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** When Peter loses a bet and has to shave himself bald, Roger celebrates that he's no longer the one with the least hair in the house. Peter gets even a few days later by remarking how awesome it is that hair just grows right back.

** Roger walks in on Peter trying a quack method for growing chest hair, involving rubbing his skin to get blood flowing there and stimulate the follicles. Roger starts to claim that's the stupidest thing he's ever heard, when he suddenly develops an itch on the top of his head.

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* There is some second hand baldness angst in ''Series/Babylon5'' with Michael Garibaldi's rather noticeable hair loss over the course of the first couple of seasons. While Garibaldi himself doesn't angst over it, one of the stations smugglers really does feel guilty and bad about it according to the episode "Racing Mars" because he accidentally exposed Garibaldi to some alien goo which caused it. He's also scared about Garibaldi finding this out, just in case he does feel some angst or need for revenge.

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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' starts with a scientist inventing hair growth that grows hair. When he uses some to rub on his bald head, the effects doesn't work, and he laments his failure. At the end of the episode, however, he ends up growing a head full of hair.

* Kaz Harada from ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' is very self-concious about his baldness, and there is an episode revolving him using a tonic that turns him into a werewolf whenever he drinks it and when he turns back, he has a head full of hair.
* Eustace in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is so self-conscious about his bald head that just flat-out saying he's bald will cause him to go on a rage-inducing breakdown. In one episode, he buys some hair tonic to grow some hair, oblivious to it's adverse effects, and obsessively drops the hair tonic on his head every second, which only causes him to go on an earthquake-inducing rage in a sporadic manner. [[spoiler:In the end, he only manages to grow a single long strand of hair.]]

Contrast BaldOfAwesome. Sister trope to FakeHairDrama.

--> '''Andy:''' Why do you think I'm worried?
--> '''Roger (rubbing his head):''' Hm. You may have a point.

A bald character is not happy about being bald. They used to have hair, only to lose it. Often they cover it with a hat or a wig. While they may be PrematurelyBald, they might simply be getting older (TruthInTelevision for many balding men, though some eventually learn to embrace it).

A bald character is not happy about being bald. They used to have hair, only to lose it. Often they cover it with a hat or a wig. While they may be PrematurelyBald, they might simply be getting older (TruthInTelevision for many men).

Sometimes caused by a TraumaticHaircut.

In the ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' One of the villains resents Aladdin for Aladdin's nice, thick head of hair.

In the ''Disney/AladdinTheSeries'' One of the villains resents Aladdin for Aladdin's nice, thick head of hair.

* Wrestling/KurtAngle did something similar when Wrestling/{{Edge}} shaved his head bald, but Kurt wore a wig and had protective wrestling headgear on top of the wig.

''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Numbuh One used to have a head full of hair until [[NoodleIncident an incident]] involving [[CreepyChild The Delightful Children From Down the Lane]]. In the episode "Operation: DADDY", he sympathizes with Numbuh 85 and his terrible hair-cut as he was proud of his hair before it was gone.

One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' starts with a scientist inventing hair growth that grows hair. When he uses some to rub on his bald head, the effects doesn't work, and he laments his failure. At the end of the episode, however, he ends up growing a head full of hair.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Numbuh One used to have a head full of hair until [[NoodleIncident an incident]] involving [[CreepyChild The Delightful Children From Down the Lane]]. In the episode "Operation: DADDY", he sympathizes with Numbuh 85 and his terrible hair-cut as he was proud of his hair before it was gone.

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** King Neptune in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie''. He insists his hair is just "thinning", despite his head being so bald its shine hurts people's eyes. It's implied that this is the main reason he goes ballistic when his crown is stolen, and he wears a paper bag on his head in the meantime.

* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'': In "Uncle Fester's Toupee", [[CloudCuckooLander Uncle Fester]] has a LoveInterest and wants a toupee as she is said to hate bald people.

* In the final season of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' the hair-proud Sam Malone reveals to a disconsolate Carla that he's been wearing a toupee. She's sworn to secrecy, of course.

* Parodied in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. A newscaster is blackmailed with a photo of his bald head (he usually wears a toupee) and eventually comes clean. Turns out nobody cares.

* ''Series/TwentyOneJumpStreet'': Hanson and Penhall rip a toupe from a school principal's head and he reacts very embarrassed at his bald head being exposed. Subverted when the guy next day shows up as his bald self without his toupe, saying "I decided to go for a new look!".

