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| 17 | [[caption-width-right:300:Wait till ya meet Reptile, Smoke, Noob Saibot, Ermac, Rain, Chameleon...]] |
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| 19 | ->''"It's just like the old days, reusing the boss, changing its color and pretending it is completely new."'' |
| 20 | -->-- '''[[MetaGuy Cranky Kong]]''', ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'' (GBA) |
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| 24 | In 2D game development, the creation of sprites is labor-intensive. One cost-effective method for increasing the variety of game characters is to reuse the same sprite, but using a different color palette. |
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| 26 | This is seen in some platformers, but it most often appears in {{Role Playing Game}}s and {{Fighting Game}}s. In fighting games, this is commonly used to differentiate players using the same character, but it is also employed to create "new" characters. In the 8- and 16-bit era [=RPG=]s, it was pervasive: because of console limitations, disk and screen space were serious concerns. Palette Swapping was used to create a [[UndergroundMonkey large variety of different enemies]], often using [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority different colors for various power levels]]. The most famous group of these are probably the Slimes, topped by the powerful MetalSlime, of ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' fame. |
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| 28 | A more elaborate variation found in [=3D=] games is the Texture Swap, where the textures on the character's uniform are changed, but the actual model used remains the same. While the concept is a little different, these are often called Palette Swaps anyway as they're still easier for developers to make than a full-fledged alternate costume or character. The HeadSwap is another tried-and-true technique for making more out of less. |
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| 30 | Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games ({{M|assivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame}}MORPGs) are often set in a very large world that must be populated by monsters. Palette Swap to the rescue! By changing the size and textures used on the same model, the designers can make many types of monsters from only a few basic meshes. Sometimes even [[KingMook bosses]] are simply re-textured and are huge versions of weaker monsters. |
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| 32 | Some fans of fighting games use the term to refer to characters that use the same animations and move sets, even if the characters look very different. Such characters are also known as "clones". Individual characters may also have a choice of several different colors or costumes (or both). |
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| 34 | Caution: Administrivia/TropesAreTools. Palette swapping may be a shortcut, but it does allow designers to create enemies that keep pace with the player's progress while still hinting that the enemies will follow a familiar pattern. This is especially important when a given area is intended to be fast-paced or lead up to a climax, and the designers don't want the player stopping constantly to study "new" enemies. Also, can be used for worldbuilding: using palette-swapped monsters can hint at connections between otherwise disparate locations. In the case of bosses it can be used to hint at relationships between creatures that might not otherwise be apparent to the player. |
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| 36 | One of the best ways developers found to make this trope smarter and loved by the audience, is use it as [[ShoutOut references]], usually to [[MythologyGag other aspects of a franchise]], when videogames have sequels, characters can have their original clothes from previous games back, superheroes in videogames can have multiple uniforms from their history in comics, TV shows and movies, characters [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference who were completely redesigned]] over the years or with reboots can get reverted to their original designs, characters who appeared or debuted in the early days of 3D graphics like [[MediaNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames the PlayStation 1 or the Nintendo 64]] can get turned into their low-poly models from those times, and even pallete swaps that are just alternate colors can work as references, this trope can also be used to [[WholeCostumeReference reference other unrelated works]]. |
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| 38 | Palette Swaps are also used in {{Sprite Comic}}s, where they're known as recolors. They are frequently looked down upon. Outside of videogames, nearly all toylines will reuse parts with some colors changed, as much of the cost of a new toy comes from making the steel injection mold used to create parts. This can sometimes result in most of the line effectively being the same character with a different head and accessories, and is a major reason for the prevalence of the EnvironmentSpecificActionFigure. |
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| 40 | For a similar time-saving technique, see AmbidextrousSprite. See also ColourCodedForYourConvenience. Often associated with MovesetClone in fighting games. SeparateButIdentical is this trope for strategy games, which can also be Palette Swaps. For the level/world equivalent, see RemixedLevel and HardModeFiller. |
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| 42 | Palette swaps can be used to make {{Underground Monkey}}s, different colors to show different elemental affinities with ColorCodedElements, PaletteSwappedAlienFood, or just a different variant. |
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| 45 | !!Examples: |
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| 47 | [[index]] |
| 48 | * PaletteSwap/VideoGames |
| 49 | [[/index]] |
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| 51 | |
| 52 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 53 | |
| 54 | !!Non-video game examples: |
| 55 | |
| 56 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 57 | * Every year people get ads in their newspapers showing collectibles for the big local pro or college sports team. Ceramic villages with the team logo on it, Santa wearing the jersey, etc. What you don't really see until you go online to their website is almost every city got the same ad for the same village and often the only thing different in the picture is the team logo and colors. |
| 58 | ** USC and UCLA have a particularly intense rivalry to where any merchandise deal one university gets is soon followed by the same deal with the other. They turn to the same manufacturer most of the time, and as a result, the products are exactly the same, only with different packaging and images printed on them. |
| 59 | * Proto, the mascot of Advertising/{{Protegent}}, is a palette swap of Whyatt from ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy''. |
| 60 | [[/folder]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 63 | * ''Anime/CControl'' has several facets of [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110603165740/soulcontrol/images/7/73/Masakaki_sea.jpg one]] [[http://animeotaku.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/C_masakaki2-e1304591765298.jpg basic]] [[http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln1m8bmEsk1qanb6ao1_500.png design.]] |
| 64 | * The Tendou sisters in ''Anime/DayBreakIllusion'' are triplets, which sort of justifies them often being literally copy-pasted and colour-tweaked. Also, Etia and Ariel's outfits are identical except for colour and the pattern on their circle-things. |
| 65 | * Manga/{{Devilman}} has [[TheHero Akira Fudo]], and [[BigBadFriend Ryo Asuka]], when they both appear, Ryo is literally a blond Akira, luckily, other adaptations give them different haircuts... Most of the time. |
| 66 | * Common throughout the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' franchise; though it has well over one thousand {{mon}}s, it is slightly padded with palette swaps: |
| 67 | ** Perhaps the most understandable examples are the EvilCounterpart palette swaps, darker versions of certain heroic Digimon. The most prominent example, both in the anime and otherwise, is ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'''s [=BlackWarGreymon=], whose contrast with [[TheHero the actual WarGreymon]] was [[MirrorMatch played up for all it was worth]]. |
| 68 | ** Sometimes, the difference in color is used to denote a variant of a different level, attribute type, or associated with different elements/powers. For example, [[http://wikimon.net/Otamamon Otamamon's]] has water powers and is of the Virus attribute, while [[http://wikimon.net/Otamamon_%28Red%29 Otamamon Red]] is associated with fire and is of the Data attribute. Both are of the Child level. On the other hand, sometimes there are less reasonable instances: there's [[http://wikimon.net/Monochromon Monochromon]], an Adult, and [[http://wikimon.net/Vermillimon Vermillimon]], a red Monochromon of the Perfect level. There are many more examples. |
| 69 | *** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld'' is ''horrible'' about doing this to differentiate random enemy Digimon from recruitable ones. You can ''recruit'' [[http://wikimon.net/Betamon Betamon]] and [[http://wikimon.net/Drimogemon Drimogemon]] (frog and drill-nosed mole, basically). You ''fight'' [[http://wikimon.net/Modoki_Betamon ModokiBetamon]] and [[http://wikimon.net/Nise_Drimogemon NiseDrimogemon.]] (Modoki means 'seems like' or 'looks like;' Nise means 'false.') The only difference at all between them is that [=ModokiBetamon=] is a ''slightly different shade of green'' and [=NiseDrimogemon=] ''has a mustache instead of whiskers.'' |
| 70 | *** If they're bad, [[http://wikimon.net/Soulmon Soulmon]] is worse. The only difference between him and [[http://wikimon.net/Bakemon Bakemon]] would be a pointy sorcerer's hat. |
| 71 | *** Not as bad as [[http://wikimon.net/Gottsumon Gottsumon]], a Child-level {{golem}} Digimon who has two palette swaps, [[http://wikimon.net/Icemon Icemon]] and [[http://wikimon.net/Insekimon Insekimon]]. At least Icemon (Adult-level) is clearly white as opposed to Gottsumon's grey so you can easily tell them apart, but Insekimon is distinguished from Gottsumon and Icemon solely by being ''a slightly lighter shade of grey with a green tinge'', and what really takes the cake is that he is a Perfect. You heard correctly, [[ExaggeratedTrope a Perfect is a palette swap of a Child]]. This was lampshaded neatly in ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' - when Gottsumon evolves to Insekimon, Yoshino comments that all that seems to have changed is his colour. |
| 72 | *** [[http://www.wikimon.net/Gururumon Gururumon]] has to be Bandai [[ParodiedTrope poking fun at themselves]] over this practice. The difference between [[http://www.wikimon.net/Garurumon Garurumon]] and Gururumon is that Gururumon's blue stripes are ''slightly more purplish in hue''; I ''dare'' you to tell them apart if you don't have their pictures/trading cards side by side. Many are the fans who thought that "Gururumon" was just a typo. |
| 73 | *** There's also [[http://www.wikimon.net/Clear_Agumon ClearAgumon]], which is basically a transparent [[http://www.wikimon.net/Toy_Agumon ToyAgumon]]! Incidentally, they also have an EvilCounterpart [[http://www.wikimon.net/Toy_Agumon_Black palette swap]]. |
| 74 | *** [[http://www.wikimon.net/Vegimon Vegimon]] has two palette swaps: [[http://www.wikimon.net/Zassoumon Zassoumon]] and [[http://www.wikimon.net/Red_Vegimon RedVegimon]]. [=RedVegimon=], at least, has the decency to differ in design somewhat insofar as having large clubs at the end of its tentacles instead, but otherwise it just looks like a Vegimon that is [[SarcasmMode blue.]] |
| 75 | *** ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'' marks the debut of such a palette swap as a main character in the anime - Ryouma Mogami's partner is [[http://www.wikimon.net/Psychemon Psychemon]], a rather [[RealMenWearPink garish]] palette swap of a particularly famous former main character, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Gabumon]]. |
| 76 | *** ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' has a mysterious villain who drives much of the series' plot and normally looks like [[spoiler:an evil version of Gennai wearing a black version of his outfit]]. While disguised as [[spoiler:the Digimon Kaiser]], he summons a purple version of Imperialdramon to cover his escape while kidnapping [[SixthRanger Meicoomon]]. |
