History Main / BloodyHandprint

** The series also occasionally features bloody ''foot''prints.

** "[[Recap/CSINYS01E07 Rain]]": After a robbery, one of the robbers is found in a pool of blood with baby-sized ones leading away from it.

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* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''. [[spoiler: You're not supposed to go for your ''own'' throat, Keiichi...]] The manga has a handprint decorating the back cover of each volume.
* In the final episode of ''Anime/CodeGeass R2'' [[spoiler:Lelouch leaves one of these - in his own blood - on Suzaku's Zero mask as they exchange their final words after Suzaku stabs him.]]
* In ''Manga/RaveMaster'' [[spoiler:Musica gets these in his (and Reina's) fight with Ogre after he stops Ogre's superheated goldclaiming pole wit his bare hands.]]
* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': After a serious injury, Onizuka left a bloody hand print on Uchiyamada's bald head. Uchiyamada found it really hard to remove, and almost thought that Onizuka cursed him.
* In ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', [[spoiler: Claire Stanfield]] leaves bloody hand-prints on the outside of the train window. [[spoiler: He belongs to the latter example.]]
* Lucy in ''Manga/ElfenLied'' uses her vectors to the same effect, and wakes up one morning with the walls of her room absolutely covered in these.
* In ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'', [[spoiler:Osanai]] leaves one of these when he slides down a glass wall. Since this happens [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent in the background of another scene]] it's entirely possible to miss the first time you watch it.

* Echo in Creator/MarvelComics. When her father was killed, he left one on her face.

* An arc in the series ''Web of Spider-Man'' sees J. Jonah Jameson held captive in his own home by the Chameleon. Jonah escapes his bonds one day after slicing open his hand and using the blood to slip off his manacles. He leaves a few bloody handprints on his walls as he staggers to the door [[spoiler: only to be caught by Chameleon before he can escape the apartment.]]

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* In ''Fanfic/TheCapitolGames'', one tribute is forced to cover her chariot costume and her partner's in hand prints made with her own blood.

* In a flashback in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', Martha Wayne is holding [[AlternateUniverse her dead son Bruce]], leaving his blood on her hand which she brings to her mouth. [[spoiler:After pulling her hand away, the blood on her face looks almost like a painted on smile while she begins [[LaughingMad hysterically laughing]], implying that while Thomas Wayne became this universe's Batman, Martha became the Joker.]]

* In ''Film/ApartmentZero'' the camera follows a trail of bloody hand prints and skid marks down the wall and to the bed, [[TheReveal where we see the mangled, naked corpse]] of the man [[spoiler: Jack]] killed for his passport.
* In ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' the main characters find the supposedly demolished house of [[SerialKiller Rustin Parr]], the walls of which are covered in children's handprints, presumably composed of dried blood.

* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. After [[DwindlingParty half their number are killed]], the survivors run to their RV to drive out of there. As they pile in, [[DangerTakesABackSeat we're shown a bloody handprint on the door]].

* [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man film]] ''Entity'' has a scene in which the female character smears one across a window, apparently, as shown in the trailer. [[DevelopmentHell The movie almost completely disappeared from the Internet a couple months ago or so, so we have no way of knowing what the hell was going on.]]
* ''Film/GodOfCookery'' as a result of a BarehandedBladeBlock being a little more realistic than most depictions.

* The cover art for the remake of ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1999'' and [[Film/TheReturnToHouseOnHauntedHill its sequel]] is a bloody handprint.
* ''Film/Interceptor2022'' opens on a sign warning that deadly force is authorized against anyone who tries breaking into the military base, only for the camera to pan across a [[WhiteShirtOfDeath white-painted boom gate splattered with blood]] including a handprint [[CantYouReadTheSign as terrorists kill everyone there]].

* ''Film/JurassicWorld''. Claire Dearing is in the cab of an armoured truck with the two children, waiting while the [=InGen=] mercenaries deal with the crisis. Suddenly she's startled by a mercenary slamming his bloody hand on the window, shouting for her to flee at once. She starts the truck but the mercenary is jumped by a dinosaur as he's climbing into the back.

* ''Film/TheMist'': After the insane crowd led by the religiously insane villainess stab an unfortunate marine and throw him out the store where the monsters lurk. The last shot before he is violently dragged away into the mist is him putting his blood-covered hand on the window before whispering "please", leaving the bloody print after he's killed.
* ''Film/{{Monsters|2010}}''. Seen on a wrecked yacht as the protagonists journey down the river in the [[AlienInvasion Infected Zone]].

* ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/TheForceAwakens'': A dying stormtrooper reaches for another stormtrooper and leaves a handmark on the latter's helmet, incidentally identifying him for the next few scenes.

* ''Film/{{Winterskin}}'': In an apparent {{Flashback}} sequence, when Pete, Chuck, and Old Tin Ruth are investigating the remains of [[spoiler:John Carver]]'s house, there are three bloody hand prints on the front door.

* ''Literature/GhostFinders'': Early in the investigation of the haunted radio station in ''Voices From Beyond'', one of these is left on JC's jacket by [[spoiler: his dying future self]]. He keeps the jacket on, refusing to explain the mark, which further creeps out most of the already-spooked station staff.

* A bloody thumbprint shows up in the Literature/SherlockHolmes story ''The Adventure of the Norwood Builder''. Lestrade thinks that it's conclusive evidence in regards to a murder that had happened two days previously. Holmes agrees, but for a different reason: The thumbprint hadn't been there the night before, which meant that someone was planting evidence to get the owner of the thumb in trouble.
* Marc Haddon's ''A Spot of Bother'': While cutting a skin lesion off his lip, George Hall suffers serious blood loss and leaves them all over his house.

* In the ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls'' episode "And the Egg Special" these can be seen [[http://videos.cbspressexpress.com/web-res-images/119/795d85f0d4bf9ab6417cf4037448e155.jpg all over the walls]] of the Soup Kitchen after a drug deal went wrong and turned into a shooting spree.
* ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]'': Seen on a Cylon centurion.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': In the final episode, [[spoiler:as Walt is bleeding out from his gunshot wound, he uses his last moments to marvel at the Neo-Nazis' meth lab equipment. As he lays his hand on one of the steel cooking tanks, he finally succumbs]] and slumps over, leaving a smear of blood on the equipment.

** CSI also occasionally features bloody ''foot''prints.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** In "Prophecy Girl", there's one on the television in the A/V room where vampires have slaughtered students.
** Buffy realises Pete fled through a window thanks to this being found in "Beauty and the Beasts".

** "Rain": After a robbery, one of the robbers is found in a pool of blood with baby-sized ones leading away from it.
** "The Past, Present and Murder": A body goes missing from a crime scene. Then, a bloody handprint is found on a "trash bag animal" that appears when airflow from passing subway trains comes up thru the grates. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* ''Series/DeadliestWarrior''
** The "Yakuza vs. Mafia" episode used one as a logo to represent the Mafia.

* ''Series/{{ER}}'' episode "Twenty-One Guns". Abby places one on a door window just before slumping over and falling to the floor.
** In the episode "All In The Family", Kerry Weaver arrives at work for what appears to be a typical evening. She's perplexed to see a bloody ''footprint'' outside an exam room. She opens the door and screams at the [[GoryDiscretionShot unseen]] sight of the butchered bodies of Carter and Lucy, having been stabbed by a psychotic patient in the previous episode.
* One early episode of ''Series/FallingSkies'' saw members of the Second Mass trying to set up a memorial to their lost loved ones, and Tom Mason tries to convince Anne Glass to contribute something to help her deal with her grief over losing her family. She's both uninterested in re-opening that fresh wound and also busy trying to figure out how to torture a Skitter, but he persists, and finally, she snaps and smacks the memorial with her hand, which is covered in Skitter blood, leaving a bloody handprint on the memorial.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', "[[Recap/FireflyE08OutOfGas Out of Gas]]", an injured Mal is stumbling through the ship [[spoiler: with a gaping gunshot wound in his gut]], leaving large bloody handprints on everything, especially most of the medbay. And the engine. And most of the walls. And, when he's reduced to crawling, a good portion of the floor, as well.

* ''Series/TheHaunted'' episode "Demon House". They're found on a baby's crib.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'', Mac comes across a deserted ship that's been run ashore and ransacked on the inside. Within he finds a BloodyHandprint several times the size of his own, which obviously could not belong to a human.
* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': In "Terminal Destination", the stepson of the VictimOFTheWeek discovers something is amiss when he finds a bloody handprint on the white wall of the beach house. He then follows a trail of handprints to find the body.

