Basic Trope: Hair loss is a sign of a disease or other serious affliction.
- Straight: Bob is cursed, and starts finding that he's losing hair more easily.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob loses all of his hair very soon after he's cursed.
- Everyone is cursed with sudden hair loss.
- Downplayed: Bob sheds hair more frequently than he should when he's seriously ill.
- Justified: Truth in Television - some diseases can cause hair loss.
- Inverted: Bob starts growing an excessive amount of hair when he's cursed.
- Subverted: It's the chemo, not the cancer.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Bob is cursed to have a lot of unpleasant things happening to him, but is much more worried about the fact that his hair is falling out.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob doesn't lose any hair.
- Enforced: To show what's going on with Bob after he's been cursed.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "Alice, I just tried combing my hair, and large chunks of it started coming out!" "That's worrying."
- Conversed: ???
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