Line #49 Main/BloodIsTheNewBlack


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:[[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas2000 Uh-oh, somebody's]] ''[[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas2000 faaaabulooous!]]'']]
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4	-> '''Boss:''' Is that your blood?
5	-> '''The Narrator:''' Some of it, yeah.
6	-->-- ''Film/FightClub''
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8	A battle, be it for [[DuelToTheDeath honor]], [[CurbStompBattle a one-]][[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown sided fight]], for [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge getting even]], or [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill just plain killing people]] can be a very messy affair. The victim may have accidentally sprayed some of their blood all over their attacker and [[BloodSplatteredInnocents others]], or the attacker may have become covered in their own blood from retaliation. Fortunately, the attacker doesn't seem to mind and will eventually walk around covered in blood as if it's no big deal. It may even result in them becoming even more excited and send them into [[UnstoppableRage a frenzy]].
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10	It is important to note that people who have seen them in action or immediately following may mention them to others as a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast figure to avoid]] if that character is [[ProfessionalKiller particularly efficient]] or [[AxCrazy particularly insane]]. The BloodKnight and the CombatSadomasochist have a high probability of invoking this, since they're both known to [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence revel in the feeling]].
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12	Highly likely to show up in {{Gorn}} and played for laughs in BloodyHilarious. Related tropes include BloodSplatteredWeddingDress for the special day gone horribly wrong, BloodBath for characters who willingly bathe themselves in the red stuff, BringMyRedJacket for people that prefer not to show off too much, and WhiteShirtOfDeath who ''love'' showing off their new iron-themed attire. See also BloodSplatteredWarrior and NotHisBlood.
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14	Not to be confused with BlackBlood or ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack''
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17	!!Examples
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20	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
21	* Lucy from ''Manga/ElfenLied'', though only early in her '[[SerialKiller career]]', really: in her adulthood, she's so skilled with her vectors she can [[PersonOfMassDestruction slaughter armies]] without so much as a drop of blood hitting her in return.
22	* Grell from ''Anime/BlackButler''. loves blood because of its color and relishes painting her victims in pretty red blood.
23	* Nearly every member of the cast in ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' has this happen at least once.
24	* Ichigo and a few other characters in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' have invoked this on a couple of occasions.
25	* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Seras Victoria]] seems to acquire a coat of blood whenever her true vampiric power kicks in. In this work, [[AxCrazy every major combatant]] probably qualifies at some point or another.
26	* Saya in ''Anime/BloodPlus'' when in her Berserk Mode. Same for her ''Anime/BloodC'' and ''Anime/BloodTheLastVampire'' [[AlternateContinuity Counterparts]].
27	* [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Nicholas D. Wolfwood]] [[spoiler:finally dies]] this way in the manga. A majority of the blood is his, but still.
28	* Tsukiyama from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' takes it to an entirely new level, when he tears the Scrapper apart with his bare hands. In the process, blood rains down on him and soaks his pristine white suit completely.....revealing a hidden pattern on the fabric. That's right, his suit is designed to look fancier when soaked in blood.
29	* The Neutrophils in ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' and its {{spinoff}} ''Manga/CellsAtWorkCodeBlack'' are known to walk around in the "blood" of a freshly-killed pathogen.
30	* ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016'': Link is absolutely ''drenched'' in Dark Beast Ganon's blood after biting out his heart, even after reverting to his human form. And then he realizes he has to introduce himself (as a human) to the sovereign ruler of Hyrule looking like this. Zelda takes it in good humor, at least.
31	-->'''Zelda:''' Raise your head.
32	-->'''Link:''' No. My face is filthy.
33	-->'''Zelda:''' As befits the fierce yet noble beast that saved me, so I am thankful to see it.
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36	[[folder:Comic Books]]
37	* Creator/DynamiteComics' ''ComicBook/TheLastPhantom'' storyline has Kit Walker using blood to approximate the cowl and mask of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom''.
38	* Brother Blood from ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' has a habit of doing this.
39	* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Since he wasn't wearing his costume when he was captured by Zsasz, Damien makes a mask out of blood.
40	* ComicBook/{{New 52}}: In ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' #2, ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} comes to the JLA's first meeting covered in blood. When Vibe asks if he's okay, he assures him it's not his blood. Vibe makes an AsideGlance and nervously scoots his seat away from Hawkman.
