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| 10 | [[caption-width-right:248:It's short for [[{{Tomboy}} "all business"]].]] |
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| 12 | [[LongHairIsFeminine Since long hair is generally seen as a more "feminine" trait,]] when a girl has short hair it tends to mean she's decidedly ''less'' feminine than the average girl, maybe a {{Tomboy}} or ActionGirl. This choice of having short hair usually indicates a girl has a more masculine personality, is tough and aggressive or is lacking in vanity. Girls may cut their hair short because they don't want to put up with the maintenance that longer hair requires. Other times it's short so no one can easily [[ByTheHair grab it in a fight]], which BraidsOfAction and TomboyishPonytail are sometimes prone to be. |
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| 14 | The contrast of a short-haired girl with a long-haired one can sometimes be used to portray a TomboyAndGirlyGirl. If taken to extremes, a girl with Boyish Short Hair could be a ButchLesbian, many of whom have this as an indicator. Maybe the result of an ImportantHairCut, with the new short hair being an indicator that the girl is ready to take action. Also, sometimes necessary for a girl to go undercover as a SweetPollyOliver. |
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| 16 | Particularly in Anime and Manga, Tomboys may wear short hair with longer grown out sidelocks. The hair is still boyish, but the tails supposedly make it just girly and cute enough. It also makes them look a bit less professional, and more combatant than having short hair even all around. |
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| 18 | When an IronLady or other woman in power wears short hair, it's usually not this but the much more carefully styled PowerHair, which says ''feminine and no-nonsense''. |
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| 20 | Compare TomboyishPonytail and LongHairedPrettyBoy, the direct opposite of this trope. Contrast with LongHairIsFeminine. Also, compare its ancestor, the TwentiesBobHaircut, and possible successor, the SciFiBobHaircut. |
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| 22 | It should be noted that RealLife adult women with this type of hairstyle often have careers that do not allow long hair or have young children which makes maintaining long hair impractical. It should also be noted that short hair on women was quite [[FiftiesHair fashionable]] in TheFifties. |
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| 24 | !!Examples |
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| 32 | |
| 33 | * ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'': |
| 34 | ** When Mira and Ao first met, Ao has a very boyish short haircut. This, combined with her GenderBlenderName, led Mira to think [[UsedToBeATomboy Ao]] was a boy. |
| 35 | ** Megu's hair is usually shorter than her shoulder, which fits her status as the most athletic of the entire cast. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': |
| 37 | ** Kagura, a tomboyish superstar athlete and UnknownRival to [[HugeSchoolgirl Sakaki]], who is a naturally gifted ShrinkingViolet, has short hair complete with HotbloodedSideburns. |
| 38 | ** Minamo Kurosawa also has short hair (though she also has two longer locks in front), fitting with her job as the school's gym teacher and her athletic abilities. |
| 39 | * Casca from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' had short hair back when she was a tomboyish and extremely capable ActionGirl. After the Eclipse, she [[GoMadFromTheRevelation was driven insane]] and now has long MessyHair due to her status as TheOphelia and an EmptyShell. [[spoiler: As of Chapter 359 Casca cured of her mental regression has gotten her hair cut by Danann, it's longer than her original cut but still symbolic that she's returned to her ActionGirl status]]. |
| 40 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': |
| 41 | ** Tatsuki has short, dark spiky hair and is the class tomboy. She's a karate expert who trained Orihime to black-belt level. Chizuru once comments that she would have found Tatsuki attractive if not for the masculine vibe Tatsuki always gives off. [[spoiler:After the time-skip, she grows out her hair.]] |
| 42 | ** Soifon is the Gotei 13's top {{ninja}} and neither gives quarter nor asks for it. She's a grim, aggressive personality who has worked hard to build a ruthless reputation. Although she spends much of the story with braids, after the time-skip, she loses the braids and switches to this trope instead. |
| 43 | ** Rukia is a short-haired action girl. She's had a rough life and possesses the rough, aggressive personality to match. After the time skip, she sports chin-length hair, shorter than her shoulder-length hairstyle (which her older sister Hisana had the same hairstyle). [[spoiler:Later averted towards the very end, as a more mature Rukia is seen wearing her hair to her waist after keeping it short for the whole series. It's also timed with two very important hits in her life: [[ChildhoodFriendRomance forming a family with Renji]] and [[BabiesEverAfter their daughter]], and [[RankUp becoming a captain]].]] |
| 44 | ** Jackie Tristan is X-Cution's only physical fighter, whose power centers around improving her kick-boxer attacks and morphs her clothing into a BadassBiker theme. Although appearing to be quiet and aloof, she becomes very rough and aggressive in battle. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'': |
| 46 | ** Downplayed with Akane. She's tomboy to her best friends GirlyGirl and has a bob haircut. She's not too masculine though, having multiple stereotypically feminine interests like baking. As a toddler she loathed skirts while Marika was in the opposite situation, being a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} "boy" who preferred dresses over shorts]]. |
| 47 | ** When Miki was little she didn't get along with girls much. She was OneOfTheBoys to the point where her friends would joke she really was a boy. After she hit puberty precociously she grew out her hair. |
| 48 | ** Yui, Ryousuke's younger sister was a short-haired {{bifauxnen}} once. Ryousuke said she changed when she became a model. |
| 49 | * ''Anime/TheBushBaby'': Jackie, to the point you'd actually be forgiven for thinking she's a boy - it goes right above her shoulders and barely below her face. |
| 50 | * Downplayed with Sakura from ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''; while she has very short hair and is athletic (with P.E. being one of her favorite subjects at school), [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak she's otherwise a very feminine girl]]. She also tends to style her hair in feminine ways despite it being so short, wearing numerous hair decorations and often sporting short pigtails. |
| 51 | * Nozomi, from ''Manga/ACentaursLife''. Her boyish appearance is frequently commented, due to her hair and figure. |
| 52 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Kallen is a MsFanservice version of this. She is the Black Knights AcePilot and Lelouch's bodyguard. Her short hair indicates that she is not to be trifled with. |
| 53 | * The official art book of ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'' [[https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Kazuya_Ry%C5%ABzaki?file=Daimos_artbook.jpg#Books_and_magazines reveals]] that [[AlphaBitch Raiza]] had this hairstyle as a child - in contrast, as an adult, her hair nearly touches the ground. |
| 54 | * Lenalee Lee from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' ends up with this hairstyle from Episodes 63-103, due to having her long GirlishPigtails being burned off during her fight with a Level 3 Akuma in Episode 62. At the end of Episode 103, her hair grows back to a bob haircut, and it carries over into the 2016 series, ''Hallow''. |
| 55 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 56 | ** Bulma's hairstyle after the Namek story arc, in which she had a shoulder-length bob before then. |
| 57 | ** Videl, Gohan's future wife, cuts her hair short when Gohan suggested her GirlishPigtails would be a hindrance in a fight (and also because she thought he liked girls with shorter hair). |
| 58 | ** Colonial Violet the sole female officer of the Red Ribbon Army has short military hair, which is purple. |
| 59 | ** Fasha (or Celipa) from ''Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku'' the first pure-blooded Female Saiyan shown, has short hair befitting a ProudWarriorRaceGirl. The other female member of Bardock's squad Gine (his wife), has long hair and is gentle-hearted compared to Fasha. |
| 60 | ** Cheelai from ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' the GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe and LoveInterest of the titular Saiyan, has short white hair and is quite tomboyish. |
| 61 | * Fena from ''Anime/FenaPiratePrincess'' cuts her long hair to a very short pixie haircut in the second episode as a sign that she had made up her mind about her destiny to find Eden in her father's stead. |
| 62 | * In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', Yui ''did'' once have long hair but cut it short in 8th grade to avoid all the attention she was getting from boys. She is noticeably more hot-tempered and considerably less ditzy than Miaka. |
| 63 | * ''Manga/GirlsBravo'': Both [[OneOfTheBoys Kirie]] and [[PsychoLesbian Kosame]] keep their hair cropped short. Both are tough as nails, with Kirie regularly [[PervertRevengeMode dispensing justice on perverts]] with [[MegatonPunch haymakers]] and [[WrestlerInAllOfUs suplexes]] - while Kosame is a professional covert operative. |
| 64 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': |
| 65 | ** Toyed with in the case of Ukraine, who has extremely short hair and dresses like a boy but is more of a NiceGirl in personality. |
| 66 | ** Played straighter with Belgium, who's quite straightforward and has wavy hair that reaches to her neck. |
| 67 | ** Nyo!Germany, who probably has many of the drill-sergeant-esque mannerisms of her male counterpart. |
| 68 | * ''Manga/HikariNoDensetsu'': Fitting for a competetive PassionateSportsGirl, Megumi's hair is inches above her ears and shaved into a flat cut. In contrast, Hikari has a TomboyishPonytail and Shiina has a PrimAndProperBun. |
| 69 | * ''Manga/IgaNoKabamaru'': While Mai has short hair, she's rather feminine - apart from her enjoyment of sports and riding on Kabamaru's (who's a ninja that runs at hyperspeed) back. |
| 70 | * Invoked in ''Anime/IsabelleOfParis'' where the titular Isabelle cuts off her OjouRinglets to become a spy for France's sake and keeps this hairstyle even after her war duties are over. |
| 71 | ** ''Anime/KazeNoShojoEmily'': Ilse Burnley is a {{Tomboy}} who loves wearing blue and scrap-fighting, and has short golden hair and golden eyes. In contrast, the titular Emily wears a lot of pink, has long hair styled in plaits and is a bit of an introvert. |
| 72 | * Ryoku from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has shoulder-length hair, in contrast with the other female characters who have longer hair, highlighting her status as a JapaneseDelinquent in contrast to Satsuki's regal HimeCut. |
| 73 | * Invoked in ''Manga/KissAndWhiteLilyForMyDearestGirl'': Mizuki initially had long hair but being an InsecureLoveInterest she was afraid of looking too plain at Moe's side. So, she cut her hair to give a more tomboyish vibe, which makes people call their couple the "prince and princess" of the school now. But she's still a shy and insecure girl deep down, contrary to Moe. |
| 74 | * ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'': |
| 75 | ** Subaru Nakajima, tomboyish GenkiGirl CuteBruiser martial artist who fights by punching enemies [[SuperStrength really, really hard]]. |
| 76 | ** Minor character Alto Krauetta, resident mechanic and helicopter pilot who actually went through a portion of her childhood thinking she was a boy since she was raised in a mostly male environment. |
| 77 | * Miyaji Madoka from ''Manga/MeiNoNaisho''. |
