History Main / HairColorDissonance

Note that most of these are TruthInTelevision, as their hair colors ''can'' in fact be seen in certain lighting conditions. [[BlackHairIsBlue Black hair appearing blue]][[ShinyMidnightBlack or purple]] is so commonly noticed that it is developing its own trope (in no small part due to it's prevalence among Japanese).

* [[Bleach Matsumoto]] seems to be this, supposed to be blond but like Orihime has the same haircolour as Ichigo in the anime.

* When perky blonde Lu Ann receives her makeover during the "I Dressed in the Dark" storyline, 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. TheComicsCurmudgeon lampshaded this at one point. Stylists Kat and Kit receive similar treatment, as their (presumably) brown hair is just an orange a few shades lighter than Tommie's.

* When perky blonde Lu Ann got her makeover in the most recent Apartment3G storyline, the stylist complimented her on her new "rich brown curls," yet Lu Ann's hair was inked the exact same color as her canonically redheaded roommate Tommie. TheComicsCurmudgeon had a few days worth of jokes about it. Stylists Kat and Kit receive similar treatment, as their (presumably) brown hair is just an orange a few shades lighter than Tommie's.

* When perky blonde LuAnn got her makeover in the most recent Apartment3G storyline, the stylist complimented her on her new "rich brown curls," yet LuAnn's hair was inked the exact same color as her canonically redheaded roommate Tommie. TheComicsCurmudgeon had a few days worth of jokes about it. Stylists Kat and Kit receive similar treatment, as their (presumably) brown hair is just an orange a few shades lighter than Tommie's.

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Animated hair colors tend to be a little on the loud side. For instance, it's not uncommon for old people- normally thought of as gray haired in RealLife- to be purple-haired. Or perhaps for seemingly brown-haired characters to really, upon closer inspection, have hair that is a shade of green. This can also be done for art reasons, as actual black tends to look very poor in animation.


Long-term exposure to these exaggerated hues will eventually make characters' hair look more "normal"-colored than it actually is. After looking but garish, exaggerated 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. Everyviewer might see the blue-haired Mr. Burns after watching an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', and yet manage to remember him as gray-haired. Their toned-down, more "realistic" mental image of Burns has gray rather than blue hair.

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* Ilyana from ''FireEmblem'' 9 and 10.

* All too common in HannaBarbera cartoons in the late 80's and early 90's.

Note that most of these are TruthInTelevision, as their hair colors ''can'' in fact be seen in certain lighting conditions. [[BlackHairIsBlue Black hair appearing blue or purple]] is so commonly noticed that it is developing its own trope (in no small part due to it's prevalence among Japanese).

Animated hair colors tend to be a little on the loud side. For instance, it's not uncommon for old people- normally thought of as gray haired in RealLife- to be purple-haired. Or perhaps for seemingly brown-haired characters to really, upon closer inspection, have hair that is a shade of green.

You can find this phenonemon with all sorts of hair colors that are separate from what we perceive them to be. For instance, lavender-haired characters can ''also'' appear to be gray haired. People with bright orange hair can appear blond, redheads can appear to be brunettes, and those with hair in all sorts of odd grayish tones can just look like they have mouse or light brown hair.

* [[SailorMoon Sailor Pluto]]'s hair is like this sometimes as in some shots her hair has a green tinge to it. Officially it varies between black and very dark green.
* Some fans believe that Jun's hair in ''ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' is a case of this, insisting that it's so black that it only seems to be green. Later artwork, merchandise and the sequel series have her hair lightened/brightened to a more obvious shade of green.
* Tracey in the ''Pokemon'' anime seems to have this thing going. He had a full set of black hair in the Orange Island saga, but upgraded to a greenish tint in latter seasons.

* Annet Myer from ''El Viento'' has black hair in the Amercian box art, but green hair in the game.

* Jake from ''AmericanDragonJakeLong''. Though it wouldn't be out of character for it to be dyed, no one seems to comment on the green in his hair.
** Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]]; he does live in New York City, and [[SeenItAll they pretend to have seen or actually have seen]] ''everything''.

