Drawing Someone With Blonde Hair in Black and White

"A race that only exists in anime."

Cousin of the Dark-Skinned Redhead, opposite of Raven Hair, Ivory Skin and the Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette. If the series is matching Hair Colors to personalities, the Dark-Skinned Blond is often a Dumb Blonde if female (whereas the Dark-Skinned Redhead is often hotheaded). The trope may have some relation to the Ganguro fashion trend that took over Japan for part of The '90s, consisting of bleached hair and an artificial tan. There are also many Dark-Skinned Blond males, though there aren't really any discernible stereotypes associated with them in Japanese works, except that bleached hair is often seen as a sign of delinquency.

The addition of a Dark-Skinned Blond in the cast often adds a foreign flavor to the show, and it is not uncommon for the Dark-Skinned Blond to be of uncertain or dubious origin. This appearance is also sometimes used for fantasy races or ethnic groups with no real-life equivalent. The fact that very few people in real life have this natural combination of hair and skin helps to create this impression, with the exception of surfers or others who spend lots of time in the sun, as the sun bleaches hair and darkens tans, sometimes to extreme degrees. It's also common for a Dark-Skinned Blond to be of mixed heritage—see here for some Real Life examples—and have their appearance handwaved through this, but more often than not, it just goes unexplained; light hair on dark characters is simply easier to draw and frames the face very well. Although this is by no means unheard of in real life, it is much more common in fiction than in reality.

The trope also shows up with some frequency in Western works (either animated or live action), where it will either take the form of a very tan-skinned blond or a non light skinned person with bleached hair. These characters will often play the role of either The Ditz (often a Valley Girl) or the Jerk Jock; in fact, the "arrogant, tanned, blond villain" has been a stock character in Professional Wrestling almost from its inception (see below). More benign examples may appear as Surfer Dudes, since you can easily acquire a gnarly tan from extended exposure to the sun on the beach. Note that how much a person tans due to sun exposure is genetic: depending on a person's ethnic background even if they are otherwise pale-skinned they might very well tan enough to fit this trope with even limited sun exposure. This can be especially common among those with Mediterranean ancestry.

Much in the same way that blonde hair and blue eyes have become the Phenotype Stereotype for Caucasian people, Dark-Skinned Blond is becoming—perhaps over more realistic choices—common for characters who are supposed to be of Indian or Indonesian descent. Blond hair and dark skin does occur frequently among children in the Aboriginal people of Australia and elsewhere in the South Pacific, due to a genetic mutation which arose independently from the one which causes blond hair in people of European descent, but it usually darkens with age—see here for a Real Life example.

Incidentally, any skin/hair combination darker than "peaches and cream" and lighter than "auburn" can go here. (Light brunettes with dark skin may also fit, but that's pushing it.)

See also Ambiguously Brown.

