Basic Trope: A queer character's identity is represented by the colors of their respective pride flags.
- Straight:
- Alice, a transgender woman, always wears a white t-shirt and shoes, a light blue skirt, and a light pink hoodie, matching the trans pride flag.
- The magic of the pansexual wizard Bob manifests as pink, yellow, and blue sparkles, similar to the pan pride flag.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice wears many different outfits, but they all perfectly mirror the trans flag in color.
- In a Cast Full of Gay, all of the character's outfits perfectly match their identity's flag.
- Downplayed:
- Alice wears a pink, blue, and white bracelet.
- Bob wears pink, yellow and blue underwear.
- Jaiden wears sunset themed clothes to represent being aroace.
- Justified:
- Alice specifically wears these colors as a way of showing pride, a subtle alternative to waving the trans flag.
- In Bob's world, magic manifests as a representation of its user. Since Bob considers his orientation to be one of the biggest parts of his identity, his magic resembles the pan flag.
- Inverted:
- People only wear color schemes that match flags of identities they don’t have.
- Only cishet people wear pride flag themed outfits.
- Queer characters dress only in grayscale.
- Subverted:
- Halfway through the show, Alice switches to a purple, yellow, black, and white outfit.
- Bob was experimenting with terms. After questioning his orientation for a bit, he realizes that he is straight.
- Calvin wears light and dark grays with purple accents, but turns out to not actually be asexual.
- Double Subverted:
- And a few episodes later, Alice comes out as nonbinary.
- Bob was just lying to protect himself. He really is pansexual.
- Calvin heard about what asexuality is, and figured, "You know what, that sounds just like me after all."
- Parodied:
- Charles, the flamboyant and token gay character of the cast, exclusively wears striped rainbow clothing.
- Roy G. Biv is gay.
- Queer peoples’ skin always matches their flag(s).
- Zig-Zagged: Alice questions her gender and orientation over the course of the series and switches up her main outfit each season. Sometimes the outfit matches the flag of a concurrent label she is using, sometimes not.
- Averted: Queer characters are never associated with the color scheme of their identity's flag.
- Enforced: For one reason or another, the creators can't explicitly mention that Alice is trans in the show, so they give her an outfit modeled after the flag and confirm her gender identity via social media.
- Lampshaded: “I’m blind, so why is it that every single day someone mentions that I’m practically wearing the aroace flag, in the right order and everything?!”
- Invoked: Alice and her queer friends go to a pride event where attendees are expected to represent their identites' colors through their outfits.
- Exploited: Bob looks for pride themed outfits to find queer people to hang out with.
- Defied: Alice, extremely worried about being outed, avoids wearing anything that even vaguely resembles the trans flag or otherwise suggests she is trans.
- Discussed: “Why are we always wearing rainbow clothes? Don’t we have anything else to wear?”
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: When people are surprised by Bob coming out as pan, he jokingly asks if they are colorblind.
- Played for Laughs:
- Nobody is surprised when Alice comes out as trans because she has exclusively worn pink, blue and white clothing for years.
- People are completely blindsided by people coming out despite only wearing pride themed clothing from birth.
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