| 77 | ** The third kind is random recolourings which serve no purpose at all, are given little to no context, are not differentiated from the main Digimon at all, and seem to be there for the hell of it. Like in ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld3''. The ''entire'' Amaterasu Server (before you free it) is a DarkWorld-themed palette swap of the Asuka Server, and most of the Digimon in it are palette swaps of the ones from Asuka. |
| 78 | * The ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'' anime does this whenever more than one of the same monster appears in a single match. With Drum, at least, it's at least explained as him being part of an entire clan of dragons that all look the same aside from differently-colored hair and armor. Gemclone also generally appears as a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin blue, crystalline copy]] of the monster whose SuperMode they are copying at the time. |
| 79 | * ''Literature/KazeNoStigma'': [[spoiler:Ryuuya Kazamaki]] is this for main protagonist [[BlowYouAway Kazuma Yagami]]. |
| 80 | * Shion, the heroine of the NonSerialMovie ''Anime/NarutoShippudenTheMovie'', is aside from hair and eye color identical to Hinata Hyuga, one of the supporting characters of the main series. They even both have [[MagicalEye pupil-less magical eyes]]. |
| 81 | * The "Rose Bride dress" of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': The original dress is red and worn by [[ExtremeDoormat Anthy]] during the duels. In the first ending sequence [[spoiler:and in episode 38]], Utena wears a light pink version of the dress, and in the third story arc, [[AttentionWhore Kozue]] and [[BrokenBird Shiori]] gain dresses that match their hair colors (indigo and purple, respectively). |
| 82 | * ''Manga/SgtFrog'': It's used a lot in the anime for background Keronians, which generally share a few sets of generic designs (eyes with small irises, star emblems, hats similar to Keroro's or Kururu's, headphones included. |
| 83 | ** Later episodes also use it for random background aliens. |
| 84 | * During ''Anime/YuGiOh'''s DOMA Arc, Jonouchi/[[DubNameChange Joey]] adds the Blue Flame Swordsman to his arsenal. This is, unsurprisingly, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin--a blue Palette Swap of his already existing card, Flame Swordsman, with the exact same stat (ATK: 1800, DEF: 1600, Level: 5). On the plus side it does have a useful ability that the original card does not possess--when it's sent to the Graveyard it allows Jonouchi to summon a regular Flame Swordsman to take its place. |
| 85 | * ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': Fake Jack Atlas's three fake copies of Red Daemon's Dragon have color palettes that are anything but red despite still carrying the same name. They're purple, blue and yellow. Fake Jack himself has darker colors than the original Jack Atlas. |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
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| 88 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 89 | * ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'': |
| 90 | ** All of the Dotoris look identical, with only their hats being different colours. |
| 91 | ** The Builder Borys all have the same character model, just with different skin and clothing colours (one is pink-skinned wearing red, one is yellow-skinned wearing orange, and one is cream-skinned wearing pink). |
| 92 | * ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': |
| 93 | ** Wolffy's grandfather Yellow Wolf looks ''exactly'' like Wolffy, but colored yellow. IdenticalGrandson indeed. |
| 94 | ** The Rainbow Beans from the season ''Flying Island: The Sky Adventure'' are all literally the same character, right down to their {{cephalothorax}}-like designs. The only thing that distinguishes them is their color schemes, with each one made to match the colors of the rainbow. |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 98 | * ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': The EvilSorcerer Infidel once did ''[[NoodleIncident something]]'' that gave Samaritan a blue costume and red hair (instead of his normal red-costume-and-blue-hair ensemble). |
| 99 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The Hobgoblin is effectively a palette swap of the Green Goblin, albeit with a hooded cape. There is an in-story reason, as the person behind the Hobgoblin mask intentionally dyed it a different color. |
| 100 | * ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'': In ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimate Comics: Avengers]]'', Gregory Stark is introduced as Tony's twin brother. He has blond hair and wears white suits. |
| 101 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In the short-lived ContinuityReboot ''ComicBook/WonderWomanOdyssey'' ComicBook/{{Artemis}}'s costume and build are identical to Diana's in all but coloration, to reflect her former status as Diana's rival. |
| 102 | [[/folder]] |
| 103 | |
| 104 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 105 | * ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' has Thunderstorm, who is described as his brother Brainstorm with a black lab coat and jet-black hair. |
| 106 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11817831/5/Contractual-Obligations Contractual Obligations]]'' Harry and Tom wear green and silver bonding robes with the colors reversed. |
| 107 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5010827/7/Expelled Expelled]]'' Harry wears a gold robe with red trim for his marriage to Hermione, while her father has a red robe with gold trim. |
| 108 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13884311/19/Finding-Heather Finding Heather]]'' Padma and Parvati wear pink/orange and orange/pink dresses at the Yule Ball. |
| 109 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11994562/9/Harry-Hadrian-Snape-and-the-Sorceror-s-Stone Harry Hadrian Snape and the Sorcerer's Stone]]'' when Harry and Draco go to Diagon Alley for first-year school supplies, Draco is wearing a silver robe with green accents, while Harry's is green with silver accents. |
| 110 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12110387/2/How-Harry-Got-a-Date How Harry Got a Date]]'' Padma's Yule Ball robe is orange with a pink sash, while Parvati's is pink with an orange sash. |
| 111 | * In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14469255/chapters/36425685#workskin Let's Try Again]]'' Fred and George's Animagus forms are red foxes with black tips on their ears and tails, while Hadrian's is a black fox with red tips on its ears and tail. |
| 112 | * ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'': According to the author's vids and artwork, many of the characters greatly look like each other with the only differences being colour and hairstyles. In the stories themselves, characters are often described by their similarities to others, such as Cerise Wonder being someone "whom greatly resembled princess Cadance— same color, same mane style, even same voice— but Cerise had a golden horn like Lightning had." |
| 113 | * ''Fanfic/OjamajoDoremiRiseOfTheShadows'': The Shadows all look ''exactly'' like their Light Halves, except for color; most of them just have darker colors than their Light Halves. Black Queen and Evil Rin take this a step further; the former replaces all the white on the Queen's garb with black while the latter is black, gray, and silver. |
| 114 | * ''[[http://nickfanon.wikia.com/wiki/SuperSaiyanKirby_Adventures SuperSaiyanKirby Adventures]]'' has Anti-[=SuperSaiyanKirby=], who's literally the main character with some changed colors. |
| 115 | ** That's just the tip of the iceberg. There's also Mattboo Sux, Sidney, Casy, "Evil Pac-man 64 clone", etc. |
| 116 | ** That may be explained by the fact that the original character designs were made in MS paint. |
| 117 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9849511/5/Veiled-Threat Veiled Threat]]'' Harry's Animagus form is a black phoenix with red wingtips and Ginny's is a red phoenix with black wingtips. |
| 118 | * ''The Matrix'' homemade pinball machine was made by altering a ''Pinball/JohnnyMnemonic'' machine in this way, and a ''Pinball/{{Genie}}'''s theme was [[http://www.pinballnews.com/learn/ramones/index.html repurposed]] into that of ''Music/TheRamones''. This is the preferred method for aspiring creators who don't have enough technical knowledge or money to build one from scratch and no intention to sell. |
| 119 | [[/folder]] |
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| 121 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 122 | * Franchise/{{Barbie}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}} movies]]: |
| 123 | ** Several of the princesses in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'' are palette swaps of each other, most noticeably twins Hadley and Isla, and triplets Janessa, Kathleen, and Lacey. |
| 124 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInAChristmasCarol'', the time and space vortexes the Ghosts of Christmas use are identical effects, just yellow for past, green for present, and red for future. Also, the twins wears identical {{Pimped Out Dress}}es, save for different colors, such as having [[FluffyFashionFeathers feather headdresses]], one {{pink|MeansFeminine}} and the other [[TrueBlueFemininity blue]]. |
| 125 | * Little John from ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' is basically Baloo from ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' but with brown fur (instead of gray) and wearing clothing. Not only that, but they also share the same voice actor. |
| 126 | * The character model for Queen Iduna from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' bears a striking resemblance to Elsa, such as her wearing her hair in a crown-twist bun (only with brunette hair instead of platinum blonde). |
| 127 | * WordOfGod for ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' revealed that the silhouette of the Lizard from Spider-Gwen's flashback was made by ''heavily'' modifying the character model for the Green Goblin (helped by this incarnation of Goblin being a hulking and brutish monster based on the ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' version). |
| 128 | * Rapunzel's wedding dress in ''WesternAnimation/TangledEverAfter'' is actually her homecoming celebration dress colored white instead of pink. |
| 129 | * The villain in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'' summoned several Palette Swapped copies of previously created villains for the final battle. |
| 130 | * Andy's birthday guests in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' are recolors of his model with the occasional baseball cap. Given how Pixar was struggling with humanoid models at the time, this was to be expected. |
| 131 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', each of the members of 4*Town wear white versions of their usual clothes when performing at the [=SkyDome=]. |
| 132 | * ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' used this for several of the background ''Sugar Rush'' racers. Both meta and in-game. Of course, when you have a racing game featuring tons of characters, and especially one from 1997, this is to be expected. |
| 133 | [[/folder]] |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 136 | * ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' - The machine guns (which are black) in the Exploding Candy scene in the elevator show up in the ''very next sequence'' in white as the cameras in the Television Chocolate room. |
| 137 | * ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has Mary Poppins, who first appears wearing a black coat when she chastises the Baddies for their attempted sabotage. Later during the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" performance, her coat is blue instead. |
| 138 | * ''Film/GhostbustersII'': The Ghostbusters have dark gray coveralls which go along with their standard khaki coveralls. |
| 139 | * ''Film/GrandmasBoy2006'', which is about video game designers, references this tendency when one tester recommends differentiating between two types of enemies by changing the colors of one of them. |
| 140 | * ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': |
| 141 | ** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'': |
| 142 | *** The ''Mamenchisaurus'' that briefly appear during the stampede scene were made by stretching out the ''Brachiosaurus'' model from the [[Film/JurassicPark1993 first movie]]. |
| 143 | *** The male and female ''Tyrannosaurus'' are slightly recoloured versions of the same animatronics and CG models, which is a notable change from the novel, which states how the male is smaller and scrawnier. |
