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Some Heroes Want Redheads. Some heroes are redheads.
Why Red? Consider how, of all hair colors, red is the least common. It’s not surprising that it’s used when writers want someone to stand out, at least in shows that don't give random extras unusual shades of hair.
While heroes tend to have bright-colored hair (almost reddish-blond), villains have darker-colored, almost brownish hair. Red is second only to blonde hair for a hero (see Law of Chromatic Superiority).
See Also: Evil Redhead, Fiery Redhead, Redheaded Stepchild
Examples of Redheaded Hero include:
Anime & Manga[]
- Sun Otonashi from Angel Beats
- Shirayuki from Akagami no Shirayukihime. The author wanted to write a story based on Snow White and thus gave her red hair. This hair color is very rare in-universe, making her sought after by many ill-minded people.
- Ayashi no Ceres:
- Cyborg Guy’s isn't natural. In flashbacks to before the accident and after he becomes an Evoluder, his hair is a pretty normal brown.
- Tooya, often referred as "Tamahome with hair dye and contact lenses".
- Mikoto
- Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach, and in the first anime, Orihime. (Her hair's light brown in the manga and second anime)
- Lieutenant Kate Curtis from the Hentai Bondage Queen Kate
- Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura) in the manga is more of a redhead in those few colour pictures of her. Likewise Princess Sakura from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.
- Kallen Kouzuki, Lelouch's bodyguard from Code Geass
- Lavi and General Cross from D.Gray-man
- Daisuke from D.N.Angel
- Several from the Digimon franchise:
- Koushiro Izumi (Izzy) from Digimon Adventure
- Daisuke Motomiya (Davis) from Digimon Adventure 02
- Ruki Makino (Rika Nonaka) from Digimon Tamers
- Masaru Daimon (Marcus) from Digimon Savers
- Erza from Fairy Tail
- Kyo Sohma from Fruits Basket
- Some of the protagonists in Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics are depicted as redheads, i.e, Princess Elise and her husband from The Six Swans, Elizabeth from The Old Woman in the Woods, Rose-Red and her love interest the Younger Prince, and the Prince from Rapunzel.
- Ibara from Hana no Kishi
- Ayano Kannagi from Kaze no Stigma
- Mai Tokiha from Mai-HiME. Her mischievous opposite, Nao Yuuki, has bright crimson hair.
- Hikaru Shidou from Magic Knight Rayearth
- Magic Users Club:
- While Sae has a long, winding, pitfall-ridden road before she's worthy of the "hero" part, her dedication and belief in her companions eventually pay off.
- Aburatsubo's one who often saves the day when the group gets in trouble.
- Nanoha, Vita, and Teana from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Mahou Sensei Negima:
- Negi Springfield
- Asuna Kagurazaka
- Negi’s dad Nagi.
- Shirou from Kazuma Kodaka's Midare Somenishi
- Amuro Ray from Mobile Suit Gundam is a redhead in some sources and pictures, but a brunette in others.
- Luna from Mujin Wakusei Survive
- Naruto: Gaara (after he switched sides), plus Naruto's mom Kushina
- Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Gene Starwind from Outlaw Star
- Himeno Awayuki from Prétear
- Tsubomi Hanasaki from Heartcatch Pretty Cure. It contrasts with her Innocent Flower Girl nature. As Cure Blossom, her hair turns pink.
- Ahiru from Princess Tutu
- Ranma Saotome from Ranma ½ (half the time)
- Ryoko Mitsurugi from Real Bout High School
- Princess Nakaba from Reimei no Arcana
- Juliet Capulet from Romeo X Juliet. Red seems to be her family’s theme color, while the Montagues have blue.
- Kenshin Himura from Rurouni Kenshin
- Sailor Moon: Sailor Mars has purple hair, but has red hair in the Manga’s many colored images.
- Sailor ChibiChibi
- Sailor Kakyuu
- Sailor Vesta
- Sailors Moon, ChibiMoon, Ceres, Lethe, and Mnemosyne all have pink hair at some point and all are eventually good guys.
- Saiyuki has a hero with bright red hair (Sha Gojyo), and a villain with dark red hair (Kougaiji). This is pointed out when Gojyo's older brother, Dokugakuji, admits that one of the reasons he started working for Kougaiji was because he reminded him of Gojyo. Kougaiji himself behaves more like a classical hero than the protagonists.
