History Main / WhiteShirtOfDeath

* ''Series/AlteredCarbon''. The episode "In a Lonely Place" has a couple of Zero-G gladiators wearing crisp white uniforms to show off the blood they draw from each other. A woman in the audience is delighted when her own white dress is splattered with their blood.

* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''

* ''Series/Daredevil2015''

* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. TheReveal that vampire Janette has become human is when she's shot while wearing a white sweater.

* ''Series/PeakyBlinders''. Combined with GoryDiscretionShot when Thomas Shelby shoots a member of the Mafia who's on the other side of a white bedsheet that's been hung up on a balcony to dry.

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''

* ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. Agent Madani is wearing a white blouse when she's attacked by Billy Russo in the final episode. She wakes up covered in his blood from when she shot him and makes a point of showing the bloodstained blouse to Billy's girlfriend while [[GoodIsNotNice gloating that he's bleeding to death and won't survive for long]].
* ''Series/{{Reacher}}''. In episode 7 a team of assassins--wearing forensic suits to avoid leaving trace evidence--come after the title character. They leave this trope instead, seeing as the suits and gloves are a [[TooDumbToLive pristine white color that shows up in the dark]].

* ''Series/RaisedByWolves2020''. Mother in her Necromancer mode gets on board a Mithraic spacecraft and proceeds to [[LudicrousGibs splatter the crew]] across the pristine white bulkheads with her [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic scream]].

* ''Series/ShadowAndBone''. In the second episode, the survivor of an ambush gallops back to the army camp on a bloodstained WhiteStallion.
* Jonathan on ''Series/{{Smallville}}''.

* ''Series/{{Westworld}}''. The white clothing version happens in several episodes, and the first episode has Maeve shooting a man in the face with his blood splattering over the white reel of punched paper on the self-playing piano [[CrossesTheLineTwice which then starts playing]].
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has a couple:

** After her husband rejects her on [[NoManWantsAnAmazon discovering she's a better swordfighter]], Mizu changes into a white kimono and wears white makeup to show him she can be a proper Japanese wife. When bounty hunters turn up instead, she becomes a BloodSplatteredWarrior instead.

* It's not ''your'' death in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', but you get to keep the all-white suit covered in blood from the hit at Winston's wedding.

Also, in Korea, China, and any FantasyCounterpartCulture strongly influenced by the same, white is the traditional color for funeral dresses.

* On ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', JT is wearing a white shirt when he dies.

* Ladd Russo from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' finds himself subject to this trope. He doesn't ''die'' per se, but he does get his ear clipped off and his left arm completely skinned to the bone. Notably, Ladd invoked the trope, explaining that he and his friends all wear white because he thinks blood spatters look best on white clothing. Of course, at the time, he probably didn't think it would be ''his'' blood... And ''then'' there is the Rail Tracer, whose white conductor uniform gets completely coated in the blood of his victims.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', Harry Potter slices Draco Malfoy up like a Christmas ham in the bathroom and Draco nearly dies, but he gets better. His white shirt was covered in his blood.

-->''"But...it was so artistically done..."''

* Uhm, does "White Shirt" by The Charlatans (as in "She laughed and then she died") possibly refer to this trope?

Also, in Korea, China and any FantasyCounterpartCulture strongly influenced by the same, white is the traditional color for funeral dresses.

* For the final arc of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Emperor Lelouch wears a fancy white set of robe. In the very last episode, he is stabbed through the chest with a big honking sword, [[ThanatosGambit just as he planned]]. A lot of focus is put on the blood.

* Invoked and (somewhat) Inverted in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. During an internal monologue, Naki explains that the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin White Suits]] dress that way so that the blood spilled during a fight will show better. As the front-line fighters, the gang tends to suffer gruesome injuries and numerous deaths along the course of the series.

* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'': Besides greatly increasing Rarity's [[ThePowerOfBlood control]] over her [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation blood creations]], her Fullbring turns her whole form snow-white, making it easy to spot even the tiniest drop of blood. WordOfGod it symbolizes her willingness to kill her opponents, and [[IDidWhatIHadToDo accept the consequences.]]

** There's the episode where the ghosts make Scully and Mulder think they shot each other, only for the blood to disappear as soon as they leave the haunted mansion. Both wear white t-shirts.

* The Flag of Austria has been said to symbolize the duke of Babenberg's white surcoat getting soaked in blood in a battle. Only the portion of the surcoat which was tucked under his belt remained white.

** ''WhiteShirtOfDeath/{{Saw}}''

* WhiteShirtOfDeath/AnimeAndManga

* WhiteShirtOfDeath/LiveActionTV
* WhiteShirtOfDeath/VideoGames

Compare SnowMeansDeath, which uses the color white to similar effect. See also EtherealWhiteDress, for when the violent event is only implied or is part of a backstory, VillainInAWhiteSuit, BloodSplatteredWeddingDress, and BedsheetGhost. Contrast BringMyRedJacket.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[SkewedPriorities That'll be]] [[{{Pun}} murder]] [[SkewedPriorities to wash out.]]]]

Ever notice [[RuleOfDrama how much more dramatic]] blood looks on a white background? It follows that wearing a white shirt can be more hazardous than wearing a RedShirt. The death of a white shirt wearer will be [[{{Gorn}} much]] [[BloodyHilarious bloodier]] than that of your traditional red shirt.

* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'': Besides greatly increasing Rarity's [[ThePowerOfBlood control over her blood]] [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation creations,]] her Fullbring turns her whole form snow-white, making it easy to spot even the tiniest drop of blood. WordOfGod it symbolizes her willingness to kill her opponents, and [[IDidWhatIHadToDo accept the consequences.]]

