History Main / RainOfBlood

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula'': Batman defeats Vampire Joker by knocking over shelves loaded with blood samples (they're battling in the storage area of a blood bank); as the blood starts raining down around Joker, he's distracted trying to slurp it up and Bats knocks him unconsious.

* An episode of ''Series/BloodTies'' has one of the villain's victims drip onto Victoria.

* In one of the chapters in ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden II'', Elizebet utilizes the Demon Statue that she stole from the Dragon Clan to begin the rebirth of the Archfiend. Cue blood raining from the sky for no other reason than to have the next part of the level look cool.

* Pictured above is Suija's [[FinishingMove Zetsumei Ougi]] from ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown 5 Special''. Before ''that'' happened, he levitated his victim above him and made them explode.

* Pictured above is Suija from ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' performing his fatality, in which he psychically lifts his opponent into the air and makes them explode. Whatever is left of the opponent begins to rain down upon him and he starts [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything starts spasming in ecstasy]].
** And if you play the U.S. version, which is censored, instead of raining blood it rains... [[FromBadToWorse cum]]. [[MemeticMutation And Suija can't get enough of it]].

* ''Film/RapturePalooza'' features blood raining from the sky as a sign of the apocalypse - since more horrifying things are already going on at this point, the main characters seem to just treat this as a particularly disgusting annoyance.

* Happens in the first "case" of ''Manga/DetectiveConan''. 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]]...

* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' the first time Galatea encounters rain, she screams, [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080830.html "The sky is bleeding!"]]

* In the 1934 musical mystery film ''Murder at the Vanities'', the body of a woman who was killed and left on a catwalk above a theater's stage is discovered after her blood drips onto a chorus girl, who screams.

* In the ''HawkAndFisher'' series, a magical attempt on a politician's life causes a rain of blood inside his house. The blood then forms into monsters and attacks everyone.

* Combining a Hydrosophist and Necromancer skill book in ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin2'' will create the aptly named "Blood Rain" skill book. Casting it will coat the ground with blood (which can be interacted with via the game's GeoEffects system). It puts out fires like the regular Rain spell, but will also cause anyone in the area without physical armor to begin bleeding.

* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' should not be left either, since [[spoiler: Genkishi is taken over by Kikyo's evil patch of maybe useless bluebells and then is blown up with blood splattering everywhere in front of Yamamoto.]] At least Tsuna only heard it on his headphones, otherwise he'd probably collapse.

* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''

* Tomoe and Kenshin are introduced to each other in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' manga and corresponding OVA (''Trust and Betrayal'') 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 faint. We later find out she was drunk when this exchange occurs, but it's a good EstablishingCharacterMoment for her in retrospect.

* ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'':
** The shapeshifter Zongi meets his end this way after Dilandau crushes him like a soda can with one of his Mech's flexible metal claws as revenge for killing one of Dilandau's subordinates. The sight of this in a vision sends Hitomi so deep into a HeroicBSOD that her heart literally stops.
** Later on, Hitomi has a disturbing vision where she bears witness to a literal Rain Of Blood falling from the sky. This is an omen predicting the not-too-happy outcome of an upcoming battle.
* In the ''VisualNovel/{{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 ''Manga/{{X1999}}''.
* In ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' [[spoiler: The Will of Abyss dispatches Albus like this.]] Particularly disturbing: [[spoiler:her]] 'Pretty... so pretty...' as it falls.
** [[spoiler:Lacie]] sings and dances under a rain of blood after [[spoiler:doing away with two men who attacked her and Jack.]]
* Occurs at least once in ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' in the psychic-attack form.
* Just to emphasize how badass the characters were, during the Koga massacre in ''Anime/NinjaScroll'' their blood appears to rain.

* Seen in the ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' manga when Inuyasha in [[SuperpoweredEvilSide full-demon form]] beheads a dozen of bandits. They also have rain of demon corpses.
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. The main character lives to make this trope happen.
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[spoiler: the critically injured Kaname Tousen explodes in a shower of blood, right in front of his horrified lieutenant and former best friend.]]
** There's also Gin's EstablishingCharacterMoment in the Soul Society arc, where he cuts off the arm of the giant guarding the Seiretei gate and the blood splatters all over. The name of the chapter is even named 'Rain Of Blood'.
* This happens in ''Manga/{{Emerging}}'' when victims of ThePlague enter its final, fatal stage.

* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' should not be left either, since [[spoiler: Genkishi is taken over by Kikyo's evil patch of maybe useless bluebells and then is blown up with blood splattering everywhere in front of Yamamoto.]] At least Tsuna only heard it on his headphones, otherwise he'd probably collapse.
* One of the many times Dokuro kills Sakura in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'', she rips his body into shreds and than states how his blood shall become the rainwater.
* In ''Anime/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.]]
* Happens multiple times in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' due to everyone being subject to HighPressureBlood and living in a WorldOfHam. At one point Ryuko is standing under a rain of her own blood that looks like a ''geyser''.
* A bit of a variant in ''Anime/KinnikumanNisei''. Jade ([[DubNameChange Jaeger]]) inherited his master, Brocken, Jr.'s, Red Rain of Berlin ([[DubNameChange Red Rain of Pain]]) attack. While Brocken always did a series of chops, Jade apparently perfected the move by doing a single chop from Gazelleman's ([[DubNameChange Dik Dik Van Dik's]]) face to his midsection, causing [[HighPressureBlood blood to shoot so high]] that it rained blood.

* TheMovie of ''Film/SilentHill'' pulls this off in the last scenes with the vicious cult leader being strung up by barbed wire. That fact that the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the town's evil in the form of a CreepyChild was happy-skipping under said rain just adds to the effect.

* In ''Film/{{Blade}}'', human blood was piped through the sprinkler system, creating both a rain of blood and suppertime to a rave club full of vampires.
* Well, waterfall of blood in ''Film/{{Byzantium}}'', anyway.

* Pictured above is Suija's [[FinishingMove Zetsumei Ougi]] from ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown 5 Special''. Before ''that'' happened, he levitated his victim above him and made them explode.
** The censored versions had the blood recoloured [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything white]]. Suija's ZO remained the same...except the blood colour which was white. Draw your own conclusions as to what THIS entailed.
* ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' has a move of this name that throws the enemy into the air and cleaves him open with a broadsword, creating the Rain Of Blood in the process.

* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: 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.
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', 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.
** Quan Chi's Brutality in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' has him do his regular portal throw attack but instead of his opponent coming out the portal in one piece like usual, they arrive as LudicrousGibs and [[OffWithHisHead a severed head]] pouring atop Quan Chi.

* The Indian Rope Trick, an alleged stage illusion, features the magician "dismembering" his assistant in an unlit area above the stage and tossing his severed body parts to the floor. There's no evidence that this was ever actually performed, and real-life magicians doubt the supposed methods used to accomplish it, but story--accounts of it date back at least to 1890.

* Happens in the first "case" of ''Manga/DetectiveConan''. 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]]...

* In O-Ren Ishii's flashback in ''Film/KillBill Volume 1'', she sees a rain of blood from under a bed where she's hidden after her mother is stabbed up above.
* Not to be outdone, ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' has a blood geyser. The trilogy in general seems to have HighPressureBlood in vast quantities that, frankly, it's surprising that people don't pop like blood-balloons when they get so much as poked.

* ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959'' has drops of blood fall from the ceiling onto the hand of one of the guests. [[HauntedHouseHistorian Watson Pritchard]] tells the woman that the house has marked her. Notable in being one of the scenes [[spoiler: that supports the idea the house is actually haunted]].
* The famous Elevator Scene from ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' starts with some blood falling from the elevator's ceiling and hitting a cop in the face.
* Happens in ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers''. "It's raining, Mommy. It's raining red."

* An interesting version (Triple Subversion?) in the first ''Film/SpiderMan1'' movie: Peter is using his wall crawling to hide from Aunt May, Harry and Norman Osborn, and Mary Jane. A drop of blood from a cut in a previous battle with Norman's alter ego almost falls on Norman's head (subversion one: it doesn't hit the person it drips on) as he turns to leave. Norman hears it splash on the floor (subversion two: super senses render the last point moot as he is still aware of the blood drop) and looks up, but finds no body (subversion three: No body).
* Non-blood variant: In the first ''Film/MenInBlack'' movie, Kay realizes that [[spoiler: a Bug has infiltrated the morgue]] when he attempts to smoke a cigarette and [[spoiler: bug-spit drips on the tip]]. Cue the camera panning up to [[spoiler: the other morgue employee's corpse glued to the ceiling]].
* Subverted in ''Film/{{Predator}}'', in that none of TheSquad led by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger see it. As they search the jungle below, we see blood dripping on a leaf above their heads, then the camera pans up to reveal the naked body of their colleague hanging from the treetops.

* In ''TheTripper'', this is how a corpse hanging from a tree is discovered.

* A 1960's-era horror movie about a TownWithADarkSecret had children sacrificed by evil cultists. The opening shot features a sleeping woman sitting under a tree. Red drops start falling on her face and she opens her eyes and looks up--[[StabTheSalad only to see her daughter standing over her with a cherry sno-cone]].

* In the 1934 musical mystery film ''Murder at the Vanities'', the body of a woman who was killed and left on a catwalk above a theater's stage is discovered after her blood drips onto a chorus girl, who screams.

