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{{quote|'''Kurz''': What's up with her hair color?<br />
'''Kalinin''': Since when is black hair out of the ordinary? Especially for Japanese people?<br />
'''Kurz''': Uh, you mean ''blue'' hair?<br />
'''Kalinin''': No, I mean ''black'' hair! See? It says here right in the book!|''[[
So you've just watched [[The Movie]] of your favorite series. And it was good. There was one detail, however, that they missed. The main character's hair, blond in the original, was brown, and the wacky sidekick's hair was a darker shade of yellow than usual. And why was the villain's jacket orange?
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This is usually excused in the case of [[Legacy Character|Legacy Characters]]. Usually. It's also generally justified when casting for a live-action version of a work, as most casting directors favor, you know... acting ability over resemblance to the original character. And as shown in the examples, live-action also has different aesthetic considerations to animation, meaning different choices must be made for things to look good. But some fans bring it up regardless.
Related to [[Spell My Name
[[Dyeing for Your Art]] can [[Averted Trope|Avert]] this, though it won't always. See also [[Hair Color Dissonance]], [[Suddenly Blonde]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Hakuro from ''[[Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin]]'' was black with white markings in the manga, but was changed into light brown with white markings in the anime. Officially, at least – he's somewhat infamous for [[Off-Model|being frequently colored incorrectly]], including being ''[[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife|completely blue]]'' in one scene.
** Tesshin aka Chibi was different shades of brown in the aforementioned anime, but colored images from the manga as well as the anime of the [[Ginga Densetsu Weed|sequel]] revealed him to be gray and white in color.
** Riki was red and white in the manga, but was colored brown and tan in the anime.
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** Integra's hair is closer to being white-blonde in the TV series.
* In the ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'' anime, several characters (Bian Zoldark especially) got more realistic hair colors (black instead of blue in his case), and Tenzan Nakajima's hair was muted from bright green to a neutral brown. In the OVA, the colors went back to normal, even Bian's is blue in a flashback.
** Bian is an odd case anyway, as even the games can't agree on what his hair colour is. The NES Super Robot Wars 2 had him as a redhead, changed to black in Complete Box (a PSX remake of [[SRW 2]], 3, and EX), then to blue in the GBA Original Generation games and Alpha 3. Then they changed it back to black for Divine Wars and the [[
* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena]]'' started in the manga as a blonde, but was given pink hair in the anime and later manga volume covers and illustrations.
** A few other characters had some different colors as well, albeit not as extreme. Touga's hair was black (aside from his front locks), as well as Anthy and Akio's. The blue-haired Miki also began as a brunette. Meanwhile, in the movie adaptation, Miki's sister Kanae's hair becomes a light teal, whereas in the anime, it was indigo. Finally Kanae's hair in concept art is a dinghy yellow-green color, while in the anime itself, it's a very light blonde.
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*** In the first anime opening, Shampoo is shown with deep GREEN hair. When she actually appeared in the anime however, her hair was violet.
** Traditionally, the Yin Yang is represented not as White and Black, but RED and Black. Yang, the Black, is the masculine, while Yin, the Red, is the Feminine. This was probably one reason why Red was chosen over any color.
* In the ''[[
** The 2009 live action movie gives Bulma blonde hair with blue streaks and makes Yamcha blonde.
** The manga has Karin colored white, brown, or blue. The anime keeps him white.
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* Evangelion isn't the only Gainax work here; the summary episode of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' has concept art that depicts [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|Nia]] with strawberry blond hair.
* Almost all the Gold Saints in ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' were blond-haired in the manga. For the sake of variety, the anime changed most of them, albeit half of them got blue hair for some reason, thus not helping any. Thanks, Toei.
** Forget the Gold Saints, what about some of the main characters? Everybody had pretty much normal hair colors in the manga, but some of them got crazy 80's rainbow-hair when the anime adaption came. The most dramatic were brothers Pheonix Ikki and Andromeda Shun, both of whom had brown hair in the manga. In the anime, Ikki's hair is blue and Shun's is kelly green. One could say that their overall color change may be based on a [[Super Mario Bros.|famous pair of brothers]]. Looking at the latter duo [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man|nowadays]], [[Hilarious in Hindsight|this may be true]].
* ''[[
** Matsumoto went from bright blonde in the manga to strawberry-blonde in the anime. Oddly, she gets her original hair color back for one filler episode, 304.
** Nel's hair is green in the manga, but changed to teal in the anime.
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** Orihime has brown eyes in the manga, while in the anime they are gray.
** Yumichika's feathers consist of one pair of solid red feathers and one pair of solid yellow feathers in the anime. In the manga, the feathers are in fact a multi-hued rainbow of color reminiscent of how the tail of a peacock can reflect a rainbow of colours when the light catches the feathers in a certain way.
* ''[[
** In fact, we had to give [[Mahou Sensei Negima
* Sasame of ''[[Prétear]]'' is blond in the manga, but a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] in the anime. {{spoiler|Since in the anime he ends up betraying the Knights and siding with the [[Dark Magical Girl]], they might have changed his hair to fit the trope.}} Interestingly, his eye color also went from brown to purple, [[Common Eye Colors|which may have to do with the above spoiler as well]]. A lesser instance is Hayate's hair going from black to dark blue (coupled with hairstyle change); the new color probably ''could'' still count as "stylized black", but then there's a much obviously black-haired character (Mikage) present in the show...
