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15	[[caption-width-right:350:[[ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs Huh, what a difference a few decades make.]]]]
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17	->''"How much blood would you shed to stay alive?"''
18	-->-- '''A {{tagline}} for ''Film/SawI'''''
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20	A type of ToneShift and the violent twin of DarkerAndEdgier. It's a work that is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin made more graphically violent]] than it used to be, or than its source material is. Heck, a lot of poorly-done attempts at being Darker and Edgier end up becoming this instead.
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22	In the United States, when the Hays Office disbanded in favor of the MPAA rating system, along with everything else, films got bloodier. One aspect of this was remakes of horror films. This trope often involves the presence of MadeOfPlasticine and LudicrousGibs that were absent in the original. It's often achieved by simply averting the InverseLawOfSharpnessAndAccuracy, or turning the {{Badbutt}} or BadassPacifist into a full-fledged badass.
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24	In horror sequels, this is the typical form of SequelEscalation. Expect the producers to end up OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank. In cases of [[BloodyHilarious comedies]], this is an aspect of CrossesTheLineTwice and BlackComedy. Expect to see a lot of HighPressureBlood.
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26	A SisterTrope to DarkerAndEdgier, HotterAndSexier, RuderAndCruder and YoungerAndHipper.
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28	Compare {{Gorn}} & MadeOfPlasticine (both of which this trope almost always involves), {{Grimmification}}, ObligatorySwearing and DenserAndWackier. Contrast LighterAndSofter, {{Bowdlerize}} and {{Disneyfication}}.
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31	!!Example subpages:
32	[[index]]
33	* BloodierAndGorier/AnimeAndManga
34	* [[BloodierAndGorier/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
35	* BloodierAndGorier/VideoGames
36	[[/index]]
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38	!!Other examples:
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41	[[folder:Comic Books]]
42	* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'':
43	** It's not hard to be bloodier and gorier than ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'', but ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'' is quite violent. Within the first chapter, Hot Dog gets hit by a car, turns into a zombie, and bites Jughead. It's as gory as you'd expect from a ZombieApocalypse comic, and it's done in a far less cartoony art style than the original comic.
44	** Sister series ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' does the same thing but with ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. It's a horror series and has more than its fair share of blood and NightmareFuel.
45	** ''ComicBook/ArchieVsPredator'' is likewise much more violent than the regular comics, but it gets points for the fact that it's intentionally drawn in the usual artwork style of the regular books. The first issue alone has the Predator gutting [[spoiler:Jason and Cheryl Blossom]] apart leading to the blood of the two corpses splattering all over the gang... who somehow never put two and two together that something's raining blood on them.
46	* ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' is {{darker\|AndEdgier}} and more bloody than the [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries series]] it's adapted from.
47	* ''ComicBook/CloneWarsAdventures'': While the series had some high-impact violence of its own, the comic was a lot more liberal with depicting not just blood flowing from certain wounds, but vast numbers of brutal, on-page deaths to boot.
48	* ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'' as done by Marvel Comics. Well into the triple-digit years, the company answered fan concerns of why some Joes don't die by having several Joes shot dead. On screen. Through the face. No blood whatsoever.
49	* The Red Lanterns got their own book during the ''ComicBook/New52''. They are a Bloodier And Gorier Franchise/GreenLantern Corps, who [[BloodyMurder vomit blood as a weapon]].
50	* ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' is the Bloodier And Gorier sequel to DC's original ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. The original ''Crisis'' had plenty of deaths, but [[BloodlessCarnage very little blood]]. ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', on the other hand, had impalements, decapitations, and even heads exploding on panel ... and very few {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s or {{Shadow Discretion Shot}}s. No, the editors wanted to show just how DarkerAndEdgier they were by having as much gore on panel as possible.
51	** And pretty much every chapter in the interquel 52 involving Black Adam has him popping heads, tearing people in half, bragging about ritual sacrifice, etc. Though even in ''Infinite Crisis'' he gets one of the best: shoving a guy's mask out the back of his face. "[[BondOneLiner No more silly faces]]" ''indeed''.
52	** The added gore is even the motivation of the major villain Superboy-Prime who lived his whole life back when comics were much more sanitized. The idea of a world with imperfect heroes and gratuitous violence drives him insane, making him a major source of the comic's brutality.
53	* The Marvel comics version of ''Film/Jaws2'' is far more violent than the film itself, featuring several panels of the shark tearing its victims apart.
54	* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' is pretty cynical and violent to start with, but ''Magazine/HeavyMetal Dredd'' is packed with LudicrousGibs and everyone being MadeOfPlasticine. That's pretty much all there is to it, all the political themes and moral ambiguity surrounding an AntiHero like Dredd that make the 2000 AD continuity an interesting read have been excised in favor of balls-to-the-wall splatter.
55	* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' begins as a cutesy, lighthearted series about a 23-year-old man who falls in love with a girl, but must defeat her seven exes in order to win her heart, and his life is like a video game. Sounds innocent enough, right? Until you get to Volume 6. In it, [[spoiler:Gideon impales both Scott and Ramona, with very bloody results (yes, Scott comes back with the extra life, and Ramona's wounds heal when she gets her sword, but STILL).]]
56	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain ComicBook/{{Carnage}} received two one-shots in TheNineties, ''Mind Bomb'' and ''It's a Wonderful Life''. Both were as gory and {{squick}}y as you'd expect from comics that feature ''Carnage'' as the main character.
57	* The ''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\|Mirage}}'' story "Body Count" from the mid-'90s, which involved Raphael and Casey Jones teaming up with a woman to help her get revenge on her evil twin brother who happened to be the leader of a street gang, is probably the goriest TMNT story to date -- people get their heads cut or blown off, gigantic holes blown through them, shredded by machine gun fire, eyeballs being shot or knocked out of their heads, blown to pieces by missiles, etc.
58	** On the other hand, the heavily-bowlderized history of the TMNT as a whole makes for something of an inversion to anyone who's read the first issue of the original series.
59	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
60	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'' comics aren't afraid to brutalize its characters.
61	*** Cybertronian "blood" is purple, but flies about in quite a few stories (''Megatron: Origin'' and ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'', to name two).
62	*** Arcee, the TokenGirl from the old movie has been [[{{Xenafication}} reimagined]] as a bloodthirsty assassin in this continuity. Her pink coloration in this universe is the [[ReimaginingTheArtifact same shade of light purple as transformer blood]].
