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Not to be confused with [[Black Blood Brothers]] or [[The Black Blood Alliance]].
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== Advertising ==
* The trailer for ''[[The Mist]]'' retouches the blood to a black color on the face of a man who runs into the store for shelter. This is also done for the blood on the safety-rope and the bloody hand-print left on the window, despite the split-second nature of these shots.
* Trailers for the first ''[[Resident Evil]]'' flick showed zombies doused in blue gore. '''{{color|blue|Blue!}}''' This is not the case in the actual film.
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[
** Though for some odd reason, the second murder during the same episode has red blood, even in the censored version.
* Being made before the days when violent anime is screened during midnight, desaturated, black or white blood was the ''only'' way that ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' could air on television ''at all.''
** There is some genuine red blood in the anime TV series, most notably when Shin cripples Kenshiro in their first fight. You will never see it when Kenshiro makes a random mook's head violently explode, however.
* Not ''all'' of the blood in ''[[Myself Yourself]]'' is black, just everything greater than a scratch on the finger.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'''s first season, one of the Shinten'nou had a [[Heel Face Turn]] and was quickly hunted down and stabbed through the ''chest'' with branch tentacles. His blood was everywhere, but it was green so it was okay to show, even on Western Television. Curiously, the other 3 generals all bled red whenever receiving injuries.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' makes use of this, which has the odd effect of making the wounds of the [[Bring My Red Jacket|red-wearing protagonist]] ''more'' jarring.
** Averted in [[
* One of the sillier instances of Black Blood happened in Episode 13 of ''[[Bamboo Blade]]'' for [[Psycho Lesbian]] Reimi's [[Nosebleed]]. There was no reason for it to be black, but it was.
* Piccolo and other Nameks bleed purple blood in ''[[
** In the censored TV versions of ''[[Dragonball Z Kai]]'', all of Goku, Gohan, Krillin, and Vegeta's blood is a brown-ish-black-ish color.
* Gen Shishio from ''[[Kekkaishi]]'' seems to bleed ''white'' blood.
* The ''[[Naruto]]'' anime rarely uses this trope, but it made an exception when Gaara kills three competitors during the Chuunin Exams, a scene that featured more blood than the rest of the series combined. The black color of the blood might be a result of the blood thickening the sand.
* In the ''[[Pokémon (
* ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' opts for sprays of clear/rainbow-tinted fluid, an effect retained in the DVD release. (Probably a [[Shout
* ''[[Tsukuyomi Moon Phase
* ''[[Bleach]]''. To clarify, blood is only red when it drips on the floor.
** Also, it is generally more often red in [[The Movie|the movies]].
* Justified in ''[[Waq Waq]]''; most people have black blood, except for the red-blooded "kami".
* ''[[
* Just about every murder scene in ''[[Detective Conan]]''.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Kaiba]]'' blood is GREEN. This is consistent with the fact that 90% of everything in Kaiba's world (galaxy, technically) looks like a picasso painting, architecture included.
* In ''[[C the Money And Soul of Possibility]]'', during a deal, Entrees lose their money through this whenever slashed [[Half the Man He Used To Be|or otherwise]]. However, this is symbolic: black blood could also mean [[A Worldwide Punomenon|leaking]] [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|oil]].
== Comic Books ==
* Seen a lot in comic books, too. The ''[[Wolverine]]'' series is kind of notorious for it. In the hands of a bad artist, it can look like just blotched inking.
* In ''[[G.I. Joe]]''
* In the ''Death of [[Superman]]'' storyline at some points his blood was black as Doomsday cut him but not all the time.
** Also, the [[Pre Crisis]] story introducing the revamped, [[Skele
* [[Ultimate Spider
* [[Geof Darrow|Hard]] [[Frank Miller|Boiled]] utilizes black blood, may be justified in the case of the protagonist since he's a robot.
* City of Silence by [[Warren Ellis]] and Gary Erskine uses black blood, which is weird considering how gleefully [[Squick
* Used when [[Tintin]] is shot in the shoulder in ''The Blue Lotus''.
== Film ==
* The trailer for ''[[Kill Bill]] Volume 1'' digitally retouched the blood on the Bride to a black color for the scenes from the fight with the Crazy 88, just to get an All Audiences rating for it. In the movie itself, that fight scene was partially turned to black and white for the US release for a similar reason; audiences elsewhere got to see the gore as Tarantino intended.
* ''[[The Princess Bride (
* For ''[[Evil Dead]] 2'', director Sam Raimi attempted to keep his R rating by filling the Deadites with every color of fluids ''except'' red. And then splatter it all on Bruce Campbell at once. It didn't work and the movie got slapped with an X rating anyway, so they opted to release it unrated instead.
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]] famously shot ''[[Psycho]]'' in black and white, specifically so he could use chocolate syrup to represent Janet Leigh's blood in the shower scene.
* ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' uses foamy pink blood during the climactic scene where Travis Bickle goes on a one-man killing spree. Actually, it's the entire scene that had been desaturated to make the blood less offensive.
