History Main / OverdrawnAtTheBloodbank

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** A chapter had Negi [[BloodFromTheMouth coughing up]] what must have been several gallons of blood, and this is ''after'' bleeding profusely from other injuries. Of course, his BlackMagic gave him a HealingFactor, and it's ''[[AWizardDidIt magic]]'', but still...
** 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 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.

* 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 lost 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]]!
** 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 stretched-out limbs, so he really ''does'' have more blood than a regular person.
** 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.
** At another point, back when they were sailing in [[AppliedPhlebotinum a resin bubble at an insane depth in the ocean]], Sanji had a nosebleed so explosive, ''it caused him to fly in the air'' from propulsion and caused him to fly through that bubble and away into the ocean.
** In Episode 523 of the anime, they have a joke panel with Zoro, and ''nine pint bags of blood'' that were 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 Deaths Of A Thousand Cuts]].
* Though everyone in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' bleeds a lot, Shiryu is notable for regularly [[HighPressureBlood geysering]] more blood than everyone else in his team ''has'' at least once per arc (the only time it's played fairly realistic is when he tears his own wrists open so Mu can fix up his and Seiya's suits. Shiryu went into a coma, and it's stated that he teetered on the edge of death, but he miraculously came back and was ready to fight again right then and there). It gets downright [[{{Narm}} ridiculous]] in the Scorpio Milo vs. Cygnus Hyoga battle, during which the latter gushes out more blood than his entire body could possibly contain. And not only does he ''live'' through it --once Milo has [[HeelRealization realized the truth]] and [[HeelFaceTurn stopped the blood loss]] via PressurePoint-- but he's back on his feet and fighting at full strength not even five minutes later.
** In ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'', Capricorn El Cid actually uses this strategically. When fighting Icelus, an enemy that bends space to avoid and redirect attacks back at El Cid, he sprays a geyser of blood from a lost arm all around himself so that he could hear the resulting distortions when Icelus warps space. While he does die to blood loss, it's a good 2 episodes later after'' [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu killing four gods inhabiting a single body.]]''
* 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).
* 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.
* 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.

* Thanks to {{Synchronization}} with the [[Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne 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.

* The manga of ''Manga/ZatchBell'' has a bit of this. Look at [[spoiler:Kiyomaro's death scene [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ni_CosN5n2E/TnH04DHcgxI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/S9KvtkY-ANs/s0/010.png 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 Ancient Mamodo arc or the Faudo arc.

* The TooHotForTV final episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' exaggerated Hyatt's [[TheyKilledKennyAgain usual death]] and massive blood loss. She floods '''the entire planet''' with her blood.
** [[Manga/ExcelSaga The manga]] is not quite as absurd, but still provides plenty of this trope in its own right. For example, Hyatt once got caught in a gas explosion in the bathroom, and Elgala looked in horror as her blood kept steadily pumping on the glass door. [[HealingFactor Then she walked out, completely unharmed.]]
* Subverted in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi''. The infamous Episode 33 (Or manga volume 8) where [[spoiler: Nuriko dies.]] Nuriko is badly wounded in a fight with a "werewolf," but [[TheDeterminator is still determined]] to get the [[MacGuffin Shinzaho for Miaka]], and loses a lot of blood in the process. [[spoiler: Much to the ire of the fangirls, Nuriko does not survive.]]
* Several characters in ''Anime/BloodPlus'' receive large injuries and spill a ridiculous amount of blood. Justified in that they're not humans.
* ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' brings it up to ''One Piece'' levels, 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.]]

