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In fiction, and sometimes in [[Real Life]], we tend to [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|differentiate between "girly colors" and boyish ones]]. It is clearer with babies, when we are prone to see girls dressed in pink and boys in light blue.
What's [[Newer Than They Think|funny]] is that [http://hueconsulting.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-is-blue-for-boys-and-pink-for-girls.html this is actually a recent development]. In fact, in some cultures, it used to be the opposite: pink was associated with baby boys, because it's derived from red, which being the color of blood is a good masculine color (in some countries, it still is). Blue used to be feminine (and [[True
Note that lots of female characters have had a pink motif that they wear with pride and sheer [[Cute Bruiser|badassery]]. Male characters as well, because [[Real Men Wear Pink]]. But sometimes, pink is considered too childish and disrespectful, especially to an adult woman, so [[Lady in Red|red]] may be substituted.
If there are [[Two Girls to
Can crop up in many [[Boys Love]] and [[Girls Love]] stories; the active partner (''[[Seme]]'' in BL, ''[[Onee
A [[Sub
Compare [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]], [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]], [[
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== Advertising ==
* Huggies is a shining example of this trope. Go ahead, look 'em up on [[YouTube]], and link 'em back here.
* The second Snuggie commercial featured the generic grandfather, father, and son (and [[All Dogs Are Male|dog]]) with dark blue snuggies. The grandmother, mother and daughter had pink snuggies.
* Luvs once marketed pink and blue diapers for girls and boys respectively. The color-coding was more for the parents' convenience; the diapers' design differed between the ones for boys and the ones for girls: there was more absorbent material either in front (for boys) or beneath (for girls) depending on which one they were intended for. They don't do this any more, possibly for the ''manufacturer's'' convenience.▼
** Huggies Pullups and other absorbent training pants, on the other hand, continue to be colored in pink and blue, because toilet training tends to coincide with the time when children develop gender roles.▼
== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Chaos;Head]]'', Rimi has pink hair and Takumi has blue.
* Pops up a lot in ''[[Gundam]]''.
** In the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' and in ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', [[The Federation]] had blue uniforms for male enlisted personnel and pink for females (officers wore brown regardless of sex). Later in the series, Cagalli gets a pink Gundam.
** In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', Soma Peries got a pink mobile suit in season 1 and Nena Trinity wore a pink pilot's suit. In season 2, they switch to red and purple, respectively. Played straight by [http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/gordon008/blog/Gundam00-01-LargePreview01.jpg Louise Halevy and Saji Crossroad] in season 1. As well as [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090406012823/gundam/images/7/73/Setsuna_2312_A.jpg Setsuna F. Seiei] and [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100204184911/gundam/images/e/e1/Feldt_Grace_2312.png Feldt Grace] starting season 2. Setsuna and Feldt get bonus points for piloting blue Gundams with matching blue pilot suit and being a [[Rose
* In fact, lots of [[Anime]] tends to have girly pink-haired girls paired up with stoic blue/black-haired guys ([[Naruto|think of Sakura and Sasuke]] and [[Shugo Chara|Amu and Ikuto]]).
** Cheery, perky [[Sailor Moon]] has pink, silver, white, or yellow hair in the original manga. Her predestined lover Tuxedo Mask has, depending on the image, dark black, blue, green, or purple hair. When he is married to [[Sailor Moon]], he has pastel purple hair, which appears to be a symbol of his healing due to being with her. As far as costuming is concerned, though, Sailor Moon herself wears white and blue while Tuxedo Mask wears black and red.
*** Speaking of Sailor Moon, the [[Transformation Sequence
** Anyone who couldn't see the [[Official Couple]] of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' coming may have ignored this fact. Not only do Ichigo and Masaya have pink and blue hair, respectively (only in the manga, though; [[Adaptation Dye Job|the anime changes them to red and black]]), but their last names are '''Momo'''miya and '''Ao'''yama! (meaning "peach" and "blue" in Japanese respectively.)
