History Main / BlackBlood

* ''Video Game/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', the spiritual successor to the Danganronpa games, follows in its footsteps with neon pink blood for its victims. [[spoiler:This time, though, the blood is actually acknowledged as pink in-universe, and it isn't until near the end of the game that the main characters realize just how strange that is. Then you start to wonder why Yuma's blood is red whenever he bleeds during the mystery labyrinths... setting up the twist that most of the murder victims were actually homunculi.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': When "[=SpongeBob=] in Randomland" references the Fanfic/SquidwardsSuicide fanfic, the image of Squidward used only has the pupils red while the apparently running fluids are black.

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': When Blitzo is shot in ''Murder Family'', he bleeds black. This is reinforced in Season 2's ''Exes and Oohs'' where every demon killed on screen is shown to have black blood.

** The infamous SNES adaption of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' replaced blood pools with sprays of grey "sweat". WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd thought this actually made the game ''[[NauseaFuel more]]'' [[NauseaFuel disgusting]] than if they just left it as blood.

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If you're looking for high class aristocrats, you want BlueBlood. Speaking of blue, see BlueLiquidAbsorbent, where blood, particularly menstrual blood, is shown in blue to demonstrate the absorbency of maxi pads in advertisements. If you're looking for "black" in the sense of African, you want PassFail.

* The trailer for ''Film/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.

* In ''Anime/SailorMoon'''s first season, Nephrite had a HeelFaceTurn and was quickly hunted down and stabbed through the ''chest'' with branch tentacles. His blood was everywhere, but it was green so it was okay to show, even on Western Television. Curiously, the other 3 of Queen Beryl’s generals all bled red whenever receiving injuries.

* Season 10 of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' feature the Chaingun Twins as new additions to the Insurrection’s QuirkyMinibossSquad. They’re able to pin down the Freelancers while the leader [[spoiler: and C.T.]] make their getaway, until Agent Florida regains consciousness and drops a crane on them, causing a massive yellow splatter. WordOfGod says this is paint and that they’re (probably) human, but it’s clearly intended to have this effect.

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilDeadlySilence'', the Nintendo DS port of the original ''Resident Evil'', blood is colored green. Fortunately, it can be switched back to red in the options menu, but green is the default for some reason.

* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** While the manga always depicted characters' blood as red, the anime makes use of this trope frequently--blood is most likely to look darker on characters wearing darker clothes. This can have the odd effect of making the wounds of the [[BringMyRedJacket red-wearing protagonist]] ''more'' jarring.

* In ''Anime/{{Kaiba}}'' blood is GREEN. This is consistent with the fact that 90% of everything in Kaiba's world (galaxy, technically) looks like a picasso painting, architecture included.

** {{Averted}} a few other times, like when Misty got cut on a vine or when N got attacked by a Pokemon.

* Used occasionally in ''ComicBook/CatWoman'', one notable example is in issue #23 when Hilary shoots Jorge in the head, there is a big puddle of black blood oozing from the wound on the floor.

* In ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel''--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).
* In UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, this trope cropped up in the original ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' origin story. After the bridge he was working on is blown up, Alan Scott retrieves the body of one of his colleagues, absolutely drenched in blood, but looking like India ink.

* Wounds geyser what looks like mud in quite a few Marvel Knights-era ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisher Punisher]]'' stories.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'' storyline at some points his blood was black as Doomsday cut him but not all the time.
** 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 nightmare territory.

* Used when Franchise/{{Tintin}} is shot in the shoulder in ''The Blue Lotus''; the adventure was drawn and originally printed (both in ''Le Petit Vingtième'' and in album form) in black and white. When it was republished in a colorized version over a decade later (in 1946) most of the original linework was left untouched.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': Justified, since most of important characters are robots.

