Red And Black And Evil All Over / Video Games

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Red and Black and Evil All Over in Video Games.

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• Alpha Protocol averts this with G22, who despite favoring this color scheme is actually the closest to invokedTrue Neutral around.
• ANNO: Mutationem: The Elite Task Force of The Consortium has the soldiers outfitted with black metallic armor covered in red coating to signify they are the highest level of security to contend with any intruders that penetrate the facility.
• Armello has Sargon, who while not officially stated to be evil, dabbles in Things Man Was Not Meant to Know and is a little more than unhinged. He also wears black robes and a red mask.
• Artix Entertainment has some examples:
  • In AdventureQuest, The'Galin, the god of uncreation, is first represented with red with dark shadows, as seen with his moon and Omega. However, his actual manifestation has a Gold and White Are Divine design.
  • In MechQuest, when becoming a vampire, the player character dons red and black vampire clothing.
  • Gravelyn from AdventureQuest Worlds has a black cape and red armor, and red and black are the primary color scheme of her Shadowscythe Empire.
    • The Black Version Artix Figure has black armor and a red cape the black version even shows up in Gravelyn's Dream which may foreshadow an event where Artix has that armor.
  • In Dragonfable The Vampiric Ghouls have corrupted evil versions of the heroic Guardian armor of the "good guys" with Spikes of Villainy and a black and red color scheme instead of the normal white/silver and gold.
• Assassin's Creed:
  • In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the Borgia soldiers are characterized by wearing red and black. The Big Bad, Cesare Borgia, a silver armor with a red cape and black pants, and his hair and beard.
  • The original Big Bad, Rodrigo Borgia (Cesare's father), wore a black and red hooded cloak in the second game before becoming The Pope.
  • Shay Patrick Cormac in Assassin's Creed Rogue not only wears red and black clothing even when he was an Assassin but his ship the Morrigan has the same colors as his attire and he's the Villain Protagonist of the game itself.
  • Subverted with Shao Jun in Assassin's Creed: Chronicles and Expanded Universe material. She does wear a red and black costume but she's actually an Assassin who stays with the creed through and through. Justified as the traditional Assassin color of white represents death in Chinese and East Asian cultures as well as black usually being associated with the concept of yin and yang.
• The Gohma from Asura's Wrath are black with red lava-like veins to show they are the embodiment of the earth's rage. Their creator, Chakravartin, has a final form where is face is black with red eyes, with a quite body fitting robe that looks like a skeleton, just to add on more evil points.
• Battle Garegga has Black Heart, the last boss before entering the enemy stronghold. It is primarily black with red trim (red like a heart).
• BlazBlue: Ragna the Bloodedge wears his black vest and pants on his red jacket, though he's a subversion, he's an Anti-Hero who wields the power of life-sucking darkness, and while a bit of a dick at times, he's positively a messiah compared to Relius and Hazama.
  • Subverted with Litchi Faye-Ling. While her color scheme is mainly red and black and she makes a temporary Face–Heel Turn in Continuum Shift, she still remains kind and compassionate and dedicated to helping those in need.
  • As of BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, Tsubaki Yayoi sticks with this color scheme as part of her Evil Costume Switch.
• Borderlands:
  • Often used on Bandit weapons, which are jury-rigged together by the various groups of brigands you slaughter on a regular basis. How to design a Bandit gun: 1) Weld together your components. 2) Paint it red, possibly with blood. 3) Add black bits. 4) If you feel like it, add a shark mouth detail like the nose of a fighter jet. Even higher-rarity ones keep the red, although it's generally cleaner.
  • Inverted with the Hyperion corporation, whose colors were red and black before Handsome Jack took over. After he does their colors are yellow and white, as he thought the previous combination was too dreary, though higher-tier Hyperion weapons are still red and black.
• Brutal Orchestra has a Nominal Hero example with Burnout, who is a red skeleton dressed in black leather gear. He is also a Sadist who joins the party because he wants to watch Nowak die.
• Bug Fables:
  • Zasp is a red and black-colored paper wasp who starts off as a rude, violent rival to Team Snakemouth and causes all sorts of trouble for them. It's downplayed in the sense that he isn't that bad of a guy and warms up to them when they save his life in Chapter 3, but he never fails to become nasty and confrontational when Mothiva is around to bring out the worst in him, and even goes as far as to try to ruin negotiations with a hostile kingdom that are important to saving the world just to help give Mothiva an ego boost.