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-->-- '''Ladd Russo''' (right), ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}''

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* ''WhiteShirtOfDeath/{{Saw}}''

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* Ladd Russo from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' finds himself subject to this trope. He doesn't ''die'' per se, but he does get his ear clipped off and his left arm completely skinned to the bone. Notably, Ladd invoked the trope, explaining that he and his friends all wear white because he thinks blood spatters look best on white clothing. Of course, at the time, he probably didn't think it would be ''his'' blood... And ''then'' there is the Rail Tracer, whose white conductor uniform gets completely coated in the blood of his victims.
* In ''Manga/CeresCelestialLegend'', Chidori is wearing a white dress when she is fatally shot in the chest to protect Yuuhi. Later, Aya is wearing white clothes when she is stabbed by Aki, who is possessed by Shisou. She survives, along with Tooya's baby.
* For the final arc of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Emperor Lelouch wears a fancy white set of robe. In the very last episode, he is stabbed through the chest with a big honking sword, [[ThanatosGambit just as he planned]]. A lot of focus is put on the blood.
* Inverted in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack''. November 11 tends to wear a white suit, which usually remains spotless. The one time he wears a ''black'' suit, he gets killed.
* Rei "Hana no Saint Juste" Asaka from the ''Manga/DearBrother'' anime is all dressed up in white when she falls in the path of a train and to her death.
* Hakuron from ''Manga/HaouAiren'' is shot to death while wearing a white suit.
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' often sustains his worst injuries when he's stripped down to his white undershirt, losing the protection of his armored kimono. The most notable example was during his fight with Goshinki, who predicted his every move, avoided his attacks, clawed his back open, and left him dying in a pool of his own blood. [[SuperpoweredEvilSide He got better.]]
* In the anime of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Yoshikage Kira's business suit is white during the final battle with the heroes.
* Nanoha's near-death incident that occurred sometime between the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' and ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' used both this trope and SnowMeansDeath to great effect, as her blood is shown splattered all over her white Barrier Jacket and the snow-covered field.
* Subverted in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'': Lacus's BodyDouble Meer Campbell is dressed in a ''gray'' outfit when she's killed in a HeroicSacrifice, but her lifeless body gets a white gown put on her right before [[DueToTheDead she's given]] a BurialInSpace by Lacus, Athrun, Kira, and their friends.
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'':
** When Kenshin and Tomoe met in the manga and OAV, she was wearing a white kimono. He had just killed a man in front of her. She said "you make rain blood".
** Tomoe was wearing the white kimono in her own death scene.
* Invoked and (somewhat) Inverted in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. During an internal monologue, Naki explains that the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin White Suits]] dress that way so that the blood spilled during a fight will show better. As the front-line fighters, the gang tends to suffer gruesome injuries and numerous deaths along the course of the series.
* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'':
** Battler Ushiromiya combines white shirt with BringMyRedJacket; his habitual outfit is a white suit with a red shirt. Although he doesn't tend to die in as many arcs as some of the other characters, [[FateWorseThanDeath his luck still sucks a lot]].
** Subverted, at the end of the series he is shown to be the only one besides Eva that survived Rokkenjima.
* Solf J. Kimblee in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' starts wearing an entirely white suit after being released from prison. His death? Having his jugular vein and possibly the carotid artery bitten off by a chimera, which Pride lampshades before eating him and gaining his alchemic power.
* The Kurama vs. Karasu fight in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' is definitely an example of this. Karasu's bombs eventually make Kurama bleed so much the entire front of his outfit and some of the back is dyed red.
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* ''Film/TwentyTwoJuly''. When Anders Breivik enters the campground and starts firing on the fleeing children, the ones we see getting hit are invariably wearing white sweatshirts.
* ''Film/{{Alien}}''. The crew is wearing white clothes in preparation for going back into [[HumanPopsicle hypersleep]], when Kane starts thrashing about and blood appears on his white undershirt before the DynamicEntry of the ChestBurster [[BloodSplatteredInnocents showers everyone else]] with his insides.
* ''Film/Alien40thAnniversaryShorts''. In ''Contamination'', the pristine white walls of the EscapePod's airlock contrast with the UsedFuture look, so naturally they get blood smeared on them as [[BloodSplatteredInnocents Ward]] staggers through.
* The ending of ''Film/AshesAndDiamonds'' uses a white bedsheet to similar effect.
* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''. On returning to the United States after the [[BatmanColdOpen Superman Cold Open]], Lois Lane pauses for a moment when unpacking her clothes and seeing blood on the white shirt she was wearing.
* ''Film/BloodRedSky''. At the start of the hijacking [[PsychoForHire Eightball]] stabs an air marshal to death, then [[MilkingTheGiantCow proudly displays]] his blood-splattered white steward's shirt to the passengers to intimidate them. When he gets too close to [[VampireRefugee Nadja]], she has to restrain herself from vamping out in response to the smell of blood. When Eightball shoots her, she's wearing a white jumper to make the bloodstains clear to the audience, before she comes back to life in TheReveal that she's a vampire.
* In ''Film/Bound1996'', a character is shot to death wearing a white shirt ''and'' standing in a room-wide puddle of pure white paint.
* In ''Film/{{Chappie}}'', Yolandi wears a white shirt for the final battle. Guess who of the RagtagBunchOfMisfits dies.
* ''Film/TheCrazies1973''. Happens with the white {{Hazmat Suit}}s used by the army.
* The duel at the end of ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons''.
* In ''Film/DeathOnTheNile2022'', Hercule Poirot examines the blood splatter pattern on a white bulkhead and realises there was a witness to the crime.
* In the Hindi film ''Film/DilSe'' the song and dance "Satrangi Re" foreshadows the fate of Amar by showing him in a black outfit for most of the song then in all white at the end. Usually the dancers in Hindi song and dance numbers have multiple costume changes in one song. Limiting Amar to the 2 outfits accentuated the symbolism. (his dance partner wore at least 7 different outfits in the same song.)
