History PlayingWith / BaldnessMeansSickness

* '''Straight''': Alyssa is a young woman who is totally bald. She is later revealed to have leukemia.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alyssa's hair falls off immediately after she's diagnosed in a flashback and all of her hair follicles die.
* '''Downplayed''': Alyssa is diagnosed at the end of the work, and we only see her hair [[OminousHairLoss begin to thin/fall out.]] It is acknowledged that she will soon be bald.
* '''Justified''': Alyssa is bald due to the chemotherapy.
* '''Inverted''': Everyone in the work is bald except the deathly ill, who has a full head of hair.
* '''Subverted''':
** Alyssa's leukemia went into remission years ago. She's bald because [[BaldHeadOfToughness she's a hardass delinquent]].
** Alyssa fears that her treatment will cause hair loss, but the drug used on her barely caused any hair to fall out.
* '''Double Subverted''': Alyssa's leukemia went into remission years ago. She's bald to make a fashion statement... but that turned out to be a lie she told everyone so they would treat her normally. Her cancer actually returned, and she's bald because of the chemo.
* '''Parodied''': Upon learning she has gastritis, Alyssa shaves her head in despair.

* '''Enforced''': Alyssa initially had shoulder-length wavy hair, but the editor didn't think she had a distinctive enough appearance, and told the artist to make her bald so the audience would remember she's the character with cancer.
* '''Lampshaded''': Alyssa shaves her head; Brian tells her she looks like a cancer patient.
* '''Invoked''': Upon learning that she has leukemia, Alyssa shaves her head to own the look.
* '''Exploited''': Alyssa is bald for some other reason, but pretends to have cancer so people feel bad for her.
* '''Defied''': Alyssa refuses therapies that will make her lose her hair.
* '''Discussed''': Alyssa shaves her head; Brian tells her she looks like the protagonist of a film about cancer.

* '''Inverted''': Everyone in the work is bald except Alyssa the IllGirl, who has a full head of hair.

* '''Exaggerated''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Alyssa's leukemia went into remission years ago. She's bald because [[BaldHeadOfToughness she's a hardass delinquent]].

* '''Double Subverted''': Alyssa's leukemia went into remission years ago. She's bald to make a fashion statement... but that turned out to be a lie she told everyone so they would treat her normally. She's bald because of the chemo.

** '''Double Subverted''': Alyssa's leukemia went into remission years ago. She's bald to make a fashion statement... but that turned out to be a lie she told everyone so they would treat her normally. She's bald because of the chemo.

* '''Subverted''': Alyssa's leukemia went into remission years ago. She's bald because [[BaldnessMeansToughness she's a hardass]] [[DelinquentHair delinquent]].