  • The Beast of the Wild Swamplands is an Amazonian giant centipede with red and black coloration, and it's a terrifying monster that even the otherwise fearless Leafbugs give a wide berth. It's Kabbu's arch enemy thanks to killing his old friends during his first encounter with it, and it appears to be a knowing sadist who enjoys attacking and killing bugs on a level not seen by any other predatory creatures.
  • Shades, a red and black mosquito encountered in the Ant Kingdom's underground tavern isn't an enemy of Team Snakemouth's, but he's still a thief and a crooked businessman who rubs shoulders with other unsavory criminals.
• Lord Licorice wears a red and black suit in the 1998 PC adaptation of Candy Land. Perhaps justified as red and black are two of the most notable colors of licorice.
• Impossible Thief extraordinaire Carmen Sandiego frequently pairs her striking red coat and matching hat with an all-black getup underneath.
• Castlevania: In most games, the Final Boss, Dracula, wears black and red clothes, consistent with his book portrayal. In the Super Castlevania IV and Rondo of Blood games, he wears purple.
  • In Lords of Shadow, the first Lord of Shadow that you face, Cornell, turns into a black beast with red Tron Lines during his boss battle.
• In Champions Online, the "Burning Lackeys" set of Nemesis Mooks sports these colors.
  • Black and red is also the go-to color scheme for many players trying to make their supposedly heroic characters look dark and edgy — much to the dismay of another large part of the player base, who regard it as cliché, uninspired and generally unaesthetic.
• In City of Heroes, Requiem, Reichsman, and the 5th Column in general; Praetorians Infernal (the Primal Infernal is a Dark Is Not Evil subversion) and Dominatrix.
  • Arachnos favors black and red (or very dark blue and red sometimes) as well.
  • A slight subversion with Red Widow, Lord Recluse's lover, in that while unapologetically evil she is still a Morality Pet to him.
• In Civilization V, this is the color scheme of the Always Chaotic Evil barbarians.
• In The ClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures: The Mystery of Mathra the Monkey Kingdom's song about Mathra features an accompanying animation colored in red and black.
• The Brotherhood of Nod in Command & Conquer wear black and red uniforms.
  • Similar to the above example, Soviets in Command & Conquer: Red Alert Series also often wore these colors.
• Commander Keen has Mortimer McMire wearing a black helmet with his emblem, the Double M, in red on the side. Keen doesn't notice the helmet under a desk on the Shikadi-operated space station at the end of Episode 5, missing McMire's link to the plot.
• The Consuming Shadow, being a game with a cosmic horror theme, has its logo and menus designed around this color scheme to enhance the sense of fear.
• Cyberpunk 2077: Red and black are the official colors of the Arasaka Corporation, the game's largest capital-E Evil organization.
• Dare to Dream: The third episode's takes place in Tyler's personal hell, where the color palette is mostly red with lots of dark blues and blacks.
• In Darkest Dungeon, the titular location. All surfaces are obsidian black, there's red fog all over, the "decorations" dribbe blood, and being the Very Definitely Final Dungeon of a dark and gritty Lovecraftian game, it's not exactly lacking in the evil department.
• In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Belltower Spec Ops wear red and black uniforms.
  • Played straight for the Knights Templar in Deus Ex: Invisible War who are arguably the evilest faction in the game and wear red and black, but subverted with the Order, who wear red and black, but are more morally gray.
• The titular villain in Diablo is a Big Red Devil who has in his possession, the 'Black Soulstone', also occasionally having black as his secondary color. And of the Angels, two angels, Imperius and Malthael, wear Red and Black respectively... and Imperius is a Knight Templar Jerkass with zero respect on humanity, whereas Malthael got promoted into the Big Bad of the third game's expansion, intending to wipe out all humanity. It's that kind of game.
• Drakengard:
  • Caim fulfils this trope in the second game, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt with a huge red glyph. His sword got a make over and now it's red and black, add the fact that his iconic pose with Angelus was redrawn by the series artist and has a darker feel to it. And to make matters worse, in the first game he wore a white and blue armor and his primary sword was a shining silver... Not that it mattered in the game or canon anyways.
  • In the first game, Manah wears red and black robes at almost all times, befitting her role as leader of The Empire. Come the sequel, she's grown up and amended her ways, signified by a swap to a casual brown and green outfit.
• Giygas of EarthBound (1994) infamy, who's about as literal with this trope as you can get for not even having a body (though as shown in EarthBound Beginnings he wasn't always this way).
• The Elder Scrolls
  • Sithis, referred to as a "great void", is a force representing chaos, change, and limitation. Red and black are the colors most commonly associated with Sithis, as are they for the Dark Brotherhood, an illegal assassin's guild Brotherhood and Religion of Evil.
