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11	[[quoteright:303:[[ComicBook/TheInhumans https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/medusa_hair.png]]]]
12	[[caption-width-right:303:... is how you get it to stay so silky smooth.]]
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14	->''"Oh gross, he's gonna touch me with his hair!"''
15	-->-- '''La Belle''', ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate''
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17	Sometimes people have a hairdo so big it seems like it has a mind of its own, and moves of its own accord. And then there are the people who have the ability to ''make'' it move. Characters with superpowers that allow their mullets to become murderous. To allow their afros to attack. To allow their plaits to pummel. To allow their pigtails to pick fights. To allow their braids to barrage. To allow their dreads to decapitate. To allow their fringes to-- okay, you get the idea.
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19	DependingOnTheWriter, this can act as a SwissArmySuperpower, and its strength ranges from forming a whiplash or picking up a spare weapon, to allowing characters to form extra arms, mallets, chainsaws, and throwing around boulders with a flick of their fronds. Depending on how it's used, RequiredSecondaryPowers are necessary if the hair can support more weight than the wielder's scalp and neck.
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21	A subtrope of ArtisticLicenseBiology, as hair is, by definition, a filamentous outgrowth of ''dead'' cells from the skin. However, there are acceptable justifications such as FunctionalMagic, BizarreAlienBiology, etc. Can fall under BizarreAlienLimbs.
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23	Compare ExpressiveHair, which is when a coif is more inclined to telegraph emotions than to strangle random passersby -- although there can be considerable overlap between the two. Even when this type of animate hair isn't in motion, it tends to look like its inanimate cousin MessyHair.
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25	See also FeatherFingers, HelicopterHair.
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32	* ''Advertising/{{Skittles}}'': "Share the Rainbow" features a man in a job interview who possesses a long prehensile beard. He uses it to pick skittles off a table and place them in his mouth and the mouth of his interviewer.
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37	* Creator/JunjiIto:
38	** In the ''Manga/JunjiItoKyoufuMangaCollection'' story "The Long Hair in the Attic", the main character, Chiemi, is decapitated, and her head is discovered in the attic, moving around with the hair. However, it turns out that Chiemi's truly dead- it's ''the hair'' that's alive, and it killed her for trying to cut it off.
39	** ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'' takes this to a level that must be seen to be believed. In one of the few cases where ''hair'' qualifies as BodyHorror, Kirie's hair once grew long and fought any attempts to get rid of it or the spiral, and it ''strangled'' her if she didn't do what it wanted, draining her life the more it grew.
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41	* In ''Manga/AlienNine'' the anime, Kasumi develops this when [[spoiler:she gets eaten by the Yellow Knife alien]]; earlier in the series, when Yuri [[FreakOut freaks out]] as she's attacked by three classmates [[MindControl possessed by the aliens]] [[NightmareFuel clamped on their heads]], her borg turns into Prehensile Hair and starts killing all the aliens in the room.
42	* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': [[spoiler:Itona]] has prehensile hair literally made of CombatTentacles; the same kind Koro-sensei has. [[spoiler:He loses the tentacles later on.]]
43	* Mino Nenki from ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'' can control hair as if it were his limbs, allowing him to do everything from wielding multiple weaponry with hair bundles to skewering victims with pointed strands.
44	* ''Manga/BetrayalKnowsMyName'': Ashley has long hair that she can use to attack or grab people with.
45	* Eve from ''Manga/BlackCat'' uses her ShapeShifting abilities to use her hair as a weapon. Mostly she turns it into hammers, but it has also become spikes, fists, blades, porcupine quills, and a bell like the ones used in boxing matches.
46	** Naturally, this carries over into her {{expy}} Yami in ''Manga/ToLoveRu''.
47	* Halbet from ''Manga/BlackClover'' is a vain mage who uses Hair Magic that grows her hair to be prehensile and shaped into bladed weapons.
48	* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo -- although that's ''nose hair'' in his case. [[spoiler:Also chest, leg, armpit, and head hair in the case of Bobobo's relatives (one type of hair for each).]] This comes from his ability to communicate with hair, which is only shown in a flashback in the first episode with his afro telling him that he's some kind of freak for being able to talk to hair.
49	* [[spoiler:Minatsuki "Hummingbird" Takami]] from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' has this as her Branch of Sin power.
50	* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'' the characters Jasdero and Devit are twins, in which if they sing their song and shoot each other (seriously), they turn into one entity that has an unbelievable amount of hair reaching his full height, which he'll often use to stab.
51	* ''Anime/DuelMasters'' has Mikuni--later named "Johnny Coolburns" in the dub--is able to flail his ponytail when he gets worked up enough.
52	-->'''Shobu''': And I thought I had hair issues!
53	* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
54	** Flare Corona can not only extend her hair to ridiculous lengths and block most forms of magic but also transform it into a wolf or [[FlamingHair set it on fire]].
55	** Vivaldus Taka from Trinity Raven can also use his long hair to attack, as well as absorb water attacks with it.
56	* Menou Sakura (and later, [[spoiler: Kage Houshi]]) from ''Manga/FlameOfRecca''.
57	* Inami from ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'' has this power and, to an extent, Tomo from the [[Manga/FushigiYuugi original series]].
58	* Kitaro from ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'' has prehensile yokai hair.
59	* Played for laughs in the second episode of ''Anime/GunXSword'' which has a group of people with prehensile mustaches which they use for combat.
60	* [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Korik]][[AnIcePerson akumon]] of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' has six braids of hair, all of which are tipped with arrowheads. They have been used to both stab and ensnare enemies.
61	* Sense of ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'' is a first-class mage who has layered countless enchantments on her long hair. She can vastly increase the volume and length of hair and shape it into blades, whips, and defenses.
62	* ''Bio-Booster Armor Manga/{{Guyver}}'' features noble Zoalord antagonist Waferdanos; normally already pretty hairy, he can extend his mane and beard into ''several football fields worth'' of hair, which is not only prehensile but can form giant, armor-piercing drills. It is later revealed he is a sapient plant - or rather, an entire species of plant beings folded up into a single humanoid form, and the hairs are actually plant fibers.
63	* A one-off female character in ''Manga/TheHatingGirl'' has prehensile ''nose hair'' [[PinocchioNose that grows when she lies]]. She uses it to ensnare Ryouji in order to ravish him and does the same to Asumi when Asumi tries to stop her.
64	* Alucard's hair is able to do this in both the [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} manga]] and the [[Anime/{{Hellsing}} anime]] versions of ''Hellsing''. Although it's kinda difficult to tell where the guy's hair ends and where his shadow... things begin. But he definitely has more prehensile body parts than any creature has the right to have.
