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This trope is quite omnipresent in cultural thought. {{color|red|Red}} is the colour of {{color|red|fire}} and even the Sun in most eastern Asian cultures, and has had associations with {{color|red|fire}} in the western world for several millenia. When [[Color-Coded Elements|elements are colour coded]], who gets {{color|red|Red}}? Fire. What colour do [[Playing Withwith Fire|fire-powered characters]] wear? {{color|red|Red}}.

In [[Real Life]], actual {{color|red|fire}} is rarely {{color|red|red}} at all. Most normal {{color|red|flames}} are either {{color|orange|orange}} or {{color|gold|gold}} with a {{color|lightgrey|white}} center; to get actual {{color|red|red}} fire, you have to use specific substances. This is why the {{color|red fire}} scene when Sam defeats the Samurai in [[Brazil (Filmfilm)|Brazil]] was quite hard to make, as pure {{color|red|red fire}} is really that hard to generate without filtering. The reason why {{color|red|fire}} is associted with {{color|red|red}} is maybe due to the natural tendency of seeing {{color|red|red}} as a warm colour (when it is actually the coldest part of the light spectrum; accordingly, [[Technicolor Fire|blue fire]] is much hotter), as well as the fact that embers tend to be {{color|red|red}}. Another possible explanation is the fact that {{color|orange|orange}}'s identity as an individual colour is very recent, and thus older works might use "{{color|darkorange|red}}" as a placeholder.