  • The Dremora, a species of lesser Daedra most often found in service to Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince of Destruction. They have a regimented Always Lawful Evil society and typically serve as Dagon's Legions of Hell. They have red and black in their skin, as well as in their armor.
  • Red and black are the primary colors associated with Boethiah, the Daedric Prince of Plots. Boethiah is typically considered one of the more universally malevolent Daedra, with his sphere covering a litany of high crimes including murder, assassination, treason, betrayal, and specifically the unlawful overthrow of authority.
  • Skyrim:
    • In his role as the game's Big Bad who wants to Take Over the World and rule it as a god, Alduin fits the bill. He is a colossal jet black dragon with red eyes. While he seemingly subverts it when performing his divinely mandated duty as "World-Eater", an Above Good and Evil Eternal Recurrence where he "eats the world" so that it can be remade anew at the end of every "kalpa" (cycle of time), his desire to rule Mundus with an iron fist rather than performing his divine role is what makes him play it straight. He's also a Jerkass.
    • In the Dawnguard DLC, the armor worn by the vampires of Clan Volkihar is red and black, though a gray variant also exists. If they win the war with the titular Dawnguard, they also gain the ability to turn the sun black and red, defusing its vampire-harming effects.
• Cosmic Monoliths in the Epic Battle Fantasy are jet black with red Tron Lines, and they are horrible nightmares to fight. They're also monitoring devices used by the Devourer in EBF 5.
• In Epiphany City, after absorbing the Dark Tree's energies, Superb Man gains pale skin and a red and black costume to signify his fall.
• Prevalent in Eversion. One common hazard is red hands on black arms that shoot out of pits when you get close. You'll be harassed by two walls of doom, one black and the other red. The enemies gradually change color from light yellow to red, and then to black with red eyes. Finally, the only colors in the nightmarish secret eighth world layer are black and red on a purple background.
• The Goliath in Evolve falls under this, though in brighter lighting it may be considered more of a dark grey. Tropers can make their own opinions.
• In Fallout: New Vegas, Caesar's Legion wear red and black uniforms, and are arguably the evilest of the four main factions you can join in that game.
• Final Fantasy
  • Golbez of Final Fantasy IV has his attire vary Depending on the Artist, the color of his armor and cape ranging in various shades of blue, but he's also commonly depicted wearing black armor and a black cape with a red lining. Cecil also has his depiction vary, but as a Dark Knight he wears dark blue or black armor with red markings. A case of Dark Is Not Evil as Cecil is a good man, but the powers of darkness he wields are still said to be tools of evil, which is why his class changes to The Paladin.
  • Final Fantasy VI, in keeping with Putting on the Reich, Gestahl wears a red and black robe and the imperial banners are red with a black emblem.
  • Crisis Core, Genesis wears a red longcoat with black pants and a shirt.
  • Ultimecia of Final Fantasy VIII wears a red dress with black edgings on the bottom with black wings and a black feather ruffle, with a hint of Purple Is the New Black on the torn hem of her dress and the markings on her face.
  • All of the Judges in Final Fantasy XII wear a red Archadian seal on their black capes. Suitably imposing? Oh yes.
• Fire Emblem:
  • The Black Knight from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance wears black armor and a red Ominous Opera Cape. In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, he gets a red inside/black outside cape instead. In addition, his alter ego Zelgius wears a full suit of red armor. So it can be said that the character is both a red and black knight.
  • Most of the major villains of Fire Emblem: Three Houses incorporate this color scheme in their uniforms: The Death Knight's predominantly black skeletal armor is accompanied by a tattered red cape, while his eyes are tiny red pinpricks in his void-like eyeholes. Then there's the Flame Emperor, who combines red feathers and red-and-black robes with a creepy White and Red and Eerie All Over mask. And the villainous group he collaborates with, Those Who Slither In The Dark, tend to favor black robes and armor mixed with flourishes of dark crimson.
  • Early into Fire Emblem Engage, Alear gets a vision of themselves with pure red hair and a black outfit, and assumes this trope. Played with, in that while Alear is Sombron's biological child, they only started out on his side in the war 1000 years ago. They pulled a Heel–Face Turn upon meeting and being Happily Adopted by Lumera, still sporting this look.
• In Freedom Wars, The Peltatum is an ancient and destructive On-High Abductor with a sinister red and black color scheme, and it's sealed away in The Casket by its creators out of the fear that they would be wiped out by their own weapon. When it's fought as the Final Boss, the entire map is shrouded in black with red lights. Even weapons crafted from its parts share this color scheme.
