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{{quote|"Sophie! Your hair! It looks just like starlight. It's beautiful!"|'''Howl''', ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (anime)|Howl's Moving Castle]]''}}
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In [[Real Life]], white hair indicates either age, bleach, or albinism. Not so in fiction, where white hair can occur naturally on women of any age. For a given value of "natural", that is: white locks tend to mark their owner as special in some way. Maybe her hair is indicative of some spiritual (or outright magical) qualities, or maybe it's a hint of a nonhuman background. At the most mundane, it suggests [[Wise Beyond Their Years|wisdom beyond her years]]. It is a common mark of a [[Mysterious Waif]].
 
Often, this is treated like a variation on [[Hair of Gold|blond hair]] -- —"platinum blond"—with the character having blue eyes to match. Unless she has [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]], which would suggest she's an albino. Or she's a [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]e, in which case, it's probably a good idea to book it, fast.
 
The popularity of this trope probably stems from its status as a borderline-natural [[Hair Colors|hair color]]: white hair on a young person strikes that delicate balance of being unusual but not [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blatantly unrealistic]]. The color also lends itself well towards symbolism (purity or death, take your pick).
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{{examples}}
 
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''Very'' common in anime and manga, in general.:
* In ''[[X 1999]]'', Princess Hinoto has white hair and is one of the most powerful magical beings in that world.
* Also by CLAMP, in ''[[Clover]]'', Suu has white hair and ''is'' the most powerful magical being in that world.
* The first Reinforce from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's]]'', the physical incarnation of a powerful [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]. Ditto for Reinforce Zwei, her successor/daughter.
** The series also has Cinque, a [[Hollywood Cyborg|Combat Cyborg]] who serves as the older sister to most of her fellow [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Numbers]], which is kind of funny, considering that she's also the [[Token Mini-MoeLoli]] of the group, with an [[Eyepatch of Power|eyepatch]] and [[Badass Longcoat|trenchcoat]], no less.
* Shizuma from ''[[Strawberry Panic!|Strawberry Panic]]''.
* Momo from ''[[Ballad of a Shinigami]]''.
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** Vilui, part of the [[Smug Snake]] [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] from the third season.
* Eas from [[Fresh Pretty Cure]].
* In the [[The Film of the Book|anime adaptation]] of ''[[Film/HowlsHowl's Moving Castle (anime)|HowlsHowl's Moving Castle]]'', Sophie ends up as this once her curse is broken and she has {{spoiler|come into her latent magical abilities.}}
* Urd, and her mother Hild, of ''[[Ah! My Goddess|Ah! My Goddess!]]'' fame.
* Chii from ''[[Chobits]]''.
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* Sylvie Lumiere from ''[[Baccano!]]'', although it doesn't seem to be held as any indication of unusual abilities apart from [[Immortality|the most common one in the series]].
* Sanya and Eila from ''[[Strike Witches]]''.
* Jo from ''[[BakuretsuBurst TenshiAngel]]''.
* Hanekawa Tsubasa from ''[[Bakemonogatari]]'' {{spoiler|becomes one when possessed by a white-haired bakeneko.}}
* Nico Robin's mother in ''[[One Piece]]'', Nico Olivia, had pure white hair. It's unknown how old she was when she died, but she didn't appear too old, and Robin herself was only 8.
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** {{spoiler|Lisana still has hers. Turns out, she's [[Not Quite Dead]] after all.}}
** Also, don't forget Angel.
* Saiki from ''[[Ghost TalkersTalker's Daydream]]'' is albino.
* Echo and {{spoiler|the Other Alice}} in ''[[Pandora Hearts]]''.
* Gretel from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', and her brother Hansel was the [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|male counterpart]] of this trope...[[Single-Minded Twins|sometimes]]...[[Villainous Crossdresser|we think]].
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* Princess Romina from ''[[Ninja Senshi Tobikage]]''
* Matsuri from [[Strawberry Marshmallow]] is a rare non-magical, realistic example, where her hair has started graying early. It's entirely mundane, but is also a subject of some debate early on in the manga. Not quite white, but give her a few years...
* The eponymous Index from ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu noMagical Index]]''.
* Mikuni Oriko from ''[[Puella Magi Oriko Magica]]''.
* Shijima and the avatar of the Shinrabansho from ''[[Nabari no Ou]]''.
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* Sakurako Saiki from [[Sakura Gari]]. {{spoiler|But in a subversion, we later learn that Sakurako is... Youya, a ''[[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]''.}}
* Tenshi from ''[[Angel Beats!]]''.
 
