History Main / PinkMist

* The Sniper of ''TeamFortress2'' refers to this trope by name repeatedly ("Everything above your neck is gonna be a ''fine'' red mist!"), but the in-game effects are more similar to PrettyLittleHeadshots.

* In the JohnRingo novel ''[[PaladinOfShadows Unto the Breach]]'', one of the commanders of a Chechen battle group gets this treatment. On live international TV. By a sniper roughly ''two miles'' away.

-->--Adapted from Urban Dictionary.

* The memorable restaurant scene in ''TheGodfather'' has Michael Corleone turning both Virgil "The Turk" Solozzo & Captain McKlusky's brains into this.

* Mitch Albom's ''The Five People You Meet In Heaven''. Eddie's former commander during the Vietnam War blows up when he steps on a landmine. What happens to him, though, is more like Pink Salsa.

* In ''FirstCasualty'' the protagonist witnessess a whole foxhole of soldiers being hit by a shell. It was ''raining'' pink afterwards.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FxzfzWhtCc Explained]] to Christina Ricci and later [[spoiler: demonstrated by the bomb squad guy]] on the season 2 Super Bowl episode of ''{{Grey's Anatomy}}''

* The Sniper of ''TeamFortress2'' refers to this trope by name repeatedly, but the in-game effects are more similar to PrettyLittleHeadshots.

* One of the last episodes of ''{{Dollhouse}}'' has Bennet shot in the head by whoever Whiskey is at the time. The pink mist surrounds a stunned Topher.

* Averted in AmericasArmy due partially to the need to avoid a rating higher than T, and partially to the fact that [[RealityIsUnrealistic 5.56mm bullets rarely cause that kind of]] {{Gorn}}. Plus, it's a [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid recruiting tool]]; people are likely to be less open to joining the Army if their death was just rendered in agonizingly gory detail. [[CaptainObvious Those to whom such things would appeal are generally more unstable than Army recruiters would like]]; folks of that persuasion [[TakeThat should go sign up with]] [[InterserviceRivalry the Marines.]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FxzfzWhtCc Explained]] to Christina Ricci and later [[spoiler: demonstrated by the bomb squad guy]] on the season 2 Super Bowl episode of ''{{Grey's Anatomy}}''.

* Played dead straight in Watchmen where [[AGodAmI Dr. Osterman]] [[spoiler:vaporizes Rorschach/Walter Kovacs]].

* Tragically TruthInTelevision, as anyone who has seen the colored Zapruder Film (the film of John F. Kennedy's assassination) can attest.
** Granted it is colorized, so they colors are likely not entirely accurate. But really, what color would you have made it, blue?

* CortexCommand: Frequently happens to clones [[ChunkySalsaRule caught in explosions, crushed by dropship debris, or other methods of]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill total overkill]]. It's not just their heads - their ENTIRE BODIES will be [[LudicrousGibs reduced to a mess of red pixels]].

* ''CallOfDuty 4'' features this kind of effect when enemies are hit by gunfire, as does ''World At War''.

* Military snipers who use the Barrett .50 caliber rifle will get Pink Mist results - and chunks of body and gear flying around - when hitting any part of the human body. Examples abound on YouTube and other sites.

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* ''{{Halo}} 3'' has an achievement called ''Fear the Pink Mist'' (pictured) for getting kills with the Needler, a weapon that shoots explosive pink needles. True to the trope, however, once your energy shield is gone, all injuries (including head shots) feature sprays of blood. This applies to enemies too [[AlienBlood though it isn't exactly always pink]].

