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12	[[caption-width-right:350:That's gotta hurt, even if it's just spilled water.]]
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14	->''"And then our flag will fly, against a blood-red sky!"''
15	-->-- '''Zira''' singing "[[VillainSong My Lullaby]]", ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride''
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17	When a fluid (or highly flexible solid) falls and/or spreads in a way that it is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything made to look like]] blood. This is either to show a symbolic loss or to perform a [[StockParodies standard parody]].
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19	Often the fluid will be red, and sometimes this is a trick shot to make it appear like someone has been injured, only to later reveal otherwise. It's sometimes used in kid-friendly shows to imply violence that would never pass the censors.
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21	See also AlienBlood for strangely colored fluids pouring out of alien beings and MachineBlood, for "bleeding" machines or robots. See ABloodyMess for red liquids being mistaken for blood. See BlueLiquidAbsorbent for blue liquid used in place of blood (or other bodily fluids) to avert distasteful imagery.
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29	* There was a PSA that ran on American TV sometime in TheNineties, in which a boy pretends to shoot his sister with a toy gun. The sister drops her teddy bear, and her glass of red juice spills all over it...
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33	* In an episode of ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', Osaka goes to wake up Yukari with a frying pan. When we see her enter Yukari's room with a knife instead, there's an extreme closeup of Yukari's terrified eye, which {{match cut}}s to a quick shot of a fried egg (on Tomo's breakfast plate) getting a huge amount of ketchup dumped onto it and some even ends up on Kagura's face, who's sitting next to her.
34	* In the first episode of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' you see small vials of a red drug floating in space, near the woman that was carrying them in a bag inside her dress, who just got killed. The drug ''is'' a liquid ([[EyeScream which is sprayed into the user's eye]] and appropriately named "Red Eye" or "Bloody Eye"), making the symbolism doubly effective.
35	* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' anime, when Light kills off [[spoiler:Aiber]], he spills the red wine he was drinking, and the screen goes to a short still of the puddle.
36	* PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/{{Free}}'' when [[spoiler:Rei]] is shot with a squirt gun. A huge spray of water comes from his back [[FridgeLogic despite having been hit in the front, and he even coughs up more water]] before "dying."
37	* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', ''Missing Hearts'': Motoko stabs toward a criminal cowering in the corner and a liquid sprays out. The next shot reveals that she stabbed an organ transplant bag she was carrying.
38	* A non-spill variant shows up in the ''Anime/{{Hellsing}}'' anime. Seras asks for a glass of tomato juice after tailing a possible leak into a pub. She probably just wanted something that was non-alcoholic, but given that she's a recently turned vampire...
39	--> '''Seras:''' [[LampshadeHanging Well, that was a bloody stupid choice.]]
40	* One of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam'''s most famous battle scenes features Norris Packard's Gouf Custom being sprayed with a gout of motor oil that behaves suspiciously like arterial blood after stabbing a tank with his giant sword.
41	** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'' gets a lot of mileage out of this trope. In contrast to the simpler animation used in earlier ''Gundam'' shows where destroyed mobile suits would usually [[StuffBlowingUp disappear in a large explosion]], ''Unicorn'''s more detailed animation style gives us a decent look at the damage inflicted by the series' iconic [[FrickinLaserBeams particle beam cannons]] and [[LaserBlade weaponized tokamak reactors]], with gobs of red hot molten metal spraying everywhere before they finally succumb.
42	* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': When an Evangelion is injured the corresponding body part of the pilot is wreathed in a stream of foaming bubbles.
43	* In one episode of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' the GoryDiscretionShot for a character's fate is a splash of curry sauce.
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47	* There's an issue of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' which flashes back to a human accidentally shooting a non-human (leading to the Great War). The victim is seen lying in a puddle of... grass?
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51	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': The appliances watch in horror as the cheerful hardware store owner who took them in dismantles a blender for its motor, which in their perspective is like watching a man get gutted alive. After he's done, he leaves the remains of the blender in his workbench, dripping grease onto the floor.
