History Main / ChromaticArrangement

** Wait, but the only time this ever really seems to happen is with the LoveTriangle, in which Sheryl is red, Alto is blue, and Ranka is green whenever [[AppliedPhlebotinum Fold Quartz]] is involved. Wait, this actually makes sense. Alto is the only one who can competently fly a Valkyrie, Ranka can cook and worked at a restaurant originally, and Sheryl led them both to accomplish their dreams. Whoa.

* The three trap books of {{Myst}} are blue, red, and green. Sirrus (red) and Achenar (blue) blame each other for the death of Atrus, and neither wants you to touch the green book, which they claim is a trap to prevent them from being freed... because [[spoiler: [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready Atrus is trapped in the green book, and Sirrus and Achenar were working together]].]]

* Political parties are usually color coded in polling news. '''In general''', left-wing parties will be coloured red, right-wing parties will be coloured blue, liberal/libertarians/centrists yellow, [[CaptainObvious green parties are green]], traditionalist parties will generally, these days, and the far-right typically get brown colours.

* Political parties are usually color coded in polling news:
** US TV networks covering elections have used red to represent Republicans, blue to represent Democrats as solidified by the ''Red States vs. Blue States'' language introduced after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_election_recount Florida recount of 2000]]. During the 20th century, the colors often alternated. [[hottip: *: exempli gratia, The nation ''turned blue for Reagan'' according to one news anchor during the 1980 elections.]]
*** Furthermore, any time there's a strong showing from a third party, it's often illustrated in green. This is helped by the fact that one of the most popular "distant third" parties in America is called the Green Party.
** In Ireland the three biggest parties use green (Fianna Fail), blue (Fine Gael) and red (Labour). Slightly complicating this is that the minor parties ''also'' mostly use these colors (no less than three political parties use different shades of green!)
** Likewise in Mexico, where the top five political parties are represented with colors: the PAN (conservatives) is blue, the PRI (liberals) is tricolor, the PRD (leftists) is yellow, the PT (communistoids) is red, and the Green Ecologists are, well, [[CaptainObvious green]].
** It's similar in Greece, where the two major parties use green (currently in power) and blue. There's also the Communist Party which is obviously red.
** In Sweden, left-wing parties are referred to as "red", right-wing ones as "blue" and (although not to the same extent) the ones in between are "green". Most parties' logo also use these colours.

* The Toad Brigage in ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' follows this arrangement. The red toad is the leader, the blue toad is TheSmartGuy, and the green toad performs various supporting tasks. There's also a yellow toad and a purple toad, but they don't do that much; the yellow toad pretty much just [[HeavySleeper sleeps everywhere]], while the purple toad mainly delivers mail.

** Fire Emblem also uses this at the beginning of most games with the main lords wearing blue, followed by a pair of red and green knights
** Path of Radiance sort of does this with Ike(blue), the green knight Oscar and his red clad brother Boyd. By the time the proper red knight, Kieran, appeared both he and Oscar were minor characters

** A more typical example is in [[DuneII Dune II]], which inspired CommandAndConquer - the blue Atreides, red Harkonnens and green Ordos all fight each other. [[AdaptationDecay Even though the original book specifically states that the Harkonnens are blue and the Atreides are green or red]]. But then we can't have blue bad guys and red good guys, can we? [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience That's not allowed]].

*** Unreal Tournament follows the same scheme.
** Supreme Commander has the green Aeon, the red Cybran and the blue UEF. Further, in multiplayer, you're allowed to choose your color... except in ranked 1-on-1 matches, in which one player is red and one is green. Finally, a game that understands proper color opposition...

* The Koei series Dynasty Warriors assigns the three colors to Wu, Wei and Shu: red, blue and green respectively.

** A subtle aversion : in Birth by Sleep, Terra is red-orange, Ventus is green and Aqua is blue. The aversion is that the order in which the stories should be played (according to WordOfGod) is Terra -> Ventus -> Aqua, so red->green->blue.

* In ''StarWars'', the most common three lightsaber colors are red, green and blue. Red ones are ussually reserved for Sith and other villains; it was once thought that the other colors might have some significance, but those theories have since been {{Jossed}}.

** US TV networks covering elections have used red to represent Republicans, blue to represent Democrats as solidified by the ''Red States vs. Blue States'' language introduced after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_election_recount Florida recount of 2000]]. During the 20th century, the colors often alternated. [[hottip: *: exempli gratia, The nation ''turned blue for Reagan'' according to one newsanchor during the 1980 elections.]]

* In ''StarWars'', the most common three lightsaber colors are red, green and blue. Red ones are ussually reserved for Sith; it was once thought that the other colors might have some significance, but those theories have since been {{Jossed}}.

The primary colors, based on light as opposed to physical pigments, are red, green and blue. Many writers and character designers seem to know this, as characters that are ColorCodedForYourConvenience tend to be gathered in the order of red (or pink), blue and green at the beginning of the series. Green counts as it is a primary color of light, but not pigments. Just look at an older TV!(This may also be related to the fact that yellow rarely looks good on anyone.)

