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Hot Blooded
alt title(s): Hot Blood
Anime Tenchou's burning spirit cannot be extinguished!

"Our burning blood will cut through fate!"
— Viral, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

"If a man... yells loud enough... he can do... anything!!"
— The Chosen Four

Sometimes a character just oozes passion.

Sometimes, they're more like a dam with the floodgates open.

Sometimes, just sometimes, the flood of awesome they unleash is such that you need to send out a dove to find land afterwards.

They are so burningly passionate about everything that they do that they seem larger than life. They give their all in absolutely everything they do, regardless of the task. They can say the cheesiest of lines with a straight face — the best of them can say things that are so cheesy they use the So Bad Its Good principle to become awesome. These characters are Hot Blooded (the Japanese term is nekketsu, literally "hot/passionate blood").

Using the power of guts and determination, they throw themselves headfirst into the worst situations imaginable and come out on top through sheer force of will. Even non-hot blooded characters can occasionally have their own hot blooded incidents; this is frequently their Crowning Moment Of Awesome.

Beware if they go into Tranquil Fury; someone's really managed to piss them off.

Primarily an anime trope. Especially common around Super Robots. A common trait of The Ace, and to a lesser degree Boisterous Bruiser. Compare with the Large Ham. If it's not pulled off just right, it results in Narm.

Many Hot Blooded characters, especially ones from anime in the seventies and eighties, can be easily identified by their Go Nagai Sideburns

Contact either Nobuyuki Hiyama or Tomokazu Seki, if you want epic characters of this type.

