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** Crazies (individuals with implanted brain-chips that give them a number of psychic powers and multiple other benefits in exchange for steadily-worsening insanity) are almost always shown as bald. In their case it's not made clear whether it's a consequence of the Mind Over Matter treatment, but since most have large metal bolts inserted into their skulls (originally this was just how M.O.M. worked; nowadays it's their trademark look), hair would be hard to maintain at best.
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* Mentor, in ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'', is both a psychic and bald. As he's something of a combination of Professor Xavier from ''Franchise/XMen'' and the ComicBook/MartianManhunter, it should be no surprise.

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* Mentor, in ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'', is both a psychic and bald. As he's something of a combination of Professor Xavier from ''Franchise/XMen'' ''ComicBook/XMen'' and the ComicBook/MartianManhunter, it should be no surprise.
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%%* ''Film/DoctorStrange'' has a female version with The Ancient One.

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%%* ''Film/DoctorStrange'' ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' has a female version with The Ancient One.
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* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Eleven was bald in the first season (and presumably all her life at the lab), but grows hair in the second, and it doesn't interfere with her powers.

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* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Eleven was bald in the first season (and presumably all her life at the lab), but that was because it was kept buzzed by the GovernmentConspiracy that was experimenting on her. She grows her hair out in the second, later seasons, and it doesn't interfere with her powers. powers.

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* In ''Comicbook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'', [=PSmIth=] is bald and psychic.

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* In ''Comicbook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'', [=PSmIth=] is a whole collective of bald and psychic.psychics.


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* In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', Zar the Psion is a supporting character with a MessengerFromTheFuture role. He is gifted with PsychicPowers and has the typical bald head to go along.
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** Professor X, leader of the ''Franchise/XMen'', is the most powerful telepath in the Marvel Universe. In fact, a flashback depicts his hair falling out [[PrematurelyBald at a young age]] when his powers first activated.
** The Leader, enemy of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, is telepathic and [[DependingOnTheArtist sometimes]] bald.
** Uatu and his entire species, the Watchers.
** Moondragon is one of those rare bald female psychics.

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** ''ComicBook/XMen'': Professor X, leader of the ''Franchise/XMen'', X is the most powerful telepath in the Marvel Universe. In fact, a flashback depicts his hair falling out [[PrematurelyBald at a young age]] when his powers first activated.
** ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Leader, enemy of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, Leader is telepathic and [[DependingOnTheArtist sometimes]] bald.
** ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Uatu and his entire species, the Watchers.
** ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Moondragon is one of those rare bald female psychics.
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** There are many bald humans in the early stories of Philip K. Dick with psi powers, mutants. They usually wear wigs. (One boy gets in trouble with his parents for coming to school without his wig.)

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* Creator/MarvelComics:
** Professor X, leader of the ''Franchise/XMen'', is the most powerful telepath in the Marvel Universe. In fact, a flashback depicts his hair falling out [[PrematurelyBald at a young age]] when his powers first activated.
** The Leader, enemy of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, is telepathic and [[DependingOnTheArtist sometimes]] bald.
** Uatu and his entire species, the Watchers.
** Moondragon is one of those rare bald female psychics.
** Before Xavier ever existed and Marvel comics was just an anthology series, one issue dealt with a psychic man being recruited by a gathering of other mutant psychics who plan to covertly help the world. One of them was bald and seemed to be the leader (sound familiar?).

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** Professor X, leader of the ''Franchise/XMen'',
In ''Comicbook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'', [=PSmIth=] is the most powerful telepath in the Marvel Universe. In fact, a flashback depicts his hair falling out [[PrematurelyBald at a young age]] when his powers first activated.
** The Leader, enemy of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, is telepathic and [[DependingOnTheArtist sometimes]] bald.
** Uatu and his entire species, the Watchers.
** Moondragon is one of those rare bald female psychics.
** Before Xavier ever existed and Marvel comics was just an anthology series, one issue dealt with a psychic man being recruited by a gathering of other mutant psychics who plan to covertly help the world. One of them was
bald and seemed to be the leader (sound familiar?).psychic.



* Creator/MarvelComics:
** Professor X, leader of the ''Franchise/XMen'', is the most powerful telepath in the Marvel Universe. In fact, a flashback depicts his hair falling out [[PrematurelyBald at a young age]] when his powers first activated.
** The Leader, enemy of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, is telepathic and [[DependingOnTheArtist sometimes]] bald.
** Uatu and his entire species, the Watchers.
** Moondragon is one of those rare bald female psychics.
** Before Xavier ever existed and Marvel comics was just an anthology series, one issue dealt with a psychic man being recruited by a gathering of other mutant psychics who plan to covertly help the world. One of them was bald and seemed to be the leader (sound familiar?).



