- The titular character from Aggretsuko is a red panda office lady who keeps a cute and proper appearance but secretly seethes with anger, and in the original shorts, it doesn't take much to set her off. Even her name literally means "fiery child".
- Anne Shirley in Akage no Anne, who, in turn, is based on Anne Shirley in the novel series mentioned in the "Literature" subpage.
- Mikage "Sakura" Sakurai in Asteroid in Love is a downplayed example. She has red hair and a sharp tongue, and isn't above slapping or flicking the others when she's frustrated. The downplayed point is that she's actually a Tsundere.
- Yoko from Bastard!! (1988) Her response to the main character not bouncing back from death fast enough:I'm gonna kick your ass!!
- Nobunaga of Battle Girls: Time Paradox was told to squeeze a pipe to calm her down whenever she became frustrated. She does this, but it doesn't stop her from threatening ghosts who aren't scared of her stories.
- Black Clover:
- The Vermillion siblings in the Crimson Lion Kings all have red hair and are very passionate and hot-blooded. Mereoleona manages to be even moreso than her younger brothers Fuegoleon and Leopold.
- Zora Ideale has bright red hair and can get riled up when it comes to nobility and Magic Knights, intentionally trying to earn the hate of all the Royal Knights Exam candidates.
- Bleach:
- Main character Ichigo Kurosaki is a natural carrot-top (his given name means "strawberry" in English), and a natural hothead. He discusses it in one chapter after his high school classmates are surprised at how high he ranks academically: he explains that after being hassled by school faculty for his unusual hair colornote and then getting in trouble for mouthing off in response, he figured out that keeping his grades up keeps that aggravation to a minimum.
- Renji and Jinta are both as Hot-Blooded as they come and have the scarlet hair to match.
- In the last chapter, the Little Miss Badass Ichika turns out to be quite the adorable spitfire. It's completely justified: she is Renji and Rukia's daughter.
- Blue Seed: Heavy weapons specialist and bazooka aficionado Koume Sawaguchi. She even had an In-Series Nickname — "The Hurricane" — from her time in the Japanese Self-Defense Force, where she worked before she was discharged due to insubordination and transferred to the TAC.
- Brain Powerd: Hime Utsumiya has an outgoing personality (and won't hesitate to call out Yup when necessary) and is an excellent fighter despite her preference for diplomacy.
- In Cap Revolution Bottleman, red-haired Cota Coga is passionate about bottle battles and happy to tell everyone that he plans to become the Bottle King.
- Inverted in Chainsaw Man: Power, the fiery and bombastic one, has pinkish-blonde hair (and is depicted as a Fire-type in crossover games). The redheaded Makima is instead an Emotionless Girl and The Stoic, as well as the Big Bad.
- Code Geass: Kallen Kouzuki/Stadtfeld. In fact, everything about her is red, from her rebel headband to her mecha ("Guren", which means Crimson Lotus) — even the outfits she wears are associated with the color red. Her Japanese name, Kouzuki, means "Red Moon". She is also quite hot-headed and fiery in personality.
- Cutey Honey: The titular character. No matter what hair colour she has, she's still very fiery.
- Dancougar: Sara Yuki has literal red hair and matches Fujiwara Shinobu in spirit.
- Ruki Makino (a.k.a. Rika Nonaka) from Digimon Tamers started as an Arrogant Kung Fu Girl, and through all the series she remained as a Tomboy Action Girl always willing to fight.
- Dragon Ball Z has Recoome, one of the members of the Ginyu Force. He takes his fights against Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan... a bit too seriously, to say the least.
- Terrence, the hero of Dreamland, subverts this: he is a redhead and has fiery powers, but is nonchalant and not really eager to fight. Eve, however, plays the trope straight.
- Lucy from Elfen Lied is a homicidally Fiery Redhead (or more specifically, hot pink head). She could also be counted as an Evil Redhead.
- El-Hazard: The Magnificent World: As the great Fire Priestess of Mt. Moldune, Shayla Shayla is a literal example. Her powers intensify to match her disposition, meaning that the angrier or more excited she becomes during a fight, the brighter and hotter her flames burn.
