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For the ultimate combination, supply a bald villain with a [[Beard of Evil|villainous goatee.]] This trope is also a function of [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]].

 

 

For aversions, see [[Bald of Awesome]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

** Plenty of bald heroes too: Tenshinhan, Krillin, and Master Roshi.

*** True, but Tenshinhan was originally a villain (albeit one who almost immediately performed a [[Heel Face Turn]] a few eps after his introduction), so the point stands.

* Ivan the Terrible (or Ivan of Russia, in the Japanese version) from ''Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still'' is bald, though he's not the most nefarious of the evil group he's a part of, even though he may be one of the biggest nutcases in the entire anime. Though, to be fair, one of the guys dead-set on doing good is bald as well.

* Gluttony of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', although he's actually not nearly as evil as many of the other homunculi, but more of a [[Psychopathic Manchild]].

* The [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] of ''[[Skyland]]'', Oslo and Diwan.

** There's also the leader of the Bounty Hunters later on, but he is more of a [[Punch Clock Villain]]; he meets Negi in a bathhouse later 'off the clock' and comments that he has no intention of pulling anything.

{{quote| Mai: [Joey]'s gone too far to lose it all to a creep with a bad attitude. Not to mention a bad hairdo. It's more of a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|hairdon't]].}}

* In many H-doujinshi featuring rape, the men are mostly featureless, which includes making them bald.

* {{spoiler|Kriem}} when [[Bald Women|she]] appears in Episode 18 of ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]''. [[Fridge Brilliance|It makes sense]], really, {{spoiler|when you consider that her hair enables her to control inanimate objects to wreak havoc. The hospital staff probably shaved her head so that she wouldn't be able to when she woke up}}.

 

 

* The Kingpin, in [[Marvel Comics]]. Bullseye from the ''[[Daredevil]]'' comics is also bald and has a bullseye scared into his forehead.

* Professor Xavier of ''[[X-Men]]'' is ''almost'' a textbook example of the 'kindly eggheaded [[The Professor|Professor]]' aversion, as he's sometimes portrayed as being morally ambiguous and slightly sinister, and let's not go near his various [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Super Powered Evil Sides]]. It's worth noting that [[Patrick Stewart]] is a classic example of [[Bald of Awesome]].

** Apocalypse also lacked hair.

* [[Marvel Universe]] semi-aversion: Moondragon, even when she was not being actively influenced by the malevolent [[Cosmic Horror]] she named herself after, fit [[The Gift]] trope to a tee. Her girlfriend Phyla mellowed her out, some.

* In the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' comic series, Superboy shaved his head bald before going on an insane killer rampage and beating up the entire rest of the team. [[Brainwashed and Crazy|This was due to a mental command which was placed in Superboy's brain from after he was cloned in Cadmus.]]

* The righteous Christian in any [[Chick Tracts]] will have a full head of hair (except the Bull, who started out evil). Villains, atheists, and [[Strawman Political|goddamn liberals]] will be balding, usually with embarrassing combovers or comb-back-overs.

* Henry Bendix, the Weatherman from ''[[The Authority]]'' and ''Stormwatch''.

* In ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen|League of Extraordinary Gentleman Vol. 1]]'', [[Big Bad]] Professor James Moriarty is bald (in keeping with his character in the original [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories).

* Nobeard, one of the Subway Pirates in ''[[Seven Soldiers]]'' and rival of the thick [[Beard of Evil]]-sporting Allbeard. It's commonly believed that the two represent series writer [[Grant Morrison]] and [[Alan Moore]].

* [[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'s Zelda - a genetically engineered mook to an evil (but he's getting better) child genius - has no body hair at all, not even eyebrows (or possibly eyelashes). She hates it (she used to have very long and luscious hair). It's explained as the result of having "Dolphin DNA" being used in her gengineering.

* The Duke of Lorraine in ''Rex Mundi''.

 

== Film ==

** And, naturally, when Scott Evil goes Eeeevil, he gradually loses his hair.

** Also from Bond, [[The World Is Not Enough (Film)|Renard]].

* Galbatorix in [[The Movie]] version of the ''[[Inheritance Trilogy]]''. With a [[Beard of Evil|goatee]]!

* Imhotep in ''[[The Mummy Trilogy]]''; [[Justified Trope]] as it was pretty much the standard hairdo for Egyptian priests. Also, many, many Egyptian villains.

** As if to make up for this, it has two ''good'' bald characters.

** [[Bald Black Leader Guy]] Morpheus gets a pass, of course.

* [[Apocalypse Now|Col. Walter Edmund Kurtz]].

{{quote| '''Tom Servo''': "Set it to BALD!"}}

* The Strangers in ''[[Dark City]]''.

