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{{quote|''"Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?"''|'''[[Lady Macbeth]]''', ''[[
The average adult male human body contains roughly five liters of blood (blood volume is proportional to body size). When donating whole blood, 450-500ml is normally taken, which produces feelings of fatigue and weakness for a while, and you must wait 56 days before doing it again. Red blood cells do not regenerate all that fast; that's why we have transfusions. While people can survive losing quite a bit of blood provided they get prompt medical attention, after [
But who wants to deal with all that when you're writing action? The more blood, the better!
Blood loss doesn't affect fictional characters so much, especially those in [[Video Games]]. No matter where they get shot or stabbed, it's "[[Only a Flesh Wound]]", even if it results in a geyser of [[High-Pressure Blood]] that releases several times the blood volume of an adult human. Usually it's the flesh wounds that are what hinder the character; blood loss is rarely shown to be a problem to those [[Made of Iron]] (maybe they use that iron to make [[Fridge Brilliance|extra hemoglobin?]]). This can be taken to extremes when the player, protagonist, and enemies are shot so much they [[Ludicrous Gibs|paint the walls red and create pools of blood on the floor]], all with no ill effects other than a scuffed wardrobe (with [[Bring My Red Jacket|little or no blood on it]], sorry, [[White Shirt of Death]]) and [[Standard Bleeding Spots|artistically dripping blood]]. It seems the only ounce of blood (29 mL) that matters [[Critical Existence Failure|is the last one.]]
Not to be confused with ''[[Overdrawn
'''Before invoking this trope, keep in mind that five liters is still more than enough to make a HUGE mess. What looks like too much blood to a person who doesn't know what a gallon and a half of liquid looks like when spilled may in fact be entirely realistic.'''
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== Anime & Manga ==
* A chapter of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' had Negi [[Blood From the Mouth|coughing up]] what must have been several gallons of blood, and this is ''after'' bleeding profusely from other injuries. Of course, his [[Black Magic]] gave him a [[Healing Factor]], and it's ''[[A Wizard Did It|magic]]'', but still...
** Much earlier in the manga, Negi's students were worried that Negi was acting rather woozy and out-of-it. They eventually discovered that [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires|Evangeline]] had drained some of Negi's blood as payment for her [[Training
* ''[[Burn Up]]'' sees Yuji have a nosebleed severe enough to flood the Coptown Police Tower in one of the omake-scenes in ''Excess''.
* Used with excessive glee in the anarchic world of ''[[One Piece]]:'' The sword-fighter Zoro regularly loses several pints of blood every time he has a major battle. The record, according to [[Word of God]], is six(!) or about two thirds of his total.
** Zoro violates this trope so greatly that a rant at the fanficrants livejournal community about how fanfic authors needed to actually consider the ramifications of them injuring or causing that much blood loss with whatever characters they were writing actually referenced him as an exception, since it is perfectly normal (if not ''expected'') that Zoro lose more blood in a single battle than most people have in their bodies, and [[Word of God]] that Zoro lost 3 liters of blood in his first fight with Mihawk, and then 5 liters in his fight only a couple of days later(!) with Hachi and Arlong. The human body, on average, holds 5.6 liters of blood. So yeah. He should be dead. But it's okay! He survives with the [[It Runs
** With Luffy this is actually justified: the [[Required Secondary Powers]] of being a [[Rubber Man]] mean his body produces blood at an impossibly fast rate to get to his stretches limbs, so he ''really does'' have more blood than a regular person.