52	* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'', Quasimodo is [[ProducePelting pelted with red tomatoes]], leaving him soaked in tomato juice. This emulates a scene from [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the book]] where he's publicly whipped.
53	* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'': Kubo has his [[PaperMaster animated paper dolls]] fight for part of his show, which includes strips of red paper coming out of cut up monsters to represent blood spatters. One man actually throws up from seeing this.
54	* In ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'', Fiver sees the sunset turning the field red and is horrified to see it covered in blood. Although the red is simply light, the animation style makes it appear to run down like liquid.
55	* In ''Anime/YokaiWatchShadowsideTheReturnOfTheOniKing'', [[spoiler:Touma]] is fatally stabbed with a red object.
56	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''
57	** In the play at the beginning, [[AMinorKidroduction young Judy]] really hams it up while "dying" from Jaguar's "attack", at first tossing out one really, really long red streamer onto the ground before her then falling on her back and squirting ketchup all over herself to simulate HighPressureBlood.
58	** During the climax, the handkerchief Nick uses as a makeshift bandage for Judy's wounded leg is dyed red.
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62	* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007'': "Strawberry Fields Forever" does this with strawberry juice in a {{Montage}} that combines an art project with a UsefulNotes/VietnamWar NightmareSequence whose disturbing images include Vietnam being bombarded with giant flaming strawberries.
63	* During the "Cell Block Tango" number in ''Film/{{Chicago}}'', each of the merry murderesses utilizes a red cloth to depict through dance their alleged murders.
64	* In ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' the red clay beneath the Sharpes' lands is an example of this (although plenty of actual blood gets spilled too). The clay oozing through the walls and ground clearly reflects Allerdale Hall's dark and bloody past. A particularly notable example is when [[spoiler:Lucille pushes Edith over the balcony]]; there's an overhead shot of her lying unconscious on the snowy ground as the clay forms a pool around her.
65	* ''Film/DarkNightOfTheScarecrow'' cuts from Arliss being pushed into his wood chipper to runny strawberry jam being spooned on to Otis' plate by his landlady.
66	* ''Film/DaveMadeAMaze'' would be an extremely gory movie if it weren't for the fact that all the "gore" was ''red cardboard''.
67	* ''Film/Hellboy2004'': Director Guillermo del Toro wanted to use blood in a symbolic, non-gratuitous way. Indeed, the only time one sees actual blood is during Rasputin's resurrection. In every other instance, it's the dust that once ''was'' Kroenen's blood, change from a pay phone, slime/spittle/sweat from a monster, gumballs from a gumball machine, etc.
68	* The movie ''Film/HighAnxiety'' had a shower scene much like ''Psycho'', only it had a [[spoiler:newspaper instead of a knife and the ink from it instead of blood]].
69	* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/HotFuzz'' during the climactic supermarket battle. DC Andy Wainwright is standing by a rack of pasta sauce jars when a butcher hurls a meat cleaver at him from the deli section. The jars smash and cover Andy in "blood", which causes his partner, DS [[OneSteveLimit Andy]] Cartwright, to freak out and start blindly shooting at the butchers.
70	--> '''DS Andy Cartwright:''' ''[[SayMyName AAAAAAAAANDYYYYYYYY]]!''
71	--> '''DC Andy Wainwright:''' It's all right, Andy! [[LampshadedTrope It's just bolognese!]]
72	* The final battle of ''Film/TheLastJedi'' takes place on Crait, on a plain of red crystal covered by a thin layer of salt. After the engagement, the surface appears to be covered in blood due to the red gashes. When the First Order walkers fire on Luke Skywalker, chunks of those same red crystals fly out of the explosion. For just a few seconds, it looks for all the world like Luke has been [[LudicrousGibs reduced to bloody chunks]]. When Kylo Ren refuses Luke's wisdom and attacks, the camera cuts at the moment he strikes to the tracks his feet leave -- blood red.
73	* The final battle of ''Film/MechanicalViolatorHakaider'' is fought by two robots in a pristine white room, which gets pulverized over the course of their fight to reveal blood-red stone and rebar underneath. By the end, the violence of their battle has left their arena with the appearance of being gruesomely strewn with gore.
