Pink Girl Blue Boy / Western Animation

Pink Girl, Blue Boy in Western Animation

• Adventure Time:
  • From the episode "The Silent King", regarding a blue mirror, "And it's painted baby blue, boy style!"
  • In terms of the show, Finn is a Blue Boy to the Pink Girl Princess Bubblegum.
  • Inverted in "Fionna and Cake", however, which has Fionna as the Blue Girl to Prince Gumball's Pink Boy.
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Rocket the Sloth from "Slowwww Going" wears a blue sweater, while his sister wears a pink dress.
  • Bucky from "Baby Sitter Jitters" wears a blue shirt, while Becky, his sister, wears a pink shirt.
  • In "The Robots' Robot", two lion cubs named Jackson and Susie live in a village that was imploded. Susie wears a pink jumpsuit, while Jackson wears a blue one.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: Gumball and Anais, the lead character and his little sister. The color motif is inverted with their parents, Richard and Nicole.
• Angel Wars: The main characters' superiors, Paladin and Arianna, play this trope straight with the embellishments on their armor. The main characters themselves practically invert the trope by taking colors from the opposite sides of the color wheel, with Eli having yellow embellishments and Kira having green ones.
• Animaniacs: Flavio and Marita the hip-hippos are blue and pinkish-purple respectively.
• Around the World with Willy Fog: Rigodon (a male cat) wears a blue suit, while Romy (a female cat) wears a pink-and-white sari.
• Arthur: Subverted, as two of Arthur's classmates, Buster and Maria, wear both pink and blue.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Inverted. Katara wears blue Water Tribe clothes while Zuko wears red Fire Nation clothes. They end up being the Designated Parents of Team Avatar despite not becoming an Official Couple.
  • The Legend of Korra (the sequel series):
    • Inverted again with Korra and the boys.◊ Asami Sato, the most feminine of the team and later Korra's primary love interest, wears red.
    • Inverted with the primordial spirits Raava and Vaatu. Raava, the spirit of light and peace, is white with blue markings. Her counterpart Vaatu, the spirit of darkness and chaos, is black with red markings.
• The Backyardigans: Uniqua the pink Cartoon Creature and Pablo the blue penguin.
• Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom: The two main characters. Princess Holly always wears a pink dress, while Ben the Elf always wears trousers and a T-shirt complete with an elf hat of the same blue color.
• Biker Mice from Mars: The episode "A Scent, a Memory, a Far Distant Cheese" featured a giant monster couple named Gorgonzola and Munsterella. Gorgonzola was male and aqua, while Munsterella was female and magenta.
• Blaze and the Monster Machines: Inverted with AJ and Gabby. He wears red, while she wears blue.
• Blue's Clues: Zigzags this — Blue is blue and female, but Magenta, who is pink, is also female. Their male friend Periwinkle is blueish-purple (a shade of blue).
• Bobby's World: Inverted with Howard and Martha Generic; Howard wears a pink shirt, while Martha wears a blue shirt and blue pants.
• Bubble Guppies: Molly and Gil. Bonus points for being not only the two characters featured most prominently, but also an extremely played with Puppy Love.
• Cartoons That Never Made It: The titular interspecies couple of "Salt 'n' Slug" are a blue male salt shaker and a pink female slug.
• Castlevania: Inverted. Trevor wears red colors while Sypha has a blue robe.◊
• Challenge of the GoBots: The two-part episode "Renegade Rampage" featured a pair of young Trindles consisting of a boy clad in blue named Trevor and a girl clad in pink named Troilene.
• Subverted in Chip Chilla. The male chinchillas (Chum Chum, Chip, and Chubbly) have blue fur, while the female ones (Chinny and Charla) have purple fur.
• Chocolyne and Chocomark from The Chocolix are, respectively, pink-haired and blue-haired. Chocolyne is female and Chocomark is her brother.
• Colourblocks: Inverted with Cyan and Magenta who are shades of blue and pink respectively.
• Clifford's Puppy Days: Zo wears a pink collar while her brother Flo wears a blue one.
• The Crumpets: Caprice the pink girl and Marylin the blue boy, mostly from their nose and clothing colors (Caprice also has a pink hair streak).
