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Because [[Long Hair Is Feminine]], when a girl has short hair it tends to mean she's decidedly ''less'' feminine than the average girl, perhaps even a [[Tomboy]] or [[Action Girl]]. This choice of having short hair usually indicates a girl has a more masculine personality, is tough and aggressive, or is lacking in vanity, perhaps being business-like and brainy. Girls may cut their hair short because they don't want to put up with the maintenance that longer hair requires. Other times it's short so no one can easily grab it in a fight, which [[Braids of Action]] are sometimes prone to be.
▲Because [[Long Hair Is Feminine]], when a girl has short hair it tends to mean she's decidedly ''less'' feminine than the average girl, perhaps even a [[Tomboy]] or [[Action Girl]]. This choice of having short hair usually indicates a girl has a more masculine personality, is tough and aggressive, or is lacking in vanity, perhaps being business-like and brainy. Girls may cut their hair short because they don't want to put up with the maintenance that longer hair requires. Other times it's short so no one can easily grab it in a fight, which [[Braids of Action]] are sometimes prone to be.
The contrast of a short haired girl with a long haired one can sometimes be used to portray a [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]. If taken to extremes, a girl with Boyish Short Hair could be a [[Butch Lesbian]], many of whom have this as an indicator. May be the result of an [[Important Haircut]], with the new short hair being an indicator that the girl is ready to take action. Also sometimes necessary for a girl to go undercover as a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]].
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Compare [[Tomboyish Ponytail]].
Compare and Contrast [[Bob Haircut]] and [[Pixie cut]], which
Contrast [[Long Hair Is Feminine]].
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A subtrope of [[Expository Hairstyles]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Kino in ''[[Kino's Journey]]'' has boyishly short hair. She is a [[Bokukko]] variant of [[Tomboy]] and often uses masculine pronouns to refer to herself.
* ''[[Bleach]]'': Resident [[Tomboy]], turned karate instructor, (post time skip) Tatsuki Arisawa has short, dark, spiky hair and has a [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] friendship with Orihime. Soi Fon, who is a [[Tsundere]] and [[Ninja]] also has short spiky hair. The two bear more than a passing resemblance to each other and have similar personalities.
** Similarly, Rukia Kuchiki isn't exactly a tomboy, but she has short hair {{spoiler|which has gotten even shorter after the [[Time Skip]]}} and a very straightforward attitude.
** Jackie Tristan, too. {{spoiler|Specially when younger.}}
* ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'' has [[Nubile Savage|San]], whose appearance is justified since she was literally [[Raised by Wolves|raised by wolves.]]
* Irma, of ''[[Queen's Blade]]'', would be this, plus, a [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] if she weren't so tomboyish and set to [[Tsundere]]-tsun all the time. But considering her upbringing in an assassin's guild, and having been betrayed by her [[Sexy Mentor]]/love interest, who abandoned her, leaving her hurt and bitter over it.... [https://web.archive.org/web/20100513053338/http://manga.animea.net/bleach-chapter-159-page-16.html Wait, does this remind you of anything?]
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' has Kagura, a tomboyish superstar athelete and [[Unknown Rival]] to [[Huge Schoolgirl|Sakaki]], whose a naturally gifted [[Shrinking Violet]]. Bonus points for having [[Hotblooded Sideburns]]! Her coach, Minamo Kurosawa also has short hair, is a strong all-around athlete, and tomboy tendencies.
* Anita King from ''[[
* Inverted in ''[[Strawberry Shake Sweet]]'', short-haired, boyish-looking Ran is the [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|Girly Girl]] to Julia's [[Tomboy]].
* Zoey from ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', easily the most tomboyish of any of Dawn's female rivals and has short,spikey and fiery red hair.
** As well as Misty, mixed with a [[Tomboyish Ponytail]]. Being a [[Fiery Redhead]] tomboy who [[One of the Boys|hangs out with guys]].
* ''[[Dirty Pair|Dirty Pair Flash]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20130214044923/http://www.animepaper.net/art/34360/takahiro-kimura-29 Kei] makes up the tomboy half of the [[Lovely Angels]]. Though she and Yuri are among the 3WA's top trouble consultants, she's better known for her hair trigger temper and her itchy trigger finger. Which often spells disaster since she packs a friggin' hand canon! She's also a [[Ladette]].
* Mariya from ''[[Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru]]'': Every character, including the male lead, is [[The Ojou]]. Mariya is less ladylike than the rest of the cast, including the male lead, and she drops her facade only when she's alone with him. While still feminine (a true tomboy would be very out of place at a high-class all-girls school) she occupies the [[Tomboy]] role.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'': Kallen is a [[Ms. Fanservice]] version of this. She is the Black Knights [[Ace Pilot]] and Lelouch's bodyguard. Her short hair indicates that she is not to be trifled with.
* ''[[Princess Nine]]'': At least four, and possibly five or six, of the girls have Boyishly Short Hair. This is a show about girls playing baseball on even terms with boys so tomboys are to be expected.
* Haruka Tenou/Sailor Uranus in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is a short-haired [[Bokukko]], [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|in explicit contrast]] to her lover, long-haired and feminine Michiru Kaiou/Sailor Neptune. She often wears masculine clothes in real
* One too many [[Pretty Cure
* Toyed with in the case of Ukraine from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', who has extremely short hair and dresses like a boy, but is more of a [[Nice Girl]] in personality.