** Post time-skip, Sanji is working very hard to match Zoro, initially having regular massive nosebleeds just from looking at a woman. {{spoiler|In Chapter 609, after a mild occurrence of [[Marshmallow Hell]], Sanji suffered from a nosebleed so violent that it actually necessitated Chopper to ask everyone in the vicinity for a blood donation. While this may be the ''[[One Piece]]'' universe where blood floweth freely, Sanji had literally just lost what appeared to be roughly fifty gallons of blood. Through his nose.}}
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130820115400/http://www.mangahere.com/manga/one_piece/v58/c609/10.html This picture is probably needed to support the claim]. Please do note that the giant fish in the foreground, and Sanji's nosebleed mermaid is in the background. If you look closely on the rocks beneath the nosebleed, you can probably make out a few silhouettes. These silhouettes are normally human-sized mermaids and fishmen, which means that Sanji essentially ''has enough nosebleed to shape a figure at least 100 times larger than a regular human''. Even though it probably [[It Runs
** At another point, back when they were sailing in [[Applied Phlebotinum|a resin bubble at an insane depth in the ocean]], Sanji had a nosebleed so explosive, ''it caused him to fly in the air'' from propulsion and almost caused him to fly through that bubble and away into the ocean.
** In Episode 523 of the anime, they have a joke panel with Zoro, and ''nine pint bags of blood'' that was being transfused into Sanji. They made it look like they ''pulled all the blood from Zoro!'' In reality, it's blood Chopper already had stored on the boat. {{spoiler|Sanji has a rare blood type, which becomes a plot point later on when Chopper runs out of stored blood and needs to find a donor.}} Zoro probably could donate that much blood, though.
* Subverted in the ''[[Change 123]]''. The author (committed as ever to technical accuracy, if not overall plausibility) comments on the effects of blood loss, and takes pains to apply it to the series' primary fighters, even throwing in some [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]].
* Though everyone in ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' bleeds a lot, Shiryu is notable for regularly [[High-Pressure Blood|geysering]] more blood than everyone else in his team ''has'' at least once per arc. It gets downright [[Narm|ridiculous]] in the Scorpio Milo vs. Cygnus Hyoga battle, during which the latter gushes out more blood than his entire body could possibly contain. And not only does he ''live'' through
** In ''[[Saint Seiya:
* Happens to ridiculous extents in ''[[Bleach]]''. Partly justifiable in that most fights happen between spirit beings, but they do seem to have anatomy that resembles living creatures.
** Originally, a Shinigami's body was described as being more-or-less a thin bag containing nothing but blood plasma. A [[Retcon]] and some [[Real Life]] years later, and they have much more humanlike anatomies, but still tend to bleed more than what a normal human would survive (well, they aren't normal humans anyway).
* Absurdly overused in the manga ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]''. More then half the manga is a long continuous series of death matches for the main charachters who recieve about a couple dozen serious wounds each battle and usually one or two fatal ones. The is no regeneration factor ever mentioned, and there is only one real healer, and even she can only close open woulds, not internal which almost all the cast get at some point.
* There wasn't a fight scene in ''[[Ga-Rei]]'' where the characters ''weren't'' bleeding. The main characters might have a [[Healing Factor]], but even the ones that don't never bleed to death.
* Teru Mikami from ''[[
* Thanks to [[Synchronization]] with the [[Vision of Escaflowne|Escaflowne]] and his status as the guy [[Bring My Red Jacket|wearing red]], Van suffers at least one coagulation-free day of bleeding from nearly ''every inch of his body'' while his friends futilely attempt to make it stop. While his blood pressure ''does'' drop low enough to cause heart arrhythmia and freak out [[The Medic]], losing more blood than is contained the bodies of all of his comrades combined is apparently [[Made of Iron|not enough to cause any permanent damage]]. Even knowing that he's {{spoiler|[[Half-Human Hybrid|half-Draconian]]}} pushes suspension of disbelief.
* The disease from ''[[
* ''Kodomo no Jikan'' manages to pull this off with a [[Nosebleed]]. It was 10 seconds long, and appeared to be a gallon a nostril. Two gallons of blood from a 3 foot tall 9 year old. She should be dead from that.
* An episode of ''[[Magical Pokaan]]'' takes this trope literally by having the vampire girl giving daily blood donations, just so she could get the blood of the handsome guy running the donation cart. Throughout most of the episode, she's on the verge of death due to massive blood loss.
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** Justified with the fact that it would need a lot of pressure in order to get the blood to circulate the body.
