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| 6 | ->''"(Brunette? Redhead? You really can't tell, actually)"'' |
| 7 | -->-- ''Fanfic/NeverBeenBothered'' |
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| 9 | Cartoon hair colors tend to be a little on the loud side. For instance, it's not uncommon for old people, normally thought of as grey-haired in RealLife, to be purple-haired. Or perhaps for seemingly black-haired characters to really, upon closer inspection, have blue highlights in their hair. This can also be done for art reasons, as solid black tends to look very poor in animation. |
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| 11 | Long-term exposure to these exaggerated hues will eventually make characters' hair look more "normal"-colored than it actually is. After looking at garish hues for a few minutes, your mind's going to fill in a few details and tone things down a bit. Your average viewer might see the blue-haired Kaz after reading ''ComicStrip/GilThorp'' the first time, and yet after they finish reading it, their toned-down and more "realistic" mental image of Kaz might have black hair rather than blue. |
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| 13 | You can find this phenomenon with all sorts of hair colors that are separate from what we perceive them to be. For instance, lavender-haired characters can ''also'' appear to be gray haired. People with bright orange hair can appear blond, redheads can appear to be brunettes, and those with hair in all sorts of odd grayish tones can just look like they have mouse or light brown hair. |
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| 15 | Animal characters are not safe from this phenomenon either. For example, animal characters with black fur or feathers in real life, like black cats and crows, appear dark grey in cartoons. Also, grey fur represented by blue or purple occurs frequently on animal characters. |
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| 17 | This is typically not even realized or noticed by viewers until attention is called to it in some way, such as using the inkdrop tool in a paint program over a graphic from the show in question or having another person point out the character's "true" hair color. Adding to the issue is that many artists, especially those who often work in specialty mediums like black and white, may have ''multiple'' ways of coloring the exact same characters. |
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| 19 | In a way, it's a form of WeirdnessCensor. Alternately, it's similar to the practice of exaggerating motions and forms to make them look right when animated; when trying to exactly mimic realism, it can come across as slightly [[UncannyValley off and dead]]. It's not so much the WeirdnessCensor acting up as an intentional manipulation of the eye and how it perceives color. |
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| 21 | Note that most of these are TruthInTelevision, since hair, seen in certain lighting conditions, can appear this way. Black hair appearing blue or purple is common (in no small part due to its prevalence among the Japanese); this overlaps with PurpleIsTheNewBlack. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | See also AdaptationDyeJob, EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference, SuddenlyBlonde, InconsistentColoring, and ShadingColourDissonance. |
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| 25 | !!Examples: |
| 26 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:Examples of black hair represented by green, brown, or dark brown]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]] |
| 31 | * ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': Princess Erika has black hair, but many [[https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/File:Daimosartbook.jpg meta]] [[https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/File:Daimos_artbook.jpg material]] depict it as green. |
| 32 | * ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': Marc's hair is red, but is depicted as [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294099/mediaviewer/rm2342439681/ brown]] in other instances. |
| 33 | * Akira Touya of ''Manga/HikaruNoGo'' has green highlights. |
| 34 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': China and Korea presumably are supposed to have black hair, but are colored to look more brown. Concept art for the original anime series appeared to even give Korea outright chestnut brown hair. |
| 35 | * ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': Sailor Pluto's hair has green highlights, and in some shots and artworks it's actually drawn as dark green. Officially, it is black. Sailor Mars also has black hair, but with purple highlights. Tuxedo Mask's Hair is also somewhere between green and black. |
| 36 | * Some fans believe that Jun's hair in ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' is a case of this, insisting that it's so black that it only seems to be green. Later artwork, merchandise, and the sequel series have her hair lightened/brightened to be more obviously green. This confusion is averted in the '90s OVA, where her hair color is a mousy brown. |
| 37 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 38 | ** Tracey had a full head of black hair in the Orange Island saga, but then it developed a greenish tint in later seasons. |
| 39 | ** Ash has a greenish or blue tint to his own black hair, which tends to vary by season. His hair seems to become greener when wet, however. |
| 40 | ** Sabrina's normally black hair also has a green hue in the anime. |
| 41 | ** If one were to assume Jimmy, based off of the male main character Ethan from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver,'' who had black/dark navy hair, was supposed to have the same hair color as his game counterpart, his hair appears to be a bluish color several shades lighter in the anime. |
| 42 | ** Max also presumably has black hair; it looks dark green. |
| 43 | * Fakir in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' appears to have black hair, until he's in bright enough light that it has lighter shading and you realize it's been colored green the entire time. |
| 44 | * Gon Freecss in ''Anime/HunterXHunter'' has green highlights. |
| 45 | * In the original light novels and 2017 anime, Kino from ''Literature/KinosJourney'' has black hair that's stylized as a dark green. |
| 46 | * ''Manga/DGrayMan'': Lenalee's hair is officially black, but dark green in the anime. The same thing happened with Kanda, who has blue hair in the anime, and possibly Komui, whose hair is purple. The Noah, who are mostly black haired, on the other hand, don't get this at all. |
| 47 | * Leon's hair from ''Manga/BlackCat'' is probably supposed to be a stylized black. |
| 48 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' is a confusing example, since official sources are inconsistent. For example, some say that Heero's hair is moss green, while others say it's dark brown (which is what it actually looks like). |
| 49 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'''s Captain Bright's hair is officially black, and is even noted in-show. Cima Garahau from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Stardust Memory]]'' has hair that switches between this and its normal colour. |
| 50 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Nina Einstein's official hair color is black, though it has a greenish tint in the anime. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Whether the photophobic (and possibly porphyric) Nekozawa has a black or green wig (or even just deep shadow ''turning'' his hair green) is at least ''occasionally'' disputed amongst fans. |
| 52 | * ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Spike Spiegel has dark green hair. |
| 53 | * ''Anime/YuYuHakusho'': Yuusuke Urameshi has green highlights in his hair. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'': Hata's hair looks black/gray in low light, but green when well lit. |
| 55 | * ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'': Played with with Kitamura -- he's drawn with desaturated green hair, but bleaches it later in the series, making it blond. |
| 56 | * ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'': Miku Kohinata had green hair in season one, but it becomes black in season 2. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Considering that [[Creator/KoheiHorikoshi the author]] is a fan of classic American superhero comics, this trope was expected: |
| 58 | ** Izuku "Deku" Midoriya has dark green highlights in his black hair. |
| 59 | ** Tsuyu Asui's hair is either black, black with teal highlights, or teal entirely. |
| 60 | * In ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords'', Yukari's hair is vaguely dark green. When she appears in ''Anime/YourName'', it's more obviously black. |
| 61 | * Waver Velvet and Maiya Hisau in ''Literature/FateZero'' have strangely similar dark-green hair in the anime, which is described as black for both in light novels. Waver somehow manages to outgrow the green hair and have greyish, brownish, or jet-black hair as an adult. |
| 62 | * Fakir of ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' has black hair with green highlights. |
| 63 | * ''Anime/{{Pollyanna}}'': In the original ''Literature/{{Pollyanna}}'' novel, Pollyanna was a blonde. In the anime, her hair is coloured [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7056407cbc3c77ee_m.jpg dark brown]] or [[https://cdn.animenewsnetwork.com/thumbnails/max500x600/encyc/A1057-984893349.1475266633.jpg bright red]] at various points. |
| 64 | * ''Anime/VoltesV'': |
| 65 | ** WordOfGod[[note]]Specifically, the Literature/RoboRomanAnimeClimaxSelection and the Voltes V artbook[[/note]] says that Heinel's hair is blonde. However, at many points in the anime it [[https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Prince_Heinel/Gallery?file=Heinel_7a.jpg#Anime appears]] to be of a reddish shade. |
| 66 | ** Katherine's hair is [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/katherine_from_voltes_v.png blonde]]. It appears to be [[https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Katherine_Rii/Gallery?file=Katherine_Rii_3w.png#Promotional_images_and_merchandise bright ginger]] in the official DVD illustration. |
| 67 | [[AC:ComicBooks]] |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'': In the closing arc of [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Volume 1]] Kore is depicted with blue-green hair that's meant to be interpreted as black. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[AC:{{Music}}]] |
| 71 | * Music/{{Twice}}'s Tzuyu appears to have black hair in the music video for "Cheer Up", but the lighting for several shots reveal her hair is actually tinted green and blue. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[AC:VideoGames]] |
