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In fictionland, [[Water Is Blue]], [[Wind Is Green|Air is (sometimes) Green]], and {{color|red|Fire Is Red}}.
This trope is quite omnipresent in cultural thought. {{color|red|Red}} is the colour of {{color|red|fire}} and even the Sun in most eastern Asian cultures, and has had associations with {{color|red|fire}} in the western world for several millenia. When [[Color
In [[Real Life]], actual {{color|red|fire}} is rarely {{color|red|red}} at all. Most normal {{color|red|flames}} are either {{color|orange|orange}} or {{color|gold|gold}} with a {{color|lightgrey|white}} center; to get actual {{color|red|red}} fire, you have to use specific substances. This is why the {{color|red fire}} scene when Sam defeats the Samurai in [[Brazil (
As a consequence of this, some works subvert this trope by associating fire with other colours, namely orange or gold. This subversion is [[Older Than Dirt]]; ancient indian traditions used the colour {{color|yellow|yellow}} for the Manipura, the fire chakra, while red was reserved for the Muladhara, the [[Dishing Out Dirt|earth chakra]].
A subtrope of [[Color
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