| 144 | ** ''Film/JurassicPark3'': The ''Triceratops'' CGI model made for the movie is a modified ''Stegosaurus'', resulting in an unusually long face and body. This isn't noticeable in the film itself, as the ''Triceratops'' are only seen in the distance as background animals for a few seconds. |
| 145 | ** ''Film/JurassicWorld'': The holographic ''Dilophosaurus'' is a modified Blue the ''Velociraptor'' CG model, and her blue stripes are clearly visible on its body. |
| 146 | * Brad and Janet's guest rooms in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by an [[AudienceParticipation audience callback]] ("same room, different lighting, cheap movie!") |
| 147 | * The Starfleet uniforms seen in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' are an inversion of the uniforms worn on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' and ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', being predominantly black with gray shoulders and colored shirts, unlike [=DS9=]/Voyager's uniforms which had gray shirts and colored shoulders. The [=DS9=] crew would shortly switch to these uniforms for the rest of the series, whereas Voyager's crew, stuck in the Delta Quadrant, stuck with their uniforms till the end, though subsequent episodes involving the Federation at home featured these uniforms. |
| 148 | * ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': |
| 149 | ** Magneto always had some red and/or purple colour on his outfit, but in 2023 his uniform is completely black and grey, signifying that he's now part of the X-Men. |
| 150 | ** Costume designer Louise Mingenbach described [[http://www.gq.com/entertainment/fashion/201405/x-men-days-of-future-past-costumes#slide=2 Past Xavier's switch from his brown-and-pink casual wear to his more formal blues and greys]] that is typically associated with the character in the other movies. |
| 151 | --->"At the beginning of the film, Charles is medicating, and very possibly on hallucinogens, so we had that come through in his shirt. As he pulls himself together, he wears a nice blue oxford like all good, put-together men—a progression from that psychedelic Cat Stevens-wear." |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Food]] |
| 155 | * Many multicolored candies, such as gummy bears, are this. Though some will swear otherwise, many colored candies all have the same flavor unless explicitly advertised otherwise. |
| 156 | * Novelty cake pans in special shapes (of the sort often used to make children’s birthday cakes) often come with a little insert suggesting how the pan can be used to create numerous different cake designs. Given the baker’s creativity will be somewhat limited by the shape of the pan, these “alternative design” suggestions are inevitably just palette swaps of whatever the “main” cake design is. So for example, if the pan is shaped like a truck, the alternative suggestions may be an “army truck” in camouflage colors or an “ambulance” which is just the truck in white with a red cross on it. |
| 157 | [[/folder]] |
| 158 | |
| 159 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 160 | * ''Literature/TheFold'' explores the possibility of duplicates from an alternate dimension, several of which are palette swapped for clarity and convenience. |
| 161 | * Leareth in the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'' magically models his face and body and picks a wardrobe meant to closely resemble those of his great enemy, Herald-Mage Vanyel. But where Van has silver eyes, MysticalWhiteHair, and wears Herald's Whites Leareth's eyes, hair, and clothes are all black. This is done as a show of how much power he has, that he can spend some on taunting a foe by becoming his dark reflection. |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 165 | * ''Series/TheBarrier'': In a presentation including photos of children who were taken away from their parents by the government under false pretenses, some photos are altered to change the color of the subject's eyes and/or hair. One boy has very light blond hair in the presentation despite his real hair being significantly darker, while a girl with relatively light hair has it much darker on her presentation photo. |
| 166 | * This is the difference in the ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS1E17PhysicalEducation Physical Education]]" between [[spoiler:Abed]] and his IdenticalStranger, Joey. [[spoiler:Or, in other words, Brown Joey and White Abed.]] |
| 167 | * In ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger'', the suits, which often have some sort of variety per season, are rather homogenous this time around save color. Perhaps a moment of FridgeBrilliance, since this season was about video games, particularly ones made in the mid-90s. |
| 168 | * ''Series/DinosaurPlanet'': The show heavily reused the [=CG=] models of the animals for different species in each episode to cut down on cost, and only with slight colour changes. ''Allodaposuchus'' and ''Notosuchus'', ''Aucasaurus'' and ''Tarascosaurus'', ''Saltasaurus'' and the unnamed titanosaurs in "Pod's Travels", ''Alvarezsaurus'' and ''Shuvuuia'', ''Troodon'' and the unnamed troodontids in "Pod's Travels'' to name some. |
| 169 | * ''Franchise/KamenRider'' frequently recycles its [[PeopleInRubberSuits rubber suits]], since these costumes are expensive and repainting them is cheap. At times this is the suits used for each MonsterOfTheWeek, but more commonly the components of a Rider suit that has become obsoleted by the story, such as a MidSeasonUpgrade form, will be recycled for a new form. With the advent of direct-to-DVD movies giving secondary Riders a day in the limelight, this trend became much more prominent, as each movie often only has the budget for a single brand-new costume per film while everyone else who gets a new outfit will use repainted or slightly retooled parts of old costumes. |
| 170 | ** Gold Drive from ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'' is a very literal EvilKnockoff of the title hero created by the BigBad stealing Belt-san's tech (a recurring theme with him). |
| 171 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' has Kamen Rider Genm, a palette-swapped SuperPrototype of the title character, as part of its videogame theme. Multiple crossovers feature Genm being mistaken for Ex-Aid or vice-versa. |
| 172 | * In the ''Series/{{Psych}}'' episode "We'd like to thank the academy", Shawn shoots two civilian cardboard cutouts in a training exercise. His justifications: |
| 173 | -->"The first woman with the groceries was exiting a library that doesn't allow snacks. I know this because we've tried on several occasions. And the second woman was simply a replica of the first woman, but they painted her face brown, which is both offensive and suspicious." |
| 174 | * By the time of ''Series/KikaiSentaiZenkaiger'', it's has become quite obvious that ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' not longer has the budget to create unique monster suits so all we've got are the same body suits with a different head and/or weapon. Even so, there's still plenty of palette swaps like Milk World being a dairy themed repaint of Bullfighting World or Carrot World being an orange version of Daikon World. |
| 175 | * ''Series/PlanetDinosaur'' is a rather heavy offender in this category: ''Rugops'' and ''Skorpiovenator''; ''Saurornithoides'', ''Troodon'', and ''Bradycneme''; ''Sinornithosaurus'' and ''Rahonavis''; ''Jeholosaurus'' and the small ornithopods in "The New Giants" (likely ''Gasparinisaura''); all of the generic pterosaurs, with the exception of ''Hatzegopteryx''; ''Allosaurus'' and ''Saurophaganax'' (this one is at least justified, as ''Saurophaganax'' might just be a giant ''Allosaurus'' species). |
| 176 | * ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' did this with the ''same species''; the adult ''Tyrannosaurus'' uses the same body of the juveniles, only with a different head, because they did not have the budget to make two ''Tyrannosaurus'' models. This results in the adults looking too slim and lanky compared to the real animal. They also recoloured the ''T. rex'' orange to make the ''Albertosaurus'' in the later episode. Baby and juvenile ''Triceratops'' are also depicted as being identical to adults, but fossils of baby and juvenile ''Triceratops'' show they were very different looking (for one, the horns started as nubs, grew curving upwards initially, before curving back down close to adulthood, and the bony frill is initially much shorter and downturned). |
| 177 | * In ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/PowerRangersSPD,'' MakeMyMonsterGrow mostly took the year off, in favor of each [[MonsterOfTheWeek alien criminal of the week]] having his or her own HumongousMecha. While the monster suits each looked original, the mecha started to repeat themselves, with minor details, and yes, colors, changed. (A few times, there wasn't even a repaint!)) ''Two'' once-used monster suits per week was just not gonna happen. |
| 178 | ** The ''Dark Rangers'' in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were simply repainted Putty costumes. They were unimpressive at best. |
| 179 | * The Trickster in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' actually invokes this in [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS3E5E6TheWeddingOfSarahJaneSmith ''The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]],'' appearing in white instead of his usual black to [[spoiler:Peter Dalton]] as an angel. Lampshaded by the Doctor. |
| 180 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' introduced Starfleet Academy cadet uniforms that were largely a partial palette swap of the standard Starfleet uniform, moving the department color from the upper body and sleeves to the shoulder yoke and leaving the rest of the uniform black, while adding large pockets on the pant legs. When it came time for ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' to send Nog off to the Academy, the cadet uniform's primary color was swapped from black to gray, in order to contrast against [=DS9=]'s black jumpsuits. Following the introduction of the ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' uniforms on [=DS9=], new cadet uniforms were introduced; the outer uniform was a gray version on the movie version, with quilted shoulders and divisional stripes on the sleeve cuffs, but with the department colors on the shoulders and the gray undershirts of the original [=DS9=] uniform. |
| 181 | * ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' was guilty of this, with about half the animals being copies of each other. Similar looking animals were just these, while certain animals only got new heads. You can tell, because many creatures have the exact same folds and blood vessels on their skin. |
| 182 | ** All the large theropods, ''Allosaurus'', ''Eustreptospondylus'', and the dwarf polar allosaur, are recycled, having only modified heads and different colours, with the exception of the ''Tyrannosaurus''. The polar allosaur is at least somewhat justified, as it was thought to be a close relative of ''Allosaurus'' ([[ScienceMarchesOn at the time]]). The spinoff, ''Series/TheBalladOfBigAl'', gave ''Allosaurus'' a new model, however. |
| 183 | ** All the small ornithopods, ''Dryosaurus'', ''Othnielia'', ''Leaellynasaura'', and the unnamed Hell Creek ornithopods (possibly ''Thescelosaurus'') use the same model, only with different colours (this makes the narration saying ''Leaellynasaura'' has especially large eyes an InformedAttribute, since all of them have the same eyes). Well, except the Hell Creek ornithopods, which are literally just the ''Othnielia'', even with the same colours. |
| 184 | ** All the small pterosaurs, ''Peteinosaurus'', ''Anurognathus'', and ''Rhamphorhynchus'', use the same body, only with swapped heads, tails, and colours. Same goes for all the large pterosaurs, ''Ornithocheirus'', ''Tapejara'', ''Quetzalcoatlus'', and unnamed ''Pteranodon''-like pterosaurs. This is in spite of the fact none of these are closely related to one another, which hits ''Quetzalcoatlus'' especially bad, since the fact it's a hastily-made copy of ''Ornithocheirus'' is extremely obvious, as the animators didn't even have time to edit out the teeth! |
| 185 | ** ''Iguanodon'', ''Muttaburrasaurus'', and ''Anatotitan'' use the same model, but with changed heads and colours (and for the ''Muttaburrasaurus'', changed forelimbs), which results in ''Anatotitan'' having way too bulky arms with thumb spikes. The ''Anatotitan'' model was further recycled for ''Saurolophus'' in the spinoff, ''Series/ChasedByDinosaurs'', where they didn't even bother to change the colours or fix the mistake with the forelimbs, just adding a small crest to the head. There are two ''Iguanodon'' species shown, which differ only by colouration (although the North American ''Iguanodon'' species is known as ''Dakotadon'' [[ScienceMarchesOn nowadays]]). |
