History Main / ShonenHair

%% * ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'': Several characters have hair like this, including Sena, Monta and Hiruma. The series lampshades the trope: Sena's hair is a cross between Goku's and Astro Boy's. Sena looks exactly like Astro Boy with his hair gelled down and his dad has the same hairdo. Hiruma actually has normal hair but styles his hair this way to add to his rebellious image. As for Monta, he's simply copying the hairstyle of his hero, who has a less cartoony version of the haircut.

** Side character-turned-BreakoutCharacter Kirishima has spiky red hair that rivals both Midoriya's and Bakugo's hairstyles, and it fits his HotBlooded, [[TestosteronePoisoning manliness-obsessed]] personality. However, it's actually invoked since he dyes his hair red (his natural hair color is black) and uses gel to spike it up.

* A number of characters from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', particularly Sanada Yukimura ([[ShortHairWithTail who also has a ponytail]]). Date Masamune is an odd case in that, while his hair is [[http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/10/82869.jpg normally rather tame]], it seems to [[http://www.kitazeinbou.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/vlcsnap-255946.jpg magically spike out under his helmet]]. Static cling, maybe?

* Isaac from ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' has hair like this, which is ''[[http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-3-page-10 "spiky all on its own"]]''.

* Hiro Hamada from ''Disney/BigHero6'' has what could best be described as what happens when Disney does ShonenHair (to go with its anime-inspirations). His hair is spiky and messy, but in his case it's been confirmed that he styles it that way.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': At least one kid from each series, usually the protagonist, who'll be hot-headed and immature, and also wear useless goggles. In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' however, it's [[RareFemaleExample Rika]] that sports this kind of hair and hot-headed personality, while the others have hairstyles more plausible in reality.

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** Side character-turned-BreakoutCharacter Kirishima has spiky red hair that rivals both Midoriya's and Bakugo's hairstyles. However, it's actually invoked since he dyes his hair red (his natural hair color is black) and uses gel to spike it up.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Both protagonist Midoriya and deuteragonist Bakugo have typical messy shonen hair, but in different styles [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance that reflect their personalities.]] Midoriya, being friendlier, has softer, more wavy-looking hair, while the more aggressive, HotBlooded Bakugo has more stiff, jagged SpikyHair (that also fits with his ability to generate explosions.)

%% * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': The title character and a few of his friends, like Kiba.

* Parodied in one episode of ''Anime/YokaiWatch''. Eddie says that "static hair" is the new trend amongst boys. Nate (who already has a spiky hair) and his friends try to make their hair spiky after they overhear Katie saying she likes boys with that hairstyle.

%% * Hiro Hamada from ''Disney/BigHero6'' has what could best be described as what happens when Disney does ShonenHair.

* The appropriately named Hiro from ''Videogame/LunarEternalBlue'' sports this hairstyle.

%% * Compared to her friends, [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]]'s hair certainly has shades of this. It helps that she's the most tomboyish of all the main characters.

* Isaac from the ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' has hair like this, which is ''[[http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-3-page-10 "spiky all on its own"]]''.

%% * Isaac from the ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' has hair like this, which is ''[[http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-3-page-10 "spiky all on its own"]]''.

%% * Rick from ''Webcomic/LuminaryChildren'' counts.

%% * [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isaac_cast_3970.png Isaac]] of ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' has hair like this, which is ''[[http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-3-page-10 "spiky all on its own"]]''.

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%% * Peter Parker has hair like this in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''.

%% * The title character in ''Film/CecilBDemented'' has total ShonenHair.

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%% * The Music/{{Vocaloid}} character Kagamine Len has this kind of hairstyle, although fanart tends to tone it down.