* Played straight in ''Manhwa/{{Chonchu}}'', sometimes to the point of {{Narm}}.
* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' brings us Ryuko, the protagonist who has downright ridiculous amounts of blood to spare. 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.
** [[CuteAndPsycho Nui Harime]] as well. [[spoiler:When her arms are cut off,]] blood pours out of her as if from a hose. [[OverlyLongGag For several minutes, even.]]
** Earlier, when [[BigBad Ragyo]] was [[spoiler: decapitated by Satsuki]], it [[RainOfBlood showered]].
* ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' gives us the titular Deadmen, for whom this is a {{Required Secondary Power|s}}. Though it's still a plot point that Deadmen have finite supplies of blood. And especially that protagonist Ganta has less blood than adult Deadmen since he's still a child, a flaw exacerbated by the fact that most Deadmen make weapons like blades or whips out of their blood, but Ganta fires his blood as ''bullets'' and thus can't just pull it back into his body afterward.
* In the ''Anime/HaloLegends'' short ''The Duel'' (which focuses on the [[ProudWarriorRace Elites/Sangheili]]), protagonist Fal 'Chavamee duels his much larger clansman Haka. It ends with a MutualKill, with Fal's chest exploding into a ''waterfall'' of purple blood after being stabbed by Haka's {{BFS}}.
* 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.
* ''Manhwa/TheBreaker'' seems to do this from time to time.
* Done ''literally'' in one chapter of ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'': Minako first did a normal whole blood donation (in Japan either 200 or 400cc depending on body mass) at least two years underage, and then, the very same day, as part of the infiltration to look for [[MonsterOfTheWeek Chuu Chuu]] she donated again... With the doctor, being Chuu Chuu in disguise, taking ''800cc''. [[TheJuggernaut Minako drank eight tomato juice cans before climbing on top of the hospital where he had his base and annihilating him]].
* It's common in most ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series for blood to flow out of a Mobile Suit any time the cockpit is destroyed, usually in quantities great enough to paint the torso of the machine.
* ''Anime/CellsAtWork'' features a lot of blood splattering around everywhere whenever White Blood Cell or another immunocite kills a bacteria. Despite bacteria not ''having'' blood.

* The Bleeding Monk from ''ComicBook/{{Harbinger}}'' is... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 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.

* Parodied in the prologue for ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

* The end of ''Film/TokyoGorePolice''. After getting his legs cut off by the main character and injecting himself with something, the villain spends the remainder of the film ''airborne'' on twin high-pressure blood jets.
* The Black Knight sequence from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' qualifies for this trope. But, remember, 'tis OnlyAFleshWound.
* ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' played up the blood fountains for RuleOfCool.
* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' played up [[spoiler:Glen]]'s death scene for RuleOfCool so bloody that it was bloodier than blood.
* In ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'', Jesus sheds an inhuman amount of blood when he's flogged, then sheds even more when he's crucified.

* ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt''
** 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:
--->'''Van Helsing:''' She's almost dead!\\
'''Harker:''' She's dead ''enough''!
** And in real life, his actor [[EnforcedMethodActing was not told that he would get hosed down with stage blood]], and is [[{{Corpsing}} visibly struggling not to laugh]].
** Also, Renfield gets a paper cut that results in a fountain of blood erupting from his finger.
* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films, shockingly, avert this. Throughout the series, the blood splatters are pretty realistic in size. Also, victims who survive massive blood loss without dying (e.g. Lawrence in ''Film/SawI'' and Brit and Mallick in ''Film/SawV'') visibly show common effects that are consequences of blood loss.

* ''Film/RikiOhTheStoryOfRicky'', being a BloodyHilarious {{Gorn}}fest has this, especially 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 corridor.
* In keeping with the film's source material, this trope is in constant use in ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun''. Perhaps most obvious when [[OffWithHisHead Logan has his head ripped off]], and the blood sprays from his severed neck [[HighPressureBlood at a ludicrous velocity]] for several ''minutes'' without any decrease in volume or speed.
* ''Film/TheNakedWitch'': When the witch pushes the miller into the stream, more [[BloodIsSquickerInWater blood flows into the water]] than should have been in his body. However, it is implied that this might be a magical effect [[AWizardDidIt cast by the witch]].

