Tears of Blood: Difference between revisions

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Or pus, or slime, or icky black stuff... If something's coming out of your eyes and it's not [[Ocular Gushers|salty water]] then you can bet your bottom dollar that something pretty bad is happening to you. The trope comes in two flavours, which are, oddly, created to have the exact opposite effect on the audience:

 

See also: [[Blood From the Mouth]] and [[Psychic Nosebleed]], [[Rain of Blood]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'', Episode 01

** Statues of the Virgin Mary have a disturbing tendency to do this a lot; one also does in ''[[Castlevania (Nintendo 64)]]'', and also in one cut of the famous scene in ''[[The Exorcist]]''.

* In ''[[Claymore]]'', you at one point see Teresa having a trail of blood on her face. Part of that trail resembled the path of a tear.

** It's more used for him to realize he's close to a Flicker, however. He initially relies solely on this to realize whe {{spoiler|who he thinks is his sister, Runa, is really just a gun-toting Flicker named Asuka.}}

* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' Aquarius Camus, Capricorn Shura and Gemini Saga cry tears of blood after being forced to kill Virgo Shaka.

* Occurs a couple of times in ''[[Inuyasha]]'', perhaps one of the most prominent examples being a yokai that [[Nightmare Fuel|read the minds/hearts/souls(?) of its victims, then]] {{spoiler|would provide them with a [[Lotus Eater Machine|happy dream]], whilst they were [[Primal Fear|absorbed into the soil]], all the while the victim crying tears of blood}}.

* Happened in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' to Allen when he had to watch {{spoiler|a bunch of Akuma getting destroyed by the "Third Exorcists."}} No wonder he objects to his bosses' methods...

* While not a real example, Ed from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has a tendency to look like he's doing this due to blood getting splashed on his face. This is apparently because the author likes to play around with the highlights and such created by a person crying but couldn't due to Ed's never crying being a plot point.

* Sosuke in ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' after he {{spoiler|learns of chidori's death (she isnt really)}} is too emotionally dead to cry, instead a shard of glass cuts his cheek and the trickle of blood serves the purpose.

* In ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'' people who get turned into "them." tend to do this a lot.

* In ''[[Baccano!]]'' Czeslaw's eyes are leaking blood in a flashback because of the horrific [[Eye Scream]] torture he was just subjected to.

* In the sixth arc of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', {{spoiler|Kanon}} inflicts the second flavor of this upon Rosa. Indeed, in comparison to [[A Fate Worse Than Death|all]] [[Nightmare Face|the]] [[In the Back|other]] [[Pater Familicide|ways]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|to]] [[Killed Mid-Sentence|be]] [[Bound and Gagged|offed]] [[Black Blood|in]] [[The Can Kicked Him|that]] [[Cruel and Unusual Death|series]], it is quite a gentle, and even beautiful, death scene for a character who really [[The Chew Toy|isn't prone to them]].

* The manga ''[[Emerging]]'' centers around a mysterious new disease spreading throughout Tokyo that causes infectious [[High-Pressure Blood]] to gout from a victim's every orifice. Before the infected reach that stage, however, they will first notice that their eyes are extremely blood-shot, followed by tears of blood as the disease progresses.

** Amedeo gets these too, in the second part of ''The Corinthian: Death In Venice''. {{spoiler|Because ''[[Red Right Hand|the mouths]] are growing in.''}}

* In ''[[Scare Tactics (comics)|Scare Tactics]]'', the vampire Screamqueen cries these when she read Grossout's story about how he became a walking tumor.

 

 

* [[So Bad It's Good|Who can forget]] ''[[My Immortal]]'' [[Brain Bleach|(hard as they may try)]] [[So Bad It's Good|, in which characters]] ''[[So Bad It's Good|only]]'' [[So Bad It's Good|cry tears of blood and never regular tears?]] [[Wangst|And they cry about every ten seconds.]] Only once she cried black tears.

 

 

* This happens to Marni in ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' after Nathan {{spoiler|unknowingly poisons her}}. Not so sure if {{spoiler|Blind Mag}} counts for this

* ''[[The X-Files]]'' second movie has a scene where the priest ([[Billy Connolly]]) cries blood after a vision.

 

 

** 'Oh, my darling, my sleeves are stained crimson with blood at the thought of you...' [[Squick|Ew.]]

** A phrase the Japanese borrowed from China. In Classical Chinese (and occassionally nowadays) the phrase "tears of blood" is up there with "having your intestines and liver disintegrate inch-by-inch" for expressing romantic tragic love.

** Similarly, in ''Red Fury'', when Serpens uses Nyniq to communicate with Caecus, she weeps tears pink with blood.

* The [[Night Lords]] novel of the above setting has [[Demonic Possession|The Exalted]], whose [[Frozen Face|facial expression is frozen in a grimace]] by the Warp-induced mutations of his skull structure.<ref>[[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|not to mention all those extra fangs]]</ref> The one time he is excited enough to [[Slasher Smile|force his mouth to contort into a smile]], the muscular strain kicks his tear ducts into action, leaking "tears of oily [dark] blood".

* Ever wonder what happens when [[The Fair Folk|the Winter Queen of Faerie]] gets annoyed at a smartass who won't shut up and [[Eye Scream|starts freezing the water in their eyes]]? Because [[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden knows]].

* When the vampires of ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]'' cry, their tears are blood.

* In J.R. Ward's [[Black Dagger Brotherhood]], ''sympaths'' (beings who can read and manipulate emotions that are feared and persecuted by the vampire race) shed tears of blood.

* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Prospero's Daughter|Prospero in Hell]]'', Astreus would weep tears of blood if he could, for his exclusion from [[Heaven]].

* Referenced in the [[Vampire Hunter D]] novel ''Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane'' where [[Dhampir]] are described as crying tears of blood. D, being [[The Stoic]] doesn't give any corroboration.

* For unclear reasons, most of the non-humans in Darren Shan's ''[[Cirque Du Freak]]'' series cry tears of blood.

 

== Webcomics ==

* Zimmy of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has her eyes [[Hidden Eyes|completely obscured]] by black gunk, until the next rain washes it away—that's how we know she got [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]]. She's considered technically human, though with some weird... issues. Either way, it looks creepy.

* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Dan McNinja claims that he can store poison in his eyes and "shoot it out later like a '''toad'''" (a reference to the horned toad mentioned above). {{spoiler|Turns out he isn't exaggerating.}}

* Some people suffering from stigmata are said to weep tears of blood.

* If a person suffers of ''extreme'' altitude sickness, their ocular tear conducts break and blood pours from them. By that time, though, the person is practically dead because of the chronic lack of oxygen.

* Something like this occurs with hippopotamuses, except in this case, they ''sweat'' blood, or a substance that resembles blood.

* Rats eliminate excess porphyrins, a dark red metabolic waste product, in their tears and nasal mucus. Inexperienced owners of pet rats sometimes rush their animals to the vet, assuming a runny nose or irritated eyes are actually bleeding.

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