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6	In RealLife rabbits come in a variety of colors. Most of these colors are a result of breeding for appearance in domestic breeds of rabbit (though as with any animal, breeding exclusively for color can lead to health problems). Wild rabbits and hares are almost invariably gray or brown in order to aid in camouflage, though some will have white winter coats to blend in with the snow.
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8	In fiction however, rabbits are frequently depicted as pure white, regardless of breed or season.
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10	This may be due to the fact that bunnies and the color white both have associations with innocence and gentleness. It may also be that any animal which is pure white tends to be visually striking and easy to watch. Or it could just be that a [[BunniesForCuteness white bunny]] is [[RuleOfCute so darn cute]].
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12	It is also likely due in part to TheCoconutEffect. White is a color favored in pet rabbits, so if a person's first exposure to rabbits is through someone's pet it is likely to make them expect to see more of the same.
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14	Eye color also plays into this trope. Most colors of rabbits simply have brown eyes. White rabbits however can also have blue or what rabbit breeders call "ruby" eyes. The ruby eyes can be portrayed as [[RedEyesTakeWarning sinister red]], or as a [[PrincessesPreferPink cute]] and [[PinkMeansFeminine feminine]] pink. The sinister red-eyed version would be a tie-in to the idea that AlbinosAreFreaks, and the cute version is an aversion or subversion of that idea.
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16	The bunny can be either all or mostly white or light grey. Aside from that, white rabbits in Japanese media may also have a black tip on their ears- this is largely due to the common Japanese snow-hare having such a feature and thus is much more relateable in Japan.
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18	The white or light grey bunny is likely to be played to one of two extremes. It may personify gentleness and innocence, in which case it is likely to be a pet or friend to a [[IncorruptiblePurePureness pure]], [[TheIngenue innocent]] character. Or it may play a deliberate subversion of that perception by being [[HairRaisingHare evil]] or [[KillerRabbit vicious]], in which case characters will probably approach it unsuspectingly only to get a nasty surprise.
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20	See also WhiteStallion, WhiteWolvesAreSpecial, and GreatWhiteFeline for other white animals portrayed as good, albeit in a noble way than an innocent one. Not to be confused with FollowTheWhiteRabbit.
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22	!!Examples:
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26	[[folder:Advertising]]
27	* Crayola used to have a anthropomorphic white rabbit named Crayola E. Bunny as its company mascot in the early 90s.
28	* The Advertising/TrixRabbit is a white rabbit FunnyAnimal.
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31	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
32	%%* Bokko from Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Amazing 3/The Wonder 3'' anime and manga series.
33	* The Mother Bunny who was a one shot characters form the 70's anime ''Anime/{{Bannertail}}'' who is searching for her missing baby bunny.
34	* ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'' is the story of a wolf who falls in love with a pure white rabbit.
35	* Clover, the main protagonist of the ''Manga/HappyHappyClover'' manga/anime series along with her mother.
36	* In ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', this is protagonist Bell Cranel's particular form of AnimalMotifs; he has white hair and red eyes and a FragileSpeedster turned LightningBruiser fighting style, whilst his BornLucky status invokes [[LuckyRabbitsFoot the symbolic association of rabbits with luck]].
37	* Ruby, the protagonist of ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'', is a typical albino white rabbit with red eyes. She's however very mischevious.
38	* In the "Land of Waves" arc of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' Naruto "accidentally" throws a shuriken at a white bunny and narrowly misses. However, Kakashi notes that a wild rabbit should not be that color at that time of year and figures out that it's a decoy; cue rogue ninja with a big-ass sword.
39	* Carrot, in ''Manga/OnePiece'', has all-white fur accompanied with blonde hair. The hair, too, becomes pure white when [[spoiler:she transforms via the full moon.]]
40	* ''Anime/PrettyCure''
41	** ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'': Cure Whip's theme animal is the white rabbit. Her costume includes white bunny ears, white gloves, and white puffballs on her boots.
42	** Episode 25 of ''Anime/SoaringSkyPrecure'' has Elle-chan become protective of a white bunny she meets at a zoo.
43	* Mimirin, from ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'', although she does have black ear tips in line with most Japanese snow rabbits. Her father, Sota, however, is a pure white rabbit.
44	* Lulla, the musical bunny from ''Anime/SuzysZooDaisukiWitzy'', is an adorable white rabbit, albieit a plush one.
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47	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
48	* Violet from ''Animation/BoonieCubs'' is a white rabbit girl who is a ForeignExchangeStudent to Pine Tree Kindergarten, coming from the UK.
