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In fiction, if you run into someone who looks like a corpse it's not that they're sick, it's that they're ''[[Not a Zombie|dead.]]''
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* In the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' books, Maria the vampire looked "porcelain" despite being Mexican. The book is pretty inconsistent about what happens to People of Color when they become vampires. Maria was really pale and Laurent was olive-skinned (but it was never stated what race he was). There are some other vampires who are non-Caucasian, but their skin color isn't really mentioned. The male half vampire from South America was definitely dark skinned, though.
** The ''[[All There in the Manual|Twilight Illustrated Guide]]'' states that ''all'' vampires turn pale on being turned. If you were black in life, you turn olive. And since [[Unfortunate Implications|vampires are always beautiful]]...
* Variation in the ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' series. The actual Dead aren't noted to be pale (since most of them that actually have phyiscal bodies are too badly decayed to tell) but [[Necromancer
* In ''[[Warbreaker]]'', when a [[Our Zombies Are Different|Lifeless]] is created, all color is bleached from their body as a side-effect of the magic (which uses color as a sort of trigger). The resulting creatures look exactly like they did in life, except that they are pale grey all over.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The [[Exalted|Abyssal Exalted]] get this in spades - As they get more powerful, Abyssals are required to either become pale and [[Evil Is Sexy|beautiful]], or decayed and monstrous.
* In both ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' and ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'', vampires typically grow paler and less lifelike as they grow
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