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4	->''"...I mean, he does have computer-generated blue all over him. That's what electricity looks like, right?"''
5	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDOTorg Your Movie Sucks]]''' describing Electro, ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 [[https://youtu.be/aJUk8ZHckxo?t=474 Review]]''
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7	In RealLife, [[http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1680&bih=853&q=lightning&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= most lightning bolts are purplish white or bluish white]]. Sometimes they're reddish, orange or even greenish.
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9	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\|Trope}} since yellow is a standard warning sign color, associated with electricity and fire in general (and as we all know, lightning is electric). Plus, etymologically, the word "electric" came from the Greek word for amber, a yellow gem that was known and used by ancient scientists for its electrostatic properties.
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11	Most video games with the FireIceLightning trinity will also make lightning yellow to differentiate it from ice (and to exhaust the three primary colours).
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13	In live-action films and more realistic video games, though, lightning bolts are still predominantly blue. However, sometimes it is ''very'' blue so that there is no white seen. [[TakeAThirdOption Alternatively]], [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] can be added to the mix, but again it tends to be a very vibrant purple. In a manner, such purple lightning [[YellowPurpleContrast can clash well]] with the traditional yellow.
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15	A SubTrope of ColorCodedElements.
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18	!!Examples:
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20	[[foldercontrol]]
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22	!!!Yellow Lightning
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24	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
25	* Fate Testarossa in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' has an inherent affinity for lightning-based magic. Her lightning (as well as other spells) is yellow or golden in color.
26	* ''Manga/OnePiece''
27	** The lightning created by Nami's Clima Tact is yellow.
28	** Enel's lightning produced from his Devil Fruit powers is blue in the anime. In the manga, it is yellow.
29	* Laxus, from ''Manga/FairyTail'', is a lightning mage whose attacks are all yellow or pale yellow.
30	* In the manga version of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', lightning from ninjutsu is supposed to be yellow because of the color of chakra in the series was supposed to be yellow; the anime makes both blue.
31	* Cure Peace from ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' can use yellow lightning attacks.
32	* Along with the other elemental themed robots in ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' ([[AnIcePerson Hyoryu]], [[FireIsRed Enryu]] and [[WindIsGreen Fuuryu]]), Rairyu is the yellow one, with lightning powers.
33	* In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Denki Kaminari's Quirk produces yellow electricity.
34	* In the anime of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'', Kanna's lightning is yellow.
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37	[[folder:Comic Books]]
38	* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Every version of the Flash uses a yellow lightning bolt as part of his costumery. Thunder and lightning are a near-ubiquitous motif for the Flash family; their power source, the [[TheLifestream Speed Force]], is sometimes physically represented as an eternal thunderstorm. DependingOnTheArtist, the Flash even leaves trails of yellow electricity (usually emanating from the yellow parts of his costume, as the quirk ''started'' from being a visual representation of their fast movement, before SerialEscalation lead to it becoming genuine lightning). The yellow colour is somewhat justified by the fact the Speed Force isn't normal lightning, but a magical, metaphysical force that just ''looks'' like lightning, thus explaining [[LightningCanDoAnything why it can do anything.]]
39	* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': The [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Marvel Family]]'s lightning is yellow. They are even [[OlderAlterEgo transformed]] by yellow bolts.
40	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'''s Electro throws bolts of yellow electricity. They're also represented that way on his costume, although certain incarnations of the character fall firmly into blue lightning territory. This has been referenced in a few comics where Spider-Man is able to identify electricity at a distance as being from Electro because of its distinct yellow hue. In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', it's actually green.
41	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': When ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie Sandsmark uses her lightning generating powers the resulting bolts are pale yellow.
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44	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
45	* ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger''/''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' -- Tsubasa/Chip, the yellow ranger, has the power of lightning, which is also yellow.
46	* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' and his Elek Stats as well as when the Elek Switch's powers are used.
47	* ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'' -- Kento, Kamen Rider Espada, wields Raimeiken Ikazuchi, which has a yellow emblem and thus emits yellow lightning.
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50	[[folder:Pinballs]]
51	* Creator/WilliamsElectronics' ''Pinball/{{Flash}}'' is about a [[PhysicalGod Thunder God]] who throws around yellow bolts of lightning.
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54	[[folder:Video Games]]
55	* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': Electricity is represented with yellow throughout the game. Electric attacks appear as yellow lightning bolts, and the electric-themed Numb status ailment sees the the affected character flashing the same color. Medals relating to the Numb status are yellow as well. Electric-themed enemies are also fairly common in the Hive Factory and the Ancient Castle areas, both of which have a predominantly yellow color scheme.