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* Iki from ''Manga/AirGear''.
* ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'': Despite being fairly realistic and featuring normal haircuts for almost all of the main and supporting characters, AntiVillain Magatsu Taito looks like he's carrying a porcupine on his head. We're talking foot-long spikes. It doesn't go unnoticed. At one point, somebody mentions InUniverse that hair like that will be [[GenreSavvy popular in a couple hundred years]].
* ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'': Orihara Ichiriki, one of Mashiro's assistants, has messy spiked hair. A bit of a NonStandardCharacterDesign, as he looks like he comes from a HotBlooded, action-y shonen manga while Bakuman is a more realistic series. Of course, ''Bakuman'' has [[MundaneMadeAwesome plenty of]] hot-bloodedness anyway, so he doesn;t look ''too'' out of place.

** Ichigo Kurosaki, the Espada Grimmjow Jaggerjack...

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Touma Kamijou. In a bit of a subversion, Touma actually [[InvokedTrope deliberately styles it that way with hair gel.]]
* ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'': Joshua Christopher, although it's much more toned down than some of the other examples on this page. (He pretty much fits the personality for this trope to a T.) [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Chrono]] might count, too, although he's got a long braid at the base of his neck in addition to the spiky hair on his head.
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Spike Spiegel has hair that sticks out all over the place, but it's more curly than spiky. (Faye at one point describes it as "fluffy".) [[{{Bifauxnen}} Ed]] has the more stereotypical spiky hair.

* ''Anime/DuelMasters'': Shobu Kirifuda.
* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'': Several characters have hair like this, including Sena, Monta and Hiruma. The series lampshades the trope: Sena's hair is a cross between Goku's and Astro Boy's. Sena looks exactly like Astro Boy with his hair gelled down and his dad has the same hairdo. Hiruma actually has normal hair but styles his hair this way to add to his rebellious image. As for Monta, he's simply copying the hairstyle of his hero, who has a less cartoony version of the haircut.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': [[TheHero Natsu]], [[TheLancer Gray]], and [[TheRival Gajeel]] all have this hairstyle.
** Whenever Natsu is in the middle of a hard battle, his bangs go down because of the damage he takes. During the Tenro Island arc, he even uses his Fire Dragon Slayer Magic to heat up his hands to style his hair to its usual style.
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': Tamahome and Tasuki, as opposed to just about everyone else. Bonus points because Tamahome keeps his hair in a ponytail anyway. Of course, that was before the [[MoralEventHorizon you]][[ImportantHaircut -know-]][[HeroicBSOD what]] involving Suboshi in the middle of the series.
* ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'': Hayato Kazami, Naoki Shinjyo and Johji Ohtomo have these. Hayato's is more noticeable, and it gets bigger in the last 2 [=OVAs=].
* ''Manga/GetBackers'': A lot of characters, most notably the two protagonists, and ''especially'' Ban (though being drenched leads to his hair becoming completely tamed... for a while).
* Manga/{{Hamlet}} has this.
* ''Franchise/KagerouProject'': Shintaro, Hibiya, Seto and (to a lesser extent) Haruka all have this. In Shintaro and Haruka's cases, it's [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] [[spoiler:by the same person, no less]].

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''
** Jotaro Kujo is revealed to have this when he loses his cap.
** An even better example is Joseph Joestar, his grandfather. When he was young, that is.
* Both Tetsuya Tsurugi and Kouji Kabuto from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/GreatMazinger''.
** And both Ken and Ryo from ''Anime/MazinkaiserSKL''.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': The title character and a few of his friends, like Kiba.
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': The Hitachiin twins. Seems to be intentionally {{invoked}} by the twins -- flashbacks show that before they joined the Host Club they had identical bowl cuts instead of the wild, spiky haircuts they have in present day, and they're considered the "Devil" type in the host club and are ''supposed'' to be a little wild.
** It's more obvious in the anime. In the manga, their hair looks much more natural and isn't quite as poofed out, although it's obvious they usually style it with hair gel.
* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': [[TheHero Jordy Volder]] has messy, spiky, blonde hair.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Loads of characters.
** There's even a popular icon that has a picture of Ash Ketchum, stating that "His hair can poke people's eyes out".
* ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'': [[HotBlooded Goh]] and [[BrattyHalfPint Mannen]].

