Adaptation Dye Job / Video Games

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• Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney ends up with blue eyes instead of black in the English version, but his other features (including hair color) stayed the same.
• In the Art of Fighting games (as well as his subsequent appearances in The King of Fighters), Ryo Sakazaki is a blonde. In the Animated Adaptation from the '90s, he had black hair, which ironically caused him to look even more like Ryu, the character he's frequently accused of being a rip-off of.
• Betrayal at Krondor has two examples: Locklear's hair colour change from blond to brown gets lampshaded when he and Jimmy meet. Also, Pug - having dark brown hair and a beard in the books, and usually wearing his Great One's black robe - gets shoulder-length blond hair, a clean-shaven face and a white robe.
• Simon Belmont's hair color has varied between the various the Castlevania entries throughout the years.
  • In the original NES game, Simon had brown hair in his in-game sprite, with the manual art for the Japanese Disk System version giving it a reddish tone.
  • In the sequel, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Simon is depicted with blond hair and a red armor on the promo art, but because of the color limitations of the NES, his in-game sprite draws him with black hair.
  • For Super Castlevania IV, Simon's sprite was this time drawn with brown hair and a green-ish armor. The Japanese packaging artwork closely resembles his in-game design, but with blue armor, while the American artwork depicts him with blond hair and gold armor.
  • For the X68000 version of Akumajō Dracula, Simon was drawn with blond hair and brown armor. When the game was ported to the original PlayStation under the title of Castlevania Chronicles, this version added an alternate design by illustrator Ayami Kojima (of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night fame), depicting him with red hair and black armor. For a while this was the de facto look for Simon, before Konami went back to his more traditional design.
• Castlevania (2017) kinda zig-zags this trope as there have been many previous variations of the characters in video games, but it’s mainly based of Ayami Kojima's artwork.
  • Alucard looks pretty much identical to his Castlevania: Symphony of the Night design which ironic in itself as the Netflix series is based on Castlevania III where Alucard just looks like a stock Bela Lugosi vampire, In the Netflix series Alucard has pronounced blonde hair like his mother Lisa instead of the Mystical White Hair often seen in the video games.
  • Trevor Belmont stays pretty much the same, being brown-haired like the NES game and the second PS2 game in the series, Curse of Darkness. Only on the U.S. boxart for the NES game, was Trevor drawn with blond hair.
  • Sypha though it’s hard to tell with her hood (which helped disguise her gender) has blonde hair as the ending revealed and of which Castlevania Judgement as well the Pachislot game confirmed. But the Netflix series, however, gives Sypha ginger-coloured hair instead.
    • Since Sypha’a descendant Simon Belmont is occasionally depicted with red hair, maybe it’s fitting.
  • Dracula himself has dark hair instead of the white he had at the start of the book and some Castlevania games, this can be handwaved however since he is depicted with black hair just as commonly.
  • Carmilla when she isn’t a disembodied weeping mask is usually depicted as a woman with dark hair, brown hair or wavy blue flaming hair in the games. In the Netflix series, however, Carmilla is firmly White Hair, Black Heart.
• Flea in Chrono Trigger is fair/tan-skinned with brown hair in his official artwork, but rosy-skinned with dark pink hair in his sprites. It's very likely this is to play up his Dude Looks Like a Lady traits.
• In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Tanya was a blonde. In previous Red Alert games, she was a brunette.
• Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077 is depicted with Keanu Reeves' dark hair. In Cyberpunk he's consistently drawn with blond hair- although the creator of the tabletop game did confirm Johnny's still a natural blonde in CP77; he's just dyed his hair black.
• Disgaea: In the games, Etna's hair is bright red, while in the anime adaptation, her hair is a much darker maroon-ish color.
• In Ninja Theory’s reboot of Devil May Cry, DmC: Devil May Cry the usually Mystical White Hair of Half-Demon hero Dante is changed to short and dark. His Japanese design is even mocked as at one point in the early game, a white mophead lands on Dante’s head and after looking at his reflection says “Not in a million years” and takes the mop off. This statement becomes ironic when at the end of the game Dante’s hair turns white anyway.
  • Contrary to popular belief Capcom themselves actually encouraged Ninja Theory to do the Adaptation Dye-Job and drastically change Dante’s design in general.
• In original arcade version of Double Dragon, Billy and Jimmy Lee had blond and brown hair respectively. When the game was adapted for the NES, their hair colors were switched, giving Billy brown hair and Jimmy blond hair. As a result, the hair colors of the Lee brothers had been inconsistent throughout the series, switching back and forth between original arcade style and the NES style depending on the developer.
