"With my long, red hair flying as I beat them half to death, I got a new nickname: The Bloody Habanero."
— Kushina Uzumaki, Naruto
A Fiery Redhead is a red-haired character who is strong, Hot-Blooded, outgoing, usually outspoken, and (if a love interest) often female. She has a big personality and she's not afraid to use it. Whatever you do, don't get on her bad side, or there will be hell to pay. (Especially if powers of personality and/or elements are present: she likes Playing with Fire. Thus, in a Four-Temperament Ensemble, expect her to be Choleric.) She will be unladylike unless it's the case of a redheaded Spirited Young Lady. She might be One of the Boys, a tomboy or a lad-ette. Heroes do like redheads after all.
This hair-color stereotype probably developed since red hair was associated with the Irish and Scottish (and before this, Horny Vikings) for a long time, and they ended up being stereotyped as loud, strong, and passionate (see the Fighting Irish and Violent Glaswegian tropes for more info on that). On the other hand, it's even found in Eastern Europe where any association would have been with Russians or Swedes, and these are nationalities not generally stereotyped as hotheaded.
In addition to this, it extends even into ancient texts from Babylonian and Scandinavian Oral Historian. In the Prose Edda, Odin is depicted as blond, green-eyed, cool, and calculating — while his son, Thor, is a redheaded, blue-eyed (something of an omen of war/perfection in Scandinavian culture) fire-breathing stereotypical Viking (the raiding kind) who treats Earth as a giant freshman mixer. Gilgamesh is also a Fiery Redhead with blue eyes whose duties include being a good precursor to Thor, for the most part — though with more reservation and a cooling trend near the end of his life (this makes both an eerie paradigm of Fiery Redheads at the creation of their respective people's writings). The whole "red-haired, blue-eyed" thing is usually split in Japan between two people.
Although real redheads can have tempers like about anyone else, this trait is exaggerated in fiction, so no real life examples are listed here. Also, they can have green eyes and this association is also exaggerated in fiction.
Compare Redheads Are Ravishing, Evil Redhead, Rose-Haired Sweetie, Red-Headed Stepchild, Redheads Are Uncool, Red Is Heroic. In anime, could be a Tsundere. If you have a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead in close proximity (i.e. in the main cast), it's Blonde, Brunette, Redhead. Contrast Shy Blue-Haired Girl for Red Oni, Blue Oni and Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette for the realistic opposite hair color and personality. Compare and contrast Beware the Nice Ones; if the two overlap, you get a redheaded character who is super nice and calm all the time but briefly becomes this trope once pushed too far.
Please do not confuse this with a redhead being literally fiery, or having literal fiery head, although these tropes may overlap. And a red who's literally fiery does have their hair color fit their elemental powers. See also Red Is Violent (in this case, the hair color).
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Asian Animation
- Starshadow from Happy Friends has red hair (at least in his earlier appearances) and is more energetic, louder, and more Affably Evil compared to the likes of the cold Moondance, whom he works with.
Audio Plays
- Big Finish Doctor Who: Covers of the relevant box sets reveal that Eleventh Doctor companion Valarie Lockwood has long, blood red hair. She feels her emotions deeply, and she hardly ever lets the Doctor get away with BS, meaning that she often yells at him. In "Broken Hearts", offended at being treated as a source of parts in the previous story, she threatens to drop kick him into another dimension, and she presses him with increasing intensity to share how many people he's killed outside the Time War, pushing him to his Rage Breaking Point.
Comic Strips
- Wallace the Brave: Amelia has bright red hair and the most explosive personality of the main characters.
Films — Animated
- Anastasia: The titular character has auburn hair, and is quite spunky and assertive.
- Red-curled Winnie from The Boxtrolls, is quite outspoken.
Winnie: You're the worst pick-pocket I’ve ever seen! Here! (tosses him a coin) Buy a book on how to be a better thief!
- The Canterville Ghost (2001): The twins have reddish brown hair, unlike their blonde sister, and are energetic pranksters who also charge into a sword duel with the ghost.
- Despicable Me 2 features the orange-haired Lucy Wilde, the very excitable agent assigned to work with Gru.
