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-->''"In Hollywood, blond guys have two choices: Dye your hair brown, save the world and get the leading lady. Or keep it blond and work on your bad guy face."''
-->-- [[http://thor.mirtna.org/evilblondmen.html J.R. Antrim Vs. Evil Blond Men]]

Fair-haired guys in media almost always end up evil. Especially noticeable if they are compared to a nice dark-haired guy, or if they are opposite ends of a LoveTriangle. And if his blond hair is LONG, you'd better hope [[{{LordOfTheRings}} he's an elf]], because if not, that's pretty much evil incarnate.

If they're ''not'' evil, they're still jerks, although they may or may not [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold be nice underneath]], and they usually lose. Where a BettyAndVeronica usually has a [[HairOfGold blond]] Betty and a dark- or [[HeroesWantRedHeads red-haired]] Veronica, a male version of this setup will do the reverse.

Given that blond heroes were not rare in films 40 or more years ago, this may be a CyclicTrope, albeit with a longer cycle time than that for female "bad hair colors". That said, it has certainly become a much more prevalent trope in the days since [[ThoseWackyNazis World War II]]. World War II may be responsible for that, since the Nazis did love blondes. On the other hand, it may be more simple: popular kids are jerks, and so are all cheerleaders. Blonde is a suitably desirable hair colour for both, therefore...

In {{Anime}}, this can be explained by all Japanese having black hair and the country's extreme institutional xenophobia. Having blond hair is a visual shorthand for being an EvilForeigner.

