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Examples of Pink Means Feminine in video games.


  • The Player Character's room in Boogeyman 2.
  • Maria's dress in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood.
  • Dragon Quest:
    • In Dragon Quest II, the Princess of Moonbrooke wears pink.
    • Dragon Quest V: Nera Briscoletti wears a lot of pink, and as such is touted as very beautiful and ladylike.
    • One minor antagonist from Dragon Quest XI is Avarith, a Professaurus-type monster with predominantly pink scales who is also one of the few female villains in the game.
  • The favorite color of Kasumi, the central protagonist of the Dead or Alive series, is pink, and most of her casual and alternate clothing features pink in it.
  • Referenced in Dungeons of Dredmor, where the Razor Sword for Her is described as "pink and costing twice as much."
  • In E.V.O.: Search for Eden, after fighting three brown mammoths, you meet a "Mammoth Gal" who looks the same except pink.
  • Final Fantasy:
    • In Final Fantasy V, Lenna's hair is pink.
    • Final Fantasy VII has Aerith's iconic pink dress and matching hair ribbon. She's the token White Magician Girl, but her personality isn't super feminine, she has a quick wit and some tomboyish streak.
    • The Lamias in Final Fantasy IX act really dainty (save for attacking the party), have pink scales, pink hair, and pink Fluffy Fashion Feathers for their headdress and Giant Poofy Sleeves.
    • Vanille's pink top in Final Fantasy XIII. Serah, who also has pink hair also dresses almost entirely in pink, in nearly all her outfits save for the Mass Effect cosplay DLC and the Style and Steel cosplay, which are both black instead.
  • Sveta from Golden Sun: Dark Dawn dresses in an outfit of mostly pink and purple, while she beats people to death with her bare hands.
  • The Queen of all Cosmos in Katamari Damacy.
  • Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns: Lisette from Westown wears a pink apron with flowers adorned, and she's the sweetest and kindest Nice Girl around. There's also Iluka from Lulukoko, but she wears dominantly hot pink, and it portrays her tsundere side. Notably, though, she does act more feminine and sweet towards people who don't know her personally.
  • Kingdom Hearts: Kairi is associated with pink starting from Kingdom Hearts II. Her costumes are pink-hued, and, as shown in Kingdom Hearts III, her attack effects are all tinted pink.
  • Mass Effect introduces the character Ashley Williams in a pink uniform. Since it's a uniform, and Femshep doesn't wear pink, the color probably indicated unit affiliation rather than gender or fashion choice, and Ashley's lost unit all wore pink. It could also be a manufacturer's mark, since all armour made by that particular manufacturer is in the same pink-and-white colour scheme.
  • Bad Girl of No More Heroes wears pink, but given her badass nature, this seems to be just to keep up her Sweet Lolita image.
  • In Otomedius, Erul is pink.
  • In Parodius, the females Multiple, Samba, Sue, Rupa, and Winbee are pink. There are also pink male and gender neutral characters.
  • The entire menu and user interface of Persona 3 is changed from blue to pink in the PSP version's female protagonist route.
  • Flora, Professor Layton's adopted daughter, prefers this palette. She's first seen in a formal portrait, wearing a red velvet gown; later she wears a white dress with dark pink accents, and in the second and third games of the series she wears a peach-pink dress with dark pink or red accessories.
  • Claire in the second Puppet Princess game, and Etoile's sprite in the first game.
  • Natalie's pink armor in Radiata Stories.
  • Momo Karuizawa in Rival Schools.
  • Sakura of Sakura Wars tends to wears pink, whether it's a kimono, a dress, or her uniform. Even her mecha is pink.
  • The pirate captain Clara in Skies of Arcadia wears pink and decorates her ship pink and her crew wears pink uniforms. They are the girliest pirates you'll ever see. Aika says the cabins look like 'a honey moon suite'.
  • Something series:
    • The Rip Van Fish are female in Something because they are pink and their Zs are replaced with hearts.
    • The Pokeys are female in Something Else because they have large pink lips and their spikes are also pink.