• Duke Nukem has always had blond hair, however his skin colour has changed twice. In his original trilogy, he had red skin (due to EGA palette limitations). In Duke Nukem II, with a jump to 16-colour VGA, it was changed to a light brown. Duke Nukem 3D finalised his appearance with his characteristic tanned skintone.
• In the first anime special based on the Fatal Fury games, Andy Bogard is represented with silver hair instead of the blond that he has in the games. In later anime, Mai also gets red hair, while in most games she appears in her hair is brown.
• Happened in the early installments of the Final Fantasy series, where many characters (most notably Terra) who were blond in Amano's concept art had a different hair color so the sprites would be distinct.
  • A straighter example is Dissidia Final Fantasy, where characters from the first six games are redesigned from their sprites to appear more similar to Amano's original designs. Terra, for example, has her hair change from a greenish teal to blond. Cecil and Firion both have hair that goes from blue to white. Oddly Bartz remains fairly faithful to his sprite, as his hair is still brown. In most cases, you can obtain different outfits that make them appear closer to their original looks.
  • Montblanc from the Ivalice games, seems to have orange hair and yellow fur in his game sprites. In the artworks and portrait sprites, he has blond hair and brown-peach fur.
  • Most of the media that uses both Cloud's original and Advent Children designs, such as Dissidia Final Fantasy, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, give the Advent Children Cloud hair a couple of shades lighter than the original version. This wasn't particularly apparent as what the original was going for, since it used a cartoony, unnatural yellow colour.
  • Tifa in the original game had scarlet coloured eyes (likely to contrast with Love Interest Cloud’s blue ones) but in Advent Children, Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, Ehrgeiz, Crisis Core and World of Final Fantasy she’s got dark/brown coloured eyes. The FFVII remake along with other titles such as Final Fantasy VII G-Bike and Dissidia correct this, giving Tifa her red coloured eyes back.
• The anime adaptation of Inazuma Eleven did this with the girls' school uniforms. In the games and some of the game artwork, the ribbon, skirt and knee-socks are the same colour, which changes depending on the classroom (e.g.Aki has green and Haruna has blue), while in the anime and the game cutscenes only the ribbon changes and every girl wears a grey skirt and blue socks. The only exception is Natsumi, who keeps her pink uniform in the anime, presumably because of her position.
  • In the game, Fubuki's hair, in addition to getting spiked up, also turns into lighter gray, almost white, when he switches to his Split Personality. In the anime, his hair still spikes up, but its colour stays the same. Another instance of this trope happens in the Ares series. While in the original and in GO his hair is light gray with a very faint bluish tint, in Ares it's light purple.
• In the iOS / Android Joe Dever's Lone Wolf, Lone Wolf is depicted with black hair unlike the cover of the Rune War book shows him with blond hair.
• KanColle: Fubuki's eyes are a very dark green, almost brown, in the game. This resulted in a sort of divergent evolution when the anime came out and went with the dark to the point of becoming brown, while later official art by her original artist emphasised the green.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • In the first game's stained glass level, Cinderella is depicted with dark brown hair.
  • This also shows up within the franchise. In the original GBA version of Chain of Memories, Marluxia's hair was brown with an odd pink tint. Since then, though, it's been very clearly bright pink; this is presumably to match his flower-based elemental powers, which generate rose petals and Cherry Blossoms.
• Kirby: Right Back at Ya!:
  • Kirby's feet are noticeably darker red than in the games.
  • When Knuckle Joe first appeared in Episode 19, while using his enemy colors, he was depicted as having purple skin.
• League of Legends animated adaption Arcane changes Vi's hair to a much darker, reddish-pink as opposed to the brighter pink hair she has in the game.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • The first manga gave Link and Zelda blonde hair. They're both brown-haired in The Legend of Zelda. However, some of the artwork still depicts him as blond or strawberry blond. Some of the merchandise for the sequel even makes it look bleached.
  • A manga adaptation of the Zelda II: The Adventure of Link gave Link pink hair instead of brown hair.
  • Zelda is a blonde teenager in The Legend of Zelda cartoon instead of a brown-haired child.
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: Link's in-game sprites have pink hair, despite the official art showing him as blonde.
  • Marin is a redhead in the original The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. In the 2019 remake she's a strawberry blonde, presumably because it's a minor plot point that she can be mistaken for Zelda and said character had long been established as having blonde hair.