** Played straighter with Belgium, who's quite straightforward and has wavy hair that reaches to her neck.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
** Subaru Nakajima, tomboyish [[Genki Girl]] [[Cute Bruiser]] martial artist who fights by punching enemies [[Super Strength|really, really hard]].
** Minor character Alto Krauetta, resident mechanic and helicopter pilot who actually went through a portion of her childhood thinking she was a boy since she was raised in a mostly male environment.
== Live-Action TV ==
* Gabrielle, Xena's sidekick on ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' provides the picture for this trope, and is also a perfect example, with her [[Adrenaline Makeover|impromtu haircut]] being a symbolic conclusion to her [[Coming of Age Story]], and of her maturing from being Xena's young sidekick and protegee
* Marcy had a short haircut in a large part of ''[[Married... with Children]]'', demonstrating her lack of femininity (she was [[Lady Looks Like a Dude|mistaken for a boy]] several times).
* Djaq from ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]''. The first series involved her as a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] with cropped hair; by the second series she was no longer hiding her gender, but kept the short hairdo.
* Captain/Major/Lt. Colonel/Colonel Sam Carter of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' is a good example. She's definitely brainy (an astrophysicist) and an [[Action Girl]] (she didn't get all those ranks for nothing.) However, she doesn't have much of a stereotypically masculine personality (though she is a [[Straw Feminist]] for the first couple of episodes) and she is definitely portrayed as super hot, though not sexualized.
* Starbuck, [[The Ladette]] and [[Ace Pilot]] from ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Arya, the feisty tomboy from ''[[Game of Thrones]]''. She loathes medieval female roles such as sewing, cooking, and dreaming of marrying a prince, and instead prefers beating her older brother at archery, learning how to fence, and so on. Cemented in season 2, when [[Odd Friendship|Tywin]] notes her unusual passion for history and [[Action Girl|warrior women]] from the past, and says that most girls prefer romantic tales about maidens with flowers in their hair and such. Arya's response? "Most girls are idiots."
== Literature ==
* Heroine's Alanna and Keladry, both female knights, wear their hair short in the ''[[Tortall Universe]]'' books, being tomboys. Alanna went undercover as a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]], but Keladry didn't, she just keeps it short because it's practical. Subverted by a later heroine, Beka, who despite being boyish and knowing that short hair is better in combat, keeps her long hair, but braids a strip of spikes into it so anyone who grabs it in a fight will get a nasty surprise.
== Film ==
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* Tomboy Scout Finch has short hair in the film version of ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' (in the book, her hair is not mentioned).
* The main character in ''Train'' is shown to have cut her hair short in the end, after [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|killing]] all the villains. It also probably symbolizes how she's serious about being on the wrestling team now, since witnessing your teammates being horribly tortured to death will apparently do that.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'':
** ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'': In one scene , when Garnet/Dagger cuts off much of her hair it signifies her having [[Took a Level
** ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'': Ashe is less feminine than other princesses in the series and has shorter hair.
* When ''[[Street Fighter|Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike]]'': originally debuted, gamers had a hard time telling whether Makoto was a boyish looking girl or a girly looking boy. At least, until they saw [[Absolute Cleavage|her dizzy animation.]]
* ''[[Art of Fighting
* Chie Satonaka from ''[[Persona 4]]'' has shorter hair than her friend Yukiko, and is into more "boyish" things like martial arts.
* ''[[Bloody Roar|Bloody Roar: Primal Fury]]'': Jane Gado, bka [http://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/shina-ex4.jpg 'Shina'], is a highly trained mercenary and the adopted daughter of [[Retired Badass|Alan Gado.]] She's known for her frankness and tenacity both on and off the field of combat. Her most striking feature is her spikey blonde hair, which resembles a lion's mane.
* ''[[Soul Calibur|Soul Calibur II]]'': [http://fenixware.net/fab/images/chars/game/cassandra-5.jpg Cassandra Alexandra]{{Dead link}}, is another example. Unlike her sister, Sophitia, she's brash and somewhat impulsive, but usually means well. In the fourth game, she's determined to destroy [[Soul Edge]] and free her sister once and for all. The length and style of her hair varies depending on the costume the player selects, but it's usually kept short.
* Mostly averted in ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', since many of the [[Action Girl|Action girls]] there have long hair. Among the few ones with short hair ''and'' a tomboyish or straightforward attitude we have Lakche and Phee from [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Seisen no Keifu]] (alongside their expies Radney and Femina); Tania, Machua, Princess Miranda and Mareeta from [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Thracia 776]]; Vaida from [[Fire Emblem Elibe|Rekka no Ken]]; and arguably, Amelia from [[Fire Emblem:
== Western Animation ==
* Leslie from ''[[The Itsy Bitsy Spider]]''.
* [[Dark-Skinned Blond|Pattie Mayonnaise]] fills this spot in [[Nickelodeon]]'s ''[[Doug]]''. She's best friends with Doug and Skeeter {{spoiler|and Doug's secret crush}} and often participates in sports. One episode even has her pull a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] in order to try out for the school softball team, which didn't work out for her. So she made her own team to challenge the school's!
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Despite being the daughter of the wealthiest family in the Earth Kingdom city of Gaoling, Toph Bei Fong is surprisingly um... [[Ladette|unlady-like
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