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Like most character design decisions in anime, colors are often chosen to reflect personalities more than to be realistic depictions. Although dark skin is not a particularly alien choice, it's more often used to reflect a bouncy, energetic, fiery personality than actual nationality. This probably has roots back to the ideal of Japanese beauty including pale skin, as opposed to the chain of association with tanned people being outdoorsy, and thus lively and adventurous. Add in Western associations with [[FieryRedhead red hair]], and you get a boisterous adventure-seeker. Bonus points if they have gold eyes.

Naturally, this includes {{Hard Drinking Party Girl}}s and [[TheTrickster Tricksters]] of both genders. The most common combination with this skin tone is a vibrant and noticeable light color. Red is very popular, associated with all sorts of playful Japanese spirits as well as the kabuki wig, so it's also a common (and deliberately unusual looking) palette choice for [[HadesShaded demons]] and [[CatGirl Cat Girls]]. Red's a popular hair color for [[HeroesWantRedHeads other reasons]] as well, of course.

Note, dark skinned characters with ''dark'' hair (olive, purple, black) tend to have muted personalities.

This trope can be TruthInTelevision thanks to dye; notably, in Asian countries like UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}, dyeing hair red with henna dye is common. (Natural redheads in Pakistan--yes, they exist, especially among the Pashtun population--usually have light skin.) Dark skin with natural red hair is often seen in UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}}, especially UsefulNotes/{{Vanuatu}} and UsefulNotes/PapuaNewGuinea. In other places, you generally only see natural red hair paired with dark skin in cases of mixed ancestry. For example, the Afro-American activist UsefulNotes/MalcolmX earned the nickname "Detroit Red" due to the reddish tinge in his hair that he inherited from a Scottish ancestor. Likewise, basketball player Blake Griffin has tan skin and red hair due to having a black father and white redhead mother. But the condition called rufous oculocutaneous albinism also causes red hair in a person with dark skin.

Sister trope to DarkSkinnedBlond. Contrast EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette and RavenHairIvorySkin. Also quite likely to be AmbiguouslyBrown.

