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* Inevitably happens in the ''{{VideoGame/Decision}}'' series, since zombies tend to cluster up and their dead (for good) bodies and also be destroyed by AoE weapons. It's most prominent near defensive towers, where the zombies all head for a single point and the tower can have up to three explosive weapons installed on it.

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* On a few occasions in Literature/TheGeneral series by David Drake, this occurs. A DiscussedTrope - Raj notes that it's the first (or one of the few) times he's literally seen streets run red, and this is because an army got massacred on each occasion. (One of them was about forty thousand or so troops disembarking off their ships to discover that Raj's men are waiting in ambush - with rifles and field guns. They take casualties of something like 50% before they manage to surrender.)

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

* Zoro from ''Manga/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 ''Manga/{{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.

* Commonplace in ''[[LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan]]'', often [[BloodyHilarious played for laughs]].
* In the ''Anime/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.]]

* This is the signature of the titular ''Manga/IchiTheKiller''. The comic and film open with a crew cleaning up his mess.
* Happens quite frequently in ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', thanks to the zombies.

* In ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'', Doctor Manhattan is shown once using his powers to turn a bunch of thugs into chunky, red paint. Restaurant patrons [[BloodSplatteredInnocents weren't happy]].
* Literal example in Creator/ClintEastwood's ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter''. When the protagonist takes over the duties of sheriff, he has the town painted red and renamed Hell ''before'' the shooting starts.

* The bridge of the ''Film/EventHorizon'' combines this with MeatMoss. The ship's previous crew apparently [[GoMadFromTheRevelation tore each other apart quite gruesomely after the ship came back from its FTL jump]] and it's implied that's what's left.

* On a few occasions in Literature/TheGeneral series by David Drake, this occurs. A DiscussedTrope - Raj notes that it's the first (or one of the few) times he's literally seen streets run red, and this is basically because an entire army got massacred on each occasion. (One of them was about forty thousand or so troops disembarking off their ships to discover that Raj's men are waiting in ambush - with rifles and field guns. They take casualties of something like 50% before they manage to surrender.)

* Used to great effect in ''VideoGame/{{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.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden II'' (2008) makes you able to cover the places you go through with blood from your enemies.
* ''VideoGame/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...
** Our very own SuccessionGame, ''{{LetsPlay/Waterburned}}'', has so much blood it ''lags the game''.
** In some evil areas of user-generated worlds, blood can rain from the sky.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'', the character [[AxCrazy Peacock]] mentions the trope by name in her battle introduction. However, [[BloodlessCarnage this doesn't actually happen in-game.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheSaboteur'', while you can't actually do this in the game, there is a perk named "Paint the Town Red".
* Popular GameMod ''[[https://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.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' allows you to turn the walls and floor red with the blood of any enemies you've attacked near them. Most of the time you'll mostly end up seeing blood trails from body parts rolling around, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHNNQOlKxew some mods]] bring this to the point of BloodyHilarious BlackComedy.
* ''VideoGame/PresentableLiberty'' never shows 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.]]
* ''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.

* From ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series' backstory comes Pelinal Whitestrake, the [[LongDeadBadass legendary 1st Era hero]] of mankind/[[FantasticRacism racist]] [[TheBerserker berserker]]. Believed to have been a [[EternalHero Shezarrine]], [[GodInHumanForm physical incarnations]] of the spirit of the [[GodIsDead "dead" creator god]] Lorkhan (known to the Imperials as "[[IHaveManyNames Shezarr]]"), Pelinal came to [[FounderOfTheKingdom St. Alessia]] to serve as her [[PhysicalGod divine champion]] in the war against the [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleids]]. Pelinal would fly into fits of UnstoppableRage (''mostly'' directed at the Ayleids) during which he [[BloodSplatteredWarrior would be stained with their blood]] and left so much ''bloody carnage'' in his wake that Kyne, one of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Divines]], would have to [[CueTheRain send in her rain]] to cleanse Ayleid forts and village before they could be used by Alessia's forces.

* Inevitably happens in the ''{{VideoGame/Decision}}'' series, since zombies tend to cluster up and their dead (for good) bodies and also be destroyed by AoE weapons. It's most prominent near defensive towers, where the zombies all head for a single point and the tower can have up to three explosive weapons installed on it.

* ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'': [[WickedCultured Mattie]], Carmilla's loving vampire sister, invites her out to "paint the town red" exactly as one would expect her to-with [[FullyEmbracedFiend enthusiasm]]. What's a girl to do with a reunion after decades but party?