Groundskeeper Willie: Embodying the ginger rage since 1991.
Examples of Fiery Redhead in Western Animation.
- Taken literally with the hot-tempered and red-headed Flame Princess in Adventure Time who often swings between adorable & cute and angry & violent.
- The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin: Young Hot-Blooded Prince Arin, whom the others often have to restrain from going off half-cocked charging into everything (Though his red hair is usually hidden underneath a helmet).
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: Brittany. Her hair is strawberry blonde in some incarnations of the Chipmunks universe (such as the live-action movies) and DAMN, she's fiery.
- Suki from Avatar: The Last Airbender inverts this trope. While she is the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors and Sokka's eventual girlfriend, she's actually one of the nicest characters of the show.
- The Backyardigans: Tyrone is usually a pretty mellow Deadpan Snarker, but he's been shown to have quite a temper in some episodes, like "Best Clowns in Town" and "Sinbad Sails Alone".
- Batman: The Animated Series: While ordinarily a sensual seductress Poison Ivy isn't someone you want to piss off. Doing so makes her switch from teasing and kissing you to busting out her wrist mounted crossbow, trying to make a few bloody holes in your head as she screams "murderer!" like a dementedly enraged harpy. Batman learned that during their first encounter.
- Ben 10:
- Gwen fits this trope, but in the Time Skipped sequel Ben 10: Alien Force, she seems to have outgrown it, unless you hurt her loved ones. That's when things start blowing up.
- Ben's Rath form is a Fiery Redhead over most of his body, being an anthro tiger. He's also Unstoppable Rage personified.
- The Bots Master: Blitzy Zulander is easily the more hot-headed of the Zulander siblings, preferring full-on assaults against the Corp. She's also the main pilot of the combining Humongous Mecha Jungle Fiver.
- Nonny from Bubble Guppies is an inversion. He has orange hair, but is actually quite The Stoic.
- One of Bugs Bunny's adversaries, Gruesome Gorilla, is a Killer Gorilla (as his name would indicate) with a red tuft of hair on his head. However, he averts this trope in Apes of Wrath (his final appearance,note albeit renamed Elvis), where he doesn't have his red hair tuft.
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Wheeler has red hair and the temper and fighting experience to match, which makes it very on-point when he ends up with the power of Fire.
- Inverted by Philly Phil from Class of 3000, who is a redhead and a mellow if eccentric fellow.
- Numbuh 86 in Codename: Kids Next Door, an Irish girl with a mass of curly red hair. She is very well-known for having a fiery temper.
- Craig of the Creek:
- Kelsey is a red-blooded Tomboy who fancies herself a fearless warrior and is quick to jump into action.
- Averted with JP, the other redheaded main character, who is mellow and easygoing.
- Big Red, a Tiny Tyrannical Girl with big, curly red hair, who often has an antagonistic relationship with Craig.
- Danny Phantom: Averted by Jasmine "Jazz" Fenton. She wasn't a spitfire. She was a stuck-up (but caring) know-it-all.
- Daria: Quinn Morgendorffer, when she gets really worked up. Usually subverted though, since she acts more like a Dumb Blonde, despite having orange-red hair.
- Darkwing Duck:
- Darkwing's adopted daughter Gosalyn. She is fierce and spirited and has red hair.
- Averted by the show's other notable red-haired character, Launchpad, who is a Gentle Giant.
- Dave the Barbarian has Fang, a Barbarian Hero who relishes in mayhem and destruction.
- Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter's family is split evenly between this and the Dumb Blonde stereotype; he and his mother are fiery redheads and his sister and dad are happy-go-lucky yellow-haired ditzes.
- The Dreamstone: Amberly is usually rather level-headed and soft-spoken; however, her temper flares immensely at times. The Urpneys know this first hand.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy:
- Sarah is violent, screams a lot, and has a Hair-Trigger Temper.
- Lee Kanker is a reckless, Hot-Blooded bully who also qualifies as Evil Redhead.
