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Compare [[Snow Means Death]], which uses the color white to similar effect. See also [[Woman in White]], [[Man in White]], [[Blood -Splattered Wedding Dress]], and [[Bedsheet Ghost]]. Contrast [[Bring My Red Jacket]].

* Ladd Russo from ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano!]]'' finds himself subject to this trope -- seetrope—see page image. He doesn't ''die'' per se, but he does get his ear clipped off and his left arm [[Nightmare Fuel|completely skinned to the bone]]. Notably, Ladd invoked the trope, explaining that he and his friends all wear white because he thinks blood spatters look best on white clothing. Of course, at the time, he probably didn't think it would be ''his'' blood... And ''then'' there is the Rail Tracer, whose {{spoiler|white conductor uniform}} gets completely coated in blood of his victims.

* {{spoiler|Chidori}} from ''[[Ayashi no Ceres]]'' is wearing a white dress when she is fatally shot in the chest to protect {{spoiler|Yuuhi}}.<br /><br />{{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}}.

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'' - Battler Ushiromiya combines this with [[Bring My Red Jacket]]; his habitual outfit is a white suit with a red shirt. Although he doesn't tend to die in as many arcs as some of the other characters, [[Fate Worse Than Death|his luck still sucks a lot]].

* Inverted in ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]''. November 11 habitually wears a white suit, which usually remains spotless. {{spoiler|The one time he wears a ''black'' suit, he gets killed.}}

* {{spoiler|Rei "Hana no Saint Juste" Asaka}} from the [[Oniisama Ee...]] anime is all dressed up in white when {{spoiler|she falls in the path of a train and to her death.}}

* Shaun in ''[[Shaun of the Dead (Film)|Shaun of the Dead]]'' never changes his white office shirt throughout the [[Zombie Apocalypse]]. "You've got red on you" becomes a [[Running Gag]] because of it.

* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Gladiator (Filmfilm)|Gladiator]]'' wears a full white suit before his climactic duel with Maximus. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Makes his blood readily apparent when Maximus shows that he is completely outclassed]].

* The duel at the end of ''[[Dangerous Liaisons (Literature)|Dangerous Liaisons]]''.

* In ''[[Kill Bill (Film)|Kill Bill]]'', the Bride faces and messily defeats O-Ren Ishii while the latter is clothed in a white kimono and [[Snow Means Death|standing in snow]].

* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Filmfilm)|HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrinceHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'', Harry slices Draco up like a Christmas ham in the bathroom and Draco nearly dies, but [[Unexplained Recovery|he gets better]]. His white shirt was covered in his blood.

* Ah Jong ([[Chow Yun Fat-fat]]) finishes out [[The Killer]] in a white suit, which gets plenty bloody.

* 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.)

* ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'' - Grand Admiral Thrawn. Crimson blossom of blood; [[Putting Onon the Reich|spotless white uniform]]. Even his ''murder'' was [[Magnificent Bastard|stylish]]. [[Famous Last Words]]:

{{quote| ''But...it was so artistically done...''}}

{{quote| His trousers were blossoming from white to red.}}

* {{spoiler|Samantha Roth}} on ''[[Twenty Four24]]''. Also, later on in the same season, {{spoiler|Erica}}.

* In an extension, after each character dies in the musical ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', they're outfitted with a red-streaked white shirt for the rest of the show (since they still need to be on-stage as the chorus or to play instruments or whatever, depending on staging). In one production, the dead characters put white makeup on and powdered their hair white/grey and spent the rest of the show as ghosts.

* Kaede Smith in ''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'' always wears a white dress with a big red blood splat on it. Especially fitting, given that {{spoiler|the bloodstains match the bullet wounds that ended her previous life.}}<br /><br />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.

* 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.<br /><br />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.

* 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]] ''[[One Man Army|his]]'' [[One Man Army|blood]]). {{spoiler|His death is remarkably bloodless if we ignore the part where he got his face and mask torn off by a killer robot -- he fell off the side of a building.}}

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