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If there are [[Two Girls to A Team]] and one is represented by pink, the other girl will usually be represented by [[Graceful Ladies Like Purple|purple]]. A purple girl can be anything from a [[Goth]] to a [[Tomboy]] to a [[Proper Lady]], while the pink girl is usually [[The Chick]] and/or a [[Genki Girl]]. While purple on a girl is considered more "mature" than pink, purple boys are often portrayed as weak, infantile, [[Camp Gay]], or oafish; on the other hand, it's a common color for [[Pimp Duds|pimps' attire]].
Can crop up in many [[Boys Love]] and [[Girls Love]] stories; the active partner (''[[Seme]]'' in BL, ''[[Onee
A [[Sub Trope]] of [[Pink Means Feminine]] and [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]].
Compare [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]], [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]], [[Colour
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* 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 ''[[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.
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* ''[[Bubble Bobble (Video Game)|Bubble Bobble]]'': One of [[Ryu and Ken|the original two]] is the underdog Bob, who is a male human-turned-blue bubble dragon. His apparent partner in ''Bubble Symphony'' (in cutscenes, she is ''always'' beside Bob) is Coro, a female human-turned-magenta bubble dragon and one of the new group of two. Extended with green for Bub (a boy) and orange for Kulu (a girl), who are also beside each other in cutscenes.
** ''Bubble Bobble '''[[Non Linear Sequel|Part]]''' [[Non Linear Sequel|2]]'': In the NES version's intro, the protagonist who soon gets [[Baleful Polymorph|cursed]] wears (light greenish) blue, and the soon to be [[Distressed Damsel]] wears pink with a matching color bow.
* 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}}.
* ''[[Ni GHTS Into Dreams|NiGHTS into Dreams...]]'', another SEGA franchise from Sonic Team, has Claris (pink hair and eyes) and Elliot (blue hair and eyes), both examples of [[Curtains Match the Window]] as well.
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* 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 After Years (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV the After Years]]'', [[Different As Night and Day]] twins Palom and Porom wear blue and pink, respectively. Porom even has pink ''[[Rose
** ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' has Marche (the Blue Boy) and Ritz (the Pink Girl).
* ''[[Persona 3 (Video Game)|Persona 3]] Portable'' has different color-coded menu screens depending on the gender the player selects for their protagonist -- naturally, pink for the girl and blue for the guy.
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* Inverted in ''[[Castlevania Portrait of Ruin (Video Game)|Castlevania Portrait of Ruin]]'': Jonathan's outfit is red, while his menu items are red or pink. Charlotte's outfit (including underwear!) are blue, as are her menu items.
* Inverted in ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'': Colette, chosen of Sylverant, wears a blue and white robe. Zelos, the chosen of Tethe'alla, wears pink.
* ''[[Tales of Phantasia (Video Game)|Tales of Phantasia]]'' has [[Rose
* Subverted in ''[[Panel De Pon]]''; Sharbet and Elias both have primarily blue color schemes and are both female, like the rest of the fairies.
* Jacques (the Blue Boy) and Aila (the Pink Girl) from ''[[Suikoden III]]''.
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* [[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 ''[[Golden Sun (Video Game)|Golden Sun]]'', all three pairs of villains (with the possible exception of Agatio, who looks more green than blue) are dressed like this. There's also [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Jenna and Piers]] from the second game.
* 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 ''[[Twinbee (Video Game)|Twinbee]]'', the blue Twinbee and the pink Winbee (which also has a heart-shaped cockpit) are piloted respectively by Light and his girl cousin Pastel, who wear the same colors as on their ships.
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* Yin and Yang from ''[[Yin Yang Yo (Animation)|Yin Yang Yo]]'' are a pink bunny and a blue bunny respectively as well.
* Flavio and Marita the hippos from ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' are blue and pinkish purple respectively.
* 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; [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]] would emerge slowly but surely much later on.
** [[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 Seven Dwarfs (Disney)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]] should be dressed in, even testing out the (at the time) unusual idea to dress her in all pink, but in the end, they went with the easy-on-the-eyes blue bodice. Her prince, of course, brought the red cape.
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*** 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)|Shanti]], [[Robin Hood (Disney)|Maid Marian]], [[The Rescuers (Disney)|Bianca]], [[The Black Cauldron (Disney)|Eilonwy]], [[Hercules (Disney)|Megara]], [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)|Esmeralda]]), girls wearing whatever the movie would require ([[Pocahontas (Disney)|Pocahontas]] in tan...but with a blue necklace), and then finally, girls who took both blue and pink/red in stride. Examples of pink-and-blue sharing being:
*** [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney)|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 (Disney)|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)|Aladdin]]'' is another modern example of strictly-blue; but this might have been incidental, because throughout the whole movie [[Colour
** [[Mulan (Disney)|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 (Disney)|Olivia]], [[Oliver and Company (Disney)|Jenny]], [[Atlantis the Lost Empire (Disney)|Kida]], and [[Treasure Planet (Disney)|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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** 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 [[Rapunzel (Literature)|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.
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* The [[Christmas Elves]] from ''[[Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer]]''.
* 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 (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]].
* In ''[[Jelly Jamm (Animation)|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.
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* 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.
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