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* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' includes purple amethysts, yellow topaz, blue sapphires, green emeralds, red rubies and white diamonds, the value, rarity and the quality of items crafted with those gems are in that same order (as in a diamond magic staff or grappling hook is superior to a ruby one). Orange amber can also be found but only by putting silt, slush or desert fossils into an Extractinator, but it cannot be crafted in to most of the same items as the other six.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' includes purple amethysts, yellow topaz, blue sapphires, green emeralds, red rubies and white diamonds, the value, rarity and the quality of items crafted with those gems are in that same order (as in a diamond magic staff or grappling hook is superior to a ruby one). Orange amber can also be found but originally only by putting silt, slush or desert fossils into an Extractinator, but Extractinator. Prior to the 1.4 update it cannot could not be crafted in to most of the same items as the other six.
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* ''VideoGame/FZero GX'': The four racing cups are Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Diamond. [[ChromaticArrangement Red, Blue, Green and a pale Yellow respectively.]]

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* ''VideoGame/FZero GX'': ''VideoGame/FZeroGX'': The four racing cups are Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Diamond. [[ChromaticArrangement Red, Blue, Green and a pale Yellow respectively.]]
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* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' has loot items in the form of gems with varying colors. In the increasing order of their gold values, they are: yellow citrine, dull-green jade, black onyx, green emerald, blue sapphire, red ruby, and iridescent [[OddNameOut Puzzling Trapezohedron]].
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* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', gems are identified by color, which you can verify by using the scanner Jane gives you. In some cases, a customer tells you the wrong kind of gem because a different gem has the same color as the assumed one (e. g. a green garnet being misidentified as an emerald).
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* In ''VideoGame/RootsOfPacha'', all the gemstones you can mine are given specific colors: dark red for jasper, dark orange for agate, light orange for sardius, yellow-green for peridot, teal for beryl, dark blue for sapphire, and purple for amethyst.

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* In ''VideoGame/RootsOfPacha'', all the gemstones you can mine are given specific colors: dark red for jasper, dark orange for agate, light orange red-orange for sardius, amber for agate, yellow-green for peridot, teal for beryl, dark blue for sapphire, and purple for amethyst.

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This is a visual shorthand trope that makes gems identifiable on sight, often reducing gems to {{Palette Swap}}s of each other. In RealLife, there are many features that differentiate minerals, gemstones, precious metals, and organic gems from each other: hardness, smoothness, clarity, a range of ''possible'' colors, and location found. But the only feature the audience can directly see for themselves, and that most people outside of geologists are readily familiar with, is color. Therefore, gems in fiction will often be identified solely by color, with a standard set of gem-color associations dictating the types of gems. The gems may be identical aside from the differences in color.

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This is a visual shorthand trope that makes gems identifiable on sight, often reducing gems to {{Palette Swap}}s of each other. In RealLife, there are many features that differentiate minerals, gemstones, precious metals, and organic gems from each other: hardness, smoothness, clarity, a range of ''possible'' colors, and location found. But the only feature the audience can directly see for themselves, and that most people outside of geologists are readily familiar with, is color. Therefore, gems in fiction will often be identified solely by color, with a standard set of gem-color associations dictating the types of gems.gems, even if there's color variance between gems of the same kind in real life. The gems may be identical aside from the differences in color.



* ''VideoGame/FZero GX'': The four racing cups are Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Diamond. [[ChromaticArrangement Red, Blue, Green and a pale Yellow respectively.]]

