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In RealLife, coconuts are either green or yellow, only turning brown when it's cut out of the pod and its second layer dries up.

[[ScienceMarchesOn Back when it had its planetary status]], Pluto was often depicted as blue. This most likely had to do with the cold nature of the stellar body, but was probably helped by being near the truly blue Uranus and Neptune. It wasn't until photos came back from New Horizons that Pluto was revealed to be a lovely shade of peach (much closer to the color of Mickey Mouse’s dog of the same name). People on social media invoked this trope by (often jokingly) insisting the dwarf planet was blue.

In RealLife, they come in a wide range of colors, including yellow (both light and golden shades), pink, white, dark green, orange, dull shades of red, and the stereotypical bright shade of red, and can even have two or more colors on them.

East Asians run the color spectrum, from very light-skinned Manchu-Tungus peoples of the far north to dark-orange or light-to-medium-brown Austronesians (Indonesians, Filipinos, etc.) of the south. But most Westerners expect to see the kind of maize-yellow complexion that no human being would have in real life unless suffering from jaundice.

[[ScienceMarchesOn Back when it had its planetary status]], Pluto was often depicted as blue. This most likely had to do with the cold nature of the stellar body, but was probably helped by being near the truly blue Uranus and Neptune. It wasn't until photos came back from New Horizons that Pluto was revealed to be a lovely shade of peach. People on social media invoked this trope by (often jokingly) insisting the dwarf planet was blue.

It even has a shade [[http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/acid+green named after it]] despite the fact that green acidic substances are rare, and no strong or commonly used acids are green (in fact they tend to be transparent as they are based in water).

It even has a shade [[http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/acid+green named after it]] despite the fact that green acidic substances are rare, and no strong or commonly used acids are green.

[[ScienceMarchesOn Back when it had its planetary status]], Pluto was often depicted as blue. This most likely had to do with the cold nature of the stellar body, but was probably helped by being near the truly blue Uranus and Neptune. It wasn't until photos came back from New Horizons that Pluto was revealed to be brown. People on social media invoked this trope by (often jokingly) insisting the dwarf planet was blue.

In RealLife, coconuts come in green, yellow, or orange, only turning brown when it's cut out of the pod and its second layer dries up.

In RealLife, coconuts come in green or orange, only turning brown when it's cut out of the pod and its second layer dries up.

In RealLife, coconuts are green, only turning brown when it's cut out of the pod and its second layer dries up.

Throughout the universe, stars can be violet, blue, white, cream, yellow, orange, or red; this depends on their precise gas/metal content, with more gaseous stars being bluer. Ironically, however, the bluer stars are hotter than the redder stars, which can be confusing to people who associate red with hot and blue with cold!

In RealLife, coconuts are green and turn brown when it's cut out of the pod and its second layer becomes dried.

In fiction, coconuts will usually be brown with a fuzzy surface. Even when they're still hanging from the tree.

In RealLife, coconuts are green and have a smooth surface, only turning brown and fuzzy when it's cut out of the pod and its second layer becomes dried.

In fiction, coconuts will usually be brown with a fuzzy surface.

In fiction, coconuts will usually be brown with a fuzzy surface. In RealLife, coconuts are green and have a smooth surface, only turning brown and fuzzy when it's cut out of the pod and its second layer becomes dried.

[[ScienceMarchesOn Back when it had it's planetary status]], Pluto was often depicted as blue. This most likely had to do with the cold nature of the stellar body, but was probably helped by being near the truly blue Uranus and Neptune. It wasn't until photos came back from New Horizons that Pluto was revealed to be brown. People on social media invoked this trope by (often jokingly) insisting the dwarf planet was blue.

In RealLife stars can be pretty much any color, but the stars the naked eye can see in the night sky are white. In fiction, stars in the sky--especially those drawn as large, five-pointed "sticker" stars--are usually yellow to [[ColorContrast contrast the night sky's dark blue]].

Pluto, back when it had it's planetary status, was often depicted as blue. This most likely had to do with the cold nature of the stellar body, but was probably helped by being near blue Uranus and Neptune. It wasn't until photos came back from New Horizons that Pluto was revealed to be brown. People on social media invoked this trope by (often jokingly) insisting the dwarf planet was blue.

There are stereotyped object colors that are highly prevalent in fiction, but do not reflect RealLife color variations. They have become embedded in popular consciousness through sheer repetition, to the point that exceptions just seem ''odd''.

Cheese comes in many colors, including yellow, orange, yellow-orange, light yellow, red, white, and even blue, but in cartoons, it's hard to find any examples where cheese hasn't been depicted cheddar yellow-orange or orange.

Subtrope of RealityIsUnrealistic. The color version of TheCoconutEffect. See also StockAnimalColors for the colors everyone expects living things (other than plants, some of which are here) to be.

The skin colour of white people nearly always depicted as pink, and we're told it's pink, but in reality its a much more subtle selection of light browns, translucency, red beneath the skin, with some blue. It's also often depicted as the stereotypical "Celtic" skin tone: very pale pink, turning bright pink or red when sunburned or after strenuous exercise, when many people of European descent are at least a little darker. Caucasians with darker shades might just be [[AmbiguouslyBrown colored brown out of sheer laziness]] (see PhenotypeStereotype).

Black people in fiction are always milk-chocolate brown, or even mahogany red. In real life, people who self-identify as 'black' can vary in color from pale (beige) to very dark (seal-brown) but this range is rarely depicted. Aboriginals of Australia and East Indians have skin tones with a similar shade variety but they are also exemplified by a middle shade of brown or reddish Brown. Giving a character a [[StarbucksSkinScale "Starbucks"]] complexion, meanwhile, may make their ethicity ambiguous (light black, dark white, or beige Asian).

Black people in fiction are always milk-chocolate brown, or even mahogany red. Very dark, seal-brown people of African descent exist, but drawing that would look racist. Giving a character a [[StarbucksSkinScale "Starbucks"]] complexion, meanwhile, would invariably draw complaints that the character "isn't black enough."

East Asians run the color spectrum, from very light-skinned Manchu-Tungus peoples of the far north to dark-yellow or light-to-medium-brown Austronesians (Indonesians, Filipinos, etc.) of the south. But most Westerners expect to see the kind of maize-yellow complexion that no human being would have in real life unless suffering from jaundice.

The skin colour of white people nearly always depicted as pink, and we're told it's pink, but in reality its a much more subtle selection of light browns, translucency, red beneath the skin, with some blue. It's also often depicted as the stereotypical "Celtic" skin tone: very pale pink, turning bright pink or red when sunburned or after strenuous exercise, when many people of European descent are at least a little darker. Caucasians with darker shades might just be colored brown out of sheer laziness (see PhenotypeStereotype).

The skin colour of white people nearly always depicted as pink, and we're told it's pink, but in reality its a much more subtle selection of light browns, translucency, red beneath the skin, with some blue.

In fiction, grass is usually green or yellow green because green or yellow green grass is iconic and easily recognizable.