Basic Trope: Someone who has red hair and wears green clothes (or is otherwise associated with the color green).
- Straight: Alice has red hair, and also wears a lot of green.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice has bright red hair, and all of the clothing she owns is green.
- Every redhead in the work also wears green.
- Downplayed:
- Alice only has a fairly prominent green accessory.
- Alice's hair is more of a brown or orange than red.
- Alice dyed her hair red.
- Alice has red hair, and tends to wear greenish-blue clothing.
- Justified:
- Alice also has plant-related abilities or is otherwise connected with nature, making it understandable as to why she'd dress in green.
- Alice thinks the colors red and green go well together since they're complementary colors.
- Alice is Irish; Ireland is commonly associated with the color green, and she follows the Phenotype Stereotype of Irish people having red hair.
- Alice is dressing as a leprechaun (or she is a leprechaun).
- Alice happens to have red hair, and she's wearing green because it's St. Patrick's Day.
- Inverted:
- Alice has green hair and wears red clothes.
- Alice has red hair, and has never once considered wearing green in her life.
- Subverted: Alice is introduced wearing a green outfit, but this was a case of Early-Installment Weirdness.
- Double Subverted: However, she later returns to wearing green.
- Parodied: Alice has red hair and is green.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice has an Unlimited Wardrobe. Some of the items she wears are green, and some of them aren't. Even more confusingly, Alice's hair isn't always red.
- Averted: Alice doesn't have red hair, and also doesn't wear green.
- Enforced: To add for a red/green contrast.
- Lampshaded: "I think Alice's green outfit really matches her red hair."
- Invoked: Alice dyes her hair red and then decides to wear green clothing.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice decides not to wear green.
- Discussed: "Damnit, Alice, do you have to wear green every single day?" "Sue me, I have red hair!"
- Conversed: "I wonder why fictional redheads almost always wear green." "I don't blame them. If I had red hair, I'd probably wear green too."
- Implied: Alice has red hair, and some of the clothes in her closet are green.
- Played for Laughs: A drunked Bob sees redheaded Alice in green and mistakes her for a leprechaun.
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