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18->''"Wound! We need a wound here! Make-up!"''
19-->-- ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E20TheUnearthly The Unearthly]]"
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21It doesn't matter how many [[MoreDakka bullets were fired]] or [[{{BFG}} how powerful the weapon]]: you won't see entrance wounds, exit wounds or any blood at all anywhere on or near their targets. Shooting victims simply fall down, leaving neat and clean crime scenes. The only way you can tell a shooting victim from a poisoning victim is that the latter will usually be grimacing. It's almost as if they were made of sawdust instead of flesh.
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23A subvariety of this trope allows for a small amount of blood, looking more like a ketchup stain from a particularly sloppy lunch, to mark the location of a wound. This will sometimes lead to such absurdities as a character with a cut lip conspicuously dribbling blood, while another character who is shot to death is shown with his/her wounds bone-dry!
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25This was a common trope in ActionSeries, AdventureSeries, and CrimeAndPunishmentSeries until recently; for various reasons of taste and censorship, blood was never shown [[MultipleGunshotDeath no matter how thoroughly perforated the victim was]]. Of late, though, shows like ''{{Series/CSI}}'' and ''Series/LawAndOrder'' have begun to be more explicit/realistic about just how messy most violent deaths are.
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27Fantasy and some historical works, similarly, will not show blood even when someone is cut or stabbed. In some examples (particularly shows geared towards younger audiences), swords and other bladed weapons will seemingly [[{{Flynning}} only be used to clash against each other]], and never be shown to draw blood. Two swordsmen may exchange blows and blocks for several seconds, with missed attacks that CouldHaveBeenMessy, or wrestle in a BladeLock, but whoever wins will find an opening to non-lethally knock out his foe with a single punch, or perhaps throw him to the ground and force surrender at swordpoint. Scenes of the aftermath of a battle will show broken or dropped weapons, discarded shields, fallen banners, dozens of arrows, and the occasional helmet or three, but no clearly visible dead bodies.
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29A second, ''somewhat'' more humorous variation is to depict a relatively harmless conflict or game, such as dodgeball, paintball matches, or water gun fights as if it were a real war or slaughter. Complete with [[MundaneMadeAwesome dramatic slow-motion scenes, over-acted last words]], and splashes of paint or water where blood would spray.
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31May be {{justified|Trope}} in a science fiction setting using {{Energy Weapon}}s, although it's a common misconception that the massive heat produced by the beam would instantly cauterize the wound before it had a chance to bleed. [[ArtisticLicenseBiology This is not necessarily the case]], as that's actually only possible within a specific temperature range; go over this, and things get hot enough to ''boil'' the blood. While a laser in a movie may just knock over people with little signs of blood or burning, it's best not to dwell too much on what the wounds from such a weapon would really look like...
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33PGExplosives is a subtrope where explosions specifically manage to injure or kill without visible wounds. See also PrettyLittleHeadshots, MadeOfBologna, and AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe.
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35However, just because a violent scene lacks any blood ''doesn't'' mean it isn't graphic. Lots of them in fiction can come off as disturbing to watch despite no blood being visible. This even applies to real life, where countless videos involving people getting severely injured or killed are labeled as NotSafeForWork for the exact same reason.
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37Contrast HighPressureBlood when the amount of blood is unrealistic by being excessive. Compare SymbolicBlood, AlienBlood, and MachineBlood when they use a substitute involving robots or fantastical creatures that have something resembling blood. If the viewer is given the choice of having this or not, it is AdjustableCensorship. Usually goes hand-in-hand with NeverSayDie, a DisneyDeath, and a DisneyVillainDeath.
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44* The DOE's "Shame on You" PSA from Northern Ireland shows many children getting crushed by a rolling car, but there's no blood at all.
45* The infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz-sC-vSIXk Sportka ad]] with the decapitated cat.
46* ''Advertising/MessinWithSasquatch'': In one ad, Sasquatch rips off a man's arm and there is no blood.
47* Creator/JimHenson's Advertisement/WilkinsCoffee ads, despite making heavy use of AmusingInjuries, rarely-if-ever showed poor Wontkins suffer any kind of visible wounds. When he gets shot, he immediately falls over and out-of-sight, when he gets blown up, he vanishes from the shot right when the explosion hits and leaves nothing behind, and when he gets stabbed, there's no blood. There are only two shorts that get around this: one where he gets SquashedFlat (which is depicted as him being cartoonishly flattened), and one where Wilkins is shown wiping blood off his rapier in the aftermath of a unseen fencing match.
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51* ''Animation/AdventuresOfMowgli'', the Soviet adaptation of ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', has an extreme example. The epic battle between the wolves and the red dogs is animated as a several minutes long fight sequence with two whole canine armies and not a drop of blood in sight. The red dogs just get a bit shaggy or drop straight dead.
52* In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Big M. accidentally gets stabbed with a knife or similar object on several occasions. With this being a children's show and all, no visible blood appears where he gets stabbed.
53* In ''Animation/SpaceTransformers'' the (green) red soldiers are shot down by Crackle, yet no wounds appear. Their clothes aren't even torn! However, this is probably due to the cheap animation rather than censorship.
54* Creator/JanSvankmajer's ''Virile Games'' revolves around soccer players mutilating each other in a variety of over-the-top ways, usually by tearing their faces apart. However, the use of [[StopMotion clay animation]] means that not a drop of blood is actually shed.
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58* ''Anime/Berserk2016'' has this in spades, with the {{Gorn}} the series is known for being extremely downplayed and softened to just the silhouette of blood splatter and moments where characters were cut apart in the manga being censored. Notably, this was averted in the two [[Anime/Berserk1997 previous]] [[Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc adaptations]], which feature plenty of blood when Guts is swinging his {{BFS}} around (though still less than the manga).
59* As the anime version of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' goes on, it has shifted more toward this than its usual blood geysers in the name of censorship (which doesn't really work anyway if limbs are being severed).
60** For example episode 193, where the characters would have coughed up blood in the manga, but are made to cough copious amounts of... spit? Or stomach acid?
61** An especially noticeable example is how when Kira fights Abirama, he ''[[OffWithHisHead cuts his head off]]'' yet his sword has no blood on it, despite flicking the blade around as if he was trying to get off some excess liquid.
62* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' uses this for stylistic contrast. Fights are shown with fairly little blood but several scenes show extremely brutal aftermath.
63* Most of ''Manga/DeathNote'''s early episodes tend to avoid this trope, with occasional exceptions like when Kichiro Osoreda was run over by a car after attempting to hijack a bus, or [[spoiler: when Matt was gunned down by Takada's bodyguards]]. Most deaths in the series are caused by mystically induced heart attacks, [[JustifiedTrope so this makes sense]]. [[spoiler: Mikami and Light's death]] {{avert|edTrope}}s this.
64* ''Anime/DeltoraQuest'': despite all three of the main characters having bladed weapons and there being more fighting going on than in the books, there's not a drop of blood to be seen throughout. The Grey Guards in particular turn to ash when they are slain. The only time we see a character bleed is in episode 39 where a flashback shows Doom fighting a Vraal and he gets clawed in the face, albeit his blood is [[BlackBlood colored black]]. [[spoiler:Dain's death is another marginal exception with him exploding into brownish red goo.]]
65* ''Anime/DogDays'' has this as part of its base premise, with entire areas that prevent people from suffering injury due to the blessing of the gods which are used for the purpose of {{Harmless War}}s waged for literal [[WarForFunAndProfit fun and profit]]. Gaul and Cinque both start freaking out when one of the former's attacks actually makes the latter bleed (since they're from Earth and not under the gods' protection). Demon attacks also cancel out the protective fields, leading to quite a bit of blood near the end of the first season.
66* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
67** The original series was this up until the King Piccolo arc, with the most violent injuries being red or purple bruises. The only time blood was shown on screen was during Master Roshi's nosebleed moments, but once Piccolo shows up there's a sudden spike in bloody, gory injuries (with a notable example being Piccolo Jr.'s arm gushing blood when he tears it off during his fight with Goku). Compare this to when General Blue's men get hit with a barrage of arrows after walking into a trap; it's PlayedForLaughs, and to very cartoony effect, with the men even joking about the screw-up (Blue isn't amused).
68** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', when Raditz blows Piccolo's arm off. There's a couple of reddish-orange drops, but that's it.
69** Appears in the ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' depiction of Piccolo using his Makankōsappō/Special Beam Cannon on Raditz and Goku. Rather than being a case of censorship, however, this was to be closer to the manga, as the version in ''Z'' had [[BloodierAndGorier much more blood]], compared to Toriyama's original depiction with none at all.
70** This is enforced in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' due to updated censorship laws in Japan, a few notable examples are when Beerus stabs Goku in the chest with his claws and when Frieza tortures Gohan by repeatedly blasting his limbs and non-vital organs, in both instances neither bleeds, the only time blood is shown is flashbacks to scenes from ''Dragon Ball Z'' and in VERY few other occasions.
71** ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' is the first ''Dragon Ball'' movie to feature no blood, despite certain characters being seriously wounded and killed.
72* Both of Hiro Mashima's manga, ''Manga/FairyTail'' and ''Rave Master'', suffer this in their anime incarnation due to censorship laws. Given ''Fairy Tail'' aired on a Saturday-morning time slot in Japan, it's especially grating when one of the characters is supposed to be impaled but does not bleed, and then tries to stop the bleeding anyway. Let's see... we have:
73** Natsu is hit by Erigor's Emera Baram wind magic, which is supposed to shred him to ribbons. It doesn't even scratch his clothes.
74** Gray is impaled by Lyon with a whole [[RuleOfCool Ice Tiger]] from his belly and yet doesn't bleed.
75** Aria and many other people are sliced across the chest by Erza's sword, but the wounds are nowhere to be seen.
76** Gajeel's [[BreathWeapon Iron Dragon's Roar]], despite being composed by tons of [[ExtraOreDinary sharp metal shards]], is ineffective against Natsu.
77** Gray uses the Seven Ice Blades dance to slice Fukuro, yet the latter doesn't show signs of any wound.
78** Finally, Ikaruga, the queen of this trope. In the manga, her attacks leave huge gushing wounds on her enemies. In the anime, she says she cuts the enemies' nerves without slicing the skin. RuleOfCool?
79** Ultear ''stabs herself'' and looks no worse afterward.
80** Silver pierces Gray's torso with a massive spike of ice, but where there should be a gaping wound, there’s nothing.
81** Fortunately, the anime didn't affect a certain scene that occurs during the Gray vs. Ultear fight; could even be considered a subversion of this trope. The scene, in particular, is Gray resorting to freezing his own blood as weapons after realizing that Ultear can make all of Grays ice moves irrelevant thanks to her time magic. The initial slash of Gray cutting his skin was censored, but the blood is still seen mixing with the ice as his ice blades slowly change to crimson red. As for why this scene was given special treatment, it's most likely because it plays an important part in Gray's turnaround in the fight or it was just simply too Badass to censor fully.
82** As if to make up for all of the above, Taurus cutting off a tentacle of Earthland Byro's monster octopus during the Starry Sky Key filler arc results in two giant gouts of blood.
83* Pride of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has a strange body, even by hommunculus standards. When Heinkel savages him while in full lion form, he notes that Pride's lack of blood (and overall reaction) are freaking him out. Later on, he loses his regenerative abilities, along with part of his face, revealing his body to be a hollow container for his [[LivingShadow shadowy true form]].
84* ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'' generally [[CouldHaveBeenMessy avoids showing characters get injured]], but when someone is injured, there’s usually no bleeding:
85** When Conan's grandpa is fatally wounded by a bomb he's holding, he’s not visibly wounded. He doesn’t die until several hours later, so it could realistically have been from internal bleeding.
86** A gunshot that grazes Conan’s arm just leaves a black mark.
87** Zigzagged when Monsley gets shot, apparently in the back. It leaves no visible wound but when Conan picks her up he finds his hand covered in her blood.
88* ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' plays with this in the fifth movie. Usually, it doesn't shy away from showing lots of blood, but a scene at the beginning of the movie of [[spoiler:Tomoe stabbing his mother]] is surprisingly dry. This is then turned around and we find out that [[spoiler:the lack of blood indicates that [[TomatoInTheMirror something else is going on]]]], and later when lots of blood appears the effect is rather jarring.
89* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' surprisingly, uses this in its TV series incarnation. In the Manga by which it's based, and the later produced OVA series, there is a LOT of blood everywhere whenever anyone, human or vampire is killed. Due to situations with the censors, however, the TV series had to do something to minimize the amount of gore. The solution was to make the Vampires Alucard shoots turn to "Sand" or "Ash" as they die. Some blood was added for the DVD release, but the series is surprisingly low on blood for being a show about vampires.
90* The Creator/StudioBones series ''Anime/{{Heroman}}'' shows no visible blood or serious injury from its numerous fight scenes. The closest you can get is the green goo that drips out of the Skrugg when they are beaten or 'killed'.
91* One episode of ''Anime/HiwouWarChronicles'' had a monk being beaten to death by robot monkeys without any visible injuries being left on his body.
92* In ''Anime/HorusPrinceOfTheSun'' despite there being a lot of war and destruction there is no visible bloodshed, a few notable examples include a wolf getting stabbed in the face with an axe, one is shot through the head with an arrow by one of the villagers, a giant fish is shot in the eye, and Hols slices the leader of the wolf pack in half with a giant sword.
93* Creator/{{Madhouse}}'s adaptation of ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' plays this trope straight during the Hunter Exam and Zoldyck arcs, the most noticeable example being during Hisoka's EstablishingCharacterMoment, when he [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext turns an unnamed character's arm into flower petals]] instead of chopping it off, like in the manga and Creator/NipponAnimation's earlier adaptation. This is downplayed as the series progresses.
94* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has people being cut and impaled with swords on a regular basis, yet none of their body parts get cut off- save for said characters releasing droplets of blood every so often. For example, Ryuko's [[FinishingMove Seni Shositsu]] has her slashing her scissor blade (assumingly) straight through her opponents. Yet all that does is literally strip them of the will to fight, as well as their clothes.
95* ''Manga/{{Kingdom}}'': Zig-zagged in the anime adaptation. In duels between named characters, there is blood. But in large scale battles, defeated soldiers are simply sent flying.
96* ''Anime/KnightHunters'' uses this extensively in its first TV series, with a few very small exceptions, and one case of ClothingDamage from gunshots without visible blood, as if imitating bloodless black powder squibs.
97* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'', Link slices the Gyorg into pieces without leaving behind any visible blood.
98* Most of ''Franchise/LupinIII'' uses this; Goemon and Jigen can wipe out entire armies without any visible blood spillage. This is ingrained enough into the series that when ''Anime/LupinIIIIslandOfAssassins'' used GoryDiscretionShot instead, it just didn't feel right. This makes it all the more noticeable when ''Anime/LupinIIIBloodSealEternalMermaid'' averted this, with blood flying everywhere from bullets, blades, and giant SpikesOfDoom.
99* Very noticeably done in ''Anime/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit''. During the big fight scenes, Balsa cuts foes with her spear and gets struck with shrunkens but absoutely no blood or injuries are shown and at most [[ClothingDamage tears appear on characters' clothing]].
100* A LOT of people die left and right in ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', from mooks and red shirts to many important non-protagonist characters, from things like cannons, fire, guns, arrows, spears, swords, the kind of wounds you'd expect to be nasty and bloody...
101* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' generally averts this by merit of [[NonLethalWarfare people not getting killed at all]], but when [[spoiler: minor character starts [[AnyoneCanDie getting erased from existence]], they go in a bloodless fashion, seemingly turning into CherryBlossoms. It's still disturbing]]. That said, there's plenty of blood flying around when non-lethal blows are involved, especially once the cast makes it to the Magical World.
102* ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' is surprisingly bloodless for having a pair of gun-wielding assassins as heroes. This was originally done to placate TV censors but was not added back into the DVD run after audiences seemed to find the effect artistic. Blood was present when you saw Kirika bleeding at the beginning of Episode 7: "The Black Thread of Fate" and all over the floor in Mireille's flashback to her parents' death, which greatly added to the impression of an intentional artistic choice, reflecting how death had changed from tragedy to business for her.
103* A common criticism of the anime adaptation of ''Literature/Overlord2012'' is the complete bloodlessness of the Massacre of Katze Plains, a scene that in the light novel is evidently quite gory. This is a little strange because the series normally does not shy away from showing copious amounts of blood, but the third season, it seems, was rushed out and CGI used quite gratuitously.
104* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
105** This tends to be a common obversation for the series as a whole. Despite there being many battles and loads of characters wielding bladed weapons, actually bloody and gory moments (e.g Whitebeard getting half his face blown off, Orochi getting his head sliced) are few and far between espeically in the anime and there's rarely much blood. Among the crew this isn't too much of a problem, since the likes of Luffy and Sanji don't wield weapons and thus only make foes cough up a bit blood while pummeling them, but for Zoro who wields three katanas and goes around slashing foes'' it's quite noticeable'' (at most his opponets have a small spray of blood when they are cut and all their limbs stay attached and there's no blood stains on his katanas). This why it was a shock for viewers in Episode 892, to see Zoro actually make several mooks gush with blood while cutting them for once.
106** Justified for Episode 359; in the manga Sanji gets stabbed in the back by Absalom and bleeds while the Japanese Broadcast edited this having Sanji just get hit really hard and took out the blood. This was censored due to the resemblance with the Akihabara massacre in 2008, in which a man stabbed at least 12 people with a dagger, killing 4 of them. The DVD, Funimation and some of the international releases keep the stabbing and blood intact.
107** The 4Kids dub took this to another level; if it was already a common occurrence in the series, then the 4Kids dub eliminated what blood ''was'' there.
108* As with the games, no-one honestly gets injured in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' or any other adaptations like ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' or ''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure''. It could be {{justified|Trope}} with the actual Pokémon in that they're stronger than humans and battles don't use lethal force, but the magnitude of power just makes it dubious a lot of the times. The worst injury one can get aside from a multitude of scratches (sometimes caused by ''[[ViolationOfCommonSense beams of energy]]'') is either a broken limb or bloodless red patches. They don't even mention the word blood. There has been less than ten instances of blood in twenty minutes of the anime. The manga, especially ''Adventures'', may contain blood however it's hard to distinguish bruises, blood, and dirt due to the monochrome colouring.
109** In episode 55 where the group meets photographer Todd Snap, Ash [[ShootHimHeHasAWallet mistakes his camera for a gun and panics]] after having an ImagineSpot of him shooting his friends but no wounds are visible.
