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{{trope}}
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{{quote|"It's blood!" said the carpenter.
"It's blood, isn't it?" said a musician.
"Blood!!" screamed Christine. "Blood!!"
It was Agnes's terrible fate to [[Only Sane Man|keep her head in a crisis]]. She [[The Ketchup Test|sniffed her finger again.]]
"It's turpentine," said Agnes. "Er. Sorry. Is that wrong?"
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This is when a spillage of some innocent red substance is mistaken for blood. This substance is, more often than not, ketchup, and [[Hilarity Ensues]] most of the time. This is, however, occasionally used seriously when someone is trying to fake an injury.
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It's also worth noting that ketchup looks absolutely nothing like blood, apart from its colour. Smelling like spaghetti sauce rather than an abattoir is also a bit of a clue.
Compare with [[Symbolic Blood]]. Prop blood is [[Kensington Gore]]. Not to be confused with the [[Chunky Salsa Rule]], neither with a ''[[Fallout]]'' trait/perk.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Trigun]]'', bottles of tomato juice were used to fake injuries on several occasions, usually to [[Faking the Dead|play dead]], but sometimes even to [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|attract women]].
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]? Fumoffu'' does this with red paint in the [["What Do They Fear?" Episode|Haunted Hospital episode]]. Since Chidori had just fallen through the floor and bumped her head, and the paint was splashed under her head, it was rather disturbing. Actually it was probably one of the more serious notes in that whole comedy series.
* One of Usopp's moves in ''[[One Piece]]'' is the "Ketchup Star" which he uses (on himself) to make the enemy think he's been fatally injured.
* In a flashback episode of ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', Shana sets a trap for the animated training skeleton Shiro that involves a giant, hidden hole in the ground full of ketchup. Shiro sees red and... [[Frickin' Laser Beams|doesn't take
* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', when Hiruma returns to the field after getting his broken ''arm'' taped up, his ''face'' looks like [https://web.archive.org/web/20100402135341/http://www.onemanga.com/Eyeshield_21/264/02/ this]. He had some fun with ketchup.
* Played with in ''[[Karin]]''. The protagonists wipe a pool of blood and replace it with red paint, leading a vampire hunter believe he's fallen for this trope the first time he has seen that blood.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
== Comics ==▼
* Used for an in-universe [[Retcon]] when [[Spider-Man]] was killed by a bomb and fought Thanos. Returned to Earth, he found that what had been blood was now the contents of a smashed jar of tomato sauce.
** Another Spider-Man example: In Adam Troy-Castro's Sinister Six trilogy, Spider-Man manages to fake his death using a plate of lasagna and a shard of the window he was blasted in through. Electro is thoroughly fooled, though that isn't saying much. A bystander also reports on the phone to being a witness to the death of Spider-Man; Either he was hiding under a counter during the set-up or was faking it for Spidey's benefit.
* Parodied in a ''[[The Far Side]]'' cartoon, with anthropomorphic bottles of ketchup (yes) are watching a horror movie. When an on-screen bottle of ketchup gets murdered, a bottle in the audience turns to his young son and says "Don't worry, son. They're just actors, and that's not real ketchup."▼
* The "ketchup resembles blood in no way beyond color" bit was lampshaded in a certain ''[[FoxTrot]]'' strip where Jason accuses Paige of punching him so hard that he's coughing up blood, and "proves" it by presenting his [[Red Right Hand]].▼
{{quote|'''Andy:''' Jason, that's ketchup.▼
'''Jason:''' It could just be that my blood is naturally thick and zesty.▼
'''Andy:''' Just how many colas did you and Marcus drink today? }}▼
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* A [[Memetic Mutation|popular]] subject for fan art of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury]]'' is crossing the [[Mood Whiplash]] final scene of the first cour (where {{spoiler|a terrorist is splattered by [[Humungous Mecha|Aerial]]'s giant hand, leaving nothing but aerosolized blood that covers both the heroine and the love interest she was saving}}), and the love interest's affinity for tomatoes (her main hobby is growing her deceased mom's custom cultivar) in this manner, providing alternate reasons for {{spoiler|the heroine casually extending her blood covered hand to her blood covered bride-to-be}}.
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* In ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action|Looney Tunes Back in Action]]'', the characters do an homage to the shower scene from ''[[Psycho]]''. Turns out it's done with a carrot instead of a knife, and [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] is squirting chocolate sauce down the drain.
