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[[File:ellenripley_5917.jpg|link=Alien (Filmfranchise)|frame|[[Bald Women|No hair]]. [[Badass Normal|No weapons]]. [[Action Girl|No chance you could beat her in a fight]].]]
 
{{quote|''"Bald women: you're bald because you're bald."''|'''Johnny Q. Public,''' "Women of Zion"}}
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Mahoja in ''[[D .Gray Man-man]]''.
* Parodied in ''Master Of Epic'', in which a band of female players try to fight a monster that ends up giving them bad haircuts. Their solution to beat it? Shave their heads totally bald. {{spoiler|However, it doesn't quite work out the way they planned...}}
* ''[[Yakitate!! Japan (Anime)|Yakitate!! Japan]]'' manga: {{spoiler|Tsukino Azusagawa shaves her head. It's not noticed until her wig falls off...}}
* Lata in the manga ''[[Buddha]]'' starts off as a pretty girl with beautiful black hair, but when she becomes one of Buddha's disciples...
* {{spoiler|Kriem}} in Episode 18 of ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]''. {{spoiler|Most likely, the hospital staff shaved her head to keep her from wreaking havoc when she woke up.}}
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== Card Games ==
* Hitomi from ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]''.
* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'' has several cards featuring this: [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=32224 Cabal Surgeon], [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=83869 Angel of Despair], [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=134762 Fugitive Wizard], and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=197010 Fallen Angel] for extra [[Bald of Evil]].
** Finally, [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=45150 Vile Deacon], assuming you don't count horns against one's baldness.
 
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* Nebula from Marvel, after her escape from Titan and a cybernetic operation.
* The [[Black Panther]]'s [[Bodyguard Babes]], the Dora Milaje.
* ''[[Y: theThe Last Man]]''.
* Cassandra Nova of the [[X-Men]].
* Sometimes, Delirium from ''[[The Sandman]]''.
* Many female characters in [[Alejandro Jodorowsky]]'s ''[[Megalex (Comic Book)|Megalex]]'', but especially the gorgeous, well endowed [[Adam Ã]]¢.
* This once happened to [[Superman|Lois Lane]], in combination with [[My Brain Is Big]]: [http://www.politedissent.com/archives/615 here.]
* ''[[Wet Moon]]''.
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* Lynn from the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' comics becomes one after the prologue of Dying Inside.
* {{spoiler|Mindscan}}, in the original ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' series. Not that you find out until fairly late in the series, as she {{spoiler|wears a wig all the time to hide her [[My Brain Is Big|swollen, lumpy skull]]}}.
* In recent comics, Angelica Jones, AKA [[Spider -Man and His Amazing Friends|Firestar]], is bald due to cancer treatment. Her distinctive long red hair is a wig.
* In the original run of ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'', there was a nazi counterpart team called Lightning Force, whose version of Kitty Pryde was a bald, anorexic ghost.
* Zelda from the comic book ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]''
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== Films ==
* Ellen Ripley in ''[[Alien]] 3'' provides the picture for this trope, after her head is shaved due to problems with head lice at the Fury-161 penal colony.
* Ilia from ''[[Star Trek: theThe Motion Picture]]'': One of the best-known examples, Illia is probably better known for her chrome dome than Persis Khambatta's acting.
* The ''[[Dune]]'' films make Bene Gesserit bald for whatever reason.
* ''[[GIG.I. Jane]]'' is notable for this, even so far as playing the trope on DVD and VHS covers. There's even a [[Multi-Take Cut]] of [[Demi Moore]] [[Important Haircut|shaving her head]] and becoming [[Bald of Awesome|Badass]] in the process.
* Agatha in ''[[Minority Report]]''. Like in ''[[The Matrix]]'', it was because her hair didn't grow while she was kept in stasis.
* Of all people, ''[[Satan]]'' from ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]''. In this case, it also counts as [[Bald of Evil]].
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* [[Hong Kong]] movie ''Temptation of a Monk''.
* {{spoiler|Rapunzel}} from ''[[Shrek]] The Third''.
* Dementia from ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]] Values''.
* ''Hiroshima Mon Amour''.
* The Irish lead character of ''Ryan's Daughter''
* [[Repo! theThe Genetic Opera|Shilo]], though it's shown in only one scene (she wears a wig most of the time).
 
 
== Literature ==
* In ''Murphy's Gambit'' by Syne Mitchell, Thiadora Murphy is one of the Floaters, a society of humans who live in zero gravity and are treated as second-class citizens. Like all Floaters, Thiadora's head is totally bald. In fact, the cover art for the book features this.
