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* In her introduction, Storm from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' had blue eyes when not using her powers. This was mostly kept up about a decade after her introduction, but in comics post 2000, it isn't terribly uncommon to see her drawn with brown eyes.
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* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''s black and white daily strips, the point is lost that Asok the intern is meant to be Asian. He looks "white" as his face and hands are rendered in the same pale tones as Dilbert, Wally or Alice. However, in the color weekend strips, it is clear that his ethnicity is different. Owing to the limitations of monochrome publishing, this has effectively become an unintended version of this trope -- Asok is white on weekdays and Asian at the weekend.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'':
** In''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''s black and white daily strips, the point is lost that Asok the intern is meant to be Asian. He looks "white" as his face and hands are rendered in the same pale tones as Dilbert, Wally or Alice. However, in the color weekend strips, it is clear that his ethnicity is different. Owing to the limitations of monochrome publishing, this has effectively become an unintended version of this trope -- Asok is white on weekdays and Asian at the weekend.
** The colorized weekday comics from the official site are quite inconsistent about Ratbert's color. His official color is apparently orange, but he's been also colored [[http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-01-13 yellow]] or [[http://dilbert.com/strip/1999-03-27 gray]]. Bob the Dinosaur is almost always green (although the exact shade varies, as does the color of his belly and back ridges), but in at least one instance he became [[http://dilbert.com/strip/1997-08-15 purple]].
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** The colorized weekday comics from the official site are quite inconsistent about Ratbert's color. His official color is apparently orange, but he's been also colored [[http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-01-13 yellow]] or [[http://dilbert.com/strip/1999-03-27 gray]]. Bob the Dinosaur is almost always green (although the exact shade varies, as does the color of his belly and back ridges), but in at least one instance he became [[http://dilbert.com/strip/1997-08-15 purple]].
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** Early on the characters rarely had a stationary color in colored artwork; even within the same volume would the colors change. Eventually the manga decided on certain colors for certain characters, such as Takatsuki having black hair. However other colors, such as the exact shade of Nitori's brown hair, still changed between colored artwork until the very end.
** The middle school uniforms have a very inconsistent coloring. The manga depicts the ''gakuran'' as varying shades of pastel colors, however the in-manga shading imply this is simply artistic license and they're a normal black. The anime went with that interpretation.
** The middle school uniforms have a very inconsistent coloring. The manga depicts the ''gakuran'' as varying shades of pastel colors, however the in-manga shading imply this is simply artistic license and they're a normal black. The anime went with that interpretation.
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** Early on the characters rarely had a stationary color in colored artwork; even within the same volume would the colors change. Eventually the manga decided on certain colors for certain characters, such as Takatsuki having black hair.hair instead of brown as originally depicted. However other colors, such as the exact shade of Nitori's brown hair, still changed between colored artwork until the very end.
** The middle school uniforms have a very inconsistent coloring. The manga depicts the''gakuran'' gakuran as varying shades of pastel colors, however the in-manga shading imply this is simply artistic license and that they're a normal black. The anime went with that interpretation.
** The middle school uniforms have a very inconsistent coloring. The manga depicts the
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** A similar thing happens with Eeyore. He has dark gray fur and a light gray muzzle in all the Pooh cartoons, but is colored blue with a peach muzzle in almost all print media and merchandise.
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** A similar thing happens with Eeyore. He has dark gray fur and a light gray muzzle in all the Pooh cartoons, but is he's colored blue with a peach muzzle in almost all print media and merchandise.
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** A similar thing happens with Eeyore. He has dark gray fur and a light gray muzzle in all the Pooh cartoons, but is colored blue with a pink muzzle in almost all print media and merchandise.
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** A similar thing happens with Eeyore. He has dark gray fur and a light gray muzzle in all the Pooh cartoons, but is colored blue with a pink peach muzzle in almost all print media and merchandise.
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* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Nala's eyes can be seen as changing from blue to green. In ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'', her eyes are gold, and finally, in ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', her eyes are an electric blue.
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* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Nala's eyes can be seen as changing from blue to green. In ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'', her eyes are gold, and finally, in gold. In ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', her eyes are an electric blue.blue. In ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', her eyes are green. They are back to blue in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard''. Whew.
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** A similar thing happens with Eeyore. He has dark gray fur and a light gray muzzle in all the Pooh cartoons, but is colored blue with a pink muzzle in almost all print media and merchandise.
** Rabbit was originally depicted with yellow fur in ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh''. In the 80s and early 90s cartoons, he had green fur. It was changed back to yellow from ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'' onward.
** A similar thing happens with Eeyore. He has dark gray fur and a light gray muzzle in all the Pooh cartoons, but is colored blue with a pink muzzle in almost all print media and merchandise.
** Rabbit was originally depicted with yellow fur in ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh''. In the 80s and early 90s cartoons, he had green fur. It was changed back to yellow from ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'' onward.
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* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamSeries'': Due to ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' being developed by a different studio and ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' taking the series to eighth gen consoles, there were some inconsistencies in the coloring of certain characters' hair and/or eyes:
** Black Mask has brown hair in ''Arkham City'' (a hole in his mask shows a patch of brown hair), but in ''Arkham Origins'', his hair is black.
** Catwoman goes the opposite way, having black hair in ''Arkham City'' and brown hair in ''Arkham Knight''.
** Robin (Tim Drake) has blue eyes in ''City'' and while his hair is covered by his hood, it's listed as black in his character bio. In ''Knight'', he is given green eyes and a brown buzz cut (promotional artwork in ''City'' depicted him with a buzz cut too).
** Commissioner Gordon's hair was snow white in ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' and ''Arkham City'', but in Arkham Knight, his hair is a mixture of gray and brown, probably to reflect the brown hair his younger self had in ''Arkham Origins''.
** Riddler's hair was a sandy, light brown color in ''Arkham City'', but dark chestnut brown in ''Origins'' and ''Knight''.
** Joker's hair is a darker shade of green in both ''Origins'' and ''Knight'' compared to the first two games.
** Black Mask has brown hair in ''Arkham City'' (a hole in his mask shows a patch of brown hair), but in ''Arkham Origins'', his hair is black.
** Catwoman goes the opposite way, having black hair in ''Arkham City'' and brown hair in ''Arkham Knight''.
** Robin (Tim Drake) has blue eyes in ''City'' and while his hair is covered by his hood, it's listed as black in his character bio. In ''Knight'', he is given green eyes and a brown buzz cut (promotional artwork in ''City'' depicted him with a buzz cut too).
** Commissioner Gordon's hair was snow white in ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' and ''Arkham City'', but in Arkham Knight, his hair is a mixture of gray and brown, probably to reflect the brown hair his younger self had in ''Arkham Origins''.
