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{{quote|''"Blond'' guys ''aren't [[Dumb Blonde|dumb]]. They're evil. Like in'' [[The Karate Kid]] ''and [[World War Two]].''"|'''Bart Simpson''', ''[[The Simpsons (
Fair-haired guys in media frequently end up evil. This is especially noticeable if he is compared to a nice, dark-haired hero (think Harry Potter vs. Draco Malfoy) or if he is on the opposite end of a [[Love Triangle]]. And if his blond hair is ''long'', you'd better hope [[Lord of the Rings|he's an elf]], because if not, that's pretty much evil incarnate. In many ways, this trope can be seen as the less extreme version of the [[Evil Albino]].
If they're ''not'' evil, they're still jerks, although they may or may not [[Jerk
Given that blond heroes were not rare in films 40 or more years ago, this may be a [[Cyclic Trope]], albeit with a longer cycle time than that for female "bad hair colors". That said, it has certainly become a much more prevalent trope in the days since [[Those Wacky Nazis|World War II]], which may be responsible for this, since the Nazis did love blonds. On the other hand, it may be more simple: popular kids are jerks, and so are all cheerleaders. Blonde is a suitably desirable hair colour for both, therefore...
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== 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]].
* Char Aznable from ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[
* ''[[
** On one side, we have [[Ace Pilot]] Mwu La Flaga, who acts as a bit of a [[Big Brother Mentor]] for Kira and his friends, and is just about the coolest guy you could ever meet; and Dearka Elsmann, a [[Dark-Skinned Blond]] [[Ace Pilot]] who comes across as cocky, but is actually a [[Jerk
** And ''[[
* General Peters-Stahl, one of the few outright villains in ''[[
* ''[[
* Johan of ''[[Monster (
* ''[[
* Mello from ''[[
* A flashback story revealed that Hiruma from ''[[
* Although he's [[Comedic Sociopath|amusingly psychotic]] to the point where it's hard not to like him to an extent, [[Psycho for Hire|Ladd Russo]] from ''[[
* Played with in ''[[
* [[
* ''[[
* Krad in ''[[
* Cain from ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure
** 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 ''[[
* In the "Fujiyama Gangster Paradise" story arc in ''[[
* ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Vincent from ''[[
* ''[[
* Asuham Boone from ''[[
* Justin in ''[[
* The Oni Clan in ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka
* ''[[
* Jonathan Glenn, the biggest [[Jerkass]] in all ''[[
* Berg Katse, in ''[[
* Lucia of ''[[
* Cornelius Alba and {{spoiler|Lio Shirazumi}} in ''[[
* Apos in [[Mnemosyne]]... dear GOD!
* [[Evil Twin|Knives]] from ''[[
* ''[[
** [[Magnificent Bastard]] Andrea Cavalcanti, {{spoiler|actually gangster Benedetto}}, has perfect blond hair.
** The villainous Villefort has white hair in the present day, but flashbacks show that he used to be a rather [[Bishonen]]-looking blond.
* Marik and Bandit Keith from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (
* [[Creepy Child|Alois Trancy]] from the second season of the ''[[
* The ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* The main villain Hartmann Bezelheim from ''[[
* Reda from ''[[
* Belphegor, from ''[[
* Every notable blond guy in ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Vicious]] in ''[[
* ''[[Inukami
* ''[[
* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', Pandora is not only a bit of a jerk but can also be considered outright evil for his complicity in so many awful things, no matter how he feels about the acts themselves.
== Comic Books ==
* Played with regarding {{spoiler|Ozymandias}} in ''[[Watchmen (
* Eddie Brock, aka Venom, in ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]''.
* The Dash, an evil speedster in ''[[Flare]]'', is blond.
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== Film -- Live-Action ==
* The store owner's son Dennis in [[Cabin Fever (
* In ''[[American Pie]]'', the four main guys are all dark-haired and (somewhat) sympathetic. And then there's Stifler.
