History Analysis / MagicTheGathering

* TheSociopath — Even more so than Black, since Blue is thoroughly associated with the lack of emotions.

* Emily Kaldwin's set of supernatural abilities in ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'', in contrast with Corvo's, are focused on crowd control. She's not as mobile or stealthy as he is, and lacks the ability to deal direct damage with magic. Instead, she can put people out of comission using MindRape, and take out multiple targets at once by binding their fates, so that whatever happens to one target happens to the rest of them. It also allows her to decieve her targets and to fake her death by summoning doppelgangers.

* Emily Kaldwin's set of supernatural abilities in ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'', in contrast with Corvo's, are focused on crowd control. She's not as mobile or stealthy as he is, and lacks the ability to deal direct damage with magic. Instead, she can put people out of comission using MindRape, and to take out multiple targets at once by binding their fates, so that whatever happens to one target happens to the rest of them. It also allows her to decieve her targets and to fake her death by summoning doppelgangers.

While some Black characters are immoral, most leave other people to their business and expect to be left to theirs. In addition, being identified with a color of magic doesn't mean someone will follow its philosophy to the core; just like many White characters aren't oppressive extremists and many Blue characters don't vivisect people in the name of progress, many Black characters are simply selfish and can feel sorry for doing some actions. A few pure Black heroes do exist in MTG, and the staff behind the game identifies likable characters such as [[TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] and [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy Duck]] as pure Black. Black is also, funnily enough, the color most likely (next to perhaps Red) to be an [[TheAntiNihilist Anti-Nihilist]] or KnightInSourArmor, or simply believe in GoodFeelsGood. Unlike White, which feels it's compelled by some universal code of conduct, Black will be nice simply because it ''wants'' to be.

* Surprisingly enough, [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} Judy Hopps]]. While you could argue her desire to be a police officer is a White motive, simply being good doesn't make one White any more than being alive makes one Green. Her primary motivation to join a force is simply curiosity to see if she ''can'', a desire to test her potential (a very Blue motivation), and she frequently uses her intellect and wits to overcome her physical disadvantages. Meanwhile, her Black side manifests itself in her ambition, cunning, and surprising ruthlessness ("It's called a hustle, sweetheart.") Finally, ''Zootopia''[='=]s {{Aesop}} — "We can overcome our base instincts to be whoever and whatever we want to be" — is a very Blue/Black moral in that it goes against the very Green mentality of "How you were born is how you were meant to be, and how you will stay. A predator will never be anything ''but'' a predator."

* A much more heroic example is the VideoGame/{{Receiver|2}} organization. They value the bonds and interdependence between humans (Green), the bond between the mind and body (Blue/Green), the lifetime refinement (Blue) of Mindtech, and the use of mental strength to safely handle even the most dangerous of tools for advancement of the self (Black).

In war, it is lethally efficient — White is the master of strategy, organization, and large armies, and has a strict policy of "killing first, asking questions later". Combined with its, [[IncrediblyLamePun ahem]], [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity black and white view of the world]] (derived from its focus on morality: whoever strays from it is considered evil), it is very easy to argue that White is more tyrannical than benevolent, even if it's more LawfulStupid than LawfulEvil (note that all Lawful alignments are possible within White). So, White can produce a rabid KnightTemplar just as easily as it can produce an IdealHero, because [[LightIsNotGood its light isn't always good]].

* [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Griffith]] is a perfect instance of an Esper-aligned villain. From the moment we're introduced to him, he strives nothing short of perfecting himself to rule over his own kingdom, being very calm, aloof and eruditical (very Blue), while also leading a band of mercenaries and being a charismatic leader who uses well-laid plans to the success of both of his men and his goals (very White). However, what throws it into the loop is his extremely selfish ambitions of wanting a kingdom to rule above all else, his abject impulsivity when denied what feels like his, and his beliefs as TheUbermensch who wants a true friend to be someone he sees as his equal (very Black). Interestingly, it's ultimately these Black personality qualities that are not only noted to be at direct odds with his desire for leadership, [[spoiler:but also convinces Guts to leave him, which prompts Griffith to duel him for his claim of ownership, only to be defeated soundly and humiliated in a SingleStrokeBattle. Griffith then goes in a downward spiral that eventually has him choose between sacrificing his friends to TheLegionsOfHell or sacrificing his dream, and he chooses to off all that he led without a second thought if it meant saving his dreams. For extra insult to injury, he crosses the MoralEventHorizon and rapes Guts' girlfriend, Casca, out of spite for having what feels like his being denied by the man who "took" everything away from him (a trait that is Black at it's absolute worst)]]. It's after he [[spoiler:ascends as one of the [[PhysicalGod God-Hand]] and reincarnates in the mortal world]] that these qualities are brought to a logical extreme - he gets his own kingdom, but isn't satisfied with just that and always strives for more.

* ChaosIsEvil

* LackOfEmpathy

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* {{Unicorn}}s — In some old tales, unicorns were vicious savage beasts; if you weren't a female virgin when meeting one in the wilds, you could consider yourself screwed.

* TheSociopath — Even more so than Black, since Blue is thoroughly associated with the lack of emotions)

* BlamingTheVictim — When the victim engages in some behavior considered inappropriate by White, even if it's unrelated to their misfortune.

* OmnicidalManiac[=/=]ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill — Killing isn't a White habit, but when White does decide to kill something, it kills ''everything''.

* RetGone - As seen [[https://scryfall.com/card/dtk/17/fate-forgotten here]].

* TakenForGranite: As seen [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=146053 here]].

* TotalitarianUtilitarian – White wants you to be happy. And all it asks for is that you abdicate your free will.
* [[Main/{{Unicorn}} Unicorn]] - In some old tales, unicorns were vicious savage beasts; if you weren't a female virgin when meeting one in the wilds, you could consider yourself screwed.

* UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming - When the victim engages in some behavior considered inappropriate by White, even if it's unrelated to their misfortune.

* TheSociopath (more so than Black, actually, since Blue is thoroughly associated with the lack of emotions)

* TotalitarianUtilitarian – Blue will tell you all the secrets you ever wanted to know, and all you need to do is vivisect some people.

* WarForFunAndProfit - Emphasis on "fun".

* ClassicalHunter - Evil hunters are usually Black and/or Red. But as Vorinclex and, to some extent, Garruk, show, it is possible to have some Green hunters with a twisted view of the approach their color has to the act. Case in point: [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=89107 this]]

* MotherOfAThousandYoung - Fitting for the color that most values begetting life.

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile - Most crocodiles are Green too, despite living in places that would be Blue or Black domain. There ''are'' Blue and/or Black crocodiles in Magic, but they are a tiny minority compared to the Green ones.

* SpidersAreScary - Interestingly, unlike insects and scorpions, very few spiders in Magic are Black.

One of the staff’s stated reasons for the creation of ''Innistrad'' is to further spread horror outside of the colour most stereotypically associated with it, having somewhat succeeded already in ''New Phyrexia'' (and arguably making a failed attempt way back in 1995’s ''The Dark''). While ''Innistrad'' has traditional Black horrors, it also has werewolves, which are traditionally Green. But one doesn't need any particular set to prove that horror and evil don't require DarkIsEvil.

''RED and WHITE''' - ''Boros'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr205 here]])\\

[[folder: White/Green - "Selesnya"]]
'''WHITE and GREEN''' - ''Selesnya'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr196 here]]):\\

[[folder: White/Red - "Boros"]]
'''WHITE and RED''' - ''Boros'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr205 here]])\\

[[folder: Blue/Green - "Simic"]]
'''BLUE and GREEN''' - ''Simic'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr229 here]])\\

[[folder: Blue/Red - "Izzet"]]
'''BLUE and RED''' - ''Izzet'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr217 here]])\\

Blue and Red fall on opposite sides of the EmotionsVsStoicism spectrum. One's passionate, one's logical; one uses fire, earth, and lightning, the other water, wind, and ice; one's — look, do we really need to spell this out? They both have the highest ratio of spells vs permanents, but Blue has all the poker-face spells, the ones that win games but only if you have the skill to use them; Red, on the other hand, has all the spells that involve both the RandomNumberGod and straightforward burnination of the opponent down to zero with fire and lightning. They also share a theme of weak and few creatures, but Red's tend to be of the [[ZergRush "cheap with drawbacks"]] variety whereas Blue's are more AwesomeButImpractical.\\

Red/Blue was originally quite rare (although it certainly happened), but has become more common in recent years; when it appears, it tends to involve copious amounts of [[ForScience Science!]] and [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]]. Think of Red/Blue as Blue's [[MadScience Madness Place]] — where the research, creativity, and drive to know ever more go a little overboard, leaving behind little things like pragmatism and stoicism. This can result in a mass of explosions and twisted metal and cries like “I think I know what I did wrong!” (or just as commonly, “Oh, I am hurt! I am very, very hurt!”). Somewhat more rarely, it comes about because Red and Blue are the two colors most likely to have [[ElementalEmbodiment Elemental creatures]] and [[ElementalPowers pure-elemental effects]] — there's even an entirely separate creature type for red/blue "elementals", the "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Weirds]]". And aside from oozes (which don’t really count and are most often green), Red/Blue is where you find non-Newtonian fluids, like gels. Red/Blue is the main colour combination associated with arts, with Red providing the passion and Blue perfectionism.

* The Izzet Guild in Ravnica is mostly ChaoticNeutral, with a few bad and good apples. They are frenzied researchers on the bleeding edge of mad science. Their leader, the genius dragon [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=253626 Niv-Mizzet]], continually retools the guild’s signet to suit his passing whims, and can turn [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner burnination]] into SCIENCE! Basically... run. (In the sequel block, he's got people working on dozens if not hundreds of seemingly unrelated experiments, for ''Reasons''. Their new mechanic in ''Return to Ravnica'', "Overload", allows single-target spells to instead hit ''every legal target''. '''Run faster'''.) Indeed, Niv-Mizzet is so unconventional and brilliant a schemer that he's willing to consider plans that others would think mad, such as ones that require him to die... In an (actually, not sarcastically) unrelated note, in ''Guilds of Ravnica'', the new Izzet mechanic, "Jump-start", allows an already-cast spell to be cast again from the graveyard if you discard a card from your hand when casting it. (Of course, if ''that'' card has jump-start, it too can be cast from your graveyard if you discard a card...) It is unknown how much of this is of Niv-Mizzet's own design, or how much is that brilliant young planeswalker Ral Zarek's invention.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380442 Keranos, God of Storms]] embodies the fury of the storm and the sudden blaze of epiphany. A god of little patience and less mercy, he dispenses insights and blasts of lightning in equal measure. As such, he is associated with blue and red mana. Being a god of wisdom, he cares little for mortals whom he sees as reckless, but assuming they're individuals of action and sought his blessing or council first, he's much more conciliatory. Such people may be gifted visions of the future, but will be unable to change the outcome, for example.
* Prismari College in ''Strixhaven'' is the college of artistic expression, but its members argue about what impact art is supposed to have: should it make you [[FridgeLogic think]] or should it make you [[DontThinkFeel feel]]? Its two Deans embody TechnicianVersusPerformer: Uvilda, Dean of Perfection, lets you [[CallingYourAttacks announce a spell]] three turns early in exchange for a mana discount; Nassari, Dean of Expression, who lets you steal random spells from opposing decks and gets stronger every time you do. The college's founder, Galazeth Prismari, turns all artifacts you control into mana sources, though they can only be tapped to cast instants and sorceries. As opposed to Izzet's DeathOfAThousandCuts approach to spellcasting, Prismari prefers to build up to a whopping OneHitKO.

* The Sparks of ''WebComic/GirlGenius'' fit this almost by default, as {{Mad Scientist}}s and TropeNamer for TheMadnessPlace. They're inherently brilliant scientists, one and all, but the act of invention tends to send them into a "Spark-Induced Fugue State", aka ''TheMadnessPlace''. Once that happens, their genius starts being driven by their emotions, and useless little things like safety, morality, and sanity will be forgotten until they come out of it, pursuing knowledge ForScience. The most effective Sparks, however, are the ones who are best at maintaining their self-control at that point, thus leaning more into the Blue side than the Red.
* The best traits of a Red/Blue mixture are embodied in the {{Ubermensch}} as talked about by Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, combining Blue's desire to innovate and improve with Red's emphasis on emotion, individuality, and self-expression. [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]] considers the Red/Blue mixture to be opposed to the Green/White mixture, somewhat fitting as Nietzsche also essentially contrasts both (see above). Whereas one supports ultimate conformity, the other supports ultimate individuality.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'': Aperture Science, at their height. They do what they must. Because they can. For the good of all of us (except the ones who are dead).
* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': Queen Elsa, as her [[AnIcePerson powers]] indicate. A naturally free-spirited, fun-loving, emotional, artistic person, she is unfortunately forced to conceal her true self for the sake of her family and kingdom, causing her no end of grief (the iconic "Red oppressed by [[LightIsNotGood White]]" shtick). Her iconic IAmBecomingSong, [[http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/idinamenzel/letitgo.html "Let It Go"]], is basically a Red anthem where she chooses to run away and be free once her powers are revealed. The nature of her ice powers are a chaotic blend of Blue and Red — while she has the capability to turn ice into solid architecture and beautiful sculptures, she more often than not has her ice manifest in an uncontrolled and chaotic manner.
* The Kerbal species of ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' provide a lighthearted example. They're passionate about launching rockets to explore space and unravel the mysteries of their solar system, but they appear to have [[NoOSHACompliance no concept of personal safety]], meaning their pilots will eagerly climb into {{Flawed Prototype}}s that few humans would willingly take a ride on. Nevertheless, the high accident rates never seem to discourage the survivors from striving to do better next time.
* Examples listed as blue-red by Mark Rosewater include [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]], Franchise/IndianaJones, [[Series/{{Angel}} Winifred Burkle]], and Creator/DrSeuss.
* A very red-heavy example would be [[Film/BillAndTed the Wyld Stallyns, Bill and Ted]]. While they're [[BookDumb not, strictly speaking, book-smart]], they are very passionate and ''com''passionate people who find the news that they're the source of a future scientific utopia most excellent. Furthermore, they have an intuitive grasp of how time travel works, and show themselves to be more than capable of logical intellectual gymnastics in its use.
* The eponymous Series/{{MacGyver|1985}} is one of the best examples. A man of equal parts {{Science|Hero}}, [[BadassBookworm action]], and [[IndyPloy improvisation]], his blue scientific knowledge combines with his red creativity to make him the guy you least want to [[LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard lock in a room with a bunch of random junk]].
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Pannacotta Fugo is a heroic example of this trope, though he notably has more Blue in him than Red. He's predominantly Blue because he has the [[TeenGenius natural intellect of a Blue-dominant character]], with an IQ if ''152,'' while also being disbelieving in the idea of placing faith and/or risking his life for something he has no knowledge in — notably, he's the only member of Passione [[spoiler:who doesn't go with the group in their desire to usurp [[BigBad the Boss, Diavolo,]] seeing the whole thing as a suicide mission, despite said Boss trying to [[OffingTheOffspring kill his own daughter]]]]. In his own words, he won't be a "self-righteous idiot" to potentially get himself killed helping others (with this LackOfEmpathy being a distinctly Blue quality). However, what makes him have a distinctly Izzet quality to him despite his logic is his ''[[HairTriggerTemper extreme]] [[EnragedByIdiocy temper,]]'' to the point he ''[[DisproportionateRetribution stabs Narancia with a fork for getting a math problem wrong.]]'' He always had this absolutely furious temper, showing he's still human in the end, and he even gets set on a life of crime by him bashing a pedophile professor's head in with a book and being disowned by his wealthy family — all of this being definitely Red markings. This furious temper is even reflected in his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Purple Haze, which has the nasty ability to [[MakeThemRot release a flesh-eating virus that instantly kills those that get infected by it]]. Doesn't help that Purple Haze, on top of this terrifying ability, is a LightningBruiser [[TheBerserker Berserker]] who Fugo only brings out in extreme situations due to its high potential for collateral damage — it's even described as it "[striking] like a bomb and [departing] like a storm", [[PersonalityPowers lending further credence to his temper being made manifest]] (and thus, more of a reason why he's just as Red as he is Blue).
* ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'': Okabe Rintarou is a man who easily would pass as your typical Izzet member with his dedication to science and his rather emotional demeanour. What makes him such a good example of this color pair, however, is because he is a perfect example of a character using blue means to achieve a red goal. He's not really selfish enough to use his time traveling capabilities for personal gain, and he pretty explicitly claims he doesn't do it for the good of mankind. [[spoiler:Seeing his childhood friend Mayuri die before his very eyes over and over again is what motivates him to use the knowledge gained from his time travel experiments up to that point in order to save her.]] This motivation in itself only makes it tougher for him when he finds out that [[spoiler:Kurisu, who he had been falling in love with up until that point, had her death aversion at the beginning of the story directly tied to the death of Mayuri, and Okabe is forced to either let one die or find some way for both of them to survive.]] A clear-cut example of a person using scientific methods in order to help the people close to him.
* ''Franchise/RickAndMorty'': Rick Sanchez, being loosely based on Doc Brown, as noted as an example of this color combination above, is this. Rick himself, however, is drastically more amoral and prone to bring his grandson Morty along for his adventures, usually against his will. He takes the science and LackOfEmpathy of Blue and mixes it with the adventureness and impulsiveness of Red to throw himself and Morty into thousands of odd, often dangerous situations, without any regard for the risks. He does care for his family, but usually saves them only after satisfying his own impulses first or after retrieving the stuff he needs for his next project first.
* [[Characters/TouhouMainCharacters Marisa Kirisame]] is a fairly straightforward heroic example. A human and a witch, Marisa is unlike many other characters in Touhou in that she is comparatively ordinary; as opposed to Reimu, who was born with exceptional talents and luck, Marisa had to work hard to gain her knowledge and skills, and must continue to work hard to keep up with her best friend and rival. She's quite rowdy, informal, flashy, often condescending, and prone to act out of curiosity, pestering Patchouli and stealing her books (along with the possessions of many others), but is much more diligent, thoughtful, and intelligent than her seemingly impulsive personality implies.
* Jeremy of ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' is a heroic, if flawed, Izzet. He is a very intelligent computer programmer, and he often turns into a workaholic when trying to find a solution. However, his ultimate motivation is loyalty to his TrueCompanions, and his LoveInterest Aelita. Such an emotional motivation is a very Red sort of goal. He also demonstrates deep courage, at one point going to Lyoko to rescue his friends in spite of being terrified. Unlike Aelita, he does not care about the greater good so much as the welfare of his friends, removing white and green, but he also has minimal self-interest, removing black. Jeremy also demonstrates the negatives of red; he has a quick temper and often snaps at his friends. In spite of his overall methodical nature, Jeremy can also sometimes be reckless with his technology. His strange experiments have resulted in AiIsACrapshoot, FantasticDrug, and SelfHarm, all of which created danger to himself and others because Jeremy was too headstrong and stubborn. This progress without due consideration of consequences is pure Izzet.

[[folder: Blue/Green - "Simic"]]
'''BLUE and GREEN''' - ''Simic'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr229 here]])\\

Blue and Green don't get along because of their attitudes towards the world, nature in particular, which boil down to HarmonyVersusDiscipline. Green believes that StatusQuoIsGod: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." This tends to result in thinking ScienceIsBad for meddling with ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow. Blue, on the other hand, is trying to figure out how to [[Music/JonathanCoulton build a half-monkey half-pony to please you]]. Blue loves technology, and has a number of spells that work well with artifacts; while less common, it also has some expensive and eye-popping effects in enchantment form. Green hates tech, and currently has the strongest DispelMagic spells in the game; in fact, ''the'' artifact- and enchantment-destruction spell, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=249 Disenchant]], was permanently moved from White to Green (as "[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=207336 Naturalize]]") after ThePowersThatBe realized it belonged there better. Blue is progressive and wants to actively improve things, while Green is conservative and thinks that if change happens, it should come about organically.\\

Blue/Green, like some other hybrids, involves mixing one color's ends and another's means. Most commonly, Blue drags Green [[Literature/{{Discworld}} kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat]], although Green sometimes appreciates the potential for power or deadliness Blue can add. In addition, while Green tends to spurn knowledge, it is quite at home with wisdom. (One of the most noteworthy historians in the game, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74604 Reki the History of Kamigawa]], was Green. In fact, Green and Blue are the colors where cards may be most frequently drawn for either a little mana or meeting a simple requirement; other colors, if they affect the way you draw cards at all, might withhold cards for a beneficial effect, or make getting more of them possible [[CastFromHitPoints but painful]].) This sort of "[[CloserToEarth natural wisdom]]" generally manifests as bluish effects on Green cards, but it can cross over into full-on hybrids. Another common Blue/Green hybrid connects Green to Blue's small but still-present natural side in the form of water. We trust we don’t need to emphasize the importance of water to life, though Blue prefers saltwater and Green freshwater. [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159067 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. Lastly, Green with Blue sometimes manifests as a great hunter with a razor-sharp intellect, making them that much more dangerous.

* The Simic Combine are a group of [[EvilutionaryBiologist Amoralutionary Biologists]], led by the self-made [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot elf-snake hybrid wizard-geneticist-mercantilist]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107506 Momir Vig]]. He wants to use science to improve life into more useful forms, and then sell those useful forms for moniez. The Simic Combine won't stop until the world looks like Australia.
** As of ''Return to Ravnica'', the Simic Combine has seemingly moved away from GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke and returned to their more druidic roots, with the help of a [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=366442 race of merfolk found in a vast underground ocean]], which use Green's spirituality and duty and Blue science and analysis to preserve (and encourage improvement upon) nature. Their new mechanic in Gatecrash, "Evolve", makes creatures stronger every time a stronger or more durable ally appears. In ''Ravnica Allegiance'', they get the "Adapt" mechanic, which allows a creatures that don't already have counters making them stronger to become stronger by adding counters.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380446 Kruphix, God of the Horizens]] is the oldest god in the Theros pantheon. He mainly governs potential and other unseen aspects of the world, such as mystery, navigation, and time. He's also the keeper of much of the world's ancient knowledge and its secrets, which makes him relatively quiet and uninvolved in the world, only appearing to a select few, or when he is needed most. Many say he guards all the knowledge in the world no one was meant to know, such as [[spoiler:how to kill a god, something which he reluctantly tells Elspeth how to do when she comes to ask for assistance in eliminating the rogue planeswalker-turned-god Xenagos]].
* Kiora is a merfolk planeswalker with an affinity for the ocean. She's TheBeastmaster, particularly of very large seagoing creatures — "very large creatures" are one of the few things the two colors share in common. She also has an affinity for getting her hands on extra land and creatures, something Green is good at and something Blue always wants.[[note]]As mentioned elsewhere, Blue's creatures tend to be AwesomeButImpractical, and sneaking them into play is something Blue will never turn down. Blue also tends to be mana-hungry.[[/note]]
* Nissa Revane has been a mono-Green planeswalker on six of her seven cards. But [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=426906 Nissa, Steward of Elements]] is both Green and Blue. An EarthMother shaman by trade, Nissa has facility with lands, able to untap them (for Blue) and animate them for combat (for Green). She can sneak creatures into play. And her personality is uniquely Green/Blue, emphasizing not only knowledge and wisdom (she's a SensorCharacter InHarmonyWithNature), but featuring another thing both Green and Blue tend to have: NoSocialSkills.
* The Ixalan block provided us with the River Heralds, a nomadic collective of merfolk capable of bending the elements of their native jungles to fit their needs (Blue), [[InHarmonyWithNature while restoring the used areas to what they were before once said needs are fulfilled]] (Green); true to their alignment (Green and Blue being the less proactive colors), they focus less on finding the golden city of Orazca and more on hindering the efforts of the other factions seeking to find it.
* In ''Strixhaven'' we have Quandrix College, the college of mathematics. It is focused on an old philosophical debate about the nature of math: Is math a BackgroundMagicField that makes the universe go and which sapient beings were just smart enough to discover? Or is it a set of artificial rules we invented to help make sense of the universe? Its two deans are Kianne, Dean of Substance, which lets you either play lands or exile non-land cards to strengthen Kianne's "Fractal" tokens; and Imbraham, Dean of Theory, who exiles cards and lets you take one into your hand. Notably, both characters utilize the same Exile zone by marking such cards with "Study" counters: if you have both, they collaborate very effectively (which is not always the case with the other Deans). Tanazir Quandrix, the college's elder dragon founder, lets you play with numbers by adding +1/+1 counters ''and'' setting all creatures' base power and toughness to be the same as Tanazir's. As opposed to Simic's WeHaveReserves philosophy, Quandrix focuses on the [[FactionCalculus Powerhouse]] strategy instead.

* [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau Dr. Moreau]], [[FrankensteinsMonster Dr. Frankenstein]], [[Franchise/JurassicPark John Hammond]] (movie version), and [[Film/SpiderMan2 Dr. Octopus]] (also movie version) are listed as blue-green characters by Mark Rosewater.
* If not White, the [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]] are Green/Blue [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/77653907069/the-borg-mono-w-or-wb-i-would-say-mono-white-because according to]] [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]], being an infectious, [[TheVirus virus]]-like species that intends to assimilate everyone at the expense of individuality.
* The [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]] from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' are a good example of Green-Blue[[note]]or possibly white-black; see that folder above[[/note]] taken to horrifying extremes. Their core motivation is [[spoiler:to preserve biological life to prevent its destruction by synthetics]], which they realise by assimilating an entire species into a new Reaper, something which they believe also to be an up-lifting of said race. In other words, Blue's craving for perfection mixed with Green's desire for growth (and acceptance, [[spoiler:since they take a decidely fatalistic worldview in regards to the fate of sophonts]]). Combined with their superiority complex and FantasticRacism, they embody the two worst aspects of this colour combination.
* Hiccup from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' is an ingenious GuileHero and GadgeteerGenius who also strives, fights for and stabilizes co-existence of Vikings and dragons.
* An example somewhat akin to Kruphix would be Dizzy, from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear''. While initially afraid of humans because of prejudice against Gears, she's very curious and diligently seeks knowledge, especially after getting human friends (blue). She also values wisdom about human nature, and sees anthropogenic destruction as part of a natural cycle. On top of that, she happens to be a FriendToAllLivingThings, to the point that wild animals would approach her without fear while she hid in the Grove (green).

