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Hair color is an easy visual shorthand for getting information about a character to the audience. Most often, hair color will tell you something about the character's personality, but sometimes, its meaning is something else: this character has an {{Elemental Power|s}} and the [[ColorCodedElements hair color to match the element]]. Quite often, their personality will also be tied to their element and thus their hair color.

* '''[[PlayingWithFire Fire]]''' -- usually [[FieryRedhead red hair]], although sometimes it will be more orange. Sometimes taken to the [[FlamingHair logical extreme]]. Hair will often be short and spiky.
* '''[[DishingOutDirt Earth]]''' -- brown or green hair. More rarely, orange or yellow. Usually short hair on males, females may have longer hair. Tends to be WildHair or dreadlocks.
* '''[[ShockAndAwe Lightning]]''' -- yellow or white. Hair will often be spiky, as though hit by an electric current.
* '''[[MakingASplash Water]]''' -- [[WaterIsBlue usually a bright blue]], especially if ice is also present as light blue. Hair is usually straight, mid length, and flowing, but it can also be wavy, like ocean waves.
** '''[[AnIcePerson Ice]]''' -- light blue or white, and similar in style to water, though probably less flowing.
* '''[[BlowYouAway Air]]''' -- white or gray. Often wavy or curly with lots of volume. It may defy gravity. Can be [[WindIsGreen green]] in some cases.
* '''[[LightEmUp Light/Holy]]''' -- white or yellow, or [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold outright gold]]. Tends towards MysticalWhiteHair when white. May overlap with GoldAndWhiteAreDivine.
* '''[[CastingAShadow Dark]]''' -- nearly always black, occasionally more purple.
* '''[[GreenThumb Nature/Wood/Plant]]''' -- green. Often messy, and decorated with leaves or [[FlowersOfNature flowers]]. Usually associated with PlantHair.
* '''[[HeartBeatDown Love]]''' -- [[RoseHairedSweetie pink]] or gold. Probably because the first is feminine, and the second is often considered [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold pure and innocent]]. Expect hair decorations. Rarely, if ever, found on a male character.

This is less common in Live-Action media than in animation, video games, comic books, or manga, for obvious reasons.

Sister trope to ElementalEyeColors. Subtrope of ColorCodedElements, ColourCodedForYourConvenience, and AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance. Often overlaps with YouGottaHaveBlueHair. Compare FlamingHair, which is this trope for fire elemental users taken UpToEleven.