* In ''Literature/HaloTheFlood'', an Elite is sniped in the head by a Marine with an anti-material rifle. The book lovingly describes a fountain spewing from where his head was for a good ten seconds before toppling over.

* In the Main/{{Creepypasta}} "DAY OF ALL THE BLOOD", the protagonist (later revealed to be the reader before they forgot about the incident) begins bleeding profusely all of a sudden. It never stops, and everyone is forced to send him into space so that he stops getting blood everywhere.[[/folder]]

* In ''Series/MarriedWithChildren,'' Al Bundy once sold a ludicrous amount of his blood to let Kelly play pool competitively. [[GeniusDitz She was good]]. [[StatusQuoIsGod Ultimately,]] she lost because Al fainted in the path of her winning shot.
-->'''Al:''' (Drinking beer) The brain doesn't need blood. It just needs to be kept wet.

* Usually averted in anything involving Creator/JossWhedon... despite the copious use of bladed weapons, even [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman non-human]] blood is thin on the ground (*ahem*) - see for example the final battle in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' where [[spoiler: River ends up surrounded by Reavers that she has hacked to death]] with scarcely a drop of blood on the floor. Probably one to pin on the MoralGuardians.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'':
** Vampires tend to vomit up geysers of blood when killed, and then promptly melt into [[NoBodyLeftBehind puddles of bloody gore]]. May or may not be justified by their... ''unique'' biology, however.
** 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 an absolutely ridiculous speed. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by Bill's habit of healing the fang marks 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.
* Averted in ''Series/TheWonderYears''. When Kevin and his friends get caught skipping class and avoid punishment by offering the lie that they were going out to give blood, the show time-skips to the aftermath of their blood donation: each one of them is completely exhausted and barely able to stay awake.

* 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.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', Dexter has to investigate a crime scene in which at least 50 gallons of blood is 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]].

** According to the healing rules, humans could survive losing three quarters a gallon of blood on a pretty much weekly basis indefinitely, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality but the rules aren't meant to simulate reality anyway.]]
*** ''Vampire'' still follows reality in one aspect, in that a human can only lose three blood points (about half a gallon) with no mechanical ill effects; any more, and medical attention is required to survive. [[VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines The video game]], on the other hand, does away with this, and [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality humans will survive without issue as long as they aren't drained completely]].
* Invoked in the Innistrad storyline in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. On Innistrad, there exists a [[EvilWeapon cursed blade]] called the Bloodletter. This item is particularly coveted by the vampire tribes on the plane, because a wound inflicted on a person by the blade will [[WoundThatWillNotHeal 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 an empty bag of dried skin.

* Various MMORPGS, in which you can fight for a long time without worrying about collapsing if you have enough HitPoints.
** 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.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal}},'' Chell can take tons of turret shots, and leaves ''large'' blood smears on walls when hit. [[WalkItOff 5 seconds, and you're okay again]], ready to lose another three pints. Valve eventually revealed (when people wondered why the blood was gone in ''VideoGame/Portal2'') that this had been a mistake; they'd forgotten to turn off the blood decal effects that were built into the engine for ''Half-Life 2'', which didn't feature regenerating health.[[labelnote:*]]For those wondering why Chell wasn't supposed to bleed ''at all'': the turrets "fire [[CartridgesInFlight the whole bullet]]" with a spring-loaded mechanism rather than actually using gunpowder.[[/labelnote]]
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes.'' In the North American version (the only version of the game to be uncensored), 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.

* ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance'' avoids this in every possibility, by decreasing the performance of wounded mercenaries/soldiers and causing them to slowly bleed away their hit points unless the wound is properly treated. A gravely wounded soldier/mercenary will bleed to death within less than two minutes, and such wounds can only be treated by [[CombatMedic a medical expert]]. In ''Jagged Alliance 2'', Enemy soldiers groan as they suffer from blood loss, giving away their positions, and every mercenary in the game has responses when they are moderately bleeding, and when they are about to die from exsanguination, complete with full voice recording. One custom player mercenary even lampshades this trope; "I have a rare blood type."
** Dead soldiers/mercenaries do die in a pool of blood, but the amount of blood coming out is [[http://www.downloadmunkey.net/images/ja2-06.jpg quite reasonable]].
* ''VideoGame/BloodRayne'' ''2'' revels in this trope, and HighPressureBlood.
* In the DOS game ''VideoGame/{{Liero}}'', your worms will begin bleeding at low health. If you manage to survive for a long time, you would eventually produce far more red pixels of "blood" than could possibly fit in the worm.
** The rate of bloodletting can be changed, and you can even use a cheat app to up the gore still further,

* ''[[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).
* Bad guys in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series seem to have far, far more blood than they really should, and delight in taking every opportunity to leave the scenery (and the player) drenched in it. The blood that gets on you tends to stick around for a while, but [[GameplayAndStorySegregation nobody ever seems to particularly care.]] This is especially odd when you consider that Dark Spawn blood is supposed to be poisonous.
** The amount of blood is lampshaded at one point in the city elf origin. You're said to have enough blood on you to "fill a tub". During Zevran's cameo in ''II'', you can point out that you're still covered in assassin blood while he and Isabela are flirting. "Invigorating, isn't it?"
** 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.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has standard First-Person-Shooter blood 'decals', that appear every so often. When combined with the recuperative effects of a friendly Medic though, you can lose '''a lot''' of blood without ill effect.
** Additionally, a few of the weapons added post-release cause a "bleeding" effect that lasts for eight seconds or until the player has been healed and, unusually for such a cartoony game, ''does'' cause their health meter to tick down constantly. It's basically just a cosmetic reskin of the [[StatusEffects "being on fire" status effect]].
** The Medic's Crusader's Crossbow allows you to shoot several arrows into your teammates to '''heal them''' causing bleeding wound decals and visible arrows to be left behind. HilarityEnsues.
** In the promotional video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prZ0JrbQrU Meet the Sandvich]], the Heavy beats up an enemy Scout, who cries out "My blood! He punched out '''''all''' of my blood!''" Despite having all of his blood punched out, he still manages to scream shortly afterwards.

* 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 bloodstains everywhere.

* There's a certain add-on in ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' that combines this with LudicrousGibs. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHfNcleaOo A sample.]]
** There's even so much blood that the Source engine is reaching the decal limit, thus overwriting previous blood splatters from, ahem, earlier blood debts.