49	* In ''Animation/HarryAndBunnie'', Bunnie has the look, but not the innocent personality.
50	* Any rabbits that appear in the ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' series are almost invariably colored white. This extends to the spin-off ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass'' with Miss Earth, the rabbit woman who guides the goats through the carnival in the season ''The Earth Carnival''.
51	* Qiube from ''Animation/YoYoMan'' has her appearance fashioned after a bunny, with white fur to match.
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54	[[folder:Comic Books]]
55	* ''ComicBook/BunnyVsMonkey'': The protagonist of the series, Bunny, has white fur.
56	* Max from the ''Franchise/SamAndMax'' franchise is a hyperactive borderline psychotic white rabbit.
57	* ''ComicBook/SamiTheSamuraiSquirrel'': Doug and his older sister are white rabbits.
58	* ''Comicbook/TheMultiversity'' version of Captain Carrot is a white rabbit. (The [[ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew original version]] was [[AdaptationDyeJob brown]].)
59	* Most rabbit characters in ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' are white.
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62	[[folder: Fan Works]]
63	* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainKnightOfTheOrangeLily'': Kisaragi is a large bipedal talking white rabbit denizen who resides in the 400 Rabbits Car.
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66	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
67	* ''WesternAnimation/TimmysGift'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5UXBSC6bGc stars a young angel named Timmy]], who's following a light from Heaven. Throughout the film, he encounters various talking animals. One animal that he befriends is a [[BunniesForCuteness timid white rabbit]] who [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HiEFB7ciL._AC_UL320_SR224,320_.jpg becomes Timmy's travel companion]]. By the end of the film, Timmy and his animal friends encounter Mary and Joseph after Jesus' birth.
68	* Boingo in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}''. [[spoiler:He seems to be a white bunny of the innocent variety until he is revealed as the movie's villain]].
69	* Wandi and Queen Luna from ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfMoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure'', as with other ''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf'' installments' rabbits, are white rabbits.
70	* The members of the rabbit family in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' are all light gray.
71	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' gives us Snowball, the CuteAndPsycho leader of a group of pets who weren't treated right.
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74	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
75	* ''Theatre/{{Harvey}}'' the pooka is depicted as a giant white rabbit. His best friend Elwood is a very sweet, gentle man.
76	* ''Film/Hayride2'': After tying Amanda to a tree, Ol' Pitchfork takes a white rabbit he caught out of its trap and kills it with a NeckSnap. He then takes a chunk of its flesh and tries to make Amanda eat it.
77	* ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'': Blue the ''Velociraptor'' is shown teaching her baby to hunt in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Their initial target is a rabbit, and it's very clearly an albino domestic rabbit rather than a more appropriate native (brown) cottontail.
78	* The KillerRabbit in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. Definitely of the deceptively gentle-looking variety.
79	* In ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'', Alice recovers a memory of life in the Hive before the T-virus outbreak. An Umbrella researcher injects first the T-Virus and then its antidote into a white rabbit. The whole film is about the [[EvilInc extreme evil]] of the Umbrella MegaCorp, so using a white rabbit could represent the innocents put at risk by Umbrella's research (as well as another ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' [[AliceAllusion reference]], of which the movie has several [[FauxSymbolism for whatever reason]]).
80	* The title character of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' is white-furred with blue eyes.
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83	[[folder:Literature]]
84	* Flop the rabbit from ''Literature/ArtTheGeckoMakesAFriend''.
85	* The UrExample might be the White Rabbit from ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. Averted by the March Hare who is usually shown as brown.
86	* Largely averted in ''Literature/WatershipDown'' where most rabbits are natural gray or brown. Played straight however with Silver, who is teased at Sandleford Warren because his fur is so light it's almost white.
87	* In ''Literature/TheEmeraldCityOfOz'' Dorothy travels to Bunnybury, a city created by Glinda for all the pink-eyed white rabbits of the forest.
88	* The main characters WesternAnimation/MaxAndRuby by Creator/RosemaryWells.
89	* Mr. B in ''Literature/TeddyAndCo'' is revealed to be white once he's washed all the dirt off.
90	* ''Literature/SurvivorDogs'': The dogs require pure-white rabbits for a puppy's RiteOfPassageNameChange [[NamingCeremony Ceremony]]. White rabbits are harder to find than darker coloured rabbits, but there's always a few around the hunting grounds.
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93	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
94	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' named an early episode that used the FollowTheWhiteRabbit plot "White Rabbit." In later seasons,actual rabbits appeared -- white rabbits. They were often associated with Ben, and their scenes with him caring for them as a boy showed his own innocence.