| 74 | * Annet Myer from ''VideoGame/ElViento'' has black hair in the American box art, but green hair in the game. |
| 75 | * Inverted by Jade of ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil''--given that everything ''else'' on her is green, and the lighting of the game, it's often claimed that her hair is green. It's actually more or less pure black, but she's frequently depicted with greenish-tinged hair in FanArt. |
| 76 | * The Sakamoto family and the Doctor in ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' look supposedly Japanese, and they have green hair. |
| 77 | * Luigi's sprite in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' due to technical limitations of the time. |
| 78 | * Soren from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' appears to have black hair, but it's actually a very dark green on close examination. [[spoiler:This is likely done to hide his true heritage as Almedha's son and a half-dragon Branded.]] |
| 79 | * Linhardt from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' probably falls under the "stylized black" category since his hair is much darker than several characters whose hair is ''supposed'' to be green. (Likely to avoid confusion with his classmate, Hubert, whose hair is clearly black.) |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[AC:VisualNovels]] |
| 82 | * Uraha in ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' (the VisualNovel) is said to have deep black hair in the text, but it is more like a dark grey with a green tinge so slight you might not even be able to tell against green backgrounds (or her green clothes--the "ha" in her name means "leaf", by the way). In other ''AIR'' media (like the anime) and a lot of fanart, the green is more noticeable. |
| 83 | * ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Rin's hair is supposed to be black, but in the original VN sprites, it's actually very dark, very dull brown. As a result, most viewers consider it black but a few see it as brown. |
| 84 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Nameless}}'': When Yuri is talked about in a descriptive way, he is mentioned to have black hair. Depictions of him always show him with a dark brown shade of hair. |
| 85 | * Lisa Nielson in ''{{VisualNovel/Snatcher}}'', who's described by [[RobotBuddy Metal]] as having black hair. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[AC:{{Webcomics}}]] |
| 88 | * ''Webcomic/FrogRaccoonStrawberry'''s human friend, January O'Kaye, has normal black hair, but it is outlined with minty green. |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[AC:WesternAnimation]] |
| 91 | * Shego from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has black hair with a green hue due to her superpowers. |
| 92 | * Depending on the lighting, Stork from ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' either has black hair or very dark green. |
| 93 | * ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'''s Chase Young has black hair with a greenish shine. However, back when he was good, it was just plain black, so the green tinge may have something to do with his green reptile form. Meanwhile, ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles'' gave him mostly dark green hair that sometimes appears black, depending on the light. |
| 94 | [[/folder]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | [[folder:Examples of black hair represented by purple, dark grey, dark blue, or blue]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]] |
| 99 | * ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': In color artwork, Tomo and Sakaki's black hair is represented with a bluish tint. Osaka and Kagura appear to have black hair at first glance, but theirs are really dark brown, which is nonetheless represented by black in the monochrome manga. |
| 100 | * Ciel from ''Manga/BlackButler'' seems to have black hair, however in many of the art and scenes from the anime, it often appears blue or grayish. |
| 101 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Yoruichi has purple hair in the anime, black hair with very strong purple highlights in the manga. |
| 102 | * Kurono/Blackie from ''Manga/ChisSweetHome'' is meant to be a black cat, but his fur is colored a very dark grey. |
| 103 | * ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Faye Valentine is another example of purple-seen-as-black. |
| 104 | * In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', the series' creator, Koyoharu Gotouge, gives most of the black haired cast different colored hair tips with a gradient effect. The major example is one of the main characters, Inosuke Hashibira, having black hair but with blue hair strand tips that is merely an artistic choice, as the setting states Inosuke has full black hair. |
| 105 | * Kaname Chidori from ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' is described in the original light novels as having black hair, but the AnimatedAdaptation instead makes her hair very dark blue. |
| 106 | * ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': Honoka is designed to have RavenHairIvorySkin (being Cure White), however her black hair is usually rendered as a very dark blue/indigo (still fitting with the design, as Cure White's secondary colour is blue). |
| 107 | * ''Manga/GoldenKamuy'': |
| 108 | ** Asirpa is portrayed in the manga artwork and the anime as having dark blue highlights in her black hair. Her hair is outright dark blue on the covers for Volumes 2 and 11 of the manga. |
| 109 | ** Inkarmat has magenta highlights in her black hair on the cover of Volume 12 of the manga. |
| 110 | ** Otonoshin Koito is meant to have black hair as a Japanese but has dark purple hair in the anime and dark blue hair on the cover for Volume 16 of the manga. |
| 111 | * In the {{OVA}} of ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'', Ayumi's hair is dark blue/lavender. In the manga, [[https://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd70/nosajjj/Large%20Covers/06b.jpg one cover]] shows her hair as brown. |
| 112 | * ''Manga/HikaruNoGo'': Fandom is pretty evenly split over whether Fujiwara no Sai has purple or black hair. |
| 113 | * The ''Franchise/LoveLive'' franchise has several characters with dark blue or purple hair, but it's implied that these are really supposed to be stylized shades of black (for instance, [[Anime/LoveLive Umi's]] charm point is stated to be her "long black hair" even though it's colored dark blue). |
| 114 | * Satsuki Kiryuin from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has black hair, however, in some shots, it appears to be a very dark blue. It can be generally agreed that her hair possesses a dark blue tint. This also goes for Ryuko, whose black hair is sometimes colored navy blue like Simon from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. |
| 115 | * Aya Koomichi from ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'' is stated to have black hair yet clearly has blue hair. |
| 116 | * Hakuryuu Ren from ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'' has dark blue hair that often looks black. |
| 117 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Tenya Iida's hair is either black or dark blue depending on the artwork. |
| 118 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Misato Katsuragi has purple hair, although it's debatable that it's supposed to be black. Considering that every other case of strange hair color in the series is explained by special circumstances (Rei is heavily implied to be [[spoiler:part Angel]], Asuka is mixed-race and Ritsuko explicitly dyes her hair blond), it's worth a bet. |
| 119 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Possible example for Erika, who was given blue hair in the first season while the games portray her with black hair. The movie ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' as well as the ''Journeys'' season show her with black hair, though. |
| 120 | * Pipimi from ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'' has dark blue hair in the manga and anime, but [[https://store.line.me/stickershop/product/7429 the series' Line stickers]] instead makes her hair black. |
| 121 | * ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': Anthy Himemiya has purple hair in the anime series and movie, while it's black in Chiho Saito's original manga pages. It most likely falls under the "stylized black" category. |
| 122 | * Fabia from ''[[{{Anime/Bakugan}} Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders]]'' has dark blue hair, but Dan describes her as a "brunette". |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[AC:ComicBooks]] |
| 125 | * Famously, Superman a.k.a. Clark Kent. |
| 126 | * ComicBook/{{Beast|Marvel Comics}} from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' is known for his iconic blue fur, but when he first debuted this new look back in ''Amazing Adventures'' #15, his fur was explicitly stated to be ''black''. However, since black hair is usually colored with a blue tint in comics, this gave off the perception that the fur was supposed to be blue, which was later made canon by subsequent creators. |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[AC:Film - Animated]] |
| 129 | * Berlioz and Scat Cat from ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' are meant to be black cats, but their fur is colored dark grey, and in Berlioz’s case, grey and brownish grey as well. |
| 130 | |
| 131 | [[AC:{{Music}}]] |
| 132 | * Music/{{Twice}}'s Tzuyu again in the music video for "TT" and in the photoshoot for "[[Music/FormulaOfLove Formula of Love: O+T=<3]]", where her long locks [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack look black but is actually a really deep shade of purple]]. |
| 133 | * Music/{{Enhypen}} has at least 3 members in three eras with hair that looked black but is actually dark blue: Heeseung in "Dimension: Dilemma" (though his hair was more on the teal shade), Jungwon in "Dimension: Answer" and Jay in "Manifesto: Day 1". |
| 134 | |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[AC:VideoGames]] |
| 137 | * Yuri Lowell of ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' has black hair to go with his black outfit but it's often depicted as [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple]]. |
| 138 | * Inverted: In ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'', it's pretty hard to tell what color Lucas and Dawn's hair color is in their official artwork (much like Red, noted above). Judging from their game sprites, it's meant to be dark blue, but you could easily argue that their hair is black if you're looking at the promotional art. The anime does make it clear that Dawn's hair is supposed to be blue, though. |
| 139 | * Inverted in ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger'': Cahara is meant to have blue hair, as [[SillinessSwitch Dungeon Nights]] shows with his special character portrait, but his sprites and normal character portrait represent it with a grayish-black color. |
