History Main / SkunkStripe

* NonConformistDyedHair: A rebellious, free willed character has a dyed skunk stripe in their hair.

Having a skunk stripe is not a trope on its own. "Skunk Stripe" may refer to one of the following:

* LockedIntoStrangeness: A character gets a skunk strip in their hair due to a strange, traumatic or supernatural event.

Having a skunk stripe is not a trope on its own. "Skunk Stripe" may refer to the following

If a direct wick has led you here, please correct the link so that it points to the corresponding article.

* MarkOfTheSupernatural: A skunk stripe signifies a persons supernatural or otherworldly origins.

* DualityMotif: A skunk stripe hints at a characters dual nature.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: A characters gets a skunk strip in their hair due to a strange, traumatic or supernatural event.

[[WMG:[[center:[[AC:This trope is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1646395176037102900&page=1 under discussion]] in the Administrivia/TropeRepairShop.]]]]]]

[[quoteright:300:[[Film/BrideOfFrankenstein https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bride_of_frankenstein_elsa_lanchester.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:300:Because you're worth it... and made out of dissected body parts.]]

->''"Holy shit! That girl has a skunk on her head!...oh, that's just your hair. Sorry, but that's messed up."''
-->-- '''Agent Kelly''', ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats''

A character has dark hair, with a distinct white or lighter-colored streak running through it.

Often, this is the result of some exposure to magic or other AppliedPhlebotinum, or possibly a sign that they're genetically inclined towards awesome. Sometimes, it comes from [[LockedIntoStrangeness a scar or other trauma]]; in these cases, there is overlap with DiseaseBleach and LockedIntoStrangeness. And sometimes, it can just mean they're a [[ObviouslyEvil rotten person]].

In real life, it's a phenotype occasionally associated with a number of unrelated genetic defects. It can also be the result of injury to the scalp. There's a scientific term for this, it's called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliosis poliosis]]. It's also sometimes a result of the natural aging process, most obviously in the common pattern of older men "greying at the temples".

Actual [[SmellySkunk skunks]] are, of course, assumed to have this style. See also DualityMotif if the skunk stripe displays two sides of a character's personality.

----
!!Examples:

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/AkibasTrip'': A dead giveaway on someone being possessed by the Bugged Ones. The bigger the stripe, the stronger they are.
* Takuto from ''Anime/ArgentoSoma'' gets white streaks on his left side, not to mention facial scars on his cheeks (badass) and eyelids (a beautiful gray shade), courtesy of an experiment gone horribly wrong (trying to bring to life a creature pieced together from various destroyed aliens that have been plaguing the planet may not be a good idea). He keeps these scars despite the availability of plastic surgery, because of the guilt he had over his inability to save his girlfriend from said creature, so it seemed. [[spoiler: Turns out, said creature, later called Frank, was trying to save her from the crumbling building, but he was too late.]]
* The first time Guts uses the Berserker's Armor in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', he gets a white streak in his hair.
* In ''Manga/BlackJack'', Dr. Black Jack sports a large white streak through his hair thanks to an accident that effectively blew half of his face off. He got better.
* Lelouch from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has a red one in the [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1f/9f/ea/1f9feaea65d1172c8e9407d7a4dd3a17.jpg rock band AU]].
%%* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Arystar Krory]] from ''Manga/DGrayMan''.
* [[AmnesiacHero Onna]] from ''Anime/DeathParade'' has a white streak in her bangs. It's so far unknown if this is natural or not, but it certainly makes her stand out among the regular humans that enter the bar in which she works. [[spoiler:It is apparently natural, despite the other characters having average hair colours, as Chiyuki even has it in childhood flashbacks. Her parents lack the stripe as well.]]
* The ''Anime/DirtyPairFlash'' version of Kei has a blonde forelock and is otherwise a redhead.
* Shobu from ''Anime/DuelMasters''. One enemy even calls him "Skunk-bu."
* Marco from ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' has a lightning-shaped skunk stripe running through his slicked back brown hair.
* Hughes from ''Manga/FairyTail'' has an apparently natural white streak. However, this [[UnusualEyebrows isn't his/her most noticeable feature]].
* ''Manga/FoodWars'': Azami Nakiri has black hair, with a white bang slicked back across the upper right side of his head.
* In ''Manga/FutabaKunChange'', the MadScientist Koujiro triplets and Futaba's fiancée Kurin have white streaks in their hair. Kurin seems to have inherited hers from her mother.
* Ryuko Matoi from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has a red stripe in her otherwise black hair. [[spoiler:It's made out of Life Fibers.]]
* In the ''Monster Collection'' manga, summoners often have hair like this. Apparently, it happens when the summoned creature dies, because of {{Synchronization}}.
* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
** In ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'', Cure Flora, Mermaid and Twinkle have different color stripes in their transformed states' bangs - Flora has pink on her blonde hair, Mermaid has purple on her blue hair and Twinkle has red in her orange-red hair.
** In ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'', Cure Chocolat has a brown stripe in her red hair.
%%* Shouichiro Kizaki in ''Manga/{{Ratman}}''.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** Death the Kid has multiple white streaks in his black hair. Interestingly enough (and occasionally {{Lampshaded}}), the streaks are aligned horizontally across his hair, rather than running along vertically. Specifically stated to be a result of his [[TheGrimReaper grim reaper]] father mystically coloring or recoloring his hair for the RuleOfCool. Unfortunately for Kid, he is SuperOCD and absolutely ''obsessed'' with symmetry, so the stripes are a constant source of chagrin for him; on the plus side, the manga has revealed that, eventually, Kid will have three complete stripes in his hair. It's a grown-up death god thing.
** Asura also has white streaks in his hair which are aligned in pairs vertically to look like eyes.
* Several of the girls in ''Anime/UmaMusume'' have a white streak through their bangs, most notably protagonist Special Week. This is meant to imitate the facial markings of the real horses that inspired them.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': The main character [[https://ncache.ilbe.com/files/attach/new/20161105/14357299/1975928717/8995346075/9c9f28211ccdce3c8f4608ac579562eb.jpg Yusei]] has two yellow thunder-shaped strikes on both side of his head, while his hair is otherwise black.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', Yuzu has two pink stripes on her bangs while the rest of her hair is red/magenta.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Franchise/MarvelUniverse
** The jury's still out on how ComicBook/{{Rogue}} of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' got hers (she's even called "skunk hair" by some punks in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution''!). Some sources say it came with the very first use of her powers. Some say it was from the absorption of her [[FlyingBrick more conventional superpowers]]. A letter column from Marvel once stated it was dyed in. That was printed in the 1980s and may no longer be valid; then again, the white will go down the middle of her hair one month, then be just a few bangs the next... Meanwhile, the character's more recent solo title depicts her as simply being born with the white streak. And there has been no story set in the past that showed her without one or two white streaks.
*** In her earliest appearance, it looked like age. She looked like she could have been quite older than she was originally decided to be, though it ''could'' have been BeautyEqualsGoodness (she was ''not'' a nice girl when we first met her, enjoying villainy a lot more than the "poor sweet innocent manipulated by Mystique" version of her backstory seen nowadays.)
*** [[Film/XMen1 The first of the three movies]] pins it on forced overuse of Magneto's power after she was hooked to the life-draining mutancy machine. She admits that she likes how it looks, but in the second film, Magneto and Mystique [[KickTheDog taunt her]] by saying "We love what you did with your hair".
*** And according to quite a bit of [[RuleThirtyFour questionable fanart]], said "stripe" extends to more than just what's on her head...
** [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], another X-Man, also has white in his otherwise light brown hair, which is explicitly referred to as a 'skunk-stripe'. When Cable, his 616 counterpart, physically regressed to his teenage years, it became clear that this was a natural development. Amusingly enough, he was LikeBrotherAndSister with Rogue, who was one of the few people who he actually trusted.
** Nocturne also has a streak of white hair. This is a stylistic choice, however: her original hairstyle, with the braids, lacked it. She gained the skunk stripe as part of her ''New Excalibur'' makeover.
** ComicBook/{{Sunspot}}, as of ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015'', has a streak of white in his otherwise black hair. This is the result of an illness causing his mutant power to go haywire and [[CastFromLifespan ageing him prematurely]] whenever he uses it.
** Reed Richards of the Comicbook/FantasticFour has been portrayed with greying temples in just about every iteration of the character; mostly to indicate his age.
** ComicBook/NickFury has them, too, in the same color scheme as Reed's.
*** Both Reed and Nick appear to be just greying at the temples, which most males of a certain age can tell you is TruthInTelevision. Since Fury was ''Sgt.'' Fury in World War II he's got to be at least 90 by now, so even with the anti-aging formula he uses a ''little'' grey is to be expected.
** As does Comicbook/DoctorStrange, though his tend to sit higher on his head (depending on the artist/colorist) and suggest [[LockedIntoStrangeness weird power]] more than age.
** The [[Comicbook/BettyRoss Red She-Hulk]] inverts this, with black hair with two stripes of red hair running through it, enhancing her similarity to a demon.
** Victoria Hand has dyed pink locks running down either side of her hair. It's a visual cue as to her individuality and sexuality if anything.
** ComicBook/AllNewGhostRider has Robbie Reyes, who has a white streak in his hair that plays into his flames motif. Interestingly, he has it before becoming a Ghost Rider.
** Songbird, in the Comicbook/{{Thunderbolts}}, has red (or pink) streaks in white hair.
** Jericho Drumm, a.k.a. Brother Voodoo, has white hair at the crown of his head and black elsewhere. Coupled with [[DreadlockRasta dreadlocks]].
** In ''Comicbook/MsMarvel2014'', the unfortunate Skunk Girl, who has been given, basically, ''skunk powers'' by the superpower-granting Terrigen mists (and didn't want them at all), gets this hairstyle as one side-effect. As Ms. Marvel notes, it's the one part of the deal which is kind of cool.
** Tarantula from ''ComicBook/HeroesForHire'' has a red streak in her otherwise black hair.
* Franchise/DCUniverse
** In the Franchise/DCUniverse, resurrection in a Lazarus Pit always causes a white streak, though some people (like the Riddler) hide it with dye. As a result, ComicBook/RasAlGhul has two thin streaks of gray in his black hair -- it's hinted that he keeps them because he likes how they looks. This is kept in all his incarnations. It even became a sort of {{Foreshadowing}} in a ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode in [[spoiler: which [[GrandTheftMe "Talia"]] lets Bruce try the Lazarus pits, and she remarks that Young!Old!Bruce's similar greying pattern is "Quite dignified"]]; Bruce also gets the stripe in ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'' when Ra's convinces him to use the Pit.
** Jason Todd sports his own stripe after his resurrection in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood''.
** The Franchise/{{Batman}} villain Ten-Eyed-Man has a large streak of white in his black hair.
** Roxy "Freefall" Spaulding of ''ComicBook/{{Gen 13}}'' is a brunette with pinkish-purple forelocks.
** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
*** [[DaEditor Perry White]] has worn one for as long as he's existed. He's one of the most iconic wearers of the stripe.
*** Older versions of ComicBook/{{Superman}}.
*** The ComicBook/PostCrisis replacement for the Golden Age version in the ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' sequel series ''The Young All-Stars'', "Iron" Munro, has a white stripe on the top part of his black hair.
** ''ComicBook/GreenLantern''
*** Older versons of Hal Jordan have white/grey streaks at their temples. The mainstream version of the character also had them for a while. Originally, it was supposed to be age, later retconned as a premature stress induced greying brought on by Parallax (Infection by a being of pure fear turning his hair white) and fixed when he was resurrected.
*** Repeated, complete with a true Skunk Stripe along the middle, when [[spoiler:Kyle Rayner becomes Parallax]].
** Both Jason Blood and the original Jim Corrigan had/have a white Skunk Stripe on dark auburn hair. In both cases, it's from exposure to Powers Greater Than Mortal Man -- but at opposite ends of the spectrum (Blood is bonded to the Demon ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}, while Corrigan was the host for ComicBook/TheSpectre). AFAIK, they never showed up in the same scene.
