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* The trailer for ''[[The Mist]]'' retouches the blood to a black color on the face of a man who runs into the store for shelter. This is also done for the blood on the safety-rope and the bloody hand-print left on the window, despite the split-second nature of these shots.
* Trailers for the first ''[[Resident Evil]]'' flick showed zombies doused in blue gore. '''{{color|blue|Blue!}}''' This is not the case in the actual film.
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[School Days]]'' uses this trope (though it's red for the DVD release).
** Though for some odd reason, the second murder during the same episode has red blood, even in the censored version.
* Being made before the days when violent anime is screened during midnight, desaturated, black or white blood was the ''only'' way that ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' could air on television ''at all.''
** There is some genuine red blood in the anime TV series, most notably when Shin cripples Kenshiro in their first fight. You will never see it when Kenshiro makes a random mook's head violently explode, however.
* Not ''all'' of the blood in ''[[Myself Yourself]]'' is black, just everything greater than a scratch on the finger.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'''s first season, one of the Shinten'nou had a [[Heel Face Turn]] and was quickly hunted down and stabbed through the ''chest'' with branch tentacles. His blood was everywhere, but it was green so it was okay to show, even on Western Television. Curiously, the other 3 generals all bled red whenever receiving injuries.
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== Comic Books ==
* Seen a lot in comic books, too. The ''[[Wolverine]]'' series is kind of notorious for it. In the hands of a bad artist, it can look like just blotched inking.
* In ''[[G.I. Joe]]''—a ''war'' comic, albeit one where any named protagonist or even antagonist dying was a major plot event—blood was usually black, with the occasional redness in the "glossy patch" (where a bit of white would be on an oil slick to show it was reflective).
* In the ''Death of [[Superman]]'' storyline at some points his blood was black as Doomsday cut him but not all the time.
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* [[Ultimate Spider-Man]] had Peter Parker come home to find Uncle Ben dead and black bloodstains on the carpet.
* [[Geof Darrow|Hard]] [[Frank Miller|Boiled]] utilizes black blood, may be justified in the case of the protagonist since he's a robot.
* City of Silence by [[Warren Ellis]] and Gary Erskine uses black blood, which is weird considering how gleefully [[Squick]]y the comic is about displaying a decadent dystopia.
* Used when [[Tintin]] is shot in the shoulder in ''The Blue Lotus''.
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* Famously, the original gold cartridge version of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' had Ganondorf vomit red blood when Link killed him, but this was changed to green in later releases, among other changes (such as the music in the Fire Temple, which sounded too close to the Islamic ''adhan'' for some).
* Similar to the above Zelda example, ''[[The House of the Dead (series)|House of the Dead]]'' does something similar with it's "censored" release. All of the red bits that are result of the gore effects (so flesh, blood as well as some of the giant maggots) are changed to Green instead of red.
* The Japanese and European releases of ''[[No More Heroes]]'' turned all the blood black, which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't close to being a playable Tarantino movie. A scene involved the sequence where, after defeating a woman in battle, she commits honourable suicide by depinning a grenade and holding it in her mouth, [[Your Head Asplode|with predicable results]]. Since, just before, she told the main character that she was attracted to him, he awkwardly hugged her dead, still-standing, headless body. In the censored version, her head and shoulders were still attached, but completely black, ruining the impact. The sequel remains uncensored, however.
* Early ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' trailers showed enemy alien characters spewing red blood when hit, but when ESRB announced a middle rating between Everyone and Teen, the developers changed the color to green. Of course, the aliens themselves are still reddish, not to mention the {{spoiler|similarity of our titular hero's red blood to his otherworldly creators}}.
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* The Colossi in the T-rated ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' all bleed black blood when stabbed or shot. Then again, it might have looked ''weird'' if they had bled anything ''but'' black, given the [[Real Is Brown|aesthetic]] of the rest of the game. "Black Blood" is actually the name of one of the tracks on the OST.
** Wander also vomits black blood after each Colossus, as well as {{spoiler|spraying a bunch when he's killed by Lord Emon's troops near the end of the game}}.
* The Korean and Japanese releases of ''[[
* Even ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' fell victim to this trope in [http://youtube.com/watch?v=mysUcyxPY1s its Japanese version]. Blood is green, while fatalities are presented in monochrome.
** However, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|stage fatalities]] were presented in full color. Apparently, it's okay if an opponent [[Falling to Their Death|falls thousands of feet onto stone]], [[Hollywood Acid|gets their flesh melted away]], or [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|hits spikes on the ceiling]] in color.
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