Sandbox / Evil Redhead Wick Check

• Characters.Chainsaw Man Makima And Nayuta: She has pale red hair, and her morals are questionable from the very beginning. Her eventual reveal as the Big Bad lands her firmly in this territory. [Gives barely enough context to belong in this folder.]
• Characters.The Nostalgia Chick: He was the one that indirectly killed Nella. Even foreshadowed in "NChick Labs" when Nella herself warned them against guys with red hair. [This is one of the very, very few examples I found in the wick check where red hair had any explicit connection to a character's villainy.]
• GirlGenius.Tropes A To E: Pretty much the entire extended Valois family has been seen to have the same shade of red hair. Although not all of them are quite as evil as others, most fall into this category one way or another just because of their scheming and backstabbing. Out of the confirmed redheads: [This one, though I listed it under "correct usage," still has a few problems in the sub-bullets.]
  • Aaronev is a former redhead (considering someone mistook his redhaired son for him) who has killed multiple girls, including his own daughter, in an attempt to download the mind of his former love interest into a new body. [So, in other words, he's not even depicted as a redhead on-screen; that's just inferred.]
  • Martellus has kidnapped Agatha and altered her bodily chemistry so she is forced to stay near him at all times so that he can force her to marry him, and has tried to kill Tarvek and Gil multiple times. His sister Xerxsephnia isn't quite so bad, but is still triple-crossing Martellus, Gil, and Agatha so that she can discredit Agatha and trick Gil into marrying her. [Would probably work on it's own had it mentioned their red hair.]
  • As for the family's few White Sheep: Tarvek is still not exactly the best role model, having double-crossed and betrayed multiple protagonists and antagonists, with most of his "good" actions being calculated to his benefit. [An antihero who isn't really that evil.]
• Series.Rock Of Love: Lacey is the "villain" of the show, and manages to piss off everyone in the house, including Brett's "superfan" guests. Double for her Charm School mates. When she appears on Rock Of Love Bus Mindy recognizes the red hair first.
• Series.Salute Your Shorts: Budnick has bright red hair (the other main characters all have blond, brown, or black hair) and is by far the most scheming and manipulative person at Camp Anawanna.
• Series.Shakespeare Unwrapped: This version depicts Goneril as cold, cruel and ruthless. Also with red hair. [Gives barely enough context to belong in this folder.]
• Literature.The Princess Diaries: Grandmere holds this belief, at least towards those of a lower class than hers (she's fine with Prince Harry and movie stars yet thinks Ron Weasley to be the villain instead of Voldemort), Olivia's Jerkass Uncle and her cousins fill this role perfectly.
• Literature.The Science Of Winning: The author seems to really hate redheads for some reason, since every single red-haired person in this series happens to be a villain.
• WesternAnimation.Xiaolin Showdown: Jack has red hair and is a self-proclaimed Evil Genius. Wuya in her flesh form has red hair and is more powerful in her human form than in her ghost form. [Gives barely enough context to belong in this folder.]

• GameOfThrones.Tropes E To F: Melisandre provides the trope image. She's a Knight Templar priestess of a fire-themed god who practices blood magic, advocates human sacrifice by burning, and generally serves as an Evil Chancellor to Stannis. However, she seems to believe her actions are necessary to save humanity from the White Walkers, and from what we've seen of them, she may in fact be right.
• Characters.Pokemon Gold And Silver: He's evil at first, but then he settles for being a noble rival.
• GameOfThrones.Tropes E To F: Melisandre provides the trope image. She's a Knight Templar priestess of a fire-themed god who practices blood magic, advocates human sacrifice by burning, and generally serves as an Evil Chancellor to Stannis. However, she seems to believe her actions are necessary to save humanity from the White Walkers, and from what we've seen of them, she may in fact be right.
• OneThousandWaysToDie.Tropes E To K: Alexis from "Sky Scraped", a Morally Bankrupt Banker.
• Series.Odd Girl Out: Ezra is a loudmouthed punk who was even first introduced into the film as fighting with Tony in gym class. His behavior over the film gets worse as he begins to bully Vanessa both offline and online simply because he felt like it in spite of her doing nothing against him, thoughtlessly blurts out after her suicide attempt that she shot herself and even sends a message while she was still hospitalized taunting her over it and goading him to take his own mother's pills to finish the job. Thankfully, this last act gets him in trouble along with Nikki and Tiffany, who'd rather be banned from graduation and have to go to summer school than to admit to their principal they were sending the threats.
• Series.Secrets Of Summer: The one and only Natasha Rossi who takes pleasure in making Steffi's life impossible.
• WesternAnimation.The Iron Giant: Mansley. While he initially appears to have good intentions, his actions over the course of the film show that he's quite a self-absorbed, pretentious Jerkass. He crosses the line when he threatens to have Hogarth taken away from Annie if he doesn't give up the Giant's location, and becomes so obsessed with destroying the Giant that he orders the launch of a nuclear missile, having forgotten about civilian casualites in his desire to destroy the Giant.