** Riddler's hair was a sandy, light brown color in ''Arkham City'', but dark chestnut brown in ''Origins'' and ''Knight''.
** Joker's hair is a darker shade of green in both ''Origins'' and ''Knight'' compared to the first two games.
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* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'': Sebastian's eyes are colored white in the film, but they're yellow in all print media.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'', Butch the [[BullyBulldog Bulldog]] is grey with a darker grey muzzle and white belly, but in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'', he's brown with a tan colored muzzle and belly.
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** Throughout the 40s and 50s, WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}'s body is either black or flesh-colored, sometimes in the same cartoon.
** In the''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'', Butch the shorts, Pluto's nemesis [[BullyBulldog Bulldog]] Butch]] is grey with a darker grey muzzle and white belly, but in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'', he's brown with a tan colored muzzle and belly.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Bart's red t-shirt was colored blue in many merchant items, and even in a few commercials, during the 1990's. This was lampshaded in "Pokey Mom", when Bart is asked where his blue shirt is and says he doesn't have one.
** One Butterfinger commercial had Lisa's dress colored pink instead of red.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead'', the ring around Daffy's neck is blue instead of white. Then again, it was his first color cartoon and it could have been an early design choice.
** One Butterfinger commercial had Lisa's dress colored pink instead of red.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead'', the ring around Daffy's neck is blue instead of white. Then again, it was his first color cartoon and it could have been an early design choice.
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* Karin (Korin in dubs), the magical cat in ''Manga/DragonBall'', is a different color anytime he appears on a cover, to accent his strangeness. In the anime adaptations, however, he's a consistent white.
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** Karin (Korin in dubs), the magicalcat in ''Manga/DragonBall'', cat, is a different color anytime he appears on a cover, to accent his strangeness. In the anime adaptations, however, he's a consistent white.white.
** In the original version of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Vegeta and Nappa infamously have [[https://i.imgur.com/v2BopYh.png completely different color schemes]] in their first few appearances: Nappa's armor is black and brown, instead of dark blue and yellow. Vegeta has brown hair, green and orange armor, and orange boots and gloves instead of black hair, white and yellow armor, and white boots and gloves. This is because the manga hadn't showed them in color yet, and the anime pulled an accidental AdaptationDyeJob which later reversed. ''Anime/DragonBallKai'' changes the colors for Vegeta to match his later palette, but oddly didn't bother for Nappa.
** Karin (Korin in dubs), the magical
** In the original version of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Vegeta and Nappa infamously have [[https://i.imgur.com/v2BopYh.png completely different color schemes]] in their first few appearances: Nappa's armor is black and brown, instead of dark blue and yellow. Vegeta has brown hair, green and orange armor, and orange boots and gloves instead of black hair, white and yellow armor, and white boots and gloves. This is because the manga hadn't showed them in color yet, and the anime pulled an accidental AdaptationDyeJob which later reversed. ''Anime/DragonBallKai'' changes the colors for Vegeta to match his later palette, but oddly didn't bother for Nappa.
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* VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} and Mugman's WhiteGloves are suddenly yellow in your post-level scorecard. In this case, the inconsistency is [[https://twitter.com/StudioMDHR/status/901067313180495872 deliberate]] and obvious, in reference to color illustrations of the [[InkblotCartoonStyle black-and-white era of cartoons]] the game homages.
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* VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': Cuphead and Mugman's WhiteGloves are suddenly yellow in your post-level scorecard. In this case, the inconsistency is [[https://twitter.com/StudioMDHR/status/901067313180495872 deliberate]] and obvious, in reference to color illustrations of the [[InkblotCartoonStyle black-and-white era of cartoons]] the game homages.
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* What is the colour of Zelda's hair in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI''? The sprite is a brunette but [[SuddenlyBlonde that doesn't mean much in 8-bit games]]. Official art has her as a brunette, a redhead, and a blonde (though the last one has a different design from the other two). The brown haired one is apparently the canon colour, but even the art-book uses the redheaded design.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': In his youth, Amon had dark skin [[spoiler:like most Watertribe characters and like his brother]]. As an adult, his skin has lightened several shades.
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* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', as part of its general... [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs bizarreness]]. Whenever color is used (most notably in the anime adaptation), characters are known to change color schemes multiple times within ''the same scene''.
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* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', as part of its general... [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs bizarreness]]. Whenever color is used (most notably in the anime adaptation), characters are known to change color schemes multiple times ''[[ArtShift within ''the the same scene''.scene]]'', usually but not always for dramatic emphasis.
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** Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi): His eye colour varies between art. In the Toei anime the colour was red, which changed to purple in the second series. They've also been [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/9/9b/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL08-JP.jpg green]], but it seems [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/9/9d/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL10-JP.jpg red]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/7/73/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL12-JP.jpg is]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/a/a4/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL17-JP.jpg his]] [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/4/4c/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL24-JP.jpg most]] [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/5/51/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL272-JP.jpg standard]] [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/9be5f83f360bfd33e37b4976af0fa86e/tumblr_o7hew1tlFf1s2ykkgo2_1280.jpg color]] in his official arts.
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** Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi): His eye colour color varies between art. In the Toei anime the colour color was red, which changed to purple in the second series. They've also been [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/9/9b/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL08-JP.jpg green]], orange, brown, and blue, but it seems [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/9/9d/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL10-JP.jpg red]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/7/73/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL12-JP.jpg is]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/a/a4/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL17-JP.jpg his]] [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/4/4c/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL24-JP.jpg most]] [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/5/51/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL272-JP.jpg standard]] [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/9be5f83f360bfd33e37b4976af0fa86e/tumblr_o7hew1tlFf1s2ykkgo2_1280.jpg color]] in his official arts.
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* VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} and Mugman's WhiteGloves are suddenly yellow in your post-level scorecard. In this case, the inconsistency is [[https://twitter.com/StudioMDHR/status/901067313180495872 deliberate]] and obvious, in reference to color illustrations of the [[InkblotCartoonStyle black-and-white era of cartoons]] the game homages.
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* Strip "The King" Weathers from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' normally has brown eyes, but when Chick Hicks crashes him at the end of the film, they somehow turn blue. They revert back to brown after he is helped by Lightning McQueen into reaching the finish line.
