History Main / AmazingTechnicolorWildLife

* ''WebVideo/RatsSMP'': A few of the rats have decidedly unnatural fur/hair colours, like Acho (lilac), Lizzie (pink), and Scott (light blue). Acho's case is justified, [[spoiler:being a former pet fancy rat living with ''unconventional'' humans (and his fur is revealed to be naturally white in his finale)]], while others have varying degrees of justification themselves from various dyes [[spoiler:and less human influence]].

* ''WebVideo/RatsSMP'': A few of the rats have decidedly unnatural fur/hair colours, like Acho (lilac), Lizzie (pink), and Scott (light blue). Acho's case is justified, being a former pet fancy rat living with ''unconventional'' humans (and his fur is revealed to be naturally white in his finale), but the other two have ''no'' excuse.

* While the arcade of ''Videogame/AlteredBeast1988'' (and the Master System port) had the two-headed wolf who provides the UpgradeArtifact being albino, in the better-known Genesis version it's blue.

* A lot of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' characters fall under this category:
** Sonic in particular is famous for being a "blue hedgehog" ("The Blue Blur" being his nickname), but there are also pink, black and silver hedgehogs, purple cats, red echidnas, yellow polar bears, green tufted woodpeckers, black armadillos with red shells, green hawks, the list goes on and on; pretty much the only characters who are the colors they should be are Tails, Vector, Cream and Charmy. Originally, Naoto Ooshima drew Sonic with ''black'' fur, but quickly changed it to blue so it would match the Sega logo.
** The small animals found in the [[MechaMooks badniks]] of certain games are also oddly colored, such as purple peacocks with red tails, [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure pink]] and [[VideoGame/SonicAdvanceTrilogy purple]] elephants, pink seals, purple penguins, and blue gorillas.

* ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper''. Not only is Katy Kat blue, but her head is [[AlienGeometries semicircular]]!

* There are some pretty funky ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' examples. True, they're technically not animals, but most are [[IntelligentGerbil based on animals]]. A yellow mouse[[note]]the Pikachu line[[/note]], a blue turtle[[note]]the Squirtle line[[/note]], a yellow and a blue duck/platypus[[note]]the Psyduck line[[/note]]. And that's just the first generation of mons! Yeah, those critters cover the spectrum and back. Most Pokemon tend to be colored based on what sort of [[ElementalPowers type]] they're supposed to represent, and even that isn't a hard rule. It also applied to the fictional critters themselves with the shiny Pokémon.
* The orca that ferries you around in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' is a pastel color.
* ''VideoGame/FeedingFrenzy'' features exceedingly vivid marine creatures such as fuschia wrasses with bright orange and red marks, purple and blue dories, cyan cods, etc.
* ''VideoGame/FarmVille'', the Website/{{Facebook}} game, has this in spades (pink cows, purple sheep, etc). The colors also [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority determine the relative value]] of each of your farm critters.
* The bunny kids (WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit's children) from ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' are bright cyan.
* The dream eaters in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' are based on real and mythological creatures, and always unusually colored. The nightmare versions fought as enemies tend to use dark color schemes, while the friendly spirit versions are downright fluorescent. The latter can also be recolored to a limited degree by the player.
* In ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'', the [=GGs=]' dog Potts is blue in the first game, and green in [=JSRF=].
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has sheep, which appear in the wild with colors that include white (of course), black, grey, brown (all plausible), and, very rarely, pink (plainly impossible in Real Life). Gets even more bizarre when colored dyes are added to the mix: Not only does a dyed sheep regrow its wool in the dyed color after being sheared, but if it's one of a breeding pair, [[LamarckWasRight it has a chance of passing on that color to its offspring]].
* ''VideoGame/DynamiteDux'' stars the blue and pink ducks Bin and Pin.
* The pigs in ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' are lime green. That's what you get when you're creating a game and everyone panics about swine flu.
* In ''Videogame/{{Trog}}'', you play one of four dinosaurs in different colors. Rex is red, Bloop is blue, Spike is yellow and Gwen is purple.
* The neon snakes and eponymous dragons from ''VideoGame/FarCry3BloodDragon'' have glowing neon coloration, while nearly every animal on the island has glowing eyes as well.
* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' has many creatures who look like multicoloured regular animals.
* ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin'':
** You can choose all sorts of colors for your penguin, most of them being impossible in real life. The available colors for penguins are: red, yellow, green, lime, purple, pink, peach, light blue, aqua, brown, orange white, dark blue and black. Most, if not all mascots fall under this trope, with the closest to natural coloured being Gary and G Billy, who are dark blue.
** Puffles, the furry, limbless {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s that penguins own as pets are similarly brightly coloured. Unlike penguins, different-coloured puffles have different personalities. Red puffles are {{Surfer Dude}}s and adventurous, orange puffles are {{Big Eater}}s, yellow puffles are artistic etc.