• Characters.Danganronpa Junko Enoshima: It's implied Junko's a natural redhead who dyes her hair blonde.
• Characters.Death Note Light Yagami: Light's hair is stylistically colored blood-red when he's feeling particularly vile, along with his eyes, but even when that's not the case, his hair is closer to auburn than brown and the reddest in the cast.
• Characters.Super Mario Bros Bowser: Originally just a scaly beast, Bowser gained an orange mohawk in time for Super Mario Bros. 3. He is the only redhead amongst the Koopa Clan.
• Recap.Big Finish Doctor Who 137 The Whispering Forest: Turlough is mistaken for a Taker because of his red hair— "Redthatch" is another name the citizens of Purity use for the Takers.
• Recap.Breath Of The Wild Chapter 49 Calamity Ganon: Calamity Ganon has Ganondorf's red hair, and that's just one hint of its prior human identity.
• VideoGame.Weaponlord: Divada, though she's more on the auburn side of things. [Barely even gives the "redhead" context, I might add.]
• Webcomic.From A Knight To A Lady: Prince Temir and Melrose Idris.
• Webcomic.Lovely Lovecraft: Hildred has auburn hair.
• WesternAnimation.Yin Yang Yo: Smoke and Ella Mental both have red hair.

• Characters.DCAMU Villains: Has red hair and is an Apokoliptian currently in service to a immortal supervillain.
• Characters.Batman Poison Ivy: An evil woman with red hair.
• Characters.Black Lagoon Lagoon Delivery Company: She's got maroon-colored hair, and she's one of the four villain protagonists.
• Characters.Lethal Company: A malevolent spirit of a red-haired child.
• Characters.Miss Kobayashis Dragon Maid Kobayashi Household: She has reddish pink hair, and originally was an antagonist.
• Characters.Mobile Fighter G Gundam: More 'arrogant and a Jerkass' than outright evil, but he is firmly on the side of the antagonists. [So, in other words, not even evil.]
• Series.National Treasure Edge Of History: Kacey is a redheaded woman and Billie's Dragon. [Barely even gives the "evil" context, I might add.]
• VideoGame.Tomb Raider Underworld: The Doppelgänger's hair color is bloody crimson and she serves as The Brute to Natla.
• WesternAnimation.Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken: Chelsea has long red hair and is the Big Bad.
• WesternAnimation.The Prince Of Atlantis: Eva, the Big Bad military leader/Corrupt Corporate Executive had bright scarlet hair.

• Anime.Mobile Fighter G Gundam: Michelo Chariot, subverted by the fact that he apparently dyes his hair that color.
• Characters.Danganronpa 3 Despair Arc: When she becomes a member of Ultimate Despair.
• FinalFantasyIX.Tropes A To H: Kuja when in his trance form.
• Literature.Fear Hall: Hope and her friends think Mary is this.
• Literature.The Night Of The Triffids: The villain of the Manhattan section of the novel.
• Literature.The Poison Apples: Subverted with Kristen. She starts off as Molly's rival for Pradeep's affections, but they bond in the end when she reveals her parents are getting a divorce.
• Literature.The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The father of Aoife and Scathach.
• Recap.Angel S 01 E 01 City Of: Cordelia's "friend," Margo, acts as a go-between for Russell and his new playmates.
• Series.Passions: Rebecca.
• VideoGame.Master Detective Archives Rain Code: Yomi Hellsmile.
• VideoGame.Theresia Dear Emile: Franz, after he's infected.
• Webcomic.Sinful: Beatrice.
• Webcomic.Sly Cooper Thief Of Virtue: Agent Ice.
• WesternAnimation.The New Adventures Of He Man: Crita.
• WesternAnimation.Ultimate Spider Man 2012: Thundra of the Frightful Four.
• WesternAnimation.X Men The Animated Series: Mystique.
• WesternAnimation.Yosemite Sam: Quite obviously combined with Fiery Redhead.

