Basic Trope: Dead things fade to a monochromic color scheme.
- Straight: Bob dies, causing his skin to fade to gray.
- Exaggerated: Bob's skin, clothes, and hair all fade to gray upon death.
- Downplayed: Bob's eyes lose a bit of their color and his skin loses some of its saturation, but nothing on his body fully fades to a monochromatic color scheme.
- Justified:
- Bob lost a lot of blood, and so the blood loss makes his skin appear grey.
- Bob is a magical being with his colors indicating what powers he has, which he obviously can't use after death.
- Bob is a robot with his color scheme being an active projection that deactivates to reveal his real gray colors underneath when he dies.
- Inverted: Bob is normally gray, but his body gains all the colors of the rainbow after he dies.
- Subverted: Bob starts fading to gray, only for him to turn out to not be dying.
- Double Subverted: Bob then gets a heart attack and dies anyway, his body fading to gray.
- Parodied: Bob's last action before dying is to spray-paint his skin gray.
- Zig Zagged: Bob's corpse is merely desaturated, but not fully monochromatic.
- Averted: Bob's corpse stays the same color it was when he was alive.
- Enforced:
- The writers need a clear sign that Bob is dead without saying anything.
- The console's palette contains no desaturated colors, gray is the closest the developers can get to pale.
- Lampshaded: "Judging by his less than sunny palette, I think it is safe to say he's dead."
- Invoked: Bob is cursed such that his skin will fade to gray upon death.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz has his soldiers paint themselves gray and play dead so Bob's friends will not see their sneak attack coming.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why do dead things have no color?"
- Implied: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played For Laughs:???
- Played For Drama: ???
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