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Since when are blue and green next to each other on the color wheel? They're definitely enemy colors. Body and mind, land and sea, reality and illusion, instinct and intellect, nature and nurture, organic and artificial, etc.
That said, green and blue are perhaps not the best illustration of opposite forces for those unfamiliar with the game.
edited 24th Jan '11 11:53:27 AM by troacctid
Colour wheel
◊. Notice how green is next to blue.
Magic The Gathering has a different color wheel.
edited 24th Jan '11 12:03:48 PM by Raso
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!Yeah, green and blue might be opposing forces in M:TG (green vs blue/black, white vs red/black, blue vs red/green, red vs white/blue, black vs white/green
◊), but they are not complementary (opposite) colors. The complement of blue is orange, and also blue vs red is a common dichotomy.
edited 24th Jan '11 12:03:02 PM by ButterflyFairweather
They may not be able to describe the relationship that specifically, but the average viewer will know that the two colors on that sword
◊ don't look like opposite/enemy forces.
On the other hand, the Sword of Feast and Famine
◊ is (in context) green and black, which technically aren't opposites either, but looks fine.
edited 24th Jan '11 12:15:07 PM by ButterflyFairweather
Some other ideas:
Marle and Lucca
◊ of Chrono Trigger casting the dual tech Antipode (Ice + Fire)
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No, they just have the same word for it. It's like the difference between light blue and dark blue. Frankly I'd be pretty surprised if many languages had the exact same number of names for colors.
The example is not quite true though. Japanese has a word for "greenery" as in leaves, and they often use that to describe the color. Blue and leaf-blue, I guess you could say.
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Wait, you mean like Pokemon Leaf Blue Pokemon Leaf Green?
Oh crud, what's happened to the conversation? Rerail! RERAIL!
edited 24th Jan '11 4:43:42 PM by TripleElation
Pretentious quote || In-joke from fandom you've never heard of || Shameless self-promotion || Something weird you'll habituate toBlue and green are close to each other on the color wheel. No one who doesn't play Magic The Gathering will think they're opposites, even if they're not considered the same.
I think the Feast and Famine sword is good though. Bright yellow and black-purple look opposed in that image.
edited 24th Jan '11 4:46:07 PM by Clarste
I don't think the average viewer is thinking "but wait, that doesn't make sense color-wheel-wise" either...
Hell there's always this stuff about red and blue things too even though red and green are supposed to be opposites...I think. I just remember that blue isn't the opposite to red.
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@Edmania: I'm not so sure. Blue and green don't have very much "contrast" to them (and let's admit it, they're right next to each other on the color wheel), so they don't visually convey the trope as well as other chromatic combinations.
edited 24th Jan '11 10:24:08 AM by Stratadrake
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