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* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'':
** You could find the six gems that are explained in their description, each with the colour that it's said in the description. What's more, adding them to SocketedEquipment gives it a glow of the colour of the gem, and some of them (to be precise, ruby, sapphire, topaz and emerald) are associated with elements, adding damage of that element in weapons and resistance to the element in shields (ruby is fire, sapphire is cold, topaz is lightning and emerald is poison). The other two (diamond and amethyst) aren't, though.
** The Soulstones. Mephisto's is blue, Diablo's is red, and Baal's is yellow-green.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has diamonds of five colours as well as clear, and also blue, clear and pink garnets in addition to red, and so on and so forth. It assigns the standard colors to emerald, ruby, sapphire, amethyst, topaz and quite a few others, though; given the ASCII graphics and the limited colour palette this is necessary.
* ''VideoGame/{{Elona}}'' has six color-coded ores: gray junk stones, white mica, red rubies, yellow bars of gold, green emeralds and blue diamonds.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' has the twelve birthstone jewels as equipped accessories, with their menu icons appropriately colored. ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' includes the same items as trade accessories, minus the Garnet and Amethyst.
* ''VideoGame/FZero GX'': The four racing cups are Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Diamond. [[ChromaticArrangement Red, Blue, Green and a pale Yellow respectively.]] ]]
* ''VideoGame/GinormoSword'' has gems as enemy drops which are used to apply elemental power to your weapons and armor:
** [[FireIsRed Red = ruby = fire]]
** [[WaterIsBlue Blue = aquamarine = water]]
** [[WindIsGreen Green = emerald = wind]]
** Yellow = topaz = earth
** White = diamond = light (the diamonds themselves are light blue)
** Black = onix [sic] = dark
* In ''[[VideoGame/NancyDrew Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon]]'', the gemstones Nancy must find to operate a device not only look exactly as this trope predicts, but ''exactly'' like the pictures of their type in a book Nancy acquires.



* In ''[[VideoGame/NancyDrew Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon]]'', the gemstones Nancy must find to operate a device not only look exactly as this trope predicts, but ''exactly'' like the pictures of their type in a book Nancy acquires.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The original Generation I games were Red, Green, and Blue. For Generation III, which was essentially a continuity reboot (couldn't link back to Gen I/II games, and included updated RetCon remakes of Gen I,) started with Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. Gen IV's Diamond Version was a pale blue.
* One dungeon in ''VideoGame/ShiningTheHolyArk'' has the player collecting different coloured gem stones to use in a SolveTheSoupCans puzzle. The only way to figure out what gem went where was were was if you knew what the stock colours of the gems where.

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* In ''[[VideoGame/NancyDrew Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon]]'', ''VideoGame/MotherLoad'', when you're digging underground emeralds are green, rubies are red and diamonds are white, which helps you decide which ones you should collect.
* In ''VideoGame/MySims'',
the gemstones Nancy must find to operate six Interests - Fun, Tasty, Geeky, Cute, Studious, and Spooky - each have a device not only look exactly as related gem-themed Essence. There’s yellow Topaz for Fun, orange Amber for Tasty, blue Sapphire for Geeky, pink Garnet (a notably rare color for this trope predicts, but ''exactly'' like the pictures of their type in particular gem) for Cute, green Jade for Studious, and purple Amethyst for Spooky.
* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' plays this one dead straight, with
a book Nancy acquires.few exceptions - there's two possibilities each for turquoise and aquamarine (green or blue), and fluorite is randomly assigned either green, blue, white or violet. All gems are just "< colour > gem" until identified, so an unidentified "red gem" can't turn out to be sapphire, which is a blue gem.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The original Generation I games were Red, Green, and Blue. For Generation III, which was essentially a continuity reboot (couldn't link back to Gen I/II games, and included updated RetCon remakes of Gen I,) started with Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. Gen IV's Diamond Version was a pale blue.blue.
* In ''VideoGame/RootsOfPacha'', all the gemstones you can mine are given specific colors: dark red for jasper, dark orange for agate, light orange for sardius, yellow-green for peridot, teal for beryl, dark blue for sapphire, and purple for amethyst.
* The ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' series has purple amethysts, red rubies, green emeralds, and white diamonds. However, it also has deep blue aquamarines, so the sapphires end up being pink instead of the usual blue.
* In ''Videogame/{{Runescape}}'', there are blue sapphires, red rubies, green emeralds, white diamonds, and black onyx. But there are also quest-related gems that are different in color (blood diamond is red, smoke diamond is gray, shadow diamond is black, ice diamond is light gray). Lastly, jade, opal and diamond are in ridiculously similar color. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Gems You can have a reference here]].

* One dungeon in ''VideoGame/ShiningTheHolyArk'' has the player collecting different coloured gem stones to use in a SolveTheSoupCans puzzle. The only way to figure out what gem went where was were was if you knew what the stock colours of the gems where. where.
* Zigzagged in ''VideoGame/TheSims3''. Each gemstone only comes in one colour or colour scheme and gemstones which have been cut to the same shape are all palette swaps, but not all of them fit the standard colour code. As expected, you can find red rubies, green emeralds and white/colourless diamonds, however you can also collect blue topaz, grey (smoky) quartz, yellow sapphires and pink diamonds. You can also collect [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Tiberium]], but only in its green form.



* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' has the twelve birthstone jewels as equipped accessories, with their menu icons appropriately colored. ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' includes the same items as trade accessories, minus the Garnet and Amethyst.
* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'':
** You could find the six gems that are explained in their description, each with the colour that it's said in the description. What's more, adding them to SocketedEquipment gives it a glow of the colour of the gem, and some of them (to be precise, ruby, sapphire, topaz and emerald) are associated with elements, adding damage of that element in weapons and resistance to the element in shields (ruby is fire, sapphire is cold, topaz is lightning and emerald is poison). The other two (diamond and amethyst) aren't, though.
** The Soulstones. Mephisto's is blue, Diablo's is red, and Baal's is yellow-green.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': The seven Crystal Stars that must be collected throughout this game are colored this way. The Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire and Garnet stars are white, green, red, blue and orange, respectively. The third Crystal Star, which is yellow, is not a named after a gemstone at all; rather than being named after a yellow gem like topaz, it's simply called the Gold Star despite not being metal. The final Crystal Star is a iridescent white color that's even shinier than the Diamond Star, but it's merely called the Crystal Star rather than being named after any crystal in particular.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon''
has thirteen gemstones in each of its five areas, color-coded based on the twelve birthstone jewels "theme" of the mansion. Gloomy Manor, which has purple spiders, has purple amethysts; the botanical Haunted Towers has green emeralds; the desert-like Old Clockworks has red rubies; Secret Mine, the snowy region, has blue sapphires, and the diamonds in Treacherous Mansion are as equipped accessories, with their menu icons appropriately colored. ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' white as [[BigBad King Boo.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}''
includes purple amethysts, yellow topaz, blue sapphires, green emeralds, red rubies and white diamonds, the value, rarity and the quality of items crafted with those gems are in that same order (as in a diamond magic staff or grappling hook is superior to a ruby one). Orange amber can also be found but only by putting silt, slush or desert fossils into an Extractinator, but it cannot be crafted in to most of the same items as trade accessories, minus the Garnet and Amethyst.
* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'':
** You could find the six gems that are explained in their description, each with the colour that it's said in the description. What's more, adding them to SocketedEquipment gives it a glow of the colour of the gem, and some of them (to be precise, ruby, sapphire, topaz and emerald) are associated with elements, adding damage of that element in weapons and resistance to the element in shields (ruby is fire, sapphire is cold, topaz is lightning and emerald is poison). The
other two (diamond six.
* The {{Web Game|s}} ''[[http://www.powerabuse.co.uk/games/tower.html Tower Core]]'' features a puzzle involving eight colored gemstones. Each gem has a specific name, with citrine for yellow
and amethyst) aren't, though.
** The Soulstones. Mephisto's is blue, Diablo's is red, and Baal's is yellow-green.
obsidian for black.



