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Bloodwynd

Bloodwynd is a DC Comics necromancer hero powered by the Blood Gem, created by enslaved people who imprisoned a plantation owner's soul. Debuting in Justice League America #61 (1992), the name was first worn by a manipulated Martian Manhunter; the real wielder was Quintus Arce, and since 2023 it is Raphael Arce.

Bloody

Bloody is an English word meaning covered in blood, also used as an intensifier in British and Australian English, first recorded in the sixteenth century.

Bloody Axe Wound

Bloody Axe Wound is a 2024 horror comedy directed by Matthew John Lawrence, starring Sari Arambulo as the daughter of killer Roger Bladecut, released December 27, 2024 in theaters and on Shudder March 21, 2025.

Bloody Beach (해변으로 가다)

Bloody Beach (해변으로 가다, Haebyeoneuro Gada) is a 2000 South Korean slasher-horror film, Kim In-soo's debut, about a PC-communication club's beach trip turning deadly; 84,227 admissions, rated 18+.

Bloody Beggar

Bloody Beggar (ப்ளடி பெக்கர்), 2024 Tamil black comedy drama directed by debutant Sivabalan Muthukumar, produced by Nelson Dilipkumar (Filament Pictures), starring Kavin as a beggar trapped in a dead actor's mansion; released 31 October 2024, underperformed at the box office.

Bloody Benders

Bloody Benders, a German immigrant family of four (John Sr., Ma, John Jr., Kate) who ran an inn on the Osage Mission Trail in Labette County, Kansas, and murdered at least 11 travelers from 1871 to 1873 before fleeing; their fate is unresolved.

Bloody Brothers

Bloody Brothers is a 2022 ZEE5 Hindi dark comedy thriller, a six-part remake of the British series Guilt, directed by Shaad Ali, starring Jaideep Ahlawat and Zeeshan Ayyub as brothers covering up a hit-and-run in Ooty.

Bloody Code

The Bloody Code is the name later given to the English criminal law of the long eighteenth century, under which many crimes, mostly property crimes, carried the death penalty.

Bloody Daddy

Bloody Daddy is a 2023 Hindi action crime thriller directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, starring Shahid Kapoor as NCB officer Sumair Azad. A remake of the 2011 French film Nuit Blanche, it premiered June 9, 2023 on JioCinema with Ronit Roy, Sanjay Kapoor, and Diana Penty.

Bloody Disgusting

Bloody Disgusting, also called BD (bloody-disgusting.com), is the American horror entertainment brand founded in 2001 by Brad Miska and Tom Owen; now Cineverse's horror division, it produced V/H/S and runs Bloody FM, Bloody Press and SCREAMBOX.

Bloody Flower (블러디 플라워)

Bloody Flower (블러디 플라워), also Flower of Death (죽음의 꽃), is a 2026 Disney+ Korean crime thriller adapted from Lee Dong-gun's novel, starring Ryeoun as a serial killer who claims he can cure all diseases.

Bloody Hawk

Bloody Hawk (Nikolaos Kitsos), Greek rapper from Xanthi born 1995; albums Komplexiko, 1 Evro, Timima, and the Fthina Tricks trilogy; diamond-certified hit Caliente.

Bloody Ishq

Bloody Ishq (ब्लडी इश्क), 2024 Hindi horror thriller directed by Vikram Bhatt, written by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Avika Gor and Vardhaan Puri; released 26 July 2024 on Disney+ Hotstar, 138 minutes, IMDb 3.0/10.

Bloody Kisses

Bloody Kisses is Type O Negative's third album, a gothic metal landmark released August 17, 1993 on Roadrunner; recorded in Brooklyn, produced by Peter Steele and Josh Silver, and the label's first US gold album.

Bloody Mary (cocktail)

Bloody Mary: vodka-and-tomato-juice cocktail with Worcestershire, hot sauce, and celery salt, an IBA official drink and brunch staple. Origin disputed between George Jessel (1927) and Fernand Petiot; the Canadian Bloody Caesar variant uses Clamato.

Bloody Mary (folklore)

Bloody Mary is a children's mirror ritual and urban legend: chant her name into a dark bathroom mirror, usually three times. Also called Mary Worth or Mary Whales; documented by the 1970s, studied by Dundes (1998), with no established link to Mary Tudor.

Bloody Roar

Bloody Roar (ブラッディロア) is Hudson Soft and Eighting's 3D fighting game series, begun in arcades in 1997, where fighters transform into animal beast forms using a beast gauge; four main sequels ended with Bloody Roar 4 (2003).

Bloody Romance (媚者无疆)

Bloody Romance (媚者无疆, Mei Zhe Wu Jiang) is a 2018 Youku Chinese wuxia romance web drama, 36 episodes, adapted from Ban Ming Ban Mei's erotic novel; Li Yitong and Qu Chuxiao star as assassin Wan Mei and her shadow Chang An in Gui Hua City.

Bloody Smart (聪明镇)

Bloody Smart (聰明鎮) is a 2026 Taiwanese horror series, also called Junji Ito: Bloody Smart, directed by Hsieh Chun-yi; 10 episodes on Netflix Taiwan and Viu from July 28, 2026, fusing Tomie, Souichi, and Slug Girl into a cram-school town.

Bloody Sunday (1905)

Bloody Sunday (Кровавое воскресенье), 9/22 January 1905, St. Petersburg: troops fired on unarmed workers led by Father Georgii Gapon marching to petition Tsar Nicholas II, killing hundreds and starting the 1905 Revolution.

Bloody Sunday (1920)

Bloody Sunday 1920 (Domhnach na Fola): day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920 during the Irish War of Independence, when the IRA killed 14 suspected British intelligence officers, Crown forces killed 14 civilians at Croke Park, and three prisoners died in Dublin Castle.

Bloody Sunday (1972)

Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972): British 1 Para soldiers shot 13 civil rights marchers dead in Derry's Bogside, a 14th dying later. The Widgery report exonerated troops; the 2010 Saville Inquiry found the killings unjustified, prompting David Cameron's apology.

Bloody Sunday (2002 film)

Bloody Sunday (2002 film), also known as Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday, is a British-Irish docudrama for ITV about the 30 January 1972 Derry shootings, starring James Nesbitt as Ivan Cooper, sharing the 2002 Golden Bear with Spirited Away.

Bloody Sunday Inquiry

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, or Saville Report, was a 1998 tribunal chaired by Lord Saville. It concluded that British soldiers fired first on unarmed civilians in Londonderry in 1972.

BLOOM

BLOOM is a 176B-parameter open-access large language model released in July 2022 by BigScience, a Hugging Face-led collaboration, generating text in 46 natural and 13 programming languages.

Bloom (TV series)

Bloom (TV series) most commonly denotes the Australian supernatural drama created by Glen Dolman for Stan (2019, 2020): a youth-restoring plant appears after a flood, starring Jacki Weaver, Bryan Brown, and Phoebe Tonkin.

Bloom County

Bloom County, Berkeley Breathed's Pulitzer-winning American comic strip (December 8, 1980 to August 6, 1989), satirized 1980s politics through Opus the penguin, Bill the Cat, Milo Bloom, and Steve Dallas, later revived on Facebook in 2015.

Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy is a San Jose power company founded in 2001 whose solid oxide fuel cells turn natural gas, biogas, or hydrogen into electricity without combustion.

Bloom Energy Server

The Bloom Energy Server is a modular solid oxide fuel cell system made by Bloom Energy that converts natural gas, biogas, or hydrogen into on-site electricity without combustion.

Bloom filter

A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure invented by Burton H. Bloom in 1970 that tests set membership, sometimes giving false positives but never false negatives.