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1'''Basic Trope''': The main characters are color-coded by colors of the rainbow.
2* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Awesome Alice]] wears predominantly [[RedIsHeroic red]], [[TheLancer Bumbling Bob]] wears [[VibrantOrange orange]], [[TheBigGuy Chucking Charles]] wears [[PrimaryColorChampion yellow]], [[TheSmartGuy Deviant Danny]] wears green, [[TheHeart Excitable Evelyn]] wears [[TrueBlueFemininity cyan]], [[SixthRanger Frank Francis]] wears [[BlueIsHeroic blue]], and [[TagalongChronicler Gabrielle the Great]] wears [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]], for the sake of distinguishing themselves.
3* '''Exaggerated''':
4** [[BigBad Horrid Harry]] wears [[LightIsNotGood white]], [[BigGood Innocent Irene]] wears [[DarkIsNotEvil black]], [[TagalongKid Joey Jo Jo Junior]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Shabadoo]] wears brown, [[TheMedic Katherine the Kind]] wears [[PinkIsFeminine pink]], [[TheSocialExpert Lovely Leah]] wears magenta, [[TheTeamWannabe Maybe-Someday Mae]] wears gray...
5** Everything that surrounds a character is their specific color, for instance not only are all of Alice's outfits red, so is her house, her car, and she even owns a [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife bright red dog]].
6* '''Downplayed''':
7** The characters aren't color coded, but they do have Rainbow {{Color Motif}}s.
8** Every character has to wear an identical uniform, but each character adds little decorations of their color.
9* '''Justified''':
10** The characters' colors are indicative of their role - for instance, all medics wear pink, but the only medic that is a major character is Katherine.
11** The characters are MassiveNumberedSiblings and their parents use their specific colors to tell them apart.
12* '''Inverted''':
13** Everyone on the team wears the same color.
14** The entire cast wears the same color.
15* '''Subverted''': Mae shows up to a team meeting wearing Alice's Red...
16* '''Double Subverted''': The other team members hold her at gunpoint until she puts on gray again.
17* '''Parodied''':
18** [[OverlyLongGag ...and]] [[TheDragon Naughty Norman]] wears maroon, and [[EleventhHourRanger Out-Of-The-Blue Oliver]] wears navy, and [[MissionControl Patient Priscilla]] wears peach, and [[TeamChef Quintessential Quentin]] wears beige, and [[TheHeart Respectable Rachel]] wears violet (which she insists is completely different from Gabrielle's purple), Socking Sam wears mauve, [[GreaterScopeVillain Terrible Terry]] wears silver, [[TheTeamNormal Usual Ursula]] wears tan, [[DiscoDan Vigorous Verge]] wears gold, [[FatBastard Weighty]] [[TheBrute Wally]] wears burnt orange, Xanadu Xavier wears xanadu, [[BrilliantButLazy Yawning Yolanda]] wears rainbow, and Zig-Zagging Zack wears [[BreadEggsMilkSquick nothing]]. [[LongList Phew!]]
19** The team is extremely pedantic when it comes to naming the colors they wear. Alice wears ''vermilion'', Bob wears ''light bronze'', Charles wears ''goldenrod'', etc.
20* '''Zig Zagged''':
21** The characters prefer to wear their designated colors, but they don't always.
22** They switch around colors from time to time.
23* '''Averted''': There are no ColorCodedCharacters.
24* '''Enforced''': The producers want to make sure every character is distinctive looking, [[MerchandiseDriven so their action figures stand out better.]]
25* '''Lampshaded''': A LimitedWardrobe closet gag shows that everything in Bumbling Bob's closet is the exact same shade of orange, even his underwear, socks, and accessories.
26* '''Invoked''': Upon their introduction into Innocent Irene's crime fighting group, each character is given a specific color uniform to wear.
27* '''Exploited''': To trick Horrid Harry, all the girls are given red dresses to disguise themselves as Alice.
28* '''Defied''': Mae is allowed to wear Alice's red without any repercussions.
29* '''Discussed''': Evelyn: As much as I like light blue, I think blue lipstick is overkill...
30* '''Conversed''': ???
31* '''Implied''': After Excitable Evelyn leaves, she is replaced by new Chick Energetic Eileen, who is bestowed a cyan wardrobe by Irene.
32* '''Played for Laughs''': ...And [[RememberTheNewGuy Aamazing Aaron]] wears aqua, and [[TheLoad Babbling Barbra]] wears -
33--> '''''[[OverlyLongGag STOP IT!]]''''' There are no more colors!
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39%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
40%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

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