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{{trope}}
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== Video game examples ==
=== [[Action Adventure]] ===
* ''[[Castlevania]]'' was pretty light on the gore for a horror
** It gets even better in ''[[Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia|Order of Ecclesia]]'', where the fight with [[Giant Enemy Crab|Brachyura]] ends with you dropping a spiked elevator on the git, shoving him down fifteen screens of lighthouse and splattering him into a great many bits when you reach bottom. The bits are still there if you come back later.
** Also since ''Symphony'' (It was first used with Richter in ''[[Castlevania: Rondo of Blood|Rondo of Blood]]'', but this game is where it became the standard), when the main character is killed it sends them screaming into the air while they turn into a cloud of blood. It makes strong attacks from bosses seem extra dramatic. It becomes hilarious when low on health, you lightly touch a minor enemy and get a completely over the top death.
*** Additionally, playing as Maria in Rondo of Blood spares her from Richter's overly bloody death, falling to the ground and disintegrating to nothing instead. She gains the overly bloody death in ''[[Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin|Portrait of Ruin]]'', however.
*** An exception is ''Order of Ecclesia'', where you only die in a cloud of blood if Shanoa is killed in the air. Landbound, she just groans and keels over
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* The modern ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' release for the Xbox featured decapitations; the sequel on the Xbox 360 goes beyond its predecessor's decaps into full limb dismemberment and body mutilation, as [http://gamersyde.com/news_5057_en.html the video downloadable here] truthfully shows. Averted in the last of the modern trilogy, which does away this trope entirely for [[High-Pressure Blood]].
* In ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'', pretty much everything results in ridiculous amounts of gore. Even an arrow to the cranium will cause total disintegration of the head in a massive shower of blood.
* The ''[[OneChanbara]]'' games are so gory that your character and their sword getting covered in blood are actually part of the ''game mechanics''
* The [[Freeware Games]] ''Survivor: The Living Dead''. Well you can have zombies without bloody carnage right? Even the tar zombies spout gouts of blood when beheaded. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbcyEoOGWnY Here, take a look at all that pixaly, head-splattering gore]
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*** With ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'', we are now treated to X-Ray Mode, which allows us to see bones and organs shattering inside the victim's body in real time. Characters can have their skulls fractured, eyes gouged, and intestines ruptured ''multiple times'' and still keep up the fight.
* Speaking of robots, the fighting game ''[[One Must Fall]] 2097'' had a secret function allowing the player to control how much "gibs" (gears and bits of metal in this case) would appear. At the highest setting, a single hit would release more scrap metal than the victim could possibly have contained. There was even an option to have metal gibs continually rain down throughout the match.
* Some character moves in ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]'' cause spurts of blood. Rikishiman/Wolfman and Mixer Taitei gib instantly when hit hard enough with a super move. Rikishiman's animation is a reference to his death to Springman in the manga. Mixer Taitei's animation is a reference to his defeat against Meat Alexandria.
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** [[The Dragon|The Cyberdemon]] requires ''a lot'' of damage to be killed, 45 rocket hits, 55 shotgun blasts, or 400 handgun shots. No matter how much damage he's taken, he never shows so much as a dent until he is killed, but his only death animation is him exploding and leaving behind a pair of bloodied hooves. You can shoot him in the face with a shotgun 54 times, and he still has no visible damage, but he would vaporize when next hit by ''[[Critical Existence Failure|one bullet]]''.
*** Quick note, those numbers are averages, as the game has a random number generator for damage.
** There's a mod called [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022235939/http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=16484 "Beautiful Doom"] which, among other things, increases the gibs to, well, ludicrous levels.
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKZhu_dgxA&feature=related Brutal Doom] does this to such levels that the room you're in is ''literally'' painted with blood. Not to mention the facts that you can perform a [[Fatality]] while in berserk mode in the same gore-happy fashion as ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', that mouth monsters can literally bite your torso off, and that the chainsaw can actually hack away at body parts with impressive results.
** In ''Doom 3'' the shotgun packs enough punch that if you hit a zombie with it at point blank range you'll ''tear all the flesh off its bones,'' reducing it to a bloodied skeleton.
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* ''[[Borderlands]]'' embraces this. If you go back 10 levels and use a powerful weapon, the enemies will ''explode'' into gore, blood and random body parts.
