1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character's hair color changes frequently. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice's hair changes color often. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Alice's hair never stops changing color, going to something new every few seconds. |
5 | ** Alice's hair changes between neon colors and patterns. |
6 | ** Everyone in Alice's world has ever-changing hair color, but Alice's remains constant. |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': |
8 | ** Every few weeks or months, Alice's hair changes color. |
9 | ** Alice's hair changes color regularly, but the difference is almost unnoticeable. |
10 | * '''Justified''': |
11 | ** Alice dyes her hair a new color every Saturday. |
12 | ** Alice's hair is [[FunctionalMagic magically enchanted]] to change color at will, or in response to her mood. |
13 | ** Alice's body has {{nanomachines}}, which she can use to change her hair color within a short period of time. |
14 | ** Alice is a shapeshifter. |
15 | ** Alice is a HumanAlien whose "hair" is [[BizarreAlienBiology actually a mass of filament-like outgrowths]] whose pigmentation changes (whether voluntarily or involuntarily) depending on the situation, due to some chemical property in the cells. |
16 | ** Alice has prismatic hair, the color you see is just how the light refracts from your viewing angle. |
17 | * '''Inverted''': Alice's hair always looks the exact same color, even under different lighting conditions. |
18 | * '''Subverted''': |
19 | ** Alice isn't changing her actual hair color, she is swapping a collection of wigs around. |
20 | ** Alice is actually changing which of her many bodies she is using; they are all identical, apart from hair color. |
21 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
22 | ** Alice has undyed hair beneath the wigs, except there's only one wig after all, which she was dying; her scalp is too sensitive to use such chemicals. |
23 | ** Alice frequently swaps which body she uses, but they do all have the same hair color; in each body, she has to dye her hair to a different hue to make it seem like her hair is changing colors when she switches body. |
24 | * '''Parodied''': Alice's hair does change colors... But they're all invisible to the naked eye, requiring a spectrometer to truly appreciate. |
25 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice changes her hair color every weekday, but not on every weekend. |
26 | * '''Averted''': Alice has lasting hair color. |
27 | * '''Enforced''': The person illustrating the story keeps running out of paints and isn't good at getting the same hue twice, so Alice's hair changes color. |
28 | * '''Lampshaded''': Alice notices her hair color changing a lot and wonders why it happens. |
29 | * '''Invoked''': Bob sends Alice many shades of hair dye because he doesn't like her current brown hair. |
30 | * '''Exploited''': Bob notices that Alice's hair changes color depending on her mood, and uses this to understand and talk to her better. |
31 | * '''Defied''': Alice doesn't want her hair to change color, and gets a wig and permanent dye to prevent it. |
32 | * '''Discussed''': Bob and Charlie talk about how Alice just got many shades of hair dye and will probably begin dying it a lot soon. |
33 | * '''Conversed''': "In a cheap story like this, a way to make a character more interesting is to give them randomly changing hair colors." |
34 | * '''Implied''': |
35 | ** Alice is TheGhost, but many people mention her hair changing in color. |
36 | ** Alice mysteriously disappears, and similar-looking individuals are then occasionally seen with different hair colors. |
37 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
38 | ** Alice's unpredictable hair color means she can't get a job because her employer thinks she's immature. |
39 | ** Alice is only recognized by her hair, so when it changes nobody knows who she is. |
40 | ** Alice's hair can change color, but it takes quite a bit of energy to do this, often leaving her exhausted. She often just leaves it grey since that requires little effort. |
41 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
42 | ** Alice finds an employer who doesn't care about her quirky hair. |
43 | ** People learn to tell who Alice is by other features that don't change. |
44 | ** Or they identify her by the fact that her hair changes colors. |
45 | ** Alice gets the energy to change her hair color by [[BigEater eating an large amount of food.]] This also means that she can change her hair color to burn calories if she eats too much. |
46 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Alice's hair changes color at the most inappropriate times, with a loud bang. |
47 | * '''Played For Drama''': Alice is desperate to find a way to stop her hair changing color because she feels it is ruining her life. |
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51 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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