* In Creator/{{Claude Chabrol}}'s 1970 serial killer movie ''Film/LeBoucher'', a girl on a picnic is about to eat a white bread roll when red drops splash on her bread. It turns out that it’s blood dripping from a body that’s hidden in the hill above. The scene has [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/american-psycho/ inspired Mary Harron in designing the opening credits]] for her 2000 movie ''Film/{{American Psycho}}''.
* Quite a few pedestrians in the streets below get spattered by blood-drops after ''Film/QTheWingedSerpent'' snatches a sunbather from a rooftop.
* ''Film/RipperLetterFromHell'': When the killer butchers Marissa, the blood drips down through a hole in the ceiling on to a white clad party goer who is dancing below, and who does not notice until she is almost drenched in blood.
* ''Film/FromBeyondTheGrave'': In "The Gatecrasher", Charlton's downstairs neighbour notices a red drop fall on the page of the book he is reading. Looking up, he sees a red stain spreading on his ceiling and slowly dripping. Not realising what the liquid is, he goes upstairs to complain to Charlton about his housekeeping. As the liquid is blood dripping from the bodies Charlton has concealed under his floorboards, this ends badly for poor Mr. Jeffries.

* Kerry Greenwood's ''Blood and Circuses''. In the beginning, a bunch of people are having breakfast with their landlady, and the ceiling's leaking- it does that sometimes when someone lets their bath overflow. The landlady asks one of her people to go and ask the guy to do something about it, and she comes back and says the bath's dry as a tap. The landlady got a drop on her cheek, and her hand comes away stained with blood. They look up and there's a massive, spreading red stain on the ceiling. Then she realizes that some of the blood dripped into her tea and she drank it all.
* Intentionally invoked by some 5th-century British pagans in ''Sarum'', when they undergo the ''taurobolium'': a ''supposedly''[[labelnote:*]]The ancient Christian apologist who claimed contemporary Pagans bathed in blood is the only source for this, and was not necessarily a reliable source about religions the Christian church was persecuting.[[/labelnote]] TruthInTelevision ancient purification rite in which a bull is sacrificed over a pit, while the worshipers seeking purity stand underneath to be showered in its blood.

** And in the third episode of season one - one of the party hunting the Wendigo has gone missing after chasing it. Next morning, the remaining group is standing in the woods when blood drips onto one of them. Then the missing man's body comes hurtling out of the trees and lands among them.
* An episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' uses the blood dripping onto an agent down below to lead to the discovery of two bodies that have been strung up in the trees.
* Done in an episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'': 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.
* An episode of ''Series/BloodTies'' has one of the villain's victims drip onto Victoria.
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' featured this in one episode; a church bellringer starts pulling on a rope during bellringing practice, only to be splattered with blood dripping through the ceiling from the belfry.
* Done without the GoryDiscretionShot in Series/TheRiver.
* In the ColdOpen to an episode of ''Series/{{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.

* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "Victor, Victorian", Murdoch and Brackenridge are showing the Masons a sketch of a suspect at the Masonic Lodge when blood starts dripping on to the sketch. The blood is coming from someone lying dead in the room upstairs.

* A drop of blood heralds an impending ass-kicking on [[http://omega_key.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=60 The Omega Key]].
* In chapter 49 of ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'', [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10967 Shan'naal discovers Judicator Kousei]] where the latter has slumped over a railing following a vicious attack by BloodMagic that wiped most of his Order. While everyone else died from their injuries, he managed to survive, albeit at the cost of one of his eyes.

* Happens in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' twice, when Unit 01 bursts out of Leliel and Unit 01 under the Dummy Plug system beats the living shit out of Bardiel, spraying blood everywhere and even giving a nearby river a red tint.

* Subverted in ''Manga/TheDreaming''. Jeannie has a nightmare about being trapped in a clearing in the bush, and it's raining blood. Later, she winds up in a clearing exactly like the one in her dream. Then some 'blood' falls on her. [[spoiler: It turns out to be tree sap]].

* D'Hoffryn does this in ''ComicBook/{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'' season 10.
* ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}'': During the revolt in Rome against Nero's misrule, Aquila and Felix try to find their ways through the sewers as the blood spilled from fights between the citizens and Nero's praetorians rains down on them.

* ''Film/TurboKid'' features a literal shower of blood at the end after the Kid uses a beach umbrella to impale and then kill [[TheDragon Skeletron]]. It also counts as a RomanticRain, amusingly enough.
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' has blood raining in the opening.
* Drops of blood fall from the ceiling in the original ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959'' (the Vincent Price version). Most of the supernatural elements in the movie are explained away as tricks but it's never resolved just who or what those drops came from (which is why this is here and not in form one).

