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Significant Green-Eyed Redhead
aka: Greeneyed Redhead
Wow, they make you completely forget about those giant hawk wings, don't they?

"Your beauty is beyond compare
With flamin' locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green"

Dolly Parton, "Jolene"

Green-eyed redheads are among the rarest color combinations found in humanity (with the exception of some abnormalities), and thus is used to distinguish an important, notable character visually. It's more often found with women than with men, and is almost always either found as a trait of The Hero (see Red-Headed Hero) or The Hero's Love Interest (because Heroes Want Redheads). To qualify for this trope, it's important that:

  • The character is a major character.
  • The character is not in works where You Gotta Have Blue Hair.
  • The character isn't from a live-action work, unless they were artificially given these colors for the purpose of the work, or were chosen directly for it.
  • The character has red hair and green eyes, and not pink/magenta hair or hazel/blue-green eyes, or even green hair and red eyes.

Likely to be a Fiery Redhead, as Green Eyes often connote a similar kind of personality.

This image might have been influenced a lot by Maureen O'Hara and her various roles, which also influenced this to be the Phenotype Stereotype for an Irish person. It may also have something to do with the fact that red and green are complementary colours - which also may help to explain why so many red-headed characters are depicted wearing green, even if they aren't Irish.

Examples

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    Anime & Manga 
  • Misterious Mr X, that manipulate everything from shadows.
  • Kurama, at least in his human form, but only in the anime. The crimson hair/leaf-green eyes combination in this case is a warning not to underestimate him, because, like his roses, he has thorns. It's also possibly a hint at his youkai nature, because it's a decidedly unnatural shade of red for a human.
  • Hellsing's Pip Bernadotte, Love Interest of Seras Victoria. While he's a mercenary and an Anti-Hero to be traditionally sweet, he is the nicest of the guys in these series along with Sir Shelby Penwood. With the other men being Dracula, a deadly butler, Nazis and Fanatic Vatican Crusaders, Pip looks like a saint.
  • Youko Nakajima from The Twelve Kingdoms is the main character, and her red hair(which gets redder when she goes to the titular Kingdoms) marks her as different, and she is often teased for it. It also marks her as an inhabitant of the 12 Kingdoms.
  • Lavi from D. Gray-Man.
  • Brief in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
  • Kino Makoto/Sailor Jupiter from Sailor Moon is one of the main characters and in the manga, her hair which is brown in the anime is more red in color pictures. Word Of God says that her eyes turn green after transforming into Jupiter, and they look more hazel/brown in her untransformed state in some artwork.
  • Lydia from Earl And Fairy has this as a sign of her affinity with The Fair Folk. It's a source of great trouble for her due to the cultural discrimination people with red hair suffered in Victorian England, on top of the implications she might be a changeling.
  • Nakaba from Reimei No Arcana is the protagnoist. Her bright red hair causes her to be discriminated against, and her green eyes turn red when she uses her powers. She's also in the middle of a love triangle between the romantic lead, and her Childhood Friend.

    Comic Books 
  • DC comics' Wally West the third Flash.
  • Jean Grey from the X-Men is the one of the original members of the team, the love interest of Cyclops, and took center stage in what is arguably the franchise's best known story.
    • Also her daughter from an alternate future, Rachel, and her clone, Madelyne Pryor.
    • Also Hope Summers, a very important player in the X-Men franchise.
    • Fongji Wu, a mixed-race Tibetan girl and the previous bearer of both the Phoenix Force and the Iron Fist mantle.
  • Mary Jane Watson from Spider-Man is the love interest of Peter Parker.
  • Maxima from Superman has the red hair and green eyes.
  • Batwoman / Kate Kane.
  • Lyra, daughter of Thundra and The Hulk, combines this with green skin.
  • Lena Luthor, at least in Supergirl: Cosmic Adventurs in the 8th Grade
    • Also the "Lex's daughter" incarnation in The DCU ... although in this case her green eyes may have indicated that she was still connected to Brainiac.
  • Lex Luthor, usually acknowledged as Superman's arch-rival, has naturally red hair (though he's usually bald for a number of reasons Depending on the Writer). Incidentally, so does Superman's best friend, Jimmy Olsen.
  • Caitlin Fairchild from Gen13 is this physically as well as usually personality wise (though she can be a Fiery Redhead when it comes to protecting the others).
  • Poison Ivy.
  • Rogue's hair is usually referred to as "auburn", but was colored more red in earlier comics. And her eyes are green.
  • Starfire, with golden skin.
    • Note that while it's true that Starfire has green eyes, that doesn't mean she has normal eyes with green irises... it means her eyes are solid green.
  • Leetah and her daughter Ember, as well as Redlance and his daughter Tyleet in ElfQuest. Notable because Leetah and Ember are both dark-skinned.
  • Mezmerella
  • Cheryl Blossom
  • Tarot
  • Delirium from The Sandman is this on occasion. She can change her hair color/length at will, though it usually has some red in it and is fully red at least once. Usually has one green and one blue eye, though when she composes herself and behaves seriously they are the same color.
  • Aphrodite in the "Adventures in Olympus" arc of Flare.

    Fan Works 

    Film — Animated 

    Film — Live-Action 
  • Merlin in the 1998 miniseries, where it appears that both young and old Merlins's eyes were digitally enhanced to be green beyond reality.

