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{{quote|''"And Kate... Harmony Hairspray, anyone?"''|'''AlMiles''', of [[The Doctor Who Forum]], on ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]''}}
 
A very mild relative of [[Anime Hair]], related to [[Wakeup Makeup]], that declines in two variations: anachronistic and maintenance.
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== Anime and Manga ==
 
* ''[[RedlineRed Line]]'': [[In-Series Nickname|'Sweet']] JP's hair, best described as the most epic pompadour to ever be shown in anime.
* Mugen, from ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'', manages to maintain a strangely spiky hairstyle in ([[Anachronism Stew|approximately]]) 18th-century Japan without raising eyebrows. But, you know, hair can get pretty stiff when you ''never'' bathe.
* ''[[Afro Samurai (Anime)|Afro Samurai]]'': The title character has an afro. It is set in a world that pretty much ''defines'' [[Anachronism Stew]].
* As the [[DVD Commentary]] mentions, it's highly unlikely that ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano!'s]]'' Graham Spector, a 1930's American mechanic/[[Talkative Loon]], would ever be able to get or maintain that J-rocker haircut of his..
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': Setsuna's hair probably isn't outright impossible. However, she has bangs on only one side of her face, a weird spiky ponytail on one side while the other lets that hair just hang down naturally. And judging by her picture on the Negima character page, there appears to be another random hairband on the '[[Fashionable Asymmetry|normal]]' haircut side of her head.
* Hild, of ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' fame, is very guilty of this. Her hair manages to be extremely beautiful, yet there seems to be no way it could actually be done. Factor in that she has TONS of hair ornaments in there as well, all very strategically placed, and magic then seems the only way she's doing it.
* ''[[Gosick (Light Novel)|Gosick]]'' gives us Victorique's brother Grevil, who has a [http://imageshack.us/f/576/gosick22.png/ rather] [http://api.ning.com/files/nA4J1-vKDMITOcLWp5SuD1UXeTnDlqHifDuKf5*Vz*4Zdcc87iUgCZA3AKtSpjgaXnZZwbxPMJ0AVWnkZftMB3EC7v1Vdb6t/Gosick16736.png iconic] hairstyle, to put it mildly...
* ''[[Black Butler]]'': While mundane by Anime standards, most characters' haircuts would be ridiculous in Victorian England. Though Sebastian's [[Bishonen|Bishie]] bangs are [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the manga, Undertaker's, Druitt's and Edgar Redmond's ''fabulous'' 'do's are [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|Unusually Uninteresting Sights]].
 
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* In [[The Eighties]] version of ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'', Harry Hamlin in the original 80s film sported a dreadful 80s mullet uncharacteristic for Ancient Greece.
* Jocelyn from ''[[A Knight's Tale]]'' has a lot of 80's punk-inspired hairstyles - one of which included her hair being highlighted purple - for a woman who lives in freakin' 12th century England, but it's understandable since the whole film is based around anachronisms.
* Elizabeth Curtis from the Deborah Kerr adaptation of ''[[King SolomonsSolomon's Mines (Literature)|King Solomons Mines]]'' gets sick of her waist length hair in the humid African jungle and hacks a slice out of it. When it cuts to the next scene she has cut it short into a perfectly styled short do. That style might have been fashionable in the 1950s when the film came out but the film is set in the 1800s when women didn't have short hair. Test audiences actually laughed their heads off at the scenes when they first saw them that the producers nearly removed them. But they couldn't explain Elizabeth's change of hairstyle so they kept the improbable scenes in the film.
 
 
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== Live Action TV ==
 
* ''[[Little House Onon the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'' was infamous for Michael Landon's huge [[The Seventies|1970s]] perms in [[The Wild West]].
 
== Video Games ==
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*** Seymour at least has the excuse of being part Guado (essentially part plant) even though full Guados hair is far less crazy so...
** ''[[Final Fantasy X 2]]'': Meyvn Nooj has impressive [[Hair Antennae]].
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|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.
* Gustaf's ridiculous hairstyle in ''[[SagaSaGa Frontier 2]]''. Just look at [[media:gustaf.gif|it]]!
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'':
** Link's first video game incarnation sported bangs that defied gravity, to the point that he appears to be wearing a baseball cap. [[All There in the Manual|You wouldn't be able to tell in-game, though]].
** Ganondorf, who never used to put much effort into his hair, sported some sort of elaborate cross between dreadlocks and [[Princess Curls]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|Twilight Princess]]'' (as seen [http://images1.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Ganondorf-super-smash-bros-brawl-915765_400_315.jpg here]). When you're [[Tailor-Made Prison|trapped in the Twilight Realm for hundreds of years]], you have to find some way to pass the time...
* Agent J from ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'', whose hair looks like some of it got caught in a candyfloss machine. [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/3715/788744-fff_large.jpg See for yourself.]
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
 
