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[[File:quirkycurls01_2663.jpg|link=My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|frame|Pictured above, this trope and [[Princess Curls|a completely different curl trope]].]]
 
 
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* Gaap from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'' has this crazy curly haircut, and her characterization follows pretty closely the [[Trickster Archetype]].
* Dorian for ''[[From Eroica Withwith 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?).
 
== [[Comics]] ==
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* 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 ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Soul Music|Soul Music]]'' she makes the biggest deal about it, and that's the book where she attempts to braid her hair and it always manages to unravel itself. (Although the braids could simply be to conform to her school's dress code, rather than a reflection of her personal preferences.)
* [[Harry Potter|Hermione Granger]] has the 'nerdy girl frizz' version of these curls, including the classic scene where she straightens them out and transforms into a beauty (once, for a dance, and it took hours and a lot of magical hair-care potions and we never see her do it again).
** 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 Action TV]] ==
* The Fourth Doctor from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' is a clear male example. [[Jerk Withwith 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.
* Cassie from ''[[Skins]]'', who is the resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]], although averted with Michelle who also has curly hair.
* Maeby from ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''.
* Lizzi in ''[[Greek]]''. As part of her makeover in her last episode (to break her out of being just a [[Plucky Office Girl]] being stepped on by the other Nationals, particularly Tegan), Casey and Ashleigh got rid of the frizz and gave her a more professional, dead straight haired look.
* [[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.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Catgirl|Catalina Bobcat]], the little boisterous gingery closet-lesbian girl from ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]''. It was revealed that she deliberately styles her hair that way, and it is naturally flat. Also has freckles.
* Angelica, the ditzy Russian [[Strange Girl]] from [[Bloody Urban (Webcomic)|Bloody Urban]], has very thick, curly, bright orange hair.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* From ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' Pinkie Pie is an extremely hyper and high energy [[Genki Girl]] and is the only Pony with this kind of curly hair. When she loses her excitability because she thinks her friends have abandoned her, her mane and tail becomes flat.
* From ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'', Miss Frizzle has extremely curly hair. She's also incredibly weird.
* ''[[Recess]]'': Miss Grotke, the [[Genki Girl]] [[Hippie Teacher]].
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