History Main / PaintTheTownRed

->''"C'mon, team. Let's go paint the undefended town a nice shade of 'BLAM'."''\\
-- '''Elf''', ''Schlock Mercenary''

* In ''SkullGirls'', the character [[AxCrazy Peacock]] mentions the trope by name in her battle introduction. However, this doesn't actually happen in-game.

* In the ''[[BloodTheLastVampire Blood: The Last Vampire]]'' movie, Saya wasn't afraid of doing this, even [[spoiler: in front of a nurse who didn't have the foggiest idea of what was going on.]]
* Often used to imply or enhance the amount of incredible violence that the Angels and [=EVAs=] are capable of in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', most memorably when [[spoiler: Gendo orders the autopilot to take over and destroy the EVA being piloted by Touji after an Angel hijacks it]].

* Happens quite frequently in ''HighschoolOfTheDead'', thanks to the zombies.

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* In ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'', Doctor Manhattan is shown once using his powers to turn a bunch of thugs into chunky, red paint. Restaurant patrons weren't happy.

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* ChakonaSpace: In a recent story set in Neal Foster's more distant past, he doesn't paint the town so much as the ceilings of a starship's bridge and sickbay.

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* ''DwarfFortress.'' Especially in the latest version, where bathing is a bit broken so attempts by dwarves to wash all that blood and vomit from battles off results in a giant puddle of blood all over the floor...

* Zoro from ''OnePiece'' revels in this trope. His enemies don't spill much blood but he himself loses a hell of a lot in almost every major fight.

* Zoro from ''OnePiece'' revels in this trope.

* Anywhere Ladd and Claire go in ''{{Baccano}}!'', this is pretty much standard.

In the course of a CruelAndUnusualDeath or even when it's just that EverybodyWasKungFuFighting, things get messy. And the things that suffer most are the buildings (inside and out) in town that get covered in everyone's blood. It's usually also the sign of a [[AxCrazy particularly violent]] [[SerialKiller person]] walking around just [[CareerKiller doing what they do best]]. Someone may help the job along by leaving a BloodyHandprint. HighPressureBlood could also do the trick, as well as a victim dealing with [[BOOMHeadshot a gaping]] [[YourHeadASplode head wound]]. Particularly shown when a director takes [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank creative liberties on death scenes.]]

* ''NinjaGaiden'' II makes you able to cover the places you go through with blood from your enemies.

** In the second RebuildOfEvangelion movie, Sahaquiel's death is changed so that the Angel explodes into a gigantic wave of blood, which then washes over Tokyo-3. One must wonder how long it took to clean all that up.

* Commonplace in ''[[BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan]]'', often [[BloodyHilarious played for laughs]].

* Literal Example in ClintEastwood's ''HighPlainsDrifter'' when the protagonist takes over the duties of sheriff he has the town painted red and renamed to hell, BEFORE the shooting starts

* Literal Example in Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter: when the protagonist takes over the duties of sheriff he has the town painted red and renamed to hell, BEFORE the shooting starts

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* ''AlienShooter''. At any given time, you will be deluged with dozens upon dozens of monsters, each of which leaves a big puddle of blood, limbs, and guts when it dies.

* In the [[BloodTheLastVampire Blood: The Last Vampire]] movie, Saya wasn't afraid of doing this, even [[spoiler: in front of a nurse who didn't have the foggiest idea of what was going on.]]
* Often used to imply or enhance the amount of incredible violence that the Angels and [=EVAs=] are capable of in NeonGenesisEvangelion, most memorably when [[spoiler: Gendo orders the autopilot to take over and destroy the EVA being piloted by Touji after an Angel hijacks it]].
* This is the signature of the titular IchiTheKiller. The comic and film open with a crew cleaning up his mess.
* Happens quite frequently in HighschoolOfTheDead, thanks to the zombies.

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->''"C'mon, team. Let's go paint the undefended town a nice shade of 'BLAM'."''
-->-- '''Elf''', ''Schlock Mercenary''

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* ''DwarfFortress.'' Especially in the latest version, where bathing is a bit broken so attempts by dwarves to wash all that blood and vomit from battles off results in a giant puddle of blood all over the floor...