History Main / OverDrawnAtTheBloodBank

* ''Film/TheNakedWitch'': When the witch pushes the miller into the stream, more [[BloodIsSquickerInWater blood flows into the water]] than should have been in her body. However, it is implied that this might be a magical effect [[AWizardDidIt cast by the witch]].

* The manga of ''Manga/ZatchBell'' has a bit of this. Look at [[spoiler:Kiyomaro's death scene [[http://www.onemanga.com/Zatch_Bell/214/11/ over here]]]] for example. Then again, [[spoiler: he was dying, and most of it is probably just charring, it is in black and white.]] Maybe a better example would be reading most any battle chapter in either the 1000-year old Demon arc or the Faudo arc.

The average adult male human body contains roughly five liters (one and a third gallons for Americans) of blood; blood volume is proportional to body size, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an adult with six liters. When donating whole blood, 450-500ml (16.9 oz) is normally taken, which produces feelings of fatigue and weakness for a while, and you must wait 56 days before doing it again. Red blood cells do not regenerate all that fast; that's why we have transfusions. While people can survive losing quite a bit of blood provided they get prompt medical attention, after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsanguination losing 40% or more]] death is pretty much guaranteed.

** Much earlier in the manga, Negi's students were worried that Negi was acting rather woozy and out-of-it. They eventually discovered that [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires Evangeline]] had drained some of Negi's blood as payment for her TrainingFromHell. She actually states that she took "about the same amount you would give at a blood bank" the problem being that she was doing it ''every day'' when you're not allowed to give blood again for several weeks. At that rate he'd be exsanguinated within a week; even faster if she wasn't adjusting the amount taken for his size.

* Used with excessive glee in the anarchic world of ''Manga/OnePiece:'' The sword-fighter Zoro regularly loses several pints of blood every time he has a major battle. The record, according to WordOfGod, is six(!) or about two thirds of his total.
** Zoro fits this trope so greatly that a rant at the fanficrants livejournal community "about how fanfic authors needed to actually consider the ramifications of them injuring or causing that much blood loss with whatever characters they were writing" actually referenced him as an exception, since it is perfectly normal (if not ''expected'') that Zoro lose more blood in a single battle than most people have in their bodies, and WordOfGod that Zoro lost 3 liters of blood in his first fight with Mihawk, and then 5 liters in his fight only a couple of days later(!) with Hachi and Arlong. The human body, on average, holds 5.6 liters of blood. So yeah. He should be dead. But it's okay! He survives with the [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum power of Heart]]!

** 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 humanlike anatomies, but still tend to bleed more than what a normal human would survive (well, they aren't normal humans anyway).
* 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 woulds, not internal which almost all the cast get at some point.

* ''Kodomo no Jikan'' manages to pull this off with a {{Nosebleed}}. It was 10 seconds long, and appeared to be a gallon a nostril. Two gallons of blood from a 3 foot tall 9 year old. She should be dead from that.

* During ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', whenever anything bleeds it tends to gush out blood in huge globs or jet like sprays. And the bigger it is, the more it bleeds. Some of these angels happen to be several kilometers/miles long, and when they die, their whole body shoots out tidal waves of the stuff. Logical conclusion: [[spoiler:staining the moon]] in ''End''.

* ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' brings it up to ''One Piece'' levels, [[UpToEleven if not higher,]] with the final arc in which Akira--the werewolf protagonist who can take a blast from a shotgun to the face during the full moon with no ill consequences--gets stabbed in the abdomen, then runs dozens of miles to find the base his [[HotForTeacher teacher]] has been stashed in, jumps an eleven foot fence, kills two attack dogs by [[ItMakesSenseInContext punching them in the mouth]], completely wipes out a group of guards armed with AK-47s while simultaneously being shot at by a gatling gun firing 4000 rounds per minute, runs through a field of anti-tank mines, gets some fingers chopped off by the BigBad, gets sliced up with a katana, loses some more fingers and an arm, and ''still'' manages to save the day. Did we mention that this was during the new moon, when he is ''as weak as a human?'' [[spoiler: He does die shortly afterward, though.]]

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' brings us Ryuko, the protagonist who has downright ridiculous amounts of blood and might just [[UpToEleven outstrip]] [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro]]. She literally has enough blood to constantly be venting it [[HighPressureBlood like someone cut through a hose]] for almost an entire episode, and loses enough blood to create a geyser on two separate occasions. Her being [[spoiler:a HalfHumanHybrid with Life Fibers]] might have something to do with it.