** Doesn't help that {{spoiler|one of the boss' bodies has its entire stomach opened up and the corpse never disappears. The body parts are still moving around and it is breathing.}}
* ''[[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life 1]]'' was known for this, though not so much in the sequel. However, a third party mod known simply as "SMOD" took this to healthy levels (at least with "gore_moregore 2" on). Shoot a person in the head? A three second long spray of blood... twice. Somebody hits something going too fast? They explode. Vaporization? What was already a mesmerizing particle effect climaxes with them popping like a grape. And those invincible [[NPC
** Although ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' mostly avoids this, shooting Antlions with a revolver or shotgun causes it to explode.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' tends to avoid actual bloodshed, but certain ammunition types have disturbing effects on slain enemies. Incendiary and explosive rounds cause them to vanish in a cloud of glowing ash, while proton rounds make their victims disappear in a cloud of ionized gas and electricity. Chemical, radioactive, and polonium rounds make enemies ''melt'' into puddles of green goo, and cryo rounds make victims ice over, followed by them inexplicably [[Stuff Blowing Up|exploding a couple of seconds later.]]
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** The 2008 ''Turok'' game lets you blow up certain dinosaurs with explosives. The kicker is that their severed bloodied body parts twitch like mad on the ground before going lifeless.
* All over the place in ''[[Painkiller]]''. The titular weapon is like a food blender pumped up on steroids and ''evil'', so the results are predictably gory. A shotgun blast can reduce a foe to chunks. Freezing enemies and then [[Literally Shattered Lives|shattering them]] would break them apart. It doesn't stop there.
* ''[[Call of Duty]]'': ''World At War'' appears like this, at least in comparison to the relatively tame gore of past titles. However, it's actually done in a way that kinda makes sense (e.g., don't expect to see any
** The Nazi Zombies mode has plenty of gibbing. On Der Riese, when camping the catwalk, zombie corpses will slide back down the stairs when killed but gibbed body parts will not. This results in a heap of corpses at the bottom of the stairs, while the steps are littered with liberal amounts of dismembered hands and feet. Amusing and disturbing.
* ''[[Serious Sam]]'' had an option to provide "hippy" blood. The gibs from exploded monsters include apples, oranges, bananas, etc.
** The ''HD'' [[Updated Rerelease]] not only is [[Bloodier and Gorier]], you can do this too. Plus carve up corpses with your knife should you feel inclined to.
* ''[[Deus Ex]]'' and its mod, ''[[The Nameless Mod]]''. While rocket launchers and explosives are generally expected to blow people apart, poke at a body long enough, and it will explode in a mess of guts and gore, even if you do it with a weak weapon. Some of the new weapons in [[The Nameless Mod]] continue to follow this trope to a T.
** Since most of the augmented enemies - [[The Men in Black|MiBs, WiBs,]] Agents Hermann and Navarre - have [[Dead-Man Switch|self-destruct devices]] that go off when their health reaches [[Critical Existence Failure]],
* While the original ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' is quite mild about this by today's standards, ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'' turned the gibs up a couple notches.
** To clarify, look at how the zombies are killed with the Pipe Bomb. In ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', they explode into a cloud of red mist. In the sequel, their body parts are blown apart and their intestines fly out as the bodies are ragdolled into the air. The guns themselves can gib zombies like there's no tomorrow. Depending on the gun used and what area of a zombie you shoot, you can expose their bones, make their intestines fall out, or even expose their spinal column. Oddly, the special infected do not present these properties.
*** A new gametype was recently introduced in ''Left 4 Dead 2'': [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Gib-Fest.]] All players have [[BFG|M60 machine guns]] with [[More Dakka|unlimited ammo]]. It's...spectacular.
*** The Explosive/Frag Ammo bumps up the gibbing to new levels. A stray bullet from this ammo type will SHRED common infected to pieces.
* The otherwise unremarkable shooter ''Conspiracy: Weapons of Mass Destruction'' has a post-game cheat that lets players '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100829080718/http://www.viddler.com/explore/MoominBiscuit/videos/57/ punch enemies until they explode into burning gibs].''' This is presumably worth the price of admission in itself.
* In ''[[Red Faction]] 2'' there is a that makes all shots on infantry a one hit kill, with lots of ''gibs'' and if you shot a friendly NPC with a LMG, you get lots and lots of gibs, and there is no friendly fire.... Priceless!!
* ''[[Strife]]'', being the last game using the Doom engine, makes use of this trope. In addition, it provided special, gib-like animations for enemies that were immolated by your flame weapons or disintegrated by your [[Disintegrator Ray]].
* An add-on for ''[[Garry's Mod|Garrys Mod]]'' combines this with [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]] to produce outstanding results. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHfNcleaOo A sample.]
* In ''[[E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy]]'', large-caliber weapons will cause enemies to explode into a fine red mist. The [[
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* In the arcade rail shooter ''[[Carn Evil]]'', damn near everything gibs but the skeletons at the end. This is especially fun when it takes more than one shot to take an enemy down.
* The arcade [[Light Gun Game]] ''Friction'' has enemies occasionally explode into pieces upon being shot. There's no blood though, [[Narm/Video Games|giving the impression that the enemies are made of glass]].
