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{{quote|''The girl with the curls is the real vampire. I found that out when I was in the chorus. It was the blond cutie that did all the damage to the front row.''|'''Nita Naldi''' (dark-haired actress typecast as a villainess)}}

This is the female version of [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]. It sometimes overlaps with [[Evil Is Sexy]].

Often [[Foil|contrasted with]] a dark-haired heroine -- asheroine—as the [[Femme Fatale]] or [[Alpha Bitch]] compared to the [[Girl Next Door]], [[The Vamp]] rather than the [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]], the [[City Mouse]] rather than the [[Country Mouse]].

When blondes are natural, blondness does correlate with youth (and, presumably, [[Children Are Innocent|innocence]]) and so is attractive. Women therefore dye their hair blond. But after a critical mass of blondes have dyed hair, it no longer correlates with youth. And it certainly doesn't correlate with innocence; the honest brunette who does not dye her hair, perhaps because she is not scheming to get a man, appears more innocent. Therefore, blond hair dye falls out of fashion and then blondes are once again mostly natural blondes and so the correlation reoccurs -- restartingreoccurs—restarting the cycle.

== Anime &and Manga ==

** And the series ''plays'' with this and evil foreigner tropes with nearly every (non-[[Dumb Blonde|dumb]]) blonde character, probably starting with blonde Ayaka's first appearance in class as the other girls (jokingly) comment that she's clearly a [[Alpha Bitch]] trying to curry favor in "the [[But Not Too Foreign|half-breed]] way".

* Although the exact level of "evil" [[Grey and Gray Morality|varies]], the Contractors in ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]'' are disproportionately blond. While most of those seen are [[Blond Guys Are Evil|male]], there's also Brita and Amber, assuming the latter's hair isn't actually [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|light green]].

* Cypha of Huckebein in [[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]], and {{spoiler|Runessa Magnus}} in [[Striker SStrikerS Sound Stage X]]

* Vermouth from [[Detective Conan]] is one of the few characters with blond hair.

*** Which is still playing the trope very much straight: once she turns good, she's [[Retcon|suddenly been a brunette all along]], just really, ''really'' meticulous in touching up her roots.

== Fan FictionWorks ==

* The blonde-haired [[All Germans Are Nazis|German Nazi]] woman on the [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|Council]] in ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]''.

* Rebecca De Mornay pulled a textbook example, in the 1990s classic ''[[The Hand That Rocks the Cradle]]'', as an ice-cold, vengeful but seemingly sweet and inoffensive ''au pair'' out for the blood of the woman who got her obstetrician husband charged with sexually molesting his patients (by way of her family). Also doubles as a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]].

* In ''[[Mean Girls]]'', we have a good redhead [(Cady]) and a good brunette [(Janis]), a not-so-good brunette [(Gretchen]) and ''two'' not-so-good blondes [(Regina and Karen]). Though in fairness, to call the rather sympathetic KarenRegina actually ''evil'' is much too strong.

* In the 1983 film ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There]]'', Morgan Hart played Amanda Worth, alias "Mr. Tendyck", a blond [[Woman in Black]] who became briefly invisible by drinking a green potion which she planned to monopolize. The film's other invisible blonde, Cindy Worth, was played by Lisa Langlois.

* In the 1991 film ''[[Vice Academy 3]]'', Julia Parton [(Dolly's cousin]) played Malathion, a prison fugitive whose blond hair was turned green when she ran through a cloud of insecticide.

* Rose ([[Marilyn Monroe]]) in ''[[Niagara]]''

* Miriam Blaylock in ''[[The Hunger]]''

* Rebecca Romijn in ''[[Femme Fatale]]''

* Adrienne Foster (Alicia Silverstone) in ''[[The Crush]]''

* Alice Wakefield in ''[[Lost Highway]]''

* Jude (Miranda Richardson) in ''[[The Crying Game]]'', though she changes her hair to a black bob halfway through the film.

* Kelly from the bitch trio in ''[[The Final]]'', though she sort of gets better.

* Dr. Elsa Schneider in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]''. While not completely "evil", she does side with the Nazis to find the Holy Grail, and even suffers a [[Disney Villain Death]] when she tries to keep said Grail for herself.

* Averted mostly in ''[[Sydney White]]''. Rachel Witchburn is the only blond who is [[Alpha Bitch|rude and mean]] to eveyroneeveryone around her. The rest of the blond Kappa girls, especially [[Spoiled Sweet|Dinky]], are friendly and quite nice.

* Laurell K. Hamilton's ''[[Anita Blake]]'' series also takes countless potshots at blond women, apparently for no reason except that Anita is a brunette. Any blond woman is immediately dismissed as weak, shallow, and both slutty and sexually frigid.

{{quote|''Her lips were red, her looks were free,

''Her locks were yellow as gold;

''Her skin was white as leprosy,

''The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,

''Who thicks man's blood with cold. }}

* More self-centered than outright malicious, there's Amy from ''[[Little Women]]'', the one who throws tantrums, particularly when she burns the years worth of Jo's unfinished novel out of revenge for not being allowed to accompany Jo and Laurie to the theater and was so vain she tried to fix the shape of her nose with a clothespin.