** Abigail Arcane from ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' inverts this -- black streaks on white hair.
** The version of Eurydice in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has Abigail's hairstyle, but with white streaks on black hair.
** Domino, a recurring FemmeFatale from the Evanier/Spiegle run of ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}, has black hair with a prominent white streak.
** Lyle Foccart, the second Invisible Kid in ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes'' has a white stripe down the centre of his hair. Originally, this was caused by [[LockedIntoStrangeness an encounter with Darkseid]], but in the Reboot Legion, flashbacks show he had it from a very early age.
** Crime Syndicate member Superwoman had a streak of white in her black hair during her Pre-Crisis appearances.
** Dr. Victoria October from ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' has one.
** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
*** The White Magician, the villain who killed ComicBook/{{Artemis}} in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'', has two wide stripes of white atop his otherwise brunette head.
*** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Supporting character Lao Chen has a white stripe behind his ears to show his age.
** ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': In "The Black and White Bandit", Roscoe Chiara has plain black hair in the flashback to before his life-changing accident, but in the present day he has two white stripes in his hair, extending to matching stripes in his beard.
* The eponymous character of ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}'' has a grey streak on his left temple where a bullet grazed him pre-amnesia.
* The original John Gaunt incarnation of ''ComicBook/{{Grimjack}}'' had this, which seemed unrelated to his trademark scar. A clone body he inhabits later also has it, so it seems to be genetic.
* Hunter Rose, the original ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'', has this, and later Grendels tend to develop them as they become increasingly [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide overcome by the role]].
* Knives Chau of ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' dyes a pink one into her bangs, but during her encounter with the Clash at Demonhead, Lynette punches her so hard that the stripe is literally knocked out of her hair. It's blue in the movie. In both cases, Knives is trying to emulate Ramona's current look to try and catch Scott's attention again.
* Francine Peters in ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'' has one for a while after the plane crash.
* In ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'', Imperial spymaster Ysanne Isard combines Skunk Stripe with heterochromia.
* In ''ComicBook/PocketGod'', [[{{Goth}} Moon]] has a blue stripe on her [[PeekABangs large bang]] and [[DoesNotLikeMen Kinsee]] has a pink stripe on her ponytail.
* Madame Dominique in the ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' story "The Resurrection of Papa Voudou" has a big white stripe in her black hair.
* Astrid Mueller has one in ''ComicBook/CleanRoom'', at least in the present. It helps differentiate the flashbacks to her teenage past.
* In ''ComicBook/TheOthers1995'', the long streak of white in Racket's brown hair is the only clue that she's an evolved skunk.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': There's the canonical examples of ComicBook/DoctorStrange and [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Jason Todd]], but [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry]] gets one too at the end of the first book, as a [[LockedIntoStrangeness side effect]] of [[spoiler: his brief possession by [[EldritchAbomination Chthon]]]] during the FinalBattle. He's rather bemused by it at first, but shrugs it off shortly after.
* ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'': [[Music/StevieRayVaughan Moon Ray Vaughoof]] (now [[MeaningfulRename Prince Canticum Lunae Cahaya]]) gained a white stripe in his hair after manifesting his domain of Prophecy in a sudden and very painful fashion. [[LockedIntoStrangeness The change is permanent on a fundamental level, too]]; even while [[VoluntaryShapeshifting taking on different forms]], he'll always have a white stripe or mark on him. After becoming an eldritch Alicorn, the white stripe changes depending on which of his three forms he's currently in - in his Alpine form, it becomes a river ferrying the dead; in his Equus form, it becomes a Milky Way; and in his Silicon form, it becomes a waterfall that's nourishing all life.
* The ''Land of Oz'' AlternateUniverseFic oneshot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13293836/1/Free Free]]'' explains this as an in-bred trait of Princess Ozma's bloodline. To make sure everyone knew who led Oz, they began breeding in emerald green eyes and green hair streaks into their lineage.
* Satsuki in ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'' has a blue streak in her otherwise black hair. It's unclear if the same goes for Ryuuko.
* Satsuki in ''The Mysterious Lady Kiryuuin'' has black hair with a very prominent gray, almost white, streak in it. The origin is unknown, however, apparently, she's developed it by the time she was nearing her late teens, according to a photograph.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fanstory [[http://jigokuhana.tumblr.com/post/177421810169/boringartist-jigokuhana-i-made-steven-and-pearl Bad Prediction AU]], Steven, who was literally born into his role as Pink Diamond, has a pink stripe in his brown hair that's shaped like a heart.
* In ''FanFic/TomorrowsDoom'', Aiko is deaf in her left ear, and has a white stripe on the left side of her hair to match it.
* In ''FanFic/TotalDramaLegacy'', [[spoiler: Drew gets a white streak in his hair [[LockedIntoStrangeness after suffering various electric shocks]] in "Virtual Royale-ity". He straight-up says it makes him look like a skunk.]]
* ''Fanfic/VivaLaVida'': As in canon, Odd Todd has a white stripe running through his dark brown hair and a white tuft sticking out from his eyebrow. Once Olive starts to turn to the odd side, she too has a white stripe in her brunette corkscrew ponytail that's hidden well enough for Otto to not notice until after he's finished talking to her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Inverted and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', where the white-coated dog believes the bolt-shaped patch of black fur on his side is proof he was given superpowers. Once he's away from the studio for a while, the black dye fades and reveals that this mark, like Bolt's "powers", was all a lie.
* Carmen Sanchez from ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', has three white streaks on the side of her head.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', Anna has a platinum blonde streak on the side of her head because her sister, Elsa, accidentally hit her with her ice powers when they were little. [[spoiler: When Elsa hits her again in the heart, her hair slowly turns all white. After ThePowerOfLove saves Anna from freezing to death, her hair returns to its full strawberry-blonde color with no streaks at all.]]
* In a ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' movie, ''The Lost Dragon'', the main villain Drizella has one of these; this is carried over to her niece Athena.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'', the poodle Persephone gets this after being electroshocked by Sparky, which makes her look like Frankenstein's bride.
* Wyldstyle in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' has two of these in her hair. [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart The sequel]] reveals that [[spoiler: it used to be bright blue and pink before she took a [[DyeHard permanent marker]] to it partly out of embarrassment over being a cutesy GirlyGirl who originally sang "Everything is Awesome" and more out of the incident when Lord Business started his Master Builder head hunt.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/KillerUnderTheBed'': Mandy has some white streaks in her hair from when the doll drove her insane.
* The scowling Nazi spy played by Gale Sondergaard in spy comedy ''Film/MyFavoriteBlonde'' has one, just to make her a little bit scarier.
* Nicky in ''Film/{{Casino}}''.
* The kid in ''Film/TheSixthSense'' has one. So does Donnie Wahlberg.
* ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''--Elsa Lanchester with the iconic example. See the image at the top of the page.
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'': Elizabeth's hair gets a white streak after she's been abducted by the monster. This is mostly so she can have the Bride of Frankenstein hairdo later, [[RuleOfFunny because it's funnier that way.]]
* The title character in ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' has one. In an interview, Creator/JohnnyDepp said it was caused by the terrible trauma Todd experienced when he was torn from his family and sent to a penal colony.
* Captain Nemo in ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' has black hair with white streaks on his temples, probably caused by trauma and/or stress rather than age.
* This happens to the Mom in ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'' after [[spoiler:she rescued her little daughter from that ghost world - two white streaks in hair, one at each temple.]]
* Maxi Amberville from ''I'll Take Manhattan'' has black hair with a white streak.
* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''
** [[FinalGirl Nancy]] in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' ends up with one of these after one particular nightmare in the doctor's office.
** And in the fourth-wall-breaking sequel ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare'', [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Nancy's actress Heather Langenkamp]] develops one just like her character did.
* Ash, the protagonist of ''Film/{{Avalon}}'', has one of these while inside the titular MMORPG. It disappears during the MindScrew final act.
* Another Ash gets one during the last stand at the end of ''Film/EvilDead2''.
* The local town crazy in ''Film/TheGreatOutdoors'' has one of these from getting struck by lightning too many times.
* Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films. Averted with Lucius Malfoy, as Jason Isaacs protested that his rich, stylish character would have hair resembling "a badger's arse".
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** In ''Film/XMen1'', Rogue acquires her signature white hair streak after her near-death experience in Magneto's apparatus. She decides it looks good enough to keep.
** Yukio from ''Film/TheWolverine''. Strands of her natural hair color are still visible.
* Jinnah has one in ''Film/{{Gandhi}}''. Appropriately, he is a semi-antagonistic character. He is contemptuous of Gandhi's habit of dressing and living like a peasant, and as leader of the Muslims in India, he refuses to support Gandhi's campaign for a united India.
* The main character in the French-Canadian film ''Film/{{CRAZY}}'', Zac (Marc-André Grondin), has a white streak in the back, caused by having been dropped on his head as a newborn. His mother convinces him as a child that it's a sign he has the ability to heal others through prayer. Also an interesting mirror to his friend Michelle, who has light hair with a dark streak.
