Basic Trope: Either a character's hair is said to be a normal colour but looks like a similar, yet way less normal, colour, or a character's hair is an unusual colour but viewers falsely remember it to be a normal colour.
- Straight:
- Alice is said to have black hair by everyone in the cartoon she features in, but to people viewing the show, it's actually navy blue.
- Alice has navy blue hair but a lot of viewers falsely remember it as being black.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's hair is said to be black, but it's actually pink.
- Every single viewer has a different opinion on what colour Alice's hair is.
- Downplayed:
- Only a few viewers remember Alice with black hair.
- Alice's hair is a reddish-brown that varies a bit due to animation errors, so some viewers think she's a brunette and others think she's a redhead.
- Justified:
- Alice's natural hair colour is black, but she dyes it blue. However, she doesn't bleach it and it comes out an extremely dark blue that's only noticeable in bright light.
- The show has a lot of animation errors and Alice is the only character with weird-coloured hair, so the viewers presume that Alice's navy blue hair is just another animation error.
- Alice's hair color sits between the two colors it's associated with. (EG: Alice's hair sits perfectly between Chestnut and Auburn.)
- Inverted: Alice has black hair, but everyone (either the viewers or the characters) says it's blue.
- Subverted:
- Alice's hair appears navy blue in the first season but turns black afterwards.
- At first, people start remembering Alice's hair as black, but when the next season starts with fewer errors, they begin to see that it's blue.
- Double Subverted:
- Then on the third season, it turns blue again but they still say it's black.
- On the third season, the viewers start wondering if Alice's hair really is black.
- Parodied: Alice is a character on a Show Within a Show whose hair is clearly neon green, but the viewers see it as brown.
- Zigzagged:
- Alice's hair keeps changing colour and/or characters keep referring to it as different colours.
- Some viewers think Alice's hair is black, others know it is navy blue, and some think it's a different colour like indigo.
- Averted: Alice's hair colour is clear.
- Enforced: "This black clashes with the rest of the cartoon, let's make her hair dark blue, the audience will never be able to tell the difference."
- Lampshaded: "Is it just me or does my hair look almost blue?"
- Invoked: Bob is cryptic about what colour Alice's hair is meant to be.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "My hair is blue!"
- Discussed: "I used to live next door to this woman. Her hair was black I think, but if you looked at her the right way, it looked almost navy blue."
- Conversed: "Why does everyone say Alice's hair is black? It's clearly dark blue!"
- Implied: Alice is an offscreen character in a Show Within a Show. Avid fan Bob mentions that he’s not sure if Alice’s hair is black or blue.
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
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