* [[James Bond (
** ''[[From Russia
** ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[For Your Eyes Only (
** ''[[
** ''[[
** In ''[[A View to
** In a recent aversion/inversion, Bond himself is now blond and somewhat more of an [[Anti-Hero]] (although [[Fan Dumb|people complained about him being blond]] and demanded [[Dyeing for Your Art|he dye it to black]], which was wisely ignored).
* Another Roy, Roy Stalin in ''[[Better Off Dead]]''. Also a [[Jerk Jock]].
* Talbot (Josh Lucas) in Ang Lee's ''[[Hulk (
* Any villainous character played by [[Dolph Lundgren]], but specifically Ivan in ''[[Rocky IV]]'' and the badnik in ''[[
* About 80% of all the characters Mark Rolston has played. (The other 20% were just assholes.)
* [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] (yes, Darth Vader). Although his hair is burned off for most of his time as a villain, his maybe-brown hair is canonically listed as "blond".
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* ''[[The Karate Kid]]'':
** Dark-haired Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) battles Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka, career Evil Blond Guy) for the affections of fair-haired Ali Mills (Elisabeth Shue). {{spoiler|Johnny sweeps the leg, but Daniel still wins in the end.}}
* Zabka played another bully the next year in ''[[Just One Of The Guys]]'' and one final time the year after that in ''[[Back to School (
** Most of the Cobra Kais are blond. In the DVD commentary, director John Avildsen gives the reason why: "In case ya didn't get it!"
* In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', brown-haired Batman battles blond baddies. The Joker's hair is so greasy it looks dark, and cheaply dyed green on top of that, but he's definitely blond. {{spoiler|Like Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent suffered two terrible losses and assumed a new identity. But while Batman dedicated his life to fighting crime, Two-Face tried to kill a cop's innocent child.}}<br /><br />Harvey Dent was an interesting subversion (or untwist) of the trope -- the angsty, brooding dark-haired hero mopes as his love-interest takes up with a blond, popular, media-savvy politician who wears his idealism on his sleeve. Surely, the blond rival ''must'' be a superficial jerk, incapable of truly loving the heroine and only affecting high principles for show? No, it turns out that he really ''is'' a courageous, noble, if somewhat vain man and a better match for the girl than the hero, {{spoiler|until the poor blond man gets broken to pieces in the most horrible way}}.
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* The main hench-villain in the recent ''[[Zorro]]'' movie wasn't only blond, but wore a U.S. Army uniform. How eeeevil can one get, eh?
* John Ryder in the original version of ''[[The Hitcher]]''.
* Cary Elwes's oh-so-British Captain Boone competes for the affections of Lena Headey with Jason Scott Lee's sensitive, dark-haired jungle boy Mowgli in the 1994 live-action adaptation of ''[[The Jungle Book (
* Cary Elwes is also evil in ''[[Twister]]''.
* In ''She's All That'', knowledge of this trope makes the plot's climax and eventual resolution very predictable, since male leads Zack and Dean are, respectively, {{spoiler|brunet and blond}}.
* In ''[[
** And in the third film, Hans' own brother is blond.
* Valentine from the oh so wonky film ''[[Mirror Mask]]'' has dark hair, but wears a mask that has blond Bart Simpson-like "hair". It covers part of his natural dark hair. In the film, Valentine is shown to be a really friendly, helpful guy, even successful (owning a tower and such). {{spoiler|Near the end, he sells out the main character Helena for literally all the jewels he can carry. His dark-haired side soon wins out and his guilt causes him to come back for her, though it's never told whether he gives back the jewels.}}
* Greg Marmalard in ''[[Animal House]]'' is the head of the Omegas, the prick fraternity that is out to shut down the Deltas. On the other hand, the Deltas are chaired by the blond-haired Hoover, who spends the whole movie desperately trying to keep his fraternity from getting kicked off campus.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'', Stan Gable (Ted McGinley) is head of the Alpha Betas, a sadistic-jock-filled fraternity. He torments the titular Nerds for most of the picture, until he learns his lesson after Lewis Skolnick (Robert Carradine) heroically rapes Gable's girlfriend in a funhouse. (Ah, the 80s.)
