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* Subverted by Creator/JamieRightMeow, who has always used shades of pink in his work, even after coming out as [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transmasculine]].
-> '''Jamie in an Instagram post on December 21, 2020:''' Fun fact, I used to hate the colour pink as a kid (to the point where I pretended to have an allergy to it, no joke) because I didn't want to be grouped in with society's idea of a girl. Now I just see it as another cool colour I can play with, without having any gender stereotypes attached. It's just a colour yo. ''(sic)''
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** Before the concepts of Shiny Pokémon and gender differences were introduced, the Pink Butterfree was created with this trope in mind, as otherwise she would look exactly like all the other Butterfree. With Ash's Butterfree, she forms a BlueBoyPinkGirl dynamic. The movie ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' and the final episode of ''Anime/PokemonJourneys'' finally depict her with the gender difference that mark her as female.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Claudia is a girly girl with a pink coffin and some of her clothing is pink (she has at least three different pink dresses and a pink-and-white checkered shirt).

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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Claudia is a girly girl with a pink coffin and some of her clothing is pink (she has at least three different pink dresses dresses, a pink cardigan, and a pink-and-white checkered shirt).
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* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' series, Sakura has pink hair, and pre timeskip Tenten wears a pink blouse.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei wears a pink shirt, pink socks, a pink watch, shoes with pink laces and soles and carries around a pink ''Tamagotchi''.
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* ''Series/LazyTown'': Stephanie has pink hair, wears a pink headband, and all her clothes are pink.

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* In ''Film/DirtyDancing,'' Baby wears a hot pink dress during her first competitive dance scene with Johnny, and later wears a [[IconicOutfit light pink dress]] at the end of the film.

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Baby wears a hot pink dress during her first competitive dance scene with Johnny, and later wears a [[IconicOutfit light pink dress]] at the end of the film.


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* ''Film/MaVieEnRose'': One sign of Ludovic's gender nonconformity as an assigned male child is a love for pink things, such as dresses or dolls. The film title translated to "My life in pink".

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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In the penultimate episode of the television series, "Principal for a Day", Miss Brooks is principal for a day of Mrs. Nestor's Private Elementary School. Miss Brooks' decides to make the school more attractive to mothers visiting the school and thinking of enrolling their children; she decorates the school with a lot of chintz. Including the animal cages of the science room. She goes so far as to paint Vice Principal Mr. Munsee's desk and office a "shocking pink".



* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Claudia is a girly girl with a pink coffin and some of her clothing is pink (she has at least three different pink dresses and a pink-and-white checkered shirt).
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In the penultimate episode of the television series, "Principal for a Day", Miss Brooks is principal for a day of Mrs. Nestor's Private Elementary School. Miss Brooks' decides to make the school more attractive to mothers visiting the school and thinking of enrolling their children; she decorates the school with a lot of chintz. Including the animal cages of the science room. She goes so far as to paint Vice Principal Mr. Munsee's desk and office a "shocking pink".
* Played for laughs in ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. Frank Castle goes to steal weapons from an ArmsDealer, only to find the only gun he has in stock is a special order a mob leader requested for his daughter's sweet sixteen: a pink Ruger Mini-14. Frank takes the gun anyway, but he makes it pretty clear that [[PinkIsForSissies he has no desire to use it ever]].



* Played for laughs in ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. Frank Castle goes to steal weapons from an ArmsDealer, only to find the only gun he has in stock is a special order a mob leader requested for his daughter's sweet sixteen: a pink Ruger Mini-14. Frank takes the gun anyway, but he makes it pretty clear that [[PinkIsForSissies he has no desire to use it ever]].

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* Played for laughs in ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. Frank Castle goes to steal weapons from an ArmsDealer, only to find the only gun he has in stock is a special order a mob leader requested for his daughter's sweet sixteen: a pink Ruger Mini-14. Frank takes the gun anyway, but he makes it pretty clear that [[PinkIsForSissies he has no desire to use it ever]].
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* In ''Film/DirtyDancing,'' Baby wears a hot pink dress during her first competitive dance scene with Johnny, and later wears a [[IconicOutfit light pink dress]] at the end of the film.
** Likewise, Penny often wears hot pink dresses for various dance competitions.

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** Played with in ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', where Vida the Pink Ranger is about as un-feminine as you can get and was ''pissed'' at getting stuck with the pink suit with the ''pop-out butterfly wings.'' (This is a hilarious reversal of its parent sentai, too, where Magi Pink was {{Kawaiiko}} ''squared.'') During ''Turbo'' / ''In Space,'' the more girly fashion-conscious Ashley is the Yellow Ranger, while the (slightly) more brash, tomboyish musician Cassie was Pink.

