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{{quote|''The human body contains [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank|over 12 gallons of blood, sometimes more,]] under high pressure.''|''[[Rules of Anime]]'', #18}}
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In real life the average adult has ten pints (five litres) of blood. One gallon is equal to eight pints (4.55 liters). When this trope is in play, for 'pints', read '[[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank|gallons.]]' Or more: all living things can contain several dozen gallons of blood, stored under incredible pressures. As a result, almost any damage by a cutting or piercing weapon will result in explosive jets of gore squirting out like a firehose.
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{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* A Japanese Teatea commercial explains that in most cases high blood pressure won't save you. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHNJmWbvsL0 There are exceptions].
 
== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''. The "Black Dog Serenade" episode. Udai Taxim slits someones throat and the blood sprays out like crazy, however since they're in zero gravity. It's probably Justified.
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* ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' has this trope in its purest form in the last act, albeit using the same scene of brutally slashed ninjas over and over.
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' has fountains of blood.
* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' is pretty infamous for this. The fights where one of the contendorscontenders (if not both) doesn't lose at least half of his blood are almost ''rare''.
* The anime ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan|Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan]]'' has any injury involving the main characters causing a volcanic eruption of blood to the point (and [[Crosses the Line Twice|intentionally so]]) of being absurd.
** In the most extreme example, at the end of the final episode of the first season, the main character begins spewing blood at high enough pressure that his entire lower body starts moving around on the floor. Then flying around the room. Then out a window and into the night sky, landing several blocks away.
* Anyone cut by a Shinigami's sword in ''[[Bleach]]''. The worst example has to be when Renji gets hit by the full force of Byakuya's bankai. Cue massive ''explosion'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA-HoU9-sFQ#t=2m05s of blood].
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** In ''End of Evangelion'' this trope is taken to its logical extreme when {{spoiler|Giant Naked Rei's head comes off. Of course, she is the product of every single person rolled into one, so it's somewhat justified.}} The pressure is so high that it shoots blood so far that a line of red appears across the moon which is visible at the end of Rebuild!
** ''Rebuild 2.0'' has the absolute record: when Sahaquiel bites the dust, it explodes into a ''tsunami'' of blood. I'm not kidding, Tokyo-3 loses a few skyscrapers due to the pressure. The Angels are in fact beings formed of LCL liquid, essentially blood, and maintain their form with an Anti-Terror Field. If they are damaged, the field weakens and LCL returned to its base form in a gout of blood. If they are killed, their entire body reverts to LCL.
*** Sahaquiel's death, it should be noted, is now a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] / [[Fridge Horror]] due to a certain disaster that happened in early in the first half of 2011.
** Overall, ''Evangelion'' is notable for the fact that the violence tends to be infinitely worse when there's minimal blood involved. Watching {{spoiler|EVA-03 get physically torn apart with bones, limbs, and intestines flying everywhere with hardly any blood was perhaps the most gruesome sight in the remake movies}}.
** Not entirely sure if Sahaquiel has the record. A tsunami of blood is fine, but GNR's throat-cut HITS''hits THEthe MOONmoon!'' And leaves a visible stain. On a planetoid. Sheesh!
** This is probably all to do with the [[Square-Cube Law]]. An Eva is basically a giant human, so something that big is gonna need a lot of blood.
* At the end of the ''[[Death Note]]'' anime, {{spoiler|Mikami stabs himself WITH''with Aa PENpen'' in grief, resulting in a blood fountain so over the top it's sometimes considered an [[Narm|unwitting source of humor]] amongstin the otherwise dark tone of the scene.}} That was the only episode to get a TV-MA rating on [[Adult Swim]].
* Almost all the deaths in ''[[Basilisk]]: Kouga Ninpu Chuu''.
* ''[[Berserk]]''. When you have a main character who wields a [[BFS]] with the greatest of ease (and insane speed), this is bound to happen, particularly since his kills tend to involve things like limbs and heads getting sheared right off, and at least several instances of people and monsters getting ''[[Half the Man He Used To Be|sliced in half]]''.
* Used in the ''[[Devil May Cry]] [[Devil May Cry: The Animated Series|Animated Series]]''. It's particularly noticeable when Dante guns down a four-foot-tall bad guy in the second to last episode and an overhead shot shows a river of blood on the ground.
* Used in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]: [[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]'' when Norris Packard stabs a guntank through the cockpit. Blood splatters all the way up to his Mobile Suit's head.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' usually averts this, which making it much more significant when it does occur. So far it's only happened twice. It happened during a [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]] to show the pain that Negi was experiencing. The one that occurred in reality has {{spoiler|Negi vomiting several gallons of blood after getting his internal organs more-or-less pulverized by Jack Rakan in the final match of the tournament.}}
** Also [[Bloody Hilarious|played for laughs]] when Kaede is sent flying into a stone wall at about 90 miles an hour. Anya wonders if she's dead, and she immediately clears from the smoke with blood over her forehead and what looks like a water fountain of blood coming out of her skull. She doesn't even acknowledge it.
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* Expect this at all times during battle scenes in ''[[Hellsing]]'', especially when Alucard starts going for an opponent's throat.
* The anime version of ''[[Violinist of Hameln]]'': One early episodes features an old man getting stabbed in the chest and immediately spewing a fountain of the stuff.
* In the final of the future arc in ''[[Katekyou Hitman Reborn!]]'' {{spoiler|Byakuran ''fights'' using his blood that rains out of his body in gallons.}}
** Surprisingly, [[Bloodless Carnage|compared to the rest of the anime]] [[Adaptation Decay|adaptation]], this scene wasn't toned down. However [[Black Blood|the blood spray was darkened]].
** A few chapters later someone stings himself with a sewing needle by accident and a fountain of blood spurts out
* In the manga adaptation of ''[[Breath of Fire]] IV]]'', the scene in chapter 19 where Fou-lu [[Off with His Head|decapitates Soniel]] is an explicit example—Soniel ends up geysering for a good bit afterwards.
* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]'' season 1 episode 4. Ryuuka runs headfirst into an I-beam Taro is carrying and blood starts spurting out of her forehead like a geyser.
* Various fights in ''[[Blood Plus+]]'' invoke this for dramatic effect. For example, Saya's first encounter with a Chiropteran ended with a severed lower Chiropteran body spilling a fountain of blood around a classroom.
* At the end of ''[[Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin]]'', {{spoiler|when Gin decapitates [[Big Bad|Akakabuto]], the blood bursts up like a geyser, pushing the head with it.}}
 
