Line #83 Main/UndeathlyPallor


1	[[quoteright:330:[[WesternAnimation/CorpseBride https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/undeathly_pallor.jpg]]]]
2	[-[[caption-width-right:330:Can ''you'' guess which of these two characters is dead? Check TheStinger for the answer!]]-]
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4	->'''Guillermo:''' Is she a vampire now?\
5	'''Nandor:''' Well, she's got fangs and the white pale face, it's a pretty major clue.
6	-->-- ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019''
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8	In fiction, if you run into someone who looks like a corpse, it's not that they're sick, it's that they're ''[[NotAZombie dead.]]''
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10	Characters who become one of TheUndead will develop pale or sometimes blue or green-tinged skin. In severe cases with visible (and deathly still) [[TaintedVeins purple veins]] underneath the skin. Even people who were dark-skinned[[labelnote:*]] Or had a fake tan. Can you imagine facing an undead eternity with skin the color of a bleached-out orange?[[/labelnote]] in life will have it turn [[HadesShaded ash grey, or dark like soot]].
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12	A living character who is just pale is usually a perfectly mundane case of an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette, who [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore has heard all the jokes]] about waking up on the wrong side of the coffin. There may be some UnfortunateImplications here though since in fiction there's a [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance strong correlation]] between being pale and [[TranshumanTreachery going over]] to TheDarkSide. In addition, living characters who come into contact with the dead, undead, or infernal may have a [[PaletteSwap change of color]] and become HadesShaded. This is the case with necromancers, infernalists, those under ghostly DemonicPossession, [[VirusVictimSymptoms someone bitten]] by zombies or a vampire, or TheRenfield who has fed on [[ThePowerOfBlood vampire blood.]] It doesn't stop there either, centuries of sunless existence may turn the character evil.
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14	This trope is so common it's usually a [[{{Pun}} dead]] giveaway that [[VirusVictimSymptoms something is wrong with Alice/Bob]] when they suddenly show up this shade of pale. Smart characters will have their NotAZombie sense ping them as being "[[NotHimself somehow]] [[GlamourFailure off"]]. Which of course makes the [[DefiedTrope defiance]] of this trope a #1 priority on every smart undead's list of {{Masquerade}}[=-=]reinforcing tricks. Settings where this trope is subverted have much more dangerous undead for being indistinguishable from the living. Another curious exception is that sometimes people who were brown-skinned or darker in life may look exactly as vivid after death as they did when they were alive for unexplained reasons. Probably something to do with the SpecialEffects budget and wanting to avoid a [[SpecialEffectsFailure gaffe]].
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16	TruthInTelevision, as once you die, the blood moves due to gravity to the lower parts of your body (if you are lying on your back, then it pools there). It's called Post-mortem lividity. So if your skin looks drained of blood, it's because it is.
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18	See also DeathIsGray, StringyHairedGhostGirl, and UndeadBarefooter.
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20	!!Examples:
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24	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
25	* Sid from ''Manga/SoulEater'' is a zombie ''gym teacher.'' He once had normal colored skin but after dying, he became blue...literally.
26	* Owl / [[spoiler: Seidou Takizawa]] from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul[=:Re=]'' is not undead, but makes use of this trope as part of his overall Zombie motif. In colored artwork, he's almost as pale as his [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]], with sunken eyes and discolored lips and nails. At one point, he talks about himself as someone that has already died and has a taste for brains.
27	* ''Manga/TheUnpopularMangakaAndTheHelpfulOnryoSan'': Onryo-san has blue skin.
28	* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'': When they're not under the ''substantial'' amount of prosthetic makeup their manager Kotaro uses to make them look alive for public appearances, the girls of Franchouchou are all a grayish-blue. [[ShrinkingViolet Junko]], who died when her plane exploded and had to be reassembled from her LudicrousGibs fished out of the sea, instead has patches of dark blue, pale green, white, and dark gray, presumably from her pieces being in different states of decay when they were recovered.