** 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.

* Played for laughs at the beginning of ''Film/TropicThunder'' where a soldier suffers a [[PrettyLittleHeadshots headshot]] through his helmet and proceeds to spout a three foot high fountain of blood into the faces of his comrades, probably about three gallons in total.

** Jonathan Harker is instructed to hammer a stake through the heart of a vampirized Lucy Westenra. At the first blow, he is utterly '''drenched''' over several seconds by a ''geyser'' of blood from the coffin (which is why Van Helsing took cover behind a pillar). Van Helsing {{handwave}}s it by saying she just ate, and directs Harker to hammer the stake again. And Jonathan does so. ''With the exact same result.'' Understandably, he declines to repeat the process a third time:

* ''Film/RikiOhTheStoryOfRicky'', being a BloodyHilarious {{Gorn}}fest has this, specially when the warden is put in a meat grinder (the actor playing Ricky spent three days covered in fake blood after shooting that!).
* 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).
* Everyone who is wounded in ''Film/Revenge2017'' loses a huge amount of blood. The film features so much blood that, according to director Coralie Fargeat, the prop team would often run out of fake blood. Jen should have bled out somewhere between the canyon and the lake, judging from the TrailOfBlood her pursuers follow. Richard is even worse. While playing cat-and-mouse with Jen in the house, he loses so much blood that it pools deeply on the wooden floor and makes it impossible for Jen to maintain her footing in the corriodor.

** Another, much more subtle, example: During the first 3 seasons, Bill feeds on Sookie roughly every other episode. The first three seasons take place over the course of, roughly, 2 - 3 months. Either Bill is drinking a teaspoon of blood each time he feeds, or she is regenerating blood at a absolutely ridiculous speed. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by Bill's habit of healing the fangmarks by dabbing a drop of his own blood on them--given the miraculous healing properties of vampire blood, this may trigger rapid blood regeneration in addition to healing the visible bite. Alternatively, something about the vampire feeding process (vampire saliva?) may naturally stimulate supernaturally fast blood production, enabling long-term feeding on a single human.
** The scene at the end of season 3 where Russell and Eric both feed on her for a while before walking out into the sun is especially noticeable, since she apparently has the strength to go out and retrieve their charred husks only a few minutes later.

* 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.]]
* ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'': Possum Lodge once competed in a blood-donating competition with Caribou Lodge. Harold, with a little convincing from Red, donated enough to beat out the total donations of Caribou Lodge by himself. He was barely able to walk and talk after that, but was fine by the next episode.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', Dexter has to investigate a crime scene in which at least 50 gallons of blood are splashed around a hotel room. (It's made even more confusing by the absence of any bodies.) The normally unflappable Dexter is made violently queasy by the scene and practically passes out. It turns out it's justified because [[spoiler:the Ice Truck Killer had exsanguinated his previous victims and saved their blood to create the scene]].

* Invoked in the Innistrad storyline in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. On Innistrad there exists a [[EvilWeapon cursed blade]] called the Bloodletter. This items is particularly coveted by the vampire tribes on the plane, because wound inflicted on a person by the blade will bleed infinitely, even after death. It doesn't actually kill the person, it just seems to make their body produce an infinite amount of blood on a wound that will never heal. On vampires, it seems to cause an inverted effect whereupon the cut vampire will be drained of all their blood and wither into a empty bag of dried skin.

** Enemy corpses explode if they either spawn with the Fire Enchanted modifier, or are subjected to one of several skills after their death (the most famous being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Corpse Explosion]]. Since there is only one animation for it, smaller enemies look like they have more blood than their bodies could physically contain, even if they'd been hollowed out and filled with but blood and LudicrousGibs.

* 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 invicible 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.

** The rate of blood letting can be changed, and you can even use a cheat app to up the gore still further,

** And then there are [[BloodMagic Blood Mages]], who regularly cut themselves and gush out at least a half-gallon of blood every time they cast their spells. At least there you can say AWizardDidIt. It also tends to float and swirl around, so it ''could'' be less blood than it appears to be, if it's coating a magical effect (which is to say, it could be like oddly shaped bubbles of blood - like an inflated balloon which is more air than plastic).
* In ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'', there is a scene before a boss fight with a vampire where the protagonist is talking to an NPC with a bat on the ceiling above. About halfway through the conversation the NPC will mention the bat, who begins to drain blood from the protagonist. So long as you don't proceed with the conversation, the bat will never stop draining the protagonist's blood. Also, several techniques will cause those hit by them to spatter what looks to be gallons of blood with no effects other than the damage the skill causes.
* In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'', Isaac Clarke, the player controlled character, gets slashed or grappled regularly (depending on your skill), losing gallons of blood each time.

