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{{quote|''"You may ask yourself, 'Does the afro make the champion, or does the champion make the afro?' This is a question yet to be answered by modern science."''|'''Usopp''', ''[[One Piece]]''}}

Despite [[Anime Hair|odd hairstyles being par for the course]], a character with an afro (usually male) is very likely to [[Lampshade Hanging|have it mentioned]] by other people and by the plot. This is sometimes extended into a love of dance and club music, if not [[Disco Dan|specifically disco]]. If a character is forced to wear a wig, there's a good chance it'll be an afro. [[Hairy Hammerspace Hair]] often requires popping objects into and out of an enormous hair bulb.

* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' has particular fun with this, mentioning them throughout the series and even assigning specific colors to character. The otherwise hairless frogs frequently and inexplicably end up wearing an afro after [[Non -Fatal Explosions]]. Several bits of the soundtrack (notably several of the [[Ending Theme|Ending Themes]]s) are essentially [[Everythings Funkier With Disco|disco numbers]]. There's also the character of Dasonu Maso, an alien pop star who has admitted he's a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|shameless knock-off]] of "Dance Man", the disco-themed J-Pop artist who provided the show's first closing theme, "Afro Gunsou", and who seems more interested in giving the other characters afros than in actually performing.

* [[Shinichi Watanabe|Nabeshin]] from ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|Excel Saga]]'' is likely the most famous perpetrator of this trope, to the point that his [[Image Song|theme song]] is about his hairdo: "My name is Nabeshin and my afro is fluffy/Maintenance is easy, just wash it once..." It probably bears mentioning that Nabeshin is the [[Author Avatar]] of series director Wata''nabe Shin''ichi, who does indeed have a [[media:nabeshin.jpg|large afro]].

** The afro gets funnier when he cameos in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]''. He starts out somehow packed completely into the afro itself, pulls various objects out of the afro, and is referred to by everyone as "[an] afro".

** And when he poses around in ''[[Dotto! Koni-chan]]'' as Koni's talking dog? ''Of course'' has has an afro too.

* Much of the physical humor in ''[[Bobobo-Bo BoboboboBo-bobo]]'' revolves around Bobobo's big blond afro.

** One notable gag is Bobobo having Yugi from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' pop out of the fro and summon Slifer the Sky Dragon.

* Beck in ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]'' gets struck by lightning and as a result, his hair is poofed up into a grotesquely huge afro for the rest of the episode.

** Actually, this is a common staple among anime in general. [[Non -Fatal Explosions]]/[[X -Ray Sparks|electrocutions]] often result in "Frazzled" afro hair. This is just a rare case of it lasting more than a couple seconds.

* ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' features police detective Aizawa, who, until a semi-[[Important Haircut]], sported a medium sized afro. The Haircut is semi-important because, although it didn't mean anything at the time, it did mark his transition from being the afro on the team to being a serious character.

* Most of the hair-related humor in ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]'' is relegated to Gintoki's perm, but afros do tend to pop up now and again; the group of thugs using Kagura for their own ends all had 'punch perms' (after Kagura defeats their leader, she shaves it all off him save for a ':D' face.)

* ''[[Afro Samurai (Anime)|Afro Samurai]]''. Other characters mention it frequently, even mock it, and it has a very important place in the plot.

* ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Haré+Guu|Hare+Guu]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3qV1QNR3lA Disco Guu likes disco music.] {{spoiler|Made either funnier or just icky by the fact that said afro was someone's chest hair.}}

* From ''[[Miami Guns (Manga)|Miami Guns]]'', Chief Amano wears an afro, and gets very angry if someone says it's out of date. In the first episode, officers assembled at a hostage situation ''cheer for the afro.''

* Garterbelt from [[Panty and& Stocking With Garterbelt (Anime)|Panty and Stocking Withwith Garterbelt]]. {{spoiler|Blame it on God messing with his original dreadlocks.}}

* Oddly enough, there is a reccuring couple in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds5D's]]'', where the girl Has the afro. Rather odd.

* [[Code Geass (Anime)/Characters/Black Knights/Characters|Kaname Ohgi]]'s Jewfro. Fans of the show know the one. [[Ambiguously Jewish|It goes great with the pseudo-Star of David on his jacket]].

* In one chapter of ''Himitsu Kichi'' the protagonists father has an afro. He's a comedian to boot.

* Nordberg gets one of these in one of the ''[[The Naked Gun (Film)|Naked Gun]]'' films - so huge it won't fit through a door.

* In ''[[The Ice Pirates (Film)|The Ice Pirates]]'', during the final Time Warp scenes, one way they show years passing is Roscoe growing a huge afro that eventually outmasses his entire body.

* The classic Western example comes from ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', when Jan -- whoJan—who has, need we mention, long, straight blonde hair -- wearshair—wears a black afro wig in an attempt to get attention. Without putting her real hair up under it first. The 1990s movie copied this (and many other plots).

* Sam Puckett on ''[[I CarlyiCarly]]'' often wears these on the [[Show Within a Show]] webshow bits.

* Gordo has a jewfro pretty much through the entirety of [[Lizzie McguireMcGuire]].

* The 1969 - 1974 High School [[Sit ComSitcom]] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obofIKCixsI Room 222]'' featured the dorky Bernie (David Jolliffe), or, as most knew him then, the kid with the giant red-haired Afro.

* In ''[[ANTA.N.T. Farm]]'', Gibson has a Jewfro that's also [[Hair of Holding]]

* In ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'', during the episode "1969" the team is sent back to 1969 by a freak accident. In order to disguise Teal'c, the team outfits him with a pink tie-dyed shirt, bandana, and afro. It is quite possibly one of the most hilarious moments in the entire series.

