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* ''[[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.
* ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma ½]]'' - the same goes for the titular character in Takahashi's previous work in a red shirt, Ranma Saotome, but in a more comedic manner.
* In the climax of the Kurosawa-based ''[[Samurai Seven|Samurai 7]]'', Kyuzo's violent, extremely ironic death was probably the result of his signature crimson [[Badass Longcoat]].
* 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 ''[[Kanon (Visual Novel)|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 Vision of Escaflowne (Anime)|Vision of Escaflowne]]'' fits this trope to a T. Look no further than episode 14 as an example.
* 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}} -- though [[Healing Factor|it's usually not a big deal]]. [[Subverted Trope|One little problem]] with the red coat is that it only makes his injuries more visible, because his blood is ''[[Alien Blood|green]]''...
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'' - 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 (Anime)|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.)<br /><br />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 (Manga)|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.
** 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 ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|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."}}
 
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== Film ==
* In an interesting color inversion, Nausicaa (of ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of Thethe Wind]]'') goes into the last part of the movie wearing a red dress, {{spoiler|which is then dyed blue from being soaked in blue Ohmu blood.}}
* Haldir in [[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|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: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', cast worn throughout ''[[Star Trek II: theThe Wrath of Khan (Film)|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' to ''[[Star Trek VI: theThe Undiscovered Country (Film)|Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country]]'', technically making every character a [[Red Shirt]].
* ''[[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 (Filmfilm)|Hero]]'', the most violent version of the story uses red as the main colour.
* 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 (Filmfilm)|Silent Hill]]'' movie, Rose's outfit starts out in light spring colors, fading to duller and duller shades throughout the movie, then turning blood red for the climax.
 
 
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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 (Literaturenovel)|Hero]]'' by [[Perry Moore]], {{spoiler|Ruth is stabbed through the stomach - BY A TREE BRANCH - but it takes Thom and Scarlett a minute to figure out that she's dying, thanks to her red dress}}.
* 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 (Tabletop Gamegame)|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 (Literature)|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.
* In a subversion, [[Anita Blake]] prefers black clothes while working, because she finds that black hides the blood even better than red.
* In [[The King KillerKingkiller Chronicle|The Wise Man's Fear]], [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Adem mercenaries]] prefer to wear bright red. Kvothe guesses this is so their enemies will not see them bleed. In contrast, [[Badass Grandma|Shehyn]], an Adem master, wears white, because she [[Badass Boast|does not bleed in battle]], and if she ever did, seeing her bleed would be her enemy's rightful reward.
* In ''[[Cerberon (Literature)|Cerberon]]'', Aladavan is wearing a red jacket when he's nearly disemboweled by a skraad. He comments on this fact and is amazed that his white trousers didn't get bloody.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* Mal Reynolds of ''[[Firefly (TV)|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 injuries -- like when he wears it into an Alliance-friendly bar on Unification Day and picks a fight.
** Mal wearing red is played with in the side comic book story ''[[Serenity (Film)|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: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', [[Red Shirt|Red Shirts]] are famous for guaranteed deaths. (Scotty and Uhura excepted.) Scotty was killed by the probe NOMAD in "The Changeling". [[Unexplained Recovery|He got better.]]
* In ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', the Starfleet uniform colors are inverted; [[Red Shirt|Red Shirts]] are now command and main characters while the [[Red Shirt|security and engineering staff]] wear gold. They don't often die, but they do get tortured, maimed, shocked, or have the shit kicked out of them.
* 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 Stay Nightnight]]'' - 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 injury -- often with his own weaponry -- but it almost never slows him down for long. Part of this is due to [[Cutscene Power to Thethe Max]], wherein Dante is a practically unkillable warrior, and the other part is due to his [[Half-Human Hybrid|demonic heritage]].
* 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 ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|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 ''[[Blaz Blue]]'', wears a red coat and also has [[Glass Cannon|horrible defense]]. In addition, several of the [[Multiple Endings]] end with him dying [[Fate Worse Than Death|or worse]].
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'''s [[The Red Mage|Red Mages]], of course. Though they usually are less of [[Squishy Wizard|Squishy Wizards]] than Black or White ones due to being able to equip better gear.
* ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]]'' and ''[[Mega Man Zero (Video Game)|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.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* Late in the fourth act of ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'', {{spoiler|an alternate future version of resident [[Badass]] Dave Strider}} is found dead in a red tuxedo. Earlier on, in the [[Bloodier and Gorier|Midnight Crew Intermission,]] this is inverted: the antagonists, a pool-themed [[Gang of Hats]] called The Felt, are dressed in entriely in green and have [[Amazing Technicolor Population|green skin.]] The blood is quite vividly noticeable.
 
 
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