White Hair Black Heart / Anime & Manga

There's a reason Vicious has the name.

Examples of White Hair, Black Heart in anime and manga.

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• Ryo from 7 Seeds, who's shown with white or silver hair on the covers. He's calm and collected in personality, extremely competent, and turns out to be quite protective of the people he cares about. Unfortunately, he's ultimately willing to "protect" his friend Ango by trying to kill the people Ango is in personal conflict with — both to remove a threat to Ango's precarious mental stability, and also to prevent Ango from trying to kill them himself and being found out by the rest of their group.
• Cutthroat from Akudama Drive is a deranged serial killer with white hair and a body count in the thousands.
• Joseph/Cartaphilus also known as the Wandering Jew from The Ancient Magus' Bride has white hair and is quite pale and has lived for millennia. He's also a Faux Affably Evil Mad Scientist whoose responsible for some horrific acts such as turning Ruth's master Isabela's corpse into a Chimera and experimenting on people for centuries sometimes with horrific results.
• Tenshi of Angel Beats! is a female example and subverted, as she's actually Not Evil, Just Misunderstood.
• Subverted by Daniel Thace Peregrine AKA Cupid from Angel Crush; his silver hair and abrasive behavior suggests this trope, but he is an angel and sides with Good.
• Angel Sanctuary has a few:
  • Inorganic angel Rosiel. He has bluish-white hair, is mindscrewingly batshit, and wrote the book on effeminacy. He's also completely evil and thoroughly vain, and systematically destroys everything the main character cares about. Did I mention his creepy desire for his twin sister?
  • Sevothtarte is a cruel dictator with reeeaaallly long white hair who rules Heaven (even though the throne actually belongs to Metatron). He doesn't accept insubordination and inflicts Cold-Blooded Torture on any dissenters. Later, it turns out that "he" isn't really a he.
• Argent from Apothecarius Argentum is a heroic yet tragic case, as his white hair is a result of his Acquired Poison Immunity. Though he is an apothecary and healer, he was fed poisons from birth to make him into an assassin. As a result, he himself is highly toxic.
• Harunawa from Arata: The Legend has white hair — and is also probably the most twisted villain of the series, with no Freudian Excuse like the other Big Bads do. His Hayagami forms coils that wrap around his victims and constricts them to death, and he has done this or attempted to do this to both main characters and/or random people several times. And Arata's flashback shows that he's also the one who killed all of the Hime Clan girls so there would be no replacement for Princess Kikuri. He also murdered Arata's parents, and tried to kill him as well.
• Griffith, the mercenary leader of the Band of the Hawk from Berserk, fits the physical description to a T, a nice contrast to the Conan-like main character, Guts. While officially a "hero", he starts out as a Manipulative Bastard out for his own purposes, very much like the historical Thirty Years' War mercenary Albrecht von Wallenstein, who was rumored to have made a Faustian bargain. In this case, though, instead of selling his soul, he sells those of his men.
• Creed Diskenth from Black Cat. Creed is not only white-haired, but insane, bloodthirsty, and wants to conquer the world; dude even compares himself to Lucifer. He also has a really creepy crush on Train.
• Bleach: Gin Ichimaru, Aizen's subordinate. No one trusts him, not the good guys and not the bad guys. Turns out he's as much an enemy of Aizen as the good guys are, but that doesn't change his villainous nature.
  • Zigzagged with Jushiro Ukitake. He appears friendly, but at the end of the Lost Agent arc, Ginjo hints that he is extremely Manipulative and potentially dangerous. He never truly appeared villainous, however, and Ginjo brought that rethoric to try to justify his actions: Ukitake came with the idea of the Shinigami Badge, which serves both as a Power Limiter and to monitor Substitute Shinigami, which Ginjo could not handle as he saw it as a sign of mistrust, so he turned rogue.
  • Averted with Toshiro Hitsugaya; while his white hair caused people aside from Momo and his grandmother to fear him during his childhood, he was able to be convinced by Rangiku to become a Shinigami and eventually became one of the Gotei 13 Captains with a clearer moral compass, also gaining the acceptation of several of his colleagues.
