History Main / HairColorDissonance

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', Deirdre, Julia, Tailtiu, and many others are all depicted in-game with silvery white hair. However, official art usually colours Tailtiu and her relatives' hair in a medium purple, and Julia's a pinkish lavendar. But Deirdre's hair is much more complicated, with official depictions running the gamut from the pale silver she had in game, to lavendar, to deep purple. This can be seen very clearly in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'', where [[https://gamepress.gg/feheroes/sites/fireemblem/files/2017-10/Deirdre_0.png her original base art]] had very pale purple/grey hair, but [[https://twitter.com/FE_Heroes_EN/status/1485871079038066689 her replacement Resplendant art]] has darker purple hair than even Ishtar.

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' calls Sakura's hair black (a detail left out of the Mirror Moon translation), but it's always illustrated as rich purple. In the same illustrations, Rin's black hair is visibly much closer to black. Weirder still, [[spoiler:Sakura's hair before she was adopted by the Matous is shown as the same color as Rin's. Possibly, the illustrations showing it as near-black before and purple afterward are an out-of-story representation of the biological alterations Zouken carried out on Sakura after adopting her]].

** His father Ephraim also has this in the old family picture first seen in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E07GatheringForces "Gathering Forces"]].

* Miku Kohinata had green hair in season one of ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' but it became black in season 2.

* Alistair from ''VideoGame/DragonAge'' is supposed to be blonde, but his in-game model looks more dirty blonde or reddish-blonde. Fan art often depict him as strawberry blonde or redheaded because of this. Doesn't help that Alistair ''is'' redheaded in recent incarnations.
** Same with [[VideoGame/DragonAge2 Anders.]] His hair looks more red than blonde, which makes Varric's nickname "Blondie" a bit confusing.

* Roxas and Ventus in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' have blond hair in the production artwork and in high-def cutscenes, which turns orange in anything using the game engine.

* In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'', Barok van Zieks's appears to be a muted purple. The game's official twitter lists it as dark gray, but discussing the Red-Headed League with the man reveals he actually has no idea what his hair colour is supposed to be. [[NotSoStoic He then proceeds to have a minor existential crisis over it.]]

* Alistair and Anders from ''VideoGame/DragonAge'' are supposed to be blonde, but their character models have warm-toned hair that looks more reddish-blonde. Fan art often depict them as strawberry blonde or redheaded because of this. Doesn't help that Alistair ''is'' redheaded in recent incarnations.

* Played with in ''Anime/{{Toradora}}'' with Kitamura - he's drawn with a desaturated green, but bleaches it later in the series, making it bleached to blond.

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'':

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'':

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Misato Katsuragi has purple hair, although it's debatable that it's supposed to be black. Considering that every other case of strange hair color in the series is explained by special circumstances, it's worth a bet.

* Ryu from the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' fighting games, whose hair is depicted with a lighter shade of brown that almost looks red in ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'' and the ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Alpha]]'' series, despite being dark-brown and black in every other game.

* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia:'' China and Korea presumably are supposed to have black hair, but are colored to look more brown. Concept art for the original anime series appeared to even give Korea outright chestnut brown hair.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* Manga/DGrayMan: Lenalee's hair is officially black, but dark green in the anime. The same thing happened with Kanda, who has blue hair in the anime, and possibly Komui, whose hair is purple. The Noah, who are mostly black haired, on the other hand, don't get this at all.

* Hata in Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo. You can see in her trope image on the CameraFiend page that it looks black/gray in low light, but green when well lit.
* Played with in ''Anime/ToraDora'' with Kitamura - he's drawn with a desaturated green, but bleaches it later in the series, making it bleached to blond.

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* Soren from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblem RadiantDawn'' appears to have black hair, but it's actually a very dark green on close examination. [[spoiler:This is likely done to hide his true heritage as Almedha's son and a half-dragon Branded.]]

* ''VisualNovel/{{Nameless}}''
** When Yuri is talked about in a descriptive way, he is mentioned to have black hair. Depictions of him always show him with a dark brown shade of hair.

* Comicbook/{{Beast|Marvel Comics}} from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' is known for his iconic blue fur, but when he first debuted this new look back in ''Amazing Adventures'' #15, his fur was explicitly stated to be ''black''. However, since black hair is usually colored with a blue tint in comics, this gave off the perception that the fur was supposed to be blue, which was later made canon by subsequent creators.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
** Dyne is depicted as having purple hair in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' - the same shade of purple as Cloud's uniform, leading some to assume it was supposed to be black. In his more realistically-styled cameo in ''Final Fantasy VII: G-Bike'', it's just brown.

* [[Anime/BNABrandNewAnimal Marie Itami's]] hair (and fur, when she's in her beastman form) is a very grayish mauve.

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* Peri Brown from Doctor Who canonically has blond hair and light blue eyes but, due to budget constraints, they ended up casting brunette, light-brown eyed, not-American-at-all Nicola Bryant.

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* The recurring ''TableTopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' {{NPC}} Shalelu Andosana has been portrayed with pale green hair at least once in official art. Until she was [[WordOfGod confirmed to canonically be blond]] (and for some time after, as well), this was the subject of much fan debate.

