Blonde, Brunette, Redhead

aka: Blond Brunet Redhead

Characters played by Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Cher no less!

"You get used to it. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead..."

— Cypher, The Matrix

The hair equivalent to vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry (dessert flavors) or yellow, blue, and red (primary colors) or ketchup, mustard, and relish (condiments) or gold, silver, bronze (metals). The trope is strictly for visual appeal; they are not personality types.

Sometimes, they're heroes. Sometimes, they're friends. Sometimes, they're contenders, fighting for the same love interest. Whatever the details, they're proof that Central Casting does count: three women, three natural hair colors. Collect the full set. This trope was inspired — or at least made popular — by The Andrews Sisters, a Girl Group from the 1940s who were famous for entertaining US army forces during World War II. Their diversity of hair colors—all natural—was probably due to their partial Norwegian-Greek ancestry, an interesting mixed race in those days.

Strictly speaking, these women need not have the exact Clairol hues of blonde, brown/black, and red, particularly when stepping away from the natural spectrum. The blonde will have the lightest hair, the brunette the darkest, and the redhead will have a distinct moderate shade — all for instant sight recognition.

Note: Although this is stereotypically a female trope, male (or mixed-gender) examples also count. However, in such cases, the masculinized spellings "blond" and "brunet" are applicable instead of "blonde" and "brunette".

See also Chromatic Arrangement; Power Trio; The Three Faces of Eve; The Hecate Sisters; Beauty, Brains, and Brawn.

Examples:

Advertising

• Desert Gold Tea: The three saloon girls in this advert for have red, black and blonde hair respectively.
• Fiat 500: The main focus of a commercial revolves around three women, a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead.
• German Wings: An ad for this budget airline has three air hostesses. Guess what their hair colors are.
• Heineken: An advert had a Blonde, Brunette and Redhead sitting in a drinking establishment, along with a trio of priest, minister and rabbi; and a man with a duck under his arm. The claim was that the beer was "the real reason they all walked into a bar." The Blonde doesn't get it.
  • Another ad for Heineken (maybe; definitely a very green-tinted commercial) had a fembot that not only dispensed beer but also had two other fembots inside of her, the "original" being blonde and the two "copies" being a brunette and a redhead.
• Nutrisse Garnier: Commercials in the United Kingdom feature Davina McCall (brunette), Holly Willoughby (blonde) and Angela Scanlon (redhead).
• Pantene Pro-V: The 1998 Your Time to Shine commercial celebrates all hair colors in its lyrics:
  Coppertop, carrot head, simply red, it’s your time to shine.
  Towhead, lemon drop, corn crop, it’s your time to shine.
  Brown bombshell, raven hair, chocolate eclair, it’s your time to shine.
• Rice Krispies: The mascots for the cereal: Snap (redhead), Crackle (blond), and Pop (brunet). The original color iterations of Snap and Crackle had their hair colors swapped, before the change was implemented.
• Koleston ran a 2008 campaign called "Change," in the form of a billboard atop a west-facing cliff, with the silhouette of a woman's facial features and hair carved out, so that she became a blonde when the sun was low in the sky and directly behind her, a redhead at sunset, and finally a brunette after sunset when the sky was dark (at which point the sign was illuminated white to contrast with the darkness in her hair).

Anime & Manga

• The female trio of the Deucalion in Aldnoah.Zero: Rayet (red), Inko (black) and Nina (light brown).
• The three heroines of Amuri in Star Ocean. Amuri is the brunette, Perrier is the blonde and Suzu is the redhead.
• The Elementario fairies (aside from Muse) in Amagi Brilliant Park feature the blonde Sylphy, brunette Kobory, and redhead Salama.
• Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day features Cute Ghost Girl Menma (blonde), Defrosting Ice Queen Tsuruko (brunette) and Girl Next Door/Tsundere Anaru (redhead).
• Luca (Redhead), Nina (Blonde) and Casca (Brunette) in Berserk. They're also The Three Faces of Eve.
• Mostly gender-flipped in Bokura no Hentai. Marika has (sometimes greenish) blonde hair, Osamu has dark blue hair, and Ryousuke is a redhead.
• Ceres, Celestial Legend has a male version of this with Aki being the blond, Touya having very uncommon, red hair, and Yuuhi serving as the brunet.
• Code Geass has the three female members of the student council at the beginning of the series - Milly (blonde), Nina (brunette), and Shirley (redhead).
• Cowboy Bebop: The three major female characters of the show: Ed (redhead), Faye (Brunette) and Julia (blonde).
• The three most common forms of Honey Kisaragi in all versions of the Cutey Honey franchise are her civilian form (blonde), Hurricane Honey (brunette), and Cutey Honey (redhead).
• The three main characters of Death Note are this, albeit not all female: Misa is blonde (and most certainly the dumb one), L has black hair (and he's certainly brainy), and Light is a redhead (and, well, "fiery" is one word for him).
• Yamato (Blonde), Taichi (Brunette), and Koushirou (Redhead) from Digimon Adventure.
  • There's also the girls, Mimi (strawberry blonde when she doesn't dye her hair pink), Hikari (light brunette) and Sora (burnt orange). For the guys, we also have the blue-for-brown variant of Yamato, Jou and Koushirou. We also have Takeru (blond), Iori (dark brown), and Daisuke (burgundy, somewhere between Taichi and Koushirou on the hair spectrum), with the bluish quota filled by Ken Ichijouji, the former Digimon Kaiser.
• In Dragon Ball Z, we have the Red Ribbon Androids: Android 18 (blonde), Android 17 (brunette) and Android 16 (redhead).
• Entaku No Kishi Monogatari Moero Arthur:
  • Out if the three most prominent female characters of the anime, Medessa has dark black hair, Guinevere's hair is blonde, and Galahad's mother has short, curly, red hair.
• Fairy Tail:
  • Played with concerning the S-Class Mages; first, it's Laxus (blonde), Mystogan (blue) and Erza (redhead). Then, Mirajane (white), Gildartz (brownish) and Erza (redhead).
  • Also, there Lucy (blonde), Wendy (blue) and, again, Erza (redhead).
  • At a point when Erza is out of the picture, Lucy and Wendy team up with another redhead, Flare, to take down some opponents. The chapter is appropriately titled "Red, Blue, Blond, Fight!".
• In Future GPX Cyber Formula, the three ladies of Sugo Asurada in the first 2 OVAs are made up of Clair Fortran (blonde), Asuka Sugo (brunette) and Miki Jounouchi (redhead with reddish-brown hair).
• The three villains in Gankutsuou, at least when they were young - de Villefort (blond), Fernand (brunette) and Danglars (redhead).
• Gintoki (Silver haired), Kagura (Redhead), and Shinpachi (Brunette) from Gintama.
• Gohan no Otomo has Mai and her two friends, Tomo and Noe. Mai is auburn and homely, Mai is blonde and stylish, Noe is auburn and intellectual. The muted colour palette the series use makes their contrasting hair colour less obvious than the usual example, though.
• Gundam:
  • The 'White Base girls' (Sayla, Mirai and Frau) of Mobile Suit Gundam.
  • Consisting of Two Guys and a Girl, the battleship Minerva's elite pilot trio from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny has Shinn (black), Rey (blond) and Lunamaria (red).
• The titular Axis from Hetalia: Axis Powers, Germany, Japan and Italy, are a gender-flipped version, moreso in the anime where Italy's hair is a more auburn shade. Interestingly (and obviously), this also overlaps with Phenotype Stereotype - Germany is blonde, Japan is black-haired, and Italy has a more moderate shade of brown.
• Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair: Jeanie (blonde), Bill (brunette) and Stephen (redhead). Yes, we know you read the name of the anime, and we're just as confused as you are.
• Jewelpet:
  • Jewelpet (2009)'s main characters: Rinko (red hair), Minami (bluenette), and Aoi (blonde).
  • Jewelpet Twinkle☆: Akari (reddish brown hair), Miria (blonde), and Sara (bluenette).
    • The French sisters also count: Marianne (blonde), Catherine (dark pink), and Angelina (brunette).
  • Jewelpet Sunshine: Kanon (black hair), Hinata (reddish brown hair), and Shouko (blonde).
• Jinsei: Fumi (Blonde), Rino (Brunette) and Ikumi (Redhead)
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • The first half of part 3, Stardust Crusaders, has black-haired Jotaro Kujo, the bright red-haired Noriaki Kakyoin, and the silver haired Polnareff in a manly gender-flipped version.
  • Part 4, Diamond Is Unbreakable, has Japanese Delinquent Yuya Fungami's trio of fan girls consist of this trope. They don't harbor any individual stereotypes though and are all fiercely loyal to him and just as brash.
• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: The first three members of the Student Council introduced are the blonde Miyuki Shirogane, black haired Kaguya Shinomiya, and rose-haired Chika Fujiwara. Note that his only applies to the anime and live action movies, since Fujiwara's hair is silver in the original manga.
• Laura, the Prairie Girl: The titular Laura has dark brown hair in plaits. Her little sister has short red hair and her big sister has long, reddish-blonde hair.
• The leaders of the Red, Blue and Green team in Little Witch Academia are the brunette Akko, blond Diana and redhead Amanda O'Neill. Akko and Diana have their stereotypes inverted though, as Akko is Book Dumb while Diana is The Ace of their school. Amanda is a proper Fiery Redhead, more aloof in the short film but outwardly brash in the series.
• Love Live!: The main cast come in trios of trios, even in hair color: ^note (black replacing brunette, and blonde covering whole blonde-to-brunette scale)
  • µ's: Honoka, Rin, Maki (redhead); Eli, Kotori, Hanayo (blonde/brunette); Umi, Nozomi, Nico (black)
  • Aqours: Chika, Riko, Ruby (redhead); Kanan, Dia, Yoshiko (black); You, Hanamaru, Mari (blonde/brunette)
  • Nijigasaki High School Idol Club: Ayumu, Rina, Emma, Lanzhu (redhead); Ai, Kasumi, Kanata, Mia (blonde/brunette); Shizuku, Setsuna, Karin, Shioriko (black)
  • This trope is played straight for the first three members of Liella!: Kanon (redhead), Keke (brunette), Sumire (blonde)
• Yutaka and her classmates from Lucky Star could fit this, with the pink-hair Yutaka (the redhead), blonde Patty and black-haired Hiyori, with Minami as the odd girl out with her green hair. Or one could count it as being that Minami's classmates are a blonde, brunette and redhead...
• Fate, Hayate and Nanoha from Lyrical Nanoha. Although Nanoha's hair is a bit on the brown side and she's occasionally depicted as a brunette.
  • Fate also forms another trio with Shari (Brunette) and Teana (Redhead) in the StrikerS epilogue.
• From Magic Knight Rayearth, we have Fuu, who is your typical anime blonde, Hikaru, who is literally REDheaded and Umi, who fills the role of the brunette, but actually has blue hair. You can also count blonde Emeraude, brunette Presea and redhead Caldina (ok, so hers is more like pink).
• Male example in the Winter internship Arc of My Hero Academia: Katsuki Bakugou (Blonde), Izuku Midoriya (Brunette) and Shoto Todoroki (Redhead). In general, though, the three of them are considered to be the main protagonist students of the series so this trope is almost always in effect as a whole.
• Naruto:
  • Ino (blond), Hinata (brunette) and Sakura (pink) are sometimes grouped this way.
  • Ino (blond), Shikamaru (brunette) and Choji (redhead), although Choji's hair is more reddish-brown. It's played totally straight with their dads, though.
  • Odd variation in Sasuke's group: Suigetsu (white), Karin (redhead) and Juugo (orange) and Sasuke(brunette).
  • Naruto (blond), Sasuke (brunette) and Gaara (redhead) are also sometimes grouped this way.
  • The Sand Siblings: Temari (blond), Kankurou (brunette) and Gaara (redhead) respectively.
  • Lest we forget Team 7: Naruto (blond), Sasuke/Sai (brunette) and Sakura (pink).
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Ayaka (Blonde), Konoka (Brunette), and Asuna (Redhead).
• Nisekoi: Chitoge (blonde), Kosaki (Brunette) and Marika (redhead).
• In One Piece we have, among the Straw Hats from East Blue: Sanji (Blonde), Luffy (Brunette) and Nami (Redhead).
• Orange: Naho's six-man friend group has one male and one female example of each: Hagita and Azusa are the blonds, Suwa and Naho are the redheads, and Takako and Kakeru are the brunets.
• Misty's older sisters from Pokémon: The Original Series; Daisy (blonde), Violet (bluenette), and Lily (pink). Of the sisters, Misty also fills the redhead qualification, too.
• In Powerpuff Girls Z, the main characters: Momoko/Blossom (Redhead), Miyako/Bubbles (Blonde), and Kaoru/Buttercup (Brunette).
• Pretty Cure:
  • Hikari (Blonde), Honoka (Brunette) and Nagisa (Redhead) in Futari wa Pretty Cure MaX Heart.
  • Love, Miki and Inori in Fresh Pretty Cure! can also count if Miki's purplish-blue hair counts as stylized black hair.
  • Yes! Pretty Cure 5 has (excluding Nozomi and Komachi) Urara (blonde), Karen (bluish-haired brunette) and Rin (redhead). Also from the same series, Nuts (blonde), Coco (brunette) and Syrup (redhead) in their human forms may count as a male example.
  • Tsubomi Hanasaki (a Scarlet/Dark Pink/Fuschia-ish Redhead, who is technically a Rose-Haired Sweetie in both in her civilian and Cure form), Erika Kurumi (Dark Blue Brunette) and Itsuku Myoudouin (Sandy Blonde) from HeartCatch Pretty Cure! count.
  • Don't forget Hibiki (redhead), Kanade (dark blonde) and Ellen (dark purple brunette) from Suite Pretty Cure ♪.
  • Akane Hino (Redhead), Yayoi Kise (Blonde), and Reika Aoki (Blue-ish Brunette) (excluding Miyuki Hoshizora and Nao Midorkawa) from Smile Pretty Cure! technically count after Yes! Pretty Cure 5.
  • Male example with the Three Musketeers, Close (Brunette), Shut (Blonde), and Lock (redhead) in Go! Princess Pretty Cure.
  • Mirai (blonde), Riko (purple brunette), and Kotoha (redhead) from Maho Girls Pretty Cure!.
  • Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure's main trio's normal hair is a relatively darker and desaturated variant of the Blonde, Brunette, Redhead archetype.
• The three main characters of Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream are this, with Mion as the blonde, Rhythm/Rizumu as the brunette, and Aira as the redhead.
• On The Promised Neverland, we have Norman (platinum blonde), Ray (brunette), and Emma (redhead).
• Shiho (white hair), Aoi (brunette) and Kaoru (redhead), respectively, from Psychic Squad.
• From The Rose of Versailles, Oscar is blonde, Rosalie has dark blonde hair in the anime and brown hair in the movie and thus counts as the brunette and Marie Antoinette is often accused by Mme. DuBarry of having red hair, so she can be the redhead.
• Sailor Moon:
  • The Starlights in Sailor Moon have white, black and brown hair, but still fit the trope. Or white, navy and brown in the manga.
  • In the early episodes of the anime, we have Usagi (blonde), Naru (redhead), and Umino (brunette). Ami also qualifies, when it is between herself, Usagi, and Naru.
  • Usagi (blonde), Mamoru (brunette) and Chibiusa (redhead).
  • Likewise, the Moon Cats have white (Artemis), black (Luna) and greyish-pink (Diana) fur.
• In Spellbound! Magical Princess Lil'Pri, we have the main trio of Ringo (pink, which can count as red like with Kurumi above), Leila (blonde) and Natsuki (purple, which can count as stylized black hair).
• The three seniors among the Animation Club of Kaminomiya High School in Shirobako, are like this: Aoi is honey-blonde, Ema is the brunette, while Shizuka is the redhead.
• An interesting variation in Slayers: Lina (red), Gourry (blonde) and Amelia (black with stylized purple highlights). The chimera Zelgadis has light purple hair, but Word of God allegedly put his human hair color as a dark brown, despite an anime flashback having his human hair color the same shade of purple his chimeric hair is.
• Today's Cerberus has Cerberus' human three selves having different hair colors depending on who is in control: #1 Kuro has black hair in Girlish Pigtails, #2 Shirogane has long white-blonde hair, and #3 Roze has short pink hair.
• Tomo-chan Is a Girl!: The three main girls qualify spot on: Carol is a sweet yet somewhat ditzy (maybe) blonde, Misuzu is a sarcastic Aloof Dark-Haired Girl, and Tomo is a Fiery Redhead. Their respective mothers also fit in, especially when they're seen together during the school festival.
• Yona of the Dawn has this visual dynamic with heroine Yona(redhead) and her two childhood friends Hak(brunet) and Suwon(blond).
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • Mai (Blonde), Anzu/Téa (Brunette) and Shizuka/Serenity (brownish Redhead).
  • The three henchmen of Dartz, the Big Bad of Series 4 (Doma the Dark Organization / Waking the Dragons): Valon (brunette); Raphael (blonde); and Allister (redhead).
  • There's at least one per series: GX had Asuka/Alexis (blonde), Rei/Blair (brunette), Ayukawa/Fontaine (redhead).
  • 5Ds even one-upped the previous two with two sets:
    • Sherry (Blonde), Carly (Brunette), Aki (Redhead)
    • Gender-flipped: Jack (Blonde), Yusei (Brunette with Blonde streaks), Crow (carrot-top Redhead).
  • In addition to the in-series examples, Anzu/Tea, Asuka/Alexis and Aki are a cross series example, albeit with the brunette coming first.
• The three main girls in Yuyushiki falls into this trope: Yui (blonde), Yukari (brunette) and Yuzuko (redhead).