* In the ''[[
** Mariko's hair still has a blond hue in the anime.
** A subtle example, but Lucy's hair was more pink in the manga, while it was a more reddish pink in the anime.
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* In the ''[[Kinnikuman]]'' anime, Robin Mask goes from silver to blue, Ashuraman from blue to a normal skintone, etc. A rather [[Unfortunate Implications|unfortunate]] example is the [[Charlie Brown From Outta Town|Kinnikuman Great]] disguise, which is dark red in the manga, but black in the anime, giving the wearer a distinct Kentucky Minstrel look, which is probably why the ''[[Kinnikuman Nisei]]'' anime went with the manga colours (though amusingly, Robin's son Kevin uses Robin's old anime colours).
** Robin Mask also wore dark blue tights under his armor in the anime, making his skin appear blue. Kinnikuman almost always wore red trunks and boots in the anime, while in the manga they were usually white. Brocken Jr. had whitish skin and a dark green/black outfit in the anime but normal skin and green in the manga. Heck, a majority of the characters had different outfit and/or skin coloring in the anime.
* Several character's hair color in ''[[Excel Saga (
* ''[[Disgaea]]'': In the games, Etna's hair is bright red, while in the [[The Anime of the Game|anime adaptation]], her hair is a much darker maroon-ish color.
* [[Canon Immigrant]] Ryo Akiyama of the ''[[
* Seto Kaiba of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (
** [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
*** Perhaps as an homage to this, the anime's filler villain, Noah looks very much like a younger version of Kaiba's old design.
** Likewise, Anzu's/Tea's eyes change from brown to blue for no adequately explored reason.
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* In the ''[[Gravitation]]'' manga, Shuichi's hair is black (except for when he temporarily dyes it blond in later volumes), and it's safe to assume that his eyes are a normal black or brown. The OVA gives him dark red-brown hair and green eyes, and the later anime adaptation tops it by giving him bright pink hair and purple eyes more representative of his [[Keet|hyper personality]].
** Some of the covers for the manga volumes however, give him various different hair colors, including pink and violet.
* In the live-action ''[[
** Matt was meant to have green hair, but his hair was auburn-ish/maroon in the anime.
* The anime ''[[Princess Princess]]'' has a bad case of this. In the anime the originally black-haired main character Tooru has [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue hair]], brown-haired Mikoto and Akira have respectively pink and green hair. The only character in the main quartet untouched is the blond-haired Yujiro.
* A clothing example can be found in ''[[
** Kiba sported a red jacket in the early manga too.
** In a non-human example, the Three-Tailed Beast went from sea green to gray in the anime.
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** Kushina's maternity dress and overall color scheme is drastically different than the manga version. Although, it was understandable as it was in a similar case with the Rinnegan. No manga colors. Kushina's hair in the manga is bright red. The anime darkens it. Her dress is green with a white shirt. The anime changes it completely to a white dress and blue shirt. Although, why the anime changed it that way when it was obvious that Kushina's shirt was left white and the manga gives her dress a completely black shade (meaning it should have a darker color) will never be known....
** A mild example but the anime removed the makeup that Sakura always used to wear pre-timeskip.
* ''[[
** Examples of this include Sweden being changed from a light blond to a brunette (before switching back to blond in his later animated appearances), Italy's hair changing from brown to auburn (sometimes a saturated red), Belarus going from platinum blonde to dark blonde, China's black hair changing to brown, and the other blond characters either having their hair darkened or changed to a more saturated yellow shade.
** Himaruya himself has also been inconsistent when it comes to hair and eye colors: Prussia originally had dark blond hair and blue eyes, but now his hair varies from being platinum blond to outright white or grey, while his eyes are now either red, "red-violet", or pink. Russia, Finland, Latvia, and Iceland originally had blue eyes, but appear with violet ones in later illustrations. UK's shade of blond varies throughout all colored illustrations, Canada's hair was originally two-toned, and Hungary is either a blonde or brunette. Monaco was also originally a brunette with brown eyes, but was quickly changed to a blue-eyed blonde.
*** The anime furthers the eye color confusion by giving Finland brown eyes (he had blue/violet in the manga), while changing Lithuania and Estonia's green eyes to blue, Latvia's violet eyes to an aqua blue, and the Italy brothers' brown (Veneziano) and green eyes (Romano) to gold. Sweden's eyes were also initially changed from green/blue to brown, but were reverted in his later appearances.
* Kurama of ''[[
** Genkai originally had strawberry-blonde hair in colored illustrations, while the anime gave her pink hair. Yusuke and his mother's hair also shifted between being black and brown in the original manga, while Kuwabara's hair changed from black to brown to an orange-ish shade (while orange-red in the anime). Botan's hair was alternatively blonde or blue in the manga, but the anime settled on the latter.
** Sensui's eyes were originally brown in the manga, but they were turned blue for the anime. Seeing as Sensui's character [[Icy Blue Eyes|fits in with]] [[Innocent Blue Eyes|all three blue-eyed]] [[Occult Blue Eyes|subtropes at once]], this could be seen as [[Tropes Are Not Bad|a change for the better]].