- Disney movies have several of these redheads:
- Peter Pan has red hair in the Disney film (the book never specified his hair color) and is excitable, Hot-Blooded and rash.
- The Little Mermaid: Ariel is a redheaded Rebellious Princess a thirst for adventure and tendency toward recklessness. The creators of Enchanted say (strawberry) Giselle owes her spunkiness to her.
- Despite being a scarlet parrot, Iago from Aladdin counts, thanks to his fiery red feathers.
- Justified in The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
- The red-headed Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of the Notre-Dame de Paris
cathedral, showed anger and violence when he met Phoebus for the first time because the former dislikes soldiers entering sanctuary. He also literally used fiery torch to send Phoebus away.
- In the climax, Quasimodo can't resists his master Judge Claude Frollo burning Esmeralda to the point that he powerfully broke the large chains that hold him back. He also literally used fiery molten lead to defeat his enemies.
- The red-headed Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of the Notre-Dame de Paris
- Anna from Frozen has strawberry blonde hair; she doesn't exactly seem to have a Hair-Trigger Temper, but she is still very much Hot-Blooded. Still, you don't want to get on her bad side, because she can get quite fiery if provoked properly.
- Wreck-It Ralph: Invoked. In the game Fix-It Felix Jr., Ralph's sprite has red hair to further represent his Hair-Trigger Temper as the game's antagonist. In his actual appearance, it's more brown, which emphasizes how there's more to him than his game lets on.
- Pixar seems to love this trope.
- Merida from Brave, plus her father and triplet brothers. In addition, they are Violent Glaswegian.
- Cars: Lightning McQueen has a red paintjob to match his personality. Frank is also colored red to match his irritable personality of a bull.
- Syndrome from The Incredibles 1 is a male example. His hair is even shaped like a flame, and his personality is suitably over-the-top. Elastigirl as well, though it darkens to auburn during the Time Skip. Jack-Jack too, as seen when his powers are activated.
- Giulia from Luca; she's an outspoken tomboy with bright red hair, and she's also the only kid in Portorosso who's willing to stand up to the local bully.
- Hank in Finding Dory is a red octopus or "septopus" with Hair-Trigger Temper, despite the fact that he (like real octopuses) has three hearts as Dory stated. But the octopus is also fittingly good-hearted.
Dory: You know something, for a guy with three hearts you're not very nice.
- In Turning Red, this appears as a plot point. The women in the Lee family gain bright vermillion hair when their red panda is awakened. The pandas are triggered by wild emotions, so it's the quality of being "fiery" that turns Mei into a redhead.
- In the Dot and the Kangaroo sequels, this crosses over with Beware the Nice Ones with regards to Dot, a red-headed, perpetually barefoot Australian girl who loves animals. She's fiercely protective of animals and won't hesitate to get back at anyone whom she catches being cruel to them. For example, she pushes her brother over for tormenting bugs in Dot and Keeto and throws sand at two boys for them doing the same to a beached whale in Dot and the Whale.
- Kung Fu Panda: Tigress, the leader of the Furious Five, is an anthropomorphic tiger with the classic tiger coloring of black stripes on orange fur.
- Sunset Shimmer from the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls films. Though she makes a Heel–Face Turn at the end of the first movie, she still slips into this on occasion, notably when Trixie accused her of sabotaging Rainbow Dash's guitar solo.
- Shrek:
- Fiona. As the Magic Mirror describes her when he first introduces her "She's a loaded pistol who likes Piña coladas and getting caught in the rain."
- The evil Rumpelstiltskin from the fourth movie. Not only does he sport a red buzz cut, but he also has an enormous, fire-like red wig that he has put on his head dramatically whenever he gets angry. And boy, is he ever fiery.
- Treasure, the wannabe leader of the Female Furies, from Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. Too bad the four Female Furies killed her, left her as a bloody mess on the ground, and decided to "let the dogs clean up the mess".
- Wolfwalkers:
- Mebh has red hair, and she's a boisterous, outspoken Wild Child who's quick to anger. She also has auburn fur in her wolf form.
- Mebh's mother Moll is an inversion. She's also a redhead, but she's calmer and more rational than her daughter, preferring to find a safer place for she, Mebh and the wolves to live rather than escalate the conflict with the people of Kilkenny. The only time she truly gets angry is when she sees Mebh being threatened.