65	* Shows up in ''Literature/HumanityHasDeclined''. [[spoiler:It's a side effect of the hair growth formula]]. In this case, the hair is acting on its own, but it is loyal to the person it's attached to.
66	* Palm Siberia from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' is an {{expy}} of Yukako Yamagishi below, except rather than using her hair as a weapon she's able to use it as durable armor.
67	* A minor villain from the beginning of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', Yura, has the ability to animate [[PeoplePuppets people like puppets]] and [[RazorFloss cut things]] using Prehensile Hair. Unlike most examples of this trope, Yura could actually add the hair of her victims to her Prehensile Hair, which she kept as a giant hairball rather than it being connected directly to her head. This was because Yura herself was not a person, but [[SoulJar actually a demonic comb]].
68	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
69	** Bruford from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' has the ability to control his hair. Apparently, he had this ability ''even before'' he became a zombie.
70	** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', [[BigBad DIO]] gains the ability to shoot strands of his hair into people's brains. The hair then turns into parasites called Flesh Buds, which [[BrainwashedAndCrazy control the infected victim into being a servant for DIO without thinking]].
71	** Yukako Yamagishi from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' has the [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Love Deluxe, which allows Yukako to control her hair. Unlike many examples of this trope, she is shown to be able to control her hair even when it ''isn't'' attached to her head.
72	* One of the many, many, many skills that Kogarashi the Maid Guy in ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'' possesses. "Maid Guy Hair Sensor" also doubles as RazorFloss and... other things. Yes, it's [[{{Ecchi}} that kind]] of series.
73	* The Holy Woman from Minoru Murao's ''Manga/{{Knights}}'' manga, whose hair (even her eyelashes, in an {{Omake}}) can grow to prodigious lengths to snare, entangle, and immobilize foes even over hundreds of feet, whipping and snaking everywhere on its own accord as she remains still. Once she has disabled the enemy thus, she can slice them to kibble with her [[RazorFloss razor-sharp strands]].
74	* Miyabi of ''Manga/KoiKoi7''. As she demonstrates in the series, the many uses of her hair include a cutter, an [[ImprovisedUmbrella umbrella]], and a ''Popeye''-esque fist. She also has a limited degree of {{shapeshifting}} abilities.
75	* α (Alpha) from ''VideoGame/LapisReLights'' is a {{Magitek}} RobotMaid with multifunctional hair. It is capable of growing and moving at will while holding objects, can be used to slice open tough materials like pineapple skins, and can turn into a drill for making sparks to start a campfire.
76	* One of the characters from ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki'' sequel, ''Law of Ueki Plus'' fights using hair strengthened by hair gel.
77	* Akane from ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' is an extreme example since she is nothing but hair.
78	* [[NobleDemon Heuller]] from ''Manga/MarchStory'' can freely control the hair that makes up her wig. In a flashback, she demonstrated just how deadly this ability can be when the person is significantly pissed.
79	* Protagonist Oto of ''Manga/MilkCrown'' is always drawn with one lock of hair sticking up slightly. In an omake in volume 4 of Milk Crown H Jin has a nightmare in which he asks her about it, and Oto reveals that she can control that lock of hair with her mind. She then proceeds to demonstrate this by picking up a duster with it and starting to dust the ceiling.
80	* The star of ''Anime/MiimuIroIroYumeNoTabi'' is Miimu, a little white head on legs. She's without arms but with a lot of pink hair that she manipulates into the shape of arms whenever she has need for it.
81	* Lala demonstrates this in Chapter 60 of ''Manga/MonsterMusume''. [[spoiler: After her head is accidentally stuck in her luggage when the group goes to the Lamia country (implied to be somewhere in Greece), it winds up in Italy. In the last panel of the chapter, her head is seen sitting on a table in an Italian cafe, using a strand of her hair to hold a coffee cup]].
82	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
83	** Nagamasa Mora can freely manipulate the growth and movement of his hair. Handily for a user of this trope, he resembles a cross between [[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily Cousin Itt]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Chewbacca]].
84	** Ibara Shiozaki might count for this trope, or perhaps a hybrid of this and GreenThumb, assuming you can count the cluster of thorny vines that grow out of her head as "hair". She can manipulate them in pretty much all the same ways as Nagamasa Mora, though Shiozaki can still manipulate hers even after they are separated from her.
85	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
86	** Jiraiya has this ability. Also, he can form his spiked hair into a shield.
87	** Post-timeskip Choji has a similar ability to a lesser extent, being able to lengthen his hair and harden it to make spikes, which he uses to make his Human Boulder ability more powerful.
88	** A villain from a ''Shippuden'' {{Filler}} arc could do this -- it turns out that [[spoiler:she is a demonic head of hair controlling a body]].
89	** [[FinalBoss Princess Kaguya Otsutsuki]] has this among her SuperPowerLottery. She can make them solid to block attacks, seize or swat away people, and even fire thousands of them to strike {{PressurePoint}}s.
90	* One of the slime sisters in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' uses this to latch onto Setsuna and drag her into a [[PortalPool water portal]] after distracting her by pretending to be a [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn naked]] Konoka.
91	* ''Manga/NinjaResurrection'' features a misguided Messiah reincarnated as {{Satan}}, who looks like a naked, insanely giggling [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Sephiroth clone]] who resurrects famous samurai as his undead minions, and flies around killing people with his razor-sharp, uber-prehensile hair, which even features prominently in his gory birth scene.
92	* Kejourou from ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'' uses her hair to attack and bind enemy Youkai, usually to allow Kubinashi to finish them off.
93	* ''Manga/NurseHitomisMonsterInfirmary'': Class 2-D teacher Kaminaga has nerves inside her hair, so she can never cut it. She often uses it to [[PowerPerversionPotential grope Hitomi]].
94	* Nyarko from ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' has a lesser version; her IdiotHair hasn't demonstrated the ability to pick up or otherwise manipulate objects ([[PowerPerversionPotential not that that stops the hentai artists]]), but she ''has'' used it to DopeSlap someone and it can form into complex shapes like kanji. As the MoeAnthropomorphism version of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]], the hair is acting as a stand-in for a tentacle.
95	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
96	** [[LargeHam Kumadori's]] hair wasn't merely prehensile, it could be formed into actual hands and used as part of a martial arts move that let him [[FingerPokeOfDoom poke people with the force of a bullet]]. Using multiple hair hands.
97	** Sandersonia of the Gorgon Sisters can make snakes out of her hair, Medusa-style. Her younger sister, Marigold, is able to combine this with InfernalRetaliation.