* The manga of ''[[Zatch Bell|Gash/Zatch Bell]]'' has a bit of this. Look at {{spoiler|Kiyomaro's death scene [http://www.onemanga.com/Zatch_Bell/214/11/ over here]}} for example. Then again, {{spoiler|he was dying, and most of it is probably just charring, it is in black and white.}} Maybe a better example would be reading most any battle chapter in either the 1000-year old Demon arc or the Faudo arc.
* Saya from [[
* The [[Too Hot for TV]] final episode of ''[[Excel Saga (
** [[Excel Saga (
* Seems to happen in most anime/manga that feature blood. (It has been thought that an average anime/manga character has at least 12 ''gallons'' of blood in his/her body.)
* Subverted in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''. The infamous Episode 33 (Or manga volume 8) where {{spoiler|Nuriko dies.}} Nuriko is badly wounded in a fight with a "werewolf," but [[The Determinator|is still determined]] to get the [[MacGuffin|Shinzaho for Miaka]], and loses a lot of blood in the process. {{spoiler|Much to the ire of the fangirls, Nuriko does not survive.}}
* Several characters in ''[[Blood
* ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'' brings it up to [[One Piece]] levels, [[Up to Eleven|if not higher,]] with the final arc in which
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* Subverted in the first TPB of ''[[Fables]]'': Rose Red's apartment is found literally covered in her blood. Bigby the sheriff performs an experiment to see how much blood would be necessary to cover the room, and discovers it's over the amount of blood needed in humans to survive. In other words, she's dead...except {{spoiler|she actually faked her death, with the help of her boyfriend: they took out a liter of blood at a time for a few months, stored it in the freezer, and when they had enough, used it to give the impression she'd been murdered.}}
* Averted in one comic where X-23 attacked Wolverine, severed major arteries, and used dirt to stop them from closing long enough for him to bleed out sufficiently to pass out from blood loss. Of course most of the time Wolverine laughs at the idea that anything less than skeletonization could stop him. And even that's not a sure thing.
== Film ==
* The end of ''[[Tokyo Gore Police]]''. After the main character slices the villain's legs off, he injects himself with something that makes him bleed so hard and fast, that he's propelling himself across the room with his bloody leg-stumps.
* The Black Knight sequence from ''[[Monty Python and
* [[Reservoir Dogs|Mr. Orange]] ([[Tim Roth]]) averts this; By the standards of this trope, he doesn't lose all that much; it just keeps leaking at a steady rate and gets over ''everything'' while poor Mr Orange displays the effects of blood loss.<ref>
* ''[[Army of Darkness]]'' played up the blood fountains for [[Rule of Cool]].
* ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' played up {{spoiler|Glen}}'s death scene for [[Rule of Cool]] so bloody that it was bloodier than blood.
* In ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'', Jesus sheds an inhuman amount of blood when he's [[Gorn|flogged]]. Then sheds even more when he's crucified.
** [[A Wizard Did It|But he can do that because he's Jesus.]]
** Well, if transubstantiation is real, he ''can'' produce far more blood than one human body can ever hold...
* In [[Kill Bill]], the Bride chops Sophie Fatale's left arm off above the elbow, presumably severing all the brachial arteries, and she's left bleeding copiously on the floor without medical attention while the Bride fights Gogo Yubari, the Crazy 88 and O-Ren Ishi. According to a deleted scene, the Bride later severs Sophie's ''other'' arm below the elbow, before dumping her down a steep slope to a hospital emergency department. Somehow Sophie doesn't bleed to death...
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** Also, during O-Ren Ishi's presented-in-anime origin story, her father is stabbed from behind by a thug (which O-Ren witnesses). Her father seems to swell before a cannon of blood spews out .
* Played for laughs at the beginning of ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' where a soldier suffers a [[Pretty Little Headshots|headshot]] through his helmet and proceeds to spout a three foot high fountain of blood into the faces of his comrades, probably about three gallons in total.