- Kevin can be also considered one. Though he's much calmer than the other two above, he has his fair share of his short-tempered moments, which are often caused by the Eds, most especially Eddy.
- Vicky from The Fairly Oddparents, Timmy's loud, violent, and sadistic babysitter.
- Lois Griffin from Family Guy has shades of this when her patience with Peter is at her limit, especially in the first Christmas special when she completely loses it and goes on a destructive mini-rampage.
- Averted hard to the point of an inversion or Stereotype Flip with the McShooty's bartender in the Family Guy episode "Internal Affairs". She greets the gang in a very friendly manner, Quagmire mistakes her for this trope and makes an off-color joke and she runs off, sobbing, apparently traumatized by the encounter. Even Quagmire's "okay, so she's a regular woman" still isn't quite accurate.
- Inverted in Fireman Sam - the red-haired Sam is very calm and level-headed, while the also ginger Norman is more mischievous than hot-tempered.
- Every woman in the Slaghoople bloodline in The Flintstones — Wilma's mother, Wilma, and Pebbles. Their bold attitudes are more than enough to keep Fred in line.
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Frankie, as Mr. Herriman and Bloo learn when they push her too far.
- Gargoyles:
- Fox. More determined than hot-tempered, however.
- Demona. As hot-tempered as her hair colour implies.
- Goof Troop: Peg and Pistol form a mother-daughter pair of this. Peg is quite frightening when angry and is very assertive about her sensible opinions (unlike her Shrinking Violet/Extreme Doormat son) to the point she's actually able to control her otherwise bossy and dominating husband. Pistol is a Genki Girl and a Bratty Half-Pint.
- In Gravity Falls, this is played straight with Manly Dan but averted with his daughter, Wendy, who is more laidback than her dad.
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy hilariously inverts the Fiery Redhead and Dumb Blonde trope with the two titular characters. Redheaded Billy is dumb and blonde-haired Mandy is more fiery (although Billy does have his moments of fits of rage). Billy's mother, Gladys, also has red hair and she has many fits of rage and sometimes even nervous breakdowns.
- Grojband: Laney Penn is a tomboy with red Boyish Short Hair and a fearless, spunky attitude that makes her one to avoid making mad. She also catches fire every so often.
- Grossology: Abby's most notable trait is her red hair that she keeps in a large ankle-length ponytail, with her being far more excitable than her dark-haired brother Ty.
- Hey Arnold!:
- Ernie Potts is a demolition man Napoleon with a Hair-Trigger Temper. Though he is mostly bald, the hair he has left is red.
- The red-headed Campfire Lass got angry at Arnold and Gerald at the end of the episode "Chocolate Turtles", revealing that she is Violent Glaswegian. She also got angry at Helga at the end of "Helga Blabs It All".
- The Hollow: Kai is the member of the group most prone to emotional outbursts.
- Zoey Stilton from Horseland is the redhead of the group who's often self-centered and aloof.
- Saffi on Jimmy Two-Shoes has dark red hair and a wild, crazy personality.
- Justice League:
- Hawkgirl/Shayara Hol has a warrior’s spirit and is one of the League’s strongest fighters.
- Hawk/Hank Hall is shown to be a redhead at the beginning of "Hawk and Dove" and is Hot-Blooded.
- Kaeloo: Averted with Eugly, who despite having red hair is actually the most docile, kind, and calm character on the show.
- Kim Possible:
- Kim herself has red hair, and she also has incredible drive and passion. Ironically, Animology calls these traits "blue fox".
- Kim's mother Anne is an inversion; she also has red hair, but she's generally calmer and more put together than her brown-haired husband.
- Magi-Nation: Edyn boasts an enormous head of orange hair, and can be quite temperamental.
- Kiva from Megas XLR, the series' tough and determined resident Action Girl.
