History Main / ColorFailure

*** That would be a CornerOfWoe with bonus points.

See also BlueWithShock artistically different and most of the time less extreme version of this,

* ''Series/TeenTitans'': Raven does this when beaten in a game of chess. Her opponent, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cyborg]], had recently had an upgrade.

* Optimus Prime turns charcoal-gray upon death in ''TransformersTheMovie''.

In real life people can turn pale when ill or shocked. In anime they can go grayscale! These events are always played for comedy and characters once grayscale they can be unresponsive or completely frozen in place.

* Happens to [[HomestarRunner The Cheat]] while watching a [[ScareEmStraight 'shock-u-mentary']].

* [[TeenTitans Raven]] does this when beaten in a game of chess. Her opponent, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cyborg]], had recently had an upgrade.
* In the 1947 [[TexAvery Tex Avery]] cartoon ''Lucky Ducky'', during one chase secne the two hunters and the duck they're chasing run past a "[[NoFourthWall Technicolor Ends Here]]" sign, beyond which everything instantly turns monochrome. It takes them a couple of seconds to notice this.

* This happens to Taiga a few times in ''ToraDora!'', such as when she see her crush Kitamura naked. Also, all the boys in class 2C end up this way when their idea for the school cultural festival isn't chosen.

* In the 1947 [[TexAvery Tex Avery]] cartoon ''Lucky Ducky'', during one chase secne the two hunters and the duck they're chasing run past a "Technicolor Ends Here" sign, beyond which everything instantly turns monochrome. It takes them a couple of seconds to notice this.

In real life people can turn pale when ill or shocked in anime they can go grayscale! These events are always played for comedy and characters once grayscale they can be unresponsive or completely frozen in place.

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When a character completely loses all color and perhaps becomes more roughly drawn as well, out of either shock or exhaustion.

See also BlueWithShock, BlankWhiteEyes. Compare DeliberatelyMonochrome.

* ''HidamariSketch'', pictured above: Sae (and Hiro) do this when Yuno and Miyako first mention that [[AdultChild Yoshi]][[LoveableSexManiac noya]] is their teacher.

* In the first episode of ''{{Merlin}}'', the villain kills a maidservant by draining the life out of her, resulting in this.

* In some of its more comedic moments, ''{{Pokemon}}'' does this often. One good example was when Marilyn (who's obsessed with cute Pokemon) didn't think Dawn's Piplup was cute. Piplup ended up pulling an example of this trope and ''staying like that'' for the rest of the scene.

** Earlier on in the series, Black*Star goes through this multiple times while trying to overcome a jar of water that sucks out your sou.

* Rhea from ''SlightlyDamned'' [[http://raizap.com/sdamned/pages.php?comicID=82 does this sometimes]]. Looks perfectly {{justified}}.