41	* In ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'', Squee's first introduction to the title character: "Excuse me, do you have any bactine? I'm covered in blood and some of it's mine."
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44	[[folder:Fan Works]]
45	* In ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'', after [[spoiler:Nabiki Tendo]] eats a [[PowerUpFood Devil Fruit]] that turns her into a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampire Zoan]], she uses her newfound claws, SuperStrength and SuperSpeed to massacre an army of mutant parasites and scavengers, covering herself in gore. By the time the fight experience a momentary lull, she's described as being drenched in blood in various colors and spattered with gobbets of flesh, chunks of viscera, and even stray sheets of skin.
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48	[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
49	* The title character from ''{{Film/Carrie\|1976}}'' was covered in pig blood, the result of a heartless prank by the AlphaBitch, and she wore it when she went on her rampage.
50	* One of many famous scenes in ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' is Patrick Bateman killing an annoying co-worker just as he finishes lecturing him about Huey Lewis and the News. Then, with his face covered in blood, he takes off the raincoat that was keeping his suit clean and casually sits down in a chair facing the co-worker's hacked-up corpse to smoke a cigar.
51	* ''Franchise/EvilDead's'' Ash Williams sees him covered in blood, either his own or the Deadites, every time he faces off with them.
52	* ''{{Film/Braindead}}'' by Creator/PeterJackson had most of the cast drenched in blood and gory chunks. Lionel (after the lawnmover scene) shows us the interior design version of this trope.
53	* Creator/MelGibson in both ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' and ''Film/ThePatriot2000''.
54	* ''Film/KillBill'': O-ren Ishii covers herself in blood after killing her parent's murderer.
55	** And the Bride herself, after the battle with the Crazy 88.
56	* ''Film/SinCity'' has red blood splattering into the faces of Devon Aioki and Mickey Rourke in two different scenes.
57	* In ''Film/{{Freeway}}", Vanessa makes her way to a diner after shooting Bob Wolverton at close range, covered in his blood. The diners' shocked looks are responded to with a chipper, "Oh, I must look a fright!"
58	* In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Max offs the Bullet Farmer in an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome. When he returns to the group, his face is covered in his opponent's blood.
59	* In ''Film/PulpFiction'' Vincent's face and Jules's hair get covered in blood when Vincent [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace shoots Marvin in the face]]. It's the third story's premise as well, as the characters end up in a car splattered in blood and brain matter in broad daylight on the street.
60	* In ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', the title character's face and clothes are covered in blood in the immediate aftermath of [[spoiler:his final vengeance against Judge Turpin]], making for a terrifying scene when [[spoiler:he finds and almost kills his own daughter unrecognized]].
61	* In ''Film/TheLegendOfLizzieBorden'', due to Lizzie taking her clothes off beforehand and how brutally she hacked up her parents, she is covered in their blood head to toe.
62	* In ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'', the Ripper is repeatedly shown smearing blood over his face and naked torso.
63	* ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'': When Logan has [[OffWithHisHead his head ripped]], a bikini-clad girl showers in the [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank seemingly never ending]] spray of HighPressureBlood that fountains from his neck: rubbing the blood all over her body as she does so.
64	* In ''Film/CurseOfTheHeadlessHorseman'', the Horseman splashes from his severed head on people to frighten them. The girl who is tripping on acid responds by rubbing the blood over her body while writhing orgasmically.
65	* In ''Film/DeathFactory'', Alexa smears herself with the blood of her victims.
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68	[[folder:Literature]]
69	* Ladd Russo and the Rail Tracer [[spoiler: Claire Stanfield]] from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' invoke this increasingly over the course of the Flying Pussyfoot arc. Ladd brings it up verbally and it's why he wears white; [[spoiler:Claire]] just manages to become so coated it's the Rail Tracer's most notable feature.
70	%%* Shizuo Heiwajima and [[spoiler:Masaomi Kida]] from ''Literature/{{Durarara}}''
71	* ''Literature/TheStormAravDagli'': After she stabs her abusive husband, the wife rubs her bloodied hands on her face to set in the weight of the deed and begins to grin and laugh dementedly. As the moonlight reflects the blood on her face, she's barely human anymore.
