Their faces were bloodied and bruised and they had been repeatedly stabbed. They arrive to find Sweets lying on the ground, bloodied and bruised. The film ends on a shot of Michael's bloodied and lifeless corpse. Turnupseed was only slightly injured with facial bruises and a bloodied nose. His face, arms and chest were bloodied and blackened. A man wakes bloodied and disoriented from a car crash. Hopkins is viciously beaten by Marshall, who forces a "confession" out of the bloodied man. His nose was bloodied but not broken. The Romans attacked and their shields were bloodied by the previous battle. They later leave his apartment evidently bloodied and mistreated. Many were shoeless with bloodied feet, and two died of exposure. The novel closes with an image of Lemuel holding his bloodied hatchet up. He runs from orderlies, leaving behind a trail of bloodied footprints. Wilson manufactured a volleyball with a reproduction of the bloodied handprint face on one side. The final cover featured the shadow of a hand letting go of a bloodied hammer.