Compare EvilRedheads, WhiteHairedPrettyBoy, WhiteHairedPrettyGirl. DistaffCounterpart to BlondesAreEvil. Often synonimous with LightIsNotGood; after all, blonde guys are more often associated with an angelic appearence than black haired ones.
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* General Blue from ''{{Dragonball}}''.
* In ''TokyoMewMew'', Ichigo chooses sweet black-haired Aoyama Masaya over blond JerkWithAHeartOfGold Shirogane Ryou.
** Well, there's also the blonde [[MysteriousProtector Blue Knight]], who is actually [[spoiler:Aoyama]] ''and'' [[spoiler:the BigBad]] (sorta). Go figure...
* [[MobileSuitGundam Char Aznable]], the probable trope-maker for WhiteHairedPrettyBoy, was in fact blond, demonstrating how these two tropes are related. Most of his many, many [[{{Expy}} Expies]] are also blond.
** To be perfectly fair, Char was more of an AntiHero than outright evil. He killed most of the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Zeon royalty]], and in ZetaGundam did a HeelFaceTurn.
** And then he had a [[FaceHeelRevolvingDoor Face Heel Turn]] and tried to kill everyone on Earth with a ColonyDrop, so the point still stands.
** Not to mention the first Zabi he killed was ''his best friend'', for no other reason than being a [[SinsOfOurFathers blood relative]] of the others. And he [[MagnificentBastard ''laughed'']] about it.
* General Peters-Stahl, one of the few outright villains in ''ScrappedPrincess''. Also worth noting is that Cz, the only Peacemaker who is supposed to be sympathetic, is also the only one that isn't blonde.
* ''{{Fist of the North Star}}'' has Shin and Souther. Raoh was originally blond in the manga as well, but was given black hair in the TV anime series due to AdaptationDyeJob (the newer anime versions restores his original blond hair). This is evened out by Jagi in the original anime (whose hair color was changed from the manga's black to blond), who is not only purely evil, but was the one who turned Shin evil in the first place. Subverted with Falco, who was only doing evil things because he was being blackmailed to.
* Johan of ''{{Monster}}'' is handsome, blond, blue-eyed,and ''[[NightmareFuelUnleaded absolutely terrifying]]''.
* ''ChronoCrusade'' has Joshua Christopher, a blond, blue-eyed [[IllGirl Ill Boy]] who's manipulated by the WhiteHairedPrettyBoy into becoming one of his minions after he puts on a pair of demon horns (which also drive him [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity absolutely insane]]). However, the series also has Father Remington, another blond man who might be one of the the most genuinely good characters in the series.
*Mello from ''DeathNote'' [[spoiler:is a Mafia terrorist since he was 14, armed with guns in leather pants. Not to mention taking extreme measures to get what he wants, including kidnapping a teen girl and causing her to go through a traumatic experience that leaves her catatonic]].
** Does this make him a ''literal'' Draco in leather pants, then?
* A flashback story revealed Hiruma from ''Eyeshield21'''s hair is naturally black and he dyed it specifically as part of his strategy to make himself look more intimidating. It works.
** Mizumachi is blond too, but he's not evil, just tactless (and shirtless).
* Although he's [[HeroicSociopath amusingly psychotic]] to the point where it's hard not to like him to an extent, [[PsychoForHire Ladd Russo]] from ''{{Baccano}}!'' would most definitely fall under this trope, if not for undecidedly brown tan AND dark blonde hair [[spoiler:Which turns gray for artisticness in Alcatra]]). I mean, come on. [[spoiler:He shoots a small child's head off and constantly threatens to kill his girlfriend, among other things.]]
** Graham Spector might fall under this trope too, though sometimes it's ambiguous whether he's evil or just plain funking crazy.
* Played with in ''ThePrinceOfTennis''. Kevin Smith is an angry, bitchy, aggressive American boy who is an absolute JerkAss for quite a while... [[spoiler:and comes from a broken family with a negligent father, also blond. When he's defeated and comes to terms with himself, he shows a sweeter side, though not losing his [[HotBlooded strong temper]] completely.]]
* {{Naruto}} himself averts this, as he's the hero, but [[MadArtist Deidara]] of the Atatsuki does not.
** Considering Naruto's [[IdiotHero personality]], he may well be a PhenotypeStereotype parody of an American ([[EpilepticTrees although I admit that's an odd idea]]).
* ''CodeGeass'' plays with this trope with Second Prince Schneizel El Britannia: although for a long time he doesn't do anything ''truely'' evil, and could even be considered as [[AffablyEvil pretty nice]], his blondness helps setting up his status as an antagonist for the dark-haired Lelouch and validating his InformedAbility as an opponent ChessMaster. Toward the middle of season two, [[spoiler: he does start doing some ''really'' evil actions, such as using FLEIA against Tokyo and Pendragon]], however the jury's still out on whether that makes him ''worse'' than Lelouch or not. His plan to [[spoiler: kill several hundred million people with Damocles in order to ensure world peace]] pretty much sealed the deal.
** ''Code Geass'' also has Prince Clovis and [[spoiler: V.V.]]. The former is an insecure wreck who commits mass slaughter to cover his screw ups, the latter is just plain ''[[{{Yandere}} insane]]''. And don't forget that [[TheEmperor Charles di Britannia]] had dark blond hair before age turned his hair white.
* Krad in ''DNAngel'', who is also a prime example of LightIsNotGood thanks to his angelic appearance and utterly sadistic personality.
* Cain from ''TrinityBlood'' is blond, angelic looking and a complete evil bastard.
* ''FushigiYuugi'''s Nakago (bonus points for being the sole survivor of his repulsed, entirely-blonde tribe), also male {{Yandere}} Suboshi.
* Dio Brando from ''JoJosBizarreAdventure''
** His most loyal subordinate, Enrico Pucci, is not only this, but also subverts the DarkSkinnedBlonde trope by being pretty damn cunning. And by the looks of it, part 7 villain Funny Vanilla is also one.
* Gin from ''DetectiveConan'' although there is conflict over whether his hair is blond or silver.
* ''GundamSEED'' both subverts the trope and plays it straight. On one side, we have AcePilot Mwu La Flaga, who acts as a bit of a BigBrotherMentor for Kira and his friends, and is just about the coolest guy you could ever meet; and Dearka Elsmann, a DarkSkinnedBlond AcePilot who comes across as cocky, but is actually a JerkWithAHeartOfGold if you get to know him. On the other hand, we have cold-blooded ManipulativeBastard [[spoiler:and OmnicidalManiac]] Rau Le Crueset ([[spoiler:actually an imperfect clone of Mwu's father]]); and Blue Cosmos leader Muruta Azrael, [[CompleteMonster an utter horror of a human being.]]
* ''StarBlazers:'' Everybody chant! DESS-lok Desslok Desslok! DESS-lok Desslok Desslok! DESS-lok Desslok Desslok!
* Although [[YourMileageMayVary not all of them are necessarily "evil"]], about half of the Contractors in ''DarkerThanBlack'' are blonds.
* [[{{Yotsubato}} Yanda]] is, at minimum, a big jerk.
* Vincent from ''PandoraHearts'', and with {{heterochromia}}, to boot.
* Asuham Boone from ''OvermanKingGainer'' is vengeful, believes in RevengeBeforeReason and is utterly obsessed with capturing co-protagonist Gain Bijou. If he has to endanger innocents or manipulate subordinates to do so, he will.
* [[SoulEater Justin]]. [[TheMole Freaking]]. [[ThisIsSPARTA Law]].
* The Oni Clan in ''{{Harukanaru Toki no Naka de}}'' is probably deliberately presented as [[EvilForeigner this]], and ''anyone'' with blond hair is labelled as evil by the locals. In reality, though... [[spoiler:Akuram is corrupted by his powers; Ikutidaru repeatedly questions their plans; much of what Shirin does is of the LoveMakesYouEvil kind (and she isn't even blond to begin with); Sefuru has a FreudianExcuse and isn't mature enough to comprehend the situation. ''Then'' you get into the clan's backstory...]]

