History Main / EinsteinHair

* Creator/RankinBassProductions ''Willy [=McBean=] and his Magic Machine''. MadScientist [[ObviouslyEvil Rasputin Von Rotton]] has this trope, and a scene showing the moment where he truly goes insane has his hair suddenly sprouting like it's been plugged into a Van de Graaff generator. At the end of the movie the KidHero has an OhCrap on seeing his new history teacher has this trope, only to reveal himself as someone else when he turns round. [[BaitAndSwitch Then Von Rotton enters the room as a guest lecturer]], but fortunately he's done a FaceHeelTurn by that stage.

* Creator/RankinBassProductions ''Willy [=McBean=] and his Magic Machine''. MadScientist [[ObviouslyEvil Rasputin Von Rotton]] has this trope, and a scene showing the moment where he truly goes insane has his hair suddenly sprouting like it's been plugged into a Van de Graaff generator.

* Creator/RankinBassProductions ''Willy [=McBean=] and his Magic Machine''. MadScientist [[ObviouslyEvil Rasputin Von Rotton]] has this trope, and a scene showing the moment where he truly goes insane has his hair suddenly sprouting like it's been plugged into a Van de Graaff generator.

%% ZCE * Gene Wilder pulls off this look in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''.

%% ZCE * Charlie Epps in ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'' tends to have this sort of hair.

%% Entire folder of ZCE [[AC:Anime and Manga]]

%%* Senku in ''Manga/DrStone'' has a more vertically oriented version of this trope, combining it with AnimeHair.

%% ZCE * Doc Brown from ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. In 1985, he has a dog named Einstein, who is his first living test subject for his time-travel experiments, and much of the movie takes place in 1955, the same year Einstein died.
%% ** The 1955 Doc even comments on the fact that he still has the hairstyle when watching a video of his future self.
%% ** Creator/ChristopherLloyd said in an interview that the hairstyle was inspired by a combination of Einstein and Leopold Stokowski (the orchestral conductor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'')
%% ** In the Creator/TelltaleGames video game series, it's shown that young Emmett first got the hairstyle after an invention literally blew up in his face.
%% ** During Brown's [[TheCameo quick cameo]] in the pre-show for ''Ride/TheSimpsonsRide'', he's glad when Krusty has acquired the [[Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide Institute of Future Technology]] and Krusty orders him to get a haircut- it takes him three hours every morning just to get his hair like that.

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* Leo Shishioh in ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' has this.
* Dr. Agasa of ''Manga/DetectiveConan''.
* Desty Nova has a better groomed than usual version of this in ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita''.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'': Despite not being a scientist, the old man that [[spoiler:Alternate #17 kills at the end of the Androids arc, or [[SparedByTheAdaptation almost kills on the anime]],]] is a perfect example of this.
* Senku in ''Manga/DrStone'' has a more vertically oriented version of this trope, combining it with AnimeHair.

* Rotwang, the MadScientist from ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', is the UrExample that, in fact, predates Einstein. Albert wasn't even gray yet when the movie came out.
** Since it was made in his native Germany, it is possible that Metropolis actually inspired Einstein. Note that on his pre-1927 portraits he usually has shorter hair than later in life.
* Franchise/StarWars: Yoda once you get over the fact that he's green. In fact, his character design was partially inspired by Einstein (and bits of Gandhi and LDS President Spencer W. Kimball) to evoke the "benevolent, wise old man" archetype.
* Doc Brown from ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. In 1985, he has a dog named Einstein, who is his first living test subject for his time-travel experiments, and much of the movie takes place in 1955, the same year Einstein died.
** The 1955 Doc even comments on the fact that he still has the hairstyle when watching a video of his future self.
** Creator/ChristopherLloyd said in an interview that the hairstyle was inspired by a combination of Einstein and Leopold Stokowski (the orchestral conductor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'')
** In the Creator/TelltaleGames video game series, it's shown that young Emmett first got the hairstyle after an invention literally blew up in his face.
** During Brown's [[TheCameo quick cameo]] in the pre-show for ''Ride/TheSimpsonsRide'', he's glad when Krusty has acquired the [[Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide Institute of Future Technology]] and Krusty orders him to get a haircut- it takes him three hours every morning just to get his hair like that.