* Yuki Nagato from ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', whose pale hair usually edges closer to purple [[ModelDissonance in merchandise]]. Light blue is avoided for [[NeonGenesisEvangelion obvious reasons]].

* A failed attempt. [[TenchiMuyo Ryoko's]] hair is supposed to be considered silver, but everybody considers her hair to be cyan/light blue/turquoise.

* The Viera race from ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' have purple or green hair, and it's obvious that they're supposed have white hair, right? (especially in their artworks) Ritz's albino hair in St. Ivalice seems light lavender, though her friend commented it "as white as snow".

* Remy from ''{{Ratatouille}}''.
** [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/badoo_tealeaf/415448794/ Rats can have this color of hair, but it is uncommon in the wild.]] [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/34846546@N00/537795575/in/photostream/ Here is a picture of Remy for comparison.]]

Animated hair colors tend to be a little on the loud side. For instance, it's not uncommon for old people--who'd normally have boring old grey hair in RealLife--to be [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair unexplainedly blue-haired]]. Or perhaps for seemingly brown-haired characters to really, upon closer inspection, have hair in some bizarre shade of green.

Long-term exposure to these exaggerated hues will eventually make characters' hair look more "normal"-colored than it actually is. After staring at nothing but garish, exaggerated hues after an hour or so (take into account that the average cartoon viewer has kept up this habit for years), your mind's going to fill in a few details and tone things down a bit. The John or Jane Q. Everyviewer might see the blue-haired Mr. Burns after watching an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', and yet manage to remember him as grey-haired. Their toned-down, more "realistic" mental image of Burns has grey rather than blue hair.

And this principle doesn't just apply to blue-haired characters looking grey-haired. You can see it with all sorts of hair colors that are unrealistically bright in their original context. For instance, lavender-haired characters can ''also'' appear to be grey haired. People with bright orange hair can appear blond, redheads can appear to be brunettes, and those with hair in all sorts of odd greyish tones can just look like they have mouse or light brown hair.

In a way, it's a form of WeirdnessCensor. Alternately, it's similar to the practice of exaggerating motions and forms to make them look right when animated; when trying to exactly mimic realism, it can come across as slightly [[UncannyValley off and dead]]. It's not so much the WeirdnessCensor acting up as an intentional manipulation of the eye and how it perceives color

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* Yuki Nagato from ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', whose pale hair usually edges closer to purple [[ModelDissonance in merchandise]]. Light blue is avoided for [[NeonGenesisEvangelion obvious reasons]].
* [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]]'s distinctive light blue hair, although [[WordOfGod she isn't intended to be albino]]. Possibly chosen to distinguish her from another character with actual white hair.
* A failed attempt. [[TenchiMuyo Ryoko's]] hair is supposed to be considered silver, but everybody considers her hair to be cyan/light blue/turquoise.
* Sakata Gintoki from ''{{Gintama}}''.
* From ''ThePrinceOfTennis'', we have Atobe Keigo, whose hair has been described as grey, silver, purple and even blond by fans.

* Ilyana from ''FireEmblem'' 9 and 10.
* Franziska von Karma from ''AceAttorney'' appears to have blue hair, but many fans believe it to be white. Capcom's no help: some of the promo art tinted it ''green''.
* The Viera race from ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' have purple or green hair, and it's obvious that they're supposed have white hair, right? (especially in their artworks) Ritz's albino hair in St. Ivalice seems light lavender, though her friend commented it "as white as snow".
** Which makes the whole "She wants to stay because her hair ''is'' red in Ivalice" thing into total {{Narm}}.
** Adelle from ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' was like this also.
* Inverted with Super Macho Man in ''PunchOut'' - his hair is supposed to be silver-blonde, but it looks gray. This, combined with his leathery skin, leads people to think he's an old man; he's actually twenty-seven. (His skin is leathery because he tans way too much; the Wii game makes this clearer.)