* ''[[Starship Troopers (Literaturenovel)|Starship Troopers]]'': pilots in the Federation Navy (most of which are women) shave their heads for practical reasons (having long hair is impractical in free fall). On a date, Rico is somewhat shocked that {{spoiler|his longtime crush, Carmen, was bald}}. He later thinks it looks good on her.
* Inverted with the Seanchean in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', for whom baldness is a social indicator. Members of the nobility partially shave their heads, the high nobility mostly shave their heads, and the royal family is entirely bald.
* Kin Arad, the heroine of Terry Pratchett's ''[[Strata (Literature)|Strata]]'', and, by extension, all female long-lifers, since "hair didn't last past the first century or so". She wears a wig, though.
* At least one of the hominid species living on the [[Ring World]], the City Builders, have hairless crania on both genders. It's not a fashion thing, just speciation, although what conditions led to a species with more or less our ecological niche losing their head hair isn't explained.
* Valerie Russell in ''Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie'' by Holly Black.
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* The Elizabeth I installment of ''[[The Royal Diaries]]'' features a bald female jester.
* One bald woman appears in ''[[Otherland]]'' (forgot her name, the Australian Aborigine — but not Dread's mother).
* Maria in ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (Literature)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' has her head shaved by the Spanish fascists.
* In [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''The Dispossessed'', women are ''expected'' to be bald in Urras society.
* In Classical poety, the anthropomorphic personification of a limited opportunity, especially of concepts such as Fortune and Time, is as a bald woman with only a single lock of hair on her forehead. The moral being that if you do not seize her as she approaches, there is nothing to grab her by once she's passed.
{{quote|<small>If kingdom move thee not, let move thee zeal</small><br />
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Zhaan in ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]''.
* Bonnie, one of Ross' girlfriends on ''[[Friends]]'', was described as being bald. However, by the time Ross meets her, Bonnie had a full head of hair. Until {{spoiler|Rachel persuaded her to shave it off again}}.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' featured this trope, notably with Centauri women, who apparently shave their heads, and the Minbari, who are [[Alien Hair|naturally bald]]. Delenn actually started off bald, but eventually went under an important change that resulted in her getting hair.
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* In ''[[The Pretender]]'', several episodes have included bald women among the randomly surreal background characters in scenes at the Centre.
* Cycle 6 of [[America's Next Top Model]] featured a photoshoot using baldcaps, but one of the models looked so striking without hair that her head was shaved when she received her makeover.
* ''[[Jonathan Creek (TV)|Jonathan Creek]]'' had a one-episode love interest who turned out to be completely bald underneath a wig, a fact that Maddy was exceedingly catty about. Of course, this revelation turned out to be one of the less surreal moments of their brief relationship.
* In an early episode of ''[[Panico Na Band]]'' (The successor series to ''[[Panico Na TV]]''), Babi, one of the [[Lovely Assistant|Panicats]], had her long blond hair shaved off. She definitely looked like a true babe nonetheless!
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In one of the sourcebooks for ''[[Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Awakening]]'', there is a young 20-something who keeps her head bald because her nimbus manifests as sparks running along her scalp serving as a sample character (for the Pygmalian Society in ''Legacies: The Sublime''). This electricity is not strictly ''real'', but the feeling of lightning through her hair is unsettling enough that she prefers to just keep her head shaved bald (if asked about it, the book states that she'll claim to be making a statement on 'gender or something'). Interestingly enough, she actually has the [[Hello, Nurse!|Striking Looks merit]], indicating that she's actually exceptionally ''attractive'' in her own unique way (not [[Angelina Jolie]] level, as that's the higher-level version of the merit, but still attractive enough to draw eyes) and it's mentioned that she's been featured on covers of magazines a few times. Judging from the page art, she deserves the merit.
* In ''[[Deadlands]]: Hell on Earth'', all [[Psychic Powers|sykers]] are absolutely bald. Including women.
* The Tau, of [[Warhammer 40000]], are universally bald, save for a single lock at the back of their head which they typically grow [[Braids of Action|just past shoulder length]]. In the RPG books, human women sometimes are partly or fully bald, such as the Sisters Repentia.
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== Videogames ==
* Karan Sjet in the ''[[Homeworld (Video Game)|Homeworld]]'' series. The box art for ''Homeworld 2'' features Karen's portrait and her bald head.