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* The Panther Demon clan siblings in ''Manga/InuYasha'' have this: the redhead uses fire, the MysticalWhiteHair uses ice, the green-haired girl uses nature/illusions, and the blond uses lightning.
* ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''
** Cure Dream → [[HeartBeatDown Heart]] → Pink
** Cure Rouge → [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] → Red
** Cure Lemonade → [[LightEmUp Light]] → Yellow
** Cure Mint → [[GreenThumb Earth]] → Green
** Cure Aqua → [[MakingASplash Water]] → Blue
** Meanwhile, it subverts this trope with [[color:mediumorchid:Milky Rose]] (who controls [[PetalPower blue rose petals]] but has purple hair).
* ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure''
** Cure Blossom → [[PetalPower Cherry Blossom Petals]] → Pink
** Cure Marine → [[MakingASplash Water]] → Blue
** Cure Sunshine → [[PowerOfTheSun Sun]] → Yellow
** Cure Moonlight → [[{{Lunacy}} Moon]] → Silver
** [[DarkMagicalGirl Dark Precure]] → [[CastingAShadow Darkness]] → Black
* ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure''
** Cure Happy → [[LightEmUp Light]] + [[HeartBeatDown Heart]] → Pink
** Cure Sunny → [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] → Red/Orange
** Cure Peace → [[ShockAndAwe Electricity]] → Yellow
** Cure March → [[BlowYouAway Air]] → Green
** Cure Beauty → [[AnIcePerson Ice]] → Blue
* ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure''
** Cure Diamond → [[AnIcePerson Ice]] + [[MakingASplash Water]] → Blue
* In ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'', Tougo's [[CurtainsMatchTheWindows flaming red hair and eyes]] match his preferred element of fire, which mainly manifests in [[StuffBlowingUp making stuff explode.]]
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon''
** Blue Haired Sailor Mercury with the elements of [[MakingASplash Water]] and [[AnIcePerson Ice]], Blonde Sailor Venus using LightEmUp, and ocean blue haired Sailor Neptune having the power of [[MakingASplash Deep Water]].
** Sailor Uranus has platinum blonde hair in the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], and air powers.
** The enemy group Witches 5 had Elemental Hair, as well. Eudial used fire powers and had fiery red hair, Viluy had ice blue hair... nanites?, Tellu had green hair and used plant-based powers. Mimete is sort of the odd one out with blonde hair and charm and illusion based powers. Cyprine and Ptilol had blue and red hair respectively, but they used WonderTwinPowers.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'''s FieryRedHead Anya is [[PlayingWithFire literal]]. Red/orange Haired Mei Sakura uses [[PlayingWithFire fire]] as well.
* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' sometimes plays this trope straight and sometimes averts it.
** On the [[PlayingWithATrope Played Straight]] side, we've got FieryRedHead Kirche (fire affinity), ReiAyanamiExpy Tabitha (wind), Mme. Chevreuse (brown[=/=]Earth), and Miss Longueville (green[=/=]Earth).
** On the [[AvertedTrope other hand]], ShanaClone Louise, IllGirl Cattleya, and their mother Karin all have pink hair, but have different affinities (Void, Earth, and Wind, respectively).
** It's notable that the main characters who are not magic users of some kind (Saito, Siesta, Marteau, Scarron, and Jessica) all have very dark brown or black hair.
* The girls from ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' have both the hair color and styles that evoke the elements that they're granted. Fire-wielding Hikaru has pinkish red hair that's [[BraidsOfAction usually braided]] and wisps out like a flame at the bottom, water-wielding Umi has long, straight, flowing blue hair, and wind-wielding Fuu has blonde hair that's loopy and curly like wind. They also mostly follow CurtainsMatchTheWindow, but Fuu breaks it with her blonde hair and green eyes.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Besides imported [=NPCs=] from the games to whom this trope applies, the anime also has the Eevee brothers (the yellow-haired one having a Jolteon, the redhead a Flareon, the blue-haired one a Vaporeon, and the one with brown hair has an unevolved Eevee)
* ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'': the three great priestesses of Mt. Muldoon: [[DarkSkinnedRedhead Shayla]] is easily identified as the priestess of fire, thanks to her flaming red hair. [[ChristmasCake Miz Mishtal]], who presides over water, has lavender hair. And while Afura Mann's a BrainyBrunette, her blue/sea green attire shows she controls wind.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': For all the AnimeHair that does exist, this trope is rare.
** Hitsugaya, AnIcePerson ChildProdigy captain. He does, naturally, have white hair to go along with it.
** Choujirou is Yamamoto's NumberTwo of the ShockAndAwe type. He was white-haired even in his youth.
** Isane is frost-themed and has white hair, although slightly greyer in tone than Hitsugaya... like a hoar frost.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'' does this often.
** Shark's hair is purple corresponding his deck is Sea-theme
** Shark's sister Rio, has light-blue and purple referencing her Ice-theme deck.
** Kaito has blonde hair matching his Light-Attribute deck.
* ''LightNovel/WorldCustomizeCreator'': People with magic have color-coded hair depending on their element. Red for Fire, Blue for Water.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
** Kaminari generates electricity as his Quirk, which fit his spiky blond hair.
** The Todorokis. Patriarch Enji has fire powers and has dark-ish, spiky red hair to go with them; his wife Rei has stark white hair to go with her ice Quirk. Their youngest son Shoto is a perfect combination of their powers -- he can generate ice from his right side and fire from his left. Fittingly, the right half of his hair is white and the left half of his hair is red.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'' has a few examples:
** Natsu, [[TheHero the main hero]] [[PlayingWithFire who uses Fire Dragon Slayer magic]], zigzags it a bit: his hair is a shade of red in the manga, [[AdaptationDyeJob but pink in the anime.]] Nonetheless, it's still spiky to the sides resembling flames.
** Juvia Lockser, who [[MakingASplash uses Water Magic]], has long, wavy blue hair that curled up on the ends. She cuts it short for a time, but later grows it back and keeps it flowing down.
** Laxus Dreyar uses [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Dragon Slayer Magic]], and has blond hair spiked upwards, fitting for his [[spoiler: initial]] PsychoElectro personality.
* ''Manga/BlackClover'':