- Fatal Fury: Mai is usually a subversion. But in the second film and The Movie, she's portrayed as outgoing and outspoken, and has fire based attacks to top it off. Though her actual fighting ability tends to leave a lot to be desired. However, in the games themselves, she usually has either brown, or black hair (with purple highlights), but her cheerful, combative personality is the same and she's a certified Action Girl.
- Kyo Sohma from Fruits Basket has naturally orange hair due to the Sohma curse, and he's introduced as very temperamental and prone to resorting to violence when angry. This gradually becomes downplayed as he mellows out and learns to keep his temper under control.
- Forte Stollen in the Galaxy Angel anime series. She's a Trigger-Happy Gun Nut, and the most likely to respond to annoyances with violence, with her temper being second only to Ranpha's. Her counterpart in the videogames averts this trope, being a mature and level-headed Cool Big Sis to the rest of the Angels.
- Gugure! Kokkuri-san's Jimeko sports orange hair and is a tsundere.
- Haikyuu!!: The Protagonist Hinata Shouyou has bright orange hair, and he is very passionate, loud, often easy to anger, extroverted, outgoing, enthusiastic, competitive, and determined. All around, he lives all of his emotions on a higher calibre.
- Hanaukyō Maid Team. In La Verite (the second season), Ryuuka is a redhead who can develop an awesome temper with little provocation. In the first season, she had brown hair.
- Heavy Metal L-Gaim: Leccee is a quite temperamental redhead, especially when Kyao or someone else — coughAmucough — gets her annoyed.
- Ladonia from Hetalia: Axis Powers is not only a Bratty Half-Pint and Spoiled Brat prone to throwing tantrums when things don't go his way, but an incredibly bold and precocious child who in his introduction demands to be made leader of the micronation group. He's also notable for being the first unambiguously redheaded character in a series rife with Hair Color Dissonance.
- Hikaru No Densetsu: Hikari has red hair, is an outgoing tomboy, and is a natural when it comes to rhymathic gymnastics. Though, in the manga she was a blonde, the anime made her a ginger.
- In I Got My Wish and Reincarnated as the Villainess (Last Boss)!, Reus is a red-headed, Hot-Blooded fire mage.
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- Misaki Yata, a fire-wielding Red Clansman, is hot-headed to the point of doing the Leeroy Jenkins routine fairly often, being called out as a fool on more occasions than one.
- The Red King, Mikoto Suoh, is an interesting example — he's always sleeping, and when he's awake, he's incredibly calm, but he still manages to come off as incredibly fiery. It's this apparent contradiction — the calmness and intensity at the same time — that makes him seem like such a badass, and makes so many people want to follow him as his Clansmen.
- Lyrical Nanoha has Vita, Teana, Agito, and Nove, who are all redheads with short fuses. For an extra kick, Agito is a literal fire elemental.
- Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow: The Popple family has three sisters: the innocent, cheery Lucy-May, the mischevious, always up-to-no-good Kate, and the refined, aloof Clara. Guess which one has red hair?note
- Magic Knight Rayearth: Although Hikaru Shidou is normally a friendly Genki Girl, she is also very Hot-Blooded and gets mad when someone or something hurts her friends. Fittingly, her Elemental Powers are all about fire.
- Maken-ki!: Minori's Maken gives her the "firepower" to match her hair color and disposition. The last thing anyone wants is piss her off. Ouken Yamato can attest to that better than anyone.
- Marmalade Boy: Both of the Grant brothers, but especially Brian. Michael is more of a Keet.
- Master of Mosquiton: Inaho, is a textbook short-tempered bossy tsundere example, who drags the hapless vampire all over the globe with her, in search of the O-part to gain eternal youth. But she's not as bad as she first seems, as several episodes show that she isn't simply doing it vanity's sake. The reason she wants eternal youth so badly, is because she's in love with Mosquiton and wants to be together with him, for all time.
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kobayashi can get very passionate about her love of maids, though only when she's drunk. Otherwise, she's The Stoic.