74	* ''Film/TheMermaid'' has the scenes where Brother Octopus, a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mer-octopus]] masquerading as a human, getting his limbs mutilated and ground up, where he throws up ink in a manner reminiscent of BloodFromTheMouth.
75	* ''Film/ShortCircuit2'': Taken to an extreme with Johnny 5's battery; when it's punctured during his beating from the bad guys, one of the baddies gets sprayed by the battery's fluid, and the supporting cast refer to the leak as him "bleeding to death".
76	* Near the end of ''Film/OhWhatALovelyWar'' the sound of a gunshot is accompanied by a splash of red... which turns out to be an out-of-focus poppy in the foreground. No blood is ever shown in the film.
77	* ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1998'': When the Phantom [[ManBitesMan bites out the the theatre manager's throat]], a handful of brightly wrapped chocolates gets flung into the air like a spray of blood.
78	* The T-1000 from ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', being a ChromeChampion made of liquid metal, would bleed mercury similar to blood. Notably the scene where Arnie empties a machine-gun into the T-1000 in a nitrogen truck's driver seat, resulting in a massive splatter of liquid metal everywhere reminiscient of LudicrousGibs.
79	* ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'': When the fat kid is squashed between the van and the wall, the shot cuts from his face to the janitor pressing down on his sandwich and strawberry jam squirting out the sides.
80	* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', in the aftermath of Judge Doom [[KickTheDog using the Dip on an adorable shoe Toon]], the dissolved red paint from the poor shoe on his black rubber glove is ''very'' symbolic of blood, making for [[NightmareFuel quite the nightmarish little image]]. It doesn't help that the Dip is the only way to ''kill'' Toons.
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84	* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "Helpless", a shot cuts from blood that is staining the inside of a human hamster ball that is rolling out of control to red wine that is being swirled around a large wineglass.
85	* The title sequence of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' is framed to make the title character's morning routine look violent. There's some real blood when he [[ThereWillBeToiletPaper cuts himself shaving]], but we also see him squirting bloody looking tomato sauce on his eggs as he cuts them.
86	* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' has the standard "flying sparks when someone is hurt" as is common in Tokusatsu, but it also has the odd occasion where badly-hurt characters (namely the [[BigBadEnsemble Greeed]]) continuously drop Cell Medals, silver, coin-like objects, from their bodies as a stand-in for blood. In one of the final episodes, [[spoiler:Ankh, after having some of his Core Medals ripped from his body in a manner similar to [[AndShowItToYou having his heart ripped out]]]], is shown to be sitting in a large, spread-out pool of medals that looks eerily-similar to a huge pool of blood.
87	* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS20E3 Drawing Dead]]", the second VictimOfTheWeek runs a print shop and is murdered by having his throat cut with a paper guillotine. As they do so, the killer knocks over bottles of blue and yellow ink that spill and pool under the victim's chair like blood.
88	* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': In "Murder and Mozzarella", the killer spills a pot of tomato sauce on the floor while murdering the victim.
89	* Sparks fly when a ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' character is hit, and on some occasions, a character has had a stream of sparks spraying from the same point for an extended time (usually the MonsterOfTheWeek, after being dealt the FinishingMove that's about to result in [[DefeatEqualsExplosion utter kablooification]].) On some extremely rare occasions, the sparks have come out when a ''non-armored/unprotected'' character is hit.[[note]]It happened in ''[[Series/PowerRangersInSpace In Space]]'' when Zhane struck a humanoid character who was a mole for Astronema with his Super Silverizer, and later, in ''[[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Lost Galaxy]]'', it's happened to both Leo and Damon.[[/note]]
90	* In ''Series/RobotCombatLeague'', the robot fighters sometimes get so damaged, they spray hydraulic fluid everywhere. Without hydraulic fluid, the robots' limbs won't work properly, essentially paralyzing the limbs and leaving the robot at a disadvantage.
91	* ''Series/That70sShow'' Kelso is in the shower and Laurie catches him using her shampoo (which happens to be red). This causes him to spill it, at which point we see it going down the drain as she hits him is a stabbing motion ([[Film/{{Psycho}} parodying a scene from that movie no one remembers...]])