* ''Series/{{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 remake of V, this happens at season 1 finale. Turns out it isn't really blood (though it sure looks like it) but a precursor to something much, much worse.

* The Bloodspeakers pulled this off in ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'', tainting a large number of samurai/shugenja in the process.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', the aptly-named Blood Monsoon, a powerful necromantic spell, causes a geyser of blood followed by a torrential downpour of blood over a few miles' radius.
* A low-level wizard spell from the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting has this effect, which is mostly of use as a scare tactic.
* A journeyman druid spell in ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' causes not only blood but gore and entrails to rain down on one's foes. It causes some damage and quite understandably freaks those enemies out if they fail their saves. But it's Unholy Magic and therefore carries certain risks.

* The Sorrow, from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3''. It rains blood when he shows up at least twice!
* In ''VideoGame/Killer7'', KAEDE Smith's gimmick involves [[BloodyMurder causing a blood shower by slitting her wrists]] in order to break certain barriers.
** A red shower is also the result of a Smile experiment on Andrei Ulmeyda, which happens to be filled with the diseases Ulmeyda infected himself with as a form of thrillseeking. It's so infectious it kills anyone hit with it except the [=Killer7=] ([[spoiler:they're dead to begin with]]) and Gabriel Clemence, Ulmeyda's follower, who is immune to said diseases due to the cult's rituals.
* In one of the chapters in ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden II'', Elizebet utilizes the Demon Statue that she stole from the Dragon Clan to begin the rebirth of the Archfiend. Cue blood raining from the sky for no other reason than to have the next part of the level look cool.
* In ''VideoGame/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 the ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}'' canon, it is strongly implied that within the village proper all sources of water in nature turns to blood (well, technically it's some kind of plague water, but...). In the manual of ''Siren 1'' it's even used to justify your regenerating health, since you keep regenerating because the water is already in your veins, slowly transforming you into a shibito and, unless the person has a certain family's blood in them, there's no avoiding this fate. Even then, once the water is in the character's veins they are stuck in the underworld for good.
* In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaTheDraculaXChronicles'', one of Dracula's third form's attacks literally makes the blood rain from above.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has this as a regular weather phenomenon in evil biomes. The fact that this is one of the ''better'' possibilities if it starts to rain speaks volumes about what kind of land we're dealing with.
** One amusing bug that was run into during development resulted in ''skin flake snow.''
* ''VideoGame/SwordOfMana'' has a blood rain that is actually benevolent. Slaying a certain monster responsible for a curse will cause her blood to rain down on the kingdom, breaking the curse by melting the ice she had encased everyone in.
* ''VideoGame/VampiresDawn'': A rain of blood signaled the beginning of the Holy Crusades against vampires.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}} Freudenstachel'', Grolla gets a bloody rainstorm near the end of her stage.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has a boss which uses an attack actually called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Blood Rain]]; used right after eating an add, the more health the add had when eaten the more damage it does. Take too long to kill her and she'll eat one of the players triggering a Blood Rain that instantly kills off everyone else.
* ''VideoGame/OutlastII'' has blood rain appear in some scenes. These are presumably hallucinations on the protagonist's part; the whole game is his descent into madness.
* If you let the clock run up to twelve midnight in ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'', no matter what room you're in, it'll start raining blood. [[spoiler:It's later revealed to be the tears of the King in Red.]]
* Combining a Hydrosophist and Necromancer skill book in ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin2'' will create the aptly named "Blood Rain" skill book. Casting it will coat the ground with blood (which can be interacted with via the game's GeoEffects system). It puts out fires like the regular Rain spell, but will also cause anyone in the area without physical armor to begin bleeding.

* [[http://gunshowcomic.com/165 The Blood Cloud]] from Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Weirdmageddon Part 1", this isn't shown onscreen, but a news report mentions blood rain. The river is red, so it's likely that it turned to blood as well.

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', Dracula's first attack on Wallachia is signaled by blood raining from the sky. It's just a drop at first, then blood pours down in torrents, along with ''stillborn demon fetuses'' before the legions of hell break loose all over the city.

* ''WebAnimation/HTFPlus'': This happens in HTF+CC 1.

* Pictured above is Suija's Zetsumei Ougi from ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown 5 Special''. Before ''that'' happened, he levitated his victim above him and made them explode.

** A body is discovered in the [[Series/CSINewYork New York spinoff]] by a pair of college students when they feel something wet drip on them while attempting to have sex.

* In ''Discworld/IShallWearMidnight'', Keepsake Hall used to be afflicted with this trope at the instigation of a former Duke's ghost. In more recent times, he's given up on such gory methods of haunting, and settles for pulling the chain on the lavatory toilet instead.

* Given that the [=EVAs=] in ''Anime/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.