* Two bloody handprints can be found above the inlanes on ''Pinball/TheWalkingDead.'' The Limited Edition table has one more on the mirrored backglass.

* ''VideoGame/Antarctica88'': One of these is found on a window on a door when the PlayerCharacter is tasked with looking for his teammates.
** Another one is found on the floor of a storage room at the drilling site.

* ''VideoGame/BurgerAndFrights'': On one bike ride down the street, when you come to the level crossing, there's a train going along it. Look behind you, and you see a freaky-looking, bloody girl approaching you. When she's gone, you can look back at the train and see a bloody hand print on each window.
* ''VideoGame/Clown2020'': If you look at the [[MonsterClown clown]]'s mallet, you'll see one such handprint on its business end.
* ''VideoGame/{{Eldervale}}'': Part of a hand-print can be seen on one of the plexiglass windows in the visitor's section.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins''. A girl ([[spoiler:Alessa]]) leaves one on a mirror. Touching it marks your first transition into the DarkWorld.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' - A series of them can be seen on the opposite wall of Henry's apartment. [[spoiler: They increase by one every time a Victim dies.]]
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. Bloody handprints on a sarcophagus indicate it may have been opened from the inside.
* ''VideoGame/BioShock''
** All over the place in ''VideoGame/BioShock1'', but special mention goes to the medical pavilion level.
** Special mention goes to ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'''s secondary antagonist Daisy Fitzroy, who at one point soaks her hand in the blood of her callous white robber baron enemies and presses it on her face as a kind of warpaint.

* A handprint is on the cover of ''VideoGame/Blood1997'', an FPS featuring a truly bloodthirsty gunslinger.
** In its sequel The Chosen, Caleb has the same handprint engraved right on his [[BadassLongcoat cloak]].
** A similar handprint is seen (and sometimes usable as a switch) in VideoGame/DukeNukem3D. Since they share an engine and since 3D Realms was developing Blood itself before selling the rights to Monolith, it could be a ShoutOut.

* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'', Sev has one of these on his helmet. Instead of showing that he's been wounded. it's a paint job to intimidate others. Loading screens say that others think (hope) it is paint, but Sev has never been seen with red paint...
* These are recurring evidence in ''Franchise/AceAttorney''.
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'': A bloody handprint is one of the possible emblems to put on a trucker cap.

* Almost every Vault in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has at least one on an interior window.
* The EA logo in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' is covered in 'em.
* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'': The emblem of the Brazilian Militia in multiplayer is one of these. Also an available emblem to put on the side of your gun in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps''.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Penumbra}} Penumbra: Black Plague]]'' has a very creepy room with a pattern of bloody hand prints all around the walls at about knee height. Like someone wasn't able to stand, but went around testing the wall for ways out. (This is near a kennel where there's a ton of bloody dog footprints all over.)
* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' has a handful, though there's a particularly scary one in the third game that has to do more with where you find it.

* ''VideoGame/RedFaction: Guerrilla'': The Marauders, a savage tribe of Martian scavengers use the Bloody Handprint as their symbol. It appears on flags and vehicles. It is emblematic of their feral and violent nature.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' has these scattered around the complex, along with more run-of-the-mill pools of blood. It's [[WebVideo/FreemansMind usually a good way to tell whether you're going the right way or not]].
* Used as an ominous logo by [[ChurchMilitant The Word of Blake faction]] on their [[HumongousMecha BattleMechs]], at least according to the end of the ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries'' sequel.
* A special effect used in Dark Academy stage in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' have bloody hands appear and disappear on the wall as you walk through one of the hallways.
* ''VisualNovel/CorpseParty: Blood Covered'' uses this for a quick JumpScare in its GameOver sequence. Since this typically appears after one of your characters has suffered a nightmarishly CruelAndUnusualDeath...
* Bloody hand and ''foot''prints are among the creepy manifestations in ''VideoGame/{{Paranormal}}''. Disturbingly, the latter aren't necessarily confined to the floor.
* In ''Website/AssassinsCreedInitiates'', one bloody handprint can be seen at the attacked Assassin safehouse in Osaka, Japan.
* In ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', the tutorial/opening level is set in a semiabandoned amusement park which was permanently closed after a freak industrial accident killed dozens. Outside of the gate is an old set of bloody footprints leading up to an abandoned car.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, this (though often printed in black ink instead of blood) serves as one of the symbols of the [[MurderInc Dark Brotherhood]].
* Freddy from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' has a handprint, seemingly that of a child, across his face. [[WouldHurtAChild Given]] [[AIIsACrapshoot the]] [[BrainFood known]] [[AllThereInTheManual elements of the backstory]], it's going to be blood.
* A recurring element in both ''VideoGame/NanashiNoGame'' and its sequel.

