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19	->''"Sophie! Your hair! It looks just like starlight. It's beautiful!"''
20	-->-- '''Howl''', ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle''
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22	In fiction, white locks on a young character mark them as mystical and arcane, whether it means they are outright magical or not. In sci-fi and fantasy, it's often the only non-human hair color you will see on new species or race of people, especially in [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]] or HumanAliens. It is a common mark of a MysteriousWaif and a MysticalWaif.
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24	The popularity of this trope probably stems from its status as a borderline-natural [[HairColors hair color]]: white hair on a young person strikes that delicate balance of being unusual but not blatantly unrealistic. The color also [[WhiteIsPure lends itself well to symbolism]].
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26	It bears repeating that these are young (or at least [[OlderThanTheyLook young]]-[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld looking]]) characters and their hair color is not indicative of age (or of premature aging).
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28	May also come with an EtherealWhiteDress.
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30	See also WhiteHairBlackHeart, which is where having white hair is a sign of evil instead of magic, superpowers, or otherworldly origins; an albino power's white hair being seen as a sign of evil or the supernatural may be indicative of AlbinosAreFreaks. If a character's hair turns white due to a disease or illness, it's DiseaseBleach. If a character's hair turns white when they use their powers, it's PowerDyesYourHair. Sometimes can be a result of LockedIntoStrangeness. See also BaldMystic, another hairstyling choice that denotes the supernatural.
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32	A subtrope of OtherworldlyTechnicolourHair.
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36	!!Example subpages:
37	[[index]]
38	* MysticalWhiteHair/AnimeAndManga
39	* MysticalWhiteHair/{{Literature}}
40	* MysticalWhiteHair/VideoGames
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43	!!Other examples:
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46	[[folder:Comic Books]]
47	* Siahm in ''ComicBook/{{Arawn}}'' is a silver-haired Amazon, just like the rest of her tribe, who are made up of nothing but white-haired pretty girls. They have some limited magical powers that provide heightened vitality and [[OlderThanTheyLook slowed aging]], all granted by drinking the blood of their enemies' hearts.
48	* Creator/DCComics:
49	** ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'''s Rose "Ravager" Wilson, who's been called platinum blonde at least once. Oddly enough, this is supposedly because her father, Deathstroke, also has white hair due to [[LockedIntoStrangeness the experiment that gave him his powers]], which brings up [[LamarckWasRight another trope]].
50	** Ice (Tora Olafsdotter). White hair, blue eyes, and she's the princess of a magical northern tribe. Sigrid Nansen (Icemaiden), who served as Tora's temporary replacement in the Justice League International, also had white hair but hers was the result of a science experiment to replicate the mystical ice powers of Tora's tribe.
51	** The first female Dove, Dawn Granger, in DC's ''ComicBook/HawkAndDove''. In her earlier appearances, only her Dove superhero form had white hair, while Dawn was a blonde. In more recent appearances pre-New 52, she was shown with white hair in both identities -- most likely because it made it easier to differentiate her from the ''other'' two major blonde female characters in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' when she joined that team. In her appearances in the ComicBook/New52 reboot, colorists went back to only coloring her hair white as Dove.
52	** Dream Girl / Dreamer, Princess Projectra, and White Witch from the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.
53	** Hippolyta (Lyta) Hall, the second Fury, who featured prominently in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''. It's not entirely clear whether this is actually blonde hair drawn as white (since a younger Lyta is shown as a blonde, and one character refers to her as a blonde as an adult), or if it really is white. Also, the Corinthian (a nightmare loose in the waking world) and [[spoiler:Daniel Hall a.k.a. Morpheus II]].
54	** ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger has white hair. His [[MultipleChoicePast various origin stories]], all of which may or may not be true, all show him having different natural hair colors before he became what he is now.
55	** Subverted with Abby Holland (née Abigail Arcane), ComicBook/SwampThing's wife. She has snow-white hair with two black streaks running through it, but she's not a spellcaster and the white hair comes from her mother's side of the family.
56	** ''ComicBook/{{The Warlord\|DCComics}}'': Jennifer Morgan, Travis Morgan's daughter and the sorceress supreme of Skartaris. She was originally blonde, but her hair turns white as she gains sorcerous power.
57	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': When Artemis (the goddess, not the [[ComicBook/{{Artemis}} hero]]) was redesigned, she was given glowing white hair, which matches her skin and eyes as she is entirely monochromatic.
58	%%** Dolphin, frequently seen in ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} comics.