63	*** Pretty much everyone who dies in ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye More Than Meets the Eye]]'' dies a [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath particularly nasty death]]. James Roberts seems to have taken the notion that "gore isn't impactful if it's robots and not red" as his own personal challenge.
64	** Marvel's ''[[ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2 Generation 2]]'' comic series is probably the height of this trope in ''Transformers.'' Techno-{{Gorn}} was everywhere, with artist Derek Yaniger commenting that he could get away with damn near anything thanks to the MechaMooks principle. Nick Roche of the aforementioned ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' is a PromotedFanboy who pays tribute to Yaniger's style.
65	* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel's ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''. It features [[spoiler:morbidly obese mutant Blob devouring Wasp's ripped guts, then in Hank Pym biting off Blob's head then later getting blown up by suicide bomber Multiple Man, complete with flying guts and a skeleton being incinerated, then Doctor Strange getting squeezed by his own cape until his head explodes, and so on]].
66	* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanHistoriaTheAmazons'': Being a book under the Creator/DCBlackLabel imprint, the series features far more bloody and violent imagery than in the usual Wonder Woman comic.
67	* ''ComicBook/ZombiesChristmasCarol'' is a retelling of ''A Christmas Carol'' with zombies, so this trope was inevitable. The single goriest page is Ignorance and Want killing the Ghost of Christmas Present.
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70	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
71	* Since the late 1990s, ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' has gone from "cartoony" gore (i.e., one Spy's hat and teeth fly out as he explodes bloodlessly) to LudicrousGibs of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''-esque proportions.
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74	[[folder:Fan Works]]
75	* ''Fanfic/Persona4SilverBlue'': [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The action sequences are much more violent and gruesome here than in canon, and the shadow selves are more vicious than they originally were in the games, but so far, that only applies to the fights against shadows. The human deaths, on the other hand, are about just as bloody as they already were back in the original story.
76	* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'' has more BodyHorror than any of the canon ''Film/MonsterVerse'' installments, to say nothing of the {{Cruel and Unusual Death}}s.
77	* ''WebAnimation/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'', an animation based on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Pinkie Pie slowly and brutally mutilate her friend Rainbow Dash.
78	* [[WebAnimation/OutcastBandicoot Outcast Bandicoot]] is both this AND [[DarkerAndEdgier Darker and Edgier]] than the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' games it is based on (which are family-friendly).
79	* The ''Fanfic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy'' is a lot more violent than the three ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games that each story is based around; especially in the case of ''Blood and Spirit'', which is quite gory despite the fact that it's set in the generally light world of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]''.
80	* ''Fanfic/DumbledoresArmyAndTheYearOfDarkness'' has a LOT of very explicitly described violence, rape, gore, and torture. And it's a fanfic of ''Literature/HarryPotter'', a series aimed at ''teenagers and children at best''.
81	* ''Fanfic/HyruleWarriors'' is considerably more violent than the [[VideoGame/HyruleWarriors game itself]]; for example, in the third chapter, when Link is badly injured by King Dodongo, Zelda briefly fears that he may have a punctured lung.
82	* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBoilingPoint'' has a lot of violence and injuries from fire from Boscha going to town on the Apex, who are mostly ''children''. Savage children that kill and destroy the lives of innocent children, but still, ''children''. And that's only the beginning...
83	* ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'' became much more violent after Series Three.
84	* Impossibly, ''Fanfic/TheLegacyOfTheBloodRavens'' can be considered bloodier than its [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar source material]], since every wound and strike is described in slow, painful detail.
85	* For the most part, ''Fanfic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy'' is fairly tame and lighthearted... until Episode 48 when Ashley, aka Leather Ashes, [[spoiler:eats a corpse]]. It's depicted in full detail.
86	* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePortal'', while a very darkly comic fusion of its [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic name]][[VideoGame/{{Portal}} sakes]], started off rather mildly- then came episode 5, detailing [[spoiler:a flashback of the fall of Canterlot. Fluttershy is nearly eviscerated, changelings]] are smashed and blown up all over the place, [[spoiler:Chrysalis ''rips out Shining Armor's heart'' and ''snaps off Twilight's wings'' with '''visible bones''', Twilight accidentally '''gores Celestia to death with her horn''']]... the foreboding ContentWarning at the start of the video is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids very much needed]].
87	* This practice is prevalent in the ''Pokemon'' fanfic ''Fanfic/NaturalLiberated'', where much of the action is described in vivid detail, particularly the deaths. See [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1491235/chapters/3355760 Cheren being attacked]] and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1491235/chapters/3568442 Rourke's death]] as examples.
88	* Where to begin with ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos''? All of the battles (especially the ones against Shroud, which take BodyHorror to the next level) in the series feature copious amounts of blood and gore. Episode 73 takes the cake when Tsali storms through the Blue Typhoon - Tsali [[spoiler:almost]] fatally stabs Sonic and Amy, shatters Cream's arms, blasts Chris with a radioactive blast of Dark Chaos Energy and finally [[spoiler:opens up Tails' ribcage and tears his still-beating heart and lungs from his chest]]. The story is rated M for a [[DarkerAndEdgier very good reason]].
89	** And the rewrite is ''even worse''. Episode 68 has [[spoiler:Rouge find a gore-filled cannibal larder used by Molly's group to dispose of their dead]], while Episode 69 has the Marmolim fortress [[spoiler:and the screaming remains of the Marmolim scouts [[AndIMustScream absorbed into the walls]]]].
90	* ''Fanfic/HailToTheKingThuktunFlishithy'' is much bloodier than Franchise/{{Godzilla}} media, although it is roughly on par with the [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion other franchise]] it crosses over with.
91	* ''Fanfic/AMinorMiscalculation'' is several times bloodier than its source anime, ''Anime/KillLaKill'', especially when [[AxCrazy Nui]] is around.
92	* ''Fanfic/KingdomCrossovers'' features fight scenes that are a lot more violent than half the series represented in the fic.
93	* ''Fanfic/BreakMyHeartBreakYourHeart'' is an ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' fanfic that ''far'' exceeds the usual level of violence from the T-rated game. Most of this is due to the fic's treatment of [[WasOnceAMan Reaper]], who, contrary to the fandom's portrayal of him as a walking edgelord joke, has his AxCrazy tendencies cranked up and is utterly ''[[NightmareFuel terrifying]]''.
94	* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', while it might not reach {{Gorn}} levels, doesn't shy away from showing Pokémon battles more gruesome than in the anime.