• Mai from the Makeruna! Makendou series (or "Josephine" if you've played the first game's American release "Kendo Rage", which was the only installment to reach North America) always had brown hair throughout the four-part franchise, except for in said first game, in which her hair was red. That was only in that game, though, and it was still brown in the Japanese box art.
• Maxim is one of the few characters in Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals to retain his original hair colour from Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals. Particular examples include Tia going from blue to orange, Artea becoming a fair blond elf, Iris's new Mystical White Hair and Dekar's pink hairdo.
• Every Metal Gear game has depicted Solid Snake with brown hair. However . . .
  • In the first Metal Gear Solid, his clone-brother Liquid has blond hair, and in the briefings, Campbell says "Except for the skin tone, he looks exactly like you." The briefings are monotone, so it's hard to see, but Snake looks fair-haired. It seems possible that when he cuts his hair to look less like Liquid, he dyes it too for good measure, and decides to keep the look for MGS2 . . .
  • But in the GC remake of MGS, The Twin Snakes, his hair is clearly already dark in the briefings. Also, he and Liquid are clones of Big Boss (Naked Snake), and MGS3 and Portable Ops depict him with brown hair.
    • It could be that Liquid is the one who dyed his hair to be less like Snake.
    • Or it's the fact that blonde hair is caused by recessive genes, and brown hair by dominant genes, which Liquid and Solid received respectively.
    • In that same remake, the normally red-headed Meryl becomes a brunette, while Sniper Wolf's odd, slightly greenish hair becomes straight-up blonde.
• Word of God for the Myst series is that Atrus has the characteristic D'ni eyes, which are consistently described as "pale". This requires anyone playing the games to ignore Rand Miller's dark-hazel eyes.
• Quote the Player Character from Cave Story has black hair and eyes in the original game. Blade Strangers changes his hair to dark brown and his eyes to blue to match his partner Curly Brace.
• The Hero in Sierra's Quest for Glory series sported very bright blond hair in the EGA version of Quest for Glory I (partially due to the technology limitations of the 16-color EGA graphics). When the game received its 256-color VGA remake, the Hero's hair became more of a sandy color. This particularly stands out since the other titles in the series kept a brighter yellow, though somewhat toned down through more realistic and detailed shading, hair color.
• In Perfect Dark for the Nintendo 64 title character Joanna Dark had brown hair, in the sequel Perfect Dark Zero for Xbox 360 she had red hair with a blonde patch. The developers claimed that the Nintendo 64 didn't have the technological capabilities for red hair - ignoring the many red objects in the game. Fans thought the developers were just liars who didn't want to admit to a character redesign. The majority of the promotional artwork for Joanna Dark depicted her with a burnt red colour. This was changed again in the Xbox 360 remake, turning her into a brunette.
• The English version of Persona caused some scratching of heads when Persona 2 got a more faithful localization as some players wondered how Ellen went from blonde (in the U.S. version of the first game) to brunette (the color of her hair in Japan).
  • The Japanese fans probably just wondered how she went from purple to brunette.
  • The illusory Pierce Boy also gained back his wild blue hair, and the earring he didn't actually have in the US version of Persona.
• Pokémon:
  • Serena has grey eyes in Pokémon X and Y but her anime counterpart has blue eyes.
  • Dawn and Lucas from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl have lighter shades of blue hair in the anime.
  • Kris from Pokemon Crystal has blue hair. Her counterpart in Pokémon Golden Boys has brown hair, while the one in Pokémon Adventures originally had brown hair before being retconned blue later.
  • Lance's hair in the anime has a pink hue instead of being red.
  • Pokémon Origins mixes together the costumes from Pokémon Red and Blue with the remake costumes. On a more traditional note, Red's mother has brown hair instead of blue to emphasise their Strong Family Resemblance.
  • Several of the Pokedex holders in Pokémon Adventures have eye colors that differ from their game counterparts. Red has red instead of brown, Green (male) has green instead of brown, Blue has blue instead of brown, Gold has golden instead of blue, Ruby has red instead of amber, and Platinum doesn't have blue eyes.
  • Hareta from Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! is based on Lucas but has black hair instead of dark blue.
  • The Japanese version of Pokémon Battle Revolution only let you create characters of one skin tone, but the American version lets you choose from three skin tones. With this new feature, boss characters Rosie and Sashay are also changed to be darker skinned than they were.
  • Volkner's hair is a dirtier blond in the anime, probably to avoid legal issues with Naruto like they did with another character (who was not from Naruto, but another anime)
  • Giovanni's jacket is orange in the anime, instead of black like his standard Rocket grunts, and his hair is brown rather then black.
