Colourful Theme Naming: Difference between revisions

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One form of [[Theme Naming]] is to name characters after colors. The colors may reflect their personalities (for example, red being violent and white being innocent), but there is often no correlation at all.

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* The girls of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' are all named after [[Edible Theme Naming|plants or desserts]], and their last names follow the pattern of Color [[Location Theme Naming|Place]] (Momomiya = Peach Shrine, Midorikawa = Green River, etc.)

* Numerous characters have color-coded names in ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]].'' Notably, the Gun-swordsmen's last names refer to their color. Thus, Melan is "Melan Blue."

* The Cthuwulf in the ''[[Iczer]]'' series. Named characters are Cobalt, Sepia, Sir Violet, Sister Grey, and Commander Magenta (from the ''Golden Warrior Iczer-One'' manga).

** Kuroko, "Kuro"/Black

** Kise, "Ki"/Yellow

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' contained an [[Homage]] to ''[[The Taking of Pelham 123]]'' with Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Brown, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, and Mr. White. (Although, to be fair, these names were assigned aliases deliberately chosen to adhere to a theme.)

** Some guy on some other job is Mr. Purple.

* In ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'', Mr. White's employer is a certain Dominic Greene, and one of Greene's subordinates is a Mr. Slate.

* Coincidentally occurs among a few cast members of ''[[School of Rock]]'': Jack ''Black'', Mike ''White'', Sarah ''Silver''man and Jordan-Clair ''Green''.

 

== Literature ==

* In the Casson family series, all four children are named after colours, their parents being artists. The eldest is Cadmium Gold, and the colour yellow sums up her personality pretty good, she is bright, cheerful and [[Friend to All Living Things|everyone likes her]]. Her younger brother Indigo (dark blue) is quieter, thoughtful and sensitive. He also likes to watch the starry sky at night. Saffron on the other hand is a proud, independent girl who feels lonely and isolated since she found out that she was adopted when her mother, her stepmother's twin sister, died. Saffron is outspoken, direct and can be quite harsh at times. It is said that she resembles Cadmium, meaning she is very pretty. As Saffron is red this fits her perfectly. The youngest is Permanent Rose, an adorable, very stubborn girl and the artist of the family. She nearly died when she was born, so her mother named her Permanent Rose, as a promise that she would stay.

* From the [[Aubrey-Maturin]] series: Aubrey and his friend and fellow post-captain Heneage Dundas discuss the captain of ''HMS Iris'', who not only wants to dress his bargemen in the colors of the rainbow (due to the connotation of his ships name), but specifically seeks out sailors ''named'' for said colors: e.g., with surnames like "Scarlett," "White," or "Green." He offered Dundas a brass "chaser" cannon in exchange for one of his sailors whose name was Blew. (Dundas declined, sharing with Aubrey a dislike for "costumed" bargemen.)

 

 

 

 

* The first generation of ''[[Pokémon]]'' games have color-themed town names (playing the games on the SNES's Super Game Boy or through one of the ''Stadium'' games on the N64 yields a different color scheme for each town based on the name).

** The second generation games combine this with theme naming based on plants - for example, Ecruteak (teakwood and the color ecru), Cianwood (wood in general and cyan), and Mahogany (both a type of wood and a color derived from it).

* In ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]]'', you get to engage with the Cinquleur, whose names are Ruuj (red), Bliu (blue), Verre (green), Nware (black), and Blanch (white), each representing their job class.

* Both the Erusean Air Force and the Belkan Air Force from ''[[Ace Combat]]'' use colours for squadron names, though Belka uses the German versions. In an aversion of the [[Law of Chromatic Superiority]], Yellow Squadron is Erusea's elite unit.

* RED and BLU of ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', natch (which doubles as [[Fun with Acronyms]]). Other fronts for the organizations seen in the in-game signage also follows this convention (such as Red Bread and Blue Corn in the Granary map), as do the names of their founders, Redmond and Blutarch Mann.

* The villains of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: [[Dirge of Cerberus]]'' are called Rosso (red) the Crimson, Azul (blue) the Cerulean, Shelke (amber) the Transparent, Nero (black) the Sable and Weiss (white) the Immaculate.

* Red and Blue, heroes of ''[[Treasure Hunter G]]'', are members of an entire family of color-based names. Other characters are exempt from the theme, though.

* All of the characters of ''[[VVVVVV]]'' are named after colors. For bonus points, all of their names also start with the letter "V" (Viridian, Vermilion, Violet, etc.; hence the game's title).

* ''[[The Path]]'': All the girls' names are variations on "Red".

** [[Goddamn Bats|About a dozen more]] were added in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days|358/2 Days]]''.

 

* In the ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' Webcomic, the [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=470 squirrel sisters] Scarlet, Amber, Jade and Violet. Though when written it's rather [[Leet Lingo|4M83R, 5C4RL37, J4D3 and V10L37]].

* In ''[[Plus EV]]'', the mother's name is Violet. Her first daughter is Scarlett, which is a shade of red. And violet is a mixture of red and blue. So it was logical to give their second daughter a name that's a shade of blue, and thus she was named... Ultramarine!

* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/01-16.html Perrault remembers the red theme] of Red's name.

 

 

 

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