| 140 | * ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' has a few characters with straight-up black hair, but traditional {{Samurai}}-themed Souma's dark purple hair is clearly meant to represent black as well. In one chapter Kaoru even refers to him (before [[UnsettlingGenderReveal realising he's a boy]]) as a 'black-haired Japanese beauty'. |
| 141 | * Rean Schwarzer in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' is often described as having black hair like [[spoiler: his father, Giliath Osborne]], despite his hair appearing to be navy blue. |
| 142 | * In ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestivalAllStars'', Setsuna's black hair is actually shaded a blueish grey. When she's with the other original characters her hair is of a similar tone and so it reads as intended. However, when she stands next to Shioriko, whose black hair is much closer to actual black, Setsuna's hair suddenly looks far more washed-out and unusual. This is especially pronounced in the anime, [[https://i.imgur.com/dPItAnd.png which shades Setsuna's hair even paler]]. |
| 143 | |
| 144 | [[AC:VisualNovels]] |
| 145 | * ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' calls Sakura's hair black (a detail left out of the Mirror Moon translation), but it's always illustrated as a rich purple. In the same illustrations, Rin's black hair is visibly much closer to black. Weirder still, [[spoiler:Sakura's hair before she was adopted by the Matous is shown as the same color as Rin's. Possibly, the illustrations showing it as near-black before and purple afterward are an out-of-story representation of the biological alterations Zouken carried out on Sakura after adopting her]]. |
| 146 | * In ''VisualNovel/{{Morenatsu}}'', Tatsuki's hair is dark blue and Shin's fur is dark purple. In both cases, the shades are supposed to represent black. |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[AC:{{Webcomics}}]] |
| 149 | * Almost all members of the Beldrobbaen clan in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'' have black hair, dress in all or mostly black, and have a fortress where the majority of it is the same tone, but in their spotlight chapter 48 most of them are drawn with hair that's a very dark navy blue, presumably to give some level of visual variation since otherwise pages would be virtually monotone. Ironically the Beldrobbaen's black hair is otherwise one of the few realistic hair colors in the whole series, where the most common color among their ancestors the dark elves seems to have been a shade of purple. |
| 150 | * Inverted by Susan in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. Her hair is coloured black with blue highlights, but it actually is dark blue in-universe. Most readers assume that her hair is supposed to be black, not helped by it rarely being commented on since EGS is a WorldOfTechnicolorHair. |
| 151 | * Katrina from ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'' has essentially black hair which technically is an incredibly dark purple (it's nearly black - there's a comparison picture [[http://kumacomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Hair-colors.jpg here]].) |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[AC:WebAnimation]] |
| 154 | * ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'': |
| 155 | ** The series' outlines are in dark purple rather than black, meaning every black-haired character is visually purple (the exception being Lila, whose hair actually ''is'' purple, and is a much lighter shade to distinguish it as such). |
| 156 | ** As Ross' hair is already black - er, purple - the highlights in his hair are instead drawn in a light blue. |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[AC:WesternAnimation]] |
| 159 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': Ezra Bridger has black hair. However, the mop-top haircut he sports in the first two seasons has a tendency to look blue in the right light. By Season 3 he's gotten a much shorter haircut that brings an end to this. |
| 160 | %%** His father Ephraim also has this in the old family picture first seen in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E07GatheringForces "Gathering Forces"]]. |
| 161 | * In ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} refers to ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} as a "beautiful, black-haired mutant psychic", and Archangel describes her as having raven hair. Despite this, her hair is clearly purple. |
| 162 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', Marinette's navy-blue hair is repeatedly described in-universe as "jet black". This is a deliberate homage to older comic books that often had black hair colored with blue highlights. |
| 163 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': |
| 164 | ** Averted with the Warner Sibs, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, as well as their parents shown in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' as they are shown to have as jet black a fur color as it is to represent. |
| 165 | ** Played straight with the other black furred and feathered animal characters (such as the crows that appeared in the show) as their fur and feathers are colored a rather dark shade of grey that represents black. This also includes the Animaniacs appearance of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character, Pussyfoot, despite being colored jet black otherwise. |
| 166 | ** Although oddly played straight with Animaniacs appearance Pussyfoot, this is averted with Animaniacs appearance Daffy Duck as his feathers are jet black as usual. |
| 167 | * Sisters Emma and Kitty and Devin from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' are Asian characters with black hair, which looks like a very dark shade of blue. |
| 168 | * Elisa Maza from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has blue hair that's likely supposed to be black. |
| 169 | * Lampshaded in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' where the titular character decides to dye her hair green to stand out at school. She attempts to justify the decision by pointing out that her friend Milo has blue hair, only for Milo to correct her and claim his hair is such a deep black that it looks blue. |
| 170 | * Ellen Yin from ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''. Her hair is black, but is highlighted with blue similar to Batman's costume. The blue highlights are gray in daytime scenes, showing that her hair really is black. |
| 171 | [[/folder]] |
| 172 | |
| 173 | [[folder:Examples of brown or dark brown hair represented by green, black, or purple]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[AC:Film -- Animation]] |
| 176 | * Iduna from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' looks black-haired in certain scenes. Her hair is dark brown. |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[AC:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 179 | * While Frodo Baggins in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' films is a brunette, his hair almost looks black in some scenes. |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[AC:VideoGames]] |
| 182 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': Dyne is depicted as having purple hair in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' - the same shade of purple as Cloud's uniform, leading some to assume it was supposed to be black. In his more realistically-styled cameo in ''Final Fantasy VII: G-Bike'', it's just brown. |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[AC:VisualNovels]] |
| 185 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Nameless}}'': Protagonist Eri's hair is supposed to be brown, though her narrative portraits make it look purple. Depending on the CG, it switches between brown and purple, too. |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[AC:WesternAnimation]] |
| 188 | * ''WesternAnimation/H2OMermaidAdventures'': Cleo has purple hair that is referred to as "brunette." |
| 189 | * Luz in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' appears to have dark brown hair... until you look closer and notice it's a warm dark shade of purple, which seems brownish within her overall color scheme. |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Examples of grey hair represented by blue, lilac, or lavender]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]] |
| 195 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Rei Ayanami's distinctive light blue hair is presumably meant as white (even though she isn't intended to be albino). Intentionally chosen to distinguish her from [[FieryRedhead Asuka]]. |
| 196 | * ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': Ryoko's hair is supposed to be considered silver, but it's colored cyan/light blue/turquoise. |
| 197 | * Sakata [[ColorfulThemeNaming Gin]]toki from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', whose [[ColorfulThemeNaming silver]] hair is colored in light blues. [[DependingOnTheArtist Sometimes his hair is colored with actual gray, though.]] |
| 198 | * In the ''{{Manga/Spiral}}'' anime, Eyes Rutherford's hair is white (sometimes with gray or light-blue shades). In color images from the manga, it ranges from white with light blue highlights to sort of lavender-ish to light purple in the most recent pieces. It's officially silver. |
| 199 | * Boris Kuznetsov from ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'' has hair that is a a light lavender in Season 1, light grey in Season 3, and white in the 2010s art. As well, Rei's hair has always been black, but the 2010s art uses purple (other black-haired characters keep having black hair). And Michael's red hair has been rendered as red-red, burgundy, strawberry blond, and auburn. |
| 200 | * The title character of ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' is described in the original light novels as having silvery-white hair. Most artwork of her, even in the light novel illustrations but especially in the anime adaptations, however, depicts her hair color as light-blue. |
| 201 | * ''Manga/SailorMoon'': |
| 202 | ** Queen Serenity is implied to have silvery hair and is shown with white hair in the color pictures associated with the manga. In the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]], her hair is depicted as light purple. |
| 203 | ** [[MentorMascot Diana]] is supposedly gray to represent that she is the daughter of a black cat and a white cat, but in the anime her coloration is a pinkish lavender. |
| 204 | * In the ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' anime, Yuki's grey hair often looks purple. |
| 205 | * In the ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin'' anime, the titular protagonist Gin is an Akita Inu with silvery fur ([[MeaningfulName which his name lampshades]]). For no apparent reason, in the sequel ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'' both his fur and that of his son Weed are blatantly blue. |