95	* ''Fanfic/ChangeUp'': The original ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' could be surprisingly dark at times darker than the color pallet and art style would have you believe. Still, it was kind enough to wait an arc before introducing truly malevolent characters, and not thrust a brutal murder scene on the audience in the very first chapter. Highlighting the brutality of a post-All Might world.
96	* In addition to being DarkerAndEdgier than any of the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' franchise films, The Geeky Zoologist's [[Fanfic/JurassicWorldTheGeekyZoologist reimagining of Jurassic World]] is just as bloody and gory as Michael Crichton's novels, with a lot of gruesome deaths and descriptions of dead bodies and maulings.
97	* The ''Fanfic/TheOtherSide'' fanfic series, a retelling of ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', isn't necessarily darker and edgier than the original movie (asides from other fanfics integrated into the multiverse that the second fanfic follows upon), but is full of violence and [[ActionizedAdaptation action]] compared to the movie's mild use of it. While the violent sequences start off somewhat light, they eventually get really graphic and brutalized, with some characters bringing themselves to BloodKnight levels. Even characters like [[AllLovingHero Poppy]] (who might probably take the cake out of the entire cast, since her fighting style is just ''that extreme'') are not immune to this. And even unlike Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's more actionized movies/franchises such as ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' and ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'', it's exempt of {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s. This is an especially jarring case of the trope for a fan work out of [=DreamWorks=]' first franchise ''explicitly aimed at children''.
98	** A special mention goes to the scene where Poppy destroys the Strings, drastically changed from the movie and applying BodyHorror at its finest. [[spoiler:Whereas she suffered no actual harm whatsoever in the movie (only seemingly getting her colors taken away before "Just Sing"), she ends up badly burned here, to the point of vomiting blood and dying as a result. She's eventually resurrected at the end of the first fanfic, but ''still''.]]
99	* ''Fanfic/RemnantInferisDOOM'' is this and DarkerAndEdgier compared to canon ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' thanks to carrying over the gore of the ''Doom'' series. There's an immense degree of mutilation, BodyHorror, vivisection, and graphic violence to the point where the main characters will more often than not come out of an intense fight covered from head-to-toe in blood and guts.
100	* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomverse'' is a crososver of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' and while both of them have had dark moments (the latter being known for a FamilyUnfriendlyDeath that involved a child protagonist ''slamming their attacker across the wheels of the train while silver fluids splatter across their face''), none of them have gotten downright gory. In the series, all bets are off. Violence is shown on screen, blood is depicted, [[spoiler:a girl falls to her death and ''her head cracks open''...]]
101	* ''Fanfic/InvaderZimABadThingNeverEnds'': The fights in this story are significantly more violent than canon, with blood actually being spilled and only things like Zim's healing mist helping mitigate the damage. Tak in particular is very deadly in combat, at one point gutting Skoodge, and at another ''ripping out one of Zim's ribs''.
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104	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
105	* ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' was already violent, but [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns the animated version]] is gorier in many scenes, including the deaths of Gotham's mayor, Dr. Wolper, and TV host [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udgre4v_L4I David Endochrine]]. It was the bloodiest movie in the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies line until ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', which itself would later lose the title.
106	* The climatic battle in ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' is best summed up as [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar Vs. Simba]] made Bloodier And Gorier.
107	* ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren [[UpdatedRerelease Complete]]''. In the FinalBattle, [[BigBad Sephiroth]] brutalizes Cloud by stabbing him eight times in mid-air, the last stab through ''his foot and knee.'' Ouch.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'' ups the gore and violence a lot, including iconic characters getting killed or maimed in gruesome ways, including being dismembered, ripped in half, or even devoured.
109	* The 1978 ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'' cartoon, even compared to the live-action ones that came out later. As WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic said, when someone gets stabbed, you can feel them getting stabbed.
110	* ''WesternAnimation/NightOfTheAnimatedDead'': Being an animated adaptation of Creator/GeorgeARomero's [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 original movie]], as well as audience tolerances for blood and gore being much higher than back in 1968, this movie is much more visceral than the original. For instance, when Johnny has his head struck against a headstone in the graveyard, a large pool of blood forms under his head, and we see him bleed out through his nose and eyes. Also, the zombies get much more brutalized, having hands and fingers stabbed through, having holes blown through their bodies, and having their heads blown off.
111	* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' is by far the goriest Creator/StudioGhibli film; people get decapitated, limbs torn or shot off, impaled, ripped apart, or melted.
112	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' when Kala enters the treehouse to find baby Tarzan, there are bloody pawprints of Sabor on the floor with the corpses of Tarzan's human family nearby, which is pretty gory for a Disney movie.
113	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': At least, [[DownplayedTrope in comparison to other]] ''Creator/{{Pixar}}'' films, which are normally bloodless. Carl accidentally hits Steve (a construction worker) on the head with his cane, and a large gash of blood is shown. Kevin the bird is bitten in the leg, and the bandage Russel applies to her has blood visibly seep through. Both of these moments are PlayedForDrama.
114	* ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'' was already a bloody book but in the film, there is more focus on the bloody battles and [[DeathByAdaptation kills off one of the characters who survives in the book]].
115	* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''. Hercules decapitates the Hydra on-screen while still inside its neck; true to form, the Hydra grows even more heads, and all of those get decapitated too. The only blood spilled is a slimy green AlienBlood, but there's plenty of it.
116	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' is this to the original cartoon. The og cartoon was at worst mildly violent. The movie starts with an absolute carnage of Transformers and Decepticons alike and by the end of the first half pretty much all the major characters of the cartoon are dead.
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119	[[folder:Literature]]
120	* ''Literature/AnnoDracula'', a semi-sequel to ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' following an alternative ending in which the Count defeats Van Helsing and company during his initial trip to Britain, depicts far more graphic violence than its Victorian source material would have ever been allowed to. It also features some pretty spectacular BodyHorror.
121	* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' and ''Malloreon'' series becomes steadily more descriptive and violent as it progresses -- probably due to the main character growing from innocent boy to mighty hero chopping heads off left and right. Expect bouncing limbs and gobs of brains as you get to the end of the seemingly kid-friendly series.
122	* While the first ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' quartet isn't devoid of violence (there's an extended battle with pirates in the second book), the danger mostly comes from natural sources and we don't see too much aftermath. Its sequel quartet changes this since all of the plots revolve around crime sprees. ''Magic Steps,'' the first book, has a scene of bloody and violent assassination early on (without ImprobableInfantSurvival), there are messy stranglings in ''Street Magic'' and ''Shatterglass'', and ''Cold Fire'' goes into terrifying detail about what fire and smoke does to a person.
