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| 7 | ->'''The Medic:''' Did all this blood come from your eyebrow and your head?\ |
| 8 | '''Captain Phillips:''' No, not all of it. That's not mine! |
| 9 | -->-- ''Film/CaptainPhillips'' |
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| 12 | Want a surefire way to BreakTheCutie? Well, nothing causes mental trauma quite like being covered in the blood of another person. Not only that, but the image this creates is so [[TrueArtIsAngsty arty]] that it can let you get away with putting lots of violence in your film and still have it called TrueArt. |
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| 14 | Can be a GoryDiscretionShot, although not always -- the most common way it will play out is that someone will have a gun to their head, ready to commit suicide. The innocent one begs them to stop, we hear a gunshot, and then see the blood hit the face. |
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| 16 | See also HarmfulToMinors. Compare with BloodIsTheNewBlack, BloodSplatteredWeddingDress, CoveredInGunge. |
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| 19 | !!Examples: |
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| 23 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 24 | * ''Literature/{{Another}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZcrZGVKvI8 Mr. Kubodera's]] death led to this. [[spoiler:Although that's probably to be expected when you repeatedly stab yourself in the throat in front of all your students]]. |
| 25 | * ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': In episode 25, a young girl is seen walking the streets covered in blood and tears after several women around her got crushed by stray rubble resulting from the ensuing chaos. |
| 26 | * ''Manga/BetrayalKnowsMyName'': In episode 4 Yuki gets some of Zess's blood on his face after Zess is stabbed by Uzuki. (A demon is controlling Uzuki). |
| 27 | * ''Manga/BlackButler'': During the end of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper arc, Ciel and Sebastian are standing outside of Mary Kelly's building so they can catch The Ripper. Following a scream, Ciel flings the door open only to be hit with a splatter of blood on his face. Ciel's not necessarily innocent, per se (he has no qualms with killing 'bad guys'), but he was only 12 years old at the time, and it obviously affected him to the point of freezing up in terror for the whole next scene. |
| 28 | * ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': the "[[CreepyTwins vampire twins]]" get blood all over themselves. [[spoiler: Of course, ''they'' enjoy it hugely...as long as it's not their own.]] |
| 29 | * ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'': part of Manji's backstory tells how he inadvertently caused his sister Machi to lose her touch with reality: she came across her brother killing her husband, and Manji didn't realize what he was to her until it was too late and she got smeared with his blood. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/Brave10'': During the second attempt on her life by Tokugawa's {{ninja}}s at the beginning of the series, Isanami's face gets bloodied by a dying ninja for maximum traumatization. |
| 31 | * ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'': Variation, where the cutie was already broken before the blood splattering. Her lack of reaction is violently contrast by the horrified reaction of the people around her. |
| 32 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': |
| 33 | ** Possibly subverted in [[WhamEpisode episode 22]]: [[spoiler:the sweet, innocent Euphemia, splattered with the blood of people she was forced to kill by Lelouch's malfunctioning Geass]]. |
| 34 | ** A more conventional example occurs in the flashbacks to Marianne's death, with Nunnaly as the blood-splattered innocent while Lelouch looks on in horror from atop the stairs. |
| 35 | ** The first time Lelouch uses his Geass [[PsychicAssistedSuicide to order a bunch of soldiers to kill themselves]], he ends up with some blood on his face, as he looks in horror the people he killed, and realizes his life would change after that. Then he [[PsychoticSmirk grins the evilest grin in the world]], revealing the ''[[MagnificentBastard other]]'' [[MagnificentBastard side of his personality]]. |
| 36 | * ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': This seems to happen to Anri an awful lot. |
| 37 | * ''Manga/ElfenLied'': |
| 38 | ** Given that many of the characters are [[PsychopathicManchild homicidal]] {{Tyke Bomb}}s with the power to tear humans apart in various graphic ways, there are many examples of this trope. |
| 39 | ** Kouta was splattered with blood when [[spoiler:Lucy (Kaede) rips his sister in half]]. |
| 40 | * ''Anime/EurekaSeven'': |
| 41 | ** When "the children" are discovered by Eureka they're covered in the blood of their family that Eureka just killed. |
| 42 | ** In episode 37, blood was splattered all over the mother and child when Anemone slaughtered the anti-body Coralian. |
| 43 | * ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': Subverted in the first episode of ''2nd Gig''. Section 9 has been ordered to storm the Chinese Embassy which has been seized by terrorists, but under no circumstances must any hostages be harmed. There's an OhCrap moment when a terrorist drags away a female hostage, then blood splatters on her co-worker. [[BigDamnHeroes Turns out its the terrorist who's been shot.]] |
| 44 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam'' has a vivid flashback of Shiro surviving the Zeon massacre of his original home colony, dazed and smeared in the blood of those who ''didn't'' survive. |
| 45 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' has the notorious scene in which [[spoiler:Suletta pulls a BigDamnHeroes by ''crushing'' a terrorist who had been about to shoot Miorine and her father]], causing blood to splatter ''everywhere'', including over [[spoiler:Miorine]]'s face. |
| 46 | * Subverted at the start of ''Manga/GunslingerGirl: Il Teatrino'' when Triela gets her face and coat splattered with blood...from a man she'd killed with a point-blank shotgun blast, because she's been [[ChildrenForcedToKill 'conditioned' into a government black ops soldier]]. |
| 47 | * ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': |