72	* "Literature/TheHound1924": After his amulet get stolen from him, the Dutchman as the hound hunts down the thieves and ends them by tearing into them like a beast. He returns to his grave afterwards, "covered with caked blood and shreds of alien flesh and hair." It is like this that the last remaining thief digs him up, which makes for a sight quite different from the clean skeleton the thief saw him as before.
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76	* In ''Series/AlteredCarbon'' many of the [[IdleRich Methuselahs]] tend to get covered in blood. Nominally more often than what would be acceptable for polite company. But, between ''everybody'' being equipped with a [[BodyBackupDrive cortical stack]] making them almost indefinitely resurrectable, and the Methuselahs having the money and influence to openly defy social norms, it's something they practically ignore. [[TheHero Takeshi Kovacs's]] "patron", Laurens Bancroft, is seen getting covered in blood the most often, due to the story's particular focus on him and the actions stemming from his megalomania.
77	* In the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode, "Bad to the Bone", a particularly nasty murderer is caught almost immediately when he casually walks into a diner to wash his hands after beating a man to death.
78	* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': The third episode of Season 1 ends with Daemon Targaryen covered in the Crabfeeder's blood. His white hair is so completely stained that it looks brown.
79	* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Cigarette Burns", Annie is covered head to toe in blood when she emerges out of the theater screen at the end.
80	** Downplayed with Dalibor after he decapitates [[spoiler:the taxi driver]].
81	* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Sam uses blood to paint his and Dean's faces to hide from a powerful demon, Samhain. His reasoning was that people wear masks to protect themselves from its wrath, and blood was the only thing on hand.
82	* In ''Series/TrueBlood'', the vampire goddess appears as a naked woman covered head to toe in blood.
83	* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': Besides the general mess that occurs from fighting zombies, the characters also use this for camouflage.
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86	[[folder:Music]]
87	* The protagonist of Music/TheBirthdayMassacre's song "Happy Birthday." Midway through the song, her "black and white dress" becomes a "black and red dress".
88	* In Rob Cantor's "Music/{{Shia LaBeouf\|Live}}", Shia [=LaBeouf=] is covered in blood, probably not his own.
89	-->He's almost upon you now\
90	And you can see there's blood on his face\
91	My God, there's blood everywhere!
92	* Variant: the music video for the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' "Scar Tissue" has the band all bloodied and battered (which fits the injury-related title and lyrics).
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95	[[folder: Mythology and Religion]]
96	* In Myth/GreekMythology Eris, goddess of discord and conflict, is sometimes described as having hair decorations that drip with blood. She likes to wear them while dancing in the ruins of burning cities like Troy.
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99	[[folder:Print Media]]
100	* The ''Series/TrueBlood'' ''Rolling Stone'' [[http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/the-joy-of-vampire-sex-the-schlocky-sensual-secrets-behind-the-success-of-true-blood-20110610 cover.]]
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103	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
104	* Wrestling/RicFlair has been doing this since the 70's and never stopped, resorting to punching himself to a bloody mess even after "retiring".
105	* A go to standard to see what this looks like in RealLife, is a 1992 [[Wrestling/KeijiMutoh The Great Muta]] vs. Hiroshi Hase Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling match. To this day, [[SmartMark Smarks]] measure how profusely a wrestler bleeds on the "Muta Scale".
106	* Invoking this trope(and having it invoked on her) is {{the gimmick}} of Shira, the Mexican independent circuit's [[RedBaron Queen Of Blood]].
107	* Any [[GimmickMatches Hell in a Cell]] match prior to 2009 was practically mandated as this.
108	* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's bloodstained screams while in the Sharpshooter in his ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XIII'' match against Wrestling/BretHart made him a superstar and one of the biggest {{face}}s ever because he just wouldn't give up.
109	* To win Wrestling/{{CZW}}'s "{{tournament\|arc}} of death" you must compete in at least three {{garbage\| wrestler}} matches favoring sharp objects in a single day, leading to a lot of guys walking around, skin caked brown with dried blood.
110	* Then at Judgment Day 2004 Wrestling/{{J\|ohnBradshawLayfield}}BL and Wrestling/EddieGuerrero wrestled a "Texas Bull Rope" match where the latter redefined the Muta Scale (which was usually measured in such terms as "half a Muta, three quarters Muta")
111	* In 2006, [[Wrestling/SethRollins Tyler Black]] signified that he had [[SellOut sold out]] to All American Wrestling's Jim Jesus by smearing his body with the blood of former {{tag team}} partner Marek Brave. [[AccidentalPun Sorry]], too hard not to include.
