. . . . . . . . . "In Real Life people can turn pale when ill or shocked. In Anime they can go grayscale. These events are always played for comedy and characters once grayscale they can be unresponsive or completely frozen in place. See also Blue with Shock, an artistically different and most of the time less extreme version of this, common with Blank White Eyes. Compare Deliberately Monochrome. Examples of Color Failure include:"@en . . . . "Color Failure"@en . . . . . . . . "In Real Life people can turn pale when ill or shocked. In Anime they can go grayscale. These events are always played for comedy and characters once grayscale they can be unresponsive or completely frozen in place. See also Blue with Shock, an artistically different and most of the time less extreme version of this, common with Blank White Eyes. Compare Deliberately Monochrome. Examples of Color Failure include:"@en . .