Color-Coded Characters

aka: Colour Coded Characters

Top row, left to right: Dewey, Huey, and Louie.
Bottom row, left to right: Uhhh - I think that one's Huey, no wait... Huey's on the right. Or is it...

When a creator of a work introduces a large number of characters at once, such as at the beginning of a work, they have to find a way to distinguish them and make them memorable in the audience's mind. Some of the ways they do that is to give them memorable names or personality traits. But perhaps the easiest way ties to human's strongest sense: our sight. By giving each character a specific Color Motif, the audience can quickly come to associate one color with that character and tell the characters apart with only a glance.

Note that this is not always the only way to tell the characters apart. It is usually just one of many.

Bright, contrasting colors, particularly primary colors, are common. Regardless who they're assigned to, you can almost always count on a Red and a Blue to appear. Green and Yellow are also common. To round out a team after using the four primary colors you might see Pink for the only girl. If The Hero doesn't get Red or Blue, then they probably get White or Black with the four supporting members doing Chromatic Arrangement. Though as part of the group Black has an odd tendency to swap with Green too. Purple, Orange and other colors are less common unless you have enough units for a full Rainbow Motif or more. Metallic colors like Gold and Silver are usually reserved for the badass Sixth Ranger, as with Black and White if they haven't been used yet.

This trope can come into play with Palette Swap (colors used in Video Games), and how to tell characters apart with Only Six Faces. Often applies to Superhero Team Uniforms.

A Super-Trope to Chromatic Arrangement and Color-Coded Secret Identity. A Sub-Trope of Colour-Coded for Your Convenience.

Compare Color-Coded Elements (when the color also pertains to the character's Elemental Power), Color-Coded Speech, Color Motif, Colorful Theme Naming and Red Is Heroic.

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Example subpages:

• Anime & Manga
• Western Animation

Other examples:

Advertising

• Freakies:
  • BossMoss: Dark Green
  • Snorkledorf: Blue
  • Hamhose: Yellow or Beige (it switches between the two)
  • Grumble: Orange
  • Cowmumble: Light Green
  • Gargle: Purple
  • Goody-Goody: Magenta
• Monster Cereals:
  • Count Chocula: Brown
  • Frankenberry: Pink
  • Boo Berry: Blue
  • Fruit Brute: Green or Red, depending on the media
  • Fruity Yummy Mummy: Orange or Purple, depending on the media

Asian Animation

• Noonbory and the Super 7 gives its main cast two (sometimes three) signature colours:
  • Noonbory - White/green/orange^note His original merchandising design had pink in place of orange
  • Jetybory - Pink/orange
  • Lunabory - Yellow/purple
  • Cozybory - Purple/pink
  • Totobory - Brown/green/orange
  • Pongdybory - Blue/orange
  • Lukybory - Yellow/orange
  • Kikibory/PinkAru - Pink
• Oddbods gives each character a defining color jumpsuit:
  • Fuse - Red
  • Newt - Pink
  • Pogo - Blue
  • Bubbles - Yellow
  • Jeff - Purple
  • Zee - Green
  • Slick - Orange
  • All background Oddbods - Grey
• In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, the six main goats are each associated with a particular color, and in most places they're usually represented these colors. The specific colors are as follows:
  • Weslie is blue.
  • Paddi is yellow.
  • Sparky is brown.
  • Tibbie is pink.
  • Jonie is red.
  • Slowy is green.
• In Tayo the Little Bus, the four main buses are color-coded this way: Tayo is blue, Rogi is red, Gani is green, and Lani is yellow.
• White Snake (2019): Blanca, the eponymous White Snake is associated with white and light blue. Her sister Verta, the Green Snake is associated with black and green.

Comic Books

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: An interesting example. While this trope has overall been played straight across the franchise, it was averted with the original comic, where not only did all of the turtles have the same skin tone, their bandannas were all red (whenever they got colored at all), making it hard to tell the four apart even when they did have their trademark weapons (this even applied in-universe, with Splinter at one point being unable to tell which one was Michalangelo and having to trick him into identifying himself so he could be punished for misbehaving). The new IDW comics used the red bandannas for the first story arc and then switched to the multicolored ones.
  • On the other side of the spectrum are the original toys, where not only did Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael all have their specifically-colored bandannas, their green skin tones were all in unique shades as well. This was duplicated in the second cartoon, making the turtles easier to differentiate from each other. See the Western Animation folder below.
  • The rest of the installments have just opted for similar skin tones, with the bandannas and weapons being the aids to tell the guys apart.
  • Of note, all but Donatello follow the characteristics typically associated with their colors. Leonardo is the leader of the team of heroes, Raphael is the most aggressive of the group but still a good guy, and Michelangelo is the energetic party dude of the team. Donatello is still a good warrior, but is more associated with science and intelligence than power.
• Donald Duck's nephews wear caps colored red, blue and green; however, originally there was no set association between nephew and color. Eventually it was established that red=Huey, blue=Dewey and green=Louie, but occasionally artists will still mix them up. Since the nephews are otherwise identical in appearance and personality, it doesn't actually matter which one is which.
• Loop: One twin wears blue and holds a blue pillow, and the other twin wears red.
• Marvel Comics' Power Pack wore similar costumes coloured white, magenta, blue and yellow. The costumes don't actually help the readers differentiate, since they don't look alike, but because the kids' powers are interchangeable, the colors sometimes designate who's got which power at present. Whenever Franklin Richards joined them as Tattletale, though, his costume was always red.
• In Supergirl Volume 2 issue #4, the titular heroine fights The Gang, a super-villain team. The Gang's members wear similar armored suits colored red, blue, yellow and green (by the way, this story is older than the Power Rangers franchise).
• The "core four" of Young Justice were each connected to a color they both wore and sometimes filled the background of their narration boxes; Impulse was red, Superboy was blue, Robin was green, and Wonder Girl was black/yellow. In addition Secret was associated with smoky gray and Empress was associated with purple and gold.
• Batman: Batman is blue, Robin is red, Batgirl is purple, at least when it's just them. Becomes more of a case by case basis as you add more members of the Bat-Family, mantles are passed down, and code names get updated updated.
  • Robin (1993): Tim Drake's initial Robin costume was primarily green and Stephanie's Spoiler was eggplant purple. Tim's narration boxes were given a green drop-shadow or green filled while Stephanie's were purple cursive on light lavender making them green and purple coded respectively. Tim's green association became less consistent after his costume lost its green to make it better match his red and black DCAU costume but by this time Steph was "dead" and he was the sole narrator and protagonist of the book.
  • Li'l Gotham has four Robins active simultaneously, and a chibi art style that makes them all look similar, so they each have a color, which appears on their masks when they're in uniform and accessories such as scarves when they're not. Dick's is blue, Jason's is red, Tim's is black, and Damian's is green. Bruce wears one of the Batsuits that's just gray and black, without blue or yellow highlights, and has gray accessories.
• All-New X-Men: Partway through the run of this series, the teenage versions of the original X-Men were given matching, color-coded costumes.
  • Cyclops: Blue
  • Iceman: Cyan
  • Angel: Red
  • Beast: Orange
  • Marvel Girl: Green
• The members of the Greek pantheon who were most prominent in Wonder Woman (2011) were each associated with a color: Artemis, goddess of the moon and hunt, with Silver, Hera, queen of the gods, with peacock green, Apollo, the new king of the gods with purple, Demeter with green, Hermes with light blue and Ares with beige.
• East of West: Each of the Four Horsemen have a color associated with them, which helps identify them during flashbacks to when they had different bodies. War is red, Conquest is blue, and Famine is yellow. Death was initially black, but a traumatic experience in the backstory caused him to change to white, which is his color from the story’s start onwards.
• Tintin, from the book "Red Rackham's Treasure" and onwards:
  • Tintin = light blue (even in "Destination Moon", he is one of the only two characters to wear some blue overalls instead of green).
  • Captain Haddock = dark blue (even in "Destination Moon", he is one of the only two characters to wear some blue overalls instead of green).
  • The Thompsons = black (except for when they wear green overalls in "Destination Moon").
  • Professor Calculus = green.

Comic Strips

• The Outrageous World of Alex and Charlie: Each main character is associated with a color which they tend to wear. Alex is pink, Charlie is red, Tyler is blue, Lizzy is purple, Garth is black, and Dazelle is teal.

Fan Works

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla MonsterVerse fanfiction, Thor is revealed by Methuselah to be an In-Universe case: most of Thor's species had gray coats to camouflage themselves against bleak landscapes instead of Thor's vibrant red coat.
• Evangelion 303: Each pilot has their own color:
  • Shinji: White
  • Asuka: Red
  • Rei: Blue
  • Kaworu: Black
  • Mari: Pink
• In the Pretty Cure drabble "Ice Cream", the ice cream flavours correspond to the Cures' main colours; French vanilla for Honoka (white), and strawberry for Saki (pink).
• Fiona's five personalities from Kira Is Justice each has their own color. In order of speaking order: White, Blue, Yellow, Green, and Pink.
• The new team seven in Teenage Jinchuriki Shinobi:
  • Naruto: Red
  • Sasuke: Blue
  • Sakura: Pink
  • Himeko: Black and White
  • Kin: Green
  • Hinata: Purple
• In a probable Shout-Out to Kill Bill, the evil ninjas in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Flutterspy use Code Names that combine this trope with Animal Theme Naming: Red Adder, Blue Cobra and Yellow Viper. They all have tan fur, but their eyes, their manes (which have been dyed), and their outfits are all in the appropriate color.
• This is rampant in RWBY: Second Generation. Just like in the main series it's based on, everyone's name and outfit reflects a color of some sort.
• In Child of the Storm, Magneto is mentioned as having grey eyes, grey hair, and steel-grey casual clothes. Guess why.
• Each of the Spirit in Date A Re:Live has a color associated to them and their Spacequakes, including those not associated to the Sephirot. During the Sephira Fury arc, a few of the Spirits' colors switch, which was stated due to be the result of improper alignment in-universe.
  • Origami’s is White
  • Nia's is Gray/Silver
  • Kurumi's is Black
  • Yoshino's is Blue
  • Kotori's is Red
  • Mukuro's is Yellow/Gold
  • Natsumi's is Green
  • The Yamai twins are Orange
  • Miku's is Indigo
  • Tohka's is Purple
  • Rinne and Rio's are Pink
  • Mayuri's is Cyan
  • Shido's is Clear
  • Mana's is Violet
  • Maria's is Brown
  • Marina's is Magenta
  • Mio's is Rainbow

