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{{trope}}
[[File:ImaageChangeResize 3313.jpg|link=V for Vendetta|frame|Just a little off the top...]]
Jewelry, [[Unlimited Wardrobe|vast wardrobes]], and [[Beauty Equals Goodness|facial beauty]] are not the most prized possessions for some societies and individuals; instead, it's... [[Hair Tropes]].
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* In the ''[[Peach Girl]]'' manga Momo is bullied by a trio of Kairi's fangirls. They tell her that she doesn't deserve Kairi and force her to the ground while holding a lighter to her hair, telling her unless she signs a treaty (saying that she'll stay away from Kairi) then they'll burn all her hair off. Thankfully, Kairi rescues her, but not before the girls manage to singe a bit of Momo's hair.
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** A female villain in a [[Filler]] arc of ''Shippuden'' was ''very'' sensitive about damage to her hair. It turns out that {{spoiler|she is actually a [[Body Snatcher|Body Snatching]] head of hair}}.
* In the manga version of ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', {{spoiler|Akito cuts Isuzu's long hair while attempting to kill her slowly and painfully by starving her in a private room in the Sohma estate. It's strongly hinted that she did so because Isuzu's long hair reminded Akito of her [[Abusive Parents|abusive mother]], Ren, who wears her hair exactly that way ("Long black hair... like that woman... it makes me so sick!"). It doesn't help that Ren actually asked Isuzu to do something for her with fake promises and ''that'' is when Akito caught and captured her.}}
* Tsukushi is in the receiving end of this in the second half of ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]''.
* Happens to Jessie in an episode of ''Pokemon'' where a Scyther chops it off and she spends the rest of the episode trying to get revenge. The end of the episode has a Scyther give her and James involuntary mohawks. Arceus help you if you damage [[Pokémon (anime)|Jessie's]] hair. She's been known to attack snakes larger than herself ''with her bare hands'' for this offense -- [[Unstoppable Rage|and not only win]], but ''make the snake her personal bitch'' for the next six seasons.
* Akane's accidental haircut courtesy of both Ranma and Ryoga in ''[[Ranma ½]]''. Both Ranma and Ryoga start apologizing profusely, expecting a [[Megaton Punch]] or the like, but Akane was remarkably calm about it. Turns out she only had long hair to begin with to impress Dr. Tofu. Now, if her hair had been cut ''before'' she gave up the crush on the older man, heads would've rolled.
{{quote|'''Ranma:''' She wasn't hurt, but she sure got a bad cut.}}
** Not that it stopped her from giving both Ranma and Ryoga an [[Armor-Piercing Slap]] before she left, though. To be fair, ''both'' of them [[Hit Me Dammit|told her to hit them]] in between the apology round.
** After this, we're also introduced to principal Kuno, the father of Tatewaki, whose weapon of choice is a pair of hair clippers. We learn that in previous times, his favorite obsession was shaving his son bald (an obsession still burning, and one that now affects all the students in the school), and this is something that has [[Dark and Troubled Past|left deep scars in Tatewaki's heart.]] Traumatic haircut indeed.
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* And... A modern [[Superman]] comic had [[The Joker|Joker]] show up with a chemical which causes mass hysteria because... It makes them bald.
== Fan Works ==
* From a work on ''[[DeviantART]]'', part of a larger series where cartoon heroines are cast as wrestling divas. OC character [[Dark Action Girl|Shadowline]] challenges Entrapta to a Cabellera match, [https://www.deviantart.com/great-dude/art/Shadowline-Vs-Entrapta-925150459 but loses]; subverted, however, as Entrapta decides to give her [https://www.deviantart.com/great-dude/art/Shadowline-Vs-Entrapta-02-960566449 a trendy haircut].
== Film ==
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* During the [[Extended Flashback]] that takes up most of the length of ''[[Hiroshima Mon Amour]]'', the female protagonist (who is French) describes how her head was forcibly shaved as punishment for an affair with a German soldier during [[WW 2]].