92	* ''Series/UltramanAce'' has an alien invader called Space Mask, who can make his victims bleed ''sparks''. He makes his introduction killing a couple of security guards, making them both bleed a geyser of fireworks.
93	* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': After [[spoiler:Elizabeth is kidnapped by Keller]], the FBI shows up to the crime scene, and Peter sees a red pool on the rug from a spilled pot of spaghetti sauce.
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97	* In Music/LeonardBernstein's ''Theatre/{{Mass}}'', the Celebrant contemplates the shattered Chalice:
98	-->"Glass--and brown wine--thick--like blood... Rich--like honey and blood... Hey--don't you find that funny? I mean, it's ''supposed'' to be blood. I mean, it ''is'' blood... His... It was..."
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102	* One ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' commercial showed Kalmah's tentacle being cut off, and a dark liquid flowing into the water. We know that characters in the Matoran Universe don't bleed, so it was either some other fluid (ink?), or completely non-canon. Pridak also has some suspicious red markings around his mouth...
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106	* ''VideoGame/NineMonkeysOfShaolin'' have you playing as a Shaolin monk, and fitting your character's pacifist nature, slain enemies will bleed black smoke instead of blood -- as a symbol of the "evil" in themselves being purged by your attacks.
107	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
108	** In ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Shalua is killed by Azul, in a scene in which she holds a door open with her mechanical arm so that the others can escape. When the arm is destroyed, some medical liquid starts to flow from under the door. And as you may guess, blood-like.
109	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' uses a dark purplish/black energy to instead of blood when [[spoiler:Noel, Serah and later Caius]] are stabbed/impaled; it represents the Chaos bestowed on every human's heart by Etro.
110	* ''VideoGame/{{Fishgun}}'', a parody of FPS games in general, sees you fighting anthropomorphic killer ''fruits'' as enemies. With colorful fruit juice in place of blood whenever you gun down hordes of enemies.
111	* ''VideoGame/GoldenEyeRogueAgent'': If you look carefully, the various thugs and guards emit blue sparks when hit with bullets. This positions ''Rogue Agent'' as a little more violent than the typical BloodlessCarnage of the Bond games, but still in keeping within the relative fantasy of the 007 universe.
112	* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', when fighting the {{Hydra\|Problem}}, the heads being chopped off lead to leaking smoke instead of blood. In [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} the movie]] and the Japanese version of the game there's slime instead.
113	** The series kind of seems to like using darkness as symbolic blood. The [[spoiler:remade version of the Deep Dive scene]] in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'' has a moment where the dark smoke from the Heartless he just slew flies in front of his face like he was in some kind of samurai movie.
114	** in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainofMemories Re: Chain of Memories]]'' a pool of darkness forms under [[spoiler:Riku Replica]]'s body after [[spoiler:Riku]] kills him, looking quite like he's bleeding.
115	** The best example, though, is when Terra [[spoiler:shot Braig in the face]] in ''Birth by Sleep'' -- [[spoiler:the reddish smoke fountaining from his newly missing eye and dark splotch where his scar will be]] might not necessarily ''be'' blood, but they sure do look like it, and the game never really bothers to make sure you realize it isn't.
116	* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after you defeat [[spoiler:Ganondorf's Gerudo form]] he falls to the ground, with his red cape unfolding around him in a way that makes it look like blood is actually flowing out of him.
117	* ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': Done in the Horror Land board, where there's a red bloodstain type puddle, which is just about shown coming from a huge overturned ketchup bottle that's been held by a gravestone.
118	* In the Japanese and European versions of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', the enemies die in what could only be described as a fountain of digitized ash.
119	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' short "Honor and Glory", Balderich's armor is shown leaking blue fluid from where he was cut by an [=OR14=] unit's blade before he made his final stand in Eichenwalde's castle.
120	* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'' after an All-Out attack destroys the last enemies, a short cutscene is shown where the silhouettes of said enemies shoot HighPressureBlood. However, Joker appears as a GuestFighter in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', which is a more family-friendly game, so when using All-Out as his [[LimitBreak Final Smash]], the enemies instead shoot sparkling stars; much less violent, but still similar to the original blood.
