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'''Hotblooded Sideburns''' are a pair of short, fiery earlocks typically found on passionate [[Super Robot]] pilots and [[Sentai]] team leaders that usually offer up a quick visual indicator of their [[Hot-Blooded]] character. While they don't have to be huge (though they usually are), they are ''always'' spiky and noticeable. Usually, they're paired up with some [[Unusual Eyebrows|equally fiery eyebrows]] for added effect.

Due to its inherent association with [[Super Robot]] shows of the 70s and 80s, this is also a form of [[Seventies Hair|Seventies]] or [[Eighties Hair]], and its appearance on female characters to show how badass they were has nearly died out.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Everyone created by [[Go Nagai]]. ''Everyone''. Yes, even ''[[Cutey Honey]]''.

** Duke Freed from ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]''.

** Akira Fudoh from ''[[Devilman]]''. And then his ''[[Violence Jack]]'' incarnation.

** Hiroshi Shiba from ''[[Kotetsu Jeeg]]'' and Kenji from the sequel.

* Pretty much every single [[Super Robot]] pilot from the good ol' days. In the 70's, this was mostly because it was a pretty popular hair style, but by the 80's it pretty much became a pre-requisite of being a badass pilot.

* You would think that a story in the firs love genre, specifically [[Hatsukoi Limited]] would not have something like this. You'd be wrong, Gengoro Takei, has these as well as the required Hot Blood.

* Lordgenome from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', who's so [[Badass]] his sideburns point sideways. It's probably because he might have been based off of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Gendo Ikari]], whose sideburns extend all the way to his beard like Lordgenome, and who might or not fit this trope too.

* Takashi Kawamura from ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]''. He's not that [[Hot-Blooded]] tho, mostly a [[Nice Guy]]... [[Split Personality|most of the time.]]

* Jouji Gouda from ''[[Akane Maniax]]'', though he's an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Mazinger Z|Kouji Kabuto]] and Go Nagai characters in general.

* Impulsive, tomboyish Utena from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' has them; see [http://www.animeresimleri.com/img1213.htm this image], for example.

* [[Kunio Okawara]] in [[Gundam Sousei]] has a mean pair. He's not, however, [[The Stoic|even closely comparable]] to [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] in his hot-bloodedness, and Tomino is [[Bald of Awesome|entirely bald]].

 

== Comic Books ==

* Teen Titans member Jericho sported really long sideburns.

 

* Ayameko/Cure Jasmine from ''[[Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy]]''.

* In the ''[[Christian Humber Reloaded]]'' webcomic, Vash's human form has these.

 

== Film ==

* Eddie from ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''.

 

 

== Video Games ==

* Played for humor in one ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' [[Yonkoma]] where [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji]] is given sideburns by Ryoma in an attempt to make him look tougher.

** Did it look anything like [http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/2500/shinjimanlyjf9.jpg this]?

* Xaldin from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' has some rather large sideburns. Parodied to hell and back in [[Those Lacking Spines|this]] legendary fic.

{{quote|He is easily recognized by his muscular frame, his sharp blue eyes, his braids (don't ever call them dreadlocks; do you know what you have to do to your hair to get dreadlocks?), but most people instead choose to pick him out by his sideburns, which are rumored to think and act independently of him.}}

* Quite a few characters in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' have these, including Yukimura, Keiji, and Toshiie. The real winner is Hideyoshi, though: he has sideburns ''on top of his sideburns''.

* Ippongi Ryuuta and Doumeki Kai from ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]'' sport some magnificent, [[Hot-Blooded]] sideburns.

** There are a lot more than that. There are at least seven who have them in the series. This includes girls and [[Elite Beat Agents|Agent J]].

** Another example is Rococo, whose locks curve around behind and under his ears, then end in a spike that somehow points ''up'' towards his eyes.

 

* [[Only Known by Their Nickname|Bro]] in ''[[Homestuck]]'' sports these, along with [[Cool Shades]], [[Katanas Are Just Better|a katana]], and one of the most [[Crazy Awesome]] STRIFE techniques [[Teleport Spam|ever]] [[Marionette Master|unleashed.]]

** Bro's {{spoiler|Alpha iteration Dirk Strider}} also sports these but [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] the [[Hot-Blooded]] part.

* Jessie, Ed's sister, sports a [http://betweenfailures.com/2007/05/19/30-sibling-3-sib-harder/ classic set] in [[Between Failures]].

* Visarah from ''[[Uncreation]]'' has HUGE [[Getter Robo|Ryoma]]-style chops... and she's a woman.

* Johnny Yamamoto of [[Titanzer]] sports the customary 'burns, along with a [[Eighties Hair|hero mullet]].

* Jason from ''[[Remus]]'' has these, although he seems to be lacking a bit in the [[Hot-Blooded]] department.

 

== Web Original ==

* Tim/{{spoiler|Masky}} of ''[[Marble Hornets]]'' sports killer sideburns.

* Whenever Doug decides to grow his hair out some more, [[The Nostalgia Critic]] has a good set of these.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

== Real Life ==

** For that matter, [[wikipedia:Charles Darwin|Darwin himself]] had a nice pair too.

* [[wikipedia:File:Elvis Presley 1970.jpg|Elvis Presley]]

* German landscape painter [[wikipedia:Caspar David Friedrich|Caspar David Friederich]] sported a ''ginormous'' pair of sideburns.

* French stateman [[wikipedia:Jules Ferry|Jules Ferry]]

* Sideburns were actually named after Union General [[wikipedia:Ambrose Burnside|Ambrose Burnside]], who is remembered for two things: his absurd sideburns, and the wholesale slaughter of his own men in the one battle he commanded.

* Jacques Offenbach, best known for writing the "Infernal Gallop" AKA Can Can music, had a nice pair of muttonchops (and a moustache) after going through a copule of really creepy looking phases. [[wikipedia:Jacques Offenbach|The page]] also features some other men with nice 'burns.

 

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