| 48 | ** Variation; during a flashback, we see how Seras ''avoided'' being drenched in blood, because she was hidden in a closet, but winds up in a puddle of her ''own'' blood after being shot while [[EyeScream stabbing a man in the eye]]. |
| 49 | ** In a flashback to how her uncle turned on her practically the moment her father died, we got an {{inverted}} case. Integra is shot, leading to an otherwise inactive Alucard being splashed with her blood. |
| 50 | * ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': |
| 51 | ** Happens so often (most notably during the BigBad's StartOfDarkness) that you start to wonder how they can afford to clean up the mess so often. |
| 52 | ** Subverted in the manga-only arc ''Onisarashi-hen''. After appearing to play this trope straight three times in a row, [[spoiler:Detective Oishi realizes that the Blood Splattered Innocent in question is a bit ''too'' blood splattered to really be innocent...]] |
| 53 | * ''Manga/IAmAHero'': Happens to Hiromi in an early chapter, when a suicidal zombie decapitates itself in front of her. This doesn't seem to trouble her very much, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome except as a result of the infection risk from having it near her eyes]]. |
| 54 | * ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh'': Yuuri when [[spoiler:Saralegui gets shot with an arrow]]. |
| 55 | * ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'': Lily during her time as a lab experiment. Having test subjects undergo BodyHorror and burst right in front of her, splattering her with their blood, really didn't help [[TraumaInducedAmnesia her mental state]]. |
| 56 | * [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' when Kabuto fought with Tsunade at the start of the big Sannin rumble. Kabuto cut open his hand and sprayed blood across Tsunade's face to send her into a HeroicBSOD- Tsunade at the time was still suffering from [[AfraidOfBlood hemophobia]] stemming from an incident in her past where she was soaked in blood while trying and failing to save her lover Dan from dying from his wounds. She manages to get over it, though. |
| 57 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': |
| 58 | ** If you think on it a certain way (i.e. an insane way), Shinji Ikari is one during the destruction of Unit 03. Even though he was doing the destroying. Sorta. [[spoiler:He was in the Eva, meaning he felt EVERYTHING that happened; him ripping his friend to pieces, the blood spraying all over him, etc., etc., but he wasn't in control of his Eva. His dad was.]] And Gendo did this to teach Shinji to follow his orders. Have we mentioned that Gendo is a bastard?! |
| 59 | ** [[spoiler:Kaworu]]'s death scene in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' had a variant. While he and [[spoiler:Shinji]] were separated by a wall, the shot from [[spoiler:Kaworu]]'s side created this effect with [[spoiler:Shinji]] visible through the glass wall covered in blood. |
| 60 | * ''Manga/PandoraHearts'': |
| 61 | ** [[spoiler:Vincent and the tragedy of Sabrie]], though this was possibly not so innocent. |
| 62 | ** A straighter example is Oz in chapter 70. |
| 63 | * ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'': Often happens to poor Tetsunosuke. |
| 64 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' plays with this. Homura shoots herself in the head in front of Mami, who is horrified... but Homura [[GoodThingYouCanHeal quickly recovers]], and she's the one who gets (her own) blood splashed on her face. She wasn't trying to kill herself--she had just finished an inconclusive battle with Mami and shot herself as a last-resort tactic to distract her [[spoiler:[[IAmNotLeftHanded which appears to work, but ultimately fails]]]]. She doesn't get around to cleaning up the mess until she runs into [[TheCutie Madoka]], apparently realizing a bloodied face might freak her out. [[spoiler:Homura turns out to have been a DamselInDistress for most of the movie, but takes a sudden FaceHeelTurn near the end, matching the subversive use of this trope.]] |
| 65 | * ''Anime/RedGarden'': [[spoiler:one of the cops investigating Lise's death]] gets killed just as [[spoiler:he ''finds'' Lise, who's BackFromTheDead]], splattering her with blood in the process. Then it just keeps happening... [[BreakTheCutie Poor girl]]. |
| 66 | * ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Kenshin met his FirstLove Tomoe when, during one of his fights as Battousai, he [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisected an attacking ninja]] and she walked in on the scene [[DrowningMySorrows while drunk]], accidentally getting splattered by the man's blood. |
| 67 | -->"You make the bloody rain fall." |
| 68 | * ''Manga/SchoolLive'': The first time Kurumi killed a zombie it was [[KillTheOnesYouLove her upperclassman crush]]. She used a shovel in self-defense and shoved it through his throat. Kurumi ended up covered in blood. |
| 69 | * This occurs in ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' when Lain confronts a suicidal drug-user in a club. [[spoiler:Even worse it's Lain's doppleganger talking, but she reverts to being normal Lain while still covered in blood]]. That was her first great moment, and it sets the grim, disturbing mood of the rest of the series. |
| 70 | * ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'': Played for BlackComedy. Anya asks Yor about a TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot. This induces an ImagineSpot of Anya shadowing her mother's job as a ProfessionalKiller. It ends with Anya giving a ThousandYardStare as she's drenched in HighPressureBlood. Of course, the real Anya [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead could see all of this]]. |
| 71 | -->'''Anya:''' ...maybe I'll just ask Papa. |
| 72 | * ''Manga/XxxHolic'': A slight variant occurs when a woman's wish on a monkey's paw inadvertently causes a man to fall in front of a train. The ensuing spray of blood splashes over the platform and onto her shoes. |
