History Main / HighPressureBlood

* Literature/VanasHeritage: Despite usually playing fights and the resulting injuries relatively realistic, when Nirvy hits a Skjalls throat with her sword, his blood-splattering even reaches her face.

%%* [[Website/{{Newgrounds}} Newgrounds]] loves this.

** 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, and the trainer, Jim Pizzutelli, who pinched the artery, and held on to it until help arrived he managed to survive the injury and was back to practicing four days later.

The trope is strong in anime and [[{{Chanbara}} samurai movies]]. This may stem from traditional Kabuki theater, where the "blood" was really a long red silk scarf thrown in a great big arc. However, the first modern example, from the Creator/AkiraKurosawa film ''Film/{{Sanjuro}}'', appears to have been an accident. According to the crew, the pump that was meant to make the losing samurai bleed profusely blew a coupling when activated, causing the blood to pump out at full pressure rather than the intended rate. The unexpected force almost knocked over the actor, and it was all he could do to finish the scene, but [[ThrowItIn they ended up using the take anyway]] -- partly because it looked impressive, and [[RealLifeWritesThePlot partly because it was kind of difficult to have a second take after that much blood had gone all over the set and costumes.]]

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRising: Revengeance''. Slicing anyone with your HF Blade results in a twenty-foot gout of the red stuff. Makes even less sense when you realize that all those enemies are CYBORGS, who would be more likely to need LESS blood than humans...

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Whenever Orcs get attacked, stabbed or decapitated, they blood spurs out from their wounds like in the ''Film/ThreeHundred'' movies at time. One such example is when Valandil stabs in the chest an Orc he was fighting, and the blood just sprays out from the stab wound.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' Ladd slits a mook's throat to send his blood splashing out like a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNoITwTJiEM#t=2m25s spray can.]]

* The anime ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' has any injury involving the main characters causing a volcanic eruption of blood to the point (and [[CrossesTheLineTwice intentionally so]]) of being absurd.

* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' has Nyarko spray blood like a fire hose when Mahiro stabs her with his forks, but only in the novels and the ''Nyaruani'' shorts; in the regular TV series, the worst she gets out of it is a ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''-style lump.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' Ladd slits a mook's throat to send his blood splashing out like a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNoITwTJiEM#t=2m25s spray can]].

* The final part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V4-k7fu6gw this Mapleshade animation]], set to Archive's "You Make Me Feel", ends in Mapleshade walking away after killing her former mate Appledusk. Mortally wounded, she gushes blood out of her neck wound and collapses to the ground.

* A scene in ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' movie where Wednesday and Pugsley are having a duel at a school play; Pugsley loses an arm, and Wednesday gets slashed across her wrist and throat. (Don't worry, the limbs were fake. [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow Don't ask where they got the blood from, though]]). By the time Wednesday finishes her fake death scene, the first two or three rows of the audience are drenched in their blood.

* The entire team from ''Film/TheMachineGirl'' worked together on ''Film/{{RoboGeisha}}'', in which in addition to the humans and cyborgs who spurt gallons of blood, ''buildings'' attacked by the [[HumongousMecha Shiro Robot]] spurt blood [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig several stories into the air]].

* The director of ''Film/TokyoGorePolice'' (Yoshihiro Nishimura) had worked on special effects for ''Film/TheMachineGirl'' and ''Film/{{RoboGeisha}}'', so he was sure to include ridiculous amounts of blood spraying everywhere. A character spews enough blood from where his legs used to be that he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dODrnOadmjc propels himself through the air]].

* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/11/10/episode-622-now-shut-up/ loves]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/05/03/episode-841-permission-to-speak-freely/ this]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/03/18/episode-968-a-spear-in-the-head-is-worth-two-in-the-bush/ trope]]. [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/04/12/episode-832-character-is-what-you-are-in-the-dark/ Really loves it.]]