56	* Crono, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', uses lightning magic and has a yellow frame around the "lightning" reading on his status screen (whereas Marle's water is blue and Lucca's fire is red). The lightning that he actually calls forth though are much more realistic and are very white with a light tinge of blue. "Lightning 2" does shoot out yellow light before it releases the actual lightning though.
57	* For some time ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' gave hero players blue lightning and villain players red lightning, despite being the same powers. After issue 15 the player can make the lightning whatever color they want.
58	* ''VideoGame/DuckTales 2'' on the NES had a yellow lightning bolt strike a block to make it go away. Magica [=DeSpell=]'s lightning bolts in the first were yellow.
59	* PSI Thunder in ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound\|1994}}'' and ''VideoGame/Mother3''
60	* The ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}}'' series features electricity traps coloured yellow ''with'' red sections which indicate a safe zone in the current. ([[ArtMajorPhysics Don't ask how it works]]. [[BenevolentArchitecture Just be glad they exist]].)
61	* ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man\|Classic}}'' games have yellow lightning. For an example, ''VideoGame/MegaMan1's'' Elec Man and ''VideoGame/MegaMan10's'' Sheep Man. ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'' went with (mostly) yellow lightning, in contrast with the rest of the series which usually went with blue.
62	* Zap-elemental ''VideoGame/{{Meteos}}'' are yellow, as are the electricity-based inhabitants of the planet [[EternalEngine Wiral]].
63	* The ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' series starting from [[VideoGame/Pikmin2 the second installment]] usually portrays electricity as yellow. Yellow Pikmin are the ones immune to it, most enemies that emit it have yellow on their coloration, and electric walls are mainly yellow-colored in all designs. ''VideoGame/Pikmin3'' has some instances of white and purple-tinted electricity, such as the electric attack used by the FinalBoss, but the series overall favors using yellow.
64	* The lightning item in the ''VideoGame/PlatformRacing'' series has a yellow icon and effect.
65	* Electric monsters in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' have yellow lightning attacks (except Thunder, which is white in ''Ruby/Sapphire''), and many Electric-type Pokémon like Pikachu tend to be yellow-colored as well.
66	* The ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series:
67	** Storm Puffs make yellow lightning.
68	** ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': The Spark Dance icon is yellow.
69	* Lightning is shown as yellow for the Defect's orbs in ''VideoGame/SlayTheSpire''. It does serve a useful purpose, though: since the Defect already has two pale blue orbs (frost orbs being only pale blue and plasma orbs having an orange ring around them), having lightning as yellow means you can immediately tell what your orb balance is like.
70	%%zce* King Lakitu in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2''.
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73	[[folder:Webcomics]]
74	* ''Webcomic/Aurora2019'': Lightning is consistently depicted as bright yellow, as are the glow effects of lightning magic.
75	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', most lightning spells create either white or yellow bolts -- though Tsukiko's Electric Orb is blue. There is also the notable exception of Zz'dtri, who produces ''green'' lightning.
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78	[[folder:Western Animation]]
79	%%* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''
80	%%* Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons, especially ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''.
81	* ComicBook/{{Storm\|MarvelComics}} from ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' produces yellow lightning.
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84	[[folder:Real Life]]
85	* Symbols in weather reports, to differentiate the bolts from the rainclouds, typically colored blue.
86	* "Risk of Electric Shock" warning signs in the United States are typically black on a yellow background, but that's more for OSHA compliance here than anything else.
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89	!!!Very Blue Lightning
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91	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
92	%%* [=SCEPTER4=]'s main powers in the anime ''Anime/{{K}}''.
93	%%* Lightning Style/Lightning Release jutsu in the ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' series.
94	* Misaka Mikoto of ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' wields blue lightning.
95	* Saiyans as Super Saiyan 2 and Super Saiayan 3 from ''Manga/DragonBall'' are surrounded by blue lightning.
96	** Piccolo is surrounded by blue lightning during his battle against Son Goku in the 23rd World Tournament, who is surrounded by red lightning.
97	* In ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', "[[RedBaron Thunder Emperor]]" Victoria Dahlgrün's magic produces blue lightning.
98	* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Erza's Lightning Empress Armor fires blue lightning out of its spear for offensive purposes.
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101	[[folder:Comic Books]]
102	* During Franchise/{{Superman}}'s AudienceAlienatingEra as Superman Blue, he generated blue lightning. When Superman Red is introduced, he uses '''red''' lightning.
103	* ComicBook/{{Static}} projects pale blue lightning these days. Though in his original series it was depicted as white.