** On the other hand, ''[[Beast Busters]]'' and ''[[Zombie Raid]]'' went in the other direction. Dispatch ''any'' enemy in ''Beast Busters''
=== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s ===
* Two quests in ''[[World of Warcraft]]: Wrath of the Lich King'' involve collecting meat. One requires throwing high explosives at mammoths, the other requires throwing them [[Feed It a Bomb|into]] giant worms.
** Even ''more'' ludicrously, Death Knights who specialize in the Unholy aspect of their class receive the gruesome attack "Corpse Explosion", which does [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|exactly what you'd expect.]] Not only does this result in ''weaponized ludicrous gibs'', you can enhance the ability so that if it kills an enemy it makes ''them explode'' in a chain reaction.
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=== [[Real Time Strategy]] ===
* In the ''[[Warhammer
** That last instance is definitely an example of the trope: large blobs of blood and organs will fly out of a corpse when they die, but the corpse itself remains completely whole as it falls to the ground, making one wonder where all those chunks of meat actually came from. Ludicrous indeed.
*** Rectified in the sequel, where powerful attacks can literally shred the enemies into pieces.
* In ''[[
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=== [[Roguelike]] ===
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' is surprisingly gory for an ASCII-based game. The game's health system is very in-depth, keeping track of every part of every character's body down to eyes, internal organs, and ''individual fingers and toes.'' Gibs, represented as red 2s (or green, or grey, depending on whether it bleeds blood or goo), will litter the surrounding environment if enemies are dismembered, disemboweled, hacked in two, or thrown into a wall with enough force to blow apart. It gets even better in adventure mode, which lets you take control of a single adventurer. This mode includes a blow-by-blow account of every fight, and the ability to pick up and throw the severed bits of enemies (or anything else, for that matter). Thrown
** It's not unheard of for outside-the-fortress battles in DF to involve goblin limbs ending up in trees. And then there's the aforementioned "thrown into a wall" example, in which parts can go several vertical levels above the original goblin. That's taller than the ''tree'' he hit.
** A large group of creatures dropped from a great heigh into a pit can create a wondrous geyser of gore rivaling that of the well scene from Army of Darkness. [http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-355-bodypartexplosion As demonstrated here.]
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=== [[Role
* The first two ''[[Fallout]]'' games rewarded the player with extra gruesome death animations that would play some of the time if the player inflicted a large amount of damage in a single attack. If one gave the player character the special trait "Bloody Mess" during creation, the most spectacular death animations would always play when an enemy died. The full list of splattery animations is:
** Shot or stabbed to death: A large hole appears in the target's torso.
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* ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'' features a spell called Enemies Explode. It wasn't until a combat mod (Deadly Reflexes if memory serves) was released that featured a revamped system of combat complete with dismemberments and various other fatal effects where a spell was included that achieves just such an effect.
* ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldurs Gate]]'', on the Core Rules difficulty, causes anyone who is killed with massive damage (i.e. reducing them to -10 hit points with a single blow) to explode into pieces, preventing any possibility of resurrection.
* Scoring kills with a [[Critical Hit]] in ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldurs Gate]] 2'' will reduce the unfortunate victim to a shower of [[Chunky Salsa Rule]], which has the side-effect of requiring True Resurrection in place of the simpler Raise Dead for [[Player Character
* ''[[Jade Empire]]'' has a couple- some of the Harmonic Combinations result in an enormous cloud of red, and it's extremely gratifying to see the ridiculous blood-fountain that occasionally results from slaying an enemy with basic sword attacks.
** In an (in-engine) cutscene, the use of the rifle Mirabelle causes someone to ''explode'' into bloody chunks if gore is turned on. It's a good weapons, but not ''that'' good!
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=== [[Survival Horror]] ===
* Justified in ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'': it's all about blowing off the enemies' ''limbs'' because headshots don't work.
* In ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'', when you shoot an enemy in the head and kill it, its head
** Possibly justified in that most enemies's heads aren't exactly solid anymore.
** When you kill a Regenerator, it explodes [[Squickvery|wetly from the waist up]].
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=== [[Turn Based Tactics]] ===
* In ''[[Jagged Alliance]] 2'', a head shot from close range sometimes causes [[Your Head Asplode|the enemy's head to burst apart]], releasing a gush of [[High-Pressure Blood]] from the neck stump. A close-range chest impact could cause a similar burst of blood to fly from the back of the enemy (or even one of your own mercs or [[NPC
** Oddly enough, though, said grenades or mortar rounds didn't cause ludicrous gibs, ''when they ever actually killed anyone''.
* Every kill in ''[[Vandal Hearts]]'' results in a high-powered geyser of blood erupting from the victim. Even ''skeletons''. The only exceptions are mechanical enemies and living statues, who die with a high-powered geyser of...gravel?