59	%%** When the ComicBook/MetalMen had to assume human identities (due to humanity turning against them and believing them to be dead), Platinum became a fashion model named [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Tina Platt]]. Fittingly, she's a platinum blonde.
60	%%** Essence from ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws''.
61	* Gaining this is part and parcel of recruitment into the ''ComicBook/DeathVigil''. Sam calls it "the Dye After You Die Club."
62	* ''ComicBook/{{Femforce}}'': Stardust the HumanAlien ScienceHero.
63	* Creator/CrossGen's ''ComicBook/TheFirst'' had both white-haired Ingra and Wyture, neither of them human. ''Negation'' had Khlystek, the [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Lizard Lady]], a reptilian alien with white hair.
64	* ComicBook/LadyDeath is a white-haired, white-skinned undead demigoddess.
65	* ComicBook/LutherArkwright: Luther Arkwright, Victoria, and Gabriel Shelley all have white hair, as well as a marked lack of body hair. It is implied that this is the case for most Homo Novus, the psychic descendants of humanity.
66	* Creator/MarvelComics:
67	** ComicBook/DoctorStrange's disciple/lover/wife Clea, half-Faltinian princess of the Dark Dimension. She has a touch of AnimeHair as well.
68	** ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Ororo "[[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]]" Munroe is a dark-skinned and white-haired with, yes, blue eyes. This was eventually explained as a property she got from her mother's inherent magic. Her mother came from a line of Kenyan witches, and during a New Mutants time-travel story, one of Storm's ancestresses in ancient Egypt also shared the physical characteristics.
69	** Erik Lehnsherr aka [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] a PersonOfMassDestruction has white hair, the reasons for this are case of MaybeMagicMaybeMundane. It's possible his white hair comes from his MagnetismManipulation mutation which fully awakened when he was adult or just as likely Magneto [[PrematurelyGreyHaired gained his white hair due to the trauma he suffered in auschwitz]].
70	** [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] started out with a skunk stripe, like his counterpart, {{ComicBook/Cable}}, but at the end of ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan'' it went completely white under the influence of the Life Seed. It is no accident that at this point, Nate was more than just a person, even a RealityWarper, having become a [[GeniusLoci living pocket-reality]] -- in many ways, he ''was'' the Age of X-Man.
71	** The ''X-Men'' villain Spiral, although she was originally a brunette before her genes were messed with.
72	** ComicBook/AlphaFlight's Walter Langkowski, aka Sasquatch, once [[GenderBender became a woman]] after returning from the dead (long story). Going by the name Wanda, she was young and pretty, and had snow-white hair in both her human and Sasquatch forms.
73	** Balder Odinson, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor's]] half-brother and long-time friend, returned to the living after making a deal with Hela to defeat 1000 of his previous foes in battle again to return to life. This took so long that his hair turned white while his Asgardian physiology meant he retained his youthful appearance.
74	** Subverted with Quicksilver. Although he was born on the extremely mystical Wundagore Mountain (haunt of the elder god Chthon), his white hair apparently is simply inherited from his father Magneto. Though that even gets subverted as well when his blood relation to Magneto gets [[{{Retcon}} retconned]], meaningly Pietro's hair is tied to his mystical origins.
75	** Subverted with the ComicBook/BlackCat. She has natural white hair (officially platinum blonde) but was originally a BadassNormal. She acquired superpowers when she felt she was a liability on the battlefield. A straighter example would be [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel The Ultimate Universe]] which reimagines her as a {{Mutant}} (though in that case, she wore a wig) and ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' which grants her the power to change [[PowerDyesYourHair her hair from blonde to white when she powers up]].
76	* All of the [[ComicBook/TheMetabarons Metabarons]] have long white hair, if they have any. For some reason, even the women they bring into the family from other clans have long white hair.
77	%%** Rogue from the X-Men has white streaks in the front of her hair. In the first ''[[Film/XMen1 X-Men]]'' film, this happens to Rogue after her power is drained by Magneto.
78	%%** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'''s ClassyCatBurglar Felicia "Black Cat" Hardy. The recognizable white hair is part of her costume, in some versions.
79	%%** SilverSable originally had brown hair but it turned white after she witnessed the death of her mother by terrorists.
80	* ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel\|MarvelComics}}'''s Phyla-Vell a.k.a. Quasar, who is half Titanian (Titanese?) and half Kree.
81	%%** Songbird of the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}''. Though that's not her real hair color (just about all of the Thunderbolts had their faces altered to fit their scheme) and it has a red streak through it.