* Similarly, the Irish lead character of ''Ryan's Daughter'' has her head shaved after an affair with a British soldier.
* In the Japanese classic ''
* Una and, later, Bernadette in ''The Magdalene Sisters''. Might also have happened to Crispina, who has an uneven haircut and is unstable enough that she might have tried to escape like the others.
* Sarah Michelle Gellar's character in ''[[I Know What You Did Last Summer]]''.
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* ''[[The Crying Game]]''. Dil. {{spoiler|The last thing she wants to be is a boy again}}. The only way Dil agrees is that Fergus insists that he's doing it for love; she still cries as her hair is cut.
{{quote|'''Fergus''': Do anything for me?
'''Dil''': Anything... ''(Fergus starts to cut her hair)'' '''[[Anything But That|NO WAY!]]'''
'''Fergus''': You said ''anything''.
'''Dil''': Girl has to draw the line ''somewhere''. }}
* Happens to [[Joan of Arc]] in the 1928 silent film ''[[The Passion of Joan of Arc]]'': her hair is cropped to stubble on-camera. It counts as a real-life example too, as Joan's actress Maria Falconetti apparently begged director Theodor Dreyer not to have to do it.
== Literature ==
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** Also happens in L.M. Montgomery's ''Anne of Green Gables'', because she {{spoiler|attempts to dye her hair black, but it comes out greenish.}}
* In the book ''Circle Of Blood'' by Alane Ferguson, the book's victim is found dead with her long braid cut off beside her. It later turns out that {{spoiler|her killers were members of the cult she escaped from, and cutting off her hair was their way of stealing her beauty.}}
* In ''Red Seas Under Red Skies'', the second book of the [[Gentleman Bastard Sequence]] Sequence, Locke observes a noble's holiday retreat in which chess is played with live peasants who are paid a pittance to endure the game and must pay a gruesome forfeit when "taken". Forfeits can be anything short of actual death. One of the first ones he observes is a young female "chess piece" being forcibly stripped, and when this has little effect on her the noble player orders that her head should be shaved as well.
* ''[[The Deed of Paksenarrion]]'': This may ring a bit hollow given the rest of the terrible stuff that follows (including actual rape), but a shaved head is one of the first things to be done to Paks during her three days of [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]. The act invoked the (more lawful) established practice of ''tinisi turin'' ("shorn sheep"), [[Insignia Rip Off Ritual|a punishment for military criminals]].
* In F.M. Busby's ''Rissa Kerguelen'' series, people forced into the "Total Welfare" system—government-sanctioned slavery, essentially—have their hair clipped almost to the scalp. When our heroine is freed from the system, the first thing she announces she's going to do is grow her hair as long as it will go.
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* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', when {{spoiler|Ivy is kidnapped by Denarians and tortured}}, this trope happens.
* [[Harry Potter]] gets his untidy dark hair chopped off by his aunt, all except the bangs ("to hide that horrible scar!") However, being a wizard, it grew back overnight, though Harry lost the entire night's sleep over the fear of getting laughed at more.
* In ''[[
* Happens in ''Becky's Horse'', by Winifred Madison, when Becky's sister Mimi {{spoiler|tries to dye her hair blonde and it comes out greenish.}} She has it cut, and stops being vain about her hair.
* In ''Junie B. Jones is a Beauty Shop Guy'', the six-year-old heroine is pretending she's a hair stylist and experiments on herself. Her dad takes her to a beauty parlor for a neatening trim from an actual one.
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* Ehlana gets a drawn-out version during the [[Elenium|Tamuli]]; each message her kidnappers send to Sparhawk include a lock of her hair. By the time Sparhawk catches up with them, she's been shaved bald ... which shouldn't have been necessary, there weren't that many messages. Her kidnappers may have taken extra for the trauma value.
* In the novel ''Pretty Is,'' Erin sneaks up on her ex-best friend [[Alpha Bitch|Kayla]] in the middle of the night and cuts off her long golden hair.
