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* In the "Series/AvatarTheLastAirbender2024", happens to Katara when she fights Pakkun.

* In the "Series/Avatar:TheLastAirbender2024", happens to Katara when she fights Pakkun.

* In the "Series /Avatar:TheLastAirbender2024", happens to Katara when she fights Pakkun.

* In the "Series /Avatar:TheLastAirbender(2024)", happens to Katara when she fights Pakkun.

* In the "Series /{{ Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)}}", happens to Katara when she fight Pakkun.

* From ''Anime/{{Beyblade}}'': You know Rei is about to get seriously injured when an errant Beyblade severs his headband, releasing his long hair. Happens thrice throughout the series.

* Happens to Renji Abarai and Byakuya Kuchiki in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Also to Kenpachi.

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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Asuka loses her trademark pigtails in ''End of Evangelion''. [[FanDisservice This is NOT fanservice]], at least, not by the end of the fight.

* Neji from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' gets his headband (and hairband) knocked loose in his fight against Kidomaru, and then [[spoiler: it's used to save his life once everything is over]].
** This trope is more or less ubiquitous for ninja who wear a headband. When that is knocked off (leaving their hair loose), it's a sign that they are in big trouble.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': When Ranma's pigtail comes undone, [[spoiler:his hair won't stop growing -- fast. Yet ''another'' curse for the boy, this time because he ate a bowl of ramen with dragon's whisker on it; his ponytail holder is another dragon's whisker, which can stop the curse. Oh, and his hair doesn't grow when he's a girl. But once the men of the series know about it, they ''all'' want the dragon's whisker to solve their own problems with baldness - all of them, including his dad.]] Despite what common Fanon will tell you [[spoiler: the hair growing ended in the same issue where it was introduced. Untying the ponytail does absolutely nothing now, and he just keeps it for the sake of LimitedWardrobe.]]

* ''Anime/VirtuaFighter'': happens to Sarah Bryant in her final fight against his brother
* ''Manga/OutlawStar'': happens to Suzuka in her first fight against Gene. she was disarmed, Gene knocked Suzuka's sword out of her hand, forcing her to chase him in order to reach it first. When she gained ground, Gene pulled the sash from around her kimono. her kimono and SamuraiPonytail were going down.
* ''Anime/MarvelAnimeWolverine'': This happens to Amiko (Yukio's mother) when she's murdered by Shingen

* Happens to the human Twilight Sparkle twice in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'', once when Pinkie Pie starts messing with her when she recognizes her and again when the device capturing Equestrian Magic finally overloads and is unleashed.
* Happens to Wonder Woman/Diana Prince in ''WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman'', her hair ring shatters during the battle against Doomsday;

** The Emperor also gets one of these later in the film, as he [[spoiler:takes off his belt to beat his youngest son, Yu, who had just murdered his older half-brother both because of the aforementioned affair and Yu's own status as TheUnfavorite.]]

* ''Film/SoClose'': detective Kong has her long hair tied in a Ponytail. When she fights the main villain in a sword duel, one blow from her opponent makes her ponytail undone.

* In Dark Heavens, both the Xuan Wu (and later the protagonist, Emma) have this issue. They stop to tie their hair back roughly once a chapter - Xuan Wu because his body naturally tries to return to the state it was in when he became Immortal (IE: At the end of a battle. He tends to lose his shoes as well!) and Emma... presumably because she's an active girl doing insane things in Hong Kong, which is humid at the best of times. Oh, and [[spoiler: because she's 'Rapidly turning into a smaller version of the Xuan Wu']]
* Tash, in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', wears her hair in [[BraidsOfAction one neat braid]]. When she's locked into a room with the air being slowly vented in ''The Doomsday Ship'' and the room is later opened, she's found lying on the ground with her hair undone.
* In ''[[Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo TheDarkProphecy]]'' Hemethea keeps her hair in a single Braid until the end of Siege of Waystation.