| 186 | ** The ''Utahraptor'' and the Hell Creek dromaeosaurs (identified in supplementary material as ''Dromaeosaurus'') use the same model, but with different colouration (the model being based on ''Deinonychus'', since the two dromaeosaur species in the series were not known from good remains, [[ScienceMarchesOn at the time]]). |
| 187 | ** The ''Diplodocus'' was recycled for the ''Apatosaurus'' in the spinoff, ''The Ballad of Big Al'', giving it a shorter neck, a darker colouration, and removing the spines along the back, but leaving the head and movements unchanged. |
| 188 | ** Then, there is ''Plesiopleurodon'', which is just StockFootage of ''Liopleurodon'' from the previous episode, only tinted lighter. This is at least partly justified by the fact ''Plesiopleurodon'' was thought to be a close relative of ''Liopleurodon'' ([[ScienceMarchesOn at the time]]). |
| 189 | ** Strangely, this is inverted with ''Polacanthus''. A North American and a European ''Polacanthus'' species are shown (although the North American ''Polacanthus'' is now known as ''Hoplitosaurus''), but they look exactly the same, with not even the minimal effort exerted to give them different colours. |
| 190 | ** ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'' does this less, but there are still some glaring examples. The ''Chalicotherium'' and ''Ancylotherium'' have the same model, just with different color schemes and modified feet for the latter (who didn't walk on its knuckles), despite ''Ancylotherium'' belonging to a different subfamily of chalicotheriids and being anatomically very different from ''Chalicotherium''. The ''Dinofelis'' and cave lion are also slightly tweaked versions of the ''Smilodon'' model but with longer tails and smaller sabers ([[ArtisticLicensePaleontology meaning the save lion still has saber-teeth]]). Then there is the small carnivore who gets eaten by the ''Ambulocetus'' in "New Dawn", which is the same model as the bear dog from "Land of Giants" (not even being recolored). |
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| 193 | [[folder:Magazines]] |
| 194 | * From 18th century French [[FashionMagazine fashion journals]], we have a PimpedOutDress for winter, where [[PrettyInMink other than the ermine trim]], the dress [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elegant_dress_colors.jpg has at least three color variants]]. |
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| 197 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 198 | * In his SurrealMusicVideo for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTIIMJ9tUc8 Tunak Tunak Tun]]", [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daler_Mehndi Daler Mehndi]] uses this to create DifferentlyDressedDuplicates of himself. |
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| 201 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 202 | * The Magazine/{{MAD}} Magazine comic ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' features the titular black and white spies, palette swaps of one another. |
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| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 206 | * ''Pinball/{{Pinbot}}'' was repurposed nine years later into ''Pinball/JackBot''. It uses the same characters as ''Pin*Bot'' and ''Pinball/TheMachineBrideOfPinbot'', as well as the same layout, but reskins it into a [[CasinoPark casino theme]] and changes the rules substantially, as well as updated electronic parts. It also swaps out ''Pin*Bot'''s alphanumeric display with a dot-matrix display, allowing it to show pictures and animations instead of just numbers and simple phrases. |
| 207 | * The ''Shrek'' pinball machine has a layout, parts, and rules identical to ''Pinball/FamilyGuy'', the only differences being artwork and sounds. That being said, it was not a careless adaptation: ''Shrek'' has hundreds of new lines of dialogue written specifically for the pinball machine, the new art fits the theme perfectly, and the ''Family Guy'' rules are retrofitted to be as faithful to the movies as possible. The idea is that ''Family Guy'' did not meet sales expectations, and operators requested a more family-friendly theme, so ''Shrek'' was conceived to be quickly put together to meet operators' demands. |
| 208 | * Some home-made pinball machines consist of taking an existing machine and replacing the artwork and changing the rules, but the machine is physically unchanged. See Fan Works for examples. |
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| 211 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 212 | * Wrestling/{{WWE}} started doing this big time with their belts since 2016. With the exception of Raw's Womens title (which was originally intended to make the Women's division more on par with the men), these new designs were brought out during the revival of the brand extension and made to be ColourCodedForYourConvenience (Raw's belts being red-based and [=SmackDown=] being blue-based). |
| 213 | ** Three of their new belts are palette swaps of the [[http://imgur.com/Avt9dcI WWE World Title]] which has black leather and a black background behind the front plate. The [[http://imgur.com/9evyTDE Raw Women's title]] is on white leather with a red background, the [[http://imgur.com/FgYcyyG Universal title]] is on red leather with a red background (the WWE logo on the front plate also features a unique black underline) and the [[http://imgur.com/uzq2aId [=SmackDown=] Women's title]] is on white leather with a blue background. |
| 214 | ** [[http://imgur.com/6deLLot [=SmackDown's=] Tag Team titles]] are also a palette swap of [[http://imgur.com/7myKRjq Raw's Tag Team Titles]], replacing the black leather and bronze plates with blue leather and silver plates. And then an updated design of the Raw Tag Team Titles became a palette swap of [=SmackDown=]'s, with a red leather and silver plates. |
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| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 218 | * A number of {{Muppet}}s are actually the same puppet with different clothes, hair, and other accessories. The [[Creator/JimHensonsCreatureShop Creature Shop]] calls them "Anything Muppets." ''Series/SesameStreet'' fans reading this will probably not be surprised to learn that the characters Prairie Dawn and Betty Lou, for example, are the same puppet, plus Zoe and Rosita. |
| 219 | * The same thing happens quite frequently in ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}''. Every single puppet not used for a protagonist was used as countless different characters, made male or female simply by changing the clothes. |
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| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:Sports]] |
| 223 | * A number of competitive racing series have contestants racing in nigh-identical vehicles in order to level the playing field, so that teams without millions to throw at aerodynamics research can stay competitive, though most allow ''minor'' modifications. UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} is the most prominent example, with each racing having dozens of completely identical vehicles painted in different colors with some token customized front fascias (See, this 1000+ horsepower RWD monster is totally an ecoboost Ford Fusion!). BK Racing's two cars (Toyota #83 and #93) are literal palette swaps; one is red, one is blue. |
| 224 | * Averted by UsefulNotes/FormulaOne. Each team is allowed only 2 cars and outside of the driver number both cars must carry identical liveries. This can be confusing for fans at the track (meaning palette swaps would actually be welcome in this case), though these days it's mostly mitigated by phone apps that will give you the running order. In addition, F1 is definitely ''not'' a spec series, and while the two cars used by each team are in theory identical to each other every team custom builds their cars from the chassis on up and has a choice of four different engine manufacturers[[note]]Mercedes, Ferrari, Renault, and Honda for the 2022 season[[/note]], couple that with pretty loose regulations that have plenty of loopholes and you end up with 10 pairs of dramatically different (though visually very similar) cars, some of which are much, much faster than others[[note]]Case in point: the last time the World Driver's Championship was won by someone not driving for either Mercedes or Red Bull was in 2009. To Braun GP, which became the Mercedes-Petronas team (as in the guys that have Lewis Hamilton) the very next season. This is pretty common throughout the history of F1, there's rarely more than 3 teams that are really competing for the title[[/note]]. |
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| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 228 | * Miniatures wargames will often have this. The players will actually play the same army by the same rules, but represent in-universe alignments by paint scheme. For example, one player may represent the WWII 10th Mountain Division and another may represent a US Ranger Battalion by using the same miniatures and rule set, but simply paint the 10th in snow and the Rangers in drab greens. |
| 229 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 230 | ** The game's fourth edition and its player base have been noted for actively embracing the concept of "reskinning" powers, monsters, and potentially even entire character classes to allow for more variety in play -- that is, basically taking one mechanic, stat block or the like and simply reusing it as-is (with perhaps some minor tweaks along the way) to represent something potentially ''described'' entirely differently from the original. |
| 231 | ** Averted with the game's [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded]] dragons, the chromatic and metallic dragon families. While red dragons are considered stronger than white dragons, and gold dragons stronger than bronze dragons, all true dragons come with stats for their various [[StrongerWithAge age categories]], allowing them to challenge parties of any level -- a dragon wyrmling is a tough fight for a low-level party, mid-level adventurers might contend with juvenile or adult dragons, while only max-level heroes stand a chance of defeating a great wyrm of any dragon type. One dragon breed being considered stronger than another relates to how their age categories are quantified by the game's Challenge Rating system, so that an adult white dragon will be stronger than a juvenile red dragon, but a red dragon great wyrm will be noticeably stronger than a white dragon great wyrm. It should also be noted that the various color-coded dragon breeds are more than simple recolors of each other, each has a unique body type and features that allow them to be identiable even in monochrome -- blue dragons, for instance, have low, stocky bodies and blunt heads with a prominent craggy horn on their foreheads, while green dragons have long legs and necks, and a curved frill atop their heads that runs down their necks. |
| 232 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', a number of factions started out life as simple palette swaps, but have developed over the years to get their own models and/or rules. The Space Marine chapters are a good example - originally Blood Angels, Dark Angels, Ultramarines and Space Wolves were just red, dark green, blue and grey paintjobs of the same Space Marine model, but now they have their own distinct stylings and rules. Other factions, such as Eldar Craftworlds and Ork Clans, are still just different colour schemes, though each can be characterised somewhat by choice of units taken as well as the livery. |
| 233 | * The early days of ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' was very fond of recycling monster designs, with a lot of random monsters having at least one counterpart. The localization had a habit of changing their names to be variants of "[monster name] #1" and "[same name] #2." Curiously, while the designs were identical bar colors, the ''artwork'' was always completely redrawn, depicting them in different poses or from different angles, and barring that artwork, the monsters usually had nothing in common. (Videogame adaptations that used 3D models tended to use them as more conventional palette swaps.) |