82	* ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': Sabrina used to have platinum blonde hair but in the 1990s she was redesigned to be a brighter shade of blonde. She is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-witch]]. In ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' her original hair color was blonde but it had turned white by her teenage years, likely due to her witch heritage.
83	* Gabrielle from ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' is an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]] who has pure white hair.
84	* Suprema has white hair as a side effect of exposure to Supremium, the source of her powers.
85	* Phondari in ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'' is a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Grey Skinned Space Babe]] with platinum blonde hair.
86	* There's Wolf Gal, a white-haired woman RaisedByWolves, from Lil Abner.
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89	[[folder:Fan Works]]
90	* In ''WebComic/HowIBecameYours'', an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fan comic, [[spoiler:[[DarkActionGirl Princess Azula]]]] undergoes a mystic transformation similar to that of Princess Yue in the series' canon, and is endued with white hair as part of her supernatural connection to the powers of winter and the moon.
91	* ''Fanfic/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemenTempestRewrite'': Part of Mina's new look as Mysta of the Moon.
92	* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': The Plain Doll is the only character with silver hair. She is also a [[AnimateInanimateObject sentient porcelain doll]] [[spoiler:with an [[LovecraftianSuperpower ancient power]] stirring within]].
93	* Lord Alim Nox from ''Fanfic/SongOfANorthernSorcerer'' can wield the Force to a frightening degree, and can be seen with silver hair when he's not wearing his hood. Said hair-colour leads more than a few people to assume he's a Valyrian, which furthers the association since Valyria used a lot of blood sorcery.
94	* Shen Yuan from ''Fanfic/TheUntoldTale'' is a celestial being with fortune-telling powers, and also an albino with white hair.
95	* Lunarstar from ''Fanfic/WorldsApartMLP'' is an all-white WingedUnicorn who is also [[spoiler:the {{reincarnation}} of an all-white {{Feathered Dragon\|s}}]]. She's the only magical pony in her world.
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98	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
99	* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': White hair is a universal racial trait of the Atlanteans, suggestive of their longevity (but not their age -- the children have white hair, too).
100	* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'':
101	** Queen Elsa has platinum blonde (or as Disney describes it, white-blonde) hair that's indicative of her powers. WordOfGod says that if she had no powers, she would be a brunette like her mother.
102	** Princess Anna has naturally strawberry-blonde hair with a platinum blonde streak as a result of being struck by Elsa's powers when she was five. When Anna's heart is frozen solid, her hair gradually begins to turn white. Sharp-eyed viewers will note that Anna's hair turns ''literally'' white instead of platinum blonde.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'': Taarna. Also, the girl at the end develops white hair after she's revealed as Taarna's reincarnation.
104	* In the [[TheFilmOfTheBook anime]] [[Literature/HowlsMovingCastle adaptation]] of ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', Sophie's hair remains pale gray once her curse of old age is broken and she has [[spoiler:come into her latent magical abilities.]]
105	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'': Lady Amalthea, the human form of the title unicorn, has long flowing white hair in the same shade as her true form's coat. "The young girl... she looks so strange! There's a newness about her," comments Prince Lir.
106	* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'': Susan/Ginormica's hair was originally brown, but after getting hit by a MagicMeteor full of quantonium, it turned white and she grew into a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant fifty-foot woman]]. Interestingly, her hair [[LockedIntoStrangeness remains white]] even after [[spoiler:the quantonium gets extracted from her body and she gets BroughtDownToNormal]].
107	* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'': Jack Frost, coupled with blue eyes. [[spoiler:He originally had brown hair and eyes before he died.]]
108	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'': Aisling has white hair, since she's a [[TheFairFolk fairy]]. A [[AllThereInTheManual prequel comic]] shows that this is a racial trait of TheFairFolk.
109	* ''WesternAnimation/ThorTalesOfAsgard'': Brunhilde has white hair, which makes her stand out from the rest of the valkyries whom she leads, that have blonde hair.
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112	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
113	* Mirana, the White Queen from Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010''. She is one of the most powerful people in the country, matched only by her sister, the Red Queen.
114	* Yun Fei-Yang, the kung fu disciple from ''Film/BastardSwordsman'', after learning the forbidden martial arts technique of the Silkworm kung-fu, have his hair turning silver white.
115	* Ni Chan, also known as the White-Haired Witch, from ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom''.