- Subverted by Taiyo in Mission: Yozakura Family. Despite having the outward appearance of a Stock Shōnen Hero, including deep red hair, Idiot Hair, and a scar running across one eye, he's meek and shy until he's pushed. Even after a confidence boost from a month of Training from Hell to catch up with his superhumanly talented in-laws, he's still fairly dour and even-tempered unless Mutsumi is in danger, after which he drops everything to kick the ass of anyone who'd put her in danger.
- My-HiME: Mai Tokiha is a subversion: she's a redhead with fire-based powers and presented as an example of this trope in the first episode with her violent outbursts at Yuuichi, but after that, she's shown to be compassionate and caring and remains that way until things go really bad for her and everyone else.
- The manga plays it a bit straighter, giving Mai more of a loose temper that her anime counterpart, kept under better control. Both versions were played as "gutsy" and "passionate", which could fall under the redhead stereotype.
- My Hero Academia:
- Eijiro Kirishima/Red Riot could only be more hot-blooded if he had a pyrokinetic Quirk — but why bother when you're already burning with MANLINESS! Though Kirishima's hair is naturally black; he dyed it bright red to imitate his idol Crimson Riot.
- Endeavor, in more ways than one. Besides being a literal fiery redhead with his red hair and ever-present facial fire, he is known for some violent outbursts. Unfortunately, some were toward his own children. He also has been learning to channel his anger as evidenced when he channeled his anger at All For One and the arm he’d just lost into creating a hand of flames and a few seconds later, a blazing inferno to kill the nomu.
- Naruto:
- Naruto's mother, Kushina, was one of these, though she mellowed (slightly) with age. She was nicknamed "the Bloody Habanero/the Red Hot-blooded Habanero" because her face resembled a tomato...and because she beat the pulp out of every person that called her "Tomatohead". And sometimes, her hair is floating and has the form of fire.
- Tayuya of the Sound Five. It's hard for her to go a scene without insulting someone.
- Karin is a more current example. Sometimes.
- Karui seemed kind of hotheaded when she was beating the crap out of the titular character.
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Anya is both a fire-user and very feisty.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion:
- Asuka Langley Soryu is a Hot-Blooded, hot-tempered redhead and the queen of this trope. Why else is she the picture on the main page? As a character defined by her pride and emotions, Asuka's red hair and blue eyes were chosen to contrast the blue hair and red eyes of The Stoic Shy Blue-Haired Girl Rei Ayanami, resulting in a perfect hair-color-coded Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamic.
- Her Rebuild of Evangelion incarnation Asuka Langley Shikinami is a lot more subdued. As a result, her hair is strawberry-blonde instead of dark auburn or orange, but not in some merchandise and illustrations.
- Mana the tomboy in Onegai My Melody: a martial arts expert who is not adverse to using her kicks.
- Nami from One Piece. Even her punches are emotionally charged.
- Boa Marigold is just a shade lighter than red, but she combines Prehensile Hair and Infernal Retaliation.
- We also have Eustass "Captain" Kidd, a sociopath who would also qualify for Evil Redhead.
- Outlaw Star: Gene Starwind is a rare male example, being a redhead with a Hair-Trigger Temper. He's willing to pull his sidearm on someone just because he thought they were insulting him (they were actually offering sincere advice), and he regularly gets called on how immature it makes him by older and more experienced outlaws. Learning to overcome this and not take offense at everything is part of his character development as the series progresses.
- Phantom Quest Corp.: Downplayed with Ayaka. She's typically easygoing and somewhat irresponsible, offset by having a short fuse and volatile temper.
- Pokémon: The Series:
- Misty played the trope straight, especially in the original series, often by griping at Ash for the damage to her bike, or simply chewing him out for his general lack of common sense. Even her ponytail resembles flame. Ironically, she specializes in Water-type Pokémon. According to the Fortune Telling book in the episode "The Fortune Hunters", she's listed as a Gyarados type, a Water-type Pokémon infamous for having a ferocious temperament.