| 78 | * Allenby from ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' has very short blue hair and a boisterous, fun-loving and fight-loving attitude. Ironically, her Gundam has a very girly aesthetic with very long blond "hair," which actually serves as radiator fins for her [[TheBerserker Berserk Mode]]. |
| 79 | * Kashima of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' has very short hair, which complements her [[{{Bifauxnen}} looks and status as the school's "prince"]] well. |
| 80 | * Satsuki from Anime/MyNeighborTotoro, when she and Mei visit their mother in the hospital, she asks Satsuki why she has her hair cut so short, she replies that she likes it that way. |
| 81 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 82 | ** Sakura had short hair for most of her childhood, but grew out her hair because she heard a rumor that [[SingleTargetSexuality her crush Sasuke]] likes long-haired girls. Though Sakura starts out as quite girlish, by the start of ''Shippuden'', she's picked up more and more tomboyish attributes. Her friend Ino, who grew out her hair for the same reason, kept her hair long and is the more feminine of the two. |
| 83 | ** Hanabi is shown to have a bob haircut during ''Shippuden''. She's depicted as slightly more tomboyish than her sister Hinata. By the time of ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'', she's undergone a GirlinessUpgrade and grown her hair back long. |
| 84 | * Hajime from ''Manga/NewGame'' keeps her hair short, rides her bike to work, and likes to move around in the office a lot. At least the last part is justified by her wanting to properly animate the models. |
| 85 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 86 | ** Nami pre-TimeSkip from the age of 8 to 18 has had short hair and is often TheLadette. Two years later in the new world she's grown long waist length hair and even more [[FanservicePack physically mature]]. |
| 87 | ** Kuina fitting her tough swordswoman nature had very short hair. Tashigi who resembles Kuina also has boyish short hair but like Nami grows longer hair in the timeskip. |
| 88 | ** Aisa the little Shandia girl from Skypeia due being a self-proclaimed warrior has short hair. At the end of the arc Laki a CoolBigSis figure tells Aisa that she can grow her hair long since they don't have to fight anymore. |
| 89 | ** Among the [[AmazonBrigade Kuja tribe]] in [[LadyLand Amazon Lily]] Rindo has the shortest hair, carries a bazooka and smokes. Marguerite and Nerine also have short hair which does not reach their shoulders. |
| 90 | * Mariya from ''VisualNovel/OtobokuMaidensAreFallingForMe'': Every character, including the male lead, is TheOjou. Mariya is less ladylike than the rest of the cast, including the male lead, and she drops her facade only when she's alone with him. While still feminine (a true tomboy would be very out of place at a high-class all-girls school) she occupies the {{tomboy}} role. |
| 91 | * Haruhi Fujioka of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' sports very short hair, and the fact that it allows her to [[SweetPollyOliver pass for a guy]] helps to kick off the plot. It turns out that her hair being so short wasn't done on purpose, since she used to wear it long until she cut most of it off after a kid stuck some gum in it. The epilogue of the manga shows that she's starting to grow it out again. |
| 92 | * Noa Izumi from ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'', due to her tomboyish appearance. Kumagami also counts though despite being a {{bifauxnen}}, she's a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak. |
| 93 | * Most tomboyish ''Anime/PrettyCure'' protagonists have short hairstyles, often shoulder-length at the longest, in contrast to the more feminine Cures having {{long hair|IsFeminine}}. |
| 94 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': Hotheaded lacrosse player Nagisa has short, scruffy red hair, in contrast to her gentler, nerdy partner Honoka having long, slick black hair. |
| 95 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'': Like Nagisa before her, Saki, a GenkiGirl who plays softball, has a messy, short 'do, while her shy, artsy partner Mai has longer hair in a half bun. |
| 96 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'': Designated sporty tomboy Rin has short hair in a flip. |
| 97 | ** Invoked in ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Because she has to pass for a boy in order to be the heir to her family's dojo, Itsuki wears a short hairstyle. This 'do causes Tsubomi to mistake her for a boy until she hears her be called "ojou-sama" ("ojou" meaning "princess"). |
| 98 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrecure'': Like Rin before her, designated tomboy Akane has the shortest hair in the team. |
| 99 | ** ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'': Akira wears a short bowlcut. Like Itsuki above, this also got her confused for a boy at first. |
| 100 | ** ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'': Homare, the tough, former delinquent of the team, has a short hairstyle. |
| 101 | ** ''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure'': Sora, who is athletic and tomboyish, has much shorter hair than the more feminine Mashiro and Ageha. Additionally, when character designs were first revealed, it was initially perceived that Cure Wing was the team's designated tomboy due to "her" short hairstyle. However, fans were in for a shock when it turned out that [[ViewerGenderConfusion Cure Wing (a.k.a Tsubasa) was not a tomboy, but an actual boy]]. |
| 102 | ** Inversions/Aversions: Inori of ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'', Ako of ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', Yuko of ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'', Haruka of ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'', Mirai of ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'', Lala of ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'', Nodoka of ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'', and Minori of ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' all have short hair, but they have feminine or gender-neutral personalities. |
| 103 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 104 | ** Zoey is easily the most tomboyish of any of Dawn's female rivals and has short, spiky and fiery red hair. |
| 105 | ** As well as Misty, mixed with a TomboyishPonytail. Being a FieryRedHead tomboy who [[OneOfTheBoys hangs out with guys]]. |
| 106 | * ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': |
| 107 | ** Sapphire won't be winning any awards for femininity anytime soon and her hair isn't particularly long; the bangs are rather exaggerated though. [[spoiler:{{Averted}} in the past where she was a big girly-girly and sported the same haircut]]. |
| 108 | ** Midway in the ''XY'' arc, Y gets her hair trimmed really short, even shorter than X's hair. |
| 109 | * ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' has [[NubileSavage San]], whose appearance is justified since she was literally [[RaisedByWolves raised by wolves.]] |
| 110 | * ''Anime/PrincessNine'': At least four, and possibly five or six, of the girls, have Boyishly Short Hair. This is a show about girls playing baseball on even terms with boys, so tomboys are to be expected. |
| 111 | * Sayaka Miki from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has the shortest hair out of the main five girls in the series, only reaching to her chin. She tends towards wanting to be the KnightInShiningArmor as a MagicalGirl her outfit resembles that of a knight and she uses swords to rush into the action. |
| 112 | * Irma, of ''Anime/QueensBlade'', would be this, plus, a white-haired pretty girl if she weren't so tomboyish and set to {{tsun|dere}}-tsun all the time. But considering her upbringing in an assassin's guild and having been betrayed by her SexyMentor/love interest, who abandoned her, leaving her hurt and bitter over it.... [[http://manga.animea.net/bleach-chapter-159-page-16.html Wait, does this remind you of anything?]] |
| 113 | * ''Anime/{{Raideen}}'': Rei Asuka has short, ginger hair, though it is styled in a feminine way. She's also an ActionGirl with psychic powers. |
| 114 | * ''Anime/RODTheTV'': |
| 115 | ** Anita King combines BoyishShortHair with {{tomboy}}ish behavior and [[{{Odango}} Chinese-style hair buns]]. She's also an ArtificialHuman and strong enough to hold her own in a fight with adult men several times her size. |
| 116 | ** And then there's Maggie Mui, who, while not as much a tomboy as Anita, could [[{{Bifauxnen}} actually pass for a guy.]] |
| 117 | * ''Manga/RyusPath'': Maria has very short hair that's held with a hairband. It's ruffles point upwards at the bottom. She's also an ActionGirl who's skilled with a gun and viewed as a CoolBigSis by her little brother Jimmy. |
| 118 | * ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': |
| 119 | ** Haruka Tenou/Sailor Uranus is a short-haired {{Bokukko}}, [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl in explicit contrast]] to her lover, long-haired and feminine Michiru Kaiou/Sailor Neptune. She often wears masculine clothes in civilian form -- not because she's specifically crossdressing, but just because she likes them. (Though it should be mentioned that this happens more in the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] than the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]]). |
| 120 | ** Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury is also known for her short hair (although it's worn in a bit more feminine style) which is used to highlight her intelligence. When a possible future version of her was shown with long hair the fandom had a collective fit. |
| 121 | * Two in ''Manga/SandChronicles'': |
| 122 | ** Kaede has short hair that becomes even shorter as years pass, is a doctor that lacks a few feminine traits such as cooking skills and girly fashion and is quite blunt at times. She also had short hair in her school years when she was very studious and athletic. |
| 123 | ** Ayumu Narasaki has short hair, is in the judo club during middle school and has become quite smart by the time she reappears. She's also rough, outspoken and bossy, though she mellows out after her prank on Ann goes too far. |
| 124 | * Inverted in ''Manga/StrawberryShakeSweet'', short-haired, boyish-looking Ran is the [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Girly Girl]] to Julia's {{Tomboy}}. |
| 125 | * Subverted in ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'', from the end of chapter six onwards [[spoiler: Kirie sports this type of haircut as the result of having to cut it all off after it comes to life and nearly kills her. However, her personality doesn't change at all, and she remains fairly feminine.]] |
| 126 | * ''Anime/VariableGeo'': While Satomi's hair is always [[UnkemptBeauty short and mussy]], due to living [[PerpetualPoverty in poverty]], it's mainly meant to convey that [[OneOfTheBoys she's a tomboy.]] Which is further emphasized by her athletic figure and [[SupernaturalMartialArts her immense fighting ability.]] |
| 127 | * Hitomi from ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'', who was an athlete at her high school, Van comments on her short hair in the movie. |
| 128 | * ''Manga/WanderingSon'': Takatsuki is a trans boy who wears his hair very short to look more masculine. [[spoiler: He grows his hair past his shoulder at the end of the manga, when he has doubts about whether he really wanted to be a boy or if he just hated being a girl.]] |
| 129 | * ''Anime/WhenMarnieWasThere'': Anna has short hair that reaches her jawline. She is also a tomboy who dresses androgynously. This is in contrast to Marnie, who has long hair and is very feminine. |
| 130 | * Tsubaki from ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' has a bob haircut and is a sporty, tomboyish girl. In comparison, Kaori is more conventionally feminine, and her hair goes past her neck. |
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| 133 | [[folder:Comics]] |
| 134 | [[AC:Franchise/TheDCU]] |
| 135 | * ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'': Fitting her highly trained {{TykeBomb}} nature, Cassandra Cain has far shorter hair than [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara, Stephanie and Helena]]. |
