History Main / ColourfulThemeNaming

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[[caption-width-right:350: The Pokédex holders (prior to the DPP arc). Center: Emerald. Clockwise from top: Yellow, Red, Gold, Ruby, Green (Blue US), Silver, Sapphire, Blue (Green US) and Crystal. Now where could those names have come from?]] One form of ThemeNaming is to name characters after colors. The colors may reflect their personalities (for example, red being violent and white being innocent), but there is often no correlation at all.

* The characters of ''{{Amatsuki}}'' all have a colour in their name.

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See also ColorCharacter, when a character incorporates the name of a color into [[SecretIdentity an alternate identity]].

[[caption-width-right:350: The pokedex holders (prior to the DPP arc). Center: Emerald. Clockwise from top: Yellow, Red, Gold, Ruby, Green (Blue US), Silver, Sapphire, Blue (Green US) and Crystal. Now where could those names have come from?]] One form of ThemeNaming is to name characters after colours. The colours may reflect their personalities (for example, red being violent and white being innocent), but there is often no correlation at all.

* The pokedex holders from ''{{Pokemon Special}}'' are named for the video game characters they're based on (Red, Blue, Green etc). With Yellow and Emerald being canon foreigners.

* The first generation of ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' games had colour-themed town names (playing the games on the SNES's Super Game Boy would yield a different colour scheme for each town based on the name)
** The second game combines this with theme naming based on plants - for example, Ecruteak (teakwood and the color ecru), Cianwood (wood in general and cyan), and Mahogany (both a type of wood and a color derived from it).
** The main characters of ''[[PokemonSpecial Pokémon Special]]'' are all color-named (Blue/[[DubNameChange Green]] being based off concept art for a female player character not used because of technology limitations).
** Red and Blue are the main characters of the [[PokemonRedAndBlue original games]]. A character named Leaf (after "[=LeafGreen=]") was added in the remakes as it adds the ability to choose the [=PC's=] gender found in later games (storywise, she's pretty much just [[DistaffCounterpart Red, but female]]). The sequels, ''[[PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'', had Gold (later renamed Ethan), Kris, and Silver as main characters. It wasn't until after that generation that they stopped naming characters after colors.
** [[PokemonRedAndBlue Two]] [[PokemonBlackAndWhite generations]] got colored named games - the others are named after valuable minerals, which also have homonymous colors (except Crystal and Diamond).

See also ColorCharacter.

* Coincidentally occurs among a few cast members of ''TheSchoolOfRock'': Jack ''Black'', Mike ''White'', Sarah ''Silver''man and Jordan-Clair ''Green''.

* The villains of ''FinalFantasyVII'': DirgeOfCerberus are called Rosso (red) the Crimson, Azul (blue) the Cerulean, Shelke (amber) the Transparent, Nero (black) the Sable and Weiss (white) the Immaculate.
* Red and Blue, heroes of TreasureHunterG, are members of an entire family of color-based names. Other characters are exempt from the theme, though.

** [[JustifyingEdit To be fair]], the games mostly stopped theme naming during gen 3 so they're named after the games. Their names also relate to their eye color and either their clothing or hair.
*** It'll start again at Gen V, though, with ''White'' and ''Black'' and their potential third version.

[[PokemonSpecial http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/PokeSpe_characters.jpg]]
[[caption-width:400: The pokedex holders (prior to the DPP arc). Center: Emerald. Clockwise from top: Yellow, Red, Gold, Ruby, Green (Blue US), Silver, Sapphire, Blue (Green US) and Crystal. Now where could those names have come from?]] One form of ThemeNaming is to name characters after colours. The colours may reflect their personalities (for example, red being violent and white being innocent), but there is often no correlation at all.

* {{Bleach}} has Ichigo '''Kuro'''saki and To'''shiro''' Hitsugaya. Kuro means black, and Ichigo wears a black trench coat and wields a black sword that shoots black energy bolts out of it. Shiro means white, and Hitsugaya is AnIcePerson with white hair.

* The Three Admirals in OnePiece follow this as well: ''Aka''inu (Red Dog), ''Ao''kiji (Blue Pheasant) and ''Ki''zaru (Yellow Monkey).

** You know someone named "Mr. Blue"?
** Yes. Yes I do.

* BluesClues has this with the title character... who in a subversion of color-related norms is female. Magenta is another character whose color matches her name.

* The villains of FinalFantasyVII: DirgeOfCerberus are called Rosso (red) the Crimson, Azul (blue) the Cerulean, Shelke (amber) the Transparent, Nero (black) the Sable and Weiss (white) the Immaculate.

* The pokedex holders from ''{{Pokemon Special}}'' are named for the video game characters they're based off (Red, Blue, Green etc). With Yellow and Emerald being canon foreigners.

** You knotw someone named "Mr. Blue?"

* In ''DarkerThanBlack'', those who work for the Syndicate have color-themed code names, mostly in Chinese. There's Hei (black), Yin (silver), Pai (white), Huang (yellow), and Amber (obvious), to name a few.

* ''KingdomHearts'' has a colourful music theme of the 'bell' type {{Heartless}} (Red Nocturne, Blue Rhapsody, Yellow Opera and Green Requiem in the first game and Chain of Memories; Crimson Jazz, Silver Rock, and Emerald Blues in Kingdom Hearts II).

* Red and Blue are also the names of characters in SagaFrontier.

** To be fair, the games mostly stopped theme naming during gen 3 so they're named after the games. Their names also relate to their eye color and either their clothing or hair.

** Red and Blue are the main characters of the [[PokemonRedAndBlue original games]]. A character named Leaf (after "[=LeafGreen=]") was added in the remakes as it adds the ability to choose the [=PC\s=] gender found in later games (storywise, she's pretty much just [[DistaffCounterpart Red, but female]]). The sequels, ''[[PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'', had Gold (later renamed Ethan), Kris, and Silver as main characters. It wasn't until after that generation that they stopped naming characters after colors.

** The main characters off ''Pokemon Special'' are all color-named (Blue/[[DubNameChange Green]] being based off concept art for a female player character not used because of technology limitations).
** Red and Blue are the main characters of the original games. A character named Leaf (after Leaf Green) was added in the remakes as it adds the ability to choose the [=PCs=] gender found in later games (storywise, she's pretty much just [[DistaffCounterpart Red, but female]]). The sequels, ''PokemonGoldAndSilver'', had Gold (later renamed Ethan), Kris, and Silver as main characters. It wasn't until after that generation that they stopped naming characters after colors.

** Red and Blue are the main characters of the original games. A character named Leaf (after Leaf Green) was added in the remakes as it adds the ability to choose the [=PCs=] gender found in later games (storywise, she's pretty much just [[DistaffCounterpart Red, but female]]). The sequels, known as GS, had [[strike:Gold]] [[strike:Ethan]] Gold, [[strike:Crystal]] Kris, and Silver as main characters. It wasn't until after that generation that they stopped naming characters after colors.

* The pokedex holders from ''{{PokemonSpecial}}'' are named for the video game characters they're based off (Red, Blue, Green etc). With Yellow and Emerald being canon foreigners.

* The pokedex holders from ''{{PokemonSpecial}}'' are named for the video game characters they're based off (Red, Blue, Green etc). With Yellow and Emerald being canon foreigners,

* The vast majority of ''SuperSentai'' shows use this, with only a small handful of aversions..