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* ''Anime/{{Gigantor}}'': Demon Beast Prince Gura, a CanonForeigner introduced in The 80s series. He is Uchuumaoh's son, making him an AlienPrince, and he has cyan-shaded hair.

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They live among us, but underneath those tufts is a facade - they're someone [[HumanShifting literally]] [[DevilInDisguise out]] [[HumanAliens of]] [[HughMann this]] [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith world]]. Non-human, supernatural creatures are often coded with unusual hair colours to show their otherness, in contrast to "normal" characters that have red, blonde, brown, or black hair. While this trope often applies to [[purple:purple]] hair, can also include [[green:green]], [[pink:pink]], [[blue:blue]], white and many others.

If the setting is one where everyone, regardless if they're human or not, has unnatural hair colours, see WorldOfTechnicolorHair. MysticalWhiteHair is a subtrope. This trope may or may not be related to AlienPrincess, AmazingTechnicolorPopulation, and PowerDyesYourHair.

* ''Literature/AntiMagicAcademy'': Lapis is a Relic Eater that takes the form of a girl with purple hair. On the other hand, the human characters have realistic hair colors.
* ''Anime/BakuganBattleBrawlers'': The second season, ''New Vestroia'', introduced the Vestals, [[HumanAliens a race of aliens that look almost identical to humans]], with their only non-human traits being their EmptyEyes and this trope.

** The [[SpacePirates Arcadia Crew]] is made up entirely of humans, except for Miime, an alien from Planet Jura. She is a cute humanoid [[TokenHeroicOrc alien]] woman with long, flowing, stringy, purple hair. Though even without that, you'd be able to tell she's the token alien with her glowing yellow eyes, grey skin, and lack of mouth.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has a variant with Saiyan power ups - Saiyans that surpass their Super Saiyan forms have glowing blue and crimson hair.

* ''Anime/{{Raideen}}'': [[spoiler:Akira Hibiki's MissingMom, Reiko, a.k.a Princess Lemuria]], has blue-green hair. She's actually from the lost Mu Empire and came to Japan as a refugee after her homeworld was sunk, [[spoiler: meaning that her son is half-Mu]]. She inherited her green hair from her father.

* ''Anime/VoltesV'': [[spoiler: Kentaro Go has purple hair. He's a Boazanian himself. Even though he was born as the Crown Prince of Boazan, due to the fact that he had no horns, he was deemed a "cursed child" by his father, as only those with horns were allowed to become nobles. To prevent their name from attaining shame, his parents ordered him to wear prosthetics. However, when his [[PrincelingRivalry jealous cousin]] revealed his secret, he was enslaved, but started leading rebellions with his fellow slaves. After he attempted to overthrow the FantasticCasteSystem one too many times, he was forced to flee the planet. The upper-class Boazanians who benefited from slavery saw his actions as "betrayal" and [[UnPerson Un Personed]] his name from all their records, hence Prince Heinel not knowing that he was his father]].

--> He continued his search until he came across 4 color coded... things, he couldn't actually tell what they were but he figured that they would make good little slaves if he prodded their minds the right way.
* ''Fanfic/ACertainMagicalFriendship'': The ponies-turned-humans due to changing worlds, keep their non-human hair colors, such as Rainbow Dash's eponymous rainbow hair, due to how the transfer works, and even though they're biologically human, it marks them as supernatural.
* ''Fanfic/TheDresdenFillies'': ''Great Power'': Chapter Four: The visiting ponies-turned-humans by magic and from another world, keep their non-human hair colors, such as multicolored hair, as a choice of the caster, instead of forcibly aligning them to natural human colors:

* ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'' (''Franchise/HarryPotter/WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' {{crossover}}): The Mane 6 have to use a spell to dye their naturally bright-colored hair black or brown so they won't attract attention.

** All the aliens that come from Sonic's home planet to Earth - including Sonic - have fur colours that are impossible to find on normal animals. The one exception is [[spoiler:Rouge]], who has albinism and therefore has white fur.
** [[spoiler:Kaia]] at first glance is a normal human, and Tom assumes her blue-green hair is dyed. As you'd expect from this trope, it's not dyed - [[spoiler:it's one of the many parts of her MeaningfulAppearance that hints she's a water goddess]]. The exact shade of her hair changes depending on her emotional state.

