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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Which colors are better depends on what you're doing. For instance, let's say that you want to make some really good toast. But all you have is a crappy plastic toaster with a handle that sticks down. You don't have enough money to buy a new toaster, so how do you get the perfect toast you want? Simple: paint the toaster red. The resulting toast will be three times better than normal toast. Red also makes every video game enemy three times stronger. The Red Shirt can be a case of some colors being worse: they go down faster. While red is one of the most common colors to receive this treatment, it isn't the only one. It's generally held that the rarest color in a work will be the "best" one. A guy dressed all in black will always defeat opponents clad in lesser colors. Gold is always better than silver (unless you're dealing with werewolves), and silver is always better than bronze. Since bronze and gold are sometimes the same color, it makes for a complicated hierarchy. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Related to Colour-Coded for Your Convenience, Chromatic Arrangement, Power Glows and Color-Coded Item Tiers. For tropes concerning specific colors being better, see Red Ones Go Faster, Red Is Heroic, Blue Is Heroic and Primary-Color Champion, Golden Super Mode, Purple Is Powerful, Emerald Power, Gold-Colored Superiority and Gold and White Are Divine. For when colors are worse, see Red and Black and Evil All Over, White Shirt of Death, and potentially Red Shirt. |
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The anime of Sengoku Basara offers an inversion to this, as red clad Sanada Yukimura was bested in one of his fights by blue clad Date Masamune (though only because Yukimura wasn't quite paying attention). | |
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The Char Custom Rule should also be given the Quattro Bajeena Corrollary: if red is not enough to emphasize its awesome, the mecha should be colored Gold (best example being the Hyaku-Shiki, Harry Ord's SUMO and the Akatsuki Gundam). | |
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Guild Wars 2 greatly expands on the color-coding of item quality to include eight categories. In ascending order of quality and rarity they are gray, white, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and purple. Also, three enemy types have special colored borders for their name indicating their difficulty. There are silver elites, gold champions, and purple legendaries. Weaker enemies have standard frames while the unique world bosses have a unique frame. | |
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In LEGO Island's racing minigames, vehicles whose colors don't clash are faster than ones with clashing colors. Also discussed at length by mechanic Nubby Stevens outside the gas station, with a red and blue race car acting out his theories in a Funny Background Event: | |
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Played with in the post-end bonus chapter of The World Ends with You. The characters form a Sentai Five-Man Band. The leader is Red, Neku is first Black-n-Blue but later "demoted" to just Blue so someone else can be Black (Black is The Mole, by the way), and Joshua first wants to be Pink, but then says he should actually be Gold and later gets "upgraded" to Rainbow. (No, really.) | |
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The Disgaea series of games features a number of differently colored versions of each class and monster (except unique characters), each with progressively better stats as you move up the chain. Subverted in that each class has its own color arrangement rather than all following the one pattern. | |
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Bleach, during a Filler episode, both paid homage to and parodied the trope by having several local kids form a Sentai squad; they then spent most of the episode arguing over who got to be the Red Ranger. They ended up both taking red, and then Don Kanonji took gold. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, Sora gains a speed boost when in the red-colored Valor Form. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, most enemy types are colour-coded based on how tough they are. In order of weakest to strongest: red → blue → black → silver. In Master Mode (from the first DLC pack), red-coloured enemies are removed, with each enemy type being moved up a step in colour (red in Normal Mode becomes blue in Master Mode, blue becomes black, etc.), and a new class of gold-coloured enemies become the strongest ones. | |
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The American DVDs of House all have shiny, colorful covers—except the fifth season, which has a gray cover. Now take a guess which season is considered to be the worst by most people. | |
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Too Human also has color-coding of items by quality; the order is grey (trash), green, blue, purple, orange, red (epic). These colors are only used for the item's inventory icon, and its actual color can be customized. | |
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This is the entire basis of Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. The caste society in the novel is stratified by color; what color you can see and how much of it indicates your social standing and a host of other factors. Oh, and it's genetic. | |
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The infamous Playboy Bunnies outfits are ranked this way, with the black-colored bunny outfit signifying the highest ranking of bunny. This system has largely fallen out of use lately for the various locations of the Playboy Club (mostly for aesthetic reasons), but still occasionally plays the trope straight. | |
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Guild Wars: Black dye is ridiculously more expensive than any other color, due to supply and demand; black dye "drops" from slain enemies more rarely than any other color. It's quite helpful in forming parties, actually; all-black armor tells the world you'll go to the ends of the Earth to shop at Hot Topic and probably aren't too fun to party with. In fact, many players prefer to save the more valuable dyes (black and white especially, but also blue, red, and silver) as sources of ready cash in the in-game economy. White dye generally goes for about half the price of black dye, and blue, red, and silver dye are, while still much more expensive than the other colors (orange, green, brown, yellow, purple, and gray), cheap by comparison. Additionally, items themselves are color-coded to identify relative quality. A white item has only basic stats, while blue items have additional, weaker modifiers added. Purple items have better modifiers and gold have the best natural modifiers. None of these items are guaranteed to have the best modifiers, but green items do. |
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Subverted by the gold robot in Dogyuun. It's golden in colour, it's set up to be the Big Bad or The Dragon, it gets screentime in the intro... and it's only the second of 10 bosses. | |
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In SD Gundam Force, the Zakos are little more than Mooks and Plucky Comic Relief, often defeated with a single hit. Zako Red, however, is cunning, sly, and effective. There is a good reason for this, however: Zako Red is a dummy body remotely controlled by Dark Axis leader Sazabi, as seen when Red goes inert after handing Captain Gundam's stolen Soul Drive to Sazabi. | |
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In the computer game Diablo II, the weakest of the creatures known as "Fallen ones" are red, the stronger version known as "carver" are blue, the strongest (called "Dark ones") are black (not counting a very special purple version). The Balrog-type demon also fits. From the weakest to strongest: Balrog (pale red), Pit Lord (Bluish Black), Venom Lord (Olive Green). Diablo himself: Normal (red), Nightmare (yellow), Hell (black). The Diablo series also introduced the colouring of items that has since become standard in many RPGs. In the first game, white was normal, blue magic and yellow unique. Diablo 2 added yellow for rare and green for set items, changing unique to gold. Diablo 3 uses red for legendary (replacing unique and set items in the previous game). While the details vary, the core white-blue-yellow progression can be seen in many games. Ironically, it's actually somewhat subverted in Diablo 2 since although rare items had more modifiers, regular magic items could have larger ones, so the weapon with the highest possible damage was actually blue, but then the best weapons are unique or runeworded anyway. |