* Mr. Burns from ''TheSimpsons''. The fact that his hair ''is'' grey sometimes doesn't help matters.
** In early episodes, Mr. Smithers also has blue hair. And he's black.
** Possibly lampshaded in other episode when Homer says that Marge's real hair color is gray but dyes it blue.
* [[TomAndJerry Tom]] Cat.
* Remy from ''{{Ratatouille}}''.
** [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/badoo_tealeaf/415448794/ Rats can have this color of hair, but it is uncommon in the wild.]] [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/34846546@N00/537795575/in/photostream/ Here is a picture of Remy for comparison.]]

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* Ken Ichijouji in ''DigimonAdventure02'', and [[spoiler:the twins]] Kouji and Kouichi in ''DigimonFrontier''.
* Akane Tendo from ''RanmaOneHalf''.
* Misato Katsuragi from ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
* Nadia in ''NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', depending on the detail of the medium involved. Usually black in merchandise, more blue in animation so it shows up better against her skin.
* Mashiro Moritaka from ''{{Bakuman}}''.
* In ''FullMetalPanic'', we're meant to believe Kaname Chidori's pale-blue hair is black. Hilariously LampShaded in TheAbridgedSeries.
* Kirika from ''{{Noir}}''.
* Sasuke Uchiha from ''{{Naruto}}''. It even seems to accent his costumes as they change.
* Uryuu Ishida and Soi Fon from ''{{Bleach}}''.
* Gray, in the ''FairyTail'' anime.
* Ciel, from the ''{{Tsukihime}}'' visual novel.
* Nyamo in the anime version of ''AzumangaDaioh''
* [[CodeGeass Kaguya Sumeragi]] has [[IncrediblyLamePun shades of this]], and possibly Rivalz.
* Honoka from ''PrettyCure'' has dark blue hair on the anime, though it appears black at times, probably to make it a BlondeBrunetteRedhead trio with Nagisa (redhead) and Hikari (blonde).

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* {{Superman}} and {{Batman}} both have this. As do all three Robins, PreCrisis Lois, and almost any other DCComics character with dark hair.

* Katherine Gibson in ''{{Snatcher}}'', whose hair color is officially stated to be dark brown in the ''Snatcher Pilot Disk'' (and depicted as such in official artwork), despite being blue in the games.
* [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/1/1c/Diamond_Pearl_Dawn.png Dawn]] and [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/w/upload/6/66/Diamond_Pearl_Lucas.png Lucas]] from ''{{Pokemon}} Diamond/Pearl/Platinum''. Their [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/w/upload/4/47/HikariDP.png anime]] [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/w/upload/a/a6/Lucas.png counterparts]] have a more blueish hair color though. Same with their sprites.
** Those are shades of blue though, and that artist drew Dawn in the trading card games with a brighter color.
* Rock/ MegaMan has black hair that is sometimes depicted as blue.

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* Susan from ''ElGoonishShive'' has hair that really ''is'' (dyed) dark blue, but it's hard not to see picture it as black, even after seeing color images. That may be excused since most of the comic is in black-and-white.

* Elisa Maza from ''{{Gargoyles}}'', as pointed out by the NostalgiaCritic.
* Milo from ''PepperAnn''. This is even pointed out at one point; Pepper Ann mistakes his "black" hair for being blue.
* Inverted by ''{{Coraline}}''--given the dark shade of her hair, it's easy to think that the bluish tinge is just artistic license--until she actually mentions that, yes, her hair is supposed to be that bluish color (and providing some proof that, maybe, her real parents are better than she lets on to let her dye it like that).
* The whole Van Houten family in ''TheSimpsons''

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* Mello of ''DeathNote''.
** The anime seems to use hair color more as symbolic than anything else: in particularly dramatic scenes L and Light inexplicably have vivid blue and red hair, respectively.
*** As do the rest of their bodies, what you're seeing is the dramatic lighting effect that's used when the main characters are thinking dramatically. Matsuda does it too, once!
*** This troper always thinks light red/strawberry-blond when she sees Mello's hair. It throws me off for a minute when I read a fanfic that describes him as blond.
* [[CodeGeass Shirley Fenette]] may be this.

