History Main / RainOfBlood

* Tomoe and Kenshin are introduced to each other in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' manga and corresponding OVA (''Trust and Betrayal'' or ''Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal'' in America) right after he dispatches a foe by slicing him in half in the air and splattering the remnants on her as she's walking by. The effect of the blood and the already-present rain inspires her to comment that he's made it "rain blood" and then promptly faints. We later find out she was drunk when this exchange occurs, but it's a good EstablishingCharacterMoment for her in retrospect.

->''"Raining blood,\\

Now I shall reign in blood!"''

* Tomoe and Kenshin are introduced to each other in ''RurouniKenshin'' manga and corresponding OVA (''Trust and Betrayal'' or ''Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal'' in America) right after he dispatches a foe by slicing him in half in the air and splattering the remnants on her as she's walking by. The effect of the blood and the already-present rain inspires her to comment that he's made it "rain blood" and then promptly faints. We later find out she was drunk when this exchange occurs, but it's a good EstablishingCharacterMoment for her in retrospect.
* ''{{Claymore}}'':

* Gaara's "Sand Burial" technique in ''{{Naruto}}''. First he entombs them in a mass of sand, and then, with a clench of the fist, the sand instantaneously compresses with such insane pressure that the victim's body is ''liquefied'' instantly, resulting in a huge burst of blood in every direction. The first time we saw it, Gaara literally used an umbrella (stolen from his victim) to cover himself from the resulting crimson shower (which involved so much blood that the censors in the anime [[BlackBlood made it black, even in the uncut Japanese version]]). Naturally, being drenched in their team leader's blood utterly terrified the other two foes, who begged for their lives in vain before meeting the same fate.
* ''VisionOfEscaflowne'':

* In the ''{{Tsukihime}}'' {{manga}}, Shiki laughs manically after slaughtering a herd of Nero's beasts as their blood rains down upon him.
* Fuuma dispatches Kusanagi this way with a psychic attack after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he outlives his usefulness]] in the movie version of ''{{X1999}}''.
* In ''PandoraHearts'' [[spoiler: The Will of Abyss dispatches Albus like this.]] Particularly disturbing: [[spoiler:her]] 'Pretty... so pretty...' as it falls.

* Just to emphasize how Badass the characters were, during the Koga massacre in ''NinjaScroll'' their blood appears to rain.

** In the ''RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies, it seems that when an Angel's core is destroyed they explode into [[strike:blood]] LCL, and the Angels being so immense causes an all-splattering Rain Of Blood. This accompanies the cross-shaped explosions, so a rainbow also results.

* ''{{Berserk}}''. The main character lives to make this trope happen.

* In ''{{Psyren}}'', one of the agents for the W.I.S.E. decides it's time for him to take action, and starts massacring guards with a crowbar. We only see blood everywhere, mostly splattered over him, mauled bodies, and maniacal laughter.

* Happens multiple times in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' due to everyone being subject to HighPressureBlood and living in a WorldOfHam. At one point Ryuko is under a rain of her own blood that looks like a ''geyser''.

* In the first season of ''{{Dexter}}'', the title character has a disturbing dream that begins with rain that turns to blood. Then it gets worse.

* Used in ''{{CSI}}'' with the discovery of a body and the iconic line "It's raining manjuice."
** A body is discovered in the [[CSINewYork New York spinoff]] by a pair of college students when they feel something wet drip on them while attempting to have sex.
* In an episode of ''{{Dexter}}'', the titular anti-hero is having memory issues, and can't remember where he hid his most recent corpse. He remembers when a drop of blood hits him on the cheek after falling from the punching bag he had stuffed it in, and hidden in the rafters.

* Happens in the first "case" of ''CaseClosed''. Everyone's on a roller coaster going through a Tunnel and they notice that for some reason it's "raining". Then they exit the tunnel and see [[OffWithHisHead what's happened to the passenger in front of them]]...

A version of a GoryDiscretionShot, because the body itself is usually not seen. Usually takes one of three
forms:

The first is when a character (very likely a {{Badass}}) knocks someone into the air and tears them apart while they're up there using a sword, gun, psychic attack, etc. Often accompanied by maniacal laughter or some wry comment when carried out by the AntiHero or NobleDemon -- extra points if they seem totally unfazed by what they've just done.

