History Main / HairColorDissonance

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** It's debated amongst fandom whether Dr. Eggman is a redhead or has brown hair. His mustache color is brown in the pre-Sonic Adventure games, more explicitly red in the American cartoons, auburn in ''Anime/SonicX'', and anywhere in between in the comics and every game after Sonic Adventure.

''ComicBook/BlackCat'' is officially listed as having platinum blonde hair, and some depictions of her do have blonde highlights in her hair. Most of the time however her hair is snow white.

** Ash has a greenish or blue tint to his own black hair, which it is tending to vary by season. His hair seems to become greener when wet, however.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWilloughbys'': The titular family are supposed to have red hair, despite it being magenta. Additionally, they were brunettes in the book.

* In the original light novels and 2017 anime, Kino from ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'' has black hair that's stylized as a dark green.

* Waver Velvet and Maiya Hisau in ''LightNovel/FateZero'' have strangely similar dark-green hair in the anime, which is described as black for both in light novels. Waver somehow manages to outgrow the green hair and have greyish, brownish, or jet-black hair as an adult.

* The title character of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' is described in the original light novels as having silvery-white hair. Most artwork of her, even in the light novel illustrations but especially in the anime adaptations, however, depicts her hair color as light-blue.

Long-term exposure to these exaggerated hues will eventually make characters' hair look more "normal"-colored than it actually is. After looking at garish hues for a few minutes, your mind's going to fill in a few details and tone things down a bit. The John or Jane Q. Every viewer might see the blue-haired Kaz after reading ''ComicStrip/GilThorp'' the first time, and yet manage to remember him as black-haired. the thought of Kaz or Their toned-down, more "realistic" mental image of Kaz has black rather than blue hair.

** Outer Moka's hair is obviously pink, but other characters describe her hair as chestnut-brown...

Long-term exposure to these exaggerated hues will eventually make characters' hair look more "normal"-colored than it actually is. After looking at garish hues for a few minutes, your mind's going to fill in a few details and tone things down a bit. The John or Jane Q. Every viewer might see the blue-haired Kaz after reading ''ComicStrip/GilThorp'' the first time, and yet manage to remember him as black-haired. Their toned-down, more "realistic" mental image of Kaz has black rather than blue hair.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Probably as a homage to classic American comics, [[TheHero Izuku Midoriya]] has black hair with dark green highlights in both the anime and manga.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
** Izuku "Deku" Midoriya has green highlights in his black hair.

* Music/{{Enhypen}} has at least 3 members in three eras with hair that looked black but is actually blue: Heeseung in "Dimension: Dilemma" (though his hair was more on the teal shade), Jungwon in "Dimension: Answer" and Jay in "Manifesto: Day 1".

* Music/{{Twice}}'s Tzuyu again in the music video for "TT" and in the photoshoot for "[[Music/FormulaOfLove Formula of Love: O+T=<3]]", where it [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack looks black but is actually purple]].

* Music/{{Twice}}'s Tzuyu again in the music video for "TT", where it [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack looks black but is actually purple]].

* [[SuperOCD Amanda]] from ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' is probably meant to have black or dark brown hair, but it actually looks more plum.

* When perky blonde Lu Ann receives her makeover during the ''I Dressed in the Dark'' storyline of ''ComicStrip/ApartmentThreeG'', the stylist compliments her on her new "rich brown curls", yet Lu Ann's hair is inked the exact same color as her canonically redheaded roommate Tommie. ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' made a not of this. Stylists Kat and Kit receive similar treatment, as their (presumably) brown hair is just an orange a few shades lighter than Tommie's.