Basic Trope: Using powers or powering up results in a character's hair changing color.
- Straight: Alice's hair changes from blonde to red when using her powers.
- Exaggerated: Alice's hair flashes every color of the rainbow to the point where it gives everyone around her seizures.
- Downplayed: Alice's hair only slightly turns either lighter or darker.
- Justified:
- Alice's power comes from a mutation that changes the color of her hair.
- Alice is a Human Alien whose "hair" is actually a mass of filament-like outgrowths whose pigmentation changes (whether voluntarily or involuntarily) depending on the situation, due to some chemical property in the cells. Red in this case signifies "watch out, I'm dangerous" to potential enemies/predators.note
- Alice is a shapeshifting Robot Girl whose hair automatically changes colour when she switches to Super Mode.
- Alice is a potent psychic whose hair changes color when she enters her Super Mode, because of the sheer psychic power coursing through her head.
- Inverted:
- Alice's hair changes color when she loses her powers.
- Alice's hair loses its color when she uses her powers.
- Subverted: When Alice uses her powers she goes through a full makeover that includes changing her outfit, eye color, etc.; but her hair remains the same color.
- Double Subverted: Then she uses said power to change her hair color at will.
- Parodied: Alice dyes her hair, and everyone thinks she suddenly got a power boost.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice's hair doesn't change color when using her powers.
- Enforced: "Alright, we need a visual cue that Alice is powering up. Change her hair color, that's a good indicator."
- Lampshaded: "Nice hairdo."
- Invoked: Alice gets to pick her transformation, and chooses the hair to keep things simple.
- Exploited: Evulz keeps a watch out for people who's hair has suddenly changed, recognising them as potential rivals.
- Defied: "Actually, hair, as it is dead tissue, is about the only thing the transformation won't effect. So no need to worry about the hairdresser.
- Discussed: "So you're gonna let out a scream of power and suddenly become a redhead?"
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice's powers leave her normally blonde hair red when using them, even after she deactivates them. Since Alice is a superheroine with a dual identity, she has to dye her hair back to its original color when in public to ensure no one discovers her hero persona, which makes her life somewhat difficult due to having to spend so much money on hair dye just to live a normal life.
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