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"Siiiiiide Buuurrnnnnssss......"

—Spongebob and Patrick,SpongeBob SquarePants

Hot-Bloodedness isn't reserved just for people. It can be applied to many things—hair, for example.

Hotblooded Sideburns are a pair of short, fiery earlocks typically found on passionateSuper Robot pilots andSentai team leaders that usually offer up a quick visual indicator of theirHot-Blooded character. While they don't have to be huge (though they usually are), they arealways spiky and noticeable. Usually, they're paired up with someequally fiery eyebrows for added effect.

It should be noted that "sideburn" is aslight misnomer, asHotblooded Sideburns are rarely actuallyattached to the face anywhere below the ears. They're occasionally referred to as "Nagaideburns" (after famedSuper Robot GenreMangaka and formerTrope NamerGo Nagai) to make this distinction.

Due to its inherent association withSuper Robot shows of the 70s and 80s, this is also a form ofSeventies orEighties Hair, and its appearance on female characters to show how badass they were has nearly died out.

Examples of characters with Hotblooded Sideburns include:

Anime and Manga

  • Everyone created byGo Nagai.Everyone. Yes, evenCutey Honey.
  • Pretty much every singleSuper Robot pilot from the good ol' days. In the 70's, this was mostly because it was a pretty popular hair style, but by the 80's it pretty much became a pre-requisite of being a badass pilot.
    • The most iconic example has to be Ryoma ofGetter Robo (Which, in a bit of irony, wasnot written byGo Nagai as is widely believed, butKen Ishikawa. He just pitched the concept, although he was a heavy influence on the art style).Armageddon Ryoma, pictured here, sports a pair so huge that they probably warp space-time.
    • Hyoma Aoi fromCombattler V also sports a fine pair.
    • And the sideburns of Kenichi Go fromVoltes V are bigger.
    • The third pilot of the Nagahama Trilogy, Kazuya Ryuuzaki fromDaimos also counts. In fact, a domestic robot comments his hair is absolutely unruly and he only combs it down if he is going to meet a girl.
  • EVERY SINGLE ONE of the five main Bronze Saints inSaint Seiya. Seiya himself is one of the most iconic hot-blooded characters in anime, and has the bushiest ones. So bushy, they poke from out of his tiara-helmet!
  • Every single member ofScience Ninja Team Gatchaman, Condor Joe being the most hot-blooded.
  • Ronin Warriors has a few characters with these.Ryo's are pretty low key, butSyu/Kento's more than make up for them.
  • Gai Daigoji ofMartian Successor Nadesico sports a pair of chops that nearly rival Ryoma's, though clearly as an homage toGetter Robo.
  • Meito Anizawa (aka Anime Tenchou) fromLucky Star, who befittingly is a parody ofHot Bloodedness.
  • Not one to let aSuper Robot homage get past them,Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha hasZafira sporting these in his human form.
  • Hikaru Ichijou fromMacross (and therefore Rick Hunter fromRobotech) is occasionally drawn with a small pair of these,depending on which installment you're watching. Other times, he merely has a small, straight whisp of hair in front of his ears.
    • His mentor, Roy Focker sports a very strong pair of sideburns, as befits his status as anAce Pilot.
  • Yuji Kaido fromBlue Gender
  • Taiki Kudou fromDigimon Xros Wars.
    • Daisuke Motomiya fromDigimon Adventure 02 looks like he has the start of some potentially epic ones.
