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{{quote|You can tell Serena's [[Face Heel Turn|heel]] now, because... [[Evil Costume Switch|she wears black.]]
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In an age where every other hero is an [[Anti
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▲In an age where every other hero is an [[Anti Hero]], how do you tell who to root for? Why, you look at what ''color'' the character wears, of course! In visual entertainment, who's good and who's evil is usually distinguished by the colors, and woe be to those who are [[Genre Blindness|colorblind]].
[[Light Is Good|White for good]] and [[Dark Is Evil|black for evil]] (why do you think it's called ''[[The Dark Side]]''?) is probably the oldest and most obvious classification. [[Everything Is Racist|This can lead to]] [[Unfortunate Implications]]. It can be more complex than this, of course, especially when you get into different cultural values and perceptions. (For example, in Asia many countries associate white with death and mourning [since bones are white], as it has been associated in Europe at various times. It can also denote [[Pure Is Not Good|purity]], merely because it shows dirt well.) Black can also be used as a form of [[Shadow Archetype]] which is not necessarily evil, and nowadays, dark equaling evil is subverted as often as it's used straight; see [[Dark Is Not Evil]].
Another common pairing is red versus blue (though they are commonly used in [[Gray and Gray Morality|gray vs. gray]] engagements) where the hero is blue and the villain is red (as this probably results from the "good" French and "evil" British colors during the US War of Independence,<ref>inverted in [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|Soviet Russia]], where Red Army defeats blue and gray Axis forces
In superhero comic books, superhero costume themes tend to rely on the primary colors (red, blue, yellow or gold) whereas supervillain costume themes tend to rely on the secondary colors (green, purple<ref>[[Memetic Mutation|Thanks doc.]]</ref> orange). Most commonly, heroes wear red and blue, and villains wear green and purple.
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A frequent arrangement for weapons, [[Eye Beams]], [[Laser Blade]] swords and energy blasts is bright green or blue for good and red for evil, thanks to the colors of the Jedi and Sith lightsabers in ''[[Star Wars]]''. (However, laser weapons on the heroes' ships in ''[[Star Wars]]'' IV-VI generally fire red blasts while the villainous Imperial craft fire green ones. This was done because U.S. weapons use red tracer rounds. Guess what color the Soviet Union used.)
It should be noted, though, that many times it's not the actual color that's used to distinguish good and evil, but the tone or shade of that color. For example, more natural or muted colors are often used for the good guys, while darker or more garish versions adorn the villains. The best example of this is probably green, which can be used for good if reminiscent of nature, or bad if it looks artificial, either by being too bright ''or'' too dark. Confusing things further is the general rule than in sci-fi, if there are two armies, the 'good' army will be the one that wears brighter colors ([[Star Trek
It should also be noted that colors can be used to determine that kind of person's personality and powers as well.
That said, the general breakdown is this:
Good Guys:
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* '''Black''' - [[Anti
Bad Guys:
* '''Black''' - [[Card
* '''{{color|darkred|B}}''' - [[Ax Crazy]], [[Omnicidal Maniac]]
* '''{{color|darkblue|D}}''' - a favorite of evil [[The Chessmaster|Chessmasters]] and [[Aristocrats Are Evil]].
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* '''{{color|silver|S}}'''- [[Rich Bitch]], indicates wealth and arrogance.
* '''{{color|purple|P}}''' - [[This Index Is a Bitch|Evil bitches and villainesses]]. Popular in Japanese media; the official color of videogame evil; really popular for comic book villains, particularly in combination with green. It is also often associated with [[Technicolor Toxin|venom]]. As it is also the ancient color for royalty, tying it in with [[Aristocrats Are Evil|Aristocrats]].
* '''{{color|beige|A}}''' - [[Light Is Not Good|A hint of madness]], [[Knight Templar|religious]] [[Path of Inspiration|zealotry]], or [[Corrupt Church|a church that oversteps its bounds]]. Also, due to Asian cultures associating white with death as mentioned above, characters who [[Woman in White|dress all or]] [[Man in White|mostly in white]] or have [[White
Neutral Guys/Transition colours:
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* '''{{color|green|G}}''' (used equally for neutrals and allied but not under your control)
In pre-medieval, medieval and renaissance times this was [[Truth in Television]]. These days it's more of an [[Undead Horse Trope]], or perhaps even an [[Omnipresent Tropes]], at least for fiction.
Related tropes: [[Chromatic Arrangement]], [[Color Character]], [[Paint It Black]], [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]], [[Color
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== Anime
* The killer and detective in ''[[
** Also, the ruthless and slightly unhinged Mello wears all black, while his calmer, less aggressive rival Near wears all white and has white hair.
** Then there's Misa Amane, Mello's fellow goth of the series. This trope is played even straighter with Misa, since she tones down the [[Lolita]] image considerably when she loses her memories of being a serial killer.
** However, an aversion is Naomi Misora, undoubtedly one of the good guys, who always wears black and had a fondness for leather.
* ''[[D
** Averted with Miranda ([[The Eeyore|black]]/[[Shrinking Violet|purple]]) and Krory ([[Dark Is Not Evil|black]]/[[Bloody Murder]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|red]]). They're both [[Eerie Pale
* The demons in ''[[Ah
* In ''[[
* The main protagonist's [[Humongous Mecha]] in the ''[[Gundam]]'' metaseries is always white, with red, blue, and/or yellow highlights.
** Allied and antagonist Mobile Suits, though, vary in color schemes between series (though you can bet there will be at least one enemy Ace in a [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|red one]]), and sometimes there are enemy "Gundams" that share the hero's paint job.
** One thing is fairly certain: That the antagonist faction (one of them at least) will have their standard "Grunt" mecha in green.
** And recently there has been cases of pink mobile suits that have been "coincidentally" piloted by girls.(Strike Rouge and Tieren Taozi anyone?)
