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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 At the Memory Bank]]'', which features a lot less blood and a lot more [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|stupid]].
 
'''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.'''
{{examples|Examples}}
 
== Anime & Manga ==
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** 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 it --once Milo has [[Heel Realization|realized the truth]] and [[Heel Face Turn|stopped the blood loss]] via [[Pressure Point]]-- but he's back on his feet and fighting at full strength not even five minutes later.
** In ''[[Saint Seiya the Lost Canvas]]'', Capricorn El Cid actually uses this strategically. When fighting Icelus, an enemy that bends space to avoid and redirect attacks back at El Cid, he sprays a geyser of blood from a lost arm all around himself so that he could hear the resulting distortions when Icelus warps space. While he does die to blood loss, it's a good 2 episodes later after'' [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|killing four gods inhabiting a single body.]]''
* 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).
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* 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 ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]''. He got a good three gallons by stabbing himself WITH A PEN.
* 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 ''[[Emerging (Manga)|Emerging]]'' is most easily spread through the blood of the infected. Fortunately for the virus, its hosts have copious amounts of [[High -Pressure Blood]] to spare!
* ''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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{{quote| '''Al:''' (Drinking beer) The brain doesn't need blood. It just needs to be kept wet.}}
* 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 - 3 months. Either Bill is drinking a teaspoon of blood each time he feeds, or she is regenerating blood at a absoluatly ridiculous speed.
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* 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 / [[The Story of Ricky]]'', being a [[Bloody Hilarious]] [[Gorn|Gornfest]] has this, specially when the warden is put in a meat grinder (the actor playing Ricky spent three days covered in fake blood after shooting that!).
* Justified in the ''[[Greys Anatomy]]'' two-parter episode "Crash into me". A patient has ruptured his carotid artery, [[High -Pressure Blood|squirting large amounts of blood everywhere]]. While waiting for an operating room to become available, they're pumping blood in as fast as it's going out.
* Tori in the [[Victorious]] episode ''Tori Gets Stuck''.
 
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* In ''[[Portal (Video Game)|Portal]],'' Chell can take tons of turret shots, and leaves ''large'' blood smears on walls when hit. 5 seconds, and you're okay again, ready to lose another three pints.
* ''[[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 (Video Game)|Halo]]'', on the first level, if you kill Captain Keyes or any of the people operating on the bridge just for the hell of it, Cortana will [[What the Hell, Player?|seal the bridge and call in invicible marines to kill you]]. The marines are invincible, but still bleed when shot or pistol whipped. This can lead to situations where there's buckets of blood on the ground from ''one'' guy, and if you let up on your attacks for a second, he'll be shooting and cussing like you didn't do anything.
** 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.
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* [[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 [http://www.downloadmunkey.net/images/ja2-06.jpg quite reasonable].
* ''[[Blood Rayne]]'' ''2'' revels in this trope, and [[High -Pressure Blood]].
* In the DOS game ''[[Liero (Video Game)|Liero]]'', your worms will begin bleeding at low health. If you manage to survive for a long time, you would eventually produce far more red pixels of "blood" than could possibly fit in the worm.
** The rate of blood letting can be changed, and you can even use a cheat app to up the gore still further,
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* ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' has standard First-Person-Shooter blood 'decals', that appear every so often. When combined with the recuperative effects of a friendly Medic though, you can lose '''a lot''' of blood without ill effect.
** 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 ''[[Nie R]]'' gush out awe-inspiring fountains of blood, and the bigger the Shade, the more blood there is to gush. It has a certain internal logic --Grimoire Weiss uses [[Blood Magic]], and thus absorbs the blood of any Shade slain by the main character (though not those slain by his companions) in order to create his magical constructs.
* 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 With His Head|decapitation]], and suffocation), the amount of blood a creature loses before finally dying can be surprisingly large. Especially with the glitch that causes infinite blood tracking; the blood of a single groundhog can theoretically be used to paint the floors of an entire fortress blood red by getting stuck on a dwarf's boots and spread around without actually decreasing.
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* [http://omaketheater.com/comic/8/ This] ''[[Omake Theater]]'' comic, combined with a [[Nosebleed]].
* ''[[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}}.
* ''[[Eight 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' combines this with [[High -Pressure Blood]] to make some truly epic gorefests, although in fairness, most of the cases of people spurting that much blood are actually fatal, even if it's far more than could possibly be in their bodies.
* 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.}}
* [http://off-white.smackjeeves.com/comics/63405/the-dangers-of-shaving/ Bleeding like an extra in Kill Bill.]
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== Web Originals ==
* The [http://www.creepypasta.com/day-of-all-the-blood/ DAY OF ALL THE BLOOD] (joke) [[Creepypasta]]. "THERE WAS SO MUCH BLOOD THAT IT FILLED UP AN ELEVATOR."
* The [[Rules of Anime]] [[Discussed Trope|talk about this]], among other reality defying feats in anime. It's called "The Law of Hemoglobin Capacity," and goes something like this: "The human body contains twelve gallons of blood, sometimes more, under [[High -Pressure Blood|high pressure]]."
* Used in [http://www.geneticanomaly.com/RPG-Motivational/slides/bloodors.html this] [[Fauxtivational Poster]]
 
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== Western Animation ==
* 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 (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' "The Mansion Family" had Marge win an award for donating the most blood. She soon gets dizzy and falls asleep (There are limits to how much blood you can donate. If Marge got tired easily, she could be anemic, and the blood bank probably shouldn't have let her donate in the first place. This is, of course, if the show were based on anything resembling reality).
* ''[[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 ''[[Sixteen|6Teen]]''--with the help of a few [[Paper -Thin Disguise|costume changes and a lame accent or two]].
* ''[[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 (Animation)|Dilbert]]'': One episode had a bizarrely literal example, the company had a blood drive that Dilbert volunteered for but nobody else did, too bad about the [[Hilarity Ensues|quota]].
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