• The standard color scheme for all things Shivan in Freespace.
• The opening and ending credits of the first Gabriel Knight game are in red text over a black screen. If you use higher resolution settings, you get illustrations in the style of old wood carvings, also in black and red. This is used to make the credits more ominous, as it is a horror game.
• The evil Inquest scientists in Guild Wars 2 favor this color combination in their clothes.
• Associated colors of the Inferno faction from Heroes of Might and Magic V were black and red.
• The Grimm Troupe in Hollow Knight. While they are Ambiguously Evil, the sinister tone of the Troupe in general and the fact that many characters feel that something is off about it definitely doesn't give positive points to this mysterious group.
• In Homeworld Cataclysm, The Beast, an Eldritch Abomination that's corrupted a part of the player's Mothership, has changed the blue and white paint of the Kuun-Lan into red and black (well, okay, it's really more of a grey, but the Meat Moss growing on it is red and black), a color scheme all its units share.
• Near the end of inFAMOUS, Cole finds the Ray Sphere, an artifact that gave him electrical powers at the cost of several thousand human lives. He has two options, to destroy it or activate it again, enhancing his powers. Doing the latter permanently locks your Karma Meter on the lowest end and changes Cole's lightning to black with a red outline to further demonstrate that it was an irredeemably evil deed.
• Dash Kobayashi from Jitsu Squad, a vile albino Foul Fox henchman of the demon Origami (The Dragon, in fact) who enjoys his job as an assassin a little too much, and destroyed his own hometown in the backstory besides killing the hero's father. His outfit, consisting of red robes with black sleeves and belt is an indicator that he's going to spend much of the game menacing the heroes.
• Killzone, the Helghast like painting everything in black and red. Their flag has the Nazi color scheme.
• Kingdom Hearts, Master Xehanort and Ansem, Seeker of Darkness wear black longcoats with red linings, while Xemnas wears a black cloak and wields red Laser Blades as his weapons. Ansem furthermore features the Heartless symbol as a Chest Insignia, the Heartless symbol being universally associated with the creatures and appearing as a black heart with a red lining and cross over the center.
  • Vanitas, Master Xehanort's apprentice, wears a red and black outfit looking disturbingly like exposed muscle matter, and his Void Gear Keyblade is red and black.
  • In his Dark Mode, Riku wears a variation of Vanitas's attire but features blue and white more prominently. When possessed by "Ansem", the Keyblade he wields is an Evil Counterpart to Sora's Kingdom Key, with a black shaft and red handguard. Before he completed his Heel–Face Turn and became a Yin-Yang Bomb, Riku's normal weapon was the Soul Eater, a sword-shaped like a black and red bat wing. Subverted in that in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Riku can switch to his Dark Mode despite having learned his lesson from dabbling in evil.
  • While not evil, Terra is an Anti-Hero and thus two of his unique keyblades that symbolize his darker tendencies, the Darkgnaw and Chaos Ripper, are prominently black with red markings.
  • The Blox in coded, acting as representations of infected data caused by the existence of Sora's Heartless, are red and black.
  • Serves as a sort of foreshadowing for Dream Drop Distance. Sora's outfits have always been predominantly red, yellow, white and black, but his 3D outfit is almost entirely red and black. By the end of the game, it's revealed he's been targeted as a Xehanort vessel, and he's so corrupted by darkness that Riku has to engage in a Battle in the Center of the Mind with Sora to free him.
    • Sora's outfit in Kingdom Hearts III is also predominantly black and red, though this time, the trope is fully subverted. Plus, a closer look shows no white X mark and the red and Black are more even out, likely to represent becoming more balanced than in KH 3 D.
  • For his cameos in the series, Sephiroth of Final Fantasy VII gets red linings added to his trademark black coat.
  • Many of the predominantly black Heartless have plenty of red to go along with the black.
• The King of Fighters: The most infamous antagonist of the series, Rugal Bernstein, has this in his color scheme - both his tuxedo and Omega Armor are red, and he couples them with a black undershirt.
• In The Last Story, the Gurak have a black-and-red theme going on, as opposed to the Human's white-and-blue color scheme.
• Darius from League of Legends is a minor case. Hailing from the City-State of Noxus who held on the philosophy of Social Darwinist to near-extreme that it's usually pegged as the 'evil villain' faction, he is a fearsome general with a penchant for decapitating people with his trusty axe or splitting people in half, distaste for weakness, and predictably, he wears a grey/black-red armor to contrast with his Demacian counterpart Garen (wears blue and white-gold armor). While he certainly is just merely patriotic and just wants the best for his hometown rather than outright evil, Darius is also pretty notorious in the fanbase that his kit can be abused for kill steals, which isn't a very good thing to do in a team-based game (and toxic noobs tend to abuse it), so it kind of counts.
