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{{quote|''"Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees
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''For the beauty, splendor, the wonder of my hair
''Flow it! (Hair!) Show it! (Hair!)
''Long as God can grow it, my hair!"''
|'''The title song''' from ''[[Hair (theatre)|Hair]]''}}
In [[Real Life]], hair is heavy, especially when wet, and as anyone who has had long hair can attest, it takes forever to comb out, requires much more shampoo than usual, tangles at the slightest provocation, attacks everything in a strong wind, and is often getting caught in things and being in the way.
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If their hair is used to [[Scenery Censor|cover up nudity]] and shut up the censors, it's [[Godiva Hair]].
Historically, long hair has been a status symbol in many parts of the world. European nobles would do it up in elaborate headdresses and [[Hime Cut|Japanese noble women in the Heian era would grow out their hair]], sometimes for their entire lives, so it could literally become ''meters'' long, requiring special trains to be built into the clothing. As a result, long hair is considered a mark of high breeding, so many [[Ojou
Note that usually hair falls out after growing for about seven years; meters-long hair requires more than not cutting it, but also having the correct genes for long (that is, ''fast-growing'') hair.
See also [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]], [[Improbable Hairstyle]], [[Compressed Hair]] for one way to conceal the hair of such length, and [[
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', we have Grimmjow, who, in his released form {{spoiler|not only turns into a cat, but has long blue hair that hangs down past his waist}}. A bit later, we also get {{spoiler|Ichigo, who sports a mullet style with hair that hangs past HIS waist while he's a hollow, It's gets even longer when he uses Final Getsuga Tensho, and Aizen's mullet with hair nearly touching the backs of his knees after his body has finshed absorbing the Hogyuku}}. Rapunzel indeed.
* By ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
* Gourry, Sylphiel, Naga, and Millina of ''[[Slayers]]'', as well as Filia from the anime (in her human form.). Sylphiel's is of the [[Hime Cut]] variety, while Millina keeps hers in a ponytail. Gourry is an odd case because he's the [[The Big Guy|hard-hitting swordsman]] who can't cast magic, so it would seem impractical to have all of that blonde hair flowing out while sword fighting...
* Kazuki in ''[[GetBackers]]'' varies. Sometimes it looks floor-length, especially in the anime, but the manga artist usually draws it as roughly hip-length, unless it needs to flutter dramatically. The anime version also draws it to be very thick, with a ponytail about the same circumference as his neck. Sakura, Hevn, Kaoru Haruki, and, in some shots, Madoka all have waist-length hair.
* [[CLAMP]] seems to have a fondness for this trope:
** Yue in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', whose hair, even braided, trails a good 2 feet behind him on the floor.
** Yuuko in ''[[
** The twins Yui and {{spoiler|Fai}} had [[media:
** The eponymous ''[[Kobato
** Not to mention Kurogane's Mother, Princess Emeraude, Sakura's mum and most of the people in ''[[RG Veda]]''.
** Also [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Chii]] from ''[[Chobits]]''. Not sure if being an artificial life-form would make her hair ''more'' or ''less'' easy to manage, but in any case, it goes almost down to her feet.
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** In the manga, pretty much everyone whose hair is not expressly cut short or tied up have this hair by the end. There's even a scene at the end of the first arc, after Endymion has been captured by the [[Big Bad]] ''du jour'', when the Inner Senshi arrive at Usagi's house. She hasn't come out of her room in days, and the reason why is because her hair has suddenly grown to twice its previous length, even though she's been cutting it. (Her hair is now matching the hair she wore in her past lifetime as Princess Serenity.)
*** Hell, even Makoto's hair is pretty long (by normal standards), considering in most artwork it reaches her waist while in a high ponytail, and is curly/wavy besides...
** Particularly noteworthy is Mistress 9, whose hair grows so long she can tie her enemies up with it. While it's still attached to her head. Without impeding her mobility. It
* Tsuruya from ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' has, in some official artwork, ankle-length hair. From the novels, Kuyou Suou also has very long (and full-bodied) hair. In fact, she got a [[Fan Nickname]] of "Hair Monster-tan", or occasionally [[The Addams Family|"Cousin It"]] as a result. [http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Image:Sh_v09_illust_003.jpg We don't think you'll have any problem discerning why.]