[[folder: Black/Red - "Rakdos"]]
'''BLACK and RED''' - ''Rakdos'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr241 here]])\\

Black and Red get along because neither is afraid to say "ItsAllAboutMe," and both love the freedom to do whatever the heck they want. Having said that, they fall on opposite sides of the EmotionsVsStoicism spectrum, in that Red is HotBlooded whereas Black prefers ThePlan. It's like the difference between TheSpock and TheMcCoy: both have cards which let you make sacrifices to get ahead, but Red ditches short-term resources (creatures, land) for immediate results, whereas Black sacrifices ''long''-term resources (HitPoints, cards in hand, cards in library) for long-term gain. For Red, crippling yourself is a DesperationAttack; for Black, it's [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning just the beginning]]. They also share creatures that are powerful, but come with a drawback, with Black's tending to be bigger and taking correspondingly larger chunks out of their owner's side, while Red’s tend to be extraordinarily cheap and fast for their size but don't last long.\\

Black/Red spells tend to be destructive (including self-destructive), discordant, and entropic. There is no Black/Red spell that is intended for defense, not counting the ability of creatures to block (though a fair number of Black/Red creatures, a higher percentage than the game’s average, actually can't). Black and Red combined are the color of [[AxCrazy the most dangerous madness]], [[DeathOrGloryAttack the most reckless attacks]], [[HellFire the most devastating natural and unnatural forces]], [[StrawNihilist the most negative of emotions]], and [[ColdBloodedTorture the most sadistic of tortures]]. That being said, black and red together is also the color of people [[ForHappiness who take the greatest joy in the pleasures of life]] and have [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl the most aggressively protective and loyal attitude towards friends]] — they would sooner let the world burn than let a loved one die.

* The Cult of Rakdos in Ravnica is violent, brutal, hedonistic, and fatalistic. They’re here for a good time, not a long time. The rubble left behind by their revels nearly covers the bodies left behind. [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107438 Rakdos]] himself is a monstrously powerful demon that hurts when you summon him—and hurts your opponents more when he attacks. [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=253532 Rakdos]] and his guild are still kicking as of Return to Ravnica, and their new mechanic, Unleashed, allows you to place a free +1/+1 counter on a creature when you summon it...but those creatures with +1/+1 counters on them can't block. Oh, and they [[CircusOfFear run a carnival now.]] They become so good at it that by ''Ravnica Allegiance'', they have developed a new mechanic called "Spectacle", where cards can be cast for less if they've already drawn a little blood this turn, because the crowd just eats that stuff up.
* Innistrad's vampires are Black and Red. Generally, the Black ones gain you life and are harder to block (or just do direct damage), while the Red ones get stronger as they feed.
* The Boggarts from Lorwyn are a good version. They're sensation junkies, sharing experiences with fellow boggarts. '''All''' experiences (they don't have self-preservation instincts and believe in reincarnation, so...). All evil boggarts are ostracized, and they usually don't tend to be anything worse than pranksters anyways.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=174983 Sarkhan Vol]] falls into [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193659 madness]] thanks to Nicol Bolas' influence and his time trapped in the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=197881 Eye of Ugin]]. Casting aside his Green affiliation in favor of Black mana, his new abilities reflect his new reckless and self-destructive streak. He is notably the only planeswalker card with no way to increase his loyalty (and the one ability that has no loyalty cost damages him anyway), meaning sooner or later, he will destroy himself.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=378523 Mogis, God of Slaughter]] embodies the darker aspects of war in contrast to Iroas's high minded views of honorable combat; Mogis and his followers don't give a crap about fair fighting or greater glory. They care only for the wrath and pain they inflict upon the world and the greater destruction they can spread in their pursuit. When the crisis of Theros caused an upheaval among his Minotaurs, he sent waves of his mortal and Nyxborn (followers in the Theros equivalent of Olympus) to wage a campaign of slaughter against the cities of Theros. [[spoiler:The whole war and his defeat were orchestrated by Xenagos, who used the victory celebrations following Mogis's defeat to complete his apotheosis and launch himself into Nyx, starting a war between the Gods and the mortal world.]]
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=391866 Kolaghan and her brood]] are an example of a [[spoiler:semi-benevolent]] group associated with this colour combination. On the one hand, they cause death and destruction wherever they go, not really caring about the damage they make or the lives they end. [[spoiler:After 1,280 years in the new timeline, the Clan that fell under her dominion degenerated into a horde of bloodthirsty cannibals that wage war and crush civilizations just to stave off the wrath of their dragonlord. Kolaghan values freedom the most, included freedom from law, civilization and honor, with her Clan emulating her out of fear of her wrath.]] On the other, [[spoiler:unlike the other dragon clans, they initially didn't have any interest in enslaving the Mardu, and instead willingly allowed them to join forces with them, provided they keep up with their speed]].
* The League of Dastardly Doom from the joke setting Bablovia is, as the name suggests, a supervillain organization combining Black's selfish power-mongering with Red's maniacal passion and the colors' shared destructiveness. Black's hunger for dominance shows in their desire to TakeOverTheWorld, while Red's propensity for chaos shows in their inability to get any two of their members to agree on how to go about it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' is a heroic example. She is quite self-focused and playful, and overall not very interested in outright heroics (not to mention hinting strongly at the hedonism inherent to this colour-mixture), but only sadistic and malicious to the angels (who are White villains, fittingly enough), avoiding most people except her two or three friends.
* Spike from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' could count as this. He's naturally prone to greed thanks to his draconic nature, and giving in to it turns him into a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide powerful out-of-control monster]], and he sometimes comes across as a little brat (he is still a child, after all). He can also be pretty selfish, too, willing to shirk his responsibilities in favor of doing what he wants. Spike is also very devoted to his friends, especially his foster sister/mother figure Twilight, to the point that he gets very jealous and insecure when his position as her "Number One assistant" is threatened, and his crush Rarity, to the point that being reminded of a gift he gave her snaps him out of his aforementioned SuperpoweredEvilSide.
** Pinkie Pie as well. Like the Lorwyn Boggarts, she's a playful, fundamentally hedonistic person that represents the best of this combination. Her one nervous breakdown implies that she sees friendship as a form of self-worth, but she does genuinely care for her friends.
** Tempest Shadow is a villainous version. After a childhood accident cost Tempest her horn, her magic became very chaotic, which drove away her friends, which caused her to grow into a bitter and lonely bounty hunter turned military commander employed by the Storm King. She is quite temperamental and aggressive (Red), and also believes that everyone is solely motivated by themselves, so she may as well be "with the mighty" (Black). The color combo is also reflected in her preferred weapon, the Obsidian Orbs, {{Magitek}} grenades that turn others into stone and can penetrate any magical defense, showcasing the color pair's unnatural brutality and disregard for the enemy's defenses. [[spoiler:After a HeelFaceTurn thanks to receiving a little bit of kindness and mercy from the heroes, she begins to display some of the color pair's positive aspects. This includes Red's loyalty for her new friends, and while she still has Black's cynicism and individualism, it is used in a beneficial way to find her place in the world while defending Equestria whenever military strength is needed.]]
* [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]] also considers WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck to be this. He is consistently selfish and [[HairTriggerTemper 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. Then there's his [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20236_6-insane-disney-comics-you-wont-believe-are-real_p2.html?wa_user1=1&wa_user2=Movies+%26+TV&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=feature_module pyromaniac episode]]...
* [[Fanfic/MyImmortal Ebony/Enoby Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way]] is Black/Red all over. She was probably meant to be the independent, heroic version of the colour, but her utter selfishness and stupidity makes her a terror.
* Marceline from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is another non-evil example. Amoral? Check. Artistic? Check. Individualistic? Check. Seflish yet very emotionally attached to her friends? Check. A vampire and a half-demon? Check.
* Jane from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''. While her friend turned her cynicism into detachment from the human experience, Jane's is a means to question society and grow as an artist.
* Other black-red coloured examples which have been listed by Mark Rosewater include ComicBook/TheJoker, [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Elaine Benes]], [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike]] (initially listed as ''white''-black), and [[Franchise/StarWars Anakin Skywalker]].
* At their core, [[Franchise/StarWars all Sith Lords]] are this, or become this after embracing the Dark Side for too long. Appropriately enough, most Sith [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver favor dark clothing and wield red lightsabers.]]
* A possessive {{Yandere}} fits this, focusing on the love he or she feels for the person (red's emotional emphasis) with zero regard for how anyone else feels (black's selfishness).
* Luffy of ''Manga/OnePiece'' may be the best example of a heroic Red-Black character. He lives for freedom, adventure, and fun. He freely admits that he's selfish since he's the kind of guy who would rather eat meat than share it with others. He's also willing to declare war on the entire world for the sake of a friend.
* Rocky Rickaby of ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' fame. His primary motivation in the comic is proving himself useful to Mitzi. Rocky displays passion and flair, is prone to random bouts of poetry, and has a tendency to laugh maniacally when setting fire to distilleries belonging to roughneck pig farmers. He also harbors some decidedly unsubtle misgivings towards Sedgewick Sable, Mitzi's boyfriend, for the threat his wealth and prestige poses to Rocky's chances of proving himself, at least in Rocky's mind.
* Is there a better example out there than [[Franchise/SuperMario Bowser, the Koopa King?]] He lives in a dark, lava-filled badland, constantly plots to take over the Mushroom Kingdom and possibly beyond, has a temper as fiery as his breath, and a major crush on Princess Peach (which is implied to be a major reason why he bothers to kidnap her in the first place). Even his iconography suggests a strong black/red theme, the best example perhaps being the Bowser spaces in the ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series.
* [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]] is almost as good an example as Bowser. He desires to rule Hyrule and seeks the Triforce with all the ruthless ambition and greed of a black villain while mixing in the temperament and aggression of red. His skillset reflects this as well; his primary weapons are [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] with the odd bit of [[CastingAShadow darkness]].
* As indicated by his usual color scheme, [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Sol Badguy]] is another anti-heroic example. His connection to flame, generally-bristly attitude, love for music, and laziness speak of red. Meanwhile, every good thing he does isn't motivated by a desire to make the world better, but rather because it involves a personal connection or otherwise affects his own goals, and even when it does, he generally doesn't do it cheerfully. Much like Sorin Markov (selfish and morose, but also responsible and dedicated), this marks him as black.
** Interestingly, Sol hates and opposes another example of red/black, I-No. Sadistic, selfish, and contemptuous of all others, she delights in seeing others in pain and relishes having others at her mercy. She puts up a hedonistic and personable facade to mask her true personality, but easily switches from flirtatious taunts to enraged threats if challenged for too long. Her only reason for aiding That Man is that she thought his plan was interesting, and he often has to rein in her violent and cruel excess.
* [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Bakugo]] is driven by two things — his ambition to be the best hero in the world and his anger at [[TheHero Midoriya]]. Saving people is secondary to his own personal profit. Bakugo also has a HairTriggerTemper befitting characters of this alignment.
* Ririn Ueda (code name: Eileen) and Taro Fuse (code name: Megakin) from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiLiberationDx2'' are heroic examples: Eileen is an ambitious ChivalrousPervert who's always looking for ways to make some cash, not just for herself but to help her family too. She is also ''very'' open about her homosexuality (bordering {{Flanderization}}), which is a very Black/Red thing (Black's defiance of taboos and Red's dealing with sexuality in general). Megakin is a youtuber (or "megatuber") who loves both entertaining people and the attention he receives from them. Just like Shyonian (see Blue/Black above), he is very pissed off by the Green ideals of the BigBad. Oh, he's also the '''leader''' of the heroes!
* Pick a StockShonenHero, ''any'' StockShonenHero. Chances are, they will be HotBlooded, [[BloodKnight love to fight]] (Red), and fiercely [[{{Determinator}} determined]] to be "[[ToBeAMaster the very best,]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} like no-one ever was]]" (Black).
* [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Cinder Fall]]'s only interest is being free to go where she pleases and do as she pleases, and she believes the best way to do so is to amass so much power that no one can ever stop her. Unlike the other villains she works with, Cinder has no stake whatsoever in the war between humanity and the Creatures O Grimm, or in her mistress [[BigBad Salem]]'s vendetta against [[BigGood Ozpin]]; she just sees working for Salem as the most expedient path to gaining power, and from there to her idea of "freedom." [[spoiler: The fact that she was MadeASlave as a child probably has something to do with that...]]
* [[Series/TheQueensGambit Elizabeth Harmon]] is an ex - ChildProdigy who specializes at chess. She rationalizes her passion by describing the games as predictable events where she can seize control over every factor and doesn't have to trust anyone but herself with the task of winning the game. Her desire for control becomes one of her strongest qualities throughout the series. When she fails to take control, her "red" manifests as temper tantrums and hedonism.
* Mark Rosewater has also given [[Film/{{Gremlins}} Stripe]] as an example. While most of the gremlins are mono-red, being short, green, dim-witted and highly destructive creatures who like causing mayhem and destruction not unlike the canon goblins, Stripe, the leader, repeatedly demonstrated a level of cunning and ingenuity which Black is known for, such as trying up Billy's dog and cutting the clock's power cable to trick him into feeding him after midnight as a mogwai, jumping into a pool to spawn hundreds of gremlin minions, using weapons such as guns and chainsaws, and managing to keep the horde under his control, while also taking a sadistic thrill in torturing and killing his victims and laying waste to the town in a way similar to the Cult of Rakdos itself.
* [[SnakeOilSalesman Spam]][[DemonicDummy ton]] from ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' favors Black's ''means'' of opportunity and Red's ''motives'' of freedom and authenticity. Recently to an even greater extent than his former friends, he tries to fork out false promises of being a [="[[BIG SHOT]]"=] in order to gain "KROMER". However, his true desire [[MoneyIsNotPower is not for money or similar personal gain]], but [[spoiler:the chance to call his own shots in life and fulfill his passion for being a salesman]].
* Aspects of this color pair are essential to getting the GoldenEnding of ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}''. [[spoiler:In order to break from a passive cycle that [[CopeByPretending Omori]] was created to orchestrate (see Bant below), Sunny must accept that he played a part in his older sister's death, the resulting separation of his close-knit friend group, and him having to move out of town (Black does not take kindly to sugarcoating). At the same time, Sunny must promise to hold all his memories dear and accept his grief to truly live (emotion and freedom are Red).]]

[[folder: Black/Green - "Golgari"]]
'''BLACK and GREEN''' - ''Golgari'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr199 here]]\\

A color that embodies the NatureHero versus a color that embodies the {{Necromancer}}. Are you not seeing the divide? To be specific, Green protects the cycle of life and death, while Black disrupts it for its own gain. Both have the ability to bring creatures back from the graveyard, but Green tends to bring things back to your hand instead of directly onto the battlefield, so the next cycle of life and death can continue. Black spells of this type are flavored to rip the bodies straight out of the ground and the creature in question [[CameBackWrong comes back wrong]]. Green may also have the ability to sacrifice one creature to grab another — survival of the fittest and all — but Black will generally sacrifice its creatures to power something else entirely.\\

This intersection of colors is the fullness of the cycle of nature and all of its complexities. It embodies both life and death; all living things die, but from that death new life comes. It also embraces the entirety of nature... not simply strong beasts, but the worms, the parasites, the bacteria, the mold and fungus. Every form of life is accepted by Black/Green. As for the treatment/consideration of others... Black cares for the self, Green cares for the group. Black/Green cares for both... Black/Green doesn't think about "Me" and "My team": It thinks about "Me '''and''' my team." It does what's good for itself and for its TrueCompanions; it betters itself, but tries to do that in ways that help its allies. Another bit of harmony between black/green is that it doesn't waste anything. Black sees everything as a resource, and so everything can be used. With Green mixed in, everything can be used then re-used. A creature can be played, then sacrificed, then recovered, only to be played and even sacrificed again, only to be recovered again later.\\
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The essential identity of Green/Black is quite nicely summed up by the flavor text of "[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=95536 Golgari Signet]]" — either Green/Black cards are hideous abominations, natural things infested and warped by unholy energies, ''or'' they are aware of the balance of life and death, the cruelty of instinct and the value of deviousness, and are AboveGoodAndEvil. And, as the text suggests, which is which [[FromACertainPointOfView largely depends on who's talking]].\\
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The fundamental basis of the Black vs. Green conflict is of [[ScrewDestiny Free Will]] vs. [[YouCantFightFate Determinism]], respectively. Quoting [[http://loreleywrites.tumblr.com/post/101418588295/color-pie-friday-the-philosophy-of-blackgreen this post]]: "Since Black believes everyone has free will, it believes that everyone acts on their own, individualized desires. Green’s belief in determinism allows it to see complex systems and how each part symbiotically works with the one next to it. Up again, this is where the surface growth vs. decay conflict arises. If everyone is acting by themselves, then each person's actions will impede on another's. Black wants to make sure that no one else's desires can get in the way of its own. Black cuts down the competition. Green, seeing a system in place, understands that everything working in conjunction will result in everything prospering together."\\
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So how do these differences blend together? Black/Green is all about being able to move through a system to its own benefit. It uses Black’s willingness to get what it wants and Green’s recognition of symbiosis to manipulate the natural order to gain power. \\

* Notably, Ravnica's Golgari Swarm is one of the few Black guilds to produce a hero — [[PapaWolf and a damn caring one at that.]] The Golgari effectively rule the undercity, effectively acting as the sewer workers and other "dirty jobs" men of the plane, but have parlayed it into a sort of power. Their first mechanic, Dredge, [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway allowed you to burn small amounts]] [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower of your library]] [[CursedWithAwesome to get a card with the ability]] [[MagikarpPower back from the graveyard]]. In ''Return to Ravnica'', they're more or less the same, though, like the other guilds, showing more ambition and dynamism; their new mechanic, "Scavenge", is likewise more aggressive, allowing cards with the ability in your graveyard to be exiled to permanently boost a creature in play. Vraska, mentioned below, becomes a force within the guild as part of the plan; their new mechanic, "Undergrowth", is a more aggressive, reusuable version of Scavenge, granting larger effects the more creatures there are in your graveyard.
** Vraska, a Planeswalker born in the Golgari, has gone through a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor reflecting the duality of the color combination. A vigilante who killed those she deemed evil, Vraska started as an AntiVillain opposing the Azorius but quickly evolved into Jace's archnemesis, wanting to undermine the Living Guildpact as part of her bid to gain power in Ravnica. However, the Ixalan block brought out her more sympathetic qualities, showing that she wants to rule the Golgari for altruistic reasons and can be kind and protective towards her pirate crew (even if they're, well, pirates). By the end, she's become Jace's close friend and love interest, working with him to infiltrate Nicol Bolas' band of evil Planeswalkers and betray him at the right moment — a Black method for the Green goal of preserving her home.
* Pharika, the Black/Green god of Theros, has domain over poisons and leeches. Her followers can use venom as a cure for other ailments, and are excellent healers — and deadly killers.
* The Elves of Skemfar in ''Kaldheim'' tend to play with these colors. They often have support that allows the player to summon more Elf Warrior tokens, and Tyvar Kell has the passive ability that allows players to tap all elves they control for black mana.
* In opposition to the Golgari, ''Strixhaven'''s Witherbloom College focuses on science, studying the cycle of life and death but disagreeing on its purpose. UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud identified not only [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Pleasure_Principle "eros", the drive towards life, but "thanatos," the drive towards death]]; which rules nature? Its two Deans are, appropriately, a vampire and a dryad: Valentin, Dean of the Vein, lets you recycle dying enemy creatures into Pest tokens that make you gain life when they die; Lisette, Dean of the Root, allows you to strengthen your army by gaining life. Beledros Witherbloom, the college's founder, also creates Pest tokens, and allows you to [[CastFromHitPoints pay a (massive) amount of life]] to untap all your lands. It also takes on the "HitPoints Matter" theme that normally lives in [=white/black=], as opposed to Golgari's normal habit of playing with the graveyard; in Witherbloom, green gets you more life and black helps you do something useful with it.

* Mark Rosewater's listed examples for black-green are [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Poison Ivy]], Comicbook/{{Venom}}, and the villain from ''Film/TwelveMonkeys''.
* Nurgle from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' embraces the duality of Black and Green by rotting growth and growing rot. The followers of Nurgle are rotten and saturated with disease, in line with Black, but embrace Green to grow stronger through their hardships and persevere.
* [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Audrey II]] mixes Green's emphasis on growth with Black's desire for conquest.
* One of the rare protagonist examples is Tool from ''Literature/ShipBreaker''. A half-man bred from engineered human, dog, hyena, and wolf genes, his kind are normally programmed with undying loyalty on a genetic level... well, undying until their patron dies, in which case they kill themselves. Tool is an oddity in that he has no patron, having outlived and largely grown past whoever they were. His appreciation for savagery, acceptance of the influence of nature and genetics, and his view of strength and survival are green, while his ultimate rejection of genetic determinism and general lack of concern with the greater scheme of things in favor of his own personal status are black.
* Unalaq, the Book 2 villain of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', is pure, perfect Black/Green. A highly spiritual man (and the tribal chief of a highly spiritual people), he seeks to "take back the physical world" with all its progress, technology, and shallow materialism and reunite it with the spirit world, as it used to be long ago. He values tradition, spiritualism, and what he sees as a natural order tragically lost in modern times. On the other hand, he is also a selfish and power-hungry individual who plans to merge with the Spirit of Darkness in order to bring this restoration about (and he backstabs nearly everyone around him at some point or another). Unalaq also harnesses dark power to corrupt spirits and bend them toward his aims. His philosophies and goals are very Green, but his character and the means he uses to attain his ends are solid Black.
* [[spoiler:Monika]] from ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' has this color combination, though as the game's biggest WalkingSpoiler, she only reveals this after a crucial plot twist. [[spoiler:She's very Black in that she's willing to do anything to be with the player, the only real person she can contact in a shallow, pre-programmed virtual world — even if it means deleting the rest of her friends. However, despite trying to be cold-hearted about it, Monika still cares for her friends enough that she restores them just before her own deletion, which fits in Green's desire to help one's companions. Furthermore, when alone with the player, she talks about various Black and Green habits and beliefs that mesh together into a personal philosophy of hers: she considers the world too imperfect for there to be a benevolent God, and thinks that the key to happiness is being selfish rather than concerning yourself with the many problems of the world (Black), but she believes that people's unhappiness comes from the realization that they take a lot more from the world than they give back, and thus she wants to be a net-positive and strive to "pay back my lifetime's worth of consumption" (Green). Furthermore, she's a vegetarian, but for the pragmatic reason that meat production has a very poor carbon footprint (and all food comes from life anyway, so it's a double standard to only care about killing organisms relatable to humans as species — something the Golgari would eagerly point out).]]
* What happens when you mix together unbridled selfishness with primal wilderness? You get a [[MisterMuffykins lapdog]]. [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Iggy]] is a Boston Terrier who happens to wield [[FightingSpirit a stand]] that [[DishingOutDirt gives him control of sand, dirt, and dust]] (which aligns with this color combo). This gives him an arrogant attitude of viewing himself better than the humans that he believed mistreated him as a stray dog, and superior to the other stray dogs of New York that he looks after. In contrast to the rest of the Crusaders who are out to save the world, Iggy is motivated by his hunger as only joined them in their quest because they give him his favorite coffee flavored gum as a treat; initially, he couldn't care less about fighting DIO. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold He's far from irredeemable though]], as he has a soft spot for people who like dogs, at one point even risking his life to save a dog-loving child, and eventually grows to like the rest of the gang as comrades and friends.
** Speaking of heroic Black/Green characters ''and'' Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure heroes, it's impossible to talk about Black/Green without bringing up [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Giorno Giovanna]]. Like most Black-aligned heroes, he's entirely motivated by his own experience with a [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters Neighborhood Friendly Gangster]] saving his life from hell, and eventually motivating him to join the mafia solely out of self-interest, albeit a noble sense. He's also, like many Black characters, willing to put himself at ''serious'' risk to gain an advantage with his Stand, Gold Experience, [[ItMakesSenseInContext whether that's ripping his arm off to extend his Stand's range against an early enemy,]] or risk himself being poisoned with a 100%-lethal venom to take down an opponent. However, he notably completely emphasizes the Green part of him. He thinks not just about himself, but the ones he holds very close to his heart, like his crew or his hometown; he cares ''very'' greatly for his crew and the community, and actively acts to preserve the happiness and stability of the community he cares for (very Green). It should also be worth noting that unlike several instances of Black/Green, he doesn't believe in the combo's worst qualities (that equality is a lie and people should accept when they're simply never going to be better than someone else), instead showing a belief that people's individual "truths" stand up to the falsehoods brought on ne'er-do-wells, which fuses Green's belief in pretedermination with Black's belief in individual advancement in one of the most positive depictions of the color combo. What's even more notable is the fact that his entire Stand revolves around the [[Main/CreatingLife ability to create life]] [[spoiler:and YouCantFightFate]], both of which being an indisputably Green power.
* Surprisingly enough, [[Characters/MCUThanos Thanos]] from ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' fits here, a stark difference from his comic book counterpart. He seeks to use the power of the Infinity Stones to kill off half of all sentient beings in the universe, but he does it because he believes there's just not enough resources in a finite universe to go around. Killing half the populace — and doing so at random, so there's no discrimination in the act — will allow the half that remains to survive much better than they otherwise would. A Black method for a Green goal.
* Counterpointing Thanos, [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Charles Xavier]] is an egoist and a racist who never once denies that he believes mutants to be inherently superior to baseline human beings, even being a founding member of the Brotherhood of Mutants and an enormous influence on that group's philosophy in this universe. The main underlying distinction between Ultimate Xavier and Ultimate Magneto is not whether humans are better than mutants and should rule them, or whether they are equal and should live in peace... but whether attempting to conquer the entire world [[PragmaticVillainy is even a feasible goal]]. Xavier believes that, in spite of mutants' inherent superiority, they simply don't have the numbers to [[WeHaveReserves overcome humanity by force]] and should pander to humanity's insecurities by pretending to be super–heroes, while waiting for baseline humanity to simply die off. A Green method... for a very Black goal.
* [[Series/KamenRiderDecade Tsukasa Kadoya]] embodies the "Free Will vs. Fate" conflict of these two colors. He is prophesied to be/become a "demon who will destroy all worlds". A great part of his character arc involves him trying to avoid this destiny, until [[spoiler:he eventually snaps and accepts his role as the Destroyer Of Worlds. It's later revealed that it was [[NecessarilyEvil necessary for him to become a villain in order to help the big picture of things]]]]. In crossovers that happen after the show's finale, he is shown to be perfectly fine with his title/nickname of "Destroyer Of Worlds" while still being a hero, albeit a rather [[KnightInSourArmor cynical]] and [[PragmaticHero pragmatic]] one. It's also worth noting that he isn't a hero out of genuine altruism; [[PunchClockHero he just believes that this is his role in life]] and possibly to give a huge TakeThat to people that [[HeroWithBadPublicity insist he is "evil" too]].
* [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Gruncle Stan]] appears at first to be a classic mono-Black character, lying, cheating, stealing, and basically being a man of poor character. Later, we learn that [[spoiler:his highest priority is always family, and everything he does and everything he has done since high school has been to reunite his family]].
* [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade The Nosferatu Clan]] is embodiment of this trope. While they can be as egoistic and self-obsessed as rest of the Kindred, they keep an "outcasts stick together" mentality and can genuinely care about their own (as opposed to — say — the Ventrue, who'll happily throw you under a bus if it suits their schemes). It extends to the point that even their 'antitribu' are hardly different from their Camarilla counterpart, as they keep loyalty to Clan first and foremost (when most of the other Clans going this way ended up with various degrees of AxCrazy). Even their usual pool of candidates for Embrace have a green tint to them — as they are usually those who already lived at the bottom as mortals (a karmic reward, [[BlessedWithSuck of sorts]]), or those who were vain and shallow enough to warrant a KarmicTransformation. Hell, they even usually live in the severs (like Golgari) and have an affinity for (ghoulified) animals.