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106	[[folder:Fan Works]]
107	* After being genetically altered with Jolteon DNA in ''Fanfic/TheMyamotoProject'', James gains electric powers. He's associated with blue, lightning and all.
108	-->''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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111	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
112	* Emperor Palpatine's Force Lightning in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' series.
113	* In the ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'', Flash gives off blue lightning when he uses his SuperSpeed.
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116	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
117	* Series/AceLightning shoots blue lightning bolts.
118	* The eponymous ''Series/KamenRiderBlade'' uses lightning-based attacks and is colored navy blue.
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121	[[folder:Video Games]]
122	* In contrast with its predecessor above, ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' tends to go with blue lightning more often (Wire Sponge in ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'', Volt Catfish in ''VideoGame/MegaManX3'', Zero's Raijingeki from ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'', Bolt Kraken/Squid Adler in ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'', Gigabolt Man-o-war in ''VideoGame/MegaManX8'').
123	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', as seen from the image of ThunderboltsAndLightning.
124	* Raiden in ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' makes bluish-purple lightning.
125	* By default, electrical attacks in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' are bright blue. In ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'' they're ''red'', which is even less likely. In both cases, though, you can customise the colour to your own preference.
126	* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock\|1}}'''s Electro Bolt plasmid, as well as other electricity, is marked by pure blue bolts (and [[VolcanicVeins glowing blue veins]].)
127	* Dante's Alastor sword from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' emits blue lightning.
128	* Ky Kiske of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' uses blue lightning for most of his attacks and usually wears a white and blue outfit, [[LightningFireJuxtaposition in contrast]] to his [[PlayingWithFire flame-wielding]] [[RedOniBlueOni red-colored]] [[TheRival rival]], Sol Badguy.
129	%%* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''
130	* In ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'', Captain Blue and his daughter Sylvia's lightning attacks are, appropriately, blue. Electrical sources are also blue in general. Alastor's lightning is stylishly purple.
131	* In the ''VideoGame/InFamous'' series, Cole's good karma lightning is blue.
132	* In the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games, [[ShockAndAwe Zio]] spells typically release blue lightning bolts when cast. To drive the point home, the defensive spell to nullify lightning attacks in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' is called Blue Wall.
133	* Luigi from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' uses very bright blue electric attacks in a few games. [[note]] [[{{LightningFireJuxtaposition}} This ability debuted in Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga as Luigi's hand power, Thunderhand, as a counterpart to Mario's Firebrand]] [[/note]]
134	* In ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable'', Fate's EvilTwin, Material-L/Levi the Slasher, has blue lightning compared to Fate's yellow. For each character, their lightning is the same color as their hair.
135	* Almost all ''VideoGame/MechWarrior'' games since ''3'' portray the PPC weapon as firing blue-white bolts, often intentionally meant to evoke comparisons to lightning as per [[TableTopGame/BattleTech the source material]]. The ''2'' series of games as well as ''VideoGame/MechAssault'' featured crackling blue ball lightning for PPC shots, while the first game simply featured a nondescript blue beam. ''VideoGame/MechCommander'' features blue-white electrical bolts in both iterations of the game. ''Mechwarrior Tactics'' looks like it will take the same route.
136	* ''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]].
137	* The ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series uses blue as the color code for shock weapons and hazards. Yellow is exclusively for [[StuffBlowingUp anything explosive]].
138	* In ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'', the Kraken's electrical attacks are faintly tinted blue. Markov's lightning gun plays this straight, with bright blue lightning.
139	* Every electricity themed hero in ''VideoGame/{{Dota2}}'' (Razor, Storm Spirit, Disruptor, Zeus) uses blue lightning.
140	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' breaks with its predecessors by making shock damage display in light purple text, to complement purple icons and blue lightning effects.
141	* Electric grenades in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' are cyan.
142	* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'': Most angels that use electricity are blue or wear blue armor, with electricity itself being a bright blue.
143	* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': Electrical attacks are cyan, which is most commonly seen in the Martian Invasion event. Both of the electrical weapons that can be found in the Underground Desert also have dark blue gems as part of their designs.
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146	[[folder:Webcomics]]
147	* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', the most prominent, longest-lived, death-ray is Gil's lightning stick, which cleaves the sky in twain [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071126 with massive amounts]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121219 of purple-blue lightning]].
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150	[[folder:Western Animation]]
151	* Lightning bending in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. An exception is Ozai's first lightning bending scene, which shows a realistic white glow.
152	* Jay the blue ninja from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' uses lightning of the blue variety.
153	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] can create thunderstorms and lightning from his hammer, {{Mjolnir}}. All the lightning is a very bright blue.