** And also, Haruhi herself when she is [[Jerkass]] self who hasn't met Kyon yet (in the beginning {{spoiler|and in ''Disapearance''.}})
* From the ''[[Lucky Star]]'' anime, Konata's hair appears to be of variable length: sometimes it seems like it's about knee-length, and sometimes ankle-length. In fact, other than Ayano's waist-length hair, all the other "long-haired" characters (Kagami, Miyuki, Hiyori) have hair down past their hips, though this may just be a consequence of the [[Puni Plush]] art style. Although Konata's hair is as long in the manga, Kagami's hair is chest-length and Miyuki's is waist-length.
* Shirahime and Athena in ''[[
* The mermaid/idol forms of ''everyone'' in ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]''. It shrinks to a manageable length in their human forms.
* In the second ''[[Ranma ½]]'' movie, girl-type Ranma has ridiculously long hair when she gets all dolled up as a concubine. There was also an episode of the series in which male Ranma's hair grows uncontrollably because he ate a dragon's whisker at one point.
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* Almost any important female character drawn by [[Leiji Matsumoto]].
* Evil male example: Deep Blue from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' somehow manages it despite {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy|possessing]] the [[Mysterious Protector]], who has normal short hair in his regular form and a mid-back-length ponytail otherwise.}}
* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' has several instances of
** The movie deliberately pulls a [[Lampshade Hanging]] with Juri. While fencing, she wears a face-concealing mask that covers her entire head. Upon removing this mask, an enormous mass of curly, radiant hair cascades out, with volume that was ''several times larger'' than Juri's entire head.
* Kazusa from ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'' has hair that goes to her ankles. When she transforms, the whole thing gets put up in a single, huge bun on the back of her head.
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* Daisy and Violet from ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' make their living swimming and have hair past their waists. It would seem their ability/willingness to keep it in any kind of style at all is a sign of their girlish personalities. Their less girlish sister Misty demonstrably has this in some episodes, too, although nobody's quite sure how.
** Then there is Jessie with her giant... horn thing, which goes down to her waist and ''never moves''. Presumably all the hair gel needed to hold it in place makes her hair even heavier.
*** She finally lets it down in "Shield with a Twist", after 568 episodes. ''[http://www.pokemopolis.net/pics/eps/dimension/shield04.gif Wow.]''{{Dead link}}
** There's also Cynthia with hair that goes past her knees. When she's sat down the last foot of her hair is beside or behind her on whatever she's sat on.
** Iris goes [[Up to Eleven]] by sporting what can be adequately described as a violet Wailord fin on her head. It's big enough to fit her ''Axew'' inside!
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* Aion, Chrono, Mary, Rizelle, Satella and Florette/{{spoiler|Fiore}} in flashbacks in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''. (Chrono's hair has part of it cut short in the back, but he still has enough long hair to have a braid that goes down past his knees.) With that many characters, you could probably argue that Daisuke Moriyama has [[Author Appeal|a thing]] for flowing, dramatic hair.
* Leon Oswald of ''[[Kaleido Star]]'' has waist-length grey-platinum hair, which (improbably) he never seems to restrain, even when performing ''on trapeze''.
* Ahiru/Duck in ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' has rather long hair in her girl
* The [[Dark Magical Girl]] in ''[[Prétear]]'' has long, flowing black hair. This seems to be magically induced, since {{spoiler|her true form, Takako, has hair in a more manageable length}}. One of Himeno's step-sisters also has long, flowing pink hair, and Hayate's hair reaches his waist.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has a number of characters with waist-length or longer hair. The more eastern-stylized characters often have [[Hime Cut
** In an isolated incident, short-haired Ako decides that she should grow her hair out so she'll be more attractive. She receives help from a denizen of the [[Magical Land|Magic World]] who gives her some magic hair growth medicine. It works like a charm...[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v26/c235/8.html for about 2 minutes. Then it goes too far in the other direction.]
* Squalo from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', who swore that he would never cut his hair until Xanxus becomes the next Vongola boss. Seeing as how that's extremely unlikel {{spoiler|he is seen ten years in the future with even [[Up to Eleven|longer and lustrous hair]].}}
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* Krad from ''[[D.N.Angel]]'', anyone? His blonde ponytail is easily longer than he is-this is noticeable when he flies and his hair has to catch up with him. It's also very, very pretty...
