%%%
%%
%%
%% This list of examples has been alphabetized. Please add your example in the proper place. Thanks!
%%
%%
%%%

%% Image and caption selected per Image Pickin' thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1376166449039583900
%% Please do not replace or remove either without starting a new thread.
%%
[[quoteright:322:[[Series/{{Firefly}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bleedingorifices_743.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:322:I think you're gonna need more than a couple of tissues for that.]]

We all know that when a character starts [[BloodFromTheMouth coughing up blood]], it's a bad sign, and [[DeadlyNosebleed nosebleeds]] can be similarly ominous. Therefore, if you want to kick those tropes [[SerialEscalation up a few notches]] and really hammer home how doomed a character is, just have them bleed from everywhere: mouth, nose, ears, eyes, and even some other places if you really want to [[NauseaFuel gross out]] the audience.

Such an extreme case of bleeding is usually reserved for deaths that are out-of-the-ordinary; it might be caused by [[BrownNote magical]] or [[PsychicNosebleed psychic]] powers, advanced technology, aliens, or just a really nasty and probably [[ParanoiaFuel contagious]] new [[ThePlague disease]].

See also BloodFromTheMouth, DeadlyNosebleed, PsychicNosebleed, and TearsOfBlood.
----
!!Examples:

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* This is a sign of possession by Satan in ''Manga/BlueExorcist''. In some cases in the anime, blue flames also pour from the eyes and mouth.
* In ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'', this is how the unfortunate people infected with the UA Virus usually die. It's seen [[NauseaFuel in an especially horrifying way]] when [[spoiler:Liang Qi tries to give herself synesthesia in a mad bid for Alphard's attention and affection via willingly injecting herself with the virus, and soon is bleeding from ''everywhere'' [[FanDisservice while wearing skimpy lingerie]] due to not having the genes necessary for synesthesia to work for her like it does with Canaan]].
* In ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', [[spoiler:the ultimate death of Rei happens in this style, as Raoh strikes a pressure point that forces all of a victim's blood out of their body -- violently]]. It's so graphic even by the series' standards [[spoiler:that when he hides in a cottage to finally die, nobody bothers to follow him in, forced to listen to a great man dying in such a painful fashion]].
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': BloodFromTheMouth is a fairly common occurrence. When Miroku, determined to finish off [[BigBad Naraku]] once and for all before the fight against him kills Sango's little brother, takes in so much miasma that he starts bleeding not just from the mouth but from the nose, ears, and eyes as well, there's no doubt how serious it is.
* ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'': Ascending from the Fourth Layer results in this, no matter how cute the curse's victims are.
* ''Anime/MyDaemon'': When Kento is [[ElectricTorture tortured with a]] ShockCollar by Kiriko, it has the side effect of accelerating the growth of the Daemon Particle in his head, causing him to go through this before [[spoiler: the daemon hatches and bursts from his head, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killing him instantly]]]].
* In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', this was the effect Shiryu suffered for overusing his DangerousForbiddenTechnique. Luckily his opponent had a HeelRealization and saved Shiryu before he died from blood loss.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/DeathAndTheFamily'', when Lana Lang finally succumbs to her mysterious illness, blood flows from her mouth, nose and eyes, forming a red pool under Lana's collapsed body.
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': After getting hit with an electrical weapon Lock-Up had set up Tim is left with blood seeping from his ears, nose, mouth and nail beds. He's still able to kick Lock-Up over a railing from his spot on the floor when the villain arrives with a message he wants Robin to deliver to Batman.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanEarthOne'': Maxwell Lord dies with blood spewing from every orifice due to the psychic blowback from Diana destroying his telepathically remote-controlled HumongousMecha.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Both of [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX Monster X]]'s two heads bleed from their eyes, noses and mouths when [[spoiler:Ghidorah]] establishes psychic contact with them.
* In the RealPersonFic ''[[https://my.w.tt/R6ubbsxLMY Astral Journey: It's Complicated]]'', while in her astral form, [[Music/SpiceGirls Emma]] notices blood coming out from her mouth, nose, ears, and eyes.
* In ''Fanfic/TheCorniceInTheGround'', Eggsy starts bleeding from his mouth, nose and ears after he resurrects Harry, who had been dead for a week at that point.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films]]
* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': When Thanos strangles Loki and [[NeckSnap breaks his neck]], blood starts pouring from his eyes, nose, and mouth.
* This is one of the symptoms of the flesh-eating virus in ''Film/CabinFever''.
* In ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'', the final stage of Poppy's virus causes explosive expulsion of blood and other bodily fluids from every place that it can.
* The titular technique from ''Film/KissOfTheDragon'' works this way when the needle is taken out.
* In ''Film/LChangeTheWorld'', the terrorist organization creates a [[SyntheticPlague virus spliced from Ebola and influenza]]. The influenza part guarantee that the virus can spread through the air and mutate quickly, and the Ebola part is so that the disease can kill as quickly as possible, and includes hemorrhaging from the victim's eyes, mouth, and nose.
* ''Film/{{Outbreak}}'' presents Motaba, a fictional viral hemorrhagic fever. Its symptoms are based on real-life diseases [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease Ebola]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassa_fever Lassa fever]]. All three cause hemorrhaging from bodily orifices.
* Implied to be the case in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', with Marni bleeding from the eyes to start with.
* ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'': A [[PokeInTheThirdEye guard watching via security camera]] gets this treatment after [[spoiler:Alice [[NextTierPowerUp unlocks her psychic powers]]]] at the end of the film.
* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'':
** Discussed in ''Film/SawII'' when John tells Eric that his son and the rest of the victims in the Nerve Gas House are doomed to this fate. Eventually averted, however, as the only victim who actually dies from the gas, Laura, only gets BloodFromTheMouth.
** In ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', this is how Carly dies when Ryan injects the three syringes of the Chain Hangers into her.
* ''Film/YongaryMonsterFromTheDeep'' has the titular monster [[ConvulsiveSeizures seizing]] and bleeding out the rectum after having been doused with [[WeaksauceWeakness ammonia]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]
[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: Examples by author: ]]