| 234 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'': Classic ''Battletech'' (3025-3049) and post-''[=ilClan=]'' (3150 onwards) is this. According to the lore and encounter tables all factions prefer different 'Mechs and variants of those 'Mechs, but their statistics remain the same if they are deployed by a different faction: A ''Phoenix Hawk'' is a ''Phoenix Hawk'' no matter the faction it belongs to and [[{{BFG}} an AC/20]] is an AC/20 no matter if, lorewise, it is a Defiance Industries model mounted on an ''Atlas'' or a Kali Yama model mounted on a ''Hunchback''. The only exception to this is that the Inner Sphere and the Clans operate on different tech levels: Both field unique 'Mech chassis and have some unique equipment, so an Inner Sphere vs. Clan battle (at least one set between 3050 and 3149) averts the trope. On the other hand, all factions are big fans of capturing or salvaging and re-using equipment, so it is still at least ''theoretically'' possible in-universe for any 'Mech or vehicle to appear in any force. Though the amount of ContrivedCoincidence required to get certain machines in some forces can make an epic tale in and of itself. |
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| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 238 | * The Jack Russell terriers Bennett and Yank, who are pet dogs of Molly [=McIntire=] and Emily Bennett of the Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection respectively, are palette swaps of each other, bearing the same coat pattern with the colors inverted. |
| 239 | * ''Franchise/GIJoe'' has several 'covered head to toe' enemy characters. Each meant to be a different mook an identical uniform. Swaps come as ideas do. The 'Python Patrol' was, storywise, a way to make characters invisible to sensor equipment. The heroes had, for example, 'Tiger Force', which swapped the usual uniform colors with yellow, brown and red. Nameless Joe Greenshirts (think 'redshirts') got this, though their heads were clearly seen. Some were logical (light skin and a tanned one could mean a sibling was in the sun) but others were different races, same facial features. |
| 240 | ** Palette swaps and parts sharing created the original wave of twelve male Joes in 1982. Grunt (who, although established as a unique character, served as the basis for the Greenshirts) has the most common components of the wave, save for his head (which is only shared with Grand Slam and Zap; the most common head is shared between Flash, Hawk, Short-Fuze, and Steeler), and all of the shared pieces are recolored in one way or another on at least one of the figures - with the exception of Flash and Grand Slam, who aside from their heads are identical. Grand Slam did get his own palette swap when he was reissued with a different vehicle in 1983, though, and a few other 1982 figures received palette swaps when reissued with new vehicles. |
| 241 | * Toys/HotWheels at least acknowledges its recolors for different model years are the same cars, but one can pinpoint which model year a certain car comes from by the paint job. |
| 242 | * Some Toys/{{Lalaloopsy}} bases can be used several times, with only the colours changed. For instance, Mittens Fluff 'n' Stuff, Spot Splatter Splash, and Peanut Big Top all use the same "pigtails with bows" mold, just in different colours (brown skin, blue hair, and white bows for Mittens, brown skin, yellow hair, and red bows for Spot, and fair skin, purple hair, and red bows for Peanut). However, for some other molds, such as the "updo with accessory", require some tweaks to be used again, ex. Jewel Sparkles' tiara had to be swapped out for a bow when re-used for Bea Spells-a-Lot. |
| 243 | * About two-thirds of the original ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' toyline reused parts from the original He-Man and Skeletor toys. This is a big reason for the WorldOfMuscleMen look of the franchise; just about every male character has the exact same bulging biceps. |
| 244 | * The ''[[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel Legends]]'' and ''[[ComicBook/DCUniverse DC Universe]]'' lines and their permutations tend to have a number of "generic" bodies (slim but muscular man, fairly muscular man, beefcake man) that they reuse for any character whose design can be boiled down to "buff guy in spandex." Swap out the head, add some accessories, change the paint and plastic colors, and suddenly a lot of characters look the same. |
| 245 | * Many themed [[http://web.archive.org/web/20190418114019/http://merkurtoys.cz/en/ Merkur]] sets (such as the Army, Safari, and Farm sets) are the same parts painted a different colour. |
| 246 | * Nearly every Franchise/{{LEGO}} minifigure ever, if for fairly understandable reasons. It's only within the past few years that they've started implementing unique body, limb and head designs for non-human characters. |
| 247 | ** In ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', the act of palette swapping represented a very disliked trend throughout the line's early run. The most infamous case is that of the Bohrok and Bohrok-Kal lines: 12 sets that, beyond their weapons (and usually their collectibles), are exactly the same model, just in different colors. The same could be said for most of the Matoran sets, which only differed in their colors and/or mask designs. Yet narrowly avoided by most of the original Rahi two-packs which had two almost identical models, but each had at least one tiny detail that differentiated it from its partner (the exception being the Nui-Jaga scorpions). Outside of the toys, story material also had its share of these, but not many were truly canon. The green Vortixx from the comic ''Shadow Play'' was colored that way so that the readers could tell him apart from the black Roodaka. On the other hand, Tuma's green colored Rock Steed from ''Rise and Fall of the Skrall'' is canon. As a result, most background extras in the animated films were just recolors of the same handful of models. Even the Vahki soldiers used the same model, despite that their toys at least came with unique weapons. And in the third movie, the Muaka tiger was a mere palette swap of the ash bear from the first, with a slightly retooled head -- it looked ''nothing'' like the actual Muaka toy, so they explained that it was really a mutant. |
| 248 | ** At the beginning, ''Toys/HeroFactory'' somewhat dipped back into the practice for its Heroes (the villains still avoided it). They were built in a factory as variations of the same basic design rather than individual and unique life-forms. The first wave Heroes were recognizable solely by their different helmets, weapons torso armour designs (the three rookies had the same one, however). The 2.0 and 3.0 waves, thanks to the new building style, added subtle differences that made each Hero unique: limbs length, shoulder width, armour size and orientation, colour schemes. By the Breakout arc, though Heroes are still all built off the largely same basic frame, Hero designs are even more varied in height, designs, colour schemes, armour and other elements. |
| 249 | ** Toys/LegoTrains did this several times: |
| 250 | *** Passenger coach 7818 is the same design as the two coaches in 7710, but coloured blue and red rather than yellow and blue. |
| 251 | *** The 1996 train station 2150 is a reissue of the 1991 design 4554, in red rather than yellow. |
| 252 | *** The "My Own Train" range sold locomotives of the same design in a choice of five different colours. |
| 253 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 254 | ** Not only do the line of figurines resemble more toward pre-G4 versions, but various background characters (sometimes [[GodCreatedCanonForeigner not even existing in the series]]) are palette swaps of the main characters, if their packaging graphic is anything to go by. For instance, look up Dewdrop Dazzle[[note]]of Twilight Sparkle[[/note]], Feathermay[[note]]of Rainbow Dash[[/note]], Flitterheart[[note]]of Fluttershy on her brushable packaging and collector's card, but her blind bag figure is based on Rainbow Dash[[/note]], Lulu Luck[[note]]of Rarity[[/note]], Plumsweet[[note]]of Pinkie Pie[[/note]], Snowcatcher[[note]]of Rarity also[[/note]], Diamond Rose[[note]]of Fluttershy again[[/note]], and Twinkleshine[[note]]of Rarity yet again[[/note]], if you're already familiar with the main G4 cast. Some other examples show attempt to differentiate however, such as "Cupcake" being a wingless version of Fluttershy, or "Sunny Daze" being a non-unicorn Sweetie Belle, or even "Minty" as an Applejack mold sans the hat. |
| 255 | ** The "blind bag" minifigures even went so far as to have Fluttershy - ''one of the Mane Six!'' - as a Pallete Swap of Rainbow Dash. (Which is somewhat amusing after the events of the third season episode "Magic Duel"...) She finally got her own unique mold in a set released in mid-2013[[note]]but her collector's card still has her as a RD palette swap as of Wave 11[[/note]]. Several other characters who've appeared on the show, though, are still recolors at the blindbag scale, such as Cheerilee[[note]]of Pinkie Pie[[/note]], Trixie Lulamoon[[note]]of Rarity in wave 4, then of Twilight Sparkle in later issues[[/note]], Lyra Heartstrings[[note]]of Twilight in the blind bags, but Rarity in the [[http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/File:Mib-groovin-hooves.jpg Groovin' Hooves]] set[[/note]], Bon Bon (Sweetie Drops)[[note]]of Applejack[[/note]], Daisy (Flower Wishes)[[note]]Pinkie Pie again[[/note]], Blossomforth and Helia[[note]]both of Rainbow Dash[[/note]], Strawberry Sunrise[[note]]of Derpy[[/note]], and Peachy Pie[[note]]also of Pinkie Pie, ironically[[/note]]. |
| 256 | ** [[http://www.mlpmerch.com/2014/08/wave-11-blind-bags-release-date-is.html The Wave 11 blind bags]] have the stallion Neon Lights as a redeco of [[MemeticBystander DJ PON-3]]. This wave's palette swaps also include Sunset Shimmer[[note]]of Rarity yet again[[/note]], Suri Polomare ([[AdaptationNameChange Buttonbelle]]) [[note]]of Pinkie Pie again[[/note]], Flash Sentry[[note]]of Thunderlane[[/note]], Big Wig[[note]]of Mrs. Cake[[/note]], Candy Apples[[note]]of Applejack again[[/note]], Purple Wave[[note]]of Lyrica Lilac[[/note]], Wensley[[note]]of Big [=McIntosh=][[/note]], Cloud Chaser[[note]]of Thunderlane again[[/note]], Royal Pin[[note]]of Shining Armor[[/note]], etc., with Fluttershy and Cheese Sandwich being the only unique molds. |
| 257 | ** There is also Forsythia[[note]]Rarity, and also appears in the mobile game as a minor charcter[[/note]] and Fizzy Pop[[note]]Pinkie Pie, and seems to be based on the same G3 pony who inspired the colors and real name of the movie’s villain[[/note]]. |
| 258 | * Toys/{{Nerf|Brand}} blasters are often released in recolored versions as store exclusives, notably the Sonic Series from Toys R Us, the Clear Series from Target, and the legendary Red Strike series from Walmart, which was only for sale for one Black Friday and is now one of the most sought after and expensive repaints ever in Nerf history. |
| 259 | * The toyline for ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' reused parts from both [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi an Ewok playset]] and the ''[[Franchise/DCUniverse Super Powers]]'' line. This resulted in Robin Hood himself having [[ComicBook/GreenArrow a conspicuous G-shaped belt buckle.]] |
| 260 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': The franchise, being [[MerchandiseDriven what it is]] frequently redecos (puts different colors and painted designs on an old mold) and/or retools (puts new parts on old models) the same model several times to get better return on their toys. This can vary from a new paint scheme on a character to making a completely different character. |
| 261 | ** [[TheStarscream Starscream]], in particular, has an entire group of palette swaps known as the Seekers, starting with the originals, Thundercracker and Skywarp. Move some things around (retool) and you get the 'coneheads,' Thrust, Dirge, and Ramjet. Background characters from the cartoon who were meant as generics would also eventually gain names, backstories, and toys of their own as they appeared in stories. There are even female Seekers now, starting with ''Animated’s'' Slipstream. Rest assured, if a new Starscream toy is made than at least one of the Seekers is soon to follow, regardless if they actually appear in the associated media or not. |
| 262 | ** Other famous or reoccurring redecos include Optimus Prime into both Nemesis Prime and Ultra Magnus[[note]]While rarely represented in fiction, many Ultra Magnus toys are white redecos of Optimus Prime that combine with a trailer to achieve the look of Ultra Magnus.[[/note]], Bumblebee into Cliffjumper, Megatron into Galvatron (particularly popularized by the ''Unicron Trilogy'' shows), Soundwave into Blaster, Rumble and Frenzy, Ironhide and Ratchet, and Lazerbeak and Buzzsaw. |
| 263 | ** ''Trasformers Generation 2'' consisted in large part of palette swaps of G1 toys. There were some exceptions, like Optimus Prime remained in his classic red and blue and Megatron got an entirely new vehicle mode as a tank instead of a handgun, but mostly the figures were simply the same toys in different colors (and spring-fired weapons the originals didn't have). |