* In ''Videogame/{{Runescape}}'', there are blue sapphires, red rubies, green emeralds, white diamonds, and black onyx. But there are also quest-related gems that are different in color (blood diamond is red, smoke diamond is gray, shadow diamond is black, ice diamond is light gray). Lastly, jade, opal and diamond are in ridiculously similar color. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Gems You can have a reference here]].
* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' plays this one dead straight, with a few exceptions - there's two possibilities each for turquoise and aquamarine (green or blue), and fluorite is randomly assigned either green, blue, white or violet. All gems are just "< colour > gem" until identified, so an unidentified "red gem" can't turn out to be sapphire, which is a blue gem.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has diamonds of five colours as well as clear, and also blue, clear and pink garnets in addition to red, and so on and so forth. It assigns the standard colors to emerald, ruby, sapphire, amethyst, topaz and quite a few others, though; given the ASCII graphics and the limited colour palette this is necessary.
* In ''VideoGame/MySims'', the six Interests - Fun, Tasty, Geeky, Cute, Studious, and Spooky - each have a related gem-themed Essence. There’s yellow Topaz for Fun, orange Amber for Tasty, blue Sapphire for Geeky, pink Garnet (a notably rare color for this particular gem) for Cute, green Jade for Studious, and purple Amethyst for Spooky.
* The ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' series has purple amethysts, red rubies, green emeralds, and white diamonds. However, it also has deep blue aquamarines, so the sapphires end up being pink instead of the usual blue.
* ''VideoGame/GinormoSword'' has gems as enemy drops which are used to apply elemental power to your weapons and armor:
** [[FireIsRed Red = ruby = fire]]
** [[WaterIsBlue Blue = aquamarine = water]]
** [[WindIsGreen Green = emerald = wind]]
** Yellow = topaz = earth
** White = diamond = light (the diamonds themselves are light blue)
** Black = onix [sic] = dark
* In ''VideoGame/MotherLoad'', when you're digging underground emeralds are green, rubies are red and diamonds are white, which helps you decide which ones you should collect.
* The {{Web Game|s}} ''[[http://www.powerabuse.co.uk/games/tower.html Tower Core]]'' features a puzzle involving eight colored gemstones. Each gem has a specific name, with citrine for yellow and obsidian for black.
* Zigzagged in ''VideoGame/TheSims3''. Each gemstone only comes in one colour or colour scheme and gemstones which have been cut to the same shape are all palette swaps, but not all of them fit the standard colour code. As expected, you can find red rubies, green emeralds and white/colourless diamonds, however you can also collect blue topaz, grey (smoky) quartz, yellow sapphires and pink diamonds. You can also collect [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Tiberium]], but only in its green form.
* ''{{VideoGame/Terraria}}'' includes purple amethysts, yellow topaz, blue sapphires, green emeralds, red rubies and white diamonds, the value, rarity and the quality of items crafted with those gems are in that same order (as in a diamond magic staff or grappling hook is superior to a ruby one). Orange amber can also be found but only by putting silt, slush or desert fossils into an Extractinator, but it cannot be crafted in to most of the same items as the other six.



* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': The seven Crystal Stars that must be collected throughout this game are colored this way. The Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire and Garnet stars are white, green, red, blue and orange, respectively. The third Crystal Star, which is yellow, is not a named after a gemstone at all; rather than being named after a yellow gem like topaz, it's simply called the Gold Star despite not being metal. The final Crystal Star is a iridescent white color that's even shinier than the Diamond Star, but it's merely called the Crystal Star rather than being named after any crystal in particular.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' has thirteen gemstones in each of its five areas, color-coded based on the "theme" of the mansion. Gloomy Manor, which has purple spiders, has purple amethysts; the botanical Haunted Towers has green emeralds; the desert-like Old Clockworks has red rubies; Secret Mine, the snowy region, has blue sapphires, and the diamonds in Treacherous Mansion are as white as [[BigBad King Boo.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Elona}}'' has six color-coded ores: gray junk stones, white mica, red rubies, yellow bars of gold, green emeralds and blue diamonds.
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** More generally, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' depicts the gemstones you can obtain from ore deposits in this manner. Specifically, ambers are rounded orange shapes, diamonds clear quartz-like spears, opals are many-colored and sparkly, rubies deep red, sapphires blue and topazes bright yellow.

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** More generally, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' depicts the gemstones you can obtain from ore deposits in this manner. Specifically, ambers are rounded orange shapes, diamonds clear quartz-like spears, opals are many-colored and sparkly, rubies deep red, sapphires blue and topazes bright yellow. [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom The sequel]] maintains this colour scheme, but changes the shapes of diamond and amber slightly to make them more believable as fuse materials that could do lots more damage (while the other gems instead create magic staffs).
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* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

