History Main / HairColorDissonance

** 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.

* Kaname Chidori from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' is described in the original light novels as having black hair, but the AnimatedAdaptation instead makes her hair very dark blue.

* In the second ending to ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', Edward's normally blond hair has a green hue.

* Alphonse in the 2003 adaptation of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' has very dark blond hair to the point where it passes for brown.

* Bear from ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' is either orange or light brown. He looks to be the latter in most episodes, but looks closer to the former in promotional photos and merchandise. In-universe, he's sometimes stated to be brown, and sometimes said to be orange, muddying the issue even further.

* Ellen Yin from ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''. Her hair is black, but is highlighted with blue similar to Batman's costume. The blue highlights are absent in daytime scenes.

* Elisa Maza from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Inverted with Steve Smith, who has referred to himself as a "ginger-haired boy" and his first pubic hair is said ([[{{Squick}} and shown]]) to be red. His hair appears brown, or perhaps auburn, since it's slightly reddish compared to, say, his friend Snot.

** Inverted with Azrael the cat in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs''. Azrael's orange fur appears light brown in the TV show, whereas in other incarnations (the comics and the live-action movies), his orange fur appears orange.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' Honey Lemon is a DarkSkinnedBlonde. In ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' she is a DarkSkinnedRedhead.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Inverted with Steve Smith, who has referred to himself as a "ginger-haired boy" and his first pubic hair is said ([[{{Squick}} and shown]]) to be red. His hair appears brown, or auburn at best since it's slightly reddish compared to, say, his friend Snot.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Inverted with Steve Smith, who has referred to himself as a "ginger-haired boy" and his first pubic hair is said ([[{{Squick}} and shown]]) to be red. His hair appears brown, or auburn at best.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Steve Smith has referred to himself as a "ginger-haired boy" and his first pubic hair is said (and shown) to be red. To viewers, his hair appears brown, or auburn at best.

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

* Lina Inverse from ''LightNovel/{{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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} refers to ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} as a "beautiful, black-haired mutant psychic", and Archangel calls describes her as having raven hair. Despite this, her hair is clearly purple.

* The Cavendish family from ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' have tea-green highlights in their platinum blonde hair.

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s initial intention when first [[DyeingForYourArt bleaching his hair to portray Slim Shady]] was for his hair to be ''[[WhiteHairBlackHeart white]]'', which was how both he and his collaborator Royce da 5'9" initially described it to others. However, because of Eminem's lack of knowledge of peroxide technique, it came out a platinum blond colour. He eventually decided he preferred being a blonde - starting from ''The Marshall Mathers LP'' he changed to a more yellow shade, nicknamed himself 'the Angry Blonde', and repeatedly described his hair as blond in his lyrics.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'':
** Ezra Bridger has black hair. However, the mop-top haircut he sports in the first two seasons has a tendency to look blue in the right light. By Season 3 he's gotten a much shorter haircut that brings an end to this.

* Lisa Nielson in ''{{VisualNovel/Snatcher}}'', who's described by [[RobotBuddy Metal]] as having black hair.

* Uraha in ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' (the VisualNovel) is said to have deep black hair in the text, but it is more like a dark grey with a green tinge so slight you might not even be able to tell against green backgrounds (or her green clothes--the "ha" in her name means "leaf", by the way). In other ''AIR'' media (like the anime) and a lot of fanart, the green is more noticeable.

* In the {{OVA}} of ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'', Ayumi's hair is dark blue/lavender. In the manga, [[https://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd70/nosajjj/Large%20Covers/06b.jpg one cover]] shows her hair as brown.

* Inverted by Susan in ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive''. Her hair is coloured black with blue highlights, but it actually is dark blue in-universe. Most readers assume that her hair is supposed to be black, not helped by it rarely being commented on since EGS is a WorldOfTechnicolorHair.

* In ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} refers to Comicbook/{{Psylocke}} as a "beautiful, black-haired mutant psychic", and Archangel calls describes her as having raven hair. Despite this, her hair is clearly purple.

* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', some of the [=NPCs=] have reddish-brown hair.

* Inverted with Princess from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', who is an {{expy}} of Annie from ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie''. Sometimes her hair looks brunette rather than red. This extends to her anime counterpart, Himeko from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' (whose brownish-red hair actually turns bright red when she transforms into Princess).

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

* Peter Quill/Star-Lord from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' was blond in the comics, no one seems to agree on what color his hair is in the movie. It doesn't help that it seems to change in different scenes under different lighting. This wiki refers to him as strawberry blond, while fanart and fanfics depict him with many different shades of blond, brown, reddish, and even orange hair.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' the series' creator, Koyoharu Gotouge, gives most of the black haired cast different colored hair tips, with a gradient effect, the major example being one of the main characters, Inosuke Hashibira, having black hair but with blue hair strand tips, that is merely an artistic choice as the setting states Inosuke has full black hair.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' Matsumoto is seemingly blonde, but like Orihime, she has the same orange hair color as Ichigo in the anime.

* In the second ending to ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' Edward's normally blond hair has a green hue.

** The same applies to Locke, who goes from blonde to a pale, greyish green. To be fair, in the Yoshitaka Amano art for FFVI's characters, EVERYONE'S hair is different shades of blonde or white (in the case of Setzer and Strago.) At least the green hair adds some variety.

If the hair is ''actually'' supposed to be a strange color, it's YouGottaHaveBlueHair. See also AdaptationDyeJob, EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference, SuddenlyBlonde, InconsistentColoring, and ShadingColourDissonance.

* Some fans believe that Jun's hair in ''Anime/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 be more [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair obviously green]]. This confusion is averted in the '90s OVA, where her hair color is a mousy brown.

* Whether the photophobic (and possibly porphyric) Nekozawa on ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has a [[HairColorDissonance black]] or [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green]] wig (or even just deep shadow ''turning'' his hair green) is at least ''occasionally'' disputed amongst fans.
* Spike Spiegel of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' fame has dark green hair.
* Yuusuke Urameshi from ''Anime/YuYuHakusho'' has green highlights in his hair.
* 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 blond.
* Miku Kohinata had green hair in season one of ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'' but it became black in season 2.

** Tsuyu Asui's hair is either black, black with teal highlights, or [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair teal entirely]].

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Tenya Iida's hair is either black or [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair dark blue]] depending on the artwork.

* Eva from ''Anime/TweenyWitches'' has blonde hair that looks [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair light green]] in some scenes.

** Tina/Terra Branford is officially a blonde, but her sprites depict her with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]] (presumably due to palette limitations).

* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' does this indirectly when Fuko announces that Sunohara's hair is a weird color. It's blonde, [[ImplausibleHairColor a rather rare color for Asians]]. The trouble is that [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Fuko herself has dark green hair, the guy she's hanging out with has blue hair, Kyou and Ryou and Kotomi have purple hair...]] all of which are apparently meant to be shades of brown or black. And she doesn't say ''what'' color Sunohara's hair is. We later learn [[spoiler:it's black.]]

* The members of the Sturmvoraus/von Blitzengaard extended family in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' all have hair in varying shades of reddish purple. This color palette may represent shades of auburn. Of course, given that there's a character with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]] that is described in-universe as such, maybe they really do just have Crayola hair.

** Ezra Bridger has black hair. However, the mop-top haircut he sports in the first two seasons has a tendency to look blue in the right light, leading to the FanNickname "Blueberry". By Season 3 he's gotten a much shorter haircut that brings an end to this.