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* Played with regarding [[spoiler:Ozymandias]] in ''{{Watchmen}}''. The obvious interpretations is that he's the villain, but, this being ''Watchmen'', there's a lot more to it than that...
* Eddie Brock, aka Venom, in ''Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}'' (only in the ultimate version -- he is a redhead in the other universe).
*Averted by Jean Paul Valley who was Batman during Knightquest and Knightend.
** Perhaps Not So Averted by the fact that, at the end, [[FanNickname Azbats]] was [[AxCrazy not much of a hero]].
* The Dash, an evil speedster in ''{{Flare}}'', is blond.
* The only physical difference between TheDCU's Impulse and his EvilTwin Inertia is their hair; Impulse has brown hair, Inertia's blond.
* Wilhelm Ryan,the villain from ''The Amory Wars''/''Coheed and Cambria''.
* [[spoiler:Jan Arrah, Element Lad]], the villain of the LegionOfSuperheroes story Legion Lost, is innocently handsome and blond. To be fair, he was blond for thirty years worth of stories ''before'' he was a villain.
* Kordax, the ancient Atlantean prince in ''{{Aquaman}}'', and the greatest villain in Atlantean history. Because of him blond hair was actually seen as a sign of evil by the people of Atlantis, especially in the royal family, which is why Aquaman was abandoned at birth.
* One of the more notable feuds in Marvel comics is that between the short, dark, noble Wolverine and the tall, fair, psychopathic Sabertooth, though this is subverted in the live-action ''Wolverine'' film, where both are dark-haired, and the only visibly blond male character (Fred Dukes, A.K.A. The Blob) is more or less sympathetic.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* In ''The Princess Diaries'', Josh is a blond jock that Mia's crazy about in the beginning. Michael is her best friend's nerdy brother (and brunette). [[spoiler:Josh breaks her heart, and she ends up with Michael. Bet you never saw it coming.]]
** And then the books recently shot it to pieces. [[spoiler: Michael ends up going to study in Japan for a year and Mia breaks up with him, for complicated reasons, and gets into a WillTheyOrWontThey situation with an AscendedExtra character, J.P., who is of course blond.]]
*** Jossed in the last book. [[spoiler:Turns out everything that happened between her and J.P. was a set up BY J.P. to get with her so he could get the celebrity he needed to follow his dream, screw Mia's feelings.]]
* In ''AmericanPie'', the four main guys are all dark-haired and (somewhat) sympathetic. And then there's Stifler.
** Though to be fair he mellows over the films and by ''American Wedding'' he is clearly a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* JamesBond faces muscular blond henchmen in regular basis, starting with Red Grant in ''From Russia With Love''. Then they just keep coming: Vargas (''Thunderball''), Hans (''You Only Live Twice''), Eric Kriegler (''For Your Eyes Only''), Necros (''The Living Daylights'') and Stamper (''Tomorrow Never Dies''). Bond himself is now blond and somewhat more of an AntiHero ([[spoiler: although [[FanDumb people complained enough about him being blond]] to warrant [[DieingForYourArt him dying it to black]]]]).
* Roy Batty (though not a blond ''guy'', but ''[[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ridiculously human robot]]'') in ''BladeRunner''.
** Describing him as 'evil' would be pretty harsh. He's at least an AntiVillain.
* Talbot (Josh Lucas) in Ang Lee's ''Hulk''.
* Any villainous character played by Dolph Lundgren, but specifically Ivan in ''{{Rocky}}'' and the badnik in ''UniversalSoldier''.
** It's probably also worth noting that the only two antagonistic boxers that Rocky faced who were white were both blond, the other being DeceptiveDisciple Tommy Gunn.
* About 80% of all the characters Mark Rolston has played. (The other 20% were just assholes)
* Lt. Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky from ''TopGun''.
** The end of the movie seems to suggest otherwise, or perhaps the character merely transitions to DeadpanSnarker.
* [[{{StarWars}} Darth Vader]] (yes, Darth Vader). Although his hair is burned off for most of his time as a villain, his maybe-brown hair is canonically listed as "blond".
* Jake Busey and his father, Gary, are both ash blond, and both play bad guys fairly regularly.
* Applied lightly in the film ''Made of Honor'' where the brunette (and [[HeartIsWhereTheHomeIs American]]) Tom wins the girl, and the Scottish blond Colin loses her. We say applied lightly because Colin is portrayed as quite a nice guy aside from not being very good at sharing cake.
* Genesis from ''SuicideClub'' is horribly evil, and happens to be the only blond in the whole damned thing.
* The TV movie ''She Cried No'' starred Mark-Paul Gosselaar as a blond frat boy who rapes innocent freshman Candace Cameron.
