History Main / YellowLightningBlueLightning

* In ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'', the color of weapon effects corresponds to the color of the user's powers.
One attack for {{hand blast}}er-using characters is a stream of lightning, which can, for example, be red for Fire, Atomic, and Rage characters or green for Nature and Light characters.

* In Pokemon, The Electric-Type is color coded and most of it's attacks are yellow, but in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': the electric dragon Zekrom uses blue lightning in its Fusion Bolt move, and blue lightning surges through its tail.

* [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Spark Kirby]] uses green lightning.

* Suscribed members in ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline'' can color their powers in a variety of hues. Naturally, this applies to lightning powers, so besides blue and yellow lightning there can be red, orange, pink, brown, purple and green in different shades each. You can even make an electricity-based hero whose every power uses a different color.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' all of the electricity has a visible greenish hue, however the menu icon for Urbosa's Fury, the ability that lets Link call down lightning, is yellow.

* ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'':
** Buzzshock, a future alien from [[WesternAnimation/{{Ben10}} the original series]] creates green lightning.

** Dr. Viktor can create purple lightning though his Omnitrix counterpart, Frankenstrike, uses green instead.

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* After being genetically altered with Jolteon DNA in ''Fanfic/TheMyamotoProject'', James gains electric powers. He's associated with blue, lightning and all.
-->''An aura of blue and white electricity surrounded the young man, and his eyes glowed an unnatural, phosphorous blue, the same color as the electric aura surrounding his body. A sound like a great thunderclap shook the Gym and the air smelled thickly of an odor like burnt wires.''
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* Electric-type moves in ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' are portrayed as yellow in color, and many Electric-type Pokemon like Pikachu tend to be yellow-colored as well.

* Fate Testarossa in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' has an inherent affinity for lighting-based magic. Her lightning (as well as other spells) is yellow or golden in color.

** Enel's lighting produced from his Devil Fruit powers is blue.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'', the Kraken's electrical attacks are faintly tinted blue. Markov's lighting gun plays this straight, with bright blue lightning.

* ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' has three characters using [[ShockAndAwe Zio]] skills, so it uses different colors for each of them. Yu Narukami has the traditional blue lightning of the series, Kanji Tatsumi's is yellow to match his Persona's lightning bolt sword, and Akihiko Sanada has purple lightning, though it's really only noticeable in his [[DesperationAttack Awakening Super]], Maziodyne. Elizabeth also uses purple lightning in one of her special moves. Ultimax adds even more colors to the mix: Ken Amada uses greenish lighting for two of his moves, and Tohru Adachi has ''blood red'' lightning to match the color scheme of his Persona.

* Magic in ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' is [[ElementalPowers elemental]] in nature and those who use wind magic can create [[BlowYouAway wind]] and [[ShockAndAwe lighting]] that is colored green. Except for [[TheAtoner Sakido]] who unlike every other wind magic user her lightning is blue, whether this is significant or not is currently unknown.

** Megawhatts from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben10}}'' create yellow lighting.

** Buzzshock, a future alien from [[WesternAnimation/{{Ben10}} the original series]] creates green lighting.

However, in certain types of works, lightning bolts and other types of electricity are chiefly yellow (which is quite an uncommon color for lightning, at least when not having an orange tinge), often a simple zigzag shape and seldom striking from the ground to sky or from the one to be shocked to the object. Justified since yellow is a good warning color, associated with electricity and fire in general (and as we all know, lightning is electric). Plus, entomologically, the word "electric" came from the Greek word for amber, a yellow gem, and it was known and used by ancient scientists and philosophers for its electrostatic properties.

* In anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{My Hero Academia}}'', Denki Kaminari's Quirk produces yellow electricity.

* In the ''Film/DCExtendedUniverse'', Flash gives off blue lightning when he uses his SuperSpeed.

However, in certain types of works, lightning bolts and other types of electricity are chiefly yellow (which is quite an uncommon color for lightning, at least when not having an orange tinge), often a simple zigzag shape and seldom striking from the ground to sky or from the one to be shocked to the object. Justified since yellow is a good warning color, associated with electricity and fire in general (and as we all know, lightning is electric). Plus, entomologically, the word "electric" came from the Greek word for amber, a yellow gem.

** The lightning that Enel is made of is blue.

** The [[PsychoElectro Enel]] is on both sides -- his electricity is yellow in the manga and pale blue in the anime.

** The Accelerated Man, an AlternateUniverse speedster and OneSceneWonder, has ''purple'' lightning for some reason.

However, in certain types of works, lightning bolts and other types of electricity are chiefly yellow (which is quite an uncommon color for lightning, at least when not having an orange tinge), often a simple zigzag shape and seldom striking from the ground to sky or from the one to be shocked to the object. Justified since yellow is a good warning color, associated with electricity and fire in general (and as we all know, lightning is electric).

* One of the items in ''{{Shantae}}'' makes yellow lightning.

* ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'' definitely lives up to its name. The main character wears blue clothes, and his default lightning attacks are mostly blue-colored, though they can be tinted with different colors like purple or yellow depending on his equipment loadout. [[spoiler:It seems to be common to all Azure Strikers, as [[TrueFinalBoss Asimov]] also uses blue lightning, albeit with a noticeable lighter shade of almost white at times]].

* ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'' definitely lives up to its name. The main character wears blue clothes, and his attacks are blue-colored.

** The Accelerated Man has ''purple'' lightning for some reason.

** Zoom gives off blue lightning. One episode shows another speedster, Trajectory, who gets her powers from a "Velocity-9" SuperSerum; her lightning starts off yellow but turns blue just before she disintegrates from the drug's lethal side effect of cellular degeneration. The STAR Labs crew theorizes that the degeneration is the cause of the color change, and this serves as a clue that helps them figure out that Zoom is [[spoiler:Jay Garrick (or rather the man they think is Jay)]], who was also known to take V-9 in the past and suffers from the side effects. [[spoiler:When he's turned into the Black Flash, his lightning turns red; he's not evil at this point but he is TheDreaded.]]

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* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', Barry and most other speedsters give off yellow lightning as they run. However, Zoom, the BigBad of Season 2, gives off blue lightning. One episode shows a third speedster, Trajectory, who gets her powers from a "Velocity-9" SuperSerum; her lightning starts off yellow but turns blue just before she disintegrates from the drug's lethal side effect of cellular degeneration. The STAR Labs crew theorizes that the degeneration is the cause of the color change, and this serves as a clue that helps them figure out that Zoom is [[spoiler:Jay Garrick]], who was also known to take V-9 in the past and suffers from the side effects.
** The show also has cases with neither color, as the Reverse-Flash and the Rival have ''red'' lightning. No in-universe explanation has yet been given for why their color is different from everyone else's, though the obvious out-of-universe reason is to mark them as evil and contrast the yellow of the heroic speedsters.
** Savitar also has a unique lightning color; he's much faster than even the other speedsters and runs in flashes of ''white''.
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* Every single lightning-based miracles in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' are either yellow or if very potent, orange.