  • Inverted between Pfff and Cassandra on nose colors at least. Pfff isn't anymore pink while Cassandra's hair and clothes have shades of blue.
• Dragon Tales: The main cast of dragons (assuming you count Quetzal as supporting) is certainly this way. Ord is blue; Cassie is pink. Zak and Wheezie, who are a two-headed dragon, are divided colorwise down the middle: the Zak half is green, while the Wheezie half is purple.
• Averted in Duckman with the characters Fluffy and Uranus. Despite one being pink and the other blue, nobody knows what gender they are, not even themselves.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy: Sarah wears a pink tank top while her friend Jimmy wears a light blue sweater.
• The Fairly Oddparents:
  • Timmy Turner's clothes are all pink in-universe because his parents were expecting a girl. In reality, Butch Hartman had intended for them (or at least his hat) to be blue, but when his blue marker ran out before he could finish, he had to use a pink one instead.
  • "Dream Goat!" gives us Chompy's boy and girl goat kids, who wear the respective colors.
• Final Space: Inverted. Quinn's space suit is blue, while Gary's is red.
  • Played straight with Little Cato (whose mohawk is dyed cyan) and Ash Graven (who has purple hair).
• Fireman Sam: In the original series, James wore a dark blue sweater, blue jeans and blue shoes, while his twin sister Sarah wore pink dungarees and pink shoes.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Pink girl Berry falls in love with blue boy Bloo.
• Gargoyles: The gargoyles' eyes will actually glow a different color depending on that gargoyle's gender: females' eyes glow red, while males' glow white. Inverted with the clones, however. There's a good reason why all the females have glowing red eyes: originally, Demona was going to be the only red-eyed gargoyle, but since the show's writers did not want to make her role as the villain more obvious, they changed it so that every single female gargoyle has red eyes and not Demona.
• The Ghost and Molly McGee: Male ghosts are usually blue or green, while female ghosts are pink or purple. Exceptions would be Howlin' Harriet who is green and Sonia Davis who is blue, and Molly, who takes on a bright gold ghost form in the Season 1 finale.
• Ghost Force: One of the male co-leads, Mike, has electric blue highlights on his outfit, while the female co-lead Liv has pink ones instead.
• Gravity Falls:
  • Dipper wears a blue and white hat and a blue vest; Mabel isn't as consistent but frequently wears pink/purple/red clothes.
  • Dipper and Mabel's beds are sometimes shown with a blue blanket and a pink blanket, respectively.
  • In "Irrational Treasure", when Dipper and Mabel "break in" the Gravity Falls Museum of History, the woman working at the front door gives them free day passes as well as two balloons; she hands a pink one to Mabel and a blue one to Dipper. (When Sherrif Blubs and Deputy Durland show up, Durland is extremely dejected when the woman says that there are no pink ballons left.)
  • In the third act of "Soos And The Real Girl", Mabel wears a hat that resembles Dipper's, but it's pink with a heart detail.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Billy's outfit consists of blue pants and a white shirt with a blue stripe, while Mandy wears a pink dress.
• Grojband: Corey Riffin and his Big Sister Bully Trina, who have blue hair and pink hair respectively.
• Hey Arnold!:
  • Harold and Helga, who are the two main bullies of the fourth grade, are represented with blue and pink, respectively. However, Helga often calls Harold "pink boy" in reference to his ruddy skin tone.
  • Arnold is also regularly associated with blue, due to his jumper and hat (he also wears a blue jacket in The Jungle Movie). Helga has a crush on him and they're arguably the two main characters.
• I ♡ Arlo gives us the pink furball Furlecia and the blue reverse merman Marcellus.
• Jelly Jamm: Rita and Mina fit the "pink girly girl, blue tomboy" subtrope. Averted with the male characters, however, as two are purple and one is red.
• King of the Hill: In Luanne Gets Lucky, Luanne attempts to make up for the prom she never got to attend as a teenager. She wears a pink dress while her (notably younger) date wears a blue tuxedo.
• Krazy Kat: Inverted in the TV series. Ignatz Mouse (the boy) is pink while Krazy Kat (the girl) is blue. They were similarly colored in the original comic strip but, as Krazy's gender was ambiguous, this trope did not come into play at all.