110* Despite the amount of violence within the show, blood is ''incredibly'' rare in ''Anime/PrettyCure''; usually you can only tell if someone's hurt when their clothes are dirty. There are only two {{subver|tedTrope}}sions: One scene in ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' features Cobraja getting a cut on his face with a very, very quick spurt of blood, and Cure Heart's face bleeds a decent amount when a villainous dog bites her in ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecureManaIsGettingMarriedDressOfHopeForTheFuture''.
111* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[spoiler:Mami's death]] is devoid of blood [[spoiler:[[OffWithHisHead when her head is bitten off]]]], relying more on a GoryDiscretionShot with a SickeningCrunch.
112* Both of Hiro Mashima's manga, ''Manga/RaveMaster'' and ''Manga/FairyTail'', suffer this in their anime incarnation due to censorship laws. Especially ''Rave Master'', which had one fight scene without blood for every three that had it.
113* ''Manga/Reborn2004'' falls severely to this:
114** This is best shown when Tsuna is sliced in the back from hip to shoulder each direction without a single drop of blood.
115** This is only true of the [[{{Bowdlerise}} anime adaptation]], whereas in the manga, blood is not only frequent but so is some pretty graphic stuff [[EyeScream like Mukuro activating his evil eye.]]
116** The ''Reborn'' anime actually didn't have a problem with showing blood early on during its adaptation of the Mukuro arc. It's like after this particular arc, the animators found it too gruesome for the kids watching the show so they turned to Bloodless Carnage afterwards. During this arc, Gokudera, for example, took a few needles to the chest, yet his shirt began turning blood red afterwards from the injury. Looked even MORE painful then ANYTHING the anime dished out afterwards where the only times you ever see blood again is during the Varia arc when Yamamoto gets slashed across the chest in his Ring duel and much later on during the Future arc when Hibari tries to pet his porcupine box weapon, but accidentally gets his hand stabbed. Everything else is straightforward Bloodless Carnage.
117* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' falls straight into this in the series finale, where a character gets [[InTheBack stabbed in the back]] with a sword, and there is ''zero blood.'' Clean through either a lung or the stomach. Possibly justified by the fact that said character is wearing black, which blood would not readily show up on. However, there is no blood on the sword, nor is the character lying in a puddle of their own blood. There isn't even a clothing hole where the sword went through. The only thing to indicate they even got stabbed in the first place is heavy breathing and cringing. Also, for a series that centers around constant sword fights, the swords never hit an opponent during fights, just the other sword or their opponent's [[ClothingDamage clothing]] or [[CloseCallHaircut hair.]] Except when Touga gets sliced down the back outside an official Duel--he does not bleed, but later requires extensive bandages and a sling. With other things in the series, it's easy to draw the [[WildMassGuessing conclusion]] that the Duel Arena literally does not allow anyone to bleed or die without losing their rose.
118* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
119** The episodes where the Talismans show up; despite both Uranus and Neptune getting injured (the former shot by apparently invisible darts and the latter ripping herself free from some sort of thorny vines), neither bleeds.
120** ...but also played straight with Jadeite, who gets ''run over by a jumbo jet'' but only has a few scuffs to show for it.
121** There are a few instances in early episodes where Sailor Moon gets scraped or cut by a youma/negamonster, drawing a small amount of blood that then goes away one shot later.
122** Exaggerated in the first season finale. Where Sailor Moon is [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped]] by Prince Endymion. She's attacked with a ''sword'', kicked, and strangled, and not a single drop of blood or marking. A couple shots later she's back up and none the worse for wear.
123* The survival game in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' in the original manga. Justified because well, it's a game played with BB guns. The anime adaptation originally had a few scenes with blood shown, but the dub apparently decided to take it all the way and show a pool of blood for every "death".
124* ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'': The main character gets a sword impaled through her heart and out her back, yet there is no blood. She doesn't die or feel pain either.
125* In ''Anime/ShonenSarutobiSasuke'', UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura slices through and impales several bandits with his katana, but not a drop of blood is spilled.
126* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' is mostly bloodless for 2/3 of a seasonal run, even when Gourry slices up a regime of baddies. While it allows joke characters to return, the last parts of a season manage to kick up the level of blood and cast aside this trope - notably, the second anime season warranted ClothingDamage for most of the villains, and then, in a memorable scene later on, Amelia gets a near-fatal, bloody wound from a demonic attack. The movies and OVA series play this trope completely straight. Any manga and the light novels, on the other hand, {{avert|edTrope}} this.
127* Maria Robotnik's death is repeatedly depicted in ''Anime/SonicX'' without a lick of blood. She was a little girl shot with a bullet, so some blood should be expected.
128* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'''s anime suffers from this, becoming quite noticeable in the Ice Hell arc -- [[spoiler:Bogie Woods's sacrum being popped out]] is accompanied by a stream of ''sparkles''. It's started to let up on this starting with the Four Beasts arc though.
129* ''Manga/VampireKnight'': [[spoiler:When Kaname pulls out his own heart in the last chapter, barely any blood is spilled]].
130* Jibanyan's backstory in ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' has him getting hit by a truck [[spoiler:saving his owner]] and dying immediately. Jibanyan was a kitten but somehow his body remained completely intact. His only injuries were a clipped ear, and even then no blood appeared.
131* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga:''
132** The scenes where Sakura gets hit by a truck in slow motion, and is later shot straight through the chest by a terrified police officer, play out with no blood or gore whatsoever.
133*** Ditto when Junko is hit by a van in [[Recap/ZombieLandSagaE07 Episode 7]]: she does get splattered with mud, but there's no blood or any other visible injuries.
134** Whenever the girls lose a limb or [[LosingYourHead head]], the part in question just pops off like a doll's.
135** In ''Revenge'' [[Recap/ZombieLandSagaRevengeE09 Episode 9]], Itou doesn't spill any blood when [[spoiler:he falls to his death]]. This is made more jarring by the fact that earlier in the episode, [[spoiler:he had slaughtered a rebellion and left them to bleed to death]].
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139* In Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti's ''[[PassionPlay Pièta]]'', UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' corpse has no blood, bruises, or cuts despite having just been scourged, crucified, and impaled. The only wounds visible are the holes on Christ's hands and feet, but even then they're really small. Although it doesn't look much like Jesus got crucified, it gets across his whole [[IncorruptiblePurePureness divine perfection]] shtick.
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143* This is a staple of the works of Creator/SergioAragones, which help emphasize their cartoony nature. Even a title centered on wanton destruction and warfare like ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' will seldom show anything more than someone clutching their abdomen while (black) blood oozes between their fingers.
144* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast1992'': Agahnim cuts down Link's uncle with a swath of lightning from his sword, leaving no wound. Even his tunic is intact.
145* Creator/DCComics has ComicBook/{{Lobo}}, whose enemies, for a time, had a vested interest in ''not'' making him bleed... [[FromASingleCell because that only produces backup]].
146* In a 1954 ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' feature about a {{Bowdlerise}}d [[TheFilmOfTheBook film of the book]], a character being shot to death pleads, "Aim it where the bullet holes won't show!" Afterwards, the killer expects there to be blood all over everything but realizes that there's no blood at all since he's in a movie. (On the Book- side, the killing had been done with a knife, ''did'' leave blood all over everything, and the killer has a monologue about all the blood; the Movie side uses a gun instead and the killer starts the same monologue before "remembering" there's no blood in movies.)
147* While ''ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja'', as a [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Comics Code]]-approved title, avoided graphic depictions of blood or gore, it never hesitated to show the brutality of combat or the senseless deaths of war, including the aftermath of a mass execution.
148* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' and ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' are both considerably more violent than most versions of the series, but they lack any blood whatsoever. Several characters are caught in explosions, but appear only bruised - one example is when Antoine is caught in an explosion and goes into a coma. We only see his limp hand in the last panel, and later on, there are lots of bandages covering up his injuries. In the ''Sonic Universe'' arc "Total Eclipse", Shadow is beaten almost to death, but only takes ''scratches''.
149* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
150** In ''ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied'', when the Green Goblin accidentally impales himself with his own Goblin Glider while trying to kill Spider-Man, there is no visible blood on his body even though you can see the idents where he was stabbed.
151** ComicBook/{{Carnage}} is supposed to commit horribly brutal murders, but almost every victim shown looks clean, the only proof of death being [[ClothingDamage torn clothing]].
152* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' [[Manga/WarriorCatsManga graphic novels]], which is very odd because of the huge amount of [[HighPressureBlood blood]] and [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence violence]] in the original novels. There is some blood in ''[[ComicBook/WarriorCatsTheRiseOfScourge Rise of Scourge]]'' when Scourge kills [[spoiler:Tigerstar]], but it goes over the scene so quickly, and there is little blood (especially considering the original version where [[spoiler:Scourge rips Tigerstar open, causing him to bleed to death nine times]]). Even one of the illustrators, Don Hudson, thought this was odd. In the first ''Tigerstar and Sasha'' volume, rabbits, squirrels, and frogs are killed onscreen without a drop of blood, but apparently, the editors didn't even like a ''clean'' dead rabbit:
153-->I am working on the Cat book for Tokyopop and I am at an interesting point in the story. The story involves Feral cats and life in the wild. A Feral cat stops and kills a wild hare as described in the script. I drew the layout and it was approved, but at a certain point, the powers that be wanted a change. The dead rabbit looks too creepy. I understand that the pre-teen market may not be into dead rabbits, but why write it into the script? They wanted me to change the angle to obscure the hare, messing up the storytelling. My compromise was to turn the rabbit around and closing his eyes. It's not dead, just sleeping! No trauma, just a sleepy, knocked out bunny. ([[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s0GsnDo9fJI/R1mEOA3z2lI/AAAAAAAAAvg/wEE_Fyub6l4/s1600-h/cat+layout.jpg Comparison of original and revised sketches]])
154* [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]]'s adamantium claws ''should'' reduce most normal humans or living creatures to bloody ribbons, but this is almost never the case in any of the comics or related media.
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158* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Subverted in "The Blood Brother". Up to this point, Bolt's experiences with violence and death (via his television show) are described as being bloodless, sanitized, and cartoonish. Seeing his former friend's body splattered all over the road proves so wrenching that he vomits profusely.
159* ''Fanfic/EzraLost'', a ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' fanfic, invokes this trope whenever a {{Mook|s}} gets hurt or killed but is very much inverted whenever Kanan Jarrus takes a hammering.
160* ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'' uses the variant of describing a game like a real battle. Much of the game action in the dodgeball match, especially in the first game, is written [[{{Pastiche}} in the style]] of a battle scene from ''Literature/TheIliad'', which is probably one of the most blood-drenched epics of all time. There is a minor subversion in that Lindsay does bleed after being hit in the mouth.
161* In ''WebAnimation/TheLightOfCourage'', [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Princess Zelda]] shoots a beam from the Triforce of Power to sever Ganon's hand, which comes off with nary a drop of blood. The animators had originally tried for HighPressureBlood, but decided against it due to the young age of most of the audience.
162* This is justified in ''Fanfic/LostCauses'' by Toons being unable to bleed. They can be beaten up but won't show any signs of the attack.
163* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0g0jzm0mYA fan animation]] of "[[Music/LemonDemon Modify]]" by aimkid features tons of violence, including dismemberment, slicing and impalement, but there's not a single drop of blood anywhere in the video.
164* Invoked in ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'' when Robert executes Janos Slynt and other treacherous Goldcloaks; despite their [[OffWithHisHead beheading]], his new sword Stormbreaker, the AncestralWeapon of the Storm Kings, gets not a drop of blood on it. [[spoiler:Except for the last Goldcloak, who at least took the bribe at first to help his ailing family and is willing to FaceDeathWithDignity; lopping his head off does leave blood on the blade.]]
165* The Aswang doesn't leave a single drop of blood at any of his massacres in ''Fanfic/RubyAndNora''.
166* Justified in ''Fanfic/SweetSorrow''. Elise initially thinks that [[TheHeroDies Sonic isn't dead]] because there's no blood. She associates death with blood because she remembers finding [[DisappearedDad her father]] in a pool of blood. However, the reason Sonic isn't bleeding is because the energy blast cauterized the wound.
167* Like with the official ''Super Smash Bros.'' games, ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosCrusade Crusade]]'' closely follows this trope with its depiction of the violence. It's a different case with mods like ''VideoGame/CMCPlus'', which, despite playing it straight for most of its fighters, features several cases of blood effects for certain attacks on certain characters -- [[OriginalCharacter Nacidio]] in particular has his moveset revolve around [[BloodyMurder fighting with and coating his enemies in blood.]]
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171* Justified in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', as the King actually ends up dying of internal bleeding.
172* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', when Bambi's mother is killed by the hunters, we actually do not see her dead body once Bambi realizes that she is dead. However, we do get to see a quail bleed to death later in the film.
173* When Ben is killed in ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}'' he gets fatally wounded from a severe coyote mauling, like Mufasa aside from a bit of blood on his mouth and some bruising he is in otherwise seemingly good condition.
174* There are a few instances of this in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBadBlood''; a few notable examples include when Talia executes [[spoiler: Heretic]] there is no blood splatter even though she shot him in the head at point blank range and later there is no blood or wound on his head, and later when [[spoiler: Mad Hatter's]] head explodes.
175* When Gaston stabs the Beast in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' there is no blood on his knife, although blood does appear on the Beast's shirt shortly afterward. This could be due to the rain.
176* In ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'' Kenai [[spoiler:kills Koda's mother by stabbing her with a spear and judging by the force of the blow, she should've been bleeding pretty heavily]], and later when Denahi finds the spear it has not a single drop of blood on it. However, its DirectToVideo sequel, ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear2'', has Kenai bleeding when [[spoiler:Nita's fiance Edka tries to kill him]].
177* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': In the opening prologue, the ''Carnotaurus'' stomps on an ''Iguanodon'' nest, smashing to tiny pieces all but Aladar's egg. Despite this, there's no pulped embryos, splattered amniotic fluids, or even yolks, only shell pieces, even though Aladar was only a few hours away from hatching, so most, if not all of the other fetuses should've been fully formed as well.
178* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' plays with the trope. The bear is shot and bitten and both wounds are shown red with blood, but as soon as the shot cuts away the wounds vanish. Meanwhile, hunter Amos gets his foot caught in a toothed bear trap which, while obviously painful, doesn't even tear his boot open, let alone his flesh. Likewise, Old Chief should have significant external injuries after being knocked off a bridge by an oncoming train.
179* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', Megara pushes Hercules out of the way of a falling pillar, only to be crushed herself. There is no sign of ANY injury, even though it kills her.
180* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit'', enemies struck by [[CoolSword Sting]] seem to spiral off into {{Hammerspace}} instead of properly dying.
181* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'', one dragon [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice fatally gores another with its horn]]. The wounding itself is subject to a GoryDiscretionShot, but the attacker's horn is not bloody and the victim's body is shown shortly thereafter with no visible wound. Later [[spoiler:Stoick]] is killed by an exploding fireblast entirely on-screen, and the only visible effect is soot on his armor.
182* None of the injuries in ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs Thor'' cause bleeding, though since so few apparently died it might just be them being invulnerable. ''Hulk vs. Wolverine'' is notable in that it's the first non-comic appearance of Wolverine where characters ''do'' bleed when he cuts them.
183* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'':
184** An example from the beginning of the movie: the Romani woman Frollo kills presumably cracks her head open against the steps of the cathedral, but no blood is seen, despite the lyric that follows — "See here, the innocent blood you have spilt on the steps of Notre Dame."
185** At the end, [[BigBad Judge]] [[SinisterMinister Claude Frollo]] actually falls off a balcony and to his death in the fiery molten lead below; for some reason we do not see his charred remains on the ground once Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and Phoebus finally emerge out of the cathedral unharmed. Since all the molten lead has been cleared away by the time they emerge, presumably Frollo's body (or what would have been left of it) was taken away with it.
186* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' has Lord Shen using throwing knives to dispatch of [[spoiler:the Wolf Boss]], but no blood is shown. This is despite the latter being hit directly in the throat.
187* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'', Baloo gets multiple facefuls of tiger claws (and they're CLEARLY digging in!) during his "[[CurbStompBattle fight]]" with Shere Khan without a single drop of blood shed or mark left.
188* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'': We see Sharptooth tear into Littlefoot's mother in shadow, but the wound that's shown looks nothing like the damage a ''T.rex'' would be capable of. It's worth noting that the original plan was for this to be averted; the fight between Littlefoot's mother and the Sharptooth was intended to be longer and even more violent, with the scene of the flesh being torn off being fully visible instead of just a shadow. This was removed from the finished movie when test audience deemed it too frightening.
189* ''Franchise/TheLionKing'':
190** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'':
191*** Mufasa's dead body appears to be in perfect condition... even though he fell a considerable height from a cliff, and then got trampled by a herd of wildebeest; at most he appears to be just a bit beat up and his whiskers are bent. There is some blood in the film -- when Scar claws into Mufasa's paws -- but it's only noticeable if you're watching the film in really high quality.
192*** The hyenas eating a zebra leg before "Be Prepared" is portrayed completely free of blood and mostly off-screen. Even the leg is cleanly cut, though the insides are red as expected (though not bloody).
193** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', there is a scene where the Pridelanders and Outsiders get into a violent fight full of clawing and biting but not a single wound appears. Kovu [[spoiler:gets a scar like Scar]] but it ends up perfectly clean and without any injury [[spoiler:to his eye]]. [[spoiler:Nuka's]] death is surprisingly clean despite him getting crushed by logs.
194* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'':
195** The two eels, Flotsam and Jetsam, accidentally take a bolt from the trident and get disintegrated. In the next shot, you see bits of their flesh and bone ([[EyesAreUnbreakable and even a couple eyeballs!]]) sink toward the ocean floor as Ursula briefly laments over them. There is, however, no visible blood. [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Doesn't make their demise much less family-unfriendly, though...]]
196** Another fate befalls Ursula herself when Prince Eric rams the prow of his ship through her. You don't actually see her fall apart, but you do see small chunks, including a couple of pieces of tentacles, sinking in the ocean in the next few shots before crumbling away.
197* The 2011 animated film ''The Lion of Judah'' set during the final days of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' life on earth and [[LighterAndSofter is the most kid-friendly re-telling of]] [[PassionPlay The Passion of Jesus]]. However, scenes showing Jesus getting whipping, nailed on the cross, and wearing the crown of thorns are all completely bloodless. [[GoryDiscretionShot Even the violence leading up to his death would either cut to the animals reactions or being obscured.]]
198* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'', when Drake is crushed to death by his own boulder, if you pause at the right moment as he is killed and the boulder rolls away you can easily tell that there's nothing underneath.
199* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' uses bloodless carnage, and unintentionally draws attention to it in the song "Savages," where one of the Powhatans wonders "if they even bleed." They don't, but neither do the Powhatans. Particularly noticeable when [[spoiler:Kocoum]] is shot and killed, apparently by a phantom bullet; despite having fallen back into the water, there's no hint of blood or any indication of a wound at all.
200-->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick:''' But Christian Bale is ever at the ready and manages to shoot [[spoiler:Kocoum]] right in the, um... spirit?
201* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' [[spoiler:Ray]]'s death is surprisingly clean considering he was slapped to the ground and then stepped on by Dr. Facilier, as when Louis finds him all the damage that seems to have been done is some bruising and a black eye. If someone would do this to one of his species in real life it would be quite messy.
202* ''Anime/RingingBell'' is a pretty violent film; however it has almost no blood in it, and the protagonist suffers no visible injuries despite all the beatings he receives.
203* Near the end of ''Literature/TheSissyDuckling'', [[spoiler:Elmer's father]] ends up shot by hunters while trying to go south. There's no blood or even any sign of injury.
204* [[spoiler:The Prowler]] in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' gets shot by the Kingpin and dies in his nephew Miles Morales's arms. No blood can be seen on him or Miles the entire time, and the ground he's laying on is perfectly clean of blood.
205* There's a fairly shocking aversion in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday''. Though blood levels are fairly low throughout the movie (It is Superman, after all), at one point in a pivotal fight scene Doomsday punches Superman so hard he ''vomits blood''. ''After'' some of it sprays Lois' face. From a distance.
206* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. When [[spoiler:Eugene / Flynn]] is stabbed in the chest, there is no blood on the dagger. However, when Rapunzel inspects at the wound, there ''is'' blood seeping over his shirt.
207* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'':
208** [[spoiler: Clayton shoots Kerchak]], and [[spoiler: shortly afterwards shoots Tarzan]]. In both instances, the areas where the wounds should be are shown but are missing both blood and the wounds themselves. Maybe Clayton was using high velocity rubber bullets...
209** Subverted in one fight. Tarzan slices Sabor and her cut is clearly shown bleeding. Tarzan himself is clawed in the chest and bleeds (though the cut disappears quick).
210** Subverted near the beginning when Kala discovers the aftermath of Tarzan's parents' death, when Sabor's bloody paw prints are shown. Although the ''actual deaths'' are off-screen.
211** The WordOfGod explanation for this, is that while Disney allowed blood to shown in the movie, they wouldn't let it be on screen for any longer than was absolutely necessary.
212* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'': Despite being [[HumanPincushion impaled by multiple arrows and a flagpole]], the soldier who warns the king of [[BigBad One-Eye’s]] impending invasion does not bleed.
213* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': Judy's cheeks get sliced by claws early in the film but noticeably does not bleed.
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217* In ''Film/FortySevenRonin'', despite beheadings, swordfights, and multiple scenes of {{seppuku}} -- while wearing pristine white clothes, no less -- there is not a single drop of blood.
218* ''Film/AmericanScarecrow'': When the killer claims his second victim, there isn't any blood on/around the corpse.
219* In ''Film/AreYouBeingServed'', a Spanish revolutionary is shot down, before getting up and running off without a drop of blood to be found.
220* No blood appears on any of the characters who get shot in ''Film/AssaultOnAQueen''.
221* At the beginning of Creator/WoodyAllen's early film ''Film/{{Bananas}}'', El Presidente is shot several times, point blank, with a [[HandCannon big gun]], and there's not a drop of blood. There's also firing squad executions where there's not even squibs, let alone blood. According to Allen, he didn't want to ruin the Creator/CharlieChaplin-esque mood of the film with ''real'' violence.
222* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
223** ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' uses this to keep its PG-13 rating. The worst injuries aren't shown in great detail and are only on-camera very briefly. This eventually gets rather ridiculous, since it's a brutal movie except for the bloodless part. The Joker even gives a ''GlasgowGrin'' to a guy, and there's no bleeding.
224** This also applies to ''Film/{{The Batman|2022}}'', even in scenes where [[spoiler:the Riddler bludgeons Mayor Mitchell and severs his thumb from his corpse, forces a rat trap on Commissioner Savage’s head, and shoves a neck bomb on DA Colson's neck, which explodes at Mitchell’s funeral]]. With the exception of the first murder in question [[spoiler:and use of a ''severed thumb'' as the Riddler's calling card]], there's very little blood, despite the mood being even bleaker than ''The Dark Knight''.
225* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'': The film is clean of blood, despite limbs and head being blown off of both Psychlos and humans.
226* ''Film/TheBlackHole'': Alex Durant is gored through the chest by Maximillian's high-speed saw-claw, and not a drop of blood is seen. Even Kate, who is ''standing right next to him as this happens'', comes out clean as a whistle.
227* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'':
228** ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'': Not a splash of red in an enormous pitched battle scene. In a more up-close and personal scene, when Peter is jumped by Maugrim the wolf, he impales the wolf and is pinned under him for nearly a minute. Despite this, there's very clearly no blood anywhere, yet the film retains Aslan's line from the book reminding Peter to clean his sword.
229** In the BBC version of the movie, the ''entire screen'' turns red during Maugrim and Peter's fight. When Peter stabs him, there is no blood.
230** This happens in the second movie ''Film/PrinceCaspian'' too. A man gets his throat slit and not only does he die instantly rather than bleeding out, but no blood was involved at all. Perhaps it was because a mouse wielding a mouse-sized sword was the one that hit him.
231** However, blood is shown outside of battle scenes such as Edmund's healing or Miraz being held at swordpoint.
232* ''Film/DaveMadeAMaze'': Several characters get dismembered or impaled while inside the maze, but not a drop of blood is actually shed [[spoiler:since apparently everyone's insides have been converted to cardboard]].
233* ''Film/DeathMachines'': Several scenes that one would expect to be very bloody are rather lacking in the gore department, such as when the Asian Death Machine slashes his opponent with a machete and the titular trio's massacre at the dojo.
234* Gunshots in the ''Film/DeathNote'' film are entirely bloodless, despite still killing people. Most [[{{Narm}} noticeable]] when [[spoiler:Naomi]] commits suicide.
235* ''Film/{{Django}}'' was banned in several countries because of a scene where someone's ear is cut off in full, bloody detail. Despite this, the gun battles are completely bloodless, even when people are riddled with dozens of bullets. Only one person killed by a gun bleeds, and he bleeds out his ''mouth'' instead of from his wound.
236* When [[ThoseWackyNazis Fegelein]] is shot dead in ''Film/{{Downfall}}'', no blood is shown at all, though the rest of the movie has lots and lots of blood.
237* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'' has multiple brutal melee fights with characters getting stabbed, slashed, smashed and crushed into the ground, even heads getting cut off and throats slit… yet there’s nary a drop of red to be seen throughout the film. At most there’s a bit on blood on a dagger that pierces a main character [[spoiler:Holga]]’s heart, but still '''way''' less than there should be coming from the very organ that literally pumps blood. The throat slitting example at least can be {{handwave}}d given the person in question was undead, thus shouldn’t have any blood coming out of them.
238* Despite having one of the biggest body-counts in action movie history, ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' is for the most part bloodless with its violence. In fact, it pulls off an unusual variation. Every bullet impact is shown, often in loving slow motion, but with black powder squibs. The only blood squib used in the film is for a particularly brutal broken arm. This gets slightly surreal when the main character slices a chunk off one of his opponents, which then slide off (again in slow motion) without a trace of the red stuff. Meanwhile, his sword is beaded by a single drop of white fluid.
239* ''Film/{{Eragon}}'' avoided a PG-13 for having "ample yet ''bloodless'' violence". Despite a major battle scene, many deaths of allies, and an onscreen ''stabbing'', no blood is shown anywhere.
240* ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'' accomplishes the untimely violent deaths of several dogs rather bloodlessly. Originally, there were plans to make them look realistically bloody until it was realized that it would make audiences stop laughing at what already was a very dark comedy.
241* Despite a body count the size of a small town, you can count on one hand how many times you see blood in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra''.
242* ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'': Gen. Garnett rides towards a cannon as it fires at him and then we see his horse emerge riderless from the smoke. Men who are shot typically clutch the wound and fall over, but only a few have visible blood when it happens; this is due to most of the troops being played by volunteer Civil War re-enactors who would not have been used to {{squib}}s.[[note]]Blood squibs are explosive devices and an inexperienced user could get hurt, plus the reaction of an ordinary person to its detonation would not look the same as the reaction to a real bullet wound.[[/note]] In particular, the destructive power of cannons is completely bloodless. Cannons carve devastating swaths through infantry formations, but the soldiers "hit" by shells just topple over, with the explosion of blood, guts, torn limbs and mangled bodies that result from actual cannons entirely absent. However, overall, the film does show a bit of blood from bullet wounds (e.g., when Union General John Reynolds is shot dead by a Confederate sniper on the battle's first day, one of his aides examines his body, and blood from the wound to the general's head is clearly visible on the other man's gauntlet), on fallen men, and sometimes on trees. (Historically, it was reported that blood from the battle made the ground ''marshy'' in some places.)
243* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'': When [[spoiler:Shandor]] gets bisected, there's no blood or gore to speak of.
244* ''Film/TheGoldenCompass''. Although people's lack of blood when dying can be attributed to their turning into the mystical dust, when Iorek Byrnison rips the polar bear king's jaw off, there is no blood. It's the killed humans' daemons that turn into golden sparks when killed, not the humans themselves. Ironically, this special effect probably allowed the filmmakers to embrace this trope more fully than usual, because they didn't even need to show anyone's body falling to the ground to confirm that a blow was lethal. If a daemon goes "poof", somebody bit it.
245* This happens at the end of ''Film/GranTorino'' when [[spoiler:Walt is by shot by a variety of pistols and sub-machine guns. All that is seen is a trickle of blood running down his arm, which is odd considering the movie was going to be R-rated no matter what the content of that scene was]].
246* Surprisingly ''Film/Halloween1978'' features no real blood or gore despite Michael killing several people. [[WordOfGod According to producer]] Irwin Yablans, he wanted the scares in the film to be more akin to the horror radio dramas he listened to when he was a kid where the murders were vague in detail allowing for the imagination to fill in the grizzly blanks. It was this lack of blood and gore that actually inspired the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' filmmakers to be as gory as possible.
247* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/TheHappytimeMurders''; the movie never pretends the puppets are anything other than puppets, so when they're murdered or injured, the "gore" consists of stuffing and shreds of fabric. The characters still respond to it as a real person would to blood and gore, leading to scenes like a cop wringing the water out of a wet puppet being [[FauxHorrific portrayed like something out of a horror movie]].
248* ''Film/HarryPotter'': The most notable straight example is in ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' when Wormtail severs his own hand with a knife. Whereas, in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire the book]], his robes end up "shining with blood", there is not a drop to be seen in the film.
249* ''Film/HawkTheSlayer'': No blood appears on the weapons used. Voltan is shown holding up his dagger right after stabbing someone to death for instance, and it's spotless.
250* Plenty of people get shot or stabbed in ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'', but only two of them bleed: the mountaineer whose blood was used to bring Rasputin back from the dead, and Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, who bled sand. ([[WordOfGod Guillermo del Toro]] said on the commentary that he wanted to ensure that onscreen bloodshed was only used in symbolic contexts.) In HB's fight with Sammael, he beats it over the head with a payphone, causing change to fly everywhere, much like blood would. The change standing in for blood in the fight with Sammael was quite intentional so as to avoid the R rating. Creator/RonPerlman originally suggested that Hellboy use a [[WhatCouldHaveBeen gumball machine]]. The same is true for the [[Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy sequel]], in which Strauss bleeds ectoplasm.
251* Strangely inconsistent in ''Film/HighNoon'', where a fistfight halfway through leaves Kane covered in blood, but those killed in the gunfight at the end just fall over.
252* In ''Film/{{Hook}}'' there are a few instances of this. A few pirates are shot, Peter and Rufio kill at least two pirates each, and later Rufio is fatally stabbed by Captain Hook, all with no visible bloodshed. Some blood is seen, however, when Hook slashes Peter's arm with his hook.
253* Spoofed in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'' -- there was a scene where Charlie Sheen's character, a Rambo parody, shot up dozens and dozens of enemies while a body count was tallied. Not a single drop of blood was even seen onscreen during the faux carnage. But after the tally passed about 100, a caption called the movie "more violent than ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}''"; after more kills, "more violent than ''Film/{{Total Recall|1990}}''"; and after about 250, called it "the bloodiest movie ever". Not bad for PG-13. Topper does have a record number of kills in that movie. It's actually 103 according to body count lists, and the higher ones came out later.
254* In ''Film/HussarBallad'' a lot of minor characters get killed in action, yet almost no blood appears on-screen. The only exception is a blood-stained letter that Shura takes from a wounded messenger and delivers herself; this blood is a minor plot point.
255* ''Film/{{Inception}}'' is almost entirely bloodless with the exception of a main character getting hit by a single bullet. Since his wound is of major importance for the following scenes, it's examined closely, but even so, it's very small with a relatively small amount of blood.
256* The original ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies had a decent amount of blood for non-R Rated films, but as pointed out by Mr Plinkett of WebVideo/RedLetterMedia, ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' hardly has any onscreen gun violence or death, and the few corpses shown on-screen only have a small strand of blood on the back.
257* This trope is very common in the pre-1990s ''Film/JamesBond'' films. {{Mooks}} are always shot in the chest by Bond, die instantly, and go down cleanly with nothing more than a mild grunt.
258** ''Film/GoldenEye'' has bloodless deaths as well, most notably when Bond shoots all those guards in the Russian prison.
259** There are rare exceptions. Bond headshots a Soviet soldier in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', and the entry wound and trail of blood are very obvious. In a few instances, entry wounds and squibs can be seen (such as in the tanker battle in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''). The film ''Film/LicenceToKill'' was notable in that it showed more graphic and realistic violence than the series had before.
260** A particularly strong example of the trope in action is in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' where Bond murders a disabled bad guy by stabbing his femoral artery and letting the man bleed out, yet not a drop is seen on Bond or, even, the floor.
261** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' goes so far as to have [[spoiler:the main villain inflate like a balloon and then burst]]. And yet still no blood.
262* In ''Film/JohnQ'', the heart donor who's wheeled into the O.R. for organ harvest looks like she's fresh from the hair salon, not a highway collision sufficient to render anyone brain-dead.
263* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': This is one of the franchise's favourite ways to show horrifying dinosaur violence, only second to the GoryDiscretionShot, in order to keep the films at a PG-13 rating. Most often, the scene will be shot in shadow to prevent any blood from being visible as a way of plausible deniability, although it can get silly how far the films are willing to go to avoid showing ''anything'' more violent than a few smears of red, especially when the books often ventured into {{gorn}} territory with its graphic descriptions at times.
264** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'': [[spoiler:Eddie]] is killed when he's ripped in half by two ''Tyrannosaurus''. The scene being depicted as night during a pounding thunderstorm prevents anything gory from actually being seen despite being completely onscreen.
265** ''Film/JurassicParkIII'':
266*** The infamous fight between the ''Spinosaurus'' and the ''Tyrannosaurus''. Despite being a vicious battle to the death between two massive carnivores biting at each other, there's hardly any blood, and the ''Spinosaurus'' kills the ''T. rex'' simply by snapping its neck rather than actually causing any wounds.
267*** [[spoiler:Udesky]] is brutally mauled near-death by a ''Velociraptor''. It uses ''both'' this and GoryDiscretionShot, and in the end he looks no more injured than he did before the attack. Then the raptor kills him by snapping his neck, which, again, is an easy way to kill something without any actual blood.
268** ''Film/JurassicWorld'':
269*** In a KickTheDog moment, the ''Indominus'' cuts down a herd of peaceful ''Apatosaurus'' without eating any of them. Despite being covered in huge slash wounds, there's no actual bleeding from any of them, even the one which is still breathing when Owen and Claire find them.
270*** During the Asset Containment Unit's failed attempt to capture the ''Indominus'', it uses both this and GoryDiscretionShot for all of them. Gory Discretion Shot is used whenever there's a violent death that causes splatter (like a man getting chomped or stomped on), while Bloodless Carnage is used whenever they're killed by internal injuries (such as being whacked by the dinosaur's tail or being slammed against a tree).
271*** In the pterosaur attack sequence, one of the helicopter pilots is killed by a ''Pteranodon'' impaling him through the chest, while a ''Pteranodon'' is killed by being bitten and eaten by the ''Mosasaurus''. In both cases, there is not a single drop of blood seen.
272*** [[spoiler:Charlie the ''Velociraptor'']] is killed by a stray missile blast, but instead of dino chunks spraying everywhere, she ''literally'' vanishes from the shot at the second of the explosion (seen very clearly if inspected frame-by-frame or pausing at the right moment).
273** ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'':
274*** Possibly the most egregious example in the entire franchise; [[spoiler:Wheatley]] has his arm torn clean off by the ''Indoraptor'' on-screen, but there is not even a single drop of blood.
275*** Blue the ''Velociraptor'' viciously mauls two mercenaries to death on-screen, but a combination of careful camera angles, keeping the shots out of focus, and the mercenaries' dark clothing prevents any blood from being visible. Only the flesh-crunching sound effects let the audience know that fatal violence is happening and not just a mild tussle.
276*** [[spoiler:The ''Indoraptor'']] is killed by being impaled straight through on the horns of a fossil ceratopsid skull. Again, the shot is in a dark environment and from a bit of a distance so no blood is visible.
277*** [[spoiler:Mills]] is killed by being chomped on and eaten by the ''Tyrannosaurus''. He's bitten multiple times and with so much force, his leg falls off. Again, no blood at all.
278** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'':
279*** In the extended edition, there is a fight between an ''Oviraptor'' and a ''Lystrosaurus'' in the dinosaur black market in Malta. The ''Lystrosaurus'' rips the ''Oviraptor'''s head off on-screen, and it stumbles around for a few moments like a decapitated chicken before dying, but rather ridiculously, there is no blood ''at all''.
