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->''"I'm so happy I could cry, but I don't want to because it's really gross."''
-->-- '''Jessica Hamby''', ''Series/TrueBlood''

Or pus, or slime, or [[OminousObsidianOoze icky black stuff]]... If something's coming out of your eyes and it's not [[OcularGushers salty water]], then you can bet your buttons that something pretty bad is happening to you. The trope comes in two flavors, which are (oddly enough) each intended to have the exact opposite effect on the audience.

Flavor one is designed to freak them out, and is usually a sign that the person has either been infected by some horrible [[TheVirus virus]] or is being killed by weird [[AllergicToEvil supernatural means]]. [[EyeScream Eye trauma]] is one of the easiest ways to gross people out, and this method has the added advantage that the person can be "cured" without having lost their vision permanently. Alternatively, it signifies that the "weeping" person [[GlamourFailure is in some way inhuman or demonic]], or at the very least a candidate for supervillainy. In this context, it's a close simile of the DeadlyNosebleed.

Flavor two, meanwhile, is used to signify someone's death in a poetic and possibly even "beautiful" way, especially if the character is a TragicVillain. This is far less common, and the aim is not necessarily to freak out the audience but to add a layer of sadness to a death scene. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Mopey vampires]] are particularly fond of this flavour. The undercurrent to this kind of bloody tears is that the person doing the crying is in some fundamental way (be it biologically or emotionally) [[TearsFromAStone incapable of doing so through normal means]], but is so overcome with emotion that they are doing so anyway.

Alternatively, there's also a third flavour used to signify seeing something so [[BrainBleach disturbing]] or [[SuckinessIsPainful just plain awful]] that the person's eyes start bleeding from the sensation. This serves to showcase the object's sheer {{Squick}} or general painful suckiness, to the point of being a BrownNote of sorts. Quite commonly used on the Internet.

Along these lines, statuary or paintings doing this with the first flavour can mean [[CrossMeltingAura someone present]] is [[MadeOfEvil utterly evil]] (if the items are [[ProtectiveCharm holy relics]]) or that the item itself is an ArtifactOfDoom. With the second flavour, it means the item is a holy relic that's "manifesting" itself this way in response to some tragedy/holiness, whether of its own or those present.

Has nothing to do with the band in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''.

See also: BloodFromTheMouth, PsychicNosebleed and BloodFromEveryOrifice, RainOfBlood.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Manga/SevenSeeds'', the Ryugu Shelter arc uses the first variation. People who have died [[spoiler:due to Arcia X]] are usually depicted with bloody tears [[spoiler:since it's how the parasitoids end up killing their host, eating their way out through the eyeballs]].
* When Mitsuko Souma bites it in the ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' manga, Kiriyama opens the fight by lobbing a bag of shattered glass into her face. She spends the entire fight with tears of blood running down her cheeks... [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic not that it's symbolic or anything]].
* When a Behelit summons the Godhand in the ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' universe, its features rearrange into a human face, which sheds tears of blood and screams. This also happens to Griffith [[spoiler:due to being tortured]] and Guts himself [[spoiler:due to [[EyeScream having his right eye clawed out]] by a demon]].
* ''Manga/BlackButler'':
** The maidservant Hannah does this when her master Alois [[EyeScream stabs out her eye]] (for just looking at him!) in the first episode of the second season. She also does this in the second opening when the bandage covering her ruined eye comes loose.
** Agni seems to do this when sad... but when he's crying tears of joy, the tears are normal.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** The FillerVillain Muramasa does this.
** Äs Nödt cries blood when he enters his Vollständig.
** Urahara Kisuke has [[EyeScream both of his eyes destroyed]], leaving thick blood trails running from the empty sockets. His eyes are healed by his bankai within a minute or so, but the streaks of blood remain.
* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** This happens to [[spoiler:Tsuchimikado]] when casting a huge spell despite being an esper, in addition to BloodFromTheMouth and apparently rupturing blood vessels essentially everywhere. [[spoiler:He gets better because said esper ability is a passive HealingFactor.]]
** This also happens to Accelerator while he [[spoiler:watches Kakine Teitoku stab Yomikawa and then crush him onto the floor many times, despite Accelerator begging him to stop]].
* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', the Darkness Devil makes Angel cry those by merely looking at him, though he also has blood coming from his mouth, impliying that it's because of one of Darkness' powers and not an example of the third flavour.
* ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'':
** A statue of the Virgin Mary is seen crying tears of blood at one point.
** Joshua also cries tears of blood when he first puts Chrono's horns on his head, and in the manga the Apostles cry tears of blood from the strain of a spiritual ceremony called the "oratorio".
* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', you at one point see Teresa having a trail of blood on her face. Part of that trail resembled the path of a tear.
* The second flavor of this occurs in the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession25TheRealFolkBluesPart1 The Real Folk Blues (Part 1)]]", when Vicious [[spoiler:kills the leaders of the Red Dragon and takes over the syndicate, executing one of them by [[EyeScream slashing him across the eyes]] and making him "shed tears of scarlet"]].
* ''Manga/DGrayMan'': This happens to Allen when he has to watch [[spoiler:a bunch of Akuma getting destroyed by the "Third Exorcists"]]. No wonder he objects to his bosses' methods...
* Rath of ''Manga/DragonKnights'' cries tears of blood when [[spoiler:Kharl tries to return him to demon form]].
* ''Manga/{{Emerging}}'' centers around a [[ThePlague mysterious new disease spreading throughout Tokyo]] that causes infectious HighPressureBlood to gout from a victim's [[BloodFromEveryOrifice every orifice]]. However, before the infected reach that stage, they will first notice that their eyes are extremely bloodshot, followed by tears of blood as the disease progresses.
* While not a real example, Ed from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has a tendency to look like he's doing this due to blood getting splashed on his face. This is apparently because the author likes to play around with the highlights and such created by a person crying but couldn't properly do so with Ed due to his never crying being a plot point.
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':
** This seems to be the only way that Alucard is physically able to cry, considering his [[HumanoidAbomination true nature]]. He sheds them in a nightmare about his defeat at the hands of Abraham van Helsing and finds himself still crying as he awakens from his dream. Later on, he also sheds bloody tears while unconscious and reliving his tragic past and decision to become what he is. The last time Alucard does this is at the time of [[spoiler:Alexander Anderson]]'s death, where he openly weeps and sobs.
** Seras does this in the seventh OVA during a flashback of her [[DarkAndTroubledPast horrific childhood]] where she was ForcedToWatch as [[spoiler:her mother's corpse was raped]]. She also cries blood during [[spoiler:Pip's death]] due to [[EyeScream having had her eyes gouged out]]. She does this in the last episode of the TV series as well.
* In ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', people who get turned into [[NotUsingTheZWord "them"]] tend to do this a lot.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/{{Hyakko}}'', in which [[https://youtu.be/Xid6HJY98HE?t=74 Amagasa-sensei starts crying blood when his students push him too far]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' when Hajime's friend Miki is yelling at him for getting hooked up with Hajime's [[UnsettlingGenderReveal crossdressing younger brother]].
