History Main / SymbolicBlood

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'' after an All-Out attack destroys the last enemies, a short cutscene is shown where the silouethes of said enemies shoot HighPressureBlood. However, Joker appears as a GuestFighter in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', which is a more family-friendly game, so when using All-Out as his [[LimitBreak Final Smash]], the enemies instead shoot sparkling stars; much less violent, but still similar to the original blood.

-->'''Lisa:''' I love the use of streamers as blood, it robs the violence of its' power.\\

* In one episode of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' the GoryDiscretionShot for a character's fate is a splash of curry sauce.

* In ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' whenever an android got severely damaged, white artificial blood would splatter all over the place.
** ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', ''Missing Hearts'': Motoko stabs toward a criminal cowering in the corner and a liquid sprays out. The next shot reveals that she stabbed an organ transplant bag she was carrying.

* In an episode of ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', Osaka goes to wake up Yukari with a frying pan. When we see her enter Yukari's room with a knife instead, we get a quick shot of Tomo [[strike:putting ketchup]] putting a huge amount of ketchup all over her breakfast and some even ends up on Kaguras face, who's sitting next to her.

* A non-spill variant shows up in the ''{{Anime/Hellsing}}'' anime. Seras asks for a glass of tomato juice after tailing a possible leak into a pub. She probably just wanted something that was non-alcoholic, but given that she's a recently turned vampire...

* The films in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise have androids with similar hydraulic fluids (indeed it acts as a plot point to reveal when someone is one).

* ''Film/ShortCircuit 2'' takes this to its [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic symbolic extreme]] with Johnny 5's battery; when it's punctured during his beating from the bad guys, one of the baddies gets sprayed by the battery's fluid, and the supporting cast refer to the leak as him "bleeding to death". Which, given how batteries don't work AT ALL after they're punctured, despite how it clearly does after it's "patched" in the movie, opens up a whole new can of FridgeLogic.
* In the ''[[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]'' movies, blood from the bots is represented in some cases by fluorescent blue liquid ([[{{Fanon}} which the fandom believes is Energon]]).
** In the [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen second movie]], a not-quite example is the use of 'fountains' of fire/sparks... kind of hard to explain without a visual aid, but surprisingly effective as a replacement for blood.
*** And ''then'' there's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath the death of The Fallen]].

* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': After [[spoiler: Elizabeth is kidnapped by Keller]], the FBI shows up to the crime scene, and Peter sees a red pool on the rug from a spilled pot of spaghetti sauce.

* The title sequence of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' is framed to make the title character's morning routine look violent. There's some real blood when he cuts himself shaving, but we also see him squirting bloody looking tomato sauce on his eggs as he cuts them.

* In ''VideoGame/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 blood is actually flowing out of him.

* ''VideoGame/GoldeneyeRogueAgent'': If you look carefully, the various thugs and guards emit blue sparks when hit with bullets. This positions ''Rogue Agent'' as a little more violent than the typical BloodlessCarnage of the Bond games, but still in keeping within the relative fantasy of the 007 universe.

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* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', when Antimony falls off the bridge, there's a FlashBack to a glass of water--that she dropped--spilling and shattering. Annie then thinks, "Well, now I know how the glass felt," as she falls.
* In [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005403 this page]] of ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Mom and Dad]] are shown holding hands over a wine-stained table cloth. [[spoiler:On the next page, however, the same picture is shown as a reflection in [[BigBad Bec Noir's]] glasses, making it look more like blood. The next time Mom and Dad are shown in the comic, they're dead.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' all the 'bots "bleed" Energon. A lot. Sometimes they're even shown lying in a pool of it while near death.

* There's an issue of the ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' comic book which flashes back to a human accidentally shooting a non-human (leading to the Great War). The victim is seen lying in a puddle of... grass?

* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' has the standard "flying sparks when someone is hurt" as is common in Tokusatsu, but it also has the odd occasion where badly-hurt characters (namely the [[BigBadEnsemble Greeed]]) continuously drop Cell Medals, silver, coin-like objects, from their bodies as a stand-in for blood. In one of the final episodes, [[spoiler:Ankh, after having some of his Core Medals ripped from his body in a manner similar to [[AndShowItToYou having his heart ripped out]]]] is shown to be sitting in a large, spread-out pool of medals that looks eerily-similar to a huge pool of blood.

* Sparks fly when a ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' character is hit, and on some occasions, a character has had a stream of sparks spraying from the same point for an extended time (usually the MonsterOfTheWeek, after being dealt the FinishingMove that's about to result in utter kablooification.)