280*** [[spoiler:The ''Giganotosaurus'']] is killed by being impaled by the claws of the ''Therizinosaurus''. Similar to the above example with [[spoiler:Eddie]], the scene is depicted during a thunderstorm and at night, so it can plausibly deny that there ''is'' blood, but you just can't ''see'' any of it. The fight [[spoiler:between it and the ''T. rex'' is also an example, similar to the ''Spinosaurus'' and ''T. rex'' fight, as both giant carnivores are brutally snapping and ripping at each other with huge teeth,]] but the fight occurs in darkness and mostly out of focus to prevent any potential wounds from being visible.
281* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' is not completely bloodless, but anything worse than a gunshot wound is remarkably clean. Most notably, when Lancelot is cleaved into two lengthwise, it does not result in a single drop of blood. Meanwhile, the [[YourHeadASplode head-exploding implants]] result in a burst of all sorts of goop, but little actual blood. [[spoiler:And when the final scene with all of the headless people lying on the ground comes around, the blood from their bodies is not even spilled all over the floor.]]
282* In ''Film/LastActionHero'', although several people get shot and blown up, no-one bleeds. The only time anyone bleeds is when Benedict shoots Jack Slater in the real world; he bleeds quite a bit and also coughs up some blood. However, his injury heals when he is taken back to the film world, because Danny is genre-savvy enough to know Jack isn't allowed to die in his movies.
283* ''Film/TheLongestDay'' manages to show the entire D-Day operation without any blood. In part, this is probably because blood doesn't look good in black-and-white.
284* Though Orcs bleed aplenty, do you remember seeing one ounce of red human, elf, or dwarf blood in the entirety of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' saga? The aftermath of the battle at Minas Tirith was surprisingly dry. Apart from the odd soldier slumped against a wall with blood in his mouth. Bloody faces and minor wounds appear occasionally in the films, but serious injuries and battles are always bloodless. However, Creator/PeterJackson, delighting in carnage, has gotten around this principle as much as possible, and there are plenty of gruesome sights such as disembodied body parts and rotten-looking ghosts.
285* Similar to ''Bananas'', ''Film/LustInTheDust'' features tons of gunplay, including one character getting ''[[GroinAttack shot in the crotch with a shotgun]]'', but not a single drop of blood is seen, because it would wreck the comedic mood the film is going for.
286* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Despite the high body count and numerous ways characters are wounded or killed [[spoiler:(including one mook getting stabbed in the face and throat with crossbow bolts, a C-section, another mook getting his chest blown open, and an old lady getting a chainsaw wound to her neck)]] barely any blood is visible until a brief shot near the end.
287* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
288** In ''Film/IronMan1'', dozens of people are killed throughout the film, without any blood splatter whatsoever. Presumably, this was to give it a lower rating. That being said, Tony does bleed helluva lot espeically when embedded with shrapnel.
289** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'': For all the bladed weapons used by the characters, nobody bleeds outside of T'Challa's duels with M'Baku and Killmonger. Most notably, Killmonger slits the throat of a Dora Milaje with no GoryDiscretionShot and her body just falls down without a drop of blood.
290** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': When Tony is run through at the end, there's not even any blood on the blade.
291** ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'': [[spoiler:Shuri]] pulls herself off of Namor's spear which impaled her through the stomach without bleeding. Justified as the [[spoiler:Black Panther]] suit automatically seals over the wound once the spear is gone.
292* While ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' has ''some'' blood, at the end of [[Film/TheMatrix the first movie]], Agent Smith pumps Neo full of lead from his Desert Eagle. The smallest calibre fired is .357 magnum and it can also be chambered in .44 or .50 AE, so a magazine's worth should leave penny-sized holes with severe bleeding to go along with the internal damage, not the tiny wounds and minimal blood loss visible in the scene.
293* Despite being the movie adaptation of one of the BloodierAndGorier games of its time, ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' was surprisingly blood-free, even when the characters were stabbed through the chest or knocked into a spike pit.
294* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by director Stephen Sommers in his commentary on the huge gun battle in ''Film/TheMummyReturns''. In the first movie even though Rick shoots a couple of Ardeth Bay's men at close range on the ship no one bleeds; in fact, the only time anyone bleeds is at the end where Rick has some blood on his mouth and shoulder and Imhotep bleeds from his sword wound.
295* ''Film/MysteryTeam''. Most of the carnage is implied, culminating in:
296-->[[spoiler:'''Police Officer:''' Someone stole that man's face]]!
297* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'' -- Gene Hackman's evil gunfighter character thinks he won a gunfight with The Lady but looks down to see a neat hole through his chest, with light coming from his back and wind whistling through this gunshot wound that looks more like a clean bloodless tunnel. Pure Creator/SamRaimi silliness. Ironic, from the man who made ''Franchise/EvilDead''.
298* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
299** The movies only have a few deaths with blood (like Barbossa in [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl the first movie]]), though justified as for the most part the villains are undead who ''don't'' bleed and indeed can't die. Stabbing/slashing is all common but a bloody sword is never seen, and in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third movie]] there are [[PrettyLittleHeadshots headshots which only leave the bullet hole]]...
300** Taken to even further extremes in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]'', wherein the lack of blood makes it possible for Blackbeard to fake [[SlashedThroat cutting someone's throat]], something that could never, ever be faked in real life.
301* In ''Film/{{Pixels}}'', everything the aliens destroy turns into pixels, handily avoiding any bloodspill.
302* The slaughter of Frank Castle's extended family in ''Film/{{The Punisher|2004}}'' film is almost bloodless, the only exceptions being himself (though he obviously survives), his father and several goons. In the director's commentary, Jonathan Hensleigh explains that watching over two dozen innocent men, women and children being brutally gunned down would have been even harder to watch had blood packs and squibs also been used.
303* ''Film/TheRaid1954'': The wounded man Maj. Benton is forced to leave behind is cut down by a fusillade of shots from the pursuing Union troops, with a later report stating he had been shot ten times.However, the only wound visible on his body is the one he started with. Made even more obvious because his shirt is open to the waist.
304* ''Film/{{Rampage|2009}}'': Though not completely bloodless, the injuries Bill inflicts result in much less blood than is realistic.
305* Plenty of people are fatally shot in ''Film/RanchoNotorious'', but the only time blood is seen on the screen is when Frenchy is wounded in the shoulder.
306* Zigzagged in ''Film/RatsNightOfTerror'': There's a lot of blood, but some of the most gory scenes (Lilith's death, for example), are remarkably clean.
307* In ''Film/{{Resident Evil|2002}}'', several characters are sliced into pieces in the Red Queen's LaserHallway but the only blood seen is a couple drops down the medic's neck. {{Justified|Trope}} as the laser beams were so hot they cauterized the wounds. It should be noted that the leader who was diced had the focus taken off of him...
308* ''Film/Robocop2014'' got flak for this. Due to the PG-13 rating, the ED-209 rating shooting someone, Murphy's accident and the gun battles with criminals are all bloodless in stark contrast to the original 1987 film where thanks to its R-rating these moments were extremely bloody and gory. Though with that said the BodyHorror scene where Murphy sees what's left of his body does manages to be actually ''more'' distrubing than the original film.
309* In ''Film/{{Salt}}'', there is no blood in the movie, save for when Creator/AngelinaJolie's character gets punched in the nose. And then she's just gushing the stuff.
310* In the first of the "in the ring" wrestling matches in the lucha film ''Film/SantoVsLaHijaDeFrankestein'' ("Santo vs Frankenstein's Daughter"), the TV announcer talks about how much Santo is bleeding from his opponent's illegal hits. Uh, what blood? (This may have been a case of StockFootage, as later in the film both Truxon and Ursus are shown bleeding.)
311* In ''Film/ScotlandPA'', the one scene with blood is when [[spoiler:Joe [=McBeth=] gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]. The rest of the violence occurs just off-screen, with nary a blood spatter.
312* In ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Gideon's {{Mooks}} bleed coins as Scott cuts them apart. Then, [[spoiler:when Gideon impales Scott]], there is no blood ''or'' coins.
313* In ''Film/SergeantYork,'' Pusher gets ''blown up with a grenade'' and is not only in one piece but completely free of blood.
314* Many people die in ''Film/TheSevenSamurai'', but you won't see a drop of blood or physical wounds of any kind. The fast editing during the battles makes this somewhat easier to hide. This was 1954 after all.
315* In ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'', only a small amount of blood is seen when [[spoiler:Orpheus has his head cut off]] and afterward it's perfectly clean, without even a stain on the floor.
316* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
317** ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' is notable for its conspicuous aversion, which is extremely unusual for [[Franchise/StarTrek the franchise]]. When rogue ''Enterprise'' personnel board a Klingon battlecruiser to assassinate Chancellor Gorkon, several Klingons are hit by phaser fire. Their wounds are shown to bleed profusely.[[note]]The blood, however, was bright pink, both to make it instantly distinguishable from human blood, and to avoid an 'R' rating[[/note]]
318** In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' Harrison's hands and clothes are surprisingly clean for someone [[spoiler:who just popped a man's head like a tomato]].
319* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', there are many instances of people getting limbs or heads cut off during lightsaber duels, but there is almost never any blood. This is {{justified|Trope}}, as lightsaber wounds show visible cauterization from the heat of the blade.
320** Moves into FridgeHorror in the case of decapitation. Cauterization of the wound by a lightsaber traps enough blood in the brain for a victim to survive up to 30 seconds before dying.
321* ''Film/{{Superdome}}'' contains multiple scenes of characters being shot, sometimes multiple times, but nobody ever bleeds.
322* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1993}}'' (1993) features numerous sword slashes, stab wounds, a full-scale battle with gunfire, and a character getting kicked into the spikes of an iron maiden, all without a single drop of blood.
323* The [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT movies]]. Also true in the cartoon, but not so with the comics. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 first live action movie]]. The big fights between the turtles and the Foot are bloodless, though the murder of Splinter's master in the backstory features blood spatter, and Shredder bleeds from a wound inflicted by Leonardo in the final fight.
324* ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974'', despite literally having the words "chainsaw" and "massacre" in the title, features an ironically small amount of blood in one scene, where a character is killed by Leatherface in a very dark room. The rest of the movie is gore-free (though still pretty horrifying).
325* ''Film/TotalRecall2012'' much the like the remake of the other Creator/PaulVerhoeven [[Film/Robocop1987 classic]] features a scant amount of blood, with the most being on one half of a character's face at one brief point. This juxtaposes with the [[Film/TotalRecall1990 1990 film]] which featured heaps of blood and gore, including TheDragon getting both his arms sliced off and entire torsos getting blown/ripped open.
326* In the ''Film/{{Tron}}'' franchise, Programs fade from existence when they [[DeadlyEuphemism de-rez]]. Fatal wounds shatter them like safety glass, leaving decaying voxels behind. Wounds look like pieces carved out of their bodies and scars are like dead pixels on an LCD screen. The fact ''humans'' bleed and Programs do not become a ''big'' plot point in ''Film/TronLegacy''.
327* In the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' films, more notably in ''Eclipse'', vampires seem to never bleed when being dismembered and decapitated. Instead, they seem to shatter, which while in the colder scenarios might be because according to the makers the heads freeze instantly, doesn't really make sense in other places. Obviously, it aids to keep the ratings low. The books and WordOfGod describe the vampires as crystalline, having bodies like marble or granite in quality, and their only bodily fluid to remain is venom.
328* ''Film/{{UHF}}'':
329** During George's ''Rambo'' fantasy sequence, he sweeps an automatic rifle along a line of {{Mooks}} on a hillside. A moment later, they bloodlessly collapse simultaneously.
330** Another skit from that film was "Conan the Librarian". In this skit, Conan slices a man in half for bringing in overdue books. Unlike most bloodless examples, the insides weren't even red.
331* In ''Film/UniversalSoldierTheReturn'', no one bleeds when they were shot. Well, except Romeo and one [=UniSol=]. The rest of the series, especially ''Film/UniversalSoldierRegeneration'' and ''Film/UniversalSoldierDayOfReckoning'', were awash with blood and gore.
332* ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'' avoids showing blood even when characters have lacerations and compound fractures from being hit by a car, get their heads bitten off, die by FlechetteStorm, or are ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.
333* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' contains two examples, first at the crime scene of Marvin Acme's murder there is no blood under the safe where his head was crushed, and R.K. Maroon is shot twice in the back leaving visible bullet holes and when we see his corpse after the killer has fled he is positioned in a way where his blood should be dripping on the floor but it doesn't.
334* ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'': Clever use of GoryDiscretionShot keeps much of the blood off-camera, but there is some war-appropriate evidence of violence (a soldier's legs are blown off). However, when Steve sees Diana's sword [[spoiler:sticking through the ceiling after plunging it through Ludendorff's heart]] it's bizarrely clean.
335* The Matt Helm films use this trope frequently when someone gets shot or otherwise killed, from the very first movie in the series, Film/TheSilencers, in which Barbara (Nancy Kovack), about to stab Matt (Dean Martin) in the back while embracing him, is shot in the back herself by Daliah Lavi's character, the audience only seeing a couple of neat, clean bullet holes in Kovack's blouse (and a few scenes later, Sarita (Cyd Charisse) is fatally shot while dancing, again with no visible blood), to Film/MurderersRow1966, in which Coco (Camilla Sparv) receives a bloodless spear-gun dart to her chest, to the last movie, Film/TheWreckingCrew, where Linka (Elke Sommer) is riddled with submachine gun rounds along with a couple of other people, yet not only is there no blood, there are no visible wounds at all on their bodies.
336* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
337** Despite being given more freedom in slicing people up than in the animated adaptations, [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesWolverine Wolverine]]'s rampages in the movies were conspicuously devoid of blood. Perhaps most notable is an instance in the first movie where he stabs Rogue in the chest. We're given a very clear close-up of the exit wounds on her back, but even those don't have any blood coming from them. What's more, when she turns around, we see that her shirt isn't even torn. Perhaps absorbing his healing ability extended to her nightshirt? Just the back of her shirt is torn (that's where we see the wounds).
338** This is in full force in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', where Wolverine slashes, impales, and generally slaughters about a dozen of Stryker's soldiers storming the school, with not a single drop of blood spilled.
339** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', there was no blood when Shaw shot Erik's mother. [[spoiler: Azazel's massacre of the CIA agents, Shaw's death and Charles getting shot]] also had either minimal blood or none at all.
340** In ''Film/TheWolverine'', the scores of {{Mooks}} that find themselves on the pointy end of Wolverine's claws don't bleed [[note]] Though there's plenty of blood flying around in the "Unleashed" edition [[/note]]. Wolverine does bleeds though it doesn't mean much since he's [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] even with his neutralized healing factor.
341** There is a surprising lack of blood in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', only some of which is {{justified|Trope}} by the mutants. For example, Iceman gets decapitated and Colossus gets ripped apart, but since they are in their "iced-up" and metal forms respectively when it happens, there is no blood. At the same time, the Sentinels impaling the normal-ish mutants like Blink don't so much as spill a drop, and Mystique gets a bullet through the leg yet walks it off with only a few drops spilled here and there.
342* ''Film/{{Zulu}}'': There are hundreds of bayonettings and large-caliber bullet wounds on bare-chested Zulu extras, yet no blood is shown from this (except on the spearheads and bayonets).
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346* From ''[[Literature/LandOfOz Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz]]'':
347-->So the Wizard lost no more time, but leaping forward he raised the sharp sword, whirled it once or twice around his head, and then gave a mighty stroke that cut the body of the Sorcerer exactly in two.\
348Dorothy screamed and expected to see a terrible sight; but as the two halves of the Sorcerer fell apart on the floor she saw that he had no bones or blood inside of him at all and that the place where he was cut looked much like a sliced turnip or potato.\
349"Why, he's vegetable!" cried the Wizard, astonished.\
350"Of course," said the Prince. "We are all vegetable, in this country. Are you not vegetable, also?"
351* The narration of ''Literature/TheQuestportChronicles'' tends to skate over any violence during the (frequent) fight scenes, unless the injuries are relevant to the plot.
352* ''Literature/SamuraiSanta'': When the [[SnowballFight snowball war]] really gets underway, a lot of {{Snowlems}} end up getting mutilated in ways that could [=NEVER=] be shown in a [[ChildrensLiterature Children's book]] if they were humans.
353* Creator/BrandonSanderson:
354** One of the creepier properties of Shardblades in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''. Since Shardblades don't cut living flesh, instead severing the soul and burning out all the nerves below the "cut" (or all the nerves in the body if you hit the head or spine), there is no blood from the use of the things. Though in some cases people have to cut through a pile of corpses to get them out of the way, which does result in some blood leaking out.
355** A necessity in ''Literature/ShadowsForSilenceInTheForestsOfHell''. When shedding even a single drop of blood in anger will enrage every shade in the vicinity, people learn to kill without drawing blood ''fast''.
356* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' this is {{downplayed|Trope}} given the nature of the medium making it such that the author normally wouldn't need to clarify the fact that wounds bleed--but there is one notable exception. Daylen at one point catches a man in the act of raping a little girl (revealed immediately after to be the man's [[ParentalIncest own daughter]]), and so magically enhances his strength in order to perform [[GroinAttack a barehanded castration]] on the [[StealthPun prick]]. Given the nature of the scene and the fact that erection in humans is achieved by inflating the penis with blood, one would expect a grisly and detailed description of HighPressureBlood. In fact, no blood is mentioned at all.
357* Justified in ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' due to being set inside a video game. The avatars don't bleed because they have no blood. Plenty of people die, though, and when that happens, they shatter and [[DisappearsIntoLight Disappear into Light]].
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361* While ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' isn't shy about showing violence and the resulting aftermath, the Night-Night guns and ICE Rs allow the characters to engage in gunplay while keeping the body count low since targets are knocked out, rather than outright killed.
362* ''Series/TheATeam''. While a little blood showed here and there, the series was infamous for inflicting the most extreme mayhem on bad guys... who always crawled away a bit shaken.
363* ''Series/{{The Avengers|1960s}}'' actually made a point of not showing blood, to maintain the lighthearted tone of the series, despite numerous deaths by gunshot, stabbing, explosion and so on. There were some episodes where a little blood was shown, but they were few and far between. In one episode, we are led to believe a character was mauled to death by a tiger; the victim's clothes are in shreds, but there's no blood at all.
364* In [[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E13Blake the final episode]] of ''Series/BlakesSeven'' this trope was used so the producers could bring the characters back to life if the series was renewed for another season (which had already happened once), by saying that [[TheParalyzer stun guns]] had been used. Except for one actor who insisted he be KilledOffForReal, and so suffered an appropriately bloody death-by-exploding-squibs+bloodbag.
365* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
366** The show is surprisingly bloodless for a series where people die on-camera every episode, often for vampire-related reasons (which generally involve, well, blood). Especially egregious are a scene in the first season where a person is eaten alive with no blood spilled, and another in the second where someone ''bleeds to death'' bloodlessly.
367** The whole "vampires neatly go ''poof'' into dust when staked through the heart" thing was done in part so the cute blonde heroine wouldn't be leaving a trail of bloody corpses wherever she went.
368** There are ''some'' aversions, i.e. "Your shirt..." This ''was'' [[DarkerAndEdgier season 6]].
369** [[Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer The 1992 movie]] on which the series was based has very, very little blood - and even when it appears, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext it doesn't seem to make much sense]].
370** There are a few plain old slit throats - but very little red.
371* The ''Series/{{Community}}'' paintball episodes also employ the humorous mock-carnage variant.
372* ''Series/DahmerMonsterTheJeffreyDahmerStory'': In episode 2, Jeffrey Dahmer tells Konerak Sinthasomphone he's going to make him into a "zombie" with the use of a drill. After the drilling takes place, however, we don't see any blood around Konerak's head, nor any drill holes.
373* ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' didn't contain much gun violence, but when characters did get shot, they never had any visible injuries.
374* Ubiquitous in ''Series/DoctorWho'', even when they're using real guns. It is for children, after all.
375** While seasons 11-16 shifted in a BloodierAndGorier direction, this made the times they ''did'' use Bloodless Carnage more noticeable:
376*** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Pyramids of Mars]]" has an interesting example where a cultist gets murdered by a HumanoidAbomination that literally boils his head with super-heated hands. No blood... but lots and lots of smoke, meaning it still seems extremely painful and disturbing.
377*** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]" features a compost machine that the villain uses to grind up bodies. After the villain falls into it, we see a closeup of its churning blades while we hear his bloodcurdling scream... but not a drop of blood.
378** "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]", when the Sycorax Leader cuts the Doctor's hand off during a sword fight. One would think that losing a hand would cause at least SOME blood loss, but nope. The 2018 [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelization]] {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it by having Rose wonder if the Doctor ever bleeds.
379** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last of the Time Lords]]":
380*** Jack has been tortured to death repeatedly by the Master for a year and is at one point gunned down by a squad of soldiers, but his clothes don't have a drop of blood on them.
381*** When the Master is fatally shot, no blood is visible. By WordOfGod, there was a little bit of blood on his shirt, but Creator/JohnSimm's hand "accidentally" covered it up.
382** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp The Unicorn and the Wasp]]" has one of the worst examples in the new series: a woman gets crushed with a gargoyle, and when we see her she is entirely intact with only a small trickle of blood coming from her mouth, and still able to give some LastWords. It ''is'' a light-hearted Agatha Christie-themed episode, so significant bloodshed would be inappropriate.
383* ''Series/{{Emergency}}'': The producers had to abide by a "no blood" rule to get the series greenlighted, so even injuries where you'd expect some level of blood had very little to none.
384* There are plenty of gunfights in ''Series/TheFBI'', but the dead men never have any blood on them.
385* A lot of people die in ''Series/GetSmart'', usually through getting shot or, less frequently, being stabbed in the back, though there are a lot of other more creative deaths. However, none of the deaths in the show ever result in the victim spilling so much as a single drop of blood.
386* Both ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' were both usually bloodless. With Hercules, it usually made sense, given that he had a strict view on ThouShaltNotKill. Still, it can be jarring with the constant sword fights and random mooks that get stabbed and slashed. If someone bled, it was usually for drama. Even with Xena, who had no such qualms about killing her enemies, she rarely ever got blood on her sword.
387* ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' to a point. Sure, we'd see sword cuts in the flesh and some blood when someone was injured, but at no time did we ever see the bloody mess you'd really have with a beheading. Of course, the beheadings themselves were never shown, but the victor usually came away with very little blood spatter on them.
388* ''Series/IrmaVep'': The shootings in all ''Les Vampires''' versions are bloodless, with victims simply falling to the ground after being shot at close range repeatedly.
389* Another toku example is ''Series/KamenRider555''. 555 is an AnyoneCanDie series where the monsters' method of operation involves outright killing civilians onscreen until found and dealt with. However, those killed by Orphenochs simply turn to dust. Orphenochs do the same upon eating Rider Kicks but with an explosion. Impalement is shown via X-ray-ish scenes similar to ''Film/RomeoMustDie'', and never is any blood left on the weapon. It's got an ''astonishingly'' high body count given that it never shows any victims bleeding. (Now, there's a ''little'' blood if you get punched in the face, maybe.) ''Decade'' has every single rider shown killed in a vision simultaneously, yet there is not one drop of blood. However, there is a somewhat small reason behind it. It is entirely possible that they all bled when they died, but we couldn't see it through the suits. In the Rider War World, they seem to be vaporized.
390* ''Series/KingdomAdventure'': Despite the Prince being struck on the neck with a sword in one episode and Dagger being shot in the backside with an arrow in another, there's no blood. It was stated that one character who'd been shot with an arrow had lost a great deal of blood, but no blood was shown on-screen.
391* In ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'', almost every episode includes Richard and Kahlan fighting and killing Darken Rahl's soldiers, but while blood is sometimes shown on the blades afterward, little if any blood seems to be gushing from wounds during battle. Then again, when people get their throats cut, there's plenty of blood gushing from the wounds.
392* In "The Assassin", an episode of ''Series/MacGyver1985'', a woman gets stabbed by an assassin and has no blood on her whatsoever. This kind of thing seems to happen in most episodes where someone is shot or stabbed. People die within seconds without doing much bleeding.
393* One episode of ''Series/MagnumPI'' featured a squadron of soldiers being gunned down with uzis by enemies, there is no visible bloodshed despite their uniforms being a very light brown.
394* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' never depicts any blood. It either [[GoryDiscretionShot cuts away]] or just plain doesn't show any, even in instances where there would logically BE blood (e.g. a sword fight). There are a few exceptions to this - in "The Beginning of the End", Mordred is shown bleeding after being wounded, and Arthur's blood has been shown every time he's been injured.
395* In an episode of ''Series/MiamiVice'' entitled "Definitely Miami", Crockett and Zito open fire on Ted Nugent (that episode's BigBad, and not to be confused with the [[Music/TedNugent rocker of the same name]]) after he attempts to lure Crockett to his death. Despite the fact that both of them are firing several rounds from two different angles, and with Crockett standing up and unloading his entire cartridge into Nugent, there are no bullet wounds or blood stains of any kind! Amazing!
396** Nearly every shoot-out is like this. For all the gunfights that happened and all the bad guys falling over dead, there were few bullet holes and almost no blood. Reportedly, there was little in the budget for effects like squibs. For scenes that needed blood, they would do a quick edit between an unstained shirt to a stained one.
397* ''Series/TheOutpost'': Though not ''entirely'' bloodless, there's little blood when someone's wounded, no matter what the injury is (of course, that's standard for prime time TV).
398* Best example: ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' -- out of nearly 800 episodes, only one had blood, and then only ''three drops.''
399** It's now up to ''two!''
400** Three if we count alien blood. Tyzonn gets wounded when we first meet him.
401** Four, actually. In ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', Eric is shot while unmorphed, and he is later seen with a bloody bandage covering the wound.
402* There is surprisingly very little blood on the BBC's ''Series/RobinHood'', sometimes to the point of [[{{Narm}} distraction]]. The most notable example is when [[spoiler:Maid Marian]] is run through with a sword and spends the next ten minutes presumably bleeding to death, all without spilling one visible drop of blood or even growing pale. She even wrenches the sword from her own belly, yet again without any blood, which should be clearly visible considering she's wearing a ''[[WhiteShirtOfDeath white dress.]]''
403* There is never any blood visible in ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'', no matter how horrific the wounds which should be inflicted. Usually, they used the standard "chop in the stomach while the victim's back is to the camera" technique, but missed it in an episode where Robin was fighting the Flemish mercenaries who killed Will's wife. It's a bit surprising to see the main villain keel over dead after having a sword dragged across his belt, clearly not cutting anything.
404* It's never shown in ''Series/SesameStreet'' but the canonical handwave for Rosita [[{{retcon}} turning]] from a fruit bat into a generic Monster is that she was flying through a windy cave and her wing flaps fell off. She never even felt it.
405* In an episode of ''The Return of Series/SherlockHolmes'', a victim is shown being stabbed. However, the camera forgot to cut away before the stage knife was pulled out, showing no blood at all.
406* ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' included a particularly amusing example of the second variation, a paintballing sequence played like a gritty war film. And also included [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2tLKjeOstg&feature=PlayList&p=73454BB6BFFA6CC3&index=4 this amusing gunfight]] with which produced little blood (except the spurting at 44s).
407* In an episode of the {{toku}} version of ''[[Series/SpiderManJapan Spider-Man]]'', Amazoness and her {{mooks}} shoot up a bunch of men with guns. Yet, no blood or bullet wounds or anything else that would come with shooting happens. They just fall down.
408* In ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'', people almost never bleed no matter how badly injured they are. When Starsky is shot three times in the back in the SeriesFinale, he does bleed, but a lot less than would be realistic.
409* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
410** Phaser-fire in the universe in general. Stun leaves no marks, kill leaves a small burn at the point of impact, maximum setting leaves [[DisintegratorRay a second of glowiness and then nothing]]. No blood from the series' many shootouts. ExplosiveInstrumentation is much less likely to leave your RedShirt looking like he's [[BigSleep just napping]], though we do get some impressively nasty burn makeup on occasion. Non-disintegrating kill shots were also treated inconsistently, ranging all the way from fairly impressive pyrotechnics(without blood) to the standard invisible wound. In "The Magnificent Ferengi", we see someone get shot with the latter (lack of) effect, but then see an unmissable burn when his body appears later.
411** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' -- particularly after the arrival of Worf -- featured bat'leth and mek'leth combat on a regular basis. Apparently, slamming the blade into the armoured belly of a charging Klingon bezerker is ''instantly'' fatal -- but bloodless.
412** Lampshaded in a ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode where Nog, watching an old cowboy show on the holodeck wonders why there is no bleeding after a cowboy gets shot in the arm.
413* ''Series/{{The Tomorrow People|1973}}'': In "The Revenge of Jedekiah", John and Elizabeth are gunned down by soldiers with fully automatic assault rifles. Not only do they (barely) manage to survive their injuries, but when we see them sprawled on the floor, there isn't a trace of blood.
414* ''Series/TopGear'' created a spoof TitleSequence for ''The Intercepters'', a non-existent Seventies action show. In one scene James May empties a submachine gun into a villain wearing a white suit and trousers. Instead of bullet squibs and WhiteShirtOfDeath, the villain [[BadBadActing clutches his unmarked chest and writhes unconvincingly]].
415* An episode of ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' featured several flashbacks to a blood-free crime scene. All the while, the character who was recalling it was whimpering, "There was so much blood!"
416* ''Series/WolfHall'' cuts away from the actual moment of Sir Thomas More's beheading. The goriest it gets is the aftermath of Anne Boleyn's execution when her handmaidens have blood on their hands and skirts from lifting her head and body into the coffin.
417* ''Series/{{Wonder Woman|1975}}'': The show went to great lengths to keep the violence PG rated. Wonder Woman crashed cars with {{Mooks}} in them, blew up a submarine, hit bad guys with a razor-sharp tiara, fought a gorilla, fought her way out of a Nazi prison, and caught bullets all without spilling a drop of blood. In "Wonder Woman in Hollywood", she even convinced Steve Trevor and Wonder Girl that she'd been shot despite the lack of blood!
418* ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'': "Trenches of Hell" features a depiction of the battle of the Somme in WWI where, despite mortars falling all over the battlefield over soldiers, there's not a single drop of blood seen.
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422* {{Enforced|Trope}} in Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, which has long refused to air matches where blood is spilled without editing the blood out first. This did not stop Mexico City mayor, Lic. Ernesto Uruchurtu, from banning televised professional wrestling matches during his term. Luckily for CMLL, magazines were the primary lucha libre media anyway and they were much less averse to blood, though getting back on TV lead to a business boom for them.
423* When the entire Wrestling/{{WWE}} decided to go rated PG, it also decided to stop any match where anyone bled in order to close them back up with medical tape. While backlash from the fans put a stop to this practice, spots intentionally set up to make a wrestler bleed now range from discouraged to banned outright. Later, WWE started applying medical glue to cuts during the downtime of matches [[GimmickMatches that lend themselves to them]], such as iron man matches. Fans and wrestlers still didn't like it, but it was much better received than previous measures, being much rarer and not as damaging to the flow of the bouts.
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427* There are two shootout scenes on ''Ride/TheGreatMovieRide'' at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's Hollywood Studios]], where some characters even get hit, but without a single drop of blood.
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431* Most of the ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series, as human combatants are almost never visible.
432* You can hit villagers in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' with tools, including axes, but they only ever seem annoyed instead of injured.
433* The ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' games as a whole adhere to this trope to a surprising degree, considering the point of the game is bloody assassination. The ketchup-stain variation of the trope is in full effect--sometimes when you get hit, you bleed for a few seconds before the stain disappears! You can stab, slash, and even break bones complete with crunchy sound effects, but bleeding is almost always minimal. When you kill animals for their hides, there's a GoryDiscretionShot when you skin them--and that's probably the goriest part of the game, since you're able to see red bones and rib cages afterward.
434** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedAltairsChronicles'': Altair takes down many a Templar in this game, and not a single drop of blood is shed.
435* This is the ''ONLY'' reason ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' were not given an ''M'' Rating, [[DarkerAndEdgier which many are still shocked that they didn't get even without any gore.]]
436* ''VideoGame/{{BLACK}}'', no matter how carnage-y the FirstPersonShooter action is, there is no blood, however it was rated M because of [[SirSwearsALot strong language]].
437* Aversion with LampshadeHanging in ''VideoGame/BloodRayne2'':
438-->'''Rayne:''' You saw the blades, what did you think was going to happen?
439* In ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'', despite all the horrible ways to die, none of them show any blood or gore. The only exception is that there is a scene with the red blood in the transfusion bag, and that is in the resurrection scene when Lance gets his blood back in the "Vivi's Salon" sequence.
440* In ''VideoGame/CelDamage'', there are a couple maps that have sheep wandering around, whom can be sliced in cartoon fashion (no blood, just a red inside with a visible bone half). Violet even slices one with a chainsaw in her ending. However, weapons such as the chainsaw, axe, etc., when used on players, only slices their car, while the character is flung out and left running.
441* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' and ''City of Villains'', no matter how much you sliced an enemy up, or punched, or shot, or made them catch on fire, or froze, they won't have any slashes, bruises, burns or have ice on their body. That's because no one is ever killed in COH / COV - they are "defeated" (and presumably teleported away to justice and/or the hospital). It is, after all, T-rated. In fairness, the game never explicitly says what happens one way or the other, meaning you can decide if you have hero who just lets the medicom take over, (Or in the case of villains, one supposes just kidnaps them and uses them as hostages/leaves them in Bond-Villain deathtraps) or if they're... DarkerAndEdgier, shall we say. This might be allowable with the SuperStrength or [[HandBlast Energy Blast]] powersets, but becomes particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} when one is using {{katanas|AreJustBetter}} or [[KillItWithFire fireballs]].
442* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' did this by having every enemy MadeOfExplodium and your character a OneHitPointWonder.
443* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/Destiny2'' plays it almost completely straight. While red blood did exist, it's only PlayedForDrama in cutscenes without being too overexaggerated or violent, while in regular gameplay the game resorts to dark-colored smoke as a result of BoomHeadshot to the alien races, and spark effects for the mechanical enemies and energy or power attacks.
444* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'' usually {{justifie|dTrope}}s this by restricting you to weaponry that destroys your enemies too thoroughly for there to be any blood, disintegrating or incinerating them outright. The head explosions, though, use [[BlackBlood Green Blood]].
445* Everybody of demonic origin (including the protagonist) in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' officially has the power of "regenerates so fast wounds don't show up", although blood is seen on cutscenes. The regeneration is limited -- possibly the only example of HitPoints explained in-world.
446** Despite taking a bullet between the eyes at point-blank range in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'', [[spoiler: Sanctus]] really has nothing to show for it. Well, he ''was'' dead for a while. He was just reborn later in the game as an Angel, [[AssPull supposedly]].
447** Supposedly, the [[EssenceDrop Red Orbs]] are demon blood that crystallizes the second it hits air. Some attacks also cause Dante to visibly spurt blood for a brief moment.
448* ''VideoGame/TheDivision'' and its sequel plays this almost completely straight with the outcome of gunfights almost never left a drop of blood at all. You can inflict "Bleed" status effect yet without the icon the baddies still look clean. There is also how you often blow up gas tanks of several enemy types but [[PGExplosives they fall over clean]]. Blood does still exist though especially on dead bodies, but not much and often translucent or dark enough to be mistaken as shadow, puddle, or oil. The game itself still rated M due to some cutscene featuring cruelty and also some characters having strong language.
449* In ''VideoGame/{{Dungeons}}'' nothing bleeds. You can have a hero mauled by monsters, run straight in a buzzsaw trap and get killed but still no blood.
450* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
451** Significantly Downplayed in that the series has long had a "blood splash" effect when a character is hit, but the blood doesn't persist. Similarly, no matter how they are killed, corpses will not have a single wound on them.
452** Starting with ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', arrows will persist for a time after the battle. However, the character won't bleed, and even dozens of arrows which make the character look like a pincushion won't cause further damage or hamper movement in the slightest.
453* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series as a whole largely practices this trope:
454** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' is full of battle scenes with combatants being attacked with [[{{BFS}} enormous swords]] and machine guns and the like, with no blood. Outside of gameplay and in related works, it's also often the case, but varies. It really could just be down to the graphics. I mean, try rendering 3D blood in cut-scene with technology like that back then?
455*** A symbolic point in the original game was that, when Sephiroth [[ItWasHisSled stabs Aerith]], there's no blood on the blade. However, when Cloud kills Sephiroth at the end, blood is pouring down his face. Then again, Cloud had had just cut Sephiroth fifteen times straight through the body with a sword the size of a man -- a faceful of blood is nothing compared the small bloody chunks which should logically have ensued.
456*** And yet, earlier in the game, you were in a building with bloodstains (including in the battle background) and see a giant, ''gruesomely'' impaled snake. [[ValuesDissonance Apparently, standards weren't quite as asinine back then.]]
