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*** The Master Control Program from ''Film/{{Tron}}'' is an example of a Blue-Black villain. It uses blue's emphasis on secrecy to infilitrate various major organizations such as the penatgon to satisfy it's black goals of domination.
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*** The Master Control Program from Tron is an example of a Blue-Black villain. It uses blues emphasis on secrecy to infilitrate various major organizations to satisfy it's black goals of domination.

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*** The Master Control Program from Tron ''Film/{{Tron}}'' is an example of a Blue-Black villain. It uses blues blue's emphasis on secrecy to infilitrate various major organizations such as the penatgon to satisfy it's black goals of domination.

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Added some officially listed examples of each color combination, as observed by Mark Rosewater. Did some adjustments, however, and left out Menudo (mainly due to obscurity) and refrained from listing Spike despite him being covered twice.


** Mark Rosewater lists [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]], [[{{Cheers}} Cliff Clavin]], [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Jean-Luc Picard]] and [[XMen The Beast]] as prime examples of the white-blue color combo.



*** Mark Rosewater states [[TheGodfather Don Corleone]], [[XMen Magneto]] and [[{{Seinfeld}} Jerry Seinfeld]] (the character, not the person himself) as prime examples of the white-blue color combination.



*** Mark Rosewater listed ThePunisher, TheATeam, [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Worf]] and [[VForVendetta V]] as examples of white-red.




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** Examples listed by Mark Rosewater include [[StarWars the Ewoks]], [[CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Oompa Loompas]], and [[InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers Body Snatchers]].



*** Mark Rosewater has listed [[{{Superman}} Lex Luthor]], [[StarTrek The Borg]], [[HarryPotter Rita Skeeter]] and [[FamilyGuy Stewie]] as examples of blue-black colored characters.



*** Examples listed as blue-red by Mark Rosewater include [[BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]], IndianaJones, [[{{Angel}} Fred]] and DrSeuss.




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** [[TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau Dr. Moreau]], [[FrankensteinsMonster Dr. Frankenstein]], [[JurassicPark John Hammond]] (movie version) and [[Film/{{Spiderman}} Dr. Octopus]] (also movie version) are listed as blue-green characters by Mark Rosewater.



** Other black-red coloured examples which have been listed by Mark Rosewater include [[{{Batman}} The Joker]], [[{{Seinfeld}} Elaine Benes]], [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike]] (initially listed as ''white''-black) and [[StarWars Anakin Skywalker]].




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*** Mark Rosewater's listed examples for black-green are [[{{Batman}} Poison Ivy]], Comicbook/{{Venom}} and the villain from Film/TwelveMonkeys.




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** Mark Rosewater considers TheHulk, [[TheMuppets Animal]], [[PeterPan Tinkerbell]] and [[{{Seinfeld}} Cosmo Kramer]] to be prime examples of red-green characters.
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***The Master Control Program from Tron is an example of a Blue-Black villain. It uses blues emphasis on secrecy to infilitrate various major organizations to satisfy it's black goals of domination.
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** '''FriedrichNietzsche''' personifies the worst attributes of Green and White in the Last Man, combining Whites emphasis on conformism and lack of any personal ambition with Greens dislike of thinking and creating.

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** '''FriedrichNietzsche''' personifies the worst attributes of Green and White in the Last Man, combining Whites emphasis on conformism and lack of any personal ambition with Greens dislike of thinking and creating.
creating to create a being devoid of the will or vision to imrpove or stand out.
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** White/Black cards tend to fall into one of three molds: either an out-and-out hypocrite, who pretends to White's piety and selflessness as an act to hide or support its Black core; a person aking to [[TheGodfather Vito Corleone]] who is generous and loyal to a certain subgroup but doesn't care about outsiders; or a KnightTemplar who is willing to use Black's methods for White's goals - if they have to sell their soul to save their people, that's a worthy trade. Black/White belongs to the VillainWithGoodPublicity, or believes UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans.