Examples

Anime
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann literally runs on Hot Blood- the mecha in the series are fueled by the pilot's "will to fight". Kamina in particular exemplifies the archetype.
    Who the hell do you think I am?!
  • Gao Gai Gar's Guy Shishio - who, similar to the Gurren-Lagann cast, makes the most of it by piloting a Humongous Mecha powered by his own courage. You could make a case for half the GGG, actually, but Guy does most of the fighting.
    • In fact, most people voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama have a tendency to fall into this trope, which also includes Ikkaku Madarame from Bleach, Harunobu Madarame from Genshiken, Viral from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Akutare/Axel from Disgaea 2. Even Link in The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (who was voiced by Hiyama for that game) was particularly hotblooded in his screams when being knocked down or attacking.
    • Even in GaoGaiGar, Guy's arguably just the crown prince of hot-blooded shouting. The real crown goes to Koutarou Taiga, GGG chief.
    • Even the AI's for the other robots in the series tend to be pretty hot-blooded, usually in the "red" half of the Red Oni Blue Oni pairings. Although the combined Forms of said pairings are always hot-blooded. Also Goldymarg, an AI so hot-blooded it leads this troper to wonder if they programmed him in ALL CAPS.
      • Canonically, his Super AI was based on Geki Hyuuma because they didn't have time to raise it.
      • "LET'S BREAK STUFF!"
  • Naruto and Might Guy from Naruto, In Shippuden, Guy actually uses a high-level technique to shoot fire from his fists.
    • And Rock Lee too. He's Guy's protege, so of course, he's like this also.
    • Kiba's also quite Hot Blooded - according to Naruto, even more so than he himself is.
    • Don't forget Kankuro, who is arguably the most hot-tempered Sand Sibling (unless Gaara's got his Shukaku on). And Chouji, though generally quite placid, has his moments.
  • Ash Ketchum from Pokemon, to the point of Flanderization (alongside Idiot Hero). He's gotten a bit more mature in recent years, but being Hot Blooded to the max comes naturally considering he's voiced by Mrs. Rica Matsumoto.
    • Some rivals of Ash are also pretty Hot Blooded, specially Gym Leader Chuck (Shijima) from Johto, Morrison (Murasame) from the Hoenn tournament and Chuck's disciple, Arena Tycoon Greta (Arena Captain Kogomi) from the Frontier Brains group. Greta was actually so Hot Blooded that when she and Ash faced it off, they often stared at each other and fire erupted in the background, with Brock and May lampshading the trope by commenting on how passionate and similar they were.
      • Canalave Gym Leader Byron (Tougan) is the newest one in the list of passionate Gym Leaders, and may be the most hot blooded of them all — he shares the same seiyuu as Franky of One Piece (the dub successfully matches this performance with Dan Green), and most of his scenes in the battle with Ash looked like they may have been inspired from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann!
  • Don Kanonji of Bleach.
    • And Isshin Kurosaki. Or his public persona, at least.
      • Keigo also fits this trope, since the dude lives his entire life in a colorful, energetic fast-forward. He does everything big and passionate!
  • Major Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist, resident Large Ham.
  • Sakigake!! Otokojuku parodies this sort of character.
  • Kazuma from s-CRY-ed.
  • Luffy from One Piece.
  • Every main hero in every Digimon series except for more mild-mannered-at-first Takato (who, like the rest of the third series, was a deliberate breaking of the mold. Goggles aside.)
  • The earliest anime/manga example is Mazinger Z, the series that created the Super Robot genre. Kouji Kabuto, is generally the character that all other Hot Blooded character's come from.
  • Getter Robo requires not one, not two, but three hotblooded pilots, and exposure to Getter Rays brings out the burning passion within oneself; even watching or reading Getter Robo can make someone Hot Blooded.
  • G Gundam does this to the point where it's arguably a parody. All of the main pilots are Hot Blooded including George De Sand, and he's the stereotypical French gentleman outside his Super Robot. Whenever Rain Mikamura suits up she becomes a Hot Blooded pilot, and she's the technician! In fact this series is so Hot Blooded that Fuunsaiki, Master Asia's horse, is Hot Blooded. Just look at its suit up sequence.
    • Of course, main character Domon Kasshu is the reigning king of this. (Gurren Laggan's Kamina and Nadesico's Gai deposed him temporarily, and would have kept the position if they had lived longer). He invokes the so hotblooded it's not corny rule with such ferocity that he takes it far beyond So Bad Its Good straight to So Bad Its Horrible and then rockets straight back up to fucking awesome when he uses the full power of his "Shining Finger" attack. The last episode tops it with a Refuge In Audacity Hot Blooded The Power Of Love attack. Of course since that would be too long a quote, let's just have a video of that scene and use a Shining Finger sword Quote:
      Domon: This hand of mine glows with an awesome power! Its burning grip tells me to defeat you! Take this! My love, my anger, and all of my sorrow! SHINING FINGER SWORD!
    • Domon's Daughter Kallen Kouzuki seems to have taken after her old man to quite a degree (being a Hot Blooded Determinator Ace Pilot who fights for justice, in a Real Robot show very much on the Cynical side of the Scale), proving that you don't have to be male in order to be GAR.
