History Main / BloodSplatteredWarrior

* In ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'', Nikita is often covered in blood after a fight. Taken UpToEleven when she goes [[TheBerserker berserk]] and literally tears her enemies apart.

Contrast its {{Sister Trope}}s, BloodSplatteredInnocents and BloodSplatteredWeddingDress for innocents and brides, respectively. Expect {{Blood Knight}}s, {{Sociopathic Hero}}es, and other combat lovers to ''want'' to be a Blood-Splattered Warrior. Related to BloodIsTheNewBlack.

** [[TheBerserker the World Eaters legion]] and their Primarch, Angron. During Angron's days amongst humanity, he was well known for personally leading his legion in vicious frontal assaults which obsessively emphasized melee combat; this practice led to his public image fulfilling this trope as one of his more infamous attributes, earning him the epithet [[TheRedBaron "the Red Angel"]]. With his white and blue-trim armor, he was often told he should just repaint it red, and his legion's colors did eventually change to red and brass. Some in the 40k-verse say they never actually repainted their armor, but just stopped cleaning the blood off of it (smarter characters note that this is disproven by even basic knowledge of chemistry).[[note]]In one novel, a dead Space Marine's corpse was seen by the protagonists in the rain in a pool of blood, and the characters were confused upon seeing the blue-and-white color scheme, as there were no marines using that color scheme in the campaign the story is set in. Then one character pushes the dead marine over, revealing the ''[[WhamShot World Eater's Symbol on the shoulder pad]]''.[[/note]]

* Up the wazoo in Creator/ShawBrothers movies, due to the studios apparently spending a sizeable chunk of their budget on red syrup. Most of these comes from copious use of HighPressureBlood they keep using in their movies. See the endings of ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'', ''Film/TheDeadlyDuo'', ''Film/OathOfDeath'', ''Film/TheHeroicOnes'', ''Film/GoldenSwallow'', ''Film/TheBoxerFromShantung'', ''Film/TheCasino'', ''Film/TheDevilsMirror'', ''Film/DelightfulForest'', ''Film/TheLadyHermit'', ''Film/TheLadyAssassin'', ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'', ''Film/UsurpersOfEmperorsPower'', just to name ''a few''. (There's honestly too many to list)

* Up the wazoo in Creator/ShawBrothers movies, due to the studios apparently spending a sizeable chunk of their budget on red syrup. Most of these comes from copious use of HighPressureBlood they keep using in their movies. See the endings of ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'', ''Film/TheDeadlyDuo'', ''Film/OathOfDeath'', ''Film/TheHeroicOnes'', ''Film/GoldenSwallow'', ''Film/TheBoxerFromShantung'', ''Film/TheCasino'', ''Film/DelightfulForest'', ''Film/TheLadyHermit'', ''Film/TheLadyAssassin'', ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'', ''Film/UsurpersOfEmperorsPower'', just to name ''a few''. (There's honestly too many to list)

A Blood-Splattered Warrior is exactly that, a combatant drenched in blood. This is often used to show how insanely badass the character is due to the implication that they either [[{{Determinator}} took multiple wounds yet stood their ground]], or were drenched in their opponents' blood. Or both.

* A less gory example happens in ''Film/IronMan2'' during the final battle, Iron Man and War Machine are battling Hammer Drones and what seems to be oil splatters on War Machine’s mask.

* The ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' series will usually have whichever hero of that game become increasingly coated in blood as they hack up zombies or are themselves attacked. The blood will at least fade, but let's hope that [[VideoGame/DeadRising Frank]]/[[VideoGame/DeadRising2 Chuck]]/[[VideoGame/DeadRising3 Nick]] are paying their dry cleaners well.

* Wrestling/{{CZW}}'s annual ''Tournament Of Death'' is guaranteed to produce at least four of these, as the matches always require the use of barbed wire, glass, and other sharp objects. Both wrestlers who worked under the name Wife Beater have images of themselves caked in blood which are iconic to CZW events.[[/folder]]

* The KillerRobot protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'' has this trope as their only source of [[HealThyself healing]] (other than finding secret powerups that double [=V1=]'s health). However, this only works if [=V1=] hurts or kills their enemies at close range, most preferably with a [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter shotgun]].

* From ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': [[TheBerserker the World Eaters legion]] and their Primarch, Angron. During Angron's days amongst humanity, he was well known for personally leading his legion in vicious frontal assaults which obsessively emphasized melee combat; this practice led to his public image fulfilling this trope as one of his more infamous attributes, earning him the epithet [[TheRedBaron "the Red Angel"]]. With his white and blue-trim armor, he was often told he should just repaint it red, and his legion's colors did eventually change to red and brass. Some in the 40k-verse say they never actually repainted their armor, but just stopped cleaning the blood off of it.[[note]]In one novel, a dead Space Marine's corpse was seen by the protagonists in the rain in a pool of blood, and the characters were confused upon seeing the blue-and-white color scheme, as there were no marines using that color scheme in the campaign the story is set in. Then one character pushes the dead marine over, revealing the ''[[WhamShot World Eater's Symbol on the shoulder pad]]''.[[/note]]
* Angron's brother and ally [[Literature/NightLords Konrad Kurze and his Night Lords]], who sometimes [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope to make themselves more terrifying. While Night Lords' combat doctrine does seem to focus on melee slightly more than ranged fighting, they're not quite the assault force the World Eaters are, focusing on guerrilla warfare and terror tactics. As such, while they are known for "painting" their armour with blood in intimidating patterns, they more often attach severed body parts and flayed skin. It also helps that their armor [[RuleOfCool inexplicably]] has ''electricity arcing across it''.