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* Tanya from ''Anime/BattleAthletes'' gets the dark skin and straight red hair treatment, like her brother. Despite the Olympic-like premise of the series explicitly telling us she's supposed to be African, she actually [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kerai/1140050694078.gif comes off more as]] a quasi-{{Cat Girl}}.
* Naruki Gelni from ''LightNovel/ChromeShelledRegios''. She's usually fun-loving and friendly, though she takes her job ''very'' seriously.
* Ed from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', whose behavior is all over the map. She could be of Turkish descent, as her father's name translates into Turkish, and her real first name is French (no doubt a tradition started at the Napoleonic Wars, which involved the Ottomans).
* Daisuke/Davis Motomiya from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' unlike his sister and mother so he might have a tan. Must be all the soccer training.
* Kei from ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' is perhaps ''the'' prototypical dark-skinned redhead.
* Shayla-Shayla from ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''.
* Kirche, the [[{{Gainaxing}} bouncy]] [[TheVamp vamp]] from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.
* A male version of this trope is Tasuki from ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', the energetic [[PaperFanOfDoom fire-fan-wielding]] bandit.
* Karen Joshua from ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'''s OVA ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam The 08th MS Team]]'', the fiery CPO of the titular military unit.
* Marie and several other characters from ''Anime/HareGuu''.
* Sousou (Caocao) from ''Manga/IkkiTousen'', though his personality is [[SuperpoweredEvilSide quite darker and more conflicted]] than the standard. Besides, he starts as a brunet and is only shown with red hair in the second season (''Dragon Destiny''). In ''Great Guardians'', also, [[spoiler: when Saji Genpou (Zuo Ci) drops his Saji facade and retakes his true identity of Ouin Shishi (Wang Yun), his blond hair turns into a blazing red.]]
* Wangari, the Kenyan LargeHamAnnouncer from ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'', has brown skin and bright orange hair.
* The princesses Tatra and Tarta in ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth''. They're both from the foreign country Chizeta. So is the first-series antagonist Caldina, who has dark skin and pink hair and uses trickery and illusion to fight.
* [[http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp6/fotoworld23/largeAnimePaperscans_Meine-Liebe_Ne.jpg Ed]] from ''VideoGame/MeineLiebe''.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Karui was shown to have red hair in a color page of the manga and, later on, in the anime.
** When using her Curse Seal, Tayuya also became this. With horns and black sclera.
** Chocho, the daughter of Chouji and Karui, is a dark skinned redhead and is Sarada's best friend in ''Manga/{{Boruto}}''.
* Gene Starwind from ''Anime/OutlawStar''.
* ''Anime/PetitePrincessYucie'''s demon princess Greta fits the typical description, but has ''lavender'' hair, since she's also an {{Ojou}}.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** In the Orange Islands saga, there was [[http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d56/Magus6666/Other/Joy2.jpg an "athletic" Nurse Joy]] in ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' like this, with a tan/dark skin as an indicator of her personality ''not'' being like the others. That and [[AmazonianBeauty muscles]].
** In the ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite Black and White]]'' season, Skyla has notably darker skin than in the games or other media, turning her into this.
* Kintarou Tooyama from ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis''.
* Anthy Himemiya from ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' has dark skin and deep purple hair. She's the "muted personality" type. It's implied that she and her [[DarkSkinnedBlond brother]] are from India.
* Jeannie from ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'', though she's actually TheStoic. She is, however, a very physical warrior type, so she's not too far off.
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' is an interesting case. In the TV series Kenshin is not shown with particularly dark skin, but his hair is ''explicitly'' red. People actually ''say'' that his hair is red, instead of it just being a visual design element. In the OVA series, he's closer to this trope in a way that's fairly accurate for a Japanese person (dark red hair is very rare but does occur among native Japanese).
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** Akane Karasuma, a.k.a. Sailor Lead Crow, a 5th season villain[=/=]QuirkyMiniBossSquad member. As she's an alien, it's impossible to tell if this combo is the norm for her people. In the manga the only other people from her world are Phobos and Deimos, who aren't this.
** The PassionateSportsGirl Elza Gray, a one-episode character from the ''Sailor Moon'' anime. She was an old rival and friend of Haruka's and [[spoiler:introduced her and Michiru to each other]].
* Libra Dohko from the anime version of ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' [[IWasQuiteALooker was one]] [[http://www.pobladores.com/data/pobladores.com/jp/ey/jpeyote/channels/saint_seiya_lycos/images/3691799dohko4.jpg when he was young.]] [[spoiler:And he still is, since his old form is actually a SleepModeSize.]]
* ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'':
** Kougaiji is a [[NobleDemon noble bad guy]] and seems to deliberately be in color contrast to his [[EvilOverlord Evil Empress]] stepmother, Gyokomen Koshu (who is pale skinned with green hair). Possibly to emphasize that their personalities are complete opposites--Kougaiji is devoted to his nakama, while Koshu is prone to killing her followers on a whim. Rather than having a fiery personality, he's matched to the element and uses mostly [[ElementalPowers fire attacks]].
** Gojyo could also be considered an example, since he's rather tan compared to the others. Also has bright red hair.
* Winia Chester from ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' is a more subdued version of this, though she perks up quite a bit around Pacifica.
* [[Anime/{{Macross}} Exedore/Exsedol's]] original design from ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''[=/=]''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' had the colors, but his personality is the opposite of the usual type, being {{The Spock}} instead.
* Yoko Nakajima from ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'' upon returning to the Twelve Kingdoms from Japan. In her case, she is a "taika", a person from the Twelve Kingdoms world who got carried away to Japan, and thus a shell was covering her to make sure she resembled her "parents". To be fair, the novels specifically mention that she starts out much paler, but after roughing it for several months without shelter, her skin's gotten a very dark tan. The same transformation also gives her [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead green eyes]].
* One of the female pirates in ''Anime/{{Vandread}}: the Second Stage'' has red hair and tanned skin. It's implied that she's a high-ranking officer and didn't come along on the Nirvana because she and her crew had business on Majer. She shows up just in time to spring the crew from jail. I believe her name was "Vera" or something like that.
* [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Raphael]] from ''Anime/ImGonnaBeAnAngel'' has red hair and a fairly dark skin (especially when contrasted with Mikael's) and a matching bouncy and energetic personality, although he's not really HotBlooded. In fact, he is pretty mellow, [[spoiler: maybe because he wasn't doing much in the series, besides playing guitar and molesting Mikael]].
* Kyou Sohma in the anime version of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', though the dark-skinned part is pretty much just in comparison to the other characters. It's presumably due to the amount of time he spends outside, and his hair color is a result of the curse.
* ''Manga/TrinityBlood'': Lilith Sahl.
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]]'': Music/KateBush from [[AmazonBrigade the Shrike Team]]
* Rami of the Unemezoku from ''Manga/ArataTheLegend'' has pinkish-hair paired with tan skin.
* Toujou Hidetora from Manga/{{Beelzebub}} has ginger hair and a darker skintone than most of the cast.
* Kagura Demuri from Anime/AquarionEVOL has both red hair, dark skin, golden eyes and a [[BloodKnight hotblooded]] [[BeastMan personality]]. [[BeastMan Apollo]], from the previous series Anime/GenesisOfAquarion, is one too.