121	* ''VideoGame/PiratesTheLegendOfTheBlackBuccaneer'' have your enemies bleeding purple smoke, for some reason, when you slice them apart via cutlass.
122	* In ''VideoGame/SplosionMan'', whenever a scientist dies, meat (steaks and ham) replace the blood. PlayedForLaughs.
123	* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', like its predecessors, mainly alternates between straightforward BloodlessCarnage and BlackBlood when it comes to depicting actual injuries, but the LifeEnergy motes released by fallen soldiers and absorbed into Flame Clocks are colored deep red. These can usually be found on corpses around the world (as an indicator that the two off-seer party members can mourn them), and some cutscenes play the symbolism for all it's worth.
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127	* The "Executioner" arc in ''Webcomic/DailyJoJo'' revolves around people (particularly Josh and Wan) thinking that their coworkers should die (of shame) for committing slights against them, with symbolism to match.
128	** Wan's cover art is monochrome and depicts him holding an umbrella dripping a dark liquid, making it look like he just executed someone.
129	** At the end of the arc, Woong and Josh drink cherry juice while meeting. Josh does a Spit Take after being passed up for promotion, causing the juice to drip from his mouth to his shirt. Then Woong spills juice on his own shirt while apologizing, and Josh thinks that he should die if he's really sorry. Josh leaves the office still dripping in juice as if an execution really took place.
130	* In the first comic page of ''Webcomic/{{Daniel}}'', we see what appears to be goopy blood dripping down slowly....turns out it was just ketchup.
131	* ''Webcomic/DICETheCubeThatChangesEverything'': Red Dice leave Dicer's body upon injury.
132	* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', when Antimony falls off the bridge, there's a {{flashback}} to a glass of water--that she dropped--spilling and shattering. Annie then thinks, "Well, now I know how the glass felt," as she falls.
133	* In [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/3503 this page]] of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Mom and Dad]] are shown holding hands over a wine-stained table cloth. [[spoiler:On the next page, however, the same picture is shown as a reflection in [[BigBad Bec Noir's]] glasses, making it look more like blood. The next time Mom and Dad are shown in the comic, they're dead.]]
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137	* ''WebVideo/RomeoAndJulieta'': When [[spoiler:Roméo is hung from the tree and killed with a bat]], there's a candy splattering as part of a GoryDiscretionShot.
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141	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Puhoy", when Finn kills the Blanket Dragon, he slashes its throat and a bunch of feathers spray from the wound.
142	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Most of the cast aren't human, or even animals, and thus spill various non-blood innards when injured. In "The Advice", Banana Joe is run over and leaves behind a pool of banana juice. In "The Parking", a living milk carton is stabbed and milk squirts out. In "The Girlfriend", Jamie beats up Sarah offscreen and ends up with melted yellow ice cream goop on her face and hands. In "The Blame", Colin is eaten onstage and egg yolk splashes on the audience.
143	* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheGuru The Guru]]," Katara is attacked by Ty Lee, and drops her waterskin when she falls, which spills and forms a pool around her, as if she'd been stabbed (although she actually went down because of a [[PressurePoint Vulcan Nerve Pinch]]).
144	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula'' had a scene where Dracula attacks a waiter who then drops a bottle of red wine that spills all over.
145	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': "Paper Route Bout" had a clan of ninja newspaper delivery boys attacking the neighborhood, flinging bundles of papers with deadly accuracy at everyone and thing besides porches and leaving Dee Dee's father collapsed in a pool of his morning coffee. After he [[DiedInYourArmsTonight gasps in her arms]] and she goes off for revenge, she returns home, finds him ''still'' lying there, and asks if he's overreacting a little.
146	-->'''Dee Dee:''' You know, it's just coffee.\
147	'''Dad:''' ''(opens eye)'' Yeah, but it was really hot.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' in an episode entitled ''The Honking'', Bender is becoming a "Werecar," which is a reference to [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]], and at one point Bender wakes up in a parking lot covered in transmission fluid, fearful of where he's been.