* ''[[Naruto]]'''s not known for its gorgeous hair, but Jiraya's colossal white ponytail, Tsunade and her surprisingly long pigtails, Ino and Inoichi Yamanaka's identical blonde topknots, and Neji's ponytail deserve a mention (which was so long ''it was used as a medium to channel [[Healing Hands|medical ninjutsu]] through'') in this section.
** The undisputed queen of this in ''Naruto'' however is the Fifth Mizukage. She has hair down to her ankles... even when it's in a top knot!
** And Kushina, Naruto's mother, has red hair that goes down to her ankles. In fact she was once able to make a trail when she had her hands tied by draping her hair over her tied hands and nonchalantly pulling some of it off to leave on the ground.
** Hanzo's hair is about waist-length, which along with his cap gives it an unfortunate resemblance [[Eighties Hair|to something you might see on a stereotypical hair-band member]]. Ironically, it was much ''shorter'' when he was younger.
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* A [[Deconstruction]], in ''[[Dansai Bunri No Crime Edge]]''. Mushiyanokouji Iwai, the "hair queen" had her hair cursed. It cannot be cut by any means. That leads her to quit schooling, and well, the inconveniences of having hair '''that long'''. Fortunately, Kiri's scissor is a cursed "Killing Goods" and [[Important Haircut|cut Iwai's hair really short]] at the end of the first chapter, but her hair grows back to its original length in a span of a night.
* Aya and Maya Natsume in ''[[Tenjho Tenge]]''.
* Archbishop Laura Stuart's hair in ''[[
* Most of the characters in ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' have long hair. A large majority of them being Juraians (and royal ones at that), it's more or less a custom to have long hair and to be either tied back or put up in ponytails. It's even more telling when Washu, Ayeka and Sasami must put their hair up just to go into the hot springs or even sleep. The goddess Tsunami has the longest hair, since it reaches the floor and goes on a few feet.
* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has Dorothy Catalonia and Duo Maxwell tied for longest hair (at below-the-butt length), but Dorothy's is more noticeable because Duo always has his braided. Relena and Zechs deserve special mention, their hair reaching the small of their backs; in their case it seems to run in the family, since the few images we see of King Peacecraft show him with hair just as long as his children.
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* In the ending of ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' movie, Eureka's hair mysteriously grown very long, up to her hips. Its the longest version of her hair that was seen compared to the TV episode 30 flashback version of herself.
* Yoko from ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' has pretty long hair, and in [[The Movie]] she takes off the hairpins to {{spoiler|pull a gun out of her hair}}. Nia post-timeskip also qualifies.
* Several girls of ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' have extremely long hair, to where the standard length seems to reach their knees, and most of those that have shorter hair are depicted as more [[Moe|childish]]. Given that most of them are [[Ojou
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Shalott]] of ''[[Air Gear]]''.
* Sunao/Ran and Matsuri of ''[[Sukisho]]''.
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* If it weren't for Rapunzel, the characters in ''[[A Distant Soil]]'' would be the [[Trope Namer]]. Apparently, it's an Ovanian custom to have ''ungodly'' long hair, sometimes floor-length.
* Winnowill from ''[[Elf Quest]]'' has floor-length hair (she actually holds it over her arm most of the time: it would drag on the ground otherwise!), as does the minor character Newstar after a point. Clearbrook's braid, at its full length, extends to her knees by Shards. And Timmain's hair also doubles as [[Godiva Hair]] on several occasions.
* Starfire of the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' comic book. To put it mildly. It's [https://web.archive.org/web/20071114144519/http://www.titanstower.com/source/whoswho/starfire.html frequently portrayed] as not so much ''ending'', extending past the panel border and/or merging into a sort of rocket exhaust when she flies. It's shorter in [[Teen Titans (animation)|the TV cartoon]].
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Jean Grey]] had hair like this in the late eighties and the nineties, but once those [[Running the Asylum]] came in, her hair grew short again.
** Storm had ridiculously long hair for someone living in the African wilderness and constantly standing in the wind/being rained upon. In the Joe Madureira era, she had a large mop of hair on her head which reached the floor, but wasn't straight (and mostly [[Godiva Hair]] like in the '80s) but a large mop which looked like it had a life of its own and...quite heavy. She killed Marrow nonetheless.
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== Fairy Tales ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] and (il)logical extreme of this trope is [[Rapunzel]], the [[Fairy Tale]] heroine whose hair was the ladder in and out of her prison tower; both the witch who imprisoned and the prince used this.
