No, no, not the crimson uniform! That’s cinematic shorthand for “I am now officially Dead Meat”! Don’t believe me?
– The Star Trek [original series] exploratory parties: Kirk, Spock, Chekhov, and one or two nameless crewmen in red.
– The Star Wars Imperial Bodyguards protecting Palpatine/Sidious. No problem Yoda had dispatching them, mmm?
– Bond Villain Stromberg’s submarine-pirating henchmen in “The Spy Who Loved Me”. You can give a thug a machine gun, but you can’t teach him how to shoot…