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{{quote|''"Your shirt..."''|'''Tara''', ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''}}
Want a surefire way to [[Break the Cutie]]? Well, nothing causes mental trauma quite like being covered in the blood of another person. Not only that, but the image this creates is so [[True Art Is Angsty|arty]] that it can let you get away with putting lots of violence in your film and still have it called [[True Art]].
Can be a [[Gory Discretion Shot]], although not always - the most common way it will play out is that someone will have a gun to their head, ready to commit suicide. The innocent one begs them to stop, we hear a gunshot, and then see the blood hit the face.
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** In episode 37, blood was splattered all over the mother and child when Anemone slaughtered the anti-body Coralian.
* Tomoe in the ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' backstory : "You make the bloody rain fall."
* Given that many of the characters are [[Psychopathic Manchild|homicidal]] [[Tyke Bomb|Tyke Bombs]] with the power to tear humans apart in various graphic ways, there are many examples of this trope in ''[[Elfen Lied]]''.
** Kouta was splattered with blood when {{spoiler|Lucy (Kaede) rips his sister into half}}.
* Possibly subverted in ''[[Code Geass]]'' [[Wham! Episode|episode 22]]: {{spoiler|the sweet, innocent Euphemia, splattered with the blood of people she was forced to kill by Lelouch's malfunctioning Geass}}.
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* ''[[Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru]]'': In episode 4 Yuki gets some of Zess's blood on his face after Zess is stabbed by Uzuki. (A demon is controlling Uzuki).
* ''[[xxxHolic]]'': A slight variant occurs when a woman's wish on a monkey's paw inadvertently causes a man to fall in front of a train. The ensuing spray of blood splashes over the platform and onto her shoes.
* This seems to happen to Anri an awful lot in ''[[Durarara!!]]!!''
* A variation occurs in ''[[Hellsing]]''; during a flashback, we see how Seras ''avoided'' being drenched in blood, because she was hidden in a closet, but winds up in a puddle of her ''own'' blood after being shot while [[Eye Scream|stabbing a man in the eye]].
** In a flashback to how her uncle turned on her practically the moment her father died, we got an [[Inverted]] case. Integra is shot, leading to an otherwise inactive Alucard being splashed with her blood.
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* Lily in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' during her time as a lab experiment. Having test subjects undergo [[Body Horror]] and burst right in front of her, splattering her with their blood, really didn't help [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia|her mental state]].
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': If you think on it a certain way (i.e. an insane way), Shinji Ikari is one during the destruction of Unit 03. Even though he was doing the destroying. Sorta. {{spoiler|He was in the Eva, meaning he felt EVERYTHING that happened; him ripping his friend to pieces, the blood spraying all over him etc etc, but he wasn't in control of his biomech. His dad was.}} And did it to teach Shinji to follow his orders. Have we mentioned that Gendo is a BASTARD!?
* Variation in [[Claymore]], where the cutie was already broken before the blood splattering. Her lack of reaction is violently contrast by the horrified reaction of the people around her.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZcrZGVKvI8 Mr.Kubodera] death in [[Another]] led to this.Yeah,{{spoiler|the teacher [[Driven to Suicide|commited suicide]] in front of all his student}}.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[Ender's Game|Shadow Of The Hegemon]]'', Petra is covered in the blood, bone, and brains of her would-be rescuers after her kidnapper, Achilles, reveals himself and shoots them. She refuses to move or speak until she is allowed to wash the blood off.
* ''[[Warrior Cats]]'': Lionblaze. Although most of the times he ends up splattered with blood, he's responsible, the times in ''Long Shadows'' when {{spoiler|Tigerstar shows him visions of himself killing Heathertail in a series of violent fashions}} may count.
** Generally averted with ''everyone else''.
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** The first time Dexter gets a flash of the repressed memory of his mother's murder at a similarly gruesome crime scene, it causes him to lose his cool and fall right into a pool of blood, leaving him covered in it. While adult Dexter is certainly not an innocent, the image works as a visual reference to the event that left him psychologically damaged.
* ''[[NCIS]]'': When {{spoiler|[[Boom! Headshot!|Kate]]}} is shot, Tony is sprayed with her blood. One of the saddest shots of the series.
* B.J. goes through this before even arriving at the 4077th ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' in "Welcome to Korea", when he, Hawkeye, and Radar stop to help a group of soldiers on the side of the road.
* In ''[[State of Play (TV series)|State of Play]]'', Della moves from the "protect the story" angle to the "we need to help the police" side of the argument when the detective she'd gotten to know as a source was shot by a sniper in front of her.
* How about Sookie in like every. single. episode of ''[[True Blood]]''? To her credit, she usually gets over it pretty quickly. Or maybe that's just because it usually happens right at the end of the episode.
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