* The Ame-Warashi has [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue hair]] in the ''[[
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'':
** Al and Hohenheim have dark blonde hair in the first anime. Al also has grey eyes instead of blue.
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** Most of the video game adaptations tend to stick with the manga colors for the characters. Even Amiba has his manga colors in the ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' spinoff ''Hokuto Musou''.
** An exception was made with Yuria and Mamiya, who both use their anime hair colors in ''Hokuto Musou'' (purple and red respectively, although Yuria's hair was only violet during the Southern Cross arc).
* Touko Aozaki of ''[[
* The three [[Humongous Mecha|Mortar Headds]] used by Juba & his goons at the end of ''[[The Five Star Stories]]'' film had their paintjobs inexplcably changed in the anime movie based on the manga. In colour illustrations, the Hellmine was depicted as white with blue highlights, while the film version is dark pink (this may be due to the fact that the white version looks extremely similar to ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'''s Qubeley, which is not surprising, considering they're both designed by Mamoru Nagano). The Barunja & Devoncha, meanwhile, went from gunmetal grey to two different, similarly loud colour schemes, probably because they thought the originals looked too boring.
* 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.
* ''[[
** Bartholomew Kuma fame was originally introduced in the manga wearing an orange outfit. In the anime, he wears black. The next time Kuma showed up in a color page in the manga, the color of his outfit had been changed to be closer to the anime version.
** Doflamingo was initially depicted with a darker red and black clothing scheme in the anime, but later it was changed to the manga's orange and white coloring.
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** There's a variation for Vash--in the manga, his hair starts to turn black as his power drains. This is absent from the anime.
* In the ''[[Gungrave]]'' anime, Brandon has grey/silver hair after being exposed to necrolyzation. In the games he's depicted as having black hair even after his revival, along with a darker skin tone. Both versions have yellow/amber eyes though.
* Tons in ''[[
* Tohru from ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' has brown eyes in the manga and blue eyes in the anime.
** Also, pretty much everyone had some change made: Yuki went from silver hair and eyes to dark gray hair and dark purple eyes, Kyo went from orange eyes to dark brown eyes, Kagura went from dark brown eyes to grey eyes, Momiji's and Hiro's eyes switched to a slightly darker shade of brown, Haru's eyes went from grey to dark brown, Ayame's eyes went from light grey to yellow-green, and Kisa went from yellow-orange hair and eyes to strawberry-blondish-orange-ish hair and dark brown eyes.
* In the ''[[
* The anime version of ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' changed Tamaki's light brown hair to blonde, probably to emphasize his French heritage.
** Really? Every official manga coloring of him has shown him with blond hair.
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* In the ''Miracle Girls'' manga, Toni and Mika have dirty/sandy blond hair, while in the anime it's brown. Chris also has pink hair in the manga, but brown in the anime.
* In the ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' anime, transformed Rina has medium-green hair, and {{spoiler|Seira and reformed Sara}} always have orange. In the manga, mermaid Rina's hair is practically neon, and the orange ladies have dusty brown hair as humans.
* Ai Haibara of ''[[
* In the original ''[[
** The concept art for the OVA version also shows that they initially considered giving her blue hair before settling on the brown, along with blue eyes.
** Joe's hair has varied between being a dark, dirty blond/light brown shade, medium brown, auburn, and a very deep brown through the series and related materials.
* ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure
** The OVA seemed to decide that hair which blended into the main character's hat was about the extent of weirdness that the main cast would have, so supporting character Noriyaki Kakyoin had his hair recolored from hot pink to natural brown. At least he kept his side hair.
** The manga never seems to make up its mind as to the 'true' hair and clothing colors of the characters, however. Giorno can be wearing bright pink in one illustration, and black in another.
* ''[[School Rumble]]'''s manga makes it clear that [[Mukokuseki|the majority have natural, traditional black hair]], yet the anime adaptation decided to give every other character different shades CLOSE to black ranging from dark green (Karen) to blue (Mikoto).
* In ''[[
** Sakura's mother, Nadeshiko, has light brown hair in the anime; one color drawing in the manga has her with dark violet hair.
** In the manga, Eriol’s robes are black, and the rim on the collar of the cape and the ends of the sleeves is red, but in the anime, the robes are dark blue, and the rims are light blue.
* The color of Zatch's/Gash's mantle in the manga version of ''[[Gash Bell]]'' is green or sometimes yellow. In the Anime, it's always blue.
* Mitsumi from ''[[
** To be far, Mitsumi has a radically different hair style in general, as well as a different body type.
* Chii from ''[[
* [[Anti-Hero|Zelgadis Graywords]] of the ''[[Slayers]]'' anime has light blue skin (as he is a chimera), lilac-colored hair, and navy blue eyes; in the original novels that the show was adapted from, his skin is said to be more blue-green, his hair is silvery, and his eyes are purple. The [[Non-Serial Movie]] ''Slayers Premium'' featured the novel-designed version of him. There is also a small bridge of stone that is stuck between his left eyelids in his novel design that isn't seen in the anime. Interestingly, he's an odd case of [[Art Evolution]] where current art of him matches his anime design.
** [[Red Headed Heroine|Lina]] the protagonist began as a brunette in the [[Light Novel]] series; for the older anime series and later books, it became a coppery color, and currently, it's a very bright red.