| 136 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'': Carrie Kelley has very short tomboyish hair. |
| 137 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}'': |
| 138 | ** Kate Kane had short hair from high school all the way through her time as a cadet and typically sports an even shorter buzz cut in the ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' era. Ironically, her early appearances have her with long hair before being ultimately depicted with a chin-length bob. |
| 139 | ** Kate's cousin Bette, who is more usually seen with a TomboyishPonytail, also cut her hair short when she enrolled at West Point. |
| 140 | * ''ComicBook/BlackCanary'': In the 1990s, Dinah usually has short black hair when not using her wig. She is a huge ActionGirl. She eventually grows out her hair and dyes it blonde. |
| 141 | * ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'': In all modern comic portrayals, Selina Kyle has very short hair that she can fit easily in her cowl. In the 1960s, Selina has longer hair coming out of the back of her mask, similarly to ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}. |
| 142 | * ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'': Karen is really just an older version of ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} from an AlternateUniverse. Aside from being very muscular (and ''much'' [[MostCommonSuperpower curvier]]), she's also distinguished from Supergirl by having much shorter hair to reflect her assertiveness. While her hair has been a SciFiBobHaircut for much of her existence, she did have her hair cropped to crewcut levels during her period as an Atlantean. |
| 143 | * ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Near the end of her freshman year of high school, Callie Evans crops her light brown hair into a short pixie cut and dyes it orange. |
| 144 | * ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'': The post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} -- who is a short-tempered, hot-blooded brawler and not feminine ''in the least'' -- wears her blond hair this way. |
| 145 | * ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'': [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie Sandsmark]] [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 originally]] had an incredibly short boyish hair cut to reflect her tomboy sensibilities, which she hid underneath a black wig while in uniform. |
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| 147 | [[AC:Franchise/MarvelUniverse]] |
| 148 | * ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel| Marvel Comics}}'': Carol Danvers has worn this since 2015 -- some time after ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' -- and up to a short time before the [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 film]] (and [[Film/AvengersEndgame its follow-up]]) had Creator/BrieLarson's Carol adopting the haircut as well. Doubles as PowerHair. It's also the initial hairstyle of her ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' incarnation, before going for long hair as well. |
| 149 | * ''ComicBook/{{Silk| Marvel Comics}}'': While Cindy initially had long hair, she commonly has a short bob nowadays. |
| 150 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'': May Parker has short brown boyish hair [[StrongFamilyResemblance much like her dad]], though she's still more popular than him during her high school days. |
| 151 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Betty Brant has kept her short hair since TheSixties -- she's still very feminine, though. The only adaption to change this is the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', in which Betty has long [[AdaptationDyeJob blonde]] hair, ironically making her resemble Gwen Stacy. |
| 152 | * ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Jean starts off with short hair along with a {{Tomboy}} attitude. After a while, she lets her hair grow out to a shoulder-length bob similar to her main universe counterpart's. |
| 153 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 154 | ** Rogue originally starts off with very short hair when she's first introduced. However, her hair [[BeautyEqualsGoodness grows longer]] after she makes a HeelFaceTurn, with Creator/JimLee giving her iconic massive hair. |
| 155 | ** Rachel Summers/Phoenix has short messy hair, unlike her mother Jean and her [[TimeyWimeyBall alternate reality adoptive niece]] Hope. |
| 156 | ** Callisto, TheLadette leader of the Morlocks, either has short or really short hair, DependingOnTheArtist. |
| 157 | ** Ever since her debut, Jubilee has had very short hair along with a punkish tomboy attitude, especially back in the 1990s (though she does [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak have a girly side]]). |
| 158 | ** In ''ComicBook/XMenGold'', Kitty Pryde has very short hair, perhaps reflecting her new role as TheLeader. |
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| 161 | * ''ComicBook/FinePrint'': Sam (or Samantha) Sawyer, Lauren's [[FriendsWithBenefits friend who she has sex with sometimes]], has hers cut short. She's otherwise pretty femme, though. |
| 162 | * ''ComicBook/GenderQueerAMemoir'': Maia cuts their hair short in adulthood, disliking long hair given it [[LongHairIsFeminine showcases a femininity]] which doesn't fit 'em. |
| 163 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 164 | ** ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': Sally Acorn started out with her short pixie cut from [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM the cartoon]]. She [[LongHairIsFeminine grew it out]] as the comic progressed, but later had it cut back to its original length. After the comic's SoftReboot, her hair varied between this and a SciFiBobHaircut, DependingOnTheArtist. |
| 165 | ** ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Tangle the Lemur has tufts of fur on her head evoking this look: two short ones in the back and a larger one on her forehead. This, combined with her wardrobe and outline, give her a very boyish overall look. It also reflects her status as one of the franchise's few straight {{Tomboy}}s, as opposed to a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak. |
| 166 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 167 | ** ''ComicBook/StarWarsChewbacca'': Zarro has ''extremely'' short hair; it can be difficult to tell that she's a girl. |
| 168 | ** ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'': After she grows her hair in, Plourr keeps it cut short in keeping with her very [[TheLadette "one of the guys"]] look. |
| 169 | [[/folder]] |
| 170 | |
| 171 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 172 | * Commander Tess Phohl of ''Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO'' wears her hair this way. This is a Starfleet tactical officer who has BloodKnight tendencies and favors a {{BFG}} in ground combat. |
| 173 | * Dragonis Prime's ''Fanfic/CaptainMarvelPhalanx'' sees Carol Danvers receiving a buzzed pompadour on Sakaar before she takes part in gladiatorial combat. |
| 174 | * In ''Fanfic/CatchYourBreath'', jonin-level ninja Keisuke "Kei" Gekko has short hair, a unisex work uniform, and a general demeanor that all combine in a way that leads to her being repeatedly mistaken for a [[{{Bifauxnen}} pretty young man]]. According to the author, she has a bad habit of just hacking at her hair every time it gets long enough to get in her way. |
| 175 | * Creator/AAPessimal's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics: |
| 176 | ** Career Thief Steffi Gibbet, a cameo character in Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', gets a fuller treatment here as a tomboyish young Thief who has an [[LesYay Understanding]] with Assassin Miss Alice Band. |
| 177 | ** This also happens to [[FieryRedhead Mariella Smith-Rhodes]] and others, on conscription into [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfricansWithSurfaceToAirMissiles their country's Army]]. Mariella notes that a lifetime of long red hair ends up, within seconds, on the Army barber's floor. She takes this philosophically and is later seen sporting a more manageable shorter cut - as she says, long hair when fighting in a jungle is a sweaty hellish discomfort. |
| 178 | * ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': |
| 179 | ** Maia, [[RedBaron Queen of Mercenaries]], sports short [[FieryRedhead red]] hair. She wears a tunic with a NavelDeepNeckline, prefers ale over the "[[WineIsClassy prissy]]" drink that is wine, is comparatively less refined than her [[BlueBlood Princess Knight]] peers, is an agile [[DualWielding dual-blades user]], and [[OneOfTheBoys fought alongside]] Vault and the Black Dogs (an all-male {{PMC}} group) in the past as a fellow mercenary. |
| 180 | ** Sanakan's short black hair frames a fair face with a [[PerpetualFrowner perpetual scowl]]. Despite having RavenHairIvorySkin, she is a coarse, HotBlooded KidHero and Hunter in [[TheApprentice training]], with a preference for [[BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon big-ass hammers]] and [[{{BFS}} big-ass swords]]. |
| 181 | [[/folder]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 184 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', Ellie has short, messy hair as a kid and she also used to be a {{Tomboy}}. |
| 185 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' [[spoiler: Rapunzel gets her massively long and magical hair cut short by her LoveInterest Eugene in order to defeat the VainSorceress who's been using it's power to stay alive. As many have pointed out Rapunzel still looks beautiful with her sudden haircut if not even more so. Though she gets her long hair back in [[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries her show]]]]. |
| 186 | * TheSquadette Sergeant Calhoun from ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph.'' |
| 187 | * IntrepidReporter Roxanne Ritchi from ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}.'' Combined with BrainyBrunette. |
| 188 | * Ella from WesternAnimation/HappilyNeverAfter, no explanation is given as to why her hair is cut so short. |
| 189 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': Colette's hair is short and neatly cut, most likely so it doesn't get in the way while cooking. |
| 190 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's aunties Lily and Chen have short hair and are more passive aggressive in their remarks to Mei. |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 194 | * ''{{Film/Aliens}}'': While Vasquez having short hair is justified by her being a marine, and in this universe females wear their hair short too, it's styled more masculine than Ripley's and even the other two female marines. This solidifies her as an ultimate LadEtte. Her first scene has Hudson snarking... |
| 195 | --> '''Hudson:''' Have you ever been mistaken for a man? |
| 196 | --> '''Vasquez:''' No, have you? |
| 197 | * ''Film/{{Anna}}'': Maude sports a buzz cut, though her looks and interests are otherwise feminine. However, she is a lesbian. |
| 198 | * [[Creator/KeiraKnightley Jules]] from ''Film/BendItLikeBeckham'' has short hair fitting her {{Tomboy}} nature. This becomes a plot point when Jess' sister's fiance's parents see them laughing together on the street and mistake Jules for a boy due to her short hair. The deeply conservative parents are outraged at the sight of Jess supposedly kissing a white boy out in public and [[ParentalMarriageVeto call off the wedding]], driving a temporary wedge between the sisters. Her mother later assumes she's a lesbian because of that and her [[LesbianJock passion for sports]]. |
| 199 | * ''Film/BelowHerMouth'': Dallas has this, as part of her overall butch looks. |
| 200 | * ''Film/BlueIsTheWarmestColor'': Emma wears her hair short whatever its color. She's a lesbian, and butch in her style. |
| 201 | * ''Film/ButImACheerleader'': Jan and Graham have it (the former especially, who sports a mohawk), which feeds into [[CureYourGays True Direction]]'s belief that they aren't "gender conforming" and this made them lesbians. [[spoiler: Yet ironically enough Jan is really straight.]] |