* [[AxCrazy Toe]][[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast cutter]] has one in the first ''Film/MadMax1'' movie.
* Lampshaded in the Film/JosieAndThePussycats movie with Alexandra Cabot. Provided the page quote.
* Fireball from ''Film/TheRunningMan'' has two stripes in his hair.
* ''Film/StrangeBrew'' - Hosehead the dog, who is black with banded white stripes on his back, saves the day when, told the local Oktoberfest has all the beer and sausages he can consume, literally flies there and, mistaken for a big skunk, drives everyone out before they can drink the villain's mind-control beer.
* Magenta from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' had the Elsa Lanchester ''Bride Of Frankenstein'' look down pat near the end of the film, with beehive hairdo and skunk stripe hair.
* Malita, the demented MadScientist in ''Film/TheDevilDoll'', has one of these.
* Bruce Wayne is starting to grey at the temples in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
* Similar to his incarnation in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' in ''Rises'', the ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'' version of Batman is also shown with grey in his temples.
* Johanna Mason from ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire''.
* Vexy of ''Film/TheSmurfs2'' has a single streak of blue in her normally black hair.
* The unnamed Jewish barber in ''Film/TheGreatDictator'' sports one of these, distinguishing him from the otherwise-identical Adenoid Hynkel who's the dictator of the title.
* The killer in ''Film/CherryFalls'' has one. [[spoiler: It is actually a wig to make him appear like Loralee Sherman.]]
* A severely-miscast Creator/HumphreyBogart has one as Quesne in ''Film/TheReturnOfDoctorX''.
* ''Film/DawningOfTheDead'': Katya is shown to have one in her hair in a close-up shot of her head.
* ''Film/TheWalkingDead1936'': In a LockedIntoStrangeness example, John Ellman develops a white streak down one side of his hair after being brought back from the dead.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]
* A good portion of Horror Campfire stories has a character end up with white streaks -- or all white-hair -- after being frightened by some sort of supernatural encounter.
* James Lee Burke's Louisiana detective character Dave Robicheaux has a white streak in his hair that got him the nickname "Streak" as a young man. It's due to malnutrition during his very impoverished childhood.
----
* In the ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' novels by Ed [=McBain=], Detective Cotton Hawes has a white streak in his otherwise red hair as a result of his hair growing back over a knife scar.
* ''Literature/AuroraCycle'': Auri O'Malley has a white streak in her black hair when rescued from 220 years of being a HumanPopsicle that wasn't there before. [[spoiler:It turns out to mark her having been TouchedByVorlons during that time.]]
* In Gary Jennings' ''Literature/{{Aztec}}'', Zyanya has a white streak in her black hair, where a scorpion stung her as a child.
* In Creator/DavidEddings' ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' and ''Malloreon'' series, Polgara has a 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 leads to some interesting dilemmas when they're trying to hide from their enemies. A similar white mark can be found on all the sorcerers in Garion's line, but on different parts of their bodies.
** The solution her father comes up with to hide the lock is to use his influence with royalty to make it a common affectation, so regular people will just think she's a little vain.
* In the ''Literature/BlackJewels'' trilogy, a witch named Luthvian is described as having a white streak in her hair that is "a memory of her father's fists."
* In ''Broken Gate'', Nezumi (pictured [[http://img15.deviantart.net/f12b/i/2016/096/3/6/nezumi_by_akaichounokoe-d9xzshd.jpg here]]) has a streak of silverish-white in otherwise black hair, however, [[spoiler: as she grows weaker, from reinforcing the seals on the gate, all of her hair turns to a silverish-white]].
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
** Death's granddaughter, Susan Sto Helit, inverts this trope: her hair is naturally white with a black streak (as well as [[ExpressiveHair expressive]]). In TheMovie of ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', her hair is platinum blonde instead of pure white, but she retains the black streak.
** Also, the Magpyr family, from ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': The Leanansidhe, Harry's evil, crazy, fairy godmother, originally had a head of full red hair. After [[spoiler:years of treatment by Queen Mab to cure her of infection by [[TheVirus Nemesis]],]] she gains a white streak.
* In Kay Nolte Smith's ''Elegy For A Soprano'', the titular soprano, Vardis Wolf, adds a white streak to her dark hair after abandoning her baby, telling her friend that it was a reminder. She doesn't explain of what exactly, but it's possible she felt guilty.
* Literature/ErastFandorin's temples become gray following the shock of [[spoiler:witnessing his first wife's death in a terrorist attack (originally aimed at him!) at the end of the first novel]]. His gray temples later become his characteristic mark, which is used by an impostor in a later novel to pass as Fandorin.
* In "Literature/TheGypsiesInTheWood", a girl is taken away by TheFairFolk, and when they return her she's [[YearInsideHourOutside thirty years older]] and has a white streak in her hair.
* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'': Eldan has dark hair with white streaks at his temples.
* Creator/WolfgangHohlbein's ''Hexer von Salem'' (Witcher of Salem), Robert Craven, has a Skunk Stripe, as well as his father, Roderick Andara, because they are witchers.
* One of the families in Creator/EdwardRutherfurd's ''London'' has this trope as one of its hereditary genetic quirks.
* Grey Star, the hero of the ''World of Literature/LoneWolf'' series, is named for the white forelock in his otherwise black hair.
* In ''Literature/TheMagicGoesAway'', one sorceress has a white streak in her hair because of the difficulty of maintaining her youth without the mana to do it. The streak increases and decreases opposite to the amount of mana in the environment.
* In ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'' by Creator/TadWilliams, Simon gains a scar and white streak in his hair after being burned by dragon's blood. From then on, he's often referred to as Simon Snowlock.
* ''Literature/MobyDick'''s Captain Ahab.
* In book three of ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Atlas]]' burden of holding up the sky has grayed his hair. When Annabeth and Percy both temporarily take on the Titan's curse, streaks of their own hair turn gray. In the SequelSeries, ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', it's explained that the streaks eventually faded back to normal after a few years.
* In ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}'' does [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Millian]] have a white stripe. It is never really brought up why she has it.
* ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings'': At the end of the Literature/{{Farseer}} trilogy, Fitz has developed a white streak in his hair due to a head wound. In the Tawny Man trilogy, set fifteen years later, he's started using the alias Tom Badgerlock, claiming he was born with the white streak. It eventually disappeared [[spoiler:when he was magically healed]] in the Tawny Man books.
* Zadie Smith, the AlphaBitch in ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', has a white lock in the front of her hair. It fits given her generally punk appearance and mannerisms. [[spoiler:It's actually natural, and not only that, but an important clue about who her biological father is because he had Waardenburg syndrome.]]
* The protagonist of the Creator/LarryNiven story "Literature/ARelicOfTheEmpire" lost his fortune and began to get gray hair before he could once again afford anti-aging drugs. After rejuvenating, he discovered that the gray streaks gave him a distinguished look that attracted the ladies and started dyeing them back in.
* In ''Literature/TheSecretsOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', Dilys Frost starts out with a white streak in her black hair. It gets wider every time she uses her power, and she ends up with a black streak in her white hair.
* Kerish in Geraldine Harris' ''Literature/TheSevenCitadels'' tetralogy has black hair with a broad silver stripe. As the series progresses, the stripe widens until he has all-silver hair.
* In ''Literature/SevenStars'', the sorceress Maureen Mountmain has white hair with a red streak through it.
* ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'': Richard Sharpe is described as having gotten one by the time of the last chronological book, ''Sharpe's Devil''.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheStand'', the character of Nadine starts with black hair, gains a white stripe, then ends up all-white as a result of her personal proximity to [[BigBad Randall Flagg]].
* In the ''Literature/StarDarlings'' franchise, while disguised on Earth, Libby retains a streak of her natural pink hair.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** Jagged Fel develops a white lock and scar from some head trauma he suffered. His descendants exhibit the same hair and scarring, and the surrounding {{Fanon}} suggests it's a [[LegacyCharacter family tradition]].
** [[Literature/XWingSeries Ysanne Isard]], along with having one blue eye and one [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eye]] has ''two'' locks of white hair flowing down the frontal area. She has naturally black hair.
* The title character in ''Literature/TailchasersSong'' has this, except, being a cat, it's through his fur.
* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': In the ''Literature/TrickstersDuet'', Nawat the crow has a white stripe in his feathers, acquired after annoying the mage Ochobu.
* In the ''Literature/TowerAndTheHive'' series by Creator/AnneMcCaffrey, the Rowan has white-blonde hair, but her descendants tend to have dark hair with a white streak. Some are blonde, still with the white streak.
* In the MonsterMash neo-noir ''Literature/WolfmanConfidential'', the female [[FrankensteinsMonster meat golems]] have a pair of them coming from their temples.
* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': Princess Bianca's lock of white, magically PrehensileHair, among her otherwise black locks.
* ''Literature/WaywardChildren'': Alexis Chopper gets a white streak in her golden hair from a ghost's KissOfDeath. After she's brought BackFromTheDead, her eventual girlfriend Jack finds the overall effect very striking.
* The ''Mallen Trilogy'' by Catherine Cookson was a saga about a family whose patriarch had a genetic white streak in his hair and passed on the same trait to his many children, both legitimate and illegitimate. The books are the source of the term "a Mallen streak" for this hair type.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Londo Mollari has gray streaks at his temples.
* ''Series/Charmed1998'': Prue received a Stripe after the Barbas (the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin demon of fear]]) nearly drowned her in the shower.
* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': Lalo Salamanca has a silver streak. It looks both villainous and dashing, which is pretty fitting for a FauxAffablyEvil bad guy. The stripe is actor Tony Dalton's own.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'' and ''Series/LukeCage2016'': Big Ben Donovan has bits of silver in his otherwise black hair, befitting a crooked silver-tongued lawyer. It's a natural coloring of his actor Danny Johnson.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Creator/RogerDelgado Master has prominent white streaks on either side of his beard. It's not known if this was Delgado's natural colouring or bleached for effect.
* In the DistantFinale of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', Echo has a grey streak in her hair.
* ''Series/ICarly'': Carly wears blue streaks in her hair when she's acting 'rebellious' to get the attention of her grandfather and brother.
* ''Series/{{Intergalactic}}'': Emma Grieves has long white stripes on both edges of her brown hair.
* In ''Series/IZombie'', a Skunk Stripe and a craving for brains are the first symptoms of a zombie infection. The rest of the hair turns white shortly after.
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'': One of the Yggdrasill riders, [[MadScientist Ryoma]] [[MagnificentBastard Sengoku]], has a white streak in his [[PeekABangs PeekABang]].
** ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' provides Alain/Kamen Rider Necrom.
** In ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'', Taiga Hanaya/Kamen Rider Snipe is an unlicensed doctor with white streaks in his hair as a homage to Anime/BlackJack.
* An episode of ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' revolves around our hero rescuing a child with a white streak of hair who was being exploited for his supposed ability to grant wishes.
* Lily from ''Series/TheMunsters'' has one.
* According to his BackStory, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'''s Dr. Clayton Forrester gained a white streak in his hair (and his mustache) after being struck by lightning. Trace Beaulieu once [[BrainBleach broke castmate Kevin Murphy's mind]] at a convention panel when he suggested that the white streak appeared in a ''[[{{Squick}} third]]'' location.
* Maxwell Sheffield from ''Series/TheNanny'' has black hair with a greying streak.
* The original ''Franchise/PerryMason'' series: In the episode "Envious Editor", the killer turns out to be actress Barbara Lawrence, portraying "Lori Stoner", made distinctive by a contrasting stripe in her hair. Oddly, due to a continuity error, it moves from one side of her head to the other in a scene!
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
** Andros, Red Ranger in ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', had long dark hair with blonde streaks.
** Also, Vida, the Pink Ranger in ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]''. She sometimes dyes hers different colors, until pink (a color which, ironically, she used to dislike) gets to her and she uses it on her entire hair at the finale.
** And Merrick, in ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'', had a few gray streaks in his otherwise dark brown hair.
* Sam Beckett of ''Series/QuantumLeap''. It's a sign of how long he's been leaping, but he is unable to see it until the finale.
* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', whoever gets possessed by the silver banshee magically gets a white stripe in their hair.
* Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri in ''Series/TheSopranos'' has two stripes of white at his temples, but the hair in the middle is dark -- almost black -- and there's not much transition between the two. In keeping with the trope, Paulie is probably the biggest jerk to grace the Soprano family after [[BaldOfEvil Ralph Cifaretto]]. Little Paulie (Paulie's nephew at first, then first cousin) possesses one in all his appearances keeping up with the family.
* ''Series/StargateSG1''
** Vala has one in season 9; it eventually goes away without explanation.
** Teal'c gets this, after he ages 50 years. When he still has short hair, it looks more like a Skunk Stripe than with his recent, long hair.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': T'Pau has two white braids in her otherwise black hair.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
** In the [[GrandFinale series finale]], "All Good Things", future Data (now a professor at Cambridge) has a (possibly bleached) stripe of white hair to give himself an air of distinction, but instead serves as snark-bait for his cantankerous housekeeper. (In another episode, he states that he can manipulate the length of his hair at will, but it's unclear if he can change his hair color on his own.)
** The Rutians, aliens of the week: the males all have black hair with a white stripe, while the females all have red hair with a black stripe.
* The title character of ''Series/ToastOfLondon'' has one of these. It makes him look rather distinguished.
* ''Series/Warehouse13'': Claudia dyes hers various colours throughout the run of the show.
* ''Series/WordOfHonor'': Ye Baiyi has white streaks through part of his hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]
* Former Keel guitarist [[http://jgparchive.photoshelter.com/image/I0000nJLAFDR.kqA Marc Ferrari]] sports one. [[http://eddietrunk.com/former-keel-guitarist-marc-ferrari-writes-a-childrens-book/ Still has it]] as of 2017.
* In Music/GirlsAloud's video for "The Show", Nadine Coyle sports a blonde streak in her naturally brown bangs.
* Music/CyndiLauper has an inverted Skunk Stripe, a black streak in blond hair, in the video for "I Drove All Night".
* When Music/ImeldaMay was identifying strongly as a {{rockabilly}}-influenced musician, her style included a flamboyant white quiff, with an effect verging on DelinquentHair. When she broadened her approach somewhat with 2017's ''Life Love Flesh Blood'', she switched to a plain jet black bob.
* Music/BonnieRaitt
* Part of [[Music/{{WASP}} Blackie Lawless']] distinctive looks.
* Jack Barakat of Music/AllTimeLow has had this be part of his hairstyle for many years.
* David Vanian, the lead singer of Music/TheDamned.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Taichi Ishikari sported one while working for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling
* Wrestling/JimmyJacobs had a red Skunk stripe during the Age Of The Fall and a Gold/blond part while part of S.C.U.M.
* Jacob's perennial rival Alex Shelley has a blonde patch in his black hair.
* Allysin Kay is known for having a blond part and Jessicka Havok got one to compliment it when they were a tag team.
* Cedric Alexander of the C&C Wrestle Factory has a blonde/gold streak running through his
* "Broken" Wrestling/MattHardy sports one.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theatre]]
* In the original cast of ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'', Richard Henry Lee (Ron Holgate) has one gray curl over his forehead. Also present in the film.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]
* Handsome Jack, the Villain of ''Videogame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is sporting a grey streak in his hair.
* Reiji Arisu from ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' and ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'' has a white stripe right behind the scar on his head.
* Vladimir Von Helson of ''Website/GaiaOnline'' fame has two thin white streaks in his hair...and a big Skunk Stripe in his ''goatee''. This is now immortalized as the bonus pose of the doll item in his image. Too bad the same can't be said of the [[DroppedABridgeOnHim original]]...
* Captain Cross from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has a white stripe in his hair. Considering the big honking [[GoodScarsEvilScars scar that runs across his face]], this could probably be explained by trauma to the scalp as well. (The prequel comic by Wildstorm offers a probable explanation: bitten in the head by zombie wolf.)
* Iron Tager of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has white stripes in his black hair.
* Inverted with Sindel from the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series; she has a black stripe running down the middle of her predominantly white hair.
* Xigbar of Organization XIII from the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series has a long, black-and-white-striped ponytail. Until ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', the fandom figured it was from age, but TheReveal put that into question.
* The ''VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege'' Operator Dokkaebi has a few white locks of hair.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
** [[TheVoice The Administrator]], real name Helen, has one.
** Her apparent ancestor, Zepheniah Mann's maidservant Elizabeth, also sports [[http://www.teamfortress.com/loosecanon/04.html a similar stripe]].
* Joanna from ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' has one of these.
* [[PirateGirl Lenora]] has a bright red streak in her dark hair in ''VideoGame/RiseOfLegends''. Given the color and [[SkyPirates the character]] it's likely dyed.
* Jaina Proudmoore in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' now inverts this, having white hair with a blonde streak.
* In ''[[Videogame/BattleZone1998 Battlezone II: Combat Commander]]'', concept art for [[PlayerCharacter Lt. John Cooke]] gave him a skunk stripe above his left brow. However, in-game he, like all other characters save Padisha Burns, is [[TheFaceless completely faceless]] as he is never seen without his ISDF spacesuit.
* While he already has this in his [[Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ home series]], Kyuu get his called out a lot more in ''VideoGame/RakenzarnTales'', commonly being referred to as "skunk hair". Even when dealing with [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies with crazy hair colors]], they can't help but comment on it.
* The Fear from ''Videogame/MetalGearSolid3''. It appears age-related but also adds to his animalistic look.
* Castle Valet Darach in Pokemon ''[[Videogame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Platinum]]'' and ''[[Videogame/PokemonGoldAndSilver HeartGold/SoulSilver]]'' has a blond streak in his black hair.
** As does Piers from ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', whose hair has multiple stripes of black and white to match the colour scheme of his Obstagoon. Appropriately, he also runs a Skuntank.
* Multiple of ''Videogame/AzurLane''s Ironblood ship girls. Special mention to Deutschland for having [[UpToEleven two stripes]], in different colors to boot.
* ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' has a color-inverted version. Purah has the same MysticalWhiteHair as the rest of the [[{{Ninja}} Sheikah]] tribe, but she also has a red streak in her bangs.
* In ''VideoGame/LostEmber'', the wolf receives a streak of white fur on the right side of her face and down her neck as a mark of her BodySurf abilities, contrasting with her black fur.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* Dr. Turner Grey from ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has a big white streak in his hair, as a homage to Manga/BlackJack.
** Simon Blackquill also sports a single white streak in his black hair.
* Gundham Tanaka in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' has a few very long grey stripes in his [[AnimeHair magnificent ice-cream-shaped 'do]]. Whether or not it's natural or dyed is up for debate, though considering [[LargeHam his personality]] it seems plausible he dyed it to appear even more striking.
