Basic Trope: White hair denotes arcane traits.
- Straight: Bob has stark white hair. He is also a Fainting Seer, so he looks very ethereal whenever he has a vision of things to come.
- Exaggerated: Bob is a God in Human Form whose hair shines brightly as the sun.
- Downplayed: Bob is a seer with white-blond hair.
- Justified:
- White hair is a mark of Seers, bestowed upon them by the god who gives the gift of prophecy.
- Bob's hair naturally lost its color due to old age.
- Inverted: Bob is the only character with white hair, and is also The Team Normal.
- Subverted: Bob's white hair initially marked him as a prophet, but it turned out he's a Phony Psychic who was dyeing his hair white.
- Double Subverted: Bob is a Not-So-Phony Psychic, and when his latent powers awaken his hair turns white after all.
- Parodied: When Bob is given prophecy powers, the god also hands him a bottle of hair dye so he can look the part.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody has white hair, or white hair is a normal hair color.
- Enforced: Bob was originally brunet, but the head honchos in charge of character design thought he looked too normal to be a mystical prophet.
- Lampshaded: "Bob's white hair makes him look really cool and magical, doesn't it?"
- Invoked: When Bob gets his powers, he decides to dye his hair white to look mystical and powerful, like the white-haired wizards from his favorite game.
- Exploited: A bad guy uses a white wig to disguise himself as a seer in order to trick the heroes.
- Defied: Bob doesn't like the white hair he got with his powers, so he dyes it back to his natural dark.
- Discussed: "Bob the prophet has white hair? It's just like a fantasy movie!"
- Conversed: "This character has white hair, so I bet he'll be important to the story."
- Played for Laughs: Bob is constantly assumed to have "ancient wisdom," leading him to angrily explain that he's 28 and his hair is naturally white.
- Played for Drama: Bob's white hair is an early sign that his powers are draining his life force.
- Implied: Bob is a weird-looking guy with white hair who's been known to ramble, but it's not clear that he actually has powers.
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