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* Wynne in ''Literature/BeansidhesWail'' is said to have eyes that change from "pale grey, to sky blue, to sea green, to violet to silver." The author says the same thing about her own eyes, saying, "A Clear Crystalline Grey That Shifts In Colour From Grey To Blue, To Green, To Violet And Sometimes Almost Silver, Depending On My Mood And My Clothes. I Have A Darker Grey Ring Around My Irises {Said To Be The Mark Of One With Faerie Blood And A Natural Witch} And Unusual *Lightning Bolt* Markings In Both Irises. My Eyes Are Quite Cat~Like, Almond Shaped. People Are Always Telling Me That I Have *Faerie Eyes* And Saying That My Eyes Are *Ancient*, *Ageless* *Endless*, And *Full Of Wisdom*"
* Door of ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'' has "fire-opal" eyes of ever-changing/unclassifiable colour.
* Door of ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'' has "fire-opal" eyes of ever-changing/unclassifiable colour.
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* The former Trope Namer for EyeColourChange is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (LSD) by Music/TheBeatles. John describes Lucy as having "kaleidoscope eyes"; that's how he knows her. Unlike most of the other examples here, he does not elaborate. Given the overall character of the song (plasticine porters with looking-glass ties? Marmalade skies?) it's implied that the eyes are actually perfectly normal—the kaleidoscope bit is probably acid-induced Mushroom Samba.
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* The former Trope Namer for EyeColourChange is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (LSD) by Music/TheBeatles. John describes Lucy as having "kaleidoscope eyes"; that's how he knows her. Unlike most of the other examples here, he does not elaborate. Given the overall character of the song (plasticine porters with looking-glass ties? Marmalade skies?) it's implied that the eyes are actually perfectly normal—the kaleidoscope bit is probably acid-induced Mushroom Samba.
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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** TheRival in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'' has red eyes in the intro but grey eyes in his sprites and official art.
** The exact shade of colours for certain characters varies. For example, do Dawn and Lucas have bright blue hair, dark blue hair, or black hair with blue tints?
* Somewhere between ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'''s character concept art and the game sprites, someone forgot what color Sheba's eyes are supposed to be—they're [[WindIsGreen green]] in the art but [[SupernaturalIsPurple purple]] in-game.
* I-No from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' is said to have eyes that change their color depending on the angle you're looking at them, but it's never been fully implemented until Xrd. (Prior artwork depicted her with green eyes or, [[DependingOnTheArtist less commonly]], blue.)
* Lightning of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has eyes that don't actually change colour but appear either pale blue or green depending on the lighting conditions. Some players have even spotted her appearing to have heterochromia, and inconsistent official artwork certainly doesn't help the matter.
** TheRival in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'' has red eyes in the intro but grey eyes in his sprites and official art.
** The exact shade of colours for certain characters varies. For example, do Dawn and Lucas have bright blue hair, dark blue hair, or black hair with blue tints?
* Somewhere between ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'''s character concept art and the game sprites, someone forgot what color Sheba's eyes are supposed to be—they're [[WindIsGreen green]] in the art but [[SupernaturalIsPurple purple]] in-game.
* I-No from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' is said to have eyes that change their color depending on the angle you're looking at them, but it's never been fully implemented until Xrd. (Prior artwork depicted her with green eyes or, [[DependingOnTheArtist less commonly]], blue.)
* Lightning of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has eyes that don't actually change colour but appear either pale blue or green depending on the lighting conditions. Some players have even spotted her appearing to have heterochromia, and inconsistent official artwork certainly doesn't help the matter.
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* Since most NewspaperComics are printed in black and white, this trope can happen if a colored version is available. This can be seen in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', where the house interior and appliances are not defined color-wise. Even Jon's outfit changes colors sometimes.
* In some ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' color Sunday strips, Charlie Brown's trademark yellow shirt is a dark red, or green, or something else.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''s black and white daily strips, the point is lost that Asok the intern is meant to be Asian. He looks "white" as his face and hands are rendered in the same pale tones as Dilbert, Wally or Alice. However, in the color weekend strips, it is clear that his ethnicity is different. Owing to the limitations of monochrome publishing, this has effectively become an unintended version of this trope -- Asok is white on weekdays and Asian at the weekend.
* Because ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' started out in black-and-white dailies, his costume has appeared in a wide variety of colors in international reprints. In the early strips, dialogue occasionally referred to his costume as being gray. When the strip expanded into color Sunday strips, it was depicted as grayish-purple (which may have been an attempt to depict it as gray where the color registration went wonky). After a while, it was acknowledged in-text that the costume was purple. Even now, it's depicted in a wide variety of shades, from dark purple to a bright almost-blue.
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* Since most NewspaperComics are printed in black and white, this trope can happen if a colored version is available. This can be seen in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', where the house interior and appliances are not defined color-wise. Even Jon's outfit changes colors sometimes.
* In some ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' color Sunday strips, Charlie Brown's trademark yellow shirt is a dark red, or green, or something else.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''s black and white daily strips, the point is lost that Asok the intern is meant to be Asian. He looks "white" as his face and hands are rendered in the same pale tones as Dilbert, Wally or Alice. However, in the color weekend strips, it is clear that his ethnicity is different. Owing to the limitations of monochrome publishing, this has effectively become an unintended version of this trope -- Asok is white on weekdays and Asian at the weekend.
* Because ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' started out in black-and-white dailies, his costume has appeared in a wide variety of colors in international reprints. In the early strips, dialogue occasionally referred to his costume as being gray. When the strip expanded into color Sunday strips, it was depicted as grayish-purple (which may have been an attempt to depict it as gray where the color registration went wonky). After a while, it was acknowledged in-text that the costume was purple. Even now, it's depicted in a wide variety of shades, from dark purple to a bright almost-blue.
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* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Sonic's eyelids have varied wildly depending on the adaptation. In the original games, they were flesh-colored, although the number of times Sonic blinked to illustrate that could be counted on both hands. Archie went with blue; Fleetway originally had flesh-colored, but went to blue as well. Then ''Adventure'' introduced the redesign, and made the flesh-colored eyelids even more noticeable, prompting the relevant change in both comics. Finally, when ''Anime/SonicX'' rolled around, the eyelids were made blue ''again'', but this time the change carried over into the games as well, which has stuck ever since. This can be somewhat surreal in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', where Classic Sonic retains the flesh-colored eyelids but Modern Sonic has the current blue ones.
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* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Sonic's eyelids have varied wildly depending on the adaptation. In the original games, they were flesh-colored, although the number of times Sonic blinked to illustrate that could be counted on both hands. Archie went with blue; Fleetway originally had flesh-colored, but went to blue as well. Then ''Adventure'' introduced the redesign, and made the flesh-colored eyelids even more noticeable, prompting the relevant change in both comics. Finally, when ''Anime/SonicX'' rolled around, the eyelids were made blue ''again'', but this time the change carried over into the games as well, which has stuck ever since. This can be somewhat surreal in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', where Classic Sonic retains the flesh-colored eyelids but Modern Sonic has the current blue ones.