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* When perky blonde Lu Ann receives her makeover during the ''I Dressed in the Dark'' storyline of ''{{Apartment 3-G}}'', 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.

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* Kratos from ''{{VideoGame/Tales of Symphonia}}'' is often drawn with brown hair in fanart. Like dirt brown, even though his [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kratos.jpg official portraits]] all show it as a red. Might have something to do with [[spoiler:matching it to his son, Lloyd, whose hair is unmistakably brown]].
* A character in ''VideoGame/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.

* The original series of Anime/AxisPowersHetalia gave Russia, who in the comics has pale, buff blond hair, grayish white hair. This was rectified after the post season 5 ArtEvolution, however.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* ''Manga/YuGiOh'': Rather than HairColorDissonance, it's "Scale Color Dissonance" with Blue-Eyes White Dragon. The manga, the anime, and the Trading Card Game depict her more as blue as white. More often than not, the anime makes her completely blue. And if she ''is'' depicted as white, it's usually with blue highlights.

* Is the VideoGame/AoOni purple, or blue like its title says? Blame the dark color tints...

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** Ash has a greenish or blue tint to his own black hair.
** Sabrina's normally black hair has a green hue in the anime.

* Red from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. His hair is supposed to be a shade of light brown but his official artwork has him with gray hair.

* Belgium and Hungary of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' were both described as blondes, but most official art gives them light brown hair. France's and Monaco's hair colors are all over the place, varying from platinum blond to brown.

* Due to the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' hair color mix-up mentioned under Western Animation below, it is common fan perception that Anakin Skywalker has dark brown hair instead of the sandy blond of Creator/HaydenChristensen described in official written material. Because of this, a good chunk of fanart gives him, especially his look in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', his ''TCW'' hair color, to the confusion of [[https://anghraine.tumblr.com/post/161253163997/me-browsing-through-anakin-fanart-let-anakin-be some fans who have only seen the movies]].
** His son, Luke, often has the opposite problem; he starts with golden blond hair in ''Film/ANewHope'', and as the trilogy goes on it darkens into a very dark blond, even appearing slightly darker than his father. Despite this, it's common for fanart and other fan works, even those depicting him in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', to give him light, even almost bleach blond hair; something that becomes even more apparent when depicted alongside his father pre-Darth Vader, who he's supposed to resemble, with the abovementioned dark brown hair.
** While not as common, occasionally younger Obi-Wan Kenobi is depicted with orange-red or even light blond hair; he has strawberry blond to dirty blond hair.

* Due to the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' hair color mix-up mentioned under the Western Animation folder, it is common fan perception that Anakin Skywalker has dark brown hair instead of the sandy blond of Creator/HaydenChristensen described in official written material. In fact, a good chunk of fanart gives him, especially his look in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', his ''TCW'' hair color, to the confusion of [[https://anghraine.tumblr.com/post/161253163997/me-browsing-through-anakin-fanart-let-anakin-be some fans who have only seen the movies]].
** His son, Luke, often has the opposite problem; he starts with golden blond hair in ''Film/ANewHope'', and as the trilogy goes on it darkens into a very dark blond, even appearing slightly darker than his father. Despite this, it's common for fanart and other fan works, even those depicting him in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', to give him light, even almost bleach blond hair; something that becomes even more apparent when depicted alongside his father pre-Darth Vader, who he's supposed to resemble, with the abovementioned dark brown hair.

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* Due to the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' hair color mix-up mentioned under the Western Animation folder, it is somewhat common fan perception that Anakin Skywalker has dark brown hair instead of the sandy blond of Creator/HaydenChristensen described in official written material. In fact, a good chunk of fanart gives him, especially his look in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', his ''TCW'' hair color, to the confusion of [[https://anghraine.tumblr.com/post/161253163997/me-browsing-through-anakin-fanart-let-anakin-be some fans who have only seen the movies]].
** His son, Luke, often has the opposite problem; he starts with golden blond hair in ''Film/ANewHope'', and as the trilogy goes on it darkens into a dark blond, even appearing slightly darker than his father. Despite this, it's common for fanart and other fan works, even those depicting him from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', to give him light, even bleach blond hair, something that becomes even more apparent when depicted alongside his father pre-Darth Vader, who he's supposed to at least somewhat resemble.

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** It's debated amongst fandom whether Dr. Eggman is a redhead or a brunette. 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.

** Fans have been stumped on whether James has purple or blue hair for years.

** Mr Burns. The fact that his hair ''is'' grey sometimes doesn't help matters.
** In early episodes, Mr. Smithers also has blue hair. And is African-American.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars:'' Anakin Skywalker, originally played by Creator/HaydenChristensen, has dirty blond hair, just like his son, Luke. However, ''The Clone Wars'' gives him what is clearly dark brown hair. ...And in many appearances since, from video games to merchandise, he has ''kept'' the dark brown hair, to the point that one has to wonder if he was always meant to have it.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars:'' Anakin Skywalker, originally played by Creator/HaydenChristiensen, has dirty blond hair, just like his son, Luke. However, ''The Clone Wars'' gives him what is clearly dark brown hair. ...And in many appearances since, from video games to merchandise, he has ''kept'' the dark brown hair, to the point that one has to wonder if he was always meant to have it.