* [[Older Than Steam]]: Other fairy tales that include this hair ladder (which is older than Rapunzel) include [https://web.archive.org/web/20130708093355/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/crane/snowfirered.html Snow-White-Fire-Red] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130718140610/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/stories/fairang.html The Fair Angiola]. This type of tale is known as "Maiden in the Tower," and the earliest known version is [
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* The [[Big Bad]] of the first ''[[The Crow|Crow]]'' movie had long black hair (worn loose), which is basically [[Anime Hair]] in real life.
** Similarly, the vaguely [[Yakuza]]-esque poker player in ''[[Casino Royale]]''.
* Princess Leia, when she finally lets her hair down in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''. For many viewers, this resulted in a [[Fridge Logic]] moment when we contemplated [[Compressed Hair|how she got all that hair into those hairstyles]] we'd seen in the previous movies. There's a [https://web.archive.org/web/20110101233416/http://skepchick.org/blog/2010/07/mythbusting-princess-leias-hair/ webpage] discussing that her hairstyles would be impossible with that length of hair anyway. Possibly justified in that ROTJ is the last movie, and only there do we see it down, so it's probable that her hair was much shorter in the previous two movies and was growing during that time.
* Three of [[Cate Blanchett]]'s most famous roles - [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Galadriel]], Queen Elizabeth, and [[Robin Hood (2010 film)|Lady Marion Loxley]] - have her with hair well past her waist.
* Monica Bellucci plays a Rapunzel type character with a variation on the [[Hair of Gold]] trope as it is black rather than blonde in ''The Brothers Grimm''.
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* In some parts of the world in the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, the length and style of a woman's hair is directly related to their status, so the Mother Confessor, the de facto leader and most powerful woman of this region, has very long hair. It's stated to be somewhere slightly above her hips and below the small of her back, and she cannot cut her own hair. It magically gives her great pain, as it does all Confessors.
* An implied literary example is found in the dramatic poem ''The Highwayman'', when Bess, the landlord's daughter, stands at the casement window, leaning over, and her lover stands up on his horse, she lets her hair out and it hits him in the face. ([[Better Than It Sounds|It's a lot more romantic than that, I assure you]].)
** ''He rose upright in the stirrups.
* Quinn in Dian Curtis Regan's ''[[Princess Nevermore]]'' has hair almost to her feet.
* ''[[Walk Two Moons]]'': Sal's hair is long enough to sit on.
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' had Lúthien magically grow her hair long, in order to use it to escape her elvish
* In the fantasy novel ''The Weavers of Saramyr'', a minor noblewoman has hair down to her feet, which she wears loose.
* In the later ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' books, Anne's friend and neighbor Leslie has [[Hair of Gold]] down to her feet, which she keeps pinned up except when she's just washed it.
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* Possibly hinted in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''. Bella listens to a Quileute legend about a pair of vampires. The shapeshifters killed the male, so his mate (described as having knee-length golden hair) comes and attacks the village.
* In Jane Yolen's ''[[Great Alta Saga|White Jenna]]'' duology, Jenna and her shadow-sister Skada have braids that go down past their waist. While it's pointed out that this is impractical for warriors, it turns out to be helpful when they {{spoiler|strangle the [[Big Bad]] with them.}}
* In [[E. Nesbit]]'s comedic fairy-tale story "[https://web.archive.org/web/20031212094950/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/shortstories/melisande.html Melisande]", Princess Melisande is cursed at birth to be bald. When she grows up she is given a magical wish, and at the prompting of her mother requests long, lovely, ''fast-growing'' hair. The result is the Rapunzel Hair from hell.
* Probably [[The Bible|King David]]'s son Absalom:
{{quote|Whenever he cut the hair of his head -- he used to cut his hair from time
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* Susannah, the protagonist of ''Repeat It Today With Tears'' by Anne Peile, has this in the first half of the story. It's never described how long her hair is, but after she chops it all off {{spoiler|after being committed to a mental institution}}, it takes five paper bags to dispose of all the hair.
* This is a sign of a warrior's aptitude amongst the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Dothraki]] of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. Men only [[Important Haircut|cut their hair]] when they have been defeated in battle. Khal Drogo, the reknowned leader of the largest khalesar, [[Authority Equals Asskicking|had a braid of hair that went to his thighs]].
