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* AnAesop: The underlying message is that all of our differences can combine to make a beautiful rainbow. ''Aww.''
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* DistractedByTheLuxury: Attempted but ultimately failed -- the Blue King tries to entice the Yellow Queen first with a jeweled necklace, then with flowers, and finally with a frilly negligee (all in various shades of blue). She rebuffs his gifts and orders her troops to attack.
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The film can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMFNaq0xfD4 here]].
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* VisualPun: A lot, One of them being The Yellow Kingdom using a giant yellow dog balloon to stop the Red Kingdom's giant fire hydrant weapon. there's also an audio pun with The Yellow leader who has the cry of a [[StockSoundEffects red-tailed hawk]] (that everyone will likely mistake for the cry of a [[EagleLand bald eagle]])

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* VisualPun: A lot, There's lot's of them, One of them being The Yellow Kingdom using a giant yellow dog balloon to stop the Red Kingdom's giant fire hydrant weapon. there's also an audio pun with The Yellow leader who has the cry of a [[StockSoundEffects red-tailed hawk]] (that everyone will likely mistake for the cry of a [[EagleLand bald eagle]])
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* ArtAttacker: ''Everyone'' is this, using paint brushes, paint rollers, and buckets of paint as weapons. Some are also using palettes as shields. This of course results in load of slapstick.

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* ArtAttacker: ''Everyone'' is this, using paint brushes, paint rollers, and buckets of paint as weapons. Some are also using palettes as shields. This of course results in load loads of slapstick.

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* ArtAttacker: ''Everyone'' is this, using paint brushes, paint rollers, and buckets of paint as weapons. Some are also using palettes as shields.

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* ArtAttacker: ''Everyone'' is this, using paint brushes, paint rollers, and buckets of paint as weapons. Some are also using palettes as shields. This of course results in load of slapstick.



* CasanovaWannabe: The Blue Leader tries to seduce the Gold Leader when he first meets her. But since all of his gifts are the wrong color, all he succeeds at doing is aggravating her.

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* CasanovaWannabe: The Blue Leader tries to seduce the Gold Yellow Leader when he first meets her. But since all of his gifts are the wrong color, all he succeeds at doing is aggravating her.



* CoolShades: The leader of the Gold Kingdom wears a very large pair.

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* CoolShades: The leader of the Gold Yellow Kingdom wears a very large pair.



* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Implied with the Yellow Leader after she is coated in paint by two of her former soldiers during the finale.



* VisualPun: A lot, as well as audio puns. The Goldleader has the cry of a [[StockSoundEffects red-tailed hawk]] (that everyone will likely mistake for the cry of a [[EagleLand bald eagle]])

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* VisualPun: A lot, as well as One of them being The Yellow Kingdom using a giant yellow dog balloon to stop the Red Kingdom's giant fire hydrant weapon. there's also an audio puns. pun with The Goldleader Yellow leader who has the cry of a [[StockSoundEffects red-tailed hawk]] (that everyone will likely mistake for the cry of a [[EagleLand bald eagle]])
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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: the paranoid Red Kingdom, the arrogant Blue Kingdom, and the domineering Gold Kingdom. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between them. This peace is shattered when a young inventor from the Gold Kingdom creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red Leader's daughter. What follows is, of course, a war of colorful paint between the three kingdoms.

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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: the paranoid Red Kingdom, the arrogant Blue Kingdom, and the domineering Gold Kingdom. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between them. This peace is shattered when a young inventor from the Gold Kingdom creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red Leader's daughter. What follows is, of course, a war of colorful paint between the three kingdoms.
kingdoms. The film is considered a cult classic in Canada and is commonly shown in Canadian schools.

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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: the paranoid Red Kingdom, the arrogant Blue Kingdom, and the domineering Gold Kingdom. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between them. This peace is shattered when a young inventor from the Gold Kingdom creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red Leader's daughter.
What follows is, of course, a war of colorful paint between the three kingdoms.

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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: the paranoid Red Kingdom, the arrogant Blue Kingdom, and the domineering Gold Kingdom. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between them. This peace is shattered when a young inventor from the Gold Kingdom creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red Leader's daughter.
daughter. What follows is, of course, a war of colorful paint between the three kingdoms.



* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The citizens of each kingdom wear their respective kingdom's color. Justified, as they would be punished in-universe if they wore anything else.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The citizens of each kingdom wear their respective kingdom's color. Justified, as they would be punished in-universe if they wore they're not allowed to wear anything else.else in-universe.
* ColorfulContrails: After saving the Red Leader's daughter, the inventor's flying ring passes through a waterfall of paint and produces a rainbow contrail.



* CulturePolice: Each kingdom has soldiers with paint brushes on hand to paint over any deviant colors that may show up.

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* CulturePolice: Each kingdom has soldiers with paint brushes art supplies on hand to paint over cover up any deviant colors that may show up.colors.


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* ForgottenFramingDevice: The movie starts off telling us the story as a pop-up book, complete with turning the pages. However, by the end, the book motif has disappeared.


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* MediumAwareness: In the beginning of the film, the Blue Leader notices the page being turned on him and starts to panic.


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* OnceUponATime: The movie's opening line.
-->Once upon a time, in a timeless place, there were three kingdoms.
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The film can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMFNaq0xfD4]].

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The film can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMFNaq0xfD4]].
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The film can be found [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1a3e8_rainbow-war_shortfilms here]].

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The film can be found [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1a3e8_rainbow-war_shortfilms here]].
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* ArtInitiatesLife: The inventor does this accidentally. After finishing his sketch of the flying ring, it flies off the page and takes him along for the ride.

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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: the fearful Red, The arrogant Blue, and the domineering Yellow. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between them. This peace is shattered when a young Yellow inventor creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red leader's daughter.

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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: the fearful Red, The paranoid Red Kingdom, the arrogant Blue, Blue Kingdom, and the domineering Yellow.Gold Kingdom. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between them. This peace is shattered when a young Yellow inventor from the Gold Kingdom creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red leader's Leader's daughter.



The film can be found here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1a3e8_rainbow-war_shortfilms

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The film can be found here: http://www.[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1a3e8_rainbow-war_shortfilms
com/video/x1a3e8_rainbow-war_shortfilms here]].



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* CasanovaWannabe: The Blue Leader tries to seduce the Yellow Leader when he first meets her. But since all of his gifts are the wrong color, all he succeeds at doing is aggravating her.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The citizens of each kingdom wear their respective kingdom's color.
* CoolShades: The leader of Yellow wears a very large pair.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Red is Germany, Blue is France, Yellow is Russia.

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* CasanovaWannabe: The Blue Leader tries to seduce the Yellow Gold Leader when he first meets her. But since all of his gifts are the wrong color, all he succeeds at doing is aggravating her.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The citizens of each kingdom wear their respective kingdom's color.
color. Justified, as they would be punished in-universe if they wore anything else.
* CoolShades: The leader of Yellow the Gold Kingdom wears a very large pair.
* CulturePolice: Each kingdom has soldiers with paint brushes on hand to paint over any deviant colors that may show up.
* DystopianEdict: Citizens may only wear their own kingdom's color and nothing else. Each kingdom has their own way of enforcing this. The Blue Kingdom makes it a fashion faux pas to wear anything other than blue. The Red Kingdom promotes red as trustworthy, and all other colors are deemed as suspicious. The Gold Kingdom aggressively censors other colors so that citizens only know yellow.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Red is Germany, Blue is France, Yellow Gold is Russia.the Soviet Union.



* IronLady: The Yellow Kingdom's queen sports the PowerHair and CoolShades to go with it.

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* IronLady: The Yellow Gold Kingdom's queen sports the PowerHair and CoolShades to go with it.



* VisualPun: A lot, as well as audio puns. The Yellow leader has the cry of a [[StockSoundEffects red-tailed hawk]] (that everyone will likely mistake for the cry of a [[EagleLand bald eagle]])

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* VisualPun: A lot, as well as audio puns. The Yellow leader Goldleader has the cry of a [[StockSoundEffects red-tailed hawk]] (that everyone will likely mistake for the cry of a [[EagleLand bald eagle]])
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* FloatingContinent: All three kingdoms are floating in the sky, surrounded by clouds.


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* ParentalFashionVeto: The Red Leader takes away the yellow scarf the inventor gave to his daughter. She takes it back when he isn't looking.

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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: The fearful Red, The arrogant Blue, and the domineering Yellow. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between kingdoms. This peace is shattered when a young Yellow inventor creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red leader's daughter.

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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: The the fearful Red, The arrogant Blue, and the domineering Yellow. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between kingdoms.them. This peace is shattered when a young Yellow inventor creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red leader's daughter.



* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: The ceasefire begins when everyone spots the Red leader's daughter [[LiteralCliffhanger dangling off a cliff]].

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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: The ceasefire begins when everyone spots the Red leader's Leader's daughter [[LiteralCliffhanger dangling off a cliff]].



* ColorCodedForYourConvenience
* CoolShades: The leader of Yellow has them.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience
CasanovaWannabe: The Blue Leader tries to seduce the Yellow Leader when he first meets her. But since all of his gifts are the wrong color, all he succeeds at doing is aggravating her.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The citizens of each kingdom wear their respective kingdom's color.
* CoolShades: The leader of Yellow has them.wears a very large pair.



* NoNameGiven: Since there is no dialogue, none of the characters' names are mentioned.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Not only does the inventor give his own kingdom the means to invade the others, he inspires the Blue Kingdom to do the same. Oops.
* NoNameGiven: Since there is no dialogue, none of the characters' names are mentioned. The IMDB page only lists the main characters by their [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep titles or occupations]].
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* NoNameGiven: Since there is no dialogue, none of the characters' names are mentioned.
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* ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: The flyer that the inventor comes up with can be described as a rocket-propelled hula hoop. Meanwhile, the Blue Kingdom uses floating bathtubs suspended from giant bubbles.

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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: The fearful Red, The arrogant Blue, and the dominating Yellow. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between kingdoms. This peace is shattered when a young Yellow inventor creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red leader's daughter.

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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: The fearful Red, The arrogant Blue, and the dominating domineering Yellow. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between kingdoms. This peace is shattered when a young Yellow inventor creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red leader's daughter.


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* ArtAttacker: ''Everyone'' is this, using paint brushes, paint rollers, and buckets of paint as weapons. Some are also using palettes as shields.
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Making Blue's description match Red and Yellow's. Germany/France/Russia as opposed to the unedited Germany/French/Russia.


* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Red is Germany, Blue is French, Yellow is Russia.

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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Red is Germany, Blue is French, France, Yellow is Russia.
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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, RainbowWar is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: The fearful Red, The arrogant Blue, and the dominating Yellow. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between kingdoms. This peace is shattered when a young Yellow inventor creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red leader's daughter.

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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, RainbowWar ''Rainbow War'' is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: The fearful Red, The arrogant Blue, and the dominating Yellow. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between kingdoms. This peace is shattered when a young Yellow inventor creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red leader's daughter.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Red is Germany or Russia, Blue is French, Yellow is America.

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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Red is Germany or Russia, Germany, Blue is French, Yellow is America.Russia.
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: The ceasefire begins when everyone spots the Red leader's daughter dangling off a cliff.

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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: The ceasefire begins when everyone spots the Red leader's daughter [[LiteralCliffhanger dangling off a cliff.cliff]].
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* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Actually, the most prominent pairing is a [[LadyInRed red woman]] and ''yellow'' boy.
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A film created for the Vancouver World's fair in 1986, RainbowWar is a light-hearted, cartoony little short that as the underlying Aesop of tolerance and love. Largely in Pantomime, the film tells the story of three kingdoms of color: The fearful Red, The arrogant Blue, and the dominating Yellow. While each kingdom hates the other for their differences, life is peaceful because there is no way to travel between kingdoms. This peace is shattered when a young Yellow inventor creates a flying contraption and crashes into the Red leader's daughter.
What follows is, of course, a war of colorful paint between the three kingdoms.

The film can be found here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1a3e8_rainbow-war_shortfilms

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!!This film contains examples of:

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: The ceasefire begins when everyone spots the Red leader's daughter dangling off a cliff.
* AnAesop: The underlying message is that all of our differences can combine to make a beautiful rainbow. ''Aww.''
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Both women end up covered in gobs of paint just like the men.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience
* CoolShades: The leader of Yellow has them.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Red is Germany or Russia, Blue is French, Yellow is America.
* IronLady: The Yellow Kingdom's queen sports the PowerHair and CoolShades to go with it.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Actually, the most prominent pairing is a [[LadyInRed red woman]] and ''yellow'' boy.
* VisualPun: A lot, as well as audio puns. The Yellow leader has the cry of a [[StockSoundEffects red-tailed hawk]] (that everyone will likely mistake for the cry of a [[EagleLand bald eagle]])

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