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2[[caption-width-right:259: The chrome-dome of {{DOOM|yDoomsOfDoom}}!]]
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4->''"Did you know that bald people are 300 times more likely to commit burglaries and blow up empty warehouses than people with hair? Here at Stark Center for Advanced Rejuvenation Sciences, let us help you keep your hair, and in turn, help keep you out of prison."''
5-->-- '''Tony Stark''', ''WesternAnimation/MarvelMashUp''
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7In fiction, baldness often equates with lack of moral fortitude. Many, many villains are recognised as such by the audience by their shiny, shaven noggins. It might be the CorruptCorporateExecutive in a political thriller, the sinister evil sorcerer, unholy priest, cult leader, or EvilOverlord in sword-and-sorcery, or a thuggish GiantMook readying to crack the hero in two. However, it is most commonly applied to the EvilChancellor, MadScientist and the EvilOldFolks.
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9Where the hero has his flowing golden locks or a boyish, tousled mop of red or brown hair to indicate his youthful purity, something about the complete ''absence'' of hair makes a bald villain look particularly nefarious, especially while he's [[SlouchOfVillainy slouched on his throne]], steepling his fingers and delivering a BreakingLecture while the ominous backlight shines off his gleaming chrome-dome.
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11This might be a throwback to ancient belief in hair as a symbol of health and virility, as exemplified by the Biblical story of Samson; it may also be more primal still, as a shaven head more closely resembles a skull and, combined with the natural tendency for us to lose our hair as we grow old, is therefore symbolic of aging and death. As a matter of fact, in ancient Rome, baldness was considered a [[{{Squick}} gross deformity]]. Somehow, that didn't stop the very bald Creator/PatrickStewart from being called "The Sexiest Man on TV" in 1992.
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13A very specific villain stereotype that provides an example of this is the shaven-headed racist or neo-Nazi UsefulNotes/{{skinhead|s}}.
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15Another possible explanation is that narrowing the silhouette of the top of the head visually emphasizes the jaw and teeth, making the character look "brutish".
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17Whatever the original reason, Hair Hates Evil, and about the only times you'll see a kind and moral character without his (or her) hair will be when it's an egg-headed [[TheSmartGuy smart guy]] (who's [[ComicBook/XMen probably also in a wheelchair]]), the LittlestCancerPatient, and some versions of BaldMystic, BaldOfAuthority, and BaldHeadOfToughness.
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19The only other good guys who go shaven are badass {{Anti Hero}}es, so if a hero shaves his head as part of an ImportantHaircut or a TraumaticHaircut, it is a sure sign he's about to get DarkerAndEdgier.
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21The tendency is, indeed, for the moral decay of a character to be inversely proportionate to the length of their hair, with innocent, virginal princesses practically drowning in their romantically flowing locks while the hard-bitten badass sports a spiky military crewcut. The most frequent {{aver|tedTrope}}sion of this trope is the WhiteHairBlackHeart, whose usually long and luscious tresses exist as a ''symbol'' of his evil, not in spite of it.
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23For the ultimate combination, supply a bald villain with a BeardOfEvil. This trope is also a function of GoodHairEvilHair. CreepyHairlessAnimal and CirclingVultures are animal equivalents.
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25Taking this trope way beyond its logical extreme, occasional ''very'' mad scientist will also shave off their skin and the top of their skull, leaving their {{brain|InAJar}}s completely exposed.
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31!!Examples:
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35[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
36* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
37** Nearly all of the major villains have no hair: Pilaf, both Piccolos (though the latter one has a HeelFaceTurn later and joins the good guys), Frieza, Cell, Majin Buu. They're not exactly bald, though, they just have no hair -- with the possible exception of Pilaf, none of them are mammals.
38** Toriyama might be playing with this a bit. Tenshinhan is a bald villain, but becomes a good guy when he finds out people respect it more. Nappa was a classic "bald" villain (and a classic villain in many respects), but gets trumped by the true hero in mere seconds and replaced by a preferable, haired antagonist.
39* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': The first BigBad Lordgenome, the Spiral King. Also has the [[BeardOfEvil villainous goatee]].
40%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** [[spoiler:Even The Anti-Spiral fits this trope.]]
41* Ivan the Terrible (or Ivan of Russia, in the Japanese version) from ''Anime/GiantRobo: The Day The Earth Stood Still'' is bald, though he's not the most nefarious of the evil group he's a part of, even though he may be one of the biggest nutcases in the entire anime. Though, to be fair, one of the guys dead-set on doing good is bald as well.
42* Gluttony of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' looks like an oversized baby, baldness and all, and is a PsychopathicManchild.
43* All over the place in ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo''. The BigBad is Czar Baldy Bald IV, head of the Chrome Dome Empire, and his {{Mooks}} are generally bald as well. In fact, their EvilPlan is to make ''everyone'' bald.
44* Both played straight and inverted in ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}''. Buffaloman, originally introduced as the most powerful Devil Superman in the series, reveals himself to be bald in the following arc. However, the reveal only happens when he officially pulls a HeelFaceTurn.
45* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
46** Vargus, who was initially introduced as a thuggish bully of a GiantMook that attacked Negi in the Magic World for no reason, though it's later shown that he's actually a lot nicer than he first appeared.
47** There's also the leader of the Bounty Hunters later on, but he is more of a PunchClockVillain; he meets Negi in a bathhouse later "off the clock" and comments that he has no intention of pulling anything.
48* ''Anime/GaoGaiGarFINAL'': Palparepa, the lead protagonist's evil counterpart, is completely bald.
49* ''Manga/RyusPath'':Condor, who leads a gang of mutants (and is one himself) a has a bald head, and three eyes. [[spoiler: Though he reforms later on, subverting this trope]].
50* ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'':
51** In the film adaptation ''[[Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove Do You Remember Love?]]'', all the Zentradi are bald (though their morality varies considerably).
52** In the original TV series, Bodolza is very bald and very evil ([[KnightTemplar or at least so mission-oriented as to not care about insignificant things like planetary omnicide]]).
53* In ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', three morally questionable characters are bald, though ''most'' morally questionable characters are not.
54* The evil school inspector in ''Manga/{{Gokusen}}''. Some villains can make their ScaryShinyGlasses gleam menacingly; this man creates the same effect with the top of his head.
55* In order to illustrate their pre-series FaceHeelTurn, ''Manga/TokyoTribe 2'''s Mera and Skunk both shave their heads. Kai even comments on Mera's shaven head before he becomes aware that [[spoiler:he's one of two people that Mera vowed to kill]].
56%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Bask Om of ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', although he usually hides it by wearing a hat.
57%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** ''Anime/InuYasha'' has Renkotsu from the Band Of Seven.
58* Inverted with the Kongo twins in ''Manga/Eyeshield21''. Unsui's baldness is meant to reflect his monk-like attitude and he's a generally swell guy. His brother, on the other hand, has a huge mane of dreads and is a total jackass. In fact, Agon [[spoiler:shaving his head is seen as a mark of improvement in his character]].
59* Kazundo Gouda, the BigBad from ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd GIG]]'', combines baldness with being a CompleteMonster and SmugSnake for a formidable trifecta of nastiness.
60* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
61** The Paradox Brothers from Duelist Kingdom were evil bald ''twins''.
62** Zigzagged with the Rare Hunter Strings, whom Yami fought to win Osiris, seeing as he was little more than a MeatPuppet for [[BigBad Marik]].
63** [[TheDragon Odion]] was a straight example. As Mai put it on the dub, in his duel against Joey:
64-->Mai: [Joey]'s gone too far to lose it all to a creep with a bad attitude. Not to mention a bad hairdo. It's more of a [[{{Pun}} hairdon't]].
65* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'':
66** Onimaru Takeshi, the BigBad, sports one.
67** Also, the fallen monk [[TheBrute Seikai Miyoshi]].
68* In many H-doujinshi featuring rape, the men are mostly featureless, which includes making them bald.
69* Rikkudo in ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' is a Buddhist monk turned moral-less demon-killer.
70%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* [[spoiler:The Chairman]] in ''Literature/{{Paprika}}''.
71* [[spoiler:Kriem]] when she appears in Episode 18 of ''Anime/TigerAndBunny''. [[FridgeBrilliance It makes sense]], really, [[spoiler:when you consider that her hair enables her to control inanimate objects to wreak havoc. The hospital staff probably shaved her head so that she wouldn't be able to when she woke up]].
72* In the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' manga, Robin Wolfe has a bald head that is quite shiny and catches Maya's attention as soon as they meet. The "evil" part comes when it turns out he called an arachnophobic employee to his home, restrained him in a chair in a guest house full of spiders, and left him there for hours, leading him to be DrivenToSuicide.
73* In ''Manga/FortOfApocalypse'', the main baddies at Shouran are all bald;Hitotsukabuto Kiyoharu and Nakazaki Hitoshi and Kyouichi.
74* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': BigBad Marder is completely bald.
75%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': J. Geil from Part 3.
76%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''Manga/PingPong'': The ''entire'' Kaiō Academy team. Granted, as shown in the series, [[spoiler:players are allowed to grow hair should they leave the team]].
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79[[folder:Asian Animation]]
80* No Baal, the antagonist of ''Animation/InspectorChingum'', is bald.
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83[[folder:Comic Books]]
84* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfAeroGirl'': The Strong Man of the Three Ring Gang has no hair on his head.
85* ''ComicBook/AntMan'': Egghead, a foe of ComicBook/TheAvengers, an EvilGenius and leader of the second Emissaries of Evil and the third Masters of Evil.
86* ''Creator/ArchieComics'': Remember ''Archie Comics'' own super hero imprint? Well, a recurring super villain dubbed the "Brain Emperor" introduced in the original "Mighty Crusaders" becomes the BigBad in ''ComicBook/NewCrusaders''.
87* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''Asterix and the Goths'', at least seven of the rival kuningōz are bald.
88* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
89** [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] Hugo Strange, the first recurring villain.
90** ComicBook/ThePenguin is a villain often shown to be bald when his top hat is off.
91** Many depictions of Black Mask render him bald under his namesake mask.
92** In the anthology series ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'', the story "Monsters in the Closet" has Batman facing off against a mad scientist who is depraved and entirely bald.
93** The Monk, an early Golden Age villain, later brought back in the Bronze Age, is completely bald. Oh, and he's a vampire.
94** Captain Stingeree combines this with BeardOfEvil and an EyepatchOfPower.
95** Minor villain Karl Hellfern a.k.a. Doctor Death.
96* ''ComicBook/BlackDynamite'': The Man and Two Swole, the only bald characters in the series, are both villains.
97* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Bullseye]] is bald and has a bullseye scarred into his forehead.
98* ''ComicBook/TheEyeOfMongombo'': Hans Welterschmertz Gruber is bald and [[ThoseWackyNazis a “Greedy Nazi”]]. Norbert Nuskle, [[ForcedTransformation Cliff]] [[QuackingUp Carlson’s]] ex-boss, is also bald, but he’s just a {{Jerkass}}.
99* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': Evil treasure hunter Siegfried Klexx (who has a bad habit of [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdering his dig crews once they have served their purpose]]) is as bald as an egg.
100* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'': Zelda -- a genetically engineered mook to an evil (but he's getting better) child genius -- has no body hair at all, not even eyebrows (or possibly eyelashes). She hates it (she used to have very long and luscious hair). It's explained as the result of having "Dolphin DNA" being used in her gengineering.
101* ''ComicBook/GIJoeReloaded'': The comic depicted the villain Destro as being bald when not wearing his famous metallic mask, which was notable due to most continuities establishing that he did have hair and that his mask only made it look like he was bald.
102* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'':
103** Moondragon, even when she was not being actively influenced by the malevolent monster she named herself after, fit TheGift trope to a tee. Her girlfriend Phyla mellowed her out, some.
104** Nebula, who lost her long hair along with [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul becoming a very mean cyborg.]]
105* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk:'' The Maestro, an evil and insane future version of the Hulk, is balding on top.
106* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger. Notably, he lost his hair as a child due to the trauma of watching his father "win" a game of RussianRoulette. He was determined from that moment not to be a loser like his old man, and rather quickly became a ManipulativeBastard and TheChessmaster, winning a tournament at age eight by killing his opponent's dog and stuffing the body in the kid's locker the night before the final day of competition.
107* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'': Brain Wave is bald.
108* ''ComicBook/JupiterJet'': The BigBad is Pluto Patriarch, who hasn't a hair on his head.
109* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': In Vol. 1, BigBad Professor James Moriarty is bald (in keeping with his character in the original Literature/SherlockHolmes stories).
110* ''ComicBook/ElMarvo'': 8-Ball, second-in-command to [[BigBad Sokrates]], has no hair on his head.
111%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': The Absorbing Man.
112* ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'': Underneath his Terminator uniform, Grand Master Torquemada is a brawny, bald-headed man.
113* ''ComicBook/PrisonWitch'': Diane Freeway, a vicious gang leader who lost all her hair to chemotherapy.
114%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''ComicBook/RexMundi'': The Duke of Lorraine.
115* ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory'': Nobeard, one of the Subway Pirates in ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory2005'' and rival of the thick BeardOfEvil-sporting Allbeard. It's commonly believed that the two represent series writer Creator/GrantMorrison and Creator/AlanMoore.
116* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Dr. Sivana (who predates Luthor by a couple of months) is a bald mad scientist, who is also diminutive, gangly, ugly, and wears coke-bottle glasses. He also has a thing for talking worms.
117* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': Many villains have this going for them: Manute, Wallenquist, Liebowitcz, Cardinal Roark, and the Yellow Bastard. There was also an evil rich guy with an odd sense of [[ParentalIncest family values]] in the short story ''Daddy's Girl''.
118%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': Eggman tries to instill this onto Snively after Shadow yanks his hairs out. Instead, he takes an Egg Lobster and races to Freedom HQ to get them back.
119* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
120** [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], in Creator/MarvelComics.
121** The Vulture, one of Spider-Man's oldest enemies. (Except for the brief period before ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' when he became a young man and had hair.)
122** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan [=MacDonald=] "Mac" Gargan]], the Scorpion, has always been bald, but it became more noticeable during his stint as [[Characters/MarvelComicsVenom Venom]] due to him being shown bareheaded a lot more.
123* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The ''Star Wars: Clone Wars'' comics introduced Asajj Ventress, a bald woman who wanted to be a Sith apprentice and killed numerous Jedi for Count Dooku.
124%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'': Henry Bendix, the Weatherman.
125* ''ComicBook/{{Stray|2015}}'': Back in The Doberman's heyday, one of his enemies was a man known as The Principal, who indeed had a bald head. In the flashback, The Principal was seen giving a lecture to his minions in a classroom while getting ready to kill the Doberman with a machine that would have dispersed his atoms.
126* ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'': In the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' comic series, [[Characters/SupermanConnerKent Superboy]] shaved his head bald before going on an insane killer rampage and beating up the entire rest of the team. [[BrainwashedAndCrazy This was due to a mental command which was placed in Superboy's brain from after he was cloned in Cadmus.]] %% Depending on how you view his "anti-hero" antics, the ComicBook/{{New 52}} version is this when fresh out of the test tube.
127* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': The look sported by recurring villains Escariano Avieso, Refuller D'Abastos, Al Trapone (who hides his under a hat most of the time) and Giorgio Papino, aside from one-time villain Luminous Light, who actually exploited it (see BlindedByTheLight below).
128* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
129** [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] is a classic example, particularly considering his [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] motive for villainy was ''[[DisproportionateRetribution revenge against Superman for making him bald]]''. And it wasn't really Supes' fault, but Lex blamed him after one of his experiments went wrong. Naturally, this has had fun poked at it several times, such as by [[Characters/GLOrangeLanternCorps Larfleeze]] during the events of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''. Also, in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Lex, accompanied by Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} and ComicBook/{{Steel}}, revealed that he had a secret laboratory... fronted by a ''barbershop''.
130--->'''Steel:''' Gotta hand it to you, Luthor; ''nobody'' would think to look for you here.
131** The funniest thing is ''Luthor wasn't originally bald''. He was actually an EvilRedhead until someone drew him without hair. [[OlderThanTheyThink And before Luthor there was the Ultra-Humanite]], Superman's original arch-nemesis.
132** Bizarro Lex Luthor is bald, as Bizarrogirl points out in [[ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}} her eponymous story arc]]. She finds it sexy, much to Kara's disgust.
133** Both the pre-Crisis and pocket dimension versions of [[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]] were completely bald and the Zod from ''ComicBook/ForTomorrow'' was bald on the top of his head. ''ComicBook/LastSon'' {{Retcanon}}ned a version of the Zod from ''Film/SupermanII'' into continuity and hence has a full-head of hair. ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' split the difference and kept its Zod bald, but gave him the movie Zod's BeardOfEvil.
134** ''ComicBook/SupermanVsShazam'': Karmang is a completely bald mad scientist and evil sorcerer who intends to obliterate two parallel Earths.
135* ''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]] (also known as The Mad Titan), who's been bald and obsessed with Death since he was a little kid.
136* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
137** Tintin's ArchEnemy Rastapopoulos's head is bald outside of some sideburns.
138** Also, recurrent conspirator Jurgen is short on hair, though he has some on the top of his head.
139* ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'': Van Grote, a Hessian [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazi by Any Other Name]] TortureTechnician in issue #112; who seems have been designed to combine as many stereotypical evil Prussian attributes as possible.
140* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'':
141** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': Shawn, Norman Osbourne's hitman, is bald.
142** ''ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy'': Misty Knight is attacked by a mystery hitman that shot the man she was investigating. This woman had no distinctive features except for her bald head and her tattoos.
143** [[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimate Avengers]]: Tyrone Cash, of a sorts. He has a haircut that leaves a good portion of his head bald and his remaining hair in the style of a tribal tattoo. It looks intimidating as hell when he's hulked out.
144* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': In ''ComicBook/Venom2003'', Vic and Frankie are introduced wearing wigs, but actually have their heads shaved so they could be fitted with cybernetic devices that would let them control the Venom symbiote clone, with the intent of taking it down to New York to find the original Venom.
145* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
146** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Manlius, the cruel dictator who rises to power in the political chaos left in Aurania after Clea's attacks and enslaves the local women, is bald.
147** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': The evil Amazon Alkyone who took issue with Wonder Woman's creation and decided to kill her is bald.
148* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
149** [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor Xavier]] is ''almost'' a textbook example of the "kindly eggheaded [[TheProfessor Professor]]" aversion, as he's sometimes portrayed as being morally ambiguous and slightly sinister, and let's not go near his various {{Super Powered Evil Side}}s.
150** [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse had hair in his youth, but as soon as En Sabah Nur went from slave to conqueror, his standard look became bald.
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154* ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'':
155** Prince Barin sported a clean-shaven pate in his first appearances -- but when he did his HeelFaceTurn, his hair grew out with astonishing rapidity.
156** Ming, however, is bald as...someone who is bald. (Although there is a story arc in which he was temporarily turned good by a MirrorMoralityMachine he'd intended to use on the heroes -- and he too suddenly had a full head of hair for the duration.)
157* In ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'', many baddies sport bald pates. In General Tara's case, it is possible that the baldness is a choice to indicate virility, since he augments his intimidating dome with a large bushy handlebar moustache (gleamingly waxed) and matching goatee. To indicate his self-indulgent lifestyle, the fat buffoons in the Phantom strips (Tara included) always carry an extra bulge of flab at the base of their shiny skulls.
158* Creator/CharlesAddams' depiction of Uncle Fester in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' is utterly bald, without even eyebrows. Like most of the Addams characters, Fester is a bit more on the "demented" side than actually "evil" ''per se''.
159%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The Brow from ''ComicStrip/DickTracy''. Later joined by CanonImmigrant Cueball.
160* Despite being more of a PointyHairedBoss than the actual PHB, the asshole CEO in ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' is bald.
161* ''ComicStrip/SnarfQuest'': The EvilSorcerer Suthaze combines bald of evil with WizardBeard.
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165* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': This ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' fanfiction features Alan Jonah and two [[OCStandIn O.C. Stand-ins]] in the form of two of his bald, nameless {{Mook}}s from the film (here named Tejada and Sergeant Travis respectively). It's {{subverted}} with Tejada and Travis, since the former pulls a ScrewThisImOuttaHere and ultimately ends up helping Monarch, and both of them are quite AffablyEvil.
166* Retro, a villain in many of Creator/{{garfieldodie}}'s works:
167** ''Fanfic/CanYouImagineThat''
168** ''Fanfic/TroubleIsland''
169** ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''
170* ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'' has [[VillainProtagonist Jade's]] foreman [[EnigmaticMinion Blankman]], who is bald''ing'' if not completely bald. And he's LawfulEvil at worst, but is still a criminal. There's also [[DarkActionGirl Hebi]], who is left completely hairless by the process of [[spoiler:transforming and brainwashing her]].
171* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'':
172** Not intentionally, but Mercury was, at one point, bald, [[spoiler:due to the Unraveller cutting her hair]], and is assumed to be evil by most of the world.
173** Imps, a Keeper's initial troops, are bald, and presumed, and are usually, evil, since Keepers are too.
174** From "Assistants Acquired", there is also a bald warlock, who are also evil.
175** Subverted with Rei's Grandfather, who is a good person, but bald due to his old age.
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178[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
179* [[BigBad Jafar]] is revealed to be bald underneath his hat in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''.
180* ''Franchise/DespicableMe'': Gru starts out a VillainProtagonist with baldness and other ObviouslyEvil trappings, but ends up [[HeelFaceTurn reforming]] at the end of [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1 the first film]], but of course he still maintains his baldness along with [[ReformedButNotTamed a somewhat villainous attitude]].