* The climax of ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' plays with this trope with Christian Bale's character. Although he doesn't die, he does get some blood on himself during the sword fight at the end.
* In the original ''Film/GetCarter'', Jack Carter stabs Albert Swift, who is wearing a white shirt. The scene was considered pretty shocking for its time.
* The BigBad in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' wears a full white suit before his climactic duel with Maximus. Makes his blood readily apparent when Maximus shows that he is completely outclassed.
* ''Film/{{Heat}}''. All of the participants in the armored car robbery at the beginning of the movie except for Chris Shiherlis wear white hockey masks. Chris, who wears a black mask, is the only one of them to still be alive at the end of the movie, while everyone who wore a white mask is dead.
* Downplayed in ''Film/HussarBallad''. Vincento, the only non-RedShirt, non-{{Mook}} casualty, is in a white shirt during his final battle and death while the rest of the soldiers are in uniform (his uniform having been [[spoiler:taken by Shura for her disguise]]). However, due to the film running on BloodlessCarnage, no blood is shown.
* [[spoiler:The Consultant]] in ''Film/TheInternational''. Also, the protagonist's white shirt gets a lot of blood splattered on it from those who get shot around him in that scene.
* ''Film/JohnWick'' wears a white shirt [[BadassInANiceSuit under his suit]], which is PlayedForLaughs when he limps back to the [[TruceZone Continental Hotel]] after a gunfight.
-->'''Wick:''' How good's your laundry?
-->'''[[SeenItAll Concierge]]:''' I'm sorry to say that no-one is that good.
-->'''Wick:''' (sighing) No, I thought not.
* In ''Film/KillBill'', the Bride faces and messily defeats O-Ren Ishii while the latter is clothed in a white kimono and [[SnowMeansDeath standing in snow]].
* HeroicBloodshed movies do this a lot, and the deaths of people who wear white get quite bloody. Usually, it's the villain wearing white, but at least one heroic example happens with Ah Jong/Jeffrey Chow and Inspector Li Ying from ''Film/TheKiller'' during the church shootout. Though then again, Ah Jong, the tragic hero in question, is one of the three main characters to be killed off. And Inspector Li is the one who survives at the end to kill Wong Hoi, which in turn results in his arrest by his fellow officers at the end.
* In ''Film/LayerCake'', both the Duke and the protagonist wear neat white outfits when they receive a gunshot to their chest.
* In ''Film/LethalWeapon4'', Jet Li's character enters the final showdown dressed entirely in a white version of the black suit he's been wearing for the rest of the movie. [[ForegoneConclusion They couldn't have made it more clear what was going to happen to him.]]
* ''Film/NinjaAssassin''. The owner of a laundromat goes to investigate the sounds of a ruckus and finds a white washing machine vibrating erratically before blood starts pouring out of it. Then we MatchCut to someone [[BlackComedy pouring too much ketchup on takeout meal in a white paper cup]].
* In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', James Bond removes his black sweater and wraps it around his daughter Mathilde as he sends her and her mother Madeleine to safety. This leaves him in a white sweater when he's shot multiple times by the villain Safin and later dies in a missile strike.
* Barbossa in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''.
* Creator/BruceWillis wears a white T in ''Film/PulpFiction'' that gets a broad swath of blood down the front, particularly from the gash across his nose.
* ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'': In Ruth's dream, Sadie is wearing a long white nightgown when the Ripper [[SlashedThroat slits her throat from behind]] ([[ShownTheirWork the way Jack is supposed to have killed most of his victims in real life]]). The blood gushes out of her throat and down her front; staining the front of the nightgown a bright red. Possibly counts as FridgeBrilliance, as Sadie is Asian, thus tying in with the origins of the trope.
* Several characters from ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', with the special honor going to [[spoiler:Mr. Orange]], whose shirt, it would seem, does not have a single white spot on it by the end of the movie.
* In ''Film/ScareCampaign'', Abby is dressed in a white shift when she playing a ghost in the AbandonedHospital. When she is stabbed and thrown out of the window, she is left with multiple red stains blooming on the front of the shift and lying in a spreading pool of her own blood.
* Shaun in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' never changes his white office shirt throughout the ZombieApocalypse. "You've got red on you" becomes a RunningGag because of it.
* The titular character of ''Film/TheStoningOfSorayaM'' wears a bright white dress for her stoning.
* Aptly enough, "Man in White Shirt" from ''Film/{{Tampopo}}''.
* Two of the protagonists in ''Film/{{Triangle}}'' wear light shirts which later get drenched in blood effectively.
* The final battle in ''Film/Ultraviolet2006''.
* Creator/JohnWoo was inspired by Chang Cheh and his masterpiece, ''Film/Vengeance1970'', which had its avenging antihero fighting the final battle against the evil triads responsible for his brother's murder in white, in contrast with the black suit with white accents that he wears for most of the movie. He doesn't survive, but he does manage to take a whole lot of bad guys with him, including the BigBad behind the whole thing.
* ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'': Mercutio is wearing an unbuttoned white shirt when fatally stabbed by Tybalt. Juliet is also wearing a white dress when she kills herself at the end, having been dressed in the gown by her relatives who believed she was [[FakingTheDead already dead]].
* Played for full horrific effect in ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' when Lawrence wakes up after his first transformation. The white shirt he was wearing is ''quite'' messy.
* ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. The prison guard who gets his iron-contaminated blood ripped from his body by Magneto during his escape is wearing a white uniform shirt.
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* ''Series/TwentyFour'':
** Samantha Roth during Day 7. Also, later on in the same season, Erica.
** Although he doesn't die [[ContractualImmortality for obvious reasons]], after getting stabbed a couple times in the first episode of the sixth season Jack Bauer's white shirt is left completely blood-stained until he changes it in the following episode, not helped by it getting covered in even more blood when he bites out his would-be killer's throat.
** In the first season, Jack gets Alexis Drazen's blood all over his white shirt as he desperately tries to keep him from bleeding out after he's unexpectedly stabbed in the gut.
* The White ''Sheet'' of Death occurs in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS04E08HabeasCorpses Habeas Corpses]]" when a monster rampages through a skyscraper full of lawyers, killing everyone in sight. Whenever we see a corpse afterwards, they all seem to be clutching bloody paperwork.