** ''Gundam 00'' plays this straight with GN particle emissions. Celestial Being uses drives that give off blue-green particles, whereas the antagonists give off red and gold particles. Justified in that Celestial Being uses "true" GN drives, whereas the antagonists use incomplete, reverse-engineered GN drives.
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* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', the Homunculi all have default outfits that are very dark shades of a certain colour. So dark in fact, that they appear black in all but the best lighting conditions. Also, they all have dark hair.
** Also, in the Manga, Zolf J. Kimbly is a [[Man in White]].
* In the first ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh First Anime Series
** Also, the Shadow Realm has a purple color scheme to it.
** Yugi's hair, though much of it is black, has pink/red and gold/yellow in it, as if to offset the "evilness" of the black.
* ''[[
** Xanxus fits in the black category of neutral. Byakuran, obviously insane, wears lots of white, and sometimes black.
** As a matter of fact, the entire Milliefiore Family wears white and black. Apparently, the members wearing white are a little bit insane for some reason, excluding Irie, of course. The members wearing black tend to have more rationality and are usually the ones who fight.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' and ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' The factions are: [[The Kingdom|Orb]] uses mostly white [[Humongous Mecha|MS]] (with the nation's leader having a gold [[Ace Custom]]), while the Alliance uses black and purple ones. ZAFT, which spends time as both a heroic and antagonistic faction, goes through most of the spectrum.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', the first season had identical colors for Lambda Driver energy fields. ''The Second Raid'', however, introduced color coding: Codarls always had red energy fields while the Arbalest had blue. Though if the painting of Arm Slaves count, then this is the coding:
** ARX-7 Arbalest: white color and green eyes ([[The Hero]])
** Plan1056 Codarl: silver color, blonde ponytail and three red eyes ([[Big Bad]])
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** Plan1055 Belial: black color ([[Big Bad]])
** ARX-8 Laevatein: white/red color, white ponytail and green eyes ([[The Hero]])
* ''[[
** Also: Spiral Energy is generally (although not invariably) depicted as green, such as the flames from the back of the ''[[
* ''[[
** Souls (when they're seen by someone who can [[Stat
*** Blue: Good/Normal human (only villains eat these)
*** Red: Corrupted human (anyone with a red soul is [[The Heartless|fair game]])
*** Purple: [[Witch Species]] or misc. (act as [[Upgrade Artifact
* Specialist Knightmare Frames from ''[[
** Suzaku's white/gold Lancelot and its [[The Ace|ace]] of a pilot who serves the people.
** Kallen's red Guren could be interpreted as either [[The Ace
** Cornelia's royal purple Gloucester, as her status as a cold aristocrat.
** Lelouch's black/gold Knightmares Gawain and Shinkiro fit his [[Anti
** C.C. gets a pink Akatsuki, and later a pink Lancelot Frontier.
* A ''[[Pokémon (
* The five Links of the ''[[The Legend of Zelda (
* The uniforms in [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] show this. Nanoha has a white outfit based on her schoolgirl clothes, including a bright red bow. Fate Testarossa goes with a black uniform with dark red accents, though it remains like that even after her [[Heel Face Turn]].
* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' isn't subtle about this in the least. In the manga, [[Jerk Jock]] Agon Kongo has normal black dread locks and wears a black, gold, and red football uniform. The anime decided to re-color him with purple dreadlocks, (which give the illusion that tentacles are coming out of his head) and a purple and blood-red uniform. Because there's obviously ''no way'' the audience would know he's bad without coloring him in purple from head to toe.
* ''[[
* ''[[Saint Beast]]'' has almost every character in a different shade of uniform, many of which are telling about their personalities:
** Judas is purple, connoting nobility, command, and possibly a reference to his potential for evil.
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** Sayaka is blue, and tries to be a [[The Hero|heroic]] [[The Lancer|lancer]]. {{spoiler|Her selflessness and attempted independence lead to her death.}}
** Mami is yellow/gold, and acts as the kind and helpful [[The Mentor|mentor]], with a bit of [[The Ace]]. {{spoiler|She dies due to her own carelessness, [[Dying for Symbolism|initiating the show's descent into tragedy]].}}
** Homura is black and purple, and appears to be evil, or at least an uncaring [[Anti
** Kyouko is dark red, and appears to be [[Ax Crazy|madly violent]]. She nearly kills {{spoiler|Sayaka}} when they first meet. {{spoiler|She used to be [[The Hero]], but she [[Fallen Hero|quit caring about others when her father killed himself and the rest of her family]] because of the magic she used to help him. She dies in a final attempt at heroism.}}
** Kyubey is white, yellow, and pink, and is a cute and loveable [[Talking Animal]] who dispenses magical wishes and superpowers. {{spoiler|[[Deal
* The characters from ''[[
==
* A classic example of the association of heroes with primary colors and villains with secondary ones would be the 1980s [[Lex Luthor]] in his super-armor (purple, green, black) battling [[
** Or take [[Spider-Man]] (dark blue, red and black) and his villains Doctor Octopus (green, sometimes combined with orange/ochre), Electro (green, yellow), [[Norman Osborn|Green Goblin]] (green, purple), Kraven (various shades of brown), the Lizard (green), Mysterio (purple, two shades of green), the Sandman (green and black shirt, brown trousers), the Scorpion (green, purple, white), the Shocker (brown, yellow), and the Vulture (two shades of green).
* One of the more [[Egregious]] examples was when black kryptonite created an evil version of [[Supergirl]]
* [[Good Is Not Nice|Batman]] dresses in black. [[Kid Sidekick|Robin]] dresses like an explosion in a paint factory. Lampshaded when Batman explains that one of the reasons Robin wears bright colors is because he [[Good Cop, Bad Cop|plays good cop to Batman's bad.]]
** With the recent [[Deus Angst Machina]] Tim's life has become, he changed his costume, which is now less colorful than
** Parodied in the final panels of [
** Also in ''[[Kingdom Come]]'' at the end, {{spoiler|when Batman turned Wayne Manor into a hospital, he wore all white.}}
* The long-time [[Real Men Wear Pink|pink chestplate and pink striped pants]] of Gambit from the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] are surely only there to fuck with our heads.
