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%%* ''Manga/{{Gate 7}}'': Hana definitely is this. Everybody in-universe agrees.

* Virtually all fan depictions of Maglor, son of Fëanor from ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' show him as an ethereally beautiful {{Goth}} with extensive black makeup in addition to dark hair and pale skin (often artificial-looking): some also add red lips, to both increase his sexual appeal and reference the violence he has committed. While the character has dark hair canonically (like most of the Noldor), the fans usually add porcelain skin to visually evoke his TorturedArtist persona. Usually shows up also in depictions of [[BigBad Morgoth]] combined with SpikesOfVillainy naturally. Sometimes [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Fingon]] is also portrayed this way, though there are just about as many depictions of him with very dark skin (to visually set off his signature gold hair ribbons).

* Literature/TolkiensLegendarium: Frequently mixes AuthorAppeal ([[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]]'s wife Edith was a fair-skinned brunette) and, presumably, Celtic notions of beauty; although the ancient Celts are often {{flanderized}} as {{Fiery Redhead}}s, they were mostly dark-haired and regarded this as the ideal -- thus many of Tolkien's most important and beautiful characters are dark-haired and pale-skinned, typically with gray eyes. Most Noldor, the High Elves of Middle-earth, look this way, and some characters stand out for their especially emphasized dark-haired-pale-skinned beauty:
** Lúthien in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' is the most beautiful woman in the world, who also happens to be half-angel.
** Lúthien's part-human HeinzHybrid descendant Arwen in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', who's reportedly the second-most beautiful woman in the world.
** A male example would be Túrin Turambar, who has black hair, pale skin, and is more handsome than any other mortal man. He doesn't have elven blood, but he gets mistaken for an elf so often ''by elves'' that they call him 'Adanedhel' ("man-elf" in Sindarin).
** Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth has dark hair, pale skin, and is beautiful enough that people speculate he has elven ancestry.

* An OlderThanPrint male example is Naoise, lover of Deirdre in ''Literature/TheExileOfTheSonsOfUisnech'', of the Ulster Cycle of Myth/IrishMythology. Unlike "Literature/SnowWhite", this does not turn out at all well.

* From the 10th-or-11th-century Persian epic ''The Shahnameh'': WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Princess Rudabeh — a sort of Middle-Eastern precursor to Rapunzel from the fairy-tale ''Literature/{{Rapunzel}}'' — has long black hair which she wears in perfumed braids, skin so pale as to merit comparisons to silver, and (at least going by the daffodil comparison) golden eyes.

* Literature/TolkiensLegendarium: Creator/JRRTolkien's use mixes AuthorAppeal (his wife Edith was a fair-skinned brunette) and, presumably, Celtic notions of beauty, since the ancient Celts ({{flanderized}} as {{Fiery Redhead}}s) were actually mostly dark-haired and regarded this as the ideal -- thus most of Tolkien's most important beautiful characters are dark-haired and pale-skinned, with gray eyes. For one thing, most elves look this way (or at least most Noldor, the High Elves of Middle-earth), and elves are ''always'' tall and more beautiful, more healthy, and more physically perfect than is humanly possible. Then some characters stand out for their especially emphasized dark-haired-pale-skinned beauty:
** Lúthien in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' is the most beautiful woman in the world who also happens to be half-angel.

** The "Daughter of the Night" Lanfear is dark-haired, pale-skinned, [[StatuesqueStunner 6 feet tall]], {{Evil|Is Sexy}}, and frequently described as the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman.

** Members of House Dayne usually have silver hair and are considered attractive. However, one of their ladies Ashara Dayne was a particularly renowned beauty, and is consistently described as having ivory skin, long dark hair, and haunting purple eyes.

* Used as an important plot point in ''Anime/PrimitiveBoyRyu'' - the titular character is born with skin as white as snow, and his tribe believes that pale skin is a curse, so he is put to death - luckily, he is saved by a kindly ape who lost her own child, Kitty. When he grows up, it's shown he has black hair.