| 264 | ** ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' interestingly avoids this, for the most part (okay, not in the toyline), with Thundercracker having a standard Seeker body... but Starscream himself is a ''completely'' different design, with only the head looking particularly Starscreamy. (It's actually based on Screamer's pre-Earth design from the Dreamwave ''War Within'' comics.) The exception is Galvatron. After upgrading to Galvatron, visually, Megatron is Palette Swapped to G1 Megatron's colors. Major {{Homage}}, bordering on non-sexual {{fanservice}}. |
| 265 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': |
| 266 | *** Skyquake and Dreadwing are twins with two halves of the same spark, explaining why they look essentially the same, just with different colors. Fowler even lampshades, multiple times, how he essentially gave the same alt-mode to two different robots (he was piloting the same jet when facing each of the brothers). |
| 267 | *** The Jet Vehicon mooks and the more {{elite|Mooks}} Seekers, who are basically silver and grey versions of the regular Jet Vehicons (in-universe, their colouring is in homage to their commander Starscream). |
| 268 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', they were explained as having the same "body type" in-fiction. Oddly, though, only a handful of toys ''actually'' got recolored, namely Starscream as his clones and a couple of [=BotCon=] exclusives. More recolors came out in Japan or were cancelled before release. This has been done so often in both the official toyline and the shows, that it's considered a fairly acceptable method of inventing an OriginalCharacter (that one plans to create art of). |
| 269 | ** ''Toys/TransformersBotBots'' manages to change alt modes for characters simply via recolors, thanks to the characters transforming into mundane objects rather than specific vehicles. For example, Angry Cheese, who transforms into a grilled cheese sandwich, has PB Junior as a recolor, who turns into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich instead. Because their faces are printed on instead of molded on, the recolors will often have different faces to differentiate them further. |
| 270 | ** The Transformers fandom actually differentiates between recolors (which are the same figure with different colours, often to represent a brand-new character) like Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp and retools (the figure is slightly modified, such as new wings, arms and so on) such as the Coneheads (Starscream molds with new heads and wings), or Bumblebee and Cliffjumper in many toylines. In the original toyline, Bumblebee was a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, while Cliffjumper was a red Porsche 924, but as their toys had SuperDeformed ''Choro-Q/Penny Racers'' proportions, they had identical transformations and were otherwise very similar in appearance. It also didn't help that Hasbro released red Bumblebees and yellow Cliffjumpers, or that they somehow managed to release the ''Micro Change'' Mazda Familia figure (which also had the same transformation) in yellow on Cliffjumper (and possibly Bumblebee) cardbacks. It also probably didn't help that Cliffjupmer was retooled into Hubcap in 1986, or that Pretender Classics Bumblebee's robot head from 1989 was modeled after Cliffjumper's. By the time Hasbro and Takara started making new toys of the G1 characters in the 2000s, they just started making Cliffjumper a palette swap of Bumblebee, sometimes with a new head, sometimes not. |
| 271 | * Creator/{{Hasbro}} also has a habit of doing this with their superhero properties, especially with the Marvel Legends line. For instance, the Marvel Legends ComicBook/CaptainAmerica figures they released for ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' were just repaints of the Marvel Legends Captain America figure that was released for ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. |
| 272 | * Toy Biz once released an ComicBook/{{Elektra}} figure that was just a repaint of an old ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} figure. They even gave her Psylocke's trademark psi-blade, even though Elektra doesn't have any superpowers in the comics. |
| 273 | * Toy Biz did the same thing with their ''ComicBook/XMen: [[https://www.figurerealm.com/actionfigure?action=seriesitemlist&id=278&ssid=20 Mutant Armor]]'' and ''ComicBook/SpiderMan: [[https://www.figurerealm.com/actionfigure?action=seriesitemlist&id=214&ssid=39 Techno Wars]]'' lines. If you're wondering why Spider-Man and the X-Men would need to wear suits of PoweredArmor despite already having superpowers, it's because the toys were actually unreleased ComicBook/IronMan figures from his [[WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries cancelled TV show]]. So for instance, with only a new head sculpt and paint job, the Magnetic Iron Man figure became a "Battle Armor ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}" figure, Radiation Iron Man became "Radioactive Spider Armor Spider-Man," Living Laser (who was itself a retooled version of an unreleased U.S. Agent figure) became "Astral Plane ComicBook/ProfessorX," and so on. |
| 274 | * ''WesternAnimation/DinoRiders'' features this in both the cartoon and toy line. In the cartoon, most of the {{Mooks}} are Palette Swaps of the main "Generals", and go unnamed. For the toys, numerous mini-figures of the humanoid characters were created, with the same molds being used frequently (there are seven "Ant-Men" based off of the base Antor figure, for example; others simple use the same name but a different color scheme). Many dinosaurs share molds- the ''Torosaurus/Triceratops'', numerous small ''Ceratopsians'' (the three toys all have different heads), and both sides have a ''Deinonychus'', with only their stripes being different colors. Only the armor is different on most of them. Both sides also had a ''Quetzalcoatlus'', though the second was only released in a limited area, making it quite valuable now. |
| 275 | * ''Toys/FlickToStickBungees'', being made by the same people who made the below-mentioned ''Gogo's Crazy Bones'', takes a note from that toy series and gives each of its characters two color schemes, complete with a different name and stats (e.g. the green Lojo and the yellow Luji are just the same character in different colors). This is in the case of the European version; the American version mostly averts this, but it does have two characters made specifically for it named Samos and Peltast who are just the same character in different colors. |
| 276 | * ''Toys/FlushForce'' gives each character mold two different color schemes. Unlike other blind bagged toys, each different color is considered its own character, rather than the same in two different colors. |
| 277 | * ''Toys/GoGosCrazyBones'' figures came in different colors, usually about two to five in the reboot series depending on the set. The sets in the classic series, however, did not have any restrictions on what colors characters could come in, allowing them to be available in literally any color. In addition to all this, certain characters from the reboot series use the same mold as another character, for example Miro-K uses the same mold as Ayu from the Megatrip set, but the use of recycled molds is exaggerated in the Evolution set, which consists of Gogos that use all of the molds from the previous set, Series 1. |
| 278 | * ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' has this in spades. Almost every line has at least one or two toys that are repaints of sculpts from previous lines, and the ''Film/JurassicWorld'' era toys get repeated repaints of the same sculpt. The worst is probably the ''Velociraptor'' molds, but almost every figure released gets a repaint release at some point. Sometimes it's seen as okay, if it's a nicely made model, but when the sculpt wasn't that great to begin with, or when there’s already a bunch out, it can irritate fans. You can see the list of older ones [[http://www.jptoys.com/jptoys-files/repaints/index.php here]]. |
| 279 | * ''Toys/TheTrashPack'', ''Toys/{{Shopkins}}'', and ''Toys/TheGrosseryGang'', all blind bag toys by Moose Toys, gives each character more than one color scheme, treating them like an extra figure to collect. ''The Trash Pack'' has three minimum color palettes, while the other two have a minimum of two. Some special packages gives existing figures exclusive colors that can only be found in those packages. |
| 280 | * ''Toys/ThirtyMinutesMissions'': The [[HumongousMecha EXAMACS units]] and [[MechaExpansionPack Option Armor]] parts are available in various different colors, allowing you to mix-and-match the color palettes if you have multiple kits with different colors. |
| 281 | * Higher end figure companies like Papo and Rebor are known to do this with their figures. Multiple color variants of dinosaur figures are often released together. Papo in particular has repainted movie inspired figures like their ''Velociraptor'' and ''T.Rex'' several times. Papo has done the same with some of their non-dinosaur figures, as an {{Unicorn}} offered with mane and tail either yellow or silver and characters as princesses, who differ at least in the coloration of their dresses. |
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| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 285 | * In ''Webcomic/AventureDennis'', the protagonist fights Shadow Dennis, a palette-swapped version of himself. |
| 286 | * The world of ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'' apparently suffers from a severe case of this. The characters get to fight monsters like [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0042.html dark blue spectres and navy blue spectres,]] each requiring different tactics to defeat.\ |
| 287 | It was also {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in a discussion between the BigBad and his minion, where the BigBad complains he has no time because he has to create new monsters to send after the protagonists, and the minion points out he usually just takes an existing monster and puts 'Ice' in front of it's name. |
| 288 | * ''Webcomic/AkumasComics'': Original characters introduced early on used to be recolors of other sprites, with Akuma himself starting as a Super Sonic colorized like the Franchise/StreetFighter character of the same name. [[ArtEvolution Over time they became distinct from their base sprites]] and no longer fit this trope. |
| 289 | * In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', many of the characters were recolors. Indeed, [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000425c this might be the first recolor ever.]] [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000501c And this the first intentional one.]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d on a regular basis, such as when half the cast and most authors ended up stuck in "devious recolour traps". |
| 290 | * ''Webcomic/BooksOfAdam'': Parodied in "[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/books-of-adam/palette-swapping/viewer?title_no=136637&episode_no=156 Palette Swapping]]". The protagonist complains that this practice is a symptom of LazyArtist, before being confronted by a tanner and blonder version of him. |
| 291 | * In [[http://www.drunkduck.com/dragon_city Dragon City]], Natasha was a brown version of Erin, but she was later discovered to be an alternate universe version of Erin, so it doesn't really count. |
| 292 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': When Elliot needs to become female ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to burn off magic energy]]), the easiest way not to look just like his OppositeSexClone Ellen is to change hair and eye color. |
| 293 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 294 | ** The Underlings of Sburb are all the same basic few monster species given countless different colours themed after grist types, and all bearing [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot some combination of the attributes of the players' prototypings]]. Given that it's an ersatz RPG in webcomic form, it's probably a homage to the palette-swapping practice in general. |
| 295 | ** The frogs used only three distinct models -- the basic one, a modified version that leans forward more, and a larger one that croaks with its mouth open and without inflating its throat -- which are recolored in every shade of the rainbow when large shots need to be populated. |
| 296 | ** This also happens when you make SBURB {{Unwinnable}} by trying to play it with only one person. The [[LightIsGood Prospit]] carapaces will wear [[DarkIsNotEvil black]] and the [[DarkIsEvil Derse]] carapaces will wear [[LightIsNotGood white]]. But if that happens, [[NintendoHard you've got bigger problems]]. |
