History Main / RapunzelHair

** As Kallik refuses to let anyone else but his father cut his hair, he winds up with waist-long hair -- only for him to grouse about how heavy and cumbersome it feels, and immediately swap to a shoulder-length cut when he's reunited with his dad.

* Original character, [[https://www.deviantart.com/neko-rina/art/Video-Through-the-years-823300400 Mahel]], of [[https://www.deviantart.com/cici88 Cici88's]] original story, [[https://efpfanfic.net/viewstory.php?sid=571005&i=1 Lagharta]]. Her brunette rapunzeline hair is a defining feature of her design and her status as a demi-god. In her story, hair length is representative of magical power and all goddesses in the story have magnificent manes. In Mahel's case, her hair is mid-back-length in the human world, but quickly starts to lengthen once her divinity begins to surface after entering Lagharta's world, amid other general tweaks of beautification. Until it's grown to her ankles and beyond.

** We only see what this might look like in the game's spin-off - ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity]]'', through her sister Impa, whose hair as a girl of Link and Zelda's age, easilly reaches her ankles and is tied together in the lowest low-ponytail.

** Nejire Hado of the big three is a similar case. To match her spiral motif her hair has a natural swirl, and is at least knee-length in order to demonstrate. Long enough that in one scene her whole midriff is wrapped up in it when she's just out of bed. Its natural direction also makes it fan out, giving her hair an impressive amount of presence at all times. Plus she's able to fly, so it's shown blustering a lot.

** Nejire Hado of the big three is a similar case. To match her spiral motif her hair has a natural swirl, and is at knee-length in order to demonstrate that. Its natural direction also makes it fan out, giving her hair an impressive amount of presence at all times. Plus she's able to fly, so it's shown blustering a lot.

** Nejire Hado of the big three is a similar case. To match her spiral motif her hair has a natural swirl, and is at knee-length in order to demonstrate that. Its natural direction also makes it fan out, giving this hair an impressive degree of presence at all times. She can fly too, so it's shown blustering a lot.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Tsuyu's hair reaches her butt despite tying a couple feet of it into a bow. This works against her in the Training Camp Arc when Toga pins her hair to a tree with one of her knives.

* Male example: [[https://i.imgur.com/KyhR5Ll.jpeg]], used with permission. He didn't stop there, and currently his hair reaches below his knees (or below butt when braided).

* In the Greg Mandel trilogy, teenage heiress Julia Evans grows her hair long because she's CompensatingForSomething, having been overshadowed all her life by her MsFanservice best friend. She's gained a lot more confidence by the second novel, but having spent a decade growing her hair to her waist she's not going to get it cut now, especially given that a lot of girls are copying the "Julia Evans hairstyle" now that she's famous.

* In the Greg Mandel trilogy, trillionaire heiress Julia Evans grows her hair long because she's CompensatingForSomething, having been overshadowed all her life by her MsFanservice best friend. She's gained a lot more confidence by the second novel, but having spent a decade growing her hair to her waist she's not going to get it cut now, especially given that a lot of girls are copying the "Julia Evans hairstyle" now that she's famous.

* In the ''Manga/LuckyStar'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Starbound}}'', this is the primary factor that each of twelve Magé Stones look for in a potential host, before [[BeehiveHairdo restyling her hair]] to reside in.

* ''Fanfic/{{First Try|Series}}: Team Tetsuo'' [[LampshadeHanging hangs lampshade on this]] with a heavy-hand. Shinobi with long hair didn't wear it for cosmetic effect, but as SchmuckBait for any sucker that tried to grab it during a fight--it brought them into the ninja's InstantDeathRadius, and even if the grab worked, they could counter it perfectly well. As such, long hair worn down became a non-verbal "I'm better than you and I ''know'' it" statement as time went. [[AwesomeButImpractical It also had the exact same problems the trope description above talks about regarding weight, tangling, and upkeep]]. Tetsuo and Naruto make it painfully clear to Sakura during their training trip, in a moment that leads to the fic's version of her ImportantHaircut.
* In the latest of the ''Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX'' series, an age-regressed Reimu's hair is longer than what she is tall and has grown that way because she, apparently, doesn't want anyone to cut it. In one chapter, she uses it as a rope.

* During the Buffy series, Dawn usually had waist-length hair. In the Buffy/Stargate crossover fic ''Fanfic/AllYourBaseAreBelongToHer'', she's been letting it grow out for most of two years, and it's now well past her hips. It's striking enough that it's the first thing Jack notices about her, and Daniel also notes it as he's assembling a mental profile of the mysterious girl who's just appeared in the Gateroom.
* The Grand Elder from the Homestuck fic ''Fanfic/{{Cultstuck}}'' has hair down to his feet, and he's extremely tall.
* In the ''Manga/LuckyStar'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Starbound}}'', this is the primary factor that each of twelve Magé Stones look for in a potential host, before [[BeehiveHairdo restyling her hair]] to reside in.

* In ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'', Sakura has long pink hair that is stated to be her pride and joy. Unfortunately for her, during her fight with Ino in the [[TournamentArc Uchiha Zaibatsu Invitational Tournament]], Ino takes advantage of Sakura's hair length by grabbing it (with the expected pain that follows from such a thing) and holding Sakura in place to give her a beat-down.

