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Compare/contrast AfroAsskicker, when the afro is made up for by the sheer badassness of the wearer.

* In ''OnePiece'', one of King Wapol's flunkies, Kuromarimo, fights by throwing afro wigs that stick to his opponent, then setting the wigs on fire.
** Later in the series, Usopp has Luffy wear a large afro wig for his fight against Foxy the Silver Fox, saying it'll [[MagicFeather give him great strength]]. In addition, the spectators all think Luffy must be powerful since he has an afro - all except for a confused Nami. In the end, Luffy ''does'' win thanks to the afro, when [[spoiler:he uses a piece of mirror that got lodged in it to deflect Foxy's Noro-Noro Beam.]]

** Sengoku also eventually showed he hides one under his hat. Though he is quite ComicallySerious, the thing gets truly gigantic when he uses his Devil Fruit power. [[spoiler:He becomes a giant Gold Statue of BUDDHA WITH AN AFRO. That could be offensive to some people. But for others is pure Epic Win.]]

** And wasn't Zoro seen with an agro at some point, too?
** It's apparent at this point that Oda thinks afros are the funniest thing ever

* In ''AzurikRiseOfPerathia'', there's a cheat code to give Azurik one of these...and change the background music to [[GratuitousDiscoSequence disco]]. It does nothing else; in fact, ''most'' of the cheats for that game (save for one or two) were completely useless like that.

** And when he poses around in ''{{Dotto Koni-chan}}'' as Koni's talking dog? ''Of course'' has has an afro too.

* ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' has Lotta Hart, whose bright red afro actually goes relatively unnoticed by the cast, but is clearly meant to get a laugh on the part of the player.
** The sequel, on the other hand, makes a bigger deal of it: when you meeting her again, you can choose to misremember her name as "Lotta Hair", which she takes offense to.
** On at least two occasions during the aforementioned sequel, Lotta Hart is referred to by one of the characters as "that lady with the fluffy cotton-candy hair".

* One NPC in ''{{Disgaea 3}}'' has the FanNickname of "Afro Prinny" for a good reason. That's right, a [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguin]] with an afro, [[VerbalTic Dood]].

* ''KeroroGunsou'' has particular fun with this, mentioning them throughout the series and even assigning specific colors to character. The otherwise hairless frogs frequently and inexplicably end up wearing an afro after NonFatalExplosions. Several bits of the soundtrack (notably several of the {{Ending Theme}}s) are essentially [[EverythingsFunkierWithDisco disco numbers]]. There's also the character of Dasonu Maso, an alien pop star who has admitted he's a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed shameless knock-off]] of "Dance Man", the disco-themed J-Pop artist who provided the show's first closing theme, "Afro Gunsou", and who seems more interested in giving the other characters afros than in actually performing.

* In ''AzurikRiseOfPerathia'', there's a cheat code to give Azurik one of these...and change the background music to [[EverythingsFunkierWithDisco disco]]. It does nothing else; in fact, ''most'' of the cheats for that game (save for one or two) were completely useless like that.

* Three [=NPCs=] in ''TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' are rocking some positively ''epic'' 'fros almost as large as they are. One of them is a ''bird''.

*** More of a [[IncrediblyLamePun Frocobo]], then?

* ''GirlAndTriangle'' involved a side character called Disco who sported one of these. (Her story got increasingly surreal.)

* Disco Bear from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''

** Also, Brook sports an impressively large afro. Under a top hat. He is very protective of his afro [[spoiler:because, since dying and becoming an animated skeleton, it can't regrow, and it is the only way that a pet whale he left behind 50 years ago would be able to recognize him now.]]

* In LarryNiven's ''[[KnownSpace Gil the ARM]]'' stories, Gil's sometimes-partner Jackson Bera wears an overly-large "natural", the term Afro not yet having come into vogue. Occasionally PlayedForLaughs, when Bera gets frustrated and pulls his hair or wakes up with terminal bed-head.
* Paul Kidby, for reasons known only to himself, draws [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Susan Sto Helit]] with one. It has the Bride-of-Frankenstein color scheme.
** Pterry specifically describes Susan's normal hairstyle as being "a dandelion clock at about 2," as well as having the reverse skunk stripe.

* The classic Western example comes from ''TheBradyBunch'', when Jan -- who has, need we mention, long, straight blonde hair -- wears a black afro wig in an attempt to get attention. Without putting her real hair up under it first. The 1990s movie copied this (and many other plots).
* There's a single-episode RunningGag in ''{{Scrubs}}'' about the main characters being afraid they'll says something insensitive to one of their coworkers. He has a hook for a hand, but most of them haven't even noticed because they're too busy trying not to say something about his ridiculously large afro.

* Shepherd Book lets "down" his hair once in ''{{Firefly}}''. Once was enough, judging by River's reaction. Zoe is ''almost'' as freaked out by the sight.

* As discussed under RealLife, Leon Trotsky sported quite the Jew-fro. This is used to great effect in David Ives' tragi-comic one-act play ''Variations on the Death of Trotsky''. It isn't a plot point or ever even mentioned, but it makes the special effect of having an ice-axe through his head[[hottip:*: which is indeed how he was killed in RealLife]] throughout the entire play much easier on low-budget productions.

* [[ShinichiWatanabe Nabeshin]] from ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' is likely the most famous perpetrator of this trope, to the point that his [[ImageSong theme song]] is about his hairdo: "My name is Nabeshin and my afro is fluffy/Maintenance is easy, just wash it once..." It probably bears mentioning that Nabeshin is the AuthorAvatar of series director Wata''nabe Shin''ichi, who does indeed have a [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nabeshin.jpg large afro]].

As a sidenote, in Japanese just the ''word'' "afro" is [[InherentlyFunnyWords rather funny]] because it just happens to sounds like "afuro", which rather accurately means "overflowing". Or, it could sound like "a [[FuroScene furo]]" (yes, at least [[NininGaShinobuden one anime]] has made that very joke)

* Alex Trebek [[http://gs.mandelweb.com/trebek.html used to have one]]. Yes, ''[[Series/{{Jeopardy}} THAT]]'' Alex Trebek.

* Shows up as one of the many attachments you can use to customize your characters in ''{{VideoGame/Tales of Xillia 2}}''. It can also be recolored and re-sized to make it look extra hilarious.