• Bio-weapon antagonist Maria from Burst Angel aka Bakuretsu Tenshi. She is also an example of Red Eyes, Take Warning.
• Yue from Cardcaptor Sakura initially starts out this way, but softens after Sakura offers him friendship. His alternate form, Yukito, completely averts this trope.
• In Chrono Crusade, Aion is not only white haired, but also the Big Bad. His hair is also dramatically long — always good for villains.
• Claudine: Louis has white hair, and commits atrocious actions like setting fire to a house when he finds out that he was cheated on.
• Isley from Claymore also qualifies for this. He is the strongest Awakened Being in the story, and he was the number one warrior of his generation. He seems quite friendly, but that's just a facade, in fact he's very cold-hearted.
  • Ophelia and Priscilla are female examples. All Claymores gain blonde hair as a result of the transformation process, but their hair is almost white. Ophelia wears them tied in a ponytail. And indeed, Ophelia is a bloodthirsty psychopath who not only kills Yoma for pleasure, but also her comrades and even humans.
• Mao from Code Geass is white-haired and pretty decent-looking. He's also a frighteningly sadistic, dangerously insane, creepy stalker type.
• Vicious from Cowboy Bebop (kind of a Straw Nihilist and lives up to his name), especially compared to the brunet Anti-Hero protagonist, Spike.
• Halvir Hroptr of Crimson Spell is the Jerkass Nominal Hero sub-type. True to tradition, he's a Long-Haired Pretty Boy whose pale eyes, skin, and hair make him look both eerie and attractive. He's technically on the side of good, fighting alongside his lover and Protectorate, Prince Valdrigr, but he's wildly jealous, hostile, prone to Disproportionate Retribution, and self-centered in the extreme.
• Aspiring World Dominator and Student Council President Kinshirou Kusatsu, in Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! Or is his hair lilac? He even gets the red eyes at the series climax, though he later drops the Black Heart after he had a Heel–Face Turn.
• Black Butler:
  • Anime-only villain Ash Landers. White hair? Check. Bishōnen? Like the rest of the cast, check. Insane? Check.
  • Charles Grey also counts, being a temperamental and aggressive butler and the true murderer of the Mystery arc.
  • The silver-haired Undertaker starts as a comic relief and informant, but he later grows into one of the most recurring antagonists in the series.
• Alzeid from Dazzle. He's not evil, but of the main three, he's the most criminal-minded.
• The second half of Death Note gives us the white-haired Guile Hero Near, whose definition as a hero is strictly based on the fact that he works against the villain. Although his actual actions are only slightly worse than his predecessor, he's way more a Jerkass about it... mostly because he really doesn't care.
• Muraki from Descendants of Darkness is pretty much the stereotype. He's white-haired, good-looking, a sharp dresser with refined tastes. He's also brutally sadistic (not to mention a sexual predator), enjoying psychological as well as physical torture of his selected victims.
• Dragonaut: The Resonance has Prince Ashim who is quite the sadist and wants to disprove The Power of Love.
• Zamasu from Dragon Ball Super is a genocidal Knight Templar who wants to kill all mortals in the multiverse and has long, spiky white hair.
• Hakuoh of Duel Masters, The Rival and as aloof as they come (see Light Is Not Good) before Defeat Means Friendship took effect. Also one of the bishiest bishies out there.
• Il Palazzo from Excel♡Saga is the leader of ACROSS, an organization dedicated to conquering the world. He's also a Visual Kei-wannabe.
• Fairy Tail:
  • Silver-haired Lyon Bastia is an antagonist when he first appears in Episodes 12-18 on Galuna island, where he attempts to resurrect the demon Deloria. He decides to change his ways as he watches Gray set sail.
  • Mirajane Strauss, on the other hand, is a subversion — she has white hair and her magic is the aptly named "Takeover: Satan Soul", which allows her to take over the forms of demons and use them for herself (it's also implied that the victim of the taking over is completely absorbed into the wizard using it, becoming nothing more than a cool transformation from then on). While her younger self was a violent little hellraiser, she's currently one of the sweetest characters in the series.