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* Since most NewspaperComics are printed in black and white, this trope can happen if a colored version is available. This can be seen in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', where the house interior and appliances are not defined color-wise. Even Jon's outfit changes colors sometimes.
* In some ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' color Sunday strips Charlie Brown's trademark yellow shirt is a dark red, or green, or something else.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''s black and white daily strips, the point is lost that Asok the intern is meant to be Asian. He looks "white" as his face and hands are rendered in the same pale tones as Dilbert, Wally or Alice. However, in the colour weekend strips, it is clear that his ethnicity is different. Owing to the limitations of monochrome publishing, this has effectively become an unintended version of this trope - Asok is white on weekdays and Asian at the weekend.
* Because ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' started out in black-and-white dailies, his costume has appeared in a wide variety of colors in international reprints. In the early strips, dialogue occasionally referred to his costume as being gray. When the strip expanded into color Sunday strips, it was depicted as grayish-purple (which may have been an attempt to depict it as gray where the color registration went wonky). After a while, it was acknowledged in-text that the costume was purple. Even now, it's depicted in a wide variety of shades, from dark purple to a bright almost-blue.
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* Since most NewspaperComics are printed in black and white, this trope can happen if a colored version is available. This can be seen in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', where the house interior and appliances are not defined color-wise. Even Jon's outfit changes colors sometimes.
* In some ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' color Sunday strips Charlie Brown's trademark yellow shirt is a dark red, or green, or something else.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''s black and white daily strips, the point is lost that Asok the intern is meant to be Asian. He looks "white" as his face and hands are rendered in the same pale tones as Dilbert, Wally or Alice. However, in the colour weekend strips, it is clear that his ethnicity is different. Owing to the limitations of monochrome publishing, this has effectively become an unintended version of this trope - Asok is white on weekdays and Asian at the weekend.
* Because ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' started out in black-and-white dailies, his costume has appeared in a wide variety of colors in international reprints. In the early strips, dialogue occasionally referred to his costume as being gray. When the strip expanded into color Sunday strips, it was depicted as grayish-purple (which may have been an attempt to depict it as gray where the color registration went wonky). After a while, it was acknowledged in-text that the costume was purple. Even now, it's depicted in a wide variety of shades, from dark purple to a bright almost-blue.
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* The titular character in ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'' has hair which ranges from blue to red to green- although this is clearly an intentional case of KaleidoscopeHair, it has no InUniverse explanation and is never noticed by the other characters. It just varies depending on the strip.
* ''WebComic/{{Spinnerette}}'': Mecha Maid has occasionally been shown with red or black hair, despite WordOfGod being that she dyes her hair purple and wears a black wig. A flashback to her as a baby also shows her with purple hair, despite her natural hair color being black.
* The titular character in ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'' has hair which ranges from blue to red to green- although this is clearly an intentional case of KaleidoscopeHair, it has no InUniverse explanation and is never noticed by the other characters. It just varies depending on the strip.
* ''WebComic/{{Spinnerette}}'': Mecha Maid has occasionally been shown with red or black hair, despite WordOfGod being that she dyes her hair purple and wears a black wig. A flashback to her as a baby also shows her with purple hair, despite her natural hair color being black.
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* The titular character in ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'' has hair which ranges from blue to red to green -- although this is clearly an intentional case of KaleidoscopeHair, it has no InUniverse explanation and is never noticed by the other characters. It just varies depending on the strip.
* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'': Mecha Maid has occasionally been shown with red or black hair, despite WordOfGod being that she dyes her hair purple and wears a black wig. A flashback to her as a baby also shows her with purple hair, despite her natural hair color being black.
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* The titular character in ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'' has hair which ranges from blue to red to green -- although this is clearly an intentional case of KaleidoscopeHair, it has no InUniverse explanation and is never noticed by the other characters. It just varies depending on the strip.
* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'': Mecha Maid has occasionally been shown with red or black hair, despite WordOfGod being that she dyes her hair purple and wears a black wig. A flashback to her as a baby also shows her with purple hair, despite her natural hair color being black.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Tick}}'', one episode has the defective superheroes gathered in a room. A continuity error or just sloppy coloring keeps depicting American Maid as alternating from black-stockinged legs to bare legs and back again, even though she is just sitting there and has neither time nor a plot reason to keep whipping her stockings on and off.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Tick}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', one episode has the defective superheroes gathered in a room. A continuity error or just sloppy coloring keeps depicting American Maid as alternating from black-stockinged legs to bare legs and back again, even though she is just sitting there and has neither time nor a plot reason to keep whipping her stockings on and off.
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* Mufasa and Scar's father in ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'' has a different design in the illustrations than he does in the text. The text describes Ahadi as having a black mane and green eyes, while the illustrations depict him with a red mane and brown eyes.
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* Because ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' started out in black-and-white dailies, his costume has appeared in a wide variety of colors in international reprints. In the early strips, dialogue occasionally referred to his costume as being gray. When the strip expanded into color Sunday strips, it was depicted as grayish-purple (which may have been an attempt to depict it as gray where the color registration went wonky). After a while, it was acknowledged in-text that the costume was purple. Even now, it's depicted in a wide variety of shades, from dark purple to a bright almost-blue.
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This is particularly prevalent in comics, including [[ComicBooks western comic books]], {{newspaper comics}}, {{manga}} and {{webcomics}}, but can happen with other media as well. Is drequently due to [[DependingOnTheArtist different artists]] but can also be [[ArtEvolution due to retcons]] or just the artist being OffModel.
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This is particularly prevalent in comics, including [[ComicBooks western comic books]], {{newspaper comics}}, {{manga}} and {{webcomics}}, but can happen with other media as well. Is drequently frequently due to [[DependingOnTheArtist different artists]] but can also be [[ArtEvolution due to retcons]] or just the artist being OffModel.
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* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Nala's eyes can be seen as changing from blue to green. In ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'', her eyes are gold, and finally, in ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', her eyes are an electric blue (or something of the sort, the fanbase is confused and [[BrokenBase twisted]] on her eye color).
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* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Nala's eyes can be seen as changing from blue to green. In ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'', her eyes are gold, and finally, in ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', her eyes are an electric blue (or something of the sort, the fanbase is confused and [[BrokenBase twisted]] on her eye color).blue.
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** Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi): His eye colour varies between art. In the Toei anime the colour was red, which changed to purple in the second series. They've also been [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/9/9b/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL08-JP.jpg green]], but it seems [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/9/9d/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL10-JP.jpg red]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/7/73/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL12-JP.jpg is]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/a/a4/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL17-JP.jpg his]] [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/4/4c/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL24-JP.jpg most]] [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/5/51/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL272-JP.jpg standard]] [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/9be5f83f360bfd33e37b4976af0fa86e/tumblr_o7hew1tlFf1s2ykkgo2_1280.jpg color]] in his official arts.