457*** This is also partially justified by Sephiroth's Masamune (supposedly) being so sharp that it cannot draw blood. The bloodstains and snake could be explained by having Sephiroth cut up the victims, so blood would flow naturally out of the chopped bodies and the snake was impaled on a tree.
458*** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' is much worse in this regard. Unlike the original game there's no technical excuse (beyond the ratings board) for Cloud to not be realistically painting the streets of Midgar red with his foes' blood and body parts in beautiful high definition graphics when swinging around his massive sword, rather than just making big energy sparks come off enemies. [[spoiler:The scene where Sephiroth stabs Barret also features no blood either.]]
459*** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'''s Compilation, in the various depictions of the game's backstory, Cloud stabs Sephiroth straight through the back ''with a sword wider than his torso'' with no sign of blood or even a wound (!), and Sephiroth impales and hefts Cloud on his own sword, again with no blood. Yet, ''Videogame/CrisisCore'' ends with [[spoiler: Zack dying in an appropriately copious pool of blood after having been pumped full of enough lead to kill Godzilla]]. Despite the rest of the game unrepentantly embracing this trope.
460*** ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus: Final Fantasy VII'' has a pretty bad instance of this, besides the spotless corpses that litter various warzones: [[spoiler:Rosso the Crimson ''buries her hand up to the wrist'' in Vincent's chest,]] and yet there's not a drop of blood, when, ratings be damned, it should have been fountaining from the wound. It follows up with a case of AlienBlood, in which Vincent impales Azul. Once again, there's no blood from the wound, although he ''does'' cough up a few drops of something...purple...? Are only good guys and Sephiroth allowed to have red blood in these games?
461*** Cloud's many battles in ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyViiAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' involve villains being clouted with his {{BFS}} repeatedly without any visible damage, despite said weaponry ''cutting off pieces of skyscrapers'', and the only blood in the entire film is a tiny trickle when Cloud is ''shot in the face at point-blank'', which simply knocks off his sunglasses. MadeOfIron indeed. At the climax of ''Advent Children'', [[spoiler:Cloud cuts Sephiroth right through repeatedly with a new version of Omnislash, leaving no marks and only drawing dark smoke instead of blood, which could be justified by Sephiroth being a HumanoidAbomination]]. Soon after, [[spoiler: Cloud gets shot through the stomach, but all he does is stumble forward]].
462** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' too has largely bloodless carnage as well, except for the opening battle, where Squall and Seifer both get a huge bloody scar ripped across the front of their face.
463** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' doesn't feature bloodshed, even in the grim aftermath of the sacking of several cities in the first one-and-a-half discs. The Alexandrian soldiers involved mostly used fire, [[JustifiedTrope so all the wounds would be cauterized as soon as they were made.]]
464** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' follows in suit with the rest of the series. No matter who gets stabbed, shot or blown up, blood is never seen. Justified in a few cases, as the victims are fiends or Unsent - creatures that don't actually have physical bodies.
465** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has cutscenes where people are pumped full of machine gun bullets and don't bleed. Occasionally, they don't even get that badly hurt, in a rare [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration gameplay and story integration]] of GunsAreWorthless. Like ''VII'' and ''VIII'', the game averts this at one point: [[spoiler: After the party defeats Rosch a second time, he has blood all over his face]].
466*** Most of the Mooks that get shot are wearing armor. It could be partly justified.
467** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' has characters who take hundreds of blows from their enemy, yet they look perfectly fine.
468** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' both [[GameplayAndStorySegregation plays this straight in gameplay and averts it in cutscenes]].
469** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' never has any blood drawn, even during cutscenes where you can see someone clearly being slashed with a sword axe; the victims simply fall over dead.
470*** There is a subversion to the trope, namely [[spoiler: Haurchefant's death, in which there is [[BloodFromTheMouth blood running down his chin]] from being impaled by a magical spear]], but it's still far less than what should be a massive puddle.
471* The stabbing scene in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'' -- "Is this… all there is? No challenge? No resistance?" No blood?? All ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' games do this, despite the massive melees between characters who almost all use edged weapons. Early games could accredit this to technical limitations. The later ones, however, were probably primarily to keep the rating down and maintain the tone of the game, which is not realistic at all in the first place. Subverted in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade The Binding Blade]]'' - [[spoiler: Hector]]'s portrait is shown with blood after [[spoiler: his fight with Narshen and Brenya]].
472** Another particularly egregious example is [[spoiler:Ryoma's suicide]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates: Conquest''. Apparently, not a single drop of blood was spilled when [[spoiler:he committed {{seppuku}} with an ''electrified sword'', nor was there any visible blood on the Raijinto itself]].
473** Subverted by the opening cutscene of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' where a slight amount of blood is shown when Seiros kills Nemesis, but this trope continues to be enforced from that point on.
474* ''VideoGame/{{Fishgun}}'' is a parody of FPS games where all your enemies are killer ''fruits''. As such, there isn't a single drop of blood regardless of the amount of enemies you kill, nor do you bleed if hit by enemy attacks - fruit juices are used in [[SymbolicBlood a manner reminiscent of blood instead]].
475* Enforced in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' and [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 the sequel]]. Even in the former's GameOver screen, [[EyeScream which depict the poor hero's eyes popping out of a Freddy costume]], is clean of blood.
476* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'', left and right. Your character has a lightsaber. No matter how hard you swing it, it doesn't even leave a mark on the ''wall'', much less actual enemies- particularly strange when one considers one of the selling points of the game on higher-end consoles was realistic physics and material simulation, such as, say... destructible environments. Maybe he just set his saber to stun. For fun, compare with the [[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Jedi Knight series]] from ''Jedi Outcast'' onwards. Your lightsaber leaves a mark, even when idling and just scratching the wall. It disappears after a while though, but the effect lingers for longer than… oh say... the 2 seconds of what you get in TFU. Justified, as it has been stated that the lightsaber cauterizes the wound.
477* In ''VideoGame/FurFighters'', "Fluff" flies out whenever the player character or an enemy is shot, making this game good clean fun. PAL versions of the game do have a blood cheat, which replaces the kid-friendly fluff with... well, nasty, gushing blood.
478* In the 2001 Xbox launch title ''VideoGame/FuzionFrenzy'' and its sequel, many of the minigames involved blowing up other players with explosives, shooting and blowing up other players in tanks, or meleeing other players either with punches or kicks or with makeshift bludgeons. The second game even had giant hammers to whack other players with, pushing other players into incoming asteroids, using flamethrowers on other players, and making other players [[ExaggeratedTrope fall into lava]]. Yet the characters [[ViolationOfCommonSense suffer nothing more than falling down and (sometimes) being eliminated]] from the minigame. Of course, this ''IS'' an E-rated game, which justifies this trope.
479* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 2,'' a notoriously bloody game, features a censored mode where all blood is replaced by showers of sparks. [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/11/ But not rainbows and confetti.]]
480* While the purposefully cartoonish and low-detail graphics may have something to do with it, the deaths in ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' are extremely clean.
481** You never see any bleeding from gunshots or crushed bones from having something heavy fall on them. [[spoiler: Cabanela's death]] in particular, since [[spoiler: between the explosion that leaves him nearly incapacitated and being shot in the chest (or the NonstandardGameOver if you swap the hard hat and smash in his face)]], you'd think he'd at least get a stain or two on that white coat.
482** Another instance that is flagrant in hindsight: early in the game, the main characters come across [[spoiler:a black cat]], but don't notice anything odd about it. At the end, it's established that [[spoiler:the cat had been shot dead less than an hour beforehand. This fact is vital to TheReveal]]. Well, Sissel ''did'' say that [[spoiler:he'd prefer a black coat to a white one because it wouldn't show the stains]].
483* ''VideoGame/GoGoHypergrind'': The contestants have to be decapitated, punctured, flattened, eaten, shocked, burnt, and so on, but because they are toons, there is no blood. In fact, there is such a lack of blood that the color red isn't available for the Paint Negative Reaction in any level whatsoever. Yellow, blue, purple, green, orange, brown, and white are all present in the game, even if some are rare, but pointedly red is not.
484* ''VideoGame/GodHand'': Despite having the classic Capcom Content Warning screen ("This game contains scenes of violence and gore") when booting up the game, there's absolutely no blood in this game, despite being a beat 'em up game where you use weapons like swords and rocket launchers. Plus there are several scenes where mutilation is involved (the protagonist gets his arm cut off and can behead enemies with a special move), and none of them have a single drop of blood.
485* Zig zagged with ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997''. Enemies do bleed through their clothes when shot, but they'll never be gushing blood and you can't spray the walls or the floors with their blood. Likewise, the amount of bloodstains on an enemy character model is very minimal. If you get killed during a mission, the game will show the guards shooting Bond full of holes, but he won't actually bleed.
486* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': The cutscene deaths of two major [=NPCs=] ([[spoiler:Eir in ''Heart of Thorns'' and Mai Trin in ''End of Dragons'']]) are shown with no blood anywhere, despite causes of death that ''should'' have produced plenty ([[spoiler:stabbing (with the weapon pulled out) for Eir, gunshot for Mai]]).
487* ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' downplays it, blood existed but not to the point of bloodbaths, even blood pools appear far less often than they should. Bafflingly, the UsefulNotes/{{E|ntertainmentSoftwareRatingBoard}}SRB gave it an M rating while other bloody games such as ''Franchise/StarCraft'' and ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' (partly justified due to most of the blood being either droid oil or AlienBlood) got away with T rating.
488** Played straight in ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' onwards.
489* The ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'' doesn't have a single drop of blood anywhere despite the plentiful ways for [[TheManyDeathsOfYou the player character to fail horribly]], and the vast majority of gunshot and explosion deaths are offscreen. Combined with the stick figure aesthetic, this has the effect of making the games comical rather than gruesome.
490* ''VideoGame/HiddenExpedition: The Eternal Emperor'': Two characters are shot (one fatally). Not only do they not bleed, but their hazmat suits are undamaged -- despite the fact that getting Gunshot Victim #2 out of the tomb before the mercury vapors finish him off is a plot point.
491* Played with in ''VideoGame/HotaruNoNikkiTheFireflyDiary''. Many of Mion's deaths can be pretty gruesome, which includes getting crushed by gears and being chopped up by buzzsaws. Luckily, she simply faints when she gets killed, her body never appearing physical harmed in any way. However, her "fainting" is accompanied by the screen being splattered with blood.
492* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' does have blood, but tones things down during certain cutscenes that would otherwise be too gruesome for a T rating: the deaths of [[spoiler:Gorilla Grodd and Doctor Fate]], for example, are completely bloodless, despite both of them being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice; in the latter's case, the implement used to do the stabbing remains spotless even while it's sticking out the other side of his body.
493* The ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors''/''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors''/''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'' series use this trope very heavily, except in a handful of cutscenes.
494** This trope is present in the actual gameplay as well. The game focuses around hacking and slashing through large hordes of enemies at a time, with body counts at the end of missions reaching at least 1000. However, when your character attacks enemies, there are no visible wounds or injuries that appear, and no blood is shed. This is done most likely for technical and practical reasons, as adding realistic bloodshed/injuries to the dozens of enemies being slain at once would clutter the screen and put stress on the hardware.
495** This is averted in ''Warriors: Legends of Troy'', as well as the ''Fist of the North Star'' and ''Berserk'' crossover titles, as blood and gore are heavily present in their source materials. ''Berserk'' even goes so far as to include dismemberment for human and non-human enemies alike.
496* While the enemies from ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'' do not appear to bleed at all, black blood spatters seem to appear on screen when you build your combo up, and there's a scene in the first trailer of Joker ripping an enemy's mask off, which leads to red goo splattering from its face like in the main game. Nobody actually dies in the game save for a few off-screen deaths that occurred in the past, however.
497* Normally, ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' averts this trope. However, because of a bug in the new game mode {{Chainsaw|Good}} [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 Massacre]], it's possible for the game to stop rendering blood entirely, so [[OurZombiesAreDifferent the Infected]] are torn apart like Play-Doh dolls. Before rating changes that added the AO (Adults Only) category, the Australian release removed blood and gore entirely, due to video game censorship laws over there. Now it's back.
498* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series frequently plays this trope straight:
499** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' usually averts it: monsters shed AlienBlood, there's a quick flash of blood when Link takes damage (though it could easily be mistaken for {{Hit Spark}}s), Dead Hand is covered in rusty brown blood, and the Bottom of the Well and Shadow Temple contain pools of fresh blood in some rooms. The most notable and memorable example comes from after phase one of the final battle, when [[spoiler:Ganondorf]] [[BloodFromTheMouth coughs blood]] at the camera and then collapses. After he falls, his red cape falls through his body and spreads out on the ground, looking suspiciously like a large pool of blood. Of course, this is all in the first releases of the game; later versions gradually recolored and toned down the blood to obscure what it's supposed to be, and in ''Ocarina of Time 3D'' the red flash when Link gets hit is all that remains.
500** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'', the follow-up to ''Ocarina'', keeps both the red and AlienBlood when Link or an enemy is hit... but ''only'' in those situations. For instance, Mikau is supposed to have been fatally wounded by Gerudo pirates and left for dead in the waters of the Great Bay, but when you find him he just looks very tired.
501** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'': {{Exaggerated|Trope}} at the end of the game, in which [[spoiler:Ganondorf doesn't shed so much as a drop when Link drives the Master Sword into his skull]].
502** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' zig-zags it in much the same way as ''Ocarina of Time''. Enemies' and Link's blood flash briefly on screen, but as there is no ClothingDamage, one won't think much of it. But after the monster invasion to Ordon Province, visiting Rusl after the cleansing of Faron Province but before defeating the game's first boss (Diababa) in the Forest Temple will show him on his sofa with nightmares wrapped in bloody bandages. It's finally played straight at the end of the game, when [[spoiler:Link stabs the Master Sword through Ganondorf's abdomen, yet no blood is seen out of his wound]].
503** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'':
504*** The closest the game gets to averting the trope is where the Blight Ganons explode in crimson fountains of liquid [[MadeOfEvil Malice]] upon defeat. It still isn't proper blood, though, and every other enemy dies bloodlessly.
505*** In Memory #17, Link collapses defending Zelda from a [[BossInMookClothing Guardian]], sustaining fatal injuries that take a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld century-long coma]] to recover from. However, when he loses consciousness he appears only to have been mildly roughed up and his clothes aren't even torn.
506** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom Tears of the Kingdom]]'': The closest the game gets to averting this is during the opening when a mummified Ganondorf awakens. A shard of the [[WreckedWeapon broken Master Sword]] flies forward and slices Ganondorf's cheek, causing bubbling Gloom (basically a more concentrated form of Malice) to ooze out. Yet this isn't actual blood.
507* The VideoGame/{{Lego Adaptation Game}}s have characters breaking into Lego pieces upon death, and getting better immediately afterward.
508* In ''VideoGame/LostDimension'', this is the standard for battles, however, in the final battle with The End, his attacks will be shown to draw blood, which spatters on the ground and then disappears.
509* ''VideoGame/MadDogMccree'' doesn't have a drop of blood shed, even though you're fighting with bullets. Presumably, this was to keep the violence from being too disturbing and predated the advent of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1992'' which would garner attention for its use of digitized actors paired with blood and violence.
510* Justified in ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' as no matter how enemies get shot, stabbed or blown up their bodies disintegrate back into the Matrix's code. The only time you see any blood is during the in-game cut-scenes.
511* In addition to there being no blood whatsoever in the early Platform/PlayStation titles of ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'', sometimes if you killed an enemy with a rocket from a Bazooka or Panzerfaust, he might even do a backflip mid-air and land on his face.
512* Lampshaded hilariously in ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}}''. If a certain mission is failed (i.e. The building with the VIP inside is turned into smoldering rubble), the VIP will exclaim with his dying words: "I'm dying...not bleeding...stupid T rating."
513* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': Despite being one of the darkest, most violent Nintendo franchises, it still goes bloodless when it portrays violent human deaths (like in the backstory cutscene showing the Ing murdering the GF Troopers in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes''), and violent animalistic deaths only display AlienBlood at most.
514* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
515** Would you believe ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'' is ''less'' graphic than the original MK? On consoles that have the processing power to handle real-time gore, there is never any visible sign of damage. Even the fatalities are mostly bloodless. This is due to ExecutiveMeddling by Creator/DCComics, as they refused to allow their superheroes like Batman and Superman to be killed in gruesome ways. Interestingly, even in the ''goriest'' game of the series, ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', the Story Mode not only doesn't allow fatalities (since killing people would create quite a few paradoxes with the cutscenes immediately after) but the battle scars that fighters accumulate in the other modes do not appear. The fighters finish the fights as dapper as when the first round started.
516** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1992'': The SNES port of the game ran afoul of Nintendo's then-strict censorship policies; as a result, the blood was replaced with "sweat" and many of the fatalities were {{bowdlerise}}d to the point [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdeJ4B1Dwwg it's very unclear as to how you killed your opponent]]. The Sega Genesis version was technically censored as well, but a hidden code turned it off, so it was still favored by critics and fans over the SNES version.
517* Any video game (not the VisualNovel or any AnimatedAdaptation) based on the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' didn't have blood in many of their actions except for a scant few non-interactive scenes if any. This includes ''VideoGame/FateUnlimitedCodes'', ''VideoGame/FateExtra'',''Videogame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'', ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''[[note]]There are playable characters whose animations have gore, but they're few and far between.[[/note]] and ''VideoGame/FateExtellaLink''. Ironically one of the first Nasuverse's official games is called ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'', which also lacks blood, except for a few non-interactive stills.
518* ''VideoGame/NaughtyBear'': Justified as the characters are teddy bears who leak fluff and stuffing instead of blood. AlienBlood is parodied however by giving the alien bears oddly colored fluff.
519* ''VideoGame/NavalOps: Warship Gunner 2'' justifies it in the fact that you're throwing extremely large caliber [[{{BFG}} artillery]], [[SlowLaser lasers]], [[MacrossMissileMassacre missiles]], [[MoreDakka Gatling gunfire]], and [[WaveMotionGun Pulse Cannons]] ''[[ExaggeratedTrope in spades!!]]'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and it's ship-to-ship combat.]]
520* The {{bowdlerise}}d version of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' removed all the blood (despite keeping in the swearing and sexual content) so every enemy killed would instead explode into ash when killed. This also translated into the cutscenes, resulting in some {{Narm}}.
521* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' uses this flagrantly... with the in-game graphics. The cutscenes utilizing 2D art, on the other hand, avert this.
522* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''; the characters may bleed a bit when attacked, though they still don't spill blood or burst into bloody bits when turned into corpses.
