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{{trope}}
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{{quote|"Fetch me old red doublet
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== Anime
* Played with in ''[[Cheeky Angel]]'', where the school bad boy wears a ''black shirt'', against code, because he gets in a ton of fights and blood won't show on black.
* In Japan, red is the traditional color of the hero. Many of these heroes fit the red formula in the [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] duo, as well as highlighting their usual [[Hot-Blooded|fiery spirit]].
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* The school uniform in ''[[Kanon]]'' is red. Mai, the [[Emotionless Girl]] that swordfights with demons, sustains life-threatening injuries in her uniform, with accompanying red stains. However, in the ball scene, where nobody is wearing red, people are fiercely attacked and, in some cases, badly hurt, but nobody bleeds. In the [[Look Both Ways|SUV]] scene, the victim isn't even shown, and replaced in the remake with the red stain of a strawberry dropped on the ground.
* Vita of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' has red hair, a red hat, and a very red dress. Guess who spent most of the third season's last mission bleeding all over the place and had a tendency to get wounded even before that?
* Van from ''[[The
* Chrono from ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' wears a red coat and red shorts, and true to the trope, he's constantly getting injured, ''particularly'' in the manga. In the manga, he loses one of his arms at least three times. (Of course, as a demon, he has the power to heal his wounds...which is part of the reason why he feels like he ''can'' put himself in so much danger.)
* Kusanagi Mamoru from ''[[Blue Seed]]''. His [[Limited Wardrobe|trademark outfit]] is a red coat, and ''boy'' does he tend to get injured {{spoiler|and even (apparently) die on occasion}}
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' - Battler Ushiromiya manages to suffer from a double dose of this trope - red shirt, [[White Shirt of Death|white jacket]]. He's also the only one who never simply dies, oh no, [[Fate Worse Than Death|he dies and then is resurrected to be killed over and over again.]]
* Asuka in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' wears a red plugsuit and has red hair. She is the one that gets the most severe injuries out of all of the pilots. Asuka gets to feel the pain of {{spoiler|being impaled through the eye, eaten alive, arm cut in half, and finally impaled through her arm, head (again), and torso with 9 spears}}, all at 300% strength (her sync rate of 300 made her feel everything three times stronger than reality.)
** The same goes for her red mech, Unit 02, which, in one battle, had both arms and its head cut off, while, in [[The Movie]], it was wrecked up in a manner [[Gorn|so graphic]] it's only rivaled by the destruction of {{spoiler|Unit 03, piloted by Toji.}}
* ''[[One Piece]]''
** Shanks depending on who does the coloring, has either a red or black cape. Subverted as he threw it off to swim out to save Luffy, and ''then'' lost his arm.
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* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' - Kenshin wears a red kimono (and [[Limited Wardrobe|pretty much only that one kimono]]) throughout the series. However, he's portrayed as wearing blue in flashbacks when he was an assassin.
** Sanosuke wears an iconic red headband. Unsurprisingly, he gets a lot of head injuries whether by being punched in the head or head-butting someone else.
* In ''[[Black Butler]]'', Madam Red not only wears a red cloak, but the colour red makes up her a major part of her backstory.
** So does {{spoiler|Grell while in shinigami form}} and it is a major part of her character as well. {{spoiler|After Madam Red's death, he even takes the cloak from her, saying "You're not fit to wear the color red."}}
* ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun]]'' has Mii Konori, who wears a decidedly non-standard red jacket over her uniform when it's time to stop being a desk jockey and go kick somebody's ass.
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Deadpool]]'' - Deadpool has "always been partial to red and black" and his uniform is primarily red with black accents.
== Film ==
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* Haldir in [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|the movie version]] of ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Two Towers]]'' wears red to the battle of Helm's Deep. {{spoiler|This battle proves to be his last.}}
* ''[[The Spirit]]''. "Somebody get me a tie -- and it sure as hell better be red!"
* The distinctive red uniforms of the ''[[Star Trek: The
* ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'': Jim wears the iconic red jacket for most of the film, but lends it to Plato shortly before the latter is killed. When Jim's father arrives on the scene, he recognizes the jacket and thinks it's his son who's been shot.
* ''[[Ultraviolet]]'': when the titular character receives a gash on her hand, her colour-changing clothes immediately change to red.
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* A young Richard Bolitho (from the [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men|novels by Alexander Kent]]) wonders why his captain wears a red coat before a battle. Needless to say, he finds out.
* One of the children's spinoff books based on ''[[Clue (game)|Cluedo]]'' had {{spoiler|Miss Scarlet being identified for an accidental stabbing because she was the only one who had clothes she could use to wipe the blood off her knife.}}
* Occurs in ''[[Witch]]'' by [[Christopher Pike]]. Julia has a vision of Jim dying in a gas station, and his red jacket is very prominent in the vision.
* The Eastern Empire from the later ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' books issues dull red uniforms to its army. The joke in that army is that the color was chosen to cut down on cleaning bills post-battle.
** Averted by the Bards of Valdemar, who also wear red uniforms. Thanks to their Bardic Immunity, it's against the law to harm them, and the relatively few major Bard characters tend to avoid suffering the same degree of trauma that other characters - including the white-clad Heralds - are prone to.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Mal Reynolds of ''[[Firefly]]'' wears mostly earth tones, including brown and red. These clothes are frequently ripped and torn, mostly by bullets and knives. Occasionally, this color scheme is the direct cause of some of Mal's
** Mal wearing red is played with in the side comic book story ''[[Serenity]]: Those Left Behind.'' In the comic, River comments that she hates the color red on Mal, which is an ironic throwback to the episode "Ariel" in which she cuts Jayne with a butcher knife and then comments that ''he'' looks better in red.