* In ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' Mikoto Nakadai AKA Abare Killer bleeds out in a white lab coat before riding on Top Galer who flies high enough to make sure the explosion from his Dino Minder won't kill anybody else.
* As shown in a flashback during the finale of ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'', Hal was wearing a white shirt when turned into a vampire.
* In the GrandFinale of ''Series/BlakesSeven'', we witness a more scruffy and cynical Blake who has apparently TookALevelInJerkass. Yet he's wearing a white shirt under his vest, [[LightIsGood showing he's still on the side of the good guys]]. Unfortunately, this also foreshadows his BloodierAndGorier death when [[MultipleGunshotDeath Avon shoots Blake]] in the [[TragicMistake mistaken belief]] that he's turned traitor. The actor incidentally wanted to make it perfectly clear that he had been KilledOffForReal, hence this trope.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Combo is wearing a white shirt and jacket when he is shot to death in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E11Mandala Mandala]]".
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** A variation in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]". When Tara gets shot her blood splatters onto the white shirt worn by Willow. For added effect, Tara doesn't even ''realize'' she was shot; her last words are a confused "Your shirt?" before she falls.
** And in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E1BargainingPart1 Bargaining Part 1]]", Willow wears a white dress [[spoiler:when she kills a fawn for its BloodMagic.]]
** When Faith decides to turn Angel evil via a spell, she starts by throwing a [[BloodMagic jar of blood]] on his white singlet.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E15ThisYearsGirl This Year's Girl]]", Faith has a dream in which she helps Buffy make the bed, then notices blood dripping onto the white sheet. She looks down and realises [[MookHorrorShow Buffy has just shoved a knife into her gut]].
* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''
** In "Cowboy Gospel", a Syndicate hit squad turn up in white vans, leading to the obligatory White Van Of Death shot.
** Vicious is wearing a white suit when [[OneManArmy he slaughters the Elders and their bodyguards]].
* ''Series/Daredevil2015''
** Frank Castle is put in white InstitutionalApparel, as opposed to the orange jumpsuits worn by most other prisoners (Wilson Fisk is also wearing one, so it may mark particularly "high risk" prisoners). This comes in handy for this trope during a particularly bloody HallwayFight when Castle has to take on an entire cellblock.
** Fisk begins wearing white three-piece suits upon his release from prison, symbolizing his transformation into ComicBook/TheKingpin. In the climactic battle of the series finale, his white suit, the [[WeddingSmashers white wedding dress]] of the [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes woman he just married]], and the painting "Rabbit in a Snowstorm" which consists entirely of graduations of white, all get splattered with blood.
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': Alexandra, leading Finger of the Hand, always wears white outfits. White is a color associated with death in some Asian cultures (K'un-L'un is in the Himalayas), and this is officially emphasized as white is the color she's wearing when Elektra kills her.
* On ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', JT is wearing a white shirt when he dies.
* The promotional images and DVD boxsets of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' often depict Dexter in white, blood-splattered clothes standing in front of a white background.
* In the unusually violent Tom Baker-era ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]", the Doctor changes, for unclear in-universe reasons, from his usual layered multicoloured outfit into a much more minimalistic outfit consisting of slim trousers and a billowing, flimsy white poet shirt. The shirt spends the entire third part of the episode serving as a canvas for as much blood, filth, and ClothingDamage [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence as they could get away with on a children's show]] (as it turns out, they couldn't get away with it - the producer lost his job over the level of violence in this story).
* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. TheReveal that vampire Janette has become human is when she's shot while wearing a white sweater.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': When she finally appears [[spoiler: in flashbacks, Lyanna Stark]] wears a white negligee drenched in blood [[spoiler: because she was dying of [[DeathByChildbirth postpartum hemorrhage]].]]
* ''Series/GoodbyeMyPrincess'':
** Cheng Yin wears a mostly white outfit when he and Cheng Ji are attacked. It very quickly gets splashed with blood. Subverted since he doesn't die, but almost everyone with him does.
** Xiao Feng commits suicide while wearing a white dress.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'':
** In "The Even Chance", when Clayton and Simpson duel to the death with pistols, they both take off their uniforms and both wear white shirts. The place is also covered in snow. Both are wounded, one of them fatally.
** In "Retribution", Archie Kennedy hides his wound under his uniform. Horatio rips it open and sees the blood all over his belly.
* The [[BloodyHilarious lawnmower incident]] on ''Series/MadMen''.
* ''Series/PeakyBlinders''. Combined with GoryDiscretionShot when Thomas Shelby shoots a member of the Mafia who's on the other side of a white bedsheet that's been hung up on a balcony to dry.
* Miss Parker in ''Series/ThePretender'' is wearing a bright white ensemble when she jumps in front of a bullet aimed at her father. She gets better.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''
** In 'Weekend in the Country' Doyle's white shirt is splattered with blood while he does basic first aid on the leader of the gang that is holding them hostage.
** In 'Discovered in a Graveyard' Doyle is wearing a white shirt and jacket when he is shot. Most of his flat (including the carpet he is found on) is in shades of white or grey.
** Invoked in "Look After Annie" when Annie Irvine insists she only have red and white roses displayed, to symbolise the blood she shed during a failed assassination attempt, where she was wearing a white dress (though the actual scene has BloodlessCarnage).
* ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. Agent Madani is wearing a white blouse when she's attacked by Billy Russo in the final episode. She wakes up covered in his blood from when she shot him and makes a point of showing the bloodstained blouse to Billy's girlfriend while [[GoodIsNotNice gloating that he's bleeding to death and won't survive for long]].
* ''Series/{{Reacher}}''. In episode 7 a team of assassins--wearing forensic suits to avoid leaving trace evidence--come after the title character. They leave this trope instead, seeing as the suits and gloves are a [[TooDumbToLive pristine white color that shows up in the dark]].
* In the ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' finale, Victoria Grayson is seen wearing a white dress when Emily confronts her for the final time, fully intent on [[PayEvilUntoEvil finally killing her]] for all the trouble she has caused. That is, until [[PapaWolf the latter's dad steps in to do the deed to take the heat off her]].