* In the works of Creator/MoXiangTongXiu, a cultivator suffering a qi deviation will bleed from their seven facial orifices. This happens to Liu Qingge in ''Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong'' and to Nie Mingjue in ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi''. Unlike the Romance of the Three Kingdoms example below, the victims are explicitly described as bleeding from their eyes, and the state of their private orifices is not discussed as it is very difficult to examine a formidable warrior in a [[TheBerserker berserker rage]] brandishing a {{BFS}} that closely.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Examples by work: ]]

* In ''Literature/TheCircleOpens'', reference is made to the "blood plague" that helped to bring down the VestigialEmpire predating the nations on the Pebbled Sea. People would bleed to death through the ''pores of their skin''.
* In ''Literature/DeepSix1984'', a deadly chemical weapon called Nerve Agent S has the side effect of causing victims to do this before dying.
* Averted in ''Literature/TheEmigrants''. During the crossing of the Atlantic, Karl Oskar is woken by his son to find Kristina bleeding out of every orifice due to scurvy. He believes she will most likely die and spends the night keeping watch over her, eventually succumbing to sleep. When he wakes in the morning Kristina has made it through but another woman in their group has died of the same illness during the night.
* The medical novel ''The House of God'' has a former physician die of leukemia. This happens to him when there are no more platelets left to help him clot. "Oh God, this is awf..." he begins, but he can't finish for obvious reasons, and no orifice is spared.
* ''Literature/LetTheRightOneIn'': Eli when she enters a building [[MustBeInvited without an invitation]].
* In ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' novel ''Literature/HarrowTheNinth'', Harrow tries to have a conversation with Camilla Hect, who according to Harrow's FakeMemories is dead. During the conversation, Camilla informs Harrow that Harrow's ears, nose and eyes are bleeding.
* In "Literature/TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath", the Red Death, whose symptoms include profuse bleeding all over the face and the body, kills within half an hour of infection.
* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' often uses the expression "he bled from all the seven orifices", usually as a result of some unlucky soul getting smashed by Sun Wukong's cudgel. On one occasion or two, it's from the monkey itself, due to an incredibly inhuman physical effort (namely trying to not get crushed flat by three mountains which are summoned on his back).
* In ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', during [[spoiler:Mother Dark and the Dying God's]] duel in Black Coral, Clip starts bleeding profusely. It isn't a fatal example, but it surely takes him out of the fight for good.
* This is how [[spoiler:Lu Meng]] dies in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''. He suffers a massive hemorrhage brought on by [[spoiler:being possessed by the vengeful spirit of Guan Yu]], with the book noting that he died of 'bleeding from the seven bodily orifices,' which is both a pretty visceral mental image and especially horrifying if you're aware that many ancient Chinese scholars technically did not count the eye sockets as bodily orifices.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The virus that the Grounders use as a biological weapon in ''Series/The100'' causes this.
* In ''Series/BeingHumanUS'', drinking the blood of a werewolf makes vampires bleed from all their orifices. The blood of humans infected with a certain strain of the flu has a similar but more pronounced effect. [[spoiler: Exposure to the former helps Aidan survive the latter.]]
* In one episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', the unsub kills people with poisoned wine. At first, his targets were criminals, but then we see an innocent young couple start to bleed during dinner [[NightmareFuel as the pre-teen daughter watches]].
* The [[MysteriousMercenaryPursuer Hands of Blue]] from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' kill people like this using a small pen-shaped ultrasonic weapon. It's officially stated that it causes bleeding from every orifice in the body.
* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', when [[spoiler: King Joffrey]] drinks the poisoned wine, he leaks blood from his nose and the whites of his eyes filled with blood. He also appears to hemorrhage beneath the skin.
* TheVirus from ''Series/TheLastManOnEarth'' is described as causing feces and [[BodyHorror brain fluid]] to burst out of every hole of the victim's body. ''Every hole.''
* A few episodes of ''Series/Millennium1996'' feature a super-plague like this, the symptoms going from headache to bloody puddle in less than 5 seconds.
* From ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', Sam Peckinpah's version of "Tom Brown's Salad Days" eventually ends like this. Pretty strong meat there.
* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': A young woman's body was found ditched in a river and it appeared that her blood has been drained. The team found out that she was pregnant and tried to induce a miscarriage by eating insecticide, and combined with some strange oil and pills, it did induce the miscarriage, but it also caused severe bleeding from her eyes, ears, nose, mouth, nails, and down there... She died an agonizing death.
* ''Series/ParisPolice1900'': In the second series, ''Paris Police 1905'', Dr. Verlot dies bleeding from every orifice after taking poison when the police try to arrest him.
* In ''Series/{{Sloborn}}'', this happens to people in the late stages of the [[ThePlague pigeon flu]].
* Symbaline blood burn does this to a RedShirt in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.
* This occurs often in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', usually to show that the VictimOfTheWeek died from a supernatural cause.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VisualNovel/FourTwoEightShibuyaScramble'', as the predecessor of ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'', also has this as the usual death for the people unfortunate enough to be infected with the UA virus.
* A variation in ''VideoGame/Persona5'': victims of a MentalShutdown start oozing a black, blood-like substance from their eyes, nose and mouth.
* This happens to Lisa Garland in ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' after she realizes [[TomatoInTheMirror she's a Puppet Nurse monster]]. She shambles towards Harry while her eyes, nose, head, and mouth bleed out. Cybil suffers the same fate if you choose to kill her since she's manipulated by a PuppeteerParasite.
* ''VideoGame/TraumaCenterAtlus'': In ''Trauma Team'', when people start bleeding from every orifice, it means they are seconds away from [[ThePlague Rosalia-Virus-induced death]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', particularly nasty applications of [[TheEmpath empathy]] are shown to be able to do this, first by showing [[http://www.drowtales.com/sidestory_worldsetting.php?order=chapters&id=6 Ash'waren subjecting a Sharen to this]], and later [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10233 Yuh'le demonstrating]] her unique sorcery that mixes empathy with BloodMagic.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', poor Sollux endures this twice: first when he's killed by [[BrownNote the Vast Glub]], and later when [[spoiler:he hurls the meteor towards the Green Sun and [[HeroicRROD overexerts]] his [[MindOverMatter psychic powers]]]]. Since [[AlienBlood his blood is yellow]], Karkat describes him as looking like "a packet of nasty fetid mustard".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': [[spoiler:Lucien]]'s psychic assault causes intense agony directly to the mind, and those he attacks begin to bleed from their mouths, noses, ears and eyes.
* In the ''Website/DKVine'' column "Bitching About [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl]]", this happens to Bob O. Friend right before he dies.
-->'''Bob:''' Oh geez... why am I bleeding from my mouth, nose, ears, ass, penis, nipples, and cuticles?\\
'''Diddy Kong:''' Cameras have mouths, noses, ears, asses, penises, nipples, and cuticles?
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]
* Although this is a popular conception of what happens with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola Ebola and related viruses]], and it ''does'' sometimes happen, it doesn't happen in ''every'' case. Even when it ''does'' happen, it doesn't always happen from ''everywhere''. Nor does it frequently involve the liquification of internal organs.
* [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic]]. It was reported that infected people were bleeding out of their noses, mouths, eyes and ears. Wikipedia quotes an observer saying that one of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach and intestine.
* Bovine neonatal pancytopenia also known as ''Bleeding Calf Syndrome'' is a disease that results in [[BodyHorror unexplained bleeding or haemorrhaging from the skin, nares, mouth, rectum and injection sites and ear tags and with a raised temperature in some cases]]. Thankfully, this disease does not affect humans, and as the name suggests, only affects bovine calves.
* In his memoirs, General Marbot relates how he was stunned by a cannonball during the [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars battle of Eylau]]; the ball had "only" struck his hat, but his whole head endured the impact because of the solid strap holding the hat in place.[[note]]Incidentally, this hat is now exhibited at the Musée de l'Armée in Paris, but without the strap.[[/note]] Blood started to pour from his eyes, ears, and nose, and he remained fully aware but paralyzed while a desperate fight was raging around him. And then it got worse...
[[/folder]]
----