Art

• Sound of Spring by Franz Stuck has a black-haired, red-haired, and blond-haired woman joyfully spinning around barefoot in a grassy field.
• The Three Daughters of King Lear by Gustav Pope The two older sisters are a redhead and black-haired, while the youngest, ostracized blonde Cordelia is off to the side.

Comic Books

• The Gotham City Sirens, composed of female Batman villains: Harley Quinn (Blonde), Catwoman (Brunette) and Poison Ivy (Redhead).
• The female members of Nextwave: Tabby Smith (Blonde), Monica Rambeau (Brunette and Black) and Elsa Bloodstone (Redhead).
• Danger Girl has Abbey Chase (Blonde), Sydney Savage (Brunette) and Sonya Savage (Redhead).
• Blanche, Neyrelle and Carmine in Les Compagnons du crépuscule.
• Archie Comics loves this trope:
  • Cheryl Blossom rounds out the set with Betty and Veronica.
  • In a way the 'main trio' use this trope too. Betty is a blonde, Veronica is a raven, and Archie is a redhead
  • The Katy Keene series had Gloria, Katy and Lucki.
  • Josie and the Pussycats was originally She's Josie with Melody, Pepper and Josie, before Valerie replaced Pepper.
  • Plus many one-time trios.
• Karine, Jenny and Vicky in Les Nombrils.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) gives us Bunnie, Nicole and Sally
• Julie, Alia and Luce in Studio Danse.
• The first female Robin counterpart "Roberta the Girl Wonder" (Mary Wills), who predated "Bat-Girl" Bette Kane by eleven years, was a redhead whose two best friends were gals with blonde and black hair.
• Superman: Superman's three major love interests: Cat Grant (blonde), Lois Lane (brunette), Lana Lang (usually redheaded).
• Supergirl:
  • In Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, the three main characters are Linda Lee -the eponymous blond heroine-, her red-haired best friend Lena Thorul and her dark-haired arch-enemy and bully Belinda Zee.
  • In Supergirl: Being Super, Kara Danvers/Supergirl (blonde) and her two friends Dolly (black-haired) and Jennifer (red-haired).
• Black Canary, Oracle and Huntress in Birds of Prey. However, Dinah's actually a brunette and uses hair dye. Black Canary would later leave the team, but Lady Blackhawk was still around to fill the blonde role.
• The original Supergirl (Kara Zor-el), Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) and Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) were an example of this trope.
• The three main Batgirls so far have been Barbara Gordon (redhead), Stephanie Brown (blonde) and Cassandra Cain (brunette). They were also the three major female characters in Cassandra Cain's Batgirl (2000) series.
• Roy Thomas has stated that when introducing the character of Red Sonja into the Conan the Barbarian comics, he created a redhead because the two other major women in Conan's life were Bêlit (a brunette) and Valeria (a blonde).
• Millie the Model had the Hanover Agency's three top models: Millie, Toni and Chili.
• Lost Girls by Alan Moore. Alice is the blonde (well, white-haired, but she was blonde as a girl), Wendy the brunette and Dorothy the redhead.
• The Mighty Thor: The Warriors Three are a male example. Fandral is the blond, Hogun is the brunet and Volstagg is the redhead.
• The Avengers: Maria Hill (brunette), Sharon Carter (blonde) and Black Widow (red).
• Mighty Avengers: The Wasp (brunette), Ms. Marvel (blonde), and Black Widow (red).
• ElfQuest has the trio Murrel, Vurdah and Maleen (Skywise's little harem in Sorrow's End).
• Henchgirl: Monsieur Butterfly's henchgirls: Coco (blonde), Mary (brunette), and Katie (redhead).
• The Flash: The first three Flashes: Jay Garrick (brunet), Barry Allen (blond) and Wally West (redhead).
• Spider-Man:
  • Peter Parker is brunette, and his best friends are red-haired Harry Osborn and blond-haired Flash Thompson. As Spidey, his best friends are red-haired Daredevil and the blond-haired Human Torch. And his Amazing Friends are blonde Iceman and red-haired Firestar. Whew.
  • His clone Ben Reilly's major love interests were red-haired Janine/Elizabeth, black-haired Jessica, and blonde Desiree. Guess it's genetic.
  • Early on, Peter's first three love interests: Liz Allan (blonde) - who was later replaced by platinum blonde Gwen Stacy, Betty Brant (brunette) and Mary Jane Watson (redhead). After Gwen's death, the two more serious ones of the new love interests before Peter and Mary Jane married were Debra Whitman (blonde) and the Black Cat (platinum blonde).
• Daredevil: Matt Murdock's first three significant love interests were Karen Page (blonde), Natasha Romanova (redhead) and retconned-in first love Elektra (brunette).
  • Also combined with Two Guys and a Girl in the main line-up of Nelson & Murdock with Karen Page as the blonde, Foggy Nelson as the brunet, and Matt Murdock as the Redheaded Hero.
• Superboy once had a Love Dodecahedron between Tana Moon (brunette), Roxy Leech (blonde) and Knockout (redhead).
• Witches: Jennifer Kale (blonde), Topaz (brunette) and Satana (redhead).
• Another male example: The Abrafaxe from the German (originally East German) comic-book magazine Mosaik: Abrax (blond), Brabax (redhead) and Califax (black-haired). Since 2008 there is also a gender-flipped spin-off trio consisting of Anna (blonde), Bella (redhead) and Caramella (black-haired). For both teams the blond one is the fiery, action-oriented character, the redhead the brainy one, and the black-haired one the chubby and most "domestic" one (Califax for instance usually is the team cook). The Abrafaxe were created in 1975 to replace a similar trio, the Digedags (1955-1975) after the Digedags' creator Hannes Hegen (who held the rights to them) left Mosaik. The Digedags consisted of Dig (black-haired), Dag (blond) and Digedag (redhead).
• In Julie, Claire, Cécile et les autres, you have Julie (black), Claire (blonde) and Cécile (brunette). Cécile's hair eventually becomes redheaded to fit her confrontational attitude.
• Judge Dredd: The three most well-known female Judges fit this mold: Judge Anderson (blonde), Judge Hershey (brunette), and Judge DeMarco (redhead).
• According to Roy Thomas this is the origin of Red Sonja's hair. Conan already had brunette Belit and blonde Valeria, so redhead Sonja made the set. Whether Thomas was truthful is debatable, and Sonja has long outlasted her counterparts regardless.
• X-Men:
  • Emma Frost (blonde), Elisabeth Braddock (brunette), and Jean Grey and Madelyne Pryor (red head) were four well-known telepaths that were linked to Scott Summers, but he only had serious relationships with Jean, Madelyne and Emma. Psylocke flirted shamelessly for a time, but it ended rather quickly.
  • The Stepford Cuckoos are clones of Emma Frost. In an effort to differentiate themselves, two of them dye their hair red and brunette while one stays blonde.
• Tintin:
  • Snowy and Bianca (blonde), Captain Haddock, Cuthbert Calculus and The Thompson Twins (brunette), and Tintin (redhead).
• Wonder Woman:
  • Sensation Comics: In "In the Clutches of Nero" the three Holliday Girls to go with Steve Trevor on the mission are the redheaded Etta Candy, brunette Glamora Treat and blonde Bobby Strong.
  • Wonder Woman (1942): The aforementioned Holliday Girl trio is the group most likely to assist or go on their own espionage missions and expeditions.
  • Hellene, Iphthime, and Oenone are a trio of cynical Amazons initially never seen apart who are a blonde, a brunette and a redhead.
  • For a time in Wonder Woman (1987) Wondy, a brunette, was accompanied by the redheaded Artemis and the new blonde Wonder Girl Cassie Sandsmark.

Comic Strips

• The three main characters in long-running soap comic Apartment 3-G. While blonde Lu Ann plays to the stereotype, redhead Tommie and brunette Margo seem to have swapped theirs.
• Luann (straight-haired blonde), Bernice (curly/frizzy-haired light-brown brunette) and Delta (short black-haired token minority).
• Sally Forth's daughter, Hilary (brainy blonde) and her two friends: Faye (troubled brunette) and Nona (ditzy redhead).
• The classic Flash Gordon newspaper serial comic has had several major female leads, so it's not surprising that this trope would eventually come into play. In the "golden age" of the strip, as drawn by creator Alex Raymond, the women who best fit the trope are Flash's requisite Love Interest Dale Arden (who has black hair), Queen Fria of Frigia (a blonde) and Queen Desira of Tropica (a redhead). There's also Queen Undina of Coralia, who has long dark tresses similar to Dale's. (In case you haven't figured it out yet, the planet Mongo has a lot of royalty.) Princess Aura is a bit harder to pin down, as she started out with red hair (plus yellow skin and pointy ears), but later underwent Art Evolution and became a blonde with Caucasian features, right around the same time she rebelled against her father's evil regime and joined Flash's band of good guys. (And while we're on the subject of hair, Fria's hair buns were copied rather shamelessly by George Lucas for Princess Leia's hairstyle in Star Wars.)
• Rip Haywire: Rip's various love interests — veterinarian Fawn Forrester (blonde), Rip's mercenary on-again/off-again girlfriend Cobra Carson (brunette) and helicopter pilot Breezy Easy (redhead).
• Big Nate:
  • The three Wrights: Nate himself is a brunet, Ellen is a blonde, and Marty was a redhead before he went bald. The personalities don't match however. Nate is fiery, Ellen is smart, and Marty is dumb.
  • Nate's three friends too. Francis is a light brunet, Teddy is the Token Minority, and Chad is a redhead. Again, Francis is smart and Teddy is fiery. However, Chad isn't dumb - just a little too friendly for his own good.

Fan Works

• Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Germany is the blond, Japan is the brunet (his hair is actually black though) while Italy is the redhead (though it's closer to brown, but with a reddish tinge in the light).
• A Kim Possible fan artist drew a pic featuring Tara (blonde), Bonnie (brunette), and Kim (redhead) in a photo shoot in a remote jungle...wearing bikinis. As a Shout-Out, they also did the famous Charlie's Angels pose. The pic can be found here.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers: England is blond, and when fans create OCs representing his siblings, they'll usually do this trope. The directions vary. Some follow the basic stereotype, with Wales a brunet and Scotland a redhead. However, it's just as common to make Wales a blond, for the gag of him getting mistaken/interchanged with England a la America and Canada. In this case, the three major Celtic countries will usually form this trio, most often when Scotland is a brunet because the fan wants to reserve the red hair for the Irelands, or when they make Ireland a brunet/te (both male and female Ireland have been considered by the author) and keep Scotland a redhead if they prefer the slight statistical differences over stereotypes.
• The Night Unfurls:
  • The six Bloodborne-centric characters have two trios that follow this pattern:
    • The women: Evetta (Mystical White Hair), Sanakan (Raven Hair, Ivory Skin), Lily (Inverted Fiery Redhead).
    • The male hunters: Soren (sandy hair; blond), Kyril (black hair; brunet), Hugh (brown hair; redhead).
  • The remastered version has another trio that fits this trope: Alicia (blonde), Vera (brunette), Kendra (redhead).
• The Ever After High fanfic Poisoning Apple has blonde Apple White, brunette Raven Queen and redheaded Rotbart von Schwartz as the story's main protagonists.
• Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has a male example with the Night Watchers, a trio of Bloodliner superheroes/vigilantes who fight crime in Goldenrod City and the nearby area. Decid-Arrow is blond, Flashstrika has red hair, and Flamestorm has black hair.
• The Frozen fanfic A Snowflake In Spring has redheaded Anna and blonde Elsa as its main characters. The character who receives the most focus after them is Hercules' Megara, a brunette. The trope is played more loosely than most cases, however: apart from being attracted to Anna, Meg and Elsa have no connection to one another, and have only been in the same room together once.
• The triad necessarily recurs with lead characters in the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal: members of the red-haired Smith-Rhodes family tend to team up with blonde and brunette/black-haired working partners. Air Witch Rebecka Smith-Rhodes is partnered with startling blonde Vasilisa Budonova and brunette Sophie Rawlinson or Robyn Myers, instance, in her Flight.
• The three witches from SlifofinaDragon's Sengoku Basara fanfic series - Kyogoku Maria (platinum blonde), Oichi (purplish black - brunette), and Kagehime (Toyotomi Hideyoshi's daughter, maroon/burgundy - redhead).
• The deuteragonists of The Story of Apollo, Daphne and Luca: An Italian Tragedy consist of haughty blond Vincenzo, spunky brunet Alberto and brash redhead Giulia.
• In Narnia and the North, Jon Snow falls in love with Susan Pevensie and later marries her. She's his third love interest and a brunette, coming after the redheaded Ygritte and the platinum blonde Daenerys.

Film - Animation

• The Angry Birds Movie: Chuck (blond), Bomb (brunet) and Red (redhead).
• Barbie movies:
  • Barbie as Rapunzel: Prince Stefan's three sisters, Katrina (blonde), Melody (brunette), and Lorena (redhead).
  • Barbie as the Island Princess: Sofia (blonde), Gina (brunette), and Rita (redhead), the three youngest princesses.
  • Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses: There's the three youngest princesses, Lacey (blonde), Janessa (brunette), and Kathleen (redhead).
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Playing up his billionaire playboy image, Bruce Wayne is at a party talking to a Black woman, an Asian woman, and a white woman (the white woman is a blonde). Then a Fiery Redhead who's a former paramour walks up and chucks a drink in his face for not returning her calls.
• Coraline:
  • Ms. Forcible, Coraline and Ms. Spink count, although Coraline is more of a bluenette.
  • Also, the Other Ms. Forcible, the Other Mother, and the Other Ms. Spink.
• Despicable Me: Edith, Margo, and Agnes (although she has black hair and a red headband).
  • Later, Edith (blonde), Margo and Agnes (brunettes), and Lucy (redhead) in the sequel.
• Disney / Pixar
  • The Aristocats has a mixed-gender example with Duchess' kittens: Marie has white (blonde) fur, Berlioz is dark gray (brunet) and Toulouse is orange (redhead).
  • Cars 3: Cruz Ramirez, Jackson Storm, and Lightning McQueen are yellow, black, and red-colored cars respectively.
  • Cinderella: The blonde Cinderella, brunette Drizella and redheaded Anastasia.
  • Frozen: Elsa is blonde, Anna is redheaded, and their mother is brunette.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Phoebus (blond), Esmeralda (brunette) and Quasimodo (redhead).
  • The Incredibles:
    • Mirage, Violet (or Edna Mode if you're only counting adult women) and Elastigirl/Helen.
    • If you exclude the criterion of a uniform gender, the Parr kids - Dash, Violet and Jack-Jack - also follow this pattern.
    • For the guys there's blonde Mr. Incredible, brunet Frozone, and redhead Syndrome.
  • The Jungle Book: The vultures; Flaps (blonde), Dizzy (brunette), and Ziggy (redhead). The fourth vulture, Buzzie, doesn't have any hair to speak of, and doesn't count.
  • The Little Mermaid (1989): Ariel is a redhead while her six older sisters fill in the blonde (Arista and Andrina) and brunette (Attina, Alana, Aquata and Adella) qualifications, plus Ursula who has white hair in her normal form and dark brown hair as "Vanessa".
  • The Princess and the Frog, Naveen sings about having a redhead and brunette on each arm with "a blonde or two to hold the candles" while surrounded by butterflies in the corresponding colors. Of course, he ends up falling for the African American Tiana. The trio of bimbettes that follows him around also fits this trope.
  • In Toy Story, we have three dolls from the same brand that Sid's sister Hannah owned. There is Janie (blonde) whom he decapitated and replaced her head with a pterodactyl's (before Sid's toys fixed them both), Sally (brunette) which is a new doll Hannah got and a burnt unnamed doll (redhead) who terrorizes Sid during Woody's plan to save Buzz.
  • Treasure Planet: Captain Amelia and Delbert Doppler's daughters.
  • Disney Princesses merchandise tends to have this setup, with Cinderella/Aurora/Rapunzel in the blonde spot, Snow White/Belle/Jasmine/Tiana as the brunette, and Ariel as the redhead (now joined by Merida).
• Ice Age: Manny (a brown, level-headed woolly mammoth), Sid (a ditzy yellow sloth), and Diego (a fiery orange sabertoothed cat who is actually a villain for most of the first movie).
• Monster House: The three main kids are Chowder (blond), DJ (brunette), and Jenny (redhead).
• Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost: The Hex Girls fit this trope (though it’s not clear if all their hair colors are natural); guitarist/lead singer Thorn has black hair, drumer Dusk is a blonde, and keyboardist Luna is a redhead.
• Son of the White Horse: The three princesses.
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse features Gwen Stacy (blonde), Peni Parker, Olivia Octavius (both brunettes), and the two Mary Jane Watson/Parkers (both redheads).
• A Troll in Central Park: Rosie (blonde), Gus (brunet), and Stanley (redhead).
• Wreck-It Ralph: Calhoun is the blond; Vanellope and Felix are the brunet(te)s; Ralph is the redhead (he is a brunet, but his game sprite has him as a redhead).

