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* '''Played For Drama''': Rachel's pursuers have a "shoot on sight" order. She tries altering her appearance; as she's working on her hair, a patrol reaches the door of her hideout and knocks, demanding entry...

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Rachel's pursuers have a "shoot on sight" order. She tries altering her appearance; as she's working on her hair, a patrol reaches the door of her hideout and knocks, demanding entry...entry...
** Rachel's decision to change her hair color is portrayed as a desperate and high-stakes move to protect herself from ruthless pursuers.



* '''Played for Drama''': Rachel's decision to change her hair color is portrayed as a desperate and high-stakes move to protect herself from ruthless pursuers.

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* '''Logical Extreme''': In a world where people frequently change their hair colors as a fashion statement, Rachel undergoes a complete makeover, not just dyeing her hair but also getting colored contact lenses, tattoos, and piercings, to ensure she remains unrecognizable.



* '''Double Subverted''': The coloring doesn't work because she was holding the bottle upside down. When she turns it right side up again, the bottle's completely empty.

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* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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The coloring doesn't work because she was holding the bottle upside down. When she turns it right side up again, the bottle's completely empty.empty.
** ...Just when Rachel thinks she's didn't her hair, she looks in the mirror and realizes that she accidentally used a bleach that washes out the dye, leaving her hair pure white.



* '''Implied''': While the story doesn't explicitly show Rachel dyeing her hair, it strongly suggests that she has done so off-screen to elude her pursuers beforehand.



* '''Played for Horror''': Rachel's hair-dyeing attempt goes horribly wrong, resulting in a gruesome and disfiguring accident that leaves her scarred and traumatized.
* '''Played for Laughs''': As Rachel attempts to dye her hair, she accidentally spills the dye all over herself, resulting in a comically disastrous appearance that makes her look even more conspicuous.
* '''Played for Drama''': Rachel's decision to change her hair color is portrayed as a desperate and high-stakes move to protect herself from ruthless pursuers.



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* '''Justified''': Alice is dying her hair because she is apart of a witness protection program.

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* '''Justified''': Alice is dying her hair because she is apart a part of a witness protection program.
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Altered wording to make "invoked" closer to what that actually means; simplified "defied"


* '''Invoked''': Carl has been trying to get his girlfriend to dye her hair, but she doesn't want to. He makes up a story about the two of them being framed for a crime to trick her into doing it.

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* '''Invoked''': Carl has been trying to get his girlfriend to dye her hair, but she doesn't want to. He makes up a story about the two of them being framed for a crime to trick in the hopes that this will make her into doing decide to do it.



* '''Defied''': Betty tries to talk Fred out of committing a crime, because she already dyed her hair once this month and she doesn't want to have to do it again.

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* '''Defied''': Betty tries decides not to talk Fred out of committing commit a crime, because she already dyed her hair once this month and she doesn't want to have to do it again.dye her hair.
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* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???
Carl has been trying to get his girlfriend to dye her hair, but she doesn't want to. He makes up a story about the two of them being framed for a crime to trick her into doing it.
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The detective knows that Sally is blonde, and everyone in her family is blonde, so he stakes out her parents' house and watches for any visitors who don't have blonde hair.
* '''Defied''': ???Betty tries to talk Fred out of committing a crime, because she already dyed her hair once this month and she doesn't want to have to do it again.
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* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???The producer of the show feels that ViewersAreMorons and won't be able to tell the main characters apart unless they have different hair colors. To this end, an InUniverse excuse is created to force one or more of the characters to dye their hair.

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* '''Parodied''': To avoid being noticed, Rachel dyes her distinctive red hair ''purple''. And it works.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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To avoid being noticed, Rachel dyes her distinctive red hair ''purple''. And it works.works.
** Bob doesn't understand what he was supposed to do, and dyes his clothes.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Instead of a different color, Alice gets a different hair ''style.'' [[SurroundedByIdiots It's still enough to throw off Evulz's minions, though.]]

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* '''Inverted''': As part of an alias she's creating in hopes of catching the eye of her target, [[FemmeFatale Farah]] dyes her hair a more distinctive shade.

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As part of an alias she's creating in hopes of catching the eye of her target, [[FemmeFatale Farah]] dyes her hair a more distinctive shade.shade.
** Maddie's hair was already dyed, so she shaves her head and lets it grow back in its natural color.
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** Kenta, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent TrappedInAnotherWorld, discovers that everybody in this world has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair brightly-colored hair]], and his brown hair in its simple style stands out. To his horror, he's forced to both dye it technicolor and adopt an ImprobableHairstyle.

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** Kenta, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent TrappedInAnotherWorld, discovers that everybody in this world has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair brightly-colored hair]], hair, and his brown hair in its simple style stands out. To his horror, he's forced to both dye it technicolor and adopt an ImprobableHairstyle.
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* '''Averted''': [[BaldofAwesome The character in question has no hair to begin with]].

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* '''Averted''': [[BaldofAwesome The character in question has no hair to begin with]].with.

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** Or the same colour.

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** Or the same colour.color.
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* '''Exaggerated''': [[TheHero Hiro]] and the rest of his party learn that [[TheEmperor Emperor Evulz]] has all his forces out searching for them, so they all dye their hair different colors.

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[[TheHero Hiro]] and the rest of his party learn that [[TheEmperor Emperor Evulz]] has all his forces out searching for them, so they all dye their hair different colors.



* '''Played For Laughs''': Kenta, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent TrappedInAnotherWorld, discovers that everybody in this world has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair brightly-colored hair]], and his brown hair in its simple style stands out. To his horror, he's forced to both dye it technicolor and adopt an ImprobableHairstyle.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Laughs''':
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Kenta, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent TrappedInAnotherWorld, discovers that everybody in this world has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair brightly-colored hair]], and his brown hair in its simple style stands out. To his horror, he's forced to both dye it technicolor and adopt an ImprobableHairstyle.
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**Or the same colour.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ???

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* '''Double Subverted''': ???The coloring doesn't work because she was holding the bottle upside down. When she turns it right side up again, the bottle's completely empty.
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* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???Alice is dying her hair because she is apart of a witness protection program.



* '''Averted''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???[[BaldofAwesome The character in question has no hair to begin with]].



* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"Didn't Alice have a different hair color when we last saw her? Granted, she wasn't on the run from the law..."

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