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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Alicia Masters was portrayed as one of these in the Heroes Reborn (DorkAge) version of the ComicBook/{{Fantastic Four}}.
* Ember from ''ComicBook/ElfQuest''. Dark skin and auburn hair is seen in quite a few elves of the Sun Folk, including Leetah (Ember's mother), Shenshen, their mother Toorah, and Behtia. This does not seem to be connected to characterisation, though.
* Jezebel Jet, from ''Franchise/{{Batman}} R.I.P.''
* Marvel villainess Mystique - dark blue skin, red hair. (Same in the movie version.)
* "F***ing" Oyuki-chan from ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'' has light brown skin and red-orange hair, despite being one of the few Asian characters. She's tomboyish and free-spirited, but being raised in a ninja clan since early childhood has made her highly disciplined with a strict code of honor. She's foul-mouthed and socially-inappropriate to the point of creepiness.
* Kendra Munoz-Saunders, the Latina redhead Hawkgirl from ''ComicBook/{{Earth 2}}''.
* The daughter of Archie from the main ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' and Valerie from ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'' had her mom's skin tone and her dad's hair in her comics. She received her musical talents from both.
* Aster of ''ComicBook/TheWitchBoy'', since his mother is white with red hair and his father is AmbiguouslyBrown. However, he is far from a FieryRedhead in personality.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The Amazon Oenone has dark skin and dark red hair, though in her later appearances her hair was changed to black.
** While ComicBook/{{Artemis}}'s skin tone and facial features are subject to the whims of the artists she's always got long orange hair and in her earlier appearances was frequently depicted as AmbiguouslyBrown, to help her blend in with the rest of her tribe of dark skinned women of African and Middle Eastern heritage.
** In the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman original Pre-Crisis comics]], Oranna had fair skin and red hair. Her depiction in ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Wonder Woman]]'' #750 has her with tan skin and her red hair is styled into dreads.
* Anita Fite aka Empress of ComicBook/YoungJustice is a black girl with red hair.
* In ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'', the people of House Citrine have tanned skin and burgundy hair.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Although most screen adaptations have portrayed her as more fair-skinned, the original NewspaperComics version of Princess Aura from ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' was one of these. Of course, most Mongonians were portrayed as slightly dark-skinned, so it would have been odd if she had had a light complexion.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* The now [[HumanityEnsues human]] [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Kurama]] in ''[[FanFic/BlackkatsReverse Reverse]]'' has skin so dark that he’s mistaken to have Kumo ancestry and blood-red hair. He has very hot-blooded and impulsive and is going on a massive adventure trying to run from the various bounty hunters after him around the Elemental Nations.
* Natasha Martell in ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'' is deeply tanned since she lived in Dorne - a desertic country - and has Tully red hair. Her father Oberyn proudly declares she's a skilled ActionGirl and talented in the "bedroom arts".
* In the ComicBook/TeenTitans ''Our Own League'' universe, M'gann M'orzz's "Megan Morse" disguise is a Black girl whose hair is a washed out pinkish orange. As Miss Martian, her skin turns green and her hair a more intense red-orange, but still has it's curly, afro-like shape. Either way, she adverts the usual personality associated with this trope by being a ShrinkingViolet and strict pacifist.
* In ''Fanfic/CorelineInvasionOfPortland'', Aegis member Jennifer "Chrome" Swann is described to be African-American and Native American, and has red hair. It's explained that her hair was turned red by Terrigenesis. She's also supposed to be based on the character from Marvel's ''New Universe'' line, and the original version was a white redhead.
* ''Harry Potter'': [[https://www.deviantart.com/acaciathorn/art/Roxanne-Weasley-692993576 In many fanarts]], Roxanne Weasley, daughter of George Weasley and Angelina Johnson, is drawn in this way.
* In ''Fanfic/ShiningAndSweet'', Princess Hook has tawny-brown skin and bouncy red hair.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Megara from ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}''. If you look very closely, you can easily tell that Meg's hair is actually a dark red color, and that her skin is slightly darker than that of Herc's.
* Thank to a RaceLift, [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]] is this way in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie''. She's half-black and half-white but keeps her standard red hair, which she inherited from her dad.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Finnegan Hob from ''Literature/{{Abarat}}''.
* Holly Short from ''Literature/ArtemisFowl''.
* Ce'Nedra from ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' is a dryad, and so has red hair and olive skin.
* Vincent Katherinessen from Creator/ElizabethBear's novel ''Carnival''.
* Brier Iron-thorn in P.C. Hodgell's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'' is an example in Western fantasy fiction. A big, strong warrior woman raised among soldiers in the sun-drenched south, she's permanently tanned dark from those long years in the sunlight and her hair is a "sullen red", an indicator of the passions and hatreds and intensity of her innermost nature, under the stern exterior.
* In ''Literature/CodexAlera: Cursor's Fury'', Invidia Aquitaine disguises herself as a slave with deep, red-brown skin, and coppery hair. It's justified, though, since this is a world where anyone with sufficient talent at watercrafting (magic using elemental spirits present in water) can change their appearance. And, well, the slave she was supposed to be wasn't exactly the kind you used for sweeping stables...
* Cassidy Durant in the ''Literature/DreamscapeVoyagerTrilogy''. It's noted that most people from her hometown have red hair, regardless of skin tone, though Zayne is an exception.
* Alia, Leto, and Ghanima Atreides from ''Franchise/{{Dune}}''.
* Literature/{{Eclipse}} has Kyrie Dreyvor, who is often called a dark-skinned redhead in the story itself.
* Princess Demetria in ''Literature/EmeraldPrince''.
* Collan in Creator/MelanieRawn's ''Exiles'' Series is noted for being darker than most natural redheads.
* In ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'', Phan Nuwen is a grey-skinned redhead with epicanthic folds, which Ravna notes would have been an unlikely combination back on Earth and ascribes to him being "a product of post-terrestrial evolution". (The prequel, ''Literature/ADeepnessInTheSky'', establishes that he wasn't born a redhead, implying that his change of hair is a consequence of a medical intervention between the two stories.)
* Hazel in ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' is this plus gold eyes, thanks to her DivineParentage.
