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Single-Palette Town
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So there's a place. And it only has one color. Not sixty four, not thirty two, not four, just the one color. It's everywhere. And you can't run away from it. Everywhere you go, the people will wear clothes and have hair that reflect this color scheme and no other. They must really like it. Like Colour-Coded for Your Convenience, this trope exists mainly so that the audience knows which character belongs to which nationality. Tends to be prevalent particularly with drawn artwork where color distinction is most obvious, and thus the trope is most helpful. It also shows up from time to time in early Hollywood technicolor films- where color was the newest, greatest thing out there, and the cinematographer was going to make damn sure that the audience knew it was there. Definitely one of those tropes which you just shouldn't think too hard about. Just enjoy the pretty, shiny colors- you know you want to. |
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Several episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood featured a single-palette planet, Planet Purple, where everything was purple and the main inhabitants were blocky people who were all named Paul and Pauline, together with a Purple Panda. | |
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| Single-Palette Town / int_49ad83ee | comment |
World of Warcraft has the two expansion races from the Burning Crusade in nearly single-color towns. The Blood Elves are in Silvermoon, which despite the name, is mainly red and gold; the crashed spaceship the Draenei call home is mainly shades of purple. | |
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The Broadway adaptation The Wiz and the Retcon Wicked both adopt the glasses from the book, but oddly enough, in both cases the town is still green — perhaps for the convenience of the non-tinted-glasses-wearing audience. | |
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Homestuck: John Egbert's home town (Maple Valley in Washington) consists entirely of white houses with grey roofs, broken only by the enormous red Betty Crocker factory (and even that was destroyed thirteen years ago). Given that the actual Maple Valley in Washington is decidedly not constituted of all-white houses (people have actually found and photographed the house that's ostensibly John's), it's probably purely stylistic. | |
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| Single-Palette Town / int_5755b96a | comment |
Azure City in The Order of the Stick, being described at the top of the page, uses a strictly blue palette scheme- clothes, architecture, even hair color is always disproportionately blue. Particularly odd for a series with otherwise strictly conventional hair colors for humans (I guess You Gotta Have Blue Hair...). Tsukiko can be particularly notable in this regard: Because her clothes and hair are all black as part of her characterization, her eyes are two shades of blue instead, despite coming from a Far East setting. This appears to be religiously motivated... Or something. When a Paladin of the Sapphire Guard Falls, she is struck by lightning which not only removes her powers but leaches her all-blue outfit to beige! |
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In order to make important characters stand out, background crowds in Batman Beyond are colored in monochrome - usually purple or blue. | |
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| Single-Palette Town / int_72262aee | comment |
Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the few long-running series which maintains this gimmick. Water Tribe members only use white and blue. Earth Kingdom members mostly use green, yellow, and brown, although there are some exceptions. Fire Nation members use... well, guess (also brown and black). Flashbacks show the Air Nomads all wear pretty much exactly the orange and yellow outfit Aang does (their monks' habits, they're all SUPPOSED to look exactly the same). The distinct colour differences are really shown when, after a period of time dressed in the style of whichever area they're travelling through, the Gaang adopt their native styles for big events like the Day of Black Sun and Sozin's Comet. This is lampshaded in The Legend of Korra when Varrick mentions that a red carpet is imported from the Fire Nation because they make the best red stuff. |
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| Single-Palette Town / int_8da0ea80 | comment |
The trope's title refers to the first generation Pokémon games where the player starts out in Pallet Town, and travels to other cities each named after a distinctive color. Provided you had a Super Game Boy accessory for the SNES or a Game Boy Color, the color of the town becomes the palette scheme (so Saffron City looks very yellow, Cinnabar Island is red, and so forth). The second generation of games' cities were similarly colored, though they were named after plants rather than colors there (though there was some overlap, like Violet City and Mahogany Town). And Goldenrod City, Ecruteak City, Blackthorn City... Possibly enforced in part by the limits of the Super Game Boy, which could assign color palettes to areas of the screen, not to individual moving objects or areas in a scrolling map. A lot of SGB games just set the whole playfield as one color. The abandoning of the colour-themed names was lampshaded in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire: the First Town, Littleroot Town, was described as "A town that can't be shaded any hue." |
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The Tamaranians in Teen Titans are a race of Dark Skinned Redheads who all, with the odd exception of Blackfire, dress in semi-revealing purple and silver clothing. Most of the planet's landscape seems to come in shades of purple and orange as well. | |
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One issue of Swamp Thing had the titular character using plants to remake an alien world in blue. | |
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This is lampshaded in The Legend of Korra when Varrick mentions that a red carpet is imported from the Fire Nation because they make the best red stuff. | |
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The unnamed city in Mirror's Edge has color accents, mostly from lighting or advertisement billboards, but the buildings themselves are all solid white. It's both beautiful and eerily sterile, fitting for a Crapsaccharine World police state. | |
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The Happy Happy Village in EarthBound is covered and continually repainted in blue by the town when it is under the influence of the insane Happy Happy cult, which worships the colour blue. Even the livestock get painted blue. When the cult's leader is defeated, the town reverts to its normal colour scheme. | |
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The Transformers seem to be fond of this: Autobots paint all their stuff orange, and Decepticons color their stuff purple. | |
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