116	* The titular character from ''Film/TheBrideWithWhiteHair'', who started off with normal black hair until the day she was betrayed by her lover; learning to increase her inner ''qi'' to a whole new level, her hair turns silver-white overnight and can [[PrehensileHair lash out as whip-like appendages capable of shredding through flesh]].
117	* The titular heroine of ''Film/WolfDevilWoman'', the Taiwanese movie which inspired ''The Bride With White Hair''. Being raised by a white wolf somehow has her hair naturally growing silver-white.
118	* Princess Nuala and [[WhiteHairBlackHeart her brother Nuada]] from ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'' both have long silvery hair, a common trait among elves.
119	* In ''Film/GingerSnaps'', Ginger as her werewolf transformation progresses, her hair becomes white.
120	* In ''Film/UnderworldBloodWars'', the vampires from the [[GrimUpNorth Scandinavian Coven]] possessed silver-hair as a result of going through a cocooning process that granted some unusual abilities not seen in other members of their species (such as [[FlashStep teleportation-like speed]] and soul reading), as well as increasing already existing abilities to higher levels. [[spoiler:When Selene undergoes the same transformation, she gains streaks of white hair along with these powers]].
121	* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
122	** Storm is a white-haired woman with weather manipulation/summoning powers.
123	** Quicksilver from ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', has silver hair. And while he is fond of breaking the law, he's not much of a WhiteHairBlackHeart like in the comics. As does his ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' counterpart.
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126	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
127	%%* Number Six from ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' (though there are brunette and sandy blonde versions as well).
128	* [[spoiler:Willow]] in the Season 7 finale of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' when [[spoiler:she infuses every Potential Slayer in the world with the same powers Buffy and Faith have]] in order to defeat the First Evil. Even Kennedy calls her "a goddess" as a result.
129	* Yuki from ''Series/CutieHoneyTheLive'' has white hair when she "flashes" into her battle form.
130	* Lexi Mason, the psychic starchild in ''Series/FallingSkies'', has long white hair (except in shared dreams, when it's black). All the Masons besides her have black hair.
131	* Chiana in ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. A feature of her species, apparently -- the women have white hair (with prominent dark roots) and the men have black hair.
132	* Daenerys Targaryen (natural brunette Creator/EmiliaClarke in a white wig) in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', who has silver-blonde hair due to her Targaryen ancestry, since the blood of Valyria manifests in white/silver-blond hair. She's at least fire-absorbent.
133	** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' has a whole bunch of Targaryen family members (and ancestors of Daenerys) with such hair, and the series also establishes that even black-skinned Valyrians, such as the Velaryons, have the white-blond hair.
134	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The Dweller, a priestess of Sauron from Rhun, has silver-platinum BoyishShortHair and is the only one from her trio capable of using magic. Her two partners are a brunette and a redhead.
135	* ''Series/TheOtherKingdom'': Princess Astral and her mother Queen Titania both have white hair, and they happen to be the fairy princess and queen of their kingdom Athenia.
136	%%* Two of the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' main villainess, [[Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman Queen Ahames]] and [[Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman Steerwoman Shelinda]] have white hair. Their character [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen arche]][[TheBaroness type]] however, don't match very well with the trope (their sexiness do though).
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139	[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
140	* In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Epimeliads were nymphs associated with apple trees and protectors of sheep and goats. They usually had hair white like apple blossoms or undyed wool, showing their special bond with the flock and fruit trees.
141	* The Literature/BookOfRevelation depicts the divine form of Jesus as having hair as white as wool.
142	* In the pre-Christian Hungarian religion, it was believed that children born with white hair had magic powers and thus were destined to become shamans.
143	* In Persian Mythology, Zal, the son of King Sām. This cause Sām to FreakOut and try to sacrifice him to the Simurgh, which didn’t work out the way he expected.
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146	[[folder:Pinball]]
147	* Both the protagonist of ''Pinball/MagicGirl''and the BigBad wizard have stringy white hair.
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150	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
151	* One redesign of Princess Frostina from ''TabletopGame/CandyLand'' has her with white hair, though traditionally she has blue hair and newer incarnations give her blonde hair. She is an elegant princess with [[AnIcePerson ice powers]].
152	* The Whites in ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' are completely white (skin, eyes, and hair), on the average more attractive than either humans or Nazzadi, AND all natural para-psychics.