** Even more ironic, the whole [[Tokyo Mew Mew]] team is ''female'' and all the aliens are male. In the final battle, where Ichigo blasts her final attack, and Deep '''Blue''' releases the Mu Aqua, you can clearly see a clash of pink and blue.
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*** Mikage from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' has pink hair, as he is supposed to be a male counterpart to Utena and claim the position of Victor, while his companion Mamiya pretends to be a male Anthy. {{spoiler|Although she isn't really pretending.}}
*** [[Real Men Wear Pink|Natsu]] from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' is also an exception.
*** Natsu's one of the few true exceptions (though a character inferred it to be "red" in an early
* In the original ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' mini-scenario of the ''[[Triangle Heart 3
* The Mu children in ''[[Toward the Terra]]'' have pink dresses for girls and blue jumpsuits for boys. The adults all wear purple.
* In both the anime and [[The Movie]], ''[[Speed Racer]]'' typically wears blue and white, while his girlfriend Trixie dons pink and red. However, on formal occasions in the anime, Trixie would wear a blue dress while Speed wore a red blazer.
* Hayate and Hinagiku from ''[[
* Toyed with in the ''[[Slayers]]'' franchise in regards to the two [[Model Couple|model couples]]: for [[Bodyguard Crush|Lina and Gourry,]] the latter wears blue while the former wears a light shade of magenta. For [[Ship Tease|Zelgadis and Amelia]], the latter is a princess who has both a pink dress for diplomatic duties and a modest traveling outfit with some pink touches, while the former is a chimera who literally has blue ([[Adaptation Dye Job|or blue-green]]) colored skin.
* While not exactly ''pink'' per say , [[Action Girl|Erza]] [[Meaningful Name|Scarlet]] and [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|Jellal Fernandes]] of ''[[Fairy Tail]]''.
* The [[Faceless Masses]] in ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' are often colored this way, whether they're hairless and limbless, shaped like restroom signs, or detailed in the outline but still a solid color.
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* Shows up frequently in [[Godannar]] with just about each of the couples/partners' pilot suits, noteably Goh and Anna. Even the more masculine of the two American female robot pilots were darker colors than her cohort (whose pink-and-white costume barely qualified as clothing).
* In case of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', it's more like [[The Chick]] wears pink and the [[Tomboy]] wears blue.
* Jessie and James of Team Rocket from ''[[Pokémon (
== Board Games ==▼
* The ''Game of Life'' board game is an example of this. Boy pegs are blue, girl pegs are pink.▼
== Art ==
* Two paintings – ''[[wikipedia:Pinkie (painting)|Pinkie]]'' by Thomas Lawrence and ''[[wikipedia:The Blue Boy|The Blue Boy]]'' by Thomas Gainsborough – have long been grouped together. The pink girl and blue boy are displayed directly across the room from each other at the Huntington Museum in Southern California.
== Comic Books ==
* The mutant twins [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Quicksilver]] and [[Scarlet Witch]] often wear blue and red costumes respectively, although Quicksilver's first costume was green.
== Fan Fiction ==▼
== Film ==
* [[The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl|Sharkboy and Lavagirl.]]
== Literature ==
* In one of the ''[[
* Stephen King's ''[[Dark Tower]]'' series features the sentient monorail Blaine and his 'sister', Patricia. They feature the reversed color scheme: Patricia is blue, and Blaine is pink.
== Live-Action TV ==
* Made fun of in an episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel
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* ''[[
* The [[Game Show]] ''[[Scrabble (TV series)|Scrabble]]'' did this with its contestants' nametags.
* [[Super Sentai|Pink]] [[Power Rangers|Rangers]] are always female. Blue Rangers are often male, but have been female a number of times. Out of the most common suit colors (Red, Blue, Yellow, Pink, Green, Black, and White), Green and Black (usually seen as interchangeable) are the only all-male colors (except in ''[[
** Also, while the Pink Ranger is usually [[The Chick]], more recent seasons have been subverting this (starting with ''[[Mirai Sentai Timeranger]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]'', where Pink is the real team leader even if Red gets the official recognition). The most common inversion comes on teams with two girls, where Pink will be the level-headed [[Cool Big Sis]] while Yellow will be [[The Ditz]].
