History Main / GoodColorsEvilColors

* ''ElGoonishShives BigBad wore black. Granted, it's probably pretty hard to find fire-retardant material in other colours, but it still counts.

* Lampshaded to the point of absurdity in ''FinalFantasyXIII'': First an intruder alert initiates Code Red which later increases first to Code Green and then to Code Purple. When surveilance loses track of the intruders, that means Code Blue. Or even Code Yellow! Oh please, don't let it turn to Code Orange. The PrimeMinister then takes charge of the situation and orders Code White.

* '''[[color:beige:All white]]''' - [[LightIsNotGood A hint of madness]], [[KnightTemplar religious]] [[PathOfInspiration zealotry]], or [[CorruptChurch a church that oversteps its bounds]]. Also, due to Asian cultures associating white with death as mentioned above, characters who [[WomanInWhite dress all or mostly in white]] or have [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy white hair]] are often strongly associated with death, the supernatural, etc.

* By these standards, {{EVANGELION}} Test-Type Unit 01 is ObviouslyEvil. Its incredibly ominous gaze à la {{Batman}} doesn't help either. Eva 02 is typical Ace red, while Eva 00 is yellow and blue because it's a prototype. The MassProduced Evas are classic deathly All White, with a touch of Blood Red. Eva 03 is almost BLACK. Evas are a nasty bunch as an average.

* DGrayMan: Oh, it's quite simple. Sometimes the hair color corresponds, too. Allen, of course, is white (hair included). Kanda is blue and black combined. Lavi is red. Lenalee is green/pink of some sort. Cross is considered the gold. As for the baddies, gray and black are the colors for the Noah Family.

** Also, in the Manga,Zolf J. Kimbly is dressed Allwhite.

* Sergey Bondarchuk's ''Waterloo'' goes some way to portray Blücher's Army of the Lower Rhine as menacing and somewhat sinister by associating it with the colour black, even to the extent of deviating from historical facts. In one scene Wellington, seeing troops in the distance says he cannot tell if they are "French blue or Prussian black". Prussian infantry was dressed dark blue, same as the French (which had actually led to at least one occasion where French troops were allowed to get too close to a Prussian battery during the battle of Ligny two days earlier). In another scene Blücher shouts at his troops to "raise the black flags" - the colours of the regiments in the two Prussian corps that fought at Waterloo were of various combinations of red, white, green, sky blue and yellow. And the Prussian regiment shown most prominently in the film, the Leibhusaren (black uniforms, white lace, shakos decorated with death's heads) did not serve at Waterloo or even from part of Blücher's army.

** And now, ''Going Rogue'' has a yellow interface, symbolizing the [[GreyVsGreyMorality different moral choices]] presented in the game.

* The American roads and cars rely on this heavily. For example the lane barrier are yellow to separate opposing traffic and white to separate lanes going the same direction. Intersections lights are the obvious Red, Yellow and Green for stop, slow and go, respectively. Lights on a car also apply, break lights are red, turn signals are flashing yellow and reverse lights are white. Colors of street signs also are color coded, red for Stop signs, Wrong Way signs, etc. White and black for One Way signs and Speed Limit signs (if there's a Night Speed Limit the colors are the reverse of the normal one). Yellow for warning and school signs, Orange for construction and Brown for rest stops, camping ground and so on. Additionally police, ambulance and firetruck lights are flashing red and blue.

* Most sports movies have the main character/team's final opponent(s) wearing black uniforms.

* In ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' trilogy, the opposing team always wears black in the climactic match.

* '''Black''' - CardCarryingVillain, in recent times anyway (in western cultures associate this with death)

* The Eagle Vision in ''[=~Assassin's Creed~=]'' lets Altair and Ezio use their instincts to color-code people, allies are blue, potential enemies are red and quest targets are yellow. [[spoiler:Desmond gains this ability thanks to the 'bleeding effect' of using the Animus.]]

* ''TeamFortress2'' has the names of the two sides, Builder's League United and Reliable Excavation Demolition, shorten to BLU and RED, respectfully. Guess which color each uses... although neither is good or bad.
** Technically, both are bad, in a "went-bananas-a-long-time-ago-completely-psycho" way.
*** The 'Meet The Team' machinima always portray RED team as the [[strike: "good"]] winning side, however.

** Kessen 2, another Koei game set in the Three Kingdoms period, switches the colours of Wu and Wei, to give Wu, the allies of the player's faction Shu, a sutiably "good" blue and Wei, the enemy, a more appropriately "evil" red. The game was not known for it's historical accuracy, or lack of bias.