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31	[[folder:Comic Books]]
32	* Any [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lantern]] who didn't just have a skull for a face had grey skin.
33	* Subverted in ''ComicBook/DeathVigil''; it's a side-effect of the Reaper's scythe to make its wielder have MysticalWhiteHair and pale skin--the appearance isn't unique to the Reaper herself.
34	* ''ComicBook/GIZombie'': Jared Kabe, the titular zombie, has paper-white skin with visible veins.
35	* ComicBook/LadyDeath is an undead sorceress and milk-pale. In the Avatar Comics, there is a term for people that are sentenced to the Labyrinth called "albinos", who had willingly performed deals with the dark spectres that rule it and become undead beings of extreme power but hated by others.
36	* Malibu Comics' [[ComicBook/TheUltraverse Ultraverse]] character Ghoul was green (and pretty messy besides).
37	* In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'' when Franchise/WonderWoman meets this version of [[spoiler:Persephone]] she is pale green, which is a hint before her never healed sliced wrists are revealed that in this reality she is among the dead.
38	* Dead Girl in ''[[ComicBook/XForce X-Statix]]'', who's sort of greenish.
39	* Ghosts in the 2014 run of ''ComicBook/TheDeadBoyDetectives'' are drawn a little blue in the face even when corporeal.
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42	[[folder:Fan Works]]
43	* ''Fanfic/FateOfTheClans'': Cú Chulainn, who's technically already dead and is just a spirit in physical form, is seen as having skin as pale as a corpse's in his [[spoiler:Alter form.]]
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46	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
47	* ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' provides the page image here, though it's played with by having the living be [[DeliberatelyMonochrome colorless]] while the dead [[DarkIsNotEvil have much brighter colors]].
48	* ''WesternAnimation/NightOfTheAnimatedDead'': The undead in the movie have chalk-white skin.
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51	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
52	* ''Film/CallOfTheUndead'': The zombies in the film have a pale white complexion.
53	* ''Film/DarkCity1998''" The Strangers are [[spoiler:alien energy forms who inhabit human corpses as a means of performing routine physical actions]].
54	* The zombies in ''Film/DawningOfTheDead'' tend to have pale white skin.
55	* ''Film/TheJurassicDead'': Most zombified people in the movie turn grey. For some reason, Gunnar's skin just turned a noticeable shade of green.
56	* The alien monster mutants in ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'' are all Undeathly Pale. It's later revealed to be because they [[spoiler: evolved and mutated over centuries to become apex predators for the ship they inhabit by feeding on the other passengers of the ship.]]
57	* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' plays this trope straight with Caucasian vampires, but Laurent presents an odd contrast. He's not at all pale in the first movie but was washed out and greyish though, at least in the second film.
58	* Drac and the female vampires in ''Film/BramStokersDracula''. While he doesn't display it in his younger form, his older form has very pale skin. His brides have it, though the dark lighting of their scenes makes it hard to tell. Lucy, on the other hand, goes completely deathly white after turning.
59	* Vampires in the original ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' movie had this among other mutated features to show they weren't human anymore.
60	* ''Film/CountYorga'' when he goes full vamp mode to really show off his monstrous form. Likewise the vampires under his control.
61	* In the film commentary for ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'', Creator/PeterJackson discusses how Boromir's skin was paled ''just'' a little bit at the moment he succumbs to his wounds and dies. The change is so subtle that most viewers might not consciously pick it up, yet still provides his death scene a little extra punch.
62	* In ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'', Hades, Persephone, and other Underworld residents have their hands and faces coated white; it's implied to be stage makeup since Hades is later seen without the pallor. When Eurydice dies and is made part of the EBN programming she becomes deathly pale as well, [[spoiler:as does Orpheus when ''he'' dies]].
63	* ''Film/AWakefieldProject'': Nathan Cross' ghost has pale white skin. [[spoiler:Same with all the other ghosts about town.]]
64	* ''Film/TheWholeTruth2021'': The StringyHairedGhostGirl next door has very dark grey skin.
