Blond Guys Are Evil: Difference between revisions

Often synonymous with [[Light Is Not Good]]; after all, blond guys are more often associated with an angelic appearance than black haired ones.

 

 

== Anime & Manga ==

** General Blue.

** Also in Dragonball, when a Saiyan shifts into their [[Super Mode]], their hair turns blond and their outlook [[Not Himself|changes for the worse]].

** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ]]'' has Glemmy Toto, a clone of not Char, but Gihren Zabi, given a dye-job and a new lease on life. For a teenager he is [[Teens Are Monsters|frighteningly evil]].

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]]'':

* General Peters-Stahl, one of the few outright villains in ''[[Scrapped Princess (Light Novel)|Scrapped Princess]]''. Also worth noting is that Cz, the only Peacemaker who is supposed to be sympathetic, is also the only one that isn't blond.

* ''[[Fist of the North Star (Manga)|Fist of the North Star]]'' has Shin and Souther. Raoh was originally blond in the manga as well, but was given black hair in the TV anime series (the newer anime versions restores his original blond hair). This is evened out by Jagi in the original anime (whose hair color was changed from the manga's black to blond), who was not only purely evil, but also the one who turned Shin evil in the first place.

* Johan of ''[[Monster (Manga)|Monster]]'' is handsome, blond, blue-eyed, and ''absolutely terrifying''.

* Mello from ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' {{spoiler|has been a Mafia terrorist since he was 14, armed with guns in leather pants. Not to mention taking extreme measures to get what he wants, including kidnapping a teen girl and causing her to go through a traumatic experience that leaves her catatonic}}.

* A flashback story revealed that Hiruma from ''[[Eyeshield 21 (Manga)|Eyeshield 21]]'' has hair that is naturally black, but he dyes it specifically as part of his strategy to make himself look more intimidating. It works. Oh, and he's evil.

* Cain from ''[[Trinity Blood (Light Novel)|Trinity Blood]]'' is blond, angelic looking, and a completely evil bastard.

* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi (Manga)|Fushigi Yuugi]]'''s Nakago (bonus points for being the sole survivor of his repulsive, entirely-blond tribe).

** Dio Brando. When he was twelve, he tied up his step-brother's dog and stuffed him in the incinerator. Later on in his [[Our Vampires Are Different|un-life]], he carjacked a sedan and had the driver plow through pedestrians on the sidewalk. He is ''[[Complete Monster|bad news.]]''

** Brando's most loyal subordinate, Enrico Pucci, is not only this but also subverts the [[Darkskinned Blonde|Dark Skinned Blond]] trope by being pretty damn cunning.

** By the looks of it, part 7 villain Funny Valentine is also one.

* Gin from ''[[Detective Conan (Manga)|Detective Conan]]'', although there is conflict over whether his hair is blond or silver.

* ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato (Anime)|Star Blazers:]]'' Everybody chant! DESS-lok Desslok Desslok! DESS-lok Desslok Desslok! DESS-lok Desslok Desslok!

* ''[[Darker Than Black (Anime)|Darker Than Black]]'' very much fits both this trope and [[Blondes Are Evil]], given the huge amount of blond Contractors, who, while varying in terms of morality/likability, are all superpowered sociopaths. The high proportion of blonds might be because Contractors are generally foreign agents, and the favored way to depict a foreigner in Japan is through [[Phenotype Stereotype]] <ref>which incidentally uses a ''[[Darker Than Black (Anime)|Darker Than Black]]'' character as the page image</ref>.

* The main villain Hartmann Bezelheim from ''[[Princess Lover (Visual Novel)|Princess Lover]]''.

* Reda from ''[[Mon Colle Knights (Anime)|Mon Colle Knights]]''. {{spoiler|Lark, on the other hand...}}

* Every notable blond guy in ''[[Eyeshield 21 (Manga)|Eyeshield 21]]'' is (or was) a jerkass, with the exception of Homer and the Yuuhi Guts captain. The biggest jerks in the Pentgram are blondes, Hiruma and Agon dyed their hair blonde at some point, and former delinquents Toganou and Juumonji started out as jerks to Sena. Somewhat justified for the Japanese characters who are blonde, since bleached hair = delinquent = jerk.