* in the now-completed webcomic ''{{Webcomic}}/GirlsWithSlingshots'' Jameson, the so-nicknamed "hot barista" at the coffee shop is so freaked by losing all but his forelock, he hides his head under a bandanna but lovingly preens the remaining SpitCurl. The girls tough love him into shaving his "handsome little tuft", and he's a mopey mess afterwards, convinced he's old and has lost his attractiveness. He only begins to recover when his shy and reserved girlfriend Maureen sees his bald head. She thought the single lock freakish but now finds Jameson BaldOfSexy. She [[TheGlomp leaps]] enthusiastically into his arms.

* WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants: Squidward the bald squid always dreams of having hair. In some episodes he manages to get it, only to lose it in the end.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic:'' In "A Friend In Deed", Cranky's self-conscious enough about his baldness to wear a toupee. When Pinkie Pie accidentally destroys that toupee, and then [[InnocentlyInsensitive tells the entire town about his baldness while she's trying to find a replacement]], that's when Cranky starts to ''really'' dislike Pinkie.

* WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor: Numbuh One used to have a head full of hair until [[NoodleIncident an incident]] involving [[CreepyChild The Delightful Children From Down the Lane]]. In the episode Operation: DADDY, he sympathizes with Numbuh 85 and his terrible hair-cut as he was proud of his hair before it was gone.

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* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': Apart of being the most powerful being on Earth against whom no opponent can last for more than one punch, maybe except Boros, the other thing that produces angst in Saitama is the loss of all of his hair, which eventually came with his superstrength and is one of the things he misses most from his previous life.

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* in the now-completed webcomic ''{{Webcomic}}/GirlsWithSlingshots'' Jameson, the so-nicknamed "hot barista" at the coffee shop is so freaked by losing all but his forelock, he hides his head under a bandanna but lovingly preens the remaining SpitCurl. The girls tough love him into shaving his "handsome little tuft", and he's a mopey mess afterwards, convinced he's old and has lost his attractiveness. He only begins to recover when his shy and reserved girlfriend Maureen sees his bald head. She thought the single lock freakish but now finds Jameson BaldOfSexy. She [[TheGlomp leaps]] enthusiastically into his arms.

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* WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants: Squidward the bald squid always dreams of having hair. In some episodes he manages to get it, only to lose it in the end.

* WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor: Numbuh One used to have a head full of hair until [[NoodleIncident an incident]] involving [[CreepyChild The Delightful Children From Down the Lane]]. In the episode Operation: DADDY, he sympathizes with Numbuh 85 and his terrible hair-cut as he was proud of his hair before it was gone.

* ''Film/TheCraft'': The AlphaBitch messes with Rochelle's dive and says something racist to her. Since the girls are dabbling magic, they cast a spell on her. They find her a few days later sobbing in the shower with her blonde hair (which she of course flipped and primped) falling out in handfuls.

* Inverted in ''[[Film/BlackPanther2018 Black Panther]]. The Dora Milaje, the bodyguards and elite soldiers of the Wakandan army are all shaved bald. They eschew wigs and dislike wearing them. They don't mind using the wig as a weapon. Okoye does this when a fight breaks out in the Korean casino.

* Inverted in Film/BlackPanther. The Dora Milaje, the bodyguards and elite soldiers of the Wakandan army are all shaved bald. They eschew wigs and dislike wearing them. They don't mind using the wig as a weapon. Okoye does this when a fight breaks out in the Korean casino.

* WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor: Numbuh One used to have a head full of hair until [[NoodleIncident an incident]] involving [[CreepyChild The Delightful Children From Down the Lane]]. In the episode Operation: DADDY, he sympathizes with Numbuh 85 and his terrible hair-cut as he was proud of his hair before it was gone.
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Indexes: HairTropes, SadnessTropes

* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': Apart of being the most powerful being on Earth that no opponent can lasts more than one punch, maybe except Boros, the other thing that produces angst in Saitama is the loss of all of his hair, which eventually came with his superstrength and in one of the things what he missed a lot of his previous life.

* In basically any continuity, Lex Luthor lost his hair in a traumatic event. In the original Superboy comics, his reason for hating Superman is that he lost his hair in a lab accident that Supes saved him from.

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