History Main / SciFiBobHaircut

* [[http://screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Evangeline-Lily-as-Hope-Van-Dyne-in-Ant-Man.jpg Hope van Dyne]] from ''Film/AntMan'' sports the same bob cut as her late mother, Janet van Dyne AKA The Wasp, a superheroine with shrinking powers thanks to the Pym Particle and a suit. At the end of the film, [[spoiler:it's stated that she will become the next Wasp with the updated suit her father Hank had created in secret]].

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** In ''Series/DoctorWho'', Zoe Heriot has this as a science-minded companion to the Second Doctor, who he met in a space station in the future.

* In ''Series/{{UFO}}, Lt. Ellis and her compatriots in SHADO's moon base wore a purple wig as part of her uniform.

!!Examples

%%* Lenalee Lee from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' sports a varient of this as her hair starts growing back from [[BoyishShortHair being boyishly short]] at the end of the 2006 series, and carries over into the 2016 sequel, ''Hallow''.

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[[folder:Commercials]]
* The Spanish [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcfkQ2W1ST8 Neutrex]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rld7fxAhRG4 advertisements from 2005-2006]] feature a blonde woman in white and blue clothes from the future bringing a powerful bleach that will leave your clothes spick and span.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIsmbVasU30 2009-2010 commercials]] have a new woman from the future, this time with a shorter bob and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]].

[[folder: Fan Works]]
* AnthropomorphicPersonification fanart of GLADOS (who is a robot) from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' almost always has her with a white bob haircut and YellowEyesOfSneakiness.
* Fem!Kirk Prime in ''Fanfic/WrittenInTheStars'' has this hairstyle. It's averted with her counterpart, however.
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[[folder:Film]]

* Laliari in ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' sports a bob cut while in human form.
* Sonmi~451 and the other fabricants in the ''Film/CloudAtlas'' movie.
* Friday in the 1964 film ''Film/RobinsonCrusoeOnMars'' is an uncommon male example.
* [[http://www.jurassicworld.com/sites/default/files/2016-10/claire_1440x653%20%281%29.jpg Claire Dearing]] operates ''Film/JurassicWorld'', a resort and dinosaur natural park with the highest technology, with a mandatory, though [[FieryRedhead fiery]], bob cut. Her clean and smooth hair gets [[http://i.imgur.com/UqE3Yym.jpg gradually dirtier and wavy]] as she gets more into jungle and dinosaur action.
* Rookie judge [[http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/dredd-image09.jpg Cassandra Anderson]] sports a blond wavy bob while she's taught by Judge Dredd in ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' how to deal with Ma-Ma's criminals in her building in [[CrapsackWorld Mega City One]].
* [[http://screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Evangeline-Lily-as-Hope-Van-Dyne-in-Ant-Man.jpg Hope van Dyne]] from ''Film/AntMan'' sports the same bob cut as her late mother, Janet van Dyne AKA The Wasp, a superheroine with shrinking powers thanks to the Pym Particle and a suit. At the end of the film, [[spoiler:it's stated that she will become the next Wasp with the updated suit her father Hank had created in secret]].
* BigBad [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vMQcuQ1zfuY/UwhHa9zLy2I/AAAAAAAACtM/QdFIvZDScuY/s1600/Cate-Blanchett-as-Irina-Spa.jpg Irina Spalko]] sports this style in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', perhaps fittingly seeing as the film is an homage to the 50's style sci-fi b-movie.
%%* [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/58/13/ae/5813ae6399cac90c8baf4a5aa7c4a867.jpg Pris]] from ''Film/BladeRunner'' combines this with EightiesHair.

* Chiana and other female Nebari from ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' combines this with [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe White-Skinned Space Babe]]. Like Leeloo, it's a bit more messy than typical for the trope, but ''Farscape'' (which takes place in the present day, only far from Earth) does does have a UsedFuture aesthetic.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': The AI computer Hilly (she's just a head on black screen) from "Parallel Universe" wears Sci-fi Bob Haircut. In the third season, she became a regular when the crew's computer Holly decided to take her likeness and make a gender swap. In the later episodes, however, her hair was longer.
* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]] Werther from ''Series/GuestFromTheFuture'' is a Rare Male Example.
* Rachel on ''Series/OrphanBlack'' has a harsh bob , which differentiates her from the rest of her clones, as well as differentiates her as being seemingly the only clone working for Project DYAD.

** Quill from ''[[Series/Class2016 Class]]'' has a very menacingly exact blonde bob. The show has a contemporary setting, but she is an alien in human disguise.
* The title character in ''Series/Cleopatra2525'' has a blonde bob.

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* Several characters of both genders in the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series are described as having shorter hair than is strictly fashionable, ranging from a bob cut all the way to shaved heads, specifically because loose hair floating around in a zero-g and/or industrial environment can be both inconvenient and potentially dangerous. On the planet [[CultColony Masada]], male spacers (there are no female Masadan spacers) can be easily identified by their short hair and clean-trimmed facial hair, in contrast to everyone else having long hair and beards.
* Benny Summerfield, of 'Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures' and later her [[Franchise/BerniceSummerfield own series]] started with short hair, and subsequently seems to have grown it out to about bob length.
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* When [[spoiler:EDI takes control over Dr. Eva's body]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' she gets [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ME3EDIBot_111.png a metal bob haircut (Picture spoiler for Mass Effect 3).]] She explains that it is not "hair" in the strict sense but a memory-shape metamaterial used to simulate hair. She just prefers to gather it into a protective bob shape when not using it for anything else.
* [[http://www.halopedia.org/images/9/99/Evolution_of_Cortana.jpg Cortana]] from the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series is an advanced military AI whose holographic avatar tends to have bobbed hair, particularly in the original ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''.
%%* Your PlayerCharacter can have this in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}''.