[[folder: Red/Green - "Gruul"]]
'''RED and GREEN''' - ''Gruul'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr213 here]])\\

Both Red and Green embody the idea of "DontThinkFeel", and as such they get along quite well. Both colors are HotBlooded in different ways and share the highest damage potentials in the game: Green through its BadAssArmy, and Red by PlayingWithFire. Both win by hitting the opponent hard and fast, green with creatures, red with spells. Both (ever since the color pie shifted) are good at getting extra mana in play, though Red's tends to be one-shot on-the-spot abilities whereas Green gets renewable, long-term resources. They also complement each other’s weaknesses well: outside of its dragons, Red has little in the way of air defense, while Green’s air defense is some of the strongest in the game. Red has a burn spell for every occasion, whereas Green has trouble dealing with anything it can't simply stomp flat. Of course, Red runs off of unbridled passion and emotion where Green takes a bit of time to listen before acting on instinct. Finally, Green (though it prefers to remain TrueNeutral and maintain the balance) does have an outright altruistic streak represented by life-gaining, which Red just doesn't get: if you need to heal, you just let your body take care of it ''after'' you've hacked off all your enemy's limbs — that's what lulls between battles are ''for''. This is perhaps best exemplified by their {{Status Buff}}s; Green has the classic "Giant Growth," which gives its target three extra combat power and three more HitPoints; Red's equivalent spells tend to only increase combat power, or increase HP but only by 1. Indeed, in Magic 2020, they receive their own version of Giant Growth, Infuriate, which for the same cost as Giant Growth gives three power... and ''two'' HP.\\

Green/Red working together is raw power and wildness. Law and civilization tend to fall by the wayside. Even the most destructive force of nature can be made stronger by adding Green to Red, or more chaotic by adding Red to Green. But hey, everyone knows sometimes you've just got to shut up, stop thinking, and act.

* The Gruul tribes are a loose collection of clans of iconoclasts and outcasts, raging against the total urban development of the plane of Ravnica, living in abandoned slums and trying to tear them down to wilderness. Their leader, the great cyclops [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=366283 Borborygmos]], is not really in charge of the clans as a whole but is instead the leader of the Burning Tree, the strongest clan, granting him a position of great respect even among his lot. The chaos following the dissolution of the Guildpact has advanced the Gruul's desires, allowing them to actually return some areas to true wilderness. Not all is well for Borborygmos, though, as he is getting on in years, and while he can still take on all challengers to his position, the victories get narrower every time. In "Gatecrash", they gain the ''Bloodrush'' ability, which allows creatures to be discarded from the hand to provide another creature with a temporary boost that essentially "adds" the discarded creature's abilities and powers to the target. As of ''Ravnica Allegiance'', the planeswalker Domri Rade has unseated Borborygmos, though he's still alive, and begun actively tearing at the structure of Ravnica society, as represented by their new ability, "Riot", giving creatures with the ability either the ability to attack on their first turn or a permanent boost to power and toughness.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=128949 Radha, Heir to Keld]], one of the main characters in the ''Time Spiral'' block, represented hope for a new beginning. InAWorld ravaged by so many near-apocalypses, the inhabitants starving for any mana they could use, Radha stood out as an inexhaustible fount of mana, an oasis in Dominaria's wastelands. Playing to red's emotions and green's growth, she was a hot-tempered and belligerent person until a study with Multani and the time rift crisis in general smoothed out some of her pricklier thoughts, giving her some of green's wisdom and letting some of red's emphasis on friendship and empathy come to the fore.
* 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.
* Sarkhan Vol idolized the raw untamed power of nature, and he worshipped dragons because he saw them as the embodiment of that power. All that changed when he met [[TheCorrupter Nicol Bolas]].
* In contrast with the brutish werewolves and Gruul, ''Theros'' [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]] are playful hedonists, living life to the fullest. The populace sees them as wondrous spirits of much delight and joy, but in true [[TheFairFolk Fair Folk]]-fashion, [[BitchInSheepsClothing they are actually rather monstrous people]] who lure poor humans into their hedonist cults and enslave and humiliate them (at best), and engage in violent and rapist revelries.
** Xenagos, a satyr planeswalker, used to be like that, but after ascending (probably [[OutWithABang on one of such bacchic rituals]]), he realized how utterly insignificant he was in the great scheme of things, so he returns to Theros, and attempts at godhood to prove his worth.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=391796 Atarka and her brood]] from Tarkir are yet another example of the primal savagery associated with this color combination, not interested in anything [[VillainousGlutton other than eating]]. [[spoiler:This proves to be an asset, as Yasova manages to please Atarka by bringing her food. After 1,280 years, the Clan became personal waiters for their Dragonlord, [[TheSocialDarwinist risking becoming food themselves if they are too weak to provide]]; on the other hand, it is the only Clan of Tarkir where [[MightMakesRight strong humanoids are free to kill and eat weak dragons, even if they are Atarka's own brood]].]]
* Red/Green seems like a color combination ill-suited to the MadScientist theme of the joke setting Bablovia, but the Goblin Explosioneers make it work. They aren't interested in learning or winning or making the world a better place. They don't even have a government in any real sense, despite Bablovia's factions nominally being different governments. They just do what feels right, and what feels right is making things that go boom.

* Mark Rosewater considers [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]], [[Franchise/TheMuppets Animal]], [[Literature/PeterPan Tinkerbell]], and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Cosmo Kramer]] to be prime examples of red-green characters.
* The character of ''[[Series/TheColbertReport Stephen Colbert]]'' embodies the intersection of Red and Green through his philosophy of "Truthiness". The concept embraces Red's emphasis on emotion and Green's emphasis on instinct to believe what "feels" right as opposed to the Blue way of study and evidence.
* [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/100806887153/hi-mark-color-pie-character-casting-is-getting-to-be As pointed out by Mark Rosewater]], the [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]] is a good example of a Red and Green character, being driven entirely by his desires and instincts (in this case, eating cookies).
* [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Taokaka]] is about as red-green as they come. Preoccupied with her immediate impulses (usually hunger), she's hardly a mental giant, but has an instinctive grasp of ars magus and battle tactics that lets her keep up with the rest of the cast. She even acts like an animal (she's a cat beastkin).
** A smarter example of the same is Makoto Nanaya. Outdoorsy, devoted to her friends, and seemingly [[BookDumb too enthusiastic for book learning]], she's still a capable member of the NOL's Intelligence Unit [[spoiler:and a spy for Sector Seven]] and has shown herself to be an ungodly-strong physical powerhouse on top of that. Most importantly, her unpredictability and compassion have made her a prime threat to Terumi's plans.
* From ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s spiritual ancestor, ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', there's Ky's son, Sin Kiske. Dumb as a bag of hammers and about as subtle, he tends to blunder through things in his own style, not even taking note of the shape of whatever hole he's decided to force a peg into. That being said, he's enthusiastically friendly and keenly empathetic in a way that ends up attracting an unlikely but honest ally [[spoiler:(Ramlethal Valentine)]] to his father's side in ''Xrd''.
* San from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' is a good example of a Gruul character. Although human, she fights for her [[RaisedByWolves adoptive family]] of Green-aligned wolf spirits against the humans led by the White Lady Eboshi (in fact, as explored [[http://romanoffblitzer.tumblr.com/post/145218856764/color-pie-analysis-princess-mononoke here]], the movie itself is a nice example of a conflict between Green and White, acceptance of nature clashing with the wish of a group for safety). She is extremely passionate, fueled by her rage at both the destruction of the forest and her abandonment by her original human parents. And that's not even getting into [[UnresolvedSexualTension her conflicted feelings for Ashitaka]].
* [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Both the Brujah and the Gangrel can play this trope]], depending on how you look at them. The Brujah are more geared toward red with their rebellious nature and wish to overthrow the status quo, while the Gangrel take a more green stance, in connection to their "primal" nature. Also, both Clans' weaknesses are connected to the Beast (which itself is pretty much a combination of Red and Green).
* [[Literature/HarryPotter Fenrir Greyback]], true to his universe's worst stereotypes of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]], [[FullyEmbracedFiend fully embraces]] his bloodlust and wrath (Red), and returns the [[TeethClenchedTeamwork begrudgement of the Death Eaters he works for]] due to seeing humanity's civility and rationality as below him (Green). He fits the most unthinking color duo due to his behavior and goals being more animalistic than any other character in his home series, not to mention him favoring [[LightningBruiser raw strength]] over the wit, versatility, and finesse of most magic users.

[[folder: White/Green - "Selesnya"]]
'''WHITE and GREEN''' - ''Selesnya'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr196 here]]):\\

White and Green are both concerned with community, and this is best expressed in their joint love of creatures. Green is all about keeping everything strong, but also encourages [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinism]], which is why it has a BadAssArmy and single-target {{Status Buff}}s which make individual creatures stronger. In comparison, White cares about the LittlestCancerPatient, and has a RedshirtArmy, using global buffs (or the occasional high-powered champion) to make them ''all'' stronger.\\

Green/White cards tend to be about society existing in harmony with nature. Sometimes society shapes nature into forms it finds pleasing or useful, such as gardens or tree farms; other times, society shapes itself around nature to avoid despoiling it. Green and White working together often seem quite benevolent, perhaps the most so of any color pairing, but again, the needs of the individual are sublimated to that of the group, perhaps even more so than in White alone. They are the color combination with perhaps the highest average of both good small creatures and good big creatures, making a fearsome army, and almost all healing effects in the game are either white or green; combined, some of the most efficient life-gain spells in the game are present.

* The Selesnya Conclave in Ravnica are a group dedicated to peace, healing, and the betterment of the community (which they do through brainwashing the masses). Most guild members were dryads, human-like tree spirits, and their "leader" was a [[HiveMind collective mind]] called the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=247374 Chorus of the Conclave]], which expressed itself through the bodies of high-ranking members, using them as figureheads. The new guild leader is a single dryad composed of three minds, and they seem to be stepping up their activities. Selesnya has become evangelistic, and more than a few cards emphasize how abhorrent they find the undead. Their mechanic in ''Return to Ravnica'', "Populate", creates a token copy of a creature you control. In ''Guilds of Ravnica'', they gain the old ability Convoke, which allows expensive spells to be cast more easily if you tap creatures when casting it.
* While humans have been in many different color combinations over the years, they count in the Innistrad settings as they are outnumbered by the supernatural beings and believe that united, they can survive the supernatural setting. Human cards that are White are in urban settings who try to calm the frightened masses down while Green human cards are monster hunters who live in the wilderness.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=378520 Karametra]] is the patron god of harvests and orphans in Theros. The polis Setessa is her main city of worship. The city itself embodies the ideals of white and green, with it being arraigned in three circular rings of trees. The Setessans are mainly a group of [[ActionGirl warrior women]] who train in the wilderness to maximize their fighting potential while protecting their city.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=391825 Dromoka and her brood]] play a more militant aspect of this colour pair. Thriving in the sunlit deserts of Tarkir, they killed the local Abzan peoples due to their traditions about "necromancy" (which, mind you, is depicted as a completely harmless communion with ancestral spirits), considering it to be an affront to natural life. Though they otherwise sympathised with said clan, they were so fanatical about that belief that they almost commited ''genocide'', forcing their khan, Daghatar, to renounce their traditions and pledge alliance to the dragon. Further still, she decided to abolish the very use of the words "khan" and "clan". Fanatical and borderline hypocritical, Dromoka is a chilling example of the tyranny associated with extreme Green/White.
** By ''Dragons of Tarkir'', Dromoka has evolved into an interesting balance between beneficence and tyranny. On the one claw, Dromoka doctrine explicitly promotes and honors the achievement of ''all'' members of the clan, dragon and humanoid alike, and it's definitely the safest of the five, with Dromoka dragons risking their own lives to protect their humans. On the other claw, Dromoka is still a tyrant, and her dragons demand service in exchange for their protection.
* Crossbreed Labs, from the joke setting Bablovia, is basically what happens when visionary mad science meets UsefulNotes/FurryFandom. They're dedicated to using LEGOGenetics technology to give people the animal traits that reflect their true selves, demonstrating not only Green's love of critters but also its belief that people ''have'' an unchanging "true self," something that Blue for instance would firmly reject. The White shows in their focus on getting the treatment to anyone who wants it and fostering a society where they can live in harmony, showing White's utopianism and desire for peace and community.

* The Body Snatchers in ''Film/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.
* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy and Applejack]] embody the Green/White mixture in different ways. Both are close to nature, Applejack tending to her farm and Fluttershy tending to her pets. Applejack is white because she places importance on her friends and her large family and Fluttershy towards nurturing her animals.
* Creator/FriedrichNietzsche invented a being with the worst attributes of Green and White in the Last Man, combining White’s emphasis on conformism and lack of any personal ambition with Green’s dislike of thinking and creating to create a being devoid of the will or vision to improve or stand out.
* [[Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion Kimba]] has traits that show not only Green’s and White’s comparisons, but their contrasts as well. As the king of a jungle, he is a NatureHero determined to protect it and its denizens from human and animal threats. He also uses his rule to attempt to integrate traits of human society onto the animals of his kingdom. He protects nature (Green) but also tries to place new laws to try to improve it (White).
* Other examples listed by Mark Rosewater include [[Franchise/StarWars the Ewoks]], a species with a primitive tribal structure living in wilderness with a deep sense of community, and the [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Oompa-Loompas]], a group of strangely-identical hard-working people in the food manufacturing industry with a penchant for bursting into choreographed song and dance routines.
* Also via Mark Rosewater is [[Literature/{{Divergent}} Amity]], whose focus on kindness and neutrality firmly align it with Green[=/=]White.
* [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/88193763233/is-ras-al-ghul-the-rare-g-w-villain According to Mark Rosewater]], [[ComicBook/RasAlGhul Ra's Al Ghul]] is a good example of a Green[=/=]White antagonist. His goals, after all, are to destroy civilization (Green) out of moral disgust, and with the intention of creating an utopia for the survivors (White). Even when he is written as hypocritical and self-serving, canon examples like Gaddock Teeg or the worst members of Selesnya show clear consistency with this alignment.
* Ramlethal Valentine from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' is a good example of the ultra-conformist aspects of this color pair. She refers to herself as a mere tool of her Mother (white) to be disposed of when no longer needed, and has a feral and savage fighting style (green). She also disdains individual thought and has an obsession with purpose. [[spoiler:Later on, Elphelt, Sin, and oddly enough Bedman successfully convince her of the importance of emotions and the value of individuals. By the end of ''[[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Guilty Gear Xrd's]]'' story mode, she has potentially moved to green/red or green/red/white.]]
* The Jewish community of Anatevka in ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' can be considered this, as shown in their SignatureSong "Tradition". On the one hand, "here in Anatevka we have traditions for everything... how to eat, how to sleep, even how to wear clothes" — which puts them firmly into White. But — as Tevye himself admits — they have no idea ''why'' they do all of this, but they still follow the tradition because it's the thing that holds them together - which is something inherently Green.

[[folder: White/Black - "Orzhov"]]
'''WHITE and BLACK''' - ''Orzhov'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr221 here]]):\\

The ideological schism between White and Black is at a fundamental level. White is all about TheNeedsOfTheMany, and it needs to have lines that should not or must not be crossed, whereas Black believes "ItsAllAboutMe" and is willing to destroy or sacrifice ''anything'' to achieve goals. Black believes in protecting its individual ambitions from the world, White in protecting the world from individual ambitions. As such, White doesn't call Black "SelfishEvil"; to White, Selfish ''is'' Evil, making the second word largely redundant. In the same vein, Black just calls White "Lawful" because, to Black's way of thinking, [[LawfulStupid Lawful implies Stupid]]. Long story short, TheFettered vs. TheUnfettered; it's no surprise these two would have problems getting along.\\

White/Black cards tend to fall into one of two molds: either a [[StrawHypocrite full-blown]] {{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, doing ''whatever'' needs to be done for the greater good: if an innocent has to die a gruesome, horrible death (or endure [[FateWorseThanDeath some other similarly terrible fate]]) most wouldn't wish on their worst enemy in order to save a civilization, that's a fair trade. [[TakeAThirdOption The third option]] is honestly using white's concern and black's selfishness to care for your ''group'' and no one outside it; essentially [[TheMafia organized crime]], or taken even further, the AbsoluteXenophobe. Black/White is the combination of the VillainWithGoodPublicity, someone who believes in {{Realpolitik}}, or someone who believes UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans. There can also be a sense of self-sacrifice bordering on the insane with a White/Black hero: White heroes might lay down their lives, Black heroes might sacrifice even a loved one to save the day, but a White/Black hero might sell ''their own soul'' to protect their charge. Other Black/White cards, usually spells and not creatures, also represent the merging of the infernal with the divine or the crossing of other fundamentally opposed forces, often resulting in something new, extremely powerful — and dangerous. How dangerous? Think [[YinYangBomb matter/antimatter]].

* In Ravnica, the Black/White Orzhov Syndicate produced the heroine [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=369011 Teysa Karlov]], but committed many atrocities as well. They were, in effect, an organized crime syndicate masquerading as an organized religion. Their mechanic, "Haunt", brought dead creatures back as enchantments, usually with negative effects to be put on an opponent's permanents. They're still around in the new Ravnica, and they've learned new tricks, all to ensnare the flock. In ''Gatecrash'', their new mechanic, "Extort", lets them bleed opponents for life every time they cast a spell. Their mechanic in ''Ravnica Allegiance'', "Afterlife", has more in common with Haunt, with creaures creating Spirit creature tokens when they die. While Teysa remains in charge, Kaya, a planeswalker previously introduced in the Conspiracy multiplayer format, has also taken a position of great power, destroying the Ghost Council and freeing the indebted.
* Likewise, in Innistrad, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=368535 Sorin Markov's]] ties of responsibility to the humans of his home shift him into black/white (from the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=238330 pure black]] of the [[IHaveManyNames version of him that lived on Zendikar]]), and arguably makes him the BigGood of the whole plane.
* In Theros, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380374 Athreos]] is the world's equivalent of Charon, responsible for ferrying the dead across the River that Ring the World to their final resting place in the Underworld. His association with death makes him black, but his role in easing the passage of life to death and being a part of a cyclical order puts him in the white camp.
* Ixalan gave us the [[https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/planeswalkers-guide-ixalan-part-2-2017-11-08 Legion of Dusk]], a vampire-ruled empire based on the Spanish Conquistadors. As with most vampires in ''Magic'', they make copious use of blood magic and necromancy to further themselves. However, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent unlike your typical vampires]], their society is highly organised and deeply religious, with extensive laws detailing who a vampire can feed on. This is taken to such an extent that the set contains the first [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=435157 mono-White]] vampires in ''Magic'' history.
* ''Ikoria'' has [[https://scryfall.com/card/iko/187/general-kudro-of-drannith General Kudro]], an interesting combination of the colors' qualities. He has Black's willpower, and on his card, he has an ability that requires sacrificing humans. However, he is genuinely dedicated to protecting the people of his city, shown in how he can be sacrificed to his own ability and empowers other humans. More negatively, he shows White's rigidity and xenophobia when he exiles Lukka for bonding and later refuses his help.
* The ''Strixhaven'' set takes place at a WizardingSchool and has five colleges, one for each enemy-color pairing, and differentiated from the Ravnica guilds by focusing on the tension between the colors rather than what draws them together. Therefore, where Orzhov focuses on tribalism, Strixhaven's Silverquill college is split down the middle. It's the college of ThePowerOfLanguage, but are words meant to unite the world, or to further your own agenda? Appropriately, the college's two deans focus on different things: Shaile strengthens your BadassArmy, while Embrose cannibalzies them to get ahead. (Appropriately for a set with a DualityMotif, the two characters appear on the front and back of the same card, with the player needing to choose which side would most benefit them.) Meanwhile, the college's founder, the elder dragon Shadrix Silverquill, lets you choose two of three options each turn, but requires you to target different ''players'' for each option. They are also the set's ZergRush faction that throws around lots of small spells, in opposition to Orzhov's SlowAndSteadyWinsTheRace approach.

