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4	[[quoteright:300:[[Manga/RanmaOneHalf https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_ranma005_6130.jpg]]]]
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6	In the event of a GenderBender, GenderFlip, or just a DistaffCounterpart, it is common for the woman to have light hair and fair skin, even if the man had dark hair and skin.
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8	This is somewhat TruthInTelevision, as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color#Sexual_dimorphism women have fairer skin than men]] on average. This is because a woman will need to provide enough calcium for herself and a baby both during pregnancy and while nursing. Lighter skin absorbs more sunlight, which allows vitamin D to be synthesized, and this is necessary to absorb enough calcium from food.
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10	Can sometimes be the [[ButNotTooBlack consequence]] of the fact that, due to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color colorism]], [[MostWritersAreMale the woman is considered sexier with light skin.]]
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12	OlderThanDirt, because [[http://kbagdanov.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/minoan-bull-rider.jpg ancient Egyptian and Minoan artists]] drew men with dark skin and women with light skin to distinguish the two.
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14	This can also coincide with the woman having a "lighter" alignment, as in more feminine, less aggressive and gentler than the male version; however this trope just refers to skin and hair pigment. See also GenderedOutfit. For animal and nonhuman examples, see PaleFemalesDarkMales.
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21	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
22	* When Matsuri of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' is turned female, his hair goes from black [[HairColorDissonance with red highlights]] to [[PinkMeansFeminine pink-shaded]] [[MysticalWhiteHair silver]], while his skin gets less tanned. The hair change is actually an incidental case of LockedIntoStrangeness because Shirogane transformed Matsuri while in a in a form that had silver fur.\
23	Played with in that Suzu (whose hair is darker than Matsuri's ever was) and Matsuri have a yin and yang {{motif}}. In that respect, his hair being white associates it with yang, and thus masculinity.
24	* In ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty'', Tsumotu has black hair and darker skin than Birdy, who has half white and half red hair.
25	* ''Manga/FutabaKunChange'':
26	** Futaba has black hair when male, while his female form is blonde ([[InconsistentColoring sometimes]] [[HairColorDissonance shaded green]]).
27	** Inverted by his sister Futana, who has black hair when female and blond hair when male.
28	** Averted by [[spoiler:Misaki]] who has the same hair color regardless of gender.
29	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', [[{{Transvestite}} Emporio Ivankov]] turns a prince into a woman for trying to kill him with a cannonball. In the anime, his transformation comes with an obligatory skin bleaching. Otherwise, transformees keep their hair color and style.
30	* In ''Manga/PrettyFace'', when Randoh gains a girl's face, his hair also turns blond because of the burns he received.
31	* Ranma in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' normally has black hair and darker skin than "Ranko", who has red hair in the anime, and has had a variety of different hair colors, usually not black, in the colored covers of the manga.
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34	[[folder:Comic Books]]
35	* ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'': Walter Langowski as Sasquatch has blond hair as a man, white hair as a woman.
36	* Franchise/{{Batman}} has black hair; ComicBook/{{Batgirl\|2011}} has red hair. ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} also has red hair, along with being extremely pale.
37	* ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} has brown hair; Hawkwoman has red hair.
38	* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' featured appearances of all four boys and the one girl who were Robin, and all the boys have black hair while the single girl is blonde. [[note]]The specificity is due to artists on some other titles occasionally giving Jason red hair as a nod to his pre-Crisis version.[[/note]]
39	%%* [[Creator/MarvelComics Julia Carpenter]] as ComicBook/SpiderWoman has blond hair.
40	* Franchise/{{Superman}}: Usually, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and ComicBook/PowerGirl have a fairer skin than Superman and ComicBook/{{Superboy}}. Additionally both girls have blond hair, whereas their male cousin and his younger self/clone/son have black hair.
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43	[[folder:Film]]
44	* Creator/RobSchneider in ''Film/TheHotChick'' [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies with]] blond Creator/RachelMcAdams.
45	* The boy in ''Film/ItsABoyGirlThing'' has brown hair, and the girl has red hair.
46	* ''Film/SexualChemistry'' has a brown-haired man turn into a blond woman.
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49	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
50	* True in all versions of the show ''Series/{{Lalola}}''. At least the lighter skin part.
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53	[[folder:Video Games]]
54	* Inverted with Xion's dark girl to Roxas’s light boy in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', both of which born from about 3 separate people of varying genders.
55	* ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': Inverted with Sina and Dexio, the former being an AmbiguouslyBrown girl and the latter a very white guy.
56	* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' has Cammy, who is an OppositeSexClone of Bison, but has blond hair, blue eyes and white skin, and really looks nothing like him. Also, Cammy is a good gal, unlike [[BigBad Bison]].
57	* [[http://eng.tekkenpedia.com/wiki/images/6/63/Kunimitsu2.jpg Kunimitsu]] in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' has red hair, [[http://eng.tekkenpedia.com/wiki/images/d/d6/YoshimitsuT1.JPG Yoshimitsu]] has brown hair.
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60	[[folder:Webcomics]]
61	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Elliot's favored female form has blond hair, confirming to the expectations of this trope. However, this is a deliberate stylistic choice on his part to avoid looking too much like his twin sister / OppositeSexClone Ellen. He can control what he looks like to a degree, and hair color is something he finds particularly easy.
62	** Ellen and Elliot now play it straight, as Ellen's hair has been changed to green, which renders as lighter than Elliot's brown in black and white. Tedd continues to avert it, having the same colouring regardless of current gender.
63	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', this trope is DoubleSubverted when Roy, while genderbent, actually has the same bald head, but ends up wearing a wig that makes him look blond most of the time he is female.
64	* ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' has red-haired "Sonja" when Jason is [[GenderBender genderbent]], but other characters, like Robin, keep their original hair color.
65	* In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', Yokoka has light skin, yellow eyes, and her hair is white with pink streaks, while her twin brother Mao has more tanned skin, brown eyes, and his hair is brown with black streaks. [[ForcedTransformation Their cat forms]] also [[PaleFemalesDarkMales have a similar colour scheme]]. A [[FourthWallMailSlot Q&A strip]] explains the colour differences as Yokoka having [[https://yokokasquest.com/qna1/ a type of albinism]].
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68	[[folder:Web Videos]]
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