History Main / EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette

** Teru Mikami, one of Kira's disciples, is an insane mass murderer who, similar to L, has long black hair and very pale skin. However, he subverts the "sickly" part of this trope, as he is very strict about keeping a healthy lifestyle.

* ''Series/AlexRider'': Kyra, with overtones of punk. Her look is clearly meant to contrast with blond, tan, clean-cut Alex.

* Invoked by [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLilithClawthorne Lilith Clawthorne]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' as per WordOfGod. She started out with the skin-tone, but dyed and straightened the curly red-brown mop she had as a teenager (along with [[TheGlassesGottaGo ditching her spectacles]]) for the express purpose of looking more imposing and matching the raven theme of the Emperor's Coven.

* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': Valerie, who's from a dark elf-like race, is an evil sorceress with pitch black hair and pure white skin, as her kind lived in the subterranean underdark.

* Mei Misaki from ''Literature/{{Another}}''. She's a mysterious and somewhat creepy girl with black hair and pale skin. She's initially [[MistakenForUndead mistaken for a ghost]], but it's revealed fairly quickly that she's alive and rather nice.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':

** Lust, as well as most of the other homunculi. [[spoiler:Especially notable in the 2003 version, since the human body she was created from was Ishbalan, meaning she would have had ''significantly'' darker skin.]]

* ''Anime/{{K}}'''s Fushimi Saruhiko is extremely pale, bordering on gray actually, and has the dark hair to match. Misaki even comments on how unhealthy pale he is in a side story featuring their early life together.

* Kuromitsu from ''Literature/{{Kurozuka}}'' is pale and with dark hair. He's a beautiful immortal vampire.

* Sirius Black fits this for most of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''. When it's revealed that [[spoiler: he's actually good]], the characters basically stop mentioning his pale, waxy complexion.
** It's safe to assume that Sirius's skin lost its waxy look after he'd been [[spoiler: out of Azkaban]] for a while. Considering he was also dirty and emaciated at the time, it was probably caused by his poor health more than actual paleness.
** The most notable Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette is no doubt Severus Snape. Harry always makes note of the man's greasy, black hair, sallow complexion, and hooked nose. Even as a child he was a [[CreepyChild scrawny, greasy-haired kid with pale skin and a natural talent for the Dark Arts]].
*** While in the films, he's depicted as pale skinned thanks to being played by Creator/AlanRickman, in the books, he may actually have been of a darker skin complexion. Historically throughout classic English literature, particularly Gothic fiction and Gothic romance fiction, "sallow skinned" was often used as an euphemism to refer to characters with a darker skin complexion (usually Italian or Eastern European or generally non-white in contrast to British "proper" pale skin), often used to describe the "demon lover" trope commonly found in Gothic fiction from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century. Given how consistently Snape in the books has been described as sallow skinned, and how sallow skinned was how a lot of the Eastern European students from Durmstrang were described as, particularly Viktor Krum who's described with features that striking resemble Snape's looks, it is a fair implication that Snape in the books was dark haired but also darker skinned as well.
** Also, Bellatrix, who, in the movies, is played by the pictured Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter. And the rest of the Black family except Narcissa, who looks more like her husband for some reason.

* In ''Literature/VillainessLevel99'', Yumiella's black hair and pale skin are part of her design as a villainess in a video game and user of dark magic. However, after a GamerChick [[NextLifeAsAFictionalCharacter transmigrated as her]], she becomes more stoic and odd rather than eerie.

** Most of Miles Vorkosigan's love interests fit this trope too, especially Elena and Elli.

* In the series finale of ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' ("Curtain"), Stephen Norton is a bird-watcher with raven-black hair and a quiet disposition. If this, along with his pale, white skin, doesn't sound eerie, then [[spoiler:his {{Manipulative Bastard}}ry and MindOverMatter techniques that can cause people to kill each other]] add to his eerieness and creepiness. In fact, this is an AdaptationDyeJob of the original novel ''Literature/{{Curtain}}'', where Norton has grayish silver hair, [[spoiler:[[WhiteHairBlackHeart but with a black heart]].]]

** Lt. Cmdr. Data in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' was [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot designed to be a bit eerie]] on purpose to keep him on the left side of the UncannyValley. Amusingly, some aliens think he's just a weird-looking human. [[ShoutOut In homage]] to Kirk's "rice-picker" in The Original Series and {{Blatant Lie|s}} regarding Spock in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', they tell some past humans in "Time's Arrow" that he's a "Frenchman". In at least one holodeck episode, he passes himself off as South American.

