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[[File:II1_7684.jpg|link=Magic Knight Rayearth (Anime)|frame|Guess which one has which [[Elemental Powers]].]]
 
 
Hair color is an easy visual shorthand for getting information about a character to the audience. Most often, hair color will tell you something about the character's personality, but sometimes, its meaning is far more obvious: this character has an [[Elemental Powers]] and the [[Color-Coded Elements|hair color to match the element]]. Quite often, their personality will also be tied to their element and thus their hair color.
 
* [[Playing Withwith Fire|Fire]] - Usually red hair, although sometimes, it will be more orange. Sometimes taken to the [[Flaming Hair|logical extreme]]. Hair will often be short and spiky.
* [[Dishing Out Dirt|Earth]] - Brown or green hair. More rarely, orange or yellow. Usually short hair on males, females may have longer hair. Tends to be [[Wild Hair]] or dreadlocks.
* [[Shock and Awe|Lightning]] - Yellow or white. Hair will often be spiky, as though hit by an electric current.
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* [[Casting a Shadow|Dark]] - Nearly always [[Shiny Midnight Black]], occasionally more purple.
* [[Green Thumb|Nature/Wood/Plant]] - Green. Often messy, and decorated with leaves or [[Flower in Her Hair|flowers]].
* [[Heart Beat -Down|Love]] - Pink or gold. Probably because the first is feminine, and the second is often considered [[Hair of Gold|pure and innocent]]. Expect [[Hair Decorations]]. Rarely, if ever, found on a male character.
 
This is less common in Live-Action media than in animation, video games, comic books, or manga, for obvious reasons.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* The Panther Demon clan siblings in ''[[Inuyasha (Manga)|Inuyasha]]'' have this: the redhead uses fire, the [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] uses ice, the green-haired girl uses nature/illusions, and the blond uses lightning.
* ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5 (Anime)|Yes Pretty Cure 5]]''
** {{color|deeppink|Cure Dream}} → [[Heart Beat -Down|Heart]]
** {{color|orangered|Cure Rouge}} → [[Playing Withwith Fire|Fire]]
** {{color|gold|Cure Lemonade}} → [[Light'Em Up|Light]]
** {{color|forestgreen|Cure Mint}} → [[Green Thumb|Earth]]
** {{color|blue|Cure Aqua}} → [[Making a Splash|Water]]
** Meanwhile, it subverts this trope with {{color|mediumorchid|Milky Rose}} (who controls [[Blow You Away|air]] but has purple hair).
* ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure (Anime)|Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'' plays it straight with Cures Marine, Sunshine, and Moonlight, but subverts it with Cure Blossom, who controls [[Green Thumb|nature]] but has pink hair.
* ''[[Smile Pretty Cure (Anime)|Smile Pretty Cure]]''
** {{color|fuchsia|Cure Happy}} → [[Light'Em Up|Light]] ''(subversion)''
** {{color|tomato|Cure Sunny}} → [[Playing Withwith Fire|Fire]]
** {{color|gold|Cure Peace}} → [[Shock and Awe|Electricity]]
** {{color|forestgreen|Cure March}} → [[Blow You Away|Air]]
** {{color|blue|Cure Beauty}} → [[Making a Splash|Water]] + [[An Ice Person|Ice]]
* ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'' has Blue Haired Sailor Mercury with the elements of [[Making a Splash|Water]] and [[An Ice Person|Ice]], Blonde Sailor Venus using [[Light'Em Up]], and ocean blue haired Sailor Neptune having the power of [[Making a Splash|Deep Water]].
* ''[[Negima]]'''s [[Fiery Redhead]] Anya is [[Playing Withwith Fire|literal]]. Red/orange Haired Mei Sakura uses [[Playing Withwith Fire|fire]] as well.
* ''[[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|Zero no Tsukaima]]'' sometimes plays this trope straight and sometimes averts it.
** On the [[Played Straight]] side, we've got [[Fiery Redhead]] Kirche (fire affinity), [[Rei Ayanami Expy]] Tabitha (wind), Mme. Chevreuse (brown/Earth), and Miss Longueville (green/Earth).
** On the [[Averted Trope|other hand]], [[Shana Clone]] Louise, [[Ill Girl]] Cattleya, and their mother Karin all have pink hair, but have different affinities (Void, Earth, and Wind, respectively).
** It's notable that the main characters who are not magic users of some kind (Seito, Siesta, Marteau, Scarron, and Jessica) all have very dark brown or black hair.
* The girls from ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. Hikaru the redhead (fire), Umi with long, straight blue hair (water/ice), and Fuu with slightly curly blond hair (wind).
* ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' does this twice: once with the Eevee brothers (the yellow-haired one having a Jolteon, the redhead a Flareon, the blue-haired one a Vaporeon, and the one with brown hair has an unevolved Eevee) and once with brothers Cilan (green hair, grass), Chili (red hair, fire), and Cress (blue hair, water).
* ''[[El Hazard]]'': the three great priestesses of Mt. Muldoon: [[Dark-Skinned Redhead|Shayla]] [[Hot Amazon|Shayla]] is easily identifed as the priestess of fire, thanks to her flaming red hair. [[Christmas Cake|Miz Mishtal]], who presides over water, has lavender hair. And while Afura Mann's a [[Brainy Brunette]], her blue/sea green attire shows she controls wind.
 