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156	!!!Yellow ''and'' Blue Lightning
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158	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
159	* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': The auras of Saiyans in the Super Saiyan 2 and 3 forms (as well as [[FusionDance Vegetto]] in his Super Saiyan form, and Gohan post-Elder Kai powerup) crackle with blue lightning. In some of the games, it's yellow, however.
160	* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'': Erio Mondial has yellow as his magic color, but when he uses lightning magic, his body and/or his weapon are surrounded by blue sparks. Fate taught him her spell ''Thunder Rage'', but his version is blue in contrast to Fate's yellow (and it looks completely different, anyway). And Signum taught him her spell ''[[NonIndicativeName Shiden Issen]]'', hers is a [[PlayingWithFire fire-elemental]] [[FlamingSword sword slash]]. His version is a [[ShockAndAwe lightning-elemental]] [[ElementalPunch punch]]; when he charges it, his arm is surrounded by blue sparks, the impact of the punch creates a yellow explosion with yellow lightnings, and when it's over, his arm is surrounded with blue sparks again.
161	** Fate's [[{{BFS}} Zanber form]] had blue sparks in the movie version of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs A's]]'' (they were purple in the original version).
162	* ''Manga/OnePiece'': [[PsychoElectro Enel]] is on both sides -- his electricity is yellow in the manga, and pale blue in the anime and video games.
163	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Most Electric-type attacks are yellow, but certain Pokemon - such as Mareep and Pachirisu - display blue. Sometimes both are seen at the same time.
164	* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Osiris the Heaven Dragon/[[DubNameChange Slifer the Sky Dragon]] has two {{Breath Weapon}}s, since it has two mouths. The first mouth fires its regular attack--a long yellow thunder beam attack, called "Thunder Force." The second mouth fires blue lightning ball attacks, called ''Shou Raidan'' ("Summon Lightning Bolt"), that decreases the ATK (and in the anime, the DEF when the monsters are summoned in Defense Position) by the amount of 2000 points, and it will destroy any monster below 2000 points.
165	* ''Manga/ZatchBell'': Zatch uses yellow lightning while his twin brother uses blue.
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168	[[folder:Comic Books]]
169	* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': As of ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', ''ComicBook/TheFlash2016'' has gone down this route to distinguish between Wally West and Barry Allen. Essentially, the idea is that because Wally is ''so'' powerful, his Speed Force lightning burns much hotter and now looks like pale blue lightning. According to artist Brett Booth (who designed this), his headcanon is that the speedsters' lightning colours dictate how powerful they are, though this is far from being explicitly canon.
170	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': DependingOnTheArtist, whenever [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] and ComicBook/{{Storm\|MarvelComics}} are in the same book, the both have lightning of different colors.
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173	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
174	* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[GodOfThunder Ghidorah]]'s PsychoElectro powers produce exclusively yellow lightning, fitting as a "warning sign" of how his awakening is far worse news for humanity and all life on Earth than the awakening of any of the other Titans once his true nature is revealed. At the onset of Ghidorah and an overcharged Godzilla's FinalBattle in Boston, Godzilla's sheer radiation causes the lightning-bolts of Ghidorah's [[TheStormbringer perpetual hurricane]] to take on Godzilla's [[BlueIsHeroic signature blue color]] around him.
175	* ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' features Electro, who is first introduced at first through blue sparks of lightning before coalescing into [[TruerToTheText a more comics-accurate]] yellow lightning, which remains for the rest of the film. [[JustifiedTrope This gets a light justification]]: this Electro is [[IntraFranchiseCrossover specifically the incarnation found in]] ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' -- who was shown with blue lightning -- but the energy found in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse he's found himself thrown into appears and feels much different to that in [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries the Sony!Verse]].
176	* ''Film/TheFlash2023'': While [[Characters/DCEUTheFlash Barry Allan]] still generates blue lightning as in ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', his new suit (designed by [[Characters/DCEUBatman Bruce Wayne]]) changes it to yellow whenever he (or his younger AlternateSelf) wears it. [[spoiler:Said alternate self's future self Dark Flash generates purple lightning.]]
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179	[[folder:Video Games]]
180	* ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'': Players with the [[ShockAndAwe electricity]] power set uses yellow lightning for attacks and blue lightning for healing effects.
181	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'': Spyro's electric breaths take the form of crackling yellow bolts of electricity. Volteer, the Guardian of Electricity, is primarily bight yellow in color, with blue spines, claws, horns, wing fingers, and belly plates. Electric elemental enemies also glow yellow.
