History Main / BlackBlood

* Unlike the [[BloodierAndGorier manga adaptation]], neither the video games nor the anime of the ''Anime/InazumaEleven'' franchise had characters bleeding at all for most of its run, being aimed at kids. The first character who ever bled in the anime was Sakanoue Noboru in episode 6 of ''Orion'' after Luci Fanos cut his leg with a knife hidden in his cleat. The color of Sakanoue's blood was black.

The problem with violence is that people tend to bleed when they are stabbed. [[BloodyHorror Blood is scary]]. But changing the color of blood to something like black makes everything family-friendly, [[SarcasmMode right]]? Pools and pools of nice, safe, black blood... Never mind the original violence.

Violence against squid-people: [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman acceptable]].[[note]]But where does that leave [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} Inklings]]?[[/note]]]]

The problem with violence is that people tend to bleed when they are stabbed. [[BloodyHorror Blood is scary]]. But changing the color of blood to something like black makes everything family-friendly, right? Pools and pools of nice, safe, black blood... Never mind the original violence.

** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance'' features pink blood. Rather than censorship, this is most likely due to the game's rather garish color palette.

* The Scarecrow enemies in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' have green blood instead of red, the only such example in the entire game, in fact. Perhaps done as a minor concession to good taste, since the enemy --a male or half-naked female corpse, gorily impaled on a pole-- is already rather gruesome even with green blood.

* In the European and Australian versions of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'', all of the blood is replaced with what appears to be water. Also the realistically gross-looking reddish zombies were recolored a comical shade of green.

* In ''Anime/CTheMoneyAndSoulOfPossibility'', during a deal, Entrees lose their money through this whenever slashed [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe or otherwise]]. However, this is symbolic: black blood could also mean [[IncrediblyLamePun leaking]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything oil]].

* ''Film/{{Stardust}}'': When Prince Primus' throat is slit he turns out be a quite literal BlueBlood. Creator/MatthewVaughn confirmed that they had to use a different color for ratings reasons and decided to go with the pun.

* In ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]''--a ''war'' comic, albeit one where any named protagonist or even antagonist dying was a major plot event--blood was usually black, with the occasional redness in the "glossy patch" (where a bit of white would be on an oil slick to show it was reflective).
* {{Justified|trope}} in ComicBook/TheTransformers comics, since the only characters anyone cares about are robots...most of the characters anyone cares about anyway.

** Also, the Pre-Crisis story ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #544 introducing the revamped, [[SkeleBot9000 SkeleBot]] version of ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, showed Franchise/{{Superman}} taking what was, at that time, an unprecedentedly graphic beating. His blood was colored black, and frankly, that just made it ''creepier.'' Then again, this was the brief period in the mid-80's when Gil Kane was inking his own work, lending a very surreal look to his normally very realistic pencils. The black blood is just one more factor making the already weird images start to veer into [[NightmareFuel nightmare territory.]]

* Eren has black blood in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13858618/1/ Attack on Titan A New Path]]'' since he posseses the Grimmified Founding Titan. It also acts as [[FertileBlood Grimm liquid]] from which he can make Beowolves.

* The international versions of the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem port of ''VideoGame/DejaVu'' changes the dead alligator's blood from red to black.

* Trailers for ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'' flick showed zombies doused in blue gore. '''[[color:blue:Blue!]]''' This is not the case in the actual film, natch.

* 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, natch.

* The trailer for ''Film/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.

* In ''WaqWaq'', almost everyone has black blood. Like ''Soul Eater'' above, it's not a form of censorship but rather a plot point: red blood is a prophesied trait of the "kami".

* Seen in Film/TheWitches2020 when The Grand High Witch cuts her hands on the fans when trying to grab the children who were turned into mice through the vent.

* Just about every murder scene in ''Manga/DetectiveConan''.

* Italian dubs of various anime edit blood in many ways: sometimes they just recolor it in black/brown (as in most of the above examples), sometimes they just make the whole scene either in black and white (''Manga/DetectiveConan'', ''Manga/OnePiece'') or in sepia tones (''One Piece'', only in the Alabasta arc although)... but the most absurd one was in the earlier episodes of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', where they not only made the blood black, but also gave ''grey skin'' to the bleeding characters. The scene in episode 6 when Naruto stabs his hand with a kunai becomes very [[{{Narm}} narmful]], with a lot of scenes showing his grey skin while his clothes, hair and ''everything else'' are still in full color.

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'': The UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 versions of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Plus]]'' change one particularly dramatic scene[[labelnote:Spoilers]][[https://youtu.be/S3-tw2m3lNQ?t=13 Yuri stabbing herself to death]][[/labelnote]] to have black blood instead of red, as is the case in every other version of the game.

* The [=PS2=] port of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' had this in all cases of blood in order to avoid a 18+ rating at a time where the CERO system was being reclassified. Oddly enough, the DS port restores the blood as red and still has the same rating as the [=PS2=] version.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' uses neon pink for its blood, though [[StylizedForTheViewer characters still describe it as red]]; contrary to common misconception by the fanbase, this wasn't to avoid any ratings issues (as the game already gets a high content rating for many other reasons) but was a conscious decision on the part of the devs to make the atmosphere less grim and more "psychopop". However, this only applies to fresh blood. Dried blood is depicted as dark red. This carries over to all titles in the franchise with the exception of ''Anime/DanganRonpa3 - Future Arc'', where the comparatively more grim atmosphere is accompanied by more naturally red blood. Early builds of the first game can also be seen with red blood as well. In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', this even applies to [[spoiler:Mechamaru [[MachineBlood bleeding oil]]]], which is colored light blue.
* Similar to ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'', ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' uses neon pink for its blood as well. This is most noticeable during a cutscene in ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuthHackersMemory'' which has a GoryDiscretionShot that fills the screen with pink blood.

* ''VideoGame/{{IMGCM}}'' uses neon pink for the blood color. Especially in demons' death sprites in the gameplay, the CG of woman's corpse in Demon's Tower dungeon intro, and [[spoiler:[[TotalPartyKill heroines' onscreen deaths scene]] in Chapter 6 Episode 5 of the main story]]. Another one is an aversion, due to unusual color contrast of the CG scene. In the Chapter 12 Episode 5, the blood color is red in the scene where [[spoiler:the main universe Iroha gets brutally {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}} by Nemesis Iroha a.k.a. her [[AlternateSelf Ultimate Magica Self]], who has become a raging FallenHero.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{MGCM}}'' uses neon pink for the blood color. Especially in demons' death sprites in the gameplay, the CG of woman's corpse in Demon's Tower dungeon intro, and [[spoiler:[[TotalPartyKill heroines' onscreen deaths scene]] in Chapter 6 Episode 5 of the main story]]. Another one is an aversion, due to unusual color contrast of the CG scene. In the Chapter 12 Episode 5, the blood color is red in the scene where [[spoiler:the main universe Iroha gets brutally {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}} by Nemesis Iroha a.k.a. her [[AlternateSelf Ultimate Magica Self]], who has become a raging FallenHero.]]