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== Literature ==
* Melisandre of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire (Literature)|A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' is strongly associated with red, and many people comment on how very red her hair is. Guess what element her god is associated with?
* ''[[Enchanted Forest Chronicles]]'': Fire witches invariably have red hair (which tends to burst into flames when they get angry enough).
 
 
== Video Games ==
* The characters of ''[[Golden Sun (Video Game)|Golden Sun]]'' tend to fit this: [[Dishing Out Dirt|Venus adepts]] have brown hair, [[Playing Withwith Fire|Mars adepts]] that aren't from the [[Amazing Technicolor Population|Mars clan in Prox]], especially [[Golden Sun Dark Dawn|Tyrell]], have bright red hair, and [[Making a Splash|Mercury adepts]] have [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue hair]]. Three of the five or so visible Jupiter adepts, which combine both [[Shock and Awe]] and [[Blow You Away]], have the blonde or white hair associated with those motifs, but purple is more generally used as an indicator of Jupiter affinity. In addition, when Light Psynergy comes into existence at the end of Dark Dawn, it is shown to be strongly affiliated with gold. However, it seems to be averted with the [[Casting a Shadow|Umbra clan]]; neither of the two representatives whose hair is visible have black or purple hair.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' gives us fire user Axel with spiky red hair, lightning user Larxene with blonde hair, brown haired Lexaeus uses earth, pink haired Marluxia uses flower, and blond haired Roxas uses Light. Outside the Organization, there's the three heroes of ''Birth by Sleep'', brown haired Terra uses Earth and Darkness, blue haired Aqua uses Water and Light, and blond haired Ventus uses wind and light.
* ''[[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|Pokémon Black and White]]'' gives us Pansage, Pansear, and Panpour, which evolve into Simisage, Simisear, and Simipour. Pan/Simisage's hair is shaped like a bush, resembling the grass element. Pan/Simisear's hair is shaped like a flame, resembling the fire element. Panpour's hair resembles a water spout, and Simipour's hair has long, wavy hair, resembling the water element.
** Gym Leaders Cilan, Chilli and Cress have similar hairstyles with their respective monkeys too. Cilan has green hair shaped into a grass patch, Chilli has red hair shaped into a flame and Cress has blur hair with a wavey [[Peek-a-Bangs]] style.
* Kula Diamond from ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]]'' normally has brown hair, but [[Power Dyes Your Hair|it turns light blue when she activates]] [[An Ice Person|her cyrokinetic powers]]. On top of this, a few of her attacks suggest that [[Prehensile Hair|her hair]] actually ''becomes'' ice, or at least takes on its properties.
* ''[[Gaia Online]]'' released an item by the name of [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Elemental Hair]] to apply to the owner's avatar with choices of fire, wind (and the softer, curlier breeze), earth, ice, water, and life - if you fancy the symbolic bird's nest and nest for hair.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* The Galilean Satellites of the webcomic ''[[Zap (Webcomic)|Zap]]'' have this, with Io having literal [[Flaming Hair]], Callisto (water/ice) having bright blue hair cut in a bob, Europa (wind) having long, white, [[X-Men|Storm-esque]] wavy hair, and Ganymede (earth) having messy green hair.
* In ''[[Drow TalesDrowtales]]'', there's a bit of this with the clan colors: Sarghress (red/shapeshifting (blood element)), Sharen (purple/summoning (supernatural element)), Beldrobbaen (black/flesh and darkness elements), Nal'Sarkoth (green/wood element), and so on.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. Antimony has very red (bordering on pink) hair and is associated with fire magic. {{spoiler|She's eventually revealed to be descended from a fire elemental.}} Marcia has green hair, and she's a {{spoiler|dryad}}.
 
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