123	* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAlice'': This story is a darker version of [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice in Wonderland]]. There are lots of murders, with blood spraying everywhere.
124	* ''Literature/CountAndCountess'' starts off as violent, but is subtle enough that a kid could probably pick it up and read the first few chapters. By the final chapter, it has become an outright bloodfest.
125	* While ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' was pretty bloody already, all the blood was [[BloodlessCarnage censored during the battles and devouring happened off-screen]]. That is not the case with ''Literature/QuantumDevilSagaAvatarTuner''. The gore is given realistic and highly disturbing descriptions (instead of plain old blood) to the point of BodyHorror, and that's without touching the HeroicRROD and its [[VillainousRROD villainous counterpart]] that are also extremely frequent.
126	* When reading certain Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures (part of [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse the Expanded Universe]] of the family timeslot show ''Series/DoctorWho''), you can get blind drunk if you take a shot every time there's a gory injury. The Doctor in particular gets hurt in a majority of the books.
127	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': ''Mockingjay'' is probably the bloodiest of all the books (though none of them are gory, ''per se''), but this applies much more clearly in-universe to the Quarter Quells, which are all extremely violent and in-universe intentionally made ''even more'' brutal than the "normal" Games.
128	%%* ''Literature/TheLastDragonChronicles'': ''The Fire Ascending''. Ho boy...
129	* ''Literature/TheLookingGlassWars'' certainly was intended to be this. However, there's only really two acts of violence that stick out from all the books in the trilogy. Otherwise, the violence is pretty standard and no more different than any other cheap YA series.
130	* ''Literature/OliverTwisted'': The most gore the original story ''Literature/OliverTwist'' contains is Oliver getting shot in the arm, Nancy's murder by Bill's hands, and the latter's dog spilling his brains upon falling from a roof. This take on the tale intentionally upscales the gruesomeness with the additions of children having blood harvested from their necks, close encounters with zombies, [[spoiler:gluttonous orphans feasting on each other, and [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation Bill Sikes being blown apart from the inside]]]].
131	* ''Literature/TheShipWho'' is a short series where every entry is co-written with Creator/AnneMcCaffrey and a different author and is largely independent of the other entries, though callbacks abound. ''The City Who Fought'', written with Creator/SMStirling, is the longest, darkest, and most sexually explicit. Much more fighting happens in this book than the others, often without a GoryDiscretionShot, and NoDeadBodyPoops is averted. Memorably, StreetUrchin Joat sets a trap with RazorFloss and gleefully waits for the enemy to blunder into it, but her gloating turns to horror when she actually sees the immediate aftermath - there's ''so much blood'', internal organs are sloshing onto the deck, and a maimed survivor has reached for her severed legs, [[{{Fingore}} split her hand in half]] on the wire she couldn't see, and started to scream in incomprehending terror.
132	* ''Literature/SpectralShadows'':
133	** Serial 1 had some violence for sure, but serial 2 goes further and has a battle scene where heads are being blown off, characters are being shot up, and the predatory survivors of said battle are eating the dead bodies.
134	** Serial 11 has a schoolyard massacre, and we see, via {{Dream Sequence}}, a biological weapon called Red Rain. [[{{Nightmare Fuel}} It's weaponized acid rain, and you get to see how it works in said Dream Sequence]].
135	* The dark Cinderella adaptation ''Sunny Ella'' features an unnecessary throat surgery [[spoiler:performed on Cinderella by her stepmother]] and multiple stabbings. There's also a mildly gruesome vampire subplot.
136	* The ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' is a Bloodier And Gorier, DarkerAndEdgier, and HotterAndSexier version of the works of Creator/AynRand.
137	* The {{novelization}} of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'' remake is several times gorier than the film it's based on. For example, in the film, Kemper dies when Leatherface bashes him with a sledgehammer; in the book, he survives this and, convulsing and bleeding profusely, is dragged down to the basement, thrown on a table, and killed when Leatherface hacks into his throat with a meat cleaver.
138	* Inverted with Creator/ErinHunter works. Out of all their series, the original ''Literature/{{Warrior\|Cats}}s'' is the most violent by far. ''Literature/{{Seeker\|Bears}}s'', ''Literature/{{Survivor\|Dogs}}s'', and ''Literature/{{Bravelands}}'' don't quite feature nearly as much blood or as many gory deaths.
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142	* ''Series/AndThenThereWereNone2015'': In ''spades'' - not only are the deaths more bloody ([[spoiler:Brent]] goes from being jabbed with a syringe to outright stabbed in the neck with her own knitting needle), but several characters have hallucinations and dreams that expose their crimes in gruesome detail, particularly [[spoiler:Armstrong's nightmare]].
143	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' went from merely implying the violence in Season 1 to gradually showing the effects of it in later seasons to, by Season 6, having huge displays of blood and gore, often the results of "creative" crimes.
144	* Compared to the rest of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, ''Series/Daredevil2015'' is this by a country mile and then some. There's a very good reason it got a TV-MA rating, with its [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutal beatings]] and some [[EyeScream utterly horrific]] [[OffWithHisHead death scenes]].
145	* ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'' was already a pretty gory show with all the dummies and pig carcasses getting chopped to bits, but the second season began filling their mannequins and pig carcasses with fake blood so that EVERY hit would result in copious bleeding (and with the pigs, gigantic pools of blood soaking the floor).
146	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
147	** Leela stands out as being an unusually violent companion. There had always been ActionHero companions in ''Doctor Who'', but usually they stuck to wrestling, {{Flynning}}, or were generally kept bloodless (for example, Jamie had a knife, but was never allowed to stab people with it). Leela, meanwhile, was allowed to knife villains and poison them with thorns. It didn't help that her {{Stripperific}} leather outfit made her a lot HotterAndSexier than the other companions had been up to that point, as well. And the story she was introduced in had the Doctor threaten people with a crossbow, throw a man-eating beast onto someone (with a BondOneLiner), and kick a man into an electrical fence. Both viewers and Creator/TomBaker felt Leela was too violent for the show, and she was toned down considerably in the next season.