* Gideon Nav in ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' has particularly fiery red hair, and while her skin tone is never actually mentioned in the text, the cover illustration of ''Literature/GideonTheNinth'' shows it to be brown.
* Quite a few of the mortok tribe in ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}'' have red hair according to [[AscendedExtra Jolsah's]] [[{{Spinoff}} spin-off]] series. Jolsah himself has purple with red stripes, and his great-great-grandfather had a dark purple.
* In ''[[Literature/PathfinderTales Prince of Wolves]]'', Tara [[spoiler:(or at least the [[ActuallyNotAVampire penanggalan]] [[DeadPersonImpersonation impersonating]] her [[DeadAllAlong after her death]])]] has a skin tone like "crushed cinnamon" and hair like "spun copper."
* ''Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy'': Like most poor Silerians, Mirabar is dark-skinned, but also has bright red hair as a mark of her favor from their goddess (though most people initially believe this means she's a demon).
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', the Ghiscari of Slaver's Bay have a dark complexion, but many have a mixture of black and red hair, like a tortoiseshell cat.
* Josepha Walsh from the ''Literature/VenusPrime'' series has dark skin and red hair, the result of her mixed heritage.
* Turtle Heart from ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' is a traveling quadling glassblower that asks for Melena's help when he can't find his way. He's described as having "skin the color of roses at twilight: a dusky, shadowy red" and "hair [that] fell out in greasy hanks, sunset red". He's so handsome that both Melena and ''her husband'' Frexspar fall for him. Until he was murdered, Turtle Heart [[{{Polyamory}} helped raise]] Elphaba and Nessarose. It's [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe implied]] he fathered Nessa, [[spoiler:but this is later shown to be wrong in a family tree]].
* Flinx from Creator/AlanDeanFoster's Literature/HumanxCommonwealth universe has [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead red hair and green eyes]], but also dark skin.
* In ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'', some powerful Taoists and immortals possess grotesque appearences and highly unusual skin and hair colors: having red/cinnabar-colored hair is pretty common, with some of them, such as Chong Heihu and Yang Sen of the Four Saints have black faces, while two unusual ones sports bright red hair and dark red skin.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Sikozu went through a [[ChangingYourselfForLove radical makeover]] for the ''Peacekeeper Wars'' miniseries that saw her become more tanned while keeping her [[FieryRedhead red hair]].
* Angeli in Portuguese series 'Ninguém Tá Olhando' (Nobody's Looking) often fall into this purely by dint of the fact that angeli come from all races and are all redheaded as a feature of being angels.
* Teyla from ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' is dark-skinned with auburn hair to portray her alienness.
* The ''Series/Titans2018'' version of Starfire is played by Anna Diop who is black. Though she doesn't have her comic counterpart's traditional orange skin.
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* Although it wasn't always obvious, given she still had lighter skin than [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], Riptide had darker skin than most white people and had red hair, making her an example.
* Similarly it could be missed when she was in Mexico and Puerto Rico but while still an active wrestler April Hunter was otherwise tanner than most of her counterparts, especially noticeable with her TagTeam partner Nikki Roxx, who only seemed to get freckles from the sun. After Hunter's back injury in Canada however, she returned to the wrestling circuit noticeably paler.
* Wrestling/AliciaFox, a look that most definitely was not stolen from Music/{{Rihanna}}.
* Whenever Wrestling/{{Melina}} was a redhead she doubled as this.
* When Mercedes KV took up the name Wrestling/SashaBanks, she sported this look.
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[[folder:Roleplay]]
* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'': Evolution gives us [[WrenchWench Holly Chapman]], who fits. The tan part, according to her profile, is from living in the desert for most of her life, while the red hair comes from a habit of dying it and it just so happened that she was abducted while it was red.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Given how ertain parts of the setting of ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' operate, it's not uncommon to find these types in the South. Dark-skinned types with hair colors that range from mahogany to copper to straight-up fire engine red aren't uncommon sights in cities like Chiaroscuro or Gem.
* DependingOnTheArtist, Chandra Nalaar from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. She's definitely a redhead, but whether she's dark-skinned or just exceptionally freckled depends on who's drawing her at the current time.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'' has Nocturne, an entire planet where everyone is dark-skinned and the predominant hair color is dark red. Taken to an extreme by members of the Salamanders chapter, who develop jet black skin and retain their dark red hair.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* The Sun is portrayed as a black woman with an orange afro in ''Toys/MilkyWayAndTheGalaxyGirls''.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Crystal'', the eponymous redheaded heroine was originally portrayed by the Iranian-born Nobahar Dadui.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* An option in pretty much any game with a "Create-A-Character" mode. Even the rare ones like ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' that have a setting for race don't restrict hair colors based on it.
* Ganondorf and the Gerudo from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series, though some of the Gerudo from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' have light skin and pink hair instead. Midna from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' has skin that is dual-patterned between black and grey (with bluish tints) and with hair that is a ''literal'' fiery orange-yellow, complete with giving off its own minor luminescence. There's also Din, the dancer from ''{{VideoGame/The Legend of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Seasons'', though her skin seems more tanned than naturally dark.
* The beast-taming bandit Moses from ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia''.
* Reid Hershel of ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' is a Dark Skinned Redhead of the tanned variety, with his skin colour reflecting his athletic, outdoorsy disposition; his skin tone may ''also'' be a deliberate attempt to visually set him apart from other Inferians, of whom one of the distinguishing traits is pale skin.
* Jaffar from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Fire Emblem 7]]'', Tethys from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Fire Emblem 8]]'', Fiona from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Fire Emblem 10]]'', and Hapi from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Fire Emblem 16]]''.
