History Main / MadeOfBologna

* During a showdown between Super Saiyan Goku and Frieza in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Frieza launches two [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Destructo Discs]] at Goku and misses. Goku distracts Frieza so that Frieza fails to catch a returning disc, which cuts him into pieces. Some blood spills and Frieza's red bologna innards are seen. Frieza survives this wound due to his BizarreAlienBiology. The original manga, however, actually depicts a bit of intestine hanging out of Frieza’s Torso.
** Later, when Trunks cuts Frieza in half, he still has bologna insides. Then he gets cut into a dozen or so chunks of meat, and they still look like bologna.
** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' he's brought back in a series of living chunks. They doubled down on the bizarre alien biology angle and make the bologna ''metallic grey.''

* Certain RubberMan characters are depicted like this. Plastic Man is shown as having no internal anatomy anymore while [[Comicbook/{{DoomPatrol}} Elastigirl's]] body was replaced with "protoplasm", turning her into shapeshifting pink bologna. The Ultimate version of Mr. Fantastic gets thinly sliced like bologna in the 2015 Secret Wars and is shown to have just as much anatomy, being previously established to be a pliable "bacterial sack" in the shape of a person. And while he's more a proper [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] than a Rubber Man, [[ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} Metamorpho]] gets knocked to pieces like this all the time.
* Klaw from ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' is an {{Energy Being|s}} made of visible, solidified sound. In the first ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'', he gets sliced into a series of lenses by Doctor Doom. Each lens is uniformly pale pink; Klaw seems to have pigment only on his outermost surfaces.

** Alien veterinarian Drrr declares Philip Fry too sick to be saved, and prepares to euthanize him. Lrrr arrives, and disintegrates Drrr's right arm, thwarting the injection. While Lrrr counsels his son that he should be the one doing the euthanizing, Drrr pokes at the bologna-like tissue where his arm used to be. It has a white bone core, and greenish skin, but is otherwise homogenous tissue that doesn't bleed. Even the poking doesn't trigger pain or bleeding. Viewable on YouTube here at the 0:45 mark: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm1WRlSg0Tg&t=45]].

* Certain RubberMan characters are depicted like this. Plastic Man is shown as having no internal anatomy anymore while [[Comicbook/{{DoomPatrol}} Elastigirl's]] body was replaced with "protoplasm", turning her into shapeshifting pink bologna. The Ultimate version of Mr. Fantastic gets thinly sliced like bologna in the 2015 Secret Wars and is shown to have just as much anatomy, being previously established to be a pliable "bacterial sack" in the shape of a person.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008 SCP-3008]] -- "A Perfectly Normal, Regular Old IKEA". The Staff members inside SCP-3008 are seven feet tall, with short legs, long arms, and no faces. When they're cut up they appear to be entirely made of skin, with no bones, organs, or muscles.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has Roberto the insane robot cut a strip of skin from Hermes's arm to reveal a slice of bloodless pink bologna. That piece of skin is so spicy that it dissolves the robot.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}: Alien veterinarian Drrr declares Philip Fry too sick to be saved, and prepares to euthanize him. Lrrr arrives, and disintegrates Drrr's right arm, thwarting the injection. While Lrrr counsels his son that he should be the one doing the euthanizing, Drrr pokes at the bologna-like tissue where his arm used to be. It has a white bone core, and greenish skin, but is otherwise homogenous tissue that doesn't bleed. Even the poking doesn't trigger pain or bleeding. Viewable on YouTube here at the 0:45 mark: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm1WRlSg0Tg&t=45]].

* Some older installments of the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' which steers into {{Gorn}}fest territory would depict monsters in such fashion. Notably at least two instances in ''Series/UltramanAce'', when the titular Ultra [[TorsoWithAView punched a hole through Doragory]] and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sliced King Kappa vertically in two]] - their exposed innards are portrayed as red, smooth clay instead of guts.

* Some older installments of the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' which steers into {{Gorn}}fest territory would depict monsters in such fashion. Notably at least two instances in ''Series/UltramanAce'', when the titular Ultra [[TorsoWithAView punched a hole through DOragory]] and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sliced King Kappa vertically in two]] - their exposed innards are portrayed as red, smooth clay instead of guts.

* Wiki/ThisVeryWiki's illustration for DeadUnicornTrope reveals that the legendary {{Unicorn}}, when bisected, is internally composed of an undifferentiated mass of pink flesh, rainbow-colored blood, and a CartoonBone where you'd expect a spine to be. Truly a wondrous beast.

* Klaw from ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' is an EnergyBeing made of visible, solidified sound. In the first ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'', he gets sliced into a series of lenses by Doctor Doom. Each lens is uniformly pale pink; Klaw seems to have pigment only on his outermost surfaces.

* Klaw from ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' is an EnergyBeing made of visible, solid sound. In the first Secret Wars, he's studied and sliced into pieces by Doctor Doom, appearing as vivid pink on the inside as he is on the outside.