112	* Wrestling/JimmyJacobs smeared himself with BJ Whitmer's blood at ''Wrestling/{{R\|ingOfHonor}}OH The Fifth Year Festival: Finale'' after hitting him with a rail road spike during their falls count anywhere match.
113	** Jacobs upped it a step further with the Age of the Fall's debut, cutting a bitter promo about how [[ThePowerOfLove "love]] [[DespairEventHorizon doesn't save,]] ''[[DespairEventHorizon nothing saves!"]]'' while Jay Briscoe was strung up above him, dripping blood all over him.
114	* In Wrestling/{{ECW}}, [[Wrestling/{{TPE}} Johnny Grunge]] would sometimes blade mere ''seconds'' into a match.
115	** Same with Wrestling/JimFullington, who would smash beer cans into his forehead until he was bleeding, ''before the match even started''.
116	* Wrestling/BeulahMcGillicutty's match with Bill Alfonso at ECW's As Good As It Gets PPV, where thanks to a shot from a [[ImprobableWeaponUser cookie sheet]] of all things, Fonsie was ''gushing'' blood, leaving a trail behind him as he stumbled around the ring. Just touching him saw Beulah covered in the stuff as well.
117	* Back when it was known as TNA, Wrestling/ImpactWrestling once booked what it called a "Sadistic Madness" match, an elimination match with a twist—no wrestler could be eliminated until ''he was visibly bleeding''.
118	* In November 2018, Wrestling/BeckyLynch was set to take on Creator/RondaRousey at Wrestling/SurvivorSeries. However, Lynch was forced to pull out the week before the match due to a concussion suffered when she took a punch from Wrestling/NiaJax during a planned brawl that broke a facial bone and drew blood "hardway". Despite being concussed, she was able to climb the arena stairs and taunt Rousey while her face was dripping in blood. Lynch also posted a now-iconic [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweet]] that showed her taunting Rousey, with the comment "Irish war paint." This episode started Lynch's meteoric rise to become arguably ''the'' face of WWE in 2019.
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122	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
123	** This can be expected for an army or a particular unit the focuses on melee. Orks, Chaos, certain Empire/Imperial elements...
124	** Followers of [[WarGod Khorne]] especially. One of the most notable was the World Eaters; pre-heresy, they had white and blue armour, but it would get "repainted" in red often enough when at war. Now after their falling to worship of Khorne, thier armor blood-red and bronze; the only official repainting effort was swapping the blue trim for bronze.
125	*** There was a popular rumor in-universe that the oldest among them had never in fact repainted their armor.
126	*** The World Eaters' Primarch[[note]]Both their general and "father," since SpaceMarines have serious bioengineered enhancement derived from extra organs cloned from their Primarch's body.[[/note]], a fellow named Angron, was told that he should just repaint his armor red so often that he eventually did, which set the template for his sons to do so when they would eventually worship Khorne. He was seen this way so often, it earned him the epithet of [[RedBaron "the Red Angel."]]
127	** The Blood Angels of [=40k=] are this way too, since they have a particular focus on close combat. They also have occasional psychological breaks that drive them [[OurVampiresAreDifferent to drink blood]] or go into [[UnstoppableRage a permanent, hallucinatory psychotic rage]]. Despite their...faults, they happen to be [[DarkIsNotEvil one of the nobler chapters within the Imperium]], though some of their offshoots have [[TokenEvilTeammate earned a terrible reputation]] for not handling those same faults without nearly enough grace or discretion.
128	** A deity that appears in both settings is ''Kaela Mensha [[NameOfCain Khaine]]'', or "Khaine the Bloody Handed," the Elven/Eldar god of war and murder. In [=40k=] particularly, there's a myth in which he murdered an Eldar hero who spurned him. For his crime Khaine's punishment would be that the hero's blood would drip from his hands for all time, so that all who would look at him would know of the god's sin.
129	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', Lord Entropy's hands are perpetually bloodstained. Given that he's the commander of the setting's ForeverWar, the blood is only partially a metaphor.
130	* Used for one of the [[BloodMagic Thaumaturgy]] powers in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'': a vampire can extrude some of its own blood to use as magical body armour.