* Subject 16/[[spoiler:Clay Kaczmarek]] of the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series managed to cover ''[[RoomFullOfCrazy an entire room]]'' with paintings [[CouldntFindAPen using his own blood]] as a medium. While the human body does have enough blood to make that kind of a mess, it's a bit of a stretch to believe that he managed to finish without passing out. And even if there was some time where he took breaks you have to wonder how Abstergo missed what was going on.
* ''VideoGame/TheyBleedPixels'' measures the player's score in "pints". Just smacking around one shambler without any combos will give you nine pints, which is a fair value given their body size, but some of the combos can cause ludicrous blood spray, both score-wise and graphics-wise.
* In ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', a puddle of blood slowly forms under dead [=NPCs=]. However, there are also a few animals in the game you can kill, and these get exactly the same size blood puddle. Since these animals include a tiny dog and rats, these get a hilariously huge puddle of blood.
* ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' has a lot of bloodshed throughout the game. There was a scene that was filled with blood.
* The ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series 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.
* Though quite gleeful in its use of BloodyHilarious LudicrousGibs, ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' is ''usually'' pretty good about the volume of blood in a human being or random wasteland critter; occasional glitches in the game show that even a completely gibbed individual still has roughly the same volume of component parts flying everywhere, with one odd exception: the ravens of ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. They are completely ordinary birds and [[OneHitPointWonder die in one hit from anything]]. When they die, however, the resultant death animation has them ''disintegrating'' into several bloody chunks that go flying while a [[HighPressureBlood five-second-long blood-spraying animation plays]], continuing long after the raven has ceased to exist. There is no way that a two-pound bird can contain that much blood.
* The support character from ''VideoGame/NoTimeToExplain'' spends a lot of time in the gullet of some monster or other, constantly spraying blood in all directions. One of his randomized lines when a new screen starts is "WHY DO I HAVE SO MUCH BLOOD?!"
* ''VideoGame/LetItDie'': Killing human enemies (unless you used heat-based executions) tends to cause an excess of blood to spontaneously eject from their pores. [[HeadCrushing Crush their skulls with a hammer?]] Blood explosion. Shoot them with a nail gun? Blood explosion. Poison them and watch them die? Blood explosion. Stomp their heads in? Struggles, followed by blood explosion. Chop their hands off? Blood splatters out of their arms, followed by yet another blood explosion.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': Blood plays a very crucial role in the story (as the name suggests), as it is supernatural (getting hurt causes your blood to heal your body at the cost of draining out, your health bar determines how much blood you can still lose before you die from blood loss), therefore most enemies will bleed and bleed and bleed with every strike. Eventually, The Hunter themselves can become absolutely COVERED in the blood of their foes!
** The story also takes place in a city that is being [[CosmicHorrorStory haunted by eldritch cosmic entities]], [[LovecraftLite who also bleed profusely when attacked]].
** 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.]]

* ''Webcomic/ParadigmShift'' has the heroine, Kate, get shot and bleed out far too much to have walked it off like she did. However, this is intentionally done to highlight her HealingFactor and the eventual reveal that [[spoiler:she's a werewolf]].

* [[http://off-white.smackjeeves.com/comics/63405/the-dangers-of-shaving/ Bleeding like an extra in Kill Bill.]]
* Happens to Mike from ''Webcomic/MikeBookseller'' from '''[[http://www.krrobar.com/mikebookseller/comics/563.html a nosebleed.]]'''
* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' provides the page image, where an unfeasibly large amount of blood fountains up from the Helmeted Author's chest wound. This example crosses over with BloodyHilarious.
* Used often for artistic effect 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.
* ''Webcomic/CherrysCure'': The main character Cherry draws enough blood to keep a hungry vampire fed on a consistent basis.
* ''Webcomic/AirRideAdventures'' has Orange Kirby with his infinite blood supply, making him immortal if you think you can kill him slowly with wounds on him.

* Used in [[http://www.geneticanomaly.com/RPG-Motivational/slides/bloodors.html this]] FauxtivationalPoster
* ''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.
-->"Just make it go away, I beg you," said David Mitchell, who added that he and another [[InJoke passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.]]

* One of the shorts that make up Creator/DonHertzfeldt's ''WesternAnimation/{{Rejected}}''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M17aG_Po2Y "For the love of God, my anus is bleeding!"]] The cloud-thing that says this line then goes on to bleed so much that it fills up the room (or the screen, anyways, given the lack of backgrounds) and the last shot is of the character struggling to stay afloat.
** There's also the scene where a guy's eye pops and the [[HighPressureBlood jet of blood from the socket]] sprays all over his friend.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'' had this on the second episode, "Bling Thing," only instead of "blood," it's "coolant" (since Blastus and Thrasher are robots), and donating too much causes such bizarre side effects as jitters, paranoia, fire blisters, and rectal whistling.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' co-creator Seth Green admitted in one DVDCommentary that they often use too much blood on the show when somebody gets shot or otherwise maimed- right before a scene where [[ItMakesSenseInContext Lionel Richie blew his head off and the entire room was covered in blood]].

* 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.
## If he only had three pints, realistically, he wouldn't have been able to actually move.
## 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!''
* 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.

* The TooHotForTV final episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' featured Hyatt's usual death and massive blood loss taken UpToEleven. She floods '''the entire planet''' with her blood.

