Heavenly Blue

The angel Zariel, prior to their descent into devilhood.

The heavens are blue. Therefore, heavenly beings, whether gods or angels or saints, use blue — usually sky blue — to show their relationship, as do beings associated with them. Much more likely to be Good than Evil (in the former case, see Blue Is Heroic). May be used only as an accent in Gold and White Are Divine, or use white and gold as an accent. Innocent Blue Eyes may invoke this.

Often a major color in Fluffy Cloud Heaven.

Compare Purple Is Powerful, True Blue Femininity, Bluebird of Happiness, Gold and White Are Divine, Blue Is Calm, White Is Pure.

Contrast Big Red Devil, Red and Black and Evil All Over, and Red Eyes, Take Warning.

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Examples

Anime & Manga

• The angel Nanael in Queen's Blade has baby-blue hair and gives off a light blue glow most of the time. She also wears blue polka-dot panties.
• In Dragon Ball Super, this is manifested via the power of Godly Ki channeled through the original Super Saiyan state, called "Super Saiyan Blue".^note Because "Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan" was just too long.
• In Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the prophesied Messiah-figure is said to be dressed in blue.
• Belldandy from Ah! My Goddess wears blue with white and gold accents.
• The order in Chrono Crusade has blue nun habits.
• Similarly, the nuns in Trinity Blood wear blue and white.
• Black Butler: Angela's color motifs are variably blue, white and lavender. Definitely a Light Is Not Good example.
• In Fushigi Yuugi, Seiryuu's color is blue, as he is associated with water. His priestess, Yui, wears a blue top and a white skirt.
• Digimon:
  • Patamon has a blue loincloth in his Angemon form and his final form Seraphimon is clad in blue armor. Dominmon, which branches off from the same digivolution line, has a similar color scheme to Seraphimon, but with even more blue.
  • Ophanimon is another archangel decked out in blue armor, albeit of a different shade than Seraphimon's. It's inverted with Ophanimon Falldown Mode and Ophanimon Core.
  • Played with a bit with Susanoomon, a Primary-Color Champion who has Holy Hand Grenade as its element despite its blue parts coming from the mechanical and non-holy MagnaGarurumon.
• The Seven Deadly Sins inverts the trope: normally, Elizabeth has sky blue eyes. It's when they turn gold that her angelic heritage asserts itself.

Arts

• Alexandre Cabanel's The Fallen Angel: The general lighting and shading of the painting are blue because it's that time of dawn when the sun hasn't raised yet (the so-called blue hour). As its name indicates, this artwork depicts Christian angels (as perceived by the Neoclassicism) — Lucifer, newly expulsed from Heaven and still retaining most of his angelic beauty, as well as a number of blue-tinted, background angels who are worshipping God.

Asian Animation

• In Happy Heroes, Kalo's energy flames are blue, correlating to his title of "God of War Legend" to his fellow Adelians.

Card Games

• In Magic: The Gathering, several White spells manifest a bluish glow, which can be either hilarious or confusing because Blue magic exists and is much different. Conversely, some Blue spells have a yellowish glow. In either case, Light Is Not Good is often present.

Comic Books

• Though the X-Men go through a lot of outfit designs, Angel/Archangel often wears white and light blue. (Surprisingly, this outfit's red recolor isn't an Evil Costume Switch.)
• Most of Zephyr's costumes in Harbinger combine blue with either white or a lighter shade of blue.

Film

• In the Harry Potter movies, the Patronus spell has a soft blue light accompanying it.
• Disney's Pinocchio has the Blue Fairy, a magical being sent down from the heavens "when you wish upon a star" to help your dreams come true. She wears a long, ethereal blue dress, a blue headband, and has Innocent Blue Eyes and bluish wings.
• In Star Wars, blue is the most typical color of a lightsaber in the Jedi Order, which is the most significant force for good in their galaxy.
  • Those who have become one with the Force upon death can even manifest to the living as spirits that visibly glow blue.
• User-Believer Programs in TRON have blue circuitry. The titular character has very elaborate neon-blue circuits compared to his fellow believers, possibly marking him as that world's equivalent of a Paladin.
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Sunset Shimmer's magic aura has this color. Ironic that she's the movie's villain. Was, at least.
• The Wiz has Glinda, whose wardbrobe and character draw inspiration from the Virgin Mary. As such, she wears long blue clothing adorned with stars.