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* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has an entire alien species of sentient gemstones, and not all of the colors match up with the typical gemstones. Garnet was introduced before Ruby [[spoiler: one of her component Gems]], blue Gem Lapis Lazuli was introduced before Sapphire, the green Peridot was introduced before Emerald, while Jasper, Padparadscha, and the [[VideoGame/SaveTheLight tie-in game-exclusive]] Hessonite are the only non-fused Orange Gems. Interestingly, the characters are able to [[FusionDance amalgamate their physical forms]], and doing so [[ConvenientColorChange changes the color of the component gems to match the new name]]. Pearl and Amethyst, for instance, fusing into Opal turns their respective white and purple gems into [[http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Opal#Gemstone.28s.29 matching opals.]] Should be noted, the {{Greater Scope Villain}}s are the Diamond Authority and they're four different colors: Yellow Diamond, Blue Diamond, Pink Diamond [[spoiler: who went by the name of Rose Quartz]], and White Diamond.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has an entire alien species of sentient gemstones, and not all of the colors match up with the typical gemstones. Garnet was introduced before Ruby [[spoiler: one [[spoiler:one of her component Gems]], blue Gem Lapis Lazuli was introduced before Sapphire, the green Peridot was introduced before Emerald, while Jasper, Padparadscha, and the [[VideoGame/SaveTheLight tie-in game-exclusive]] Hessonite are the only non-fused Orange Gems. Interestingly, the characters are able to [[FusionDance amalgamate their physical forms]], and doing so [[ConvenientColorChange changes the color of the component gems to match the new name]]. Pearl and Amethyst, for instance, fusing into Opal turns their respective white and purple gems into [[http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Opal#Gemstone.28s.29 matching opals.]] Should be noted, the {{Greater Scope Villain}}s are the Diamond Authority and they're four different colors: Yellow Diamond, Blue Diamond, Pink Diamond [[spoiler: who [[spoiler:who went by the name of Rose Quartz]], and White Diamond.



* Real life diamonds with perfect structure and no impurities are totally transparent and colorless. However with impurities they can be in all kinds of colors, including [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, indigo, violet, magenta]]. What's more, even gray and black diamond exists[[note]]by reaching a certain degree of saturation[[/note]], leaving the only missing color white.

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* Real life diamonds with perfect structure and no impurities are totally transparent and colorless. However with impurities they can be in all kinds of colors, including [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, indigo, violet, magenta]]. What's more, even gray and black diamond exists[[note]]by exists,[[note]]by reaching a certain degree of saturation[[/note]], saturation[[/note]] leaving the only missing color white.

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* ''[[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'': The seven Crystal Stars that must be collected throughout this game are colored this way. The Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire and Garnet stars are white, green, red, blue and orange, respectively. The third Crystal Star, which is yellow, is not a named after a gemstone at all; rather than being named after a yellow gem like topaz, it's simply called the Gold Star despite not being metal. The final Crystal Star is a iridescent white color that's even shinier than the Diamond Star, but it's merely called the Crystal Star rather than being named after any crystal in particular.



* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' has thirteen gemstones in each of its five areas, color-coded based on the "theme" of the mansion. Gloomy Manor, which has purple spiders, has purple amethysts; the botanical Haunted Towers has green emeralds; the desert-like Old Clockworks has red rubies; Secret Mine, the snowy region, has blue sapphires, and the diamonds in Treacherous Mansion are as white as [[BigBad King Boo.]]

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* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': The seven Crystal Stars that must be collected throughout this game are colored this way. The Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire and Garnet stars are white, green, red, blue and orange, respectively. The third Crystal Star, which is yellow, is not a named after a gemstone at all; rather than being named after a yellow gem like topaz, it's simply called the Gold Star despite not being metal. The final Crystal Star is a iridescent white color that's even shinier than the Diamond Star, but it's merely called the Crystal Star rather than being named after any crystal in particular.
**
''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' has thirteen gemstones in each of its five areas, color-coded based on the "theme" of the mansion. Gloomy Manor, which has purple spiders, has purple amethysts; the botanical Haunted Towers has green emeralds; the desert-like Old Clockworks has red rubies; Secret Mine, the snowy region, has blue sapphires, and the diamonds in Treacherous Mansion are as white as [[BigBad King Boo.]]
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* ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'' naturally has this trope in play. [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple Guess what color]] [[SupernaturalIsPurple the eponymous]] [[PurpleIsPowerful character is?]]

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* ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'' naturally has this trope in play. [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple Guess what color]] [[SupernaturalIsPurple the eponymous]] eponymous [[PurpleIsPowerful character is?]]
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* Enforced with jade commodities, since a lot of the finished pieces on the market are either dyed or injected with green wax. Rough jade, however, can be black, yellow, lilac, white, and even translucent. In fact, the most valuable pieces in ancient China were made of WHITE jade, green jade being seen at the time as gaudy trinkets from the barbarians to the South (that is, Burma).

