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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
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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]].
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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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* 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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