  • Amy Rose, the first playable female in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, doesn't wear pink. She is pink. Wherever possible she also incorporates pink into her vehicles and stage design.
  • Most female characters in Star Fox have either worn pink at one point (such as Krystal in Star Fox Command), or are pink themselves (such as Katt). This is downplayed with Miyu and Fay in Star Fox 2, who both spot pink-ish magenta gloves, but otherwise have outfits on par with the rest of Star Fox.
  • In addition to Peach, the Super Mario Bros. series has Wendy Koopa and Toadette.
  • Josephine of Suikoden V.
  • Some ladies in Tekken wear pink:
    • Ling Xiaoyu wears an extremely girly hot pink dress in 4. Her qipao in 5 is also mostly pink, save for the white shorts and white feathers. The qipao is recolored orange by default from Dark Resurrection onwards, though can customize it back to pink.
    • From her debut to 5, Panda wears pink bracelets. The color changes to cyan in Dark Resurrection, then orange in 6 to match Xiaoyu's qipao, but, again, you can customize them to pink.
    • Alisa Bosconovitch's first outfit is half pink half blue.
  • In Ultima III on the NES, played straight with the pink Cleric, Illusionist, Lark and Paladin. Averted with the pink Barbarian, Thief, and Ranger.
  • Princess Zelda wears pink in a few of her incarnations, most notably The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
  • Virginia's dress in Wild AR Ms 3 is purple in artwork, but fuchsia in-game.
  • Annie in Wild Guns wears a pink dress by default.
  • Pokémon:
    • The Fairy-type is represented by pink, and many Pokémon of its type are pink in color and are female-only or have gender ratios that favor females. The same goes for the Fairy Egg Group, which has many Fairy-type and Fairylike Pokémon.
    • In Pokémon X and Y, feminine clothes have frilly pink tags and many of them are themselves pink, such as the Frilly Dress and Sundae Dress.
    • In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and the remakes of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the female Player Character wears a frilly pink dress when participating in Pokémon Contests. The latter game comes with a female Cosplay Pikachu whose clothing options include a frilly pink outfit that matches the one worn by the female character.
    • Caitlin from Pokémon Platinum and Pokémon Black and White is a Proper Lady who either wears a knee-length pink dress or a long pink nightgown.
    • The female character in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 wears a pink Pimped-Out Dress when playing a princess at Pokéstar Studios.
  • Ember from Spyro the Dragon is an Amy Rose expy and has pink scales. In comparison, the males Spyro and Flame are purple and red. She's presented as a Girly Girl who has unrequited affections for Spyro.
  • In Overwatch, D.Va's default skin makes her Mini-Mecha bright pink.
  • In Xenogears, Seraphina and Chu-Chu are pink.
  • Disciples of the all-female Emei school in Age Of Wushu wear head-to-toe pink uniforms (this dips into Graceful Ladies Like Purple with some of the more advances disciples' uniforms). The similarly girls-only Palace of Shifting Flowers faction is also pink, and adds a floral motif on top of it.
  • Princess Cookie and Cherry Blossom Cookie from Cookie Run wear pink and have pink hair. Played with with Whipped Cream Cookie, who is a guy, but too traditionall feminine to qualify for Real Men Wear Pink
  • Sakuramochi, Strawberry Daifuku, Jiuniang and Cold Rice Shrimp are Food Fantasy characters who wear predominantly pink and are based on pink foods.
  • Despite the number of characters in Ensemble Stars!, only two are associated with the colour pink: Tori, a deliberately-cutesey Token Mini-Moe, 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.
  • In The Walking Dead: Season One, Clementine mentions one of her favorite colors is pink. The flower stickers she puts on her walkie-talkie are pink, and her subtitles are pink in Season 1, 3 and during AJ's playable segments in The Final Season.
  • The Way of Cinnamon: Cinnamon's sister wears a pink kimono.
  • Tequila & Boom Boom: Melissa, Tequila's raccoon love interest, wears a pink dress and bonnet.
  • Rhythm Doctor: Hailey is a romance-minded Girly Girl who wears a pink shirt, skirt, and hair bow. Her room is also pink.

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