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You've just got a power boost. The reasons may vary, whether it's from going into [[Super Mode]] or your [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] deciding to wake up. Maybe you finally got your hands on that [[MacGuffin]] you've been after, or the [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] decided not to kill you after all. The point is, you're now [[Person of Mass Destruction|capable of destroying the world three times over]], and you can feel it.
The first thing your friend says? [[
Sometimes when the character's hair goes blond, the [[Curtains Match the Window]] in the transformed state, with the character gaining [[Eyes of Gold]] - signifying the character's supernatural powers - along with the hair lightening.
Compare [[Locked Into Strangeness]], which is what happens when the color change is permanent. A subtrope of [[Kaleidoscope Hair]], when the color change can be for any reason. An [[Anime Hair]] trope, obviously.
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== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' has the Super Saiyans, the [[Trope Codifier]]. A Super Saiyan's hair turns bright [[Golden Super Mode|gold]] and his eyes turn [[Green Eyes|green]]. At one point, Chi Chi lampshades this when she sees her son in this form for the first time and starts berating him for dying his hair.
* In ''[[Darker
* In ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'', when Kagato starts draining Ryoko's energy, his hair floofs with power.
* [[Inuyasha]]'s hair turns black when he turns human. Of course, the disappearance of his doggy ears is a much bigger marker.
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** Tohma of ''[[Nanoha Force]]'', whose hair becomes white when accessing his [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Black Knight form]].
* In [[Shamanic Princess]], when Tiara goes into her demon form, her hair goes from [[Fiery Redhead|fiery red]] to blood-red.
* More subtle
* In ''[[Rosario
* ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'':
** In the anime version, Ichigo's [[Transformation Sequence]], in addition to turning her into a [[Catgirl]] and giving her nice [[Magical Girl]] clothes, changes her hair from dark red to pink, and the rest of the girls also have their hair colors changed to brighter shades.
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* ''[[The Slayers]]'': Lina's [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|Giga Slave]] leaves her [[Fiery Redhead|red hair]] a platinum blonde so light it's almost silver for a day or so after she casts it. Not to mention that time it [[Power Glows|glowed golden]] because {{spoiler|the spell involved channeling the Lord of Nightmares, who replaced her soul when it backfired}}.
* This tends to happen in the ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' franchise.
** In addition to getting absurd hairstyles, Pretty Cures' hair get a lot brighter in
** This, of course, is averted in [[Futari wa Pretty Cure|the first series]], when the ''eye color'' of the main characters change and it's implied that anyone can recognize them if they take a good look. Of course, you can count on one hand the number of times where they battled in the presence of someone, since everytime the villains appear, everyone conveniently faints, and the few times someone awaken in the middle of the fight, they never get to see their faces.
* Variation: the wings of "Charcoal Feathers" in ''[[Haibane Renmei]]'' slowly turn from light charcoal grey to inky black if {{spoiler|they become "sin bound" by doing poorly in their [[Redemption Quest]]}}.
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* [[Shrinking Violet|Akane]] in [[Kämpfer]] turns into a [[Fiery Redhead]] in her Kampfer form, Shizuku's normally black hair turns white on the underside and Mikoto turns into a [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]].
* In ''[[Princess Resurrection]]'', Hiro's hair turns white whenever he senses Hime in danger.
* Normally raven-haired Hyoka Kazakiri in "FUSE=Kazakiri" form, during the World War III arc in ''[[A Certain Magical Index]] III'', gets [[Eyes of Gold]] along with her [[Hair of Gold]]... with all of the "good" connotations that both tropes imply.
▲== Comics -- Books ==
* In [[Marvel Comics]] ''[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/generic.htm Generic Comic Book]'', [[The Hero]]'s hair turned white when he got his superpowers.
* [[Doctor Strange]] briefly went blond after absorbing the power of one of Shuma-Gorath's generals. He had such an excess of power that he not only obliterated Shuma, he had to 'decompress' through a dozen dimensions, shedding power as he went, just to reach the level where he could safely return to Earth without destroying it.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* Amongst the various other effects of becoming a Succubus in ''[[The Return (fanfic)|The Return]]'' is an instant dye job on the hair.