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    Anime and Manga

• Urd of Ah! My Goddess, who's a half-demon Goddess. She bears an extremely strong resemblance to her mother, Hild, who also qualifies.
• Mika from Akkan Baby seems to invoke this, as her overall appearance calls to mind the ganguro subculture (which involves tan skin, exaggerated brightly colored makeup, and dyed blonde/bleached hair).
• Easily explainable example: Angel Sanctuary has some demons, e.g. Kurai, which have natural dark skin and pale hair.
• Riokku and Dinoponera from Arachnid have dark skin and white hair. The first is a hot-headed muscular man, while the latter is is a smarmy, violent girl.
• Athena Glory from ARIA is one of these, despite the fact that she has purple hair—she's a bit of a Genius Ditz, part Cloudcuckoolander, and very much in line with the trope otherwise.
• Julie Makimoto of Bakugan Battle Brawlers and her entire family all have dark skin and white hair. Add the fact that she's from Eagleland, looks black, and has a Japanese last name and...well...
• Sela D Miranda from Basquash!.
• Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
  • LADDER Vice Chairman Aga Mbadi has blond hair and dark skin. With his buzz-cut, he's also (almost) a Bald Black Leader Guy.
  • Buffoonish Chairman, whom Mbadi manipulates around, is a much shorter and chubbier variation of the same coloring.
• Black Butler's Agni is from India, but has blond hair anyway. Hannah Anafeloz in Black Butler II has dark skin and pale hair but then again she's a demoness.
• Janet "Greenback Jane" Bhai of Black Lagoon, a blonde Indian woman who's also the resident Cute Clumsy Girl.
• Bleach: Tier Harribel, the Tercera Espada (third most powerful Arrancar) in the service of Lord Aizen.
• Monique from Blood+.
• Blue Ramun: Despite taking place in an "Arabian Nights" Days setting, Airi the Alchemist is perhaps the only character drawn with shaded skin and pale hair. She only appears in the black and white manga pages, but protagonist Jessie calls out the fact that Airi must be a foreigner because of her "brown skin and white hair."
• Miyu from BREAK THE BORDER is a tall blonde with tanner skin than the other characters. It's explicitly a tan because she had lighter skin in flashbacks. Miyu's tan is a sign of her sporty personality.
• Lisa Vanette from "Scoop Chase", episode 8 of the original Bubblegum Crisis, may be one of the earliest examples. While a city in Japan, MegaTokyo is a multicultural melting pot, and Lisa probably counts as a "foreigner" because she has both a French name and an uncle who is black (Chief Todo of the AD Police).
• The title character of Canaan is from the Middle East, has darker skin than the primarily Asian cast, and has white-blond hair. Like the Archer example, this is not natural—she was exposed to the UA virus and one of the side-effects was how her originally dark hair turned white.
• Case Closed
  • Tooru Amuro (or better said, Rei Furuya) has dark skin and blond hair.
  • Much earlier, a certain case involved four ganguro girls being attacked and severely beaten up by a mysterious person who sneaks behind them and hits them with clubs. One of them sustains fatal injuries.
• Noé from The Case Study of Vanitas is tan-skinned, white-haired, and red-eyed.
• Sherry Cromwell in A Certain Magical Index. Apart from making her really stand out at a time that's not very convenient for her, it doesn't appear to mean much. It's also indicated that her parents were a mixed-race couple.
• Aion from Chrono Crusade, although he has white hair instead of blond.
• Hot Scientist Rakshata Chawla of Code Geass is officially from India but has blonde hair. This is never really explained, but considering that green and purple heads also appear in that universe without much explanation, it may not be such a big deal. Likewise, Ace Pilot Villeta Nu has pale blue hair and dark skin.
• Chelsea Muir from Coyote Ragtime Show, a ditzy ex-cop and sidekick to an Inspector Javert that looks like Angelina Jolie.
• Pyunma, aka Cyborg 008, from Cyborg 009.
• Gloria from Daphne in the Brilliant Blue.
• Shaenando ◊ from the manhwa Dark Air.
• Koshio Karako, self-proclaimed Proper Lady of Deadman Wonderland. It's safe to say her assessment is largely inaccurate.
• The Lunatic Magician of Delicious in Dungeon has brown skin and platinum blonde hair.
• Jasdevi and Jasdero from D.Gray-Man have blond hair and grey skin, though the Noah can't really be called "human". As of Hallow the Noah family design has been updated from grey to brown skin, playing this trope even straighter.
• Amri gets bullied by 2 of these alongside a Dark-Skinned Redhead in episode 2 of Durarara!!. They're all explicitly ganguro though.
• Fairy Tail
  • Sho, a minor character from the Tower of Heaven and one of Erza's old True Companions.
  • Brain, the leader of Oracion Seis, has dark skin and silver hair. Averted by his Superpowered Evil Side Zero, who keeps the silver hair but his dark skin immediately pales.
  • Tempester of Tartaros has dark skin with blond hair, though it's only truly noticeable in his reformatted base form, as his One-Winged Angel is a hulking Beast Man.
  • This is Acnologia's human form, though he has blue-hair.
• Bikky from FAKE, explained by his mixed heritage (Caucasian mom and African-American dad).
• Lieutenant Kitsurubami of FLCL (see above picture). Note that she shares her name with a shade of brown, referencing her skintone. She also has a visual Expy, Lal'C Mellk Mal from the later Studio Gainax series Diebuster.
• Flying Witch: Makoto's sister Akane has tanned skin and pale blonde (almost white) hair. When she visits the main characters a few of her neighbors even ask if she's Japanese. With her travels around in the desert the sun may have just given her a tan and bleached her hair.
• Food Wars!
  • Ikumi Mito, AKA "Nikumi" has short blond hair and stands out from the rest of the regular female characters as the only one with a darker skin tone. Flashbacks that show her as a child seem to imply it's natural for her.
  • Hayama Akira ◊ has somewhat darker than normal skin color, although his hair is actually silvery-white rather than blonde. Also note his bright green eyes.
• In the Fullmetal Alchemist manga/Brotherhood anime, the Ishvalans all have white hair, dark skin, and red eyes. In the first anime adaptation, the Ishbalans instead have black hair, but Scar's has turned white for some reason (strongly implied to be of traumatic origin).
• There's one (as an unnamed background character) on the subway platform in the first episode of Gantz.
• In Great Pretender, Dorothy has dark skin and brilliant platinum hair. The platinum hair seems like it could be dyed at first, since it's also pink on the underside. But there is some evidence it's natural: In The Stinger, an amnesiac Dorothy who's been living in a small fishing village has lost the pink undercoat, but is still platinum blonde.
• Gundam
  • Loran, the protagonist of ∀ Gundam. He has dark skin, but hair is technically white, though. From the same series, Miashei and Guin are more straight examples.
  • Dearka Elsman of Gundam SEED, another male example with dark skin and blond hair. Ironically, he's the least exotic-looking of the Gundam pilots...
  • Lt. Burning of Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory has blonde hair and very dark skin.
• Triela of Gunslinger Girl, a girl of uncertain origin. The manga strongly implied that she was from Eastern Europe early on, but revealed she was from Tunisia. At the end of the manga her genetic daughter Speranza also has this coloring, and her paternity is left ambiguous.
• The protagonist of Hagure Idol Jigokuhen Misora Haebaru has natural tanned skin and dyed blonde hair.
• Hanaukyō Maid Team La Verite. Yashima Sanae is the lieutenant to Head Security maid Konoe Tsurugi. She is slender, with dark brown skin and white hair. There was no information given in the anime about her origin.
• Gupta from Haré+Guu has his hair dyed blonde up till the tenth episode of the series. Asio could also be considered a toned down version of the trope. The series generally only seems to use dark skin to imply someone is originally from or a descendant of someone not from the city.
• Silver-haired Iktidar from Harukanaru Toki no Naka de falls under this trope, since he is usually depicted as having noticeably darker skin than the rest of the Oni (all of whom are supposed to have blond/fair hair), and in some illustrations, his hair is shown as white, further emphasizing the contrast. The Oni Clan are foreigners, technically speaking, and sport a combination of typical blond-haired-blue-eyed "gaijin" appearance and Theme Naming of Arabic/Persian origins.
• Kalia of El-Hazard: The Magnificent World, who technically has white or silver hair but fits in with the trope.
• Hellsing
  • Integra Hellsing has dark skin and blonde hair, explained (in the first anime series) by her being half-Indian.
  • Church Militant Alexander Anderson has dark skin and blond hair, with his appearance being Hand Waved via his uncertain origin (although it is possible that he may simply have a tan). The fact that he speaks with a Scottish accent in the English versions just makes this more confusing.
• Minato Ōba from Hyakko has dark skin and blonde hair.
• Arisa from Imadoki! has dark skin and blonde hair.
• Saji Genpou from Ikki Tousen has dark skin and blond hair, though he's definitely NOT ditzy. In the anime, when he retakes his place as Ouin Shishi, he turns into a Dark-Skinned Redhead.
• Hirohiko Araki, the author of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is very fond of this trope, especially with villainous characters, with the likes of Wamuu from Part 2, Mariah from Part 3, Terunosuke Miyamoto from Part 4, Tiziano from Part 5, and Pucci from Part 6. Vanilla Ice in Part 3 could also count, as he had white hair and dark skin in the manga and 1993 OVA but was switched to a brunette in the 2012 version.
• Jonah from Jormungand has white hair and red eyes, along with a deeply tan complexion due to being born in the Middle East.
• Rikio Kamamoto of K has dark skin and blonde hair.
• Barbara, one of Anna's partners in the second season of Kaleido Star.
• Kiddy Grade has A-ou, who is not just blond, but white-haired and dark-skinned.
• Kill la Kill:
  • Elite Four member Ira Gamagoori has blonde hair and a darker skin tone than the rest of the cast. While his father's ethnicity is never stated, it is mentioned that he was an American soldier stationed in Japan.
  • Rei Hououmaru is a borderline case, with brown skin and pale lilac hair.
• Ron in King of Thorn, the dark-skinned guy who didn't die first, became this as a consequence of his transformation sequence being interrupted.
• The dark elf Cloe from the hentai as well as eroge Kuroinu: Kedakaki Seijo wa Hakudaku ni Somaru fits this category.
• Love Hina has Kaolla Su and her sister Amalla Su. They're usually mistaken for Indian by other characters, but are from Molmol, an island somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Also, the blonde hair and other details show otherwise. She may also be partly based off of either the Californian or Australian surfer girl...and damn, they got it right!
• Liru in Magical Pokaan is a Dark-Skinned Blond Wolfgirl...
• Zafira of Lyrical Nanoha, an alien Ridiculously Human Program. Hayate was able to pass him off as a foreign relative together with the other Wolkenritter.
• Mizusawa, the hot-headed player of the high school boys soccer team, from Me & My Brothers.
• Atsuko Jackson from Michiko & Hatchin. Michiko calls her "Jambo", apparently to tease her for her dark skin.
• Midori Days, in an attempt to portray all American females (and then some), brings you Lucy Winladd, though her tanned skin color most likely comes from being outdoors a lot.
  • Main character Seiji – bleached-blond delinquent – counts as well, particularly in the anime where his skin is quite tan compared to most other characters.
• Mahya Blythe of My-Otome. Laula Bianchi, from the same series, has dark skin and cyan hair.
• In Naruto, Killer Bee, his brother the Raikage, and some other people from the Hidden Cloud Village seem to have dark skin and white hair. (Omoi, Killer Bee, and the Raikage are all depicted in color splash pages with pale blonde hair). Some like Karui on the other hand, fall under the category of Dark Skinned Red Head.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
  • Kuu Fei, an Expy of Kaolla Su and an Anime Chinese Girl, though whether anyone from China actually looks like her is a good question. Kuu Fei's skin coloring could be explained as a natural tan and her hair as a dye job, both of which is plausible for people from China to have.
  • Zazie Rainyday is also worth noting. It's anyone's guess for this or any other characteristic of hers, though.
  • Jack Rakan kind of counts.
  • Possibly Sister Shakti. She hasn't been in any colored images, but her hair doesn't have any screentones, so...
  • Third Imperial Princess, Theodora.
• Captain Axe-Hand Morgan from One Piece is one of the less attractive examples of this trope.
• Ouran High School Host Club has Mei Yasumura, a manga-only character and a friend of Haruhi. She's a ganguro girl (with less gaudy clothing choices), so her blonde hair and tan are fake.
• Aisha Clan-Clan in Outlaw Star is a Dark-Skinned Blond Cat Girl...
• Momo Adachi, the main character of Peach Girl. In fact, she's often bullied because people mistake her for a Ganguro (in reality, she's just bleached and tanned from swimming constantly). She becomes a Dark-Skinned Redhead in the anime with the same treatment following her.
• In anime-based artwork, Rin Hirakoba from The Prince of Tennis looks like this sometimes.
• Psyren gives us Kyle, though no explanation is given.
• Judia from Ragnarok The Animation.
• Wendy Earhart of Read or Die looks like this because of her mixed English/Indian heritage.
• Pirotess of Record of Lodoss War in certain illustrations, while others make her hair seem more white than blonde. Given that the whole series is firmly grounded in Dungeons & Dragons (or Japanese interpretation thereof), she's probably supposed to be a drow.
• Akio Ohtori from Revolutionary Girl Utena is a dark-skinned man with light lavender hair. His actual ethnicity is unknown, although he certainly fits the definition of foreigner, in the truest sense of the word.
  • Dios has this going on, too, though the reason for that is that he is Akio's past self, aka the noble prince that he used to be.
• Katsura "Tiger Cat" Rio from Ring x Mama, as the nickname implies she is just as wild as Phuan.
• Kahlua from Rosario + Vampire. She gets it from her mother.
• If we count white hair, then Noble Demon Crisaor Krishna from Saint Seiya certainly counts.
  • Seiya's old rival Cassius is a VERY brutal, blood thirsty version of this trope. But when he dies in a very tragic Heroic Sacrifice, he gets huge Alas, Poor Villain vibes.
  • Leo Aiolia and his deceased brother and idol Sagittarius Aioros count as well, though their hair is a bit darker than the standard.
• Gorobei in Samurai 7 is black with stark white hair, despite not being the appropriate age for that hair color.
• Angol Mois of Sgt. Frog. It is revealed at one point that she modeled her non-magical form after a local roughneck/implied ganguro girl who'd left quite an impression on her.
  • This is probably the main reason she speaks Spanish in the English dub; her tan complexion suggests Latin heritage to a Western audience.
• Kei from the anime version of Shin Shirayukihime Densetsu Prétear (his skin is lighter in the manga).
• Shonan Jun'ai Gumi!: Mafuyu Aoki, though it's probably just because he's a tanned Surfer Dude.
• Nijuku and Sanju from Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro. They're a little out there, but their age and relative innocence is the cause for that.
• In Soul Eater, Kilik's weapons, Fire and Thunder ◊, are this.
• Kaname Kenjo from Strawberry Panic!—but only in the the manga and light novels. In the anime, she's an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette with a completely different overall appearance...and characterization, and role in the story.
• Roy Focker from Super Dimension Fortress Macross, perhaps to make him look obviously foreign in a show with some extreme examples of Mukokuseki (just look at Misa Hayase and try to convince yourself she's Japanese. Yeah).
• The entire Kuramitsu family of the Tenchi Muyo! series, perfect examples of The Ditz, most notably Mihoshi. One of the supplemental novels makes it explicit that the Kuramitsu family are descendants of the pale red-headed Washuu. Though they all look like her (presumably long dead) ex-husband, with none of her own physical traits. And Mihoshi, for all her apparent stupidity, is actually much smarter than she seems.
• One of Itsuki's unnamed school friends in Togari is a dark-skinned blonde and is likely just following the ganguro fashion trend.
• Bu-ling from Tokyo Mew Mew in the anime (her hair gets a little bit darker when she transforms) as well as Ryou. The former is Chinese, the latter half Japanese and half white. In the manga, they're both lighter-skinned and Bu-ling's hair doesn't change.
• Ichiryuu from Toriko has fairly dark skin, blonde hair and an awesome blonde mustache to boot.
• Twellen from Toward the Terra.
• Captain Ayumi Inoue from Tsuritama has warm tan skin and flax-blond hair, probably due to the fact that he's out on a fishing boat all day, exposed to sun and salt water.
• Tweeny Witches:
  • Barunn, a member of the special capture squad, has dark skin and blond hair.
  • Credelle and Sigma have dark skin and white hair.
• Another white-haired dark-skinned race are the Mushroom Tribe from Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter.
• Tsume of Wolf's Rain pulls this off with white hair in human form.
• Marik Ishtar in Yu-Gi-Oh!, as well as his dad. Thief King Bakura has dark skin and white hair, and Pharaoh Atem is dark-skinned with partially blond hair. The real Dark Magician Girl from Egypt as well as her summoner Mana both had dark skin and blond hair in the original manga.
• Patty from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.
• Phuan ◊ from Yureka definitely fits, though rather than being ditzy, she is hot blooded and violent to the point of giving off some feral vibes (in Real Life, she settles for being a delinquent).

