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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': The film opens with a very warm and vibrant color palette as we're introduced to our superhero protagonists in their prime, before they're outlawed and the movie gets a depressing look with desaturated colors, and the main character Bob Parr stuck with a SoulCrushingDeskJob for his ObstructiveBureaucrat BadBoss Gilbert Huph. However, things stop looking desaturated the moment Bob sees a mugging outside Huph's office, symbolizing his superhero outlook and instincts to stop a criminal being revitalized. Although he regrets the way he does it (getting fired after hospitalizing Huph) Bob quits his soulless job soon after this visual change and begins his journey to become Mr. Incredible once more, with the world around him looking more vibrant again.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': The film opens with a very warm and vibrant color palette as we're introduced to our superhero protagonists at their prime, before they're outlawed and the movie gets a depressing look with desaturated colors, and the main character Bob Parr stuck with a SoulCrushingDeskJob for his ObstructiveBureaucrat BadBoss Gilbert Huph. However, things stop looking desaturated the moment Bob sees a mugging outside Huph's office, symbolizing his superhero outlook and instincts to stop a criminal being revitalized. Although he regrets the way he does it (getting fired after hospitalizing Huph) Bob quits his soulless job soon after this visual change and begins his journey to become Mr. Incredible once more, with the world around him looking more vibrant again.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': The film opens with a very warm and vibrant color palette as we're introduced to our superhero protagonists at their prime, before they're outlawed and the movie gets a depressing look with desaturated colors, and our protagonist Bob Parr stuck with a SoulCrushingDeskJob for his ObstructiveBureaucrat BadBoss Gilbert Huph. However, things stop looking desaturated the moment Bob sees a mugging outside Huph's office, symbolizing his superhero outlook and instincts to stop a criminal being revitalized. Although he regrets the way he does it (getting fired after hospitalizing Huph) Bob quits his soulless job soon after this visual change and begins his journey to become Mr. Incredible once more, with the world around him looking more vibrant again.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': The film opens with a very warm and vibrant color palette as we're introduced to our superhero protagonists at their prime, before they're outlawed and the movie gets a depressing look with desaturated colors, and our protagonist Bob Parr stuck with a SoulCrushingDeskJob for his ObstructiveBureaucrat BadBoss Gilbert Huph. However, things stop looking desaturated the moment Bob sees a mugging outside Huph's office, symbolizing his superhero outlook and instincts to stop a criminal being revitalized. Although he regrets the way he does it (getting fired after hospitalizing Huph) Bob quits his soulless job soon after this visual change and begins his journey to become Mr. Incredible again, with the world around him looking more vibrant again.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': The film opens with a very warm and vibrant color palette as we're introduced to our superhero protagonists at their prime, before they're outlawed and the movie gets a depressing look with desaturated colors, and our protagonist Bob Parr working a SoulCrushingJob for an ObstructiveBureaucrat BadBoss Gilbert Huph. However, things stop looking desaturated the moment Bob sees a mugging outside Humph's office, symbolizing his superhero outlook and instincts to stop a criminal being revitalized. Although he regrets the way he does it (getting fired after hospitalizing Huph) Bob quits his soulless job soon after this visual change and begins his journey to become Mr. Incredible again, with the world around him looking more vibrant again.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': The film stops having a desaturated look when Bob looks at a man getting mugged outside Humph's office, symbolizing his superhero outlook and instincts to stop a criminal being revitalized. Although he regrets the way he does it (getting fired after hospitalizing his BadBoss) Bob quits his soulless office job soon after this visual change and begins his journey on becoming Mr. Incredible again, with the movie becoming more vibrant with him.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': The film stops having a desaturated look when Bob looks at a man getting mugged outside Humph's office, symbolizing his superhero outlook and instincts of stopping a criminal returning. Although he regrets the way he does it (hospitalizing his BadBoss) Bob quits his soulless office job soon after this visual change.

* The Tokyo scenes in ''Anime/ThePlacePromisedInOurEarlyDays'' are predominantly tinted brown or grey to reflect Hiroki's low mood, contrasting the verdant Aomori.

* The Mamoru Oshii film ''Film/{{Avalon}}'' has everything tinted brown, until one sequence which brings up the possibility that it's real and the rest of the film isn't. [[spoiler:This possibility ends up not being true]].

* You can tell the 'dramatic' episodes of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' from the 'regular' ones as the show has generally darker lighting.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'', the game is bathed in a smoky, colored filter to accentuate the decayed cyberpunk setting. Every level has a differently colored filter, giving each level a different feel. Safe places like The Slums are given a warm yellow light, dangerous places like The Rooftops have an ominous red light, the empty and abandoned Dead City has an eerie blue light, and so on.

If [[BlueIsCalm blue lighting doesn't signify a calm, cool scene]], UnnaturallyBlueLighting is often a signature of science fiction works. When overused it can results in both glare and loss of detail in a scene.

See also HollywoodDarkness. RealIsBrown (a brown tint applied to video game graphics) and RedFilterOfDoom (red tinting to create an ominous atmosphere) are subtropes. See also PostProcessingVideoEffects.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': When Miguel first meets Ernesto at his tower, the inside of the ballroom is full of vibrant colors. After the party is over and when Héctor reveals the truth, the room is darkly colored, with the pool's lightning giving an Sickly Green Glow, to show Ernesto's true colors are exposed to the viewers.

* An example of using this technique well can be found in Creator/StevenSoderbergh's ''Film/{{Traffic}}'', where scenes in the US were shot with a blue filter and scenes in Mexico were shot through sienna.

* What's your favourite ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' level design - grey buildings with a blue tint (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''), grey ship with a green tint (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2''), orange buildings with a green tint, averaging out to grey (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2''), green trees and buildings with a yellow tint (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3''), or [[RealIsBrown brown brown with brown]] and a brown tint (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'')? ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' has conventional (if perhaps a little psychedelically bright) colours in a conscious attempt to break away from using this trope, as did ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'' has dark, blown-out colours, mostly in blue and gold.

** Throughout the infamous "The Mean 6", the colors and portions of the Everfree Forest are meant to reflect whoever is on the screen at that time. Scenes with the real Mane 6 and Starlight take place in brightly colored areas, whereas scenes with their [[EvilDoppelganger fake clones]] and Chrysalis take place in darker colored ones; when the two groups intertwine, the background becomes a mixture of light and dark colors. In addition, the forest is bright and full of color with the sun shining through when the girls first enter the forest, but as their camping trip starts to fall apart due to the misunderstandings caused by their clones, the forest gradually becomes darker and duller to represent their friendship falling apart. Then when they reconcile near the end, it is sunset, and the darkness of the forest is slowly washing away.