• Characters.MCU Inhumans: She's nicknamed "ginger ninja". She's not really evil, though, just misguided. [So she isn't evil?]
• Hitman.Tropes D To L: [Each sub-bullet has a different problem.]
  • Diana Burnwood, not coincidentally, is a ginger. [No mention of the evil.]
  • Dr. Von Kamprad is the first female target of the series, as well as the second ginger (just behind Agent Smith). [No (obvious to non-fans) mention of the evil.]
  • Vaana, the owner of the Shark Club in Las Vegas, can be found presiding over the "Hell" section of the dance floor. The Devil wears...cornrows? [No mention of the red hair.]
  • Margeaux LeBlanc a.k.a "The Bayou Beauty". [No mention of either evil or red hair.]
• VideoGame.I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream: Edna. The maid is quite bitchy, but is not evil (although she does have a picture of the Devil in her room...). [Outright says that it's not an example.]
• Webcomic.Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Frequently shows up. Overlaps with Self-Deprecation.
  I'm just realizing I always give my jerk characters red hair. It's nice to see one's self-hatred manifested so plainly.

Ayres, Brenda and Sarah E. Maier. A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts. Cham: Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83515-6.

• [PAGE 16] — And so, in the twenty-frst century, drawing from ancient mythology, Spider-Man says, “The Phoenix Force is crazy powerful cosmic frebird entity that for some reason seems to be attracted to earthbound redheads (I can relate)” (Aaron 2012, n.p.). And Charlie Brown still “can’t get that Little Red-Haired Girl out of [his] mind” (Schulz 2020 [1978], n.p.).
• [PAGES 34-35] — In “Judas’s Red Hair and the Jews,” Ruth Mellinkoff observes that redheads were regarded and portrayed in art and literature as “false, dangerous, tricky, shameless, over-sexed, deceitful, hot-tempered, unfaithful, foolish, war-like, crude, vulgar, low-class and unlucky for those who meet them.”³³ Harold B. Segel confrmed these attributes affxed to Jews, in a lecture titled “The Jew is Polish and Russian Literatures.” He described Edward Okuń’s painting of Judas (1901)³⁴ in the National Museum of Warsaw wherein “Judas’s hair and beard are red and scraggly and the nose is grotesquely crooked if mercifully not unduly long” (2005).
• [PAGE 39] — In short, literature and other media have perpetuated the stereotype of red hair with concupiscence. The female redhead is usually the devilish seductress who enslaves. When the male redhead is not depicted as a liar and dissembler as well, then he is enslaved because of the lust of and for another redhead.
• [PAGES 92-93] — The reason that I am ending with a reference to Boudica is an attempt to unravel the plaits of disparate groups of redheads covered in this chapter. Whether male or female, whether human or supernatural, whether now or then, and whether blessed or cursed, redheads have been invested with more than pheomelanin. Most portrayals of female redheads seem to have been made by men who have perceived them to be powerful entities that either pose a threat to men in the tradition of Circe and Medusa or else suggest a supernatural or spiritual superiority that can bewitch them and rob them of their potency. Most portrayals of male redheads seem to be equally possessed of strong abilities to deceive, betray, or generally cause trouble for other humans. Whichever strand that makes up a plait of red hair, it has never been regarded as natural. The color of red has been traditionally the color of power, and those who are redheads, draw and exert their power from their hair, just as the biblical Samson did.
• [PAGES 122-123] — In describing these red-haired portrayals, the art historian Ruth Mellinkoff uses such characterizations as “voluptuous nudity and famboyant, seductive gestures,” “sensuous, bacchanalian versions,” “salacious,” “sizzle with uninhibited sexuality,” and “seductively naked,” and Lot is a “libidinous old lecher,” in a “racy scene of insestuous sex” (1998, 835). Mellinkoff concludes that the tale “had become a sensuous theme which artists allegedly used to warn viewers that lust and venery were the cause of mankind’s ills, but which they also used as an excuse for uninhibited portrayals of erotic sexuality” (836). More to my point about red hair and its sexual prowess and defance, Mellinkoff interprets the daughters as having “cooperated to exploit a male target, sometimes with drink, but always with their sexuality, and ostensibly to promote a patriarchal line” (831), but the artists saw them, as they did Ham, as redheads after a patriarchal coup by emasculating men who had had power over them.
• [PAGE 286] — The question to still be explored is what we will do, over time, with these preconfigurations of a person’s character based on their hair color. The world at large is finally awakening to ideas of cultural appropriation and racial profiling; the unleashing of natural hair has been a positive outcome in a difficult year. The challenge now is to see what we will do with other long-held stereotypes like redheaded witches, carrot-top teens, and ginger-haired children; or, other biases toward “dumb” blondes, black-haired “goths,” or “boring” brunettes.