98	** Kaido pulls of an odd example during Anime {{Filler}}. During his battle with Kozuki Oden, he utilized his Mustache to entangle Oden[[note]] For reference, Oden is an impressive 382 cm tall, but Kaido is normally 710 cm tall, and has the ability to transform into a dragon and become even bigger than that[[/note]] and toss him into a mountainside.
99	* The Monster Devil Long Hair in ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' who became a monster because he took care of his hair to an obsessive degree. It is also his AchillesHeel, as if it is cut he is defeated.
100	* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
101	** Poisonny in ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure''. It backfires [[spoiler:when the heroines fire their Marble Screw channeled by her hair.]]
102	** Anacondy in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''. [[spoiler:Her hair turns into snakes and she uses them to petrify her enemies.]]
103	** Sasorina in ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure''. The end of her extendable braid is like a scorpion sting. And it's toxic.
104	* One of Anime/PrettySammy's less useful powers in the ''Magical Girl Pretty Sammy'' continuity. With it, she can perform such heroic deeds as reading while eating, and scratching her own back.
105	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': When afflicted with the curse of the Dragon's Whisker (which makes mens' hair grow uncontrollably until they lose it completely,) Ranma fought Genma and Happôsai by tying his meters-long hair around cinderblocks, truck tires, park benches, and other such blunt instruments, to swing as giant flails.
106	* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
107	** Queen Beryl in the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]].
108	** In the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]], Kaolinite, Mistress 9, and a replica of Queen Nehellenia show this power, but not Queen Beryl.
109	** There was also an anime villain who [[BoundAndGagged ensnared]] the girls in her Prehensile Hair, preventing them from fighting her. It turns out that Makoto really is the most talented, though not [[MemeticMutation that way]]: her MidSeasonUpgrade is ''exactly'' what is needed to save the day.
110	** Sailor Aluminium Siren has this power in the manga [[spoiler: and uses it to strangle Mercury and Jupiter to death.]]
111	* Berenike, one of Abel's warriors on ''[[Manga/SaintSeiya Saint Seiya: The Legend of the Crimson Youth]]'', uses this ability as his main offensive method, with the plus of being able to launch a [[IncendiaryExponent burning wave]] through the filaments.
112	* While not actually hair, the title character of ''Manga/SquidGirl'' has highly prehensile tentacles growing out of her head, which look quite a bit like hair.
113	* Shaula Gorgon's braid in ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' works a lot like [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Sasorina's]] above, mainly because of the shared ScaryScorpions motif. She can't extend it, unlike Sasorina, but it's long enough to serve as a close-quarters weapon, garotte, and [[BewareMyStingerTail stinger]].
114	* ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'': Shirabe Tsukiyomi's Symphogear evokes this by armor plating her GirlishPigtails and converting them into extendable robot arms that wield [[DeadlyDisc massive buzzsaws]].
115	* Niche of ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'' can fight and grab onto things with her hair (although only a heart bullet can finish off an armor bug). [[spoiler:Her older twin sister can use her hair to considerably greater effect, and can even turn it into weapons like a giant bow]].
116	* From ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', we have Sunny of the Four Heavenly Kings. He has a massive case of multicolored hair, each color with a purpose (white to detect pain, green for pressure, pink for heat, and blue for coldness). Aside from the standard use, he can manipulate the tiniest strands to [[PeoplePuppets enter the bodies of people and enemies and control or paralyze them]], [[AttackReflector catch and push back attacks]] and later upgrades them by coating them in Appetite Energy, resulting in pure golden hair which can devour anything they touch and vomit it back. The manga goes as far as explaining two major weaknesses of this power: first, each hair is incredibly sensible, so that for Sunny, cutting a single strand is as painful as having a tooth removed with no anesthetic. Secondly, as pointed out by the MasterSwordsman Guemon, his efforts to control all his hair at the same time take too much focus and weaken his potential. After Guemon teaches him to [[DontThinkFeel apply "instinct" to his hair]], Sunny's powers skyrocket considerably.
117	* In ''Anime/UmiMonogatari'', two Monsters of the Week have this, using their hair to tie up and strangle Kojima. They nearly kill him before being defeated.
118	* [[MultipleHeadCase The Three Sisters]] ensnares its victims with its hair in the first ''Literature/VampireHunterD'' novel and movie.
119	* In ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' Nocturne of the Night has this power, as does Cloud.
120	* Masane, Reina, and Nora from the ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' anime all had prehensile hair that they used as a weapon. Also, Maria. In [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments one of the funniest scenes]] Masane also used it for ''mechanical target lock''. [[spoiler:In the test fight she wasn't deft enough with her battle form yet and the bot barely dodged her once, so she used her hair to grab it and then to propel herself toward it.]]
121	* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'':
122	** Elder Toguro can freely manipulate any part of his body, including his hair. While he never tries killing people with it on screen, his powers would certainly allow him to, extending it to wrap up and strangle people, turning the tips of his hairs into razor-sharp blades to impale victims, using it to engulf and crush helpless enemies, etc.
123	** In the Dark Tournament saga, Kurama wields his Rose Whip with his hair in order to [[spoiler:beat Gama despite being immobilized by invisible 300lb weights on his arms and legs.]]
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127	* There's an item in ''Super TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' called the prehensile pigtails -- ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. They count as hands for all intents and purposes, including the WolverineClaws superpower.
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132	* Dorcas "Godiva" Leigh of ''ComicBook/GlobalGuardians''. Her hair goes beyond just being prehensile; she can reshape it into forms she can use, e.g. [[HairWings wings]], a fan, etc. Likely MagicHair.
133	* Spider Girl from the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' has long hair that she is able to control.
134	* Geoff Johns' run on ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' featured a Brotherhood of Evil member named Goldilocks, who was a young girl able to move the locks of her hair like appendages.
135	* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
136	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': King Crystallar of the Green Geni has a prehensile mustache, its movements help emphasize his reactions and emotions.
137	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': While it does not occur in comic the cover of issue 176 depicts Circe strangling Diana with her hair.
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140	* ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' has a mutant named Wyre can do this with his body hair. All of his body hair.
141	* ''ComicBook/DistrictX'': Lorelei Travis is a mutant stripper who has long hair that she can control; however, it wasn't powerful and it was painfully proven not to be super durable when an anti-mutant gang [[TraumaticHaircut forcefully shaved her head]].
142	* Pictured above: ComicBook/TheInhumans' Queen Medusa. Her hair is super strong, can't be cut by regular blades or burned, and seems to grow at her will.