181* Philium Benedict's bald enforcer in ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'' qualifies for both this and TheDragon.
182* Surprisingly, Rapunzel from ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' was revealed to actually be this. Going by her reaction when it was exposed, apparently, this was not something she was proud of, to say the very least.
183* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' counts at the beginning of the film. In contrast to Metro Man, Megamind is completely bald. Later subverted as he becomes good.
184* Him in ''WesternAnimation/WeAreTheStrange'' is bald and lacks body hair of any kind. All he's got are his eyebrows.
185* The LaughablyEvil high priests Hotep and Huy in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' are bald (comes with the territory when you're an Egyptian priest). Pharaoh also has a shaved head, though he typically has a ceremonial wig on.
186* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}'':
187** This version makes Grendel completely hairless. Also, [[BodyHorror none of his tendons are the right length]].
188** What's more, the Dragon in his human form is also bald.
189* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries'':
190** The movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLegendOfTheVampire'' centers around the disappearance of an Australian rock band called Wildwind, who are believed to have come back as vampires. It eventually turns out that the band were actually pretending to be vampires in order to scare off their competition and get around the rock festival's "no repeat entries" rule. The member Dark Skull is shown to be bald when out of costume.
191** It is revealed in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooCampScare'' that the camper Deacon is really a bald criminal named Babyface Boretti in disguise, who, along with his accomplice, was trying to force everyone out of Camp Little Moose so he could uncover the hidden treasure.
192** The main villain of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGoblinKing'' is a bald magician named The Amazing Krudsky, who schemes to steal the magic of the titular Goblin King and take over the world.
193* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': Max. He's hairless. The man doesn't even have eyebrows!
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196[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
197* How do you make {{Dracula}} creepier? Give him rat-teeth, long spidery fingernails, bald him up, and call it ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''. "Graf Orlok" is so distinctive and has been [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem aped]] [[Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight so]] [[Literature/SalemsLot many]], [[TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} many]] [[Film/{{Blade}} times]] that the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Nosferatu-type]] vampire is [[LooksLikeOrlok a trope unto itself]].
198* Several villains played by Creator/MarkStrong: Sorter in ''Film/Revolver2005'', Frank D'Amico in ''Film/KickAss'', Godfrey in ''Film/RobinHood2010'', Clive Cornell in ''Film/TheGuard'', Matai Shang in ''Film/JohnCarter''...
199* Even Creator/PatrickStewart gets evil sometimes in ''Film/ConspiracyTheory'', ''Film/MobyDick'', ''Film/Masterminds1997'', and ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''.
200%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'': Col. Walter Edmund Kurtz.
201* In ''Film/TheAggressionScale'', two of the hit squad, Chissolm and Freddy, are completely bald.
202* ''Film/AustinPowers'' has Frau Farbissina say that Scotty has gotten so evil he's losing his hair.
203** By natural extension, Blofeld's parody incarnation, Dr. Evil.
204** His pint-size clone, Mini-Me, is also bald, naturally.
205** Dr. Evil's son Scott was introduced in the first movie with a full head of hair and wholly uninterested in villainy. By the third movie his hair was starting to fall out, and it's mentioned that he is becoming more evil the more hair he loses. By the end of the third movie he's completely bald and in a position to take over his father's evil organization, now that both Dr. Evil ''and'' Mini-Me have pulled [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turns]].
206--->'''Scott:''' Oh, ''come on''! I mean, first I'm not evil ''enough'' for you... and now you're gonna turn ''good''?!
207* ''Film/BeautifulPeople2014'': Nibbio is a bald man who heads a group of thugs in breaking into peoples' homes, terrorizing them, and then killing them.
208* ''Film/TheBloodyMan'': The titular Bloody Man is a bald-headed sadistic being who takes joy and destroying and killing families.
209* Calhoun, the outlaw leader in ''Film/BreakheartPass'', is completely bald but has a long BeardOfBarbarism without a moustache, for a very distinctive look.
210* ''Film/{{Bullshot}}''. When the villainous Otto von Bruno boasts that the hero Bullshot Crummond will [[NothingCanStopUsNow soon be out of his hair]], his henchman Crouch gives him a puzzled look, pointedly eying Otto's bald head.
211* ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has the Child-Catcher, a devious bald-headed man in a top hat who is known to be a ChildHater as he...catches children. He even trapped Horrid Henry in an InescapableNet at Buckingham Palace.
212* Riddick from ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' has a shaven head, but he falls into Badass AntiHero territory. Less so in ''Film/PitchBlack'', where he plays a criminal turned into a [[ResignedToTheCall Reluctant Hero]].
213* In ''Film/{{Clownhouse}}'', the lead escaped psychopath -- who assumed the identity of head clown Cheezo -- has a shaved head.
214%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Cyrus the Virus, from ''Film/ConAir''. Also possibly Diamond Dog, though he's not quite as evil.
215%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The Zodiac in ''Film/CurseOfTheZodiac''.
216* The protagonist of ''Film/DakotaHarris'' (1986) fights a huge, bald thug on the hood of a CoolCar.
217%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The Strangers in ''Film/{{Dark City|1998}}''.
218* The ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' version of Bane, who serves as the film's main villain, is bald.
219* ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'':
220** Lex Luthor in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' is younger than normally portrayed and has long flowing locks. But when he's thrown into a maximum security prison at the end of the film, his head is shaved by the prison guards. He reappears, still bald, in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', this time sporting a classy suit.
221** Doctor Sivana in ''Film/Shazam2019'' is as bald as he's willing to kill children on behalf of the SevenDeadlySins.
222** The eponymous character of ''Film/BlackAdam2022'' is an extreme case of AntiHero, and Creator/DwayneJohnson kept his trademark chrome dome (whereas the comics version of the character [[AdaptationalHairstyleChange has hair]]).
223%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Creator/BillyZane in ''Film/DemonKnight''.
224* The eponymous PsychoForHire Cueball in ''Film/DickTracyVsCueball''. Cueball would later become a CanonImmigrant into the ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic strip.
225%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Both Colonel Koobus Venter and Wikus' father-in-law in ''Film/{{District 9}}'' qualify for this.
226* Alfred Jodl in ''Film/Downfall2004'', who's one of Hitler's closest subordinates. That alone is enough to qualify.
227%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Galbatorix in TheMovie [[Film/{{Eragon}} version]] of the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle''. With a [[BeardOfEvil goatee]]!
228%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Ming the Merciless from ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'', combined with BeardOfEvil and YellowPeril.
229* In ''Film/Dune2021'' and ''Film/DunePartTwo'', House Harkonnen is mostly made of pale, bald, greedy and ruthless men (especially their leadership, Baron Vladimir and his nephews Glossu-Rabban and Feyd-Rautha). When they were in charge of the extraction of Spice on Arrakis/Dune, they mistreated or killed the Fremen. When they handed power over to House Atreides, they betrayed them and, with support from the Corrino Empire's elite troops, nearly killed them all.
230* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'': Jason Voorhees is bald (even as he was a child), though ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'' has him with long, unkempt hair and ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' features long-yet-thin strands of hair in the back of Jason's head.
231* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': Walter "[[TaxidermyIsCreepy The Taxidermist]]" Harris is a SerialKiller with no hair on the top of his head.
232* Cobra Commander is depicted as bald in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' and its sequel ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation''.
233* Voldemort in ''Film/HarryPotter'' is bald. In the first film, Quirrell was also bald. More to the point, Voldemort lampshades this trope by stroking his bald head lovingly right after Wormtail has resurrected him. It should be noted though that this was never stated in the book, though it did say that he looked like a snake (so, lacking in hair).
234* Darcy in ''Film/GreenRoom''. The other skinheads have shaved their hair short as well.
235%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]] from ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}''. Also see BeardOfEvil.
236%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The Cenobites in the ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' movies.
237* Several orcs in Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheHobbit'' and ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movie universe have completely bald scalps. Two major examples from the ''Hobbit'' films are Azog the Defiler, and his son Bolg (slightly downplayed in that Bolg retains some hair strands).
238* The main villain of ''Film/TheHouseByTheCemetery'', Dr. Freudstein, is bald. But people do tend to lose all their hair when they have been dead for decades...
239%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Mola Ram in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom.''
240%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Probably the finest example in cinema is Mr. Potter from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''.
241* Railroad Jack, the PowerfulPick-wielding demonic spirit of carnage in ''Film/JackTheReaper'', is completely bald.
242* ''Film/JamesBond'':
243** Ernst Stavro Blofeld in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' and ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. Oddly, Blofeld was subsequently portrayed with hair in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', though he wasn't any less evil for it. By the time of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', he was bald again. Averted in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' and in the unofficial Bond film ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''.
244** Renard from ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', and also several of his mooks.
245** Kratt, one of Le Chiffre's henchmen in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. Mostly because Clemens Schick looks ''hilarious'' with a full head of hair and mysterious and sexy without it.
246* ''Film/TheJurassicDead'': Dr. Wojick Borge is bald, and plans to bring down western society with an [=EMP=] meteor strike and zombie dinosaurs.
247* ''Film/KillBenLyk'' has Bale, the heavily tattooed Dragon to the Mafia boss.
248* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
249** The two main antagonists in ''Film/IronMan1'', as fate would have it, are both bald. Reportedly, Creator/JeffBridges leapt at the opportunity to shave his head. As if to make up for this, it has two ''good'' bald characters.
250** Thanos in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' is completely hairless and dead-set on wiping out half of the population of the universe.
251%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** The Red Skull (most of the time) in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''.
252%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** [[spoiler:Jasper Sitwell]] in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.
253%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Nebula in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014''.
254%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Baron Strucker and Ultron in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''.
255%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Darren Cross (aka Yellowjacket) in ''Film/AntMan1''.
256%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Adrian Toomes in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''
257* ''Film/Molly1983'': Jones, the retired clown who tries to kidnap Molly to get rich off her singing ability, is bald.
258* ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'':
259** ''Film/KongSkullIsland'': Being a Creator/SamuelLJackson character, [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandExpedition Packard]] doesn't have any hair under that helmet. Where the Evil part comes in is that he's an unstable war veteran who functions as the [[BigBadEnsemble Big Bad on the human side of the cast]] as he puts his obsession with killing Kong before the safety of his men and even the fate of the world.
260** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': {{Downplayed}} and PlayedStraight. Alan Jonah, the EcoTerrorist leader and NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist MisanthropeSupreme, has a bald spot courtesy of being played by a 71-year-old Creator/CharlesDance at the time of filming. Some of Jonah's {{Mook}}s who stand out (including a woman) both have bald scalps.
261* Imhotep in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''; {{justified|Trope}} as it was the standard hairdo for Egyptian priests. Also, many, many Egyptian villains.