    • Many characters voiced by Tomokazu Seki, most notable is probably Domon and maybe Gai. He's probably voiced more Hot Blooded characters than almost any other voice actor. Only problem is, he's voiced so many characters and with such a wide range of personalities that it's impossible to associate him with just the Hot Blooded ones.
  • Graham Aker of Gundam 00 does a lot of yelling and screaming for a Real Robot pilot, as well as some of the others in his squad. Thankfully, though, he's one of those characters who is hot-blooded AND has the experience, competence and sheer awesomeness to back it up. Some of his burning moments include screaming fallen comrades' names and vowing revenge, and in one instance, he sorties alone to fight a Gundam attack, and yells something about surpassing the Asura while slicing off the Gundam's arm (the first time a 'regular' mobile suit did harm to a Gundam in that series). Did we mention that he has no fear of having his body turned into pulp by G-Forces? Yes, Graham is hot-blooded AND awesome.
    • Also, let's not forget "HOOOOWARD MAAAAASON"!
    • And "GUNDAM!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!"
    • The aforementioned take-off to singelhandedly fight three Gundams on his own is accompanied by a nearly trope naming worthy 'I shall overcome reasoning with my recklessness!!!!' And hell, he does.
  • Sagara Sanosuke, Sagara's father, and Myoujin Yahiko from Rurouni Kenshin. Also Makoto Shishio, literally, who is so Hot Blooded that he dies when his blood overheats and he spontaneously combusts.
  • Subaru of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, who's a massive Shout Out to Gao Gai Gar and Super Robots in general.
  • Parodied by Meito Anisawa (pictured above), AKA Anime Tenchou, the Mascot of anime outlet Animate and frequent special guest on Lucky Star: So Hot Blooded he sets fire to bystanders and has to be put out by a fire hose. He's sort of a parody of Domon Kasshu, who was voiced by the same actor as Anisawa.
    • The rest of the Animate staff are almost at his level, including a rookie introduced later in the series. It seems to be part of standard staff training at Animate.
  • Hot blood (or the use of Psycho Serum) powers the Lambda Driver in Full Metal Panic!. Pilots who can be relied upon to use it without fail — mainly the villains — often have this kind of attitude.
    • Sousuke doesn't normally do this trope (being an absolute stoic most of the time), but he does have one brief, distilled moment in Fumoffu of Hot Blooded-ness for the sake of a pre-rugby match Rousing Speech (starting at 5:35), at which point he might as well change his name to Domon Kasshu (Same voice actor again, by the way).
      Sousuke: DO WE LOVE OUR HIGH SCHOOL!? DO WE LOVE OUR RUGBY CLUB!?!? THEN LET'S GO!
  • Gai Daigouji of Martian Successor Nadesico. Poor bastard seemed to think he was in a Super Robot show...
    • That show being Gekiganger 3, whose little-seen full title actually includes the term "nekketsu", as does the title of the Short Anime Movie, and a few of the special move names (Nekketsu-giri, the "Hot-blood Slash")... But surprisingly, it doesn't go nearly as far as some of the real examples.
    • Ryouko Subaru from the same anime is a lot more savvy and competent, but loves performing the archetypal Hot Blooded battle cry "Ora ora ora ora!" when charging the enemy.
  • Princess Amelia wil Tesla Seyrun of The Slayers - adrenalin-charged Warrioress of Justice! Who fought bandits and monsters and made vigorous proclamation speeches of the In the Name of the Moon style and was all fired up to Defeat Evil! Save the Helpless! and Speak In Capital Letters With Exclamation Points! And her father, Prince Phil of Seyrunn, was much the same. *shudder*
  • Rosette Christopher from Chrono Crusade, particularly the manga. A hyper, hot-tempered, tomboyish nun who fights demons using bullets charged with holy power, and often gets so into her battles that she causes massive property damage.
  • Ryohei Sasagawa from Katekyo Hitman Reborn runs on Hot Blood - TO THE EXTREME. Reborn and Tsuna were surprised when the "Dying Will Shot" did nothing to him except give him the cool "burning flame" on his forehead - apparently, he lives his normal life doing things as if he were to die.
  • For a mere school teacher Great Teacher Onizuka is quite Hot Blooded. Let's just say he always goes the extra mile; If you're got a problem, he'll tear your wall down with a sledgehammer. Guaranteed.
  • Obviously, the Navis belonging to Hino Ken of Rockman EXE, but Fireman takes the prize for the line, "There's nothing I can't burn... no, there's nothing we can't burn!" Dubbed by Sho Pro into an extremely generic teamwork speech, which is why the example isn't cited under Mega Man NT Warrior.
  • Taishi from Comic Party. Did you know manga is Serious Business? If not, then you don't know Taishi, a grandiose drama king who treats everything as a matter of life or death.
    • Not to mention Yuu Inagawa, who gives a rousing speech about "Burning Passion" and "Passionate Love", which culminates in a vast inferno starting up behind her. She was trying to motivate a friend to... be more passionate about doujinshi.
    • And Subaru, who honestly seems to think her life is a shounen manga (and that she's the star).
  • Shizuma Kusanagi from Real Bout High School, a pompous showboat with explosive moves and the only one who can hold a candle to The Hero, Ryoko Mitsurugi.
  • As History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi receives Training From Hell he also becomes distinctly more Hot Blooded.