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* Enforced with jade commodities, since a lot of the finished pieces on the market are either dyed or injected with green wax. Rough jade, however, can be black, yellow, lilac, white, and even translucent. In fact, the most valuable pieces in ancient China were made of WHITE jade, jade (referred to as "mutton fat" jade), green jade being seen at the time as gaudy trinkets from the barbarians to the South (that is, Burma).
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* Played with somewhat in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', where there are ten gemstones used in [[AlchemyIsMagic Soulcasting]]; each gemstone can transmute a certain element, and the association is based mainly on the commonality of colour between them. In order, with colours and elements listed, the gemstones are: Sapphire, blue, [[BlowYouAway any clear gas]]. Smokestone, black, [[SmokeOut any opaque gas]]. Ruby, red, [[PlayingWithFire fire]]. Diamond, white, crystal. Emerald, green, [[GreenThumb plant matter]]. Garnet, rusty red, blood. Zircon, yellow, oil. Amethyst, purple, [[ExtraOreDinary metal]]. Topaz, brown, [[DishingOutDirt stone]]. Heliodor, golden, flesh.

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* Played with somewhat in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', where there are ten gemstones used in [[AlchemyIsMagic Soulcasting]]; each gemstone can transmute a certain element, and the association is based mainly on the commonality of colour between them. In order, with colours and elements listed, the gemstones are: Sapphire, blue, [[BlowYouAway any clear gas]]. Smokestone, black, [[SmokeOut any opaque gas]]. Ruby, red, [[PlayingWithFire fire]]. Diamond, white, crystal. Emerald, green, [[GreenThumb plant matter]]. Garnet, rusty red, blood. Zircon, yellow, oil. Amethyst, purple, [[ExtraOreDinary metal]]. Topaz, brown, [[DishingOutDirt stone]]. Heliodor, golden, flesh. Per WordOfGod, the author ''wanted'' to sort the stones by their material and elemental composition, only to discover that most gemstones are almost identical from a material perspective.
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* Gold: Yellow, orange, or tannish

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* Gold: Yellow, [[GoldIsYellow Yellow]], orange, or tannish
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* In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit,'' Casey Novak catches a suspect in a lie on the stand with this. The suspect says she was born in January, but Casey notices the class ring she's wearing wasn't a red Garnet, but a blue Sapphire (the victim's ring.) It also never occurred to Casey that some schools let students choose gems based on school colors, either.

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* In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit,'' Casey Novak catches a suspect in a lie on the stand with this. The suspect says she was born in January, but Casey notices the class ring she's wearing wasn't a red Garnet, but a blue Sapphire (the victim's ring.) It also never occurred This in of itself doesn't prove anything, but she goes on to Casey that some schools let students choose gems based on school colors, either. say the victim's ring was inscribed with her initials, and gets the judge to order the girl to have the ring examined. Realizing she's caught, the girl tells everything.
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* Birthstones are most popular/valuable/expensive in specific colors, and are the TropeCodifier

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* Birthstones are most popular/valuable/expensive in specific colors, and are the TropeCodifier TropeCodifier.
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Often these gemstones are seen together as a set of {{Mineral Macguffin}}s. When it's more generalized (i.e. all red gems are rubies, all orange gems are topaz all the way down the rainbow), it's never brought up why there's so much mineral diversity in one area. If a gemstone is ''not'' the usual color, that is [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail usually a plot relevant detail]].

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* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has the Gem-Knight cards (a {{Homage}} to the Elemental Hero archetype and the above-mentioned Crystal Beasts) which are named for and usually colored after a Gemstone (The exception is Gem-Knight Lazuli and maybe Gem-Knight Sardonyx) Their leader Gem-Knight Master Diamond has white armor and an AllYourColorsCombined RainbowMotif sword and background.
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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Tends to do this for their goddess related objects.
** Used in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' with the green [[ElementalNation Spiritual Stone of Forest Kokiri Emerald, red Spiritual Stone of Fire Goron Ruby, and blue Spiritual Stone of Water Zora Sapphire.]]
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' brought this back with the Emerald Tablet for the Forest, Ruby Tablet for the Volcano and for the first time Amber Tablet representing Yellow for the Desert.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'': Has the three "goddess pearls" each with a different color (red, green, and blue)
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** Used *** This trend to have color-coded stones of power in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' the ''Zelda'' series has been around since ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'' starting with the green three pendants of virtue.
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[[ElementalNation the Kokiri Emerald, the green Spiritual Stone of Forest Kokiri Emerald, Forest; the Goron Ruby, the. red Spiritual Stone of Fire Goron Ruby, Fire; and the Zora Sapphire, the blue Spiritual Stone of Water Zora Sapphire.]]
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blue).
** In fact More generally, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' depicts the gemstones you can obtain from ore deposits in this trend to have color coded stones of power in the Zelda series has been around since ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'' starting with the three pendants of virtue.manner. Specifically, ambers are rounded orange shapes, diamonds clear quartz-like spears, opals are many-colored and sparkly, rubies deep red, sapphires blue and topazes bright yellow.



* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The original Generation I games were Red, Green, and Blue. For Generation III, which was essentially a continuity reboot (couldn't link back to Gen I/II games, and included updated RetCon remakes of Gen I,) started with Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.
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* In ''{{Videogame/Runescape}}'', there are blue sapphires, red rubies, green emeralds, white diamonds, and black onyx. But there are also quest-related gems that are different in color (blood diamond is red, smoke diamond is gray, shadow diamond is black, ice diamond is light gray). Lastly, jade, opal and diamond are in ridiculously similar color. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Gems You can have a reference here]].

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* In ''{{Videogame/Runescape}}'', ''Videogame/{{Runescape}}'', there are blue sapphires, red rubies, green emeralds, white diamonds, and black onyx. But there are also quest-related gems that are different in color (blood diamond is red, smoke diamond is gray, shadow diamond is black, ice diamond is light gray). Lastly, jade, opal and diamond are in ridiculously similar color. [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Gems You can have a reference here]].



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* The 8 Disaster Stones in ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'' have each a color, symbol and element.
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* [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess One episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' had Spike give Rarity a red Fire Ruby that he was planning to eat. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Another]] had Sweetie Belle make a picture with some small blue (and supposedly rare) sapphires.

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* ''{{VideoGame/Terraria}}'' includes purple amethysts, yellow topaz, blue sapphires, green emeralds, red rubies and white diamonds, the value, rarity and the quality of items crafted with those gems are in that same order (as in a diamond magic staff or grappling hook is superior to a ruby one). Amber can also be found but only by putting silt, slush or desert fossils into an Extractinator.

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* ''{{VideoGame/Terraria}}'' includes purple amethysts, yellow topaz, blue sapphires, green emeralds, red rubies and white diamonds, the value, rarity and the quality of items crafted with those gems are in that same order (as in a diamond magic staff or grappling hook is superior to a ruby one). Amber Orange amber can also be found but only by putting silt, slush or desert fossils into an Extractinator.Extractinator, but it cannot be crafted in to most of the same items as the other six.


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* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' has thirteen gemstones in each of its five areas, color-coded based on the "theme" of the mansion. Gloomy Manor, which has purple spiders, has purple amethysts; the botanical Haunted Towers has green emeralds; the desert-like Old Clockworks has red rubies; Secret Mine, the snowy region, has blue sapphires, and the diamonds in Treacherous Mansion are as white as [[BigBad King Boo.]]
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** Amethyst and citrine are both quartz with iron impurities; in citrine the iron is triply ionized (Fe[[superscript:3+]]), while in amethyst it's quadruply ionized (Fe[[superscript:4+]]).

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* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': The Master Emerald which stands alone, is green. The Chaos Emeralds are a set of seven, only one is green and the others are differentiated by color. Given the RealLife example below they should probably be called Chaos Beryl instead.
** The first level and GreenHillZone of Sonic 1 is the TropeNamer, Green Hill Zone. The first level and GreenHillZone of Sonic 2 is Emerald Hill Zone.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' the Chao race courses were all named after gemstones and the prize for winning is a medal following that color scheme.

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** The first level and GreenHillZone of Sonic 1 the original ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' is the TropeNamer, Green Hill Zone. The first level and GreenHillZone of Sonic 2 the sequel is Emerald Hill Zone.
Zone.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', the Chao race courses were all named after gemstones and the prize for winning is a medal following that color scheme. scheme.
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* Zigzagged in ''VideoGame/TheSims3''. Each gemstone only comes in one colour or colour scheme and gemstones which have been cut to the same shape are all palette swaps, but not all of them fit the standard colour code. As expected, you can find red rubies, green emeralds and white/colourless diamonds, however you can also collect blue topaz, grey (smoky) quartz, yellow sapphires and pink diamonds. You can also collect [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Tiberium]], but only in its green form.
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* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': The Master Emerald which stands alone, is green. The Chaos Emeralds are a set of seven, only one is green and the others are differentiated by color. Given the RealLife example below they should probably be called Chaos Beryl instead.