Film — Animated

• Cars
  • Piston Cup racecars:
    • Tow Cap #4, yellow, purple, and white
    • Dale Earndhart Jr. #8, red, black, and white
    • Nitroade #28, red, orange, and black
    • Mood Springs #33, blue, purple, and black
    • Trunk Fresh #34, yellow, green, and black
    • Shifty Drug #35, magenta, yellow, and white
    • Tank Coat #36, pink, red, and white
    • ViewZeen #39, blue, teal, and orange
    • Dinoco (Strip "The King" Weathers) #43, blue, orange, and white
    • Easy Idle #51, blue, black, and white
    • Leakless #52, yellow, black, and white
    • Faux Wheel Drive #54, blue, green, and brown
    • Fiber Fuel #56, orange, yellow, and white
    • Octane Gain #58, orange, black, and white
    • Vitoline #61, green, gray, and white
    • Transberry Juice #63, blue, purple, and yellow
    • RPM #64, orange, blue, and yellow
    • N2O Cola #68, purple, green, and white
    • Gasprin #70, blue, yellow, and black
    • RevNGo #73, blue, orange, and red
    • Sidewall Shine #74, red, yellow, and white
    • Vinyl Toupee #76, purple, black, and white,
    • Retread #79, purple, red, and white
    • Creme-filled Gaskits #80, red, yellow, and blue
    • Shiny Wax #82, green, yellow, and white
    • ReVolting #84a, red, gray, and white
    • Apple Computer #84b, black, white, and gray
    • Hostile Takeover Bank (Chick Hicks) #86, green, orange, and yellow
    • Bumper Save #90, red, teal, and white
    • Sputter Stop #92, orange, teal, and white
    • Spare-O-Mint #93, blue, green, and white
    • RustEze Medicated Bumper Ointment (Lightning McQueen) #95, red, orange, and yellow
    • Tach-O-Mint #101, brown, green, and white
    • Li'l Torquey Pistons #117, red, blue, and black
    • Clutch Aid #121, blue, green, and black
    • No Stall #123, red, black, and yellow
  • World Grand Prix racecars:
    • Francesco Bernoulli #1, green, white, and red
    • Lewis Hamilton #2, black and yellow
    • Max Schnell #4, purple, black, red, and yellow
    • Miguel Camino #5, red, orange, and white
    • Raoul Çaroule #6, blue, white, and red
    • Shu Todoroki #7, red and white
    • Carla Veloso #8, blue, green, and yellow
    • Nigel Gearsley #9, green, black, and orange
    • Rip Clutchgoneski #10, red, orange, and green
    • Jeff Gorvette #24, yellow, red, white, and blue
    • Lightning McQueen #95, red, orange, and yellow
• The Disney Princess lineup, which selects colors usually from their dresses:
  • Snow White, the least consistent, with any of the primary colors, though usually red, or possibly white
  • Cinderella, blue
  • Aurora, pink
  • Ariel, sea green
  • Belle, yellow
  • Jasmine, turquoise
  • Pocahontas, tan
  • Mulan, wobbled for years, but they seem to have settled on either rose pink, or chartreuse
  • Tiana, green
  • Rapunzel, purple
  • Merida, dark teal
  • Anna, a bit less consistent, with either light green or fuchsia/blue
  • Elsa, icy blue
  • Moana, orange
• The anthropomorphic personifications in Inside Out have color motifs as often as not traditionally associated with the emotions they embody:
  • Joy, yellow
  • Disgust, green
  • Anger, red
  • Fear, purple
  • Sadness, blue
• Home (2015): Tip (green), Oh (Blue), Captain Smek (red), Pig (yellow), Kyle (orange) and Lucy (purple); as seen here.
• The villains in Cinderella:
  • Lady Tremaine, maroon (changed to purple in the sequels)
  • Anastasia, magenta
  • Drizella, green
• All of the angels in Little Angels The Brighest Christmas wear a different color, and notably turn into that color when they travel as a rainbow. There's a pink angel, a yellow angel, a blue angel, a green angel, an indigo angel, and even a violet-wearing dog angel.
• Big Hero 6, the titular team has these colors in their hero suits, and their ultra armor from Season 2 of the TV spin-off being black with highlights of that color.
  • Hiro - Purple
  • Baymax - Red
  • GoGo - Yellow
  • Wasabi - Green
  • Honey Lemon - Pink
  • Fred - Blue
• In Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses, each princess's dress is a distinct color:
  • Ashlyn: Violet
  • Blair: Red
  • Courtney: Royal blue
  • Delia: Green
  • Edeline: Orange
  • Fallon: Orchid
  • Genevieve: Hot pink
  • Hadley: Teal
  • Isla: Purple
  • Janessa: Sky blue
  • Kathleen: Tangerine
  • Lacey: Lilac
• In Encanto, the members of the Family Madrigal can be sorted by the colors they wear, which is helpful, as there are quite a lot of them. Abuela Alma wears a deep maroon, and each of her three children has a specific color palette: Pepa wears the warm shades of red, orange, and yellow; Bruno is in pale green; and Julieta wears the cool shades of blue, purple, and soft pink. Pepa and Julieta's husbands Felix and Agustin wear the same colors as their wives, as do their children (Dolores, Camilo, and Antonio for the former and Isabel, Luisa, and Mirabel for the latter), allowing viewers to instantly know who is specifically related to who.
• In Turning Red, Mei and her friends all primarily wear one color: Mei is red (later pink), Miriam is green, Priya is yellow, Abby is purple, and Tyler is blue.

Film — Live-Action

• 2001: A Space Odyssey: Dave Bowman has a red spacesuit and Frank Poole has a yellow one (though their regular clothes are both similar shades of grey). There is also a blue spacesuit visible in the background of some shots and Dave pulls the helmet from an otherwise-unseen green one, probably both intended for the three crew members in hibernation before they were killed by HAL.
• 8 Women: Through their clothing, the eight women are associated with certain colors that are usually related to their Flower Motifs.
  • Suzon: Pink (pink rose)
  • Mamy: Violet (violet)
  • Chanel: Yellow (sunflower)
  • Gaby: Leopard patterns (tiger orchid) and teal
  • Louise: Black and white (white orchid)
  • Augustine: Copper (achiote)
  • Catherine: Green (daisy)
  • Pierrette: Red (red rose)
• Cinderella (2015): Ella usually wears blue, Lady Tremaine usually wears green, Drisella usually wears yellow and Anastasia usually wears pink.
• Clue: A very interesting case: like in the board game, the six main suspects each dress basically with one color; unlike the board game, however, the colors do not match their names. (Perhaps a partial Deconstruction, since the names they're refered to are just aliases.)
  • It gets weirder, as four of the characters appear to create a circle of mismatched monotones:

  Colonel Mustard wears red, like Miss Scarlet should

  Miss Scarlet wears green, like Mr. Green should

  Mr. Green wears blue, like Mrs. Peacock should

  And Mrs. Peacock wears yellow, like Colonel Mustard should, bringing it full-circle.

  Though not part of the above loop, Mrs. White is worth noting in that the inside of her coat actually is white, but we only see this for about five seconds, in the process Lampshading her alias. But for the majority of the film, she wears black.

  Mr. Plum, uh... he wears brown.

• Israeli film Cupcakes features Girl Group-ish "Anat Ofa", where each member has an identifying color. At one point, they each receive a pair of sunglasses that "paints" the world in their personal color:
  • Anat: Red
  • Dana: Blue
  • Yael: Yellow
  • Keren: Green
  • Efrat: Purple
  • Ofer: Pink
• Invoked with the spacesuits in Destination Moon.
• The main characters of the Eastrail 177 Trilogy each have a unique color that's shown in their clothes and surroundings.
  • Unbreakable: David Dunn has the color green (and is sometimes called the Green Guard later in his life) while Elijah Price/Mr. Glass gains a purple motif as he grows older and settles into his villainous role.
  • Introduced in Split, Kevin/The Horde/The Beast has varying shades of yellow.
  • Dr. Ellie Staple is associated with a dull pink color that is less emphasized than the colors above because she is not a superhuman, but a professional member of the Cape Busters.
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters features the four major Kaiju in this manner, especially shown in the marketing:
  • Godzilla: Blue, usually a bright Cherenkov blue.
  • Mothra: Green, usually a teal or turquoise shade.
  • Rodan: Red, specifically darker reds, such as Venetian red.
  • Ghidorah: Harsh shades of yellow and gold.
• Godzilla vs. Kong is not quite as stylized in its colouration as the previous film, but carries this on in a subtler form.
  • Godzilla is still associated with the same shades of radioactive blue.
  • Kong is represented by a warm shade of orange.
  • Mechagodzilla is associated with a hellish, police-siren red and metallic silver.
• The Great Race: Leslie wears white and all his gear is white. Professor Fate wears black and his car is black.
• Heathers. Most of the primary characters wear their own color of clothing which represents their dominant emotions, though this isn't noticeable at first. Heather Chandler is red for lust and power in school, Heather McNamara is yellow for her cowardliness, Heather Duke is green for her jealousy towards Heather Chandler's power and later wears red when she gains power, Veronica is blue representing her misery in high school, and J.D. is black showing him as a deathbringer and the antagonist. Chandler's red hair bow becomes a symbol of power, as after her death Duke claims it for herself, symbolizing her replacement of the original Heather. Veronica forcefully taking it from Duke at the end of the film shows the end of the Heathers' power.
• Help!: The Beatles' house, with John = red, Paul = white, George = green, and Ringo = blue.
• Hocus Pocus: The Sanderson Sisters each have a respective base color; green for Winifred, pink for Sarah, and orange for Mary.
• In Hussar Ballad Shura, the main character, is the only one in the whole movie to wear a light grey uniform, and stands out in every crowd. The diversity of Russian uniforms at the time makes it easy to color code other characters as well: Rzhevsky, for example, is the only one to wear blue-and-gold hussar uniform.
• Jurassic Park:
  • Jurassic Park:
    • Hammond - White
    • Sattler - Pink
    • Grant - Blue
    • Malcolm - Black
    • Muldoon - Beige
  • Jurassic World does this with the Velociraptors:
    • Delta - Brown (like the raptors in the first film)
    • Charlie - Green
    • Echo - Khaki
    • Blue - Blue
• Pirates of the Caribbean - very subtly Jack-Red, Will-Blue, Elizabeth-Yellow, Barbossa-Green.
• Ran gives each main character an identifying color, as well as their respective armies.
  • Hidetora: White
  • Taro: Yellow
  • Jiro: Red
  • Saburo: Blue
• Played with in Reservoir Dogs: each of the robbers is given a colour-based codename (Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, etc), but they all wear identical black suits, shades and have slicked-back hair precisely in order to make identification (in the context of a police lineup) more difficult.
• Also done in the Polish/East German film Der Schweigende Stern (better known in America as First Spaceship to Venus or The Silent Star), where each of the cast wears a distinct color of spacesuit.
  • Science fiction films lend themselves well to this trope, since from a filmmaking standpoint, having a coloured spacesuit assigned to each character (as the previous three examples describe) makes it easier to distinguish the characters when you can't see their faces. In-universe, it also makes it easier for the characters to tell each other apart when they can't see each other's faces.
• Sky High (2005): There's a prevalent theme in pairing up characters with complementary color themes. Specifically, Will wears almost exclusively red, white and blue, plant girl Layla wears both pink and green, and human glow stick Zach wears neon yellowish-green and white. Justified, in that you would want to play up your powers to impress your classmates. Besides, if your parents are superheroes with similar powers, similar colors would be included in their costumes. Because they like those colours, you would be exposed to them throughout your childhood.
• Speed Racer: by Word of God in the DVD Extras.
  • Speed - Blue
  • Pops - Red
  • Trixie - Pink
  • Racer X - Black
  • Taejo - White (really, the whole Togokahn family)
  • Spritle - Yellow
  • Royalton - Purple
  • Mom - Green
  • Sparky - Orange
• The Breakfast Club
  • Bender - Red
  • Andrew - Blue
  • Brian - Green
  • Allison - Black becomes White after her makeover.
  • Claire - Pink
• The brothers in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), naturally. April is also codified by her Yellow jacket.
  • Leonardo: Blue
  • Raphael: Red
  • Donatello: Purple
  • Michelangelo: Orange
• The Terminator: The three punks in the opening. The leader has blue hair, his second-in-command has blonde hair and the punk who ends up surrendering his clothes to the T-800 has red eye makeup.
• Transformers Film Series:
  • Optimus Prime is distinguishably blue and red.
  • Bumblebee for yellow and black, of course.
  • Ironhide for black.
  • Ratchet for lime green, he is made completely green starting in Dark of the Moon.
  • Jazz and Sideswipe for silver.
  • Drift is notably a mix of blue, black and gold.
  • Most major Decepticons are given dull colors of black, grey, silver and navy green to make them contrastable from the Autobots - despite the fact that in almost every Transformers fiction outside the live-action movies, they're just as colorful as the Autobots. This would be changed in Bumblebee, with more faithfully colorful Decepticon designs.
  • Played more within Bumblebee, which due to the significantly reduced primary cast of Transformers themselves, all manage to be distinguished through color alone. The titular heroic Bumblebee is still yellow, while the antagonistic Shatter and Dropkick are red and blue, respectively.
• X-Men Film Series:
  • Although Professor Charles Xavier is comfortable enough with his masculinity to confidently wear "feminine" hues such as periwinkle, pink or lilac, he's mainly associated with various shades of blue, grey and white.
  • While not in her X-Men uniform, Jean Grey often likes to dress in red clothing.
  • Quicksilver's civilian attire is usually accompanied by something silver, whether it's a jacket, pants, sneakers and/or sunglasses.
  • X-Men: First Class: Emma Frost's wardrobe consists exclusively of white outfits.
  • The Wolverine:
    • Yukio has an affinity for fiery red.
    • Viper has a preference for green.
  • Deadpool (2016): Black must be Negasonic Teenage Warhead's favourite because that's the only colour she wears when she's not in her X-Men suit.
• In Logan's Run, every person has a crystal embedded into the palm of their hand, which changes color depending on the age of the person. In addition, most of the cast wears outfits that correspond to the color of their crystal.

Literature

• The Hobbit: Tolkien lists the colors of the Dwarves' hooded cloaks, as if that would help you keep them straight. If you pair up colors and names in the orders they are both listed, you should get:
  • Dwalin - Dark green
  • Balin - Scarlet
  • Fíli and Kíli - Blue
  • Dori and Nori - Purple
  • Ori - Grey
  • Óin - Brown
  • Glóin - White
  • Bifur and Bofur - Yellow
  • Bombur - Pale green
  • Thorin - Sky-blue with a long silver tassle
• Spy High: The team's official codenames after graduation are Edward Red, Angel Blue (Lori), Benjamin White, Jake Black, Callista Green and Agent Orange (Bex). The second series of books is titled accordingly. We never find out what colour Jennifer would have been, though it's possible she was the original Orange.
• The Sherwood Ring: Dick - an officer in the Continental army - naturally wears blue, as does his love interest Eleanor; Peaceable - an officer in the British army - wears red, as does his love interest Barbara.
• A Song of Ice and Fire differentiates the members of different Great Houses by a certain hair color/eye color combination. This, heavily coupled with Artistic License – Biology, is actually a plot point - the Baratheon phenotype is invariably dominant over the Lannister one, and none of King Robert's legitimate children are black-haired or blue-eyed. Characters are also associated with the colors of their house sigil.

