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[[File:pink aurora princess 1290.jpg|link=Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|frame|Beauty like a rose, adorned in rosy pink.]]
For many modern cultures, the color pink has become the color meaning femininity, in all its forms. This means that the more graceful and elegant a woman is, wearing pink is very likely to be paired with this in fiction. It's also why it's thought girls appreciate pink things more than other colors.
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Compare [[Long Hair Is Feminine]], [[Woman in White]], [[Lady in Red]], [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]], [[Hair Decorations]], [[All Girls Like Ponies]], [[Pimped-Out Dress]], [[Princess Phase]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Wedding Peach]]'' has the color appearing in several places, from the weapons to [[Transformation Sequence]]s (and that's not even taking Momoko's [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|hair]] into account).
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* Glinda's outfit in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.
* In ''[[Film/Suzie Q|Suzie Q]]'', Suzie wears a pink evening dress, and her mother comments that she finally got her daughter to wear fancy clothes.
== Literature ==
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* April Devereux from [[Half Moon Investigations]] had a "Pink Club", {{spoiler|which turned out to be a cover for a club determined to get girls a good education and will go to any measure to do so.}}
* In ''[[Paranormalcy]]'' by Kiersten White, [[Action Girl]] protagonist Evie has a rhinestone-studded pink taser named Tasey, wears killer pink boots, and refuses to carry a knife until she is given one that is, you guessed it, pink.
* Addressed in ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[
* The books of ''[[Angelina Ballerina]]'', and its cartoon adaptations, put Angelina in a pink tutu.
* Cindy, Chris and Cathy's very girly adopted daughter in the [[V. C. Andrews
== Live-Action TV ==
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** Played with in ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]''. The gimmick of copying previous Rangers already mixes up the [[Gendered Outfit]] thing, but in the ''Gavan'' crossover movie, the entire team briefly uses pink Ranger Keys.
** Played with in ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'', where Vida the Pink Ranger is about as un-feminine as you can get.
** ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'' showed this Trope could apply to both sides; [[Dark Action Girl|Princess Archerina]] was also fond of pink, and was upset to learn that one of the Rangers - who was also fond of using bows - had the same taste.
* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Shindig", Kaylee wears a pink [[Pimped-Out Dress]] as part of her [[Princess for a Day]].
== Professional Wrestling ==
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* In a way [[Natalya Neidheart]] defied this trope whenever she wore pink as it was a reference to her Hart family lineage, whose colours are pink and black. So Nattie never comes across as feminine when she's seen wearing pink ring gear.
* When they have to promote a Diva's match with a graphic, there's always some pink in the background and the text is normally pink as well.
== Toys ==
* The body of the original toy release of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Princess Celestia]] in the Hasbro toy line was pink colored and not white as in the show, apparently to appeal to little girls. It was however changed when the bronies complained.
== Video Games ==
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* Momo Karuizawa in ''[[Rival Schools]]''.
* In addition to [[Princesses Prefer Pink|Peach]], the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series has [[Daddy's Little Villain|Wendy Koopa]] and Toadette.
** Even in stories where Peach is admittedly [[Badass Princess| less feminine and more assertive]] (like ''[[The Super Mario Bros Movie]]'' and the upcoming<ref>March 2024</ref> ''[[Princess Peach's Showtime]]'') she still isn't getting rid of the pink dress. Even the form-fitting outfit she changes to in the movie (where she fully intends to fight Bowser) has pink highlights.
* Josephine of ''[[Suikoden V]]''.
* Kairi in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''.
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** Alisa Bosconovitch's outfit is half pink half blue.
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Wonderella]]'', Wonderita turns down an offer of a [[Ring of Power]] because [http://nonadventures.com/2011/06/18/we-cant-have-nice-rings/ it's not pink].
* In ''[[Angel Moxie]]'', Alex's [[Mini-Dress of Power]] is primarily pink (with touches of white and light blue).
* This is true for Myari of ''[[Ears for Elves]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20141102055748/http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/610 along with hearts, swirls, flowers, and possibly a butterfly].<ref>Elon just wrote an essay.</ref>
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', played straight with Roxy and [[Princesses Prefer Pink|Feferi]], who are both pretty girly, but averted with {{spoiler|Meenah, who is actually a tomboyish [[Punk]].}}▼
== Web Original ==
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{{quote|"And she's paaaaaaaaaaaaaaank!"}}
* When [[The Nostalgia Critic]] was writing on his bed like a teenage girl, we saw for the first time that his bedroom has pink curtains.
▲* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', played straight with Roxy and [[Princesses Prefer Pink|Feferi]], who are both pretty girly, but averted with {{spoiler|Meenah, who is actually a tomboyish [[Punk]].}}
== Western Animation ==
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* Clara from ''[[The Nutcracker Prince]]'' has a pink bow and pink [[Pretty in Mink|fur-trimmed]] winter coat.
* Kim in ''[[The Care Bears Movie]]'' has a pink hair bow and sweater.
== Real Life ==
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* There's an anti-pink campaign run by some people who are sick of girls being "'pinked' to death". [http://pinkstinks.wordpress.com/ Pink Stinks] Here is a [http://www.rousette.org.uk/blog/archives/the-campaign-against-pink/ Synopsis of it].
* An [[Exploited Trope]] use of this is making pink the color for breast cancer research. Although it's not an exclusively female disease, is has helped in getting attention for cancer treatment.
* This trope is explained [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413094624/http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorselection/p/pink.htm here].
* [[Jayne Mansfield]] loved this color, and had a lot of her house colored pink, and [[Pretty in Mink|even had furs dyed pink]].
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[[Category:Always Female]]
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