* In ''Webcomic/LitBrick'', this gets used occasionally for comic effect, or to [[LampshadeHanging Lampshade]] the use of this trope in the original source literature. For example, [[http://litbrick.troutcave.net/comic.php?date=2015-07-03 here]].
* Shows up a lot in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', including the notorious example used as the page illustration. %%in which Gabe tried to cure [[HiccupHijinks Tycho's hiccups]] by ''[[RefugeInAudacity cutting off his hand]]''. [[spoiler:In case you're wondering, he]] ''[[spoiler:still had the hiccups!]]''. And they may have just outdone themselves in the last panel of [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/03/09/membrane this strip.]]
* Accompanied by a [[UnsoundEffect "Spurt"]] [[http://sarab.co/pages/chapter-01-changes/page-06-fatality/ here]] in ''Webcomic/{{Sarab}}''.
* Lampshaded in [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000801 this]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070331 Done]] [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=031016 several]] [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080912 times]] in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.

* A Japanese tea commercial explains that in most cases high blood pressure won't save you. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHNJmWbvsL0 There are exceptions]].

** When [[spoiler: Bertolt Hoover]] suffers a SlashedThroat, blood sprays out as would be expected from a major artery. He gets a hand over the wound, but blood still sprays out from beneath his palm.

* Anyone cut by a Shinigami's sword in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. The worst example has to be when Renji gets hit by the full force of Byakuya's bankai. Cue massive ''explosion'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIknGO3pph4#t=3m17s of blood]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JKCRKTxrP4#t=5m17s What Kenpachi did to Tesla is perhaps more spectacular.]] [[spoiler: By getting his hand cut, Tesla manages to make it look like '''he just got split in half'''. He didn't, but you wouldn't know it from all the blood he loses. He also does lose that hand.]]

* At the end of ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin'', [[spoiler: when Gin decapitates [[BigBad Akakabuto]], the blood bursts up like a geyser, pushing the head with it.]]

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' takes this to ridiculous levels near the end: whenever [[spoiler: Ryuko or Nui]] is injured they spout huge fountains of blood, often two or three times the height of their body.

** In ''End of Evangelion'' this trope is taken to its logical extreme when [[spoiler: Giant Naked Rei's head comes off. Of course, she is the product of every single person rolled into one, so it's somewhat justified.]] The pressure is so high that it shoots blood so far that a line of red appears ''across the moon.'' The mark is visible in ''Rebuild'' too.

* In the final of the future arc in ''Manga/Reborn2004'' [[spoiler: Byakuran ''fights'' using his blood that rains out of his body in gallons.]]

** The ending of his film ''Film/{{Ran}}'' showcases one of the best cases when [[spoiler: General Kurogane beheads the treacherously evil Lady Kaede, for all the nasty acts she pulled throughout the film]]. The resultant geyser of blood that spurts across the wall behind is a thing of beauty. The view of the actual decapitation, though, [[GoryDiscretionShot is nicely blocked from view ]].

* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] yet [[JustifiedTrope justified]] on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' with the two victims of the episode ''[[spoiler: Two And A Half Deaths]]''. The murderer killed their victims using blood-thinning drugs which they got into the victim's system using [[spoiler: the tampons the victim soaked in vodka to get drunk when she was technically banned from drinking]] so that, when the first victim gets into even a minor accident their blood wouldn't be able to clot and so the victim would bleed to death instantly. Then [[spoiler: we get to see one of the victims actually dying as he cuts himself shaving... [[NightmareFuel only for blood to pour down his body]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/DeadRising'', people apparently turn into water balloons when they become zombies, shedding at least a gallon of the red stuff if anything remotely pointy hits them. The same goes for the living, though not to such an extreme. Interesting that Burt and [[spoiler: Paul]] are able to follow Frank to the maintenance room without assistance even after leaving splatters all over the walls.

** One of the endings features a major character ([[spoiler: Sekai]]) being slit across the throat. After three seconds, two fountains of super high-pressure blood spew like hell for around twenty seconds. The weirdest part is that all the other characters [[WeirdnessCensor just stand there as if nothing happens]]. In reality, when the artery in the neck gets cut, bursts of blood like this are not uncommon. The victim is unlikely to remain standing upright though -- and it's quite a shocking sight for bystanders.

