This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Simpsons Hair: From YKTTW
Meems: Can I add this to Subjective Tropes?
i8246i: Short answer: No. Smartass answer: Look up the word "subjective", and think about what you're suggesting. Long answer: People in real life do not have hair colors like animated people (especially anime characters)...when they do, its because of excessive use of hair dyes and bleaching formulas, which is very damaging to the hair and scalp. A person rarely ever has hair that is EXACTLY red, or EXACTLY brown, and even the "black" hair that you will see in real life may have spots of other colors that only show under certain light sources.
The main reasons why animated characters have such startlingly un-natural hair is: 1: It makes it easier to animate characters when their hair color isn't a mixture of 4 different colors and you're drawing/coloring them by hand (hey, it still happens, although its a dying trade, pun not intended) 2: It usually fits the art style that the show has...it would look extremely weird if Marge Simpson had hair that was colored a real color...or was colored in a way that looks blue from a real-world perspective, in a world where everything is bright and colorful.
Trouser Wearing Barbarian: Do unrealistic hair colors that are supposed to represent more realistic ones count? For instance, Antimony Carver from Gunnerkrigg Court is a redhead (she's even called "carrot top" in one comic), but her hair is pink. Black hair is frequently dark blue or purple, and a lot of orange-haired characters are most likely intended to be blond.
Da Vince: none of the examples given work for me, I seem to be remembering characters with just the hair colors they really have, not some sort of mind-adjusted color. Is this normal?
Kilyle: Do odd-colored highlights count, or is that a separate trope? E.g., the numerous versions of black hair with distinctive blue highlights that occasionally make people believe the guy's hair is really blue. (Rayek from Elf Quest is one example, as is Winnowill.)