* In the ''[[Fairytale Novels]]'' by Regina Doman, evil blondes pop up a ''lot'' - during the first three installments, there's about one per book. One of them gets a [[Heel Face Turn]], though.

== Live -Action TV ==

* There's an episode of ''[[Charmed]]'' called "The Power of Three Blondes". It's about three criminal witches, named the Stillman Sisters, who are all blondes, and their characterization is largely built around their blondness. They are an [[Evil Counterpart]] to the Halliwell Sisters, who are all brunettes, though Paige was actually strawberry blonde at that point. Only one of the witches actually fit the trope as the other two were more [[Dumb Blonde|Dumb Blondes]]s who happened to be evil.

* Nicole Wallace from [[Law & Order|Law and Order]]''.

* This is a rather common trope in [[Telenovela|Telenovelas]]s, or Spanish-language [[Soap Opera|Soap Operas]]s. It's a bit complicated to explain, [[Rich Bitch|but it seems to come from the fact that blondes in Latin America tend to come from richer families]].

* The seductive Six on ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''. {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn|At least at first.]]}}

* Nellie OlsenOleson from ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]''.

* Every main blond character on ''[[Glee]]'' is evil: Sue, the glee club's arch-enemy, Will's wife, Terri, who doubles as a [[Dumb Blonde]], and [[Alpha Bitch]], Quinn. Even Brittany, who is such a [[The Ditz|ditz]] that it's a miracle she can compose sentences, is an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] as a spy for Sue.

** There's also Sister Nicci, who is blond {{spoiler|after coming [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}, and also contrasted with Kahlan in the episode "Bound". {{spoiler|This is also something of a subversion, as Nicci has a [[Rape as Backstory|similar]] [[Dark and Troubled Past]] as Cara and eventually turns on the Keeper.}}

* Laurie in ''[[That '70s Show]]''.

* Amber Von Tussle from ''[[Hairspray]]'', as well as her mother.

** Attempting to kill the entire party with the <s>[[Humongous Mecha|Proud Clod]]</s> [[Blind Idiot Translation|Proudclad]].

* The ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series has Annette Birkin and Alexia Ashford, though the former isn't so much evil as she is obsessed with getting revenge on the people who wronged her husband.

* Subverted with [[Goldfish Poop Gang|Leblanc]] in ''[[Final Fantasy X -2]]''. She starts off as an antagonist to YRP by trying to steal their spheres at every turn, {{spoiler|but eventually pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]] when she realizes her "lover", [[Death Seeker|Nooj]], is working to fight a greater threat, and befriends Yuna in her fight to aid him and save Spira once more.}}

* [[Manipulative Bitch|Windy]] from ''[[Suikoden I]]'', [[Cold Sniper|Elza]] from ''[[Suikoden II]]'', [[Black Magician Girl|Sarah]] from ''[[Suikoden III]]'', and [[Psycho for Hire|Maha Sparna]] from ''[[Suikoden V]]''.

* [[Vain Sorceress|Mar]][[Big Bad|joly]] from ''[[Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure]]''.

* ''[[Dead Space (series)|Dead Space]]'' seems to have a thing for evil blondes (not to mention ineffectual blondes, weak-willed blondes, mentally unstable blondes, and ineffectual, weak-willed, ''and'' mentally unstable blondes who then turn into Necromorphs).

* ''[[Touhou]]'' has several straightforward examples: [[Kleptomaniac Hero|Marisa Kirisame ]] (main character!), [[I'm a Humanitarian|Rumia]], [[Ax Crazy|Flandre Scarlet]], and ''especially'' [[Reality Warper|Yukari Yakumo]].

* The ''[[Tales (series)]]'', which ''loves'' evil blondes!

** Legretta in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' is arguably [[The Dragon]], and is therefore evil and makes no attempt to hide it.

** When {{spoiler|Shirley turns evil, she becomes this trope}}.

* Shmeerm and Mac in ''[[Voodoo Walrus]]'' are prime examples of this.

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has Lucrezia and {{spoiler|her niece}} Zola.

* [[Alpha Bitch|Aphrodite]] in ''[[ThaliasThalia's Musings]]''. Falls under amoral, self-centered oblivion more often than outright malice, though.

* Mandy, the token [[Enfante Terrible]] from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]''.

* [[Ax Crazy]] muscle moll, Stefenie Demeanor, from ''[[CopsCOPS (series)|COPS]]''.

* ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'': Rose (a.k.a. Huntsgirl), like everyone in the Huntsclan, is considered evil by the magical creatures. That is, before her [[Heel Face Turn]] when she learned the boy she loved and the dragon she wanted to [[Knight Templar|slay]] were one and the same. Later, the "evil blonde" role fell into [[The Cheerleader]] [[Alpha Bitch|Stacey]].

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