Literature

• In Lisa Shearin's All Spell Breaks Out, The Paladin Mychael uses attacks that have blue side-effects.
• Anything associated with the side of good in The Belgariad, including the god Aldur, his various disciples, and the all-powerful Orb. They prefer blue in their clothing, tend to have blue eyes, and occasionally glow in that color as well.
• In The Children of Man, the powerful blue mages serve as the direct mouthpieces of that setting's incarnation of the Christian God.
• Gods and Warriors: When Hylas is rescued by dolphins in the first book, the sea glows in phosphorescence. The characters call it the blue fire because they believe it's the shadow of the goddess who's called the Lady of the Wild Things in Akea and the Great Goddess in Keftiu.
  Pirra: Sometimes the Goddess summons dolphins to do Her bidding. They swim so close that they're splashed with Her burning blue shadow. Her shadow, Hylas. That's the blue fire.
• In The Silmarillion, Manwë, chief of the gods, has blue as his symbol, adorning himself and his servants.
• The Stormlight Archive:
  • The Kholin house have blue as their signature color and are by far the most heroic.
  • Windrunners, who are both by far the most honorable of the Radiants and connected to the physical element of air, have blue as their color. When Kaladin summons Syl as a living Shard in Words of Radiance, she glows blue.
• Discussed in Tales of Pirx the Pilot. Pirx suggests that the belief that astronauts are Always Lawful Good stems from the heavenly blue color of the sky.
• Common in Eoin Colfer novels:
  • In Artemis Fowl, healing magic causes blue sparks to appear over the injury.
  • In The Wish List, Heaven is portrayed as being bright blue with Hell being red.
  • In The Supernaturalist, the pain-easing parasites are light blue.

Live-Action TV

• In Charmed, Whitelighters (the guardian angels of good witches) and Elders (the Whitelighters bosses) have a teleporting ability called "orbing." This is usually accompanied by them disappearing and reappearing in a burst of blue and white light.
• The Doctor's TARDIS is still a tall, blue police box even after all these years; within the show, that exterior has become a symbol of hope across the Cosmos.
• In the final episode of Poirot, "Curtain'', Hercule Poirot wears navy blue nightclothes during the time that he is very ill and bedridden, up to the time of his death by heart condition. There is a bit of symbolism here, as his navy blue symbolizes that he is a good Catholic on the brink of judgment who is afraid of what will happen to his soul after he dies; who wonders whether God will truly ever forgive him for his deeds (since he has killed the murderer he could not bring to justice through proof) and, if God is merciful, will allow him entry into heaven (dark blue can be heavenly, after all, like light blending in with darkness).
• The Handmaid's Tale: The Wives wear blue in honor of the Virgin Mary.

Tabletop Games

• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • The classic module T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil. When the PCs encounter the Lens of Transformation, it shows them two angelic beings amid golden clouds and with a pale blue sky behind them.
  • In the 5th Edition module Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, Zariel when she was still the Archangel of Justice looked like an angel with pale blue wings, blue hair, and a lot of blue in her clothing. After she becomes an Archdevil she changes to a Red and Black and Evil All Over color scheme.

Video Games

• In BioWare games, those who score high on the "good" end of the Karma Meter (Light Side, Open Palm, Paragon) typically have blue backgrounds on their character sheet.
• Flonne in Disgaea wears white and blue, as she's an angel. When she's reincarnated as a demon, she wears white and red instead. In Disgaea Infinite she's back to wearing her old colours, as she's in training to become an angel again (and shows up as archangel Flonne in Disgaea 4).
• Most of the priests and nuns in the Dragon Quest games wear blue.
• In Jak and Daxter, the Precursors' Energy Being avatars glow electric blue. Jak, when he gets his Light abilities, glows the same blue. To a lesser extent, all of the ottsels have blue eyes, including the ones that were originally human. The only possible exception is Veger, whose eye-color is difficult to determine, but appears blue-green.
• In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, the Jedi Atris has a radiant blue light saber which, combined with her white clothes, makes her look especially awe-inspiring. Too bad she's evil.
• The Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda is often associated with the blue color with a slight tone of indigo. The color of its attacks, such as the Sword Beam, are blue as well. Blue also serves as Link's secondary color, usually harmonizing his primary color, which is green.
• In RuneScape, the colour blue is associated with Saradomin, god of order and wisdom and the setting's Crystal Dragon Jesus. It turns out Saradomin Himself has blue skin.
• Shin Megami Tensei: Blue (and White, to a lesser extent) is the predominant color of the Law Faction, contrasting the Chaos Faction's Red and/or Black. Though, said Law Faction isn't exactly the good side.
  • The Velvet room from the Persona subseries also fits the description.
• In World of Warcraft, Paladins can cast "blessings" which are predominantly blue, most likely for this reason.
• The "Divine Fury" spell in Fable, which can only be fully developed by a Good hero, calls down beams of blue-white light to smite the enemy.
• While most of the time, the god-worshipping clerics and bishops in the Fire Emblem series are Men (or women) In White, the monk/bishop Lucius of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade wears a long, pale blue robe.
• The Angel in Zombidle wears a sky blue armor, and is the Arch-Enemy and Hero Antagonist to Bob the Necromancer.
• Dante's Inferno: Overlapping with Color-Coded for Your Convenience, Holy abilities tend to have bluish-white coloration to them, while Unholy ones tend to have yellow coloration.

