Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 75: Red Oni, Blue Oni

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Yesterday's Results
Junji Ito - 3
I Feel Fantastic - 2
Little Sisters - 2
Heavy Rain - 2
Chuck E Cheese Band - 1
The baby - 1
The cast of Silent Hill 2 - 1
Halery Joel Osment in AI - 1
Side characters in Life is Strange - 1
The Fear - 1
Colonel Ai (MGS) - 1
fun is infinite sonic - 1
Lil' Cal - 1
Me-Mania - 1
Kara - 1

Nominations
Iconic Sequel Character
Intelligible Unintelligible
Corpsing
One of Us
Dead All Along
Disney Villain Death
Eldritch Location
Supervillain Lair
Obfuscating Stupidity
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Lady of War
Dark Is Not Evil
The Everyman
A Hell of a Time
Badass Driver
Always a Bigger Fish
Ramming always works
Disco Dan
What Could Have Been
Tall, Dark And Handsome

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS/ETC. you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.
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Full Results
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope
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Genius Bruiser - Beast (X-Men) / Bane (Batman)
Haunted Castle - Dracula's Castle (Castlevania)
Adolf Hitlarious - Downfall Meme
Body Surf - Mario (Super Mario Odyssey)
Stepford Smiler - Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club) / Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
The Juggernaut - Juggernaut (Marvel)
Deader Than Disco - Instrument-based rhythm games
Uncanny Valley - Junji Ito

Today's tropes is the Red Oni, Blue Oni
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedOniBlueOni

This trope is about two individuals (or occasionally, factions or civilizations) that are significantly linked together somehow (such as through a rivalry, friendship, being siblings, co-workers, competitors, etc.) that have differing personalities and, with it, often different approaches to the world in general, especially whatever they might be competing in/for/over. This, of course, gives them something to butt heads about, since their manner of acting may rub each other the wrong way and each is sure that their way of doing things is right.

The Red Oni is associated with passion, wildness, and defiance. A Red Oni character is often more brawny than brainy, extroverted, enthusiastic, determined, and filled with a zest for life. They are also much more likely to break conventions and rules than their counterpart.

The Blue Oni is associated with serenity, control and observing authority. A Blue Oni is more intellectual, proud, traditional, introverted, and cultured (sometimes more spiritual, although that's not guaranteed). Blue Oni personalities are often respected by others, but also likely to puzzle or confound their peers because they are difficult to read and have a mysterious quality to them.
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House Stark & House Lannister (Game of Thrones)
Yugi & Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Pyro & Iceman (X-Men)

HM:
Light Yagami & L (Death Note)
Walt & Jesse (Breaking Bad)
Dexter and Deb Morgan (Dexter)
Lorne Malvo & Lester Nygaard (Fargo)
Kirby & Meta Knight (Kirby)
Red & Blue (Pokemon Red/Blue)
Jak & Daxter (Jak)
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Red & Blue (Pokemon Red/Blue)
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Chris & Leon (Resident Evil 6)
Dream & Death (The Sandman)
Dante & Vergil (Devil May Cry)

HMs:
Sadako & Kayako (Ring/Ju-On)
Green Arrow & Flash (Arrowverse)
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Ratchet and clank
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Sonic and shadow
Solid snake and liquid snake
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Sawk and Throh (Pokmon)
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Rem and Ram (Re: Zero)
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Pirate_Harris posted...

Sonic and shadow

ooh that's a good one
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Scorpion and Sub-Zero
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Red/Blue
Sonic/Knuckles
Phoenix/Edgeworth
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so like......is that the inspiration for naming the first two Pokmon games Red/Blue? (I know Green came out first in Japan but....that's crazy)
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Ash Ketchum/Gary Oak (Pokmon)
Neo/Agent Smith (The Matrix trilogy)
Batman/The Joker (The Dark Knight/Batman universe)
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Sayaka and Kyouko

Scorpion and Sub-Zero (Mortal Kombat)
Ryu and Ken (Street Fighter)
Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

jcgamer107 posted...

so like......is that the inspiration for naming the first two Pokmon games Red/Blue? (I know Green came out first in Japan but....that's crazy)

yeah if it wasn't intentional it's a really weird coincidence
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man I like this trope, especially when they actually have appropriate color schemes, but it's too early to think of stuff

nevertheless I'll start with

Mugen and Jin (Samurai Champloo)
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Sonic/Knuckles

As much as I hate to admit it, yes. Even the colors match.

phoenix/edgeworth (though their colors are switched)
angel/spike
goku/vegeta
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GenesisSaga posted...

Scorpion and Sub-Zero

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Replace sonic and shadow with sonic and knuckles
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change Yugi and Kaiba to Sonic 3 & Knuckles
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Johnbobb posted...

serenity, control and observing authority.

I am confused why we're voting for sonic
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Tom Bombadil posted...

Johnbobb posted...

serenity, control and observing authority.

I am confused why we're voting for sonic

the funny thing is that Sonic is the red oni and Knuckles is the blue oni
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Mugen and Jin (Samurai Champloo)

Would Zuko and Azula fit for this? They both wear red, but Zuko's is more subdued and Azula's more vibrant. Also they're fire bending colors are reversed. Fuck it

Zuko and Azula (Avatar)
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this trope refers to personalities and not costumes. you could argue either zuko or azula to be the red/blue oni, so they don't really fit the trope
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Hm I suppose that's true. They do undergo a sort of a role reversal from Earth to Fire chapters.

Kattara/Zuko would probably be more appropriate, but to hell with calling Katara the best of anything.
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The best Red/Blue Oni pairing I can think of off-hand would be Zuko (red) and Iroh (blue)
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Rem and Ram (Re: Zero)
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Tomo/Yomi (Azumanga Daioh)
Catherine/Katherine (Catherine)
Chie/Yukiko (Persona 4)

HM:
Yukari/Nyamo (Azumanga Daioh)
Sora/Riku (KH)
Oasis/Blur
Arya/Sansa (GoT)
Marilyn Monroe/Jane Russell

But really though me (red oni) and my bf (blue oni).
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Aldo worth mentioning

Sailor Mercury/Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon)
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Lumiere and Cogsworth
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Haruhara Haruko and Jinyu (FLCL Progressive)
Sonic and Knuckles (Sonic)
Naruto and Sasuke (Naruto)
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Bert and Ralph (The Raccoons)
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Ernie & Bert
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Dante & Vergil (Devil May Cry)
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Catherine/Katherine (Catherine)
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Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

from the avatar universe, you're probably best off with korra/asami, though korra of course is the red oni despite wearing blue.
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Wright & Edgeworth
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Fffffffff

I should've nominated Light and L for this

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Ty Lee and Mai probably would have worked too.
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