| 202 | * ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'': Zula has a very short haircut, while being a tough, formidable warrior woman. |
| 203 | * Holly of ''Film/TheDescent'' is the least feminine of the girls; an adrenaline junkie and snarker whose only girly streak is admitting that she'd like to have "loads of babies" one day. She of course has very short hair, while the others wear theirs longer. |
| 204 | * The titular character in ''Film/{{Domino|2005}}'' has one, as befitting a tough ActionGirl and bounty hunter, as did the real Domino Harvey on whom the film was based. |
| 205 | * In ''Film/{{Firefighter}}'', a biopic of Cindy Fralick - the first woman to become a firefighter at the Los Angeles County Fire Department. She is informed that she must cut her long hair above her ears and above her shoulders to conform to the safety regulations - which of course were written for men. Her superiors are unhappy with it and insist she cut it even shorter. On seeing the new result she cries that she looks like a boy. |
| 206 | * ''Film/Ghost1990'': Creator/DemiMoore's [[https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/19878052/1118full-molly-jensen.jpg Molly]], probably the TropeCodifier of boyish short hair on women in movies. Much of her wardobe is masculine too, yet despite this she still manages to be a 90s sex symbol for the now iconic hot and steamy "clay modeling in a singlet" love scene she has with Sam (Creator/PatrickSwayze) alone. |
| 207 | * ''Film/{{Girlfight}}'': Diana actually has long hair, but she achieves this affect during the first half of the movie anyway by pulling it back, making her look like she's just got corn rows, which fits with her tomboy looks. |
| 208 | * In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Lauren Griffin]], a talented AcePilot who flies the G-Team into and out of {{Kaiju}} battles, has a short haircut. |
| 209 | * ''Film/HowItEnds'': Ricki has hers very short and messy, keeping with her other {{tomboy}} traits. |
| 210 | * ''Film/HowToBlowUpAPipeline'': Xochitl cuts her hair short right before committing herself to violent direct action. |
| 211 | * Joan Webster, in ''Film/IKnowWhereImGoing'', sports short hair, and is assertive, determined, and stubborn at times. |
| 212 | * Beverly in ''Film/It2017'', unlike [[Literature/{{It}} the book]] or [[Film/It1990 the previous adaptation]], has short hair after an ImportantHaircut. She is the only girl of the Losers' Club so it makes her fit in. Notably she was quite feminine in the book, but becomes much more tomboyish here. In the sequel, as an adult her hair has grown out a little. It's still short but at a more recognizably 'feminine' length. |
| 213 | * ''Film/JamesBond'': |
| 214 | ** Of the earlier {{Action Girl}}s among the [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girls]], only [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/88/75/58887593f4702ea97405654aaddf8da0.jpg Pam Bouvier]] from ''Film/LicenceToKill'' sports this, trimming it down from EightiesHair after an (offscreen) ExpositoryHairstyleChange; during the Creator/PierceBrosnan era there's [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyVN9pn_Om6p0L7qxo8K2jrfJYPGUKNrFR_g&usqp=CAU Jinx]] from ''Film/DieAnotherDay''. Both of them are notably active intelligence agents themselves who could keep up with Bond in the field and provided direct assistance in taking down their respective movies' BigBad. |
| 215 | ** Creator/JudiDench's M in both the Creator/PierceBrosnan and Creator/DanielCraig era films wears her hair short as a reflection of the fact that she has to suppress her femininity in order to lead an organization like [=MI6=] in a field as male-dominant as national intelligence. She notes in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' that she had to ignore her instincts as a mother when advising Sir Robert King not to pay the ransom for his kidnapped daughter, intending to use her as bait to try to draw out the terrorist behind her abduction. |
| 216 | * Tomboy Scout Finch has short hair in the film version of ''Film/ToKillAMockingbird'' (in the book, her hair length is not mentioned). |
| 217 | * ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Imperator Furiosa has short hair cut very close to the scalp which helps her to blend in with the War Boys who are all bald due to their poor health. Of the Five Wives, only Toast the Knowing has short hair and she's easily the toughest of the group as shown by her knowing how to handle a gun. |
| 218 | * ''Film/MaggieAndAnnie'': Maggie and her lesbian friends have their hair cut short. Eventually Annie follows suit, along with her daughter Jenny, copying the style as she embraces being bisexual. |
| 219 | * ''{{Film/Margarita}}'': Margarita's girlfriend Jane has hers close-cropped as part of her butch look. |
| 220 | * ''Film/MyAnimal'': Heather cuts off most of her hair, leaving it at buzz cut level, after her [[spoiler:dad's death]]. She's a {{butch lesbian}} and it makes her look more masculine than earlier. |
| 221 | * ''Film/TheNovice'': Dani has short, very curly hair as one part of her ButchLesbian looks. |
| 222 | * ''{{Film/Ophelia}}'': Ophelia gets her long hair cut short near the end to [[SweetPollyOliver pass as a man]]. |
| 223 | * ''Film/PrincessCyd'': {{Butch lesbian}} Katie has this, wearing hers in a mohawk. |
| 224 | * ''Film/{{Rafiki}}'': Kena wears her hair in a very short style, as part of her boyish style overall (she's a lesbian as well). |
| 225 | * ''Film/RiotGirls'': Punk girl Scratch sports a mohawk, and she's a {{butch lesbian}} too. |
| 226 | * ''{{Film/Sappho}}'': Sappho has hers cut into a bob as part of her cross-dressing. Bobs were a [[TwentiesBobHaircut common style]] among many women then however, so this doesn't stand out that much. |
| 227 | %%* Amanda Young sports this hairstyle in ''Film/SawII''. |
| 228 | * ''Film/SignatureMove'': Zaynab has hers very short as part of her ButchLesbian style, with her mother saying she should grow it out to attract men (she's [[ClosetGay unaware of her lesbianism]] at the time). |
| 229 | * ''Film/SomebodyIUsedToKnow'': Cyrina, a band mate and friend of Cassidy's, has very short hair that's dyed pale blue as part of her pretty butch style. |
| 230 | * In ''Film/SomeKindOfWonderful'', tomboyish teen Watts only wears masculine clothes and has a short haircut. |
| 231 | * ''Film/TheyThem2022'': Butch bisexual girl Veronica has very short hair in a punk-like style which is dyed partly red. |
| 232 | * In ''Film/{{Tomboy}}'', Laure's haircut is sufficiently boyish that no one sees any reason to doubt her when she introduces herself as "Mikael". |
| 233 | * The main character in ''Train'' is shown to have cut her hair short in the end, after [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge killing]] all the villains. It also probably symbolizes how she's serious about being on the wrestling team now since witnessing your teammates being horribly tortured to death will apparently do that. |
| 234 | * ''Film/TragedyGirls'': Sadie sports a pixie cut she dyed platinum blonde throughout the film. Initially it's just to lure Lowell, who targets young women with short hair, but Sadie likes how it looks so she keeps this. It fits pretty well with her slightly masculine clothing style. |
| 235 | * ''Film/WeAreTheNight'': Lena has short, dyed black hair at the start as part of her goth style. She's also something of a tomboy, dressing in a very masculine way at first and fighting off Tom (although she gets a more feminine style later). |
| 236 | * ''Film/WhatKeepsYouAlive'': Jules has very short hair, in keeping with her masculine clothing style. She's a lesbian, then revealed as an action girl too. |
| 237 | * ''Film/YesOrNo'': Kim has a short, masculine haircut like most Thai men, which makes her often get called a tomboy and suspected of being a ButchLesbian. She however denies being either at first. It turns out that she really is a lesbian though. Other {{butch lesbian}}s shown also have the same style. |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 241 | * Heroines [[Literature/SongOfTheLioness Alanna]] and [[Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall Keladry]], both female knights, wear their hair short in the ''Literature/TortallUniverse'' books, being tomboys. Alanna went undercover as a SweetPollyOliver, but Keladry didn't, she just keeps it short because it's practical. Subverted by a later (but chronologically earlier) heroine, Beka, who despite being boyish and knowing that short hair is better in combat, keeps her long hair (as her one vanity), but braids a strip of spikes into it so anyone who grabs it in a fight will get a nasty surprise. |
| 242 | * Most women above a certain age in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' have short hair; the Whistlers in particular, whose grandmothers were soldiers, keep short military-cropped hair, and Eldest disapproves when Corelle starts growing hers out. In this world, it's [[LongHairedPrettyBoy the men]] who have long hair. |
| 243 | * [[ActionGirl Vin]] in ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}'' starts out with this; it's quickly established that she wears her hair so short, and male clothing all the time, because she's very frightened of appearing feminine (and therefore, she thinks, weak) in front of other thieves and criminals. She grows it out a bit as she gets more comfortable with her femininity later in the series, but never so long that it would get in the way in a fight. |
| 244 | * ''Literature/DirtyPair'': Kei makes up the tomboy half of the LovelyAngels, and she's typically depicted with much shorter hair than [[LongHairIsFeminine Yuri's]]. Though she and Yuri are among the 3WA's top trouble consultants, she's better known for her hair-trigger temper and her itchy trigger finger. Which often spells disaster since she packs a friggin' {{hand cannon}}! She's also a {{Ladette}}. |
| 245 | * In the ''Literature/DresdenFiles'' novels, we have 5' tall Lt. Karrin Murphy who wears her blonde hair short. She is the epitome of BadassNormal (as a master of firearms and a wide variety of martial arts) and works on an X-files style job of the Chicago police department. According to Harry, "she is so cute I want to put her in my pocket, but she'd break my arm if I ever said that." Since this is the woman who once took out an ogre and a giant plant monster with a chainsaw, ''after'' a severe knee injury, it's not hard to believe it. She and Harry have so much {{UST}} that several people in-universe have commented on it [[spoiler: and eventually they get together at the end of ''Literature/SkinGame'']]. |
| 246 | * In the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' novels, we have some female dragonriders who keep their hair cut short. This is a [[BoringButPractical practical]] choice since they a) wear helmets and b) fly freaking dragons. Long hair would get in the way. |
| 247 | %%* George from TheFamousFive series. |
| 248 | * Kino in ''Literature/KinosJourney'' has boyishly short hair. She is a {{Bokukko}} variant of {{Tomboy}} and often uses masculine pronouns to refer to herself. |
| 249 | * Cat from the book ''Literature/TakeBackTheSkies'' dons one after escaping from her father so that she can pass as a boy amongst the commoners. |
| 250 | * In the ''Literature/PhryneFisher'' Phryne is a flapper in the 1920s. Her hair is cut short. |
| 251 | * From a metatextual perspective, Gildhe’s hairstyle in ''Literature/HeraldsOfRhimn''; when paired with Gildhe’s flamboyant skirts, it helps ease readers into their in-between gender identity. In-universe, [[NonHeteronormativeSociety short hair is considered “ungendered”]] in Gadhi. |
| 252 | * ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Johanna Mason in the books, representing her tough and haughty personality. Averted in the film. |
| 253 | * Literature/HonorHarrington wears her hair shorter than some ''men'' in the early books, partly for the practicality of needing to don a spacesuit in space combat, and partly due to some ''serious'' body-image issues. She grows it out when she becomes a Grayson Steadholder (essentially a feudal lady) and uses BraidsOfAction when needed thereafter. |