153	* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Dark elves, or drow, have dark skin and white hair ([[FridgeLogic despite living underground for thousands of years, which you'd think would have the opposite effect]]; though, at least in one gameworld, they're described as being cursed into that form so no-one would mistake them). And since they're elves, they tend to be very good-looking (drow are even described as being more attractive on average than other elves, on top of looking exotic). They took this to massive race-wide MsFanservice levels. The good ones took to dancing naked in the moonlight. The [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil ones]] considered wearing armor admission of [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder fear and weakness before rival houses]]. The females would often wander their cities nude or nearly so, flaying alive anyone who was DistractedByTheSexy with [[SnakeWhip whips made of snakes]] unless they decided the male would make a worthy addition to their harem and let him audition for the role of pleasure slave. Pretty is not nice at all.
154	* Arianna from ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' was the iconic Twilight Caste for the first couple of editions, sporting a long ponytail of stark white hair and regularly showing off her mastery of sorcery.
155	* Avacyn from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s ''Innistrad'' pack is a white-haired angel. Helps with the DarkIsNotEvil motif since she wears all black.
156	* ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' has the [[HumanoidAbomination Excrucian]] Iolithae Septimian, a ConsummateLiar who is able to deceive reality itself.
157	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': [[HotWitch Feiya the witch]], [[SummonMagic Balazar the summoner]], [[DeviousDaggers Merisiel the knife-wielding rogue]] (who's an [[OurElvesAreDifferent elf]]), and [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Seltyiel]] the [[MagicKnight magus]] (who's a half-elf). Seoni the sorcerer is platinum blonde, so it would appear that Paizo is fond of this trope.
158	* In ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'' the esper representing the Stormbringer archetype has this. It is probably not a coincidence that magnekinesis (the ability to control the weather) is highly symbolically important to The Zodiac Order and that summoning weather is a common type of ritual magic worldwide.
159	* Nightmist of ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' is a powerful mage with glowing white hair. The card "Regression Darts" reveals that the white hair actually stems directly from the magic; when her connection to magic is cut off by those darts, it turns brown.
160	* Many Sisters of Battle from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' have white hair which reinforces their angelic/JoanOfArchetype appearance (though this is heavily implied to be the result of dyeing).
161	%%** Considering the CrapsackWorld they live in, it's entirely possible it's white due to stress.
162	%%** Or even age -- the elite of humanity often receive treatments to keep them fighting for hundreds of years. Old Space Marines usually seem to opt for a shaved or bald look instead.
163	* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Wizards often gain minor [[MarkOfTheSupernatural physical]] and mental changes from exposure to their preferred [[BackgroundMagicField Wind of Magic]]. For Celestial Wizards and Light Wizards, this generally turns their hair pure white, alongside other effects.
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166	[[folder:Toys]]
167	* In ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' most white-haired ponies subvert the trope and are perfectly normal but others fit the trope:
168	** Majesty from G1 is a unicorn pony introduced in Year 2 who has a white pelt and has a white stripe in her blue hair. She is not officially a "princess", but lives in a castle and has a dragon like the later introduced princesses. Majesty has extraordinary abilities when it comes to magic. In the British ''ComicBook/MyLittlePony'' comics she can use multiple types of magic, unlike the other ponies who specialize in only one type of magic. Majesty watches over the other ponies using a magic mirror and a crystal ball. She also has horseshoes that turn her invisible.
169	** Princess Silver Swirl from G2 is an all-white unicorn mare who is described as being a guardian angel to other ponies.
170	** Star Catcher was the first pegasus introduced in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3 G3]] and is the most unusual of the pegasi. She is white-furred with multi-colored hair. Star Catcher has a more refined voice than most other characters (who have more cartoony voices), she is very calm and understanding, and she can make wishes come true. She is also the unofficial leader of the pegasus, she is referred to as one of the most beautiful ponies out there, and her wings stand out amongst the other pegasus. It's [[InformedAbility stated]] in G3 that pegasus are rare and mystical, yet Star Catcher is the only one who actually displays these traits.
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173	[[folder:Theater]]
174	* In some theatrical adaptations of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', such as the one by Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre, the Ghost of Christmas Past is depicted with white or light blonde hair.
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177	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
178	* The Nobles (including [[CombatPragmatist Aida]]) in ''VisualNovel/Ascension2013'' have this.
179	* MysteriousWaif Chou from ''VisualNovel/BalladOfAnEveningButterfly'' has white hair. It probably has to do with her albinism, the fact she’s from an unusual species (that are very similar to vampires), and her mysterious powers.
180	* "Grim" from ''VisualNovel/ADateWithDeath'' has long white hair that reaches his lower back and claims to be a GrimReaper, though the player character doesn't believe him. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he was telling the truth.]]
