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* "TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering": After saving the Spirit Dragon Ugin in the past and being returned to the present, Sarkhan Vol got a lock of hair turned white.

* TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering": After saving the Spirit Dragon Ugin in the past and being returned to the present, Sarkhan Vol got a lock of hair turned white.

* 'TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Normally, gnomes have very bright hair in a great variety of shades. Balazar, the iconic Summoner[[note]]a type of spellcaster who specializes in bonding with an individual extraplanar being[[/note]] used to be the same, with a fiery red mop and mustache. It turned white as snow when he was forced to gaze into the Void Chasm, a pit full of spirits and swirling mist that drove everyone else who looked into it mad, which was also the incident that saw him bonded to his [[BondCreatures eidolon]], Padrig. Notably, this makes him look like he's undergoing [[DiseaseBleach Bleaching]], the process where gnomes who don't experience enough new things slowly turn bone-white and die, something he's rather touchy about.

** This is the reason for Polgara's white lock. She got it when her father, the sorcerer Belgarath, first laid his hand upon her after she was born. It resists cutting and dyeing, which has led to some interesting dilemmas when they've been trying to hide from their enemies. This trope shows up in the entire Rivan royal line, too, and (possibly?) all the disciples of Aldur. Polgara's hair is just the most striking example. With most disciples, it appears as a sort of {{birthmark|OfDestiny}}. Garion's is the most consistent, as all descendants of Riva Iron-Grip carry the mark on their palm: the same palm Riva used to touch the Orb of Aldur.
** Additionally, Belgarath's hair is entirely white (as befits [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld his age]]). In the ''Book of Alorn'', this is put down to frost settling in his hair during the trek across the frozen land bridge between Aloria and Mallorea. But in ''Belgarath the Sorcerer'', he claims that it had gone white before then, and blames stress from dealing with the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Alorns]]. However, the early narrative points to a more prosaic reason: [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld he'd simply been around for a while and lost track of time]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': After gaining her "panda powers", Mei's black hair turns red in human form. While it's implied everyone subject to the curse had red hair if the panda spirit is not actively sealed away, [[spoiler:Mei decides to ''keep'' the red panda, resulting in what's implied to be permanent red hair.]]

* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s "The Beast of Pirate's Bay" includes a verse about Blackbeard the pirate's encounter with the beast resulting in his beard turning white and making him look like Santa Claus.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Sega of America's origin for Sonic involved this. It was adapted into ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogPromoComic''. Sonic was a prickly brown hedgehog who befriended Dr. Kintobor. An accident turned Sonic blue and turned the friendly doctor into Dr. Robotnik. This origin story is [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] to the games as of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''.

* Intense magic use in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} has the potential to change hair, eye, and even skin pigmentation.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', gangster Tony Dracon has a streak in his hair after his first appearance in "Deadly Force"; WordOfGod says that the in-universe rationale for this is because Dracon's first encounter with the gargoyles scared him so badly.