Neon
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| “ | 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], alt.toys.transformers (2004) | ||
Unlike the real world, where the word means "fluorescent", neon is a term used by many in the Transformers online fandom to describe any color on a Transformers product that an individual 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
- Green (unless it is on a construction vehicle)
- Purple (see previous)
- Orange
- 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.
[edit] 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! |