** Ryo Bakura (Bakura Ryou): His eye color (and hair color) is ''never'' consistent across adaptations. They're blue or turquoise in the manga, green in the Toei anime, blue, purple or silver in the video games, brown in the second-series anime, and magenta red in ''The Darkside of Dimensions''.
** Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura): His eye color changes across adaptations, from purple in the manga and Toei anime to brown in the second-series anime. They've also been turquoise in cover art, varying shades of purple and pink in the video games, and are blood-red in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhDuelLinks''.
** Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi): His eye colour varies between art. In the Toei anime the colour was red, which changed to purple in the second series. They've also been [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/9/9b/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL08-JP.jpg green]], but it seems [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/9/9d/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL10-JP.jpg red]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/7/73/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL12-JP.jpg is]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/a/a4/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL17-JP.jpg his]] [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/4/4c/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL24-JP.jpg most]] [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/5/51/YugiohOriginalManga-VOL272-JP.jpg standard]] [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/9be5f83f360bfd33e37b4976af0fa86e/tumblr_o7hew1tlFf1s2ykkgo2_1280.jpg color]] in his official arts.
** Ryo Bakura (Bakura Ryou): His eye color (and hair color) is ''never'' consistent across adaptations. They're blue or turquoise in the manga, green in the Toei anime, blue, purple or silver in the video games, brown in the second-series anime, and magenta red in ''The Darkside of Dimensions''.
** Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura): His eye color changes across adaptations, from purple in the manga and Toei anime to brown in the second-series anime. They've also been turquoise in cover art, varying shades of purple and pink in the video games, and are blood-red in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhDuelLinks''.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'', Tuesday's hair changes color from episode to episode. Not sure whether this is an actual mistake or whether [[FridgeBrilliance it's just a tendency of Tuesday's to dye her hair a lot]].
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* Early on the ''Manga/WanderingSon'' characters rarely had a stationary color in colored artwork; even within the same volume would the colors change. Eventually the manga decided on certain colors for certain characters, such as Takatsuki having black hair. However other colors, such as the exact shade of Nitori's brown hair, still changed between colored artwork until the very end.
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** Early on the''Manga/WanderingSon'' characters rarely had a stationary color in colored artwork; even within the same volume would the colors change. Eventually the manga decided on certain colors for certain characters, such as Takatsuki having black hair. However other colors, such as the exact shade of Nitori's brown hair, still changed between colored artwork until the very end.end.
** The middle school uniforms have a very inconsistent coloring. The manga depicts the ''gakuran'' as varying shades of pastel colors, however the in-manga shading imply this is simply artistic license and they're a normal black. The anime went with that interpretation.
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** The middle school uniforms have a very inconsistent coloring. The manga depicts the ''gakuran'' as varying shades of pastel colors, however the in-manga shading imply this is simply artistic license and they're a normal black. The anime went with that interpretation.
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It may be due to [[DependingOnTheArtist various artists]]. Maybe publishing issues. Maybe they're retconning or deliberately redesigning an outfit from here on out. Maybe TheyJustDidntCare. Regardless, sometimes characters' colors aren't consistent from one moment to the next, whether it's a very notable miscoloration in one panel, or consistently recolored across an entire issue. It's typically small details, such as eye color, but more major details, like hair color or costume colors, can be changed too.
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It may be due to [[DependingOnTheArtist various artists]]. Maybe publishing issues. Maybe they're retconning or deliberately redesigning an outfit from here on out. Maybe TheyJustDidntCare. Regardless, sometimes characters' colors aren't consistent from one moment to the next, whether it's a very notable miscoloration in one panel, or consistently recolored across an entire issue. It's typically small details, such as eye color, but more major details, like hair color or costume colors, can be changed too.
This is particularly prevalent in comics, including [[ComicBooks western comic books]], {{newspaper comics}}, {{manga}} and {{webcomics}}, but can happen with other media as well. Is drequently due to [[DependingOnTheArtist different artists]] but can also be [[ArtEvolution due to retcons]] or just the artist being OffModel.
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* Early on the ''Manga/WanderingSon'' characters rarely had a stationary color in colored artwork; even within the same volume would the colors change. Eventually the manga decided on certain colors for certain characters, such as Takatsuki having black hair. However other colors, such as the exact shade of Nitori's brown hair, still changed between colored artwork until the very end.
* ''Manga/{{XxxHolic}}'' have Yuuko's and Watanuki's eyes, which have been just about every color of the spectrum.
* Kamui from ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', whose eyes have been blue, green, and purple in various pieces of artwork.
* The mangaka of ''Manga/MiracleGirls'' justifies this, saying that the different colors were caused by problems made during the publishing process. The main twins hair would change between varying tones of near white, blonde, and brown depending on the cover. Their official tone was a dark brown, which the anime uses.
* The colored art for ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'' portray the Kawamoto sisters with either black hair or brunette hair. Typically, the more detailed pieces, like the ones used for volume covers, will use brunette.
* While the covers of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' usually consistently show Male Ranma with black hair ([[HairColorDissonance though the highlight color may vary]]), Female Ranma's hair bounces off between black, brown, red, pink, purple, and blue.
* Ino from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has been depicted with both blue eyes and green eyes in the manga, though she's usually green eyed. The anime uses blue.
* In ''Anime/SherlockHound'', Moriarty's minion Smiley is green in the six episodes directed by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, and brown in the other twenty episodes.
* Aiko from ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'' has been depicted with brown hair, red hair, and even teal hair. Her official color is a dark brown.
* Shouko from ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' is frequently depicted in colored artwork with a near ''pink'' tone of hair. Canonically she has a dark brown hair but few artworks use the tone. The animated movie gives her reddish hair.
* Triela from ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' is a DarkSkinnedBlonde however her skin tone is shaded in different ways. Early chapters often made her as light as the white characters, however later ones tend to shade her darker.
* The pilot of ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' had a few shots where Optimus Prime's head had noticeably different coloring than what was used for the remainder of the series.
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'':
** Chibiusa's friend Momoko had brown hair in the ''R'' and ''S'' seasons but switched to purple hair in ''[=SuperS=]''. In the manga she has pink hair.
** The hair color Usagi's mom switches between pink and blue in the manga. The first chapter depicted her with light brown hair. The 90s anime depicted her with dark blue hair while ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' originally opted for light purple in season 1 before also switching her to dark blue.
* Karin (Korin in dubs), the magical cat in ''Manga/DragonBall'', is a different color anytime he appears on a cover, to accent his strangeness. In the anime adaptations, however, he's a consistent white.
* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', as part of its general... [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs bizarreness]]. Whenever color is used (most notably in the anime adaptation), characters are known to change color schemes multiple times within ''the same scene''.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Tracey either has black hair or black hair with heavy green tints.
** The switch to computer animation in late Johto caused this for several characters. For example, James' hair is either indigo, blue, or purple while Jessie's is either red, magenta, or purplish.
** Misty's eye color has changed between blue and green many times.
* Hori's hair in ''Manga/{{Horimiya}}'' ranges from light auburn to a very dark brown in the original webcomic and official artwork. Confusingly, the manga makes it look like she has blonde hair since it doesn't have any screentone (and other characters with canonically lighter hair do).
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* In Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk's first appearance he's gray; then from the 2nd issue on he's green (and [[{{retcon}} is shown to be green]] in {{Flash Back}}s to the first issue). Much later it's re-retconned back to him being gray at first.
* Triumph, in DC's ''Trinity'' miniseries, was drawn with at least four different hair colors... and they weren't similar. He started out blue, popped up with red and brown, and finally ended back where belonged at blonde.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' had problems with eye colors in the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' arc. Porker Lewis' eyes changed from brown to blue and back. Everyone with BlackBeadEyes before switching to colored eyes in the ''Sonic Adventure'' arc.
* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'':
** Characters in the comic originally had BlackBeadEyes that would sometimes appear colored, however the colors weren't consistent. Eventually the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' era created an excuse to give Sonic green eyes, while everyone else was just assumed to have always looked that way. Their colors stayed stationary since then.
** Amy had violet eyes at the beginning of the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' arc instead of her normal green.
* Before he got his own comic, Midnighter's hair color frequently changed. This was because he was so rarely seen without his cowl that colorists never settled on a consensus. It was eventually explained as him constantly dyeing it different colors.
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* The fan-comic sequel to ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'', ''Webcomic/SonicTheComicOnline'', isn't much better than the official comic when it comes to this. The comic often switch between the Fleetway colors and game colors DependingOnTheArtist. Amy has even switched between green and brown eyes between panels.
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* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Nala's eyes can be seen as changing from blue to green. In ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'', her eyes are gold, and finally, in ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', her eyes are an electric blue (or something of the sort, the fanbase is confused and [[BrokenBase twisted]] on her eye color).
* In ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'', Mulan's armor is mostly seen as green but also as blue and brown later in the movie.
* Aurora has ''three'' eye colors in ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'': Brown eyes, purple eyes, and BlackBeadEyes. In at least one scene she changed between the three. ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' merchandise portrays her consistently with purple eyes, making her the only princess with an unnatural eye color. Rereleases have fixed the film so that her eyes are more obviously purple.
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* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Sonic's eyelids have varied wildly depending on the adaptation. In the original games, they were flesh-colored, although the number of times Sonic blinked to illustrate that could be counted on both hands. Archie went with blue; Fleetway originally had flesh-colored, but went to blue as well. Then ''Adventure'' introduced the redesign, and made the flesh-colored eyelids even more noticeable, prompting the relevant change in both comics. Finally, when ''Anime/SonicX'' rolled around, the eyelids were made blue ''again'', but this time the change carried over into the games as well, which has stuck ever since. This can be somewhat surreal in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', where Classic Sonic retains the flesh-colored eyelids but Modern Sonic has the current blue ones.
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* ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** Despite being the protagonist of the first StoryArc and having the most official images out of any character in the series, the artist of the series can't seem to decide whether Firestar should have tabby stripes, what shade of orange his fur is, and whether or not he has GreenEyes (the canon color) or [[EyesOfGold yellow]]. In a particularly egregious example, on the book jackets of the [[ExpandedUniverse Super Edition books]], it shows him as having yellow eyes on the cover of ''Firestar's Quest'', even though the actual cover has him with ''green eyes''! The books themselves never refer to Firestar as a tabby, implying he's solid-coloured.
** Brightheart has been described as being white with tortoiseshell patches, as being flecked instead of patched, as having white patches of fur, as being an outright tortoiseshell, and being a ''solid brown cat''. Official art has also depicted her with brown eyes. She's officially a white furred cat with ginger patches and blue eyes.
** Longtail's design is very inconsistent. He's referred to as brown and then less than ''fifty'' pages later is called silver. Apparently the reason for this is because the Creator/{{Erin|Hunter}}s have different views on what tabbies look like ([[ArtisticLicenseBiology one thinks they're brown and another silver]]). Vicky however believes Longtail to be grey.
* Ozma from the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' books is described as having "ruddy blonde locks". Most official art portrays her as a brunette, though some also portray Ozma with black hair or red hair as well. Subsequently, popular {{fanon}} depicts Ozma as a brunette and [[AdaptationDyeJob most adaptations portray her as any color]] ''[[AdaptationDyeJob but]]'' [[AdaptationDyeJob blonde]]. ''Film/ReturnToOz'' is one of the few adaptations where she is a blonde (and even then she doesn't have a reddish tone to her hair).
* Official art for ''Literature/SeekerBears'' differs on whether Lusa has a brown muzzle or a black muzzle.
* Mufasa and Scar's father in ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'' has a different design in the illustrations than he does in the text. The text describes Ahadi as having a black mane and green eyes, while the illustrations depict him with a red mane and brown eyes.
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* Bran's direwolf Summer from ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has gone from having gray fur to having brown to having what is a sort of beige-like color.
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* Since most NewspaperComics are printed in black and white, this trope can happen if a colored version is available. This can be seen in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', where the house interior and appliances are not defined color-wise. Even Jon's outfit changes colors sometimes.
* In some ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' color Sunday strips Charlie Brown's trademark yellow shirt is a dark red, or green, or something else.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''s black and white daily strips, the point is lost that Asok the intern is meant to be Asian. He looks "white" as his face and hands are rendered in the same pale tones as Dilbert, Wally or Alice. However, in the colour weekend strips, it is clear that his ethnicity is different. Owing to the limitations of monochrome publishing, this has effectively become an unintended version of this trope - Asok is white on weekdays and Asian at the weekend.
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': Rumble and Frenzy, the two [[TechnologyMarchesOn Cassetteicons]] who turn into robots were red and blue, respectively, in the original toys. However, the [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers animated]] versions were blue and red. Since then, they've been alternating back and forth for the past thirty years or so.