* Possessive ex-boyfriend who won’t accept that it’s over Cole Whittier (Robert Prescott) in ''Bachelor Party'' (1984), versus witty and easy-going brunet Rick Gassko (Tom Hanks).
* In ''ReservoirDogs'', ''Mr'' Blonde is evil.
** But he's not actually blond.
**The only blond character is [[FluffyTheTerrible Nice Guy]] Eddie. Total {{Jerkass}}.
** And Tim Roth's hair is sort of dirty blond/lightish brown. Symbolism?
* Inverted in ''ThePrincessBride'' The Dread Pirate Roberts is supposed to be a fearsome villain, but [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready Westley is the hero, and the brunet Humperdink the villain]].
* In ''NeverBackDown'', brunette Jake Tyler fights Ryan [=McCarthy=], who's fond of luring people to his home under false pretenses and savagely beating them.
* ''TheKarateKid'', Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio), battles Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka, career Evil Blond Guy) for the affections of fair-haired Ali Mills (Elisabeth Shue). [[spoiler: Johnny sweeps the leg, but Daniel still wins in the end.]]
* In ''TheDarkKnight'', brown-haired Batman battles blond baddies. The Joker's hair is so greasy it looks dark, and cheaply dyed green on top of that, but he's definitely blond. [[spoiler: Like Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent suffered two terrible losses and assumed a new identity. But while Batman dedicated his life to fighting crime, Two-Face tried to kill a cop's innocent child.]]
** This troper thought that Harvey Dent was an interesting subversion of the trope - the angsty, brooding dark-haired hero mopes as his love-interest takes up with a blond, popular, media-savvy politician who wears his idealism on his sleeve. Surely the blond rival ''must'' be a superficial jerk, incapable of truly loving the heroine and only affecting high principles for show? No, turns out he really ''is'' a courageous, noble, if somewhat vain man, and a better match for the girl than the hero [[spoiler: until the poor blond man gets broken to pieces in the most horrible way]].
* Justin Long is ''Accepted'' by Blake Lively after she realizes she's in another Hollywood love-triangle where the blond guy turns out to be a jerk.
* Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) in ''DemolitionMan'', pictured above.
* The main hench-villain in the recent ''Zorro'' movie wasn't only blond, but wore a U.S. Army uniform. How eeeevil can one get, eh?
* John Ryder in the original version of ''The Hitcher''.
* Cary Elwes's oh-so-British Captain Boone competes for the affections of Lena Headey with Jason Scott Lee's sensitive, dark-haired jungle boy Mowgli in the 1994 live-action adaptation of ''TheJungleBook''. He's evil, just so you know.
** Cary Elwes is also evil in ''{{Twister}}''.
* In "She's All That," knowledge of this trope makes the plot's climax and eventual resolution very predictable, since male leads Zack and Dean are, respectively, [[spoiler: brunet and blond]].
* In Die Hard, the only noticeably blond characters are two of Hans' henchmen.
*jack from ''{{lord of the flies}}'' shold count
*Valentine from the oh so wonky film Mirrormask has dark hair, but wears a mask on that has blond Bart Simspon like "hair." It covers part of his natural dark hair. In the film, Valentine is shown to be a really friendly, helpful guy, even successful (owning a tower and such). [[spoiler: Near the end, he sells out the main character Helena for literally all the jewels he can carry. His brunette side soon wins out and his guilt causes him to come back for her, though it's never told whether he gives back the jewels.]]
** After Valentine eats the future fruit, [[spoiler: it is shown that in the future, he steals Helena's one chance to escape the "Gaimenverse," most likely due to his part blondeness. After being shown his fate as a waiter, his brunette side rationalizes that that sucks, so when the time comes, he gives Helena the mirrormask so she can escape the "Gaimenverse."]]
** Valentine's hair seems to fit the movie's overall theme of a DarkWorld, though there's also a LightWorld.
* Greg Marmalard in ''{{Animal House}}'' is the head of the Omegas, the prick fraternity that is out to shut down the Deltas.
* In ''{{Real Genius}}'', William Atherton (Prof. Jerry Hathaway) and his brown-nosing sidekick Robert Prescott (Kent) constantly try to thwart, and later steal, the hero's science.
* In ''{{Revenge of the Nerds}}'', Stan Gable (Ted McGinley) is head of the Alpha Betas, a sadistic-jock-filled fraternity. He torments the titular Nerds for most of the picture, until he learns his lesson after Lewis Skolnick (Robert Carradine), heroically rapes Gable's girlfriend in a funhouse. (Ah, the 80s.)
* Gage, the little blond kid from ''{{Pet Sematary}}'' [[spoiler: He put the 'Evil' in 'Evil Dead'.]]