148	** The mid-'70s period with Creator/RobertHolmes as script editor and Creator/TomBaker as the Doctor had everything from blood squibs to impalement to severed heads, with stories like "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" pushing the envelope. Seasons 21-22, featuring some incredibly violent stories like "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackOfTheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks Resurrection of the Daleks]]", were also infamously brutal and contributed in part to the show's 18-month hiatus. Suffice to say that the pre-2005 series got away with a lot that wouldn't fly now. Even then, both of those eras were terminated by large-scale media criticism and consequent ExecutiveMeddling.
149	** ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode 1 features a man being killed by an alien. Whilst this happens blood spews out from him as though he were a hose. This could be seen as part of the show's attempt to look DarkerAndEdgier than its parent series.
150	* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' had dark moments, but they were presented in a sanitized way because it was for children. ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'' pulls no punches on showing blood, burns, or mutilated bodies.
151	* The [[AfterlifeAntechamber Hell banishments]] in the live-action adaptation of ''Anime/HellGirl'' are generally much bloodier and more violent than the ones in the original anime, which rarely used blood during the banishments.
152	* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise does have some share of blood and gore, but a few of them stand out:
153	** ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon'' is this for the franchise. The enemies there aren't MadeOfExplodium (except for some), they bleed a lot of technicolor blood and are easily decapitated. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeI3LIpjGSU Just look at the deaths.]]
154	*** This even carries over to Amazon's appearance in ''Series/KamenRiderDecade''. It's actually more subdued than the original show, but it's still Bloodier And Gorier since it's from a series where every other villain blows up when destroyed.
155	** ''Series/KamenRiderAmazons'' proudly carries on the tradition of its parent, especially since it's a web-exclusive series aimed at adult fans of the franchise. The result includes such features as the main character inflicting YourHeadAsplode on a monster via Rider Kick, severed limbs in multiple episodes, and people being EatenAlive.
156	** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' is ''much gorier'' than other mainline entries (although it's toned down from ''Amazons'' in comparison), since it's a {{Crapsaccharine\|World}} CombatMedic-themed entry that deals with the diseases and having more body count that's comparable to war films. Some characters do ''bleeding'' on occasion, especially in The Beast Rider Squad special. The main character Emu does bleed as well.
157	* ''Series/TheLongestDayInChangAn'' has more graphic violence than the majority of Chinese dramas. Among other things, it features a man getting [[ImpaledPalm a knife driven into his hand]] on-screen and a woman being BuriedAlive. Not to mention the man who had his eyes gouged out, and who appears in several scenes with his face covered in blood. Or Yu Chang getting her arm caught in the tower's cogs and ''[[LifeOrLimbDecision cutting it off]]'' to free herself.
158	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The show is more explicit when compared to the Jackson movies. While there's nothing that would push the show past a TV-14 rating, some of the violence in the series is bloodier than one might expect for an adaptation of Tolkien's work. Such examples would be the victims of the Warg attack being seriously injured, multiple close-ups of Bronwyn bleeding to death, or the burned survivors of the pyroclastic flow from Orodruin having their wounds being shown on a ''Series/GameOfThrones'' level of explicit.
159	%%* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' spoofs this with "Creator/SamPeckinpah's ''Salad Days''".
160	* ''Series/OnePiece2023'' is fairly more realistic with its violence compared to [[Manga/OnePiece the manga]]. From the first episode alone, Gold Roger's execution via impalement is fully shown, Alvida smashes a man's head in with her mace and Koby has to clean up the bloody aftermath, and Zoro kills Mr. 7 by segmenting his body into pieces with his swords.
161	* ''Series/ThePunisher2017'' dips into {{Gorn}} with its AntiHero, managing to make the already gory ''Daredevil'' look incredibly tame in comparison.
162	* ''Series/Roots2016'' is this compared to the original 1977 miniseries. While the original was groundbreaking for its harrowing depiction of slavery, the remake holds no punches in its brutality largely due to it being on cable. For example, Kunta Kinte being tortured into saying his slave name is a longer and far more brutal scene in the remake's first episode than it was in the original miniseries.
163	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' had a satirical take on this in a sketch consisting of a documentary where Creator/MelGibson discusses a movie he made called ''[[Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist The Passion of the Dumpty]]'', which is shown to be a more graphic take on the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty where the egg-man's great fall results in a brain and intestines coming out of his egg shell as well as the usual insides of an egg.
164	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has the episode "Conspiracy", which culminates in the confrontation of a parasite-possessed Starfleet member that ends with Picard and Riker forced to [[YourHeadAsplode blow his head off]] and [[TorsoWithAView burn a hole in his torso]] to draw out the queen parasite.
165	* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' is significantly more violent than ''TNG''.
166	** The reclamation surgery that is performed on a Borg drone is quite violent with its FacialHorror, as the flesh beneath the patient's ocular processing core is exposed.
167	** The scene where [[spoiler:Icheb]] is mutilated for his Borg implants is disturbing to the level of TorturePorn.
168	** Bjayzl briefly becomes LudicrousGibs when she's shot by a phaser rifle.
169	** There's a slow-motion sequence of [[AlienBlood green arterial spray]] gushing out from a Romulan with a SlashedThroat courtesy of Elnor's sword.
170	** A Zhat Vash initiate gruesomely claws at her own face in close-up, breaking through the skin.
171	* The first season of ''Series/StrangerThings'' had its moments of violence and blood, but toed the line as to how graphic it could be and relied more on the GoryDiscretionShot. The second season ramps things up a little bit, particularly with the death of Bob, showing a pack of demodogs chewing on his corpse. Season 3 has significantly more gore and bloodshed than previous seasons. The monster of the season [[spoiler:has a body formed from [[BodyOfBodies a noxious soup of blood, flesh, and organs]], and it gathers resources for this by]] melting (or [[LudicrousGibs exploding]]) rats ([[spoiler:and people]]) into literal puddles of bloody goo. Note that it's not restricted to the monsters either, in the final episode of the season we get to see a guy being killed when he falls into a [[WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens giant spinning drill machine]]. It's very quick, but he very clearly ''splatters'' everywhere. Of course, the opening scene of season four ups the ante yet again with the depiction of the aftermath of some sort of massacre at Hawkins Lab, seemingly at Eleven's hands, which leaves behind the blood-soaked corpses of the majority of Eleven's "siblings".
172	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is certainly Bloodier And Gorier than previous shows in the genre, such as ''Series/TheXFiles'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/{{Angel}}'', etc., as it pretty much revels in {{Gorn}}. Which is really saying something, considering ''The X-Files'' didn't shy away from {{squick}} itself.