- The Heat Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus is a literal case. He has vibrant red hair and is known for, well, his heat powers. That and he has quite a temper.
- Fujimoto from Ponyo is a crotchety old Omnicidal Maniac with a long, flowing red mane.
Music
- "Black Jack's Lady" by Heather Alexander is "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" if done realistically, Black Jack Davy left, and the unnamed woman was a redhead. The woman grabs a horse and sword and goes to get his head. The entire song came about from a joke about "What if the unnamed woman was a rowdy redhead?":
So I thought about it and I thought, you know, given the reality of it, I mean, what are the chances really be of this girl waking up the next morning and having Black Jack Davy still there?I mean, first off, she's probably still sleeping in. He's gonna be gone just because he has to get up and run because he's got the whole world looking after him. Second off, I mean, he's got two more waiting for him in the next town. You know, I mean, he could get these ladies any time he wishes.So I thought, well, okay that's more or less the hard reality of it, and I thought, well, that's kind of sad. And I thought, well, what if he did it... to a redhead?
- Caylee Hammack's "Redhead" (featuring famous ginger Reba McEntire) is essentially this trope in musical form, describing a redheaded girl (inspired by Hammack's cousin) who drives her parents up the wall with the chaos she brings:
They got their hands full, trying to tame a pistolSpitfire, freckles that could a mother deadClothes line, tightropes, daredevil, high hopesThey raised a little hell when they raised a little redhead
Mythology
- Thor is an Older Than Print example. In spite of the image you might have of him, Thor is explicitly described as having red hair and a beard.
Pinball
- Red Hot from Banzai Run.
- Jean Grey/Phoenix from X-Men (Stern)
Professional Wrestling
- Brutal Bob Evans, although it is not immediately noticeable, his red hair anyway, as he's bald so you have to wait until you can see his eyebrows. Otherwise no, he's not just named after the cigarette but has enough figurative passion to light one. He once wrestled a week's worth of iron man matches taking on all who would come, to prove to Ring of Honor he could handle their style and schedule.
- Sheamus, the famous Irish brawler of WWE, has a very Irish look, bright ginger hair included...but don't let him hear you mock him for being ginger, unless you want to brawl.
- Minnesota based wrestler Big Red Thoruf Marius, perhaps best known for a stint in Pro Wrestling NOAH, at least before being repackaged as Eric Rowan. He wasn't Minnesota Nice, with his big red beard he reminded people of a certain bullheaded thunder god...
- Sweet Nancy in International Wrestling Association Puerto Rico, though her violent temper was on a short fuse before she decided to dye her hair red. The same applied to Demonique before her and Ivelisse Vélez, later.
- El Generico in ROH, as the result of Colt Cabana trying to Teach Him Anger so Generico could get revenge on Steve Corino and Kevin Steen.
- Kiera Hogan, with less emphasis on the redhead and more on the fire. Her hair, nails and tights are all colored to look like they're burning. But she does have that baby face fire.
- Becky Lynch has in recent years arguably displaced Sheamus as WWE's archetypal Fighting Irish - naturally she sports the hair to match.
Tabletop Games
- BattleTech's most famous redhead is Natasha Kerensky, a woman whose outspoken and bombastic nature made her an icon both in the Inner Sphere as the unquestioned leader of the unruly Black Widow Company of Wolf's Dragoons and in the Clans as eventual Khan of Clan Wolf. Notably she's actually one of the oldest warriors in the setting up until the time of her death, but her reputation, bravado, and ace piloting skills still made her one of the most dangerous and charismatic people in the galaxy.
- Call of Cthulhu supplement Cthulhu Companion, adventure "The Rescue". The NPC Dr. Dare has red hair and "...his temper gets the best of him sometimes."
- Dungeons & Dragons
- The redhead Helena Daphnotarthius, a cleric of the Immortal Valerias in the BECMI D&D Dawn of the Emperors boxed set. She is "fiery in anger, in romance, in the pursuit of things she wants." She wants to live "life to its fullest and promote the questionable virtues of reckless abandon and thoughtless enjoyment".
