Hot Blooded - Television Tropes & Idioms

Vegeta from Dragon Ball is such this trope, that it really can just be called "The Vegeta." He is almost nothing but pure anger, pride and bloodlust. In fact, this seems to be the main attribute of the Saiyan Race in general, which Goku being the exception to the rule.
- Of course, Goku's still a Determinator, which is bad news for his opponents.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann literally runs on Hot Blood- the mecha in the series are fueled by the pilot's "will to fight".
Who the HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!
Banjo Haran from 'Daitarn3' contains this in dangerous quantities. He even tells the ghost of his dad to piss off, cause he don't need his help to win!
Gao Gai Gar's Guy Shishio 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.
- It should probably be noted that Guy's name can be translated as"Triumphant King Lion."
- 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 AIs 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 you 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.
  - Pretty much whenever Kiba's name is posted on this site, it is a link back to this page.
Ash Ketchum from Pokemon, almost 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 (Masamune) 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!
- Crossing into the manga, we have our share of hot blood pumping around. Gold and Pearl in particular demonstrate this quality in spades.
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!
  - Keigo is done by Katsuyuki FREAKING Konishi! Of course he's Hot Blooded. WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK KEIGO IS?!
- Renji, anyone?
- Villains ain't immune to it either, Grimmjow is about as hot blooded as they come.
Major Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist, resident Large Ham, whose hot-bloodedness has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations.
Sakigake!! Otokojuku parodies this sort of character.
Kazuma from s-CRY-ed.
Luffy from One Piece.
- Sanji too. He burns with the passion of love! (literally) In fact, his blood burns so hot that it's the reason he can avoid injury from setting his own leg on fire.
  - And Zoro as a kid, before...stuff happened.
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.)
- Of particular notice is Daimon Masaru, from Digimon Savers, whose force of will grants him the ability to punch out everything from giant chickens to god itself.
  - Hotblooded, his fists glow with an awesome power, and it grows as he delivers his love, his anger, and all of his sorrow. Sound familiar?
- This was highly parodied in a one off comic from the manga V-Tamer, where The Hero, Taichi, faces off against Canon Immigrant Ryo, who had crossed over just for that special. A Digimon sent by V-Tamer's resident Big Bad tries to stop them, but due to being an icy Digimon, the literal hot bloodedness caused by Taichi and Ryo's meeting causes the monster to overheat.
- Also of note in Digimon Adventure 02 is that, well, Daisuke has what looks to be the start of what could become some truly epic Go Nagai Sideburns and let's not forget his Digimon shoots off a Stoner Sunshine in movie 4.
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 characters come from.
- Go Nagai in fact loves Hot Blooded characters. Even his Magical Girl Cutey Honey is Hot Blooded. Go Nagai characters border on the line of Hot Blood Overdose, which may lead to such noticeable side effects as sketchy art style, crazy eyes, and lots of breaking of the laws of physics.
- Shin Mazinger has plenty of Hot Blood of course, being a Mazinger show. But of particular note is the show's Narrator, who somehow outdoes the actual pilot's efforts. "ZEEEEEEEEEETTO"
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!
  - It's also treated somewhat more realistically, since his Hot Blooded self is one of his biggest character flaws: the fact that he is constantly acting on his over-the-top emotions makes it very easy to manipulate him and lure him into traps.
  - And very often, he ends up tearsin through these traps out of pure hot blood and willpower.
- 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.
- By now, you, dear viewer, are probably thinking that this is a heroic trope alone. So when you hear about the Japanese pseudo-Mummy by the name of Shishio Makoto, you think he's the Bad Ass protagonist of a shonen manga. You got the Bad Ass part right, but as for the hero part...not so much.
  - Shishio is actually 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.
Jouji Gouda from Akane Maniax who is pretty similar to the above
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 Genre 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.
- Or how about Squalo? VOOOOOIIIIIIII indeed.