* Oh so very used in military fiction. Case in point: TomClancy.
* {{Halo}} 3 has an achievement called ''Fear the Pink Mist'' (pictured) for getting kills with the Needler, a weapon that shoots explosive pink needles. True to the trope, however, once your energy shield is gone, all injuries (including head shots) feature sprays of blood. This applies to enemies too [[AlienBlood though it isn't exactly always pink]].
* {{Borderlands}}. If you get killing headshots (yes, some enemies take mutiple headshots to take down) with any weapon on a human enemy, their head literally becomes this. Taken {{up to eleven}} if you're a high enough level with a good weapon and your headshot does enough damage, their body from the waist up disappears in red mist.
* ''GrandTheftAuto: [[GrandTheftAuto ViceCity]]'' creates a little pink cloud when someone gets beheaded.
* The ''MetalGearSolid'' series uses a cloud of particulate-rendered blood whenever someone takes a hit as well.
* The memorable restaurant scene in ''TheGodfather'' has Michael Corleone turning both Virgil "The Turk" Solozzo & Captain McKlusky's brains into this.

* Tragically TruthInTelevision, as anyone who has seen the colored Zapruder Film (the film of John F. Kennedy's assassination) can attest.
* The ending of {{Chinatown}} has a disturbingly realistic exit wound where somebody's eye used to be.

* ''Left4Dead'' includes this trope, as well as an achievement called "Red Mist" awarded for killing many {{Mook}} zombies with the stationary minigun.
* ''CallOfDuty 4'' features this kind of effect when enemies are hit by gunfire, as does ''World At War''.
** ''World At War'' takes it too far, where shooting someone's limb produces ''massive'' amounts of blood and screams of pain.
*** Typically only if you use a heavy machine gun, a shotgun, or the PTRS-41 (which is an ''anti-tank rifle'', mind you), in which cases it kinda makes sense.
*** The limb staying ''on'' in the lattermost case, however, makes little sense.

* This effect is described in detail in one episode of the TV series ''InPlainSight'', by the main protagonist, Mary Shannon.

* The Sniper of ''TeamFortress2'' refers to this trope by name repeatedly, but the in-game effects are more similar to PrettyLittleHeadshots.
* In the JohnRingo novel ''[[PaladinOfShadows Unto the Breach]]'', one of the commanders of a Chechen battle group gets this treatment. On live international TV. By a sniper roughly ''two miles'' away.

* In the Teen-rated ''TheConduit,'' if you get a headshot on the alien Drudge enemies, their heads pop off with a fountain of yellow fluid.
* ''{{Baccano}}!'' features ''many'' headshots, at least two of which are animated in all their gory glory. The conductor who takes a bullet to the head splashes blood all over the place and is later shown with a substantial hole in the back of his head. Poor Czeslaw, who takes two shots to the head with a shotgun, gets his head blown off completely. [[{{Immortality}} At least temporarily.]]

* Dialled up to 11 in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', in which the main weapon of the Space Marines is a machine gun loaded with exploding bullets. [[strike: A few]] ONE good hit can turn ''your entire body'' into PinkMist[=/=]Pink Salsa.
* In ''FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'', the shotgun is a very efficient producer of huge clouds of pink mist.
* One of the last episodes of Dollhouse has Bennet shot in the head by whoever Whiskey is at the time. The pink mist surrounds a stunned Topher.
* In ''{{Viz}}'' every comic strip featuring the gangster Big Vern ends up with him shooting himself (and often other people) in the head. The result is a [[BloodyHilarious comically over-the-top]] [[YourHeadASplode head explosion]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice with big chunks of skull, eyeballs, and the person's entire brain flying across the panel.]]
* Military snipers who use the Barrett .50 caliber rifle will get Pink Mist results - and chunks of body and gear flying around - when hitting any part of the human body. Examples abound on YouTube and other sites.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FxzfzWhtCc Explained]] to Christina Ricci and later [[spoiler: demonstrated by the bomb squad guy]] on the season 2 Super Bowl episode of Grey's Anatomy .
* Headshots with some weapons in ''ArmyOfTwo: The 40th Day'' will completely obliterate everything above the target's neck.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FxzfzWhtCc Explained]] to Christina Ricci and later [[spoiler: demonstrated by the bomb squad guy]] on the season 2 finale of GreysAnatomy .

->In the event of a proper head shot, the result is what we call pink mist.
-->--''{{Jarhead}}''