262* ''Film/Nadja1994'': A new version (more or less) of ''Film/DraculasDaughter''. The titular character, Nadja Dracula is a vampire and the daughter of Dracula. In a scene, she is slapped by other character and her wig fails, revealing her bald head.
263* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': Freddy Krueger rarely ever takes off his [[FedoraOfAsskicking battered, old fedora]], but when it does, it's obvious he's bald (hair lost in the fire that killed him).
264* ''Film/NoOneGetsOutAlive'': Becker is a bald man who sacrifices the female tenants of the boarding house to an EldritchAbomination in a stone box in exchange for his good health.
265* ''Film/NothingButTrouble'': The insane judge is completely bald underneath his wig.
266* ''Film/OurManFlint'': Hans Gruber is a minor villain who Flint kills in a bathroom. He's as bald as an egg.
267* {{Satan}} in ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' is meant to be androgynous, with a deep voice but played by a bald actress.
268* In ''Film/ThePitAndThePendulum1991'', SinisterMinister Torquemada has a shaved head save for an extreme tonsure.
269* Kobras of ''Film/ThePumaman''. The guys on ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' never let him forget it either. Played by Creator/DonaldPleasence who was also [[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice Blofeld]].
270-->'''Tom Servo:''' Set it to BALD!
271** Pleasance has been a villain many times, and ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' has also dealt with him in ''Film/WarriorOfTheLostWorld''.
272* The [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi mechanic]] GiantMook in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk,'' whom Indy fought in a PunchPunchPunchUhOh scenario.
273* In ''Film/AReasonToLiveAReasonToDie'', Creator/TellySavalas plays Major Ward, the insane commander of Fort Holman and personal nemesis of Colonel Pembroke. He intends to rule the area around Santa Fe as his personal fiefdom if the Confederacy wins the war.
274%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* RabidCop Chris in ''Film/SavagesCrossing''
275* In ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'', Colonel Moran, TheDragon to Professor Moriarty, is completely bald.
276* In ''Film/RobinHoodTheRebellion'', the Sheriff of Nottingham employs a behemoth named Brimstone as his primary enforcer: a massive bald, [[TattooedCrook tattooed]] [[GiantMook musclebound brute who towers over even Little John]].
277* Darryl Revok of ''Film/{{Scanners}}'' is, at the very least, thinning.
278%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Ben Kingsley's character in ''Film/SexyBeast''.
279* ''Film/{{Shocker}}'''s villain, Horace Pinker, has it and has [[GoodScarsEvilScars burn-marks]] on it, too.
280* According to the commentary for ''Film/ShootEmUp'', the director considered having [[TheDragon Mr. Hertz]] be bald, a look dubbed "The Full Blofeld".
281%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Shinzon and the Remans in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', whose look was supposedly based on ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''.
282* It's not a big surprise when General Chang from ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', spear bald with an EyepatchOfPower, turns out to [[TreacherousAdvisor not be the trustworthy advisor]] to the Chancellor he presents himself as. In fact, he's [[spoiler:one of, if not the head architect of the pro-war conspiracy]].
283* Nero in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' pulls this off, combining it with a variant of TattooedCrook.
284* After the events in ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', both Vader and Sidious are bald and balding, respectively. As was Maul. (In Maul's defense, most men of his entire species are bald, and not all of them are evil.) Conversely, most of the Jedi have long hair.
285* In ''Film/{{Stiletto}}'', Krieger and Englehart, the head honchos of a [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-Nazi]] [[AllbikersAreHellsAngels biker gang]], both sport shaved heads.
286* Apparently averted with the Lex Luthor in ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' (1978), until he's thrown into prison at the end of the movie and removes his toupee during an angry rant.
287* In ''Film/TheThirstyDead'', the {{mook}}s the {{cult}} sends to Manila to abduct women for HumanSacrifice all have shaved heads.
288* ''Film/TowerOfLondon'': Mord, TheDragon to Duke Richard, is a hulking brute with a [[EvilCripple clubfoot]] who is completely bald.
289* The main character Pink in ''Music/TheWall'' is on a downward spiral of insanity from the beginning of the film, but when he really loses it and envisions himself as a Nazi-like tyrant, he shaves everything: face, head hair, body hair, eyebrows, nipples...''everything!''
290* Colonel [=McCollough=] shaves his head in ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes''.
291* Fletcher in ''Film/{{Whiplash}}'' is an over-the-top SadistTeacher who runs his jazz band like a boot camp. He's willing to verbally and physically abuse his students in the name of pushing them past their limits, and it's suggested that this treatment [[spoiler:caused a former student to commit suicide.]]
292* ''Film/WildWind'' has an evil bald Nazi officer, and also a heroic bald Russian partisan.
293* Bevan the butler in ''Film/WouldYouRather''. He's a former [=MI5=] operative, skilled in torture techniques, and has absolutely ''no'' qualms about shooting people dead.
294* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
295** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': The Juggernaut keeps his head shaved, probably so his helmet can fit.
296** ''Film/TheWolverine'': Viper after she sheds her skin and looks more evil and like a viper.
297** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': The title villain, of course, although it's hidden by his helmet. Caliban isn't ''evil'' per se, but he works in the black market, and there isn't a hair on this criminal's head.
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302* ''Literature/APoisonDarkAndDrowning'': [[EldritchAbomination Callax]] is an Ancient from another world who is said to spirit away and [[ChildEater eat children]]. [[TheProtagonist Henrietta]] describes his head as perfectly round, bald, and smooth like an egg.
303* Voldemort in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', to play up the whole [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent reptile angle]]. To be fair, in his case, Voldemort was so far gone from anything remotely human that having hair at all would have been an accomplishment.
304* BigBad Vorbis from the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/SmallGods'' deliberately shaves and polishes his scalp. InvokedTrope?
305* Lord Tywin Lannister and Varys the Spider are this in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''.
306* Something of a subversion: Literature/{{Matilda}}'s father (who has plenty of hair and happens to be unscrupulous) believes that smart people have good, strong hair and that, therefore, bald people are dumb. (Matilda points out that Creator/WilliamShakespeare was bald.)
307* ''Harap Alb'', a Romanian folk tale, has "Spânul', "The Bald Man", as the primary {{Sadist}} villain. The main character is told that the only thing worse than a bald man is a red haired one...Guess whose daughter he is forced to win over later?
308* Although he was not described specifically in the stories, Literature/SherlockHolmes's {{Archenemy}} Professor James Moriarty was presented as being bald in the earliest illustrations of the character. In many later illustrations, he just has a very badly receding hairline, which also makes him look more professorial.
309* Rare female example: in Creator/IanMcDonald's ''Desolation Road,'' [[spoiler:Arnie Tenebrae]] becomes a psychotic, sadistic warlord. At one point, it's mentioned: "She was busy shaving her head."
310%%* [[spoiler:Bayaz]] of ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' is this, though the "evil" part is less evident until later in the series.
311* Darth Bane (the legendary Sith Lord who began the "Rule of Two" tradition among the order) in Franchise/StarWarsLegends has this all the way down.
312%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Straker from the Creator/StephenKing novel ''Literature/SalemsLot''.
313* In ''Literature/TheDeadZone'', Johnny sees Greg Stillson becoming President and this leading to a nuclear holocaust. In the vision, Stillson has lost almost all of his hair. This leads Johnny to believe it's far enough in the future that he can just wait and see how things develop, rather than take action immediately. [[spoiler:Until, that is, Johnny learns he has a brain tumor and won't be around to take action for much longer....]]
314%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Pavel Kazakov, BigBad of the Creator/DaleBrown novel ''Warrior Class''.
315* Diabolus Darkdoom and his son, Nigel, in ''[[Literature/HiveSeries H.I.V.E.]]'', a series about a school for villains. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Nero at one point.
316-->'''Nero:''' Darkdoom? Oh, ''why'' is it always the bald ones?
317* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' has [[NoNameGiven the man with a beard but no hair]], who's apparently so evil that Lemony Snicket won't even tell us his name, and the bald man with a long nose, one of Count Olaf's henchmen. In the illustrations, Olaf himself has a noticeable receding hairline.
318* The title character in the ''Literature/AToZMysteries'' book ''The Bald Bandit'', who steals from a bank.
319* [[SmugSnake Sadi]], one of the [[EunuchsAreEvil evil eunuchs]] at Salmissra's court in ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. In fact, most Nyissans shave their heads, if for no better reason to keep out the lice. In ''Literature/TheMalloreon'', Sadi allies with the heroes, [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], and later subverts the trope by completing a HeelFaceTurn. Even in the ''Belgariad'', by about midway through when Sadi no longer stands to gain anything by opposing the protagonists, having him as the ''de facto'' ruler of Ny-Issa is about as welcome a development as could reasonably be hoped for (and certainly better than when Salmissra was in charge in any meaningful way).
320* In ''Literature/BloodMeridian'', the monstrous giant Judge Holden is utterly hairless, lacking even eyebrows and eyelashes.
321* The Satanists in ''Literature/MrBlank'' and its sequel ''Literature/GetBlank'' deliberately invoke this trope out of their desire to look as evil as possible. Vassily the Whale is also bald and evil, though it's less self-conscious and more about him looking as close to a cetacean in a shiny suit as possible.
322* A rare female example in ''Literature/TheLegendsongSaga''. Coralyn follows the traditional Iridomi practice of shaving her head and wearing wigs or headdresses. Despite supposedly being common practice, Alaude (her minion) is the only other person shown to do this; Iridomi in general are seen as being more evil in general due to association and their poison industry.
323* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Orcs are usually the other trope, but Eric meets the exception to this rule in ''Literature/AMagesPower''. Tahart Ligo is gluttonous, specist, commits unlawful action and [[spoiler:is a rapist]]. "Brute" associations are appropriate here. Eric himself believes him to be a monster.
324* [[spoiler:King Septimus]] from ''Literature/SebastianDarke: Prince of Fools'' is revealed to be wearing a wig. He is not proud, to say the least, of his being known as "[[spoiler:Septimus]] the Slaphead."
325* Mostly averted in ''Literature/TheBadUnicornTrilogy'', where the sorcerers of the Wizard's Tower, good or evil, often lose their hair as a result of practicing magic. Because of this, there is an entire Guild of Toupee Makers who sell toupees made from [[spoiler:the fur of fluff dragons]] to wizards. Played straight with EvilSorcerer Rezormoor Dreadbringer, who is one of their customers.
326* Brutus from ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. However, he just wants to get out of the games alive, which calls his "evil" status into doubt.
327* ''Literature/SixOfCrows'': Although Matthias convinced Nina to spare [[spoiler:Jarl Brum]], she did leave him "very bald".
328* In ''The Lies of Locke Lamora,'' the Falconer, who is [[spoiler:The Dragon,]] is a ruthless, sadistic multiple murder. He is still in his twenties but "his hair was already beating a retreat to the back of his head" -- also making him Prematurely Bald.
