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{{quote|''Nope, it's a stigmata with the bleeding of the eyes and the retina gone crazy-swirly with the twitching of bloody red cornea. The cornea-corn.''|'''Pillz-E,''' ''[[Neurotically Yours]]''}}

Along these lines, statuary or paintings doing this with the first flavour can mean [[Cross -Melting Aura|someone present]] is [[Made of Evil|utterly evil]] (if the items are [[Protective Charm|holy relics]]) or that the item itself is an [[Artifact of Doom]]. With the second flavour, it means the item is a holy relic that's "manifesting" itself this way in response to some tragedy/holiness, whether of its own or those present.

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

* The second flavor of this occurs in episode 25 of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', when Vicious {{spoiler|kills the leaders of the Red Dragon and takes over the syndicate, executing one of them by [[Eye Scream|slashing him across the eyes]] and making him "shed tears of scarlet."}}

** Statues of the Virgin Mary have a disturbing tendency to do this a lot; one also does in ''[[Castlevania Legacy(Nintendo of Darkness64)]]'', and also in one cut of the famous scene in ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]''.

* Kyosuke, the protagonist of ''[[Soul Taker (Animeanime)|Soul Taker]]'' often has these as a result of being [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]].

* In episode 3 of ''[[Shamanic Princess]]'', Lena cried ''buckets'' of these when she overheated during her transformation

** Also, in a flashback during {{spoiler|the fight between Rakan and Fate's girls}}, a young {{spoiler|[[Playing Withwith Fire|Homura]]}} is seen, while despairing over {{spoiler|having just been made an orphan}}, with blood streaming down from her closed left eye ([http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v29/c260/6.html hard to see since she's covering it, but it's there]). It's implied that [[Eye Scream|she lost it]].

* Happened in ''[[D .Gray Man-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...

* This happens to {{spoiler|Tsuchimikado}} in ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu noMagical Index]]'' when casting a huge spell despite being an esper. Also blood from the mouth and apparently rupturing blood vessels essentially everywhere. {{spoiler|He gets better because said esper ability is a passive [[Healing Factor]].}}

** Another example in this series happens to {{spoiler|Accelerator}} after watching how {{spoiler|Yomikawa}} got stabbed and then crushed, by {{spoiler|Kakine}} Teitoku, onto the floor many times despitesdespite Accelerator was begging him to stop.

* 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.

* ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'': The maidservant Hannah does this when her master [[Creepy Child|Alois]] [[Eye Scream|stabs out her eye]] (for just looking at him!) in the first episode of the second season. She also does this in the second opening when the bandage covering her ruined eye comes loose.

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

* Historical shoujo manga ''[[Anatolia Story]]'', aka "Red River", has this in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160610080244/http://www.1000manga.com/Red_River/91/01/ title page for the 27th volume.]

* In the sixth arc of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'', {{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 (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.

* In ''[[Kenichi: theThe Mightiest Disciple]]'' Anime Hermit does this after explaining his [[Dead Little Sister]] backstory, well it's more of a single tear of blood which can actually be creepier if you think about it.

* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Yuru -Yuri]]''; [[Covert Pervert|Chitose]] is told that she would be automatically lose a pillow fight if she has a nosebleed and Kyouko immediately tries to invoke a fantasy. Chitose holds in the nosebleed, but the blood instead comes out from her eyes.

* The "zombies" in ''[[Black Gas]]'' have completely black eyes and weep black tears.

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

* In the 20th anniversary [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Line Art|re-colouring]] of Batman: ''[[The Killing Joke]]'', {{spoiler|Joker himself cries a bit of blood after [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|Going Mad From The Revelation]]. This is likely from the chemicals he'd just taken a dip in that would permanently disfigure him to look the way he does}}. [[Multiple Choice Past|Maybe]].

== FanficFan Works ==

* ''[[Troper Works/Bram Stokers Ozymandias|Bram Stoker's Ozymandias]]'' features a [[Alternate Continuity|vampire version]] of [[Watchmen (comics)|Adrian Veidt]] who can go about in sunlight, but his eyes leak blood if he's [[Horror Hunger|underfed]].

* [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Mai]] does this in ''[[How I Became Yours (Fanfic)|How I Became Yours]]'' when Katara murders her by {{spoiler|bloodbending her to death.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Jerk Sue|Anchorite Ranith]]}} at the end of the ''[[WoWWorld of Warcraft]]'' fanfic ''[[Stand of the Exiles]]''. Unfortunately, it was [[Narm]].

* Le Chiffre, the villain in the 2006 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]]'', suffers from haemolacria in one eye, causing him to weep blood when stressed.

* Flavor two example: in ''[[X 2X2: X -Men United (Film)|X 2 X Men United]]'', when Lady Deathstrike is killed by being injected with molten Adamantium, she weeps silvery tears before dying.