• Fantastic Children both plays this trope straight and averts it. Damian does have white hair and given what he's implied to have done to Gerta, it's difficult to deny that he has a black heart.Georca also qualifies. The aversion becomes apparent when you consider that every Greecian has white hair regardless of how old they are. Even Toma gains this when he realizes that he's the reincarnation of Ses.
• Honoo no Alpen Rose: Count George de Garmont has platinum blonde hair and blue eyes. He is a French nobleman and a Nazi collaborator on top of lusting for a child like Jeudi.
• Food Wars!: Eishi Tsukasa. Platinum blonde, purple-eyed and completely oblivious to anything that doesn't have to do with him cooking. The only thing he shows any form of emotional connection to is his best and only friend Rindou, and they are only friends because she decided to be nice to the weird kid in middle school and essentially bullied him into being her friend.
• Zig-zagged by Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist who has white hair, like all Ishvalans (a persecuted ethnic group). He's a villain in the 2003 series, and an Anti-Hero in Brotherhood (though his methods grow less brutal over time in the former, and he does give the philosopher’s stone to Alphonse in the former before dying).
• Henri Claytor from Future GPX Cyber Formula, with a red streak on a strand of his bangs. He seems to be a sweet guy, but he is actually a total bastard and has a one-sided grunge with Hayato throughout ZERO. Although he does mellow out at the end, somewhat.
• Heylel (Hebrew name of Lucifer/Satan) in Genesis has white/silver hair. Later in the manga, he is shown with horns, devilish wings, and dark clothing.
• Makubex from Get Backers. Silver hair, creepy reality-bending powers, actually a created being. His presumable creator, Makube-hakase, is a White-Haired Pretty Girl with actual white hair.
• Kuze a major antagonist, albeit a highly sympathetic one, in second season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex has a cyborg body with white hair and extremely pale skin. He had the face sculpted by a highly renowned artist, and it's only capable of very limited facial expressions, because they would distort this piece of art. He even rarely moves his mouth when speaking with his synthetic voice. And to complete the look, he always wears white and a white long coat and often uses a silver katana with an ivory hilt.
• Erika Itsumi from Girls und Panzer. Paired with her light blue eyes and black tankery uniform, she is rude and arrogant towards Miho Nishizumi and her new school, for the latter's causing Kuromorimine Girls Academy to lose the previous championship.
• Godchild has Jizabel Disraeli, Cain's illegitimate brother and one of his longest surviving enemies. As a child, he was so pretty that his mother hid him from his father by dressing him as a girl. In order to keep him alive, Jizabel's father killed his sisters and transplanted their organs into him. After suffering from his father's abuse for years, Jizabel decided that he suffered from an in-the-blood predestination to being evil and became a doctor who specialized in all manners of unsavory medicine, including deadly crash diets and brain transplants.
• Gundam SEED had Yzak Joule, part of Athrun Zala's squad of mobile suit pilots. He also suffered from Minor Injury Overreaction (though, given, it was the result of shrapnel from his cockpit punching through his helmet, and he repeatedly cried out that it burned when it happened, so perhaps it was not so minor at the time), which branched into The Only One Allowed to Defeat You, though it's subverted in that he's humiliated every time he tried and, eventually, his target was defeated by Athrun instead.
  • SEED Destiny spinoff Stargazer has Sven Cal Bayan, an emotionally dead soldier for a genocidal Government Conspiracy who sees no issues with brutally violating The Laws and Customs of War if ordered to do so.
• Enrico Maxwell from Hellsing is a young-ish man with pale silver hair in the TV and OVA series (though one of the comic covers has him as blond instead). He's also one of the more batshit members of a Cast Full of Crazy; thanks to various bad circumstances since childhood, he's quite ready to take out his religious bigotry and anger at the world on innocent people.
• Rome Ro, the Big Bad in Heroic Age. He's the very last of the Silver Tribe to make a Heel–Face Turn, and he tortured Yuti into attempting to destroy the planet Elysium and, with it, the power of the Golden Tribe.