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** White/Black cards tend to fall into one of three molds: either an out-and-out hypocrite, who pretends to White's piety and selflessness as an act to hide or support its Black core; a person aking akin to [[TheGodfather Vito Corleone]] who is generous hgenerous and loyal to a certain subgroup but doesn't care about outsiders; or a KnightTemplar who is willing to use Black's methods for White's goals - if they have to sell their soul to save their people, that's a worthy trade. Black/White belongs to the VillainWithGoodPublicity, or believes UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans.
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*** The best traits of a Red/Blue mixture would be the Ubermensch as talked about by '''FriedrichNietzsche''' , combining Blues desire to innovate and imrpove with Reds emphasis on emotion as well as indiviuality and self-expression.

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*** The best traits of a Red/Blue mixture would be the Ubermensch as talked about by '''FriedrichNietzsche''' , combining Blues desire to innovate and imrpove improve with Reds emphasis on emotion as well as indiviuality and self-expression.self-expression. Perhaps fitting enough, [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]] considers the Red/Blue mixture to be opposed to the Green/White mixture, something fitting as Nietzsche also essencially contrasts both (see above). Whereas one supports ultimate conformity, the other supports ultimate individuality.
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** '''FriedrichNietzsche''' personifies the worst attributes of Green and White in the Last Man, combining Whites emphasis on conformism and lack of any personal ambition with Greens dislike of thinkin and creating.

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** '''FriedrichNietzsche''' personifies the worst attributes of Green and White in the Last Man, combining Whites emphasis on conformism and lack of any personal ambition with Greens dislike of thinkin thinking and creating.

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** '''FriedrichNietzsche''' personifies the worst attributes of Green and White in the Last Man, combining Whites emphasis on conformism and lack of any personal ambition with Greens dislike of thinkin and creating.


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*** The best traits of a Red/Blue mixture would be the Ubermensch as talked about by '''FriedrichNietzsche''' , combining Blues desire to innovate and imrpove with Reds emphasis on emotion as well as indiviuality and self-expression.
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** Zeus in VideoGame/GodOfWar is a perfect White/Blue villain; much like the kithkin from the Shadowmoor setting and the Azorius (and specially Augustin IV) from [[RavnicaCycle Ravnica]], he is duplicious, [[LightIsNotGood taking the guise of a benevolent, noble ruler while being a paranoid, obsessive]] [[CompleteMonster monster]] on the inside.

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** Zeus in VideoGame/GodOfWar is a perfect White/Blue villain; much like the kithkin from the Shadowmoor setting and the Azorius (and specially Augustin IV) from [[RavnicaCycle [[MagicTheGathering/RavnicaCycle Ravnica]], he is duplicious, [[LightIsNotGood taking the guise of a benevolent, noble ruler while being a paranoid, obsessive]] [[CompleteMonster monster]] on the inside.
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** Zeus in VideoGame/GodOfWar is a perfect White/Blue villain; much like the kithkin from the Shadowmoor setting and the Azorius (and specially Augustin IV) from [[RavnicaCycle Ravnica]], he is duplicious, [[LightIsNotGood taking the guise of a benevolent, noble ruler while being a paranoid, obsessive]] [[CompleteMonster monster]] on the inside.
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*** AN example of the Duality of Red/White is to Compare Alucard and The Major from {{Hellsing}}, both are Red/White Charcters but in opposite directions. Alucard uses his Red bloodlust to atains Whites peace of a vampire free England; whereas the Major uses Whites organization to spend 50 years preparing for a Red bloody war.

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*** AN An example of the Duality of Red/White is to Compare Alucard and The Major from {{Hellsing}}, both are Red/White Charcters but in opposite directions. Alucard uses his Red bloodlust to atains Whites peace of a vampire free England; whereas the Major uses Whites organization to spend 50 years preparing for a Red bloody war.
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*** [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Luna]] is a good example of the artist inherent to this colour mixture, having taken great lengths to make the night aesthetically pleasing, and having quite excentric tastes. Her main current motivation is Red (making friends and being accepted again), but she uses Blue magic.

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*** [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Luna]] is a good example of the artist inherent to this colour mixture, having taken great lengths to make the night aesthetically pleasing, and having quite excentric eccentric tastes. Her main current motivation is Red (making friends and being accepted again), but she uses Blue magic.