Film - Live-Action

• 9 to 5: The main female lead fit the trope as; Judy (redhead), Violet (brunette), and Doralee (blonde).
• The Allnighter: The three college roommates — Brainy Brunette Molly (Susanna Hoffs), Dumb Blonde Val (Dedee Pfieffer), and Fiery Redhead Gina (Joan Cusack).
• The Amazing Spider-Man Series
  • The three important women in Peter Parker 's life; Gwen Stacy (blonde), his mother Mary (brunette), and his aunt May (redhead).
  • Mary Jane Watson was deleted in the final cut of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Had she stayed, it would've featured her (redhead), Gwen (blonde), and Felicia Hardy (brunette).
• Andy Sidaris: The movies Guns, Do or Die and Hard Hunted feature heroines Donna Hamilton (blonde), Nicole Justin (brunette) and Edy Stark (redhead). The actresses who played the characters (Dona Speir, Roberta Vasquez and Cynthia Brimhall, respectively) are all Playboy Playmates.
• The Baby: The Wadsworths. Mrs Wadsworth (brunette), and her two daughters Germaine (the redhead) and Alba (the blonde).
• Bachelorette: The three anti-heroines (imagine Bridesmaids if the 'maids were bitter and jealous of the bride for finding a hot husband despite being fatter and having less fashion sense then them): type-A blonde (Kirsten Dunst), redheaded party girl/sex maniac (Isla Fisher, evidently the go-to gal for this trope), and mousy/brainy-looking brunette (Lizzy Caplan).
• Batman Returns: There are three female criminals in the Penguin's gang. The Poodle Lady is light blonde, the Snake Woman has fiery red/orange hair, and the Knifethrower Dame never shows her hair but dresses like a Native American, so it's easy to imagine the hair being black.
• Beau Is Afraid: Two of each (mostly the younger and older versions) in the entire female cast. The older and young Elaines are brunette, the older and younger Monas are redheads, and Grace and her daughter Toni are both blondes.
• The Callback Queen: Luci (blonde), Joanne (brunette) and Kate (redhead).
• Cannibal Girls: Anthea (blonde), Leona (brunette), and Clarissa (redhead). At the end of the film, Gloria becomes the second brunette.
• Casper Meets Wendy: Wendy's aunts; Gert (blond), Gabby (brunette), and Fanny (redhead).
• Charlie's Angels (2000): Cameron Diaz (blonde), Lucy Liu (brunette) and Drew Barrymore (redhead).
• Count Yorga: The title character's first two vampire brides are a redhead and a recently turned blonde woman. He completes the ensemble when he turns Erica, who is a brunette.
• Couples Retreat: The 3 main women: Ronnie (redhead), Lucy (brunette), and Cynthia (blonde).
• Death Becomes Her: Has a Two Girls and a Guy version, with Madeleine (blonde), Helen (redhead) and Ernest (brunet).
  • Looking at the three main female characters, there's Mad (blonde), Hel (redhead), and Lisle (brunette).
• Definitely, Maybe: As a bonus, has Color-Coded Characters with Emily (the Dumb Blonde), Summer (the Brainy Brunette) and April (the Fiery Redhead).
• Down with Love: Barbara Novak, the main character, spends most of the film a blonde, but in the Big Reveal towards the end, she reveals that she had fallen in love with Chivalrous Pervert Catcher Block, but he didn't notice her because she was a mousy brunette secretary, so she reinvented herself as a sassy blonde feminist writer to get his attention, but in the end, she dyes her hair red so she's "in between" the mousy brunette and the sassy blonde.
• G.B.F.: The three alpha bitches; the blonde Fawcett, the brunette Caprice, and the redheaded 'Shley.
• Godspell: Robin (blonde), Joanne (brunette), Lynne (African-American), and Katie and Gilmer (redheads).
  • Interestingly, Gilmer is introduced wearing a blonde wig (she's an aspiring model on her way to an agency). When she is called, she yanks it off, revealing her gorgeous auburn hair.
• The Great Gatsby (2013): Seemingly ditzy blonde Daisy, cool-hearted brunette Jordan, and Fiery Redhead Myrtle (Isla Fischer again).
• Hairspray: Amber, Tracy and Penny. The title song even includes the line "So if you're a redhead, a blonde or brunette..."
• Harry Potter: Hermione varies between light brown, dirty blonde, and blonde; Harry as dark brown/black-haired; and Ron as the redhead.
• Heartbreakers: Sigourney Weaver (Max) and Jennifer Love Hewitt (Paige) each switch between all three for each of the different people their characters impersonate. Both are brunettes as themselves, Max is redhead as "Olga" and blonde as "Angela" while Paige is redhead as "Wendy" and blonde as "Allison".
• Heathers - Heathers Chandler and McNamara are blonde, Veronica is brunette and Heather Duke is redhead to form a Girl Posse. And since Heather Chandler dies relatively early, the subsequent scenes give the full trifecta. Initially it was to be all three Heathers as blondes to contrast with Veronica, but Shannen Doherty refused to go blonde and dyed her hair red as a compromise.
• High and Tight: Male examples in the protagonists - Vinnie is blond, Ryan brunet and Scott as a light brown substituting redhead.
• The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings: Arwen (brunette), Tauriel (redhead), Galadriel and Éowyn (blonde). The background elves follow a similar pattern with the elves of Lothlorien being blonde or silver-haired, the elves of Rivendell are mostly brunette, and the Silvan elves of Mirkwood being red-haired.
  • There's also a couple of male versions - the three hunters: Legolas (blonde), Aragorn (brunet), and Gimli (redhead); and the four Hobbits: the fairly strawberry blond Sam and Merry, the dark brunette Frodo, and the lighter golden brunette Pippin.
• Hocus Pocus: The Sanderson Sisters; Winifred (readhead); Sara (blond); and Mary (brunette).
• James Bond
  • Dr. No: On the European promotional tour, Sean Connery would always travel with three girls following this trope.
  • A variation in Diamonds Are Forever. When Bond first meets Tiffany at her apartment, he's perplexed to see her change from a blonde to a brunette to a redhead in quick order. Turn out the first two are wigs.
• Jawbreaker: Courtney (brunette), Marcie (blonde) and Julie (redhead).
• Joe Versus the Volcano: The Protagonist Title character meets three women over the course of the film meant to represent the stages when a man meets and falls in love with a woman. His co-worker Dede (brunette), Patricia (redhead) and her stepsister Angelica (blonde). Funnily enough, all three are portrayed by Meg Ryan.
• The Karate Kid:: This applies to Daniel LaRusso's love interests in each of the three films.
  • The blonde Ali Mills in The Karate Kid (1984)
  • The brunette Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part II
  • The redhead Jessica Andrews in The Karate Kid Part III
• A Knight's Tale: Has the three squires of blond William Thatcher, fat but loyal brunette Roland and violent young redhead Wat. Later they also get blond-haired Geoffrey Chaucer and a dark-haired blacksmith, Kate, to extend the ensemble.
• Liberal Arts: Zibby (dirty blonde), Ana (Brainy Brunette), and Prof. Judith Fairfield (Fiery Redhead).
• Liberty Heights: Presents a male version of this trope, with the blond Ben and his two brunet and redheaded best friends (plus, they're all Jewish).
• Major Grom: Plague Doctor: The leads have this going on: Igor Grom has dark hair, Dima Dubin has blond hair, and Yulia Pchelkina's hair is dyed a bright apple red color.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Iron Man: The three go-go dancing stewardesses on Tony Stark's private jet.
  • Thor: The Warriors Three - Hogun (brunette), Fandral (blonde), Volstagg (readhead).
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier:
    • The three female characters: Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (redhead), Sharon Carter/Agent 13 (blonde), and Maria Hill (brunette).
    • The Two Guys and a Girl version: Steve Rogers (blond), Natasha (redhead), and Sam Wilson (black).
  • Black Widow (2021): Natasha Romanoff (redhead), Yelena Bolova (blonde), and Melina Vostokoff (brunette).
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home: The three cinematic Spider-Men's love interests; Raimi-verse Peter's is Mary Jane Watson (redhead), Webb-verse Peter's was the late Gwen Stacy (blonde), and MCU Peter's are Liz Allan and then Michelle Jones (both brunettes).
• Mean Girls: Upon Cady (redhead) joining The Plastics, she completes this with Regina and Karen (blondes) and Gretchen (brunette). Later when Regina leaves the group, they become the perfect trio.
• Miss Congeniality: Blonde Cheryl "Rhode Island", brunette Grace Hart, and redhead Mary Jo "Texas" (the three finalists).
• The Neon Demon: Jesse the blonde, Dean the brunet, and Ruby the redhead.
• In Our Man Flint, Derek Flint has live-in "playmates", one of each hair color. (Actually, there are two brunettes, one being Asian).
• Pitch Perfect: The Bellas are brunettes Beca, Stacie, Cynthia Rose and Lilly; blondes Aubrey and Fat Amy, and redhead Chloe (and technically Cynthia-Rose, who dyes her hair red). The sequels add two more brunettes in Emily and Flo.
• Pleasure Seekers: This remake of Three Coins in a Fountain set in Spain, stars Ann-Margaret (redhead), Carol Lynley (blonde) and Pamela Tiffen (brunette).
• Queen of Outer Space: When the beautiful women of Venus first capture our heroes, they're greeted (well, threatened actually) by a brunette, then a redhead and finally a blonde. Clearly these Human Aliens have women of every color. Hair color, that is.
• Scooby-Doo (2002): In the film, the addition of Mary Jane, played by Isla Fisher, a blond, and of course, Velma (Brunette) and Daphne (Redhead). They do fulfill the traditional roles somewhat - Mary Jane is a little spacey (though more innocent than actually stupid), Velma is the brains and Daphne is really sassy in this version. Interestingly Daphne was more the dimwit in the show. If one swaps Mary Jane for Fred, then you get the Dumb Blonde.
• Singin' in the Rain: Has a Two Guys and a Girl version with brunet Don, blonde Kathy, and redhead Cosmo.
• Spears: Has three male examples. Cormac is the blond, Jeff is the brunet, and Kian is the redhead.
• Spider-Man Trilogy: Mary Jane Watson (redhead), Betty Brant (brunette), and Gwen Stacy (blonde). Ironically, none of the actress sport the natural hair color; blonde Kirsten Dunst initially wore a red wig but dyed it eventually, blonde Elizabeth Banks wore a brunette wig, and redhead Bryce Dallas Howard dyed her hair blonde.
• Stardust: The Lilim; Lamia (blond), Mormo (redhead), and Empusa (brunette).
• Star Wars: The sequel movies (starting with The Force Awakens) have a Two Guys and a Girl variant among the three main leaders in the First Order (under Supreme Leader Snoke, who's bald). Blond-haired Gwendoline Christie plays Captain Phasma, black-haired Adam Driver plays Kylo Ren, and red-haired Domhnall Gleeson plays General Hux. Captain Phasma is The Faceless, but the novel Phasma confirms her as blonde (though she doesn't resemble her actress other than her hair and eyes, according to Word of God).
• Struwwelpeter: The three boys who tease the black boy. Ludwig is the redhead, Kaspar is the brunet, and William is the blond.
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The 2007 version had the Bedlam House separate its female patients into three groups: blondes, brunettes and redheads. Justified in that it was run by a wigmaker who used their hair to make wigs. Sweeney uses this to get Anthony into the Bedlam House to rescue Johanna by posing as a wigmaker's apprentice, as part of his plot for final vengeance against Judge Turpin.
• Three Wise Girls: The film is in black and white, but according to the poster one is brunette, one redheaded, and the third (played by Jean Harlow) is blonde.
• The Vampire Lovers: Carmilla's three main victims are Laura (blonde), the Governess (brunette), and Emma (redhead).
• Total Recall (1990): Directly name-dropped when Quaid as the options given to Quaid for what type of woman he would like during his memory trip to Mars.
• Troy: The central love triangle of Paris (brunette), Helen (blonde), and Menelaus (redhead, through greying).
• Van Helsing: Dracula's brides; Marishka (blond), Verona (brunette) and Aleera (redhead). They are also killed in this order, as well.
• Wedding Crashers: The Cleary sisters. Claire fits the Brainy Brunette bill, yet Gloria isn't so much a Fiery Redhead as completely insane whilst the third, blonde sister doesn't come across as dumb, just vain.
• West Side Story (1961): The three girlfriends of the Jets. Riff's girlfriend, Graziella (redhead), Ice's girl, Velma (blonde) and another girl, a brunette.
• The Witches of Eastwick: Michelle Pfeiffer (blonde), Cher (brunette) and Susan Sarandon (redhead).
• Xanadu: Has a song, Dancin'. There is a trio of female singers with blond, red and brown hair.
• X-Men Film Series: Raven Darkhölme / Mystique from the loves disguising herself as a blond. Her mutant form has red hair. When de-powered in X-Men: The Last Stand, she has raven hair.

