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▲[[File:leela_purple_ponytail_1110.jpg|link=Futurama|right|Action Hair for an [[Action Girl]].]]
Basically using a ponytail to set off girls who are [[Tomboy
This is [[Truth in Television]] for many tomboys in [[Real Life]], due to the '''Tomboyish Ponytail''' being an easy to do style that gets your hair out of the way. In fiction, odds are that if a girl is wearing a ponytail (save for one paired with an elegant hairstyle), she's not going to act demure or feminine, at least [[She Cleans Up Nicely|not all the time]]. Back when girls just didn't have boy hair, no matter what, ponytails were a way for tomboys to rebel against the curls their mothers wished they'd worn. At least this was the case in 60s-80s girl empowerment fiction.▼
▲Basically using a ponytail to set off girls who are [[Tomboy|Tomboys]], [[The Ladette|Ladettes]], or at least don't act in a "proper" girlish manner.
▲This is [[Truth in Television]] for many tomboys in [[Real Life]], due to being an easy to do style that gets your hair out of the way. In fiction, odds are that if a girl is wearing a ponytail (save for one paired with an elegant hairstyle), she's not going to act demure or feminine, at least [[She Cleans Up Nicely|not all the time]]. Back when girls just didn't have boy hair, no matter what, ponytails were a way for tomboys to rebel against the curls their mothers wished they'd worn. At least this was the case in 60s-80s girl empowerment fiction.
Bonus points if she wears overalls or is a [[Rebellious Princess]].
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Contrast [[Regal Ringlets]], [[Princess Curls]], [[Long Hair Is Feminine]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Makoto Kino, aka Sailor Jupiter, of ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
* Ukyou from ''[[Ranma
** [[Gender Bender|Ranma]] wore "her" long hair this way while training in China.
* Sango in ''[[Inuyasha]]'' has her long hair bound in a ponytail when she's in her battle-garb. Otherwise she has it tied at the end with a ribbon.
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* Kyoko Sakura of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. While her magical girl outfit isn't really tomboyish, she's the only character seen in causal clothes other than a school uniform (she wears a blue hoodie and shorts in most scenes).
* Vietnam of ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''.
* Misaki of ''[[Excel Saga (
*
* Presea from ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. Also, tomboys Tarta and Hikaru have their hair in a braid. Contrast to the girlier girls Emeraude, Alcyone, Tatra, and Umi, who wear their hair down. Caldina, Fuu, and Aska are harder to classify, since they have both tomboy and girly girl traits, but all wear different hairstyles.
* Asaka (AKA [[Action Girl|Neuroloid Girl]]) in ''[[Dokkoida
* ''[[Bleach]]'': [[Action Girl]] Yoruichi. She used to have short hair, but a hundred years spent mostly as a cat allowed her hair to grow out. Now she spends most of the time with it tied back in a ponytail while she [[Badass|kicks butt]] with the best of the men. Since her extremely high aristocratic rank wasn't quite high enough to be a [[Rebellious Princess]], she also doubles as a [[Spirited Young Lady]], too.
* Played with in ''[[K-On!]]'': Mio pulls her hair back into a Tomboyish Ponytail whenever she needs to stop being a proper young lady and do anything physical.
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Young Justice (
* Betty Cooper from ''[[Archie Comics]]'', as the [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|Tomboy to Veronica's Girly Girl]].
== Fan Works ==
* ''[[
▲== Films ==
* Laney of ''[[She's All That]]'', to show how she's too weird to be pretty.
** Which got mercilessly mocked in ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]''.
* Cady in ''[[Mean Girls]]'' before she joined the plastics.
** The plastics actually tell her that they have a rule about only wearing hair in a ponytail once a week.
== Literature ==
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* [[Thursday Next]].
** Also her [[Evil Twin]] [[Thursday Next]]-1, a [[Dark Action Girl]] who has a much more severe ponytail, held in place by a leather strap rather than a scrunchie. ([[Thursday Next]]-2 is a subversion, at least to start with; she's an [[Actual Pacifist]] [[Granola Girl]] whose scrunchie is made of hemp.)
* Kate Whetherall from ''[[The Mysterious Benedict Society]]''. Also Jillson, who ties her ponytail with wire.
== Live-Action TV ==
* Jo from ''[[The Facts of Life]]''.
* [[Unkempt Beauty|Kara Thrace]] from the rebooted ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Lois Lane]] often sported a
== Video Games ==
* [[Action Girl|Lara Croft]] from ''[[Tomb Raider]]''.
* Hilda (Touko in the Japanese version), the female player character in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'', has a ''huge'', [[Eighties Hair|voluminous]] ponytail, complete with [[Hair Antennae]]. Her look gives off a convincing [[Tomboy
* Marle of ''[[
* Lip of ''[[Panel
* Princess "Eva" Evangeline of the Kingdom of the Northern Reaches, poster girl for ''[[Dungeon Siege|Dungeon Siege II,]]'' sports this look, as did her predecessor from the first game, officially known as Farm Girl.
=== Visual Novels ===
* Mion of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
==
▲* Mion of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'', but she is girly at heart.
* Zii of ''[[Ménage à 3]]''.
* Kate of ''[[Rhapsodies]]'' (When she doesn't have it in a pencil studded bun.)
== Web Original ==
* Sasha Hunter of ''[[Greek Ninja]]''.
== Western Animation ==
* Leela of ''[[Futurama]]''.
* Plum Pudding from ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'s Berry Bitty Adventures''.
* Applejack's mane in ''[[My Little Pony
** Megan from the original ''[[My Little Pony]]'' series wore her hair like this.
* Bridgette of ''[[
* Heloise on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''.
* June of ''[[
* Talon from ''[[Static Shock]]''.
* Artemis on ''[[Young Justice (
* ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'':
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Expository Hairstyles]]
[[Category:Long Hair Is Feminine]]
[[Category:Always Female]]
[[Category:Hair Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Trope]]
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