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== Comic Books ==
* In the "Season of Mists" [[Story Arc]] of ''[[The Sandman (Comic Book)|The Sandman]]'', [[Satan|Lucifer]] -- depicted as looking like an ordinary if rather good-looking human apart from the great big wings growing from his back -- resigns from being Ruler of Hell and [[Lucifer (Comic Book)|goes off to live among the mortals]]; in a gesture combining practicality with the symbolism of the [[Important Haircut]], his last act as Ruler of Hell is to ask the Sandman -- his enemy on the best of days -- to cut his wings off. He doesn't bother with anaesthetic.
* The very opening scene of the pseudomanga ''Shutter-Box'' depicts the romantic lead cutting the blue dyed streak from his hair before going off to drown himself.
* When [[Superman]] came [[Back From the Dead]], he had shoulder-length hair (worn in a ponytail as Clark). During the preparations for his wedding, he had it cut to its previous length.
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** Referenced in ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]''. After Hank McCoy aka Beast was killed in a Sentinel attack {{spoiler|(don't worry, he got better)}} Storm, who had been his girlfriend at the time, smashed up her room, started dressing in black leather clothes, and gave herself a punk-rocker haircut.
* This trope, like nearly every other predominant comic book trope of the era, gets played with during [[Grant Morrison|Grant Morrison's]] run on ''[[Animal Man]]''. After {{spoiler|the murder of his wife and children}}, he heads off to get vengeance, but not before switching over to a leather costume and cutting his own hair with a trimmer. When Mirror Master sees him, though, he says it looks like he ran his head under a lawnmower.
* Another Morrison example--in ''[[The Invisibles (Comic Book)|The Invisibles]]'', Jack Frost cuts his previously long hair into a shorter style upon finally accepting [[The Call]]. This is foreshadowed earlier in the series, when Boy tells him he should cut his hair as at its current length it would get into his eyes when he was fighting- the obvious symbolism of the haircut being that he is now ready to begin said fighting.
* In the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic series, Princess Sally grows her hair after a year-long [[Time Skip]]. This is symbolic of the changes she'd gone through the year apart from Sonic, and coincided with a redesign for a lot of the other characters and her own apparent mental breakdown. Later on, while under a new writer, Sally decides to cut her hair again, going back to her old hair-do, to signify that she's got her head on straight again.
* [[Y: The Last Man]]. Agent 355 cuts Yorick's hair after the traumatic events in "Cycles".
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