** First-person shooters, yes, but real-time strategy? I don't think so. In the original ''Command & Conquer'', Nod had red buildings and blue units, but the GDI was yellow; ''Tiberian Sun'' and ''Tiberium Wars'' cut blue out almost entirely (although blue made a cameo in TS as a Nod splinter group commanded by a GDI double agent); and Yuri's faction and the Scrin in ''Yuri's Revenge'' and ''Tiberium Wars'', respectively, were purple. Green was never used at all for a faction color in any of the C&C games (''Generals'' isn't really a C&C game). In ''Starcraft'', species are completely divorced from colors, though Zerg are most commonly associated with purple (and vice versa), Terrans make very heavy use of white, and green is reserved for "hero" units regardless of faction. In ''Star Trek Armada II'', the Federation is represented on the minimap by white, Borg by dark green, and Romulans by light green.

*** Generals isn't a real C&C game any more than someone who eats fish is a vegetarian.
*** A more typical example is in Dune 2, which inspired CommandAndConquer - the blue Atreides, red Harkonnens and green Ordos all fight each other. [[AdaptationDecay Even though the original book specifically states that the Harkonnens are blue and the Atreides are green or red]]. But then we can't have blue bad guys and red good guys, can we? [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience That's not allowed]].

* Most TV networks covering elections use red to represent Republicans, blue to represent Democrats, and green for the Green Party.
** US networks switched which party was red and which blue with each election, and it's only after the 2000 one where it's stuck. In most counties the Democrats would be red, and the Republicans blue. In the UK it's red (Labour), blue (Tory) and... yellow-orange ([=LibDems=]) for the major parties (shades of green are used for various Irish and Welsh nationalist parties, [[CaptainObvious as well as for the Green Party itself]]).

** The Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle has a partial version of this (or used to) as well: with The Sporting Green (sports news printed on [[CaptainObvious green paper]]) and the Datebook (entertainment news, printed on pink paper, popularly known as "[[FanNickname The Pink Section]]").

* ''TheLegendOfZelda'' is another franchise that embraces it. Its pantheon is composed of three goddesses represented by the three colors, and the PlotCoupons (and often other items) that you have to find are always either only these colors or you have to find these colors first. Din, goddess power, is red and representative of Ganon, the BigBad. Farore, goddess of courage, is green and representative of Link, the [[HeroicMime protagonist]]. Nayru, goddess of wisdom, is blue and representative of Zelda, princess of Hyrule and DistressedDamsel. Originally, green--the Triforce of Courage--was not included in the game. It could be argued they originally represented RedOniBlueOni first.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda'' is another franchise that embraces it. Its pantheon is composed of three goddesses represented by the three colors, and the PlotCoupons (and often other items) that you have to find are always either only these colors or you have to find these colors first. Din, goddess power, is red and representative of Ganon, the BigBad. Farore, goddess of courage, is green and representative of Link, the [[MuteHero protagonist]]. Nayru, goddess of wisdom, is blue and representative of Zelda, princess of Hyrule and DistressedDamsel. Originally, green--the Triforce of Courage--was not included in the game. It could be argued they originally represented RedOniBlueOni first.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda'' is another franchise that embraces it. Its pantheon is composed of three goddesses represented by the three colors, and the PlotCoupons (and often other items) that you have to find are always either only these colors or you have to find these colors first. Interestingly enough, ''green'' represents the hero and is usually (but not always) found first, while red is analogous to the usual BigBad (blue corresponds with the DistressedDamsel).

** So... what color are the Libertarians?
*** The color of irrelevance.

* In ''StarWars'', the most common three lightsaber colors are red, green and blue. Red ones are exclusively for Sith; it was once thought that the other colors might have some significance, but those theories have since been {{Jossed}}.

** Also applies to their {{Distaff Counterpart}}s Britney (red/pink), Jeanette (blue), and Eleanor (green).

* ''TheThreeCaballeros'' are Panchito (red), José Carioca (green) and Donald Duck (blue). Panchito leads, but only because it's his third of the movie.

*''[=~Pokémon~=]'' is all about this. The three starter pokemon of every game, as well as three generations of the games, are all based upon red (Fire), blue (Water) and green (Grass). And of course, the orignal first generation games were called Pokemon Red, Blue, and Green. The third generation, for the GameBoy Advance, continues that theme with Ruby (red), Sapphire (blue), and Emerald (green).

* ''KingdomHearts'': When leveling up, the characters are represented by the colors that they most frequently wear: Sora is red, Donald is blue and Goofy is green. Sora also came first, with Donald and Goofy following. (And Donald even fell onto Sora's back in their first meeting a split-second before Goofy did!) The additional characters are always represented as yellow. To reflect this, Riku's new outfit in Kingdom Hearts 2 (were he is an additional character) sports a lot of yellow.