The second involves an unknowing character finding a drop of "water" on themselves or the floor, and upon looking up see a body in a high place dripping down on them. Sometimes takes the form of blood seeping through the ceiling, often onto a character's face or into their [[EyeScream eye]]. Cue [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Girly-scream]].

A third form is when it actually is raining blood. Cue the arrival of the religious horror or EldritchAbomination.

!!Examples of the first form

!!Examples of the second form

!!Examples of the third form

* Parodied when Van Helsing (played by the producer, Creator/MelBrooks) has the hero "stake" a vampire in ''Dracula: Dead and Loving It'': upon the first blow of the mallet, a jet of gallons and gallons of blood soaks the entire room for about twenty seconds, he complains, Van Helsing (who already hid behind a corner beforehand) tells him to keep hammering the stake in, it happens again with even more blood ([[EnforcedMethodActing the actor was not informed of how much blood was going to spray out of the coffin]]). And after the second shot, Van Helsing tells him to keep hammering, declaring that she can't have much blood left, resulting in ''another'' ridiculous Rain Of Blood. Van Helsing then says, "She's almost dead!" The main character replies, "She's dead enough."

-->--'''Music/{{Slayer}}''', "Raining Blood"

* Starting with ''Rondo of Blood'', most ''{{Castlevania}}'' mains have died in roughly this manner...regardless of how they were killed. Absolutely anything, from being hit with a giant axe, to being lightly tapped by an angry bat when low on health, will cause them to fly into the air and dissolve in a mist of blood.
** Subverted in ''Order of Ecclesia'', where Shanoa simply collapses if she gets killed while on the ground most times instead of this trope, which only happens under certain circumstances. Somewhat annoying from a gameplay perspective, as you may not immediately notice that she's dead.

* In ''EternalDarkness'' when your sanity gets really low the ceilings appear to drip blood. This causes damage to you, indicating that your body is starting to suffer from the stress on your mind.

* In ''{{Castlevania}}: The Dracula X Chronicles'' one of Dracula's third form's attacks literally makes the blood rain from above.

* In the ColdOpen to an episode of ''{{Castle}}'', a group of painters are painting an apartment white. One painter dips his roller, and it starts to paint pink. Cue looking at his paint tray and seeing blood dripping into it from the ceiling.

* In ''{{Carnivale}}'', Brother Justin gets a vision involving snow that turns into a rain of blood in the street. He thinks it's a sign from God. Oh, how wrong he is...
* ''{{Smallville}}'' had a bodiless version with a recurring dream. Lex Luthor is dressed in white out in the open. Suddenly it begins raining blood, soaking his outfit into a crimson color.

* In the ''{{Geobreeders}}'' manga, the protagonists are chasing a Ghost Cat through a passenger train. The UnluckyEverydude character notices something dripping on the windows, and realizes that the Ghost Cat had gone into the driver compartment and slaughtered the train staff, resulting in their blood streaming past the windows. This, incidentally, is an action-comedy manga.

* Done in an episode of ''{{The X-Files}}'': A drop of blood falls onto Mulder's head. He thinks it's raining again ... until he and Scully look up and find a length of human intestine wrapped around a tree branch.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Mash}}'', lack of sleep was causing everyone to have nightmares every time they '''did''' doze off. Father Mulcahy dreamed he'd become the Pope and was about to preach a sermon ... when he discovered the cross beside him had a G.I. crucified on it and dripping onto his robes.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'', this apparently happens [[http://www.erfworld.com/summer-update-2009-archive/?px=%2FE015_Sheep_600.jpg in Transylvito]]:
-->''One benefit of traveling with Transylvitians was sleeping in the field without getting bitten by mosquitoes. One drawback was that it occasionally rained something that wasn't weather.''[[note]]since line before that is talking about Transylvitan bats, the first part of that quote more than likely refers to their predation on insects (the absence of mosquitoes), and the second implying that the moist stuff falling from the sky is ''bat guano''.[[/note]]

* Happens during the universal collapse in the [[AmalgamUniverse DC vs. Marvel]] crossover. [[NightmareFetishist Thanos had never been happier.]]