* Although bleeding your enemies out is one of the ways you can kill an enemy if ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' (the others being [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisection]], [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]], and suffocation), the amount of blood a creature loses before finally dying can be surprisingly large. Especially with the glitch that causes infinite blood tracking; the blood of a single groundhog can theoretically be used to paint the floors of an entire fortress blood red by getting stuck on a dwarf's boots and spread around without actually decreasing.
* When ''VideoGame/MeatBoy'' walks, jumps and runs, blood splatters around him, leaving blood stains everywhere.

* ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' has a lot of bloodshed throughout the game. There was scene that was filled with blood.

* Used often for artistic affect in ''The Webcomic/CodeCrimson'' during [[http://www.comics.thecodecrimson.com/?webcomic_post=issue-1-page-14/ killing sprees]]. Even showed up using [[http://thecodecrimson.com/post/45803297288/issue-2-page-18-so-very-happy-to-be-back-home/ sprockets]] instead of blood during a robot battle.

** Amazingly the only symtoms he suffers afterwards are the same as having one too many.

* Combined with HilarityEnsues and ArtisticLicenseBiology, in an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]'', Jude Lizowski donated blood ''17 times'' in one day, for the sake of free doughnuts and with the help of a few [[PaperThinDisguise costume changes and a lame accent or two]], but is thankfully medically helped and okay by the end of the episode. In reality, Jude wouldn't be to donate blood 17 times in such a short period of time. for a few reasons:
## You can only donate blood once every eight weeks--and Jude probably would've died around the fourth or fifth donation.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes.'' In the US version (which surprisingly had blood ''added'' to it), every {{Mook}} practically explodes with blood to the point where it loses all seriousness and can even be viewed as a form of BlackComedy. Bosses also do the same, except in more...''creative'' ways.

* Parodied in the prologue for ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}''; a young Judy pretends to die during her role in a school play and [[LargeHam overplays her death scene]] by using a red ribbon, followed by an entire squeeze-bottle of ketchup, to simulate gushing blood.

* ''Videogame/{{Borderlands}}'': One of the optional bosses in the game is a Scithid (basically a giant flying slug) called Bleeder. As the name implies, Bleeder is constantly bleeding huge quantities of blood. All the time. It bleeds about its entire body's worth of blood in about five seconds, and no matter how long it takes you to kill it, it will always have a seemingly infinite supply of the stuff.

* Subtle example: In the ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "Cool Hunter", a young woman's bleeding body is dumped in an apartment building's rooftop water cistern. The cistern is big enough that it probably holds several thousand gallons of water, yet a single body's ~10 pints of blood somehow turns the water flowing from sinks and showers on the floors below a brilliant red, rather than it being diluted beyond visual detectability.

** In the two-parter episode "Crash Into Me", a patient has ruptured his carotid artery, [[HighPressureBlood squirting large amounts of blood everywhere]]. While waiting for an operating room to become available, they're pumping blood in as fast as it's going out, and poor Lexie ends up wearing most of it.

** In "Out of Nowhere", an [=ECMO=] (blood oxygenator) machine has a hose come loose on a helicopter, drenching Jackson and Maggie in blood. Maggie later admits she's more excited about showering it all off than saving the patient.
* Tori in the ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' episode "Tori Gets Stuck". She donates half of her blood amount (3 pints out of 6) to Robbie's operation. She lost the first 2 pints, but the third is used successfully. It does leave her feeling drained and tired.
* 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.]]

* Combined with HilarityEnsues and ArtisticLicenseBiology, in an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]'', Jude Lizowski donated blood ''17 times'' in one day, for the sake of free doughnuts and with the help of a few [[PaperThinDisguise costume changes and a lame accent or two]], but is thankfully helped and okay by the end of the episode. In reality, Jude wouldn't be to donate blood 17 times in such a short period of time. for a few reasons:

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/6Teen'', Jude donated blood ''seventeen times in one day'' under different disguises just to get the complimentary treats in the recovery room after you donate. He ''did'' end up very weak and needed to be treated medically, but had the show handled it more realistically, Jude would probably have died around the fourth or fifth donation. On top of that, blood banks and organizations that do blood donations like The Red Cross have a limit on how many times you can donate. If you donate blood, you have to wait at least eight weeks (just less than two months) before you can donate again.

