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''With a cinnamon girl."''|'''[[Neil Young]]''', "Cinnamon Girl"}}
[[Love Interests]] have always been [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]. Traditionally, the hero's significant other would usually be a [[Hair of Gold|blonde]], to [[Foil|contrast with]] the brunette [[The Vamp|Vamp]] or [[Femme Fatale]]. But today, the passive [[Damsel in Distress]] and [[Shallow Love Interest]] have been replaced by the sassy, bold, brash, sharp-tongued [[Action Girl]] and [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]
The hero's redhead is actually calm, [[Beware the Quiet Ones|at least most of the time]]. When she is fiery, she will probably be making him work to win her over for a long time or [[Romantic False Lead|he won't realize that she's the one for him until the end]].
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One possible source is [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s fondness for hypercapable redhaired heroines (he had a red-haired wife).
In European comics, the high proportion of redheads among the main protagonists has been explained by some authors by the simple fact that, since redheads are rare, they're easier to spot in the
Look out for the large number of [[Dark-Skinned Redhead|Dark Skinned Redheads]] in Anime.
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* [[Elvis Presley]] woos Ann-Margret in ''[[Viva Las Vegas]]''.
* [[Taylor Swift]]'s character, [http://www.animationmagazine.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Audrey-voiced-by-Taylor-Swift-in-DR.-SEUSS-THE-LORAX.jpg Audrey], in ''[[The Lorax (film)|The Lorax]]''. She's not in the book, she's an inserted love interest for [[Zac Efron]]'s character, who is presumably the guy who finds the Once-ler.
* [[Cate Blanchett]]'s character in ''[[Bandits]]'' has [[Triang Relations|two]] [[Odd Couple|very different]] [[Anti-Hero
* Shannon of ''Far and Away''. Due to her being an Irish immigrant, it's unsurprising.
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* Ginny Weasley of ''[[Harry Potter]]''. Harry, of course, follows in the footsteps of his father James, who loved Lily Evans. Dumbledore also had red hair when younger. [[J. K. Rowling]] has stated she likes redheads.
** Funnily, the other two main characters end up together; brunette Hermione ends up with redhead Ron, brother of Ginny.
* Clarissa MacDougal Kinnison, of [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Lensman]]'' saga, is not merely a
* Shira Brie and Mara Jade from ''[[Star Wars]]'' were both Luke Skywalker's love interests, and the latter became his wife. {{spoiler|And remained with him until her death in ''Sacrifice''...thought to have been at the hands of the other, interestingly, until it was revealed to have been Jacen who killed her.}}
** Don't forget Dani! The Bantam era preferred brown hair, but he ultimately got a redhead. As well, as a Zeltron, she had red ''skin''...
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*** Why limit the "red things growing out of the girl's head" to hair? Cade also hooks up with a Darth Talon.
**** 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>
** 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 [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] [[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).
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* Almost all members of the ruling class of the planet ''Darkover'' have red hair because all characters with red hair in Marion Zimmer Bradley's series have psychic powers. Since every single offworlder hero or heroine who arrives on Darkover ends up hooking up with a member of the ruling class...
** Then, there is the averting blond Ridenow clan. Of course, they get their ladies the old-fashioned way...they STEAL them!
* ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]''. [[Colonel Badass|Colonel]] 'Lizard' Tirelli, the protagonist's love
* Starting with ''The Titan's Curse'', the titular character of the series ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' has two main love interests: blonde Annabeth and redhead Rachel. Eventually subverted in the final book, as Rachel {{spoiler|dumps him (when they weren't going out in the first place, no less) in favor of becoming the new Oracle of Delphi. [[First Girl Wins|He gets Annabeth in the end.]]}}
* April Rose, [[Mack Bolan]]'s [[Love Interest]] throughout the 1980's when he worked for [[Heroes-R-Us|Stony Man]].
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* Someone behind the scenes of ''[[The West Wing]]'', probably [[Aaron Sorkin]], has a thing for redheads. CJ, Zoey, Margaret, Mallory, Andy, Abby, Joey, Ginger, and Jenny are all some shade of red.
* Inverted with Charlie on ''[[Ugly Betty]]''.
* On ''[[Smallville]]'', Lionel Luthor has shown an attraction to
** Though the 'hero' part is [[Heel Face Revolving Door|rather questionable]].
* ''Swingtown'': everyone, [[Les Yay|and I do mean everyone]], wants Susan.
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** Dr. Crusher certainly had red hair, until she became blonde for the films, but didn't Kira and Janeway both have brown hair? Seven of Nine, on the other hand, was more of a strawberry blonde.
*** Nope, Kira and Janeway were most definitely redheads; however, their hair was a much darker shade of red than Crusher's. The red tones in Janeway's hair, especially, usually only showed up outside or under lights - the proof of her red hair is in ''Admiral'' Janeway's snowy-white bun (usually, only redheads go that pure white). Seven of Nine was all but a platinum blonde.
* Almost every important woman in Richard [[Castle]]'s life is a redhead, from the 'one who got away' to his first ex-wife, even his mother and his daughter. Seemingly averted by Kate Beckett, his [[Love Interest]] in the
* ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'': almost every important woman in Cal Lightman's life is redheaded, too. His daughter Emily has long red hair, his mother (in flashbacks) is shown to have had an auburn shade, and his [[Most Important Person|partner]] Gillian is a strawberry-blonde (though it's not natural, unless her dark hair in the "Sweet Sixteen" flashbacks was dyed).
* Beautiful redhead [[Jayma Mays]] has been this in all of her parts. She was wanted by the Hiro on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Will on ''[[Glee]]'', and an episode of ''[[Pushing Daisies]]''. Even ''Paul Blart: Mall Cop'' wanted her. Inverted on ''[[Ugly Betty]]'', where she was an [[Evil Redhead]].
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** As well as Midna from ''Twilight Princess''.
** 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
** The Sleeping Zelda has red hair in her artwork, so it's intentional. The first Zelda, however, had [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 [http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/b/b5/Original_Zelda.png blond] and the other where she's a [http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/b/b6/Princess-Zelda.png brunette].
* Kairi of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series. Sora (and possibly Riku) falls for her.
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