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{{trope}}
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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]]''}}
Afros are funny.
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. [[
As a sidenote, in Japanese just the ''word'' "afro" is rather funny because it just happens to sounds like "afuro", which rather accurately means "overflowing". Or, it could sound like "a [[Furo Scene|furo]]" (yes, at least [[Ninin ga Shinobuden|one anime]] has made that very joke)
Compare/contrast [[Afro Asskicker]], when the afro is made up for by the sheer badassness of the wearer.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[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
** Afro Gunsou is a major [[Ear Worm]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdEaF-p2ux8 Ai kotoba wa Afro to Gunsou...] By the way, that means "The password is 'Afro Sergeant'".
*** As for "Dasonu Maso" (ダソヌマソ), that name comes from a mangling of the katakana for "Dance Man" (ダンスマン).
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** And when he poses around in ''[[Dotto! Koni-chan]]'' as Koni's talking dog? ''Of course'' has has an afro too.
** Minoru Shiraishi dresses up like this guy in the OVA of [[Lucky Star|Lucky]]☆[[Lucky Star|Star]]. Live-Action Akira sprays him with a garden hose.
* Much of the physical humor in ''[[
** 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]]'' gets struck by lightning and as a result, his hair is poofed up into a grotesquely huge afro for the rest of the episode.
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** Classic pot-calling-kettle-black moment: Kuma/Jinno mocks Afro's hair, telling him how ridiculous he looks... while wearing a huge teddy bear head.
* Masumi Okuyama from ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]''. His over-the-top behavior often provides comic relief and other characters occasionally poke fun at his hair in passing.
* ''[[
* From ''[[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.''
* Lambo from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''. He can store anything in it. Even a bazooka which is big enough to swallow him and I-Pin whole.
* Kumabukuro from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. Apparently, he grew it out as overcompensation for always getting helmet hair when he played American football in high school.
* Garterbelt from [[Panty & Stocking with
* Oddly enough, there is a reccuring couple in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'', where the girl Has the afro. Rather odd.
* [[Code Geass/Characters/Black Knights
* In one chapter of ''Himitsu Kichi'' the protagonists father has an afro. He's a comedian to boot.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The classic Western example comes from ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', when
* There's a single-episode [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Scrubs]]'' about the main characters being afraid they'll says something insensitive to one of their coworkers. He has a hook for a hand, but most of them haven't even noticed because they're too busy trying not to say something about his ridiculously large afro.
* Shepherd Book lets "down" his hair once in ''[[Firefly]]''. Once was enough, judging by River's reaction. Zoe is ''almost'' as freaked out by the sight.
* Chase Matthews of [[Zoey 101]] has a bushy "Jewish afro" constantly referenced by the other characters. He tends to shrug it off, but lampshades it himself after Zoey throws a pillow at him that knocks him off his chair. He gets up, pats his head and exclaims "You dented my 'fro!"
* Sam Puckett on ''[[
* Gordo has a jewfro pretty much through the entirety of [[Lizzie McGuire]].
* The 1969 - 1974 High School [[Sitcom]] ''[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 ''[[
** Chyna dons a huge 1970's fro when Olive is producing a Greek play and calls herself Afro-Dite.
* 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.
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Boondocks]]'', Jazmin has a very large Afro that is immune to all known hair straightening methods.
* 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
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* 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>
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Guilty Gear]] XX'', Faust's ([[It Makes Sense in Context|an insane ten-foot-tall doctor with a paper bag over his head]]) Instant Death move has him putting the opponent on a gurney with a bomb hidden under it. The super-move has two variations, the second one giving both Faust and the now-dead opponent giant afros. Faust's afro appears '''''ON''''' the paper bag to boot.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J32-W1I5W3I Seen here]. It starts around 2:30, by the way.
* Jimmy T. from the ''[[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
* ''[[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.
** The sequel, on the other hand, makes a bigger deal of it: when you meeting her again, you can choose to misremember her name as "Lotta Hair", which she takes offense to.
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*** An episode of the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|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 (video game)|Evil Genius]]'' sports an afro in keeping with his [[Blaxploitation]] theme.
* Andrei Ulmeyda from ''[[
* One NPC in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' has the [[Fan Nickname]] of "Afro Prinny" for a good reason. That's right, a [[Everything's Better with Penguins|penguin]] with an afro, [[Verbal Tic|Dood]].
** One of Taro's Magichange attacks involves the character wielding him to sport a 'fro and dance. He finds it so funny he spits out milk with such velocity it propels him backwards ''and damages the opponent at the same time!''
** The pups of the lupine Mystic Beast monsters have little red afros as opposed to the flowing hair of the adults.
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* Sazh Katzroy from the ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. [[Head Pet|There is a chocobo living in it]].
*** More of a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Frocobo]], then?
* Subverted with Todd Dukakis from ''[[Wild
* [[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.
* ''[[Way of the Samurai]]'' has Don Donatelouse, aka 'Dona Dona'. Though mainly [[Plucky Comic Relief]], he [[Heroic Wannabe|geniuely tries to be heroic]], and ([[Wide Open Sandbox|depending on your choices]]) may end up more heroic than your hero...
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* One of [[Mad Bomber|Demoman]]'s [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|unlockable hats]] in ''[[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.
* The people of Xeos Belt Union in ''[[Infinite Space]]'', at least the ones you meet in the game. [[Lampshaded]] in Mariana's case, when Franny insults her as "cauliflower head" during their bickering early in Act 2.
* In ''[[Azurik: Rise
* Eddie Wachowski in the ''[[SSX]]'' series has a massive orange fro.
* In ''[[Professor Layton and The Mask of Miracle]]'', we get flashbacks to the Professor's high-school days. The future Professor himself is sporting a lovely flyaway 'fro during them.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Girl And Triangle]]'' involved a side character called Disco who sported one of these. (Her story got increasingly surreal.)
* 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.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* Disco Stu from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
** Also from ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer in an episode where they were in "The Poseidon Adventure". When the ship flipped, his wig came off. "Ahh! My wig!...I mean, my real hair!"
** And George Bush senior getting a rainbow afro wig glued to his
** Martin Prince's normally straight hair reverts to an afro when exposed to high humidity.
* 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 [[Hanna-Barbera]] made a cartoon with the Harlem Globetrotters as superheroes, one of them had an afro from which he accessed [[Hammerspace]]. Just took a moment of [[Rummage Fail|rooting around]] and whatever he wanted could be found in that afro.
* ''[[The Hair Bear Bunch]]''.
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* In the second season of ''[[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.
** Especially strange because on multiple occasions Leshawna's hair got completely wet in the first season without turning into an afro the size of a bush.
* 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.]
* Daggett wears one in the famous "Beaver Fever" episode of ''[[The Angry Beavers]]''. It's huge, especially on Daggett, who can't be much more than 2' tall.
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** Nothing about Ray Toro, [[My Chemical Romance]]'s lead guitarist? That man's hair is legendary. Gravity don't mean too much to me, indeed.
* Don King.
* Former Colombian footballer [https://web.archive.org/web/20130308045804/http://www.inthestands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Carlos+Valderama.jpg
* Jimi Hendrix. An afro was pretty much required to be a part of The Experience.
* Alex Trebek [https://web.archive.org/web/20140130062432/http://gs.mandelweb.com/trebek.html used to have one]. Yes, ''[[Jeopardy!|THAT]]'' Alex Trebek.
* Rollen Stewart, the "Rainbow Man" who used to wear a rainbow-colored afro wig while holding a "John 3:16" sign behind the goalposts at televised football games. [[Sanity Slippage|Now spending a life sentence in prison for kidnapping]].
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