• Russia and Belarus of Hetalia: Axis Powers fit the anime stereotype of Russians having platinum hair and pale skin, and they're not exactly evil but they're definitely Ax-Crazy. Russia is a Psychopathic Manchild with his mind twisted by a history of bloodshed, has violent mood swings, has a sick sense of humour and is super possessive of everybody he considers his "friend", and his sister Belarus is a harsh Psycho Knife Nut who's every bit as cruel and is a batshit creepy stalker of him. Prussia makes use of this trope as well; he was designed with a villainous image in mind, and he can occasionally be a jerk who screws things up For the Evulz, but he's not one bit aloof and mostly shown to be an annoying and egocentric but good and lovable person. Then again, he is also one of the few nations with the honour of being shown about to kill another onscreen (and not Played for Laughs). Averted with Finland, who is one of the kindest characters, and Iceland, who is more or less a typical awkward teenager and fits Mystical White Hair instead.
• In Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, Marcus Octavius, the Big Bad, is a pretty, white-haired, arrogant elitist whose aim is to recreate Rome's lost glories.
• Killua Zoldyck of Hunter × Hunter. Initially, because his adventures with Gon managed to make him warmer and understand friendship. His father and grandfather Silva and Zeno Zoldyck also fit the bill.
• Saru, the actual Big Bad in Inazuma Eleven Chrono Stone and leader of Feida, an evil organization of The Second Stage Children, kids who due to being ostracized by normal humans, started to rebel against the adults through soccer and grew a Social Darwinist view of life as a result. Gazelle, Baddap and Hakuryuu also count.
• Jin from Innocent Venus, with a corresponding white mecha. He turns out to be the Big Bad Friend.
• Inuyasha:
  • Main character Inuyasha. Humans and youkai hate each other and, as a half-breed, he's hated by both sides. So, he decided to hate the world right back. However after a few episodes it becomes pretty clear that he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
  • Sesshoumaru as well. He's a calm, cold, aloof, and enormously powerful youkai, who starts out as a villain and gradually develops into an Anti-Villain, and then an Anti-Hero, remaining inscrutable the entire time. He's a lot more stubborn than his brother Inuyasha, so his character development takes longer and is more extreme.
  • Also, Hakudoshi. He's a child version of Naraku, except he won't hesitate to get his hands dirty. He remains a villain to the bitter end.
• K:
  • Adolf K. Weismann, watching the heroes from his airship, waltzing with a dead girl in a kitsune mask, with long white/silver hair past his knees, looks like this... until it turns out that he's actually been body-snatched by the killer, and that sweet, adorable Ordinary High-School Student protagonist with no memories is actually Weismann in a high school kid's body. Yeah.
  • The Green King's dark green hair changes to white after he unleashes his power in Season 2, though he's more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
• Leon Oswald, brilliant yet embittered acrobat from Kaleido Star. He humiliates Sora verbally and on-stage, wants revenge against Yuri, seriously injures May Wong to punish her bad attitude, and has a heartbreaking backstory thanks to his dead little sister, Sophie. So yeah, he gets better.
• Tomoe from Kamisama Kiss. He is something of a Jerkass.
• Karoku from Karneval is one, and although the reader is currently unsure of his intentions, he certainly isn't being kind to the boy who sees him as a surrogate older brother figure and is currently seeking him out. He's also either uncaring or hateful toward those who surround the boy.
• Kill la Kill gives us Ragyo Kiryuin. Imagine Cruella de Vil as a JRPG villain with an unhealthy fondness for incestuous rape. Thanks to her Life Fiber implants, she's a literal example as well.
• Subverted by Gunter from Kyo Kara Maoh!; his hair and behavior suggests this trope, but he sides with Good.
• Dio from Last Exile seems like this at first — especially since he works for the Guild (the main antagonists who are all extremely pale and have either white or blond hair) — but is soon revealed to be hyper, enthusiastic, and prone to glomping. Oh, and he's terrified of his sister Delphine, who is a female example of this trope and later has him brainwashed into a soulless killing machine, thus making him fit this trope for a while. By the time Fam The Silver Wing starts he is back to being a subversion since he is his childish, energetic self again.
