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Charlie Brown Baldness

 Charlie Brown Baldness
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 Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness
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 Charlie Brown Baldness
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Some characters have outrageous, gravity defying hairdos. On the other hand, there are characters like this, with only two or three strands of hair. To a casual viewer, a character with Charlie Brown Baldness will appear, well, bald. However, the character may occasionally mention getting a haircut, or other characters will comment on said haircut or colour. The current Trope Namer is Charlie Brown, who, at first glance, appears bald save for a few short curls in front, but according to Word of God, just has incredibly light blond hair, buzzed short (as was a popular style for boys in the 40's and 50's). Keep in mind Charlie's father is a barber.
If the character is a child, expect jokes about the character suffering from cancer.
Contrast Furry Baldness, where an animal character is "bald" despite still having hair, feathers, or fur, and Prematurely Bald where a character is actually bald despite their young age.

Examples
 Charlie Brown Baldness
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Tintin
 Charlie Brown Baldness
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DBTropes
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_123dce48
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_123dce48
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Caillou’s cousin and female counterpart Boue from Caillou The Grownup is bald save for eight strands of hair on the sides of her head tied in pigtails.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_123dce48
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1.0
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_123dce48
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 Caillou the Grown Up (Web Animation)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_123dce48
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_1f18882b
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_1f18882b
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Cuori Grassi: Rocco's appearance during The '90s was that of an apparently bald teenager with three blond Idiot Hairs protruding from his head. Later issues portray him as having normal blond hair, so it's kinda implied he's always had it like that and his baldness was merely a stylistic choice.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_1f18882b
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_1f18882b
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1.0
 Cuori Grassi (Comic Book)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_1f18882b
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_261c8d3f
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_261c8d3f
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The Simpsons
Homer Simpson is mostly bald, but what little hair he has is stylized as an M over each ear — part of a zigzag pattern going around the back of his head — and two strands looping over the top like a comb over. In The Simpsons Movie, Bart pulls on the M and it unravels as if it were one strand.
The Simpson kids have hair the same color as their skin. "To Surveil With Love" has Lisa being mistaken for a Dumb Blonde, and "No Loan Again, Naturally" has Bart's hair reverting to its natural red from lack of sun exposure. In "The Blue and the Gray", they start obsessing over where their head ends and the hair begins, with Lisa hastily drawing a hairline with marker.
Since The Simpsons has Negative Continuity, the kids' spikes are alternately hair and parts of their skulls.
There is also "22 Short Films About Springfield" where Lisa gets gum stuck in her hair and has to go to a barber to have it removed, resulting in a new style.
Lampshaded when Homer joins the Stonecutters.
Ralph Wiggum has only a few strands of hair hanging down from the top of his head. In one episode his father describes him as "balding."
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_261c8d3f
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_261c8d3f
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 The Simpsons
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_261c8d3f
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_2a1b28fc
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_2a1b28fc
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Pim from Smiling Friends has a single strand of what looks like hair sticking straight up from the center of his head. It's actually an exposed nerve ending.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_2a1b28fc
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1.0
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_2a1b28fc
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_2a1b28fc
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_316ce2ea
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_316ce2ea
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Billy Whizz, his brother Alfie, and their Dad, in The Beano. They all have two long hairs and the rest of the head is bald. There are little dots on Billy and Dad indicating that theirs are buzzcuts, but Alfie, being a toddler, lacks this, and so plays the trope straight.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_316ce2ea
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 The Beano (Comic Book)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_316ce2ea
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_44e0b783
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_44e0b783
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Jon’s brother Doc from Garfield is usually drawn with four strands of hair on the top of his head, some angles particularly when he looks straight ahead depicts him with short black hair.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_44e0b783
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1.0
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_44e0b783
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 Garfield (Comic Strip)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_44e0b783
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_56a63131
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_56a63131
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Homer Simpson is mostly bald, but what little hair he has is stylized as an M over each ear — part of a zigzag pattern going around the back of his head — and two strands looping over the top like a comb over. In The Simpsons Movie, Bart pulls on the M and it unravels as if it were one strand.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_56a63131
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_56a63131
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_56a63131
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_5755b96a
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_5755b96a
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In The Order of the Stick, Belkar appears to have a Bald of Evil, unless you look closely — he has tiny reddish hairs sticking straight up. Looks something like a buzzcut. Note also that the hair on his head is identical to the fur on his feet.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_5755b96a
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 The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_5755b96a
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_64cb4245
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_64cb4245
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The title character in the preschool cartoon series Caillou is drawn bald. This is because he was originally from a book series in which he was a baby, and when it came time for him to become a toddler, the addition of hair made him unrecognizable, so they left him without hair.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_64cb4245