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.
- And that was just the first story arc. Later in the series, he's driving motorcycles off highway overpasses and coming back from the dead to teach life lessons.
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.
- His masters Appachai and Sakaki were like this to begin with.
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.
- If you listen to Satoshi's image song, you notice how surprisingly hot blooded he is. He equals Keiichi.
  - Well, Satoshi acted similar to Keiichi in Onikakushi-hen according to Rena meaning they can't be too different.
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... yet.
- 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.
- Akaya Kirihara from Rikkaidai counts as this, until his Blood Knight side arises.
- Akira Kamio from Fudomine as well. He'll do it WITH RHYTHM~
- And what about Kintarou "Kin-chan" Tooyama, huh?
I'm a basketball genius... My name is SAKURAGI HANAMICHIIIII!!!
Prussia from Axis Powers Hetalia is a crazier and slightly evil version of this. "Mission complete! Praise me! Hail me! On your knees!"
INUYASHA. I can't believe Kappei Yamaguchi doesn't lose a lung every time the guy opens his mouth.
- He's had practice with Ranma.
  - And also, of course, if he isn't playing L
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.
- He's more of a Shrinking Violet who happens to have his Berserk Button / Beware The Nice Ones moments.
- Perhaps a more straightfoward example would be Asuka, who combines this with The Gadfly, the Jerk Ass, and arguably The Pesci.
- Misato is a more milder case.
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. 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.
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.
Jounouchi of Yu Gi Oh has quite a few Berserk Buttons.
- What, Bakura doesn't get a mention? From Battle City onwards he's voiced by Matsumoto Rica, which practically earns him an entry on this page automatically. And he manages to take and run with the 'Ore-sama' pronoun and make it sound good. Most characters are lucky to get away with it once or twice. In season five when he takes on his Thief King persona again he becomes particularly hotblooded.
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.
- OYAKATASAMA!! YUKIMURA!!
They Are My Noble Masters is a show about... butlers. Doesn't sound like a subject to inspire hot-bloodedness, right? One is voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama. Another, who is also the main character, is voiced by Tomokazu Seki. A third, the main character's tough-as-nails ex-mercenary mentor, has the voice of Master Asia. Your head may now asplode.
- No, no, not until you actually get to see the end result. Your sceduled head-explody may now re-commence.
The main character of the upcoming TAILENDERS is a race car driver so hot-blooded that his heart is the engine running the machine. As in, literally, a race car engine. Now that's what I call Hot Blooded.
Oboro in Utawarerumono is like this, and even has his base element as fire. The rest of the cast does not approve, because despite his best intentions he tends to slide into another trope if left to his own devices. By the end of the story, he's become mature enough to realize how immature he is and leaves the empire in the control of Benawi while he takes Yuzuha's baby to see the world.
Escaflowne's Van Fanel seems a little too quiet for this trope at first (despite being voiced by Tomokazu Seki), but then you put the boy in a mech and throw him into battle and◊...Yeah.
Yu Yu Hakusho is filled with hot blooded characters. Yusuke (mostly if you threaten his friends) and Kuwabara (if you threaten Yukina, he will beat you up) are two of the most prominent, but Hiei and Kurama (though he's more of a Beware The Nice Ones kind of guy) have their moments too.
Kenji Harima from School Rumble. Attempting to list all of the hotblooded things he does is a futile effort, but his CMOA of hotblooded-ness was probably when he fought with Karasuma at the end of the series. Heck, he handcuffed them together just so that it'd be easier for the two of them to beat each other up.
- Don't forget Haruki Hanai!
Black Star from Soul Eater lives on this trope, brandishing it at almost every opportunity he gets.
Jin, the main character in Zettai Muteki Raijin Oh is so hot blooded that one of his image songs is all about the phrase. The song is called Hot Blooded! Hot Blooded! Men are Hot Blooded!
Nekki Basara from Macross 7 is Super Robot-levels of Hot Blood channeled into a singer.
The Bakunetsu Bancho from Kongou Banchou is exactly this. Repeatedly screams that "Men who aren't hot-blooded should die!", as seen here.◊
- Appropriately, his hair seems to be on fire.