Literature

• Nightfall (Series): Mixed gender evil version: the Big Bad trio: Tristan, Prince Vladimir, and Armida, are respectively blond, black, and red-haired.
• In Shannon Hale's Books of Bayern series, Isi is the blonde, Enna is the brunette (actually, her hair is jet black) and Dasha is the redhead. With the addition of Rin, it becomes 'blonde, brunette, redhead and black hair',
• In Elizabeth Lowell's "Medieval Series" Romance Novel trilogy, the heroines of each book fall into this—Margaret of "Untamed" is a redhead, Amber of "Forbidden" is blonde, and Ariane of "Enchanted" is black-haired.
• In Charles Ogden's Edgar & Ellen, Stephanie is the redhead, Cassidy is the blonde and Pepper is the brunette.
• Opal, Jade and Amber respectively play this trope straight in The Prophecy of the Stones. The three of them are known as "the Stones" of the prophecy (referring to their namesake magic stones).
• In the H.I.V.E. Series, Shelby, Lucy, and Laura fill these roles respectively.
• In Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Jubal Harshaw's secretaries are Anne (blonde), Dorcas (brunette) and Miriam (redhead). Jubal mentions many times that this is exactly the way he wants it. Whenever one of his secretaries leaves his service, he will only hire a replacement with her hair color to keep things evened out.
• Older Than Steam: Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tale Princess Belle-Etoile features a queen with three daughters. Exaggerated in that they are named after their hair colors. The oldest is a redhead named Roussette, the middle is a brunette whose very name is Brunette, and the youngest is a blonde named Blondine. Blondine is the mother of the title character.
• From Samhain Island there are the St. Charles's siblings; Hannah is a platinum blonde, René is a brunet, and Zac has dark red hair.
• Harry Potter:
  • Taken together, the Golden and Silver Trios form a male and female set of these. True to stereotype, Hermione's a Brainy Brunette, Ginny's a Fiery Redhead, and while Luna certainly isn't dumb, she's definitely a little spacey. For the guys, we have black-haired Harry, redheaded Ron, and Neville, who is blond according to Word of God (though he has dark hair in the movies).
  • In the films the main trio is bumped up to this as Emma Watson's hair becomes blonde from the fifth film onwards - making her the Brainy Blonde, Harry the Fiery Brunet and Ron the Dumb Redhead.
  • Also the three Black sisters: Narcissa (blonde), Bellatrix (black hair) and Andromeda (brown hair).
  • In the films, the secondary trio also fits the bill with Neville (brunet), Ginny (redhead) and Luna (blonde).
  • The Fanon grouping of Albus Potter (brunet), Rose Weasley (redhead) and Scorpius Malfoy (blonde) counts also. (Note that Rose's hair color is never stated in the book, though her father is a redhead.)
• From the novelization of Iron Man: "One was a blonde, the other a brunette. Stark glanced around, hoping that he could find a worthwhile redhead in order to complete the set..."
• I've Got You Under My Skin: This applies to the four graduates suspected of murder, helping to make them as distinct visually as they are in personality and potential motive for murder: Claire Bonner has ash-blonde hair, Regina Callari has midnight-black hair, Alison Schaeffer is a brunette, and Nina Craig is a redhead.
• In the Land of Oz books, Dorothy is the blonde, Ozma is the brunette and Glinda is the redhead. At least, according to the illustrations—Ozma was actually described as having "ruddy blonde" books early on, but that seems to be an Early Installment Character-Design Difference.
  • The Adepts at Magic in Glinda of Oz.
• Star Wars Legends:
  • The three women Luke describes as the greatest loves of his life: Callista (blonde), Gaeriel (brunette) and Mara (redhead).
  • This seems to be something of a trend, as well. Obi-Wan-Kenobi has had three major women in his life: Duchess Satine Kryze (blonde), Asajj Ventress (brunette, thanks to a recent Retcon) and Siri Tachi (canonically blonde, but famously dyed her hair red for an undercover operation). Obi's Angels, anyone?
  • Ben Skywalker, Luke's son and Obi-Wan's namesake, has officially picked up on this tendency. So far, he's been involved with one canonical love interest (Vestara Khai, brunette), had one off-hand flirtation with another Jedi (Seha Dorvald, redhead) and been the recipient of one really twisted molestation attempt as a part of a Sith plot ( Tahiri Veila, blonde). Hopefully, his options will get a little better with time...
  • Jaina and her two would-be sisters-in-law form this with Jaina (brunette), Tahiri (blonde), and Tenel Ka (redhead).
• Yasmine Galenorn's The Otherworld Series has three full sisters with very different hair colors. Camille, the eldest, has black hair, Delilah has sunny blonde hair and Menolly, the youngest, has bright red hair.
• The It Girl series by Cecily Ziegesar features power trio Callie (blonde), Tinsley (brunette) and Brett (redhead). Newcomer Jenny is also a brunette. Guess which of the three feels most threatened socially and works hardest to try to tear Jenny down (at least to begin with).
• Pauline (blonde), Petrova (brunette) and Posy (redhead) in Ballet Shoes.
• Emily (redhead), Adriane (brunette) and Kara (blonde) from the Avalon: Web of Magic series.
• The Wheel of Time: Rand's three girlfriends (and eventual wives)- Elayne (blonde), Min (brunette) and Aviendha (redhead). It's toyed with, though, as Elayne is strawberry-blonde, Aviendha has reddish brown hair, and Min's hair is dark.
• In the Deepgate Codex, we have Rachel (blonde), Carnival (black hair), Mina (brunette) and Alice (redhead).
• Circle of Magic: Sandry (light brown), Daja (black) and Tris (redhead). And Briar (boy) is the odd man out.
• Betsy (brunette), Tacy (redhead) and Tib (blonde) in the Betsy-Tacy books. Plays with the hair types a bit: Tib is definitely not dumb — she's generally the most sensible and practical of the group and Tacy, far from being fiery, is fun and charming with her friends, but suffers from crippling shyness. Betsy may be brainy in that she's a good writer, but she's generally average at school work. Also somewhat subverted as a cliche in that the three characters are based on three real women, who were a blonde, a brunette and a redhead.
• The Doctor Who Expanded Universe Eighth Doctor Adventures feature a blonde (Sam), a redhead (Compassion) and a brunette (Anji, who happens to be of Indian descent) who travel with the Doctor, just none of them at the same time. There's also Trix, who's sort of dirty blonde but usually wears wigs. And if we were counting the guys, Fitz has dark brown hair and the Doctor's hair is chestnut brown and, if backlit a certain way, looks practically orange, so there would pretty much be two full sets.
• In Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Annabeth is a blonde, Thalia has dark hair and Rachel is a redhead. However, Annabeth is smart, Rachel is a bit ditzy and Thalia's the one with the fiery temper.
• In the Gone series, the three main girls are Astrid (blonde), Diana (brunette) and Lana (unspecified hair color). However, none of the girls fit any of the blonde stereotypes (such as Dumb Blonde). Lana fits the typical redhead personality, but Astrid is one of the most intelligent characters in the series, while Diana is a snarky, sarcastic villainess.
• On the cover of Saving Zoë, Echo, Janay and Abby are depicted this way. Janay is the blonde, Echo is the brunette and Abby is the "redhead" (which is really more of a dark blonde/strawberry blonde).
• Lestat (blond), Louis (brunet/jet black) and Armand (redhead/auburn) from The Vampire Chronicles.
• The starting premise of Aimee Bender's short story "Off", where the protagonist makes a goal to kiss a blond, brunet and red-haired man in one night.
• Cupcake Diaries is about Katie (a brunette) and her three new friends, Emma (who has blonde hair), Mia (who has black hair) and Alexis (who has reddish hair).
• The boys of the Spy High series: Ben (blond), Jake (brunet) and Eddie (redhead). For the girls, there's blonde Lori, brunette Cally and Bex; who dyes her hair a variety of bright, unnatural colours, sometimes red.
• The respective trio of Bess (light blonde), George (brunette) and Nancy (strawberry blonde/"Titian-haired") in the Nancy Drew series. True to form, Bess is the ditz, George is the smart, practical, athletic and tomboyish one, while Nancy is the main protagonist.
• The Hatter sisters from Howl's Moving Castle. Sophie (redhead), Lettie (brunette) and Martha (blonde).
• The Chronicles of Amber: Three of the Princesses of Amber fit this trope; black haired Deidre who seems to be something of a tomboy, redheaded Fiona, the 'brainy' one and Dumb Blonde Flora. The fourth princess, Llewella, has green hair.
• Faeries of Dreamdark has Magpie, a brunette; whose best friend and Love Interest is Talon, who's blond; and whose childhood Only Friend is red-haired Poppy.
• Gaelyn Gordon's book Tripswitch has three cousins: Cilla (blonde), Jocasta (brunette) and Flora (redhead).
• In A Song of Ice and Fire, the three most obvious contenders to fulfill the prophecy that Cersei will be overthrown by a beautiful younger queen have this ensemble: Daenerys Targaryen (blonde), Margaery Tyrell (brunette) and Sansa Stark (redhead).
  • The three young female protagonists Daenerys Targaryen (blonde), Arya Stark (brunette), and Sansa Stark (redhead).
• The Twilight Saga has a female example with Rosalie (blonde), Alice (brunette) and Esme (redhead) and a male example with Jasper and Carlisle (blond), Emmett (brunet) and Edward (redhead).
• Daniel Gonzalez's Ravencraft series; Laura Talbot (the werewolf) is a blonde, Lucilla (the vampire) is a redhead and Dr. Abigail Valdemar (zombie) is a brunette.
• The Swensen daughters in the Hannah Swensen series with Andrea being the blonde, Michelle being the brunette, and Hannah being the redhead.
  • The movies subvert this by making Michelle and Hannah blondes as well.
• In the Web Serial Novel Correspondence From the Goddess, main characters Lydia and Elana Devin have black and red hair respectively, and when recurring mysterious plotter Rachel Hawkins shows up, she fills in the blonde point of the triangle.
• The three main female characters in the Monster Mash neo-noir City of Devils follow the pattern. The doppelganger Imogen Verity usually appears blonde, the siren secretary Serendipity Sargasso has black hair (albeit with green highlights), and the witch Hexene Candlemas is a redhead. Additionally, the close harmony group/witch coven the Salem Sisters consist of Hyacinth (blonde), Verbena (brunette), and Lily (redhead).
  • The sequel, Fifty Feet of Trouble, swaps out Imogen Verity for the blonde pinup Giant Woman Pilar O'Heaven.
• A male example in Relativity: When Michael (blond) was a teenager, his best friends in school were Tony (brunet) and Andy (redhead).
• In The Chemical Garden Trilogy, Rhine is a blonde, Jenna is a brunette and Cecily is a redhead.
• Ralph (blond), Piggy and Simon (brunet); Jack (redhead) in Lord of the Flies.
• The Secret Garden: Mary, Colin and Dickon. They also form a Two Guys and a Girl team of three .
• In E. Jade. Lomax's Leagues And Legends series, the vigilantes in the mountains: George (blond), Jack (redhead), and Liam (brunet).
• The three main girls in Stranger And Stranger. Ainslee is a redhead, Shawna is blonde, and April is brunette. Though, after they complete the change into fae they'll all be varying shades of blonde.
• In Goddess Girls, Aphrodite is the Blonde, Athena and Artemis are Brunettes and Persephone is the Redhead.
• In Princess Holy Aura, Cordy is blonde, Holly has black hair, and Tierra has red hair.
• This is how the sirens from the first Watersong novel, Wake, are introduced. Lexi is the blonde ( before she's replaced by another blonde siren, Liv), Penn is the brunette, and Thea is the redhead.
• The three sisters in Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast: Grace is the blonde, Hope is the brunette, and while Beauty's hair is a nondescript "neither blonde nor brown" in her awkward adolescence, it turns red as she matures.
• Male example with the three children in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; Anthony, the eldest, has blonde hair, Nick, the middle child, has brown hair, and Alexander, the youngest, has red hair. In the 1990 Animated Adaptation by Klasky-Csupo from HBO Storybook Musicals, it's Anthony who has brown hair and Nick who has blonde.
• The main children from A to Z Mysteries: Dink (blond), Ruth Rose (brunette), and Josh (redhead).
• A Tale of...: Manea's three daughters: Hazel (silver), Gothel (black), and Primrose (red). Their lack of resemblance is noted to be ominous for witches. It's also foreshadowing to the fact they're not actually triplets.
• Warrior Cats fans have noticed that main character groups tend to follow a pattern of ginger/black/gray:
  • The first series began with the best-friends trio of Fireheart the ginger cat, Ravenpaw the black cat, and Graystripe the gray cat.
  • Power of Three focused on the ginger Lionblaze, the black Hollyleaf, and the gray Jayfeather.
  • Dawn of the Clans followed ginger Thunder, dark gray Gray Wing, and pale gray Clear Sky.
  • A Vision of Shadows centers around ginger Alderheart, black-and-white Violetshine, and gray Twigbranch.
  • The Broken Code's protagonists are the yellow Rootpaw, dark gray-black Shadowsight, and gray Bristlefrost.
• Despite being a quintet instead of a trio, The Fabulous Five girls fit this trope too. Unusually, only Katie's personality fits her hair—Fiery Redhead. The blondes are not ditsy.
• In The Halfblood Chronicles, Kara, Gianna, and Rennati, the three women bought to be in Lord Kyrtian's harem. True to form, Kara the blonde is sweet-natured, while Gianna the brunette acts as the leader of the three, making most of the decisions. Somewhat subverted with Rennati, who is not really Fiery Redhead, but instead is quite clever and intelligent. (Though she does have a passion for dancing and is the one that feels the most confined as a harem slave.)
• The Shadowhunter Chronicles:
  • The three main characters of The Mortal Instruments are Clary (redhead), Jace (blond), and Simon (brunet).
  • The main female leads of the franchise are Clary (redhead), Tessa (brunette), and Emma (blonde). The traditional dynamic also fits to an extent. Tessa, as an immortal, is the most experienced one. Clary is the middle ground, being experienced but still young. Finally, Emma is the youngest of the trio, though she is far from dumb or naive.
• The eponymous trio of John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick exemplifies this ... but unlike the film (and header image), the character whom Cher later played is blonde, Susan Sarandon's eventual character is brunette, and Michelle Pfeiffer's is the redhead.
• In Rhythm of War, Shallan changes her hair color in order to signal which of her three personalities is currently in control: red for "Shallan" (the social/scholarly persona), black for "Veil" (the stealth/infiltration persona), and blonde for "Radiant" (the combat persona).
• What to Say Next has Jessica, Willow, and Abby, referred to as "The Popular Bitches" in David's notebook. As far as Kit can tell, their friendship is based mostly on hair color optics.