- Polyhedron magazine #141 article "Elminster's Eye". Aedra Dornshoon is a mage who acts as a Nictar (minor official) for the Mage-King of Ondeeme. She has "flame-orange hair and a temper to match".
- Exalted : Fire-Aspected Dragon-Blooded Exalts' hair and skin slowly become reddish as they age, though particulary well-bred young ones will also display it. They also, of course, have fire powers, and the Great Curse ensures they will be passionate enough to destroy in pursuit of their goals.
- Magic: The Gathering gives us Chandra Nalaar, a young and impulsive pyromancer who is as short-tempered as she is dangerous. This makes her, both figuratively and literally, a fiery redhead on two levels—both in that her powers involve fire, and that her hair flares every time she activates her powers.
- Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution: Leona the pyrokinetic is this, both literally and figuratively. The Firestarter archetype is even paired with a picture of her.
- RuneQuest: Orlanth, the chief god of the Orlanthi, is an adventurous, impulsive, temperamental, and proud deity typically depicted with a fiery red mane and bushy beard. This is also enforced for the warrior women who worship Orlanth's daughter and/or female aspect Vinga, which herself associated strictly with Orlanth's more warlike aspects; Vingans, who due to their vocation tend strongly towards being hot-blooded adventurers and warriors, dye their hair red as a religious observance.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Tabletop RPG (Last Unicorn Games) supplement "Planetary Adventures". The adventure "The Enemy You Know" has a redheaded female engineer, who "can be hot-tempered and impulsive" and has a "tendency to charge into situations". She overhears a Vulcan woman speak a phrase in Romulan and confronts her, calling her a "dirty Romulan spy".
- Warhammer 40,000:
- Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters. After he becomes a Daemon Prince, he's a literal redhead.
- The Space Wolf marines go gray-haired as they age, but since they come from a planet of Vikings red hair is not uncommon among the Blood Claws, their youngest and rowdiest members whose tactics boil down to "throw ourselves at the enemy and see who wins".
- Warhammer Fantasy: Pyromancers tend to become Hot-Blooded and gain bright red hair over time from their use of the Red Wind of Magic, which represents both fire and passionate emotion.
- Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Fyreslayers Invoke this trope by dying their mohawks and beards red in honor of their War God Grimnir, who had literal flaming hair; they're all Blood Knight berserkers, and are originally from the Realm Of Fire. Subverted slightly by some Lodges, particularly those that have moved to other Realms, and sometimes dye their hair other colors like black, purple, or green, but fiery reds and oranges are still the most common.
Visual Novels
- Being a ΔΙΚ
- Sage has flaming red hair and the attitude to match, being extremely passionate and hotheaded. This manifests in both positive and negative ways: on the positive end, she's usually a great time to be around and is extremely sexually forward (not to mention being very enthusiastic in the sack); on the negative side, she has a tendency to blow up when something is not to her liking, and her uneven upbringing has caused her to have extreme emotional responses in general.
- Cathy is something of a Double Subversion: she has dark red hair and appears fairly calm and professional during her classes. However, finding her on Swyper indicates a much more sexually experimental personality: she can sext with the MC in Episode 4, can have sex with him in Isabella's car while he is dropping her home in Episode 5, and very enthusiastically drags him to bed in Episode 10 if he expresses a desire to continue their relationship.
- Mahiru Koizumi in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has red Boyish Short Hair and a forceful personality, getting pushy and argumentative when people don't meet her expectations, but a kind heart beneath it that leads to her becoming the Team Mom.
- Downplayed with Heidi from Daughter for Dessert. She’s assertive, but her temper is always controlled.
- While normally a typical black haired Tsundere, Kei Sakurai from Dies Irae will turn into both a literal and figurative version of this trope when invoking her Creation Figment, something that is born from her belief of her own burning passion. It transforms her body into a living flame with her hair changing to a burning reddish color. And due to the way Creation Figments work, her personality follows suit and she becomes a lot more hot-tempered and aggressive.
- Sayori from Doki Doki Literature Club! has pinkish-orangeish hair and is a mixture of this and Rose-Haired Sweetie: while she's not the angry archetype, she's still an exciteable girl whose communicative enthusiasm helps the contrasting personalities of the club fitting together. It also helps her coping with her depression.