  • House Stark (gray and white sigil) is gray-eyed and dark brown/black-haired, although this is subverted with Catelyn Tully's additions to the gene pool.
  • House Lannister (gold and red) is green-eyed and blonde.
  • House Baratheon (black and gold)is blue-eyed and black-haired.
  • House Tully (red and blue) is blue-eyed and redheaded.
  • House Tyrell (gold and green) is brown-eyed and brown-haired.
  • House Martell (orange and yellow) is dark-skinned, black-haired, and dark-eyed.
  • House Targaryen (red and black) has silver-blond hair and purple eyes.

  • Additionally, Renly Baratheon, one of the claimants to the throne, has his own special group of bodyguards called the Rainbow Guard, consisting of seven members, each of a different color. Loras Tyrell, the lord commander of the guard, wears white; Brienne of Tarth, a later POV character, wears blue (which, conveniently, is also the color primarily associated with her home of Tarth, known as the Sapphire Isle for the blue of its waters).
• Applied three times in A.L. Phillips's The Quest of the Unaligned.
  • Each of the various social/magical castes in the kingdom of Caederan wears different colors. The magicless peasants wear brown, the handful of peasant mages wear a white sash and robes in the color of their alignment (red for aeshes, blue for shamais, green for aretzes, and silver for ruahks), the aligned nobles wear white robes with trim in the color of their element, and the unaligned royal house wears white robes with golden trim.
  • It is mentioned that all citizens of the city-state of Tonzimmiel wear the same shirt-and-pants uniform, with color indicating your profession.
  • Finally, each of the three main heroes has a different primary color on the cover. Alaric wears the brownish uniform of a Tonzimmelian Security Force officer, Laeshana is in the red robes of an aesh, and Nahruahn is clad in white, as befits his noble lineage.
• Students in Idlewild set their own callsigns that blink between two colors. Most of them coordinate these with their outfits and personal domains.
• An interesting example in Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar, where each character's chapters are represented by a different color in the top corners of the page. The color represents an aspect of their personality, and is usually what they are wearing throughout.
• The Handmaid's Tale: In the Republic of Gilead, women and girls are identified by their roles in society according to their strict dress code.
  • The titular Handmaids wear red to symbolize their fertility.
  • Wives (consorts of the Commanders) = blue.
  • Aunts (female enforcers of the regime) = brown.
  • Marthas (menial servants) = green.
  • Jezebels (state-sponsored pleasure slaves) = purple.
  • Daughters (female children of Wives and Commanders) = white.
• In Elbow Grease by John Cena, each of the main characters has a color from the rainbow to represent him or her:
  • Elbow Grease: Blue
  • Crash: Red
  • Flash: Green
  • Pinball: The hue between the primary colors red and yellow as seen on the light spectrum^note Orange
  • Tank: Yellow
  • Mel: Violet
• Word of Mouse: The scientists at the lab Isiah and his family were kept in had all their fur genetically dyed into groups of colours to better organize them. Isiah's fur is blue, and one of his relatives has red fur.
• Divergent: The factions are all symbolized by specific colors, which also dictate the color of their clothing. The Factionless noticeably wear mismatched colors, showing that they don't belong in any specific faction.
  • Erudite wears blue.
  • Amity wears red, orange, or yellow.
  • Candor wears a combination of black and white.
  • Dauntless wears black or dark gray.
  • Abnegation wears light gray.

Live-Action TV

• Naturally, the members of numerous Super Sentai and Power Rangers teams in each season are distinguished by the colors of their outfits. The most common color combination consists of red (usually the leader), blue, green, yellow, and pink. Some seasons will swap black for green or white for pink, but it's uncommon to have both Black and Green or White and Pink on the same team at the same time. In a manner similar to the G.I. Joe laser situation, some colorcoded aspects will change when a Ranger acquires a different shiny suit.
  • In particular, the subtractive primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) are the only colors that have been present on almost every team to date. ^note Except for JAKQ, Battle Fever, Changeman, Kyoryuger and Ryusoulger; all five of which lacked a proper Yellow. One of the girls will be pink, or white with pink trimming, leaving the last to be either green or black. Teams that break this rule become more common starting with Hurricanger/Ninja Storm.
  • The Sixth Ranger, especially those in later series, is usually associated with Silver or Gold. Of the exceptions, four of them have gold armor (to the point that King Ranger's Power Ranger counterpart is named the Gold Ranger despite being officially designated black), three of them are white (including one of the ones with gold armor), somewhat following the pattern. The notable exceptions are Time Fire/Quantum Ranger, who's a second red to highlight the character's rivalry with the main Red Ranger, ToQ #6, who's orange in order to fit the series Rainbow Motif, Zyuoh the World, whose primary color is black with parts of his suit being gold and silver, and Ryu Commander & Houou Soldier, the former being the team's mentor and the last of the non-variant or repeat colored Kyurangers (in his case, violet), while the latter is a second red who led his own team hundreds of years before the current team before becoming a Sealed Good in a Can until the present day.
  • Power Rangers exaggerated it in their first few seasons. Not only did they always wear their designated Ranger colors unmorphed, most of their accessories (backpacks, notebooks, etc.) were also color-coded, alongside Pink Ranger Kimberly having a pink car (really a dark magenta, but that was what they were going for) and Yellow Ranger Trini drinking a banana milkshake at the juice bar (yes, out of a yellow glass.) A couple of former Rangers have mentioned hating seeing their Ranger color once they leave the show.
  • Lampshaded in Dino Thunder. At the end of the episode "Back in Black", when he gains the new Black Ranger powers, Tommy notes that he needs to go shopping for more black clothes.
  • Also lampshaded in Mystic Force; Vida is the Pink Ranger, but she's so tomboyish she actually hates the color, and it's not until towards the end of the season that she starts thinking it's not that bad, even incorporating it to her hair dye.
  • Actually broken by Karone in Lost Galaxy. As the Pink Ranger, her outfits consist of black leather with maybe a pink hairclip. It should be also noted in the same season that Mike the Magna Defender doesn't have a specific color, and he was the first unmorphed hero not to.^note Oddly enough, as his Sentai counterpart was called the Black Knight, and very much dressed the part in and out of armor.
  • Somewhat subverted with Jason as the aforementioned Gold Ranger, the adaptation of Ohranger's KingRanger. At no point does Jason ever wear anything with even so much as a shade of gold in any part of his civilian wear, and instead wears black like a Black Ranger...which his Sentai counterpart was officially designated as in Ohranger. Ironically enough, in his untransformed form, said Sentai counterpart Riki was covered in even more gold armor than his morphed form, due to being a warrior king from ancient times. THAT'S RIGHT! The one called the Gold Ranger wore black like a Black Ranger, while the designated Black Ranger wore more gold armor than his morphed form. Played somewhat straight with the original user of the Gold Ranger powers, Trey of Triforia, who wore a black robe with prominent gold trim, at least matching the color scheme of his powers.
  • Despite the trope of Dark Is Not Evil being present with the usage of a Black Ranger, when the Rangers' weapons glow during the execution of an attack or something similar, the Black Ranger's weapon occasionally glows with a purple hue rather than a black coloration, as true black is at times reserved for the villains instead. As a result, it's the only weapon where the "glow" does not match the Ranger's designated color in such cases where coloration is utilized whenever Power Glows. An example of this occurring can be seen in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, whenever Will the Black Ranger strikes with his signature weapon.
  • Ressha Sentai ToQger plays with the trope: while the rangers usually have a standard color code (red leader, blue nerd, pink girl, etc) they can swap their Transformation Trinkets around, switching colors and weapons in the process. It also shows why the color coding is important: abuse of that ability quickly leads to mass confusion, in and out of universe.
  • Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger is the first series to completely avert the Red Ranger being the leader/top-billed character. The leader is instead associated with the unique Rainbow color. There is a Red Ranger on the team, but he's a normal team member instead of the leader here.
• Breaking Bad described here
  • Walter - Green
  • Jesse - Red or Yellow
  • Skyler - Blue
  • Hank - Brown/Orange
  • Marie - Purple
  • Walt Jr. - Orange, but not tied as closely to it
• The Kamen Rider Series now becomes guilty of this trope because of merchandising. Almost every main Rider will have several modes, color-designated. In particular, there are mix and matchers: Kamen Rider OOO, who's form repertoire consists entirely of switching colours on his legs, arms and head, totalling over 130 variants (with full colour matches being generally more powerful than mixes) and Kamen Rider Double who switches colour of his left and right halves (although only has three and four colours on each respectively).
  • Kamen Rider Kuuga:
    • Growing: White
    • Mighty: Red
    • Dragon: Blue
    • Pegasus: Green
    • Titan: Purple
    • Amazing Mighty/Ultimate: Black
  • Kamen Rider Ryuki:
    • Ryuki: Red
    • Knight: Navy
    • Scissors: Orange
    • Zolda: Green
    • Raia: Magenta
    • Gai: Grey
    • Ouja: Purple
    • Odin: Gold/Bronze
    • Tiger: Silver/Blue
    • Imperer: Brown
    • Verde: Lime Green
    • Femme: White
    • Ryuga: Black
    • Abyss: Cyan
  • Kamen Rider 555:
    • Faiz: Red
    • Kaixa: Yellow
    • Delta: White/Blue
    • Psyga: Purple/White
    • Orga: Gold
  • Kamen Rider Zi-O:
    • Zi-O: Pink/Black
    • Geiz: Red/Yellow
    • Woz: Lime Green/Silver
    • Tsukuyomi: White
  • Kamen Rider Zero-One:
    • Zero-One: Yellow
    • Vulcan: Blue
    • Valkyrie: Orange
    • Horobi: Purple
    • Jin: Pink (becomes Red after upgrading to Burning Falcon)
    • Thouser: Gold
    • Ikazuchi: Crimson
    • Naki: Silver
    • Ark-Zero: Black
    • Ark-One: White
  • Kamen Rider Saber:
    • Saber: Red
    • Blades: Blue
    • Espada: Yellow
    • Buster: Grey
    • Kenzan: Green
    • Slash: Pink
    • Caliber: Purple
    • Saikou: Gold
    • Sabela: Crimson
    • Durendal: Black/Cyan
    • Falchion: Orange
• The Fresh Beat Band: Shout wears orange, Kiki pink, Marina blue, and Twist yellow.
• Invoked in Charmed: when Prue casts a spell that creates duplicates of herself, Phoebe puts them in different-coloured shirts so everyone can tell them apart.
• Teletubbies: Tinky-Winky is purple, Dipsy is lime, Laa Laa is yellow, and Po is red.
• Through The Dragon's Eye: Boris is orange, Doris is purple, and Moris is green.
• In Tracy Beaker Returns, the kids are all associated with their own colour as reflected in their usual clothing. This is continued into Series 1 of The Dumping Ground before being thrown out of the window from Series 2 onwards.
  • Carmen: Pink
  • Lily: Lilac
  • Johnny: Blue
  • Tee: Blue
  • Liam: Purple
  • Frank: Black
  • Toby: Orange and Green
  • Gus: Navy (with beige chinos)
  • Sapphire: Black
  • Elektra: Electric Blue
  • Tyler: Yellow
  • Rick: Red
  • Jody: Brown
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • Joel - Red (although his jumpsuit comes in many colors, he is described in the intro as "just another face in a red jumpsuit")
    • Experiments 101-113: Bright Red; Experiments 201-211: alternating between Green and Bright Red; Experiments 212-512, 1001: Dark Red
  • Mike - Green/Blue (also has several jumpsuit colors, but usually wears green or blue)
  • Crow - Gold
  • Tom Servo - Red
  • Gypsy - Purple
  • Dr. Forrester - Lime Green
  • Dr. Erhardt - Black
  • TV's Frank - Black (sometimes grey or silver)
  • Pearl - Pink/Lime Green (pink in season 7, lime green in later seasons)
  • Observer(s)/"Brain Guy" - Dark Blue/White
  • Prof. Bobo - Yellow/Brown
  • Jonah - Yellow
  • Kinga - Purple
  • Max - Black
  • The Skeleton Crew (Boneheads) - White
  • Other characters may include the likes of Mr. B Natural, who always wears a "powder blue note-spangled jacket" as described by Servo.
    • When the crew of the SOL reach the edge of the universe and become beings of pure energy, their energy forms match their colors: Mike-Green, Crow-Gold, Tom Servo-Red, and Gypsy who is oddly Blue rather than Purple. Cambot and Magic Voice also become energy beings, and both appear to be White.
    • Note that the colors didn't apply so much in the KTMA season. Joel had a couple of different jumpsuits that he didn't wear again after the show went national, Crow was the only robot that had his final color, and the Mads wore transparent vinyl coats.
• The Defenders: Each principal character and the supporting cast they bring from their solo show wear matching colors, and scenes featuring them tend to focus on those colors, with multi-character scenes featuring those of the characters present.
  • Matt Murdock is associated with the color red. His neckties, glasses, cane, and Daredevil armor are all red. While we don't see it here, we know from a scene back in Daredevil season 1 that he sees the world in red flames, and his motif evokes a lot of imagery of rage and punishment. His scenes, such as his church and his apartment, are shot with red colors. Karen Page wears a red skirt and a black coat with red sash and inner liner, highlighting her unresolved sexual tension with Matt. Foggy Nelson's red only extends to patterns on his necktie, perhaps alluding to his recent break with Matt.
  • Jessica Jones is connected with tones of blue. Scenes focusing on her tend to look cold and unwelcoming, but her scenes which don't focus on her tend to show blue, hopeful colors, like the sky. She mostly wears entirely black clothing, except for her blue jeans, and scenes featuring her tend to feature blue furnishings and blue-filtered light or water. On top of this, Trish Walker sports a blue coat, and blue clothing while she's in the police station.
  • Luke Cage has a lot of warm, welcoming yellow colors in his scenes. He wears a yellow t-shirt, his hoodie has yellow accents, and he's introduced wearing an orange jumpsuit as he's being released from prison. His scenes show a lot of natural sunlight or lights through yellow shades, and most furnishings in his scenes are yellow or a light wood. Misty Knight also follows the pattern by wearing an orange turtleneck, similar but not identical to his own shirt (and reflecting her comic-book counterpart's color).
  • Danny Rand primarily is shown with green, a very rich color, and he is the only one of the Defenders lineup to come from an upper-class background. He wears green sweaters or olive-green suits, his scenes such as at Colleen’s dojo tend to have a lot of green hues, and his employees are also aware enough to compliment his company's green office space with green shirts.
  • Fittingly, the Royal Dragon where the four of them regroup, rest, and eventually decide to work together has all of the above colors in its decor and lighting. Even the neon dragon sign is lit only with red, blue, yellow, and green bulbs.
  • The Hand’s henchmen mostly wear black, and scenes featuring them look darker, even muting the heroes' colored atmosphere. Colleen and Malcolm also wear dark colors, which would be a metaphor for how Colleen betrayed Danny to Bakuto, and Malcolm spied on Jessica for Kilgrave.
  • The Hand’s leadership dress primarily in white, with their bases being as white as an Apple store, and Alexandra's initial sets emphasizing white backgrounds like clouds or a stark white cathedral. Murakami, Sowande, Madame Gao and Bakuto accent their white with black, but Alexandria pairs the white with gold, signifying her dominance over them. In her very first scene, she's asked to remove her white clothes and gold jewelry in a sterile white room.
  • Elektra’s colors are literally split between the Hand’s black colors with her coat and Matt’s red with her main armor, signifying her indecision. While she is trying to understand herself, scenes with her are a mismatched whirl of clashing colors, reflecting her own inner conflict. Several times, she contemplates a pair of sais with white and black guards; this ultimately foreshadows her murder of Alexandra.
  • Claire Temple wears mostly white, grey, or shades of brown, which represents her familiarity with all of the Defenders team. Scenes with her frantically switch between the four Defenders' colors while each remain dominant and don't clash, further displaying her deep connection with all of them.
• Doctor Who: It's subtle, but look at the clothes preferred by the Tenth Doctor's companions: Rose is always wearing something pink, Martha's usual top is red, while Donna wears pinks and blues both, but is most often seen in purple. Also, aside from the ubiquitous jeans, the girls tend towards warm colours, while the Doctor and Jack go for blue.
• The characters in the Girls x Heroine! shows are color-coded. The main character is always pink, and the other two characters have blue and purple motifs.
• Each Danger Force member is represented with a specific color: red for Volt, yellow for AWOL, blue for Brainstorm, and silver for ShoutOut.
• Fate: The Winx Saga:
  • Bloom is associated with the color red, through both her fire magic and her red outfits.
  • Aisha is associated with blue, as she's a Water Fairy and often wears blue.
  • Terra is associated with green though her clothes and plant magic.
  • Both Stella and her mother Luna often wear pink.
• Legion:
  • Sydney Barrett's outfits are usually orange and/or black.
  • Gabrielle Xavier's wardrobe consists mostly of green clothing and accessories (e.g. high heels).
• Interview with the Vampire (2022):
  • In 2022, Louis de Pointe du Lac's wardrobe consists exclusively of black and grey apparel.
  • In 2022, Rashid is only ever seen in black clothing.

