Flaming Hair - Television Tropes & Idioms

Most characters have hair. But some (usually of a supernatural ilk) have hair that is either composed of flames, or simply takes the form of a fire on the individuals head. Usually an indicator of villainy. This is a form of Elemental Hair for characters who are literal Fiery Redheads.

See also Hot Wings. Often a part of Burning with Anger. If extended to the entire body it becomes Wreathed in Flames.

Examples:

Anime And Manga

Lordgenome, who is normally bald and goatee'd, sprouts a fine head of flame during his fight with Simon in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
- To elaborate, his Spiral Power's Battle Aura is red, and he's got such tremendous amounts of it that the Flaming Hair effect appears whenever he gets serious. He isn't the only one who can do this, but he's the only one whose Battle Aura focus is on his (former) hair.
- Played Up to Eleven at the movie, where he gets serious enough to do interstelar travel on foot, and so he gets the Godiva Hair effect WITH HIS FLAMING PUBIC HAIR.
In TTGL Spiritual Predecessor Diebuster, physics-breaking Exotic Manuever normally manifests as bright blue light from the forehead, but when Lal'C gets really, teleport-a-gas-giant's-core-and-smash-it-into-your-face level serious it goes beyond that and her hair turns into a blue-white flames. Similar effect is constantly in effect for Buster Machine #7 in active form. Dix-Nieuf, after consuming the degeneration engine, manifests the flames through his cloak.
Shana, her hair, while normal in form is colored like a blazing flame with ember like sparks flying off. Hell its even part of her name.
Burner the Fire Demon from Yaiba. His colleague Rain sports what can be called "Watering" Hair.

Comic Books

DC Comics has Firestorm.
- Firestorm's fiery hair is an illusion- it's not hot. It CAN be snuffed out though.
Marvel Comics has Frankie Raye.
- And then of course there's Jean Grey who sometimes has flaming hair when she's all Phoenix-y.
DC's aptly named Fire has hair ON green fire. Her DC Animated Universe counterpart had hair OF green fire when powered on.
- Starfire from Teen Titans is occasionally drawn with her hair dissolving into fire. This did not extend to her cartoon version.
Marvel's Magma, when fully lit, has hair of fire.
Not sure if Ghost Rider counts...
Firelord, and Nikki from the original Guardians of the Galaxy.
- According to The Handbook Of The Marvel Universe, Nikki's hair only looks like flame. Though some artists didn't seem to realize that. Following a sequence in the comic where she was swimming and clearly shown as bald, the letters page said the Handbook was in error.
An obscure Aquaman foe, Karla Fire-Hair, had this as her power, which conveniently worked underwater.
Doctor Strange villain Dormammu has a head entirely cased in flame. It seems to be the 'crown' worn by the rulers of the Dark Dimension; when Clea was empress she had a flame over her hair.
DC Comics' Waverider from Armageddon: 2001, who also shows up in Zero Hour: Crisis In Time.

Film

Hades from Hercules has blue hair, which switches to red when he gets angry. Lampshaded when Pegasus blows it out.
- Hades: Whoa, is my hair out?

Literature

Fire Witches in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles have this trait when they're using their powers, or when they get annoyed.
In the Ravirn series, the Fury Tisiphone has flaming hair.

Music

Pink's wife in The Wall has this, during the Trial Sequence.

Religion and Mythology

Some depictions of Lo ki show him with hair styled to resemble this◊. However as Thor fits the Fiery Redhead archetype better this has been all but forgotten nowadays.

Tabletop Games

Dungeons & Dragons Fire Genasi have flaming hair. Azers have flaming beards (and hair, when they aren't bald). Salamanders also often have flaming hair.
Hellish Horses often have manes and tails of flames, like Dungeons & Dragons' Nightmares.
Magic: The Gathering's planeswalker Chandra Nalaar is an example of this, being a "fiery red-head". During spellcasting depictions in card and comic forms, the depiction of her hair fades into flames
Warhammer 40,000 has the Chaos special character Doomrider, he does cocaine and his head's on fire!

Video Games

Kirby (from Kirby Super Star et. al.) with the Fire power.
The Zombie Demon Pirate LeChuck has a beard of flame in Curse of Monkey Island.
Pokémon: Chimchar, Infernape, Magmar, Magmortar, Ponyta, Rapidash, and Emboar.
Ares from God of War has burning hair and a beard.
- As does Hermes in God Of War III.
- Hermes' design was tweaked between II and III, and his hair is now made of light.
There are a number of items on Gaia Online that include a fire hair option. Elemental Hair, Sol's Sunglasses, and Twister the Fire Phoenix, to name a few.
The tops of Magma Man & Fire Man's heads is on fire.
- Blaze Heatnix has hair on fire.
Needles Kane from Twisted Metal
Archons in fire form in Dungeon Siege III have this.
Manpuku from Okamiden
Kid Icarus Uprising has Twinbellows, a Hellhound with flaming hair.
Dickson and Christie from Sigma Harmonics.
Demise from The legend of Zelda Skyward Sword has billowing flaming hair, and even flaming sideburns.

Web Comics

Bob from Bob and George can turn this on and off at will when he's Playing with Fire, even through his helmet.
Angry Fuschia from Sinfest, as seen here.
Gunnerkrigg Court. Some of the Treatise pages show Annie's hair turning into fire. In-story, Annie can take on this appearance in the Etherium at least.

Web Original

The Global Guardians PBEM Universe had Heatwave, a Playboy Centerfold (she was Miss March, 1992) who was also a mutant with control over fire. During her photo-shoot for the magazine, she kept her hair... including her pubic hair... "aflame" as part of a disguise.
Gaia Online has many examples.

Western Animation

Danny Phantom:
- Dark Danny has fiery white hair. Which actually came back to bite him when it blew up the gas tanker Danny threw him into.
- Ember McLain.
Batman The Brave And The Bold had flame-haired Firestorm's origin story as an episode.
Static Shock has Hotstreak, whose hair looks even more like it might light on fire in the updated version of the intro theme - it's a common joke amongst the fandom to explain his newer hairstyle by Hotstreak now using flammable hair spray.
Mandie from Fairly OddParents can light her hair on fire.
Aku in Samurai Jack sports flaming eyebrows and matching beard.