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* In ''Series/The100'' 'nightbloods' are people with black blood who can withstand radiation. It is both genetic and can be made in a lab.
* In ''Series/{{Helix}}'', this is {{Justified|Trope}} as a marker of infection with {{the Virus}}es NARVIK-A and NARVIK-B. NARVIK-A infectees hemorrhage to death and liquefy into a black mess, while NARVIK-B infectees develop highly visible TaintedVeins and begin to excrete black mucus and BadBlackBarf from their mouths.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* In George A. Romero's ''Film/LandOfTheDead'', a lot of the blood was actually digitally colored black in order to work it's way down to an R-rating for theaters. The Uncut DVD fixes this, and shows young girls a reason why [[BareYourMidriff certain piercings]] are a baaaad idea.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': All the orcs have it, as usual. Notably, so does Adar, showing that he's also closer to an orc than an Elf, in spite of external appearances.[[note]]Considering Adar is a first-generation orc, it's more than likely that the orcs' appearance got more corrupted over generations of breeding.[[/note]]

If you're looking for high class aristocrats, you want BlueBlood. If you're looking for "black" in the sense of African, you want PassFail.

* The New Zealand psychological thriller ''The Ugly'' had literally black blood. According to [[{{Website/Wikipedia}} TOW]]: "Author John Kenneth Muir writes in his book, ''Horror Films of the 1990s'', about how this visual cue may suggest that Simon (the film's serial killer) never saw his victims as being human, making it easier for him to kill."

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Tri'' has an option allowing the player to turn off the blood splashes and the... uh... green splashes (or whatever bugs bleed) and possibly some other visual effects. This is actually justified by the game as it hints that it helps the Wii in the performance of the game if it's turned off. Either way the blood effects are on by default.

* Even ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' fell victim to this trope in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mysUcyxPY1s its Japanese version]]. Blood is green, while fatalities are presented in monochrome.
** However, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou stage fatalities]] were presented in full color. Apparently, it's okay if an opponent [[DisneyVillainDeath falls thousands of feet onto stone]], [[HollywoodAcid gets their flesh melted away]], or [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice hits spikes on the ceiling]] in color.

* The Japanese and European releases of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' turned all the blood black, which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't close to being a playable Tarantino movie. A scene involved the sequence where, after defeating a woman in battle, she commits honourable suicide by depinning a grenade and holding it in her mouth, [[YourHeadAsplode with predicable results]]. Since, just before, she told the main character that she was attracted to him, he awkwardly hugged her dead, still-standing, headless body. In the censored version, her head and shoulders were still attached, but completely black, ruining the impact. The sequel remains uncensored, however.

* The ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' games allow you to change the blood from red to either green or "hippie", which replaces blood smears with images of flowers and the gibs with watermelons and other fruits. You can also disable the blood (and/or gibs) entirely.
** The "kids" option in the [[UpdatedRerelease HD makeover]] has the blood replaced with sparkley stars, and gibs are now ''candy''.
* The Colossi in the T-rated ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' all bleed black blood when stabbed or shot. Then again, it might have looked ''weird'' if they had bled anything ''but'' black, given the [[RealIsBrown aesthetic]] of the rest of the game. "Black Blood" is actually the name of one of the tracks on the OST.
** Wander also vomits black blood after each Colossus battle, as well as [[spoiler: spraying a bunch when he's killed by Lord Emon's troops near the end of the game]].

* Season 10 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' feature the Chaingun Twins as new additions to the Insurrection’s QuirkyMinibossSquad. They’re able to pin down the Freelancers while the leader [[spoiler: and C.T.]] make their getaway, until Agent Florida regains consciousness and drops a crane on them, causing a massive yellow splatter. WordOfGod says this is paint and that they’re (probably) human, but it’s clearly intended to have this effect.

* The New Zealand psychological thriller ''The Ugly'' had literally black blood. According to [[{{Wiki/Wikipedia}} TOW]]: "Author John Kenneth Muir writes in his book, ''Horror Films of the 1990s'', about how this visual cue may suggest that Simon (the film's serial killer) never saw his victims as being human, making it easier for him to kill."

* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', nearly all blood depicted is colored black. Examples include: Vandham [[spoiler:getting shot through the chest at the start of the game, leaving black blood staining his clothes]]; the full flashback showing Joran's fate in which [[spoiler:he is crushed under debris, with his blood pooling out from underneath]]; and Cammuravi [[spoiler:[[EyeScream gouging his own eye out]] to prevent himself from being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy controlled by Moebius]], leaving behind trails of black blood pouring out from his empty socket]].

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' uses copious amounts of BlackBlood, particularly during Westley's fight with the ROUS and Inigo's duel with Count Rugen.

* ''VideoGame/LEGOStarWars: The Force Awakens'' replaces the bloody handprint on Finn's helmet in the film with a green stain to help keep an E10+ rating.
* To match the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings source material]], in ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' and ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'' orcs have black blood (although the lightning sometimes causes it to look blue), while humans have red blood.
* The international versions of the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem port of ''VideoGame/DejaVu1985'' changes the dead alligator's blood from red to black.
* In ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'', black ink is used as blood for the ink monsters.
* In ''VideoGame/AlienQuarantine'' aliens bleed green 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 in the first arc 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.]]
* Initially played straight in ''VideoGame/MadRatDead'', with the Mob Rats and the Doctor bleeding yellow blood. [[spoiler:Eventually it's revealed that the deaths of the Mob Rats and the Doctor were just hallucinations.]] From then on, every character is shown to bleed red blood.
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilDeadlySilence'', the Nintendo DS port of the original ''Resident Evil'', blood is colored green. Fortunately, it can be switched back to red in the options menu, but green is the default for some reason.
* Creator/ParadoxInteractive couldn't feature blood in their games for the Chinese releases and they couldn't remove the blood completely so they had a hard time to figure out a solution for the Chinese censorship. It ended up with a decision to make the blood black instead.

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* Season 10 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' feature the Chaingun Twins as new additions to the Insurrection’s QuirkyMinibossSquad. They’re able to pin down the Freelancers while the leader [[spoiler: and C.T.]] make their getaway, until Agent Florida regains consciousness and drops a crane on them, causing a massive yellow splatter. WordOfGod says this is paint and that they’re (probably) human, but it’s clearly intended to have this effect.

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* The trailer for ''Film/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.

* ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' uses this trope (though it's red for the DVD release). Though for some odd reason, the second murder during the same episode has red blood, even in the censored version.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', despite the series in general keeping the blood as crimson as it can, as it originally aired late at night on several channels in Japan; The theatric release for the ''Mugen Train'' movie has a few key scenes where particularly big splashes of blood are colored black, such as Tanjiro's desperate maneuver to escape Enmu's dream world and the final battle clash, afterwards the home release on Blu-Ray and DVD corrected that, making it red.
* Not ''all'' of the blood in ''Anime/MyselfYourself'' is black, just everything greater than a scratch on the finger.
* In ''Anime/SailorMoon'''s first season, Nephrite had a HeelFaceTurn and was quickly hunted down and stabbed through the ''chest'' with branch tentacles. His blood was everywhere, but it was green so it was okay to show, even on Western Television. Curiously, the other 3 of Queen Beryl’s generals all bled red whenever receiving injuries.

* One of the sillier instances of Black Blood happened in Episode 13 of ''Manga/BambooBlade'' for PsychoLesbian Reimi's {{nosebleed}}. There was no reason for it to be black, but it was.