173	* The ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' television series is this to the original comics (which were far from being bloodless already). In almost every episode, at least one character is guaranteed to be messily murdered, and usually an AssholeVictim at that. On top of that, it has far more gratuitous nudity and swearing.
174	* ''Franchise/UltraSeries'': Much like with his work on ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'', Creator/EijiTsuburaya forbid the usage of blood and gore in ''Series/UltraQ'', ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'', and ''Series/UltraSeven'' (though some moments of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence did slip past his radar). After his death in 1970, more gruesome acts of violence committed between Ultras and monsters or monsters and humans appeared, most blatantly in ''Series/UltramanAce'' and ''Series/UltramanLeo''. This was toned down in the 1980s after MoralGuardians began to crack down on violence in {{Toku}}.
175	* The second season of ''Series/{{V 2009}}'', with Anna killing a Visitor with her scorpion tail, making it rain blood (or some similar substance) and skinning a Visitor alive.
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179	* Music/{{Eminem}}'s early work was known for its outrageous HeroicComedicSociopath violence, but it was also treated as cartoon slapstick with MajorInjuryUnderreaction, [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud silly sound effect adlibs inserted between lines]], Eminem's [[StepfordSmiler cheerful delivery]], and the effects of the violence not really being dwelled on. While his work is considered {{Horrorcore}}, the cartoonish silliness of the execution led to it being Tex Avery-core if anything. His post-overdose comeback album, ''Relapse'', indulges in far more graphic violence with the outcomes being dwelled on. Compare him ripping off Pamela Lee's tits and "''smack[ing] her so hard it knocked her clothes backwards like Music/KrissKross''" in "My Name Is" to him spending a whole verse stalking Music/BritneySpears, ending with him shovelling handfuls of sleeping pills down her throat until she vomits on them, making a suit out of her skin so he can become her, and cheering her on as she struggles and screams, in "Same Song And Dance".
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182	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
183	* Try comparing the Mexican world wrestling council, Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, where any blood spilled will be edited out of the regular TV show, with the Puerto Rican world wrestling council, WWC, which all but invented the [[GimmickMatches barbed wire match]]. Even though WWC is an old-school promotion, considered "the last of the territories", CMLL is the oldest continuously extant promotion in the world, so it still fits this trope.
184	* [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling]] took everything WWC did, got some more ideas from Wrestling/JerryLawler's USWA, turned them all up, added explosives and set out to put on a show bloodier than Wrestling/{{New Japan\|ProWrestling}} and Wrestling/{{All Japan\|ProWrestling}}.
185	* While never reaching the insanity of FMW, the Wrestling/{{CZW}} managed to eclipse the Wrestling/{{ECW}} shows in the sheer amounts of bloodletting and mutilation, largely thanks to the efforts of one "Sick" Nick Mondo. CZW's Cage Of Death is also this to CMLL's version.
186	* Big Japan Pro Wrestling, a more direct successor of FMW, likes to take other promotions' GimmickMatches and make them even bloodier. Where Nick Mondo got the weed whacker banned from sports in the United States while working for CZW, Big Japan decided to top it with buzz saws!
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189	[[folder:Roleplay]]
190	* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' {{invert\|ed trope}}s this trope. Over the course of the RP, there has been a bigger emphasis on realism as it reached the end of Season 3, so deaths such as ripping out someone's heart and feasting on it, [[TheresNoKillLikeOverKill then ripping out their own heart, then shooting it and themselves in the head]], [[GroinAttack castration through many bloody means such as the use of firecrackers or someone's own arm]], and an overabundance of torture and amputations, have been less prevalent over the years. These are supposed to be [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary High-school students]], remember?
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193	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
194	* While ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMark'' was no slouch when it came to BodyHorror, ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' really turns up the amount of {{gor\|n}}e and blood. The Kubitarou case has on-screen decapitations, to name just one example, and children and animals aren't safe from bloody, explicit deaths either.
195	* ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'':
196	** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': The executions from the [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc previous]] [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair two]] main ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' games were brutal and hardly bloodless, but not ''especially'' prolonged (mostly consisting of different forms of crushing, stoning and stabbing), with most of the torment involved being psychological. By contrast, ''V3'''s executions feature things like ''very'' gradual strangulation (over the course of ''hours'', if the clock in the background during this execution is any indication), being forced to climb up a spiked rope while being sliced by buzzsaws, being boiled alive, and being stung hundreds of times by wasps before being impaled and then burned to death with a flamethrower.
197	** In the {{Fan Game}}s ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaAnother'' and its sequel ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpaAnother2'', the murders and executions are bloodier and more twisted than the canon games (which is saying a lot when taking everything above into account).
198	* The T-rated ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series has always had its fair amount of blood, considering the murder mysteries seen in the games. However, ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'' has bloodier images, specifically those related to a particular backstory seen in the last two cases[[note]]Not counting the DLC case[[/note]], including [[spoiler:[[NightmareFuel a young Athena Cykes, covered in blood, smiling over her dead mother's body]].]] [[SameContentDifferentRating It's highly possible that this was a reason the game had an M rating]].[[note]]The ESRB wasn't entirely guilty for this - other organizations such as PEGI and CERO also gave higher ratings than usual[[/note]]
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201	[[folder:Web Animation]]
202	* ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'' is this along with DarkerAndEdgier by the 5th installment. Early on, Monty made a point that the girls were "[[LetsYouAndHimFight just having fun]]", like some sort of [[RuleOfCool ridiculously awesome]] bloodless sparring match between superhuman opponents. The 5th installment introduces a dark conspiracy plot, not to mention the episode ends with [[spoiler:Tifa]] seriously injured and bloodied after a long and brutal fight.
203	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'''s trademark [[CruelAndUnusualDeath violent deaths]] got progressively more gory and detailed (especially during the TV season), thanks in no part to its ArtEvolution.
204	* ''WebAnimation/LoboWebseries'' shows explicitly graphic violence compared to the rest of the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse''.
205	* ''WebAnimation/McBusters'' is a mash-up parody of ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' and Advertising/McDonaldland that noticeably features more graphic violence than either property, with many scenes featuring people getting killed in gruesome ways.
206	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8E79b1N0XU original]] animation meme to "Body" by Music/MotherMother contains literally no blood. Almost every other derivative (such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bCnHYLX81s this]] popular one) focuses on BodyHorror.
