History Main / PeopleOfHairColor

* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', most of the Romani characters have dark skin and black hair. There are exceptions, including the light-skinned and redheaded Quasimodo.

** Valyrian blood is noted for silver-white hair and purple eyes. Targaryens are most known for it, but other families with Valyrian ancestry also have traces.
** In Dorne, you can tell how much Rhoynar blood a person has by their coloration. People along the coasts have the most and tend to be olive-skinned and dark haired. The farther inland you go, the more Andal blood people have, shown by their fairer skin and hair.

* ''The Isles of Glory'' by Glenda Larke has this. Justified, because the people live on an archipelago with very strict citizenship rules and laws against interbreeding between islands. The main character is discriminated against because, not only does she not have a citizenship tattoo, her colouring makes it very obvious she's of MixedAncestry. Green eyes are found exclusively on one island, and they don't go with dark hair and skin.

In all too many works, however, the races are absolutely uniform, living in an ethnic PatchworkMap. Even at the borders, [[MixedAncestry half-breeds]] are unusual and physically distinctive. PhenotypeStereotype usually prevails: blue eyes for blonds, green eyes for redheads, gray eyes or brown eyes for dark-haired people. Furthermore, the physical appearances are also used as a short hand for PlanetOfHats traits. Sometimes two characters sharing a hair color may be a HairColorSpoiler, especially if their connection is supposed to be revealed later.

* A Music/{{Vocaloid}} song series ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'', particularly in ''The Story of Evil'' makes several mentions of the Green Country, the people's defining aspect being thick green hair. Became a point of FantasticRacism in "Daughter of White": the singer is a social outcast due to having white hair instead of green, and [[spoiler: survives the Green Country's massacre because the Princess of Evil ordered that everyone with green hair be executed]].

* Unless they have Human ancestors, the color of the Elves’ hair in The Village in ''Literature/AnOutcastInAnotherWorld'' are almost uniformly silver.

* Unless they have Human ancestors, the color of Elves’ hair in The Village in ''Literature/AnOutcastInAnotherWorld'' are almost uniformly silver.

Not to be confused with YouGottaHaveBlueHair. Compare to FacialProfiling.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The "Golden Women" are an extraterrestrial group who all have blonde hair. The "Sky Riders" are all redheads.

** In the classic series, the two races on Skaro seem to be defined by hair colour -- the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior-race]] Thals are uniformly blond (mostly straight), and the scientific Kaleds have brown hair (mostly curly). This leads to some problems in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]], where the Doctor (who had dark curly hair in that incarnation) is identified as a Kaled, but no-one knows what to make of his red-haired companion Sarah. The new series seems to have abandoned this; [[spoiler:In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]], several Kaleds appear, one of whom is played by a black actor, and the other is a boy with straight, light brown or dark blond hair.]]
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators "The Dominators"]], the dark-haired Dominators from Drahb conquer many world and enslave the pacifist blond Dulcians from Dulkis.

* Creator/DavidEddings uses this a lot. ''Literature/{{The Belgariad}}'' and ''Literature/TheElenium'' have descriptions of people from specific lands who, though of the same race as their neighbors, tend to have characteristics specific to their own nationality.
** Justified in the ''Belgariad'': The gods each picked out the people they liked and (effectively) inbred them. The places where the races mixed (Sendar, Mallorea) have the most sensible people.

** In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', the Riders of Rohan from the North tend to be blond, while the people of Gondor are chiefly dark-haired. Tolkein reverses the typical associations, with the blond-haired Rohirrim being "lesser men" compared to the dark-haired Númenóreans.[[note]]This may have something to do with analogies to real-life antiquity, with the darker-haired Romans having a superior civilization to the blond-haired Germanics.[[/note]]

** The two races on Skaro seem to be defined by hair colour — the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior-race]], Thals, are uniformly blond (mostly straight), and the scientific Kaleds have brown hair (mostly curly). This leads to some problems in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]], where the Doctor (who had dark curly hair in that incarnation) is identified as a Kaled, but no-one knows what to make of his red-haired companion Sarah.
*** The new series seems to have abandoned this: [[spoiler:In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]], several Kaleds appear, one of whom is played by a black actor, and the other is a boy with straight, light brown or dark blond hair.]]
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators "The Dominators"]], the dark-haired Dominators and the blond Dulcians.

** This becomes a major plot point in Season 1 when the Baratheons' dominant tendency to black hair is enough to raise (perfectly correct) doubts about the parentage of King Robert's three ''blond'' children as the Lannisters are jerkass blonds -- the only blonds in the series.
** Platinum-white hair is the most distinctive feature of the bloodline the Targaryens practiced BrotherSisterIncest for hundreds of years to maintain.

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' setting's ''Dawn of the Empires'' boxed set explored this trope a good deal, with humans from different regions of imperial Thyatis and Alphatia having distinctive ethnic phenotypes, as well as cultural quirks. Those ancient Alphatians who immigrated from another world included both pale-skinned and copper-skinned ethnic stock, with intolerant subgoups within each of these choosing to remain "pure" and not marry the other; the majority of Alphatians, however, consider ethnic bigotry secondary to anti-Muggle FantasticRacism.

* In Creator/JRRTolkien's Middle-earth, there are often a set of common hair colours among various peoples, although averted as they are not uniform and not without exceptions. Of both Men and Elves, there are tribes who are dark-haired and those who are blond; Hobbits are generally brown-haired, while blond is rare.
** Hobbits divide themselves into three main breeds or tribes, one of whom is named for their fair skin and hair: the Fallohides.
** In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', the Riders of Rohan from the North tend to be blond, while the people of Gondor were chiefly dark-haired. However Tolkein reverses the typical associations, with the blond-haired Rohirrim being "lesser men" compared to the dark-haired Númenóreans. This may have something to do with analogies to real-life antiquity, with the darker-haired Romans having a superior civilization to the blond-haired Germanics.
** Tolkien went further. The "swarthy" Eastern and Southron races were generally enemies of the "fair" races.
*** Except when they weren't, such as the men of Bree, some non-Dúnedain Gondorians, some hobbits, the Woses, even the Wild Men of Dunland (who were antagonists, but weren't portrayed as evil). And some of the most evil villains were white- namely, the Black Númenóreans, who were pretty much Nazis [[RecycledINSPACE IN ANCIENT EUROPE]], wore the Hat of being a bunch of {{Evil Sorcerer}}s, and produced such notables as the Witch-King and the Mouth of Sauron. Tolkien ''did'' use racial stereotyping broadly, but it tended to break down the closer into things you actually looked.
*** Helps that Tolkien was totally in love with such tropes as FallenHero, FallenAngel, and TheParagonAlwaysRebels. Any generally good group, including ethnic groups, have at least one guy who went evil. [=LotR=] is the struggle to finally defeat one such rebel[=/=]FallenAngel type, Sauron. And Saruman was pretty much the Paragon of the wizards...

* In Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', most of the Romani characters have dark skin and black hair. There are exceptions, including the light-skinned and redheaded Quasimodo.