* In the trilogy of ''Hulk: Grey'', ''[[Daredevil]]: Yellow'', and ''[[Spider-Man]]: Blue'', these elements (the colors in the titles being one of the dominant colors of their costume at the time) are explored through the lens of each hero's earliest years. When the Hulk, the original comic book [[Anti
* Lampshaded in the [[
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* There's a ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' comic series called ''Infinities'', which is basically [[What If]]/[[For Want of a Nail]], speculating about just what would happen to the saga if, respectively, Luke's proton torpedo used on the Death Star was defective, if Han's tauntaun died a little earlier, if Threepio was incapacitated and couldn't translate between Jabba and Leia-as-Boush. The last case leads, eventually, to Luke and Leia confronting Vader and the Emperor together, Vader turning on his master to save his children and ''surviving'', and then being taken by them off the Death Star before it blew. It wraps up very quickly with the characters saying that the Emperor ''also'' survived, but the Rebellion will be
* In ''[[Scion (comics)|Scion]]'', sky blue is associated with the Heron Kingdom (the good guys) and blood red with the Raven Kingdom (the bad guys). Of course, the Ravens also like to wear lots of black leather too...
* ''[[Nth Man:
== Fan Works ==
* In the ''Pokémon'' fandom, certain protagonists tend to have their [[Curtains Match the Window|eyes a specific color]]. For example, Red tends to have red eyes in fanworks. Leaf either gets green (if you think of her as being named "Green" or "Leaf") or blue (if you think of her as "Blue"). Same thing with Blue (who either has blue or green eyes depending on whether you call him "Green" or "Blue"). All three have brown eyes in canon. A less common variation is Ethan, who was usually known as "Gold" within the fandom prior to HGSS, has gold eyes when his canon eyes are dark blue.
** Rarer, but Brendan sometimes gets drawn with red eyes. As in "Ruby", being that that's one of the two games he's in and May has blue (as in "Sapphire") eyes. Wally also coincidentally has green ("Emerald") eyes.
** Silver is also sometimes drawn with silver eyes, like his ''[[
* ''[[
== Films -- Animation ==
* In Pixar's ''[[WALL-E]]'', the bureaucratic robots (AUTO, Gopher, the "cyclops" doorkeeper) have red glowing eyes and use red forcefields. EVE, a friendly robot, has blue glowing eyes and uses a blue forcefield. The stylist/beautician robots (with female voices) are pink. WALL-E himself is school-bus yellow, indicating his naive, somewhat clumsy character.
* In the last story of ''[[
* [[Kung Fu Panda 2]] uses red to symbolise Lord Shen, the movie's [[Big Bad]]. He is also associated with white, symbolic in eastern Asia of death and metal.
* The characters in Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' were specifically designed around this trope, on the notion that water is a life-giving force in the desert. Genie and Jasmine sport blue. The Sultan wears much white and gold, with a splash of blue. Jafar and Iago sport red (though Iago had blue wingtips; perhaps a foreshadowing of his [[Heel Face Turn|side-switching]] in the sequel) because red is the death color in... [[Anachronism Stew|Egypt?]] Aladdin and Abu sport purple, because they're in transition from being thieves (red) to heroes (blue). After Jafar gains control of the Genie, Genie often goes purple. And when Jafar puts Jasmine in [[Go
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Beauty and
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'': [[Complete Monster]] Frollo and his henchmen always wear black, Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Phoebus, Clopin, and the Gypsies all wear bright colors, and at the end of the film both Phoebus and especially Esmeralda wear white.
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story 3]]'': Both Andy's bedroom and the Butterfly Room are colored blue (representing safety) and both the Caterpillar Room and {{spoiler|the Incinerator}} are colored red (representing danger).
* ''[[Megamind]]'' first has [[Villain Protagonist|the titular Megamind]], clad in black and blue (blue skin, too), pitted against the yellow and white Metro Man, and later on, we have Megamind, still in black and blue {{spoiler|pitted against the red and white Tighten.}}
== Films -- Live Action ==
* ''[[
** The video game sequel, ''[[
** The Space Paranoids portion of ''[[
* The simplest way to tell apart good and bad robots in the not-actually-[[Isaac Asimov]]-based ''[[I, Robot (
* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies, the Jedi typically use blue or green lightsabers, while the Sith always use red. ''[[Star Wars]]'' spacecraft, however, reverse the trope, with the heroes' ships usually firing red laser blasts and the bad guys' craft firing green. The only character to go against the scheme is Mace Windu with his unique purple lightsaber, showing how important he is. The [[Samuel L. Jackson|actor playing him]] specifically asked for it so he would stand out more easily onscreen.
** The [[Expanded Universe]] also expands the colors Jedi can use. Jedi lightsabers can also come in purple, yellow, orange, one color with flickery little bits of another color (yes, seriously, it's canon), bronze, silver, gold, and so on. Sith continue to have red lightsabers, though. In [[Expanded Universe]] material, it's shown that constructing one's own lightsaber is an important ritual for a Jedi, while Sith sometimes actually get theirs off of a mechanical ''assembly line''. Sith lightsaber crystals are synthetic, which is why they are red: to contrast with the natural crystals of the Jedi.
*** It is also worth noting that Exar Kun, perhaps the most powerful of the ancient Sith lords, wielded a double-bladed blue lightsaber.
*** In the computer RPG ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (
**** [[Justified Trope]], you're killing ''baby'' spiders.
**** Furthermore, the Jedi classes are distinguished by colors: Guardians (specialise in lightsaber combat) with blue, Consulars (specialise in the Force) with green, and Sentinels (specialise in a bit of both and some other things) with yellow. It's traditional for Jedi to use a lightsaber that matches their own class, but there are numerous exceptions. Granted, you can subvert this in your playing style with a black-robed, red-saber, heroic [[Player Character]]. The most powerful robes in game, though, are pitch black for an evil character and ivory colored for Light Side.
