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In [[Video Games]], [[Aliens and Monsters]] often have different colors of blood than red, frequently as an optional mode, to appease the [[Moral Guardians]]. [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|Because it's okay to shoot non-human beings if they don't bleed the same way.]]
Assuming it's not red like human blood, [[Aliens and Monsters]] most commonly have blood that's either black or some bright color usually associated with something unhealthy, like orange, green, or yellow (blue and violet are possible, but rare). Robots and Cyborgs, on the other hand, are often shown squirting white fluid when damaged (or black, which is arguably oil). The white blood can be traced back to the android in the movie [[Alien]], who was practically overflowing with the stuff and very squishy compared to most robots in film at the time. In a case of reality imitating fiction perflourocarbon based blood substitutes are white and carry oxygen much more efficiently compared to red blood cells.
Not to be confused with [[Blue Blood]], even if it is, in fact, blue. (Though some blue-blooded aliens can, in fact, be [[Blue Blood|Blue Bloods]].)
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* The Mulians in ''[[RahXephon]]'' are [[Human Aliens]] with blue blood.
* The Emilys from ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' bleed green.
* Partially subverted in ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' when Tenchi was surprised to find that alien princess Aeka had red blood. Villainous Kagato, on the other hand, bled green.
* In ''[[Claymore]]'', the shape shifting, human-eating ''yoma'' have purple blood. The titular half-yoma warriors have red blood, normally, unless they Awaken, permanently turning into their [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]. From then on, they'll bleed purple.
* Subverted in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', where the robots ({{spoiler|well, bio-engineered giant cyborgs encased in [[Powered Armor]]}}) [[High-Pressure Blood|bleed lots and lots of red]], but played straight with the blood of the second angel, {{spoiler|used as LCL--the orange liquid that fills the cockpits}}.
** Also played straight with Unit-02, which bleeds purple [[High-Pressure Blood]].
* While not aliens or monsters, transformed wielders from ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' would bleed clear crystalline blood.
* Judging from the scenes where Nephrite is bleeding and dying, the Dark Kingdom Generals from the first season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' have green blood, even though they have normal human skin tones and the insides of their mouths are pink (as can clearly be seen on any of the numerous occasions when they [[Evil Laugh]]).
** Zoisite, at least, has been shown to have normal red blood (in episode 34 Mamoru injures him with his rose). Nephrite is apparently [[Black Blood|somewhat of a case of censorship]].
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* Magic-users in [[Dorohedoro]] have black particles mixed in with their blood.
* The Aragami of ''[[Blue Seed]]'', being essentially plants, have green blood; this extends to the half-Aragami mutants like Kusanagi, though the latter looks extraordinarily enough not to be mistaken for a normal human. (The color of his blood [[Black Blood|still helps]], considering that he tends to get injured ''a lot''.)
* In the [[Hentai]] anime ''[[La Blue Girl]]'', Shikima demons have blue blood; this is also the case of the heroine, Miko Mido (hence the title), since she is [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-Shikima]].
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', Namekians like Piccolo and Nail bleed purple.
** ''Dragonball Z'' has a few other instances as well. Most villains bled purple or dark red, but occasionally you'd see something weirder. For instance, Zarbon (one of Frieza's henchmen) bled dark blue, which was also reflected in his skin color.
** On a side note, there was at least one instance of a retconned blood color: Piccolo's blood was red in an early DBZ episode, censored to light green in the dub. It later became purple and was no longer censored.
* In [[Daft Punk|Interstella 5555]], Shep's blood is Yellow.
* In ''[[Blue Drop]]'', the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Arume]] have white blood, as do their [[Half-Human Hybrid|halfbreed kids]].
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* Most of the Boomers in ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' tended to bleed bright orange fluid when damaged, which is unusual for robotic enemies.
* Non-alien example from ''[[Naruto]]'': Tobi bleeds white...''stuff''. {{spoiler|Going by future revelations, it seems to be a sort of human flesh/plant matter hybrid.}}
* The impetus for the war between two groups of people in "Seiketsu no Hagurama", with one side having red blood and the other with blue blood. The main character and [[Gadgeteer Genius]] is a blue-blooded prince who discovers to his horror that all his steam-punk looking inventions have been used to eradicate the remaining refugee red bloods by orders of his father and king.