* Used heavily in Episode 2 and 4 of ''Anime/MagicalFunTimeNow''.
* Occasionally shows up in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''.

* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Seras's entire outfit is stained red with blood after she awakens her true vampiric power.

* Various characters in ''Anime/BloodPlus''

* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' (2015). When Max returns from the fog after killing the Bullet Farmer, he is coated in blood. It's not his.

* Happens several times in ''Literature/BelisariusSeries''. Usually as an indicator that a given character is a badass.

* From ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' comes [[TheBerserker the World Eaters legion]] and their Primarch, Angron. During Angron's days amongst humanity, he was well known for personally leading his legion in vicious frontal assaults which obsessively emphasized melee combat; this practice led to his public image fulfilling this trope as one of his more infamous attributes, earning him the epithet [[TheRedBaron "the Red Angel"]]. With his white and blue-trim armor, he was often told he should just repaint it red, and his legion's colors did eventually change to red and brass. Some in the 40k-verse say they never actually repainted their armor, but just stopped cleaning the blood off of it.[[note]]In one novel, a dead Space Marine's corpse was seen by the protagonists in the rain in a pool of blood, and the characters were confused upon seeing the blue-and-white color scheme, as there were no marines using that color scheme in the campaign the story is set in. Then one character pushes the dead marine over, revealing the ''[[WhamShot World Eater's Symbol on the shoulder pad]]''.[[/note]]
** There was also Angron's brother and ally [[Literature/NightLords Konrad Kurze and his Night Lords]], who sometimes [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope to make themselves more terrifying. While Night Lords' combat doctrine does seem to focus on melee slightly more than ranged fighting, they're not quite the assault force the World Eaters are, focusing on guerrilla warfare and terror tactics. As such, while they are known for "painting" their armour with blood in intimidating patterns, they more often attach severed body parts and flayed skin. It also helps that their armor [[RuleOfCool inexplicably]] has ''electricity arcing across it''.

** This trope occurs in ''Videogame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine.''

** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': During the city elf origin, there comes a point where a noble tells one of his men off for not noticing that you are drenched in the blood of his guards.

* [[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 Stryker's]] win pose in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' (should the player not perform a [[FinishingMove Fatality]]) has him [[ThrowDownTheBomblet toss a grenade to his off-screen opponent]], blowing up their body and covering his face with their blood.
** By the time a typical fight ends in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', you will typically be covered in blood -- either your own or your opponent's.

* Up the wazoo in Creator/ShawBrothers movies, due to the studios apparently spending a sizeable chunk of their budget on red syrup. Most of these comes from copious use of HighPressureBlood they keep using in their movies. See the endings of ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'', ''Film/TheDeadlyDuo'', ''Film/OathOfDeath'', ''Film/TheHeroicOnes'', ''Film/GoldenSwallow'', ''Film/TheBoxerFromShantung'', ''Film/TheCasino'', ''Film/DelightfulForest'', ''Film/TheLadyHermit'', ''Film/TheLadyAssassin'', ''Film/TheImperialSwordsman'', just to name ''a few''. (There's honestly too many to list)

* Guts of ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' is usually covered in blood after a battle.

* Up the wazoo in Creator/ShawBrothers movies, due to the studios apparently spending a sizeable chunk of their budget on red syrup. Most of these comes from copious use of HighPressureBlood they keep using in their movies. See the endings of ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'', ''Film/TheDeadlyDuo'', ''Film/OathOfDeath'', ''Film/TheHeroicOnes'', ''Film/GoldenSwallow'', ''Film/TheBoxerFromShantung'', ''Film/TheCasino'', ''Film/DelightfulForest'', ''Film/TheLadyHermit'', ''Film/TheLadyAssassin'', just to name ''a few''. (There's honestly too many to list)

* Up the wazoo in Creator/ShawBrothers movies, due to the studios apparently spending a sizeable chunk of their budget on red syrup. Most of these comes from copious use of HighPressureBlood they keep using in their movies. See the endings of ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'', ''Film/TheDeadlyDuo'', ''Film/OathOfDeath'', ''Film/TheHeroicOnes'', ''Film/GoldenSwallow'', ''Film/TheBoxerFromShantung'', ''Film/TheCasino'', ''Film/DelightfulForest'', ''Film/TheLadyHermit'', just to name ''a few''. (There's honestly too many to list)

* A less gory example happens in Iron Man 2 during the final battle, Iron Man and War Machine are battling Hammer Drones and what seems to be oil splatters on War Machine’s mask.

