Could use a good image: Hair Color Dissonance

Would at least need a real life pic and an animation pic.

That's not what the trope is about, though...I had a great suggestion in mind until I read the page.

Reading the page Roxes or Ventus from Kingdom Hearts would be good. One shot of CG where their hair is blonde and one shot of in game where it is orangeish.

I'd say one of the listed Final Fantasy characters who are blonde in artwork (Terra, Faris, Lenna) would work well, since their hair become incredibly non-blonde in sprites (green and pink), even moreso than a move to orange.

edited 14th Jul '11 11:52:03 AM by xyzzy

Maybe a pic of Super Macho Man from the Wii version of Punch-Out!! could work. Grey hair makes him look old, but he's only in his mid-twenties.

edited 19th Jul '11 1:31:44 PM by Rhadamanthus39

I don't think this trope can be pictured in any way that accurately demonstrates the concept.

Hrrrm, there's Minsc in Baldurs Gate. Officially he's bald, but since the engine doesn't allow to have no hair, he has white hair.

That's pretty good.

Thats not exactly this though.

Anyway [1]◊[2]◊[3]◊ Roxas ingame [4]◊ CG version of him.

WTF

So my in game sprite vs in game portrait is "not this"

Your in game sprite vs in game cgi is this?

Also, they have the same color.

Both images are not good. The trope is not different hair colors when characters are pictured in different styles.

It is: the viewer interprets a color different from the natural color as this natural color. e.g dark blue/green/purple is seen as black and light blue and lavender is seen as grey.

Showing this kind of coloring is not hard. But I think something highlighting the trope would be nice.

Looking at the page I have to ask: Why is light brown considerd the "wrong" color to show blond, but neither orange nor yellow?

edited 20th Jul '11 12:29:30 PM by Osmium

People do that?

Yeah. Ask most people what Spike's hair is then go look at an image. It happens because we expect certain thing's to fall into reality so are mind short hands it.

edited 20th Jul '11 2:52:09 PM by TheDeadMansLife

.... who?

Dunno, guess I live in a world where blue is blue, green is green. Funny like that. Oh well, not the first pants on head stupid trope we have.

Eitherway, if the videogame stuff doesn't count, then there's a TON of bad example which go "Character from videogame X has color y while concept art / cutscene shows z"

Well I don't know that many shows so I named a character from a fairly popular anime from a few about ten years ago. Give me a couple of cartoon you watched as a kid.

Some examples : I alwasy think of them having black hair [1]◊ [2] and of him to be gray haired: [3]◊

Simpsons? Batman the animated series? Dunno. There people have the color they have. If it's black. it's back. If it's blue, it's blue.

In your head what color is Mr. Burns hair?

Light blue? Eitherway, never mind me.

I thought Chobits was a really good example of this. White to blonde? Who could forgive that? Now to find an image for it...

What about an image of a misinterpreted cosplay? I found this◊ cosplay of Emily. She has blue hair◊ in the movie and most cosplays represent that, but it's interpreted in our heads as black. I mean, the picture's not that great but the idea is there. Side by side, it might represent the trope...

How about Link from A Link To The Past The game art shows he is clearly supposed to have blonde hair, but in-game it's PINK.

Something like this◊ vs this◊?