  • Fist Of The North Star has a number of hot-blooded characters, but, curiously, the main character isn't one of them. Raoh seems to go from Aloof Big Brother to Hot Blooded Badass at the drop of a hat, in particular when he's confronted with a Worthy Opponent. In fact, his death was so hot-blooded that he burned away the constantly overcast clouds while sending his own soul to Heaven, lifting a good amount of depression from the Crapsack World on his way to, presumably, go kick God's ass.
  • As the characters of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni realise The Power Of Friendship is the only way to Screw Destiny they all become distinctly Hot Blooded, in fact Keiichi generally shows a lot of Hot Blooded behaviour, if he's not going Psycho of course.
  • Takashi Kawamura from The Prince Of Tennis looks meek and gentle and even a bit of a doormat, but if you give him a racket, he wakes up to his hidden Hot Blooded side and literally nothing can stop him. BUUUUUURRRRRRNIIIIIIINNNNNGGG, indeed. His kouhai Takeshi Momoshiro (who also is a power player, like Kawamura) and local Genki Girl cheerleader Tomoka Osakada are also Hot Blooded, but not to the crazy awesome level of Kawamura (still).
    • For the rival teams there's Ryoh Shishido of Hyoutei, who subjected himself to ridiculously harsh training to earn back his spot on the team. He loses his temper often, and is vocal about it, he this same passion can also bring up morale on his team.
  • I'm a basketball genius... My name is SAKURAGI HANAMICHIIIII!!!
  • Prussia is a crazier and slightly evil version of this. "Mission complete! Praise me! Hail me! On your knees!"
  • INUYASHA. I can't believe Yamaguchi Kappei doesn't lose a lung every time the guy opens his mouth.
    • He's had practice with Ranma.
  • Yankumi in Gokusen is another example, although many other characters also qualify.
  • Keroberos of Card Captor Sakura counts a great deal of the time. Especially when he's demanding food, eating food, freaking out over the latest mishap, or protecting Sakura.
  • Haruhi Suzumiya approaches this on occasion, mainly when she's accepting a challenge (like in "The Day Of Sagittarius"). But hey, maybe it's just megalomania!
  • One of BoBoBo's secret techniques is the "Romanticized Heat Flame Macho Men", where the enemy's soul is burned by the heroes's sheer HotBloodedness. They're so Hot Blooded that they defeat death and eventually destroy the sun. Then the macho men went home on the train.
  • Manga artist Kazuhiko Shimamoto loves hot-bloodedness to the point that it's something of a trademark for him (and often parodied). His many works include Blazing Transfer Student (about hot-blooded high school fighting), Gyakkyou Nine (hot-blooded baseball) and Moeyo Pen (hot-blooded manga writing), and he was the designer of such characters as Meito Anisawa, the entire cast of G Gundam and Hayato Nekketsu from Rival Schools.
    • Here he is singing the opening to one of his own series, Blazing Transfer Student [1]. You can feel the hot-blooded passion. Set to a video of G Gundam, naturally.
  • Nora isn't hot-blooded; hot-blooded characters are merely infected with the Nora Plague.
  • Jack Rakan from Mahou Sensei Negima is hot-blooded to the point of utter absurdity. And any problem can be solved by summoning a big enough sword.
    • While he's not as hot-blooded as Rakan, Ricardo also requires mention, being a hot-blooded senator of a major country. The two used to be drinking buddies before Ricardo started doing the politician thing.
  • You can make an argument for Neon Genesis Evangelion's Shinji Ikari''... but only if you get him pissed off enough, and don't catch him in a major emo moment. Just watch him in the Shamshel and Zeruel battles.
  • Tsubaki Sadamitsu from the little-known manga/anime Hakaima Sadamitsu eats, drinks and breathes this trope. In fact, the entire anime is an over-the-top Affectionate Parody of Hot Blooded Mecha Shows.
  • In some ways Vinland Saga is a deconstruction of the hot blooded Shonen hero. Nearly every character is a Screaming Warrior, and Bad Ass to boot, but it's the cool headed ones that are the truly dangerous fighters.
  • Ken of Yakitate Japan is both figuratively and literally Hot Blooded: not only is he filled with passion, but he also built up his arm muscles so that the increased circulation would warm his hands, creating an effect similar to Solar Hands.
  • Kogoro of Keroro Gunsou is so passionate, he wastes three thousand calories just picking up a ten yen coin. If it wasn't for his incredible stupidity, he might actually accomplish something.
  • Its taken this long to mention Gunbuster and its little cousin Diebuster?
  • Kaoru of Zettai Karen Children, full stop. Not only is she lecherous, ridiculously over the top in her day to day life, but she calls her attacks when it's completely unnecessary as her powers are psychic in nature. Minamoto also does this whenever he releases the girls' psychic limiters for no other reason than adhering to the Rule Of Cool.
  • From what this troper has seen, Daiya from Gaiking broke the record for youngest hotblooded mecha pilot at 14 years old. Please also note this was the kid who lifts CITIES with his hotbloodedness.
  • Judai Yuki of Yu Gi Oh GX falls under this trope. More than once in the series, Judai actually tries to use his brains for playing...and loses horribly as a consequence! But god help those who face him when he plays with his heart!
  • Fairy Tail. Pretty much the entire guild, but particularly Natsu.
  • Akio Furukawa of CLANNAD, beyond a doubt. All he needs is a mecha.
  • Sengoku Basara's Date Masamune, for starters... but Hot Blooded though he is, Masamune still manages to be the Blue Oni to Sanada Genjiro Yukimura's Red Oni because Yukimura is that much more Hot Blooded. Yukimura and his boss Takeda Shingen - but especially Yukimura - are both so Hot Blooded that they set things on fire.

