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* ''Manga/FutabakunChange'':

** Averted by [[spoiler: Misaki]] who has the same hair color regardless of gender.

* Franchise/{{Superman}}: Usually, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} and Comicbook/PowerGirl have a fairer skin than Superman and Comicbook/{{Superboy}}. Additionally both girls have blond hair, whereas their male cousin and his younger self/clone/son have black hair.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} has black hair; ComicBook/{{Batgirl| 2011}} has [[HeroesWantRedheads red hair]].

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* ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'' has Cammy, who is an OppositeSexClone of Bison, but has blond hair, blue eyes and white skin, and really looks nothing like him. Also, Cammy is a good gal, unlike [[BigBad Bison]].

Played with in that Suzu (whose hair is darker than Matsuri's ever were) and Matsuri have a yin and yang {{motif}}. In that respect, his white is associated with yang, and thus masculinity.

* When Matsuri of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' is turned female, his hair goes from black [[HairColorDissonance with red highlights]] to [[PinkMeansFeminine pink-shaded]] [[MysticalWhiteHair silver]], while his skin gets less tanned. The hair likely overlaps with LockedIntoStrangeness, and may relate to the cat spirit that changed him having white fur.

Can sometimes be the [[ButNotTooBlack consequence]] of the fact that, due to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color "colorism"]], [[MostWritersAreMale the woman is considered sexier with light skin.]]

* When Matsuri of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' is turned female, his hair goes from black ([[HairColorDissonance with red highlights]]) to [[MysticalWhiteHair silver]], while his skin gets less tanned. The hair likely overlaps with LockedIntoStrangeness, and may relate to the cat spirit that changed him having white fur.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', many ActionGirl characters are blond, like The Boss, Sniper Wolf and [[ImplausibleHairColor African-American]] Fortune, while the {{Action Hero}}es are often brunet.

* [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]], despite originally having brown hair, now has blond hair.

In the event of a GenderBender or GenderFlip, it makes sense that a newly made "girl" would have a more female body, rather than being just as muscular, but with boobs, of course, and vice versa for the rarer "boys". It is common for the woman to have blond hair and fair skin, even if the man had dark hair and skin.

* Futaba in ''Manga/FutabakunChange'' has green hair when female and black hair when male.
** Inverted by his sister Futana, who has black hair when female and blond hair when male, and averted by [[spoiler: Misaki]] who has the same hair color regardless of gender.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', [[{{Transvestite}} Emporio Ivankov]] turns a prince into a woman for trying to kill him with a cannonball. In the anime, his transformation comes with an obligatory skin bleaching.
** This is a unique case in ''One Piece''. The transformees normally keep their hair color and style.

* Inverted with Xion’s dark girl to Roxas’s light boy, both of which born from about 3 separate people of varying genders.

* In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', Yokoka has light skin, yellow eyes, and her hair is white with pink streaks, while her twin brother Mao has more tanned skin, brown eyes, and his hair is brown with black streaks. [[BalefulPolymorph Their cat forms]] also [[PaleFemalesDarkMales have the same colour scheme]]. A [[FourthWallMailSlot Q&A strip]] explains the colour differences as Yokoka having [[https://yokokasquest.com/qna1/ a type of albinism]].

* The pages of ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'' featured appearances of all four boys and the [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 one girl]] who were Robin prior to Flashpoint, and all the boys have black hair while the single girl is blonde.

* In ''Franchise/MetalGear'', many ActionGirl characters are blond, like The Boss, Sniper Wolf and [[ImplausibleHairColor African-American]] Fortune, while the {{Action Hero}}es are often brunet.

* Ellen and Elliot now play it straight, as Ellen's hair has been changed to green, which renders as lighter than Elliot's brown in black and white. Tedd continues to avert it, having the same colouring regardless of current gender.

* [[{{Metroid}} Samus]], despite originally having brown hair, now has blond hair.

* ''TheWotch'' has red-haired "Sonja" when Jason is [[GenderBender genderbent]], but other characters, like Robin, keep their original hair color.

* Recently in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Elliot's favored female form has blond hair, confirming to the expectations of this trope. However, this is a deliberate stylistic choice on his part to avoid looking too much like his twin sister / OppositeSexClone Ellen. He can control what he looks like to a degree, and hair color is something he finds particularly easy.

* Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}
** ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}
** Power Boy and ComicBook/PowerGirl
** [[http://www.tgfa.org/comics/superman/images/WGD_04_20.jpg When Superman himself is turned into a woman, that woman has blond hair.]]
* Walter Langowski as Sasquatch has blond hair as a man, white hair as a woman.

* [[http://eng.tekkenpedia.com/wiki/images/6/63/Kunimitsu2.jpg Kunimitsu]] in ''{{Tekken}}'' has red hair, [[http://eng.tekkenpedia.com/wiki/images/d/d6/YoshimitsuT1.JPG Yoshimitsu]] has brown hair.

* In ''BirdyTheMighty'', Tsumotu has black hair and darker skin than Birdy, who has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair half white and half red hair]].

* The boy in ''ItsABoyGirlThing'' has brown hair, and the girl has red hair.

* ''StreetFighter'' has Cammy, who is an OppositeSexClone of Bison, but has blond hair, blue eyes and white skin, and really looks nothing like him. Also, Cammy is a good gal, unlike [[BigBad Bison]].

* Recently in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Elliot's female forms aren't just "his body, but female", but are instead completely different people. The Party Girl form has lighter hair than Elliot.
** However, the ShrinkingViolet and Goth forms both have [[InvertedTrope dark hair]].

** Power Boy and PowerGirl

* {{Hawkman}} has brown hair; Hawkwoman has red hair.
* Francise/{{Batman}} has black hair; ComicBook/{{Batgirl| 2011}} has [[HeroesWantRedheads red hair]].
* {{Batwoman}} also has red hair, along with being extremely pale.