History Main / PeopleOfHairColor

* The Migurdians of ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'' all have blue hair and blue eyes as a MarkOfTheSupernatural.

* ''Literature/VillainessLevel99'': The protagonist Yumiella is a girl who died and reincarnated in a game world that is a mix of RPG and Otome game as a villainess who becomes its {{Superboss}}. The kingdom where Yumiella was reincarnated discriminates against black-haired people, such as Yumiela herself, because the Demon Lord that once threatened it had black hair.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', members of the disbanded Uzumaki clan are said to have red hair, including Naruto's mother Kushina, Nagato and Karin, who was revealed to be an Uzumaki due to this. Naruto is the only known Uzumaki with blond hair and blue eyes, which he inherited from his father, Minato Namikaze. [[spoiler:His own son, Boruto, is also blond. His daughter, Himawari, takes after her mother, Hinata, who has blue hair.]]

* Played with in ''Literature/KemonoNoSoujaErin''. There is a tribe called the Mist People, with green eyes and green hair. Unfortunately, they are associated with black magic. Interestingly, their unusual hair color is actually never brought up and it is their eyes that function as a stigma. Also Je, the First Shin Oh of Ryoza, and her people were known for their golden eyes and blond hair.
* The Migurdians of ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'' all have blue hair and blue eyes as a MarkOfTheSupernatural.

* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Some of the playable races in ''Alfheim Online'' all have the same hair color. For example, the Spriggans have black hair, the Undines have cyan hair, and the Salamanders have red hair.

* Unless they have Human ancestors, the color of the Elves’ hair in The Village in ''Literature/AnOutcastInAnotherWorld'' are almost uniformly silver. Having non-silver hair color, such as Tarric's brown, is indicative of possessing Human ancestors. As Humans are despised in Elatra, this is not seen as a good thing.

* In his ''Literature/DarknessSeries'', a fantasy retelling of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the Jewish-analogues are also blonde haired.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' members of the disbanded Uzumaki clan are said to have red hair, including Naruto's mother Kushina, Nagato and Karin, who was revealed to be an Uzumaki due to this. Naruto is the only known Uzumaki with blond hair and blue eyes, which he inherited from his father, Minato Namikaze. [[spoiler:His own son, Boruto, is also blond. His daughter, Himawari, takes after her mother, Hinata, who has blue hair.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Klaus2019:'' The Krums all have black hair, and the Ellingboes all have red hair. Jesper, Alva, Márgu, and the Saami, who aren't part of the town of Smeerensburg and thus aren't part of the feud, all have blonde hair.

* In ''Film/BigBirdInJapan'', Big Bird observes that the Japanese people he sees on the streets of Tokyo all have black hair.

* In the Darkover series created by ''Creator/MarionZimmerBradley'', individuals with the special abilities called laran are overwhelmingly red-haired, with light eyes, although exceptions do exist--not all redheads have laran, and occasionally someone with darker coloring has laran.

* Played with in ''Literature/TheFarsalaTrilogy''. The upper class deghan and the lower class peasants, which are eventually revealed to be two separate peoples who migrated to Farsala at the same time, are differentiated between by hairtype. The deghan are marked for having straight black hair while peasants have curly brown hair. A black haired peasant or curly haired deghan is an indicator of an affair between the two groups. Despite living as one kingdom, the two treat one another as entirely separate groups of people, regarding one another with mutual disdain.

* In ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials''', the [[{{UsefulNotes.Romani}} Gyptians]] are apparently universally dark-haired, meaning that Lyra has to wear a hat at all times when hiding out with them, in case an enemy zeppelin should fly over and spot her blonde hair. This is thrown out in [[Series/HisDarkMaterials the TV show]], where the Gyptians are [[RaceLift ethnically-diverse]] (seeming to be a confederation of people united by a shared lifestyle rather than a homogeneous ethnic group) and [[Creator/DafneKeen Lyra]] has dark hair.

* A minor example in ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall''. The ''Literature/TortallUniverse'' is quite diverse (Tortall is a big place and its closest southern neighbor is [[FantasyCounterpartCulture based on North Africa]]), but one character near the northern border is rejected because he has blond hair and blue eyes like a Scanran, and Scanra is currently at war with Tortall.
* Creator/HarryTurtledove:
** ''War Between The Provinces'' is a fantasy retelling of the American Civil War in which the original inhabitants of the kingdom, who are blond, play the part of slaves to their dark-haired rulers.
** In his ''Literature/DarknessSeries'', a fantasy retelling of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the Jewish-analogues are also blonde haired.

* ''Literature/TheWickedYears'': It's mentioned that the Gillikinese tend to have broad foreheads, blond curls, and slightly gapped front teeth.
* ''Literature/TheSummerKingChronicles'': A gryfons breed is distinguished by their coloring: dragon-blooded Aesir come in reds, golds, oranges, and greens, Vanir come in greys, whites, browns, and blacks, and Dawn Spire Aesir come in greys, whites, browns, blacks, and shades of red.

