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If [[The Reveal]] is particularly huge or unwieldy, it may result in [[Please Keep Your Hat On]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' [[The Movie]] had Juri and Utena's character designs altered significantly. While Juri's hair has always been insanely elaborate, the volume of hair she fits in a simple fencing helmet (full French curls plus [[Rapunzel Hair]] that extends almost to her knees) is just ridiculous. Utena, by contrast, actually has character sketches that show how her relatively more modest length of hair could in fact be braided tightly enough to manage hiding it under her hat. Of course, when she takes her hat off it's not braided at all...

* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', when Mokuba challenges Yugi during the Duelist Kingdom arc, he's wearing a disguise in which he manages to cram his three pounds or so of hair underneath a cap.

* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]''. Cynthia keeps her hair loose, but on the very same head under the very same cap Grace keeps the very same hair, without changing the volume of the cap itself.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Depending on who's drawing him at the time, [[Wolverine|Wolverine's]] flared mask could concievably contain his distinctively flared hairstyle (they're rarely drawn to actually match up, flaring-wise - in fact, the haircut came a while after the mask; he's never unmasked in his first appearances). The muttonchop sideburns are a different matter - some artists don't even bother to draw his mask covering the parts of his jaw where there's hair when he's unmasked. And how does his hair stay so distinctively flared when he keeps wearing a mask over it?

 

* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Tsuruya begins their first [[Curb Stomp Battle]] by revealing her identity. She pulls off a blonde wig, and her ankle-long green hair drops to the ground. This is soon followed by Kyon and Yuki shifting into martial arts mode, and beating all 24 of their opponents into a lengthy stay at the hospital.

 

* Averted in ''[[Victor Victoria]]'', in that Julie Andrews has her hair cut that short to perfect her Count Grazinski look. ''Double'' averted in that the "drag reveal" involves a woman pulling off a long wig to reveal short, mannish hair.

* Anya in ''[[Anastasia]]'' Appears to have a small ponytail for most of the movie, but when she lets her hair down later when she's all dressed up, her hair is much longer than the ponytail would account for. If you look closely, at the small "ponytail", though, you can see that it's actually only the ends of her hair sticking out of a very tight bun.

* Brenda fitting her hair into [[In the Hood|that hoodie]] in ''[[Urban Legend (film)|Urban Legend]]''.

 

* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' plays this straight when Eowyn removes her helmet at the climax of a pitched battle. Interestingly, though, ''[[The History of Middle Earth]]'' has revealed that in an early draft of ''Return of the King'', Tolkien averted the trope instead—originally Eowyn cut her hair short before donning men's armor.

* The children's novel ''Half-Magic'' has Katherine whipping off her helmet after defeating one of King Arthur's knights, with her long brown hair revealing that she is a female . . . and also nine years old.

 

* Shepherd Book from ''[[Firefly]]'' has a rather scary version of this trope.

* Jeri Ryan's hair is mid-back length, but she wore it tightly braided to play Seven of Nine on ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''.

** This is also how the modern [[Batwoman]] conceals her identity, hiding her short red hair under a long red wig.

 

* The song "Signs" by Five Man Electrical Band has these lyrics:

 

* Not universal, but very common in ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' and the rest of Shakespeare's comedies of crossdressing. [[Fridge Logic|Why did no one ask Cesario why he never took his hat off for three months?]]

 

* Millia Rage (''[[Guilty Gear]]'') is probably the most extreme example of this trope. Her hair naturally falls to her ankles while tied up, but she also uses it as a weapon, and it takes huge and ridiculous shapes. Also, in one winning pose, she takes off her ponytail and her hair flops to the ground, stretching to about two feet from her!

** In-universe, explained by it not being hair but a magical symbiote permanently bonded to her which has a high-end [[Healing Factor]]. How it retracts again, though...

* Noel Vermillion's (''[[BlazBlue]]'') long hair is usually kept up in a beret, somehow.

** Between the Morph Ball mode and her 200+ missiles, keeping a ponytail underneath her helmet is a minor trick.

* Multiple members of Organization XIII in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' defy the laws of physics by managing to keep their [[Anime Hair]] hidden under their hoods. Vanitas hides {{spoiler|Sora's gigantic 'do}} in a perfectly head-sized helmet, which is partially explainable by the fact that he doesn't so much as remove his helmet as transform it Also, Zack Fair can hide his big spiky hair under a Spartan style helmet. Ventus is a borderline example. Then there's Terra, who somehow crams all of his thick hair (which reaches to around his shoulders) inside his head-sized helmet. Though for Ven and Terra, the helmets are summoned on.

* Edea of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' in her first scene, where her long hair just disappears inside her headgear.

* Ron Delite of ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' fame has hair that resembles [[Anime Hair|cinnamon buns]]. Fans often wonder how it could possibly fit in {{spoiler|his Mask De*Masque mask}}.

* Custom character creation and [[Clothing Damage]] in ''[[Soul Calibur]] IV'' combine to allow this. You can give a character a huge afro and put a close-fitting helmet over it, and it'll magically be sucked into hammerspace. Until you break the helmet in combat, that is, at which point it ''erupts''. Players have been known to lose matches from the distraction.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' whenever players put on a helmet all of their hair disappears under it. The same applies if they put on a hat, even if their hair is three feet long and they're wearing a small cap.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''. The player can choose to get a giant afro, which remains entirely undamaged by the wearing and removal of any headgear.

