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== Literature ==
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Strata]]'', the heroine is able to change her skin color at will when she feels like it; two examples are {{color|silver|silver}} and jet black.
* In [[Larry Niven]]'s Known Space universe, "flatlanders" of Earth are a technicolor population, but it's just fashionable skin dye.
* Steven Erikson's ''[[The Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' has people of all colors that exist on earth, plus {{color|blue|blue}}. (Which is mentioned very off-handedly and thus is very puzzling at first.)
* In ''[[Monster (novel)|Monster]]'' by A. Lee Martinez, thanks to a survived basilisk bite, the titular character wakes up with a different skin color every day, accompanied by a random magical power. He keeps a notebook to track the powers that come with each color — up until he gains a measure of control over this condition with the aid of the story's [[MacGuffin]].
* Serroi, of Jo Clayton's ''[[Duel of Sorcery]]'' and ''Dancer'' trilogies, has {{color|
* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s "Forward the Foundation" has a (human) judge with faint {{color|blue|blue}} skin — the color gets more pronounced when she's angry.
* The {{color|blue|blue}}-skinned carnival freak from Mitch Albom's "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" (mercury poisoning caused his unusual skin color).
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* The Uglies series hints at this in Diego. It's made clear that more 'Extreme' fashions aren't allowed in New Pretty Town but in Diego anything seems to go
* In the web-novel ''[[Domina]]'', Simon has {{color|purple|purple}} skin, while his sister has jet-black. Probably just another [[Bio Augmentation|cosmo]]; no one bats an eye at it.
* The human inhabitants of {{spoiler|the moon in}} ''[[The Darkangel Trilogy]]'' can have white (''not'' pale beige), black (''not'' dark brown), {{color|#cc5500|copper}}, {{color|gold|amber}}, {{color|blue|blue}}, {{color|green|green}}, {{color|teal|teal}}, or {{color|purple|purple}} (possibly {{color|#E0B0FF|two}} {{color|#8E4585|different}} shades of that last, no less) skin. {{spoiler|They were almost certainly [[Designer Babies|deliberately engineered]] for it.}}
* The inhabitants of Tormance in David Lindsay's ''A Voyage to Arcturus'' have many different possible skin tones, some of which [[Fictional Color|don't exist in our spectrum]].
== Live Action TV ==
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