523* In ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'', while there is some [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuJs8_UX4AAgz3b.jpg brief red splatter]] when characters get hurt, not a single drop of blood is spilled no matter how violent things get. In [[WhenTreesAttack Grover]] and [[KillerRobot Bomb King's]] cases, it's justified as they don't have blood to spill in the first place.
524* Neither of the ''VideoGame/PlanetSide'' [=MMOFPS=] games have any sort of blood despite soldiers being repeatedly run over, falling to their death, and being shot at by 150mm high-explosive cannons. The first game's [[UsefulNotes/BetaTest alpha]] screenshots had blood which was removed from release, and the [[NeverTrustATrailer second game's trailer had copious amounts of blood]].
525* Justified by the story in ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime''. The first human enemies you face do bleed, albeit rather subtly. Once the Prince [[NiceJobBreakingItHero unleashes the Sands of Time]], Azad's citizens become zombified, and thus all of their bodily fluids have been "dehydrated" by the Sands of Time. In ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin Warrior Within]]'' (which was RatedMForMoney, after all) and ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones The Two Thrones]]'' the Sand Monsters bleed, though they are Sand-ified {{Super Soldier}}s rather than accidental ZombieApocalypse victims.
526* ''VideoGame/RangerMission'' probably deserve a mention as the ''least'' violent LightGunGame in history. You spend the entire game shooting terrorists left and right, and every enemy you kill instantly turns into a wireframe model before disappearing. Given the games' barebones plot, it ''could'' be assumed your character is playing through a simulation instead of killing actual terrorists.
527* ''VideoGame/RedSteel2'' is made of this. You stab, slash, shoot, one move has you grab a downed enemy and smash their head into the ground ''killing them instantly.'' All without a drop of blood. There IS a liquid that pours out of them, particularly visible with the finishing move to the chest. It's yellowish, however, so it could be censored blood or something else entirely.
528* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' usually uses about as much gore as you'd expect from a horror series, but there's few instances where this trope is apparent.
529** The [=FMVs=] of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', unlike the first game[[labelnote:*]] which for all its {{narm}} still showed poor Joseph getting brutally ripped apart by a zombie dog[[/labelnote]], feature very little blood and no real gore at all.
530** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' actually features the least gore of the main titles, as even in the death animations the camera cuts to an angle that avoids explicitly showing the characters getting torn apart (probably because their character models don't actually change). It's especially notable in cutscenes where characters are rarely shown with bleeding injuries beyond a few bloodstains on their faces. The only exception is [[spoiler:Piers]] who gets his arm mangled but even then the blood splatter is very brief. Sherry also gets a large piece of shrapnel embedded in her back, but thanks to her HealingFactor there's no gory wound.
531* In ''VideoGame/ShaunWhiteSkateboarding'', getting diced by lasers or taking a bad fall reduces you to chunks of pixels.
532* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
533** In ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' there is no blood OR gore. Sega planned on adding it in, but decided not to add it so the game would be rated E10+ instead of a T rating. You can't even actually KILL anyone besides the aliens (GUN soldiers just lie on the ground and call out for help.) Even though it is implied that in a few of the endings [[spoiler:you killed Eggman by breaking his neck or destroyed the human race]].
534** Maria Robotnik [[PosthumousCharacter died]] of a gunshot wound. Despite this, her death is consistently depicted as bloodless. There's not a single drop of blood in any canon depiction, even in the uncensored version of ''Shadow the Hedgehog''. It's made more noticeable because her dress is baby blue, which should stain ''very'' easily.
535* The ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries SoulCalibur]]'' games are defined by a bunch of people hitting each other with really sharp/big/painful weapons, yet during battle, no one bleeds, bruises, or even gets cut. People must have been stronger back in Ye Olde Middle Ages. Although large amounts of shiny, fluorescent…energy does seem to explode out of a fighter when they get hit. ''Soul Calibur IV'' probably alleviates this issue a bit by letting the [[ClothingDamage armor take the damage]] (though the intent was most likely for FanService)
536* Despite being undoubtedly the most violent ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' game to date, ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' features almost no blood whatsoever in combat (you can only see ''very'' little of it if you look really carefully for a few frames), despite Spidey possessing a myriad of finishing moves that would definitely put a person in an emergency room in real life.
537* In ''VideoGame/SpyParty'', The Sniper's target simply falls down when shot, signaling the end of the game.
538* No blood is spilled in ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}''. Monsters and critters just poof on death, and humanoids vanish in a quick teleportation effect. (If a quest-important NPC is killed, the fail message says they probably respawned somewhere safer, so one can assume teleporters and respawners are in use for other people as well as the protagonist.) Even the victims in the prologue don't shed any visible blood. Of course, there are mods to correct this matter.
539* ''VideoGame/StarTrekJudgmentRites'': InUniverse, this trope is played straight when Kirk and his team are placed into a fictional recreation of a World War 1 German town by the omnipotent being Trelane. Trelane, having only developed a shallow fascination for the war, creates TheThemeParkVersion of a trench right outside the town which looks almost serene and pristine. It contains only a single soldier who is perpetually on the verge of a dramatic death, but no blood or even mud to be seen anywhere. At the end of this episode, Kirk convinces Trelane to read the ''Enterprise's'' historical records and reconstruct the scene as it would look in real life. This new recreation is... [[InvertedTrope absolute carnage]].
540* ''VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder'' much like ''Force Unleashed'' has been called out for this. While you can have Cal slice alien creatures into chunks with his lightsaber all day, when it comes to human enemies like Stormtroopers, limbs very much stay attached, there's no decapitations and at worst they get a big burning cut or a lightsaber through the chest. Only Ninth Sister explicitly loses a hand to Cal in their fight, but she's an alien character therefore [[AlienBlood allowed]] to receive such a wound on screen.
541* ''Strange Flesh'': There is no blood whenever the Bartender punches and kicks his enemies, possibly being justified as they're all imaginary constructs that take place inside of Joe's head.
542* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' games play around with this. Despite characters naturally beating the snot out of each other with punches, kicks, grapples, throws and [[KiManipulation Ki Attacks]], there is no blood in actual game play. The only real times blood is shown is [[GameplayAndStorySegregation in the match results screens]], where only the loser is shown beaten and bloodied, while the winner is completely fine regardless of how much damage they themselves sustained.
543** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' has the most exaggerated examples in its story cutscenes. Characters are punched, stabbed, slashed, and poisoned, and show absolutely no marks or bruises or ill effects afterwards. Even Vega, who fights with WolverineClaws, can get so much as a drop of blood.
544* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'' has knives and swords that both the player and enemies can use against each other, but no one ever bleeds. The fan remake adds blood as an option.
545* The enemies in ''VideoGame/{{SUPERHOT}}'' don't bleed, but instead [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter into pieces like glass]]..
546* The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series has some characters that use swords, guns, and explosives, yet no visible signs of any kind of damage appear, as the characters are LivingToys. When Master Hand is blasted by [[spoiler: Tabuu,]] though, bloody scrapes are clearly seen on him.
547* In ''VideoGame/SwordAndFairy'' series it seems to be a general rule that Deities and Demons don't bleed at all. Instead, their wounds produce some glowing particles. Human blood, however, is simply not shown at all. Case in point: in ''VideoGame/SwordAndFairy6'' after one character kills someone, the camera focuses on his sword and shows that it's spotlessly clean.
548* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay'', [[spoiler:when Morgan [=LeFlay=] slices off Guybrush's pox-infected hand for the Marquis De Singe, Guybrush screams in pain and covers up his wrist stump, but no blood spurts out from his stump]]. Weird!
549** It gets even weirder in Chapter 4 of the same game, [[spoiler:when Guybrush finds Morgan fatally stabbed in the chest by her own Blade of Dragotta, and yet there's no blood on her body, inside or out, at all (even though he later claims that she was "coughing up a lot of blood at the time"). And after she dies, he sadly takes the blade from her chest; that blade, surprisingly, has no blood on it ''or anywhere else in De Singe's lab at all'' (even though De Singe later claims that "There was blood all over the floor instead of being packed neatly in vials where it belongs!")]]!
550*** During the De Singe confrontation scene, [[spoiler:when the mad doctor tries sedating Elaine, she stabs him in the chest before he laughs maniacally and says, "Behold the power of the Jus de Vie!" She then pulls her sword and his chest wound glows... although no blood is shown on his chest OR on her sword]].
551** And near the end of the same chapter, [[spoiler:when [=LeChuck=] fatally stabs Guybrush in the chest with the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu, there's no blood on the cutlass' blade, or on either side of Guybrush's body or clothes, or anywhere else in the Flotsam Island Jungle, from his being tossed onto an encased wind idol up until his death]].
552* This tends to be a trend for the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' in general. If there's any blood, it typically shows up only in the animated cutscenes, and only in the especially dramatic ones (such as the deaths of [[spoiler: Asch]] in ''[[VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss Abyss]]'' and [[spoiler: Alexei]] in ''[[VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia Vesperia]]'').
553** Despite all the sharp weapons and other implements flying around in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' and its sequel, the one time blood shows up in either game is [[spoiler:in Derris-Kharlan, at the scene of The Judged. Lloyd is invisible to two of the characters in the party, and must prove to them that he is not an illusion. He wounds himself, and his blood, now visible, proves he is there]]. The OVA, on the other hand, is quite violent.
554** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'', Richard's descent into insanity is punctuated by him repeatedly slashing an enemy soldier even after the guard is clearly dead. The characters comment on how violent and bloody it was, but the player never sees a drop of blood on-screen.
555** ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'' however, while still retaining the trope in battle (outside of the new Bleed status ailment), subverts it much more frequently then other games in the series, in line with its DarkerAndEdgier nature. In the "Bad Ending" in particular, main character Ludger's twin swords are shown to be covered in blood.
556** ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' averts this trope. Main character Velvet gets splattered with blood quite frequently, and characters who die by impalement or cutting show very large bloodstains where they were hurt, complete with gouged flesh.
557* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': A new option introduced in 1.3 allows you to turn off blood and gibs, instead making enemies and characters disappear into clouds of smoke upon death similar to ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'', which can make it easier to spot enemy drops without [[LudicrousGibs mountains of body parts in the way]]. It does cause a few oddities with enemies that constantly bleed (or if you're bleeding) causes those same puffs to appear such as Demon Eyes or the shoulder points of Skeletron.
558* ''VideoGame/TimeGal'': Several of Reika's deaths like being hurled into a whirling propeller or eaten by a shark should be gory, but are done as cartoon slapstick instead.
559* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters'' maintained this for the most part in the first two installments of the series, at least during gameplay, which makes the BloodierAndGorier [[VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect third game]] (which also introduced the [[LudicrousGibs Inflator]]) all the more jarring.
560* ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'' has you slay monsters all over haunted Greece, Egypt and the Orient, but none of them so much as spill a drop of blood. (And neither do you when you get hit.) Even if you swing two swords and use techniques that most closely approximate a blender, all that happens is that they fall over. As the game is ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''-style, this is definitely something they ''could'' have implemented.
561* The first five games in the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series zig zags with the trope. Specks of blood can be seen flying when Lara shoots an enemy or she gets shot by an enemy gunner during the game. In cut scenes, there is no blood at all. Tomb Raider Legend and onward omits blood completely, despite the fact that the entire series always had a T rating. However, this is made up for the ''very'' gruesome death scenes (while still lacking blood) that occur should you fail a quick time event.
562* In the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' series, even when coming into contact with many many sharp knives or a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade legendary katana that can cut through anything]] doesn't yield a drop of blood or even a scratch.
563** May be justified with the sharp knives in question, which may or may not be magic bullets shaped as knives. Also, you can't really expect damage to show up on such a small sprite, and red things fly everywhere anyways, so who's complaining?
564* In the N64 game ''VideoGame/WinBack'', hits on enemies were indicated by green flashes, or a red flash if you scored a headshot (which could kind of look like blood sometimes). Dead enemies would flash on and off and vanish after hitting the floor. It became especially ridiculous during cutscenes -- in one you meet a dying member of your squad who claims to be "just resting." The main character replies "In a pool of blood!?" despite the surroundings being spotless. In another scene an unfortunate civilian, shot by the terrorists, dies after helping you...and flashes on and off and disappears, ''during the cutscene.''
565* There is no blood in ''VideoGame/WolfDOS''. Meat is red, but that's as much blood as you'll ever see. The process of killing an animal - whether that's you killing your dinner or a hunter killing you - results in zero blood. Anyone who's ever seen a nature documentary of wolves around a goat knows the process of disembowelment and subsequent feeding normally results in blood covering the wolves' faces, or sometimes their entire front ends if they climb inside the carcass to get after a particularly tasty morsel.
566* ''VideoGame/ZombieMadness'': Even though the zombies will eat your family if they catch them, there won't be any blood shown.
567* The 2017 Platform/{{Steam}} game ''Zooicide'' is a team-based fighting game revolving around zoo animals trying to kill each other and the zookeepers that watch over them. While there's no blood shown the animals still fall apart to pieces of body parts [[MadeOfBologna filled with baloney]]. The gorilla even throws his troop like ammo to try and kill his opponents even if it costs them their lives.
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571* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games frequently give you crime scene photos, and they are always a lot less bloody than you might expect.
572** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' features two of the most extreme examples: in case 3, [[spoiler:a man is shot in the shoulder by a .45-caliber weapon and left to eventually die of ''blood loss.'' You are actually the first to find him at the scene and [[AlmostDeadGuy get to hear his last words.]] The HandCannon sort of mussed-up the shoulder area of his suit a little, and the "pool of blood" he's lying in is more like a puddle]]. In case 4, [[spoiler:a man is shot right in the forehead at point blank range. The crime scene photo looks like he's sleeping, only there's a hole in his forehead about the size of a quarter, out of which is leaking about as much blood as what one would expect from a shaving accident. Judging from the pillows behind him, there doesn't appear to be an exit wound at all]].
573** Bludgeoning wounds are one of the most common causes of death and one never sees a spot of blood or caved in skull.
574* In ''VisualNovel/{{Juuzaengi}}'' the visual novel nature of the game means limited sprites and pictures. Unless there is a CG accompanying the scene, the only way to tell an injury is from context, the voice acting and their expressions.
575* The first villain in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' wiped out a whole hotel full of victims and left no trace behind. This is not for Bowdlerising purpose, said villain is so blood-thirsty to the point of decanting every last drop of blood and flesh in his reach. The bloodless carnage also served to provide a clue to another villain with a completely different conduct, which evidently, also falls into this trope: He sucks the victim completely dry of blood, but he leaves the corpse.
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579* The short-lived web series ''WebAnimation/ACloneApart'' parodies this tendency in ''Franchise/StarWars'', where an inexperienced Clone Trooper (named Danson) is listening to a superior's account that all their training (which Danson never received) never quite prepares you for all the screaming and the blood in the middle of combat. Then the following exchange occurs between him and his best friend, Bhiff:
580-->'''Bhiff:''' Don't worry Danson. He's lying.\
581'''Danson:''' ''[relieved]'' Really?\
582'''Bhiff:''' There won't be any blood. Laser fire cauterizes the wound. You'll be dead before ya get a chance to bleed.\
583''[Danson makes distressed noises]''
584* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': Despite having several gruesome deaths and injuries (it ''is'' called ''Death Battle'' after all), there were a few battles in which no blood was spilled. In other cases, the entire fight is more or less bloodless until the killing blow.
585* The very first ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'' flash, in contrast to the rest of the series, has no blood at all despite Hank killing thirty characters, including with explosions and decapitations.
586* ''WebAnimation/MinecraftEndventures'': Episode 3 has a scene where Endreai's squad gets torn apart by Shadow, and no blood is left behind. Some other battles are like this as well, at least before [[BloodierAndGorier Episode 12]].
587* Even though Lewis dies just barely off the edge of the screen, with the spire that tore through his torso and his torn clothes making it into the frame, and Arthur's arm is seen in Mystery's mouth directly after being torn off there is no blood seen in ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated''. There has even been an on-screen decapitation, but the character that happened to is not human and likely has no blood to show.
588* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
589** {{Justified|Trope}}: Every [[HumansAreSpecial human (or faunus)]] character in the setting has an Aura which comes from [[OurSoulsAreDifferent the human soul]] and, as [[NaiveNewcomer Jaune Arc]] puts it, "works like a forcefield". Hence, despite all the bullets and {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s whizzing around, human characters never take serious hits unless their Aura is depleted.
590** While this trope is generally in full effect, there are a few notable aversions. When Weiss gets punched by the knight armor in the White trailer, blood runs down her forehead over her eye. In "Beginning of the End," [[spoiler:Mercury's bloody, bandaged legs are on full display when Cinder and Emerald arrive to recruit his father]]. In "Heroes and Monsters," [[spoiler:[[http://i.imgur.com/tr8ktjH.jpg Adam can be briefly seen flicking Yang's blood off his sword]] after cutting off her arm. A brief shot in the next episode shows the remainder of Yang's arm wrapped in bloody bandages. Adam once again wipes blood off of his sword after impaling Sienna Khan in "Dread in the Air", and this time it's focused on quite clearly]].
591* Even for guns which apparently don't have fully enclosed turrets, there are no visible crewmen in ''VideoGame/UltimateAdmiralDreadnoughts''. So you will never see them getting torn to pieces by incoming shells, flung into the air by explosions, lit on fire, or floating away from a sinking wreck.
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595* Zigzagged in ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty''. [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2009/08/23/obedience/ Early in the comic's run, Moose's freshly-amputated antlers are a bloody mess,]] but later, [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/09/11/you-know-youre-being-ignored-when/ after Socks' brain is removed, the top of his head comes off like a hat.]]
596* ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'':
597** Erfworlders have blood, but nobody bleeds at all. ''At all''. And there have been some pretty grievous wounds inflicted in Erfworld, including multiple limbs torn off, a man hit in the head with a crossbow bolt that entered through his eye, a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dwagon's]] head ripped off, a dwagon's jaw being ripped off, a dwagon eating several marbits alive, and several dozen [[OurElvesAreDifferent Woodsy Elves]] being torn limb from limb. Not ''one single drop'' of blood has been seen in battle and the leftover blood in the mouth of a feeding [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Transylvitan]] evaporates almost instantly when he stops.
598** Most off-putting is when we see several badly wounded dwagons, damaged to the point that their ''muscles and bones are exposed''. And still, they don't bleed.