** Luck Voltia uses Lightning Magic and has messy blond hair.
** Mars has light purple, almost white, spiky hair and his innate magic attribute is Mineral Magic.
** Sylph is the Wind Spirit and has green hair that ends in upward tufts.
** The Vermillion Family siblings in the Crimson Lion Kings all have red hair and use Flame Magic. Mereoleona's hair ends in tufts resembling flames.
** Licht has long white hair and uses Light Magic.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''Franchise/XMen''
** Pyro in many of the continuities has red, spiky hair.
** ComicBook/{{Storm}} has long, white hair that defies gravity (except for the brief period where she has a white Mohawk).
** When Polaris is made the Horseman of Pestilence by Apocalypse for a short time, her hair is depicted as a long streaming cloud of [[TechnicolorPoison poisonous green gas]].
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': Flamina has orange hair and PlayingWithFire abilities.
** Villain Zara is a fire user with red hair. In the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Golden Age]] her apparent pyrokinesis was faked using chemicals, but her subsequent [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth iterations]] can control fire as a superpower.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanAndTheStarRiders'': Dolphine is a water controller with blue hair, and Ice has ice powers and white hair.
* ''ComicBook/{{Firestorm}}'':
** Crystal Frost, the first ice-powered to go by Killer Frost, has white hair after her transformation. Her friend and successor Louise Lincoln has blue hair as a result of her own transformation.
** The third Killer Frost, Caitlin Snow, was platinum blonde even ''before'' her transformation, which, as of the Rebirth continuity, turned her hair bluish-white.
* ''ComicBook/GlobalGuardians'': Sigrid Nansen aka Icemaiden has white hair and ice powers as a result of her transformation. Her successor Tora has it too, though she was born with both ice powers and white hair.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics:
** Villain Livewire has spiky, silvery hair and lightning abilities.
** [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Thara Ak-Var]] has reddish-brown hair and fire powers when she transforms into Flamebird.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Ami is a mage with [[MakingASplash water]] and ice magic, and has blue hair.
* Played with [[{{Seers}} Kathryn]], the protagonist of ''Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy''. Her hair is fiery red, and it has scarce golden highlights that help giving it a resemblance to flames. She doesn't have [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]], but she has an InterspeciesRomance with the red dragon [[VillainProtagonist Smaug]], and she [[{{Weredragon}} transforms into a golden dragon]] several times throughout the trilogy.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Jack Frost from ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' has snow-white hair. [[AnIcePerson Guess what his powers are?]]
* Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' has platinum blonde hair and ice-conjuring powers. Anyone who gets cursed in the heart or mind with her ice has their hair slowly turn white, like Anna.
* Rapunzel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' has 70-feet of shiny golden hair that glows when she invokes its healing powers through singing a spell. These powers originated from a drop of pure golden sunlight. [[spoiler: After her hair is cut and loses its powers, its color changes to brown, matching her parents.]]
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Melisandre of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is strongly associated with red, and many people comment on how very red her hair is. Guess what element her god is associated with? [[labelnote: hint]] What's the last word in the series name? [[/labelnote]]
* ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'': Fire witches invariably have red hair (which tends to burst into flames when they get angry enough).
* {{Subverted|Trope}}, [[spoiler: then [[PlayingWithATrope Played Straight]],]] by Laeshana in A.L. Phillips's ''Literature/TheQuestOfTheUnaligned''. Despite being a [[PlayingWithFire fire-powered aesh]], Laeshana has golden hair. Becomes a straight example when [[spoiler: Alaric uses the [[MacGuffin Prince's Crown]] to alter Laeshana's magical alignment, causing her to become an [[LightEmUp orah]]]].
* Creator/NKJemisin's ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'':
** Nahadoth, GodOfChaos and [[CastingAShadow Darkness]], appears as a [[RavenHairIvorySkin beautiful, pale man]] (or woman) with long, gravity-defying black hair.
** Itempas, GodOfOrder and {{Light|EmUp}}, appears in human form as a [[DarkSkinnedBlond young black man]] with brilliantly white hair. In his divine form, it's made out of white light.
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* Kiera Hogan has short black hair, with red extensions, and orange extension on top of those. Her nail extension and tights have the same color scheme. [[TheGimmick This girl]] is [[Music/AliciaKeys on fire!]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Genasi -- hybrids of humanoids and {{Elemental Embodiment}}s -- often have distinctive hair to match their extraplanar heritage, like bright red (sometimes {{flaming|Hair}}) for fire genasi and pale blue for air genasi. Water genasi sometimes have perpetually damp hair that wafts as though underwater, while earth genasi hair might be muddy (figuratively or literally) or crystalline.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Chandra Nalaar, a planeswalker with fire-based power, is red-headed -- however, taking this slightly more literally, her cards typically depict her hair ''actually being on fire''.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'':