* ''Series/RaisedByWolves2020''. Mother in her Necromancer mode gets on board a Mithraic spacecraft and proceeds to [[LudicrousGibs splatter the crew]] across the pristine white bulkheads with her [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic scream]].
* ''Series/{{Rome}}'': The assassination of Julius Caesar on the Senate floor, thanks to the white togas everyone is wearing. Marc Antony later uses this to advantage (offscreen) by displaying Caesar's bloodstained cloak to incite public furor against his killers.
* ''Series/ShadowAndBone''. In the second episode, the survivor of an ambush gallops back to the army camp on a bloodstained WhiteStallion.
* Jonathan on ''Series/{{Smallville}}''.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E20WhatIsAndWhatShouldNeverBe "What Is And What Should Never Be" (S02, Ep20)]], the [[EtherealWhiteDress woman in white's]] blouse has more bloodstains each time she appears until her garments are soaked in blood.
** In "Hollywood Babylon" a VictimOfTheWeek is dragged into a DeadlyRotaryFan, spraying blood over a white reflector board used for the camera lights.
** Played for BlackComedy in "Weekend at Bobby's". A neighbour of Bobby's who's expressed some romantic interest changes her mind when he shoves a vampire into her wood chipper, splattering her white nightie with the subsequent mess.
* ''Series/Titans2018''
** The girl of the [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Nuclear Family]] pouts that she's got a few spots of blood on her white blouse after leaving a building where she's just helped torture (and likely kill) someone for information.
** When Dr. Light escapes from prison, there's a prominent shot of a glowing white ceiling light that's been splattered with blood in the otherwise dark prison corridor.
* Subverted on the first episode of ''Series/TrueBlood''. As revealed in the commentary, during the filming of the teaser, they deliberately dressed the female redneck in a bright, white shirt to make GenreSavvy viewers look forward to her being splattered with blood when vampires are revealed. She isn't.
* ''Series/{{Westworld}}''. The white clothing version happens in several episodes, and the first episode has Maeve shooting a man in the face with his blood splattering over the white reel of punched paper on the self-playing piano [[CrossesTheLineTwice which then starts playing]].
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has a couple:
** There's the episode where the ghosts make Scully and Mulder think they shot each other, only for the blood to disappear as soon as they leave the haunted mansion. Both wear white t-shirts.
** Mr. X, although, in an unusual variation, it's a white shirt with pinstripes.
** Scully is shot in "Tithonus" and bleeds on her white top. Ironically it's implied she avoids Death, possibly forever.
** Scully wears a snow-white blouse when a psycho writer and serial killer who's in love with her tries to rip her heart out with his bare hands.
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* Double subverted in ''Theatre/TheLieutenantOfInishmore'', in which [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mad Padraic]] wears a wife-beater when he gets down to [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]], and it gets covered with other people's blood. Until he gets killed, messily.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' Lunafreya wears a white dress throughout the story. She's stabbed by Ardyn at the end of Chapter 9.
* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': Partially subverted. Cabanela does die (though you get to fix it), but [[BloodlessCarnage his coat remains unstained]]. He just falls over.
* Every standard headcrab zombie in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' wears a very blood-covered white shirt. This was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the parody comic ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'': Frohman becomes a zombie and laments that "He had to be wearing white" at the time (referencing both the zombies' bloody white shirts and the fact that he had started to adjust to life in Ravenholm).
* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' three of the cast members are white doves. During BBL, one is stabbed. Character's images don't really change in this dating game unless the characters are clothed, but an exception is made here.
* ''VideoGame/Hitman2SilentAssassin'' makes good use of this, cutting to a white screen whenever you die that really highlights your character's blood pooling around his body. In addition, there's the funeral shootout at the very end of ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney''.
* Kaede Smith in ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'' always wears a white dress with a big red blood splat on it. Especially fitting, given that the bloodstains match the bullet wounds that ended her previous life.\\
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Whenever you die in ''[=Killer7=]'', you get a shot of your character's severed head on a completely white background exploding into a smear of blood. There's a lot of blood in ''[=Killer7=]''. The blood smear when you die in ''[=Killer7=]'' is shaped like a screaming skull.
* All six of the Handmaidens in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' wear white jumpsuits or grey robes. Every appearance of the five who stick with their white jumpsuits fighting ends with them getting their asses handed to them.
%%* [[spoiler:Vladimir Lem]] in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne''.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear''
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' you fight against Sniper Wolf two times. The second time is in the middle of a snowstorm, so she's obviously wearing a white camouflage anorak.
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', the most dramatic battle takes place in a field of white flowers against a blonde opponent in a white battle suit.
* Played straight and averted in ''Videogame/{{Okami}}'', where heroine Amaterasu and her past self, Shiranui, are white wolves. At one point, one of them is fatally injured and shown bleeding profusely, while the other never shows a scratch no matter how much damage she takes.
* Shiromujō and Shirodōji in ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'', who are death gods and based on the White Impermanence in the Myths folder above.
* This happens to The Girl in White in ''VideoGame/ThePath''; one of the only splotches of blood in an otherwise bloodless game: After all six sisters have been taken by their respective wolves, The Girl in White goes to see Grandma... and returns with her dress stained [[GainaxEnding with what probably isn't]] ''[[GainaxEnding her]]'' [[GainaxEnding blood]].
* It's not ''your'' death in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', but you get to keep the all-white suit covered in blood from the hit at Winston's wedding.
* The final battle of ''VideoGame/{{Stranglehold}}'' has Mr. James Wong, like most of Creator/JohnWoo's villains, wearing white. Though he gets shot up plenty, he is finally brought down by Teko, who sends him off a balcony as he's preparing to finish off her father.