 
== Commericals ==
* A Japanese Tea commercial explains that in most cases high blood pressure won't save you. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHNJmWbvsL0 There are exceptions].
 
 
== Film ==
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* All characters in ''[[Evil Dead]]'', with the exception of Ash. Taken to ridiculous extremes in ''Army of Darkness'', where there is a ''huge'' fountain of blood.
** People who went to see the musical adaptation of the [[Evil Dead]] films were warned to bring plastic macs if they were sitting in the front three rows. Although some who went to see it wore white t-shirts and kept them afterwards as souvenirs.
* A scene in ''[[The Addams Family]] (1991 film)|the 1991 ''Addams Family'' movie]] where Wednesday and Pugsley are having a duel at a school play; Pugsley loses an arm, and Wednesday gets slashed across her wrist and throat. (Don't worry, the limbs were fake. [[You Do NOT Want to Know|Don't ask where they got the blood from, though]]). By the time Wednesday finishes her fake death scene, the first two or three rows of the audience are drenched in their blood.
* The 2007 film of ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' uses this frequently. It also subverts it for the deaths of {{spoiler|Sweeney himself and his wife Lucy}}. For those two, despite having their throats slashed just like everyone else, the blood flows out gently without spurting, unlike everybody else.
* ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]].'' A teenage boy is dragged into his bed by Freddy, disappearing into a hole—and a massive geyser of blood comes exploding out. No, this was not just in the nightmare world; later in the movie, we see cops carrying down ''buckets'' from the boy's room. Lots of them.
* ''[[300]]'' features very stylized CG blood that sprays out from wounds to suggest the art style of the comic book it was based on.
* The Xenomorphs of the ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' series are an especially dangerous version. Any damage to their carapace yielded high-pressure spurts of [[Alien Blood|highly acidic blood]]. Apparently, they suffer from species-wide hypertension.
* ''[[28 Days Later]]'' has this trope incarnated in the form of Mailer. He's not vomiting. He's not bleeding from the mouth. He's literally gushing blood on people. And he never runs out. UnluckyUnluckily for you, [[The Virus]] spreads through contact with membranes of the eyes and mouth as well (and probably the nose, just to be cruel) so... it's like trying to hold your breath while someone aims a firehose at your face. Charming.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Dracula|Dracula: Dead and Loving It]]''. Midway through, Van Helsing has the hero pound a stake into vampirized Lucy Westenra. At the first blow of the hammer, the hero gets drenched with about 30 gallons of blood rocketing out of the coffin with the force of a fire hose. Van Helsing is safely out of the way, having taken shelter behind a pillar.
** Also an example of [[Enforced Method Acting]]. The actor was not told there would be that much blood and is visibly trying not to laugh.
** Another example is when Renfield gets a "paper-cut" and an obnoxious fountain of blood shoots out of his finger, much to the delight of Dracula.
* The duel in ''[[Sanjuro]]'' (1962 Kurosawa Samurai Flick) in which the antagonist, when struck, shoots a horrific stream of blood accompanied by a loud discord.
* Also by Kurosawa, ''[[Ran]]''{{'}}s ending showcases one of the best cases when {{spoiler|General Kurogane beheads the treacherously evil Lady Kaede, for all the nasty acts she pulled throughout the film}} The resultant geyser of blood that spurts across the wall behind is a thing of beauty. The view of the actual decapitation, though, [[Gory Discretion Shot|is nicely blocked from view]]
* The tendency for "realistic" [[Vietnam War]] movies to engage in this is parodied in ''[[Tropic Thunder]]''; the scene we see from [[Show Within a Show|the film within a film]] has characters shooting jets of blood from their heads and spewing more intestines than would fit inside their bodies, all while the hero is shot a preposterous number of times [[Made of Iron|to little effect]].
* In the Robert Rodriguez vampire movie ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]]'' and its various sequels and prequels, blood sprays from the wounded villains and protagonists as though fired from a fire hose.
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** In the three hour Director's Cut, you actually see the brutal damage done by this downward stroke. It cleaves the Saracen from shoulder to opposite hip, presumably slicing through his heart which could potentially explain the spray of blood.
* Happens quite a bit in ''[[Sin City]]'' the movie.
* In [[Uwe Boll]]'s ultra cheesy film ''[[BloodRayne (film)||Blood RayneBloodRayne]]'', this is used a lot with very cheap looking blood spurting effects that look like red paint.
* The explosive death of the giant mako in ''[[Deep Blue Sea]]'', in which so much blood fountains into the sky and spreads out in a massive circle that it suggests the animal was nothing but a shark-shaped bag of red stuff.
* Used for black comedy in ''[[National Lampoon's European Vacation]]'', when the Griswalds' car knockknocks Eric Idle off his bicycle. Dismissing his injuries as [[Just a Flesh Wound]], Idle offers them directions to the next tourist trap, and a thin but continuous stream of blood squirts out from his cut wrist in the direction he's pointing.
* Lots of killer-animal-on-the-loose films. With a slash of the claws or a chomp of the teeth blood and organs will fly everywhere. Especially in aquatic beastie films, where a person gets pulled underwater and a huge bubble of red wells up to mark their demise.
* Every gore scene in ''[[Violent Shit]]'' involves copious amounts of blood spraying all over the place. Even the killer getting shot in the shoulder elicits several large squirts.
* Subverted in ''[[Mimic]]'', in which a man falls to his death in an alley and his landing splashes a junked mirror with a massive, sloppy spray of ... white paint, because his head landed on and crushed a paint can.
* Played for laughs with the Black Knight in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', who gushes blood with every limb King Arthur chops off. Unlike most examples, though, after the initial jet the blood stops.
 
 
== Literature ==
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* ''[[How Not to Write A Novel]]'' recommends ''not'' claiming, even if it is more accurate, that blood leaps out of a cut throat "exactly the way juice squirts out of a juice box when a toddler falls on it".
 