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* Even though he's not an alien, That Yellow Bastard from ''[[Sin City]]'' had yellow blood, since he's incapable of processing bodily waste, which means his yellow blood is... [[Squick|exactly what it looks like]] due to [[Rule of Cool]].
* One character in ''[[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]'' has yellow blood because his body contains the [[Sealed Evil in a Can|soul of a worm-like demon]].
* [[Incredible Hulk|Hulk]] very often bleeds a ''dark'' green.
** [[Red Hulk]] has glowing yellow blood.
* Following Vanya's transformation into [[The Umbrella Academy|the White Violin]], she has grey blood.
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* The [[Predator|Predators]] from the films of the same name have fluorescent yellow/green blood.
* Not quite aliens, but one of the first hints that the employees of the Titty Twister in ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]]'' aren't human is a close-up of a knife which was just used to stab one of them. Instead of blood, it's covered in a translucent goo.
* In [[John Carpenter]]'s ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'', blood samples are taken from all the characters and exposed to heat to test which one is the shapeshifting alien. The alien blood, it turns out, is capable of ''leaping around the room as an independent organism''.
** The character who proposed and carried out the test did it because he figured that the blood might well do that, as severed pieces had previously been observed operating independently.
* The monster ''[[Gamera]]'' has green blood. Not that it's ever likely to be useful as [[The Reveal]], but notable anyhow for the sheer volume you will be seeing in any given movie -- that turtle bleeds like a [[Garbage Wrestler]]...
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* The mutants from the future in the ''Mindwarp'' kid lit series had metallic silver blood.
* Many dragons, in all forms of media, have boiling blood, including in the ''[[The Malloreon]]''.
* The main characters in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' discover the "ranger" hassling them isn't human when they discover that "he" has blue-green blood.
* The Orcs in ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' and its associated works have black blood.
* Inverted in ''[[Animorphs]]''. Andalite blood is blue-black, but Elfangor and Arbron are [[Squick|squicked out]] when they find that humans have red blood.
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* The dragons from [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s [[Dragonriders of Pern]] series have green, copper-based blood.
* Denizens of the House in ''[[Keys to the Kingdom]]'' have blue blood, and some of them, {{spoiler|including Arthur due to [[The Corruption]],}} have golden blood.
* The demons in [http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=118769&highlight= Armageddon: The Salvation Wars] have yellow, green, and acid blood. {{spoiler|Not an instance of the [[Rule of Cool]], however. They've been evolving in a ''very'' different environment for the past 5 million years. Quite possibly the colors have something to do with the environment...}}
** The angels in the sequel have silver or white blood. For both species, blood color was observed to function like blood groups in humans for purposes of transfusions.
* Unicorns in the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' [[Potter Verse|universe]] have mercury-like silver blood, which will heal but [[Curse]] you if you drink it.
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* Doyle, an android in ''[[Andromeda]]'' "bleeds" superconductor fluid when cut. Due to her in-built [[Weirdness Censor]], ''she'' sees it as ordinary blood, thinking herself human.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Time Lords (at least in the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]]) have blood that's a deep orange. It's sometimes described as basically red, but "orange-ish".
** In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18
** In the movie it's red, but is different enough from human blood on a cellular level that Grace describes it as "not blood" when she looks at it under a microscope.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]:'' The Drazi have white blood. On the other hand, the other major races -- the Minbari, the Centauri, and the Narns -- have red blood.
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* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has a number of different takes on this:
** Perhaps as an intentional aversion of the '[[Human Aliens]] have coloured blood and pink skin' error, the Tau do not look like humans partly ''because'' they have deep blue-purple blood (their equivalent of haemoglobin uses cobalt instead of iron), which has the expected effect on their skin tone. In one of the [[Ciaphas Cain]] novels, Amberley Veil notes that it smells horrible.
