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[[File:bacca09-05_910905 9109.jpg|link=Baccano (Light Novel)!|frame|<small>Someone's looking faaaabulooous!</small> ]]
 
 
{{quote|''"I think I'll take [[Blood Bath|a bath in his blood]]."''|'''Mike Tyson'''}}
 
A [[Duel to Thethe Death|battle for honor]], [[Curb Stomp Battle|a one-]][[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|sided fight]], [[Extreme Melee Revenge|getting even]], or just plain killing people can be very messy affairs. In the process, the victim may have accidentally sprayed some of their blood all over their attacker and [[Blood-Splattered Innocents|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 [[Unstoppable Rage|a frenzy]].
 
It is important to note that people who have seen them in action or immediately following may mention them to others as a [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|figure to avoid]] if that character is [[Professional Killer|particularly efficient]] or [[Ax Crazy|particularly insane]]. The [[Blood Knight]] and the [[Combat Sadomasochist]] have a high probability of invoking this, since they're both known to [[Interplay of Sex and Violence|revel in the feeling]]. Japanese has a word for this state, 'chimamire,' which [[Language Equals Thought|may say something about Japanese history.]]
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== Anime and Manga ==
 
* Ladd Russo and the Rail Tracer {{spoiler|Claire Stanfield}} from ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|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.
* Lucy from ''[[Elfen Lied]]''.
* Shizuo Heiwajima and {{spoiler|Masaomi Kida}} from ''[[Durarara (Literature)|Durarara!!]]''.
* Nearly every member of the cast in ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'' has this happen at least once.
* Ichigo and a few other characters in ''[[Bleach]]'' have invoked this on a couple of occasions.
* ''[[Hellsing]]'': [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Seras Victoria]] seems to acquire a coat of blood whenever her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] kicks in. In this work, [[Axe Crazy|every major combatant]] probably qualifies at some point or another.
* Saya in ''[[Blood Plus+]]'' when in her Beserk Mode.
** Same for her [[Blood- C]] and [[Blood: theThe Last Vampire]] [[Alternate Continuity|Counterparts]]
* [[Trigun|Nicholas D. Wolfwood]] {{spoiler|dies}} this way in the manga. A majority of the blood is his, but still.
 
 
== Comic Books ==
* [[Dynamite Comics]]' ''[[The Last Phantom (Comic Book)|The Last Phantom]]'' storyline has Kit Walker using blood to approximate the cowl and mask of ''[[The Phantom (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|The Phantom]]''.
* Brother Blood from ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' has a habit of doing this.
* ''[[Batman]]'': Since he wasn't wearing his costume when he was [[Bruce Wayne Held Hostage|captured]] by Zsasz, Damien makes a mask out of blood.
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* In the ''[[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.
* One of many famous scenes in ''[[American Psycho]]'' 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 of 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.
* [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]] in both ''[[Braveheart]]'' and ''[[The Patriot]]''.
* ''[[Kill Bill]]'': O-ren Ishii covers herself in blood after killing her parent's murderer.
* ''[[Sin City]]'' has red blood splattering into the faces of Devon Aioki and Mickey Rourke in two different scenes.
* In the ''[[Masters of Horror]]'' episode "Cigarette Burns", Annie is covered head to toe in blood when she emerges out of the theater screen at the end.
** Downplayed with Dalibor after he decapitates {{spoiler|the taxi driver}}.
 
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== Print Media ==
 
* The ''[[True Blood]]'' ''Rolling Stone'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20101201101113/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/28431/191807 cover].
 
== Professional Wrestling ==
 
* If you want to see what this looks like in [[Real Life]], watch the 1992 Great Muta vs. Hiroshi Hase New Japan Pro Wrestling match. To this day, [[Smark|Smarks]]s measure how profusely a wrestler bleeds on the "Muta Scale".
** [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]]'s bloodstained screams while in the Sharpshooter in his Wrestlemania XIII match against Bret Hart made him a superstar and one of the biggest faces ever because he just wouldn't give up.
** [[Ric Flair]] has been doing this since the 70's and hasn't stopped.
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== Tabletop Games ==
 
* Pretty much every follower of Khorne in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' or ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', especially the World Eaters.
 
== Theater ==
 
* Certain productions of ''[[Titus Andronicus (Theatretheatre)|Titus Andronicus]]''.
* Padraic and Mairead in ''[[The Lieutenant of Inishmore]].'' Mairead specifically changes from a tomboyish outfit into a pretty sundress that looks [[Interplay of Sex and Violence|even lovelier]] drenched in blood.
 
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* The "Rage" sections of ''[[Wet]]'' occur when Rubi shoots a mook at close range in a cut scene and gets blood splashed on her face, triggering [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Rubi-Vision]].
* Characters get covered in blood after virtually every fight in ''[[Dragon Age]]'', not to mention that your progress on the map screen is [[Paint the Town Red|marked by a literal trail of blood.]] ([[Bio WareBioWare]] would like you to know that this game is ''[[Darker and Edgier|edgy]]''.)
* In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' several Krogans end up covered in so much blood it drips off them. And they like it that way.
* When Ezio of ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'' 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.
 
== Web Original ==
* Played for laughs in ''[[A Very Potter Sequel]]''. After his transformations, Remus Lupin walks around for several scenes at a time wearing nothing but tighty-whiteys and the blood of his (animal) victims. He keeps having to come up with lame excuses as to why he's covered in blood.
{{quote| '''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.}}
 
 
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