History Main / BloodIsSquickerInWater

* In ''AccidentMan'', Mike stabs [[spoiler:Jane the Ripper]], then pulls the sword out and shoves the body into a fountain. As it sinks under the water, blood fountains out of the mouth; staining the water red.

* ''Film/TigerBay'': Kelly shoots one of the gang with a crossbow and then tackles him into the swimming pool. Blood from his wound slowly spills into the water.

* The opening sequence of ''Film/TheGentlemen'' ends with a gunshot that sprays blood into a glass of beer; slowly staining the beer a darker colour. This then bleeds (literally) into the opening credits.

* When the toilet gets clogged as a result of some girl or woman who decides to flush her feminine hygiene products down the toilet instead of properly throwing them away.

One way to show LudicrousGibs without [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank breaking the laws of biology]] is to have a character die in a body of water, thus diluting the blood and causing it to billow out in clouds. As a bonus, this tends to look very [[FauxSymbolism symbolic... of nothing in particular]]. Perhaps it stems from the PrimalFear of excessive blood in general, and the illusion that there's more blood than there really is.

One way to show LudicrousGibs without [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank breaking the laws of biology]] is to have a character die in a body of water, thus diluting the blood and causing it to billow out in clouds. As a bonus, this tends to look very [[FauxSymbolism symbolic... of nothing in particular]].

* When the carbon dioxide in Lake Nyos suddenly erupted from the water and killed nearly 1800 people, the disturbed iron turned the water's surface red.

A related phenomenon above the waterline is PinkMist. Can be a symptom of {{Gorn}}. A BathSuicide or DeadlyBath is likely to {{invoke|dTrope}} this.

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* In an early filler episode of ''Manga/DGrayMan'', Kanda fights another swordsman in a pool of water and gets slashed across the chest. The last shot of the episode is of his blood spreading through the water around him.

* How Blackie Fuchs finds the corpse of [[spoiler:Nurse Raindew]] in WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic and WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales {{Crossover}} Fanfic/MLPTrinity.

%%* The finale of ''Film/RushHour''.
* Pretty much every death in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', for [[ThreateningShark obvious reasons]].
* Dieter Stark's death at the hands (claws?) of the compys in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. Also, Robert Burke's death has parts of this, as you see his blood flowing down the waterfall.
* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', the shower scene ends with bloodied water going down the drain. It was made possible with chocolate syrup. An inversion of this is also why the movie is in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome Black and White]], since Hitchcock felt that "pink wasn't scary".
** ''Psycho II'' sees the toilet in the Bates house overflow with blood [[spoiler:after the killer jams a bloody towel into it, presumably one used to clean up their handiwork]].
* ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad''. After Prince Koura is mortally wounded while in the Fountain of Destiny, the Fountain's waters turn red to symbolize his blood loss.
* The finale of ''Film/TheOmegaMan'', where Charlton Heston dies in a [[CrucifiedHeroShot Christ-like pose]] in a blood-filled fountain. His blood is also the world's salvation, to really push the symbolism.
* The end of ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance'' has one of the characters killing another in a shallow river and then drag him ashore.
* Occurs in the film ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla''. In the first battle between Godzilla and his robot counterpart, Godzilla is shot several times by Mechagodzilla and falls into the ocean. The ocean turns red with Godzilla's blood but, [[spoiler:he gets better.]]
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' has many soldiers die before reaching shore as bullets hit them below the waterline. By the end of the scene, the entire surf is red.
* Several movie versions of ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' do this with [[spoiler:Gatsby's death in his swimming pool.]]

* [[spoiler:Connor Rooney]] is shot in the bath in ''Film/RoadToPerdition''.
* [[spoiler:Tony Montana]]'s death at the end of ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}''.
%%* All ''Film/{{Piranha}}'' movies.

* In ''Film/BlackSwan'', blood mysteriously drips into the bathtub over Nina's face as she submerges herself, right before one of the film's many [[JumpScare Jump Scares]]...but it might not have really happened.

* Discussed towards the end of ''Film/GetHimToTheGreek'', when the [[TradeYourPassionForGlory burned out]] and increasingly suicidal rock star [[BritishRockStar Aldous Snow]] breaks his arm diving into a pool from a hotel roof, then has a tearful conversation with Aaron about how destructive his [[HookersAndBlow lifestyle]] is and that it's not working for him. All the while astute viewers may notice that in the background the pool is getting increasingly bloody. Aaron mentions it at the end of their conversation and asks Aldous if he's OK. Aldous shrugs it off, saying that a little blood looks like much more than it really is in water.

* The opening credits to ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' feature this heavily, after the ActionPrologue ends with Bond [[spoiler:being shot and falling into a river.]]

* Blood flowing into water is something of a motif in ''Film/LegendOfTheBlackScorpion''. At one point the emperor dropping a red grape into water evokes earlier examples of actual blood in water and signals that an execution is coming.
* The teenage Antichrist's baby baptism in the 1981 horror film ''Film/FearNoEvil'' turns the water into blood the instant he is immersed.
* In ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'', the water in the pool Helen Sharp falls into turns red with blood when her rival Madeline Ashton blows a hole in her stomach with a shotgun.
* In ''Film/AprilShowers'', [[spoiler:Jason commits suicide in the bathtub.]]