95	* Justified in the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode, "[[Recap/SherlockS02E02TheHoundsOfBaskerville The Hounds of Baskerville]]": The rabbits Dr Stapleton are working on are pure white: [[spoiler: genetically engineered lab animals are usually white, because it's easier to see bioluminescence in a light-coloured specimen than in a darker one.]]
96	* ''Series/WhiteRabbitProject'' - there is no rabbit in the show, but it's in the title (itself an AliceAllusion).
97	* On ''Series/UtopiaUS'', Mr. Rabbit is a white rabbit in the ''Utopia'' comic and there are several pure white rabbits grazing in the grass at Home. The rabbits at the petting zoo, though, have various fur shades, including white with black spots and at least one entirely black one.
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100	[[folder:Music]]
101	* German music company Jamster/Jamba gives use Snuggelina (Schnuffelienchen) whose fur is mostly white but with a mix brown fur mostly around her ears, paws and feet. She is Music/{{Schnuffel}}'s girlfriend.
102	* The Music/JeffersonAirplane song "White Rabbit", whose enitre lyric is an AliceAllusion.
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105	[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
106	* [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1982/06/06 They]] [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1987/08/25 occasionally]] [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2007/05/30 appear]] in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''
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109	[[folder:Popular Culture]]
110	* The EasterBunny is usually shown as white.
111	* Whenever there's a magician, they will almost always [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat pull a rabbit from a hat]], and that rabbit is most always white.
112	** Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as a white rabbit will be easier for the audience to see against any dark-colored backdrop. In the days before electric stage lighting, this was likely to be a prime consideration.
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115	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
116	* There's a group of innocent white bunnies in later ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' productions, whose main role in life is being SwallowedWhole by Big Mean Carl.
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119	[[folder:Toys]]
120	* Creator/{{Mattel}} had a line of infant toys called ''Angel Bunny'' (more info [[http://www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk/angelbunny.php here]]). ([[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No relation]] to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy's pet]]) that ran from 1984 to 1985. The main character is a white rabbit. With golden angel wings.
121	* White rabbits tend to appear in the ''Precious Moments'' franchise quite often.
122	* Mattel's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150710013932/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLiP4TQtpH4 "Miracle Baby"]] toys has a female white bunny who is the mascot for the toys.
123	* Several in the Franchise/SylvanianFamilies toyline: The Periwinkle milk rabbit family and the Chocolate rabbit family (who despite their name, are mostly white save for the tip of their ears) are the most prominent.
124	* In the ''Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}'' series, the white-furred Lovelitchi resembles a rabbit with her rabbit-like ears.
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127	[[folder:Video Games]]
128	* The rabbit villager named Ruby in the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games is white with red eyes. She specifically describes herself as albino.
129	* In the ''VideoGame/BloodyRoar'' series, Alice's beast form is a giant, anthropomorphic bunny (the fur can vary depending on the color pallete selected, but the default form is always white and she's depicted as such in official art).
130	* ''VideoGame/FuntimeWithBuffy'': Buffy is a white rabbit with pink ears, paws, and belly.
131	%%* Snowball from ''VideoGame/MadFather''.
132	* ''VideoGame/MarioPartyAdvance'': A special case in a franchise like ''Mario'' where bunnies do come in different colors. The minigame Grabbit has a solo player catch as many white rabbits, which are mischievously running within a prairie and hiding in their burrows, as possible. If the player fails to capture a rabbit and clashes against a wall, they'll be stunned and waste precious time. Every captured rabbit grants points and adds extra seconds to the time limit. In Shroom City mode, seven rabbits have to be captured under a time limit.
133	* General Makora from ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'' represents the Rabbit in the EasternZodiac and thus he has white hair and clothes with a largely white color scheme.
134	%%* Marquis de Hoto from ''VideoGame/TheNightOfTheRabbit''.
135	* The Fire-type starter Pokémon in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', Scorbunny, is a white rabbit with orange/yellow fur accents. Its evolutions have white fur too, though Raboot also has black/red fur fashioned like a training outfit while the fur on Cinderace's lower body resembles red-orange football shorts and blue football socks and boots.
136	* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Bubble has a pet white rabbit named Cotton, and she gets worried when the latter gets sick because [[EndangeredSpecies there aren't many rabbits like her on Moonbury Island]] due to habitat destruction. Bubble used to have another white rabbit as a kid, which was a gift from her mother before she passed away. Conserving Cotton's species is what inspired Bubble to become a ranger.
