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Author: XanderVJ

Jul 25th 2014 at 5:03:17 AM

Almost every single argument you've said can be used against RedIsHeroic too.

Oh, and thank you very much for the uncalled abrasiveness, BTW.

Anyway, about yellow, as they already said, it isn't used nearly as often to differentiate the hero as red and blue. It's even relatively uncommon in cases of ColorCodedCharacters (at least compared to other colors), probably because its association with bad luck in some parts of Western culture. Maybe gold would be a tad closer, but still far away, since it implies a degree of social status that's not usually associated with heroes. And when it's used, more often than not it's more to imply some kind of power up.

If there is another color that you could argue could also be considered "heroic" to an at least similar degree as red and blue, that would be the color white. But considering most of the time it's prominently accompanied by other primary color to make it really stand out, I'm not sure to what degree it applies.

There is, however, one other color that is prominently associated, not with heroes per se, but rather with anti-heroes: Black. Although this was used mostly in the 90s, but you could still make a case.

The non-primary colors are directly rare in comparison. Which is not to say that they're difficult to find. Just that red and blue are colors that are used much, much often.

However, if most of you are still unconvinced, maybe we could scrap RedIsHeroic too and put both cases under PrimaryColorChampion. Albeit that would require restructuring that entry quite deeply. For example, dividing the examples in cases where red is used alone, cases where blue is used alone, and cases where both are used together.