** Xellos the demonic priest and Princess Amelia have black hair in the novels with stylized purple highlights, while anime adaptations make their hair straight-up purple.
* In the ''[[
* In the first season of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', Precia Testarossa's hair was a sort of violet-tinted grey. In <s>the Movie remake</s> several pieces of official movie art but not the movie itself, it's very much pure, dark violet.
* ''[[
** Considering poop is [[Doctor Slump|sometimes]] colored pink, this might be a ''literal'' case of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
* Saburo from ''[[Sgt Frog]]'' made his TV debut as a minor character in ''[[Seven of Seven]]''. As DJ 623 (Mutsumi), his hair is bright blue, but in the ''[[Sgt Frog]]'' anime, his hair is whitish-grey.
* ''[[
* Misao from ''[[
* In ''[[Psychic Detective Yakumo]]'', in both manga adaptations and the novels, Haruka has [[Curtains Match the Window|matching brown hair and eyes]]. In the anime adaptation, she has [[Rose-Haired Girl|pink hair]] and light [[Purple Eyes
* In ''[[Full Moon wo Sagashite]]'', Mitsuki has black hair and gold/blue eyes in the manga but the anime changed them both to dark brown.(Ugh) Her mother and grandmother went from blonde to brunettes, Takuto's hair went from black to grey, Madoka went from purple to dark red, and Aoi went from green-haired to black-haired. Meroko's shinigami outfit also changed from black to red but this change was chosen by Arina herself. Only Takuto, Meroko, and Izumi were able to keep their original eye colors. Everyone else's were changed.
* In ''[[Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne]]'', Maron has light brown hair in the manga but darker brown in the anime and Chiaki goes from light blue hair to a darker shade. (Arina has also drawn him with blond hair for some manga images but it seems his true color is light blue.)
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* The OVA of ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'' gave Kurai periwinkle hair, while it is silver in the manga.
* In the original ''[[Soul Eater]]'' manga, Liz is a blonde. In the anime adaptation, her hair is changed to a light brown.
* ''[[
* Not a complete adaption dye job, but the ''Kodomo No Jikan'' mangaka can't seem to make up her mind on the hair colors of Rin and Mimi. Both have had orange-red, sandy brown, strawberry blonde, and light blonde as a hair color at some point. The anime manages to settle on blonde for Rin, but Mimi's hair still fluxes from light brown to orange-brown to some sort of pinkish brown.
** Houin-sensei changed from blonde in the manga to redhead in the anime.
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Superman
** Also, for the record, Kristin Kreuk is part-Asian. This is ignored on the show.
*** They got it right in ''[[Superman III]]'', with the actress playing Lana going on to play Martha Kent. [[Canon Dis Continuity|Now, if only they'd gotten the non-cosmetic things right...]]
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* [[Batman]] usually has a lighter shade of hair when he's played by a real actor.
** Likewise, in ''[[The Dark Knight]],'' Harvey Dent, who is a brunet in the comics, is played by blond Aaron Eckhart.
** Vicki Vale is normally shown as a redhead in the comics, but was played by the very blond Kim Basinger in the original ''[[Batman (
** While Catwoman is traditionally depicted as having dark black hair, the extremely blonde Michelle Pfeiffer played her in ''[[
** In ''[[Batman and Robin (
** An odd example within one medium: The second Robin, Jason Todd. Pre-Crisis, he had red hair (kind of strawberry blond), permanently dyed black. Post-Crisis, he had naturally black hair. After coming back from the dead, he started out with black hair with a white streak, but now has dark red hair with a white streak, since the dye has apparently grown out. Now with the reboot, he's back to black again.
* [[Hellblazer
** [[In Name Only|But then, Keanu-Constantine had pretty much nothing in common with the comic-book character, except for the name (which is pronounced differently in the comic). The hair is really a minor detail.]]
* The ''[[Hellboy (
** Abe Sapien also received a color change, going from green-skinned in the comics to blue-skinned in the movies.
*** Highly likely changed to allow the [[Green Screen]] process to work.
* Hawk originally had blond hair in the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comics, but was given black hair in the animated series to distinguish him from Duke, the other blond-haired G.I. Joe leader (who actually appeared before Hawk in the animated series). The toyline followed suit by giving pretty much every Hawk action figure released afterward black or brown hair.
* ''[[
** Minor GL Corps member Iolande has black hair in the comics, but was given silver hair in ''[[Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
* Iceman went from brown hair to blond when animated for ''[[Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends]]''.
* Blond Johnny Storm went from blond to brunette when they brought ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' to film. Ben Grimm went from brunette to bald.
* Lex Luthor's [[Bodyguard Babes|female bodyguard]] Mercy had brown hair when she was first introduced in the [[DCAU]], but was given blond hair when she was [[Canon Immigrant|brought over into the comics]].
* Storm's eyes are blue, but in the [[X-Men (
* [[The Joker]]'s sidekick Harley Quinn is almost always portrayed as having blond hair, but sported dyed white hair in ''[[Batman:
* Dean Cain has brown eyes and brown hair; Tom Welling has green eyes (if fan sites are to be trusted) and brown hair; [[Lois and Clark
* [[Spider-Man|Peter Parker]] has brown eyes in the comics; in the movies, Tobey Maguire plays him, who has blue eyes.