* In ''Comicbook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'', [=PSmIth=] is bald and psychic.



* Empath in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', as all male Smurfs are bald.



* Empath in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', as all male Smurfs are bald.



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* Downplayed in ''Film/MinorityReport'' where the psychics used to foresee violent crimes have their hair cut short. This appears to be for pragmatic reasons, as long hair would make difficult to attach the nodes we see connected to their heads.



* ''Film/DoctorStrange'' has a female version with The Ancient One.
* Downplayed in ''Film/MinorityReport'' where the psychics used to foresee violent crimes have their hair cut short. This appears to be for pragmatic reasons, as long hair would make difficult to attach the nodes we see connected to their heads.



* ''Series/{{The OuterLimits|1963}}'' episode "The Sixth Finger". After being being subjected to a device that advances him along the evolutionary scale, a man develops a bald head and advanced psychic abilities, including telepathy and telekinesis.



* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "The Sixth Finger". After being being subjected to a device that advances him along the evolutionary scale, a man develops a bald head and advanced psychic abilities, including telepathy and telekinesis.



** Although the various illustrations in the sourcebooks show that psionic characters aren't necessarily bald, this is still quite common. The illustrations for the Telepath, Metamind (''Expanded Psionic Handbooks''), Ardent, Divine Mind and Erudite (''Complete Psionics'') all have shaved heads.
** The Synads are a race of humanoid aberrations with a threefold mind making them psionically gifted . They can easily pass for humans, but are described as "typically hairless".

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** Although the various illustrations in the sourcebooks show that psionic characters aren't necessarily bald, this is still quite common. The illustrations for the Telepath, Metamind (''Expanded Psionic Handbooks''), Psionics Handbook''), Ardent, Divine Mind and Erudite (''Complete Psionics'') all have shaved heads.
** The Synads are a race of humanoid aberrations with a threefold mind making them psionically gifted .gifted. They can easily pass for humans, but are described as "typically hairless".



* ''VideoGame/PsiOpsTheMindgateConspiracy'', being a game about psychic powers, has a few characters like this, including [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100304201734/psiops/images/thumb/9/9d/Edgar_Barrett.jpg/250px-Edgar_Barrett.jpg Edgar Barret]] and the main character Nick Scryer who, while not bald, has a shaved head.

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* ''VideoGame/PsiOpsTheMindgateConspiracy'', being a game about psychic powers, has a few characters like this, including [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100304201734/psiops/images/thumb/9/9d/Edgar_Barrett.jpg/250px-Edgar_Barrett.jpg Edgar Barret]] ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' and its expansion feature Yuri, whose similarity with Lenin includes the main character Nick Scryer who, while not bald, has baldness. Of course, he uses MindControl. In-game, Yuri clones are a shaved head.standard unit, who are of course also bald and psychic.



* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' and its expansion feature Yuri, whose similarity with Lenin includes the baldness. Of course, he uses MindControl. In-game, Yuri clones are a standard unit, who are of course also bald and psychic.
* ''VideoGame/SecondSight'' features this in its protagonist, John Vattic: during the segments of the game set in the present, he sports a close-shaved head as a result of being imprisoned and tortured by the BigBad- along with a wide range of impressive psychic powers. Subverted later in the game, when his past self develops psychic powers and retains a full head of hair.

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* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' ''VideoGame/PsiOpsTheMindgateConspiracy'', being a game about psychic powers, has a few characters like this, including [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100304201734/psiops/images/thumb/9/9d/Edgar_Barrett.jpg/250px-Edgar_Barrett.jpg Edgar Barret]] and its expansion feature Yuri, whose similarity with Lenin includes the baldness. Of course, he uses MindControl. In-game, Yuri clones are main character Nick Scryer who, while not bald, has a standard unit, who are of course also bald and psychic.
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* ''VideoGame/SecondSight'' features this in its protagonist, John Vattic: during the segments of the game set in the present, he sports a close-shaved head as a result of being imprisoned and tortured by the BigBad- BigBad -- along with a wide range of impressive psychic powers. Subverted later in the game, when his past self develops psychic powers and retains a full head of hair.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** Tenzin claims that the reason why the Air Nomads had their heads shaved was so that they could have a higher awareness of the air around them. This is later confirmed when Daw, one of the new airbenders, was able to feel a net coming out from behind him, allowing him to evade it in time.

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** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Tenzin claims that the reason why the Air Nomads had their heads shaved was so that they could have a higher awareness of the air around them. This is later confirmed when Daw, one of the new airbenders, was able to feel a net coming out from behind him, allowing him to evade it in time.