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* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': The Master Emerald which stands alone, is green. The Chaos Emeralds are a set of seven, only one is green and the others are differentiated by color. Given the RealLife example below they should probably be called Chaos Beryl instead.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has an entire alien species of sentient gemstones, and not all of the colors match up with the typical gemstones. Garnet was introduced before Ruby [[spoiler: one of her component Gems]], blue Gem Lapis Lazuli was introduced before Sapphire, the green Peridot was introduced before Emerald, while Jasper, Padparadscha, and the [[VideoGame/SaveTheLight tie-in game-exclusive]] Hessonite are the only non-fused Orange Gems. Interestingly, the characters are able to [[FusionDance amalgamate their physical forms]], and doing so changes the color of the component gems to match the new name. Pearl and Amethyst, for instance, fusing into Opal turns their respective white and purple gems into [[http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Opal#Gemstone.28s.29 matching opals.]] Should be noted, the {{Greater Scope Villain}}s are the Diamond Authority and they're four different colors: Yellow Diamond, Blue Diamond, Pink Diamond [[spoiler: who went by the name of Rose Quartz]], and White Diamond.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has an entire alien species of sentient gemstones, and not all of the colors match up with the typical gemstones. Garnet was introduced before Ruby [[spoiler: one of her component Gems]], blue Gem Lapis Lazuli was introduced before Sapphire, the green Peridot was introduced before Emerald, while Jasper, Padparadscha, and the [[VideoGame/SaveTheLight tie-in game-exclusive]] Hessonite are the only non-fused Orange Gems. Interestingly, the characters are able to [[FusionDance amalgamate their physical forms]], and doing so [[ConvenientColorChange changes the color of the component gems to match the new name.name]]. Pearl and Amethyst, for instance, fusing into Opal turns their respective white and purple gems into [[http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Opal#Gemstone.28s.29 matching opals.]] Should be noted, the {{Greater Scope Villain}}s are the Diamond Authority and they're four different colors: Yellow Diamond, Blue Diamond, Pink Diamond [[spoiler: who went by the name of Rose Quartz]], and White Diamond.
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* ''Anime/YugiohGX'' has the Crystal Beasts, a group of monsters that are based on the following Gemstones:

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has an entire alien species of sentient gemstones, and not all of the colors match up with the typical gemstones. Garnet was introduced before Ruby [[spoiler: one of her component Gems]], blue Gem Lapis Lazuli was introduced before Sapphire, the green Peridot was introduced before Emerald, while Jasper, Padparadscha, and the [[VideoGame/SaveTheLight tie-in game-exclusive]] Hessonite are the only non-fused Orange Gems. Interestingly, the characters are able to [[FusionDance amalgamate their physical forms]], and doing so changes the color of the component gems to match the new name. Pearl and Amethyst, for instance, fusing into Opal turns their respective white and purple gems into [[http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Opal#Gemstone.28s.29 matching opals.]] Should be noted, the {{Greater Scope Villain}}s are the Diamond Authority and they're four different colors: Yellow Diamond, Blue Diamond, Pink Diamond [[spoiler: who was allegedly killed by Rose Quartz]], and what the fans are presuming is White Diamond (based solely on the color).

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has an entire alien species of sentient gemstones, and not all of the colors match up with the typical gemstones. Garnet was introduced before Ruby [[spoiler: one of her component Gems]], blue Gem Lapis Lazuli was introduced before Sapphire, the green Peridot was introduced before Emerald, while Jasper, Padparadscha, and the [[VideoGame/SaveTheLight tie-in game-exclusive]] Hessonite are the only non-fused Orange Gems. Interestingly, the characters are able to [[FusionDance amalgamate their physical forms]], and doing so changes the color of the component gems to match the new name. Pearl and Amethyst, for instance, fusing into Opal turns their respective white and purple gems into [[http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Opal#Gemstone.28s.29 matching opals.]] Should be noted, the {{Greater Scope Villain}}s are the Diamond Authority and they're four different colors: Yellow Diamond, Blue Diamond, Pink Diamond [[spoiler: who was allegedly killed went by the name of Rose Quartz]], and what the fans are presuming is White Diamond (based solely on the color).Diamond.

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