| 73 | * ''Manga/YuruYuri'': [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in "Warm Slumber Party With Everyone". Chitose Ikeda ships her two friends Ayano and Kyouko, to the point where she gets explosive nosebleeds whenever she imagines them having a yuri moment. Chitose also turns into a lecherous "kiss monster" whenever she eats chocolate. After she gets into the brown stuff and gets frisky with the other girls, Kyouko and Ayano decide to distract her from her rampage by kissing ''for real''. We then cut to two character who left to fetch some blankets. As soon as they walk in, a ScareChord plays and we see ''gallons'' of Chitose's blood splattered all over the room and the other girls, who are so shocked they can only stand around in a catatonic state. |
| 74 | [[/folder]] |
| 75 | |
| 76 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 77 | * Squee in ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' is traumatized again and again by witnessing Johnny's gruesome killings, but one time in particular, Johnny pulls out a pedophile's brain and ''throws it at the wall beside Squee'', splashing the blood all over him. |
| 78 | * You know, the flashback where [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]'s parents get [[HarmfulToMinors shot by a mugger]] and [[DramaticNecklaceRemoval his mother's necklace breaks]] and he ends up [[DeathByOriginStory kneeling in their blood]]? |
| 79 | * In ''ComicBook/{{NYX}}'', Kiden Nixon's dad was shot in front of her when she was a little girl, and the blood splattered on her face and clothes. She spent years doing drugs to blot out the memories. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 83 | * Used in an ''{{Series/Atlantis}}'' fanfiction called 'Jump' where Pythagoras arrives at the house, covered in the blood of a friend of Hercules who has just committed suicide in front of him. |
| 84 | * ''Fanfic/AlternativeClassDespair'': Chiaki is unfortunate enough to be standing near [[spoiler:the Impostor when he's SquashedFlat]] and gets a front-row seat to the blood spray. |
| 85 | * ''Fanfic/DanganronpaMementoMori'': [[spoiler:Chapter 5's execution ends with Daigo covered in blood after witnessing his love interest Ayane get crushed in front of him, just after he tried to prevent her death]]. |
| 86 | * How the [[DownerBeginning police found Bridgette and Megan]] in ''Fanfic/FallingInDeeper''. |
| 87 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10553003/16/Little-Dragon Little Dragon]]'' Harry manages to get [[FluffyTheTerrible Fluffy]] to attack the troll and he and his friends are splattered with troll blood. |
| 88 | * A variation of this happens in ''Fanfic/BeneathTheSunsSurface'', Celestia is [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] by a group of conspirator so brutally that her white fur ends up [[NightmareFuel black-tainted by her own dry blood]]. |
| 89 | * Smurfette, Tapper, and Duncan [=McSmurf=] get splattered with blood that came from Jesus being beaten with scourges as they were watching the gruesome bloodbath in the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Smurfed Behind: The Passion Of The Smurfs". However, none of the three are seriously traumatized from the event. |
| 90 | * ''Fanfic/LegacyDocSuess'': Chapter 5 opens with Peter -- having just experienced his Uncle Ben's death -- covered in blood. Naturally, Tony doesn't notice the stain in his clothes or the panic-attack waiting to happen. |
| 91 | * 7-year-old Maria in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/EchoesOfEternity The Promise]]'' is splashed with blood when her adult friend Rei saves her [[spoiler:from AttemptedRape]] by killing a man in front of her. In his rage, Rei [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shoots him repeatedly]]. This traumatizes Maria to the point where she can't talk for several days. |
| 92 | * In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Panchito "Pistoles" Rojo is haunted by the time his brother was callously murdered by having his head blown apart by a shotgun. Panchito, who was eight years old at the time, was splattered in his brother's blood and grey matter. After sitting there in StunnedSilence for a time, he would later [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge swear bloody vengeance]] on the Human gang that did this and joined the White Fang to kill even more "Human assholes". |
| 93 | * ''Fanfic/InASkyOfAMillionStars'': In the first chapter, Katsuki is covered in Izuku's blood due to performing CPR on him in an attempt to save his life after he tries to commit suicide via jumping off the roof. He stays that way for several hours while waiting for news from the doctors while in the hospital, and it's only at the insistence of the nursing staff that he exchanges his middle school uniform for a clean pair of scrubs. The sight of him like that nearly caused Inko to collapse. |
| 94 | * In ''Fanfic/AlternateTailSeries'', [[CheerfulChild Kagura]] gets sprayed with [[spoiler: Gajeel's blood]] after [[spoiler: he devoured God Slayer Iron, which was poisonous for him, to defeat a powerful opponent.]] |
| 95 | * ''Fanfic/MastermindStrategistForHire'': Eri ends up covered in blood after hugging Izuku, who had [[spoiler:slaughtered Overhaul and his gang singlehandedly shortly beforehand.]] |
| 96 | * [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 The Puppet]] in ''Fanfic/SomethingAlwaysRemains'' after [[spoiler: its creator dies in a [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 spring lock suit]]]]. |
| 97 | * In ''[[https://www.instagram.com/ronpaandfriends/?hl=en Ronpa and Friends]]'', following [[spoiler:Dale's]] execution, [[BigBad MonoBlub]] recovers a completely blood splattered [[spoiler:Chip]] who has a ThousandYardStare before completely [[{{Freakout}} LOSING]] [[HeroicBSOD it]]. |
| 98 | * ''Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}: [[spoiler: kid!Trisha]] witnesses Bloom and Stella’s death and, of course, gets all splattered by their blood. This causes her to develop a trauma; in her broken psyche, her hands will forever be stained with her mother’s blood. A symbol of her perceived weakness and her greatest failure. |
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| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 102 | * ''Film/{{Alien}}''. When the ChestBurster erupts from Kane, it's Lambert who catches most of the blood splatter. She spends the rest of the movie skating on the edge of [[HystericalWoman hysteria]]. |
| 103 | * Film/CaptainPhillips gets splattered with the blood of the pirates that captured him and he goes into shock. |