* The title character of F.M. Busby's ''Rissa Kerguelen'' was locked up for several years in a [[Orphanage of Fear|"Total Welfare Center"]] where the inmates' hair was clipped '''very''' short—not quite to bare scalp. When finally let out, she made the public statement that she intended to "grow my hair down to my butt." Another young woman she met years later (by which time Rissa had achieved her stated goal) had hair reaching below her '''knees'''.
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== Music ==
* For years, singer Crystal Gayle's hair was long enough to trail behind her until she cut it to ease the strain on her neck caused by wearing it that way.
* Similarly [[Yoshiki Hayashi]], the leader of J-Rock band [[X Japan]] cut his waist long hair to the despair of his female fans, because it took him hours to wash and care for it every day.
* [http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4558/dannycecati23ais5.jpg Danny Cecatti], former lead singer of Pegazus.
* [
** And their lead singer, ZP Theart, has waist-length hair. There's a reason why two of the band's three music videos feature [[Dramatic Wind|wind machines]].
* Brian Fair, lead singer of Shadows Fall, also has hair down to his knees... in dreadlocks. Very impressive when windmilling.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120206142652/http://upabove.com/PRESS_VISION_PANGAEA/vlrgweb.jpg Key Kool] (front/center) of Visionaries has nearly waist-length hair; it's not very noticeable since he usually wears in a knot at the base of his head. After his hair stylist marveled at his "virgin hair" (no bleaching, dying, or perming, just a ''huge'' amount of gel every day) he cut it off to donate to charity. It's since grown back (and, yes, he did dress as a Chinese person one Halloween).
* Long hair is a common thing with musicians, particularly [[Heavy Metal]] to the point where [[Fan Dumb|some metalheads]] [[So Bad It's Good|hilariously]] treat the length of one's hair as [[Serious Business]].
* Peter "Aconite" from Novus has hair down to his waist.
* [[Vocaloid]] features Miku Hatsune and her floor-length green pigtails. She's not the only one
* Exo-Chika from [[Visual Kei]]/Electronica duo Aural Vampire has hair that goes past her butt.
* 80's Mexican singer Daniela Romo was very famous for her extremely long dark brown hair, which easily reached down her butt.▼
* Haruna Kojima, an [[Idol Singer]] in Japanese girl group AKB48, has hair well past waist length.▼
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== Tabletop Games ==
* A possible taboo for the Wu Jen class in [[Dungeons
** Also from [[Dungeons
** In the [[Forgotten Realms]] setting, Eilistraee, the goddess of the good-aligned drow, is represented with ''very'' long hair.
* The Warhammer40000 Dark Eldar gladiator queen Lelith Hesperax has hair long enough to use as an entangling net (naturally it is woven with poisoned barbs too) but then she is also skilled enough with a simple metal blade to not need a power weapon to bypass armour, and fast enough on her feet to dodge bullets even without combat drugs, even with all that hair.
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* Another male example: Zero in both ''[[Mega Man X]]'' and ''[[Mega Man Zero|Zero]]''. {{spoiler|By default, so's Omega Zero.}}
** Zero's co-star [[Gadgeteer Genius|Ciel]] isn't so far off, either. And the official art depicts her hair as ''even longer''.
** Two more male examples: [[Mega Man ZX|Giro and Vent]], the latter effective in ''Advent''. Vent in ''ZX'' and Aile in both games is a case of [[Compressed Hair]] when using Model ZX.
* The female versions of the Psychopomp, Seeker, Spear Master, Ravener and Gunner bloodlines in ''[[Bloodline Champions]]'' have this.
* Millia Rage from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' combines this with [[Prehensile Hair]], and turns both [[Up to Eleven]]. The victory pose where she lets it down and about a third of it drags on the ground around her seems impressive, but you slowly realize it can somehow grow a lot longer than that when you see the ends of her hair tunnel into the ground, then come up and stab someone five feet away.
* ''[[Touhou]]'' has several examples:
** ''[[Sarcasm Mode|Imperishable Night]]'' [[Sarcasm Mode|is better off retitled]] ''[[Sarcasm Mode|Rapunzel Hair Night]]'': Reisen Udongein Inaba, Keine Kamishirasawa, Eirin Yagokoro, Kaguya Houraisan, and Fujiwara no Mokou.
** [[Witch Species|Patchouli Knowledge]] has been noted<ref>
*** And a bit of official art from ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'' shows that hair as nearly ankle-length.
* Sephiroth from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''.
