Basic Trope: A character's hair color changes frequently.
- Straight: Alice's hair changes color often.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's hair never stops changing color, going to something new every few seconds.
- Alice's hair changes between neon colors and patterns.
- Everyone in Alice's world has ever-changing hair color, but Alice's remains constant.
- Downplayed:
- Every few weeks or months, Alice's hair changes color.
- Alice's hair changes color regularly, but the difference is almost unnoticeable.
- Justified:
- Alice dyes her hair a new color every Saturday.
- Alice's hair is magically enchanted to change color at will, or in response to her mood.
- Alice's body has nanomachines, which she can use to change her hair color within a short period of time.
- Alice is a shapeshifter.
- Alice is a Human Alien whose "hair" is actually a mass of filament-like outgrowths whose pigmentation changes (whether voluntarily or involuntarily) depending on the situation, due to some chemical property in the cells.
- Alice has prismatic hair, the color you see is just how the light refracts from your viewing angle.
- Inverted: Alice's hair always looks the exact same color, even under different lighting conditions.
- Subverted:
- Alice isn't changing her actual hair color, she is swapping a collection of wigs around.
- Alice is actually changing which of her many bodies she is using; they are all identical, apart from hair color.
- Double Subverted:
- Alice has undyed hair beneath the wigs, except there's only one wig after all, which she was dying; her scalp is too sensitive to use such chemicals.
- Alice frequently swaps which body she uses, but they do all have the same hair color; in each body, she has to dye her hair to a different hue to make it seem like her hair is changing colors when she switches body.
- Parodied: Alice's hair does change colors... But they're all invisible to the naked eye, requiring a spectrometer to truly appreciate.
- Zig Zagged: Alice changes her hair color every weekday, but not on every weekend.
- Averted: Alice has lasting hair color.
- Enforced: The person illustrating the story keeps running out of paints and isn't good at getting the same hue twice, so Alice's hair changes color.
- Lampshaded: Alice notices her hair color changing a lot and wonders why it happens.
- Invoked: Bob sends Alice many shades of hair dye because he doesn't like her current brown hair.
- Exploited: Bob notices that Alice's hair changes color depending on her mood, and uses this to understand and talk to her better.
- Defied: Alice doesn't want her hair to change color, and gets a wig and permanent dye to prevent it.
- Discussed: Bob and Charlie talk about how Alice just got many shades of hair dye and will probably begin dying it a lot soon.
- Conversed: "In a cheap story like this, a way to make a character more interesting is to give them randomly changing hair colors."
- Implied:
- Alice is The Ghost, but many people mention her hair changing in color.
- Alice mysteriously disappears, and similar-looking individuals are then occasionally seen with different hair colors.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice's unpredictable hair color means she can't get a job because her employer thinks she's immature.
- Alice is only recognized by her hair, so when it changes nobody knows who she is.
- Alice's hair can change color, but it takes quite a bit of energy to do this, often leaving her exhausted. She often just leaves it grey since that requires little effort.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice finds an employer who doesn't care about her quirky hair.
- People learn to tell who Alice is by other features that don't change.
- Or they identify her by the fact that her hair changes colors.
- Alice gets the energy to change her hair color by eating an large amount of food. This also means that she can change her hair color to burn calories if she eats too much.
- Played For Laughs: Alice's hair changes color at the most inappropriate times, with a loud bang.
- Played For Drama: Alice is desperate to find a way to stop her hair changing color because she feels it is ruining her life.
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