| 206 | * ''Anime/BNABrandNewAnimal'': Marie Itami's hair (and fur, when she's in her beastman form) is a very grayish mauve. |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[AC:ComicBooks]] |
| 209 | * Italian comic Lupo Alberto features Alberto, a wolf with blue fur. WordOfGod says his fur was meant to be pale grey, but since the hue translated poorly on paper blue was chosen as a shortcut. |
| 210 | |
| 211 | [[AC:{{Film}} - Animation]] |
| 212 | * Remy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' has greyish-blue fur. Rats can be this color, but it is uncommon in the wild. |
| 213 | * Georgette's fur color from ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' looks blueish instead of white or grey. |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[AC:LiveActionTelevision]] |
| 216 | * An episode of ''Series/{{Screenwipe}}'' had David Quantick, talking about how soul-sapping it is to participate in ILoveTheExties shows, recount a time where he was asked to describe the hair of ''Series/Dynasty1981'' character Blake Carrington as blue when, in the picture they had on the monitor, it was clearly just gray. |
| 217 | * ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': This is Al Bundy's go to insult whenever he is mad at an elderly woman, he'll call them a "blue hair", regarless of hair color. |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[AC:VideoGames]] |
| 220 | * Franziska von Karma from ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' appears to have blue hair, but many fans believe it to be silver. Capcom's no help: some of the promo art tinted it ''green''. |
| 221 | * In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'', Barok van Zieks's hair appears to be a muted purple. The game's official twitter lists it as dark gray, but discussing the Red-Headed League with the man reveals he actually has no idea what his hair colour is supposed to be. [[NotSoStoic He then proceeds to have a minor existential crisis over it.]] |
| 222 | -->'''Van Zieks:''' Sadly, my own hair could no more be described as black as it could red... ''What coloured league should I then join?'' |
| 223 | * The Viera race from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' have purple or green hair, and it's obvious that they're supposed to have white hair (especially in the art), right? Ritz's albino hair in St. Ivalice seems light lavender, though her friend comments that it's "as white as snow". |
| 224 | ** Which makes the whole "She wants to stay because her hair ''is'' red in Ivalice" thing into total {{Narm}}. |
| 225 | ** Adelle from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' was like this as well. |
| 226 | * This happens in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' with Steven Stone, whose hair has been depicted as powder blue as frequently as it has been grey. For example, his Generation III sprite is clearly grey-haired, but his Generation IV and V sprites have powder blue hair. The anime also gave him blue hair. This even extends to his ''eyes'', [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow since Pokémon is known for eyes usually matching hair]]. |
| 227 | * Inverted with Super Macho Man in ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' - his hair is supposed to be silver-blonde, but it looks gray. This, combined with his leathery skin, leads people to think he's an old man; he's actually twenty-seven. (His skin is leathery because he tans way too much; the Wii game makes this clearer.) |
| 228 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 229 | ** Cecil of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' has white hair in art and all succeeding iterations, but his original map and combat sprite have blue hair. |
| 230 | ** Sephiroth in his cameos in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy (2015)'' and ''VideoGame/MobiusFinalFantasy'' has blue hair, which is especially noticeable in contrast to his silver armor. One of his alt costumes in ''Dissidia (2015)'' shows him with realistic silver hair that does match his armor, showing off why this trope is used - in the game's art style, it appears blond. |
| 231 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', Deirdre, Julia, Tailtiu, and many others are all depicted in-game with silvery white hair. However, official art usually colours Tailtiu and her relatives' hair in a medium purple, and Julia's a pinkish lavender. But Deirdre's hair is much more complicated, with official depictions running the gamut from the pale silver she had in game, to lavender, to deep purple. This can be seen very clearly in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'', where [[https://gamepress.gg/feheroes/sites/fireemblem/files/2017-10/Deirdre_0.png her original base art]] had very pale purple/grey hair, but [[https://twitter.com/FE_Heroes_EN/status/1485871079038066689 her replacement Resplendant art]] has darker purple hair than even Ishtar. |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[AC:{{Webcomics}}]] |
| 234 | * Kade and his mom from ''Webcomic/{{Savestate}}'', both blue merle Australian Shepherds, are literally blue. In real life, blue merle fur is actually [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Australian_Shepherd_Blue_Merle.jpg/800px-Australian_Shepherd_Blue_Merle.jpg gray]]. |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[AC:WesternAnimation]] |
| 237 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 238 | ** Mr Burns has light blue hair, but it does appear grey sometimes under the right lighting. |
| 239 | ** Patty and Selma both have gray hair that appears bright lavender. |
| 240 | * ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': Tom the cat has a blue-grey tinge in his fur. DependingOnTheArtist, he can look outright blue, bluish grey, greyish blue, or straight-up grey. |
| 241 | * Bugs Bunny in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' has either a lavender tinge to his grey fur or looks outright lavender-furred. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Examples of mousy or light brown hair represented by gray or green]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]] |
| 247 | * Karasuma Kirika from ''Manga/KamichamaKarin''. |
| 248 | * In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' Sapphire is supposed to have brown hair, as with her other counterparts, but instead it looks grey. |
| 249 | * In ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', Atobe's hair in the anime can only be described as a mix between dark gray, steel blue, and ''purple''. He even has silver hair in the [[TheMusical Musicals]]. |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[AC:VideoGames]] |
| 252 | * Miles Edgeworth from ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has brown hair in artwork, but in-game, it's most definitely grey. A big question amongst the fanbase is "What the hell hair color does he have?!" |
| 253 | * In ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', Otacon's hair is often grey in artwork, while in-game, his brown hair seems to get ''darker'' as the series progresses. |
| 254 | * Red from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', specifically his design used from ''Fire Red and Leaf Green'' onwards. His hair tends to vary between light brown and mousy, very grayish brown. His female counterpart, Leaf, also has a similar issue. |
| 255 | * Sumia from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. Is her hair grey or brown? Her in-game model leans more towards brown and even has a tinge of purple or pink, but it looks greyer in artworks of her. Sumia's daughter Cynthia has a similar issue as well, but her artwork definitely looks grey. Less of an issue in-game, since Cynthia's hair color, is determined by her father. |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[AC:{{Webcomics}}]] |
| 258 | * Jack from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' is drawn with grey hair, but it might take a while to realize that because it's a darkish grey that looks like it could just be a particularly muted shade of brown. And until Annie actually said he had grey hair in a recent comic, it wasn't really clear whether his hair really was grey or if it was mousy brown hair (similar to his father's) with some artistic license applied to the colour, like how Annie's hair is red in-universe but shown as rosy pink. |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[AC:WesternAnimation]] |
| 261 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'': In the earlier episodes, two of Madeline's schoolmates have greenish olive-brown hair, but later seasons changed them to dark brown or black. |
| 262 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 263 | ** Both Smithers and Principal Skinner. |
| 264 | ** Helen Lovejoy's hair color is somewhere between grey and brown. It often changes shades depending on the episode. |
| 265 | * In ''WesternAnimation/HBOStorybookMusicals'', Alexander's mother is probably supposed to have light brown hair, but her hair has a greyish hue. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Examples of blond or dirty blond hair being represented by light brown]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]] |
| 271 | * Nuts/Natsu from ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''. |
| 272 | * Omiya, the Edo counterpart of Miyako (Bubbles), from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ''. |
| 273 | * More than a few fans seem to consider Nunnally, the young Charles, and Odysseus from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' to be blondes, despite having what seems to be really light brown hair. |
| 274 | * Belgium and Hungary of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' were both described as blondes, but most official art gives them light brown hair. |
| 275 | ** France's and Monaco's hair colors are all over the place, varying from platinum blond to brown. However, France tends to have golden blond hair and Monaco dirty blond most often, and fans tend to associate them with such. |
| 276 | * Alphonse in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' has very dark blond hair to the point where it passes for brown. |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[AC:ComicBooks]] |
| 279 | * ComicBook/{{Aztek}}: Uno's bios says his hair is either blond or light brown. |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[AC:{{Film}}]] |
| 282 | * The very brunette Creator/ClintEastwood as "Blondie" in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''. Justified since Hair Color is relative, in UsefulNotes/{{Latin America}}n countries black hair is the norm, so most people consider any other color of hair as fair, many shades of brown can be even mis-classified as dark blonde in many countries. |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[AC:LiveActionTV]] |