Web Comics

• In The Adventures of Shan Shan, both Julius and the winged lion have blue eyes, and Julius wears blue.
• In Exterminatus Now, Tyrus, the Law God, has a hammer with blue visual effects when it strikes.
  • Divine apparitions appear in blue, too.
• In Gunnerkrigg Court, James Eglamore appears in a burst of blue to rescue Antimony.
• Toyed with in Homestuck. Skaia invokes this, and it's present with John and Jane, but several other heroes are associated with red (Karkat, WV) or green ( Jade, Calliope, and Jake). Other characters associated with blue (Vriska, Aranea) aren't heroes at all, and serve mostly as an Anti-Villain and a Spirit Advisor respectively.
• In Off-White, the white spirits have blue eyes, and the Sun is depicted as blue in the spirit world.
• In The Order of the Stick, Durkon's Holy Word is blue, when normally his speech is black on white, as is normal in the strip.
  • Also Good Angels are blue faced, with white bodies, and golden wings.
  • This is because they're devas.
  • The paladins of Azure City dress in blue (just like everybody else there) and their Smite Evil creates a blue aura around their weapon. Losing paladin status even turns one's clothes brown.
  • The celestial tree sloth is white with blue accents (and a gold halo).
  • Much of the Good divine magic has a blue aura as opposed to Evil divine magic which tends to use red or black. Arcane magic is usually color coded to match the caster's personal color-theme.
• In Rusty and Co., Madeline's Smite and the fire on her weapon.
• Subverted with Adina from Zoophobia. While she may be an angel, she's also a Knight Templar who believes that all beings other than her are sinful.

Western Animation

• The The Legend of Korra, Raava, the spirit of light and peace, has blue markings and emits a very light blue light, almost mistakable for white. This is to contrast Vaatu, the spirit of darkness, who has orange and very dark red colours. The color patterns are in fact a neat inversion of each other◊.
• The Queen of the Clouds, who rules over an ambiguous pseudo-Heaven called Cloud City in Over the Garden Wall, has blue hair and wears a blue dress.
• Blue Diamond in Steven Universe is as her name implies blue, resembles the Virgin Mary, has blue light attacks and is worshipped as a god. She is however an antagonist. For most of the series, anyway.

Other

• In Egyptian Mythology, Ra is often described with a hair of lapis lazuli. Blue in general is associated with the gods. Lapis lazuli was very expensive—as was another blue stone they liked, turquoise—and the Ancient Egyptians went crazy trying to find a pigment matching its color—even vaguely. They found a reasonable substitute.
• The Blessed Virgin Mary is generally depicted, iconographically, in blue, which may be the source of True Blue Femininity.
  • In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, clergymen also wear blue vestments on the Blessed Virgin's feast days.
  • It's also the origin of the "blue" part of "something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue": the blue is associated with virginity, and was originally the color of women's wedding garments in Britain (and elsewhere) until the German-style wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert made white more popular.
  • Exodus 24:9-10 gives us this:
  "Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy elders of Israel ascended; and they saw the God of Israel: under His feet was the likeness of a pavement of sapphire, like the very sky for purity."
• In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, the Ajna, the Light Chakra, is blue (blue is often attributed to the Vishuddha, or "sound" chakra, but it's mostly cyan).
  • Also, blue is associated with various forms of Vishnu, most notably Krishna.
• In some western esoteric traditions, blue is stated to be the true colour of the Sun. Truth in Television, after a manner of speaking: the Sun is actually more or less white, but Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere separates out light emitted in the blue part of the visible spectrum, causing the sky to appear blue and making the Sun itself appear yellow.
• Melek Taus in the Yezidi faith. Particularly justified as his sacred animal is the Indian peacock, which is famous for its iridescent blue neck and tail-eyes.
• In Turkic mythology, light blue is a sacred color since it's the color of the sky. The color blue is so closely associated with divinity that the name of the Göktürks, a confederation of Turkic nomads in the early Middle Ages, is translated either as "Blue Turks" or "Celestial Turks".
• In the mid-20th century, priests—especially rural priests—in Quebec would play on this by saying Le ciel est bleu, l'enfer est rouge —"Heaven is blue, Hell is red"—to voice their support for the conservative Quebec-nationalist (but not separatist) Union Nationale: the Union Nationale took blue as its main party colour, while the opposition Liberals used red.

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