* Prof Jacob Barnhardt in ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951'', who's clearly a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Einstein.

* Gene Wilder pulls off this look in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''.
* Mac from ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' manages to have this, despite not actually having hair.
* Sherlock in ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', as played by Robert Downey Jr., has this type of hair.
* Wheeljack from ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' has wiring on his head that gives him this appearance.
* Professor Flitwick from the first two ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies had this sort of hair.

* Both the Indian shaman and his granddaughter in ''Literature/GivesLight''.

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* Dr. Forrester from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': When Shepherd Book doesn't have his hair tied up, it looks kinda like this. The sight was freaky enough to send River screaming for cover in the episode "Jaynestown". Granted, he is not a scientist but a priest...
* Charlie Epps in ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'' tends to have this sort of hair.

** The First Doctor has the same hairstyle as in the page image, but combed.
** Professor Kettlewell in "Robot".

* Leonard Hofstadter, in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has a little of this going on in early seasons, as if he is a fledgling Einstein who hasn't quite got there yet. It is noticeable that, later on, Penny, in a spirit of IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable, appears to have curbed this.

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* Music/LudwigVanBeethoven.
* Edvard Grieg (In the Hall of the Mountain King) looked like a combination of Einstein and Twain, and his hair sure reflected it.

* Seen on the TimeMachine-inventing scientist of ''Pinball/TimeMachineZaccaria,'' who combines this with a KubrickStare and BaldOfEvil to look menacing.

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* Non-mad scientist example: Creator/CirqueDuSoleil acrobat/clown Brian Dewhurst often styles his naturally gray hair this way as part of his onstage look -- ''Theatre/NouvelleExperience'', ''Mystere'', etc. In the former show, he played an elegant but eccentric chamberlain from a MagicalLand.
** Le Vieux, the clown caretaker from ''Theatre/{{O}}'', also appearing in ''[[Film/CirqueDuSoleilWorldsAway Worlds Away]]'', also has hair like this.

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* Dr. Wily of ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'', not to mention the fact that his first name is Albert, making him practically an evil {{Expy}} of Einstein. Nobody's quite sure why Capcom made the villain so clearly Einsteinian, but a popular (half)joke theory is that it's some lingering anger over the Atomic Bomb.
** In the same vein Dr. Light's first name is Thomas, a reference to Thomas Edison. Ironically, Edison is now considered something of a patent troll who stole most of his inventions.
* Doctor Zelinsky of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3''.
** Einstein himself also showed up in the first two ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert Red]] [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2 Alerts]]''. In the third one, Einstein cameos in the intro.
* Potential resident Dr. F ("The F stands for ROBOTS!") of ''VideoGame/MySims''.
* Nicolai from ''Space Colony''.

* Dr. Pettrovich Madnar in ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGear2''.
** Madnar's portrait in MG2 was actually a digitalization of Einstein's. Then again, Snake ''was'' Mel Gibson...
* The InvisibleToNormals therapist {{NPC}} in ''VideoGame/TheSims'' 2.

* Ripper Roo has one in ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'' to go with his higher education studies.

* Kalrow from ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' has this type of hair.
* Nagito from ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' sports this hairstyle. It fits his personality quite well.
* Ludwig von Koopa of the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series has this hairstyle, in an obvious ShoutOut to Beethoven.

* Dr. Germahn from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''.
* Uncle Otto in ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault''.
* Dr. Zweistein from ''Webcomic/TheFan''.
* Webcomic/BobAndGeorge's Dr. Wiley [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000409 Lampshaded]]

* Dr. Universe from ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' sports red Einstein hair.

* Apparently, there is [[http://static.nichtlustig.de/toondb/010117.html#restore some controversy]] about which hairstyle ist to be prefered for mad scientists, and the discussions are [[Webcomic/{{Nichtlustig}} not funny]].
-->"The podium discussion seems to escalate as both parties set their killer robots at each other."

