This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Pink Blood launched as Black Blood: From YKTTW
Citizen: Since this is a censorship trope, it didn't seem quite right to have non-censorship examples:
- Jason Voorhees develops this somewhere down the line in the Friday The Thirteenth series. It's given an unusually close examination in Jason Goes to Hell, when a frankly confused coroner comments that he doesn't know what it is. "It sure isn't blood."
- Real-Life examples: Several real animals have colourful bloods, beyond red
- Crabs have blue blood, as a result of using copper based Cyanoglobin instead of iron based Haemoglobin to transport oxygen.
- Insect "blood" (Actually called Haemolymph) is not involved in oxygen transport, so is coloured by the nutrients and waste it carries to and from cells, tending to be white.
- It can even happen to humans: see here.
- Soul Eater actauly uses Black Blood as a plot line. In the case of the anime, most instances of blood are red.
- Magister, the alien Plumber from Ben10: Alien Force, bleeds blue when wounded. This troper was surprised they allowed it to happen on camera, never mind his on-camera death. This could also be chalked up to Alien Blood or Bizarre Alien Biology (he does breathe water - or at least some liquid, non-air substance).
- Honorable mention: Samurai Jack, where all the enemies are robots with ridiculously human biology and all bleed "oil".
- Is this really a censorship trope? Gore from deep inside the body is sometimes dark enough that it appears black, is it not? Truth in Television? Maybe even the opposite of censorship, suggesting an EXTREMELY deep wound?