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In Naruto, red, yellow, or orange = powerful. Think about it. Who has those colors? Naruto, Kushina, Minato, Sakura, Gamabunta, Hashirama, Kurama, Jiraiya, everyone with the Sharingan, Gaara, A, Nagato, Deidara, Sasori, Choji, and Choza. The more of these colors is present, the more powerful the character. While many characters that do not have these colors are still quite dangerous, these are the ones that it is a truly bad idea to mess with. | |
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Taken furthest with Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger and Power Rangers Dino Thunder; where not only did the Red Ranger get the same Super Mode as the rest of the group, he got a Sixth Ranger-style upgrade with its own weaponry and Zord, and then Dino Thunder added a Battlizer on top of that! | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, Ed attempts to invoke this trope. When asked about his trademark red jacket, he explains that it's a "manly color that gets the blood flowing!" | |
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Played straight in the Guilty Gear series, with resident badass Sol Badguy dressed in red, black, and gold. | |
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Ingress items are color-coded based on strength and rarity: Weapons, Resonators, Portal levels, and Power Cubes: yellow (L1) →→ red (L4) →→ purple (L8) Portal Mods: green (Common) → purple (Rare) → pink (Very Rare) |
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RWBY: Silver in relation to eyes is stated to be an extremely rare color. The heroine, Ruby, has these very rare silver eyes and, if the legends are true, is destined to be a great huntress. Silver eyes is supposed to be a sign of a person with a mysterious, magical ability to slay Grimm; according to myth, they can slay Grimm with just a glance. | |
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In the tabletop RPG Paranoia, the ranking system is based on color, with infrared (or black) being the lowest and going up through red and the rest of the rainbow all the way to ultraviolet (white). All things painted a certain color—files, walls, floor tiles—can be assumed to be restricted to those ranks and should be absolutely avoided by lower ranks. Therefore, one of the most restricted commodities of all is paint, and the infrared market trade is fast and furious... | |
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Raptor: Call of the Shadows: The game has many red-coloured units that appear only in the third and final episode called Outer Regions. They have a huge amount of armour and firepower, making them Demonic Spiders in and of themselves. Therefore, it is highly recommended to use the most powerful weaponry that your money can buy, namely the Twin Laser. Tango Sector (the second episode) has red-coloured helicopters that first appear in the fourth level and make recurring appearances up to the sixth level. They fire big salvos of missiles, but their pattern is predictable enough that you can easily dodge their fire and blast them apart with your weapon of choice (namely the Laser Turret or the Twin Laser). |
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This causes interesting effects in Power Rangers seasons when there are two Reds. Power Rangers Time Force gave different Battlized forms to both the Red Ranger and the Quantum Ranger, and in Power Rangers Ninja Storm, the Red Ranger got the Battlizer but the Crimson Ranger got an equally impressive Cool Bike. | |
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As Gundam 00 Turns Red, Gundam F91 is the same. | |
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Princess Tutu: Rue is the star dancer of the school and wears a red leotard in contrast to the blue ones of other students. Inversely, Ahiru is a complete clutz just barely keeping herself out of the probationary class and wears a white leotard. | |
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And, of course, there's always Lu Bu's Red Hare horse in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was reputedly supreme among horses in the day. (And possibly three times as fast.) | |
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In Red vs. Blue Reconstruction, Red defeats Blue by default, by erasing all the Blue' records. At least that's how Sarge sees it. | |
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In the 2012 version of Total Recall (2012) the police synthetics are mostly white and black like stormtroopers. The all-black one seems to be superior to his brethren. | |
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Ace Combat Infinity included "Moby Dick Pursuit" Boss Battle missions in which the players cooperate to take down Ace Combat 6's Aigaion. The improved version seen in the second such mission is painted red, and the rarest and most dangerous is gold. After an update, these were replaced with similarly-colored versions of the Stonehenge turret network from 04. | |
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In Tower of God, Yeon completely busts and chars the motor of their boat, and tries to pretend that it goes faster because it is black now. | |
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In The Tower of Druaga, the best and most important items are blue (exception: the Ruby Mace is superior to the Sapphire Mace). | |
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In The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign, the Unexplored-Class Materials are all associated with a particular colour. The Red-Eyed Lady, Wicked Green Woman and Spirit of the Fluttering Yellow Gills are more powerful than most of the rest, while the White Queen is orders of magnitude more powerful still. The White Queen is a double example, as she's the same entity as the Black Maw. Played with in the case of the Colorless Little Girl, an artificial Unexplored-Class designed specifically to combat the White Queen. The Colorless Little Girl is uniquely capable of defeating the White Queen singlehandedly, but would lose to any other Unexplored-Class. | |
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Turns up quite a bit in the Ace Combat series: Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War has Solo Wing Pixy who, before he defects to A World With No Boundaries and becomes the final boss, flies an F-15C with a portion of the right wing painted red, representing the time that he had lost a wing during combat, but fought on, finished the mission, and landed safely; you can also unlock this custom paint job for your own F-15. Otherwise averted for Cipher, however - his "official" plane is also an F-15C, this time with blue wings. Averted in Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, where Yellow Squadron is the most badass bunch of mofos, and Red Squadron is one of the generic Mook squadrons. Ace Combat 2 has the Z.O.E. squadron: five unmanned aircraft painted entirely red, the last of which appears as the most dangerous enemy in the final mission, flying one of the series' very first superfighters. Like with Zero, Scarface One inverts this - his official plane in this game is the Su-35, which has a paint scheme primarily consisting of the color blue; his teammates likewise tend towards green planes. Z.O.E makes a comeback in the Video Game Remake of AC2, Assault Horizon Legacy. However, Scarface One's planes are now (by default) gray, rather than blue camouflage. Ace Combat Infinity included "Moby Dick Pursuit" Boss Battle missions in which the players cooperate to take down Ace Combat 6's Aigaion. The improved version seen in the second such mission is painted red, and the rarest and most dangerous is gold. After an update, these were replaced with similarly-colored versions of the Stonehenge turret network from 04. |