• Legacy of Kain: Kain wears numerous outfits over the course of the two Blood Omen games, most all of them being some type of armor almost always colored red and black. His iconic attire for the series is his clothing in the Soul Reaver / Defiance era, black leather pants with a red cape wound over his chest like a sash.
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie has the Big Bad of the game, Ishmelga-Rean. He's essentially what happens when Rean Schwarzer didn't have the Earthen Prison that he obtained for the Golden Ending of Cold Steel IV. He also wants to wipe out all of humanity due to being a bug in the AI of the Elysium System when it tried to simulate the Great War, which also included the Curse of Erebonia and the only thing it can think of to end all conflict is to just kill everyone in the world. He sports a mix of red and black outfit and uses a red and black katana.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the corrupted Twili beings have a consistent motif of black with a red (slightly magenta) core and Tron Lines to match. The Twili beings that aren't corrupted still have a motif of black, but they have a core and Tron Lines of blue or green.
  • Also, Ganondorf's basic colors are often black and red, or close. Twilight Princess is the most obvious example.
    • The Triforce of Power, while not inherently evil in and of itself, is usually in the hands of Ganondorf and is strongly associated with the color red.
  • In Skyward Sword, Ghirahim wears a big black collar/cape cross with crimson patterns and gold trim, though he dismisses it when he's fighting Link — in addition, his body turns from pale white to a sinister crimson-black hue more and more throughout the game. His final boss form is a fire-shaded black Chrome Champion, and his master Demise is shadow-black with flaming hair.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Calamity Ganon and the Malice it spreads across Hyrule have a shadowy red tint with some hints of purple. The Yiga Clan, the Evil Counterpart of the friendly Sheikah tribe, also have predominantly red-and-black outfits◊.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Gloom, a stronger version of the aforementioned-Malice, is colored vivid red and black.
• In Lego Adaptation Games, red and black objects can only be manipulated by evil characters (Sith in LEGO Star Wars, dark wizards in LEGO Harry Potter, Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean, etc). Though in LEGO The Lord of the Rings, they can only be destroyed by Aragorn wielding Anduril or Sauron himself. Other evil characters like Saruman still can't do anything to them.
• Fist, one of the first boss fights in Mass Effect wears the black and red Colossus armor. The player can find and equip an identical suit of armor at higher levels, invoking this trope once more in the case of a Renegade Shepard.
• In Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars, the Terran Khanate is a villainous faction of humans. Their leader, the Khan, has White Hair, Black Heart, and his uniform is mostly red and black.
• Most of the Desperado cyborgs in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance have a red and black color scheme. The fact that Sam does not possess said color scheme is an indicator that he's a lot more different than the other bosses. Similarly, Armstrong's nanomachines turn his body black with red veins.
• Metroid:
  • In the first Metroid Prime, Samus' ultimate suit, the Phazon Suit, is a mix of red, black, and grey, in stark contrast to her usual orange/purple Varia/Gravity Suit. Both Dark Is Evil as its counterpart apply, as Samus is obviously good, but the Phazon her suit is corrupted by is evil in nature.
  • The main promotional art for Metroid Dread depicts all the E.M.M.I. as imposing silhouettes with glowing red eyes against a crimson background. This is a stylistic effect done with atypical lighting rather than a literal depiction of how they all actually look, as five of the E.M.M.I. are brightly colored in-game.
• Mortal Kombat:
  • One of Kano's most well-known outfits is a red and black sleeveless jumpsuit.
  • Evil Sorcerer Shang Tsung wears a black kimono shirt under a crimson robe in Mortal Kombat 9.
  • Ermac wears a red and black ninja garb and is a being of souls created by Shao Kahn. He pulled a Heel–Face Turn in Mortal Kombat: Deception making him the opposite of this trope. 9 and X have him as a villain again.
  • Sektor is an evil Cyber Ninja in red and black armor plating.
  • In his Dark Raiden incarnation, Raiden has glowing red eyes and his clothes turn black. In Mortal Kombat 11, Dark Raiden's lightning even turns red.
  • Mortal Kombat: Deception introduced Kira, an Evil Redhead arms dealer and a new member of the Black Dragon mercenary organization whose outfits are black and red.
  • Mavado of the Red Dragon has an alternate outfit which consists of a silver armored vest, black pants, black gauntlets, and a red mask.