** The Orks, who are in fact [[Plant Aliens|genetically-engineered carnivorous space-fungi]], have green skin but red blood (and mouths). It wasn't always this way and earlier sourcebooks for the game described Ork blood as green, but eventually red gore was decided on. This was explained in ''White Dwarf'' magazine with an in-universe biologist's report: while Orks' dense green skin is a chlorophyll- and spore-producing layer, the rest of their body is relatively normal meat, and they have a normal (if supercharged) food-based metabolism to support it. On the same page, the game developers gave the real reason: green injuries on green-skinned aliens were hard to notice, and made the models look like "they've had an accident eating a gooseberry squishy".
** The Eldar have red blood like humans, but it crystallizes instead of forming scabs.
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* Bungie seems to do this quite a bit:
** In the ''[[Halo]]'' universe, elites and jackals have purple blood, hunters orange, brutes and prophets red, grunts luminous blue, and drones whitish green. The Flood are a different story: they don't bleed ''just'' blood; Infection Forms will [[Body Horror|liquefy the internal organs of the host]], so in reality they're spilling out their entrails ''in liquid form''. Unless the "Grunt Birthday Party" skull is enabled, in which case headshots will cause the grunts to [[Silliness Switch|bleed confetti and cheering]].
** In the ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' series, Pfhor, ticks, lookers and simulacra have yellow blood, hulks blue, S'pht green, and wasps purple.
* ''[[Saga Frontier]]''- Mystics have blue blood, Half-mystic protagonist Asellus has purple.
* In the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' games, Reptile and (until recently) Sheeva have green blood. Cyborgs have black oil instead of blood, Blaze has molten lava, Noob Saibot has black...wraith juice and {{spoiler|Cyber Sub-Zero bleeds a light blue combination of oil and antifreeze}}.
* Similar to the Vulcan example above, a major plot point in ''Star Ocean: First Departure'' is that Fellpool have copper-based blood - but everyone from that planet has properly pink skin (or tan, in the case of the Highlanders). The only outward difference from <s>humans</s> Terrans is their tails and sometimes fangs.
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', a common taunt directed at humans who express conciliatory philosophy toward the varied races of the galaxy is "Do you remember what color your blood is?" Just for fun, stand up to the leader of the isolationist "Earth First (we can exploit the other planets later)" Terra-Firma party.
** In spite of this, the player doesn't actually see a lot of oddly-colored alien blood in the game, but the Krogan do bleed bright orange and the robotic Geth "bleed" white fluid. The [[Playing with Syringes|Dr. Saleon]] sidequest mentions a few other colors in a bit of flavor text at the conclusion of the mission - "pale blue, orange, violet, and more than a few dark red."
** Thorian creepers don't bleed per se, but they do generate splatters of brownish-green material when they die. There's also a scene where Shepard has the option to [[Mercy Kill]] a room of Salarians, revealing orange blood.
*** Oddly enough, Salarians have ''green'' blood in the second game.
** Blood colors in ME also qualify for [[Shown Their Work]] credit, as species with alternate colors of blood have skin and/or mucous membrane coloration to match (asari have various tones of blue or purple skin as well as lightly blue-tinged sclerae; krogan, who bleed orange, can exhibit red or yellow eyes; Garrus and several other light-colored turians have a faint purplish cast to their facial features).
** The krogan have another odd variant on blood, as well. They don't actually have a nervous system made up of nerve cells; rather, they have a ''second'' circulatory system consisting of an electrically conducive fluid that runs through their body. As a result, krogan cannot be paralyzed. This physical trait was evolved by just about every species on Tuchanka, the krogan's [[Death World|homeworld.]]
** Shown in practice in ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', when {{spoiler|Garrus}} gets shot during his recruit mission, and bleeds blue all over the floor, and is later seen with purple scar-tissue over third of his face, mostly covered with cybernetics.
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', [[Super Soldier]] Raiden has white nanomachine-based blood, [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|the potential symbolism of which]] [[Ho Yay|is not lost to]] [[Depraved Bisexual|Vamp]].