* This occurs a couple of times in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', perhaps one of the most prominent examples being a {{Youkai}} that reads the minds/hearts/souls(?) of its victims, then [[spoiler:provides them with a [[LotusEaterMachine happy dream]] while they are [[PrimalFear absorbed into the soil]], as the victim cries tears of blood all the while]].
* In ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', Anime Hermit does this after explaining his dead little sister backstory... well, it's more of a single tear of blood, which can actually be creepier if you think about it.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', Lutecia's [[SummonMagic summoned creatures]] cry blood while she's under Quattro's VillainOverride.
* This happens in ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'' whenever a character uses too much magoi.
* Played with in''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. The villain Dabi has had his tear ducys burned away due to overexerting his fire powers. During the oenultimate figjt, however, his skin cracks and a single strand of blood falls down his cheek as he starts thinking on his backstory and family.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Uchiha Itachi sheds tears of blood when he strains his sharingan to the limit while fighting his brother [[spoiler:just before he dies at his brother's feet]].
** During [[spoiler:Itachi's death]], his brother Sasuke also cries bloody tears due to Itachi's blood getting into his eyes at the end of their fight. Sasuke now exhibits the same behavior when [[spoiler:he taxes his own Mangekyou Sharingan]] to a ''much'' greater degree.
** [[spoiler:The Gedo Mazo Statue starts bleeding from its eyes as it starts transforming into the Ten Tails as of Chapter 595.]]
** Creative angles with blood spatter and reflections give the illusion of Zabuza and Haku crying tears of blood when [[spoiler:Kakashi runs Haku through while trying to get to Zabuza [[CallBack again]]]].
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** In a rare variation that ''doesn't'' involve supernatural powers or symbolism, [[spoiler:Negi bleeds out of his eyes after Jack Rakan beats the crap out of him, in addition to copious BloodFromTheMouth]]. Given that earlier chapters of Negima went with BloodlessCarnage, it's simply an indicator of how badly injured he is.
** Also, in a {{Flashback}} during [[spoiler:the fight between Rakan and Fate's girls]], a young [[spoiler:[[PlayingWithFire Homura]]]] is seen, while despairing over [[spoiler:having just been made an orphan]], with blood streaming down from her closed left eye (hard to see since she's covering it, but it's there). It's implied that [[EyeScream she lost it]].
* In the Diamond and Pearl arc of ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Cyrus begins crying tears of blood as a result of the strain of controlling both Dialga and Palkia.
* This happens in ''Manga/PrincessAi'' with the title character, further illuminating her inhuman nature.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has [[spoiler:Sayaka]] sporting these in episode 7, combined with BerserkerTears as she decimates a witch. Yes, it's just as freaky as it sounds.
* ''Manga/RedRiver1995'' has this in the title page for the 27th volume.
* This is used as a RunningGag in ''Manga/{{Rinne}}'', as the title character sheds these whenever he's forced to spend a large amount of money. This is because he's a HalfHumanHybrid of human and {{Shinigami}}, and also because his [[{{Jerkass}} father]] is [[AbusiveParents a major-league asshole who has ruined his son's life with financial debts]].
* In the opening of ''Anime/RozenMaiden'', "Kinjirareta Asobi", Jun is depicted with blood coming from his eyes as he is choked by vines.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'':
** Aquarius Camus, Capricorn Shura and Gemini Saga cry tears of blood after being forced to kill Virgo Shaka.
** Even before, when they showed up and fought Mu, Mu noticed that "their souls were crying tears of blood", being the first to realize they were suffering.
* ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'' visits this trope when the resident lone wolf/[[Manga/SaintSeiya Ikki]] {{Expy}} [[spoiler:realizes the difficult decision that he must make and pull a HeelFaceTurn on his ArchnemesisDad as a result of him killing his love interest and viewing him as no different from the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans that he preaches are the reason why he must destroy the world]]]].
* ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'': Flavour two is {{inverted|Trope}} by the Mibu, who normally cry tears of blood but are finally able to cry real tears upon their death.
* Yuu cries a tear of blood in episode 11 of ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'' when he's overcome by emotional turmoil upon seeing his comrades in danger.
* In the third episode of ''Anime/ShamanicPrincess'', Lena cries ''buckets'' of these when she overheats while using her SuperMode.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/SilverSpoon'': Hachiken is so irritated by his big brother being so nonchalant about [[spoiler:getting into UsefulNotes/TokyoUniversity]] and then casually dropping out that he cries bloody tears of ''rage'', while biting his lip hard enough to draw even more blood.
* ''Anime/SonicX'': At the climax of the adaptation of ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'', Cream knocks Emerl into the pier. While short-circuiting, Emerl [[TearsFromAStone leaks oil from one of its eyes]] in an oddly humanizing imitation of Cream's tears right before exploding. Note this was the original version only -- the dub [[{{Bowdlerise}} censored it to be actual tears]].
* Kyosuke, the protagonist of ''Anime/TheSoulTaker'', often has these as a result of being BackFromTheDead. However, it's more used for him to realize he's close to a Flicker. He initially relies solely on this to realize when [[spoiler:the girl who he thinks is his sister, Runa, is really just a gun-toting Flicker named Asuka]].
* In ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'', after singing her [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Ultimate Song]], Tsubasa not only starts to make tears out of blood, but she's heavily bleeding here and there.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has a version of it, particularly in the second movie. After [[spoiler:Kittan's HeroicSacrifice]], Simon goes on to kick ass and [[spoiler:avenge him]] in the [[HumongousMecha Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann]] while crying tears of blood. In the movie, the massive mecha is crying glowing tears of blood from ''both'' faces.
* Kaneki weeps them in the opening of the second season of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. He similarly weeps a [[SingleTear single bloody tear]] while [[spoiler:[[DiedInYourArmsTonight holding Hide's body]]]]. He does this again in the sequel manga as a symbol of his rapid and deadly aging.
* In ''Manga/TowardTheTerra'', [[spoiler:Carina]]'s tears run red in a tragic variation on a PsychicNosebleed during the extended AngstNuke that results when she believes that her four-year-old son has died.
* ''Manga/VermeilInGold'': Vermeil is shown twice shedding red tears during her monstruous transformations, as a result of emotional trauma. The first time [[spoiler:when her adoptive family were hung by a bunch of superstitious villagers]] and the second when [[spoiler:she briefly killed Alto during a fit of induced madness]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/YuruYuri''; [[CovertPervert Chitose]] is told that she would be automatically lose a pillow fight if she has a {{Nosebleed}} and Kyouko immediately tries to invoke a fantasy. Chitose holds in the nosebleed, but the blood instead comes out from her eyes.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', the three human test subjects of Dr. Ichigaki cry tears of blood while [[spoiler:asking Yusuke to [[MercyKill kill them]]]].
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Such tears are one of the symptoms of [[SyntheticPlague the Clench]] in ''ComicBook/BatmanContagion'', and Alfred ends up bandaging [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Tim]]'s eyes while hopelessly trying to care for him while the rest of the Bat-family is searching for a cure.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular Bizarro character cries bloody tears when she realizes that she's killed a man.
* The "zombies" in ''ComicBook/BlackGas'' have [[BlackEyesOfEvil completely black eyes]] and weep [[OminousObsidianOoze black tears]].
* In ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency'' #3, an alien [[BrownNote thought-virus]] infects a group of people living in a housing block; each one of them begins to ooze blood from their eyes.
* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', James Gordon sheds blood tears when he tells Kara that she's been found by Lex Luthor's enforcers and has to run away now.
* The villain Misery from Creator/ImageComics sheds a tear of blood every time she uses her powers.
* Batman ends up with this during the "Amazo Virus" arc of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague2011'' while the eponymous virus is making him turn into a more bat-like creature.
* In the 20th anniversary re-coloring of ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', [[spoiler:the Joker cries a bit of blood after [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Going Mad from the Revelation]]. This is likely from the chemicals he'd just taken a dip in that would permanently disfigure him to look the way he does]].
* In ''ComicBook/RobynHood: The Curse'' #6, Marian cries tears of blood when she pushes her magical abilities to the limit casting a spell to banish the two gods to the other side of the universe.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'':
** The Corinthian sheds [[SandInMyEyes tears]] of blood when [[spoiler:Morpheus dies]]. Of course, since the Corinthian is an incarnated nightmare with [[TooManyMouths razor-toothed mouths where his eyes should be]], and in a past life was a SerialKiller who [[EyeScream ate his victims' eyeballs]] (this incarnation is apparently firmly on the side of good, but no less creepy), this is really an example of both flavors at once. That said, this is actually a touching moment.
** Amedeo gets these too, in the second part of ''The Corinthian: Death In Venice'', [[spoiler:because ''[[RedRightHand the mouths]] are growing in'']].
* In ''ComicBook/ScareTacticsDCComics'', the vampire Screamqueen cries these when she reads Grossout's story about how he became a walking tumor.
* Joshua Brand cries tears of blood when he triggers his powers in ''ComicBook/ShamansTears'' (hence the title). The three tears are transformed into three streaks of warpaint running down his cheek in his superpowered form.
* In every version of ''Franchise/TheTransformers'' comic books, characters bleeding [[AlienBlood Energon]] from their eyes when badly wounded is incredibly common.
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[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
* "Literature/TheJuniperTree": Young Marlinchen cries tears of blood at her brother's secret funeral.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/BramStokersOzymandias'' features a [[AlternateContinuity vampire version]] of [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Adrian Veidt]] who can go about in sunlight, but his eyes leak blood if he's [[HorrorHunger underfed]].
* In ''Fanfic/{{Gensokyo 20XX}}I'', Yukari cries these when she wakes up to find that she and the other youkai had been captured and is overwhelmed with sadness.
* Mai does this in ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours'' when Katara [[DieForOurShip murders her]] by [[spoiler:bloodbending her to death]].
* ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'': In the chapter "Vengeance", [[spoiler:Weiss]] sheds tears of blood while screaming in pain after [[spoiler:Adam]] [[EyeScream cuts her eyes out]] with his sword.
* In ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', characters ''[[ExaggeratedTrope only]]'' cry tears of blood and never regular tears... [[{{Wangst}} and they cry about every ten seconds]]. Ebony also cries black tears on one occasion.
* As one of the pioneers of the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' {{Creepypasta}} subgenre, ''Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver'' features ??? [[spoiler:(actually GOLD)]] crying tears of blood after [[spoiler:he becomes a ghost and loses his limbs]].
* ''Webcomic/ProjectRiribirth'': The cover of the second chapter of the audio drama prequel depicts Riri with blood streaming from her eyes as she cradles the broken Ironheart helmet.
* [[spoiler:Anchorite Ranith]] cries these at the end of the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' fanfic ''Stand of the Exiles''. Unfortunately, it's rather {{Narm}}y.
* In Ch. 12 "Infiltration" of ''Fanfic/StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy: Episode I'', when talking with a disguised Zolph Vaelor, Dynn [[spoiler:(now heavily mutated by her Forceless arm, with red sclerae among these mutations)]] has one of her eyes randomly bleed. [[spoiler:This is because the Forceless arm has gained control of some of her bodily and [[BodyHorror can screw with them as much as it likes]]. However, because of a Force bond between the two of them, Zolph can feel the pain in his eye, too.]] Lucky for him, he was wearing a close-faced helmet as part of his disguise at the time.
* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': As [[spoiler:Shinji is in a coma]], his girlfriend Asuka sheds tears of blood because he is hurt and she cannot help him.
* [[spoiler:John]] from ''Fanfic/WelcomeToSilentHill'' has this happen when Hannah loses control.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* Terry Bogard sheds a few when [[spoiler:Sulia dies]] in ''VideoGame/FatalFury: The Motion Picture'', and then attacks Mars.
* In ''Anime/Golgo13: The Professional'', when Duke smashes Silver's face with his gun, he develops these.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The opening of ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' has Vlad, the title character, so crazy-angry at the death of his wife (since it was a suicide, [[SuicideIsShameful which according to the religious doctrine of the age meant that she was damned]]) that he [[RageAgainstTheHeavens openly renounces God]]. He then takes his sword and stabs it into a ''stone cross'', which bleeds. Then the statues in the chapel start crying blood. Then his candles start oozing blood. Then blood starts pouring out of the walls. Then Dracula drinks the blood and becomes a vampire. {{Narm}}tastic. Later, he cries when Mina breaks up with him by letter; multiple streams of blood seep out of his eyes.
* Le Chiffre, the villain in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', suffers from haemolacria in his left eye, causing him to weep blood when stressed. [[BlatantLies Nothing sinister.]]
* ''Film/CityOfTheLivingDead'' has a scene with a girl bleeding from her eyes shortly before she starts throwing up her intestines.
* Marlena in ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' oozes blood from her eyes, just as we learn how seriously screwed she is.
* ''Film/DeadAir2009'': These are one of the signs that a victim exposed to the SyntheticPlague will soon succumb.
* In ''Film/HouseOfTolerance'', the Jewess cries tears of semen. This is also a BrickJoke set up earlier in the film where she confesses this sexual fantasy to the customer who defaces her.
* ''Film/IAmLegend'' has people who are infected by the virus start to cry tears of blood, then gain a craving for human flesh.
* A snowman starts shedding tears of blood at the end of ''Iced'' just before [[spoiler:the thought-to-be-dead killer bursts out of it to attack the FinalGirl]].
* ''Film/{{Juon}}'': Some shots of Kayako's dead body in flashbacks have her shedding tears of blood hinting at her transformation into an onryo.
* Flavor two example: in ''Film/KillBill'', when Gogo Yubari is killed with a nail through the head, she cries blood.
* Flavor two is used in ''Film/TheKiller1989'' for two major scenes: one being the blinding-by-muzzle-flash of Jenny during the restaurant shootout that kicks off the plot, and the other being [[spoiler:the death of the title character when he gets [[EyeScream shot in the eyes]] by the main bad guy]].
* In ''Film/LegendOfTheBlackScorpion'', instead of the ghost of the prince's father as in the original ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', we have the father's armor weeping blood from the eye-holes.
* ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' uses this when, after the Dragon Emperor and his army are transformed into terracotta statues by Zi Yuan's curse, they seem to start crying mud.
* ''Film/OneHourPhoto'': Sy, in his dream, has [[RedEyesTakeWarning blood-red eyes]] with a single tear of blood -- right before [[HighPressureBlood a lot more shoots out]], anyway.