| 254 | * ''Literature/MayasNotebook'': While working as a drug courier in Las Vegas, Maya wears her hair bleached and short. In Chiloé Island, after losing a HumiliatingWager (the boys' soccer team she coaches loses a game), she ends up shaving it all off. Despite a kind soul's offer to buy her some cute hats, she sticks to her regular knit cap that fits better with her style. [[spoiler: Later on, after the BigBad attacks her and nearly kills her, she needs to get stitches on her scalp]] and gets her head shaved. Again. She muses that it must be her fate to go around bald-headed. |
| 255 | * In ''Literature/PosterGirl'' the protagonist Sonya Kantor wears her hair short for pratical reasons ever since she has been locked up in a ghetto. A comment by another character implies that women having short hair was considered a punishable infraction under the old regime. |
| 256 | * In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', Min Farshaw keeps her hair short and exclusively wears breeches instead of skirts, to the despair of the aunts who tried to make a "proper lady" out of her. When the FarmBoy Rand meets her on his first trip away from his village, he's quite startled by the boyish style. She later spends some time in disguise and is quite annoyed to have to keep her hair in curls. |
| 257 | * ''Literature/{{City of Bones|1995}}'' by Creator/MarthaWells: Elen the MagicKnight has her hair cropped short, though it's because her upper-class society {{invert|edTrope}}s LongHairIsFeminine rather than a mark of self-expression. |
| 258 | * ''Literature/SoldierDogs'': Juliette is a spunky tomboy with a bob haircut. At the start of ''Battle of Bulge'', the other kids complain that she's too boyish. |
| 259 | * [[Characters/JediApprentice Master Fy-Tor-Ana]] from ''The Last of the Jedi'' series has hair that's barely even long enough to be called boyishly short. |
| 260 | * Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture, tomboyish and adventurous ActionGirl, wears her hair very short. |
| 261 | * ''Literature/TellMeHowYouReallyFeel'': Rachel, a {{butch lesbian}}, has hair that's kept short with quite unruly curls. |
| 262 | * Several of the more tomboyish fairies in ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' have short hair, with a notable example being [[Literature/RainbowMagicIzzyTheIndigoFairy Izzy the Indigo Fairy]], the most masculine of the Rainbow Fairies. |
| 263 | * ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga The Vor Game]]'': Miles Vorkosigan finds that Elena Bothari (his childhood friend, with whom he is deeply infatuated) has cut her hair upon becoming an officer in a mercenary space fleet: |
| 264 | --> ''She's cut her hair'', Miles thought, stupid-stunned. Gone was the straight-shining black cascade to her waist. Now it was clipped out over her ears, only little dark points grace-noting her high cheekbones and forehead, a similar point echoed at the nape of her neck; severe, practical, very smart. Soldierly. |
| 265 | * ''Literature/{{Florinda}}'': As part of her male disguise, Florinda has her hair cut short. |
| 266 | * ''Literature/AMasterOfDjinn'': Fatma and Siti both have short hair, while they're skilled women warriors along with being lesbian lovers. |
| 267 | * ''Literature/SwansBraidAndOtherTalesOfTerizan'': |
| 268 | ** Swan is a ButchLesbian warrior with short blond hair. |
| 269 | ** Terizan, a tomboy lesbian thief, also has short dark hair herself it turns out. |
| 270 | [[/folder]] |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 273 | * Mary Margaret Blanchard, aka. Literature/SnowWhite, from ''Series/OnceUponATime''. Helps display that ''this'' version is significantly more of an ActionGirl than the Disney princess version. Somewhat inverted in that her Storybrooke persona has the short hair and is a wholesome school teacher, while her Enchanted Forest counterpart is the ActionGirl and has waist-length hair. |
| 274 | * Gabrielle, Xena's sidekick on ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' is a perfect example, with her [[AdrenalineMakeover impromptu haircut]] being a symbolic conclusion to her ComingOfAgeStory, and of her maturing from being Xena's young sidekick and protegee to a mature, independent, ''strong'' woman, and fighter, with skills on par with Xena's own. |
| 275 | * Marcy had a short haircut in a large part of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', demonstrating her lack of femininity (she was [[LadyLooksLikeADude mistaken for a boy]] several times). |
| 276 | * Djaq from ''Series/RobinHood''. The first series involved her as a SweetPollyOliver with cropped hair; by the second series, she was no longer hiding her gender but kept the short hairdo. |
| 277 | * [[RankUp Captain/Major/Lieutenant Colonel/Colonel]] Samantha Carter of ''Series/StargateSG1'' is a good example. She's definitely brainy (an astrophysicist) and an ActionGirl (she didn't get all those ranks for nothing.) However, she doesn't have much of a stereotypically masculine personality (though she is a StrawFeminist for the first couple of episodes) and she is definitely portrayed as super hot, though not sexualized. This is in large part {{justified|Trope}} by Air Force dress codes, and the show's [[BackedByThePentagon military advisers]] were known to complain if Sam's actress Creator/AmandaTapping let it get too long. |
| 278 | * Major/Lieutenant Colonel Sarah [=MacKenzie=], the SemperFi HelloAttorney in ''Series/{{JAG}}''. |
| 279 | * Starbuck, TheLadette and AcePilot from ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''. She tends to reject many staples of femininity (for example she has little to no interest in having kids) in favor of trying to outdo the boys: fighting better, being tougher, drinking more, sleeping around more, etc. Notably, the only time when she in a position of helplessness for a prolonged period of time, (being a Cylon prisoner on New Caprica during the entire occupation) is also the only time that her hair grows out (she's also forced to adopt the role of housewife/mother by Leoban at the time, when she's his prisoner with their daughter [[spoiler:(who it turns out is really someone else's)]]. Her actress Katee Sackhoff however was annoyed at having to keep her hair short for the role (often experiencing producers trying to cut or dye her long blonde hair whenever she is cast as an ActionGirl) and pushed for the character to grow her hair out. |
| 280 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 281 | ** Arya, the feisty tomboy, has this while [[SweetPollyOliver passing as a boy]], and keeps it fairly short after. She loathes medieval female roles such as sewing, cooking, and dreaming of marrying a prince, and instead prefers beating her older brother at archery, learning how to fence, and so on. Cemented in season 2, when [[OddFriendship Tywin]] notes her unusual passion for history and [[ActionGirl warrior women]] from the past, and says that most girls prefer romantic tales about maidens with flowers in their hair and such. Arya's response? "Most girls are idiots." She does grow her hair out in Season 5 and keeps it that way for the remainder of the series. |
| 282 | ** Warrior woman Brienne's short and simple straight hair makes an interesting contrast to Ser Loras' opulent curls. |
| 283 | ** Inverted for Tyene Sand, who's the only member of the Sand Snakes to have short hair, and she's actually a seductress and poison expert, which the setting describes as "the woman's weapon". Her two sisters Obara and Nymeria have long hair and are more physically aggressive. Likewise, Ellaria adopts a shorter hairstyle around this time, and she's physically inactive too. |
| 284 | * Tasha Yar, the first Security Officer in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' certainly had this trait and the attitude to match. |
| 285 | * Alina, a member of the [[LaResistance Polish Resistance]] from the German World War II drama ''[[Series/UnsereMuetterUnsereVaeter Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter]]''. |
| 286 | %%* Vod from ''Series/FreshMeat'' |
| 287 | * Meg's vessel in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' originally had longer hair (up to shoulder length) and wore girlish clothes. When Meg possesses her, she cuts her hair and "dressed [her] like a slut". Her boyish short hair is a plot point to show how [[AndIMustScream horrifying it is when demons possess and control humans]]. |
| 288 | * In ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', Pennsatucky gets a haircut in the second season so that she can get in on "the gay agenda". Healy doesn't approve. |
| 289 | * As of Season 8 of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Penny sports this hairstyle and although she appears girly, she has a {{Ladette}} streak a mile wide and is more masculine than the guys are. She has the shortest hair of the women in the main cast and she's the most guy-ish out of all of them, though by the show's end, her hair is longer. |
| 290 | * ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': |
| 291 | ** Badass soldier and former freedom-fighter... sorry, [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters proud terrorist]] Major Kira has a short haircut to start with, although it becomes slightly longer when she has a FanServicePack part way through the show. |
| 292 | ** Inverted with [[TheNthDoctor Dax]]. As the long-haired Jadzia, Dax was very much one of the boys, and often immersed herself in their activities, ranging from Ferengi gambling to Klingon combat. However, her successor, the short-haired Ezri, is more timid, doesn't like many of Jadzia's interests, and is far less of a [[TheLadette Ladette]] in general. |
| 293 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 294 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'''s Vida has very short hair, is a tomboy through and through and is not pleased when she becomes the [[PinkMeansFeminine Pink Ranger.]] |
| 295 | ** In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'' athletic and tomboyish green ranger Izzy Garcia has her hair cut relatively short. She's also a butch lesbian. Funnily enough, Tessa Rao had more of a problem with cutting her hair for the role than she did with the fact that her character is lesbian. (Of course, that's also awesome.) |
| 296 | * In ''Series/Space1999'', Main Mission operations officer Sandra Benes (Zienia Merton); her image somewhat belied her on-screen personality; she was a sort of female Pavel Chekhov, an emotional barometer; her principal function was to scream her head off at the first sign of danger or to get the crap kicked out of her by the "Monster Of The Week" on a regular basis. |
| 297 | * Kara's foster sister Alex Danvers sports this hairstyle in the fourth season of ''Series/Supergirl2015'' after wearing shoulder-length hair in the first two seasons and chin-length hair in season 3. |
| 298 | * Eleven from ''Series/StrangerThings'' throughout Season 1 has a short buzzcut not by choice as TheGovernment shaved her while experimenting on her, she's even mistaken for a boy a few times and she likes wearing a wig to cover it up. At the start of Season 2 Eleven has grown her hair long. |
| 299 | * StrawFeminist Maggie from ''Series/NorthernExposure'' used to keep her hair cut short, but she eventually adopted a TomboyishPonytail in later seasons as she mellowed. |
| 300 | * Cameron Howe sported one in the first season of ''Series/HaltAndCatchFire'' as part of her {{Tomboy}} image. |
| 301 | * ''Series/BlakesSeven'': |
| 302 | ** Supreme Commander (later President) Servalan, the BigBad, has cropped black hair, but rather than being TheLadette combines it with her glamorous {{Impractically Fancy Outfit}}s. The cropped hair was originally part of a more military appearance including helmet and uniform, but actress Creator/JacquelinePearce decided to [[TheBaroness emphasize her femininity instead]], creating an iconic sci-fi villainess. |
| 303 | ** ActionGirl Dayna, a later addition to the crew, also has this. |
| 304 | * ''Series/LipService'': Both Frankie and Sam, the two {{butch lesbian}}s, sport this (in the latter's case it's actually a bob, though she frequently pulls it back). Fin also has it. |
