I've discussed some notable colors in the past, yet I haven't discussed the two colors in the title of this post... at least, not together in one post. And yet, these two colors taken together could be considered two important colors for Pokémon, aside from the latter's association with yellow because of the international logo. Therefore, there is a certain imperative to discuss the topic of both colors - red and blue - along with their manifestations in Pokémon in order to flesh out their significance as a single unit or "duality".
No doubt, their most important point of significance is as the labeling subtitles for the first-generation games - outside of Japan, that is. The duality even extends to the names for the main and rival character names, who are henceforth recognized and called by these names instead of other distinct names unrelated to colors. Anyone looking into the history of Pokémon will certainly have to contend with the games that go by these colors and by extension the characters that become their emblem.
After that, some later games would embody the duality in some form. Ruby and Sapphire obviously embody the duality by the color of said gems, while X and Y do so with the dominant color of their respective "box Legendaries". The two colors are also thematic in the Sword and Shield games, not the least because they are found in the version logos (blue for Sword and red for Shield); meanwhile, Scarlet and Violet sort-of embody them, even if Violet is closer to red than it is to blue. Continued manifestation is thus a given.
Speaking of dualistic Pokémon species pertinent to the topic, besides Xerneas and Yveltal (and previously Kyogre and Groudon) as suggested above, some other Pokémon embody the two colors. The Nidoran species families are cyan (bluish) for the male forms and purple (reddish) for the female forms - and inversely as such when Shiny, at least for the base form. The Frillish species family is likewise distinctly differentiated by (shades of) both colors for their gender forms, further manifesting the duality.
Every bit of color is significant in both the real world and the Pokémon world, but undeniably, some colors are sometimes significant, more so than others, and particularly in tandem with one color or another. So it is that the fact holds true for the colors of red and blue, which are able to manifest a certain significance together in different ways for Pokémon, for both species and other game elements. That makes them notable just as much as Pokémon is notable today, in more ways than one.
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