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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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** 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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