Basic Trope: A character has a Color Motif that sets them apart from the other characters.
- Straight: The Five-Man Band members each have a color motif extending to all their major outfits: The Leader Awesome Alice wears red, The Lancer Brazen Bob wears blue, The Big Guy Chucking Charles wears yellow, The Smart Guy Deviant Danny wears green, and The Heart Excitable Evelyn wears 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 Sixth Rangers have their own color motif: Frank Francis wears indigo, Gretchen the Good wears purple, High Flying Harry wears orange, and Indecisive Imogen wears aqua.
- Each character has two or more color motifs; in this case Alice wears red and orange, Bob wears blue and cyan, Charles wears yellow and cream, Danny wears green and brown, and Evelyn wears pink and lilac.
- Downplayed:
- Their Color Motif is very subtle; it's mixed in with other colors so that it doesn't stand out too much.
- Their Color Motif is very faint and barely noticeable.
- A character has a Color Motif, but they sometimes alternate to a different shade of it; 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.
- 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.
- They're all crayons.
- They have a favorite color that they prefer above all else and feel represented by.
- In an effort to remain organized, each member of the Five-Man Band are assigned a color so that their equipment is colored, and ergo they cannot get their things mixed up.
- Inverted: Alice, Bhob, and 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.
- Subverted:
- One day, Alice comes to work wearing a purple dress.
- Only their uniforms are their color. Their civilian clothes are different colors.
- Double Subverted:
- Because she's being poorly imitated by Kooky Katrina.
- Then it is revealed many of their other items and accessories contain their color motif.
- Parodied:
- Everything Alice touches turns red.
- Every single character has his or her own distinct color. When a character departs, they are immediately replaced by a Suspiciously Similar Substitute in the same color.
- The Five-Man Band members wear similar colors: Alice wears red, Bob wears blood red, Charles wears rust red, Danny wears maroon, and Evelyn wears wine. They insist that they wear completely different colors and get annoyed when people confuse their color schemes.
- Alice ends up wearing blue one day and everyone mistakes her for Bob, even though they look nothing alike.
- Zig Zagged: Some characters have more distinct Color Motifs than others.
- Averted: Every character wears every color.
- Enforced:
- The show is Merchandise-Driven and the producers want their action figures to stand out.
- Alice, Bob, and Charles look so similar to each other that the character designers color-code them so audiences can tell them apart.
- Lampshaded: Alice: Hey, Evelyn! That's my red! Go back to your pink!
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Sixth Ranger Traitor Just-Plain-Evil Jocelyn wears white, knowing that the group doesn't have a white member.
- Defied: Jocelyn uses a color draining ray on the Five-Man Band, and they all become gray.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: In a Merchandise-Driven 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.
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