- Shana (as a Flame Haze) from Shakugan no Shana. When in her "human" form, she has black hair.
- Hanamichi Sakuragi from Slam Dunk... though he dyes his hair red.
- Lina from The Slayers
- Spirit Albarn, Maka's dad from Soul Eater
- Anne from Hentai Spy of Darkness
- Tsunashi Takuto from Star Driver
- In the anime version of The Story of Perrine, Perrine Pandavoine is given red hair instead of the novel's blond one.
- The No-Named swordsman from Sword of the Stranger has red hair, and dyes it black to be less conspicuous.
- Rai from Tai Chi Chasers
- Megu from Tantei Gakuen Q has pink hair. (black in the live action series)
- Yoko Littner from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Ichigo Momomiya from Tokyo Mew Mew normally has red hair, which turns pink after her Transformation Sequence.
- Yoko from The Twelve Kingdoms
- Kuwabara and Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho
- Yumeji and Merry from Yumekui Merry
- The title character from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
- Shouto Todoroki from My Hero Academia. Sort-of: half of his hair is whiote, the rest is red.
- Also, Eijirou Kirishima.
Comic Books[]
- Al Pratt the Golden Age Atom was Cagney-esque with his short stocky build and red hair.
- Barbara Gordon, former Oracle and the current Batgirl
- Kate Kane, the modern age Batwoman
- Brenda Starr
- Chassis
- Matt Murdock the Daredevil, as well as reformed villain Typhoid Mary.
- Jason Blood, human anchor for Etrigan the Demon, has red hair with a white streak.
- The Flash:
- Wally West (the third Flash) dyed his hair brown during his Kid Flash days because, for once, red hair was considered unusual.
- The Tornado Twins, children of the second Flash.
- The second Impulse
- Iris West, Wally’s daughter.
- DC's colorists have taken to turning Bart Allen's hair into a reddish-brown in later issues; it's a flat-out flame-red in some appearances, where, initially, it was a chocolate-brown shade. Getting lighter with age, maybe?
- G.I. Joe isn’t short on examples, which included two flame weapons specialists and a "firefighter":
- Ace
- Barbecue
- Husky Russkie Big Bear
- Pyromaniac Blow Torch
- Charbroil
- Wrench Wench Cover Girl
- Crankcase
- Cross-Country
- Deep-Six
- Gunner Dusty
- Laser Expert Flash
- Knockdown
- The original Long Range
- Crazy Survivalist Outback
- Rappelling Man Ripcord
- Counter-intelligence specialist Scarlett
- Steam-Roller
- Boisterous Bruiser Taurus
- Thunder
- Wild Bill
- Odds are good that late-run flamethrower Ice Cream Soldier is a redhead too..
- Gen13:
- Caitlin Fairchild
- Midnighter from The Authority - though you wouldn't know it, as (on the rare occasions he's unmasked) every artist gives him a different colour. Word of God says he just likes to dye it.
- Roy Harper, the first Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow
- Guy Gardner of the Green Lantern Corps
- Cyclone from the Justice Society of America
- The twins Lightning Lad and Lightning Lass from The Legion of Super Heroes
- Vic Sage aka The Question (out of costume)
- Red Sonja
- Finny, the Irish co-protagonist from Sinister Dexter
- Jim Corrigan, the Golden Age host of The Spectre
- Starfire from Teen Titans
- Mariah from The Warlord
- Rorschach from Watchmen
- X-Men has a lot:
- Banshee
- Jean Grey
- Cain Marko (The Juggernaut), on those times when he was a hero.
- Shatterstar
- Siryn
- Rachel Summers
- Wolfsbane
- Black Widow
Fan Fics[]
- Fellauroralisterinavetta Aanjulle O'Bamfwryter from the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen parody Just the Best Mary Sue Ever!
- Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy:
- Chloe has literal red hair in civilian form.
- Hanae has orange hair, which turns red as Cure Tangerine.
Film[]
- Anya AKA Anastasia
- The Mad Hatter from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
- Danny from Cats Don't Dance has red fur.
- Eep from The Croods
- Disney likes redheaded heroes:
- The Beast, from Beauty and the Beast, turns into a red haired prince.
