Needs Help: Typical Cartoon Animal Colors

• Cinderella: The mice are all either tan or light brown-furred all over and have brick red noses, pink ears, and black, threadlike tails.
• Disney: All the weasels in The Prince and the Pauper and the Disney adaptation of The Wind in the Willows are brown-furred with tan colored muzzles, either with or without tan colored chins. Some of them have tan fur on the undersides of their necks, some of them don't.
• Ratatouille: The rats all have pink noses, ears, tails, and paws, bluish, grayish, grayish green, brownish, or reddish brown fur, and lighter colored bellies.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: The weasels have more variation in fur color, but they all have base colored fur (usually brown) with lighter colored muzzles with lighter colored chins (except Smartass, whose chin is left the base color of his fur), undersides of necks, chests, bellies, and soles of feet.
• The Rescuers Down Under: Frank is green, unlike real frilled lizards which are brown.
• Home on the Range: All the pigs are pink, with black ears and darker pink backs.
• Lilo & Stitch: In both the movies and TV series, the ducks are all-white feathered with grey feathered areas around their eyes and yellow-orange bills and feet.

Literature

• Geronimo Stilton: Most of the mice are grey, light grey, reddish brown, brown, light brown, or orange with white foot soles, muzzles, front sides of their necks, chests, and bellies. Some of them have human-style head hair.

Videogames

• Pokémon: Generally, Pokémon are often Color-Coded for Your Convenience — while there are a few exceptions, Water-type Pokémon tend to be blue or have prominent blue markings, Fire-types tend to be red or orange regardless of what animal they are based on, Poison-types are usually purple, Ice-types white or light blue, Grass-types green, and so on. In many cases, this results in animal-based designs associated with a specific type to be strongly associated with that color as well.
  • There's a very strong tendency for frog-based Pokémon to be some shade of dark blue, light blue or teal. While this is largely due to most of them being Water-types — the Poliwag, Tympole and Froakie lines are all solely or partly Water Pokémon — Croagunk and Toxicroak are Poison/Fighting-types and still chiefly teal rather than Poison's purple. The chiefly green Politoed is the sole exception to this pattern, and even then Politoed's shiny form is also blue.
  • Snake-based Pokémon, being largely Poison-types, are typically purple. Some exceptions are the Snivy line, which are green, and Silicobra and Sandaconda, which are a mix of tan and brown. Seviper is black and yellow, but has purple markings.
  • Bat Pokémon gravitate towards blues and purples, a trend with only minor type associations — Crobat's purple is the only one to match its Poison-type, but its preevolutions Zubat and Golbat are blue, as are the Psychic/Flying Woobat and Swoobat, while the Flying/Dragon Noibat is mostly light purple.

Western Animation

• Looney Tunes:
  • Most rabbits have base color (be it grey, cream, blue, pink, etc.) fur with white cheeks and muzzle, front sides of their necks, chests, bellies, undersides of their tails, and slipper-like hindfoot markings.
  • Also, most skunks have base color (often black) fur with a white facial "mask", front sides of their necks, chest, and belly as well as the characteristic white stripe on their back and tail (with or without a base colored stripe in the middle).
  • The mice in the Speedy Gonzales cartoons are all tan or light brown with black noses, black, tan, or light brown, threadlike tails, and black head hair. Some of them have light tan faces.
• Disney:
  • Most of the ducks in the Classic Disney Shorts, Disney Ducks Comic Universe, DuckTales, and Darkwing Duck are all-white feathered with yellow-orange bills and feet, like pekin ducks. Two notable exceptions to the all-white duck rule are Gosalyn, who is light-yellow feathered all over, and Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera, who has light brown feathers all over.
  • In the Mickey Mouse Comic Universe, mice such as Mickey and Minnie are all-black furred with peach-colored facial "masks" and black noses.
  • In the Classic Disney Shorts, Salty and all the other seals are all-black with a flesh-colored facial "mask" marking.
• Top Cat is yellow with a white muzzle and Benny the Ball is blue with a peach colored facial "mask", but most cats in Top Cat have unpatterned (that is, not tabby), base color (except black) fur with peach colored muzzles and nearly all of them have black noses.
• Animaniacs: Squirrels are usually base colored (except black) with white or lighter colored white cheeks and muzzle, front sides of their necks, chest, belly, and undersides of their tails. Some of them have white or lighter colored areas around their eyes as well.
• Pinky and the Brain: Most mice are all-white furred with red noses and pink feet and tails.
• Phineas and Ferb: All platypi are teal-furred with orange bills, feet, and tails.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Ponies are Amazing Technicolor Wildlife with any one color for the base color, any one or few colors for the mane and tail, and cutie marks that they earn. Oddly enough, the two donkeys (and one mule) we see are both brown with black manes and lack cutie marks.