* In ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'', elder vampire Maharet weeps a SingleTear of blood in a dream/memory of Jesse's. This is possibly the only aspect of the film more [[Literature/TheVampireChronicles book]]-accurate than its predecessor, as when Louis cried in ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', his tears were just tears.
* This happens to Marni in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' after Nathan [[spoiler:unknowingly poisons her]].
* In ''Film/{{Stargate}}'', Ra's hand device, described as being able to melt bone, can cause its victims to bleed out the eyes and nose.
* At the end of ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'', [[spoiler:Bill Haydon, having been exposed as TheMole, is assassinated by Jim Prideaux, his former lover and colleague with [[PrettyLittleHeadshots a small calibre bullet through the head]]. Before Haydon collapses, a single teardrop of blood runs down his cheek, matching the SingleTear shed by Jim]].
* One scene in ''Film/TheTrip1967'' has Paul with red tears pouring down his face, holding what looks like a child's dismembered arm, while Sally stands nearby with blood dabbed on her face.
* Flavor two example: When [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Lady Deathstrike]] fights Wolverine at the end of ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', her defeat by [[spoiler:[[BodyHorror having liquid adamantium injected into her]]]] makes it look as though she's crying tears of [[spoiler:liquid metal]].
* ''Film/TheXFilesIWantToBelieve'': Father Joe cries blood after a vision. It's what convinces Mulder that the case really does have a supernatural bent to it.
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[[folder:Literature]]
!!General
* Authors and poets in the Heian era (for example, ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji'') were obsessed with this trope. "Crying tears of blood" in that time period was the {{melodrama}}tic equivalent of modern English speakers' "crying their eyes out", resulting in some romantic poems of the period reading a little differently these days. This was a phrase that the Japanese borrowed from China. In Classical Chinese (and occasionally nowadays), the phrase "tears of blood" is up there with "having your intestines and liver disintegrate inch-by-inch" for expressing romantic tragic love.
!!Specific works
* In ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', Czeslaw's eyes leak blood in a {{Flashback}} because of the horrific EyeScream torture that he was just subjected to.
* In ''Literature/BlackDaggerBrotherhood'', creatures called ''sympaths'' (beings who can [[TheEmpath read]] and [[EmotionControl manipulate emotions]] that are feared and persecuted by the vampire race) shed tears of blood.
* ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'':
** In the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresSeeingI Seeing I]]'', [[spoiler:the Doctor]] gets a mild case of this when the [[spoiler:surveillance device]] implanted in his left eye is activated.
** In the ''Literature/NewSeriesAdventures'' novel ''Paradox Lost'', this is what happens to the victims of the Squall's psychic attack.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Did you ever wonder what happens when [[TheFairFolk the Winter Queen of Faerie]] gets annoyed at a smartass who won't shut up and [[EyeScream starts freezing the water in their eyes]]? Well, Harry Dresden knows.
* ''Literature/EverythingsEventual'': In "The Man in the Black Suit", {{Satan}} sheds them in the effort of [[SwallowedWhole swallowing a large fish]].
* In ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'', after Sosuke [[spoiler:learns of Chidori's supposed death (she isn't really)]], he's too emotionally dead to cry -- instead, a shard of glass cuts his cheek, and the trickle of blood serves the purpose.
* In ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'', Ned Stark dreams of his late sister Lyanna crying tears of blood, underlying her tragic fate -- she died at age sixteen on a pool of her own blood and still haunts her older brother with a promise she made him keep.
* In the tenth ''Literature/MadgieWhatDidYouDo'' story, we have Toki crying these, after the Madgie's death during the Cold Sorrow. Said blood tears also had the effect of [[BodyToJewel turning the snow crystal]], along with sprouting flowers.
* In ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', the Katharos bleed from the eyes after contact with the Fallen, and sometimes the ears and nose as well.
* OlderThanPrint: Kriemhild from the ''Literature/{{Nibelungenlied}}'' weeps tears of blood after her husband Siegfried dies.
* ''Literature/ProsperosDaughter'': In ''Prospero in Hell'', Astreus would weep tears of blood if he could, for his exclusion from {{Heaven}}.
* For unclear reasons, most of the non-humans in ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'' cry tears of blood.
* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfRagnarLodbrok'', Queen Aslaug weeps a SingleTear of blood over the death of her stepsons Erik and Agnar.
* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror'', blood constantly seeps from the eyes [[BloodFromTheMouth and mouth]] of [[OurWightsAreDifferent lesser Shade]], a sign of one that was only [[TheCorruption turned]] recently.
* In ''Literature/StarTrekVulcansSoul'', a victim of the Intellivore ends up releasing these. It also overlaps with PsychicNosebleed, seeing as the vast telepathic mind of the Intellivore has scambled the psychic receptors in the victim's brain.
* When the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] of ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'' cry, their tears are blood.
* In a variant, Jack Fleming from ''Literature/TheVampireFiles'' has ''sweated'' blood -- lots of it -- while recovering from being poisoned.
* This is referenced in the ''Literature/VampireHunterD'' novel ''Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane'', in which {{Dhampyr}}s are described as crying tears of blood. D, being TheStoic, doesn't give any corroboration.
* In ''Literature/VoidCity'', [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] have all of their bodily fluids replaced by blood. When Tabitha cries after being turned, her tears come out as blood.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** ''Literature/BloodAngels'': In ''Deus Sanguinius'', the advent of a WalkingWasteland daemon [[FaintingSeer causes a psychic (on a spaceship, off-planet) to weep blood]]. Similarly, in ''Red Fury'', when Serpens uses Nyniq to communicate with Caecus, she weeps tears pink with blood.
** ''Literature/NightLords'' has [[DemonicPossession the Exalted]], whose [[FrozenFace facial expression is frozen in a grimace]] by the Warp-induced mutations of his skull structure.[[note]]Not to mention [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily all those extra fangs]]...[[/note]] The one time he is excited enough to [[SlasherSmile force his mouth to contort into a smile]], the muscular strain kicks his tear ducts into action, leaking "tears of oily [dark] blood".
** The character Icaris, a Khorne Berzerker from the short story "Honour Among Feinds" by Dylan Owen, weeps blood constantly because his opponents won't get to worship Khorne, just die in his name.
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Magic'': In "Wizard's Boy", the WickedWitch Dark Anne weeps ''sand'' when her [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes beloved]] pet abomination is killed.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* A woman is seen weeping tears of blood in the title sequence of the 2013 season of the British medical documentary ''24 Hours in A&E''. She had broken bones in her face.
* [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Merlyn Temple]] of ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'' cries these (or her body does, at least) during a lovely guilt-inducing vision which haunts the coroner of Trinity -- since he was complicit in covering up Sheriff Buck's crime of "[[MercyKill mercy-killing]]" her. The accompanying MadnessMantra on the tape recorder, both as an artificially deep VoiceOfTheLegion and a freakily speeded-up version, is the icing on the cake for this [[NightmareFuel very disturbing scene]]. (You know the villain of a piece must be awful if this is the sort of thing that the ''good guys'' do regularly to combat his plots.)
* In ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', Beka gets these from overdosing on [[FantasticDrug Flash]], a highly addictive stimulant taken as eye drops.
* In the second season of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', this is what happens when someone has an adverse reaction to the SuperSerum Mirakuru.