  • Skarlet is an assassin for Shao Kahn trained in Blood Magic and wears red and black clothing.
• Murdered: Soul Suspect: The soul-sucking demons in the game are easily identifiable by their red and black coloration, in direct contrast to the blue hue of generic ghosts.
• Space Pirate ships in Naev use these colors.
• NiGHTS into Dreams…: Reala, who is The Dragon and NiGHTS' Evil Counterpart.
• From Octopath Traveler II:
  • Cubaryi wears red and black armor and acts very disdainfully towards Temenos. Sure enough, she turns out to be one of the main antagonists in his story, even helping Kaldena kill Crick. She even taunts Temenos for being angry after this takes place.
  • While everyone in Ku wears red and black armor, Mugen qualifies by using the same color scheme and being the villain of Hikari's story.
  • Inverted with Hikari himself; he wears red and black but is one of the kindest protagonists overall. Played straight with The Voice, however, who looks just like Hikari when it manifests in his head and is extremely bloodthirsty.
• Overwatch: Both Talon and Blackwatch use black and red as their primary colors; the former being fully evil, while the dealings of the latter being shady enough that they were shut down by the UN. Of the Talon members, only Reaper fully adopts the black and red palette (Moira's costume is black with purple accents, although her red hair does give off this vibe as well). In Blackwatch, however, every member has a black, dark gray, and red uniform that they use on missions.
• In border inspector simulation Papers, Please, the totalitarian dictatorship the player works for heavily uses black and red in its insignias and iconography.
• Generic rebels in most Paradox Interactive games (such as Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings) use a red and black flag reminiscent of that used by anarcho-syndicalists in real life.
• Persona 5: Downplayed. The game, which stars Anti-Hero Phantom Thieves, has a predominately red and black color scheme for menus, costumes, and area designs. Additionally, the protagonist's starting Persona wears red and black attire and has a rather sinister demeanor, while the protagonist himself wears a dark outfit with bright red gloves.
• The Terran Republic in PlanetSide 1 have blood red and black gas-mask toting infantry, and the "republic" is an oppressive military state run by an oligarchy. 2 drops most of the black in favor of gray, which coincides with their shift to being more of a benign state.
• Team Rocket from Pokémon is often associated with the colors red and black. Their logo is even a red "R" on a black background. Team Magma is also associated with Red and Black. In contrast, Team Aqua is Blue and White.
  • Ghetsis's outfit in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 is primarily black with his red eye patch from the previous games. He's also one of the vilest villains in the entire series for being an abusive father that sees his son as nothing but a tool for his plot of world domination.
  • Giratina is described as a very violent and aggressive Pokémon that has black and red stripes running down its whole front side, along with black wings with red claws. It also has red eyes.
  • Quite a few Dark type (Also known as the Evil type in Japan) Pokemon demonstrate this, though the "evil" part is subverted with some examples of each species.
    • Sneasel has a single red ear and a red tail to go with its black body. Its evolved form of Weavile turns its other ear red, and also adds red hair and a red collar. Both have a reputation for trickery and ganging up on others.
    • Darkrai, despite only being evil in some continuities, is completely black with a massive red collar and white hair.
    • The Pawniard line possess a red and black color scheme and are said to brutally attack others as a group.
    • Hydreigon, a species that is described as savagely destructive, has black hair, and black and red eyes. Also, while its official artwork depicts the inside of its frills, the stripes on its belly, and the underside of its tail as being pink, they're instead made to be red in the anime and most of the spin-off games, presumably for the sake of making it look more sinister.
    • Yveltal, the legendary of Pokemon Y, which happens to also be a Dark-type, is known as the Destruction Pokémon, has an ability called Dark Aura and knows a move called "Oblivion Wing".
    • Incineroar has predominately red fur with a black head and upper muzzle (meant to resemble a wrestler mask), black shoulder spikes (Meant to resemble ripped sleeves), and black stripes all over its body. Its "evil" part comes from being based on a Heel wrestler, though it's a Subversion because it's really an act.
• Puyo Puyo!! Quest: Befitting an agent of a company that performs unethical experiments, Zero wears a largely black cloak with red accents.
• Marle from Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 wears a red and black dress and forcefully makes other characters fight her and each other so she can "have fun". Once you rescue her from Squares' manipulation, her outfit changes to be cyan and white.
• Micah Bell from Red Dead Redemption II is often seen wearing a black jacket with a red shirt underneath, and he's easily one of the most repulsive and evil characters in the game due to his love of unnecessary violence, racist tendencies, and selling out his own gang to the Pinkertons.
• The cover of the PC version of Resident Evil 4.
