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When a fluid (or highly flexible solid) falls and/or spreads in a way that it is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything made to look like]] blood. This is either to show a symbolic loss or to perform a [[StockParodies standard parody]].

Often the fluid will be red in colour, and sometimes this is a trick shot to make it appear like someone has been injured, only to later reveal otherwise.

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When a fluid (or highly flexible solid) falls and/or spreads in a way that it is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything made to look like]] blood. This is either to show a symbolic loss or to perform a [[StockParodies standard parody]].

parody]].

Often the fluid will be red in colour, and sometimes this is a trick shot to make it appear like someone has been injured, only to later reveal otherwise.
otherwise. It's sometimes used in kid- friendly shows to imply violence that would never pass the censors.
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* At one point, the ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' movie had Hellboy beating a monster with a payphone, the coins spraying out suspiciously like blood (or teeth). Apparently, it was Ron Perlman's idea.

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* At one point, the ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' movie had Hellboy beating a monster with a payphone, the coins spraying out suspiciously like blood (or teeth). Apparently, it was Ron Perlman's {{Ron Perlman}}'s idea.
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* ''Transformers: BeastWars'': when some bot go hit, bits of metal and hydraulic fluid go ''everywhere''.

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* ''Transformers: BeastWars'': when some bot go got hit, bits of metal and hydraulic fluid go ''everywhere''.
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* In TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime, after you defeat [[spoiler:Ganondorf's gerudo form]] he falls to the ground, with his red cape unfolding around him in a way that makes it look like it's actually blood flowing out of him.

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* In TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime, after you defeat [[spoiler:Ganondorf's gerudo form]] he falls to the ground, with his red cape unfolding around him in a way that makes it look like it's actually blood flowing out of him.him, keep in maind that this happens after he coughs blood (in some newer versions he coughs a green liquid (his own guts?!))
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who can say?


** [[FridgeLogic How much of that oil got in his wounds during the series]]?
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** Pirdak's markings have been confirmed to be just that, but since his design is based on a shark's it is obvious that they meant for it to be reminiscent of blood. Also, unlike the rest of the Matoran Universe, the Endless Ocean ''does'' have fully organic creatures, like fish.

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* In {{DragonBallZ}} Android 19,20, and 16 leaked red oil when damaged. Vegeta even notices this with 19.

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* In {{DragonBallZ}} [[DragonBall Dragon Ball Z,]] Android 19,20, 19, Android 20/Dr. Gero, and Android 16 leaked red oil when damaged. Vegeta even notices this with 19.19.
** It comes so close that some of it is removed in the edited version.
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* In ''WatershipDown'', Fiver sees the sunset turning the field red and is horrified to see it covered in blood. Although the red is simply light, the animation style makes it appear to run down like liquid.
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*One ''{{Bionicle}}'' commercial showed Mantax's tetacle being cut off, and a dark liquid flowing into the water. We know that characters in the Matoran Universe don't bleed, so it was either some other fluid (ink?), or completely non-canon. [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks Pridak]] also has some suspicious red markings around his mouth...
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* In ''RebuildOfEvangelion'' when an Evangelion is injured the corresponding body part of the pilot is wreathed in a stream of foaming bubbles.
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* In {{DragonBallZ}} Android 19,20, and 16 leaked red oil when damaged.

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* In {{DragonBallZ}} Android 19,20, and 16 leaked red oil when damaged. Vegeta even notices this with 19.
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* In one episode of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Katara is attacked by Ty Lee, and drops her bottle of water when she falls, which spills and forms a pool around her, as if she'd been stabbed (although she actually went down because of a [[PressurePoint Vulcan Nerve Pinch]]).

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* In one episode of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Katara is attacked by Ty Lee, and drops her bottle of water waterskin when she falls, which spills and forms a pool around her, as if she'd been stabbed (although she actually went down because of a [[PressurePoint Vulcan Nerve Pinch]]).
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* In TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime, after you defeat [[spoiler:Ganondorf's gerudo form]] he falls to the ground, with his red cape unfolding around him in a way that makes it look like it's actually blood flowing out of him. This troper actually mistook it for blood when he first saw it.

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* In TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime, after you defeat [[spoiler:Ganondorf's gerudo form]] he falls to the ground, with his red cape unfolding around him in a way that makes it look like it's actually blood flowing out of him. This troper actually mistook it for blood when he first saw it.
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* ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has this when [[spoiler:the fourth form of Fate, Quartum appears to promptly slash Chachamaru in half at the mid-section, leaving her bleeding and [[TearsOfBlood crying]] fluids all over the deck of the Great Paru-sama, implying that she's powered by hydraulics]].
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What do you mean, barely visible? You just had to look at the guy\'s arm and see the cape looked a LOT like blood.
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replaced pic, old was barely visible


[[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blood1_9865.png]]
[[caption-width:350:[[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence And this is considered a kids' game?]]]]