*** In the books, there is at least one instance of a good guy's lightsaber crystal generating a red blade by pure coincidence. Luke got a Darth Vader flashback, but squashed it quickly.
**** This probably has roots in Lucas' original intention, in that the colour of a lightsaber's blade depends on the wielder. Originally Luke's lightsaber was supposed to be red when Vader activated it. They scrapped that idea though, obviously.
** In episodes IV through VI, hand-held blasters always fired red bolts regardless of affiliation. However, in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'', the Trade Federation blasters fired red while the Republic blasters fired green. In ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' and ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'', Republic blasters fire blue bolts, while Separatist blasters continue with red.
** The color-coded droids of the Trade Federation tell you what they are programmed for (general, pilot et cetera).
*** The same goes for the clones, with their color-accented armor matching their job or combat role. It's especially evident in the ''[[Star Wars Battlefront|Battlefront]]'' series and ''[[Star Wars: Republic Commando|Republic Commando]]''.
** Averted by the Republic Diplomatic Corps, a.k.a. the people whose ship Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were using in the beginning of ''[[The Phantom Menace]]''. Their ships are all deliberately painted that nice, dark, [[Ax Crazy]] kind of red...to show that they're full of peaceful Republic diplomats.
** On the remastered collector's edition of ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', [[George Lucas]] comments about the costume choices for the Empire and Rebels. Empire uniforms typically were colorless (black or white) or otherwise subdued to make them less friendly. Rebel uniforms however used natural colors to emphasize warmth and friendliness. This was particularly noted during the Endor scenes where the Rebels wore camouflage and the Empire did not.
** Even within the "good" side, there is an aspect of potential [[Fridge Brilliance]] to the blue vs. green colouring. Qui-Gon uses green, Obi-Wan uses blue, and Luke Skywalker uses blue in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' and green in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''; the [[Fridge Brilliance]] is in how {{spoiler|much like Qui-Gon was more trusting of Anakin than Obi-Wan was, Luke was more trusting of Vader in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' than he was in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''.}}
** An expansion of this is that while there are plenty of exceptions, blue lightsabers often seem to used more often by younger, inexperienced Jedi while green seems to be favoured by [[Older and Wiser]] Jedi like Yoda. Luke's decision to change his saber colour could be said to reflect his maturity in the third film.
** And of course, as mentioned above, the Rebels' spacecraft fire red lasers, and the Empire's spacecraft fire green lasers. In the prequel trilogy, this is inverted and subverted somewhat, with the Republic's fighters firing green lasers, and the Separatists' firing red lasers.
* Every version of ''[[The Three Musketeers (
* In ''[[
* [[Opposing Sports Team|Most sports movies have the main character/team's final opponent(s) wearing black uniforms, and it's almost certain they will cheat at some point in the match.]]
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (
* Although all of the main characters in ''[[Equilibrium]]'', both evil and good, wear black for the majority of the film, the climactic final battle sees the protagonist in a stunningly-white ceremonial uniform, while every one of the antagonists he
* Used in ''[[The Great Race]]''. The hero, The Great Leslie, wears white. And all his gear is white. His car, his rope, his grappling hook, his pipe, his clothes. He even gets hit with a white pie in a pie fight. The villain, Professor Fate, wears black and his car is black.
* The only time that [[John Woo]] avoids his usual "white villain, black hero" color scheme is in the final church shootout of ''[[The Killer]]'', which has [[Hitman
* ''American Ninja'': Ninja Joe is decked out in a black ninja outfit for the final battle. The enemy ninja army are also decked out in exactly the same black ninja outfit. The only way to identify Joe is by his red belt, which from many angles can't even be seen. I guess it's a cunning plan on Joe's part.
* Used and lampshaded in ''Destination Moon.'' Each of the astronauts has a differently colored spacesuit so the audience can tell them apart when their faces are not visible. One of the character specifically says that the suits are brightly colored to stand out on the moon's surface, and different colored so that they can tell each other apart.
* ''Extreme Prejudice'' (1987). This [[New Old West|modern-day Western]] has both the sheriff (Nick Nolte) and the villain (a former friend turned Mexican drug lord played by Powers Boothe) [[Not So Different|wearing white hats]]; in fact the latter wears a pristine white suit while Nolte mostly wears a black shirt.
* An in-universe example in the finale of ''[[Gladiator (
* In ''[[Hellboy (
* Weirdly applied in ''[[Mad Max|The Road Warrior]]'', where some fighters who defend the gasoline-rich community wear white, in defiance of the ragged and dusty garments of everyone else. Probably more symbolic of their civilized qualities than "good" per se, as {{spoiler|it's not exactly "good" to sucker a passing stranger into a diversionary suicide mission, while you head for the hills with the petrol}}.
* In ''[[G.I. Joe:
* ''[[El Mariachi]]'' and ''[[Desperado]]'' both invert the traditional white/black symbols. The Mariachi wears a black mariachi outfit, while the villain always wears white.
* Inverted in ''[[Ladyhawke]]'', where Captain Navarre dresses like a stereotypical villain, wearing all black with a flowing cape lined in red (he's even [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]), and yet is a noble hero. Meanwhile, [[The Dragon]] wears primarily white and gold, and the [[Big Bad]] is a [[Sinister Minister]] wearing all white.
* In ''[[
* Sergey Bondarchuk's ''[[Waterloo]]'' goes some way to portray Blücher's Army of the Lower Rhine as menacing and somewhat sinister by associating it with the colour black, even to the extent of deviating from historical facts.
* Inverted in the film ''[[City of Angels (
* [[David Lynch]] often uses red and blue in his
* Movie-verse '''[[Transformers (
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** Lampshaded by Silk, who was disappointed that the Cthrag Sardius (the Mallorean's [[MacGuffin]]) couldn't have been green for a change.