** The angry spirit who attacks a philandering professor in "Tall Tales" is this.

* Your "Guardian Angel" in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''.
** The Siren playable character in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', Maya, as well. She's also the only playable character of the game that is clearly Good aligned, the other three being some form of Chaotic, or even [[TokenEvilTeammate Evil]].

* Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' concluded with Buddy Baker encountering an in-universe manifestation of the writer, who was depicted with dark hair and pale skin for no apparent reason other than making Morrison's AuthorAvatar appear mysterious and otherworldly.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' concluded with Buddy Baker encountering an in-universe manifestation of the writer, who was depicted with dark hair and pale skin for no apparent reason other than making Morrison's AuthorAvatar appear mysterious and otherwordly.

* In ''Literature/TheOldKingdom'' series, this is a characteristic of the Abhorsen bloodline, who all have night-black hair and eyes and skin that is variously described as "paper-white" and "deathly pale". They are necromancers, and they tend to be quite pallid even ''without'' constantly wading into Death.

* Literature/{{Coraline}}'s [[WickedWitch Other]] [[WickedStepmother Mother]] fits the sinister aspects of this trope. In the animated movie, her [[EvilIsSexy original form]] also fits RavenHairIvorySkin.

* ''VideoGame/FearAndHungerTermina'': Samarie has extremely dark hair coupled with a sickly pale skintone. She is also an [[{{Yandere}} obsessively devoted]] StalkerWithACrush [[spoiler:and potential murderer, albeit [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she quickly regrets it]]]].

* Due to his blood disease ComicBook/{{Morbius}} was pale even before the scientific accident that transformed him into a living vampire, but after it it turned him outright creepy. The lack of melanin in his skin makes it pure white, while his hair has remained completely black.
* Moon from ''ComicBook/PocketGod'' is a {{goth}} girl who is fascinated by death and likes doing fatal stunts for the thrill, knowing that she will always [[ResurrectiveImmortality resurrect]] if she dies. Her paleness is especially noticeable because the other pygmies have dark skin.

** Toph Beifong also appears like this when Aang first sees her in a mysterious vision, but when he actually meets her, she [[SubvertedTrope turns out to be]] a tomboyish and non-eerie LittleMissBadass.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' -- the SequelSeries -- subverted this once again with Asami Sato. The creators were initially going for the aesthetic of a mysterious FemmeFatale, but they ultimately decided to make her a permanent addition to the TrueCompanions once she became popular among the fans. Asami then became a LoveInterest for Mako and finally for [[spoiler:Korra herself]].

* Invoked by Lilith Clawthorne from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' as per WordOfGod. She started out with the skin-tone, but dyed and straightened the curly red-brown mop she had as a teenager (along with [[TheGlassesGottaGo ditching her spectacles]]) for the express purpose of looking more imposing and matching the raven theme of the Emperor's Coven.

* ''Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay''. PirateGirl Trinica Dracken has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] but otherwise plays this straight; her pale white skin and hair contrasted with her [[EvilWearsBlack black clothing]] and [[BlackEyesOfEvil contact lenses]] gives her an UndeathlyPallor that strikes fear into her crew, let alone her enemies. It's an InvokedTrope as she was once a great beauty, but having clawed her way up from being a SexSlave Trinica thinks she's SoBeautifulItsACurse, and would rather be TheDreaded.

Related to CreepyLonerGirl. Compare and contrast AloofDarkHairedGirl, RavenHairIvorySkin, and StringyHairedGhostGirl. See also ButNotTooBlack. Not to be confused with UndeathlyPallor.

* ''Series/AlexRider'': Kyra, with overtones of punk. Her look is heavily based on [[Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo Lisbeth Salander]] and is clearly meant to contrast with blond, tan, clean-cut Alex.

* Levana, the titular ''Webcomic/VampireGirl''.

* ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'': Hagoromo-Gitsune, as opposed to the ''VisualNovel/TogainuNoChi'' example above, ''is'' monochromatic; she has black eyes, [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow black hair]], wears black serafuku with a white ribbon and has pale white skin that would make Literature/SnowWhite look tan.

* Shiki from ''VisualNovel/TogainuNoChi'' has skin that's practically white and black hair. Were it not for his {{red eyes| take warning}}, in fact, he would have a very monochromatic appearance since he wears black all the time.