History PlayingWith / ColorCodedCharacters

** A character has a ColorMotif, but they sometimes alternate to a different color similar to their original to avoid wearing the same color always; For example, Amazing Alice sometimes alternates between red and cerise, Brazen Bob alternates between blue and azure, Chucking Charles alternates between yellow and mustard, Deviant Danny alternates between green and lime, and Excitable Evelyn alternates between pink and magenta.

* '''Downplayed''': Their ColorMotif is very subtle and doesn't really stand out much and is mixed in with other colors so that it doesn't stand out too much.

* '''Downplayed''': Their ColorMotif is very subtle and doesn't really stand out much. Sometimes they have another color they associate with, but it's meant to mix in with their main color so that it doesn't stand out too much.

* '''Downplayed''':
** Only their uniforms are their color. Their civilian clothes are different colors.
** Their ColorMotif is very subtle and doesn't dominate their daily wear or unforms. Sometimes they have another color they associate with but it's meant to mix in their main color so that it doesn't stand out too much.

* '''Subverted''': One day, Alice comes to work wearing a purple dress.
* '''Double Subverted''': Because she's being poorly imitated by [[TheMole Kooky Katrina]].

* '''Downplayed''': Only their uniforms are their color. Their civilian clothes are different colors.

* '''Straight''': The FiveManBand members each have a color motif extending to all their major outfits: TheLeader Awesome Alice wears red, TheLancer Brazen Bob wears blue, TheBigGuy Chucking Charles wears yellow, TheSmartGuy Deviant Danny wears green, and TheChick Excitable Evelyn wears [[PinkIsFeminine pink]].

* '''Lampshaded''': ''Alice'': Hey, Evelyn! That's ''my'' red! Go back to your pink!

'''Basic Trope''': A character has a ColorMotif that sets them apart from the other characters

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* '''Straight''': The FiveManBand members each have a color motif extending to all their major outfits: TheLeader Awesome Alice wears red, TheLancer Brazen Bob wears blue, TheBigGuy Chucking Charles wears yellow, TheSmartGuy Deviant Danny wears green, and TheChick Exitable Evelyn wears [[PinkIsFeminine pink]].

** The FiveManBand members wear similar colors: Alice wears red, Bob wears blood red, Charles wears rust red, Danny wears maroon, and Eyelyn wears wine. They ''insist'' that they wear completely different colors and get annoyed when people confuse their color schemes.

* '''Defied''': ???

* Bob, Charles, and Danny are identical triplets. Their parents put them in blue, yellow, and green respectively to tell them apart and it carried into adulthood.
* They're all crayons.

* '''Justified''': Bob, Charles, and Danny are identical triplets. Their parents put them in blue, yellow, and green respectively to tell them apart and it carried into adulthood.

* '''Enforced''': The show is MerchandiseDriven and the producers want their action figures to stand out.

* '''Inverted''': [[BadassNormal Alice]], [[InsectoidAliens Bhob]], and [[MechaniaclLifeform Char-Les]] are very divergent in appearance, motif, and personality. They all share the same bright green and black motif to be considered as remotely associated with each other instead of as enemies or rivals.

* '''Inverted''': ???

* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* Basic Trope: A character has a ColorMotif that sets them apart from the other characters
* '''Straight Trope''': The FiveManBand members each have a color motif extending to all their major outfits: TheLeader Awesome Alice wears [[RedIsPowerful red]], TheLancer Brazen Bob wears [[BlueIsPowerful blue]], TheBigGuy Chucking Charles wears yellow, TheSmartGuy Deviant Danny wears green, and TheChick Exitable Evelyn wears [[PinkIsFeminine pink]].
* '''Exaggerated''': Literally everything they own is their color: Alice drives a red car, lives in a red apartment, has a red phone and computer, and her office at work is all red.
** Also, all their various SixthRangers have their own color motif: [[DeadpanSnarker Frank Francis]] wears indigo, [[FriendToAllLivingThings Gretchen the Good]] wears [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]], [[ClassClown High Flying Harry]] wears orange, and [[EleventhHourRanger Indecisive Imogen]] wears aqua.

** The show is MerchandiseDriven and the producers want their action figures to stand out.

* '''Double Subverted''': Bob put his blue shirt in with Alice's red dress. The episode is then spent buying Alice a new red dress.
* '''Parodied''': Everything Alice touches turns red.

* '''Zigzagged''': Some characters have more distinct ColorMotifs than others.

* '''Enforced''': See Justified bullet 2.

* '''Invoked''': See Justified bullet 1.

* '''Defied''': Everyone lives in a nudist colony.
* '''Discussed''': ?
* '''Conversed''': ?
* '''Deconstructed''': In a MerchandiseDriven show, Alice's red and Evelyn's pink are so similar that some kids feel they only need one or the other, so toy sales noticeably drop.

** The show is MerchandiseDriven and the producers want their action figures to stand out.