* ''VideoGame/BraveFencerMusashi'' has Gingerelle, an arrogant beauty queen, and captain of the Thirstquencher Empire. While not so much the [[GenkiGirl energetic type]], she did have a powerful presence and [[AlphaBitch tended to lord it over]] her little sister most of the time.
* [[PhysicalGod Almalexia]], a non-anime example from ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', has dark ''gold'' skin and red hair.
* Lucia from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2''.
* Psyme from ''VideoGame/SigmaStarSaga'' is a ''purple''-skinned redhead.
* Asad in ''VideoGame/SuikodenTierkreis''.
* Akuma (aka Gouki) of the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' series is a [[BloodKnight bloodthirsty martial artist]] with dark skin and wild red hair. His "Shin Akuma" form in ''Capcom vs. SNK'' takes it even further, with dark red skin and pure white hair.
** Crimson Viper, from ''Street Fighter IV'', is darker-skinned than the other girls in the game, but not to the same degree as Akuma.
* Shauna - a bandit leader and the Hero version of the Gypsy class - from ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters''.
* In a rare western example, Ronny and Sally Dobbs from ''VideoGame/BackyardSports''.
* Nym from ''VideoGame/BlackSigil'' is a WildChild with dark skin and red hair.
* Early concept art shows Alyx Vance of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' as one of these; in the final game she's at best AmbiguouslyBrown with a few streaks of red in her hair.
* Jin of ''VisualNovel/YoJinBo'', complete with a spunky personality.
* As of ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 6'', Sun Quan has an element of this, as compared to the rest of the pasty cast, he is quite swarthy.
* Half-Calishite (a FantasyCounterpartCulture mishmash of Arabs, Ottoman Turks, and others depending on who you ask) Khalid of ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' is shown to have short red hair if you remove his helmet.
* {{Pirate}} boss and snarky [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] [[FieryRedhead Adept]] Eoleo in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' fits perfectly, being the tannest player character in the series to date, implicitly from a lifetime of doing [[BuffySpeak pirate-y things]], since he and his parents had a lighter complexion in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunTheLostAge''.
* Every character in ''VideoGame/EvilZone'' is an AffectionateParody of a manga/anime genre or archetype; this archetype is filled by the CuteBruiser Midori.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' has Mistral. In her case, she's a maniacal BloodKnight who states that she only feels alive in battle.
* One of the dancing girl sprites from the "Beat it & Eat It!" level of ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures''.
* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': Elisa Flores, the Federation player character's XO starting with Season 8, has dark red hair and tanned skin. Coupled with her name and [[FieryRedhead attitude]], she comes off as a SpicyLatina.
* This combination, along with DarkSkinnedBlond, often occurs in ''VideoGame/TheSims'', particularly among randomly-generated Sims. Nina Caliente is a premade Sim with darkish skin and red hair, and her sister Dina is a DarkSkinnedBlond.
* In ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'', the fourth game in the series has [[SpinOffSpring Adam Hunter's daughter Cherry]] having red hair.
* In ''VideoGame/HometownStory'', the blacksmith siblings and the hunter family have this. Personality-wise, the hunter father is a quite enthusiastic person and displays a somewhat inflated ego at times.
* Resident martial-artist and GentleGiant Kanna Kirishima of ''VideoGame/SakuraWars''. She hails from Okinawa and, in later entries, loses some of her darker complexion and bright red hair.
* The rather [[FieryRedhead hot-headed]] Reyn from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' and the Skell fanatic Alexa from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX''.
* You can {{invoke|dTrope}} this trope in ''VideoGame/ArcStyleBaseball3D'' by giving your character red hair and brown skin.
* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'': Someoka has a reddish shade of pink hair and tan skin, but he's still got the attitude of a FieryRedhead. Desuta also has auburn hair and tan skin, which can be justified due to being a demon.
* Dohalim from ''VideoGame/TalesOfArise'', but he’s not a hothead. Instead, he’s a calm, sophisticated lord who loves music and uses flowery language. He’s described as “eccentric”, though, so it’s possible his design was supposed to emphasize how different he is from his fellow Renans.
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* ''VisualNovel/DateWarp'': Janet. (She's Indian.) Her hair is purple, which would traditionally be the "muted personality" type of dark skin and dark hair, but her personality is more fiery.
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* [=LaBelle=] from ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' is revealed to have rich brown skin to go with her vibrant red hair once [[spoiler: the curse she was born with is canceled out]].
%%* ''Webcomic/CobwebAndStripes'' has Prudence, Lydia's college roommate.
* In ''Webcomic/DragonMango'', [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter08/dm08-01.htm there are more than one -- a fact exceedingly annoying to a character who thought "dark-skinned redhead" ought to be an identifying trait.]]
* Although there are many people that dye their hair red in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' (mostly the Vloz'ress), Nel'ralka & Genani[[note]]both Sarghress)[[/note]] both seem to be natural redheads, there's another unnamed Sarghress in chapter 30,[[note]]page 29,[[/note]] to name but a few.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The Smoke Knight Varpa is a redhead like most of those related, however distantly, to the von Blitzengaard and Sturmvoraus family. Unlike most of the other redheaded members of the family, she has a dark complexion, and her hair is darker, appearing dark brown or almost black under limited lighting.
%%* Anvil from ''Webcomic/GrrlPower''.
* Marena of ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' [[spoiler: and her sister, Karen.]] Marena is definitely a fiery, emotional, out-there woman, who flaunts her sexuality.
* Ellen in older ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' strips ([[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=318 exhibit A]]); now that the other characters aren't so pale, Ellen's skin is not significantly darker ([[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=788 exhibit B]]). Tai, on the other hand, is a more straight (no pun intended) example, [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1398 as seen here]]. Later on it's revealed that [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2361 she dyes her hair]] and she even [[{{Lampshade Hanging}} lampshades]] the improbability of that color hair with her skin tone.
* Dielle from ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' has reddish brown dreadlocks.