** Deities tend to be color-coded as well, appearing in a particular shade of light whenever they show up.
** ''The Elenium'' does avert black armor = evil with the Pandion Knights, however, who are on the side of good, even if the main protagonist tends toward [[Anti
* In ''[[
** In the fight on the bridge of Khazâd-dûm, Gandalf's sword Glamdring glows blue (as Elvish swords always do in the proximity of evil creatures), while the Balrog's sword glows red, similar to the page image.
** Gondor/The Reunited Kingdom, being an entire nation of badass heroes, has black as its main heraldic color.
* In the original novel ''[[
** ''[[Wicked (
* In Harry Potter, red (for Gryffindor) is "good," while green (for Slytherin) is "evil."
* [[Bruce Campbell]] relates an interesting anecdote in his autobiography, "If Chins Could Kill", about how costume designers use this trope to subtly enhance the story, as on the set of "The Hudsucker Proxy" his character started dressing in lighter colors and gradually got darker as he became more sinister.
* In ''[[Heathers]]'', the three main Heathers only wear their own colors and the protagonist, Veronica, wears all black to show her outsider status inside their clique. Heather Chandler wears red, showing her leadership status. Her red hair bow shifting to Heather Duke shows the latter's replacement of the former. {{spoiler|And Veronica snatching it back from her is used to symbolize the end of the Heathers.}}
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* Sometimes in fairy tales, more often in illustrations, the heroines are fair ([[Hair of Gold|blonde]]) and the villainesses are dark (brunette or black-haired). Who knew moral standards were dictated by hair color? Averted by Snow White (whose mother wished for her to have hair as black as ebony).
* In the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' books, the eyes of dragons (and fire-lizards) change color according to their state of friendliness (or mood). Calm, happy dragons have green/blue eyes; angry, violent or fearful dragons have red/orange eyes.
** Of course, that's not counting the way the entire species is [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]], with color determining size, rank, and mating behavior (and as a consequence, the riders are also color-coded, since everyone's place in the hierarchy is based on what kind of dragon they ride).
* Reversed in the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' Series, where the villain of the first book wear pure white, and the protagonist wears black since the fourth book. Oh, and one woman only wore black because of a subconscious desire to ''escape'' evil.
* For the most part, it seems that red is good and green is bad in the ''[[Harry Potter (
** Also, Beauxbatons school uniforms are pale blue, Durmstrang are blood red. Hogwarts basic black.
* Inverted in [[Mikhail Akhmanov]]'s novel ''[[Arrivals From the Dark|The Faraway Saikat]]'' with the Kni'lina, a race of bald [[Human Aliens]] whose color-coding system (among many other things) is different from that of the humans. In the past, their homeworld of Yezdan only had one moon. A large passing asteroid was snatched up by Yezdan and turned into the second moon, with the tides and earthquakes causing widespread devastation for the Kni'lina. Since then, the Kni'lina consider green to be a warning/danger color, thanks to their second moon having a greenish hue. In contrast, red is the morning color (i.e. good). Hence, on all their consoles, if all indicators are red, then all is well. Once they start turning green, that's when you have to worry.
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[American Gothic]]'', [[Spirit Advisor]]/angel Merlyn is always depicted dressed in white, while Sheriff Lucas Buck (the Devil Incarnate) is quite often dressed in black. [[Faux Symbolism]]?
* The Sci-Fi Channel's ''[[Dune]]'' miniseries is heavily color-coded. Not just the costumes, but the background lighting and set coloring followed this convention. The Harkonnens are all red all over. The Imperial Corrinos are purple and gold. The Atreides primarily wore tan and white. Fremen wear brown and dark orange. Spacing Guild members wear black robes to fit in with their "neutrality" and almost priestly function.
** Note that the novels clearly state that the Atreides colors are green and black, the Harkonnens blue, and the Corrino scarlet and gold (with black and gray for the Sardaukar).
* ''[[
** In "The Trial of a Time Lord", the Sixth Doctor's [[Rummage Sale Reject|multi-colored suit]] is in stark contrast with his antagonist <s>Knacker's Yard</s> <s>Farmyard</s> Valeyard's black with-white-trim robes. Made all the more jarring when it is revealed that {{spoiler|the Valeyard is actually his [[Future Me Scares Me|evil self.]]}}
*** It should be noted that the Sixth Doctor plays with this trope; while all the other Doctors tend towards black, brown, beige, or otherwise muted colors, the Sixth, the most anti-heroic Doctor, wears almost ludicrously garish colors, and even has blonde, curly hair.
*** Subsequent [[Expanded Universe|novels and audio dramas]] reclad him in blue.
*** ''The End of Time'' plays it straight with the Doctor in a brown suit and blue shirt, and the Master in a black hoodie and jeans and a red shirt. And the [[Big Bad
** Played with by the colour scheme of Davros' new Daleks with their friendly gold and off-white cream-colored scheme. (But then he originally designed them while passing himself off as a good guy in "Revelation of the Daleks".)
*** And played with in "Victory of the Daleks", where the "New Paradigm" Daleks are color-coded by
* ''[[
** The general costume and set design uses this trope as well. The ''Serenity'' uses a lot of warm and friendly reds and browns, and Mal, Zoe, Inara and Kaylee are usually wearing a variety of red (if you count pink for Kaylee). Alliance uniforms, ships and buildings are sterile blues and greys. Neutral ground tends to be dusty brown.
* Many, many game shows use a red-yellow-blue theme to separate players. One of the most well-known uses of this is ''[[
** Perhaps the best example, though, is ''[[Tattletales]]'', where the [[Studio Audience]] was separated into red, "banana" and blue segments to root on the celebrities playing the game. At the end, every audience member received a share of the celebrity couple's winnings.
* Although the superpowered characters of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' are [[Not Wearing Tights]] and tend to realistically cycle through varied daily attire, there are a few noticeable costuming patterns. Beat cop Parkman tends to wear jackets in [[Visual Pun|various shades of blue]]. Single mom Niki wears normal clothes while her evil split personality Jessica likes all-black femme fatale suits. Boy Scout Hero Peter Petrelli ends up in white quite a bit. And Ubervillain Sylar really, really likes black.
