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[[File:mulan4.jpg|link=Mulan|frame|<small>[[Took a Level In Badass|And then she grew a backbone.]]</small> ]]
 
 
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** Oddly enough, in one flashback after the timeskip that shows Sakura training with {{spoiler|Tsunade}}, her hair has grown back to its pre-Chunin Exam length, but it's short once again in Part II.
** Later in the Chuunin exams, during Sakura's fight with Ino, Sakura mocks Ino by saying she's the one putting too much emphasis on her looks now. Ino gets pissed off and cuts off her hair with a kunai right there... and actually uses the discarded strands as a tie rope to keep Sakura in place and use the ''Shintenshin no Jutsu/Mind switch Jutsu'' on her.
** In the Konoha Gakuen Den feature set in a [[High School AU]], Sakura's [[Important Haircut]] in this universe (shown in the ending sequence this is based on), is initially thought to be the result of a breakup until Ino produces photos that reveal that {{spoiler|Sakura had laid down on the grass and accidentally got gum in her hair}}.
* Two different characters in ''[[Simoun]]'' give themselves the same [[Important Haircut]] at different dramatic moments, with the second one echoing the first, and one of them later follows up with an ''additional'' [[Important Haircut]]. Also, another pair of characters have a set of Important Hair Clips.
* On ''[[Vandread]]'', the stuck-up ship's navigator Bart develops a rapport with [[Littlest Cancer Patient]] Shirley on one of the planets they visit. The people there make dolls {{spoiler|to leave as proof they existed, due to their [[Human Resources|bodies being harvested by Earth after death]]}}, and she is working on a doll of Bart when she dies, leaving it bald but otherwise complete. Bart shaves his own head to match, [[Character Development|and from there on is slightly less of a jerk]].
** Oh, and now [[Took a Level In Badass|has both control over the cool ship's weapons and a willingness to use them]], lets not forget that.
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* Sara of ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' cuts her hair going into her new identity as she chases her brother.
* In ''[[Otaku no Musume-san]]'', Haruka cuts off her [[Peek-a-Bangs]] to emphasise to her elder sister how serious she is about following her own path.
* There's an interesting contrast in ''[[Kimi ga Nozomu Eien]]'' -- Mitsuki—Mitsuki cuts her long hair short to make a break with the past; meanwhile, Haruka's short hair grows long during the three years she's in a coma.
* In the same vein as the previous two examples, Shiki's hair in [[Kara no Kyoukai:]] grew long in the gap between the [[Anachronic Order|second and fourth movies]], and she cuts it herself during her first post-coma fight.
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Yusuke goes back and forth between hair styles, though this is typically more about whether his particular style fits his given outfit; the slicked back hair with the green uniform is indicative of his "return to normalcy" delinquent status, whereas other hair styles go with other outfits. It also indicates his mood. Messy is relaxed, and if it starts off slicked back but becomes messy, you're in trouble.
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** [[Badass Normal|Shishido Ryoh]] is kicked off the Hyoutei tennis club after [[Pride Before a Fall|an embarrassing]] [[Break the Haughty|defeat]], and then sets out to get back on the team through [[Training From Hell|ridiculously harsh training]]; finally, he cuts off his long hair in front of the team's manager, Tarou Sakaki, as a symbol of having become a different person (Atobe Keigo, the captain of the team, says "This guy hasn't lost" after the haircut [[[[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] as a way of endorsing him).
** Atobe himself (the series' most popular rival]]) arrogantly vows to shave his head if he loses his match against Echizen Ryoma... which of course he does, because Ryoma is the main character and Atobe had promised to shave his head ''in public'', with lots of witnesses. Since Atobe is unconscious by the end, Ryoma shaves his head for him. This devolves into a joke, as a lot of things do in Prince of Tennis, when several chapters later, Atobe shows up with his hair intact (although muttering about his beautiful hair) and no explanation for it has been given, which has caused [[Epileptic Trees|the fans to heavily speculate about it]].
*** This was played differently and somewhat more like an [[Important Haircut]] in the OAV's: Atobe is actually conscious and sub-regular Haginosuke Taki asks Ryoma to cut ''his'' hair instead. Ryoma seems to consider the offer but Atobe rejects it, swipes the razor from Ryoma's hands and cuts his own hair right there. {{spoiler|In the last OAV series, Atobe * does* really use a wig.}}
** Kabaji, Atobe's long time friend, also cuts his hair short after Atobe's loss. He cuts it even ''shorter'', practically in a buzzcut.