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[[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime [[quoteright:350:[[AvatarTheLastAirbender http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blood1_9865.png]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:That's gotta hurt.]]
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* In ''DirgeOfCerberus: FinalFantasyVII'', Shalua is killed by Azul, in a scene in which she holds a door open with her mechanical arm so that the others can escape. When the arm is destroyed, some... medical liquid starts to flow from under the door. And as you may guess, blood-like.
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** [[FridgeLogic How much of that oil got in his wounds during the series]]?
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[[caption-width:350:It's his cape.]]

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[[caption-width:350:It's his cape.]]
[[caption-width:350:[[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence And this is considered a kids' game?]]]]
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[[caption-width:350:[[DullSuprize It's his cape.]]]]

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[[caption-width:350:[[DullSuprize It's [[caption-width:350:It's his cape.]]]]
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[[caption-width:350:[[DullSuprise It's his cape.]]]]

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[[caption-width:350:[[DullSuprise [[caption-width:350:[[DullSuprize It's his cape.]]]]
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[[caption-width:350:[[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence And this is considered a kids' game?]]]]

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[[caption-width:350:[[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence And this is considered a kids' game?]]]]
[[caption-width:350:[[DullSuprise It's his cape.]]]]
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[[caption-width:350:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids And this is considered a kids' game?]]]]

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[[caption-width:350:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids [[caption-width:350:[[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence And this is considered a kids' game?]]]]
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->And then our flag will fly...
->...against a blood-red sky.

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->And ->''And then our flag will fly...
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fly...''
->''...
against a blood-red sky.''
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Page quote, albeit not a very literal one. Feel free to replace it if you find it unfitting.

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->And then our flag will fly...
->...against a blood-red sky.
-->- [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming Zira]], from TheLionKing 2
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** KingdomHearts kind of seems to like using darkness as symbolic blood, actually. The [[spoiler:remade version of the Deep Dive scene]] in [[KingdomHeartsThreeFiveEightDaysOverTwo ''358/2 Days'']] has a moment where the dark smoke from the Heartless he just slew flies in front of his face like he was in some kind of samurai movie. The best example, though, is when Terra [[spoiler:shot Braig in the face]] in ''Birth by Sleep'' - [[spoiler:the reddish smoke fountaining from his missing eye and dark splotch where his scar will be]] might not necessarily ''be'' blood, but they sure do look like it, and the game never really bothers to make sure you realize it isn't.

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** KingdomHearts kind of seems to like using darkness as symbolic blood, actually. The [[spoiler:remade version of the Deep Dive scene]] in [[KingdomHeartsThreeFiveEightDaysOverTwo ''358/2 Days'']] 358/2 Days]] has a moment where the dark smoke from the Heartless he just slew flies in front of his face like he was in some kind of samurai movie. The best example, though, is when Terra [[spoiler:shot Braig in the face]] in ''Birth by Sleep'' - [[spoiler:the reddish smoke fountaining from his missing eye and dark splotch where his scar will be]] might not necessarily ''be'' blood, but they sure do look like it, and the game never really bothers to make sure you realize it isn't.
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** KingdomHearts kind of seems to like using darkness as symbolic blood, actually. The [[spoiler:remade version of the Deep Dive scene]] in [[KingdomHeartsThreeFiveEightDaysOverTwo ''358/2 Days'']] has a moment where the dark smoke from the Heartless he just slew flies in front of his face like he was in some kind of samurai movie. The best example, though, is when Terra [[spoiler:shot Braig in the face]] in ''Birth by Sleep'' - [[spoiler:the reddish smoke fountaining from his missing eye and dark splotch where his scar will be]] might not necessarily ''be'' blood, but they sure do look like it, and the game never really bothers to make sure you realize it isn't.
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* In {{DragonBallZ}} Android 19,20, and 16 leaked red oil when damaged.
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I'm replacing the image with one that more closely resembles blood, because this trope is supposed to imply that it actually looks like blood according to a recent YKTTW discussion: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=dhap0q8hkmf0b177fhsvwtja


[[AvatarTheLastAirbender http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/symbolic_blood_5582_114.jpg]]
[[caption-width:300:No, those aren't Katara's tears.]]

When a fluid falls or sprays in a way that it is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything made to look like]] blood. This is either to show a symbolic loss or to perform a [[StockParodies standard parody]].

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[[AvatarTheLastAirbender [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/symbolic_blood_5582_114.jpg]]
[[caption-width:300:No, those aren't Katara's tears.]]

org/pmwiki/pub/images/blood1_9865.png]]
[[caption-width:350:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids And this is considered a kids' game?]]]]

When a fluid (or highly flexible solid) falls or sprays and/or spreads in a way that it is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything made to look like]] blood. This is either to show a symbolic loss or to perform a [[StockParodies standard parody]].
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* In TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime, after you defeat [[spoiler:Ganondorf's gerudo form]] he falls to the ground, with his red cape unfolding around him in a way that makes it look like it's actually blood flowing out of him. This troper actually mistook it for blood when he first saw it.

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