    Comic Books

• Green Arrow's son and temporary successor, Connor Hawke, is multiracial (his mom is half-black and half-Asian) and originally had blond hair and very dark skin. Since then, careless artists have tended to draw him much paler, sometimes apparently just making him white.
• Introduced in DC Rebirth, the Jackson Hyde version of Aqualad has dark skin and blond hair, though unlike his Young Justice counterpart, his hair is dyed.
• In post-One More Day Spider-Man comics, Harry Osborn's girlfriend, Lily Hollister.
• The Demon Mages: Ari the Gorgon is blond with bronzed skin—and, for some reason, a Southern Belle's accent.
• X-Men:
  • Storm takes this to an extreme, with skin color reflecting her African heritage combined with white hair (and blue eyes, for added complexity). Presumably her mutant genetics help explain this unusual combination.
  • Time-displaced X-Man Shard, though it could also be because she's ethnically Australian Aborigine, who, in real life, occasionally manifest blonde hair as children due to a recessive gene. Her mutant nature could have allowed her to retain her hair color even as an adult. Her older brother, Lucas Bishop, though, possesses the usual black hair of their ethnic group.
• Angel St. Grace/Devlin from Codename: Knockout.
• African-American superhero Thunder wore a blond wig for a while (to hide her identity), but she has since eschewed it.
• Duncan Rosenblatt of Firebreather is blond and has orange skin, due to him being a Half-Human Hybrid.
• The titular character of Atavar.
• In keeping with the Animesque art style of the Ame-Comi Girls series, Natasha Irons (a.k.a. Steel) is given blond hair and blue eyes despite being African American.
• Infidel from Astro City is a black man with a platinum blond beard. This is a side effect of the "Empyrean Fire" that gave him his powers; his archenemy the Samaritan's hair is snow white because of this as well. When he uses his powers, his hair turns an emerald green much like the Samaritan's turns sapphire blue.
• In the 1990s, Batman and Robin were assisted in the Batcave not only by Alfred, but also by a mute dwarf named "Harold". Harold had actually been a former lackey of the Penguin whom Batman had rescued, and he worked as a mechanic on the Batmobile. Harold had very light brown hair (most would call it "auburn") but also relatively dark skin (though this could be due merely to the "shadowy" way the Batcave was inked and colored). He was later killed off during the Hush arc after confessing to Batman that he had betrayed him to help the eponymous villain.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): Whisper the Wolf has brown skin on her muzzle, arms and torso, wich contrasts with her biscotti fur on her head and tail.
• Frostbite of DV8 is a black man with blond hair—naturally. His hair turned blond when he became Gen-Active. Even his beard is blond; he basically looks like black Hulk Hogan. The Gods and Monsters miniseries has him with very short black hair, without in-story explanation.
• The brown-skinned Therons in Dan Dare had a large variety of hair colours. Volstar, Dan's closest friend among the Therons, was very blond indeed.
• Kenton of White Sand is a blond with brown skin, which is explained by his mother being of dark-skinned Darksiders while his father comes from fair-haired and pale-skinned Daysiders.
• Atena from Monstress as well as a few other characters, including almost everyone exposed to Lilium, like Yvette Lo Lim.
• Jem and the Holograms (IDW):
  • Mexican-American Raya from Jem had bright pink hair. In the comic reboot, she starts off Stinger only to later join Jem and the Holograms. Like the rest of her original band, Raya has blonde hair.
  • Another Stingers member, Minx, has been given a Race Lift to be a German of South Asian descent.
• Kinju Dayal, the protagonist of Spiritus, is Ambiguously Brown with platinum blonde hair.
• Honor Guest, aka The Silencer, is of Polynesian descent and has naturally blonde hair.
• ElfQuest: Suntop/Sunstream is blond with dark skin, due to his mother Leetah (her people are desert elves). Wing and Mender though were born to Wolfriders, who are pale-skinned usually, yet end up dark-skinned as a result of living in the desert Sun Village too, tanning over time.
• In practice, the canonically gold Adam Warlock looks like he has bright yellow hair and orange/brown skin.

