History Main / MonochromeApparition

* ''Film/HauntedMansion2023'': Almost all the ghosts except for [[spoiler:the ghost of Alistair Crump]] are light blue.

* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' has a white specter appear near the ending.

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* Creator/GrantMorrison makes an apparance in their final issue of ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'', with their skin and hair rendered in black and white (although their clothes weren't). This version of Morrison later became a member of ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad'' as The Writer, with the same appearance.

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* ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'': When B&T are dead, they're grayish-blue. Looking closely, it's apparent they achieved this with monochrome makeup and costuming rather than using optical effects.
* All the ghosts in ''{{Film/Casper}}'' are ghostly white.

* ''Film/TheFrighteners'' has those when ghosts are in shades of blue.
* ''Film/Goosebumps2015'' has Hannah as a ghost who is in shades of blue like the ghosts in ''The Frighteners'' and ''The Haunted Mansion'' are.

* In ''Film/{{Juon}}'', Kayako and Toshio have a bit of a blue-ish hue to them. The latter more then the former.
* In ''Film/CrimsonPeak'', ghosts appear as one solid color, though which color they are varies and [[ColorCodedCharacters correlates to the nature of their death]]. Most of the ghosts in Allerdale Hall are red, symbolic of the red clay beneath the land and of the violent nature of their deaths. The ghost of Edith's mother, who died of cholera and returns to warn her about Crimson Peak, is black. Another black-colored ghost is [[spoiler: Lucille]], who clings to the past and appears to [[BarredFromTheAfterlife haunt Allerdale Hall forever]]. The ghost of [[spoiler: Thomas]] is white save for the bloodstains, indicating [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redemption]] and a [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence peaceful afterlife]].

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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': In a filmed sketch parodying tween comedies, a commercial for the Creator/DisneyChannel's [[http://www.hulu.com/#!watch/489151 "Aw Nuts! Mom's a Ghost!"]], mom had gone to South Korea and had an affair with a Korean official. He's worried she'll talk so he drowns her in a river and now she's a Mool-Gwishin - a Korean water ghost. She appears in monochrome gray while having wacky hijinks.
* In the 2006 ''Series/{{Marple}}'' adaptation of ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'', the ghost of murder victim Clive Trevelyan (played by Timothy Dalton) appears in shades of bluish grey at the end of the episode.
* In the episode "The Ghost of Queen's Park" of ''Series/MurdochMysteries'', there are several mysterious deaths in a building near Queen's Park that look like murders. People report seeing a ghost that is blue and glows. It turns out the ghost was a woman who wanted a revenge for her mother's death. She looked exactly like her mother and her adoptive father was a scientist who experimented with radium. She rubbed herself with it, and radium is luminescent, glowing a faint blue.
* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' has Moze as a green CuteGhostGirl in Vampires, Ghosts, Werewolves, and Zombies.
* In ''Series/ThePretender'' episode "Indy Show", Sydney dreams he's having a conversation with his twin brother Jacob, who has been in a coma for decades following a car accident. Jacob appears as he did before the accident, as seen in MonochromePast flashbacks in earlier episodes -- ''exactly'' as seen in the flashbacks, meaning he's monochrome in the midst of a scene that's otherwise in full color.
* The Lady of the Lake in ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'' is pale blue with a wave texture when she appears to King Arthur.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Devil's Alphabet", the ghosts of the deceased members of the Devil's Alphabet Society are entirely green.

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* Many productions of ''Theatre/TheAddamsFamily'' have the ghosts of the ancestors in entirely white clothing and facepaint, or sometimes pale blue or grey.

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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'', party members who fall in battle will be shown as opaque grey ghosts.
* Ghostly hallucinations in ''VideoGame/BioShock'' are grainy and blue.
* The [[spoiler:ghosts of the murdered children]] in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' are only ever represented in monochrome 8-bit, even in scenes where they should be by all rights have defining colors.
* The ghost of [[spoiler:Mari]] in ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'' has only two colors in the sprite: black and white. Said ghost's portrait additionally depicts a gray skintone.
* All ghosts in ''VideoGame/GhostMaster'' appear in greenish tint when they are in their normal mode. Some of them can materialize in mortal world and show themselves to people in their normal color pattern, scaring them and averting this trope.
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' Ghost monsters are monochromatic white, while their Wights are variations of green (and surprisingly opaque). Other non-hostile ghosts are usually some variation on bluish-green, almost teal. Revenants are largely gray. The Shades are ColorCodedForYourConvenience but are always a variation of a single color on any given example.

* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': The spirits of the dead are the same teal colour as liquid [[{{Mana}} Source]]. In Act 2, the player characters learn that spirits' spectral bodies are actually made of Source, and that they can [[SoulEating devour spirits]] to replenish their own power.
* ''VideoGame/SmokeEmOutStruggle'' has Garcello's ghost appear as one of four solid colors, depending on what note he's singing.

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* ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'' ghosts are a very distinct bright blue when interacting with the world of the living.
* In ''Webcomic/WildeLife,'' WordOfGod notes that she had a few ideas of how to draw Sylvia, but opted for this trope so that she would look like a black and white photograph.

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* The Flying Dutchman in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' is [[SicklyGreenGlow sickly green]].
* Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Past in ''[[WesternAnimation/MrMagoo Mr. Magoo]]'s Christmas Carol'' are blue and orange respectively.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' has Uniqua, Tyrone, and Pablo are blue ghosts in "It's Great To Be A Ghost".
* ''Animation/MrKrbecAndHisAnimals'': The spirit of Duke Ruprecht who used to be the lord and owner of Castle Kulikov and now haunts the place is designed as a white ghost. In one episode, he uses a spell that allows him temporarily gain "body and colour".
* Phantasma from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'' is pale light blue.

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "The Tower of Terror", after Ash & Pikachu are ([[DisneyDeath temporarily]]) killed by a chandelier falling on them, their spirits are a bluish-white.

* ''Film/{{Bill and Ted}}'s Bogus Journey'': When B&T are dead, they're grayish-blue. Looking closely, it's apparent they achieved this with monochrome makeup and costuming rather than using optical effects.

* In the British comedy ''How I Won The War'', the soldiers of a platoon keep marching even after they are killed. The StockFootage of each battle is tinted a different color, so each ghost soldier is the color of the battle they died in.

* In ''Film/JuOn'', Kayako and Toshio have a bit of a blue-ish hue to them. The latter more then the former.

* ''Series/{{Oz}}'': At the very end of episode "Laws of Gravity", [[PreacherMan Jeremiah Cloutier]] appears to fellow inmate [[BadAssBiker Jaz Hoyt]] in this form as Hoyt sits naked in solitary confinement frightened by the image he sees.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the ghost of a [[MonochromePast silent film star]] in the episode "Hollywood Babylon" was rendered in black and white, as well as the ghost of company founder P. T. Sandover in "It's A Terrible Life". Some other ghosts or death echoes in the series are static-y black and white as well, but often there is some color, particularly red blood to highlight various wounds they suffered when they died.

** "Elegy": People reported seeing injured pale women trying to convey a message. It was found out that at those moments, the women were already killed and they were seeing their ghosts, all in pale blue colour.
** In "Tithonus", Alfred Fellig can recognize who is about to die. He sees the people going black and white when they are dying, while the background stays fully coloured. (Inverse of SplashOfColor.)

* In a couple of DC comics stories (''Animal Man, Suicide Squad'') the authors wrote themselves into the story and appeared as black & white images.

* The ghosts in Disney's ''Film/TheHauntedMansion'' film are whitish-blue, as are many of the ghosts in the actual ride.

* ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}'' has Hannah as a ghost who is in shades of blue like the ghosts in ''The Frighteners'' and ''The Haunted Mansion'' are.

* ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'': The apparitions, which are explained in universe as the psychic remnants of the recently deceased interfering with your cybernetic DiegeticInterface HUD glow a pale blue-grey light.

* The albino twins in "Film/TheMatrixReloaded" sport white dreadlocks, pale skin and wear white suits in their normal form, but become gray/greenish translucent when in ghostly forms, as this is the default color of the matrix

* In ''Film/CrimsonPeak'', ghosts appear as one solid color, though which color they are varies and [[ColorCodedCharacters correlates to the nature of their death]]. Most of the ghosts in Allerdale Hall are red, symbolic of the red clay beneath the land and of the violent nature of their deaths. The ghost of Edith's mother, who died of cholera and returns to warn her about Crimson Peak, is black. Another black-colored ghost is [[spoiler: Lucille]], who clings to the past and appears to [[BarredFromTheAfterlife haunt Allerdale Hall forever]].The ghost of [[spoiler: Thomas]] is white save for the bloodstains, indicating [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redemption]] and a [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence peaceful afterlife]].

* The ghosts in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books are described as 'pearly white', with the exception of Peeves. In the movies they are merely desaturated, however.