Manic panic

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In TSS, Ghaleon's hair seems to be a steely blue-greenish silver (verdigris?).  Meanwhile, in EB, his hair's more dullish straw, part of his washed-out, weary palette (hat tip to steelstrings for pointing this out).  Ghal's the archetypical silver-haired ojiisan bishounen now, but when I first got into Lunar, I found his "initial" hair color memorably unusual and pretty.



TSS Dyne, meanwhile, has hair so light in his portrait you could call it red.  TSS Laike does, rather.  Perhaps it works for Laike's Scottish-inspired design, but Dyne's so earthy that I can't see him with such an unstable palette.




In those heady SNES days when sprites did not have to match chara art, overworld and battle Cecil had lavender-looking hair (though maybe it's supposed to be a muddled grey, who knows).  Doesn't work on him  -  it's an obvious stylistic choice to avoid a "boring" all-white palette in his sprites, one of those attempts to craft instead the illusion of white through the use of several soft pastels.  Good thing we all agree the portrait image is the default!


Then again, by that logic, Cid has a big, bushy blue beard, and I always pictured him to be a brunet, like his sprite.




I rolled my eyes when RE5 turned Jill blonde (and teenage), but looking back at her REmake chara model and even her live-action roots, the question isn't cut-and-blowdried, is it.







Amano says Terra doesn't have green hair, but come on, now.  These illustrations look better with the white, though.

It's not like I can't picture Simon Belmont as a redhead, though his old-school Conan image is pretty well fixed in my old-school mind.  But I can't picture him this red, this Hot Topicky, and he's never had red hair in a non-ridiculous outfit.




The 7th Saga's Wilme pulls perhaps the ultimate hair-change trick  -  while his Japanese art identifies him as a furry tigerman, his U.S. art renders him an insectoid alien with no hair at all!  His battle sprite can be interpreted either as striped tiger or hairless golem.  His hairy form must make that flaming-arm attack of his much more chancy, though.








I think (PS2 spoilers in this video) that Mama Brain outshines us all, though.  (It's 2012, and no one's made an anigif of this?  Really?)
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