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': In the [[WordOfGod author's notes]], Creator/NobuhiroWatsuki explicitly mentions that [[KidSamurai Yahiko's]] character design is that of the archetypical wild-haired Shonen Protagonist, and [[TheLancer Sano's]] hair is so crazy he gets called "Rooster-head" InUniverse. (Interestingly enough, as the series progresses, Kenshin's hair grows progressively ''less'' wild. ArtShift that doubles as a sign of CharacterDevelopment!)
* Darren has this in the manga adaptation of ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', at least when he's not bald.

* ''Manga/SoulEater'': Soul and Black☆Star.
* ''Anime/{{Superbook}}'': Chris.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' - while Kamina's hair is this trope played straight, Simon is an interesting example - his hairstyle becomes more and more like this each time he [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in Badass]].
* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Battler Ushiromiya, despite the fact that it's not a shonen.
* Main character from ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}''.

* ''Franchise/YuGiOh''
** Yugi/Yami from first ''Anime/YuGiOh'' - yes, his hair just looks like an eccentric hairstyle... until it's hinted it's natural.
*** To the point where flashbacks show baby Yami as having the same hairstyle. In Ancient Egypt. Meanwhile, his dad has straight, black hair like a normal Egyptian. Makes you wonder what his mom looks like.
*** Oh she had perfectly normal, long black hair, for the single panel of the manga that she appears in.
*** Strangely, baby Yami in the manga is given a regular black ponytail on the left side of his head, as per ancient Egyptian style.
** ''[[Anime/YuGiOhGX GX]]'' has many of them - Chazz, Syrus, Adrian and Jim to name a few. Protagonist Jaden actually averts this with a hairstyle that's plausible in real life.
** ''[[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds 5D's]]'' - Yusei (pictured above), possibly one man with weirder hairstyle than Yugi. There's a reason he's called [[FanNickname 'Crabhead']] among the fandom. Jack keeps boasting that he's a King and then take into account his hair looks like a crown.
*** Take a long look at a group pic of The Enforcers and see if you can match up these names: [[FanNickname Crabhead]], Sea Urchin, Broomstick, and (after his second appearance) [[spoiler:Sephiroth]].
** And then ''[[Anime/YuGiOhZexal Zexal]]'''s Yuma manages to completely [[UpToEleven out-crazy pretty much every hairstyle in the series]] [[spoiler:- and that's [[PowerMakesYourHairGrow before he enters]] SuperMode!]]

* Another [[KidHero Jin]], this time from ''Anime/ZettaiMutekiRaijinOh'', has this. Apart from his two other classmates Akira and [[TheSlacker Yoppa]], the rest of the main cast sport more or less normal hairstyles.

* Possibly Wolverine from the X-Men—he is generally portrayed with particularly feral hair and sideburns that look a bit like horns, especially in earlier renderings.
* Beast was portrayed with something similar until he turned into a cat.

* ''Fanfic/WedFlyAwayTogether'': Lampshaded wheh Tara makes fun of the spiky haircut Dick had as Robin. She says that he could have poked someone if he'd charged at him like a buffalo.

* Peter Parker has hair like this in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''.

* The title character in ''Film/CecilBDemented'' has total ShonenHair.
* Hiro Hamada from ''Disney/BigHero6'' has what could best be described as what happens when Disney does ShonenHair.

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* Briskir from Literature/{{Halvgudene}} has this.
* Literature/HarryPotter was described as having this kind of hair, which the movies ignored.

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* Sosuke of ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger''. {{Lampshade}}d in a behind-the-scenes blog pic when someone holds up a [[Franchise/DragonBall Saiyan Goku]] figure beside him.
** Also comes up in several other series. Typically, HotBlooded reds have the official hairstyle of hotblood.
* [[Series/BeakmansWorld Beakman]] sported a 'do that was basically a Shonen interpretation of EinsteinHair. See the picture on the work's own page, because mere words cannot begin to do it justice.
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* The Music/{{Vocaloid}} character Kagamine Len has this kind of hairstyle, although fanart tends to tone it down.
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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Eternally scruffy and hyperactive Calvin.
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* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series is rife with them:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'''s Fighter class;
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'''s Cecil (as a paladin) in sprite form, he's a LongHairedPrettyBoy otherwise, Edge in all forms.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'''s Bartz
** Cloud Strife of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'';
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'''s Zidane;
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'''s Tidus.
* Roxas and Sora of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', among others.
** And, conversely, Ventus and [[spoiler: Vanitas]].
** Heck, Sora even acknowledged himself with one when Tifa asked him about Cloud's whereabouts!

