Neon
| “ | 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 imaginable can be marginalized as a hated "neon" color. Colors that have been categorized as neon include the following:
- White
- Yellow (unless it is on a bug)
- Red (unless it is on a truck)
- Blue
- Green (unless it is on a construction vehicle)
- Purple (see above. Or a dinosaur.)
- Orange
- Black
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 1 character are exempt from all of the above.
Prominent examples
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The aforementioned "rainbow-colored Depth Charge."
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Okay, this one IS kinda hideous.
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Neon camouflage — easy to be spotted on the battlefield.
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You can see it from space!
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The blue here is especially neon. As is the black.
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And worst of all...
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