Red Queen

Red Queen may refer to:

Literature

• Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass), a character in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
• "The Red Queen's Race", a 1949 short story by Isaac Asimov
• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, a popular 1993 science book by Matt Ridley
• The Red Queen (Drabble novel), a 2004 novel by Margaret Drabble
• Queen Redd, the main antagonist of Frank Beddor's 2004 The Looking-Glass Wars series, based on the above Lewis Carroll character
• The Red Queen (Gregory novel), a 2010 historical novel by Philippa Gregory
• The Red Queen (Obernewtyn Chronicles), a 2012 novel by Isobelle Carmody
• Red Queen (novel), a 2015 novel by Victoria Aveyard

Entertainment

• Red Queen (comics), a number of comics characters
• Red Queen to Gryphon Three, a 1974 concept album by the band Gryphon based on the game of chess
• Red Queen, an artificial intelligence, a character in the 2002 Resident Evil films
• The sword wielded by Nero in the 2008 Devil May Cry series
• Sana Kashimura, otherwise called the Red Queen, a character in the 2012 manga and anime series Alice & Zouroku
• The Red Queen, an alias used by Martha Kent to disrupt the Checkmate organization on the television series Smallville
• "Red Queen" (Gotham), a 2016 episode of the third season of Gotham
• Red Queen (TV series), a 2024 Spanish–Mexican thriller television series on Amazon Prime Video

Other

• A red Queen (playing card)
• Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians, nicknamed "The Red Queen"
• Red Queen's Hypothesis, an evolutionary hypothesis to the advantage of sex at the level of individuals, and the constant evolutionary arms race between competing species
• Red Queen (EP), a 2003 album by Funker Vogt
• The Red Queen's race, a parable in Alice in Wonderland that has served as the basis of a number of scientific and sociological theories
• The Tomb of the Red Queen, an unidentified Mayan noblewoman
• Red Queen (anti-aircraft gun), a British Army experimental anti-aircraft gun