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* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', where "vampires" (kids which are pretending to be vampires because of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'') use "Clamato" (clam-flavored tomato juice) for their initiation ceremony. Butters believes it is blood and that he has really become a vampire. Believing he is unable to eat real food, he "suddenly" becomes insatiably hungry...

-->'''@SidwWolfe''': If anyone wants to know how my weekend went I totaled my car while dressed up as Carrie and everyone who was a first responder thought I was dead HAHAHAHA IM SO SORRY

* In 2019, [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carrie-halloween-car-crash_n_5db90b35e4b066da5528c6f8 college student Sidney Wolfe]] dressed as {{Literature/Carrie}} for Halloween. When driving home, she crashed her car after hitting a deer, and the first responders who arrived thought she was dead because of all the fake blood on her costume.

* Inverted in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' when [[spoiler: Rosa]] mistakes a drop of her own blood for a rose petal, to show that her death was unusually quick and painless.\

* Inverted in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' when [[spoiler: Rosa]] mistakes a drop of her own blood for a rose petal, to show that her death was unusually quick and painless.
* In ''Anime/Persona4TheGoldenAnimation'', Naoto is driven paranoid by Yu simply asking her out on a Christmas date, which from a chain of her detective's intuition's outlandish assumptions and a kung-fu movie Chie was watching in the background of a phone call leads her to think [[InsaneTrollLogic every single one of her friends is going to kill each other]]. While preparing food at the Dojima household, Yu tries to juggle between all of his female friends to help prepare dinner, but things go wrong when Chie and Ai start a catfight with tomatoes and a cooking pot of them gets knocked over. Naoto then shows up in SWAT gear, only to find what looks like a grisly murder scene with everyone involved dazed covered in smashed tomatoes and [[NotWhatItLooksLike Yu returning with a kitchen knife]].

* A [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted intro]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' has the Parr family attending a neighborhood picnic. While Bob Parr chops up some steaks, a person screams that Bob has chopped off his fingers. However, it only ''looks'' like he chopped off his fingers and he's actually fine. To fake the injury and not reveal his superpowers, Bob squirts some ketchup on his fingers and screams in pain.

* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': [[spoiler:Frobisher]] does his best to avoid making a mess, but it leads to this trope regardless in the film, when [[spoiler: Sixsmith clings to his lifeless body]].

* In a flashback episode of ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', Shana sets a trap for the animated training skeleton Shiro that involves a giant, hidden hole in the ground full of ketchup. Shiro sees red and... [[TraumaButton doesn't take things so well]]...

* In ''Anime/Persona4GoldenTheAnimation'', Naoto is driven paranoid by Yu simply asking her out on a Christmas date, which from a chain of her detective's intuition's outlandish assumptions and a kung-fu movie Chie was watching in the background of a phone call leads her to think [[InsaneTrollLogic every single one of her friends is going to kill each other]]. While preparing food at the Dojima household, Yu tries to juggle between all of his female friends to help prepare dinner, but things go wrong when Chie and Ai start a catfight with tomatoes and a cooking pot of them gets knocked over. Naoto then shows up in SWAT gear, only to find what looks like a grisly murder scene with everyone involved dazed covered in smashed tomatoes and [[NotWhatItLooksLike Yu returning with a kitchen knife]].

* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', where "vampires" (kids which are pretending to be vampires because of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'') use "Clamato" (clam-flavored tomato juice) for their initiation ceremony. Butters believes it is blood and that he has really become a vampire. Believing he is unable to eat real food, he "suddenly" becomes insatiably hungry...

* Happens in ''Film/CarryOnBehind'' when an explosion upsets a caravan, causing a bottle of tomato sauce to fall out of a cupboard and splatter its contents over Professor Crump (Creator/KennethWilliams). He thinks he's been wounded and faints.

** Perhaps a ShoutOut to ''Film/DumbAndDumber'', where Carrey's character did a similar gag and scared his hapless barber into fainting.

-->'''Sheldon:''' Oh, the walls are dripping blood, which looks nothing like a phenolphthalein indicator exposed to a sodium carbonate solution!

* ''Series/TheExpanse''. The youngest member of a BoardingParty gets shot in the helmet in classic RedShirt style, but when Miller takes his helmet off he's still alive as they're using non-lethal rounds of red gel.

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'', Mulder did it in the third season episode "Revelations". The look on Scully's face before he explained that it was fake blood was priceless.

[[quoteright:326:[[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/untitled_26_6.png]]]][[caption-width-right:326: [[PocketProtector That juice box sure won't mess with you anytime soon.]]]]

* Pictured above from ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': When Edith gets trapped in an iron maiden, a red liquid is seen flowing out the bottom. Gru opens the maiden, and it turns out one of the spikes punctured her juice box.

* Played straight, then subverted in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Projections". The Emergency Medical Hologram is sent to the messhall where Neelix is ProducePelting a Kazon soldier. After he's immobilized with a FryingPanOfDoom, Neelix is alarmed to see he's bleeding, which of course turns out to be tomato sauce. Neelix then points out that the EMH is bleeding. The Doctor is saying that he's not alarmed by some tomato sauce when he realises it actually ''is'' blood, which is impossible as he's only a hologram. [[DoAndroidsDream Things just keep getting weirder from then on]].

* In the Horror Land board of ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party 2]]'', the natural path of the map has a car accident/sentient car monster on the far-left side. Traveling up the path reveals a red smear traveling up through the graveyard, with wolves licking at it at night. At the end of the path, just in time for you to veer away from it, you can see it was just a giant crumpled ketchup bottle that spilled open.

-->Mako: "You're allergic to bees, not strawberries.\\
Prince Wu: "Oh right, I get those confused."

This is when a spillage of some innocent red substance is mistaken for blood. This substance is, more often than not, ketchup, and HilarityEnsues most of the time. This is, however, occasionally used seriously when someone is trying to fake an injury.

* Happens in ''Film/CarryOnBehind'' when an explosion upsets a caravan, causing a bottle of tomato sauce to fall out of a cupboard and splatter its contents over Professor Crump (Creator/KennethWilliams). He thinks he's been wounded and faints. HilarityEnsues.