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* Many ''Tintin'' fans insist the hero is blond, despite lack of any evidence pointing towards it.

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* Hurdy from ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2''.

* Agatha in GirlGenius.

* Gadget from ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers''. Note that this isn't even constant; her hair changes its color from episode to episode. Her {{doppelganger}} Lahwhinie, however, is only shown with orange hair supposed to be blond.
* Inverted in Disney's [[{{Disney/Cinderella}} Cinderella]]. In the film, she has orangey hair, but in all the merchandising, it's yellow.

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* Gaara in ''{{Naruto}}''
** I was under the impression that his hair is ACTUALLY red. The color is too sharp to be considered a mistake. A better example would be his brother Kankuro, who has dark brown hair that edges towards Gaara's red.
* Orihime from ''{{Bleach}}'' supposedly has chestnut-brown hair. In practice, it's so orangey it looks the same shade as Ichigo's, the odd color of which is a plot point.
* Lina Inverse from ''{{Slayers}}''. Though in the novels her hair is specifically stated to be chestnut, the anime gives her an auburn shade that over the course of the series turns ''bright'' red. It's easy to forget that it used to be brown.
* [[SerialExperimentsLain Lain]].
* [[CodeGeass Kallen]]s mother and late brother.

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* PostCrisis [[{{Superman}} Lois Lane]].

* Razputin in {{Psychonauts}}. Although sometimes rendered in fanart with brown hair, in the game, it's actually a purplish red. [[MauveShirt Sort of a mauve, but I didn't want to say mauve...]]
** Other fanart takes this to the opposite extreme, and makes his hair an even louder more exaggerated shade of red or purple.
* Kratos from ''{{Tales of Symphonia}}'' is often drawn with brown hair in fanart. Like dirt brown. It confused the hell out of me. Still does.
* A character in ''FireEmblem: The Sword of Flame'' refer to Priscilla as auburn-haired. [[http://serenesforest.net/media/fe7illust/s/priscilla.png Her official art]] is slightly excusable, but her game sprite clearly shows her as a redhead.
* Ryu from the ''StreetFighter'' fighting games, whose hair is depicted with a lighter shade of brown that almost looks red in the first ''Street Fighter'' and the ''Alpha'' series, despite being dark-brown and black in every other game.
* Princess Daisy from the ''{{Mario}}'' games.
** Daisy actually has more orange-toned hair. Even to the point of it ranging since her first two appearances from being burnt-orange to bright-orange. Like her first two appearances it was recently reverted to being so orange as to match the shade on her clothing. It has also been depicted as auburn in a few artworks regardless of the fact it has never been so in-game.
** Regardless of the fact her hair has been stated by Nintendo as orange, fan-art constantly depicts her with dark brown hair. Although this is strange as even real redheads have burnt-orange hair that ranges in brown tones of light shades.
* In the NES versions of the ''DoubleDragon'' games, Billy Lee's hair color is colored red in the games, even though its actually depicted as a dark brown or black in the official art. To make matters more confusing, [[AdaptationDyeJob it was actually blond in the original arcade game]].
* Sodina from ''ThousandArms'' who has red hair on the game's cover and one of the discs but brown hair in game.
* Torn from ''JakAndDaxter'' has either brown or red hair depending on who you ask. The concept art is clearly brown, but in-game it's slightly red, [[YourMileageMayVary or so people tell me]].

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* Anastasia from the 1997 20th Century Fox film, ''{{Anastasia}}''. In reality, she was apparently a strawberry blond.

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* Karasuma Kirika from ''KamichamaKarin''.