- From Ruby and Sapphire, the gym leader Flannery, on the other hand, does use Fire-types. Both typecasting and hotheadedness worked to her detriment in Pokémon Adventures back at Mt. Chimney, but she puts up a fight while stalling Kyogre later on.I'm not afraid of you! Just come and face me... Sapphire!
- Jessie, the most badass member of the Team Rocket trio.
- Dawn's friendly rival Zoey from Diamond and Pearl qualifies delightfully.
- Fujimoto from Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea is a crotchety old Omnicidal Maniac with a long, flowing red mane.
- Himeno from Prétear, another Junichi Sato Magical Girl anime, is a fiery redheaded hero as well.
- Seira Morimura from Princess Nine. Fits since she is hot-tempered.
- Ahiru from Princess Tutu isn't very strong in terms of combat, but she otherwise fits the description perfectly. (And she does catch the local Jerkass off guard once).
- The titular character from Project A-Ko.
- Kyouko from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. While an Expy of the trope image Asuka in terms of personality and color scheme, her hair is more of a deep maroon than Asuka's more coppery tone. She's even themed around fire, too.
- Ranma ½ sort of has the titular character. As a teenager who was raised his entire life to fight and win in martial arts duels, Ranma Saotome has the general hot-headed, impulsive, passionate personality to fit into this trope. However, in his normal form, he's a black-haired boy. Thanks to Jusenkyo and an Adaptation Dye-Job, he can gain the right sex and hair color and loses none of the attitude that lets him qualify.
- Downplayed by the title character of Rurouni Kenshin. Himura Kenshin is a Martial Pacifist who actively refuses to kill, even carrying a sakabatou, a katana with the blunt and sharp sides reversed, to keep himself from doing so by accident. He's normally quite patient and mild-mannered, but enrage him at your peril: he became a wanderer to atone for the hundreds of lives he took as a political assassin for the anti-Shogunate side during the Boshin War, and when roused even to Tranquil Fury, he's all but unstoppable.
- In Saint Beast, Maya has a tendency to throw tantrums when things don't go his way.
- Lirin of Saiyuki definitely qualifies. While most of her behavior is more like "annoying", she has a hair-trigger temper and will scream at or drop boulders on people who annoy her.
- Tiara, the heroine of Shamanic Princess, is a very powerful Full-Contact Magic user with a penchant for slasher smiles and taunting her opponents. It's a good thing she's up against Anti-Magic users and nigh-incomprehensible gods, or the story would be over really quick.
- Kiddy Phenil of Silent Möbius, but only in the TV series. Her hair is green in every other version.
- Kyouko Mogami from Skip Beat!, even if, in reality, her hair is black. After her Important Haircut, she turns out to be extremely fiery.
- Slam Dunk: Protagonist Hanamichi Sakuragi is very infamous in-story due to his dyed red hair and explosive temper. In the very first chapter/episode alone, he headbutted anyone who'd so much uttered the word "basketball" or something sounding similar.
- The Strike Witches canon has at least one in Charlotte Yeager, the 501st Joint Fighter Wing's resident large ham and lightning bruiser.
- Chocolat from Sugar Sugar Rune
- Sexy from The Voynich Hotel tries not to be this. She fails miserably and hilariously.
- Princess Rubina from UFO Robo Grendizer -one of the Mazinger Z sequels could be quite the spitfire when she was angry. She was the only dared to call the Big Bad out.
- Angel Salvia from Wedding Peach, although green-haired Angel Daisy is also pretty fiery as well.
- Masane Amaha from Witchblade is this post-Transformation Sequence.
- The World is Still Beautiful has the female protagonist Nike who has orange hair and a hot-tempered and strong-willed personality.
- Another literal example is Rin from Yes! Precure 5. Her hair even turns into a flame-esque style after her transformation.
- Nakiami from Xam'd: Lost Memories is a subversion. She has red hair, but is taciturn and shows little to no interest in romance. She is an undeniable badass, though...
- Yuna from Yuki Yuna is a Hero is a spunky Plucky Girl who cares about her friends deeply. Her way of fighting as a Magical Girl mostly involves her punching.