* ''[[Mai-Otome (Anime)|Mai-Otome]]'' has [[Evil Genius|John Smith]] in the anime and {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Sergay]] [[Complete Monster|August]] Taiki}} in the manga.

* ''[[Inukami (Anime)|Inukami]]'': [[Wake Up Call Boss|Sea of Violence]] and [[Big Bad|Sekidosai]].

* ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' has [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Donquixote Doflamingo]].

* Neron, [[The DCU]]'s lord of [[Hell]] for a time in the late '90s and early '00s, appeared as a tall, muscular, pale-skinned man with a mane of blond hair. This was not, however, his true form; he was actually some sort of weird, tentacled, plantlike thing.

* Lucifer, as he appeared in ''[[The Sandman]]'' and [[Lucifer (Comic Book)|his self-titled series]], was also a tall, blond man. This version of the character was pretty clearly inspired by Milton's ''[[Paradise Lost]]''. And by tall, blond man, we mean that Neil Gaiman ordered the artists who drew Lucifer to make him look like [[David Bowie]].

* Not an actual example, but this trope has been [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]] whenever the fact that [[Captain America]] is pretty much the ideal of the Nazi's blond-haired-blue-eyed Aryan Ubermensch has been brought up. Incidentally, there was a period of time where the Red Skull inherited a cloned body of Cap's, pretty much keeping his appearance, blond hair and all, therefore playing this trope straight.

 

* [[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]] faces muscular blond henchmen on a regular basis:

** ''[[From Russia With Love (Film)|From Russia With Love]]'': Red Grant, a cold-blooded assassin (but [[Not So Above It All]] in the novel, leading to his downfall).

** ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]'': Hans, who ends up being a victim to the [[Piranha Problem]].

** ''[[For Your Eyes Only (Film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'': Erich Kriegler, who, despite being an Olympic shooter, seems to have graduated from the [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]].

** ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]]'': Mr. Stamper, a bleached blond this time.

** In ''[[A View to A Kill (Film)|A View to A Kill]]'', [[Big Bad]] [[Christopher Walken|Max Zorin]] himself is blond and the result of a [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi]] [[Mad Scientist]]'s breeding experiment in the 1940s.

* Another Roy, Roy Stalin in ''[[Better Off Dead]]''. Also a [[Jerk Jock]].

* Talbot (Josh Lucas) in Ang Lee's ''[[Hulk (Film)|Hulk]]''.

* The [[Labyrinth (Film)|Goblin King]] fits. He ''was'' the antagonist...

* Many of the characters blond actor Richard Widmark played from ''[[Kiss of Death]]'' to ''[[Murder On the Orient Express]]'' were villains.

* ''[[Dune]]'': Paul is dark-haired, as was his father, Feyd has a reddish-tinged blond thing going, and the Baron is a redhead who leans toward blond.

* Main antagonist Dr. Zaius in ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' is a blonde-haired orangutan who doesn't look so threatening, but is the most unscrupulous and evil of the apes.

* The Daimons in the ''[[The Dark Hunters|Dark Hunter]]'' books are perpetually 27, beautiful, tall, blonde...and will kill you and suck out your soul to elongate their lives. Jerks.

* {{spoiler|Joker}} from the ''[[Read or Die (Anime)|Read or Die]]'' series.

* ''[[The Time Travelers Wife]]'' invokes this trope twice over: while neither Ingrid nor Gomez (the blond romantic rivals to the central couple's brunet Henry and [[Heroes Want Redheads|redheaded]] Clare) are bad people, the former is [[Tsundere|needy and confrontational]] and the latter is offputtingly glib and cynical (and has a weird Communism fetish). Neither Henry or Clare view them as legitimate contenders in the [[Love Dodecahedron]] (although Henry and Ingrid dated before he met Clare).

* ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'''s Wolfgang von Uberwald, who has [[Our Werewolves Are Different|more blond hair than the rest of the examples put together.]]