599** All of the terms in ''Erfworld'' are cuter and friendlier, and the physical rules of the universe actually censor swear words. The majority of the strip's comedy comes from the fact that it's a violent war waged in a world where [[WarHasNeverBeenSoMuchFun everything is cuddly and (superficially) kid-friendly]]. To some it's comedy, to others it's [[{{Deconstruction}} quite]] [[CrapsaccharineWorld disturbing]].
600** Parson Gotti is exempt due to being from the real world. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in book 3:
601--->'''Parson:''' Well, good. 'Cause, um... I'm bleeding.\
602'''Marie:''' Yes. You do thot. It's gross.
603* The Titan's remains in ''Webcomic/LatchkeyKingdom'' seem more like rubble than gore. Though it was alive, what it was made of is unknown, so it may not have had blood.
604* ''Webcomic/OmnitopiaThePlayground'' uses an art style similar to ''The Order of the Stick''. Within the first fifty strips, characters get hit on the head with a club, stabbed in the chest with a sword, and get their heads chopped up with little to no blood appearing aside from the occasional red mark showing when an attack hit.
605* Given that ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is a stick figure comic, the trope is justified. Stabs and slashes leave red marks on the victim (so you can tell that the person was hit), but we never see blood splatters, and more serious wounds such as decapitations have no blood marks at all (maybe except [[spoiler:Miko]] being cut in half, but there is still just the wound mark, no blood splatter). [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0339.html This comic]] is one of the most obvious ones.
606* ''Webcomic/RumorsOfWar'', true to its inspiration (SNES-era [[EasternRPG JRPGs]], among others) contains no bloodshed. This despite one character [[{{Squick}} having all his skin removed]], and another being the victim of ColdBloodedTorture. No blood.
607* ''WebComic/SleeplessDomain'':
608** There's little blood in Chapter 2 seen when Tessa comes across her dead and dying teammates, with it only seen trickling out of her dead teammates' mouths, despite the fact that they were all flung in the air and then slammed into the ground. It's at least justified with the case of the dying teammate, Undine: she has water based powers, and she can somewhat control her blood (though she's starting to fail at it since it's not purely water).
609** When Mingxing lost her arm, at first it looks like a clean break because it had frozen and broken off during battle. However, it's implied that, like Undine, it was her magic keeping the blood in [[spoiler: as when her magic starts to burn out, blood shows up in the trail she leaves behind, and she's seen lying in a pool of her own blood as her powers finally go away for good]].
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612[[folder:Websites]]
613* ''Website/NobodyHere'': "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/reality.here Reality]]" features no bloodshed despite being an interactive animation about ants tearing apart a dead dragonfly.
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616[[folder:Web Videos]]
617* Virtually any fight in ''WebVideo/DiamondsCut'' is this because of the budget limitations, but this is especially prominent during the [[spoiler: M’s death]]: not only is there no blood spilt, as camera lingers over his body, but the window remains absolutely undamaged when it should by rights have been broken by the sniper’s bullet.
618* When Frank gets stabbed in ''WebVideo/NyxCrossing'', the characters act like he's bleeding, but no blood is shown.
619* Played straight with most of WebVideo/TedCrusty's videos, most of them consist of Joe being killed in ways that would be particularly gruesome [[SpecialEffectFailure if they were made professionally]].
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621
622[[folder:Western Animation]]
623* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Princess Monster Wife" has the [[AnIcePerson Ice King]] stealing body parts from various princesses in order to make his wife, including the heart and intestines. Granted, all the princesses are non-human, some being made of things like clouds or candy.
624* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': In the series finale, Rose slices off the tip of [[spoiler:The Dark Dragon's]] tail with her Huntsclan staff. No blood.
625* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[spoiler:In "True Colors", when Marcy literally gets stabbed in the back by King Andrias]], there is no blood or even clothing damage present as she falls to the ground. The lack of blood could be because [[spoiler:Andrias used a LaserBlade that would have cauterized the wounds]], and her armor appears to be melting around the sword.
626* There's almost no bloodletting in ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''. This is especially notable since one of the main characters, ComicBook/BlackPanther, usually attacks enemies with his ''razor-sharp claws''.
627* In the 1989 AnimatedSeries of ''Literature/{{Babar}}'', when Babar's mother was killed by the hunter. Her dead body looks like she's only unconscious with no gunshot wounds and her ivory tusks still intact. Though with the latter makes it looks like the Hunter was [[ForTheEvulz just a big game hunter doing it for the thrill than a poacher looking to profit off the ivory trade]].
628* As they are both DarkerAndEdgier, both ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' and ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' have a concerning amount of violence, all without blood. It's still technically a kids show, but in episodes like "Time Heals" and "Fused" when Ben gets the complete and total crap beat out of him in a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown (which seems to happen to him a lot), a little bit of blood would make sense, even when he's an alien. After all, they made a big deal out of "Ben can get hurt now!" in the very first episode of Alien Force.
629* Generally justified in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', as the biomechanical Toa and Matoran don't have blood. However, that doesn't explain why, in the movie ''The Legend Reborn'', Mata Nui could cut off the tail of a Vorox (an organic, mammalian creature) and have only a few ''sparks'' appear. Most likely the writers either didn't know better or didn't care.
630* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'', even in the more realistic war-torn human world, nobody bleeds. This is most evident in the final episode, when a major character doesn't bleed even after being run through with a sword.
631* Though not carnage, per se, ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' had one scene in which Yumi had cut her hand on broken glass. Though scratches were seen, ''blood'' was absent.
632* ''WesternAnimation/ConanTheAdventurer'' makes heavy use of this, with the protagonists all wielding [[ThunderboltIron starmetal]] weapons that instantly banish the enemy Serpent-men to the Abyss. This is even made into a plot point; in the last three episodes, when the doorway between worlds is opened, the Serpent-men do still disintegrate on touch, but reform close by and almost instantly, making their numbers truly limitless. Something that is also shown in an early episode with a BadFuture plot.
633* In ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', no matter what horrible thing happened to Courage or Eustace, they never bled.
634* Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:
635** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' uses blood rarely, for dramatic scenes only as well. Epitomized in "Chaos at the Earth's Core", where two armies of sword-swinging warriors clashed, with several soldiers getting cut down on-screen, with nary a drop of blood to be seen. Though throughout both series, crisp, clean, and often brutal action sequences combined with a punishing and varied series of sound effects (and good voice acting) makes the viewer almost feel the impacts, blows, punches, explosions, magic, bullets, etc. It feels a lot more violent than it is showing.
636** One episode where this was cleverly used, however, was "The Enemy Below", where Aquaman cuts off his own hand to save his infant son. In order to avoid the amount of blood, what did the animators do? They had him wrap the stump with the baby's ''red'' cloth, which appears soaked when he shows up at the palace.
637** In the Splicers episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', Terry ''rips Ramrod's nose ring off'' resulting in no ill effect to Ramrod. No blood, no nothing, he's perfectly fine. That said, ''Beyond'' was actually pretty liberal with blood usage, as later in the episode, Terry himself was shown [[BloodFromTheMouth bleeding]]. He was also seen bleeding in the Earth Mover episode and he clearly wiped off blood from his mouth.
638** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' showed both batman and The Joker bleeding in the flashback, as did ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm''.
639** A woman tears out her earrings (ItMakesSenseInContext) bloodlessly in an early ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode.
640* This is used straight in the first battle sequence in ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}: Dragons of Autumn Twilight'' (with monsters being blatantly stabbed with no blood), but then avoided in a later battle scene where splashes of red follow sword slashes. But then, given the odd mix of traditional and CGI animation, consistency was probably not to be expected.
641* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "There's Something About Paulie," Big Fat Paulie gets shot with dozens of bullets but doesn't bleed at all.
642* In ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourTheAnimatedSeries'', a {{Flashback}} actually shows Ulysses Klaw killing ComicBook/BlackPanther's father with a real gun instead of a {{Family Friendly Firearm|s}} (though the shot itself is fired offscreen). Despite this, there's no blood or wounds of any sort on the corpse.
643* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' Season 6 episode "The Prisoner of Benda", a man gets his arm cut off by a flying sword, only to show a series of rings representing his skin, body mass, and bone. Season 7 partially averts this in "The Tip of the Zoidberg", where a [[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody torso-separated]] Leela is hopping by the waist in a small pool of her own blood. In "A Farewell To Arms" [[spoiler: both Fry and Leela]] get an arm ripped off, and neither bleeds.
644* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' featured Billy landing in Asgard, here serving as the Norse Afterlife ([[CompositeCharacter it got merged with Valhalla]] basically). The Norsemen feast until full, then battle it out until they kill each other. Despite showing arrows, flails and swords in use, there's no blood; one guy gets [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] and only comments "What a pain in the neck!" [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by this being the afterlife -- they're already dead to start with, and as Thor points out to Billy, once you die, you simply rematerialize good as new in the feast hall, ready to repeat the cycle.
645* The French educational cartoons of the ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois'' franchise rarely show blood. This in spite of the ''messy'' battles that happen on multiple occasions, with people dying on-screen from weapon wounds.
646* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Incredible Hulk|1996}}'':
647** No matter how violent things get or how badly people get smacked around, there's never any blood.
648** Jennifer Walters is badly wounded in an explosion, which requires Bruce Banner to give her a transfusion of his irradiated blood to save her life, thus turning her into Comicbook/SheHulk. Despite her injuries being so severe that she would've died without Bruce's intervention, there's no blood or burn marks anywhere on her body.
649* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' allows organs and the like to be fully exposed and other disturbing content, but blood is only seen in a video game commercial in "Game Slave 2." Danielle Koenig mentions this on the commentary, where they previously had to change the colour of the word diarrhea from brown to red, which ultimately made it look a lot worse than previously intended. "''Red things can be red, but brown things can't be brown.''"
650* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Despite all the things [[VillainProtagonist Mr. Cat]] does to [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Quack Quack]], which even includes [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence using chainsaws and knives]], there is not a drop of blood to be seen anywhere.
651* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', if ponies or other creatures are fighting, they punch, kick and headbutt each other -- which is how animals fight in real life -- but they never seem to get hurt. Even at the show's absolute darkest, King Sombra's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath where he's disintegrated on-screen and you even see his flesh melt away from the muscle underneath ([[https://trixiebooru.org/images/2004578 it happens]]), you don't see so much as a single drop of blood. Other characters that die on-screen (at least, the few that we do see die, since it's a kids show) tend to be magical entities who melt, disintegrate, or poof away in a flash of magic rather than showing any blood.
652* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' normally isn't afraid to show blood given its horror asthetic, but one very noticable case of it being hidden comes in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" when Hooty takes a blood sample from King and it's never shown onscreen, something that stands out even more when the flashback of [[spoiler:[[EyeScream Eda clawing out her father's eye]]]] seen a couple minutes later ''does'' show blood. [[spoiler:It's revealed much later on that this wasn't for censorship purposes at all, but rather because King is actually a Titan and showing that his blood was [[AlienBlood blue]] would give it away to the audience several episodes early.]]
653* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'': The episode "Meet the Beat-Alls" has the girls being easily defeated by the villains by simply getting zapped by lasers and crushed by a rock; despite all this, they suffer no fatal accidents and come out completely undamaged.
654* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' has Matthias cuts off Asmodeus' head onscreen, but nary a drop of blood appears. In the TV series, this is subverted with Cheesethief's death, and in the graphic novel as well, where Asmodeus bleeds excessively.
655* In ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' this trope is in effect when Jack fights organic creatures, rather than the [[MachineBlood oil-spewing]] MechaMooks. They are never messily ripped to pieces as the robots are, just given a bloodless slash from his sword or obscured by an explosion. Magical beings tend to turn to dust or vaporize. And Jack himself never seems to bleed, no matter how he writhes in pain and screams in agony as his clothing is ripped away. (Although he ''does'' have visible wounds.) Heavily {{subverted|Trope}} in the fifth season. The revival [[BloodierAndGorier isn't afraid to show blood]]; there was blood oozing from Jack's stab wound, and [[spoiler:Jack even manages to ''slash the throat'' of one of the Daughters of Aku]].
656* In ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders'' hundreds die on a regular basis but the Beast dogs' weapons vaporize them so there's no blood. And the dogs themselves explode when destroyed. Though, when characters are killed with different weapons that leave bodies there's no blood either.
657* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
658** Done bizarrely in the episode "A Tale of Two Springfields" where a badger slashes Homer's torso open, [[{{Squick}} exposing his internal organs but causing not a drop of blood to flow]].
659** In "Realty Bites", Milhouse's dad [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kirk gets his arm sliced off by piano wire]] and doesn't bleed either.
660** "Beyond Blunderdome"'s remake of ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'' shows Mel Gibson as Mr. Smith [[BloodOnTheDebateFloor shooting up the entire Senate]], with no blood but [[ShirtlessScene his own clothing being strategically destroyed]].
661** In "The Clown Stays in the Picture" Captain Horacio [=McCallister=] gets his leg blown off with a shotgun by a Mexican gang member, but there is no blood to be seen.
662* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Smurfs|1981}}'' Springtime Special when the wizard Balthazar tries to shoot Papa Smurf with his blunderbuss, Smurfette's pet duck Ducky dives in the way of the bullet's path and is killed instead, there is no blood on his body.
663* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', anyone who gets injured or killed will almost never bleed. This is usually {{justified|Trope}} since lightsabers and blasters cauterize the wounds before they can bleed, and droids don't have any blood in them so they can be sliced in two or ripped to pieces regardless. Even in the cases where an actual bladed weapon is used on flesh-and-blood, expect the struck foe to fall at an angle that conveniently hides the wounds, but even then there isn't even a blood spray.
664* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
665** {{Justified|Trope}} as most of the main characters are gems whose physical forms are illusions. They "poof" into their gems when severely damaged and crush when they're terminally damaged. They have been depicted bruised up when less severely hurt as well. Steven, a half-human boy, ends up with a nasty bruise in the season 1 finale, so they're not avoiding human damage though.
666** When [[spoiler:Lars is killed]], he's scraped up and his clothes are torn, but there is no blood visible anywhere. However, his hair falls in such a way that it covers his right eye, [[spoiler: which sports a nasty scar once he's resurrected by Steven]]. This implies his eye was hit by shrapnel from the explosion, meaning his hair must have been hiding a very bloody wound.
667* In the WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons short “Secret Agent”, several people are shot and killed onscreen, and yet none of them bleed.
668* ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' has a very noticeable example, as one character is ''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice run through with a saber]]'' and despite it killing them there isn't any blood or even a wound in the next shot.
669* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}'' Robin spends all of the episode "Haunted" being beaten into a piece of raw hamburger by Slade. By the end he's got tons of bruises and scrapes, but still not an ounce of the red stuff to be seen. Though to be fair, Robin's ''costume'' is red, so there might be some there that we just can't make out.
670* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
671** Used to a ridiculous extent in [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 the 2003 series]].
672*** Particularly notable examples include the episode "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S3E21SameAsItNeverWas Same as it Never Was]]", which features characters getting sliced, stomped on, and blown up on-screen with nary a drop of blood on their corpses.
673*** Karai ''[[spoiler:impales Leo on her sword]]'' in "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S3E26ExodusPart2 Exodus]]" without a single drop of red.
674*** A few episodes later, Leonardo loses his temper and [[spoiler:slices Splinter ''across the forehead'' during a spar. Splinter]] immediately grabs the spot and later is shown with bandages, but nothing, not even a ''red line'', can actually be seen.
675*** Justified when Leo [[spoiler:beheads the Shredder.]] Said character isn't actually human, just a robotic body, so it would make sense for there to be no blood.
676** The [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 cartoon]] also has this with Mikey's wound in "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S2E22VengeanceIsMine Vengeance is Mine]]", a cut deep enough to wear him down and require medical attention later, but doesn't show on his skin. Likewise, there's not a hint of blood, or even any apparent ''wounds'', during [[spoiler:Splinter's death, despite him being run through by a blade]].
677* ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|2011}}'':
678** During TheSiege of Thundera. A sky full of arrows, Claudus cutting through a wave of {{Lizard|Folk}}s, even Claudus getting stabbed InTheBack and falling into a pool of water, not one drop of blood is found.
679** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in "Song of the Petalars" the Cats cut and shoot through Lizard troops ''bloodlessly,'' but Tygra's shots are shown to ''pierce'' the Lizard's bodies.
680* Any given ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' episode will have some bloodless carnage in there somewhere. WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes, too.
681* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': Most of the battles that take place outside of the Lions involve Galran MechaMooks, but the few on-screen deaths don't involve any visible injury, even from people being slashed with blades or shot with a variety of energy weapons.
682* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'':
683** Usually played straight, even for [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]], a character with a HealingFactor. While it was not uncommon to see characters bandaged or in a hospital bed after being injured, there was almost never any blood shown.
684** A rare aversion came in the Season 1 finale. Characters/{{Ma|rvelComicsMagneto}}gneto was briefly shown bleeding from his mouth during his fight with the Sentinels, and when the X-Men later found him unconscious, his torso was covered in blood. Subsequent reruns of the episode reportedly edited the scene to tone down the blood, which likely explains why similar gore was mostly absent from the rest of the series' run.
685* ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'', although it doesn't shy away from showing predators [[SwallowedWhole gulping down their prey]], avoids displaying actual bloodshed. Predators may grapple their prey with claws, but only grip rather than inflict visible wounds. When actual carcasses are shown, they're either cleanly-intact or already disassembled into anonymous non-dripping chunks. Injured animals may limp or drag a wing, but won't visibly bleed.
686* Blood almost never showed up in ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'', no matter how severe the physical violence. Two rare examples would be Red Arrow bleeding from the nose and mouth after being beaten up by ComicBook/TheFlash, and [[BattleButler Mercy Graves]] bleeding from the face after her battle with Arsenal. Fake blood seems okay on the show since it's been used to fake deaths quite a few times with no attempts to hide it.
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689[[folder:Real Life]]
690* Surprisingly, this trope can happen in real life. It's possible for predatory animals to do damage or kill a animal without drawing much or any blood depending on where they bite their prey. Canine jaws and teeth crush in such a way that they often don't cause any blood splatter or spraying.
691* It's common for people with severe internal injuries to look completely fine from the outside.
692* This is possible even in some cases of deep stabbing wounds. The weapon lodged inside the wound can act as a stopper and [[WorstAid pulling it out can cause the victim to bleed to death]]. This is also why you are told to never remove an object that has significantly pierced a person, as you are likely to cause more damage, there's a possibility of breakage in the wound (depending on what they were pierced with) leaving foreign material, and bleeding will almost certainly increase.
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695->''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain "A life without blood? What a travesty!"]]''

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