* In ''GuildWars'', the Kurzick flag is blue while the Luxon flag is red.
** These are also the colors of the two teams in PVP
** Additionally, item rarity is designated by color, as is the profession of bosses

*** The US Forces ACTUALLY took this colour scheme from "Vom Kriege" by Clausewitz and froma other prussian innovations during the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. Even the Russians adopted this (blue=friend, red =foe) for some time.

** Except that most nations use their own idividual camo patterns, such as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_Pattern_Material British DPM]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_Pattern_Combat_Uniform AUSCAM]] (Australian), [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CADPAT CADPAT]] (Canadian) and the four American digital patterns ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARPAT MARPAT]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Camouflage_Pattern UCP]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airman_Battle_Uniform ABU]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_of_the_United_States_Navy#Navy_Working_Uniform_.28NWUs.29 NWU]])

* ''SonicTheHedgehog'' has this trope smeared all over it. Sonic (the hero) is blue, Knuckles (the tough guy) is a cheery red, Amy Rose and Rouge the Bat (the chicks) have extensive pink colouring, Shadow the Hedgehog (the resident BadAss) is red and black, and Eggman Robotnik is covered in red, yellow and black - good old evil commie colours.

** As of the [[FanNickname Apollo Arc]], the hero Apollo wears all read, and [[spoiler: BigBad Kristoph Gavin wears blue.]]

** In episodes IV through VI, hand-held blasters always fired red bolts regardless of affiliation. However in ''ThePhantomMenace'', the Trade Federation blasters fired red while the Republic blasters fired green.

->White Guy: Black!?! That's the worst color there is! No offense there, Carl.
->Black Guy: I get it all the time.

*** In the ''KingdomHearts II'', Sora can change color via his [[SuperMode drive forms]]. Valor Form, in particular, makes him turn red.

->You can tell Serena's [[{{Understatement}} heel]] now, because... she wears black.

->You can tell Serena's [[FaceHeelTurn|heel]] now, because... she wears black.

->You can tell Serena's [[FaceHeelTurn heel]] now, because... she wears black.

** It was a bit more complicated. (Royal) blue was also the colour of the French royal house, and red changed its image - at the beginning of the Revolution the fancy red coats of the aristocracy and their red shoe-heels were hated symbols of privilege, but then the more radical revolutionaries started wearing red Phrygian caps (Jacobin caps). Actually the combination of red [[bold: and]] blue (taken from the arms of the city of Paris) is a traditional revolutionary emblem in France. During the Hundred Years War, the Parisian insurrectionists led by Etienne Marcel wore red-and-blue caps, and in 1789 the National Guards of Paris wore red-and-blue cockades. When Louis XVI attached one to his hat, which already bore the royal white cocked, the French tricolor of red, white and blue was born.

* White and off-white - TheHero, TheMessiah, StaffChick, DeadpanSnarker
* Blue - TheHero or TheLancer
* Cheery Red - TheHero or TheLancer
* Natural Greens - NatureHero, CloserToEarth, TheBigGuy, SixthRanger
* Pink - The TokenGirl
* Browns and other Earthy tones - NatureHero, CloserToEarth, TheObiWan, RetiredBadass
* Gold - TheAce
* Black - AntiHero

* Black - CardCarryingVillain, in recent times anyway (in western cultures associate this with death)
* Bloody Red - AxCrazy
* Dark Blue - a favorite of evil [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]] and [[AristocratsAreEvil Aristocrats]].
* Unnatural Greens - See also SicklyGreenGlow.
* Silver- Indicates wealth and arrogance.
* Purple - popular in Japanese media; the official color of videogame evil; really popular for comic book villains, particularly in combination with green; often worn by female baddies. It is also the ancient color for royalty, tying it in with [[AristocratsAreEvil Aristocrats]]. See also PurpleIsTheNewBlack
* All white - [[LightIsNotGood A hint of madness]], [[KnightTemplar religious]] [[PathOfInspiration zealotry]], or [[CorruptChurch a church that oversteps its bounds]]. Also, due to Asian cultures associating white with death as mentioned above, characters who [[WomanInWhite dress all or mostly in white]] or have [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy white hair]] are often strongly associated with death, the supernatural, etc.

* Black and White in equal amounts (see also: referees)
* Light Grey (black and white; neutrals, [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor transitions]])
* Purple (blue and red; [[TruthInTelevision royalty, wealth and command]])
* Orange (red and yellow)
* Green (used equally for neutrals and allied but not under your control)