* ''VideoGame/InunakiTunnel'': After you get stuck in a phone booth, when you can finally leave, one of these appears on said booth and the door opens.
* One can appear on the shelter's wall in ''VideoGame/SixtySeconds'', usually if you choose to raid another group's bunker.

* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' has [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/12172010/ this]] particularly cruel example.
** Gains a CallBack and possible plot significance [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/12032016-2/ years later]]. [[spoiler: Monster chiefs have marks of leadership on their faces, Thaco claims that this was a dying chief marking his chosen successor.]]
* Parodied in ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' where [[BunnyEarsLawyer Brian]] leaves a [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=618 chocolate hand print]] when teaching himself how to be a confectionist.
* Used as a GoryDiscretionShot in ''Webcomic/YuMeDream'' - we are made to expect that a group are all dead, then someone goes to find out and all we see is the handprint.

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* ''WesternAnimation/HellboyAnimated'': In "Blood and Iron" the team investigates an old mansion. The ghosts there normally go unseen, when Abe checks on a computer, they amass at the window, still unseen. When Abe turns back they're gone, but he does see the windows coated with Bloody Handprints.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Clone trooper (later ARC trooper) Echo has one on the chest of his armour, dark blue because it's the blood of a Rishi eel. It's Rex's handprint, from a scene in [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E5Rookies "Rookies"]] where he was explaining to Echo what exactly the term [[NewMeat "shinies"]] meant.

* [[http://www.coolpl8z.com/view-plate.php?id=1804 This]] personalized license plate. Hilariously, the red handprints are ''part of the official plate design,'' although they obviously aren't meant to be bloody. Sadly, the Virginia DMV finally caught up with the guy and made him give the plates back.
** However, in a stunning lack of oversight, the banned license plate made it back through the Virginia DMV's censorship board with only a [[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/18n391uxmuoytjpg.jpg slight modification]]...
* Torii Mototada, a daimyo who served {{UsefulNotes/Tokugawa Ieyasu}}, withstood a siege in Fushimi Castle for over ten days despite having two-thousand men hopelessly outnumbered against an army of forty-thousand. His forces fought virtually to the last man, until he only had ten left at his disposal, after which they all performed the {{Seppuku}} in the castle's keep. The floorboards which they committed {{Seppuku}} on were reused twenty years later for the ceilings of various temples (known as "chitenjo" or 'blood ceilings'), and the blood from their suicides so severely stained the floorboards that fingerprints and footprints can be clearly seen on them to this day.

* ''Film/GodOfCookery'' as a result of a BarehandedBladeBlock being a little more [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome realistic]] than most depictions.

* A handprint is on the cover of ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'', an FPS featuring a truly bloodthirsty gunslinger.

The Bloody Handprint may be plastered onto the WhiteShirtOfDeath for even more visceral visuals. In some cases this is combined with GoryDiscretionShot; we, the audience, are told there is a corpse in the room, but all we are allowed to see is the blood. This can be [[NothingIsScarier worse than a clear sight of the victim]], since imagination is left to supply the details. If the protagonists are following a trail of handprints they'll be gripped by apprehension too, thinking of what must be waiting for them at the end of it. HandSlidingDownTheGlass means the handprint will be a bloody smear.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', [[spoiler: Claire Stanfield]] leaves bloody hand-prints on the outside of the train window. [[spoiler: He belongs to the latter example.]]

* In ''Film/{{Gothika}}'', Douglas Grey leaves several bloody handprints all over the house as he attempts to escape his wife, the possessed, temporarily AxeCrazy Miranda Grey. It makes it very easy to show where he's been.

* The DVD cover for ''Film/{{Creep 2004}}'' has a bloody handprint on a subway train window.

* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'', Sev has one of these on his helmet. Instead of showing that he's either been wounded it's a paint job to intimidate others.
** Loading screens say that others think (hope) it is paint, Sev was never seen with red paint.

* Almost every Vault in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has at least one on an interior window.