* ''Series/TheBlacklist'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheBlacklistS2E21Karakurt Karakurt]]", victims of a virus suffer from seizures, foaming at the mouth, and bloody tears.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]", Yvonne Hartman (after having been [[UnwillingRoboticisation converted into a Cyberman]]) cries oily tears as she turns on the rest of the Cybermen with a weapon that can kill them, while repeating the last thing that she said before being converted.
* The Hands of Blue from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' use a futuristic device that [[BrownNote causes ocular haemorrhaging and subsequent cessation of electrical activity in the brain]]. This device is used on Agent [=McGinnis=] and the Feds with nightmarish results in the episode "[[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel Ariel]]" after they admit that they have had verbal contact with River, whom they want to recapture. [[BloodFromEveryOrifice They start to bleed from the nose and mouth, too]] -- the device appears to kill by causing fatal internal hemorrhaging. In ''ComicBook/SerenityThoseLeftBehind'', the weapons used by the Hands are shown to be even more powerful, liquefying a man's entire body and leaving only a tattered husk of skin behind.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': After spending a good minute asphyxiating, Joffrey begins to bleed from the eyes before he finally expires.
* Maya and her brother from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' have a weird [[WonderTwinPowers joint power]]; the woman, when stressed, begins to ooze black tears of poison. Anyone within a certain radius also begins to ooze the tears, but unlike her they subsequently die. The only way to stop the "infection" and revive those who have not been infected for long is for her brother (who is unaffected) to hold her hands and calm her down, at which point the tears turn into regular water. At the start of season two, they do this around eighty times an episode; eventually, Maya learns how to control it herself.
* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Vampires cry tears of blood, as shown whenever they get overly emotional.
* ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'': Bandora suffers from this while harnessing the darkest of magic to summon Dai Satan.
* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "Shades of Grey" starts bleeding from her eyes [[spoiler:after taking an overdose of pennyroyal oil to induce an abortion]].
* In ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', the team receives a clue ahead of time from a SerialKiller implying that his next victim will cry tears of blood. [[spoiler:He does. It's creepy.]]
* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', this is an early sign that the resurrection serum is starting to wear off. When Adam Knight is first seen suffering from it, he tries to dismiss it as a broken capillary, which is probably true to some extent.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** The first sign of Bloody Mary's presence is that her victims begin to bleed from the eyes.
** A statue of the Virgin Mary also starts to cry blood to mark the approach of the demon Alistair.
** In a season 8 episode, Castiel sheds a bloody tear as [[spoiler:a side effect of Naomi's mind-control]].
* ''Series/SyndromeE''. Victims of the MadScience experiments weep tears of blood when their Syndrome E is activated.
* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent This is how vampires cry]] in ''Series/TrueBlood''.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has an alien virus made of [[OminousObsidianOoze black oil]] that can control its hosts. The infected are shown to have [[BlackEyesOfEvil black oil swirling in their eyes]] and sometimes weep it too.
* Vlad secretes a [[OminousObsidianOoze thick black liquid]] from his eyes in Series Four of ''Series/YoungDracula'', after he bites his father to save him from [[spoiler:Elizabeta's [[DruggedLipstick poison lipstick]]]]. To top it off, it also comes out of his ears, nose, and ''hands.'' NightmareFuel at its finest.
* Invoked in ''Series/{{Sloborn}}'': The first symptom of the pigeon flu is bleeding out of the eyes, what looks like if the infected is weeping bloody tears.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Ayumi Hamasaki's Brillante music video features this.
* Unsurprisingly, the Music/BlindGuardian song "Blood Tears" mentions this very trope. (It's about the [[FateWorseThanDeath torture]] of Maedhros from ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' -- that particular detail is not in the book itself at all, though.)
* Music/BlueOysterCult's ''Unknown Tongues'' is about a devout {{Catholic schoolgirl|sRule}} who manifests the Stigmata, bleeding where Christ bled.[[note]]The lyrics suggest that this is more directly due to her [[SelfHarm self-harming]] with a razor blade. It's that sort of song.[[/note]]
* Most of the Japanese band Music/{{D}}'s music centers around a story in which the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] characters cry blood, which in turn [[BodyToJewel transforms into rubies]] after several seconds' worth of exposure to the air (can be seen in the music video for Rosenstrauss).
* Music/DemonHunter's song "Blood in the Tears" is about just this.
* The video for Music/EgoLikeness's song "Treacherous Thing" depicts Donna Lynch with blood pouring from her eyes, coupled with a SlasherSmile.
* Music/GraveDigger has song with the exact title and theme on the ''Best of the Eighties'' compilation.
* Music/LemonDemon: One of the many creepy, impossible things that happen in "When He Died" are [[TearsFromAStone statues of the man's missing children]] crying blood... which is later discovered to be ''[[MindScrew his blood]]''.
* Music/NightwishBand with an early song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8XezxZXujE "Angels Fall First"]] ("Tears of blood, tears of fear..."). Also used in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZn7k5rZLQ music video for "Amaranth"]], which involves a FallenAngel crying blood through its blindfold. The imagery for this was inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wounded_Angel Finland's "national painting"]].
* In the video for Project Pitchfork's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aJ85G81m70 "Lament"]], the mask of one of the dancers has a ''WebOriginal/{{Zalgo}}''-esque [[OminousObsidianOoze black ooze]] dripping from the eyeholes.
* This happens to Billy Corgan in Music/TheSmashingPumpkins' "Try, Try, Try" video.
* Vision Through Sound's "Something to That Defect" has the line "You look so pretty through these bleeding eyes."
* There is a Swedish folk ballad called "''Styvmodern''" (''The Stepmother'') were three children weeps over their mother's grave. The first one cries regular tears (water) and the second cries blood, with the third one's crying raising the ghost of the mother.
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[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* This occurs in one version of the Myth/{{Classical Myth|ology}} of Orpheus. When he plays his music for the entire underworld, the Erinyes (the furies), who torture condemned souls therein, actually stop the torture to weep bloody tears at the beauty of the music.
* In some UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}ic traditions, the damned will weep blood in {{Hell}}.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' (2nd edition) has a magic item that looked like a valuable coin. It can be used to trick merchants, but every time the owner uses it this way, he begins to shed tears of blood that terrify anyone viewing him. The amount of time that the tears persist depends on how big an amount of money you stole. The coin is cursed and very hard to get rid of -- it bonds once you use it in a single scam, even once.
** Eyewings, a type of fiend from ''TabletopGame/{{Dragonlance}}'', have furry, winged, tailed bodies [[{{Oculothorax}} dominated by a single eye.]] Their signature attack is to drop a huge tear of blue liquid that can poison those splashed by it.
** A wheep is a type of undead that appears as a shriveled corpse with [[TooManyMouths mouths in its palms]] and empty eye sockets (its art depicts it with [[EyeScream large nails driven into them]]) that constantly leak black ichor that interferes with its sniveling and wailing. These "tears" are a deadly poison that applies to a wheep's claw and bite attacks, but also make the thing easy to track through a dungeon.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** The [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=2855 Blood of the Martyr]] card -- or, for the "[[OminousObsidianOoze icky black stuff]]" version, several black cards such as [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Demonic%20Collusion Demonic Collusion]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sudden%20Spoiling Sudden Spoiling]].
