Orange Supreem
| File:Alt.toys.transformers (2004) | “ | Why can't we get some more realistic colors fitting a real life vechicle/Animals for a TF? Example: A purple wolf Silverbot for the TF line. A rainbow colored Depth charge for TFU. The badly colored Armada Tidalwave. No ones saying paint everything black+grey. just stop using those neon colors & so forth. | „ |
| ~ Deathy[1] |
There are three ways to define neon:
- The common usage: A color that is extremely vivid.
- The scientific usage: A shade of red belonging to that group, which comes from electric current running through the noble gas of the same name.
- The Transformers usage: Derived from the common usage, this can refer to any color on a Transformers product that an individual (usually one on the more passionate side of the fandom) merely finds ugly. This broad usage means practically any color imagineable can be marginalized as a hated "neon" color. Colors that have been categorized as neon include the following:
- White
- Yellow
- Red (unless it is on a truck)
- Blue (see previous)
- Green (unless it is on a construction vehicle)
- Purple (see previous)
- Orange (actually, this one fits into the common usage more often than not)
- Black
... pretty much every known basic color.
Often a neon color will be a complementary accent color, even if that color is extremely unsaturated. Any color schemes that adhere slavishly to a pre-existing Generation One character are exempt from all of the above.
Prominent examples
You might think the red is what's neon here, but it's actually the dull green.
Taupe has never been so gaudy.
The mold for this one is actually made of uranium.
Neon camouflage — easy to be spotted on the battlefield.
You can see it from space!
The blue here is especially neon. As is the black.
- And the worst of all...
My eyes! MY EYES!