- In Every Day's Different Katsuki has a short temper, particularly with the main character. This is mostly due to pent up frustration from Parental Neglect and a distrust of strangers.
- Kevan, the Earl of Io from Long Live the Queen. His character portrait has a perpetual scowl and he's out for blood in both of his in-game appearances.
- Magical Warrior Diamond Heart: Valerie is normally quite sweet and friendly, but she's impulsive, massively stubborn, and she can be pretty hot-tempered. The player can guide her to behave even more aggressively through their choices.
- The Many Deaths of Lily Kosen: Victoria has dark-red hair and is quick to anger, head-strong and confrontational.
- Melody:
- Melody is stubborn and strong-willed, and doesn’t take crap from anyone.
- Averted with Becca, who is as pleasant and polite as can be.
- Amira/Red in Monster Prom is a fiery redhead in both the figurative and literal sense- she's a very passionate and feisty, and as an efreet she has a plume of fire instead of hair.
- Asaga Oakrun from Sunrider is red-haired, outspoken, tomboyish, and a self-proclaimed Hero of Justice as well as an ace mecha pilot. For bonus points, her best friend Chigara Ashada is a Shy Blue-Haired Girl.
- In Tavern Talk, Rhea has dark red hair and is quick to lose her temper.
- Tsukihime:
- Aoko's red hair is probably dyed, as it was brown when she was younger. She's one of the strongest mages in the world who enjoys messing with people and blowing stuff up.
- Akiha's hair is normally a severe black, as befitting an ojou, but it turns red when she consciously or unconsciously calls upon her demonic blood to power up. She fits this trope well, since she gets more fiery the redder her hair gets. She's still in control until the point that her eyes turn red too, which is the sign that she's gone insane.
- Chase from War: 13th Day both plays into this trope and subverts it. The game uses unreliable narrators, who see him portrayed this way. However, in the Valentine and April Fools' special, he's more dorky than anything else. But, of course, that's only assuming his depiction is even accurate there...
- When They Cry:
- Rena Ryuuguu from Higurashi: When They Cry keeps her fire well-concealed for the most part, but it's there.
Rena: When Keiichi-san is angry, he's twice [as scary as Oryou].
Keiichi: However, when Rena is angry she's twice as scary again. - Battler Ushiromiya, the Hot-Blooded redhead protagonist of Umineko: When They Cry.
- Rena Ryuuguu from Higurashi: When They Cry keeps her fire well-concealed for the most part, but it's there.
Web Animation
- Lumaya Legends: Run From Royalty: Rell, one of the protagonists, has literal fire for hair while he's very short-tempered, impulsive and with a big ego. By the time the movie ends and its sequel series, Adventures starts, he's much more patient and kind with his sister, but he remains the most adventurous of the two.
- 13 Cards: Inverted with Dante, who is the most mellow and easygoing of the clones.
- The Gaslight District: Mel has strawberry blonde hair and is the spunky (and sometimes violent) daughter of Ken, who runs the Smiling Dead crime family.
Webcomics
- The Adventurous Scarlet Carolus and the Machine of Eternal Summer: Scarlet is a hot-headed redhead who yells at a robber and then tries to run after him.
- Anna Galactic: Foxglove is both red-haired and passionate for any actions.
- Aurora (2019): The fire god Caliban is very emotional and easily exasperated, and has orange hair that turns literally fiery when they're in a mood.
- Break: Breaker is a gal with lovely crimson locks...who will not hesitate to pound you into the ground with Ki-Powered martial arts if you get on her nerves
- Commander Kitty: Nin Wah the red panda, who sports a fiery Furry Female Mane and will destroy you if you press her Berserk Button.
- El Goonish Shive: Catalina. Her catchphrase is "JACKASSES!", and when angered, she's loud enough to make aliens in outer space pause and ask "What was that noise?"
- Elf Blood: SKO and TKO are normally generally quite calm and reserved, even kindly. Get them in the same room together and watch their tempers flare.
- Electric Wonderland: Trawn, the red-headed editor-in-chief of the Nettropolis Free Press, expresses strong passions for news reporting and keeping her friends/employees safe, although she also has a bit of a temper sometimes.
