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In Japanese and other Asian works, this may have something to do with repression of excessive individualism in Asian schools - most evidently in Japan. Of course, this can lead to unfortunate misunderstandings with people who naturally have lighter hair colors.
In Western cultures, unusual hair colors are less strongly associated with delinquency than they were in the past, though they are still more commonly worn by teenagers and young adults than by middle aged or older people - with the exception of the "[[wikipedia:Blue rinse|blue rinse]]". However, the stigma with certain hairstyles remains, so you would probably still be hesitant about bringing home a punk with a blue mohawk to your parents.
That is, recently. Less than a century ago, dying hair at all was considered a sign of badness, because it was not honest. This is why [[Hair of Gold]] is presumed to be natural color while [[Blondes Are Evil]] is often dyed. During [[English Civil War|Restoration England]], natural blondes commonly dyed their hair darker because everyone would think they had dyed their hair blond.
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* ''[[Rokudenashi Blues]]'' has the entire main cast as examples of this trope. It even becomes the focus of one chapter, where an [[Evil Teacher]] makes them change their hair back to normal.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Ichigo, a Japanese student, often ran into trouble because of his hair color. He has orange hair, which is what you would get if you bleached Black hair.
** There's also a hillarious scene when the Soul Reapers show up at Ichigo's school, wearing school uniforms. [[Bald of Awesome|Ikkaku]] [[Japanese Delinquents|has his pants rolled up, no socks, and a wooden sword]]. [[Redheaded Hero|Ren]][[Delinquent Hair|ji]] wears his uniform relatively normal, [[Japanese Delinquents|but with his shirt unbuttoned a bit, revealing the tattoos on his chest, while also wearing a bandanna on his forehead]]. Onlooking students comment on [[The Dandy|Yumic]][[Agent Peacock|hika]] and [[Buxom Is Better|Ran]][[Hello, Nurse!|giku]] not looking very threatening, and [[Older Than They Look|Tosh]][[White-Haired Pretty Boy|iro]] and Renji looking odd. Then they point out the scary bald guy. [[Prematurely Bald|Ikkaku]] [[Berserk Button|was not]] [[I'll Kill You!|amused]].
** While everyone knows that [[The Chick|Orihime]] wouldn't hurt a fly, her hair length and color got her in trouble when she was young, when bullies cut it off.
* In ''[[The Breaker]]'', all the other (Korean) students are afraid of Jinie because of her red hair.
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* Kuwabara from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''.
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', after Goku and Gohan achieve Super Saiyan status, Chichi sees them for the first time and are dismayed that they've become delinquents.
* Shizuo in ''[[Durarara!!]]'' dyed his hair blond to differentiate himself from his similar looking (but diametrically opposite in personality) brother, and kind of fits since he has an extreme [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] and works for loan sharks.
** It's revealed in a [[All There in the Manual|side story]] that bleaching his hair was Tom's idea: Tom figured that looking the part of a delinquent would deter other kids from picking fights with Shizuo. Shizuo opposed the idea at first (rage disorder aside, Shizuo's [[Bruiser with a Soft Center|about as far away from the delinquent persona as one could get]]), but eventually changed his mind when he realized just how much Tom cared about his well-being.
** Masaomi, an easygoing class clown type {{spoiler|and former gang leader}}, dyed his hair blond {{spoiler|which is ironic since his former gang is yellow}}.
** Walker might fit too. He definitely satisfied the delinquent part of it, but since he might be biracial, his blond hair could be evidence of [[Phenotype Stereotype]].
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* Discussed in ''[[K-On!]]'' during its yearbook pictures episode; the girls' school requires students whose hair isn't black or dark brown to bring their baby pictures to prove that their hair color is natural, and anyone who fails to do so is forced to dye their hair before their picture are taken.
* Sunohara in ''[[Clannad]]'' has the bleached blond variety (explicitly stated to be dyed, as opposed to a case of [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]] like everyone else). He stops bleaching it when he gets a job.
* {{spoiler|Nitori}} from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' gets mistaken for this once he dyes his hair from a dark brown to a ''bright'' red. It's actually quite similar to another manga by the same mangaka, where a character with a design very much like {{spoiler|Nitori}} dyed his hair green.. It only lasts one chapter though.
* As mentioned above, the protagonist of ''Shikii No Juunin'' dyes his hair green. He's a rebellious, matter-of-fact middle schooler who smokes and doesn't want to go to school. Nitori is an [[Expy]] of him in design, though due to the different art-styles, it isn't that apparent.
* [[Eyeshield 21]] has a lot of this. Two of the Ha-Ha brothers and Hiruma are bleached blonde, Agon wears his hair in dreads, and Musashi isn't a delinquent but is supposed to look like one with his mohawk.
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== Film ==
* One of the revivifiable [[Mooks]] in ''[[The 6th Day]]'' has her hair dyed a different color every time she is brought back. She even complains about having to get it dyed (and getting her ears pierced) when revived.
* The hackers who show up to Neo's door near the beginning of ''[[The Matrix]]'' all have strange hair colours. They're clearly delinquent-type characters.
* Subverted in ''The Boy With Green Hair''. Peter is looked on with suspicion by the rest of the town for his green hair, but he just woke up like that one morning.
* In the Japanese film ''[[Akunin]]'', the troubled, violent Shimizu has bleached blond hair, and when Mitsuyo says that she "never expected [she] would be going for a drive with a blond guy like [him]", "blond guy" seems almost like a euphemism for "bad boy".
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Persona 4]]'' has Kanji, who, after after years of feeling like an outcast, began dying his hair platinum blond and wearing dark clothes, causing many to think [[Face of a Thug|he's part of a gang]], as his mother explains to the protagonist.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Duncan from ''[[Total Drama]]'''s Green Mohawk
* Though naturally [[Multicolored Hair]] is common for the [[Catfolk]] of ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'', Wilykit, a young [[Little Miss Con Artist]] and [[Artful Dodger]], sports a purple [[Skunk Stripe]].
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