Comic Books

Fan Fiction
  • Shinji and Warhammer 40k manages to turn Shinji Ikari into someone who, when first got into Eva 01, rather than letting the killing machine go berserk, used it to try and kick the angel in the balls; and in his childhood, beat the crap out of three teenagers. That's the prologue and chapter one.
    • "Cast in the shape of man! Made to fight humanities' enemies! You shall carry our will unto eternity! I NAME YOU! EVANGELION! I NAME YOU; TITANICUS! PRINCIPIO ETERNUS!"

Film

Literature
  • Fëanor ("Spirit of Fire") in The Silmarillion, whose body cremated itself when he died.
  • A villainous example: Couladin from the Wheel Of Time, in the The Shadow Rising you only see him calm in only a few paragraphs and those are always followed by him raging against something.
  • Don Quixote was pretty Hot Blooded too; he even gave speeches extolling giving it your all and never giving up, and doing this through force of arms, making this Older Than Steam.
  • Miles Vorkosigan can be like this, especially as his alter ego Admiral Naismith.
    • Forward momentum!
  • King Robert Baratheon from A Song Of Ice And Fire should qualify for this as well, especially in his youth.
  • Richard Rahl of the Sword Of Truth series.

Live Action TV
  • Common in Professional Wrestling; the two most famous examples are Hulk Hogan, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. The Ultimate Warrior was so hot blooded that he came off as insane. Listen to one of the Warrior's interviews where he would rant and rave about crap no one (including the people working for WWF could understand.
    • It should be noted that the real life wrestler Warrior once went to a UConn seminar, and basically screamed lines like "Queering don't make the world work", and causing a near riot through his Hot Blooded insanity.
    • He also, within two days of Heath Ledger's death was referring to him in public as 'Leather Hedger', although what he meant by that is, as always, anybody's guess.
  • Every Red Ranger in Super Sentai. (Dekaranger's Ban takes it up to eleven, to the point that you wonder how - or if - he even sleeps.) Power Rangers is different, preferring the Ordinary High School Student.
  • 24's Jack Bauer would like to remind you that he's A FEDERAL AGENT!
    • And that he wants everything done... NOW!
    • ...because he is RUNNING OUT OF TIME!!!
    • DAMMIT!!!
  • The Practice ran on this trope. Bobby Donnell and Eugene Young were the front-runners, but most of the others did not run far behind. It was a rare courtroom scene that didn't contain one of them screaming at a witness... or the prosecutor... or the judge.
  • The Tenth Doctor. Sweet mother of TARDIS, the Tenth Doctor. He's like the literal embodiment of this trope.
    • But not Six? NOT SIX?!?
  • Friends The Geller siblings. Ross turns into "Red Ross". His hot bloodedness becomes more apparent when Rachel challenges him to poker.
  • Heroes Peter Petrelli pulls out his powers when he’s pissed off.

