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* Although he hasn't made his fondness for her known vocally in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', pink-haired Hinagiku Katsura clearly holds his interest.
* Sanji from ''[[One Piece]]'' is enamored with the flame-haired Nami, though he's enamored with anything female that isn't a complete Gonk.
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"|Okarin]]...Kyouma, spends a [[Mind Screw]]-worthy amount of time trying to save his [[Childhood Friends]] Mayuri. He decides all his effort should be thrown away, when the choice comes to save either her...or the redhead.
** Except, in the [[Steins;Gate|game]], Kyouma can give up for whatever reason before then for the sake of one of the other girls' happiness, though the route the anime took certainly is the true ending. There's also the fact that she's only a redhead in the anime: in the game, she has brown hair.
* Technically, the Tai/Sora/Matt [[Love Triangle]] from "[[Digimon Adventure]]" and "[[Digimon Adventure 02]]" is all about which guy gets Sora (who has auburn hair and therefore is a Red Head)...unless, of course, you [[Ho Yay|ship the hypotenuse]].
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* Sally, from the Sonic comics published by Archie, is a redhead. Fiona, too.
* [[Scott Pilgrim]]'s romantic life consists of Kim (redhead), Natalie, a.k.a. "Envy" (redhead), Knives (temporarily had red highlights), and Ramona (her hair ''was'' red for a time, [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|but it changes often]]). More obvious in the Game {{spoiler|where his ending involves him dating Kim, Envy, and Knives all at once, and all three are pictured with him, and they all have red hair}}.
* The prevalence of redheaded heroines, villainesses and love interests in superhero comics is neatly summed up by [http://www.shrani.si/f/1b/sQ/jXHDesC/littlemarvels2.jpg this image]{{Dead link}}, showing [[Gen 13|Caitlin Fairchild]], [[X-Men|Jean Grey]], [[Batwoman]], [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Medusa]], [[Batman|Poison Ivy]], [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Starfire]], [[X-Men|Mystique]], [[Batgirl]], [[X-Men|Siryn]], [[Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends|Firestar]], and [[Spider-Man|Mary-Jane Watson]]. Notably missing [[Black Widow (comics)|Black Widow]], oddly.
 
 
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**** As if to drive the point home, [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|red twi'lek]] are rare because their red skin is the result of a mutated gene. Likewise, red hair is rare and results from a mutated blonde hair gene. She's as close to a redhead as a hairless alien babe can get.
* Ygritte, a wildling woman who becomes Jon Snow's [[Temporary Love Interest]] in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. Wildling society as a whole favors redheads, believing them to be "kissed by fire". Jon also thinks of Melisandre (another woman with red hair <ref>along with red eyes and always red clothing</ref>) as very beautiful, if a little cold. And he's not the only POV character to take interest in redheads. At the beginning of the series, Ned Stark is happily married to auburn-haired Catelyn Tully and their daughter Sansa (who took after her mother) ends up being married to {{spoiler|Tyrion Lannister}} who admits that he is very attracted to her. Jaime Lannister, another POV character, found Catelyn's sister (that has the typical Tully coloring) rather pretty and Catelyn herself interesting as a teenager. There's also Rohanne Webber with whom Duncan, the protagonist of the [[Prequel|Dunk&Egg tales]], is infatuated.
** In poor Sansa's case though this is mostly averted to Villains (or Anti-Villains in Sandor's case) Want Redheads, as out of her two biggest admirers, one is a bitterly cynical [[Blood Knight]], the other a [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]] [[Magnificent Bastard]].
* Red hair is one of the most common colors among the Aiel in the [[Wheel of Time]], so one of Rand's three is a redhead, as is Chiad (though that relationship is very minor and very complicated).
** Actually, ''two'' of Rand's "three" are redheaded - the other one is strawberry blonde.
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** Also, though frequently forgotten thanks to her gradual blondification, ''Princess Zelda herself'' was red-haired in the original NES games. (Or should we say both Princess Zeldas, since the one in the second game was a [[Sleeping Beauty]] relative of the one from the first.)
