Vermillion being red fucks a lot of millennials up who grew up watching Pokemon.
Vermillion city not being a shade of yellow is the standout because it hosts the Electric Gym (yellow themed). Every other city's gym is related to the town color.
Rock Gym is Pewter city (gray)
water gym is Cerulean city (blue)
grass gym is Celadon city (greenish)
poison gym is Fuschia city (pinkish is commonly poison for pokemon)
the FIGHTING gym is in Saffron city (orange ish is a Fighting type color in the tcg)
Fire gym is on Cinnabar Island (bright red)
Earth Badge is in Viridian (an earthy green)
Saffron City was built with the fighting gym in place. Sabrina's psychic gym has JUST replaced him when you get to town
Vermillion (or more precisely vermillion) is the name of a fruit fly (Drosophila) mutant with bright red eyes (as opposed to wild type, which has brick red eyes). I always knew my genetics PhD would come into handy one day.
Isn't it yellow? 🤔 I vaguely remember Vermillion Town in Pokemon being yellow when played on a GBC. I've always associated it with yellow because of that.
I have a fictional scenario I invented where a blind man is completely confused that “maroon” is a shade of red, not blue, given that it relates to the sea.
There's a wonderful game I played called crosscode, and one of the areas is called "Vermillion Wastelands" and everything is red. Also that's the first time I heard the word so can't relate