== Live -Action TV ==
 
* Referenced in a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' skit where a movie director talks about a scene where "the blood comes gushing out, pshhh! in slow motion". Then, of course, there's the "Sam Peckinpah's ''Salad Days''" skit. And the Black Knight in ''Holy Grail''.
== Live Action TV ==
* Parodied before the trope became famous in an original-cast SNL''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch. Julia Child (as played by [[Dan AckroydAykroyd]]) nicks a finger while cutting up some chicken. We don't see anything at first, but soon a drop of blood shows up. The drop becomes a trickle, the trickle becomes a stream.... You get the idea.
* Referenced in a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' skit where a movie director talks about a scene where "the blood comes gushing out, pshhh! in slow motion". Then, of course, there's the "Sam Peckinpah's ''Salad Days''" skit. And the Black Knight in ''Holy Grail''.
* Parodied before the trope became famous in an original-cast SNL sketch. Julia Child (as played by Dan Ackroyd) nicks a finger while cutting up some chicken. We don't see anything at first, but soon a drop of blood shows up. The drop becomes a trickle, the trickle becomes a stream.... You get the idea.
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'', dying [[Monster of the Week|Imagin]] usually just [[Stuff Blowing Up|explode like most everything in]] [[Toku]]. However, in the third movie, when {{spoiler|Momotaros}} is badly injured fighting Yu-Ki, he exhibits High Pressure Sand (since Imagin are time traveling monsters made of sand) because it's more dramatic that way.
* In ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'' injuries most often result in a jet of CGI blood shooting across the screen. Injuries ranging from limb removal to puches to the face. In particular, a throat-slit is likely to turn into a high-pressure blood fountain.
* Though most deaths are portrayed realistically, sometimes the blood spray can be over the top in the Spike show ''1,000 Ways to Die''. Other times, the show inverts this trope and the wounds yield very little blood, if any at all.
* ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'': In the two-parter episode "Crash Into Me" a patient's carotid artery (quite literally) blows up. The blood gets ''everywhere''. It's even commented on that the nurse standing next to him looks like [[Carrie]] at the prom because she's "wearing, like, half [his] blood."
 
 
== Music ==
* In a strange example is the band [[GWAR]]. Their stage show, which consists of killing famous people and GWAR slaves by ripping off their faces or limbs or head or genitals or combinations of said parts. Removal of parts is always followed by ludicrous amounts of high pressure blood, and always directed at the audience. Oderous also douses the audience in other high pressure liquids throughout the show.
 
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* The Indie wrestling federation ''CZW'' has an annual tournament of death. Within the usual excesiveexcessive injuries sustained, there was one particular incident during the third tournament. The wrestler Sexxxy Eddie was fighting in his second match, where he had managed to cut through a vein in his arm. Probably caused by the large amount of glass around the ring. At the end of the match, blood was seen to be visibilyvisibly arching from the wound, which he then proceeded to drink. Thankfully doctors were on site to patch his arm up with a roll of Duct Tape.
 
== [[ProffesionalVideo Wrestling]]Games ==
* The Indie wrestling federation ''CZW'' has an annual tournament of death. Within the usual excesive injuries sustained, there was one particular incident during the third tournament. The wrestler Sexxxy Eddie was fighting in his second match, where he had managed to cut through a vein in his arm. Probably caused by the large amount of glass around the ring. At the end of the match, blood was seen to be visibily arching from the wound, which he then proceeded to drink. Thankfully doctors were on site to patch his arm up with a roll of Duct Tape.
 
