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Pink Mist
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This is the polar opposite of Pretty Little Headshots, usually found in military fiction and gorier video games. As the above quote says, it's after a sniper has shot someone, and their head "pops" into a bloody cloud, which, from a distance, appears to be pink. Usually some part of the head is blown off in the process. This type of headshot is almost invariably seen from the sniper's point of view. The thing that keeps this from falling into Ludicrous Gibs is that it actually happens, although it requires a sufficiently high-velocity bullet, usually a rifle bullet, to produce the effect. Typical pistol bullets can (and often do) produce a blood-splattering exit wound in headshots, but the vaporization of enough blood and brain tissue to produce an actual mist requires a supersonic velocity of the sort most typically found in rifle bullets (thus partially validating the Pretty Little Headshot, at least if the shooter is using a pistol). The .357 Magnum suicide of R. Budd Dwyer on live television could be clearly seen to produce no visible pink mist, despite involving a powerful pistol caliber to the brain at point-blank range. The most easily accessible real-world evidence for Pink Mist is surely the Gross-Up Close-Up provided by the Zapruder Film of the John F. Kennedy assassination. A 10.5 gram rifle bullet traveling at 2,300 feet per second into a large, homogenous mass with the consistency of a custard pie can be clearly seen to support the trope, although not quite as strikingly as one might expect. See also Chunky Salsa Rule, Gorn, Boom, Headshot!. Compare Your Head A-Splode and Ludicrous Gibs. Contrast, of course, Bloodless Carnage and Pretty Little Headshots. |
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The result of high-pressure boiler mishaps in Raising Steam. One second there's people working on an engine, the next there's just a spray of mist, bone shards and a large clearing in the surrounding forest... | |
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Happens in The Matrix when Trinity challenges an Agent to dodge a bullet at point blank range. The resulting headshot produces this. | |
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Grand Theft Auto V has an achievement/trophy called "Red Mist" for Trevor completing all the rampages. | |
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This effect is described in detail in one episode of In Plain Sight, by the main protagonist, Mary Shannon. | |
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Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto: Vice City creates a little pink cloud when someone gets beheaded. Grand Theft Auto V has an achievement/trophy called "Red Mist" for Trevor completing all the rampages. |
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A confusing one in Tomb Raider: Legend. In the flashback level, the wraith grabs Kent and leaves behind a red mist: it is debatable whether this is the creature's presence, or Kent's blood. | |
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The memorable restaurant scene in The Godfather has Michael Corleone turning both Virgil "The Turk" Solozzo & Captain McKlusky's brains into this. | |
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The Metal Gear series uses a cloud of particulate-rendered blood whenever someone takes a hit as well. | |
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In the opening scene of Ghost in the Shell (1995), the Major shoots a programmer attempting to defect several times in the head, causing him to explode seconds later. It's suggested that she was using explosive bullets. | |
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The Expanse plays with this, combining it with Pretty Little Headshots. When a character is shot by a railgun round passing through a ship, it leaves nothing save a hole where the round entered the room, a hole where the round exited the room, and a gap where his head was. There's not even a trace of blood, right until it starts gushing from his neck. | |
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The ending of Chinatown has a disturbingly realistic exit wound where somebody's eye used to be. | |
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There are some impressive instances of pink mist in Apocalypto. All the more so because there are no firearms, only clubs and arrows. | |
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The X-Files would mostly use Pretty Little Headshots, but when Mulder shoots John Lee Roche in "Paper Hearts", it's this trope: lots of blood spattered on the window. | |
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare features this kind of effect when enemies are hit by gunfire, as does Call of Duty: World at War. | |
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Soldier of Fortune has this plus splattered brain matter and shattered skulls. | |
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The first Young Guns has a scene in which Emilio Estevez shoots an accused traitor in the head. Unlike the usual modest blood-splats found in Westerns, another character flinches when a huge splash of gore hits his hat from about ten feet away. | |
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Most of your foes in Mass Effect 2 have some variety of helmet/shield/hard carapace, so a headshot will cause a mist of blood (in whatever color is appropriate, red for humans and Vorcha, bluish purple for Asari and Turians, green for Salarians, orange for Krogan and Collectors, etc.) but will leave the outer shell of the head intact. | |
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In the epilogue of the Zootopia fan comic Never Say Goodbye, there's an impressive spray of blood and brains when Judy, who's become mayor of Zootopia, is sniped in the head by the radicals who oppose her policies, in a reference to the JFK assassination. However, this is a subversion, as the bullet turns out to have been filled with cherry jam, and Judy is left unharmed. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City creates a little pink cloud when someone gets beheaded. | |
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Some of the deaths by sniper shot in Rose Guns Days are depicted this way most notably Stella's death at the end of Season 3. | |
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Vietcong featured this effect whenever a character is shot. | |
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This happens in Sniper Elite after you shot everybody at both entry and exit. | |
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Since most Mechs have head-mounted cockpits, this sometimes turns up in BattleTech fiction. One short story poetically describes a Griffin whose pilot's remains sprayed out the back of its head after being shot in the face by a Royal Highlander's Gauss Rifle as looking as if it were a flesh and blood knight in 55 tons of medieval armor being introduced to an early renaissance handgonne. | |
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One of the last episodes of Dollhouse has Bennet shot in the head by whoever Whiskey is at the time. The pink mist surrounds a stunned Topher. | |
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Sadly (maybe) the lead characters of Jarhead never got to see the pink mist they so longed to see due to a airstrike taking out their targets just before they took the shot. | |
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In The Crossing, "Bosch felt a fine mist of blood hit him full in the face" after another cop puts a bullet through the skull of the bad guy. | |
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Deadtime Stories: Volume 2: In "On Sabbath Hill", Allison commits suicide by blowing her brains out in the middle of Professor Weaver's classroom. The shot showers her classmates in blood and brains, and even sprays Professor Weaver, who is at the front of the class, with a fine pink mist of blood. | |
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The Sniper of Team Fortress 2 refers to this trope by name repeatedly ("Everything above your neck is gonna be a fine red mist!"), but the in-game effects for most of his primary weapons are Pretty Little Headshots — except the Hitman's Heatmaker and The Classic, which skip straight up to decapitation and full-body explosion, respectively. | |
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Baccano!: The conductor who takes a bullet to the head splashes blood all over the place and is later shown with a substantial hole in the back of his head. | |
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Averted in America's Army due partially to the need to avoid a rating higher than T, and partially to the fact that 5.56mm bullets rarely cause that level of dismemberment. Plus, it's a recruiting tool; people are likely to be less open to joining the Army if their death was just rendered in agonizingly gory detail. Those to whom such things would appeal are generally more unstable than Army recruiters would like. | |
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In the fourth Alex Rider book, the Big Bad Damian Cray is killed when he is sucked into one of the engines of Air Force One. His remains are described as this: | |
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