 
== Comic Books ==
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* ''Rima The Jungle Girl''
* All of the [[The Metabarons|Metabarons]] have long white hair, if they have any. For some reason, even the women they bring into the family from other clans have long white hair.
 
 
== Film ==
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* Ni Chan from ''[[The Forbidden Kingdom]]''.
* Mirana, the White Queen from [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* The eponymous character (Anne Schuyler) in ''[[Platinum Blonde]]''. In fact, [[Jean Harlow]] in most of her film roles.
* Mirage from ''[[The Incredibles]]''.
* Aisling from ''[[The Secret of Kells]]''.
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* Lady Amalthea, the human form of the titular unicorn in ''[[The Last Unicorn (animation)|The Last Unicorn]]''.
** Pale enough to qualify for [[Heroic Albino]].
* Taarna from ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]]''. Also, {{spoiler|the girl atthreatened by the Loc-Nar throughout the endfilm}} develops white hair after she's revealed as Taarna's reincarnation.
* Susan/Ginormica from ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', after she's hit by the meteorite.
* Storm from the ''[[X-Men (film)|X -Men]]'' films.
* Luna Lovegood from the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' films.
* Gem from ''[[Tron: Legacy]]''.
 
 
== Literature ==
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* The Black Cat in ''[[Spider-Man]]: The Darkest Hours'' has silver hair.
* [http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n53/n265312.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/elizabeth-vaughan/white-star.htm&usg=__viz6KvuyXcEB3lCxnwAan8Lh5mo=&h=500&w=313&sz=28&hl=en&start=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=MXA04UhvBZVJaM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=81&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwhite%2Bstar%2Bnovel%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1 Lady High Priestess Evelyn] from ''White Star'' and the other novels in the series by Elizabeth Vaughan.
* Lucretia from ''[[Bystander (Literaturenovel)||Bystander]]'' has silver hair
* Nyarko from ''[[NyarkoNyaruko: San|Haiyore!Crawling Nyarko-sanwith Love]]''.
* Miranda in L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Prospero's Daughter]]'' trilogy. In the [[Backstory]], her brother Eramus had turned it to an old woman's hair in anger; she had been able to restore its health, but not its color. {{spoiler|When Eramus restores its original black, she doesn't like it, even though she recognizes the intent of generosity.}}
* Kiki in the ''[[Kiki Strike]]'' series. It wasn't really much of a plot point, but it was used to show how unusual she was.
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* One of the Seven of Jehovah in [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|The January Dancer]]''. It causes a man to think that white should be soft and gentle, not ceramic.
 
== Live-[[Action TV]] ==▼
 
▲== Live-[[Action TV]] ==
* Willow briefly had white hair in the finale of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', due to being connected to every potential Slayer on the planet.
* Abby has white hair in ''[[Primeval]]'', but that's bleach and her only power is turning on fanboys.
** [[Even the Girls Want Her|There are some fan]]''[[Even the Girls Want Her|girls]]'' [[Even the Girls Want Her|who would like to debate that last statement you know]].
* Number Six from ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (though there are brunette and sandy blonde versions as well).
* Chiana in ''[[Farscape]]''. A feature of her species, apparently -- the women have white hair and the men have black hair.
* Yuki from the live action version of ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' had white hair when she "flashed" into her battle form.
* Daenerys Targaryen in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', who has silver-blonde hair due to her Targaryen ancestry.
 
 
== Music ==
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* [[No Doubt|Gwen Stefani]] on occasion.
* In her more recent live shows, Japanese singer/cellist Kanon Wakeshima [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR_MM6SZMiI wears a white wig.]
 
