Basic Trope: A character who receives horrible injuries wears red. * Straight: Alice is wearing red in battle and gets stabbed by her opponent. * Exaggerated: Anyone wearing any red during battle gets brutally sliced up by the enemy. * Justified: The bright red made Alice stand out more among her comrades, and so the enemy decided to target her. * Inverted: * Alice, wearing her red jacket, is the only one to escape the battle uninjured. * Alternatively, when a wound opens back up, Alice takes off her red shirt, treating everyone to a nice view of the gaping hole in her chest. * Subverted: * Alice, battling while wearing all red, looks to be wounded...but it turns out not to be her blood on her clothing, but her opponent's instead. * Alternatively, Alice