* In ''Film/ScareCampaign'', Abby is dressed in a white shift when she playing a ghost in the Abandonedhospital. When she is stabbed and thrown out of the window, she is left with multiple red stains blooming on the front of the shift and lying in a spreading pool of her own blood.

* Double subverted in ''Theatre/TheLieutenantOfInishmore'', in which [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mad Padraic]] wears a wife-beater when he gets down to [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]], and it gets covered with other people's blood. Until he gets killed, messily.

* ''VideoGame/Hitman2SilentAssassin'' makes good use of this, cutting to a white screen whenever you die that really highlights your character's blood pooling around his body. In addition, there's the funeral shootout at the very end of ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney''.

%%* [[spoiler:Vladimir Lem]] in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne''.

* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': Partially subverted. Cabanela does die (though you get to fix it), but [[BloodlessCarnage his coat remains unstained]]. He just falls over.

* All six of the Handmaidens in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' wear white jumpsuits or grey robes. Every appearance of the five who stick with their white jumpsuits fighting ends with them getting their asses handed to them.

* It's not ''your'' death in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', but you get to keep the all-white suit covered in blood from the hit at Winston's wedding.
* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' three of the cast members are white doves. During BBL, one is stabbed. Character's images don't really change in this dating game unless the characters are clothed, but an exception is made here.
* This happens to The Girl in White in ''VideoGame/ThePath''; one of the only splotches of blood in an otherwise bloodless game: After all six sisters have been taken by their respective wolves, The Girl in White goes to see Grandma... and returns with her dress stained [[GainaxEnding with what probably isn't]] ''[[GainaxEnding her]]'' [[GainaxEnding blood]].
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' Lunafreya wears a white dress throughout the story. She's stabbed by Ardyn at the end of Chapter 9.

* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''
** In "Cowboy Gospel", a Syndicate hit squad turn up in white vans, leading to the obligatory White Van Of Death shot.
** Vicious is wearing a white suit when [[OneManArmy he slaughters the Elders and their bodyguards]].
* ''Series/GoodbyeMyPrincess'':
** Cheng Yin wears a mostly white outfit when he and Cheng Ji are attacked. It very quickly gets splashed with blood. Subverted since he doesn't die, but almost everyone with him does.
** Xiao Feng commits suicide while wearing a white dress.

* The White ''Sheet'' of Death occurs in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS04E08HabeasCorpses Habeas Corpses]]" when a monster rampages through a skyscraper full of lawyers, killing everyone in sight. Whenever we see a corpse afterwards, they all seem to be clutching bloody paperwork.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has a couple:
** There's the episode where the ghosts make Scully and Mulder think they shot each other, only for the blood to disappear as soon as they leave the haunted mansion. Both wear white t-shirts.
** Mr. X, although, in an unusual variation, it's a white shirt with pinstripes.
** Scully is shot in "Tithonus" and bleeds on her white top. Ironically it's implied she avoids Death, possibly forever.
** Scully wears a snow-white blouse when a psycho writer and serial killer who's in love with her tries to rip her heart out with his bare hands.

* On ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', JT is wearing a white shirt when he dies.
* As shown in a flashback during the finale of ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'', Hal was wearing a white shirt when turned into a vampire.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'':
** In "The Even Chance", when Clayton and Simpson duel to the death with pistols, they both take off their uniforms and both wear white shirts. The place is also covered in snow. Both are wounded, one of them fatally.
** In "Retribution", Archie Kennedy hides his wound under his uniform. Horatio rips it open and sees the blood all over his belly.
* In the ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' finale, Victoria Grayson is seen wearing a white dress when Emily confronts her for the final time, fully intent on [[PayEvilUntoEvil finally killing her]] for all the trouble she has caused. That is, until [[PapaWolf the latter's dad steps in to do the deed to take the heat off her]].
* ''Series/{{Rome}}'': The assassination of Julius Caesar on the Senate floor, thanks to the white togas everyone is wearing. Marc Antony later uses this to advantage (offscreen) by displaying Caesar's bloodstained cloak to incite public furor against his killers.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E20WhatIsAndWhatShouldNeverBe "What Is And What Should Never Be" (S02, Ep20)]], the [[EtherealWhiteDress woman in white's]] blouse has more bloodstains each time she appears until her garments are soaked in blood.
** In "Hollywood Babylon" a VictimOfTheWeek is dragged into a DeadlyRotaryFan, spraying blood over a white reflector board used for the camera lights.
** Played for BlackComedy in "Weekend at Bobby's". A neighbour of Bobby's who's expressed some romantic interest changes her mind when he shoves a vampire into her wood chipper, splattering her white nightie with the subsequent mess.
* In the unusually violent Tom Baker-era ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The Deadly Assassin", the Doctor changes, for unclear in-universe reasons, from his usual layered multicoloured outfit into a much more minimalistic outfit consisting of slim trousers and a billowing, flimsy white poet shirt. The shirt spends the entire third part of the episode serving as a canvas for as much blood, filth, and ClothingDamage [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence as they could get away with on a children's show]] (as it turns out, they couldn't get away with it - the producer lost his job over the level of violence in this story).
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''
** In 'Weekend in the Country' Doyle's white shirt is splattered with blood while he does basic first aid on the leader of the gang that is holding them hostage.
** In 'Discovered in a Graveyard' Doyle is wearing a white shirt and jacket when he is shot. Most of his flat (including the carpet he is found on) is in shades of white or grey.
** Invoked in "Look After Annie" when Annie Irvine insists she only have red and white roses displayed, to symbolise the blood she shed during a failed assassination attempt, where she was wearing a white dress (though the actual scene has BloodlessCarnage).
* In ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' Mikoto Nakadai AKA Abare Killer bleeds out in a white lab coat before riding on Top Galer who flies high enough to make sure the explosion from his Dino Minder won't kill anybody else.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': When she finally appears [[spoiler: in flashbacks, Lyanna Stark]] wears a white negligee drenched in blood [[spoiler: because she was dying of [[DeathByChildbirth postpartum hemorrhage]].]]
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': Alexandra, leading Finger of the Hand, always wears white outfits. White is a color associated with death in some Asian cultures (K'un-L'un is in the Himalayas), and this is officially emphasized as white is the color she's wearing when Elektra kills her.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015''
** Frank Castle is put in white InstitutionalApparel, as opposed to the orange jumpsuits worn by most other prisoners (Wilson Fisk is also wearing one, so it may mark particularly "high risk" prisoners). This comes in handy for this trope during a particularly bloody HallwayFight when Castle has to take on an entire cellblock.
** Fisk begins wearing white three-piece suits upon his release from prison, symbolizing his transformation into ComicBook/TheKingpin. In the climactic battle of the series finale, his white suit, the [[WeddingSmashers white wedding dress]] of the [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes woman he just married]], and the painting "Rabbit in a Snowstorm" which consists entirely of graduations of white, all get splattered with blood.
* ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. Agent Madani is wearing a white blouse when she's attacked by Billy Russo in the final episode. She wakes up covered in his blood from when she shot him and makes a point of showing the bloodstained blouse to Billy's girlfriend while [[GoodIsNotNice gloating that he's bleeding to death and won't survive for long]].
* In the GrandFinale of ''Series/BlakesSeven'', we witness a more scruffy and cynical Blake who has apparently TookALevelInJerkass. Yet he's wearing a white shirt under his vest, [[LightIsGood showing he's still on the side of the good guys]]. Unfortunately, this also foreshadows his BloodierAndGorier death when [[MultipleGunshotDeath Avon shoots Blake]] in the [[TragicMistake mistaken belief]] that he's turned traitor. The actor incidentally wanted to make it perfectly clear that he had been KilledOffForReal, hence this trope.
* Miss Parker in ''Series/ThePretender'' is wearing a bright white ensemble when she jumps in front of a bullet aimed at her father. She gets better.
* ''Series/PeakyBlinders''. Combined with GoryDiscretionShot when Thomas Shelby shoots a member of the Mafia who's on the other side of a white bedsheet that's been hung up on a balcony to dry.
* ''Series/RaisedByWolves2020''. Mother in her Necromancer mode gets on board a Mithraic spacecraft and proceeds to [[LudicrousGibs splatter the crew]] across the pristine white bulkheads with her [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic scream]].
* ''Series/ShadowAndBone''. In the second episode, the survivor of an ambush gallops back to the army camp on a bloodstained WhiteStallion.