** As seen in the Time Spiral block, early stages of phthisis (pronounced TIE-sis) cause the victim's [[BlackEyesOfEvil eyes to turn black]], their tear ducts to corrode open, and their tears to turn black and sludgy, meaning that just about every black-aligned creature in that block was constantly weeping black tears from black eyes.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has [[WarGod Szuriel]], who sports a steady stream of blood from her eyes. This is far from [[SociopathicSoldier the most terrifying]] [[OmnicidalManiac thing about her]].
* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', since [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] have no bodily fluids apart from vitae, when they cry, they cry tears of blood. It is considered very vulgar among the Ventrue. This seems to apply to most stress responses, as there are occasional references to "blood sweats" when a vampire is particularly aggrieved.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Apparently, [[BrownNote staring at a Chaos symbol for long enough will result in this]], along with mild nausea and insanity.
** When PsychicPowers are used, psychic phenomena sometimes occur as a side effect, ranging from harmless flavor text to terrible game-altering chaos. One of the lesser effects is "Tears of Blood", where all portraits, statues, and other inanimate objects with "faces" appear to weep blood for a short period of time.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' has a statue crying blood in a [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone prophetic dream]].
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[[folder:Toys]]
* ''Toys/LivingDeadDolls'':
** [[https://livingdeaddolls.com/lddarchive/26_04.html Lamenta]] has them, but unlike most examples she doesn't seem to suffer from them.
--->''The third of three sisters who pollute our world\\
The offspring of a witch who had three little girls\\
Lamenta is the most beautiful and holds the most power\\
Her sweet tears of blood shall rain down like a shower''
** The [[https://livingdeaddolls.com/lddarchive/27_02.html Hopping Vampire]]'s doll has them, though its description doesn't mention why.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'', [[spoiler:FEAR, the main boss of the Fear Chaser event, actually leaks lava from his eye sockets]].
* Some upgrades in ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' will turn Isaac's tears red, with various effects. Incidentally, these upgrades include [[EyeScream propping his eyes open with toothpicks]] (which makes him cry harder) and reading [[TomeOfEldritchLore demonic scriptures]] (gives Isaac a damage up for the room).
* In ''VideoGame/CastleRed'', Margaery is a maid with blood running from her eyes. Later on, [[spoiler:Cecilia sports this following her FaceHeelTurn, Peter's eyes start bleeding just before his death, and depending on what happens in the Hanging Gardens, Jonathon may gain some bloody tears as well]]. It appears to be the first symptom of worm infestation.
* The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games have a number of examples:
** First and foremost is the recurring villain Carmilla. She's been appearing since ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest'', and while she doesn't ''personally'' cry tears of blood, she has a mask and a flying skull that do. For this reason, she's associated with one of the series' greatest musical themes, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "Bloody Tears"]] (which also debuted in ''Simon's Quest''); it's her theme in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment'', for instance. ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' gave all this history a ShoutOut in the narration:
--->''"Poor, beautiful Carmilla... you will cry bloody tears before this night has ended."''
** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' utilizes the villain-induced statuary variety in the castle's throne room, in which an enormous statue of a woman's face has cried a river of blood across much of the room, all in response to the presence of [[spoiler:Graham Jones, who believes that he is the reincarnation of Dracula]]. However, this may not in fact have anything at all to do with the villain's presence, since a statue that continually cries blood seems like something Count Dracula would have had installed in his throne room simply for decor.
** There's a statue in the X68000 version of ''Castlevania'' (later ported as ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChronicles'') that cries tears of blood that turn into invincible skeletons. "Bloody Tears" is played here too.
** There are similar statues in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance'' in the Skeleton's Den that also produce Blood Skeletons with their tears.
** In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'', there's a quest that requires fetching some holy water, which you get from a crying statue. From the same game, one (technically two, since you control a pair of characters in this game) of the bonus characters have a picture of a woman crying blood on their GameOver screen. Somewhat startling the first time you see it since they are the only characters with a different game over screen and the image is rather creepy.
** A statue that cries blood is also seen in one room in ''VideoGame/Castlevania64''. The blood turns into a blood monster.
** In ''VideoGame/HauntedCastle'', Dracula keeps a big painting of a blonde woman that weeps blood when Simon goes near it. The "Bloody Tears" song is remixed in this game as well.
* This happens to [[spoiler:[[{{Dracolich}} undead Sky Dragons]]]] in ''VideoGame/CaveStory''.
* ''VideoGame/TheConvenienceStore'': One night, the PlayerCharacter can go in a hole in the fence behind the titular store, where she finds a small shed. Inside is a dead body with blood trickling down his face from his eyes.
* ''VideoGame/CultOfTheLamb'' has bright red, bleeding eyes as a common motif, down to the title card. The titular Lamb's eyes will often bleed in the middle of rituals, sermons, and other moments of channeled power.
* In the second episode of the ''VideoGame/{{Darkness}}'' series, a ghost girl who has tears of blood running down her face stalks the heroine.
* This occurs briefly in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' when [[spoiler:Isaac gets done with the [[EyeScream [=NoonTech=] Diagnostic Machine]]. It's even worse if you ''fail'' the sequence, which will result in a fountain of blood erupting from Isaac's eye]].
* Solving one of the puzzles in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' results in two statues joining a third in weeping tears of blood.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', victims of ThePlague cry tears of blood, hence why they are called Weepers.
* The [[http://www.classicdoom.com/doominfo.htm original readme]] (and subsequent instruction manuals) of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' reads "Some of the ceilings in DOOM can smash you, making you cry blood."
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall'', being infected with vampirism (a .06% chance every time you get hit by a vampire -- who, by the way, are obnoxiously powerful) causes you to have a dream the next time you sleep in which a beautiful woman cries tears of blood.
* The zombies in ''VideoGame/GhoulGrindNightOfTheNecromancer'' all have blood coming out of their eye sockets.
%%* Daniella in ''VideoGame/HauntingGround''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
* Later in the game, ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' has this happen to Jayden because of his [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul overuse]] of [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual ARI]] to desperately trying to figure out who the [[SerialKiller Origami Killer]] is. At first, it's assumed that the [[FantasticDrug triptocaine]] that Jayden is taking is the cause, but it's seen in one of the endings that ARI is just as addictive. For reference, if [[DeadlyNosebleed blood is coming from his nose]], it's the drug; if it's coming from his eyes, it's the ARI.
* A teaser trailer for ''VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDeadOverkill'' has the announcer saying that you'll "cry tears of blood from your own eyes!", or something similar.
* Zero, the TrueFinalBoss of ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'', is a giant [[WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver white and red eyeball]] who attacks by ''[[BloodyMurder weaponizing]]'' this trope, either launching big blobs of blood from its iris or outright opening cuts on its body to fire smaller blood projectiles. Its successor, [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Zero Two]], bleeds from its iris whenever it's attacked (though due to the primitive 3D graphics, it looks a bit like an explosion instead).
* The Hunter of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' has blood all around his eyes, suggesting EyeScream of some variety. (It's not clear whether he actually has eyes or not.) They don't bleed during the game, though.
* The Knight of Despair from ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'' perpetually sheds [[OminousObsidianOoze inky black tears]] which become more obvious when she's in a berserk state, with the tears flowing down her face from her [[BlackEyesOfEvil equally dark eyes]]. Her victims' eyes also blacken and cry dark tears when killed.
