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{{quote|''"Even though we are going to shatter thousands of lives, wearing white is gonna make the blood look so pretty."''|'''Ladd Russo''' (right), ''[[Baccano
Ever notice [[Rule of Drama|how much more dramatic]] blood looks on a white background? It follows that wearing a white shirt can be more hazardous than wearing a [[Red Shirt]]. The death of a white shirt wearer will be [[Gorn|much]] [[Bloody Hilarious|bloodier]] than that of your traditional [[Red Shirt]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Nanoha's near-death incident that occurred sometime between the second and third seasons of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' used both this trope and [[Snow Means Death]] to great effect, as her blood is shown splattered all over her white Barrier Jacket and the snow-covered field.
* Ladd Russo from ''[[
* {{spoiler|Chidori}} from ''[[Ayashi no Ceres]]'' is wearing a white dress when she is fatally shot in the chest to protect {{spoiler|Yuuhi
:{{spoiler|Aya}} does so as well when she is stabbed by {{spoiler|Aki, who is possessed by Shisou}}. The only difference is that she survives, along with {{spoiler|Tooya's baby}}.
* For the final arc of ''[[Code Geass]]'', {{spoiler|''Emperor'' Lelouch}} wears a fancy white set of robe. In the very last episode, {{spoiler|he is stabbed through the chest with a big honking sword, [[Thanatos Gambit|just as he planned]]. A lot of focus is put on the blood.}}
* When Kenshin and Tomoe met in the ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' manga and OAV, she was wearing a white kimono. He had just killed a man in front of her. She said "you make rain blood". Do the maths.
** Siilarly, {{spoiler|Tomoe was wearing the white kimono too... in her own death scene.}}
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* Solf J. Kimblee in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' starts wearing an entirely white suit after being released from prison. His death? Having his jugular vein and possibly the carotid artery bitten off by a chimera, which Pride lampshades {{spoiler|before eating him and gaining his alchemic power}}.
* Inverted in ''[[Darker
* The Kurama vs. Karasu fight in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' is definitely an example of this. Karasu's bombs eventually make Kurama bleed so much the entire front of his outfit and some of the back is dyed red.
* {{spoiler|Hakuron}} from ''[[Haou Airen]]'' is shot to death while wearing a white suit.
* {{spoiler|Rei "Hana no Saint Juste" Asaka}} from the [[Oniisama
== Film ==
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* The ending of ''Ashes and Diamonds'' uses a white bedsheet to similar effect.
* [[Heroic Bloodshed]] movies do this a lot, and the deaths of people who wear white get quite bloody. Usually, it's the villain wearing white, but at least one tragic hero has worn white.
* Shaun in ''[[
* {{spoiler|The Consultant}} in ''[[The International]]''. Also, the protagonist's white shirt gets a lot of blood splattered on it from those who get shot around him in that scene.
* In ''[[Bound]]'', a character is shot to death wearing a white shirt ''and'' standing in a room-wide puddle of pure white paint.
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Gladiator (
* The duel at the end of ''[[
* Several characters from ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'', with the special honor going to {{spoiler|Mr Orange}}, whose shirt, it would seem, does not have a single white spot on it by the end of the movie.
* The final battle in ''[[Ultraviolet]]''.
* In the original ''[[Get Carter]]'', Carter stabs a man who is wearing a white shirt. The scene was considered pretty shocking for its time.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Lethal Weapon 4]]'', Jet Li's character enters the final showdown dressed entirely in a white version of the black suit he's been wearing for the rest of the movie. [[Foregone Conclusion|They couldn't have made it more clear what was going to happen to him.]]
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (
* Ah Jong ([[Chow Yun
* Aptly enough, "Man in White Shirt" from ''[[Tampopo]]''.
* In the Hindi film ''[[Dil Se]]'' the song and dance "Satrangi Re" foreshadows the fate of Amar by showing him in a black outfit for most of the song then in all white at the end. Usually the dancers in Hindi song and dance numbers have multiple costume changes in one song. Limiting Amar to the 2 outfits accentuated the symbolism. (his dance partner wore at least 7 different outfits in the same song.)
== Literature ==
* ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'' - Grand Admiral Thrawn. Crimson blossom of blood; [[Putting
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* In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] novel ''The Sleep of Reason'', Fitz makes the questionable fashion choice of wearing white trousers. As a [[Genre Savvy]] character like himself should have expected, he ends up with a leg injury. It's not fatal and not even that bad, but it sure seems to [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank|bleed a lot]]:
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== Live Action TV ==
* {{spoiler|Samantha Roth}} on ''[[
* Variation: when {{spoiler|Tara}} gets shot in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', we can tell because it splatters onto {{spoiler|Willow's}} white shirt. For added effect, she doesn't ''realize'' she was shot; her last words are a confused "Your shirt?" before she falls.
** And in the opening episode of that season, Willow wears a white dress {{spoiler|when she kills a fawn for its [[Blood Magic]].}}
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== Theater ==
* In an extension, after each character dies in the musical ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Every standard headcrab zombie in ''[[Half Life|Half-Life 2]]'' wears a very blood-covered white shirt. This was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the ''Half-Life'' parody comic ''[[Concerned]]'': Frohman becomes a zombie and laments that "He had to be wearing white" at the time (referncing both the zombies' bloody white shirts and the fact that he had started to adjust to life in Ravenholm).
* {{spoiler|Vladimir Lem}} in ''[[Max Payne 2]]''.
* Kaede Smith in ''[[
Whenever you die in ''Killer7'', you get a shot of your character's severed head on a completely white background exploding into a smear of blood. There's a lot of blood in ''Killer7''. The blood smear when you die in ''Killer7'' is shaped like a screaming skull.
* ''[[Ghost Trick]]'': {{spoiler|Partially subverted. Cabanela does die (though you fix it), but [[Bloodless Carnage|his coat remains unstained.]] He just falls over.}}
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' you fight against Sniper Wolf two times. The second time is in the middle of a snow storm, so she's obviously wearing a white camouflage anorak
In ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', the most dramatic battle takes place in a field of white flowers against a blonde opponent in a white battle suit.
* All six of the Handmaidens in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic|Knights Of The Old Republic 2]]'' wear white jumpsuits or grey robes. Every appearance of the five who stick with their white jumpsuits fighting ends with them getting their asses handed to them.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Mr. Blank from ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'' wears [[Highly-Visible Ninja|an all-white ninja tunic]], which tends to get blood-splattered [http://samandfuzzy.com/704 when he goes into combat] ([[One-Man Army|though not with
== [[Real Life]] ==
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