| 305 | * ''Series/CarnivalRow'': Vignette sports this throughout the series, aside from a single widow's braid in the back (which she cuts off later), both in the present and the flashbacks. It fits her image as a tomboy. |
| 306 | * Abby Maitland of ''{{Series/Primeval}}'' was a tomboy who had short hair for the first three seasons of the show. She loved kick boxing and was an ActionGirl who hunted dinosaurs (though she had [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak a girly streak]] with a love of animals and {{Chick Flick}}s all the same). Her hair grew out in Season 4, after spending a year trapped in the Cretaceous Period, and coincidentally the character became a little less tomboyish. |
| 307 | * ''Series/WeAreWhoWeAre'': Sarah's hair is cut short (she's in the military). However, it also aligns with her mildly butch look overall (she's also a lesbian). |
| 308 | %%* One can be forgiven for thinking Chapa from ''Series/DangerForce'' is a boy. |
| 309 | * ''Series/TippingTheVelvet2002'': Kitty has hers cut short to perform in her drag king act, with Nan later doing the same when joining it. They also become lovers as well, with this echoing Nan's self-realization that she's a lesbian. |
| 310 | * ''Series/FeelGood'': Mae has very short hair which she compares with corn and to [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]]'s. For her, this cut indicates she's bisexual and then nonbinary. |
| 311 | * ''Series/SWAT2017'': Chris has hers short, and she's TheLadette. |
| 312 | * ''Series/PaperGirls'': Mac, as part of her tomboy style, has very short hair in a cut common for boys in the 80's. |
| 313 | * ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': Raelle, a {{tomboy}}ish lesbian, keeps hers up in a short style initially. Then she has it down in Seasons 2 and 3, however it's still not that long, only just reaching her shoulders. |
| 314 | * ''Series/ReservationDogs'': Jackie, a tomboy ActionGirl who's OneOfTheGuys in her gang, has hers cut very short. |
| 315 | * ''Series/ChasingLife'': April's hair is very short after the first half of season one, as it's slowly growing back after her chemo treatments. It isn't her usual style, and she's very feminine otherwise. She jokes how it makes her [[ButchLesbian look like a lesbian]]. Brenna, a bisexual girl, snarks back at this being a stereotype. |
| 316 | * ''Series/{{Willow}}'': Kit has hers cut short in keeping with her tomboy style and [[ButchLesbian love for Jade, another woman]]. |
| 317 | * In the earlier seasons of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', Olivia Benson had this style, to near crewcut levels at times. She grew it out after Alex Cabot left the first time and has had it at a modest length ever since. |
| 318 | * ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Elia Kane's a sturdily built, muscular and rather butch female officer in Gideon's Imperial remnant with a very short haircut. |
| 319 | * ''Series/TheRising'': Neve, an ActionGirl and professional motocross competitor, has a short haircut with it hanging to her jawline. She's also attracted to women along with men it turns out. |
| 320 | * ''Series/Peacemaker2022'': Keeya's hair is cropped short, making her look a bit androgynous along with her clothing style. She's also married to a woman. |
| 321 | [[/folder]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 324 | * Music/{{Pink}} had short hair early in her career, selling herself as a tomboy, and "Don't Let Me Get Me" even references the label's attempts to give her a GirlinessUpgrade to look like "damn Britney Spears". She has had long hair at various points in her career though. |
| 325 | * Music/TearsForFears: In the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHiG-43Fzg Head over Heels]]" music video, the HotLibrarian has short hair, which underlines her demure, bookish personality. |
| 326 | * Natalie Merchant of Music/TenThousandManiacs sported this style in the band's music videos for the singles from ''Our Time in Eden'' as well as the band's ''MTV Unplugged'' special. As she'd decided to leave the band by then, it also likely counts as an ImportantHaircut. |
| 327 | [[/folder]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 330 | * Seen on the unnamed woman on the backglass of Creator/{{Stern}}'s ''Pinball/IronMaiden''. |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 334 | * Sid from ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'' has hair in a pixie cut. Chell's hair is also pretty short, though it enters a "liminal space" during the second arc when she starts growing it out but isn't sure what to do with it. |
| 335 | [[/folder]] |
| 336 | |
| 337 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 338 | * GLOW girls Col. Ninotchka and Major Tanya, both of whom were typical 80's anti-American Russians. |
| 339 | * Wrestling/MollyHolly had her head shaved at Wrestlemania, and has kept a pixie cut ever since. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 343 | * Barbra from ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' has short, purple-dyed hair, and is a tomboyish, outspoken GamerChick. |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 347 | * In ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' the tomboyish would-be gang member Anybodys is almost always depicted this way. |
| 348 | [[/folder]] |
| 349 | |
| 350 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 351 | * ''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G. II]]'' has two examples between Satomi Yajima and Kyoko Kirishima: |
| 352 | ** As in her OVA portrayal, Satomi's hair is [[UnkemptBeauty short and mussy looking]], to illustrate she's a {{tomboy}} and that she [[PerpetualPoverty lives in poverty.]] |
| 353 | ** Kyoko is an AloofDarkhairedGirl, who keeps her hair [[{{bifauxnen}} neat and trim]] as part of her grooming habits, and [[LadyOfWar as part of her image]] - being that she's a member of one of the branch families of [[BadassFamily Masuda Clan]] {{ninja}}. |
| 354 | * ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting''/''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'': |
| 355 | ** King is a {{bifauxnen}} kickboxer, whose prowess nearly rivals that of deuteragonist [[CulturedBadass Robert Garcia]]. She becomes a TeamMom in ''The King of Fighters'' since she's usually in charge of the All Women's Team. |
| 356 | ** Athena Asamiya cut her hair like this in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters2001''. In the game prior (''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters2000 2000]]''), it's short but tied into a bun. She normally wears her hair long (which it goes back to in ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters2002 2002]]'' and beyond). |
| 357 | ** [[DarkActionGirl Yagami Team]] member [[BadassInANiceSuit Vice]] also has this. |
| 358 | ** Najd from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXIV'' also sports this in her concept art and promotional artworks. It's a downplayed trope, however, as she usually hides her hair underneath a hijab. |
| 359 | %% * Hagumi Kitazawa in ''VideoGame/BangDreamGirlsBandParty''. |
| 360 | * ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' gives us Makoto Nanaya in ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'' and Bullet in ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma''. Both have short hair in a series ''rife'' with long hair, and both are fist-fighting {{Action Girl}}s. |
| 361 | * ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'''s titular witch sports a haircut like this, in stark contrast to [[VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} the previous game]]. [[http://zombiesatemygames.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Bayonetta-Hair.jpg Read 'em]] [[http://images.vg247.com/current//2013/06/Bayonetta-2-7.jpg and weep]]. In the first game, it was [[TheRival Jeanne]] who had the short, boyish 'do, but swapped the look for long hair in the sequel. |
| 362 | * ''[[VideoGame/BloodyRoar Bloody Roar: Primal Fury]]'': Jane Gado, aka [[http://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/shina-ex4.jpg 'Shina']], is a highly trained mercenary and the adopted daughter of [[RetiredBadass Alan Gado.]] She's known for her frankness and tenacity both on and off the field of combat. Her most striking feature is her spiky blonde hair, resembling her adopted father greatly. |
| 363 | * ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': Your companion Curie changes her appearance as part of her personal quest. Her new look has new short hair like a boy's, but this is not a personality marker. |
| 364 | * ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger'': As a trained since childhood knight delving into a dangerous dungeon for the sake of her captain, D'arce's hair is cut short. |
| 365 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 366 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Yuffie the TomboyPrincess has quite short hair perhaps in contrast to Aeirth and ''especially'' Tifa who has massive long hair. Elena from the Turks has short hair as well reflecting that she's OneOfTheBoys. |
| 367 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': In one scene, when Garnet (aka Dagger) cuts off much of her hair into a bob hairstyle it signifies her having TookALevelInBadass and also becoming a bit more boyish. She grows it back out to its original length in the ending after she [[spoiler: reunites with Zidane and becomes Queen of Alexandria]]. |
| 368 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'': Ashe is less feminine than other princesses in the series and has shorter hair. |
| 369 | * ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'': |
| 370 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', there's Sully, the {{Masculine Girl|FeminineBoy}} to Stahl's Feminine Boy, who dons short hair and is a gruff tomboy keen on getting stronger. At least part of that was because she was the only girl in a family full of boys, and desired to emulate her older brothers. [[spoiler:Her daughter]] Kjelle, while having slightly longer hair, is much the same way as Sully. It IS possible to give the Female Avatar this haircut. |
| 371 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', Princess Hinoka of Hoshido is a tomboy obsessed with getting stronger, a lean body, and BoyishShortHair. It's not obvious at first glance, due to the headdress she wears, but Rinkah of the Flame Tribe also sports this haircut, with a HotBlooded personality to match. Then there's Scarlet, a rebel from Cheve and a BloodKnight. Again, it's possible to give the Female Avatar this haircut. |
| 372 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', Priscilla's hair isn't even shoulder length. It's hardly an indicator of personality, however. She has a pretty run-of-the-mill feminine personality, albeit with a stubborn streak noted by other characters. Vaida, on the other hand, is a perfectly straight example. She's got very short blonde hair, scars on her face and leg, is a "Wyvern Lord" (short version: she flies into melee combat on the back of a goddamn dragon), and if it weren't for her breastplate being [[MostCommonSuperPower rather aptly named]], she'd be 100% masculine. |
| 373 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', pre-timeskip Leonie and post-timeskip Ingrid have this hairstyle. Leonie has very few feminine characteristics and is a clear-cut {{Tomboy}}, and if not for her bust size, could easily pass for a boy, although she does grow it out slightly into a short side ponytail after the timeskip. While Ingrid has loosely braided long hair pre-timeskip, she cuts it to barely chin-length after, and even before, she's dedicated to her training rather than her looks. Ingrid's voice is also one of the deepest among the female cast. |
| 374 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' has Larcei, who has her hair cut short at the back with long sidelocks, and is the tomboyish, outspoken, and proactive counterpart to her ChildhoodFriend Seliph's sensitive LongHairedPrettyBoy. |
| 375 | * Vivi in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonTheWindsOfAnthos'' has her hair in a very short style, about the same length as her brother's, though not as wild. She's a frequent traveller and often goes into hot or cold regions on her own, with enough experience to prepare for anything. She does couple her short hair with a very simple, but still elegant top and pants, necklace, and overall has an almost elegant demeanor. |