| 297 | * ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'': As noted early on, pallet swapping CommanderBadass ends up making him resemble the artist's father. She promptly [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/06282010 turned him into recurring character]], Canadian Guy. The in-universe explanation is that [[spoiler:Canadian Guy is an [[ArtificialHuman unsanctioned regional bootleg]] of the Commander]]. |
| 298 | * ''WebComic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'': The mirror-universe versions of Wonderella and Wonderita wear costumes with the colors reversed. |
| 299 | * ''Webcomic/PhillerSpace'': Ephil looks just like Philler except for their palettes. |
| 300 | * ''Webcomic/SheldonTheTinyDinosaur'': The titular character is a green dino. A [[https://sheldonthetinydinosaur.com/post/173274030237/theres-always-a-bootleg-storenvy-redbubble "bootleg"]] version of him exists, but it's coloured blue, and wears a peanut shell instead of an acorn cap. |
| 301 | * In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', Mao and Yokoka are basically palette-swaps of each other in cat form, and would be this normally if not for hair length and clothing differences. A [[FourthWallMailSlot Q&A strip]] explains the colour differences as Yokoka having a type of albinism. |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 305 | * In the sixth, final episode of ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'', [[spoiler:we get a blue Red Guy, a green Yellow Guy, and a red Duck; which also happen to be their favourite colours, as described in episode one]]. |
| 306 | * ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': This is what Bill's second and third forms are. His second form turns his hair a lighter shade of blue, and his third form turns his hair and clothes black with a yellow shirt. |
| 307 | * Platform/GoAnimate has Daillou (sometimes others) as a palette swap for Caillou. |
| 308 | * Parodied by WebVideo/{{Pikasprey}} with "Donny Rage", an OriginalCharacter who is nothing more than an all-red [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1992 Johnny Cage]] sprite. |
| 309 | * The characters in ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' look identical except for their unique colors. This is due more to the nature of the work ({{Machinima}} using the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' ColorCodedMultiplayer mode) than a stylistic choice. |
| 310 | ** In later seasons, when the current game in the series allowed for customized pieces of armor, this cleared up a bit. |
| 311 | * Being one of the web's most potent FountainOfExpies characters, there are a massive number of recolored Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog lookalikes on sites like ''Platform/DeviantArt''. The least modified are simply Sonic with a new color scheme or some clothes on. |
| 312 | * On user-created-adoptable site Squiby it's common for users to take a single format for a creature and use creative colorfills to make multiple versions. Some popular lines that use this formula include [[http://www.squiby.net/user/Deebs Mites,]] [[http://www.squiby.net/user/TenLives Tencats,]] [[http://www.squiby.net/user/windswept Shika]] and [[http://www.squiby.net/user/Meifu Coons]]. |
| 313 | * [[WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]: Most characters in his early videos were just Mario recolors, including [=SMG4=] itself and his old friends. |
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| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 318 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Heroes," the character of Magma is a simple recoloring of Clayface from [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries the previous series]]. |
| 319 | * Invoked in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' with Albedo, the InsufferableGenius and former apprentice of Azmuth made an improved version of the omnitrix and began to masquerade as Ben to trash his reputation. At the end of the episode, Azmuth appears and breaks his version, getting him stuck in a ShapeShifterModeLock of Ben, except with white hair, a red jacket, and red eyes. |
| 320 | %%* Played for laughs several times in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpants''. |
| 321 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'', the recurring Weather Girl is usually blonde and wears a pinkish dress. In "Pity The Prize", the Weather Girl in that episode is colored like Cassandra (black/bluish hair, cyan shirt, dark blue skirt, brown belt), not to mention a different voice. This Palette Swap lets Cassandra disguise as the Weather Girl with few changes (as well as [[VoiceChangeling imitating her voice]]) so she can try [[LoveTriangle preventing her love interest Pfff from attaching to the real Weather Girl]]. |
| 322 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain'', similarly to ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', prehistoric creatures that are related or look similar have the same generic body shape and only differ through their colour schemes and diverse display structures (horns for the ceratopsians, crests for the hadrosaurs, plates for the stegosaurs etc). The large theropods always have the same shape of the body and skull, no matter how closely related they are. For instance, aside from their colours, the ''Allosaurus'' and ''Giganotosaurus'' can only be told apart from a ''T. rex'' by their different number of fingers, the former's brow horns and the latter's osteoderms running down its spine. The ''Daspletosaurus'' looks exactly like ''T. rex'' (since they are related), but coloured differently. |
| 323 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' CGI cartoon, the character model for Eddie the Mean Old Yeti is the same as Donkey Kong's, but with white fur and a cap instead of a necktie. |
| 324 | * Huey, Dewey, and Louie tend to dress identically but for color in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and various WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck shorts. They vary it up a bit more in ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'', though their preferred colors stay. |
| 325 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 326 | ** Lois' sister, Carol, is basically another Lois with different hair and clothes. They sport the same exact face and body shape. |
| 327 | ** Stewie's evil clone from "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair" has the colors of Stewie's yellow shirt and red overalls switched. |
| 328 | ** [[SdrawkcabName Retep]] is Peter with a green shirt and white pants. [[EvilTwin And he is evil]]. |
| 329 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E15TheFarnsworthParabox The Farnsworth Parabox]]", the crew of Planet Express goes to a ParallelUniverse where [[PointOfDivergence coin flips and other random events having the opposite outcomes from their own]] and where they meet palette-swapped versions of themselves (Fry has black hair and a green jacket, Bender is gold-plated instead of gray, etc.), otherwise nearly identical in personality. This is a literal example in Bender's case, as when Bender originally came off the assembly line he flipped a coin to decide if he was going to have himself painted with a gunmetal gray finish or a golden one, making the two Benders ones that chose different palettes for the same physical model. |
| 330 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', Owen and Vogel. They say nobody's ever said they look alike. [[spoiler:Turns out it's because Puck based his Owen identity on Vogel, the trickster enjoying the irony of playing TheComicallySerious.]] Further, one of the consequences of rapid growing a Gargoyle clone is a change in coloration, which was probably done to avoid [[OpeningACanOfClones the usual narrative consequences thereof]]. |
| 331 | * Creator/HannaBarbera became infamous for this in the 60s and 70s, one example being Mumbly who was somewhat derived from Muttley of ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces''. Mumbly would later be partnered with The Dread Baron in ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' as [[{{Expy}} stand-ins]] for Muttley and Dick Dastardly, likely due to rights issues with Heatter-Quigley Productions who co-produced ''Wacky Races''. |
| 332 | * One somewhat bizarre non-VideoGame example are [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote and Ralph Wolf]]. They were basically identical, except Ralph had a red nose and Wile E had a black one, and they lived in different areas. |
| 333 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' tends to re-use characters with different colors during crowd shots to save budget. [[https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Ms._Mendeleiev%27s_class?file=Reflekta_004.png This]] class photo is one of the more obvious examples; pretty much all of the students are recolors of each other except for Aurore and Mireille (the blonde girl with pigtails and the dark-haired girl with the aqua sweater, respectively). |
| 334 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' has various background filler Mixels that share the same character models, with the only difference being swapped colors to represent the elements of the tribe they're from. |
| 335 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'', Mr. Bounce looks like a yellow Mr. Tickle with a pink hat instead of a blue one. |
| 336 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 337 | ** Due to the show's use of Flash animation, the easiest way to fill out crowd scenes is to reuse the same Flash models multiple times, in addition to mixing and matching mane, tail and cutie mark designs and adding or removing wings or a horn, to make new background ponies. The result is that most background characters tend to be recolored versions of a relatively small handful of basic models, and sometimes even major characters are palette-swapped to make background ponies. |
| 338 | *** The white nurse pony from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" has a palette swap background pony from the same scene. |
| 339 | *** The two spa owners from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]" have the same character design but with inverted color schemes. |
| 340 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]" has an [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130814084450/mlp/images/b/b2/Cherry_Berry_is_that_you_S1E21.png Applejack palette swap]] with [[AllThereInTheScript Cherry Berry]]'s colors and cutie mark. |
| 341 | *** Sabrina Alberghetti's OC, Wild Fire, has two palette swaps. |
| 342 | *** [[CanonImmigrant Blossomforth]] and [[AllThereInTheScript Helia]], both of whom debuted in "Hurricane Fluttershy". In the latter pony's [[SuddenlySpeaking first speaking episode]], "Rainbow Falls", her voice actress was mistakenly credited for the former. |
| 343 | ** [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131209171102/mlp/images/thumb/e/e3/Daring_Do_ID_S4E04.png/240px-Daring_Do_ID_S4E04.png Daring Do]] has the same appearance as Rainbow Dash, just with a monochrome mane and a tan rather than blue coat. Her explorer clothes help differentiate her. In her original appearance it was because Dash was imagining what she read in a book... and then when she appeared in person she still looked like that. |
| 344 | ** Photo Finish is a recolor of Twilight Sparkle, only with a shorter mane to make her look [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a little more like Anna Wintour]]. There are a [[FreezeFrameBonus few frames]] that {{lampshade|Hanging}} this with her cutie mark, which is the same as Twilight's but with a camera added. |
| 345 | ** While most of the WoodlandCreatures associated with Fluttershy only appear in one palette and the songbirds have different models for each color scheme, some are given extra variety by means of recolors of the same base model. The most extreme case are the rabbits, which have white, light or dark gray, tan, brown, and black recolors, with the addition of a pair of antlers making jackalopes. |
| 346 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]": The individual bugs in the multicolored parasprite swarm all share the same character design. |
| 347 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]": The green dragon is a palette swap of the red dragon in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]" earlier in the season. This dragon's character design is used once again multiple times in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]]", colored red, green, light blue or black. In addition, the dragons flying in the actual migration all use one of two character models, identical save that one has a slender snout and a long spike on its head and the other has a heavy jaw, an underbite and two short horns, both recolored in a rainbow of hues. |