* Like the Transformers comics, this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'', where most of the characters are not actual organisms. Red blood does appear occasionally though.
* ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' opts for sprays of clear/rainbow-tinted fluid, an effect retained in the DVD release. (Probably a ShoutOut to Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar which used the same manner of censor and yet still managed to be awesome in spite of itself)
* ''[[Anime/TsukuyomiMoonPhase Moon Phase]]'' uses red blood for minor wounds (vampire bites), but switches to black when someone gets a hole dug into their chest.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** ''Bleach'' uses this trope. To clarify, blood is only red when it drips on the floor.
** Also, it is generally more often red in [[TheMovie the movies]].
* In ''Manga/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".
* ''Manga/ZeroSevenGhost'' uses this from the first episode, when they bother to add in the blood at all. Very frustrating if you've read the manga and know the blood ought to be there when it isn't. Later in the series, the blood displayed becomes neon red, or magenta, but definitely not what real blood looks like!
* Just about every murder scene in ''Manga/CaseClosed''.
* In ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' when Tetsuo makes three people explode most of their blood is black.
* In ''Anime/{{Kaiba}}'' blood is GREEN. This is consistent with the fact that 90% of everything in Kaiba's world (galaxy, technically) looks like a picasso painting, architecture included.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', most - if not all - blood has been censored out of the anime, replaced with either comical injuries (lumps, red-marks) and thus played for laughs in the less serious moments, or a GoryDiscretionShot and/or darkened streaks or patches in more serious moments to imply where blood had either dried or been wiped away. The only times so far that this was ever solidly averted was in the movies ''Phoenix Priestess'' and ''Dragon Cry'', where the injuries were both shown openly and bled freely, and in anime scenes where the characters actually or almost died from blood loss [[spoiler:such as with God Serena getting torn open by Acnologia and when Juvia and Gray stab themselves to try and save the other]].
** Of course, this is completely averted in the manga, where characters often bleed during fights.
* 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 [[{{Pun}} leaking]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything oil]].
* 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/CaseClosed'', ''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.

* Downplayed in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''. The blood from the wound that Tohru had when she first met Kobayashi was black, but the blood sent flying when Kobayashi pulled out the sword was dark red.

* Unlike the [[BloodierAndGorier manga adaptation]], neither the video games nor the anime of the ''VideoGame/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.

* Seen a lot in comic books, too. The ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' series is kind of notorious for it. In the hands of a bad artist, it can look like just blotched inking.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': Justified, since most of important characters are robots.

* ComicBook/HardBoiled utilizes black blood, may be justified in the case of the protagonist since he's a robot.
* City of Silence by Creator/WarrenEllis and Gary Erskine uses black blood, which is weird considering how gleefully {{Squick}}y the comic is about displaying a decadent dystopia.
* Used when Franchise/{{Tintin}} is shot in the shoulder in ''The Blue Lotus''; the adventure was drawn and originally printed (both in ''Le Petit Vingtième'' and in album form) in black and white. When it was republished in a colorized version over a decade later (in 1946) most of the original linework was left untouched.
* Wounds geyser what looks like mud in quite a few Marvel Knights-era ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisher Punisher]]'' stories.

* In UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks this trope cropped up in the original ComicBook/GreenLantern origin story. After the bridge he was working on is blown up, Alan Scott retrieves the body of one of his colleagues, absolutely drenched in blood, but looking like India ink.
* Used in ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' #181 when Bullseye fatally wounds Elektra by slashing her throat with a playing card and stabbing her with her own sai, although one panel features a trail of red blood as she limps over to Matt Murdock's apartment.
* Used occasionally in ''ComicBook/CatWoman'', one notable example is in issue #23 when Hilary shoots Jorge in the head, there is a big puddle of black blood oozing from the wound on the floor.
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'': In issue 3, when Chrysalis kills a kitten, there is black blood. It not being red, coupled with the actual killing being offscreen are probably the only reasons this scene was allowed.
* In ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures #54 after The Mighty Mutanimals are shot to death by The Gang of Four, black blood is seen oozing from their bodies.
* Used occasionally in ComicBook/ThePunisher when Frank Castle mows down thugs with his guns.

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* Salem from ''Fanfic/RubyAndNora'' is said to bleed black blood after [[spoiler: Pyrrha]] cuts her.
* In ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'', it's shown that Grimm bleed black.
* In ''Fanfic/DamonaInTheDetails'', [[VideoGame/YokaiWatch Damona]] briefly bleeds black blood after Jibanyan scratches her.

* 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. A few shots from the black and white sequence were shown in full color during the end credits for ''Volume 2''.
* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' uses copious amounts of BlackBlood, particularly during Westley's fight with the ROUS and Inigo's duel with Count Rugen.