** ''[[Crisis Core]]'' actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this by having his fanclub e-mail specifically state that he requires an entire bottle of shampoo and conditioner every time he washes his hair to properly maintain it.
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** Don't forget Aerith and Tifa, though the latter shortens it a little later on for the movie. In the game, both of them have hair of the same kind of length as Sephiroth, but keep it tied so that it doesn't flow all over the place.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' Princess Garnet has hair that reaches her butt until she cuts it, it also has very rapid growth as it grows back to that full length in presumably half a year (though this could be attributed to the devs not bothering to make yet another model for the ending scenes and her hair growning back would be a good indicator that time had passed).
* Another ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' example: Yunalesca in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' and Nooj in ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'' both have ridiculously long hair. {{spoiler|Yunalesca's might not need the maintenance though, since she's dead.}}
** And Yuna from ''X-2''. While ''most'' of her hair is very short, [[Short Hair with Tail|one section at the base of her neck has been allowed to grow down to her ankles]] in the two years between the games. It's wrapped up and (presumably) braided.
** ''FFX'' again, Lulu's hair is waist length, but tied up high and in braids. Presumably, her hair must be longer once its let down.
* Averted in [[Neverwinter Nights]] and [[Neverwinter Nights 2]]. All of the possible unmodded female hairstyles in the first game were shoulder-length at most; in the second the longest female hair comes down to the middle of the character's back.
* Quite a few ''[[Disgaea]]'' characters have hair that reaches at least down to their hips, including Flonne, Lamington, Yukimaru, Fukubi, Sapphire, Asuka, and Salvatore. This is only counting ''plot'' characters, mind you - if we were counting generic units or bonus [[Nippon Ichi]] characters, we'd be here all week.
* ''[[Pop'n
* Later incarnations of [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] feature hair bordering on this trope.
* Shanoa from [[Castlevania|Order of Ecclesia]] has insanely lengthy hair that is meticulously animated sprite by sprite. Even if she barely moves, her hair flails out. [[Sexy Backless Outfit|And damn, does she know how to lift it...]]
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* Male example: Hawk/Hawkeye from ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]''.
* [[Sexy Stewardess]] Cammy Meele from ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' fits this trope to a T.
* Litchi Faye-Ling in ''[[
* Shantae's purple hair in ''[[Shantae]]'' reaches very close to the ground level.
* As portrayed in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'', the Irish fae known as Leanan Sidhe has hair so long ''she's '''balancing''' on it'' (technically she's actually hovering, but that's the way it looks). In ''[[Strange Journey]]'', "She has really long hair. No, ''really'' long" is the only hint Anthony needs to give you when you need to take his love confession to one.
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== Visual Novels ==
* From ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'': Tomoyo, Kyou and Sanae all fits with their fall slightly past their hips.
* Rider in ''[[Fate/stay night
* ''[[G Senjou no Maou]]'' has Haru Usami's trademark head of hair which [[Lampshade Hanging|everyone she meets comments on]]. It's a huge mess of hair which runs past her hips. It's also plot-related, as when she was a kid, {{spoiler|she had a boy-cut. Upon meeting Kyousuke, he comments that he'd like it if Haru had longer hair. The problem was that he didn't specify how long he wanted it.}}
* Eris, Shizuku, and Runa from the [[Girls Love]] [[Eroge]] ''[[Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo]]'' all have really long hair that fits this trope. Eris and Shizuku are paired together in the eighth game which gave that game the [[Fan Nickname|nickname]] of "''[[Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo]]: [[Fetish Fuel|Hair Fetish]] Edition''".
* In a flashback in ''[[Tsukihime]]'', Arcueid (pictured) is shown to have had floor length hair before her sister Altrouge chopped it off after beating her in a fight, leaving her with the familiar short hair of the present day. In [[Melty Blood]] she gets the long hair back when she turns into {{spoiler|Archetype Earth}}.
* {{spoiler|Beatrice}} of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' [[Expository Hairstyle Change|is revealed to have this]] {{spoiler|after she has a breakdown and becomes an [[Empty Shell]]}} in the fifth game. Possibly lampshaded, as when we first see her, {{spoiler|Virgilia is brushing her hair for her.}}
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', it is revealed that {{spoiler|Misha's pink hair}} used to be brown and much longer, almost to her waist. Out of the date-able girls, three have long hair: Hanako, Lilly and Emi; in the meantime, Miki Miura is just as longhaired as them.