* Gage, the little blond kid from ''[[Pet Sematary]]''. {{spoiler|He put the 'Evil' in 'Evil Dead'.}}
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* ''[[The Devil Wears Prada]]'' confirms that in any love triangle, dark-haired men like Nate (Adrian Grenier) are caring and compassionate, if overlooked, while blond men like Christian (Simon Baker) are knaves who only seem like a catch until their untrustworthy shenanigans are exposed.
* In ''[[Adventureland]]'', Em ([[Kristen Stewart]]) is torn between the awkward James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) and blond, musically-inclined repairman Mike Connell (Ryan Reynolds), who claims to know Lou Reed. Ladies, here's a hint: always go for awkward. {{spoiler|The audience soon learns that the only connections the married repairman has are with a string of underage girls.}}
* Played extremely straight in ''[[
* In the film adaptation of ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
* [[Jerk Jock|Bradley]] in ''[[The Final]]''. He's pretty pathetic, though.
* Henry from ''[[The Good Son]]''.
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* Played with in the TV movie ''Odd Girl Out'' in which the only male bully is blond, but so is the innocent and sympathetic love interest.
* Ryan Phillippe as Barry Cox in ''I Know What You Did Last Summer''. He might not be the killer, but he's still a jerk.
* The [[Labyrinth
* Many of the characters blond actor Richard Widmark played from ''[[Kiss of Death]]'' to ''[[Murder
* The whole trope was probably jump-started in movies by Alan Ladd, playing the [[Anti-Villain]] Raven in ''This Gun For Hire'' (1942). Ladd started off the film with black-dyed hair, but the dye job was abandoned about halfway through. He went on to play a series of rogues, rebels, and shady characters until [[Hair of Gold|Touched By Technicolor]] in 1949.
* ''[[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.
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* The otherworldly children in ''Village of the Damned'', at least in the colored versions of the original. The remake outright upgrades them to [[Evil Albino|Evil Albinos]].
* John Kramer in the ''[[Saw]]'' series.
* Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in ''[[
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** Ralon of Malven, who filled the same bully role in the original Alanna book, was also blond and blue-eyed. He grew up to be a rapist, was disowned by his family (and hideously scarred with acid), turned to a life of crime under the name "Claw", involved himself in the [[Big Bad]]'s plot to assassinate the king, and, of course, got killed during the climactic battle. Joren's almost progress.
* In the ''[[Angels Unlimited]]'' series, the antagonist, Brice, has a bleach-blond mullet. {{spoiler|After he goes back to Heaven, he still dresses in black, but he cuts off the mullet, spikes it, and only dyes the tips blond. I guess it'll have to do.}}
* ''[[Harry Potter (
** Draco and Lucius Malfoy.
** Gellert Grindelwald.
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** Dudley Dursley. In the film he got an [[Adaptation Dye Job]].
* 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 ''[[
* In the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, the [[Big Bad]] of the first and second books, Darken Rahl, has shoulder length blond hair and is a [[Complete Monster]] of the highest caliber. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|For some reason, so seem to be all other "full-blooded" people of his evil empire.]]
* ''[[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).
* ''[[
* ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' uses this one. Both [[The Woobie|Jeb Batchelder]] and [[Mad Scientist|Roland ter Borcht]] are described as having light hair, and [[Designated Hero|Maximum]] [[Heroic Sociopath|Ride]] herself has blonde hair.
* In ''[[Gone
* In ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'', there's {{spoiler|Luke, who betrays the gods to join Kronos and almost causes the world to be destroyed}}.
* William Vanderveen of the ''Ryan Kealy'' book series fits this trope perfectly. He's blonde, incredibly attractive, seems eternally youthful, had an IQ of [[Readings Are Off the Scale|180+ when he was about eight]], and is [[Disproportionate Retribution|out to destroy America and the rest of Western civilization]] because {{spoiler|his sociopath of a father died when the CIA pulled support for political reasons, his mother committed suicide, more likely than not also influenced by the loss of their daughter/his older sister, who young William himself killed for having less than discreet relations with a local South African.}} So...yeah.
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* [[Big Screwed-Up Family|The Lannisters]] from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' all have blond hair and are all ruthlessly ambitious. {{spoiler|Though we do later find out that many of them are [[Subverted Trope|not all as evil as we're initially lead to believe]], the trope is still played straight with Tywin, Cersei, and especially Joffrey}}.