  • Byron's hair is purple in the games. In the anime, it's brown.
  • In old promo art of Gold, Silver, and Crystal, Morty has blond hair. In the games proper, he has white hair due to palette limitations. In the anime, he has orange hair and is later shown with blond hair during a flashback in a Lyra episode. In Pokémon Stadium 2, he has brown hair. In the remakes, it's back to blond.
  • Flannery in her debut game has orange hair while other appearances including the official art give her reddish pink hair.
  • May in the games and anime has brown hair. Her Pokémon Adventures counterpart appears to have grey hair at a lot of times, though it's a toned down brown.
  • Lt. Surge traditionally has blonde hair however in Pokémon Stadium 2 he is a brown-haired.
  • Misty's eye color constantly sways between blue and green in the anime. In the games they are green.
  • The first protagonist, Red, had black hair in the original games. Come the remakes and he has brown hair, possibly to more resemble his Distaff Counterpart Leaf.
  • Erika has black hair in the games, but blue hair in the anime. She also only wears a kimono in one scene. Subverted with Pokémon: I Choose You!, which is an Alternate Universe take on Ash's Kanto adventure. It uses Erika's FireRed and LeafGreen design instead of her original anime one. And then Pokémon Journeys: The Series followed suit and used the same design for her reappearance.
  • Isamu from Pocket Monsters has green eyes while Red has brown eyes.
  • Bill has brown hair in the games. This is consistent with all adaptations other than the anime, where he has green hair.
  • A non-human example of this is Hydreigon, whose official Ken Sugimori artwork and sprite/model in the main series games depict the insides of its frills and lines of scales on its belly as being bright pink. In every other medium, they're dark red, presumably to make it look more sinister.
  • The first two generations used Black Bead Eyes while adaptations usually gave characters eye colors.
  • Pikachu's design is different between the anime and video games. All the basics are identical however the way its body and head are shaped is slightly different. When Pikachu appear in media they are always based on the anime version. Pokémon Generations uses the oval-shaped game head though.
  • Most Pokedex owners in Pokémon Adventures have an Iconic Item which helps differentiate them from their game counterparts. Gold wears goggles, Crystal wears star-shaped earrings, Silver has black gloves, etc.
  • Blue's original hairstyle in Adventures was styled differently from the unused female protagonist she is based on. Proto!Leaf had a hime cut with trimmed bangs. Subverted when Blue is updated to match Leaf's design in FireRed and LeafGreen.
  • Hilbert and Hilda have brown hair in the games, whereas their ''Adventures'' counterparts have black hair instead (although the covers do give them brown highlights on their hair).
• In Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel Sonny dyes his hair to go undercover, and retains the blond hair in the sequel, but returns to being brown-haired in the third game.
• Glass Joe in the Punch-Out!! series has different hair in each appearance. It's dark brown in the arcade, blond in the NES, and reddish-brown on the Wii.
• Resident Evil:
  • In Resident Evil and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Jill Valentine has brown eyes, but in the RE1 and RE3 remakes, RE5 and Revelations 1 she has blue eyes.
  • Chris Redfield's eyes have been at least blue, brown, green and hazel. Also, while he's brown/dark-haired in all of his games, the actor who played him in the live-action opening/endings of Resident Evil was a redhead.
  • Claire Redfield is a brunette as well, but in Resident Evil – Code: Veronica Claire’s hair is auburn and in the Resident Evil: Degeneration movie, her hair almost looks as if it's dyed deep red bordering on magenta. The red hair was kept for Revelations 2, Resident Evil The Dark Side Chronicles, Resident Evil: Heavenly Island, Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness and Resident Evil: Death Island. The remake of Resident Evil 2 however switched Claire back to brunette. A ton of fans seem to prefer her redhead look though, regardless of continuity, with a multiple mods making remake Claire’s hair red/auburn.
  • Leon is brunette the same as fellow protagonist above, Resident Evil 4 however makes his hair far lighter and Resident Evil 6 along with Namco × Capcom make Leon outright dirty blond. Although his hair wasn’t even consistent in the original RE2, as in the FMV cutscenes Leon had light orangey brown hair while his in-game appearance and character portrait has a much darker shade of brown hair. The remake's continuity retains the dirty blond hair, with it seemingly becoming a shade or two lighter in Resident Evil 4 (Remake).
  • Albert Wesker had brown hair in the original RE1 and it’s remake but Resident Evil – Code: Veronica gives him platinum blond hair and the rest of the games such as RE5 followed suit. Although the live-action opening of the original game had Wesker as blond as well.
