History Main / OverDrawnAtTheBloodBank

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In Giggles's Valentine's Smoochie, Giggles slices her tongue off when trying to lick an envelope. She bleeds out and dies in an ankle-deep pool of her own blood.

%%* ''Manhwa/TheBreaker'' seems to do this from time to time.

%%* Played straight in ''Manhwa/{{Chonchu}}'', sometimes to the point of {{Narm}}.

* In ''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}'', Ivan Isaacs loses absurd amounts of blood during battle. He may be undead, but he's still losing more blood (in liquid volume) than his body could ever conceivably carry.

* Inverted in one issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons''. Clones of Waylon Smithers have captured Mr. Burns to draw a sample of his blood so they can clone him, but he's so old and desiccated that their syringes can't get anything out of him, not even from his major arteries. To quote one frustrated clone, Burns is "drier than a ''[[Literature/TheNewYorker New Yorker]]'' cartoon".

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}},'' played with source ports with decals enabled: Every hit on an enemy near a wall will leave a blood splat on it. The shotgun is essentially several hits with one blast. Since some monsters have incredibly high HitPoints, you can basically paint the town(/dungeon/techbase/Hell) red when fighting one with the shotgun.

* In ''Manhwa/{{Priest}}'', Ivan Isaacs loses absurd amounts of blood during battle. He may be undead, but he's still losing more blood (in liquid volume) than his body could ever conceivably carry.

* Mostly averted in ''Manga/{{Shiki}}''. The exact amount of blood in a human's body is referenced often - since it's a series about vampires - but [[spoiler: in the end, there is a ''lot'' of blood gushing around from staking various shiki, who are stated to have even ''less'' blood than a human.]]

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* Insects have [[AlienBlood (green)]] blood that surrounds all of their organs and fills their exoskeletons. As biologically accurate as it was, ''VideoGame/DeadlyCreatures'' should have ended up looking like a [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Tarantino film]].
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* Happens to ridiculous extents in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Partly justifiable in that most fights happen between spirit beings, but they do seem to have anatomy that resembles living creatures. Originally, a Shinigami's body was described as being more-or-less a thin bag containing nothing but blood plasma. A {{Retcon}} and some RealLife years later, and they have much more human-like anatomies, but still tend to bleed more than what a normal human would survive (well, they aren't normal humans anyway).

* There wasn't a fight scene in ''Manga/GaRei'' where the characters ''weren't'' bleeding. The main characters might have a HealingFactor, but even the ones that don't never bleed to death.

** Justified with the fact that it would need a lot of pressure in order to get the blood to circulate the body.

* Absurdly overused in the manga ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo''. More then half the manga is a long continuous series of death matches for the main characters who receive about a couple dozen serious wounds each battle and usually one or two fatal ones. The is no regeneration factor ever mentioned, and there is only one real healer, and even she can only close open wounds, not internal which almost all the cast get at some point.
* Mostly averted in ''Manga/{{Shiki}}''. The exact amount of blood in a human's body is referenced often - since it's a series about vampires - but [[spoiler: in the end there is a ''lot'' of blood gushing around from staking various shiki, who are stated to have even ''less'' blood than a human.]]
* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'': Thanks to {{Synchronization}} with the Escaflowne and his status as the guy [[BringMyRedJacket wearing red]], Van suffers at least one coagulation-free day of bleeding from nearly ''every inch of his body'' while his friends futilely attempt to make it stop. While his blood pressure ''does'' drop low enough to cause heart arrhythmia and freak out TheMedic, losing more blood than is contained the bodies of all of his comrades combined is apparently [[MadeOfIron not enough to cause any permanent damage]]. Even knowing that he's [[spoiler:[[HalfHumanHybrid half-Draconian]]]] pushes suspension of disbelief.

* ''Film/ChristmasBlood'': When [[spoiler:Annika]] gets chopped in the face and lifted above [[spoiler:her]] friends, they get drenched in more blood that should have reasonably been pouring out.

** In ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah'', Hedorah's blood is highly toxic and corrosive, and the only part of his body which his blood can actually injure are his eyes. When Godzilla [[EyeScream punches Hedorah in the right eye]], the large amount of blood released means that he has to shut his eye to prevent it from being damaged. He also shuts his eye over Godzilla's hand, burning his flesh right down to the bone. Godzilla also bleeds after losing an eye of his own to some of Hedorah's acid.