181	* The {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} seems to love this trope, and it often indicates that the character in question isn't human:
182	** Ilyasviel von Einzbern and her maids Sella and Leysritt from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', as well as Ilya's mother [[Literature/FateZero Irisviel]]. In their case, it's genetic since Einzbern homunculi are descendants (or, more appropriately, clones) of Lizleihi Justica von Einzbern, who had the same white hair and red eyes. They also carry parts of her personality and even memories.
183	** [[spoiler:[[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark Sakura]] also has white hair and red eyes as part of her EvilMakeover.]]
184	** White Len from the ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' games has light grey hair.
185	** Merlin, who is definitively one of the greatest mages who ever lived as per backstory and background material, has white hair.
186	** There are several characters who have white hair when summoned as Servants but did not in their human lives. Archer in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' is [[spoiler:a FutureBadass version of Shirou Emiya who became a Counter-Guardian and thus eligible for summoning as a Servant]], while in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', one of the Assassin-class Servants is [[spoiler:an alternate version of Shirou's father, ''Literature/FateZero'' protagonist Kiritsugu Emiya, who also became a Counter-Guardian]]. ''Grand Order'' also has [[spoiler:King Solomon, who as a Servant has white hair but in his human form as [[HiddenInPlainSight Dr. Roman]] is a redhead]].
187	* MysteriousWaif Phi from ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' knows Sigma's name before he has a chance to mention it. She also demonstrates the ability to remember many things that only happened in other timelines.
188	** In the follow-up game ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', [[spoiler:the trope is subverted: it turns out [[DyeHard she dyes her hair white]] because she's ashamed of her natural hair color, red.]]
189	%%* Mystica, the MagicalGirlWarrior, from the ''VisualNovel/FadingHearts'' VisualNovel. While her hair is described as silver from game dialogue, it is actually a combination of white and silver.
190	%%* Shih-Na, Agent Lang's whited haired subordinate in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth''. She [[spoiler:turns out to be a recurring baddie in disguise.]]
191	* In ''VisualNovel/SevenKingdomsThePrincessProblem'', all native inhabitants of Vail Isle have white hair, in a setting where everyone else is coloured normally. (Jasper has not only odd white hair but odd purple eyes.) It underlines their mystique and incredible competence, though the islanders are no more magical than anyone else...[[TheStoic and even if they were,]] [[PlanetOfHats they wouldn't tell anyone]].
192	%%* Ojou in VisualNovel/{{Suika}} has silver hair. People just assume she's a foreigner and overlook it, apparently.
193	* VisualNovel/MysticMessenger mostly lacks supernatural elements, yet the team white-haired pretty boy Zen has inexplicable [[spoiler:psychic dreams]] in a couple routes and a borderline HealingFactor.
194	* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', the Khura'inese prosecutor Nahyuta Sahdmadhi has white hair and is a respected monk who may have some mystic power. [[spoiler:He got both from his mother, the former queen Amara, who is a spirit medium.]]
195	* In ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', the first thing that Akira notices about Kakuya is her long, snow-white hair, which combines with her traditional Japanese dress to give her a mysterious, otherworldly appearance.
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199	* Cielle, the clairvoyant magic shop owner from ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'', has white hair, courtesy of albinism.
200	* Bai Yuxiu of ''Animation/FengLingYuXiu'' has it, and it is [[LampshadeHanging commented on]] with some frequency. Her strange abilities are a source of intrigue for the series's antagonists. It has been [[{{Fanon}} suggested]] that she did not always have this, as a similarly dressed girl with similar blue eyes and dark hair is shown in the show's [[TitleSequence opening]].
201	* Weiss Schnee of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. In-universe, the Dust ammunition she uses is not magic, but it still allows her to act as the "Mage" of team RWBY.
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205	* Chloe from ''Webcomic/AngelDown'' has extremely long white hair due to her being a {{Nephilim}}
206	* [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Bailin]] from ''Webcomic/BailinAndLiYun'' has snow-white hair and scales, and is a creature that humanity has never seen before.
207	* ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'':
208	** Regardless of which form they are in, Dragons such as Kezess and Sylvia tend to have pale white hair. As such, whenever Arthur uses [[SuperMode Realmheart]] (an ability he has access to due to him inheriting Sylvia's will as well as his ability to control the four elements), his hair ends up turning the same shade of white. His hair ends up becoming permanently white after [[spoiler:[[HeroicRROD he overclocks himself while using Realmheart]] during a climactic battle against the Alacryans and his bond Sylvie pulls off a HeroicSacrifice to save him, reflecting how his biology has been altered to become more draconic]].
