History Main / ColorblindConfusion

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Fiona sends Donkey to find a blue flower with red thorns to help heal Shrek after the ogre takes an [[ShotInTheAss arrow to the butt]], as [[SnipeHunt a distraction]] so Donkey doesn't bother them while they handle it themselves. Cut to Donkey desperately looking around a field of those exact flowers before complaining that "this would be so much easier if I wasn't colorblind!"

In RealLife, partial ("red-green" or "blue-yellow") and full colorblindness are among the most common disabilities, affecting around 8% of males and 5% of females worldwide, with the number possibly being even higher as many people go through life unaware that they have the condition due to it not causing problems in their lives.

In RealLife, partial ("red-green" or "blue-yellow") and full colorblindness are among the most common disabilities, affecting around 8% of males and .5% of females worldwide, with the number possibly being even higher as many people go through life unaware that they have the condition due to it not causing problems in their lives.

* In ''Film/TheShadow'', a colorblind scientist [[WrongWire cuts the wrong wire]] on the nuclear bomb, making the timer go to warp speed. By the time he's reconnected that wire to fix it, he's gone from having hours to having about two minutes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Fiona sends Donkey to find a blue flower with red thorns to help heal Shrek after the ogre takes an [[ShotInTheAss arrow to the butt]]. Cut to Donkey desperately looking around a field of those exact flowers before complaining that "this would be so much easier if I wasn't colorblind!"[[/folder]]

* In ''Manga/WitchHatAtelier'', a boy named Tartar has a condition where he can't see colors called argentosis. This ends up biting him when an accident scatters the bottles of paint ingredients and leaves them disorganized. Worse, he encounters a situation where he needs to give someone medicine but because the bottles aren't labeled he runs the risk of giving them something dangerous instead.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

* A pivotal moment in ComicBook/DogMan's backstory is when they were a duo consisting of a dog named Greg and an unnamed cop, and [[WireDilemma they had to figure which wire to cut in order to diffuse a bomb]]. Greg answers by growling, meaning "green". Too bad they realized too late that dogs are red-green colorblind. This is the incident that led to Greg's head being sewn onto the cop's body.

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* In ''Manga/WitchHatAtelier'', a boy named Tartar has a condition where he can't see colors called argentosis. This ends up biting him since when an accident scatters the bottles of paint ingredients and leaves them disorganized. Worse, he encounters a situation where he needs to give someone medicine but because the bottles aren't labeled he runs the risk of giving them something dangerous instead.

* In ''ComicBook/TheMazeAgency'' #11, Gabe's EurekaMoment occurs when he realized that the killer had shot up an empty room before finding the room containing his intended victim because her was colourblind: he had been unable to tell the difference between the red corridor and the green corridor. He is then able to work out from what he has observed of the suspects which of them is the only one who could be colourblind.

* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': Robin (like all centaurs in this universe) is blue-green colorblind. Thus he can't tell when the villains replace the blue stones of his magical bracelet (which lets him teleport and deliver spy reports) with green ones, and is unable to escape.

* In the ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode "[[Recap/LeverageS02E09TheLostHeirJob The Lost Heir Job]]", Ruth's colorblindness is hinted at when she brings flowers for a grave and calls them blue irises when they're clearly yellow. This is later used to prove that she's really the daughter of the wealthy Mr. Kimball and a stripper named Georgia, who were both colorblind and correctly shows the mechanism of inheritance as coming from both sides.
* ''Series/MisterEd'': The title character had whether or not he was colorblind flip-flopped with two episodes touching on it, the first where Ed wants a color TV but Wilbur refuses to get him once since horses are colorblind, but Ed proves him wrong by pointing out the color of the clothes he's wearing. In a later episode Ed wins a color TV in a trivia contest, and a fight among Ed and Wilbur ensues about whether it will go in the house or the barn. In the end Ed steals the TV and watches it in the barn, and decides to let Wilbur have it, since he discovered he was actually colorblind.
* On season 9 of ''Series/ProjectRunway'' Anthony Ryan Auld, a fashion designer featured as a contestant, is colorblind, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DisBkOLmxxw talks about it]] during his audition video and during the season, explaining that he both can't see some colors and perceives others differently and has both red-green and blue-yellow colorblindness. Also qualifies as DeafComposer since the judges would frequently laud his color choices on garments and acknowledge that they weren't sure how they looked to him but they found them praiseworthy. On a few occasions he's also shown consulting with other designers about whether two colors match and/or look good together.
* In the ''Series/{{Psych}}'' episode "[[Recap/PsychS06E16Santabarbaratown Santabarbaratown]]", Shawn has a EurekaMoment when he remembers that Thea Summers is colorblind, which helps prove that her father was Ellis Beaumont, who was recently murdered and had the condition as well. The mechanism of inheritance is also oversimplified by a stating that a colorblind man ''must'' have a colorblind daughter, when in reality she would have to get the gene from both parents due to it being carried on the X chromosome in order for it to be expressed.

* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'' combines this with ArtisticLicenseBiology by having one character, [[spoiler:TheMedic Cosette]] becoming colorblind after witnessing their parent's death, making them unable to see the color red. They, naturally, get faced with a WireDilemma and not only overcome it but are cured of their colorblindness in the process. Needless to say while colorblindness can sometimes be caused by factors other than genetics (usually physical trauma to the brain or retina) witnessing a traumatic incident isn't one of them, and EpiphanyTherapy isn't known to cure it.

* When ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' first started taking off, it was quickly discovered that the game was very color-blind unfriendly; not only did one task (wires) rely on matching colors, but if you saw someone kill but didn't catch their name and were colorblind, you had nothing to go on in meetings; leading to Impostors getting away or Crewmates being misblamed because of this trope. Later updates [[AuthorsSavingThrow fixed this]] by adding symbols to the wires and carrying hats into the debate menu.

** This turns out to be the reason Sister ended up on the Blue Team, since she was ''trying'' to go to the Red Team to be with her brother Grif but her disability combined with her general stupidity meant she joined the wrong army by accident.

* ''Webcomic/BloodyUrban'': Murray, a werewolf, is colorblind even in human form. In one St. Patrick's day comic he and Shaz find a pub giving out free beers to people wearing green and he's annoyed to realize his shirt is red, fortunately Shaz is willing to help out using their AlienBlood as face paint.

* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WebVideo/DoorMonster'' sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW3q-4AqeMQ "Can't See Green"]], where green objects are invisible to a character with red-green colorblindess.

* ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' is colorblind in real life so naturally he works jokes about it into his show. He also talks about it in a semi-serious capacity in that he's thankful for the rewind feature of SNES games on Switch as it finally let him beat a Donkey Kong Country 2 level which had color coded ropes as its main mechanic.

** Taken UpToEleven in the episode "Grey vs Grey"; a Red team and a Blue team are locked in a room together, and it's DeliberatelyMonochrome to illustrate that every soldier is colorblind. "What are the odds?"

** Taken UpToEleven in the episode "Grey vs Grey"; a Red team and a Blue team are locked in a room together, and there's a DeliberateMonochrome to illustrate that every soldier is colorblind. "What are the odds?"

* In ''VideoGame/MyTimeAtPortia,'' Sanwa, one of the Hulu brothers, has recently given up on his job as a barber because he realized he's colorblind. Specifically, because he accidentally dyed Remington's hair [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair bright green.]] To unlock his barbershop, you help him regain his confidence by making him a pair of colorblindness-correction glasses. Thankfully, since Remington actually keeps his green hair all throughout the game, it seems he actually likes the look.

* Once in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' Lieutenant Pi attempted to disarm some rogue ordnance by pressing the ''green'' button on his remote, and not the ''red'' detonation button. Cut to his head in a jar saying [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-08 "Nobody told me I was red-green colorblind."]]

Maria relies on a pair of artificial eyes to see, and she has difficulty recognizing colors due to them being in need of repair. She only finds out that Ruby has silver eyes by asking her what color they are.

* A pivotal moment in Literature/DogMan's backstory is when they were a duo consisting of a dog named Greg and an unnamed cop, and [[WireDilemma they had to figure which wire to cut in order to diffuse a bomb]]. Greg answers by growling, meaning "green". Too bad they realized too late that dogs are red-green colorblind. This is the incident that led to Greg's head being sewn onto the cop's body.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E6BrianWritesABestseller Brian Writes a Bestseller]]", Brian complains during a particularly prima-donna moment that all the M&Ms brought to him are gray when he specifically said to remove them, the joke being that, as a dog, they're all going to look that way to him.

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