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** White/Blue are also the colors of community and society. The laws of white united with the rationality of blue. However Blue/White is the color of LawfulNeutral and ObstructiveBureaucrat, examples the Azorius in Dissention

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** White/Blue are also the colors of community and society. The laws of white united with the rationality of blue. However Blue/White is the color of LawfulNeutral and ObstructiveBureaucrat, examples the Azorius in DissentionDissention.
** Ozymandias in {{Watchmen}}. He mixes Blue rationality, [[spoiler: deception]] and praticality with White altruism [[spoiler: and KnightTemplar thinking]].



*** [[FullmetalAlchemist Greed]] is unambiguously selfish and ambitious, but does have a sense of honour and concern for his "possession".
*** ScroogeMcDuck is consistently depicted as selfish but honourable, making him the most iconic examle of a Black/White Disney character ever.




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** [[{{Bioshock}} Sofia Lamb]] is a good example of a Green/White villain; she helds above everything [[TotalitarianUtilitarian communitary good]], but she also believes strongly in genetic fatalism, believing mankind to be slaves to their genes, a Green belief. She is even more inclined to spirituality than the other Bioshock villain (which is Black), and White/Green is the most spiritual colour.
** The Body Snatchers in ''InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' are, as [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]] put it, "aliens on a mission". They operate as a collective if not an outright HiveMind, they're communist allegories, and they look like plants.


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** [[HarryPotter Serverus Snape]] is a [[DarkIsNotEvil sympathetic]] example: he is what you get when you add Blue methods to a ByronicHero.


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*** [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Luna]] is a good example of the artist inherent to this colour mixture, having taken great lengths to make the night aesthetically pleasing, and having quite excentric tastes. Her main current motivation is Red (making friends and being accepted again), but she uses Blue magic.


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** {{Bayonetta}} is a [[DarkIsNotEvil heroic example]]. She is quite self-focused and playful, and overall not very interested in outright heroics (not to mention embracing the whoredom inherent to this colour-mixture), but only sadistic and malicious to the angels (who are [[LightIsNotGood White villains]], amusingly enough), avoiding most people except her two or three friends.
** Mark Rosewater also considers DonaldDuck to be this. He is consistently selfish and VERY prone to exploding in rage. Likewise, he is depicted as the member of the Disney trio least interested in outright heroism and prone to jealousy, but not consistently malicious unless pissed off.
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*** AN example of the Duality of Red/White is to Compare Alucard and The Major from {{Hellsing}}, both are Red/White Charcters but in opposite directions. Alucard uses his Red bloodlust to atains Whites peace of a vampire free England; whereas the Major uses Whites organization to spend 50 years preparing for a Red bloody war.
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** Another common blue/green hybrid connects green to blue's small but still-present natural side in the form of water. Selkies and feral water-folk from Shadowmoor, humidity-loving [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=29304 jungle foliage]], and natural springs of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=25832 time-twisting water]] use green means for blue effects.
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*** Likewise, in Innistrad, Sorin Markov's ties of responsibility to the humans of his home bleed him into black/white, and arguably makes him the BigGood of the whole plane.
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** Red/Blue is a rare color combination (although it certainly happens); when it does, it tends to involve copious amounts of [[ForScience Science!]] and explosions. Think of Red/Blue as Blue's [[MadScience Madness Place]] - where the research, creativity, and drive to know go a little overboard and leave behind things like cold pragmatism and stoicism... with the result that its experiments can blow up in its face. ([[{{Portal2}} Aperture Science]] at the height of its creativity is a good example.) It also, somewhat rarely, comes about because Red and Blue are the two colors most likely to have Elemental creatures and pure-elemental effects.

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** Red/Blue is a rare color combination (although it certainly happens); when it does, it tends to involve copious amounts of [[ForScience Science!]] and explosions. Think of Red/Blue as Blue's [[MadScience Madness Place]] - where the research, creativity, and drive to know go a little overboard and leave behind things like cold pragmatism and stoicism... with the result that its experiments can blow up in its face. ([[{{Portal2}} ([[VideoGame/{{Portal2}} Aperture Science]] at the height of its creativity is a good example.) It also, somewhat rarely, comes about because Red and Blue are the two colors most likely to have Elemental creatures and pure-elemental effects.
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** White/Black cards tend to fall into one of two molds: either an out-and-out hypocrite, who pretends to White's piety and selflessness as an act to hide or support its Black core; or a KnightTemplar who is willing to use Black's methods for White's goals - if they have to sell their soul to save their people, that's a worthy trade. Black/White belongs to the VillainWithGoodPublicity, or believes UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans.