** Interestingly, this also extends to ''[[
*** This is averted in the Gokaiger Vs. Gavan movie, where the whole team change into pink Sentai warriors.
== Music ==
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtdC8d8FmIA This video.]
* The more well-known [[Vocaloid]] characters are [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|differentiated by hair and/or outfit color]]; true to the trope, pink-haired Luka is a girl and blue-haired Kaito is a boy. Inverted with Miku, who has light blue hair and is a girl.
== New Media ==
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G67qUno5lDo This youtube video] combines this concept with {{spoiler|[[Girls Have Cooties]]}} for a cute little short.
* The website [http://www.girlsaskguys.com/ Girls Ask Guys] uses this scheme to differentiate between male and female users, by highlighting their username, their 'rank,' and, if asking the question, their rating stars with the respective colour. If the user has not yet chosen an avatar, they sport a silhouette of their gender with the corresponding shade, too.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* [[Conversed]] in ''[[Family Circus]]'', January 28, 2008:
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▲* The ''Game of Life'' board game is an example of this. Boy pegs are blue, girl pegs are pink.
== Toys ==
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* Inverted in ''[[Bionicle]]''. The females still retain the "pink" personality, but the majority of the female main characters are blue. And while there are no pink characters, the red ones are all male.
* Fisher-Price Little People toys and playsets usually avert this, with characters wearing whatever they realistically would. However, Fisher-Price has started making all-pink sets. What makes this stupid is that they are simply recoloring old molds, usually ones with normal colors. So now girls can buy a pink (instead of yellow) bus or dump truck, and a pink (instead of white and blue) plane. And a pink house, which is identical to the normal house in mold, except pink. It's borderline condescending and, since the main difference between the two molds is one is entirely pink, completely insulting.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
** ''Bubble Bobble '''[[Non
* Amy Rose and [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] of the eponymous series. Since the Dreamcast era, Amy has been wearing all red to go with her pink fur. [[Half
** This does bring up some confusion at one point, as {{spoiler|the animal inside the rather masculine E-102 is a pink bird}}.
* ''[[
** And then [[Ni GHTS]] itself is mostly purple and [[Viewer Gender Confusion|nobody can tell]] [[Ambiguous Gender|which gender it is]].
* The ''[[Ice Climbers]]'', Nana and Popo, play this trope straight. Popo wears a blue parka while Nana wears a pink/red one.
* [[Adventures of Lolo|Lolo and Lala]] also play this trope straight. Lalala [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|even wears a bow]].
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
** ''[[
* ''[[
** The first two party members to join the MC follow this theme as well; Yukari is almost never seen without wearing something pink, and Junpei, apart from his blue shirt, ''never'' takes off his blue hat.
* Maria Luna of ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' loves the color pink and plays better when she wears it. In an aversion, Jocinda Smith loves blue.
* In ''[[Fire Emblem:
* The exclusive robots of the protagonists of ''[[Super Robot Wars Advance]]''. Axel Almer gets the blue [[Motion Capture Mecha|Soulgain]], whereas Lamia Loveless gets the pink [[Winged Humanoid|Angelg]].
* Inversion: Male members of the [[Pokémon|Nidoran family]] are pink and purple. Female members are blue.
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** Starting from the third generation onward, the font color on certain game menus (like the save screen) will be either blue or red/pink depending on whether the player character is male or female, respectively. In the fourth-generation games, the Poketch and the PokeGear are similarly color-coded.
*** Also, the text of NPCs in ''FireRed'' and ''LeafGreen'' will change color depending on their gender - red for girls, blue for boys, black for Pokemon and computers.
** ''[[
* Inverted in ''[[Castlevania
* Inverted in ''[[
* ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[Panel
* Jacques (the Blue Boy) and Aila (the Pink Girl) from ''[[Suikoden III]]''.
* Princess Zelda, in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
** Notably averted in some of the games, however. Zelda wears blue and white in ''[[A Link to The Past]]'', and in ''[[Twilight Princess]]'', she wears purple and white.