* ''VideoGame/MagnaCarta: Tears of Blood'' has this too, obviously enough -- and with a weird theme song, too.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': [[PlayerCharacter Shepard]] weeps blood and has a PsychicNosebleed while [[spoiler:being telepathically contacted by a [[EldritchAbomination leviathan]], the creatures that [[{{Precursors}} created the Reapers]] and on whom most large Reapers are modeled in form,]] in the ''Leviathan'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]].
* Wallachia of ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood''. This is because his eyes are ''pools of blood'', which is why he [[EyesAlwaysShut keeps them closed]].
* The Sorrow, a ghostly [[ISeeDeadPeople spirit medium]] and member of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the Cobra Unit]] from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', cries tears of blood from his left eye before and after his confrontation with Naked Snake. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he was the paramour of Snake's mentor The Boss, and was [[EyeScream shot through that eye]] by her in order to keep their child safe from [[AncientConspiracy the Philosophers]]. That child, by the way, would grow up to be ''Revolver Ocelot'', which is later used to HandWave Ocelot being possessed by the ghost of Liquid Snake: his father was a medium. And then the "{{Nanomachines}}" {{Retcon}} [[DoingInTheWizard came along]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' and confused everyone even more.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{PAGUI}}'' has the [[AlasPoorVillain ghost-king]] shedding bloody tears when finding out Tsui, the player protagonist, is actually his daughter.
* ''VideoGame/{{Okaeri}}'': The woman hanging from a noose in the living room has blood coming out of her eyes.
* The intro movie for the fifth chapter in ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria}}'' shows Adrienne lying on her bed when suddenly tears of blood start streaming down her cheeks. It turns out to be a bad dream.
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'':
** The Tears of Lhys were wept by the Mercykiller Lhys (naturally), falsely condemned for a crime and tortured to death; his innocence was only discovered after the fact. He wept exactly twelve tears of blood before dying. These became minor artifacts, and could be used by the character to permanently enhance one's Constitution score.
** The Nameless One also weeps bloody tears after [[spoiler:reliving an evil moment in which one of his previous incarnations lured a girl to her death by pretending to be in love with her]].
* The opening to ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' shows some poor guy being infected with Uroboros that makes him weep [[OminousObsidianOoze black, oily tears]].
* Sepperin Stage 2's stage title in ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'' is "Bloody Tears". It even features a statue crying blood in the background of the Poltergeist boss battle at the end. The sequel, ''Freudenstachel'', contains a Flavor 2 example when [[spoiler:Eifer Skute's Dark Devil form]] is defeated.
* Ishida Mitsunari cries BlackBlood in his red path ending in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. The fandom tends to joke about [[YourMakeupIsRunning runny mascara]].
* Towards the end of ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', during a confrontation with Harry in which Lisa Garland discovers that [[spoiler:she is not actually human but the same as the other demonic nurses created by Alessa's nightmares]], a cutscene shows her weeping blood before it begins to just ooze out from her skin.
* In ''VideoGame/Siren1'' and ''VideoGame/SirenBloodCurse'', all of the shibito have tears of blood. {{Justified|Trope}}, as it's their human blood being ejected as their red liquids [[TheVirus get replaced with the red water]].
* The final boss of ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' has a special attack which starts with bloody tears coming down from his eyes.
* One of the female devils in ''VideoGame/SoulAtStake'' appears to be weeping these.
%%* Jinpachi in his ending of ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 5''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
* ''VideoGame/TraumaCenterAtlus'': Flavor 1 is used a lot in ''Trauma Team''. This is almost always the point where the person bleeding from the eyes is about to die from the [[spoiler:Rosalia]] virus.
* In ''VideoGame/AWitchsTale'', the White Rabbit cries perpetual tears of blood.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'': You can get a special scene [[spoiler:if you compose poems that appeal to Natsuki in the first two days of Act Two. When she shows you her poem, it's all in garbled code (which someone actually found out was in base64 and managed to translate).[[labelnote:Translation]] Open Your ThirdEye. I can feel the tenderness of their skin though the knife, as if it were an extension of my sense of touch. My body nearly convulses. [[ReluctantPsycho There's something incredibly faint, deep down, that screams to resist this uncontrollable pleasure]], but I can already tell that I'm pushed to the edge. I can't... I can't stop myself.[[/labelnote]] She then proceeds to ask you why you flaked on her, and that it was the only thing she had left to look forward to. The screen turns a dim red as she tells you Yuri is a "sick freak" and you shouldn't associate with her. As she continues to ramble, [[GhostlyGape her eyes and mouth become blacked out]], [[TearsOfBlood blood begins pouring down her face]], and the [[HellIsThatNoise music]] grows distorted. Eventually, she dons a huge SlasherSmile, screaming "PLAY WITH ME!!!" as her neck [[SickeningCrunch snaps]] like VideoGame/TheCrookedMan. Her sprite then [[JumpScare lunges toward the screen]] and you get the "END" card backwards.]] The game then goes back to normal as if nothing happened.
* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'', the final case of the third game has [[spoiler:Godot bleeding from a cut on his face, which is hidden behind his visor and leaks out to appear as if he is crying blood]]. This happens as you are about to finish proving him to be the real killer in the case, and his following line calls back to his earlier claim that "[[spoiler:the only time a lawyer can cry is when it's all over]]".
-->'''[[spoiler:Godot]]:''' In my world, [[spoiler:[[ColorblindConfusion the color red doesn't exist]]]]. These must be... my tears.
* In the sixth arc of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', [[spoiler:Kanon]] inflicts the second flavor of this upon Rosa. Indeed, in comparison to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath all the other ways to be offed in the series]], it is quite a gentle, and even beautiful, death scene for a character who really [[TheChewToy isn't prone to them]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dan [=McNinja=] claims that he can store poison in his eyes and "[[BloodyMurder shoot it out later]] like a '''toad'''" (a reference to the horned toad mentioned in the Real Life folder). [[spoiler:It turns out that he isn't exaggerating.]]
* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'': [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20091111.html Virgins shed tears of blood]] in the reign of the vampire queen.
* Zimmy of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' has her eyes [[HiddenEyes completely obscured]] by [[BlackEyesOfEvil black gunk]], until [[RedemptionInTheRain the next rain washes it away]] -- that's how we know she got [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]]. She's considered technically human, though with some weird... issues. Either way, it looks creepy.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** The [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]] cry tears that correspond to their [[AlienBlood blood color]]. WordOfGod is that [[BizarreAlienBiology their blood dictates the color of the rest of their bodily fluids]], and tears just happen to contain the same pigment as their blood, rather than the actual blood, thus making this technically an {{aver|tedTrope}}sion.
** In a [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006665 flashback scene]] which shows the day, [[spoiler:Terezi had her [[EyeScream eyes burned out]] by [[BlindedByTheSun being forced to stare into the sun]]]].
* ''Webcomic/KarinDou4koma'': On Valentine's Day, Mifi plans to surprise Elza with a NakedApron and chocolate lipstick. However, she then talks in on Elza expressing her happiness over receiving simple chocolates from Seren instead of "getting weirdly gimmicked" and immediately starts screaming and crying tears of blood.