* After the events in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Revenge of the Sith]]'', both Vader and Sidious are bald. As was Maul. Conversely, most of the Jedi have long hair.

* The Nazi consul (played by Otto Preminger) in ''Margin for Error''.

* ''[[Shocker]]'''s villain, Horace Pinker, has it and has [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|burn-marks]] on it, too.

* Him in ''[[We Are the Strange]]'' is bald and lacks body hair of any kind. All he's got are his eyebrows.

* Both Colonel Koobus Venter and Wikus' father-in-law in ''[[District 9]]'' qualify for this.

* The Zodiac in ''[[Curse of the Zodiac]]''.

* Surprisingly, Rapunzel from ''[[Shrek]] the Third'' was revealed to actually be this. Going by her reaction when it was exposed, apparently, this was not something she was proud of, to say the very least.

* Bane will be portrayed in this fashion in ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|The Dark Knight Rises]]''.

 

 

== Literature ==

** To be fair, in his case, Voldemort was so far gone from anything remotely human that having hair at all would have been an accomplishment.

* Lord Tywin Lannister and Varys the Spider are this in [[A Song of Ice and Fire]]. Tywin combines his with enormous mutton chops to make a [[Bald of Awesome|bald of extremely awesome.]]

* ''Harap Alb'', a Romanian folk tale, has the "Sp?', literally, "bald man", as the primary [[Jerkass]] villain. The main character is told that the only thing worse than a bald man is a red haired one...Guess whose daughter he is forced to win over later?

* Although he was not described specifically in the stories, [[Sherlock Holmes]]' [[Arch Enemy]] Professor James Moriarty was presented as being bald in the earliest illustrations of the character.

* {{spoiler|Bayaz}} of ''[[The First Law]]'' combines this with [[Bald of Awesome]], though the "evil" part is less evident until later in the series.

* Darth Bane in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] has this all the way down.

* Pavel Kazakov, [[Big Bad]] of the [[Dale Brown]] novel ''Warrior Class''.

* Diabolus Darkdoom and his son, Nigel, in ''[[HIVE Series|H.I.V.E.]]'', a series about a school for villains. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Nero at one point.

{{quote| '''Nero''': Darkdoom? Oh, ''why'' is it always the bald ones?}}

* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' has [[No Name Given|the man with a beard but no hair]], who's apparently so evil that Lemony Snicket won't even tell us his name, and the bald man with a long nose, one of Count Olaf's henchmen.

* [[Smug Snake|Sadi]], one of the [[Eunuchs Are Evil|evil eunuchs]] at Salmissra's court in ''[[The Belgariad]]''. In fact, most Nyissans shave their heads, if for no better reason to keep out the lice. In ''[[The Malloreon]]'', Sadi allies with the heroes, [[Took a Level In Badass|takes a level in badass]], and graduates to [[Bald of Awesome]].

 

* The Sontarans from ''[[Doctor Who]]'', partly because of the [[People in Rubber Suits]] effect.

** Davros, the creator of the Daleks.

* Speaking of Patrick Stewart, he's the [[Big Bad]] in [[The BBC]] [[John Le Carre]] serials ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' and ''Smiley's People''.

* Rare female example: as ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'''s president Laura Roslin loses her hair {{spoiler|to cancer treatments}}, she also becomes increasingly totalitarian.

* ''[[Black Hole High]]'': Victor Pearson, the series' antagonist, is bald in the present day, but in the 1987 time zone, he has a full head of hair. Almost everything we see of him in this period is sympathetic. He also manages to keep his hair in an alternate timeline where he's a slightly dotty science teacher. The final kicker: in the series finale, which reveals Pearson's ultimately noble motives, Victor is starting to grow his hair back.

* The Technomages of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' all shave their heads, for easier access to the brain and spinal column. Their evilness varies from person to person.

* Vic Mackey, of ''[[The Shield]]''. Though he's not so much ''evil'' as Chaotic ([[Chaotic Good]] would be a stretch) and possessed of [[Black and Grey Morality]].

* G.B. Vonturgo from ''[[Bring Em Back Alive]]''.

 

 

== Music ==

* [[Doctor Steel]] is bald, and wants to take over the world. (On the other hand he just wants to promote fun, and loves children.)

 

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* King Kong Bundy was the greatest example. Apart from his eyelashes, he was completely hairless.

* Genki Horiguchi of ''[[Dragon Gate]]'' literally calls himself H.A.G.E of Evil (hage is Japanese for bald).

* The Straight Edge Society in the [[WWE]] is a whole stable of these. Inverted in the leader, [[CM Punk]], whose mane is the whole selling point of the gimmick...