* In ''[[Dracula: Dead and Loving It]]'', Harker is instructed to hammer a stake through the heart of a vampirized Lucy Westenra. At the first blow, he is utterly '''drenched''' over several seconds by a ''geyser'' of blood from the coffin (which is why Van Helsing was hiding behind a pillar). Van Helsing [[Hand Wave|handwaves]] it by saying she just ate. And directs him to hammer the stake again. And he does so. ''With the exact same results.'' Understandably, he declines to repeat the process. (And in real life, his actor was not told that he would get hosed down with red, and is visibly struggling not to laugh.)
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** Also, Renfield gets a paper cut that results in a fountain of blood erupting from his finger.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In ''[[Married...
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* Baltar in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' loses quite a bit of blood in "The Hub" due to shrapnel before getting medical attention from {{spoiler|Roslin}}. Then {{spoiler|she}} takes off his bandages and lets him ''bleed some more'' in order to kill him (it's complicated). By the time {{spoiler|she}} has an [[Kick the Morality Pet|epiphany]] and [[Must Make Amends|tries to save him]] by reapplying the bandages (with no plasma on hand), there was a nice puddle on the deck floor. Baltar is nothing if not a persistent survivor.
* Usually averted in anything involving Joss Whedon ... despite the copious use of bladed weapons, even [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|non-human]] blood is thin on the ground (*ahem*) - see for example the final battle in ''Serenity'' where {{spoiler|River ends up surrounded by Reavers that she has hacked to death}} with scarcely a drop of blood on the floor. Probably one to pin on the [[Moral Guardians]].
* Vampires from ''[[True Blood]]'' tend to vomit up geysers of blood when killed, and then promptly melt into [[Chunky Salsa Rule|puddles of bloody gore]]. May or may not be justified by their... ''unique'' [[Art Major Biology|biology]], however.
** Another, much more subtle, example: During the first 3 seasons, Bill feeds on Sookie roughly every other episode. The first three seasons take place over the course of, roughly, 2
*** The scene at the end of season 3 where Russell and Eric both feed on her for a while before walking out into the sun is especially noticeable, since she apparently has the strength to go out and retrieve their charred husks only a few minutes later.
* Averted in [[The Wonder Years]]. When Kevin and his friends get caught skipping class and avoid punishment by offering the lie that they were going out to give blood, the show time-skips to the aftermath of their blood donation: each one of them is completely exhausted and barely able to stay awake.
* Subtle example: In the ''[[CSI New York]]'' episode "Cool Hunter", a young woman's bleeding body is dumped in an apartment building's rooftop water cistern. The cistern is big enough that it probably holds several thousand gallons of water, yet a single body's ~10 pints of blood somehow turns the water flowing from sinks and showers on the floors below a brilliant red, rather than it being diluted beyond visual detectability.
* ''Riki-Oh / [[Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky]]'', being a [[Bloody Hilarious]] [[Gorn
* Justified in the ''[[
* Tori in the [[Victorious]] episode ''Tori Gets Stuck''.
== Manhwa ==
* In ''[[Priest (
* ''[[The Breaker]]'' seems to do this from time to time.
== Music ==
* The music video for Papa Roach's "Hollywood Whore" initially features said whore "passed out on the floor," as per the lyrics. Towards the end, however, she stands up and appears to sing along to the
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[
** In the supplement ''Time of Thin Blood'', a vampire scientist explains that vampires contain the same amount of blood regardless of power, that stronger vampires "burn" less blood than weaker vampires when using the same supernatural powers. [[Fridge Logic|That still doesn't explain how they can consume so much blood in the first place.]]
** According to the healing rules, humans could survive losing three quarters a gallon of blood on a pretty much weekly basis indefinitely, [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|but the rules aren't meant to simulate reality anyway.]]
* Invoked in the Innistrad storyline in [[Magic:
== Videogames ==
* [[
** Possibly justified by your character having nanomachine/robotic enhancements.
*** If anything the nanites should stop the bleeding faster. They can't increase the volume of his blood without swelling up his body.