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* In the TamoraPierce Kel books, the primary antagonist is Joren, so [[EvilIsSexy blonde and beautiful]] that one can forget the all misogyny, arrogance, hate crimes, kidnappings, and general [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] that he engages in on a daily basis.
* In the AngelsUnlimited series, the antagonist, Brice, has a bleach-blond mullet. [[spoiler:After he goes back to Heaven, he still dresses in black, but he cuts off the mullet, spikes it, and only dyes the tips blond. I guess it'll have to do.]]
* [[HarryPotter Draco and Lucius Malfoy.]]
** Also, Barty Crouch Jr. from 'Goblet of Fire' (but not in [[FilmOfTheBook the film]], where he's DavidTennant)
* [[spoiler:Joker]] from the ''ReadOrDie'' series.
* Not evil, but SamSpade sure is an asshole.
** Note that, while Spade is portrayed in the book as looking like a 'blond Satan', in movies he is almost always a brunette and much more sympathetic.
* In the ''SwordOfTruth'' series the BigBad of the first and second books, Darken Rahl, is blonde. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything For some reason, so seem to be all other "full-blooded" people of his evil empire.]]
** However, in later books, it's discovered that the vast majority of those people aren't evil, they were just loyal to an evil man. Once the protagonist takes control, they're firmly on the side of good, with many lamenting that they were under the heel of such a lunatic before, making this a subversion in the long term.
***Or a {{Ret Con}}.
* Subversion: ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' ''seems'' like it's pulling one of these with Jaime Lannister, but [[spoiler: in later books it's revealed that he isn't evil, but rather extremely disillusioned and bitter, and after losing his hand he starts to go down a path to redemption.]]
** Played straight with Tywin Lannister, however. And most of the other Lannisters, including Joffrey and Cersei, if she were male. Subverted with Tommen, who's just a sweet little kid, and Tyrion, who's just [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], though most characters think he's evil.
*** Rhaegar Targaryen could also be considered a subversion, since his hair color could be considered platinum blond. Of course he is dead before the books start.
* ''TheTimeTravelersWife'' invokes this trope twice over: while neither Ingrid nor Gomez (the blonde romantic rivals to the central couple's brunette Henry and [[HeroesWantRedheads redhead]] Clare) are bad people, the former is [[{{Tsundere}} needy and confrontational]] and the latter is offputtingly glib and cynical (and has a weird Communism fetish). Neither Henry or Clare view them as legitimate contenders in the LoveDodecahedron (although Henry and Ingrid dated before he met Clare).
* [[{{Discworld}} "My name's Teatime. What's yours?"]]
** Also, Wolfgang von Uberwald, who has [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent more blond hair than the rest of the examples put together.]]
* [[KaraNoKyoukai Cornelius Alba]]. The BigBad has dark hair, though.
* [[ThePictureOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]], anyone?
* ''MaximumRide'' uses this one. Both [[TheWoobie Jeb Batchelder]] and [[MadScientist Roland ter Borcht]] are described as having light hair, and [[DesignatedHero Maximum]] [[HeroicSociopath Ride]] herself has blonde hair.
* In "Gone With The Wind", the blonde Ashley, while far from evil, is weak-willed and indecisive, and far from the romantic hero Scarlett persistently imagines him to be.
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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* Adam Monroe, the BigBad in the second season of ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.
* Prince on ''{{Lexx}}'' epitomizes this trait.
** The show also has the MagnificentBastard Schlemmi (later Fifi), also a blonde.
* [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike.]] Before the [[{{Spikeification}} Himification]].
**He's probably intentionally invoking this trope (for a fictional character the guy's pretty genre-savvy). Flashbacks reveal his normal hair is mouse brown and curly. Apparently he died his hair black during WW2 and began bleaching it in the 70's, probably to attract dumb victims drawn to the "bad boy" association. Your milage may vary concerning Badass Decay, but when all's said and done he ''is'' a vampire and therefore a predator.
* Barney on ''HowIMetYourMother.'' Specializes in doing horrible things to women before or after sleeping with them.
* Rita's abusive, drug addicted ex-husband Paul is portrayed as blonde on ''{{Dexter}}''.
** Dex himself is dirty blond, too. And, [[SerialKiller well...]]
* Vim Fuego/Alan Metcalfe from ''TheComicStripPresents...'' episode ''Bad News'' has a huge rock-star mane of blond hair, and while he isn't evil he is arrogant, obsessed with his own talent, violent, not above fraud, and ARROGANT.
* And while he isn't evil either, [[RichBitch Prince Wendell]] of ''TheTenthKingdom'' is certainly arrogant, stuck-up, pompous, and a true jerk to Tony ([[TooDumbToLive not that he doesn't deserve it from time to time]]) and Wolf for the first half to two-thirds of the miniseries, up until he gets it rubbed in his face that [[FantasticRacism wolves aren't the evil monsters he believes them to be]] and eats a major portion of humble pie after realizing he's failed to pass his test of kinghood. Humorously, even the dog he is turned into by his WickedStepmother is a ''golden retriever''. (And it's being stuck in this form and losing his human self that contributes greatly to his change for the better.)
* Edie's new husband on ''DesperateHousewives'' is fair-haired, pale eyed, and extremely creepy. There was no doubt he was evil from the second he appeared onscreen, even though it has yet to be revealed what he is actually up to.
* This trope is a staple of Hispanic Soap Operas, though it usually applies to women rather than men.
* Alexander Lucard from ''Dracula: The Series''. Guess who he was?
* ''TheOC'' had Kevin Volchok. But it also has good blonde guys (Ryan Atwood) and bad dark-haired ones (Oliver Trask).
* ''OneTreeHill'' did it exactly the other way around: blonde Lucas is the good (half) brother while black-haired Nathan is more of a bad boy.
* It's nearly a trope on ''[[HogansHeroes Hogan's Heroes]]''. If there is a (male) prisoner, Allied soldier, or member of the underground with pale blond Aryan hair, he's almost certainly a spy.
* Eric from "True Blood" is the ultimate badass blonde: he's a Viking vampire, sheriff of his corner of Louisiana (for the vampires) and owns a nightclub called Fangtasia. He becomes upset when he gets blood in his beautiful, blonde hair.
* Peter Stone of ''DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', who managed to set new standards for {{Fanservice}} in his first appearance.
* Sawyer from ''Lost'', at first. Though not evil, he was certainly a JerkAss at first, especially compared to Jack and Sayid.
* [[spoiler:The Master]] in the Christmas 2009 finale of ''Doctor Who'', has a new-and-improved blonde look.