    Fan Works

• Chloe from The Night Unfurls is a half-elf that is Ambiguously Brown and has blonde hair.
• Lycan Arcadia from SLVR is a slightly dark-skinned wolf faunus with blond hair.
• Ira Gamagoori in Kill la Kill AU is this, true to canon, though how dark his skin tone might be seems vary from comic to comic.
• Many artists and writers depict Fëanor from The Silmarillion with tan or even quite dark skin. The entire internet also decided that his son Celegorm had light hair although this is nowhere stated in the text: so he frequently ends up with dark skin and platinum blond or silver hair. He is considered especially beautiful, even compared to his brothers and cousins. Frequently shows up on Angrod as well: here the blond hair is canonical, with dark skin to emphasize his athleticism. Other fans use this color scheme only for Valar, particularly Tulkas (whose yellow hair is canonical: his name means "yellow" in Valian). Sauron in his guise of Annatar (said to look like a Vanyarin elf) is also given this color scheme frequently.

    Film — Animated

• Mirage from The Incredibles, although she has white hair instead of blonde.
• Zak Young from FernGully is an Australian outdoorsman (sans accent) who's heavily based on the Surfer Dude aesthetic, so the tan makes sense.
• Honey Lemon from Big Hero 6 has a very light brown skin-tone and blonde hair. She's a latina American, though it's never specified what her exact heritage is.
• Joao from The Book of Life, has blond hair and dark skin. According to the film's art book, he's of Brazilian descent.
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire: The Atlanteans are naturally dark-skinned and white-haired.

    Film — Live-Action

• Simon Phoenix, the Big Bad from Demolition Man.
• Iceman, as portrayed by Val Kilmer in Top Gun, is ridiculously tan but has frosted tips that are practically platinum.
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show. "I've been makin' a man with blond hair and a tan, and he's good for relieving my... tension."
• Near the ending of Tropic Thunder, Kirk Lazarus broke character and yanked off his wig to reveal his blond hair, but his skin was still pretty dark. Justified as he was originally white but had gone through surgery to get a dark skin in order to audition for the role. At the ending, he had returned to his original skin tone.
• Maggie Gyllenhaal goes blonde at one point in Sherrybaby.
• Nobody in My Name Is Nobody is very tanned (emphasized by the light colors he wears) with hair somewhere between dark blond and sun-bleached light brown. Justified since he's a character in a Western who spends a lot of time out in the sun in a hot climate. Nobody also has some superficial Ditz traits, although he's savvier than he looks.
• Storm from the X-Men Film Series, although she's more like a dark skinned girl with Mystical White Hair. X-Men: Apocalypse shows that she's naturally dark-haired but Apocalypse empowering her turns it white.
• Algrim from Thor: The Dark World has much darker skin than the other dark elves, but the same white hair and eyebrows.
• Spanish actress Elsa Pataky has notably darker skin than normal as the passenger Maria in Snakes on a Plane but retains her blonde hair.
• In Artemis Fowl, Butler is played by black actor Nonso Anozie, but with white hair.
• In Sannikov Land, the Onkilons are mostly whitish-blond and have brown skin. The initial plan was for them to be black-haired Asians like they are in the book, but then the film's creators decided to make them a separate race to emphasize the uniqueness of Sannikov Land.

    Literature

• In Artemis Fowl, Jon Spiro's bodyguard, Arno Blunt, is a Maori man with bleached-blond hair. It's noted that he stands out in a crowd, which makes him a contrast to Butler, who specifically aims to be inconspicuous.
• Awaken The Stars:
  • Rex Tjin is of Singapore Chinese-Māori and Norwegian descent.
  • Possibly Juliet, too, since she's described as blonde despite having partial Asian ancestry. Nevertheless she, like her brother Butler, has trained to blend into any crowd despite her distinctive appearance.
• Annabeth from The Camp Half-Blood Series. Upon meeting her, Percy thinks that she looks like a California surfer girl, though her actual personality doesn't match that description at all.
• Mona Aamons Monzano, a character in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. She's of Finnish and black West Indian ancestry.
• Tacroy/Mordecai Roberts from Diana Wynne Jones's Chrestomanci series.
• In the ColSec Trilogy, Samella Connel's complexion is described as "tanned". But shortly afterward, she's revealed to have spent the past three years of her life indentured to an electronics firm -— hardly an environment conducive to suntanning.
• The Dalemark Quartet: Brown skin and blonde hair is a combination fairly common in northern Dalemark, thanks to interbreeding between the native people and foreign invaders. It's the other way round in the South, where the most common colouration is pale skin and brown hair. The people of the Holy Islands, rumoured to be the last descendants of the very first inhabitants of Dalemark, are also this trope.
• Discworld:
  • Emberella from Witches Abroad. The text notes that this isn't uncommon in Genua (a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of New Orleans), which was known for being quite "easy going" with respect to genetic combination.
  • In The Colour of Magic, the natives of Krull have pitch black skin and moonlight-pale hair.
  • Conina, heroine of Sourcery, is explicitly described as "exotically tanned" with intense blonde-white hair.
• In Doctrine of Labyrinths, the Duke of Murtagh is described having brown skin several shades darker than his golden hair (and amber eyes). This combination seems fairly common among the citizens of his native Corambis.
• Emerald Prince has Florin, the Long-Haired Pretty Boy court musician. He's described as having brown skin with "hair just a shade blonder than white". Evindr also has dark skin and white hair.
• In Crawford Killian's Eyas, this seems to be the most common coloring among the title character's adopted culture.
• The Fifth Season has a variant: The equatorial regions of the Sanze empire trend towards dark skin and highly prize grey or white "ashblow" hair. It's an adaptation to the extreme weather and seismic conditions that periodically turn the region into a Death World, since the hair acts as a great air filter.
• The Angyar of Rokanan are an entire race/culture of these in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish universe. The lower-caste Olgyior (of the same species) are pale-skinned brunettes.
• Eloise Pritchart in the Honor Harrington series has dark skin and "platinum" hair. Just for kicks, she also has topaz-gold eyes and is noted in-text as being extraordinarily beautiful.
• Cadence Drake in Holly Lisle's Hunting the Corrigan's Blood, due to her mother's gene splicing as a political statement.
• N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy: Bright Itempas, the Old God of light and order, manifests as a young black man with brilliantly white hair, which rather surprises the white-skinned dynasty that ruled at his behest. When he spends some time incognito in human form, he has to shave his head to avoid notice.
• Dona Sofia Salvara of The Lies of Locke Lamora in the Gentleman Bastard Sequence is described as having "skin like burnt amber and hair the colour of almond butter".
• Shelena, the protagonist of Loyal Enemies has pale, blond hair and swarthy skin. This isn't remarked upon by anybody at all, though swarthy skin is noted to be a trait of people from the islands. She is, however, a werewolf, so it may be due to her not actually being human.
• Telemakos, main character of Elizabeth E. Wein's Mark of Solomon books, because of his father's British and his mother African. Genetically speaking, this shouldn't be possible (especially as his hair is almost silver- it's that light), but there's no mention of this.
• The Folk in Eloise McGraw's The Moorchild are a species of Dark Skinned Blonds; the half-human, half Folk main character inherits the appearance, which becomes a point of teasing and persecution while she's living in a human village.
• The Clayr, a clan of seers in Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series, are described as looking this way, partly due to living on a glacier and having their skin be nearly constantly tanned by reflected sunlight. Has the added bonus of further isolating Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette Lirael from everyone else she knows. She may be half-Clayr, but it's the Abhorsen look that shows up.
• Proof that this trope is Older than You Think, Romance of the Three Kingdoms (which draws more from folk legends than actual history) describes Zhuge Liang's wife Huang Yueying as dark-skinned and pale-haired—and thus, by Chinese beauty standards, ugly as sin.
• Tuerasians as a whole in Shadow of the Conqueror, who combine black/dark brown skin with bright blond hair.
• Daenerys Targaryen of A Song of Ice and Fire has a vision of what her stillborn son Rhaego would have been like as an adult. He is described as tall and copper-skinned like his father Khal Drogo, and with long platinum blond hair like hers.
• In Michael Flynn's Spiral Arm series, the people of the planet Alabster have yellow hair and coal-black skin.
• In Spitfire, Feon has warm brown skin and bright gold hair, the latter of which is a sign of his not-entirely-human nature.
• Adolin Kholin of The Stormlight Archive has the typical tan skin of his Alethi father, but inherited his mother's blond hair, although, due to the alien genetics of Roshar, he has black streaks in his hair as well.
• Jewel in Tales from Netheredge has "a tumble of blond curls" and "skin a darker shade of gold". Later he is revealed to be a sun deity.
• In the Warworld anthology book series, there's an entire race of Dark Skinned Blondes, the Frystaaters, whose ancestors were mainly white Afrikaners who moved to a planet with such intense sunlight that they had to darken or die. Since their high-gravity planet also bred super-strength, most people don't tease them about it.
• The Aiel in The Wheel of Time series are a desert-dwelling Proud Warrior Race who often resemble either this trope or Dark-Skinned Redhead. Their natural hair and skin colors are mostly light, but many spend a lot of time outdoors and wind up heavily tanned.
• Xandri Corelel is described as having caramel skin and dirty blonde hair.