* ''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.

* ''VideoGame/LetItDie'': Killing human enemies (unless you used heat-based executions) tends to cause an excess of blood to spontaneously eject from their pores. Crush their skulls with a hammer? Blood explosion. Shoot them with a nail gun? Blood explosion. Poison them and watch them die? Blood explosion. Stomp their heads in? Struggles, followed by blood explosion. Chop their hands off? Blood splatters out of their arms, followed by yet another blood explosion.

* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films, shockingly, avert this. Throughout the series, the blood splatters are pretty realistic in size. Also, victims who survive massive blood loss without dying (e.g. Lawrence in ''Film/SawI'' and Brit and Mallick in ''Film/SawV'') visibly show common effects as a consequence of blood loss.

* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films, shockingly, avert this. Throughout the series, the blood splatters are pretty realistic in size. Also, the victims that survive massive blood loss without dying [[spoiler:(Gordon in ''Film/SawI'' and Brit and Mallick in ''Film/SawV'')]] show the effects of the blood loss.

* 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|Deaths Of A Thousand Cuts]].

* 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 {{Deaths Of A Thousand Cuts}}.

* Invoked in the Innistrad storyline in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. On Innistrad, there exists a [[EvilWeapon cursed blade]] called the Bloodletter. This item is particularly coveted by the vampire tribes on the plane, because a 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 an empty bag of dried skin.

* 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.
** Done similarly 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 orafices.
* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'': Justified several times

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** Additionally, a few of the weapons added post-release cause a "bleeding" effect that lasts for eight seconds or until the player has been healed and, unusually for such a cartoony game, ''does'' cause their health meter to tick down constantly. It's basically just a cosmetic reskin of the [[StandardStatusEffects "being on fire" status effect]].

* ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' gives us the titular Deadmen, for whom this is a RequiredSecondaryPower. Though it's still a plot point that Deadmen have finite supplies of blood. And especially that protagonist Ganta has less blood than adult Deadmen since he's still a child, a flaw exacerbated by the fact that most Deadmen make weapons like blades or whips out of their blood, but Ganta fires his blood as ''bullets'' and thus can't just pull it back into his body afterward.

* In ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'', Jesus sheds an inhuman amount of blood when he's [[{{Gorn}} flogged]]. Then sheds even more when he's crucified.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': Blood plays a very crucial role in the story, as it is supernatural (getting hurt causes your blood to heal your body at the cost of draining out, your health bar determines how much blood you can still lose before you die from blood loss), therefore most enemies will bleed and bleed and bleed with every strike. Eventually, The Hunter themselves can become absolutely COVERED in the blood of their foes!

** The DLC expansion, ''The Old Hunters,'' also introduces Lady Maria, who is capable of WEAPONIZING her own blood and incorporating it into her sword slashes! With the implications that she is dead in the physical/waking world, her spirit having access to such large quantities of blood is understandable!

Blood loss doesn't affect fictional characters so much, especially those in VideoGames. No matter where they get shot or stabbed, it's "OnlyAFleshWound", even if it results in a geyser of HighPressureBlood that releases several times the blood volume of an adult human. Usually it's the flesh wounds that are what hinder the character; blood loss is rarely shown to be a problem to those MadeOfIron (maybe they use that iron to make [[FridgeBrilliance extra hemoglobin?]]). This can be taken to extremes when the player, protagonist, and enemies are shot so much they [[LudicrousGibs paint the walls red and create pools of blood on the floor]], all with no ill effects other than a scuffed wardrobe (with [[BringMyRedJacket little or no blood on it]], sorry, WhiteShirtOfDeath) and [[StandardBleedingSpots artistically dripping blood]]. It seems the only ounce of blood (29 mL) that matters [[CriticalExistenceFailure is the last one.]]