- Taran from The Black Cauldron
- Princess Mérida from Pixar's Brave
- Giselle from Enchanted
- Hercules
- Quasimodo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Simba and Mufasa from The Lion King have red manes
- Ariel from ‘’The Little Mermaid
- Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas has yarn-like chestnut hair. Not surprising considering where she lives.
- Disney’s version of Peter Pan
- Mary Katherine AKA MK from Epic
- Danielle the archer from The Flight of Dragons
- BG from The Goddess of 1967
- Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III from How to Train Your Dragon
- Natasha Romanoff (The Black Widow) who first appeared in Iron Man 2.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
- Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
- A red haired actor played the invisible thief Rodney Skinner, so he might have red hair too.
- Lola from Run Lola Run
- All of Chuck Norris’s characters (As he’s red haired too).
- Thor And The Amazon Women.
- All of John Wayne's characters (As he’s red haired too).
French Belgian Comic Books[]
- Obelix from Asterix
- Boule et Bill
- Jeannette Pointu
- Lanfeust
- Mélusine
- Soda
- Spirou from Spirou and Fantasio.
- Tintin was sometimes depicted with red hair. The animated series decided on an orange color, as did the 2011 CGI film (Haddock even refers to him as “ginger” at one point).
Legend And Mythology[]
- Gilgamesh himself
- In many retellings, Arthurian legend's Sir Gawain and occasionally, King Arthur himself.
- Odysseus from The Iliad and The Odyssey had hair described as "crisping red-golden".
- Menelaus had "red-haired king" among his epithets. Which is odd, because his name, Menelaus Xanthus, means "Menelaus the Blond". Apparently, scholars never met any blond Greeks (they do exist). But something strange was going on originally because "Xanthus" also referred to slaves (foreigners, mostly). There's something metatextual going on there.
- The storm god Thor, before Marvel Comics made him blond.
- In some versions of the Trojan War Achilles has red hair to denote his temper and badassery, matching his common epithet as "blazing Achilles".
- Agamemnon may have had red hair too.
- Neoptolemus was definitely a redhead. He was also known as Pyrrhos, which is Greek for "fiery red".
- Achilles himself, when he hid out in king Lycomedes' palace disguised as a girl (and, in the process, fathered Pyrrhos with Lycomedes' daughter Deidameia), called himself Pyrrha. Some think that Neoptolemos' alternative name may have been derived from his father's alias (he only got his name Neoptolemos, "young warrior," when he joined the Greek army before Troy).
Literature[]
- The eponymous character of The Adventures of Blue Avenger is, ironically, a redhead.
- Anne of Green Gables
- Cord from Douglas Hill's ColSec Trilogy
- Most protagonists in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover universe, as redheads are special there.
- Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson and Mort from Discworld
- Brother Felix and Mildmay from the Doctrine of Labyrinths series. It’s a major plot point as, in the city they grew up in, no one else is.
- Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien. The story subverts medieval hero tales; as the king and his knights are worse than useless, and the only person who can effectively deal with the dragon is a fat, red haired farmer who doesn't like trespassers, especially destructive ones.
- Howard Roark from The Fountainhead
- Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
- Tarl Cabot from the Gor series. While he has a Heroic BSOD and becomes Bosk, his hair becomes sandy. It turns red again when he goes back to being Tarl.
- Several protagonists from Robert A. Heinlein's works
- Lazarus Long (nee Woodrow Wilson Smith) (biggest role was in Time Enough for Love)
- Lazarus's mom Maureen Johnson Smith (most prominent in To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
- Laz and Lor from Time Enough for Love
- Podkayne of Mars, one of his more popular juvenile characters
- "Slipstick" Libby
- Hazel Stone
- JK Rowling loves redheads and included several of them in the Harry Potter books:
- The Weasley family
- Dumbledore, before his turned white
- Harry's mom Lily Evans
- Bill Denbrough and Beverly Marsh, two of the original seven Losers from Stephen King's IT.
- Jane from Jane and the Dragon
- In Robert Graves' King Jesus, Jesus has this as one of the eight "signs of royalty".
- In E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series, red hair is the genetic mark of ancestry from Atlantis. Many humans in the Lensman breeding program are redheads, including Clarissa MacDougal.