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[[folder: Music ]]

* "Jessie", from Rick Springfield's music video of "Jessie's Girl", is blond.
* The [=McCoy's=] song "Sorrow" (best known from David Bowie's cover version) states that "''with your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue | the only thing I ever got from you | was sorrow''"
** Despite the fact that Bowie sang it, isn't it directed at a woman? And thus belonging under Blondes Are Evil and not this trope?
* The music video for Muse's song ''Knights of Cydonia'' has a heroic dark-haired cowboy fighting with an evil blond cowboy over a blonde woman.

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[[folder: Newspaper Comics ]]

* [[CalvinAndHobbes Once upon a time there was a little boy named Calvin, who had a stuffed tiger he called Hobbes...]]

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[[folder: Truth In Television ]]

* RealLife example: Jeffrey Dahmer.
** And Bernard Goetz.
* Notably subverted by AdolfHitler and much of his inner circle.
** Who nevertheless considered blonde as the ideal of Aryan beauty. The pseudo-Aryan ideal of blonde hair and blue eyes and its association with Nazism may be at least partly responsible for the trope. See the Malfoys and all their talk about "pureblood".

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* In ''WorldOfWarcraft'', Arthas Menethil, a prince who would later kill his father and become the villain for the third expansion pack ''Wrath Of The Lich King'' is blond.
** In addition, Prince Kael'Thas Sunstrider is also blond.
** What? But he wasn't evil. He was NEVER evil! The worst he suffered from was an addiction to magic, but that's what all Blood Elves struggled with. If anything, there's a subversion in ''The Frozen Throne'', because the only evil non-Undead you really see is the very racist Garithos, and he has brown hair. That guy actively looked for reasons (and made up some) just to throw Kael'Thas in jail.
*** You're right about that. After all, [[{{Discontinuity}} he didn't appear in]] ''WorldOfWarcraft'', so we don't know [[CharacterDerailment what happens to him later... he dies a very brutal death in Frozen Throne, very fitting.]]
* Gilgamesh in ''[[FateStayNight Fate/stay night]]'' and ''[[FateZero Fate/zero]]'', PresidentEvil back in [[TheEpicOfGilgamesh the good ol' days]] and one half of an EvilDuo. However, when BlackAndGreyMorality moves in, he becomes more NecessarilyEvil. Did we mention that he's a StalkerWithACrush too, thus enabling him to hit every interpretation on the page? No? [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle Well, now you know.]]
* [[FatalFury Geese Howard]], the first SNKBoss. There's also [[TheKingOfFighters Rugal Bernstein]], the successor to the mantle. Interestingly enough, Geese is killed by a blond guy, Terry Bogard, and his son Rock is blond (with [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] to boot). The BigBad of ''MarkOfTheWolves'', [[MeaningfulName Kain R. Heinlein]], also has red eyes and long blond hair. It's not a coincidence, or anything; Kain is [[spoiler:Rock's EvilUncle, and Geese's brother-in law. Poor Rock. He knew Kain was half-evil, but then he found out the ''other'' half was evil, too...)]]
** [[TheKingOffighters Igniz]] was blond too, following Rugal's footsteps including his [[AGodAmI personality]].
* Liquid Snake from ''MetalGearSolid''.
** Especially bad since Solid Snake, to whom Liquid is [[CloningBlues supposedly genetically identical]], has brown hair.
*** There are two possible explanations/justifications to this, depending on what part of the canon you believe. Either Solid Snake dyes his hair dark, or Liquid's is naturally bleached from his different background after his 'birth'.
*** Or it could be an expression of recessive genes, because it is stated that the two have different phenotype expressions in spite of having the same genetic makeup.
*** [[spoiler:Solid Snake has the recessive genes, meaning he would have blond hair if this were true.]]
*** There is no such thing as 'recessive genes', only dominant or recessive allels. And it was revealed in MGS4 that neither of them is better or worse, Liquid was lied to in order to wile him into a confrontation.
***Regardless of genetics, the video logs included in the original Metal Gear Solid make it clear that Snake is blond and intentionally changes his hair to distinguish himself from Liquid. In earlier games (the MSX Metal Gear titles, for example) Snake also has dark hair, but dying your hair dark to match your surroundings is a perfectly sensible tactic, but when going into seclusion in Alaska, it's slightly less necessary, suggesting that the hair color he had before begin the Solid series is natural. And then he just kept with it (though, for some people, hair color darkens as they age, so dying may have ceased to be necessary after a while).
*** Big Boss had brown hair. Keep that in mind.
* The [[BigBad Big Bads]] of ''TombRaider'' (and the remake, ''Tomb Raider: Anniversary''), ''Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness'', and ''Tomb Raider: Legends'' have all been blondes or platinum-blondes.
* The aptly named Mr. Blonde in ''{{Perfect Dark}}''. Yes, it's a pseudonym, and as a matter of fact he's not really blond; the reptilian aliens musn't have been trying very hard, because they all use the same holographic disguise.