* In ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', Tycho manages to inflict this on Gabe with a [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/9/9/ slideshow]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Prequel}}'', Katia Managan has the natural [[CatFolk Khajiit]] ability of [[InnateNightVision darkvision]]. At least twice in the story, she activates it when heading into a dark place, [[DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes then forgets to deactivate it when she turns back into the sun]]. She bleeds from her eyes a bit afterwards.
* The mannequin in ''Webcomic/SilentHillPromise'', once activated, sheds a [[SingleTear single bloody tear]].
* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] crying tears of blood is simply analogous to humans crying normally.
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Lalli gets these alongside a PsychicNosebleed while performing an extremely straining magic act.
* In the ''Webcomic/TeamFortress2'' comic "The Naked and The Dead", after Medic manages to save everyone whose blood has been drained by [[WorstAid sponging it up and pouring it back into their gaping chest wounds]], Scout runs up to Miss Pauling when they reunite and gives her a hug, prompting a ''[[http://www.teamfortress.com/tf06_thenakedandthedead/#f=31 jet]]'' of blood to shoot out her eyes.
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* ''Fanfic/SonicExe'': X has long been associated with this trope, and nearly every incarnation of him features it in some manner as part of his design. His eyes turning black and bleeding is usually the first sign of him [[OneWingedAngel shedding his form to reveal something closer to his true appearance.]]
** The original story first describes this when X kills Tails, grinning and beginning to bleed from the eyes as he approaches.
** The title screen of ''VideoGame/SonicExe'' depicts Sonic with ''WebOriginal/{{Zalgo}}''-style black bleeding eyes, first revealed in the title screen for a split second to hint at the DisguisedHorrorStory aspect.
** Exe, Lord X, and Soul Tails (reflecting his state post-murder) all sport this as part of their character designs in ''VideoGame/VsSonicExe''. As Exe changes forms, the blood begins to turn a bright shade of [[AlienBlood pink.]]
** ''Fanfic/SonicExeRemake'' averts this, moving away from the eyes entirely and instead describing victims of X as having their ''mouths'' filled with blood.
* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': In "The Future", after the ghostly Lewis snatches his locket [[spoiler:back from Arthur and looks inside, seeing the restored photo of the Mystery Skulls together]], he falls to his knees and begins crying black ooze.
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': In ''Ayla and the Grinch'', Phase is fighting a demon and losing; he's beaten and broken, lying at the base of the thing, and blood is dripping from his eye, along with pretty much everywhere else. [[spoiler:He gets rescued and healed.]]
* In the world of the ''Music/YearZero'' AlternateRealityGame, an anti-viral agent nicknamed "Copper" causes orange secretions in users. In the "Star Chamber" terrorism incident, a supposed government agent is seen "crying orange tears".
* WebOriginal/{{Zalgo}} makes his victims cry oil when He Comes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'':
** Dracula cries bloody tears in the first episode upon hearing of his wife's execution. No doubt referencing the song from the games. The second season similarly shows his eyes becoming almost uniformly red with blood whenever he gets really angry, though it doesn't drip from his eyes like it did in the first episode.
** [[spoiler:Carmilla's eyes become bloodshot as she's losing her last fight against Isaac [[DeathOfAThousandCuts and his army of night monsters]]. As he moves in for the kill, she sheds one last tear of blood and [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled kills herself]] in [[DefeatEqualsExplosion a violent explosion]] in a failed bid to [[TakingYouWithMe take Isaac down with her]].]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E20PatriotGames Patriot Games]]", when Stewie smashes a glass over Brian's head, blood starts dripping from his eyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In [[Recap/FinalSpaceS1E8Chapter8 Episode 8]], the protagonists [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind enter the mind]] of [[EldritchAbomination the titan Bolo]]. The experience is quite stressful, and halfway, Gary starts bleeding from his eyes as a result.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'':
** Murderface sheds a SingleTear of blood in the episode "Birthdayface" when the other members of the band get him a collection of priceless pieces of American history, specifically for him to destroy as he sees fit.
** The music video for "Detharmonic" has singer Nathan Explosion crying tears of blood [[IntimidatingRevenueService as he does his taxes]]. Taxes are just ''that'' brutal.
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* Haemolacria is a physical condition in which blood is found in tears; this can be anything from a small trace to flows of red.
* Stretching the definition a little bit, but the horned lizard (also known as the "horny toad") can squirt blood from its eyes up to a distance of three feet to ward off predators.
* There are claims that some statues of the Virgin Mary ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_statue and statues of others, but almost exclusively Mary]]) have wept skim milk, blood and other substances in a miraculous fashion. Skeptics claim that the phenomenon can be attributed to condensation, group suggestion or hoaxes. ''Magazine/ForteanTimes'' reports frequently on these occurrences.
** There's a story about weeping icons of Virgin Mary in UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat's Russia. They started weeping (lamp oil, not blood) in one of the monasteries. Peter arrived to that monastery, examined an icon and found there's a small reservoir of oil in it. Then he decreed: "If any icons in my country weep with oil, the monks' asses will weep with blood!". Miraculously, the miracles of weeping icons ceased and never reappeared during Peter's lifetime.
* St. Jacinta Marto, one of the three kids who saw visions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, was also a horrifically ill girl (you do ''not'' want [[BodyHorror details]]) who died [[WaifProphet as per her own predictions]] at the age of nine in a Lisbon hospital. During the hearings for [[http://www.ewtn.com/fatima/beatification/decree1.htm her beatification]], the nuns who prepared her for burial testified that they found tears of blood on her face.
* At least one Ancient Greek temple used machinery to make statues of gods appear to weep blood.
* Some people suffering from stigmata are said to weep tears of blood.
* If a person suffers of ''extreme'' altitude sickness, their ocular tear conducts break and blood pours from them. By that time, though, the person is practically dead because of the chronic lack of oxygen.
* In a very scary version of TruthInTelevision we have an episode of National Geographic, featuring a girl spontaneously bleeding from her eyes, head, nose, and hands. There is no known reason for this.
* Something like this occurs with hippopotamuses, except in this case, they ''sweat'' blood, or a substance that resembles blood.
* Rats eliminate excess porphyrins, a dark red metabolic waste product, in their tears and nasal mucus. Inexperienced owners of pet rats sometimes rush their animals to the vet, assuming a runny nose or irritated eyes are actually bleeding.
* Endometriosis is an unpleasant condition where the lining of the uterus shows up in places it's not supposed to, such as the body cavity. There was a woman who had a patch show up in her eye -- and since endometriotic tissue will still be effected by menstrual cycles, she suffered this trope monthly.
* Ebola makes you [[BloodFromEveryOrifice bleed from every hole in your body]], including your tear ducts.
* People who have had certain types of eye surgery sometimes cry blood afterward to clear buildup in the tear ducts.
* People who suffer from nosebleeds can occasionally find blood flowing from their tear ducts as a result of blood failing to clot and being backed up into the nose until it's only way out is through tear ducts.
* Heartbreakingly inverted with the 1998 murder of [[Theatre/TheLaramieProject Matthew Shepard]]. When paramedics found him, horrifically beaten and left for dead tied to a fence, his face was covered in blood ''except'' where it was washed away by his tears.
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