    Live-Action TV

• Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, had blond hair and a tan from all the time he spent outdoors in the wilderness.
• Delocated: Mighty Joe John, the Black Blond.
• House of the Dragon (the Game of Thrones prequel series) changes the Velaryons into a black family, although they still have their book counterparts' silver blond hair (a Valyrian trait also shared with the Targaryens). Similarly, Lysenes like Mysaria are descended from the ancient Valyrians, inheriting their white-blond hair, violet eyes, and pale white skin, whereas the TV show changes her into a black-haired, mixed-race woman (played by the actress of white and Asian ancestry Sonoya Mizuno).
• Once Upon a Time has Ursula the sea witch played by black actress Merrin Dungey, with her hair coloured blonde. This seems to be an in-universe Dye Hard—since Ursula's teenage self is shown with black hair. This could be taken from the Broadway version of Ursula, wherein she was played by two black actresses (as understudies though)where the character, while black, had bright platinum blonde hair.
• Saturday Night Live: Bruno Mars wears a blond wig to play a Pandora intern named Devin.
  • Just like his white costars, Kenan Thompson wears a blond wig in his appearances in the recurring "The Californians" skit.
• In That's So Raven Raven's Alpha Bitch rival Alanna has light brown skin and dark blonde hair.

    Pinball

• Done unintentionally in Centigrade 37; depending on lighting conditions and the condition of the wood table, the two blonde Caucasian women on the playfield might end up with medium-brown skin and light blonde hair.

    Podcasts

• Jylliana from Jemjammer has very dark skin, but stark white dreadlocks. It might be due to her aasimar (half-celestial) heritage.
• The Director of The Adventure Zone: Balance has light hair and dark skin even prior to aging twenty years in Wonderland.

    Professional Wrestling

• A look associated with Irma Águilar and Rossy Moreno, two luchadoras who started in the 70s. In 1987, a year after El comision de box y lucha libre lifted their ban on luchadoras, they both ended up the nation's largest fed competing to shave each other.
• When he arrived in the WWF in 1986, Butch Reed (a black wrestler) was given the gimmick of "The Natural" and had his normally black hair bleached to blond. Roddy Piper lampshaded this in one edition of Piper's Pit, commenting how he loved Reed's "natural" blond hair and how he dyed the roots black. Reed got rid of the blond hair when he went to WCW a few years later.
• The most noticeable difference from Dick the Bruiser and Sgt. Slaughter and their USWA imitator Vic The Bruiser/Sgt Victor, besides the fact Vic was a pretty dark black man, was Vic's blond beard.
• Ernest The Cat Miller was known for dying his hair for a time in the 1990s.
• Rikishi has a Pacific Islander skin tone and is very well known bleached blond locks of hair.
• Samoa Joe is was known for dying his hair, particularly in Ultimate Pro Wrestling and his early Ring of Honor run.
• After losing his mask to Mr. Niebla as a result of the Increíbles Suicidas at CMLL's 66th Aniversario, Shocker was revealed to be a dark skinned blond.
• José Rivera JR started emulating Ric Flair during his feud with Eddie Colon(the figure four leg lock is a signature of the Colon family, so who else is known for the move?). This included dying his hair blond, and since Rivera is darker skinned than Flair here we are.
• Soon to be JAPW tag team champion Slyk Wagner Brown went blond around 2003. Almost didn't win the belt due to being turned on by partner Tiger Mulligan, a pale skinned brunette.
• Mercedes Martinez is a fan of this look, such as when she appeared on Sunday Night Heat.
• Shelton Benjamin dyed his hair to go with his self applied "gold standard" moniker. This ironically made him look like his pre WWE nemesis Derrick King.
• Nina Monet appeared to have very light blonde extensions or have sometimes died the ends of her hair. Wild hairstyles were kind of her gimmick whenever she lost her permanent lockes though, so this trope is on the tame end of what she's done to her head.
• Roni Nicole is about as dark as Shelton and usually has blonde hair or highlights.
• The Rainmaker Kazuchika Okada died his hair gold/yellow to match his gold chain. (he's rich)
• Puerto Rican Thea Trinidad dyed her hair blond in 2014.
• Sasha Banks initially had this look when she debuted in NXT. After a couple of years, she opted to become a Dark-Skinned Redhead instead.
• Cameron is half black and half Asian, with natural jet black hair. However midway through 2013 she added blonde tips and eventually went completely blonde. According to her, this was to distinguish herself from her fellow Funkadactyl Naomi who kept her hair black.
• Nearly happened to Eva Marie. The office wanted her to bleach her dark brown hair to platinum blonde—because she resembled the Bella Twins too much. Eva balked at this idea and became a Dark-Skinned Redhead instead.
• Rosa Mendes of Costa Rican ancestry has often given herself blonde hair at various points in her career.
• Caucasian brunet Dolph Ziggler tans a lot and bleaches his hair to platinum blond to achieve this look.
• Carmella started out with two-toned hair—brown mixed with blond—before becoming completely blonde. She also performs in Brownface to portray an Italian-American Joisey type. Since she was introduced as a hairdresser-turned-wrestler, the character probably just likes tanning.
• Sting was a bleach blond with a really dark tan in his early career.
• Hulk Hogan is known for his blond hair and deep tan, brother.
• Alicia Fox is black and fond of changing her hair a lot. She has gone through periods where her hair will be blonde or at least highlighted.
• Liv Morgan is a very tanned girl with platinum blonde hair.
• Kofi Kingston in 2020 his dyed his hair blond.

    Tabletop Games

• Since their introduction, the Drow in Dungeons & Dragons have all had white or silver hair and dark grey to black skin.
• Pathfinder:
  • The Garundi ethnicity have dark skin and hair that often goes prematurely white. While technically not quite this trope, it is probably close enough and the ultimate result looks very much the same.
  • Seoni, the iconic sorcerer, has brown skin and platinum blonde (if often mistakenly rendered white) hair.
  • A few of the gods also qualify. Nethys, the god of magic, was Osiriani in life, and retains the characteristic complexion for that part of the world (where his body isn't burning up with his own power), but has Mystical White Hair. Sarenrae the sun goddess has golden-brown skin and red and gold Flaming Hair. Pharasma has Mystical White Hair and slate gray skin, reflecting her dispassionate nature.
• The people of the Daevar ethnicity in Anima: Beyond Fantasy, who have dark skin and white hair, looking quite Drow-like.