* The customisable male protagonist in ''VisualNovel/MagicalDiary'' has multiple hair colors available, and one of them is black with a white streak or patch (varies between hairstyles).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Neo Politan's hair is half brown and half pink, with three white stripes on the pink side. Although, since her outfit was updated, they're nowhere to be seen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Brooksie in ''Webcomic/BetweenFailures'' has one, but covers it up with hair dye. Her natural look is shown [[http://betweenfailures.com/archive/871/ here]].
* ''Webcomic/BiteMe'': Lucien has black hair with a streak of gray at his left temple, acquired when he became a vampire. It stays with in the sequel, ''Webcomic/FamilyMan''.
* Chelsea of ''Webcomic/ClanOfTheCats'' acquires a Skunk Streak after one of the early story arcs where she becomes accustomed to magic and being a werepanther.
* ''Webcomic/CogaSuro'':
** Main character Steve has completely black hair save for two blonde bangs. Initially, you'd think these were dyed in. Then it turns out that his sister has blonde hair that turns to black halfway down, his mother has black hair with a blonde streak, and all three of his children invariably have black hair with a blonde streak (at least, until Mary dyes her hair bright green after the ''Timeskip'').
** John's hair turns white all over upon activating his ''PowerUp''.
* The members of the Doppelganger Gang in ''Webcomic/{{Crossoverkill}}'' can be identified by the streaks in their hair.
* ''Webcomic/TheCyantianChronicles'': they're on the skunks!
* Mistake in ''Webcomic/DandyAndCompany'' has a white stripe running through his hair and all the way down his face. This was seen in an arc that takes place in the future and eventually shown in the present-day when one of his HomemadeInventions goes berserk.
* Mrs. Delacroix from ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' has [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/sweetest_blood black hair with white forelocks]] which she usually keeps tied behind the head with a hairpin.
* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', inside Dr. Disaster's space battle [[HardLight simulator]], all the students gain a stripe of differently-colored hair. Red-haired Antimony gets a lock of black; black-haired Kat gets a lock of red. Aside from the [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=167 chapter title page]], the simulator is depicted DeliberatelyMonochrome, so it's unclear exactly what colors the other students got. Tom Siddell [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally]] [[http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=361&page=34#19107 planned]] to make these Skunk Stripes permanent.
* ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'':
** The unnamed zombie narrator has black hair, with each temple having this little white tuft like an angel wing growing out of it. He didn't have them when he was alive, but it's not clear where they came from or whether they're typical for zombies.
** Ples Tibenoch's hair is black and white.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has the violet-blooded troll [[RoyalBrat Eridan Ampora]], who has a tuft of violet hair at the front that matches his blood color and cape. Oddly, he seemed to have it even as an infant grub, when trolls are generally portrayed as having naturally black hair.
** Among other trolls, both the incarnations of Rufioh have the same hair as [[Film/{{Hook}} his namesake]], though the fact that he's a bronze blood means the odds of the red in his hair being natural are less likely. ''VisualNovel/HiveswapFriendsim'' also introduces [[MamaBear Bronya Ursama]], a jade blooded troll with a streak of hair in her blood color much like Eridan's, which seems to support the idea that skunk stripes of their blood color may be an uncommon natural phenomenon in the species.
* Apparently as a side effect of her [[GenderBender sex change]], ''Webcomic/JetDream'''s Harmony has a scarlet red streak in her otherwise black hair.
* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': One story arc has Lindesfarne get this in her quills from a nasty fright. She keeps it for a little while, as later that day, she was babysitting skunks. Years later, she develops it again as the stress of planning both her post-graduate research and her wedding got to her, as well as having to tell Tree that she and Fenton were moving away. It went back to normal after a series of events resulted in Tree relocating closer to the university Lindesfarne was researching at (and, as it were, puts Lindesfarne two hours away from her mother in law).
* True to canon, Ryuuko in ''Webcomic/KillLaKillAU'' has a red streak (or patch, depending on her hairstyle at the time) of red in her otherwise black hair. Similarly, Satsuki was shown with streaks of grey in hair, however, one of them is dyed blue and the rest are dyed black.
* ''Webcomic/TheLessThanEpicAdventuresOfTJAndAmal'': Amal is college age but has a white/gray streak in his bangs and is going gray at the temples as well. It runs in the family.
* [[http://lfgcomic.com/page/38 Tavor]] of ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' has one of these. It seems to draw fangirls like moths to a flame, too.
* ''Webcomic/LovelyLovecraft'': Noyes has two white stripes in his black hair, which form spikes above his ears.
* Suzie "Zii" Nielsen from ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' has bleached bangs. She's an impulsive non-conformist.
* Matt from ''Webcomic/MurphysLaw'' has one.
* Katrina of ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'' sports a purple one in her first appearance, and switches to a red one when she cosplays [[Anime/KillLaKill Ryuko Matoi.]] Minor Character [[HotWitch Circe]] has a red one, matching the color scheme of her clothes.
* In ''Webcomic/SWAPEnsemble'', characters are designed to resemble their instruments. The skunk stripe is the mark of a natural woodwind musician, who has dark hair with a lighter stripe going through the middle to evoke the instrument's mouthpiece. The inverse holds for natural brass and string musicians.
* The anthropomorphic raccoon hero of ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'' has a white cow-lick where he was touched by something divine. According to the [[WordOfGod author]], not God, but a mythic creature of apparent divine connection or insight, potentially an AngelUnaware.
* Fiona in ''Webcomic/YuMeDream'' has red hair with white-blonde bangs. In her case, it's heavily implied to be poliosis; she mentions that she lost a lot of her hair [[spoiler:in the car accident that killed her mother]] and it "grew back that way."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', after [[spoiler:being brought BackFromTheDead]], [[Characters/DreamSMPWilburSoot Wilbur Soot]] is seen with a white streak in his hair, which is stated to be [[PrematurelyGreyHaired caused by stress]], presumably due to his TraumaCongaLine. Out-of-universe, it is inspired by Fundy the content creator's poliosis.
* Lori from ''Roleplay/TheInsaneQuestOfUnfathomableRandomness'' got a white stripe in her hair from being struck by lightning. The stripe gives her the ability to possess the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in a number of different careers, because LightningCanDoAnything.
* Mutant girl Musk in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' has the Skunk Stripe, plus odor powers and an acidic touch. No one wants to room with her.
* Michael Aranda, an occasional guest on the WebVideo/VlogBrothers and WebVideo/{{Charlieissocoollike}} has a bleached stripe on the right side of his hair.
* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Aisha's generally-trashy style as of [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/tangle-6-3/ Tangle 6.3]] includes having a SkunkStripe with a stripe of purple in it.
* From ''Wiki/{{Killerbunnies}}'', Tilla has a streak of silver in her otherwise maizeish colored hair. Likewise, the same occurs for Marilitsa with a streak of silver in her otherwise black hair.
* Some time after his departure from ''LetsPlay/AnalogControl'', former host Thayne is said to have developed one. MJTR, who remained on the show after he left, playfully mocked him for it multiple times and treats it as one of his most defining features.
* ''Literature/BehindClosedDoors'' has a wider variety of hair colors than its predecessor ''Webcomic/SWAPEnsemble'', but it's still readily apparent who is part woodwind based on the lighter stripe (specifically Harry, Cade, and Sonia). Similarly, the inverse gives away who is part string, but nobody has an obvious brass hair pattern.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'':
** Lazarus Slade, MadScientist nemesis of the Rangers, has a Skunk Stripe.
** So does the renegade Supertrooper Darkstar.
* Minor villain Red Claw in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has long, black hair with a white stripe on the side.
* Roberta Tubbs from ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' has a platinum blonde streak in her otherwise black hair, more than likely a weave or a bleach job.
* Caprice from ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'' has stripes of pink and grayish blue/violet in her otherwise black hair.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'':
** During the time he gave his ghost powers in the finale, Danny was left with a white streak in his hair as the only remnant of them. Compare to Vlad, who was born with the skunk stripe.
** Danny's BumblingDad, Jack, apparently was part of a band called the "Skunk Punks", where all players had the stripe. Unfortunately, it invited the headline "Skunk Punks stink", which Jack admits was inevitable.
* Animators in general like doing this with Count {{Dracula}}, whether he's appearing as a cameo on shows like ''Scooby Doo'' or as a series regular as on ''Drak Pack''. Whether his Skunk Stripe is down the middle or at the temples depends on how old he's made to appear.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince,'' [[LadyOfBlackMagic Claudia]] gets one at the end of season two, [[LockedIntoStrangeness as a result]] of using powerful DarkMagic to [[spoiler:cure Soren's paralysis]]. [[spoiler:Season three ends with her resurrecting Viren, bleaching almost half of her hair]].
* Apparitia in ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters''.
* ''WesternAnimation/FrankeldasBookOfSpooks'' gave its Mary Shelley inspired title character one as a nod to the Bride of Frankenstein.
* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}!'' has a lightning shaped streak in his hair.
* Tony Dracon of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. His hair was completely black in his first appearance, but the shock of his first encounter with [[DarkIsNotEvil Goliath]] gave him white roots.
* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Tambry has magenta hair with a pink streak.
* Alexandra Cabot from ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'' has a lightning-shaped one.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
** Future Shego from ''Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time''.
** Also, Rudolph Farnsworth, a.k.a. ''[[ShowWithinAShow Fearless Ferret]]'' villain [[MeaningfulName White Stripe]].
* Tenzin's wife Pema from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has one of these.
* Timber Wolf and his father, Dr. Londo of ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperheroes''. Cameo-wise has Polecat and Invisible Kid (Jacques) as seen in 'Lightning Storm.'
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'':