* In ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'', Lt. Flap had a large afro for the first several years of his appearances. One strip featured him losing pencils in it. In another it (and his beard) grew to twice its size after he was at the bivouac for several weeks without a haircut

* As discussed under [[Real Life]], Leon Trotsky sported quite the Jew-fro. This is used to great effect in David Ives' tragi-comic one-act play ''Variations on the Death of Trotsky''. It isn't a plot point or ever even mentioned, but it makes the special effect of having an ice-axe through his head<ref> which is indeed how he was killed in [[Real Life]]</ref> throughout the entire play much easier on low-budget productions.

* Jimmy T. from the ''[[Wario Ware (Video Game)|Wario Ware]]'' series sports a large blue afro. In ''Wario Ware Touched!'', his family are shown to all have brightly coloured afros (he is also menaced by an insect named Scratchy the 'Fro Bug -- andBug—and no, I'm not making this up).

* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' has Lotta Hart, whose bright red afro actually goes relatively unnoticed by the cast, but is clearly meant to get a laugh on the part of the player.

* Lucky/Tamekichi, one of the members of the band DCMC in ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]'', has one of these. It's {{spoiler|actually a wig}}, and Tamekichi {{spoiler|is actually a partly amnesiac Duster.}}

* In ''[[Pokémon Colosseum (Video Game)|Pokémon Colosseum]]'' and ''Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness'', villain Miror B. has an ''enormous'' red and white afro. His head is a molecule in comparison.

** Flint, the third member of the Elite Four in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game)|Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]''/''Platinum'' also has a red one.

** And now there's even a Pokemon, [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bouffalant Bouffalant], with an afro in ''[[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|Pokémon Black and White]]''!

*** An episode of the ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' anime starring Bouffalant [[Up to Eleven|takes this to its logical conclusion]]: most of the main characters [[Paper -Thin Disguise|wear afro wigs]] because otherwise [[Fantastic Racism|the local Bouffalant population will attack them]].

* Henchman Eli Barracuda in ''[[Evil Genius (Videovideo Gamegame)|Evil Genius]]'' sports an afro in keeping with his [[Blaxploitation]] theme.

* Andrei Ulmeyda from ''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'' has an afro.

* One NPC in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' has the [[Fan Nickname]] of "Afro Prinny" for a good reason. That's right, a [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Penguins|penguin]] with an afro, [[Verbal Tic|Dood]].

* Sazh Katzroy from the ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]''. [[Head Pet|There is a chocobo living in it]].

* Subverted with Todd Dukakis from ''[[Wild Arms 3 (Video Game)|Wild ArmsARMs 3]]''. Far from the "funny" character in the Schrodingers' gang, he's the cool, collected, loyal butler. He casts extremely annoying confusion spells on your party, but you can remove him the battle by [[Man On Fire|setting his afro on fire]].

* [[Pop Quiz|Riddle]] [[Sempai -Kohai|Semapi]], a minor NPC in ''[[Persona 4]]'' involved in a few of the games quests, sports one as does the announcer at the culture festival.

* One of [[Mad Bomber|Demoman]]'s [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|unlockable hats]] in ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' is a [[Jimi Hendrix]] type 'fro. Which isn't that large in-game, but fanartists enjoy taking it [[Up to Eleven]] for hilarity's sake.

* In ''[[Azurik: Rise Ofof Perathia]]'', there's a cheat code to give Azurik one of these...and change the background music to [[Everythings Funkier With Disco|disco]]. It does nothing else; in fact, ''most'' of the cheats for that game (save for one or two) were completely useless like that.

* Eddie Wachowski in the ''[[SSX (Video Game)|SSX]]'' series has a massive orange fro.

* Reakk gets an enormous one of these in [https://web.archive.org/web/20141112020816/http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=040721 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip. Turned out to just be a ''very'' large, ''very'' furry cat sitting on his head.

** And George Bush senior getting a rainbow afro wig glued to his head-- righthead—right before a meeting with the [[Brotherhood of Funny Hats|Elks]].

* While it's not so much a fro but a box haircut, Gerald of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' will from time to time say "HEY! Watch the hair" in a situation that might mess up his Marge Simpson-like stack of hair. In some episodes, we see that his hair is shaped that way because his head is shaped that way (though he turns it into an true afro in one episode)

* When [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]] tries to get into a "tough" bar, one ploy is wearing a rainbow afro wig. He thinks this makes him look tougher. Considering what he normally looks like, that's actually somewhat true.

* In the second season of ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]'', LaShawna's hair gets wet and turns into an afro for an entire episode. This happens several times in other episodes as well, though sometimes her hair is said to be weave.

* Fry from ''[[Futurama]]'' whenever he gets electocuted. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140409004025/http://theinfosphere.org/Fryfro It has its own wiki page, complete with image gallery.]

* [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marx2.jpg |Karl Marx.]] ''Yes'', '''Karl Marx'''.

* The King of Happy Trees, [[The Joy of Painting (TV)|Bob Ross]].

* Former Colombian footballer [https://web.archive.org/web/20130308045804/http://www.inthestands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Carlos+Valderama.jpg/ Carlos Valderrama.]

* Alex Trebek [https://web.archive.org/web/20140130062432/http://gs.mandelweb.com/trebek.html used to have one]. Yes, ''[[Jeopardy (TV)!|THAT]]'' Alex Trebek.