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In fiction, and sometimes in [[Real Life]], we tend to [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|differentiate between "girly colors" and boyish ones]]. It is clearer with babies, when we are prone to see girls dressed in pink and boys in light blue.
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* In fact, lots of [[Anime]] tends to have girly pink-haired girls paired up with stoic blue/black-haired guys ([[Naruto|think of Sakura and Sasuke]] and [[Shugo Chara|Amu and Ikuto]]).
** Cheery, perky [[Sailor Moon]] has pink, silver, white, or yellow hair in the original manga. Her predestined lover Tuxedo Mask has, depending on the image, dark black, blue, green, or purple hair. When he is married to [[Sailor Moon]], he has pastel purple hair, which appears to be a symbol of his healing due to being with her. As far as costuming is concerned, though, Sailor Moon herself wears white and blue while Tuxedo Mask wears black and red.
*** Speaking of Sailor Moon, the [[Transformation Sequence
** Anyone who couldn't see the [[Official Couple]] of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' coming may have ignored this fact. Not only do Ichigo and Masaya have pink and blue hair, respectively (only in the manga, though; [[Adaptation Dye Job|the anime changes them to red and black]]), but their last names are '''Momo'''miya and '''Ao'''yama! (meaning "peach" and "blue" in Japanese respectively.)
** Even more ironic, the whole [[Tokyo Mew Mew]] team is ''female'' and all the aliens are male. In the final battle, where Ichigo blasts her final attack, and Deep '''Blue''' releases the Mu Aqua, you can clearly see a clash of pink and blue.
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*** Mikage from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' has pink hair, as he is supposed to be a male counterpart to Utena and claim the position of Victor, while his companion Mamiya pretends to be a male Anthy. {{spoiler|Although she isn't really pretending.}}
*** [[Real Men Wear Pink|Natsu]] from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' is also an exception.
*** Natsu's one of the few true exceptions (though a character inferred it to be "red" in an early
* In the original ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' mini-scenario of the ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～]]'' Lyrical fanbox, Nanoha and Chrono were rivals that became an [[Official Couple]], with Nanoha having a pink motif and Chrono having a blue motif. These motifs were retained in [[The Anime of the Game]] even though the two of them weren't the [[Official Couple]] there anymore. Chrono's blue motif eventually led to him becoming [[An Ice Person]]. Meanwhile, Nanoha's pink motif...well, the anime producers had ''way too much fun'' with Nanoha's pink motif by turning her into a pink [[Person of Mass Destruction]] with a pink [[Wave Motion Gun]] that fires giant pink beams that create huge pink explosions that have [[Oh Crap|left many people metaphorically crapping their pants]] as they stare into [[Power Glows|her pink glowy light]]. Girly pink is [[Badass]].
* The Mu children in ''[[Toward the Terra]]'' have pink dresses for girls and blue jumpsuits for boys. The adults all wear purple.
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]'', [[Different As Night and Day]] twins Palom and Porom wear blue and pink, respectively. Porom even has pink ''[[Rose-Haired Girl|hair]]'', despite Palom and her younger self both having brown hair.
** ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' has Marche (the Blue Boy) and Ritz (the Pink Girl).
* ''[[Persona 3]] Portable'' has different color-coded menu screens depending on the gender the player selects for their
** The first two party members to join the MC follow this theme as well; Yukari is almost never seen without wearing something pink, and Junpei, apart from his blue shirt, ''never'' takes off his blue hat.
* Maria Luna of ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' loves the color pink and plays better when she wears it. In an aversion, Jocinda Smith loves blue.
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== Visual Art ==
* Two paintings -- ''[[wikipedia:Pinkie (Lawrence painting)|Pinkie]]'' by Thomas Lawrence and ''[[wikipedia:The Blue Boy|The Blue Boy]]'' by Thomas
== Webcomics ==
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* Gets a reference in ''[[Sodium Eyes]]'' [http://sodiumeyes.com/2009/11/09/ad-nausea/ here].
