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Sometimes, humans in animation and video games have [[Amazing Technicolor Population|decidedly non-standard skin colors.]] Instead of being tan and brown, they'll be green, gray, and purple. But they're not the only ones—sometimes, animators have a bit of fun when designing ''animals'' as well. And thus, the world is filled with '''Amazing Technicolor Wildlife'''.
Animals are a bit different from humans—a lot of them ''do'' come in wilder, more flamboyant colors, especially in tropical areas. Animals use bright colors as a way of saying "Don't eat me! I'm poisonous!" or "Look at me! Aren't I a ''sexy beast?''," or even for reasons we're not quite sure of. However, not ''all'' animals come in strange colors—a lot of mammals tend to be the same grayish and yellowish and brownish and reddish colors we humans are, with the brightest colors reserved for birds, insects, and fish. (A few reptiles here and there, too.) And while no one would bat their eye at a blue peacock with green tailfeathers, a ''red'' peacock with bright purple tail feathers would be [[Somewhere an Ornithologist Is Crying|distinctly more unusual]]. For instance, there is no green in mammals (unless you count fur tinted green because of algae) and blue is only found in a few mammal species (unless you count greyish-blue or a blue sheen). It just doesn't exist naturally.
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.
Other times, they're outright strange. [[Blue's Clues|Blue dogs]], [[Tiny Toon Adventures|pink]] [[The Amazing World of Gumball|rabbits]], [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy|pink alligators]], [[My Cage|orange sharks]], and [[Phineas and Ferb|teal-colored platypodes]] abound.
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]].
[[Funny Animal]]s in particular seem to be prone.
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* '''Penguins'''
** Bright blue feathers (as opposed to just a naturally blue sheen to their feathers)
* '''Rats and Mice'''
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* Applejack from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is orange with an yellow mane and tail.
* 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.
* The five major animal characters in ''[[Littlest Pet Shop (animation)|Littlest Pet Shop]]'' include a blue dog, a purple cat, a pink rabbit and a yellow horse. Only the brown monkey has a normal fur color.
* Bullwinkle J. Moose from ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' is orange.
* Larry the Lobster from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. Yes, lobsters can be red, but not live lobsters...only cooked ones. May be a case of [[The Coconut Effect]].
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=== Live Action TV ===
* 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"?
* [[Captain Bluebear]], who is a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|blue bear]], and his three grandkids, who are pink, yellow and green respectively.
* ''[[The Pajanimals]]'' features a green dog, an orange horse, a blue duck, and a purple cow.
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=== Tabletop Games ===
* Just open a ''[[Dungeons
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=== Video Games ===
* Many of the animal townsfolk in ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' are peculiarly colored, in almost every color imaginable. The quickest example? A bear called Bluebear. Guess what color she is.
* A lot of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' characters fall under this category. Sonic in particular is famous for being a "blue hedgehog" ("The Blue Blur" being his nickname), but there are also pink, black and silver hedgehogs, purple cats, red echidnas, yellow polar bears, green tufted ducks, black armadillos with red shells, purple weasels, green hawks, the list goes on and on.
** 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").
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** 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.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has a lot of different strange creatures in all kind of colors, usually color-coded based on where they fall in the 17-part [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]] system. Some elements tend to be brighter than others- Fire types tend to be bright red, for instance, whereas Ground types tend towards earth tones. Some types don't follow this though (Normal and dragon types don't really have a color trend. Flying types are always (until recently) dual-typed and also have no real color trend.)
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* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', Billy's cat has pink fur.
* The Cheshire Cat from the [[Disney Animated Canon]] version of ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* In ''[[The Fairly
* The ''[[Gummi Bears]]'' were actually small, mystical creatures, and not actual bears, but they were still as brightly colored as their namesake candy.
* And on the subject of cartoon bears, both the ''[[Care Bears]]'' and the Care Bear Cousins were bright, often pastel, colors.
* Cyrill and Cedric Sneer from ''[[The Raccoons]]'' are pink aardvarks. The show's creator did this so that kids wouldn't think real aardvarks were mean and miserly.
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* The titular equines of ''[[My Little Pony]]'' and ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' come in all the colors of the rainbow and then some.
* 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!
** Also, The Incredible Elmo is brown, and Mittens is blue colored.
* ''[[Rude Dog and the Dweebs]]''. Cool dogs come in every color.
* Beast Boy of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''.
* Averted for the most part in ''[[The Lion King]]'', but played straight during the song "I Just Can't Wait to be King."
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