** The Bride chops Sophie Fatale's left arm off above the elbow, presumably severing all the brachial arteries, and she's left bleeding copiously on the floor without medical attention while the Bride fights Gogo Yubari, the Crazy 88 and O-Ren Ishi. According to a deleted scene, the Bride later severs Sophie's ''other'' arm below the elbow, before dumping her down a steep slope to a hospital emergency department. Somehow Sophie doesn't bleed to death...

* This happens at the climax of ''Film/{{Sanjuro}}'' in part due to Production designer Yoshiro Muraki adding ''30 pounds of extra pressure'' to make things more dramatic. When Sanjuro slashed his opponent, the rival samurai was supposed to spurt blood right afterwards. However, the hose for the machine blew a compressor and led to a slight delay and a massive blood spurt lasting for a second. When Muraki nervously looked towards director Akira Kurosawa, Kurosawa nodded his approval (partially due to the difficulty of filming it twice).

* ''Film/VampiresSuck'' parodies the trope. Becca gets a papercut and her finger starts shooting a stream of blood. She later suffers another cut on her arm that makes her bleed enough to fill a pyramid of glasses.

* In ''Literature/BattleIsAnArt'', the MC, Herah, get her arm torn off and had it emerge as a gesyser of blood but even used it to make several tattoos. Justified in that her alien body will function properly till her flame goes out no matter the damage.

** Done similarly, albeit more subtly, with the second victim in "It Happened to Me." She's found dead in a large pool of too red water in her sunken living room, having bled out through all her orifices.

* A DefiedTrope in two separate occasions in ''Series/NCISLosAngeles''. In one episode, Sam and G notice an unusually large puddle of blood from a victim and figure out he was an MMA fighter transfusing himself with excess blood to give himself an advantage. In another, the inside of a car is smeared (though not drenched) in blood, and the characters still note "nobody loses this much blood and survives." [[spoiler:They're right, but there were also two sources.]]

** The DLC expansion, ''The Old Hunters,'' also introduces the boss Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower. As a distant relative of the Cainhurst nobility, she could use their BloodMagic, but absolutely hated to do so, and instead used the DifficultButAwesome trick weapon Rakuyo. When you fight her, she'll start out just using her weapon, but in the beginning of the second phase, she'll stab herself to [[BatmanGrabsAGun use said blood magic out of sheer desperation]]. She'll then toss [[SwordBeam Sword Beams]] made of her own blood around quite liberally (and in the third phase, the blood trails left behind start to catch fire). None of this actually hurts her, and by the end of the fight she will probably have coated her boss arena in more blood than even someone as tall as Maria could possibly possess. [[spoiler: This is heavily implied to be because Maria is actually dead in the real world (probably via suicide), and you're fighting a shadow of her in the Hunter's Nightmare.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'', in the first game there are several locations (including a large multi-level elevator lobby) which are literally ''drenched'' in blood, far more than could be explained by the admittedly large number of corpses lying around. Then again, all that is left of some of the people are skeletons. So it's more like their entire bodies were liquefied and then sprayed out all over the place. It also isn't clear how much of the blood is a hallucination (Alma's psychic visions tend to include lots of blood).
* Here's a fun activity: Log on to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' with a high-level character. Pick a fight with a lower-level Notorious Monster of the Monk job. Now watch it use Hundred Fists and hit you countless times for minimal-to-no-damage while each hit causes you to bleed like a geyser. You could lose under a hundred HP, yet appear to have lost bathtubs full of blood.
* ''VideoGame/{{Galerians}}'' deals mainly in blunt-force trauma and is pretty staid about blood 'n guts overall...until the player triggers the LimitBreak [[YourHeadAsplode head exploding mode]] lifted ''straight'' out of ''Film/{{Scanners}}''. Any opponent with a vascular system will turn out its contents in an impressive fountain the moment protagonist draws near.

* In ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', on the first level, if you kill Captain Keyes or any of the people operating on the bridge just for the hell of it, Cortana will [[VideogameCrueltyPunishment seal the bridge and call in invincible marines to kill you]]. The marines are invincible, but still bleed when shot or pistol-whipped. This can lead to situations where there's buckets of blood on the ground from ''one'' guy, and if you let up on your attacks for a second, he'll be shooting and cussing like you didn't do anything. Hell, this goes for anyone in the game; shoot up any dead body, and blood will squirt out, but you can make a lake of blood and still have plenty left.

* When ''VideoGame/MeatBoy'' walks, jumps and runs, blood splatters around him, leaving bloodstains everywhere.

* The Blood Pack DLC for ''VideoGame/TotalWarShogun2'', which changes the games previously BloodlessCarnage into "oh goodness that is a lot of blood spilling on everything and oh you've gotten it on [[CameraAbuse the camera too.]]"

