Blond Guys Are Evil - Television Tropes & Idioms

Simon Phoenix is a strong believer of this trope.

"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."

— 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 Love Triangle. And if they're blond hair is LONG, you'd better hope they're 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 be nice underneath, and they usually lose. Where a Betty And Veronica usually has a blonde Betty and a dark- or 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 Cyclic Trope, 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 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 blonde hair is a visual shorthand for being an Evil Foreigner.

Compare Evil Redheads, White Haired Pretty Boy, White Haired Pretty Girl. Distaff Counterpart to Blondes Are Evil.

Examples

Anime

General Blue from Dragonball.
- To an extent, the super-saiyan form itself, which tends to be a controllable Super Powered Evil Side.
  - Up until you control them, of course.
In Tokyo Mew Mew, Ichigo chooses sweet black-haired Aoyama Masaya over blond Jerk With A Heart Of Gold Shirogane Ryou. In an aversion, Kisshu, the Stalker With A Crush and obvious suicidal choice, is green-haired.
- Which just means Kisshu was a blond who spent too much time in the pool.
Char Aznable, the probable trope-maker for White Haired Pretty Boy, was in fact blond, demonstrating how these two tropes are related. Most of his many, many Expies are also blond.
- To be perfectly fair, Char was more of an Anti Hero than outright evil. He killed most of the Zeon royalty, and in Zeta Gundam did a Heel Face Turn.
- And then he had a Face Heel Turn and tried to kill everyone on Earth with a Colony Drop, so the point still stands.
- Not to mention the first Zabi he killed was his best friend, for no other reason than being a blood relative of the others. And he ''laughed'' about it.
General Peters-Stahl, one of the few outright villains in Scrapped Princess. Also worth noting is that Cz, the only Peacemaker who is supposed to be sympathetic, is also the only one that isn't blonde.
Shin from Fist Of The North Star gets bonus points for being talked into it by Jagi, another blonde. And it also has Souther/Thouther/Souza. The series also has a black-haired Big Bad, though: Raoh.
- That's just in the first anime, though. Raoh is blond in the video games, and the newer OVA series.
  - Since Raoh was blond in the original manga, this means he had subscribed to this trope from the very beginning.
Johan of Monster is handsome, blond, blue-eyed,and absolutely terrifying.
Chrono Crusade has Joshua Christopher, a blond, blue-eyed Ill Boy who's manipulated by the White Haired Pretty Boy into becoming one of his minions after he puts on a pair of demon horns (which also drive him 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 Death Note 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?
- Then there's Light Yagami, who is a sort of strawberry-blond.
  - Not really, his hair's more brown. Particularly in the live-action.
Hiruma from Eyeshield 21 is positively demonic in appearance, and waves his Hyperspace Arsenal around like it's nothing at all... except he's one of the primary heroes.
- A flashback story revealed Hiruma'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 amusingly psychotic to the point where it's hard not to like him to an extent, Ladd Russo from Baccano! would most definitely fall under this trope, if not for undecidedly brown tan AND dark blonde hair Which turns gray for artisticness in Alcatra). I mean, come on. 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 The Prince Of Tennis. Kevin Smith is an angry, bitchy, aggressive American boy who is an absolute Jerk Ass for quite a while... 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 strong temper completely.
Naruto himself averts this, as he's the hero, but Deidara of the Atatsuki does not.
- Considering Naruto's personality, he may well be a Phenotype Stereotype parody of an American (although I admit that's an odd idea).
Code Geass 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 pretty nice, his blondness helps setting up his status as an antagonist for the dark-haired Lelouch and validating his Informed Ability as an opponent Chess Master. Toward the middle of season two, 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 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 V.V.. The former is an insecure wreck who commits mass slaughter to cover his screw ups, the latter is just plain insane. And don't forget that Charles di Britannia had dark blond hair before age turned his hair white.
Krad in DN Angel, who is also a prime example of Light Is Not Good thanks to his angelic appearance and utterly sadistic personality.
Cain from Trinity Blood is blond, angelic looking and a complete evil bastard.
Fushigi Yugi's Nakago, also male Yandere Suboshi.
Dio Brando from Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure
- His most loyal subordinate, Enrico Pucci, is not only this, but also subverts the Dark Skinned Blonde trope by being pretty damn cunning. And by the looks of it, part 7 villain Funny Vanilla is also one.
Gin from Detective Conan although there is conflict over whether his hair is blond or silver.
Gundam SEED both subverts the trope and plays it straight. On one side, we have Ace Pilot Mwu La Flaga, who acts as a bit of a Big Brother Mentor for Kira and his friends, and is just about the coolest guy you could ever meet; and Dearka Elsmann, a Dark Skinned Blond Ace Pilot who comes across as cocky, but is actually a Jerk With A Heart Of Gold if you get to know him. On the other hand, we have cold-blooded Manipulative Bastard and Omnicidal Maniac Rau Le Crueset (actually an imperfect clone of Mwu's father); and Blue Cosmos leader Muruta Azrael, an utter horror of a human being.
Star Blazers: Everybody chant! DESS-lok Desslok Desslok! DESS-lok Desslok Desslok! DESS-lok Desslok Desslok!
Although not all of them are necessarily "evil", about half of the Contractors in Darker Than Black are blonds.
Yanda is, at minimum, a big jerk.