** Invoked by the fire-loving [[RatMen Skaven]] of Clan Volkn, whose members dye their fur bright red.
** As a minor MarkOfTheSupernatural, [[PlayingWithFire pyromancers]] of the Bright Order often become {{Fiery Redhead}}s as their powers develop.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The characters of ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' tend to fit this: [[DishingOutDirt Venus adepts]] have brown hair, [[PlayingWithFire Mars adepts]] that aren't from the [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Mars clan in Prox]], especially [[VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn Tyrell]], have bright red hair, and [[MakingASplash Mercury adepts]] have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]]. Three of the five or so visible Jupiter adepts, which combine both ShockAndAwe and BlowYouAway, have the blonde or white hair associated with those motifs, but purple is more generally used as an indicator of Jupiter affinity. In addition, when Light Psynergy comes into existence at the end of Dark Dawn, it is shown to be strongly affiliated with gold. However, it seems to be averted with the [[CastingAShadow Umbra clan]]; neither of the two representatives whose hair is visible have black or purple hair.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' gives us fire user Axel with spiky red hair, lightning user Larxene with blonde hair, brown haired Lexaeus uses earth, pink haired Marluxia uses flower, and blond haired Roxas uses Light. Outside the Organization, there's the three heroes of ''Birth by Sleep'', brown haired Terra uses Earth and Darkness, blue haired Aqua uses Water and Light, and blond haired Ventus uses wind and light. Xemnas has gray hair to match his power of [[PowerOfTheVoid nothingness]], though considering who he was originally, the hair color may have a [[HadesShaded different cause]].
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Many of the gym leaders, Elite Four, and specialist [=NPCs=] have hair that corresponds with their type, either in color or shape (although some more than others). To list a few examples:
** Brothers Cilan (green hair, grass), Chili (red hair, fire), and Cress (blue hair, water) of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Black and White]]''. For bonus points, they respectively train Pansage, Pansear, and Panpour (and their evolutions), whose hair also resembles their respective elemental types.
** Electric-type users Lt. Surge (''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Red and Blue]]''), Volkner (''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Diamond and Pearl]]''), Wattson (''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Ruby and Sapphire]]''), Clemont (''[[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY X and Y]]''), and Sophocles (''[[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Sun and Moon]]'') have spiky hair (for Wattson, what little hair he has), and the first two are blonde, alongside [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Elesa]] (''Black and White'').
** Water-type user Marlon (''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite2 Black and White 2]]'') has dark blue hair shaped like a fin. Fellow Water-type user Wallace (''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Emerald]]'') has blue-green hair, like sea foam, and Lana (''Sun and Moon'') has bright blue hair with wave-like sidetails.
** Fire-type Flannery (''Ruby and Sapphire'') has blazing red hair. Kiawe (''Sun and Moon'') takes this to its logical extreme, with his hair literally being shaped like a flame.
** Flying-type pilot Winona (''Ruby and Sapphire'')'s bangs stick out from under her flight helmet and sweep to the sides, like a pair of wings. Skyla (''X and Y'')'s hair is shaped like an airplane propeller.
* Kula Diamond from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' normally has brown hair, but [[PowerDyesYourHair it turns light blue]] when she activates her [[AnIcePerson cyrokinetic powers]]. On top of this, a few of her attacks suggest that [[PrehensileHair her hair]] actually ''becomes'' ice, or at least takes on its properties.
* ''Website/GaiaOnline'' released an item by the name of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Elemental Hair]] to apply to the owner's avatar with choices of fire, wind (and the softer, curlier breeze), earth, ice, water, and life--if you fancy the symbolic bird's nest and nest for hair.
* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] has a red mane/mowhawk that resembles flames, and his ([[CharacterizationMarchesOn original]]) preferred method of attack is breathing fire.
* Aqua / Azura from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has incredibly [[RapunzelHair long, light-blue hair]] and has [[MakingASplash powers over water]]. In the Future Past DLC her son Shigure inherits both.
* Boldur [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame the dwarf]] from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' has tree-like hair which is best shown by his beard and the stump at the back of his head.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': The three oracles that appear in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames the Oracle games]]'' are named for and associated with the Golden Goddesses of Hyrule. Din, with flaming red hair, is associated with the goddess of fire and power, Nayru, with long wavy blue hair, is associated with the goddess of water and wisdom, and Farore, with green hair in buns, is associated with the goddess of life, forest, and wind.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Frost, introduced in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]]'', has blue hair and has ice powers. ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception Deception]]'' reveals that she and Sub-Zero are descended from an Outworld tribe of cryokinetics.
* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': The Three Mage Sisters all have hair that matches their powers. [[AnIcePerson Ice Mage]] Francisca has long blue hair, [[PlayingWithFire Fire Mage]] Flamberge has spiky red hair and [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Mage]] Zan Partizanne has yellow hair.
