Basic Trope: A character who is bald is also psychic.
- Straight: Professor Psi is bald and a powerful psychic.
- Exaggerated: Professor Psi is completely hairless and can read minds from universes away.
- Downplayed: Professor Psi has cropped hair, but isn't completely bald.
- Justified:
- Psychic energy damages hair follicles, causing hair to eventually stop growing on the head completely. Being such a powerful psychic, Psi lost his long ago.
- The sensations of hair on the scalp are distracting when Professor Psi is using his powers, so he prefers to shave it all off.
- Inverted: Psychics have much more hair than normal, and typically wear it long.
- Subverted: Professor Psi is bald, but although he's highly intelligent and uncannily perceptive, he's not actually psychic.
- Double Subverted: ...or so he says. He actually is psychic, though he keeps it a secret.
- Parodied:
- Professor Psi guesses someone's card, and his hair immediately starts falling out.
- Bob starts balding, and is delighted because he thinks he's gaining psychic powers.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Professor Psi has a head of hair like any other character.
- Several of the team are bald and more than one of the team are psychics, but the two things are unrelated to each other.
- Enforced: Professor Psi and his Psi-Men are caricatures of the X-Men.
- Lampshaded: "My power is -" "Yeah yeah, psychic, got it. What, you didn't think the chrome dome was obvious enough?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited:
- Professor Psi's chrome dome is a clue that he's a psychic, which makes him stand out as a target to those hunting down psychics.
- Professor Psi uses the stereotype of the chrome dome psi to pull off impressive feats of social engineering; because people are more ready to believe that someone is psychic if they're bald, they assume their secrets are already out.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "Say, ever notice how so many psychics seem to be bald? What's up with that?"
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