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World of Warcraft color-codes items by rarity. Its item coloring standard has been used by several RPG games: Poor quality items, colored grey, and are Vendor Trash. More often than not they are low-quality equipment or Joke Items. Ordinary quality items are colored white. More often than not they are quest items, crafting reagents or consumable items. White equippable items exist, but they are practically nonexistent after early levels (those that exist tend to be profession items). Uncommon items are colored green. They are most seen as equippable items that give a modest increase to player character's stats, and are often quest rewards. Rare crafting reagents and profession items may be considered Uncommon in the game. Rare items are colored blue. They tend to be equippable items given at the end of a quest line, obtained through somewhat costly profession recipes, or at low-difficulty dungeons. Some valuable crafting reagents are considered Rare by the game. Epic items are colored purple. They tend to make the bulk of items that can be obtained in raids and high-difficulty dungeons. Epic equippable items are often separated by "tiers" (indicated by their item level) as epic items introduced later into an expansion are better than the ones introduced beforehand. Legendary items are colored orange. With the exception of Legion, there tends to be an extremely scarse amount of legendary weapons introduced per expansion. If they need to be crafted, they require special crafting reagents that are often Legendary as well (and cannot be used to craft anything else). Artifact items are colored gold. Since their introduction in Legion, they are extremely powerful, one-of-a-kind items that make the main mechanic of an expansion and are handed out in early, major storyline quests. Artifact power can be obtained through various means to power them up. In Legion, every specialization had their own artifact weapons, whereas in Battle for Azeroth they all use the Heart of Azeroth neck item. Heirloom items are colored light blue. Meant to be used to level up alternate characters, they are account-bound items that scale with the character's level. In terms of strength, they are comparable to Rare quality items, though Heirlooms have the unique trait to increase experience gains. |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! R, the top-ranked Card Professor uses a special black Duel Disk. It even gets compared to a black belt in martial arts in that while it isn't inherently any different from the other Disks aside from its color, it's a sign that the one wearing it is not someone you want to mess with. | |
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In The Perishers, Cloudcuckoolander Marlon is firmly convinced his soapbox cart goes faster with a red stripe on it. At one point, he tells his "mechanic", Wellington, that it needs a thicker stripe. | |
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In the early Magic: The Gathering metagames, people built up their mana base in the first few turns or drew plenty of cards to get out a combo. Red does not win that way. Red wins by killing you while you're doing that. Fans of red often name their decks things like "Red Deck Wins". Of course, if a red deck fails in these turns, it's practically defenseless from then on. Blue, however, is the color most known for Game Breakers. There is also the matter of expansion symbols, which (starting with Exodus) are colored in accordance to the card's rarity. Black for common and basic land, silver for uncommon, and gold for rare. When the game added the Mythic rarity, it wound up as a sort of bronze color, in a weird sort of aversion of this trope. |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series also featured Experiment 627 ("Evil!") who was designed to be better than Stitch in every way. He looked very much like Stitch save for a cone-shaped head and, of course, a red color scheme rather than a blue one. | |
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Black clothes (furniture, houses...) are the sign of a truly superior pirate in Puzzle Pirates. Why? Because black ink costs a fortune on the in-game market, so only an extremely talented pirate would be able to pillage up enough gold to waste that much on decorating. Of course, some consider black to be pretentious and showy. These people cannot afford it. | |
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In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, the chromatic jump gems are the most common. The rarest ones are black, white, silver, gold, and clear, in that order, though Mattagandas mentions the Full Spectrum Jump Gem as the rarest of all. | |
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Averted in Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, where Yellow Squadron is the most badass bunch of mofos, and Red Squadron is one of the generic Mook squadrons. | |
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The trolls of Homestuck, whose "hemospectrum" goes from purple and blue at the top to yellow and rusty-brownish red at the bottom and Karkat's mutated bright red blood being off the scale. Being of a lower blood color might give you psychic powers (see Aradia or Sollux), but it also means you are subject to Fantastic Racism and ensures that you'll be the first one to feel the Vast Glub. Trolls with higher blood also live longer: Trolls with red or yellow blood are unlikely to meet the next generation, while Trolls with purple blood often live for centuries. |
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Knights of the Old Republic plays this one straight. The normal Sith Troopers at the beginning of the game wear dark Shiny armor, but by the end of the game, in their place, you fight the higher level elite ones that look exactly the same, except with shiny red armor instead. | |
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In Valkyria Chronicles, leaders and aces wear red (Or are painted red in the case of tanks). Certain super-strong enemies wear black. | |
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In Cinderella (2015), Ella's ballroom dress is a vivid shade of blue that's almost absent from the rest of the film. This is especially notable at the Royal Ball, which depicts hundreds of women wearing Pimped-Out Dresses, yet all of the other blue ones are significantly darker or less saturated than Ella's. The only other time Ella's blue appears is on the uniforms of the Royal Guard as they search the kingdom for whoever can wear the glass slipper. | |
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WWE Superstar Kane is known as "The Big Red Machine" or "The Big Red Monster". However, Kane usually loses to his brother, The Undertaker, who is usually dressed in black, blue, purple or grey. | |
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Red Devil (aka Crimson Devil, Red Meteor, Red Demon, and Raven Blood) in the Tokyo Xtreme Racer games is basically a parody of Char: his car is red and sometimes has a horn protruding from the hood. No joke. And even in Japan-only spin-off Racing Battle C1 Grand Prix where all the old rivals from Shutokou Battle have circuit tuned cars (several of the bosses even use real cars like the Sun Auto CyberEVO Lancer Evolution), his car is still the same. | |
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Speed Racer: the Mach 5 is mostly white, but has red trimmings. | |
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The Chosen in The Seventh Tower have a complicated caste system based around the colors of the rainbow. The closer you get to violet, the higher your social status. The various levels of their Castle are color coded and dictate where you may live—members of a certain color generally live on their own color; travel between colors isn't forbidden, but people apparently don't do it a lot. Some people have no color and are even lower ranked than red, and are, for all intents and purposes, slaves. Magic-users can't do magic with light of a color higher than their own. | |
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In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!, Iron Man becomes the first superhero to lead the Avengers. As people who read Iron Man's comics and/or saw his movies would expect, he mostly uses red and gold armor in this show. This incarnation even wears red as Tony Stark. | |
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In BlazBlue, the Distortion Drives that take only 50% Heat and don't guarantee a kill have a blue background, while the sure-kill, 100% Heat Astral Heats use a black background with the character's crest overlaying in red briefly. | |
