History Main / Bloodlust

* Ladd Russo of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' wears a white suit on board the Flying Pussyfoot so that the blood will show when he starts. When one of his associated is brutally massacred, Ladd dances in glee, on top of his body, no less, with liberal splashing of his bodily fluids like it was a puddle of rainwater.

* There is a certain scene in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' where Shiki definitely invokes this trope ("It was the first lipstick Shiki ever wore"... you imagine the context), though it was most likely a minute's whim rather than full-out blood fetish.

* In Myth/EgyptianMythology Sekhmet was created by Ra to punish humanity for disrespecting him. Unfortunately she acquired a taste for blood so she continued to slaughter people well beyond retribution, but lucikly this was used against her as the other gods tricked her with booze mixed with red ochre to look like blood, causing her to pass out and pacify.

* In Bram Stoker's original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' novel, Count Dracula goes from being a [[AffablyEvil charming gentleman]] to a raging fiend with the flip of a switch — and the switch is Jonathan Harker cutting himself shaving.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj6ntDEEfeE "The Red Means I Love You"]] by Music/MaddsBuckley is from the point of view of someone who is obsessed with tasting the blood of the person they're fascinated with, [[MadLove despite said person's objections]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' takes it UpToEleven by having the ''entire'' population of Yharnamites obsessed with blood, from alcohols to medical use, everything is about the use of the blood, to the point calling someone a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] would be ''redundant''.

* The Elseworld ''[[ComicBook/BatmanVampire Batman & Dracula: Red Rain]]'' had a Dracula that wound up oddly Joker-like (although it apparently wasn't meant to be a Joker {{Expy}}) who got a taste of the Dark Knight's blood and really, really liked it.

* In Myth/EgyptianMythology Sekhmet was created by Ra to punish humanity for disrespecting him. Unfortunately he acquired a taste for blood so she continued to slaughter people well beyond retribution, but lucikly this was used against her as the other gods tricked her with booze mixed with red ochre to look like blood, causing her to pass out and pacify.

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* [[AxCrazy Himiko]] [[{{Yandere}} Toga]] from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has this in [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] spades. She practically ''craves'' it, and the [[KnifeNut way she gets it]] pales in comparison to the ''obvious'' pleasure she gets from licking it up or sucking it out. [[spoiler: In fact, she ''does'' need it for her Quirk to work: after she drinks enough of a person's blood, she takes their form.]]

In real life, licking a cut is an instinctive reaction -- the saliva can help to clean the wound. Anyone who've ever had a pet will probably have noticed the same behavior in them if they're ever wounded... and unless you deliberately suppress the instinctive reaction, licking or sucking on a minor cut is a perfectly natural response. So actually, most of us probably know what blood tastes like, without there necessarily being any fetishistic subculture involved. Please note, [[DoNotTryThisAtHome this can get you very sick.]]

* {{Depraved Homosexual}}s Genkaku and Mockingbird from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' are depicted as having BloodLust.

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* The Elseworld ''[[ComicBook/BatmanVampire Batman & Dracula: Red Rain]]'' had a Dracula that wound up oddly Joker-like (although it apparently wasn't meant to be a Joker {{Expy}}) who got a taste of the Dark Knight's blood and [[FoeYay really, really liked it]].

* ''Film/{{Bloodthirsty}}'': Grey develops a desire for blood, hence the film title, as part of her meat craving. At one point, she licks up blood from a piece of meat in the refrigerator. Her hallucinations involves this partly as well.

* Ladd Russo of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' wears a white suit on board the Flying Pussyfoot so that the blood will show when he starts. When one of his associated is brutally massacred, Ladd dances in glee, on top of his body, no less.

* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Asuka is real enthusiastic about shedding the enemy’s blood when she fights. She was [[spoiler:practically giddy when she slashed and stabbed Bardiel.]]

* When she fought an [[EldritchAbomination Angel]] in chapter 6 of ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'', Asuka was blinded by bloodlust.
-->Her pretty face was twisted in a sick, vicious snarl. She was less a teenage girl and more a warrior blinded by bloodlust.
* ''Fanfic/IllMetByMoonlight'': Subverted with Steven. Being half-vampire, Steven becomes sick if he goes too long without fresh blood. With that said, he does not seem to enjoy the taste, quickly dowsing the taste down with a regular human breakfast shortly after.
* Himiko Toga's bloodlust is a problem [[AdaptationalHeroism she is trying to deal with]] in ''Fanfic/GreenTeaRescue''. It's noted that her thirst is so strong that the U.A. staff gives her artificial blood to drink to keep her calm, and she has therapy sessions to make sure she doesn't go off the wagon and knife one of her fellow students for a drink.

* In ''Shadows For Silence In The Forests Of Hell'', by Creator/BrandonSanderson, shedding blood will draw the wrath of the shades like nothing else. An accidental bump or nosebleed doesn't count, but blood shed in anger, exposed to the air, will enrage every shade in the vicinity. First, they will hunt down and kill whoever shed the blood, then, being enraged, they'll kill anyone else that happens to be nearby.

* While wrestling for Wrestling/{{TNA}} in the UK during 2015, Wrestling/BobbyRoode promised to make Eric Young bleed. It ended up being ''Young'' who bit open Wrestling/TommyDreamer and continued to gnaw at his open wound though.[[/folder]]

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' the augurs, the least of the [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} Cenobite-inspired kytons]], have abandoned the kyton belief in continual self-improvement through surgery in favor of just obsessing over blood. They look like metal balls with covered in blades, and it's not rare for them to be destroyed because they're too busy rolling around in spilled blood to pay attention to threats.

* ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'' features the denizens of the [[WretchedHive Den of Sin]], who delight in lapping up blood, be it from everyday injuries, gunshots, or BloodSport participants who have been [[{{Squick}} crushed through the perforated floor of a plexiglass cage]].