* Almost all of the Olympian gods in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' have a hair color matching their [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience overall color theme]]. Additionally, Zeus's hair resembles puffy clouds, while Poseidon's flows like water.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'': Most of red-haired characters learn Fire spells. Examples include: The Prince of Cannock (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestII DQII]]''), the Female Mage (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestIII DQIII]]''), Ashlynn (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestVI DQVI]]''), Maribel (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestVII DQVII]]'') and Jessica (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII DQVIII]]'').
* In the ''VideoGame/GianaSisters'' series, Giana is a pyrokinetic redhead (when powered-up).
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* The hair [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow and eyes]] of every citizen of the Kingdom of Gwain in ''WebAnimation/GwainSaga'' correspond to a certain element.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
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* ''Webcomic/ApricotCookies'' has Jammy Smasher, with red hair and fire-related powers.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', there's a bit of this with the clan colors: Sarghress (red/shapeshifting (blood element)), Sharen (purple/summoning (supernatural element)), Beldrobbaen (black/flesh and darkness elements), Nal'Sarkoth (green/wood element), and so on.
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. Antimony has very red (bordering on pink) hair and is associated with fire magic. Indirectly {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Coyote, who calls her "fire head girl." [[spoiler:She's eventually revealed to be descended from a fire elemental.]] Marcia has green hair, and she's a [[spoiler:dryad]].
* ''Webcomic/{{MYth}}''. The Olympian siblings. Hades has black hair to parallel his power over the dark flames, Zeus has golden locks like his mother and he represents light, Poseidon has light blue hair like the water, Hestia has flaming red hair and she's the goddess of hearth, Hera has dark brown hair to show that she's more down to earth and Demeter has flaxseed colored hair as the goddess of harvest.
* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Magical girl hair colours often indicate the powers the girls possess. For example, Alchemical Water has blue hair in curly drills, Alchemical Earth has straight brown, Alchemical Air blonde,and Alchemical Fire red. In this case, their hair colors are explicitly tied to their powers, as they have normal hair colors in flashbacks prior to obtaining said powers.
* The Galilean Satellites of ''Webcomic/{{Zap}}'' have this, with Io having literal FlamingHair, Callisto (water/ice) having bright blue hair cut in a bob, Europa (wind) having long, white, Comicbook/{{Storm}}-esque wavy hair, and Ganymede (earth) having messy green hair.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* The [[http://www.zerochan.net/Bottle+Design "bottle"]] variant of [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]] has hair literally made of water, usually with a goldfish swimming in it. Her normal hair is [[WaterIsBlue blue, which is probably where the idea came from]] since she had no particular association with water.
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
** Fireball. She {{invoke|dTrope}}s Elemental Hair by dying it red, and has a [[PlayingWithFire fire manifestation power]], as said in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content-menu/stories/257-revenge-of-the-alphas Revenge of the Alphas.]]
--->Alberta 'Fireball' Waldner ... She was an Exemplar, which was supposed to be, like, a base requirement. She was a babe, she knew that, even if she did have to dye her naturally strawberry blonde hair flame red to go with her green eyes and Fire Manifestation powers. And POWER? She could not only create fire out of nothing, but she could shape it and animate it to whatever she wanted!
Okay, so she got a little carried away some times. She was taking medication for that.
** Sparkler, with technological assistance, as said in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content-menu/stories/163-ayla-and-the-late-trevor-james-goodkind Ayla and the Late Trevor James Goodkind:]]
--->That redheaded bitch blasted off a sparkling fireball the size of a refrigerator.\\
...\\
I went light and waved my arm through her gloves. I phased my hand just solid enough that I shorted out the circuitry -- or whatever -- that was hidden inside them. They erupted in a shower of sparks and little puffs of black smoke. [...]\\
She stood there, covered in whipped cream, and staring at the smoking ruins of her whipped-cream-covered gauntlets. She tried to launch a fireball at me, and just got a harmless shower of sparks for her troubles.\\
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"I was just trying to save my big sister's life! Okay, I was also trying to keep Firebitch from roasting those cops in that squad car."\\
Byrd said, "Firebitch, huh? Funny. Her real codename is Sparkler."\\
...\\
"We got attacked by some loser bitch named Sparkler."\\
"Oh god, what did Sarah do now," Belle said with a weary sigh.\\
Belle interrupted with a confused expression, "Wait a second, Sarah can only create light shows. None of her firecracker effects can do damage."\\
"Sparkler got an upgrade to her power somewhere, because she burned three cops and nearly killed the bank teller of the bank she had just robbed. Well, I was seeing red by then and began fighting the ditz, which ruined the street we were on."
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[[folder: Western Animation]]
* WesternAnimation/StaticShock:
** Hot Streak has fire powers and red hair.
** Permafrost has white hair and ice powers.
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** Nahadoth, {{the Old God|s}} of [[GodOfChaos chaos]] and [[CastingAShadow darkness]], appears as a [[RavenHairIvorySkin beautiful, pale man]] (or woman) with long, gravity-defying black hair.
** Itempas, {{the Old God|s}} of order and light, appears in human form as a [[DarkSkinnedBlond young black man]] with brilliantly white hair. In his divine form, it's made out of white light.