* Warner in [[Shatter Me]], who wants to use the main character whose touch is fatal as his weapon.
* The Malagash princes in ''[[
* 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".
== Live-Action TV ==
* Adam Monroe, the [[Big Bad]] in the second season of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
* Prince on ''[[Lexx]]'' epitomizes this trait. The show also has the [[Magnificent Bastard]] Schlemmi (later Fifi), also a blonde.
* Spike on ''[[
* On ''[[Dexter]]'', Rita's abusive, drug-addicted ex-husband Paul is blond, contrasting with his [[Hair of Gold]] former wife.
* Vim Fuego/Alan Metcalfe from ''[[The Comic Strip Presents]]...''episode ''Bad News'' has a huge rock-star mane of blond hair, and while he isn't evil, he is arrogant, obsessed with his own talent, violent, not above fraud, and arrogant.
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* It's nearly a trope on ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]''. If there is a (male) prisoner, Allied soldier, or member of the underground with pale blond Aryan hair, he's almost certainly a spy.
* Eric from ''[[True Blood]]'' is the ultimate badass blond: he's a Viking vampire, sheriff of his corner of Louisiana (for the vampires) and owns a nightclub called Fangtasia. He becomes upset when he gets blood in his beautiful, blond hair.
* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' plays this trope so often that it's ridiculous. Name a blond guy on the show. At one point or another, he has been a [[The Bully|bully]], a [[
* Sawyer from ''[[
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** {{spoiler|The Master}}, in the Christmas 2009 finale, has a new-and-improved blond look and a whole new load of crazy to dump on the Doctor.
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** 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 [[British Brevity|short-lived]] BBC kids' drama ''Dark Future'', all the villains of the story were blond. Out of the [[Power Trio|trio]] of [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save
* 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 ''[[
* ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'' has Ankh, a bird-type monster born from human desire. To blend into society (and because he was only able to regenerate an arm of his original body), he has [[Puppeteer Parasite|possessed]] the body of a dying police officer, [[Expository Hairstyle Change|turning said officer's hair blond]].
* Baby-faced Jadeite in [[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]. Of the Shitennou, he's the only one who's dedication to Beryl does not waver during the whole season.
* ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'' has Robert Quarles (played by Neal McDonough), a sociopathic mob lieutenant.
== Music ==
* "Jessie", from Rick Springfield's music video of "Jessie's Girl", is blond.
* The music video for [[Muse (
* [[Angelspit]]'s "Devilicious": "If you're needing a villain, baby, I'm your blond".
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* [[Anti-Hero|Anogia]] from ''[[Luminous Arc 3]]'' played this really straight, until it is revealed that all he went through is to give Miria her eyes back.
* 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
* Liquid Snake from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''. Especially bad since Solid Snake, to whom Liquid is [[Cloning Blues|supposedly genetically identical]], has brown hair.
* The [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] of ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' (and the remake, ''Tomb Raider: Anniversary''), ''Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness'', and ''Tomb Raider: Legends'' have all been blonds or platinum-blonds.
* The aptly named Mr. Blonde in ''[[Perfect Dark]]''. Yes, it's a pseudonym andm as a matter of fact, he's not really blond; the reptilian aliens mustn't have been trying very hard, because they all use the same holographic disguise.
* None of the all-blond Branstein clan in the ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' franchise are actually evil, although you are nominally fighting against Maier and Elzam at the beginning of ''Original Generation'', Rai is kind of a [[Jerk
* The Silencer from ''[[Crusader:
* The [[Tales
** In ''[[
** Dhaos of ''[[
** Miktran/Kronos in ''[[
** Also, the Ferines in ''[[
* When he's evil, {{spoiler|Richard}} in ''[[
* 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 ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** You can see that the bad guy, Dysley, in ''[[
** In ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'', Llednar Twem, {{spoiler|the form of Mewt Randell's anger}}, has blond hair.
* ''[[
* {{spoiler|Kristoph Gavin}} in ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]''.
