesn't go all out silhouetted]], ''Film/TheLastJedi'' evokes this tropes by having the massive window in [[BigBad Supreme-Leader Snoke's]] throne room be covered by an equally huge red curtain, giving the appearance of a red backdrop duel when Rey and Kylo Ren battle the PraetorianGuard. [[RuleOfCool For added cool visuals]], the curtain gets torn up and burned throughout the fight, resulting in the background gradually becoming a stylish blend of red and black. Almost certainly a ShoutOut to the TropeMaker above, given the heavy influence of samurai films on ''Franchise/StarWars''.
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* '''''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Sometimes an added effect for the OneHitKill, Lethality assassin skill. [[https://youtu.be/ls0Nn_-hv-8?t=300 Played straight particularly]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. The screen turns stark red and all the characters become silhouettes. On impact there's a blood splatter effect before the scen returns to normal.
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* '''''Franchise/FireEmblem'': ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Sometimes an added effect for the OneHitKill, Lethality assassin skill. [[https://youtu.be/ls0Nn_-hv-8?t=300 Played straight particularly]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. The screen turns stark red and all the characters become silhouettes. On impact there's a blood splatter effect before the scen returns to normal.
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A staple of samurai fiction, that [[TropeMaker arguably started with the film Samurai Fiction]], and has since spilled over into other areas of particularly Japanese, but even some western media.
Often overlapping with a SingleStrokeBattle, when someone deals a killing blow, the screen turns stark red, black, and white for extra dramatic effect. Characters are typically rendered as silhouettes, or extremely high contrast. The red and the shadows inter-playing may stand in for HighPressureBlood.
This isn't just for killing strokes however. Sometimes its a way to introduce a samurai rather than end him. In this sense the red background is more evocative of a setting sun or a bloody moon effect.
Either way it let's you know you're dealing with either a serious fighter, or a serious attack.
Compare SingleStrokeBattle. Also due to the sister genres of samurai and westerns, could be part of a ShowdownAtHighNoon, or gun duel. In which case you may sub in red for yellow for all that dust. See also RedFilterOfDoom for red lighting in a more general sense, and BlackScreenOfDeath when the screen flashes to hide the action rather than stylizing it.
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!!Examples
[[AC:AnimeAndManga]]
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': When Vegeta takes a blast from Zamasu to protect Trunks, [[https://youtu.be/vhUtNSOoARY?t=22 the screen switches to black and red]]. The blast was actually non lethal, so it was more for dramatic effect.
* The 1980s ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' anime occassionaly uses this whenever goons at the receiving end of [[YouAreAlreadyDead Kenshiro's blows]] promptly explode into chunky salsa, rendering them as black silhouettes in a bright red background.
* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': This is used in the anime adaptation of the Greed Island arc. When Battera tearfully describes his lover, the screen jarringly turns red and black when he mentions that she was in a fatal accident.
* ''Anime/NarutoShippuden'': In the 14th opening, the sky is rendered as completely red. A series of character eye catches at the end render them in black and red as they stare each other down and Naruto charges ahead.
[[AC:Film]]
* ''Film/KillBill'': As [[WordOfGod a direct]] ShoutOut to Samurai Fiction, Kill Bill features a silhouetted battle, but against a blue backdrop instead.
* ''Samurai Fiction'': This film's iconic opening sequence is arguably the TropeMaker, featuring a duel with silhouetted figures against a red backdrop. Throughout the film other killing strokes are accented by a flash of red in an otherwise black and white movie.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* '''''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Sometimes an added effect for the OneHitKill, Lethality assassin skill. [[https://youtu.be/ls0Nn_-hv-8?t=300 Played straight particularly]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. The screen turns stark red and all the characters become silhouettes. On impact there's a blood splatter effect before the scen returns to normal.
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Any [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown All-Out Attack]] that either finishes off a single enemy, or kills all of them in the field at once will result in a special animation unique for the party member who initiated it, ending in a splash screen of said party member striking a stylish pose while black silhouettes of enemies in the background spray HighPressureBlood. Joker's splash screen in particular features a striking red background.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The move Retaliate after ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' is visualized as the background going red as the Pokemon delivers a SingleStrokeBattle, with the background turning into black-framed paper screen.
* In old ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' games, when a [[FinishingMove Zetsumei Ougi]] move is performed, a BlackScreenOfDeath with a white line that slashed the screen appears when the enemy is finished with this move. In ''2019'' when performing an Issen, the black screen is followed by a red one and the character performing the move is [[DeliberatelyMonochrome in black and white]] in a samurai movie-like fashion.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'':
** Ridley's reveal trailer has him grab Mega Man and Mario and stab them with his tail; the acts are done in front of a bright red background, with their bodies and his tail in complete black.
** Like in his [[VideoGame/Persona5 game of origin]], Joker's [[LimitBreak Final Smash]], "All-Out Attack", has him call on his teammates to barrage his opponent(s), with the deed framed in black against a red background --as this is an E10+ Nintendo game, the spray of blood coming out of the victims is instead [[{{Bowdlerise}} a stream of stars]].