%%* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Genasi -- or half-elementals -- will frequently have hair that matches their elemental heritage.%%Meaning what?

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Invoked by the fire-loving [[RatMen Skaven]] of Clan Volkn, whose members dye their fur bright red.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'': Most of red-haired characters learn Fire spells. Examples include: The Prince of Cannock (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestII DQII]]''), the Female Mage (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestIII DQIII]]''), Ashlynn (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestVI DQVI]]''), Maribel (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestVII DQVII]]'') and Jessica (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestVII DQVII]]'').

* ''ComicBook/XMen''

** Comicbook/{{Storm}} has long, white hair that defies gravity (except for the brief period where she has a white Mohawk).

* ComicBook/{{Firestorm}}: Crystal Frost, the first ice-powered to go by Killer Frost, has white hair after her transformation. Her friend and successor Louise Lincoln has blue hair as a result of her own transformation.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': The three oracles that appear in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages]]'' are named for and associated with the Golden Goddesses of Hyrule. Din, with flaming red hair, is associated with the goddess of fire and power, Nayru, with long wavy blue hair, is associated with the goddess of water and wisdom, and Farore, with green hair in buns, is associated with the goddess of life, forest, and wind.

* Chandra Nalaar, a planeswalker in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' with fire-based power, is red-headed--however, taking this slightly more literally, her cards typically depict her hair ''actually being on fire''.
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', genasi--or half-elementals--will frequently have hair that matches their elemental heritage.

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* '''[[GreenThumb Nature/Wood/Plant]]''' -- green. Often messy, and decorated with leaves or [[FlowerInHerHair flowers]]. Usually associated with PlantHair.

* Played with [[{{Seers}} Kathryn]], the protagonist of ''Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy''. Her hair is fiery red, and it has scarce golden highlights that help give it a resemblance to flames. She doesn't have [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]], but she's the soulmate of the red dragon [[VillainProtagonist Smaug]], and she [[{{Weredragon}} transforms into a golden dragon]] several times throughout the trilogy.

* All of the Olympian gods in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' have a hair color matching their [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience overall color theme]] (with the exception of Zeus, whose color is yellow but is [[GrandpaGod white-haired]]). Additionally, Zeus's hair resembles puffy clouds, while Poseidon's flows like water.