Sandbox for the Color Tropes Cleanup
thread. Tropes about colors often have the same problems as Personal Appearance Tropes, namely a tendency to attract Zero Context Examples and misuse for any appearance of a color in a certain context. See also Sandbox.Appearance Tropes Cleanup.
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Tropes with possible issues
- All Your Colors Combined: Examples do not mention rainbow power.
- Big Red Button: Usually red.
- Big Red Devil
- Bring My Red Jacket: Often just military uniforms that are red.
- Blue with Shock: Examples do not adequately explain that characters get frightened.
- Color Failure: ZCE problem, sometimes confused with Deliberately Monochrome.
- Deliberately Monochrome: ZCEs are rare, but it looks like it needs splitting by meaning (e.g. B-Movie horror, flashbacks and historical settings, color does not exist, etc.).
- Emerald Power: ZCEs, confusion with Supernatural Is Green.
- Fire Is Red: Has lots of off-page examples, despite No Straight Examples, Please!
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Examples are often "This lady wears/has worn purple."
- Green and Mean: Often used as "X is a villain and is green".
- Heavenly Blue: Some examples simply associate blue with magic, without explaining the connection to good/Heaven.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: The "innocence" part of the trope is often poorly explained or simply stated without explanation.
- Lady in Red: Often just "This lady wears/has worn red."
- Orange/Blue Contrast: Chairs usage?
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Used for anything pink connected to a girl when there's anything blue connected to a boy
- Pink Means Feminine: Examples are often "This girl wears/has worn pink."
- Pink Product Ploy
- Primary-Color Champion: Examples do not explain why a character with this color scheme is good or a protagonist. Some examples are shoehorned.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: Many entries mention characters without mentioning the color pink.
- Purple Is Powerful
- Purple Is the New Black: Examples don't explain connection to black or darkness.
- Rainbow Lite: Possibly used too broadly.
- Rainbow Motif: Lists rainbow-colored things without explaining the significance.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over
- Red-and-White Comedy Poster: Almost every item on the page is zero context. Offpage, it's less of a problem, but still a problem nonetheless. It's unclear if this is even truly a trope.
- Red Armband of Leadership: Often just "X wears a red armband."
- Red Filter of Doom does a decent job for most entries, but there's the occasional ZCE.
- Redhead In Green
- Red Is Heroic: Examples do not explain why they are heroes or why red is significant.
- Red/Green Contrast
- Red Is Violent
- Red Ones Go Faster: Some examples mention red things that are fast, but not that they are faster than things in other colors.
- Red Sky, Take Warning
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Examples do not mention pink hair
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Examples do not explain why a character with this color scheme is evil or an antagonist.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Just people with green eyes and red hair, or outright ZCEs.
- Supernatural Is Green: Poorly explained supernatural affiliations, misused for green aliens.
- Unnaturally Blue Lighting: ZCE magnet, failing to explain how the lighting carries an eerie atmosphere.
- Water Is Blue: Often used in a People Sit on Chairs manner in wicks, which is why it is No Straight Examples, Please!.
- Wind Is Green
- Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: Not all examples adequately mention electricity or lightning.
- Yellow/Purple Contrast
Ongoing projects
- Blue Is Heroic: Examples do not explain why they are heroes or why blue is significant.
Past verdicts
- Good Colors, Evil Colors (per TRS): Cleanup, trim description, and ban Real Life examples.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Has been made a redirect to Hair Colors.
