History Main / EverythingsBetterWithRainbows

* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. "Over the Rainbow," of course.

* During the 1970s-1980s, every VHS company ever tended to use rainbows in their [[VanityPlate logos]], not to mention (in some cases) on cover designs.

** Action Comics #317 brings us "Franchise/{{Superman}}'s Rainbow Face", where Superman's face changes color depending on his emotions. This is, of course, a Red Kryptonite story.

* In ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'', Spectrum the Flygon literally ''speaks'' in rainbows. Her voice breaks physics, and does not go unnoticed by those who hear her.

* Basically the whole point of the game ''VideoGame/RainbowIslands''.

* ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack''. [[RuleOfCool Hell yeah.]]

* Inverted (literally) in ''VideoGame/WildARMs1'' and ''VideoGame/WildArms3'' via Siegfried/Ziekfried. His [[SignatureMove Signature Move]] Negative Rainbow is his most lethal move as it hits your entire party for a hefty amount of damage and in remake of the first game, it's damage is based on an inversion of your elemental resistance.

* After the massive flood in the Literature/BookOfGenesis, {{God}} promises not to cause another cataclysm like the Flood and puts a rainbow in the sky as a symbol of his covenant with humanity.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', rainbows serve as bridges between the Earth and the Land of Myth, which Blue Eyes the {{pegasus}} uses to cross between worlds.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Smurf-Colored Glasses", Handy uses a rainbow in a waterfall to give his smurf-colored glasses the ability to see people and things are being cute and handsome instead of ordinary, ugly, or dangerous.

* Shang Tsung's "[[DefeatMeansFriendship Friendship]]" FinishingMove in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat2'' and ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' has him form a rainbow with his hands.

* In Creator/GeorgeMacDonald's ''The Golden Key'', the key is found at the end of the rainbow -- which also shines at night, but then, it's in TheLostWoods.

* In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', after the rain returns to [[LandDownUnder FourEcks]], the Man Who Carries The Universe In A Sack produces a boomerang decorated with more colours than the Ecksian Aborigine boy has ever seen in one place, and throws it at the sky, where it sticks.

* In ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'', the GodKing, or any other person with a sufficient amount of [[LifeEnergy Breath]], causes anything white in his vicinity to produce rainbows. These colours can then be used to power Awakenings.

* ''VideoGame/DeBlob'', being all about colour, naturally uses this. Often you'll be asked to paint things in a ChromaticArrangement, and in the sequel there is a Rainbow Powerup that automatically makes Blob the right color for a given object.

* Inverted (literally) in ''VideoGame/WildARMs1'' and ''VideoGame/WildArms3'' via Siegfried/Ziekfried. His [[SignatureMove Signature Move]] Negative Rainbow is his most lethal move as it hits your entire party for a hefty amount of damage and in remake of the first game, it's damage is based on an inversion of your elemental resistence.

* ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'', naturally. She uses the power of colours in rainbow form to keep everything happy and bright and colourful in Rainbowland, as well as on Earth. When Rainbow Brite is unable to fulfil her duties, colours quick start to fade and everything becomes rather gloomy... Rainbow Brite can also weaponise her rainbow beams to deflect attacks or even to launch attacks directly at baddies force them away/trap them. Not just all that, but her rainbows are also strong enough to allow Rainbow Brite to ride over them on her horse Starlight. And lastly, she uses these rainbows to travel all the way from Rainbowland to Earth!

** One of the characters in the ''Friendship Is Magic'' series is Rainbow Dash, a {{pegasus}} with a rainbow colored mane, and the only one to have achieved the Sonic Rainboom. This happens when she breaks the sound barrier (or goes from supersonic to hypersonic or something) and creates a rainbow explosion that can be seen miles away, after which she trails a rainbow behind her as she flies for a moment. In one episode, she used it to demolish a barn by flying straight down at it, creating a rainbow-coloured mushroom cloud.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the Moon dissolves in a globe of multicoloured light, and leaves a rainbow streaked across the sky for all to see. This is probably a symbol in the biblical style, a sign that a great calamity has passed.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Care Bears|1980s}}'': The entire series seems to reek in terms of rainbows as decorations, traveling devices, energy, and for that matter, weapons.

** Up to the extreme with all incarnations of Cheer Bear, who's belly badge ''is'' a rainbow. Aside from that, several other bears like Best Friend Bear also has rainbows as part of their belly badge.

* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' has a rainbow appear after the death of each Angel. A couple of them are {{Justified|Trope}} by large amounts of Angel blood in the air, giving the light something to refract through, but others show up alongside the iconic [[CreepyCoolCrosses cross-explosions]] for no apparent reason. Given that this is ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'', no one is sure if this is [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolic of something]], [[FauxSymbolism or just more pseudo-Christian imagery to mess with our heads]].

* The Flag of Krypton in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} {{Superman}} stories.

* The Rainbow Crystals (fragments that come together to form the Silver Crystal) of ''Anime/SailorMoon''. Also, her Rainbow Moon Heartache attack in 3rd season is an upgrade to Moon Spiral Heart Attack, signified by a rainbow accompanying the otherwise similar StockFootage.

* In ''ComicStrip/FrankAndErnest'', once two newly hatched birds sees a beautiful bucolic scene, with a rainbow. One thinks it's big and scary; one reflects that at least it's not eggshell white.

* In the Abrahamic religions, the Rainbow is a promise not to flood the world again.

** In ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse'', it's a magic pen that makes rainbow clay lines. [[note]] said magic pen is actually [[FairyCompanion Elline]]. [[/note]]

** In ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsWelcomeToCareALot'', rainbows are ''everywhere'' and have been used for everything including acting as rails for a cable car system. This also carries down to ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAndCousins''

* In the [[Creator/DougWalker Nostalgia Critic]]'s review of the ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsMovie'', during the scene where a group of the Bears shoot a rainbow out of their chests to fight off an enemy, he exclaims [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaBCw59DDVA "TASTE THE RAINBOW, MOTHERFUCKER!"]] This has quickly spread to become an Internet-wide meme that pops ups every time rainbow colors suddenly appear in a dramatic fashion.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-03-26 after it rains]]

* In ''Webcomic/QuestionDuck'', [[http://questionduck.smackjeeves.com/comics/1031203/084/ watching the rainbow is the perfect time to ask about pizza.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Dreamkeepers}} Prelude'' For InsubstantialIngredients: "[[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=188 Their makeup is made of depressed rainbows serving out their humiliating punishment for cloud-related offenses]]".

* In Creator/RobertFrost poem "[[Literature/AFurtherRange Iris by Night]]" a rainbow, somehow formed by the ''moon'' ("a very small moon-made prismatic bow") forms itself into a ring and encircles a pair of young lovers.

* During the 1970s-1980s, every VHS company ever tend to use rainbows in their [[VanityPlate logos]], not to mention (in some cases) on cover designs.

* In ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers', Spectrum the Flygon literally ''speaks'' in rainbows. Her voice breaks physics, and does not go unnoticed by those who hear her.

** In this world, rainbows are made in a [[IDyeGrass weather factory]], where it's shown in liquid form. Pinkie Pie, who had previously been shown to relish cupcakes that had been slathered in copious amounts of intensely spicy hot sauce, tried tasting liquid rainbow and wound up fleeing in a firey panic. There's also the traditional, non-liquid form, possibly the finished product; both are used in the landscaping of Rainbow Dash's cloud home.