Examples of Fiery Redheads in comic books.
The DCU
- Aquaman: The titular hero's wife, Mera, to the point where she was briefly inducted into the Red Lantern Corps during the Blackest Night crossover. In the post-Rebirth continuity, she took on the entire Justice League while in Unstoppable Rage mode and gave them a serious run for their money.
- Batgirl: Barbara "Babs" Gordon in the current continuity (originally, she was a brunette; Batgirl's red hair was a wig attached to the cowl). In Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl, she is temperamental, passionate and headstrong to the point of rudeness.
- The Flash: Wally West is very impulsive, and his terrible temper is a consistent flaw of him even after the Character Development. This contrasts him with his -usually- cautious mentor Barry Allen.Wally: Superman has Kryptonite, Martian Manhunter has fire...I have a temper.
- Green Lantern: Guy Gardner. Described by as "Loud, and angry, and obnoxious, and ginger!"
- Hunter's Hellcats: The redheaded Heller is famous for her fiery temper. Her need for vengeance drove her to join the WACs in an attempt to find the man who killed her father, despite the fact that he could be anywhere in the US theatre of operation, and her explosive temper landed her in the guardhouse for assaulting a superior officer, which is where Ben Hunter recruited her for the Hellcats.
- Erin McKillen, Irish mobster who scarred Harvey Dent in the New 52. Would also qualify as an Evil Redhead.
- Robin (1993): Callie Evans may be a natural brunette but she dyes her hair a reddish orange and is outgoing, outspoken and passionate.
- Starfire is fierce in combat, and not only is she a redhead, but also her hairstyle makes it look like flames, which causes a literal version of the trope. Depending on the Artist, she sometimes has literal Flaming Hair (it starts out normal and ends in flames).
- In Supergirl story Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, Lena Luthor is a very volatile redhead with a hair-trigger temper.
- Superman:
- Lana Lang is a pretty temperamental redhead. In Bizarrogirl she doesn't hesitate to tell Supergirl off when the Girl of Steel is wallowing in depression.
- Maxima, who is definitely not a hero, but a spitfire. She is redheaded royal with superpowers and a crush on Superman (or Supergirl in Supergirl (2011): Crucible).
- One of the franchise's other redheads, Jimmy Olsen, is an inversion, being an adventurous Unluckily Lucky Nice Guy. That said, Beware the Nice Ones sometimes applies to him as much as it does to Superman.
- Wonder Woman:
- Wonder Woman (1942): In the Golden Age of Comics Etta Candy was a redheaded prankster tomboy who loved fights, boys and candy and led a group of gals to fight Nazis at every opportunity.
- From Wonder Woman (1987) on Artemis of the Bana-Mighdall qualifies as a redheaded Amazon who often serves as a more violent, less compassionate but far more impassioned foil to Diana.
Marvel Universe
- The Mighty Thor: Angela is a redheaded Asgardian warrior and as fiery and boisterous as most other Asgardians.
- Black Widow: Natasha Romanov started out with black hair and was only "revealed" as actually a redhead in her ASM #86 makeover. Did not become appreciably fierier after the change.
- Iron Fist: In Immortal Iron Fist, there's Fongji, a rare K'un-L'un native with red hair (her mother was a native, but her father was from outside the city). While outwardly very stoic, when she does get angry, there tends to be actual fire. Again - Phoenix Host.
- Patsy Walker, Hellcat, formerly married to matching Fiery Redhead Daimon "Son of Satan/Hellstorm" Hellstrom.
- Marine Sergeant Rachel Cole-Alves from The Punisher. Took on the Punisher in a fist fight, it doesn't get more fiery than that.
- The Rawhide Kid is a redheaded gunslinger whose hot temper sometimes lands him in trouble.
- Spider-Man: Mary Jane Watson. Current page image, and right from her very first appearance she stood out from the rest of the supporting cast due to her lively personality.
- Pash Davane in Star Wars (Marvel 2015) was a red-headed, Hot-Blooded Amazonian Beauty who got the nickname "Bash" after beating someone with a rock.
- X-Men:
- Jean Grey and her temporally displaced/alternate timeline daughter, Rachel Summers, who not only fit the personality trope, but also happen to manifest their powers in the form of giant birds made of fire. However, Jean often subverts the trope, especially in her pre-Phoenix days, when she was one of the most level-headed Marvel superheroines with a personality very reminiscent of the Fantastic Four's team mommy Sue Storm Richards. Rachel on the other hand has always been fiery, before during and after her own Phoenix days. Oddly enough, though, she never showed any real sign of going Dark Phoenix like her mother, despite having every reason to do so.
- Rahne Sinclair of The New Mutants (Excalibur, X-Force, X-Factor, New X-Men...) is at once shy, passionate, religious, conflicted, and a redhead. Her fiery personality is hidden under piety most of the time.
Other
- The Busty air pirate Red Monika from Battle Chasers has a fiery temper to go along with her red hair and will realest her fury against friend or foe if provoked.
- Chassis. The 17 year old Chassis McBain disobeys her father's edict and runs away to compete in the Aero-Run; the world's most dangerous sport.
- ElfQuest:
- Redlance is an inversion because he's usually very quiet and shy. Although not when it comes to sex, according to the novelization.
- Ember, a dark-skinned redhead with a hot temper, though she's usually in control.
- Emilka Sza - one of main character Maya is red hair girl who is very prone to anger outburst.
- Lady Rawhide, even if it is a dye job in her case. Anita even notes how her personality seems to change when she is in her Lady Rawhide disguise.
- Little Orphan Annie has all the trappings of one...as a 10-year-old girl.
- Red Sonja will start a fight over anything from massacring a village to running out of ale. She's at her fighting best in a white-hot rage.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Princess Sally Acorn, while normally a kind and caring down-to-earth girl, has her moments where she slips towards this. Issue #134 is an egregious example of this.
- Valhalla: Thor is portrayed as he is in the original myths; a hot-headed Boisterous Bruiser who can switch between berserker rage and huge laughs at the drop of a hat.
- X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Plourr, who is revealed to have red hair (she initially shaved her head), is quick-tempered and lashes out at when angered.
