Red (Tex Avery)

Red is an American animated character, created by Tex Avery, who appears in several MGM short films and Tom and Jerry movies. She is a fictional nightclub singer and dancer who is usually making all men in the room crazy, especially a Wolf character who - in vain- tries to seduce and chase her. Red debuted in Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), where she was originally a deviation of Little Red Riding Hood.

Despite only appearing in seven animated shorts from the Golden age of American animation era and being nothing but a foil for other male characters to have funny exaggarated reactions about she proved memorable enough to be revived in many Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon series from the 1990s on.

Appearances

• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
• Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
• The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945)
• Wild and Woolfy (1945)
• The Hick Chick (1946) (cameo appearance)
• Uncle Tom's Cabana (1947)
• Little Rural Riding Hood (1949) (reused footage from "Swing Shift Cinderella")
• Thanks a Latte (1999) (Cartoon Network Shorties and cameo)

Television

• Tom & Jerry Kids (1990)
• Droopy, Master Detective (1993)

Films

• Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010)
• Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse (2012)
• Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure (2013)

Comics

• Wolf & Red (1995) (Dark Horse Comics)
• Droopy (1995) (Dark Horse Comics)
• Comics and Stories (1996) (Dark Horse Comics)