History Main / PaintTheTownRed

* [[VideoGame/Prototype]] and it's sequel have you playing as a superpowered invidual, who can rip through almost anything in mere seconds. That includes humans. And almost nothing can stop you from turning everyone you see into fine red paste.

* There exists a game literally [[NamesTheSame named]] ''VideoGame/PaintTheTownRed'', which revolves entirely around bar fights, and NPCs that get hit will have blood gushing from their wounds. And all this blood splatters on the floor and walls, so it's possible to have all the floors and walls turned red by the end of it all.

* ''[[VideoGame/Hatred Hatred]]'' is all about a very angry man going on a rampage with the goal of killing as many people as possible.

* In [[TheSaboteur The Saboteur]], while you can't actually do this in the game, there is a perk named "Paint the Town Red".

* Literature/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.

* Popular GameMod [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKZhu_dgxA Brutal Doom]] runs mostly on this trope and LudicrousGibs. Notable examples include painting several walls and ceilings with a [[GatlingGood minigun]] and a double-barreled shotgun spreading people across a field. As blood confetti.

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* At the end of the [[TheCrusades First Crusade]], the Crusaders, driven by hunger and thirst into a truly epic frenzy, slaughtered everything in sight when they entered UsefulNotes/{{Jerusalem}} in 1099, such that the streets were running with blood up to the horses' fetlocks, and bloodstains could be found everywhere in the city. To be somewhat fair to the Crusaders, several days of rape, massacre, and pillage was widely understood back then to be the just fate of a city that resisted a siege--and considering that the city had resisted for six whole weeks and the Muslim armies had conducted a scorched-earth campaign that even included plugging all-important wells, the reaction, while horrific, wasn't exactly unexpected.

--> Man the [[FunetikAksent tomater]]o slingshots! We're gonna paint their mountaintop red!

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* Brock Samson has performed this on occasion in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': AxCrazy [[HollywoodCyborg Cyborg]] Barry mutilates [[ButtMonkey Brett]] in the ISIS elevator, covering the floor in blood[[note]]That's how you get ants![[/note]]. He also [[CouldntFindAPen uses some of it to write]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice "Barry Was Here (So was other Barry)"]] on the wall.
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* Zoro from ''OnePiece'' revels in this trope. His enemies don't spill much blood but he himself loses a hell of a lot of the stuff in almost every major fight.
* In ''{{Hellsing}}'', this is Alucard's favorite activity. [[spoiler: Seras]] invokes this trope once, literally smearing her opponent all over a wall. Likewise, when Anderson goes berserk on a group of Nazi vampires, his AxeCrazy hacking leaves a giant swastika of blood on the walls... and then he splatters it with even more blood and ruins the effect.

** 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.
* 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.

* Used to great effect in ''{{Madworld}}''. All the game environments are entirely black and white when you first enter them. You proceed to kill your enemies and the game's intense {{Gorn}} will ensure that this trope occurs.

* ''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.

* ''{{Crimsonland}}''

* {{Archer}}: AxCrazy [[HollywoodCyborg Cyborg]] Barry mutilates [[ButtMonkey Brett]] in the ISIS elevator, covering the floor in blood[[note]]That's how you get ants![[/note]]. He also [[CouldntFindAPen uses some of it to write]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice "Barry Was Here (So was other Barry)"]] on the wall.

* There exists a game literally [[NamesTheSame named]] ''Paint the Town Red'', which revolves entirely around bar fights, and NPCs that get hit will have blood gushing from their wounds. And all this blood splatters on the floor and walls, so it's possible to have all the floors and walls turned red by the end of it all.

* ''NinjaGaiden II'' (2008) makes you able to cover the places you go through with blood from your enemies.

* In the ''BloodTheLastVampire'' 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.]]

* 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.

-> We're gonna paint the whole town red... LITERALLY!\\

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Brock Samson has performed this on occasion in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''.
* {{Archer}}: AxCrazy [[HollywoodCyborg Cyborg]] Barry mutilates [[ButtMonkey Brett]] in the ISIS elevator, covering the floor in blood[[note]]That's how you get ants![[/note]]. He also [[CouldntFindAPen uses some of it to write]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice "Barry Was Here (So was other Barry)"]] on the wall.
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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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* This was said to have happened during the FrenchRevolution, during the executions at the Place de la Concorde.

* Averted in many fights in ''TheDresdenFiles'' series thanks to the fact that creatures from the Nevernever have [[NoBodyLeftBehind auto-cleanup on destruction.]]

* The first [[TheGamers Gamers]] film had a rather spectacular example from the LudicrousGibs side of this trope, after Nimble decides to backstab Hunk. With a ballista.

* In ''{{Hellsing}}'', this is Alucard's favorite activity. [[spoiler: Seras]] invokes this trope once, literally smearing her opponent all over a wall. Likewise, when Anderson goes berserk on a group of Nazi vampires, his AxeCrazy hacking leaves a giantswastika of blood on the walls... and then he splatters it with even more blood and ruins the effect.

* In ''{{Hellsing}}'', this is Alucard's favorite activity. [[spoiler: Seras]] invokes this trope once, [[spoiler: literally smearing her opponent all over a wall.]] Likewise, when Anderson goes berserk on a group of Nazi vampires, his AxeCrazy hacking leaves a giantswastika of blood on the walls... and then he splatters it with even more blood and ruins the effect.

* In ''{{Hellsing}}'', this is Alucard's favorite activity. [[spoiler: Seras]] invokes this trope once, [[spoiler: literally smearing her opponent all over a wall.]] Likewise, when Anderson goes berserk on a group of Nazi vampires, his AxeCrazy hacking leaves a giantswastika of blood on the walls... and then he splatters it with even more blood and ruins the effect. Which then leads us to Rip Van Winkle, who ''also'' paints a Nazi swastika on a captured aircraft carrier of the British Navy. Sadly, she ran out of paint and had to improvise...

* In ''{{Hellsing}}'', this is Alucard's favorite activity. [[spoiler: Seras]] invokes this trope once, [[spoiler: literally smearing her opponent all over a wall.]]

* This was said to happen during the French Revolution, during the executions at the Place de la Concorde.