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

* Axel of ''KingdomHearts'' defies the laws of physics by managing to keep his huge shock of spiky red AnimeHair under his cloak hood. 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 his face [[spoiler: seeing as he's an Unversed and all.]] Also, Zack Fair can hide his big spiky hair under a Spartan style helmet. Ventus is a borderline example.

* ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' TheMovie 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 RapunzelHair 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.

* As shown in the image, Eowyn in the Rankin/Bass adaptation of ''[[Animated/TheReturnOfTheKing]]''.

* As shown in the image, Eowyn in the Rankin/Bass adaptation of ''[[Animated/TheLordOfTheRings Return of the King]]''.

* In ''ShakespeareInLove,'' Gwyneth Paltrow managed to get her waist-length hair under a short wig so she could disguise herself as a prepubescent boy and thus play the part of Juliet, in which she let her real hair down.
** Nonono. Viola, Paltrow's character, played Romeo in rehearsals; Juliet was played by an actual prepubescent boy.
*** Nonono. The boys involved were pubescent, not prepubescent. (Ie, young boys 14-18. "Prepubescent" would be 9-12.)

* In the XWingSeries of the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, there are a number of Twi'lek pilots. No mention is made of how they accomodate their brain-tails to their pilot helmets, though there are apparently "socks". But on at least one occasion, they dress up in stormtrooper armor, and the Twi'lek character is specifically commented on as probably being very uncomfortable with her sensitive brain-tails all scrunched up in the helmet.

* Axel of ''KingdomHearts'' defies the laws of physics by managing to keep his huge shock of spiky red AnimeHair under his cloak hood. 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 his face [[spoiler: seeing as he's an Unversed and all.]] Also, Zack Fair can hide his big spiky hair under a Spartan style helmet.

* Axel of ''KingdomHearts'' defies the laws of physics by managing to keep his huge shock of red hair under his cloak hood.
** ''Spiky'' red AnimeHair, to boot.
** Try Vanitas hiding [[spoiler:Sora's gigantic 'do]] in a perfectly head-sized helmet.
*** That's at least partially explainable by the fact that he doesn't so much as remove his helmet as transform his face [[spoiler: seeing as he's an Unversed and all.]]
** Zack Fair can hide his big spikey hair under a (rather doofy looking) Spartan style helmet.

* In ''{{Gundam 00}}'', Princess Marina Ismail is guilty of this when she goes on a world tour to negotiate a solar power generation system. How she keeps her [[RapunzelHair butt-length hair]] attached is anyone's guess.

Except...hair doesn't entirely work that way. It can range from "fairly difficult" to "BeyondTheImpossible" to successfully hide long or thick hair in a small space. And even if it can fit, there's a real-life phenomenon known as "helmet hair" -- hair that's been tucked up under a close-fitting piece of headgear for very long tends to be not so flowing and perfectly styled when it's released.

* TruthInTelevision: Jeri Ryan's hair is mid-back length, but she wore it tightly braided to play Seven of Nine on ''StarTrekVoyager''.

Let's face it. Hair that is striking in its [[RapunzelHair length]], [[EightiesHair volume]], or [[HairColors color]] makes a very dynamic visual, and as such, many a work of fiction will have a character who has it. But wait! For some reason or other, the person with the striking hair needs to be disguised so that either other characters, the audience, or both don't realize it's them.

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