- Maria from The Little White Horse
- Lord John Roxton from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. His many adventures in South America (like killing slavers) earned him the nickname "Red Chief" amongst the natives.
- Madeline
- Kvothe from The Name of the Wind. It’s good for attracting both women and unwanted attention.
- Nancy Drew, in the later mysteries
- Pippi Longstocking
- Princess Eilonwy of the Prydain Chronicles
- Pumuckl, the kobold protagonist of a German children's book series.
- Sir Apropos of Nothing, a red haired Anti-Hero
- A Song of Ice and Fire:
- Robb Stark stands out as firmly heroic
- His little sister Sansa
- His mother Catelyn
- John Tardy, from Gordon R. Dickson’s Spatial Delivery.
- From the Star Wars Expanded Universe:
- Mara Jade Skywalker (Luke's wife and reason there's redheads in the bloodline)
- Ben Skywalker (Mara Jade’s son; this is Lampshaded at one point)
- Kol Skywalker (Mara Jade’s great-grandson)
- Tenel Ka (Jacen's wife and current ruler of Hapes)
- Allana (Jacen and Tenel's daughter)
- From the works of ‘’Tamora Pierce’’:
- Alanna of Trebond. The text repeatedly points out that she isn't particularly good looking, yet she ends up with proposals from the Crown Prince and the King of the Rogue
- Tris from the Circle of Magic series
- Amy Cahill fromThe 39 Clues’s
- Karen in The Three Worlds Cycle. She was instrumental to the main changes in Santhenar over the series.
- Margo Smith from Time Scout
- Cordelia from the Vorkosigan Saga. It's one of her character marks; whenever a woman with "roan-red" hair shows up, it's her, or reminds Miles of her. He comes to realize that one of the reasons Sgt. Beatrice's death affected him so much was that, as a tall redhead, she reminded him of his mother.
- The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan:
- Rand Al'Thor has reddish-blonde hair. This is because he's half Aiel.
- Elaine has red-gold hair.
- Aviendha as the regular redhead.
- Twins Isabeau and Iseult from Kate Forsyth's The Witches of Eileanan series
- Dairine Callahan from Young Wizards
- Curtis "Captain Future" Newton from Captain Future. The anime based on the series kept it.
Live-Action TV[]
- Horatio Crane from CSI: Miami
- Dexter Morgan from Dexter
- Doctor Who has many examples. The Doctor wishes he was (once again, unfulfilled)
- Liz
- Leela
- Turlough
- Mel
- Donna
- Amy
- Paul Atreides from Dune’s 2000 Miniseries
- Elizabeth I herself
- Eric 'E' Murphy from Entourage
- Carl Kolchak from Kolchak the Night Stalker
- Charlie Crews from Life and Dick Winters from Band of Brothers were both played by redhead Damian Lewis.
- Chip and Udonna from Power Rangers Mystic Force
- Rebecca Fogg from The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
- Captain Picard (in his younger days) from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Various Super Sentai:
- Jan Kandou (Geki Red) from Juken Sentai Gekiranger
- Sosuke Esumi (Go-on Red) from Engine Sentai Go-onger, whose shade resulted from hair bleach's effect on his hair.
- Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager
- Agent Scully from The X-Files
Music[]
- David Bowie's many "incarnations":
- Ziggy Stardust
- Aladdin Sane
- Halloween Jack (Diamond Dogs)
- Party Poison, aka Gerard Way.
- ‘’The Spin Doctors’’ has one member with red-gold curls who happens to be the Face of the Band.
Video Games[]
- The Ape Escape apecatchers:
- Kakeru (Spike) from the first game
- Hikaru (Jimmy) from the second game
- Sayaka (Yumi) from the third game
- Heart Aino from Arcana Heart
- Kou from Azure Dreams
- From BioWare:
- Leliana from Dragon Age
- Oghren and Aveline from Dragon Age II
- Female Shepard’s standard look in Mass Effect is a redhead.
- Tsubaki Yayoi from Blaz Blue
- Garlot of Blaze Union
- Blood Rayne
- Simon Belmont from the Castlevania series constantly switched hair colors between his many incarnations. Ayami Kojima went completely off-model one day and drew him with bright red hair, and his official depiction has been redheaded ever since.
