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** In the novel, it had been transported in buckets of ice, and had frozen in transit, to thaw between placement and deployment.
* In ''[[The Brothers Bloom]]'', the visual difference between real blood and stage blood clues a character that they're being conned.
* During the opening sequence of the movie version of [[Stephen Sondheim]]'s ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' a large amount of blood goes through several gears, into a sewer, and eventually washes out to
* In the Agatha Christie book and movie ''[[Death on the Nile]]'', Poirot finds the murder weapon (which has been chucked into the titular river) wrapped inside a cloth. The mysterious pink stain on the cloth leads Poirot to suspect that one of the passengers faked a bloody injury (using red nail polish) in order to create an alibi for himself.
* The blood on {{spoiler|Coulson's vintage Captain America cards}} in ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]''...which turns out to be the first clue that Fury didn't find them where he said he did. {{spoiler|They were in Coulson's locker when Loki shot him.}} Whether that means Fury just added the fake blood for extra punch or something else has yet to be seen.
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** [[A Wizard Did It|A mage washed them.]]
** Also, you just keep getting [[High-Pressure Blood|hosed off with more blood]] in every single fight.
* Example from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[Ocarina of Time]]''. The bloodstains on the Shadow Temple's torture equipment looks bright and
** Or, to up the ante on the [[Nightmare Fuel]] quotient of that place, it really ''could'' have been fresh...
* Masterfully averted in ''[[Fallout]] 3''. The town of Minefield is full of decayed corpses. However, as the player searchs for mines they might spot a trail of bright red blood leading to a house, with a bloody red palm print on the door. The fact that this blood is fresh is a clue that the player is {{spoiler|about to be attacked by a sniper.}}
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