* Neku Sakuraba from ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''
* Every ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' character either has this or IdiotHair.

* ''VideoGame/RetroCityRampage'' has this as a hairstyle called The Weaboo.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', parodying ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', gives us a Protagonist with spiky hair. As a justifying drop, his super-spiky hair gel gives this effect to the player: "Your hair is seriously spiky. It looks good, and it could put an eye out -- the eye of your foe." A specific Protagonist appears as a Quest NPC: [[{{Wangst}} Mist Angst]].

* Many ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' characters. It's so noticeable with the male protagonists that it becomes terribly noticeable when the ''VideoGame/PokemonXY'' protagonist doesn't have AnimeHair of ''any'' sort.
** Same goes for male ''VideoGame/{{Fossil Fighters}}'' protagonists, except there are no exceptions yet. [[MindScrew Chew on that one.]]

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* Jeff, in the EasterEgg of ''WebAnimation/BowsersKingdom'' episode 8, gains this when he ate the [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Chaos Emerald]] and fights [[WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ Turbo Mecha Sonic]] on an even level.
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* [[http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/File:CGnobackg.png Karkat]] (and [[http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/File:John_Egbert.png John]] to a degree) of ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' both sport this style.
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isaac_cast_3970.png Isaac]] of ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' has hair like this, which is ''[[http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-3-page-10 "spiky all on its own"]]''.

* Rick from ''Webcomic/LuminaryChildren'' counts.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' version of Robin. Some episodes [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] and [[ParodiedTrope parody]] this trope.

* [[LovableSexManiac Kenny]] from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has blond ShonenHair, although we [[InTheHood rarely get to see it]].

* Compared to her friends, [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]]'s hair certainly has shades of this. It helps that she's the most tomboyish of all the main characters.

* ''Fanfic/WedFlyAwayTogether'': Lampshaded wheh Tara makes fun of the spiky haircut Dick had as Robin. She says that he could hve poked someone if he'd charged at him like a buffalo.

* Jeff, in the EasterEgg of ''WebAnimation/BowsersKingdom'' episode 8, gains this when he ate the [[SonicTheHedgehog Chaos Emerald]] and fights [[WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ Turbo Mecha Sonic]] on an even level.

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* ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'': Orihara Ichiriki, one of Mashiro's assistant, have messy spiked hair. A bit of a NonStandardCharacterDesign, as he look like he come from a HotBlooded, action-y shonen manga while Bakuman is a more realistic serie. Of course Bakuman have [[MundaneMadeAwesome plenty of]] hot-bloodedness anyway, so he does'nt look too out of place either.

-->-- '''Gold''', ''Manga/PokemonSpecial''

-->'''Eddie''': Yewh, the static boys are way in--Boys who are so charged up with static electricity that their hair stands on end.\\

* Both protagonist Midoriya and deuteragonist Bakugo from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' have typical messy shonen hair, but in different styles [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance that reflect their personalities.]] Midoriya, being friendlier, has softer, more wavy-looking hair, while the more aggressive, HotBlooded Bakugo has more stiff, jagged SpikyHair (that also fits with his ability to generate explosions.)

* HarryPotter was described as having this kind of hair, which the movies ignored.

* [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isaac_cast_3970.png Isaac]] of ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' has hair like this, which is ''[[http://paranatural.net/index.php?id=113 "spiky all on its own"]]''.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': At least one kid from each series, usually the protagonist, who'll be hot-headed and immature, and also wear useless goggles. In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' however, it's [[RareFemaleExample Rika]] that sports this kind of hair and hot-headed personality.