* Felucia Sonsta and Astreal Ezrana of ''Fanfic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'' are both described with long hair. As shown in their official artwork, [[http://lorddaemon785.deviantart.com/art/Astreal-Ezrana-356724224 Astreal's hair]] reaches her waist, while [[http://lorddaemon785.deviantart.com/art/Felucia-Sonsta-Doll-Demon-357193059 Felucia's hair]] reaches her hips.

* ''FanFic/CastlevaniaNocturneOfRuin'': Stella's hair reaches her waist when let down; Charlotte reflects that she never noticed before because Stella always had her hair up beforehand.

* [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Lila Rossi]]'s unusually long hair is a plot point in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14792883/chapters/34223034 Fox Rain]]'': it's not only a subtle sign of her wealth (as properly taking care of it is expensive), but also doubles as a way to keep [[FairyCompanion Trixx]] hidden and close to her head, [[spoiler:saving her from [[BigBad Papillon]]'s plot to drive her into villainy because Trixx can immediately calm her down before she can be manipulated]].

* Deconstructed with Yang in ''Fanfic/RemnantInferisDOOM''. Because of how long her hair is, it makes it very easy to grab in a fight, made all the worse by how she's a close-range fighter. The Slayer forces her to tie it up into a ponytail so as to avoid the issue. Though this doesn't completely fix the problem, as seen in her fight with the Marauder, where she gets grabbed by her hair and tossed around in a form of MetronomicManMashing.

* Many of the characters in the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' franchise have long hair. Funny thing is that, as normal civilians, it's rare to see the girls with incredibly long hair (the longest one being [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi]], whose hair reaches past her waist when not up in pigtails), but once transformed, all bets are off. The exceptions in Cure form are Cure Black, Cure Bloom, Cure Lemonade, Cure Rouge, Cure Pine, Cure Sunny, Cure Sword, Cure Chocolat, Cure Milky, and Cure Sparkle.

* Trixie Tang and Princess Mandie on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''. Also "Bigfoot's" wife, who appeared in "Scout's Honor".

* ''VisualNovel/GSenjouNoMaou'' has Haru Usami's trademark head of hair which [[LampshadeHanging everyone she meets comments on]]. It's a huge mess of hair which runs past her hips. It's also plot-related, as when she was a kid, [[spoiler:she had a boy-cut. Upon meeting Kyousuke, he comments that he'd like it if Haru had longer hair. The problem was that he didn't specify how long he wanted it.]]

** There's also Syaoran's mother Yelan[[note]]A CanonForeigner who was invented just for the anime. She only appears in the first movie. In the manga, outside of Kero-chan referring to "the Li family", Syaoran's mother is never mentioned directly, nor are any other members of his family, for that matter (his sister Meiling was also invented for the anime).[[/note]], who's hair reaches her hips even when held up in a high ponytail.

* ''Fanfic/{{First Try|Series}}: Team Tetsuo'' [[LampshadeHanging hangs an]] [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped anvil-shaped]] [[DeconstructedTrope lampshade on this]]. Shinobi with long hair didn't wear it for cosmetic effect, but as SchmuckBait for any sucker that tried to grab it during a fight--it brought them into the ninja's InstantDeathRadius, and even if the grab worked, they could counter it perfectly well. As such, long hair worn down became a non-verbal "I'm better than you and I ''know'' it" statement as time went. [[AwesomeButImpractical It also had the exact same problems the trope description above talks about regarding weight, tangling, and upkeep]]. Tetsuo and Naruto make it painfully clear to Sakura during their training trip, in a moment that leads to the fic's version of her ImportantHaircut.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' has this for many of their female Blade designs. Among the main cast, Mythra, Poppi QTπ and Brighid are obvious, albeit relatively tame, examples, as are {{Guest Fighter}}s [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} KOS-MOS and T-elos]]. Then you have Blades such as Vess, Sheba, [[spoiler:Patroka]], and [[spoiler: Pyra and Mythra's ascended form Pneuma]], who have hair that nearly goes down to their feet. There's also one male example in Gorg, and one Driver example in Lora (albeit of the ShortHairWithTail variety).

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' has this for many of their female Blade designs. Among the main cast, Mythra, Poppi QTπ and Brighid are obvious, albeit relatively tame, examples, as are {{Guest Fighter}}s [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} KOS-MOS and T-elos]]. Then you have Blades such as Vess, Sheba, and [[spoiler: Pyra and Mythra's ascended form Pneuma]], who have hair that nearly goes down to their feet. There's also one male example in Gorg, and one Driver example in Lora (albeit of the ShortHairWithTail variety).

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' has this for many of their female Blade designs. Among the main cast, Mythra, Poppi QTπ and Brighid are obvious, albeit relatively tame, examples, as are {{Guest Fighter}}s [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} KOS-MOS and T-elos]]. Then you have Blades such as Vess and [[spoiler: Pyra and Mythra's ascended form Pneuma]], who have hair that nearly goes down to their feet. There's also one male example in Gorg, and one Driver example in Lora (albeit of the ShortHairWithTail variety).

* Played for laughs in ''Series/TheMuppetShow''. A group of Whatnots sing "Aquarius" from ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'' while their hair rapidly grows throughout the 1-minute song to the point where they can't see or move properly.