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** Bob lost a lot of blood, and so the blood loss makes his skin appear grey.

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* '''Enforced''': The writers need a clear sign that Bob is dead without saying anything.

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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The writers need a clear sign that Bob is dead without saying anything.anything.
** The console's palette contains no desaturated colors, gray is the closest the developers can get to pale.

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Seeing how I launched this trope, I can do some touch-ups here.


* '''Straight''': Whenever someone dies, their eyes lose all color, and their skin loses a bit of its saturation.
* '''Exaggerated''': Whenever anything dies, be it plant, animal, or even planet, they will lose every bit of color from their body, no matter how saturated or multicolored they were beforehand.
* '''Downplayed''': Whenever someone dies, their eyes lose a bit of color.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Whenever someone dies, their colors grow more heavy, instead.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???

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'''Basic Trope''': Dead things fade to a monochromic color scheme.
* '''Straight''': Whenever someone Bob dies, their eyes lose all color, and their causing his skin loses a bit of its saturation.
to fade to gray.
* '''Exaggerated''': Whenever anything dies, be it plant, animal, or even planet, they will lose every bit of color from their body, no matter how saturated or multicolored they were beforehand.
Bob's skin, clothes, and hair all fade to gray upon death.
* '''Downplayed''': Whenever someone dies, their Bob's eyes lose a bit of color.
their color and his skin loses some of its saturation, but nothing on his body fully fades to a monochromatic color scheme.
* '''Justified''': ???
'''Justified''':
** Bob is a magical being with his colors indicating what powers he has, which he obviously can't use after death.
** Bob is a robot with his color scheme being an active projection [[NoPowerNoColor that deactivates to reveal his real gray colors underneath when he dies]].
* '''Inverted''': Whenever someone dies, their Bob is normally gray, but his body gains all the colors grow more heavy, instead.
of the rainbow after he dies.
* '''Subverted''': ???
Bob starts fading to gray, only for [[DisneyDeath him to turn out to not be dying.]]
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
Bob then gets a heart attack and dies anyway, his body fading to gray.
* '''Parodied''': ???
Bob's last action before dying is to spray-paint his skin gray.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
Bob's corpse is merely desaturated, but not fully monochromatic.
* '''Averted''': ???
Bob's corpse stays the same color it was when he was alive.
* '''Enforced''': ???The writers need a clear sign that Bob is dead without saying anything.



* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???
Bob is cursed such that his skin will fade to gray upon death.
* '''Exploited''': ???Emperor Evulz has his soldiers paint themselves gray and play dead so Bob's friends will not see their sneak attack coming.
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* '''Justified''': Bob was a wanted criminal who has escaped from prison.

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* '''Justified''': Bob was a wanted criminal who has escaped from prison.???
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* '''Straight''': Whenever someone dies, their eyes lose all color, and their skin loses a bit of its saturation.
* '''Exaggerated''': Whenever anything dies, be it plant, animal, or even planet, they will lose every bit of color from their body, no matter how saturated or multicolored they were beforehand.
* '''Downplayed''': Whenever someone dies, their eyes lose a bit of color.
* '''Justified''': Bob was a wanted criminal who has escaped from prison.
* '''Inverted''': Whenever someone dies, their colors grow more heavy, instead.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "Judging by his less than sunny palette, I think it is safe to say he's dead."
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Why do dead things have no color?"
* '''Implied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played For Laughs''':???
* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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