Music
  • JAM Project. For more details, see Crowning Music Of Awesome.
    • This troper was about to quote some lyrics. Then he realized there were too many possibilities to quote. Rocks is an excellent candidate for best, though.
    • The whole FIREEEEEEE BOMBEEEEEER association helps, too.
    • Honestly, just because JAM Project is made of veteran musicians, everyone in it has at least one (and more often several) amazing solo under their belt. Kageyama Hironobu's Cha La Head Cha La, Masaaki Endoh's Yuusha-Oh Tanjou, Fukuyama Yoshiki's Makka na Chikai... just for starters.
  • When you combine the awesomeness of Iron Maiden with the unabashed ridiculousness of Dragon Force, the result is Cryonic Temple, a band whose songwriting seems to rely solely on super-concentrated Hot Blood. Take, for example, the song Eternal Flames of Metal; it is Exactly What It Says On The Tin, an ode to metal in the most cheesy style imaginable. Similarly, Strapping Young Lad qualifies with some of its songs, most notably Far Beyond Metal.
    • This Troper sees Hot Bloodedness as one of the defining marks of all Power Metal.
  • Nihon Break Kogyou: Sounds like a Super Robot theme song... but it's actually the official song for a Japanese demolition company.
  • What, no mention of the Foreigner song that shares its name with this trope?
    • Check it and see. He has a fever of 103.
  • Surprisingly for a power metal band, Blind Guardian doesn't seem to have that many of these. However, one song that definitely qualifies is "The Curse of Fëanor" - not exactly surprising, given that it's from the point of view of Fëanor.
  • Power metal band Lost Horizon are among the most Hot Blooded of a genre known for Hot Blooded bands, with a male singer, Daniel Heiman, whose Metal Scream is so extreme that he can hit soprano notes in full voice, band photos showing the band members dressed up as barbarian warriors, and lyrics largely about egoistic Hot Bloodedness and heavy metal. It's so gloriously cheesy that it's awesome. For the ultimate expression, see "Sworn in the Metal Wind".

Mythology
  • Hercules (or more accurately Heracles, since that's what the Greeks called him) was one of the very first examples, making this trope Older Than Dirt. He was known for his violent temper and his tendency to act first and ask questions later, starting with maiming some messengers from another city that had come to take tribute from his hometown, leading the king of that other city to declare war. Heracles responded by raising an army of his own and conquering the city, making them pay tribute instead. Heracles could also take a horrible vengeance on people who crossed him, although in many cases they had it coming, like the three separate kings who had all cheated or insulted him in different ways. On the positive side, this passionate nature did lead him to do some great deeds for his friends, like the time he was so grateful to a friend's hospitality he fought the Grim Reaper to bring his host's wife back to life, or the time he got so mad that another friend (a king) was deposed that he personally led an army to put his buddy back on the throne.
  • From The Bible, Judge Samson was a Hot Blooded Worlds Strongest Man who killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. After a deadly Humiliation Conga that involved a certain seductress, Rape Of The Lock and Eye Scream, took down hundreds more with him by breaking the pillars of a temple. Epic.
  • Four words: Thor: God of Thunder.
  • Inanna from Mesopotamian mythology. Aside her devastating prowess in battle as a war goddess, ignoring the fact she would ride into town on the back of a lion, she was also known for physically dragging men out of taverns to sate her, erm, appetites.

Tabletop Games
  • The Vior'la Sept of Warhammer 40000. Their name even translates into Hot Blooded.
  • The Dungeons And Dragons supplement, the Tome of Battle, introduced a martial manoeuvre (functionally like a spell for a swordsman) called Iron Heart Surge. The fluff description of it is as follows: By drawing on your mental strength and physical fortitude, you break free of a debilitating state that might otherwise defeat you. For instance, if the character is paralysed due to the spell Hold Person, Iron Heart Surge allows the affected character to use their sheer hot-bloodedness to eliminate the spell's effect. Needless to say, some players should make use of the famous line of the hot-blooded god if using the manoeuvre at a dramatically-appropriate moment.