• Magic Knight Rayearth:
  • Innouva, Zagato's Dragon from the anime, is a white-haired Villain in a White Suit who is cold and ruthless, even though he has genuine personal loyalty to his boss. He's even darker in the Sega game, where he's directly responsible for Lafarga's brainwashing and enforces You Have Failed Me on Zagato's other servants.
  • Averted with Eagle Vision, who is light-haired but an Anti-Villain. It's played straight in the Rayearth OVA thanks to Adaptational Villainy.
• Magical × Miracle:
  • Vaith was a non-villainous example, until he dyed it black. He dyes his hair black as a tribute to his dead men after a battle. As he tells Mel, "The blood never seemed to wash off..."
  • Ardi is an archetypal example; he has red eyes to go along with his white hair and he's a villain.
• Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro has X, who arguably fits the trope, despite the fact that he can change shape. 'His' default form is a young, white-haired Bishōnen. This is his true form in the anime, although in the manga he was born female.
• Eugene Chaud/Ijuin Enzan from Megaman NT Warrior / Rockman.EXE. He becomes less of an antagonist as the series goes on.
• Moriarty the Patriot: Milverton doesn't quite appear old enough to naturally have a full head of white hair, but he has one anyway, paired with the a belief that not only is he evil itself, that he wants to be evil.
• My Hero Academia has this with All For One, along with Shigaraki Tomura, with both having white hair and no qualms performing cruel acts and murdering anyone in their way. Dabi also is revealed to actually have white hair due to being the eldest Todoroki son and is a Serial Killer who has murdered over 30 innocent people and is perfectly willing to kill his own family for his goals.
  • Averted with the first user of One For All, as well as Eri, who are both definitively heroic and kind characters.
• Nagi from My-HiME and My-Otome. His creepy speech and mannerisms (and creepier appearance in the My-HiME manga) should be a dead giveaway that he's not here to shower you with compliments.
• Aizawa Kouichi in Nabari no Ou. While he's not an antagonist (so far) and is usually a laid-back, helpful guy, he's also a ruthless killer, can be very assertive, and knows suspiciously much about what's going on. Oh, and he's an immortal hybrid of snowy owl and human, which would explain the hair.
• Naruto:
  • Kimimaro, with long white hair, an enigmatic minion to then Big Bad Orochimaru.
  • Suigetsu; despite the shark teeth, he is pretty. He's also a bloodthirsty psycho.
  • Kabuto, Enigmatic Minion to Orochimaru and eventual contender for the title of Big Bad.
  • Hidan, the single most violent member of the Akatsuki, and the only one to have no Freudian Excuse. He's just a Combat Sadomasochist with a penchant for Cold-Blooded Torture.
  • Interestingly, Kakashi admits he could have been this if he had chosen a slightly different path. The only thing that stopped him was Obito's sharingan, which was the last thing to instill a sense of hope in him after losing both his family and closest friends in the span of a few years.
  • Toneri Otsutsuki from The Last: Naruto the Movie has white hair and is the main villain.
• Adam Blade in NEEDLESS is another aversion, a Hot-Blooded Idiot Hero. Big Bad Adam Arclight, though another native in a World of Ham, is a straighter example.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi: White-haired Fate Averruncus acts as The Hero's biggest enemy for a large part of the series. However, he's very Affably Evil and only a villain because his methods disagree with the heroes, and even then he both befriends them eventually and isn't the actual Big Bad.
• Kaworu Nagisa from Neon Genesis Evangelion embodies most of shounen's "creepy guy" traits: an existentialist, angelic albino who likes to whistle classical music, wax philosophical and is probably gay. However, despite having popularised this trope in anime, he's an Unbuilt Trope — he's Affably Evil at worst, treats the protagonist better that many of the other characters, is essentially a puppet for Seele and allows himself to be killed in order to avert Third Impact, although he unfortunately only manages to delay it.
  • In the various versions of Evangelion, Kaworu sometimes plays this trope straight, such as in the manga, where he's significantly less sympathetic to the point of killing a stray cat with his bare hands.
