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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?

Short Hair or [[Rapunzel Hair|Long Hair (theatre)]]? 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-Haired Pretty Boy]] at the same time.

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 [[Short Hair with Tail]] is quite obviously a short style all around ''with'' a noticeable tail.

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]] & [[Manga]] ==

* Soi-Fon (the captain of Squad 2) in ''[[Bleach]]'' has two. If [[Short Hair with Tail]] is any character indicator, the short cut says she can [[Action Girl|kick some serious butt with the rest of them]], and the long hair is in keeping with the dramatic, showy side of her personality and how girly she gets around [[Les Yay|Yoruichi]].

* ''[[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 mullet--he has pure awesome growing from his scalp.

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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.

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== [[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.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* The female cut for the [[Babylon 5|Centauri]] could be considered this--shaved bald except for the long, long ponytail.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Yuna from ''[[~~Final Fantasy X 2|~~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.

* Yuna from ''[[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|Pretty Boys]] Yukimura and Nagamasa (and [[Butt Monkey|Kanbe]]) from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' all have this, suposedly so they could keep their long [[Samurai]] hair while staying [[Hot-Blooded]] and manly.

* Firion and The Onion Knight in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]''

* In ''[[Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume]]'', [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100131164915/valkyrieprofile/images/4/44/Valkyrie_profile_covenant_of_the_plume_art_3%282%29.jpg Cheripha] has this.

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== [[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]]''.

== [[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.