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* ''[[Castlevania]]'' was pretty light on the gore for a horror series—until ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night|Symphony of the Night]]'', that is. Alucard's ability to [[Our Vampires Are Different|heal by absorbing blood]] made it necessary for lots of enemies to bleed. (Kill an Evil Butcher with a sword if you want to see some real gushworks.) Since then, probably because ''Symphony'' became the new model for CV games, enemies have bled profusely.
** 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 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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*** 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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=== [[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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=== [[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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== 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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** ''[[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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