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Basic Trope: A feminine character who wears pink for their normal attire.

  • Straight: Alice is feminine and wears pink.
  • Exaggerated:
    • All of Alice's clothes are pink.
    • Even her hair and eyes are pink.
    • Alice's entire body is pink, including all her organs and her blood.
    • Every female organism wears pink.
  • Downplayed: Alice likes the color pink and wears it quite often, but she likes wearing other colors as well.
  • Justified: Alice just likes pink.
  • Inverted: Alice, a tomboy, wears pink to show her masculine side.note 
  • Gender Inverted: Pink is considered a masculine color. Bob, who is very masculine, likes to wear pink, while Alice never wears pink.
  • Subverted:
    • Alice may wear pink, but it turns out she's tomboyish or least feminine.
    • Alice is seen wearing pink, but only because she accidentally mixed her preferred reds with white or vice versa.
  • Double Subverted:
    • Alice is a Tomboy with a Girly Streak.
    • Alice passes it off as a mistake, when she purposefully did that to get pink clothes for free.
  • Parodied: Alice is normally a tomboy, but suddenly becomes extremely girly when she wears pink.
  • Zig Zagged: The Girly Girl wears pink very often. The Lad-ette loves pink even more than the Girly Girl does, and wears it every single day. The Proper Lady is never seen wearing pink.
  • Averted: Alice doesn't wear pink.
  • Enforced: The producers think that the viewers wouldn't know which characters are feminine unless all the feminine characters wear pink.
  • Lampshaded: "Let me guess, Alice...pink's your color?"
  • Invoked: Alice's mother dressed her in lots of pink clothes to highlight her girliness.
  • Exploited: A merchant sells pink clothes to increase sales from customers with feminine tastes.
  • Defied: Alice is a Girly Girl, but refuses to have pink as the dominant color in her wardrobe; she instead goes for other colors like blue or purple.
  • Discussed: "Just because Alice wears pink all the time doesn't mean that she's a Girly Girl."
  • Conversed: "Is that character supposed to be girly because she wears lots of pink?"

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