* Saffron from ''Webcomic/SaffronAndSage''. WordOfGod states that this character design choice was based on the colors of the actual saffron flower.
* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Amahle Sharma, otherwise known as the MagicalGirl Melty Flame, is a dark-skinned girl with fiery red hair. In her case, this was not her natural hair color -- magical girls [[PowerDyesYourHair undergo a vivid change in hair color]] upon first awakening their powers. A flashback to before she awakened as Melty Flame shows that she originally had dark brown hair.
%%* The immature ranker Quant from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''. [[http://images.wikia.com/towerofgod/images/0/07/Tower-of-god-epic_battle.jpg Here's]] [[http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/5898/wondert.png proof.]] Fellow family member Quaetro, and likely the rest of the family, count too.
%%* Guy from ''Webcomic/TwoGuysAndGuy''.
%%* Mahalah from ''Webcomic/UndeadFriend''.
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Members of the Copper, or Konn, caste are modified by the Dammakhert to have red hair, red eyes and red-tinted dark skin.
* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' is in black and white, but we know from coloured artwork by the author that Monica Villarreal is supposed to to be a DarkSkinnedRedhead, due to her Mexican as well as Irish ancestry.
* In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', Ben immediately stands out amongst his peers due to his striking combination of dark skin and auburn hair, which matches with his passionate personality.
* In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', Fahrin [[NamesToRunAwayFrom/ThePerson the Reaper]] has dark skin and punk red hair.
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* ''Literature/TheFateOfPaulTwister'' introduces us to the enigmatic Amber, who Paul describes as having fiery red hair, green eyes, and "skin a fair bit darker than you’d expect on a girl with red hair and green eyes," working as the postmistress at a Bards College camp in the middle of nowhere. It's implied that she has a bunch of secrets, and [[DarkAndTroubledPast probably some stuff in her past that she'd prefer to leave in the past.]]
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%%* Ms. Sara Bellum from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998''. %%ZCE
* [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sari_Sumdac Sari Sumdac]] from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' has dark skin, while her hair and ''eyes'' are both crimson. She is of Indian descent, but her father simply has black hair and eyes. [[spoiler:Likely, this was a result of being an organic Transformer.]]
* [[EvilRedhead Wuya]] from ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown''.
* Anna Maht from ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfQuest''.
* Starfire from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' is an alien with red hair and orange skin.
* Lua from ''WesternAnimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries''.
* Kiva Andru from ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''.
* Max from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', whose hair is dyed pink.
* Kelly from ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}''.
* Saffi, from ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''.
* Otto, from ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower''. Most of the characters are some shade of orange with bright hair and could fit into this trope.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': In a strange ''acquired'' example, the redhead Sadlygrove goes from fair-skinned to darkly tanned after wandering a desert shirtless near the end of season one. He stays like that for the rest of the series, even after a multi-year TimeSkip.
* Yoko from ''WesternAnimation/TeamGalaxy'' has red hair with blonde streaks.
* The GirlOfTheWeek in the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Buffoon Lagoon".
* [[spoiler:Darren and Ginger's baby]], in the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger''.
* Lars [[spoiler:(pre-resurrection, at least)]] from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has somewhat dark skin and red hair. His prototypical pilot design had darker skin and brown hair. It's eventually implied that he's half Filipino on his father's side, with the red hair coming from his mother.
* Luna from The Hex Girls has dark skin and red hair in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'' and ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''. The media between the two [[ButNotTooBlack lightened]] her skin though.
* Will from ''WesternAnimation/{{Witch}}'' is biracial and has red hair. She's lighter than her AmbiguouslyBrown mother but is somewhat darker than the white characters.
* Princess Goleeta and her brother Zorn from ''WesternAnimation/GaltarAndTheGoldenLance''.
* Ginger from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has medium-brown skin, a common thing for The Water Tribe. She's also the first one to use Varrick's dye products, so her red hair is only possible because it's dyed.
* Jazmine's hair has an orange tinge in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''' cartoon. Her mother is a blonde and white while her father is a brunette and black. In Jazmine's case this is due to HairColorDissonance. The [[ComicStrip/TheBoondocks original comics]] make it clearer that her hair is actually light brown, not light red.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', the human version of [[UpliftedAnimal Darwin the goldfish]] Sarah drew in "The Shippening" has brown skin and orange hair.
* The eponymous character from ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'', unlike the previous versions of herself from other installments in the franchise, which usually had pitch black hair, has dark auburn hair and brown skin. She's supposed to be Argentinian, but since her biological parents are unknown, it's hard to say.
* Le Gros/Jumbo in ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois l'Homme''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'', the athletic Giganta is biracial, more specifically half-white and half-black. She gets her red hair from her father.
* ''WesternAnimation/BoyGirlDogCatMouseCheese'': The girls' mother is redheaded and AmbiguouslyBrown.
* Baby Carlitos in ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' is Latino, and what [[CharlieBrownBaldness little hair]] he has on his head is red.
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* Ganondorf and the Gerudo from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series, though some of the Gerudo from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' have light skin and pink hair instead. Midna from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' takes it UpToEleven, with skin that is dual-patterned between black and grey (with bluish tints) and with hair that is a ''literal'' fiery orange-yellow, complete with giving off its own minor luminescence. There's also Din, the dancer from ''{{VideoGame/The Legend of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Seasons'', though her skin seems more tanned than naturally dark.

