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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-Blue Femininity]] often still applies), as it was the color of the Virgin Mary.
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.
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A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Pink Means Feminine]] and [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]].
Compare [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]], [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]], [[
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== Advertising ==
* Huggies is a shining example of this trope. Go ahead, look 'em up on [[YouTube]], and link 'em back here.
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== 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.
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* 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.
* ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' has Nagihiko's Guardian Characters, the very pink and ([[Yandere
* 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 (anime)|Pokémon]]''.
== Art ==
* Two paintings
== Board Games ==▼
* The ''Game of Life'' board game is an example of this. Boy pegs are blue, girl pegs are pink.▼
== 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.
== Film ==
* [[The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl|Sharkboy and Lavagirl.]]
== Literature ==
* In one of the ''[[Xanth]]'' novels, the male and female main characters had switched bodies due to a magic spell gone wrong. When they manage to acquire clothes from a clothes tree, they take colors according to their mental gender, much to the confusion of their semi-sentient horse.
* 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 ==
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** Interestingly, this also extends to ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', where the Rangers have the power to assume the forms of their predecessors (complete with [[Distaff Counterpart]] costumes where necessary). Thus far, Pink Ranger Ahim is the only person to use any Pink Ranger Keys, while every other color has been used by people of both genders (except, again, for Green).
*** 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 ==
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{{quote|''The [[Pink Panther]] is a girl. If he was a boy he'd be the Blue Panther.''}}
▲* 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 ==
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** 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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* Inverted in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'': Colette, chosen of Sylverant, wears a blue and white robe. Zelos, the chosen of Tethe'alla, wears pink.
* ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' has [[Rose-Haired Girl|pink-haired Arche]] and her blue-haired boyfriend Chester.
* 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|Ocarina of Time]]'', predominantly wears pink (like many of her [[Princesses Prefer Pink|ancestors and descendants]]). When disguised as the male-looking Sheik, however, she wears blue.
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* ''[[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).
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▲* Two paintings -- ''[[wikipedia:Pinkie (Lawrence 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.
* Used in ''[[VG Cats]]'' with Leo (who wears blue and has grey fur) and Aeris (who wears mainly purple-pink clothes and has pink fur).
* Commented on by Millie in ''[[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]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20111119002210/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 (2010 webcomic)|Memoria]]'', the trope is used for [[Painting the Fourth Wall]] [http://memoria.valice.net/?p=326 such as here]: Harriet has pink dialog balloons, Matty blue—and everyone else, other colors.
* 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 ''[[Wizard School]]'', when the students play Transmogritus, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526003430/http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1423 Celeste turns pink and Merrill turns blue.]
* ''[[Bad Machinery]]'': Shauna acquires a strange "dog".
{{quote|'''Jack:''' How can you tell it's a boy?
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*** 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 on the Tin|Misfire]], the [[Sea Monster|Seacons]], [[Big Eater|Skullcruncher]], Spinister, Fangry, [[Badass|Gaihawk]], Barricade, Roller Force, and Horri-Bull, among others, all sport a good level of pink. Blue is more equally divided between the factions.
* 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".
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** Another dog example in ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'' lies with Pongo, who sports a red collar, and Perdita who sports a blue one. It's not clear whether this extended to the puppies or not, since we only know the name and gender of three: Lucky, Rolly, and Patch, all males and all in red. In the animated series, there's definitely not a theme; Rolly and at least one other male (either Wizzer or Dipstick) had blue collars.
*** 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|Eilonwy]], [[Hercules (
*** [[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 are Morons|to get guests to stop mixing her up with Cinderella]]. Whether or not this problem truly arose in the Disney parks is not certain (of course, since so few guests seem to know who Aurora even ''is''...)
** [[The Little Mermaid|Ariel]] had not just a blue dress, but a pink one as well. A portion of the fandom has since complained about the pink dress clashing with her aggressively red hair...but one must remember that it ''was'' the late 1980s (the tiles on the floor in that scene are black-and-white checkerboard. Natch). Notably, she wears a turquoise dress at the theme parks.
** 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 [[
** [[Mulan]]'s primary color is, believe it or not, ''green'', that being the color of both her armor and the dress she wears at the beginning of the film. She has two outfits of different colors: the pink-with-blue-trim fancy gown she's forced to wear for her disastrous meeting with the Matchmaker, and a [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|blue-with-red-trim]] dress she wears at the end of the film, when she defeats the Huns and proves herself. Shang also brought out a red cape...but this might've been due to the story's cultural setting.
** [[The Great Mouse Detective|Olivia]], [[Oliver and Company|Jenny]], [[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Kida]], and [[Treasure Planet|Captain Amelia]] carry on the grand tradition of strictly-blue-girls. Dr. Doppler, who Amelia hooks up with, is even kind enough to wear a red jacket next to her blue one. Aww.
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** A more recent straight example would be ''[[Tangled]]'', where [[Rapunzel]] wears pink, lavender, and purple and Flynn wears blue.
** 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 ''[[Family Guy]]'', where a talking blue car is hitting on a pink car but realizes that it's his buddy, whose owner gave him a paint job.
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* Princess Cadance and Shining Armor as one of the few [[Official Couple|canon couples]] in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]].
* In ''[[Jelly Jamm]]'', Rita and Mina fit the "pink girly girl, blue tomboy" subtrope. Averted with the male characters, however, as two are purple and one is red.
== Real Life ==
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Characteristic Clothing Colors]]
[[Category:Red Index, Blue Index]]
[[Category:Clothing Reflects Personality]]
[[Category:Pink Is for Tropes]]
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[[Category:Gender and Sexuality Tropes]]
[[Category:Ensembles]]
▲[[Category:Pink Girl, Blue Boy]]
[[Category:Color-Coded for Your Convenience]]
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