History Main / BringMyRedJacket

* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'' usually wears either all red or elements of red as part of her regular wardrobe. Lampshaded by Paper Star in one episode:
-->''"Red is a smart color for you. It'll hide the stains."''

* In ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' the main character David Kessler is introduced wearing a red jacket and wears it while getting viciously attacked by a werewolf that passes the lycanthropy onto him. It won't end well for him, to put it mildly.

* In ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', Campbell wears a red team sweatshirt on the day [[spoiler:he commits suicide]].

* In ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', [[DarkChick Helga Brandt]] is wearing a red dress [[spoiler:[[YouHaveFailedMe when she's executed by Blofeld for failing to murder Bond]].]]

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' -

* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' - Deadpool has "always been partial to red and black" and his uniform is primarily red with black accents.
** In [[Film/Deadpool2016 the movie]], he even says he went with red so it hides any blood. This is on the advice of a friend when he couldn't get it out of an earlier costume at the laundromat.
* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}: During the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' story arc in which Supergirl joins the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lanterns]] and wears a red-and-black uniform, her battles are bloodier and more violent than usual.

* Ban from ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' is an immortal that is often subjugated to all sorts of bloody wounds that he can just simply heal from. Fittingly, his standard attire is predominately red.

* Asuka in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' wears a red plugsuit and has red hair. She is the one that gets the most severe injuries out of all of the pilots. Asuka gets to feel the pain of [[spoiler:being impaled through the eye, eaten alive, arm cut in half, and finally impaled through her arm, head (again), and torso with 9 spears]], all at 300% strength. (Her sync rate of 300 made her feel everything three times stronger than reality.)\\
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The same goes for her red mech, Unit 02, which, in one battle, had both arms and its head cut off, while, in TheMovie, it was wrecked up in such a violent way that it's only rivaled by the destruction of [[spoiler:Unit 03, piloted by Toji.]]
** It's implied that Asuka's sync rate is so high in ''End of Evangelion'' that anything that happens to her Eva actually physically happens to her as well. As seen when [[spoiler:her arm seemingly spontaneously splits in half just as her Eva is speared by the MP Evas]].
** The trope also applies to Misato, who wears a red jacket and is [[spoiler:the only main character to be killed in the JSSDF's raid in ''End of Evangelion'', as she is fatally shot, and, before she can succumb from her injuries, ''blown up.'']]

* Van from ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'' fits this trope to a T. Look no further than episode 14 as an example.

The trope name comes from an old joke: the [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen captain of a ship]] always asks for his red jacket before a battle, so his crew won't see him bleed and therefore lose morale. Just before a battle, he asks for his red jacket to be brought to him and, when his friend asks why, explains that. Thinking about that, and about his own fear of the combat about to ensue, the friend calls out for the crew to BringMyBrownPants.

* Averted in ''LightNovel/AllYouNeedIsKill''. The [[RedBaron Full Metal Bitch]] wears red PoweredArmor, but she's famous for [[TheAce never having a scratch on it]]. It's meant as inspiration for her fellow soldiers and also to [[BloodKnight draw the attention of the enemy]].

Characters who have a tendency to receive horrible injuries also tend to wear red. Perhaps this is some bizarre permutation of the RedShirt effect, warped slightly by ContractualImmortality. Perhaps some otherworldly fashion deity has declared that anyone likely to be spattered with blood must wear complementing shades of scarlet. Or perhaps it is the censors wanting to keep the carnage from standing out more. Whatever the reason, it sometimes seems as though all a guy has to do to get his arm hacked off is stand near some red drapes. And woe be to one of those guys if he ever comes near a [[BullSeeingRed bullfighting stadium]]...

* Giuseppe Garibaldi, an important player in the unification of Italy in the 19th century, led [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirts_(Italy) redshirts]] (not [[RedShirt that kind]]) to battle. Some legends say he was inspired by butchers using the blood-hiding aspect, but Wiki/TheOtherWiki notes this is unlikely.

The trope name comes from an old joke: the [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen captain of a ship]] always asks for his red jacket before a battle, so his crew won't see him bleed and therefore lose morale. The punchline supplies the name for BringMyBrownPants.