Live-Action TV

• 8 Simple Rules: Cate (brown), Bridget (blonde) and Kerry (red). Paul and Cate's children can also count, with Rory being the brunette. In an interesting case, Bridget and Rory are the Dumb Blonde and Dumb Brunette respectively, while Kerry is both a Brainy Redhead and a Fiery Redhead.
• Austin & Ally: Austin's the blond, Ally and Trish split brunette duties, and Dez is the redhead.
• The Avengers (1960s): John Steed's sidekicks were Cathy Gale (blonde), Emma Peel (auburn-haired) and Tara King (brunette).
• Battlestar Galactica: Cassiopeia (lightest), Athena (darkest), Sheba (somewhere in-between) - Serina served as an in-between role before she is killed off and then replaced by Sheba a few episodes later.
  • Sheba (again an in-between) is also in a Two Guys and a Girl variation with Starbuck (blond) and Apollo (brunette).
  • The three women who share visions of the Opera House in the re-imagined show are Roslin (redhead), Athena (brunette), and Caprica (blonde). Also a The Hecate Sisters.
    • A brief example appears in the season 3 finale to rescue [[spoilers: Baltar]] but the next season's premier reveals there's no significance to the trio as a group, just three random members of a larger group who happened to be picked for the task.
• Bones: Cam, Brennan, and Angela. It fiddles around with the stereotypes, too: Angela is the cool one, Cam is the reserved one, and Brennan is the nerdy one (granted, they're all nerds, but she takes the cake).
• The Borgias: Lucrezia, Vannozza and Giulia.
• The Boys: The three female members of the Seven (from Season 2 onwards) are Starlight (blonde), Stormfront (brunette), and Queen Maeve (redhead). Interestingly, their super costumes invoke the trope as well: Starlight's second outfit (and the one she wears throughout Season 2) is a pure Ms. Fanservice leotard, making her appear the Dumb Blonde, Stormfront's is a more conservative full-coverage suit that invokes Brainy Brunette, and Queen Maeve's is armored warrior garb invoking Fiery Redhead.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Enforced with the three female leads. When they were cast, all three had the same brownish auburn hair. Alyson Hannigan claims that Joss Whedon said "one of you is going to have to become a redhead" so Alyson volunteered. Sarah Michelle Gellar had brownish hair in season 1 but her appearance got tweaked to look more like a Valley Girl - thus she became a blonde. Charisma Carpenter says she had blonde highlights in but was convinced to go completely dark to play Cordelia.
  • If one allows male participants, the most commonly seen Blonde, Brunet, Redhead trio on Buffy is Buffy, Willow and Xander. Rather amusingly, the traditional traits associated with each hair color exist in this trio, but palette-swapped; Buffy is the Fiery Blonde, Willow is the Brainy Redhead and Xander is the Dumb Brunette.
  • A male counterpart has Angel (brunet), Spike (blond) and Oz (redhead).
• Charlie's Angels:
  • During the fifth (and last) season of the original 1970s series, the Angels were Cheryl Ladd (blonde), Jaclyn Smith (brunette) and Tanya Roberts (redhead). The producers had wanted to use this trope since the beginning.
  • The 2011 revamp has blonde, brunette and African-American.
• Charmed:
  • In the fifth season finale, when the sisters become Greek Goddesses, Phoebe's hair is turned blonde and Paige is a redhead at the time and Piper has brown hair. Phoebe is a blonde and the Goddess of Love, Paige becomes redheaded Goddess of War, while Piper becomes Goddess of Earth and is a brunette.
  • The trio of wood nymphs in a season 5 episode. The redhead gets killed off and amusingly enough they pick Paige (who is redhead at this point) to be her replacement.
• Conan: Conan (redhead), Andy (blond) and La Bamba (brunette).
• Cougar Town: Laurie, Ellie and Jules. True to form, Laurie's a Dumb Blonde, Ellie's a Fiery Redhead (although she's more of a light brown with reddish highlights) and while Jules isn't exactly brainy, she's smarter and more calm and collected than the other two.
• Coupling: Susan, Jane and Sally. Jane is the Ditzy Brunette, thus avoiding the usual personality trio. Plus, Sally can't exactly be called the fiery one, nor is Susan a dumb blonde.
• Criminal Minds: A good portion of Season 5 gave us JJ the blonde, Prentiss the brunette and Garcia, whose hair was red for approximately half a season before she returned to her traditional blonde (additionally, flashbacks reveal Garcia used to be a very un-perky goth with jet-black hair). This is also the hair color scheme of the UnSub's doll collection and thus her victims in "The Uncanny Valley".
• CSI-verse: The leading ladies of three shows in the franchise. Catherine (redhead — Vegas), Calleigh (blonde — Miami), Stella and, later, Jo (brunette — New York). The leading men as well: Gil, then D.B. (blond — Vegas), Horatio (redhead — Miami) and Mac (brunet — NY).
  • On CSI, from seasons 5 through 7, they had Sofia (blonde), Sara (brunette) and Catherine (redhead). Also in Season 12 they had Morgan as the blonde, with the other two girls still fulfilling their roles.
  • CSI: NY
    • "Cavallino Rampante," has a trio who fit this trope: the Victim of the Week is blonde, her surviving sisters are a brunette and a redhead.
    • Mac's love interests, depending on one's personal belief about his late wife, Claire. While he tells Reed in season 3 that she had brown hair, the picture he shows the young man is black & white so it's debatable, but in "Indelible" & "Near Death"'s flashbacks, she's clearly shown to have dyed it red/auburn. Peyton (Season 3) has very dark brown hair, and Christine (Seasons 8 & 9) is blonde.
• Desperate Housewives:
  • The 4-girl version with Lynette (blonde), Susan (brunette), Gabby (the Latina) and Bree (redhead).
  • Their children sort of do this too, but change the combination: Bree's kids are brunettes, Lynette has redheaded twins, and Susan's daughter is blonde. Maybe they all traded babies?
  • You also get this with former or secondary women. Edie (blonde, dead), Katherine (redhead, left the country) and either Betty (brunette, left the show) or Mary Alice (brunette, dead).
• Doctor Who:
  • The Third Doctor's three female Companions were Liz Shaw (redhead), Jo Grant (blonde), and Sarah Jane Smith (brunette).
  • Gender inverted in the Fifth Doctor era. During this period, the Doctor was fair-haired and his male companions were the dark-haired Adric and the red-haired Turlough.
  • For a mixed-gender example, there's the blond Sixth Doctor and his on-screen Companions, Peri (brunette) and Mel (redhead).
  • The three main companions in the Russell T Davies era: Rose (blonde), Martha (brunette) and Donna (redhead).
  • Eleventh Doctor (dark brown/black), Rory (dark blond) and Amy (extremely Fiery Red Head), plus River (currently blonde; she was also African-British for a while).
  • Notice that the New Who females are Colour-Coded for Your Convenience; the Doctor's love interests are blonde (Rose, Astrid, River), his best friends are redheads (Donna, Amy), and the unrequited loves are brunette (Martha, Christina, River — notice she only became his love interest when she became blonde). This pattern was broken with the introduction of brunette Clara, however — she fits under "best friend" and "love interest".
• Downton Abbey: The young ladies at Downton in Series 4 and 5 after Sybil dies in childbirth and the Crawleys take in their cousin Rose when her parents sell their house and move to India. Rose herself is the blonde Genki Girl, Mary is the Aloof Dark-Haired Girl (brunette) and Edith, who's the most ambitious, is the redhead.
• Dog with a Blog: Avery (blonde), Nikki and Lindsay (brunettes), and Chloe (redhead).
• Eastwick: The three witches, which makes sense since the movie it is based on did the exact same thing.
• Freddy's Nightmares: Emily (redhead), Annie (brunette), and Starr (blonde) in the second half-hour of the episode "Deadline," in the series.
• Friends: Rachel was a kind of reddish honey-blonde, placing her between brunette Monica and blonde Phoebe.
• Fuego en el sangre: This Mexican telenovela about three brothers who fall in love with three sisters they sworn in secret to take revenge on for the murder of their teenage sister. The sisters are Sofia- the redhead, Ximena- the brunette and Sarita- the blond. What is interesting is that the sisters cleverly subvert the otherwise stereotypes associated with their hair colors. Sofia- one would expect her to be a Fiery Redhead, but she is actually the most sensible, calm and mature, playing the role of Team Mom for her younger sisters. Ximena- while not dumb, she is neither the Brainy Brunette, in fact, she is the most care-free, fun loving, sociable and sexually adventurous. And Sarita- the younger one, is the absolute opposite of a Dumb Blonde by being bookish, ingenue and serious, and she is the one with the fiery temper that Sofia the redhead lacks.
• Game of Thrones: Dark-blonde Cersei Lannister's rivals one of them possibly being the "younger and more beautiful queen" she believes will unseat her: brown haired Margaery Tyrell, platinum-blonde Daenerys Margarine, red-head Sansa Stark.
• Girlfri3nds: This UK reality programme covers the search for relationship partners for a 3-pack of women in front of the cameras. Aired on ITV2 during 2012.
• Glee: Shelby Corcoran, Emma Pillsbury and April Rhodes. Shelby is a talented, hard working and methodical show choir instructor and April is an unreliable but well-meaning drunk, but Emma isn't quite that fiery (except for that one time...).
• Good Girls Revolt: Has blonde Jane, brunette Cindy, and red-headed Patti. However, while Cindy is by no means stupid, she’s not the designated smart one. Patti is definitely a Fiery Redhead, but Jane is anything but a Dumb Blonde.
• Grimm: Adalind (blonde), Juliette (redhead), and Rosalee (brunette).
• Hang Time: For the entire series, Julie is the blonde and Mary Beth is the brunette; Sam was the redhead in season one, however there was no redhead in season two (Amy, who joined the show that season was a blonde), Kristy became the redhead in the trio when she was introduced in season three. The trope is also easily applied with Beauty, Brains, and Brawn, with Mary Beth being the beauty, Kristy being the brains and Julie (natch) being the brawn.
• Haven directly invokes the trope, with Audrey (blonde), Lucy (brunette), and Sarah (red-head). As they are all overlay personalities, it's fitting that Mara, the original personality, has hair that is a combination of all three.
• H₂O: Just Add Water: Has a bleach blonde, strawberry blonde and dark brunette, and in one episode, the strawberry blonde tried to go full-on red but couldn't because of her mermaid powers. Charlotte from Season 2 definitely adds a redhead to the spectrum.
• How I Met Your Mother: Lily fills the role of fiery redhead and Robin is the brunette. The role of the blonde is usually filled by Ted's major relationships, such as Stella, Zoey and Jeanette, although Victoria and Robin, as well as the Mother, don't fit this pattern.
• iCarly: In "iReunite with Missy", there's blonde Sam, brunette Carly and redhead Missy. Wendy, a recurring character, can be considered as the show's resident redhead.
• Jessie: Among the female leads, Emma is blonde, Zuri is a raven-haired Afro American girl, and Jessie has red hair which gets lighter as the seasons go on.
• Law & Order: SVU
  • The three ADAs. Alexandra Cabot (blonde), Casey Novak (redhead, then blonde, then redhead again) and Kim Graylek (brunette).
  • The episode "Baggage" features a rather twisted variation by having the perp cycle through his victims this way. He is also strangely insistent that they be the victims' natural hair colors; the one who dyed her hair red wasn't raped before she was murdered.
• LazyTown: The three boys among the younger cast qualify: blond Ziggy, brown-haired Stingy, and orange-haired Pixel. Interestingly, Pixel is the smart one, while Stingy is more fiery than the other two and the also brunette Trixie is even more so.
• Legacies: Lizzie Saltzman (blonde), Josie Saltzman (brunette) and Hope Mikaelson (redhead), despite Hope being played by brunette Danielle Rose Russell.
• Pipo De Clown: Pipo is the fun-loving redhead, his wife Mamaloe is the pretty blonde and his best friend Klukkluk is the brainless brunette, as well as the Token Minority (Native American).
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The Dweller has Mystical White Hair, The Nomad has red hair, and the Ascetic is a brunette.
• Lost Girl: Lauren (blonde), Bo (brunette), Kenzi (red wigs on occasion)
• Lost in Space: The 1960’s version has three children. Will, red-haired like their mother. Penny, brunette like their father. Where did blonde-haired Judy come from?
• Mama's Family: Naomi and Iola are blonde and brunette, respectively, while flashbacks have shown that gray-haired Thelma was a redhead in her youth (just like her actress, Vicki Lawrence).
• Married... with Children: The early seasons had the female half of the cast fit this trope. Marcy was a brunette before her hair started to get lighter at Season 3 and just became blonder and blonder from then on. Kelly and Peggy, however, remained blonde and redheaded respectively from beginning to end. Al, Bud, Steve and Jefferson avert this trope, since the male half of the cast all have plain brown hair.
• Missing Persons: Did a racial version. An undercover policeman is posing as a pimp and presents a client with three girls: black, white and Asian. "Pick a color, any color."
• The Musketeers: Due to an unacknowledged hair colour change by one of the lead characters (possibly to evoke this trope) Season 2 has the cunning and resourceful Milady, outspoken and courageous Constance and kind and gentle Queen Anne who’s a sheltered and innocent blonde rather than a Dumb Blonde.
  • Season 3 replaces Milady with the activist and printer Sylvie as the Brainy Brunette.
• MythBusters: When they tested the myth that gentlemen prefer blondes, they used brunettes and redheads to compare. Then they had the women switch hair color via wigs to eliminate certain variables. Result: Busted. There were no significant differences between blondes, brunettes, and redheads.
• North and South (U.S.): The three most important women in Orry Main's life are his youngest sister Brett (blonde), his mother Clarissa (brunette) and the love of his life/wife Madeline (redhead). One could say that his (brunette) younger sister Ashton, (an eviler version of Scarlett O'Hara) could be important too, but it is clear throughout the series that Orry recognizes Ashton's cruelty and even disowns her. Twice.
• The Office: Cleverly lampshaded when Dwight asks Jim to help pick a stripper for Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration's bachelor party. When Dwight asks Jim to pick between a brunette and redhead, Jim wisely suggests blonde, to Dwight's obvious approval.
• One Tree Hill: The first season had Peyton the blonde, Brooke the brunette and Haley the redhead. Later, Haley dyed her hair blonde and then brunette, so Season 3 introduced us to the redheaded Rachel.
• Pan Am: Laura (blonde), Maggie and Colette (brunettes) and Kate (redhead). Now that she's returned, Bridget also fulfills the blonde aspect.
• The Partridge Family: Shirley (blonde), Laurie (brunette) and Tracy (redhead). Was also inverted with the boys Keith (brunette), Danny (redhead) and Chris (blonde) during Seasons 2-4.
• Petticoat Junction: Billie Jo (blonde), Bobbie Jo (brunette), and Betty Jo (redhead) Bradley.
• Power Rangers: Has done this one more than one occasion, often replacing red with pink.
  • Power Rangers in Space: Could be argued, since Ashley's hair is so much lighter than Cassie's that it often looks blonde by comparison, and Astronema settled on being a redhead for the latter half of the season.
  • Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Tori (blonde), Marah (brunette) and Kapri who generally has pink hair.
  • Power Rangers: Dino Thunder: Kira (brunette, although she occasionally has blonde highlights), Cassidy (blonde), Hayley (redhead) and Elsa (Token Minority).
  • Power Rangers S.P.D.: Has an all male example. Jack (minority), Sky (blond), Bridge (brunet) and Sam (redhead). And if one mixes the teams together, you could add Charlie (a brunette, but with red streaks) to Syd's blonde and Z's brunette.
  • Power Rangers Mystic Force: Madison (brunette) and Clare and Leelee (blonde) and Vida dyed her hair pink in the finale to complete the trio as a fiery redhead. The adults also fall under the co-gendered version with Niella (blonde), Leanbow and Daggeron (brunet) and Udonna (redhead).
• Privileged: Megan (redhead), who is often shown to contrast her relationship with her real sister, Lily, (blonde) and her tutees, the Baker twins (brunette), who she becomes more of a big sister to as the series goes on.
• Reba: Reba and Brock's children: Cheyenne (blonde), Kyra (redhead) and Jake (brunet).
• Reboot (2022): The three female leads, who all have different roles to play in the script-to-screen process: blonde actress Bree, brunette network exec Elaine, and redheaded showrunner Hannah.
• Riverdale: Betty (blonde), Veronica (brunette), and Cheryl (redhead). In the main trio, Archie has the redhead spot.
  • The actresses "doubled down" on this trope by going to a halloween fancy dress party◊ as The Powerpuff Girls. Here they are◊ crossing a road in "Beatles" formation.
  • The three actresses jointly run a Tiktok account under the name '''@blondebrunetteredhead'''.
  • Their mothers also fit the bill: Alice (blonde), Hermione (brunette) and Penelope or Mary (redhead).
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Sabrina (blonde), Roxie (brunette) and Morgan (redhead) in Season 5 onwards. Subversions of roles again, as Sabrina is the Brainy Blonde, Morgan the Dumb Redhead and Roxie the Fiery Brunette.
  • Season 1 had Sabrina as the blonde, Jenny as the redhead and the brunette role filled by either Libby or Harvey (if one allows males).
• Saturday Night Live: The three ladies of the original cast were Jane Curtin (blonde), Gilda Radner (brunette) and Laraine Newman (redhead).
• Schitt's Creek: The three ladies of the younger generation are blond Alexis, brunette Stevie and red-headed Twyla.
• Scrubs: Carla (brunette), Elliot (blonde) and Jordan (occasional redhead). Also The Three Faces of Eve.
• Sea Patrol: Kate (blonde), Nikki (brunette), and Bomber (redhead). Later, Kate, Bird, and Bomber after Nikki left.
• Sex and the City: Carrie's closest friends are Samantha (blonde), Charlotte (brunette) and Miranda (redhead).
  Mr. Big: (to Carrie) I know your friends just fine. Charlotte is the brunette, Miranda is the redhead and Samantha is trouble.
• Shake it Up: When Tinka Hessenheffer is on the side of the protagonists, CeCe (redhead), Rocky (brunette) and Tinka (blonde).
• Shameless (US): Frank Gallagher's three daughters fit this, with Sammi as the blonde, Fiona as the brunette, and Debbie as the redhead.
• Smallville: The female leads later on in the series. Chloe (blonde), Lois (brunette) and Tess (redhead). The odd thing is, Lana is traditionally a redhead but has black hair in Smallville, so it doesn't fit until she left and Tess came in.
• Sonny with a Chance:
  • Tawni (blonde), Sonny (brunette) and Zora (redhead).
  • Also, Snowy (blonde), Beauty (brunette), and Cindy (redhead) in the sketch comedy show named "The Real Princesses of New Jersey".
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Lucy Lawless completes the trio after playing a brunette and a blonde (her natural hair color, amazingly).
  • Laura Prepon: Redhead who became blonde (apparently the hair dye versions of a Significant Hair Cut) in That '70s Show and now a brunette in Orange Is the New Black.
  • In Vengeance Lucretia is the redhead (after being forced to wear her red wig by Asher) with Seppia as the brunette and Illythia as the blonde.
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek: The Original Series: First pilot "The Cage". The Talosians, who want Captain Pike to breed them a race of slave workers, offer him blonde fellow captive Vina and, later, his own crewmembers — the coldly intelligent Number One (Brainy Brunette) and his pretty female yeoman (a redhead with "unusually strong female drives").
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation: The first season had Tasha Yar (blonde), Counselor Troi (brunette) and Dr. Crusher (redhead). In kind of an odd subversion, though, Tasha acted more like the Fiery Redhead, Dr. Crusher was more like a Brainy Brunette, and, well, let's just say Troi had attributes more commonly associated with blondes.
  • Star Trek: Voyager had red-highlighted Captain Janeway, brunette B'Elanna and blonde Kes, who was replaced by fellow blonde Seven of Nine.
• Stranger Things:
  • The main teenage/child characters in Season 3: Robin is blonde, Eleven and Nancy and Erica are brunettes, and Max is a redhead.
  • If counting just the older teens: Robin (blonde), Nancy (brunette), Barb (redhead).
  • In the first part of Season 4, there is Robin (blonde) , Nancy (brunette) and Max (redhead) forming the Hawkins teen group with Steve, Dustin, Lucas and later Eddie.
• Supernatural: In "The Song Remains The Same" Dean is having an Erotic Dream where he's being entertained by a dark-haired stripper in a devil's costume. A blonde stripper in an angel's costume quickly joins her. Then red-headed dreamwalker Anna appears to put a damper on events.
• Teen Wolf:
  • Season 2: Erica (blonde), Allison (brunette), and Lydia (redhead).
  • Season 4 and 5: Malia (blonde), Kira (brunette), and Lydia (redhead).
• That '70s Show: The main three female members among the kids qualify: Laurie (blonde), Jackie (brunette) and Donna (redhead). They even did a Charlie's Angels sequence at one point. In a rare case of this trope, Jackie is The Ditz among the three. This cycle was broken when Laurie's character was officially written out and Donna went blonde.
• That's So Weird: Hannah, Alana and Kayla.
• Three's Company: The first three seasons had Chrissy (blonde), Janet (brunette) and Mrs. Roper (redhead).
• Too Close for Comfort: Sarah (blonde), Jackie (brunette) and Muriel (redhead).
• The Tudors: Henry's children, with Mary being a brunette, almost a ravenhead as a child, Elizabeth being a redhead, although her hair looked more blondish in her toddler years, and Edward being a blonde. The six wives almost fall into this with the series banner making Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard's hair look like red hair, despite how, on screen, they were blonde, along with Jane Seymour and Katherine Parr, while Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn were brunettes.
• The Twilight Zone: In the "A Nice Place to Visit" episode, even though it's in black and white, you can tell that the three girls hanging around with Valentine are the obligatory tri-color trio.
• The Vampire Diaries / The Originals:
  • Klaus's known love interests across both television shows form a set of six women. One pair for each hair colour. For the brunettes we have:
    • Tatia, the first known Petrova doppelganger. Her blood was used first to turn the Mikaelsons into vampires and then to seal away Klaus's werewolf side. Elijah stated that he and Klaus were both enamoured with her when they were human.
    • And Hayley,the former werewolf, now hybrid, who is the mother of Klaus's child (due to a one-night stand).
  • For the blondes:
    • Caroline, the young (as in "newly turned") vampire who is best friends with Elena Gilbert, the newest Petrova doppelganger and protagonist of the Vampire Diaries.
    • And Camille "Cami" O'Connell. The human love interest that Klaus has in the spin off show The Originals.
  • For the redheads
    • Genevieve, a resurrected New Orleans witch introduced in the first season of The Originals. She and Klaus begin a sexual relationship during the first season.
    • And Aurora de Martel, the eldest female non-Original vampire (she was among the first three vampires ever turned by the Originals) and, depending on how much Klaus truly cared for Tatia when he was human, Aurora may have been his first love.
• What I Like About You: There are Val and Lauren (blondes), Holly (light brunette) and Tina (redhead from mid-Season 2 onwards).
• Willow: The three girls of the party at the start are Dove (blonde), Kit (brunette), and Jade (redhead). It ends up being subverted with the reveal that Dove is actually the naturally redheaded Elora Danan, whose hair had been dyed blonde from a young age to conceal her true identity. Her natural red hair starts poking through about halfway through the first season, being fully red by the season finale.
• Wizards of Waverly Place: Involves this trope in the forms of Juliet (blonde), Alex (brunette) and Harper (redhead), featured in a few episodes. Interestingly, all three have deep connections to Justin, the blonde being his canonical Love Interest, the brunette his sister, and the redhead his Stalker with a Crush.
  • Justin's love interests which last for more than one episode qualify. There is the aforementioned Juliet (blonde), Goth girl Miranda (brunette) who was Justin's first girlfriend and the first girl he ever kissed and Rosie (redhead), an angel of darkness who was originally sent to corrupt Justin but ended up falling for him.
• Wonder Showzen: Finger Force from the animated cartoon segment of the same name in the episode "Diversity".
  • Mandy (redhead)
  • Jenna (blonde)
  • Becca (brunette)
  • Kendra (brunette)
• The X-Files: In the episode "Improbable", Agent Reyes finds out that a Serial Killer's pattern consists murdering women in a set of three, and each set has a blonde, a brunette and a redhead. Redhead Agent Scully and herself a brunette, they are trapped in an underground garage and fear they might be his next targets.
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: In one episode, Indy is simultaneously dating a sweet blonde, a talented redhead and an ambitious brunette. Until they all find out.

