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{{quote|''And then our flag will fly, against a blood-red sky!''
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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== [[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]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' whenever an android got severely damaged, white artificial blood would splatter all over the place.
** ''[[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.
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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]] ==▼
▲== 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?
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* 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 films in the ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' franchise have androids with similar hydraulic fluids (indeed it acts as a plot point to reveal when someone is one).
* 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}}.
* ''[[Short Circuit
* In the ''[[Transformers
** 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-Unfriendly Death|the death of The Fallen]].
* ''[[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|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]] ==
▲== 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. [[Everything's 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 ''[[Mario Party]]''s Horror Land board, where there's a red bloodstain type puddle, which is just about shown coming from a huge overturned ketchup bottle that's been held by a gravestone.
* 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: 358/2 Days|358/2 Days]] has a moment where the dark smoke from the Heartless he just slew flies in front of his face like he was in some kind of samurai movie. The best example, though, is when Terra {{spoiler|shot Braig in the face}} in ''Birth by Sleep'' - {{spoiler|the reddish smoke fountaining from his missing eye and dark splotch where his scar will be}} might not necessarily ''be'' blood, but they sure do look like it, and the game never really bothers to make sure you realize it isn't.
* [[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 ''[[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.
* 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.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* 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]]'' shower scene at that, complete with the paint swirling into a floor drain.
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* 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 ''[[Dexter's
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