* {{Zigzagged}} in ''VideoGame/CerealSoup''. Usually, this trope is PlayedStraight as it allows players to apply any color under the sun to their meerkat, canine, or feline characters in its CharacterCustomization, but it also offers to randomize "realistic" colors for their animal avatars in order to avert this trope as well.
* The titular character of ''VideoGame/SushiCat'' is a bright blue cat.
* The cats in ''VideoGame/FeedTheCat'' are orange, but with blue stripes and noses.
* In the video game adaptation of ''Film/DennisTheMenace'', Mr. Wilson owns a bunch of purple cats.
* The dinosaurs in ''VideoGame/{{Parkasaurus}}'' come in various bold, bright colours.
* ''VideoGame/PunkySkunk'': Kelly is a pink rabbit.
* Carol Tea from ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'' is a green wildcat. She shares this trait with her older sister, Corazon Tea, who appears in the [[VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2 sequel]].
* ''VideoGame/TanukiJustice'' stars a pair of tanuki ninja siblings, the sister which is pink. There's also a pair of Japanese proboscis monkey DualBoss with yellow and green fur (despite the game having regular, white-furred proboscis monkeys as lesser mooks) and eaglers with magenta feathers.
* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'': Pom's fleece has a light tint of pink, while Nidra is a lavender tapir. A lot of the background ungulates, such as the reindeer and other sheep, also come in a wide variety of unusual colors. Some of the alternate palettes for the playable characters can get a bit wild as well.
* In the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series, the Ocean Prince is a pink-colored minnow. Real-life minnows are usually blue-silver on the sides and green-blue on the back. Since the Ocean Prince's natural human form has pink hair and wears pink in his outfit, this may have influenced why his fish form is colored the way it is.
* ''VideoGame/{{Lorwolf}}'': The game has a wide color wheel for all wolves, including those obtained via breeding, wild encounters, and your 2 custom starters, including a variety of bright shades that wolves can't be in real life. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the non-player characters, who all have realistic colors for their species.

* ''WebAnimation/AnAdventureOfSheepAndChicken: The main characters are a blue chicken and a red sheep.

* While the arcade of ''Videogame/AlteredBeast'' (and the Master System port) had the two-headed wolf who provides the UpgradeArtifact being albino, in the better-known Genesis version it's blue.

* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'': Pom's fleece has a light tint of pink. A lot of the background ungulates, such as the reindeer and other sheep, also come in a wide variety of unusual colors. Some of the alternate palettes for the playable characters can get a bit wild as well.

* ''Literature/GiantsSeries'': JustifiedTrope. The native Minervan land animals had no predators, so they were generally brightly colored; one is described as bright blue with pink stripes. Earth researchers finding a room decorated with them initially thought they had found a nursery with cartoon FunnyAnimals. Deconstructed later; when Earth predators were imported, it was a slaughter that gave Earth prey species enough time to grow their numbers to survive.

* ''LetsPlay/RatsSMP'': A few of the rats have decidedly unnatural fur/hair colours, like Acho (lilac), Lizzie (pink), and Scott (light blue). Acho's case is justified, being a former pet fancy rat living with ''unconventional'' humans (and his fur is revealed to be naturally white in his finale), but the other two have ''no'' excuse.

* Many of the animal townsfolk in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' are peculiarly colored, in almost every color imaginable. The quickest example? A bear called Bluebear. Guess what color she is.

** The small animals found in the [[MechaMooks badniks]] of certain games are also oddly colored, such as purple peacocks with red tails, [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure pink]] and [[VideoGame/SonicAdvanceSeries purple]] elephants, pink seals, purple penguins, and blue gorillas.

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'':

** Marcus [=McCloud=], Fox and Krystal's future son, who appears in one of ''Command'''s possible endings inherits his mother's blue fur color.

** Unlike Falco Lombardi, real falcons don't have blue feathers. But WordOfGod has it he's actually a ''pheasant''.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'': While most of the mammal-analogue tribbetheres are of subdued shades of brown, black and gray, similar to actual mammals, some species have taken more unusual colorations, such as the green moose-like antlears, or the vibropterans, hummingbird-like tribbats that come in vivid neon shades. There's also the aquatic molodonts who take on parrotfish-like colors.

* Jenna from ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' is a bright red Husky, as are most of her and Balto's children in the sequels. "Red" is an actual Husky colour however it's more of a brownish or burnt orange colour than the deep red Jenna is.

* Color options with the pet system for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'' introduced in 2017 have included blue, pink, green and gold. They are said to be spirits and thus aren't real animals.

* All of the frogs from ''WesternAnimation/KulipariAnArmyOfFrogs'' look pretty similar in chose of color to frogs in real life--even the Kulipari, who are all dart frogs. The only exception is that the Kulipari tend to glow when they use their superpowers.