* Justified in the ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' two-parter episode "Crash Into Mme". A patient has ruptured his carotid artery, [[HighPressureBlood squirting large amounts of blood everywhere]]. While waiting for an operating room to become available, they're pumping blood in as fast as it's going out, and poor Lexie ends up wearing most of it.

* Subtle example: In the ''Series/CSINY'' episode "Cool Hunter", a young woman's bleeding body is dumped in an apartment building's rooftop water cistern. The cistern is big enough that it probably holds several thousand gallons of water, yet a single body's ~10 pints of blood somehow turns the water flowing from sinks and showers on the floors below a brilliant red, rather than it being diluted beyond visual detectability.
* Justified in the ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' two-parter episode "Crash into me". A patient has ruptured his carotid artery, [[HighPressureBlood squirting large amounts of blood everywhere]]. While waiting for an operating room to become available, they're pumping blood in as fast as it's going out.

* A DefiedTrope in two separate occasions in ''Series/CSILosAngeles''. 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 ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'' has the typical "enemies bleed a set amount from weak attacks, and you can often hit them over and over without killing them" variety. This can get a bit absurd when you're making ''rotting zombies'' bleed twice their weight from CherryTapping.

** With Luffy this is actually justified: the RequiredSecondaryPowers of being a RubberMan mean his body produces blood at an impossibly fast rate to get to his stretches limbs, so he ''really does'' have more blood than a regular person.

** In Episode 523 of the anime, they have a joke panel with Zoro, and ''nine pint bags of blood'' that was being transfused into Sanji. They made it look like they ''pulled all the blood from Zoro!'' In reality, it's blood Chopper already had stored on the boat. [[spoiler:Sanji has a rare blood type, which becomes a plot point later on when Chopper runs out of stored blood and needs to find a donor.]] Zoro probably could donate that much blood, though.
* Subverted in ''Manga/{{Change 123}}''. The author (committed as ever to technical accuracy, if not overall plausibility) comments on the effects of blood loss, and takes pains to apply it to the series' primary fighters, even throwing in some DeathOfAThousandCuts.

!!Examples

* ''WebOriginal/AirRideAdventures'' has Orange Kirby with his infinite blood supply, making him immortal if you think you can kill him slowly with wounds on him.

*** [[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 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'' had this on the second episode, "Bling Thing," only instead of "blood," it's "coolant" ([[CaptainObvious since Blastus and Thrasher are robots]]), and donating too much causes such bizarre side effects as jitters, paranoia, fire blisters, and rectal whistling.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Disenchantment'', Bean drains the blood from a pig in order to save Elfo from exsanguination. The pig has enough blood to fill the beaker and cover the lab's floor about six inches deep.

* In this ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'' [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11672069/1/Give-Blood story,]] [[WholePlotReference a direct]] ShoutOut to the ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'' example below, this happens to [[BigEater Deandra The New Girl]]. She, like Jude, donates her blood an unprecedented ''seventeen times'' for the sake of free donuts.

'''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? Sorry, cleanup is on you.[[/note]]

* The Bleeding Monk from ''ComicBook/{{Harbinger}}'' is... a monk who bleeds. A lot, and constantly. So much so that you can pretty much find him by looking for the red river and then heading upstream.

** 1.) You can only donate blood once every eight weeks--and Jude probably would've died around the fourth or fifth donation.
** 2.) If he only had three pints, realistically, he wouldn't have been able to actually move.
** 3.) While it ultimately depends on how big someone is, on average, the human body only has about nine to eleven pints of blood, maybe twelve at the most. In Canada (where the show is set) Canadian Blood Services takes about one pint max, so donating 17 times would involve losing ''50 to 70% more blood than would exist in his body!''

* The bug that Hydia stomps on in ''MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'' literally explodes into a huge puddle of blood that no creature of this size could possibly hold in its body. Of course, that even ignores the fact that [[ArtisticLicenseBiology insects don't have the same kind of blood that vertebrates do]].