* ''Series/Titans2018''
** The girl of the [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Nuclear Family]] pouts that she's got a few spots of blood on her white blouse after leaving a building where she's just helped torture (and likely kill) someone for information.
** When Dr. Light escapes from prison, there's a prominent shot of a glowing white ceiling light that's been splattered with blood in the otherwise dark prison corridor.
* ''Series/{{Reacher}}''. In episode 7 a team of assassins--wearing forensic suits to avoid leaving trace evidence--come after the title character. They leave this trope instead, seeing as the suits and gloves are a [[TooDumbToLive pristine white color that shows up in the dark]].
* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. TheReveal that vampire Janette has become human is when she's shot while wearing a white sweater.

* Nanoha's near-death incident that occurred sometime between the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' and ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' used both this trope and SnowMeansDeath to great effect, as her blood is shown splattered all over her white Barrier Jacket and the snow-covered field.

* Inverted in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack''. November 11 tends to wear a white suit, which usually remains spotless. The one time he wears a ''black'' suit, he gets killed.

* Hakuron from ''Manga/HaouAiren'' is shot to death while wearing a white suit.
* Rei "Hana no Saint Juste" Asaka from the ''Manga/DearBrother'' anime is all dressed up in white when she falls in the path of a train and to her death.
* Manga/{{Inuyasha}} often sustains his worst injuries when he's stripped down to his white undershirt, losing the protection of his armored kimono. The most notable example was during his fight with Goshinki, who predicted his every move, avoided his attacks, clawed his back open, and left him dying in a pool of his own blood. [[SuperpoweredEvilSide He got better.]]
* Subverted in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'': Lacus's BodyDouble Meer Campbell is dressed in a ''gray'' outfit when she's killed in a HeroicSacrifice, but her lifeless body gets a white gown put on her right before [[DueToTheDead she's given]] a BurialInSpace by Lacus, Athrun, Kira, and their friends.
* In the anime of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Yoshikage Kira's business suit is white during the final battle with the heroes.
* Invoked and (somewhat) Inverted in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. During an internal monologue, Naki explains that the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin White Suits]] dress that way so that the blood spilled during a fight will show better. As the front-line fighters, the gang tends to suffer gruesome injuries and numerous deaths along the course of the series.

[[folder:Films]]

* Barbossa in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''
* The ending of ''Film/AshesAndDiamonds'' uses a white bedsheet to similar effect.
* HeroicBloodshed movies do this a lot, and the deaths of people who wear white get quite bloody. Usually, it's the villain wearing white, but at least one heroic example happens with Ah Jong/Jeffrey Chow and Inspector Li Ying from ''Film/TheKiller'' during the church shootout. Though then again, Ah Jong, the tragic hero in question, is one of the three main characters to be killed off. And Inspector Li is the one who survives at the end to kill Wong Hoi, which in turn results in his arrest by his fellow officers at the end.
* Creator/JohnWoo was inspired by Chang Cheh and his masterpiece, ''Film/Vengeance1970'', which had its avenging antihero fighting the final battle against the evil triads responsible for his brother's murder in white, in contrast with the black suit with white accents that he wears for most of the movie. He doesn't survive, but he does manage to take a whole lot of bad guys with him, including the BigBad behind the whole thing.
* Shaun in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' never changes his white office shirt throughout the ZombieApocalypse. "You've got red on you" becomes a RunningGag because of it.
* [[spoiler:The Consultant]] in ''Film/TheInternational''. Also, the protagonist's white shirt gets a lot of blood splattered on it from those who get shot around him in that scene.
* In ''Film/Bound1996'', a character is shot to death wearing a white shirt ''and'' standing in a room-wide puddle of pure white paint.