** In his Kyushuu days, Fudomine captain Kippei Tachibana used to dye his long hair blond, which earned him the nickname of "The Lion". After he seriously [[Eye Scream|injures]] his best friend and rival Chitose, however, among his penances for such a deed Tachibana cuts his long hair and dyes it back to its natural black. For the Nationals, he keeps his hair short, but actually dyes it back to blond.
** When he was Inui Sadaharu's doubles partner, Yanagi Renji from Rikkaidai had chin-length hair in a pageboy style. Four years later, when they meet again, he has cut it much shorter. It's hinted he did so after the end of his first year in Rikkai: a picture taken when he, Yukimura and Sanada were titulars in their first year shows Yanagi with long hair. And if you take a close look at the picture, you'll notice that the actual Rikkai subcaptain Sanada has his hair longer and more messy than he does in the present, and that Yukimura used to have two long bangs while keeping the rest of his hair fairly short.
** In the anime, Yanagi's teammate Jackal Kuwahara shaves his head as a tribute to a good friend.
** And * again* , [[Team Mom|Oishi Syuichirou]] changes his hairstyle ''every'' year in all canons. The first one is theorized to be an [[Important Haircut]] that came when he became a regular in his second year in Seigaku: his formerly messy hair became a simple buzzcut.
** And don't forget the Kisarazu twins using different hairstyles (long for Ryou, short for Atsushi) to distinguish each other. {{spoiler|Atsushi's manager Mizuki cut Atsushi's hair short [[Twin Switch|after mistaking Atsushi]] for Ryou and taking him along for the ride by mistake.}}
* Fay in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' somewhat subverts this by letting his hair grow ''out'' and into a ponytail to emphasize that he's taken a darker turn and developing cracks in his [[Stepford Smiler]] persona.
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** And Yukimitsu Manabu starts combing his hair forward at the start of the Kanto tournament, before the first game he would actually play in.
** In flashbacks we are shown that Hiruma started dyeing his hair shortly after discovering American Football. One character has speculated that this is to further enhance his demonic appearance so as to intimidate <s>his opponents</s> everybody.
** Mamori, Musashi, and (briefly) Ishimaru also change hairstyles before the Kanto tournament -- thistournament—this is less likely an [[Important Haircut]] than a group meme among the team <s>or the artist getting tired of drawing the same hairstyles all the time</s>.
* Prior to setting out for the climactic battle of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]] [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|Gluhen]]'', Aya uses his own katana to cut off the waist-length braid he'd grown between series.
** The epilogue of the original series shows that Sakura, who had previously [[Expository Hairstyle Change|grown her hair out]] in the hopes that it would appeal to Aya, has gone back to her previous bob cut.
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== Comic Books ==
* In the "Season of Mists" [[Story Arc]] of ''[[The Sandman]]'', [[Satan|Lucifer]] -- depicted—depicted as looking like an ordinary if rather good-looking human apart from the great big wings growing from his back -- resignsback—resigns from being Ruler of Hell and [[Lucifer (comics)|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 -- hisSandman—his enemy on the best of days -- todays—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--inexample—in ''[[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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** Haircuts are very important in general in ''Scott Pilgrim''. Ramona changes her hair color and style constantly, and her not getting a haircut is a plot point. Scott is afraid to cut his hair because his last girlfriend broke up with him immediately after he got a haircut (for unrelated reasons), but finally Ramona cuts his hair for him, a major step toward him getting over Envy and moving on.
* In ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'', Spider Jerusalem loses all of his hair to a malfunctioning shower unit within hours of returning to The City, having come down from the mountains looking decidedly woolly.
* ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]'' - Kathy's [[Important Haircut]] came after getting over the loss of Shade and becoming romantically attached to Lenny. The editor confessed in the letters page that she had also gone through several hairstyles of her own while getting over emotional pains. Kathy returned to long, natural hair while pregnant with Shade's child {{spoiler|and since she was murdered not long after, that's how she's always remembered}}.
** And then there's Shade himself, who gets a new haircut every time he {{spoiler|dies}}.
* [[Wonder Woman|Queen Hippolyta]] cuts her own hair in the ''Circle'' arc before going to beat up invading Nazis.
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* A rare example of one as a character introduction: In ''[[Seven Samurai]]'', we first see Kambei as he shaves his head to disguise himself as a priest and take care of a hostage situation. This event inspires some farmers to hire him to take care of some bandits.
** Which is in fact a total subversion: the scene is deliberately solemn and slow, ritualistic even... Something portentously portentous is happening. It turns out to be a mere disguise, in other words ''a cowardly ploy'' when compared to your usual Charge of the Light Brigade tactics common to samurai movies at the time - he just doesn't care about that, and ostensibly doesn't care about all the hair subtext and symbols either. Kambei (and most of the Seven) will keep on gunning down samurai tropes throughout the movie.
