History Main / EightiesHair

* Many regular and guest characters on ''Series/DoctorWho'' in the 80s.

* The female X-Men Storm and Rogue got big hair when Marc Silvestri became penciler in the late Eighties. Also extra-dimentional Longshot joined the group bringing his trademark mullet with him.

* ''TheWeddingSinger'' invokes this trope.

* ''{{Hobgoblins}}'', taken to [[UpToEleven extremes]].

* Who could forget Sarah Connor's massive femullet in ''TheTerminator''?
* Joan Cusack's hair in ''WorkingGirl'' defies the laws of physics.
* Played for laughs in ''JoeDirt'', where the eponymous Joe Dirt has an ass-ugly mullet. Its actually a wig his mother put on him as a baby, on account him being born without the top of his skull. The bones apparently grew and got infused with it, leaving poor Joe stuck with it.

* When Jules and Vincent enter Brett and Roger's apartment near the beginning of ''PulpFiction'', Jules calls Roger "Flock of Seagulls" because of his 80s haircut. The character is even referred to as Flock of Seagulls in the stage directions of the movie script.

You are flipping through channels. Suddenly a woman comes into view that has huge bangs[[note]] ''British English'': a huge fringe[[/note]]. You can not help it. You shout "EightiesHair!" Be it the Jheri curl, wanton crimping, the feathered and volumized big hair, or the mullet, hair from TheEighties [[IncrediblyLamePun sticks out]].

You are flipping through channels. Suddenly a woman comes into view that has huge bangs[[note]] ''British English'': a huge fringe[[/note]]. You can not help it. [[CallingYourAttacks You shout]] "EightiesHair!" Be it the Jheri curl, wanton crimping, the feathered and volumized big hair, or the mullet, hair from TheEighties [[IncrediblyLamePun sticks out]].

* AlexKingston does her best to tame it down, but her wildly unruly curls are rather her trademark.

** On the Blu-ray release of season 1, we see a body double, '''not''' LeVarBurton, with a crazy jheri curl [[http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/bonus_s1/sdrevisited_2/tng1_stardaterevisited2_194.jpg wearing Geordi's VISOR in a wardrobe/makeup test]].

** On the Blu-ray release of season 1, we see a body double, '''not''' LeVarBurton, with a crazy jheri curl [[http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/bonus_s1/sdrevisited_2/tng1_stardaterevisited2_194.jpg trying Geordi's VISOR in a wardrobe/makeup test]].

* All over 80s music videos, of course, but perhaps most memorably in Whitesnake's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg "Here I Go Again"]], where singer David Coverdale's luxurious locks compete heroically with then-girlfriend Tawny Kitaen's.
* In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHGyipqYFr8 "Stop to Love"]] by LutherVandross, backup singer Lisa Fischer has the most epic mohawk you'll ever see outside anime.

* The Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock were guilty of this throughout their original run, but it was ''really' extreme in the later years.
* Before becoming a successful solo artist in the 90s, SherylCrow [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyNlL1ZN6WU sang backup]] for MichaelJackson in the 80s and had '''ginourmous''' hair.

Also a reaction to [[Series/KnightRider Michael Knight]], [[MacGyver Angus MacGyver]], etc.

* ShirowMasamune works ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'', ''{{Appleseed}}'', and ''GhostInTheShell'' are all full of 80's hair, since they were all drawn in the 80s. The anime adaptations from the 2000s generally avert this with giving most characters altered haircuts.

* In ''WeddingPeachAbridged'', Limone mocks Pluie's "hideous devil mullet."

** The ''DragonLance'' characters tend to have EightiesHair in spades, especially the women like Tika or Crysania.

* ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' is a rather glaring example... especially since it's supposed to be set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
** Handwaved as it's noted that the Eighties has come back in fashion - Priss's band plays "oldies", aka Hair Metal/Glam Metal.

* ''Anime/HeavyMetalLGaim'': This anime was made in the middle eighties, and the character's hairstyles reflect this. Nei Mo Han is a big offender, with her giant, floating mane, held by a hair band.

* MasamuneShirow works ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'', ''{{Appleseed}}'', and ''GhostInTheShell'' are all full of 80's hair, since they were all drawn in the 80s. The anime adaptations from the 2000s generally avert this with giving most characters altered haircuts.

* ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'', ''{{Appleseed}}'', and ''GhostInTheShell'' are all full of 80's hair, since they were all drawn in the 80s. The anime adaptations from the 2000s generally avert this with giving most characters altered haircuts.

* ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'', ''Appleseed'', and ''GhostInTheShell'' are all full of 80's hair, since they were all drawn in the 80s. The anime adaptations from the 2000s generally avert this with giving most characters altered haircuts.

* DominionTankPolice, Appleseed, and GhostInTheShell are all full of 80's hair, since they were all drawn in the 80s. The anime adaptations from the 2000s generally avert this with giving most characters altered haircuts.

* ''Anime/HeavyMetalLGaim'': This anime was made in the middle eighties, and the character's hairstyles reflect his. Nei Mo Han is a big offender, with her giant, floating mane, held by a hair band.

* ''{{Bastard}}'' is a crowning achievement in 80s cheese, complete with giant feathered hair on most characters.
* Every Franchise/{{Gundam}} show set in the UC era, due to the fact that the most notable of UC shows were made in the eighties. ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Gundam Unicorn]]'', set during UC 0096, keeps this for the sake of continuity, even though it ''started'' in 2010.

* SaintSeiya first aired in 1986. It shows! Sideburns abound, seriously. Also a glaring example (in the anime) of YouGottaHaveBlueHair, which, when combined with this trope, is a little weird.

* Folken from ''VisionOfEscaflowne'' has a mullet.

* ''{{Dancougar}}'' is another fantastic example. Especially notable is Ryo, who looks like part of a Hair Metal band. Then again, before becoming a SuperRobot pilot, he kinda was.
* ''{{Slayers}}'' stars a main character with a headband and some impressively huge bangs, even for an anime. Not much of a coincidence since the original novels began in the 80's.

* In RevolutionaryGirlUtena, where most of the male eye candy has standard ninties {{Bishonen}} hair, Akio's lavender mullet not only stands out sharply, but wonderfully compliments his [[CoolCar car]] [[TechnologyMarchesOn phone]] as well.

* Oh {{Saiyuki}} you and your love of [[http://pics.livejournal.com/gosurori_otaku/pic/00003093/s640x480 mullets]].

* Sally Acorn, and pretty much every original character from the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' Archie Comics.

* In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHGyipqYFr8 "Stop to Love"]] by LutherVandross, backup singer Lisa Fischer has the most epic mohawk weave you'll ever see outside anime.