Music

• In the band The Warning Dany was blonde,Pau was redhead and Ale was brunette.Until recently when Ale also dyed her hair blonde.
• Christina Aguilera appears on camera as all three hair colors at once in the music video for "Candyman", as an homage to The Andrews Sisters.
• Avril Lavigne wears three different hair colors to show three alter-egos in the "Girlfriend" music video.
• Britney Spears has used blonde, black, and red hair colors to indicate alter-egos in the music videos for "Toxic" and "Womanizer".
• For Pink, Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim and Mya's 2001 cover version of "Lady Marmalade" for the soundtrack Moulin Rouge!, Christina and Lil' Kim are blondes (In the music video, she's a redhead in some scenes), Mya is brunette and Pink is, well, pink (it's lightish red!).
• The Belgian girl group K3 includes Kathleen (blonde), Kristel (brunette), and Karen (redhead).
  • Their German spin-off Wir 3 includes Vera (blonde), Linda (brunette), and Lina (redhead).
• The Go-Go's has Belinda Carlisle (redhead), Gina Schock and Charlotte Caffey (blondes), and Jane Wiedlin and Kathy Valentine (brunettes).
• Girls Aloud has Sarah (blonde), Cheryl (brunette) and Nicola (redhead); Kimberley and Nadine tend to swap between blonde and brunette.
• Spice Girls have this going on with Mel B/Scary (minority) and Emma/Baby (blonde), Mel C/Sporty and Victoria/Posh (brunettes) and Geri/Ginger (redhead obviously).
• In Tom Smith's song "Lars Needs Women", the eponymous hero "want blonde, brunette, redhead — heck, whole set!"
• In the three-piece girl wizard rock band The Parselmouths (based on Harry Potter), there were at one point three members: Kristina Horner (blonde), Brittany Vahlberg (jet black) and Eia Waltzer (redhead). However, Eia's hair is naturally brunette.
• The German girl group MeKaDo, known for placing third at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994. The group name comes from the first two letters of each member: brunette Melanie Bender, blonde Kati Karney and "redhead" (more lighter brown) Dorkas Kiefer.
• Sugababes had this with Heidi (Blonde), Mutya (Dyed Red) and Keisha (Minority).
• The British girl group Atomic Kitten started off with Natasha (redhead), Kerry (blonde) and Liz (brunette), but eventually became three blondes and then Natasha dyed her hair black, leaving Jenny with the lighter blonde hair and Liz with a darker shade.
• The girls in S Club 7 had this as well. To start off, Jo and Hannah were blonde (Jo being ash blonde with Hannah being golden blonde), Rachel was brunette and Tina had black hair. At the end, Tina had reddish blonde hair.
• The Bangles: Vicki (medium blonde), Debbi (platinium blonde), Susanna (brunette) and Michael (redhead).
• The country music group SHeDAISY consists of three sisters: Kristyn (a blonde), Kassidy (a brunette) and Kelsi (a redhead).
• The indie band Dolly Mixture, which consists of Hester Smith (blonde), Debsey Wykes (brunette) and Rachel Bor (redhead).
• Radio Disney's Pop Dreamers: Ella (blonde with pink streaks), Gabrielle (brunette) and Ari (redhead with gold streaks).
• The Brooklyn-based indie band Vivian Girls.
• Destiny's Child went for this in the music video for "Survivor", where Beyonce was the blonde, obviously, though with a much darker shade than usual, Michelle kept brunette and Kelly was the redhead. They maintained this during the majority of the Survivor era before their hiatus. When they reunited for their Destiny Fulfilled era, Bey remained blonde, while Michelle became the redhead with Kelly having returned to her natural brunette hue.
• And before all of the above, we had The Andrews Sisters.
  • Deliberately modelled on them, there are The Puppini Sisters: Marcella (brunette), Kate (blonde), and Rosanna/Stephanie/Terrianne/Emma (all redheads).
• Girl Punk band The Slits had this with guitarist Viv Albertine as the blonde, bassist Tessa Politt as the brunette, and lead singer the late Ari Up as the redhead (although she was more lighter brown haired than red.). In one video, it even shows the three riding on horses matching their hair colors with Viv on a white/palomino horse, Tessa on a black horse, and Ari on a chestnut horse!
• Ukrainian girl group VIA Gra (also known as Nu Virgos) usually followed this trope for casting. For example, best known and most successful line-up consisted of Vera Brezhneva (blonde), Nadezhda Granovskaya (brunette) and Anna Sedokova (redhead). The band has become a Trope Namer for Russian-speaking countries.
• The Swedish singers Sanna Nielsen (blonde), Shirley Clamp (redhead), and Sonja Aldén (brunette) formed a trio called "Sanna, Shirley, Sonja", which is suitably nicknamed "three S".
• In Florence + the Machine's video for "Drumming Song", there are two blonde and a brunette backup dancers, with Florence being the redhead lead.
• Stevie Nicks (blonde) and her longtime backup singers Sharon Celani (brunette) and Lori Perry (redhead).
• Finnish pop rock band Indica has Jonsu (redhead), Jenny (blonde), Heini (blonde), Laura (brunette), and Sirkku, who is known to swap but mostly is blonde.
• The Beautiful South had three female singers of these different hair colors pass through their ranks: Briana Corrigan (redhead), Jacqui Abbott (brunette) and Alison Wheeler (blonde).
• The three male leads in Confession Executive Committee ~Love Series~ : Haruki (blonde), Yuu (redhead) and Souta (brunette).
• Wilson Phillips: Carnie Wilson (brunette), Wendy Wilson (redhead), and Chynna Phillips (blonde)
• Jellyfish: During the Bellybutton era, the main members of the group were Jason Falkner (Blonde), Roger Manning (Brunette), and Andy Sturmer (Redhead).
• Fictional rare male examples in Hypnosis Mic: the Shinjuku division representative group Matenrou consist of Hifumi Izanami (blonde), Jakurai Jinguji (greyish purple variant of brunette), and Doppo Kannonzaka (redhead).
• In the music video for "What Am I To You", Maddy Newton (redhead) is accompanied by two backup dancers (blonde and brunette).
• The girl group Triple Charm is made up of three sisters: Amalia (Redhead), Raena (brunette) and Gabby (blonde)
• Befitting the general Dye Hard nature of K-pop, some bands like SEVENTEEN, TWICE, ATEEZ and ENHYPEN have comebacks with the members' hair colors befitting this trope. Especially if the groups appear as Power Trio.
• Depeche Mode: Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher (blond), Dave Gahan (brown/brunette^note he briefly bleached half of his hair) and Alan Wilder (auburn/redhead in the beginning and eventually brown).
• Invoked in Rhett Akins' "I Brake For Brunettes," all three of which are mentioned in the chorus (he brakes for brunettes, blondes in Corvettes, and "stops on a dime" for redheads).

Pinballs

• The farmer's daughters in WhizBang Pinball's Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons. Melony has blonde hair, Hellen has medium-brown hair, and Ellen's hair is almost completely black.
• The "Luci" Premium Edition of AC/DC has the redheaded Hot as Hell Luci on the backglass, and adds a blonde and brunette succubi on the game's Underworld mini-playfield.

Print Media

• When the Brazilian Playboy created their official bunnies, there were three of them, who were even cover of an edition, and guess their hair color?◊ (although the redhead has since returned to her natural brown)

Pro Wrestling

• The cheerleaders of GLOW. Debbie (blonde), Susie (brunette) and Vicky (redhead).
• Team Xtreme often had this dynamic as Matt Hardy was a brunet (black hair), Jeff Hardy was a blond by default (but often had his hair other colours), and Lita was the Fiery Redhead.
• Trish Stratus and Lita often teamed up together with Trish as the blonde and Lita as the redhead. In six-diva tag matches, they would be joined by Ivory (brunette).
• LayCool had Michelle McCool as a blonde and Layla El as a brunette. They were joined by Vickie Guerrero, then a redhead (now black).
• CM Punk teaming up with Sheamus (red) and Chris Jericho (blond) in 2010. Batista could count for "fourth minority".
• Kelly Kelly formed (a second after the Extreme Expose)Girl Posse with Alicia Fox and Eve Torres in 2011. She was the blonde, Eve the brunette and Alicia the redhead. Alicia herself has dyed her hair all three colours.
• The reality show Total Divas actually plays this for drama somewhat. When new Diva Eva Marie is hired, she's asked to dye her brunette hair blonde because management feel she resembles the Bella Twins too much. Nattie also gets worried since she is a blonde. Eva decides to Take a Third Option and become a redhead. With a cast of seven, this adds up to blondes Nattie and eventually Cameron, brunettes Brie and Nikki, redhead Eva Marie and black Naomi and Jojo. Season 2 drops Jojo and adds another blonde - Summer Rae. Season 3 adds another brunette - Rosa Mendes.
• The Diva Revolution sparked two of these trios. The most obvious being Paige (brunette), Charlotte Flair (blonde) and Becky Lynch (redhead). Team Bella did the same but were a bit more subtle about it, with Nikki (blonde highlights), Brie (brunette) and Alicia Fox (reddish brown).
• The Mega Powers: Hulk Hogan was the blond, Randy Savage the brunet and Miss Elizabeth had reddish-brown hair.
• Toxic Attraction. Consisting of Mandy Rose (was blonde now brunette), Jacy Jayne (brunette) and Gigi Dolin (redhead).

Theatre

• The three major female characters in Beetlejuice are this: Lydia has black hair, Barbara is a blonde and Delia has her signature ginger topknot.
• Often done with the three daughters in King Lear. Usually as Goneril and Regan are the two evil sisters, they'll have a similar colour - while Cordelia's will be significantly lighter or darker. The most common combination has the evil sisters as the brunette and redhead, while Cordelia is portrayed with Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold. In the Laurence Olivier version, for example, Regan was dark brown and Goneril auburn, while Cordelia was golden blonde. There have been some notable exceptions, though: in the 2014 National Theatre production, sadistic Regan was the blonde and Cordelia was the redhead.
• The recent Encores production of Merrily We Roll Along played this, and according to stereotype no less: Beth is blonde, Mary is brunette and Gussie is a redhead.
• As in the 1988 film, Amber, Tracy and Penny in Hairspray (Penny has auburn hair).
• Kendra, Lucy and Patrice in 13.
• Elle's Girl Posse in Legally Blonde: The Musical is composed of the blonde Margot, African-American Pilar and the in between light brunette Serena. Elle, meanwhile, is the blonde of the interns chosen for Callahan's internship, along with brunette Vivienne and light-haired Enid.
• In the version of The Pirates of Penzance with Jon English, Mabel (black hair) has three sisters that are blonde, brunette and redheaded.
• Mary the Dumb Blonde, Kathy the Brainy Brunette and Joanne the Fiery Redhead in ACT's production of the musical of Vanities. In the original play, Joanne and Mary were both blonde and Kathy was a brunette. Also, in previous productions of the musical, Joanne was the brunette and Kathy the redhead.
• In the original cast of Wicked the Witches of Oz were cast with this trope, which fits their characters. Elphaba is the Brainy Brunette, Galinda is a Dumb Blonde (but by the end, she gets better) and Nessarose fits Fiery Redhead, since she's such a Yandere.
• The trio of Chorus Girls in the 2012 cabaret musical Modern Luv: Madison = innocent blonde, Hillary = Brainy Brunette (since she's the dance captain/choreographer) and Kimmie = Fiery Redhead.
• Flashdance: The Musical has Alex, Gloria, and Tess. For a fourth member, there's Kiki, the black girl.
• In Tanz Der Vampire Graf von Krolock has black hair (albeit with grey streaks), his son Herbert is blonde and both Sarah and Magda are redheads.
• The one-woman play The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead actually contains more than the three title characters but those are the three most central to the plot.
• A commonly used casting device for the titular Heathers. Chandler is often redheaded/strawberry blonde, Duke has dark brown or black hair, and Macnamara is blonde.

Toys

• American Girl initially avoided this trope by having the first three released characters consist of a blonde and two brunettes in Kirsten, Samantha, and Molly. They later added red-headed Felicity.
• The ultimate platinum blonde, Barbie and her two best friends, Midge (the very first redheaded one) and Teresa (Minority/Latina), in the 80s and 90s.
• G.I. Joe:
  • Scarlett as a redhead and Lady Jaye as a brunette. Cover Girl's toy had auburn hair, but the cartoon originally showed her as a blonde (and eventually the toy followed suit).
  • Cobra had the black-haired Baroness, pink-dyed Zarana, and in 2007 an exclusive set introduced female Cobra Troopers - one with each hair color.
• Canada-based doll line Maplelea Girls launched with Brianne (blonde), Taryn (brunette), Jenna (redhead), and Alexi (Token Minority).
• Subverted by My Friend Cayla dolls; they came in Blonde, Brunette, and African-American.
• Pinkie Cooper and the Jet Set Pets: Pinkie is blonde, Pepper is brunette, and Ginger—of course—is the redhead.