    Literature 

    Music 
  • In Dolly Parton's song "Jolene", the titular character (and the narrator's romantic rival) has "flaming locks of auburn hair" and "eyes of emerald green".
  • William Sheller's song "Les miroirs dans la boue" (The Mirrors in the Mud) is all about a young girl with "green eyes bathed in red hair" ("les yeux verts noyés de cheveux roux").
  • Gaelic Storm's Green Eyes, Red Hair is all about this. The woman in question overlaps with Fiery Redhead too.

    Mythology 
  • Thor in Norse Mythology is a rough tough badass god, who happens to be redheaded and green-eyed. Yet when he had to cross-dress as a woman in Thrymskvida, all the giants were so smitten by "her" dazzling looks that they failed to notice many, many less-than-subtle hints of a trap...

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    Video Games 
  • Talia Maurva from the Aveyond Series has red hair and green eyes, and is a talented magic wielder.
  • The Bridge Bunny Kelly Chambers in Mass Effect 2 is probably the most trouble-free and relaxing romantic interest (for both genders). Don't expect any ass-kicking from her, though.
  • Aveline Vallen in Dragon Age II, is the first companion you pick up and is a green-eyed redhead. Unusually she's also one of the two companions who cannot be Hawke's Love Interest.
  • Played very straight in Chrono Cross with Leena.
  • If you squint hard enough, you'll notice that pre-zergification Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft series had grayish-green eyes (especially on that photo Raynor has of her in SC2), and she was a redhead.
  • Luke Fon Fabre from Tales Of The Abyss. This is actually a plot point, as a noble with red hair and green eyes has a great role in a prophesy that will lead to world prosperity.
    • It later becomes a plot point that Natalia is not one of these, as every blood member of the Kimlascan royal family is a green-eyed redhead.
  • Priscilla of Cornwell from Fire Emblem 7.
  • Gabriel/Indalecio of Star Ocean The Second Story has red hair and green eyes, but he is hardly a hero.
  • Kasumi from Shakkin Shimai.
  • Amitie Florian of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As Portable: The Gears of Destiny, the main heroine of the game and a Time Police Super Prototype Ridiculously Human Robot.
  • The Silent Protagonist Gordon Freeman's hair and eye color are officially listed as auburn and green, respectively.
  • Princess Carranya in part II of Love And War, who is the heroine and only playable female character in the episode. Whether she ends up as Ryan's love interest is strongly hinted at, but not confirmed.
  • In the remake of The Secret of Monkey Island, Elaine Marley is given red hair and green eyes.
  • Saya Kho in the X-Universe series. Red hair, green eyes, spectacular body, and she started a war that eventually resulted in the entire jumpgate network shutting down.
  • Axel/Lea from the Kingdom Hearts series.
  • Many games which allow a substantial amount of customization of the player character, particularly RP Gs, allow the player's character to be this.

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    Webcomics 

    Web Original 

    Western Animation 
  • Kim Possible is both an Action Girl and Action Girlfriend example.
  • Examples from the DCAU:
    • Hawkgirl/Shayera, in Justice League Unlimited.
    • Lana Lang, in Superman The Animated Series.
    • Pamela Isley, a.k.a. Poison Ivy, in the Batman episode "Pretty Poison", when she uses her stunning looks to get close to the men who wronged her (one of them even proposes to her) and attempts to assassinate them.
    • Gotham City sociality Veronica Vreeland.
  • Gargoyles has multiple examples.
    • Demona, one of the main antagonists, but only in her human form — her gargoyle form has dark eyes.
    • Fox, recurring villain employee of and married to the other main antagonist David Xanatos.
  • Starfire from Teen Titans.
    • When she's actively using her powers, she has solid green eyes like her comic book counterpart. When she's not, her eyes have are more like normal human "green eyes", but the sclera (the "white" of the eye) is also green (a paler shade than the iris).
  • Izzy from Total Drama Island.
  • Kiva from Megas XLR.
  • Sam from Totally Spies!
  • Gwen Tennyson from Ben 10. Being the cousin of the main character does not stop them from being love interests.
  • The title character in Atomic Betty.
  • Pickles the drummer in Metalocalypse has this sort of coloring, although in his case it's probably due to being "very Irish-American."
  • Aerrow from Storm Hawks.
  • Mary Test, one of Johnny Test's sisters.
  • Kid Flash/Wally West in Young Justice.
    • Garfield Logan—temporarily. His eyes start out blue, then turn green later. The rest of him followed suit.
    • Doubly Subverted with Ms. Martian. She's a shapeshifter who based her humanoid appearance off a character from a sitcom, but her green eyes are actually a case of Morphic Resonance that she keeps in whatever form she's in.
  • Gosalyn Mallard from Darkwing Duck, although the fiery still comes through loud and clear.
  • Jessie Bannon from Jonny Quest The Real Adventures (except when the colourists goof and make them blue).
  • Niko in Adventures Of The Galaxy Rangers (Depending on the Artist) has bluish-green eyes.
  • Lua, the barefoot Jungle Princess Shaman from Kong The Animated Series.
  • In the Family Guy episode "Road to the Multiverse", redhead Lois, whose eye color isn't usually depicted, had green eyes in the Disney 'verse.
  • Precious from Pinky And The Brain has green eyes and red fur.
  • An interesting male version is Nonny from Bubble Guppies.
  • Prototypical TJ from Recess was this. In the final product he's a brunette and has typical, cartoony black eyes.
  • Valerie Frizzle from Magic School Bus. Though in the cartoon and book series she, like the kids, usually has typical cartoon eyes, we do get to see her eye color in one book: Explores the Senses.
  • A male example, Dr. Krieger from Archer is red-headed, as well as the only green-eyed main character.

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