  • Carlos Oliveira has light brown hair in the original RE3 and Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, in the remake of the third game Carlos has got much darker and messier hair.
  • T-00 aka Mr X has got a green Conspicuous Trenchcoat in the original RE2, whist in the remake and Dark Side Chronicles he’s got a darker seaweed coloured coat. Mr X’s skin was also yellowish in the original and more human-like whereas the aforementioned remake and Light Gun Wii game give him pale corpse-like skin.
  • Nemesis, Mr X’s successor has cantaloupe coloured skin (yellow in his artwork) with purple Combat Tentacles. In his remake version he’s got pale skin and red tentacles.
• In Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, the usually brown or auburn haired Claire Redfield has dark hair, Leon Kennedy who is mostly depicted with lighter colored hair has black hair due to getting a Race Lift to have Indian heritage and the usually pale blue-eyed and light brown haired Jill Valentine is played by the greeny blue-eyed dark haired Hannah John-Kamen. Although in all fairness, the Resident Evil games themselves (as seen above) aren't consistent with the protagonists' hair and eye color.
• In the original 16-color release of The Secret of Monkey Island, love interest Elaine Marley had black hair. In the upgraded 256-color re-release this became red hair with blue eyes, which carried over into The Curse of Monkey Island. In Tales of Monkey Island, Elaine has red hair and green eyes.
  • In Escape from Monkey Island, her hair was usually light brown, except in the cutscenes where usage of a different model changed it back to red several times. Guybrush himself has also had this, appearing brown-haired in the first two games, and in the close-ups in the first being black-haired with brown highlights in the original 16 colours. The 32-colour update changed the close-ups to the blond of the cover, a change which carried over from Curse onwards.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Tails in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) and early Archie comics had brown fur with yellow markings instead of orange fur with white markings.
  • Another example from Adventures; while Scratch and Coconuts have design changes from their video game counterparts, their color schemes are largely the same. Grounder however, despite ironically looking much closer to his games design, now sports a dark green paint job instead of red. ^note The 2013 remake of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 featured a Mythology Gag to this however, allowing you to create a Grounder of the same color scheme through debug mode.
  • When Amy debuted in a 1992 manga, she was depicted as a brown hedgehog instead of pink.
  • Almost everyone had an eye color change in Sonic the Comic, once it adapted Sonic Adventure. Tails had brown eyes (instead of blue eyes) for most of the arc, Amy had brown eyes (instead of green eyes), and Knuckles had blue eyes (instead of purple eyes).
  • In the Archie comics Amy had purple eyes early within the Adventures arc for some reason.
  • Bizarrely, the GUN Commander, usually grey-haired, had purple hair in Sonic Chronicles. What makes this odder is that humans in Sonic tend to have realistic hair colors. What makes it even odder is that the game was produced by American developers, so you wouldn't expect them to be the ones to introduce anime-like hair colors into the series.
  • While Sonic's arms are skin-colored in the main series and spin-offs prior to it, in the Sonic Boom video games and the cartoon of the same name, Sonic's arms are blue.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (2020):
    • Rather than the peach-colored arms he has in the games, Sonic instead has blue arms like his Sonic Boom counterpart.
    • Dr. Robotnik:
    • Played With in regards to his hair color. In the games, his hair has varied in color between orange, auburn red, and dark brown. Here, Robotnik starts out with a full head of dark brown hair and mustache, then in the stinger he's shaving his hair off to be bald and has gained a more reddish mustache.
    • In the games, the few times Robotnik has been shown with his goggles off he’s had blue eyes. Here Robotnik has Jim Carrey's brown eyes.
    • Downplayed with Tails. He looks very much like he does in the games, but his fur is a more vibrant shade of orange (much like he had in the older games) compared to the more yellow fur he has in 3D Sonic games.
• Space Quest: Roger Wilco changed hair color from brown to blond in the fourth game.
• In the Street Fighter cartoon, Ken's hair went from blond to brown.
  • Ryu's hair color, which is normally black or brown, is depicted as red in SF I, as well as in the Alpha series, while Vega's hair color seems to vary between brown or blond depending on the artwork.
    • Well, Vega started out with brown hair, but at some point (possibly from Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie) he was made blonde and it stuck (except for SVC Chaos and Street Fighter IV, at least).
  • Another anime, a movie based off Alpha, changed Ryu from having brown eyes to blue eyes.