* Jack (aka Subject Zero) from ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]''. Apparently, she kept the look [[Important Haircut|after a stint in a cult]]. In ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]'' (provided, she survives), she adopts a less antisocial attitude and a longer haircut to go with it, though half of her scalp is still clean-haven.
** Talitha, a minor character in the first game, was also shaved bald.
* Janne from ''[[World Heroes (Video Game)|World Heroes]]'' has her head shaved if she loses a match.
* Safiya in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]''. She is a member of Red Wizards of Thay, who all shave their heads in order to mark their scalps with sigils of arcane power. She doesn't have nearly as many tattoos as Red Wizards are supposed to have, though.
* Zenoa in ''[[Suikoden Tierkreis]]''
* The [[Ax Crazy]] villainess Sasha from ''[[In FamousInfamous (Videovideo game Gameseries)|In Famous]]'' is bald.
* Some Orc women in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' are bald; it's treated as just another expression of their [[Badass|badassitude.]] They are the only women in the game with baldness as an option.
* {{spoiler|Momma Bosco}} from ''[[The Adventures of Sam and& Max: Freelance Police (Video Game)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]''.
* Healers of Agrela in ''[[Majesty]]'' (the first game, anyway).
* Christine from the ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' DLC "Dead Money". You'd think it the fault of the Auto-Doc you find her trapped in (which tore out her vocal cords) or the horrific experiments that left her scarred all over, but, in fact, she shaved her head voluntarily and becomes mildly irritated when you assume otherwise.
* Kalin from ''[[Fable III (Video Game)|Fable III]]'', who is not only bald but sports blue tattoos on her scalp.
* ''[[Star WarstheWars: The Old Republic]]'': [http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/biographies/kaliyo-djannis Kaliyo Djannis].
* The titular character of [[Alice: Madness Returns]], in a flashback/hallucination of her time in an asylum.
* The dark elves from ''[[Dungeon Keeper]] 2''. Overlaps with [[Bald of Evil]].
* In ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'', it seems to be a religious thing, maybe as an extension of the hiding-women's-hair rules of some real religions.
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* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Zoe was bald for some time. While changed into a camel, she bit off Gwynn's hair; Gwynn retaliated with a spell that made Zoe lose all of her hair.
* The succubi from ''[[Oglaf]]''.
* The furry webcomic [[Stubble Trouble (Webcomic)|Stubble Trouble]] prominently features several bald girls.
* Arkady from ''[[FreakangelsFreak Angels]]''.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', Roy Greenhilt learned a lesson during an emergency use of the Belt of Gender-Changing; "If the magic item doesn't specifically ''say'' it grows hair, it probably doesn't." He ended up using a mop-head for a wig.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* Eustace's mother in ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog (Animation)|Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' is as bald as her son and suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] anytime her wig comes off.
* {{spoiler|Heather}}, during the second season of the ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama]]'' series.
** Then {{spoiler|Dakota}}, in Season 4
* Luann in ''[[King of the Hill]]'' lost her hair in the Megalo-Mart explosion in the end of season 2. Traumatized by both her hair loss and the death of her boyfriend Buckley in the same explosion, she, as Kahn put it, "puts on strange [[Sin Ã]]©ad O'Connor act" and rants about "starving Irish children".
* In ''[[Doug]]'', the [[Token Girl|only female member]] of The Beets is bald.
* An episode of [[Rugrats]] once featured a female news anchor with a very memorable hairstyle, to the point where she's recognized as 'the one with the hair'. At the end of the episode, it's revealed to be a wig, she is completely bald underneath.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]],'' female Airbenders are not completely bald, but the front half of their hair is always shaved to show their arrow.
* On an episode of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'', Stan shaves Hayley's head in her sleep after she dyed her hair green for a rally. She wore a wig for most of the episode, but was seen bald a few times.
** "That's the one place you ''want'' them to have hair!"
* Kitty Katswell from ''[[Tuff Puppy (Animation)|Tuff Puppy]]'' has lost her hair and fur several times due to [[Gag Haircut]] situations or comedic abuse.
* In the episode "Sweet and Elite" of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]], Rainbow Dash's errant croquet mallet knocks off the wig of a pony.
* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' revealed that Heloise wore a wig, though this was likely a one-off thing [[Reality Warper|Lucius]] caused.
* One ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|Simpsons]]'' episode had a completely random, bald, female background character who was never expanded upon.
* Many female characters in ''[[Gandahar]]'' - most notably, Queen Ambisextra and her Councilwomen.
 
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