209	** Tessia Eralith and the Royal Family of the Elven Kingdom of Elenoir all have silver hair. Naturally, they are all highly adept at magic, and not only does Arthur hone his magical skills under their tutelage, but Tessia becomes the StudentCouncilPresident at Xyrus Academy, the WizardingSchool Arthur ends up attending when they grow up.
210	* Kili Stormcrow, a shaman of ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'', has bleach-white hair due to an incident as a child--Kili developed spiritual vision so strong that Kili's perception was trapped in the spirit world. Kili's hair has become permanently white.
211	* Played with in ''Webcomic/DreamingFreedom''. While Siyun’s white hair is dyed, he does have some supernatural abilities, namely the ability to astral project.
212	* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': Using the models of drow as depicted in Dungeons & Dragons, depicts every drow born underground as having white hair and the latent ability to use magic.
213	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/sister3-309 both]] Hanma and Voltaire seem to have this. The former has dark skin and the latter seems to have pure white skin. Both combinations are not seen even in other [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Immortals]] which mark them as unusual.
214	* ''Webcomic/EvelyneAndTheOccult'': Leo has stark white hair and can see the supernatural, in contrast to most of the other characters in this setting, who have normal hair colours.
215	* Zenobia in'' Webcomic/HazardsWake'' has white hair, possibly related to her (most likely) being a demon.
216	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
217	** Rose and Roxy both have white hair like Dave and Dirk, and have shown an interest in magic, with Roxy being a big fan of wizards and Rose dual-wielding magic wands as her [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]]. However, while depending on your [[{{Fanon}} headcanon]] this trope could apply, technically this white hair is just a result of the (intentionally ambiguous) art style. In all likelihood, Rose and Roxy have light blonde or orange hair.
218	** Calliope is a better example, [[spoiler:except that it's a white wig, and she's actually bald. She wears it to cosplay as her [[JustForFun/OneOfUs Trollsona]] who bears a striking resemblance to Calmasis, a character in Post-Scratch Rose's books.]]
219	* Lei'ella from ''Webcomic/{{Inverloch}}'', which marks her as one of the Severed, mortal, magicless elves with silver hair and not-so SupernaturalGoldEyes. "Healthy" elves have brown/blond/black hair. The one exception is Kayn'dar, who had magic ''despite'' this coloration, hence is considered TheMessiah of some sort.
220	* ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'': [[spoiler:Allison]] receives white hair from a SuperpoweredEvilSide granted by a DealWithTheDevil. Even after the evil side is dealt with, the white hair colour remains even after a later TimeSkip.
221	* RobotGirl Ping from ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'' had white hair early on, before her body started changing in response to her character development.
222	* Roy's girlfriend Celia in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. As a sylph, she's innately magical and an inversion of CloserToEarth, being from the Elemental Plane of Air.
223	* Corrick of ''Webcomic/{{Plume}}'', an immortal GuardianEntity gifted with absurdly overpowered magic, has gotten white hair upon his ascension to a magical being.
224	* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Early concept art of the series depicts Tessa with white hair instead of {{pink\|Heroine}}, hinting early on at her [[InfinityPlusOneElement exceptional magical potential]] even among other {{magical girl}}s. She also had four colored streaks in her hair, one for each of her teammates -- red for Sally, blue for Undine, yellow for Sylvia, and green for Gwen.
225	* [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angels]] in Webcomic/SlightlyDamned have naturally snow-white hair (but it is difficult to see because their culture demands they [[DyeHard dye]] their hair the same color as their [[ElementalPowers element]]) and are the [[http://sdamned.com/angels most magically powerful]] of all races.
226	* ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'': Raine Silverlock, a young woman on the comic's "team B", certainly qualifies this trope, having knee-length silver hair, and an incredible raw magical potential (Although she has no control over it, no thanks to her mother...).
227	* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': The Platinum [[PeopleOfHairColor caste]] of Alderode have pure white hair and an unusually strong connection to the BackgroundMagicField of the Khert. One of the major religions teaches that they're beloved by the Gods and are at the end of their cycle of {{Reincarnation}}, which takes some of the sting off their 30-year lifespan.
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231	* The anomalings from Literature/AlmostNowhere are actually {{EldritchAbomination}}s but frequently talk to the protagonists via [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith 'humanoid shades']] the most prominent of which, Micheal, is described as having flowing white hair despite otherwise looking, "not a day over thirty". Notably this is an intentional cosmetic choice and Micheal has been demonstrated to have almost unlimited control over his appearance.