 
== Videogames ==
* Various enemies in ''Nanobreaker'' spewed gallons of "liquid" every time you hit them. Doing this enough would give your character life and energy boosts (a ''very'' literal definition of [[Leaked Experience]]).
* Being killed with a shot to the head in ''[[Gears of War]]'' with certain weapons will pretty much cause heads to explode. In the sequel, the game has stuff [[Gorn|lose what appears to be enough blood to easily knock someone out from the impact of bullets hitting alone. ''Then'', your character falls to the ground to crawl around and bleed on the floor.]] [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|After that, everyone can shoot your remains for kicks.]]
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* ''[[No More Heroes]]'' uses this to the extreme: often, blood will spurn out wildly and cover anything in a 100-yard radius. No to mention, its equivalent of [[Everything Fades]] is dead bodies vanishing in a puff of blood—apparently, any non-major character who dies simply explodes into a smoky cloud of blood.
** In the USA release, anyway. The Japanese and European releases [[Bowdlerize|replaced the blood with black mist]].
* Suda 51's earlier title ''[[Killer7]]'' also had the blood coming by the gallons: enemies killed normally would spray blood for several seconds before vanishing while those hit in their weakspotweak spot would explode into a blood ''mist'', and one character's special ability involved spraying blood from her wrist to break barriers. And then there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tj7aBVC1Vw Cloudman] (4:45 for those who don't want any story spoiling).
* The defeat of most characters in the original ''[[Vandal Hearts]]'' game, both allies and enemies, results in a geyser of pixellated blood. Even ghosts and animated skeletons die bloodily. Only stone enemies don't bleed - they explode in a massive shower of small rocks instead.
* The cutscenes of ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' often show Kratos killing his enemies. These killings usually involve fountains of blood spilling forth.
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* Side-scrolling shooters ''Liero'' and ''Soldat'' have copious amounts of blood. ''Liero'''s in-game options allow you to have [[Ludicrous Gibs|500% blood amount]], although outside game applications can increase this to [[Refuge in Audacity|over 32000%]]!
* ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' has your tiny character bursting in a [[Ludicrous Gibs|huge explosion of blood]] should he [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|so much as graze an apple]]. As well as [[Everything Trying to Kill You|everything else out to kill him]]. [[Platform Hell|Repeatedly]].
* In ''[[Dead Rising]]'', people apparently turn into water balloons when they become zombies, shedding at least a gallon of the red stuff if anything remotely pointy hits them. The same goes for the living, though not to such an extreme. Interesting that Burt and {{spoiler|Paul}} are able to follow Frank to the maintainencemaintenance room without assistance even after leaving splatters all over the walls.
** The best example is that you can get a shower head and jam it into a zombie's forehead. It will then ''rain blood'' for about thirty seconds, though the zombie will continue to shuffle around (and you can take a picture for hilarity's sake), only falling over when the blood stops flowing. ''That'' is some high pressure blood!
* In the Xbox 360 game ''Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom'', all of the mobs and even the [[Player Characters]] have this, especially some of the bosses.
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* ''[[Samurai Shodown]]'' characters finished off by a blade attack can possibly result in the character standing straight as a large stream of blood exits their bodies, before they slump to the ground, dead.