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series:
  • Stitch is blue and Angel (#624 and his love interest) is pink.
  • Lilo also has the red Hawaiian dress while Stitch is blue.
• Looney Tunes: In the cartoon "Bewitched Bunny", Hansel and Gretel appear. Hansel wears blue lederhosen, while Gretel wears a pink dress and pink hair-bow.
• The Loud House: Lynn Loud Sr. wears a teal blue sweater, while his wife Rita wears a salmon pink blouse.
• Making Fiends: Both inverted and played straight with Charlotte. She's a stereotypical, over-the-top caricature of everything adorable and annoying about the archetypal American little girl, but has baby blue as her color and motif. Still, she seems to love pink as much as expected, as almost all of her possessions are pink.
• Mr. Bogus: The title character wears a pair of blue shorts, while his less-recurring cousin, Bogetta, wears a pink dress.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Princess Cadance and Shining Armor as one of the few canon couples in the series.
  • When the newborn Cake twins are introduced, their swaddling clothes are blue for colt Pound Cake and pink for filly Pumpkin Cake.
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons: Simultaneously played the trope straight and inverted it in the short "Twins Crimson and Those Amazing Robots". Bene is a boy with blue hair and a blue shirt who also wears a pink scarf, while his twin sister Beckette has pink hair and a pink dress in addition to wearing a blue ribbon in her hair.
• Oscar's Orchestra: Scheherazade and the other violin character in the season 3 episode “Return of Scheherazade”. Also, Chordelia and Oscar.
• Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures has Inky who is a male blue ghost and Pinky who is a female pink ghost.
  • Averted in the PacMan 1982 cartoon where Pinky was male instead.
• Pet Alien: The two-headed alien Shank and Dank features this color scheme. Shank, the female head, has a pink neck while Dank, the male head, has a blue neck.
• Phineas and Ferb: Downplayed with Isabella and Phineas (or at least from Phineas' end, whose main Color Motif consists of mostly orange): Phineas wears blue shorts and blue shoes while Isabella wears a pink dress, pink shoes and pink hairbow.
• Pocoyo: In the episode where he meets an alien, when the alien's parents turn up, the Narrator addresses the pink alien as the "Mummy Alien". The Alien then gives an angry look at the screen and the Narrator corrects himself, realizing it's the "Daddy Alien".
• The Raccoons: Zigzagged with Bentley and Lisa. Bentley wears a light blue shirt while Lisa wears a pink shirt, pink sneakers, and a pink hair tie with blue pants and suspenders. Played straight with their bedrooms; Bentley's has blue walls and Lisa's has pink walls.
• Ready Jet Go!: Sean and Sydney usually wear green and grey, respectively, but in the winter episodes, Sean wears a blue jacket while Sydney wears a pink jacket.
• Regular Show: Mordecai is a blue jay and Margaret is a red-breasted robin (filling in for Pink).
• Rick and Morty: Summer wears a pink shirt while Morty wears blue pants.
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Christmas Elves' outfits follow this trope.
• Rugrats: Downplayed with Phil and Lil, the DeVille twins. Phil wears blue shoes and has a pair of blue shorts under his overalls, while Lil wears pink shoes and a pink bow on her head.
• Seth MacFarlane seems to love this trope, as evidenced by the characters in his shows through their Limited Wardrobe:
  • American Dad!: Francine wears a pink sundress and her husband Stan wears a navy blue suit.
  • The Cleveland Show: Kendra wears a pink top and her husband Lester wears denim pants and vest.
  • Family Guy:
    • Meg's shirt is pink and her brother Chris wears a blue one.
    • Both Peter and Lois’ signature wardrobe features green. However, Peter has blue pajamas and Lois a pink nightie.
    • Lois’ father Carter often wears a blue suit and her mother Barbara wears a red dress.
    • Tom Tucker usually wears a blue suit, while his anchor partner Diane Simmons wears a red one.
    • Parodied in a cutaway gag where a talking blue car is hitting on a pink car but realizes that it's his buddy, whose owner gave him a paint job. Though, at the last second of that particular Cutaway Gag, it is implied that the pink car is gay/bi, at least.