| 285 | * Peri Brown from ''Series/DoctorWho'' canonically has blond hair and light blue eyes but, due to budget constraints, they ended up casting brunette, light-brown eyed, not-American-at-all Nicola Bryant. |
| 286 | |
| 287 | [[AC:VideoGames]] |
| 288 | * Calvin in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade.'' His official art clearly shows that he's a golden blonde, but in-game, his model has light brown hair. |
| 289 | * According to the script on the Making Of compilation, Iroquois Pliskin in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. |
| 290 | * Bianca in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' has blond hair, but it looks light brown in the SNES game. The DS remake makes her hair look a very bright yellow color instead, which can be a noticeable difference if you are used to the old version. |
| 291 | |
| 292 | [[AC:WesternAnimation]] |
| 293 | * Heloise in ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' looks like a brunette, but she's actually a dirty-blonde. |
| 294 | [[/folder]] |
| 295 | |
| 296 | [[folder:Examples of blond and strawberry blond hair represented by orange and reddish shades]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]] |
| 299 | * ''Manga/DeathNote'': |
| 300 | ** Mello's hair looks reddish. |
| 301 | ** The anime seems to use hair color more as symbols than anything else: in particularly dramatic scenes, L and Light inexplicably have vivid blue and red hair, respectively. As do the rest of their bodies, what you're seeing is the dramatic lighting effect that's used when the main characters are thinking dramatically. Matsuda does it too, once! |
| 302 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass:'' Shirley Fenette maybe this. |
| 303 | * In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Matsumoto is seemingly blonde, but like Orihime, she has the same orange hair color as Ichigo in the anime. |
| 304 | * ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': In the [[AdaptationDyeJob original]] television series, Seras Victoria has hair that could best be described by the crayola crayon "orange-yellow". However, this effect is only displayed in the dark. When she walks through day in the open, her hair is normal shaded blond. |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[AC:Film]] |
| 307 | * Inverted in the two live-action ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' films, "The Golden Fleece" and "The Blue Oranges", where red-haired Tintin is played by blond Jean-Pierre Talbot. |
| 308 | * Inverted in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. In the film, she has strawberry blonde hair, but in all Franchise/DisneyPrincess merchandising it's blonde. |
| 309 | * Anna's hair in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' is strawberry blonde according to licensed books but it looks more red than blonde, and some doll versions have hair that looks more orange. |
| 310 | |
| 311 | [[AC:VideoGames]] |
| 312 | * Hurdy from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2''. |
| 313 | * Roxas and Ventus in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' have blond hair in the production artwork and in pre-rendered cutscenes, which turns orange in anything using the game engine. |
| 314 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has Lenna/Reina, a platinum blonde in the official art, a very loud pink in her sprite. Faris is similar, going from the same platinum blonde to bright purple. {{Justified|Trope}} in that there's a status effect that turns a character's hair white, and all five characters' official arts were either platinum blonde or white. |
| 315 | * Peach in the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' due to the limitations of the hardware. |
| 316 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', Link has pink hair in-game, and has pink fur in rabbit form in the Dark World, but has dark blond hair officially. |
| 317 | * ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series: On the cover of ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', Guybrush's hair appears red, but in the game, it's blond. In ''Monkey Island 2'', his hair looks reddish brown on the box but is clearly brown in game. The later games all make his hair blond, both on the cover art, and in-game itself. It's speculated that his hair was always meant to be a shade of red, but they couldn't get it right due to not having enough colors in the palette. |
| 318 | * Inverted in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon''. Gray's red hair is blond in certain games, such as ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonFriendsOfMineralTown'', due to oversaturating the colors to work better on the handheld hardware. |
| 319 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 320 | ** Alistair from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is supposed to be blonde, but his in-game model looks more dirty blonde or reddish-blonde. Fan art often depict him as strawberry blonde or redheaded because of this. Doesn't help that Alistair ''is'' redheaded in recent incarnations. |
| 321 | ** Same with [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Anders]]. His hair looks more red than blonde, which makes Varric's nickname "Blondie" a bit confusing. |
| 322 | |
| 323 | [[AC:{{Webcomics}}]] |
| 324 | * Agatha in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius.'' Early color jobs tend to have her hair as a color gradient from yellow to red-orange, and later pages settle in the middle at a more yellowish orange. |
| 325 | |
| 326 | [[AC:WesternAnimation]] |
| 327 | * Gadget from ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''. Note that this isn't even constant; her hair changes its color from episode to episode. Her {{doppelganger}} Lahwhinie, however, is only shown with orange hair that's supposed to be blond. |
| 328 | * Arnold in ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' is a blond in the books but looks like a redhead in the cartoon. |
| 329 | * Summer Smith from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is a strawberry blonde. |
| 330 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' Honey Lemon is a blonde. In ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' she is a redhead. |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[folder:Examples of blond or dirty blond hair represented by light green]] |
| 334 | |
| 335 | [[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]] |
| 336 | * Kio Kaidou from ''{{Manga/Loveless}}''. While usually a true blonde in the anime, the manga (and most fanart) gives him greenish locks. |
| 337 | * The Cavendish family from ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'' have tea-green highlights in their platinum blonde hair. |
| 338 | * [[http://animecomicworld.webs.com/momoko042.jpg Momoko]] from ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' almost always has a strange green tint to her hair in [[http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/030/f/e/Momoko_by_Mako_chan89.jpg merchandise]]. |
| 339 | * Marika from ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'' canonically has blonde hair. A lot of official art gives it a green tint and one cover even outright has it green. |
| 340 | * In the second ending to ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', Edward's normally blond hair has a green hue. |
| 341 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': Broly's Legendary Super Saiyan form is either blond with a green tone or actual green. |
| 342 | * Eva from ''Anime/TweenyWitches'' has blonde hair that looks light green in some scenes. |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[AC:TabletopGames]] |
| 345 | * The recurring ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' {{NPC}} Shalelu Andosana has been portrayed with pale green hair at least once in official art. Until she was [[WordOfGod confirmed to canonically be blond]] (and for some time after, as well), this was the subject of much fan debate. |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[AC:VideoGames]] |
| 348 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': |
| 349 | ** Tina/Terra Branford is officially a blonde, but her sprites depict her with green hair (presumably due to palette limitations). |
| 350 | ** The same applies to Locke, who goes from blonde to a pale, greyish green. To be fair, in the Yoshitaka Amano art for ''FFVI''characters, EVERYONE'S hair is different shades of blonde or white (in the case of Setzer and Strago.) At least the green hair adds some variety. |
| 351 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 352 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', Link's hair is blonde, but in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTriForceHeroes'', it's green. It's supposedly the same guy in both games. |
| 353 | ** Tetra has greenish-blonde hair in certain ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' scenes, though the other blond characters don't. |
| 354 | * Sniper Wolf of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''. |
| 355 | * All characters named Nina in the ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire'' series have blond hair, but the hair of the fifth Nina tends toward a greenish hue, possibly due to underground lighting/living conditions. |
| 356 | * ''VideoGame/TheSims3'': Boyd Wainwright is supposed to have white hair and his hair may appear whiter, blonder, or bluer depending on circumstances. Getting technical, his hair is desaturated light green with light blond streaks and tips. |
| 357 | * Ignatz in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is likely this, as his hair is distinctly more yellowish green than several other characters whose green hair [[HairColorSpoiler is an important hint]] so it's likely a stylized blond. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Examples of brown, chestnut, or auburn hair represented by reddish, red, or orange]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]] |
| 363 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Gaara's hair was originally brown in the manga (much like his family). The anime [[AdaptationDyeJob made his hair red]] and it was later retconned in the manga to fit. |
| 364 | * Orihime from ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'' has caramel hair in the manga. In the anime, it's much closer to the same orange shade the anime gives Ichigo (whose hair color is officially 'honey' in the manga). |
| 365 | * Lina Inverse from ''Literature/{{Slayers}}''. Though in the novels, her hair is specifically stated to be chestnut, the anime gives her an auburn shade that, over the course of the series, turns ''bright'' red. It's easy to forget that it used to be brown. |
| 366 | * ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'': The main character, Lain. |