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Katina Trask of Super Robot Wars, specifically in Original Generations, has special battle comments when fighting red mecha; one is essentially "the red ones do triple damage!". She, herself, pilots a red Gespenst. Also, any and everything that Ratsel canonically pilots is painted black with red and gold trim. And named Trombe. And Sleigh Presty with her 'always number 1' rants. Having her and Char Aznable (originator of Sleigh's nickname) face off against each other in Alpha 2 is a memorable moment. | |
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Mirai Sentai Timeranger and its Power Rangers counterpart Power Rangers Time Force is another exception, though in an odd way - while the Red Ranger got top billing, leader was the Pink Ranger. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The series has done this for ages with their dragons. Strongest of the "metallic" (good) dragons? Gold, with silver just after it. Strongest of the "chromatic" (evil) dragons? Red, with blue just behind it. Black is the second weakest, only stronger than white. And, of course, the god of metallic dragons is platinum. So strongly do gamers adhere to this tradition that many decried the Dungeons & Dragons movie, sight unseen, merely upon hearing rumors that its red dragons would be more powerful than its gold ones. (After it came out, of course, they had plenty of other offenses to bitch about.) Presumably, the red ones were older than the gold, as age trumps color where a D&D dragon's power is concerned. It's traditional for artists to depict Tiamat, the game's five-headed goddess of evil dragonkind, with her red head in the middle and larger than the other four. Artwork that dares to do otherwise has been lambasted for "getting it wrong", even though her descriptions don't specify which head goes where, and Tiamat logically ought to be as capable of changing her appearance as any other goddess. This is averted with the various "Chromatic" and "Prismatic" spells, though. Prismatic spells in whatever form (spray, projectile, weaponry, walls, etc.) have different effects based on affecting color, and are typically rated in power (measured in amounts of damage, defensive capability 1 Red effects can stop nonmagical ranged attacks and indigo can stop spells, for instance or special effects like insanity or petrification) based in a strict rainbow order...meaning red is almost invariably the weakest color. |
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The Pretty Cure series is an odd one. There are red-colored Cures, but the pink Cures are the leaders. The first series to feature a team, Yes! Pretty Cure 5, had an early episode where Natts wanted to know who the leader was for the team. Nozomi decided it should be Karen, since she was the smarter of the five. However, Karen decided it should be Nozomi, since she was the one who got them all together and the others agreed. | |
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Another exception is the first Beetleborgs series, in which the blue borg rather than the red one gains a unique powerup halfway through the series. Most likely because the red borg is a girl. | |
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In Halo 5: Guardians, this is how most REQ variants of Covenant weapons and vehicles are segregated, although whether the best one is gold or red (or silver, if you're talking vehicles) tends to vary. | |
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In Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (Colon Cancer, anyone?), Luke is, in fact, Blue 5, not Red 5. It was changed to red because blue markings were affected by the Blue Screen technology at the time. If you look, there are no blue markings on any ship in the first movie. | |
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Alien Shooter: The first game has this with monsters and vaguely handwaves it by noting that they were mutated by chemicals in the secret lab. Normal cannon fodder aliens are greenish, yellow = slightly faster, stronger and tougher, red = Lightning Bruiser, rare blue = Damage-Sponge Boss. Also applies to your body armor, which absorbs a percentage of damage received. Green flak vests absorb 50% and have 100 HP, yellow combat suits are twice as durable and absorb about 75%, and red Powered Armor absorbs 90% while boasting 300 HP. |
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The Legend of Zelda: In The Legend of Zelda, almost all of Link's color-coded powerups were better when red (the exception was the boomerang, whose strongest variant is blue). In a twist, the monsters would always be weaker when red. All in all, though, red is better for Link. This varies more in later games. In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Link's Loftwing is "special" because it's red, the implication being that it's faster than the others. Pipit, during the prologue, won the Wing Ceremony last year, but thanks his lucky stars Link's "red terror" wasn't involved. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, most enemy types are colour-coded based on how tough they are. In order of weakest to strongest: red → blue → black → silver. In Master Mode (from the first DLC pack), red-coloured enemies are removed, with each enemy type being moved up a step in colour (red in Normal Mode becomes blue in Master Mode, blue becomes black, etc.), and a new class of gold-coloured enemies become the strongest ones. |
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The Eliminator in Kingdom Hearts coded is a red re-skin of the Defender Heartless. It's also one of the most dangerous non-boss enemies in the game, being able to inflict any Standard Status Effect at random with its powerful attacks and has a large amount of HP. | |
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Sword of the Stars plays with this. Drives increase in power from fission (orange) to fusion (yellow) to antimatter (purple). Lasers go red, green, purple, blue, gold. Plasma is green, yellow, purple. | |
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Subverted in Curse of the Golden Flower. The golden army is defeated by the silver army in the end, though the Empress' red-clad Royal Guards are able to beat the Emperor's ninjas. | |
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Loadout cards in Dirty Bomb are rated in color from basic Standard cards to Lead, which introduces augments, Iron, which has two augments over Lead's one, and finally Bronze, which fills out the augment slots. There are higher tiers, but the sole advantage they have is different coloration or special patterns in the case of event loadouts, and the ones available are the same across every rank (An iron loadout with the same first two augments as a gold one will have the exact same weapons) except Standard. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny have the elite ZAFT redcoats, who are better than ordinary soldiers. Also, the Strike Rouge's red/pink color scheme is explained by it having a higher power output than the original Strike Gundam. | |
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Demon's Souls has a similar effect, Occasionally with black world tendency, you can encounter "Black Phantom" NPC enemies. Despite the name, they appear a glowing red with black cracks running through them and tend to be much stronger and harder to kill. | |
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In the Time Crisis series, there are the red soldiers. They take just about as many hits as the regular Mooks, but, unlike the regular ones whose bullets went for you about once in 30 times, these guys will almost always aim straight for you. Considering that you're downed in 3 to 5 hits, its easy to see why these guys cause many players a lot of frustration. | |
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Most Heisei (2000-onwards) Kamen Riders are either red to begin with or gain a red Super Mode. Played with by Kamen Rider Agito note Black and gold, with silver and red Super Mode, Kamen Rider Blade note Blue and silver, with a gold and black Super Mode, Kamen Rider Decade note Magenta and black, with silver and black Super Mode, Kamen Rider Double note Has a red half-form, but his primary one is green and black, Kamen Rider OOO note The Mid-Season Upgrade is all red, but the Super Mode is purple, and Kamen Rider Fourze note Primarily white, red is just an alternate form, Super Mode is a steel blue. | |