182	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The Electric type is color-coded and most of its 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. The electric lizard Toxtricity from ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' comes in two variants: Amped Form has yellow accents on its body while Low Key Form has blue accents.
183	* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' uses both in regards to the gods, with Zeus' usual lightning attacks being yellow/golde, but with Poseidon's, Kronos' and younger Zeus's being blue. Kratos later gains the whips of Nemesis, which generate green lightning.
184	* This shows up in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series sometimes. Typically, heroic characters like [[TheHero Sora]] and [[MagicKnight Aqua]] use yellow lightning, while villains like [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII Xemnas]] and [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Vanitas]] use Franchise/{{S\|tarWars}}ith-style blue lightning.
185	* Although normal lightning in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' is consistently blue- or purple-white, the Temple of Lightning requires you to shift the Sorcerer's Ring between blue, yellow, and ''red'' lightning types, which each break blocks of their own color.
186	* Two of the customizable boosts available in ''VideoGame/RocketLeague'' are both yellow and blue lightning.
187	* Visible to ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' player on the receiving end of a thunder-abusing Pikachu. The attack is most deadly when it turns from yellow to blue.
188	* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagicIII'': The game is all over the place with the colour of lightning. Storm Elementals crackle with yellow electricity and shoot yellow lightning bolts at enemies, while Energy Elementals and Titans attack with blue lightning instead. Meanwhile, the spells Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning are a more realistic white.
189	* ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' uses yellow in its early installments and whitish-blue later on. Flik [[ShockAndAwe uses lightning magic]] (though can change that if you want) and he is called "the Blue Lightning." Though this has to do with the color of his garment more than anything else.
190	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
191	** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', Mallow's basic lightning attack, Thunderbolt (which is a HerdHittingAttack) sends down a storm of white-blue bolts, resembling real-life thunderbolts. His more powerful Shocker move uses a cartoony yellow one, however.
192	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'': Electric goop is both yellow and blue, and shocks Mario if he makes contact with it.
193	* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' uses yellow and blue lightning effects on certain weapons to represent [[StatusEffects paralysis ailment]] and [[ElementalRockPaperScissors thunder element]], respectively. As a result of this distinction we have the somewhat ironic scenario of most thunder weapons being unable to inflict paralysis (and conversely, most paralysis-inflicting weapons don't deal elemental damage). Note that this only applies to the player; most thunder-element monsters are capable of calling down blue-colored bolts that inflict paralysis. Additionally, two monsters have ''red'' lightning: White Fatalis and Stygian Zinogre, the latter of which has Dragon-elemental lightning.
194	* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeHunters'' has two electric weapons: [[TheSpook Sylux's]] Shock Coil is blue, short-ranged, and drains health, while [[PsychoPrototype Kan]][[MadScientist den's]] Volt Driver is yellow and can cause an InterfaceScrew.
195	* ''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 lightning for two of his moves, and Tohru Adachi has ''blood red'' lightning to match the color scheme of his Persona.
196	* ''VideoGame/MegaMan7'' goes with both. Cloud Man uses yellow lightning, but the weapon Mega Man [[PowerCopying copies]] from him shoots out a blue lightning ball. Same goes for Clown Man in ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'' and Elec Man in ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp''.
197	* Characters with the lightning element in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' display a variety of colours. Masamune, Kojuro, and Tadakatsu are blue, Muneshige is yellow, Yoshihiro is white, and Ranmaru and Matabe are purple.
198	* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'', Tesla coils attacked with blue lightning in normal circumstances and yellow lightning when supplemented by a Tesla trooper.
199	* In the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series we have yellow lightning, which Trish uses[[note]] Her lightning is blue in [[Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries the anime]][[/note]], blue lightning from Dante's sword, Alastor, and in the third game, ''purple'' lightning from his [[ImprobableWeaponUser weaponized electric guitar]], Nevan.
200	* The elements in ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', including the summon, when cast will create yellow lightning. [[ColorCodedElements Yellow is also the element color of lightning.]] [[CastingAShadow Guile]] however, has a tech that strikes the foe with purple lightning.
201	* The animations for PSI Thunder in ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound\|1994}}'' flash between yellow and blue.
202	* Every single lightning-based miracle in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' is either yellow or if very potent, orange. This is believed to be because they are all derived from the same source: the powers of Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight. In the final DLC for ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', we finally see some blue lightning: the source of which is the titular Dark Soul itself, completely unconnected to Gwyn.
203	* In ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}'', the [[OriginalGeneration original characters]] that [[ShockAndAwe use electricity]], usually use blue or yellow (mostly), but there're others that can vary depending of the palette chosen. One known case is [[Characters/{{MUGEN}} Tetsu Yatogi]], who can use blue or yellow electricity depending of which button do you use to choose him.