* [[Big Bad|Albert Wesker]], [[Mad Scientist|William Birkin]], [[Villainous Crossdresser|Alfred Ashford]], and [[Fallen Hero|Jack Krauser]] are some of the only blond-haired men in the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' universe, and they're all pretty damn evil.
** Splendidly averted with Leon S. Kennedy, who first appeared in ''[[Resident Evil 2 (Video Game)]]'' as a [[Redheaded Hero]] but has been depicted as having sandy blond hair ever since -- [[Retcon|even in flashbacks to the events of part 2]].
* ''[[Suikoden]]'':
** Yuber from ''[[Suikoden]]'' is this trope and a bag of chips.
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* [[Magnificent Bastard|Prince Maximillian]] of ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]''. En-''fricking''-core.
* {{spoiler|Dick Winslow}} in ''[[Black Dahlia]]''.
* ''[[Bully (
* ''[[Ghost Trick]]'' uses this with Dandy and {{spoiler|Yomiel.}}
* ''Pokémon Ranger:Shadows of Almia'' has {{spoiler|Kincaid, [[The Dragon]].}}
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{{quote| "Brother. I'm so happy! I get to kill you again!"}}
** [[Abusive Parents|Relius Clover]] is even moreso... and [[Complete Monster|let's leave it at that]].
* Alfonso and {{spoiler|Ramirez}} in ''[[
* ''[[Yo-Jin-Bo]]'' has Ittosai, who ranges from a ruthless [[Blood Knight]] to a [[Troubled but Cute]] [[Jerk
* In the arcade version of ''[[
* {{spoiler|Ludger Brink}} in ''[[The Dig]]'', playing against dark-haired astronaut hero Boston Low.
* Hans Grosse in ''[[
* Johan Elites, the [[Aristocrats Are Evil|mean and arrogant aristocrat]] of ''[[
* Luxord in ''[[
* Nazi Colonel Dierker from ''[[The Saboteur]]'' video game.
* ''Double Switch'': {{spoiler|Eddie}} turns out to be this.
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== Visual Novels ==
* Gilgamesh in ''[[
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== Web Original ==
* [[The Evil Prince|Geraden]] and [[Young Conqueror|Hannibal]] both have blond hair and appear to work against the heroic Grand Alliance. [[Fallen Hero|Cain]] also ends up as an evil blond guy after his [[Face Heel Turn]].
* The titular Dr. Horrible from ''[[Dr.
* [[The Questport Chronicles|Ato]], who has shades of a [[Heroic Sociopath]] anyway, [[Face Heel Turn|turns full-blown evil]] while {{spoiler|possessed by a demon}}.
== Western Animation ==
* Mike Morningstar from ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
* Trevor Goodchild from ''[[Aeon Flux]]'' fits the bill. (In the live-action movie, on the other hand, he has brown hair...and turns out to be a good guy.)
* In the DVD commentary for the ''[[
* Episodes of ''Cadillacs and Dinosaurs'' typically revolved around some sort of conflict between the jet-black-haired (and heroic and environmentally-conscious) Old Blood Mechanic Jack Tenrec and evil Poacher Hammer Terhune, whose most prominent physical feature was his enormous, blond flattop mullet. Additionally, perhaps the only other blond male character to appear was Shawn Russell, another Old Blood Mechanic who, in direct contrast to Jack, was depicted as being arrogant, corrupt, and greedy to the extent that he was willing to betray everything the Old Blood Mechanics were supposed to stand for.
* [[Arch Enemy|Remy Buxaplenty]] on ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''.
* Chad on ''[[Codename
* In [[
* Dash Baxter from [[Danny Phantom]]. Not really evil, but he is a bully.
* Boog from [[Fanboy and Chum Chum]] is also a blonde bully - however, he evidently uses dye, since, at the time the show takes place, his brown roots are quite visible.
* Bronto, leader of the biker gang "The Bronto Bunch" on ''[[The Flintstones|The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show]]''
* Tobey from [[Word Girl]] is blonde and [[Affably Evil|could be considered evil.]]
* Bart Simpson Of [[The Simpsons (
* Geoff of ''[[
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