* Inverted in ''[[Fan Dan Go]]'' where a male character, Zephyr, has candyfloss pink hair, while his female compatriot, Sarin, has sky blue hair.
* In ''[[Memoria]]'', the trope is used for [[Painting the Fourth Wall]] [http://memoria.valice.net/?p=326 such as here]: Harriet has pink dialog balloons, Matty
* Used in ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'', where Lucy, the heroine, wears a pink ribbon, while Mike, the male hero, wears a blue scarf.
* Used in ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Princess/ The Princess]'': the title character, Sarah, seems to move about in a cloud of pink glitter and sparkles. Inverted as well, as her father is often seen in a pink shirt while her mother prefers blue. And something or other is being [[Lampshaded]], given that {{spoiler|Sarah is an 8-year old transgirl and has recently changed her name from "Seth"}}.
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* Yin and Yang from ''[[Yin Yang Yo!|Yin Yang Yo]]'' are a pink bunny and a blue bunny respectively as well.
* Flavio and Marita the hippos from ''[[Animaniacs]]'' are blue and pinkish purple respectively.
* Because [[Disney]] dates to the early decades of the 20th century, the idea that blue represented calm, soothing, feminine attributes was still popular (with red/pink as the guy hero color). Due to this, many of Disney's early female characters from the first golden age are swathed in blue;
** [[Classic Disney Shorts|Minnie Mouse]] has been seen in many colors, but for most of her early color appearances, she was never seen in pink (pink colorations of old cartoons not counting). Merchandise and the comics would paint her whatever the heck they wanted; but blue was a color that she appeared in frequently. Best of all, the blue contrasted with Mickey's standard guy-hero red. The all-pink wouldn't emerge until the late Pluto cartoons, and the ever-famous red dress with white polka dots wouldn't come in until Disneyland was opened. In modern animated appearances, Minnie bounces back and forth the most between wearing soft blue to contrast Mickey, or bright red to match him. [[Token Girl|That doesn't stop marketing from dousing her home, her wardrobe, and her merchandise pink, of course]].
** The artists debated long and hard on what color [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]] should be dressed in, even testing out the (at the time) unusual idea to dress her in all pink, but in the end, they went with the easy-on-the-eyes blue bodice. Her prince, of course, brought the red cape.
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== Real Life ==
* Also in [[Real Life]] (and well before most other [[Real Life]] cited examples of this) comes the following from historian Tamara Plakins Thornton in a book on the history of handwriting instruction. Because eighteenth- and nineteenth-century etiquette recommended teaching different handwriting styles to people of different genders and social ranks (so that one could tell at a glance whether a letter came from a woman, from a member of the lower classes, or from someone actually important), at least one author of handwriting textbooks for the American upper/midle classes color-coded the books by gender. "In 1845[,] writing master James French issued two copybooks, a Gentlemen's Writing Book, bound in blue, and a Ladies ' Writing Book, bound in pink. In the former, French's male students practiced their mercantile running hand [a script style used by 18th- and 19th-century American and English businessmen] ... while their female counterparts rehearsed the ladies' epistolary [a more delicate and ornamented writing style, taught to women and girls of the era instead of the styles considered proper for males] ... " Source: Handwriting in America: A Cultural History by historian Tamara Plakins Thornton, 1998, p.
* In the Netherlands, it's tradition for parents and older siblings to serve rusk topped with 'muisjes', little sugar-covered aniseed sprinkles, to visitors, colleagues, and classmates to celebrate a newborn. While initially only available in a pink/white mix, a blue/white mix became available in the early 90s and is now generally used when a boy is born. Since 1938, an orange/white mix has been created for a short period after a royal birth, and with the 'birth' of the new pope in 2005, some catholic institutions handed out rusks topped with yellow/white muisjes, though these were not widely sold in supermarkets, if at all.
* In the 1920s, pink was deemed more appropriate for boys due to its close associations with red. Blue was assigned to girls since it was more “delicate and dainty” and had close ties to the imagery of the Virgin Mary. This practice continued until the 1940s, when the gender colors were reversed and became the stereotypes that we are still familiar with today.
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