Elf Quest: Rayek and Kahvi. Their daughter should have been a thermonuclear bomb, but she turns out to be a serene mystic. Go figure...
X-Men: Most of the more fervent anti-mutant detractors end up coming across like this, but for a heroic example, see Sunspot and Cannonball of the New Mutants. Of course, one's a solar-powered superstrong and the other can smash into things with a blasting field...So Yeah.
- And Sunfire, who is so hot-blooded he's literally on fire.
- During Stan Lee's days of Purple Prose, all characters perpetually flipflopped between Hot Blooded and Navel Gazing. No one just said anything, they either shouted or mused. But it's all good.
The Doom Guy has more hotblood pumping through his veins than every anime character combined.
Guy Gardner of the Green Lantern Corps, with a heaping dash of Boisterous Bruiser.
Empowered is usually a neurotic mess, but when she can actually pull herself together, she qualifies nicely for this. Her friend Ninjette is like this most of the time, to Emp's ongoing frustration.
Everything in Warrior the comic by the Ultimate Warrior, even the narration is Hot Blooded.
The angrier Hulk gets, the STRONGER Hulk gets!

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!"

The Spartans from 300.
- Also, most of the Persians who have speaking parts in 300. Also, since the narrator is a Spartan, even the narration is Hot-Blooded.
Speed Racer. All of it.
It is readily arguable that most Arnold Schwarzenegger characters qualify...except for the Terminator, who is extremely calm and collected even when he is kicking ass.
Sonny Corleone from The Godfather.

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.
Harry Dresden.
Prince Aljan, the unicorn protaganist from Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer trilogy.

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.
- We shall not forget the absolute insanity that was the "Macho Man" Randy Savage.
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.) Reds are powered by screaming, and going in without a plan because "justice is on our side!" is sometimes a deeply-held philosophy, with the point of an episode or two being Red proving to a more serious character that you don't need to waste time thinking, you just charge in. When the screaming begins, you know the Foe Tossing Charge is coming! (Power Rangers is different, preferring the Ordinary High School Student.)
- Speaking of the Dekarangers, the whole team was so hot blooded that fire attacks had no effect on them. "Our hearts burn even hotter!"
- Don't you mean only some of the Red Rangers?
- Well, yes, some of them. Red Racer for the win!
- Exceptions do exist, but the overwhelming majority of them are this character type.
- Also, although Power Rangers tends to use Ordinary High School Students, it tends to use hot blooded ordinary high school students. And if they're not hot blooded in civilian form, they get it when they morph, to match the Super Sentai footage.
  - Power Rangers Reds don't take it to the same level. They're also more often the formal team leader, meaning Standardized Leader qualities must dilute the hotblood. They're more likely to tell the others that they do need to use their heads.
  - Jason of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is probably a good example of a Hot Blooded Red Ranger. Most of his morphed dialogue is shouted.
Not much in Kamen Rider, but some of them are veritably Hot Blooded. Especially Kuuga and Den-O in Sword Form.
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?!?
- Or Ten's version of the Master? ("Never! Never! Never dying! NEVER DYING! NEVER DYING!)
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.

Joe, in The Protomen: Act 2- he even lampshades it.

"I've got this burning, like my veins are filled with nothing but gasoline..."

JAM Project. For more details, see Crowning Music Of Awesome.
- 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.
  - Endoh gets bonus points for being able to yell to put every seiyuu to shame: he calls several attacks in Mazin Kenzan! and Yuusha-Oh Tanjou! and the results are epic.
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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.
Nihon Break Kogyou: Sounds like a Super Robot theme song... but it's actually the official song for a Japanese demolition company.
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."
In the late 80's, Pantera's fourth album, Power Metal, changed from generic glam metal to Hot Blooded speed/thrash metal. Throughout the 90's all the way to 2003, Pantera practically thrived on a combination of Hot Blooded and Testosterone Poisoning.
The Disturbed song "Indestructable" seems to be about some Hot Blooded character.
Most songs by Dream Evil are ultimately about kicking ass.
Tenacious D, full stop.
- "That's me! AAAANDDDD KG!" "That's me!"
Holding Out For A Hero by Bonnie Tyler is a song that can make any chase sequence a Crowning Moment Of Awesome.

