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{{trope}}
[[File:nanoha-red-makes-me-pretty.jpg|link=
▲{{quote|"Fetch me old red doublet<br />
▲Bring it to me now<br />
▲I'll wear it in the rigging when they fire across the bow<br />
▲Fetch me old red doublet<br />
▲That's all the luck we'll need<br />
Even if they shoot me down they'll never see me bleed!"|'''The Ballad of Old Redcoat''', ''The Pyrates Royale''}}
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{{examples}}
== 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]].
* Alucard of ''[[Hellsing]]'' and Vash of ''[[Trigun]]'' both practically personify the trope; although in the case of ''Trigun'', Wolfwood doesn't fare much better in his black suit and white shirt. Hell, Alucard has the primary battle tactic of letting his opponent tear him to shreds.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' - in his completely red outfit, Inuyasha is not particularly lucky, and despite ([[Good Thing You Can Heal|because of?]]) his demonic resilience, Kagome practically has to duct tape him back together after many battles, including once having a punch go through his abdomen and out the other side. His brother, Sesshomaru, provoked the mutilation gods merely by having a few red ''stripes'' on his clothing, and subsequently lost an arm. The censor potential is especially notable here, as blood seems darker on dark-suited folks.
* ''[[
* In the climax of the Kurosawa-based ''[[
* Gareki from ''[[Karneval]]'' wears one of these, underneath which is a pretty slutty shirt. [[media:karnevalv2.png|A worse offender than the usual is seen on the cover here]], but no one (except the readers) has bothered to point it out yet.
* The school uniform in ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* 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
* Asuka in ''[[
** 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.}}
* ''[[
** 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.
** Luffy fits too, with his standard red shirt. And boy, does he get beat up.
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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 ''[[
** 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 ==
* In an interesting color inversion, Nausicaa (of ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of
* Haldir in [[The Lord of the Rings (
* ''[[The Spirit]]''. "Somebody get me a tie -- and it sure as hell better be red!"
* The distinctive red uniforms of the ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[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.
* In ''[[Hero (
* In ''[[Schindler's List]]'', a little girl in a red jacket<ref>Who really stands out since the rest of the movie is in black and white (except the beginning, and the ending).</ref> is seen at the ghetto. Later in the movie, Schindler sees her corpse about to be burned.
* In the ''[[Silent Hill (
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* In Terry Goodkind's ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, the Mord-Sith are female torturer/bodyguards who have color coded outfits. Usually, they wear plain brown leather. When they switch to a red outfit, that's when they mean ''business''. They also have a white outfit, which symbolizes when a Mord-Sith has "trained" (read: tortured and broken) her pet so well that she doesn't ''need'' to coerce him into anything. This particular outfit shows up twice; once in the first book, where the main character is the pet, and once {{spoiler|in the last book, when one of the Mord-Sith ''gets married''. Either Goodkind was just going for a white outfit or he was trying to say something...}}
** In [[Legend of the Seeker|the television adaptation]], the Mord-Sith only wore the red version at first, with no explanation given, making it purely [[Fetish Fuel]], but an episode in the second season finally showed off the white leather, along with an explanation of what it meant.
* In ''[[Hero (
* 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 (
* Occurs in ''[[
* 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.
* In a subversion, [[Anita Blake]] prefers black clothes while working, because she finds that black hides the blood even better than red.
* In [[The
* In ''[[
== Live-Action TV ==
* Mal Reynolds of ''[[
** Mal wearing red is played with in the side comic book story ''[[
** 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:
* In ''[[Star Trek:
* 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
* 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.
* Lemon, the "Red Baron" from ''[[Shining Force]] 2'', wears a deep red suit of armor. It is rumored that the red color comes from the blood of all the enemies he has slain. When he is {{spoiler|turned into a vampire}}, he attempts to kill himself in several ways (because [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]).
* In ''[[
* 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
* ''[[
** Which extends to his playstyle as well, being a [[Glass Cannon]] who gets up to his enemies and slashes them.
== Webcomics ==
* Late in the fourth act of ''[[
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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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