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However, an important haircut can also be positive, such as changing one's style after a breakup.
The opposite of a [[Hair Reboot]]. If it comes after a [[Heel Face Turn]] may result in switching their [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]] around. May also occur after or during a [[Close Call Haircut]]. If it's involuntary, it's likely a [[Traumatic Haircut]]. If the hair is changed in order to show a change in characterization, this may also be an [[Expository Hairstyle Change]].
See also [[Beard of Sorrow]], [[Dye or Die]], [[Expository Hairstyles]], and [[Fan Service Pack]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* In the second episode of ''[[Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge]]'', Nakahara Sunako cuts off the bangs that obscured her face and blocked her view of "the bright creatures" in a dramatic scene. She then almost immediately suffers from [[The Nose Bleed]], now that she can see the tenants.
* 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
* There's an interesting contrast in ''[[Kimi ga Nozomu Eien]]'' -- 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.
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* 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.
* Videl in ''[[Dragonball]]'' receives an important haircut which lasts throughout virtually all the Buu Saga when Gohan asks her to do it, and his flimsy reason being it will get in the way when she fights. Yeah, right! He just prefer girls with shorter hair. Nonetheless, she did it anyway, despite initially being very angry at his silly reason, which indicated she liked him, despite looking observably annoyed.
** Krillin ''grew'' out his hair, from no longer having to live the life of a (somewhat) celibate Shaolin monk to a family man with [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|a smoking hot wife,]] and a cute daughter. Interestingly, Krillin's appearance, even changes to it, receives [[Lampshade Hanging]] even going as far as for one character to [[No Fourth Wall|break the fourth wall,]] [[Double Standard|more so than anyone else.]] [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance|Even when there's a clown, a triclops, a green pointy-eared man with bulging muscles (Yes, even more than Piccolo), and a pink genie on the same team roster.]]
* Aika in ''[[Aria (Manga)|Aria]]'' ends up burning her hair at a cookout in one episode after she intentionally grew it out long to be similar to Alicia, whom she idolizes. After this, she switches to shorter hairstyle, and several episodes are spent on her getting used to it. It's not until Al, her crush, compliments on her that she feels satisfied. Her hair stays this way into the next season.
* ''[[Now and Then Here And There]] '' provides a rather tragic example of this trope. After being repeatedly raped and assaulted at Hellywood, Sara manages to kill one of the rapists and escape into the desert where she proceeds to cut her hair short (despite the fact that she's American and shouldn't appreciate the symbolism).
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* ''[[Kingdom of Heaven]]'' specifically the [[Directors Cut]]. Sybillia, Queen of Jeruselum cuts her hair {{spoiler|when she renounces her throne after she mercy kills her son before he suffers and dies from leprosy like her brother.}}
* This happens in the sequel to ''[[The Boondock Saints]]''. Connor and Murphy [[Mac Manus]] have been in hiding in Ireland for years, growing hair and beards worthy of Christ himself. When they are called out of retirement, they immediately shave it all off, returning to their first-film appearance (with some [[Perma Stubble]] for good measure.) Later, [[Lampshade Hanging|they wonder why they did it.]]
{{quote| '''Murphy''': Two days ago we looked like Jesus Christ. [[What Were You Thinking?|What the fuck did we cut our hair for]]?<br />
'''Connor''': Yeah that's right. I dunno, [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time|just seemed like the thing to do at the time]], though, didn't it? }}
* In ''[[Smoke Signals (Film)|Smoke Signals]]'', Victor mourns his father by cutting his hair.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[Professional Wrestling]] uses the haircut as the ultimate insult, which means it is occasionally used as a way to resolve a dispute that has gone beyond [[
* Used quite recently in an angle with [[CM Punk]] where he began to form a society of straight edge people. He picked three people out of the audience and had them pledge allegiance to him before shaving their heads bald. One included a woman who actually got to join his stable on television.
* [[Kevin Nash]] lost a hair vs hair match and had his hair cut messily off by [[Chris Jericho]] and then tidied up offscreen. This was done as Nash had a role in The Punisher and needed to cut his hair.
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* Princess Cecilia from ''[[Wild Arms 1 (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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 piece of unfinished business she left hanging when she went home to assume the throne. Eventually, she learns to put the incident, and her [[
** 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.
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** Oasis also gave herself one of these in order to make herself look more like Zoe, though in the same arc a lot of it was burned off as well. Her previous [[Anime Hair]] was restored when she came [[Back From the Dead]] (again).
** Gwynn had short locks for a brief period when her hair was burned off during the "Dangerous Days Ahead" arc. She grew it back over time. Played for laughs when the long-moved out Zoe moved back in and, trying to find at least one normal event, asked Gwynn what happened to her hair.
* In ''[[Concession]]'', Artie (the [[White
* Played for laughs in ''[[Ménage à 3]]'', as when Didi {{spoiler|<s>comes out</s> mistakes inadequate sexual partners as a sign that she is gay}} she ''immediately'' declares that she must now cut her hair short.
* Played straight in ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' when Sarah got an extreme haircut to symbolize coming out of the closet.
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== Western Animation ==
* After his own sister Azula attempts to drag him home in chains, Prince Zuko and his Uncle Iroh of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' cut off their ceremonial top-knots in a dramatic scene, both as a symbol of serious exile from their own Nation and as a practical measure to pass in the Earth Kingdom. Later episodes show them growing out their hair gradually and consistently. Their heads had previously been shaved, except for those queues (top-knots). The former is probably a reference to the queues worn by Chinese men during the Qing dynasty to symbolize their loyalty to the Emperor (see Real Life below), while the shaggy mop Zuko wound up with by the end of the second season reflected [[Turn of the Millennium]] styles for teenage boys throughout the developed world, giving Zuko an air of [[Real Life|familiarity]] as well as emphasizing his youth, concealing the more jagged areas of his burn scar, and giving his face a much softer look to it, as his [[Backstory]] was filled out and he became a [[Anti
** Zuko also gets an Important Hairstyle Change for the first part of season three; somehow the mop he was wearing in Ba Sing Se is long enough to tie up smoothly, and [[Overlord, Jr.|Prince Zuko]] goes around with a proper grown-up topknot for the first time in his life.
** He is crowned at the end with the spikey flame hair ornament his father used to wear! (The Fire Nation 'crown' is actually ''stuck into your topknot'', so not having one when technically in line for the throne is definitely a big deal.)
** Also both used and reversed at the same time in the third season premiere, where Aang symbolically cuts his hair by destroying his glider. Reversed in the fact that Aang had actually ''grown'' some hair between the seasons, which he then shaves off again for his showdown with the [[Big Bad]]. A significant haircut in itself.
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* While it was more of a shaved bald than cut, ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]'' 's Heather was both eliminated from the first season due to it and went through her [[Villain Decay]] in the second because of it.
** Sierra's hair was blasted off in an explosion just as she was finally undergoing enough [[Character Development]] to be [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]].
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': To demonstrate that she's [[Hidden Depths|not just shallowly obsessed with her own appearance]], [[Spoiled Sweet|Rarity]] chops off her own tail-hair to give to someone else as a gift.
* After Thugnificent of ''[[The Boondocks]]'' {{spoiler|loses all his wealth}} he chops off the two huge Mickey Mouse afro balls on the side of his head.
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