329* In ''Literature/{{Momo|1973}}'', the HumanoidAbomination Men in Grey are all completely bald.
330* Menacing gangster Sluggsy Morant in the ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe suffers from such severe alopecia that even his nostril hair is absent.''
331* In ''Literature/RuslanAndLudmila'', the evil wizard Chernomor, who kidnaps the daughter of Prince of Kiev on her wedding night, is completely bald.
332* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Gog Zagozt is completely bald and just as evil.
333* In his collection of fairy tales from Italy, Creator/ItaloCalvino mentions in the notes how the characters affected by tigna (a skin illness which causes baldness among various things, though "tignoso" is also a pejorative name for a poor or unimportant person) are either humble but cunning good people or ruthless villains, with their bald head serving as a RedRightHand. A notable example is the nameless tignoso villain from ''A Ship full of...", who hides his baldness under a black wig to trick and impersonate the protagonist.
334* ''Literature/DeGriezelbus'': After returning as a vampire, Onnoval loses all his hair. He retains this appearance after he becomes a ghost.
335* Stripped of disguise, Qwarm assassins in the ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'' novels are not only bald-headed, but completely hairless all over. Justified as a forensic countermeasure, to ensure they never leave a stray hair or eyelash behind at a murder scene.
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339* Walter White, Mike, Gus and the entire Salamanca family from ''Series/BreakingBad''. Walt's is an ImportantHaircut shortly after he starts taking treatment and his hair begins to fall out anyway. Walt arguably fluctuates in his 'evilness' exactly in synch with the length of his hair. At his most evil, he even sports [[BeardOfEvil a goatee!]] At the end of the show [[spoiler:when he partially redeems himself, he grows back his hair.]]
340-->'''Walter Junior:''' ''[seeing Walt bald for the first time]'' Badass, dad!\
341'''Jesse:''' ''[ditto]'' Jeez. You look like... Lex Luthor.
342* ''Series/TheHexer'': The knights of the Order of the White Rose keep their heads clean-shaved. They are all bunch of bigoted, religious fanatics that are busy with genocide and then work for the Nilfgaard empire.
343* ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' after he turns bad, obviously.
344%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
345%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** The Sontarans, partly because of the PeopleInRubberSuits effect.
346%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Davros, the creator of the Daleks.
347* Although ''Franchise/StarTrek'' usually averts this trope the Borg were more often than not depicted as bald, especially when fully assimilated.
348* Speaking of Patrick Stewart, he's the BigBad in Creator/TheBBC Creator/JohnLeCarre serials ''Series/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'' and ''Series/SmileysPeople''. When playing the villain in ''Series/IClaudius'', however, he's got hair -- either for the above-mentioned 'deformity' reason or because his bald head had not yet become famous.
349* Rare female example: as ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'''s president Laura Roslin loses her hair [[spoiler:to cancer treatments]], she also becomes increasingly totalitarian.
350* ''Series/BlackHoleHigh'': Victor Pearson, the series' antagonist, is bald in the present day, but in the 1987 time zone, he has a full head of hair. Almost everything we see of him in this period is sympathetic. He also manages to keep his hair in an alternate timeline where he's a slightly dotty science teacher. The final kicker: in the series finale, which reveals Pearson's ultimately noble motives, Victor is starting to grow his hair back.
351* The Technomages of ''Series/BabylonFive'' all shave their heads, for easier access to the brain and spinal column. Their evilness varies from person to person.
352* Subverted with John Locke in ''Series/{{Lost}}'', [[spoiler:but played straight in the season 5 finale, when it is revealed that Locke had been dead since several episodes and that [[NotHimself the one who had taken his shape]] was the BigBad]].
353* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has a number of bald [[MonsterOfTheWeek demons]], the most famous of them being The Master, Season 1 BigBad, and The Gentlemen, from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]", the silent episode. [[SadistTeacher Snyder]] was this to the point where he demonstrated deriving pleasure from Buffy in pain, something [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even]] who he [[BigBad worked for]] would have [[FamilyValuesVillain much appreciated.]] There was also Forrest, after being transformed.
354* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': regular Wraith are evil and have long white hair. In one episode, the heroes confront a Wraith EvilChancellor, who is extra special evil. And bald.
355%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The Goa'uld System Lords Heru'ur and [[{{Satan}} Sokar]] from ''Series/StargateSG1''.
356%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* General Lonot and Raynz the alchemist from ''Series/TinMan''.
357%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Egghead, as played by Creator/VincentPrice on the 60's ''Series/Batman1966''.
358* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'':
359** Early on in Season 2, [[spoiler:Shane]] is shown shaving his head soon after he shot someone in the leg as a diversion to escape some zombies, marking the beginning of him SlowlySlippingIntoEvil.
360** Alpha is a StrawNihilist cult leader, a ruthless murderer, and an abusive mother, who shaves her head.
361%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* G.B. Vonturgo from ''Series/BringEmBackAlive''.
362* In an episode of ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids: The TV Show'', Nick gets affected by one of Wayne's experiments, giving him the ability to suck other peoples' intelligences. As he becomes more intelligent (and evil), he develops an overly large, bald head.
363* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
364** The TokenEvilTeammate of the good guys' side, Roose Bolton, has a receding hairline, instead of his way more over-the-top villainous appearance in the books which included more or less every possible visual cue ''aside'' from baldness.
365** Regardless of his actual morality, Ser Ilyn Payne is terrifying executioner with a shiny dome.
366** Polliver, the sadistic soldier and TortureTechnician.
367** Theon's brutish crewman Black Lorren.
368** Styr and the other Thenns combine this with ritual scarification to make them ObviouslyEvil.
369%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Janos Slynt is pretty much of the epitome of the combination of this trope with BeardOfEvil.
370* ''Series/AirCrashInvestigation'': David Burke, the man who crashes PSA 1771 to get back at his employers.
371* ''Series/TheFlyingCestmir'': Mr Blecha is a villainous greedy barber and the antagonist. He's a bald man, but apparently doesn't like it. One of the magical plants "cures" him -- his hair grow back for a time.
372* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'':
373** In "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road", the primary villain Moonface is a bald albino serial killer.
374** In "Cigarette Burns", Dalibor is a bald {{snuff film}} director. He demonstrates this by murdering someone in front of the protagonist.
375* The Observers who appear for the first four seasons of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' avert this, for the most part, ranging from goodhearted to slightly weaselly. Their colleagues the Invaders from season 5 play it straight.
376%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Several in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
377%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Deathlok, Jasper Sitwell, Carl Creel (Absorbing Man), Wolfgang von Strucker in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''
378%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Wilson Fisk in ''Series/Daredevil2015''
379%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Cornell Stokes in ''Series/LukeCage2016''
380%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** [[spoiler:Davos]] in ''Series/IronFist2017''
381%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** William Rawlins and Lewis Walcott in ''Series/ThePunisher2017''
382* [[https://youtu.be/XM8Mo67hzpg In this]] ''Series/StudioC'' sketch, both Bane and Voldemort pretty much admit that the insecurity of being bald makes you evil.
383* Zachariah in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is a bald angel who regards humans as at best cannon fodder in an Apocalypse he's manipulating for his own ends.
384* While ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s George Costanza is generally more associated with loserdom ([[{{Downplayed}} and has some hair left on the sides]]), he is the most consistently underhanded, nasty and aggressive of the UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist cast.
385* In a ''Series/That70sShow'' ImagineSpot, the EvilOverlord is even named Dr. Bald.
386* On ''Series/TheInsideMan'', the head of Mark Shepherd's handler, who is having him try to sabotage a major company, is completely shaved bald.
387* ''Series/{{Barry}}'': Chechen gangster [=NoHo=] Hank is bald and surprisingly ruthless, albeit [[AffablyEvil polite to a fault]].
388* ''Series/{{Imposters}}'': The Doctor is a ruthless crime boss who's also bald.
389[[/folder]]
390
391[[folder:Music]]
392* In Music/MyChemicalRomance's concept record ''Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys'', the prominent antagonist, Korse, is obvious bald in both music videos and promotional posters. His character is generally portrayed as an apathetic villain to the story's heroes, who are played by the band.
393%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]].
394* Music/DoctorSteel is bald, and wants to take over the world. (On the other hand he just wants to promote fun, and loves children.)
395* In [[Music/JoesGarage Joe's Garage]], there is a man named Bald-Headed John that repeatedly rapes Joe.
396* One of the visual indicators of the Bond-villain homage protagonist's villainy in the video for ''Music/GenghisKhan'' is his completely bald head. (His TuxedoAndMartini inspired [[DatingCatwoman enemy turned love interest]] has a full head of thick hair.)
397** From the same artists (and with the same actors), the music video for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl6k_h2drK8 My Trigger]]''. The American President has a nice thick head of hair, the Russian leader is bald.
398* Onyx was a TropeCodifier for the "baldhead" look that became synonymous with HardcoreHipHop after ''Bacdafucup'' dropped, and their focus on raw, dirty beats and extremely aggressive rapping and lyricism made them one of the hardest acts of their day and fed their image as the hip-hop ensemble that people didn't fuck with.
399[[/folder]]
400
401[[folder:Pinballs]]
402* The only hair that the villain of ''Pinball/AirborneAvenger'' has is his small handlebar mustache.
403* While not specifically a villain, the TimeMachine-inventing scientist of ''Pinball/TimeMachineZaccaria'' combines this with a KubrickStare to give an aura of menace.
404%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* In ''Pinball/{{Rollergames}}'', Chuck Skull (the manager of the Violators) has this.
405* Ming the Merciless from ''Pinball/FlashGordon''
406* Dr. Evil from ''Pinball/AustinPowers''
407[[/folder]]
408
409[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
410%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The Hood, from ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''.
411* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': Baldness, combined with BeardOfEvil and his ''name'', [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bully-Boy [=McPherson=],]] are all that's needed to establish Mr. Potato Head's new supervisor as bad news the moment he's introduced.
412[[/folder]]
413
414[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
415* Wrestling/KingKongBundy was the greatest example. Apart from his eyelashes, he was completely hairless.
416* La Ruda Amapola has been [[HumiliatingWager shaved bald]] multiple times in Wrestling/{{CMLL}} alone.
417* Wrestling/{{WWE}} wrestler Wrestling/{{Kane}} became bald when he lost his mask in a match. By no coincidence, this is also when he started getting really, ''really'' evil. Like, cackling horror-movie-villain evil.
418* Genki Horiguchi of ''Wrestling/DragonGate'' calls himself H.A.G.E of Evil (hage is Japanese for bald).
419* The Straight Edge Society in the Wrestling/{{WWE}} is a whole stable of these. Inverted in the leader, Wrestling/CMPunk, whose mane is the whole selling point of the gimmick... Punk lost to Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}} at Over the Limit 2010 and got shaved bald, but it's {{defied|trope}} in that he covered it up with a black mask.
