The colors tell it all

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Sorry if this has been posted before, but I couldn't find it.

I have thought many times about how ironic it was that Blu-Ray picked blue and HD DVD picked red, but today I did a little research and it goes beyond just G.I. JOE vs. Cobra and Star Wars when I came upon this webpage

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Here are a couple of examples

How do you tell who to root for? Why, you look at what color the character is, of course!
In visual entertainment, who's good and who's evil is usually distinguished by the colors, and woe be to those who are colorblind.
Black for evil (why do you think it's called The Dark Side?) and white for good is probably the oldest and most obvious classification. It can be more complex than this, of course, with black as some form of Shadow Archetype. Nowadays, this is subverted as often as it's used straight.
Another common pairing is red versus blue, where the hero is blue and the villain is red. A variation on this is a character that's calm being represented by blue and a more fiery character being represented by red, usually The Hero and The Lancer, or The Hero and The Rival.

Examples of blue heroes, red villains:
· Tron is probably one of the best-known "blue heroes, red villains" works.
o The video game sequel, Tron 2.0, takes this farther with an extended color-coding scheme. Good guys are blue, neutrals are yellow, and villains are red, sickly green, or purple, depending on their affiliation.
o The Space Paranoids portion of Kingdom Hearts II has a similar setup, since it's directly based on Tron.
· Many Turn Based Strategy games have allies in blue and enemies in red, especially if there's a "radar" where individual characters are represented as dots. Fire Emblem and Super Robot Wars are both examples of this.
· The guns on GI Joe shoot red or blue lasers, depending on the affiliation of the shooter.
o This is parodied in the Homestar Runner "Cheat Commandos" toons, where the bad guy organization is literally named Blue Laser.
· Command And Conquer: Red Alert. The Soviets are red, the Allies blue.
· City Of Heroes/City Of Villains -- while the characters themselves are not subject to this trope, the intro and character design screens and all the main screen interface elements are, to the point that some players refer to City Of Heroes as "Blue Side" and City Of Villains as "Red Side". Additionally, Pocket D -- the extradimensional night club accessible from both games -- is red from the middle of the dance floor all the way to the villains' entrance, and blue from the middle to the heroes' entrance.
· In the Star Wars movies, the Jedi typically use blue or green lightsabers, while the Sith always use red.
o Also, please note Mace Windu's awesome purple light saber in Revenge of the Sith -- indicating supreme kickassery. He specifically asked for it.
· The killer and detective in Death Note are lit by vivid red and blue lights respectively, regardless of the natural lighting of the scene.
· Though they're both main characters, the opposing characters Fai and Kurogane in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle are portrayed as blue and red, respectively.
· Real Life examples:
o "Red state" and "blue state" to refer to U.S. states where Republicans and Democrats, respectively, predominate in presidential elections. Note that this has only been standard since the 2000 election; before that, election maps were often colored red and blue, but which color represented which party switched regularly. It is left up to the individual reader to decide whether this is an example or a subversion of the usual blue/good red/evil convention. This may very well be an example of Adaptation Decay, given that red has traditionally stood for socialism and blue for aristocracy. (At least one assignment of red to the Republicans in the 1980s was intended as a slight by a liberal news director: he gave the conservatives the color of radical Communism.)
o The U.S. military services use "blue" as a map color code and all-purpose slang for friendly forces, with "red" for enemies. Shooting at friendly forces (by accident or mistake) is referred to as a "blue-on-blue" engagement. Conversely, incidents of fighting between rival insurgent factions in Iraq have been described as "red-on-red."
§ This is probably the origin of red and blue being the common team colors in multiplayer games that only have two hardcoded colors.
· Ironically, the Halo machinima series Red vs. Blue doesn't follow this closely. Only new recruits and COs wear team colors, so they all have different armor colors for each member, with only slight resemblances between them. Red Team has its members in Red, Maroon, Orange, and Pink (formerly red) and the Blue Team has its members in Blue, Cobalt, Cyan, and Yellow. Freelancers Tex and Wyoming have black and white armor respectively.
o The grunts play this straight, as they are a parody of gamers on multiplayer eternally playing a game of Capture the Flag where everyone dies and respawns every couple of minutes.
· In the Mega Man games, it seems to be blue as The Hero and red as The Rival/The Lancer. All varieties of Mega Man are blue, of course. Protoman, a loner who just occasionally drops in to visit/help Megaman (and who is mistaken for a villain the first time he appears and framed as a villain in a later game), is red. Zero is also red, and while officially a good guy he gets killed, captured and turned evil an awful lot (though he eventually stops doing that so he can have his own series). Enemies are too busy being themed by their attacks/elements to be color coded, and the main antagonists who aren't humans are generally multicolored.
· Disney's Aladdin uses this color scheme for its characters. The most virtuous character, Princess Jasmine, wears blue (turquois, actually), and the Genie has blue skin. By contrast, Jafar is clad in black with red accents, and his pet/minion Iago is mostly red. The titular hero wears a blue vest, while the more mischievious Abu has a red vest.

So I guess this format wars is a war of good vs evil