* None of the all-blond Branstein clan in the ''SuperRobotWars'' franchise are actually evil, although you are nominally fighting against Maier and Elzam at the beginning of ''Original Generation'', Rai is kind of a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold jerk]], and Elzam is an AloofBigBrother (and [[{{Expy}} A CHAR]]).
* The Silencer from ''{{Crusader}}'' is revealed as blond in a rarely-seen death animation. A half-subversion in that he is the protagonist, but even if he isn't evil is far too willing to carelessly shoot unarmed surrendering civilians for any reason.
* In ''{{Tales of Symphonia}}'', Kvar, Remiel and Yggdrasil.
** Dhaos of ''TalesOfPhantasia''. Of course, ThisTroper suspects that Yggdrasil is an {{Expy}} of Dhaos, as one of Dhaos's forms in the final battle looked strangely familiar.
** Also, the Ferines in ''{{Tales of Legendia}}''. Then again, they could just be "[[WellIntentionedExtremist misunderstood]]".
**Either [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] or [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] by Guy Cecil in TalesOfTheAbyss. He's the main character Luke's best friend, [[spoiler: but it turns out he was once royalty too, before Luke's father had his entire house killed. He became a servant to the Fabre household originally to get revenge, but ultimately got attached to Luke and became a brotherly figure to him.]]
* Both used and subverted at times in the ''FinalFantasy'' series
** In ''FinalFantasyVIII'', the protagonist, Squall, has brown hair while his rival-turned-evil Seifer has blonde.
** In FinalFantasyVII, [[FinalFantasyIX IX]], [[FinalFantasyX X]], [[FinalFantasyXI XI]], and [[FinalFantasyXII XII]] the hero is blonde-haired. The villain is a typical WhiteHairedPrettyBoy in the first two, and has black hair in the last two (or three, depending on who you think is the real ''real'' villain in X).
*** The unambiguous antagonist of ''FinalFantasyX2'' is just as blond as Tidus, the hero and protagonist of ''FinalFantasyX''.
** In ''FinalFantasyVI'', the villain Kefka is an AxCrazy blonde. However, many of the male protagonists are blonde, as well.
** In ''FinalFantasyIV'', the original SNES version, Kain is shown to have blonde hair in the game's ending (it's the only time his helmet is removed, and it doesn't show in his menu portrait). In the remake, his blond hair is more prominently displayed. It might be argued that Kain isn't really evil, [[spoiler: but as Golbez noted, those that were taken over by Zemus/Zeromus had evil in their hearts. Kain's jealousy over Rosa loving Cecil and not him is what made him willing to turn against his friend. Also, he doesn't have a problem with using brute force to get something done---he says as much to Cecil when Rydia is unwilling to go with them after Mist is burned.]]
** In ''FinalFantasyXI'', you get the villains [[spoiler:, the two Zilart princes of Jeuno, and specifically the [[strike:younger]] older brother who is actually behind the first villain]] for the first expansion and [[spoiler: Nag'molada]] for the second.
** In ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'', Llednar Twem, [[spoiler:The form of Mewt Randell's anger]] has blond hair.
** Don't forget the Chocobo series with the Destroyer [[spoiler:AKA Raffaello]] in ChocobosDungeon for the Wii.
* [[SilentHill Walter. Sullivan.]] This is a guy who also happens to believe an ''apartment'' is his mother.
** And then, while not exactly evil, the most morally ambiguous protagonist in the series is also blond.
* [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]] in ''[[PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]''.
* Albert Wesker, William Birkin, Alfred Ashford, and Jack Krauser are some of the only blond-headed guys in the ''ResidentEvil'' universe, and yup: they're all pretty damn evil.
* Yuber from ''{{Suikoden}}'' is this trope and a bag of chips.
* Kazyr, one of Overlord Ulgar's [[TheDragon evil henchmen]] in ''PopfulMail''.
* The blond King Zephiel in ''FireEmblem 6'' is the opponent to RedheadedHero Roy ''and'' to his [[CainAndAbel gentle half-sister]] [[HairOfGold Princess Guinevere.]]
* The Country singer Conroy Bumpus in ''[[SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam And Max Hit The Road]]''.
* [[MagnificentBastard Prince Maximillian]] of ''ValkyriaChronicles''. En-''fricking''-core.
* [[spoiler: Dick Winslow]] in ''BlackDahlia''.
* ''{{Bully}}'' brings us Derby Harrington, a blond haired walking embodiment of almost every Rich = Bad trope.
* ''{{Touhou}}'' has several straightforward examples: [[KleptomaniacHero Marisa Kirisame ]] (main character!), [[ImAHumanitarian Rumia]], [[AxCrazy Flandre Scarlet]], and ''especially'' [[RealityWarper Yukari Yakumo]].
** Subversion: [[MamaBear Ran Yakumo]].
* ''EternalSonata'' had the snarky Count Waltz.
* Slavik from {{CommandandConquer}} - Tiberian Sun. Total blonde evil.
** Also don't forget Oxanna, his [[FemmeFatale]] in crime.
** Then again, depending on your POV, Nod is the good guys.
* PerfectDark had a prime example of this, his name was even '''Mr. Blond'''!
* [[{{Vampire}} Raphael]] in the SoulSeries. Heroic Siegfried (who briefly becomes big baddie Nightmare) is blond, although as Nightmare, his hair is only seen in one incarnation, and it's bright red.
* Paging [[BlazBlue Major Jin Kisaragi]].
--> "Brother. I'm so happy! I get to kill you again!"
* Galcian and [[spoiler: Ramirez]] in ''[[SkiesofArcadia Skies of Arcadia]]''

