History Main / ColorCodedSecretIdentity

* ''Recap/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventures'': Most of the Bat-family wear colors relating to their costumes while outside of them. Jason is always wearing some red, Stephanie is decked out in all purple or at least a purple shirt, Bruce and Cass wear black and grey. Tim often wears red somewhere in his outfit and the same for Damian with green and Dick with blue. The only family member who doesn't wear costume colors as civilian wear is Duke who is never seen in yellow outside his costume.

* Golden Age [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] frequently wore blue and grey outfits, and Dick Grayson wore red and green.
** They actually tried to avert this in the first season of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and have Bruce Wayne not wear clothes the color of Batman's outfit. Due to color palette limitations, that meant he spent a lot of time wearing a rather ugly brown suit. In later episodes, Bruce usually wears a dark suit and Dick wears a red sweater vest. Barbara Gordon favoured purple, perhaps reflecting Batgirl's costume in the 1960s TV series.
** Like his predecessor [[ComicBook/Robin1993 Tim Drake]] almost exclusively wears red or green shirts in his civilian life.
* [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] always wore a blue suit with a red tie. (Also seen in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''.)
** LampshadeHanging in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' - Clark favoured wearing a blue shirt and red jacket...and that's ''why'' he became known as the Red-Blue Blur ''before'' he started wearing a costume.

* In the current Creator/DCComics and dating at least from the 1970s ''Series/Shazam1974'' TV series, Billy Batson always wears a red shirt with a yellow collar.
* In ''Comicbook/SuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' and its SpiritualSuccessor ''Comicbook/AstonishingAntMan'' (both written by Nick Spencer), Janice Lincoln, the [[AffirmativeActionLegacy new Beetle]] wears some shade of purple whenever shown in civilian attire, whether in flashbacks or the present (i.e. her valedictorian graduation robes, her business dress as an AmoralAttorney, and a swimsuit) evoking the color of the Beetle costume. The former series also parodies this trope with the Shocker having a couch with the same eye-watering red and yellow check as his costume.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': While her normal outfit back in the Golden Age when she spent a lot of time maintaining her secret identity was a USAAF uniform Diana has always had a propensity for wearing red shirts, red dresses and blue skirts with star patterns on them while she's not acting as Wonder Woman, though she generally only wore the later out in public after her identity was public.

** Like his predecessor [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] almost exclusively wears red or green shirts in his civilian life.

[[caption-width-right:307:[[TemptingFate You'll never guess which one’s which!]][[note]]"Never"? [[InstantlyProvenWrong I just did.]] Red: Takeru, Blue: Ryunosuke, Pink: Mako, Green: Chiaki, Yellow: Kotoha[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:307:You'll never guess which one’s which!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': Although this setting has no need for secret identities, everyone's civilian clothes --i.e., when not transformed into fairies or witches or in military uniform-- feature prominently as the main color of their magical suits. This has varied across seasons, however. The first season plays it straight for everyone except two of the Specialists. Bloom's pants and shirt are light blue. Stella wears an orange skirt and orange-laced sandals. Likewise, Flora has a pink skirt. Tecna's outfit is almost all-purple. Musa wears a red sleeveless top. Icy, Darcy, and Stormy's outfits are essentially lighter-colored, casual versions of their witch forms.

* ''WebVideo/FranceFive'' and ''Series/KanpaiSenshiAfterV'' play this trope straight as both are homages to ''Super Sentai''.

* Pretty much every ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' season fulfills this trope in some way, a fact occasionally lampshaded. This also extends to its trans-Pacific counterpart ''Franchise/SuperSentai''.

* The ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise takes this to ridiculous lengths since ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' as they not only wear color-coded civilian clothes, most of them have color-coded ''hair''. The only one who defies this trope is [[spoiler:Ako/Cure Muse]] of ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', who wears pink and blue despite wearing [[spoiler:black at first then going into yellow.]]
** In general, the Cures tend to use color-coded objects as well that correspond to their Cure theme color (which is implied [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance to be their favorite color even before they get their powers]]), such as mugs, umbrellas, bowling balls, and even toothbrushes.
* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'': the heroes' magical girl outfit has the same colour as the uniform they wear to work part-time in the cafe.
* The kids from ''Anime/DigimonFrontier''. Except for Koji and Koichi, they mainly wear colors very similar to their Legendary Warrior Digimon forms (Takuya wears red and yellow like Agunimon, Zoe wears pink like Kazemon, etc).
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Justified with Nanoha. Her [[InstantArmor Barrier Jacket]] is based off her school uniform in-universe (it was the first thing to pop into her head when she was asked to come up with a design). This continues in ''[=StrikerS=]'', where her uniform as an Air Force instructor is also white. That said, her choice of casual outfits tend to be more varied.
** [[DarkIsNotEvil Fate]] also tends to prefer black clothing (according to supplementary material, it's her favorite color). And just like with Nanoha post-TimeSkip, her [[SpacePolice Enforcer]] uniform is black.
* In the 2012 ''Franchise/BlackRockShooter'' anime, Black★Rock Shooter/Mato is blue, Dead Master/Yomi is green, and Black★Gold Saw is Red. Meanwhile, Strength is [[{{Foreshadowing}} grey]]/orange, and Chariot/Kagari is yellow. [[spoiler:Insane Black★Rock Shooter is purple]]

