Should the musicians in the "Real Life" folder go under a "Music" folder?
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Drat, it's too bad musicians don't get to be on this trope because — just look up Tim Dry. Sure, he's also an actor, artist, and mime, but he got his show business career started as a musician and while he's always been hot, he became the hottest man alive once he decided to shave the hair on his head off and become completely bald. OH MY GOD HE IS HOT AND THIS TROPE PERSONIFIED.
And that, kiddies, is why this trope is NRLEP. We're not here to be a party to gushing, natter and fangasms.
Does the character in question have to be completely bald to fit this trope?
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Nah, Picard does have some hair.
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I find the request of "no real life examples" to be dumb and inconsistent as there is no such header in your face while editing similar pages like Badass Beard. Still, I wanted to ask if this example was okay first before I added it.
- Many Hindus believe hair to be both a distraction and a source of vanity and are thus happy to go bald. This has only been exasperated in the last couple of centuries as Indian hair became popular in USA markets, giving Indians both religious and financial incentive to go bald.
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This trope is in need of some example cleanup. Many of the examples are just "bald guy I think is awesome." I will be calling up examples that I am not sure of here.
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Is this even a real trope? I mean, the article doesn't include any explanation as to /why/ the baldness would make the character seem stronger. It seems to just be a list of strong characters who are incidentally bald.
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With the possible exception of Live Action stuff, characters are never 'incidentally' bald; characters are built, and important characters usually undergo several design revisions. Even in Live action, actors are selected based on what the casting calls for. None of the design or costume tropes cause or make the character to be stronger — Go Nagai sideburns are very seldom spontaneously grow from hot blood, and red hair follicles rarely burrow into the aggression centers of the brain. They're visual shorthand to apply certain conceptual archetypes to characters by showing, without having to explicitly tell the concept.
Take Lordgenome from Gurren Lagann for an example. He's built as an archetype of extreme stereotypical hotblooded manliness; that's his character, and there are very few parts of his design that do not reflect this. His baldness is part of that: he could do the same acts if he had shoulder-length locks of flowing hair, but he'd not look like a bodybuilder mixed with a wrestler.
Retooled into Bald of Authority and disambiguated per TRS:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1640452322058162000
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