| 367 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Kallen's mother and late brother. |
| 368 | * In ''Manga/DeathNote'', Light (and Yotsuba Group member Mido, for that matter) have chestnut-to-red hair, which, judging by the series' color palette, would translate to RealLife as reddish-black. Although Light's hair is often rendered as a more typical dark brown, depending on the (cough) lighting. |
| 369 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': |
| 370 | ** A complication arises with Kurama, who was originally intended to have long black hair which was highlighted pink/red to match his school uniform in some official art. The anime then gave him inhumanly red hair for effect, which then became his official hair color. Opinion is extremely split on whether Shuichi Minamino goes around with long magenta hair, a more human/foxy shade of orange, or a merely reddish-brown believably Japanese color exaggerated for effect. Also about whether the color is Kurama's fault since he was a grey fox in his first life. |
| 371 | ** Kuwabara's hair is generally taken by fans to be this trope since he's a Japanese human, the abnormal bright orange color of it never comes up, and alongside extreme redheads like Kurama, Jin, and even Mukuro, it looks positively understated. To the extent that people grouping Kuwabara with the redheads get seriously assaulted by FanDumb. |
| 372 | * Italy of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' is probably supposed to be a brunet [[ShapedLikeItself (like most Italians)]]. In old official art, this was quite clear. But once the anime and ArtEvolution came along, it became difficult to tell if Italy's brown hair is just strongly saturated by the pretty colors or he's become a fair-skinned redhead. The fact that there are no characters who are ''officially'' red-haired, and that the author is very inconsistent with color schemes, doesn't help. |
| 373 | * ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': |
| 374 | ** Outer Moka's hair is obviously pink, but other characters describe her hair as chestnut-brown... It's only in the final chapter of Season II where it's mentioned to be pink. |
| 375 | ** Similarly, Moka's younger sister Kokoa has red hair, but other characters say it's ''orange''. |
| 376 | * Aiko from ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'' canonically has a dark brown color. Several officially colored manga pages have her with a reddish tone. |
| 377 | * ''Manga/ASilentVoice'''s Shouko has a brown hair officially - the shade varies, however, it's supposed to be rather dark - but the manga shading is light. Most of the official art involving her gives her reddish, almost dark ''pink'', hair. The anime adaptation [[AdaptationDyeJob also used]] her reddish hair instead of the canonical dark brown. |
| 378 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Asuka’s hair is canonically reddish-brown, but is often depicted as bright orange, especially in promotional art and merchandise. |
| 379 | |
| 380 | [[AC:ComicBooks]] |
| 381 | * ComicBook/PostCrisis ComicBook/LoisLane of Franchise/{{Superman}}. |
| 382 | * Inverted in ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''. The eponymous character appears to have brown hair but is actually a redhead. |
| 383 | * Aside from ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', [[ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} Kate Kane]] is consistently depicted with bright, fire-engine-red hair. However, her hair cannot be dyed this color because it's shown as this same shade when she's in middle school (too young to dye her hair) and when she's a cadet at West Point (such a hair shade is specifically prohibited by Army regulations). In ''52'', however, her hair is a much more realistic light auburn, indicating her actual shade is that color. |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[AC:FanWorks]] |
| 386 | * Aiko from ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'' has dark brown hair but most fan-artists give her red hair. |
| 387 | * ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': |
| 388 | ** Although sometimes rendered in fanart with brown hair, in the game Raz actually a purplish red hair color. Other fanart takes this to the opposite extreme and makes his hair an even louder, more exaggerated shade of red or purple. |
| 389 | ** The same goes for the character Lili, who has brownish-red hair, but is depicted sometimes in fanart with either darker brown or brighter red, and, in one case, purple (???). |
| 390 | * Frequently inverted with Daisy from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''. Her canonically orange hair is often colored brown in fan-art. |
| 391 | |
| 392 | [[AC:{{Film}} -- Animation]] |
| 393 | * The eponymous character of ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' is an EvilRedhead in his old school 8-bit form, and a brunette in his CGI form. TruthInTelevision: 1980's video games tended to have limited color palettes that made the character's colors [[SuddenlyBlonde different from the intention]]; for example, Princess Peach originally appeared with red hair in the games, but artwork always depicted her as blond. |
| 394 | * Anastasia from the 1997 20th Century Fox film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}''. In reality, she was apparently a strawberry blonde. |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[AC:{{Film}} -- Live-Action]] |
| 397 | * Inverted in ''Literature/TheOutsiders''. Cherry is nicknamed after her signature red hair. The problem is that her actress looks like a ''brunette'', not a redhead. |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[AC:NewspaperComics]] |
| 400 | * When perky blonde Lu Ann receives her makeover during the ''I Dressed in the Dark'' storyline of ''ComicStrip/Apartment3G'', the stylist compliments her on her new "rich brown curls", yet Lu Ann's hair is inked the exact same color as her canonically redheaded roommate Tommie. ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' made a not of this. Stylists Kat and Kit receive similar treatment, as their (presumably) brown hair is just an orange a few shades lighter than Tommie's. |
| 401 | |
| 402 | [[AC:PuppetShows]] |
| 403 | * Bear from ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' is either orange or light golden brown. He looks to be the latter in most episodes, but looks closer to the former in promotional photos and merchandise. In-universe, he's sometimes stated to be brown, and sometimes said to be orange, muddying the issue even further. |
| 404 | |
| 405 | [[AC:VideoGames]] |
| 406 | * In ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', some of the [=NPCs=] have reddish-brown hair. |
| 407 | * Kratos from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' is often drawn with brown hair in fanart. Like dirt brown, even though his [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kratos.jpg official portraits]] all show it as a red. Might have something to do with [[spoiler:matching it to his son, Lloyd, whose hair is unmistakably brown]]. |
| 408 | * A character in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' refer to Priscilla as auburn-haired. [[http://serenesforest.net/media/fe7illust/s/priscilla.png Her official art]] is slightly excusable, but her game sprite clearly shows her as a redhead. |
| 409 | * Ryu from the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' fighting games, whose hair is depicted with a lighter shade of brown that almost looks red in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterI'' and the ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Alpha]]'' series, despite being dark-brown and black in every other game. |
| 410 | * [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosMarioAndFriends Princess Daisy]] from the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' games: |
| 411 | ** Daisy actually has more orange-toned hair, to the point that it ranged, since her first two appearances, from burnt-orange to bright-orange. Like her first two appearances, it was recently reverted to being so orange as to match the shade on her clothing. It has also been depicted as auburn in a few artworks regardless of the fact it has never been so in-game. |
| 412 | ** Regardless of the fact that her hair has been stated by Nintendo as orange, fan-art constantly depicts her with dark brown hair. Although this is strange as even real redheads have burnt-orange hair that ranges in brown tones of light shades. |
| 413 | * In the NES versions of the ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' games, Billy Lee's hair color is colored red in the games, even though its actually depicted as a dark brown or black in the official art. To make matters more confusing, [[AdaptationDyeJob it was actually blond in the original arcade game]]. |
| 414 | * Sodina from ''VideoGame/ThousandArms'', who has red hair on the game's cover and one of the discs but brown hair in the game. |
| 415 | * Torn from ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' has either brown or red hair depending on who you ask. The concept art is clearly brown, but in-game, it's slightly red. |
| 416 | * Misty from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' is portrayed in the official artwork as having brown hair, yet her hair is a bright red in-game. |
| 417 | * Inverted with the secret ending to ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''. It shows a girl that is presumably Kairi, however, her hair is a dark brown instead of red. |
| 418 | * In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' Tails' fur is described as "fox brown" on his G.U.N. profile. Tails' fur is red. In early western portrayals, he was brown, but he's long since been portrayed with a yellow-orange or orange complexion, and is generally described as "yellow" (which is still an example). |
| 419 | * The common Mirages in ''VideoGame/SilhouetteMirage'' are depicted with Orange hair in-game, but they're seen with brown hair in the opening Intro. |
| 420 | |
| 421 | [[AC:{{Webcomics}}]] |
| 422 | * ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has several characters with supposedly brown hair of varying shades that appear red or orange. Specifically Faye, Angus, Sven, and Steve. Oddly enough, Sven actually did have brown hair in his first few appearances. |
| 423 | |
| 424 | [[AC:WesternAnimation]] |
| 425 | * ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Jimmy's hair is canonically a medium brown, but in some episodes it looks orangey in the light, giving the appearance of auburn hair. |
| 426 | * All too common in Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons from the late 80's and early 90's. |
| 427 | ** Velma from ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' had brown hair that was a little more reddish than her other incarnations. |