* ''[[
* In any given ''[[Power Rangers]]'' show, [[
** The good guys' colorcoding also fits the trope quite well. [[The Hero]] is almost always red. Blue will almost always be, if not [[The Lancer]], the smart, technique-instead-of-Heart-based character that ''makes'' a good Lancer (less like [[TV Genius]] Billy and more like Kai, Sky, and Theo - experts who get stuck playing second fiddle to the [[Rookie Red Ranger]].) The last two loners, Dillon and Will, are both Black Rangers, though far from all Black Rangers are like this. Also, the three Rangers to wear purple started their careers beating up on the good Rangers (well, we had one Ranger-like [[The Dragon|Dragon]] who didn't defect, one who did, and one good guy who went through a few episodes [[Not Himself]] before becoming a Ranger.) It doesn't reach the point of every character to wear a given color being an [[Expy]] of the last, but colorcoding does sometimes happen.
*** There does seem to be something of a [[Memetic Mutation]] that all Black Rangers are either rebellious loners or extremely serious and that Green Rangers are air-heads and/or the comic relief of the team, but there are plenty of exceptions with both colours.
* Major political powers in ''[[
** On the few occasions when their true forms are glimpsed, ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'''s [[Energy Beings|Prophets and Pa-Wraiths]] follow the blue for good, red for evil version of this trope.
** In addition, every incarnation of ''[[
* Mira, Henrik, and Glenn from the original ''[[Vintergatan]] 5A'' all wear jumpsuits with primary colors, though for a
* In the 1969 adaptation of Alan Garner's ''The Owl Service'', each of the 3 main characters is always attired in a particular colour: Gwyn in black, Alison in red, and Roger in green. These were the 3 colours of electrical plug wiring at the time, and the person to 'earth' the power the 3 of them have created is Roger, who of course is wearing the colour which matches with this wire.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Stargate SG
** In ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', anything Wraith is bluish purple.
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== Puppet Shows ==
* ''[[Captain Scarlet]]'' is an obvious example. Not only are all Spectrum agents specifically colour coded, the leader of the good guys is one Colonel White and the main agent of the baddies is Captain Black.
* While there are no good or bad guys per se in ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'', the Fraggles are typically colour-coded according to their personality; particularly the [[Five
** This seems to work for other Fraggles as well. Cantus, [[The Obi
== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[
** The ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Paranoia (
== Theater ==
* There were paired productions of ''[[Julius Caesar (
* In many productions of ''[[
* ''[[
** Also of note is the men's poker game, which Williams emphasizes should be lit in raw, primary colors. And there are big ripe watermelon slices on the table.
** Another example is Williams' direction for Stella's kimono in the Act 4, Scene 1 - it should be bright blue, a departure from her usual color scheme. This is just after the "STELLA!!" scene, which implies that Stanley and Stella have just had sex.
* Productions of ''[[
** Likewise, ''[[A Midsummer
== Video Games ==
* The game company Bungie color codes enemies in most of its games. ''[[Marathon
** In ''[[Halo 3]]'', "stealthy" Jiralhanae wear black. Because they're [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|ninja space gorilla-men.]] Stealth or Spec Ops Elites in other games also tended to wear dark colors, the main exception being the white Spec Ops commander.
** 343 Guilty Spark's eye and [[Eye Beams]] are blue when he is on your side, but [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|turn red when he goes rampant]].
* Many [[Turn
** [[Fire Emblem Tellius
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** ''[[Advance Wars]]'', however, colors the player's units red in its campaigns, and enemy units (assuming there is only one enemy faction in the scenario) are usually blue or black.
*** ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'' does something similar in it's solo campaigns. Player characters have a red circle, while enemies and allies will have a wide array of colored circles, with each army getting a color.
* ''[[Command
** [[Justified Trope]] in that Soviets were, of course, communist, hence "Reds."
** And in the ''Yuri's Revenge'' expansion pack for ''Red Alert 2,'' the renegade faction led by Yuri is purple.
** The earlier ''[[Dune]]'' games (made by the same people as ''[[Command
*** They also get the emblems wrong: while the Atreides are correctly given a hawk, the Harkonnen symbol from the novels is a griffin, not a ram (as depicted in the games).
** Oddly, however, it seems you ''are'' allowed to have green good guys and red villains: the original ''Command and Conquer'' had a green-and-gold scheme for the GDI, and a [[Putting
* ''[[City of Heroes]]''/''[[City of Villains]]'': While the characters themselves are not subject to this trope, the intro and character design screens and all the main screen interface elements ''are'', to the point that some players refer to ''City of Heroes'' as "Blue Side" and ''City of Villains'' as "Red Side". Additionally, Pocket D -- the extradimensional night club accessible from both
** It occasionally goes beyond that into powers. The Energy Blast powerset is blue-white for heroes and red for villains, and the same goes for ''lightning''.
*** Now averted as Power Customisation has finally been implemented, but the default powers are still the same.
** The developers have noted this, and mention that the armour and banners of the alien-fighting Vanguard group, who will work with both heroes and villains, are grey and purple to indicate their ([[Informed Attribute|supposed]]) neutral morality.
** And now, ''Going Rogue'' has a yellow interface, symbolizing the [[Grey and Gray Morality|different moral choices]] presented in the game.
*** The Loyalists' emblem is golden, and the Resistance's emblem is blue.
* In ''Deadlock'', each of the seven races are represented by a different colour - and that's the only thing visually separating many of their things, such as tanks and flags. The colours are often somewhat representative of the races (the Cyth get black and are the most devious and "evil" of the races, whereas the mighty Tarth warriors get a dark, blood red).
* In ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]'', a character, Gurdy even draws attention to this after your character catches him swindling a naive professor out of a lot of money. He indicates his bright red clothing and compares himself to a poisonous flower, saying that his bright red colors warn the wise not to deal with him.
