Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Difference between revisions

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Sometimes animators exaggerate the range of colors, patterns, and markings found on each species of animal in [[Real Life]]. Several species of penguin, like the [[wikipedia:File:Fairy penguin.jpg|Fairy Penguin]], have a naturally blue sheen to their feathers, but many animated penguins tend to be bright blue. There are other minor [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|Acceptable Breaks From]] from the range of colors, markings, and patterns each species of animal can have in [[Real Life]], like solid-colored, non-tabby red cats.

Little songbirds which are dull-colored in [[Real Life]] may be depicted as brightly colored; in a more subtle version, [[Crows and Ravens]] are often shown [[Typical Cartoon Animal Colors|with yellow beaks and feet, though retaining their all-black plumage]].

== Film ==

* Most of the sea life in ''[[The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou]]'' is like this.

* Spanish show ''El Perro Verde'' was a interview program that featured, indeed, a green dog.

* Some of the characters on ''[[The Muppet Show]]''. Sure, you had a green frog (Kermit) and a pink pig (Piggy). Rowlf was a brown dog - not too far-fetched there. But how does one explain Gonzo the Great as....uh....some kind of...."turkey-anteater" with cornflower-blue....uh...."covering"?

* ''[[The Pajanimals]]'' features a green dog, an orange horse, a blue duck, and a purple cow.

* The animated red-white-and-blue CGI eagle mascot of ''[[The Colbert Report]]''.

** A piece of information present in several Sonic continuities explain that Sonic's blue colour was the result of him breaking the sound barrier for the first time, turning him blue. This may make sense if blue is an unusual colour for an animal in the Sonic universe (if animals in red, yellow, orange and green are considered "normal").

*** The real, less-fun explanation is that Naoto Ooshima initially drew him with ''black'' fur, but quickly changed it to blue so it would match the Sega logo.

** Katt's character design was changed for ''Command''. She's now dark grey.

** ''Command'' has Amanda, Slippy's love interest (pink). One of the endings shows their kids, each having a different color.

** Unlike Falco Lombardi, real falcons don't have blue feathers.

* ''[[Parappa the Rapper]]''. Not only is Katy Kat [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue]], but her head is [[Alien Geometries|semicircular]]!

** Come to think of it, the Koopas [turtles] tend to be multicoloured as well, starting in the first game with the red ones.

** It also applied to the fictional critters themselves with the shiny Pokémon.

* The orca that ferries you around in ''[[Okami]]'' is a pastel color.

* The bunnykids ([[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]]'s children) from [[Epic Mickey]] are bright cyan.

* The vast majority of the dream eaters in ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D]]'' are animals of this nature. The nightmare versions fought as enemies tend to use darker color schemes, while the friendly spirit versions are downright fluorescent.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** Ditto Marena from ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'', who retains her hair's red and white coloring in her animal forms.

* Almost every single pet on the main cast of [[Virtual Pet Planet]] is an example.

* ''Neopets'' is an interesting example. When you create a pet it can be red, green, yellow, or blue, but with magical paint brushes you get even more unusual colors. Paint brush colors include simple pink, [[Real Is Brown|brown]], and purple... but they also include things like [[Body Horror|mutant]], [[Obviously Evil|Darigan]], robot, ghost, [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|pirate]], starry, cloud, fire, strawberry, and Christmas.

** There's also petpet paint brushes, which let you do the same thing to your petpet only with fewer options. Petpets start out with a color/pattern that all members of that species are (such as a brown owl-like petpet) but can be changed to things such as rainbow and custard by using petpet paint brushes.

* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' had Buster (blue) and Babs (pink) Bunny (no relation), Furball (blue cat), Dizzy Devil (a purple Tasmanian Devil), and Fifi (purple skunk), among other animals with strange colors.

* In ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' Charlie and Anne Marie meet up with Flo to deliver pizza to her litter of orphaned puppies. Some of the said puppies are blue, pink, yellow, and bright green.

* The yellow hippo, Tasha, and the purple kangaroo, Austin, from ''[[The Backyardigans]]''

* "Kevin" from ''[[Up]]'' is a 13-foot flightless bird with bright, iridescent plumage that, while not unusual for tropical birds, is nearly nonexistent among large flightless birds.

* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', Billy's cat has pink fur.

* In ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', Cosmo and Wanda retain their hair color for some of the animals into which they can transform. Their hair colors are green and pink, respectively.

* The ''[[Gummi Bears]]'' were actually small, mystical creatures, and not actual bears, but they were still as brightly colored as their namesake candy.

** Are you seriously telling me that they were worried about anti-aardvark bigotry?

*** [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]].

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'''s pet [[Everythings Better With Platypus|platypus]], Perry, is teal-colored with an orange bill. In a recent episode, it seems like ''all'' platypodes (in Danville, at least?) are the same color as theirs.

** According to [[Word of God]], [[Viewers are Morons|most viewers don't know much about the platypus, so they can take artistic license with the species]].

* Semi-justified on ''[[The Wuzzles]]'', given that each character was a crossbreed of two different species (although, oddly, each seemed to be the only one of its kind). Some of the color schemes were fairly reasonable for a "zoologically accurate" animated fantasy: "Bumblelion," for instance, was a half-lion, half-bumblebee creature, and had tan lion fur (correct) and brown and yellow bee stripes across his torso (close enough). But then again you had his pal "Rhinokey," who was a rhinoceros-nosed monkey with carnation-pink fur.

* In [[Eek the Cat]], the titular character has purple fur, his girlfriend Annabelle is pink, and Sharky the Sharkdog is gray.

** Also, The Incredible Elmo is brown, and Mittens is blue colored.

* Averted for the most part in ''[[The Lion King]]'', but played straight during the song "I Just Can't Wait to be King."

* In ''[[The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show]]'', Meat the dog is blue.

* In ''[[The Problem Solverz]]'', Bad Cat has rainbow stripes and his henchmen are blue. Professor Sugar Fish is a giant rainbow fish.

== Video Games ==

== Western Animation ==

* Plucky Duck from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' is green, but a green duck is not that strange. Not counting the [[wikipedia:Mallard|male Mallard]], which is only green on its head, there's the [[wikipedia:Cayuga Duck|Cayuga]].

* ''[[The Backyardigans]]'' features an orange moose named Tyrone and a blue penguin named Pablo.

* Bullwinkle J. Moose from ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' is orange.