 
== Newspaper Comics ==
* Raven Sherman from ''[[Terry and the Pirates]]''.
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* Avacyn from [[Magic: The Gathering]]'s ''Innistrad'' pack. Helps with the [[Dark Is Not Evil]] motiff.
* Many Sisters of Battle from ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' have white hair, though this is heavily implied to be the result of dyeing. Whether they're actually ''pretty'' varies from artist to artist, with some casting them as your standard pretty [[Amazon Brigade]], and others sit down and think about how a life of fighting ([[Helmets Are Hardly Heroic|often without a helmet]]) would actually make them look like.
** Considering the [[Crapsack World]] they live in, it's entirely possible it's white due to stress.
** Or even age - the elite of humanity often receive treatments to keep them fighting for hundreds of years. Old Space Marines usually seem to opt for [[Bald of Awesome]] instead.
* ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'': Some members of the Crane clan, both male and females, dye their hair white in honor of their ancestors.
* Dark elves, or drow, also count as [[DarkskinnedDark-Skinned BlondeBlond]] ([[Fridge Logic|despite living underground for thousands of years, which you'd think would have the opposite effect]]; though, at least in one gameworld, they're described as being cursed into that form so none would mistake them). And [[Our Elves Are Better|since they're elves]], they tend to be very good-looking (drow are even described as being more attractive on average than other elves, on top of looking exotic), hence most males are [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|white-haired pretty boys]] and most females are examples of this trope. They took this to massive race-wide [[Ms. Fanservice]] levels. The good ones took to dancing naked in the moonlight. The [[Exclusively Evil|evil ones]] considered wearing armor admission of [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|fear and weakness before rival houses]]. The females would often wander their cities nude or nearly so, flaying alive anyone who was [[Distracted by the Sexy]] with [[Whip It Good|whips made of snakes]], unless they decided the male would make a worthy addition to their harem and let him audition for the role of pleasure slave. Pretty is not nice at all.
* The Whites in ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' are completely white (skin, eyes, and hair), on the average more attractive than either humans or Nazzadi, AND all natural para-psychics.
* ''[[Pathfinder]]'': Feiya the witch is a textbook example.
* Arianna from ''[[Exalted]]''. There are others, but Arianna is the only one on the cover of the primary rulebook.
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
 
== Theater ==
* In some theatrical adaptations of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', such as the one by Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre, the Ghost of Christmas Past is depicted like this.
 
 
== Video Games ==
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* Shih-Na, Agent Lang's subordinate in ''Miles Edgeworth [[Ace Attorney]] Investigations''. She {{spoiler|turns out to be a recurring baddie in disguise.}}
* Ojou in [[Suika]]. People just assume she's a foreigner and overlook it, apparently.
* [[Artificial Human|Nu]]-[[:Category:Yandere|13]] from ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]''.
* [[The Cape (trope)|Noble Rose]] from ''[[Rumble Roses]]''.
* [[Dance Battler|Barbara]], [[Pirate Girl|Captain Silver]], [[Playing with Fire|Lady Flammar]], and [[The Ojou|Constance]] from ''[[Romancing SaGa]]''.
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* Sindel from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', who can use that very hair to [[Prehensile Hair|toss around her foes]]. Depending on who you ask, the "pretty" part is debatable, as she looks like a cross between Cruella De Vil and Elvira.
* [[Evil Albino|Commandant Steele]] from ''[[Borderlands]]''.
* Yonah and Kaine from ''[[Nie RNieR]]''. Well, [[Hermaphrodite|Kaine's case is debatable...]]
* Jeanne from ''[[Bayonetta]]''.
* Mystica, the [[Magical Girl Warrior]], from the ''[[Fading Hearts]]'' [[Visual Novel]]. While her hair is described as silver from game dialogue, it is actually a combination of white and silver.
* [[Token Mini-MoeLoli|Pu]][[Cute Bruiser|ff]] from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]''.
* Angel from ''[[King of Fighters]]''.
* Tomoki in [[Canvas 2]]. It looks more blue than white on occasion, though.
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* [[Okami]] has Amaterasu's human form, which is never seen, but fans agree that she is this.
 
=== Visual Novels ===▼
 
▲== Visual Novels ==
* The [[Nasuverse]] seems to love this trope:
** Illyasviel von Einzbern from ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. [[Fate/Zero|Her mother]]'s appearance suggests it's genetic. Her maids, Sella and Leysritt, also count.
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** [[Hot Mom|Kyrie,]] too.
 