    Theatre

• Brittney Johnson, the first Black actress to play Glinda in Wicked on Broadway, evoked this look with her character's curly blond wig.

    Video Games

• Common to the Phandarians from Tales of Destiny. Prince Garr/Woodrow is dark-skinned with silver hair, while Mary is dark-skinned with red hair.
  • In Tales of Eternia, the celestians fit this trope from time to time. Most notable with Max and Chat.
  • The protagonist of Tales of Legendia, Senel Coolidge, has brown skin and white hair.
  • Peony from Tales of the Abyss. General Frings, too, which suggests that tan skin and light hair might be a native phenotype of Grand Chokmah. Some of the NPCs in that city are also at least somewhat tan, and nearly all of them have blond hair, regardless of skin color.
• Rikku from Final Fantasy X. The dark skin is more noticeable in X-2 since there's, er, more of it on display.
  • Tidus, although he might just be incredibly tanned, also his hair is dyed. Flashbacks show him with brown hair as a child and his roots show slightly during the game itself.
• The protagonist of Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, Dingo Egret, is an adult male with brown skin and white hair.
• Liquid Snake of Metal Gear Solid isn't noticeably dark-skinned in the game itself, but official artwork shows both him and Fortune (of Metal Gear Solid 2) looking like this. Liquid's colouring is enhanced by spending about ten years in the Middle East being bleached and tanned by the sun (his brother is paler due to living in Alaska); Fortune is your everyday naturally-blonde-and-blue-eyed black woman. Strangely enough, she seems to inherit this trait from her father, who is also a black man with (barely noticeable) blonde hair. Drebin in Metal Gear Solid 4 is also black with blonde hair.
• Peppita Rossetti of Star Ocean: Till the End of Time. She's an alien.
• Vanessa Lewis from Virtua Fighter.
• The Kirschwasser realians in Xenosaga, who also possesses gold eyes, as does every single realian in the game.
  • Also, Pellegri.
• From the Fire Emblem series:
  • Hawkeye of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade and his daughter Ingrene from Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade.
  • The brothers Glen and Cormag of Sacred Stones
  • Vaike and Flavia of Awakening are dark-skinned with blonde hair, while Aversa and Walhart are dark-skinned with white hair.
  • Similarly, Benny from Fates has dark skin and blonde hair, whereas Niles and Rinkah are dark-skinned and white haired.
    • Benny's son Ignatius also has noticeably darker skin than most of the other characters and blond hair by default (though you can give him a variety of hair colors depending on who Benny marries, including Rinkah's white in Revelation .)
  • In the Fire Emblem Gaiden remake, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Boey is given white hair and has a skin tone a shade or two darker than most of the other characters.
  • Dedue from Fire Emblem: Three Houses has white hair and brown skin. He hails from Duscur, although whether his coloring is common to all Duscurans is unknown.
    • Catherine is not from Duscur, but possesses noticeably tanned skin and blonde hair.
• Elena and Urien from Street Fighter III, though the latter is notably able to change the color of his skin and hair at will, such as at the beginning of a fight.
  • Birdie from the original game became this when he returned for Street Fighter Alpha.
• Drow, as mentioned above, appear in Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark had a significant Drow presence in the second chapter and both games have a female Drow Love Interest somewhere (Viconia in BG and Nathyrra in NWN).
  • Neverwinter Nights also has the module series A Hunt through the Dark, which is entirely focused on a drow raiding party.
• Boman Delgado from Rival Schools, an American who has his blond hair in a mohawk.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Tetra, from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass. But only when she's Tetra, not Zelda. It's possible the implications are she is tanned and her natural skin tone is her Zelda shade, though her swaying skin tone has become a source of debate.
  • Sheik from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, though it's hard to see in the N64 polygon graphics. Official artwork of the character makes it more obvious, as do future appearances.
  • Impa looks to have dark skin and blonde/white hair, though mostly only in her Skyward Sword incarnation. Impa has dark skin and white hair in her Hyrule Warriors incarnation as well.
  • Many of the Gorons in the series have fair hair (or rather, rock formations that they carve into "haircuts") in addition to having dark yellowish-brown skin. This is especially true in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, where you encounter Gorons with nearly pitch-black skin but the same light hair as the others.
• There's an entire culture of characters with dark skin and fair hair in Suikoden Tierkreis: the Magedom of Janam. Plotting the personalities and appearances of Manaril, Shams, Asad, and sundry supported characters between the Dark-Skinned Blond and the Dark-Skinned Redhead is an exercise left to the reader, but the end result is undeniable: Janam and its swarthy, light-haired natives seem downright ''otherworldly''.
• The World Ends with You takes place in Shibuya, which is full of quirky fashions, so this trope was bount to occur. Nao Nao, partner of the equally dark-skinned Sota, is classical ganguro, and the game's dialogue plays up her ditziness. There's also a random mind-read about a cop who's looking for a suspect of this description - again, in Shibuya.
• Vaan from Final Fantasy XII.
  • Cid from Final Fantasy Tactics A2.
  • Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy Tactics A2 artworks may indicate that Montblanc is a Dark Skinned Blond, or more of a Dark Furred Blond, that is.
  • The Viera of the Ivalice Alliance tend to have dark skin and white hair.
• Elma from Xenoblade Chronicles X is a dark-skinned white-haired woman. At least her mimeosome is. Her true appearance has blue skin and slightly darker blue hair that glows faintly.
• This is the default skin tone/hair color combination in Battlefield Heroes.
• Ayumi, the protagonist of X-Blades.
• Bazooka Cafe, the Hentai game, has Cocoa the chef.
• Aisha (Sista A) from Rumble Roses.
• Raven from Tekken, which shouldn't be strange since he's based on Wesley Snipes—more exactly, his character from Demolition Man (see above).
• Volsung of Wild ARMs 5 has this going.
• Zevran and Velanna from Dragon Age: Origins. Coincidentally, they're also both Dalish (or at least part, in Zevran's case).
  • The redesigned Qunari in Dragon Age II all have grey skin and pale hair along with their horns.
  • Fenris is a borderline example with tanned skin and white hair.
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition: Sera was an example in concept art, but this didn't make it to the actual game.
• Shania from the Shadow Hearts series is a Native American with dark skin and very light blond hair.
• Harvest Moon has a Fantasy Counterpart Culture that's ambiguously Middle Eastern, where all of the denizens have dark skin and brilliant white-blonde hair. Originally started with the Wizard from Animal Parade, later games introduced the recurring character Prince Amir, and later, a whole host of his countrymen.
• The Sims:
  • Non Player Characters in The Sims 2 tend to be these or Dark Skinned Redheads far more often than you'd expect in Real Life. It's not a very good look on most of them.
  • Ophelia Nigmos and Dina Caliente from The Sims 2. This is also a common trait for NPC Townies, due to the way The Sims 2 randomly generates genetics.
  • There is Lola Belle from The Sims 3 Late Night''. Her hair is obviously dyed though, as her roots are darker than the rest of her hair.
  • Also, you can make your own dark skinned blondes from scratch.
• Pokémon:
  • Starting in Pokémon X and Y, the player character customizations can allow this, by dint of the player choosing a dark skin tone and then dyeing their hair at a salon.
  • Jynx is now apparently based on the Ganguro trend, though she originally resembled a Yama Uba.
  • The legendary Darkrai has white-ish hair but is otherwise mainly black toned.
  • Marshal, the fighting-type Elite Four member in Pokémon Black and White.
  • From Pokémon X and Y, the female Swimmers are all Dark-Skinned Blondes.
  • Blanche, the leader of Team Mystic from Pokémon GO is not nearly as dark-skinned as Candela, but she's noticeably more tan than Spark, and has platinum-blond hair.
• Gloria from Devil May Cry 4. She's actually the pale-skinned Trish magically disguised.
• BlazBlue:
  • Taokaka
  • Later followed by Bullet from Chrono Phantasma.
• The people of Escondido from Infinite Space, although the Basadre clan people have white hair. Also, Torlo.
• Dragon Quest:
  • Dragon Quest III: The Female Thief has dark skin and platinum-blond hair.
  • Dragon Quest IX: Stella, The Hero's Valley Girl Ninja Butterfly Fairy Companion. It's also possible to make a character with this trait.
• Xiatian from beatmania IIDX. The tan is completely legit (from living on a sunny island for several years); the hair, likewise (it's IIDX).
• The default Male Beast from Phantasy Star Portable 2 (who also appears in the intro) is a good example of this, although the player usually changes the character to look however they prefer.
  • See also Laia in Phantasy Star Universe (Episode 2). In fact, most Beastmen story NPCs count.
    • All of which are proceeded by Sil'fer and Rio in Phantasy Star Online Episode 3.
• Elder McNamara in Fallout: New Vegas; considering he spends most if not all of his time in an underground bunker, it's probably not a tan.
  • The player characters in this and Fallout 3 can be one as well.
• Your instructor in Pilotwings Resort. Possibly justified, since the entire game is set on a tropical island.
• Disgaea:
  • Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories. Overlord Zenon, both the fake one and the real one Rozalin reverts to.
  • Princess Sapphire Rhodonite from Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice and Fenrich from Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten are white-haired variations of the trope.
• From Nexus War, Angelic characters are an exaggerated version of this trope, with completely pitch black skin and bleach white hair.
• Myuu from Atelier Marie: The Alchemist of Salburg, who has sandy white hair, blue eyes, and brown skin, plays this straight for foreign flavour.
• Samantha Pearce in Backyard Sports.
• The female lead from Feel the Magic: XY/XX is depicted as just a black silhouette with light silver hair and a blue dress. According to one of the designers, the ambiguity of her character design is part of what made her endearing to many players, since she is ultimately a product of the viewer's imagination.
• Final Fantasy VI. Believe it or not, General Leo is supposed to be this trope. You can see he looks Ambiguously Brown on his in-game portrait, but his sprite makes him look very Caucasian.
• iPod/Phone App Chaos Rings:
  • Another Square Enix character, Escher, is a white-haired, brown-skinned guy, and is just about the most cruel hearted person in the entire tournament and, in a different storyline, an antagonist.
  • Another interesting version of this is Zhamo, white-haired and black, arguably the nicest guy in the game.
• The default palettes of Ms. Fortune and, arguably, Cerebella from Skullgirls. Arguable in Cerebella's case because her default hair is green, rather than blonde, but most of her other palettes also give her dark skin and very light hair.
• Sheba from Golden Sun: The Lost Age is one of the more tan player characters and comes from Egypt-like Lalivero.
  • Also, it's hard to tell because of his hat, but Akafubu of Kibombo is apparently a black man with blonde hair. This makes him one of the only Mars Adepts outside the Mars Clan not to be a Fiery Redhead.
• Donkey Kong Country. Candy Kong definitely qualifies.
• From Jet Set Radio Future, we have Boogie (who is blonde) and Jazz (who has white hair).
• Kat from Gravity Rush has light blond hair, brownish skin and, oddly enough, red eyes.
• Patricia from Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee.
• Lani from Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational.
• Ramlethal Valentine from Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-.
• The Gofer Sisters in the Otomedius games. They don't exactly get it from their father, the giant alien head.
• Disco Kid in Punch-Out!!. Super Macho Man is theoretically of the "surfer with a tan" variety in the Wii version, though what's supposed to be silver-blonde hair just looks grey.
• Fierro from Eternal Eden has black skin and white hair and pointed ears, presumably to Foreshadow that he is actually from the World of Shadows.
• This seems to be common among natives of Eisenberg in Bravely Default.
• Arcana Heart:
  • Catherine Kyoubashi.
  • Parace L'Sia, the boss of score attack mode.
• You can invoke this trope in Arc Style: Baseball!! 3D in the Customize feature. Just give your character blond hair and brown skin.
• Mickey and Lou, the leaders of the Highwaymen in Far Cry: New Dawn, are African-American women with dyed blonde hair.
• A possible phenotype for every race in Final Fantasy XIV. However, for NPC characters, it's most commonly found with Dunesfold Lalafell, Duskwight Elezen, most Miqo'te, and certain Roegadyn and Au Ra. The other, more temperate-to-cold dwelling races are almost universally fair-skinned.
• The Conductor from Crypt Of The Necrodancer: Amplified. Their hair is wild, frizzy, jagged, and bright yellow, fitting in with their electrical theme, and their skin tone just highlights the color further.
• Musume Ronshaku and her friends from Yandere Simulator, as part of their Gyaru Girl fashion style, though it's likely to be artificial.
• Xehanort, Ansem Seeker of Darkness, and Xemnas of Kingdom Hearts all sport a signature look of dark skin, silver hair and golden eyes.
• Hades:
  • Zeus and most of his children in have platinum-blond hair and are brown-skinned. This puts them in contrast with Hades and his son Zagreus, who have Raven Hair, Ivory Skin.
  • Thanatos, one of Nyx's children, is also like this, having platinum hair and dark skin, which may or may not be a tan from actually walking around in the surface.
  • Theseus has tanned skin and blonde hair.
• Travis Phelps from SallyFace has brown skin and bright yellow hair. We aren't sure if it's because he's mixed or if this is to match the theme of some characters having unnatural hair colors.