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* The titular character in ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'' has hair which ranges from blue to red to green- although this is clearly an intentional case of KaleidoscopeHair, it has no InUniverse explanation and is never noticed by the other characters. It just varies depending on the strip.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Tick}}'', one episode has the defective superheroes gathered in a room. A continuity error or just sloppy coloring keeps depicting American Maid as alternating from black-stockinged legs to bare legs and back again, even though she is just sitting there and has neither time nor a plot reason to keep whipping her stockings on and off.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'', Tuesday's hair changes color from episode to episode. Not sure whether this is an actual mistake or whether [[FridgeBrilliance it's just a tendency of Tuesday's to dye her hair a lot]].
* There's an intentional example in ''WesternAnimation/YakkityYak'' with Professor Crazyhair, whose hair constantly changes color. [[MeaningfulName It's a rather fitting name]].
* When ''WesternAnimation/SpeedBuggy'' and friends crossed over with ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', Speedy's pal Mark had a much darker skin tone than how he was normally shown.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'', Butch the [[BullyBulldog Bulldog]] is grey with a darker grey muzzle and white belly, but in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'', he's brown with a tan colored muzzle and belly.
* In on episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheCharlieBrownAndSnoopyShow'', Linus' blanket is colored green instead of light blue. HandWaved by a voice-over of Lucy saying that "My brother's got a stupid new blanket."
* This happened to Sunshine in ''Salty's Lighthouse'', the [[Main/CutAndPasteTranslation cut and paste translation]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}''. In addition to Sunshine being a girl in ''Salty's Lighthouse'' (in ''TUGS'', he was a boy), stock footage from ''TUGS'' episodes were used for his/her scenes, namely switching between his/her original white livery from the episode, "Sunshine", and his/her yellow paintwork in later episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' merchandise often has Angelica with purple eyes while ''Angelica and Suzie's Preschool Daze'' has her as blue eyes. A piece of ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' promotional art also has her as blue-eyed.
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It may be due to [[DependingOnTheArtist various artists]]. Maybe publishing issues. Maybe they're retconning or deliberately redesigning an outfit from here on out. Maybe TheyJustDidntCare. Regardless, sometimes characters' colors aren't consistent from one moment to the next, whether it's a very notable miscoloration in one panel, or consistently recolored across an entire issue. It's typically small details, such as eye color, but more major details, like hair color or costume colors, can be changed too.
This is particularly prevalent in comics, including [[ComicBooks western comic books]], {{newspaper comics}}, {{manga}} and {{webcomics}}, but can happen with other media as well. Is drequently due to [[DependingOnTheArtist different artists]] but can also be [[ArtEvolution due to retcons]] or just the artist being OffModel.
Compare to DependingOnTheArtist, AdaptationDyeJob,, EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference, and HairColorDissonance.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime And Manga]]
* Early on the ''Manga/WanderingSon'' characters rarely had a stationary color in colored artwork; even within the same volume would the colors change. Eventually the manga decided on certain colors for certain characters, such as Takatsuki having black hair. However other colors, such as the exact shade of Nitori's brown hair, still changed between colored artwork until the very end.
* ''Manga/{{XxxHolic}}'' have Yuuko's and Watanuki's eyes, which have been just about every color of the spectrum.
* Kamui from ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', whose eyes have been blue, green, and purple in various pieces of artwork.
* The mangaka of ''Manga/MiracleGirls'' justifies this, saying that the different colors were caused by problems made during the publishing process. The main twins hair would change between varying tones of near white, blonde, and brown depending on the cover. Their official tone was a dark brown, which the anime uses.
* The colored art for ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'' portray the Kawamoto sisters with either black hair or brunette hair. Typically, the more detailed pieces, like the ones used for volume covers, will use brunette.
* While the covers of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' usually consistently show Male Ranma with black hair ([[HairColorDissonance though the highlight color may vary]]), Female Ranma's hair bounces off between black, brown, red, pink, purple, and blue.
* Ino from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has been depicted with both blue eyes and green eyes in the manga, though she's usually green eyed. The anime uses blue.
* In ''Anime/SherlockHound'', Moriarty's minion Smiley is green in the six episodes directed by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, and brown in the other twenty episodes.
* Aiko from ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'' has been depicted with brown hair, red hair, and even teal hair. Her official color is a dark brown.
* Shouko from ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' is frequently depicted in colored artwork with a near ''pink'' tone of hair. Canonically she has a dark brown hair but few artworks use the tone. The animated movie gives her reddish hair.
* Triela from ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' is a DarkSkinnedBlonde however her skin tone is shaded in different ways. Early chapters often made her as light as the white characters, however later ones tend to shade her darker.
* The pilot of ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' had a few shots where Optimus Prime's head had noticeably different coloring than what was used for the remainder of the series.
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'':
** Chibiusa's friend Momoko had brown hair in the ''R'' and ''S'' seasons but switched to purple hair in ''[=SuperS=]''. In the manga she has pink hair.
** The hair color Usagi's mom switches between pink and blue in the manga. The first chapter depicted her with light brown hair. The 90s anime depicted her with dark blue hair while ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' originally opted for light purple in season 1 before also switching her to dark blue.
* Karin (Korin in dubs), the magical cat in ''Manga/DragonBall'', is a different color anytime he appears on a cover, to accent his strangeness. In the anime adaptations, however, he's a consistent white.
* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', as part of its general... [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs bizarreness]]. Whenever color is used (most notably in the anime adaptation), characters are known to change color schemes multiple times within ''the same scene''.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Tracey either has black hair or black hair with heavy green tints.
** The switch to computer animation in late Johto caused this for several characters. For example, James' hair is either indigo, blue, or purple while Jessie's is either red, magenta, or purplish.
** Misty's eye color has changed between blue and green many times.
* Hori's hair in ''Manga/{{Horimiya}}'' ranges from light auburn to a very dark brown in the original webcomic and official artwork. Confusingly, the manga makes it look like she has blonde hair since it doesn't have any screentone (and other characters with canonically lighter hair do).
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk's first appearance he's gray; then from the 2nd issue on he's green (and [[{{retcon}} is shown to be green]] in {{Flash Back}}s to the first issue). Much later it's re-retconned back to him being gray at first.
* Triumph, in DC's ''Trinity'' miniseries, was drawn with at least four different hair colors... and they weren't similar. He started out blue, popped up with red and brown, and finally ended back where belonged at blonde.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' had problems with eye colors in the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' arc. Porker Lewis' eyes changed from brown to blue and back. Everyone with BlackBeadEyes before switching to colored eyes in the ''Sonic Adventure'' arc.
* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'':
** Characters in the comic originally had BlackBeadEyes that would sometimes appear colored, however the colors weren't consistent. Eventually the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' era created an excuse to give Sonic green eyes, while everyone else was just assumed to have always looked that way. Their colors stayed stationary since then.
** Amy had violet eyes at the beginning of the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' arc instead of her normal green.