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.
- Cuchulain, Champion of Ireland, and Gwydion, also from Irish Celtic mythology.
  - Literally so in the case of Cuchulainn. After his first battle, no one could approach the warrior as he was still in his Unstoppable Rage, until a group of (naked!) women womenhandled him into three large pots of cold water. The first exploded in a cloud of steam and pot shrapnel, the second boiled furiously, and the third merely got very hot. Why the Irishmen did not exploit this apparent energy source is a mystery.
  - In a word: whiskey.
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.
- "Hundreds"? Try thousands. "The dead he slew dying exceeded those he had slain living" (Judges 16:30). Who knew that The Bible could take Bad Ass Beyond The Impossible?
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.

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.
- Some Chaotic Good characters, particuarlly fighters and Barbarians, will come off like this.
The Apoc Churls of Untold have this as their hat. Some have been known to spew lava out of their mouths when angered.

Tim Tebow, the Florida Gators quarterback tends to get excited when on the Gators sideline and in the locker room. Hell, even when he's low key, he can give a hot blooded speech!
"I'm sorry. I'm extremely sorry. We were hoping for an undefeated season. That was my goal, something Florida's never done here. But I promise you one thing: a lot of good will come out of this. You have never seen any player in the entire country play as hard as I will play the rest of this season and you'll never see someone push the rest of the team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of this season, and you'll never see a team play harder than we will the rest of this season. God Bless."
- Of course, it also works as a Rousing Speech, as well.
Sports players in general.
- On a similar note, people playing shooters. "Boom HEADSHOT!" indeed.

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."
Come on, Shakespeare fans, what about Mercutio and Tybalt?
In Richard Wagner's Siegfried, it's ironic for Siegfried to talk about Fafner's blood burning like fire, given that he spent the end of the first act hammering on Nothung while singing at the top of his voice ("Hoho! Hoho! Hohei!")

