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* Kaolinite from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', anyone?

** Interestingly, she changes to a [[Woman in Black]] after her {{spoiler|apparent death and resurrection}}.

* Madam Red from ''[[Black Butler]]''.

* Yumi Komagata from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''. Notably, she used to be [[High-Class Call Girl|an oiran]] before [[Unholy Matrimony|joining up with Shishio.]]

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Played for laughs with Ranma Saotome's [[Gender Bender|girl form]]. He's one of the most (if not ''the'' most) attractive women in the entire series. He knows it and [[Manipulative Bastard|plays it up for all the benefits he can possibly get]], especially in the manga. Ranma's seductive ways are highlighted by his typical red shirt, his red hair in the anime, and, at one point, a red [[Qipao]] dress from some official art. Plus, in general, he's just seen in a lot of red clothing.

 

* ''[[Wildguard]]'' has the enigmatic Woman in Red who stalks Red Rover.

* P'Gell, in ''[[The Spirit]]''. Often, but not always, seen in a slinky red dress. (Starting with her first appearance.)

* Smurfette wore a red dress in ''[[The Smurfs]]'' comic book story "The Great Smurfette", though it was more the feminine version of Papa Smurf's outfit, and it was mostly to show that she was in charge of the Smurf Village.

 

 

* Mother Gothel from ''[[Tangled]]'' wears a red dress.

* [[Go-Go Enslavement|Slave]] [[Disney Princess|Jasmine]] from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''.

* [[Mulan]]'s wedding dress at the end of ''Mulan II''.

* Belle's [["Happy Holidays" Dress]] at the end of ''[[Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas]]''.

* Jessica Rabbit from ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''

* And ''The Woman In Red'' from the movie of the same name.

* [[Femme Fatale|Violet]] from ''[[Bound]]'' spends a good chunk of the film in a sexy red dress.

* The woman in the bar who tries (and comically fails) to seduce One in ''[[The City of Lost Children]]''. At the time, he is devastated over the death of Miette, the film's ''real'' Lady in Red (except she's like, 12 years old, and One is like her big, dumb, insanely strong brother.)

 

* In [[Robin McKinley]]'s ''Sunshine'', the vampires who kidnapped Sunshine dressed her in a red gown before staking her out before another prisoner vampire.

* In ''Declarations of War'' by [[Len Deighton]], a woman traveling with the protagonist has two dresses, black and red. She declines to wear the red one in a small Latin American town, as it is pointed out that only one type of woman wears red in those types of towns.

* ''[[White as Snow]]'': At the height of her beauty, power, and sexuality, Arpazia is seen wearing a particular red gown.

* Imabelle, the [[Femme Fatale]] in ''A Rage in Harlem'', wears red throughout the story.

 

* Zoey in ''[[Zoey 101]]''.

* ''[[iCarly]]'': Miss Ackerman. Carly calls her hot [[Les Yay|(!)]], Freddie goes "Woah" 5 times (and this is the Season 1 Freddie who hasn't really hit puberty yet).

* In C-drama ''The Holy Pearl'', Mo Yin wears red throughout her [[Establishing Character Moment]] (sentencing the main character to death), marking her as a more sensual and passionate character than her [[Woman in White]] sister.

 

* ''[[The Police|Roxxxxxannnnnneeeee! You don't have to wear that dress tonight!]]''

* The [[Chris De Burgh]] song "The Lady in Red" (obviously).

* [[The Beatles]]' song ''Yes It Is'' is about a man pleading with his lover ''not'' to wear red, because it would bring up painful memories of a lost love for him.

 

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* [[Pathfinder/Characters|Imrijka]] manages to combine this, [[Beastess]], and [[Badass Longcoat]].

 

* ''[[Anyone Can Whistle]]'': "Ze Lady from Lourdes" = Nurse Fay Apple + [[Wig, Dress, Accent|red dress + wig + outrageous French accent]].

 

* Ada Wong from ''[[Resident Evil]]''.

* Bella Goth from ''[[The Sims]]''.

* One enemy in ''Hired Guns'' (The 1993 Amiga game) is actually called "Lady in Red", she wears a red cloak over a green bodysuit.

 

* [[Pibgorn]] Dru, [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2003/08/14/ like here].

* While ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', alas, switched to B&W early on, there's [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/get_to_work! this] (of course, Layla is a vamp... of the [[Our Vampires Are Different|literal variety]], at least):

{{quote|'''Layla''': (holding a dress) Do you have this in red? ''Blood'' red? }}

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* [http://gaius0artemis.deviantart.com/gallery/36333221#/d4tugyq Catacombs of New York Chapter 11]

 

* Halfway subverted with the aforementioned Lady in Pink in the first two-parter of ''[[The Backyardigans]]'', "International Super Spy". Yes, she was evil and had a similar name to this trope's, but she wore ''[[Captain Obvious|pink]]'' and her outfit wasn't slinky enough. Well, at least [[Vapor Wear|she didn't have any undies on]], and that's [[Fan Service|just flattering enough]].

* [[Betty Boop]], while she use to wear a black dress, mainly because she was around before the invention of colour, switched to a skimpy red dress.

* [[The Faceless|Sarah Bellum]] from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''.

 

 

* According to legend, John Dillinger was betrayed to the FBI by a woman in red. In actuality, she (Anna Sage, a Romanian immigrant who was trying to get a visa by handing over Dillinger) was wearing orange, which she did to signal the FBI she was with Dillinger, but the light made it look red.

* The late, great baseball personality Buck O'Neill had a stated fondness for women in red dresses; he once told his biographer, "Son, in this life, you never walk by a red dress." At his funeral, all the women wore red.

* Scarlet red in [[Kimono|Kimonese]] stands for sexuality and vigour of youth, being a suitable background colour for a young girl's ''furisode'' or the wedding costume's overcoat ''uchikake'', as well as accessories—however, red ''underkimono'' has been downright scandalous for many a decade, and the only people who get away with wearing such are geisha and such.

* If you didn't happen to catch ''[[Winter's Bone]]'', then you certainly knew who Jennifer Lawrence was after she appeared at the 2011 Oscars in a form-fitting red gown.

** Referenced in the movie ''[[Moonstruck]]'' where Cher's character threatens to wear such a dress to Johnny (the man who jilted her)'s funeral once he dies.

* According to Gypsy culture, women are actually not allowed to wear red in public, since Gypsies find the color red unlucky. Especially if said Gypsy woman is a pole dancer...