    Visual Novels

• Archer in Fate/stay night, of the silver/white-haired variety, who, besides being of dubious origin, has another twist: he's the adult self of The Hero Shiro, a pale redhead. It has been mentioned that this is caused by the strain on his body from tracing, and overuse of magic and magical tampering in this series is known to change peoples' appearances. Sakura Matou should be black haired and blue eyed, like her sister Rin Tohsaka, and Dark Sakura should be purple haired, yet it all goes white when she goes crazy.
  • Interestingly, the antagonist of Fate/stay night, Gilgamesh, originates from Sumer/Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) yet is shown with blonde hair and light skin. This may also be due to the same reason why Archer looks different from his past self, Shiro.
  • Alternatively, as implied in Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] and (unintentionally?) expanded upon in Fate/Grand Order, forming a contract with The World as a Counter-Guardian inevitably results in said darker skin tone and white hair (e.g. Assassin!EMIYA, EMIYA Alter, Okita Souji Alter.)
  • The UBW anime also adds Caster's original Master, Atrum Galliasta, who's supposedly part-European and part-Middle Eastern. (The original VN didn't provide Caster's summoner a name or physical appearance.)
• Damon Gant from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Kristoph and Klavier Gavin from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Quercus Alba and Colias Palaeno from Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.
  • It should be noted that Gant and Alba's hair are light-colored not because they're blond, but because they're men in their 60's and 70's (respectively) whose hair has gone grey.
  • Whereas Klavier has highly tanned skin to help with his rock-star appearance (Kristoph's skin tone is a bit paler).
• Danganronpa:
  • Sakura Ogami in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Interestingly, artwork shows that she was paler when she was younger, though she's always had the white hair.
  • In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, there's Angie Yonaga, a white-blonde girl of unknown foreign origin with an odd melodic accent and an extreme dedication to her diety, Atua.
• Lena from Missing Stars is a tall German girl with blonde hair and the darkest skin tone of the love interests.
• Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow has Eduard, one of the love interests. It's justified by him being Dutch rather than Japanese.

    Webcomics

• In The Adventures of Wiglaf and Mordred, Wiglaf is this as part of the author using him to make fun of Purity Sues. Word of God from one of the Ustream sessions is that it was to show just how much time he spends outside saving people, and that the fact there's Swedish surfers who look like Wiglaf does was her proof-of-concept.