* [[Professor Layton]]'s young companions fit the trope. His apprentice, Luke, wears a blue hat and blue sweater, while his adopted daughter Flora wears a pink hair ribbon and either a white and pink (''[[Curious Village]]'') or pink and brown (the other games) dress.
* This is the colour scheme most often given to Akari and Ricky in ''1080'' and ''Wave Race'', those two being implied to be a couple.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'', the main playable characters are also color coded in this way, with Leon in a blue uniform and Claire in a pink 'biker' outfit.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Twin Cobra II]]'': Player 1's helicopter is blue and is piloted by a male, Player 2's helicopter is red and is piloted by a female.
* Although he is associated with the color red because of his hat and shirt, [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]]'s outfit also includes blue overalls, and his love interest, Princess Peach, wears pink.
* ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'': In the expansion pack ''Alien Crossfire'', the opposing leaders of [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|the two Usurper factions]], Guardian Lular H'minee (the leader of the Manifold Caretakers) is a pink female (although the game lore states that [[Ambiguous Gender|''"gender fluid in Progenitor culture; female is the closest human analogue"'']]) and Conqueror Judaa Maar (the leader of the Manifold Usurpers) is a blue-greenish male (note: actual gender indeterminate).
* Used in ''[[
* Commented on by Millie in ''[[
▲* Used in ''[[VG Cats (Webcomic)|VG Cats]]'' with Leo (who wears blue and has grey fur) and Aeris (who wears mainly purple-pink clothes and has pink fur).
* Gets a reference in ''[[Sodium Eyes]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20111119002210/http://sodiumeyes.com/2009/11/09/ad-nausea/ here].▼
▲* Commented on by Millie in ''[[Ozy and Millie (Webcomic)|Ozy and Millie]]''; one about her needing to 'staple pink frilly stuff' to herself to remind Stephan that she's a girl, and another where she thinks pink is a bit of a girly colour for herself. The pink here is her own skin after being hit with the defoliation [[Running Gag]] that Simpson had set up. As far as fur colour is concerned, Ozy is white-grey (Arctic fox), while Millie is red-orange (red fox). Make of that what you will.
▲* Gets a reference in ''[[Sodium Eyes]]'' [http://sodiumeyes.com/2009/11/09/ad-nausea/ here].
* Inverted in ''[[Fan Dan Go]]'' where a male character, Zephyr, has candyfloss pink hair, while his female compatriot, Sarin, has sky blue hair.
* In ''[[Memoria (
* Used in ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'', where Lucy, the heroine, wears a pink ribbon, while Mike, the male hero, wears a blue scarf.
* Used in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130801110734/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Princess/ The Princess]'': the title character, Sarah, seems to move about in a cloud of pink glitter and sparkles. Inverted as well, as her father is often seen in a pink shirt while her mother prefers blue. And something or other is being [[Lampshaded]], given that {{spoiler|Sarah is an 8-year old transgirl and has recently changed her name from "Seth"}}.
* In ''[[Dorf Quest]]'', boys are default black, girls are pink, gods are blue, and goddesses are purple.
* In ''[[Question Duck]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20151018165207/http://questionduck.smackjeeves.com/comics/1145344/164/ it's one of the questions].
* In ''[[
* ''[[Bad Machinery]]'': Shauna acquires a strange "dog".
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'''Shauna:''' The obvious way. He prefers BLUE. }}
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* Meredith Gran, who does the webcomic ''[[Octopus Pie]]'', also did a little animated cartoon about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eO1aasHyTM a boy and a girl up in the Arctic].
* The two authors of ''[[Cinnamon Bunzuh]]'' distinguish their text from one another by having one in pink and the other in blue.
* It used to be [[Inverted Trope|the other way around]]. #5 of ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19780_5-gender-stereotypes-that-used-to-be-exact-opposite.html 5 Gender Stereotypes That Used To Be the Exact Opposite] points out that pink being for girls is a [[Newer Than They Think|recent idea]].
