Why are there so many badass white-haired swordsmen?

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Arthas from Warcraft
Dante, Vergil, Nero from Devil May Cry
Raiden from Metal Gear Solid
Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7
Geralt from Witcher

Even Anduin became less whimpy when he briefly had white hair. Is there some kind of connection between white hair and sword skills?

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What about white hair and summoning skills?

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TBF arthas was blonde before getting the white hair he had to basically die twice.

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He was using a hammer most of the time when he was blonde though. He got white hair shortly after getting Frostmourne.

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Don’t forget Daemon Targaryen from House of the Dragon…

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Kain from Legacy of Kain.
Gandalf (LOTR)
Dumb old dork (Harry Potter wizard) He sometimes used a sword

List goes on.

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Still took a while to get white hair he slowly became living undead.
It wasnt until he was on the way retrieve the urn from uther and retrieve kelthuzads bones back in lordaeron that he was all white haired months after taking the sword from northrend.
By the time we faced him he been dead frozen for like 5yrs and had removed his heart.

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Yeah but look, his hair turned white and he was a badass swordsman. He belongs in the list.

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Yeah he did beat illidan 1v1 tied with him before he was white haired but becoming undead.

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nothing like sucking out your very life essence to drain the ol hair color.

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…and, of course, let’s not forget Elric of Melnibone. His sword literally ate souls.

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Did Jaina do that?

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Nah she didnt get the ring.

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I have white hair. :eyes:

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I dunno but I’m going gray which means I’m getting that salt & pepper look going on. Perhaps I too will become a badass with a sword.

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My kid said it’s because Japanese demons have white hair. I think she got that from Google. I’m too lazy and don’t care enough to fact check her.

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I’ll save you a step: Just say one word to your daughter and see how she reacts: Inuyasha.

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I don’t have to. I’ve known she’s a huge fan of that show for over 10 years now.

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Baristan Selmy

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You may not know this, but I’m a natural white hair under here. Personally I prefer the scythe, like a sword… but promoted by the Angel of Death itself.