* Meanwhile, ''[[Sin City]]'' has white blood. Or, in one particular case, ''yellow'' blood. This is an artifact of the comics it's based on, which are entirely black and white (no gray!) except for the yellow Junior (and his blood). It's worth noting however that it changes from shot to shot and story to story. In "That Yellow Bastard" the blood is always white, save for the Bastard's, but in "The Hard Goodbye" pretty much all the blood is bright red (in the commentary the directors noted that the black blood just made Hartigan's face look muddy insead of beaten to a pulp, [[Enforced Trope|so they had to make it red]]). "The Big Fat Kill" throws consistency out the window in favour of interesting visuals. One character is shown with his hand blown off and spewing white blood, but when he throat is splashed red blood splashes on another character's face.
* ''[[
* It might not really be blood, but when Silent Bob breaks open Azrael's chest in ''[[Dogma]]'', there's lots of black evil.
* In George Romero's ''[[Land of the
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== Literature ==
* Blood is sometimes described this way in ''[[The Red Tent]]'', particularly when it results from particularly tragic deaths, such as [[Death
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== Video Games ==
* Famously, the original gold cartridge version of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
* Similar to the above Zelda example, ''[[The House of the Dead (
* The Japanese and European releases of ''[[No More Heroes]]'' turned all the blood black, which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't close to being a playable Tarantino movie. A scene involved the sequence where, after defeating a woman in battle, she commits honourable suicide by depinning a grenade and holding it in her mouth, [[Your Head Asplode|with predicable results]]. Since, just before, she told the main character that she was attracted to him, he awkwardly hugged her dead, still-standing, headless body. In the censored version, her head and shoulders were still attached, but completely black, ruining the impact. The sequel remains uncensored, however.
* Early ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' trailers showed enemy alien characters spewing red blood when hit, but when ESRB announced a middle rating between Everyone and Teen, the developers changed the color to green. Of course, the aliens themselves are still reddish, not to mention the {{spoiler|similarity of our titular hero's red blood to his otherworldly creators}}.
* The US console release of ''[[
** The effect this had on Dmitri's super attack is legendary. First he turns his opponent into a pretty female (if necessary), then he bites their neck, which causes a pool of blood to form directly under them. But in the censored version, it forms a pool of ''white fluid''. The result looks nearly pornographic.
* The original ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' downright inverts this. ''Everything'' bleeds red, even when it doesn't make sense for it to. ''Devil May Cry 3'' backs down a little, and actually has creatures "bleed" appropriate to what they
* If you turn off the "Gore" option in ''[[Alien Hominid]]'', enemies spray flowers when stabbed.
* The Colossi in the T-rated ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' all bleed black blood when stabbed or shot. Then again, it might have looked ''weird'' if they had bled anything ''but'' black, given the [[Real Is Brown|aesthetic]] of the rest of the game. "Black Blood" is actually the name of one of the tracks on the OST.
** Wander also vomits black blood after each Colossus, as well as {{spoiler|spraying a bunch when he's killed by Lord Emon's troops near the end of the game}}.
* The Korean and Japanese releases of ''[[
* Even ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' fell victim to this trope in [http://youtube.com/watch?v=mysUcyxPY1s its Japanese version]. Blood is green, while fatalities are presented in monochrome.
** However, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|stage fatalities]] were presented in full color. Apparently, it's okay if an opponent [[Falling to Their Death|falls thousands of feet onto stone]], [[Hollywood Acid|gets their flesh melted away]], or [[Impaled
** The infamous SNES adaption of [[MK 1]] replaced blood pools with sprays of grey "sweat".
* The SNES ''Total Carnage'' port had green "blood".
* ''[[Metal Slug]]'' has a "censored" settings, which features ''water'' instead of blood.
* In the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: The Two Towers'' game for Playstation 2 and X-Box not only do the orcs and trolls bleed black blood but so do the heroes, however in the Return of the King game the enemies bleed but the heroes don't.
* In ''[[Turok (
** [[Banned in China|Germans didn't get a choice.]]
* A hidden setting in ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'' let you change the enemy blood to green, black, or purple if red was making you feel too squeamish.
* ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' usually opts for [[Bloodless Carnage]] instead, but when you use the [[Anal Probing|anal probe]] to make someone's head explode, it bursts in a shower of ''green'' blood.
* In perhaps the weirdest application of this trope ever, in '''Splosion Man'', people bleed ''meat''. And no, not as in gibs or "bloody chunks of meat" -- things like steaks, ribs, hams, and sausages... and donuts
* The halls of Arkham Asylum in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' are liberally decorated with black smears and splatters. This was originally intended to be blood, but was changed prior to release so that the game could get away with a T rating.
* The [[
* The ''[[
** The "kids" option in the [[Updated Rerelease|HD makeover]] has the blood replaced with sparkley stars, and gibs are now ''candy''.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Onimusha]] Dawn of Dreams'' enemies bleed red, but you have the option of changing it to green blood or to bloodless. Averted in the third game, where there's an option for making fights even gorier (namely it allows you to bisect enemies with critical hits, though the corpses vanish almost istantly leaving no blood behind).
* In ''[[Zombies Ate My Neighbors]]'', all of the blood is replaced with an unidentified purple slime.
* In the European and Australian versions of ''[[
* In ''[[
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* ''[[Justice League]]''
* The animated [[The Batman
* In ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' Ursula has black blood first seen when Eric shoots a spear at her cutting her arm, then when he kills her by ramming her with the mast. Admittedly octopusses do have ink for blood so... that's okay.
* When the Disney Channel was finally convinced to show the ''[[
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