- Crono from Chrono Trigger
- Monica from Dark Cloud 2
- The Priestess class from Darkstone
- The Dawn of War series:
- Farseer Macha in the original
- Taldeer in Winter Assault
- The Eldar farseers from Dawn of War II
- Kasumi from Dead or Alive
- Regina from the first two Dino Crisis games.
- Adell from Disgaea 2
- Agent J from Elite Beat Agents
- Within the Final Fantasy franchise:
- The Fighter sprite from Final Fantasy I. The Warrior of Light has an alternate costume based on him in the Dissidia prequel game, confirming it.
- Wakka the blitzball player and bodyguard from Final Fantasy X
- Ritz from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance dyes her hair red. She stops dyeing it after the game once she accepts her appearance.
- The Fire Emblem Series, while notable for traditionally having blue haired main protagonists, has some redheads in the main roster and among the companions too. (Plus the Series Mascots alias the Annas, who are all redheads):
- Fire Emblem Akaneia: Marth and Caeda have blue hair, but Maria and Minerva of Macedon are redheads like their brother Michalis. Cain and Cecil counts as well, and maybe Est in a Rose-Haired Sweetie way.
- Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem: Kris aka the Player Character can have his/her looks customized, and the player can make him/her dark red hair among other hair colors. It also adds the redhaired archer Norne.
- Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake, FE Echoes: Shadows of Valentia: Celica, Luthier, original!Boey (he's a Dark-Skinned Blond in Echoes) and, if one counts Rose-Haired Sweeties, Genny and Mae.
- Fire Emblem Jugdral: Arvis may be an Anti-Villainous redhead, but his half-brother Azelle plays this straight. In Thracia 776, so does his Heroic Bastard.f Saias.
- Fire Emblem: Binding Blade: Roy, and among his companions, Melady and Larum.
- Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade: Roy's father Eliwood, plus the cavalier Kent.
- Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates: Robin and Corrin, the Avatars of each game, also follow the Character Customization system and can be made into redheads. Their casts also include Sully and Gaius (Awakening) and Saizo, Selena, Subaki and Hayato plus the Rose-Haired Sweetie Sakura (Fates). The Second Generation kids can be redheads too, depending on their parents.
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses does not have redheads among the mains (Byleth has green hair and their looks aren't customizable), but DOES have several ones in the Houses themselves: Ferdinand von Aegir from the Black Eagles, Sylvain Jose Gautier and Annette Fantine Dominic from the Blue Lions, Hilda Valentine Goneril (Rose-Haired Sweetie version) and Leonie Pinelli from the Golden Deer, plus Gilbert Pronislav aka Annette's father from the Knights of Seiros and Hapi from the Ashen Wolves.
- Fire Emblem: Engage toys with this, as the Player Character Alear has half-blue and half-red hair. they had full red hair as the much abused Dark Magical Child of the Big Bad Sombron, but after being revived and adopted by the Big Good Queen Lumera, their hair became half-blue/half-red and remained as such.
- Fire Emblem Akaneia: Marth and Caeda have blue hair, but Maria and Minerva of Macedon are redheads like their brother Michalis. Cain and Cecil counts as well, and maybe Est in a Rose-Haired Sweetie way.
- Justin from Grandia
- Nariko from Heavenly Sword
- The Legend of Zelda Series:
- Link was originally depicted with reddish-brown hair in the official artwork for the first three games, and was an outright redhead in the Valiant comic book series based on the two NES games in the series.
- Princess Zelda had red hair on the first two games.
- Midna from Twilight Princess, when she starts getting friendlier towards Link.
- Shad of the Resistance Group from Twilight Princess
- Raidy from the H-Game Lightning Warrior Raidy
- The protagonists of all three Lufia games (i.e. Maxim and his descendants), which was carried over into the Nintendo DS remake of the second game.
- Joanna from Perfect Dark
- Popful Mail, from Ys developer Nihon Falcom
- Raz from Psychonauts
- The default hero Aluxes from RPG Maker XP
- The default hero Ralph in RPG Maker VX
- From the Samurai Shodown (SS) franchise:
- Kyoshiro the kabukiman, "star" player from the first game
- Shizumaru Hisame debuted as the protagonist of SS3: Blades of Blood
- Kazuki the fire ninja from SS4: Amakusa's Revenge
- Knuckles from Sonic the Hedgehog with his red fur
- Hilde from Soul Calibur 4
- Sarah Kerrigan (pre-infestation) from Starcraft
- From the Street Fighter franchise:
- Ryu started a redhead in the first game, and also had reddish-brown hair in the Alpha series. It got darker with age, and the games reflect this consistently.