* ''Film/Zombies2018'': In the first movie, Addison Wells says her natural-born white hair cannot be dyed and nothing sticks; she also claims she wore a wig to hide it "as long as [she] can remember." In the second movie, her hair glows as a strange meteor falls out of the sky. In the miniseries she's the only one immune to Vanna's vampire hypnosis, which according to her should be impossible, causing Vanna to ask her WhatTheHellAreYou. [[spoiler:The third movie reveals all this is because Addison is a quarter alien, her hair turning blue to further reflect this.]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'': {{Downplayed}}. The four supporters - Ziin, Kekera (in human form, anyway), Beroba, and Kyuun - all have natural hair colours. But each one has a different, unnaturally-coloured streak. Blue for Ziin, green for Kekera, pink for Beroba, and yellow for Kyuun. This denotes at a glance that they're from the far future, where they are allowed to take any form they so choose.
* ''Series/KishiryuSentaiRyusoulger'': {{Downplayed}}. One thing that separates the Ryusoul Tribe from ordinary humans apart from their long lifespans is that some of them can have naturally blue hair, like Melto. However, the rest of the team has otherwise naturally-colored hair.

** The Fey Wanderer ranger subclass is a ranger who's been exposed to the [[LandOfFaerie Feywild]] and has some fae traits, which can manifest in unusual hair colour.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Gnomes are originally from the [[LandOfFaerie First World]] (''Pathfinder''[='=]s version of the Feywild), and can have unusual hair colours (bright green being a common one). They can also suffer from an inversion; gnomes who don't have enough whimsy and excitement in their life suffer from a [[FictionalDisability terminal condition]] called The Bleaching, where they lose all their colour.

* ''VideoGame/{{Chantelise}}'': Humans that have been transformed into a fairy and reverted keep the fairy form's new hair color, which are different from human hair colors. For example, green, or silver.
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', where the black-haired waif Sera is considered to have an abnormal hair color by Junkyard standards; the party alone has red, green, lilac, pink, and silver. The sequel then plays it straight; [[spoiler:revealing that Sera is from Earth, and everyone in the Junkyard except for her is a ghost or a sentient AI]].
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'': [[spoiler:[[BigBad Lord Sombron]] is from another dimension, so his humanoid form has all sorts of unnatural features to emphasize this, such as his ThirdEye, [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eyes]], [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Gray Skin]], etc. His hair is also a very unusual shade of purple-ish red, a hair color that no almost no other character in [[Franchise/FireEmblem the franchise]] has, even in [[WorldOfTechnicolorHair Worlds of Technicolor Hair]].]]
* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': Some faeries have purple hair to signify that they're magical. Among them are [[TheHighQueen Queen Fyora]] and [[AmbiguouslyEvil Jhudora]].
* Hallelujah in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' has silver hair [[spoiler:that turns hot pink when in demon form]].
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiV'': Aogami has bright blue hair; when he [[FusionDance fuses with]] the protagonist, their Nahobino form has ankle-length blue hair. [[spoiler:Fitting, for a god of the ocean]].
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'': The humans in the setting largely have normal hair colours of blond, brown, black, and grey from aging, with all odder colours associated with the supernatural spirits, like the Great Spirit Muzét, who has teal hair. Milla Maxwell, the Lord of Spirits [[GodInHumanForm temporarily taking human form]], is otherwise blonde with an errant strand of hair styled green by the Great Spirit of Wind, Sylph. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Milla was HumanAllAlong, and when she dies and reincarnates into a spirit herself, her blonde hair turns entirely green]].
* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': VoluntaryShapeshifter enemies, in their natural form, have snakes for hair.

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* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': Some of the former Forest denizens who [[HumanityEnsues became human]] have unusual hair colours like blue, green, and pink. The colours are muted in their [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=314 physical bodies]] but [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=987 vivid]] in the SpiritWorld.
* ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'': {{Inverted}} in this {{isekai}} webcomic. Protagonist Chiaki Koizumi has regular black hair, but the world she gets sent to is one where [[WorldOfTechnicolorHair hair colours like green and purple are quite common]].
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' has an alternate dimension where all the counterparts of the regular (human) cast have purple hair, and speak Portuguese for some reason.
* ''{{Webcomic/Unsounded}}'': The waterwomen have hair in shades of blue and green and despite being relatively humanoid are impossibly ancient beings much older than humanity that survived the destruction of the deathless "first word" into the "second word". Waterwomen do not operate on the same basic biologic rules as normal animals; their "blood" is the water in which they live and they cannot reproduce, instead regrowing from their "pearl" when their bodies are ruined.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{hololive}}'': The first wave of hololive English, [=HoloMyth=], consists of four [[CuteMonsterGirl Cute Monster Girls]] and one TokenHuman girl. They are:

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* ''WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignThree'': Imogen and her mother are humans who both have naturally purple hair, implied to be because they are Exaltant Ruidusborn, gifted with abilities by the red moon Ruidus [[spoiler:which is actually a prison for a god eater]].

* ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'':
** ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInAMermaidTale'': Merliah Summers, despite being a natural blonde, suddenly sprouts pink hair out of nowhere after a surfing competition. She then realizes that she can speak to aquatic animals and breathe underwater. She then learns that while her father is a human, her mother, Queen Calissa, is a mermaid, and she needs to be saved from her cruel sister Eris.
** ''WesternAnimation/BarbieFairytopia'': The residents of Fairytopia have hair that's blue (such as Nori, Lumina, Rayla and Willa) and purple (such as Glee, Henna and Shimmer). [[AlphaBitch Rayna]] and [[TheDitz Talayla]] have pink hair.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Raven has purple hair. She is a HumanDemonHybrid as her father is [[{{Satan}} Trigon the Terrible]] and her mother is a human woman. Trigon created her with the intention of bringing ruin to the world, but she defies him every time. This stands out in comparison with the normal human characters --Robin, Aqualad, and Bumblebee are black-haired; Speedy and Kid Flash have auburn; etc. The only exception is Beast Boy, who got dyed green as a side effect of taking the cure for a mysterious disease.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': All the human characters have brown, black, or blonde as their hair color. Now, of course, there are magical beings sporting those shades too but blue, purple, pink, and green are perfectly common as well --or they have non-dyed strikes of a different color. Furthermore, this trope is used to indicate that Roxy is the last Earth fairy the Winx are seeking in the fourth season. Her bright, pink with yellow tips hair stands out like a sore thumb any time she's in a human crowd.

* ''Anime/BakuganBattleBrawlers'': Mira, Ace, and Baron are Vestals, [[HumanAliens a race of aliens that look almost identical to humans]], with their only non-human traits being their EmptyEyes and this trope.

* ''Anime/BakuganBattleBrawlers'': Mira, Ace, and Baron are Vestals, a race of aliens that look almost identical to humans, with their only non-human traits being their EmptyEyes and this trope.

They live among us, but underneath those tufts is a facade - they're someone [[HumanShifting literally]] [[DevilInDisguise out]] [[HumanAliens of]] [[HughMann this]] [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith world]]. Non-human, supernatural creatures are often coded with unusual hair colours to show their otherness, in contrast to "normal" characters that have red, blonde, brown, or black hair. While this trope often applies to purple hair, can also include [[color:green:green]], [[color:pink:pink]], [[color:blue:blue]], white and many others.

They live among us, but underneath those tufts is a facade, and they're not what they seem. Perhaps they have a dark secret, or they're someone [[HumanShifting literally]] [[DevilInDisguise out]] [[HumanAliens of]] [[HughMann this]] [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith world]]. Non-human, supernatural creatures are often coded with purple hair because it isn't a natural hair colour like red, blonde, or black. However, this trope can also include green, pink, blue, white and many others.

They live among us, but underneath those tufts is a facade, and they're not what they seem. Perhaps they have a dark secret, or they're someone [[HumanShifting literally]] [[DevilInDisguise out]] [[HumanAliens of]] [[HughMann this]] [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith world]]. Non-human, supernatural creatures are often coded with purple hair because it isn't a natural hair colour like red, blonde, or black, and is the colour often favoured for [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple fashion choices]] and [[MysteriousPurple mystery]]. However, this trope can also include green, pink, blue, white and many others.

May overlap with NotQuiteHuman.

* ''Anime/{{Raideen}}'': [[spoiler:Akira Hibiki's MissingMom, Reiko]], has blue-green hair. She's actually from the lost Mu Empire and came to Japan as a refugee after her homeworld was sunk.

* ''Anime/GurrenLagann'': Nia Teppelin is [[spoiler:an artificial being made by the Anti spirals]], and has multicoloured, cloud-like pale blue/shiny blonde hair. She is the only non-human amongst the main cast. While ''Anime/GurrenLagann'' is a case of WorldOfTechnicolorHair, the human characters are restricted to a single hair colour, such as Simon's blue and Yoko's red.

* ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'':
** The [[SpacePirate Arcadia Crew]] is made up entirely of humans, except for Miime, an alien from Planet Jura. She is a cute humanoid [[TokenHeroicOrc alien]] woman with long, flowing, stringy, purple hair. Though even without that, you'd be able to tell she's the token alien with her glowing yellow eyes, grey skin, and lack of mouth.