Music

• This is standard practice for Japanese and Korean idol units. It was initially done as a way to tell apart different members on stages as well as the management agencies' way of making more money by putting out merchandise in multiple colors. Eventually, it became the fans' own way of showing loyalty and admiration of their favorite members. Fans show support for their favorite member at live events by waving "sign lights", electronic glow sticks sold as merchandise, preset with the members' colors. It has, of course, carried over to 2D and 2.5D idols (that is, anime characters who release singles alongside "real" music acts), such as Love Live!, Tsukiuta, and Uta No Prince Sama.
• NEWS: With the exception of Koyama who vacillates between Brown and Purple, the other members generally stick to the same colors when it comes to costumes. Tegoshi is Pink, Kato is Green, Nishikido is Blue, Yamashita is Red and Masuda is Yellow.
• The Evillious Chronicles franchise makes use of Vocaloids for its songs and subsequently draws on their already existing Color Motifs for the series' characters. Characters portrayed by KAITO have a blue motif, characters portrayed by MEIKO have red, Miku characters have green/turquoise, etc. This also has the side effect of the colors representing the Seven Deadly Sins being very mismatched from the colors they are traditionally associated with however (with the exception of possibly Sloth, associated with the Miku character Margarita).
• Red Velvet members have designated colors ever since their debut and these colors have since continued into their other music videos and live performances.
  • Irene - Red/Pink
  • Seulgi - Yellow/Orange
  • Wendy - Blue
  • Joy - Green
  • Yeri - Purple
• MAMAMOO The members were each assigned a color and season for their 4Seasons album project. These colors were used as the primary color of their respective dresses in the Paint Me music video and the special photocards included in the White Wind mini album:
  • Solar - Color: Blue, Season: Autumn
  • Moonbyul - Color: Red, Season: Summer
  • Wheein - Color: White, Season: Winter
  • Hwasa - Color: Yellow, Season: Spring
• Tsukiuta, a series of months as idols with a male and female representative for each month, has the same color for both members of each month. So, Shun and Tsubaki, the November idols, are both silver; Hajime and Yuki, the January members, are both purple, etc. The spinoffs that fall under the Tsukipro label all also have color-codes. There are over 10 blue members, and none of them are the exact same shade except for the aforementioned May and July pairs. They also have a collection of color-coded mascots for each series of two units, starting with rabbits, of course, for the months, and continuing with dogs, squirrels, cats, and birds, but only the cats have gotten a stop-motion video.
• LOONA Each member has had an assigned color and animal (along with Choerry, Yves, Chuu, Gowon and Olivia Hye each having an assigned fruit) since debut and they often carry over into the groups music videos and merchandise:
  • Heejin - Bright Pink, Rabbit
  • Hyunjin - Yellow, Cat
  • Haseul - Green, White Bird
  • Yeojin - Orange, Frog
  • Vivi - Pastel Rose, Deer
  • Kim Lip - Red, Owl
  • Jinsoul - Blue, Blue Betta Fish
  • Choerry - Purple, Fruit Bat, Cherry
  • Yves - Burgundy, Swan, Apple
  • Chuu - Peach, Penguin, Strawberry
  • Gowon - Eden Green, Butterfly, Pineapple
  • Olivia Hye - Grey/Silver, Wolf, Blood Plum
• TWICE Each member has an assigned color which is commonly used in individual merchandise such as photocards:
  • Jihyo - Apricot
  • Nayeon - Sky Blue
  • Jeongyeon - Chartreuse
  • Momo - Pink
  • Sana - Purple
  • Mina - Mint
  • Dahyun - White
  • Chaeyoung - Red
  • Tzuyu - Blue
• B.A.P members' Matoki mascots are represented each with a different color since debut:
  • Yongguk - Red
  • Himchan - Pink
  • Daehyun - Gray
  • Youngjae - Yellow
  • Jongup - Green
  • Zelo - Blue
• One of the defining traits of Momoiro Clover Z (Green, Pink, Red, Yellow, and Purple)^note The Green member left at the beginning of 2018, leaving behind Pink, Red, Yellow, and Purple and their fellow idol acts in Stardust Planet, with each group having its own distinct color scheme.
  • Team Syachihoko: Green, Blue, Red, Yellow^note The Yellow member left in late 2018, Purple, and formerly Pink^note The Pink member had to leave in 2016 due to physical ailments.
  • Takoyaki Rainbow: Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink, and Purple. Like Momoclo, they also had a Red^note who left very early on to prioritize school Leader, until she graduated in 2014.
  • Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku primarily uses attendence numbers, but also occasionally uses individual member colors. The current lineup: Purple, Green, Lime/Light Green^note The Lime member left the group in early 2018, later to be adopted by a new member in 2021, Pink, Blue^note Due to the Blue member's death in 2017, the color was permanently retired for members, and adopted as the official group/fan club color, Orange^note Graduated in 2022, Yellow, and Aqua/Light Blue. In 2021 new members were added, taking Red, Lime, and White^note The first member ever to adopt this color. as their official color. 2022 will add "Honey Orange"/Amber and "Milk Tea"/Beige.
• The boyband JLS, who, thanks to their rise to fame on The X Factor, are colour-coded, and have carried it into their music career, often performing not just in coloured clothing, but having coloured tape around their microphones and coloured earpieces. It's almost guaranteed that if you used their real names (Aston, JB, Marvin and Oritse) very few people would know who you were talking about, but if you said 'the blue/red/green/yellow guy from JLS,' they would.
• Lovebites as a whole usually wear white, to contrast with the stereotypical black of the metal genre.
• The Wiggles: All the members since 1992 wear their signature shirts/skivvies.
  • Murray/Simon - Red
  • Greg/Sam/Emma - Yellow
  • Anthony - Blue, though in early years, green
  • Jeff/Lachy - Purple
  • Captain Feathersword - Pink
  • Dorothy - Green
  • Wags - Brown
  • Henry - Indigo
• The music video for YOASOBI's "Sangenshoku" (AKA "RGB") follows three characters associated with red, blue, and green.
• Tally Hall: Their signature ties:
  • Andrew is green
  • Joe is red
  • Rob is yellow
  • Ross is gray
  • Zubin is blue
  • Bora, who is basically an honorary member of the band, is orange
    • This originally was used to make them stand out from other Ann Arbor bands, and the colors were chosen based on their instrument colors. Ross "inherited" Steven's gray tie when he replaced him in the band.
    • They've said before that purple can be the tie color for fans.
• The Beatles in the famous Abbey Road Crossing. John is in white, Ringo wears a black pinstripe suit, Paul wears a grey suit (and no shoes), while less-formal George wears bluejeans and a blue denim work shirt.
• The Saturdays: Often played with, as the artwork for the Chasing Lights era prominently featured the girls wearing a different color each, though no one colour was specifically assigned to any of them. This is especially prominent in the video for "Up".
• Each member of Kiss got a designated color with their 1978 solo albums. Those colors were then incorporated into their new stage costumes in 1979 and each band member rose up to the stage under a spotlight of their designated color at the beginning of their concerts that year.
  • Gene Simmons - Red
  • Paul Stanley - Purple
  • Ace Frehley - Blue
  • Peter Criss - Green
    • When Eric Carr replaced Peter Criss on drums, they had the same guy who painted the solo album portraits do one of him as well, and his "color" was orange.
• Mystery Skulls' animated music video for Ghost features characters that are blue, yellow, red, and pink. The leader character seems to be the yellow one, however, and the pink character is a male ghost and the main antagonist of the video.