* ''[[The Legend of Heroes VI]]'' Tita Russell.

 

* Nightfall in ''[[Elf Quest]]''. She wears a headscarf most of the time, except when she's literally letting her hair down.

* ''[[Cuanta Vida]]'': How the heck does Jordi/Bleu/BLU Spy fit his poofy, scruffy hairstyle into his class's tight-fitting balaclava without making it look all lumpy? Early on it's fairly believable, but his hair gets [https://web.archive.org/web/20110309162150/http://tf2.skyscrapersoup.com/?p=189 pretty long] as the comic progresses.

* In ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', Pamela's nurse cap is pretty small, but when she [https://web.archive.org/web/20150908101646/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2004-07-02 takes it off . . .]

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': Vriska Serket and Aradia Megido both have ''very'' long and unkempt hair. How they fit it all into {{spoiler|their tiny [[Physical God|God Tier]] hoods}} is anyone's guess. In a lesser case, Nepeta Leijon's hair is taller and wider than the tiny cat cap she normally wears.

 

* [[Spots the Space Marine]] has thick dark hair that comes down to her ass, yet she can tape it up so it fits under her helmet.

* In [http://lalunenoire.deviantart.com/art/Villain-Attire-165990880 this picture], take a look at what [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Jasmine]] and [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Aurora]] have on their heads. It's like most of their hair is gone.

 

** Similarly, in an episode of ''[[Duckman]]'', Cornfed pulls off his rather small hat and an enormous afro-like hairdo comes ballooning into view.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' just loves this trope. Zuko's Season Three shaggy [[Emo Teen|emo boy mop]] can be tied neatly into a topknot; Katara's slim braid disguises hair so thick it is wider than her shoulders (which is actually realistic as her hair is showing to be wavy, and thus really can compress like that); Azula's little topknot/hair antennae combo, when let down, reveals waist-length locks; and in a reversal, Sokka's ponytail implies hair about shoulder-length, but when untied is barely level with his chin, and it's in a sort of wedge cut that would really be impossible to get into any semblance of a ponytail.

** It's not a ponytail, it's a [[Insistent Terminology|warrior's wolf tail!]]

** [[Meta Guy|Comic Book Guy]] gets a bit of this in an episode as well. When Bart is haggling with him over trades, he offers to throw in his "man-scrunchie". Tied back, his hair seems to be your typical balding-guy ponytail. But once unleashed, it flows with volume and sheen worthy of Salon commercial.

* It takes no time for ''[[Kim Possible]]'' to fit her waist-length hair under a helmet, even if it's automatically popped on her head by a gadget.

** Shego's hairdo, on the other hand, outright shrinks by 50% the only time we see her out of costume.

* There was one episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' that had Sam donning a Gothic-like wedding gown. Her usual short hair suddenly seem to grow twice its size when styled into two wild ponytails. [[Rapunzel Hair]] Jazz once squeezed her entire hair inside the Fenton hazmat suit she was wearing.

* One episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' had Dale telling a story of [[The Rashomon|his version of events]]. In the story, his characteristic hat falls off revealing, not his usual bald head, but what can only be described as a glorious mane of flowing hair.

* Ten from ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' has a rather voluminous head of blond hair, but in costume her head is as smooth as an egg.

* The futuristic [[Animated Adaptation]] of the French character Fantomette has her hide [http://millepompons.free.fr/image/0502_dessin_anime/da_fantomette.jpg long black hair] under [http://millepompons.free.fr/image/0502_dessin_anime/da_francoise.jpg a redhead wig no larger than a helmet].

* As part of her [[Samus Is a Girl]] [[The Reveal|reveal]] in ''[[The Flight of Dragons]]'', Danielle initially appears wearing a Robin Hood style cap, then removes it to reveal her long, flowing red hair.

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Xmas Story", in a scene parodying ''[[The Gift of the Magi]]'', Zoidberg, Amy (whose hair could easily lend itself to this trope), and Hermes are all wearing hats. Zoidberg offers Amy a set of combs, only for her to take off her hat and reveal she sold her hair to a wigmaker so she could buy a set of combs for Hermes. "Oh, the irony," says Hermes, who also reveals he sold his hair to buy a third set of combs for Zoidberg. Zoidberg thanks Hermes for the combs, then takes off ''his'' hat to show he now has Amy and Hermes's hair, exclaiming "Finally, I look as pretty as I feel!"

 

* Depending on how long someone's hair is, wrapping it up in a towel after washing it can have this effect.

* [http://www.dreamweaverbraiding.com/braids/lhknot.htm This hairstyle.]

* Some marching band uniforms require girls with hair past their shoulders to tie it back and shove it all inside their hats somehow.

* Some people with long hair [[Always Female|(usually women and girls)]] who wear their hair up and then [[Letting Her Hair Down|let it down]] will sometimes get comments from people who are surprised to learn just how long their hair actually is now that it's down.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LSs7pKn_s4 Phoenix Jones] was hiding a hi-top fade under his superhero mask.

 

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