* In ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
** As of the [[Fan Nickname|Apollo Arc]], the hero Apollo wears all red, and {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] Kristoph Gavin wears blue.}}
* Played straight in ''[[
** In ''[[
** ''[[
** Ditto ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics
* ''[[
** Ditto [[Nippon Ichi]] games in general.
* In ''[[Star Wars Battlefront]] 2'' the player's team is always designated as blue and the team they play against is red. However the colour corresponds to which ever team the player chooses, not the teams themselves.
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** There are also special colors for classes, item rarity, and spell types.
*** Outside of gameplay mechanics, there are also elements of this trope in the storyline. Blood Elves took to wearing red in mourning of their fallen brethren. As a result, the High Elves (who the Blood Elves have had a bit of a falling out with) ''never'' wear red. There are also elements of color coding in the dragon flights. Red, Green, and Bronze Dragons are (for the most part) good. Black dragons are evil, and Blue Dragons are only evil in Northrend. The creation of the Twilight Dragonflight also adds purple, dark blue, and ''magenta'' to the list of evil dragon colors.
* [[Anti
* Isn't it interesting that all the protagonists in ''[[
* Ever since ''[[
** The third game also gives the option to turn your units blue, allies teal, and enemies red, literally colour-coding them for your convenience.
* ''[[Gears of War]]'' includes lights on the guns which change color whether a COG (Blue) or Locust (Red) is wielding them.
** The sequel has the colour of players in multiplayer appear more red if they are Locust or blue if they are COG the farther away they are.
* In the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series heroic Chris favors green, Leon and Jill wear blue, while Claire and Ada wear red. And of course, [[Big Bad]] Albert Wesker is always decked out in black.
* Count Bleck, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[
* ''[[Star Wars]] Galactic Battlegrounds'' puts soldiers in different coloured suits to represent what side they're on (with instant repaints and costume changes upon being converted by a Jedi).
* In ''[[
** Any legal target, regardless of relationship, is also displayed as red by default.
** With pink being the default colour for other people in your fleet, there is also the slightly less common Not Pink Shoot It rule of engagement which is the default MO on Ganknights<ref>Fleets of (by default otherwise unrelated) people from a third-party community site just going on a rampage in a random direction while often including at least a few people which are blue to the residents of the area which is getting visited</ref> usually leading to [[Hilarity Ensues|hot blue-on-blue action and diplomatic fallout in the aftermath]].
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* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (
** There was also an aversion of this in the second game. At one point on Onderon, you come across two aliens arguing about who the people should support, the good Queen Talia or the two-faced General Vaklu. The alien in support of the "evil" General is blue-skinned, while the one supporting the Queen is not only red-skinned, but has horns!
*** There was also a subversion in the form of Atris, who is a Jedi dressed in the whitest of pristine white with a blue lightsaber and is even depicted in the game's promotional material as the 'face' of the Light Side for the game. {{spoiler|She goes Sith towards the end, without the obligatory [[Evil Costume Switch]] for black, and even before then never appears as anything more than a judgemental, self-righteous bitch.}}
** Blue and red were also used throughout the interface as shorthand for "light side"/"dark side", which was carried over to ''[[Jade Empire]]'' for Open Palm/Closed Fist ratings as well. In ''[[
* The ''[[
** In ''[[Strange Journey]]'', the player's side's demonicas have gold helms and gray bodies. Jack's Crew uses all-black Demonicas.
* ''[[
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has this trope smeared all over it. Sonic (the hero) is blue, Knuckles (the tough guy) is a cherry red, Amy Rose and Rouge the Bat (the chicks) have extensive pink colouring, Shadow the Hedgehog ([[Anti
* In all of Koei's ''Warriors'' series, allies have blue life bars, enemies have red ones, and neutrals yellow. This color scheme extends to the game map.
* Kessen 2, another Koei game set in the Three Kingdoms period, switches the colours of Wu and Wei, to give Wu, the allies of the player's faction Shu, a suitably "good" blue and Wei, the enemy, a more appropriately "evil" red.
* The fairy targeting systems of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
** Not to mention that Link wears green (with brown/blonde hair), Zelda usually is wearing white (with blonde hair), and Ganon is usually wearing black (with red hair).
*** AND Zelda has blue (Nayru), Link has green (Farore), and Ganondorf has red (Din). Also, Ganondorf's magic is almost always purple, contrasting with Zelda's blue magic.
** Also, the Master Sword's hilt is always blue or indigo, and the blade glows blue or white, which always contrasts to the villains main colors (usually red and/or dark purple)
* The ''[[
*** Hiigaran: blue/green/gray ships, blue ion beam & hyperspace
*** Vaygr: red/gray ships, green ion beam & hyperspace
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** Done differently in ''[[Red Faction]] II'', where your commando team are colour-coded rather than everyone. The player character Alias is protagonist red, Tangier is stealth gunmetal grey, heavy weapons guy Repta is green, sniper Quill is electronic yellow, vehicles guy Shrike is crazy blue, and leader Molov is in stately muted tones.
** The [[Red Faction]] Origins telemovie adds to this, with the demented, violent, zealous White Faction wearing, um, white.
* The Eagle Vision in ''[[
* In the RPG ''Albion'', you enter a dungeon with red and green pressure plates. The green plates have positive effects (they open doors that block your way, or treasure rooms), while red ones more or less negative ones (they release monsters or open rooms with cursed items). There's also a room with a blue pressure plate, which serves as a [[Schmuck Bait|bait]] for anybody curious to find out [[What Does This Button Do?|what it does]]. (It opens a trap door, sending the party crashing down below.)
* In the newer ''[[Persona (
* In ''[[
* The Big Daddies and security devices in ''[[
* The rollermines in ''[[
* ''[[Nethack]]'': Unicorns are color-coded by alignment: black/chaotic, grey/neutral, white/lawful.