Puppet Shows

• In Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, agents of the aptly named Spectrum organization wear a colour coded uniform. An interesting because they have a few unusual colours such as Doctor Fawn, Captain Ochre, Captain Magenta, and of course, Captain Scarlet. Other members include Captain Blue, Colonel White, Lieutenant Green, Captain Brown, Captain Grey, and Captain Black.
• Thunderbirds: The pilots wear pastel-coloured sashes and belts:
  • Scott: light blue
  • Virgil: yellow
  • Alan: ivory
  • Gordon: orange
  • John: lilac
  • Brains: brown in Thunderbird 6

Professional Wrestling

• The top Japanese stars of All Japan Pro Wrestling in the 90s, the famous Four Pillars, each had a signature color that they wore. Akira Taue wore red, Toshiaki Kawada wore yellow (and black, like police tape or a warning sign; he's dangerous), Mitsuharu Misawa wore green (and white), and Kenta Kobashi wore orange. Jun Akiyama, often considered the Fifth Pillar, wore blue. They tended to make their ring entrances in jackets of the appropriate color.
• Dragon Gate has its roster largely split between various stables, each with their own color scheme reflected in their attire and merchandise - for instance, Mad Blankey wore black and yellow. The Jimmyz are the exception, with their logo and group merch being simple black and white, but each member having an associated color — Susumu's is purple, Saito's is orange, etc. Notably absent is green, because it's so associated with Dragon Kid. And Genki Horiguchi doesn't actually wear much of his color, yellow.

Reality Television

• The American reality game show Survivor features the tribes getting their own coloured buffs which the members of the tribe must wear. In later seasons especially, producers also typically picked wardrobe for each contestant that was fairly close to those tribe colors, allowing an indication of original tribes after a formal tribe swap.
• The Amazing Race strongly encourages the members of each team to wear matching colors. It's never been made clear whether it's absolutely required.

Tabletop Games

• Played straight with Atmosfear with each character having a different coloured associated with them, extending to their keys and playing pieces (except in The Harbingers)
  • Anne de Chantraine - orange (originally blue)
  • Baron Samedi - green (originally white)
  • Elizabeth Bathory - red (originally gray)
  • Gevaudan - blue (originally black)
  • Helin - purple
  • Khufu - yellow (originally red)
  • Medusa - lime
• The game known as Cluedo or Clue somewhat inverts the trope, giving the pieces names and personas based on their colours:
  • Reverend Green (Mr. Green in some editions) - green
  • Colonel Mustard - yellow
  • Mrs. Peacock - blue
  • Professor Plum - purple
  • Miss Scarlet - red
  • Mrs. White - white

Theatre

• Productions of Romeo and Juliet usually use this to distinguish between the Montagues and the Capulets, often with Monts in blue and Caps in red. Members of the house of Escalus, the Prince's family, are often shown in purple and/or gold.
  • This also carries over to West Side Story, with the Jets usually in blues and the Sharks in reds.
• Also employed in productions of William Shakespeare's history plays, which typically involve large casts in multiple factions, all vying for the English crown.
  • Mandated by Shakespeare himself in Henry VI, where the Lancastrians wear red roses and the Yorkists wear white ones.
• The six knights at Medieval Times Dinner And Tournament are referred to mainly by the colour of their heraldry: the Yellow Knight, the Blue Knight, the Black and White Knight, the Red and Yellow Knight, the Red Knight ^note  Yes, there's a Yellow Knight, a Red Knight, and a Red and Yellow Knight, and the Green Knight. The knights also have names, heraldic charges, and kingdoms they represent, but colour is much easier for audience members (especially children) to keep track of. Colour coding is also how guests are told which knight to cheer for and which section to sit in, via the cardboard crowns they're given when they enter. Other characters, such as royalty or the Lord Chancellor, are usually dressed in unaffiliated colours, such as black and gold, or a deep purplish red.

