Basic Trope: Girls wear pink, boys wear blue.
- Straight: Alice wears a pink shirt. Bob wears a blue shirt.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice wears a full pink outfit, drives a pink car, lives in a pink house, and everything she owns is pink. Bob is the same but with blue.
- The skin color, hair, and eyes of Alice and Bob are both pink and blue respectively.
- Downplayed:
- Alice wears a pink bracelet. Bob wears blue socks.
- Alice wears a red shirt, which is the color pink derives from. Bob often wears a purple or green shirt depending on the episode, both colors which are partially made of blue.
- Justified: Alice and Bob conform to societal gender stereotypes in order to fit in.
- Inverted: Pink Boy, Blue Girl, Alice is the one that wears blue, while Bob is the one that wears pink.
- Subverted: In their first appearances, Alice and Bob wear pink and blue respectively, yet in their subsequent appearances, Alice wears purple and Bob wears green instead.
- Double Subverted: Later on, they revert back to wearing their original colors.
- Parodied: Bob wears only the color blue, yet when he lets Alice wear one of his shirts, it magically turns pink as she puts it on.
- Zig Zagged:
- Alice and Bob don't always wear pink and blue, but they're the only characters to wear these colors respectively.
- Both use more than one color in their scheme. Alice wears a pink dress covered by a green jacket. Bob wears a red shirt with blue jeans.
- Averted: Bob and Alice wear gender-neutral colors.
- Alternatively, two characters with the same sex wear blue and pink respectively.
- Enforced: The designers chose those colors so the viewers could easily tell which genders Bob and Alice are.
- Lampshaded: "Why is it that blue is considered a masculine color and pink a feminine color?"
- Invoked:
- Bob and Alice decide to wear blue and pink respectively for whatever reason.
- Wearing pink/blue respectively is Alice and Bob's Half Identical Twin ID Tag.
- Exploited: Alice and Bob swap shirt colors to easily disguise themselves as the opposite gender.
- Defied: Alice and Bob refuse to wear certain colors because society says they have to.
- Discussed: "All girls wear pink clothes, all boys wear blue clothes, it's just part of our culture in Miami."
- Conversed: "Why are girls pink and boys blue? Why can't they have red, black, white, grey, or green?"
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