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Adaptation Dye-Job in this franchise.

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Multiple Media

Comic Books

  • An odd example within one medium: The second Robin, Jason Todd. Pre-Crisis, he had red hair (kind of strawberry blond), permanently dyed black. Post-Crisis, he had naturally black hair. After coming back from the dead, he started out with black hair with a white streak, but now has dark red hair with a white streak, since the dye has apparently grown out. Now with the reboot, he's back to black again.
  • The traditionally red-haired Pamela Isley is portrayed as a blonde in Batman: Two Faces.

Films

  • The Dark Knight Trilogy
    • In Batman Begins the usually vibrant green-eyed Ra's al Ghul (possibly a side effect of the Lazarus Pit) is played by the blue-eyed Liam Neeson. The white streaks in his hair and goatee are accurate though.
    • Arnold Flass from Batman: Year One was blond, while in Batman Begins he's dark haired.
    • In The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent, who is a brunette in the comics, is played by blond Aaron Eckhart.
    • The Joker has permanently bleached white skin and green hair in the comics and previous film adaptation, thanks to falling into a vat of chemical. Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight has normal Caucasian colored-skin and dark hair and he just paints his skin white and dyes his hair green, which befits the more realistic universe.
    • The Gordon Family have different hair from the comics. Jim being an older man has had grey hair in the comics and most media for decades, in the Nolan films however he's gotten a Age Lift (being played by Gary Oldman in his late 40s) and has brown hair, although the New 52 comics would depict him as younger and brunette as well. Jim's wife Barbara and daughter (Batgirl in the comics) are both redheaded in the comics, while they're both brunette in The Dark Knight. Additionally James Gordon Jr is a redheaded in the comics but has blond hair in the film.
  • In a reverse example, Chase Meridian from Batman Forever had blond hair in the movie. When she became a Canon Immigrant in the comics years later, she was now depicted as a redhead.
  • Batman: Soul of the Dragon: In the comics, Lady Eve is black-haired while King Snake is blonde, but here they're blonde and redheaded, respectively.
  • In Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, Veronica Vreeland, who is a redhead in Batman: The Animated Series has blond hair. This may have been done to distinguish her from Barbara Gordon in the same scene.

Live-Action TV

Video Games:

Western Animation

  • Batman: The Animated Series saw Killer Croc's skin go from green to grey, though when it came back as The New Batman Adventures, it returned to the green.
  • Harley Quinn: Nora Fries has white hair, unlike in Batman TAS and the comics where Nora is blonde.

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