| 428 | ** Not even CelebrityToons distributed by HB from the 80's and 90's were immune to this. In ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'', the main character and TokenHuman teacher Max Schneider had red hair, when in reality, Creator/RickMoranis, the person he was voiced by and [[InkSuitActor modeled after]], had brown hair. |
| 429 | ** Inverted with Azrael the cat in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981''. Azrael's orange fur appears light brown in the TV show, whereas in other incarnations (the comics and the live-action movies), his orange fur appears orange. |
| 430 | * Inverted with Princess from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', who is an {{expy}} of Annie from ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie''. Sometimes her hair looks brunette rather than red. This extends to her anime counterpart, Himeko from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' (whose brownish-red hair actually turns bright red when she transforms into Princess). |
| 431 | * Jazmine from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' has red hair however it's more than likely meant to be brown. In [[ComicStrip/TheBoondocks the comics]] her hair looks more of a light brown. |
| 432 | * Inverted with Prunella's hair in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''. It is red in official artwork and in certain episodes, however often looks brown instead. Starting with season 16's transition to Flash her hair looks red consistently. |
| 433 | * Amanda from ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' is probably meant to have black or dark brown hair, but it actually looks more plum. |
| 434 | * Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. Ba Nee makes a big deal out of her DisappearedDad having red hair. He looks more like a brunette. |
| 435 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Aside from Lucy who has black hair, all the girls from the Loud family canonically have either blonde or brown hair, and so do their parents. However, while the blonde ones are clear, most of the brown-haired girls have hair more akin to auburn than to actual brown hair. It doesn't help that their father looks more like a brunette than they do. |
| 436 | * In the earlier ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' cartoons, one of the twelve little girls (later named Monique) has dusky reddish-pink hair. In later episodes, it's changed to brown. |
| 437 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Inverted with Steve Smith, who has referred to himself as a "ginger-haired boy" and his first pubic hair is said ([[{{Squick}} and shown]]) to be red. His hair appears brown, or perhaps auburn, since it's slightly reddish compared to his friend Snot. |
| 438 | [[/folder]] |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder:Other examples]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | [[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]] |
| 443 | * ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': Rika has purple hair, but it turns teal in low light. |
| 444 | * The original series of ''Anime/HetaliaAxisPowers'' gave Russia, who in the comics has pale, buff blond hair, grayish white hair. This was rectified after the post season 5 ArtEvolution, however. |
| 445 | ** His sister, Belarus, who also has light blonde hair, occasionally appears to be platinum blonde in official art. |
| 446 | * ''Manga/DeathNote'': Matt's hair in the anime adaptation appears as either a mousy brown or a dull olive green shade depending on the lighting. His hair in the guidebook appears to be dark and a sort of muddied brownish-green. Fans are split between simply referring to him as a brunet or green-haired. |
| 447 | * ''Anime/{{K}}'': Neko either has really light pink hair, pink hair with white highlights, or white hair with pink shading. It could even be seen as pale ''lavender.'' It is as light in color as Shiro's white-with-grey-shading hair (which is really impressive considering it's white), but it's often interpreted in fan-art and cosplay and even some promotional artwork as bright cotton-candy pink. Of course, it doesn't help one bit that the color seemingly changes from scene to scene. |
| 448 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': In the anime, Tenya Iida's eyes are blue, but in the manga, they're red, orange, or gold. |
| 449 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 450 | ** Lance's red hair looks pink in the anime. |
| 451 | ** Fans have been stumped on whether James has purple or blue hair for years. This is lampshaded in one ''Pokémon Advanced'' episode: |
| 452 | --->'''Meowth''': ''"Don't worry that pretty blue head of yours. I got a plan."'' |
| 453 | --->'''James''': ''"It's lavender!"'' |
| 454 | ** A similar thing has happened to Jessie, whose hair shifted from magenta to bright red to dark pink and, when the show switched to digital coloring, to her current magenta. In [[FieryRedhead concept]] she's still a redhead. |
| 455 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' does this indirectly when Fuko announces that Sunohara's hair is a weird color. It's blonde, [[ImplausibleHairColor a rather rare color for Asians]]. The trouble is that Fuko herself has dark green hair, the guy she's hanging out with has blue hair, Kyou and Ryou and Kotomi have purple hair... all of which are apparently meant to be shades of brown or black. And she doesn't say ''what'' color Sunohara's hair is. We later learn [[spoiler:it's black.]] |
| 456 | * ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura:'' Yue's hair and wings are either a light gray/blue or white. |
| 457 | * ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': |
| 458 | ** Outer Moka is said to have chestnut hair very early on in the manga, but it's completely pink with no indication of brown whatsoever. The final chapter, however, {{Retcon}}s this as being pink. |
| 459 | ** Kokoa is said to have orange hair, but it's definitively red, in both, the manga and anime. |
| 460 | * ''Manga/YuGiOh'': Rather than Hair Color Dissonance, it's "Scale Color Dissonance" with Blue-Eyes White Dragon. The manga, the anime, and the Trading Card Game depict her more as blue as white. More often than not, the anime makes her completely blue. And if she ''is'' depicted as white, it's usually with blue highlights. |
| 461 | * ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'''s Sugawara has light blond or ashen blond hair in the manga. It's outright gray in the anime. |
| 462 | * ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': InUniverse, the Nakano Sisters are all supposed to have the same hair color (presumed to be a shade of pink given their childhood flashbacks), but for the sake of helping the viewers tell them apart more easily, they're given different hair colors in the anime adaptation and the manga's colored pages. Ichika has bright pink, Nino has light purple to magenta, Miku has deep red to maroon, Yotsuba has orange, and Itsuki has bright red. |
| 463 | * In ''Manga/GorgeousIrene'', Irene's OlderAlterEgo's hair is drawn as black with light orange highlights in color pages. Her ''World of Hirohiko Araki'' figurine appears to confirm it as light orange, meaning the black was shading. |
| 464 | * The ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' manga depicted Momoko with pink hair in color illustrations, but the majority of the black-and-white manga had her hair depicted as black. |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[AC:ComicBooks]] |
| 467 | * ComicBook/BlackCat is officially listed as having platinum blonde hair, and some depictions of her do have blonde highlights in her hair. Most of the time however her hair is snow white. |
| 468 | |
| 469 | [[AC:FanWorks]] |
| 470 | * Inverted with Wolf Link of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. He's gray and cream with a green mane and tail, but in fanart, he's often green and cream or green and white. The main reason is that the game's heavy use of RealIsBrown, and various effects like bloom and blurring, can make it hard to actually see the gray, so many players really thought he was just green and cream. His appearance in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' makes this easier to see. |
| 471 | * Due to the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' hair color mix-up mentioned under Western Animation below, it is common fan perception that Anakin Skywalker has dark brown hair instead of the sandy blond of Creator/HaydenChristensen described in official written material. Because of this, a good chunk of fanart and a sizable amount of fanfic give him, especially his look in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', his ''TCW'' hair color, [[https://anghraine.tumblr.com/post/161253163997/me-browsing-through-anakin-fanart-let-anakin-be to the confusion of some fans who have only seen the movies]]. |
| 472 | ** His son, Luke, often has the opposite problem; he starts with golden blond hair in ''Film/ANewHope'', and as the trilogy goes on it darkens into a very dark blond, even appearing slightly darker than his father. Despite this, it's common for fanart and other fan works, even those depicting him in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', to give him bright blond, even occasionally almost bleach blond hair; something that becomes even more apparent when depicted alongside his father pre-Darth Vader, who he's supposed to resemble, with the abovementioned dark brown hair. |
| 473 | ** While not as common, occasionally younger Obi-Wan Kenobi, who is strawberry to dirty blond, is depicted with orange-red or even light blond hair. |
| 474 | |
| 475 | [[AC:{{Film}} -- Animation]] |
| 476 | * A common debate amongst fans of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' over almost all the main characters. Is Anna's hair blonde, strawberry blonde, light reddish brown, brown, or red? Is Elsa's hair platinum blonde or white? Is Hans' hair auburn or red? As with many examples, the color seems to change in different scenes, merchandise, promotional art, etc. Elsa's hair especially, as it seems to get lighter during "Let it Go" and stays that way for the rest of the movie (though it's not as light as [[spoiler:Anna's hair when she's freezing to death]]). Disney always describes Elsa's hair as "white-blonde", but official descriptions of Anna's hair are inconsistent. Anna is a "strawberry blonde" in many books, the art-book for ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' calls Anna and her father auburn-haired, and Kristoff calls Anna ginger in ''Frozen II''. [[https://twitter.com/alittlejelee/status/381785204097961984 Scriptwriter Jennifer Lee described her hair as "light strawberry brown" in the movie, and noted that one doll versions hair seemed "a bit more orange."]] |
| 477 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheWilloughbys'': The titular family are supposed to have red hair, despite it being magenta. Additionally, they were brunettes in the book. |