131	* In the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', one of the powers [[DealWithTheDevil granted by a demon]] of [[SevenDeadlySins Wrath]] invokes this trope: while the deal-maker is smeared with the fresh blood of a living enemy, they are [[NoSell completely unaffected]] by any direct, intentional attack.
132	* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 Edition, there's a prestige class called the Blood Magus, who, obviously, uses blood to fuel their magic. At first, it's mostly just cutting themselves to empower spells and whatnot, but their capstone ability, called 'Bloodwalk', is basically using people as conduits for teleportation. Exiting the target at their destination ''can'' be done harmlessly, but if that target is an enemy, it can also be done... [[LudicrousGibs not-so-harmlessly]], which tends to result in this trope.
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135	[[folder:Theater]]
136	* Certain productions of ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''.
137	* Padraic and Mairead in ''Theatre/TheLieutenantOfInishmore.'' Mairead specifically changes from a tomboyish outfit into a pretty sundress that looks [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence even lovelier]] drenched in blood.
138	* In ''Creator/WilliamShakespeare'''s ''Theatre/{{Coriolanus}}'', Cominius describes Caius Martius Coriolanus as being thus attired. Ralph Fiennes and Tom Hiddleston have both appeared like this in recent stage productions.
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142	* The "Rage" sections of ''VideoGame/{{Wet}}'' occur when Rubi shoots a mook at close range in a cut scene and gets blood splashed on her face, triggering [[{{Pun}} Rubi-Vision]].
143	* Characters get covered in blood after virtually every fight in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', not to mention that your progress on the map screen is [[PaintTheTownRed marked by a literal trail of blood.]] (Creator/BioWare would like you to know that this game is ''[[DarkerAndEdgier edgy]]''.)
144	* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' several Krogans end up covered in so much blood it drips off them. And they like it that way.
145	* When Ezio of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' kills his first target, the man who sentenced his brothers and father to death, he stabs the guy over and over in grief-stricken rage and then screams at the shocked onlookers while covered in the target's blood. Later, calmer kills have the blood fade quickly from Ezio's hands and clothes, but it lingers in that scene to add to the emotional charge.
146	* In ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', after killing [[spoiler:Jeremiah Fink]], Daisy Fitzroy deliberately smears his blood across her face.
147	* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': Horah Loux rips apart a lion-beast thing with his bare hands just before his second phase, so that part of the battle has him absolutely covered in the beast's blood. Fittingly, he has a savage and feral fighting style to go along with the look.
148	* The Conqueror's Coat from ''VideoGame/TheLastRemnant'' was not originally red.
149	* This is actually a game mechanic in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}}''. As Zero kills enemies, her outfit gets covered in more and more blood. This fills a gauge, which activates the Intoner Mode when full. The Intoner Mode draws on the blood as a power source and ends when her outfit is clean again.
150	* In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' as well, blood splattering everywhere when people get shot, bludgeoned or cut is coded pretty realistically, to the point that even the characters' models can receive it. Messy, close-range kills easily get Joel's clothes, hands or ''face'' bloody.
151	* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'', the Bad Ending depicts [[spoiler:protagonist Ludger]] with slight but noticeable blood spattering his face [[spoiler:after having killed the cast of Xillia to protect his brother]].
152	* {{Hunter\|OfMonsters}}s in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''. Understandable, since "blood" is half the game's title; the pseudo-Victorian styled clothing makes the copious amounts of blood staining them stand out even more. It comes in two main flavors: beasts, humans, and animals have red blood, while [[spoiler: Great Ones and Kin of the Cosmos]] bleed grey. It's possible for a skilled player to go about slaughtering enemies for quite a while and become almost completely coated.
153	* [[https://imgur.com/LcZs0Fu Happens to]] [[PlayerCharacter Martin Walker]] in ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', representing his [[SanitySlippage deteriorating mental state]]. At one point, he suffers a massive burn across one side of his face, bloodying it even further.
154	* Geist the Bloody in ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'' is revealed to just be wearing a white coat that is drenched in the blood of his myriad victims, one of many [[NightmareFuel/BravelySecond NOPE-inducing]] factors of his characterization.
155	* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': You can get ''coated'' in blood through the various fights (or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential random cold blooded murders]]) or hunting you do throughout the game, particularly if you do close range executions/attacks or carry a carcass on your shoulder. Also serves as a gameplay mechanic as if you don’t wash it off and try to interact with people they’ll be creeped out and try to avoid you/be suspicious of you.