** This is a reference to ''[[Policenauts]]'', where the "Frozeners" also have white artificial blood, called "first-generation" blood, which is said to be simpler than the "third-generation" blood used on Home (Earth). It's also said to transport oxygen more efficiently than regular blood, making blood loss less of a threat.
* The aliens (and the cockroaches, which is [[Truth in Television]], see below) in ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]'' bleed light yellow.
* In the original version of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' (predominately copies of the game with a gold cartridge), Ganondorf coughed up regular ol' red blood after you defeated him. However, [[Moral Guardians]] protested that this was too graphic for an E-rated game, and Ganondorf's blood was changed to green for subsequent releases. While this makes sense at first glance (Ganondorf, at least in his ''Ocarina of Time'' incarnation, does have rather green skin), it doesn't if you think about it for a while...Ganondorf is the only male Gerudo, and all the female Gerudos (Gerudoes?) you see in the game have peachish-tannish skin...and it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for the males of a species to have a different color blood than the females, would it?
** Which is why it was changed ''again'', back to red, for subsequent releases.
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* The alien that attacked [[Red Shirt|Dykowski]] in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has ''[http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971013 concentrated orange juice]'' [http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971013 for blood.] The bad part, according to the crewmember studying the creature, is that it's the ''homestyle kind''.
{{quote|'''Captain''': With pulpy bits? '''EEEWWWW!'''}}
* The [[Our Trolls Are Different|trolls]] of ''[[Homestuck]]'' have a complex caste system based on the color of their blood. Each known troll has a different blood color, spanning the entire color spectrum. The highest castes have literal [[Royal Blood|Royal (Purple) Blood]], while the lowest castes have brownish red blood. Trolls higher on the spectrum live longer lives and tend to possess greater physical strength, while rustblood colors tend to have greater psychic powers. Greenbloods (the middle colors) tend to be more emotionally stable. Additionally, Karkat, Kanaya, and Feferi, have rare & special blood-types.
** Karkat's blood is a mutation -- candy red like human & carapace-person blood. This puts him completely outside (and beneath) the entire hemospectrum and has only been possessed by one other troll in history, his ancestor [[The Messiah|The Sufferer]]. As a result, Karkat opts for "blood anonymity" by typing in grey instead of his blood color as all the other trolls do.
** Kanaya has jade blood, which also lets her enjoy Alternia's blistering sunlight and be awake during the day when the undead normally stir, making her Alternia's [[Goth]] equivalent. It also marks her as one of the only trolls to be raised by a virgin mother grub and one responsible for raising its egg.
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** Sweet Synn and Black Angel, both of whom are demons in human form, bleed a thick, black ichor that smells vaguely of sewage.
* [http://stickpage.com/failedcontainmentplay.shtml Played with to ridiculous amounts in this stickfight where you can find Red, Blue and PINK blood!]
* According to the [[PPC]], [[Mary Sue]] characters bleed red or pink glittery blood, or in extreme cases, "only" glitter.
* Carmilla, a student at the [[Super-Hero School]] Whateley Academy in the webfiction ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', is mostly-demon, even if she looks like a hot 'urban vampire' goth kid. She bleeds a blackish-purple ichor which is definitely not blood.
** Same school: Eldritch is a mystical Artificer who bleeds a roughly-blood colored stuff that's too high in metals to be anything a human could have in his/her veins.
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** The most famous of these is the humble Horseshoe Crab, with blue copper-based blood. Scientists routinely extract blood from the crabs for all kinds of medical procedures & tests, then release the animals after they've regenerated their blood.
** Inverted with deep-sea tube worms, which have red blood like ours despite being from a taxonomic line in which iron-based blood pigment isn't expected.
* The trope of artificial humans having white blood possibly comes from the early research into oxygen-carrying temporary blood replacements for emergency surgery. Some of these work using very different chemical processes to naturally occurring blood (of any colour) and look a lot like milk.
* Sulphur can turn a person's blood green.
** And carbon monoxide poisoning turns it an even brighter, unnatural-looking shade of red.
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