== [[Film]] ==
* Disney's ''[[Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled]]'' has an interesting variation, where the main character was ''born'' with her hair dyed by power of the sun. When cut, her hair loses magic powers and returns to
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▲* ''[[Tangled]]'' has an interesting variation, where the main character was ''born'' with her hair dyed by power of the sun. When cut, her hair loses magic powers and returns to it's natural brown color.
* In [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s world of [[Heralds of Valdemar|Velgarth]], sufficient magic use will not only bleach a mage's hair prematurely white, it will also turn his eyes blue. This is why {{spoiler|the Companions are gleaming white and have blue eyes}}.
* In the eponymous Dragonrealm, created by Richard Knaak, people who have latent or active magical power will also have a wide silver streak in their hair corresponding to their level of ability. The streak grows larger as the person actually taps into their power. (The only given exception to this being {{spoiler|Cade}}, whose hair color, for unknown reasons, fluctuates so that on any given day his hair might be all silver or it might be almost completely brown.)
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
* ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'': the characters all have normal hair in civilian ID, and
▲== Live-Action TV ==
▲* ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'': the characters all have normal hair in civilian ID and it turns brightly colored when they [[Transformation Sequence|transform]].
* On ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', after {{spoiler|Tara dies, Willow's}} normally red hair turns black, as do [[Black Eyes of Evil|her eyes]]. Conversely, when she {{spoiler|activates all the slayers}}, her hair briefly goes white. Basically, she's [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] to indicate if she's casting good or evil magic.
* The BBC's [[Jekyll]] has this as a fairly major physical difference between the meek Dr Jackman and the psychopathic superpowered Mr
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has his Super Form; after collecting the seven Chaos Emeralds, he turns gold and is basically invincible. Knuckles similarly goes from red to pink.
** This is taken [[Up to Eleven]] in Sonic 3 and Knuckles with Hyper Sonic. Sonic's fur changes colors 14 times a second in this form, following the pattern of white, green, white, orange, white, gold, white...7th emerald color, white, green.
** In at least one source (Sonic CD), it is stated that Sonic's trademark blue quills became that colour the first time he ran at sonic speeds.
* ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' does this with {{spoiler|Rozalin, when she reverts back to her Overlord Zenon state.}}
* In ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'', when the main character builds his tension high enough, his hair becomes lighter and spiky. Not that strange considering that [[Akira Toriyama]] did the character designs.
* In the original ''[[Last Blade]]'', Kaede can awaken his inner powers and become more powerful, faster, and blond. He keeps that guise for the second installment of the series.
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* In ''[[Xenogears]]'', Fei Wong's hair is dark but {{spoiler|turns red when he becomes Id.}}
* In ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'', turning into a Kaiser form causes the main character's hair to turn gold and sparkle.
* In ''
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', the Trance System has this effect on every character whose hair we can see. The heroes turn into a white-silver color despite their default. The main villain's hair turns from silver to blood-red.
* Both Geo and Sonia in ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'' change hair colour when they undergo EM Wave Change. The reason why is never explained.
* Inverted ''[[Fancy Pants Adventures|The Fancy Pants Adventures: World 3]]''. The initial antagonist is a pirate with a rainbow-colored beard, which causes him ridicule and a coup from his ship. When the player fetches him hair dye of [[Chuck Norris|Norris]], the pirate restores his men's support and reclaims his ship from the ninjas that invaded in his absence.
=== Visual Novels ===▼
▲== Visual Novels ==
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'': {{spoiler|Tohno Akiha}}'s hair changes to a bright red when her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] comes out.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* Played with in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', when ''losing'' her magical abilities turns Nanase's hair black. And then played (relatively) straight when Susan's magical awakening turns Susan's hair dark blue...in large part ''because'' that was the color that she was already dyeing it.
* In ''[[Mind Mistress]]'', Lorelei's [[Hair of Gold|blonde hair]] turns black when she turns into the titular hero.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Danny Phantom]],'' when Danny first gets his powers and, subsequently, whenever he "goes ghost", his hair turns white. {{spoiler|In "Phantom Planet," when he decides to reverse the accident that gave him his ghost powers and get rid of them, he gets a streak of white in his hair, which goes away when he gets his powers back. It is even commented on in-universe.}}
* On ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]],'' [[The Chief's Daughter|Yue]] was born with dark hair like most people in the Water Tribes, but [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|it turned white]] when she took in some of [[Physical God|the Moon Spirit]]'s life force.
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