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** Played with in ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', where Vida the Pink Ranger is about as un-feminine as you can get and was ''pissed'' at getting stuck with the pink suit with the ''pop-out butterfly wings.'' (This is a hilarious reversal of its parent sentai, too, where Magi Pink was {{Kawaiiko}} ''squared.'') '')
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During ''Turbo'' / ''In Space,'' the latter half of ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' and then ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace,'' the more girly fashion-conscious Ashley is the Yellow Ranger, while the (slightly) more brash, tomboyish musician Cassie was Pink.


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** The most complete aversion is in ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'', as it has the first male Pink Ranger in the franchise. He may have ''fewer'' overly-masculine traits than average (he's a RidiculouslyAverageGuy {{Salaryman}} and kind of clumsy in battle -- [[BewareTheNiceOnes unless you hurt his wife]], mind you), but he's not particularly effeminate either.
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* Jean in the 1990s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' had a few pink outfits, like a pink evening mini dress, and in the FairyTale episode, her [[ShowWithinAShow fictional]] princess counterpart wore purple and pink.

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* Jean in the 1990s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' had a few pink outfits, like a pink evening mini dress, and in the FairyTale episode, her [[ShowWithinAShow fictional]] princess counterpart wore purple and pink.
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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasNewDinosaur'' have Nobita becoming the owner of a pair of dinosaur twins of different genders, named Kyu and Myu, which are respectively born green and pink. Go on, guess which colour is the girl.
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* While Blossom is the only member of WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls whose attire is pink, the girls' bedroom in general is pink.

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* While Blossom is the only member of WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls whose attire is pink, the girls' bedroom in general is pink.
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* Subverted in the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' where the eight-foot-tall CuteMonsterGirl, Sergeant Taura had been told that pink would make her look less intimidating. Because of this, most of her civilian wardrobe is a nearly fluorescent pink that does NOT work on her. One of the running gags in ''Literature/WinterfairGifts'' is the efforts of the rest of the cast to correct her of this fallacy.

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* Subverted {{Subverted|Trope}} in the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' where ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'', in which the eight-foot-tall CuteMonsterGirl, CuteMonsterGirl Sergeant Taura had been is told that pink would will make her look less intimidating. Because of this, most of her civilian wardrobe is a nearly fluorescent pink that does NOT ''not'' work on her. One of the running gags {{running gag}}s in ''Literature/WinterfairGifts'' ''Winterfair Gifts'' is the efforts of the rest of the cast to correct her of this fallacy.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', Flora and Merryweather row over what colour Aurora's dress is to be. Naturally, the more feminine Flora insists that it must be pink, though the dress spends most of the film blue.

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** In ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', Flora and Merryweather row over what colour Aurora's dress is to be. Naturally, the more feminine Flora insists that it must be pink, though the dress spends most of the film blue.[[TrueBlueFemininity blue]].
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* ''Animation/KungFuWa'': When Tee Yang transforms into Kung-Fu Girl her skin and hair turn pink and wears a pink mini-dress with fuschia and purple accents.
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** Averted in ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'' with the first pink member of a Ninja-themed Sentai, Kasumi/[=MomoNinger=]. She's actually the [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]] of the team, who works on all their technology. It's Fuka/[=ShiroNinger=], the white Ninninger, who fulfills the role of TheChick.

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** Averted in ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'' with the first pink member of a Ninja-themed Sentai, Kasumi/[=MomoNinger=]. She's actually the [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]] of the team, who works on all their technology. It's Fuka/[=ShiroNinger=], the white Ninninger, who fulfills the role of TheChick.
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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In the penultimate episode of the television series, "Principal for a Day", Miss Brooks is principal for a day of Mrs. Nestor's Private Elementary School. Miss Brooks' decides to make the school more attractive to mothers visiting the school and thinking of enrolling their children; she decorates the school with a lot of chintz. Including the animal cages of the science room. She goes so far as to paint Vice Principal Mr. Munsee's desk and office a "shocking pink".
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* ''Series/{{Readalong}}'': Pretty was a pink shoe, and looked as feminine as a pink shoe can.
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For many modern cultures, the color pink has become the color meaning femininity, in all its forms. This means that the more feminine a woman is the likely she is to wear pink in fiction. It's also why it's thought girls appreciate pink things more than other colors.

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For many modern cultures, the color pink has become the color meaning femininity, in all its forms. This means that the more feminine a woman is the more likely she is to wear pink in fiction. It's also why it's thought girls appreciate pink things more than other colors.
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* Despite the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters number of characters]] in ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'', only two are associated with the colour pink: Tori, a deliberately-cutesey TokenMiniMoe, and Shuu, an eccentric and elitist designer who was bullied as a child for enjoying dresses and dolls, which he now still enjoys with confidence.