** Juniper Lee developed a white streak in her hair upon becoming the [[ChosenOne Te Xuan Ze]]. Because she's a teenager, she dyes it fuchsia.
** Her Grandmother (a.k.a. the previous Te Xuan Ze) also has one but it's less noticeable because the rest of her hair became gray.
* Zoe Trent of ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' is a purple Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with a pink stripe in her headfur. In fact, her coloration is so similar to Twilight's that some have dubbed her "Twilight Barkle".
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** In the WesternAnimation/PepeLePew cartoon "WesternAnimation/ReallyScent", girl cat Fabrette is born with a white stripe down her back. She's unlucky at love, then meets Pepe...
** Add a few more cartoons with unlucky girl cats getting run over by a street painting machine (or other hijinx), receiving an artificial skunk stripe and instant unwanted amorous attention from Pepe.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Luna's crush (and later girlfriend), Sam, has blonde hair with her bangs dyed blue.
* Ace Cooper in ''WesternAnimation/TheMagician'' has three skunk stripes in his hair.
* ''WesternAnimation/MoonbeamCity'': [[CanadaEh Canadian-born]] police officer [[TheRival Rad Cunningham]] has a bright blue streak along the left side of his otherwise black hair. Inherited from [[spoiler:his biological father, the founder of "Flamingo Computers".]]
* The aptly-named Skunk from ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar''.
* In the original 1980s ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' series, all unicorns had one. The same goes for the Big Brother Ponies, though they were all earth ponies. (This doesn't mean it goes for all male ponies, though: non-toy character Knight Shade had only one mane/tail color, purple.)
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Twilight Sparkle has a pink and purple streak through her otherwise dark blue mane and tail.
** Starlight Glimmer has one too, due to her design being heavily based off of Twilight's.
** A lot of background ponies may have one or two as well.
** [[AlphaBitch Diamond Tiara]] has a white streak in her purple mane and tail.
** Flim and Flam from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]]" have white streaks in their red manes and tails.
* Dr. Phorbus in ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfJonnyQuest'' episode "Peril of the Reptilian" has two white stripes through his otherwise jet black hair.
* Discussed in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', where Candace asks her mother if she can get a pink streak in her hair. When Linda asks her daughter why she would do that, Candace replies, "To express my individuality! [[HypocriticalHumor Everyone's doing it!]]"
* In ''WesternAnimation/PrincessNatasha'', Natasha has two distinctive blonde streaks raunning through her brown hair.
* Butch in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', who reportedly got it because the sight of a teenage couple kissing was just that scary. He actually was seen with plain brown hair in at least one episode before that.
* The undead Captain Skunkbeard in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooPiratesAhoy'' was named for the white strip in his beard. [[spoiler:Subverted because it's only a costume, surprise surprise.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays''' Zak Saturday has a star-shaped patch of white hair. This was either inherited from his mother, who has white hair, or it could be a sign of his [[TheChosenOne special cryptid powers]].
* From ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'', Commander Feral's Niece, Felina has some distinctive stripes in her hair that are visible, whether she has her helmet on or not.
* Varian from ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' has a teal-grey stripe in his otherwise brown hair.
* Isaac Sumdac in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. We saw it in flashbacks, suggesting that it was genetic, but then we saw him get it from the shock of touching the protoform that would later [[TrulySingleParent become his daughter]], Sari.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'': Claire has a blue-dyed stripe in her hair, which at the end of Season 2 [[LockedIntoStrangeness is rendered white as a result]] of [[spoiler: holding open a large enough portal to evacuate Trollmarket]]. Following the events of the GrandFinale at the end of Season 3, [[spoiler: where she helps imprison [[GreaterScopeVillain Morgana]] in the Shadow Realm,]] the entire surrounding bang is also turned white.
* Margot, the GrumpyBear judge of the reality talent show "Wow!" from ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx'' sports a white streak on her black hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]
* TruthInTelevision with a rare occurrence called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliosis Poliosis]] (otherwise known as a "Mallen streak"), where it tends to manifest with a streak or patch being lighter colored than the rest of the hair. This is more prominent if the person has dark hair. Likewise, this trope can be invoked with hair dye.
* When a bad scalp wound heals, the hair on that patch may grow in lighter than the person's other hair, resulting in a Skunk Stripe.
* Tony Spilotro, the mobster played by Creator/JoePesci in ''Film/{{Casino}}'', really did have a gray stripe in his otherwise dark brown hair.
* Both David and Ed Miliband, British politician brothers, have a small patch in the same spot on their heads and are often caricatured in the media for it. As did their late father, Ralph, a British political academic.
* Creator/JayLeno. Though, by now, it's an inversion: there's a small dark patch with everything else being gray (he insists it's natural, although guests such as Bob Costas have expressed doubts). Leno actually made a skit making fun of that dark patch. He was sitting in his office when that Zoo lady came in with a squid and it squirted him in the face.
* Eric Roberts has sprouted one in his later years, although his hair is actually just varying shades of silver. It's more apparent when he [[GoodHairEvilHair slicks his hair back]] for his milieu: villain roles.
* Susan Sontag was famous for her dark hair with a thick white stripe.
* Claire Bloom (of ''[[Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire Streetcar]]'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', and ''Series/DocMartin'' fame) has been known to color her hair in the Sontag style.
* Dave Vanian of punk band The Damned had Depp's Sweeney hair thirty years before Depp.
* Creator/SamuelBeckett had a black streak through his white hair.
* John Henson, who was regularly called "Skunk-Boy" when he hosted ''Series/TheSoup''.
* Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security. Combine the hair and the title with the fact that she has climbed Mt. Everest, and she begins to sound like a character out of a video game.
* Stacy London of the US version of ''What Not To Wear'' has a fairly subtle grey forelock which comes and goes on the show--depending (as she's said) on how they style and part her hair -- but is quite prominent in some of her more recent ad appearances. When she was a spokesperson for Pantene hair products, her contract included a "grey clause", allowing her to keep her grey forelock while appearing in ads.
* Arlene Dickinson, CEO of Canada's Venture Communications, is a celebrity businesswoman and regular on CBC's ''Series/DragonsDen''. She has crimped red hair with a prominent white streak.
* Indira Gandhi -- at least, during the time when she was Prime Minister of UsefulNotes/{{India}} -- had a white streak in her dark hair.
* This is a feature of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waardenburg_Syndrome#Signs_and_symptoms Waardenburg Syndrome]], along with odd facial appearance and occasional deafness.
* Joe Perry from Music/{{Aerosmith}}, as of 2009, has a white stripe in the front of his mostly dark brown/black hair.
* Alex Skolnick from Music/{{Testament}} and the Music/TransSiberianOrchestra (among other acts) has had a grey streak in his hair since he was a teenager.
* Music/RingoStarr from Music/TheBeatles had a white stripe at the side of his brown hair; he hid it through his moptop, but in some shots (like the cover of Abbey Road), it's visible.
* Away from Music/{{Voivod}}.
* Italian opera singer Ruggero Raimondi has one.
* Blues singer Music/BonnieRaitt has a white streak in her (very, very) red hair.
** [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Wayne and Garth]] said she looked like Pepe Le Pew.
* Buzz Osborne of Music/TheMelvins developed a grey streak in the front of his dark...whatever the hell you'd call his hairstyle. Nowadays, it's a lighter shade of grey on a dark shade of grey.
* People with the condition [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiligo Vitiligo]] may have these, if they have patches of it in their scalp.
* Creator/SammoHung has gotten one in his old age. Doesn't make him look less badass.
* Michael "Fitz" Fitzpatrick of Fitz and the Tantrums has a white streak at the front of his otherwise dark hair.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjord_horse Fjord horses]]
* CaitlinMoran sports one, claiming it's part of a quest to have entirely unique hair.
* Tilo Wolff, frontman of the German gothic metal band Lacrimosa, has this.
* British TV sports presenter Dickie Davies [[note]]Anchorman of Creator/ITV's long-running Saturday afternoon ''World of Sport''[[/note]] had a very prominent skunk-stripe in bouffant dark hair. Much, er, ''sport'' was made of this by comedians and impersonators.
* Kevin Pietersen, a cricketer in the England side from 2005-2014, had a very prominent one of these during the 2005 Ashes series. He got rid of it shortly afterwards and gets embarrassed about highlights from that period which feature it.
* Hawaii Congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has [[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/images/candidates/b10/FullC10237D2019-01-01.jpg sported a gray streak]] during her campaign. It's become even more pronounced over time with a [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CJEC9-Tjnni/ "salt and pepper" hairstyle]].
* DragQueen and ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' alumna Manila Luzon has a skunk stripe as her signature look. It's occasionally present in her normal male self as well.
* Creator/JohnBarrowman, like Jay Leno mentioned above, has a "reverse-skunk" when he's not dying his hair brown.
* German-born [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] player Dennis Schröder sports a bleached spot on his head. It was his hairdresser mother's idea to make him stand out at the drafts.
* Poet and author Creator/MayaAngelou had a white patch on the right side of her head as she grew older, standing out against her otherwise black hair.
* Another political example: Former Democratic pollster Pat Caddell could be seen with a gray stripe on his beard during his time as the pollster for incumbent Democratic President UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter during the 1980 campaign. Notably, Caddell was only in his late twenties at that point.
* Creator/RichardMadden has a small but prominent white patch in his dark brown hair. He normally colors it in for film roles except for when he starred in ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', where it gave Ikaris a distinctive appearance.
[[/folder]]
----