| 104 | * The last straw for Film/{{Carrie|1976}} is when a bucket of pig's blood is dumped on her by the AlphaBitch and her JerkJock boyfriend at the prom after she had been made the prom queen. Carrie proceeds to [[BewareTheNiceOnes snap]] and turn her telekinetic powers into a weapon of revenge and destruction. |
| 105 | * ''Film/DinosaurHotel'': Maddie gets splattered in [[spoiler:Sam]]'s blood when [[spoiler:Sam is attacked and killed by the raptor]]. |
| 106 | * ''Film/{{Dogma}}'': A nameless innocent is splattered with blood during Loki's 'smiting'. As the only 'pure' person in the boardroom of executives, she is allowed to survive, although Loki does consider shooting her for not blessing him when he sneezed... |
| 107 | * ''Film/{{Doomsday}}'' loves splattering random people with blood. |
| 108 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'', when the main character has to stake his fiancee's vampiric sister. The resulting blow causes a geyser of blood that coats him and everything in the room in copious amounts of blood. But wait, she's still not quite dead yet... Time for another whack. |
| 109 | ** Slightly subverted in that Van Helsing, who is in the same room at the time, comes out without a drop on him as he hid behind a pillar. As he puts it "Everything in life comes down to location, location, location..." |
| 110 | * ''Film/{{Go}}'': The two strippers get some of Victor Jr.'s blood on them after he gets shot in the arm, and are clearly rattled by this. |
| 111 | * In ''Film/KillBill'', the Bride introduces O-Ren through a StartOfDarkness flashback to O-Ren's childhood done in anime style, where Boss Matsumoto and his men kill both of her parents as she hides under the bed. At one point, a sword blade goes through her mother and the bed courtesy of Matsumoto himself, and her mother's blood drips down onto her. And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSIET_P9Ckk Luis Bacalov's beautiful score from "The Grand Duel"]] is playing throughout. |
| 112 | ** Not to mention the second "chapter" of the movie is entitled, ''The Blood Splattered Bride'', a ShoutOut to a LesbianVampire film with the same name. In fact, [[spoiler:she's splattered with blood for pretty much the majority of the movie.]] |
| 113 | *** [[spoiler:She sure as hell ain't innocent for most of it, though.]] |
| 114 | * Used in ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'', in which a ''horse'' is splattered with so much blood it panics, rears up, and throws its rider. |
| 115 | * Phil, the nervous navigator in ''Film/MemphisBelle'' suffers a HeroicBSOD when an aircraft in front of them explodes, splattering blood and organs over the plexiglas nose... |
| 116 | ** Subverted when the windshield is shot through and the bullet hits a bottle of tomato soup sitting on the dashboard, causing the pilot to panic and start screaming about being shot until the co-pilot tastes it (presumably for it having a strange consistency), and declares it to be soup. Very Funny... |
| 117 | *** The co-pilot declares it to be soup after finding a broken thermos, which was formerly filled with soup. |
| 118 | * Played for (deadpan) laughs in Icelandic film ''Noi Albinoi'', in which the protagonist accidentally tips an entire bucket of goose blood onto his father and grandmother. |
| 119 | * ''Film/{{Nope}}'': As a child actor in ''Gordy's Home'', Ricky was right in front of Gordy as [[spoiler:he was gunned down by arriving police officers, and the ape's blood splatters all over him, as if he wasn't already traumatized enough watching the chimp rip apart the other cast members.]] |
| 120 | * ''Film/PitchBlack'': Shazza gets a surprise face-full of blood when Zeke shoots one of the crash survivors, whom he takes to be Riddick about to attack her. ''"Crikey!"'' |
| 121 | * Probably the closest that the ''viewing audience'' has come to being the innocent in a film is a scene in ''Film/Quarantine2008'' when the main character's camera man uses the lens of the InUniverseCamera to beat back an attacker, causing the screen to become covered in blood. |
| 122 | * Happens to Reba in the film and book versions of ''Literature/RedDragon''. Blood splatters across her face when Dolarhyde shoots himself with a shotgun in front of her. [[spoiler:Or so she thinks. He ultimately couldn't bring himself to kill her, but he needed a way to spare her life and still fake his own death and escape, so he blew the face off someone he murdered earlier that night, which she couldn't see due to being fully blind.]] |
| 123 | * The titular character of ''Film/LaReineMargot'' in the poster and the film. While this visually invokes BloodSplatteredWeddingDress, the white gown isn't Margot's wedding dress. |
| 124 | * Poor, poor ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'''s Shilo Wallace. [[spoiler:Her father and godmother, the only people she's ever met thanks to her dad being a lunatic, are both brutally murdered by the movie's resident MagnificentBastard, and she walks away from the murder site covered in both of their blood.]] |
| 125 | * In ''Film/SawX'' [[spoiler: a boy named Carlos is drenched in blood in the Bloodboard Trap, though [[BloodIsTheNewBlack John takes the most of it]]]]. |
| 126 | * Played for BlackComedy in ''Film/ShootEmUp''. A woman gives birth in the middle of a shootout. The AntiHero then [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer cuts the umbilical cord with a point-blank gunshot]], splattering her face with blood. She's not happy. |
| 127 | * In ''Film/{{Splice}}'', this occurs to the front row of people at the press conference once Fred and Ginger, the two transgenic organisms created by Clive and Elsa for medical research, start fighting each other. |
| 128 | * ''Film/{{Spontaneous}}'' is essentially "Blood-Splattered Innocents: TheMovie", as the plot centers around a high school in which senior students begin inexplicably "popping" like massive balloons full of blood -- drenching whichever poor classmates happen to be nearby. Despite the knowing absurdity of the premise, it's often PlayedForDrama. |
| 129 | * Jack Regan suffers this in the 1978 ''[[Series/TheSweeney Sweeney]]'' movie when an armed robber evades capture by putting a sawn-off shotgun in his mouth. And it's not just blood either. Regan realistically freaks out and frantically scrubs his face clean. |
