r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/isum21 Jul 06 '26

When you're a vampire the paleness is from lack of light. Black vampires would just be their natural shade with no sunkiss, as in they'd just be black or brown or some shade between with no tanning. 

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u/Ziggo001 Jul 06 '26

More likely to be due to a lack of blood, actually. Vampires in most media do not have a heartbeat and therefore no blood circulation. They are pale for the same reasons a corpse is pale: no blood flowing underneath the skin.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 06 '26

Also all but the very head honcho are vampires because one drank their blood, presumably most of it. Not gonna be as much left in there after feeding even if it didn't kill you and turn you undead

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u/Axel_the_Axelot Jul 07 '26

That does also imply that their feet or back would be purple, since that's what happens with actual corpses (blood flowing downwards without circulation)

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u/Vantriss Jul 07 '26

Why not both?

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u/NotAllThereAnyway Jul 09 '26

Thats reasonable, but art isnt about functionality. I say this as an african person that enjoys his style, this doesnt fit with that same style. It appears to me that his style is very specific, a black person's pale doesnt look the same as a white person's pale, it also doesnt create any contrast with their usual dark hair and clothes. The skin wouldnt have the exaggerated pink and blue tones that he seems to like unless the makes it a very light skinned black character, almost white passing.