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_64cb4245
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_6d2c2611
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_6d2c2611
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Sumo from Clarence has a buzzcut, however he looks completely bald except for some random hairs spread around his scalp. According to the pilot, him and Clarence shaved it off.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_6d2c2611
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_6d2c2611
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_6d2c2611
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_73610a1a
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_73610a1a
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Nightmare Ned's title boy has a few strands of hair that stick straight up.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_73610a1a
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1.0
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_73610a1a
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 Nightmare Ned
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_73610a1a
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_7a5d818d
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_7a5d818d
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In Bonus Stage, Joel, for the first two seasons, had four long black hairs; his designs past those two seasons had blond hair filling the spaces between those black hairs.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_7a5d818d
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1.0
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_7a5d818d
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 Bonus Stage (Web Animation)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_7a5d818d
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_7f273d7b
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_7f273d7b
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Wayne from The Cramp Twins has a few strands of hair on his head, but he's still treated as having normal hair: in "Haircut Horrors" he he needs a haircut, while in "Lice-ence to Kill" he gets lice, and becomes completely bald at the end of the latter.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_7f273d7b
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_7f273d7b
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 The Cramp Twins
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_7f273d7b
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_8134722c
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_8134722c
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A rare female (and live-action, for that matter) example of this comes from Nanalan', whose main character (three-year-old puppet Mona) has two pig-tails on her head and nothing else.◊
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_8134722c
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_8134722c
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 Nanalan'
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_8134722c
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_8f36f969
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_8f36f969
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Lily Loud in The Loud House only has a tuft of blonde hair on her head for the same reason as Tommy Pickles—she's only a baby. That said, come Season 5 of The Loud House and she still retains this trait at the age of two.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_8f36f969
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_8f36f969
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_8f36f969
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_943b8e1
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_943b8e1
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In Osomatsu-kun with Chibita, who’s known to have a clean bald head save for his thick wavy strand on the back of his head.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_943b8e1
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_943b8e1
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 Osomatsu-kun (Manga)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_943b8e1
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_9992c8b0
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_9992c8b0
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Joey from Dennis the Menace (US) eventually became an example of this trope via Art Evolution. In the earlier comics, he had a full head of curly hair before it turned into a single strand.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_9992c8b0
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_9992c8b0
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 Dennis the Menace (US) (Comic Strip)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_9992c8b0
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_99d779d3
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_99d779d3
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Titeuf also has the same thing going on as Tintin - but exaggerated and then some way beyond.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_99d779d3
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_99d779d3
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 Titeuf (Comic Book)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_99d779d3
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_a0500a06
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_a0500a06
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Tommy Pickles from Rugrats. Which is probably to be expected, since he is a baby. This also applies to his younger brother, Dil Pickles.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_a0500a06
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_a0500a06
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 Rugrats
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_a0500a06
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b08d7309
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b08d7309
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Iggy from Little Lulu. Igg has visible "stubble," though, making it clearer than many examples that it's the result of a buzz cut.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b08d7309
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1.0
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b08d7309
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 Little Lulu (Comic Strip)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b08d7309
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b2ac2311
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b2ac2311
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Charlie Brown from Peanuts, pictured above. According to Charles Schulz, he's blond, but since his father is the local barber, he maintains Charlie with a perpetual buzz cut. Apparently, that's what Schulz's father did for Charles himself.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b2ac2311
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b2ac2311
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 Peanuts (Comic Strip)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b2ac2311
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b3e81703
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b3e81703
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In Arthur, King of Time and Space, Arthur's own webcomic The Thing of Shapes to Come initally portrays him with three strands of hair, as part of its exremely stylised nature. This is probably intended to represent that he has a very high forehead, somewhat resembling a receding hairline even as a teenager. In-universe Art Evolution eventually fixes this. Prior to Arthur creating his own comic, there was a Lampshade Hanging when Merlin claimed to have sketched a Chibi version of Arthur ... and it was Charlie Brown.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b3e81703