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* Despite the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters number of characters]] characters in ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'', only two are associated with the colour pink: Tori, a deliberately-cutesey TokenMiniMoe, and Shuu, an eccentric and elitist designer who was bullied as a child for enjoying dresses and dolls, which he now still enjoys with confidence.
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** Maid Marian's costume in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' is pink and [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple lavender.]]

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** Maid Marian's costume in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' is pink and [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple lavender.]]
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* [[ThoseTwoGuys Katie and Sadie]] from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' both wear pink [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]] and high-heeled sandals. In ''Revenge of the Island'', Dakota's regular outfit is entirely pink. Ella in Pahkitew Island because PrincessesPreferPink and she is a parody of a princess; the only parts of her outfit that aren't pink are her sleeves.

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* [[ThoseTwoGuys Katie and Sadie]] from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' both wear pink [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]] shorts and high-heeled sandals. In ''Revenge of the Island'', Dakota's regular outfit is entirely pink. Ella in Pahkitew Island because PrincessesPreferPink and she is a parody of a princess; the only parts of her outfit that aren't pink are her sleeves.
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* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Nezuko, a former YamatoNadeshiko turned CuteMonsterGirl, wears a pink kimono and has [[TechnicolorEyes pink eyes]] that become larger and clearer after her transformation into a [[CallAPegasusAHippogriff demon]].

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* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Nezuko, a former YamatoNadeshiko turned CuteMonsterGirl, wears a pink kimono kimono, a pink hair tie, and also has [[TechnicolorEyes pink eyes]] that become larger and clearer after her transformation into a [[CallAPegasusAHippogriff demon]].
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* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Nezuko, a former YamatoNadeshiko turned CuteMonsterGirl, wears a pink kimono and has pink eyes that become larger and clearer after her transformation into a [[CallAPegasusAHippogriff demon]].

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* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Nezuko, a former YamatoNadeshiko turned CuteMonsterGirl, wears a pink kimono and has [[TechnicolorEyes pink eyes eyes]] that become larger and clearer after her transformation into a [[CallAPegasusAHippogriff demon]].

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* Dola, the leader of the {{Sky Pirate}}s in ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'', likes pink and has long hair in GirlishPigtails.
* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Nezuko, a former YamatoNadeshiko turned CuteMonsterGirl, wears a pink kimono and has pink eyes that become larger and clearer after her transformation into a [[CallAPegasusAHippogriff demon]].



* Dola, the leader of the {{Sky Pirate}}s in ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'', likes pink and has long hair in GirlishPigtails.
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* ''Anime/PokemonHeroes'': Annie is the girlier of the villainous sisters and has a pink sleeve on her HellBentForLeather outfit, while the more focused Oakley has a purple one for her outfit (although her personality doesn't quite qualify her for GracefulLadiesLikePurple). Annie also wears a pink dress while traveling through town.
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* Zig-zagged in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. Played straight by Roxy and [[PrincessesPreferPink Feferi]], who are both pretty girly, but averted with [[spoiler:Meenah, who is actually a tomboyish {{Punk}}]].

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* Zig-zagged in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. Played straight by Roxy and [[PrincessesPreferPink Feferi]], who are both pretty girly, but averted with [[spoiler:Meenah, who is actually a tomboyish {{Punk}}]].Punk]].
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* ''Fanfic/CeladonsNewBlossom'' is about Ash being DisguisedInDrag in order to be accepted as Erika's apprentice, since her gym is female-only. As he adapts to his new life as a girl, he starts wearing a lot of pink clothes, accessories and make-up.
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* ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' has the color appearing in several places, from the weapons to {{Transformation Sequence}}s (and that's not even taking Momoko's [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair hair]] into account).

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* ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' has the color appearing in several places, from the weapons to {{Transformation Sequence}}s (and that's not even taking Momoko's [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair hair]] hair into account).



* [[PrincessesPreferPink Princess]] [[PrettyPrincessPowerhouse Cookie]] and [[CherryBlossomGirl Cherry Blossom Cookie]] from ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' wear pink and have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pink hair]]. Played with with [[{{Bishounen}} Whipped Cream Cookie]], who is a guy, but [[DaintyLittleBalletDancers too traditionall feminine]] to qualify for RealMenWearPink

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* [[PrincessesPreferPink Princess]] [[PrettyPrincessPowerhouse Cookie]] and [[CherryBlossomGirl Cherry Blossom Cookie]] from ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' wear pink and have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pink hair]].hair. Played with with [[{{Bishounen}} Whipped Cream Cookie]], who is a guy, but [[DaintyLittleBalletDancers too traditionall feminine]] to qualify for RealMenWearPink



* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Whitney is a pink-haired girl.]]

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* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Whitney is a pink-haired girl.]]

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