* Before he got his own comic, Midnighter's hair color frequently changed. This was because he was so rarely seen without his cowl that colorists never settled on a consensus. It was eventually explained as him constantly dyeing it different colors.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* The fan-comic sequel to ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'', ''Webcomic/SonicTheComicOnline'', isn't much better than the official comic when it comes to this. The comic often switch between the Fleetway colors and game colors DependingOnTheArtist. Amy has even switched between green and brown eyes between panels.
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[[folder:Film - Animation]]
* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Nala's eyes can be seen as changing from blue to green. In ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'', her eyes are gold, and finally, in ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', her eyes are an electric blue (or something of the sort, the fanbase is confused and [[BrokenBase twisted]] on her eye color).
* In ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'', Mulan's armor is mostly seen as green but also as blue and brown later in the movie.
* Aurora has ''three'' eye colors in ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'': Brown eyes, purple eyes, and BlackBeadEyes. In at least one scene she changed between the three. ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' merchandise portrays her consistently with purple eyes, making her the only princess with an unnatural eye color. Rereleases have fixed the film so that her eyes are more obviously purple.
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[[folder:Franchises]]
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Sonic's eyelids have varied wildly depending on the adaptation. In the original games, they were flesh-colored, although the number of times Sonic blinked to illustrate that could be counted on both hands. Archie went with blue; Fleetway originally had flesh-colored, but went to blue as well. Then ''Adventure'' introduced the redesign, and made the flesh-colored eyelids even more noticeable, prompting the relevant change in both comics. Finally, when ''Anime/SonicX'' rolled around, the eyelids were made blue ''again'', but this time the change carried over into the games as well, which has stuck ever since. This can be somewhat surreal in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', where Classic Sonic retains the flesh-colored eyelids but Modern Sonic has the current blue ones.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** Despite being the protagonist of the first StoryArc and having the most official images out of any character in the series, the artist of the series can't seem to decide whether Firestar should have tabby stripes, what shade of orange his fur is, and whether or not he has GreenEyes (the canon color) or [[EyesOfGold yellow]]. In a particularly egregious example, on the book jackets of the [[ExpandedUniverse Super Edition books]], it shows him as having yellow eyes on the cover of ''Firestar's Quest'', even though the actual cover has him with ''green eyes''! The books themselves never refer to Firestar as a tabby, implying he's solid-coloured.
** Brightheart has been described as being white with tortoiseshell patches, as being flecked instead of patched, as having white patches of fur, as being an outright tortoiseshell, and being a ''solid brown cat''. Official art has also depicted her with brown eyes. She's officially a white furred cat with ginger patches and blue eyes.
** Longtail's design is very inconsistent. He's referred to as brown and then less than ''fifty'' pages later is called silver. Apparently the reason for this is because the Creator/{{Erin|Hunter}}s have different views on what tabbies look like ([[ArtisticLicenseBiology one thinks they're brown and another silver]]). Vicky however believes Longtail to be grey.
* Ozma from the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' books is described as having "ruddy blonde locks". Most official art portrays her as a brunette, though some also portray Ozma with black hair or red hair as well. Subsequently, popular {{fanon}} depicts Ozma as a brunette and [[AdaptationDyeJob most adaptations portray her as any color]] ''[[AdaptationDyeJob but]]'' [[AdaptationDyeJob blonde]]. ''Film/ReturnToOz'' is one of the few adaptations where she is a blonde (and even then she doesn't have a reddish tone to her hair).
* Official art for ''Literature/SeekerBears'' differs on whether Lusa has a brown muzzle or a black muzzle.
* Mufasa and Scar's father in ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'' has a different design in the illustrations than he does in the text. The text describes Ahadi as having a black mane and green eyes, while the illustrations depict him with a red mane and brown eyes.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Bran's direwolf Summer from ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has gone from having gray fur to having brown to having what is a sort of beige-like color.
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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* Since most NewspaperComics are printed in black and white, this trope can happen if a colored version is available. This can be seen in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', where the house interior and appliances are not defined color-wise. Even Jon's outfit changes colors sometimes.
* In some ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' color Sunday strips Charlie Brown's trademark yellow shirt is a dark red, or green, or something else.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'''s black and white daily strips, the point is lost that Asok the intern is meant to be Asian. He looks "white" as his face and hands are rendered in the same pale tones as Dilbert, Wally or Alice. However, in the colour weekend strips, it is clear that his ethnicity is different. Owing to the limitations of monochrome publishing, this has effectively become an unintended version of this trope - Asok is white on weekdays and Asian at the weekend.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': Rumble and Frenzy, the two [[TechnologyMarchesOn Cassetteicons]] who turn into robots were red and blue, respectively, in the original toys. However, the [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers animated]] versions were blue and red. Since then, they've been alternating back and forth for the past thirty years or so.
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[[folder: Webcomics]]
* The titular character in ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'' has hair which ranges from blue to red to green- although this is clearly an intentional case of KaleidoscopeHair, it has no InUniverse explanation and is never noticed by the other characters. It just varies depending on the strip.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Tick}}'', one episode has the defective superheroes gathered in a room. A continuity error or just sloppy coloring keeps depicting American Maid as alternating from black-stockinged legs to bare legs and back again, even though she is just sitting there and has neither time nor a plot reason to keep whipping her stockings on and off.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'', Tuesday's hair changes color from episode to episode. Not sure whether this is an actual mistake or whether [[FridgeBrilliance it's just a tendency of Tuesday's to dye her hair a lot]].
* There's an intentional example in ''WesternAnimation/YakkityYak'' with Professor Crazyhair, whose hair constantly changes color. [[MeaningfulName It's a rather fitting name]].
* When ''WesternAnimation/SpeedBuggy'' and friends crossed over with ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', Speedy's pal Mark had a much darker skin tone than how he was normally shown.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'', Butch the [[BullyBulldog Bulldog]] is grey with a darker grey muzzle and white belly, but in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'', he's brown with a tan colored muzzle and belly.
* In on episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheCharlieBrownAndSnoopyShow'', Linus' blanket is colored green instead of light blue. HandWaved by a voice-over of Lucy saying that "My brother's got a stupid new blanket."
* This happened to Sunshine in ''Salty's Lighthouse'', the [[Main/CutAndPasteTranslation cut and paste translation]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}''. In addition to Sunshine being a girl in ''Salty's Lighthouse'' (in ''TUGS'', he was a boy), stock footage from ''TUGS'' episodes were used for his/her scenes, namely switching between his/her original white livery from the episode, "Sunshine", and his/her yellow paintwork in later episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' merchandise often has Angelica with purple eyes while ''Angelica and Suzie's Preschool Daze'' has her as blue eyes. A piece of ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' promotional art also has her as blue-eyed.
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