143	* Ego Prime, a fragment of [[GeniusLoci Ego, The Living Planet]] that fought [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] a few times, exhibited this power.
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146	* In ''ComicBook/BazookaJules'' Jules, [[PowerMakesYourHairGrow with her powers activated]] can use her extremely long pigtails to attack or wrap around her enemies.
147	* Weirdbeard from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}''.
148	* One of the villains in ''ComicBook/MadameMirage'' is the Weeping Willow, a morose goth girl with very long and strong prehensile hair. She loses a lot of it in a scrape with Mirage and later complains to a fellow villain that the pain was unimaginable, like losing a thousand tiny arms.
149	* Cebolinha/Jimmy Five from ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' has only five spiky strands of hair, which apparently are sharp as wire (injures people, pops balloons and balls, and once, when the hair was overtly big, his [[ThePigPen dirty/aquaphobic]] best friend used some plastic to turn it into an umbrella).
150	* "Hair Yee-eeee", from ''Strange Fantasy'' #9, takes this concept to its logical conclusion: it turns its host ''into'' hair. [[http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2012/04/hair-yee-eeee.html Seriously.]]
151	* Justice Force member Metalhead (''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\|Mirage}}'').
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155	* ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'': Dakota gets magic hair with a mind of its own from beholding Marigold's beauty for too long.
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159	* In the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' Crossover ''Fate's Gamble'', [[HeroicNeutral Harry]] possesses this ability.
160	* A {{fanon}} for the tyrian-blooded trolls of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''.
161	* In ''Fanfic/KeepersOfTheElements'', [[AlphaBitch Heather]] is given this as a secondary ability.
162	* In ''Fanfic/MegaManReawakened'', Roll can use her hair as a weapon.
163	* A minor point in ''Fanfic/ThePeaceNotPromised'', when an accident occurs in Transfiguration class and a student turns his own hair sentient, needing to be promptly rescued by the teacher before it can scalp him and attack his neighbours.
164	* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeriesChaosVerse'', BigBad [[spoiler: Nightmare Phobia]]'s second OneWingedAngel form has this as its primary weapon.
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168	* In the 2007 movie version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf\|2007}}'', Grendel's mother (interpreted here as a sexy siren rather than the original's poorly described ogre-like thing) has a long braid that can move on its own. It's implied to be the tail of her true, rather more monstrous form.
169	* In the 2019 short film ''WesternAnimation/HairLove'', dad Stephen attempts to wrangle his daughter Zuri's hair. We get an ImagineSpot depicting him grappling with a sentient mass of curls in a boxing ring. At one point, Zuri's hair appears to grab the comb from Stephen and smack him with it.
170	* In ''Film/OsmosisJones'', Ozzy consults the "memory center", and the brain cells there are using their "hair" to type on computers, answer telephones, transfer calls, etc.
171	* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/PixiPostAndTheGiftBringers'' is given a prehensile ponytail that proves to be useful in both acrobatics and combat.
172	* In ''WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas'' Eris' hair does not stop moving once.
173	* In the first trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', the character of Rapunzel beats up Flynn Rider when she catches him trespassing in her tower with her hair. However, neither this scene (nor genuinely prehensile hair) [[MissingTrailerScene appears in the movie,]] although Rapunzel's hair is undoubtedly magical.
174	* Throughout the ''Franchise/{{Trolls}}'' franchise, the Trolls use their hair as anything from a whip to an extra arm, to a grappling hook. However, the Funk Trolls' hair doesn't appear to be strong enough for those functions, and no Techno Troll was seen doing that either.
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178	* In the J-Horror movie ''Apartment 1303'', the main ghost, Yukiyo, can do this with her hair.
179	* ''Film/BadHair'' is a movie set in the 90s about a black woman in the TV entertainment industry pressured into getting a weave over her natural hair to get ahead. The weave she ends up getting turns out to be haunted by the spirit of a Native American witch and can move on its own. It periodically possesses her to commit murder because it needs to feed on blood.
180	* ''Hair'', from the horror anthology ''Film/BodyBags'', features Stacy Keach's character receiving a hair transplant operation, which turns out to be [[spoiler:an alien parasite that bites him after he plucks a hair from his ''tooth!'' The aliens eat up his brains.]]
181	* ''Film/TheBrideWithWhiteHair'' can use hers as a whip. The white-haired witch in ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'' is an homage to her.
182	* Female demons in the three-part ''Film/ChineseGhostStory'' series from Hong Kong can float in the air and extend strands of their freakishly long hair to strangle people.
183	* Kayako Saeki of the ''Film/JuOn'' movies (and also in the remake series, ''Film/TheGrudge'') is able to do this. In ''Ju On: The Grudge 2'', she strangles a couple with her hair. In the director's cut of ''The Grudge'', she hangs her murderous husband Takeo with her hair, and in ''The Grudge 2'', she completely envelopes Vanessa's body with it.
184	* At the middle of "Class Fight" in ''[[Film/{{K12}} K-12]]'', Crybaby sets to strangling Kelly with her braids, who just moments before had pinned her to the ground and dug a knife into her arm.
185	* "Black Hair", the first story in Japanese AnthologyFilm ''Film/{{Kwaidan}}'', involves a samurai who is really attracted to his wife's long, luxuriant black hair. This doesn't stop him from dumping her for a more socially advantageous marriage, though. After some years go by, the samurai regrets his decision, divorces his second wife, and goes back to look up his first wife. She forgives him, and they spend the night together. He wakes up to find that she is a long-dead, desiccated corpse, still with the long black hair. ''And then the hair comes after him.''
186	* Sorceress Irendri in ''Film/OnceUponAWarrior'' can extend her hair into snake-shaped barbs, capable of ripping through flesh or cocooning innocent civilians. She uses the latter method to imprison an entire village where the heroes live, keeping her victims in suspended animation where she intends to feast on them after her invincibility ritual is completed.
187	* This is used in the original version of ''Film/OneMissedCall''. (Not sure about the remake, never bothered watching it...)
188	* In ''Film/ZuWarriorsFromTheMagicMountain'', the ancient warrior Pai Mei have Prehensile ''Eyebrows'', which he can use to tangle and ensnare opponents.
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191	[[folder:Literature]]
192	* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Dwarf Mulch Diggums. His hair tells him when trouble is approaching and he can use it to pick locks and stitch his own wounds.
193	* ''Baifa Monu Zhuan'' is the origin of the white hair witch seen in many {{Wuxia}} films. Such is her popularity among Kung Fu fans, movies like ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'' expect the viewer to already know her name (Lian Nichang) and tragic WomanScorned history.