137	* In ''VideoGame/RocoKingdom'', one of the [[AnIcePerson ice]] {{mons}}, Daermaodou, is a white creature greatly resembling a bunny.
138	* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAndTheWaves'': The bunnies on the island are defenseless white fluffballs the player can kill for health.
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141	[[folder:Web Animation]]
142	* Snowball, the main character of ''WebAnimation/{{Bunnykill}}'', is the only major white bunny of the main cast.
143	* Melody Briar, one of the main characters in ''WebAnimation/TrueTail''.
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146	[[folder:Webcomics]]
147	* Pooky Bunny, the protagonist of ''Webcomic/AntiBunny'' is a blue eyed white rabbit. However, Pooky is also a chain smoking [[TheCynic cynic]] with depression.
148	* ''Webcomic/ByTheTail'' has Ivory Monroe, one of the call girls of Melody's.
149	* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff200/fv00186.htm Florence's Lunch and Dinner.]]
150	* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': White tends to be the predominant color for rabbits in the comic, but the trope ranges from being played straight ([[spoiler:both versions of]] Danielle is one of the nicest characters) to being played with (Coney's nice, but she's also an omnivorous predator thanks to her hybrid heritage, with all that entails), to subversions (Bentley is a career criminal and Wendell is a little too fond of troublemaking) to double subversions (Angelique is a CorruptCorporateExecutive, but since she lost her rabbit license for selling their secrets to R.L., legally she's not a rabbit, and passes herself off as a rat), to aversions (Kevin's political opponent Fran Caudal is a cream yellow rabbit), and even an ''in''version (one of Miranda's dads is a black rabbit, but he's a nice if overprotective man).
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153	[[folder:Web Original]]
154	* The short-lived e-card service Zoobe (the idea was, you could record a message and then use their software to pitch it up and lip-sync one of many animal characters to it) had a white bunny character that became a viral breakout star when people started making... ''interesting'' videos with her. You can learn more about it [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/zoobe here]].
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157	[[folder:Western Animation]]
158	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': Buster Baxter, D.W.'s friend Emily, Binky's friend Molly, her little brother James, the ShowWithinAShow superhero Bionic Bunny, and Prunella's friend Marina are all white rabbits. Some background rabbit characters are brown, however.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/BigBuckBunny'': The titular character is a white rabbit. After he snaps, he applies camouflage to his face and body before heading off to set up the traps for revenge.
160	* The cast of ''WesternAnimation/AlicesWonderlandBakery'' includes Fergie, a descendant of the white rabbit from the 1951 Disney film.
161	* ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'': One of Blue's classmates is a white bunny named Pearl. She's shown to have albinism, needing a walking stick and outdoor shades to find her way around better.
162	* ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'': The titular rabbit character is white.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'': The prototype Bugs from 1937, dubbed "Happy Rabbit". He didn't become something closer to the familiar old grey hare until two years later.
164	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': The class pet of the first grade class at Gallagher Elementary is a white bunny named Mr. Fluffalupagus.
165	%%* ''WesternAnimation/CrusaderRabbit'':
166	* ''WesternAnimation/ElinorWondersWhy'': Elinor is a white rabbit. By extension, her parents and other extended family members as well.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Molang}}'': The titular Molang is a white rabbit.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Fluff, kwami of the Rabbit Miraculous, is a white rabbit with blue eyes and ears. [[AliceAllusion Her Miraculous is a pocket watch and grants time powers]].
169	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
170	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': Habbit, the Moochick's long-suffering assistant, is an all-white rabbit, complete with pink ears and a pink nose. Notably, in his debut in ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTvSpecials Rescue at Midnight Castle]]'', he's brown -- his all-white appearance was created for the TV series.
171	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Fluttershy's pet is a white rabbit named Angel Bunny. Fluttershy is the sweetest and kindest member of the mane six. Angel himself is rather questionable in his disposition. Outside of Angel, most regular rabbits are also depicted as pure white; other colors, like brown or grey, usually only turn up when multiple rabbits are present in a single shot.
172	* ''WesternAnimation/PeterRabbit'': Lilly Bobtail is mostly of the light-grey variety.
173	%%* ''WesternAnimation/Presto2008'': Alec Kazam.
174	* ''WesternAnimation/RicochetRabbitAndDroopALongCoyote'': Ricochet has white fur except for his tan muzzle.
175	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In an Easter episode parodying ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'', the secret heir to the papacy is revealed to be a white rabbit named Snowball.
176	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTaleOfTheGreatBunny'': The titular great bunny is white all over.
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