Clayson, Dennis E. and Micol R. C. Maughan. "Redheads and Blonds: Stereotypic Images." Psychological Reports 59 no. 2 (1986): 811-816. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1986.59.2.811.

• [PAGE 375] — One final stereotype was mentioned by only a few respondents, and it was perhaps another way of presenting a positive stereotype to resist many negative ones. Redheads were described as superior intellectual beings.
• [PAGE 814] — Redheaded women were seen as a relatively more powerful professional type, rather no-nonsense and not physically attractive.
• [PAGE 815] — The redheaded man has a surprisingly negative stereotype, being seen as very unattractive, less successful, and rather effeminate, with less potency than even the redheaded woman.

Heckert, Druann Maria and Amy Best. "Ugly Duckling to Swan: Labeling Theory and the Stigmatization of Red Hair." Symbolic Interaction 20, no. 4 (1997): 365-384. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/si.1997.20.4.365.

• [PAGE 372] — The most frequently mentioned stereotype revolved around anger or a hot temper. Virtually every respondent brought up this stereotype. One referred to this stereotype as the “fiery tempered will.” Another referred to it as the “vicious temper,” while a young female stated that “guys always say, gee her temper is really flaring.”
• [PAGE 373] — One respondent noted that “the freakouts” in movies all have red hair, and he pointed to the portrayal of the redheaded character, Malachai, in the movie, The Children of the Corn, which focused on marauding adolescent murderers in the Midwest.
• [PAGE 374] — Ironically, one set of stereotypes regarding redheads is diametrically opposed and gender specific. Redheaded females tend to be deemed wild and sexy; at the same time, however, redheaded males are desexualized in that they are stereotyped as wimps in a culture which portrays machismo and stud imagery as desirable for males.
• [PAGE 375] — One final stereotype was mentioned by only a few respondents, and it was perhaps another way of presenting a positive stereotype to resist many negative ones. Redheads were described as superior intellectual beings.

Thornburg, Morgan Lee. "The ginger, the pin-up, or the stepchild? Redheadedness as an embodied trope." Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects 428 (Fall 2020). https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/428.

• [PAGE 8] — O’Malley differentiates the terms as follows: “the ‘ginger,’ or person (most often male) with red hair, light skin, and freckles, is a nerdy, despicable figure, positioned socially beneath even that of the internet troll,” while the “redhead” refers to “someone who is either sexualized or deemed part of the attractive side of the spectrum of red hair phenotypes” (19). (Often, such people are referred to as having “auburn” hair rather than “red.”) In general, then, the red-haired male is decidedly “Ginger” while the “Redhead” persona is only available to females, though this persona is certainly not guaranteed for women in all contexts.
• [PAGE 23] — what is most pertinent to my research are the words that were associated with redheads of both genders: “unemotional,” “rugged,” and “strong-willed,” to name the top few.
• [PAGE 28] — all the kick-ass girls have red hair . . . whenever it is an independent girl, not a sidekick person, when she has her own mind, or does as good as the guys, she has red hair
• [PAGE 31] — animalistic, unintellectual, unreachable by reason, and all the more frightening for that
• [PAGES 34-35] — Anderson’s work further reveals the gender binary that exists for redheaded men and women. Anderson found that redheaded women have the option of being the “temptress” or the “trickster” (or both, in some situations, as is the case with Lilith). Anderson writes that redheaded women are given “permission to fill the role, and, in a sense, she performs the symbol [of being redheaded]” (27). Put simply, the hair of a redheaded woman allows her to act wantonly and liberated. Meanwhile, Anderson asserts that redheaded men are “puzzling. Most are white, but as ‘others,’ they are not quite white” (38). Like the women, redheaded men are considered outsiders, but they are almost exclusively cast as the villain or the fool.