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** White/Black cards tend to fall into one of two three molds: either an out-and-out hypocrite, who pretends to White's piety and selflessness as an act to hide or support its Black core; a person aking to [[TheGodfather Vito Corleone]] who is generous and loyal to a certain subgroup but doesn't care about outsiders; or a KnightTemplar who is willing to use Black's methods for White's goals - if they have to sell their soul to save their people, that's a worthy trade. Black/White belongs to the VillainWithGoodPublicity, or believes UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans.

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** The human resistance in Innistrad is a good example. The humans are fighting for survival against the monsters, and where Green has all the general buffs, White has more cards that get stronger with more humans, along with more cards that incapacitate creatures.



** Innistrad's zombies are Blue/Black; the Blue zombies are Frankenstein's-monster-type skaab, and they tend to be stronger at the cost of discarding cards or requiring certain cards in the graveyard. Black has the more standard ZombieApocalypse cards, which tend to be slower but inexorable. Where Blue can pull out 6/9 zombies, Black can get four 2/2s.



** Innistrad's vampies are Black and Red. Generally, the Black ones gain life and are harder to block (or just do direct damage) while the Red ones get stronger.




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** Innistrad's werewolves are Red/Green. Although both colors have similar effects, the Red werewolves are almost exclusively humans from the city, while many of the Green ones are pagans, hunters, and people closer to nature.
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* TotalitarianUtalitarian It will make you happy and all it asks for in return is that you abdicate your free will.

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* TotalitarianUtalitarian TotalitarianUtilitarian It will make you happy and all it asks for in return is that you abdicate your free will.



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*** Another good example, the Mirran Resistance in the Scars of Mirrodin block, fueled by both devotion to their cause, and defiance to the ever-increasing Phyrexian influence on the world. This leads to the few surviving uncorrupted mirrans to keep from losing hope of a pure Mirrodin once again by remaining defiant to the new Phyrexian rule reinforced by a staunch belief that even in this state they can reclaim their home. In short, this color combination can create a ''really'' stubborn {{Determinator}}.
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* BLACK: Blue and Black get along well, because they are both TheUnfettered. Both of them consider themselves BeyondGoodAndEvil; Blue sees everything in the world as fair game for use in experiments ForScience, and Black sees everything in the world as fair game for fodder in a DealWithTheDevil. Blue and Black share the ability to draw extra cards, but Blue has brute-force knowledge gain where Black has targeted fetch-one-card spells. Also, Black is willing to self-cannibalize to get ahead, which Blue just isn't into; Blue wants progress where Black wants power.

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* BLACK: Blue and Black get along well, because they are both TheUnfettered. Both of them consider themselves BeyondGoodAndEvil; VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil; Blue sees everything in the world as fair game for use in experiments ForScience, and Black sees everything in the world as fair game for fodder in a DealWithTheDevil. Blue and Black share the ability to draw extra cards, but Blue has brute-force knowledge gain where Black has targeted fetch-one-card spells. Also, Black is willing to self-cannibalize to get ahead, which Blue just isn't into; Blue wants progress where Black wants power.
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* EldritchAbomination (TheGreatGodPan style)

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* EldritchAbomination (TheGreatGodPan (''Literature/TheGreatGodPan'' style)
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* EldritchAbomination (deep sea style)

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* EldritchAbomination (deep sea (SeaMonster style)
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** White/Blue are also the colors of community and society. The laws of white united with the rationality of blue. However Blue/White is the color of LawfulNeutral and ObstructiveBureaucrat, examples the Azorius in Dissention
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*** Actually Blue/Red is very common; it is the main colour combination associated with arts, with Red providing the passion and Blue perfection.

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