UNPOPULAR OPINION: Marvel has good treatments toward Redhead/Gingers than DC

[Lee Stone]

What do you mean by this?

Everybody has dayglo hair.
Her red isn't just red, it's like neon red.
Raven has neon blue hair.
Gar has neon green hair.

Edit: I haven't watched the show since a couple episodes of the first season, where her hair was like noticeably fake red.
I just did a search, and her hair doesn't look as fake or 'out there' any more, but it really looks more purple than red to me now.

[LAWtoyoto 432]

People said redhead man will never be success in their life but they alway proved to be wrong.

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[The Darknight Detective]

People said redhead man will never be success in their life but they alway proved to be wrong.

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Who actually says that? Also, is (former) Prince Harry a success (unless being born into the right family qualifies you for that honor, of course)?

[Jim Kelly]

Who actually says that? Also, is (former) Prince Harry a success (unless being born into the right family qualifies you for that honor, of course)?

You clearly aren't a royal watcher.

[The Darknight Detective]

You clearly aren't a royal watcher.

Nope, despite considering myself an Anglophile. I have never understood the obsession for the British royals in the US.

[Jim Kelly]

Nope, despite considering myself an Anglophile. I have never understood the obsession for the British royals in the US.

But I think for the anti-royal Americans--who nevertheless are into celebrity and glamour--Harry and Meghan are the perfect heroes. Harry, who was always the iconoclast and yet also served as a true soldier on the front lines, who lost his mother because of celebrity and was the spare not the heir, chooses an American woman of colour for his wife and breaks with tradition for the sake of his wife, against the establishment and inbred British prejudice, renounces his titles and follows the American Dream of entrepreneurship. Meghan proves that while she might be into fame, being an actress and all, she's not into meaningless honours and would rather work at her craft than cut ribbons for a people that hate her on the basis of skin colour and not the content of her character.

[The Darknight Detective]

But I think for the anti-royal Americans--who nevertheless are into celebrity and glamour--Harry and Meghan are the perfect heroes. Harry, who was always the iconoclast and yet also served as a true soldier on the front lines, who lost his mother because of celebrity and was the spare not the heir, chooses an American woman of colour for his wife and breaks with tradition for the sake of his wife, against the establishment and inbred British prejudice, renounces his titles and follows the American Dream of entrepreneurship. Meghan proves that while she might be into fame, being an actress and all, she's not into meaningless honours and would rather work at her craft than cut ribbons for a people that hate her on the basis of skin colour and not the content of her character.

I don't know. If I were born into the life and privilege he was, I would follow the royal rules of etiquette down to the T. The last thing I would want to do is spit on and derail such a cushy gig as that!

[BatmanJones]

Sorry if I can’t feel for redheads’ lack of representation… How many bald superheroes appear in either company’s comics? There’s Professor X. That’s one. Otherwise am I supposed to identify with Lex Luthor, whose original origin was that he turned evil because he lost his hair?

[Dred]

Sorry if I can’t feel for redheads’ lack of representation… How many bald superheroes appear in either company’s comics? There’s Professor X. That’s one. Otherwise am I supposed to identify with Lex Luthor, whose original origin was that he turned evil because he lost his hair?

Metamorpho, Deadman, Steel, Black Lightning are a few I can name off the top of my head. Though certainly nowhere near the frequency as ginger haired heroes, and bald folks certainly make up a larger portion of the population.

[lemonpeace]

Metamorpho, Deadman, Steel, Black Lightning are a few I can name off the top of my head. Though certainly nowhere near the frequency as ginger haired heroes, and bald folks certainly make up a larger portion of the population.

deadman is ghost, he doesn't have eye brows or pupils, because he's not meant to look human, the baldness is incidental; same with Metamorpho who is mutated. a lot of aliens and monsters don't have hair but they aren't bald in the sense people are typically talking about. Black Lightning for like 70% of his continuity (including currently) is not bald, that was a brief stint that speaks more to comics inability to conceptualize black hair. I get what you saying but, other than Steel, these weren't good examples.

[Dred]

Not sure why it being related to their powers means it doesn't count. There isn't some rule in DC that ghosts don't have hair. I'm actually pretty sure Brand is unique in the way he's depicted. I left out Aliens because they don't make great examples a lot of the time (Hello Martian Manhunter, who can have hair if he wants!). I agree that a lot of black male characters are drawn bald relative to non-black characters due to artist inability to conceptualize and depict it on the page -- for the same reason half the male black characters having that generic crew cut that's just a black trapezoid on their heads most of the time. But bald is bald.

To some degree the baldness situation is purely because a lot of superhero fiction is depicting idealized appearances so heroes have thick, amazing hair all the time because that's aesthetically pleasing -- and to that point I think there's some (possibly racist) inclination that black male beauty standards are generally more accepting of baldness than non-black ones.

But this is all a bit deeper than "hey can you think of some bald heroes"

[Agent Z]

Everybody has dayglo hair.
Her red isn't just red, it's like neon red.
Raven has neon blue hair.
Gar has neon green hair.

Edit: I haven't watched the show since a couple episodes of the first season, where her hair was like noticeably fake red.
I just did a search, and her hair doesn't look as fake or 'out there' any more, but it really looks more purple than red to me now.

Except that's just her, Raven and Gar. No one else on the show has hair like that.

[Agent Z]

People said redhead man will never be success in their life but they alway proved to be wrong.

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And? No one here is saying redhead characters can't be successful.

[BatmanJones]

Metamorpho, Deadman, Steel, Black Lightning are a few I can name off the top of my head. Though certainly nowhere near the frequency as ginger haired heroes, and bald folks certainly make up a larger portion of the population.

Metamorpho had a full head of hair before an accident made him a monster, by his own definition. It’s like saying The Thing is a redhead. Rex Mason never lost his hair. Metamorpho is not bald, he has an element head.

Deadman was killed while wearing a ghoulish, bald mask. Boston Brand had a full head of hair just like Rex Mason until he was turned into a permanent ghoul. But he’s no more bald than anyone else wearing a full face mask. Boston Brand never lost his hair. He’s not bald.

Jefferson Pierce never lost his hair. He chose to shave his head. Black Lightning is only sometimes bald and it’s always a stylistic choice. Black Lightning is not bald.

I can’t remember if John Henry Irons is like Black Lightning or not. Maybe he did lose his hair and just chose to shave the rest of it. If so, that’s one.

I saw that some were making distinctions based on powers. I’m not. 3 (or 4) of the 4 mentioned never had male pattern baldness.

[BatmanJones]

I just thought of a legitimately bald DC hero. Johnny Thunder. After he was about 80 years old. A hero can go bald if he’s a doddering old man but not while he’s still in the hero game. Natural baldness is fine for villains but it just doesn’t seem to be consistent with heroism. That simply isn’t so of characters with red hair, at any comic company.