Comic Books

Played with regarding 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 Spider-Man.(only in the ultimate version he is a redhead in the other universe)
Subverted by Ben Reily during his stint as Spider-man.
Averted by Jean Paul Valley who was Batman during Knightquest and Knightend.
- Perhaps Not So Averted by the fact that, at the end, Azbats was not much of a hero.
See also these two Flare comic pages: the debut of the Dash and page 200.
The only physical difference between The DCU's Impulse and his Evil Twin Inertia is their hair; Impulse has brown hair, Inertia's blond.
Wilhelm Ryan,the villain from The Amory Wars/Coheed and Cambria.
Jan Arrah, Element Lad, the villain of the Legion Of Superheroes 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.

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). 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. Michael ends up going to study in Japan for a year and Mia breaks up with him, for complicated reasons, and gets into a Will They Or Wont They situation with an Ascended Extra character, J.P., who is of course blond.
  - Jossed in the last book. 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 American Pie, 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 Jerk With A Heart Of Gold.
James Bond 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 Anti Hero ( although people complained enough about him being blond to warrant him dying it to black).
Roy Batty (though not a blond guy, but ridiculously human robot) in Blade Runner.
- Describing him as 'evil' would be pretty harsh. He's at least an Anti Villain.
Talbot (Josh Lucas) in Ang Lee's Hulk.
Any villainous character played by Dolph Lundgren, but specifically Ivan in Rocky and the badnik in Universal Soldier.
- It's probably also worth noting that the only two antagonistic boxers that Rocky faced who were white were both blond, the other being Deceptive Disciple Tommy Gunn.
About 80% of all the characters Mark Rolston has played. (The other 20% were just assholes)
Lt. Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky from Top Gun.
- The end of the movie seems to suggest otherwise, or perhaps the character merely transitions to Deadpan Snarker.
Jake Busey and his father, Gary, are both ash blond, and both play bad guys fairly regularly.
Probably the reason Robin Williams bleached his hair for One Hour Photo.
Applied lightly in the film Made of Honor where the brunette (and 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 Suicide Club 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 Reservoir Dogs, Mr Blonde is evil.
- The only blond character (well. This Troper can't work out what colour Tim Roth's hair is.) is Nice Guy Eddie. Total Jerkass.
- This Troper thinks Tim Roth's hair is sort of dirty blond/lightish brown. Symbolism?
Inverted in The Princess Bride The Dread Pirate Roberts is supposed to be a fearsome villain, but Westley is the hero, and the brunet Humperdink the villain.
In Never Back Down, brunette Jake Tyler fights Ryan McCarthy, who's fond of luring people to his home under false pretenses and savagely beating them.
The Karate Kid, Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio), battles Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka, career Evil Blond Guy) for the affections of fair-haired Ali Mills (Elisabeth Shue). Johnny sweeps the leg, but Daniel still wins in the end.
In The Dark Knight, brown-haired Batman battles blond baddies. The Joker's hair is so greasy it looks dark, but he's definitely blond. 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 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.
Peter Pevensie managed to avoid this in the first Narnia movie, only to come back in the second as a total jerk, albeit a heroic one. This was completely averted in the Narnia books, however.
Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) in Demolition Man, 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.
Carey 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 The Jungle Book. He's evil, just so you know.
- Carey 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, 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). 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, 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 Dark World, though there's also a Light World.