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In Super Mario Bros., this goes for nearly every game with the enemies (though it varies all over the place). Red Koopas won't walk off cliffs, red Piranha Plants shoot fireballs, red Goombas fly and drop tiny Goombas. Inverted in Super Mario Bros. 2, in which the red Shy Guys and Snifits walk off cliffs and the red Beezos fly in a straight line. The red pansers, though, don't walk off cliffs because they, unlike the other plants, don't move. | |
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In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable : The Battle of Aces, Nanoha's more powerful Evil Twin, Material-S, has a mainly black-and-red barrier jacket, compared to Nanoha's own white-and-blue one. | |
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Desirability of being associated with a favorable color is the reason why the boss in Reservoir Dogs chooses the pseudonyms of his employees. Ironically, Mr Pink, the man stuck with the least desirable color, is the only one who survives the film. |
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Also known as the "Char Custom Rule" among Gundam fans, whose series uses this in spades: While certainly not the origin of the overall trope, it was neatly codified by Mobile Suit Gundam, which featured legendary Ace Pilot Char Aznable, whose customized Humongous Mecha was said to be three times faster than normal versions of its type (this was later ret conned to the more reasonable 30% faster and being very good at kicking off ships to go faster and preserve fuel). The only observable difference between his Mecha and normal models was that his was painted red. This has been used to comedic effect outside the series: The Bandai Hobby Center in Shizuoka, Japan has a "Char Custom" forklift, painted to look like Char's MS-06 Zaku, which is held by the staff to be three times more forklift-y than an ordinary forklift and the GE Consumer Finance Char Custom credit card receives three times as many bonus points per 1000 yen spent compared to their other Gundam-related credit cards. There's even a Char's Custom PSP and Char's Custom 3DS (as bundled with SD Gundam G Generation 3D), though whether they load three times faster has yet to be tested. And then Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn unveiled the Sinanju, which really IS three times faster than its accompanying Geara Zulus; it's even piloted by Char's clone. Three guesses as to what its color is. The Char Custom Rule should also be given the Quattro Bajeena Corrollary: if red is not enough to emphasize its awesome, the mecha should be colored Gold (best example being the Hyaku-Shiki, Harry Ord's SUMO and the Akatsuki Gundam). It is worth noting that the primarily-white Gundam is referred to by its enemies (the Principality of Zeon) as "the white mobile suit" and is usually recognized as such ("It's the white one! Fall back!"), the off-white GMs are superior to almost all of their Zeonic counterparts, and most other ace pilots have their mobile suits colored a certain color as well; Anavel Gato's blue-and-green Gelgoog, Johnny Ridden's red-and-black suits (similar enough to Char's colors that his being commonly mistaken for Char is a Running Gag, with "I'm not Char!" practically being his Catch-Phrase, even moreso in fanon), the suits of the Black Tri-Stars, and the most skilled (and least-famous) ace pilot, Shin Matsunaga, who piloted the only other white mobile suits in the series other than the Gundam and actually outperformed Char in the battle that made him famous (and, by having the sense to retire after the One Year War rather than getting dragged into the next half-dozen conflicts, is the one who survives the longest). There is also the Ramba Ral Corollary to the Char Custom Rule. If a machine is already red, you must paint it blue to show it has been changed. Gundam Airmaster Burst and Gundam Heavyarms Custom are instances of this. Chromatic superiority is invoked - sort of - in one SD Gundam skit. The Gundams convince a bunch of Zakus to get drunk on sake so they'll turn red and go faster. Ends up being a subversion, as the drunken Zakus can barely move in a straight line, let alone at speed. It's deliberately invoked in the character creation quiz for Gundam Assault Survive, where one of the random questions the player can be asked is what color they'd choose for their custom machine. Red is described as "speedy" while blue is described as "strong" (the third choice is black, which is said to represent good teamwork, referring to the Black Tri-Stars). The Gamecube game Gashapon Wars has a stage where the player fights Char in all his distinctive red mobile suits. When he runs out of official models, he grabs the Strike Rouge from Gundam SEED, saying that since it's red it still counts. After the Rouge is defeated, he appears in the gold-colored Akatsuki from SEED Destiny and remarks that gold is his color too. In SD Gundam Force, the Zakos are little more than Mooks and Plucky Comic Relief, often defeated with a single hit. Zako Red, however, is cunning, sly, and effective. There is a good reason for this, however: Zako Red is a dummy body remotely controlled by Dark Axis leader Sazabi, as seen when Red goes inert after handing Captain Gundam's stolen Soul Drive to Sazabi. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny have the elite ZAFT redcoats, who are better than ordinary soldiers. Also, the Strike Rouge's red/pink color scheme is explained by it having a higher power output than the original Strike Gundam. In Gundam 00, which otherwise has surprisingly little references to older series (especially compared to SEED), the Gundams unlock a hidden Super Mode which causes them to become three times faster... and red. As Gundam 00 Turns Red, Gundam F91 is the same. |
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Space Panic and Mr. Do!'s Castle invert the conventional priority by having the red enemies be the weakest. Green enemies are stronger, and blue enemies are the strongest. Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap uses the same red-green-blue progression. |
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The people in Red Rising who are born Golds (golden irises, blonde hair, genetically superior physical traits) are at the top of the societal pyramid of power, with "Bronzie" being a nickname for the lower stock. The next tier of the pyramid are the Silvers (money managers), Whites (priesthood), and Coppers (bureaucrats). Beneath them are Oranges (mechanics), Yellows, (doctors), Greens (programmers), Blues (navigators), and Violets (artists). The fourth tier of the pyramid are the Grays (police), who are considered to be above the Browns (servants), Obsidians (brute force soldiers), and Pinks (sex workers). Reds (manual labor) form the base of the pyramid. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Link's Loftwing is "special" because it's red, the implication being that it's faster than the others. Pipit, during the prologue, won the Wing Ceremony last year, but thanks his lucky stars Link's "red terror" wasn't involved. | |
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And then Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn unveiled the Sinanju, which really IS three times faster than its accompanying Geara Zulus; it's even piloted by Char's clone. Three guesses as to what its color is. | |
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In Layzner Ru Kain's Zakarl generates a red energy when using the fullest extent of its' V-Max. It also helps that his unit is painted gold compared to the rest of the empire. | |
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In the Heroes of Might and Magic series, red units almost always upgrade into blue units. In the second game, green dragons upgraded to red dragons, which upgraded to black dragons. In the third game, green dragons upgrade to gold dragons and red dragons upgrade to black ones. The black dragons are more powerful overall due to tradition, but the gold ones are faster. Many other units establish a color hierarchy as well: four out of seven basic units from the Inferno faction are coloured yellow or pink, but wind up red when upgraded. |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, black dragons are always the strongest. Balerion the Black Dread is the largest dragon in Westerosi history. Daenerys owns three dragons, who are each a different color. Drogon, the strongest and biggest of the three, is black with red accents. | |