* In MortalKombat 9, Both fatalities of DLC character [[MeaningfulName Skarlet]] feature her slicing open a massive wound either on the neck or stomach and swishing her face around under like shes taking a shower.

* In [[HalfLife Half-Life 2: Episode 2]], DOG kills a Combine Strider by ripping the armor off its 'head', jamming his hand inside, and tearing the brain out in a shower of yellow-brown blood.

* [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2002/06/28/episode-167-what-goes-up-must-come-down/ Done in]] ''[[WebComic/EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]]'' after a city is obliterated.
* In ''{{Erfworld}}'', this apparently happens [[http://www.erfworld.com/summer-update-2009-archive/?px=%2FE015_Sheep_600.jpg in Transylvito]]:
-->''One benefit of traveling with Transylvitians was sleeping in the field without getting bitten by mosquitoes. One drawback was that it occasionally rained something that wasn't weather.''[[hottip:*:since line before that is talking about Transylvitan bats, the first part of that quote more than likely refers to their predation on insects (the absence of mosquitoes), and the second implying that the moist stuff falling from the sky is ''bat guano''.]]

* In one episode of ''[[{{MASH}} M* A* S* H]]'', lack of sleep was causing everyone to have nightmares every time they '''did''' doze off. Father Mulcahy dreamed he'd become the Pope and was about to preach a sermon ... when he discovered the cross beside him had a G.I. crucified on it and dripping onto his robes.

[[quoteright:346:[[SamuraiShodown http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bloodrain_3808.png]]]]

-->--'''Music/{{Slayer}}''', ''Raining Blood''

* ''HorsemenOfTheApocalypse'': Pestilence causes this, along with a plague of locusts to herald the rapture in {{Squidbillies}}. The Cuylers [[TooKinkyToTorture happily]] eat the locusts and drink the blood, or as they call them "fried chicken and fruit punch."
-->'''Pestilence:''' It's blood! A sea of Blood! {{beat}} Okay, they're drinkin' the blood. What the hell? What the hell?

A third form is when it's actually is raining blood. Cue the arrival of the religious horror or EldritchAbomination.

* Parodied when Van Helsing (played by the producer, Creator/MelBrooks) has the hero "stake" a vampire in ''Dracula: Dead and Loving It'': upon the first blow of the mallet, a jet of gallons and gallons of blood soaks the entire room for about twenty seconds, he complains, Van Helsing (who already hid behind a corner beforehand) tells him to keep hammering the stake in, it happens again with even more blood ([[EnforcedMethodActing the actor was not informed of how much blood was going to spray out of the coffin]]). And after the second shot, Van Helsing tells him to keep hammering, declaring that she can't have much blood left, resulting in ''another'' ridiculous RainOfBlood. Van Helsing then says, "She's almost dead!" The main character replies, "She's dead enough."

* Raining Blood by Music/{{Slayer}}. After a particularly chaotic outro, there's 40 seconds or so of the sound of rain. Presumably, given the lyrics and title, it's raining blood.
* InsaneClownPosse is fond of this trope, usually combined with the BloodyBowelsOfHell.

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* This is one of the rarer shown special powers/mind game tricks of TheUndertaker's.
* StoneColdSteveAustin was the target in a promo leading to his First Blood match with Wrestler/{{Kane}} in 98.

* In ''PrincessTutu'', [[spoiler:once the Raven is unsealed, he releases a rain of his own blood onto the town, which turns all the townspeople exposed to it into crows.]]

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has this as a regular weather phenomenon in evil biomes.

* In ''Film/TheHouseThatDripsBloodonAlex'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the house drips. Blood. On Alex.]] The whole time. [[spoiler: When he goes up to the attic, he finds a corpse that turns out to be ''him''. MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.]]

* In ''The House That Drips Blood on Alex'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the house drips. Blood. On Alex.]] The whole time. [[spoiler: When he goes up to the attic, he finds a corpse that turns out to be ''him''. MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.]]

* Given that the [=EVAs=] in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are about 100 meters tall, and many of the Angels are even bigger, they obviously have a lot of blood. In later episodes the more powerful Angels easily resist almost all weapons, and so battles become more violent and savage, leaving entire city blocks covered in blood. Eva-01 ripping out of Leliel's shadow is particularly messy. In one scene Gendo stands to close and one fountain of blood completely drenches him.