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Vriska shows this after [[spoiler: being [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] by Aradia. She manages to bleed out like, ten gallons of blood before she dies.]] Andrew Hussie being well, himself it gets a LampshadeHanging.

* ''Website/TheOnion'' presents [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/bloodblood-everywhere,2420/ "Blood...Blood Everywhere."]] In this case, the large amounts of blood is treated as something unnatural and of unknown origin.

* Peggy and Minh of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' get into a blood donating spree during one episode, trying to beat the other to a free coffee mug. They both spend the episode anemic, and weak from so much donating. Peggy wins, even though she can barely move and has to literally drag herself into the back yard to brag to Minh about her "victory".

** Post time-skip, Sanji is working very hard to match Zoro, initially having regular massive nosebleeds just from looking at a woman. [[spoiler:In Chapter 609, after a mild occurrence of MarshmallowHell, Sanji suffered from a nosebleed so violent that it actually necessitated Chopper to ask everyone in the vicinity for a blood donation. While this may be the ''One Piece'' universe where blood floweth freely, Sanji had literally just lost what appeared to be roughly fifty gallons of blood. Through his nose.]] [[http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/127/333528-screen_shot_2010_12_27_at_11.08.26_pm_super.jpg This picture is probably needed to support the claim]]. Please do note that the giant fish is in the foreground, and Sanji's nosebleed mermaid is in the background. If you look closely on the rocks beneath the nosebleed, you can probably make out a few silhouettes. These silhouettes are normally human-sized mermaids and fishmen, which means that Sanji essentially ''has enough nosebleed to shape a figure at least 100 times larger than a regular human''. Even though it probably [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum Runs On Nonsensoleum]], Sanji still takes the prize for losing the most blood in ''One Piece'', because he lost more blood than his body could ever contain.

** Dexter's mom, when killed, supposedly flooded the shipping container in to a depth of an inch. Even a short shipping container is 20 feet x 8 feet; that's 23,040 cubic inches, or almost 100 gallons (378.5L) of blood! It's more likely the sheer trauma of it colored his childhood memories.

** Dexter's mom, when killed, supposedly flooded the shipping container in to a depth of an inch. Even a short shipping container is 20 feet x 8 feet; that's 23,040 cubic inches, or almost 100 gallons of blood! It's more likely the sheer trauma of it colored his childhood memories.

* Insects have [[AlienBlood (green)]] blood that surrounds all of their organs and fills their exoskeletons. As biologically accurate as it was, ''VideoGame/DeadlyCreatures'' should have ended up looking like a [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Tarantino]] [[CreatorThumbprint film]].

* Insects have [[AlienBlood (green)]] blood that surrounds all of their organs and fills their exoskeletons. As biologically accurate as it was, ''VideoGame/DeadlyCreatures'' should have ended up looking like a [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Tarantino film]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Vriska shows this after [[spoiler: being [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] by Aradia. She manages to bleed out like, ten gallons of blood before she dies.]] Andrew Hussie being well, himself it gets a LampshadeHanging (see the quotes page).

* Kouta from ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' suffers from this regularly, due to him suffering from {{NoseBleed}}s, particularly when Aiko is teasing him. Some of them may only be a spurt, but more often than not, he ends up losing quite a bit of blood from seeing the various girls in the show in revealing outfits. In one episode he even hooks up to a blood bag, only to have that drain too fast for it to be of any use.

* Used more often than not in the anime version of ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'', a series where the titular character often kills the main character with a spiked club only to bring him back from the dead seconds later. The very first death has blood, to quote a magazine review, 'spewing out all over the room like lava from a volcano', after Dokuro obliterates the protagonist's head.

'''Before citing something as an example, keep in mind that five liters is still more than enough to make a HUGE mess. What looks like too much blood to a person who doesn't know what a gallon and a half of liquid looks like when spilled may in fact be entirely realistic.'''[[note]]If you live in the USA, get a gallon and a half of milk and fling it around your kitchen. See? [[SchmuckBait Sorry, cleanup is on you]].[[/note]]

* Here's a fun activity: Log on to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' with a high-level character. Pick a fight with a lower-level [[BonusBoss Notorious Monster]] of the Monk job. Now watch it use Hundred Fists and hit you countless times for minimal-to-no-damage while each hit causes you to bleed like a geyser. You could lose under a hundred HP, yet appear to have lost bathtubs full of blood.

* ''Film/PlayingWithDolls'': When the killer makes a cut above his first victim's breast, a [=LOT=] more blood starts pouring out than one should expect.