* Flavor two example: in ''[[Kill Bill (Film)|Kill Bill]],'' when Gogo Yubari is killed with a nail through the head, she cries blood.

* The opening of ''[[Bram StokersStoker's Dracula (Film)|Bram Stokers Dracula]]'' has Vlad, the title character, so crazy-angry at the death of his wife (since it was a suicide, which according to the religious doctrine of the age meant that she was damned) that he openly renounces God. He then takes his sword and stabs it into a ''stone cross'', which bleeds. Then the statues in the chapel start crying blood. Then his candles start oozing blood. Then blood starts pouring out of the walls. Then Dracula drinks the blood and becomes a vampire. [[Narm|Narmtastic]]tastic.

* In ''[[Stargate (Filmfilm)|Stargate]]'', Ra's hand device, described as being able to melt bone, can cause its victims to bleed out the eyes and nose.

* ''[[The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Film)Trilogy|The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor]]'' uses this when, after the Dragon Emperor and his army are transformed into terracotta statues by Zi Yuan's curse, they seem to start crying mud.

* This happens to Marni in ''[[Repo! theThe 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.

* ''[[Dead Air (2009 (Filmfilm)||Dead Air]]'': These are one of the signs that a victim exposed to the [[Synthetic Plague]] will soon succumb.

* [[Older Than Print]]: Kriemhild from the ''[[Nibelungenlied (Literature)|Nibelungenlied]]'' weeps tears of blood after her husband Siegfried dies.

* Authors and poets in the Heian era (for example, the ''[[The Tale of Genji (Literature)|Tale of Genji]]'') were obsessed with this trope. "Crying tears of blood" in that time period was the melodramatic equivalent of modern English speakers "crying their eyes out," resulting in some romantic poems of the period reading a little differently these days.

* In [[James Swallow]]'s [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] ''[[Blood Angels (Literature)|Deus Sanguinius]]'', the advent of a [[Walking Wasteland]] daemon causes a psychic (on a spaceship, off planet) to weep blood.

* The character Icaris, a Khorne Berzerker from the [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] short story ''Honour Among Feinds'' by Dylan Owen weeps blood constantly because his opponents won't get to worship Khorne, just die in his name.

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

* In ''[[Star Trek: VulcansVulcan's Soul]]'', a victim of [[Cosmic Horror]] the Intellivore ends up releasing these. It also overlaps with [[Psychic Nosebleed]], seeing as the vast telepathic mind of the Intellivore has scambled the psychic receptors in the victim's brain.

* In Teresa Frohock's ''[[Miserere An Autumn Tale]]'', the Katharos bleed from the eyes after contact with the Fallen-- sometimesFallen—sometimes the ears and nose as well.

* The Hands of Blue from ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' use a futuristic device that causes ocular haemorrhaging and subsequent cessation of electrical activity in the brain. This device is used on Agent McGinnis and the Feds with nightmarish results in the episode "Ariel" after they admit that they have had verbal contact with River, whom they want to recapture.

* On ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'', they receive a clue ahead of time from a serial killer, implying the next victim will cry tears of blood. {{spoiler|He does. It's creepy.}}

* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', the first sign of Bloody Mary's presence is that her victims begin to bleed from the eyes.

* The [[Fan Nickname|Wonder Twins]] from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' have a weird joint power; the woman, when stressed, begins to ooze black tears of poison. Anyone within a certain radius also begins to ooze the tears, but unlike her they subsequently die. The only way to stop the "infection" and revive those who have not been infected for long is for her brother (who is unaffected) to hold her hands and calm her down, at which point the tears turn into regular water. At the start of season two they did this around eighty times an episode; eventually Maya learned to control it herself. This has resulted in many fans making unflattering comparisons to...

* ''[[The X -Files]]'' had an alien virus made of black oil that could control its hosts. The infected were shown to have black oil swirling on their eyes and would sometimes weep it too.

* [[Our Angels Are Different|Merlyn Temple]] of ''[[American Gothic]]'' cries these, or at least her body does, during a lovely guilt-inducing vision which haunts the coroner of Trinity--sinceTrinity—since he was complicit in covering up Sheriff Buck's crime of "[[Mercy Kill|mercy killing]]" her. The accompanying [[Madness Mantra]] on the tape recorder, both as an artificially deep [[Voice of the Legion]] and a freakily speeded-up version, is the icing on the cake for this [[Nightmare Fuel|very disturbing scene]]. (You know the villain of a piece must be awful if this is the sort of thing the ''good guys'' do regularly to combat his plots.)

* [[Grave Digger (Music)|Grave Digger]] has song with the exact title and theme on the ''Best of the Eighties'' compilation.

* Unsurprisingly, the [[Blind Guardian (Music)|Blind Guardian]] song "Blood Tears" mentions just that. (It's about the [[Fate Worse Than Death|torture]] of Maedhros from ''[[The Silmarillion]]''- that particular detail is not in the book itself at all, though.)