194	* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'': ''Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman.'' has the Wedgie Woman, whose prehensile hair is used -- you guessed it -- to give wedgies. The InUniverse comic book by George and Harold had it depicted as a singular robot tentacle, but a hypnosis mishap involving getting their teacher Ms. Ribble to reverse their failing grades led to her thinking she's the titular supervillain and she ends up getting her hair powers after some "Super Power Juice" got into her beehive.
195	* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'': In the short story "Hearts of Woven Shadow" Rawneth's hair is descended this way. It starts out with a subtle example--"Her long, black hair stirred and rose about her as if in an updraft, although the room was close and still."--and gets more obvert--"Her braid tumbled down and swung wide, darting, probing, as if with a mind of its own. When she stopped in a swirl of stars, it coiled around her neck." In the scene in one of the later novels based on that short story, her hair does not behave that way.
196	* Franchise/CthulhuMythos: "Medusa's Coil", a story ghostwritten by Creator/HPLovecraft for Zealia Bishop, Marceline Bedard's lengthy hair [[spoiler:turns out to be an indestructible separate entity.]] Once the hair is cut off [[spoiler:(not an easy thing to do thanks to its unnatural toughness) it acts much like a snake, even constricting a man to death.]]
197	* In Jeramey Kraatz's ''Literature/TheCloakSociety'', Del's power. [[spoiler:Which can be mimicked by HumanShifting]].
198	* In the ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' novels, Krysty Wroth is a beautiful mutant with bright red hair that moves [[ExpressiveHair according to her mood]], wrapping tightly around her head when she is in danger.
199	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
200	** She can't use it to beat people up and doesn't appear to have any conscious control over it, but Susan Sto Helit has moving hair. It seems to like the severely proper bun, a reflection of her no-nonsense personality.
201	** Agnes "Perdita X" Nitt has hair that has a tendency to eat combs. (It's never actually been observed doing so, however.)
202	* Deirdre of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has ''bladed'' prehensile hair. She can dice you up into little chunks with her hairdo. She is not a nice person.
203	* In ''Literature/TheElricSaga'', the Elenoin are naked, extradimensional female demons. When Elric fights one it uses its long red hair to try to strangle him.
204	* In the eighth ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' book ''Bad Hair Day'', Franny creates a formula that enables her to change the shape of her hair and move her pigtails like tentacles. The tentacles end up becoming sentient and detach themselves from Franny's head before engorging themselves on Franny's formula, mutating into [[GluttonousPig giant hairy pig monsters that go on a rampage devouring everything with hair they can find]].
205	* In ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheWell'', Okiku's hair moves of its own accord while she sleeps, often wrapping around Tark's bed.
206	* The main character of children's book ''The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School'' has hair that not only is twice her size but acts of its own accord.
207	* In a fight between trainee superheroes and trainee supervillains in ''Literature/TheHauntingOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', one of the villainous contenders has long hair braided into a fifteen-foot flail with fish hooks woven into it, which she uses as a weapon. It's ambiguous whether it's actually prehensile or she's just that good at whipping it around.
208	* The Knave of Hearts in ''Literature/TheLookingGlassWars'' gets a pseudo-living wig as a gift from Redd for doing her bidding.
209	* ''Literature/MerkabahRider'': Lilith is revealed to have this power in "The Nightjar Women". After she is attacked and shot, her hair spontaneously grows in length and reaches out and chokes the man who shot her.
210	* In ''Literature/TheNekropolisArchives'', one of the prisoners Matt sees in Tenebrus is a woman with long prehensile hair, which she unsuccessfully attempts to use to strangle the warden Keket.
211	* In Yasmin Galenorn's ''Literature/TheOtherworld Series'', Smoky the Dragon has long, silvery hair that he sometimes uses as tentacles during funtimes with Camille.
212	* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfSevenSuns'' by Creator/KevinJAnderson, the Ildiran Mage-Imperator has an immensely long ponytail that can be used to strangle people who know too much.
213	* The new school principal in the ''Literature/{{Simon Bloom}}'' series has a massive BeehiveHairdo that can point in various directions. Of course, it's really a giant animatronic wig that helps her with [[spoiler: her duties as [[TheWatcher Keeper of the Historical Society]].]]
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217	* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' a Blutbad used her hair to break the necks of the episode's villains.
218	* From ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'', many gags are milked out of Bernadette Chirac's hairdo. Most extreme parodies include giving her prehensile hair with a mind of their own.
219	* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
220	** Dora Raiger in ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' (and her ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' counterpart Madame Woe) uses her long braided hair to wrap up and throw people.
221	** Though not exactly prehensile, a minor villain in ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' has a secret technique that lets him whip his ponytail around and teleport anyone and anything it touches into a DeathTrap miles away.
222	** In the ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' version, Bridge is actually knocked out and dragged to said deathtrap, and the hair attack actually ''disintegrates victims outright.'' It's especially notable because you'd expect it to be [[{{Bowdlerise}} the other way around]].
223	* In ''Series/YoungHercules'', Stregna has a long ponytail that functions like a whip or tentacle.
224	* ''Series/{{Intergalactic}}'': Genevieve, one of the prisoners, has a device she hides in her dreadlocks which sprouts hair like this which can be used to attack people with very long tendrils.
225	[[/folder]]
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227	[[folder:Manhwa]]
228	* Empress Gehenna in ''Manhwa/AflameInferno'' uses her magical hair as whips, blades, shield, etc.
229	[[/folder]]
230	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
231	* The ''futakuchi-onna'' (two-mouthed woman) of Japanese myth is a seemingly anorexic woman with an extra mouth on the back of her head that eats twice as much. Her hair supposedly acts in the manner described in order to put food in the extra mouth, either as a parasitic force or as an aid to the woman because she is being starved by a miserly husband.
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234	[[folder:Roleplay]]
235	* In ''Roleplay/TheMadScientistWars'', Jane Narbon had invented a "hair symbiote" that gives her this ability. How it gets the necessary leverage and tensile strength to lift people and swing objects is [[AWizardDidIt unexplained]].
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238	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
239	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
240	** In the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting, the Seven Sisters use hair in melee and for delicate manipulations (e.g. in ''Silverfall''). Not ''too'' impressive, as they're so stuffed with magic that tend to spray silver fire [[BloodyMurder whenever seriously wounded]]... and were born as semidivine beings to begin with.
241	** 3rd Edition supplement ''Creature Collection''. The Storm Hag can use her hair to grab and strangle multiple opponents at one time.
