History PlayingWith / BaldOfEvil

** BaldOfAwesome.

** TheHero is bald.

** [[MostWritersAreHuman Evulz either isn't a mammal, or is part of a fictional race that doesn’t grow hair.]]

** Evulz has long hair.

** [[MostWritersAreHuman Evulz either isn't a mammal, is part of a fictional race that doesn’t grow hair.]]

** [[MostWritersAreHuman Evulz isn't a mammal.]]

** BaldOfAwesome

** Bob turns out to bee a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.

** BaldOfAwesome; BaldBlackLeaderGuy

* '''Straight''': One of Emperor Evulz is bald.

** A villain is bald, but he wears a toupee most of the time.

** A villain is not bald, but he is always seen with very short hair, indicating that he shaves his head very often.

* '''Straight''': One of the villains is bald.

** ''All'' villains are bald no matter what their age or gender, and all of the heroes have hair.

** [[FreudianExcuse Being taunted for his baldness at a young age]] was one factor that made the villain turn to the dark side.
** The villain has mental powers that are more powerful if there's no hair obstructing it.
** [[MostWritersAreHuman The villain isn't a mammal.]]

** The villain has long hair.

** A bald character who is a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.
** A bald character was seen as a villain, but it's later revealed that he was at the hero side all along.
** The bald villain have a HeelFaceTurn.
* '''Double Subverted''': One of the villains is bald in the prologue or first few episodes or chapters, but there's a long time skip in the storyline and it's implied that his head was shaved back then; most of the time we see him, he has hair. But then it turns out that's a wig.
* '''Parodied''': One of the villains decides to make an army of bald evil minions, as part of his plot to blind enemies from the sunlight reflected on their heads.
* '''Zig Zagged''': An evil character appears to have hair, but the narrative is constantly switching sides on whether or not it's a wig or if he's bald.
* '''Averted''': The villains all have at least some hair on their heads.

** A lot of the characters look similar, and the creators figure that viewers won't be able to tell the villain apart easily unless he has a bald head that glimmers in the light whenever he appears.

* '''Invoked''': A character [[FaceHeelTurn goes to the dark side]] and [[GoodHairEvilHair shaves his head]] because he thinks it better fits his new alliance.

** The villain uses this trope against the bald hero. Since people equate hairlessness with evil, [[HeroWithBadPublicity the public opinion will turn against the good guy]] if a smear-campaign starts drawing attention that detail.

* '''Subverted''': A bald character who is a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.

** A lot of the characters look similar, and the creators figure that [[ViewersAreMorons viewers]] won't be able to tell the villain apart easily unless he has a bald head that glimmers in the light whenever he appears.

* '''Downplayed''': A villain is bald, but he wears a toupee most of the time.

* '''Defied''': "No! I cannot let myself go bald or people will figure out how evil I am on first sight!"

* '''Conversed''': "Do you suppose the Dark Warlord needs sunscreen for his scalp?"

* '''Downplayed''': A villain is bald, but he wears a toupe most of the time.

** The villain has mental powers that are more powerful if there's no hair obstucting it.

** The big bad decides to go bald in order to look more meanacing.
** The villain uses this trope aginst the bald hero. Since people equate hairlessness with evil, the public opinion would be aginst the good guy.

** ''All'' villains are bald no matter what their age, and all of the heroes have hair.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

** Or the villain has long hair.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': There is some kind of chemical or radiation in the environment that causes madness and insanity, but also makes the victim's hair fall out. Our villain is simply an innocent victim of this suffering, slowly being destroyed by the negative effects of the substance.
* '''Reconstructed''': A scientific process used to boost intelligence and knowledge has the side effect of causing baldness. It's later revealed that it removes empathy altogether, making them evil scientists. If the process is reverted, hair grows back.

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* '''Exaggerated''': ''All'' villains are bald no matter what their age, and all of the heroes have hair.

* '''Justified''': [[FreudianExcuse Being taunted for his baldness at a young age]] was one factor that made the villain turn to the dark side.

* '''Inverted''': BaldOfAwesome; BaldBlackLeaderGuy

* '''Enforced''': A lot of the characters look similar, and the creators figure that [[ViewersAreMorons viewers]] won't be able to tell the villain apart easily unless he has a bald head that glimmers in the light whenever he appears.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Fear me and my shiny bald head of doom, mortals!"

* '''Conversed''': "This is the first episode where this villain shows up and, already, I can't take him seriously. The ridiculous amount of shine on his bald head is just silly."

** And when someone turns evil, their hair instantly falls out.

** The villain has mental powers that are more powerful if there's no hair instructing it

* The writer thinks EvilIsUgly,and that baldness is ugly
* '''Lampshaded''': "Fear me, and my shiny bald head of doom, mortals!"
** "You know, a little Rogaine would make this world a much nicer place to live."

* '''Defied''': "No! I cannot let myself go bald, or people will figure out how evil I am on first sight!"
* '''Discussed''': "Wait, so that's three bald evil guys we've run into so far. Do you think the baldness and the evil might be related?"
* '''Conversed''': "This is the first episode where this villain shows up, and already I can't take him seriously. The ridiculous amount of shine on his bald head is just silly."

* '''Subverted''': A bald character who is TheBooRadley.

** Or the villain has GodivaHair.