* In ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', this is Judge Hershey's most noticeable physical trait.

* Benny Summerfield, of 'Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' and later her [[Franchise/BerniceSummerfield own series]] started with short hair, and subsequently seems to have ''grown it out'' to about bob length.

[[caption-width-right:350:From the top left: [[Series/{{UFO}} Lt. Ellis]], [[Film/TronLegacy Quorra]], [[Series/{{Cleopatra2525}} Cleo]], [[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Lt. Valeris]], [[Series/{{Lexx}} Zev]], [[Series/{{Farscape}} Chiana]], [[Film/GalaxyQuest Laliari]], [[Film/TheFifthElement Leeloo]]]]

* [[http://i.imgur.com/709pjmV.jpg Claire Dearing]] operates ''Film/JurassicWorld'', a resort and dinosaur natural park with the highest technology, with a mandatory, though [[FieryRedhead fiery]], bob cut. Her clean and smooth hair gets [[http://i.imgur.com/UqE3Yym.jpg gradually dirtier and wavy]] as she gets more into jungle and dinosaur action.

* The title character in ''Series/Cleopatra2525 has a blonde bob.

* Zoe Heriot, a science-minded companion to [[Series/DoctorWho the Second Doctor]], who he met in a space station in the future.
* Also in the {{Whoniverse}}, Quill from ''[[Series/Class2016 Class]]'' has a very menacingly exact blonde bob. The show has a contemporary setting, but she is an alien in human disguise.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': The AI computer Hilly (she's just a head on black screen) from "Parallel Universe" wears Sci-fi Bob Haircut. In the third season, she became a regular when the crew's computer Holly decided to take her likeness and make a gender swap. In the later episodes, however, her hair were considerably longer.

* Zoe Heriot, a companion to [[Series/DoctorWho the Second Doctor]].

Unlike its SisterTrope the {{Twenties Bob|Haircut}}, '''Sci-fi Bobs''' are almost always mathematically straight edges and hair without curls. FashionableAsymmetry is also common, one side of the bob being longer than the other.

Unlike its SisterTrope the {{Twenties Bob|Haircut}}, Scifi Bobs are almost always mathematically straight edges and hair without curls. FashionableAsymmetry is also common, with one side of the bob being longer than the other.

* In the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' comicbooks, set in a megalopolis in the late 21nd and early 22rd century, this is Judge Hershey's most noticeable physical trait whenever she takes off her helmet.

* Though set in the present, the alien Laliari (an alien disguised as a humanoid female) in ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' sports a bob cut.
* Sonmi~451 and all the other fabricants in the ''Film/CloudAtlas'' movie.

* Chiana from ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' combines this with [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe White-Skinned Space Babe]]. Like Leeloo, it's a bit more messy than typical for the trope, but ''Farscape'' does feature a UsedFuture.

** Android Lal was created by Data as a blank slate, even appearance-wise. Lal chose to look like a young woman with pale complexion and black hair in a short sleek bob.

* Lt. Ellis, from the British series ''Series/{{UFO}}'', wore a purple wig as part of her uniform.

* Rachel on ''Series/OrphanBlack'' has a harsh bob haircut, which differentiates her from the rest of her clones, as well as differentiates her as being seemingly the only clone that works for Project DYAD.
* Zoe, companion to the Second Doctor on ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* Miss Quill in ''Series/Class2016'' has a very menacingly exact blonde bob. The show has a contemporary setting, but she's an alien in human disguise.

* Benny Summerfield, of the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' and her [[Franchise/BerniceSummerfield own franchise]] started with ''very'' short hair, and subsequently seems to have ''grown it out'' to about bob length.

* Bob haircuts and white hair seem to be the default hairstyle for the [[AmazonBrigade Sisters of Battle]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'', a [[ScienceFictionTabletopGames science-fiction tabletop game]].

%%* [[http://www.halopedia.org/images/9/99/Evolution_of_Cortana.jpg Cortana]] from the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series tends to have bobbed hair, particularly in the original ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''.

* Lenalee Lee from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' sports a varient of this as her hair starts growing back from [[BoyishShortHair being boyishly short]] at the end of the 2006 series, and carries over into the 2016 sequel, ''Hallow''.

* [[http://www.halopedia.org/images/9/99/Evolution_of_Cortana.jpg Cortana]] from the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series tends to have bobbed hair, particularly in the original ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''.

%%* [[http://www.halopedia.org/images/6/68/H4-Cortana-FullBody.png Cortana]] from the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series has this.

* Lenalee Lee from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' sports this as her hair starts growing back from [[BoyishShortHair being boyishly short]] at the end of the 2006 series, and carries over into the 2016 sequel, ''Hallow''.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification fanart of GLADOS from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' almost always has her with a white bob haircut and YellowEyesOfSneakiness.

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* [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/58/13/ae/5813ae6399cac90c8baf4a5aa7c4a867.jpg Pris]] from ''Film/BladeRunner'' combines this with EightiesHair.

* [[http://www.halopedia.org/images/6/68/H4-Cortana-FullBody.png Cortana]] from the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series has this.
* Your PlayerCharacter can have this in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}''.

* [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/58/13/ae/5813ae6399cac90c8baf4a5aa7c4a867.jpg Pris]] from ''Film/BladeRunner'' combines this with EightiesHair.

* [[http://www.halopedia.org/images/6/68/H4-Cortana-FullBody.png Cortana]] from the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series has this.
* Your PlayerCharacter can have this in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}''.

* ''WebComic/DresdenCodak'' has so many of these, especially in the more recent arcs.