  • Van fromGun X Sword
  • Subverted inG Gundam: Argo Gulski has the largest Hotblooded Sideburns and eyebrows, but is the calmest cast member.
  • Jamil Neate, the Amuro/Char/BrightComposite Character fromGundam X, has a rather impressive set of sideburns himself. He's kind of a subversion, as he's moreThe Stoic thanHot-Blooded.Except when he overcomes his piloting phobia and returns to the battlefield.
  • Guy Shishioh fromThe King of Braves:GaoGaiGar sports a pair made ofbatteries. By pulling on them, he temporarily gains a huge boost in speed and agility, as well as turning gold.
  • Leiji Matsumoto is a bit fond of this look.Interstella 5555, for example, has these on about half of the main cast. Susumu/Derek ofUchuu Senkan Yamato/Star Blazers doesn't normally have them, but he looks like he does when he puts his helmet on.
  • Kagura fromAzumanga Daioh, despite not being soHot-Blooded, is aBoisterousTomboy that sports a pair of Nagaideburns.
  • An omake ofKekkaishi features prototype designs for the main character, one of which sports a rather magnificent set of Hotblooded Sideburns.
  • Heinkel Wolfe ofHellsing. Her(or is it his?) partner Yumie's might normally be considered too long to be true Nagaideburns but their sheer fieryness, not to mention herpsychotic berserker rageHot Bloodedness, are more than enough to make them count.
  • A common trait in characters designed by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. You might recognize him as the character designer forG GundamandAnime Tenchou.
  • Mikuni fromDuel Masters. They are so noticeable, the third season dub renamed his character "Johnny Coolburns".
  • Ryo ofProject ARMS
  • In a villainous example,Full Metal Panic!'s Gates sports a pair of these. He seems to believe they afford him some sort of protection.
    • Just before he dies in the final episode, he fiddles with his hair and muses that maybe he had it trimmed a littletoo short.
  • You would think that a story in the firs love genre, specificallyHatsukoi Limited would not have something like this. You'd be wrong, Gengoro Takei, has these as well as the required Hot Blood.
  • Lordgenome fromTengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, who's soBadass his sideburns point sideways. It's probably because he might have been based off ofGendo Ikari, whose sideburns extend all the way to his beard like Lordgenome, and who might or not fit this trope too.
  • Everyone in the movie and OAV designs ofRanma ½. While the manga art gives them only thin lines to separate the ear from the cheek, and Atsuko Nakajima's early anime designs made them slightly more noticeable, her revamped designs for later seasons, movies, andOAVs blew up their sideburns into enormous puffs of hair with intricate detail.
  • Gozaburo Kaiba's'burns [dead link] are only matched by hisBig Ol' Eyebrows and hisBadass Moustache.
  • Takashi Kawamura fromThe Prince of Tennis. He's not thatHot-Blooded tho, mostly aNice Guy...most of the time.
  • Jouji Gouda fromAkane Maniax, though he's anAffectionate Parody ofKouji Kabuto and Go Nagai characters in general.
  • Shin fromSpace Carrier Blue Noah is an early example.
  • Lee Bailong fromShaman King.
  • Charles Beams fromEureka Seven.
  • Impulsive, tomboyish Utena fromRevolutionary Girl Utena has them; seethis image, for example.
  • Kunio Okawara inGundam Sousei has a mean pair. He's not, however,even closely comparable toYoshiyuki Tomino in his hot-bloodedness, and Tomino isentirely bald.

