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* There's a game literally [[NamesTheSame named]] ''VideoGame/PaintTheTownRed'', which revolves entirely around brawls in various settings like [[BarBrawl a biker bar]], a disco and [[PrisonRiot a prison]]. Enemies that get hit will have blood gushing from their wounds, and all that blood splatters on the floor and walls, so it's possible to have every floor and wall in the area turned red by the end of a fight.

* Variant in ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'': Splatting an opponent causes them to explode in your team's ink color, so you can literally paint the town red (or whatever color your team is).

* Blood stains still remain on walls and floors at Tuol Sleng prison, where many prisoners were held, tortured, interrogated, and executed by the UsefulNotes/KhmerRouge.

* ''VideoGame/{{Crimsonland}}''

* There's a game literally [[NamesTheSame named]] ''VideoGame/PaintTheTownRed'', which revolves entirely around brawls in various settings like [[BarBrawl a biker bar]], a disco and [[PrisonRiot a prison]]. Enemies that get hit will have blood gushing from their wounds, and all that blood splatters on the floor and walls, so it's possible to every the floor and wall in the area turned red by the end of a fight.

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 [[ProfessionalKiller 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.]]

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* There's a game literally [[NamesTheSame named]] ''VideoGame/PaintTheTownRed'', which revolves entirely around brawls in various settings like [[BarBrawl a biker bar]], a disco and [[PrisonRiot a prison]]. Enemies that get hit will have blood gushing from their wounds, and all that 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.

* 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.

* ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' by default is very bloody, but equipping the Jones mask causes blood puddles to triple in size and adds some guts in them too. This seems to be the default setting in the [[VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber sequel]].

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* 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/PresentableLiberty'' never shows the the state of the city on screen (as the player is imprisoned indoors for the duration of the game), but Charlotte and Salvadore send the player letters detailing [[spoiler:the spread of TheVirus and the bloody mess its victims leave behind. It's implied that the entire city is covered in blood and guts by the time Salvadore arrives.]]

** Our very own SuccessionGame, ''{{LetsPlay/Waterburned}}'', [[{{Gorn}} has so much blood it lags the game]].

* Late-game raids in ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'' will bring a large number of attackers to your colony, and killing all of them will paint the ground red. This is not very good, [[RealityEnsues because things like pools of blood or corpses decrease the beauty rating and give bad feelings to your colonists]].

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

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* ''Webcomic/AvasDemon'': After she hits her RageBreakingPoint and goes DrunkOnTheDarkSide, Ava [[http://www.avasdemon.com/pages.php#1353 quotes the trope]] word for word, then sets off on a OneManArmy rampage.
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* Variant in ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'': Splatting an opponent causes them to explode in your team's ink color.

If a hero comes running back home only to find his family and friends used this way, it may lead to a HeroicBSOD.

* At the end of the [[UsefulNotes/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.

* The bridge of the ''Film/EventHorizon'' combines this with MeatMoss.

* [[WebComic/AvasDemon Ava]] quotes the trope word for word [[http://www.avasdemon.com/pages.php#1353 here.]]

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

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