- Mike, Lu & Og: Mike is an inversion. While being a sports-loving red-haired girl, she is actually calm and rather laid-back, compared to the shorter-tempered brunette princess Lu. Though there are a few times when she's pushed over the edge like in "Sultans of Swat" and "To Serve Lu".
- Adam Lyon from My Gym Partner's a Monkey is this. It even becomes a Running Gag in the episode Wild Thing.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- Rainbow Dash is a tomboy with tons of attitude, and though her mane has enough colors to fit her name, her bangs are warmer colors (red, orange, and yellow) and are more prominent, while the cooler colors (green, blue, and purple) are mostly hidden behind her neck.
- Sunset Shimmer is ambitious, testy, sarcastic, hot-tempered, and red-haired — although admittedly her hair's about an even mix of red and yellow.
- Over the Garden Wall: The ending sequence reveals that Beatrice has red hair as a human, which combined with her already shown snarky and easily angered personality puts her in this trope.
- Pepper Ann: Pepper Ann Pearson, though she's more spacy and neurotic than fiery. In the uniform episode, she admits that it's auburn, which other characters agree to once she tries to take credit for being the trope.
- Melba Manners from Pet Alien is a redhead who has a fiery temper that's caused her to lash out (and even attack) Tommy, Granville, and the aliens on occasion. Even when she's calm, she's still caustic and crabby at best, and loves threatening people into doing menial tasks for her.
- Phineas and Ferb: Candace. Her long hair is more orange than red, but she is still an overactive girl.
- The Powerpuff Girls: In general, most notably "Stuck Up, Up, and Away", and "Boy Toys"
- Princess Morbucks. She’s as antagonistic as she is angry, always hotheaded, whiny, and incredibly bratty.
- Blossom is a subversion. She's the most level-headed of the Powerpuff Girls, and even when she does, it's not as frequent when compared to Buttercup (brunette), who loses it almost every time, nor is it played for comedic effect like Bubbles, who often can get hyper with her emotions.
- Miss Bellum is an inversion. She is more level-headed than everyone else in Townsville. Only one instance has her lose it with the Mayor's stupidity ("Pet Feud").
- Rainbow Brite: Red Butler has orange hair and a red color motif. He is a headstrong boy.
- Ready Jet Go!: Jet Propulsion has fiery red hair. However, he isn't angry per se, he's moreso excitable and passionate, making him a subversion.
- Played with in The Real Ghostbusters and its '90s successor Extreme Ghostbusters; Ray Stantz becomes a redhead thanks to Adaptation Dye-Job (his hair is brown, Dan Ackroyd's natural hair color, in the movies); he's headstrong, passionate, and excitable, but very much a Nice Guy. It's the brunette Peter Venkman who has the temper often associated with the trope. Ditto the Ghostbusters' Sassy Secretary Janine Melnitz, though to a lesser extent as her hair was already a reddish-brown color in the first movie.
- Recess:
- Subverted with Gretchen, as she's pretty easygoing, unless you make her really mad. She and raven-haired Spinelli actually swap their normal hair tropes: Gretchen's the brainy one (who was going to have black hair originally), while Spinelli's the fiery one. Played straight with Ashley Q.
- As flashbacks show us, Miss Finster was a redhead, and still fiery.
- Rocket Power: Mackenzie Benders is an ankle-biter with a bitter attitude.
- Rocko's Modern Life: Bev Bighead can become this at times, mostly when she's irritated with Ed.
- Samurai Jack: The Scotsman is a loud, brutish warrior (and about the closest thing Jack has to a friend). Then there's his wife, who's even louder and more bad-tempered than he is. Season five introduces us to his Amazonian Beauty Action Girl daughters who are all boisterous and have been raised as warriors to fight Aku.... he has least 41 of them.
- Doyle Blackwell from The Secret Saturdays, Zak's confident and reckless Cool Uncle.
- The Simpsons features Groundskeeper Willie, a Violent Glaswegian with the requisite Scottish red hair.