420* Wrestling/RandyOrton went bald for a time while he was heel in 2009.
421%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Wrestling/{{Progress Wrestling}} has Paul Robinson and Wrestling/ZackGibson.
422* Wrestling/CelticChampionshipWrestling has two particularly evil characters who are bald -- DarkMessiah Xavier Burns and AxCrazy Bedlam Billy.
423* {{Discussed|Trope}} at the 2016 ''[[Wrestling/RingOfHonor Aftershock]]'' when LongHairedPrettyBoy Matt Taven stated Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels insulted {{God}} by shaving his head, unable to understand why someone would throw away such a beautiful gift.
424* For some reason, nearly all of the [[ForeignWrestlingHeel evil "Russian" wrestlers]] of the 70s and 80s, most famously Ivan and Nikita Koloff, sported shaved heads (and [[BeardOfEvil beards]]) -- Nikita was explicitly told to shave his head "to look Russian" before his first match. What baldness has to do with the USSR remains unclear; it's possible that wrestlers and promoters were simply copying Ivan's appearance, as he was the TropeCodifier for Soviet heels.
425%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, before he [[HeelFaceTurn turned face]].
426[[/folder]]
427
428[[folder:Radio]]
429* This even shows up in ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'', a radio show. For a long while during the Novacom saga, Mr. Charles was informally known as "the bald guy."
430* Creator/MarkKermode and Simon Mayo even made up a rule about it (when reviewing ''Prince of Persia'').
431-->"Never trust a bald man with mascara."
432[[/folder]]
433
434%%[[folder:Roleplay]]
435%%* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', Lucky the elven mercenary is bald and very much evil.
436%%* Darth Apparatus in ''Roleplay/TheGunganCouncil'' is universally known for his bald head.
437%%[[/folder]]
438
439[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
440* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': This is a common look for bandits and pirates, as they have no militarily justified reasons for their actions, which include pillaging, massacres, and slavery. Perhaps the most well known was [[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Helmar_Valasek Helmar Valsek]], a {{Gonk}}ish FatBastard of a man who was a thorn in the side of two of the setting's Great Houses for thirty years and responsible for more than is share of crimes against humanity.
441* ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld'': The ObviouslyEvil Primal Vampires are completely hairless.
442* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
443** The archdevil Zariel had a head of long hair as an angel, but lost it all when she became a devil and is now completely bald.
444** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': One of the setting's evil magocracies is Thay, where ruling [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Wizards_of_Thay Red Wizards]] (both men and women) has shaved ''and tattooed'' heads. This tradition was questioned when [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Lauzoril Lauzoril]] (the most charismatic leader there) ignored it and broken when traditional power structure was smashed by internal strife.
445* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': As part of his tightly controlled, professional front, Fleurity usually manifests with a smoothly shaved head.
446* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'':
447** Played with in the 2nd Edition art; the "Ultraviolet-Clearance" section contains pictures of a "typical GM", an evil-looking robed fellow who is usually seen cutting up the rules or cracking a whip and is completely bald.
448** The generic High Programmer depicted in the art of the original edition likewise bears more than a passing resemblance to Uncle Fester of ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''.
449* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
450** Artwork of various Chaos leaders, especially sorcerers, usually portrays them as bald, with various Chaos symbols worn on the scalp.
451** Orks don't have natural hair, but some use specialized hair Squigs as topknots.
452** This is the universal defining trait of [[UnevenHybrid Genestealer Hybrids]]; regardless of age or gender, they never sport '''any''' body or facial hair. It's the one trait they just can't inherit.
453[[/folder]]
454
455[[folder:Theatre]]
456* In ''Theatre/MarginForError'', Consul Karl Baumer's glistening bald pate makes Moe's line "I get sacked off the force, if a hair of your head gets touched" a bit ironic.
457[[/folder]]
458
459[[folder:Theme Parks]]
460* Concept art shows that the haunted house ''Ride/{{Insanity|1999}}'' from Ride/UniversalStudios' ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights'' had a scareactor with the thuggish variant, coupled with a wifebeater, a lot of tattoos, and [[PsychoKnifeNut a large knife]].
461[[/folder]]
462
463[[folder:Video Games]]
464* ''VideoGame/BaldisBasicsInEducationAndLearning'' has the [[AntagonistTitle Titular Baldi]] trying to beat you to death with a ruler.
465* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'':
466** Kane from the ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries Tiberian]]'' installments is an example of the aforementioned bald-with-goatee combo.
467** Yuri from ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2 Red Alert 2]]'' also counts and, like Kane, has an evil beard.
468** Both Raveshaw [[spoiler:and later Dr. Petrova after her FaceHeelTurn]] from ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade'' go bald after becoming genetically warped NOD {{Super Soldier}}s.
469* ''VideoGame/FindingLight'': The FinalBoss and BigBad, [[spoiler:Zamas, is a bald god who wants the genocide of all mortalkind for being too chaotic. The baldness is a hint that Gi is actually his human incarnation]].
470* Kratos in ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' is bald with an ''{{antihero}}ic [[BeardOfEvil goatee]]'', which should [[VillainProtagonist tell you everything you need to know about him]] at a glance.
471* Dr. Baldhead from the first ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', obviously. Part of the tendency for bald villains to be [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate doctors as well.]]
472* The same could be said for Agent 47 from the ''Franchise/{{Hitman}}'' series, only replace [[AntiHero antiheroic goatee]] with [[ScannableMan antiheroic barcode on the back of his head]].
473* The [[BigBad sorcerer]] from ''VideoGame/IntrepidIzzy'' is bald.
474* A few villains from ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. Quan Chi, naturally, and Kano (but only in ''[=MK3=]''), plus Hsu-Hao, the DumbMuscle henchman of Mavado. Also, Shao Kahn, although it isn't obvious, seeing as he rarely removes his helmet. Baraka is bald too, but so are all the Tarkata; but then, ''all'' of them are evil creatures. D'Vorah from ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' and Kronika from ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' are female variants.
475* ''VideoGame/SentinelDescendantsInTime'' has Doba, who's holding one of Beni's friends hostage to make him explore Tomb 35. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} in the end when we learn Beni's really Ramirez.]]
476* Two of the entities who pursue you in ''VideoGame/{{Smile|2020}}'' have no hair. Of course, one of them is missing the top of its head.
477* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Dr. Eggman is completely bald and Sonic's main enemy. His mustache is the only hair he has.
478* Doggy Doug from ''VideoGame/TwoDark'' is bald and evil
479* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' gives us Colonel Hakeev, a senior officer of the Romulan Tal Shiar and BigBad of the Romulan storyline. Obisek, leader of the Reman Resistance, plays this earlier on, but averts it when it's revealed that he and the player are working towards the same goal.
480** [[spoiler:Slamek]] is this in his sole appearance for non-Romulan players, of a sneaky 'pretends he isn't until the end of the mission' sort. For Romulan players, he is the same in that appearance, while it is only ''implied'' that he is this in his earlier appearances. But then, he and Obisek, and many mooks on multiple sides (and quite possibly ''you''), are Remans, who are ''all'' (including the women) bald, regardless of morality, awesomeness or affiliation.
481* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
482** ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has several examples, including the BigBad Darth Malak, his apprentice Darth Bandon, and Sith Academy headmaster Uthar Wynn.
483** Darth Malgus, a prominent BigBad in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', is also bald. The [[InternalHomage similarities between these various Star Wars villains and one of the playable classes]] can be seen [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/machineman/JUGS.jpg here.]]
484* Calypso in ''[[VideoGame/TwistedMetal Twisted Metal: Black]]''. (He has hair in the rest of the franchise.)
485* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has Garrosh Hellscream. Oh boy, is he a real Bald of Evil...along with Kil'jaeden, who is basically [=WoW=]'s version of Satan.
486%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Zakhaev from ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare''. He also has a [[BeardOfEvil goatee]]
487* ''Franchise/MegaMan'': The ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' series gave us Dr. Wily (who, admittedly, had [[EinsteinHair rather wild hair]] on the side of his head) and [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Flash Man]] (who is not too happy about it in the [[ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics Archie Comics Adaptation]]). ''VideoGame/MegaManX's'' Sigma also qualifies.
488* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' has Arkham, the sinister cultist helping Virgil in summoning the diabolical Temen-ni-Gru and open up the portal on the Demon World. Complete with [[GoodScarsEvilScars giant freaking scar]] over half his face, in case you had remaining doubts.
489* [[MeaningfulName Bald Bull]] from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' is a bad guy ''built'' around this Trope. As he says in one of his pre-fight quotes, "My barber didn't know when to quit. Do you?"
490* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' gives us [[ObviouslyEvil Master Xehanort]], who mixes this with a BeardOfEvil and the same outfit that [[spoiler:Xehanort's Heartless]] wore in the first game. [[BlatantLies He's a good guy,]] [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter really.]]
491* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'':
492** Moebius, [[TheManBehindTheMan servant]] of the [[EldritchAbomination Elder God]], is a conniving manipulator who eschews hair of any sort and is notably bald even in thousand year old murals depicting his younger days when he led the rebellion against the vampires who ruled over humanity in the past.
493** Minor characters Azimuth and Marcus, both antagonists, are also bald.
494* The Helghast in the ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'' series are all bald. Apparently, this is a side effect of having emigrated to a DeathWorld.
495* Mr. Big from the ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'' series: a crime boss who kidnapped a teenage girl to blackmail her father and force both her brother and her best friend to fight him.
496* Both Sarevok of ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' and Jon Irenicus of ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' had shaven heads.
497* Bitores Mendez, one of the villains of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', was both {{beard|OfEvil}}ed and bald. In fact, he looked a lot like [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]].
498* Both [[{{Gonk}} Earthquake and Gen-An Shiranui]] in ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown''. Granted, Gen-An has two or three hairs, but he's still an overall baldie.
499* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' has Brauner, who seems to be an Orlok double. Still second fiddle to Dracula, though.
500* Neff, the main bad guy from ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast1988''.
501* Dr. Elvin Atombender, the MadScientist from ''VideoGame/ImpossibleMission'', making this OlderThanTheNES.
502%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* [[spoiler:Mr. Blank]] from ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5''.
503* Every bad guy in ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}''.
504%% * ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has DarkActionGirl Jack, who comes along with [[TattooedCrook massive helpings of bod tattoos.]] After much CharacterDevelopment, she softens and moves from an AntiHero into a purely heroic if edgy version of herself.
505* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'': The Dark Templar was a definite {{subver|tedTrope}}sion. On the first game, they were largely regarded as a bunch of dark, shady heretics. One of their defining traits is that they don't have tendrils on the backs of their heads (the protoss equivalent of hair), making them essentially bald. Zeratul is the most obvious example. It turns out that they are actually one of the most heroic characters in the game. This, in turn, makes the Dark Templar a straight example of ImportantHaircut.
506* ''Both'' the male Geniuses in ''VideoGame/EvilGenius''.
507* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
508** Robert de Sable is the bald BigBad ([[GreaterScopeVillain mostly]]) of the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI first game]].
509** The Priest from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' is a bald Templar.
510* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
511** Hot Coldman from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', and he's quite evil, all right. Coincidentally, he is also voiced by Creator/{{Mugihito}}, who voiced Sigma.
512** In ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}'', we have Fatman, who, aside from, well, [[FatBastard what]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin he is named for]], is also bald (the script implies that his baldness is the result of severe burns). Similar to Coldman, he is a very horrible person.
513* In ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', all of the [[SecretPolice Lotus Assassins]] shave their heads.
514%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* [[spoiler:Andre Oliveri]] from ''VideoGame/AceCombatJointAssault''.
515* The Chaos Cultists and BigBad Lord Zymran from ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000ChaosGate''.
516* Patches from ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' and ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''. He's hairless, seems pretty nice but will inevitably backstab the player and attempt to kill him, especially if he/she happens to be a cleric.
517%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Greevil from ''VideoGame/PokemonXD''.
518%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Abobo in the original ''VideoGame/{{Double Dragon|1}}''.
519* A receding hairline/shaven head is a fairly reliable identifier of evil (or at least antagonistic) characters in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series:
520** Uldred, Caladrius, [[spoiler:and Zathrian]] from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' all fit the trope.
521** Ser Alrik from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''.
522** [[spoiler:Solas, your EvilMentor,]] from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''.
523* ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfLomax'' has Evil Ed, the game's BigBad. He does have some hair on the sides of his head, though.
524* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', the Royal Spymaster is bald. The High Overseer's head is shaved as well.
525* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'', having a huge cast, has several bald villains. The series also has a recurring pair of bandits, both of whom have shaved heads in every appearance.
526** Medeus, the Dragon BigBad of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragon'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOftheEmblem Mystery of the Emblem]]'' has a hairless head in his [[WereDragon human form]], likely due to his [[EvilOldFolks age]].
527** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', there's Cervantes, one of Walhart's generals. He makes up for the baldness with a ''glorious'' mustache. It's a tad downplayed though, as compared to Walhart and his other generals, Cervantes is played in more a comedic light.
528** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', Hans is an AxCrazy soldier of Nohr with a shaved bald head and a desire to get ahead in life, no matter who he has to kill or torture. He also was a former criminal who committed many offenses before King Garon pardoned him. Fittingly, he's of the Berserker class. Fuga is a subversion though: yes, the Avatar has to fight him in all three paths, but it's more because of a SecretTestOfCharacter rather than him being evil (and misunderstandings due to Nohrian trickery). Once the Avatar proves his/her worthiness to Fuga, he becomes more helpful, providing the army with valuable information in all three paths, an ally in his adopted son Hayato in ''Birthright'' and ''Revalations'' [[spoiler:and eventually joins the army himself in ''Revelations''.]] As a monk, he fits the exception to the trope.
529* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has Officer Frank Tenpenny, a [[DirtyCop corrupt police officer]] who often abuses his position as the officer of the law by making profits off of drug trades and manipulate the gangs of Los Santos by making business with the main character's rival gangs. That doesn't even mention the fact that he even threatens to frame the main character for homicide by compelling him to do his dirty work and murders anyone who attempts to expose him.
530* Pretty much every single {{Mook}} in ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' and ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'' is bald. In particular, members of the Russian mafia all appear to be mandatorily clean-shaven; this is however inverted by the mafia bosses in both games, who have long, unkempt hair.
531* ''VideoGame/RidesWithStrangers'', Donald [=McArthur=] (The Father) is a 51 year old [[SinisterMinister priest]] who's actually a serial child rapist/torturer/murderer and wants to "purge" the world of "whores" and "heretics". He has no head hair other than sideburns.
532* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, prior to siding with the good guys due to his actions as TheAtoner, St. Jiub the Eradicator, who drove the [[TakeThatScrappy much reviled]] [[GoddamnBats Cliff Racers]] from Vvardenfell between the events of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', led a very sordid life as a [[FantasticDrug skooma addict]] and freelance assassin, fitting this trope instead.
533* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' has two of the evil creatures known as Glumps be bald: Rocko and Bruiser.
534* Masayoshi Shido from ''VideoGame/Persona5'' qualifies for this big time. He's a corrupt politician leading a [[TheConspiracy conspiracy]] that plans to use an alternate world to manipulate others for their own gain, and just an unlikeable prick in general. He's directly responsible for the protagonist's circumstances, as he sues Joker after he attempts to stop Shido's drunken assault on a woman. Given the reach and influence he has in the justice system, this gets Joker branded as a delinquent and put on probation. He also left his girlfriend after she became pregnant, fathering [[spoiler:Goro Akechi]] in the process, who he treats as a (albeit useful) lackey.
535** A minor example in the same game is Kobayakawa, the principal of Shujin Academy. He doesn't care about anything other than the reputation of the school, going so far as to turn a blind eye to Suguru Kamoshida's constant abuse to his students. He's also a low-ranking member of the conspiracy, and tries to force student council president Makoto Niijima to expose the Phantom Thieves' identities.
536* Martin Bormann, a prominent Nazi functionary and one of the most likelt successors to Hitler in [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory Nazi victory Alternate History]] mod for ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIron'' called ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'', was already balding in the last years of his life in OTL. By the start date of the mod in 1962, he is completely bald.
537* ''VideoGame/CreatureCrunch'' has Wesley get transformed into a half-boy/half-creature by a bald MadScientist named Dr. Drod, who gloats that he is putting together an army of creatures to take over the world.
538* Sorsley Ende from ''VideoGame/TriangleStrategy'' is a greedy [[FantasticRacism racist]] who oversees Hyzante's salt harvest and shipment. He takes salt off the official records and sells it illegally to line his own pockets, and he treats the Rosellan slaves who produce the salt like garbage; at one point, Sorsley casually orders his attendant, Booker, to kill a Rosellan who was begging for water. Naturally, Sorsley is also the only one of the Saintly Seven (Hyzante's governing body) who is shown to be completely bald.
539* ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'':
540** BigBad Zoran Lazarevic from ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves''. A [[AxCrazy murderously insane]] [[BalkanBastard Serbian war criminal]] with plans on conquering the world by discovering the lost city of [[TheShangriLa Shambhala]] and [[spoiler:its formidable Cintamani sap.]] The first thing we see him do upon being introduced to the game is knife one of his men to death for stealing from him before bellowing about how he's ''surrounded by traitors and fools''.
541** Subverted by Charlie Cutter from ''VideoGame/Uncharted3DrakesDeception''. Initially, he appears to be your average [[LondonGangster hardened Cockney thug]], attacking Nate and Sully in a London bar, but he's actually working with Nate and Sully all along, and is implied to be in a relationship with Nate's other friend, Chloe Frazer. What makes this even more surprising is that Lazarevic and Cutter are both voiced by the same man, the equally-bald but really nice guy Creator/GrahamMcTavish.
542* ''VideoGame/{{Whiplash}}'': Genron is an amoral company that specalizes in [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cruel]], over the top AnimalTesting. A good large portion of the male Genron employees are bald.
543* ''VideoGame/TheTwins2020'': Bob is completely bald and a murderous cannibal and robber. Of course, his brother Buck who does have hair is just as bad.
544* ''VideoGame/JoeDeversLoneWolf'': All Vordaks, in virtue of being seriously decomposed, lack hair, as well as pity and morals. Warlord Gunzar, the BigBad, is almost entirely shaved, except seemingly for a long mane of gray hair around his nape which is hard to spot. Almost all the other Drakkarim at his service have a similar, but less extreme haircut, or full helmets.
545[[/folder]]
546
547[[folder:Visual Novels]]
548* Although Mafia boss Bruto Cadaverini never actually appears in the third ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' game, his [[http://media.strategywiki.org/images/a/aa/PW_shikabane.png profile picture]] reveals quite an impressive Bald Of Evil.
549* ''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClubTheGirlWhoStandsBehind'': Genjiro had no strand of hair on his head in life and was such a scummy con artist and LoanShark, he drove Teruhiko Uchida to suicide after taking away his factory.
550* Vigagi and Sikalog, both of the Inspectors from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''. The first shaves his head bald (or so he says, and doubles as a BerserkButton), and the second was apparently born that way.
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553[[folder:Web Animation]]
554* The WebAnimation/{{Mastermind}}'s bald head is just one of the many contributing factors to his evil appearance.
555* Secondary ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'' villain (and big-time sleazebag) Mars is severely bald on the top of his head, with only some grey around the sides and what's left in back pulled into a ponytail.
556* ''WebAnimation/LoboWebseries'': The [=MBA=] are a race of evil alien zombies with bald heads.
557* ''WebAnimation/TheMostEpicStoryEverToldInAllOfHumanHistory'': [[BigBad Ridiculously Epic]] and [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Ridiculously Epic Fail]] are both bald and evil. However, most of the other characters are bald as well, making them stand out less for it.
558* The title character of ''WebAnimation/FatherTucker'' is a balding PedophilePriest.
559* Blitzo from ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' doesn't have an inch of hair on his head and is an unrepentant assassin with almost zero moral qualms.
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562[[folder:Webcomics]]
563* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' added Mynd (a purple palette-swap of Sigma) and Captain Kinesis to the ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man|Classic}}'' mix. Both of these, as well as Sigma, are bald. All three are villains in the series.
564* ''Webcomic/BronzeSkinInc'': Raimundo Marvires is the recurring antagonist of the series, and has a bald head.
565* Dr. Steve from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' fits this trope so closely he may or may not be a Lex Luthor parody.
566* ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes''
567** Dr. Unpleasant: "Hey mister, your head looks like a [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/1990755/an-unpleasant-good-morning/ light bulb]]."
568** Subverted [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/1990791/odious-greetings/ here]] by Professor Odious, who is actually a [[TropaholicsAnonymous reformed villain.]]
569* [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-06-04 Vilrath]] from ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan''. [[spoiler:Even though it was just Jacob wearing Vilrath's skin.]]
570* Richard from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' is most likely bald, since one statue depicting a hoodless near-lookalike of him was bald, a glimpse of him having his head healed didn't show any indication of hair, and an early page where we see an x-ray version of Richard didn't show any hair outlines. Also, we get a few "up-hood" shots, and the fact that the scarily-similar Sisters have little-to-no-hair themselves does not help matters.
571* ''Webcomic/TheLawOfPurple'': Silver is bald.
572* ''Webcomic/DrNonami'': Aside from his mustache, Mechano is bald.
573* ''Webcomic/Trevor2020'': Downplayed: Dr. Smithe has a combover, and wistfully admits that he will miss the sound of Trevor’s screams.
574* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', "Scarf" the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent aberration]] doesn't appear to have any hair on his head, though it's covered up by a hat.