* Jack from ''GunnerkriggCourt'' is drawn with grey hair, but it took this troper a while (and an image editor) to realise that, because it's a darkish grey that looks like it could just be a particularly muted shade of brown. And until Annie actually said he had grey hair in a recent comic, it wasn't really clear whether his hair really was grey or if it was mousy brown hair (similar to his father's) with some artistic license applied to the colour, like how Annie's hair is red in-universe but shown as rosy pink.

* Smithers from ''TheSimpsons''.
* Principal Skinner, again from ''TheSimpsons''.

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* [[SailorMoon Sailor Pluto]]'s hair is like this sometimes as in some shots her hair has a green tinge to it. Officially it varies between black and very dark green.
* Some fans believe that Jun's hair in ''ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' is a case of this, insisting that it's so black that it only seems to be green. Later artwork, merchandise and the sequel series have her hair lightened/brightened to a more obvious shade of green.
* Tracey in the ''Pokemon'' anime seems to have this thing going. He had a full set of black hair in the Orange Island saga, but upgraded to a greenish tint in latter seasons.
* Fakir in ''PrincessTutu'' appears to have black hair, until he's in bright enough light that it has lighter shading and you realize it's been colored green the entire time.

* Annet Myer from ''El Viento'' has black hair in the Amercian box art, but green hair in the game.
* Inverted by Jade of ''BeyondGoodAndEvil''--given that everything ''else'' on her is green, and the lighting of the game, it's often claimed that her hair is green. It's actually more or less pure black, but she's frequently depicted with greenish-tinged hair in FanArt.
* Lisa Nielson in ''{{Snatcher}}'', who's described by [[RobotBuddy Metal]] as having black hair.

* Jake from ''AmericanDragonJakeLong''. Though it wouldn't be out of character for it to be dyed, no one seems to comment on the green in his hair.
** Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]]; he does live in New York City, and [[SeenItAll they pretend to have seen or actually have seen]] ''everything''.

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* Kallen/Karen Stadtfeld/Kouzuki from ''CodeGeass''.

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* Ashelin from ''JakAndDaxter''.

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* PepperAnn.
** "It's auburn!"
* Ariel from ''TheLittleMermaid''.
* Mary Jane Watson in ''SpidermanTheAnimatedSeries''.
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[[folder:Examples of blonde hair being represented by light brown]]
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* Nuts/Natsu from ''YesPrettyCure5'', OrSoIHeard.
* Omiya, the Edo counterpart of Miyako (Bubbles) from ''PowerpuffGirlsZ''.
* More than a few fans seem to consider Nunnally, the young Charles, and Odysseus from ''CodeGeass'' to be blondes, despite having what seems to be really light brown hair. The belief is enough that Odysseus was considered to be a candidate for the BlondGuysAreEvil article (despite not even being all that bad a guy).

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* ClintEastwood as "Blondie" in ''TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.

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* Calvin in ''HarvestMoon: Animal Parade.'' His official art clearly shows that he's a golden blonde, but in-game, his model has light brown hair.
* According to the script on the Making Of compilation, Iroquois Pliskin in ''MetalGearSolid 2''.
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!!Examples of black or dark brown hair represented by blue

!!Examples of blond hair represented by orange

!!Examples of brown hair represented by reddish

* Anastasia from the 1997 20th Century Fox film, ''{{Anastasia}}''.
** In reality, she was apparently a strawberry blonde, not that we have any color pictures to check.


!!Examples of mousy or light brown hair represented by gray

!!Examples of black hair represented by green

!!Examples of "red" hair being represented by maraschino-cherry red

!!Examples of blonde hair being represented by light brown

!!Examples of gray hair represented by blue or lavender

* [[CodeGeass Shirley Fenette]] may be either this, or a more realistic redhead when compared to Kallen.

* Possibly [[CodeGeass Kallen]], unless she's supposed to be straight-up red. Her mother and late brother definitely count, however.

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* Mr. Burns from ''TheSimpsons''. The fact that his hair ''is'' grey sometimes doesn't help matters.
** In early episodes, Mr. Smithers also has blue hair. And he's black.
** Possibly lampshaded in other episode when Homer says that Marge's real hair color is gray but dyes it blue.
* [[TomAndJerry Tom]] Cat.