* Ms. Sara Bellum from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.

* DependingOnTheArtist, [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Chandra Nalaar.]] She's definitely a redhead, but whether she's dark-skinned or just exceptionally freckled depends on who's drawing her at the current time.

This trope can be TruthInTelevision thanks to dye; notably, in Asian countries like UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}, dyeing hair red with henna dye is common. (Natural redheads in Pakistan--yes, they exist, especially among the Pashtun population--usually have light skin.) Dark skin with natural red hair is often seen in UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}}, especially UsefulNotes/{{Vanuatu}} and UsefulNotes/PapuaNewGuinea. In other places, you generally only see natural red hair in cases of mixed ancestry. For example, the Afro-American activist UsefulNotes/MalcolmX earned the nickname "Detroit Red" due to the reddish tinge in his hair that he inherited from a Scottish ancestor. Likewise, basketball player Blake Griffin has tan skin and red hair due to having a black father and white redhead mother. But the condition called rufous oculocutaneous albinism also causes red hair in a person with dark skin.

* There was [[http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d56/Magus6666/Other/Joy2.jpg an "athletic" Nurse Joy]] in ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' like this, with a tan/dark skin as an indicator of her personality ''not'' being like the others. That and [[AmazonianBeauty muscles]].

* In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Skyla has notably darker skin than in the games or other media, turning her into this.