* The Literature/WhateleyUniverse mutant codenamed Cheese (yes, he picked it himself), who is described with hair like this already, even though he is a teenaged supervillain.

* Dr. Weird in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''.
* Dr. Scratchensniff from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' used to have EinsteinHair, but he tore it off bit by bit in frustration during his first sessions with the Warners.

* Technus' first look in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' had this with a slight mix of Frankenstein's bride.
* Flint in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' has such hair.

* Dr. Two Brains from the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl''.

* Nora Wakeman from ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot''.

* Rick from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' sports something like this. Humorously, the monsters from the fourth dimension mistook Einstein for him when they went to beat him up. A later episode shows that he's always had wild grey hair ever since he was a child.

* [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Duh.]]

* Creator/MarkTwain actually had this hairstyle before Einstein did, making it OlderThanTheyThink.
* Creator/TimBurton, anyone?
* If you're into physics, you've probably seen at least one professor like this.
* Ditto computer science, especially programmers involved in free and open source software. Just visit a Linux user group sometime.
* Old people in general tend to get that Einstein look. Albert Einstein himself acquired his famed appearance later in life, as his [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Einstein_patentoffice.jpg young age]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_(Nobel).png photos]] show him a bit differently.
* Professor Martyn Poliakoff, who appears in ''WebVideo/ThePeriodicTableOfVideos''. Several Youtube commenters have stated, "This man looks like science."

* There is actually a mutation called Uncombable Hair Syndrome, which makes the hair very pale and brittle while also making it stand on end due to oddly-shaped hair shafts. However, it is incredibly rare, with only about a hundred occurrences of it worldwide.
* Senator UsefulNotes/BernieSanders of Vermont, who helped popularize democratic socialism in America.

* Doc Brown from ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.
** He even comments on the fact that he still has the hairstyle when watching a video of his future self.
** Christopher Lloyd said in an interview that the hairstyle was inspired by a combination of Einstein and Leopold Stokowski (the orchestral conductor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'')

* Nora Wakeman from WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot.

* Nagito from ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2'' sports this hairstyle. It fits his personality quite well.

* Desty Nova has a better groomed than usual version of this in ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}''.

** Christopher Lloyd said in an interview that the hairstyle was inspired by a combination of Einstein and Leopold Stokowski (the orchestral conductor in Disney/{{Fantasia}})

* Non-mad scientist example: Creator/CirqueDuSoleil acrobat/clown Brian Dewhurst often styles his naturally gray hair this way as part of his onstage look -- ''Theatre/NouvelleExperience'', ''Mystere'', etc. In the former show, he played an elegant but eccentric chamberlain from a MagicalLand; in the latter he plays a ScrewySquirrel.

* Mr. Slowy of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' has frizzy hair resembling that of Albert Einstein's.

* One of the variant versions of Clippy the Microsoft Office Assistant is a {{chibi}} version of Einstein.

-->-- '''The Eleventh Doctor''' to Albert Einstein, ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Death Is the Only Answer"

* Film/SherlockHolmes, as played by Robert Downey Jr., has this type of hair.

* In the educational talking dog cartoon, ''MarthaSpeaks,'' a scientist/doctor with Einstein hair explains in the opening that a regular dog can gain the ability to speak by eating alphabet soup.

* Leonard Hofstadter, in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has a little of this going on in early seasons, as if he is a fledgling Einstein who hasn't quite got there yet. It is noticeable that, later on, Penny, in a spirit of IWantMyBelovedToLookFashionable, appears to have curbed this.

* Leonard Hofstadter, in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has a little of this going on in early seasons, as if he is a fledgling einstein who hasn't quite got there yet. It is noticeable that Penny, in a spirit of IWantMyManToLookFashionable, appears to have curbed this.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E55HotelStrangeduck Hotel Strangeduck]]", Dr. Strangeduck has wild gray hair.