* [[Nightwish (Music)|Nightwish]] with an early song, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8XezxZXujE "Angels Fall First"] ("Tears of blood, tears of fear..."). Also used in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZn7k5rZLQ music video for "Amaranth"] --which—which involves a fallen angel crying blood through its blindfold. The imagery for this was inspired by [[wikipedia:The Wounded Angel|Finland's "national painting."]]

* [[Ravenloft]] (2nd edition) used to have a magic item that looked like a valuable coin. It could be used to trick merchants, but every time the owner used it this way, he would begin to shed tears of blood that terrified anyone viewing him. The amount of time the [[Tears of Blood]] persisted depended on how big an amount of money you stole. The coin was cursed and very hard to get rid of -- itof—it bonded once you used it in a single scam, even once.

* The [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=2855 Blood of the Martyr] card from [[Magic: theThe Gathering]]. Or, for the "icky black stuff" version, several black cards such as [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Demonic%20Collusion Demonic Collusion] and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sudden%20Spoiling Sudden Spoiling].

* Flavour two example: In ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'', the fifth case of the third game has {{spoiler|Godot "crying" blood (which seeps out from a cut on his face) shortly before being found guilty of a crime and probably dying in prison.}}

** First and foremost is the recurring villain Carmilla. She's been appearing since ''Simon's Quest'', and while she doesn't ''personally'' cry tears of blood, she has a mask and a flying skull that do. For this reason, she's associated with one of the series' greatest musical themes, [[Crowning Music of Awesome|"Bloody Tears"]] (which also debuted in ''Simon's Quest''); it's her theme in ''Judgment'', for instance. ''[[Lords of Shadow]]'' gave all this history a [[Shout-Out]] in the narration:

{{quote| "Poor, beautiful Carmilla... you will cry bloody tears before this night has ended."}}

** The first use of "Bloody Tears" in a Castlevania game appears in the 1988 arcade game ''[[Haunted Castle (Videovideo Gamegame)|Haunted Castle]]''. Dracula keeps a big painting of a blonde woman that weeps blood when Simon goes near it. This is possibly the origin of the song's name.

* ''[[Siren (Videovideo Gamegame)|Siren]]'', where all the shibito have tears of blood.

* The Tears Of Lhys from ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' were wept by the Mercykiller Lhys (naturally), falsely condemned for a crime and tortured to death; his innocence was only discovered after the fact. He wept exactly twelve tears of blood before dying. These became minor artifacts, and could be used by the character to permanently enhance one's Constitution score.

* The [[PSPlayStation 2]] RPG ''[[Magna Carta]]: Tears of Blood'' has this too, obviously enough. And with a weird theme song, too.

* The final boss of ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' has a special attack which starts with bloody tears coming down from his eyes.

* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Video Game)|Daggerfall]]'', being infected with vampirism (a .06% chance every time you get hit by a vampire (who, by the way, are obnoxiously powerful)) causes you to have a dream the next time you sleep in which a beautiful woman cries tears of blood.

* Daniella in ''[[Haunting Ground (Video Game)|Haunting Ground]]''.

* Subverted in ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds (Video Game)|Adventure Quest Worlds]]'', where {{spoiler|FEAR, the main boss of the Fear Chaser event, actually leaks lava from his eye sockets}}.

* Some upgrades in ''[[The Binding of Isaac (Video Game)|The Binding of Isaac]]'' will turn Isaac's tears red.

* The mannequin in ''[[Silent Hill: Promise]]'' once activated, sheds a single bloody tear.

* Zimmy of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has her eyes [[Hidden Eyes|completely obscured]] by black gunk, until the next rain washes it away -- thataway—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 (Webcomic)|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.}}

* In the Oblivion-based online interactive story ''[[Prequel (Webcomicwebcomic)|PREQUEL]]'', Katia Managan has the natural Khajiit ability of darkvision. At least twice in the story, she activates it when heading into a dark place, then forgets to deactivate it when she turns back into the sun. She bleeds from her eyes a bit afterwards.

* Jacinta Marto, one of the three kids who saw visions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, was also a horrifically [[Ill Girl]] (you do ''not'' want details) who died as per her own predictions at the age of eleven in a Lisbon hospital. During the hearings for her beatification, the nuns who prepared her for burial testified that they found tears of blood on her face.

* At least one Ancient Greek temple used machinery to make statues of gods appear to weep blood.

* In a very scary version of [[Truth in Television|truth in television]] we have an upcoming{{when}} episode of National Geographic, featuring [http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/the-girl-who-cries-blood-4450/Overview this], where a girl spontaneously bleeds from her eyes, head, nose, and hands. There is no known reason for this.

* Endometriosis is an unpleasant condition where the lining of the uterus shows up in places it's not supposed to, such as the body cavity. There was a woman who had a patch show up in her eye. Meaning she wept blood every month.

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