| 130 | * In ''Film/YouMightBeTheKiller'', Sam begins the movie covered in blood. He claims to have gotten covered in the blood of the killer's victims due to being nearby when they were killed, but Chuck finds this suspicious and lists it as evidence that Sam might be the killer. |
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| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 134 | * When seven year old Ellie finds Andrea's body in ''Literature/DaddysLittleGirl'', she slips in the blood and falls onto Andrea's chest. She then runs home screaming, covered in her sister's blood. |
| 135 | * ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'': |
| 136 | ** Subverted with Yuki during her fight with Ryoko; she's busy protecting Kyon from Ryoko, and she gets hit with half a dozen steel spikes. Ryoko then impales her with two tentacles, ripping through her chest cavity and splattering Kyon's face with Yuki's blood. While this would be traumatic for most people, Kyon gets over it rather quickly afterwards and Yuki herself is easily able to heal her wounds. |
| 137 | ** In ''The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya'', though, this is played straighter. [[spoiler:After Yuki turns herself and the world around her into normal humans, Kyon is sent back to fix everything. Just as he is about to, Ryoko stabs him in the back out of nowhere and pulls the knife out, splattering the normal and innocent Yuki with blood.]] In the movie adaptation, her expression is sad for the audience, but the whole situation would be a severe case of horror for [[spoiler:Yuki, who's now a normal human girl]]. |
| 138 | * ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Katniss gets introduced to the reality of being a Tribute in the Games when a boy that she's having a shoving match with over a backpack suddenly coughs blood in her face -- after being knifed in the back by another Tribute. |
| 139 | * ''Literature/InTheRealmsOfTheUnreal'': ''The Story of the Vivian Girls'' has lots of this, with illustrations. |
| 140 | * ''Literature/TheRoad'': This happens when [[NamelessNarrative the man]] shoots a marauder in order to protect his son, resulting in the child being splattered with blood. |
| 141 | * ''Literature/ShadowOfTheHegemon'': Petra is covered in the blood, bone, and brains of her would-be rescuers after her kidnapper, Achilles, reveals himself and shoots them. She refuses to move or speak until she is allowed to wash the blood off. |
| 142 | * In ''Sten'' by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch, first aid training had the recruits practice on a robot simulating a wounded fellow soldier. If the recruit wasn't quick enough, an "artery ruptured," spraying him with simulated blood. |
| 143 | -->"The dye used in that blood won't wear off for two days. Maybe that'll help you think about how you'd feel if that dummy had really been your teammate." |
| 144 | * ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Lionblaze. Although most of the times he ends up splattered with blood, he's responsible, the times in ''Long Shadows'' when [[spoiler:Tigerstar shows him visions of himself killing Heathertail in a series of violent fashions]] may count. |
| 145 | ** Generally averted with ''everyone else''. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 149 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 150 | ** Lindsey in "[[Recap/AngelS01E21BlindDate Blind Date]]". He's hardly innocent, but he ''does'' look appropriately traumatized when the man next to him is shot and it ''is'' one of the rare occasions he's trying to do the right thing. |
| 151 | ** And Fred [[BloodFromTheMouth coughs blood]] over Wesley before collapsing in "[[Recap/AngelS05E15AHoleInTheWorld A Hole in the World]]". |
| 152 | ** In "[[Recap/AngelS04E17InsideOut Inside Out]]", Connor's face is splattered with the blood of an innocent girl, who he allowed to be killed. Briefly before death, she appeared as his mother, adding insult to injury. |
| 153 | ** Creator/JossWhedon appears to be a fan of this--in "[[Recap/AngelS05E04HellBound Hell Bound]]", a medium trying to reach Spike spits blood all over Fred's face before dying. |
| 154 | * ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. A variation when Sara Lance is shot and falls off a rooftop in front of her sister Laurel. Team Arrow enter the Arrowcave to find Sara on a slab and a suit-wearing Laurel covered in blood because she had to drag the body down there. |
| 155 | * ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': In "Bagman" Jimmy is saved from death at the hands of a cartel gang member when Mike shoots the gang member in the neck. His blood spatters onto Jimmy's shirt, to his evident horror. |
| 156 | * ''Series/{{Borgia}}'': Pope Alexander VI is covered in blood when [[spoiler:Cesare stabs a man right in front of him with TheLanceOfLonginus]]. While the Borgia pope can [[CorruptChurch hardly be called "innocent"]], it does seem to badly unsettle him and affect how he sees his family. |
| 157 | * Of all ''[[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]]'' it's NaiveNewcomer Hughie Campbell who seems to be splattered with gore the most, starting with the PlotTriggeringDeath of his girlfriend after a superhero runs into her at SuperSpeed, turning her into LudicrousGibs. Other examples include Hughie blowing up a man who had Semtex shoved up his behind, having [[YourHeadAsplode someone's head exploding]] all over him, and being [[CrossesTheLineTwice covered in whale guts after Billy Butcher rams said whale with a speedboat]] causing Hughie to have a major HeroicBSOD. It's even lampshaded when Frenchie goes to cut the TrackingChip out of Starlight--sure enough, Hughie gets splattered again. |
| 158 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]". "Your shirt..." To explain: [[spoiler:When Tara is [[MurphysBullet fatally struck by a stray bullet]], her [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth only concern]] is for Willow's ruined, blood-splattered shirt.]] |
| 159 | * In the opening of the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Coda", an autistic boy is seen in profile, walking to the bus stop to catch his ride, just as he does at exactly the same time every day. It's only when the camera pans around to the front of him that it's revealed one side of his face is splattered with blood; one of his parents had just been critically wounded in their home and the other, kidnapped. |