== Western Animation ==
* From the ''[[
** In terms of the show, Finn is a Blue Boy to the Pink Girl Bubblegum.
*** Also, Ice King and Princess Bubblegum.
** Inverted in [[Gender Flip|"Adventure Time with Fiona and Cake"]], however.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s quote atop the page was used in her [https://web.archive.org/web/20140830043656/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/nostalgia-chick/16616-the-smurfette-principle analysis] of the [[Transformers Generation 1|original ''Transformers'' cartoon]], referring to both [[Action Girl|Arcee]] and [[Lady of War|Elita One]]. Elita One was the [[Distaff Counterpart]] of Optimus Prime, and so (leader/girl) pink to his (leader) red and (boy) blue coloring. Elita One's [[Amazon Brigade]] otherwise had nothing with the trope, her soldiers appearing in all kinds of colours. Arcee, being [[The Smurfette Principle|the one girl]] starting the third season, was pink, and so was her (intended) love interest Hot Rod in a magenta shade ("aging" to red when he became Rodimus Prime). From there, the trope gets interesting in that pink is a noticeable colour choice among the Autobot females, but also among the Decepticon males (though not much in the cartoon because that ended long before the toyline did). [[Big Eater|Hun-Grrr]], [[Exactly What It Says
* In ''[[The Fairly
** In-universe. Butch Hartman had intended for them (or at least his hat) to be blue, but when his blue marker ran out before he could finish, he had to use a pink one instead.
* In the episode of ''[[Pocoyo]]'' where he meets an alien, when the alien's parents turn up, the [[Narrator]] addresses the pink alien as the "Mummy Alien". The Alien then gives an angry look at the screen and the Narrator corrects himself, realizing it's the "Daddy Alien".
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* Yin and Yang from ''[[Yin Yang Yo
* Flavio and Marita the hippos from ''[[
* Because [[Disney]] dates to the early decades of the 20th century, the idea that blue represented calm, soothing, feminine attributes was still popular (with red/pink as the guy hero color). Due to this, many of Disney's early female characters from the first golden age are swathed in blue;
** [[Classic Disney Shorts|Minnie Mouse]] has been seen in many colors, but for most of her early color appearances, she was never seen in pink (pink colorations of old cartoons not counting). Merchandise and the comics would paint her whatever the heck they wanted; but blue was a color that she appeared in frequently. Best of all, the blue contrasted with Mickey's standard guy-hero red. The all-pink wouldn't emerge until the late Pluto cartoons, and the ever-famous red dress with white polka dots wouldn't come in until Disneyland was opened. In modern animated appearances, Minnie bounces back and forth the most between wearing soft blue to contrast Mickey, or bright red to match him. [[Token Girl|That doesn't stop marketing from dousing her home, her wardrobe, and her merchandise pink, of course]].
** The artists debated long and hard on what color [[Snow White and
** The Blue Fairy from ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'' (and the only chick in the film, no less. Cleo doesn't count). This might be because in the original tale her name was the Fairy with Turquoise Hair. The blue becomes more noticeable, though, when contrasted with Pinocchio's red lederhosen ([[Artistic License|heeey, that's not Italian!]]).
** [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]] is debatable. Her dress is silver in the movie but blue in all follow-up merchandise in the Disney Princess line. The two dresses she wore as a child and her nightgown are blue.
*** I will never know where the rhyme ''Cinderella dressed in yella''' comes from...she never wore yellow!
**** [[Older Than They Think|I'm pretty sure that predates the Disney movie]].
** Alice from ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' wears a blue dress, [http://www.bkkbooks.com/image/Alice-Adventures-in-wonderland.jpg as in the original illustrations from the book.]
** Wendy from ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'' wore a blue nightdress, while her younger brother Michael wore pink pajamas.
** In ''[[Lady and
** Another dog example in ''[[
*** Tie-ins for this movie are notorious for getting this messed up. Often, Pongo and Perdita's collars will be switched, or some of them will be pink instead of red... actually, on the cover of the first VHS release, several of the puppies had magenta, purple, and even yellow collars.
