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Is Amazing Technicolor Population about an animation art style or just people having non-human colors?

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good-morning Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles from Brazil Since: Nov, 2021
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#1: Dec 20th 2021 at 10:48:33 AM

The description and image from Amazing Technicolor Population talk about this as an animation trope, when works feature characters with plenty of non-human skin colors without an in-universe explanation (for example, The Simpsons are yellow, but that isn't seen as unusual). But there are many example mentioning works in which non-human characters have abnormal skin colors and that is seen as strange due to their mysterious and magical nature (for example, vampires often have blue-ish skin colors to show they are undead, not as an art style, as humans will possess realistic skin tones, the same with works with aliens, fae etc.). Is there a specific trope for when unrealistic skin colors are used to represent non-humans rather than as an animation art style, or is this just a Justified Amazing Technicolor Population?

Edited by good-morning on Dec 20th 2021 at 6:50:45 PM

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DarklingArcher from behind you Since: Feb, 2020 Relationship Status: Singularity
#2: Dec 20th 2021 at 3:51:24 PM

Amazing Technicolor Population is about showing unrealistically colored people for any reason. So unless you fit the example into a more specific trope (such as Green-Skinned Space Babe), it can freely go in.

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#3: Dec 21st 2021 at 9:00:50 AM

That's weirdly broad then, in my opinion.

EmeraldSource Since: Jan, 2021
#4: Dec 21st 2021 at 9:19:43 AM

The center of the trope is about unrealistic and varied skin colors among the characters and it being treated as relatively normal. Things such as a one-off Green-Skinned Space Babe wouldn't count, but such settings often include blue, purple or grey as well.

That said, there might be a missing trope for those one-off variants that don't affect the entire population but just reflect a stylistic choice (like You Gotta Have Blue Hair) or have a supernatural reason.

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good-morning Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles from Brazil Since: Nov, 2021
Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles
#5: Dec 21st 2021 at 9:53:09 AM

Yes, I feel like the trope encompasses two concepts right now. Characters naturally having plenty of colors due to the art style like in the page image and characters having different colors as a way of showing they aren't human.

Edited by good-morning on Dec 21st 2021 at 7:48:32 PM

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good-morning Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles from Brazil Since: Nov, 2021
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#7: Feb 1st 2022 at 4:22:00 PM

Bump. So you think this is maybe worth a trope repair shop trip? Is there a wick check for the trope?

Edited by good-morning on Feb 1st 2022 at 9:24:35 AM

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