* Golden Age [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] frequently wore blue and grey outfits, and Dick Grayson wore red and green.
** They actually tried to avert this in the first season of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and have Bruce Wayne not wear clothes the color of Batman's outfit. Due to color palette limitations, that meant he spent a lot of time wearing a rather ugly brown suit. In later episodes, Bruce usually wears a dark suit and Dick wears a red sweater vest. Barbara Gordon favoured purple, perhaps reflecting Batgirl's costume in the 1960s TV series.
** Like his predecessor [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] almost exclusively wears red or green shirts in his civilian life.

** In the early seasons, the characters seemed to own ''nothing'' that wasn't in their ranger color. Some actors have said they couldn't stand the color anymore after their time on the show. Getting to keep their secret identities was a major point of FridgeLogic, as the five teenagers who ''obsessively'' wore nothing but the colors of the Rangers and were all skilled martial artists kept disappearing just before the Rangers showed up. At least Tommy, as the Green and White MMPR Rangers, the Red Zeo and Turbo Ranger, and the Black Dino Ranger, got to change his every so often.

* It's so expected that it's confusing when they ''don't.'' In ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'', not all the Riders' unmorphed bikes are the same as their Rider colors, which makes it hard to tell who's who when they wear visored helmets. ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' has the same problem with the bikes and [=ATVs=] used when unmorphed. We laugh at the heroes who seem to wear nothing but their colors, but it turns out Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad.
* ''WebVideo/FranceFive'' and ''Series/KanpaiSenshiAfterV'' play this trope straight as both are homages to ''Super Sentai''.

* Most of the characters in ''Franchise/MarvelRising'' not only wear the same colors in their civillian identity, but generally sport some kind of accessory with their insignia on it. The most blatant is Comicbook/GhostSpider, who wears a white top with a neon pink spider over black as Gwen Stacy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'', Peter Parker wears a red hoodie over a blue shirt, and Miles Morales wears a black hoodie. Subverted with Harry Osborn, who wears a purple sweater that [[MythologyGag references]] the Green Goblin's costume in other realities, but doesn't take that identity.
* ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'': Everyone, both heroes and villains, all wear clothes in the same color scheme that sometimes have even more traits that evoque their ater egos.

** [[DorkAge When Electro-Superman was split into Superman-Red and Superman-Blue]], the businesslike Clark-Blue wore a grey suit with a blue tie, while the more relaxed Clark-Red wore an open-necked red shirt.

* ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'': In [[{{Cyberspace}} the Accelerated World]], each duel avatar is themed after a unique colour based on the user's personality. The majority of Burst Linkers wear a similarly-coloured [[BrainComputerInterface Neurolinker]] around their neck in real life, and some take it further with clothing or even [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance their hair and eyes]]. {{Lampshaded}} when Chiyu notes that she's been unconsciously adding more green to her wardrobe since becoming Lime Bell, and Haru cautions her not to get a green case for her Neurolinker unless she wants to make their group's identity too obvious. He's quick to defend his own silver Neurolinker by pointing out that he had it long before he became Silver Crow.

** The early seasons took it UpToEleven, where the characters seemed to own ''nothing'' that wasn't in their ranger color. Some actors have said they couldn't stand the color anymore after their time on the show. Getting to keep their secret identities was a major point of FridgeLogic, as the five teenagers who ''obsessively'' wore nothing but the colors of the Rangers and were all skilled martial artists kept disappearing just before the Rangers showed up. At least Tommy, as the Green and White MMPR Rangers, the Red Zeo and Turbo Ranger, and the Black Dino Ranger, got to change his every so often.

* UpToEleven in ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'', where everyone, both heroes and villains, all wear clothes in the same color scheme that sometimes have even more traits that evoque their ater egos.

* ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERAttackOfDarkforce'': The HenshinHeroes and MagicalGirl team have mundane appearances that match their super powered forms. Kojiro Mido has brown hair and red leather jacket, and becomes the red-armoured Guren Tiger. Ryo has stark black hair and dresses in blue tones, and becomes the blue-armoued Gecko Wolf. Blue-haired Rurine with her blue school uniform transforms into Ruritia, the Blue Hikari Warrior, whereas Mashura and Bashura are red-heads with red school uniforms who together become the Crimson Hikari Warriors Shura Soshu. The other Hikari Warriors are only lesser examples - while they wear the same blue or red school uniforms in the ending epilogue, they do have hair colours to match their colour.

* In the current Creator/DCComics and dating at least from the 1970s ''Series/{{Shazam}}'' TV series, Billy Batson always wears a red shirt with a yellow collar.