207	* ''WebAnimation/PowerStar'' is this in comparison to the squeaky-clean [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super Mario games]]. Here, characters are constantly beheaded, stabbed through the chest, et cetera… resulting in puddles of blood wherever Mario ([[DemonicPossession Possessed by boos]] in this continuity) goes.
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210	[[folder:Webcomics]]
211	* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' may not have become gorier ''per se'', but its conversion to color made all the blood rather... well, bloodier.
212	* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', while surprisingly tame on the violence in the first three acts, later acts become a lot more gruesome than Creator/AndrewHussie's previous work, ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', when one of the villains ascends to near godhood and uses those powers to slaughter an enemy army and cover the battlefield with their blood. Becomes an InvokedTrope when the story moves on to the [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll's side of the story]], where AlienBlood plays an important role.
213	* ''Webcomic/InanimateExperiments'': The [[Webanimation/InanimateInsanity source material]] the comic is based on shows many characters getting injured or torn apart without leaving any blood due to them being {{animate inanimate object}}s. But this comic does not shy away from that during their ColdBloodedTorture.
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216	[[folder:Web Videos]]
217	* ''Film/ForkliftDriverKlaus,'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwki29-rYQ (watch it here,)]] a parody safety video featuring bisections, decapitations, and impalements, certainly qualifies.
218	* PlayedForLaughs in the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyXkq2vpFws&list=PLq1RHkcWD75fIZDdVVXTv6HEqhfJJZoIg&index=1 With Blood]]'' series on [=YouTube=], which adds in bloody effects to scenes from ''Film/HomeAlone'' and ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''. The result is both disturbing and hilarious.
219	* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'':
220	** The fifth episode, where [[spoiler:Duck Guy's organs are torn out and eaten, and later his entire body is mutilated]].
221	** Inverted in Episode 6, which doesn't have any significant blood or gore, and focuses instead more on psychological horror.
222	* ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'': Some of the more recent uploads fall into this category, highlights include [[spoiler:Odie slitting his wrists, Garfield giving an insane Jon a gory lobotomy, and a Polish woman giving birth to a stillborn baby in the toilet.]]
223	* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': The ComicBookAdaptation contains much more explicit violence, and the graphic deaths of human beings.
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226	[[folder:Western Animation]]
227	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' with a couple or two of episodes after the first season.
228	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake'' is a sequel/spinoff to ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', but it's now rated TV-14 rather than TV-PG, so there's a lot more actual red blood rather than using BloodlessCarnage anymore, on top of also being RuderAndCruder.
229	* For its first season, ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' usually had characters "disappearing" after getting blown up with BloodlessCarnage thrown in. Starting with "Super Birthday Snake" in Season 2, the deaths became much more violent with tons of blood added; some deaths include the cast's bodies blowing up after getting stuffed with mermaid eggs, Shake getting all of his blood sucked out of his body with a vacuum cleaner, and the group getting their skulls ripped out of their heads.
230	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Compared to ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'''s stylized cartoon violence, getting hurt is depicted much more realistically here. Characters are visibly injured on-screen, spit blood when hurt, and generally react realistically to being punched, stabbed, knocked, and thrown around violently.
231	* The original ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' was a violent and bloody show to begin with. However, the short-lived [=MTV2=] revival that aired in the mid-2000s turned out to be much bloodier than the original, which is quite a feat.
232	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
233	** The later episodes of the series can get quite gory with things like people's [[AnArmAndALeg limbs being torn off]], disemboweled, [[YourHeadAsplode heads exploding]], torn in half, etc, when in the earlier episodes hardly any blood was seen. Even when a guy was shot about 20 times and died, not a single drop of blood was shown coming from him.
234	** In the parody of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', nearly every single injury of people who weren't wearing full-body armor had pretty realistic-acting blood spill. This was probably to compensate for all the pain Creator/SethMacFarlane had with Ewoks and [[ExecutiveMeddling FOX's pressuring]].
235	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
236	** In the sixth season of the episode "Prisoner of Benda" a member of a stage audience gets his arm cut off, however all you see are rings representing his skin, muscle/blood, and bone. Later, in the Season 7 episode "Tip of the Zoidberg", Zoidberg is forced to give Fry a liver transplant for his Simpson's Jaundice brought on by excessive bleeding, with Leela as the donor. [[AccidentalPun Cut]] to the rather catastrophic end result: Leela is [[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody sawed in half at the waist, her upper torso hopping around the operating table]], with blood dripping from the incision area into a clearly visible pool of it.
237	-->"All you had to do was stop cutting my spine when I said 'Stop! You're cutting my spine!'"
238	** The series finale tops this with Fry committing suicide by jumping off a very tall building and exploding into a mess of blood and guts. '''''Repeatedly'''''.
239	* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute'', although it's not really to excess, largely avoids the {{A Team Firing}}s from the original series and actually shows Snake-Eyes getting his muting injury, though it's covered in a cloak.
240	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' becomes noticeably bloodier after its first season. While there was nothing worse than a nosebleed in the first season, by the time of the second, there's AlienBlood everywhere, characters regularly and explicitly get covered in red and bloody scratches, and by the time of Weirdmaggeddon the imagery has progressed to literal ''waterfalls'' of blood, and mounted animal heads oozing thick, copious amounts of blood due to supernatural haunting. It's to the point where they use the gore for comedy; BigBad Bill Cipher introduces Dipper to a "head that's always screaming!" then reduces it to nothing one layer of skin at a time before Dipper's eyes.
241	* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'' is aimed towards older audiences, and the trailers already provide a couple of examples demonstrating the show's violence, such as Joker getting roughed up by Harley batting him in the face, Joker killing one of his mooks with a gun, a Harley-looking doll getting decapitated by a closing elevator door, and so on.
242	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'' has considerably more brutal violence than [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes the original shorts]]. Highlights include Bugs deflating into a grotesque abomination and pleading Elmer to wear him, Sylvester killing himself after being neutered, Tweety breaking Sylvester’s rib cage apart, Bugs pulling out a mummy’s organs from an urn, Petunia Pig breaking almost every bone in her body trying to get a picture of a squirrel, etc.
243	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' had this throughout its run, with characters' organs flying into the air and characters getting shot. There's one episode where Ren and Stimpy get their heads impaled on spears, and in some episodes, blood is even seen.
244	** The episode "Magical Golden Singing Cheeses" has a [[{{Squick}} disgusting]] scene of a jester skinning his hand with a cheese grater, then ''putting lemon and salt in the wound''.