- Girl Genius has most of the members of the extended Valois clan that have been seen so far, all with the same shade of red hair. Although some are more level-headed than others, they've all had their moments of madness — Violetta directed against Tarvek, Tarvek directed against Zola, Seffie directed against a teacup (but actually against Agatha), and Martellus directed against a whole lot of people. Seffie and Tarvek downplay this trope as they tend to be calm, but Martellus and Violetta are both very often temperamental (especially Martellus).
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Surma. Her daughter, Antimony, also has some of this personality, but it's almost completely tempered by her stoicism. Annie has an associated fire motif, since she has a talent for etherically manipulating fire with the blinker stone. And it's eventually revealed Surma and Annie are both descended from a fire elemental.
Reynardine: (To Antimony) Haha! Well, you may have everyone fooled with your stoic facade, but not me! You have a fire in you, child, a fire that belonged to your mother!
- Head Trip: Mal can be calm, rational, and logical, but she is definitely a Heroic Sociopath and a lot more fun when she's being violent to the stupid people.
- Heroine Chic has the protagonist Zoe, redhead with a strong sense of justice and an outgoing personality.
- Looking for Group: Benny is a hot, redheaded troll with a very short temper. She happily beats the living daylights out of anyone that irritates her...and she's a priestess.
- morphE: Tyler Dawn has long red hair, a hot temper, and a pathological need to prove himself, despite being surrounded by people who are better than him in many respects.
- NIMONA: Nimona is certainly more bloodthirsty and energetic than her superior. Being a shapeshifter, her red hair doubles as her Morphic Resonance, giving her forms an overall red tone.
- The Order of the Stick: Haley Starshine is a bit of a subversion. Beneath her fiery exterior, she suffers from considerable self-loathing and feels it necessary to hide her true feelings much of the time, believing people wouldn't like her if they really knew her.
- Pacificators: Cinna Grossul swears like a sailor, and always flips off her arch-nemesis/teammate Muneca Powell. To top it off, she has Playing with Fire powers... and if she's not careful, she'll become a literal fiery redhead.
- Poison Ivy Gulch: Lotta Doler, the protagonist, downplays this trope. While she can fly off the handle sometimes, especially when her Kid Sidekick Ace does something stupid, she normally isn't short-tempered.
- Precocious: Autumn Pingo often displays herself as innocent and sweet towards strangers and adults, but she has been shown to have a short fuse and can lose control of her impulses when she is upset, but also seems to be very passionate about succeeding in competitions.
- The Princesss Jewels: Princess Ariana's second acquisition for her jewelry box is Efrit Karsia, the second prince of the Kindom of Xek. The prince is shown to be a very hot-blooded individual (he leads the kingdom's army) with red hair.
- Rain has Fara Bryer, the titular character's supportive aunt. She is quite kind but is fierce and very protective of her niece.
- Realmwalker has Loki, the literal deity of fire. Thor and Blodughadda are fairly fiery, and Gunhild has her moments.
- Regular Guy: Anja Baker mostly keeps it on a low simmer, but is also the character least likely to put up with BS.
- Sarah Zero: Sarah is headstrong, loud, and the guitarist in a rock band.
- Sleepless Domain: Sally is a quite literal (if downplayed) case of this, as while she has a temper and was described in the character sheet as the most excitable and emotional member of Team Alchemical, the reason she's a very vibrant redhead is that she literally has fire powers-before awakening as Alchemical Fire, she was a ginger who dyed her hair black. It's also deconstructed a bit: her fractious temper ends up being an Unwitting Instigator of Doom when she starts to complain about Tessa being leader. Tessa sits out one night to teach them a lesson, and the resulting tragedy leaves Undine the only member of the team left to fight, with Tessa giving up her powers and Sally, Gwen, and Sylvia dead.
- Slightly Damned: Azurai kills completely on a whim or whenever he's bored, and he swears so much, it would make sailors blush. His commanding officer Iratu is just barely able to keep him in line. Bonus points for him being a fire-based demon.