* Blowing off a Nazi's head with the upgraded Kar98 in ''[[Wolfenstein (2009 video game)|Wolfenstein]]'' results in an enormous fountain of blood spewing out of the guy's neck as he slowly slumps to the ground.
* ''[[Breath of Fire]] IV]]'' had a scene where [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Fou-lu]] ends up [[Off with His Head|decapitating usurper Soniel]] with the very [[Evil Weapon]] that Soniel back stabbed Fou-lu with. The screen goes to black silhouette, you see Fou-lu's silhouette whip out the sword, and you see Soniel's silhouette suddenly headless and geysering (silhouette) blood. This scene was completely [[Bowdlerised]] from non-Japanese versions of the game, to the point where the manga adaption turned the scene—including the graphic depiction of Soniel's decapitation and all the PSI in his aorta -- [[Up to Eleven]] in a deliberate [[Take That]].
* In the ''[[Karoshi]]'' games, when you throw yourself against spikes or various other death inducing interior your character explodes in a fountain of blood.
* A finishing move while using a sword style in ''[[Jade Empire]]'' has your character decapitate the enemy, who falls over with blood fountaining from their exposed neck.
* Bioware also uses this trope in ''[[Dragon Age|Dragon Age: Origins]]'', where a decapitation in melee results in a gusher of blood.
** The ''Soldier's Peak'' [[Downloadable Content]] gives Warriors a [[Cast from Hit Points]] ability that shoots this from themselves in all directions to damage [[Blown Across the Room|and push back]] enemies.
* The fighting game ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBpFTYavXNY Blood Warrior]'', in an attempt to one-up ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' in the [[Gorn]] department, has the fighters stream jets of blood at every opportunity. Even if they're standing in place in a dizzy stance.
* Fable's decapitations cause fountains of blood to gush from the enemies' bodies.
* Oh, [[The Conduit]]. Headshot a human enemy, you get [[Pink Mist]]. Headshot a Drudge alien, and you get a fountain of orange blood gushing from their body, along with their heads exploding.
* ''[[School Days]]''. One of the endings feature a major character ( {{spoiler|Sekai}}) being slit across the throat. After three seconds, two fountains of super high pressure blood spew like hell for around twenty seconds. The weirdest part is that all the other characters [[Weirdness Censor|just stand there as if nothing happens]]. In reality when the artery in the neck gets cut, bursts of blood like this are not uncommon. The victim is unlikely to remain standing upright though—and it´s quite a shocking sight for bystanders.
** Also: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRjZoTtH2p4 Kotonoha's] infamous [[Spurned Into Suicide|suicide]], in which she throws herself off the building Makoto lives in right after he definitely rejects her—and she hits the ground VERY''very'' bloodily in front of Sekai and Makoto.
* Ms. Fortune from ''[[Skullgirls]]'' is not only an example of this trope, but she also uses it to her advantage. She jettisons blood from her scars for propulsion during her backwards dash, and while her head is severed, she can cause her head to zip along the ground quickly by shooting out a stream of blood from it.
* The first modern ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' title featured simple head decapitations; the sequel ramped it up to [[Bloodier and Gorier]] with limb and complete body dismemberments. The last in the trilogy does away with decaps entirely, replacing it with this trope instead.
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* Some of the more devastating super attacks in ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]'' cause their victim spill tons of blood. Atlantis's St. Helen eruption, Junkman's Junk Crush attacks, and Mammothman's Ghost Canvas stand out the most.
 
