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* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' has Xelloss, with purple hair and largely black clothes, and Filia with yellow hair and white clothes. They're also representatives of the two opposing factions, demons and dragons.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Opposing spirits of light and dark, Raava and Vaatu, look like color-inversions of eachother. Raava is white and cyan, while Vaatu is black and red.

* Most wiki sites, Wiki/ThisVeryWiki included, have [[Administrivia/TVTropesGlossary Blue Links]] and [[ItLooksLikeThis Red Links]], to signify links that leads somewhere, and links that don't.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' focuses greatly on [[CoveredInGunge covering territory (and pretty much everything else) in ink]], so having team colors popping out against each other is key. There are many colorful team combinations like [[OrangeBlueContrast orange/blue]], pink/teal, green/purple, and yellow/pink among others.

* [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]], in his most iconic version, is green with purple pants.
** His cousin (and DistaffCounterpart) ComicBook/SheHulk also counts, having green skin and wearing a (partially) purple costume.

* ComicBook/LexLuthor, when he's not wearing a business suit or a lab coat, wears PoweredArmor which is mostly green with some purple.
* Also from DC, most incarnations of Brainiac use the green-purple contrast, as well as some of his descendants, like Querl Dox/Brainiac V from ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. Averted, however, with Brainiac II (from L.E.G.I.O.N), who wears black, white and yellow.
* ComicBook/SinCity is in black and white with the exception of certain objects that are coloured for extra contrast.
* Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/SpiderMan both contrast Red and Blue.
** Spider-Man also had black-and-white contrast costumes: 1- the alien symbiote; 2- the common fabric replica of the alien outfit; 3- the Future Foundation version.

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'s wardrobe tends to feature primarily red fabrics, while his ArchEnemy and evil brother Loki has primarily green fabrics. Furthermore, the metal in Thor's armor is generally silverish, while Loki's armor is goldish. They are both fond of black though (also not always enemies... their relationship is complicated and their family really dysfunctional).
* Tim Drake as ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} took advantage of the contrast between green and red by switching out the yellow cape of his predecessors for a black one with yellow lining, and the shorts for green pants.

* ''[[OrangeBlueContrast Orange/Blue]]'': Became very common during the TurnOfTheMillennium, its prominence is due to human skin tones having a median orange tint and blue being the color that contrasts the most with orange.

* [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]], in his most iconic version, is green with purple pants.

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Compare {{Chiaroscuro}} and MoodLighting, when the contrast comes more from lighting than from color. See also ColorWash and ColorCodedForYourConvenience. HailfirePeaks uses this often to contrast the two or more VideoGameSettings mixed into it. Also often seen between {{Primary Color Champion}}s and their [[SecondaryColorNemesis Secondary Color Nemeses]].

** Also, as a mermaid, Ariel wears a purple seashell bra, which contrasts to her the color of her tail. Interestly, she is the only mermaid whose seashell bra does not match the color of her tail.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}'', the entire world is made o black ships that fire black/red coloured energy, and white ships that fire white/blue energy. The player character's ship can switch between the two colours, doing double damage to ships of the opposite colour, and becoming immune to the energy that matches the ship, though the ship can still can be hurt by energy of the opposite colour.