Movie Villains 'Discriminate' Against Bald Men, Claims Bald Man
You know, now you come to mention it, quite a lot of movie villains are bald…
Picking up on this trope is YouTuber DarkAntics.
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In an admittedly rather tongue-in-cheek post, he rants about the lack of bald heroes and the wealth of evil baldies in the movies.
“This notion has seeped into every pore of our media,” he says.
Of the recent (and historical) bald villians, he points out Jeff Bridges’ Obadiah Stane in the first ‘Iron Man’, Jesse Eisenberg, Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey’s Lex Luthors, Darth Vader, Bane, Freddie Kruger and Ming the Merciless.
Not only are these all villains, often they’re found to be facing off against heroes with excessive volumes of hair (see 'Con Air’ and the Harry Potter series).
It all makes sense now.
To add additional credence to his argument, he has also implemented the 'Baldel Test’ (a take on the Bechdel test applied to female characters in fiction and whether their conversations involve men).
The Baldel Test is defined 'if there’s a scene in a movie in which at least two bald characters have a conversation that isn’t about a person with hair, then the movie passes the test’.
We feel an online petition campaign on….
Image credits: Marvel/Warner Bros