- The Smurfs: Sassette was this before Papa Smurf changed her into a real Smurf. That's where she gets her name. Averted in the comic books, where she is more chatty than bratty when she was first created.
- South Park:
- Kyle is this (though his huge red Jewfro is normally covered by his hat), often instigated as a result of Cartman's bigotry or greed. This can lead to his own Jerkass tendencies, approaching Knight Templar at times. His mother, too, is a full-blown fiery Jewish Knight Templar redhead.
- Harrison Yates, South Park's red-haired police sergeant, is far more brutal than actually competent.
- Darryl Weathers is a "Pissed Off White Trash Redneck Conservative"—with more than a passing resemblance to Jeff Foxworthy—who incessantly screams about how the refugees from the future TOOK OUR JOBS!
- Craig's father Thomas Tucker can be pretty fiery whenever someone pisses him off. He also had a habit of Flipping the Bird to whoever annoyed him in the earlier seasons.
- Kenny's mother Carol McCormick can be this too. She's an alcoholic who often butts heads with her husband.
- Recurring Character Skeeter is a redhead who tends to get passionately angry over insanely petty and nonsensical things.
- Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends: Taken almost as literally as one possibly can with Firestar (she has brown hair in her human form).
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Death Watch member (and Duchess Satine's sister) Bo-Katan Kryze. Even though she is usually calm, she somewhat fits as a Fiery Redhead due to being a rather aggressive character. Also is an Evil Redhead.
- Steven Universe: Ruby is very much this, having a red tint in her hair along with being red overall. She is very Hot-Blooded, to the point of her evaporating an entire pool because of her anger.
- Stunt Dawgs: Sizzle, especially since she uses explosives!
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: If a headband counts as hair, Raphael certainly qualifies. Subverted in the comics, though, as all the turtles have red headbands.
- Teen Titans: Starfire doesn't have the fiery temper (unless you hurt her friends), but she's very passionate and energetic. She even flies using "unbridled joy" and uses star bolts powered by "righteous fury!"
- Time Squad: While Otto is generally outgoing and friendly towards everyone around him, he doesn't appreciate it when adults are mean to him or do something incredibly stupid. Sometimes, the attitude towards these types of people are just plain spiteful. He will often argue and lose his temper altogether a few times. Sometimes, he will work out a plan that has the sole purpose of simply humiliating someone, let alone get a mission completed.
- Izzy on the Total Drama series is well known and well-loved for her hyperactive and unpredictable personality. In Revenge of the Island, the normally level-headed Zoey can get this way when provoked.
- Totally Spies!:
- Subverted since the redhead Sam is a Badass Bookworm and the brains of the group.
- However, Gabriella seems to be more spitfire than her daughter mentioned above.
- The Transformers Generation 1:
- Cliffjumper is a hotheaded little red Autobot who is extremely paranoid and eager to blindly charge into a fight.
- Ironhide is a crusty old veteran but is also eager to wade into a good fight. Has a red 'helmet' and main body.
- Hot Rod is brash, impetuous, and outspoken as a young Autobot, and retains a primarily red/magenta color. Averted later as he becomes solidly brick red as Rodimus Prime, but also becomes more morose, brooding, and jaded.
- Warpath is a shouty Boisterous Bruiser with no subtlety and love of combat and turns into a maroon tank.
- Winx Club: Bloom the main character, is a VERY literal example in the "fiery" part, specially if friends of hers are endangered.
- Doubles as Evil Redhead, Jack Spicer from Xiaolin Showdown is a hammy Card-Carrying Villain with blood-red hair.
- Yosemite Sam. Quite obviously. One of the songs from The Looney Tunes Show, "Blow My Stack", is about his anger issues which go to ridiculous extents in the music video.
- Young Justice (2010): Speedy, aka Red Arrow, was ticked off at constantly being Green Arrow's sidekick and set off on his own. Despite this, he genuinely cares about his friends and looks after them. In secret.
