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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Naruto]]'' during the Chuunin Exams, Sakura Haruno had to fend off a competing team of Sound ninja who came to fight an incapacitated Sasuke. One of the ninjas, Kin, grabbed Sakura by the hair and ridiculed her for spending more time keeping it clean than training her skills. Sakura grew some balls and cut it with her kunai, allowing her to escape Kin's grasp, and emerged with a short pixie-ish hairstyle, which she later kept.

* In the [[Vorkosigan Saga]] novel ''Cetaganda'', a Cetagandan haut-lady is imprisoned by trapping her hair, which works because her culture has strong taboos around hair-cutting, so it's effectively a [[Life or Limb Decision]].

* In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' book "The Wide Window" the person who looks like neither a man nor a woman grabs Violet by her hair, swinging her over his shoulder. Strangely, little reference is made to how painful this must have been, and it doesn't seem to have damaged either her hair or her neck.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* In the early days of [[Mixed Martial Arts]], this was a legal move, used by some fighters to varying degrees of success. At UFC 1, Zane Frazier ripped a clump of Kevin Rozier's hair out; Rozier was unfazed and proceeded to stomp on Frazier's head. The most notorious use came next year at UFC 3, where Royce Gracie, struggling against the gigantic Kimo Leopoldo, pulled Kimo's hair while punching him in the face from bottom position, before eventually going on to submit him by armbar. Royce was unable to continue after this fight, and some say he only won the fight because of hair-pulling and [[Groin Attack|a massive knee to Kimo's groin]], which was also legal at the time. Averted at UFC 4, where Guy Mezger and Jason Fairn agreed not to pull each other's hair during the bout, and by the present day rules of the sport, which consider it a foul.

* Happened once to the great British bare-knuckle boxing champion Daniel "The Jew" Mendoza in his bout against John "The Gentleman" Jackson. Jackson, the challenger, was significantly younger, stronger, and bigger than Mendoza, who was only a middleweight, and used his physical advantages to muscle Mendoza into the corner of the ring, where he pulled his hair and pummeled him senseless. Mendoza called out Jackson for his dirty tactics after the fight and demanded a rematch, but Jackson declined and retired to run his successful boxing school. Even without Jackson's dirty fighting, the physical disparity between the fighters meant that Mendoza's chance of victory would have been slim.

 

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