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b3e81703
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 Arthur, King of Time and Space (Webcomic)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b3e81703
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b5a087d7
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b5a087d7
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Robot Chicken parodied Charlie Brown's perceived baldness in a Peanuts skit, having him yell out for Linus because he was supposed to take Charlie to chemo.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b5a087d7
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b5a087d7
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 Robot Chicken
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_b5a087d7
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_c00034c2
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_c00034c2
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Lt. Fuzz, ironically, in Beetle Bailey
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_c00034c2
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_c00034c2
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 Beetle Bailey (Comic Strip)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_c00034c2
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_ce50887e
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_ce50887e
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Chaozu in Dragon Ball rarely appears without his hat, but he removes it in his first encounter with Krillin to show that he has one (and only one) strand of hair on his scalp. Krillin, a former Buddhist monk who keeps his head shaved until the Buu arc, is infuriated.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_ce50887e
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_ce50887e
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 Dragon Ball (Manga)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_ce50887e
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d26874b6
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d26874b6
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Greg Heffley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid is depicted with just three strands of hair sticking out of the top of his head in a tuft. Since Greg in the live-action movies has a full head of hair, Greg is generally considered to have hair in the book as well.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d26874b6
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1.0
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d26874b6
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 Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d26874b6
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d32b35a6
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d32b35a6
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Similarly, on Stanley, another cartoon by the same production company, Jumbo Pictures, both Stanley and his best friend Lester have only a few strands of hair and that's it.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d32b35a6
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1.0
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d32b35a6
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 Stanley
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d32b35a6
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d46cc708
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d46cc708
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Most of the male characters on Ed, Edd n Eddy suffer from this. Ed appears to have a ring of short, black hairs around the edge of his scalp, which becomes an orange pompadour when styled in one episode. Kevin has something similar when he takes his hat off, but in red. Eddy appears to only have three foot-long hairs coming out of the back of his head. Jimmy has an odd, poofy hairstyle (described by other characters as resembling a chicken's rear end) which blends seamlessly with his skin color. Johnny is the exception, as while he also has a multitude of tiny black hairs, he is stated in-universe to be bald.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d46cc708
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d46cc708
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d46cc708
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d69208d2
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d69208d2
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Codename: Kids Next Door: Subverted by Numbuh 1 as he is bald. The show never disclosed what happened other than saying it was Delightful Children's doing and that Numbuh 5 blames herself for it.
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 Codename: Kids Next Door
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_d69208d2
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_e6bfadc3
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_e6bfadc3
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Averted in Weapon Brown: Chuck really is bald, with a few stray curly hairs on his head.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_e6bfadc3
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 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_e6bfadc3
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 Weapon Brown (Webcomic)
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_e6bfadc3
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_e936047a
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_e936047a
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Harold Berman of Hey Arnold! is shown with only a few strands of buzzed short hair whenever he removes his baseball cap. It is never officially confirmed whether or not he's actually bald. Brainy is also this, since his "hair" is the same color as his skin a la Bart Simpson (which may be intentional since Hey Arnold! creator Craig Bartlett is the brother-in-law of The Simpsons creator Matt Groening.)
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_e936047a
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_e936047a
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_ea1a786f
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Jimmy Five from Monica's Gang, who is often called "baldy" despite having, well, five strands of hair (two of which somehow flatten the top of his head).
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_ea1a786f
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_ec25a849
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The eponymous character from Doug, as well as Skeeter.
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Charlie Brown Baldness / int_ec25a849
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_f406bc87
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Gerald McBoing-Boing has only a squiggle on his forehead to indicate hair in the original theatrical shorts. In the TV series, his hair is colored blond, thus averting this trope.
 Charlie Brown Baldness / int_f406bc87
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 Charlie Brown Baldness
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Hair Tropes
 Cuori Grassi (Comic Book) / int_62d0b37
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Tank Girl (Comic Book) / int_62d0b37
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 The Beano (Comic Book) / int_62d0b37
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Dennis the Menace (US) (Comic Strip) / int_62d0b37
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Oobi / int_62d0b37
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
 Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids / int_62d0b37
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness
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Charlie Brown Baldness