Marvel Universe
Adaptation Dye-Job in this franchise.Comic Books
The following have their own pages:
- The Avengers: Granted, the first two people to hold the Swordsman identity, Jacques Duquesne and Phillip Javert, did have black hair, but the Swordsman of Heroes Reborn, who's also a noirette, falls under this due to being revealed to be his reality's Deadpool, who was originally blond.
- Captain America: Due to wearing his mask all the time or actually having a literal Skull for a Head depending on the comic, the Red Skull's hair color is depicted inconsistently. Earliest versions of Skull's backstory depict him as blonde, while a 1960s story arc in which he switches bodies with Captain America shows the hair as black, though it has Cap narrate that he somehow made it "much darker" while disguising in the case that somebody actually knew what Skull's face looked like. Creator/Greg Pak's Red Skull: Incarnate depicts Skull's hair as red, and his hair appears to be black when the mask is partially broken by Magneto in Avengers vs. X-Men.
- The Mighty Thor:
- In some of the original myths, Thor is a Fiery Redhead (others do actually have him as a blonde), something the lesser-known DC Comics New Gods version of the character reflects. This is justified by the cyclic nature of Ragnarok in the Marvel Universe: each time Thor is reborn, minor details are changed. The Thor of previous Ragnarok cycle did have red hair, but the Thor we know is blonde. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby may have been inspired by the very popular 1872 painting Thor's Fight with the Giants by Mårten Eskil Winge which depicts a blonde clean-shaven Thor eerily similar to the Marvel version.
- Marvel's version of the goddess Sif has black hair, rather than gold; this was because the myth of Loki shearing her head in her sleep and having to replace it was changed in this version. Like in the original mythology, he commissioned the dwarves to forge new hair, but didn't pay them what he originally promised. Thus, instead of golden hair, they made black hair to spite him. Fortunately, Thor thought Sif looked even more beautiful as a brunette, so it all ended well.
- Loki is a brunet in the marvel comics, redhead in the original myths.
- Ultimate Marvel:
- Sharon Carter has red hair rather than blond.
- In Ultimate X Men, Nightcrawler's fur and hair go from blue to black (then, later on, it gets dyed back to blue).
Films
The following have their own pages:
X-Men Film Series
- Storm's eyes are blue in the comics, but in the movie-verse, they're brown because Halle Berry refused to wear contacts.note
- In the comics, Magneto has been shown to have had white hair for the vast majority of his adult life, presumably as a side-effect of his mutation (or just as likely due to the trauma of Auschwitz). In the films, he's introduced with grey hair (though only because, lacking Comic-Book Time, the screenwriters had to make him the realistic age of a Holocaust survivor), and he has dark brown hair as a younger man in the First Class trilogy.
- Professor Charles Xavier in the comics was blond before he lost his hair, but his movie counterpart is a brunet.
- Liev Schreiber's Sabretooth in X-Men Origins: Wolverine has short black hair rather than the long blonde mane from the comics and first movie which Tyler Mane appropriately rocked.
- Taylor Kitsch's Gambit from the same movie has normal blue eyes unlike the comics where he's got red irises and black sclera. Whether this due to Kitsch refusing to wear contacts like Halle Berry or just a production oversight is unknown. Although when first using his power to attack Wolverine in the film, his irises do go red briefly.
- Ray Park's Toad has green skin and dark-green highlighted hair instead of normal skin and the brown hair of the comics, though since Toads can be green in real life Ray Park's portrayal is perfectly fine. Toad in X-Men: Days of Future Past is more accurate to his comic appearance though admittedly he wouldn't know it was him till his Overly-Long Tongue comes out.
- Yukio sports natural black hair in the Wolverine mini-series but has dyed red hair in The Wolverine. Deadpool 2 retains the black hair, but adds dyed pink highlights.
- Viper is blond rather than green-haired like in the comics.
- Weasel has light brown hair instead of his usual black.
- Psylocke's hair is purple in the comics, but her film counterpart is raven-haired with purple highlights.
- Deadpool is depicted as a brunet instead of a blond pre-mutation.
Other Marvel Movies
- Johnny Storm went from blond to brown hair when they brought Fantastic Four (2005) to film. Ben Grimm went from brown-haired to bald.
- Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors: Neither the comic version of Quake nor the version Chloe Bennet plays in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have had dyed hair, but here she's got dyed purple tips.
- Live-action Daisy gets purple highlights in season six of AoS (probably to make her look more like her Rising counterpart).
- Due to their Age Lift, instead of having gray hair both Cassandra Webb and Ezekiel Sims have black hair in Madame Web (2024), though Ezekiel's vision of his death at the hands of the Spider-Women has him with the comics-correct gray colouring.
- Thor: Tales of Asgard:
- Valkyrie usually has blond hair, but in the movie, her hair is white.
- Small one, but Loki's hair in both the comic and movie is clearly a jet-black. It's not clear why it was changed to brown, but possibly it was due to the problems of shading and giving depth to entirely black hair in animation. Who's to say it won't eventually turn black, after what happened in the end?
- In the comics Sif has blue eyes, but here her eyes go back and forth between being blue and being brown.
Live-Action TV
- Legion (2017):
- In the comics, David Haller has black hair, but in the show, it's light brown. It's also more normal and realistic than the towering Anime Hair he has in the source material.
- The comic book version of Charles Xavier is blue-eyed and was blond before he went bald, but his TV counterpart has green irises and dark brown hair. The latter is a deliberate nod to the X-Men Film Series, where the younger Professor X is a brunet as well.
- The original Gabrielle Haller is raven-haired with brown eyes, whereas the show's Gabrielle Xavier note is brown-haired with green eyes.
Western Animation
- Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Though her hair changes to its traditional black color when in her Madame Masque persona, Whitney Stane has blond hair. Abigail Brand also has black hair in the series instead of her trademark green.
- Iceman went from brown hair to blond when animated for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and Wolverine and the X-Men (2009).
- In the comics, Jane Foster has naturally brown hair, which turns blond whenever she transforms into Thor. In Avengers Assemble, it's blond even while she's in her human form.
- In The Fantastic Four (1967), Galactus has green skin and a suit of blue armor instead of pink skin and purple armor.
- In The Fantastic Four (1978), Lockjaw has white fur instead of brown.
- The Kree Supreme Intelligence is almost always green... except for the time he appeared in Silver Surfer: The Animated Series, in which he was inexplicably colored red.
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: In the original The Avengers comics, Princess Ravonna had red hair. In the series, however, she has black hair and is made Ambiguously Brown to boot.
- X-Men: The Animated Series: Dazzler was a redhead rather than a blonde.
- The Marvel Super Heroes: The series did this to the Hulk and Iron Man. The cartoon depicting Hulk's origin made him his standard green instead of the gray he was when he first transformed. As well, a few cartoons sporting Iron Man's Golden Armor was recolored to match his modern day red and gold scheme.
- The Incredible Hulk (1982): The series changed Rick Jones' hair color from brown to blond.
- The Incredible Hulk (1996): Betty Ross is a blonde, despite being a brunette in the comics.