* Shows up a lot in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', including the notorious example used as the page illustration. %%in which Gabe tried to cure [[HiccupHijinks Tycho's hiccups]] by ''[[RefugeInAudacity cutting off his hand]]''. [[spoiler: In case you're wondering, he]] ''[[spoiler: still had the hiccups!]]''. And they may have just outdone themselves in the last panel of [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/03/09/membrane this strip]].

** Amusingly, that first example was due to [[{{Pun}} high blood pressure]]

* [[Website/{{Newgrounds}} Newgrounds]] loves this.

* A 1992 Priscilla Network bumper featured a claymation guy squirting high-pressure blood after he breaks his arm falling on the floor, which forms the channel name. By David Kalla, the creepiest claymation creator ever.

In real life the carotid arteries and the aorta do have high pressure that can spurt when cut, but these are located deep in the body (and in the case of the aorta, within the ribcage). Other more accessible blood vessels, not so much (they're limited to 3.3 oz / 100ml at each heartbeat). Fiction is so much more fun than nature!

** ''Series/KamenRiderAmazons'', despite being BloodierAndGorier than the original ''Amazon'', averts this for the most but ''[[Film/KamenRiderAmazonsTheLastJudgementThe Last Judgement]]'' does have an instance where Amazon Alpha cleaves off Amazon Neo Alpha's right arm.

* This is done a bit excessively in ''Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' to the point of being BloodyHilarious.

* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' -- The [[IllGirl sickly]] Hyatt is prone to coughing up blood, then dropping dead in a pool of it. In the final episode of [[Anime/ExcelSaga the anime]], she manages to cough up enough blood to drown ''the entire world.''

* At the end of the ''Manga/DeathNote'' anime, [[spoiler:Mikami stabs himself WITH A PEN in grief, resulting in a blood fountain so over the top it's sometimes considered an [[{{Narm}} unwitting source of humor]] amongst the otherwise dark tone of the scene.]] That was the only episode to get a TV-MA rating on Creator/AdultSwim.

* Jumping spiders use pressurized blood as hydraulic fluid to jump instead of muscles. This has been until recently a pain in the ass for neurobiologists who wanted to study their brain activity, as they have a [[https://www.livescience.com/48442-jumping-spider-brain-science.html nasty tendence to explode]] when attempting to use surgical instruments on them.

* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' had a scene where [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Fou-lu]] ends up [[OffWithHisHead decapitating usurper Soniel]] with the very EvilWeapon that Soniel backstabbed Fou-lu with. The screen goes to black silhouette, you see Fou-lu's silhouette whip out the sword, and you see Soniel's silhouette suddenly headless and geysering (silhouette) blood. This scene was completely {{Bowdlerised}} from non-Japanese versions of the game to the point where the manga adaption turned the scene -- including the graphic depiction of Soniel's decapitation and all the [=PSI=] in his aorta -- UpToEleven in a deliberate TakeThat.

** ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarIII III]]'' [[UpToEleven turned things up a notch]] by using the more powerful [=PS3=] system to add even more blood, that goes ''everywhere'', and even covers Kratos (though it vanishes off him pretty quick).

* The original ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' games earned at least part of their (at the time) legendary notoriety for the sheer amount of blood that spewed off the fighters with each connected punch or kick. The more recent sequels have toned this down, though ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' takes this trope UpToEleven. To drive the point home, there is actually an achievement/trophy for spilling 10,000 pints of blood. You will earn it ''quickly''.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' uses this to the extreme: often, blood will spurn out wildly and cover anything in a 100-yard radius. No to mention, its equivalent of EverythingFades is dead bodies vanishing in a puff of blood -- apparently, any non-major character who dies simply explodes into a smoky cloud of blood. Unfortunately, this was only applied to the USA release; the Japanese and European releases [[{{Bowdlerize}} replaced the blood with black mist]].

* The 1961 film adaptation of ''La Venganza de Don Mendo / Don Mendo's Revenge'' (a very popular Spanish play) is full of deliberate StylisticSuck. Every stab wound, [[EverybodyDies of which there are many]], produces a powerful and ridiculously thin jet of blood as the character slowly, slowly, ''slowly'' bleeds to death. At one point one corpse-to-be falls across another, and the first fountain [[BloodyHilarious grows taller]].