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67	[[folder:Literature]]
68	* In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', Maria the vampire looks "porcelain" despite being Mexican. The books are pretty inconsistent about what happens to people of color when they become vampires. Maria is really pale and Laurent is olive-skinned (but it's never stated what race he is). There are some other vampires who are non-Caucasian, but their skin color isn't really mentioned. The male half vampire from South America is definitely dark-skinned, though.
69	** The ''[[AllThereInTheManual Twilight Illustrated Guide]]'' states that ''all'' vampires turn pale on being turned. If you were black in life, you turn olive.
70	* Variation in the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' series. The actual Dead aren't noted to be pale (since most are either bodiless or too rotten to tell) but {{Necromancer}}s (and Abhorsens, who practice necromancy to {{quiet\|ingTheUnquietDead}} the undead) become "deathly pale" from habitually [[AstralProjection projecting their spirits]] into Death.
71	* In ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'', when a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Lifeless]] is created, all color is bleached from their body as a side-effect of the magic (which uses color as a sort of trigger). The resulting creatures look exactly like they did in life, except that they are pale grey all over.
72	* When [[CheerfulChild Kairn]] becomes [[UndeadChild a zombie]] shortly after dying in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: City of the Dead'', Zak thinks he looks sallow-skinned and unhealthy like he's been sick, not like the rotting zombies in his dreams.
73	* This is why zombie rights activist Reg Shoe in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels sports a "Glad to be Grey" badge.
74	* [[TechnicallyLivingZombie Feral humans]] in ''Literature/JanitorsOfThePostApocalypse'' have syrupy black blood. The "[[UpliftedAnimal cure]]" gives them higher brain functions while not modifying their physiology very much, but they are somewhat warmer with thinner blood. Ferals are distinctly grayish and cured humans have a bit more color. When she meets unmodified humans for the first time, Mops is struck and slightly unnerved by the warm red undertones that their red blood lends to their skin.
75	* In ''Literature/{{Quazi}}'', the titular intelligent zombies and the feral Risen (who haven't yet regained intelligence) eventually develop bluish-gray skin that sharply distinguishes them from the living. They're not really dead, though, and actually have a pretty good HealingFactor, although it works fairly slowly.
76	* Miss Persephone Parker in the ''Literature/TheStrangelyBeautifulSeries'' is so pale that she's often mistaken for a ghost.
77	* Lesser Shade in in ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' who become pale white, monstrous versions of [[TheCorruption their former selves]], constantly weeping TearsOfBlood.
78	* ''Literature/{{Sunshine}}'': Vampires have distinctively grey skin that Rae likens to mushrooms -- ''spoiled'' mushrooms, when Constantine is in bad condition.
79	* Played with in ''The Ashtown Burials'' with Nolan, who is unsettlingly thin and deathly pale with hair "the colour of dust" (despite being born in Persia) and creepy jutting veins. He shrugs off deadly venom and notes it will make him feel alive, and the heroes start to wonder...but it turns out he's not dead after all: he's ''[[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortal]]''. Subverted further when we meet other transmortals, who look perfectly normal, so Nolan's creepy appearance is more likely due to [[DisproportionateRetribution the curse]].
80	* ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': Vampires' skin turns pale and smooth when they're first turned and becomes more so with age, so the oldest ones look like they're sculpted out of white stone.
81	* TheMorlocks in ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' have this due to living BeneathTheEarth.
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84	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
85	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Gregor Clegane's skin seems to be a pale purple, likely a result of congealed blood and/or partial decomposing.
86	* All the zombies in ''Series/InTheFlesh'' look white and the pupils in their eyes look like crosses. They wear make-up and contacts to appear like the living.
87	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
88	** {{Subverted\|Trope}} in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E20WhatIsAndWhatShouldNeverBe What Is and What Should Never Be]]". Sam finds Dean and the woman in white hanging limply with pale faces and unblinking, red-rimmed eyes, but they both survive.
