History Main / BlackBlood

* Orcs and other evil creatures in the LordOfTheRings universe are sometimes described to have black blood, though whether this is literal or figurative is left as an exercise to the reader.

Not to be confused with Manga/BlackBloodBrothers or TheBlackbloodAlliance.

* The trailer for ''KillBill Volume 1'' digitally retouched the blood on the Bride to a black color for the scenes from the fight with the Crazy 88, just to get an All Audiences rating for it. In the movie itself, that fight scene was partially turned to black and white for the US release for a similar reason; audiences elsewhere got to see the gore as Tarantino intended.

* The trailer for ''TheMist'' retouches the blood to a black color on the face of a man who runs into the store for shelter. This is also done for the blood on the safety-rope and the bloody hand-print left on the window, despite the split-second nature of these shots.

* The trailer for HollowMan edits the color of the blood used in a JumpScare to find the invisible man to a dark brown color, making it look like the character threw coffee.

* For ''Franchise/EvilDead 2'', director Sam Raimi attempted to keep his R rating by filling the Deadites with every color of fluids ''except'' red. And then splatter it all on Bruce Campbell at once. It didn't work and the movie got slapped with an X rating anyway, so they opted to release it unrated instead.

* ''TaxiDriver'' uses foamy pink blood during the climactic scene where Travis Bickle goes on a one-man killing spree. Actually, it's the entire scene that had been desaturated to make the blood less offensive.
* Meanwhile, ''SinCity'' has white blood. Or, in one particular case, ''yellow'' blood. This is an artifact of the comics it's based on, which are entirely black and white (no gray!) except for the yellow Junior (and his blood). It's worth noting however that it changes from shot to shot and story to story. In "That Yellow Bastard" the blood is always white, save for the Bastard's, but in "The Hard Goodbye" pretty much all the blood is bright red (in the commentary the directors noted that the black blood just made Hartigan's face look muddy insead of beaten to a pulp, [[EnforcedTrope so they had to make it red]]). "The Big Fat Kill" throws consistency out the window in favour of interesting visuals. One character is shown with his hand blown off and spewing white blood, but when his throat is slashed red blood splashes on another character's face.

* From Dusk 'Til Dawn features buckets and buckets of blood, but the vampire blood is green and not red. According to Word of God (on the DVD commentary), this was because the censors were OK if the blood was green.

Not to be confused with BlackBloodBrothers or TheBlackbloodAlliance.

* ''DestroyAllHumans'' usually opts for BloodlessCarnage instead, but when you use the [[AnalProbing anal probe]] to make someone's head explode, it bursts in a shower of ''green'' blood.

* ''{{Smallville}}'' is guilty of this in at least two episodes. In the first, it was justified in that the guest character was Cyborg of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' fame and it wasn't blood but mech fluids (keeping in line with the comics). In a later episode that pitted General Zod against Clark, Clark gets a bloody lip that bleeds black blood (which is odd, as Clark has been shown to bleed red blood several times before.).
* In TrueBlood, you can see [[spoiler: Maryann's]] black blood (and heart) when [[spoiler: Sam kills her]].

* A hidden setting in ''SilentHill2'' let you change the enemy blood to green, black, or purple if red was making you feel too squeamish.

Not to be confused with cases where the "blood" is ''supposed'' to be a different color, like with [[SymbolicBlood robots]] or some [[AlienBlood ailens]], or it's an indication of a severe condition (say, being fatally poisoned). It's worth remembering that a large quantity of blood (especially venous) will look close to black, which is where this colour choice comes from in the first place.

* If this troper's memory is correct, there was a censored version of the CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers episode "Mind Pollution," where Linka's cousin Boris cuts his arms on broken glass...and incriminating recolored puddles could be seen. (However, a different shot or two with red blood remained!)[[/folder]]

Not to be confused with cases where the "blood" is ''supposed'' to be a different color, like with robots or some {{alien|Blood}}s, or it's an indication of a severe condition (say, being fatally poisoned). It's worth remembering that a large quantity of blood (especially venous) will look close to black, which is where this colour choice comes from in the first place.

* In ''DanganRonpa The Animation'', blood is pink as a holdover from the video game, although they could probably have gotten away with red on TV. See ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'''s entry below.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' uses pink blood to avoid an 18+ rating. As such, murder scenes look like they're splattered with Pepto-Bismol. This actually adds to the crazy, hopelessly childlish theme of the game.

* In ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'', the title screen and beginning of round screen are drenched in green stuff that was originally red in the unreleased Japanese version.

* Trailers for the first ''Film/ResidentEvil'' flick showed zombies doused in blue gore. '''[[color:blue:Blue!]]''' This is not the case in the actual film.

* Meanwhile, ''SinCity'' has white blood. Or, in one particular case, ''yellow'' blood. This is an artifact of the comics it's based on, which are entirely black and white (no gray!) except for the yellow Junior (and his blood). It's worth noting however that it changes from shot to shot and story to story. In "That Yellow Bastard" the blood is always white, save for the Bastard's, but in "The Hard Goodbye" pretty much all the blood is bright red (in the commentary the directors noted that the black blood just made Hartigan's face look muddy insead of beaten to a pulp, [[EnforcedTrope so they had to make it red]]). "The Big Fat Kill" throws consistency out the window in favour of interesting visuals. One character is shown with his hand blown off and spewing white blood, but when he throat is splashed red blood splashes on another character's face.

* Piccolo and other Nameks bleed purple blood in ''DragonBall'' and ''DragonBall Z''. It should be noted that both Piccolo Sr. and Piccolo Jr. had bleed red blood in some instances - the former when he got a hole in his stomach (triggering his explosive death) and the later when he got his arm severely injured during his fight with Goku on the Budokai tournament, and severed his very own arm (only to regrow it again in a matter of seconds).
** In the censored TV versions of ''DragonballZKai'', all of Goku, Gohan, Krillin, and Vegeta's blood is a brown-ish-black-ish color.

Violence against squid-people: acceptable.]]

* In ''DanganRonpa The Animation'', blood is pink as a holdover from the video game, although they could probably have gotten away with red on TV. See ''DanganRonpa'''s entry below.

* Crona's blood in {{Soul Eater}} is black, not because of censoring, but because [[AmbiguousGender he/she]] has the demon sword Ragnarok inside hir. And it's [[TheCorruption contagious.]]

* ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' uses pink blood to avoid an 18+ rating. As such, murder scenes look like they're splattered with Pepto-Bismol.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' changed its red blood to white blood for the Japanese release. However, this does make fit as the cyborg character from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' had artificial white blood.

* Justified in ''WaqWaq''; most people have black blood, except for the red-blooded "kami".

** Since Ursula is not exactly human and partially resembles an animal known for squirting "ink", could this be a justified trope?