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* Hard drinking, hard fighting [[Christopher Marlowe (Creator)|Christopher Marlowe]] was the Red Oni to [[William Shakespeare]]'s Blue Oni.
* [[The Virgin Queen|Protestant "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I]] was the Blue Oni to [[Mary of Scotland|Catholic, several times married (and possible conspirator in one husband's murder) Mary Queen of Scots']] Red Oni.
* Model company [[Tamiya]] has a logo consisting of two white stars; [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|one on a red background, one on a blue background]]. And indeed, [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|the red star stands for passion and the blue one for precision]].
* During the [[Cold War]], communist countries were represented by a red star, symbolizing the passion associated with revolution and subversion of "the system", while capitalist ones were associated with the color blue, representing the "cold" and calculating nature of the capitalist ethos.
** Inverted in American revolution, where the British already had red uniforms and the revolutionaries were left with blue (when they had uniforms, anyway).
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