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In character design, there is the crucial question:
Short Hair or [[Rapunzel Hair|Long Hair]]? Short implies that the character is practical, independent, and strong. For women, long hair means that [[Long Hair Is Feminine|she's feminine, beautiful, even princessy]], but on men it's [[Badass Long Hair|just plain awesome]]. So, with these two opposing hair philosophies, will the creator choose the practicality and ease of a short cut, or the awesomeness of hair that goes ''fwish'' for dramatic effect?
You need never choose between the two again. A woman who has Short Hair with Tail has the spunk and practicality of a Short-haired Hottie with all the flowy drama or [[Rapunzel Hair]]. A man who has Short Hair with Tail has the stereotypical, short male haircut at the front ''but'' gets to be a [[Badass Long Hair]] or [[Long
Characters with this hairstyle simultaneously rock the short and the long styles -- [[Rule of Cool|they're just that awesome]]. Distinct from [[Hime Cut]] in that hime cuts have mid-length side tresses to frame the face, and all long in back, while
This is a character design trope, subtrope of [[Anime Hair]]. See also [[Tomboyish Sidetails]], [[Rapunzel Hair]] and [[Badass Long Hair]]. Compare with [[Anime Hair]], for the general likelihood of actually seeing these styles walking around, and [[Hime Cut]], when the short hair is only in front to frame the face.
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== [[Anime]]
* Soi-Fon (the captain of Squad 2) in ''[[Bleach]]'' has two. If
* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' has Ozma Lee, who pulls off a badass haircut that this troper has seen go horribly wrong in real life. Short clipped and tousled all around with [[Badass Long Hair|a ponytail down his back]]. This man has no
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' has [[Rich Bitch|Princess Ayeka]]. You'd hardly know she had the long hair without all that dramatic wind that keeps blowing. But she still has an adorable helmet-hair bob and some serious [[Rapunzel Hair]] long twin tails.
** Also Tenchi
* From ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'' [http://i30.tinypic.com/11u9av4.jpg there's Kaede]: short part in a straight bob, [[Rapunzel Hair|long part of her hair]] in a ponytail tied at the nape of her neck.
* The [[Sailor Moon|Sailor Starlights]] have
* Makoto from ''Idaten Jump''.
* Asta, at least in the ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' anime. From the front, it looks like a short cut. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122215924/http://www.spookhouse.net/angelynx/trinityblood/tb11-abel-asta-frame2.jpg From behind,] it's about as long as her [[Badass Longcoat]].
* The goddess Peorth from ''[[Ah!
* Micaiah Chevelle from ''[[Nanoha Vivid]]''.
* [[Spell My Name
* Possibly inverted with Laharl from ''[[Disgaea]]'', since his super-long tails are on top rather than on the underside.
* Mew Lettuce from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'', in twin braids for everyday and in a wrapped tail as a Mew-Mew. You actually see her twin braids down in episode 6, and that was a ''lot'' [http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g358/v_m_troper/mewlettuce.jpg of hair.]
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* [http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/2711/katekyohitmanreborn2010.jpg 25 year old Mukuro] from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' let his medium-short hair grow, and chose to keep his [[Rapunzel Hair|looong]] hair in an equally long ponytail. [http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/354/7/2/Mukuro_TYL_Vongola_by_Zodclnrl.jpg Behold] (note: fan coloring). He's also [[Master of Illusion|undeniably]] [[Sidekick Ex Machina|badass]].
** Uni in the same series also notably has this kind of hairstyle.
* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Luca's]] hair looks like a normal short cut from the front but has a very long wrapped ponytail at the back.
* Hikaru in ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' has short hair with a long thin braid.
* Musubi from ''[[Sekirei]]'' has this.
* The new ''[[Code Geass]]'' project, ''Boukoku No Akito'' (or ''Akito The Exiled'') features its titular [[The Protagonist|hero]], [http://static.zerochan.net/full/32/26/838832.jpg Akito Hyuuga] (pictured at right), with this hairstyle (the tail in question being a braid).
* Komachi/Cure Mint from ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'', a [[Shrinking Violet]] and the [[Barrier Warrior]] of her team, subverts this [[Beware the Nice Ones|most of the time]].
▲== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Hopey and Maggie from ''[[Love and Rockets]]'' have had rattails and variations thereof at different points in the series.
▲== [[Film]] ==
* The Padawan cut from ''[[Star Wars]]'' is cropped all around, except for one ''very'' long, thin braid.
* This picture of ''[[Mulan]]'', which shows her in the outfit and hairstyle she fought [[Big Bad|Shan Yu]] in at the end of the film, but for some reason had her hairstyle drawn in a way so it now includes a ponytail.
* The female cut for the [[Babylon
== [[
* Yuna from ''[[
▲* The female cut for the [[Babylon Five|Centauri]] could be considered this--shaved bald except for the long, long ponytail.
== [[Video Games]] == ▼
▲* Yuna from ''[[Final Fantasy X 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X-2]]'' has relatively short hair, except for a ''very'' long braid from the back underside that nearly reaches her feet. How she grew that much hair in two years is an unexplained mystery.
▲** ....Extensions?
*** Clip on hair dec?
* [http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-01/ffta-marche.html Marche] from ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]''.
* Grown-up Aile from ''[[Mega Man ZX]] Advent''.
* [[Pretty Boy
* Firion and The Onion Knight in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]''
* In ''[[Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume]]'',
* Zhong Hui from ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120725010007/http://www.zeldainformer.com/images/articles/Impa.jpg Impa] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'' has very short hair, but her bangs on her right side make a long tail.
* ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Soli of ''[[
* ''[[Homestuck]]'':
** The Handmaid: Neck-length hair, except for two bangs framing her face which reach almost to her feet.
** Later, Meenah is seen with two braid-thin tails that touch the floor behind her.
* In ''[[
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has Bobby idolizing a garage-band punk rocker with a buzz cut and a rat-tail. His attempts to do the same doesn't take off.
* If baldness can be taken for "short cut", then Prince Zuko had one in the first season of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
* Attempted with varying degrees of success and failure by mullets. Rarely do they reach [[Rapunzel Hair]] length with the long parts, rarely is the [[Badass Long Hair|long hair badass]], and rarely do mulleteers go for the all around short with a single long
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* Attempted with varying degrees of success and failure by mullets. Rarely do they reach [[Rapunzel Hair]] length with the long parts, rarely is the [[Badass Long Hair|long hair badass]], and rarely do mulleteers go for the all around short with a single long ponytail--but there are some occurrences.
* Rat Tail and Duck Tail are also [[Real Life]] examples of attempts at this style.
* A traditional Chinese hairstyle involves having the head mostly shaved bald except for an area in the back of the head which is grown long and braided into a tail. It's called a "queue" - not to be confused with the thing you stand in to wait for something.
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