** The story also takes place in a city that is being [[CosmicHorrorStory haunted by eldritch cosmic entities]], [[Lovecraft-Lite who also bleed profusely when attacked]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': The blood is supernatural (getting hurt causes your blood to heal your body at the cost of draining out, your health bar determines how much blood you can still lose before you die from blood loss), so expect your enemies to bleed and bleed and bleed...
** The game also takes place in a dreamworld (of a sort) so physiology isn't exactly required to be realistic.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':

* 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.]]

** 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.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Diablo II]]:'' When hit with a weapon causing the "open wounds" status effect, the target bleeds uncontrollably, leaving quite a large trail wherever they go. Of course, nothing actually affects their ability to fight until the CriticalExistenceFailure happens.

** 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.
* ''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 ''Videogame/HalfLife2'', there are points where you might get pinned against a wall (or any static/physics object, for that matter) and get repeatedly shot by opponents. Turn around after you have finished them off, and you can find a ''magnificent'' smear of blood coating the wall behind you.
* In ''Videogame/{{Portal}},'' Chell can take tons of turret shots, and leaves ''large'' blood smears on walls when hit. [[WalkItOff 5 seconds, and you're okay again]], ready to lose another three pints. Valve eventually revealed (when people wondered why the blood was gone in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'') that this had been a mistake; they'd forgotten to turn off the blood decal effects that were built into the engine for ''Half-Life 2'', which didn't feature regenerating health.[[labelnote:*]]For those wondering why Chell wasn't supposed to bleed ''at all'': the turrets "fire [[CartridgesInFlight the whole bullet]]" with a spring-loaded mechanism rather than actually using gunpowder.[[/labelnote]]

* The ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'' series, but its reboot/remake takes the proverbial cake. If the name alone wasn't hint enough, you'll know what you're in for when just punching a single enemy spews enough blood make even ''Mortal Kombat'' seem tame.
* There's a certain add-on in VideoGame/GarrysMod that combines this with LudicrousGibs. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHfNcleaOo A sample.]]

* ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' combines this with HighPressureBlood to make some truly epic gorefests, although in fairness, most of the cases of people spurting that much blood are actually fatal, even if it's far more than could possibly be in their bodies.

* Happens to Mike from Webcomic/MikeBookseller from '''[[http://www.krrobar.com/mikebookseller/comics/563.html a nosebleed.]]'''
* Webcomic/BobAndGeorge provides the page image, where an unfeasibly large amount of blood fountains up from the Helmeted Author's chest wound. This example crosses over with BloodyHilarious.

* The season 11 episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' "The Mansion Family" had Marge win an award for donating the most blood. She soon gets dizzy and falls asleep (There are limits to how much blood you can donate. If Marge got tired easily, she could be anemic, and the blood bank probably shouldn't have let her donate in the first place. This is, of course, if the show were based on anything resembling reality).

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* Combined with a {{nosebleed}} in a ''Webcomic/Friday4Koma'' [[http://omaketheater.com/comic/8/ comic]].

* 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).

** Vampires tend to vomit up geysers of blood when killed, and then promptly melt into [[NoBodyLeftBehind puddles of bloody gore]]. May or may not be justified by their... ''unique'' [[ArtMajorBiology biology]], however.

* Lampshaded in ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}''. When Vin and Kelsier discover [[spoiler:Marsh]]'s flayed body in a room drenched in blood, amid the horror, Vin wonders if one body could have produced that much blood. [[spoiler:No, it couldn't. Around eleven people died in that room for a BloodMagic ritual, and Marsh was not one of them]].

* In ''Videogame/{{Portal}},'' Chell can take tons of turret shots, and leaves ''large'' blood smears on walls when hit. [[WalkItOff 5 seconds, and you're okay again]], ready to lose another three pints. Valve eventually revealed (when people wondered why the blood was gone in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'') that this had been a mistake; they'd forgotten to turn off the blood decal effects that were built into the engine for ''Half-Life 2'', which didn't feature regenerating health.