* Creator/AlfredHitchcock famously shot ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' in black and white, specifically so he could use chocolate syrup to represent Janet Leigh's blood in the shower scene.
* ''Film/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.

* ''Film/ThreeHundred'' had incredibly dark blood.
* It might not really be blood, but when Silent Bob breaks open Azrael's chest in ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', there's lots of black evil.
* In George A. Romero's ''Film/LandOfTheDead'', a lot of the blood was actually digitally colored black in order to work it's way down to an R-rating for theaters. The Uncut DVD fixes this, and shows young girls a reason why [[BareYourMidriff certain piercings]] are a baaaad idea.

* ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' 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.
* The ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' films feature different colors of blood depending on which monster is bleeding. Gamera himself bleeds green, while Space Gyaos bleeds purple, to name two examples.

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

* In ''Series/The100'' 'nightbloods' are people with black blood who can withstand radiation. It is both genetic and can be made in a lab.

* Appropriately (yet strangely for an M-rated game); the game ''VideoGame/{{Black}}'' has no blood at all, but rather sparks and black fragments (shredded kevlar?) emit from enemies.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** Famously, the original gold cartridge version of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' had Ganondorf vomit red blood when Link killed him, but this was changed to green in later releases, among other changes (such as the music in the Fire Temple, which included samples from a sound bank that the developers didn't realize were from the Islamic ''adhan'').
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' displays a brief but rather large gush of black blood when attacking Shadow Beasts.
* Similar to the above Zelda example, ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' does something similar with its "censored" release. All of the red bits that are result of the gore effects (so flesh, blood as well as some of the giant maggots) are changed to Green instead of red. However, bloody marks that appear on-screen upon getting hit are still red. Strangely, the Dreamcast port of ''House of the Dead 2'' lets you switch between red and green blood, but the damage marks are permanently set to bright orange either way.
* The Japanese and European releases of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' turned all the blood black, which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't close to being a playable Tarantino movie. A scene involved the sequence where, after defeating a woman in battle, she commits honourable suicide by depinning a grenade and holding it in her mouth, [[YourHeadAsplode with predicable results]]. Since, just before, she told the main character that she was attracted to him, he awkwardly hugged her dead, still-standing, headless body. In the censored version, her head and shoulders were still attached, but completely black, ruining the impact. The sequel remains uncensored, however.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'': The ''Souls'' games give you the option to change the blood to "mild" (black), or "off."
* Early ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' trailers showed enemy alien characters spewing red blood when hit, but when [=ESRB=] announced a middle rating between Everyone and Teen, the developers changed the color to green. Of course, the aliens themselves are still reddish, not to mention the [[spoiler:similarity of our titular hero's red blood to his otherworldly creators]].
* The US console release of ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} 3'' uses ''white'' blood, which, at best, makes it look like sand or kitty litter. And, just to make things utterly nonsensical, Jedah's blood-based attacks are still rendered in the same color they were in the arcade.
** The effect this had on Dmitri's super attack is legendary. First he turns his opponent into a pretty female (if necessary), then he bites their neck, which causes a pool of blood to form directly under them. But in the censored version, it forms a pool of ''white fluid''. The result looks nearly pornographic.
** In ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', the blood Jedah uses in his attacks was changed from red to purple.