** Larry the Lobster. Yes, lobsters can be bright red, but not live lobsters... only cooked ones. May be a case of TheCoconutEffect. Somewhat {{Justified|Trope}}, since Larry ''does'' like to tan a lot.
** Squidward Tentacles is a blue-green octopus, but octopi only ''look'' that color because of the sea tint. "Reef Blower" shows him to be purple above water as a justification. However he remains green in his other out-of-water appearances, such as in "Pressure" and ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobMovieSpongeOutOfWater''.

* Although the main characters from ''WesternAnimation/FlavioTheGoat'' have regular colors for their respective species, the background characters come in a wide variety of hues.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow'': Huckleberry Hound is light blue. He ''is'' supposed to be the breed of dog called the "bluetick coonhound", but they're white with a mottling ("ticking") of black, not a solid powder blue color.
* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'': The cast and background characters who are animals have this: The cats; Oggy is blue, Jack is green. The cockroaches; Dee Dee has a blue body and orange head, Marky has a grey body and green head and Joey has a pink body and purple head. Characters such as Olivia and Bob, on the other hand, avert this.

* ''WesternAnimation/KateAndMimMim'' takes place inside a [[MrImagination little girl's imagination]], so it's not surprising that there's a rainbow of different characters. Mim-Mim is purple because that's the color of her stuffed bunny to begin with. Other main characters are pink, blue, brown and orange.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' has a blue emperor penguin named Olaf.
* ''WesternAnimation/PsykoFerret'' stars a red ferret. Ferrets don't come in red.
* Everest the Husky from ''WesternAnimation/PawPatrol'' has mostly white fur, but it is also partially purple.
* The 1994 direct-to-video film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4mn7QRzhuQ Simon The Lamb]]'' by Precious Moments, is focused on a [[SweetSheep baby lamb]] named Simon who gets discovered by a shepherd at night. Simon becomes a new member of the flock, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer but mostly gets rejected by a majority of the lambs]]. Albert the lamb is the most notable since he finds ways to mess with him (such as leading him away from the pasture while playing a game of "Blind man's buff"). However, Daisy is the only sheep from the flock that genuinely likes him and is constatly scolding the lambs for rejecting and making fun of him. [[WhatTheHellHero She even calls out Albert for how he treated Simon]] and motivates the other lambs to help find Simon after going missing. After a blizzard, [[SmoochOfVictory Simon gets a kiss on the cheek by Daisy after saving their lives]] and finding him safe. It's revealed that an angel accidentally spilled a bucket of paint which brings Simon to life on earth.

* Some breeds of dogs, cats, and horses come in a color referred to as "blue." It is actually a shade of grey with a very faint bluish tint.

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* Bluestar from ''Literature/WarriorCats'' is one of the very few cats in the series to be described as "blueish-grey" looking. Her children and other cats are "grey". It's possible that Bluestar has some Russian Blue in her. They're a cat breed often described as blue-looking.
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* Fozzie from ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' is a ''bright orange'' bear (although he referred to himself as "light brown" in one episode).

* ''Literature/GiantsSeries'': JustifiedTrope. The native Minervan land animals had no predators, so they were generally brightly colored; one is described as bright blue with pink stripes. Earth researchers finding a room decorated with them initially thought they had found a nursery with cartoon FunnyAnimals. Deconstructed later; when Earth predators are imported, it's a slaughter that gives Earth prey species enough time to grow their numbers to survive.

Animals are a bit different from humans -- a lot of them ''do'' come in wilder, more flamboyant colors, especially in tropical areas. Animals use bright colors as a way of saying "Don't eat me! I'm poisonous!" or "Look at me! Aren't I a ''sexy beast?''," or even for reasons we're not quite sure of. However, not ''all'' animals come in different colors -- a lot of mammals tend to be the same grayish and yellowish and brownish and reddish colors we humans are, with the brightest colors reserved for birds, insects, and fish. (A few reptiles here and there, too.) And while no one would bat their eye at a blue peacock with green tail feathers, a ''red'' peacock with bright purple tailfeathers would be [[SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying distinctly more unusual]]. For instance, there is no green in mammals (unless you count fur tinted green because of algae) and blue is only found in a few mammal species (unless you count greyish-blue or a blue sheen). It just doesn't exist naturally. {{Funny Animal}}s, in particular, seem to be prone to this.

* Subverted in ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic''. Yes, Sonic is blue, however he was LockedIntoStrangeness. He was born brown furred. One issue implied that the pink furred Amy was born brown too, however it is dubiously canon due to its numerous {{Series Continuity Error}}s. Most other characters are realistically coloured or are based on actual colours.

* A lot of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' characters fall under this category:

* Spanish show ''El Perro Verde'' was a interview program that featured, indeed, a green dog.

* In ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'', the protagonist reincarnates into a pink spider.

* ''ARG/WelcomeHome'': Downplayed with Barnaby. While blue dogs do exist in real life, none of them are the pastel blue of Barnaby's fur.