Fan Casting Bring My Red Jacket in Sort by Tropes

Characters who have a tendency to receive horrible injuries also tend to wear red. Perhaps this is some bizarre permutation of the Red Shirt effect, warped slightly by Contractual Immortality. 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 bullfighting stadium...