Comic Books

  • Pretty much everyone inElf Quest. This might just be the time period (the original series was published 1978-1984), or it might being Wendy Pini being unable to draw the bases of those huge elfy ears; the few characters from the original series that DON'T have these (Skywise, Winnowill) instead have some soft of accessory hiding that particular area.
    • Elquest's art style (especially Siege at Blue Mountain), owes a lot toDagger of Kamui (which was a manga contemporary with Nagai's heyday, though not drawn by him). SABM, also has some of the biggest honking 'burns in series history. Pini must like the look though, her earlyLaw and Chaos Elric work has these on Moonglum (Elric not so much, though she did draw him with a goatee for a few scenes).
  • Though it wasDepending on the Artist,Banshee was often sideburned. In the Age of Apocalypse, they were postivelyepic.
    • Mr. Muttonchops himself,Wolverine is pretty hotblooded, to boot.
  • Scrooge McDuck!
    • Ludwig Von Drake,Donald Duck's other uncle, has a pair of nice ones too. Donald himself sports a pair in the shortCrazy Over Daisy.
  • Teen Titans member Jericho sported really long sideburns.

Fan Works

Film

Literature

  • In all his official portraits (rumoured to be pretty accurate in appearance,if not the situation) COMMISSARCiaphas Cain,HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! always has a pair of pretty impressive 'burns.
    • And quite fitting, him being largely anExpy of HarryFlashman, a fictionalVictorian officer, given that Victorian times were the peak of the 'burns popularity. On the other hand, Cain isn't in the least bit hotblooded (at leastofficially), being in fact a calm, calculatingGuile Hero.

Live-Action TV

Video Games

  • Both good guy Katsuya Suou and one of the major villians sport these inPersona 2:Eternal Punishment, and we do see that even inInnocent Sin they both had a pair of these as well.
  • Raidou Kuzunoha XIV. Raidou. His sideburns are so ridiculously long and pointy they haven't been able to escape being joked about in fanart, fanfiction, or even their own game.
    • Kazuma Kaneko seems to have some giant sideburn fetish or something. His character designs for the olderPersona games andDigital Devil Saga have some pretty large ones. Including Ellie and Ulala... not even the women are spared.
    • In fact, one possible conversation while recruiting demons has one personality type ask if he could pull off Raidou's awesome sideburns to impress girls.
  • The King of Fighters subverts it twice withteenage soldier Leona Heidern andMighty Glacier Maxima. The former is anemotionallyrepressedLittle Miss Badass. The latter is astoic, well-manneredCyborg,The Lancer andFoil to hisJerkasspartnerK'.
  • Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories's Adell has a pair large enough to obscure his ears entirely,probably to hide the fact that they're pointed.
  • Played for humor in oneSuper Robot WarsYonkoma whereShinji is given sideburns by Ryoma in an attempt to make him look tougher.
  • Xaldin fromKingdom Hearts has some rather large sideburns. Parodied to hell and back inthis legendary fic.

He is easily recognized by his muscular frame, his sharp blue eyes, his braids (don't ever call them dreadlocks; do you know what you have to do to your hair to get dreadlocks?), but most people instead choose to pick him out by his sideburns, which are rumored to think and act independently of him.

  • Quite a few characters inSengoku Basara have these, including Yukimura, Keiji, and Toshiie. The real winner is Hideyoshi, though: he has sideburnson top of his sideburns.
  • BlazBlue'sHot-BloodedNinja Bang Shishigami has them, but since he's partially aCaptain Ersatz of Ryoma, it's to be expected.
  • Ippongi Ryuuta and Doumeki Kai fromOsu! Tatakae! Ouendan sport some magnificent,Hot-Blooded sideburns.
    • There are a lot more than that. There are at least seven who have them in the series. This includes girls andAgent J.
      • Though really, it's to be expected, considering so much of this series is a blatant, campy shoutout to the veryconcept of hot-bloodedness.
  • Due to a bit ofOff-Model, one of Arcueid's sprites inTsukihime has Nagaideburns and (more obviously) Nagaibrows. It made at least one troper do aDouble Take when he saw it.
  • Rival Schools has HayatoNekketsu (yes, hislast name meansHOT BLOODED) who sports quite an impressive pair of Nagaideburns.
  • Resident Sexist Pig NinjaAndrew ofVanguard Bandits has some pretty nice sideburns of his own. But the real master of the Go Nagai style here is the mightyDuke Logan.
  • Endou fromInazuma Eleven achieves this effect with two long locks of hair, one hanging down each side of his head in front of his ears. Each one curves forward a bit before ending in a spike. They're not exactly sideburns, though, in that they seem to only be attached to his head at around forehead height, since they flap around a lot whenever he moves.
    • Another example is Rococo, whose locks curve around behind and under his ears, then end in a spike that somehow pointsup towards his eyes.

Web Comics

Web Original

Western Animation

  • InFuturama episode 'Reincarnation', Fry's got a pretty sharp pair of these in the animesque portion.
  • Jackal ofGargoyles has these.
  • Admiral Zhao sports a fairly epic pair of sideburns.
  • Lion-O ofThundercats is occassionally drawn like this. Or at least it appears so, since you never see his ears.
  • Control Freak ofTeen Titans has a pair of long sideburns.

Real Life

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