History Main / BicolorCowsSolidColorBulls

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Cows are depicted as black-and-white or brown-and-white while bulls are depicted as brown or black.

* A greeting card shows a farmer getting ready to milk a black-and-white cow in front of a black bull. The black bull's thought bubble says "Touch my wife's tits one more time and I'll kill you!"

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Miltank, which are Cow Pokemon, are black-and-pink while Tauros, which are bull Pokemon, are brown (or black in Paldea).

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Miltanks, which are Cow Pokemon, are black-and-pink while Tauroses, which are bull Pokemon, are brown (or black in Paldea).

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'': Cows are usually black-and-white. Elsie, the one cow who isn't black-and-white, is [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue-and-white]]. Minotaurs (bulls) are black.

* ''Anime/OnePiece'': Ucy the Bull is brown while Momoo the Sea Cow is black-and-white.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Miltanks, which are Cow Pokemon, are black-and-pink while Tauroses, which are bull Pokemon, are brown.

Subtrope of SpeciesEqualsGender. Compare PaleFemalesDarkMales.

Many cartoons, however, depict all [[TypicalCartoonAnimalColors cows as being black-and-white or brown-and-white and all bulls as being brown or black]].

Subtrope of TypicalCartoonAnimalColors and SpeciesEqualsGender. Compare PaleFemalesDarkMales.

You wouldn't know it from cartoons, but in cattle, color has nothing to do with gender. There are brown cows, black cows, black-and-white bulls, and brown-and-white bulls. In fact, cattle are not even limited to these colors -- cattle can be white, red, or even gray.

Solid black bulls are also often depicted with a Spanish [[NationalAnimalStereotypes National Animal Stereotype]], due to that country's bullfighting tradition.

* ''VideoGame/LegendOfZelda'': Cows are usually black-and-white. Elsie, the one cow who isn't black-and-white, is [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue-and-white]]. Minotaurs (bulls) are black.

Subtrope of TypicalCartoonAnimalColors. Compare PaleFemalesDarkMales.

Subtrope of TypicalCartoonAnimalColors.

You wouldn't know it from cartoons, but in cattle, color has nothing to do with gender. There are brown cows, black cows, black-and-white bulls, and brown-and-white bulls. In fact, cattle are not even limited to these colors -- cattle can be white, or even gray.

* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'': [[AnimalGenderBender Otis the Cow]] is black-and-white, Bessy is brown and gray, and Abby is yellow-and-black. Whenever a bull shows up, it's either black or brown.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Toro the Bull from "WesternAnimation/BullyForBugs" is black. "Daffy the Gaucho" features Daffy as a rancher, and all the cows are black-white or brown-and-white.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Toro the Bull is black. "Daffy the Gaucho" features Daffy as a rancher, and all the cows are black-white or brown-and-white.

Solid black bulls are also often depicted with a Spanish NationalAnimalStereotype, due to that country's bullfighting tradition.

This may be doubled with AnimalGenderBender if cows are depicted as a separate species from bulls, although this doesn't happen very often since most kids understand that bulls and cows are the same species despite the BizarreSexualDimorphism between them shown in many cartoons. Part of this trope has to do with cows often being depicted as Holsteins or Frisians, which are a dairy breed and known for their distinctive black-and-white or brown-and-white splotched coloration. Bulls are generally given coloration that match breeds that are raised for meat like the Angus or Shorthorn, which tend to have coats that are single-color. Though obviously in real life, both dairy and meat breeds have both bulls and cows.

This may be doubled with AnimalGenderBender if cows are depicted as a separate species from bulls, although this doesn't happen very often since most kids understand that bulls and cows are the same species despite the BizarreSexualDimorphism between them shown in many cartoons. Part of this trope has to do with cows often being depicted as Holsteins, which are a dairy breed and known for their distinctive black-and-white splotched coloration. Bulls are generally given coloration that match breeds that are raised for meat like the Angus or Shorthorn, which tend to have coats that are single-color. Though obviously in real life, both dairy and meat breeds have both bulls and cows.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Played straight most of the time, with cows being bicolor and bulls being single color, except in the episode "Maximum Homerdrive", when one of the bulls has a yellow patch around his eye.

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This may be doubled with AnimalGenderBender if cows are depicted as a separate species from bulls, although this doesn't happen very often since most kids understand that bulls and cows are the same species despite the BizarreSexualDimorphism between them shown in many cartoons.