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Pokémon In later generations, the color of your trainer card changes as you meet certain achievements and gain stars. While the number and colors have varied a bit, it always begins as red and ends with black. Of course, the main things that come with this change are a few bits of dialogue change and bragging rights. Shiny Pokémon are off-color and rare (at one point 1 in 8192 per encounter) variants of normal ones. Their abilities aren't different from their normal cousins, but they're sought after just for being rare. Interestingly, the shiny sprite or model of a Pokémon is sometimes an inversion of this rule: Trading black for blue, or red for green. Other times it is played straight, with a famous example being Gyarados◊. |
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The Final Fantasy Legend appears to have a subversion where Silver armor is more expensive and powerful than Gold armor. However, Silver is really a mistranslation of Mythril. The sequel gets around this by changing Bronze, Gold, and Mythril to Bronze, Silver, and Gold in the English translation. | |
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A similar gag happens in a Futurama/Simpsons crossover comic where the Simpsons and the Planet Express crew are running away from enemy saucers in their ship. In order to outrun them, Homer and Fry have the idea to paint racing stripes to make it go faster. | |
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Planescape: Torment toys with the idea of chromatic superiority in the description for the spell Chromatic Orb. | |
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J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai is the sole exception with Big One, who is a white hero who manages to take over complete leadership from Spade Ace, which includes field leadership and all of the attention. Oddly enough, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers would mirror this situation when Breakout Character Tommy gained the White Ranger powers and took over leadership from Jason (though part of that was because Jason was in the process of being written out anyway, and it didn't make sense for the replacement Red Ranger to automatically be placed in charge). | |
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Many printings of The Bible use this: Jesus' word's in red. Plus, he's always portrayed in purple robes. | |
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War has Solo Wing Pixy who, before he defects to A World With No Boundaries and becomes the final boss, flies an F-15C with a portion of the right wing painted red, representing the time that he had lost a wing during combat, but fought on, finished the mission, and landed safely; you can also unlock this custom paint job for your own F-15. Otherwise averted for Cipher, however - his "official" plane is also an F-15C, this time with blue wings. | |
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There is also the Ramba Ral Corollary to the Char Custom Rule. If a machine is already red, you must paint it blue to show it has been changed. Gundam Airmaster Burst and Gundam Heavyarms Custom are instances of this. | |
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In DNA2, hero Junta has dark red hair, which gets progressively lighter (and spikier) the stronger he gets, with his Twinkle Junta self being a lighter shade and the Mega Playboy himself having incredibly bright hair, colored a neon-magenta in most manga illustrations. | |
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Also, the Red Lion in GoLion; Isamu Kurogane was the pilot of the ship that brought the Go Lion team to Altea and is generally considered the best pilot. Akira, despite piloting the Black Lion, wears a red uniform (much to the confusion of American viewers watching the Voltron translation). This is because the team is essentially a Super Sentai Five-Man Band wearing the uniforms they would be wearing in a regular Sentai. The lions just happen to not match their pilot's colors. |
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In Zodiac Starforce, Emma is the leader, and has a uniform that is mostly pink and red compared to the mostly light-blue uniforms of her teammates. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda, almost all of Link's color-coded powerups were better when red (the exception was the boomerang, whose strongest variant is blue). In a twist, the monsters would always be weaker when red. All in all, though, red is better for Link. This varies more in later games. | |
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In The Force Awakens, Captain Phasma, the commander of all First Order Stormtroopers is clad with literal chrome armor, a golden blaster and a long cape. According to Word of God, the chromatic material was salvaged from Palpatine's yacht in Naboo. | |
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Played with in If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, with Kitten suggesting that Salamanders are worse and Orks keep on losing because both are green, while the Ultramarines' blue being superior. The Emperor dismisses this, as to him all colors are equally inferior before gold. | |
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Elynne Mitchell's The Silver Brumby series is rife with this trope. The first and most obvious example is Thowra, the eponymous "silver brumby". As a result of his coat colour -ordinarily cream coloured, but turning a paler 'silver' sheen in winter- Thowra finds himself the envy of rival stallions and hunted by humans who desire such a handsome horse. Given that your average brumby can be varying shades of brown, grey and black, Thowra is a VERY rare horse indeed. Other protagonists (and other important characters) of the series also have special attention given to their coats- notably, Thowra's own daughter, Kunama, who is also 'silver'; Socks, a black brumby with four white feet, and the brumbies of the night, who are milk-white with red eyes. | |
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In TRON, all "bad guys" have red light as their theme, and even when they don't win, they're still badass. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Knuckles the Echidna is a bright red whereas the rest of his tribe is tan. | |
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Similarly, in Super Sentai and Power Rangers, the Red Ranger is always The Hero and almost always The Leader. As such, the Red Ranger is usually privy to somewhat better, if predictable, characterization, a "Battlizer" that grants a unique Super Mode (at least in the US adaptations), and, in some cases, even a unique motorcycle or mecha. J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai is the sole exception with Big One, who is a white hero who manages to take over complete leadership from Spade Ace, which includes field leadership and all of the attention. Oddly enough, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers would mirror this situation when Breakout Character Tommy gained the White Ranger powers and took over leadership from Jason (though part of that was because Jason was in the process of being written out anyway, and it didn't make sense for the replacement Red Ranger to automatically be placed in charge). Mirai Sentai Timeranger and its Power Rangers counterpart Power Rangers Time Force is another exception, though in an odd way - while the Red Ranger got top billing, leader was the Pink Ranger. This causes interesting effects in Power Rangers seasons when there are two Reds. Power Rangers Time Force gave different Battlized forms to both the Red Ranger and the Quantum Ranger, and in Power Rangers Ninja Storm, the Red Ranger got the Battlizer but the Crimson Ranger got an equally impressive Cool Bike. Taken furthest with Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger and Power Rangers Dino Thunder; where not only did the Red Ranger get the same Super Mode as the rest of the group, he got a Sixth Ranger-style upgrade with its own weaponry and Zord, and then Dino Thunder added a Battlizer on top of that! |
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Amorphous+ has the Queen. It's the only red gloople in the game and its dual-wielded claws are gold. Unsurprisingly, it's the game's regular boss enemy. | |
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Though never confirmed in canon, there seems to be a Chromatic Superiority scheme amongst the ecto-energy of Danny Phantom. Four colors appear in the series - green, blue, purple, red. By some loose estimates, it seems that that's also the order from weakest to strongest. Red reigns supreme amongst ecto-energy. | |