| 160 | ** J.J. got splattered with someone else's blood in a season five episode. |
| 161 | * A very angsty and emotional ''Series/{{CSI}}'' ep had Grissom covered in [[spoiler:Warrick's blood]] for a couple of scenes after [[spoiler:Warrick died]]. Grissom had held him to his chest and it got all over. |
| 162 | * ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': Dexter and his brother watch their mother and her drug-dealing buddies chopped to pieces with a chainsaw. Then they're left there for days. Neither of them grows up to be well-balanced individuals. |
| 163 | ** The first time Dexter gets a flash of the repressed memory of his mother's murder at a similarly gruesome crime scene, it causes him to lose his cool and fall right into a pool of blood, leaving him covered in it. While adult Dexter is certainly not an innocent, the image works as a visual reference to the event that left him psychologically damaged. |
| 164 | * ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': |
| 165 | ** An early episode had a flashback of Alpha's first rampage, during which we see Echo in the house showers drenched in the blood of the slaughtered people around her. Of course, being a doll, she is fairly oblivious to the fact that she should be traumatised (and barely even aware that there is anything wrong with the dead). |
| 166 | ** The same episode opens with Topher, usually a self-contained smart-ass, covered in blood and stammering like a little kid about the killings he's just witnessed. [[spoiler:Topher gets this again in 2.11 when, not two minutes after kissing Bennett for the first time, he ends up with her brains all over his face.]] |
| 167 | * An episode of ''Forensic Files'' had a child arrive at preschool in his pajamas covered in blood. His grandparents had been murdered and he ran the two miles to the school. |
| 168 | * ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': [[spoiler:Lee Thompkins]] ends her first married day splattered with blood of her fiance, who's gunned down by her ex, [[spoiler:Jim Gordon, just as her fiance was about to stab her with a knife, driven insane by a [[HatePlague virus]]. ''[[FridgeHorror Which is carried in blood]]''.]] |
| 169 | * D.L.'s murder in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' resulted in Niki being sprayed with his blood. |
| 170 | * ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': In the third episode of Season 1 with TheGrandHunt, Rhaenyra Targaryen ends up covered with the blood of the boar she and Ser Criston stabbed to death when it attacked Rhaenyra. |
| 171 | * ''Series/IAmNotOkayWithThis'' when [[spoiler:Syd accidentally makes Brad's head explode over all of the other students at the prom.]] |
| 172 | * ''Series/TheLastKingdom:'' When [[spoiler: Brida]] takes Eoferwic with the intent to capture [[spoiler: Stiorra]], she keeps captive the women of the castle in the courtyard. [[spoiler: Stiorra]] is in hiding, and [[spoiler: Brida]] wants to lure her out by killing off more and more captives. One of these killings results in blood splattering on [[spoiler: Stiorra's]] face, who is observing everything from a basement. |
| 173 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'': An extra named Doug is shot by mercenaries and has his blood sprayed on Sawyer (who, it's worth noting, is in no sense of the word innocent). |
| 174 | ** They also do this in Season 1 when Arzt is blown up by dynamite. Hurley, Locke, Jack, and Kate are covered with pieces of him, leading Hurley to exclaim "You've got a piece of... Arzt... on you." |
| 175 | * ''Series/MadMen'': There's an episode where Smitty the copywriter is riding a lawnmower around the office. Later Lois the secretary, one of the ne'er-do-wells of the office, takes a turn and accidentally runs over the foot of one of the British executives who have bought the company. Wacky hijinks suddenly turn into buckets of blood all over the other executives and copywriters. [[{{Squick}} Someone's still scrubbing blood off the walls hours later]], and poor Guy loses his foot and is considered to have lost his whole career because of it. |
| 176 | * B.J. goes through this before even arriving at the 4077th ''Series/{{MASH}}'' in "Welcome to Korea", when he, Hawkeye, and Radar stop to help a group of soldiers on the side of the road. |
| 177 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': When [[spoiler:[[BoomHeadshot Kate]]]] is shot, Tony is sprayed with her blood. One of the saddest shots of the series. |
| 178 | * ''Series/OrphanBlack'': In episode 4, Helena leaves a little boy basically covered in blood after breaking into his house to clean her wounds. |
| 179 | * [[GrossOutShow Played for laughs]] in ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Justice", when Lister's pus-filled head burst. We just hear a splattering noise, and then the Cat enters, covered in blood and pus, and looking traumatised. |
| 180 | * ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'': Happens to a nosy reporter in an episode. Interestingly, her cameraman seems more traumatized by it than she is. |
| 181 | * ''Series/StateOfPlay'': Della moves from the "protect the story" angle to the "we need to help the police" side of the argument when the detective she'd gotten to know as a source was shot by a sniper in front of her. |
| 182 | * ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'' - but only because a character was acting in a film that had a fatal gun accident. |
| 183 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' |
| 184 | ** Played for [[{{Squick}} squicky]] laughs in the episode, "Mystery Spot". Sam is going slightly mental from [[GroundhogDayLoop watching Dean die over and over again]] and is hacking apart the Mystery Spot with an axe while Dean and the tied-up owner wait. Dean goes over to try and get Sam to calm down, they have an off-screen argument and then Dean's blood splatters all over the owner. |
| 185 | ** Used more seriously in "Bloodlust". Dean kills a vampire brutally (by holding it down and cutting its head off with a circular saw, off-screen) and when he looks back up at his brother, who's staring at him, his face is splattered in blood. |
| 186 | ** In the AlternateUniverse episode "It's a Terrible Life", Sam Wesson gets a bloody introduction to the finer points of monster-hunting. |
