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* The Chosen in ''[[The Seventh Tower]]'' have a complicated caste system based around the colors of the rainbow. The closer you get to violet, the higher your social status. The various levels of their Castle are color coded and dictate where you may live—members of a certain color generally live on their own color; travel between colors isn't forbidden, but people apparently don't do it a lot. Some people have no color and are even lower ranked than red, and are, for all intents and purposes, slaves. Magic-users can't do magic with light of a color higher than their own.
* And, of course, there's always Lu Bu's Red Hare horse in ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'', which was reputedly supreme among horses in the day. (And possibly three times as fast.)
* Part of a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in Fred Saberhagen's [[Berserker (Literature)|Berserker]] story [https://web.archive.org/web/20110812083430/http://www.webscription.net/chapters/0743498860/0743498860___9.htm "Wings Out of Shadow".] When the AI personality construct asks for its spaceship to be painted red, it's your first clue that the musician who "kept getting thrown from his horse" is actually {{spoiler|Manfred von Richtofen, the [[Red Baron.]]}}
* [[The Wind Singer]] had a nation with a colour-based caste system. Members of each caste could only wear that colour and had to live in the ring of the city painted with that colour.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Superstar [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] is known as "The Big Red Machine" or "The Big Red Monster".
* [[WWE Raw]], the flagship of the promotion, is known as the "red brand", while [[WWE Smackdown]] is blue. In theory they're of equal status, but everybody still knows Raw is the A-show and Smackdown is the B-show.
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* Turns up quite a bit in the ''[[Ace Combat]]'' series:
** ''[[Ace Combat Zero|Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War]]'' has Solo Wing Pixy who, {{spoiler|before he defects to A World With No Boundaries and becomes the final boss}}, flies an F-15C with a portion of the right wing painted red, representing the time that he had lost a wing during combat, but fought on, finished the mission, and landed safely; you can also unlock this custom paint job for your own F-15. Otherwise averted for Cipher, however - his "official" plane is also an F-15C, this time with blue wings.
** Averted in ''[[
** ''[[Ace Combat 2]]'' has the Z.O.E. squadron: five unmanned aircraft painted entirely red, the last of which appears as the most dangerous enemy in the final mission, flying one of the series' very first superfighters. Like with ''Zero'', Scarface One inverts this - his official plane in this game is the Su-35, which has a paint scheme primarily consisting of the color blue.
** Z.O.E makes a comeback in the [[Video Game Remake]] of ''AC2'', ''[[Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy|Assault Horizon Legacy]]''. However, Scarface One's planes are now (by default) gray, rather than blue camouflage.
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** It works really well in Judo, with the belts going from white to black and the red belt being reserved for people of fifth dan and above. -- that is, people that can do stuff you wouldn't expect in a movie.
*** The apocryphal basis for the color-belt system lends the Law a touch of faux - [[Truth in Television]]-originally, a practitioner merely received A belt, period, when he began. A pristine white belt which, unlike the rest of the uniform, was never washed, so that the sweat, dirt, and what have you else would slowly make the belt progressively darker. So if you saw a guy with a black belt, it meant he'd been studying his particular style for a long time and was probably capable of kicking your ass before you even knew you were about to fight him. Sadly, this explanation isn't actually true—it was invented by a California dojo in the mid-20th century ''specifically to invoke the trope''. (A bit of [[Fridge Logic]] would also make you wonder why someone from a culture that considers bathing in hot springs to be a normal part of life would let himself get so dirty that it shows on his clothes.)
** In the Cheezic Federation of Tang Soo Doo, you start off as white, go to orange (instead of yellow in other schools), then blue, then green (which are three degrees), then red (three degrees again), then Apprentice Black (either have red and black belt), or you wear the Black Belt Gi with a red belt, then First Degree Black. You either get white or RED tape when you increase in degrees.
* American Express cards in order of exclusivity: green, gold, platinum, black...
* Ii Naomasa, one of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]'s [[Four Is Death|Four Guardians]],<ref>inspired by the awesome red color of Yamagata Masakage's unit when he was a kid</ref> formed a unit dressed entirely in red armor nicknamed the Red Devils. Dressing in red, of course, made them so fast that they drew first blood in the Battle of Sekigahara.
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