== Web Comics ==
 
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== Webcomics ==
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* Faye in [[Amya|Amya Chronicles]].▼
* Lily in ''[[Atland]]''.▼
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428204017/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20070113 A woman] who hires [[Buck Godot]]▼
* Kili Stormcrow, a shaman of ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'', has bleach-white hair due to an incident as a child—Kili developed spiritual vision so strong that Kili's perception was trapped in the spirit world. Kili's hair has become permanently white. Of course, she [[Gender Bender|wasn't always a girl]]...well, [[TranssexualismTransgender#Webcomics|at least on the outside]].▼
** Note that she was originally a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|White Haired Pretty ''Boy'']]. Though, since Kili was always more of the "magically-touched" rather than "connotations of villainy" type person, you could argue that male-Kili still fit the WHPG trope more.▼
* Tea is the secondary [[Narrator]] of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. Stranger still, she has brown eyes.
* Zenobia in ''[[Hazard's Wake]]'', possibly related to her (most likely) being a demon.▼
* Bell in ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]''.▼
▲* Lily in ''[[Atland]]''.
▲* Faye in [[Amya|Amya Chronicles]].
* [[Robot Girl|Ping]] from ''[[Megatokyo]]'' had white hair early on, before her body started changing in response to her character development.▼
* Lei'ella from ''[[Inverloch]]'', which marks her as one of the Severed, mortal elves with silver hair and golden eyes.
* Velma in ''[[I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space]]'' has white hair. Most likely does not mean anything magical, though.
▲* [[Robot Girl|Ping]] from ''[[Megatokyo]]'' had white hair early on, before her body started changing in response to her character development.
▲* [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20070113 A woman] who hires [[Buck Godot]]
* ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' has Celia, an [[Actual Pacifist]] sylph and Roy's love interest.
* Shichimi of [[Pepper&Carrot]] is magical, but then so are many of her friends and acquaintances...so her predominant distinguishing personality trait is her initial shyness. But in her first appearance, her hair colour no doubt contributed [[doylist|for the audience]] to a sense of otherworldliness in contrast to her [[The Rival|contestmates]].
▲* Kili Stormcrow, a shaman of ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'', has bleach-white hair due to an incident as a child—Kili developed spiritual vision so strong that Kili's perception was trapped in the spirit world. Kili's hair has become permanently white. Of course, she [[Gender Bender|wasn't always a girl]]...well, [[Transsexualism|at least on the outside]].
▲** Note that she was originally a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|White Haired Pretty ''Boy'']]. Though, since Kili was always more of the "magically-touched" rather than "connotations of villainy" type person, you could argue that male-Kili still fit the WHPG trope more.
▲* Zenobia in [[Hazard's Wake]], possibly related to her (most likely) being a demon.
* Mariko from ''[[PHD]]'', a minor recurring character and a former Japanese exchange grad student who quit her [[PHD]] to start her own company.
▲* Bell in ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]''.
* [[Walkyverse|Joyce]] is prematurely grey, even though, [[Alien Abduction]] aside, there's nothing especially magical about her, although she does develop into [[The Messiah]] (our definition, not [[Messianic Archetype]], which is closer to Walkerton) over the course of ''It's Walky!''▼
* [[Ice Queen|North Pole]] in ''[[Scandinavia and The World]].'' Sister Iceland is the "very pale blonde" version.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', Lil' E's [http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-04-08 mother].
▲* ''[[Walkyverse|Joyce]]'': Joyce is prematurely grey, even though, [[Alien Abduction]] aside, there's nothing especially magical about her, although she does develop into [[The Messiah]] (our definition, not [[Messianic Archetype]], which is closer to Walkerton) over the course of ''It's Walky!''
 
== Web Original ==
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* Nasha of ''[[SPAZ]]'' has white [[Rapunzel Hair]], and while she's not magical, she's definitely a little strange
* Iriana Estchell of ''[[Ilivais X]]'' has this, due to her alteration for piloting a Phonos Weapon, removing most normal bodily functions, including pigmentation.
* Lilette Einmell from ''[[Tales of Hetalia]]'' has white hair, signaling she is a demon. In fact, this series runs on this trope, considering ''all'' demons have white hair.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
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* Queen La from ''[[The Legend of Tarzan]]''. Serves as a [[Mythology Gag]] to the original Edgar Rice Burroughs stories describing the city of Opar as an Atlantean colony city, hence the design reference to ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]''.
* [[Winter Royal Lady|The Ice Queen]] ([[An Ice Person|The Ice King's]] [[Distaff Counterpart]]) from ''[[Adventure Time]]''.
 
 
== Real Life ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130521044804/http://www.mademan.com/chickipedia/connie-chiu/ Connie Chiu], one of the first albino supermodels.
* So many Northern Europeans, in fact, that almost every last one of them has purely white hair between age 5 and 10. It tends to pick up color afterward, but not always.
** Many of those descended from the Northern European diaspora can have pure white hair as well, even into adulthood.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Useful Notes/Hair Color in Japan{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Tropes in White]]▼
[[Category:The Beautiful Tropes]]
[[Category:All the Tropes Superhero Team]]
[[Category:Always Female]]
▲[[Category:TropesThe inBeautiful WhiteTropes]]
[[Category:Hair Colors]]
[[Category:White-HairedTropes Prettyin GirlWhite]]
[[Category:Useful Notes/Hair Color in Japan]]
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