History Main / EvilRedhead

* According to the some translations of the Bible the devil has [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHenious curly red hair]].

* [[Film/AliceInWonderland The Red Queen]]. The Mad Hatter can be pretty menacing too.

* Pictured above: Melisandre of ''{{A Song of Ice and Fire}}'' is an absolutely bone-chilling KnightTemplar priestess and EvilChancellor, whose hair, raiment and [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes]] are all vivid shades of red in accordance with her dedication to the holy fire.

* AnneRice's ''VampireChronicles'' have many red-haired vampires. Most notably, Maharet and her scary-as-hell sister Mekare - though the yandere-like Armand arguably fits the bill too.

* Both used and averted in ''Talking to Dragons}}'', Book 4 of PatriciaCWrede's ''EnchantedForestChronicles''. [[FirstGirlWins The first girl the protagonist meets]] (and [[HeroesWantRedheads his eventual love interest]]) is a redheaded fire-witch who's rude and temperamental, but basically good. Later they meet another redheaded fire-witch (fire-witches in general are prone to red hair), who likes turning people into statues and uses [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] to power her spells.

* Brand from ''The {{Book of Amber}}'', who wanted to destroy the universe and remake it in his own image. And his redheaded siblings Bleys and Fiona are also fairly morally dubious.

* ''{{Children of the Corn}}'' has Malachi.

* In ''The {{Kids in the Hall}}'', one sketch was the red-haired "It's a Fact" girl. She appeared in only one sketch besides her "It's a fact!" series. It was in the end credits of an episode where the Queen, portrayed by Scott Thompson, tried to make her jump into Lake Ontario by telling her that there was candy at the bottom, based on her belief that red-haired girls were witches.

* In ''{{Firefly}}'', we have Saffron. Or Yolanda. Or Bridget. No one's sure what her real name is, except she has red hair.

* Averted in ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'' when Redhead Willow goes evil her hair becomes black.

* Spellbinder Ashka from, well, ''{{Spellbinder}}'' was a readhead and also a power-hungry, cunning, vicious bitch.

* Because of the association with Judas, Shylock of ''{{The Merchant of Venice}}'' was originally portrayed as a red-head, and this was generally a common trait of "evil Jew" characters.

* Ganondorf from ''{{The Legend of Zelda}}'' series.

** Adding to that, in the recently-released Spirit Tracks, Chancellor Cole, who has red hair, is found out to be evil pretty early in the game.

* Walter Bernhard from ''{{Castlevania}} Lament of Innocence''. And damn, does he ever have fun with the 'evil' part.

* ''SouthPark'' did an entire episode, "Ginger Kids", where Cartman was convinced that "gingers" (pale, freckled, red-headed kids) were monstrous, Children of the Corn-like abominations. In what would have been a surprising example of HypocriticalHumor were we speaking of anyone other than Eric Cartman, after his friends tried teaching him a lesson by making him up to look like a "ginger" while he slept, Cartman soon decided that "his people" were the master race. And since this is Cartman we're talking about, he was attempting genocide before the end of the episode.

* Subverted in the direct-to-DVD followups of {{Disney}}'s {{Cinderella}}: [[spoiler: Anastasia]], who was a RichBitch in the original movie, is now less evil and more like a [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]].

* Candace, from ''PhineasAndFerb''
* Though not completely evil (depending on how you look at her,) psychopath Izzy from ''TotalDramaIsland'' rocks the red hair.

* This Troper's grandmother was one of five children. Two were put to death at birth specifically because they were born with red hair. This was normal for peasants living in that part of Eastern Europe (the area now on the Polish-Ukrainian border near Jaroslaw). To suffer a redheaded baby to live was said to be "allowing Satan into the family".

* Think about which two ethnic groups in which red hair most commonly occurs: the Jewish and the Irish; think about which two European ethnic groups have most often been victimized.

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* If played as a [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism Renegade]], default female [[PlayerCharacter Shepard]] in ''{{Mass Effect}}''.

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* [[TheBible Judas Iscariot]] is often depicted as a redhead - most recently in the {{manga}} ''Messiah''. There's no real reason that he would have been in real life.
** Actually, while there's no evidence in the text for it, he could well have been; after Europe, the next-highest frequency of red hair occurs in the Levant: modern Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
** In fact, most of the more villainous characters described in the Bible are believed to have red hair.
*** Really? Which ones? Cain, Ahab, Jezebel, Pilate?
**** Don't know about the others, but Cain is depicted as having sort of orange-ish hair in ''TheSandman''. (Abel's hair is black.)
***** During the middle ages, when most people were illiterate, the church used stained glass as, basically, picture books to illustrate Bible stories. In them, they used certain traits to identify different characters, because you can't get great detail in the stained glass and from a distance. Baddies were red hair to represent the fires of hell. So, Cain and Judas were always red-haired. Also, Eve frequently was shown with red hair...but only AFTER The Fall.
**** According to the other wiki, Mary Magdalene is commonly depicted as having red hair (apparently due to the common confusion between her and an unnamed prostitute who appears in the next story). Not evil, but famous as a redeemed sinner.
**** David was sometimes said to have red hair. In one legend, the prophet Samuel was reluctant to crown him king, because red hair was often associated with the idea of spilling blood (probably the source for some of the other redheads mentioned here). God's response was that David ''would'' spill a lot of blood, but he would do it in the service of good against Israel's enemies.

* ''TheSarahConnorChronicles''has Catherine Weaver.

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* Norman and Harry Osborn, the first and second Green Goblin, are described as having reddish-brown hair.

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* Asuka Langley Soryuu of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is more of a [[{{Tsundere}} bitchy redhead]], but enough of a bitch (though she does have some ''[[FreudianExcuse good]]'' reasons for her bitchiness) to get damn close to this mark.
** She's the [[FieryRedhead other kind of crazy redhead]].

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* Think about which two ethnic groups in which red hair most commonly occurs: the Jewish and the Irish; think about which two European ethnic groups have most often been victimized. SoYeah.

* Candice, from ''PhineasAndFerb''