History Main / RiversOfBlood

[[TropeNamer Named]] after a famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech speech]] by Enoch Powell (itself an allusion to a line from ''Literature/{{Aeneid}}''), which is, however, not an example of this trope.

* ''VideoGame/IronLung'' takes place in a whole ''[[ExaggeratedTrope ocean]]'' of blood. Right on an otherwise uninhabited moon. No one knows ''why'' it's there, or what lives under its surface, which is why the titular submarine is sent in.

* In the manga version of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' and its Brotherhood anime, Gluttony's stomach contains a portal to an infinite dimension that has an ankle-deep coating of blood on its floor. The "dirt" underneath that, according to Ed, is closer to clotted blood than dirt.

* Super Mario Kollision 1 (created by [[VideoGame/HammerBrother Blackout77]]) has an early level with a swimmable river of blood.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Chaos god Khorne sits on a massive throne of brass on an ever-growing [[NothingButSkulls mountain of skulls]] located in an ocean of blood. The skulls come from worthy warriors (his faithful's enemies or their own, he does not like it when people use the skull of defenseless victims as trophies), while the blood never stops flowing from the constant warfare in the galaxy. Both policies are summed up in the oft-heard [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]] "Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!" as well as "Khorne cares not from where the blood flows, only that it flows".

* After the conquest of Port Murchison in ''Literature/TheGeneral'' series, Raj muses that it's the first time he's literally seen the streets running with blood.
* In the Literature/LeftBehind book ''The Remnant'', the Tribulation Force sees that the rivers have been turned to blood due to the Third Bowl Judgment. Later on with the Fourth Bowl Judgment, there are ''boiling'' rivers of blood.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has Karkat's Sgrub BabyPlanet, the Land of Pulse and Haze.

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'': Several levels feature basins and creeks of blood. In most cases, [[GrimyWater it's harmful to tread in it]], whether because it's poisonous, radioactive or some other reason. Fan-made mapsets tend to treat blood as Hell's version of water, and whether it's hazardous or not varies wildly from mapset to mapset.

* ''VideoGame/TouhouGouyokuIbunSuibotsuShitaChinshuuJigoku'': The final battle for some of the cast takes place within the Hell of Blood Pools, which is a massive blood lake located deep underground in which the the emotions of countless organisms are congealed and turned into cursed petroleum, making it the literal "blood of the Earth".

* In the final episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', IllGirl Hyatt starts bleeding for no apparent reason and produces enough blood to literally flood the entire world.

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'': Several levels feature basins and creeks of blood. In most cases, [[GrimyWater it's harmful to tread in it]], whether because it's poisonous, radioactive or some other reason. Fan-made mapsets tend to treat blood as Hell's version of water.

* In the manga version of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' and its Brotherhood anime, Gluttony's stomach contains a portal to an infinite dimension that has an ankle-deep coating of blood on its floor. [[UpToEleven The "dirt" underneath that, according to Ed, is closer to clotted blood than dirt.]]

* ''VideoGame/IronLung'' takes place in a whole ''[[ExaggeratedTrope ocean]]'' of blood.

* ''VideoGame/IronLung'' takes place in whole ''[[ExaggeratedTrope ocean]]'' of blood.

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* In the final episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', IllGirl Hyatt starts bleeding for no apparent reason and produces enough blood to literally flood the entire world.
* Many of the Angels in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' spill enough blood that the city streets end up flooded when they're killed, though this is understandable given [[{{Kaiju}} their sheer size]].
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Part of the finale involves Alucard drawing the blood spilled by every casualty of London's battle into himself - which is, by this point, enough to resemble an ocean of gore flooding the streets.

* ''ComicBook/Judas2017'': In reflection of his death at the Red Sea, Pharaoh Ramesses II is forced to ride a chariot of skeletal horses along the crashing waves of an ocean of blood for eternity.

* ''Film/TheShining'': Blood pours out of an elevator, flooding a hotel hallway.

* ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'' uses this trope as a background event when you fight the Masked Lumen for the second time. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the fight takes place inside a demon and the parties involved are hurling summons at each other that slowly shred the demon's insides.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' DLC ''The Old Hunters'', where there is a literal river of blood flowing through the fake-Yharnam portion of the Hunter's Nightmare. The banks of this river are completely filled with [[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead still somewhat living]]]] shriveled up corpses, and at the end lies the WakeUpCallBoss.
* In ''VideoGame/FarCry4'', the rivers of Shangri La are running red with blood thanks to the demonic invasion that has turned this erstwhile paradise into hell.
* Super Mario Kollision 1 (created by [[VideoGame/HammerBrother Blackout77]]) has an early level with a swimmable river of blood.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'': One official US guide claims that the orange water found in the fifth and sixth dungeons is actually blood.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' Stan's sister is menstruating and sends him out to buy her some tampons. When he comes back (without any) and opens the door, menstrual blood floods out.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'': Cleveland reminisces about a trip to the dentist, wherein an attempt to floss his teeth ends with a BigNo and this trope flooding the entire facility.

* In the first season of ''Anime/HellGirl'' [[TheFerryman Ai Enma]] would often warn prospective clients of [[DealWithTheDevil the Hell Correspondence]] about how they would be tormented in Hell through FreezeFrameBonus visions. While it wasn't the most common sight, she showed a couple of clients rivers of boiling blood.

* ''ComicBook/Judas2017'': In reflection of his death at the Red Sea, Pharaoh Rameses II is forced to ride a chariot of skeletal horses along the crashing waves of an ocean of blood for eternity.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': The scene from Exodus is played out when Moses uses his staff to turn the river Nile into blood, sending Rameses' soldiers into a panic.