Video Games

• ANNO: Mutationem: Of the Flores family; Ann is the brunette, Nakamura is the redhead, and Helen is the blonde.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Mario's three Distressed Damsels: Peach (blonde), Daisy (redhead) and Pauline (originally a blonde but now a brunette). Rosalina would count as a second blonde.
  • Peach herself cycled through all three in the earlier years due to hardware limitations. In Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels she had red hair, which carried over to the DIC television series versions, while Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 gave her dark brown hair. It wasn't until Super Mario World that color palettes were complex enough to give Peach her considered blonde hair.
  • All modern-day Mario games follow this pattern with the main trio: Mario (brown), Peach (blonde), and Bowser (redhead).
• Soul Series: The original three girls in Soul Blade have Sophitia as the blonde, Taki as the brunette, and Seong Mi-Na as the redhead.
• The three heroes of Shining Force III: Medion, Synbion and Julian.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • In an odd twist, the various Princess Zeldas throughout the series have filled this trope. The Zeldas of the first two games were redheads; The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker all featured blonde Zeldas; and the Zelda from Twilight Princess, though sort of a dishwater blonde in the final version, was originally designed to be a brunette and is depicted that way in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
  • Similarly, Link has also embodied all three parts of this trope. In the first two games, he had reddish-brown hair and morphed over subsequent installments to different shades of blonde, but his hair in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is more brown than anything, although he appears blondish in Brawl. If you throw supplemental material into the mix, he was a full-on redhead in the Zelda comics and a definite brunette in the animated series.
  • The three main female characters of Twilight Princess: Ilia (blonde), Zelda (brunette) and Midna (redhead).
    • Similarly, the three Triforce wielders of TP follow this trope very well: Link (blonde), Zelda (brunette), and Ganondorf (redhead).
  • The Resistance group at Telma's Bar in TP: Rusl and Auru (blonde, even though Auru's hair is gray), Ashei (brunette), and Shad and Telma (redhead).
  • In Breath of the Wild, Link and Zelda's hair colors are flipped, with Zelda being the blond and Link having more dirty blond, light brown hair.
• Resident Evil:
  • In Resident Evil The Dark Side Chronicles Sherry (blonde), Ada (brunette) and Claire (redhead) they’re also The Three Faces of Eve. Note, this only works for the Wii game as Claire is brunette in the original game.
  • Resident Evil Village features Lady Dimitrescu's three daughters—Bela (blond), Cassandra (brunette), and Daniela (redhead).
• Skies of Arcadia gives us Fina (blonde), Vyse (brunette) and Aika (redhead).
• If you could actually see Visas' hair at any point in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords and you count the Handmaiden as the blonde, your younger female party members count.
• The Seijyun High team in Rival Schools manages to barely scrape by the requirements of the trope. While Akira and delinquent Zaki clearly fit the brunette and redhead respectively, gothic Musical Assassin Yurika is the blonde only because her beige-esque Ojou Ringlets are noticeably lighter than either Akira or Zaki's hairdos.
• In Super Robot Wars Judgment, the Fury Girls - Melua, Katia, and Tenia - fill this trope out nicely. Melua is blonde, sweet and innocent, Katia has black hair and is the smartest and most levelheaded of the trio, and finally Tenia is the outspoken and fiery redhead.
• Final Fantasy:
  • The Love Triangle in Final Fantasy VII has it as Cloud (blonde), Tifa (brunette), and Aerith (redhead).
  • Crisis Core has Freudian Trio SOLDIER Sephiroth (blonde), Angeal (brunette) and Genesis (redhead).
  • Final Fantasy VIII has blonde Quistis, brunette Rinoa, and redhead Selphie (though Selphie's hair is more of an auburn color).
  • Final Fantasy IX has Garnet (brunette), Freya (blonde), and Eiko (blue hair).
  • Variation in Final Fantasy X-2 with Rikku (blonde), Yuna (brunette), and Paine (White-Haired Badass Girl).
  • Final Fantasy XIII has Lightning (light pink hair), Fang (brunette), and Vanille (redhead).
• Harvest Moon:
  • The "Wonderful Life" series has Muffy (blonde), Celia (brunette) and Nami (redhead) for the girls, and Rock (blond), Marlin (brunet), and Gustafa (redhead) for the boys.
  • The original three female protagonists. Brunette Pony, blonde Claire, and reddish-brown Sara.
• The trio of Ninja from Sengoku Basara - Kasuga (blonde), Sasuke (brunet) and Fuuma (redhead).
• The three female fighters in Killer Instinct 2 are Maya (blonde), Orchid (brunette) and Kim Wu (redhead).
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • Kairi (redhead) has two lookalikes, Namine (blonde) and Xion (black-haired).
  • There are another two combinations: Riku (white), Sora (brunette), and Kairi are the main trio, and Roxas (blonde), Axel (redhead), and Xion are the mirror group. In fact, before Xion, most people added Demyx (brunette) to Roxas' group.
  • Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep then gave us Terra (brunette), Aqua (blue hair) and Ven (blond). In the same game, we got Vanitas as a black-haired version of Sora, pushing the brown-haired Sora up to the "moderate color" column with Roxas and Ventus as the blond.
• Slight variation in the Jak and Daxter games, with Tess (blonde), Keira (green hair) and Ashelin (redhead).
• The King of Fighters:
  • Iori Yagami (redhead), Mature (blonde), and Vice (brunette) fill in this trope whenever they form the Yagami Team.
  • The Japan Team, our heroes, also somewhat fit the pattern - Kyo Kusanagi (reddish-brown), Benimaru Nikaido (blond), and Goro Daimon (brunette) compose the team.
  • The same goes for their villainous counterparts, the Orochi Team, consisting of Yashiro Nanakase (white - blonde), Chris (brunette), and Shermie (redhead).
• Devil May Cry:
  • While not all appearing in the same game, the series has Trish (blonde), Lady (brunette) and Lucia (redhead).
  • Devil May Cry 4 plays it straight with Trish (blonde), Lady (brunette) and Kyrie (redhead).
• The four female character options in Darkstone are a blonde (the Amazon), two brunettes (brown-haired Thief and black-haired Sorceress) and a redhead (Priestess).
• The Rival of Pokémon Red and Blue has brown hair, the rival of Pokémon Gold and Silver has red hair and the rival of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl has blonde hair.
• Street Fighter IV (both vanilla and Super) has Cammy (blonde), Chun Li (brunette) and C. Viper (redhead). A male variant of this trope from the series featured with the famous shotoclone trio Ryu(brown), Ken(blond) and Akuma(fiery redhead)
• In the first Advance Wars, there's Nell (blonde), Sonja (brunette) and Sami (redhead).
• Mega Man Legends 3 would have featured◊ Roll (blonde), Tron (brunette) and Aero (pink).
• Touhou Project series has Luna Child (blonde), Sunny Milk (redhead since Fairy Wars) and Star Sapphire (brunette).
• Persona:
  • Persona 3: Aigis (blonde), Yukari (brunette), and Mitsuru (redhead).
  • Before Haru joins the party in Persona 5, the female party members include Ann (blonde), Makoto (brunette), and Futaba (redhead).
• Punch-Out!!:
  • The Minor Circuit in the Wii game have Glass Joe (redhead), Von Kaiser (brunette), and Disco Kid (blonde). As King Hippo is completely hairless, he doesn't count.
    • Similar to the Princess Peach example above, Glass Joe on his own has been all three over the course of the series; he was originally a brunet in the arcade, became blond in the NES game, and then became a redhead in the Wii game.
  • The Major Circuit follows this trope a bit less straight; Piston Hondo and Don Flamenco (brunette), Bear Hugger (redhead), and Great Tiger (actually a brunette, but the white turban he constantly wears could fit him in as the blonde).
  • And the World Circuit also follows this; Aran Ryan have reddish-brown hair, Soda Popinski, Bald Bull and Mr. Sandman all have black hair or mustaches, and Super Macho Man's gray hair is often considered as platinum-blonde.
• BlazBlue has Noel (blonde), Makoto (brunette) and Tsubaki (redhead). They're all close friends, too. However, all of the common hair color stereotypes are simultaneously played straight and scrambled: blonde Noel is socially awkward yet emotional and easily agitated, brunette Makoto is not too bright (or so you'd think) but cheery and fun-loving, and redhead Tsubaki is the brainy, level-headed Stoic who heats up quick if it helps her friends or Jin.
  • The Mage Academy Trio of Trinity (Blonde), Celica (Brunette), and Konoe/Nine (if you count Pink as Red), can count as this as well.
• Tales of the Abyss:
  • Guy (blond), Jade (brunet) and Luke (redhead).
  • The party's female members also fit in the looser sense of blonde (Natalia), brunette (Anise) and something in-between (Tear, who has light brown hair).
  • Also of note is that the three party members capable of using the Seventh Fonon, which grants Reality Warper capabilities, are Luke, Tear, and Natalia.
• The iDOLM@STER 2 - Project Jupiter is an odd case where the redhead has green hair here.
• Grandia II features blonde Elena, blue-haired Tio, and redhead Millenia, as playable characters, and brunette Selene as a major non-playable character.
• Galerians has Rion (blond), Birdman (brunet) and Rita (redhead). There are also Rainheart (brunet) and Lilia (redhead) as well as Cain (blond). The main character cast basically fulfills the trope quota twice.
• The Miis used to represent the Mii Fighters in the official artwork and in-game trophies in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. The Brawler has black hair, the Gunner has red hair, and the Swordfighter has blond hair.
• Bad Day on the Midway's three ladies: Dixie (blonde), Dagmar (brunette) and Lottie (redhead). It gets confusing when you take into account Lottie's Art Shift sequence...
• Far Cry 5: Joseph Seed's three lieutenants/siblings qualify as this. John has brown hair, Jacob has red hair, and Faith has blonde hair.
• Dragon Age seems to be fond of this trope.
  • The three female companions of the Warden in Dragon Age: Origins: Morrigan has black hair, Wynne has white hair (implied to have been blonde when she was younger), and Leliana is a redhead. If the Warden is female and blonde, the trope is played even straighter.
  • The three rogue companions in Dragon Age II: Varric is blond, Isabela is brunette, and Sebastian (if his DLC is installed) is a redhead.
  • The advisors of the Inquisitor in Dragon Age: Inquisition: Leliana returns and still has red hair; Josephine has blue-black hair; and Cullen is blond.
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt features three key sorceresses - Keira Metz, Yennefer, and Triss Merigold, in that order. In this case, the hair colours are personality markers too (though the characters are rounded and fleshed out enough to not make it jarring): Keira is a sweet Girly Girl with a knack for healing, Triss is a Rebel Leader who likes to Kill It with Fire, and Yennefer is a calculating behind-the-scenes player who does most of the heavy theoretical lifting when it comes to magic.
• Done in the Dark Parables a few times.
  • In the eighth installment, the five daughters of the King of Prasino fit the trope. Two are blonde, two are brunette, and one has red hair.
  • In the ninth installment, there are three Red Riding Hood Sisters aiding the detective with her current investigation. Ruth is blonde, Jessica is brunette, and Brianne's hair is deep red.
• Puyo Puyo has the main protagonists like this: Amitie is the blonde, Arle is the Brunette and Ringo is the Redhead.
• Super Off Road has the three trophy ladies at the Speed Shop. Player 1 has a blonde in a blue bikini or evening gown (the game has the option of having the ladies in either conservative evening gowns or skimpy bikinis), player 2 has a brunette in a red bikini/gown, and player 3 has a Significant Green-Eyed Redhead in a green bikini/gown.
• In Highschool Romance, there are three romanceable girls to choose: Lea (Redhead), Selena (Blonde) and Hoshi (Brunette).
• The three central women in Telling Lies are this (played, respectively, by Kerry Bishé, Alexandra Shipp and Angela Sarafyan).
• Snuggle: The three girls chasing Snuggle are blonde, redhead, and brunette respectively.
• Dragon Quest II: The three heroes are the Prince of Midenhall (brunette), the Prince of Cannock (redhead), and the Princess of Moonbrooke (blonde in the remakes).
• The original Catherine had Vincent torn between a Betty and Veronica duo of Catherine (blonde) and Katherine (brunette); the Full Body version complicates his life further by adding Rin (pink, a lighter shade of red) as a third option.
• In Piofiore: Fated Memories, there is a variation with the three Mafia bosses: Dante (pale/white), Gilbert (brunette) and Yang (redhead).

Web Animation

• In DC Super Hero Girls, the three main characters are Supergirl (blonde), Wonder Woman (brunette) and Batgirl (redhead). They fight super-villains together and are extremely close.
• Red vs. Blue's Agents South Dakota (blonde), Connecticut (brunette) and Carolina (redhead), as illustrated nicely by this official picture.
• Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse has three full sets. Barbie (blonde), Nikki (black), and Teresa (auburn) are introduced in the pilot episode, while Summer (strawberry blonde), Raquelle (black), and Midge (ginger) are introduced later. Chelsea also has brunette and redhead friends, with herself filling the role of the blonde.
• The Most Popular Girls in School: The main characters are Mackenzie (brunette), Brittnay (blonde) and Trisha (redhead). Brittnay and Trisha have their stereotypes inverted, though; Brittnay is aggressive and short-tempered while Trisha is a complete moron.

Web Comics

• College Roomies from Hell!!! has a double-set example for both genders. Technically, there are also not one but two sets of brunettes, a pair of brown-brunettes and a pair of black-brunettes.
• In Penny and Aggie, both of the title characters' core groups have this:
  • Penny (blonde), Sara (brunette) and Michelle (redhead).
  • Daphne (blonde), Aggie (brunette dyed blue) and Lisa (redhead).
  • The Omegas also fit the trope, with Helen (dark blonde), Tharqa (brunette) and Charlotte (redhead).
• Tower of God:
  • Blonde: Black March, Rachel.
  • Brunette: Endorsi Jahad.
  • Redhead: Hwaryun.
  • Furthermore, Yuri Jahad and Yeon Ehwa have black hair.
• Lampshaded in Supermegatopia — after the appearance of blonde Buxom Gal and brunette Dark Buxom Gal, the public's reaction is to wonder whether a redhead will show up too. (Later, one does.)
• In The KAMics, ex-valkyries Gertrude (blonde), Brunhilda (brunette) and Nikki (redhead).
• The original three female leads of Red String.
• Elia (blonde), Dores (brunette) and Vandi (redhead) of What Birds Know. In a variation of the standard trope, Dores is the fiery one and Vandi is serious.
• The trio of female monster hunters that usually work together in Charby the Vampirate and Here There be Monsters are the fun loving blonde Ella, fashionable brunette June and fiery redhead Rayna.
• The three female housemates in Catena almost fit the trope. Patches is blonde and Treiss is brunette, but Belle's hair is actually pink, not red.
• The three female leads of Out There: red-haired Miriam fits the Fiery Redhead trope reasonably well, but also has some Dumb Blonde tendencies; the usually dark-haired Sherry (who sometimes bleaches her hair blonde) can be seen as the Brainy Brunette; and the dark-haired Araceli, despite her occupation (she's an attorney) and hair color, is somewhat of a Shy Blue-Haired Girl.
• Eerie Cuties/Magick Chicks: The Hellrune Coven are a witch trio that appears in both comics. Melissa (the blonde) is the Coven's leader, with Jacqui (brunette) and Cerise (redhead) as her subordinates.
• Currently, Blip has moody brunet K, redhead Cloudcuckoolander Hester, blonde Cyborg Mary and blue-haired Liz.
• Questionable Content: one could say this applies to the ladies working at the Coffee of Doom. Dora has black hair, Raven had a blonde streak and Faye's hair colour could qualify as being between the two. Later, after Raven gets Put on a Bus, Penny shows up to fulfill the blonde requirement, though she defies the trope in personality...
• Rain (2010) has the trio of Emily (blonde), Debbie (brunette), and Holly (redhead).
• The three female leads of LCD: Julianne McIntyre is the blonde, Raven Svoboda is the brunette and Terry Sligh is the redhead.
• The World of Vicki Fox has the main female characters. Meredith Skunk (blonde), Ceri Bobcat (brunette) & Vicki Fox (redhead).
• Survivor: Fan Characters has this represented in Season 8 by the last three members of the Yrsa'ka tribe: Melanie is blonde, Hannah/Oehda is brunette and Kiara is redheaded.
• The major female characters in Arthur, King of Time and Space are Guenevere (redhead), Morgan (brunette) and space/contemporary!Tristam (chestnut). Originally it was Morgan (brunette), Guenevere (redhead) and space/contemporary!Bedivere (blonde), until Bedivere was retconned as male in all the arcs.
• Geoff (blonde), Drucilla (brunette) and Pibgorn (redhead). Alternately: Pigorn, Drucilla (black hair) and the hair fairy (brown hair).
• El Goonish Shive hasn't included this trope proper for a while, but the first three female protagonists to be introduced in the comic were Sarah (blonde), Grace (brunette) and Nanase (redhead). The next two girls had dyed dark blue hair^note she was naturally blonde (which appeared black) and brunette hair respectively. Nanase's hair became dark as a result of her magic burning out in later arcs and Susan's dyed hair color became permanent as a result of her magic awakening, leaving Sarah as the only blonde in a cast full of dark-haired girls.
• Sunstone has Anne, Allison and Lisa respectively.
• In Pacificators, from the main cast alone, there are two brunettes (Daryl and Muneca), a blonde (Larima), a redhead (Cinna) and two with black hair (Bismun and Taffe). That's not even counting the supporting and minor characters...
• In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has Bob (blond), his girlfriend Jean (brunette) and romantic rival Voluptua (redhead).
• The three main characters of Alice, Joanne, Dot and Alice herself, in that order.
• The girls in Children of Eldair, Indri the blonde, Embera the brunette and Iva the redhead.
• Tripp has Coco, Sam, and Proxy, respectively.
• Although only one of them is a girl, the Love Triangle in Girl Genius has blonde/strawberry blonde Agatha, brunet Gil, and redhead Tarvek. The stereotypical temperaments are all mixed up though - they're all extremely smart, with Agatha arguably being the most skilled, and Tarvek is much better at keeping his temper under control than the other two.
  • In terms of girls, the main group of Agatha, Violetta and Zeetha has a blonde, a redhead and... a greenhead? It's still three contrasting colours, though.
• In Prague Race Miko, Leona, and Colin.
• Disney High School has Rapunzel, Belle and Ariel as three of the main characters, and a group of friends. Belle obviously fits the Brainy Brunette role, though Rapunzel is more awkward than dumb (being a former homeschooled kid), and Ariel is something of a Cloudcuckoolander (here she's fascinated with aliens, not humans).
• Riverside Extras has blonde Derry Lake, brunette black woman Ophelia Banksly, and redhead Cynthia Brandt as the Sisters, the second highest members of the all-female gang The Roses.
• Among Aesop, Bri and Lenius in Aisopos, Bri is the Blonde, Aesop is the Brunette and Lenius is the Redhead.

