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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* A version happens in the first ''[[Kara no Kyoukai (Literature):|Kara no Kyoukai]]'' movie with a puppy dog that walks by the main character tracking blood. We then see the body of someone who just jumped off a building and the resulting pool of blood.
* In the opening sequence of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'', Rena walks on some broken glass and drips blood onto the floor.
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'': Lucy in the beginning of the first episode {{spoiler|where she's naked and walks through the pools of blood of the people she slaughtered}} and in the second episode when she's fighting Bandou.
** In the tenth episode {{spoiler|after she kills Kouta's father and sister}}, she's seen standing in a pool of their blood.
* This also occurs in ''[[Film/HowlsHowl's Moving Castle (anime)|HowlsHowl's Moving Castle]]'', when Howl {{spoiler|turns into his true form and leaves wet footprints across the floor, waking up Sophie}}.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Done subtly on the first page of ''[[Watchmen (Comic Bookcomics)|Watchmen]]'' when the red-head prophet-of-doom walks casually across the puddle of the Comedian's blood, trailing bloody footprints.
 
== Film ==
* ''[[The Ring]]'' did this with Samara after she came out of the television, in the form of water from an old well.
* Played entirely straight in ''[[The Last Samurai]]'', when Tom Cruise walks in the Japanese house with his boots on, and he realizes when he sees his host cleaning the muddy footprints behind him that this just ''isn't'' done.
* In the movie ''[[Constantine (Film)|Constantine]]'', when Satan appears in a fairly well-dressed manner, but his feet are bare and covered in muck.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Scary Movie]] II''. The characters find a trail of bright red footprints leading down the hallway, prompting one of the male characters to comment "Ew! Someone's on the rag!"
* This happens in the ''Fathers Day'' segment of ''[[Creepshow]]''.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]''. In the Kitten Kong episode the [[Comic Trio]] follow the [[Attack of the Fifty 50-Foot Whatever|huge paw prints]] of Tinkles the Kitten across London on their three-seater bicycle, and keep running into things because the giant purrball can just step over objects they can't.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[Silent Hill]]''. Several of the games, if not every one of them. The first game and some of the others actually measure how far your trail of monster-blood footprint is.
** In [[Silent Hill 3]], there are disembodied bloody footprints acompanied by the sounds of a crying young girl that lead you past a few obstacles and help you find hidden areas. No explanation is given for this.
* Scrying in ''[[Clive BarkersBarker's Undying]]'' will sometimes show bloody footprints, showing you how to get through some puzzles.
* ''[[Doom]]'' 3 pulls off one scare by having bloody footprints appearing out of nowhere as something invisible walks away from you towards a locked door.
* ''You'' do this in ''[[Second Sight]]'' if you step in blood, and the [[Mook|Mooks]]s freak out accordingly, particularly if you're in their line of sight but invisible.
* In ''[[Kuon]]'', if your character walks through a pool of blood they will trail bloody footprints for a while afterwards.
* The Footprint Passages in ''[[Yume Nikki]]''. This being a [[Surreal Horror]] game, there's no explanation, but it's still creepy.
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