Basic Trope: Fire and/or fire-related things are depicted as red.
- Straight: There are fire symbols. They are depicted as red.
- Exaggerated: Every flame is colored red.
- Downplayed: Flames are in their natural color but there are a few insignia where flames are depicted to be red.
- Justified: Most of the flames in-universe are strontium flames that are naturally red.
- Inverted: Fire is predominately cyan-colored.
- Subverted: The protagonist enters the Fire Temple to find that all the fire as well as the temple itself is cyan!
- Double Subverted: It turns out that everything actually was red, the leader of the temple just really liked cyan and used illusions to make everything look cyan.
- Parodied:
- Zig Zagged: Flames appear in their natural color, but the Fire Mage Clan, the main users of fire magic, wear red wizard robes, and their clan symbol is a red flame. However, the leader of the clan wears blue robes.
- Averted: The color red is not associated with fire.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Why is fire associated with red anyways?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Bob identifies a fire mage by their conspicuously red robes.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "So, your clan uses red to symbolize fire? I guess flames are a bit red, and embers and hot metal glow reddish, but I why not orange or yellow?"
- Conversed: "That's probably the fire variant of that enemy. You can tell because it's red."
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
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