  • Recurring series villain, Albert Wesker has glowing red eyes after he comes back in Code: Veronica which he hides behind his glasses and wears black clothing.
• In RuneScape, red and black are the colors of Zamorak, the evil god of chaos.
• The Saboteur: All Nazi-controlled areas are in black and white, except for the red from the blood or the swastikas.
• In Saints Row IV, Zin architecture is usually black with red Tron Lines. Opposing this, in areas controlled by The Boss, the constructs change to blue, and the Saints' vehicles are purple and white.
• Shantae: Risky Boots' sprites in Shantae (2002) are colored red, black, and white due to the limitations of the Game Boy Color, contrasting her intended appearance that's predominantly purple with bits of red. As a Mythology Gag, this palette shows up again in Shantae: Half-Genie Hero as an alternate look for Risky in the Pirate Queen's Quest DLC campaign.
• Shin Megami Tensei: Black and Red are associated with the Chaos faction while Law takes White And Blue. Subverted since invokedneither side is that much worse than the other.
• In Sierra Ops, the Ares Confederation gives its officers red-and-black uniforms and its ships red-and-black paintjobs. Naturally, they are the antagonists of the game.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Shadow the Hedgehog has always been black and red, the universal colors of badassery. Before his Heel–Face Turn, it screamed 'bad guy', and even afterward he's an Anti-Hero.
  • The Black Arms, the alien invaders in Shadow the Hedgehog, are black/dark gray and red, and Shadow was created from their leader Black Doom's DNA..
  • Dr. Eggman generally dresses in a red jacket with black pants, and many of his robots (such as E-123 Omega) have a similar color scheme.
  • Zavok from Sonic Lost World is also red and black in skin color, as he is the leader of the Deadly Six and is certainly cruel and merciless.
  • Infinite from Sonic Forces has a mostly black body with a red aura and powers, and he's a Knight of Cerebus who helps Eggman finally Take Over the World.
  • Sage from Sonic Frontiers takes the form of a Creepy Child wearing a black dress and covered in red coding, and she's responsible for imprisoning Sonic's friends and siccing the Titans on Sonic himself. Subverted as she's more of an Anti-Villain trying to keep her creator Doctor Eggman safe from a far worse evil, and her actions against Sonic were to prevent said evil's escape. Once she and Sonic are on better terms, she starts turning blue and white instead.
    • Even the aforementioned Titans adopt this exact color scheme (with the exception of SUPREME).
• Soul Sacrifice:
  • Avalon and its members don a red and black color scheme. This is Downplayed because the faction isn't truly evil, but its members are still Knight Templars who are Hell-bent on killing Archfiends out of the belief that their actions are Necessarily Evil to protect the world from monsters. However, they will make a few exceptions unless too many of them were saved, which in that case, they'll send assassins to handle the perpetrator.
  • Played Straight with Cert, a cruel god that resembles a demonic baby with a single bat wing and a weaponized umbilical cord of darkness, all donned with an evil black and red color scheme. He's one of the game's two Greater Scope Villains responsible for the game's Crapsack World setting, along with the corruption of mortals and animals with his evil creation: the Sacred Chalice.
• Nightmare and Pyrrha Omega from Soul Series are the wielders of Soul Edge, a sword of pure evil.
• The shady corporation Roxxon from Spider-Man: Miles Morales loves to incorporate red and black motifs in anything related to it: buildings, the company's plaza, its troops' red and black power armor... and even Rhino gets in on the theming when Simon Krieger recruits him later in the game.
• In the 2008 remake of Splatterhouse, around Phase Five, you'll start running into more powerful enemies wearing this scheme.
• StarCraft:
  • The logo for the Terran Dominion, which despite the name is The Empire, is a stylized arm holding a whip. Sometimes the arm is red on a black background, other times it's black on a red background. This trope is part of the foreshadowing of what they will become when you meet them early on as allies; the Sons of Korhal militant group it grew out of used a less stylized version of the same symbol.
  • In StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, the Tal'darim embrace this. A violence-obsessed splinter faction (Ax-Crazy, Might Makes Right, Klingon Promotion, the works) of the normally gold-and-blue Protoss, their unit designs are spikier and colored in red and black. While initially antagonistic, they end up as the Token Evil Teammate of The Alliance the protagonist is building to face down the threat of Amon, though they leave (peacefully) as soon as that's over with.
  • The Greater-Scope Villain, Amon, is an Eldritch Abomination whose presence is signified by darkness and blood-red light. His true form shares this color scheme as well, fitting for an Omnicidal Maniac. The Tal'darim worshiped him until the events of Legacy of the Void.