89	** [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Ghosts and vengeful spirits]] play it straight, as does [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Angela Maison]] in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E04ChildrenShouldntPlayWithDeadThings Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things]]".
90	* The vampires of ''Series/ForeverKnight'', except for the handsome VampireDetective protagonist. In the pilot episode, his tan is handwaved by Nick Knight saying he was exposing himself to the sun for limited amounts of time, as part of his ongoing attempt to cure his vampirism. Later episodes have him using a sunbed.
91	* The zombies of ''Series/IZombie'' become noticeably pale with bleached-out hair. At least one zombie deliberately dyes his hair to conceal this.
92	* Laura Moon in ''Series/AmericanGods2017'' gets a paint job from Mr. Ibis in order to avert this effect, although it deteriorates along with the rest of her. It's fairly subtle since actress Emily Browning is pretty fair-skinned to begin with.
93	* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': After Nadja turns Jenna into a vampire, the latter starts looking a lot more ashy gray, which is lampshaded.
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96	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
97	* Pallor is an actual disadvantage in TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}. It worsens first impressions and can lead to unwanted scares.
98	* The [[TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} Abyssal Exalted]] get this in spades - As they get more powerful, Abyssals are required to either become pale (if they were light-skinned in life) and beautiful, or decayed and monstrous. As a high Appearance Abyssal's colors change towards the natural extreme they are closest to, Abyssals who were dark-skinned in life invert this trope, with skin colors resembling obsidian.
99	* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'':
100	** Vampires typically grow paler and less lifelike as they grow older -- not because of age, but because an older vampire is more likely to have fallen a few notches down the [[KarmaMeter Humanity]] scale and gotten closer to their Beast.
101	** {{Inverted\|Trope}} by the Banu Haqim from ''Masquerade'', who grow ''darker'' as they age, to the point where the elders of the line look like they're made of polished jet. This trait was dropped in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition''.
102	** The Cappadocians, a clan-turned-bloodline in ''Masquerade'' take this a step further. They always appear corpse-like, unable to use Flush of Life to mask their pale faces regardless of age or humanity score. When they get older, they grow even more like wasted cadavers. [[spoiler:The Harbingers of Skulls (Cappadocian survivors), due to their time spent in TheUnderworld, are outright desiccated corpses.]]
103	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Pharasma, the primordial Goddess of Birth and Death, usually [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith manifests]] as a humanoid woman with grey skin and [[MonochromaticEyes blank white eyes]]. However, any comparison to TheUndead is inadvisable, as they're among the very few things she [[BerserkButton despises outright]].
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106	[[folder:Theater]]
107	* The vampires of ''Theatre/TanzDerVampire'' are all sickeningly pale and usually sport EvilEyebrows.
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110	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
111	* ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'': Naturally, most of the deceased denizens of the Haunted Mansion have this kind of appearance. Special mention, though, should go to the narration by the Ghost Host, who suggests that the ride-goers themselves have this: "Your '''cadaverous pallor''' betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis."
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114	[[folder:Video Games]]
115	* ''VideoGame/BladedFury'' has the supernatural-themed enemies and humanoid demon bosses like General Wu and Bogu, all of them who look human except for having pale, blue-white skin - an indicator that they're no longer mortals.
116	* All vampires in ''VideoGame/DaemonSummoner'' are pale white. Your wife Emily was unfortunately converted into a vampire in the backstory, where in the flashbacks she looks like a normal human being - when you fight her as a boss (in a StakingTheLovedOne stage) her skin is bone-white.
117	* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' series:
118	** Goku[[note]]Renamed to Roku in the [[CompilationRerelease EBF Collection]][[/note]] appears as a grey-skinned zombie in both ''VideoGame/BrawlRoyale'' and ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy1''.
119	** ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'': The zombies found around Mystic Woods and the Zombie Hands found in various areas (chiefly Redpine Town's graveyard) both have green skin.
120	* Al, the ghouls in ''VideoGame/EternalEvil'' have pale-grey skin.
121	* The zombies in ''VideoGame/ArizonaSunshine'' have skin in various shades of death.