242	* In ''TabletopGame/FengShui'', prehensile hair is a good excuse for a Ghost to have the [[CombatTentacles Tentacles]] power, as mentioned above in "Film."
243	* The Wu-Keng of ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' can acquire a demonic gift that makes their hair prehensile. Given the Wu-Keng were inspired by the same Wuxia material as ''Pathfinder'''s White-Haired Witch, this isn't surprising.
244	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
245	** The ''Ultimate Magic'' sourcebook includes the Prehensile Hair hex, which allows a Witch to animate her hair as a limb, and the Strangling Hair spell, which does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. With the hex, it includes notes that the caster can elongate their hair specifically to facilitate its usage. Also, male witches can use it on their beards and moustaches.
246	** The ''Dragon Empires Primer'' added a White-Haired Witch archetype based on several characters from Wuxia. Someone at Paizo must ''really'' love this trope.
247	** The "Classical Monsters" mini-bestiary includes mention of an Ogre tribe, the Shaggras, whose rampant inbreeding has resulted in them developing thick, matted coats of prehensile body hair, which in-game gives them the Improved Grab feat and damage reduction against non-piercing physical attacks, as the fur lashes out to wrap hold of victims or incoming strikes.
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250	[[folder:Video Games]]
251	* ''VideoGame/AlienChallenge'': Nic-San and Claus are two fighters in this game who can manipulate their hair to varying degrees. Though in the case of the latter, he uses his [[ManlyFacialHair long beard instead]].
252	* ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt2'': One of the bosses, Desna, has the Septima "Splitting Ends", that allows her to create hair constructs, including blades, drills, hands, and a ''giant rotator fan''. Most of her stage is entangled in her hair, some of which even serves as platforms.
253	* ''VideoGame/{{ARMS}}'': While most fighters have titular [[ExtendableArms ARMS]] in place of their, well, arms, Twintelle instead has ARMS in her hair, and uses her pigtails to fight.
254	* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' creator Creator/HidekiKamiya, features a protagonist whose special moves are pulled off with help from her hair. Also, her hair composes her ''[[GodivaHair entire freaking outfit]]''. Needless to say, the more powerful special move she uses, the more hair she needs (like using it to make a spider several stories tall), and the more skin we see.
255	** Subverted that it's not the hair moving by itself - she's summoning demons by using her hair as a conduit.
256	* The indie platformer game, ''VideoGame/BeardBlade'', have you playing as a knight who kicks ass using his ''beard''. Which is ridiculously tough, can form into fists, and be used as a flail against enemies. Further power-ups allows you to turn your beard into swords or maces. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86B7zzUNQMI Yes, really]].
257	* [[TheQuisling Lionwhyte]] in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' has a ridiculously over-the-top hairdo that can transform into a pair of wings, allowing him to fly.
258	* Clair in ''VideoGame/DistortedTravesty 3'' uses her own hair as effectively as a whip starting with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O4MXosUxlM Castlevania segment]], then on through the rest of the game.
259	* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''
260	** Dixie Kong from the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' games can use her ponytail as a whip and [[HelicopterHair a helicopter]]. She can also lift and throw barrels and even cannonballs with it.
261	** Her younger/[[{{Retcon}} older]] sister Tiny Kong from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' can use her pigtails to punch enemies and glide, though she doesn't seem to be able to lift objects with her hair the way Dixie does.
262	* In ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero'', Akane Satomura uses her long hair as her primary weapon, forming it into whips, drills, and swords.
263	* The latest raid boss from Patch 3.3 of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', Calofisteri, turns her hair into blades.
264	* This is Lilac's main form of attack in ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'', whipping her two strands of hair. She can also form them into a wheel to roll around or spin like a top.
265	* ''VideoGame/{{Glam}}'': [[PlayerCharacter Glam]] can use her hair to grab on shrubbery growing on the bottoms of FloatingPlatforms, and swing back and forth. This can be used to cross large gaps between the platforms.
266	* Millia Rage of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' has this in spades, able to move and shape her hair however she pleases. Forming it into various stabbing implements is just the tip of the iceberg.
267	* The main character from ''VideoGame/KabukiQuantumFighter'' uses his hair as his primary weapon. He also uses guns, shurikens, and other projectile weapons, but [[RuleOfCool they're not quite as cool]].
268	* In the NES pirate game ''VideoGame/KartFighter'', Princess Peach has a hair attack.
269	* ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters The King of Fighters]]'': Kula's crouching HP has her attacking with her (sometimes icy) hair.
270	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
271	** Midna of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. Because she also doubles as Link's ExpositionFairy for the game, she mostly uses it to grab hold of switches, open doors, and point threateningly at objects just before she blasts them with magical power. It even takes the shape of a hand. [[spoiler:She eventually uses her hair to channel the power of the Fused Shadows in order to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice kill]] Zant [[RageBreakingPoint in a fit of rage]].]]
272	** Midna also appears in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', where a number of her attacks involve using her hair as a giant fist.
273	* King Long Sauvage from ''VideoGame/LittleKingsStory'' has a prehensile beard that reaches all the way down the mountain from where he sits. And he can electrify it.
274	* Kanako Hosokawa, from ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs'', appears in the doujin FightingGame ''[[VideoGame/{{Maribato}} Maribato!]]'' as a playable character. Kanako is able to use her long hair as a weapon, and most of her moveset is based on [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Millia Rage]]. She also throws [[IKnowMaddenKombat basketballs in battle]].
275	* In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'', one of Roll.EXE's attacks is using the pigtail-like cords on her head to whip enemies.
276	* In addition to his SinisterScythe, Prometheus from ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' can attack players by planting his hair into the ground and then attempt to ''stab them with the strands from underneath'', he can even protrude them ''from the walls too'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JIzhOnbi0c as seen here]].
277	* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': This is one of Sindel's signature powers along with her SuperScream. One of her Fatalities has her use her hair to wrap up the opposing character, and then spin them so fast they explode into bloody chunks.
278	* In ''VideoGame/LaMulana'', the [[spoiler:area 8]] boss, [[spoiler:Tiamat, uses her hair flying outwards in eight directions as one of her attacks.]]
279	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
280	** Gourgeist from ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' has hair that act as its hands.
281	** Alolan Dugtrio from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' has gold hair that it can use to ensnare its opponents. It even has Tangling Hair as an ability, which slows down enemies that hit it with a contact move.