| 376 | * Both Kairi in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' and Xion in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2''. Promotional material for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' indicates that she is back to this look for this game. |
| 377 | * Princess Daisy's hair in ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' hair was originally long but she cut off a good chunk for ''VideoGame/MarioParty4''. She's a more sporty and loud TomboyPrincess than either Princess Peach or Rosalina. |
| 378 | * In ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series, female Shepard's hair can't go past about chin length without modding; most options range somewhere between "short ponytail" and "recently shaved". Also, of your female teammates in ''2'' - those that have visible hair, anyway (which discounts Samara, Tali and Kazumi) - the more conventionally feminine (although still badass) Miranda has long hair, while TheLadette Jack has a recently shaved head, and her CharacterDevelopment into a more well-rounded and less AxCrazy persona is marked by [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange letting her hair grow out a bit]]. |
| 379 | * During the flashbacks in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', teenaged Samus is shown with very short hair that reflects her hot headed personality and attitude. She constantly butted heads with her superior officer, Adam, and hated how the other soldiers treated her like a child or went easy on her just because she was a woman. |
| 380 | * Kumatora from ''VideoGame/Mother3'' has this. Likewise, she [[HatesWearingDresses hates wearing dresses]] and other girly clothes, often uses less-than-elegant language and is overall depicted as a tomboy. Interestingly enough though, her short hair is ''pink''. |
| 381 | * Joanna Dark of ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' has a pixie cut in the original game. (In the prequel, she has a SciFiBobHaircut instead and her hair is inexplicably strawberry blonde instead of brown.) |
| 382 | * ''VideoGame/Persona4'': |
| 383 | ** Chie Satonaka from has shorter hair than her friend Yukiko and is into more "boyish" things like martial arts. Although their Personas invert this. Chie's Personas Tomoe Gozen and Suzuka Gongen have long hair, while Yukiko's Personas Konohana Sakuya and Amaterasu have short hair. This is meant to symbolize how Chie admires Yukiko's femininity while Yukiko respects Chie's energy and enthusiasm. |
| 384 | ** This trope is later taken to its logical conclusion when Naoto Shirogane is revealed to be a {{Bifauxnen}} SweetPollyOliver... with, naturally, boyishly short hair. |
| 385 | ** In the epilogue [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR-cL4XkRYHhl6jtqDoJF_A8C0y5xzcMYLzFw&usqp=CAU both Chie and Naoto have grown their hair out slightly while ironically Yukio has cut her hair short]]. |
| 386 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': |
| 387 | ** Rebecca Chambers of [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil0 RE0]] fame has very short boyish hair in contrast to the shoulder length bobs of Jill and Ada or the TomboyishPonytail of Claire, ironically Rebecca is far more girly than any of them. |
| 388 | ** Zoe Baker from [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil7 RE7]] has short messy hair which fits her tough and serious attitude. |
| 389 | * ''VideoGame/RivalSchools'' has [[HugeSchoolgirl Natsu Ayuhara]], the captain of Gorin High's volleyball team. According to her character bio, her teammates look up to her as both a CoolBigSis and a role model, because of her natural athleticism and because they know [[AFatherToHisMen she'll protect them.]] |
| 390 | * ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur II]]'': [[http://www.fightabase.com/images/chars/game/cassandra-4.jpg Cassandra Alexandra]], is another example. Unlike her sister Sophitia, she's brash and somewhat impulsive but usually means well. In the fourth game, she's determined to destroy VideoGame/SoulEdge and free her sister once and for all. The length and style of her hair vary depending on the costume the player selects, but it's usually kept short. |
| 391 | * The ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' series sometimes has short-haired bachelorettes as options. |
| 392 | ** ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'', its spinoffs ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'' and DS Cute, and its remake ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsAWonderfulLife'' have Nami, a [[TheDrifter drifter]] with a MysteriousPast. Unlike the other bachelorettes, she never wears a dress even after you marry her, and always wears shorts (pants in the remake) and keeps her bright red hair short. She's also more aloof and a lot harder to woo than the others, who all can be romanced with flowers--the only flower she likes is the Autumn Trick Blue (which in the remake [[FantasticFruitsAndVegetables turns crops a bright shade of blue]] if mixed with their seeds) and much more prefers weird cool things from the dig site. |
| 393 | ** ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons2014'' has Agate, who has short hair and is the animal ranger--she wears short shorts with thigh high socks and boots, lives independently unlike any of the other bachelorettes (except new resident Licorice), and is fond of animals and nature. Lillie also has short hair and used to be a {{Tomboy}} growing up and went to an all-girls school, but is a lot more feminine now. |
| 394 | ** ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsTrioOfTowns'' has bubbly Komari, the waitress in Tsuyukusa. She's a {{Tomboy}} who played rough with boys in the past and isn't always as refined as she wants to be, and wants to be more feminine than she comes off. |
| 395 | * ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': |
| 396 | ** Sakura a massive {{Tomboy}} has always had short hair since her debut, her hair is longer in her [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV SFIV]] ending where some time has passed but even it's doesn't go past her neck. |
| 397 | ** When ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII SF III: 3rd Strike]]'' originally debuted, gamers couldn't tell whether Makoto was a boyish-looking girl or a feminine looking boy. At least, until they saw [[HiddenBuxom her dizzy animation.]] Elena also sports short white hair which is ignored due to her fighting in a tribal bikini that emphasizes her [[ExtremityExtremist long legs]]. |
| 398 | ** Out of the [[AmazonBrigade Dolls]] Juni has the shortest haircut similar to King from ''King of Fighters''. |
| 399 | * In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonOne'', Clementine's hair used to be above her shoulders for the first two episodes. In Episode 3, after Lee's ImportantHaircut, her hair is much shorter, but still long enough for some small GirlishPigtails. Episode 5 of [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonThree Season 3]] has Javier cut her hair even shorter than it already was. |
| 400 | [[/folder]] |
| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 403 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'': Ushio has shorter hair than her mother, while being rather tomboyish as she plays with toy robots and does baseball. |
| 404 | * The short-haired Heidi from ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'' is a hard-nosed businesswoman who runs a tight ship and doesn't take shit from anyone. |
| 405 | * Morgan from ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' is a former gang leader who isn't shy about fighting, verbally or physically. |
| 406 | * Rin from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' keeps her hair above chin-length, which is understandable given that without hands any longer hair would get in her way. She also dresses in boys' uniform, making gynophobic (and short-sighted) Kenji mistake her for a fellow male student. |
| 407 | * Mahiru from ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' is a no-nonsense yet kind-hearted FieryRedhead who has short bright red hair cut in a bob. |
| 408 | [[/folder]] |
| 409 | |
| 410 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 411 | * Paige from ''Webcomic/{{Aecast}}'' is the most tomboyish of the six main protagonists, and the only one to have short hair. |
| 412 | * Nanase from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' gets this haircut after coming out of the closet. |
| 413 | * ActionGirl Captain Jordan Lee from ''Webcomic/{{Skins}}'' has short boyish hair. Coupled with her toned build and pretty yet somewhat androgynous features, she looks a bit like a {{Bifauxnen}}. |
| 414 | * In ''Webcomic/SlimyThief'' one of the recurring characters is a [[http://slimythief.com/enter-the-amazon/ tall, muscular, Amazonian warrior with short hair to boot]]. |
| 415 | * In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' Haley's hair is cut down to this style due to the petty cruelty of her spiteful rival, Crystal, who also sports such a cut. While Haley does become more action-orientated around the same time, (she receives a major upgrade to her bow, gets a wicked melee weapon rather than being helpless in close quarters combat, concludes her rivalry with Crystal, etc.) she's also rather uncomfortable with the look and buys a new, [[ChainmailBikini somewhat skimpier set of armor]] to show off that despite the haircut, yes, she is a girl. And while the cut lasts awhile, (about 140 strips) she also takes advantage of the first chance she finds to magically grow her hair back out. |
| 416 | * ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': 14 year old [[PunnyName Brooke Lyn]] is another {{bifauxnen}} example. She also happens to be [[CuteMonsterGirl a Melusine]] though she tries to hide it... with good reason. [[spoiler:[[WebComic/MagickChicks Ash]]]] learned this the hard way, when he [[BullyingADragon made the mistake]] of [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/then_do_something_about_it pushing her too far]] and [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/do_you_feel_him_breathing nearly paid for it with his life.]] |
| 417 | %%* Adrestia from ''[[{{Webcomic/Morphe}} morphE]]'' is a burly tom-girl with short blonde hair. |
| 418 | * ''Webcomic/DeathBrigade'': Demi has really short purple hair, leading to some ViewerGenderConfusion. |
| 419 | * ''Webcomic/VampireCheerleaders'': Suki immediately stands out from the rest of the cheerleading team, being she's the only one with short hair. Plus, she's Japanese/American. She's also got an attitude, is [[http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/suki_has_an_idea quick at the lip]], and even quicker [[http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/practice_6 to pick a fight]] if someone pisses her off. Most of which wouldn't be a problem if she weren't [[CloudCuckoolander such]] a [[AsianAirhead ditz]]. |
| 420 | * Gender flipped in ''Webcomic/SwordPrincessAmaltea'', thanks to the setting being a {{Matriarchy}}. Unlike all the {{Long Haired Pretty Boy}}s Ossian has short hair. Considering Ossian is this world's equivalent of a feminist, his short hair is a sign of rebellion. |
| 421 | * ''Webcomic/{{Deities}}'' Uriel is a tomboy who wears her hair short. |
| 422 | * ''Webcomic/PrincessPrincess'': As part of her overall more masculine look as an {{action girl}} tomboy, Amira has hers in a mohawk. |
| 423 | * ''Webcomic/{{Contrasts}}'': Barriss' was longer in her younger days. However, by the present she's got it cut short. We rarely see it though, given her head scarf. This may be part of her being an {{action girl}}, or veiled sign that she's also into other women. |
| 424 | * ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Gwen Morita, a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] and {{tomboy}}ish MagicalGirlWarrior, has short brown hair. |
