History Main / DeliberatelyMonochrome

* Most of ''Film/{{Avalon}}'', a film about a virtual reality {{M|assivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame}}MORPG in a dystopian future, is deliberately shot in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TTgzumaI0w murky sepia]]. The movie switches to normal color and lighting at the end, when [[spoiler:the protagonist arrives in the level "class real", which looks much like our world]].

* Music/FleetwoodMac: The album covers of ''Music/{{Rumours}}'' and ''Music/{{Tusk}}''.

* In the short film ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio'', is WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit shown entirely in black-and-white compared to the rest of Disney characters as a reference to his origins from his black-and-white cartoons.

* In the short film ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio'', is WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit shown entirely in black-and-white compared to the rest of Disney characters as a reference to his origins from his black-and-white cartoons.

* ''Film/LaHaine'': This French movie by Mathieu Kassovitz. The scenes shot in the inner city of Paris were originally intended to be shot in colour, to create a more stark contrast with the black and white scenes shot in ''les banlieues'', but the budget wouldn't run to it.

* ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'': The ending card of Ending 7-1 is entirely in grayscale to show [[DownerEnding how depressing your situation has become]] after [[spoiler:being [[EmotionSuppression Fixed]] with pension.]]

* ''VideoGame/AlterEgo2018'': The game is completely in black and white except for the butterflies because they are meant to be a stylized Shiny/ Sense of sorts to highlight the next thing to tap.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Aether}}'', each planet begins in black-and-white and as you go on your adventure they get filled with more and more colour. [[spoiler: And as it gets more bright and coloured, the Earth progressively shrinks, until it completely disappears by the end of the game. This is meant as a metaphor for protagonist's fantasy world overtaking his real life.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdIIAssimilation'', the first two [[BigBoosHaunt "Monster Madness"]] stages are in black and white, being an homage to vintage horror films, although the second has switches to temporarily activate the color, while [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon "Virtual Insanity"]] is black and red in the style of the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy.

** ''Garfield: Babes and Bullets'', a noir spoof that features colors only when Garfield is out of his fantasy.

** The first scenes of ''Garfield in the Rough'' were deliberately on Black and White and it even started with a warning telling the viewers not to adjust the TV's color set.

* Everything in ''VideoGame/SundayNightSuicide'' is rendered in black-and-white, emulating the subject short of its [[WebOriginal/SuicideMouse origin]].

* ''WebAnimation/Musophobia2012'': The NightmareSequence is done in black and white, barring the glowing yellow eyes of the rodents and the flashes of intense cyans and magentas throughout the scene.

* In ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors'', the afterlife mall, all its deceased residents, and the bus that ferries the dead to said mall, are all black and white.

* The Season 3 finale of ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' uses this device, contrasting a B&W police-occupied Liberty Avenue to its truer colorful and celebratory self (a rainbow flag being waved is the first item to regain color).

[[caption-width-right:345:[[SincerityMode Believe it or not]], [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18444_17-more-images-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped.html this wasn't photoshopped.]]]]

See also {{Retraux}}, RealIsBrown, and ColorFailure. A MonochromePast is this trope limited to a {{flashback}}. Compare {{Colorization}}.