* Richie's [[Important Haircut]] in ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'' coincides with an important suicide attempt. He spends most of the movie as a has-been tennis player, and like his siblings wears pretty much the same same hairstyle and clothes as he did when he was young, so the new, shaven style is a sign of his moving on.
* [[Tom Cruise]] in ''[[Minority Report]].''
* ''Smoke Signals'' had Victor Joseph cut his hair with a folding knife when faced with the family mementos kept by his runaway father. He had previously told his [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins|braided]] traveling companion that long, free-flowing hair is an Indian man's sign of pride.
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** This occurs after she sees ''[[The Passion of Joan of Arc]]''; she is adopting the hairstyle of that movie's heroine.
** More soberingly, Putter does the same thing out of defiance after her mother hits her.
* The protagonist of ''[[Cthulhu (film)|Cthulhu]]'' (2007), shortly after arriving back in his hometown, shaves his head similar to his estranged father. As this happens early in the movie I'm not sure exactly what it was supposed to symbolise, though it's apparently a case of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] -- the—the actor had shaved his head for another role, yet was playing a college professor).
* After being raped, [[Asia Argento]]'s character in ''The Stendhal Syndrome'' hacks off her hair. This also turns out to be an indication that {{spoiler|she's developed a serial-killing split personality}}.
* In ''Blow Dry'', Christine (Rachel Leigh Cook) cuts off her own hair so her scheming dad (Bill Nighy) can no longer use her as a hair model in the annual British Hairdressing Championship. This drives home the point that she refuses to help him win by cheating.
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* In Louisa May Alcott's ''[[Little Women]]'', Jo March cuts her long, beautiful auburn reddish hair and sells it to a wig maker to raise money for her mother's trip to where their father is in a Union Army hospital. It was her one real beauty and a great personal sacrifice to help her family; her sister Meg catches her crying later that night and Jo is embarrassed as she explains it's for her hair (she would cut it again and again if she couñd, but her tears are her last sign of vanity).
* Subverted in ''[[Honor Harrington|In Enemy Hands]]''. Honor's brutal [[State Sec]] captors think giving her a clipper-cut is inflicting yet one more humiliation on a woman condemned to hang. Unfortunately for the 'black-legs', Honor deliberately wore her hair that short throughout most of her earlier career and only grew it out during her time in 'exile' on Grayson; she finds their resulting consternation a little funny, and is actually more worried that they're not feeding her enough.
* In [[Ben Elton]]'s novel ''Dead Famous'', Sally, a contestant on a ''[[Big Brother]]''-style game show, expresses a desire for an [[Important Haircut]] and cuts and dyes her hair while staying in the house. It turns out to be a ''very'' important haircut, because {{spoiler|the show's producer planned to murder one of the girls to boost ratings, and "pre-recorded" the scene for all five female contestants. Sally was the first target but was not killed because she no longer looked like the fake Sally on the videotape.}}
* In ''[[The English Patient]]'', Hana cuts her hair after she starts working as an army nurse.
* In the short story ''[[The Gift of the Magi]]'', Della has her long, beautiful hair cut and sold to get enough money to buy a Christmas present for her husband.
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* In Holly Black's ''Valiant'' Val shaves her head on a train shortly after catching her boyfriend cheating on her with her mom.
* Niall in [[Wicked Lovely]], albeit in the backstory. He cut his hair really short after the whole 'getting raped and tortured by dark court fey' thing, for the three reasons of (according to [[Word of God]]): Irial liked his long hair, and Niall blamed Irial for everything to begin with; So as to not hide the scar on his face; and because long hair is a good 'handle' to hold someone down. When he became Dark King he let his hair grown again to signify getting over it.
* In ''[[Animorphs]],'' Ax once mentions an Andalite custom where someone who has disgraced himself gets his fur cut short in a particular style. The idea is that one's honor slowly returns as the hair grows back. He gives this kind of haircut to Andalite!Tobias, but this is an [[Averted Trope|aversion]]--he—he just doesn't want it to be as obvious that the two of them are identical.
* In the [[Jacqueline Wilson]] book ''Double Act'' Ruby cuts her hair (previously the same as her sister Garnet's) to show that she no longer wants to be a twin.
* In ''A Farewell to Arms,'' Catherine mentions wanting to cut her hair off after her fiance died. She decides to cut her hair shorter later in the book for no particular reason, though This Troper's English teacher suggested that this, taken with the above, was [[Foreshadowing]] {{spoiler|her own [[Death by Childbirth]]}}.