** Although in the comics, they flip-flop between brown and blue so much eventually Marvel [[Word of God|officially stated]] they were hazel as compromise.
* [[Wonder Woman]] has black hair... except when portrayed by the blonde Cathy Lee Crosby.
** On the opposite end, her mother Hippolyta was brown-haired in the Golden Age, blonde in the Silver Age, then dark-haired like her daughter after [[Crisis
* Although [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Splinter]]'s brown fur is usually kept in adaptations, it was turned gray for the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
** Also in the original underground Eastman and Laird comics, whenever the Turtles were depicted in color, their masks were uniformly red. [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience|They were colored coded for the kids' convenience]] in all other depictions except this one.
* A brunette during her tenure in the comic books, Sally Avril was turned into a blonde for ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]''.
* [[
* The Guardian is portrayed as a blonde in the comics, but is given red hair ''[[Young Justice (
* Wendy Watson from ''[[The Middleman]]'' has orange hair in the original comic series, and was played by black-haired Natalie Morales in the TV series. The most recent comic, which is actually set in the TV continuity, uses Morales' appearance.
* Spider-Man villain Doctor Octopus is almost always portrayed as having short brown hair, but sports long black hair in the ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man (
* Matt and Hay Lin's grandmother from ''[[WITCH (
* There was a story progression dye job for Beast Boy of ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' fame. Back when he was in the ''[[
** His hair was returned to brown in ''[[Young Justice (
== Film ==
* Harold Ramis' brown upright ''[[Eraserhead]]''-esque hairdo was replaced with a blond pompadour and rat-tail when Egon Spengler was translated from movie (''[[
* Agent L was a brunette in ''[[Men in Black (
** The official explanation is that ''[[Men in Black (
* Sarah Chagal (played by [[Dyeing for Your Art|famously blonde Sharon Tate]]) had straight red hair in ''The Fearless Vampire Killers!, or, Pardon Me, But Your Fangs Are In My Neck''. In the stage version, ''[[Tanz
** Magda, the maid, was blonde in the movie but has red hair in the German, Austrian and Japanese productions of the musical. (She's still blonde in Poland and Hungary).
** Alfred is an interesting case- brunette in the film, but onstage has basically whatever hair the actor has. This leads to the need for the costume department to make a wig that looks like the actor's hair for his dance double in the Act II [[Dream Ballet]].
** Except for in the Hungarian version, where for some reason Alfred's dream ballet double has a ''freaking buzz cut''.
* ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'': Amy has blonde hair in the movies, but in the T.V. series, she's a redhead.
== Literature ==
* [[The Picture of Dorian Gray|Dorian Gray]] is [[Blond Guys Are Evil|an angelic-looking blond]] in the novel, but a lot of adaptations make him a [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|brunette]]. The most recent film cast [http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5200000/Dorian-Gray-ben-barnes-5287354-800-1084.jpg Ben Barnes] in the role - aside from fitting the "handsome" part of the character description, he couldn't easily be ''more'' different from the literary Gray.
* In the book ''[[
* In the adaptation of the E.M Forster story ''[[
* [[The Riftwar Cycle]] has been adapted to video game form and to graphic novel form.
** In one of the games, ''[[Betrayal
** In the graphic novels, the elf queen Aglaranna - who is described as having reddish-gold hair that contributes to her overall soft and angelic appearance - is given bright ''scarlet'' hair.
* In ''[[Interview
** Also Lestat, who in the novels has very long and blond hair gets a dark pseudo-pageboy cut in the ''[[Queen of the Damned]]'' movie. And Marius who likewise was supposed to be long-haired blond gets short, slick black hair in the same movie.
* In the novel ''White Oleander'', Claire Richards is a brunette, but in the movie, she's a blonde (and played by Renée Zellweger)
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** Not just that, she was Irish-heritaged in the novels and described as the cheerleader's younger sister or some such nonsense. In the series, she was Mexican-heritaged and not at all as cute as the book version was.
** Basically, Susan and Murphy look like each other's book counterparts because the actresses were determined to be much better for each other's roles than the roles they were initially cast for.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft
** Charles Dexter Ward was also blond, but both [[Lovecraft
* In ''Harry Potter'', the protagonist's eye colour changes from green in [[Harry Potter (
** Lily's eyes were changed to blue in the films to match. In other words, Lily and Harry have ''both'' had an Adaptation Dye Job.
** Lily's hair colour in ''[[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets]]'' changed from dark red in the book to a light ginger in the film.
** In a strange ''half'' example, Narcissa was given two-tone hair for whatever reason.
** Luna Lovegood's hair is described as "dirty-blonde". In the movie it is platinum blonde, which is especially odd since [[
** Dudley Dursley went from blonde in the books to dark-brown/black in the films
*** Matching her son, Aunt Petunia's hair is also changed from blonde to dark brown.
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*** Oh, it gets even better. Skandar Keynes, Edmund's actor, is half-Arab. Arabs aren't portrayed well in the Narnia series, let's leave it at that. ''Accidental'' [[Unfortunate Implications]] to be sure, but still a bizarre thing to have happen.
