TIME PALETTE TOWN CLOSES MOVIE

The trope's title refers to the first generation PokГ©mon games where the player starts out in Pallet Town, and travels to other cities each named after a distinctive color.When the cult's leader is defeated, the town reverts to its normal color scheme. The Happy Happy Village in Earthbound is covered and continually repainted in blue by the town when it is under the influence of the insane Happy Happy cult, which worships the colour blue.Red and Yellow both belong to the same nation, while Black is used for various groups not directly connected to a nation. It still does, but it's not as clear-cut anymore.Advance Wars (at least before it got Darker and Edgier) used this color scheme to help distinguish between different nations.Several episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood featured a single-palette planet, Planet Purple, where everything was purple and the main inhabitants were blocky people who were all named Paul and Pauline, together with a Purple Panda.In Piers Anthony's Phaze series, the various Adepts decorate their estates in single colors, and even the surrounding landscape is tinted to match.It starts green, then turns red, and then turns gold.

TIME PALETTE TOWN CLOSES MOVIE

The movie version of The Wiz's Emerald City is a Single Palette Town, but the actual color on that palette changes on occasion because of fashion.The Broadway adaptation The Wiz and the Retcon Wicked both adopt the glasses from the book, but oddly enough, in both cases the town is still green - perhaps for the convenience of the non-tinted-glasses-wearing audience.In some of the books, this trope goes to an extreme: even the dirt, rocks, houses, and plants take on a particular hue depending where in Oz it is. Regardless, the trope still fully applies to Munchkin Country, where houses and clothes were invariably blue, and likewise for the yellow-loving Winkies, the red-sporting Quadlings, and the purple-clad Gillikins. Interestingly, in the original book, the city wasn't actually green-the wizard just required that everyone wears glasses that make it look green, for his own selfish purposes. The earliest known example of this trope is in the Oz books, where the famous Emerald City is a uniform splendid shade of green, and was immortalized as such in the famous 1939 film of The Wizard of Oz, making this Older Than Television.

Time palette town closes