** [[Parental Bonus]], the blood going down the drain in the original movie WAS chocolate sauce.
* This occurs in ''[[Despicable Me]]'', when one of the orphans gets trapped in an iron maiden, and a red liquid is seen flowing out the bottom. {{spoiler|Turns out one of the spikes punctured her juice box}}.
* A deleted intro in ''[[The Incredibles]]'' has the Parr family attending a neighborhood picnic. While Bob Parr chops up some steaks, a person screams that Bob has chopped off his fingers. However, it only ''looks'' like he chopped off his fingers and he's actually fine. To fake the injury and not reveal his super-powers, Bob squirts some ketchup on his fingers and screams in pain.
* In ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', a bullet shatters a jar of bolognese, showering it on one of the Andies' faces. The other Andy shouts in despair, thinking the aforementioned Andy has been hit and is bleeding.
** I can't remember off the top of my head, but wasn't it a knife from one of the "two blokes, and a fuckload of cutlery!" in front of the supermarket deli?
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* [[Played for Drama]] on ''[[Lost]]'' when Hurley is accused of murder due to police seeing burger ketchup on him.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'', ''[[
* The first bomb of ''[[The Westing Game]]'' goes off in a kitchen, and a woman runs out covered in red liquid. A few people freak out, but they realize that it's only tomato sauce. The bomb was small, and only caused a shelf of cans to explode.
* In [[Jo Walton]]'s novel ''[[Small Change|Farthing]]'', a murdered man is found stabbed with a pool of red liquid on his chest, but the police quickly determine that the victim was gassed to death and the liquid is actually lipstick.
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* In ''War Game'' by [[Anthony Price]], a Civil War re-enactment is interrupted when somebody finds a genuine corpse lying in a pool of red. It turns out his neck was broken; the red is from a dye pack he was wearing for his big death scene in the re-enactment, which broke while his killer was hiding the body.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* In the opening credits of ''[[Dexter]]'', ketchup squirting across Dexter's breakfast plate is for a split second meant to make the viewer believe it's blood, at least for the first time watching, thanks to the show's gory subject matter.
** Also done in the opening titles of ''[[American Psycho]]''.
* Also seen in an episode of ''[[Lois and Clark]]'', where Clark uses ketchup as a trick to prove he isn't Superman.
* In an episode of ''[[Lost]]'', Desmond wakes up in a flashback covered in red paint after being in an implosion.
* In ''[[The X-
* Played with in the first episode of ''[[Roswell]]'', where one of the main characters gets shot, another heals her... and then he breaks a bottle of ketchup and pours it over her to hide the real blood.
* An episode of ''[[Psych]]'' has a man beleiving he is haunted. There's a message written for him on the wall written in "blood". Shawn notices it's not blood (IIRC, he identifies it as ketchup) and to prove it he eats some. Gus' resopnse? "Enjoy AIDS..."
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'''Daphne''': No no no! It's alright! Look! *licks sauce off Niles' ear* Mmmmm! Tasty!
'''Guests''': ''Eeeeewwwwwwwwww!!!'' }}
* In the ''[[Law &
▲* Parodied in a ''[[The Far Side]]'' cartoon, with anthropomorphic bottles of ketchup (yes) are watching a horror movie. When an on-screen bottle of ketchup gets murdered, a bottle in the audience turns to his young son and says "Don't worry, son. They're just actors, and that's not real ketchup."
▲* The "ketchup resembles blood in no way beyond color" bit was lampshaded in a certain ''[[FoxTrot]]'' strip where Jason accuses Paige of punching him so hard that he's coughing up blood, and "proves" it by presenting his [[Red Right Hand]].
▲{{quote|'''Andy:''' Jason, that's ketchup.
▲'''Jason:''' It could just be that my blood is naturally thick and zesty.
▲'''Andy:''' Just how many colas did you and Marcus drink today? }}
== [[Radio]] ==
* In the ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who]]'' audio ''The Chimes of Midnight'', it opens up with Charley and the Doctor in the dark, when there's a crash and sudden wet feeling. It turns out to be raspberry jam, but it's a unique example because this is a) ''on the radio'' so we can't see it, and ''in the dark'' so the ''characters'' couldn't see that it was red either.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Bill Cosby]] does a
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▲* Bill Cosby does a [[Stand Up Comedy|comedy bit]] about getting his tonsils removed, and when one of the other children comes back he begins to whine "Why's there ketchup comin' out of his mouth? Please say that's ketchup 'cause we'd hate to think that you ''killed Johnson''."