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* A great deal of fuss was made when the title character of ''[[Felicity]]'' cropped her mane of curls between seasons.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' played with this: after a dramatic sequence wherein Buffy gives herself an Important Haircut, we cut to her in a hair salon getting it repaired.
** Subverted however in that the haircut doesn't signify any real change. Buffy cuts it after Spike compliments her hair -- Buffyhair—Buffy recently had sex with him for the first time and is regretting her decision, but is back for round two before the episode is over.
* In the second season of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]],'' Captain Janeway ditched her librarian bun. This was less about symbolism and transition, and more about looking less ridiculous.
** Likewise Kes ditched her bobbed wig for long flowing locks, but that was probably to save Jennifer Lien from having to spend hours getting those pointy ears stuck on.
* More seriously, Starbuck gives herself an [[Important Haircut]] in the third season of the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', and in a rare male example, Adama importantly shaves off his mustache.
** More recently, {{spoiler|Chief Tyrol's}} shaved head is used as a sign of his {{spoiler|gradual mental descent.}}
** Starbuck's haircut at the end of "Torn" was contrasted with Colonel Tigh's draining of a bottle of booze: Both had been valued crewmembers that had lately [[Heroic BSOD|turned unpleasant]], so Adama had to chew them out. Starbuck then puts on a clean uniform, cuts her hair, and goes to apologize to a family she had offended. Tigh just gets dirtier and drunker.
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* Lorna Dickey in ''[[Waterloo Road]]'' gets hair extensions. And then kills herself.
* In the first episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'' season three, "My Own American Girl", Elliot decides she is sick of being a pushover and decides to reinvent herself by cutting her hair to shoulder length, using a lot more makeup and wearing sexier clothes. She tones down the look in later seasons however.
* Matt McNamera on ''[[Nip Tuck]]'' shaves his head as part of the coping process after finding out that his parents blackmailed his much-older [[Transsexualism]] girlfriend into leaving town -- althoughtown—although ''before'' becoming a Neo-Nazi, oddly enough.
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' actually used this trope as an essential part of its story in the fourth season. The season premiere had Xena seeing a vision from the future in which she and Gabrielle were crucified. Gabrielle had short hair in the vision, and sure enough, toward the end of the season Xena was forced to throw her chakram through Gabrielle's hair to beat the episode's villain. Both of them realized afterward that it now looked like it did in the vision, though that didn't stop Gabrielle from keeping it that way for the rest of the show's run.
* Lionel Luthor has his head shaved at the end of "Covenant", the season finale of the third season of ''[[Smallville]]'', while we're shown his son choking to death on poisoned wine and Chloe Sullivan being blown up. The dramatic effect was somewhat lessened the next season, when it turned out that they had both miraculously survived, and one of the attempted murders hadn't even been committed by Lionel.
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* In ''[[Deadwood]]'', Mr. Wu cuts off his queue to show his commitment to America and his alliance with Al Swearengen. He later begins wearing western style clothes as well.
* [[The Colbert Report|Stephen Colbert]] had this done on him to prove he'd really gone through (a little) basic training to Commander General Odierno. When Colbert hesitated, ''President [[Barack Obama]] '''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|ordered]]''' Gen. Odierno'' to do it.
* From a Brazillian soap opera: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHI3QQARAo This] is gotta be the most [[Tear Jerker|upsetting]] out of all [[Important Haircut|Important Haircuts]], complete with Lara Fabian's equally moving "Love By Grace" as background music.
* On ''[[Iron Chef]]'', when Kandagawa challenged Sakai for the Millenium rematch battles, he espoused a new philosophy about Japanese cuisine changing (if not quite modernizing - he was a strict Japanese traditionalist chef in his earlier appearances) in order to survive in the 21st century. Embodying this change, he shaved his head to remind him of his new commitment. His perfect, sweep victory over Sakai was a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
{{quote|'''Kaga:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|May I touch it?]]}}
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* Princess Cecilia from ''[[Wild Arms 1|Wild ARMs]]'' cuts her hair to show her dedication to the party.
* Posha Saint-Amour cuts her hair late in ''[[Kartia]]'' as a sign of leaving the Medium profession. She becomes a Shrine Warrior, boosting her stats quite a bit.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', [[White Magician Girl|Princess Garnet]] goes into a period of mourning after her coronation as Queen of Alexandria is interrupted by an invasive attack by the [[Big Bad]] -- a—a piece of unfinished business she left hanging when she went home to assume the throne. Eventually, she learns to put the incident, and her [[It's All My Fault|sense of shame over it]], behind her. As an expression of her newfound devotion to give her all to finding and stopping the [[Big Bad]], for her people and for every kingdom in the world, she borrows one of [[The Hero|Zidane]]'s daggers -- whichdaggers—which have a previously established significance in her sense of identity - and uses it to give herself an [[Important Haircut]].