** The trend is shattered, though, in the late 1960s, where one would find girls popping up more frequently in purples and pinks ([[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Shanti]], [[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Maid Marian]], [[The Rescuers (Disney film)|Bianca]], [[The Black Cauldron
*** [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Aurora]] is a rare example from 1959. The three good fairies weren't sure how to color code Aurora, as blue was the traditional feminine color and pink was the emerging feminine color. Note how throughout most of the movie Aurora is wearing blue, but in the Disney Princess line she is ''always'' in pink. [[Misaimed Marketing|Hmmmmmm]]. Prince Philip brings a red cape and hat to the party. Disney Princess-gear Aurora always wears pink because Cinderella always wears blue (Belle wears her yellow ballgown, and Snow White is a mixture of red, blue, and yellow). Aurora was changed over to the pink dress [[Viewers
** [[The Little Mermaid
** Belle is a more modern version of strictly blue; she wears blue throughout most of the movie, and it's what set her apart from the autumn-themed villagers. She also has a fancier pink dress which appears briefly once she and the Beast begin to get along. However, thanks to the Disney Princess line, it's a gold ball gown that she's primarily associated with, instead of her blue peasant garb. When Belle wears blue, the Beast wears a red cape. When she wears gold, the Beast is the boy in blue. Note that Gaston wears red.
*** There's a reason Belle wears that blue dress. If you pay attention, you'll notice that out of all the characters in that movie, only two wear blue.
** Jasmine from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' is another modern example of strictly-blue; but this might have been incidental, because throughout the whole movie [[
** [[
** [[The Great Mouse Detective
** In ''[[
** Tiana from the ''[[The Princess and
** Inverted in ''[[Cars]]'', where hero Lightning McQueen is a red race car, while his love interest Sally is a blue Porsche 911 Carrera. Also inverted with two of the background race cars where the pink race car sponsoring Tank Coat is actually male, and the blue race car sponsoring [[Rev N Go]] is actually female.
*** Played straight with Finn McMissile and Holly Shiftwell from the sequel, however, as with the kissing couple seen on the bridge in Paris.
** In the Pixar animated film ''[[A
** A more recent straight example would be ''[[Tangled]]'', where [[
** Also inverted in ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' where we have Marlin, an orangey-red clownfish, and Dory, a blue regal tang.
** Played straight in ''[[Lilo
* In ''[[Dragon Tales]]'', the main cast of dragons (assuming you count Quetzal as supporting) is certainly this way. Ord is blue; Cassie is pink. Zack and Weezie, who are a two-headed dragon, are divided colorwise ''down the middle'': the Zack half is green, while the Weezie half is purple.
* Parodied in ''[[
** Though, at the last second of that particular [[Manatee Gag]], it is implied that the pink car is gay/bi, at least.
** Meg's clothes are pink and Chris wears blue.
* In ''[[Hey Arnold
* Dottywot and Spottywot, respectively, in the British preschool series ''The Wotwots''.
* The first two cars to be crushed to death during the song "Worthless" from ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' are actually a male blue car and a female pink car, respectively.
* Gumball and Anais, the lead character and his little sister in ''[[
* ''[[
* The [[Christmas Elves]] from ''[[Rudolph the Red
* Inverted and played straight with Charlotte in ''[[Making Fiends]]''. She's a stereotypical, over-the-top caricature of everything [[Moe|adorable]] and annoying about the archetypal American little girl, but has baby blue as her [[Amazing Technicolor Population|color]] and motif. Still, she seems to love pink as much as expected, as almost all of her possessions are pink.
* [[Rose
* Rosie from ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' is a female pink tank locomotive. This is especially noticable when she is seen with Thomas, a blue tank locomotive.
* In ''[[Gargoyles]]'', the gargoyles' eyes will actually glow a different color depending on that gargoyle's gender: females' eyes glow red, while males' glow white. Inverted with the clones, however.
** There's a good reason why all the females have glowing red eyes: originally, [[Big Bad|Demona]] was going to be the only red-eyed gargoyle, but since the show's writers did not want to make her role as the villain more obvious, they changed it so that ''every'' single female gargoyle has red eyes and not Demona.