| 425 | * ''Webcomic/TheGuyUpstairs'': Rozy has noticeably short hair, especially in comparison to her best friend Hawa. [[spoiler:Lucky for her, considering [[SerialKiller Adam's]] "type" consists of women with long, flowing hair.]] |
| 426 | * ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'': Chiaki has pretty short hair, though she used to have longer hair when she was a little kid. |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 430 | * Inverted with ''WebVideo/DaisyBrown''. Daisy's hair doesn't even reach her shoulders, but she's a GirlyGirl. |
| 431 | * In Episode 1 of ''WebVideo/WeirdSchoolRulesInHongKong'', one of the weird rules discussed is that in some [[OneGenderSchool girls' schools]], students [[DefiedTrope aren't allowed to wear their hair in this hairstyle]] (specifically in styles shorter than their ears), and those that do must wear wigs. The reasons behind this are not stated, but it's likely it's because LongHairIsFeminine. Given the style of the series, cue a skit making fun of this: |
| 432 | -->'''Teacher:''' ''(at a student with BoyishShortHair entering the school)'' Ay, this student's hair is too short [and] doesn't fit the standards, [you] need to wear a wig.\ |
| 433 | '''Student:''' Sir, this ''is'' a wig, [my] real hair– ''([[CompressedHair whips off her wig to reveal long, dark hair]])'' is ''actually'' long!\ |
| 434 | ''(The student proudly walks through the school gates with the teacher left in StunnedSilence)'' |
| 435 | [[/folder]] |
| 436 | |
| 437 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 438 | * Inverted with Caitlin from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}''; she has the shortest hair of all the main girls, but she's far from tomboyish and is easily the girliest out of all of them. |
| 439 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Tomboy Vi has a simple short haircut as a child, like her younger sister Powder. As they get older, Powder moves onto a bob with some short braids while Vi keeps her red-pink hair short, with a front poof and [[FashionableAsymmetry an undercut only on the left]] showcasing both her unconventional fashion sense and practicality avoiding longer hair as a close range [[BoxingBattler boxer]]. As an adult, Vi has somewhat longer front hair parted to the right while maintaining the undercut on the left. Not for nothing, this hairstyle is stereotypically popular among [[WordOfGay lesbians]]. [[MeaningfulRename Powder turned Jinx]] meanwhile has completely abandoned short hair for the floor length braids she has in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' [[spoiler:much as she feels Vi abandoned her as a child.]] |
| 440 | * Pauline from ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' has this kind of hair, befitting of her tomboyish attitude and interests. It's coloured [[PinkMeansFeminine pink however.]] |
| 441 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Averted for [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTophBeifong Toph]], whose hairstyle (which gets mistaken for this trope) is actually a hair bun since she is seen with her hair down twice: In a bedhead variant in "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" and in a non-bedhead variant at the end of "Korra Alone". |
| 442 | * ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'': Charley Davidson has much shorter hair in the 2006 revival. |
| 443 | * Sypha from ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}'' unlike her game counterpart has short messy hair and has tomboy traits having been raised among men by her grandfather. Sypha reveals her girly side when with her friend turned lover Trevor. |
| 444 | * Sported by ActionGirl Fontaine in ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep2015''. When you spend as much time in the water as she does, short hair is way more practical. |
| 445 | * Patti Mayonnaise fills this spot in ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''. She's best friends with Doug and Skeeter and often participates in sports. One episode even has her pull a SweetPollyOliver in order to try out for the school softball team, which didn't work out for her. [[StartMyOwn So she made her own team to challenge the school's!]] In the Disney series, she gets her haircut even shorter. |
| 446 | * Laney Penn from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' is the tomboy bassist and OneOfTheBoys in the eponymous band with red hair so short [[LadyLooksLikeADude she's often mistaken for a guy by others.]] |
| 447 | * In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Dib's little sister Gaz is a gruff and tough GamerChick who grunts, growls, and shoves her way to vengeance should anyone come between her and her video games or pizza. She sports an inverted bob cut shaped like a set of jaws, befitting her menacing personality. Also worth mentioning is Tak, an equally tough DarkActionGirl villain on the show who sports an even shorter spiky, punky bob cut (while in her human disguise mode). |
| 448 | * As an adult Aja from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' has quite long hair but flashbacks showing back when she became Jerrica's foster sister have her with short hair. Even as a child she was interested in mechanics and that made her friends with Rio. |
| 449 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraAvatarKorra Korra]] fashions her hair in [[TomboyishPonytail a ponytail]] for the first three seasons, but near the beginning of the fourth season, she cuts her hair short into a shoulder-length bob while she's roaming the Earth Kingdom in secret during her HeroicBSOD. |
| 450 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': |
| 451 | ** Luna has a pixie cut, and her [[TheRockstar interest in rock music]] is stereotypically associated with boys. To drive it home, before she got into rock, she had [[LongHairIsFeminine longer hair]] and a more feminine look. |
| 452 | ** Lisa has a short, scruffy bob cut (which is actually a wig according to some episodes), and is [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist interested in all manner of physical, hard sciences]]. |
| 453 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheModifyers'': Agent Xero's hair is usually near floor-length, but thanks to her spy ring, she can shorten it as part of her disguise as [[PerkyGoth Lacey Shadows.]] She then takes on a tomboyish attitude and affects [[FakeBrit a British accent]] to further mask her identity. |
| 454 | * ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': Connie Williams, the town mechanic, wears her hair in a pixie cut. |
| 455 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'' gives Lois Lane a [[TomboynessUpgrade tomboy makeover]], complete with shorthair to go along with her preference for casual wear, T-shirts, gym shorts, and ''[[MaleGaze yoga pants]]''. And she's portrayed as being [[OneOfTheBoys best friends with Clark and Jimmy]], her fellow interns at The Daily Planet. |
| 456 | * Scootaloo has possibly the shortest mane of any pony on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', male ''or'' female, and she's more tomboyish than her fellow Cutie Mark Crusaders. |
| 457 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] has a slightly outgrown pixie cut that is just long enough to cover her earlobes. Turns out this wasn't intentional -- it was because Luz was being careless with a sword she got at a convention. She slowly grows her hair out in between seasons, although the DistantFinale epilogue has it [[spoiler:cut back to an even shorter pixie cut]]. |
| 458 | * Buttercup from ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has her hair in a stylized bob haircut, and is the tomboyish BloodKnight of the group. Her more feminine sisters Bubbles and Blossom have GirlishPigtails (though her hair is barely longer than Buttercup's when down) and bone-straight long hair, respectively. |
| 459 | * BrainyBrunette Velma Dinkly has short hair that reaches up to her chin in most continuities of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', excluding ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated!]]'', which gives her [[GirlinessUpgrade slightly longer hair]]. While she's not exactly a tomboy, she is less feminine than [[TheFashionista Daphne]], who has much [[LongHairIsFeminine longer hair]] than Velma. |
| 460 | * ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': |
| 461 | ** During her time being mind controlled by Horde Prime before ultimately pulling a HeelFaceTurn in the first half of the final season of, [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerCatra Catra]] sports this hairstyle and would continue sporting it after being freed from Prime's control. |
| 462 | ** Scorpia sports an undercut, but despite having a butch look, she's surprisingly more feminine than Catra. |
| 463 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': D'Vana Tendi's hairstyle is very short (it's shaved around the sides and the back, so her locks are limited to the top of her head), unlike the [[LongHairIsFeminine long hair]] that's normally associated with Orion women. Being a CulturalRebel among her species, she would want to distance herself from the stereotypical image of a sultry (FemmeFatale pretending to be a) SexSlave. |
| 464 | * {{Inverted| Trope}} with Pearl in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse.'' Pearl's hair doesn't even reach her shoulders, but she's the most feminine of the Crystal Gems. |
| 465 | * [[GenderFlip Pidge]] in ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' has chin-length light brown hair. Prior to this, she had long hair and was a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak before she was banned from the Galaxy Garrison after finding clues that the details of the Kerberos mission in which her brother Matt, her father and Shiro took part were covered up. As a result, she cut her hair short, wore her brother's glasses and underwent a more tomboyish look in order to [[SweetPollyOliver disguise herself as a boy on finding more clues]]. |
| 466 | * ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': Marie Owens has very short hair, and isn't all that feminine. |
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| 468 | |
| 469 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 470 | * Creator/TildaSwinton wears her hair short, leading to her androgynous public image. |
| 471 | * Music/MileyCyrus's short, bleached blonde haircut in the early [=2010s=] marked her transition from feminine former Disney star to a HotterAndSexier-stroke-DarkerAndEdgier image. |
| 472 | * [[https://goo.gl/hgNkDl Milagros "Mili" Hernandez]], an eight-year-old girl and her team were kicked out of a soccer tournament because of her short "boyish" hairstyle. There was a typo on one form that the officials are using as an excuse, even though her father offered to show them medical records proving she is a girl. The fact that this girl was such a good player, the league had bumped her up to play with eleven-year-old girls caused speculation that the opposing team was trying to get rid of a good player and cheat. |
| 473 | * Jake Zyrus originally had [[LongHairIsFeminine long hair]] when he was performing as Charice Pempengco. He eventually cut his hair to a tomboyish style, came out as a lesbian, and then eventually as a trans man. |
| 474 | * In 2016, Azuki Shibuya of i☆Ris started to first cut her hair short, then also bleach it, and wear pants more often, making her [[https://img.animatetimes.com/news/visual/2016/1470220414_7000ceda603b1e8455f2cdc2ab173bd7_sp_top.jpg stand out from the others]]. However, her bandmates have pointed out that despite her new look, she still remains the most girlish member. |
| 475 | * Music/MelanieC of the Music/SpiceGirls had short hair during 1999-2000 before ultimately growing out it to chin-length. Fittingly, she was the "sporty" one of the group, although the cut was mainly due to people confusing her with Victoria. |
| 476 | * Amber Liu of the K-pop GirlGroup Music/{{FX}} has short hair, due to her {{Bifauxnen}} image and tomboyish fashion style. |
| 477 | * ''Otokoyaku'' (male role actresses) for the Creator/TakarazukaRevue have short hair as part of their {{Bifauxnen}} {{Kayfabe}}. |
| 478 | [[/folder]] |
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