149	** Also in "The Silence of the Clamps" when Zoidberg cuts of Clamps' handclamps sparks shoot out from the stumps like blood.
150	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' featured a scene where it appears the past incarnations of Green Lantern and Shayera were stabbed while on a bed, but as the camera moves up you see that it's a puddle of wine -- which poisoned them.
151	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': In "The First Cut", Tommy dreams about getting his leg cut open. In a non-liquid variant, stuffing pours out of Tommy's wound. This was inspired by a damaged teddy bear before Tommy went to sleep.
152	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
153	** One episode has Homer get clobbered by baby Maggie with a hammer, while he's painting. The red paint spills all around him like... well, you know. The entire scene is a parody of the ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' shower scene at that, complete with the paint swirling into a floor drain.
154	** Another has Marge accidentally fold up Homer's power-adjustable [[MurphysBed bed]] while he's sleeping in it. A red liquid pours out from the bed. It turns out to be Homer's juice box.
155	** This was deliberately parodied in "Girls Just Want to Have Sums", when the Simpson family had gone to an Itchy and Scratchy-inspired play. On stage, when Itchy attacks Scratchy with a knife, red streamers pour out from the dummy, and fly everywhere. Lisa and Bart both find it appealing, but not for the same reason.
156	-->'''Lisa:''' I love the use of streamers as blood, it robs the violence of its power.\
157	'''Bart:''' ''(excited)'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Woo-hoo! I'm drenched in blood!]]
158	** In another episode, Marge is horrified when she sees the Flanders family collapsed on the floor, spattered with red liquid...which turns out to be paint.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981''
160	** In "The King Smurf", King Brainy's soldiers attack the Resistance (led by Smurfette) with smurfberry attacks, causing them to "bleed".
161	** In "The Smurfs and the Money Tree", when Greedy tries to work out with Hefty's dumbbells, he loses his balance and plunges his face into the plate of smurfberries, causing his face to "bleed".
162	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Grandmum's the Word", after Plankton's grandma starts flying off with the formula, she kicks her grandson off of her leg. As Plankton falls he lands on a packet of ketchup that explodes on impact, and it looks as you'd expect.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Symbolic blood is always used humorously in the series.
164	** Trent is putting barbecue sauce on the ribs when Owen nails him in the head with a crate of oranges in "[[Recap/TotalDramaIfYouCantTakeTheHeat If You Can't Take the Heat...]]". When he hits the floor, his head is hidden by the crate and oranges while a puddle of barbecue sauce lies spilled underneath him. That said, it may not be blood, but he does have a minor concussion and has to drop from the challenge.
165	** Owen is ever so unwisely put in charge of guarding a delicious meal meant for the challenge in "[[Recap/TotalDramaIfYouCantTakeTheHeat If You Can't Take the Heat...]]". He can't resist devouring the entire plate of ribs with such voracity that barbecue sauce splatters are left all over the kitchen and all over him. A sauce-covered knife that's stuck in the table completes the scene straight out of a horror movie. And when Leshawna returns to get the ribs, she finds a stressed-out Owen on the floor as he looks at his sauce-covered hands in dawning realization of what he's done.
166	** Lindsay makes a negative comments about Heather in "[[Recap/TotalDramaHideAndBeSneaky Hide and Be Sneaky]]" and Heather shoves her to the floor for it. Because Lindsay was doing her nail, her bottle of limited edition ruby red nail polish tips over too. It spills out over the carpet in a puddle way larger than the size of the bottle justifies to humorously signify Lindsay's loss.
167	** On a not-suggestion by Owen, Izzy jumps down on all fours and stuffs her face into a pizza box in "[[Recap/TotalDramaOneFluOvertheCuckoos One Flu Over the Cuckoos]]" to eat the contents without using her hands. As her teeth sink viciously into the pizza, splatters of tomato sauce fly around and land on Lindsay and Justin. Lindsay mourns her hair, Justin his pecs, and Owen his pizza.
168	* ''Transformers: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': when some bot got hit, bits of metal and hydraulic fluid go ''everywhere''.
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