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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 Aa 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-Sama]]'' in GL) is unlikely to wear "girly" colors such as pink, but the passive partner (''[[Uke]]'', ''neko'') frequently does, and (especially in GL but sometimes in BL) may even have [[Rose-Haired Girl|pink hair]].
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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 ''[[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-Haired Girl]] respectively.
* 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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*** 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 chapter--at least, according to some translations; in the manga, the darkest color it could be is "salmon pink," and in the anime, it's clearly pink). Some male characters in manga and anime DO dye their hair pink, however, such as Raikou, a [[Badass]] [[Samurai]] from ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'', or Shima, an exorcist-in-training in ''[[Blue Exorcist (Manga)|Blue Exorcist]]''.
* In the original ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' mini-scenario of the ''[[Triangle Heart 3 Sweet～sweet Songssongs Foreverforever～]]'' Lyrical fanbox, Nanoha and Chrono were rivals that became an [[Official Couple]], with Nanoha having a pink motif and Chrono having a blue motif. These motifs were retained in [[The Anime of the Game]] even though the two of them weren't the [[Official Couple]] there anymore. Chrono's blue motif eventually led to him becoming [[An Ice Person]]. Meanwhile, Nanoha's pink motif...well, the anime producers had ''way too much fun'' with Nanoha's pink motif by turning her into a pink [[Person of Mass Destruction]] with a pink [[Wave Motion Gun]] that fires giant pink beams that create huge pink explosions that have [[Oh Crap|left many people metaphorically crapping their pants]] as they stare into [[Power Glows|her pink glowy light]]. Girly pink is [[Badass]].
* 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 ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]''. It's especially noteworthy as it completely subverts the girly pink-haired girl/stoic blue-haired guy dynamic (just don't tell that to Hinagiku) as Hayate is quite emotional at times and is noted for being very girly while Hinagiku is generally pretty tough and acts more boyish. Like the above example, Hina proves that girly pink can be very [[Badass]] and Hayate shows that being a slightly feminine Bishounen is also no handicap on that front.
* 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]]''.
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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 (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''.
 
 
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== Fan Fiction ==
* Inverted to a degree by Ryan Lee and Susan Chan in ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Dragon (Fanfic)|Futari wa Pretty Cure Dragon]]''; the manly martial artist Ryan [[Real Men Wear Pink|wears pink]], and the [[Ojou]] and [[Lady of War]] Susan [[True-Blue Femininity|wears blue]].
 
 
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== Literature ==
* In one of the ''[[Xanth (Literature)|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 ==
* Made fun of in an episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel -Air]]'', where Ashley asks how they could tell from the sonogram if Vivian's baby was a boy or a girl.
{{quote| '''Hilary:''' Oh, Ashley, you are so naive. If it's a boy, it's ''blue''!}}
* ''[[Lazy TownLazyTown]]'''s two main characters fit this trope. Stephanie wears pink and Sportacus wears blue.
* 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 ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', see below).
** 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 ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|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.
 
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[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-Dressed Cartoon Animal|Sonic, on the other hand...]]
** This does bring up some confusion at one point, as {{spoiler|the animal inside the rather masculine E-102 is a pink bird}}.
* ''[[Ni GHTSNiGHTS 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.
** 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 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-Haired Girl|hair]]'', despite Palom and her younger self both having brown hair.
** ''[[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.
** 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 Sacred Stones (Video Game)|Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones]]'', the under-leveled recruit Amelia wears pink in her portrait, yet wears blue in battle scenes. At least, until she achieves higher ranks, in which case she wears pink armor ''[[Cute Bruiser|even as a general]]''.
* 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.
** ''[[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|Pokémon Black and White]]'' has the Water/Ghost jellyfish Jellicent. Males are blue with a large mustache, while females are pink, lack a mustache, and [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|have lipstick and eyelashes]].
* 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-Haired Girl|pink-haired Arche]] and her blue-haired boyfriend Chester.
* 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]]''.
* Princess Zelda, in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|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.
** 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 ''[[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 (Video Game)]]'', 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.
* ''[[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.
 
== Visual Art ==
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== Webcomics ==
* 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).
* 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 (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 ''[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]]'', [http://questionduck.smackjeeves.com/comics/1145344/164/ it's one of the questions].
* In ''[[Wizard School (Webcomic)|Wizard School]]'', when the students play Transmogritus, [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?<br />
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== Western Animation ==
* From the ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' episode "The Silent King", regarding a blue mirror, "And it's painted baby blue, boy style!"
** 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 [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 Onon 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 Odd Parents]]'', Timmy Turner's clothes are all pink because his parents were expecting a girl.
** 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".
* ''[[BluesBlue's Clues]]'' played it differently - Blue is blue and is female, but Magenta, who is pink, is also female.
* In ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', Buster is a blue bunny, and Babs is a pink one, and sometimes they'll even break out matching props.
* 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 film)|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.
** 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 The Tramp (Disney)|Lady and Thethe Tramp]]'', Lady has a blue collar, and Tramp gains a red collar at the end of the movie. Meanwhile, the baby in the movie is a boy, but his entire room and pajamas are pink.
** Another dog example in ''[[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|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 (Disney)|Eilonwy]], [[Hercules (Disney film)|Megara]], [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|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 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 (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 film)|Aladdin]]'' is another modern example of strictly-blue; but this might have been incidental, because throughout the whole movie [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience|Blue was Good and Red was Evil]]. Her [[Go-Go Enslavement]] outfit is red. Notably, Aladdin himself is associated with the color purple because he has both good and bad qualities. He's a thief but steals to survive, and shares with those even less fortunate than he.
** [[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: theThe 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.
** In ''[[Fantasia (Disney)|Fantasia]] 2000'', Donald wears a red robe and Daisy wears a blue one.
** Tiana from the ''[[The Princess and The Frog (Disney)|The Princess and Thethe Frog]]'' has earth-toned street clothes, but her main princess costume is blue. Her two wedding dresses are [[Frogs and Toads|green]], for obvious motif reasons.
** 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 Bug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]'', all the female ants are pink, while all the male ants are blue.
** 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.
** Played straight in ''[[Lilo and Stitch: The Series]]'', where Stitch is blue and Angel (#624 and his love interest) is pink.
* 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 (Animation)|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.
** 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 (Animation)|Hey Arnold]]'', Harold and Helga, who are the two main bullies of the fourth grade, are represented with blue and pink, respectively. However, Helga often calls Harold "pink boy" in reference to his ruddy skin tone.
* 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 Amazing World of Gumball (Animation)|The Amazing World of Gumball]]''. The color motif is inverted with their parents, Richard and Nicole.
* ''[[Regular Show (Animation)|Regular Show]]'': Mordecai is a blue jay and Margaret is a red-breasted robin (filling in for Pink).
* 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-Haired Girl|Molly]] and [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|Gil]] from ''[[Bubble Guppies (Animation)|Bubble Guppies]]''. Bonus points for being not only the two characters featured most prominently, but also an ''extremely'' [[Ship Tease|played with]] [[Toy Ship]]
* 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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