* In ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', Duncan [=MacLeod=] generally had his hair securely tied back during duels. Only during very difficult battles would it loosen. And only the most dangerous fights with the most skilled foes would cause it to come completely loose.

* A famous example from the ballet ''Giselle'', is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7apjZDnE9qM Giselle's Madness,]] where the main character dances to the memories of everything that happened to her so far [[spoiler:right before she dies,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJtZQnhnlM4 with her hair loose.]] The ballerina playing Giselle has to have the tight bun ballerinas use undone, on stage; this is done by whoever plays Giselle's mother, while apparently crying over her unconscious body.

* A shuriken does this for Kasumi during her ending in ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive 3''.

** Aerith's ponytail comes undone in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' when [[spoiler:Sephiroth [[ItWasHisSled runs her through.]]]]
** In ''VideoGame/{{Dissidia|Final Fantasy}}'', Terra/Tina's hair is up as a human and down as an esper to show the more that her esper form is her primal side.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' when the player fights Mistral her hair starts out mostly brushed off to one side and almost looks like it's tucked into her suit somehow. By the time Raiden pushes her into last phase of the battle, it's loosely splayed around her shoulders.
* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear Xrd'', if you deal sufficient damage to [[CulturedBadass Ky Kiske]], his ponytail will come undone and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h71Qh2pDORU his theme song]] from ''Overture'' will start playing. Presumably, he's had enough of your shit at this point.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesTheWorldTreesWoeAndTheBlightBelow'', the female protagonist's hair falls loose when she enters [[LimitBreak high tension]]. Naturally, it miraculously ties itself back up as soon as she goes back to normal.

* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'', Kyrie's hair clip gets broken and her hair comes undone when Agnus kidnaps her.
* In ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive6'', happened to every character with ponytail when they were stroke by Break Blow (a special attack) from the Opponent .

* Maya Fey from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' ends up wearing her hair completely open for the first time in the series when [[spoiler: the evil spirit of Dahlia Hawthorne is finally exorcised out of her body.]] She collapses out of exhaustion seconds after this.

* ''VisualNovel/YoJinBo'''s Muneshige has his hair come undone during the final battle in his Good ending. [[spoiler: He later takes it down again at Sayori's request.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' has Carol Danvers undo her bun after becoming Ms. Marvel.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "Heart Hunter", Marinette's pigtails come loose while she plays in a ball pit. Both her LoveInterest and [[LesYay her]] [[TheRival rival]] agree that she looks good with her hair down.

** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Kale's ponytailed hair with PeekABangs functions this way whenever she transforms into her [[HulkingOut Super Saiyan Berserk]] form.

* ''Anime/OutlawStar'': happens to Suzuka in her first fight against Gene. she was disarmed, Gene knocked Suzuka's sword out of her hand, forcing her to chase him in order to reach it first. When she gained ground, Gene pulled the sash from around her kimono. her kimono and SamuraiPonytail were going down.
* ''Anime/Wolverine'': happens to Amiko (Yukio's mother) when she's murdered by Shingen

->'''Author:''' Couldn't you put it up in some way that it will fall down ''dramatically'' in the middle of a fight scene, or possibly when you're having a really involved argument with your hot enemy?
->'''Heroine:''' It's... really more likely to fall down at random, rather than at appropriate dramatic moments.

* Happens frequently to Abel Nightroad in ''Manga/TrinityBlood'', though somewhat subverted. When his usually neatly tied-up ponytail comes undone, you've just succeeded in really ticking him off. When he deliberately takes it down, it's time to [[OhCrap run]]. Justified (sorta) in that his TransformationSequence involves his hair becoming prehensile and flailing around before appearing to blow straight upward. I kept waiting for him to strangle someone with it.

If a character has long hair tied in a ponytail there is a chance that the hair will become undone during a fight or action scene. The probability of this happening increases with the intensity of the situation and the challenge the opponent poses. Of course, this isn't restricted to ponytails alone. [[GirlishPigtails Braids, twintails]], [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender hair loopies]], and other hairstyles just begging to get undone while in the heat of battle also count.

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