History Main / TraumaticHaircut

* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': After being enslaved, Thor is strapped to a chair and his signature long hair is cut off. He initially roars at the barber (holding a terrifying looking contraption that looks like a rusty-meat grinder crossed with a lawn-mower and a wheat-thresher) that he will face his wrath if he cuts his hair, but when that doesn't work, [[AintTooProudToBeg he straight up begs him not to do it]].

* In ''Vamos a matar, compañeros'', Vasco cuts Lola's hair as punishment for allegedly sleeping with a foreigner. Later in the movie, [[spoiler: we find out he kept the lock of hair, and gives it back to Lola to apologize and declare his love to her]].
* Pictured above: Evie has her head shaved for her interrogation in ''Film/VForVendetta''. [[spoiler: Upon finding out that it was V who actually put her through the whole ordeal, her ''first'' accusation was that "you cut my hair!" Even before mentioning that he tortured her.]] Notably, Creator/NataliePortman ''really'' had her head shaved for that scene, and she stated that it's something she had wanted to do for a while- while she shakes and sobs onscreen as Evie endures the shearing, behind the scenes footage shows her standing up after the take ends with a big smile on her face as she rubs her head curiously.
* The Czech film ''Film/{{Vlak do stanice Nebe}}'' has a girl who was off sick from school arriving back to find that all her classmates have had their hair cut off because of head lice. She then has to sit in front of the class while the teacher cuts hers too.
* ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'': The Mariner chops off Helen's hair after she nearly sinks the boat. When Enola yells at him for this, he cuts her hair off too.

* A MadeForTVMovie called ''Film/WildWomen'' about people travelling from Texas to Mexico has a part where one of their comrades gets most of her hair cut off after she uses scarce water supplies to wash it. Their Comanche escort thinks this is an especially low move.

In Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/AWorldCalledMaanerek", Sonna is lined up to become "tension release" for the crew--meaning she will be lobotomized and used as a sexual plaything. But first, the doctor explains, they will remove her hair, which will be interesting in itself, since many primitive women are proud of their hair. [[spoiler:Wanen rescues her first.]]

* In Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/AWorldCalledMaanerek", Sonna is lined up to become "tension release" for the crew--meaning she will be lobotomized and used as a sexual plaything. But first, the doctor explains, they will remove her hair, which will be interesting in itself, since many primitive women are proud of their hair. [[spoiler:Wanen rescues her first.]]

* In one of ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' spinoff "Little Sister" books, Karen hates the short haircut she gets (the stylist completely disregarded her stated wishes -- a shoulder-length cut -- in favor of giving her the "trendy" haircut of the day) and tries various methods to make herself look nicer again, including repeatedly going by more "glamorous" names. Luckily her hair is growing back by the end of the story.

%%* Shows up in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''

* In "Literature/TheLittleMermaid", the title character's sisters all trade their long, beautiful hair to the Sea Witch for a chance to save her, similar to how the Little Mermaid had to trade her tongue to become human in the first place.

* ''Series/BadLadArmy'' - modern teens had to join the army. In the first season, some recruits underwent this willingly: they had a choice between a buzz cut and going fully bald. Season 3 made the boys only get a short-back-and-sides, saying anything that could be hidden by a beret could be kept. One boy with purple dreadlocks had to be completely scalped to get rid of the dyed hair.

* ''Series/CoronationStreet'' - when Lauren came in for an appointment with David, the latter warned her to stop bullying his sister. Lauren's response was to snap "no wonder her mother's been locked up in the nuthouse and her auntie's been murdered", and David's response was to chop off her hair and threaten "it'll be your throat the next time". Although she attempts to phone the police, David covers up by claiming she'd asked for the cut and freaked out and ran out of the shop before he could finish it.

* In ''Series/{{Inhumans}},'' Maximus [[spoiler: cutting Medusa's hair is especially traumatic because of her PrehensileHair, making this double as a DePower.]]

** While it's not quite the same as a hair''cut'', Dante undergoes something similar. [[WesternAnimation/101DalmatianStreet Doug's side of the Dalmatian family]] are Navajo humans here, following the tradition of never cutting their hair. Dante is adopted and ethnically black, and his hair is noted to be afro-textured and very puffy; when he's captured by the Ark, they leave relaxers in it too long to make him look more marketable, giving him chemical burns on his face and meaning his hair is probably going to fall out.

** Max Schneider and his class at Gravedale developed mold and parasites in their hair while locked in solitary confinement for several months, resulting in them having to be shaved in the hospital. Duzer was the most torn up about it due to having cancer when she was younger and only recently growing her hair back the way she wanted it.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11496816/1/Bruises Bruises]]'': In this DarkerAndEdgier fic, Callaghan kidnaps Hiro to act as a [[ReplacementGoldfish replacement]] for his deceased daughter Abigail. A few days after kidnapping Hiro, he cuts his hair into the style that Abigail wore hers in. [[spoiler:Later, after Callaghan's arrested and Hiro's back with his family, he begins putting brightly-colored dye in his hair as a form of therapy, helping him to distance himself from Abigail.]]