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{{trope}}
[[File:quirkycurls01 2663.jpg|link=My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|frame|Pictured above, this trope and [[Princess Curls|a completely different curl trope]].]]
Characters with elegant [[Princess Curls]] are refined and high class, but characters with tightly coiled, all over the place curls tend to be the opposite. Where Princess Curls are large, sleek coils that look like they were made with a huge curling iron, '''Quirky Curls''' tend to be rendered as zig-zagging kinks which stick out all over the place, much tighter than their more elegant counterpart and are prone to frizzing.
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Compare [[Messy Hair]]. When a character only has one weird curl, it's probably an [[Ahoge]]. Contrast [[Princess Curls]]. This hairstyle was one of the defining styles of [[Eighties Hair|the eighties]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* Gaap from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' has this crazy curly haircut, and her characterization follows pretty closely the [[Trickster Archetype]].
* Dorian for ''[[From Eroica with Love]]''. Energetic, loud, openly [[Camp Gay]] aristocrat and Super-thief who steals for the love of the hunt/art rather than monetary gain and likes tweaking the nose of a certain NATO agent who would happily strangle him given the chance. His quirks regularly get him into trouble, since he likes to try things just to see if they can be done (stealing the Pope, anyone?).
== [[
* In ''[[Winx Club]]'', out of the three villains, two have long straight hair and the third has a cloud of kinked curls. Guess which one is the spitfire. Guess which one has the storm powers.▼
* Curly from [[BC]] is a [[Deadpan Snarker]].▼
* Little Orphan Annie, a funny and lively Genki Girl.▼
* Delirium from ''[[The Sandman]]'' is a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], which makes her [[Reality Warper]] powers kind of...dangerous. It's implied she was once the personification of Delight.
* ''[[Peanuts]]'': Freida has Naturally Curly Hair and, as originally presented, fancies herself quite the conversationalist. She got [[Flanderized]] into only being conversational about her naturally curly hair though.▼
== [[Film]] ==
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* Mia from ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'' has naturally curly hair and at the beginning of the film she is gawky, not very popular and very much quirky, as it her mother who has wavy hair and is an artist. When she finds out she is a princess, she has to have her hair straightened to look acceptable as a princess.
* In ''[[Like Water for Chocolate]]'' Gertrudis is the only one of the three sisters with curly hair. Her character-defining moment is when she runs into the desert and rides away on horseback with a Mexican revolutionary. A few years later, we find that she married the man and is now a general in the revolutionary army.
* The [[Gene Wilder]] version of [[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory|Willy Wonka]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* Tris from ''[[Circle of Magic]]'', has wildly curly hair which is always frizzing. She's also a [[Deadpan Snarker]], Bookworm and loner who doesn't fit in, and has extreme abilities in weather magic, including lightning. In fact, her hair tends to either trap or produce lightning. When her abilities as a mage advance, she actually begins to use her hair to store her magic in tight, carefully wound braids.
* The unnamed narrator of the children's book ''[[I Like Myself]]''. Might make a good trope image, actually.
* Susan Sto Helit, granddaughter-by-adoption of the [[Discworld]] incarnation of [[The Grim Reaper|Death]], has hair like this in her first couple of appearances; after that, her hair seems to settle down, although it remains [[Prehensile Hair|self-styling]]. Her hair seems to rebel in proportion to how much effort she puts into [[I Just Want to Be Normal|being normal]]; in ''[[
* [[Harry Potter
** In the movies, we don't need to, as [[Emma Watson]] has naturally straight hair. Which meant it took hours and a lot of magical hair-care potions to frizz it out originally.
== [[Live
* The Fourth Doctor from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is a clear male example. [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|In a different way]], so is the Sixth Doctor. Also in ''Doctor Who'': River Song, a rebellious, [[Crazy Awesome]] [[Heroic Sociopath]].
** Paul McGann, who played the Eighth Doctor, got some bright ideas about buzzing his near-shoulder-length curls off between the audition and filming. So they made him wear a wig (which gets obviously frizzier throughout the [[Made for TV Movie]]). He once stated in an interview that hair generally seems to be an important part of playing the Doctor.
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* [[The Last DJ|Dr. Cox]] from ''[[Scrubs]]'' has loads of thick curly hair whose length tends to vary greatly over the course of each season.
* Blaine from ''[[Glee]]'' shellacks his hair down with a ton of hairgel, but when he's finally persuaded to go without in public, he's got these curls. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|They frighten Brittany]]. Appropriately enough, he's got all the quirky and highly energetic traits that go with this trope, but spends a lot of time trying to act more sober and grown up than he really is.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
▲* Curly from [[BC]] is a [[Deadpan Snarker]].
▲* [[Little Orphan Annie]], a funny and lively Genki Girl.
▲* ''[[Peanuts]]'': Freida has Naturally Curly Hair and, as originally presented, fancies herself quite the conversationalist. She got [[Flanderized]] into only being conversational about her naturally curly hair though.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* From ''[[My Little Pony:
* From ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'', Miss Frizzle has extremely curly hair. She's also incredibly weird.
* ''[[Recess]]'': Miss Grotke, the [[Genki Girl]] [[Hippie Teacher]].
▲* In ''[[Winx Club]]'', out of the three villains, two have long straight hair and the third has a cloud of kinked curls. Guess which one is the spitfire. Guess which one has the storm powers.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Carrot Top]]
* Rebekah Brooks (of the Rupert Murdoch scandal)
* This is ingrained enough that many naturally curly-haired actors and actresses get [[Typecasting|
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Expository Hairstyles]]
[[Category:Hair Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Quirky Curls]]
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