  • Other times, he almost completely averts it, such as in the Rebuild films, where, despite still being an angel, he's an even nicer character, stopping Shinji from triggering Third Impact at the end of 2.0, averting the Third Impact again by stopping Shinji in the middle of triggering it at the end of 2.0, then pulling another Heroic Sacrifice in 3.0 to save Shinji's life and help avert the Fourth Impact, though his exact motives and characterisation are still ambiguous.
• Tsukishiro in Nightmare Inspector, a Baku who makes people's nightmares worse in order to make them tastier.
• Dewey of Nurse Angel Ririka SOS suits this trope to a tee. Boyish build with long blue-white hair....and if he had a bit more commitment to playing fair, he could be a Noble Demon. But he doesn't.
• In Origin: Spirits of the Past, Shunack, the main villain, fits this trope. Strangely, the main hero also has stark white hair, both from the same source.
• In PandoraHearts, the Intention of the Abyss, who is the twin of the Bloody Black Rabbit. She seems gentle and kind, but is actually quite mentally unstable.
• Suzu from Peacemaker Kurogane. Especially after he goes Ax-Crazy and turns into a Depraved Homosexual, wearing makeup and revealing clothes — that's when people in the series really start commenting on how beautiful he is.
• Sasame in Prétear. In the manga, he's blond and a supportive (if flirty) older-brother type. In the anime, he's silver-haired and betrays his friends for the Princess of Disaster, gets an Evil Costume Switch, and tries to kill Hayate.
• Masaharu Niou, the Rikkaidai trickster and illusionist from The Prince of Tennis.
• Mytho in Princess Tutu has white hair. In Season 1, he's a subversion, since he's fairly sweet and harmless. During Season 2, however, he becomes increasingly creepy since his heart has been bathed in Raven's blood.
• Shogo Makishima of Psycho-Pass embodies this trope quite deliberately. He wants to save society from the oppressive Sibil System — by plunging society into lawless chaos.
• Reborn! (2004) has the Future Arc's Final Boss, Byakuran, who is the evil, scheming, perpetually smiling beautiful white-haired villain.
• The three white-haired dolls in Rozen Maiden, Suigintou, Barasuishou and Kirakishou, appear as the main villains. Although of the three, only the latter is truly evil.
• Yukishiro Enishi from Rurouni Kenshin, the title character's last and arguably most dangerous enemy, as well as his former brother-in-law. (In the manga. His role in the anime amounts to little more than a cameo.) His hair was originally black, though — it turned white when he was a boy, from the shock of seeing his sister killed.
• Examples from Sailor Moon: Kunzite, the most powerful and evil of The Four Heavenly Kings from the first arc. The second season gives us Prince Dimande, The Dragon to that season's Big Bad. In the Infinity/S arc we have Professor Tomoe, and Viluy may also count.
• Luca of Saint Beast combines the long, white anime hair with red eyes and possesses Elemental Powers of darkness, but is a pretty good guy (outside of Seijuu Kourin Hen), following The Stoic lancer version of this trope. He does mention being afraid of his own capacity for darkness at least once, though, and if you count Seijuu Kourin Hen, he does eventually become an evil sidekick to Judas.
• White hair is strangely common among the employees of MBI in Sekirei. The main villains — Diabolical Mastermind Hiroto Minaka, Dragon-in-Chief Takami Sahashi, Nietzsche Wannabe Natsuo Ichinomi, and Dark Action Girl Karasuba all fit this. However, Takami Sahashi and Takehito Asama both subvert this — while active in the company's experiments and not above using people, both are ultimately good at heart.
• Ferid Bathory from Seraph of the End a sadistic vampire that is one of the main villains throughout the first arc of the series.
  • In contrast, Shinya Hiiragi is a charming human that likes to tease other characters and is a dependable ally to have on your side, although anyone that has read the Catastrophe at 16 novels knows that he's more of a Nominal Hero that tends to disregard other people's lives in favor of a select few and his own.
• Buguese from Spider Riders. Initially a villain, but becomes more of an anti-hero once his motives are revealed.
• Ralph of Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry actually seemed to have gotten a bleach job, specifically for the purpose of being evil. In flashbacks to when he was sane, his hair was blond, shorter, and more professional-looking.