* ''Film/DeadAgainInTombstone'': After being riddled with bullets by Boomer's gang, Guerrero collapses in the river. The water is shown washing over him and flowing out red the other side.

* ''Literature/LeftBehind''

* [[spoiler: Dewey Denounment]] dies in a pond in ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' books
* At the Cornucopia in ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Catching Fire]]'', after the [[spoiler: Victor]] bloodbath.
* A couple of times in ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', for example when Door's brother is killed and left in their swimming pool.
* [[spoiler: Gatsby]]'s death is described that way in ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby''.

* The swimming pool scene in the video to Music/PinkFloyd's "Music/TheWall".
* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine's "Rabbit Heart" refers to this in the context of a HumanSacrifice.
* In the music video of Music/{{Manowar}}'s "Gloves of Metal" this happens when the guy who is hit by Joe de Majo's morning star drops dead into a brook.
* Music/{{Love}}'s "A House Is Not a Motel" from ''Music/ForeverChanges'':

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* ''Series/TheBorgias'': [[spoiler: Micheletto's failed assassination of Cardinal della Rovere in Naples]] results in this, [[spoiler: as he garrotes an unfortunate mook who attacks him after being recognised by the target.]]
* In the first episode of the ''Series/MelrosePlace'' remake, [[spoiler:Sydney Andrews]] is found murdered in the pool of the apartment complex, with more than a little blood in the water around her.
* In an opening to an episode of ''Series/TheCloser'', there's a blink-and-you-miss-it shot of blood splashing into a swimming pool.
* This trope is rather visible in the first season finale of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', when Cromartie disposes of an entire SWAT team into a swimming pool.
* The fifth season opening of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': Bathtub deaths form a major part of the Trinity Killer's pattern. This is later revealed to be due to a youth trauma in which the young Arthur Mitchell witnessed his sister's accidental death in a shower. Startled by Arthur's presence, she slipped and smashed the shower door, shards of which cut her femoral artery and caused her to bleed out in the water.
* ''Series/{{Vera}}'': In "Silent Voices", the VictimOfTheWeek is murdered while swimming in a stream. There is a shot of blood from her head wound flowing into the water and being diluted.
* ''Series/CSICyber'': In "Legacy", a 13 year old hacker is shot and falls into a swimming pool. Red is shown ballooning out from a round him as he sinks into the water.
* ''Series/AgathaRaisin'': In "Agatha and the Wellspring of Death", when the second VictimOfTheWeek is found dead and propped up against the eponymous wellspring, there is a shot of her blood slowly dripping off her and into the spring where it dilutes through the water.
* ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': In "Family Portrait", Edward Tyneman is found lying in a fountain with his throat slashed. The blood has stained the water red and, because of the action of the fountain, the stain has spread to all levels of the fountain.

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* In the Stormwrack supplement for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', spilling blood underwater attracts sharks. It also inverts it with a spell that turns blood to seawater.
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* In ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI Assassin's Creed]]'', Altair's first target, Tamir, [[KickTheDog stabs a man to death]] and lets the body fall into a shallow pool of water which rapidly becomes red with blood.

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', if you kill a beast in the Borean Tundra, you find yourself covered with blood (which will piss off the local AnimalWrongsGroup). You can wash it off by swimming in water, which will leave behind a "pool of blood." Repeatable fishing quests require you to do this deliberately because the blood attracts a unique type of fish.

* In ''VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons'', the brothers come upon a bloody battleground of giants. The battle apparently just happened, because the giants' blood is still flowing into nearby streams, and even makes a waterfall run red. The brothers have to wade through the water to progress and make sounds of disgust as they do so.
* The menu screen for ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' has this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBIyJTHfdPE constantly going on as a background]]. It's actually quite pretty, rather like a lava lamp. Made of blood.

* Lord Woo Fak Fak, the giant anglerfish boss in ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', billows blood into the water whenever he's hit in one of his [[NoticeThis prominent glowing weak spots.]] Especially dramatic given that this is in [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar E-rated game.]]

->''Nathan: Blood. An ocean of blood. I wonder how many blood drops of blood there are in this blood ocean. I wonder how much is it in a drop. I wonder, has... well, I... let's just say there are approximately ...''
-->-- '''Dethstars''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''

* ''Film/DeadInTombstone'': After being riddled with bullets by Boomer's gang, Guerrero collapses in the river. The water is shown washing over him and flowing out red the other side.

In a case of RealityIsUnrealistic, real blood diluted in a large volume of water will actually turn it ''yellow'', the color of blood plasma (the liquid portion of the blood), not pink/red. However, the picture above is accurate in regards to small amounts of water n(or large amounts of blood).

In a case of RealityIsUnrealistic, real blood diluted in a large volume of water will actually turn it ''yellow'', the color of blood plasma (the liquid portion of the blood), not pink/red. However, the picture above is accurate in regards to small amounts.

* In the music video of {{Manowar}}'s "Gloves of Metal" this happens when the guy who is hit by Joe de Majo's morning star drops dead into a brook.

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