- Anti-Hero Gouki (Akuma)
- Crimson Viper
- Marisa Rosetti
- Super Robot Wars (SRW):
- Silly Axel Almer from SRW Advance
- Fiona Gureden from SRW Reversal
- Rand Travis from SRWZ
- Tales Series:
- Luke fon Fabre from Tales of the Abyss
- Mao from Tales of Rebirth
- Reid Herschel from Tales of Eternia
- Caius Qualls from Tales of the Tempest
- Asbel from Tales of Graces
- Tokimeki Memorial Series:
- Shiori Fujisaki from Tokimeki Memorial 1
- Hikari Hinomoto from Tokimeki Memorial 2
- Yukiko Makihara from Tokimeki Memorial 3
- Joe from Viewtiful Joe
- Adol Christin aka "Adol the Red" from Ys
Visual Novels[]
- Shirou Emiya from Fate/stay night
- Rena from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
- Umineko no Naku Koro ni: Both Battler Ushiromiya and his younger sister Ange.
- Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow: The Player Character is a blonde, but out of her Love Interests Ukyo, Nobuyoshi, Yoshiyuki and Ryuunosuke are redheads, while Asuka/Yuugiri has purple-red hair. Tsubaki also counts due to having dark-pink hair, but he's an Anti-Villainous Redhead.
Webcomics[]
- Todo from City of Reality
- Alexander Hamilton from The Dreamer
- Rikk Oberf from Fans
- Agatha Heterodyne from Girl Genius
- Nanase (formerly) from El Goonish Shive
- Antimony Carver from Gunnerkrigg Court
- Lil' Ragamuffin from Guttersnipe
- Haley Starshine from The Order of the Stick
- The eponymous Hanna from Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name Though not especially heroic, is our main character. Interestingly, as seen here, he apparently Looked Like Cesare as a teenager, which came with a color change to a more villainous brownish colour.
- Princess Voluptua from The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob
- Ash from Misfile
- Samantha from Molten Blade
- Rocky from Our Little Adventure
- Shelley Winters from Scary Go Round
- Grumpy teenager Skullboy by William J. Gregory
- Zoe from Venus Envy
- Monica from Wapsi Square
- Anne Onymous from The Wotch
Web Original[]
- Ryana Taylor from Last Secret and other Kostemetsiverse arcs. She subverts other redhead tropes, being an intelligence operative with no public personality and no romantic involvements.
- Obscurus Lupa
- Fey, Team Kimba’s uber-mage from The Whateley Universe
Western Animation[]
- Niko from Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
- Jessie Bannon from The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
- Atomic Betty
- Gwen Tennyson from the Ben 10 franchise.
- Theresa and Atlanta from Class of the Titans
- Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory
- Phillip J. Fry from Futurama
- Quentin MacLeod from Highlander the Animated Series
- Justice League Unlimited: Hawkgirl, Flash, Elongated Man and Orion
- Mikey Simon from Kappa Mikey
- Kim Possible
- Sarah Phillips from Liberty's Kids
- Elena Potato from Monster Allergy
- The entire Flynn side of the family from Phineas and Ferb
- Blossom from The Powerpuff Girls
- Gretchen Grundler from Recess
- Kris aka Santa from Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
- Kyle Broflovski from South Park has a flame-red Jewfro hidden under his hat.
- Aerrow from Storm Hawks
- Izzy from Total Drama Island
- Sari from Transformers Animated
- Dr. Thaddeus Venture (as a boy) from The Venture Brothers. Nowadays has a red beard and not much heroism.
- Amore and Bloom from Winx Club
- Wilhelmina "Will" Vandom from WITCH
- Prince Nestor from World of Quest
- Young Justice: M'gann aka Miss Martian (at first) and Roy aka Speedy/Red Arrow. And his clones, Will and James.
- Clarta Stahlbaum from The Nutcracker Prince, even when Marie from the original Nutcracker is a blonde.
- Chuckie from Rugrats.
- BG from Miss BG.