Literature

In the Angels Unlimited series, the antagonist, Brice, has a bleach-blond mullet. 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.
Draco and Lucius Malfoy.
- Also, Barty Crouch Jr. from 'Goblet of Fire' (but not in the film, where he's David Tennant)
- And Zacharias Smith
- Cormac McLaggen, if we're looking at his actor — his hair colour may not have been listed in the books.
  - Although, it's stated on hp-lexicon that Cormac 'did not accept his defeat gracefully' in terms of Ron winning the Keeper position on the quidditch team, but since Hermione cheated by confunding him so that he would lose, this may not be unreasonable of him. It's hard to figure why he WOULD accept the success of someone who cheated gracefully, and since Harry knew Hermione had confunded him so he'd lose, it makes it seem even less fair to Cormac. He was still a jerk, but this troper gives him a pass for being pissed off about the Quidditch try-outs.
- And Dudley in the books though not in the movies.
Joker from the Read Or Die series.
Not evil, but Sam Spade 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 Sword Of Truth series the Big Bad of the first and second books, Darken Rahl, is blonde. 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: A Song Of Ice And Fire seems like it's pulling one of these with Jaime Lannister, but 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 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.
The Time Travelers Wife invokes this trope twice over: while neither Ingrid nor Gomez (the blonde romantic rivals to the central couple's brunette Henry and redhead Clare) are bad people, the former is 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 Love Dodecahedron (although Henry and Ingrid dated before he met Clare).
"My name's Teatime. What's yours?"
- Also, Wolfgang von Uberwald, who has more blond hair than the rest of the examples put together.
Cornelius Alba. The Big Bad has dark hair, though.
Dorian Gray, anyone?
Aversion Joe Hardy

Live Action TV

Adam Monroe, the Big Bad in the second season of Heroes.
Prince on Lexx epitomizes this trait.
- The show also has the Magnificent Bastard Schlemmi (later Fifi), also a blonde.
Spike. Before the Himification.
Although Gene Hunt, from Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes isn't exactly evil, he's racist, sexist, homophobic and violent.
- "You say that like it's a bad thing."
Barney on How I Met Your Mother. 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.
Vim Fuego/Alan Metcalfe from The Comic Strip Presents... 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, Prince Wendell of The Tenth Kingdom is certainly arrogant, stuck-up, pompous, and a true jerk to Tony (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 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 Wicked Stepmother 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 Desperate Housewives 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?
The OC had Kevin Volchok.But is also has good blonde guys(Ryan Atwood) and bad dark haired(Oliver Trask).
One Tree Hill did it exactly the other way around.Blonde Lucas is the good (half)brother while black haired Nathan is more of a badboy.

Music

"Jessie", from Rick Springfield's music video of "Jessie's Girl", is blond.
The Mc Coy'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.