* The Appendices of the [[The Lord of the Rings]] depict one of these in the backstory behind the war between the Dwarves and the Orcs. Hostilities were touched off when the Orc chieftain Azog killed King-Under-The-Mountain Thror, then beheaded him and branded his name on his forehead. All that would have been bad enough, but then Azog decided to shave off Thror's beard too. ''That'' was the [[Berserk Button|absolute last straw]] for the Dwarves, who prided themselves on their full and manly beards, and so began a [[Kill'Em All|war of utter extermination]].
* [[The Hero and The Crown]] has a rare example of the heroine ''inflicting'' the haircut: Aerin gives her annoying and vain cousin a knock-out drink, then sneaks into her room and cuts off her eyelashes. Hilarity ensues.
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* Chel in ''[[Alien Dice]]'' has her waist-length hair cut when she is kidnapped. Soon after, she breaks a mirror to make a knife so that she can cut her hair further (removing a rat-tail that the kidnappers left) and re-assert her independence and control.
* Charlie and Tom in ''[[Khaos Komix]]'' are attacked by a mob of their schoolmates after Charlie shows up in school in a girls' uniform, and during the beatdown, Charlie is [[Sadistic Choice|given a choice]]: either she cuts her hair, or the ringleader's boyfriend vaginally rapes Tom.
* In ''Lint'' by Colby Purcell, Al'bert du Fromage (the elvish noble and evil henchman) is obsessed with his long hair (particularly the single white strain) as a running gag. The hero once threatened to cut it off while [https://web.archive.org/web/20140826031818/http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/2005/10/27/10272005/ questioning him], causing him to break immediately. Later, to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140826023450/http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/2007/09/14/09142007/ punish his failure], his [[Big Bad|boss]] Lord Fang ordered his men to throw Al'bert in the dungeon and "... cut his hair too, would you?", prompting a "[[Big No|NOOOOOOOO!]]".
* In what may be a rare male example, Bumper in [[Dominic Deegan]] becomes keen to genuinely hurt the eponymous seer after Dominic's actions result in Bumper losing his topknot.
* In ''[[Strays]]'', [http://www.straysonline.com/2012/01/page-202/ Meela's brother cuts her hair over her objections]. She wants to go home. He wants them to pass as brothers instead of a brother and sister, which is how their enemies are looking for them.
* April in College Roomies from Hell has her hair cut after she kills another character.
* In ''[[Samurai Princess]]'' Jacquline gets one of these.
* ''Assignée Garçon'' ([https://web.archive.org/web/20190103043405/https://www.assignedmale.com/ ''Assigned Male'']) by Sophie G. Labelle follows a [[transgender]] girl, [[Author Avatar]] Stéphanie, from the beginning of her transition at the age of eleven. Relatively early, she asks for a haircut "like [[Rapunzel]]"... which [https://assignedmale.tumblr.com/post/113935360372/tadaa-ive-been-working-on-this-for-several ends badly].
== Web Original ==
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* Averted (or ignored, either way it's notable) in ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', where normally, as noted below, a samurai would kill himself if he lost his topknot. For Jack it just turns him into a [[Badass Long Hair]].
* In an episode of [[Rugrats]], Chuckie had to get his hair cut. Since he's two and a coward, he didn't want one. It didn't help that Angelica terrified him into believing that a hair cut involves having every one of his hairs pulled out by the roots.
* An episode of ''[[
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'' - Hank and his friends have to get their heads shaved after Bill infests them with head lice.
** In the third season opener Luanne gets her hair burned off in the propane explosion, she actually spends most of the season with short hair until it eventually grows back to it's previous length.
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* During [[Genghis Khan]]'s rule of Mongolia, he sent envoys to attempt to open trade with a neighboring nation. Even after being rebuked with violence, he tried again and did not retaliate until his envoy had his beard forcibly shaved as a method of humiliation, and was sent back home. Khan then declared war. [[Badass|And proceeded to wipe the country out]]. The Mongols took the concept of diplomatic immunity very seriously and humiliating or mistreating an ambassador in such a manner was tantamount to a declaration of war.