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 The Stoic, The Quiet One, one Broken Hero, an Arrogant Kung Fu Guy, and a Cute Shotaro Boy, 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.
  - UNIVEEEEEERSAL! Enough said.
- 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 quite a lot (each point of Will is like having your Attack, Defense, Accuracy, and Evasiveness all boost by one point), and certain weapons and effects can only be used over a certain Will value. 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!
- Really, Super Robot Wars is absolutely loaded with characters like these. In addition to Sanger and Katina, there's also Touma Kanou (who got so hot blooded at one point that he totally lost control and went on a rampage), and Folka and Fernando Albark, the undisputed Grand Masters of the art of hot blooded screaming. Though we haven't really met him yet, presumably Folka's Expy Aledy Naash will also be like this when Endless Frontier EXCEED comes out.
It's easier to mention which characters are NOT hot blooded in Koei's Warriors series. Warriors Orochi in particular has so much hot blood(being a fusion of both Dynasty and Samurai), it's amazing the games' boxes didn't melt off the shelves.
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!
- Hell, PE teacher Hayato's surname tells it all, and him having a super move named Burning Stoic that essentially makes him impervious to pretty much everything one can throw at him is a nice bonus. If that doesn't qualify as hot blooded manliness, then this editor doesn't know what would.
  - That would be his Combination Attack, where he manifests his partner's Hot-Bloodedness into a Genki Dama and launches it at the enemy.
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!
- Note that the sequel to Ouendan is titled Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii which translates to "Burn! Hot-Blooded Rhythm Soul!"
- I feel as though it should be noted that "hot-blooded manly passion" is a major aesthetic element of Japanese cheerleading in real life, though obviously not to the EXTREMES - like stopping a meteor or reviving a burning-out sun - that this series in particular takes it.
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.
- 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, I don'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.
- Another Hot Blooded ice boss is Chilldre Inarrabita, to a lesser extent than Fenri Lunaedge. Although he has a partial excuse in being a deliberately juvanille character (Chilldre = child[ren] + chill).
Tales. Stahn Aileron. 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!
- Forget the sedative, give me two shots with a gunblade.
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).
Gilgamesh in Final Fantasy V. The only time he isn't hyped about fighting the heroes is when he's running away like a pansy, having had his ass kicked.
Firion from Final Fantasy II is given this characterisation in Dissidia: Final Fantasy. When activating his Super Mode, he even shouts: "IT'S IN MY BLOOD!"
My Boiling Blood Bubbles For Battle
- Arguably many of KOEI's Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors characters, mixed with Blood Knight and Boisterous Bruiser.
- It was practically one of the criteria for a mission Ox and Kirikou took on. While we didn't see how it went, it was apparently successful.
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 bigger they are, the harder I hit!"
- "Butt-kicking...FOR GOODNESS!!!"
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.
Bang Shishigami from BlazBlue
- "QUICKER THAN THE WIND AND AS STILL AS THE FOREST! HOTTER THAN FLAMES AND MORE MAGNIFICANT THAN A MOUNTAIN!"
- When one of Bang's specials, Fuurinkazan, which the above is taken from, is unleashed, the background music is replaced with his very own theme song performed by - of all people - JAM PROJECT. (Or more specifically, Hironobu Kageyama.)
Hector of Ostia and Dart the Pirate, anyone?
- Let's not forget Ross the Journeyman and the Berserker Dozla, either!
Evil Zone: Danzaiver! That is all.
Fawkes from Fallout 3 is extremely passionate both about philosophy and about ripping evil doers to shreds.
Sanada Yukimura's soul is on fire with passion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
According to secondary material, Fire Man from the original Mega Man game has a Hot Blooded personality. This is his major character quirk in Megaman: Powered Up.
The more you select Ogami's hotblooded answers in Sakura Taisen, the better you're probably doing. SpiritArmor's Lets Play of it parodies this to great effect.
Bowser in Mario And Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story is this when he's not a Butt Monkey. The game turns his normal bullheaded determination into outright heroic courage, willing to face off even an Eldritch Abomination in order to save the Mushroom Kingdom (so that he can have it of course).
In the Sakura Taisen series, you can choose what Ogami's (both Ogamis are included under that) responses to various questions/circumstances are. Usually, the most proactive one will have a frame of Ogami shouting with flames in the background. The hotblooded choice isn't always the right choice, but more often than not it is.
Eddie Riggs of Brutal Legend, especially since he's leading an army built upon The Power Of Rock as well as being played by Jack Black.

Largo in Megatokyo is like this most of the time.
The eponymous heroine of Anime News Nina has recently demonstrated her ability to mimic Kamina's epic stances over the smallest setbacks.

This Lets Play of Contra III.
Musclebomber2021 was often like this with his Let's Plays.

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 fact that he's the only Maximal to join the Predacons permanently and voluntarily and does so with great enthusiasm as soon as he's offered says something. Most who join the Predacons are either sneakily programmed to (Blackarachnea, Inferno), are tortured into obedience (Rampage), or end up defecting (Rattrap, Dinobot (who was a Predacon to start with anyway)). Quickstrike was simply turned-on by murder, torture and genocide.
- Dinobot will not, and cannot lose. "What is a warrior without weapons?" "A warrior still!"
- Then there's Ginrai in Transformers Super God Masterforce, after he decides to accept the Call To Adventure. He even has an attack called "Chokon God Fire Guts!" And then Takara released this toy◊.
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?
The 90's X-men series has Wolverine, whose snarling, dramatic delivery of even the silliest of lines made it cheesy awesome at times.
Palmer of Titan Maximum is this trope mixed with Jerk Jock.
Prince Zuko from Avatar The Last Airbender fits this trope to a T. Plus, there's the fact that he can literally set things on fire. So...yeah.

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