* Various MMORPGS, in which you can fight for a long time without worrying about collapsing if you have enough [[Hit Points]].
** Here's a fun activity: Log on to ''[[
* ''[[Diablo II]]:'' When hit with a weapon causing the "open wounds" status effect, the target bleeds uncontrollably, leaving quite a large trail wherever they go. Of course, nothing actually affects their ability to fight until the [[Critical Existence Failure]] happens.
* ''[[Doom (
* In ''[[Portal (
* ''[[No More Heroes]].'' In the US version (which surprisingly had blood ''added'' to it), every [[Mook]] practically explodes with blood to the point where it loses all seriousness and can even be viewed as a form of [[Black Comedy]]. Bosses also do the same, except in more...''creative'' ways.
* In the first ''[[Halo (
** Hell, this goes for anyone in the game. Shoot up any dead body, and blood will squirt out, but you can make a lake of blood and still have plenty left.
** In [[Halo|Halo: Legends,]] a series of 7 animes of varying styles based off of the Halo mythology, there is one titled 'The Duel.' The main character, an [[Proud Warrior Race|Elite/Sangheili]] named 'Fal,' goes into a duel with a [[The Brute|Brute/Jiralhanae]] because Fal believes 'the <s> cake</s> Great Journey is a lie!' He loses, of course, and is stabbed by the Brute's weird samurai-esque sword-thing. Fal's chest then promptly explodes into a ''waterfall'' of purple blood.
** In the novelization of the first game, an Elite is sniped in the head by a Marine with an anti-material rifle. The book lovingly describes a fountain spewing from where his head was for a good ten seconds before toppling over.
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** Forget the blood, how about when the Fatalities cause the characters to explode with multiple rib cages and skulls and about 20 arms and legs flying out from one single mutilated body (for example, Sub-Zero's freeze-and-shatter fatality in the arcade version of [[MK 2]])? More like [[You Fail Biology Forever|Overdrawn At the Skeleton Bank]].
* [[Jagged Alliance]] avoids this in every possibility, by decreasing the performance of wounded mercenaries/soldiers and causing them to slowly bleed away their hit points unless the wound is properly treated. A gravely wounded soldier/mercenary will bleed to death within less than two minutes, and such wounds can only be treated by [[Combat Medic|a medical expert]]. In [[Jagged Alliance]] 2, Enemy soldiers groan as they suffer from blood loss, giving away their positions, and every mercenary in the game has responses when they are moderately bleeding, and when they are about to die from exsanguination, complete with full voice recording. One custom player mercenary even lampshades this trope; "I have a rare blood type."
** Dead soldiers/mercenaries do die in a pool of blood, but the amount of blood coming out is [https://web.archive.org/web/20101230120541/http://www.downloadmunkey.net/images/ja2-06.jpg quite reasonable].
* ''[[
* In the DOS game ''[[
** The rate of blood letting can be changed, and you can even use a cheat app to up the gore still further,
* The amount of blood lost to any attack in ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' seems to be constant, so it adds up to this over time on "Normal" violence level. On "Special," it's this within seconds (and [[Ludicrous Gibs]] when you land a finishing blow.)
* ''[[
** Then again, all that is left of the people are skeletons. So it's more like their entire bodies were liquefied and then sprayed out all over the place.
* Bad guys in ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' seem to have far, far more blood than they really should, and delight in taking every opportunity to leave the scenery (and the player) drenched in it. The blood that gets on you tends to stick around for a while, but [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|nobody ever seems to particularly care.]]
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*** Though, in that case, [[A Wizard Did It]]. It also tends to float and swirl around, so it ''could'' be less blood than it appears to be, if it's coating a magical effect (which is to say, it could be like oddly shaped bubbles of blood - like an inflated balloon which is more air than plastic).
