History Main / MadeOfBologna

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': During the Red Trailer, a sliced Grimm shows that the inside is a solid glowing red mass that disintegrates into red petals. This is exclusive to the Red Trailer and doesn't carry through to the main show.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': During the Red Trailer, a slice Grimm shows that the inside is a solid glowing red mass that disintegrates into red petals. This is exclusive to the Red Trailer and doesn't carry through to the main show.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': If one were to into a Grimm before they disintegrate they would see it has a solid mass of glowing red.

Of course, depicting all the myriad structures and tissues in a living body violates the {{Law of Conservation of Detail}} and would also look mighty gruesome. Therefore, cartoon characters are made of a bologna-like substance that doesn't bleed and has no annoying details. Hacking a character to pieces becomes bloodless, and qualifies as AmusingInjuries rather than {{Squick}}.

* Roberto the insane robot cutting of a strip of skin from Hermes' arm in ''WesternAnimation/Futurama'' reveals a slice of bloodless pink bologna. Given that the piece of skin is so spicy it dissolves the robot, it might be fully spiced and cured.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
** In "Scare Happy Slappy," Walter Wolf is blown in half by a bomb, revealing that his innards are empty.
** In "In The Garden Of Mindy," Brain is sliced to little pieces after getting run over by a lawn mower.
** In "Rest In Pieces," Sid Squid is sliced in half by a statue's sword, showing his two halves have a grey interior.

* During a showdown between Super Saiyan Goku and Frieza in ''Manga/DragonBall'', Frieza launches two [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Destructo Discs]] at Goku and misses. Goku distracts Frieza so that Frieza fails to catch a returning disc, which cuts him into pieces. Some blood spills and Frieza's red bologna innards are seen. Frieza survives this wound due to his BizarreAlienBiology. The original manga, however, actually depicts a bit of intestine hanging out of Frieza’s Torso.

** In ''Super'' he's brought back in a series of living chunks. They doubled down on the bizarre alien biology angle and make the bologna ''metallic grey.''

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* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' has Zombina being cleanly [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisected]] horizontally by Shiishii the jiangshi, with no blood or guts to be seen anywhere. Especially strange since Zombina herself has been shown to bleed profusely before, so it's not an example of author Okayado being afraid to show gore.

* This trope also appears in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' prior to the much more detailed engine of ''9'', again, due to visual limitations and saving cartridge space. This is a combination of this trope and MadeOfPlasticine, where the innards are made to look rather disgusting.

* [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent Ayakashi]] in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' are EnergyBeings that don't seem to have internal organs. [[spoiler:Shirogane]] was able to survive [[TorsoWithAView half his head being torn off]], and the wound "bleed" looked white and cloudy like the rest of his body.

* ''VideoGame/AmongUs'': Crewmates who are unfortunate enough to get killed by the impostor suffer this, getting their heads torn off but leaving a [[StockFemurBone cartoon bone]] poking out of the stump.

* A variant with the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/collections/now-that-the-world-is-cake-here-are-some-memes-about-it "Everything is cake" meme]], which went viral in July 2020. Originally it involved cutting inedible-looking objects to reveal they're actually hyper-realistic cakes, but artists and photo-editors expanded the scope to cutting apart various characters to reveal their insides are made of delicious, spongy layer cake.

* When Talion pops an uruk's head in VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor or VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar, the stump shows an overly floppy spine and black bologna.

* ''VideoGame/AmongUs'': Crewmates who are unfortunate enough to get killed by the impostor suffer this, getting their heads torn off but leaving a cartoon bone poking out of the stump.

* Whenever the titular character in ''ComicBook/{{Cattivik}}'' is sliced open, his insides appear as solid tissue.

* The ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip ''cartoon "Mouseum" shows Herman powering a bladed wheel behind Katnip that shears off successive layers from the cat from back to front. Each layer seems composed of reddish bologna. Katnip is able to restack his layers to restore his body and resume the pursuit of Herman.

* ''Anime/DropkickOnMyDevilDash'' has a party of waifus discover a coffin washed up on a beach. Inside is Kyon-Kyon, the jiangshi from Hell, China. Kyon-Kyon immediately attacks Jashin. Minos intervenes, and suplexes Kyon-Kyon. This makes the jiangshi break into pieces, including detaching her head. All the areas of separation are featureless matte black tissue. Calmed by her defeat, Kyon-Kyon lets the girls use super glue to reassemble her shattered body.

* ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'' employs this trope, as despite much wielding of katanas, no innards are seen nor do internal organs spill out. One glimpse of brains occurs when a random passerby's skull is struck by Jaki's EpicFlail.

* One of the many silly villains featured in the infamous [[DeliciousFruitPies Hostess Twinkie Cake]] ads was "Spindly" Klutz, who had the ability to somehow remove the right half of every person's body from existence. Of course, all the halved people just had a featureless, pinkish mass on the division line.

* This trope also appears in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' prior to the much more detailed engine of ''9'', again, due to visual limitations and saving cartridge space.

* Occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Darkstalkers}}'' series when characters are cut in half.