122	* The lunch lady zombie in ''VideoGame/CorridorZ'' has green skin.
123	* Most of the zombies in ''VideoGame/{{Diacrisis}}'' have normal-coloured skin, but you will occasionally see a green zombie.
124	* ''VideoGame/SparkTheBattleDog'': The zombies in the game have green skin.
125	* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' the Forsaken have skin in various shades of grey, green, and blue. Death Knights also tend to be paler than a living character with the same setting of skin shade. They also have access to several different skin tones not available to living players, mostly in greens and greys. Though some of them are a bit odd - blood elves apparently decay into charcoal.
126	* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' has the Drowning Doom, whom all their units have this look to them. Most noticeable is Drowned Ophelia, the doppelganger counterpart of Ironheade's Ophelia, who, naturally, turns from a healthy-looking yet slightly pale PerkyGoth, to an openly corpse blue after her transformation into the Queen of Black Tears.
127	* In ''Website/GaiaOnline'', the main zombie skin tones tend to be gray-white or greenish, though alternate zombie skin tones have been known to include dark blue, purplish, and bright scarlet. There are four vampire skin tones as well; a crappy 100 Gold potion in Skin Tyte with an exclusively pale-white base and three found only in The Treehouse and the marketplace, which range from "basically, we just improved the old skin tone" to "Now you, too, can be AmbiguouslyBrown". Zhivago in the plot manga and Kamilla in ''[=zOMG!=]'' are also AmbiguouslyBrown vampires, and were rather famous for formerly being the only ones.
128	* ''VideoGame/HauntedHalloween85'': The zombies in the game have green skin. So does [[PlayerCharacter Donny]] if he loses all of his health and becomes a zombie.
129	* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' likes to vary with this, as the zombies in-game can be anywhere from grey or blue-skinned, to a sickly-looking yellow.
130	* ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' does this. Zombies are gray, vampires are blue. However, as with most things in ''The Sims'', custom content exists to change these.
131	** Also, in some ''VideoGame/MySims'' sequels, beginning with ''[=MySims=] Kingdom'', Carl the Zombie is blue, with rotted away hair. In ''[=MySims=] Agents'', his arm even falls off.
132	* In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' Supernatural expansion, all the premade ghost characters have blue skin, hair, and eyes, although they show up in-game as different colors depending on what they died of.
133	* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series, Sora will have white skin whenever he is in [[WesternAnimation/{{TheNightmareBeforeChristmas}} Halloween Town]] as a result of becoming a vampire. He's not really undead. He retains the skin color in Christmas Town, where he wears a black Santa Claus jumper and hat over his clothes and eyepatch, respectively.
134	* In ''Videogame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'', Dracula's skin became bone white after centuries of vampirism.
135	* Queen Frieda of ''VideoGame/OneWayHeroics'' has slightly paler skin than the non-undead party members. It might be a case of this trope, but it might also just be a case of the lighting on her character portrait.
136	* ''VideoGame/{{Zombidle}}'': [[VillainProtagonist Bob the Necromancer]], as well as the Zombie Horde, [[DeadWeight Giant Zombie and The Big Plague]] all have deep green skin.
137	* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 3's'' zombies in the second mission have grayish-blue skin, and if the player or the various injured civilians around the area get zombified from a ZombiePukeAttack their skin changes to match.
138	* Music/FredericChopin in ''VideoGame/FredericResurrectionOfMusic'' has bluish white skin due to being undead. He gains a more normal skin tone in the final level.
139	* ''VideoGame/SailorZombie'': The zombies in the game have grey skin.
140	* ''VideoGame/ZombiePlayground'': The zombies in the game are grey-skinned with white hair.
141	* Chthonic gods in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' are readily identifiable by their corpselike complexions, with even the HadesShaded Thanatos having dark ''grey'' skin rather than a natural color. Most of them are either blue or grey, though the protagonist, Zagreus, managed to luck out with a more natural (if ashen) RavenHairIvorySkin.