* At one point, ''Film/Hellboy2004'' movie had Hellboy beating a monster with a payphone, the coins spraying out suspiciously like blood (or teeth). Apparently, it was Creator/RonPerlman's idea. Later in the movie, gears play a similar role when Hellboy fights Kroenen.

** The series kind of seems to like using darkness as symbolic blood. The [[spoiler:remade version of the Deep Dive scene]] in ''[[VideoGame/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.

-->-- '''[[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming Zira]]''' singing "[[VillainSong My Lullaby]]", ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride''

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'': Raiden's [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything white cyborg blood]] on [[DepravedBisexual Vamp's]] crotch-knife.
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', all cyborgs, including Raiden, have red fluid gush out of their bodies when they are cut. In the Japanese version, the white blood from [=MGS4=] was retained for cyborgs. [[spoiler:The one character who didn't have white blood was Sam, who bled actual blood when he was defeated by Raiden, indicating that he was not a cyborg, but HumanAllAlong.]]

* In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam 08th MSTeam]]'', the battle between Norris and the Team has this when Norris stabs a guntank, resulting in a massive gout of oil being sprayed across his mobile suit.
** Riddhe's Delta Plus does the same in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'', when [[spoiler:the Banshee destroys it]].
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Android 19, Android 20/Dr. Gero, and Android 16 leaked red oil when damaged. Vegeta even notices this with 19.
** It comes so close that some of it is removed in the edited version.
* ''Manga/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]].

* When the Lemons blow up Rod "Torque" Redline in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'', we actually see a puddle of oil trickle under the Lemons' tires once Redline is finally dead.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'': Red liquid gushes out from the Maverick Hunter HQ reploids when they are cut into pieces by [[spoiler: Double's battle mode]].
** In the Japanese ''[[VideoGame/MegamanZero Rockman Zero]]'' series, robots give out a spray of red oil when killed with the saber. This is censored for some bizarre reason in the American ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' localizations.

* The robot/cyborg characters from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' would have their 'blood' coloured black as if it were oil being knocked out from the uppercut. Some other nonhumans ended up with green blood.

* In ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'', [[spoiler:Mechamaru]] bleeds oil after being murdered. Similar to how [[BlackBlood blood is colored pink]], the oil is colored light blue.

* Robots in ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' spray oil as if it were HighPressureBlood. WordOfGod says this was done so they could include violent, high-octane action sequences in the style of old-school samurai movies but still be age appropriate for a TV-PG show.

See also AlienBlood for strangely colored fluids pouring out of alien beings. See ABloodyMess for red liquids being mistaken for blood.

* When the Lemons blow up Rod "Torque" Redline in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'', we actually see a puddle of oil trickle under the Lemons' tires once Redline is finally dead.

-->-- '''[[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming Zira]]''' singing "[[VillainSong My Lullaby]]", ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride''

* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}''

* In Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Quasimodo is [[ProducePelting pelted with red tomatoes]], leaving him soaked in tomato juice. This emulates a scene from [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the book]] where he's publically whipped.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', when fighting the {{Hydra|Problem}}, the heads being chopped off lead to leaking smoke instead of blood. In [[Disney/{{Hercules}} the movie]] and the Japanese version of the game there's slime instead.

* Sparks fly when a ''PowerRangers'' character is hit, and on some occasions, a character has had a stream of sparks spraying from the same point for an extended time (usually the MonsterOfTheWeek, after being dealt the FinishingMove that's about to result in utter kablooification.)

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'', when fighting the {{Hydra|Problem}}, the heads being chopped off lead to leaking smoke instead of blood. In [[Disney/{{Hercules}} the movie]] and the Japanese version of the game there's slime instead.

* During the "Cell Block Tango" number in ''Film/Chicago'', each of the merry murderesses utilizes a red cloth to depict through dance their alleged murders.

* In ''WesternAnimation/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.

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', in the aftermath of Judge Doom [[KickTheDog using the Dip on an adorable shoe Toon]], the dissolved red paint from the poor shoe on his black rubber glove is ''very'' symbolic of blood.

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', in the aftermath of Judge Doom [[KickTheDog using the Dip on an adorable shoe Toon]], the dissolved red paint on his black rubber glove is ''very'' symbolic of blood.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' in an episode entitled ''The Honking'', Bender is becoming a "Werecar," [[CaptainObvious which is a reference to]] [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]], and at one point Bender wakes up in a parking lot covered in transmission fluid, fearful of where he's been.