This trope can be TruthInTelevision thanks to dye; notably, in Asian countries like UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}, dyeing hair red with henna dye is common. (Natural redheads in Pakistan--yes, they exist, especially among the Pashtun population--usually have light skin.) Dark skin with natural red hair is often seen in UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}}, especially UsefulNotes/{{Vanuatu}} and UsefulNotes/PapuaNewGuinea. In other places, you generally only see natural red hair in cases of mixed ancestry. For example, the Afro-American activist UsefulNotes/MalcolmX earned the nickname "Detroit Red" due to the reddish tinge in his hair that he inherited from a Scottish ancestor. Likewise, basketball player Blake Griffin has tan skin and red hair due to having a black father and white redhead mother. But the condition called rufous oculocutaneous albinism, also causes red hair in a person with dark skin.

Sister trope to DarkSkinnedBlond. Contrast EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette and RavenHairIvorySkin. Also quite likely to be AmbiguouslyBrown. But sometimes, YouGottaHaveBlueHair.

* Given how [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair certain parts of the setting]] of ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' operate, it's not uncommon to find these types in the South. Dark-skinned types with hair colors that range from mahogany to copper to straight-up fire engine red aren't uncommon sights in cities like Chiaroscuro or Gem.

* In ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'', the fourth game in the series has [[SpinOffSpring Adam Hunter's daughter Cherry]] having red hair. This may overlap with YouGottaHaveBlueHair.

* Dohalim from ''VideoGame/TalesOfArise'', but he’s not a hothead. Instead, he’s a calm, sophisticated lord who loves music and uses flowery language. He’s described as “eccentric”, though, so it’s possible his design was supposed to make him seem different from his fellow Renans.

This trope can be TruthInTelevision thanks to dye; notably, in Asian countries like UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}, dyeing hair red with henna dye is common. (Natural redheads in Pakistan--yes, they exist, especially among the Pashtun population--usually have light skin.) Dark skin with natural red hair is often seen in UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}}, especially UsefulNotes/{{Vanuatu}} and UsefulNotes/PapuaNewGuinea. In other places, you generally only see natural red hair in cases of mixed ancestry. For example, the Afro-American activist UsefulNotes/MalcolmX earned the nickname "Detroit Red" due to the reddish tinge in his hair that he inherited from a Scottish ancestor. Likewise, basketball player Blake Griffin has tan skin and red hair due to having a black father and white redhead mother.

* Libra Dohko from the anime version of ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' [[IWasQuiteALooker was one]] [[http://www.pobladores.com/data/pobladores.com/jp/ey/jpeyote/channels/saint_seiya_lycos/images/3691799dohko4.jpg when he was young]]. [[spoiler:And he still is, since his old form is actually a SleepModeSize.]]

''Harry Potter'': [[https://www.deviantart.com/acaciathorn/art/Roxanne-Weasley-692993576 In many fanarts]], Roxanne Weasley, daughter of George Weasley and Angelina Johnson, is drawn in this way.

* The rather [[FieryRedhead hot-headed]] Reyn from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1''.

This trope can be TruthInTelevision thanks to dye; notably, in Asian countries like UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}, dyeing hair red with henna dye is common. (Natural redheads in Pakistan--yes, they exist, especially among the Pashtun population--usually have light skin.) Dark skin with natural red hair is often seen in UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}}, especially UsefulNotes/{{Vanuatu}} and UsefulNotes/PapuaNewGuinea. In other places, you generally only see natural red hair in cases of MixedAncestry. For example, the Afro-American activist UsefulNotes/MalcolmX earned the nickname "Detroit Red" due to the reddish tinge in his hair that he inherited from a Scottish ancestor. Likewise, basketball player Blake Griffin has tan skin and red hair due to having a black father and white redhead mother.

Sister trope to DarkSkinnedBlond. Contrast EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette and RavenHairIvorySkin. Also quite likely to be AmbiguouslyBrown (especially given the aforementioned overlap with MixedAncestry in RealLife). But sometimes, YouGottaHaveBlueHair.

* Tanya from ''Anime/BattleAthletes'' gets the dark skin and straight red hair treatment. Despite the Olympic-like premise of the series explicitly telling us she's supposed to be African, she actually [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kerai/1140050694078.gif comes off more as]] a quasi-{{Cat Girl}}.

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* Another non-anime example is [[BitchInSheepsClothing Sikozu]] from the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' movie, though her series form doesn't count.
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* Yoko Nakajima from ''LightNovel/TheTwelveKingdoms'' upon returning to the Twelve Kingdoms from Japan. In her case, she is a "taika", a person from the Twelve Kingdoms world who got carried away to Japan, and thus a shell was covering her to make sure she resembled her "parents". To be fair, the novels specifically mention that she starts out much paler, but after roughing it for several months without shelter, her skin's gotten a very dark tan. The same transformation also gives her [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead green eyes]].