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* ''WebAnimation/Eltorro64Rus'': In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBVgEdTSLwM Gravity Fails]]'', a variation of this trope appears at the end of the [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 RED and BLU Scouts']] anime-style SingleStrokeBattle, appearing as a pink background with SpeedStripes and cherry blossom petals while RED Scout slices through BLU's stomach, both rendered as white silhouettes.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Adam Taurus' [[SoulPower Semblance]], Moonslice, allows him to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb kinetic energy]] into his sword, which he then unleashes in a [[IaijutsuPractitioner single attack]]. Usually, this causes the background to turn red with him as a black silhouette (save for his hair and the markings on his mask which glow a brighter red).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': A blink-and-you-miss-it reference in a throw-away scene from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E21TheMonkeySuit The Monkey Suit]]" the family sits down for a movie about the history of nunchuks, that begins with a silhouetted figure using them against a red background with the title rendered in a stereotypical 'Asian' font.
[[caption-width-right:350:Dramatic finishers incoming]]
A staple of samurai fiction, that [[TropeMaker arguably started with the film Samurai Fiction]], and has since spilled over into other areas of particularly Japanese, but even some western media.
Often overlapping with a SingleStrokeBattle, when someone deals a killing blow, the screen turns stark red, black, and white for extra dramatic effect. Characters are typically rendered as silhouettes, or extremely high contrast. The red and the shadows inter-playing may stand in for HighPressureBlood.
This isn't just for killing strokes however. Sometimes its a way to introduce a samurai rather than end him. In this sense the red background is more evocative of a setting sun or a bloody moon effect.
Either way it let's you know you're dealing with either a serious fighter, or a serious attack.
Compare SingleStrokeBattle. Also due to the sister genres of samurai and westerns, could be part of a ShowdownAtHighNoon, or gun duel. In which case you may sub in red for yellow for all that dust. See also RedFilterOfDoom for red lighting in a more general sense, and BlackScreenOfDeath when the screen flashes to hide the action rather than stylizing it.
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!!Examples
[[AC:AnimeAndManga]]
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': When Vegeta takes a blast from Zamasu to protect Trunks, [[https://youtu.be/vhUtNSOoARY?t=22 the screen switches to black and red]]. The blast was actually non lethal, so it was more for dramatic effect.
* The 1980s ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' anime occassionaly uses this whenever goons at the receiving end of [[YouAreAlreadyDead Kenshiro's blows]] promptly explode into chunky salsa, rendering them as black silhouettes in a bright red background.
* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': This is used in the anime adaptation of the Greed Island arc. When Battera tearfully describes his lover, the screen jarringly turns red and black when he mentions that she was in a fatal accident.
* ''Anime/NarutoShippuden'': In the 14th opening, the sky is rendered as completely red. A series of character eye catches at the end render them in black and red as they stare each other down and Naruto charges ahead.
[[AC:Film]]
* ''Film/KillBill'': As [[WordOfGod a direct]] ShoutOut to Samurai Fiction, Kill Bill features a silhouetted battle, but against a blue backdrop instead.
* ''Samurai Fiction'': This film's iconic opening sequence is arguably the TropeMaker, featuring a duel with silhouetted figures against a red backdrop. Throughout the film other killing strokes are accented by a flash of red in an otherwise black and white movie.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* '''''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Sometimes an added effect for the OneHitKill, Lethality assassin skill. [[https://youtu.be/ls0Nn_-hv-8?t=300 Played straight particularly]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. The screen turns stark red and all the characters become silhouettes. On impact there's a blood splatter effect before the scen returns to normal.
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Any [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown All-Out Attack]] that either finishes off a single enemy, or kills all of them in the field at once will result in a special animation unique for the party member who initiated it, ending in a splash screen of said party member striking a stylish pose while black silhouettes of enemies in the background spray HighPressureBlood. Joker's splash screen in particular features a striking red background.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The move Retaliate after ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' is visualized as the background going red as the Pokemon delivers a SingleStrokeBattle, with the background turning into black-framed paper screen.
* In old ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' games, when a [[FinishingMove Zetsumei Ougi]] move is performed, a BlackScreenOfDeath with a white line that slashed the screen appears when the enemy is finished with this move. In ''2019'' when performing an Issen, the black screen is followed by a red one and the character performing the move is [[DeliberatelyMonochrome in black and white]] in a samurai movie-like fashion.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'':
** Ridley's reveal trailer has him grab Mega Man and Mario and stab them with his tail; the acts are done in front of a bright red background, with their bodies and his tail in complete black.
** Like in his [[VideoGame/Persona5 game of origin]], Joker's [[LimitBreak Final Smash]], "All-Out Attack", has him call on his teammates to barrage his opponent(s), with the deed framed in black against a red background --as this is an E10+ Nintendo game, the spray of blood coming out of the victims is instead [[{{Bowdlerise}} a stream of stars]].
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* ''WebAnimation/Eltorro64Rus'': In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBVgEdTSLwM Gravity Fails]]'', a variation of this trope appears at the end of the [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 RED and BLU Scouts']] anime-style SingleStrokeBattle, appearing as a pink background with SpeedStripes and cherry blossom petals while RED Scout slices through BLU's stomach, both rendered as white silhouettes.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Adam Taurus' [[SoulPower Semblance]], Moonslice, allows him to [[EnergyAbsorption absorb kinetic energy]] into his sword, which he then unleashes in a [[IaijutsuPractitioner single attack]]. Usually, this causes the background to turn red with him as a black silhouette (save for his hair and the markings on his mask which glow a brighter red).
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': A blink-and-you-miss-it reference in a throw-away scene from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E21TheMonkeySuit The Monkey Suit]]" the family sits down for a movie about the history of nunchuks, that begins with a silhouetted figure using them against a red background with the title rendered in a stereotypical 'Asian' font.
