Confused about Blue Is Heroic

Like a lot of appearance tropes - especially color-related appearance tropes - I'm not entirely sure what the requirements for Blue Is Heroic are supposed to be. The description mentions some possible personality traits associated with the trope, but they're apparently not required - so is it really just meant to be "the hero wears blue"? It seems like that could very possibly just be a meaningless coincidence in a lot of cases.

edited 19th Nov '14 12:05:15 AM by nrjxll

I thought it was just meant to be a tendency for super heroes to wear blue

Superman Batman (depending on the artist but still) The Fantastic Four Spider-man T He X-men at times (when the uniforms were all yellow and blue) Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury

Maybe the personality traits aspect should be purged from the page?

Sailor Moon is not blue, her colors are all over the place depending on the season. Mercury's color is blue because she is smart and serious compared to Moon's boke.

Blue is the heroic color is for stuff like Star Wars lightsabers and such but standard stuff is Red is the heroic color hence why Sentai leads, Dante in Devil May Cry and such wear red there are very few non-shoehorn examples of blue heroes there, IE Mega Man, as blue is the partner's color since the red oni in Red Oni, Blue Oni is almost always the MC and that trope is very often taken literally with red and blue color themes.

Heck there is a lot of shoehorning in this trope... I mean Solid Snake from Metal Gear? Wtf he is not even wearing blue and the this is not the reason why his suits have occasional shades of it. Dragon Ball uses blue to portray bad guy ki blasts too, Sasuke in Naruto is again playing the serious foil to Naruto's reddish orange.

edited 23rd Nov '14 7:04:31 PM by Memers

Blue Is Heroic is (or should be) when blue specifically is used to denotate the hero.

Sailor Moon, Spider-Man, the X-Men (depending on version, I suppose) fit under Primary-Color Champion.

Ami has a lot of other reasons to be blue, or you could count every single Blue Ranger, or every single time anyone in a group happens to have blue for other reasons (like everyone having their own colour).

Blue Is Heroic is often combined with red used for evil (while a red hero more often uses blue for the lancer).

For some reason what first comes to mind is actually strategy games, where the heroic army is tinted blue while the evil empire is tinted red. On a more personal level, red seems more heroic in general.

I think the idea is that blue is one of the more common colors for a hero to wear. (Red is another.)

The character in question has to be color coded with blue to count. Snake thusly doesn't.

Personality isn't a requirement, yes, but it often comes with the color blue, just as how the color red has some associated personality (and Red Is Heroic doesn't need the personality either).

Red being heroic is more of a Japanese thing I think, Blue is more American.

Video games which use colors to denote sides though its universally Blue yours Red enemy.