* [[Literature/TheElricSaga Elric of Melnibone]] makes deals with the [[OrderVersusChaos Lords of Chaos]], but as an incarnation of the [[TragicHero Eternal Champion]], he is fated to use his powers to maintain [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil the Balance between both Law and Chaos.]] He isn't Black/Green because left to its natural devices, the Universe will eventually stagnate into pure Law or Chaos — the Balance needs to be actively enforced for both to exist.
* Scrooge [=McDuck=] is consistently depicted as extraordinarily greedy and selfish but honourable and, in later years, devoted to his family, making him the most iconic example of a Black/White Disney character ever.
* Mark Rosewater cites [[Film/TheGodfather Don Corleone]], ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Jerry Seinfeld]] (the character, not the actor/comedian) as prime examples of the white-black color combination.
* Commissar Literature/CiaphasCain ('''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!''') is a heroic example who [[HeroicSelfDeprecation believes]] he is the out-and-out hypocrite version. The person compiling and editing his memoirs believes he is being too hard on himself, though she agrees that he is very self-centered.
* [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] has a strong moral code and idealizes traditional hero models, but is also extremely pragmatic and frequently criticises cases of HonorBeforeReason and moral inflexibility, embodying both White's and Black's best traits. He also has an arrogant streak and [[spoiler:nearly turned evil because of it]].
* An example from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' is Archer [[spoiler:(also known as Shirou Emiya)]]. Originally intending to do good at any cost to himself, even if it hurt those who cared for him to see that happen (described as, "the selfish pursuit of selflessness"), he would later abandon his ideal in the name of his goal, resorting to calculated slaughter and brutal pragmatism in the name of selfishly saving as many lives as possible. Thus, it could be said that he began with a Black ideology and White methods (self-sacrifice for his personal desires) and shifted to a White ideology with Black methods (horrific and brutal slaughter in the name of maximized salvation).
** ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' has a more noble and almost downright heroic example of Black/White in the first Hassan i-Sabbah, the Old Man of the Mountain, better known as "King Hassan" to distinguish him from his successors who enforce his LegacyImmortality. King Hassan takes lives in the name of God, particularly those who have lived past their proper time, his unwavering faith granting him immense power over death and turning his existence into one close to [[TheGrimReaper a Grim Reaper]]. However, King Hassan avoids the pitfalls of becoming a KnightTemplar, using his very strict code of conduct to act as an impartial judge rather than a bloodthirsty killer, and even skirts around said code through ExactWords to show kindness towards the heroes. He considers himself the shadow of the heroes, taking lives so that they can save lives, and whenever he's appeared in the story, he's been on the good guys' side.
* According to [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]], [[Literature/{{Divergent}} Candor]] is White/Black aligned. In this case, Black [[BrutalHonesty honesty]] and [[DarkIsNotEvil self-awareness]] is basically institutionalised into White morality. A refreshing case for a White[=/=]Black faction.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', [[spoiler:Prince Hans]], through reasons that can largely be explained [[http://hellyeahwhitevillainy.tumblr.com/post/86683191717/a-bit-of-a-color-conundrum-i-was-curious-about-your here]] (basically, [[spoiler:he is akin to many canon White villains in being a duplicitous snot, but he's probably self-aware enough to be Black]]).
* The Young Merchant from ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'' is an interesting example. He begins as the hypocrite version, using a thin veneer of adhering to humanity's cause to mask his dirty work as a ruthless money-maker. Upon meeting the Crimson Scholar, however, he finds his worldview completely destabilized. After some soul-searching and a conversation with the Hero, he finds himself solidifying his white/black roots.[[spoiler:.. but with a more positive bent, using his ruthless money-making skill to ruin the Central Nations' currency, invest heavily in the Southern Triad, and push for a ceasefire with the demons. Even his rationale is a blend of selfishness and selflessness; in his words, the only thing he's found that all people have in common is that they'd all like to be a little happier, so why not use that to bridge the gaps between nations and trade?]]
* The two Primordial Serpents in ''Videogame/DarkSouls'' fit White/Black, but in different ways. Kingseeker Frampt wants the save the Age of Fire (an ostensibly White goal). And if that requires [[spoiler:tricking hapless Undead into turning themselves into kindling for the First Flame]], then so be it. Darkstalker Kaathe, on the other hand, is the straight-up hypocrite version. He claims that the Age of Dark would be a golden age for mankind, [[spoiler:but the fates of Oolacile and New Londo hint otherwise. Kaathe has a twisted desire to see humans give in to the Dark Soul and become monsters]].
* Gouki/Akuma from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' is an interesting example. His ruthless desire to be the strongest leads him to be willing to kill strong enemies (and see nothing objectionable about that) and otherwise unreservedly disregard the mores of common society in his pursuit of this end, a strongly Black way of life. However, he has his own ironclad code of conduct that he hews to, a very White thing to do. He doesn't hurt noncombatants and refuses to kill or even fight those who are ailing or otherwise utterly beneath his abilities (after all, what sort of progress would hurting the weak grant him towards being the strongest?). Especially notably, he considers Vega/M. Bison/Dictator scum for using a tactic he considered dishonorable (Ryu and Ken defeated him, but were badly hurt in the process. Bison's response was to jump to a fresh clone body to finish them off, which Akuma perhaps saw as invalidating the fairness of Ryu and Ken's victory), attacking Bison and finishing him off with the Shun Goku Satsu/Raging Demon. Speaking of, the Shun Goku Satsu/Raging Demon technique is white/black as well, given that one interpretation of its effects is that it reflects the target's own evil against them, killing people with their own sins.
* The Auditors of Reality in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' are an extreme combination of Evil White (they are the AnthropomorphicPersonification of "The Rules", who view the slightest trait of individuality as an instantly fatal disease and believe the universe would be much better if there weren't all these living creatures disordering it) and Black (when they ''do'' show personality traits, it always seems to be selfishness and ambition — not to mention that they're more obsessed with death than [[TheGrimReaper Death]] is). There's also a bit of the hypocrisy mentioned above; the Auditors sometimes seem to take the view that, since they ''are'' the Rules, the Rules don't necessarily apply to them.
* The Fire Nation in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', at least at the time of the show. On the one hand, they've spent a hundred years trying to conquer the world, and committed massive genocide on the Air Nomads for the sake of that goal, and preach a philosophy on how Fire is the "superior element." All very Black. On the other hand, they have a very rigid military, and the upper class at least seem to have a strict code of conduct, and practice honor duel called Agni Kai. What's more, an episode set within the Fire Nation shows just how far the propaganda machine goes, apparently espousing that ''because'' they are superior, [[WhiteMansBurden they'd be doing the world a favor by taking control of everything]], textbook examples of Evil White.
* Yhwach from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' certainly qualifies, as a ruthless and pragmatic leader who encourages, expects, and enforces complete conformity and obedience from his subjects. Though he supposedly values peace, he brings it about with acts of tyranny, and executes those that fail him while hunting down the Arrancar, which he views as lesser. [[spoiler:Even those that serve him well are expected to give up their lives for his goals at a moment's notice, as he sacrifices them to take back the power he granted them to use it for himself or give it to more useful underlings]]. Even if he does not sacrifice them, those that he gifts and heals live shorter lifespans, with their gifts all returning to Yhwach upon the end of their lives, making him stronger and extending his lifespan. While it is only made clear at the last moment, his true goal is to [[spoiler:combine the human world with the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo, making the afterlife one with the normal world and ending the cycle of life and death, creating a world where no one has to die. This is a very White/Black goal that demonstrates Green's conflicts with them]].
* [[WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}} Metroman]] is a [[TheCape cape]] who also [[spoiler:believes in free will]], embodying positive aspects of both colors.
* [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade The Ventrue]] are this through and true. The most selfish of all the Clans, and yet the one most interested in keeping up TheMasquerade. They are masters of keeping facade of being AffablyEvil when it suits them, and pulling YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the moment you're no longer needed. They are willing to play by the rules — as long as it profits them (and they usually try to find TheScapegoat for the breach, so [[BlameGame the blame is never on them]]).
* The sad saga of ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' can be traced back to a battle between two very different forms of White/Black; [[spoiler:the [[BigGood Pale King]] vs. the [[BigBad Radiance]]. Both are light-associated bug-people who ultimately are motivated by self-centered reasons of what they, personally, think should be their kingdom. However, they couldn't be more different in actions; the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Pale]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo King]] usurped the throne from the Radiance for the very Black goal of giving free will to her subjects, and instituted a very White program of thought control to starve her of memories she could use to manifest again — for good reason, for the instant someone found a statue of her, she unleashed [[ZombieApocalypse the Infection]] to bring her former subjects back in line. The Pale King [[IDidWhatIHadToDo sacrificed every moral code he had]] to create a [[SuperSoldier vessel]] capable of serving as a [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan container]] for the plague (Black's ability to bend morals and fascination with the PowerOfTheVoid) in order to save his people from their jealous former goddess by any means required (White's desire to protect others). The Pale King, thus, is a White/Black hero, willing to damn himself to save others. The [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Radiance]], on the other hand, embodies White/Black at its most [[EvilIsPetty petty]]; unable to accept that someone stronger had taken away her toy, she unleashed a very Black ability of the Infection, which has the White end effect of [[AssimilationPlot turning its victims into extensions of herself]]. The Radiance personifies the most negative aspects of White (inability to tolerate other ways of life, capacity to commit genocide, and egocentrism) and Black (willingness to destroy what she cannot have, complete lack of concern for others, and greed). Ironically, the Pale King is shown to favor [[DarkIsNotEvil Black]] abilities over the Abyss, while the Radiance favors [[LightIsNotGood White]] light-based attacks and powers.]]
* The Reapers from ''Franchise/MassEffect'', if not considered blue/green (as seen below), can be considered a terrifying example of a white/black philosophy put into action: despite their horrifying methods (mostly centered around turning sentient races into zombies, which is pretty in-color for black), they actually view themselves as the "greater good" — or, at least, [[NecessarilyEvil necessity]] — for the galaxy. By purging the galaxy of developed species, they're "saving" them from even worse catastrophe that would happen if technology advances too far, [[spoiler:which was the intent of their original creators, the Leviathans — although [[GoneHorriblyRight they became the first target]]]].
* The Devils of Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder could be considered this combination. Devoted to hierarchy,law, structure and bureaucracy(White) along with immense selfishness, manipulativeness and ambition (Black.)
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[[folder: White/Red - "Boros"]]
'''WHITE and RED''' - ''Boros'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr205 here]])\\
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White opposes Red for similar reasons as it does Black. White understands the utility of putting away its emotions; Red is ruled by nothing else. White thinks Red is [[ChaoticNeutral Chaotic Selfish]], too obsessed with its own pleasure to be trustworthy. For its part, Red sees White as needlessly controlling and doesn't like all the annoying little rules White uses to harsh Red's not-so-mellow. White, with its aforementioned specialty in [[PowerNullifier Power Nullifiers]], can impose a lot of new rules on players; Red has all the spells that bend the rules and shake things up (e.g., "Spell which used to target [X] now targets something else, which you get to choose" or "Shuffle all permanents in play and deal them out randomly"). Put as simply as possible: OrderVersusChaos.\\
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White/Red cards tend to be about the middle ground of Red's emotion and White's determination — taking an emotion and harnessing it to a greater cause. In-game, this is most commonly expressed as martial zeal, loyalty, and passionate faith, but other emotions work as well. Red/White is in many ways TheKirk to white's [[TheSpock Spock]] and red's [[TheMcCoy McCoy]], able to use the strengths of both philosophies to achieve greater things than either could alone. However, Red/White seems to usually use hybrid means for either White-like goals or to combine the effects of opposing spells, rarely Red-like goals alone.

'''Canon Examples''':
* The Boros Legion in Ravnica is heroic, but extreme (to the point that only a few characters are "good", not the whole group) and somewhat hypocritical, as they are willing to break their own rules to impose the law. In Return to Ravnica, they have become much more activist with their new leader, having deposed Feather. In Gatecrash, their new mechanic is ''Battalion'': creatures with Battalion activate special abilities if at least two other creatures attack alongside them. In ''Guilds of Ravnica'', their new mechanic is "Mentor"; if a creature with both Mentor and higher power than another attacking creature is attacking, it can make the weaker creature permanently more powerful.
* Meanwhile, the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=154258 Nobilis of War]] from the Shadowmoor uses White methods for Red goals; namely, utter and total devotion to war. Both colours are in fact those most comfortable with war as a concept: White as a tool for peace (irony!), and Red as an outlet for aggression.
** The actual Shadowmoor races aligned with Red/White, the [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent duergar]] and [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent hobgoblins]], express this combination by being territorial peoples, violently attacking anyone who seems like a threat (which is pretty much everyone). The duergar are somewhat more isolationist, preferring to avoid conflict by being underground, while the hobgoblins are more militant, actually going to the point of ''[[IAmAHumanitarian eating]]'' their enemies. Yes, a [[LightIsNotGood white]] aligned race that eats other sapient races.
* Another example is 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. (This hope is rewarded by [[spoiler:the Red Phyrexians [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=214378 deciding not to hurt the resistance]] so long as they cause no trouble in the Furnace]].) This color combination can create a really stubborn {{Determinator}}.
* Yet another example is the god [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380441 Iroas]]. He's a war god and one of the patrons of the militaristic Kingdom of Akros. However, while he is an aspect of war, his focus is on valor and bravery in battle. What is seen as "honorable" warfare is his main domain, so either standing side by side with one's fellow comrades or striking out on one's own and making a heroic stand.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=174852 Ajani Vengeant]] shows what Ajani was like in the aftermath of his brother's murder. Sarkhan Vol helped Ajani use that anger as fuel for power. His first loyalty ability locks down another creature for a turn, a very White ability in nature. His second loyalty ability deals 3 damage to a target while healing his controller for 3 life, a simple yet effective mix of Red and White. His third and most powerful loyalty ability ''destroys all lands a target player controls''; while Red has become the color with the most land destruction, the original spell which says "Destroy ''all'' lands" is the white [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=386284 Armageddon]].
* A villainous example would be [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=410012 Nahiri, the Harbringer]]. Formerly mono-White, seeing her home plane ravaged by the Eldrazi made her overwhelmed with rage and clouded her judgment, to the point she tried to inflict the same fate on the home plane of the man she saw responsible.
* ''Strixhaven'''s Lorehold college focuses on interpersonal connections: history, psychology, anthropology, archaeology. However, its members are divided on the question of whether these things are ruled by rules or passion. Its dual chancellors are Plargg, Dean of Chaos, which allows you to sneak whatever card you come upon into play; and Augusta, Dean of Order, which gives specific bonuses based on whether a creature is tapped or not and lets you tap and/or untap them to get things set up juuust right. The college's founder, Velomachus Lorehold, does the same thing as Plargg, but with only spells. Instead of Boros' AttackAttackAttack philosophy, Lorehold focuses on a play style that cares more about things ''leaving'' the graveyard, whether its fate be coming BackFromTheDead or becoming DeaderThanDead.

'''Fanon Examples''':

!!Magic: the {{Triangrelations}}
The colors can also combine in trios. The most common trios have two colors that oppose each other and one color that both are allied with, usually indicating that the allied color is the "dominant" of the triumvirate.
[[folder:Green/White/Blue - "Bant"]]
'''GREEN/WHITE/BLUE''' - "[[https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/peace-love-and-understanding-2008-10-06 Bant]]"\\

White's focus is on structure, civilization, and maximizing the greater good; Green values growth, strength, community, and sustainability; and Blue is all about progress, innovation, knowledge, and perfectionism. Taken together, these three colors are the most inclined to idealize how the world ought to be, and strive to make that ideal a reality — with Red being too impulsive or short-sighted, and Black being too self-absorbed or fatalistic. In a word, Bant is the color combo of {{utopia}}. Sustained development and ever-increasing abundance and prosperity are major themes here, particularly in terms of groups, civilizations, and even whole worlds — often with Green/Blue themes of exploration and evolution serving White's intentions for advancing society as a whole. It could also be thought of in terms of adding life and community to White/Blue legalism, or applying careful perfectionism to the White/Green focus on the collective.\\

This can easily make this color combination the most benevolent, but it need not be so: with little tolerance for emotion and individual desires, it can also be the most oppressive, as it [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans inexorably advances towards building the paradise it believes it would achieve… IF it just got rid of those pesky dissenters]] with their [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill "selfish" and "destructive" desires for freedom and personal identity.]]\\
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In game terms, with superb defense, flexible removal, and adequate card advantage and control, the triad's only real drawback is an inability to do damage without the use of its (often quite powerful) creatures; and, like most three-color combinations, a relative sluggishness. But long wait times are only to be expected when you're busily creating the perfect world.

* The Shard of Alara named Bant provides the most cards in this combination. (The plane of Alara was splintered by a cataclysm long ago into five Shards, each "incomplete" with regards to magic and having only three colors; it happened so long ago that none remember things ever having been different, though there are some legends and other evidence.) Bant is the epitome of a reasonably benevolent society, where [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=188975 humans]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=177924 rhox]] (rhino-people), and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=180608 aven]] (bird-people) live in harmony. They are watched over by [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=180605 angels]], left behind by a being named Asha, worshipped by the peoples of the shard as a goddess. However, it is caste-based, and while it is not unheard of for people to move from one caste to another based on merit, it is extremely difficult to do so. Furthermore, the rigid order allows for bureaucratic corruption, and greed resulting in crime is not unheard of — though most times this targets magical sigils (marks of favor from those in a higher caste) rather than money. Exalted, the Shard’s mechanic, allows a creature to receive massive bonuses from your other creatures when attacking, but only when it attacks alone.
* In the wake of the Scars of Mirrodin block, New Phyrexia is, while technically five-color, predominantly a Green/White/Blue faction. Elesh Norn usurped Urabrask (the Red praetor) and Sheoldred (the Black praetor) and is effectively the new Mother of Machines. Her evangelism and xenophobia (white), duplicity and mendacity (blue), and elitism and conservatism (green) make her and the current generation of New Phyrexians a chilling example of the excesses of this color combination.
* The mostly-good (if somewhat cold and dispassionate) Moonfolk planeswalker Tamiyo was changed to Bant colors in her Eldritch Moon incarnation. Tamiyo is a storyteller who records stories from the various worlds and civilizations she visits, writing them in scrolls and taking them home to be preserved in the Grand Library on Kamigawa. Her original color identity in the Innistrad block was mono-Blue, suggesting her central focus on acquiring knowledge; however, rather than hoarding knowledge for her own interests (Blue/Black) or excitement (Blue/Red) or even to benefit the rest of society (Blue/White), Tamiyo wants to preserve knowledge for its own sake (Blue/Green, in the vein of Kruphix). White, meanwhile, represents her firm dedication to her family, culture, and code of ethics — for example, by refusing to open her ironbound scrolls, even when it is pointed out that they could save her life. Notably, however, she initially does ''not'' want to get involved in or try to prevent the imminent destruction of Innistrad — a distinctly Green approach to morality.
* Arcades Sabboth is the Elder Dragon aligned with Green, White, and Blue mana. As he died offscreen early in the franchise's timeline, little was known about his characterisation, other than he was maybe a tyrant since he's the only Elder Dragon shown sitting on a throne and looked mean. In the Core 19 storyline, we learn that he lost interest in the other Elder Dragons for city building, acting as the wise ruler of an early civilisation. As far as it is known, he is a benevolent ruler, combining Green and White's desire for community with White and Blue's legislative prowess, and the wisdom and vision of both Green and Blue. [[https://scryfall.com/card/m19/212 Arcades, the Strategist]] emphasizes toughness over power, being 3/5, has vigilance (allowing it to always be ready to defend you), and allows you to draw cards as you bring defenders to the battlefield. Said defenders also gain the ability to attack and deal damage based on their (usually higher) toughness instead of power.

* [[VideoGame/BioShock2 Sofia Lamb]] is a good example of a Green/White/Blue villain; she values community good above everything, but she also believes in using ADAM to rewrite the genes of people to make them into her ideal citizen, a Green/Blue Belief.
* [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne The Reason of Shijima]] is a philosophy along these lines. Emphasizing a mechanically-perfect universe (white/blue) where all people are desireless cogs in its inner workings (green/white), it posits as an ideal world one where conformity is a fact and all desire is muted. Rather ironically, its creator, Hikawa, is blue/black.
* Atrus from ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' is an excellent example of a well-balanced Bant hero: his keen scientific intellect and insatiable curiosity (Blue) are tempered by — and even enhance — his strong desire to carefully preserve the natural orders that underlie the Ages he writes (Green). Atrus is very White in his concern with preserving civilizations as well as worlds: from protecting the native peoples and societies of the Ages written by [[ArchnemesisDad Gehn]], to finding a new home for what remains of the D'ni people.
* [[Franchise/StarWars The Jedi Order]] is a paradox of the best and worst traits of this color triad. On the one hand, they have genuinely good intentions in protecting the galaxy from evil and are ''very'' spiritual, and the emphasis on self-mastery is inevitably turned towards the good of society. But on the other hand, they indoctrinate their members from infancy, in one notorious case getting sued by an initiate's parents after taking her in when her parents were assumed dead, refusing to return her on the grounds that she had been opened to the Force and needed their guidance. They also have a well-documented history of conducting {{witch hunt}}s against Force users that have dissenting opinions on said universal energy field, particularly their ancient enemies, the Sith. [[WellIntentionedExtremist They are constantly attempting to purge all users]] of the [[TheDarkSide Dark Side of the Force]] on the grounds that the Dark Side is an aberration that keeps the Force from being in balance. And they're sort of right; Creator/GeorgeLucas has [[WordOfGod himself stated]] that there is no way to walk the middle ground, and those who try to use the Dark Side for whatever reason ultimately fall to it. True Balance, then, is to walk the middle road between the far-reaching Cosmic Force (White/Blue, due to its emphasis on knowledge and divination) and the more down-to-earth nitty-gritty Living Force (Green). That Living Force component also involves Green's instinctual emotional side, hence why the emotion-repressing Order just prior to and during the Clone Wars is actually in a state of imbalance. This disproportionate emphasis on stoicism, along with the (in)famous hypnotism of the JediMindTrick and their overall focus on learning and self-mastery, moves the Jedi Order from Selesnya into the Bant camp.
* Yusei Fudo of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' could be considered Bant. A noble, selfless, and serious individual. Very serious, intelligent, and cool-headed. A genius with dueling and engineering. Cares about his friends above all else. Very interested in making the world as good a place he can.
* An entire SETTING in ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' is this. [[spoiler:Sunny's Headspace is intended to provide an illusion (Blue) of the concord (White) and simplicity (Green) that was suddenly thrust from the boy's waking life. Getting the game's GoldenEnding requires that Sunny accept his past trauma and move on (see Rakdos above).]]

[[folder:White/Blue/Black - "Esper"]]
'''WHITE/BLUE/BLACK''' - "[[https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/striving-perfection-2008-11-17 Esper]]"\\

This combination exemplifies the melding of discipline, reason, and desire, and in many ways embodies modern villains. These are not sadistic monsters or ravening brutes — they are calm, they are rational, and above all, they are in control. Their contingency plans have contingency plans. In game terms, the three “control” colors meld power nullifiers, countermagic, and death rays into a versatile system that, if you know what you’re facing, can lock down the board against all comers. Putting together a WUB deck and want a spell or creature with a particular trait? There’s a card for that. Heroes and villains alike of this combination tend to have come to their alignments (whether good or evil) by rationally and logically thinking things through to the point where they have consciously chosen to be in it for themselves or try to make the world a better place — with [[EnlightenedSelfInterest the former not necessarily being a villain]], and [[TotalitarianUtilitarian the latter not necessarily being a hero]]...\\

* Esper is a shard of Alara where there is a place for everything, and everything has its place. There are thirty-seven different winds, each named and categorized. The night sky itself is blazoned with a grid. The society itself is ruled by the inscrutable [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=175127 sphinxes]] and strictly structured around control of the extraordinarily rare mystical metal etherium; almost every permanent spell from Esper was an artifact, and introduced the concept of colored artifacts. (It has also been noted jokingly that it is fitting such a tech-focused society could be abbreviated with WUB, i.e. the sound most associated with dubstep.)
* Chromium Rhuell is the White, Blue, and Black Elder Dragon. Already the focal character in ''Magic''[='=]s early comics, he is portrayed as surprisingly open-minded and approachable, eager to learn about the world and interact with human beings, even becoming Ham the Tinkery Man to protect a city where a little girl he befriended lived in from Palladia-Mors. He has a very strict sense of morality; the reason he's offended at Palladia-Mors and other Elder Dragons attacking people is due to his high sense of standards (White and Blue) rather than outright compassion. And yet the Black in him offers a sense of detachment that makes him non-judgemental. Core 19 shows that he once had the nastier traits of the shard by being an arrogant snot that was mean to his brothers, but as his title of "the mutable" shows, CharacterDevelopment made him a much nicer person, even without changing his mana alignment. [[https://scryfall.com/card/m19/214 Chromium, the Mutable]] already has the ability to shapeshift into a human, specifically an unblockable 1/1 human with hexproof.

[[folder: White/Black - "Orzhov"]]
'''WHITE and BLACK''' - ''Orzhov'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr221 here]]):\\

The ideological schism between White and Black is at a fundamental level. White is all about TheNeedsOfTheMany, and it needs to have lines that should not or must not be crossed, whereas Black believes "ItsAllAboutMe" and is willing to destroy or sacrifice ''anything'' to achieve goals. Black believes in protecting its individual ambitions from the world, White in protecting the world from individual ambitions. As such, White doesn't call Black "SelfishEvil"; to White, Selfish ''is'' Evil, making the second word largely redundant. In the same vein, Black just calls White "Lawful" because, to Black's way of thinking, [[LawfulStupid Lawful implies Stupid]]. Long story short, TheFettered vs. TheUnfettered; it's no surprise these two would have problems getting along.\\

White/Black cards tend to fall into one of two molds: either a [[StrawHypocrite full-blown]] {{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, doing ''whatever'' needs to be done for the greater good: if an innocent has to die a gruesome, horrible death (or endure [[FateWorseThanDeath some other similarly terrible fate]]) most wouldn't wish on their worst enemy in order to save a civilization, that's a fair trade. [[TakeAThirdOption The third option]] is honestly using white's concern and black's selfishness to care for your ''group'' and no one outside it; essentially [[TheMafia organized crime]], or taken even further, the AbsoluteXenophobe. Black/White is the combination of the VillainWithGoodPublicity, someone who believes in {{Realpolitik}}, or someone who believes UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans. There can also be a sense of self-sacrifice bordering on the insane with a White/Black hero: White heroes might lay down their lives, Black heroes might sacrifice even a loved one to save the day, but a White/Black hero might sell ''their own soul'' to protect their charge. Other Black/White cards, usually spells and not creatures, also represent the merging of the infernal with the divine or the crossing of other fundamentally opposed forces, often resulting in something new, extremely powerful — and dangerous. How dangerous? Think [[YinYangBomb matter/antimatter]].

* In Ravnica, the Black/White Orzhov Syndicate produced the heroine [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=369011 Teysa Karlov]], but committed many atrocities as well. They were, in effect, an organized crime syndicate masquerading as an organized religion. Their mechanic, "Haunt", brought dead creatures back as enchantments, usually with negative effects to be put on an opponent's permanents. They're still around in the new Ravnica, and they've learned new tricks, all to ensnare the flock. In ''Gatecrash'', their new mechanic, "Extort", lets them bleed opponents for life every time they cast a spell. Their mechanic in ''Ravnica Allegiance'', "Afterlife", has more in common with Haunt, with creaures creating Spirit creature tokens when they die. While Teysa remains in charge, Kaya, a planeswalker previously introduced in the Conspiracy multiplayer format, has also taken a position of great power, destroying the Ghost Council and freeing the indebted.
* Likewise, in Innistrad, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=368535 Sorin Markov's]] ties of responsibility to the humans of his home shift him into black/white (from the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=238330 pure black]] of the [[IHaveManyNames version of him that lived on Zendikar]]), and arguably makes him the BigGood of the whole plane.
* In Theros, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380374 Athreos]] is the world's equivalent of Charon, responsible for ferrying the dead across the River that Ring the World to their final resting place in the Underworld. His association with death makes him black, but his role in easing the passage of life to death and being a part of a cyclical order puts him in the white camp.
* Ixalan gave us the [[https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/planeswalkers-guide-ixalan-part-2-2017-11-08 Legion of Dusk]], a vampire-ruled empire based on the Spanish Conquistadors. As with most vampires in ''Magic'', they make copious use of blood magic and necromancy to further themselves. However, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent unlike your typical vampires]], their society is highly organised and deeply religious, with extensive laws detailing who a vampire can feed on. This is taken to such an extent that the set contains the first [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=435157 mono-White]] vampires in ''Magic'' history.
* ''Ikoria'' has [[https://scryfall.com/card/iko/187/general-kudro-of-drannith General Kudro]], an interesting combination of the colors' qualities. He has Black's willpower, and on his card, he has an ability that requires sacrificing humans. However, he is genuinely dedicated to protecting the people of his city, shown in how he can be sacrificed to his own ability and empowers other humans. More negatively, he shows White's rigidity and xenophobia when he exiles Lukka for bonding and later refuses his help.
* The ''Strixhaven'' set takes place at a WizardingSchool and has five colleges, one for each enemy-color pairing, and differentiated from the Ravnica guilds by focusing on the tension between the colors rather than what draws them together. Therefore, where Orzhov focuses on tribalism, Strixhaven's Silverquill college is split down the middle. It's the college of ThePowerOfLanguage, but are words meant to unite the world, or to further your own agenda? Appropriately, the college's two deans focus on different things: Shaile strengthens your BadassArmy, while Embrose cannibalzies them to get ahead. (Appropriately for a set with a DualityMotif, the two characters appear on the front and back of the same card, with the player needing to choose which side would most benefit them.) Meanwhile, the college's founder, the elder dragon Shadrix Silverquill, lets you choose two of three options each turn, but requires you to target different ''players'' for each option. They are also the set's ZergRush faction that throws around lots of small spells, in opposition to Orzhov's SlowAndSteadyWinsTheRace approach.