* ''Film/TheKillingRoom'' (2009). Several subjects are locked in a room as part of a lethal psychological experiment. In the end they decide to rush the door next time it is opened, and one of them covers himself with blood from a dead subject to make his body slippery so he can't be grabbed.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' (2015). When Max returns from from the fog after killing the Bullet Farmer he is coated in blood. It's not his.
* In ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' John [=McClane=] emerges blood-spattered from shooting five mooks [[spoiler: in an elevator]]. Zeus ask with concern, "You all right?" [=McClane=] replies, casually, "Yeah, yeah, it's not my blood."

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'' by Creator/RogerZelazny: In ''The Guns of Avalon'', after the climactic battle Corwin is soaked in blood. One of his colleagues tells him he's wounded. He tells them no, he's just tired; the blood is that of his brother. [[spoiler:He didn't kill him, though--he got there just as the man was dying.]]
* ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'': Harper poses as a wounded French soldier to get the Chosen Men into a fort (the blood comes from pulling the rotten tooth that's been bothering him all episode). The unfortunate Frenchman who happens to be passing right when the signal is given and gets subjected to a huge man covered in blood leaping up, grabbing him and growling in his face [[OhCrap looks like]] [[BringMyBrownPants he needs new pants]].

* IWA Japan's ''King Of The Death Match'' Tournament was so bloody it instantly made the new promotion a credible competitor to Wrestling/{{FMW}}, which until then was the undisputed king of GarbageWrestling. While the actual in ring action was a little lacking it did help create or add to the legends of Hiroshi Ono, Mr. Gannosuke, Shoji Nakamaki, Wrestling/TerryFunk, Terry Gordy, Tiger Jeet Singh and, of course, Wrestling/MickFoley.

* Wrestling/{{CZW}}'s annual ''Tournament Of Death'' is guaranteed to produce at least four of these, as the matches always require the use of barbed wire, glass and other sharp objects. Both wrestlers who worked under the name Wife Beater have images of themselves caked in blood which are iconic to CZW events.[[/folder]]

* From ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' comes [[TheBerserker the World Eaters legion]] and their Primarch, Angron. During Angron's days amongst humanity, he was well known for personally leading his legion in vicious frontal assaults which obsessively emphasized melee combat; this practice lead to his public image fulfilling this trope as one of his more infamous attributes, earning him the epithet [[TheRedBaron "the Red Angel"]]. With his white and blue-trim armor, he was often told he should just repaint it red, and his legion's colors did eventually change to red and brass. Some in the 40k-verse say they never actually repainted their armor, but just stopped cleaning the blood off of it.[[note]]In one novel, a dead Space Marine's corpse was seen by the protagonists in the rain in a pool of blood, and the characters were confused upon seeing the blue-and-white color scheme, as there were no marines using that color scheme in the campaign the story is set in. Then one character pushes the dead marine over, revealing the ''[[WhamShot World Eater's Symbol on the shoulder pad]]''.[[/note]]
** There was also Angron's brother and ally [[Literature/NightLords Konrad Kurze and his Night Lords]], who sometimes [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope to make themselves more terrifying. While Night Lords combat doctrine does seem to focus on melee slightly more than ranged fighting, they're not quite the assault force the World Eaters are, focusing on guerrilla warfare and terror tactics. As such, while the are known for "painting" their armour with blood in intimidating patterns, they more often attach severed body parts and flayed skin. It also helps that their armor [[RuleOfCool inexplicably]] has ''electricity arcing across it''.

** By the time a typical fight ends in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', you will typically be covered in blood -- either your own, or your opponent's.

* After the Battle of Lepanto Genoan Admiral Andrea Doria was covered with the gore from a round shot which had caught an unlucky sailor next to him. In a subversion he had spent most of the battle harrassing the Ottoman flank rather then in the thickest part and the blood spattering was a fluke.

* IWA Japan's ''King Of The Death Match'' Tournament was so bloody it instantly made the new promotion a credible competitor to Wrestling/{{FMW}}, which until then was the undisputed king of GarbageWrestling. While the actual in ring action was a little lacking it did help create or add to the legends of Hiroshi Ono, Mr. Gannosuke, Shoji Nakamaki, Wrestling/TerryFunk, Terry Gordy, Tiger Jeet Singh and, of course, Wrestling/MicFoley.

* IWA Japan's ''King Of The Death Match'' Tournament was so bloody it instantly made the new promotion a credible competitor to Wrestling/{{FMW}}, which until then was the undisputed king of GarbageWrestling.

* In ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'', after cutting his way out of the Hydra, Hercules is covered with the monster's green blood.

* Mentioned in ''Discworld/NightWatch'' and ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'': After Sam Vimes goes through a bunch of enemies, he ends up covered in blood. In ''Discworld/NightWatch'' (involving TimeTravel), he tells Coates he's from another time (the future). Coates takes a look at the blood-covered guy in armor DualWielding swords and asks "[[BarbarianHero From how far back?]]" In Thud, the guards run at the sight of him.