* The duel at the end of ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons''.
* Several characters from ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', with the special honor going to [[spoiler:Mr. Orange]], whose shirt, it would seem, does not have a single white spot on it by the end of the movie.
* The final battle in ''Film/Ultraviolet2006''.
* In the original ''Film/GetCarter'', Jack Carter stabs Albert Swift, who is wearing a white shirt. The scene was considered pretty shocking for its time.

* Aptly enough, "Man in White Shirt" from ''Film/{{Tampopo}}''.
* In the Hindi film ''Film/DilSe'' the song and dance "Satrangi Re" foreshadows the fate of Amar by showing him in a black outfit for most of the song then in all white at the end. Usually the dancers in Hindi song and dance numbers have multiple costume changes in one song. Limiting Amar to the 2 outfits accentuated the symbolism. (his dance partner wore at least 7 different outfits in the same song.)

* Played for full horrific effect in ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' when Lawrence wakes up after his first transformation. The white shirt he was wearing is ''quite'' messy.
* ''Film/TheCrazies1973''. Happens with the white {{Hazmat Suit}}s used by the army.
* Two of the protagonists in ''Film/{{Triangle}}'' wear light shirts which later get drenched in blood effectively.

* In ''Film/LayerCake'', both the Duke and the protagonist wear neat white outfits when they receive a gunshot to their chest.
* In ''Film/{{Chappie}}'', Yolandi wears a white shirt for the final battle. Guess who of the RagtagBunchOfMisfits dies.
* ''Film/JohnWick'' wears a white shirt [[BadassInANiceSuit under his suit]], which is PlayedForLaughs when he limps back to the [[TruceZone Continental Hotel]] after a gunfight.
-->'''Wick:''' How good's your laundry?
-->'''[[SeenItAll Concierge]]:''' I'm sorry to say that no-one is that good.
-->'''Wick:''' (sighing) No, I thought not.
* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''. On returning to the United States after the [[BatmanColdOpen Superman Cold Open]], Lois Lane pauses for a moment when unpacking her clothes and seeing blood on the white shirt she was wearing.
* ''Film/{{Heat}}''. All of the participants in the armored car robbery at the beginning of the movie except for Chris Shiherlis wear white hockey masks. Chris, who wears a black mask, is the only one of them to still be alive at the end of the movie, while everyone who wore a white mask is dead.
* ''Film/{{Alien}}''. The crew is wearing white clothes in preparation for going back into [[HumanPopsicle hypersleep]], when Kane starts thrashing about and blood appears on his white undershirt before the DynamicEntry of the ChestBurster [[BloodSplatteredInnocents showers everyone else]] with his insides.
* ''Film/Alien40thAnniversaryShorts''. In ''Contamination'', the pristine white walls of the EscapePod's airlock contrast with the UsedFuture look, so naturally they get blood smeared on them as [[BloodSplatteredInnocents Ward]] staggers through.
* In ''Film/DeathOnTheNile2022'', Hercule Poirot examines the blood splatter pattern on a white bulkhead and realises there was a witness to the crime.
* ''Film/NinjaAssassin''. The owner of a laundromat goes to investigate the sounds of a ruckus and finds a white washing machine vibrating erratically before blood starts pouring out of it. Then we MatchCut to someone [[BlackComedy pouring too much ketchup on takeout meal in a white paper cup]].
* ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'': In Ruth's dream, Sadie is wearing a long white nightgown when the Ripper [[SlashedThroat slits her throat from behind]] ([[ShownTheirWork the way Jack is supposed to have killed most of his victims in real life]]). The blood gushes out of her throat and down her front; staining the front of the nightgown a bright red. Possibly counts as FridgeBrilliance, as Sadie is Asian, thus tying in with the origins of the trope.
* Downplayed in ''Film/HussarBallad''. Vincento, the only non-RedShirt, non-{{Mook}} casualty, is in a white shirt during his final battle and death while the rest of the soldiers are in uniform (his uniform having been [[spoiler:taken by Shura for her disguise]]). However, due to the film running on BloodlessCarnage, no blood is shown.

* In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', James Bond removes his black sweater and wraps it around his daughter Mathilde as he sends her and her mother Madeleine to safety. This leaves him in a white sweater when he's shot multiple times by the villain Safin and later dies in a missile strike.

* ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' - Grand Admiral Thrawn. Crimson blossom of blood; [[PuttingOnTheReich spotless white uniform]]. Even his ''murder'' was [[MagnificentBastard stylish]].
-->''"But...it was so artistically done..."''

* In the book ''Chronicle of a Death Foretold'', Santiago Nasar decides to wear an unstarched white linen shirt and is murdered in a very bloody way that day.

* Creator/JohnWoo was inspired by Chang Cheh and his masterpiece, ''Film/Vengeance1970'', which had its avenging antihero fighting the final battle against the evil triads responsible for his brother's murder in white, in contrast with the black suit with white accents that he wears for most of the movie. He doesn't survive the final battle, but he does manage to take a whole lot of bad guys with him, including the BigBad behind the whole thing.

* Creator/JohnWoo was inspired by Chang Cheh and his masterpiece, ''Film/Vengeance1970'', which had its avenging antihero fighting the final battle against the triads responsible for his brother's death in white, in contrast with the black suit with white accents that he wears for most of the movie. He doesn't survive the final battle, but he does manage to take a whole lot of bad guys with him, including the BigBad behind the whole thing.

* Creator/JohnWoo was inspired by Chang Cheh and his masterpiece, ''Film/Vengeance1970'', which had its avenging antihero fighting the final battle against the triads responsible for his brother's death in white. He doesn't survive the movie, but he does manage to take a whole lot of bad guys with him, including the BigBad behind the whole thing.

* Film/JohnWoo was inspired by Creator/ChangCheh and his masterpiece, ''Film/Vengeance1970'', which had its avenging antihero fighting the final battle against the triads responsible for his brother's death in white. He doesn't survive the movie, but he does manage to take a whole lot of bad guys with him, including the BigBad behind the whole thing.