**** Funnily enough, Skandar Keynes has been chosen especially for Edmund's role, because the director considered him to be [[Dark Is Evil|darker]] than his co-stars. [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]], mischievous, snarky and the facts that he wore more black and listened to [[The New Rock and Roll|heavier music]] created his [[Anti-Hero]] image on the spot. Oh...and he's an [[Atheism|atheist]].
** The Pauline Baynes illustrations, which were commissioned specially by [[
* In the ''[[
** Mark Wing-Davey, who played Zaphod on radio and TV, is quoted as saying that he ''said'' he thought Zaph was "a blond beach bum" (with the implication that he'd have been quite happy to wear a wig), but the producer/director (Alan Bell) wasn't listening to anyone involved in the radio show.
** The illustrated book also has a dark-haired actor playing Zaphod. This gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]: the description of him as blond has a footnote added to it saying that anyone perceiving him as otherwise is probably suffering from Mad Human Disease.
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* In the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' book series, Darken Rahl is described as having distinctly blond hair, but has black hair in ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]''.
* The main character in the ''Deltora'' series is blond in the anime adaptation but not blond in the original book.
* Boromir in ''[[The Lord of the Rings
** Legolas also has dark hair in the books.
* In the ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (
** There was purple in there too.
* Marisa Coulter is described as having black hair in [[His Dark Materials]], but is played by blonde Nicole Kidman in [[The Golden Compass|the film of the book]]. [[Word of God]] is that Pullman liked this better anyway.
** Kidman also played another originally dark-haired character, Ada Monroe, in the film version of ''[[Cold Mountain]]''.
* In the ''[[
** The changes of hair and ears were reportedly because the director feared a confusion with [[Lord of the Rings]]' Arwen. Which is especially funny in the latter case, as Tolkien never said his elves had pointed ears in the published texts (the only hint comes from a tiny note in an etymological dictionary about his [[Con Lang|ConLangs]]).
*** Of course, it's also funny since many anti-fans accuse Arya of ''being an [[Expy]]'' of Arwen anyway.
** Murtagh is supposed to have brown hair in book 1. In the movie they gave him black hair. In book 3, his description backs up the movies.
* In the [[Land of Oz
** Ozma's hair was only described ''once'', on her original (re)appearance. After that, well, maybe [[A Wizard Did It|The Wizard Did It]].
** For that matter, Dorothy was played by brunette [[Judy Garland]] in [[The Wizard of Oz (
*** With her hair dyed auburn.
** Ozma was blonde in ''[[Return to Oz]]''.
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* Inspector Tommy Lynley went from blond in Elizabeth George's novels to being played by brunet [[Nathaniel Parker]] in [[The Inspector Lynley Mysteries|the TV series]]. Frumpy Sergeant Barbara Havers was given a [[Adaptational Attractiveness|complete upgrade]] in the casting of [[Sharon Small]].
* In ''[[Deltora Quest]]'', Jasmine was described as having black hair, but have green hair in the [[Anime]]. Similarly, Lief was assumed to be a brunette, but became blond-haired in the anime.
* The eponymous character of ''[[
* In the first ''[[The Princess Diaries|Princess Diaries]] '' book, Mia is described as being "dishwater blonde" and after a makeover her hair is trimmed short. In the movie, she's played by brunette Anne Hathaway.
* In ''[[Percy Jackson
** She also has gray eyes in the book. Movie Annabeth has bright blue eyes.
* The TV series ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' had a few instances of this. During the first season, the blonde Madeline Bassett was portrayed by a brunette. Both actresses who were cast as the platinum blonde Florence Craye were also brunettes. Finally, the hair of the actress who portrayed Bobbie Wickham during the first season could hardly be described as a vivid shade of red (or any shade of red unless you squinted really hard).
* [[Sharpe]] had black hair in the books and was from London, but blonde [[Oop North|Yorkshireman]] [[Sean Bean]] was cast in the title role for the TV adaptation. Bernard Cornwell was sufficiently taken with Bean's portrayal that later books retconned Sharpe's accent and backstory, but there wasn't much he could do about the hair.
* In the ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]'', King Rudolf, Rudolf Rassendyll, and Princess Flavia, like all the [[Royal Blood|Elphbergs]], have red hair; in the [[The Prisoner of Zenda (
* In both adaptations of ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'', the "fair-haired" (blond) Ralph is played by a brunette. In the more recent adaptation, the redheaded Jack is played by a blond.
* In the novella [[Breakfast
* In Lloyd Alexander's ''[[Chronicles of Prydain]]'', Princess Eilonwy is a redhead and Fflewddur Fflam was described as having "straw-colored hair." The [[The Black Cauldron|execrable Disney version]] made her a blonde in all senses of the word while aging him thirty years and giving him white hair.
* Averted in [[Walt Disney|Walt Disney's]] ''[[Snow White
* In the ''[[Twilight (
* The [[Pretty Little Liars]] - all of them - in the television series.
* Tobias from ''[[
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'': Jenny was originally a brunette in the books. In the tv series, she is blonde.
* [[Angelina Ballerina]] has white fur in the original books and first cartoon, but has pink fur in the CGI cartoon.