* ''[[School Days]]'' gives us Kotonoha Katsura and her hip-length hair. Hikari also has pretty long hair, but since she keeps it on pigtails it doesn't look ''that'' long.
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* In ''[[
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120627080923/http://www.monsterful.com/chapter11page10.php Samantha Thing] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120627080815/http://www.monsterful.com/chapter09page19.php Michelle Flammel] from ''[[Monsterful]]''.
** Justified with Samantha considering her monster species (Ittboo) are beings with permanent long hair, and since her mother is a Futakuchi-Onna she's also able to control her hair at will.
* The webcomic/novel ''[[Alien Dice]]'' is full of characters with long hair. Chel's hair falls to her knees, Claudia's [[Princess Curls]] are about knee length. Riley, like most Rishan, has hair past his ankles, but it's mostly worn up. Damien's hair is down to his ankles. Maelinn's hair is ankle length as well. Zaile's hair is very long when compared to his siblings, as a sign of his higher status than them, but shorter than . The alien characters are justified since long hair is a sign of status in their culture, and Litan never cut their hair. Chel's hair, however, is never really mentioned.
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* In ''[[Seekers (webcomic)|Seekers]]'', Nareen's high ponytail reaches almost to her feet.
* Deirdre Bradley in ''[[Avalon (webcomic)|Avalon]]''. She's even able to braid it in no more than eight seconds due to not having it cut for twenty years.
* Haley of ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' recently upgraded her short-short hair to
* Thae from ''[[Overlord Academy]]'' somehow manages to be an [[Action Girl]] with [[Improbable Hairstyle|ankle-length blonde hair]]
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', [http://egscomics.com/?date=2005-09-02 Elliot] during Grace's Birthday Party. Susan has this naturally and it was lampshaded [http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-04-19 quite rudely].
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* In ''[[Ears for Elves]]'':
** Rolan and Luero have hair to just below their knees, and it's likely that Myari would if she let it down.
** Tanna had this [https://web.archive.org/web/20121101174702/http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/593 when she was young], but now the longest her hair gets is to her mid-back.
** Several characters on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130705160101/http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/309 this page] do; then again, their hair does serve as panel breaks and the art is very stylised.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Broken Saints]]'' heroine Shandala has hair like this at first, but quickly loses it in favor of a shoulder-length do by Chapter 6.
* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]] v4'', we get Bridget Connolly, who is well-known for having knee-length red hair, though usually tied back. This was until she cut it while on the island, after hearing about {{spoiler|the death of her best friend, Raina Morales.}}
* Slipknot, from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' has [[Prehensile Hair]] that hangs down to his ankles, even if one takes his topknot into account.
* Played with by ''[[Cyanide and
* It's a common style in [[fanfiction]] for original characters, especially [[Mary
== Western Animation ==
* When Katara of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has her hair down, it's almost the same length as when it's in a braid, which anyone with long hair would notice as beign wrong - hair braided is quite a bit shorter than when its worn loose, and in order to have a braid that long Katara's unbraided hair should have been just long enough to sit on unbraided (braids that are too long for the unbound-hair length are extremely common in animation, because a [[Rule of Cool|hip length braid looks cooler than a more realistic braid]]). Toph is mostly an aversion, as though the one time we see her with her hair out, it's [http://dvdscreenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/215/025.jpg freaking enormous]{{Dead link}}, she normally keeps it in a tight bun roughly the size [http://dvdscreenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/206/273.jpg of the rest of her head.]{{Dead link}}
** Azula's hair is also pretty long when unbound. {{spoiler|It actually seems to be partially getting in her way during her final battle against Zuko and Katara, [[Villainous Breakdown|not that she's concerned]].}}
* Both Jazz Fenton and Paulina from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' have hair down to their hips, but [[Literal Genie]] Desiree is much more blatant in both length and width.
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|Marge Simpson]]'s enormous [[Beehive Hairdo]]. It's been shown that when she has her hair worn down it's roughly waist length. (Though it varies, one episode briefly showed it as knee length, and that was when her hair was ''falling out'')
* Who remembers the character Repunzil from ''[[
** June had
* Trixie Tang and Princess Mandie on ''[[The Fairly
* One of the ugly princess from ''[[Wakfu]]'' has a Rapunsel hair... and beard... that's prehensile.