• Because white hair is apparently a genetic trait in the Shi clan, the royal family in The Story of Saiunkoku, it is very likely that a few, if not most, or even all, of Ryuuki and Seien/Seiran's older family members were this, though those two certainly are not. Considering that they all killed each other off in a civil war for the throne and were fond of abusing Ryuuki when he was a child...
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann:
  • The silver-haired and evil Cytomander.
  • As shown in Parallel Works 8, the first Big Bad Lord Genome had white hair as a child, much akin to his daughter, Nia.
• Sternbild's Hanging Judge and part-time Vigilante Man Yuri Petrov of Tiger & Bunny.
• Sohaku Kago from Tenjho Tenge. Though only in the manga, Sohaku, with his immortal bishounen looks and grand evil scheme, is the qunitessential example of this trope.
• Tokyo Ghoul plays with this trope, using its numerous white-haired characters. In general, white hair is used to mark ruthless individuals (Tatara, Arima, Kureo Mado), or as an indication of a changing moral center. After 10 days of physical and psychological torture, kind-hearted Kaneki's black hair turns white and marks his change into a ruthless Anti-Hero. Likewise, Psychopathic Manchild Juuzou begins the series with white hair, but the sequel sees him a much kinder and stable individual with black hair. A similar change occurs with Seidou Takizawa, going from a plucky human with brown hair to a white-haired, murderous Ghoul.
• Epsilon from Towa no Quon is obviously an example. He is in a cyborg army, made to destroy the attractors, emotionless, but eventually decides to go to Quon's side in Chapter 4.
• Trinity Blood averts it with Abel Nightroad, the main protagonist. His identical brother, Cain, on the other hand, is thoroughly twisted and evil.
• Sigma from Tweeny Witches has white hair, and he also happens to be a Manipulative Bastard who manipulated both the warlock soldiers and the heroes for his own ends.
• Canute from Vinland Saga starts out as a subversion: he's meek, timid, and his favourite hobbies are cooking and reading the Bible. After going through some pretty screwed up shit, his meek persona starts to crumble, until he transforms into a bit of a badass.
• Dilandau in The Vision of Escaflowne (nuts, though for good reason). That reason partially coming from the fact that "he" is a girl.
• Prince Bokar of Sennec from Voltron appeared to be nice at first, saving Princess Allura, but only later does his true self show as a Robeast that attacks the Voltron Force and kidnaps Princess Allura for Zarkon. Also, Prince Lotor, with a white mane that goes past his waist and a Villainous Crush on the Princess.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: has numerous examples:
  • Pegasus and Marik, the Big Bads of the first two big story arcs.
  • Even cards get this treatment; the Dark Magician owned by minor antagonist Pandora (Arcana in the dub) in Season 2 has white hair.
  • Zig-zagged with Bakura. Ryo Bakura is a kind, soft-spoken, good-natured kid who genuinely wants the best for his friends. The real example of this trope is the Spirit of the Ring, who routinely takes control of his body and terrorizes the protagonists.
  • The designated Anti-Hero of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Edo Phoenix, has silver hair.
  • And in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Kiryu and Plácido.
  • Revolver of Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS appears to be this, but is actually a Subversion, in that he is a Well-Intentioned Extremist. The Dragon Spectre plays it straight though.
• Subverted with Victor Nikiforov in Yuri!!! on Ice. Before his true motivations are revealed, because of Victor's status as a particularly cheerful Manipulative Bastard with Brutal Honesty, and his silver hair covering his eyes seemingly indicating duplicity, fandom ran amok with theories ranging from "he was secretly dying and wanted to coach a replacement", or "he's a Sabotutor". It was then revealed that he's just a dork prone to Poor Communication Kills and motivated by a Forgotten First Meeting.
• Youko Kurama from YuYu Hakusho is a legendary demon bandit, and was pretty nasty until recently, and hired a hit man to kill his own thieving partner.
• Zeno, Zatch's Evil Twin in Zatch Bell! has white hair as opposed to Zatch's golden hair.

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