Double Subversion. This troper's friend asked him to wear a red shirt for a video and I was skeptical of being killed. I found out during the film that I was only wearing the red shirt because I was playing the part of the planet Mars. I was so relieved but then halfway through the video Earth landed a colony on Mars and then destroyed it through nuclear holocaust, which wound up destroying the planet Mars.

This Troper owns a Red StarTrek crew shirt. I no longer wear it during paint ball games, because everyone thought it was hysterical to kill me over and over and over again.

This troper is writing a {{Mass Effect}} fanfic about a ship full of turians and one human that are assigned to take down a terrorist group. The main character leads a squad into the woods to scout the area. They are promptly ambushed and one of the turians, by the name of Teken, is killed.

This troper's story turned an entire brigade into Red Shirts to be slaughtered en masse by the new BigBad, Parallaxus.

This troper just realized upon seeing the {{Standard Redshirt Procedure}} page that he is currently wearing a red shirt. Pray for me. Please.

This troper began working at Target recently. While ringing up a purchase from a guy who worked at the Best Buy next door, he mentioned something about "blue shirts," which I immediately understood as describing the people who worked at Best Buy...and then, with a shock of horror, realized what that meant for the people who worked at Target. S***.

So people who work at Best Buy are nationalist Chinese fascists?

Science and medical. ''They sell and fix computers''.

This troper was horrified to learn that her favorite college sweatshirt was from the Red Shirt brand. Her college's color? Red.

This troper avoids the use of any RedShirt for various reasons. First reason: she doesn't want to get shot just because of that color. Second reason: her older brother always wears red shirts (laughable when it's a polyester shirt), making them look like twins.

This troper recently played an indoor soccer game where my whole team was wearing red pinnies, we lost 10-1.

I used to engage in rapier combat with the Society for Creative Anachronism. At one event, I was among a handful of survivors in a winner take all, every person for themselves melee. All of us were fighting defensively, waiting for someone else to make the first move. Then, for lack of any better strategy, someone yelled out, "get the guy in red!" It turned out that I was the only one wearing that color....

Last time this troper wore a red shirt, he suffered no ill effects. The red shirt itself however...

uncanny real life example here, though not as extreme. This Troper's rowing team has both age levels (novice and varsity), wear different colored polo shirts while traveling. The year that this troper was a novice, we had red polos. On one trip, all of the men in our boat got injured in some (minor) way setting up camp. Because of this on top of the fact that the novices did a lot of the heavy lifting, this troper invoked this term. It didn't help that the Coaches were wearing yellow jackets either.

This Troper's Brother was selected to be in the Red Shirt army at a Convention Court Case once, there purpose was to be killed by some grey shirt guy who was suppose to run into the Panel and attempt to Kill the Judge, sadly Grey Shirt no showed so my brother took to killing himself in front of everyone and proclaiming he was the true mastermind

I'm my paintball team, they called me "Red Ramirez" because I'm the one who's suppose to be a distraction. Go figure, they make the kid with the smallest gun take the most hits. Maybe they make you the distraction because of Ramirez is supposed to do everything.

In a non-shirt example, my friend recently referred me to StarcraftII. I don't play strategy games very often. He often pulls me into a party of his friends and plays a 3 or 4 humans vs. 1 or 2 very hard AIs and I ''randomly'' got the color red. reference, I'm technically a multiplayer 'noob' and these matches were before I fully understood this trope. -> We're screwed! #QUOTE#--'''Marine''' unit (basic) under attack. -> Why am I always the first person to get shot? #QUOTE#--'''Jester or Lauren''' (''UnrealTournament3'') when killed.

Subverted?: In the Single Player campaign, controlled units are always blue and The Dominion is red, although YourMileageMayVery with skill and difficulty.

And to real-life, '''Red is one of my favorite colors.''' (TemptingFate?)

This Troper works at [=McDonalds=], and wears a red shirt. While she is not in life and death situations, she is the often treated like the ButtMonkey by management, is constantly criticized for the most stupid crap that others will usually get away, and often gets dismissed 2-4 hours early from 4-5 hour shifts.

This troper's group of RP (Shadowrun and D&D) friends recently acquired a hyper, annoying new member. He's cool and all but gets under your skin after a while. We call him 'redshirt' because he's nondescript in every way and, though it sounds cruel, could easily be lost or replaced without affecting team dynamic at all.

This troper plays RiseOfNations. He changed his default unit color to green after he noticed that red was making his soldiers die a lot. (The power of suggestion)?

This troper did some crew work for a classmate's short video, and wore a red shirt as a joke, knowing she was staying behind the camera. In an unplanned throw-it-in moment, she ended up playing the collateral damage RedShirt and was shot "dead" twice.