142	* ''VideoGame/{{Undying}}'': The zombies in the game have grey skin.
143	* ''VideoGame/ZombieClaus'': The Jolly Undead Elf has grey skin.
144	* ''VideoGame/ZombieMadness'': The zombies in the game all have green skin.
145	* All the Neons in ''VideoGame/NeonWhite'', former damned souls from Hell, have stark white skin.
146	* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': Astarion's personal quest is titled 'The Pale Elf' even before you find out he's a vampire. If the party tries to enter a hospital by pretending that a party member is sick, Astarion can get in instantly if he points out how pale he looks.
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149	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
150	* In ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', if the lopsided gait and bloodstained shirt weren't enough of a hint, [[spoiler:D-Man's]] blue-purple skin when he finally meets Akira marks him as an undead spirit.
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153	[[folder:Web Original]]
154	* ''Website/TaerelSetting'': Played straight by many clans, such as the cave-dwelling Minemi and Xalather Kin'toni Clans who have stark white skin, but {{inverted\|Trope}} by the Yergha Kin'toni Clan, who have such dark skin that it's almost black.
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157	[[folder:Webcomics]]
158	* Camille in ''Webcomic/BloodyUrban'' has very light blue skin, despite the fact that she is of African descent. Recent comics show it changes back to its original pre-death color when she drinks blood.
159	* The zombie twins Hex and Mye in ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' have very pale skin as do most of the vampires.
160	* The Beastmaster, a [[RevenantZombie revenant]] who appears in the ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' MediaNotes/JennyEverywhere comic ''[[https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/jenny-everywhere-and-the-master-of-monsters/ Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters]]'', sports pale-green skin as the only conspicuous sign of his undead nature.
161	* ''Webcomic/DevilsCandy'':
162	** Pandora, a female {{Frankensteins Monster}} first introduced as she's being brought to life, has pale blue skin. However, people in this setting come in every color and shape imaginable, so that might just be the natural skin tone of whoever her parts were sourced from.
163	** Clarence, a teenage vampire, has skin so pale it verges on paper-like.
164	* Being based on ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' features various extremely pale Abyssals, the best-known of which is, of course, Secret.
165	* ''Webcomic/TheKingfisher'': Pale vampires abound.
166	* ''{{Webcomic/Phantomarine}}'': Human seaghosts' skin tones range from bone white to different shades of purple or blue, depending on their skin tone in life. They may also look like skeletons, either [[https://www.phantomarine.com/comic/4-24-the-victims seemingly at will]] or when [[https://www.phantomarine.com/comic/458-an-invitation-to-tea hungry]].
167	* ''Webcomic/SchoolBites'': All of the usual vampires have chalk-white skin, save for Cleobatra who's [[TokenMinority African American]] but still sports a bit of paleness.
168	* The zombies in ''Webcomic/SurvivingRomance'' all have blue skin as an easy indicator.
169	* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': The plods are all a grey color, with bits of bone visible.
170	* In ''Webcomic/ZombieRanch'', people turned into zombies become noticeably green. Other mammals just seem to go green on the inside.
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173	[[folder:Western Animation]]
174	* Strangely inverted by WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, whose skin when he's a ghost is actually ''more'' tan than it is when he's human. Possibly this was done to have a stronger color contrast against his [[LockedIntoStrangeness white hair]]. In contrast, the skin of Vlad's ghost form has a more typical pale blue shade.
175	* Lydia Deetz in ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' is rather pale-skinned.
176	* Weirdly played with in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[spoiler:Lion]] turns out to have come BackFromTheDead [[TouchedByVorlons with his body altered]] to a state that [[OurZombiesAreDifferent in some ways resembles the undead]]. The same eventually happens to [[spoiler:Lars]]. Both have their skin and hair turn a shade of [[spoiler:''pink'']] much paler than they were naturally.
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179	'''[[TheStinger Answer]]:''' You actually checked? Wow, okay. It's [[WesternAnimation/CorpseBride Emily]], the girl on the right with the boney arms.

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