* Ilyana from FireEmblem 9 and 10.
* Remy from ''{{Ratatouille}}''.
** [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/badoo_tealeaf/415448794/ Rats can have this color of hair, but it is uncommon in the wild.]] [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/34846546@N00/537795575/in/photostream/ Here is a picture of Remy for comparison.]]
* Franziska von Karma from ''AceAttorney'' appears to have blue hair, but many fans believe it to be white. Capcom's no help: some of the promo art tinted it ''green''.
* A failed attempt. [[TenchiMuyo Ryoko's]] hair is supposed to be considered silver, but everybody considers her hair to be cyan/light blue/turquoise.

* The Viera race from ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' have purple or green hair, and it's obvious that they're supposed have white hair, right? (especially in their artworks) Ritz's albino hair in St. Ivalice seems light lavender, though her friend commented it "as white as snow".
** Which makes the whole "She wants to stay because her hair ''is'' red in Ivalice" thing into total {{Narm}}.
** Adelle from ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' was like this also.
* Inverted with Super Macho Man in ''PunchOut'' - his hair is supposed to be silver-blonde, but it looks gray. This, combined with his leathery skin, leads people to think he's an old man; he's actually twenty-seven. (His skin is leathery because he tans way too much; the Wii game makes this clearer.)

*{{Superman}} and {{Batman}} both have this. As do all three Robins, PreCrisis Lois, and almost any other DCComics character with dark hair.

*Katherine Gibson in ''{{Snatcher}}'', whose hair color is officially stated to be dark brown in the ''Snatcher Pilot Disk'' (and depicted as such in official artwork), despite being blue in the games.
*Elisa Maza from {{Gargoyles}}, as pointed out by the NostalgiaCritic.
* Nadia in TheSecretOfBlueWater, depending on the detail of the medium involved. Usually black in merchandise, more blue in animation so it shows up better against her skin.

* [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/1/1c/Diamond_Pearl_Dawn.png Dawn]] and [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/w/upload/6/66/Diamond_Pearl_Lucas.png Lucas]] from ''{{Pokemon}} Diamond/Pearl/Platinum''. Their [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/w/upload/4/47/HikariDP.png anime]] [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/w/upload/a/a6/Lucas.png counterparts]] have a more blueish hair color though. Same with their sprites.
** Those are shades of blue though, and that artist drew Dawn in the trading card games with a brighter color.
*In FullMetalPanic, we're meant to believe Kaname Chidori's pale-blue hair is black. Hilariously LampShaded in TheAbridgedSeries.

* Susan from ''ElGoonishShive'' has hair that really ''is'' (dyed) dark blue, but it's hard not to see picture it as black, even after seeing color images. That may be excused since most of the comic is in black-and-white.
* Milo from ''PepperAnn''. This is even pointed out at one point; Pepper Ann mistakes his "black" hair for being blue.

* Gray, in the FairyTail anime.
* Ciel, from the {{Tsukihime}} visual novel.

* Inverted by {{Coraline}}--given the dark shade of her hair, it's easy to think that the bluish tinge is just artistic lisence--untill she actually mentions that, yes, her hair is supposed to be that bluish color (and providing some proof that, maybe, her real parents are better than she lets on to let her dye it like that).
* Rock/ MegaMan has black hair that is sometimes depicted as blue.
* The whole Van Houten family in ''TheSimpsons''

*Gadget from ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers''. Note that this isn't even constant; her hair changes its color from episode to episode. Her {{doppelganger}} Lahwhinie, however, is only shown with orange hair supposed to be blond.
* Many ''Tintin'' fans insist the hero is blond, despite lack of any evidence pointing towards it.

* Hurdy from ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2''.
* Inverted in Disney's [[{{Disney/Cinderella}} Cinderella]]. In the film, she has orangey hair, but in all the merchandising, it's yellow.