• Scooby-Doo: Daphne Blake and Fred Jones. Fred's signature outfit includes him wearing a shirt with a blue collar and blue pants, whereas Daphne is usually depicted wearing pink leggings, though her Color Motif is mostly purple. Her attire is much more pink in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo which plays the trope much more straight.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: While posing as the female-presenting Flutterina, the non-binary Double Trouble's skin is pink; while impersonating the male-presenting Peekablue, their skin is blue.
• SheZow: Invertes. The titular hero wears a overwhelmingly-pink and feminine dress while his Distaff Counterpart DudePow wears a blue, masculine-looking bodysuit.
• Sidney the Elephant: The title character was a male elephant who was blue. He falls for a pink elephant girl named Hortense at the end of the short "Sidney's Family Tree".
• The Simpsons:
  • Homer and Marge’s nightwear: Homer is most often seen wearing blue pajamas in bed, while Marge wears a pink nightgown (though in the early seasons the nightgown was sometimes purple).
  • Bart and Lisa’s formal wear: When the family dresses up for formal occasions, Bart frequently wears a blue suit while Lisa wears a pink dress.
    • When both got temporarily transferred to the third grade, and the class took a field trip to Capitol City, Marge got them “matching fanny packs” for the trip (Bart’s was green and Lisa’s pink).
  • In "Girls Just Want to Have Sums", Principal Skinner is fired for his unintentionally sexist comments and tone-deaf efforts to publicly atone for them. His successor divides Springfield Elementary by gender, with the outside of the girl’s half painted pink and the boys’ blue.
  • As of Season 25, there is also Comic Book Guy who wears a blue shirt and his wife, Kumiko, who wears a pink sweatshirt and pink hairbow.
• South Park: Stan wears a blue hat with a red poofball on top. His girlfriend Wendy wears a pink beret.
• Steven Universe: Inverted. Steven's associated colour is pink, while his friend Connie's associated colour is blue.
• Team Umizoomi: Milli and Geo respectively.
• Thomas & Friends:
  • Prior to her repaint in Season 21, Rosie was a female pink tank engine. This was especially noticeable when she was seen with Thomas, a blue tank engine.
  • Thomas also has a similar dynamic with Ashima, an Indian tank engine prominently featured in The Great Race, due to the latter also being pink.
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • Buster is a blue bunny, and Babs is a pink one, and (even though they say that they're not related) sometimes they'll even break out matching props.
  • Sweetie Bird is a female canary with pink feathers, while Furrball is a male cat with blue fur.
  • How I Spent My Vacation features Bimbette Skunk, a female skunk with pink fur, and Johnny Pew, a male skunk with blue fur.
  • In the two episodes featuring the Flea Family, Itchiano is a teenage girl flea who wears a pink dress and a pink hairbow, while her younger brother Fliorello wears a blue shirt and a blue baseball cap.
• The Tool Street Gang gender-inverts this with Fret (female, blue) and Tap (male, bright pink).
• Total Drama: Both played straight and inverted.
  • Geoff wears a pink shirt while his girlfriend Bridgette wears a blue hoodie.
  • Mike wears a blue shirt and his crush Zoe wears a red crop top.
• The Transformers: The Movie: In the movie and following episodes of The Transformers, Arcee is a pink girl next to blue Ultra Magnus.
• Unikitty!: Unikitty herself is pink, while her younger brother, Puppycorn, is blue.
• The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Hamburglar wears a blue jacket while Birdie the Early Bird wears a pink jumpsuit.
• Wayside: Todd wears a blue T-shirt and Maurecia wears a pink helmet with lavender flames and pink/lavender rollerskates.
• Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?: The titular character's parents. Dad Unit is colored blue while Mom Unit is pink.
• W.I.T.C.H.: Will and her boyfriend Matt. Will has red hair and wears a pink shirt as part of her Guardian uniform. Matt has blue hair and wears a green vest when he becomes Shagon.
• The Wotwots: Dottywot and Spottywot, respectively.
• Yin Yang Yo!: Yin and Yang are a pink bunny and a blue bunny respectively as well.
• Young Justice (2010): Inverted with the Battle Couple of Jade Nguyen and Will Harper, the Roy Harper clone. Jade wears green while Will wears red and has red hair.

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