Sheriff Ida Red is a comic book and cartoon character created by writer/cartoonist Paul Dini.
According to her origin story, young Ida was found as an orphaned baby in the desert outside of remote Mutant, Texas. Raised by the strange inhabitants of the town (a mixture of southwestern plant and animal mutants) teen-aged Ida was convinced she was an outcast until she developed amazing super powers of her own. Later appointed Sheriff, Ida now serves as guardian and peacekeeper of the unique little town.
Famous quotes containing the words sheriff, ida and/or red:
“The man’s an M.D., like you. He’s entitled to his opinion. Or do you want me to charge him with confusing a country doctor?”
—Robert M. Fresco. Jack Arnold. Sheriff Jack Andrews (Nestor Paiva)
“Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human being. We ask nothing as women but everything as human beings.”
—Ida C. Hultin, U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 17, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“Iconic clothing has been secularized.... A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)