* Very much averted in the anime adaptation of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Part 5]] of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' with the fate of poor Sorbet; in the [[EnhancedOnDVD uncensored]] Blu-Ray release [[https://jojocomparisons.github.io/videos/VA10/05%20-%20sorbet.webm a full and anatomical cross-section can be seen.]] The original manga panels are slightly less gory, generally looking more comparable to bologna with pimientos.

Compare MadeOfPlasticine, which also involves bodies that lack the details and obstacles of realistic internal anatomy -- but usually in a way that ''increases'' the {{Squick}} factor.

* In ''[[Recap/WhatIfS1E8WhatIfUltronWon What If Ultron Won]]'', Thanos appears on Earth to retrieve the Mind Stone and Ultron slices him right in half as soon as he sees the other Infinity Stones in the Gauntlet. Thanos' innards are shown as a solid red.

Of course, depicting all the myriad structures and tissues in a living body violates TheLawOfConservationOfDetail and would also look mighty gruesome. Therefore, cartoon characters are made of a bologna-like substance that doesn't bleed and has no annoying details. Hacking a character to pieces becomes bloodless, and qualifies as AmusingInjuries rather than {{Squick}}. This also sometimes crops up in live action works, mainly for similar reasons as above, but also because it can save time and money on special effects; why go to the effort of having blood ooze or showcasing the various shapes and colours of internal anatomy when sometimes, uniform red meat is all you need.

Compare MadeOfPlasticine, which also involves bodies which lack the details and obstacles of realistic internal anatomy -- but usually in a way that ''increases'' the {{Squick}} factor.

* ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'' employs this trope, as despite much wielding of katanas, no innards are seen nor do internal organs spill out. One glimpse of brains occurs when a random passerby's skull is struck by Jaki's EpicFlail.

* Klaw from ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' is an EnergyBeing made of visible, solid sound. In the first Secret Wars he's studied and sliced into pieces by Doctor Doom, appearing as vivid pink on the inside as he is on the outside.

* The Thursday 5 June 2014 strip of Creator/ScottAdams's ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' has the company robot neatly detach Topper's head mid-sentence, revealing reddish bologna and a mounting hole. Fortunately, Topper being Topper, he simply remounts his head on its neck stump, and is good to go.

* ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' has a variation when Joy and Sadness are trying to wake Riley up from Dream Productions. They initially enter the set in a dog costume which, through the Reality Distortion Filter, looks like an ordinary dog; but when the costume splits in two the insides of the dog look like a ham leg.

* Al Yankovic's ''{{Film/UHF}}'' has a promo for the TV series ''Conan the Librarian'' where Conan splits a teen in half lengthwise for returning a borrowed book late. The shot is brief, but reveals only reddish meat within the victim.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008 SCP-3008]] -- "A Perfectly Normal, Regular Old IKEA". The Staff members inside SCP-3008 are seven feet tall, with short legs, long arms and no faces. When they're cut up they appear to be entirely made of skin, with no bones, organs or muscles.

** In "In The Garden Of Mindy," Brain is sliced to little pieces after getting run over by a lawn mower.

* Creator/ChuckJones' WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies short ''WesternAnimation/FromAToZZZZ'' has a little boy daydream that he's a deep sea diver. While underwater, he's attacked by a tiger shark. He cuts it in half with a knife and it appears to be solid tissue inside.

* One [[WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther Pink Panther]] cartoon is "Put-Put, Pink" in which Pink builds a motorized vehicle that's mostly a brass headboard with a two-cylinder engine. When a traffic cop insists that he stop, Pink has insufficient brakes, and runs through the officer sideways. The poor lawman falls apart in grey slices.

* OlderThanTheyThink and likely OlderThanPrint: The folk tale of ''Medio Pollito'', also known as ''Little Half-Chick''; the title character is born as a half chick.

* OlderThanTheyThink and likely OlderThanPrint: The folk tale of ''Medio Pollito'', also known as ''Little Half-Chick''

Of course, depicting all the myriad structures and tissues in a living body violates the {{Law of Conservation of Detail}} and would also look mighty gruesome. Therefore, cartoon characters are made of a bologna-like substance that doesn't bleed and has no annoying details. Hacking a character to pieces becomes bloodless, and qualifies as AmusingInjuries rather than {{Squick}}. This also sometimes crops up in live action works, mainly for similar reasons as above, but also because it can save time and money on special effects; why go to the effort of having blood ooze or showcasing the various shapes and colours of internal anatomy when sometimes, uniform red meat is all you need.

* Of course present in ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon''. Characters are often cut in half in diferent ways, with no viscera or blood to speak of, and it simply takes some glue, sewing, or even pressing hard the two pieces to repair the damage.

* In the role-playing game ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'', there is a powerful Advantage called "No Internal Organs". This means a character never suffers from complicated medical problems, because their interior becomes uniform undifferentiated tissue. (It's mostly found among plants and fungus, but...)

* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' characters are drawn in this style to soften some of the {{Gorn}}-ier moments.