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When a fluid (or highly flexible solid) falls and/or spreads in a way that it is [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|made to look like]] blood. This is either to show a symbolic loss or to perform a [[Stock Parodies|standard parody]].▼
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▲When a fluid (or highly flexible solid) falls and/or spreads in a way that it is [[Does This Remind You of Anything|made to look like]] blood. This is either to show a symbolic loss or to perform a [[Stock Parodies|standard parody]].
Often the fluid will be red in colour, and sometimes this is a trick shot to make it appear like someone has been injured, only to later reveal otherwise. It's sometimes used in kid- friendly shows to imply violence that would never pass the censors.
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See also [[Alien Blood]] for strangely colored fluids pouring out of alien beings. See [[A Bloody Mess]] for red liquids being mistaken for blood.
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== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* There was a PSA that ran on American TV sometime in [[The Nineties]], in which a boy pretends to shoot his sister with a toy gun. The sister drops her teddy bear, and her glass of red juice spills all over it...
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* In ''[[Ghost in
▲== Anime and Manga ==
** ''[[Ghost in
▲* In ''[[Ghost in The Shell]]'' whenever an android got severely damaged, white artificial blood would splatter all over the place.
* In the ''[[
▲** ''[[Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex]]'', ''Missing Hearts'': Motoko stabs toward a criminal cowering in the corner and a liquid sprays out. The next shot reveals that she stabbed an organ transplant bag she was carrying.
▲* In the ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' anime, when Light kills off {{spoiler|Aiber}}, he spills the red wine he was drinking, and the screen goes to a short still of the puddle.
* In the first episode of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' you see small vials of a red drug floating in space, near the woman that was carrying them in a bag inside her dress, who just got killed. The drug ''is'' a liquid ([[Eye Scream|which is sprayed into the user's eye]] and appropriately named "Red Eye" or "Bloody Eye"), making the symbolism doubly effective
* In one episode of ''[[Rosario
* In an episode of ''[[
* in ''08thMSTeam'', the battle between Norris and the Team has this when Norris stabs a guntank, resulting in a massive gout of oil being sprayed across his mobile suit.
* In ''[[
** It comes so close that some of it is removed in the edited version.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has this when {{spoiler|the fourth form of Fate, Quartum appears to promptly slash Chachamaru in half at the mid-section, leaving her bleeding and [[Tears of Blood|crying]] fluids all over the deck of the Great Paru-sama, implying that she's powered by hydraulics}}.
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** Arguably, the blood of the Angels, which is red, but is in fact a substance similar to "LCL" from the original series. [[Star Trek|It's blood, Jim, but not as we know it.]]
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* There's an issue of the Archie ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic book which flashes back to a human accidentally shooting a non-human (leading to the Great War). The victim is seen lying in a puddle of... grass?
* At one point, the ''[[Hellboy (
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* The films in the ''[[Alien (
▲* At one point, the ''[[Hellboy (Film)|Hellboy]]'' movie had Hellboy beating a monster with a payphone, the coins spraying out suspiciously like blood (or teeth). Apparently, it was [[Ron Perlman]]'s idea.
* The movie ''[[High Anxiety]]'' had a shower scene much like ''Psycho'', only it had a {{spoiler|newspaper instead of a knife and the ink from it instead of blood}}.▼
▲* The films in the ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]]'' franchise have androids with similar hydraulic fluids (indeed it acts as a plot point to reveal when someone is one).
* ''[[Short Circuit
▲* The movie ''High Anxiety'' had a shower scene much like ''Psycho'', only it had a {{spoiler|newspaper instead of a knife and the ink from it instead of blood}}.
* In the ''[[Transformers
▲* ''[[Short Circuit (Film)|Short Circuit]] 2'' takes this to its [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|symbolic extreme]] with Johnny 5's battery; when it's punctured during his beating from the bad guys, one of the baddies gets sprayed by the battery's fluid, and the supporting cast refer to the leak as him "bleeding to death". Which, [[Did Not Do the Research|given how batteries don't work AT ALL after they're punctured, despite how it clearly does after it's "patched" in the movie]], opens up a whole new can of [[Fridge Logic]].
▲* In the ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' movies, blood from the bots is represented in some cases by flourescent blue liquid ([[Fanon|which the fandom believes is Energon]]).
** In the second movie, a not-quite example is the use of 'fountains' of fire/sparks... kind of hard to explain without a visual aid, but surprisingly effective as a replacement for blood.
*** And ''then'' there's [[Family
* ''[[That '70s Show]]'' Kelso is in the shower and Laurie catches him using her shampoo (which happens to be red). This causes him to spill it, at which point we see it going down the drain as she hits him is a stabbing motion ([[Psycho
▲* ''[[That 70s Show]]'' Kelso is in the shower and Laurie catches him using her shampoo (which happens to be red). This causes him to spill it, at which point we see it going down the drain as she hits him is a stabbing motion ([[Psycho (Film)|parodying a scene from that movie no one remembers...]])
