History Main / RedFilterOfDoom

** The second time is when the enourmus war machine is collapsing, {{Justified}} by the fire.

* More than once, when ''SailorMoon'''s Tuxedo Mask [[DistressedDamsel sustains a horrible injury]].

* And also in the first {{Diablo}}.

* ''FinalFantasyVI'', to cap off the incredible turn for the worse in Thamasa. (The even-more-doom-laden scene after the next dungeon skips out, though.)
** ''FinalFantasyIV'' also uses it during an attack on a small village--somewhat appropriately, since the place is set on fire.

* In combat racer ''Videogame/{{Blur}}'', the screen turns red when you're about to die. This of course does a smashing job at obscuring the colours of the power-ups, including the one that repairs you, forcing you to look for the tiny wrench icon on several different squares approaching at 300 kph.

* ''SilentHill3'' has a sequence in the amusment park where you have to run through a twisty hallway while a deadly [[HellIsThatNoise buzzing]] red light is [[AdvancingWallOfDoom advancing up the corridor behind you]].

* While making his review of ''ASimpleWish'', TheNostalgiaCritic and his brother decided to push the scariness of MaraWilson's cameo UpToEleven by adding this and GlowingEyesOfDoom. And she accepted it! (and when TheNostalgiaChick managed to get Wilson for a ''{{Matilda}}'' review, it got used again to imply she's an HumanoidAbomination...)

* In the first-season finale of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the nice pale blue light of the moon turns all red when the moon spirit is in mortal danger. Then [[ItGotWorse Things Get Worse]], [[spoiler:and while the red looked unhealthy, the black and white just looks dead]].
* Parodied by ''KimPossible'' in a scene where Dementor tries to make himself look ominous by illuminating his face from below with a red flashlight.

* Happens in some air-combat simulators when the player's pilot is "wounded." IE, the ''Il-2 Sturmovik'' series.

* The red filter is used in ''{{Sha Po Lang}}'' when Wu Jing's character Jack kills the witness and kicks off the plot.

* Throughout the ''{{Doom}}'' series, when you pick up the Berserker Pack, your screen will turn red. So what? So now you are raised back to standard health and your fists become more powerful than a shotgun for the rest of the current level.

** ''FinalFantasyIV'' also uses it during an attack on a small village--somewhat appropriately, since the place is set on fire.

* This happens when you die in ''TheLegendOfZelda''.

* ''DeathNote'' has a big 'un. (Note to AMV makers in the fandom: using the scene basically uncut does ''not'' replicate the power of the original.) Actually, there are rather low-key Red Filters Of Doom throughout in the form of views through the [[EvilEye Shinigami Eyes]], which carry the implication of mortality and vulnerability.

* Happens between a big action scene and the final battle in the ''[[{{Firefly}} Serenity]]'' movie. Definitely contributes to the inexplicable-is-worse axiom.

* Happens in TheKingOfFighters '97 when facing Blood Riot Iori or Blood Riot Leona
* Neku's flashback in ''TheWorldEndsWithYou''.

* ''The Pagemaster'' has a particularly gratuitous one during the Captain Ahab sequence.

* In combat racer ''Blur'', the screen turns red when you're about to die. This of course does a smashing job at obscuring the colours of the power-ups, including the one that repairs you, forcing you to look for the tiny wrench icon on several different squares approaching at 300 kph.

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* Twice in TheThiefAndTheCobbler.

[[caption-width-right:350:Can't blame [[AlmostDeadGuy him]] for leaving. That situation doesn't look healthy.]]

* In the first-season finale of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the nice pale blue light of the moon turns all red when the moon spirit is in mortal danger. Then ThingsGetWorse, [[spoiler:and while the red looked unhealthy, the black and white just looks dead]].

* In ''DragonQuest'', the text turneth red when thy HP is low.

* In many performances of ''{{Sweeney Todd}}'', Sweeney's murder of Pirelli is cast in red lighting accompanied by [[HellIsThatNoise the shrill factory whistle.]]

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* In the first-season finale of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the filter is indeed red because the moon has turned blood-red - the ''black-and-white'' saturation later in the episode is worse.

* ''The Pagemaster'' has a particularly gratuitous one during the Captain Ahab sequence.

* In many performances of ''{{Sweeney Todd}}'', Sweeney's murder of Pirelli is cast in red lighting accompanied by the shrill factory whistle.

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* In the first-season finale of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the filter is indeed red because the moon has turned blood-red - the ''black-and-white'' saturation later in the episode is worse.
* ''The Pagemaster'' has a particularly gratuitous one during the Captain Ahab sequence.
* Parodied by ''KimPossible'' in a scene where Dementor tries to make himself look ominous by illuminating his face from below with a red flashlight.

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* ''DeathNote'' has a big 'un. (Note to AMV makers in the fandom: using the scene basically uncut does ''not'' replicate the power of the original.) Actually, there are rather low-key Red Filters Of Doom throughout in the form of views through the [[EvilEye Shinigami Eyes]], which carry the implication of mortality and vulnerability.
* More than once, when ''SailorMoon'''s Tuxedo Mask [[DistressedDamsel sustains a horrible injury]].
** Now, now, it's not just him; other characters sometimes get these as well, for example, in ''Sailor Stars'' the same effect is used when [[spoiler: the four Guardian Senshi get their Star Seeds removed]].