282	** Grimmsnarl and to a lesser extent, [[OneGenderRace his]] pre-evolution Morgrem, introduced in ''Sword and Shield''. One of their [[SecretArt Secret Arts]], [[ISurrenderSuckers False Surrender]], involves the user pretending to bow before stabbing its opponent with its hair. Grimmsnarl's entries go into more detail: his hairs act as muscle fibres to enhance his muscles, with which he can overpower a Machamp.[[note]][[ElementalRockPaperScissors Being part-Fairy type]] helps, though 120 base physical attack is impressive.[[/note]] They can also latch onto opponents to ensnare them, though he doesn't have Tangling Hair as an ability, unlike the aforementioned Alolan Dugtrio. His [[OneWingedAngel Gigant]][[MakeMyMonsterGrow amax]] form has hair covering almost the entirety of his body.
283	** Morgrem and Grimmsnarl's [[DistaffCounterpart Distaff Counterparts]], Hattrem and Hatterene, have something similar. Hattrem uses [[OneGenderRace her]] hair as a set of legs and as a means of [[DisproportionateRetribution beating up anyone that bears strong emotion]], whereas Hatterene uses her hair as a sort of shell with a tentacle made of hair serving as a means of tearing apart anyone that sets her off. Like Grimmsnarl, Hatterene's Gigantamax form has her body completely covered in hair.
284	* ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'' has two strands of hair (originally three) that he can spin like a propeller to fly.
285	* ''VideoGame/RockyRodent'', where the main character was a FunnyAnimal of some sort with a mohawk that could slice and be thrown as a boomerang. Various powerups gave you different hairstyles with different powers.
286	* ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa'': Schirach's magic emanates from her hair.
287	* ''VideoGame/RumblePack'': Tsukiko can throw or whip her opponents with her hair. The whipping attacks count because the hair moves by itself.
288	* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': Shantae's primary method of attack is whipping enemies with her hair, with various hair care products such as cremes and shampoos serving as upgrades to this ability. Strangely enough, despite being [[HalfHumanHybrid half-genie]], ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndThePiratesCurse'' implies that she actually inherited this trait from her ''human father''.
289	* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': Filia has a hair parasite, named Samson, who acts as this for her. Attacks include Samson's appendages turning into spikes, utensils, teeth, or Samson himself taking control over Filia's mobility to turn into different beasts momentarily to deliver some powerful attacks.
290	* ''VideoGame/SingularStone'': [[Music/HatsuneMiku Miku]] attacks enemies by impaling them with her hardened hair. Her attack range is the shortest from all characters, but has fast attack rate and damages all enemies in its reach.
291	* ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'': Muzét uses her hair for extremely quick and painful melee attacks when she's not busy nuking the party with elemental magic. In the sequel, [[PromotedToPlayable where she's playable]], her "weapon" is a ''hairpin''.
292	%%* ''VideoGame/Wild9'': Krystal.
293	* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'': Emerelda Kasim often reshapes her hair to use in melee combat. Granted, she does this because she is entirely composed of nanomachines, and uses other parts of her body as well, but she does seem to favor the hair.
294	[[/folder]]
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296	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
297	* In ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'', Medusa/"Rider"'s hair is [[InvisibleToNormals simultaneously]] normal (albeit purple and very, very long) hair ''and'' a group of snakes growing out from her head. Normally they don't move, but when they do she can't control them, so she wears a loose hairtie. Unfortunately, she doesn't wear that tie while ''bathing'', so when [[FuroScene her crush walks in on her doing the former]], the snakes [[RomanticWingman enthusiastically try to restrain him]].
298	* In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', [[spoiler:Tohno Akiha]]'s hair turns crimson red when she is excited (generally a bad sign). However, her method of attack (''Origami'', or "Imprisoning Hair") is not so much using her actual hair, but spiritual extensions that attack at the speed of thought. InvisibleToNormals (including herself), the red strands can skewer straight through a human being, or ensnare and hold them in midair - at maximum output, she can encage whole buildings. She may or may not have used her hair to climb along the side of a building. The Origami also serves as a medium for her other ability: [[EnergyAbsorption lethal absorption of heat]] (or LifeEnergy; the line blurs).
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301
302	[[folder:Web Animation]]
303	* ''Animation/{{Pucca}}'':
304	** Muji, a villain on the cartoon, is obsessed with grooming his sentient mustache.
305	** Ring-Ring is very prone to attacking people with her magically stretching blue hair.
306	[[/folder]]
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308	[[folder:Webcomics]]
309	* Kavonn, a wizard from the comic ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' has [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/5130506/ control over his hair]] due to it being soaked with magic leaking from his hat. It has many abilities, and he is keen to make people [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/4961120/ aware]] of this fact...
310	%%* Tinsels power from ''Webcomic/{{Dreamkeepers}}'' is this.
311	* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', Ariel has this thanks to her extensive [[VoluntaryShapeshifter shapeshifting]] abilities. This ability has always been subtle and subconscious on her part - until she learns to do it deliberately and [[spoiler:snags Kalki with it to compensate for her [[AnArmAndALeg lost arm]], allowing her to land an awesomely vicious punch.]]
312	* K'Thonya from the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Earthsong}}'' has the power to control metal with her mind. Since her race's hair contains traces of metal, she can manipulate her hair, as well. Her race is said to have inspired the myth of Gorgons on Earth.
313	* Miss Futakuchi, the history teacher in ''Webcomic/EerieCuties''. An incarnation of the Japanese myth in the Myths & Religion section.
314	* Grace in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. Though not the hair -- any greater chimera has (often furred) antennae, which in her case look much like thick locks. When she [[ShapeShifting morphs]] them away, her hair is quite inert.
315	** Susan checks her spellbook hoping for a spell that will allow her to control her hair with her mind.
316	** Several characters, most notably Susan, are referred to at various times as having "badass-hair-in-the-wind-with-no-wind" effects, and in one out-of-canon strip, there are apparently "hair fairies" who can cause such effects (as well as put ridiculous hairstyles on anyone who doubts their existence/powers).
317	* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/1888402/hair-care/ Carrie Pelosi]] has hair that reflects her moods. (This is not the same as CompressedHair.) She can also use it to wield a HyperspaceMallet, or [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2125528/things-are-getting-hairy/ get someone's attention.]]
318	* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/FlakyPastry'', Zintiel's hair has this property [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=166 even when no longer attached]].
319	* Noventia of the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}}'' has long, prehensile hair. Also, Suspiria has hair that, if not exactly prehensile, is enchanted to change styles with her mood, and goes completely mad when she uses magic.
320	* In ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'', Witch is able to control her hair, and frequently forms it into extra arms.
321	* Natty from ''Webcomic/NattyComics'' uses hers to exact her trademark DisproportionateRetribution on someone who thinks young women shouldn't have short hair (some growth is apparently involved).