575* Vehemence (aka Kevin) in ''Webcomic/GrrlPower''. He's bald, and evil in that he started a fight with ARCHON at a restaurant (which caused a bit of damage to the building, parking lot, and at least one vehicle); he also roped more than 50 other people into joining in, largely because his powerset worked better the more people around him fought. A few of his 'recruits' ended up being arrested, mainly due to pre-existing warrants, and he ended up in a specialized holding cell to reduce the chance he could power up again.
576* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': The comic has only two major characters who are bald, and they're both members of [[BigBadEnsemble The Seven]]. Solomon David is a brutal GodEmperor whose baldness is accentuated by [[BeardOfEvil his massive, luscious beard]], while Jagganoth is an omnicidal DestroyerDeity who has no hair whatsoever, neither on his head nor a beard, presumably as a side-effect [[EvilIsBurningHot of his body heat being strong enough to melt stone on impact]].
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578
579[[folder:Web Original]]
580* ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-973 SCP-973 ("Smokey")]]. He appears to be a balding Caucasian male. He ruthlessly kills speeders in horrible ways, including evisceration and rape.
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583[[folder:Web Videos]]
584%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The Watcher in ''WebVideo/KateModern'' is an obvious example, although the show also features Tariq Bhartti, who has a shaven head and is a likable enough individual.
585* [[Music/DoctorSteel Dr. Phineas Waldorf Steel]], complete with a BeardOfEvil. Arguably a nice guy, but definitely EvilOverlord-MadScientist themed.
586* ''WebVideo/TheAdventuresOfTheLeagueOfSTEAM'': In "Dead End", it's revealed that the heroes are opposed by a league of bald-headed villains. Their [[YouHaveFailedMe penalty for failure]] is to have a wig glued to one's head.
587%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* In ''WebVideo/PokemonApokelypse'', Giovanni is this; he has hair in the games.
588* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': In "Cody's Evil Twin", both Cody and Junior's look-alikes are completely bald just to make sure that you know that they are {{Evil Twin}}s.
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590
591[[folder:Western Animation]]
592* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': [[Characters/AmericanDadRogerSmith Roger Smith]] is completely bald and a complete sociopath, although his personas do have wigs for hair.
593* The two main male villains of ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster'', [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Paradim]] and [[MadScientist Dr. Hiss]], are both bald.
594* The {{Big Bad}}s of ''WesternAnimation/{{Skyland}}'', Oslo and Diwan.
595* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Mesmero is bald, with arcane markings on his face and head. Much creepier than the original.
596* Mr. Burns on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is balding and a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
597* ''Franchise/GIJoe''
598** Cobra scientist Dr. Mindbender is depicted as bald in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero''.
599** Cobra's leader Cobra Commander is depicted as bald in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades''.
600* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' foe Sedusa became this after she lost her hair. (In fact, that was the motive for her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.) It didn't seem to hurt her skills as a FemmeFatale, however, as she was able to use her charms to coerce the Gangrene Gang into working for her.
601* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
602** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Zuko]] was at his most evil when he had the least hair. (Maybe his ponytail is symbolic of his inner goodness.)
603** [[EvilChancellor Long Feng]] isn't quite bald, but he mostly fits the bill. By what may or may not be coincidence, his voice actor, Clancy Brown, also played Lex Luthor in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. (And [[Film/{{Highlander}} the Kurgan]], who shaved his head.)
604** [[ProfessionalKiller Sparky.]] [[ImplacableMan Sparky.]] [[TheVoiceless Boom.]] [[SomethingPerson Man.]]
605* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'''s greatest adversary has always been Dr. Zin, who has always been distinctly bald.
606* Asajj Ventress from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', one of the few female Balds of Evil and surprisingly good looking.
607%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Freakshow of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. Arguably, his whole outfit has a villain look, but when surrounded by {{Goth}}s, not so much.
608* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' has Baron Ünterbheit. The show, however, also subverts this trope in that Rusty Venture is bald and Brock shaves his head at the end of Season 3. On the other hand, it might not be so much of a subversion, when you consider the fact that it would be difficult indeed to ever see Rusty or Brock as anything close to being ''good'' -- one's a {{Jerkass}} and the other is a SociopathicHero.
609* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Prototype", a cop who's DrunkOnTheDarkSide as the result of using a thought-[[strike:controlling]] controlled PoweredArmor shaves his head to "ensure conductive contact".
610* On ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Mr. Boss is kind of Balding of Evil.
611* The [[CardCarryingVillain "Evil Scientist"]] in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "Water, Water, Every Hare".
612* Mr. Rancid, a CorruptCorporateExecutive from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers''.
613* In ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'', Obadaiah Stane's baldness carries over from the comics, down to being conspicuously clean-shaven when compared to Jeff Bridge's recognizable beard from the film. His head of security, O'Brien, is also bald. He carries it well.
614* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': Eustace can lean towards this trope at times, especially in the infamous episode "Ball of Revenge", [[spoiler:where he hired Courage's past foes to murder Courage and would even go as far to use Muriel as bait to do so]].
615* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': While being masked for most of the series, once The Huntsman reveals his face [[spoiler:(in his last five or so minutes left of screen time before he gets KilledOffForReal)]], he fits the bill.
616%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Dr. Scientist on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''.
617* BigBad Bowser in ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBrosDic'', unlike in the video games.
618%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Hacker and Claw from ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}''.
619* Abraham Kane, the BigBad from ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'', who also has a BeardOfEvil.
620%% * [[BigBad Dr. Ivo Robotnik]] from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' was as bald and ruthless as he was in the video games.
621* [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraZaheer Zaheer]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is a NobleDemon but nevertheless a dangerous anti-goverment anarchist. Downplayed in that he first appears with very long hair and beard due to his years-long imprisonment, but he shaves his hair and beard to infiltrate the Air Benders and keeps the look for the rest of the season.
622* Nearly every villain in the 1965 ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'' cartoon is bald: Yellow Pinkie, Dr. Dangit, Double-Ex, Scuba Duba, and Hy Spy.
623* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': Silas shaves off all of his hair in season 3 [[spoiler:for medical purposes as he underwent heavy surgery]]. That, coupled with the damages to his body, serves to make him more sickly and unnerving.
624* Mandark's future self Overlord Mandark in the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' TVMovie ''WesternAnimation/EgoTrip'' is bald.
625* One of the antagonists in ''[[WesternAnimation/MightyMouse Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'' was Petey Pate, a cat who was driven to villainy because people kept making fun of his bald spot.
626* ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'':
627** General Specific, the leader of the top secret military organization trying to capture Sheep so they can use him in a sheep-powered ray gun, is shown to be bald whenever he isn't wearing his hat.
628** The Angry Scientist has no hair and is often cooking up inventions that General Specific and Private Public can use to capture Sheep.
629** To a lesser extent, Lady Richington, who covers her baldness with a stainless steel wig that she frequently uses to beat up Sheep unprovoked whenever she sees him.
630* ''WesternAnimation/DrZitbagsTransylvaniaPetShop'' featured occasional appearances by a bald criminal named Fingers Malone.
631* The main villain of ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' was Dr. Caractacus P. Doom. Both Doom and his lackey Harry Slime had no hair on their heads.
632* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' had several villains who lacked hair throughout the franchise.
633** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'':
634*** The episode "Which Witch is Which?" featured a bald zombie as the disguise of the villain Zeke.
635*** In "Bedlam in the Big Top", the true identity of the Clown Ghost was the balding Harry the Hypnotist.
636*** "A Clue for Scooby-Doo" had a bald sailor named Captain Cutler pretend to be his own ghost to steal yachts.
637** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' episode "The Haunted Carnival" had a strongman called the Masked Marvel disguise himself as a ghostly strongman. Both the criminal and his monster disguise were bald.
638** ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'':
639*** The Mamba Zombie from the episode "Mamba Wamba and the Hoodoo Voodoo" was a PaletteSwap of the zombie that appeared in the aforementioned "Which Witch is Which?" and was just as hairless as the original.
640*** One of the villains who was involved in the time machine scam from the episode "Creepy Cruise" was a bald scientist named Professor Von Klamp.
641** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyAndScrappyDooShow'' episode "The Dinosaur Deception" had a bald paleantologist named Dr. [=LaRue=], who tried to used a robot disguised as a dinosaur to steal Montezuma's lost silver treasure.
642** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMysteries'':
643*** "The Stoney Glare Stare" has a bald and overweight supervillain named Thaddeus Blimp, who may have been inspired by Creator/MarvelComics' Kingpin.
644*** The episode "Mission Un-Doo-Able" had the criminal of the week masquerade as a bald villain named Mastermind (no relation to the villain from the video game ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooNightOf100Frights'').
645** In ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' episode "It's a Wonderful Scoob", the ghost from the Chest of Demons that the heroes have to recapture is Time Slime, a bald ghost who schemes to move time forward to when he would rule the world.
646** Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' with the show's main villain Dr. Phineas Phibes, who's scalp is barely covered up by his comb-over. Played completely straight with his clone Evil Phibes, who doesn't have any hair on his head at all and [[EvilerThanThou boasts being more evil than the original Phibes]].
647* The main villain of the obscure Fox Family cartoon ''WesternAnimation/MonsterFarm'' was a balding farm magnate named Pa, who planned to take the monster farm from Jack using any underhanded means possible.
648* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'' has Lex Luthor, as per usual, but also features a bald Riddler who has a question mark tattoo on his forehead.
649* Aloyse "Rodney" von Roddenstein, MadScientist colleague and [[TheRival rival]] to Dr. Doofensmirtz in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', has a large bald forehead.
650* ''WesternAnimation/MarvelMashUp'' has Tony Stark create a promotional video for a company to "help you keep your hair, and in turn, help keep you out of prison".
651* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'': Cruella's cousin P.H. [=DeVil=], who is a twisted MadScientist who [[AnimalTesting experiments on animals]] and occassionally provides Cruella with technological assistance to carry out her schemes. He is also very bald.
652* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Blind Ivan in "Society of the Blind Eye" is the head of a secret organization that erases people's memories against their will. Not only is he bald, but he has a phrenology map tattooed on his head, making him look even ''scarier''. [[spoiler:This becomes subverted by the end after his own memory gets erased, causing him to become a traveling banjo minstrel called Toot-Toot [=McBumbersnazzle=].]]
653* Inverted on ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' with Heather, the AlphaBitch main antagonist of the first season . She frequently shows off her long black hair while mocking the other contestants. In "I Triple Dog Dare You!" [[TraumaticHaircut her hair is unwillingly shaved off as karma for her actions]], leaving her bald during the second season. Ironically, after losing all her hair, she's less of a villain and becomes ''more'' sympathetic and [[TheChewToy borderline pathetic]], and desperately seeks out opportunities to wear wigs.
654* In ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'', the main antagonist, Mayor Humdinger, is balding (likely due to age, seeing that all the other antagonists are much younger and have full heads of hair).
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