History Main / BloodlessCarnage

* Disney's ''{{Pocahontas}}'' uses bloodless carnage, and unintentionally draws attention to it in the song "Savages," where one of the Powhatans wonders "if they even bleed." They don't, but neither do the Powhatans.

** The books and WordOfGod describe the vampires as crystalline, having bodies like marble or granite, and their only remaining bodily fluid is venom.

* This is a staple of the works of SergioAragones, which help emphasize their cartoony nature. Even a title centered on wanton destruction and warfare like ''GrooTheWanderer'' will seldom show anything more than someone clutching their abdomen while (black) blood oozes between their fingers.

* Virtually any fight in [[FanWorks/DiamondsCut Diamond's Cut]] is this because of the budget limitations, but this is especially prominent during the [[spoiler: M’s death]]: not only is there no blood spilt, as camera lingers over his body, but the window remains absolutely undamaged when it should by rights have been broken by the sniper’s bullet.

* FourKidsEntertainment would often [[InvokedTrope Invoke]] this with their dubs of anime. Thanks to toning things down, scenes that originally ''did'' have blood (and weren't altogether removed from the dub) were turned into this (their dub of ''OnePiece'' being an infamous example).

* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'': The film is clean of blood, be it human or Psychlo. Rather jarring; a few Psychlos (eg. [[spoiler:Ker]] and [[spoiler:Terl]]) lost at least one limb (not to mention [[spoiler:the decapitated head of the Bartender]]). The humans? None.

* This was standard in old Japanese samurai films. Despite the horrific cutting power of the katana in skilled hands, there was never so much as a drop of blood, much the less missing limbs, spilled viscera or rolling heads that sword confrontations normally left.
** An extremely notable exception would be the final duel of ''Sanjuro''.
** ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' features some blood spraying in a few scenes when Sanjuro fights one or two goons at a time.
** The only time anyone bleeds from a lightsaber in ''StarWars'' is a homage to the scene in ''Yojimbo''.
** Some believe the rain in the climax of SevenSamurai was meant to [[SymbolicBlood symbolize blood]].

* A more prominant example comes from FurFighters where (Unlike VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay) "Fluff" flies out whenever an enemy (among others) is shot making this game good clean fun.

** Phaser-fire in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe in general. Stun leaves no marks, kill leaves a small burn at the point of impact, maximum setting leaves [[DisintegratorRay a second of glowiness and then nothing]]. No blood from the series' many shootouts. ExplosiveInstrumentation is much less likely to leave your RedShirt looking like he's [[BigSleep just napping]], though.

* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' Harrison's [[spoiler: hands and clothes are surprisingly clean for someone who just popped a man's head like a tomato.]] Damn you, PG-13 rating!!
** PG-13? It's a 12 in the UK. But that's probably because we ''have'' no PG-13 Rating.

* ''TheQuickAndTheDead'' -- Gene Hackman's evil gunfighter character thinks he won a gunfight with The Lady, but looks down to see a neat hole through his chest, with light coming from his back and wind whistling through this gunshot wound that looks more like a clean bloodless tunnel. Pure Creator/SamRaimi silliness. Ironic, from the man who made ''Franchise/EvilDead''.

* In an episode of the {{tokusatsu}} version of ''[[JapaneseSpiderMan Spider-Man]]'', Amazoness and her {{mooks}} shoot up a bunch of men with guns. Yet, no blood or bullet wounds or anything else that would come with shooting happens. They just fall down.

*** Cloud's many battles in ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyViiAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' involve villains being clouted with his {{BFS}} repeatedly without any visible damage, despite said weaponry ''cutting off pieces of skyscrapers'', and the only blood in the entire film is a tiny trickle when Cloud is ''shot in the face at point blank'', which simply knocks off his sunglasses. MadeOfIron indeed. At the climax of ''Advent Children'', [[spoiler:Cloud cuts Sephiroth right through repeatedly with a new version of Omnislash, leaving no marks and only drawing dark smoke instead of blood, which could be justified by Sephiroth being a HumanoidAbomination]]. Soon after, [[spoiler: Cloud gets shot through the stomach, but all he does is stumble forward.]]\\
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--> '''Biff''': Sure... Laser fire cauterizes the wound. You'll be dead before ya have a chance to bleed. (Cue Danson feeling petrified instead of relieved)

** Or with Creator/MarvelComics, where people would bleed black goo.

* Justified by the story in ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia: The Sands of Time''. The first human enemies you face do bleed, albeit rather subtly. Once the Prince [[NiceJobBreakingItHero unleashes the Sands of Time]], Azad's citizens become zombified, and thus all of their bodily fluids have been "dehydrated" by the Sands of Time. In ''Warrior Within'' and ''The Two Thrones'' the Sand Monsters bleed, though this is probably justified since they are Sand-ified {{Super Soldier}}s, and not accidental ZombieApocalypse victims.
** They bleed because ''Warrior Within'' was RatedMForMoney.

* ''TheQuickAndTheDead'' -- Gene Hackman's evil gunfighter character thinks he won a gunfight with The Lady, but looks down to see a neat hole through his chest, with light coming from his back and wind whistling through this gunshot wound that looks more like a clean bloodless tunnel. Pure SamRaimi silliness. Ironic, from the man who made ''Franchise/EvilDead''.

* While ''ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja'', as a ComicsCode-approved title, avoided graphic depictions of blood or gore, it never hesitated to show the brutality of combat or the senseless deaths of war, including the aftermath of a mass execution.

* ComicsCode approved war comics can take this to ridiculous and disturbing extremes--entire battle scenes go by without a drop of blood.
** Or with Marvel Comics, where people would bleed black goo.
* DCComics had {{Lobo}}, where enemies, for a time, had a vested interest in ''not'' making him bleed. [[FromASingleCell Because that only produced backup.]]

* On it's 17th episode so far the StudioBones series ''{{Heroman}}'' has shown no visible blood or serious injury from it's numerous fight scenes. The closest you can get is the green goo that drips out of the Skrugg when they are beaten or 'killed'.

* Averted in ''Anime/{{Windaria}}''. Even the English version clearly shows the death of the {{Red Shirt}}s on both sides; some of them are gruesome and all of them bloody.

* GundamWing has possibly the lowest kill count in all of Gundam, due to most of the bad guys for most of the show being mindless robots, instead of having pilots. This allowing the characters to unload in battle, without having to look like cold blooded killers.

* Though not carnage, per se, ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' had one scene in which Yumi had cut her hand on broken glass. Though scratches were seen, <i>blood</i> was absent.