204	* In ''VisualNovel/DengekiStryker'', the electricity generated by the heroes' Stryker System is blue [[OrangeBlueContrast in contrast to the Balbora Empire's orange]] [[PlayingWithFire flames]]. ''Chou Dengeki Stryker'' mixes things up a bit with the Balboran cyborg [[AntiVillain Iron Clie]], who can [[ElementalPunch wreath]] her [[ArtificialLimbs artificial arm]] in golden lightning; in addition, Stryker Zero's lightning [[GoldenSuperMode becomes gold]] when he equips the [[AceCustom custom-built]] Stryker Drive [[AllYourPowersCombined Kamui]]. When Clie [[spoiler:receives a proper Stryker System as part of her upgrade to Stryker Hagane, her lightning defaults to blue, but [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique becomes gold again when her safeties are removed]]]].
205	* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', lightning spells are colored blue, but have purple icons and shock damage is represented in yellow text.
206	* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', lightning spells have yellow and black icons, and shock damage is represented in yellow text, but the spells themselves show blue lightning effects.
207	* ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' uses primarily blue lightning, but also yellow lightning for divine-themed lightning skills, which all deal part physical damage.
208	* ''Franchise/DragonQuest'': Depending on the game, the Zap series of lightning spells are depicted as yellow or bluish-white lightning bolts. Some spinoffs, particularly the ''Monsters'' series of games, tend to have yellow electricity for Zap in order to tie a color to each element.
209	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestMonsters'' introduced the [=ZapBird=] monster, later known as the Thunderbird, which could use various lightning spells and techniques. In the original GBC version, it was depicted as a large bird with blue plumage with a thundercloud in the middle of its body. When the game was remade for the Nintendo 3DS years later, the Thunderbird was changed to a yellow and black palette swap of the Firebird and Snowbird monsters instead.
210	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestMonstersJoker'' introduced the Zam series of [[CastingAShadow darkness]] spells, which are represented as ''purple'' bolts of lightning as an opposite to Zap.
211	* ''VideoGame/SpiderManInsomniac'':
212	** ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' features yellow as the color for Electro's lightning, while any of Peter's web gadgets that utilize electricity give off blue-tinted electrical effects.
213	** ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' shows Miles' bioelectric Venom Powers as being an orange-yellow in color, while the Remote Mine gadget gives off blue-tinted sparks.
214	** ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2'' keeps the blue tint for electrical effects from deployable gadgets and any attacks using Peter's mechanical Spider-Arms that involve shocking opponents, and Miles' basic Venom Powers are the same Orangey-Yellow as they were in ''Miles Morales.'' When Miles starts unlocking "Evolved" Venom Powers when [[spoiler: the Hunters break Martin Li out of jail]], they're depicted as a very vibrant blue, with the difference in color being noted in universe.
215	* ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'': Although visually identical, the same stage is played somewhat differently between two ports of ''Pink Panther Goes to Hollywood'':
216	** In ''Pink Panther Goes to Hollywood'' (Genesis port), in the stage "Hot Pink Roof", the player controls Pink Panther as he makes his way through rooftops at night, avoiding thundering clouds, defective powerlines releasing sparks and a angry white cat. In this version of the stage, clouds release yellow bolts of lightning that can only be avoided.
217	** In ''Pink Panther Goes to Hollywood'' (SNES port), in the stage "Cat on a Hot Pink Roof", the player controls Pink Panther as he makes his way through rooftops at night, avoiding thundering clouds, large gaps between buildings, and an angry tabby cat. In this version, the player can GoombaStomp blue lightning bolts as if they were generic enemies.
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221	* ''Webcomic/{{Aurora\|2019}}'': The element of Lightning has two physical aspects that are yellow or blue respectively that repel themselves and attract their opposing aspect. Mages tend to use one or the other the way most people have a dominant hand.
222	* Magic in ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' is [[ElementalPowers elemental]] in nature and those who use wind magic can create [[BlowYouAway wind]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] 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.
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225	[[folder:WebOriginal]]
226	* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''
227	** In the fight between Thor and Raiden, they had Thor use Yellow lightning, against Raiden's Blue lightning, both in order to show who shot which lightning bolts, and for a bit where Raiden redirects Thor's lightning back at him, which recolors it Blue. This is largely an artistic choice, as both Raiden and Thor are usually shown using the Blue variety.
