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{{quote|'''Saves A Fox:''' Okay, now try a skin-colored one.
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In the real world, the color range of human skin is fairly limited. We largely come in varying shades of {{color|brown|brownish}}, and even the most generous will generally only give humans four distinct "colors": {{color|pink|pink}}, {{color|brown|brown}}, {{color|red|red}} and {{color|gold|yellow}}. This is to say nothing of proper [[Race Tropes|ethnicity]].
This is not so in cartoons. Animators, whether they're drawing cartoon characters or building models for a video game, have the freedom to make or draw anything they want. Thus, the normal range of human skin colors needn't have any bearing on the appearance of cartoon characters. Want your characters to be {{color|blue|blue}}, {{color|orange|orange}}, and {{color|silver|silver}}? Go right ahead! Want a dude with a {{color|purple|purple}} face to live next door to a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green-skinned, not-from-space babe]]? The freedom's all yours, pal! If the characters are [[Genre Blind]], their unusual skin tones will probably go unnoticed. If not, this may be [[Hand Wave
Giving your characters unrealistic skin tones sounds like a great way to avoid [[Race Tropes]] and [[Unfortunate Implications]], doesn't it? Well, sometimes. [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Unfortunately]], it doesn't always work like this. If a character is meant to be of a specific ethnicity, they will most likely have the "correct" skin tone for their ethnicity, regardless of anything else. It seems as if [[Humans Are White|only "white people" get Amazing Technicolor Skin]]
Compare Japan, which seems to do the same thing with [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|hair]]. See also [[Ambiguously Brown]], for when the skin tones are within the realms of possibility, but not clearly "defined".
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* Pops up occasionally in the [[Marvel Universe]]. People with gamma-radiation based powers will usually be {{color|green|green}}-skinned, the Atlanteans and Kree are {{color|blue|blue}}-skinned, and, occasionally, mutants have technicolor skin.
** This got lampshaded in ''[[Exiles]]'' when, at one point, the team had two {{color|blue|blue}}-skinned girls (Namora and Nocturne) and lavender-skinned girl Blink figured Nocturne's departure was because the group had too much technicolor skin tones.
** Let's not forget Karolina from ''[[Runaways]]'', who is an
* ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' has gold/{{color|orange|orange}} Starfire, {{color|red|red}} Kid Devil, and {{color|green|green}} Beast Boy and Miss Martian.
** Of course, [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|both Starfire and Miss Martian are aliens, Beast]] [[Justified Trope|Boy is a mutant, and Kid Devil was turned into a demon]].
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* [[Artix Entertainment]] is always known to have it
** [[Hero Smash]] has Yergan, a character with {{color|yellow|yellow skin}}
* ''[[Psychonauts]]'' features a lot of {{color|blue|blue}} and {{color|purple|purple}} characters. It interestingly averts the "race" clause of this [[Trope]]
** Chops is a Black Canadian with {{color|red|red}} skin and {{color|green|green}} hair, though. And Milla Vodello is a Brazilian whose skin and hair are actually fairly realistic, if a little dark in the skin.
*** {{color|blue|Blue}} skin also tends to mean "bad news": Both of the [[Final Boss
* The minor character Yoa in ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' is {{color|blue|blue}}. It's implied that she's "not a local," though she's still considered "human" to the game's [[Enemy Scan|scanner]].
* Bosco of the Telltale ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' games is "light {{color|purple|purple}}", but has an African-American voice. His mother is a more typical "black" medium {{color|brown|brown}} though.
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** Krusty the Clown causes continuity errors with this trope. Depending on the episode, his unusually pale skin is either clown makeup or his natural color. However, that only seemed true in earlier seasons, and now it's implied to be due to Krusty's harsh, self-destructive lifestyle, with all his childhood flashbacks having him have normal skin.
*** The shorts on [[The Tracey Ullman Show]] featured background characters who were blue, grey, or orange.
* [[Doug]] and his family were just about the only "flesh tone" people aside from Mr. Bone, Roger's cronies, and Mayor
** For instance, Roger was green, Chalky was yellow, Bebe was purple, Mr. Dink was purple. Since Skeeter was blue (more like a dark teal, really), the prevalence of the [[Black Best Friend]] trope caused many to assume that blue is the equivalent of black in that world.
{{quote|'''Judy:''' ''(Talking about Roger)'' Is he the blue one?
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