* [[Literature/TheElricSaga Elric of Melnibone]] makes deals with the [[OrderVersusChaos Lords of Chaos]], but as an incarnation of the [[TragicHero Eternal Champion]], he is fated to use his powers to maintain [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil the Balance between both Law and Chaos.]] He isn't Black/Green because left to its natural devices, the Universe will eventually stagnate into pure Law or Chaos — the Balance needs to be actively enforced for both to exist.
* Scrooge [=McDuck=] is consistently depicted as extraordinarily greedy and selfish but honourable and, in later years, devoted to his family, making him the most iconic example of a Black/White Disney character ever.
* Mark Rosewater cites [[Film/TheGodfather Don Corleone]], ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Jerry Seinfeld]] (the character, not the actor/comedian) as prime examples of the white-black color combination.
* Commissar Literature/CiaphasCain ('''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!''') is a heroic example who [[HeroicSelfDeprecation believes]] he is the out-and-out hypocrite version. The person compiling and editing his memoirs believes he is being too hard on himself, though she agrees that he is very self-centered.
* [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] has a strong moral code and idealizes traditional hero models, but is also extremely pragmatic and frequently criticises cases of HonorBeforeReason and moral inflexibility, embodying both White's and Black's best traits. He also has an arrogant streak and [[spoiler:nearly turned evil because of it]].
* An example from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' is Archer [[spoiler:(also known as Shirou Emiya)]]. Originally intending to do good at any cost to himself, even if it hurt those who cared for him to see that happen (described as, "the selfish pursuit of selflessness"), he would later abandon his ideal in the name of his goal, resorting to calculated slaughter and brutal pragmatism in the name of selfishly saving as many lives as possible. Thus, it could be said that he began with a Black ideology and White methods (self-sacrifice for his personal desires) and shifted to a White ideology with Black methods (horrific and brutal slaughter in the name of maximized salvation).
** ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' has a more noble and almost downright heroic example of Black/White in the first Hassan i-Sabbah, the Old Man of the Mountain, better known as "King Hassan" to distinguish him from his successors who enforce his LegacyImmortality. King Hassan takes lives in the name of God, particularly those who have lived past their proper time, his unwavering faith granting him immense power over death and turning his existence into one close to [[TheGrimReaper a Grim Reaper]]. However, King Hassan avoids the pitfalls of becoming a KnightTemplar, using his very strict code of conduct to act as an impartial judge rather than a bloodthirsty killer, and even skirts around said code through ExactWords to show kindness towards the heroes. He considers himself the shadow of the heroes, taking lives so that they can save lives, and whenever he's appeared in the story, he's been on the good guys' side.
* According to [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]], [[Literature/{{Divergent}} Candor]] is White/Black aligned. In this case, Black [[BrutalHonesty honesty]] and [[DarkIsNotEvil self-awareness]] is basically institutionalised into White morality. A refreshing case for a White[=/=]Black faction.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', [[spoiler:Prince Hans]], through reasons that can largely be explained [[http://hellyeahwhitevillainy.tumblr.com/post/86683191717/a-bit-of-a-color-conundrum-i-was-curious-about-your here]] (basically, [[spoiler:he is akin to many canon White villains in being a duplicitous snot, but he's probably self-aware enough to be Black]]).
* The Young Merchant from ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'' is an interesting example. He begins as the hypocrite version, using a thin veneer of adhering to humanity's cause to mask his dirty work as a ruthless money-maker. Upon meeting the Crimson Scholar, however, he finds his worldview completely destabilized. After some soul-searching and a conversation with the Hero, he finds himself solidifying his white/black roots.[[spoiler:.. but with a more positive bent, using his ruthless money-making skill to ruin the Central Nations' currency, invest heavily in the Southern Triad, and push for a ceasefire with the demons. Even his rationale is a blend of selfishness and selflessness; in his words, the only thing he's found that all people have in common is that they'd all like to be a little happier, so why not use that to bridge the gaps between nations and trade?]]
* The two Primordial Serpents in ''Videogame/DarkSouls'' fit White/Black, but in different ways. Kingseeker Frampt wants the save the Age of Fire (an ostensibly White goal). And if that requires [[spoiler:tricking hapless Undead into turning themselves into kindling for the First Flame]], then so be it. Darkstalker Kaathe, on the other hand, is the straight-up hypocrite version. He claims that the Age of Dark would be a golden age for mankind, [[spoiler:but the fates of Oolacile and New Londo hint otherwise. Kaathe has a twisted desire to see humans give in to the Dark Soul and become monsters]].
* Gouki/Akuma from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' is an interesting example. His ruthless desire to be the strongest leads him to be willing to kill strong enemies (and see nothing objectionable about that) and otherwise unreservedly disregard the mores of common society in his pursuit of this end, a strongly Black way of life. However, he has his own ironclad code of conduct that he hews to, a very White thing to do. He doesn't hurt noncombatants and refuses to kill or even fight those who are ailing or otherwise utterly beneath his abilities (after all, what sort of progress would hurting the weak grant him towards being the strongest?). Especially notably, he considers Vega/M. Bison/Dictator scum for using a tactic he considered dishonorable (Ryu and Ken defeated him, but were badly hurt in the process. Bison's response was to jump to a fresh clone body to finish them off, which Akuma perhaps saw as invalidating the fairness of Ryu and Ken's victory), attacking Bison and finishing him off with the Shun Goku Satsu/Raging Demon. Speaking of, the Shun Goku Satsu/Raging Demon technique is white/black as well, given that one interpretation of its effects is that it reflects the target's own evil against them, killing people with their own sins.
* The Auditors of Reality in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' are an extreme combination of Evil White (they are the AnthropomorphicPersonification of "The Rules", who view the slightest trait of individuality as an instantly fatal disease and believe the universe would be much better if there weren't all these living creatures disordering it) and Black (when they ''do'' show personality traits, it always seems to be selfishness and ambition — not to mention that they're more obsessed with death than [[TheGrimReaper Death]] is). There's also a bit of the hypocrisy mentioned above; the Auditors sometimes seem to take the view that, since they ''are'' the Rules, the Rules don't necessarily apply to them.
* The Fire Nation in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', at least at the time of the show. On the one hand, they've spent a hundred years trying to conquer the world, and committed massive genocide on the Air Nomads for the sake of that goal, and preach a philosophy on how Fire is the "superior element." All very Black. On the other hand, they have a very rigid military, and the upper class at least seem to have a strict code of conduct, and practice honor duel called Agni Kai. What's more, an episode set within the Fire Nation shows just how far the propaganda machine goes, apparently espousing that ''because'' they are superior, [[WhiteMansBurden they'd be doing the world a favor by taking control of everything]], textbook examples of Evil White.
* Yhwach from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' certainly qualifies, as a ruthless and pragmatic leader who encourages, expects, and enforces complete conformity and obedience from his subjects. Though he supposedly values peace, he brings it about with acts of tyranny, and executes those that fail him while hunting down the Arrancar, which he views as lesser. [[spoiler:Even those that serve him well are expected to give up their lives for his goals at a moment's notice, as he sacrifices them to take back the power he granted them to use it for himself or give it to more useful underlings]]. Even if he does not sacrifice them, those that he gifts and heals live shorter lifespans, with their gifts all returning to Yhwach upon the end of their lives, making him stronger and extending his lifespan. While it is only made clear at the last moment, his true goal is to [[spoiler:combine the human world with the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo, making the afterlife one with the normal world and ending the cycle of life and death, creating a world where no one has to die. This is a very White/Black goal that demonstrates Green's conflicts with them]].
* [[WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}} Metroman]] is a [[TheCape cape]] who also [[spoiler:believes in free will]], embodying positive aspects of both colors.
* [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade The Ventrue]] are this through and true. The most selfish of all the Clans, and yet the one most interested in keeping up TheMasquerade. They are masters of keeping facade of being AffablyEvil when it suits them, and pulling YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the moment you're no longer needed. They are willing to play by the rules — as long as it profits them (and they usually try to find TheScapegoat for the breach, so [[BlameGame the blame is never on them]]).
* The sad saga of ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' can be traced back to a battle between two very different forms of White/Black; [[spoiler:the [[BigGood Pale King]] vs. the [[BigBad Radiance]]. Both are light-associated bug-people who ultimately are motivated by self-centered reasons of what they, personally, think should be their kingdom. However, they couldn't be more different in actions; the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Pale]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo King]] usurped the throne from the Radiance for the very Black goal of giving free will to her subjects, and instituted a very White program of thought control to starve her of memories she could use to manifest again — for good reason, for the instant someone found a statue of her, she unleashed [[ZombieApocalypse the Infection]] to bring her former subjects back in line. The Pale King [[IDidWhatIHadToDo sacrificed every moral code he had]] to create a [[SuperSoldier vessel]] capable of serving as a [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan container]] for the plague (Black's ability to bend morals and fascination with the PowerOfTheVoid) in order to save his people from their jealous former goddess by any means required (White's desire to protect others). The Pale King, thus, is a White/Black hero, willing to damn himself to save others. The [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Radiance]], on the other hand, embodies White/Black at its most [[EvilIsPetty petty]]; unable to accept that someone stronger had taken away her toy, she unleashed a very Black ability of the Infection, which has the White end effect of [[AssimilationPlot turning its victims into extensions of herself]]. The Radiance personifies the most negative aspects of White (inability to tolerate other ways of life, capacity to commit genocide, and egocentrism) and Black (willingness to destroy what she cannot have, complete lack of concern for others, and greed). Ironically, the Pale King is shown to favor [[DarkIsNotEvil Black]] abilities over the Abyss, while the Radiance favors [[LightIsNotGood White]] light-based attacks and powers.]]
* The Reapers from ''Franchise/MassEffect'', if not considered blue/green (as seen below), can be considered a terrifying example of a white/black philosophy put into action: despite their horrifying methods (mostly centered around turning sentient races into zombies, which is pretty in-color for black), they actually view themselves as the "greater good" — or, at least, [[NecessarilyEvil necessity]] — for the galaxy. By purging the galaxy of developed species, they're "saving" them from even worse catastrophe that would happen if technology advances too far, [[spoiler:which was the intent of their original creators, the Leviathans — although [[GoneHorriblyRight they became the first target]]]].
* The Devils of Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder could be considered this combination. Devoted to hierarchy,law, structure and bureaucracy(White) along with immense selfishness, manipulativeness and ambition (Black.)

[[folder: White/Red - "Boros"]]
'''WHITE and RED''' - ''Boros'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr205 here]])\\

White opposes Red for similar reasons as it does Black. White understands the utility of putting away its emotions; Red is ruled by nothing else. White thinks Red is [[ChaoticNeutral Chaotic Selfish]], too obsessed with its own pleasure to be trustworthy. For its part, Red sees White as needlessly controlling and doesn't like all the annoying little rules White uses to harsh Red's not-so-mellow. White, with its aforementioned specialty in [[PowerNullifier Power Nullifiers]], can impose a lot of new rules on players; Red has all the spells that bend the rules and shake things up (e.g., "Spell which used to target [X] now targets something else, which you get to choose" or "Shuffle all permanents in play and deal them out randomly"). Put as simply as possible: OrderVersusChaos.\\

White/Red cards tend to be about the middle ground of Red's emotion and White's determination — taking an emotion and harnessing it to a greater cause. In-game, this is most commonly expressed as martial zeal, loyalty, and passionate faith, but other emotions work as well. Red/White is in many ways TheKirk to white's [[TheSpock Spock]] and red's [[TheMcCoy McCoy]], able to use the strengths of both philosophies to achieve greater things than either could alone. However, Red/White seems to usually use hybrid means for either White-like goals or to combine the effects of opposing spells, rarely Red-like goals alone.

* The Boros Legion in Ravnica is heroic, but extreme (to the point that only a few characters are "good", not the whole group) and somewhat hypocritical, as they are willing to break their own rules to impose the law. In Return to Ravnica, they have become much more activist with their new leader, having deposed Feather. In Gatecrash, their new mechanic is ''Battalion'': creatures with Battalion activate special abilities if at least two other creatures attack alongside them. In ''Guilds of Ravnica'', their new mechanic is "Mentor"; if a creature with both Mentor and higher power than another attacking creature is attacking, it can make the weaker creature permanently more powerful.
* Meanwhile, the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=154258 Nobilis of War]] from the Shadowmoor uses White methods for Red goals; namely, utter and total devotion to war. Both colours are in fact those most comfortable with war as a concept: White as a tool for peace (irony!), and Red as an outlet for aggression.
** The actual Shadowmoor races aligned with Red/White, the [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent duergar]] and [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent hobgoblins]], express this combination by being territorial peoples, violently attacking anyone who seems like a threat (which is pretty much everyone). The duergar are somewhat more isolationist, preferring to avoid conflict by being underground, while the hobgoblins are more militant, actually going to the point of ''[[IAmAHumanitarian eating]]'' their enemies. Yes, a [[LightIsNotGood white]] aligned race that eats other sapient races.
* Another example is 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. (This hope is rewarded by [[spoiler:the Red Phyrexians [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=214378 deciding not to hurt the resistance]] so long as they cause no trouble in the Furnace]].) This color combination can create a really stubborn {{Determinator}}.
* Yet another example is the god [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380441 Iroas]]. He's a war god and one of the patrons of the militaristic Kingdom of Akros. However, while he is an aspect of war, his focus is on valor and bravery in battle. What is seen as "honorable" warfare is his main domain, so either standing side by side with one's fellow comrades or striking out on one's own and making a heroic stand.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=174852 Ajani Vengeant]] shows what Ajani was like in the aftermath of his brother's murder. Sarkhan Vol helped Ajani use that anger as fuel for power. His first loyalty ability locks down another creature for a turn, a very White ability in nature. His second loyalty ability deals 3 damage to a target while healing his controller for 3 life, a simple yet effective mix of Red and White. His third and most powerful loyalty ability ''destroys all lands a target player controls''; while Red has become the color with the most land destruction, the original spell which says "Destroy ''all'' lands" is the white [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=386284 Armageddon]].
* A villainous example would be [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=410012 Nahiri, the Harbringer]]. Formerly mono-White, seeing her home plane ravaged by the Eldrazi made her overwhelmed with rage and clouded her judgment, to the point she tried to inflict the same fate on the home plane of the man she saw responsible.
* ''Strixhaven'''s Lorehold college focuses on interpersonal connections: history, psychology, anthropology, archaeology. However, its members are divided on the question of whether these things are ruled by rules or passion. Its dual chancellors are Plargg, Dean of Chaos, which allows you to sneak whatever card you come upon into play; and Augusta, Dean of Order, which gives specific bonuses based on whether a creature is tapped or not and lets you tap and/or untap them to get things set up juuust right. The college's founder, Velomachus Lorehold, does the same thing as Plargg, but with only spells. Instead of Boros' AttackAttackAttack philosophy, Lorehold focuses on a play style that cares more about things ''leaving'' the graveyard, whether its fate be coming BackFromTheDead or becoming DeaderThanDead.

* An example of the duality of Red/White is to compare Alucard and The Major from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''; both are Red/White characters, but in opposite directions. Alucard uses his Red bloodlust to attain White’s ideal of a vampire-free England, whereas the Major uses White’s organization to spend 50 years preparing for a Red-style bloody war.
* [[WordOfGod The staff]] classifies [[ComicBook/VForVendetta V]] and ComicBook/ThePunisher as W/R; both are murderous yet meticulously careful anti-heroes. Interestingly, V is an excellent example of using White methods (careful plans and stratagems) for Red ends (anarchy overthrowing a fascist state). Rosewater has also stated that [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Worf]] and [[Series/TheATeam The A-Team]] are further examples.
* [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Amon]] is a great example of a Red/White villain. A social revolutionary who seeks equality for non-benders, he is a rebellious KnightTemplar with an absolute sense of authorithy and command as well as expert and meticulous strategising, never losing his cool, yet remaining quite passionate. He is vicious and stops at nothing to see his twisted brand of justice realised, yet he seemingly is still moral enough to not actually kill people aside from one quite desperate circumstance. [[spoiler:His backstory only reinforces this, having been striving to be "fair to everyone" since he was a child, and revealing that he suffers tremendous emotional issues and possible exceptional guilt over being the very thing he came to hate. Also, he is a bloodbender, and blood spells are often Red (though it's because of his waterbending), and his blending-blocking ability has been revealed by [[WordOfGod Bryke]] to be chi manipulating, aka reversed healing, and thus White.]]
* [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Sam Vimes]] is a rugged man with an anti-authoritan streak and is not afraid to fight dirty if needed, but his dedication to the law and justice is ''absolute'', and his sense of morals is one of the strongest in the Discworld despite his cynicism. Indeed, Agrus Kos, a Boros hero from the first Ravnica block, seems to be based somewhat on Vimes.
* General Alister Azimuth from ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime''. A true patriot of the Lombaxes [[spoiler:who was exiled after unwittingly helping Emperor Percival Tachyon exact vengeance on the Lombaxes prior to the ''Ratchet & Clank'' games]], he wants to use the Great Clock to change the past so the Lombaxes never leave their home universe, [[spoiler:thereby making up for his past mistakes]], and displays passion and fervor in pursuit of this goal [[spoiler:to the point he's willing to shoot Ratchet, the son of his own childhood friend, and risk the entire universe in the process]].
* Inspector Carmelita Fox from the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series, so very much. She's quite dedicated to the pursuit of justice and the enforcement of the law, but is also quite passionate, short-tempered, and prone to [[KickTheSonOfABitch venting her frustration on the criminals she apprehends]].
* Rider from ''LightNovel/FateZero'', being the spirit of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, fits this paradigm; his methods and goals are each a thorough blend of white and red, order and passion. His camaraderie and fiery personality gave him the charisma to rally tens of thousands of allies to his cause, turning them into a BadassArmy that could take over much of the known world. In combat, he can summon this massive army to his aid, not unlike what a Boros player might do. He claims that the reason Saber failed as a King is because she took a pure White approach to ruling, which meant she lacked the charisma to inspire true loyalty among her subjects.
* Calvin "Freckle" [=McMurray=] from ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'', though not all at once. Most of the time he's quiet, shy, and reasonable, but when he picks up a gun, something in him goes "click-click" and he switches into a trigger-happy maniac, though thankfully he has so far not harmed any of his closest associates, like Ivy (a college girl with a crush on him that he might reciprocate), Rocky (his cousin, see below in the Black-Red section), or Nina (his mother). Indeed, the poor guy finds himself torn between trying to be the good Catholic boy his mother raised him to be (he even applied to become a cop, but his aforementioned enthusiasm for firearms blew his chance) and his cousin and closest friend since childhood, Rocky, who has a bad habit of misguiding him into one misadventure after another, like setting fire to a backwoods distillery in an attempt to muscle out competition for a badly crippled bootlegging syndicate.
* The Lady Knight and Big Sister Maid from ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'' are definite examples that, while united in purpose, vary in approach. As a [[ChurchMilitant knight and prioress]], the Lady Knight's emphasis on faith, religion, military tactics, duty, and helping the peasantry are very white, while her hot-headedness, fury in battle, love and desire for the Hero, and generally rough demeanor are red. Meanwhile, the Big Sister Maid is also devoutly religious, but lacks that same commanding edge that the Lady Knight has. However, her red side manifests as compassion and fierce individualism, born of her childhood life as a serf under the heel of a cruel master. Mixing this with white's desire to help the collective, she fervently yet peacefully pushes for a more egalitarian society, one where everyone, whether nobles, peasants, soldiers, or serfs, can all enjoy the Holy Light's gifts of life, wealth, and freedom. Just to further push the red half, freedom is something that she believes is an inviolable right of the people, which even kings or priests should never be able to take from them.
* Tohru Adachi from ''VideoGame/Persona4'' is a good example of a white/red character. As a detective, he apparently has white's dedication to law, but he's also quite red — he's energetic, emotionally driven, and tends not to think things through. Furthermore, [[spoiler:his motives as the murderer are extremely red. He kills Saki and Yamano on impulse when they wouldn't go out with him, and manipulates Namatame for fun. His white motives become more apparent as he talks more about the murders, as he constantly tries to convince the Investigation Team that he's doing what's right. His end goals are also pretty white — he seeks to replace all humans with shadows, ending individualistic struggles]]. Also, in ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'', he [[spoiler:honors the promise he made in ''Persona 4'' to follow the real world's rules, going as far to interfere in Minazuki's plans to prevent those rules from being broken]].
** Speaking of ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'', ''VideoGame/Persona5'''s [[PhantomThief Phantom Thieves of Hearts]] are absolutely Red/White on the concept's fundamental level. While the alignments of the individual members [[LawfulGood tend]] [[NeutralGood to]] [[ChaoticGood vary]], like Red/White, they're united on a singular concept: like Boros with justice, they're in it together to [[InternalReformist reform Tokyo's corrupt society from within.]] They do this by using [[EldritchLocation the Metaverse]] to access [[VillainWithGoodPublicity truly evil — and untouchable — people's]] [[HeelFaceBrainwashing sub-consciousness and force them to have a Heel-Face Turn]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone crushing them under the weight of their own guilt]]. The goals of the Phantom Thieves are indubitably White by nature (ensure stability, order, and justice by helping people), but their methods and rebellion against tyranny firmly plant them in Red as well.
* The Masked Lumen in ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'' is a very straightforward example of Red-White. His basic motivation is to avenge his lover, seeking to kill the person he ''thinks'' murdered her. He's very impulsive, very honourable, very straightforward, objected to the witch hunts on moral grounds even when the rest of [[OurAngelsAreDifferent his side]] didn't (and manipulated him into fanning them), and ultimately [[spoiler:commits a HeroicSacrifice for the good of all]]. [[spoiler:He is the younger, non-corrupted version of Balder, seen above in White-Blue.]]
* At his core, Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, despite his title of "The Blue Blur", is an ''extremely'' red-white character[[note]]he arguably has traces of green, but those aren't central to who he is[[/note]]. He values his own freedom and the freedom of others intensely, chafes at the notion of being restricted, and lives life at his own pace and by his own rules. He also cares a lot for the well-being of pretty much everyone he meets, and has dedicated himself to thwarting the evil ambitions of ne'er-do-wells like Dr. Eggman and protecting the peace and the people.
* At the very core of the franchise, ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' is a very Boros show. Individual Rangers, even morphed, are typically only strong enough to take on a small squad of Mooks, while a full team tend to have no trouble taking on a much stronger monster, a very much White ideal. In combination with this, the series also promotes the importance of friendship and passion, leading, along with the generous use of explosives, to a very Red feel as well. While certain series may add others colors depending on motifs ([[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]], for example, adds Green to this mixture), the show as a whole is consistently White/Red.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** The series as a whole tends to put a lot of emphasis on Boros values. Fire Emblem is a LowFantasy StrategyRPG that features [[WarriorPrince nobility's attempts to liberate a kingdom from an]] [[TheEmpire evil empire]], [[ReligionOfEvil malicious religious cult]], [[CorruptChurch or both]]. The series falls into Red/White due to its emphasis on teamwork, communal values and working together for a greater cause in service to the nation (a very White value), while also having a series hallmark being bonds between your soldiers, [[CastOfSnowflakes individual emphasis]], and positive emotions like sympathy and love (very Red). While ''Fire Emblem'' is definitely leaning more to White than Red, the fact that a series theme has always been unifying people of [[LawfulGood disparate]], [[NeutralGood different]] [[ChaoticGood alignments]] for a greater cause is something that certainly embodies a Boros philosophy.
** While a ''lot'' of Lords in ''Fire Emblem'' follow the Red/White philosophy (adherence to order while being very emotionally-connected about it), two great examples would be [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Ike]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Corrin]]. The former is a great instance of a Boros character due to his adherence to greater ideals and his determination to bring equality to [[CallARabbitASmeerp beorc]] and [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent laguz]] (very White ideals), while also being a free-spirited commoner in charge of a mercenary band with a fiery temperament (how ''isn't'' that Red?). Meanwhile, Corrin is a kind-hearted scion of nobility who is forced to choose between [[{{Mordor}} No]][[DarkIsNotEvil hr]] and [[{{Wutai}} Hoshido]] in the scheme of a great war; while adhering to order and peace just as much (if not moreso) than the average Fire Emblem Lord, their sense of emotional connection, camaraderie and leadership skills (even in spite of their average tactical capabilities) makes them firmly Red as well. Really, between these two serving as the most notable examples in a ''very'' Boros franchise, most Fire Emblem Lords fit Red/White pretty well, with some exceptions.
* [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]] has stated that most of the SuperHero characters would by general rule either be this or combine White/Red with a third color. This is because as a rule they are aiming to a White goal (more lawful society) but use Red methods (vigilantism being openly against the law) to accomplish it.
* The video game ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' shows White and Red at war with each other. The protagonist, Velvet Crowe, was traumatized when her brother-in-law, Artorius Collbrande, failed to protect her sister Celica and their unborn child; later, trauma turned to {{Rage|BreakingPoint}} when she saw him make a human sacrifice of their one remaining sibling, Laphicet the LittlestCancerPatient. The game is her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Artorius, who has since risen to leadership of an ecclesiastic organization that promotes [[TheSpock detached, emotionless reason]] and wants to eradicate TheEvilsOfFreeWill. In the meanwhile, of course, Velvet has become a BloodKnight whose [[RightRedHand Left Red Hand]], literally a demon claw, allows her to LifeDrain her victims. Ultimately, the two are similar, each willing to force others to make sacrifices in the name of their goals, but Velvet and her band of {{Anti Hero}}es are the ones doing the ChaoticGood things, while Artorius and the Abbey put an emphasis on the "Evil" part of LawfulEvil.
* The Huntsmen and Huntresses of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' qualify, at least on an institutional level. While individuals vary in motives and means, the express purposes of the Huntsmen is to protect humanity from the [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]], and they frequently work in tightly-knit teams that often become [[TrueCompanions as close as family]]. However, they also embrace individuality as a rule of thumb, with their [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes outfits and gear being highly customized and unique]], and [[WeaponOfChoice their weapons being]] [[AceCustom tailor made to their individual fighting styles]]. Even their powers tend to be unique and [[PersonalityPowers reflective of their personality]].
** On an individual level, Yang Xiao Long is probably the best of this color pair: more than anything, she wants to look out for those she considers family, especially her half-sister Ruby and teammates Blake and Weiss (White). But she also has an explosive temper ([[PlayingWithFire literally]]) that's cost her as many fights as it's won, and tends to go by her heart more than her head (Red).
* Turians from the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series can be an example of an interesting relationship between White and Red: their entire culture is centered around martial prowess, but they avoid typical trappings of ProudWarriorRaceGuy by standing firmly on "Soldier" axis in the SoldierVsWarrior debacle. Things like recreational drug usage or personal conduct are overlooked as long as you do your duty as a soldier, but — at the same time — being overambitious or risking the lives of your comrades for personal gain are shunned. Unlike most examples mentioned above (where it's usually Red martial themes mixed with White ideas of social solidarity), they actually have a Red flavor of society (as long as you're useful, anything goes) with a White martial code.
* Christian from the Music/GreenDay Album ''Music/TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown'' genuinely does want to resolve the problems of American society, but he doesn't really have a have a greater plan than mindless violence against the establishment, meaning he resembles a mindless terrorist more than a righteous revolutionary. It's a tragic example of red self-destruction sabotaging a white moral crusade.