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Warhammer 40,000, being a game about collecting and painting armies of miniatures, naturally uses this: As noted previously, the Orks have such a firm belief in the idea that red-painted vehicles go faster, their unconscious, gestalt psychic field makes it happen. This is not just fluff, but an actual rule—a Red Paint Job can be purchased for Ork vehicles (if they're actually painted red, that is) and will let them move an extra inch. Orks also associate blue with good luck, yellow with flashiness and/or dakka, black with hardiness, and hold that "green iz best", though currently, there aren't any rules regarding these colors. Fanon adds purple or orange as a "sneaky" color (Have you ever seen a seven-foot-tall green-skinned killing machine covered in bright purple and orange paint? Of course not! That's how sneaky it makes them). Other armies' high-speed variants—the Eldar jetbikers of Saim-Hann, the jetpack-equipped and overcharged-engined Space Marines of the Blood Angels, and the battlesuit-focused Farsight Enclaves of the Tau—happen to have red color schemes. Purely coincidental, of course... Space Marines attach certain colors to specific ranks: Librarians usually wear blue, Chaplains wear black with a bone-colored skull mask, Techmarines wear red (and have big mechanical arms), Apothecaries frequently have white armor, and Captains and Chapter Masters are likely to be encrusted with golden Bling of War. Squad leaders, if they aren't going bareheaded, tend to have a contrasting helmet color from their standard uniform. The system used by the Ultramarines has sergeants wear red helmets instead of blue, company veterans with white helms, and champions in gold. If you see an all-gold uniform—whether it be on the Blood Angels Sanguinary Guard, the Adeptus Custodes, or the Emperor Himself—you're dealing with a serious badass. |
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The Pokémon anime features a group of five Genesect, four normal colored and one Shiny, with the Shiny one leading the troupe. The color of a Shiny Genesect? Red, of course. | |
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In the Meet the Team videos for Team Fortress 2, the RED team version of the character class the video is named for is always used and is shown beating the hell out of the other team. Truth in Television in a way, as the game's developers track various game-related statistics, and RED tends to have a higher chance of winning. | |
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Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap uses the same red-green-blue progression. | |
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Always seen in the Dalek hierarchy in Doctor Who. In the classic series, the higher-ranking Daleks would be red or blue, with the Supreme Dalek being white or black. Started again in "Doomsday" when Dalek Sec of the Cult of Skaro was clad in black, continuing with the Supreme Dalek following him in "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End", which was decked out in red. The Supreme Dalek of the New Dalek Paradigm is colored white, with red now actually denoting the lowest rank, the Drones; but in "Asylum of the Daleks", the red Drones were seen acting as officers (or NCOs) to the bronze-colored originals. | |
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In the Crusader games, the cream-of-the-crop, "Silencers", such as the main character, wear red armor. The next-best level of soldiers, "Elites," wear black. | |
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In Exo Squad, enemy Neosapien ace Neo-Frame pilot Thrax pilots a red Neo-Frame, whereas other Neosapiens pilot purple and gold craft. Sure enough, Thrax turns out to be one of the best fighters that Able Squad goes up against. | |
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Inverted in Mai-Otome. The first years, who are meant to be the weakest in both power and skill, wear a red dress, the second years wear dark grey and the graduated Meisters run the gamut of colours. Lena Sayers, said by Word of God to be the most powerful ever, wears blue. | |
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In Elite II: Frontier, the tonnage of the ship that is attacking you is shown by different colours on the scanner. The ships you don't want to meet in combat? Imperial Courier (White), Asp (Yellow), Cobra III (Orange), and Viper (Red). | |
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In Halo 2, standard Forerunner Aggressor Sentinels were silver and fired orange beams, while the stronger versions were gold and fired blue beams. | |
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In Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, most of the color differences between Brute ranks consisted of slightly different shades of blue, with some gold, red, and black thrown in. Fortunately, the more important rank differences could be discerned by helmet shape alone. | |
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In Ōkami, Orochi has eight heads, each with a different colored hat. The head with the red hat is the dominant one, getting to say all of Orochi's lines and gets the character portrait. In addition, the villain Crimson Helm has a face and hat that is identical to Orochi's dominant head, though this is because Crimson Helm was born from Orochi's remains. | |
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Happens a lot on Survivor. The tribes are always color coded. But everytime there's a red colored tribe, they tend to dominate the season and eventually have a member win the game (with others in the top four or five!). This happened in the All-Stars (Chapera), Vanuatu (Lopevi), Cook Islands (Aitutaki), China (Fei Long), Tocantins (Jalapao), and Heroes vs Villains (Villains) seasons. Played straighter in the Amazon, Guatemala, and Nicaragua seasons for having a red-colored merged tribe. Subverted by Bob Crowley from Gabon. Despite not being part of the red tribe Fang before the merge, he won the game by defeating former Fang members Susie Smith and Sugar Kiper. Sophie Clarke in South Pacific and Ethan Zohn in Africa also subverted it by winning even though they weren't part of the Savaii and Samburu tribes, respectively. | |
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Reversed in the Clash of the Titans remake. The soldiers are all clad in red and all die like in the original, but odd-man-out, Perseus, wears a drab green fisherman's tunic and survives. | |
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Red Slimes in the Dragon Quest series are the stronger version of normal slimes, and they are females in some of the adaptions. | |
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In the Touhou series, the Yakumo "family" of youkai display this. Yukari Yakumo, whose first name translates to "Violet", is one of the most powerful characters in the entire series. Her shikigami, Ran Yakumo ("Indigo"), is a short step below, and both are Extra Stage bosses, with Yukari being a Phantasm Stage boss. Down the spectrum is Chen ("Orange")—Ran's own shikigami—who is both a Second Stage boss and Extra Stage midboss. | |