* Knives Chau of ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' dyes a pink one into her bangs, but during her encounter with the Clash at Demonhead, Lynette punches her so hard that the stripe is literally knocked out of her hair. It's [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue]] in the movie. In both cases, Knives is trying to emulate Ramona's current look to try and catch Scott's attention again.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Tambry has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair magenta hair]] with a pink streak.

* German-born [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] player Dennis Schröder sports a bleached spot on his head. It was his hairdresser mother's idea [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair to make him stand out at the drafts]].

A subtrope of MulticoloredHair. Actual [[SmellySkunk skunks]] are, of course, assumed to have this style. See also DualityMotif if the skunk stripe displays two sides of a character's personality.

* Creator/RichardMadden has a small but prominent white patch in his dark brown hair. He normally colors it in for film roles except for when he starred in ''Film/TheEternals'', where it gave Ikaris a distinctive appearance.

* In ''Webcomic/SWAPEnsemble'', this and the inverse are ubiquitous because characters are designed to resemble their instruments. The base hair color matches the general instrument color while the stripe matches the mouthpiece or fingerboard. As a result, woodwinds naturally play this straight because their reeds and bocals are lighter than their instrument while the opposite holds for brass and string players.

* ''Literature/BehindClosedDoors'' has a wider variety of hair colors than its predecessor ''Webcomic/SWAPEnsemble'', but the general instrument families are still readily apparent. There are as many inversions as there are straight examples.

* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', after [[spoiler:being brought BackFromTheDead]], Wilbur Soot is seen with a white streak in his hair, which is stated to be [[PrematurelyGreyHaired caused by stress]], presumably due to his TraumaCongaLine. Out-of-universe, it is inspired by Fundy the content creator's poliosis.

* DragQueen and ''Series/RupaulsDragRace'' finalist Manila Luzon has a skunk stripe as her signature look. It's occasionally present in her normal male self as well.

* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': Lalo Salamanca has a silver streak. It looks both villainous and dashing, which is pretty fitting for a FauxAffablyEvil bad guy.

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' fics:
** True to canon, Ryuuko in ''Webcomic/KillLaKillAU'' has a red streak (or patch, depending on her hairstyle at the time) of red in her otherwise black hair. Similarly, Satsuki was shown with streaks of grey in hair, however, one of them is dyed blue and the rest are dyed black.
** Satsuki in ''The Mysterious Lady Kiryuuin'' has black hair with a very prominent gray, almost white, streak in it. The origin is unknown, however, apparently, she's developed it by the time she was nearing her late teens, according to a photograph.
** Satsuki in ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'' has a blue streak in her otherwise black hair. It's unclear if the same goes for Ryuuko.
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the canonical examples of ComicBook/DoctorStrange and [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Jason Todd]], but [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry]] gets one too at the end of the first book, as a [[LockedIntoStrangeness side effect]] of [[spoiler: his brief possession by [[EldritchAbomination Chthon]]]] during the FinalBattle. He's rather bemused by it at first, but shrugs it off shortly after.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fanstory [[http://jigokuhana.tumblr.com/post/177421810169/boringartist-jigokuhana-i-made-steven-and-pearl Bad Prediction AU]], Steven, who was literally born into his role as Pink Diamond, has a pink stripe in his brown hair that's shaped like a heart.
* The ''Land of Oz'' AlternateUniverseFic oneshot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13293836/1/Free Free]]'' explains this as an in-bred trait of Princess Ozma's bloodline. To make sure everyone knew who led Oz, they began breeding in emerald green eyes and green hair streaks into their lineage.

* The anthropomorphic raccoon hero of ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'' has a white cow-lick where he was touched by something divine. According to the [[WordOfGod author]], not God, but a mythic creature of apparent divine connection or insight, potentially an AngelUnaware.

* Katrina of ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'' sports a purple one in her first appearance, and switches to a red one when she cosplays [[Anime/KillLaKill Ryuko Matoi.]] Minor Character [[HotWitch Circe]] has a red one, matching the color scheme of her clothes.
* Mistake in ''Webcomic/DandyAndCompany'' has a white stripe running through his hair and all the way down his face. This was seen in an arc that takes place in the future and eventually shown in the present-day when one of his HomemadeInventions goes berserk.
* ''Webcomic/TheLessThanEpicAdventuresOfTJAndAmal'': Amal is college age but has a white/gray streak in his bangs and is going gray at the temples as well. It runs in the family.
* [[http://lfgcomic.com/page/38 Tavor]] of ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' has one of these. It seems to draw fangirls like moths to a flame, too.
* ''Webcomic/LovelyLovecraft'': Noyes has two white stripes in his black hair, which form spikes above his ears.
* ''Webcomic/TheCyantianChronicles'': they're on the skunks!

* Chelsea of ''Webcomic/ClanOfTheCats'' acquires a Skunk Streak after one of the early story arcs where she becomes accustomed to magic and being a werepanther.

* Lucien of ''Webcomic/BiteMe'' and ''Webcomic/FamilyMan'' has black hair with a streak of gray at his left temple, acquired when he became a vampire.
* One arc of ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' has Lindesfarne get this in her quills from a nasty fright. She keeps it for a little while, as later that day, she was babysitting skunks.
** Years later, she develops it again as the stress of planning both her post-graduate research and her wedding got to her, as well as having to tell Tree that she and Fenton were moving away. It went back to normal after a series of events resulted in Tree relocating closer to the university Lindesfarne was researching at. (And, as it were, puts Lindesfarne two hours away from her mother in law.)
* The members of the Doppelganger Gang in ''Webcomic/{{Crossoverkill}}'' can be identified by this.
* Mrs. Delacroix from ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' has [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/sweetest_blood black hair with white forelocks]] which she usually keeps tied behind the head with a hairpin.
* Suzie "Zii" Nielsen from ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' has bleached bangs. She's an impulsive non-conformist.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has the violet-blooded troll [[RoyalBrat Eridan Ampora]], who has a tuft of violet hair at the front that matches his blood color and cape. Oddly, he seemed to have it even as an infant grub, when trolls are generally portrayed as having naturally black hair.
** Among other trolls, both the incarnations of Rufioh have the same hair as [[{{Film/Hook}} his namesake]], though the fact that he's a bronze blood means the odds of the red in his hair being natural are less likely. ''VisualNovel/HiveswapFriendsim'' also introduces [[MamaBear Bronya Ursama]], a jade blooded troll with a streak of hair in her blood color much like Eridan's, which seems to support the idea that skunk stripes of their blood color may be an uncommon natural phenomenon in the species.
* Brooksie in ''Webcomic/BetweenFailures'' has one, but covers it up with hair dye. Her natural look is shown [[http://betweenfailures.com/archive/871/ here]].
* Fiona in ''Webcomic/YuMeDream'' has red hair with white-blonde bangs. In her case, it's heavily implied to be poliosis; she mentions that she lost a lot of her hair [[spoiler:in the car accident that killed her mother]] and it "grew back that way."

* In ''ComicBook/TheOthers'', the long streak of white in Racket's brown hair is the only clue that she's an evolved skunk.

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':