The Bald of Evil - Why bald men are the world's natural enemy

[Caillou]

I'm sorry I posted this, wasn't in the right state of mind

 

[BurningCoals]

In Norwegian the word for bald is "skallet", which is a past tense form of "skalle", which, you guessed it, means "skull". So if you were to say someone is bald, you would basically be saying that that person has been "skulled". Pretty creepy.

 

[Caillou]

In Norwegian the word for bald is "skallet", which is a past tense form of "skalle", which, you guessed it, means "skull". So if you were to say someone is bald, you would basically be saying that that person has been "skulled". Pretty creepy.

And the reputation of skulls are so bad, that even in the portrayals of the Grim Reaper - death personification, they tend to hide the upper part of the skull with a cloak because even DEATH itself has to hide it's baldness to not be too creepy and lifeless to look at

 

[BurningCoals]

And the reputation of skulls are so bad, that even in the portrayals of the Grim Reaper - death personification, they tend to hide the upper part of the skull with a cloak because even DEATH itself has to hide it's baldness to not be too creepy and lifeless to look at

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Speaking of bald and the Grim Reaper...

 

[Feelsbadman]

https://imgur.com/spzRZZ2

 

[20YearsOnFin]

No one, for example, would ever think this guy in the picture below is diseased or there's something inherently wrong with him

I don't know about that, he looks a bit ginger.

 

[Pacho]

every bald guy is a ticking timebomb

 

[justinbieberscombover]

Yet some bald men don't even look like they are missing hair

E.g. Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart

 

[Caillou]

Having good hair makes most men look more attractive, and it makes virtually all men look more "nice". Attractive bald men usually don't look "nice", they look masculine and virile and so on.

A villain first of all is very often presented as unattractive. This makes sense because we want the audience to dislike him and root against him and so on, and that's easier to accomplish if the villain is unattractive.

Even if the villain is not presented as unattractive, we generally don't want the villain to look "nice". So even an attractive bald man generally works well as a villain.

Of course, making the villain bald doesn't always work. For example, if we want to present the villain as "suave and cunning", giving him good hair is probably a good idea.

In any case, bald heroes are hardly rare in modern media.

Nah it's not just ugliness since baldness isn't the only thing that would make someone ugly

But balding in the Norwood pattern is the only thing that symbolizes death as i explained in my OP. And villains in general tend to be agents of death

 

[Caillou]

Villains aren't just presented as bald, they are presented as ugly vastly more often than heroes. Often, they are disfigured, obese, old, and in general "unattractive".

I'm generally skeptical about your explanation.

Lex Luthor, Dr. Hugo Strange, Wilson Fisk, etc. None of them are actually ugly and they're drawn with a great bone structure. When you look at them you don't really get the vibe of looking at something that's "ugly". But more that you're looking at something that is twisted and evil. Almost like looking at death itself

 

[Isaac Newton]

In Norwegian the word for bald is "skallet", which is a past tense form of "skalle", which, you guessed it, means "skull". So if you were to say someone is bald, you would basically be saying that that person has been "skulled". Pretty creepy.

The word bald comes from some middle english word "balde" which means "shine" lmao

 

[Isaac Newton]

Hair on top frames the face,thats why fades dont kill looks like baldness does

and the skull/death connection thing is more valid if you consider we have frontal views of peoples faces. So if someone lost hair in a fade pattern it wudnt expose the scalp as dramatically as baldness does

 

[Isaac Newton]

I expect that all of those characters would look "nicer" with hair, and most of them would look more attractive. Also, are we seriously going to deny that villains are presented as unattractive vastly more often than heroes?

On second thought, I actually sorta agree with you a little tiny bit, in that some bald characters give off a skeletal vibe, and that also works well for a villain.

But I don't think the "skeletal" vibe of some bald men plays a larger role here than, for example, the "thuggish" vibe of many bald men.

Example: Lex Luthor looks quite skeletal in the comics. So that may be one reason why he was made bald by the writers. On the other hand, I don't associate the Kingpin's appearance with a skeleton, I associate him a lot more with thuggishness. The man looks like a mean thug from the underworld. If the man were thin and had a head of hair, he would look too "nice", so the bald and fat look suits him well.

In any case, while I now agree with you a little tiny bit, I also find your original post quite melodramatic and hysterical, and lacking in perspective.

Its not melodramatic , a TON of villains are portrayed as bald

 

[BurningCoals]

The word bald comes from some middle english word "balde" which means "shine" lmao

That's a nicer etymology lol

 

[Isaac Newton]

"So in conclusion, baldness is hated so much because we're literally living symbols of death - the world's natural enemy. And that's why, by virtue, balding/bald men are also the world's natural enemy"

If this is not melodramatic, I don't know what is.

maybe kind of melodramatic but gets the point across, that could be the symbolism and subconscious ideas baldness puts out

 

[Norwoody]

lmao

 

[justinbieberscombover]

Lex Luthor, Dr. Hugo Strange, Wilson Fisk, etc. None of them are actually ugly and they're drawn with a great bone structure. When you look at them you don't really get the vibe of looking at something that's "ugly". But more that you're looking at something that is twisted and evil. Almost like looking at death itself

Lex Luthor is a good looking mf

 

[Isaac Newton]

Having good hair makes most men look more attractive, and it makes virtually all men look more "nice". Attractive bald men usually don't look "nice", they look masculine and virile and so on.

A villain first of all is very often presented as unattractive. This makes sense because we want the audience to dislike him and root against him and so on, and that's easier to accomplish if the villain is unattractive.

Even if the villain is not presented as unattractive, we generally don't want the villain to look "nice". So even an attractive bald man generally works well as a villain.

Of course, making the villain bald doesn't always work. For example, if we want to present the villain as "suave and cunning", giving him good hair is probably a good idea.

In any case, bald heroes are hardly rare in modern media.

>Bald heroes are hardly rare

Besides men with 99th percentile masculinity or black men or old dudes what bald heroes are there? Not to mention those "heroes" are usually just retarded brute charmless action figures practically OR anti heroes

 

[YoungBalder15]

We always told before

Hair=Life

So,
Bald=Death

 

[BurningCoals]

We always told before

Hair=Life

So,
Bald=Death

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