• In Black Adventures, Dream World Landorus has dark orange skin and white hair. This is to tie in with the actual Pokémon with the same color combination. As of Dream World 5, Tornadus gets the same treatment, though with moss green skin and white hair.
• Shannon from Bloody Urban, who has sandy blonde hair and dark grey skin. Justified by the fact that he's not human. (Though he still had the same colouring back before the Retcon, when he was a vampire and not a ghoul)
• When the person behind Shine brought Timothy over to But I'm a Cat Person, he kept this trope going, both in his natural hair and in the wig he wears when he's Camellia.

• America and Australia in Scandinavia and the World. In America's case, his darkening skin is caused by his increasing racial diversity, and he's apparently been bleaching his hair blond even since he was a child.
• Sleepless Domain: The magical girl Outrageous Lemon is a Black girl whose hair is bright yellow. In her case, this is because magical girls undergo a vivid change in hair color when they first awaken their powers, which remains their natural color even while not transformed. Lemon's older sister, who is not a magical girl, is seen to have more naturally-colored hair.

• Star Impact's Dove has sand-colored hair and brick-red skin.
• Kili of The Dragon Doctors has chocolate-black skin and white hair. One character describes him as "a delicious cup of mocha with whipped cream on top!"
• The Myranians from The Law of Purple are always natural blondes (although at least a few dye their hair) and some do have dark skin.
• Lars from The Noordegraaf Files bleaches his hair. It's more of a mocha color than a complete blonde, but it works.

• Though it's hard to tell from the generally monochrome art in the comic, in other art of her's, Cassandra from Various Happenings is shown to fit this trope physically. Her personality, however, could be generally described as 'grumpy'.

    Web Original

• "Sunglasses" from the Creamsicle meme, a seeming trashy bimbo with orange-tinted fake tan and bleached blonde hair.
• In The Gamer's Alliance, the blond Thrax is from the dark-skinned desert elf clans of the Tronin Desert.
• Helluva Boss: Verosika Mayday's Human Disguise is a dark-skinned woman with long blonde hair.
• In Homestuck, Rose, once she goes grimdark, causing her skin to appear charcoal-colored, among other changes in appearance. The Strider-Lalonde family can also be this normally, as the white skin of all the human characters is intended as a "neutral" base and anyone can imagine them as any race.
• RWBY: Sun is a deeply tanned man with very pale blond hair, who looks much darker when standing next to paler-skinned companions such as Blake, Weiss or Ruby. He comes from a desert origin, and has a very mischievious personality to go with his monkey-heritage. He is therefore a fun-loving delinquent, prone to illegally stowing away on ships or stealing food just for the fun of it. As a result, he enjoys helping out Team RWBY whenever they're bending or breaking the rules to investigate the villains; as he tells the heroes: friends should always get other friends into trouble.
• Scary Black Man Bobby Jacks from Survival of the Fittest was an African-American with blonde hair. Word of God says that it's dyed.

    Western Animation

• Spyke from X-Men: Evolution (and his aunt Storm, though her hair is white and given a Hand Wave by saying that it's a distinguishing trait of her people).
• The alternate-universe Hermes from the Futurama episode "The Farnsworth Parabox" has blond hair, while "our" Hermes is a brunette. Most other characters have color differences in their respective universes in this episode.
• Patti Mayonnaise from Doug. Though this is a side-effect of the series' Amazing Technicolor Population more than anything else.
• Jonathan from Rugrats, especially in his first appearance where he had dark purple skin, although it becomes tan in later episodes.
• Brianna from the spin-off All Grown Up! is a black girl with dark blonde hair.
• Tomik and Bellgarde, the "Foreign Guys" from Family Guy.
• Xandir from Drawn Together.
• Ren from The Pirates of Dark Water.
• Camille Leon from Kim Possible.
  • Considering who her character is based on and the way she acts, it's very likely she just tans a lot.
• Valmont of Jackie Chan Adventures has platinum blonde/white hair and tanned skin. He's also British.
• Young Justice:
  • Aqualad, who according to the tie-in comic has a white mother and a black father. His counterpart in the comics, Jackson Hyde, has black hair.
  • Artemis, whose mother is Asian, is blonde like her Caucasian father. She's just white in the normal DCU. One of the writers got the idea from a former classmate who was Asian and naturally blonde.
• Hey Arnold!:
  • Nadine is Ambiguously Brown, and yet has blonde hair. This is actually shown in the parents' day episode when one of her parents is black.
  • While not as dark as Nadine, Helga's sister Olga has noticeably tanner skin than her parents and sister.
• Queen La from The Legend of Tarzan. According to Word of God, she is actually Atlantean living in Africa.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Princess Yue is a white-haired Inuk, due to Power Dyes Your Hair ^note She was born sickly, and needed to be dipped into the pool of Tui and La, the Moon and Ocean Spirits, and their magic bleached her naturally black hair..
• Jervis Tetch in Batman: The Animated Series, even before he dyed it "school-bus-yellow". Also known as the Mad Hatter he has unusually dark skin for an evil, British blond (as well as an accent that doesn't go with skin tone or teeth). Portrayed as an anti-social, lab-dwelling nerd, it's highly unlikely that he got out often enough to get a tan, either. (In the episode "The Worry Men", where he visits tropical Central America, he covers up with white gloves, sunglasses, and a straw hat.) It's possible the animators darkened his skin just to exaggerate how freakishly blond his hair is.
• American Dad!:
• Clawdia Wolf from Monster High is a dark-skinned sunny blonde. Howleen's hair changes but is usually bright orange and yellow.
• The Simpsons:
  • There exists an episode in which Homer panics over the possibility of his father marrying Marge's mother, convinced that this will make their own marriage incest, and therefore their children will be subject to the "horrifying" consequences of inbreeding. He then envisions them as three realistically-drawn children with blond hair, tanned skin, five fingers, and blue eyes. His reaction? He runs off screaming in terror.
  • Duffman has light blond hair and often, though not consistently, a fake-looking orange tan. This may be to highlight how fake he himself is, being a corporate mascot.
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child has Goldilocks take place in a Caribbean island. The titular character is this, with dark blonde stylized dreadlocks.
• Dijonay Jones from The Proud Family has brown skin and a blonde ponytail hairstyle.
• Dot Starlight from Lalaloopsy has blonde hair and has the darkest skin tone of all the original 8.
• Riot from Jem has darker skin than most other characters. Flashback show it's his natural skin tone and his hair is natural as well, though neither of his parents have his skin tone.
• Mrs. Luskey from Transformers: Rescue Bots.
• Cliff, one of the two judges from a certain reality talent show in World of Winx, is a blond guy with a light tan.
• Allura from Voltron: Legendary Defender, though her hair is more silver-white than blonde. Justified due to her being an alien.
  • King Alfor is also light haired and dark skinned, and Allura's mother is shown in a flashback to look almost exactly like her, down to hair and skin color.
• Charmcaster from Ben 10, though she's silver haired. She has a pale complexion in the sequels.
• Adrien, the titular trio's hairstylist (who's also an undercover superspy) in Nickelodeon's Groove Squad, looks African-American but has blonde hair, blonde eyebrows and blonde facial hair—however, considering his occupation, it's also quite possible that his hair is dyed blonde.
• In Steven Universe, Dark Action Girl Jasper has orange skin (in the Amazing Technicolor Population sense, not a bad fake tan) and a magnificent mane of pale beige-blonde hair. She's close to the "arrogant, tanned, blond wrestling heel" version of this trope: while not a wrestler, she is thoroughly arrogant, loves personal combat, and is obsessed with physical prowess.
  • Padparadscha of the Off Colors has a similar color scheme to Jasper, although a much gentler personality. She's on the ditzier side of this trope, although she does have her insightful moments.
• Hector in Castlevania Season 2 has really tanned skin contrasted by Mystical White Hair and blue eyes.
• Fire and Ice: Larn is blond, but also has a deep tan.
• Non-human example: Cynthia from The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog has brownish-auburn feathers ^note She is a bird, but the artstyle renders her feathers as looking like skin and a blonde Furry Female Mane.

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Drawing Someone With Blonde Hair in Black and White

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