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Toku shows are very strongly affected by this, because, in Japan, red is thought of as a heroic color. To wit: Most Heisei (2000-onwards) Kamen Riders are either red to begin with or gain a red Super Mode. Played with by Kamen Rider Agito note Black and gold, with silver and red Super Mode, Kamen Rider Blade note Blue and silver, with a gold and black Super Mode, Kamen Rider Decade note Magenta and black, with silver and black Super Mode, Kamen Rider Double note Has a red half-form, but his primary one is green and black, Kamen Rider OOO note The Mid-Season Upgrade is all red, but the Super Mode is purple, and Kamen Rider Fourze note Primarily white, red is just an alternate form, Super Mode is a steel blue. Reportedly the show's staff had to fight Executive Meddling tooth and nail for Double to not be primarily red and used the original Kamen Rider as part of their argument in favor of green and black. In the end, the suits got their red Rider with Accel, but even he has a blue Mid-Season Upgrade and a gold, movie-exclusive Super Mode. Similarly, in Super Sentai and Power Rangers, the Red Ranger is always The Hero and almost always The Leader. As such, the Red Ranger is usually privy to somewhat better, if predictable, characterization, a "Battlizer" that grants a unique Super Mode (at least in the US adaptations), and, in some cases, even a unique motorcycle or mecha. J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai is the sole exception with Big One, who is a white hero who manages to take over complete leadership from Spade Ace, which includes field leadership and all of the attention. Oddly enough, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers would mirror this situation when Breakout Character Tommy gained the White Ranger powers and took over leadership from Jason (though part of that was because Jason was in the process of being written out anyway, and it didn't make sense for the replacement Red Ranger to automatically be placed in charge). Mirai Sentai Timeranger and its Power Rangers counterpart Power Rangers Time Force is another exception, though in an odd way - while the Red Ranger got top billing, leader was the Pink Ranger. This causes interesting effects in Power Rangers seasons when there are two Reds. Power Rangers Time Force gave different Battlized forms to both the Red Ranger and the Quantum Ranger, and in Power Rangers Ninja Storm, the Red Ranger got the Battlizer but the Crimson Ranger got an equally impressive Cool Bike. Taken furthest with Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger and Power Rangers Dino Thunder; where not only did the Red Ranger get the same Super Mode as the rest of the group, he got a Sixth Ranger-style upgrade with its own weaponry and Zord, and then Dino Thunder added a Battlizer on top of that! Another exception is the first Beetleborgs series, in which the blue borg rather than the red one gains a unique powerup halfway through the series. Most likely because the red borg is a girl. |
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Armored Core has Nineball. Amazigh and Hari from 4 and for Answer are red but they are a subversion since you can make the same NEXT they use and play the same way they can, if not better. In the Armored Core for Answer the NEXT, White Glint is this due to it moving so fast all you see is a "white glint" and has completely custom NEXT parts...until you get your own. | |
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While certainly not the origin of the overall trope, it was neatly codified by Mobile Suit Gundam, which featured legendary Ace Pilot Char Aznable, whose customized Humongous Mecha was said to be three times faster than normal versions of its type (this was later ret conned to the more reasonable 30% faster and being very good at kicking off ships to go faster and preserve fuel). The only observable difference between his Mecha and normal models was that his was painted red. This has been used to comedic effect outside the series: The Bandai Hobby Center in Shizuoka, Japan has a "Char Custom" forklift, painted to look like Char's MS-06 Zaku, which is held by the staff to be three times more forklift-y than an ordinary forklift and the GE Consumer Finance Char Custom credit card receives three times as many bonus points per 1000 yen spent compared to their other Gundam-related credit cards. There's even a Char's Custom PSP and Char's Custom 3DS (as bundled with SD Gundam G Generation 3D), though whether they load three times faster has yet to be tested. And then Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn unveiled the Sinanju, which really IS three times faster than its accompanying Geara Zulus; it's even piloted by Char's clone. Three guesses as to what its color is. |
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Ace Combat 2 has the Z.O.E. squadron: five unmanned aircraft painted entirely red, the last of which appears as the most dangerous enemy in the final mission, flying one of the series' very first superfighters. Like with Zero, Scarface One inverts this - his official plane in this game is the Su-35, which has a paint scheme primarily consisting of the color blue; his teammates likewise tend towards green planes. | |
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An interesting case in Street Fighter happens with the Shotoclones (Ryu, Ken, and Akuma). Ryu wears white and is the most average out of them, having a well-rounded playstyle. Ken wears red, and his playstyle is much more fast-paced and aggressive than Ryu's. Akuma wears black (or dark blue, depending on the artist) and is the most technical of them all. His playstyle is even MORE aggressive than Ken's or Ryu's, but he can play much better mind games than both of them combined. To balance this, his health is extremely low. | |
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In the opening of Lilo & Stitch, Stitch escapes from his confines and steals one of the police cruisers—specifically, as an observer notes with more than a hint of concern, "the red one." Secondary material, possibly that month's issue of Disney Adventures Magazine, explained that the red one was the fastest, hence while the officers chasing him in the other pods couldn't catch him. Downplayed in the movie proper; they didn't catch him not because he ran away in the fastest vehicle, but because he charged at them and they nearly shot him down, prompting him to panic and engage the standard-issue hyperdrive. The same material mentioned that it was very lucky that this was the case, because Stitch only took the red one because he thought it looked cool. |
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Kingdom Hearts: In Kingdom Hearts II, Sora gains a speed boost when in the red-colored Valor Form. The Eliminator in Kingdom Hearts coded is a red re-skin of the Defender Heartless. It's also one of the most dangerous non-boss enemies in the game, being able to inflict any Standard Status Effect at random with its powerful attacks and has a large amount of HP. |
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In Dragonriders of Pern, dragons and fire lizards have a clear-cut color hierarchy. From top to bottom: gold (female), bronze, brown, blue, green (infertile female). | |
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Akira, despite piloting the Black Lion, wears a red uniform (much to the confusion of American viewers watching the Voltron translation). This is because the team is essentially a Super Sentai Five-Man Band wearing the uniforms they would be wearing in a regular Sentai. The lions just happen to not match their pilot's colors. | |
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In Saint Seiya, the Gold Saints are the strongest warriors of all, because they wear the shiniest clothes of all (Gold). This does get turned on its head a little as the series goes on, since the Five-Man Band of main characters technically remain low-level Bronze Saints, though their clothes develop a habit of subverting the hierarchy altogether. | |
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Lately, Haruhi Suzumiya has been affiliating the Five-Man Band with their own colors. Guess what color Haruhi has? Note, she put on a Red Armband of Leadership when she founded the SOS-Brigade. |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation had the Command Track departments wear a "Wine Red" uniform. This is a departure from the original Star Trek where the Command was Gold (actually a Lime Green that turned gold under the stage lights and film stock) and the engineering and security detail was red, hence the infamy of the Red Shirts and it's speculated the change was to avoid that tropenote In actuality, it was planned to retain the original color scheme. However, when they saw Jonathan Frakes and Patrick Stewart in the red uniforms, they realized it worked a lot better and made the switch.. Red became exclusively command track, while gold was changed to Operations/Engineering and Security, while Blue has remained the medical and scientific departments throughout the franchise. Star Trek is unique in that there is significant division between the departments in terms of responsibility, but less so in terms of rank. Blue and Gold uniformed officers can reach lieutenant commander and remain in those colors (Commanders consistently wear Red uniforms, as that means they are on command tracks), while in the first season Worf and Geordi wore red and had the comparatively low ranks of Lieutenant Junior Grade. In the second season both were promoted to full Lieutenant and wore Gold, Worf was Head of Security and Geordi Chief Engineer. | |
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