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In RealLife, grapes can be purple, yellow-green, red violet, and red, but in fiction, they're purple because purple is the color grapes are associated with. Green might be used, but it would give the impression the grapes are underripe.

Subtrope of RealityIsUnrealistic. The color version of TheCoconutEffect.

Cheese comes in many colors, including yellow, orange, yellow-orange, light yellow, red, white, and even blue, but in cartoons, it's hard to any examples where cheese hasn't been depicted cheddar yellow-orange or orange.

'''[[AC:Green or Yellow Green Radiactive Nuclear Waste]]'''

A common exception would be "sour apple" or candies that are apple flavored - which are often green.

This trope is about stereotyped object colors that are highly prevalent in fiction, but do not reflect RealLife color variations.

Green alligators and crocodiles, [[FrogsAndToads frogs and toads]], brown (non-human) apes, yellow canaries, red crabs and lobsters, pink pigs, and white geese belong under TypicalCartoonAnimalColors.

Since this is such an OmnipresentTrope, it would be best just to list subversions, aversions, and exceptions.

!!Subtropes:

'''[[AC:Purple or Dark Purple Poison]]'''

Purple and dark purple are the colors associated with poison that is more common in Eastern media.

Examples, subversions, aversions, and exceptions should be listed under TechnicolorToxin.

Subversions, aversions, and exceptions should be listed under WaterIsBlue.

'''[[AC:Light Blue Glass]]'''

'''[[AC:Green or Yellow Green Poison]]'''

Green and yellow green are the colors associated with poison that is more common in Western media.

Examples, subversions, aversions, and exceptions should be listed under TechnicolorToxin.

Examples, subversions, aversions, and exceptions should be listed under CartoonCheese.

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!!Subversions, Aversions, and Exceptions:

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* The Japanese Flag has a red circle in the middle that represents the sun.
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* The stars on the blue rectangle in the upper left corner of the American Flag are white.
* The stars in the blue bars on the Confederate Flag are also white.
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* Subverted in ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the poisoned apple that the Queen prepares is red as part of the spell ("Now turn red to tempt Snow White, to make her hunger for a bite"). She places it in a basket full of yellow and green apples to make it stand out more and make it seem all the more tempting.
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* In ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Lemon of Troy", Bart leads an expedition to Shelbyville, where they marvel at how much like Springfield it is, except for small details. Milhouse in particular is spooked by the fact that the fire hydrants are yellow instead of red.
* The fire hydrant in the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'' movie, ''Mickey's Great Clubhouse Hunt'' that Mickey fixes is yellow.

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* Averted in SanFrancisco, UsefulNotes/{{California}}: Most of the fire hydrants are either all-white or white with blue or blue-green tops.
* The fire hydrants in Pearl District of Portland, Oregon are all orange.
* The hydrants in Seattle, Washington are dark green.
* Hydrants in and around Youngstown State University's campus in Youngstown, Ohio are painted like penguins to match the university's mascot.
* Most fire hydrants in UsefulNotes/{{Malaysia}} are yellow with a bright red 'H' painted on (actually, that's just a marker stone telling the firemen that the hydrant is actually in a trapdoor in the ground in front of said marker stone, but that's a different trope- our hydrants are different). While there are also stereotypical red hydrants in the country, those are less common and are usually found in areas with lots of tourists or expatriates.
* In New Zealand, rather than the distinctive red pillars, fire hydrants are pipe fittings in the ground with a removable yellow plaque over them. Generally streets will also have a yellow triangle painted on them to show where the hydrant is, and the section of curb in front of the hydrant will also be painted yellow.
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Almost all carrots in fiction are bright orange because an orange carrot is iconic and easily recognizable and orange is the most common color seen in Reallife Western carrots. [[hottip:*: Yellow and purple are the most common colors in Eastern carrots]]

Since this is such an OmnipresentTrope, would it be best just to list subversions, aversions, and exceptions.

In RealLife, grapes can be purple, yellow-green, red violet, and red, but in fiction, they're purple because purple is the color grapes are associated with.

* Most fire hydrants in UsefulNotes/{{Malaysia}} are yellow with a bright red 'H' painted on (actually, that's just a marker stone telling the firemen that the hydrant is actually in a trapdoor in the ground in front of said marker stone, but that's a different trope- our hydrants are different]]. While there are also stereotypical red hydrants in the country, those are less common and are usually found in areas with lots of tourists or expatriates.

* Most fire hydrants in UsefulNotes\Malaysia are yellow with a bright red 'H' painted on (actually, that's just a marker stone telling the firemen that the hydrant is actually in a trapdoor in the ground in front of said marker stone, but that's a different trope- our hydrants are different]]. While there are also stereotypical red hydrants in the country, those are less common and are usually found in areas with lots of tourists or expatriates.

* The fire hydrants in Pearl District of Portland, Oregon are all orange.

Yellow and orange cheese is that color because [[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1284/why-is-cheddar-cheese-orange it's been colored]].

* Averted in SanFrancisco, {{California}}: Most of the fire hydrants are either all-white or white with blue or blue-green tops.

The skin colour of white people nearly always depicted as pink, and we're told it's pink, but in reality its a much more subtle selection of blight browns, translucency, red beneath the skin, with some blue.

An exception would be "sour apple" or candies that are apple flavored - which are often green.

** And exception would be "sour apple" or candies that are apple flavored - which are often green.

In RealLife stars can be pretty much any color, but the stars the naked eye can see in the night sky are white. In fiction, stars in the sky--especially those drawn as large, five-pointed "sticker" stars--are usually yellow to contrast the night sky's dark blue.

In RealLife, the sun is white or yellowish white, but in fiction, it's usually yellow because yellow is the color associated with the sun and it looks yellow to us in RealLife.

In RealLife, water comes in a wide range of colors, including clear, turquoise, cyan, light blue, blue-green, dark green, dark blue, and the stereotypical bright shade of blue. Actually, water ''has'' no color, because it's completely transparent, and any pigment it absorbs comes from whatever it reflects or is in front of.

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