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-> ''NNNNNNYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! M-M-My HAAAAAAAAAAIIIIRRR!! IT-IT-IT'S FLYYYYYIIIIIIIING OOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!! MY BEAUUUUUUUTIFUL HAIR!! NOOOOOOO!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!''

-> ''NNNNNNYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! M-M-My HAAAAAAAAAAIIIIRRR!! IT-IT-IT'S FLYYYYYIIIIIIIING OOOOOFFFFFFFFFFF! MY BEAUUUUUUUTIFUL HAIR!! NOOOOOOO!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!''

-> ''NNNNNNYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! M-M-My HAAAAAAAAAAIIIIRRR!! IT-IT-IT'S FLYYYYYIIIIIIIING OOOOOFFFFFFFFFFF! MY BEAUUUUUUUTIFUL HAIR!! NOOOOOOO!!!''

-> ''NOOO! MY HAIR IS FLYING AWAY!''

* Subverted in the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' movie when Marty visits his high school 30 years ago... and finds Strickland is ''still'' bald, or rather, he's down to the last dregs of hair on his head. Which has him query, "That's Strickland! Jesus, didn't that guy ''ever'' have hair?"
** And then in ''Back To The Future Part III'', Strickland's [[TheWildWest Wild West]] ancestor ([[IdenticalGrandson played by the same actor]], of course) had shoulder-length General Custer-style curls.

* On ''{{Friends}}'', this happens with a lot of the flashbacks throughout the series. In "The One with the Prom Video", for example, Rachel and Monica both have EightiesHair, and Ross has what appears to be a perm and a mustache. In "The One With The Thanksgiving Flashbacks", Ross and Chandler are shown to have FlockOfSeagulls haircuts. In another episode which flashed back to 1992, Chandler is shown with a beard.

* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" (in which the entire cast starts to regress in age), a much younger Professor Farnsworth sports a bodacious 'fro.

* One ''LucyDesiComedyHour'' was about how Lucy and Ricky met. Young Fred has a full head of hair that he is ''very'' proud of, causing Ethel to comment that one day he's going to lose it all.

-->-- [[spoiler:'''Winston Payne''']], ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Trials and Tribulations''

-->-- [[spoiler:'''Winston Payne''']], ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Trials and Tribulations''

* In the third ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game, we see balding prosecutor Winston Payne in flashback with a pompadour. We also see how he loses it: [[spoiler:he's so shocked at losing a case that his hair ''explodes''.]]

* Mortadelo from the Spanish comic ''MortadeloYFilemon'' had exceptionally great and long locks before losing all of it because of a failed experiment by the comic's resident MadScientist, Profesor Bacterio.
* Yorick fears he is going bald toward the end of [[{{YTheLastMan}} Y: The Last Man]] and considers shaving his head if this happens; in a flashback in the DistantFinale we see he's done so. Ironically his elderly self still has a good shock of white hair.
* One issue of ''TwistedToyfareTheatre'' takes place mostly in the mid 1970s... and ''everybody'' has an afro. ThePunisher, {{Daredevil}}, Man-Thing, everybody. The biggest, most funktastic afro of all belonged to [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Chuck Xavier]], the best dancer in town.

** This being ''TheSimpsons'', of course, one backstory is ''never'' enough; in an earlier episode, it's shown that he lost his hair as the result of an Army medical research project he volunteered for to avoid having dinner with Patty and Selma.

* Subverted in the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' movie when Marty visits his high school 30 years ago... and finds Principal Strickland ''still'' bald. Which has him query, "That's Strickland! Jesus, didn't that guy ''ever'' have hair?"

Of course there are variations. A character might retain a full head of hair but in the current day it is trim and business-like while in the past they had a FunnyAfro, suggesting they were rebellious teenagers. Other times it's just a [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim visual indication that it's the same character in a different era]] (if there isn't [[TimeShiftedActor an actor playing a younger version]] of a character it can be hard to suddenly look 30 years younger).

* In ''{{Trollz}}'', Jasper is seen with an afro at first. Then Amethyst's spell makes him lose his hair permanently. [[RuleOfCool He gets over it pretty quickly.]]

* In his youth, [[SternTeacher Lancer]] in ''DannyPhantom'' used to have a full set of hair. He still grows his hair...all over his body. Everything ''but the head''!

Of course there are variations. A character might retain a full head of hair but in the current day it is trim and business-like while in the past they had a FunnyAfro, suggesting they were rebellious teenagers. Other times it's just a visual indication that it's the same character in a different era (if there isn't [[TimeShiftedActor an actor playing a younger version]] of a character it can be hard to suddenly look 30 years younger).

* Rob Cordry's character in ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'' is as bald as the actor who plays him. When they first arrive in the past he goes to take a piss and catches sight of himself in the mirror. He's so in awe of his own former glory that he doesn't even put himself away or stop pissing as he turns to stare in dumbfounded wonder.

In many shows, whenever a main character is bald, every time they're shown in a FlashBack, they're always depicted as having hair like Axl Rose, Jim Morrison, etc. Generally meant to imply they were so in love with their own hair that the ''hair gods'' or something took it away from them to punish them. Of course, it could just be that a long haired wig on a bald actor tends to look a lot more convincing than a short one. This doesn't explain why the trope is so common in animation, however.

* Mortadelo from the Spanish comic ''Mortadelo y Filemón'' had exceptionally great and long locks before losing all of it because of a failed experiment by the comic's resident MadScientist, Profesor Bacterio.

* One ''TheLucyDesiComedyHour'' was about how Lucy and Ricky met. Young Fred has a full head of hair that he is ''very'' proud of, causing Ethel to comment that one day he's going to lose it all.