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== Non-video game examples
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* Late in ''[[Shikabane Hime]]'', [[Big Bad|Hokuto]] punches someone so hard they turn into red mist and leave nothing but their kimono floating off in the wind. Noteworthy for being a case of "slapping into a red mist" not being hyperbole.
* Full-body explosion is the fate of more than a few of Kenshiro's enemies in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''. [[You Are Already Dead]], indeed.
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** Lets not forget the 20mm Ack Ack gun in that village.
* ''[[Evil Dead|Army of Darkness]]''. At one point, a human is dragged into a pit by a monster. For best results, bear in mind at this point that the human body contains about 5 litres of blood. Now watch as a ''geyser of blood'' blasts out of the pit.
** Predated by ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' when [[Johnny Depp]]'s character bites
*** When Lt. Thompson arrives at the scene, he asks where the coroner is and gets the response "He's been in the John puking since he saw it."
* ''[[Blade II]]''. A bomb designed to go on the back of the head to control an adversary goes off, completely disintegrating the entity, leaving nothing but a fine red mist. Granted, it was at waist level, but not even a shoelace was left.
* ''[[District 9]]''. In amid all the totally serious, gritty Apartheid metaphors are a bunch of alien weapons that can do all ''kinds'' of fantastically gory things to a body. It's horrifying at first, and then it's just [[So Cool Its Awesome|awesome]]: they explode into tiny little pieces that litter the landscape. From a single shot from a man-portable small arm that can be held in one hand if need be. Which possibly doesn't need reloading. The first time you see one used, the recipient splatters across the main character's face. It's actually a funny spot, which is needed considering the darkness of the movie.
* The infamous [[That Poor Cat|"cat scene"]] in ''[[The Boondock Saints]]''. Dictated by [[Rule of Funny]]
* [[Dogma|What the fuck happened to that guy's head?]]
* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]''. Dr Manhattan kills people by [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|exploding their body]] splattering everyone nearby with flesh and bones.
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{{quote|'''K''': Oh, you've got some entrails on you.}}
* In order to emulate the comic series on which is was based, gibs were used in ''[[Sin City]]'' to the point where simple punches and kicks would result in a big, sloppy gush of blood. It matches the over-the-top nature of the comic series.
* ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'': Sure, it's technically the computerized form of blood, but the majority of program deaths have them dying in a graphic spray of voxels.<ref>3D pixels, represented here as little glowing cubes, like safety glass</ref>
** Seen in the [[Tron|first film]] as well, when Tron gets a [[Boom! Headshot!]] on Sark.
** In ''Centurion'', a Pict is thrown head first into a tree. His head explodes.
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=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* There's an example in ''[[Dark Heresy]]'s'' Critical Damage tables, where the developers took what looks to me like a disturbing amount of glee in describing, for example, the results of a high-explosive shell to the head. Some damage results can result in ''other characters'' being injured by flying shards of bone. This is turned up to
** ''[[Rogue Trader]]'' and ''[[Deathwatch (game)|Deathwatch]]'', which use the same system, both use the same rules.
*** As does Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, although the lower tech level means that it isn't quite as gory. Still more than qualifies though.
** Then again, Dark Heresy ''is'' set in the ''[[Warhammer
*** [[Nightmare Fetishist|So they most certainly took highly disturbing amounts of glee from the description of such]].
* Kind of up to the [[Game Master]], but in ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' experimental weapons from R&D quite frequently have ... interesting ... effects upon the target. And the user. And the user's teammates. And, oh, everyone within a half-mile or so. Paranoia is for GMs who like killing player characters, and players who don't mind their characters dying if they can do so in an entertaining way. "I press the red button on the strange black gizmo I got from R&D." "A voice comes from it: 'Tactical Thermonuclear Warhead activated. Detonation in 2 seconds. Have a nice day, Citiz-BOOOOOOM!'"
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* Basically, there's a reason why we're called "water sacs" in most fiction. [[Don't Explain the Joke|We tend to explode violently]].
* The infamous Exploding Whale incident: To get rid of a rotting whale carcass, the Oregon Highway Department decided the best method would be to blow it up with a half-ton of dynamite and leave the pieces for the birds to eat. The explosion hurled whale chunks as far as 800 feet away, with one chunk caving in the roof of a car.
* World War II explosive ammo
{{quote|"''As the Russian lunged with a final deadly thrust, his face passed momentarily into my crosshairs and I fired. The Germany infantryman stared, almost incomprehensibly, at the burst head of the Russian, destroyed by the explosive round. Bone fragments and strips of cerebellum had sprayed the German's face and uniform. The combination of fear and relief at his unexpected salvation seized the man.''"|''[[Sniper on the Eastern Front]]'' describes a sniper with explosive ammo rescuing a German POW from execution}}
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