232	%%* Iriana Estchell of ''Literature/IlivaisX'' has this, due to her alteration for piloting a Phonos Weapon, removing most normal bodily functions, including pigmentation.
233	* Nasha of ''Literature/{{SPAZ}}'' has long white hair, and while she's not magical, she's definitely a little strange.
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237	* On the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', Boomer has white hair, and from what his content creator counterpart has revealed, it's indicated that his hair was sapped of its original blond colour in exchange for mystical powers that can be harnessed through his hat.
238	* Lys, the Source of life in the ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' franchise, who is a {{Physical God}}dess who looks like a teenager according to the novels and is played by a fairly young woman in the web-movies.
239	* On the ''WebVideo/WitchCraftSMP'', the Storm Witch, Shelby, has white hair like "moonlight" and has WeatherManipulation magical powers. [[spoiler:The [[WebVideo/EmpiresSMP prequel series]], via CharacterOverlap, establishes that her hair was originally brown in colour, but she became LockedIntoStrangeness after being sent to the Spirit Realm and back to exorcise her of Sculk corruption.]]
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243	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Princess Yue's hair color was a plot point. She was actually born (or rather still-born) with dark hair like everyone else in the water tribe (and pretty much everyone in the four nations). When the moon-spirit saved her infant life, her hair turned pure white and remained that way all her life.
244	* Charmcaster from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' is a silver-haired sorceress.
245	* ''WesternAnimation/DadX'': Foudror is a white-haired villain in a wizard-like cloak. He has many magical abilities, such as [[ShockAndAwe shooting lightning out of his fingers]].
246	* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Danny and Dani's half-ghost forms.
247	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}},'' protagonist [[RebelliousPrincess Bean]] has white hair, as did [[MissingMom her mother, Dagmar]]. [[spoiler:Dagmar is a WickedWitch, and Bean has clearly inherited some sort of magic from her]].
248	* Rayla from ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'' is a moonshadow elf, and as such has white hair. These elves magically draw their powers from the moon. As it turns out, all of the Moonshadow elves have white hair.
249	** In a darker shade on this, [[spoiler:Claudia's hair [[PrematurelyGreyHaired starts going white]] when she overtaxes himself on dark magic. She gets a skunk stripe to fix Soren's paralysis, then about half of it white when she resurrects Viren]].
250	%%* Delilah from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has white hair despite being a clone of Demona, who has red hair. This is from the discolouration that occurs with flawed cloning.
251	%%* Evil-Lyn from ''WesternAnimation/{{He-Man and the Masters of the Universe}}'' has white hair, though she rarely takes off her helmet to display it.
252	* Queen La from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'' has white hair. Serves as a MythologyGag to the original Edgar Rice Burroughs stories describing the city of Opar as an Atlantean colony city, hence the design reference to ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
253	* Nefertina from ''WesternAnimation/MummiesAlive'' had white hair and pale gray skin in her undead mummy form. There was some inconsistency in her coloring throughout the series. In some of the flashback scenes where she was still alive, sometimes, she was shown with black hair, and sometimes, she was shown with white hair. And yes, she, too, was voiced by Creator/CreeSummer (guess [[WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire which other character]] Cree voiced that Nefertina resembled!).
254	* "The Great and Powerful" Trixie from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has this sort of hair, though with shades of light blue. She's a stage magician in addition to being a unicorn, hence it reinforces her supernatural allure. Played straight with her human counterpart in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', whose hair is completely white with the same blue streaks.
255	* [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is a RealityWarper so powerful he becomes an OutsideContextProblem just by virtue of his existence, and within minutes of being freed, [[spoiler:accidentally causes the apocalypse while trying to play with King]]. While his hair is mostly hidden under a nightcap, the hair that pokes out is bright white.
256	%%* Agent K from ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' has platinum blonde hair.
257	%%* Drew Saturday from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' has white hair. This seems to be a genetic trait since her 11-year old son has black hair with a white skunk stripe (or whatever the equivalent is for the spiky crazy anime hair Zack has). In flashbacks, Drew's mom had white hair, too, so it is certainly genetic.
258	* Like her parents, Allura from ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' has dark skin and white hair, as was common on her home planet, Altea. Later on, this happens to [[spoiler:Shiro as his soul is revived into a clone body with Allura's magic, gaining a full head of silver hair]].
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