Video Games

• Advance Wars gives us Orange Star, Blue Moon, Yellow Comet, Green Earth, and Black Hole. Interestingly Orange Star's color is actually Red. Its name got changed from Red Star in western releases, probably due to the fact that it's a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the United States and thus having it be associated with a name that invoked communism like "Red Star" would be confusing at best.
• The main girls from Amagami are often associated with their own respective colors through both the game and the anime:
  • Haruka is associated with Violet.
  • Kaoru is associated with Green.
  • Sae is associated with Fuchsia (though Red is also used to represent her sometimes).
  • Ai is associated with Dark Blue.
  • Rihoko is associated with Orange (Dark Yellow is also common, however).
  • Tsukasa is associated with Light Blue.
  • Additionally, the other two most relevant female characters after the previously mentioned six, Miya and Risa, are associated with Yellow and Gray, respectively (Pink is also used for Risa sometimes).
• The Color of Mantra from Asura's Wrath is this depending on the character. The following colors are:
  • Asura: Red
    • Asura The Destructor: Rainbow.
  • Yasha: Blue
  • Wyzen: Yellow
  • Augus: Orange
  • Sergei: Pink
  • Lord Deus: White
  • Chakravartin: Gold
    • Chakravartin The Creator: Black And White
• Azure Striker Gunvolt Series
  • The first three games in the series, Azure Striker Gunvolt, Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 and Luminous Avenger iX, give their bosses (who are Differently Powered Individuals) rainbow color-coding. That said, bosses who share color usually don't have the same power.
    • Red: Viper, Gibril, Rebellio (as an example of same color =/= same powers, Viper is Playing with Fire, Gibril is Extra-ore-dinary and Rebellio is a Master of Threads)
    • Orange: Carrera, Asroc, Crimm
    • Yellow: Stratos, Desna, Dystnine
    • Green: Jota, Teseo, Stella
    • Blue: Merak, Tenjian, Bakto plus Blade
    • Pink or purple: Elise, Milas plus Ghauri, Isola (Technically Zonda also counts, but she's a Bait-and-Switch Boss in the first game and Big Bad in the second)
  • Luminous Avenger iX 2 and Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 still color-code their bosses, but not with the rainbow color spread. In iX 2, this is particularly notable in one boss evoking the powers of the other bosses, and said evoked powers are also color-coded accordingly.
• Banjo-Kazooie series: The main characters and their allies are all connected to colors in some way:
  • Banjo: Blue (has a blue backpack, and his split-up pad in Tooie is blue)
  • Kazooie: Red (has primarily red feathers, and her split-up pad in Tooie is red)
  • Mumbo Jumbo: Pink (has pink skin and uses pink magic blasts to attack with in Tooie)
  • Tooty: Purple (has purple pants and hairbands)
  • Bottles: Orange (wears an orange vest and can be found inside orange-brown molehills)
  • Jamjars: Green (wears a green military uniform)
  • Humba Wumba: Yellow (dresses in yellow and resides inside a yellow-colored wigwam)
• The Binding of Isaac: Each of the Harbingers has a dominant color scheme and, starting from Afterbirth+, an associated locust color that usually matches them.
  • Famine: Gray, with yellow locusts.
  • Pestilence: Green.
  • War: Red.
  • Death: Light Gray, with black locusts.
  • Conquest: White.
• Bug Fables:
  • The members of Team Snakemouth each have a predominant color, which highlights Medals when equipped to them and is the color of their HP boxes. Yellow for Vi, green for Kabbu, and light blue for Leif. Medals not equipped with single characters are highlighted in orange when equipped.
  • Twins Gen and Eri look identical aside from Gen wearing a blue scarf and Eri wearing a green scarf.
• Caveman Warriors:
  • Jack (Green)
  • Liliana (Red)
  • Moe (Blue)
  • Brienne (Yellow)
• The Consuming Shadow:
  • The Scholar: Red
  • The Ministry Man: Blue
  • The Warrior: Orange
  • The Wizard: Green
  • The Ancients in the game have their own colors that are randomized.
• Dawn of the Breakers categorizes its characters in different Color-Coded Elements^note Vita (Red, White, and Pink), Fate (Blue, Silver, and Violet), Terra (Green, Black, and Cyan), and Fortune (Yellow, presumably Gold, and Orange), which each have three subelements named after a color. There are two characters representing every subelement except for White, Silver, Black, and Gold, and different hues of their hair color distinguish them.
  • Yusaku and Rishin: Red
  • Aiba and Keiji: Blue
  • Kiri and Ichika: Yellow
  • Ryo and Mikami: Green
  • Mikoto and Tilda: Pink
  • Yuki and Nono: Violet
  • Tae and Go: Orange
  • Sawako and Sakura: Cyan
  • Yuya: White
  • Romeo: Black
  • The player's avatar is coded with the silver color (and "Silver" is even his official name), but he is not playable and does not have that subelement in-game. The silver subelement also does not appear on any enemy or boss. The gold subelement never had a playable character and is not seen in-game aside from a hammer-wielding miniboss of the Ruin Vanguard.
• Deep Rock Galactic gives each of the four playable classes their own main color, which shows up on their armor, their flares, and in UI elements related to them. The Gunner is green, the Driller is yellow, the Engineer is red, and the Scout is blue.
• In Diner Dash Adventures, the customers are categorized into different color schemes, and each color's tied to a specific trait:
  • Green (generous): Rosie, Minnie, Hal, Bernie.
  • Red (fast): Barb, Gil, Shakes, Max, Piper.
  • Blue (patient): Norbert, Dorbert, Florence, Kingston, Queenie, Gladys.
  • Mr. Big's goons are colorless, and each causes significant hindrances to the player.
• In Dragon Quest V, each potential wife has a different hair color and contrasting theme colors in their wardrobe:
  • Bianca: blonde hair; green tunic/dress and orange cloak.
  • Nera: blue hair; pastel blue, white, and lavender/blush pink.
  • Debora: black hair; rich red and darker pink.
• In Drunk On Nectar, each species can be distinguished by the color of its pheromone trails.
• Dynasty Warriors tends to have officers dress in a color that matches which of the Colour Coded Armies they fight for; later games in the series will also create Palette Swapped versions of the outfits for officers who end up changing sides at some point. For example, Zhang He starts out wearing yellow when working for Yuan Shao but swaps to a blue version of his outfit once he joins Cao Cao.
• In Emerald City Confidential, the residents of the different parts of Oz wear colors representing their home city or country; this makes it easy to see who is a foreigner. For instance, the completely-dressed-in-green Petra in the middle of all yellow Winkie Country.
• The party in the Epic Battle Fantasy series is recognizable by their usual clothes and hair color:
  • Matt: Yellow
  • Natalie: Red
  • Lance: Black
  • Anna: Green
  • NoLegs: Blue
• Invoked by Evolve. The different hunter classes each have a different color for easy identification in combat. On the other side, red represents the monsters in general, but each has a unique armor glow.
  • Assault: Red
  • Trapper: Green
  • Medic: Blue
  • Support: Yellow
  • Goliath: Red
  • Kraken: Blue
  • Wraith: Pinkish white
  • Behemoth: Orange
  • Gorgon: Pale green
• Final Fantasy III used four^note three during battle colors to denote the four Onion Knights, those being the only difference between them. The remake turns each color into the most prominent color on each kid's starting outfit to distinguish them in job classes, combined with Symbol Motif Clothing. Fully-armored jobs used their hair colors on helmet plumes.
  • Luneth: Purple, silver hair
  • Arc: Green, brown hair
  • Refia: Blue, red hair
  • Ingus: Red, blond hair
• Final Fantasy X: A trail of color marks each of your seven party members' progress on the Sphere Grid, either appearing in their costume prominently or associated with them in some other way:
  • Tidus: Light Blue
  • Yuna: White
  • Auron: Red
  • Wakka: Yellow-Orange
  • Lulu: Purple
  • Kimahri: Dark Blue
  • Rikku: Green
  • Notably, the colors associated with Tidus, Wakka, and Rikku are significant to solving a simplistic puzzle during Mt. Gagazet.
• Fuzion Frenzy: According to the game manual, the color-coding makes them easier to identify when playing fast-paced minigames (which covers about 90% of them)
  • Dub: Green
  • Samson: Red
  • Zak: Yellow
  • Geena: Blue ^note The second game uses a lighter shade than in the first
  • Naomi: Orange
  • Jet: Pink ^note In the second game, it's something more in line with light purple.
• The Galaxy Angel II trilogy uses this for the female members of the Rune Angel Wing, in the form of the members' favorite colors.
  • Rico: Orange
  • Lily: Dark blue
  • Nano: Sky blue
  • Kahlua: Light green
  • Tequila: Violet-silver
  • Anise: Wine red
  • Natsume: Pearl-pink
• Grand Theft Auto V has three story mode protagonists who have their own colors and one online protagonist with their own color.
  • Michael: Blue.
  • Franklin: Green.
  • Trevor: Orange.
  • Online Protagonist: Dark blue.
• In the Grow games:
  • Onkies: Men are light yellow, women are light pink, children are orange, and babies are light green. In Grow Valley and Grow Clay, your engineers are all colour-coded by occupation. In Grow Cinderella, you have a purple chariot driver onky and a brown butler onky.
  • Tonties' colors seems to depend of their roles in their colonies, for example, the green ones digs the galleries, the red ones takes care of constructions like ladders and elevator, and the yellow ones takes care of anything money related. There are much more colors as seen in Grow Valley, Grow Park and their own eponymous game, but their exact roles aren't known.
• The Harvest Sprites from Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town look identical and are only distinguishable by the colors of their clothes: Chef is red, Nappy is orange, Hoggy is yellow, Timid is green, Aqua is blue, Staid is indigo, while Bold is purple.
• Idolish 7, in particular, has a Rainbow Motif, though almost all the prominent characters have a color associated with them.
  • IDOLiSH7:
    • Iori: black and indigo
    • Yamato: green
    • Mitsuki: orange
    • Tamaki: cyan
    • Sougo: purple
    • Nagi: yellow
    • Riku: red
  • TRIGGER:
    • Gaku: gray
    • Ten: pink
    • Ryuunosuke: blue
  • Re:vale:
    • Momo: hot pink
    • Yuki: lime green
• The Idolmaster: All of the idols have associated colors, as can be seen here.
• The Handsome Men from Killer7, being a sentai team, naturally follow this, though the fact that there are so many of them leads to a few odd color choices, like light brown and "dead" (red and yellow.)
• The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match: The Clone Team is a trio of clones of series protagonist Kyo Kusanagi, all clad in his old gakuran. To tell them apart, they wear different colors: Kyo-1 is blue, Kyo-2 is brown, and KUSANAGI is black.
• In the free version of Last Word, all the characters are just silhouettes, distinguished by body type and posture, color, and other details (i.e.. the bowtie on Whitty Gawship or the star on General Sandhoff's uniform.) The commercial version has the characters' map sprites still have the same silhouettes, but appropriate portraits appear during conversations.
  • The color serves another story function, too, as it designates the noble house each character belongs to; when Professor Chatters reveals he is related to Whitty and thus is actually part of House Gawship, his silhouette color changes to match hers.
• League of Legends has a Magical Girl-themed set of skins for nine of the female champions (and one male) called the Star Guardians:
  • Lux: Pink
  • Jinx: Red
  • Janna: Purple
  • Poppy: Blue
  • Lulu: Green
  • Ahri: Salmon
  • Miss Fortune: Orange
  • Syndra: Violet
  • Ezreal: Cyan
  • Soraka: Teal
• The Legend of Zelda does this a lot. The elements of the Triforce and their respective goddesses/bearers (and oracles of the same name as the goddesses) thematically arrange them as follows:
  • Link and Farore (and the Oracle of Secrets) are Green
  • Zelda and Nayru (and the Oracle of Ages) are Blue
  • Ganon and Din (and the Oracle of Seasons) are Red
  • In addition, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords had you split into four separate Links, with green, blue, red, and purple tunics. In the manga version, they go by Green, Blue, Red, and Vio.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX has the Color Dungeon—but to get in, two{{Stalfos}}, one wearing a blue robe and the other wearing a red one, ask you a simple question of what color they are. Sounds easy—but if you're colorblind or not playing the game on a Game Boy Color, you can't get into the dungeon.
  • The recurring members of the Seven Sages and their associated characters are often tied to particular colors:
    • Ocarina of Time gives us Rauru (Yellow), Saria (Green), Darunia (Red), Ruto (Blue), Nabooru (Orange), Impa (Purple), and Zelda herself (Cyan/Light Blue).
    • Four Swords features the Seven Maidens—Blue, Yellow, Green, White (which manifests as more of a light blue), Red, Purple, and Zelda (whose aura is actually white).
    • Spirit Tracks contains a different group—the Lokomo—who are nevertheless color-coded: Anjean (Violet/Lavender), Gage (Green), Steem (White/Dark Blue), Carben (Light Blue), Embrose (Red), and Rael (Yellow/Brown). The originally planned sixth Lokomo, Syda, would have been Black
    • A Link Between Worlds has a new set of Seven Sages: Rosso (Red), Queen Oren (Orange), Osfala (Yellow), Gulley (Green), Seres (Cyan/Light Blue), Irene (Indigo/Dark Blue), and Impa (Purple).
    • Breath of the Wild offers a different take on the theme—the Four Champions—but still has associated colors: the Zora Mipha (Blue), the Goron Daruk (Red), the Rito Revali (Green), and the Gerudo Urbosa (Yellow/Orange).
• LEGO Stunt Rally:
  • The four playable characters each represent a different color.
    • Wrench: Red
    • Chip: Yellow
    • Barney: Blue
    • Lucky: Green
  • The five boss racers are also color-coded.
    • Radium: Yellow
    • Baron Flambo: Red
    • Snake: Green
    • Glacia: Blue
    • Mr. X: Purple
• Appears to some degree in the Mass Effect trilogy; some characters keep pretty consistent coloring in their available costumes.
  • Garrus: Blue
  • Liara: White
  • Tali: Varying shades of purple
  • Wrex: Red
  • Ashley: White and pink in 1 and 2, switching to blue in 3
  • Mordin: White
• Metroid Prime: Hunters
  • Trace - Red
  • Spire - Orange
  • Kanden - Yellow
  • Weavel - Green
  • Sylux - Blue
  • Noxus - Violet
• Nidhogg Invokes this, in a minimalism style. All characters are colored silhouettes assigned randomly. You are yellow in the single player.
• In no-one has to die., the entire gameplay is done through text messages, and each character has a color to match their handle.
  • Steve: Mint Green
  • Christina: Vermilion
  • Troy: Silver
  • Lionel: Lavender
  • Visitor: Steel Blue
• In Octopath Traveler, the protagonists and their classes all have their own color motif:
  • Ophilia and the Cleric class are white.
  • Cyrus and the Scholar class are black.
  • Tressa and the Merchant class are yellow.
  • Olberic and the Warrior class are blue.
  • Primrose is red, but the Dancer class does not have a color as an odd exception to the rule. Anyone who multi-classes into a Dancer retains the color of their original one.
  • Alfyn and the Apothecary class are green.
  • Therion and the Thief class are purple.
  • H'aanit and the Hunter class are pink.
• The main six characters of OMORI have a general color scheme, which is far more prevalent among their real-world selves:
  • Omori / Sunny: Black
  • Aubrey: Pink
  • Kel: Orange
  • Hero: Blue
  • Basil: Green
  • Mari: Purple
• The playable characters in Overwatch all have a prominent color on their default outfits (some even extending to their abilities and symbols). Examples include:
  • D.va: pink
  • Lúcio: green
  • Sombra: purple
• Pankapu: Ohoko is green, Ohiti is red, and Ohala is blue.
• The elf-like kids who star in the arcade games Percussion Kids/Tempo Kiddo and Super Kids/Wonder Boys by International Games System:
  • Kimpo: Blue
  • Ice: Green
  • Dory: Pink
  • Sosa: Yellow
• The Investigation Team in Persona 4.
  • The Protagonist: Gray.
  • Yosuke Hanamura: Orange.
  • Chie Satonaka: Green.
  • Yukiko Amagi: Red.
  • Kanji Tatsumi: Purple.
  • Rise Kujikawa: Pink.
  • Teddie: Yellow.
  • Naoto Shirogane: Blue.
  • Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth gives S.E.E.S. a color scheme of their own:
    • The Protagonist: Blue.
    • Yukari Takeba: Pink.
    • Junpei Iori: Indigo.
    • Akihiko Sanada: Red.
    • Mitsuru Kirijo: Magenta.
    • Fuuka Yamagishi: Green.
    • Aigis: Yellow.
    • Koromaru: Brown.
    • Ken Amada: Orange.
    • Shinjiro Aragaki: Purple.
    • Which are basically their colors from the original game; just give Junpei black, Mitsuru white, Fuuka light blue, Koromaru no color or also white, and Shinjiro brown.
• Persona 5: Each of the Phantom Thieves except Morgana wears different-colored gloves in their thief alter-egos that correspond to what element they specialize in or their role on the team
  • The Protagonist's gloves are red, the same color as the skull icon used for Curse skills.
  • Ryuji's are yellow, and he specializes in Zio skills.
  • Ann's are pink, and she specializes in Agi skills.
  • Yusuke's are blue, and he specializes in Bufu skills.
  • Makoto's are white, and she specializes in Nuclear skills.
  • Futaba's are green, but she doesn't actively participate in battles as she serves as the team's Mission Control.
  • Haru's are purple, and she specializes in Psy skills.
  • Goro's are gray, and he specializes in Bless and Almighty skills. During the third-term events in Royal, he gains black gauntlets to correspond to him now specializing in Curse instead of Bless.
  • This theming is partially averted in Royal, as Kasumi's glove color (red) is not only shared with another team member but doesn't correspond to her specific element (Bless).
• The Pikmin commanders, after the second and third games, add to the cast:
  • Olimar: Red.
  • Louie (and later the President on his behalf): Blue.
  • Alph: Light blue.
  • Brittany: Pink.
  • Charlie: Green.
• Prayer of the Faithless: Multiple:
  • Aeyr has red armor, and on the Start Screen, he's the red highlighted silhouette.
  • Mia has blue hair and armor, and on the Start Screen, she's the blue highlighted silhouette.
  • Amalie has red hair and armor.
  • Trill has green hair and clothing with green accents.
• The opponents in the Punch-Out!! series are usually represented with one (sometimes more than one) specifically featured color:
  • Aran Ryan (green)
  • Bald Bull (red)
  • Bear Hugger (blue and red)
  • Bob Charlie (red and purple)
  • Disco Kid (blue)
  • Don Flamenco (red)
  • Dragon Chan (blue)
  • Gabby Jay (blue)
  • Glass Joe (red)
  • Great Tiger (yellow and orange)
  • Heike Kagero (purple)
  • Hoy Quarlow (red)
  • Kid Quick (red)
  • King Hippo (yellow and orange)
  • Mad Clown: (blue)
  • Masked Muscle (blue and orange)
  • Mr. Sandman (yellow)
  • Narcis Prince (a mixed color scheme of red, yellow, blue, and green)
  • Nick Bruiser (yellow)
  • Piston Hondo (red)
  • Piston Hurricane (green and blue)
  • Pizza Pasta (green and red)
  • Rick Bruiser (red)
  • Soda Popinski (red)
  • Super Macho Man (blue)
  • Von Kaiser (green)
• Despite an over 20-year-long history, Resident Evil continues to clothe five out of six central characters in the same colors through every appearance:
  • Chris prefers hunter green or olive drab.
  • Jill is usually powder blue but sometimes edges towards indigo.
  • Claire is maroon.
  • Ada is crimson.
  • Wesker is black and sometimes midnight.
  • Leon's signature color seems to be dark blue, but he's something of a combo-breaker in that he appears to own clothes in more than one segment of the color wheel; some of his outfits feature no blue at all.
• In Riviera: The Promised Land, the female playable characters all have a single dominant color. Ein and Ledah, the guys, have more color variation but are predominantly blue and red, respectively.
  • Fia: Green
  • Lina: Orange/Yellow
  • Serene: Blue
  • Cierra: Red
• Sengoku Basara: Most notable are main rivals Yukimura and Masamune, who wear red and blue respectively. Motonari and Motochika also sport complementary color schemes.
  • Mitsunari and Ieyasu too. Mitsunari wears black and purple to represent the moon, whereas Ieyasu wears yellow to represent the sun.
• Shounen Kininden Tsumuji
  • Tsumuji: Red
  • Chijimi: Yellow
  • Hayate: Blue
  • Peach: Pink
  • Kinta: Purple
  • Tomame: Teal
• Silence of the Sleep uses a single primary color outline for each of its main characters, having a slight accent (i.e.. a colored tie) to set them apart. It's done in sharp contrast to the richly detailed (even if heavily dilapidated) levels of the game.
• In Skies of Arcadia there are the five (later six) admirals of the Valuan Armada, with their uniforms and ships:
  • Alfonso: Yellow
  • Gregorio: Brown
  • Vigoro: Blue
  • Belleza: Red/Pink
  • De Loco: Green
  • Ramirez: Silver/Black
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Each of the characters' fur/feather/body color tends to follow them everywhere.
  • Team Dark is more complicated, however:
    • Shadow's fur is Black with Red highlights, and he wears silver shoes. He is usually associated with Blacks and Grays or Maroon, but his attacks and auras are all orange to contrast with Sonic's blue theme.
    • Rouge has White fur and wears a black bodysuit with white gloves, a pink heart, and pink accents. She tends to be associated with Pink/White, but her auras are magenta, and attacks are typically black.
    • Omega is Red, Black, and Gray. Like Shadow, he's also associated with Blacks, Grays, and Reds, but his auras are a deep purple.
  • The Wisps from Sonic Colors come in various colors, and as such, they represent different powers. So far, we got Laser (Cyan), Drill (Yellow), Rocket (Orange), Spikes (Pink), Cube (Blue), Hover (Green), Frenzy (Purple), Burst (Red), and Void (Violet).
  • In Sonic Lost World, we get Asteroid (Indigo), Eagle (Crimson), Rhythm (Magenta), Lightning (Ivory), Quake (Gray), and Bomb (Black), and in Team Sonic Racing, we get Ghost (Jade).
  • The Hard Boiled Heavies of Sonic Mania are all color-coded based mainly on their upper bodies. Heavy Gunner is blue, Heavy Shinobi is green, Heavy Magician is yellow-orange, Heavy Rider is magenta, and Heavy King is gold and red.
• Star Fox:
  • Fox: Yellow
  • Falco: Blue
  • Peppy: Red
  • Slippy: Green
  • Bill: Olive
  • Katt: Pink
  • Krystal, Fara: Purple
  • StarWolf as of Star Fox Command: Wolf, Red; Leon, Green; Panther, Blue
    • The actual uniforms worn by the members of Star Fox do not necessarily correspond with their designated colors: Fox wears green, Falco wears orange, and Slippy wears blue. Only Peppy wears the same color, red.
• The four commandos of Delta Squad in Star Wars: Republic Commando each have a different colored paint job on their armor. Their numerical designations in your HUD are similarly colored.
  • Sev: Red
  • Boss: Orange
  • Scorch: Yellow
  • Fixer: Green
• The Super Mario series in general, especially in sports games and other spin-offs. Though, having so many characters, most have a primary color and a secondary color associated with them to prevent overlapping.
  • Main Characters:
    • Mario: red
    • Luigi: green, dark green, or blue - primarily depending on what colors Yoshi and Toad are
    • Yoshi: green and light green
    • Toad: blue and white, or red in the context of the Toad Brigade
    • Peach: pink
    • Daisy: orange or yellow/amber
    • Bowser: orange/scarlet or dark green
    • Bowser Jr.: orange or green and white
    • Wario: purple, sometimes yellow
    • Waluigi: black or eggplant
    • Birdo: magenta/purple, and a bit of red
    • DK: yellow or brown
    • Rosalina: cyan/aquamarine
  • Koopalings:
    • Games usually use cyan (Larry), black (Morton), pink (Wendy), lime (Iggy), purple (Roy), orange (Lemmy), and blue (Ludwig).
    • Paper Mario: Color Splash is an exception, as it emphasizes the colors of their wands rather than their shells. This places Morton as red, Iggy as yellow, Ludwig as blue, Wendy as violet, Larry as orange, Lemmy as green, and Roy as black. These colors indicate which Big Paint Star they're guarding (except for Roy) and even make up their introduction name splashes.
  • In the Donkey Kong spin-off series:
    • DK: yellow
    • Diddy: red
    • Dixie: pink
    • Kiddy: light blue
    • Tiny: purple
    • Lanky: blue
    • Chunky: green
  • Paper Mario: The Origami King: The Legion of Stationery's members have their own color schemes. Each one matches the streamer they guard, except for Stapler (who does not defend a streamer).
    • Colored Pencils: Red. The pencils themselves are of various colors, but the box is red.
    • Rubber Band: Blue.
    • Hole Punch: Yellow.
    • Tape: Purple.
    • Scissors: Green.
    • Stapler: Black.
  • Super Mario RPG: The Axem Rangers each sport a color theme to match the typical Super Sentai Team; red, yellow, pink, black, and green.
  • Mario's team, as well, when they display color-coded text or use certain forms:
    • Mario: red.
    • Mallow: purple (forms) or yellow (text).
    • Geno: blue.
    • Bowser: green.
    • Peach: pink.
  • Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and its sequels, Yoshi's Island DS and Yoshi's New Island. Each different-colored Yoshi goes through the same numbered level in every world.
    • First: green. Green Yoshi also does the final stage and boss.
    • Second: pink
    • Third: cyan
    • Fourth (fortress): yellow
    • Fifth: purple
    • Sixth: brown (original) / orange (in DS and New)
    • Seventh: red
    • Eighth (castle): blue, except for the final castle.
    • Green Yoshi also does every Extra level in the original game, every Secret level added in the GBA remake, and every Special level in Yoshi's New Island. Yoshi's Island DS has Black Yoshi in every Secret level and White Yoshi in every Extra level.
• Tail Concerto: Everyone to an extent. Alicia Pris is the leader and wears red, Stare Pris is The Quiet One in blue, and Flare Pris is the Genki Girl in yellow. Waffle, the hero, and Princess Terria are white. Fool wears purple.
• In Toontown Online, the Toons are very colorful and form rainbows when combined en masse. The Cogs, meanwhile, have a grey color scheme, representing their emphasis on dullness and ruining the fun.
• The Wonderful 101 has the central members of the team given color-related names: Wonder-Red, Wonder-Blue, Wonder-Green, Wonder-Pink, Wonder-Yellow, Wonder-White, and Wonder-Black. Their outfits and Unite Morph weapons are also colored accordingly, with Wonder-Black being the exception in that his weapon is also associated with purple. Several other characters have color-coding based on the Unite/Unify weapons they use.
  • Prince Vorkken: Purple
  • Immorta: Pink, a different shade from Wonder-Pink
  • Chewgi: Brown
  • Luka/Wonder-Goggles: Orange
• Can be an Invoked Trope by the player in a XCOM: Enemy Unknown game, as the game allows for customizing colors for the troopers' armors. It is only natural and trivial then to form one's own color code, say Red=Assault, Black=Sniper, Yellow=Heavy, White=Support, to tell a soldier's class at a glance. Such a system is optional, though.
• In Xenosaga, the URTV units are named according to the philosophical beliefs of Carl Jung, but it's also reflected in their hair color. Rubedo has red hair, Nigredo has black hair, Albedo has white hair, and Citrine has yellow-ish hair.
• Very common in Yandere Simulator.
  • Main Characters:
    • Ayano Aishi- Black
    • Osana Najimi- Orange
    • Amai Odayaka- Mint Green
    • Kizana Sunobu- Royal Purple(may later be changed to silver to avoid confusion with Kokona Haruka, below)
    • Oka Ruto- Navy Blue/Purple (which extends to the rest of the Occult Club)
    • Asu Rito- Yellow/Black
    • Muja Kina- Pink
  • Student Council (also counts as animal themes, as they're based on the four directional gods of Chinese mythology):
    • Kuroko Kamenaga- Black (The Black Tortoise of the North)
    • Akane Toriyasu- Red (Vermillion Bird of the South)
    • Aoi Ryugoku- Blue (Azure Dragon of the East)
    • Shiromi Torayoshi- White (White Tiger of the West)
  • Rainbow Girls/Boys
    • Kokona Haruka and Riku Soma- Purple
    • Saki Miyu and Sora Sosuke- Teal
    • Mei Mio and Ryusei Koki- Blue
    • Koharu Hinata and Hayato Haruki- Green
    • Yuna Hina and Sota Yuki- Yellow
    • Yui Rio and Haruto Yuto - Red
  • The Bullies:
    • Musume Ronshaku- Blue/Orange
    • Kokoro Momoiro- Pink/Blue
    • Kashiko Murasaki- Purple
    • Hoshiko Mizudori- Green/Blue
    • Hana Daidaiyama - Orange (or yellow/pink)
  • Others:
    • Midori Gurin- Green (Her name even means 'Green Green')
    • Martial Arts Club- Brown
• The eponymous playable characters of Yeah Jam Fury:
  • Yeah: Yellow
  • Jam: Blue
  • Fury: Red