| 187 | ** A neighbor of Bobby's who's expressed romantic interest changes her mind when Bobby shoves a demon into her wood chipper, spraying her with LudicrousGibs. |
| 188 | * ''Series/Titans2018''. A variation when Beast Boy makes his first kill as a tiger, and goes on a HeroicBSOD after reverting to his human form covered in his victim's blood. |
| 189 | * Sookie in just about every single episode of ''Series/TrueBlood''. To her credit, she usually gets over it pretty quickly, perhaps simply because it usually happens right at the end of each episode. |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 193 | * In the music video for We Are Scientists "It's A Hit". This is an example it being used as a nondiscretion shot, as we clearly see the fatal punch land, and then cut to the LittlestCancerPatient sprayed with his hero's blood. |
| 194 | * Music/PearlJam: In the music video for [[Music/TenPearlJamAlbum "Jeremy"]], after [[spoiler:the title character shoots himself in front of his class]], the camera pans across a tableau of his classmates recoiling in shock as his blood gets all over them. |
| 195 | * PlayedForLaughs in the music video for Music/{{Starbomb}}'s "Smash!", acknowledging how often the Mario Brothers get confused. |
| 196 | -->'''Fox:''' ''Hey, Mario, stop crying! Just man up and fight instead!'' |
| 197 | -->'''Luigi:''' ''I'm Luigi! All these blood stains make my overalls look red!'' |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 201 | * Referenced in the song ''Recess'' from ''Theatre/LizardBoy''. During the song, Trevor tells the story of how he got his lizard skin. Long story short: dragon got killed by his kindergarten, baby him got covered in blood, now he has scales. |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 205 | * Many of the gory houses at the Ride/UniversalStudios' ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights'' event include hidden water sprayers to simulate blood splattering on the guests. HHN Orlando's ''Ride/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs'' in 1992 actually splattered guests with thick, red fake blood. |
| 206 | [[/folder]] |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 209 | * Helena in ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive 2'', this occurred when her mother [[TakingTheBullet took a bullet meant for her]]. |
| 210 | * Cloud plays the part of the blood-splattered innocent in Crisis Core: ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', though in his case he wasn't actually within range when Zack was shot and ended up with blood on his face because he was embraced by his friend before he died. The image was still just as striking, though. |
| 211 | * One of the most striking images in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' is that of a young Fei, his face splattered with the blood of the [[spoiler:mother]] that protected him. |
| 212 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'': |
| 213 | ** All the backstories of the Beauties, but Crying Wolf's especially. She was found carrying the corpse of her baby brother, whom she had accidentally killed, through the wild of Africa. |
| 214 | ** Taken to extremes with Laughing Octopus who was forced to bathe in the blood of her own family, who she was forced to kill herself by a cult of crazies, all while being forced to laugh while she did it. |
| 215 | * In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if you choose to execute [[spoiler:Loghain]], the moment he gets decapitated is the moment his daughter gets treated to an authentic [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodbank Dragon Age blood shower]]. Honestly, it's a bit [[Narm/DragonAgeOrigins Narmy]], particularly since everyone else somehow stays completely clean. |
| 216 | * [[spoiler:Coach Oleander's]] backstory in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has him [[spoiler:watching his father (a butcher) chop up his beloved pet bunnies for food.]] |
| 217 | * Horribly subverted in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''. [[spoiler: We see a little Leona splattered in someone's blood in a flashback to her past. It's her father's blood. ''And she's the one who killed him when under Goenitz's MoreThanMindControl, as well as everyone in their village''.]] |
| 218 | * In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale'', Lilly gets covered in [[spoiler:her father]]'s blood after his head is smashed in with a salt lick. |
| 219 | * In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', Elizabeth is covered in blood after [[spoiler:stabbing Daisy Fitzroy]]. |
| 220 | * In ''VideoGame/MogekoCastle'', Yonaka gets splattered with blood when [[spoiler:Nega-Mogeko gets shot]] right in front of her. |
| 221 | * In the 41st Case of ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough'', Grimsborough University quarterback Chad Baker becomes splattered in blood when his girlfriend, Madison Springer, was killed with an exploding tiara while she was being crowned Prom Queen. |
| 222 | ** In the 51st case, [[spoiler: Chief King, the man David Jones looks up to, is revealed to have shot socialite Adam Bentley, and, when it's discovered, commits suicide.]] Jones is left dumbstruck, with blood splattered all over his face and shirt. After this happens, Jones turns much more sour, darker, [[ExhaustedEyeBags is unable to sleep]] and [[BeardOfSorrow grows stubble]]. |
| 223 | * Waylon Park in ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}''. He's not really innocent as he was the one to contact Miles Upshur and kick-start Outlast 1. However, he was forcefully committed by his superiors and forced to undergo the Morphogenic Engine Project. By the end of the game, he's covered in his, other people's and [[spoiler:Blaire]]'s blood. |
| 224 | * ''VideoGame/PurgatoryRPGMaker'': During the first part of the game, heroine Enri falls into a room full of blood and is covered in it in her sprite. This marks her slow transformation from a shy innocent to [[spoiler:an axe-weilding badass]]. |