*Anastasia from the 1997 20th Century Fox film, ''{{Anastasia}}''.
** In reality, she was apparently a strawberry blonde, not that we have any color pictures to check.
* Razputin in {{Psychonauts}}. Although sometimes rendered in fanart with brown hair, in the game, it's actually a purplish red. [[MauveShirt Sort of a mauve, but I didn't want to say mauve...]]
**Other fanart takes this to the opposite extreme, and makes his hair an even louder more exaggerated shade of red or purple.
* Kratos from {{Tales of Symphonia}} is often drawn with brown hair in fanart. Like dirt brown. It confused the hell out of me. Still does.
* A character in ''FireEmblem: The Sword of Flame'' refer to Priscilla as auburn-haired. [[http://serenesforest.net/media/fe7illust/s/priscilla.png Her official art]] is slightly excusable, but her game sprite clearly shows her as a redhead.
*PostCrisis [[{{Superman}} Lois Lane]].
*Ryu from the ''StreetFighter'' fighting games, whose hair is depicted with a lighter shade of brown that almost looks red in the first ''Street Fighter'' and the ''Alpha'' series, despite being dark-brown and black in every other game.
* Princess Daisy from the ''{{Mario}}'' games.
** Daisy actually has more orange-toned hair. Even to the point of it ranging since her first two appearances from being burnt-orange to bright-orange. Like her first two appearances it was recently reverted to being so orange as to match the shade on her clothing. It has also been depicted as auburn in a few artworks regardless of the fact it has never been so in-game.
**Regardless of the fact her hair has been stated by Nintendo as orange, fan-art constantly depicts her with dark brown hair. Although this is strange as even real redheads have burnt-orange hair that ranges in brown tones of light shades.

* In the NES versions of the ''DoubleDragon'' games, Billy Lee's hair color is colored red in the games, even though its actually depicted as a dark brown or black in the official art. To make matters more confusing, [[AdaptationDyeJob it was actually blond in the original arcade game]].
* Sodina from ''ThousandArms'' who has red hair on the game's cover and one of the discs but brown hair in game.

* Torn from ''JakAndDaxter'' has either brown or red hair depending on who you ask. The concept art is clearly brown, but in-game it's slightly red, [[YourMileageMayVary or so people tell me]].

* Smithers from ''TheSimpsons''.
* Principal Skinner, again from ''TheSimpsons''.

* Jake from AmericanDragonJakeLong. Though it wouldn't be out of character for it to be dyed, no one seems to comment on the green in his hair.
** Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]]; he does live in New York City, and [[SeenItAll they pretend to have seen or actually have seen]] ''everything''.

* Some fans believe that Jun's hair in ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman is a case of this, insisting that it's so black that it only seems to be green. Later artwork, merchandise and the sequel series have her hair lightened/brightened to a more obvious shade of green.
*Tracey in the ''Pokemon'' anime seems to have this thing going. He had a full set of black hair in the Orange Island saga, but upgraded to a greenish tint in latter seasons.
* Fakir in ''PrincessTutu'' appears to have black hair, until he's in bright enough light that it has lighter shading and you realize it's been colored green the entire time.

* PepperAnn.
** "It's auburn!"
* Ariel from ''TheLittleMermaid''.
* Mary Jane Watson in ''SpidermanTheAnimatedSeries''.
* Ashelin from ''JakAndDaxter''.

* Calvin in ''HarvestMoon: Animal Parade.'' His official art clearly shows that he's a golden blonde, but in-game, his model has light brown hair.
* ClintEastwood as "Blondie" in ''TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.
* According to the script on the Making Of compilation, Iroquois Pliskin in ''MetalGearSolid 2''.

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* More than a few fans seem to consider Nunnally, the young Charles, and Odysseus from ''CodeGeass'' to be blondes, despite having what seems to be really light brown hair. The belief is enough that Odysseus was considered to be a candidate for the EvilBlond article (despite not even being all that bad a guy).