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* The website hosting the ''Nukees'' comic also includes a page dedicated to [[http://www.nukees.com/susbec/ SUSBEC]]: tracking evil, eyeless blondes, mostly male.
* Nale of the Linear Guild in ''OrderOfTheStick''. [[HairOfGold Inverted]] with Elan, Nale's twin brother and one of the main characters.

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* The titular Dr. Horrible from ''DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''.
** Subverted in that Dr. Horrible, despite his name and "villain" status, acts far less evil than the "hero", Captain Hammer, who has dark hair.
***It's really far less clear-cut than you make it out to be. Captain Hammer's a jerk for sure and possibly an amoral bastard but Dr. Horrible [[spoiler: goes on a killing spree because his feelings get hurt.]] The only good character in the entire series is Penny.
**** [[spoiler: Goes on a killing spree...with only one, ''accidental'' death as the result? Not much of a killing spree.]]
**** And considering Hammer partially strangled Horrible in Act 1, [[CarFu threw a car at his head]] {albeit [[CoconutSuperpowers offscreen]]) during Act 2 ([[spoiler:The [=~It's Personal~=] was only the straw that broke the camel's back]]) and [[spoiler:tried to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard shoot him with his own]] DeathRay]], with no indication that this was more violent than usual, the dark-haired AntiHero appears to be the one with fewer qualms about killing.
* Mostly averted in ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'', but played straight with Bobby Jacks of V3. Inexplicably - he's [[DarkSkinnedBlond black]], mark you, with no reason given for his unusual hair colouration.
**Lenny Priestly and J.R. Rizzolo of V3 are blonds as well, and very much evil.

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* Mike Morningstar from ''{{Ben 10 Alien Force}}''. Guilty of draining girls of their life energy just to keep him from aging.
* Trevor Goodchild from ''AeonFlux'' fits the bill. (In the live-action movie, on the other hand, he has brown hair... and turns out to be a good guy.)
**Plus this '''is'' AeonFlux which was very grey on the area of who's good or bad
* In the DVD commentary for the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Anthology of Interest II" wherein Bender is turned into a human, it's stated that Mili Smythe "insisted that Bender be a blond man" as "blond men are more disgusting."
* Episodes of ''Cadillacs and Dinosaurs'' typically revolved around some sort of conflict between the jet-black-haired (and heroic, and environmentally-conscious) Old Blood Mechanic Jack Tenrec and evil Poacher Hammer Terhune, whose most prominent physical feature was his enormous blond flattop mullet. Additionally, perhaps the only other blond male character to appear was Shawn Russell, another Old Blood Mechanic who, in direct contrast to Jack, was depicted as being arrogant, corrupt and greedy to the extent that he was willing to betray everything the Old Blood Mechanics were supposed to stand for.
* [[ArchEnemy Remy Buxaplenty]] on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* Chad on ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'', who was a KND Operative until his HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler: Of course, the penultimate episode revealed that he was a long tern mole for the KND]].
* In [[StarWarsTheCloneWars Star Wars: The Clone Wars]] [[spoiler: Senate Guard Commando Captain Argyus]] is the first [[spoiler: Senate Guard]] ever to be seen unmasked onscreen, revealing his elaborately coifed blond hair, a moment that caused this troper's genre-savvy younger siblings to collectively roll their eyes.

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* ''BrokenSaints'' has the {{Sociopathic Soldier}}s--Lt. Charles and Lt. Bravado, who are about as [[CompleteMonster evil as you get.]]
** Not to mention [[spoiler: Gabriel, a [[EvilRedhead strawberry]] [[BlondGuysAreEvilblon]]d whose hair seems to shift back and forth depending on the light.]]


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