* Princess Cadance and Shining Armor as one of the few [[Official Couple|canon couples]] in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* In ''[[
== Real Life ==
* Also in [[Real Life]] (and well before most other [[Real Life]] cited examples of this) comes the following from historian Tamara Plakins Thornton in a book on the history of handwriting instruction. Because eighteenth- and nineteenth-century etiquette recommended teaching different handwriting styles to people of different genders and social ranks (so that one could tell at a glance whether a letter came from a woman, from a member of the lower classes, or from someone actually important), at least one author of handwriting textbooks for the American upper/midle classes color-coded the books by gender. "In 1845[,] writing master James French issued two copybooks, a Gentlemen's Writing Book, bound in blue, and a Ladies ' Writing Book, bound in pink. In the former, French's male students practiced their mercantile running hand [a script style used by 18th- and 19th-century American and English businessmen] ... while their female counterparts rehearsed the ladies' epistolary [a more delicate and ornamented writing style, taught to women and girls of the era instead of the styles considered proper for males] ... " Source: Handwriting in America: A Cultural History by historian Tamara Plakins Thornton, 1998, p.
▲* Luvs once marketed pink and blue diapers for girls and boys respectively. The color-coding was more for the parents' convenience; the diapers' design differed between the ones for boys and the ones for girls: there was more absorbent material either in front (for boys) or beneath (for girls) depending on which one they were intended for. They don't do this any more, possibly for the ''manufacturer's'' convenience.
▲** Huggies Pullups and other absorbent training pants, on the other hand, continue to be colored in pink and blue, because toilet training tends to coincide with the time when children develop gender roles.
▲* Also in [[Real Life]] (and well before most other [[Real Life]] cited examples of this) comes the following from historian Tamara Plakins Thornton in a book on the history of handwriting instruction. Because eighteenth- and nineteenth-century etiquette recommended teaching different handwriting styles to people of different genders and social ranks (so that one could tell at a glance whether a letter came from a woman, from a member of the lower classes, or from someone actually important), at least one author of handwriting textbooks for the American upper/midle classes color-coded the books by gender. "In 1845[,] writing master James French issued two copybooks, a Gentlemen's Writing Book, bound in blue, and a Ladies ' Writing Book, bound in pink. In the former, French's male students practiced their mercantile running hand [a script style used by 18th- and 19th-century American and English businessmen] ... while their female counterparts rehearsed the ladies' epistolary [a more delicate and ornamented writing style, taught to women and girls of the era instead of the styles considered proper for males] ... " Source: Handwriting in America: A Cultural History by historian Tamara Plakins Thornton, 1998, p. 43. This early American example of [[Pink Girl Blue Boy]] (apparently the sole pre-20th-century example) makes the trope [[Older Than Television]].
* In the Netherlands, it's tradition for parents and older siblings to serve rusk topped with 'muisjes', little sugar-covered aniseed sprinkles, to visitors, colleagues, and classmates to celebrate a newborn. While initially only available in a pink/white mix, a blue/white mix became available in the early 90s and is now generally used when a boy is born. Since 1938, an orange/white mix has been created for a short period after a royal birth, and with the 'birth' of the new pope in 2005, some catholic institutions handed out rusks topped with yellow/white muisjes, though these were not widely sold in supermarkets, if at all.
* In the 1920s, pink was deemed more appropriate for boys due to its close associations with red. Blue was assigned to girls since it was more “delicate and dainty” and had close ties to the imagery of the Virgin Mary. This practice continued until the 1940s, when the gender colors were reversed and became the stereotypes that we are still familiar with today.
* You can buy pink stocks and grips for a number of guns, including the [[Good Guns, Bad Guns|AR-15 & AK-47]].
* Many restroom signs are pink for women and blue for men. This may even go as far as the restroom's wall color, and some bathrooms take it even further. Pink and blue toilets for their respective bathrooms, pink or blue sinks, pink or blue dryers/paper towel dispensers (although, thankfully, the paper inside is still white or brown), and yes, even pink or blue liquid soap.
* The cere (the small patch of skin above the beak) of a male parakeet is blue. That of the female is brown.
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