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[[File:blueorange500 229.jpg|frame|And these are just the posters!]]
{{quote|''"All of [[Castlevania (1986 video game)|Castlevania]]'s level palettes incorporated orange in some way. And often incorporated shades of blue, which is orange's complement. A.k.a., it makes orange 'pop out'"''
|'''[[Egoraptor]]''', "Sequelitis Episode 1"}}
▲{{quote|''"All of [[Castlevania 1986]]'s level palettes incorporated orange in some way. And often incorporated shades of blue, which is orange's complement. A.k.a., it makes orange 'pop out'"''|'''[[Egoraptor]]''', "Sequelitis Episode 1"}}
Basic complementary color theory states that when two contrasting colors are put together, they "pop", so the natural technique is to color films to have a strong, contrasting palette.
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Unlike other pairs of complementary colors, fiery orange and cool blue are strongly associated with opposing concepts—fire and ice, land and sea, day and night, invested humanism vs. elegant indifference, good old fashioned explosions vs. futuristic science stuff. It's a trope because it's used on purpose, and it does something.
More [http://www.cracked.com/article_18664_5-annoying-trends-that-make-every-movie-look-same.html here], [http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html here] and [http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-part-2.html here]. Games have (relatively) recently also picked up on this trend, and you can find some of the worst offenders on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130909053354/http://orangeandtealgames.tumblr.com/ this Tumblr].
Subtrope of [[Mood Lighting]] and sister trope to [[Unnaturally Blue Lighting]], as well a very specific and common form of [[Color Contrast]] and [[Color Wash]]. Not to be confused with [[Blue and Orange Morality]] (even when it overlaps with [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]], as in ''[[Tron: Legacy]]''). Ties in with [[Hollywood Darkness]], which is usually blue or teal.
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{{examples}}
== Film ==
* ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]''
* ''The Adventures of [[Tintin]]'' has this prominently on the poster.
* The Blu-Ray [[Digital Destruction|"restoration"]] of ''[[Fantasia]]'' uses this, most prominently in the "Night On Bald Mountain" sequence, where everything that was originally black is now blue.
* The carbon chamber from ''[[
▲* The carbon chamber from ''[[Star Wars|The Empire Strikes Back]]'' is dimly lit with orange lighting and surrounded by blue-tinged darkness, providing an eerie contrast for the first showdown between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. It also predates the modern "Blue and Orange" phenomenon by about two decades.
* ''[[Blade Runner]]'' features this in almost every scene. It's part of its distinctive [[Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain|visual]] [[The Future Is Noir|style]].
* ''[[The Bourne Series (film)|The Bourne Identity]]''
* ''[[Night at the Museum]]''
* ''[[G.I. Joe: The
* ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' (live-action movie)
* ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man 2.1]]'' (''Spider-Man 2'' DVD release)
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* The Indian film ''[[Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi]]'' is strong with this—but more with yellow-blue than specifically orange-blue.
* ''[[Drive (film)|Drive]]''. In the opening sequence, the only colours (with the exception of the pink title) are the blue and orange coming from the lighting in Los Angeles at night.
* ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]''
* The song and dance number in ''[[Om Shanti Om]]'' called Dard E Disco has lovely orange blue contrast with gold tones for about 3/4 of the song.
* ''[[Minority Report]]''
* ''Film/Sunshine''
== Live-Action TV ==
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== Pro Wrestling ==
* Unlike most wrestlers in [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], Sin Cara has special lighting ''during'' his matches. Said lighting is orange and blue. Sin Cara's ring attire and entrance video are also orange and blue.
* [[Wrestlemania]] XXVIII utilizes this for their [http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/rock-cena-times-square-billboards poster].
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* ''[[Jagged Alliance]]''
* ''[[Outland (video game)|Outland]]''. At least it served a gameplay-important purpose....
* The video game adaptations of ''[[Harry Potter
* Every boxart for the classic ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series features this.
* ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3: Corruption'' used this for box art and other artwork, but not quite as much for the game itself—while blue ''is'' rather prominent because of Phazon becoming more abundant, orange is largely limited to Samus and her gunship.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' exaggerates it for the [[Dark World|Silent Realm]] in order to emphasize [[Eldritch Location|how alien the alternate dimension is]]. However, everything turns red whenever Link is spotted.
*
* The [http://www.msxrepository.org/Aleste_2/Aleste_2-Screenshot-2.jpg title screen] of ''[[Aleste]] 2'' features redhead Ellinor Waizen and the title in red-orange lettering against a deep-blue background.
* ''Singularity'': only in the time-warped alternate-2011, though. In 1955, a more normal color palette is used. This is to help show off the unnatural state of the world in 2011.
* Sonic and Tails of the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series, where the titular hedgehog and his fox companion are colored blue and orange respectively.
* As noted in the page quote, the original ''[[Castlevania (1986 video game)|Castlevania]]'' for the NES had most, if not all, of its foreground scenery orange, complete with many blue backdrops throughout the game. Even Simon's sprites were a yellow-orange to help him pop out. Averted in ''Vampire Killer'' for the [[MSX|MSX2]], which used a color palette of more subdued browns and shades of gray.
* ''[[X (video game)|X3: Reunion]]'s'' [http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/2/927012_65785_front.jpg boxart]. Also, many ships are rendered in blue-gray, and many sectors are lit in red.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[My Little Pony:
* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'''s Gumball and Darwin.
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' uses this in their credits, popping the yellow names of the crew out of the blue backround. And in the Halloween special, it was actually orange.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', the [[Grand Finale]] has two determining fights happening in parallel: Aang/Ozai and Azula/Zuko. Both were red, or a kind of orange, versus blue. But in one fight, Blue was good, in the other, blue was evil.
== Real Life ==
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* Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has orange clouds, but a dark blue atmosphere.
* Sunsets on the blue-colored Earth are colored orange, but sunsets on the orangey-red Mars are colored blue.
*
** The Edmonton Oilers and New York Islanders of the NHL.
* While not exactly orange, the flag of Sweden uses the blue and yellow from the Natural Color System, which creates pairs of complimentary colors that do the same thing as this trope.
* In a variant one step up the spectrum, the red/green palette commonly associated with Christmas also uses contrasting colors that "pop".
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510061158/http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/endboards/images/lwt_a_large.jpg 1970s] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510061404/http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/endboards/images/lwt_b_large.jpg 1980s] logos for [[ITV]] company LWT had blue and orange stripes.▼
▲** So are the Chicago Bears.
▲* The [http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/endboards/images/lwt_a_large.jpg 1970s] and [http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/endboards/images/lwt_b_large.jpg 1980s] logos for [[ITV]] company LWT had blue and orange stripes.
* The NTSC analog television system's [[wikipedia:YIQ|YIQ color space]] has the orange and blue contrast along the in-phase (I) axis and the green and purple contrast along the quadrature (Q) axis. More bandwidth is allocated to I than to Q because the eye is more sensitive to orange and blue contrast.
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