* In ''[[Legend of Mana]]'', there is a scene before a boss fight with a vampire where the protagonist is talking to an NPC with a bat on the ceiling above. About halfway through the conversation the NPC will mention the bat, who begins to drain blood from the protagonist. So long as you don't proceed with the conversation, the bat will never stop draining the protagonist's blood. Also, several techniques will cause those hit by them to spatter what looks to be gallons of blood with no effects other than the damage the skill causes.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** Additionally, the Sniper has the Tribalman's Shiv, a wooden [[Kukris Are Kool|kukri]] that inflicts wounds that persistently bleed out for the next eight seconds, after which you [[Walk It Off]]. Not even Dispensers or Medics can stop the bleeding.
** The Demoman's unlockable melee weapons, The Eyelander and The Scotsman's Skullcutter both cause massive bleeding and [[High-Pressure Blood]] spurts when they decapitate an opponent.
* Shades in ''[[
* Although bleeding your enemies out is one of the ways you can kill an enemy if ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' (the others being [[Half the Man He Used To Be|bisection]], [[Off
* When ''[[
** Actually, it's meat. [[Captain Obvious|He's made of meat, you know.]]
* The ''[[Splatterhouse]]'' series, but it's recent reboot/remake takes the proverbial cake. If the name alone wasn't hint enough, you'll know what you're in for when just punching a single enemy spews enough blood make even [[Mortal Kombat]] seem tame.
* There's a certain add-on in [[
** There's even so much blood that the Source engine is reaching the decal limit, thus overwriting previous blood splatters from, ahem, earlier blood debts.
* The Blood Pack DLC for ''[[Total War]]: Shogun 2'', which changes the games previously [[Bloodless Carnage]] into "oh goodness that is a lot of blood spilling on everything and oh you've gotten it on [[Camera Abuse|the camera too.]]"
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== Webcomics ==
* [http://omaketheater.com/comic/8/ This] ''[[
* ''[[Paradigm Shift]]'' has the heroine, Kate, get shot and bleed out far too much to have walked it off like she did. However, this is intentionally done to highlight her [[Healing Factor]] and the eventual reveal that {{spoiler|she's a werewolf}}.
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
* In [[Homestuck]], Vriska shows this after {{spoiler|being [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb-stomped]] by Aradia. She manages to bleed out like, ten gallons of blood before she dies.}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150602004928/http://off-white.smackjeeves.com/comics/63405/the-dangers-of-shaving/ Bleeding like an extra in Kill Bill.]
* Happens to Mike from [[Mike: Bookseller]] from '''[http://www.krrobar.com/mikebookseller/comics/563.html a nose bleed]'''.
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* One of the shorts that make up [[Don Hertzfeldt]]'s ''[[Rejected]]''. "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M17aG_Po2Y My anus is bleeding!]" The cloud-thing that says this line then goes on to bleed so much that it fills up the room (or the screen, anyways, given the lack of backgrounds) and the last shot is of the character struggling to stay afloat.
** There's also the scene where a guy's eye pops and the [[High-Pressure Blood|jet of blood from the socket]] sprays all over his friend.
* The season 11 episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[Robotomy]]'' had this on the second episode, "Bling Thing," only instead of "blood," it's "coolant" ([[Captain Obvious|since Blastus and Thrasher are robots]]), and donating too much causes such bizarre side effects as jitters, paranoia, fire blisters, and rectal whistling.
* Taken to ridiculous extremes in the early ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' short "Blood Drive" in which the duo give blood, the nurse never takes out the needles and all of their blood is sucked in the enormously engorged bags and they are skinny shriveled husks.
* For the sake of free doughnuts, Jude would donate blood an unprecedented ''seventeen times'' in a episode of ''[[
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' co-creator Seth Green admitted in one [[DVD Commentary]] that they often use too much blood on the show when somebody gets shot or otherwise maimed- right before a scene where [[It Makes Sense in Context|Lionel Richie blew his head off and the entire room was covered in blood]].
* ''[[Dilbert (
* Peggy and Minh of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' get into a blood donating spree during one episode, trying to beat the other to a free coffee mug. They both spend the episode anemic, and weak from so much donating. Peggy wins.
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