156	** Sadie Adler gets ''splattered'' with blood on two occasions: [[spoiler:the first is during the O'Driscolls' raid after Kieran's death, killing three of them. The second is when she and Arthur Morgan kill the remnants of the O'Driscolls, as her means of getting revenge.]]
157	* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': Beginning with the VideoGame/ResidentEvilRemake, the enemy type known as Crimson Heads begin to make their appearance. They are zombies that previously thought dead reanimated a second time, now capable of sprinting after the player with claws, neon white eyes, and most importantly, blood soaked heads.
158	* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': A few of the enemies have blood on their hands, most commonly seen with Zombies. Nymphs appear to have blood on their hands, lower bodies, and mouths, and combine that look with a FullFrontalAssault.
159	* Happens twice to Lee in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonOne''. Happens at the beginning from either accidentally slipping on a pool of blood or after brutally bludgeoning Clementine's undead babysitter. In the last episode, it becomes a plot point near the end of Episode 5, for the same reason it was important in the comic. He is covered in walker blood after slaying around a dozen of them to get to The Marsh House, where Clementine is being held captive. After the stranger is killed, a walker does not try to kill him, making him realize that being covered in walker blood and guts will enable them to escape the city.
160	* A key mechanic in ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': if you kill someone, you'll get covered in blood and it's important that you change clothes or get clean before people get suspicious. Though, if you are part of the art club, you can try and pass it off as paint.
161	* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 1}}'': In a new scene added in the ''Kiwami'' remake, [[spoiler: Nishikiyama uses the blood of an underling he just killed to slick back his hair for the first time, indicating that his FaceHeelTurn has just been completed]].
162	* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', Snake will become permanently covered in blood after accumulating enough [[KarmaMeter Demon Points]] from "evil" actions such as killing enemy soldiers, prisoners, or animals. The blood can't even be washed off with a shower, so the only way to clean him off is to remove enough Demon Points with good behavior, namely extracting soldiers and prisoners from the battlefield.
163	** An alternative "outfit" that can be developed for Quiet is basically her standard getup with a coating of blood.
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167	* In the ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' CG that shows Yakumo while he was alive, he was dressed in {{white\|ShirtOfDeath}} monk robes that were drenched in the blood [[spoiler:of the girl he was converting into a doll]].
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171	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': One incarnation of Jack appears to roam around with a massive amount of blood on him after a certain point [[AnachronicOrder from his timeline.]] The end of Act 5 animation reveals that [[spoiler:this blood came from him tearing uranium out of WV's stomach to power a machine.]]
172	* Independent from ''[[{{Webcomic/Morphe}} morphE]]'' is always depicted as being coated in blood splatters from top to bottom. During the one nightmare sequence where a character has a brief conversation with her this is not brought up by either party. It's just how she rolls. The first nightmare sequence depicted her slashing someone's throat open, so the blood is probably not hers.
173	* ''Webcomic/TagDream'' has the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' characters take up wrestling. MemeticPsychopath Yuuka goes in the ring wearing a white swimsuit [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown which is dyed red by the time she goes out.]]
174	* In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', Giju single-handedly takes down half a dozen of Sungsan's men and emerges from the battle with a SlasherSmile and rivulets of blood running down his face.
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178	* Played for laughs in ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel''. After his transformations, Remus Lupin walks around for several scenes at a time wearing nothing but tighty-whitey briefs and the blood of his (animal) victims. He keeps having to come up with lame excuses as to why he's covered in blood.
179	-->'''Lupin''': Uh... it's tradition! Yes, it's tradition that every game, before the match, the Gryffindor... pee-wee Quidditch team kill a defenceless doe... and devour it! In doing so, we are able to absorb the '''power''' and '''ferocity'''... of a doe.
180	* Sacrifice of ''Literature/WhenTheHuntingPartyCame'' does this often, and frequently makes detours to give herself a fresh coat of blood.
181	* Kevin in Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale is always seen with bloodstains on his shirt, likely due to his tastes in "decorating" (which in fact consists of killing humans and animals and smearing their remains all over the place). A particularly disturbing moment in Episode 70A seems to imply that he finds blood . . . exciting.
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185	* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': [[TheAce Brock Samson]], bodyguard to the Venture family, on a disturbingly regular basis. Combined with FullFrontalAssault in "Victor. Echo. November." for a truly unsettling effect.
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