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'', where it's explained that full-blooded Saiyains like Goku and Vegeta keep the same hairstyle from where they were born.
** Goku's even had his hair chopped off, only for it to return to normal in the very next panel (or so).
* ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''
** Jessie's gravity-defying arc.
** Jasmine, Kris, and Lyra all have anti-gravity pigtails.
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* 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! (Franchise)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' series:
** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Animeanime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'': Yugi. This also covers the Pharaoh, who had the same hairstyle when he was alive in ancient Egypt.
** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds (Anime)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''.
* ''[[Witch Hunter Robin]]'': The titular character is surrounded by people with very mundane (if somewhat dated) hairstyles. Robin herself, however, apparently spends a great deal of effort putting her hair up in those odd wraps every morning. In one scene, she can even be seen removing a bicycle helmet... which somehow fit on top of those stiff projections; they're still at 90 degrees.
* The protagonist of ''[[AIR (Visual Novel)|AIR]]'' is able to retain his spiky hair despite being a homeless traveling puppeteer in the beginning.
* Tao Jun from ''[[Shaman King]]'' does not seem to obey the rules of hair as they apply to humans. Her hair style doesn't look like it would stand up to weeks of tromping through the wild west, and yet it does. When she has her hair down, it magically becomes several inches shorter. Finally, there's a scene where we actually see her doing her hair, something that should take a good day and a half, what with all of the glueing, hairspraying, clamping in place until it dries, and praying for the whole thing to stay up. Three hairclips, five seconds, and she's all finished, spikes included.
* '' [[Sailor Moon]]'': The [[Odango|odangos]] and her relatives stay incredibly pristine throughout their battles. There is only one notable episode where Usagi's hair is destroyed by battle. The war-torn appearance of all the senshi at the end of the third season was to accentuate how tough this battle was. Other than that, there's usually no damage done to their ridiculous up dos during battle. Any [[Cosplay|cosplayer]] can tell you that those buns take a pack of hairpins and a can of hairspray to stay in for half a day. Forget the acrobatics.
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== Comic Books ==
 
* [[X -Men]]: In one issue of his own comic, Wolverine has all his hair cut off. It grows back in minutes, ''in the same style''.
* [[Spider -Man]]: Norman Osborn has what appear to be horizontal corn-rows of brown and red hair. It's not entirely clear what this is supposed to actually represent but even in universe characters repeatedly appear unable to figure what he did to his hair.
** Newer drawings of his son Harry suggest that it may be intended to be very tight auburn curls.
* In the first issue of [[Nightwing]]'s own series, a thug attacks Dick with a knife and hacks off the ponytail he'd been sporting in ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|New Titans]]'' and ''[[Batman]]''. His hair instantly resolves itself into a neat, not-quite-shoulder-length 'do.
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== Live Action TV ==
 
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|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''}}.
* ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]''
(( 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.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'':
** 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.
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** 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 (TV)|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].
* ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]''.
** 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.
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* Mike Warner of the ''Walkyverse''. It was actually a problem when creating the figure because his hair defies the laws of gravity (not to the extent of many of the other examples, but it's still not gravity-friendly).
* In ''[[Megatokyo]]'', [[Dark Magical Girl|Miho]]'s hair often has a ribbon wound through it, which cosplayers (or just people who think it looks cool) in real life have had difficulty keeping in. However, the comic heavily implies that this has something to do with her powers, as whether the ribbon is present, absent, or mussed up depends on her emotional state and how in-control she is.
* Thae from ''[[Overlord Academy]]'' often wears her hair in an incredibly large, [[Rapunzel Hair|incredibly long]] ponytail which seems to defy all laws of physics, especially since she's the series' [[Action Girl|action girl]].
 
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[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.
** Justified in that he was royalty and likely had someone to assist him. As soon as he goes on the run, it grows out normally. (As for the cave, he wasn't in there long enough for anything significant to grow in, especially if he had his dome chromed right before.)
* Rapunzel from ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'' gives us a two-fer. First of all she has over 70-feet of her long golden hair (though the length seems to change everywhere they go) but it's justified since the hair is actually magic. Then {{spoiler|she gets her hair cut off into a perfectly styled and layered pixie cut. The hair was cut off in one go with a pane of glass}}.
 
== Real Life ==
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