* In ''[[
* Color-coding is employed in ''[[
* In ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' Emperor Doel, the evil purple trope straight, [[Captain Obvious|being the Emperor]] as well as the {{spoiler|Dragoon of Thunder}}. Lloyd, Meru, Lenus, and {{spoiler|the rest of the Winglies}} have white hair, referred to as platinum in-game. The good guys are bound to their elements though, which means they play about half the colours straight and subvert the rest.
* If there is something consistent in ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Warhammer
* In the ''[[X (
** Meanwhile, the unaligned Terrans paint their ships white with black trim, pirates add [[Nose Art]] of red flames and paint the ship red, [[
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
** Lampshaded when {{spoiler|Haley notices V's color change and starts panicking over the implication. Belkar calls her on being prejudiced and overreacting which calms Haley down (Belkar being Belkar, he then whispers a congratulations to V for coming over to the "deep end" of the alignment pool)}}
* ''Greenroom'', a new webcomic, actually linked to this page when talking about one of the [http://getagreenroom.thecomicseries.com/castlist characters].
* Done with various colors of latex in ''[[Collar 6]]''.
* Lampshaded in ''[[
* According to ''[[
* ''[[Off White]]'' Subverts this. The black and white spirits seem neither good, nor evil, and are not always completely white or black (Iki, the suspected white spirit wolf, is grey, and a white spirit Raven is black).
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** Generally ignored or lampshaded with the BG crew - they're more or less team colored. Even Donut. Doc wears purple because he's on loan to both Red and Blue teams, but becomes the villain when O'malley possesses him. He returns to being a pacifist when O'Malley leaves.
** The Freelancers take this trope and throw it through a meatgrinder. To whit:
*** Agents North and South Dakota both wear green/purple. One is the nicest, friendliest, team-centric, most heroic mercenary you've ever met, and the other is a jealous, competitive, backstabbing, second-stringer.
*** Agents Wyoming and Maine wear white armor. For Maine it could be argued that he fits the crazy mold. Wyoming, however, is merely a coward.
*** York wears tan.
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*** CT wears brown. She's the least down-to-earth person there is.
*** The Director and Councilor actually play this one straight, wearing all black and often remaining in shadows.
* ''[[
* The Dark Overlords from the web fiction serial ''[[Dimension Heroes]]'', as probably expected, dress in dark clothing.
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* The guns on ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' shoot red or blue lasers, depending on the affiliation of the shooter.
** Sometimes, the laser guns would even ''change their color'' to accommodate the wielder. A Joe could pick up a discarded Cobra rifle and still be assured of it firing his own team color (this was probably an animation error rather than intentional, but it's fun to imagine that there's a "good/evil" switch on the side of each weapon).
** This is parodied in the ''[[
* The original ''[[Transformers]]'' is incredibly heavy with this. In its early years, the Autobot ranks were crowded with bright primary colors (come on, Optimus is covered in red, white and blue), while the Decepticons ranks are crammed with the more murky shades - especially popular was grey, black, purple, and dark blue (with the white, red, and blue [[The Starscream|Starscream]] standing out as the big exception). In its later years, colors diversified a bit more, although 1987's range of toys adhered quite closely to a pattern of grey, black and red for Autobots, and teal, blue and purple for Decepticons. One aspect that maintained a long enduring standard (until the movieverse) involved the symbols - the Autobot symbol was always red, while the Decepticon symbol was likewise purple.
** It's notable that Hasbro recognised that the Decepticons are predominantly purple, and actually recoloured toys that were largely purple to other tones. The most prominent example was Armada combiner Tidal Wave, who started as a purple and black tribute to Shockwave (who was actually called Shockwave in Japan), but wound up covered in earth tones when brought to North America.
** The ''Transformers'' cartoon series took the color-coding pattern to the next step, introducing a basic convention of blue eyes for Autobots, and red eyes for Decepticons. This was an unswerving constant in the first year of the cartoon, but was played with come the second year by the yellow-eyed Decepticon thrust, and while the basic pattern was employed through to the end of the show, more and more exceptions continued to appear. Something that was maintained a lot more consistently, however, was the color-coding applied to the team's paraphernalia: Autobot laser blasts, spaceships, headquarters and machines and devices of all shapes and size were a golden orange in color, while the Decepticons favored their iconic purple.
** Strangely averted with ''[[
** In ''[[Transformers Animated]],'' the red and blue eye concept was revisited with much stricter use (the lone exception being the purple-peepered Decepticon Swindle, who is only given those eyes because he had them back in the 80s, and was a favorite character of the show's art director). Autobots come in a variety of colors, but all of the Decepticons are primarily purple (except for the Starscream clones, which are given the color schemes based on the Starscream-recolor characters in Generation 1.
** The movieverse has colorful 'bots and gray 'cons. The [[Combining Mecha|Devastator components]] make up the few exceptions.
* In ''[[
** [[Sixth Ranger|William]] originally wore a white, grey, green and blue costume on Lyoko, but it changes to a black and red one once he becomes [[The Dragon]] under XANA's control.
** Ulrich's swords normally glow blue whenever he strikes or parries, but they glow red in the hand of any warrior controlled by XANA, making such swordfights look like direct [[Shout
* Even before she turned evil, Lydia from ''[[Barbie and
* In ''[[
** Comparing the greens worn by [[Evil Chancellor|Long Feng]] and [[Secret Police|the Dai Li]] to most other members of the Earth Kingdom, you'll notice theirs are much darker (to the point of being mistakable for black), symbolizing their corruption.
** The [[Grand Finale]] completely mess with this trope, having two determining fights happening in parallel: Aang/Ozai and Azula/Zuko. Both were red, or a kind of orange, versus blue. But in one fight, Blue was good, in the other, blue was evil.
* On the classic 1960s ''[[Spider
* ''[[
** White and black: Nothing special
** Gold and black: Guardian
** Green and Black: Viral minion
* On ''[[Gargoyles]]'' the clan's eyes would glow white when they were angry, while [[Big Bad|Demona]]'s would glow red. [[Played With]] later when [[Affirmative Action Girl|Angela]] showed up; hers were red too, and [[Word of God]] says that the color is actually determined by sex.
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