Improbable Hairstyle: Difference between revisions

** Seymour from ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' has one of the most improbable hairstyles in any work of fiction, such that only [http://www.google.nl/search?tbm=isch&hl=nl&source=hp&biw=1680&bih=902&q=seymour+guado&gbv=2&oq=seymour+guado&aq=f&aqi=g1g-S1&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1619l3421l0l3645l13l9l0l2l2l0l178l590l6.1l7l0 pictorial evidence] could do it justice. Wakka from the same game definitely qualifies. He swims underwater, rides on the deck of an airship, traverses the world, and he maintains the same physics-defying hairstyle throughout the game.

*** Seymour at least has the excuse of being part Guado (essentially part plant) even though full Guados hair is far less crazy so...

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'': The protagonist, Lloyd, has a spiked hairstyle which curls over to his left; partially lampshaded when a male NPC complains that Lloyd has the same hair style. It's more or less averted with the the rest of the crew having reasonable hairstyles; the brother-and-sister magic user pair have white-blue hair with a cowlick for her and silver-white hair with two long tails for him, the female ninja's concession to tidiness is pulling her hair back, the little girl has pig tails. Two of the male characters have fairly untidy long hair. The other improbable hair style is the mercenary's, which seems to grow in spikes.

* ''[[Legend of Mana]]'': The female protagonist has hair decorations called "hair pipes" in game.

* In ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', Trowa Barton's enormous bangs manage to defy gravity despite spacesuit helmets, combat conditions, and the occasional quadruple flip with a double twist.

** Gundam really loves this trope, giving utterly ridiculous 80s haircuts to just about everyone.

** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'': Yugi. This also covers the Pharaoh, who had the same hairstyle when he was alive in ancient Egypt.

** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]'': Yusei, who, despite being a motorcyclist, never ''ever'' gets helmet hair. ''Especially'' once you realize he grew up with that hairstyle ''in the slums''.

* ''[[Shiki]]'' is apparently set in a universe where you are required to have laughably impossible hairstyles by law.

* ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'': Sana's mother, whose hair is a combination of this, [[Nice Hat]], and miniature mobile theme park for the family's pet squirrel.

* [[Inuyasha]] has two locks of hair over his shoulders that remain separate from his [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|considerably long hair]] no matter what he goes through, up to and including getting smashed through cliffs.

 

 

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Buffy's {{spoiler|fresh-from-the-coffin hair in "Bargaining" is neatly combed and has only a few leaves in it after she ''clawed her way out of the grave''}}.

(( Captain Jack Harkness' {{spoiler|hair and clean shaved-ness after spending 2,000 years buried underground without a coffin}} in the episode "Exit Wounds". Could be a side effect of him dying and constantly reviving, though.

** Similarly, Martha Jones (who is black) during "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood." Since they had been trapped in 1913 for several weeks or months at that time, a few people questioned how her hair was able to stay pin-straight in a time before most hair-care products.

** Adam Monroe, who after 350 years looks exactly as he did in Japan. Like Jack, probably a side effect of no aging.

** On a lesser level, Yaeko's perfect, untangled ponytail, which withstands kidnap, explosions, and sudden teleportation.

** In a first season episode, Claire's hair is regrows completely intact, even in the same style, after being exposed to radiation that ''burnt off her flesh''. Yet between seasons 3 and 4, she cut it shorter.

* Averted in ''[[Carnivale]]'' in an episode where Libby's hair, curled in a style common to the time period in which she lives, falls flat and gets pretty messy after she spends some time stranded in the middle of a desert. Also, when Sophie leaves the carnival and becomes Justin's maid, her hair actually looks noticeably better groomed.

** The Centauri are an entire race with an Improbable Hairstyle. Their [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|primary difference]] from humans is that the males can style their hair into gigantic fans/crests up to a foot high.

** Delenn's hair is even stranger, as it seems to go ''straight through her skull''. [[Word of God|Word of JMS]] says that there is a gap between the back of her head and her skullbone, allowing hair to go through it.

* ''[[The Tribe]]'': The characters of have remarkably elaborate hairstyles for survivors of [[Depopulation Bomb|a world-emptying plague]]. There must have been a lot of hair products [[Scavenger World|waiting to be looted]].

* BBC's ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' is a strong example. The characters are far too well-groomed and clean to be a bunch of outlaws living in the woods of medieval England. In Season Three, we got [http://www.robinhood2006.com/gallerys3/Series3/episode4/slides/RHS3E4356.html Braid-Face].

** Ankh. He first sleeps in a park due to having no home, frequently rides a motorbike and jumps into rivers. His [http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/163925_175101055862904_175082962531380_354865_6766070_n.jpg flamboyant hairdo] remains pretty indestructible.

** Also, Philip from the previous series, ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'', whose hair, although different from Ankh's, sports similarly flippy bangs (on the opposite side). During his [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment in episode 16, when he removes his motorcycle helmet his hair appears messy, but in the next shot it's as perfect as always, as if he didn't have the helmet on to begin with.

* Many characters from ''[[King of Fighters]]''

* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'': Numerous characters from the series, including:

** Kay Faraday from ''Ace Attorney: Investigations'' is a pretty good example as well. Her hairstyle is several feet tall, and has a rather large key stuck through the middle of it.

** Oddly enough, Phoenix's hair is quite easy to pull off in real life if one's hair is thick enough. ''Without gel''.

== Web Original ==

 

** Samsonite is caught in a form of homeostasis that grants her utter and complete invulnerability. This includes her hair, which is always perfectly straight and hangs down to the middle of her back, no matter what she tries to do with it.

** Similarly, The Shield's power (a skin-tight impenetrable force field) keeps his hair shorn to the scalp.

* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': Dib's little... pointy... thing. "Dib's Wonderful Life [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|of Doom]]" demonstrates that the older he gets, the bigger and more ridiculous the hairstyle gets.

** His dad has it too, and it's shown to be prehensile, as he uses it to pick up Gaz in ''Gaz, Taster of Pork''

** Marge Simpson's hair nearly always springs back into the same ridiculously-tall shape, no matter how it might get compressed or disturbed. She is shown as having a whole drawer full of hairspray, however, using several cans a day to maintain it. And when she's younger it's long and flowing.

** Lampshaded in a recent episode: Bart question where his head ends and hair begins and that there doesn't seem to be any border between. This lead Lisa and Maggie also realising and then collectivly grasping their head and wondering what they are.

* ''[[Rugrats]]'': Didi's giant orange triforce.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': The obvious example is Katara, who keeps up a pretty high-maintenance-looking hairstyle throughout all kinds of trials (although it does fall out of place during one duel), but Zuko is an even better example, given his ability to keep his head shaved except for a perfect diamond on the back of his head, even when trapped in a cave during a blizzard.

 

== Real Life ==