History Main / SkunkStripe

* The jury's still out on how Rogue of the ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' got hers (she's even called "skunk hair" by some punks in an episode of ''X-MenEvolution''!).

* Still on the Batman villains subject, we have Ra's Al Ghul, with one white band at each of his temples on his otherwise dark hair.

* The jury's still out on how Rogue of the ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' got hers.

* Andros, red ranger in PowerRangersInSpace, had long dark hair with blonde streaks.

* In the DCUniverse, resurrection in a Lazarus Pit always causes a white streak, though some people (like the Riddler) hide it with dye. As a result, Ra's Al Ghul has two thin streaks of gray in his black hair -- which is hinted that he keeps because he likes how they looks. This is kept in all his incarnations. It even became a sort of {{Foreshadowing}} in a ''{{Batman Beyond}}'' 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 ''Superman Batman Generations'' when Ra's convinces him to use the Pit.

* Ra's Al Ghul of the DCUniverse has two thin streaks of gray in his black hair - which is hinted that he keeps because he likes how they looks. This is kept in all his incarnations. In fact resurrection in a Lazarus Pit always causes a white streak, though some people (like the Riddler) hide it with dye. It even became a sort of {{Foreshadowing}} in a ''{{Batman Beyond}}'' 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 ''Superman Batman Generations'' when Ra's convinces him to use the Pit.

* Lori from ''TheInsaneQuest'' got a white stripe in her hair from being struck by lightning. The stripe gives her the ability to possess the knowledge and skills to excel in a number of different careers, because LightningCanDoAnything.

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* Lori from ''TheInsaneQuest'' has this on her side locks on her hair, [[LightningCanDoAnything that gives her the abilities to master different skills]]. But it runs in her family to different master different jobs, as she says.

* Lori from TheInsaneQuest has this on her side locks on her hair, [[LightningCanDoAnything that gives her the abilities to master different skills]]. But it runs in her family to different master different jobs, as she says.

* Lori from TheInsaneQuest has this on her side locks on her hair, [[LightingCanDoAnything that gives her the abilities to master different skills]]. But it runs in her family to different master different jobs, as she says.

* Ra's Al Ghul of the DCUniverse has two thin streaks of gray in his black hair - which is hinted that he keeps because he likes how they looks. This is kept in all his incarnations. In fact resurrection in a Lazarus Pit always causes a white streak, though some people (like {{the Riddler}}) hide it with dye. It even became a sort of {{Foreshadowing}} in a ''{{Batman Beyond}}'' 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"]].

* ''{{Warehouse13}}'': Claudia, dyes hers various colours throughout the run of the show.

* In the 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.

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->Holy shit! That girl has a skunk on her head! ... Oh, that's just your hair. Sorry, but that's messed up.

** [[XWingSeries Ysanne Isard]], along with having [[BoatLights one]] [[BlueEyes blue eye]] and [[EvilEye one]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eye]] has ''two'' locks of white hair flowing down the frontal area. She has naturally black hair.

* Bonnie Raitt.

* Sindel form the MortalKombat series has a rather massive SkunkStripe.

** [[Film/{{X-Men}} 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 .In the second film, Magneto even taunts Rogue by saying "We love what you did with your hair".
** Meanwhile, the character's more recent solo title depicted her as simply being born with the white streak.

** [[Film/{{X-Men}} The first of the three movies]] pins it on forced overuse of Magneto's power; Magneto is an old man whose hair has already gone white, and the powers of others aren't the only things Rogue gets from those she touches. In the second film, Magneto even taunts Rogue by saying "We love what you did with your hair".

* Ra's Al Ghul of the DCUniverse has two thin streaks of gray in his black hair - which is hinted that he keeps because he likes how they looks. This is kept in all his incarnations In fact resurrection in a Lazarus Pit always causes a white streak, though some people (like the Riddler) hide it with dye. It even became a sort of {{Foreshadowing}} in a ''{{Batman Beyond}}'' 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"]].

* Songbird, in the Thunderbolts, has a white streak in otherwise rose-red hair.

* Captain Cross from ''{{Prototype}}'' has a white stripe in his hair.

* Apparitia in {{Filmation}}'s [[FilmationsGhostbusters GhostBusters]].

* Xigbar of Organization XIII from the KingdomHearts series has commonly been dubbed [[FanNickname Ol' Zebra Head]] for his long, black-and-white-striped ponytail.
* [[TheVoice The Administrator]], real name Helen, of TeamFortress2 has one.