History Main / SinglePaletteTown

** The abandoning of the colour-themed names was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''PokemonRubyAndSapphire'': the FirstTown, Littleroot Town, was described as "A town that can't be shaded any hue."

** The abandoning of the colour-themed names was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in PokemonRubyAndSapphire: the FirstTown, Littleroot Town, was described as "A town that can't be shaded any hue."

* The trope's title refers to the first generation ''{{Pokemon}}'' games where the player starts out in Pallet Town, and travels to other cities each named after a distinctive color. Provided you had a Super Game Boy for the SNES or a Game Boy Color, the color of the town becomes the palette scheme (so Saffron City looks very yellow, Vermilion City is red, and so forth). The second generation of games' cities were similarly colored, though they were named after plants rather than colors there (though there was some overlap, like Violet City and Mahogany Town).

** The abandoning of the colour-themed names was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in Ruby/Sapphire: the FirstTown was described as "A town that can't be shaded any hue."

-->''I have a blue house with a blue window.\\
Blue is the colour of all that I wear.\\
Blue are the streets and all the trees are too.\\
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue.''

-->I have a blue house with a blue window.
-->Blue is the colour of all that I wear.
-->Blue are the streets and all the trees are too.
-->I have a girlfriend and she is so blue.

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* The Happy Happy Village in ''EarthBound'' is covered and continually repainted in blue by the town when it is under the influence of an insane cult leader. When the cult leader is defeated, the town reverts to a normal color scheme.

* Most buildings in Jerusalem, especially the [[{{Understatement}} older]] parts, are made of a specific type of stone called "Jerusalem stone".

* The Happy Happy Village in ''{{Earthbound}}'' is covered and continually repainted in blue by the town when it is under the influence of an insane cult leader. When the cult leader is defeated, the town reverts to a normal color scheme.

* The Tamaranians in ''TeenTitans'' are a race of {{Dark Skinned Redhead}}s who all, with the odd exception of Blackfire, dress in semi-revealing purple and silver clothing. Most of the planet's landscape seems to come in shades of purple and orange as well.

* The earliest known example of this trope is in the ''[[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]]'' books, where the famous Emerald City is a uniform splendid shade of green, and was immortalized as such in the famous 1939 film of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', making this OlderThanTelevision. Interestingly, in [[TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the original book]], the city wasn't ''actually'' green--the wizard just required that everyone wears glasses that make it look green, for his own selfish purposes. Regardless, the trope still fully applies to Munchkin Country, where houses and clothes were invariably blue, and likewise for the yellow-loving Winkies, the red-sporting Quadlings, and the purple-clad Gillikins. In some of the books, this trope goes to an extreme: even the dirt, rocks, houses, and plants take on a particular hue depending where in Oz it is.

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-->'''Celia:''' How about this one? Do you think this will get his attention?\\

--> ''OrderOfTheStick'', "No Cure for the Paladin Blues"

* The earliest known example of this trope is in ''TheWizardOfOz'' books, where the famous Emerald City is a uniform splendid shade of green, and was immortalized as such in the famous 1939 FilmOfTheBook, making this OlderThanTelevision. Interestingly, in the original book, the city wasn't ''actually'' green--the wizard just required that everyone wears glasses that make it look green, for his own selfish purposes. Regardless, the trope still fully applies to Munchkin Country, where houses and clothes were invariably blue, and likewise for the yellow-loving Winkies, the red-sporting Quadlings, and the purple-clad Gillikins.
** The Broadway adaptation ''TheWiz'' and the [[RetCon RetCon]] ''{{Wicked}}'' both adopt the glasses from the book, but oddly enough, in both cases the town is still green -- perhaps for the convenience of the non-tinted-glasses-wearing audience.

** In some of the books, this trope goes to an extreme. Even the dirt, rocks, houses, and plants take on a particular hue depending where in Oz it is.

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* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is one of the few long-running series which maintains this gimmick. Water Tribe members only use white and blue. Earth Kingdom members only use green, yellow, and brown. Fire Nation members use... well, guess (also brown and black). The Air Nomads wear orange and yellow, but since the show only really has one of them, it isn't as obvious.

-->— ''OrderOfTheStick'', "No Cure for the Paladin Blues"

** Every houseroof is grey in the town of Torda, due to it's cement industry.

* This troper was taught in French class that some cities in France only allow certain outdoor decorations and paint colors to remain for appealing to tourists.

* Several episodes of ''MrRogersNeighborhood'' featured a single-palette ''planet'', Planet Purple, where everything was purple and the main inhabitants were blocky people who were all named Paul and Pauline, together with a Purple Panda.

* The trope's title refers to the first generation ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' games where the player starts out in Pallet Town, and travels to other cities each named after a distinctive color. Provided you had a Super Game Boy for the SNES or a Game Boy Color, the color of the town becomes the palette scheme (so Saffron City looks very yellow, Vermilion City is red, and so forth). The second generation of games' cities were similarly colored, though they were named after plants rather than colors there (though there was some overlap, like Violet City and Mahogany Town).

* This troper was taught in french class that some cities in france only allow certain outdoor decorations and paint colors to remain for appeasing to tourists.

** Tsukiko can be particularly notable in this regard: Because her clothes and hair are all black as part of her characterization, her eyes are [[BoatLights two shades of blue]] instead, despite coming from a FarEast setting.

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* Several episodes of ''MrRogersNeighborhood'' featured a single-palette ''planet'', Planet Purple, where everything was purple and the main inhabitants were blocky people who were all named Paul and Pauline, together with a Purple Panda.

* Several episodes of ''MrRogersNeighborhood'' featured a single-palette ''planet'', Planet Purple, where everything was purple and the main inhabitants were blocky people who were all named Paul and Pauline, together with a Purple Panda.

** I wonder if they chose the name or the paint first.
*** The name. The gate was sealed inside a large sapphire, and the Sapphire Guard were named after it.

** The Broadway adaptation ''TheWiz'' and the [[RetCon RetCon]] ''{{Wicked}}'' both adopt the glasses from the book, but oddly enough, in both cases the town is still green, so the question of why everyone has to wear the glasses in the first place is never really answered.
*** The palette is for the convenience of the audience.

**In the books, this trope goes to an extreme. Even the dirt, rocks, houses, and plants take on a particular hue depending where in Oz it is.
*** Depending on the book. Baum was not real strong with the inter-volume continuity.