** River's comment is very likely intended to suggest that Mal does this trope [[Genre Savvy|on purpose]] for the reason given in the page quote. River [[Foe Yay|may]] or [[With Friends Like These...|may not]] like Jayne, but definitely didn't like the [[Evil, Inc.|Blue Sun]] shirt he was wearing, and slashing him was the best way she came up with to get him and the shirt to go away.
* In ''[[Star Trek: The
* In ''[[Star Trek: The
* The miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner's ''[[Angels in America]]'' puts long-suffering AIDS patient Prior in a red robe when he {{spoiler|goes to Heaven}}, with a stylistic nod to ''[[Schindler's List]]'' thrown in by having the red robe the only thing in color through that part of the sequence.
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Claire Bennett's season one cheerleading uniform was mostly red, for good reason.
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== Videogames ==
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' - Rin Tohsaka wears red in all of her outfits ('cept her sleepclothes), but it's pretty much a subversion, because the one time you see her seriously wounded, her blood isn't just on her, it's ''[[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank|everywhere.]]''
* Dante of the ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' series wears a [[Badass Longcoat]] of an almost garishly blood-crimson color. He does have a tendency to suffer atrocious levels of
* Auron in ''[[Final Fantasy|Final Fantasy X]]'' seems like an exception, in that his blood-red longcoat doesn't accompany any particular hardship in the quest. But then, he's {{spoiler|already dead to begin with.}}
* Ditto for Vincent Valentine in [[Dirge of Cerberus]] - when he sustains a major wound, it closes up right away.
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* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', the party goes to the king of Tethe'alla to discuss the present situation. After making their case, they are sent to the "Crimson Room", where they keep visitors they're not sure what to do with. The implication is that should they decide to kill said guests, the all-red decor in the room will hide the bloodstains better.
* In ''[[Shadow Hearts|Shadow Hearts: From the New World]]'', Killer, who sports red pants and hair, seems to sustain near-fatal injuries on a regular basis. {{spoiler|Interestingly enough, he actually does die after the boss fight in which he transforms into an all-red dragon.}}
* Ragna, the protagonist of ''[[
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'''s [[The Red Mage|Red Mages]], of course. Though they usually are less of [[Squishy Wizard
* ''[[Mega Man X]]'' and ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'s'' all-red Zero has a ([[Never Live It Down|somewhat fan exaggerated]]) reputation for getting heavily injured and even killed.
** Which extends to his playstyle as well, being a [[Glass Cannon]] who gets up to his enemies and slashes them.
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** The Romans, being [[Older Than Feudalism|one of the first to practice this for their military dress]], did so because their soldiers would be less likely to see their own blood upon injury and thus become demoralized.
*** Even before the Romans, the Spartan army dressed in crimson, supposedly because crimson garments were seen as bearing "the least resemblance to women's clothing."
* [[The Knights Hospitallers|The Knights Hospitaller]], or Knights of St. John. Their field uniform was (and still is) a red surcoat with a large white Maltese cross. The red surcoat may be worn only at the combat zone; elsewhere, a black surcoat with white Maltese cross is to be worn.
* The British army from the 17th to 19th century were famously known as "redcoats" due to their uniform. The common belief was that this was to hide blood stains. Other theories for why the colour was used are:
** The bright colours were simply to enable a soldier to distinguish friend and foe easily in the heat of battle. (Which has both benefits and drawbacks.)
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** The colloquialism "redcoat" only dates back to the 19th century; they were called "the King's men" by the American rebels.
* Napoleon wore a red shirt in battle, supposedly to never let the enemy see him bleed.
* According to [[wikipedia:A. P. Hill|that other wiki]], Confederate general A. P. Hill had a red "battle shirt". He was never seriously injured so long as he wore the red plaid shirt, making it a subversion of
* Giuseppe Garibaldi, an important player in the unification of Italy in the 19th century, led [[wikipedia:Redshirts (Italy)|redshirts]] (not [[Red Shirt|that kind]]) to battle. Some legends say he was inspired by butchers using the blood-hiding aspect, but [[The Other Wiki]] notes this is unlikely.
* Similarly, the gun decks of men of war in the Age of Sail were customarily painted red to lessen the shock of seeing the copious amounts of blood that covered them in battle.
** It was also cheap.
* One general of the Takeda Cavalry of the Sengoku era was known for his men's red armour. In case you didn't know, the Takeda cavalry was known throughout Japan during that era as being the finest.
* In sports, red shirts are a popular choice. In [[The Beautiful Game|football/soccer]], at least two teams are nicknamed "Red Devils" (Manchester United and Belgium); England has it as secondary uniform, and since their only [[FIFA World Cup]] was won with a red kit, it's used for special occasions; and in a not-very-successful attempt, Germany used red for 4 years as a secondary kit in an attempt to intimidate (it has since been changed to black).
* [[The Fair Folk|Redcaps]] were named for their red caps. The red came from the blood of people they killed, which they did often, since the red would eventually fade.
* On a US Aircraft Carrier, flight deck crew wear different colors to denote their jobs. Those wearing red shirts handle ordinance.
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