228	** Similarly, in the fight between Killua Zoldyck and Misaka Mikoto (while both usually use the Blue variety in their canons), they had Killua use Blue lightning against Misaka's Yellow lightning in order to show whose electrical attacks are whose...and likely because giving Killua the Yellow would have made him look like a Super Saiyan when he uses [[SuperMode Godspeed]].
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231	[[folder:Western Animation]]
232	* ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'':
233	** Megawhatts from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben10}}'' create yellow lightning.
234	** Brainstorm's lightning from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' is pure yellow (or occasionally orange/white).
235	** Raad and its Omnitrix counterpart, [=AmpFibian=], from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' create blue electricity.
236	** Shocksquatch's from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' is yellow.
237	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'': The Electroids are primarily yellow, but the parts that harness their electric abilities are a light purplish-blue.
238	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Flash bees, a type of electrogenic insect, are striped blue and yellow, their swarms are depicted as a bright blue core with a yellow border, and they produce a bright yellow glow effect when they sting.
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242
243	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
244	* In the ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime, Candice Catnipp's lightning goes from blue to green when she activates her [[SuperMode Vollständig]]. It's also lime green in ''VideoGame/BleachBraveSouls''.
245	* As a God Slayer, Olga's spells in ''Manga/FairyTail'' are coloured 'black', or more precisely, dark purple. [[spoiler:Laxus also activates 'Megaton Red Lightning' in his fight against Wall, which is black with a red aura in the anime, and is revealed in [[Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest the sequel]] to be caused by him empowering his lightning with his own blood.]]
246	* ''Manga/HoshinEngi'': In ''Soul Hunter'', Shinkohyo's Super Paope Raikoben produces blue lightning bolts. ''Hakyu Hoshin Engi'' makes them red instead.
247	* Precia Testarossa's lightning spells in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' are purple.
248	* Sailor Jupiter from ''Manga/SailorMoon'' is seen usually with blue lightning, but DependingOnTheArtist, also can be seen as green lightning.
249	* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Izuku appears to emit green lightning while utilizing One For All: Full Cowl, but this is purely a visual effect and has yet to be seen shocking anything.
250	* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', while most Lightning Release ninjutsu techniques are primarily blue, Kakashi developed a jutsu [[spoiler:To accomodate for the loss of his Sharingan, as the Raikiri was no longer safe to use]] called Purple Electricity, which is, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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253	[[folder:Eastern Animation]]
254	* The solid (!) lightning bolts that Animation/BoBoiBoy Lightning creates is colored yellow. Then there's his SuperMode, [=BoBoiBoy=] Thunderstorm, who creates red lightning bolts.
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257	[[folder:Fan Works]]
258	* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning and ''Red'' Lightning. [[BigBad Ghidorah]]'s powers produce Yellow Lightning, [[PapaWolf Thor]]'s bio-electrical powers produce Blue Lightning, and the half-Ghidorah [[AdaptationalHeroism Monster X]]'s bio-electrical powers produce Red Lightning.
259	* ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'': The bio-electricity that Izuku produces with his Venom Strike power is green, the same color as the energy his canon counterpart gives off while using One For All.
260	* ''Webcomic/DestinyIntertwined'': Electricity comes in a variety of colors, influenced by several possible factors:
261	** Yellow is the most common and original form of the element.
262	** White Electricity is the hottest, and leaves the strongest burns. [[ElementalFusion It is believed to originate from mixing with Fire lineages.]]
263	** Purple is cooler than yellow, but is more shocking. It is a relatively common variant.
264	** Blue Electricity is the inverse of purple, being more hot than socking.
265	** Green Electricity is rarer but not excessively so.
266	** Red Electricity is the rarest kind. It is the coolest form of Electricity, but also the most shocking.
267	* ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'':
268	** During a flashback showing the Battle of Malachor V, the mass shadow generator creates a black hole that starts shooting out green lightning which chars the planet's surface.
269	** Whenever Jaune uses Force Drain, he shoots out red-and-black lightning from his fingertips which drain the Life Energy out of their targets.
270	** Nihilus's Force Drain works the same way as Jaune's. However, his lightning is colored orange.
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273	[[folder:Literature]]
274	* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', force lightning is usually blue or purple, but can be virtually any color. Talzin and Luke both used green, Desolous, Tenebrous and Maul used red, which was also employed by the Son, though he's a special case, and Jaina Solo could use ''black''. The Rakatan Infinite Empire also practiced yellow and orange force lightning.
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277	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
278	* ''Series/AceLightning'': Sparx's sword shoots pink lightning bolts.
279	* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', the various speedsters give off Speed Force lightning of various colors as they run:
280	** Barry and most other speedsters give off yellow lightning.