 

 

== Radio ==

* [[Mark Kermode]] and Simon Mayo even made up a rule about it (when reviewing ''Prince of Persia'').

{{quote| "Never trust a bald man with mascara."}}

 

== Tabletop RPG ==

 

 

* Kane from ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' is an example of the aforementioned bald-with-goatee combo.

** Yuri from Red Alert 2 also counts and, like Kane, has an evil beard.

** And let's not forget about [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] himself. And Jabba, I guess...

** And Darth Maul, bald with horns.

** The same could be said for Agent 47 from the ''[[Hitman]]'' series, only replace [[Anti-Hero|antiheroic goatee]] with [[Anti-Hero|antiheroic barcode on the back of his head]].

* Dr. Robotnik/''Egg''man from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]''. I Am The Eggman, that's what I am...

* Zakhaev from ''[[Call of Duty 4]]''. Not to mention, he has a [[Beard of Evil|goatee]]

* Moebius, [[Man Behind the Man|servant]] of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Elder God]] from the ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' series, is a conniving manipulator who eschews hair of any sort and is notably bald even in thousand year old murals depicting his younger days when he led the rebellion against the vampires who ruled over humanity in the past.

** Minor characters Azimuth and Marcus, both antagonists, are also bald.

* The Helghast in the ''Killzone'' series are all bald. Apparently, this is a side effect of having emigrated to a [[Death World]].

* Mr. Big from the ''[[Art of Fighting]]'' series: a crime boss who kidnapped a teenage girl to blackmail her father and force both her brother and her best friend to fight him.

* ''Portrait of Ruin'' has Brauner, who seems to be an Orlok double. Still second fiddle to Dracula, though.

* Neff, the main bad guy from ''[[Altered Beast]]''.

* {{spoiler|Mr. Blank}} from ''[[Space Channel 5]]''.

* The [[Starcraft|Dark Templar]] was a definite [[Subverted Trope|subversion]]. On the first game, they were largely regarded as a bunch of dark, shady heretics. One of their defining traits is that they don't have tendrils on the backs of their heads (the protoss equivalent of hair), making them essentially bald. Zeratul is the most obvious example. It turns out that they are actually one of the most heroic characters in the game.

** This, in turn, makes the Dark Templar a straight example of [[Important Haircut]], but not [[Bald of Awesome]].

** Robert de Sable is the bald [[Big Bad]] ([[Bigger Bad|mostly]]) of the first game.

* Hot Coldman from ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'', and [[Complete Monster|he's quite evil, all right]]. Coincidentally, he is also voiced by [[Mugihito]], who voiced Sigma.

* In ''[[Jade Empire]]'', all of the [[Secret Police|Lotus Assassins]] shave their heads.

* {{spoiler|Andre Oliveri}} from ''[[Ace Combat Joint Assault]]''.

* The Chaos Cultists and [[Big Bad|Lord Zymran]] from ''[[Warhammer 40000 Chaos Gate]]''.

 

== [[Web Animation]] ==

 

 

== Web Comics ==

** Not quite completely bald; if you look closely, he's got a sparse brown crew cut covering the crown of his head. But close enough.

*** Roy falls under [[Bald Black Leader Guy]].

* Dr. Unpleasant from ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'': "Hey mister, your head looks like a [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=archive&chapter=29688#strip2 light bulb]."

** Subverted [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=118629 here] by Professor Odious, who is actually a [[Tropaholics Anonymous|reformed villain.]]

* [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-06-04 Vilrath] from ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''. {{spoiler|Even though it was just Jacob wearing Vilrath's skin.}}

* [[The Law of Purple]]: Silver is totally bald.

* ''[[Dr. Nonami]]'': aside from his [[Badass Mustache]], Mechano is totally bald.

 

== Web Original ==

* The Watcher in ''[[Kate Modern]]'' is an obvious example, although the show also features Tariq Bhartti, who has a shaven head and is a likable enough individual.

* Secondary ''[[Broken Saints]]'' villain (and big-time sleazebag) Mars is severely bald on the top of his head, with only some grey around the sides and what's left in back pulled into a ponytail.

* [[The League of STEAM]] apparently have an enemy, a league of bald-headed villains.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* Cobra scientist Dr. Mindbender in ''[[G.I. Joe]]''

** [[Professional Killer|Sparky.]] [[Implacable Man|Sparky.]] [[The Voiceless|Boom.]] [[Something Person|Man.]]

** On the other hand, it might not be so much of a subversion, when you consider the fact that it would be difficult indeed to ever see Rusty or Brock as anything close to being GOOD - one's a [[Jerkass]] and the other is basically a [[Sociopathic Hero]].

* The Hood, from ''Thunderbirds''.