* In an episode of ''[[Totally Spies!]]'', Clover was captured and her hair was grown really long to be used as a wig. Unfortunately, it made her very weak. The other girls even used the hair Rapunzel style.
* Sierra from ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'' has hair reaching her butt (and she's the tallest girl), and given how braided it should be even longer. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|as of her injury near the end of the season, she's bald now.}}
* Aisling from ''[[The Secret of Kells]]'' has long [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|white]] hair that reaches just past her ankles.
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== Real Life ==
* Model [https://web.archive.org/web/20120520174512/http://images.fashionmodeldirectory.com/model/000000150697-ruslana_korshunova-fit.jpg Ruslana Korshunova] was well-known for her [https://web.archive.org/web/20120520174226/http://images.fashionmodeldirectory.com/model/000000150752-ruslana_korshunova-fit.jpg incredibly] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120520174431/http://images.fashionmodeldirectory.com/model/000000150741-ruslana_korshunova-fit.jpg long] hair.
* Empress Elisabeth ("Sisi") of Bavaria. Her hair was so long that it reached her ''feet'' and took several hours to comb and braid. Allegedly, her German hairstylist also had hair like that, which allowed her to take an occasional side job as Sisi's [[Body Double]].
* Although not an example of this, here's an indication that such hair really would be difficult in real life: Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase on ''[[Angel]]'', specifically asked that her character get a haircut because the hair was too heavy and difficult to maneuver. This wasn't anything like waist-length, nor was Cordelia that much of an [[Action Girl]].
** Likewise, Jason Momoa (Ronon Dex of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'') asked that his character get his dreadlocks cut shorter because they were heavy enough that they were ''pulling his hair out at the roots''.
* Half-[[Truth in Television]], half-historical fiction. In the ''[[Little House on the Prairie|These Happy Golden Years]]'', Laura Ingalls (Wilder) notes at one point that her hair is down to her knees.
** Growing one's hair out as long as possible was practically mandatory for a woman in that time period. Ma at one point says that when she first married Pa, she could sit on the ends of her braided hair.
* Many Indian women of respectable age have hair reaching almost (or sometimes beyond) the waist. However, most of the time it's neatly tied so it seldom causes problems
* In the Qing dynasty, all men were required to shave their forehead and wear the rest of their hair in a braid down their back. As this braid was not allowed to be cut on punishment of death, this resulted in some impressive hair lengths. Females, while not required to wear the braid, were expected to keep their hair long as a sign of propriety; rich women often would wear wigs made of hair sold by poor women to make their hairdos even more elaborate.
** Even earlier in the Ming dynasty, men were expected to have quite long hair (and a beard) and it caused much trouble at the beginning of the Qing when suddenly they had to shave their foreheads.
** In the movie ''[[Shanghai Noon]]'', this is why Chong Wang is so freaked out by Roy's offer to cut off his "ponytail". When Lo Fong cuts it and says, "Now you can never return to China", this is what he's referring to.
* Actress Patricia Morison was known for her hair, rumored to be 39 inches long.
* According to the Guinness World Records, the longest coif in the world belongs to Xie Qiuping, at 5.6m long.
* ''[[Kill Bill]]'' actress Chiaki Kuriyama typically wears natural long jet-black hair that reaches down to her waist.
* Native Americans often have hair that is at least waist-length, as it is a sign of health and (for men) honor/bravery. The fact that it was policy to cut boys' hair without their permission in the residential schools is becoming [[Canada]]'s [[Old Shame]].▼
▲* 80's Mexican singer Daniela Romo was very famous for her extremely long dark brown hair, which easily reached down her butt.
▲* Native Americans often have hair that is at least waist-length, as it is a sign of health and (for men) honor/bravery.
▲* Haruna Kojima, an [[Idol Singer]] in Japanese girl group AKB48, has hair well past waist length.
* Anna Kornikova has not cut her waist length hair since she was thirteen years old.
* Kim Richards sported some amazing hair in the 80s that almost went down to her thighs.
* Melina Perez, of WWE fame has had thick black hair down past her waist since around 2007-ish.
* A lot of the members of the online [http://www.longhaircommunity.com Long Hair Community] either have
* The popularity of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' resulted in a trend of young women growing their hair out to achieve
* Some people, for whatever reason, actively attempt to cultivate
* [[Sierra McCormick]] has a more realistic version of this. Her hair is nearly to her waist even when braided or curled.
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