281	** The Reverse-Flash and the Rival have red lightning. It's not until Season 5 that it's revealed that the Reverse-Flash uses a ''[[TheDarkSide Negative]]'' Speed Force that's fueled by ThePowerOfHate. The in-universe reasoning for the Rival's color is still up in the air, but the obvious out-of-universe reason for the different color is to mark its users as evil and contrast the yellow of the heroic speedsters.
282	** 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 Zoom is turned into the Black Flash, his lightning turns red; he's not evil at this point but he is TheDreaded.]]
283	** Savitar's PoweredArmor turns his lightning white. Without the armor, it's the standard yellow.
284	** Godspeed also has white lightning, either due to the different origin of his powers (tachyon research enhanced by Velocity-9, rather than being a natural metahuman) or the sheer power comparable to Savitar's.
285	** The Accelerated Man, an AlternateUniverse speedster and OneSceneWonder, has ''purple'' lightning for some reason. When Barry's speed is briefly transferred to Iris in season four, her lightning is also purple.
286	** XS has both purple and yellow lightning, the only speedster to have two colors at the same time. [[spoiler:It's a combination of Barry's and Iris' colors, as she's their KidFromTheFuture]]. When she [[spoiler:accessed the Negative Speed Force, the yellow lightning turned red, but the purple didn't]].
287	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The series largely averts this trope, featuring white lightning. Straight examples include the Wicked Witch's green lightning in Season 9, and the red lightning that flashes through [[AlternateUniverse Apocalypse World]]'s skies.
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290	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
291	* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' lightning and electricity in general fall under Red, so most lightning spells are portrayed with a red or magenta glow. This is by no means universal, however, with a few being portrayed as blue or white (ironic, considering Blue and White are Red's enemy colors). A [[https://scryfall.com/search?q=c%21r+beam solitary card]] seems to portray yellow lighting.
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294	[[folder:Video Games]]
295	* Cole's bad karma lightning in ''Videogame/InFamous'' and ''Videogame/InFamous2'' is red. In the first game [[spoiler: choosing to activate the Ray Sphere again to enhance your powers, an act so vile it permanently locks you at the lowest possible karma rating, turns it black]].
296	* In ''Videogame/{{Evolve}}'', the Elder Kraken has red lightning. On the hunter's side, Blitz Markov's lightning gun, which does more damage the longer it fires without stopping, goes from blue to purple to red to gold.
297	* [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Spark Kirby]] uses green lightning, as does Plasma Kirby. The BigBad of ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', Queen Sectonia, can shoot ''[[CastingAShadow black]]'' lightning from her MagicStaff.
298	* In ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'', the [[BloodKnight Red Knight]] is seen with purple lightnings, but in some {{fanart}}s is also seen with red ones.
299	* Subscribed 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.
300	* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' all of the electricity has a visible greenish hue (this is to visually distinguish it from the white wind, [[FireIsRed red fire]], and [[WaterIsBlue blue water]], as well as make it easier to see when you're in the yellow-and-orange Gerudo Desert in which the lightning-based Divine Beast roams), however, the menu icon for Urbosa's Fury, the ability that lets Link call down lightning, is yellow.
301	* 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 and Rage characters or green for Nature and Light characters.
302	* Electricity element in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' is shown as a vibrant {{purple\|IsPowerful}}, and with their users [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience having some purple as part of their outfit colors]], also seen in the enemies and bosses. Also, from the seven nations of Teyvat, [[{{Wutai}} Inazuma]] represents the Electro element, with good part of their nature and cities colored purple.
303	* Electric weapons in the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' series tend to be purple: The Wave Beam and Wavebuster from the first game are purple, as is the Grapple Voltage from ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption''.
304	* In the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManZX ZX]]'' series, electricity (and often, [[WindIsGreen air]]) is typically associated with the color green.
305	* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIII'', lightning balls are green. In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'', the lightning ball are green again, but are inexplicably blue when used in close combat. In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryV'', lightning balls are changed to blue.
306	* In ''VideoGame/DiabloII'', Diablo's infamous and dreaded red lightning hose. While it's red, it's actually a combination of lightning and physical damage.
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309	[[folder:Western Animation]]
310	* ''Franchise/Ben10'':
311	** Buzzshock, a future alien from [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 the original series]] creates green lightning.
312	** Eye Guy also created blue lightning in his debut.
313	** Dr. Viktor can create purple lightning, though his Omnitrix counterpart, Frankenstrike, uses green instead.
314	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': Black Lightning, in a partial aversion of the ColorCharacter trope, has his lightning appear as black with a blue edge to the bolts.
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