245	* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' was already a surprisingly violent show from the beginning, but it was a lot more measured in what was depicted and tended to happen quickly. Immediately starting with Season 3, the violence was pushed up a lot further with entire crowds being eviscerated in gory, even creative ways. While there is an argument of AssholeVictim for many of the people being killed, it is [[DesignatedHero largely done by the main characters personally]], and much more of a given episode is about the protracted, violent action sequences.
246	* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' Season 5 compared to the previous seasons, thanks to the shift over to Creator/AdultSwim; while previous seasons had a lot of MachineBlood from the Robot Mooks Jack carved his way through, Season 5 pits him against the very human Daughters of Aku, leading to such images as Jack slashing one of the Daughter's throats with her sword before realizing he's taken a very deep knife wound to the stomach, one of the last scenes being Jack floating down a river in a cloud of his own blood.
247	** Creator/GenndyTartakovsky decided to one-up himself with his next Adult Swim project, ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal 2019}}'', where main characters Spear and Fang get into plenty of gory and brutal fights with all sorts of [[PrehistoricMonster Prehistoric Monsters]]. One episode where Spear [[HulkingOut Hulks Out]] on a prehistoric SuperSerum has him charge into a group of hostile ape men, punching them so hard most just explode into a cloud of shredded meat and bone when hit.
248	* In the early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'', the characters underwent AmusingInjuries, but in later seasons, more graphic violence began appearing on the show.
249	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
250	** Often how ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' Halloween specials work. For "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV Treehouse of Horror V]]", in response to critics who said the specials were too bloody and gory, Creator/MattGroening ''urged'' writers to make the bloodiest and goriest special that they could.
251	** In one episode, Ned Flanders and Mr. Burns make a movie retelling events of Literature/TheBible in incredibly gory fashion. For example, when King Solomon gives his [[JudgmentOfSolomon legendary judgement]], he simply [[WouldHurtAChild cuts the baby]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in half]] then and there - and then has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and ''[[DrivenToSuicide cuts himself in half]]''.
252	** ''The Simpsons'' in general was much more violent than any mainstream cartoon series that had preceded it when it first aired in 1989-1990. Even if you leave out the ''Itchy & Scratchy'' sequences (which often take the BloodyHilarious trope and run with it), there have been quite a few examples of bloody violence being PlayedForLaughs and/or shock value. "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E8BartTheDaredevil Bart the Daredevil]]", for example, ends with Homer falling down a cliff, much as [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] or WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} once did. But instead of BloodlessCarnage, we have Homer getting busted open with every rock and crag his body impacts on the way down so that by the time he hits the bottom he is grotesquely bruised and has blood smeared on his face. Then the skateboard he rode down on bonks him on the head. (And ''then'', after they airlift Homer out of the gorge on a stretcher, the ambulance hits a tree, causing Homer to roll out and fall down the cliff ''again'', [[CrossesTheLineTwice getting his bandages torn open and accumulating even more injuries]]!) It was obviously intended to depict Homer as an IronButtMonkey, but it almost certainly frightened or unnerved many children.
253	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has this in spades when it comes to the first seven seasons. Nearly no violence happens in Season 1, but each successive season for the next ten years had more punching, hitting, skin getting ripped off, veins popping, and of course, '''blood'''. Needless to say, this was [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] a bit in Season 8 and especially after ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobMovieSpongeOutOfWater''.
254	* Though still child-friendly, ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' is rather violent compared to its [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse original counterpart]], as it shows a chemical burn (with blood-red tissue clearly visible in a few frames), a nosebleed that lasts for quite a while and a necrotic arm.
255	* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheMovie'' in comparison to its [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles origin serise]] , as well as all other animated adaptations the franchise which tend to feature ''BloodlessCarnage''. The movie opens up with a future version of Leonardo wounded and bleeding quite obviously, and later shows him [[BloodFromTheMouth spitting up a fair amount of blood]] while getting beat up and tossed around by Krang. Pretty notable for a serise that started off as a''LighterAndSofter'' adaption.
256	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
257	** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' was the worst about it, having characters blown or hacked apart. Of course, they were almost always put together just fine, making it pretty hard to ''believe'' in the deaths of some characters, who endured much less than Waspinator does every day of his life ([[HandWave his spark is in his head]]).
258	** The ''Transformers: Generation 2'' comic was probably the "goriest" incarnation of ''Transformers'' ever. It had all the visual trappings of MediaNotes/{{the Dark Age of comic\|books}}s with truckloads or blatant robot substitutes for organs and blood.
259	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJusticeOutsiders'' moved the series from Cartoon Network to the DC Universe streaming service, giving the production team fewer restrictions regarding the amount of violence shown (although the first two seasons did push the limits of what could be shown on Cartoon Network). Examples of harsher violence include:
260	** A young girl being kidnapped and forcibly turned into a metahuman and sent to fight the Justice League in space. When Black Lightning tries to incapacitate her, he accidentally stopped her heart, killing her. He shortly learned afterwards that she was a young human girl with a weak heart. And this all happened in the first few minutes of the premiere.
261	** The aforementioned girl's brother goes through a similar transformation, eventually coming back to his senses thanks to Black Lightning and the Outsiders. However, shortly after regaining control of himself, he is shot by an old man straight through the heart, who mistakenly thought the "monster" was still a threat.
262	** Halo/Violet. Over the course of the season, so far [[spoiler:she has had half of her face burnt off, her neck snapped, and been stabbed in the stomach by Lobo. Of course, with her healing powers, none of these things have killed her.]]
263	** In "Home Fries," [[spoiler:Ocean Master seeks to blow up Iris West-Allen's house, which at the time contained the loved ones of nearly every single member of the superhero community. This in of itself would qualify, but he is confronted by Lady Shiva towards the end of the episode, who says that murdering the loved ones of the heroes is considered "the nuclear option," and is only considered as a last resort given that the heroes will retaliate with full force. Ocean Master refuses to back down, so Lady Shiva cuts off his head.]]
264	** Also in "Home Fries," Lobo has a part of his pinky sliced off while battling the Outsiders. This doesn't do much other than annoy him, however.
265	** What happens to Victor Stone. [[spoiler:He gets caught in an explosion when he accidentally trips a wire in his father's lab. When the dust clears and Silas finds his son, the viewers see his broken and bleeding body, complete with half of his skull exposed, and a large gaping wound in his chest that even shows his [[BeatStillMyHeart still-beating heart]]. To date, this is the most violent version of the accident that created Cyborg.]]
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