Web Original

• Lubov, Anya, and Seraphina are a blonde, a brunette, and redhead and all three are sisters.
• The three women in this piece of art (which gender-inverts Mars Needs Women) are a redhead, a blonde and a brunette.

Web Videos

• The Gumdrops:
  • Roisin (blonde), Laura and Lindsay (brunette) and Nora (redhead). Sadia is black-haired, adding the fourth colour.
  • The episode "Party Animals" has the straightest combination - Nora and Roisin are joined by the latter's brunet cousin Marty.
• From Channel Awesome: Lisa Foiles, The Nostalgia Chick and Obscurus Lupa. This isn't the only combination you can make, however, since the site has many characters.
• Rocketboom has this with the hosts of its three YouTube channels: blonde Meme Molly on Rocketboom Daily, brunette Ellie Rountree on Rocketboom Tech, and redheaded Ella Morton on Rocketboom New York City.
• SourceFed's female hosts, Lee Newton (blonde), Trisha Hershberger (brunette) and Meg Turney (redhead).
• Yogscast:
  • The Yogscast had a male trio in brunet Lewis, redhead Simon, and blond Duncan.
  • Also among the girls in their Minecraft skins we have blonde Hannah, brunette Kim, and redhead Zoey. Zoey is actually a brunette in real life, and has since changed her avatars to match, but since Kim later dyed the front of her hair bright red the trio still works.
• Critical Role: The three female members of Vox Machina have these hair colors. Pike has white hair (which was originally black before she died and got resurrected), Vex is a brunette and Keyleth a redhead. Their hair colors are actually the same as the actresses' who play them (Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey and Marisha Ray, respectively).

Western Animation

• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Chipettes; Eleanor (blonde), Brittany (redhead) and Jeanette (brunette). Though it's difficult to determine with Brittany, as her hair seems to change color, depending on the animation, coloring, etc, while her hair does appear red on some occasions, it mostly appears light brown, and in even rare occasions (merchandising) blonde.
  • In the CGI reboot, the titular Chipmunks themselves are a male example of this trope. Theodore, Simon and Alvin respectively.
• American Dragon: Jake Long: The Witches of Woodstock from the episode "Game On", Annika, Bubonica and Monica.
• Archer: Pam is (at times) a Dumb Blonde, Lana is Brainy Brunette, and Cheryl is a redhead but ironically is the least fiery of the three.
• As Told by Ginger: Has red haired Ginger, blonde Dodie and brunette Macie. Ginger and Macie are both Brainy Redhead and Brunette respectively while Dodie is both a Fiery and Dumb Blonde. Also applies to Courtney (blonde), Miranda (brunette), and Ginger (red-head).
• Audrey and Friends: Audrey (blonde), Meena (brunette), Constance (redhead)
• Batman: The Animated Series:
  • Lily, Violet and Poison Ivy in the episode "Eternal Youth".
  • In the "Chase Me" short, there are three unnamed ladies (black/blonde/redhead) competing for Bruce's attention.
  • Poison Ivy (redhead), Harley Quinn (blonde), and Livewire (brunette-turned-electric blue) in the crossover episode "Girls' Night Out".
  • The three Batwomen in Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman: Kathy (brunette), Rocky (blonde) and Sonia (reddish brown). In a subversion of stereotypical roles, Rocky is a genius metallurge, Kathy is a fighter and Sonia is the stoic leader.
• Bionic Six: Meg (Blonde), Madam "O" (Brunette) and Helen (Redhead).
• Braceface: Sharon (blonde), Maria (brunette) and Nina (redhead).
• Ben 10: Has three of Ben’s allies. Cooper (blonde), Kevin (brunette) and Gwen (redhead).
• Castlevania: Alucard (Blonde) Trevor (Brunette) and Sypha (Redhead).
• Courage the Cowardly Dog: In the episode Ride of the Valkyries, three of the Valkyrie sisters fill this trope. The fourth sister - and leader - has white hair.
• Daria: Gender Flipped with the Three J's, Quinn's most constant suitors—Joey is a brunet, Jamie is blond and Jeffy's hair is brownish-red.
• Doug: Patti (blonde), Connie (brunette, but more blue-violet) and Beebe (redhead). However, Patti and Connie swapped their hair stereotypes, as Patti is the brainy one and Connie's more naive. Beebe's still a Fiery Redhead. Funnily enough, Connie was blonde in the show's first season.
• Duck Dodgers: In the episode "Villainstruck," the villain is a man with long blond hair who frequently appears flanked by a brunette and a redhead.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Kanker Sisters. Although Marie was technically a blue-haired all-right-looking girl. Plus The Eds themselves in the comic Sugar, Spice and Ed. Eddy wears a brunette wig, Edd a blonde wig and Ed a redhead wig.
• Exo Squad: Nara Burns (blonde), Rita Torres (brunette) and Maggie Weston (redhead).
• Family Guy: In the episode "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell", Lois hung out with two younger women. One is blonde and the other is a brunette. With Lois, it completes the set.
• Fireman Sam: Penny (blonde), Elvis (black) and either Sam (red) or Station Officer Steele (white). Sam, Elvis and Penny are notable for actually being the opposite of their hair colour stereotype tropes (Dumb Blonde, Brainy Brunette, Fiery Redhead). Sam (redhead) is very even tempered, Penny (blonde) is very brainy and competent, while Elvis (brunette) is, well...not.
• The Flintstones Comedy Show: Pebbles (red), Penny (brunette) and Wiggy (blonde).
• Gargoyles: The Weird Sisters are a variant — identical except that they have black, golden and white hair. They respectively represent fury, grace and fate, according to Word of God, though act much like Single Minded Triplets in order to bring all three forces into fruition. It also isn't clear what their Grace aspect is truly like, since they never had any episodes when that aspect was "ascendant".
• Gravity Falls: Pacifica (blonde), Mabel (brunette), and Wendy (redhead).
• Grojband: Kate (blonde), Allie (brunette), and Laney (redhead) and Konnie (blonde), Kim (brunette), and Larry (redhead).
• Growing Up Creepie: Chris-Alice (redhead), Carla (brunette), and Melanie (blonde).
• The Hollow: The sirens that almost lure Adam and Kai off a cliff serve as this.
• Holly Hobbie and Friends: The three "Hey Girls"— Holly Hobbie— blonde, Carrie Baker— brunette, Amy Morris— redhead.
• The Impossibles: Coil Man (blonde), Fluid Man (brunet), and Multi Man (redhead)
• Josie and the Pussycats: Melody, Valerie and Josie.
• Just Jamie: Sydney (blonde), Raissa (brunette), and Jamie (redhead)
• Kick Buttowski: The title character's three love interests are Jackie (brunette), Kendall (blonde), and Scarlet (redhead).
• Kid Cosmic: The Planet Protection Group. Agent Blue (blonde), Agent Green (brunette) and Agent Pink (redhead) respectively.
• Kid Notorious: This short-lived Comedy Central animated series (which starred real-life film director Robert Evans) had one episode in which Evans is posing as a Nazi to expose a fellow filmmaker. While throwing a party at his mansion for a skinhead group, Evans says (in a German Accent) "It's entertainment time! Take your Pick! In all your favorite flavors! Blondes, brunettes, redheads, all with matching collars and cuffs!"
• Lady Lovely Locks: The titular character and her friends, Maiden Fair Hair and Maiden Curly Crown.
• The Legend of Vox Machina: On the team, Pike's the blonde, Vex's the brunette & Keyleth's the redhead in respective order.
• Liberty's Kids: Sarah (redhead), James (blond) and Henri (brunet).
• LoliRock: The three original princesses are Iris (blonde), Talia (brunette) and Auriana (redhead).
• The Looney Tunes Show: Yosemite Sam's Merrie Melodies song Blow My Stack features three female backup singers who display this trope.
• The Mighty B!: Portia (blonde), Gwen and Penny (brunettes), and Mary Frances (redhead).
• Mighty Max: Norman has red hair and is hot blooded and violent. Virgil has brown feathers, essentially making him a non-human version of a brunette, and is more cold and calculating. Max is the only one who defies his sterotype: he's the blonde, but he's not a Dumb Blonde at all, though he can be overly indulgent sometimes.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • Free-Form Jazz Band: Linda (redhead), Vivian (brunette), and Mrs. Johnson (blonde).
  • Candace (redhead), Stacy (brunette), and Jeremy (blond).
  • The Bettys.
  • Also, the French Fireside Girls.
  • Candace's kids that appear in the episode, "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" (Xavier, Fred and Amanda in that respective order)
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Bubbles, Buttercup and Blossom.
  • Also, gender-flipped with the Rowdyruff Boys with Boomer (blond), Butch (brunet) and Brick (redhead).
  • In the episode "Equal Fights", Femme Fatale (blonde) mentions Princess Morbucks (redhead) as "the little brat" and Sedusa (brunette) as "the chick in the underwear" as the only female villains in the series.
• Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders: Gwenevere, Fallon and Tamara.
• The Proud Family: Penny and LaCienega (brunettes), Dijonay (blonde), and Zoey (redhead).
• Ready Jet Go!:
  • Sean^note Whose hair can sometimes appear blonde as shown in this screenshot from "Kid-Kart Derby"◊ (blonde), Sydney (brunette), and Jet (redhead).
  • A more straightforward example would be the DSA scientists: Dr. Bergs (blonde), Dr. Skelley (brunette), and Dr. Rafferty (reddish-brown).
• The Real Ghostbusters: Egon (blonde), Peter (dark brown), Ray (red) and Winston (black).
• Recess: Had an all-male example in the pilot with the three main boys: Mikey (Blonde), Vince (Brunette), T.J. (Redhead). In the series proper, T.J. was given brown hair and another blonde, Gus, was added.
  • Also, the Ashleys.
• Robotboy: Tommy (blonde), Gus (redhead), and Lola (brunette).
• Rugrats: The mothers are Charlotte Pickles (blonde), Betty DeVille (brunette), and Didi Pickles (redhead).
• Sabrina: The Animated Series: Sabrina, Hilda, and Zelda. The roles are palette-swapped - with Zelda being the Brainy Redhead, Hilda the Dumb Brunette and Sabrina the Fiery Blonde.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man: While featured as cloaks, not hair, the antagonists of this 1976 episode were the Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry Phantoms, so the color scheme technically matches up.
  • Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost: The Hex Girls. Dusk is the blonde, Thorn is the brunette (though her hair is traditionally dyed with red highlights), and Luna is the (pure) redhead.
• The Simpsons:
  • In "When You Dish Upon A Star", the celebrity guest stars secretly staying in Springfield are then-couple Kim Basinger (blonde) and Alec Baldwin (brunette), and Ron Howard (redhead).
  • In, "The Blue and the Gray", Patty & Selma are revealed to be respectively blonde and redhead, but their hair turned gray because of cigarette ash and smoke. Marge is the brunette. So how'd Marge's hair turn blue? She dyes it. "She's been gray as a mule since she was 17."
• Six Teen: Caitlin (blonde), Nikki (naturally black, dyed purple) and Jen (redhead).
• South Park: The four main boys consist of Stan (black hair), Cartman (brown hair), Kyle (redhead) and Kenny (blond). The stereotypes are Played With a little: Kyle is The Smart Guy, but also a Fiery Redhead, while Stan is more levelheaded. Kenny isn't necessarily dumb, but he's a massive pervert, so "blonds have more fun" applies.
  • When Kenny died semi-permanently, both of his "replacements" (Butters and Tweak) were blond.
  • The three most prominent female fourth graders, Bebe (blonde), Wendy (brunette), and Red (redhead), also count. They fit the stereotypes pretty well, though Bebe is implied to be pretty smart despite having the personality of a Lovable Alpha Bitch.
• The Spectacular Spider-Man: Peter (Brunette), Harry (Redhead) and Gwen (Blonde). Mary Jane joined the group after Harry temporarily left the main cast. With Peter's love interests there's Gwen Stacy (Blonde), Mary Jane (Redhead) and Liz Allen (Brunette).
• Spongebob Squarepants: The episode "Whale of a Birthday" gives us a boyband trio (unusual, since the boyband mold is usually 4-5 members) called "Boys Who Cry" that fit this trope.
• Steven Universe: Garnet (brunette), Pearl (redhead), and Amethyst (blonde, although her hair colour is a very pale shade of lilac).
• Stōked: Fin (blonde), Lo (brunette) and Emma (redhead).
  • All-male example with Broseph, Johnny, and Reef.
• Super Best Friends Forever: Supergirl (blonde), Wonder Girl (brunette) and Batgirl are a crime-fighting team, and best friends. Forever.
• Supernoobs:
  • The Roachmont family has mother (blonde), father (brunet) and son (redhead).
  • This also applies to the main boys of the Benevolent Alliance: Tyler (blonde), Kevin (brunet) and Roach (redhead).
• Teen Titans (2003): Temporarily has blonde Terra, bluish-haired Raven, and redhead Starfire.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: Dizzy's girlfriends count as this with Mitzi (blonde), Jessie (brunette), and Taffy (redhead).
• Total Drama: The only Screaming Gophers to be on Team Chris are Owen (blond), Izzy (redhead), and Noah (brunette).
  • The women of TDROTI team Mutant Maggots: Jo/Dakota (blonde; even though the former is a dirty blonde), Anne Maria (brunette) and Zoey (redhead).
  • Amy/Samey, Jasmine and Scarlett in Pahkitew Island.
• Totally Spies!: Clover (Blonde), Alex (Brunette) and Sam (Redhead).
  • Also, Pam, Alice, and Crimson.
  • As well as the girls' moms, Stella (Blonde), Gabriella (Brunette), and Carmen (Redhead) in "Mommies Dearest. When they later reappeared in "Totally Busted," their hair had changed so that they matched their daughters, Stella (Blonde), Gabriella (Redhead), and Carmen (Brunette).
• Winx Club: Bloom (Redhead), Stella (Blonde) and Flora (Brunette) are the first three girls introduced and are the three featured on most merchandise.
• Wild Kratts: Gender-flipped with Martin, Chris, and Jimmy. Note that Real Life Martin was never as pale a blonde as his animated version.
• X-Men: The Animated Series: Storm (white hair), Rogue (brunette with a white streak) and Jean Grey (redhead).
• Young Justice (2010):
  • A rare male version can be found in the founding members of the team with Aqualad as the blond, Robin as the brunette and Kid Flash as the redhead.
  • The cycle continues when they added Superboy (brunette), Miss Martian (redhead) and Artemis (blonde). With the addition of Zatanna (black) the girls of the team become this trope as well.
    • Season two adds Batgirl (redhead), Wonder Girl (blonde) and Bumblebee (brunette) to the roster.

Real Life

• Britain's Prince William (blond), his wife Kate (brunette) and his brother Harry (redhead) have been described as a "power trio" and, prior to Harry's relocation to North America, often appeared together at events (such as being the official ambassadors of the London Olympics).
  • Meghan Markle adds the Token Minority.
• Plane crash survivor Stephanie Neilson has children with all three hair colors, plus sandy brown.
• Calendars and other photo compilations of labrador retrievers will often feature them in the three colors of the breed - yellow, brown, black. The most popular picture is typically of three dogs/puppies, one of each color, arranged in the order listed.
• It's fairly common for those of Northern and Central European descent to have all three hair colors present in their families. And in larger families with many children, individual couples can even have a brood with every hair and eye color, something that is very rare in most other parts of the world.
• Neapolitan ice cream (vanilla/chocolate/strawberry) is probably the most famous real world example of this trope.
• The trimates is a name given to three women — Jane Goodall (blond), Dian Fossey (brunette), and Birutė Galdikas (red) that anthropologist Louis Leakey to study hominids in their natural environments.
• They'd gone grey by the time of World War II, but the leaders of the Allied powers who opposed Nazi Germany included Franklin D. Roosevelt (blond), Josef Stalin (brown), and Winston Churchill (red).

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