History Main / SupernaturalFloatingHair

* "ComicBook/DcVsVampires'': After being [[spoiler: turned into a vampire, Wonder Woman's hair seems to be constantly floating, emphasizing her undead nature.]]

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* In ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'', one form of the spiral curse plaguing the town of Kurozu-cho is living hair which stands upward in mesmerizing spiral disks which consume the enemy of the person attached.

* Yubaba in ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' wears her hair in a bun for most of the film, but when her hair is let down and she panics about losing her son Boh, her hair streams around her in the air.

* The witch in ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'' manifests (in contrast to the town's Halloween WickedWitch perception of her) as an electrical ghost, with hair that floats upwards and turns into lightning.
* The First Ancestor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' is a spirit who has both floating hair and beard.

* The ghost of Josette in ''Film/DarkShadows'' has floating hair, perhaps in connection to her death in the water.
* The ghost of Enola in ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' has very long hair that floats behind her.
* The eponymous Lavagirl in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl'' has a constant breeze running through her hair, perhaps to imitate a lava flow or otherwise signify her power.

* Rene Arroy from the ''Literature/ArciaChronicles'' is a pirate captain who goes down with his ship at the end of book two, but is brought back along with his ship by a divine intervention, becoming the world's FlyingDutchman. Afterwards, he appears as pretty much any living human, except for his hair, which looks like it's being constantly ruffled by a strong breeze, even when he is indoors.

* All of the possessed humans in {{Franchise/LEGO}}'s WesternAnimation/HiddenSide theme gain floaty, wild hair and/or beards from the ghosts taking over them.

* ''VideoGame/YoKaiWatch'' Yo-Kai Foiletta has some tendrils of floating hair.
* The Shadow Queen, the demonic sorceress BigBad locked away for most of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', has long tendrils of levitating hair that float behind her.
* ''VideoGame/HauntTheHouse'' is a Flash game where you are a ghost possessing objects in your house to scare away living guests of an unwanted party, and you unlock more powerful scares for each item with the more people you frighten. The most powerful "Spook" option unlocked for the rag doll in the bedroom makes it scream and raise its arms while its hair streams outward.
* The Banshee ghosts in the video game for ''The Haunted Mansion'' have floating hair as they attack with a ghostly wail.

* Badeline from ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}'' normally has the same hair as Madeline--that is, normal hair--but in chapter 6, after Madeline [[spoiler:tries to leave her behind]], she ''completely'' loses her cool and her hair goes crazy. It stays up like that for the boss fight as well.
* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact:'' The intro of the game has the protagonists, Aether and Lumine, encountering the "unknown god" who refers to herself as "Sustainer of Heavenly Principles". As part of her divine power, the ends of her hair floats up to different directions.

* In ''Webcomic/UndeadFriend'', since she's a ghost and defies gravity, Mahalah's hair can be seen flowing in very interesting ways.

* Spirits in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' such as Yue and the Painted Lady (the real one, not the disguise used by Katara) often have their hair floating.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Raven's hair sometimes floats when she uses her psychokinetic powers in the rare instances she doesn't [[InTheHood have her hood up]].

* ''Videogame/GenshinImpact:'' The intro of the game has the protagonists, Aether and Lumine, encountering the "unknown god" who refers to herself as "Sustainer of Heavenly Principles". As part of her divine power, the ends of her hair floats up to different directions.

* The Ghost of Northwest Manor in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' invokes this via his beard of blue fire.

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** Ghost-type Pokemon Misdreavus resembles a floating head with streaming hair.

** Dark/Psychic Pokemon Malamar is a vaguely humanoid upside-down squid, and its waving tentacles invoke undulating hair because of its unusual body plan.

* While not actually animated, Madame Leota in ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'' has loose wavy hair that resembles mystical smoke like that inside a magical crystal ball. Of course, [[OracularHead she is inside a magical crystal ball]], so this trope is implied, blurring the two images.

-->--'''Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge''', Literature/KublaKhan

* In ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' "D" is a goddess of death who prefers to assume the form of a young teenage girl. If she stops actively suppressing her true nature, her hair can start floating around her.

* ''ComicBook/SilverSurferBlack'': The dark god Knull's hair floats like he's underwater, emphasizing his otherworldly nature.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', Shadow Weaver's hair always floats, at least until she loses her connection to the Black Garnet.