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* ''[[Vanity Fair]]'': The redheaded Becky Sharpe becomes a blonde in the 2004 film version. Although, [[Adaptation Decay|Becky's hair colour might be the least of your problems with that film if you're a fan of the original novel]].
* In ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', Arya Stark and Jon Snow have black hair like their father Ned Stark, while Sansa, Bran, Robb and Rickon have reddish hair like their mother Catelyn. In the HBO adaption however, Ned Stark is portrayed by Sean Bean (who else) with brown hair along with Bran, Arya and Rickon. Also the dialogue would have you believe King Robert is has black hair as well, but the wigs and the beard can't quite hide the fact that Mark Addy is brunette as well.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen|Queen La]] from ''[[
** Now consider where they got La's design from...
* In [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s musical adaptation of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', Christine became a brunette instead of a blonde, probably so Sarah Brightman could play her.
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**** Interestingly enough Meg in the original novel was brunette and became a blonde in the musical.
****** In the Hungarian production of the show, Meg is sometimes brunette. Chrsitine is sometimes blonde. It all depends on the actresses.
* Many casts of ''[[Les Misérables (
* It's not mentioned often in the novel, but in ''[[The Devil Wears Prada]]'' Andrea is blonde. In the movie she is played by the dark-haired Anne Hathaway.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Dax from ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'' went from having black hair to having it gain a blue tint in the UK comics.
* In ''[[Star Trek:
* Between the miniseries of the reimagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' and season 1 of the series proper, President Roslin's hair goes from dark brown to a more obviously dyed-looking auburn. This is almost certainly simply a failure to match the earlier colour, since more than a year elapsed between the filming of the two, but since the series follows on immediately from the events of the miniseries, it gives the impression that the President somehow found time to do a new dye job despite being extremely busy and having other things on her mind...
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== Theater ==
* An all-Asian production of ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
** A production with a redheaded Johanna similarly removed the Wigmaker's Song and changed "yellow" to "fiery".
*** Another production had a Johanna that was clearly a brunette, yet kept the Wigmaker's Song and all references to yellow hair, much to the audience's confusion.
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== Video Games ==
* Happened a ''lot'' with old [[Nintendo]] cartoons, and adaptations of Nintendo stuff in general: [[Super Mario Bros.|Peach]], [[The Legend of Zelda
** In Peach's case, it looks like she was based on her NES sprite, not any official art of her which has always depicted her as being blond.
*** Peach's hair was only brown/red in the games since the NES could only display three colors (plus a transparent color) per sprite. In ''SMB2'', 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
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*** A manga adaptation to the first game has Link with blond hair, when he is a brunette in said game. An adaptation of the second game by the same mangaka has him with ''pink hair'', despite him being the same Link.
** In ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', Mario wore red overalls with a blue shirt, while Luigi wore green overalls and a blue shirt. In ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', the colors of the overalls and shirts were switched, giving both brothers blue overalls and shirts of their respective colors (for some reason, their sprites were both depicted with black overalls) and they have remained that way since, although in the cartoon versions of ''Super Mario 3'' and ''Super Mario World'', they still used the ''Super Mario 2'' color scheme.
*** And in the original ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
*** Mario's original appearance in ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' had a blue shirt, red overalls, and red hat. In ''[[
** And then there's [[Metroid|Samus]]. While canonically, she has ''always'' been blond, the very first game allowed you to see her without her suit using a code. Because of the need for a visual representation of what powers are equipped, her hair had a wide assortment of colors, leading many people to come up with alternate hair colors for her. The official ending of the game shows it to be blond. When adapted into a short comic for ''Nintendo Power'' to promote ''Super Metroid'', her hair was purple for some reason - especially unusual considering that ''Super Metroid'' was the first game to consistently portray her blond.
** Pauline was originally depicted as a blonde in illustrations for the arcade and Famicom versions of ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', but became a brunette in ''[[Donkey Kong 94]]'', presumably to distinguish her from Peach (who at that point was already a more popular character than Pauline).
* Bill has brown hair in the [[
** The first protagonist, Red, had black hair in the original games. Come the remakes and he has brown hair, to more resemble his [[Distaff Counterpart]] Leaf. One of his manga counterparts, Shu, had green hair (though he looks vastly different from Red).
** Dawn's and Lucas' hair colors are brighter in the anime then in the games.
** Volkner's hair is a more dirty blond in the anime, probably to avoid legal issues with ''[[
** Morty - In old promo art of ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver
** May in the games has brown hair. Her ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' counterpart appears to have ''grey'' hair at a lot of times.
** Likewise, Kris always had blue hair in the games. Her ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' counterpart kept on changing between brown hair and blue hair, and her ''[[Pokémon Golden Boys]]'' counterpart has [http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/5/5a/Golden_Boys_Cover_3.png green hair].
** Erika has black hair in the games, but blue hair in the anime.
** Brendan has apparently black hair, with a white knit hat; it's unknown what his hair is like under the cap, but most people think it's just normal black hair. His [[Pocket Monsters (
** Eye variations appear often in all media. The protagonists of the games always have [[Brown Eyes]] or [[Blue Eyes]], but their ''Special'' counterparts have eyes that often match their names, Gary has [[Green Eyes]] while Blue has [[Brown Eyes]], Isamu from Pocket Monsters has [[Green Eyes]] when Red has [[Brown Eyes]], Misty has [[Blue Eyes]] in the games when in the anime it keeps on switching between that and [[Green Eyes]], etc.