*** This might be more be because of the limited palette of the NES—note that even Princess Peach was a redhead in the first Super Mario Bros. game.
** The Sleeping Zelda has red hair in her artwork, so it's intentional. The first Zelda, however, had [https://web.archive.org/web/20140804044348/http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/5/53/PrincessZeldaLoZArt.png blond hair], as evident in her Japanese artwork and her sprite; but, in the west, she has two different artworks, one with her being [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20141009214636/http://zeldawiki.org/images/b/b5/Original_Zelda.png blond] and the other where she's a [https://web.archive.org/web/20140804044329/http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/b/b6/Princess-Zelda.png brunette].
* Kairi of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series. Sora (and possibly Riku) falls for her.
* In ''[[Fire Emblem]] 6: Sword of Seals'': the redheaded male lord Roy can have ''six'' different possible brides (and one of them, the dancer Lalam, is a redhead as well). In the prequel, ''Fire Emblem 7: Blazing Swords'', his also redheaded father Eliwood can have three possible girlfriends (but no redheads this time).
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== WebcomicsWeb Comics ==
* Blonde bard Elan is dating redhead thief Haley in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''. This is [[Playing with a Trope|Orderplaying ofwith the Sticktrope]], in that Elan isn''t any more of a hero than Haley is.
* Jade, and later Miranda, from ''PVP[[PvP (webcomic)|PvP]]''.
** And Marcy. ALL of the regular female cast members are redheads.
* Kate, from ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Ctrl Alt Del]]''.
* Tycho's wife from ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'', though Tucho isn't exactly heroic...
** Given that the wives are just their real-life wives in comic form, this is more of a [[Real Life]] example than a webcomic example.
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* [[Punny Name|Anne Onymous]], protagonist of ''[[The Wotch]]'', is a red head, as are a few side characters. The (blond) Jason has a ''huge'' redhead fetish...so much so that he has a "[[Spider Sense|Red-Head Sense]]". Also, whenever he is [[Gender Bender|turned into a girl]] (which is fairly often), he's red-haired (and calls himself Sonja). Ironically, his one true love is a brunette.
* Guinevere in ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]''.
* White Mage from ''[[8-Bit Theater|8-bit Theater]]''. Black Mage comments on this when she first appears.
* Daisy Archanis and Damien Vaeo from ''[[Last Res0rt]]''. Arguably, Geisha too, although he's more a ''red body'' than anything...
* Tai and Ellen from ''[[Questionable Content]]'', the latter a supporting character's ex-girlfriend, the former a college [[Hot Librarian|librarian]] in an all-girl [[Love Dodecahedron]].
* Torg's [[Unwanted Harem|unwanted]] [[Magical Girlfriend]] Oasis from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', for a while. A [[Subverted Trope|subversion]], since Torg's girlfriend of choice is the black-haired Zoë (who returns his affection). And now that {{spoiler|Oasis is no longer brainwashed to love Torg}}, Torg and Zoë can be a couple without Oasis being a Sword of Damocles over her head.
** Wouldn't that, by definition, be a subversion? Torg's girl of choice is the black-haired Zoë, who {{spoiler|seems to have been killed}}. Played straight when heTorg was together with an alt-world Zoë, though.
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' has Ginny Smith. Nothing did come out of it for a long time, but after a [[Time Skip]], she is now {{spoiler|married to Erwin.}}
* Though not apparent, both Erika Hayasaka and Largo of ''[[Megatokyo]]'' have red hair.
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* In ''Day By Day'', Sam, the engineer/podcast host is a [[Blonde Republican Sex Kitten|Redheaded Republican Sex Kitten]] and married to Spec Ops sniper Zed.
* In ''[[Looking for Group]]'', the heroic Cale falls for the hot redheaded [[All Trolls Are Different|(possibly hybrid or pureblood) troll]] Benny.
 
 
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