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20th May '13 5:52:28 AM Generalcamo

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17th May '13 11:18:25 AM DamianYerrick

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Western Animation usually goes below Web *

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* Parodied in [[http://llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/target177.html this]] FauxtivationalPoster.
* ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' is usually realistic about wounds and the like; but there are cases where this occurs, where wounds cause an absurd amount of blood to come out. For example, Jacob Starr bleeds out in about 10 seconds after his throat is slashed. Especially ironic because he had previously been MadeOfIron.
* {{Lampshaded}} non-comedically in ''Literature/FineStructure'' when two hikers view the aftermath of some Soviet scientists releasing the SealedEvilInACan.
* One of ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_586_31-life-lessons-you-can-only-learn-from-video-games/ 31 Life Lessons You Can Only Learn From Video Games]] is that "a person's volume of blood often exceeds 78 liters."
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* Played for laughs in the Flash cartoon series ''Rats On Cocaine.'' Characters regularly have their limbs fly off in bloody geysers and don't notice it at all.
* ''HappyTreeFriends'' - the cute forest critters hold a lot of blood.
* Although it's not high pressure, in ''WebAnimation/BonusStage'' Joel notes that Phil has blood drip from his fingers (or lack thereof) for 6 hours. Joel fits the trope; his neck spurts blood after being punched off by a giant fist. This could be explained by Phil having superhero blood.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNZzJELbFRI "Blood coming down like rain, showering me..."]]
* Played for laughs in the Metal Gear Awesome videos. In the first one, Revolver Ocelot gets his pistol-hand cut off by Grey Fox (after remarking how he held the best gun ever) much like in the game. The main difference being that his arm turns into a non-stop blood cannon, so much that the blood is STILL gushing out at intense speeds during the second video.
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* Depending on where you are cut, this can happen easily in real life, though the amount of blood is nowhere near the fictional amount. Doctors or nurses who cut into those places either unaware or accidentally can easily get sprayed with spurting blood, which quickly stops shooting so high because of the loss of blood pressure.
* Hockey player Clint Malarchuk getting his carotid artery severed by a skate during a televised game in 1989. (Videos of the injury can be found on Website/YouTube, but warning: they are ''very graphic''.) Thanks to the efforts of team doctors, he managed to survive the injury and was back to practicing four days later.
* An errant skate blade caught Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik during a 2008 game. He somehow retained the presence of mind to fly over to the bench before things got out of hand, but the footage...[[{{Squick}} gah]].
* The horned lizard of America uses this as a ''weapon''. It has specialized sinuses behind its eyes that shoot high pressure blood through a tiny opening when it's under stress. The blood contains foul chemicals that drive off large threats and can be shot up to three feet. Oh, and it [[{{Squick}} squirts the blood from]] [[{{Eye Scream}} its eyes.]]
* Head injuries usually bleed more than injuries to other body areas, mostly because the vascular spasm, a reflexive constriction of damaged vessels, is weaker or absent there. Given a choice between losing more blood or reducing the flow of oxygen to the brain, bleeding is preferable to brain damage.
* Thomas E. Ketchum, better known under his alias Black Jack, was accidentally decapitated during his execution by hanging (the rope was too long and he had gained weight). According to the 1901 newspaper article about the event, his headless body "pitched forward toward the spectators and blood spurted upon those nearest the scaffold".

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15th May '13 5:38:56 PM shoboni

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