VideoGames

In World Of Warcraft, 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, he didn't appear in World Of Warcraft, so we don't know what happens to him later...
Gilgamesh in Fate/stay night and Fate/zero, President Evil back in the good ol' days and one half of an Evil Duo. However, when Black And Grey Morality moves in, he becomes more Necessarily Evil. Did we mention that he's a Stalker With A Crush too, thus enabling him to hit every interpretation on the page? No? Well, now you know.
Geese Howard, the first SNK Boss. There's also 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 red eyes to boot). The Big Bad of Mark Of The Wolves, Kain R. Heinlein, also has red eyes and long blond hair. It's not a coincidence, or anything; Kain is Rock's Evil Uncle, 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...)
- Igniz was blond too, following Rugal's footsteps including his personality.
Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid.
- Especially bad since Solid Snake, to whom Liquid is 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.
  - 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 MGS 4 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).
The Big Bads of Tomb Raider (and the remake, Tomb Raider: Anniversary), Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, and Tomb Raider: Legends have all been blondes or platinum-blondes.
[[Resident Evil Resident Evil almost always has the bad guys blonde and good guys brown haired. Inverted in RE 4, Leon is blonde and Saddler is black haired, and subverted in RE 5, Jill becomes a blonde.
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 Super Robot Wars franchise are actually evil, although you are nominally fighting against Maier and Elzam at the beginning of Original Generation, Rai is kind of a jerk, and Elzam is an Aloof Big Brother (and 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 Tales Of Phantasia. Of course, This Troper suspects that Yggdrasil is an Expy of Dhaos, as one of Dhaos's forms in the final battle looked strangely familiar. Then there's the hero Cless, who is of course an exception.
- Also, the Ferines in Tales of Legendia. Then again, they could just be "misunderstood".
- Either deconstructed or subverted by Guy Cecil in Tales Of The Abyss. He's the main character Luke's best friend, 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.
- Subverted in Tales Of Vesperia with Flynn.
Both used and subverted at times in the Final Fantasy series
- In Final Fantasy VIII, the protagonist, Squall, has brown hair while his rival-turned-evil Seifer has blonde.
- In Final Fantasy VII, IX, X, XI, and XII the hero is blonde-haired. The villain is a typical White Haired Pretty Boy 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).
- In Final Fantasy VI, the villain Kefka is an Ax Crazy blonde. However, many of the male protagonists are blonde, as well.
- In Final Fantasy IV, 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, 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 Final Fantasy XI, you get the villains , the two Zilart princes of Jeuno, and specifically the ~~younger~~ older brother who is actually behind the first villain for the first expansion and Nag'molada for the second.
- In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Llednar Twem, The form of Mewt Randell's anger has blond hair.
- Don't forget the Chocobo series with the Destroyer AKA Raffaello in Chocobos Dungeon for the Wii.
Walter. Sullivan. This is a guy who also happens to believe an apartment is his mother.
Kristoph Gavin in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. Averted with Klavier, who, even though his position as prosecutor makes him an antagonist by default, is a really nice guy and very friendly to Apollo and Trucy.
Albert Wesker, William Birkin, Alfred Ashford, and Jack Krauser are some of the only blond-headed guys in the Resident Evil universe, and yup: they're pretty darn evil. In fact, the only blond who's not a bad guy is Jim Chapman from the Outbreak titles, but he's a black guy who dyes his hair.
- Leon Kennedy is a subversion too, depending on how light you think his hair is.
Yuber from Suikoden is this trope and a bag of chips.
Kazyr, one of Overlord Ulgar's evil henchmen in Popful Mail.
The blond King Zephiel in Fire Emblem 6 is the opponent to Redheaded Hero Roy and to his gentle half-sister Princess Guinevere.
The Country singer Conroy Bumpus in Sam And Max Hit The Road.
Prince Maximillian of Valkyria Chronicles. En-fricking-core.
Dick Winslow in Black Dahlia.
Bully brings us Derby Harrington, a blond haired walking embodiment of almost every Rich = Bad trope.
Touhou has several straightforward examples: Marisa Kirisame (main character!), Rumia, Flandre Scarlet, and especially Yukari Yakumo.
- Subversion: Ran Yakumo.
Eternal Sonata had the snarky Count Waltz.
Slavik from Command & Conquer - Tiberian Sun. Total blonde evil.
- Also don't forget Oxanna, his [1] in crime.
- Then again, depending on your POV, Nod is the good guys.
Perfect Dark had a prime example of this, his name was even Mr. Blond!

Webcomics

The website hosting the Nukees comic also includes a page dedicated to SUSBEC: tracking evil, eyeless blondes, mostly male.
Nale of the Linear Guild in Order Of The Stick. Also subverted with Elan, Nale's twin brother and one of the main characters.

Web Original

The titular Dr. Horrible from Dr Horribles Sing Along Blog.
- 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 goes on a killing spree because his feelings get hurt. The only good character in the entire series is Penny.
  - Goes on a killing spree...with only one, accidental death as the result? Not much of a killing spree.
Mostly averted in Survival Of The Fittest, but played straight with Bobby Jacks of V3. Inexplicably - he's 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.

Western Animation

Mike Morningstar from Ben 10 Alien Force. Guilty of draining girls of their life energy just to keep him from aging.
Trevor Goodchild from Aeon Flux 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 Aeon Flux 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.

Newspaper Comics

Once upon a time there was a little boy named Calvin, who had a pet tiger he called Hobbes...

Truth In Television

Real Life example: Jeffrey Dahmer.
- And Bernard Goetz.
  - And Eminem.
Notably subverted by Adolf Hitler 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".
This troper had two Ken dolls as a child: a brunette and a blond. The blond Ken was always the bad guy. She never thought it meant anything ... until now. Media brainwash.
Gordon Ramsey Not evil, but more than a little bit of a jerk.