- Sluggy Freelance: Oasis tends to alternate between extreme giddiness (usually when Torg acts nice to her) and extreme jealousy and rage (usually when something comes between her and Torg). Justified since these emotions were programmed into her by Dr. Steve. In addition, she's frequently accompanied by fire-related motifs such as The Phoenix. It turns out that "fiery" is literal; she's pyrokinetic.
- Stand Still, Stay Silent: Sigrun, a Blood Knight with NO INDOOR VOICE who comes from a country that returned to viking ways After the End.
- Sunbird: Salva has reddish hair, an affinity for fire, and a temper.
- Sword Princess Amaltea: Amaltea is temperamental, easily enraged and outspoken, and has red hair to match her personality.
- Til Debt Do Us Part: Subin is introduced as a redhead with a flaring temper.
- Two Guys and Guy: Guy once said only considers Wayne her friend because she only dislikes him mildly. She had to take happy pills for her anger issues. And she said she hoped Wayne was dead for using the word "literally" wrong among other things.
- Voodoo Walrus: Marron's introduction involves threatening a coworker with an iron maiden and then smashing a phone book into the skull of one of the main characters when he gets a little too blatant with his flirtations.
- Monica Villareal from Wapsi Square, although in comparison to her friend Shelly or the golem girls, she doesn't particularly stick out in terms of fieriness.
Web Original
- Main character Austin of Antlers, Colorado is generally stoic, but has been shown to have quite a proclivity for fighting when provoked. Word of God says that he only dyes his hair red, though.
- Abby from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues has flaming red hair to go with her passionate, feisty personality. She is a kind girl, however, if a little childish.
- In The Gamer's Alliance, the rogue Vaetris has red hair and has quite a fiery personality.
- GoAnimate: Miss Martin is a redheaded Sadist Teacher with absolutely no patience for her students.
- Life SMP: While they usually play the Only Sane Man, the redheaded Cleo is quite enthusiastic to be in a fight when it comes down to it. They also get quite easily frustrated by their oftentimes less-than-mature teammates. The 'fiery' part takes a more literal turn as they commit arson multiple times throughout the series.
- Lyphia from Mage Life leaves the protagonist tongue-tied the first time he sees her, and later rebukes him when he interrupts her mid-speech.
- Aptly-nicknamed Emily "Phoenix" Shifter from Orderly Chaos is a sweeter, girlier version who still packs plenty of passion into a little package.
- Allison Pregler aka Lupa from Channel Awesome, whose Genki Girl personality dips into deranged territory in crossovers. She's since dropped the costumes and funny voices since leaving TGWTG.
- Rats SMP: The Janitor is an antagonistic human NPC with red hair and is particularly trigger-happy when it comes to catching the rat protagonists, being more skilled at it than the other humans; he can capture rats as long as he can see them, even when they're hiding in a tight spot where humans cannot fit into, unlike the other humans. When he is called off leave and back to the Mansion by Mr. Icraga in the finale, he goes on a rampage out for vengeance.
- RWBY from the same creators has Nora Valkyrie, a talkative, hyperactive, grenade-launching warhammer-wielding young orange-haired girl.
- There are quite a lot of redheads in Survival of the Fittest, and a fair portion of them fit. Examples include Adam Dodd, Jimmy Brennan, Aileen Borden, Bridget Connolly, and Rob Jenkins.
- Whateley Universe:
- Fireball. Red hair, short temper. Oh, and that fire manifestation power. And she's Ax-Crazy.
- Powerful mage Fey. Do not piss her off. Plus, when it comes to fire, no one else has what she has.
- Palantir, of the Three Little Witches, who's learned to fight for her fair share.
- Loophole, who screams when she's confrontational, like when she faced Freya, as seen in The Case of the Poisonous Patent:
Doc stormed into the Melville common room in a rage of biblical proportions. Her face was so flushed it was difficult to see where skin stopped and her brilliant scarlet hair started. "Freya!" she screamed as she entered, drawing every eye in the room. The object of her ire, the tall, shapely queen of the Alphas, turned without a care from her chess game by the fireplace, her ice blue eyes coolly regarding the enraged freshman that had burst into her court.
- yourchonny: When Chonny is acting as his ill-tempered mother for his videos, he dons a short, scraggly red wig.