322	* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-08-09 2013-08-09]] has Literature/{{Rapunzel}} use her hair to point a gun at a prince who won't climb it.
323	* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Goops, after [[spoiler:[[FusionDance merging]] with Tessa]], can move around on her floor-length hair, doing so to [[NonchalantDodge nonchalantly dodge]] Heartful Punch's attempts to fight her. Plus, the hair can be pooled to let her sink into the floor.
324	* ''Webcomic/UnOrdinary'': Keesh, one of the criminals X-Ray fought, has the ability to grow her hair and manipulate it like extra appendages.
325	* Murrey's mullet in ''Webcomic/WonderWeenies'' can be used to pick things up or can be formed into various blunt instruments.
326	* Mistress Stress from ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'' has her [[http://www.yamara.com/yamara/rfw/rfw03.html Stress' Sunblocking Hairy Cantrip]]. Repeated use has some... side effects.
327	[[/folder]]
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329	[[folder:Web Original]]
330	* Dr. Tenent, a physician and teacher in the Magical Arts Department of Whateley Academy in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. She often does the medusa bit to handle multiple medical instruments at once.
331	* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1385 SCP-1385]] ("The Mistake Ring"), a concrete finger ring that imbues its wearer with strange effects, including the involuntary summoning of nearby lobsters and the wearer's hair growing into a net.
332	[[/folder]]
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334	[[folder:Western Animation]]
335	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'':
336	** In the original series, minor recurring villain Frightwig (of the Circus Freaks) has prehensile hair with metal weights at the end of each "tentacle" which she uses to bludgeon opponents.
337	** In the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' episode "Breakpoint", we discover that this is the primary ability of [[JokeCharacter Mole-Stache]]. It turns out to be [[LethalJokeCharacter ridiculously strong]], able to serve as a parachute, HelicopterHair, punch Fistrick several feet, and ''lift a truck'' overhead. "Awesome 'stache", indeed.
338	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': Zulius's trademark spell is "Shapely Hair", which allows him to reshape his mane however he likes, whether to use as a third hand or just for showing off.
339	* ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'': Molly's superhero persona Fista-Puffs can turn her pigtails into hands that can punch and [[SuperStrength pick up things]].
340	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' where Dexter grows a beard in order to fight crime with his favourite action hero. They actually tie beards together in order to use Dexter as a flail to defeat several villains. These villains have their own "super beards", including a sword beard (with sheath) and a whip.
341	* Golden Locks and her evil alter-ego Hair Razor on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''.
342	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', Lord Oberon of TheFairFolk, being a [[VoluntaryShapeshifter shapeshifting]] PhysicalGod, can do this with his hair. When he's also the size of Godzilla, it can get kinda scary.
343	* ''WesternAnimation/GetBlake'': In "Get Hairy!", one of the effects of the [[NeverTrustAHairTonic hair growth formula]] is to give Blake and Mitch prehensile facial hair (at least temporarily) which beats up the Squalliens.
344	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Old Man [=McGucket=]: "Well, first I hootenannied up a biomechanical brain wave generator, and then I learned to operate a stick-shift with my beard!".
345	* Freddy Folicle from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'', who is covered in prehensile body hair from a biochemistry accident. There's some exposition that his hair strands are smoother than natural hair, and they react to electrical impulses like a muscle. Unlike most examples, and keeping in theme with the show, having such long and thick hair leaves him very oily and rather smelly.
346	* On ''WesternAnimation/HarveyStreetKids'' and ''Harvey Girls Forever!'', Audrey is depicted as being able to shape her center pigtail into a functioning arm.
347	* One episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' features a version of the Royal Flush Gang that included a Ten with this power.
348	* Yosemite Sam's moustache displays this ability in the Merrie Melodies song "Moostache" (and nowhere else) in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode "Itsy Bitsy Gopher".
349	* The fish head and hair monsters made by Dr. Barber in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' episode "Fish Heads".
350	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
351	** Most characters have this ability concerning their tails to some extent, with Pinkie Pie demonstrating full control with both her tail and mane due to RuleOfFunny.
352	** The SuperHeroEpisode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" features a hair-themed supervillainess, the Mane-iac, whose mane is more like a Gorgon's tentacle hair.
353	* Sedusa from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has whip-like prehensile hair she can control.
354	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': Manboy has a beard he can control, often using it to grab or bludgeon his opponents. It can grow to any length he wants and instantly grow back if damaged in any way.
355	* Entraptra, a minor villain from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' has two long braids of hair which she can use to entrap her opponents. However, since she isn't much of a combatant, this ability is generally treated as secondary to her engineering skills.
356	** Renamed Entrapta, she reappears in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' with even greater hair control powers, to the point of her pigtails serving as extra hands and[=/=]or feet when she is not using them as a chair (and often when she is).
357	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The [[Literature/HarryPotter Dumbledore]] parody Lord Greystash may or may not canonically have this ability. However, it is at least plausible enough for Homer to ad-lib an ending where Greystash, rather than die at the hands of the series' villain as scripted, shouts "[[CallingYourAttacks MUSTACHE POWER -- ACTIVATE!]]" and [[RuleOfCool beats him to a pulp]] [[RuleOfFunny with his mustache]].
358	* WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}'s hair can be used as a parachute.
359	* Metalhead, a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]-styled superhero in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', has prehensile metal hair. Not to be confused with the EvilKnockoff robot turtle from the original series.
360	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' featured experimental prehensile facial hair as starcrossed lovers. ''Really''.
361	* The Moustache Mafia of ''WesternAnimation/ElTigre'' all have moustaches that express the more cartoonish version of Prehensile Hair, as they're able to form hands, claws, maces, axes, etc with their whiskers.
362	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' season 1 episode 4, princess Ydalipe can do that with her enormous head of hair (and beard, and mustache...) as a result of a curse from the god Osamodas. She initially lures Sadlygrove into her cursed castle in a spoof of Literature/{{Rapunzel}}'s story.
363	* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' has Dr. Screwball Jones, a floating banana with a mustache that he uses as arms.
364	* Elastika from ''WesternAnimation/Zevo3''. She can even ''fly'' by using strands of hair as a propeller.
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368	* Yes, there was actually somebody in RealLife that could reportedly do this. 19th-century French actor [[http://www.worldsstrangest.com/mental-floss/the-man-with-enchanted-hair/ Pierre Messie]] was allegedly able to make his hair stand, fall, and curl. He could even make one side of his hair go up and the other side stay flat. Just how he could do such a thing is unknown, but given that hair is ''dead'' tissue without muscles, chicanery seems likely.
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