* Invoked in ''Series/TheTraitors''. In Series 2. Zack suspects that Paul is Diane's son, as both are Irish with ginger hair. Diane points out that she dyes her hair red. [[spoiler:But her son ''is'' in the game. It's just not Paul - it's Ross (who has dark hair).]]

* Similar to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'', this occurred in the first-generation ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games to some extent. ''Yellow'' had it so that each town was the color of its name (as all of the towns were named after colors). This also happened to the black-and-white ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Red and Blue]]'', but only when played on the Platform/SuperGameBoy and ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium''; on colorized handhelds, the entire game was made either red or blue, depending on the version.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' has redheaded Pheraeans, blonde Etrurians, and green-haired nomadic Sacaens. The former is notable since the the Heroine, Lyndis has bluish-green hair due to her Caelin mother and Sacaen father. May also count as PhenotypeStereotype
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', there is a more realistic version of this: you can tell where ''most'' people are from due to their hair color; most people from Jehanna are redheads, and a number of former Grado residents are blonde. However, just as many people are black/blue/green-haired, with varying countries of origin.
* While black hair is not unique to them, the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture metaphorical Jewish stand-ins]] the Darcsens of ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' all share it and are most commonly identified by that (given the games' simple manga style).
* Depending on your interpretation of canon within the ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' series, the people of the flying Kingdom of Zeal could qualify. They all have blue/purple hair, while the Earthbound Ones of the same era all have earth tones as their hair colors.

* The Roselle of ''VideoGame/TriangleStrategy'' are known for their natural pink hair.

* In ''Webcomic/WakeTheSleepers'', [[http://wakethesleepers.com/comics/57 light hair marks out a distinctive race.]]

* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'' where almost all drow have naturally [[MysticalWhiteHair white hair]] that they frequently dye in their clan colors, making this an InvokedTrope, but played straighter with their ancestors the Dark Elves, who often showed clear patterns among the different regions in terms of natural hair color. Purple seems to be most common among those from [[TheHighQueen Sharess' original kingdom]], blue for the Sullisin, black for the Phariastans and blue-green for those from Zharbi, who became the Sharen, Sullisin'rune, Beldrobbaen/Balvhakara and Illhar'dro respectively once they moved to the underworld.
* ''Webcomic/StarPower'': As seen before, the Evebians have green hair, and, as [[http://www.starpowercomic.com/comic/strong-opinion seen here]], they're called "grassheads" by the purple-haired people they're trying to exterminate.
* All of the Ten Great Families from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' act on this principle. Being a clan with members that are immortal, it leads to thousands of direct descendants inheriting the hair colors of the clan leaders (i.e Arie family members are white/silver haired, the Khun clan has powder blue hair and eyes, etc.), although there are rare exceptions. Guides and Dwarves are also noted for their distinct hair colors, the former being nicknamed "Red Witches" and the latter being nicknamed "White Dwarves".
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Azurites have hair colors that are either black or varying shades of blue. WordOfGod says the blue hair is their natural hair color.

* In the ''Literature/{{Mermaids}}'' trilogy, nearly all the merfolk of Tingle Reef have blond hair, blue eyes, and green tails. Only the adopted child Rani has red hair, brown eyes, and an orange tail. In ''Mermaid Magic'', she meets the sea-witch Morva, who looks the same way she does and teaches Rani to use magic powers that the two of them have, but no one else does. In ''The Shell Princess'', Morva and Rani travel to Morva's home town, where everyone looks like the two of them, in search of Rani's biological family.

* Invoked by Enid in ''Film/{{Censor}}''. She and her sister Nina have distinctive [[HeroesWantRedheads red]] [[RedheadsAreUncool hair]]. That Alice Lee also has red hair leads her to conclude that Alice is Nina. [[spoiler:She isn't.]]

* Similar to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'', this occurred in the first-generation ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games to some extent. ''Yellow'' had it so that each town was the color of its name (as all of the towns were named after colors). This also happened to the black-and-white ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Red and Blue]]'', but only when played on the UsefulNotes/SuperGameBoy and ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium''; on colorized handhelds, the entire game was made either red or blue, depending on the version.

* Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' is full of these -- notably, the tall strawberry blond Aiel and the short dark haired Cairhirenin. Jordan was effective in differentiating people based on geographical region, through appearance as well as speech patterns, dress, and customs.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' distinguishes the ethnically Egyptian and Hebrew characters by character design. The Egyptians have darker skin than the olive-toned Hebrew characters.

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': There are two factions of dwarfs: red and black, distinguished by their hair and beard color. The red dwarfs are generally on the side of good (Aslan the Lion), while the black dwarfs have aligned themselves with the forces of evil (the White Witch). At the beginning of ''Literature/PrinceCaspian'', the two factions are on the same side, represented by the red dwarf Trumpkin and the black dwarf Nikabrik. [[spoiler:In the end, Nikabrik just can't help himself, and turns to evil]].*