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* Anywhere Ladd and Claire go in ''[[Baccano!]]!'', this is pretty much standard.

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', this is Scar's calling card. And it later becomes commonplace for {{spoiler|Wrath/King Bradley}}.

* Zoro from ''[[One Piece]]'' revels in this trope.

* In ''[[Hellsing]]'', this is Alucard's favorite activity. {{spoiler|Seras}} invokes this trope once, {{spoiler|literally smearing her opponent all over a wall.}}

* In the ''[[Blood: The Last Vampire]]'' movie, Saya wasn't afraid of doing this, even {{spoiler|in front of a nurse who didn't have the foggiest idea of what was going on.}}

* Often used to imply or enhance the amount of incredible violence that the Angels and EVAs are capable of in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', most memorably when {{spoiler|Gendo orders the autopilot to take over and destroy the EVA being piloted by Touji after an Angel hijacks it}}.

* This is the signature of the titular ''[[Ichi the Killer]]''. The comic and film open with a crew cleaning up his mess.

* Happens quite frequently in ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'', thanks to the zombies.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The first [[The Gamers|Gamers]] film had a rather spectacular example from the [[Ludicrous Gibs]] side of this trope, after Nimble decides to backstab Hunk. With a ballista.

{{quote|'''Gamemaster:''' Well, that's 264 points of damage. You splatter Hunk all over the common room. The patrons shriek in horror and run out of the inn, occasionally slipping on blood and entrails. You're now alone in a room that looks like a vat of beef stroganoff exploded in it.}}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Averted in many fights in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' series thanks to the fact that creatures from the Nevernever have [[No Body Left Behind|auto-cleanup on destruction.]]

* On a few occasions in the General series by David Drake, this occurs. A [[Discussed Trope]] - Raj notes that it's the first (or one of the few) times he's literally seen streets run red, and this is basically because an entire army got massacred on each occasion. (One of them was about forty thousand or so troops disembarking off their ships to discover that Raj's men are waiting in ambush - with rifles and field guns. They take casualties of something like 50% before they manage to surrender.)

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Skullgirls]]'', the character [[Ax Crazy|Peacock]] mentions the trope by name in her battle introduction. However, this doesn't actually happen in-game.

 

* A suicide bomber rushed a tank. This happened. The tank suffered no damage.

* A number of dead baby jokes go along these lines: ''How many dead babies does it take to paint a wall? Depends how hard you throw them.''

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