| 478 | |
| 479 | [[AC:{{Film}} -- Live-Action]] |
| 480 | * Peter Quill/Star-Lord from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' was blond in the comics, no one seems to agree on what color his hair is in the movie. It doesn't help that it seems to change in different scenes under different lighting. This wiki refers to him as strawberry blond, while fanart and fanfics depict him with many different shades of blond, brown, reddish, and even orange hair. |
| 481 | |
| 482 | [[AC:LiveActionTelevision]] |
| 483 | * Marg Helgenberger is a natural redhead. Therefore, the writers of ''{{Series/CSI}}'' consider the character she plays, Catherine Willows, to be a redhead too. However, somewhere between the show's hairdressers, the lighting, and the effects of sunlight on light red hair, she almost always looks blonde. Fair enough: if redhead Marg Helgenberger can turn blonde, so can redhead Catherine Willows. The problem comes in when scripts - which are written with no idea of how red or blonde her hair is going to look on the day of filming - have people who've never laid eyes on Catherine before referring to the very blonde woman as "the redhead". |
| 484 | * This happened during the early seasons of ''Series/TheXFiles''. Though Scully would become infamous for her red hair, in the early seasons, Scully looks far more brunette than red-headed. |
| 485 | * Video cover artwork for ''Series/DoctorWho'' (especially that done by Andrew Skilleter) had a reputation for depicting Peter Davison's blonde Fifth Doctor as having silver hair. |
| 486 | |
| 487 | [[AC:Music]] |
| 488 | * Music/{{Eminem}}: |
| 489 | ** Eminem's initial intention when first [[DyeingForYourArt bleaching his hair to portray Slim Shady]] was for his hair to be ''[[WhiteHairBlackHeart white]]'', which was how both he and his collaborator Royce da 5'9" initially described it to others. However, because of Eminem's lack of knowledge of peroxide technique, it came out a platinum blond colour. He eventually decided he preferred being a blonde - starting from ''The Marshall Mathers LP'' he changed to a more yellow shade, nicknamed himself 'the Angry Blonde', and repeatedly described his hair as blond in his lyrics. |
| 490 | ** Eminem has been known to write songs boasting about having blond hair, even when he's wearing his hair its natural dark brown/almost black colour. |
| 491 | |
| 492 | [[AC:VideoGames]] |
| 493 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 494 | ** It's debated amongst fandom whether Dr. Eggman is a redhead or has brown hair. His mustache color is brown in the pre-''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' games, more explicitly red in the American cartoons, auburn in ''Anime/SonicX'', and anywhere in between in the comics and every game after Sonic Adventure. |
| 495 | ** Tails' color was very inconsistent at first. He's supposed to be yellow with a slight orange tint, but earlier works depicted him as reddish-orange, bright orange, or even brown at times. |
| 496 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 497 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' has quite a lot, owing to ArtShift both within the game and between it and its spinoffs: |
| 498 | *** Cloud's always blond, but he's anywhere on the spectrum from just 'yellow', to dark ash blond verging on brown, to warm honey/golden blond, to cold platinum blond, depending on who's texturing him in ''this'' cameo. Even within the original game, his map sprite has very vivid, almost orange-yellow hair, his main battle sprite's hair is a pale yellow, his hi-res battle sprite is a golden brown, his menu portraits are platinum, his FMV render is light blond and his motorcycle portrait is light brown. ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' lampshade this slightly (or at least fail to ignore it) by giving him lighter hair when he's in his ''Anime/AdventChildren'' variant costume. In a couple of his appearances in ''Advent Children'' trailers, he has bleached-looking hair with visible dark roots, though these were never used for released products. Early trailers for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' depicted him with golden blond hair, but the eventual game showed him with light blond hair similar in shade to the FMV model from the original. |
| 499 | *** Tifa has light brown hair in some depictions, while other times it's dark brown or even black (''Advent Children''). |
| 500 | *** Aeris's hair in the original game and ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' might have been a light brown or a dark reddish-blond, but in ''Anime/AdventChildren'' it's dark brown. |
| 501 | *** Rufus's name indicates that he's supposed to be red-haired and his sprite depicted him as ginger, but in the more realistically-styled ''Anime/AdventChildren'' his hair is mousy blond. In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', it's steely platinum. |
| 502 | *** Cid's sprite has grey hair, his menu portrait has white-blond hair and his ''Compilation'' depiction has hair the same shade of blond as Rufus'. |
| 503 | ** Lightning in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' was assumed by many fans to be blond at first, but her hair's actually pink (and increasingly so in her later appearances). |
| 504 | ** Ardyn's hair in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' is very inconsistent depending on lighting and art style. Sometimes it's dull brown, sometimes it's auburn, sometimes it's brown with a distinct pinkish tone, sometimes it's red, sometimes it's stark raving purple. |
| 505 | ** Noctis's hair is implied to be some shade of traditional raven black but is depicted as various shades of black, silver, gray, and/or blue. |
| 506 | * Ren in ''VideoGame/FragileDreamsFarewellRuinsOfTheMoon'' is known as the "silver-haired girl" for most of the game before [[TheHero Seto]] and the audience learns her name. However, animated and in-game cutscenes clearly show Ren's hair is [[MysticalWhiteHair white]]. Of course, Seto also calls the moon silver, while Ren herself calls it white, which suggests the dissonance comes from Seto's point-of-view, not the audience. |
| 507 | * Is ''VideoGame/AoOni'''s title character purple, or blue like its title says? Blame the dark color tints... |
| 508 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' Takumi officially has grey hair. However, in his various appearances across the ''Fire Emblem'' franchise his hair runs the gamut from actually grey, to beige, to a very light brown. |
| 509 | |
| 510 | [[AC:WebAnimation]] |
| 511 | * Raku is supposed to have forest green hair in ''WebAnimation/NekoSugarGirls'' (according to the intro) however the series itself uses a sort of olive-green, almost blonde, shade. |
| 512 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Ruby's usually hair looks either black or black with red highlights. It's meant to be dark red, but the lighting affects it often. |
| 513 | |
| 514 | |
| 515 | [[AC:{{Webcomics}}]] |
| 516 | * The members of the Sturmvoraus/von Blitzengaard extended family in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' all have hair in varying shades of reddish purple. This color palette may represent shades of auburn. Of course, given that there's a character with green hair that is described in-universe as such, maybe they really do just have Crayola hair. |
| 517 | * The author of ''Webcomic/AnotherGamingComic'' accidentally drew everyone's hair shaded green in early comics due to being colorblind. However, it blends in well so it's easy to overlook. |
| 518 | * In ''Webcomic/SisterClaire'' both Claire and Catharine are noted by the narration to have red hair, something that's actually a ChekhovsGun in the former's case, but they're represented by two very different shades, with Claire being a much brighter orange and Catharine being closer to burgundy. |
| 519 | * Due to the watercolor art style, Robbie's hair is inconsistent in ''Webcomic/IgnitionZero''. It looks varying shades of blond, brown, or even red. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | [[AC:WesternAnimation]] |
| 522 | * Brittany from ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' has an inconsistent hair color. It switches between shades of light red, light brown, and occasionally blond. |
| 523 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Suki's official hair color is auburn according to the wiki. However, in the show it mostly just appears to be medium brown. |
| 524 | * Superman got a slight redesign between ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', which included adding a grey highlight to his hair. This combined with a couple of extra lines on his face led to fans complaining that he looked too old. This lessened when Superman's face got tweaked to remove the lines. |
| 525 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': |
| 526 | ** Kimber's hair is red however it has a pink tint. |
| 527 | ** Riot's hair isn't the issue, it's his eyes. They're supposed to look green however look dark brown to ''black'' depending on the scene. |
| 528 | ** Roxy's hair is confusing: Is it literally white or platinum blonde? |
| 529 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars:'' Anakin Skywalker, originally played by Creator/HaydenChristensen, has dirty blond hair, just like his son, Luke. However, ''The Clone Wars'' gives him what is clearly not only brown, but dark, coffee brown hair. In all instances where he’s described in novels, he’s described as blond, but in many appearances since like many video games and merchandise he’s still been portrayed with dark hair, making it look like no one can agree on what his hair color is even supposed to be. |
| 530 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': |
| 531 | ** Pearl's hair is (according to ''Guide to the Crystal Gems'') canonically pink however it looks somewhere between a reddish blonde and a light red. |
| 532 | ** Steven's skin often has a pink hue. It makes sense considering his [[HalfHumanHybrid parentage]] however his skin likely isn't meant to seem [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation abnormally colored.]] |
| 533 | * The pelt colours of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' characters can be this. Rarity looks like she's all-white (which isn't actually possible for most horses but being in a fantasy world gives them liberties), however, she is actually a ''very'' off blue (like the G1 pony she is based on, Sparkler). Princess Celestia also looks white but is a very light shade of pink. This was exaggerated in her original toy, which outright just had her as bright pink. |
| 534 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' is typically shown with red hair. However, ''My Fair Madeline'' portrays her with auburn hair. |
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