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* Sykers in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: Hell on Earth'' are all bald. Something about their training regimen causes all the hair to fall out.



* Pretty much all psykers in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. Librarians are also bald, but that's because they're Space Marines first.
* Discussed and justified in GURPS Dungeon Fantasy. Hair interferes with certain psionic headgear and makes it harder to spot the Skull Fungus that psions sometimes get.
* Visionary in ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' is bald and a powerful psychic. The powers are innate; the baldness is because she was subjected to experiments. Her alternate-timeline child self, the Dreamer, has black hair, which she keeps when she grows up into the superheroine Muse.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'';
** Psi-Stalkers are mutant humans who can sense supernatural creatures, as well as other psychic abilities. They are all white-skinned and hairless, even the women.
** ''Rifts'' also has Psy-X Aliens, another mutant human (though this time the result of experimentation) with powerful psychic abilities, who look like Grey aliens, right down to the bald egg shaped heads.


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* Sykers in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: Hell on Earth'' are all bald. Something about their training regimen causes all the hair to fall out.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'':
** Although the various illustrations in the sourcebooks show that psionic characters aren't necessarily bald, this is still quite common. The illustrations for the Telepath, Metamind (''Expanded Psionic Handbooks''), Ardent, Divine Mind and Erudite (''Complete Psionics'') all have shaved heads.
** The Synads are a race of humanoid aberrations with a threefold mind making them psionically gifted . They can easily pass for humans, but are described as "typically hairless".
* Discussed and justified in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Dungeon Fantasy''. Hair interferes with certain psionic headgear and makes it harder to spot the Skull Fungus that psions sometimes get.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'';
** Psi-Stalkers are mutant humans who can sense supernatural creatures, as well as other psychic abilities. They are all white-skinned and hairless, even the women.
** ''Rifts'' also has Psy-X Aliens, another mutant human (though this time the result of experimentation) with powerful psychic abilities, who look like Grey aliens, right down to the bald egg shaped heads.
* Visionary in ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' is bald and a powerful psychic. The powers are innate; the baldness is because she was subjected to experiments. Her alternate-timeline child self, the Dreamer, has black hair, which she keeps when she grows up into the superheroine Muse.
* Pretty much all psykers in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. Librarians are also bald, but that's because they're Space Marines first.

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* Pretty much all psykers in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Librarians are also bald, but that's because they're Space Marines first.

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* Psi-Stalkers in ''{{TabletopGame/Rifts}}'' are mutant humans who can sense supernatural creatures, as well as other psychic abilities. They are all white-skinned and hairless, even the women.

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SubTrope of BaldMystic. May overlap with MyBrainIsBig, BaldOfEvil, BaldBlackLeaderGuy, and PrematurelyBald. Not to be confused with Music/{{Psy}}, who is neither bald nor (as far as we know) psychic.

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SubTrope of BaldMystic. May overlap with MyBrainIsBig, BaldOfEvil, BaldBlackLeaderGuy, and PrematurelyBald. Not to be confused with Music/{{Psy}}, who is neither bald nor (as far as we know) psychic.
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* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' and its expansion feature Yuri, whose similarity with Lenin includes the baldness. Of course, he uses MindControl.

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* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' and its expansion feature Yuri, whose similarity with Lenin includes the baldness. Of course, he uses MindControl. In-game, Yuri clones are a standard unit, who are of course also bald and psychic.
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* Zigzagged on ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. Tech Lieutenant [=TuV'k=], their Tactical Psionics Officer, has a shaved head to fit the copper skullcap of an eloptic field amplifier, yet Captain Janeway and Nee'Lix both wear these skullcaps during a MindMeld without issue despite having lots of hair, implying it's just for convenience. When Janeway is about to be assimilated by the Psiborg Collective, the first thing they do is shave off her hair in readiness for a similar skullcap. Afterwards she grouchily wonders if she might start a [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration trend of bald spaceship captains]].

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* Zigzagged on ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. Tech Lieutenant [=TuV'k=], their Tactical Psionics Officer, has a shaved head to fit the copper skullcap of an eloptic field amplifier, yet Captain Janeway and Nee'Lix both wear these skullcaps during a MindMeld without issue despite having lots of hair, implying it's just for convenience. When Janeway is about to be assimilated by the Psiborg Collective, the first thing they do is shave off her hair in readiness for a similar skullcap. Afterwards she grouchily wonders if she might start a [[MythologyGag trend of bald spaceship captains]].

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* Mindsweeper from ''ComicBook/PrideHigh''.


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* King Mob of ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'', is a bald super spy with psychic powers.
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