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* Usagi's first school uniform looks very similar to the outfit she wears as SailorMoon. They both have a white shirt/bodysuit with a blue sailor collar, a red bow on the chest, and a blue pleated skirt.
** In fact it looks EXACTLY the same, the skirt is just a lot shorter and she has red boots.

* In ''WebOriginal/TheFiveishDoctorsReboot'', as part of its running entirely on AdamWesting, all of the ex-Doctors dress in toned-down versions of their Doctor's taste when out-of-character. Peter Davison favours lots of beige and BrainySpecs, Sylvester [=McCoy=] wears printed scarves, dark clothes and little hats (as well as a FunTshirt with the logo for ''Film/TheHobbit'' on it), and Colin Baker wears seriously eye-searing [[PrimaryColorChampion red, blue and yellow]] checked shirts.

* It's so expected that it's confusing when they ''don't.'' In ''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 TropesAreNotBad.

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* Golden Age [[{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] frequently wore blue and grey outfits, and Dick Grayson wore red and green.

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** The current page image comes from ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger.'' Actually, they're... much less obsessively colorcoded than some series. ''Shinkenger'' doesn't technically count for the trope, as all of them are fine with morphing in the middle of the street where everyone can see them (as well as announcing their names and having a long intro where the [[{{Ninja}} Kuroko]] wave huge flags with [[TheHero Takeru's]] family crest on them).
* It's so expected that it's confusing when they ''don't.'' In ''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. ''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 TropesAreNotBad.

* In ''TigerAndBunny'', Kotetsu's PoweredArmor is black, green, and white. His casual clothes? Black slacks, green shirt, and white vest. Barnaby also has similar color coding, but he has the excuse of not actually ''having'' a secret identity.
** The casual clothes of the heroes tend to be similar in colour to their costumes (Pao Lin in yellow, Nathan in red/pink, Keith and Ivan get blue/purple-ish shades). Karina is an exception, wearing warmer/darker colours than her skimpy blue outfit as Blue Rose. Possibly intentional, given how uncomfortable she is with her hero persona. Even Lunatic gets in on this as, [[spoiler: when we see Petrov at the end of episode 9, he's wearing a grey suit with a blue-and-green patterned tie, similar to the colours of his costume.]]

* The ''SamuraiPizzaCats''' civilian outfits were so similar to their mission gear that it was often hard for the viewer to tell which they were in. Lampshaded at least once.

** They actually tried to avert this in the first season of ''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.

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* The ''PowerRangers'', a fact occasionally lampshaded.
** The best example of that comes from ''PowerRangersDinoThunder'' when Tommy, returning to action, approaches Conner, Kira and Ethan and tells them he has to run to the mall - he checked his closet and realized he had a complete lack of black.

** The current page image comes from ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger,'' whose adaptation, ''PowerRangersSamurai,'' is currently airing (as of 2012.) Actually, they're... much less obsessively colorcoded than some series. ''Shinkenger'' doesn't technically count for the trope, as all of them are fine with morphing in the middle of the street where everyone can see them (as well as announcing their names and having a long intro where the [[{{Ninja}} Kuroko]] wave huge flags with [[TheHero Takeru's]] family crest on them).
* It's so expected that it's confusing when they ''don't.'' In ''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. ''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 TropesAreNotBad.

* It's so expected that it's confusing when they ''don't.'' In ''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. ''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 TropesAreNotBad.

** The current page image comes from ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger,'' whose adaptation, ''PowerRangersSamurai,'' is currently airing (as of 2012.) Actually, they're... much less obsessively colorcoded than some series.

Everyone recognises CaptainSuperhero! He wears [[SuperheroesWearCapes a blue cape]], [[SpandexLatexOrLeather a red tunic and green tights]]! And no-one suspects he's mild mannered StevenUlyssesPerhero ... who [[LimitedWardrobe always]] seems to wear a blue jacket, red shirt and green pants.

* In ''TigerAndBunny'', Kotetsu's PoweredArmor is black, green, and white,. His casual clothes? Black slacks, green shirt, and white vest. Barnaby also has similar color coding, but he has the excuse of not actually ''having'' a secret identity.
** The casual clothes of the heroes tend to be similar in colour to their costumes (Pao Lin in yellow, Nathan in red/pink, Keith and Ivan get blue/purple-ish shades). Karina is an exception, wearing warmer/darker colours than her skimpy blue outfit as Blue Rose. Possibly intentional, given how uncomfortable she is with her hero persona. Even Lunatic gets in on this as [[spoiler: when we see Petrov at the end of episode 9, he's wearing a grey suit with a blue-and-green patterned tie, similar to the colours of his costume.]]

** LampshadeHanging in ''{{Smallville}}'' — Clark favours wearing a blue shirt and red jacket ... and that's ''why'' he becomes known as the Red-Blue Blur ''before'' he starts wearing a costume.

** They actually tried to avert this in the first season of ''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.
* In current DCComics, and dating at least from the 1970s ''{{Shazam}}'' TV series, Billy Batson always wears a red shirt with a yellow collar.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Not suspicious looking at ''all''. And it only gets more conspicuous in later seasons.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Not looking suspicious at ''all'']]

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