History Main / PsychicNosebleed

* ''Film/PacificRim'': Using the mental link without a partner or [[spoiler: on a Kaiju brain]] causes aneurysms, shown as this.

* In ''TheBible'', Jesus is praying at the Mount of Olives just before His arrest, and His sweat appears like drops of blood (Luke 22:44). As mentioned in the Real Life section below, this is likely due to the stress brought on by His knowledge of what's about to go down.

* Not quite a nosebleed, but in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', [[MindOverMatter biotics]] with lower-grade implants can suffer things like mental disorders and frequent headaches. Doctor Chakwas says that Kaidan's early-model implant port means he regularly has to deal with blinding migraines.

* In ''GlobalFrequency'', the man causing the radiation outbursts is shown bleeding from his eye in his first scene.
** An example from the comic had people whose minds were being taken over by an alien meme-virus bleeding from the eyes, and possibly from the nose as well.

* Played for laughs in ''{{WesternAnimation/Family Guy}}'' during the "Bird Is the Word" episode. Peter has been playing the record non-stop since he got it, and rest of his family is becoming increasingly annoyed/unhinged with his obsession. At one point, Brian and Stewie are sitting on the sofa, looking exhausted, when Stewie mentions that he doesn't feel well and his nose starts to bleed.

* Played for laughs in ''WesternAnimation/Family Guy'' during the "Bird is the Word" episode. Peter has been playing the record non-stop since he got it, and everyone in the family is becoming increasingly annoyed/unhinged. At one point, Brian and Stewie are sitting on the sofa, looking exhausted, when Stewie mentions that he doesn't feel well and his nose starts to bleed.

* Max Lord, of the ''JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'', had a small nosebleed whenever he used his metahuman "push" ability. In ''Justice League: Generation Lost'', Max [[spoiler:pushed his powers far enough to erase memories of his existence from ''everyone'' on the planet except for BoosterGold, Fire, Ice and CaptainAtom]]. To do so, he had to constantly replenish his blood supply from the massive haemmorhage it gave him.

* ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}''.

* The villain Saturn Queen from the ''{{Supergirl}}'' comics.

* In an issue of ChuckDixon's ''Team 7'', a Russian telepath tries to use her PsychicRadar to track them through the Cambodian jungle. It doesn't work, due to a ''"greater power."'' She gets a PsychicNosebleed for her trouble.

An early example of the trope was the film adaptation of Creator/StephenKing's ''Firestarter'', where it was used in place of the original book's far-less-visible "tiny cerebral hemorrhages". However the [[http://politedissent.com/archives/1581 first]] actual depiction can be found in the film ''{{Scanners}}'' (pictured above), which came out a few years prior.

* ''{{Carnivale}}'': Ben Hawkins got one after he used some form of astral projection.

* Used in ''Film/{{Chronicle}}''. The main characters get psychic powers, but they'll get nosebleeds if they exert themselves. It's also used to determine when one of them is in trouble.

* Happens in ''TheShadowSpeaker'' when Ejii tries to search Dikeogu's mind.

* In TheBible, Jesus is praying at the mount of Olives just before his arrest, and His sweat appears like drops of blood (Luke 22:44). As mentioned in the Real Life section below, this is likely due to the stress brought on by His knowledge of what's about to go down.

* In TheBible, Jesus is praying at the mount of Olives just before his arrest, and his sweat appears like drops of blood (Luke 22:44). As mentioned in the Real Life section below, this is likely due to the stress brought on by his knowledge of what's about to go down.

* Not quite a nosebleed, but in ''MassEffect'', [[MindOverMatter biotics]] with lower-grade implants can suffer things like mental disorders and frequent headaches. Doctor Chakwas says that Kaidan's early-model implant port means he regularly has to deal with blinding migraines.
** Played straight in the ''Leviathan'' {{DLC}} for ''MassEffect3''. [[spoiler: During Shepard's [[JourneyToTheCentreOfTheMind conversation]] with Leviathan, we see their nose begin to bleed, due to the strain of resisting Leviathan's attempts to control them.]]

* The ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' series has quite a few examples cropping up from time to time. Any character that suffers psychic stress seems prone to the PsychicNosebleed. In recent times it happened in both the movie and the MarvelCivilWar. For example we have Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman. Also, Marvel Boy/Justice also got nosebleeds when overusing his psychic powers.

* Despite the frequent use of PsychicPowers in ''{{Fingerprints}}'', only one psychic nosebleed ever occurs: when a character attempts to use their power on a group of guards who are psychic-blocked. All of the psychics suffer other varying side-effects from overuse of their powers, though.

* In ''{{Dollhouse}}'' a device called the Disrupter gives this and a headache to anyone with the brain structure of a Doll. [[spoiler: which comes in handy for TheReveal of Senator Perrin's origin.]]
* Subverted in ''{{Cleopatra 2525}}'' when a telepath spends six months deliberately inducing a nosebleed as part of her escape plan.
* Anna of the rebooted ''[[{{V-2009}} V]]'' gets psychic eyebleeds when she uses her bliss on a human.

** In the 80s graphic novel ''God Loves, Man Kills'', a brainwashed Professor X psychically attacked Storm and Cyclops, almost killing them--they were left unconscious, with [[DeadlyNosebleed blood trickling out their noses]].

* Similarly, various psychic characters in ''{{The 4400}}'' have had nosebleeds when using their powers.