• The Phantoms in Star Ocean: The Last Hope are soulless red and black silicon constructs that act as the combat forces of the Grigori, and take the shapes of the various alien species that had their data assimilated.
• Star Shift Series: The Earth Systems Alliance, the main antagonistic faction that seeks to conquer other planets and monopolize time technology, has a flag that consists of a red earth on a black background.
• Super Mario Bros.: Although he himself is a Secondary Color Nemesis, many of Bowser's insignias are a red face on a black background; his sports outfits are colored black with a dash of red and sometimes with a fire motif; and his Fury Bowser form has his body being completely black with his eyebrows and hair still red but more firey-looking.
• Super Robot Wars:
  • As part of being a Char Clone, Elzam paints his robots black with red bits (along with other tweaks). He eventually gets his own robot, the Aussenseiter, which is also in this costume. Although Elzam himself is a subversion as while starting out as an Aloof Big Brother antagonist, he's closer to a Noble Demon/Hero Antagonist whose 'Heel' status was merely because he's on the Divine Crusaders side for complicated reasons. He eventually does an official Heel–Face Turn, though (and it's only after that he gets his Aussenseiter)... then we get to see that his true personality is anything but 'Evil All Over' (in fact a little goofy that it embarrasses his little bro)
  • Third Super Robot Wars Z: Jigoku-Hen: Shikuu's clothing is red and black, and his actions in the epilogue scenario clearly show that he is up to no good.
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Dharkon's color scheme is this trope combined with Purple Is the New Black, and he is one of the most dangerous villains in the Smash franchise.
• Inverted in Supreme Commander with the Cybran. Despite rocking this colour scheme and a variety of other traditionally "evil" aesthetics, they are the least dark of the factions.
• The main unifying element of the God-Generals' outfits in Tales of the Abyss is black. Most of them also pair it with red. The biggest exception is Sync, who goes for black and green instead, probably to associate him with Ion, who wears white and green. Asch is probably the best example of the trope as he's also an Evil Redhead, and yet he also subverts it because he's way too complicated to be Obviously Evil.
• Rideaux from Tales of Xillia 2 wears a red and black striped suit that's just one part of his Obviously Evil appearance.
• ULTRAKILL: The Heresy Layer is the most sinister-looking layer in the game, being a Creepy Cathedral made of obsidian-black buildings with blood-red windows, along with doors that contain the agonizing souls of heretics. Its surfaces are decorated with goat skull symbols, its interiors are filled with pitch-black darkness and red fogs, one of its arenas in 6-1 has a Lava Pit, its early central room in 6-1 has a giant bleeding skeleton that's hung upside-down, a blazing-red sky looms over the horizon, and it's raining blood in P-2. The evil part is emphasized when the second part of the Alternate Reality Game drops a huge bombshell regarding the game's lore: Hell is alive and sadistic.
• Every malevolent thing in Viva Piñata has this color scheme.
• Warframe:
  • The Stalker, a mysterious character that avenges bosses and wears a modified Excalibur Warframe decked out in red and blank, and uses red and black weapons with wonderful happy names like Dread, Hate, and Despair.
  • The Red Veil syndicate, also decked out in red and black jumpsuits, are the unfettered liberators of the Origin System; while they fight against the Grineer and Corpus and try to avoid civilian casualties, they use cold-blooded torture and belief in a great purge.
  • The Kuva Fortress, the stronghold of the Grineer and home to the Twin Queens, is decorated entirely in this color scheme, as is the armor of the Kuva Grineer troops that inhabit it. This matches the appearance of the elder of the Queens.
• Averted in World of Warcraft; the Horde's default banner is a black symbol on red, but we are explicitly told that the Horde is not 'evil' and their opposition the Alliance is not 'good'.
• XCOM 2: The ADVENT regime is an alien-controlled Police State that created a False Utopia on Earth, and its main colors are red and black. This extends to some of their soldiers too, such as the Trooper, the Officer and the Stun Lancer.
• XenoGears: Grahf is fully armored in a red and black outfit alongside his Gear, Alpha Weltall, that's entirely black with a few red marks.
• Split Dynasty ships in the X-Universe games have rust-red armor panels with gray/black unarmored sections. The Split aren't particularly evil, but they have a burning hatred for the peaceful Boron Kingdom. The Xenon fleet, a bunch of rogue terraforming robots, have pitch black hulls and exposed internals glowing blood red.
• Yes, Your Grace: The game includes an invading army wearing those colors. In the present case, they are also used to subvert the "evil" part of the trope.

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