Theater
  • Hotspur from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1.
  • Ditto, Coriolanus from Shakespeare's Coriolanus. He is the badass who runs into a city without backup and comes out a) alive and b) victorious. And that's just the first couple of acts.
  • And although Hamlet is pretending to be mad and ineffectual, he truly seethes with the desire for vengeance: ''"Now could I drink hot blood,/And do such bitter business as the day/Would quake to look on."
  • Siegfried in Wagner's Siegfried.

Video Games
  • Perhaps the strongest force in the Super Robot Wars series, rivaled only by the Ideon Gun. In fact, one of the most useful special skills in the series is the "Valor" skill (Doubles the strength of your next attack), which in the original Japanese was called, you guessed it, "Nekketsu" (Hot Blood). In fact, damn near every character in the Original Generation games uses it, even the shy ones.
    • Not just Original Generation; a good number of the licensed anime characters get Valor/Hot Blood, including the primary cast of Gundam Wing, which consists of two Stoics, one Broken Hero, an Arrogant Kung Fu Guy, and The Cutie, plus a White Prince.
    • Original Generations, which adds voice acting to the games, shows that the Gespenst Mk II S turns everybody Hot-Blooded with it's signature Limit Break, the Gespenst Kick. Seriously. Not only does it have the shy girls screaming their lungs out, but the characters who are already Hot-Blooded turn that sucker up to twenty-two.
    • Super Robot Wars also quantifies this in the form of the "Will" stat. It starts each battle at 100 and can rise to 150 based on the tides of battle. It affects combat ability a little, and certain weapons and effects can only be used over a certain Will value.
      • It affects combat damage a lot - it's the percentage of base damage a weapon will deal. Now, certain events (like some Gaogaigar events) will boost this up to 200, before any spirit commands...
    • Let's not forget Katina Tarask. With Attacker, Revenge (both of which increase her attack/retaliation damage once her Will level exceeds 130 - see above) and Prevail (which makes her fight better - dealing more damage, taking less, and evading more - as her mech sustains more and more damage) and the aforementioned Valor skill, she can deal out some serious hurt, usually yelling all the time (although not as much as Sanger), even when attacking carriers. "Reckless" barely describes her.
      • I SAID, GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!
    • However, the crowning glory of the Super Robot Wars series for Hot Blooded characters is Sanger Zonvolt. The series self-styled (but highly deserving of it) Sword That Smites Evil, Sanger takes on all comers and owns them all. Always wielding some form of his Colossal Blade, a gigantic mecha sword that is sometimes THREE TIMES AS LARGE as his mecha, his sword is one that can cut through anything. Also armed with his many idioms and sayings, which he yells right before slicing his poor enemy in half.
      • I AM SANGER ZONVOLT! THE SWORD THAT SMITES EVIL!
  • Laharl, and Flonne from Disgaea, and Adell from Disagea 2. And then there's Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!, who is guaranteed to give it his exclamation-point abusing all no matter what it is. Including picnicking.
    • Disgaea 3 gives us Champloo-sensei, the most Badass, Hot Blooded Home Ec teacher you will ever find. Yeah, Disgaea's one of those kinds of games.
    • Some are of the opinion that Disgaea 2 protagonist Adell is a textbook example of why this trope can be seriously obnoxious if not pulled off right.
  • Batsu Ichimonji from Rival Schools is described in the manual as the "Hot-Blooded Exchange Student". Furthermore, his Super Mode form in Project Justice is called "Burning Batsu" and all his special and super moves in that form set the opponent on fire!
  • Kim Kaphwan and his son Kim Jae Hoon from The King Of Fighters series.
    • There`s also Joe Higashi, who seems to have an exclamation point at the end of everything he says.
    • Don't forget the bandana-wearing commando Ralf Jones, also of Ikari Warriors and Metal Slug fame. When he gets in motion (which is practically all the time), people get beat down. Sometimes explosively.
  • Michael Wilson from Metal Wolf Chaos, president of the great United States of America, yeah!
    • More specifically: "Nothing is POINTLESS!. And the reason is.....because I'm the President.... of THE GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! YEEAAAHHHH!"
    HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW!?!
  • Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice, Ace Attorneys, are as close as you're ever going to see to hot-blooded lawyers, though they tend to be a bit calmer and quieter outside of the courtroom.
    • Note that Apollo Justice takes VOICE TRAINING so he can be this hot-blooded.
    • OBJECTION!
  • If you're in trouble... if there's not enough hotbloodedness... maybe you need to call... OUENDAAAAAN!
    • Or... e... b... a... e.. b.. a.. e. b. a. e.b.a. E.B.A. EBA! EBA! EBA! EBA! ARE YOU READY? YEAH!
  • Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun - He has "Hot Blooded" right there in his series title!
    • Hell, his whole damn high school is named "Nekketsu". That's one bad-ass high school. Somehow, this troper feels his educational years have been horribly wasted by not attending that particular school.
      • And Kunio/Alex himself is the hero of the entire freaking school, being summoned whenever a crisis emerges or a sports challenge comes up. Did I mention his girlfriend can kick ass when she feels like it? If that ain't awesome and totally bad-ass, this troper doesn't know what is. Kunio/Alex isn't as known and respected as he should be, in video games...
  • Street Fighter's Dan Hibiki. DOUSHITA!?
    • OYAJII!!!!
  • Nearly all of the fire bosses in the Mega Man Zero and ZX series are pretty Hot Blooded, including the fire master, Fefnir. Oddly, near the top of the Hot Blooded ranking for all six games is an ice boss, Fenri Lunedge from Zero 4. His attitude to Zero, and more importantly his voice clips, put him probably right under Fefnir himself.
  • Tales. Stahn Aileron. That is all. The boy can be hot-blooded when commanding his allies to flee.
    • Not to mention his battle cry in Satsugeki Bukouken/Final Fury. ORENENENENENENENENENENE!!!!!! Hot Blood, to the max.
    • Surprising considering his personality but not surprising at all considering his voice actor is Tomokazu Seki, one of the king of Hot Bloodiness.
  • Zell in Final Fantasy VIII, and he never sits still. Put him anywhere near Genki Girl Selphie and you'll be wishing for Ritalin.
    • Forget the Ritalin, get me a sedative!
  • Zack of Final Fantasy VII is a prime example of this trope, depressingly.
    • Which is highlighted even further by contrast against the dark and dreary nature of the world the game takes place in, and the general angst of other characters in the game world (especially in the expanded games and movie).
  • My Boiling Blood Bubbles For Battle
  • Riki Makishi in Bangai-O. Then again, he is native of a planet populated by hot blooded men.
    • Everyone in Bangai-O Spirits, the lighthearted, plot-free DS spinoff, in different ways. Ruri is more enthusiastic, especially when the time comes to shout "Bangai-O GO!", while Masato thinks the whole thing is stupid. On the other hand, he's very confident, reckless, always ready to get to the mission already.
  • Beat. Period. Especially when someone touches his Sis or mentions his full name...
  • Minsc from Baldur's Gate.
  • The new Willpower power set in City Of Heroes allows for characters that have no super reflexes or resistance, but can remain up and fighting with the super-powered through sheer force of will. If that's not Hot Blooded, I don't know what is.
  • In Dragon Quest Monsters, the monsters' ideal personality (which affects their AI) is Hotblood.
  • Vyse and Aika in Skies Of Arcadia, among many others.

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Western Animation
  • The Teen Titans incarnation of Robin.
    • If he counts, then Cyborg definitely qualifies. He's a bit on the bi-polar side, but when he's "revved up," he makes Robin look like a Blue Oni by comparison. BOO-YAH!!
    • Although both characters have been known to slip into Tranquil Fury when channeling Batman/their robotic side during an especially intense or personal situation.
  • Quickstrike of Transformers: Beast Wars fame. Even though he's a Scrappy of the highest caliber, no one can deny that he throws himself into everything he does. Of course, he could just enjoy it.
  • The Tick, with his absurdly Hot Blooded delivery:
    The Tick: I am mighty! I have a glow you cannot see! I have a heart as big as the moon! As warm as bathwater! We are superheroes, man, we don't have time to be charming! The boots of evil were made for walkin'! We're watching the big picture, friend. We know the score. We are a public service, not glamor boys. Not captains of industry! Not makers of things, keep your vulgar moneys! We are a justice sandwich; no toppings necessary! Living rooms of America, do you catch my drift?! Do... You... Dig?
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