[[folder: Blue/Black - "Dimir"]]
'''BLUE and BLACK''' - ''Dimir'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr201 here]]):\\

Blue and Black get along well, because both are TheUnfettered. Both consider themselves AboveGoodAndEvil; Blue sees everything in the world as fair game for use in experiments ForScience, and Black sees everything in the world as fair game to use for their own betterment because ItsAllAboutMe. Blue and Black share the ability to gain card advantage, but Blue usually expresses this as general knowledge gain, where Black has targeted spells that get you just what you need (or, more accurately, just what you ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor want]]''). Black is also willing to self-cannibalize to get ahead, which Blue isn't into, wanting measured progress where Black wants more power at any cost.\\

Blue/Black can be... dangerous. It tends not to just give you knowledge, like Blue, or attack another’s mind, like Black. It lets you see what others are planning and time an attack to mess them up right when it would hurt the most, such as a spy stealing an enemy’s plans and leaving disinformation or a spell tearing apart another’s mind and feeding you the choice memories. It’s the color combination of espionage, secrecy, domination, deception: rationality combined with self-interest. Yet at the same time, it is the pairing for the insatiably curious, the knowledge-seekers and collectors. These aren’t people who do so for its own sake — that’s Blue — or for some insidious long-term goal — that’s Black — but because they get satisfaction out of knowing and having things, no matter how trivial. Blue/Black, in other words, might well be the color of fandom.\\
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On the plus side, Blue and Black are the colors [[http://media.wizards.com/2014/podcasts/magic/drivetowork185_blueblack.mp3 that most value the concept of free will]], as their shared enemy, Green, is all about predestination. Blue/Black can be a sociopath of the highest calibre, but also the voice of reason against conservatism or fatalism.

* The — Dimir, did you call them? — do not exist. There is no “secret tenth guild” in Ravnica. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Certainly not one whose entire, Guildpact-enforced magically-compelled purpose is to bring down the Guildpact itself.]] No sir. Would you [[Film/MenInBlack take a look at this, please?]] *[[UnsoundEffect FLASHYTHING]]*
** With the defeat of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=247390 Szadek]], the Dimir were all but destroyed, but in time reformed, this time as a more general spy/information broker faction, with their public face as couriers, reporters, detectives, librarians, and other knowledge-hoarders. In ''Gatecrash'', they have spells with the "Cipher" ability that can either be cast normally or "encoded" on creatures and activated every time said creatures sneak past their opponents' defenses. In ''Guilds of Ravnica'', they get the "Surveil" ability, which allows players to look at a certain number of cards on top of their library and choose which ones to leave there and in what order, and which ones to put into their graveyard. Also in ''Guilds'' and subsequent sets, they've come around compeltely to being, if not heroic, then at least on the heroes' side: they know better than most that something is wrong on Ravnica, and they are determined to find out what and stop it to save their home (and, it must be said, their power and influence).
* Innistrad expands zombies from Black, the traditional color of undeath, to Blue; the Blue zombies are the 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 Zombie Apocalypse cards, which tend to be slower and smaller but inexorable. Where Blue can pull out an [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=222913 individual 6/9 zombie]], Black can get [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=234430 a number of 2/2s]].
* Theros's resident god of deception and lies, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=378524 Phenax]] puts his own schemes and desires above anything else. He had a hand in the destruction of a small city and the death of all its inhabitants and has been shown to enjoy the strange cruelties that can be inflicted on mortals. He's also the patron of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent The Returned, a race of undead who managed to claw their way out of the underworld, but lost their identities in the process]]. He is in part symbolic of Blue/Black's [[ScrewDestiny ability to give fate a middle finger]], as opposed to the fatalistic Erebos.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=391924 Silumgar and his brood]] from Tarkir. Arrogant and self-centered, they formerly laid raids and stole treasures from the Sultai clan (not very nice themselves), but revealed further malevolence by going back on their words and [[spoiler:utterly enslaving the Sultai. After 1,280 years in which Silumgar has ruled, he pragmatically rewards power and sheer ambition (as long as it poses no threat to him), making his Clan the only where non-dragons might rule over dragons]].
* The Agents of S.N.E.A.K., from the joke setting Bablovia, are an OvertOperative network that spend most of their time spying on each other, trying to gain power through knowledge in typical Blue/Black fashion. Most members are primarily concerned, in very Blue fashion, with getting information (like what S.N.E.A.K.'s agenda is and whether it's really just a massive practical joke by another faction) and spy gizmos to help them get that information. The leader of the organization is whoever currently holds the ceremonial Golden Ruler, reflecting Black's respect for whoever has the skill to steal and keep it.

* [[Literature/HarryPotter Severus Snape]] is a sympathetic example: he is what you get when you add Blue methods to a ByronicHero. He is ultimately only out for himself, and for the legacy of his lost love Lily, and uses deception and double-agent tactics to carry this out. Fortunately, this pits him against Voldemort, on the side of Dumbledore and Harry Potter, and his Blue deception means Voldemort does not realize this until it is too late.
* The Master Control Program from ''Film/{{Tron}}'' is an example of a Blue/Black villain. It seeks to appropriate programs, which satisfies the blue goal of becoming smarter and the black goal of becoming stronger, and it works in secret to infiltrate major orgnizations such as the Pentagon.
* WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} is an example of a Blue/Black protagonist. She is both emotionally detached and extremely cynical and self-centered, but she is still sympathetic and non-malicious.
* Mark Rosewater has listed [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Lex Luthor]], [[Franchise/StarTrek The Borg]] (though he has gone back on this, now considering them [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/77653907069/the-borg-mono-w-or-wb-i-would-say-mono-white-because Green/Blue]] or [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/77680189771/not-to-be-blogatogs-resident-borg-apologist-but-the White]]; see below for details), [[Literature/HarryPotter Rita Skeeter]], and [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Stewie Griffin]] as examples of [=Blue/Black=] characters.
* Mark Rosewater also considers the titular Series/{{Sherlock}} [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/77503462160/what-colors-would-sherlock-from-the-bbc-tv-series-be to be Black/Blue]].
* Hermaeus Mora from ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series desires knowledge above all else. His Daedric Realm, Apocrypha, contains the unknown and unknowable, and he is always seeking to expand his collection. Not because he actually wants to use it, but simply because he gains satisfaction from having the knowledge in his possession. He can be very ruthless about it, too.
* The Franchise/{{DCAU}} incarnation of ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}. An emotionless artificial intelligence who has decided that its purpose is the collection and preservation of all knowledge... and destroying the worlds from which he gathers said knowledge just to make it more valuable. Interestingly enough, he merges with Lex Luthor, a rather different variation of the same color combination.
* You’d be hard-pressed to find a better example of a Blue/Black character, [[WildCard villain or hero or... otherwise]], than [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} David Xanatos]]. A technocrat, always calm and in control, with seemingly endless resources (and contingency plans), he can manipulate people into doing what he wants even though they know they're doing what he wants by making it so it's what they want, too.
* An archetypal example is Hikawa, from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne''. Contrary to his green/white/blue Reason, he himself has absolutely no problem with wholesale slaughter, calculated psychological abuse, and even having the ambition in the first place to achieve his ends. He even seems self-aware to a point of the hypocrisy inherent in his methods, [[NoPlaceForMeThere seeing himself as more of a necessary servant to prepare the way to the ideal world]].
* Surprisingly enough, [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} Judy Hopps]]. While you could argue her desire to be a police officer is a White motive, simply being good doesn't make one White any more than being alive makes one Green. Her primary motivation to join a force is simply curiosity to see if she ''can'', a desire to test her potential (a very Blue motivation), and she frequently uses her intellect and wits to overcome her physical disadvantages. Meanwhile, her Black side manifests itself in her ambition, cunning, and surprising ruthlessness ("It's called a hustle, sweetheart.") Finally, ''Zootopia''[='=]s {{Aesop}} — "We can overcome our base instincts to be whoever and whatever we want to be" — is a very Blue/Black moral in that it goes against the very Green mentality of "How you were born is how you were meant to be, and how you will stay. A predator will never be anything ''but'' a predator."
* [[Characters/BleachAizenAndHisCohorts Sōsuke Aizen]] is perhaps a quintessential Dimir character. A patient, deliberate manipulator, he uses his [[EvilGenius scientific genius]] to test the limits of what's possible and create new, useful tools that can be used to reach his ambitions. And his ambitions? In his own words, ''"My only purpose has always been to crush all who seek to control me."'' He seeks to surpass all those above him, all those who could control him, from the Soul King to Yhwach, to reach the peak of power and influence at the top of the world, no matter what it takes. His Zanpakutō is also Blue, creating perfect illusions that allow him to easily control others, and he approaches combat in a very Blue way, preparing for every outcome, going as far as to create [[spoiler:an Arrancar with the power to seal Yamamoto's Zanpakutō, as Aizen knew his power surpassed his own]].
* Franchise/{{Batman}} is another Black/Blue character (Blue Methods with a Black goal).
--> '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]:''' I see Batman as a figure, ultimately, about how one can rise above tragedy to do good in the world and improve yourself. He is brusque, yes, but not heartless. Aggressive, but not unethical. He drives himself to the extremes he does, sacrifices himself and his happiness at times for one goal — so that no other eight-year-old child will ever have to go through what he did. Sometimes he goes too far and sometimes he makes mistakes, but that's because he's not a god, nor should he be. He is human. If Superman represents the hope and compassion humanity is capable of, Batman represents the determination and intellect we are also capable of. Superman's worst foe is Lex Luthor, a wealthy genius who uses his power for evil, but Superman's best friend is Batman, a wealthy genius who uses his power for good.
** Yes, he uses his powers for good. But as mentioned above, a character can do good and still be Black. What makes him Black is that he is ultimately '''self'''-motivated. Unlike Superman, who was taught to believe in "Truth, Justice and the American Way", Batman is motivated by a '''personal''' tragedy.
* Speaking of Blue/Black heroes, [[Franchise/{{Danganronpa}} Kyoko Kirigiri]] is a good example of a heroic Blue/Black character. Her desire to be the [[spoiler:Ultimate Detective]] is almost entirely motivated out of a desire to improve herself, [[spoiler:as well as atone for her own failures (something that she takes to heart ''very'' personally)]]. She also shares Black's tendency to put her life at ''serious'' risk if it means furthering a hunch or advantage she has, and part of this is further motivated by her own self, as [[spoiler:she's afraid of having the ones she cares for ''personally'' be hurt by her own failures — especially the ones that left a mark on her, which is why she wears gloves]]. She tops it off by combining her self-motivated tendencies with Blue's natural intellect, stoicism and analytical abilities, as well as her ability to always think ahead.
* Shiang Sun (codename: Chalk Eater) and Shiori Koden (codename: Shionyan) from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiLiberationDx2'' are protagonist examples: Chalk Eater is a computer nerd who completely ''loves'' horror movies, while Shionyan is a business-savvy InsufferableGenius (while she is mostly a NominalHero, she is still [[EveryoneHasStandards disgusted by the villains'... well, "villainess"]]. Which makes sense since the BigBad is Green-aligned). It's also worth noting that, while Shionyan is just as arrogant and selfish as you can expect for someone of this color alignment, Chalk Eater is a genuine NiceGuy as he is always willing to help his friends and [[EveryoneHasStandards knows to separate killing/torturing in fiction from killing/torturing in real life]]. While his Limit Break quests reveal he does have a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds "dark side"]] that makes him question if he is evil himself, his friends were quick to point out that he was a WellIntentionedExtremist or AntiVillain at worst. Also, he enjoys surfing and his main demon is even a manta ray (Blue), while his skills are focused on [[BadPowersGoodPeople exploiting the weaknesses of opponents]] (Black).
** What makes Chalk Eater so dedicated to help his friends without having "good" colors in his identity is because he was constantly ignored by his parents as he was growing up, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything as they would prefer to spend their time on the Internet instead of raising their own kid]], making him feeling very [[IJustWantToBeLoved lonely]]. When he met the other heroes, his dream of company was finally fulfilled.
* Salarians from the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe can be considered a rare heroic example. Their entire society is based around two things: science (Blue) and espionage (Black) — their preferred battle strategy is to quickly and covertly remove the threat (which is something Dimir usually does as well), use small, but well-trained teams instead of huge armies (again, playing Blue "precision and skill over raw power"), and they have a penchant for being the most informed folks around, no matter the situation. On the other hand, they don't seem to be concerned about morality that much, as shown by the fact that they created the Genophage to "cull" the Krogans (which was — essentially — using Blue means to achieve a Black goal).

[[folder: Blue/Red - "Izzet"]]
'''BLUE and RED''' - ''Izzet'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr217 here]])\\

Blue and Red fall on opposite sides of the EmotionsVsStoicism spectrum. One's passionate, one's logical; one uses fire, earth, and lightning, the other water, wind, and ice; one's — look, do we really need to spell this out? They both have the highest ratio of spells vs permanents, but Blue has all the poker-face spells, the ones that win games but only if you have the skill to use them; Red, on the other hand, has all the spells that involve both the RandomNumberGod and straightforward burnination of the opponent down to zero with fire and lightning. They also share a theme of weak and few creatures, but Red's tend to be of the [[ZergRush "cheap with drawbacks"]] variety whereas Blue's are more AwesomeButImpractical.\\

Red/Blue was originally quite rare (although it certainly happened), but has become more common in recent years; when it appears, it tends to involve copious amounts of [[ForScience Science!]] and [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]]. Think of Red/Blue as Blue's [[MadScience Madness Place]] — where the research, creativity, and drive to know ever more go a little overboard, leaving behind little things like pragmatism and stoicism. This can result in a mass of explosions and twisted metal and cries like “I think I know what I did wrong!” (or just as commonly, “Oh, I am hurt! I am very, very hurt!”). Somewhat more rarely, it comes about because Red and Blue are the two colors most likely to have [[ElementalEmbodiment Elemental creatures]] and [[ElementalPowers pure-elemental effects]] — there's even an entirely separate creature type for red/blue "elementals", the "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Weirds]]". And aside from oozes (which don’t really count and are most often green), Red/Blue is where you find non-Newtonian fluids, like gels. Red/Blue is the main colour combination associated with arts, with Red providing the passion and Blue perfectionism.

* The Izzet Guild in Ravnica is mostly ChaoticNeutral, with a few bad and good apples. They are frenzied researchers on the bleeding edge of mad science. Their leader, the genius dragon [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=253626 Niv-Mizzet]], continually retools the guild’s signet to suit his passing whims, and can turn [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner burnination]] into SCIENCE! Basically... run. (In the sequel block, he's got people working on dozens if not hundreds of seemingly unrelated experiments, for ''Reasons''. Their new mechanic in ''Return to Ravnica'', "Overload", allows single-target spells to instead hit ''every legal target''. '''Run faster'''.) Indeed, Niv-Mizzet is so unconventional and brilliant a schemer that he's willing to consider plans that others would think mad, such as ones that require him to die... In an (actually, not sarcastically) unrelated note, in ''Guilds of Ravnica'', the new Izzet mechanic, "Jump-start", allows an already-cast spell to be cast again from the graveyard if you discard a card from your hand when casting it. (Of course, if ''that'' card has jump-start, it too can be cast from your graveyard if you discard a card...) It is unknown how much of this is of Niv-Mizzet's own design, or how much is that brilliant young planeswalker Ral Zarek's invention.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380442 Keranos, God of Storms]] embodies the fury of the storm and the sudden blaze of epiphany. A god of little patience and less mercy, he dispenses insights and blasts of lightning in equal measure. As such, he is associated with blue and red mana. Being a god of wisdom, he cares little for mortals whom he sees as reckless, but assuming they're individuals of action and sought his blessing or council first, he's much more conciliatory. Such people may be gifted visions of the future, but will be unable to change the outcome, for example.
* Prismari College in ''Strixhaven'' is the college of artistic expression, but its members argue about what impact art is supposed to have: should it make you [[FridgeLogic think]] or should it make you [[DontThinkFeel feel]]? Its two Deans embody TechnicianVersusPerformer: Uvilda, Dean of Perfection, lets you [[CallingYourAttacks announce a spell]] three turns early in exchange for a mana discount; Nassari, Dean of Expression, who lets you steal random spells from opposing decks and gets stronger every time you do. The college's founder, Galazeth Prismari, turns all artifacts you control into mana sources, though they can only be tapped to cast instants and sorceries. As opposed to Izzet's DeathOfAThousandCuts approach to spellcasting, Prismari prefers to build up to a whopping OneHitKO.

* The Sparks of ''WebComic/GirlGenius'' fit this almost by default, as {{Mad Scientist}}s and TropeNamer for TheMadnessPlace. They're inherently brilliant scientists, one and all, but the act of invention tends to send them into a "Spark-Induced Fugue State", aka ''TheMadnessPlace''. Once that happens, their genius starts being driven by their emotions, and useless little things like safety, morality, and sanity will be forgotten until they come out of it, pursuing knowledge ForScience. The most effective Sparks, however, are the ones who are best at maintaining their self-control at that point, thus leaning more into the Blue side than the Red.
* The best traits of a Red/Blue mixture are embodied in the {{Ubermensch}} as talked about by Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, combining Blue's desire to innovate and improve with Red's emphasis on emotion, individuality, and self-expression. [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]] considers the Red/Blue mixture to be opposed to the Green/White mixture, somewhat fitting as Nietzsche also essentially contrasts both (see above). Whereas one supports ultimate conformity, the other supports ultimate individuality.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'': Aperture Science, at their height. They do what they must. Because they can. For the good of all of us (except the ones who are dead).
* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': Queen Elsa, as her [[AnIcePerson powers]] indicate. A naturally free-spirited, fun-loving, emotional, artistic person, she is unfortunately forced to conceal her true self for the sake of her family and kingdom, causing her no end of grief (the iconic "Red oppressed by [[LightIsNotGood White]]" shtick). Her iconic IAmBecomingSong, [[http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/idinamenzel/letitgo.html "Let It Go"]], is basically a Red anthem where she chooses to run away and be free once her powers are revealed. The nature of her ice powers are a chaotic blend of Blue and Red — while she has the capability to turn ice into solid architecture and beautiful sculptures, she more often than not has her ice manifest in an uncontrolled and chaotic manner.
* The Kerbal species of ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' provide a lighthearted example. They're passionate about launching rockets to explore space and unravel the mysteries of their solar system, but they appear to have [[NoOSHACompliance no concept of personal safety]], meaning their pilots will eagerly climb into {{Flawed Prototype}}s that few humans would willingly take a ride on. Nevertheless, the high accident rates never seem to discourage the survivors from striving to do better next time.
* Examples listed as blue-red by Mark Rosewater include [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]], Franchise/IndianaJones, [[Series/{{Angel}} Winifred Burkle]], and Creator/DrSeuss.
* A very red-heavy example would be [[Film/BillAndTed the Wyld Stallyns, Bill and Ted]]. While they're [[BookDumb not, strictly speaking, book-smart]], they are very passionate and ''com''passionate people who find the news that they're the source of a future scientific utopia most excellent. Furthermore, they have an intuitive grasp of how time travel works, and show themselves to be more than capable of logical intellectual gymnastics in its use.
* The eponymous Series/{{MacGyver|1985}} is one of the best examples. A man of equal parts {{Science|Hero}}, [[BadassBookworm action]], and [[IndyPloy improvisation]], his blue scientific knowledge combines with his red creativity to make him the guy you least want to [[LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard lock in a room with a bunch of random junk]].
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Pannacotta Fugo is a heroic example of this trope, though he notably has more Blue in him than Red. He's predominantly Blue because he has the [[TeenGenius natural intellect of a Blue-dominant character]], with an IQ if ''152,'' while also being disbelieving in the idea of placing faith and/or risking his life for something he has no knowledge in — notably, he's the only member of Passione [[spoiler:who doesn't go with the group in their desire to usurp [[BigBad the Boss, Diavolo,]] seeing the whole thing as a suicide mission, despite said Boss trying to [[OffingTheOffspring kill his own daughter]]]]. In his own words, he won't be a "self-righteous idiot" to potentially get himself killed helping others (with this LackOfEmpathy being a distinctly Blue quality). However, what makes him have a distinctly Izzet quality to him despite his logic is his ''[[HairTriggerTemper extreme]] [[EnragedByIdiocy temper,]]'' to the point he ''[[DisproportionateRetribution stabs Narancia with a fork for getting a math problem wrong.]]'' He always had this absolutely furious temper, showing he's still human in the end, and he even gets set on a life of crime by him bashing a pedophile professor's head in with a book and being disowned by his wealthy family — all of this being definitely Red markings. This furious temper is even reflected in his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Purple Haze, which has the nasty ability to [[MakeThemRot release a flesh-eating virus that instantly kills those that get infected by it]]. Doesn't help that Purple Haze, on top of this terrifying ability, is a LightningBruiser [[TheBerserker Berserker]] who Fugo only brings out in extreme situations due to its high potential for collateral damage — it's even described as it "[striking] like a bomb and [departing] like a storm", [[PersonalityPowers lending further credence to his temper being made manifest]] (and thus, more of a reason why he's just as Red as he is Blue).
* ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'': Okabe Rintarou is a man who easily would pass as your typical Izzet member with his dedication to science and his rather emotional demeanour. What makes him such a good example of this color pair, however, is because he is a perfect example of a character using blue means to achieve a red goal. He's not really selfish enough to use his time traveling capabilities for personal gain, and he pretty explicitly claims he doesn't do it for the good of mankind. [[spoiler:Seeing his childhood friend Mayuri die before his very eyes over and over again is what motivates him to use the knowledge gained from his time travel experiments up to that point in order to save her.]] This motivation in itself only makes it tougher for him when he finds out that [[spoiler:Kurisu, who he had been falling in love with up until that point, had her death aversion at the beginning of the story directly tied to the death of Mayuri, and Okabe is forced to either let one die or find some way for both of them to survive.]] A clear-cut example of a person using scientific methods in order to help the people close to him.
* ''Franchise/RickAndMorty'': Rick Sanchez, being loosely based on Doc Brown, as noted as an example of this color combination above, is this. Rick himself, however, is drastically more amoral and prone to bring his grandson Morty along for his adventures, usually against his will. He takes the science and LackOfEmpathy of Blue and mixes it with the adventureness and impulsiveness of Red to throw himself and Morty into thousands of odd, often dangerous situations, without any regard for the risks. He does care for his family, but usually saves them only after satisfying his own impulses first or after retrieving the stuff he needs for his next project first.
* [[Characters/TouhouMainCharacters Marisa Kirisame]] is a fairly straightforward heroic example. A human and a witch, Marisa is unlike many other characters in Touhou in that she is comparatively ordinary; as opposed to Reimu, who was born with exceptional talents and luck, Marisa had to work hard to gain her knowledge and skills, and must continue to work hard to keep up with her best friend and rival. She's quite rowdy, informal, flashy, often condescending, and prone to act out of curiosity, pestering Patchouli and stealing her books (along with the possessions of many others), but is much more diligent, thoughtful, and intelligent than her seemingly impulsive personality implies.
* Jeremy of ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' is a heroic, if flawed, Izzet. He is a very intelligent computer programmer, and he often turns into a workaholic when trying to find a solution. However, his ultimate motivation is loyalty to his TrueCompanions, and his LoveInterest Aelita. Such an emotional motivation is a very Red sort of goal. He also demonstrates deep courage, at one point going to Lyoko to rescue his friends in spite of being terrified. Unlike Aelita, he does not care about the greater good so much as the welfare of his friends, removing white and green, but he also has minimal self-interest, removing black. Jeremy also demonstrates the negatives of red; he has a quick temper and often snaps at his friends. In spite of his overall methodical nature, Jeremy can also sometimes be reckless with his technology. His strange experiments have resulted in AiIsACrapshoot, FantasticDrug, and SelfHarm, all of which created danger to himself and others because Jeremy was too headstrong and stubborn. This progress without due consideration of consequences is pure Izzet.

[[folder: Blue/Green - "Simic"]]
'''BLUE and GREEN''' - ''Simic'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr229 here]])\\

Blue and Green don't get along because of their attitudes towards the world, nature in particular, which boil down to HarmonyVersusDiscipline. Green believes that StatusQuoIsGod: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." This tends to result in thinking ScienceIsBad for meddling with ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow. Blue, on the other hand, is trying to figure out how to [[Music/JonathanCoulton build a half-monkey half-pony to please you]]. Blue loves technology, and has a number of spells that work well with artifacts; while less common, it also has some expensive and eye-popping effects in enchantment form. Green hates tech, and currently has the strongest DispelMagic spells in the game; in fact, ''the'' artifact- and enchantment-destruction spell, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=249 Disenchant]], was permanently moved from White to Green (as "[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=207336 Naturalize]]") after ThePowersThatBe realized it belonged there better. Blue is progressive and wants to actively improve things, while Green is conservative and thinks that if change happens, it should come about organically.\\

Blue/Green, like some other hybrids, involves mixing one color's ends and another's means. Most commonly, Blue drags Green [[Literature/{{Discworld}} kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat]], although Green sometimes appreciates the potential for power or deadliness Blue can add. In addition, while Green tends to spurn knowledge, it is quite at home with wisdom. (One of the most noteworthy historians in the game, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74604 Reki the History of Kamigawa]], was Green. In fact, Green and Blue are the colors where cards may be most frequently drawn for either a little mana or meeting a simple requirement; other colors, if they affect the way you draw cards at all, might withhold cards for a beneficial effect, or make getting more of them possible [[CastFromHitPoints but painful]].) This sort of "[[CloserToEarth natural wisdom]]" generally manifests as bluish effects on Green cards, but it can cross over into full-on hybrids. Another common Blue/Green hybrid connects Green to Blue's small but still-present natural side in the form of water. We trust we don’t need to emphasize the importance of water to life, though Blue prefers saltwater and Green freshwater. [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159067 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. Lastly, Green with Blue sometimes manifests as a great hunter with a razor-sharp intellect, making them that much more dangerous.