* In ''Morpho Eugenia'' by A. S. Byatt (filmed as ''Angels And Insects''), this applies to both men and women: the dark-haired protagonist marries into a blond-haired family which is obsessive about bloodlines, dark secrets are uncovered, and he leaves town with a brunette.

* Nicolae Carpathia, the Antichrist in the ''[[Left Behind]]'' books. Also, Lucifer himself, as shown in one scene in ''Glorious Appearing''.

* Warner in [[Shatter Me]], who wants to use the main character whose touch is fatal as his weapon.

* In John [[Le Carre]]'s "Call for the Dead" a German agent is killing people to cover their tracks. He, of course, does not use his real name and makes his contacts give him a nickname to use. He is then called "Blondie".

 

** The Editor, played by Simon Pegg in 'The Long Game'

* John-Paul McQueen from ''[[Holly Oaks]]'' drove his ex-girlfriend to anorexia, had an affair with his friend's boyfriend, convinced a priest to leave the church, then later left said priest for another bloke. Also, Ste Hay is blond.

* In the pilot of the Stephen King series ''[[Haven]]'', Ted, the blondest guy in town, turns out to be a {{spoiler|con-man and accomplice to murder who was pretending to love a woman for her money.}}

* The TV movie of ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' had a villain who slowly assassinated the king and tried to marry the princess. It's no wonder he was caught--his long blond hair was a dead giveaway. {{spoiler|The princess has him eternally imprisoned and sets her sights on the kind, dark-haired doctor.}}

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', Arthas Menethil, a prince who would later kill his father and become the villain for the third expansion pack ''Wrath Of The Lich King'', is blond (though in undeath, his hair turns [[Evil Albino|white]]). In addition, Prince Kael'Thas Sunstrider is also blond.

* [[Fatal Fury|Geese Howard]], the first [[SNK Boss]]. There's also [[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|Rugal Bernstein]], the successor to the mantle. Interestingly enough, Geese is killed by a blond guy, Terry Bogard, and his son Rock is blond (with [[Red Eyes Take Warning|red eyes]] to boot). The [[Big Bad]] of ''Mark Of The Wolves'', [[Meaningful Name|Kain R. Heinlein]], also has red eyes and long blond hair. It's not a coincidence or anything; Kain is {{spoiler|Rock's [[Evil Uncle]] and Geese's brother-in law. Poor Rock. He knew Kain was half-evil, but then he found out the ''other'' half was evil, too...)}}

** Dhaos of ''[[Tales of Phantasia (Video Game)|Tales of Phantasia]]'' - although this is also a case of [[Poor Communication Kills]].

** Miktran/Kronos in ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]]''. It looks like Elraine and Barbatos in the sequel might avert this but then you fight Fortuna...and she's ''blonde''.

* When he's evil, {{spoiler|Richard}} in ''[[Tales of Graces (Video Game)|Tales of Graces]]''. It's best to consider that ''GREENS'' are evil in ''[[Tales of Graces (Video Game)|Tales of Graces]]''.

* In the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series:

** Used straight with probably the first major blond male character: [[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Emperor Mateus Palamecia]], who is rather astonishingly [[Complete Monster|evil]].

** In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'', the protagonist, Squall, has brown hair, while his rival-turned-evil, Seifer, has blond.

** In ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'', the original SNES version, Kain is shown to have blond hair in the game's ending (it's the only time his helmet is removed, and it doesn't show in his menu portrait). In the remake, his blond hair is more prominently displayed. It might be argued that Kain isn't really evil, {{spoiler|but as Golbez noted, those that were taken over by Zemus/Zeromus had evil in their hearts. Kain's jealousy over Rosa loving Cecil and not him is what made him willing to turn against his friend. Also, he doesn't have a problem with using brute force to get something done--he says as much to Cecil when Rydia is unwilling to go with them after Mist is burned.}}

** In ''[[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XI]]'', you get the villains {{spoiler|the two Zilart princes of Jeuno, specifically the <s>younger</s> older brother, who is actually behind the first villain}} for the first expansion and {{spoiler|Nag'molada}} for the second.

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