| 348 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]": The buffalo (besides Chief Thunderhooves and Little Strongheart, who have important enough roles to get their own models) all use the same Flash model as each other, recolored to have either brown, russet or tan fur to make scenes with their tribe less visually monotonous. |
| 349 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of Harmony, Part 1]]": The Keepers of the Grove of Truth are physically perfect copies of each other, their only differences being that one is dark red, one is orange-red, and one is green. |
| 350 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]": The band that performs on stage are actually palette swaps of the band from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]" but are wearing scarecrow costumes. Fiddly Faddle, the Octavia palette swap, also appears in "Apple Family Reunion". |
| 351 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]": The various versions of Applejack and Rarity that Twilight makes during the titular duel look like palette swaps of their younger sisters and various other members of the apple family. This is because [[spoiler:they really are palette swaps, as Twilight is not strong enough to actually cast those spells, so the Apple Family and Sweetie Belle disguised themselves with paint and hair dyes instead]]. Likewise, Fluttershy is painted in Rainbow Dash's colors for the duplication illusion. |
| 352 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E9AppleFamilyReunion Apple Family Reunion]]": The fruit bats are a particularly extreme example of this. Only the red ones are given detailed models, while all other bats are just outlines filled in with all the colors of the rainbow. |
| 353 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]": The same Flash model is used for all the vampire fruit bats, recolored brown, gray or slate blue to give them some variety. |
| 354 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E12AmendingFences Amending Fences]]": Moondancer, a friend first mentioned in the first episode of the series but who does not appear properly until here in season 5, is partly a recolor of Twilight, emphasizing her role as a {{foil}}. When they're young, they're complete palette swaps aside from their Cutie Marks (and both are antisocial bookworms). At the time of the episode, Moondancer has acquired BigOlEyebrows, NerdGlasses, a sweater and a messier "I don't care what I look like" version of the hairstyle, though it's still a modification of the same one with a hair bobble. (And she's become even more antisocial whereas Twilight has learnt to appreciate friendship.) We also see that before Twilight's rejection traumatised her and she decided to isolate herself, she had the eyebrows and glasses but was still otherwise a palette swap. (This doesn't so much seem to have symbolic significance as to be a needed halfway point between the two other looks.) |
| 355 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'': One episode reuses a character model of a villain from [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou the original series]], and just recolors him white to make a 'new' villain. |
| 356 | * ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'': One episode features a one-off pup named Sylvia, who is a palette swap of Chase with blue fur and purple eyes rather than brown fur and orange eyes. |
| 357 | * ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': |
| 358 | ** Moonbeam is a light blue version of Sunspot. |
| 359 | ** Carrot and Celery's boss from "Back to Bortron 7" is just a huge green Sunspot, but with a mustache obscuring his mouth. |
| 360 | ** Face 9001 is an orange recolor of Face 9000. |
| 361 | * ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine:'' Dottie, the polka-dotted elephant from "My Secret Genies", is practically the elephant from "Abraca-Genie" with polka dots and a different color pattern. |
| 362 | * Homer and Krusty the Clown in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' have the exact body shape and face with the obvious difference being Krusty is in clown shoes and makeup. Originally, Homer was supposed to have been a clown as a hidden job that Bart wouldn't know about, but the idea got scrapped and Homer's clown design was made into a separate character. |
| 363 | * Fairly common in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' for background classmates at the boys' school, or for adults in other crowd scenes. Although the animators have put together more distinct character models for extras in later seasons, palette swaps can still occur when they don't feel up to making even more new ones. |
| 364 | * Many extras on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' are Palette Swaps of each other. For example, the "My Leg!" and "Deaugh!" fishes. |
| 365 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': Minister Maketh Tua is a palette-swapped generic citizen. Which led to confusion [[spoiler:after her death in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsTheSiegeOfLothal "The Siege of Lothal"]], because on at least two occasions afterward ([[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E08TheFutureOfTheForce "The Future of the Force"]], [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E09Legacy "Legacy"]]) extras with that character model have been seen. Especially notable in "Legacy", where the extra in question gets a distinctive reaction shot]]. |
| 366 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' has a ShoutOut example with the girls' predecessors, Pam, Alice, and Crimson. The women look almost ''exactly'' like Hitomi, Ai, and Rui from ''Manga/CatsEye'', just with different hair and eye colors. |
| 367 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' has some InUniverse examples of characters performing Palette Swaps on themselves, though: |
| 368 | ** In the [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers original series]], Optimus Prime received one as a side effect of being coated with Dr. Morgan's impervious alloy in "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2". He's back to his original colors by the end of the episode, but it's never mentioned if it's because the alloy coating was removed, or if his colors were repainted over the alloy, and neither the American nor [[Anime/TransformersHeadmasters Japanese]] continuations make further mention of the alloy. Amusingly, the "impervious" Optimus Prime ends up looking like Ultra Magnus' cab robot mode (albeit the toy variant without the blue paint highlights on his head), which is likely why they put him back in his normal colors as soon as the story no longer had the need for the alloy. |
| 369 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Bumblebee, Wasp, and [[spoiler:[[TheMole Longarm Prime/Shockwave]]]] demonstrate palette-swapping abilities via "electronic paint job". |
| 370 | ** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the third season of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''. When the Autobots went underground, Bumblebee reversed his colors, from being a yellow car with black stripes to a black car with yellow stripes. Arcee (who is blue with a few pink accents) notes that if she were to do that, she'd end up [[MythologyGag mostly]] [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie pink]]. |
| 371 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTriplets'': While it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to them being identical triplets, Anna, Helena, and Teresa look exactly the same other than different-colored shirts and hair bows. |
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| 374 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 375 | * Any product that is mass produced can also be made with different colors. Cars and electronics are a big example of this. |
| 376 | ** Nintendo is very fond of making their consoles and accessories in different colors. The Nintendo 64 had controllers of various colors, ranging from red, blue, green, purple, etc. The console itself would also be produced in colors beyond black late in its life. When the Gamecube was launched, it came in either black or purple, along with its controllers. Later on, there would be a silver/platinum version and for a short time, there was orange, but that color was used only for the controller. The Wii initially released only in white, but it was also produced in black years later and there were controllers in black as well, along with pink, blue, and a limited edition of gold. The Wii-U and its controllers only ever came in either black or white. The Switch console is only produced in black, although the attachable Joy-Con come in gray, as well as several neon colors such as blue, red, yellow, green and pink. A set of limited edition ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' red Joy-Con also exist. The standard wireless Pro Controller is black, although a ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' Pro Controller with green and pink grips came out to coincide with the release of the game. There are several other cheaper Pro Controller variants, but they lack several features found only in their more expensive brethren. |
| 377 | ** Nintendo's handhelds are an even bigger example of palette swapping, having huge amounts of colors consumers could pick from and some of them were limited edition colors (such as gold) and a few of those were [[NoExportForYou never released outside of their regions]]. There's a ''ton'' of colors that were used throughout each handheld iteration and they can be found [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_colors_and_styles here for the Game Boy line]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_DS_colors_and_styles for the DS line]]. |
| 378 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebadging Badge engineering]]. |
| 379 | ** A car company takes one of their cars, swaps out the badges, then ''maybe'' changes the bodywork slightly before selling in one of their subsidiaries. General Motors is/was infamous for this, famously selling ''seven'' versions of effective ''the same car'' in the 1980s, all in the same market. The modern Volkswagen group likewise does the same, typically giving its affordable divisions previous-generation VW vehicles to modify. Chrysler, from 1970 until 1994, sold rebadged Mitsubishi compact cars because Chrysler's own compacts were [[TheAllegedCar so awful that nobody bought them]]. They stopped when they finally came up with a decent compact of their own in the Neon. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d with their [[TheEighties mid-80s]] ads for the fifth-generation Dodge/Plymouth Colt. |
| 380 | --->"Colt. It's all the Japanese you need to know." |
| 381 | ** Lincoln made fun of this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_pPMEZ1uXI in a 1980s commercial]], where [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles people get confused over which GM luxury car is theirs]], since at the time, there was very little to distinguish top-trim Cadillacs, Buicks and Oldsmobiles from each other. They even had [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200910214926/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GV1PGRiOKM&gl=US&hl=en a followup]] where some of the people involved learned their lesson and got Lincolns to alleviate the issue. (Ironically, nowadays Lincolns have a reputation for being badge-engineered Fords, though as of late they've been trying to shake this reputation, with the current Lincoln Continental perhaps being the prime example.) |
| 382 | * Basically any cheap self-promotional item handed out by a hotel, real estate agent, car dealer, etc, was almost certainly ordered from some generic wholesaler, meaning the pen, notepad, fidget spinner, etc, you got from them is probably completely identical to many other free pens/notepads/fidget spinners floating around out there except the color and logo is different. Companies in China specialise in this, where they offer "original design manufacturer" (ODM) services to interested clients through sites such as Alibaba -- one would place a miminal order of about a hundred or so units and have them [[DolledUpInstallment rebadged]] to suit the client's needs. This accounts for why you can see a cheap Android smartphone or Platform/MP3 player being sold by unrelated companies but share the same design and internals. |
| 383 | * Prior to [[ScienceMarchesOn the New Horizons encounter]], many CG-renderings of the dwarf planet Pluto will often tend to depict it as a blue-gray recolor of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. |
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