* The Simic Combine are a group of [[EvilutionaryBiologist Amoralutionary Biologists]], led by the self-made [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot elf-snake hybrid wizard-geneticist-mercantilist]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107506 Momir Vig]]. He wants to use science to improve life into more useful forms, and then sell those useful forms for moniez. The Simic Combine won't stop until the world looks like Australia.
** As of ''Return to Ravnica'', the Simic Combine has seemingly moved away from GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke and returned to their more druidic roots, with the help of a [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=366442 race of merfolk found in a vast underground ocean]], which use Green's spirituality and duty and Blue science and analysis to preserve (and encourage improvement upon) nature. Their new mechanic in Gatecrash, "Evolve", makes creatures stronger every time a stronger or more durable ally appears. In ''Ravnica Allegiance'', they get the "Adapt" mechanic, which allows a creatures that don't already have counters making them stronger to become stronger by adding counters.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380446 Kruphix, God of the Horizens]] is the oldest god in the Theros pantheon. He mainly governs potential and other unseen aspects of the world, such as mystery, navigation, and time. He's also the keeper of much of the world's ancient knowledge and its secrets, which makes him relatively quiet and uninvolved in the world, only appearing to a select few, or when he is needed most. Many say he guards all the knowledge in the world no one was meant to know, such as [[spoiler:how to kill a god, something which he reluctantly tells Elspeth how to do when she comes to ask for assistance in eliminating the rogue planeswalker-turned-god Xenagos]].
* Kiora is a merfolk planeswalker with an affinity for the ocean. She's TheBeastmaster, particularly of very large seagoing creatures — "very large creatures" are one of the few things the two colors share in common. She also has an affinity for getting her hands on extra land and creatures, something Green is good at and something Blue always wants.[[note]]As mentioned elsewhere, Blue's creatures tend to be AwesomeButImpractical, and sneaking them into play is something Blue will never turn down. Blue also tends to be mana-hungry.[[/note]]
* Nissa Revane has been a mono-Green planeswalker on six of her seven cards. But [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=426906 Nissa, Steward of Elements]] is both Green and Blue. An EarthMother shaman by trade, Nissa has facility with lands, able to untap them (for Blue) and animate them for combat (for Green). She can sneak creatures into play. And her personality is uniquely Green/Blue, emphasizing not only knowledge and wisdom (she's a SensorCharacter InHarmonyWithNature), but featuring another thing both Green and Blue tend to have: NoSocialSkills.
* The Ixalan block provided us with the River Heralds, a nomadic collective of merfolk capable of bending the elements of their native jungles to fit their needs (Blue), [[InHarmonyWithNature while restoring the used areas to what they were before once said needs are fulfilled]] (Green); true to their alignment (Green and Blue being the less proactive colors), they focus less on finding the golden city of Orazca and more on hindering the efforts of the other factions seeking to find it.
* In ''Strixhaven'' we have Quandrix College, the college of mathematics. It is focused on an old philosophical debate about the nature of math: Is math a BackgroundMagicField that makes the universe go and which sapient beings were just smart enough to discover? Or is it a set of artificial rules we invented to help make sense of the universe? Its two deans are Kianne, Dean of Substance, which lets you either play lands or exile non-land cards to strengthen Kianne's "Fractal" tokens; and Imbraham, Dean of Theory, who exiles cards and lets you take one into your hand. Notably, both characters utilize the same Exile zone by marking such cards with "Study" counters: if you have both, they collaborate very effectively (which is not always the case with the other Deans). Tanazir Quandrix, the college's elder dragon founder, lets you play with numbers by adding +1/+1 counters ''and'' setting all creatures' base power and toughness to be the same as Tanazir's. As opposed to Simic's WeHaveReserves philosophy, Quandrix focuses on the [[FactionCalculus Powerhouse]] strategy instead.

* [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau Dr. Moreau]], [[FrankensteinsMonster Dr. Frankenstein]], [[Franchise/JurassicPark John Hammond]] (movie version), and [[Film/SpiderMan2 Dr. Octopus]] (also movie version) are listed as blue-green characters by Mark Rosewater.
* If not White, the [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]] are Green/Blue [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/77653907069/the-borg-mono-w-or-wb-i-would-say-mono-white-because according to]] [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]], being an infectious, [[TheVirus virus]]-like species that intends to assimilate everyone at the expense of individuality.
* The [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]] from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' are a good example of Green-Blue[[note]]or possibly white-black; see that folder above[[/note]] taken to horrifying extremes. Their core motivation is [[spoiler:to preserve biological life to prevent its destruction by synthetics]], which they realise by assimilating an entire species into a new Reaper, something which they believe also to be an up-lifting of said race. In other words, Blue's craving for perfection mixed with Green's desire for growth (and acceptance, [[spoiler:since they take a decidely fatalistic worldview in regards to the fate of sophonts]]). Combined with their superiority complex and FantasticRacism, they embody the two worst aspects of this colour combination.
* Hiccup from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' is an ingenious GuileHero and GadgeteerGenius who also strives, fights for and stabilizes co-existence of Vikings and dragons.
* An example somewhat akin to Kruphix would be Dizzy, from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear''. While initially afraid of humans because of prejudice against Gears, she's very curious and diligently seeks knowledge, especially after getting human friends (blue). She also values wisdom about human nature, and sees anthropogenic destruction as part of a natural cycle. On top of that, she happens to be a FriendToAllLivingThings, to the point that wild animals would approach her without fear while she hid in the Grove (green).

[[folder: Black/Red - "Rakdos"]]
'''BLACK and RED''' - ''Rakdos'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr241 here]])\\

Black and Red get along because neither is afraid to say "ItsAllAboutMe," and both love the freedom to do whatever the heck they want. Having said that, they fall on opposite sides of the EmotionsVsStoicism spectrum, in that Red is HotBlooded whereas Black prefers ThePlan. It's like the difference between TheSpock and TheMcCoy: both have cards which let you make sacrifices to get ahead, but Red ditches short-term resources (creatures, land) for immediate results, whereas Black sacrifices ''long''-term resources (HitPoints, cards in hand, cards in library) for long-term gain. For Red, crippling yourself is a DesperationAttack; for Black, it's [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning just the beginning]]. They also share creatures that are powerful, but come with a drawback, with Black's tending to be bigger and taking correspondingly larger chunks out of their owner's side, while Red’s tend to be extraordinarily cheap and fast for their size but don't last long.\\

Black/Red spells tend to be destructive (including self-destructive), discordant, and entropic. There is no Black/Red spell that is intended for defense, not counting the ability of creatures to block (though a fair number of Black/Red creatures, a higher percentage than the game’s average, actually can't). Black and Red combined are the color of [[AxCrazy the most dangerous madness]], [[DeathOrGloryAttack the most reckless attacks]], [[HellFire the most devastating natural and unnatural forces]], [[StrawNihilist the most negative of emotions]], and [[ColdBloodedTorture the most sadistic of tortures]]. That being said, black and red together is also the color of people [[ForHappiness who take the greatest joy in the pleasures of life]] and have [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl the most aggressively protective and loyal attitude towards friends]] — they would sooner let the world burn than let a loved one die.

* The Cult of Rakdos in Ravnica is violent, brutal, hedonistic, and fatalistic. They’re here for a good time, not a long time. The rubble left behind by their revels nearly covers the bodies left behind. [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107438 Rakdos]] himself is a monstrously powerful demon that hurts when you summon him—and hurts your opponents more when he attacks. [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=253532 Rakdos]] and his guild are still kicking as of Return to Ravnica, and their new mechanic, Unleashed, allows you to place a free +1/+1 counter on a creature when you summon it...but those creatures with +1/+1 counters on them can't block. Oh, and they [[CircusOfFear run a carnival now.]] They become so good at it that by ''Ravnica Allegiance'', they have developed a new mechanic called "Spectacle", where cards can be cast for less if they've already drawn a little blood this turn, because the crowd just eats that stuff up.
* Innistrad's vampires are Black and Red. Generally, the Black ones gain you life and are harder to block (or just do direct damage), while the Red ones get stronger as they feed.
* The Boggarts from Lorwyn are a good version. They're sensation junkies, sharing experiences with fellow boggarts. '''All''' experiences (they don't have self-preservation instincts and believe in reincarnation, so...). All evil boggarts are ostracized, and they usually don't tend to be anything worse than pranksters anyways.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=174983 Sarkhan Vol]] falls into [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193659 madness]] thanks to Nicol Bolas' influence and his time trapped in the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=197881 Eye of Ugin]]. Casting aside his Green affiliation in favor of Black mana, his new abilities reflect his new reckless and self-destructive streak. He is notably the only planeswalker card with no way to increase his loyalty (and the one ability that has no loyalty cost damages him anyway), meaning sooner or later, he will destroy himself.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=378523 Mogis, God of Slaughter]] embodies the darker aspects of war in contrast to Iroas's high minded views of honorable combat; Mogis and his followers don't give a crap about fair fighting or greater glory. They care only for the wrath and pain they inflict upon the world and the greater destruction they can spread in their pursuit. When the crisis of Theros caused an upheaval among his Minotaurs, he sent waves of his mortal and Nyxborn (followers in the Theros equivalent of Olympus) to wage a campaign of slaughter against the cities of Theros. [[spoiler:The whole war and his defeat were orchestrated by Xenagos, who used the victory celebrations following Mogis's defeat to complete his apotheosis and launch himself into Nyx, starting a war between the Gods and the mortal world.]]
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=391866 Kolaghan and her brood]] are an example of a [[spoiler:semi-benevolent]] group associated with this colour combination. On the one hand, they cause death and destruction wherever they go, not really caring about the damage they make or the lives they end. [[spoiler:After 1,280 years in the new timeline, the Clan that fell under her dominion degenerated into a horde of bloodthirsty cannibals that wage war and crush civilizations just to stave off the wrath of their dragonlord. Kolaghan values freedom the most, included freedom from law, civilization and honor, with her Clan emulating her out of fear of her wrath.]] On the other, [[spoiler:unlike the other dragon clans, they initially didn't have any interest in enslaving the Mardu, and instead willingly allowed them to join forces with them, provided they keep up with their speed]].
* The League of Dastardly Doom from the joke setting Bablovia is, as the name suggests, a supervillain organization combining Black's selfish power-mongering with Red's maniacal passion and the colors' shared destructiveness. Black's hunger for dominance shows in their desire to TakeOverTheWorld, while Red's propensity for chaos shows in their inability to get any two of their members to agree on how to go about it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' is a heroic example. She is quite self-focused and playful, and overall not very interested in outright heroics (not to mention hinting strongly at the hedonism inherent to this colour-mixture), but only sadistic and malicious to the angels (who are White villains, fittingly enough), avoiding most people except her two or three friends.
* Spike from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' could count as this. He's naturally prone to greed thanks to his draconic nature, and giving in to it turns him into a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide powerful out-of-control monster]], and he sometimes comes across as a little brat (he is still a child, after all). He can also be pretty selfish, too, willing to shirk his responsibilities in favor of doing what he wants. Spike is also very devoted to his friends, especially his foster sister/mother figure Twilight, to the point that he gets very jealous and insecure when his position as her "Number One assistant" is threatened, and his crush Rarity, to the point that being reminded of a gift he gave her snaps him out of his aforementioned SuperpoweredEvilSide.
** Pinkie Pie as well. Like the Lorwyn Boggarts, she's a playful, fundamentally hedonistic person that represents the best of this combination. Her one nervous breakdown implies that she sees friendship as a form of self-worth, but she does genuinely care for her friends.
** Tempest Shadow is a villainous version. After a childhood accident cost Tempest her horn, her magic became very chaotic, which drove away her friends, which caused her to grow into a bitter and lonely bounty hunter turned military commander employed by the Storm King. She is quite temperamental and aggressive (Red), and also believes that everyone is solely motivated by themselves, so she may as well be "with the mighty" (Black). The color combo is also reflected in her preferred weapon, the Obsidian Orbs, {{Magitek}} grenades that turn others into stone and can penetrate any magical defense, showcasing the color pair's unnatural brutality and disregard for the enemy's defenses. [[spoiler:After a HeelFaceTurn thanks to receiving a little bit of kindness and mercy from the heroes, she begins to display some of the color pair's positive aspects. This includes Red's loyalty for her new friends, and while she still has Black's cynicism and individualism, it is used in a beneficial way to find her place in the world while defending Equestria whenever military strength is needed.]]
* [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]] also considers WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck to be this. He is consistently selfish and [[HairTriggerTemper 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. Then there's his [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20236_6-insane-disney-comics-you-wont-believe-are-real_p2.html?wa_user1=1&wa_user2=Movies+%26+TV&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=feature_module pyromaniac episode]]...
* [[Fanfic/MyImmortal Ebony/Enoby Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way]] is Black/Red all over. She was probably meant to be the independent, heroic version of the colour, but her utter selfishness and stupidity makes her a terror.
* Marceline from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is another non-evil example. Amoral? Check. Artistic? Check. Individualistic? Check. Seflish yet very emotionally attached to her friends? Check. A vampire and a half-demon? Check.
* Jane from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''. While her friend turned her cynicism into detachment from the human experience, Jane's is a means to question society and grow as an artist.
* Other black-red coloured examples which have been listed by Mark Rosewater include ComicBook/TheJoker, [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Elaine Benes]], [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike]] (initially listed as ''white''-black), and [[Franchise/StarWars Anakin Skywalker]].
* At their core, [[Franchise/StarWars all Sith Lords]] are this, or become this after embracing the Dark Side for too long. Appropriately enough, most Sith [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver favor dark clothing and wield red lightsabers.]]
* A possessive {{Yandere}} fits this, focusing on the love he or she feels for the person (red's emotional emphasis) with zero regard for how anyone else feels (black's selfishness).
* Luffy of ''Manga/OnePiece'' may be the best example of a heroic Red-Black character. He lives for freedom, adventure, and fun. He freely admits that he's selfish since he's the kind of guy who would rather eat meat than share it with others. He's also willing to declare war on the entire world for the sake of a friend.
* Rocky Rickaby of ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' fame. His primary motivation in the comic is proving himself useful to Mitzi. Rocky displays passion and flair, is prone to random bouts of poetry, and has a tendency to laugh maniacally when setting fire to distilleries belonging to roughneck pig farmers. He also harbors some decidedly unsubtle misgivings towards Sedgewick Sable, Mitzi's boyfriend, for the threat his wealth and prestige poses to Rocky's chances of proving himself, at least in Rocky's mind.
* Is there a better example out there than [[Franchise/SuperMario Bowser, the Koopa King?]] He lives in a dark, lava-filled badland, constantly plots to take over the Mushroom Kingdom and possibly beyond, has a temper as fiery as his breath, and a major crush on Princess Peach (which is implied to be a major reason why he bothers to kidnap her in the first place). Even his iconography suggests a strong black/red theme, the best example perhaps being the Bowser spaces in the ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series.
* [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]] is almost as good an example as Bowser. He desires to rule Hyrule and seeks the Triforce with all the ruthless ambition and greed of a black villain while mixing in the temperament and aggression of red. His skillset reflects this as well; his primary weapons are [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] with the odd bit of [[CastingAShadow darkness]].
* As indicated by his usual color scheme, [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Sol Badguy]] is another anti-heroic example. His connection to flame, generally-bristly attitude, love for music, and laziness speak of red. Meanwhile, every good thing he does isn't motivated by a desire to make the world better, but rather because it involves a personal connection or otherwise affects his own goals, and even when it does, he generally doesn't do it cheerfully. Much like Sorin Markov (selfish and morose, but also responsible and dedicated), this marks him as black.
** Interestingly, Sol hates and opposes another example of red/black, I-No. Sadistic, selfish, and contemptuous of all others, she delights in seeing others in pain and relishes having others at her mercy. She puts up a hedonistic and personable facade to mask her true personality, but easily switches from flirtatious taunts to enraged threats if challenged for too long. Her only reason for aiding That Man is that she thought his plan was interesting, and he often has to rein in her violent and cruel excess.
* [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Bakugo]] is driven by two things — his ambition to be the best hero in the world and his anger at [[TheHero Midoriya]]. Saving people is secondary to his own personal profit. Bakugo also has a HairTriggerTemper befitting characters of this alignment.
* Ririn Ueda (code name: Eileen) and Taro Fuse (code name: Megakin) from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiLiberationDx2'' are heroic examples: Eileen is an ambitious ChivalrousPervert who's always looking for ways to make some cash, not just for herself but to help her family too. She is also ''very'' open about her homosexuality (bordering {{Flanderization}}), which is a very Black/Red thing (Black's defiance of taboos and Red's dealing with sexuality in general). Megakin is a youtuber (or "megatuber") who loves both entertaining people and the attention he receives from them. Just like Shyonian (see Blue/Black above), he is very pissed off by the Green ideals of the BigBad. Oh, he's also the '''leader''' of the heroes!
* Pick a StockShonenHero, ''any'' StockShonenHero. Chances are, they will be HotBlooded, [[BloodKnight love to fight]] (Red), and fiercely [[{{Determinator}} determined]] to be "[[ToBeAMaster the very best,]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} like no-one ever was]]" (Black).
* [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Cinder Fall]]'s only interest is being free to go where she pleases and do as she pleases, and she believes the best way to do so is to amass so much power that no one can ever stop her. Unlike the other villains she works with, Cinder has no stake whatsoever in the war between humanity and the Creatures O Grimm, or in her mistress [[BigBad Salem]]'s vendetta against [[BigGood Ozpin]]; she just sees working for Salem as the most expedient path to gaining power, and from there to her idea of "freedom." [[spoiler: The fact that she was MadeASlave as a child probably has something to do with that...]]
* [[Series/TheQueensGambit Elizabeth Harmon]] is an ex - ChildProdigy who specializes at chess. She rationalizes her passion by describing the games as predictable events where she can seize control over every factor and doesn't have to trust anyone but herself with the task of winning the game. Her desire for control becomes one of her strongest qualities throughout the series. When she fails to take control, her "red" manifests as temper tantrums and hedonism.
* Mark Rosewater has also given [[Film/{{Gremlins}} Stripe]] as an example. While most of the gremlins are mono-red, being short, green, dim-witted and highly destructive creatures who like causing mayhem and destruction not unlike the canon goblins, Stripe, the leader, repeatedly demonstrated a level of cunning and ingenuity which Black is known for, such as trying up Billy's dog and cutting the clock's power cable to trick him into feeding him after midnight as a mogwai, jumping into a pool to spawn hundreds of gremlin minions, using weapons such as guns and chainsaws, and managing to keep the horde under his control, while also taking a sadistic thrill in torturing and killing his victims and laying waste to the town in a way similar to the Cult of Rakdos itself.
* [[SnakeOilSalesman Spam]][[DemonicDummy ton]] from ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' favors Black's ''means'' of opportunity and Red's ''motives'' of freedom and authenticity. Recently to an even greater extent than his former friends, he tries to fork out false promises of being a [="[[BIG SHOT]]"=] in order to gain "KROMER". However, his true desire [[MoneyIsNotPower is not for money or similar personal gain]], but [[spoiler:the chance to call his own shots in life and fulfill his passion for being a salesman]].
* Aspects of this color pair are essential to getting the GoldenEnding of ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}''. [[spoiler:In order to break from a passive cycle that [[CopeByPretending Omori]] was created to orchestrate (see Bant below), Sunny must accept that he played a part in his older sister's death, the resulting separation of his close-knit friend group, and him having to move out of town (Black does not take kindly to sugarcoating). At the same time, Sunny must promise to hold all his memories dear and accept his grief to truly live (emotion and freedom are Red).]]

[[folder: Black/Green - "Golgari"]]
'''BLACK and GREEN''' - ''Golgari'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr199 here]]\\

A color that embodies the NatureHero versus a color that embodies the {{Necromancer}}. Are you not seeing the divide? To be specific, Green protects the cycle of life and death, while Black disrupts it for its own gain. Both have the ability to bring creatures back from the graveyard, but Green tends to bring things back to your hand instead of directly onto the battlefield, so the next cycle of life and death can continue. Black spells of this type are flavored to rip the bodies straight out of the ground and the creature in question [[CameBackWrong comes back wrong]]. Green may also have the ability to sacrifice one creature to grab another — survival of the fittest and all — but Black will generally sacrifice its creatures to power something else entirely.\\

This intersection of colors is the fullness of the cycle of nature and all of its complexities. It embodies both life and death; all living things die, but from that death new life comes. It also embraces the entirety of nature... not simply strong beasts, but the worms, the parasites, the bacteria, the mold and fungus. Every form of life is accepted by Black/Green. As for the treatment/consideration of others... Black cares for the self, Green cares for the group. Black/Green cares for both... Black/Green doesn't think about "Me" and "My team": It thinks about "Me '''and''' my team." It does what's good for itself and for its TrueCompanions; it betters itself, but tries to do that in ways that help its allies. Another bit of harmony between black/green is that it doesn't waste anything. Black sees everything as a resource, and so everything can be used. With Green mixed in, everything can be used then re-used. A creature can be played, then sacrificed, then recovered, only to be played and even sacrificed again, only to be recovered again later.\\
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The essential identity of Green/Black is quite nicely summed up by the flavor text of "[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=95536 Golgari Signet]]" — either Green/Black cards are hideous abominations, natural things infested and warped by unholy energies, ''or'' they are aware of the balance of life and death, the cruelty of instinct and the value of deviousness, and are AboveGoodAndEvil. And, as the text suggests, which is which [[FromACertainPointOfView largely depends on who's talking]].\\
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The fundamental basis of the Black vs. Green conflict is of [[ScrewDestiny Free Will]] vs. [[YouCantFightFate Determinism]], respectively. Quoting [[http://loreleywrites.tumblr.com/post/101418588295/color-pie-friday-the-philosophy-of-blackgreen this post]]: "Since Black believes everyone has free will, it believes that everyone acts on their own, individualized desires. Green’s belief in determinism allows it to see complex systems and how each part symbiotically works with the one next to it. Up again, this is where the surface growth vs. decay conflict arises. If everyone is acting by themselves, then each person's actions will impede on another's. Black wants to make sure that no one else's desires can get in the way of its own. Black cuts down the competition. Green, seeing a system in place, understands that everything working in conjunction will result in everything prospering together."\\
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So how do these differences blend together? Black/Green is all about being able to move through a system to its own benefit. It uses Black’s willingness to get what it wants and Green’s recognition of symbiosis to manipulate the natural order to gain power. \\

* Notably, Ravnica's Golgari Swarm is one of the few Black guilds to produce a hero — [[PapaWolf and a damn caring one at that.]] The Golgari effectively rule the undercity, effectively acting as the sewer workers and other "dirty jobs" men of the plane, but have parlayed it into a sort of power. Their first mechanic, Dredge, [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway allowed you to burn small amounts]] [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower of your library]] [[CursedWithAwesome to get a card with the ability]] [[MagikarpPower back from the graveyard]]. In ''Return to Ravnica'', they're more or less the same, though, like the other guilds, showing more ambition and dynamism; their new mechanic, "Scavenge", is likewise more aggressive, allowing cards with the ability in your graveyard to be exiled to permanently boost a creature in play. Vraska, mentioned below, becomes a force within the guild as part of the plan; their new mechanic, "Undergrowth", is a more aggressive, reusuable version of Scavenge, granting larger effects the more creatures there are in your graveyard.
** Vraska, a Planeswalker born in the Golgari, has gone through a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor reflecting the duality of the color combination. A vigilante who killed those she deemed evil, Vraska started as an AntiVillain opposing the Azorius but quickly evolved into Jace's archnemesis, wanting to undermine the Living Guildpact as part of her bid to gain power in Ravnica. However, the Ixalan block brought out her more sympathetic qualities, showing that she wants to rule the Golgari for altruistic reasons and can be kind and protective towards her pirate crew (even if they're, well, pirates). By the end, she's become Jace's close friend and love interest, working with him to infiltrate Nicol Bolas' band of evil Planeswalkers and betray him at the right moment — a Black method for the Green goal of preserving her home.
* Pharika, the Black/Green god of Theros, has domain over poisons and leeches. Her followers can use venom as a cure for other ailments, and are excellent healers — and deadly killers.
* The Elves of Skemfar in ''Kaldheim'' tend to play with these colors. They often have support that allows the player to summon more Elf Warrior tokens, and Tyvar Kell has the passive ability that allows players to tap all elves they control for black mana.
* In opposition to the Golgari, ''Strixhaven'''s Witherbloom College focuses on science, studying the cycle of life and death but disagreeing on its purpose. UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud identified not only [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Pleasure_Principle "eros", the drive towards life, but "thanatos," the drive towards death]]; which rules nature? Its two Deans are, appropriately, a vampire and a dryad: Valentin, Dean of the Vein, lets you recycle dying enemy creatures into Pest tokens that make you gain life when they die; Lisette, Dean of the Root, allows you to strengthen your army by gaining life. Beledros Witherbloom, the college's founder, also creates Pest tokens, and allows you to [[CastFromHitPoints pay a (massive) amount of life]] to untap all your lands. It also takes on the "HitPoints Matter" theme that normally lives in [=white/black=], as opposed to Golgari's normal habit of playing with the graveyard; in Witherbloom, green gets you more life and black helps you do something useful with it.