| 225 | * ''VideoGame/YsIVTheDawnOfYs'': [[spoiler: Leeza gets a face full of blood after Gruda mortally impales Eldeel from behind, a sight that causes her to scream]]. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 229 | * In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', you're quickly shown the newcomer Athena Cykes as a kid getting splattered with large amount of blood in a FlashBack [[spoiler: as she witnessed her mother's death and at same time confronted the murderer]], and later [[spoiler: we get a JumpScare memory from Simon Blackquill depicting her smiling creepily while covered in blood]]. Little wonder why the series suddenly got an [[BloodierAndGorier "M" ESRB rating]] all of a sudden. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 233 | * In one story arc in ''Webcomic/BetterDays'', the police discover that one of the people in Fisk's neighborhood is a terrorist. When they corner and shoot him, he was in the process of having sex with someone. Cue a panel of a very traumatized heyna-lady, covered in bloodsplatters. |
| 234 | * [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=343 Ariel,]] in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' gets covered in blood after she's forced to kill [[spoiler:Miir'kin Vel'Vlozress]] quite gruesomely as part a SadisticChoice, the other choice being to kill her cousin and one of her few allies. She's clearly in shock for several pages after this. |
| 235 | * In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-912-maximum-trauma/ Sydney/Halo ends up covered in gore]], after Cora rescues her from a kidnap attempt... By shooting the gang leader with alien ordinance that turns him into LudicrousGibs. |
| 236 | * In ''Webcomic/HeIsAGoodBoy'', when Crange's tree (which, like Crange himself, inexplicably has organs) is cut down by a lumberjack, there's one panel where Crange is covered in a blanket of blood. |
| 237 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[TheWoobie Tavros]] gets absolutely covered in [[spoiler: Vriska's]] blood when she dies. [[spoiler: [[CameBackStrong Temporarily, anyway.]]]] |
| 238 | * [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0008.html An aversion]] is played for laughs in ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation''--we never actually ''see'' Misho covered in blood, as the comic cuts straight from the cause of splattering to Marena finishing washing him. |
| 239 | * Played for dark comedy in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/an-end-to-gopher-trouble/ this]] ''[[ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' comic. |
| 240 | * Played for laughs in [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=040628 this]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip. |
| 241 | * ''Webcomic/NekoTheCat'': Michiko, a 10 year-old girl, has blood splattered all over her white nightgown after [[spoiler: having to kill her father when she discovers he's the monster in the woods.]] |
| 242 | * Mikaila Adelier of ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' is splattered with her father's blood as he attempts to defend her [[spoiler: he failed.]]. |
| 243 | * In ''Webcomic/TheWaterPhoenixKing'', this is subverted [[strike: for laughs]] as everyone who wasn't there ''thinks'' Anthem is this, instead of a combination of [[TheBerserker the adrenaline having worn off]] and her EmotionlessGirl shell (itself [[SoleSurvivor partly attributable to prior PTSD]]) finally cracking. |
| 244 | * ''Webcomic/{{Zomgan}}'': After Mirae On blows Craven into bits via his veins, the resulting explosion covers Gyuho in Craven's dark-colored blood. Gyuho looks on in shock and confusion as wonders who Mirae is and how he was able to defeat Craven and several other Zomgans. |
| 245 | [[/folder]] |
| 246 | |
| 247 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 248 | * ''Website/TheOnion'' article [[http://www.theonion.com/content/news/blood_blood_everywhere "Blood...Blood Everywhere."]] |
| 249 | * Occurs constantly on ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', especially whenever Flippy comes out of AxCrazy rage mode. |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 253 | * Happens to Butters in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', during an eighth season episode called "You Got F'd in the A." In a flashback, Butters loses control of one of his shoes while tap-dancing, causing an accident in which eight people are killed. Their blood splatters all over him as he looks on in horror. [[spoiler:The incident is effectively repeated at the end of the episode, when Butters, having finally overcome the trauma, agrees to tap-dance in a competition... only to lose his shoe again, killing the opposing team and their coach.]] |
| 254 | * In the [[DarkerAndEdgier Fifth Season]] of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', Young Jack watches his father dispatch some assassins, getting a spray of blood across his eyes. |
| 255 | * ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday''. Lois Lane watches aghast as Doomsday pounds on Superman, some of his blood splattering across her face. It's at this point that she and ComicBook/JimmyOlsen [[OhCrap fully begin to realize that Superman could be in grave danger.]] |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 259 | * [[UsefulNotes/JacquelineKennedy Jackie Kennedy]] in her pink suit, November 22, 1963. She had the opportunity to change it, but refused, telling Lady Bird Johnson: "I want them to see what they have done to Jack." The suit has never actually been cleaned and is in possession of the National Archives in a secure location until 2103 at the behest of Caroline Kennedy. She didn't want it to go on display during her children's lifetimes and when the agreement expires, the family will renegotiate a deal to put it in the Smithsonian. |
| 260 | * One of the most vivid images from [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the US war in Iraq]] is of [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110718103624/http://www.wunrn.com:80/news/2008/08_08/07_08_08/072808_face.htm a blood-splattered little girl]] crying as a US soldier walks past her--her parents were killed moments earlier. That's their blood. |
| 261 | * Obviously happened during the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre on December 14, 2012. In particular, one student [[PlayingPossum covered himself in his fellow students' blood to fool the shooter into thinking he was dead]]. |
| 262 | [[/folder]] |
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