* Sparks fly when a ''[[Power Rangers]]'' character is hit, and on some occasions, a character has had a stream of sparks spraying from the same point for an extended time (usually the [[Monster of the Week]], after being dealt the [[Finishing Move]] that's about to result in utter kablooification.)
* ''[[White Collar]]'': After {{spoiler|Elizabeth is kidnapped by Keller}}, the FBI shows up to the crime scene, and Peter sees a red pool on the rug from a spilled pot of spaghetti sauce.
* ''[[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]]'': In "Murder and Mozzarella", the killer spills a pot of tomato sauce on the floor while murdering the victim.
== [[Toys]] ==
* One ''[[Bionicle]]'' commercial showed Kalmah's tetacle being cut off, and a dark liquid flowing into the water. We know that characters in the Matoran Universe don't bleed, so it was either some other fluid (ink?), or completely non-canon. [[
▲== Toys ==
▲* One ''[[Bionicle]]'' commercial showed Kalmah's tetacle being cut off, and a dark liquid flowing into the water. We know that characters in the Matoran Universe don't bleed, so it was either some other fluid (ink?), or completely non-canon. [[Everythings Even Worse With Sharks|Pridak]] also has some suspicious red markings around his mouth...
** Pirdak's markings have been confirmed to be just that, but since his design is based on a shark's it is obvious that they meant for it to be reminiscent of blood. Also, unlike the rest of the Matoran Universe, the Endless Ocean ''does'' have fully organic creatures, like fish.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the Japanese ''Rockman Zero'' series, robots give out a spray of red oil when killed with the saber. This is censored for some bizarre reason in the American ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'' localizations.
* Possibly done in ''[[
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', when fighting the [[Hercules (
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' kind of seems to like using darkness as symbolic blood, actually. The {{spoiler|remade version of the Deep Dive scene}} in [[Kingdom Hearts:
* [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]: Raiden's [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|white cyborg blood]] on [[Depraved Bisexual|Vamp's]] [[Freud Was Right|crotch-knife]]. [[Squick|Do Not Want.]]
* The robot/cyborg characters from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' would have their 'blood' coloured black as if it were oil being knocked out from the uppercut. Some other nonhumans ended up with green blood.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'', after you defeat {{spoiler|Ganondorf's gerudo form}} he falls to the ground, with his red cape unfolding around him in a way that makes it look like blood is actually flowing out of him.
* In ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]: [[Final Fantasy VII]]'', Shalua is killed by Azul, in a scene in which she holds a door open with her mechanical arm so that the others can escape. When the arm is destroyed, some medical liquid starts to flow from under the door. And as you may guess, blood-like.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
* In [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005403 this page] of ''[[Homestuck]]'', [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Mom and Dad]] are shown holding hands over a wine-stained table cloth. {{spoiler|On the next page, however, the same picture is shown as a reflection in [[Big Bad|Bec Noir's]] glasses, making it look more like blood. The next time Mom and Dad are shown in the comic, they're dead.}}▼
==
▲* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', when Antimony falls off the bridge, there's a [[Flash Back]] to a glass of water--that she dropped--spilling and shattering. Annie then thinks, "Well, now I know how the glass felt," as she falls.
* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
▲* In [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005403 this page] of Homestuck, [[Everyone Calls Him Barkeep|Mom and Dad]] are shown holding hands over a wine-stained table cloth. {{spoiler|On the next page, however, the same picture is shown as a reflection in [[Big Bad|Bec Noir's]] glasses, making it look more like blood. The next time Mom and Dad are shown in the comic, they're dead.}}
▲* Robots in ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' spray oil as if it were [[High Pressure Blood]].
▲* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has Homer get clobbered by baby Maggie with a hammer, while he's painting. The red paint spills all around him like... well, you know. The entire scene is a parody of the ''[[Psycho (Film)|Psycho]]'' shower scene at that, complete with the paint swirling into a floor drain.
** Another has Marge accidentally fold up Homer's power-adjustable [[Bear Trap Bed|bed]] while he's sleeping in it. A red liquid pours out from the bed. It turns out to be Homer's juice box.
* ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' featured a scene where it appears the past incarnations of Green Lantern and Shayera were stabbed while on a bed, but as the camera moves up you see that it's a puddle of
* ''Transformers: [[
** Especially Waspinator, but then [[The Chew Toy|if you didn't expect that one, you don't know much about]] ''[[
* Used on ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Batman vs. Dracula]]'' had a scene where Dracula attacks a waiter who then drops a bottle of red wine that spills all over.
* In ''[[Watership Down]]'', Fiver sees the sunset turning the field red and is horrified to see it covered in blood. Although the red is simply light, the animation style makes it appear to run down like liquid.
* ''[[
** Also in "The Silence of the Clamps" when Zoidberg cuts of Clamps' handclamps sparks shoot out from the stumps like blood.
* When the Lemons blow up Rod "Torque" Redline in [[Cars|''Cars 2'']], we actually see a puddle of oil trickle under the Lemons' tires once Redline is finally dead.
* In ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' all the bots "bleed" Energon. This is used for ''very'' graphic effect.
* A memorable episode of ''[[
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