* The Colossi in the T-rated ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' all bleed black blood when stabbed or shot. Then again, it might have looked ''weird'' if they had bled anything ''but'' black, given the [[RealIsBrown aesthetic]] of the rest of the game. "Black Blood" is actually the name of one of the tracks on the OST.
** Wander also vomits black blood after each Colossus battle, as well as [[spoiler: spraying a bunch when he's killed by Lord Emon's troops near the end of the game]].
* The Korean and Japanese releases of ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' have black blood spatters in death animations, even on Terrans. This makes some of the pro-gamer videos from South Korea look odd to western eyes.
* Even ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' fell victim to this trope in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mysUcyxPY1s its Japanese version]]. Blood is green, while fatalities are presented in monochrome.
** However, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou stage fatalities]] were presented in full color. Apparently, it's okay if an opponent [[DisneyVillainDeath falls thousands of feet onto stone]], [[HollywoodAcid gets their flesh melted away]], or [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice hits spikes on the ceiling]] in color.
** The infamous SNES adaption of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' replaced blood pools with sprays of grey "sweat". WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd thought this actually made the game ''[[NauseaFuel more]]'' [[NauseaFuel disgusting]] than if they just left it as blood.
* The SNES ''VideoGame/TotalCarnage'' port had green "blood".
* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''

* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' has a [[AdjustableCensorship "censored" settings]], which features ''water'' instead of blood.
* In the ''VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'' game for [=PlayStation=] 2 and Xbox, not only do the orcs and trolls bleed black blood, but so do the heroes. However in the ''[[VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing Return of the King]]'' game, the enemies bleed but the heroes don't.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Turok}} 2'' there is an option to change the enemies' blood from red to green. [[BannedInChina Germans did not get that option.]]
* A hidden setting in ''Franchise/SilentHill'' 1, 2 and 3 lets you change the enemy blood to green, black, or purple if red was making you feel too squeamish. [[note]] On console versions, open the Option menu and click both shoulder buttons. [[/note]]

* In perhaps the weirdest application of this trope ever, in ''VideoGame/SplosionMan'', people bleed ''meat''. And no, not as in gibs or "bloody chunks of meat" -- things like steaks, ribs, hams, sausages, and... donuts?
* The halls of Arkham Asylum in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' are liberally decorated with black smears and splatters. This was originally intended to be blood, but was changed prior to release so that the game could get away with a T rating.
* The ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' games allow you to change the blood from red to either green or "hippie", which replaces blood smears with images of flowers and the gibs with watermelons and other fruits. You can also disable the blood (and/or gibs) entirely.
** The "kids" option in the [[UpdatedRerelease HD makeover]] has the blood replaced with sparkley stars, and gibs are now ''candy''.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Tri'' has an option allowing the player to turn off the blood splashes and the... uh... green splashes (or whatever bugs bleed) and possibly some other visual effects. This is actually justified by the game as it hints that it helps the Wii in the performance of the game if it's turned off. Either way the blood effects are on by default.
* ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}'' series:
** Averted in ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege'', where there's an option for making fights even gorier (namely it allows you to bisect enemies with critical hits, though the corpses vanish almost istantly leaving no blood behind).
** In ''VideoGame/OnimushaDawnOfDreams'' enemies bleed red, but you have the option of changing it to green blood or to bloodless.
* In the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] version of ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', all of the blood that was present in the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version is replaced with an unidentified purple slime.
* In ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'', the title screen is drenched in green stuff that was originally red in the unreleased Japanese version. Somehow, the level start screen and the entire second half of the first stage are still covered in red blood.

* The German release of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' and the Meet the Team shorts has the classes bleed oil instead of blood. However, the German version of the Meet the Sniper short still contains the red blood.

* ''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. One character in the Japanese version did keep red blood - [[spoiler: Samuel]] - which helped reinforce the division between him, a human with a robot limb, and the full-body/almost full body cyborgs battled in most of the game.

* ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' renders all blood neon pink. This is most noticeable during a cutscene in ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuthHackersMemory'' which has a GoryDiscretionShot that fills the screen with pink blood.

** There is some genuine red blood in the anime TV series, most notably when Shin cripples Kenshiro in their first fight. You will never see it when Kenshiro makes a random mook's head violently explode, however.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', despite the series in general keeping the blood as crimson as it can, as it originally aired lated at night on several channels in Japan; The theatric release for the ''Mugen Train'' movie has a few key scenes where particularly big splashes of blood are colored black, such as Tanjiro's desperate maneuver to escape Enmu's dream world, then the home release on Blu-Ray and DVD corrected that, making it red.