** A similar incident happened in the Bible to envoys sent by King David to the Ammonites (2 Samuel 10). In that case, the envoys only lost half of their beards ... but they also lost the bottom half of their garments. The Ammonites came to regret their decision.
* In ancient Japan, a woman's hair [https://web.archive.org/web/20060111161211/http://www.h.ehime-u.ac.jp/~marx/courses/2004/fall/Hearn/Hearn-Hair.htm was considered one of her greatest treasures]. Cutting her hair off against her will was considered to be on a level with raping her. So when it happens in anime it is significant by Japanese cultural standards (example: early in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', when Keiko enters Yusuke's burning house to save his still dead body. While she succeeds, Koenma states that, in return for saving her life, he had to take something away from her body. That, as it turns out, was her then.long hair - handwaved in which the fire had burned the hair at its tips, so they had to be cut off already. Yusuke gets pretty mad at Koenma when he sees this).
** It's worth noting that in Japan, if a woman is raped she's considered dishonored and unfit for marriage, and will most likely commit suicide. Or move to another, more lenient country and cut off all contact with her friends and family. At least, that's the way things used to be.
** Not just the women. If a samurai lost his topknot in a fight it was considered far worse than losing his head, and he'd have to commit [[Seppuku]] to regain his honor. The movie "Hara Kiri" explores this and other samurai rules of honor in depth (and the hypocrisy in which the rules were often applied).
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* The kings of the Merovingian Dynasty that ruled the medieval Frankish Empire traditionally had long hair. When the last Merovingian king, Childeric III was dethroned by his mayor of the palace, Pepin the Short, he was sent to a monastery and tonsured, thus symbolically deprived of his royal powers.
* Patients about to go through chemotherapy for cancer will often shave their hair before hand, as the treatment is notorious for losing hair. This is often (and understandably) traumatic for the patient (ESPECIALLY if the patient is a woman) and for the family and friends, because it really confirms the patient's illness. It's not uncommon for family and friends to also shave their heads in solidarity with the patient.
* While not an actual hair ''cut'', there was an incident a few years ago{{when}} when some high school kids held down a girl (who was popular because of her long hair) and spread Nair (hair remover) on her head.
* In Argentina there was a show called ''El Último Pasajero'' (The Last Passenger) in which two groups of teenagers in their last high school years competed for a graduation trip for the whole class division, which is a tradition between Argentinian students. One of the games, and the most viewed, consisted in a member of one team selecting someone from the opposite team, normally a pretty girl with long hair, in order to get him/her a horrible haircut. The teen could refuse but [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|their classmates made that choice rather difficult, by insisting and treating the girl as a traitor if she didn't acced to the task]]. Most of the girls who acceded to cut their hair ended up crying.
** The show was sold to other TV stations outside of Argentina, and the game was kept in at least the Chilean and Peruvian versions.
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* In Chile, a 14-year-old schoolgirl wearing [[Rapunzel Hair|two very long]] [[Girlish Pigtails|and noticeable braids]] is questioned about it by her teacher. She doesn't pay attention, so the teacher forcibly takes her to the teacher's room and cuts them off. The poor girl is traumatised, the parents are understandably '''pissed off''', and the case reaches public attention.
** A 15-year-old boy with hair past his shoulders [http://www.elpinguino.com/noticias/107451/Apoderada_denuncia_al_Liceo_Sara_Braun_por_cortarle_el_pelo_a_su_hijo went through a similar situation.]
* In the 19th
* In the book ''Siblings Without Rivalry'', the authors recount an incident of this that happened to one of the members of their support group for parents trying to improve their parenting techniques. The parent in question had curly hair that she was proud of, but her sister was jealous of. As a result, the parent's mother took her to the barber and had all her hair cut off.
* A couple of years ago, in [http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2010/01/the_trimet_barber.html Portland, Oregon,] there was a guy who sat behind women on the bus and cut off their hair or put glue in it.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Long Hair Is Feminine]]
[[Category:Hair Tropes]]
[[Category:Older Than Feudalism]]
▲[[Category:Traumatic Haircut]]
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