Visual Novels

• Camp Buddy: Each character has a theme-colored neckerchief.
• Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony:
  • All sixteen main characters are associated with the most prominent colour in their design, showcased by their names having a single character highlighted in that colour when it appears on top of the text box.
  • When the POV switches to another character, the Class Trial UI changes the colour it is highlighted in to represent the switch. Kaede's is purple, Shuichi's is blue, Keebo's is white, Himiko's is neon blue and Maki's is red.
  • In the case of the Monokubs, Monotaro is red, Monokid is blue, Monosuke is yellow, Monophanie is pink, and Monodam is green.
• Fate/stay night: Sella and Leysritt look basically identical thanks to their uniforms. They have the same hair, eye and skin colors and their hats hide their different hairstyles. The two visual distinctions between the two: while their uniforms are almost identical, the dark-colored parts are two different colors. Sella's is dark blue (or dark purple) and Leysritt's is black. The other visual distinction are their cup sizes.
• In Ikemen Sengoku, each of the guys have a different prominent clothing color: Nobunaga's is black, Masamune's blue, Yukimura's red, Ieyasu's yellow, Hideyoshi's green, and so on.
• Each of the protagonists in Monster Prom are color-coded for the sake of telling them apart, as the GUI changes color based on whose turn it is. Out of the two default names, one option is to just name them after their motif; Oz/Yellow, Amira/Red, Brian/Green, and Vicky/Blue.
• Done pretty straight in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney with Phoenix wearing blue and Edgeworth wearing magenta/maroon/some shade of red. In Edgeworth's case, you eventually know that he was also wearing the same color, albeit a different jacket, a few years before the game's main course and that his current office is an epitome of his favorite color.
  • Taken further in future installments with almost every prosecutor/attorney having their associated color, along with a few supporting members (like Maya Fey's purple or Damon Gant's bright orange).
    • Apollo Justice (Bright red/Magenta)
    • Athena Cykes (Yellow)
    • Franziska von Karma (Cyan)
    • Godot (Teal)
    • Kristoph Gavin (Sky blue or lavender)
    • Klavier Gavin (Eggplant)
    • Simon Blackquill (Black)
    • Bobby Fulbright (White)
• Starship Promise: The heroine and the Promise crew members each have a signature color which is featured prominently in their design. The heroine is green, Orion is blue, Jaxon is red, Nova is purple, and Atlas is orange.
• Each of the main cast members in Sweet Enchantments has a signature color dominant in their design: pink for Runa, teal for Lucien, red for Roman, and different shades of purple for Zain (dark), Liora (medium), and Emeril (lavender).

Web Animation

• RWBY: All characters are associated with a colour theme that primarily defines them in some way that is linked to another theme that they are often associated with. The show takes place eighty years after a global war which was triggered by attempts to suppress creativity and artistic expression. Ever since the war, people around the world remember this terrible time by naming their children after colours, or things that evoke a colour association. Only two characters in the show have names don't follow the colour scheme, and that's for plot-significant reasons (they're the Big Good and Big Bad of the story). Using the titular team as an example:
  • Ruby Rose is the heroine of the story and leader of Team RWBY. She is inspired by Little Red Riding Hood. Her clothing scheme is red, with strong black accents. She wears a red cape and gets nick-named 'Little Red' by one of the villains. The show's first prequel trailer is called the Red Trailer and features Ruby.
  • Weiss Schnee is inspired by Snow White her name is German for 'White Snow' and her primary colour theme is white. She also has white hair and favours the element of ice when she fights. The show's second prequel trailer is called the White Trailer and features Weiss.
  • Blake Belladonna is inspired by Beauty and the Beast. Her primary colour theme is black and her innate ability is to create shadow clones that deceive enemy combatants. The show's third prequel trailer is called the Black Trailer and features Blake.
  • Yang Xiao Long is the fourth team-mate and is inspired by Goldilocks and the Three Bears. She's inordinately proud of her long golden hair and is primarily associated with the colour yellow. Her innate ability tends to light up her hair like fire when she activates it. The show's final prequel trailer is called the Yellow Trailer and features Yang.
• By necessity, characters in Red vs. Blue are mostly told apart by their colors—as everyone is constantly in armor, and until Halo 3 (season 6) all of the armor looked exactly the same, color was the only possible way to make them look different. Most of the main characters are further divided into Color-Coded Armies, the Reds and Blues, but the Freelancers have a wide variety of colors.
• In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, supernatural creatures seem to have their own colors, which is most visibly seen in subtitles. So far we have:
  • Emperor - gold
  • Magnus - scarlet
  • Tzeenth - blue
  • Nurgle - dark green
  • Cegorach - orange
• Bravest Warriors: Blue for Chris, green for Beth, red for Danny, and orange for Wallow.
  • Their energy weapons are a different set of colors: Chris' bee is green, Beth's whip is pink, Danny's sword is yellow, and Wallow's ax is blue.
• Mystery Skulls Animated:
  • ??? - Green
  • Vivi - Blue
  • Lewis - Magenta ^note closer to purple in life and fuchsia in death
  • Arthur - Orange
  • Mystery - Red
  • Shiromori - White
  • Mr. Pepper - Pink
  • Mrs. Pepper - Burgundy
• Happy Tree Friends: The main ensemble of technicolor animals.
  • Cuddles - Yellow
  • Giggles - Pink
  • Toothy - Mauve
  • Lumpy - Azure
  • Petunia - Navy
  • Handy - Orange
  • Nutty - Chartreuse
  • Sniffles - Sky
  • Flaky - Crimson
  • Pop & Cub - Brown
  • Disco Bear - Gold
  • Mime - Violet
  • The Mole - Magenta
  • Russell - Aquamarine
  • Lifty & Shifty - Green
  • Flippy - Mint
  • Splendid - Cyan
  • Cro-Marmot - Lime
  • Lammy - Lavender
  • Truffles - Periwinkle
• Alphabet: The letters has their own colors respectively
  • A - Tart Red
  • B - Blue
  • C - Yellow
  • D - Green
  • E - Turquoise
  • F - Black
  • G - Grape Purple
  • H - Mint
  • I - Celeste
  • J - Lavender
  • K - Aureolin
  • L - Viridian
  • M - Maroon
  • N - Orange
  • O - Azure
  • P - Bubblegum Pink
  • Q - Beige
  • R - Dark Maroon
  • S - Light Green
  • T - Pewter
  • U - Tea Green
  • V - Dark Blue
  • W - Violet
  • X - Periwinkle
  • Y - Cream White
  • Z - Teal