• The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!:
  • Peach is a redhead instead of a blonde. In her case it looks like she was based on her NES sprite, not any of her official art (which has always depicted her as being blond in Japan). Peach's hair was only brown/red in the games since the NES would only display three colors (plus a transparent color) per sprite. In Super Mario Bros. 2, Peach's gown is already pink while her skin is white. If they have used blond for her hair, it would've make her sprite look weird since the outline would be yellow too. Once the developers were capable of using more colors in the SNES games, they gave Peach's sprite her proper hair color
  • In Super Mario Bros. 2 and beyond, Mario wore blue overalls with a red shirt, while Luigi wore blue overalls and a green shirt. In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and subsequent series, however, the colors of the overalls and shirts were switched, giving both brothers blue shirts with overalls of their respective colors.
  • For whatever reason, Luigi is given dark green eyes in the cartoons; with Mario getting dark blue, which is admittedly closer to the bright blue eyes both brothers usually have.
  • Both Mario and Luigi have black hair instead of their normal brown.
  • Bowser looks vastly different and is more green than normal.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • The enemies in the game Super Mario All-Stars. For example, the gray Cheep-Cheeps in SMB were changed to green, and the Bloopers from white to for some reason, pink; and the pink Shy Guys from SMB2 were changed to blue. Also, the Piranha Plants will all either be colored green or red depending on which game they are in.^note Both varieties show up in The Lost Levels; the green ones are normal while the red ones are faster and won't hide in pipes while you're on them.
  • And the Koopalings' shell colors. In Super Mario Bros. 3, all of them wore green shells, except Morton, who wore a gray shell, and both Roy and Wendy, who both wore pink shells. In Super Mario World, Morton's shell is now colored green like everyone else's, and Roy's shell is now colored gray, while Wendy still wears a pink shell and everyone else still wear green ones (although Ludwig's sprite for some reason had him wear a yellow shell). In an early draft of Super Princess Peach, Roy's shell is now colored green like everyone else's, with the only Koopaling that has a differently-colored shell still being Wendy, who is still wearing pink, but from New Super Mario Bros. Wii onwards, all of the Koopalings are given individually colored shells, with the only Koopas sharing the same color shell being Bowser and Bowser Jr.
• Super Metroid is a Comic-Book Adaptation of its video game counterpart which gives Samus light purple hair instead of blonde.
• Syphon Filter: Mara Aramov was a brunette in the first game, but blonde in all subsequent games, even in the flashbacks in the third game.
• Total Carnage: In most versions of the game, the showgirl by the red Smash TV contestant at the Pleasure Dome wore a blue bikini and slippers. In the SNES version, her attire was changed to red.
• The Touhou Project fighting games change some of the colours. Mostly eye colours, which aren't always consistent even in the shmups, but Remilia went from pale blue hair to dark purple.
• In the console Viva Piñata games, wild piñatas are black and white. In Pocket Paradise, they're very light grey.
• The Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? cartoon portrays Carmen with black hair and Icy Blue Eyes. Traditionally in the Carmen Sandiego games she is a brunette with darker eyes. She also received a Race Lift.
• In the opening animation for Wild ARMs 3, the anime style changes 3 times. So does the girl's hair color.
• Wing Commander's Todd "Maniac" Marshall started out with darker hair. While the jump to Full Motion Video kept close to that with Tom Wilson, in the 1998 movie Wing Commander, Maniac was depicted as blond.
• Ys
  • In the original version of Ys III: Wanderers from Ys, Elena & Chester had bright blond hair and blue eyes with maybe a hint of purple in the art (though generally not ingame due to palette restrictions of the era's hardware). In the remake, Ys: The Oath in Felghana, they're now flaxen-haired, notably fairer in complexion than any other Redmont residents (or nearly anyone else in the franchise), and they now have prominent violet eyes, which were also basically unique to them ^note (until Ys: Memories of Celceta came out and introduced a few more characters with that eye color). This might be a bit of Foreshadowing on the artists' part to hint at the fact that they're originally from Genos Island. The new coloration has been carried forward into every appearance the Stoddart siblings have made since, most obviously Ys Vs. Trails in the Sky.
  • The "violet thing" has become so prominent that in the Ys Heroines Calendar◊ bonus for Celceta, violet is even Elena's signature color.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule Breed and Battle, based on the Toei Yu-Gi-Oh anime, Bakura's hair was light blue in the Toei anime but is light purple here, and Mokuba's hair was dark green but is blue here. Several outfits they wear are also different colors than in the anime, and eye colors were changed to match their hair colors.

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