== WebcomicsWeb Comics ==
* Lampshaded in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110312141226/http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000801 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424095519/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070331 Done] [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=031016 several] [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080912 times] in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.
* ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/11/10/episode-622-now-shut-up/ loves] [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/05/03/episode-841-permission-to-speak-freely/ this] [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/03/18/episode-968-a-spear-in-the-head-is-worth-two-in-the-bush/ trope]. [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/04/12/episode-832-character-is-what-you-are-in-the-dark/ Really loves it.]
* Shows up a lot in ''[[Penny Arcade]]'', including a notorious example in which Gabe tried to cure [[Hiccup Hijinks|Tycho's hiccups]] by ''[[Refuge in Audacity|cutting off his hand]]'', as seen in the page image. {{spoiler|In case you're wondering, he}} '' {{spoiler|still had the hiccups!}}''
* At least two characters have suffered violently explosive nosebleeds after a single punch to the face in ''[[Suicide for Hire]]''. The author added a not saying "I don't care if it's unrealistic for one punch, I love that effect."
* ''[[Bob and George]]'':
** [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/030807c After an accident.]
** [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040305 This one] is a little over the top.
* Accompanied by a [[Unsound Effect|"Spurt"]] [httphttps://sarabweb.coarchive.org/pagesweb/chapter-01-changes20210315130357/page-06-fatalityhttps://uniregistry.com/market/domain/sarab.co?landerid=sarab604f5b3b996f47.85243195 here] in ''[[Sarab]]''.
* In ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' this normally does ''not'' happen, but either vampires can feed from an artery (and keep the prey alive) just fine, [httphttps://www.eeriecutiespixietrixcomix.com/stripseerie-eccuties/this_one_is_a_squirter%212009-10-14 or Layla just saved some poor chap's life]. Or he's some sort of [[Human Subspecies]] who has that sort of pressure normally — in ''that'' town it won't be too much of a coincidence.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* Done comically in ''[[The Boondocks]]'' episodes "Catcher Freeman" and "The Hunger Strike". Considering the show's [[Animesque|anime style]], it's to be expected. Also episode "Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy" when someone is decapitated.
* Used in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' after Homer's arm is slashed open by broken glass from trying [[Percussive Maintenance]] on a jukebox. Also seen in the episode where Homer and Mr Burns are throwing coins off a tall building. One penetrates Lenny's skull and blood spurts from the wound when Carl removes it.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', ''"Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman"'':
{{quote|'''Indigenous chief:''' *Speaking unintelligible native language throughout*
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'''Kyle:''' Don't be stupid, Cartman! Butters doesn't have that much blood in him!
'''Butters:''' Eh yeah I do too! }}
 
 
== Web Original ==
* #18 in ''[[Rules of Anime]]'', often mis-quoted as "The average anime character's body contains about [number varies] gallons of blood under high pressure."
* Parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140109044352/http://www.llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/target177.html this] [[Fauxtivational Poster]].
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' is usually realistic about wounds and the like; but there are cases where this occurs, where wounds cause an absurd amount of blood to come out. For example, Jacob Starr bleeds out in about 10 seconds after his throat is slashed. Especially ironic because he had previously been [[Made of Iron]].
* [[Lampshaded]] non-comedically in ''[[Fine Structure]]'' when two hikers view the aftermath of some Soviet scientists releasing the [[Sealed Evil in a Can]].
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* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' - the cute forest critters hold a lot of blood.
* Although it's not high pressure, in ''[[Bonus Stage (web animation)|Bonus Stage]]'' Joel notes that Phil has blood drip from his fingers (or lack thereof) for 6 hours. Joel fits the trope; his neck spurts blood after being punched off by a giant fist. This could be explained by Phil having superhero blood.
 
 
== Real Life ==