** In a slight twist, her hair has grown back to its original length by the end of the game, although the symbolic weight of the [[Important Haircut]] doesn't seem to be diminished by it.
* Luke cuts his hair in ''[[Tales (series)|Tales of the Abyss]]'' when he decides that he wants to change himself for the better.
* A semi-hidden audio segment in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' shows Snake (who was shown up until this point as having long hair) asking Naomi for a pair of scissors so he can "clean himself up a little" - when pressed, he admits he doesn't want to be mistaken for the terrorist Liquid Snake, who has the same haircut, and the confession serves as his acceptance of the mission. By the time he's playable his hair is much shorter.
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== Web Original ==
* Another male example of this is Gino Gambino from "[[Gaia Online]]". He has become a new man, a navigator of an air ship. And what better way to show the change in his character (and to keep his flowing hair out of his face) than with an "[[Important Haircut]]". (The first try doesn't come out looking as it should, though this should come as no surprise as it's [[Butt Monkey|Gino we're talking about...]])
* On ''[[Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl]]'', J does this in the first episode after her boyfriend breaks up with her, only for him to take her back but break up with her again because he can't deal with her short hair (it makes him feel like "less of a man").
 
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** {{spoiler|Azula's}} haircut is the sign that {{spoiler|she is coming unhinged due to paranoia and mistrust.}}
** Zuko actually had another important haircut, just after he was banished (with his Uncle Iroh). Beforehand, he had [http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep12/ep12-530.png a full head of hair,] but just a week later, he was [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100705165233/avatar/images/9/9e/Zuko_Iroh_WAT.png mostly bald.] It's never explained if this haircut was a symbolic haircut of disgrace forced on him when he was banished, something he did to himself for his own reasons, or simply a way to keep his hair out of his face while his burn healed. After all [http://www.healthytextures.com/articles/20100412 badly burned hair] would have to be removed and anything hot enough to cause 2nd degree burns would definately scorch your hair.
* In the transition from ''[[Justice League]]'' to ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', [[Green Lantern]] John Stewart, like Sisko before him, shaves ''his'' head and grows a goatee. Whether this is a deliberate reference to Sisko is unknown. Unusually for a male character, Stewart's [[Important Haircut]] immediately follows his traumatic break up with Shayera.
* The completion of Anakin's training as a Padawan and his becoming a Jedi is signified in ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'' when Yoda slices off Anakin's braid with a light saber in a Jedi Knighting ceremony. Later Anakin has it sent to Padme, who keeps it in a small jewelry box.
* After ''[[Kim Possible]]'' forced Ron Stoppable to cut his hair, his personality took a 180. He became secure in himself, dressed more slick than he ever did and got to be popular with the attractive girls. But he became such a jerk that even his loyal naked mole rat didn't want to spend time with him, so he had his hair combed wrong, making the attractive girls overlooking him again.
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** Putin: No Hair.
* Joan of Arc cut her hair to a man's length to show her commitment to the cause (and make it easier for men to take her seriously); it was something the clergy at her trial made a big deal about. When she was convicted, her head was shaved completely, giving us a twofer.
* Since the Manchu-ruled Qing dynasty required all men to keep their foreheads shaved and the rest of the hair long on the pain of death, cutting the braid was thus a symbol of rebellion--andrebellion—and to the Manchu, treason. When the Manchu era ended, this happened en masse for all of China, though many would keep their braid out of sheer habit.
** Same went for the Japanese and their top-knots.
** Legend goes, when a general staged a coup and tried to restore the Qing dynasty in 1917, many Peckingese put on fake braids just in case the Emperor was not happy about their "treason". The attempt failed, so the next morning the city streets appeared covered of fake braids.
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** Getting a haircut after a break-up seems to be a very common occurrence.
* Inverted by [[Jon and Kate Plus Eight|Kate Gosselyn]], who got hair extensions following her divorce from Jon.
* One of the many ways Peter the Great used to westernize Russia in the 17th Century was having all the Russian nobles' [[Badass Beard|Badass Beards]]s shaved by force.
* In Brazil, it's a tradition to shave a man's hair after he's approved in a College admission test.
* Black women who are transitioning from relaxed hair to natural styles have to cut the permed hair. This is referred to as the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hldCaYFlcks Big Chop]
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