* Mark Rosewater's listed examples for black-green are [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Poison Ivy]], Comicbook/{{Venom}}, and the villain from ''Film/TwelveMonkeys''.
* Nurgle from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' embraces the duality of Black and Green by rotting growth and growing rot. The followers of Nurgle are rotten and saturated with disease, in line with Black, but embrace Green to grow stronger through their hardships and persevere.
* [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Audrey II]] mixes Green's emphasis on growth with Black's desire for conquest.
* One of the rare protagonist examples is Tool from ''Literature/ShipBreaker''. A half-man bred from engineered human, dog, hyena, and wolf genes, his kind are normally programmed with undying loyalty on a genetic level... well, undying until their patron dies, in which case they kill themselves. Tool is an oddity in that he has no patron, having outlived and largely grown past whoever they were. His appreciation for savagery, acceptance of the influence of nature and genetics, and his view of strength and survival are green, while his ultimate rejection of genetic determinism and general lack of concern with the greater scheme of things in favor of his own personal status are black.
* Unalaq, the Book 2 villain of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', is pure, perfect Black/Green. A highly spiritual man (and the tribal chief of a highly spiritual people), he seeks to "take back the physical world" with all its progress, technology, and shallow materialism and reunite it with the spirit world, as it used to be long ago. He values tradition, spiritualism, and what he sees as a natural order tragically lost in modern times. On the other hand, he is also a selfish and power-hungry individual who plans to merge with the Spirit of Darkness in order to bring this restoration about (and he backstabs nearly everyone around him at some point or another). Unalaq also harnesses dark power to corrupt spirits and bend them toward his aims. His philosophies and goals are very Green, but his character and the means he uses to attain his ends are solid Black.
* [[spoiler:Monika]] from ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' has this color combination, though as the game's biggest WalkingSpoiler, she only reveals this after a crucial plot twist. [[spoiler:She's very Black in that she's willing to do anything to be with the player, the only real person she can contact in a shallow, pre-programmed virtual world — even if it means deleting the rest of her friends. However, despite trying to be cold-hearted about it, Monika still cares for her friends enough that she restores them just before her own deletion, which fits in Green's desire to help one's companions. Furthermore, when alone with the player, she talks about various Black and Green habits and beliefs that mesh together into a personal philosophy of hers: she considers the world too imperfect for there to be a benevolent God, and thinks that the key to happiness is being selfish rather than concerning yourself with the many problems of the world (Black), but she believes that people's unhappiness comes from the realization that they take a lot more from the world than they give back, and thus she wants to be a net-positive and strive to "pay back my lifetime's worth of consumption" (Green). Furthermore, she's a vegetarian, but for the pragmatic reason that meat production has a very poor carbon footprint (and all food comes from life anyway, so it's a double standard to only care about killing organisms relatable to humans as species — something the Golgari would eagerly point out).]]
* What happens when you mix together unbridled selfishness with primal wilderness? You get a [[MisterMuffykins lapdog]]. [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Iggy]] is a Boston Terrier who happens to wield [[FightingSpirit a stand]] that [[DishingOutDirt gives him control of sand, dirt, and dust]] (which aligns with this color combo). This gives him an arrogant attitude of viewing himself better than the humans that he believed mistreated him as a stray dog, and superior to the other stray dogs of New York that he looks after. In contrast to the rest of the Crusaders who are out to save the world, Iggy is motivated by his hunger as only joined them in their quest because they give him his favorite coffee flavored gum as a treat; initially, he couldn't care less about fighting DIO. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold He's far from irredeemable though]], as he has a soft spot for people who like dogs, at one point even risking his life to save a dog-loving child, and eventually grows to like the rest of the gang as comrades and friends.
** Speaking of heroic Black/Green characters ''and'' Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure heroes, it's impossible to talk about Black/Green without bringing up [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Giorno Giovanna]]. Like most Black-aligned heroes, he's entirely motivated by his own experience with a [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters Neighborhood Friendly Gangster]] saving his life from hell, and eventually motivating him to join the mafia solely out of self-interest, albeit a noble sense. He's also, like many Black characters, willing to put himself at ''serious'' risk to gain an advantage with his Stand, Gold Experience, [[ItMakesSenseInContext whether that's ripping his arm off to extend his Stand's range against an early enemy,]] or risk himself being poisoned with a 100%-lethal venom to take down an opponent. However, he notably completely emphasizes the Green part of him. He thinks not just about himself, but the ones he holds very close to his heart, like his crew or his hometown; he cares ''very'' greatly for his crew and the community, and actively acts to preserve the happiness and stability of the community he cares for (very Green). It should also be worth noting that unlike several instances of Black/Green, he doesn't believe in the combo's worst qualities (that equality is a lie and people should accept when they're simply never going to be better than someone else), instead showing a belief that people's individual "truths" stand up to the falsehoods brought on ne'er-do-wells, which fuses Green's belief in pretedermination with Black's belief in individual advancement in one of the most positive depictions of the color combo. What's even more notable is the fact that his entire Stand revolves around the [[Main/CreatingLife ability to create life]] [[spoiler:and YouCantFightFate]], both of which being an indisputably Green power.
* Surprisingly enough, [[Characters/MCUThanos Thanos]] from ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' fits here, a stark difference from his comic book counterpart. He seeks to use the power of the Infinity Stones to kill off half of all sentient beings in the universe, but he does it because he believes there's just not enough resources in a finite universe to go around. Killing half the populace — and doing so at random, so there's no discrimination in the act — will allow the half that remains to survive much better than they otherwise would. A Black method for a Green goal.
* Counterpointing Thanos, [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Charles Xavier]] is an egoist and a racist who never once denies that he believes mutants to be inherently superior to baseline human beings, even being a founding member of the Brotherhood of Mutants and an enormous influence on that group's philosophy in this universe. The main underlying distinction between Ultimate Xavier and Ultimate Magneto is not whether humans are better than mutants and should rule them, or whether they are equal and should live in peace... but whether attempting to conquer the entire world [[PragmaticVillainy is even a feasible goal]]. Xavier believes that, in spite of mutants' inherent superiority, they simply don't have the numbers to [[WeHaveReserves overcome humanity by force]] and should pander to humanity's insecurities by pretending to be super–heroes, while waiting for baseline humanity to simply die off. A Green method... for a very Black goal.
* [[Series/KamenRiderDecade Tsukasa Kadoya]] embodies the "Free Will vs. Fate" conflict of these two colors. He is prophesied to be/become a "demon who will destroy all worlds". A great part of his character arc involves him trying to avoid this destiny, until [[spoiler:he eventually snaps and accepts his role as the Destroyer Of Worlds. It's later revealed that it was [[NecessarilyEvil necessary for him to become a villain in order to help the big picture of things]]]]. In crossovers that happen after the show's finale, he is shown to be perfectly fine with his title/nickname of "Destroyer Of Worlds" while still being a hero, albeit a rather [[KnightInSourArmor cynical]] and [[PragmaticHero pragmatic]] one. It's also worth noting that he isn't a hero out of genuine altruism; [[PunchClockHero he just believes that this is his role in life]] and possibly to give a huge TakeThat to people that [[HeroWithBadPublicity insist he is "evil" too]].
* [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Gruncle Stan]] appears at first to be a classic mono-Black character, lying, cheating, stealing, and basically being a man of poor character. Later, we learn that [[spoiler:his highest priority is always family, and everything he does and everything he has done since high school has been to reunite his family]].
* [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade The Nosferatu Clan]] is embodiment of this trope. While they can be as egoistic and self-obsessed as rest of the Kindred, they keep an "outcasts stick together" mentality and can genuinely care about their own (as opposed to — say — the Ventrue, who'll happily throw you under a bus if it suits their schemes). It extends to the point that even their 'antitribu' are hardly different from their Camarilla counterpart, as they keep loyalty to Clan first and foremost (when most of the other Clans going this way ended up with various degrees of AxCrazy). Even their usual pool of candidates for Embrace have a green tint to them — as they are usually those who already lived at the bottom as mortals (a karmic reward, [[BlessedWithSuck of sorts]]), or those who were vain and shallow enough to warrant a KarmicTransformation. Hell, they even usually live in the severs (like Golgari) and have an affinity for (ghoulified) animals.

[[folder: Red/Green - "Gruul"]]
'''RED and GREEN''' - ''Gruul'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr213 here]])\\

Both Red and Green embody the idea of "DontThinkFeel", and as such they get along quite well. Both colors are HotBlooded in different ways and share the highest damage potentials in the game: Green through its BadAssArmy, and Red by PlayingWithFire. Both win by hitting the opponent hard and fast, green with creatures, red with spells. Both (ever since the color pie shifted) are good at getting extra mana in play, though Red's tends to be one-shot on-the-spot abilities whereas Green gets renewable, long-term resources. They also complement each other’s weaknesses well: outside of its dragons, Red has little in the way of air defense, while Green’s air defense is some of the strongest in the game. Red has a burn spell for every occasion, whereas Green has trouble dealing with anything it can't simply stomp flat. Of course, Red runs off of unbridled passion and emotion where Green takes a bit of time to listen before acting on instinct. Finally, Green (though it prefers to remain TrueNeutral and maintain the balance) does have an outright altruistic streak represented by life-gaining, which Red just doesn't get: if you need to heal, you just let your body take care of it ''after'' you've hacked off all your enemy's limbs — that's what lulls between battles are ''for''. This is perhaps best exemplified by their {{Status Buff}}s; Green has the classic "Giant Growth," which gives its target three extra combat power and three more HitPoints; Red's equivalent spells tend to only increase combat power, or increase HP but only by 1. Indeed, in Magic 2020, they receive their own version of Giant Growth, Infuriate, which for the same cost as Giant Growth gives three power... and ''two'' HP.\\

Green/Red working together is raw power and wildness. Law and civilization tend to fall by the wayside. Even the most destructive force of nature can be made stronger by adding Green to Red, or more chaotic by adding Red to Green. But hey, everyone knows sometimes you've just got to shut up, stop thinking, and act.

* The Gruul tribes are a loose collection of clans of iconoclasts and outcasts, raging against the total urban development of the plane of Ravnica, living in abandoned slums and trying to tear them down to wilderness. Their leader, the great cyclops [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=366283 Borborygmos]], is not really in charge of the clans as a whole but is instead the leader of the Burning Tree, the strongest clan, granting him a position of great respect even among his lot. The chaos following the dissolution of the Guildpact has advanced the Gruul's desires, allowing them to actually return some areas to true wilderness. Not all is well for Borborygmos, though, as he is getting on in years, and while he can still take on all challengers to his position, the victories get narrower every time. In "Gatecrash", they gain the ''Bloodrush'' ability, which allows creatures to be discarded from the hand to provide another creature with a temporary boost that essentially "adds" the discarded creature's abilities and powers to the target. As of ''Ravnica Allegiance'', the planeswalker Domri Rade has unseated Borborygmos, though he's still alive, and begun actively tearing at the structure of Ravnica society, as represented by their new ability, "Riot", giving creatures with the ability either the ability to attack on their first turn or a permanent boost to power and toughness.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=128949 Radha, Heir to Keld]], one of the main characters in the ''Time Spiral'' block, represented hope for a new beginning. InAWorld ravaged by so many near-apocalypses, the inhabitants starving for any mana they could use, Radha stood out as an inexhaustible fount of mana, an oasis in Dominaria's wastelands. Playing to red's emotions and green's growth, she was a hot-tempered and belligerent person until a study with Multani and the time rift crisis in general smoothed out some of her pricklier thoughts, giving her some of green's wisdom and letting some of red's emphasis on friendship and empathy come to the fore.
* 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.
* Sarkhan Vol idolized the raw untamed power of nature, and he worshipped dragons because he saw them as the embodiment of that power. All that changed when he met [[TheCorrupter Nicol Bolas]].
* In contrast with the brutish werewolves and Gruul, ''Theros'' [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]] are playful hedonists, living life to the fullest. The populace sees them as wondrous spirits of much delight and joy, but in true [[TheFairFolk Fair Folk]]-fashion, [[BitchInSheepsClothing they are actually rather monstrous people]] who lure poor humans into their hedonist cults and enslave and humiliate them (at best), and engage in violent and rapist revelries.
** Xenagos, a satyr planeswalker, used to be like that, but after ascending (probably [[OutWithABang on one of such bacchic rituals]]), he realized how utterly insignificant he was in the great scheme of things, so he returns to Theros, and attempts at godhood to prove his worth.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=391796 Atarka and her brood]] from Tarkir are yet another example of the primal savagery associated with this color combination, not interested in anything [[VillainousGlutton other than eating]]. [[spoiler:This proves to be an asset, as Yasova manages to please Atarka by bringing her food. After 1,280 years, the Clan became personal waiters for their Dragonlord, [[TheSocialDarwinist risking becoming food themselves if they are too weak to provide]]; on the other hand, it is the only Clan of Tarkir where [[MightMakesRight strong humanoids are free to kill and eat weak dragons, even if they are Atarka's own brood]].]]
* Red/Green seems like a color combination ill-suited to the MadScientist theme of the joke setting Bablovia, but the Goblin Explosioneers make it work. They aren't interested in learning or winning or making the world a better place. They don't even have a government in any real sense, despite Bablovia's factions nominally being different governments. They just do what feels right, and what feels right is making things that go boom.

* Mark Rosewater considers [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]], [[Franchise/TheMuppets Animal]], [[Literature/PeterPan Tinkerbell]], and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Cosmo Kramer]] to be prime examples of red-green characters.
* The character of ''[[Series/TheColbertReport Stephen Colbert]]'' embodies the intersection of Red and Green through his philosophy of "Truthiness". The concept embraces Red's emphasis on emotion and Green's emphasis on instinct to believe what "feels" right as opposed to the Blue way of study and evidence.
* [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/100806887153/hi-mark-color-pie-character-casting-is-getting-to-be As pointed out by Mark Rosewater]], the [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]] is a good example of a Red and Green character, being driven entirely by his desires and instincts (in this case, eating cookies).
* [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Taokaka]] is about as red-green as they come. Preoccupied with her immediate impulses (usually hunger), she's hardly a mental giant, but has an instinctive grasp of ars magus and battle tactics that lets her keep up with the rest of the cast. She even acts like an animal (she's a cat beastkin).
** A smarter example of the same is Makoto Nanaya. Outdoorsy, devoted to her friends, and seemingly [[BookDumb too enthusiastic for book learning]], she's still a capable member of the NOL's Intelligence Unit [[spoiler:and a spy for Sector Seven]] and has shown herself to be an ungodly-strong physical powerhouse on top of that. Most importantly, her unpredictability and compassion have made her a prime threat to Terumi's plans.
* From ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s spiritual ancestor, ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', there's Ky's son, Sin Kiske. Dumb as a bag of hammers and about as subtle, he tends to blunder through things in his own style, not even taking note of the shape of whatever hole he's decided to force a peg into. That being said, he's enthusiastically friendly and keenly empathetic in a way that ends up attracting an unlikely but honest ally [[spoiler:(Ramlethal Valentine)]] to his father's side in ''Xrd''.
* San from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' is a good example of a Gruul character. Although human, she fights for her [[RaisedByWolves adoptive family]] of Green-aligned wolf spirits against the humans led by the White Lady Eboshi (in fact, as explored [[http://romanoffblitzer.tumblr.com/post/145218856764/color-pie-analysis-princess-mononoke here]], the movie itself is a nice example of a conflict between Green and White, acceptance of nature clashing with the wish of a group for safety). She is extremely passionate, fueled by her rage at both the destruction of the forest and her abandonment by her original human parents. And that's not even getting into [[UnresolvedSexualTension her conflicted feelings for Ashitaka]].
* [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Both the Brujah and the Gangrel can play this trope]], depending on how you look at them. The Brujah are more geared toward red with their rebellious nature and wish to overthrow the status quo, while the Gangrel take a more green stance, in connection to their "primal" nature. Also, both Clans' weaknesses are connected to the Beast (which itself is pretty much a combination of Red and Green).
* [[Literature/HarryPotter Fenrir Greyback]], true to his universe's worst stereotypes of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]], [[FullyEmbracedFiend fully embraces]] his bloodlust and wrath (Red), and returns the [[TeethClenchedTeamwork begrudgement of the Death Eaters he works for]] due to seeing humanity's civility and rationality as below him (Green). He fits the most unthinking color duo due to his behavior and goals being more animalistic than any other character in his home series, not to mention him favoring [[LightningBruiser raw strength]] over the wit, versatility, and finesse of most magic users.

[[folder: White/Green - "Selesnya"]]
'''WHITE and GREEN''' - ''Selesnya'' (article [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr196 here]]):\\

White and Green are both concerned with community, and this is best expressed in their joint love of creatures. Green is all about keeping everything strong, but also encourages [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinism]], which is why it has a BadAssArmy and single-target {{Status Buff}}s which make individual creatures stronger. In comparison, White cares about the LittlestCancerPatient, and has a RedshirtArmy, using global buffs (or the occasional high-powered champion) to make them ''all'' stronger.\\

Green/White cards tend to be about society existing in harmony with nature. Sometimes society shapes nature into forms it finds pleasing or useful, such as gardens or tree farms; other times, society shapes itself around nature to avoid despoiling it. Green and White working together often seem quite benevolent, perhaps the most so of any color pairing, but again, the needs of the individual are sublimated to that of the group, perhaps even more so than in White alone. They are the color combination with perhaps the highest average of both good small creatures and good big creatures, making a fearsome army, and almost all healing effects in the game are either white or green; combined, some of the most efficient life-gain spells in the game are present.

* The Selesnya Conclave in Ravnica are a group dedicated to peace, healing, and the betterment of the community (which they do through brainwashing the masses). Most guild members were dryads, human-like tree spirits, and their "leader" was a [[HiveMind collective mind]] called the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=247374 Chorus of the Conclave]], which expressed itself through the bodies of high-ranking members, using them as figureheads. The new guild leader is a single dryad composed of three minds, and they seem to be stepping up their activities. Selesnya has become evangelistic, and more than a few cards emphasize how abhorrent they find the undead. Their mechanic in ''Return to Ravnica'', "Populate", creates a token copy of a creature you control. In ''Guilds of Ravnica'', they gain the old ability Convoke, which allows expensive spells to be cast more easily if you tap creatures when casting it.
* While humans have been in many different color combinations over the years, they count in the Innistrad settings as they are outnumbered by the supernatural beings and believe that united, they can survive the supernatural setting. Human cards that are White are in urban settings who try to calm the frightened masses down while Green human cards are monster hunters who live in the wilderness.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=378520 Karametra]] is the patron god of harvests and orphans in Theros. The polis Setessa is her main city of worship. The city itself embodies the ideals of white and green, with it being arraigned in three circular rings of trees. The Setessans are mainly a group of [[ActionGirl warrior women]] who train in the wilderness to maximize their fighting potential while protecting their city.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=391825 Dromoka and her brood]] play a more militant aspect of this colour pair. Thriving in the sunlit deserts of Tarkir, they killed the local Abzan peoples due to their traditions about "necromancy" (which, mind you, is depicted as a completely harmless communion with ancestral spirits), considering it to be an affront to natural life. Though they otherwise sympathised with said clan, they were so fanatical about that belief that they almost commited ''genocide'', forcing their khan, Daghatar, to renounce their traditions and pledge alliance to the dragon. Further still, she decided to abolish the very use of the words "khan" and "clan". Fanatical and borderline hypocritical, Dromoka is a chilling example of the tyranny associated with extreme Green/White.
** By ''Dragons of Tarkir'', Dromoka has evolved into an interesting balance between beneficence and tyranny. On the one claw, Dromoka doctrine explicitly promotes and honors the achievement of ''all'' members of the clan, dragon and humanoid alike, and it's definitely the safest of the five, with Dromoka dragons risking their own lives to protect their humans. On the other claw, Dromoka is still a tyrant, and her dragons demand service in exchange for their protection.
* Crossbreed Labs, from the joke setting Bablovia, is basically what happens when visionary mad science meets UsefulNotes/FurryFandom. They're dedicated to using LEGOGenetics technology to give people the animal traits that reflect their true selves, demonstrating not only Green's love of critters but also its belief that people ''have'' an unchanging "true self," something that Blue for instance would firmly reject. The White shows in their focus on getting the treatment to anyone who wants it and fostering a society where they can live in harmony, showing White's utopianism and desire for peace and community.

* The Body Snatchers in ''Film/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.
* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy and Applejack]] embody the Green/White mixture in different ways. Both are close to nature, Applejack tending to her farm and Fluttershy tending to her pets. Applejack is white because she places importance on her friends and her large family and Fluttershy towards nurturing her animals.
* Creator/FriedrichNietzsche invented a being with the worst attributes of Green and White in the Last Man, combining White’s emphasis on conformism and lack of any personal ambition with Green’s dislike of thinking and creating to create a being devoid of the will or vision to improve or stand out.
* [[Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion Kimba]] has traits that show not only Green’s and White’s comparisons, but their contrasts as well. As the king of a jungle, he is a NatureHero determined to protect it and its denizens from human and animal threats. He also uses his rule to attempt to integrate traits of human society onto the animals of his kingdom. He protects nature (Green) but also tries to place new laws to try to improve it (White).
* Other examples listed by Mark Rosewater include [[Franchise/StarWars the Ewoks]], a species with a primitive tribal structure living in wilderness with a deep sense of community, and the [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Oompa-Loompas]], a group of strangely-identical hard-working people in the food manufacturing industry with a penchant for bursting into choreographed song and dance routines.
* Also via Mark Rosewater is [[Literature/{{Divergent}} Amity]], whose focus on kindness and neutrality firmly align it with Green[=/=]White.
* [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/88193763233/is-ras-al-ghul-the-rare-g-w-villain According to Mark Rosewater]], [[ComicBook/RasAlGhul Ra's Al Ghul]] is a good example of a Green[=/=]White antagonist. His goals, after all, are to destroy civilization (Green) out of moral disgust, and with the intention of creating an utopia for the survivors (White). Even when he is written as hypocritical and self-serving, canon examples like Gaddock Teeg or the worst members of Selesnya show clear consistency with this alignment.
* Ramlethal Valentine from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' is a good example of the ultra-conformist aspects of this color pair. She refers to herself as a mere tool of her Mother (white) to be disposed of when no longer needed, and has a feral and savage fighting style (green). She also disdains individual thought and has an obsession with purpose. [[spoiler:Later on, Elphelt, Sin, and oddly enough Bedman successfully convince her of the importance of emotions and the value of individuals. By the end of ''[[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Guilty Gear Xrd's]]'' story mode, she has potentially moved to green/red or green/red/white.]]
* The Jewish community of Anatevka in ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' can be considered this, as shown in their SignatureSong "Tradition". On the one hand, "here in Anatevka we have traditions for everything... how to eat, how to sleep, even how to wear clothes" — which puts them firmly into White. But — as Tevye himself admits — they have no idea ''why'' they do all of this, but they still follow the tradition because it's the thing that holds them together - which is something inherently Green.

[[folder:Red/White/Black - "Mardu"]]
'''RED/WHITE/BLACK''' – "Mardu" - ''Vengeance is mine, sayeth the player.''\\
''[[http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/finishing-first-2014-11-17 Article here]]''\\

White's desire for order and community, Black's drive and ambition for greatness (at any cost), and Red's passion and emotion. Combine these, and you have a recipe for a for war, and that's exactly what you'll find in the Mardu Horde, a clan constantly engaged in warfare and raids on other clans, bound by the Edicts of Ilagra: [[{{Plunder}} To conquer is to eat]], [[WarIsGlorious To rule is to bleed]], Victory or death. Among other things, this combination embodies [[{{Revenge}} vengeance]], [[PayEvilUntoEvil justified]] [[NeverMyFault or otherwise]]. [[{{Hypocrite}} Hypocrisy]] is likely, but so too is fervent sincerity. [[GloryHound Honor]] is also something that can fill up the agenda of someone that follows this combination, with Black's selfishness, Red's emotional (in)stability, and White's bigotry. Finally, White's authoritarianism, Black's selfishness, and Red's emphasis on passion can come to represent [[ANaziByAnyOtherName brutal dictatorships]], which presents an interesting counterpoint to Blue/Red/White below.\\

* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=28011 Fervent Charge]]: Your creatures hate your opponents ''so much''.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=247363 Oros, the Avenger]]: He punishes the "unrighteous". Indiscriminately.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=236995 Tariel, Reckoner of Souls]]: Your opponent’s previous attempts to harm you come back to haunt him.
* The oldwalker [[PantheraAwesome Lord Windgrace]] is a heroic example, combining White's morality and zeal, Red's empathy, and Black's pragmatism to achieve great good in the storylines he was involved with. Though ferocious, closed-minded, and power-craving at times, he was a very reasonable and honourable man, er, panther, a massive contrast to the usual stereotype associated with this combination.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=236473 Kaalia of the Vast]]: As presented in the two-part Uncharted Realms story "The Stonekiller", she was a child from new Bant whose family had been taken by Grixis hordes, and had been rescued by Naya Nacatl. Losing both, she is now on a righteous crusade against Grixis.
* The Mardu Horde provides a different take on this color trio, with the dominant color being Red rather than White. The Mardu are a legion of roaming mercenaries and bandits who live to fight, plunder, and conquer anyone they can find. They combine the two most aggressive color pairs in ''Magic'', Red/White and Black/Red, into a hyper-aggressive, super-fast strategy intent on beating the opponent before they can even get started. This strategy is built upon their Raid mechanic, which rewards a player for attacking with a creature every turn.
* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=433277 Edgar Markov]], grandfather of the oldwalker Sorin Markov, and Innistrad's very first vampire. As something of a ShadowArchetype of Sorin, Edgar shares his grandson's Black/White nature; after all, order is necessary to keep the Markov clan alive for thousands of years. But unlike Sorin, whose White alignment lets him believe enough in order to create Avacyn and stop the vampires from driving Innistrad extinct, Edgar is instead just as influenced by Red, which shows in the Markov clan's hedonistic desire for blood and their resentment of the system enforced by Avacyn.
* [[https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Savai The Savai]] of Ikoria have this color scheme, and have a very aggressive playstyle. Their Boss Monster is the [[{{Meganeko}} giant cat]] [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=479729 Snapdax]].