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', when you're captured and imprisoned by the bad guys, one way to make good your escape is to use a ketchup-bottle to fake your death, causing the [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|idiotic guard]] to run into your cell to investigate...
** Another ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' example: The last Mystery mission in ''VR Missions'' has you going into a locked room where there's an apparently dead soldier on the ground. There's "clues" all over the place to look at but no suspects. The real goal of the mission is to ''not'' give up in frustration at being unable to solve the problem, because just before the time limit runs out, the guy gets up and the camera zooms in on a broken ketchup bottle on which he'd fallen asleep.
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* Ketchup is indistinguishable (at least technically) to blood in ''[[Mitadake High]]''.
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲== Web Comics ==
* Happens in a guest artist story on ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', where Zoe thinks Riff and Torg are dead, but really they went a little crazy eating tacos and got hot sauce all over themselves.
* In ''[[Weregeek]]'', Joel does this when he finds 'blood' on the ground. Apparently it's peppermint.
* A ''[[Dragon Tails]]'' strip had Bluey trying to re-purpose a machine that's just a series of giant blades into an automatic hat remover. He demonstrates it on a watermelon. The final panel has Bluey covered in red, commenting [[Lampshade Hanging|"Oh come on, you know this isn't as bad as it looks."]]
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* Subverted in ''[[Homestar Runner|Thy Dungeonman 3]]''. The "ketchup" in the sandwich shop is, in fact, ''fake'' fake blood. You die unpleasently when attempting to consume it.
* ''Crapshots'' does this with what turns out to be jelly (of an unspecified but red flavour) in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EA7JVaMBh4 episode 16].
* Inverted or... ''[[Playing with a Trope|something]]'' in one Halloween episode of [[Weebl and Bob]], where a talking jam is horrified ''because'' the substance is jam rather than blood.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* [[Bugs Bunny]] loves this. He's done it to Elmer Fudd loads of times, and has done it Yosemite Sam at least once.
* In one ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' short that was particularly graphic even for that cartoon, Jerry makes Tom think he's been stabbed by dripping ketchup onto both a steak knife and Tom's chest.
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* A few Warner Brothers cartoons, such as ''The Heckling Hare'' and ''The Wise Quacking Duck'', all demonstrate this trope.
* Happens in episode 13 of ''[[Wakfu]]'', which parodies several horror tropes. Sadlygrove is found amongst plenty red stains over the walls and floor, and the heroes think he's wounded or dead... except that he comments later, "It's a bad idea to eat red berries while seasick."
* Subverted in Episode 11 of ''[[Scooby
** In the first ever episode of the original series "What a Night For a Knight" the gang think the knight murdered the scientist as they see what appears to be blood on the carpet, it turns out it was red ink.
* In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]
** After Marge sells a house to the Flanders family, she steps inside to find the entire family lying on the floor, covered in what is assumed to be blood. It turns out that they were just taking a nap after spending all day painting one of the rooms red.
* In the [[Tex Avery]] cartoon "The Cat Who Hated People" one of the cat's flashbacks features the cat being adopted by a family with a huge bulldog, one the owner leaves the bulldogs beats the living hell of the cat until the owner hears the noise, the dog dumps some ketchup on himself and an axe making it look like the cat killed him.
* Spike tried to invoke this trope with [[It Makes Sense in Context|a toy mouse]] in ''[[My Little Pony:
* Finn and Jake also try to invoke this (again, with ketchup) in ''[[Adventure Time]]'' when [[Deathbringer the Adorable|the Cute King]] won't leave them alone until he thinks he's killed them.
{{quote|'''Finn:''' Oh no! [[Bad Bad Acting|My bloooooooood~!]]}}
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** Immediately subverted afterwards. After Numbuh 4 mentions it was ketchup, he believes he also applied this to one of his own injuries. Numbuh 2 says it looks more like blood, and 4 passes out at the realization.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* This actually happened to ''[[Australian Idol]]'' winner Casey Donnovan. She, her brother and stepsister were involved in a car crash on the way home from the local takeaway.▼
▲== Real Life ==
▲* This actually happened to ''Australian Idol'' winner Casey Donnovan. She, her brother and stepsister were involved in a car crash on the way home from the local takeaway.
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