Webcomics

• In Alice and the Nightmare, all social castes and unaligned characters have their own colours:
  • Hearts: Pink
  • Diamonds: Blue
  • Spades: Yellow
  • Clubs: Green
  • Queen Rougina: Red
  • Queen Bianchia: White
  • Azalea: Purple
  • Nightmares: Black
  • Cinnabar Army: Red
• Major characters in Arthur, King of Time and Space wear clothing in a distinct colour. Secondary characters wear a different shade of the colour associated with the major character they have the closest connection to. In the contemporary arc, this extends to the colour of the text in which the characters speak, as in Homestuck, and you can even tell whose home a strip is set in by the colour of the walls.
  • Arthur: yellow (also used by his adoptive family, Uther in flashbacks, and minor knights whose main characteristic is "loyal to the Pendragons" such as Sir Ulfius)
  • Guenevere: Blue (also used by her family)
  • Lancelot: Red (also used by his family)
  • Merlin: Orange
  • Nimue: Violet
  • Morgan: Green (also used by her family, including Gawaine and his siblings)
  • Tristram: Pink (also used by his/her companions Dinadin and Palinodes, in different shades)
  • Isolde: Brown
  • Eglante: Grey (also used by her son Dodinel)
  • Pellinore: Indigo (also used by his family, including Elaine and Percival. Word of God is that the core indigo character is Pelleas)
  • Mordred: Black (also used by the villainous Duke Mark, and the non-villainous Cadoc and Constantine III, all distant relation of Arthur's)
  • Galahad: White (also used by Balan, the Lady of the Lake, and bit character Kay the Stranger)
• In bonus pages and sketches for Cucumber Quest, characters are drawn using one color: Carrot is orange, Peridot is green-yellow, etcetera. Within the comic itself, the color purple is coded to the Nightmare Knight.
• In Dear Children every main character that has been introduced so far seems to be associated with a color. This color helps indicate who is talking, as background characters tend to speak in a gray text boxes, whereas the main cast has a colored gradient in theirs. Each character's color can also be found somewhere on their wardrobe at all times.
  • Journalism club members: Cail is purple, Michelle is blue, Emma is orange, Devin is pink, Gabe is red, and Josh is green.
  • Other possible main characters: Isaac is lavender blue, Aaron is black.
• Debugging Destiny uses this to distinguish characters. Which is good, since the characters have almost no other distinguishing features. The color also organizes the characters into a Geodesic Cast.
• Frivolesque: Even though the characters in Frivolesque change their clothes once in a while, they always keep the same overall color scheme. On top of that, every character has a signature color that is either based on their clothes, an accessory they wear, or their hair. Chloe's color is red, Saki's is blue, Flore's is hot pink, Gaia's is green and Marie-Neige's is Sky Blue. Other character also follow this trend, like orange for Clementine, or yellow for Liliane.
• Grim Trigger: Every character has different colored lineart that usually corresponds to their hair, eyes, or clothing
  • Tage: Green
  • Hunter: Red
  • Lodin: Maroon and pink
  • Proxy: Purple
• Guilded Age: Each of the tanks seem to be a different colour which is associated with one of the main characters.
  • Also during the interviews, several accessories on their person are highlighted to give us an idea of their personalities/hobbies as well as who they are in the game.
  • Then there's the enigma of why Mr. Daedalus' tie is in Bandit's colors - or, more significantly, in the colours of Cultist magic.
• Homestuck features this in spades.
  • Each of the kids has a color that is featured on their clothes, chat log text, eyes (due to the art style it's only seen in closeups) etc.: John is blue, Rose is purple, Dave is red, and Jade is green. Interestingly, John speaks in blue text while having a green symbol on his shirt, and the reverse is true of Jade as well.
  • This is actually a feature of troll society, where the Fantastic Caste System ranks people by blood color: each of the trolls types with, dresses in, and even wears make up that is the same color as their blood. Karkat, who types in grey to maintain anonymity about his blood, which is bright red, is an exception. These colors cover the visible light spectrum, resulting in a Rainbow Motif. The colours for the major Troll characters are: Rust red (Aradia), brown/orange (Tavros), mustard yellow (Sollux)^note  Although he also has a prominent red and blue motif, olive green (Nepeta), jade green (Kanaya), teal (Terezi), cobalt blue (Vriska), indigo (Equius), purple (Gamzee), violet (Eridan), fuchsia (Feferi). In addition to these, there is a "lime"-colored blood in between Sollux and Nepeta's shades (where Karkat would fit in terms of zodiac signs, his abnormal bright red blood putting him out of the pattern) which had been hunted to extinction. So far, no character has been directly associated with this color, with the possible exception of Calliope in regards to her troll-persona.
  • The kids from post-scratch Earth have their own colors that are similar to their corresponding pre-scratch kid's: Jane is cyan, Roxy is pink, Dirk is orange, and Jake is dark green.
  • The kids' sprites also have associated colours - Nannasprite is cyan, Jaspersprite is magenta, Davesprite is orange, and Jadesprite is dark green. In other words, exactly the same as the post-scratch kids' colours, except Jaspersprite's, which is slightly different to Roxy's.
  • Calliope is light grey and green; her brother Caliborn is dark grey and red. In the event of one "predominating" over the other, they use the other's red/green for their text.
  • Prospitians are coloured completely white, while Dersites are black.
  • The Midnight Crew are associated with black with red accents.
  • The Felt have green skin and wear green suits apart from Snowman, and all fifteen of them wear uniquely-colored/numbered hats that each correspond to a billiards ball. Additionally, Doc Scratch has a penchant for the colour green, and speaks exclusively in white text. And yes, the latter bit is just as annoying as it sounds.
  • Each Aspect has its own color scheme as well. Blood has red and brown, Breath has light blue and teal, Doom has emerald and forest green, Heart has magenta and pink, Hope has yellow and cream, Life has mint and tan, Light has orange and gold, Mind has teal and aqua, Rage has lavender and purple, Space has black and white, Time has red and maroon, Void has midnight blue and black.
• Irrelevator has three main characters who are stickmen, each one has a diffrent color, the green one has hair and beard, the red one has a baseball cap and the blue one has opaque glasses.
• Metal Phone Mouse: Every main character is associated with a different colour (respectively, Indigo = Shadow, Maroon = Chip, Orange = Pieman, Chocolate = Brass, Purple = Squiggle, Violet = Eva, Green = Nari, Bronze = Red Tail the Fluffy, white-on-black for the demon, Red = Pandora, Grey = everyone else) which tends to feature highly in their wardrobe and in which all their speech is rendered (making it easier to work out who's talking off-panel).
• All magicians in Never Satisfied have a unified color to their magic. This shows in their eyes, their familiar's eyes, and in the gemstones they can use as a magic focus. It doesn't affect the powers they have, but it does run in the family.
  • Characters without magic also have color schemes, but these tend more flexible and less saturated.
• NEXT!! Sound Of The Future: The comic is mostly in black and white except for characters’ shading and dialogue boxes, both of which are coloured with each character’s signature colour. Each Vocaloid model is associated with a specific colour and the characters of that model each have a unique shade.
  • Hatsune Miku androids, such as Shine and Tech, are teal.
  • Kagamine Rin androids, such as Roll, are orange.
  • Megpoid androids, such as Gumiya and Hakase, are green.
• Project 0 as per the characters' buttons on the website. Typically prominent on their outfits as well.
  • Owen: Purple
  • Aatu: Blue
  • Bea: Orange
  • Ciro: Yellow
  • Kareem: Red
  • Veronica: White
  • Noor: Black
• In Radio Silence, the band members have text bubble color coordination.
  • Matt: Purple
  • Wren: Orange
  • Colbie: Blue
  • Brent: Green
  • Shy: Grey
  • Liz: Gold
• Sacred Pie uses this briefly when a key character gets cloned. The clones each have a certain facet of his personality and a different coloured hat. The hats are important.
• Many of Star Impact's characters are associated with one or two specific colors.
  • Aster: Blue
  • Bondi: Blue and yellow
  • Buzz: Orange
  • Crust: Pink
  • Dove: Orange
  • Eel: Teal
  • Etna: Red and green
  • The Legend: White
  • Lily: Pink
  • Phoebe: Red
  • Ponpon: Black and white
  • Puck: Pink and aqua
  • Teddy: Blue
  • Urchin: Pink and green
  • Yellow: Yellow
• Unordinary: A character's eye colour and hair often matches the colour of their speech bubbles.
  • John: Black
  • Seraphina: Magenta
  • Arlo: Gold
  • Isen: Orange
  • Blyke: Red
  • Remi: Pink
• This can be seen in Voodoo Walrus by way of the main cast having certain colors that the artist repeatedly works into their clothes. Orange and green for Grymm, a dull blue and grey for Creep Knight, vibrant blue for Bowler, and purpler for Mirth. This isn't just for clothes, it extends into their word bubbles as well. And many other supporting characters are color coded too. But some colors change with major personality shifts.

Web Original

• Each of the four main characters in Oktober have a color that is associated with them, which makes it easier to keep track of who's entry you are reading. Nick is orange, Natasha is red, Matthias is green, and Smith/Jones is blue. Additionally, side characters seem to have colors that are associated with them as well. Most notably, Daphne is light blue, Midas is blood red or maroon, and Joshua is silver.
• The Five Powers of Lambda each have their own particular colours. Soleil is black, Krieggarten is gold, Seisen is blue, Casus Belli is green, and Zafiel is red.
• The cast of Statless and Tactless use different color posts.
  • The colors also relate to the characters to an extent. Soo's character is very rich and her post color is green. Joe is a fiendish jerkass and he's red. Kyle is balanced (and very opposed to Joe) and posts in blue.
• Super Mario Bros. Z: The Koopa Bros. Made infinitely more amusing when one looks back and realizes who fought who in the first battle against them— particularly Red, Green and Black. The same can be said for the Axem Rangers, though they had one extra member.
• The Roar of Our Stars: Each character has a unique avatar and color.
• In his episode on trolling, Mike from Idea Channel disagreed with himself later, so he edited in future Mike as blue, where original recording Mike wore red.
• The three main characters of 17776 are given different colored text (and, when the reader sees them, bodies) - Nine is red, Ten is green, and Juice is yellow/orange.
• Regulars on FailRace will usually maintain the same color car across dozens of races in Grand Theft Auto V. Alex (gamertag Casino Royale), who runs the channel, and another user named UltraBlakey95 are collectively known as "Team Orange" as they both primarily use orange vehicles.
• The three main members of The Runaway Guys each have a main color, often dubbed as their "TRG Color". Emile (Chuggaaconroy) uses red, Tim (NintendoCapriSun) uses green, and Jon (ProtonJon) uses blue.

Real Life

• Most kids have a favorite color that they like their personal belongings to have (like backpacks, lunchboxes, blankets and toys). This usually tones down but still remains into adulthood sometimes in their car color, cell phone case, or favorite outfits and jackets for instance. Siblings will choose different colors to stand out from each other. Parents sometimes invoke this especially with twins to tell them apart when they're still young.

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