* Happened in the early installments of the ''[[
** A straighter example is ''[[
** 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. This also happened to Hurdy's hair, but averted.
* Also, the enemies in the game [[Compilation Rerelease|''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 ''[[SMB 2]]'' were changed to blue. Also, the Piranha Plants will all either be colored green or red depending on which game they are in.
** And [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|the Koopalings']] shell colors. In ''[[
* [[Ace Attorney
* The [[Cultural Translation|English version]] of ''[[Persona (
** The Japanese fans probably just wondered how she went from [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|purple]] to brunette.
** The illusory Pierce Boy also gained back his wild blue hair (Again, [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]), not to mention the earring he didn't actually have in the US version of Persona.
* 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 ''[[
** Another anime, a movie based off Alpha, changed Ryu from having [[Brown Eyes]] to [[Blue Eyes]].
* Tails in ''[[
** He seems to switch randomly from orange/brown to pale yellow depending on which game you're playing, too.
** Almost everyone had an eye color change in ''[[
* In the original arcade version of ''[[
** The Master System version had Jimmy with blue hair instead of blond. Most likely the developers of the SMS port used the opening of the NES version for reference, which depicted Jimmy with blue hair instead of his usual blond.
* [[Castlevania|Simon Belmont's]] hair has been brown, blue, pink, black, blond and red thanks to the various depictions of him in cover arts. Eventually Konami settled on red when Ayami Kojima redesigned the character in ''Castlevania Chronicles''.
* The Japanese version of ''[[
* ''[[Space Quest]]'': Roger Wilco changed hair color from brown to blond in the fourth game.
* 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 [[Fiery Redhead|red hair]] with blue eyes, which carried over into ''[[
** In ''[[Escape
* 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 [[Important Haircut|cuts his hair to look less like Liquid]], he dyes it too for good measure, and decides to keep the look for ''MGS2'' . . .
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** In that same remake, the normally red-headed Meryl becomes a brunette, while [[Cold Sniper|Sniper Wolf's]] odd, slightly greenish hair becomes straight-up 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.
* [[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 pallete limitations). In ''Duke Nukem II'', with a jump to 16-colour VGA, it was changed to a light brown. ''[[
* In the opening animation for ''[[
* 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.
* Glass Joe in the [[Punch Out|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.
* ''[[Wing Commander (
* In ''[[Police Quest]]'' Sonny dyes his hair to go undercover, and retains the blond hair in the sequel, but returns to being a brunette in the third game.
* In ''[[Resident Evil 1]]'' and ''[[Resident Evil 3 Nemesis]]'', Jill Valentine has brown eyes, but in the ''[[RE 1]]'' remake and ''5'' she has blue eyes.
* In the ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** A larger example is in the live action movie adaptations. All the oddly colored characters have "natural" colored hair. Cue [[Internet Backdraft
*** The backdraft is because you can't tell the girls apart. Rika has short hair, Satoko has longish hair, and the teens look similar if they aren't in their Higurashi costumes, which they usually aren't.
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* The ''[[
* 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.
* [[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.
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== Web Original ==
* In There Will Be Brawl, Ike is given black hair, likely to differentiate him more from Marth.
* [[
** Of course, knowing John Smith, [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue|he wouldn't want it any other way]].
== Western Animation ==
* And in a non-human example, the ''[[Transformers Generation 1|Transformers]]'' fandom gives us the never-ending [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/FIRRIB FIRRIB] debate. The characters Rumble and Frenzy from ''[[The Transformers (
** In the Japanese dub of the [[The Transformers (
** And from ''[[Transformers Zone]]'', there's [[Spell My Name
** [[Transformers Generation 1|Most]] [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen|depictions]] [[Transformers Animated|of]] [[FemBot|Arcee]] are portrayed as being colored pink, but in ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', Arcee is colored blue.
* Preliminary photos from [[The Last Airbender
** A similar justification is given for the relatively muted costumes in the ''[[X-Men (
* Really noticeable change in character design is present in ''[[
* The [[Pixar|Dinoco logo's]] appearance and design actually varies depending on which film it appears in. In the ''[[Toy Story]]'' series films, it's colored red and features an Apatosaurus (just like the logo of the now-defunct Sinclair Oil company, which looks similar), but in the ''[[
* In a rare instance of a release-related dye job, Pizzazz of ''[[Jem]]'' was always depicted in doll and animated form with bright green hair. The R1 Rhino masters inexplicably changed her hair color to a dull olive blond - and also redid the green parts of her costume to match this.
** In a doll-related change, the title character is known for her pink hair, but the dolls were always blond. Promotional art for the show (such as [http://www.loony-archivist.com/jem/primer/images/article/jem_cast.jpg this]) that showed up on places such as doll boxes and VHS covers depicted a realistic art style gave Jem predominantly pink hair, but added blonde bangs. All of the characters also had more "realistic" hair styles for the period, but were still reasonably close to their animated and doll line styles.
* Most of the eye colors for the ''[[
* [[Sherlock Holmes]] is typically a brunette but in ''[[Sherlock Holmes in The Twenty Second Century]]'' he has dirty-blond hair.
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