Out, Damned Spot!: Difference between revisions

== [[Comics]] ==

{{quote|She ripped all of her clothes off, tearing them up. They were dirty. They'd touched her skin. She tried to burn them, but her hands were shaking and the matches kept going out. In truth, she was a little crazy by this time. It was the smell. She couldn't get rid of the smell. In the shower she used up all of the soap, the shampoo, the bubblebath, the perfume... the smell was still there. Have you ever burned an insect with a magnifying glass? Just once, long ago, when you were a kid and didn't know any better? There. You know it. You know the smell. When the soap wouldn't get rid of it, she went to the kitchen and fetched the wire brush that she used for scraping the potatoes... twenty minutes later she passed out. Twenty whole minutes. Even then she could still smell it. She could smell it in her dreams.}}

* In ''[[The Sandman]]'' {{spoiler|after mercy killing his son Orpheus (who has spent millennia as a disembodied head)}} Morpheus is seen washing the blood from his hands in a bowl of water looking sadder than he ever has in the series.

''Downward are the cover’s remnants''

''Carried by the current fleet.'' }}

* ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]'': After Francie's [[Near-Rape Experience|attack]], she begs her parents to help her because she can still feel where ''it'' touched her thigh. Her father pours acid over the spot, leaving a permanent scar but Francie is happy to have it rather than the feelings or dirtiness left by her ordeal.

* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', {{spoiler|Hollyleaf}} killed {{spoiler|Ashfur}}. The official iOS app mentions that she can still taste his blood in her mouth.

* ''One Step Beyond'': In "The Hand", a piano player at a run-down dive murders a beautiful young woman in a jealous rage with a broken-off beer bottle. After the police arrest a drunken derelict for the crime, Tom figures he's in the clear. Although he at first seems to have covered his tracks well enough, he soon discovers that, no matter how hard he tries, he cannot get the woman's blood off his hands. He forces a doctor to bandage the hand only to cause the blood to seep through. Eventually he breaks down when he is called into witness for the murder and has to lay the hand on the Bible and swear to tell the truth.

* The sitcom ''[[Cheers]]'' also did a homage/parody of "The Telltale Heart" in one episode; Diane is trying to guilt Carla into a confession, and after outlining Poe's story, keeps making "heart beat" noises. After several rounds of this, Carla hears the noise, finally snaps and yells at Diane to quit it, only to learn that Diane is way off in the other room...

* Referenced in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': While watching a short film about Ross, an animal wrangler who captures wildlife for zoos, Joel's and the bots' commentary makes Ross out to be a villain on par with those from ''[[Captain Planet]]''. Then, there's a brief shot of Ross wiping his face off with a towel, at which point Servo quips:

{{quote|'''Tom Servo:''' Ross tries to towel away the evil, but nothing doing.}}

[[Category:Psychology Tropes]]

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