Basic Trope: A character who is evil is also bald.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz is bald.
- Exaggerated:
- All villains are bald no matter their age or gender, and all of the heroes have hair.
- Everyone that begins going bald turns evil simultaneously.
- And when someone turns evil, their hair instantly fall out.
- Evulz has no hair on any part of his body.
- Evulz survived a scalping, and now has no hair or skin on the top of his head.
- Evulz savagely beats a man to death for knocking off his wig or hat, revealing his bald head underneath.
- Downplayed:
- Emperor Evulz is bald, but he wears a toupee most of the time.
- He's only bald on the top, the sides have hair.
- Emperor Evulz is not bald, but he is always seen with very short hair, indicating that he shaves his head very often.
- Edward is bald, and while "evil" is an overstatement, he's still very morally ambiguous and can be a major Jerkass.
- Justified:
- Being taunted for his baldness at a young age was one factor that made Evulz turn to the dark side.
- Evulz has mental powers that are more powerful if there's no hair obstructing it.
- Evulz either isn't a mammal, or is part of a species or fictional race that doesn’t grow hair.
- Evulz had a condition or disease that makes him bald.
- Inverted:
- Evulz has very long hair.
- The Hero has a Bald Head of Toughness.
- Subverted:
- Bob turns out to be a Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold.
- Bob was seen as a villain, but it's later revealed that he was at the hero side all along.
- Evulz have a Heel–Face Turn.
- Double Subverted: Evulz 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:
- Evulz decides to make an army of bald evil minions, as part of his plot to blind enemies from the sunlight reflected on their heads.
- When designing his throne room, the first question Evulz has is: "how am I going to have light come down and reflect on my head."
- Zig Zagged: Evulz 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: Evulzs all have at least some hair on their heads.
- Enforced:
- A lot of the characters look similar, and the creators figure that viewers won't be able to tell Evulz apart easily unless he has a bald head that glimmers in the light whenever he appears.
- The writer thinks Evil is Ugly, and that baldness is ugly.
- The actor is bald, and any attempt to give him hair looked ridiculous.
- 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 in."
- Invoked: Bob goes to the dark side and shaves his head because he thinks it better fits his new alliance.
- Exploited:
- Evulz decides to go bald in order to look more menacing.
- Since people equate hairlessness with evil, Evulz turns the public opinion against the bald hero with a smear-campaign drawing attention that detail.
- Defied:
- "No! I cannot let myself go bald or people will figure out how evil I am on first sight!"
- "Just because I'm going bald doesn't mean I have to become evil."
- Discussed: "Wait, so that's three bald evil guys we've run into so far. Do you think that baldness and evil may be related?"
- Conversed: "Do you suppose the Dark Warlord needs sunscreen for his denuded scalp?"
- 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.
- Implied: Surrounded by mooks, Bob makes a mental note of "that guy with hair" implying several of the other mooks are bald.
Shine in the sun back to Bald of Evil.
