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5[-[[caption-width-right:260:Ah, the '80s, when Aqua Net, Jhirmack, and Vidal Sassoon thumbed their noses at gravity.[[note]]From top to bottom: Alexis and Krystle from ''Series/Dynasty1981'', members of Music/{{Poison}}, and Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock[[/note]]]]-]
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7->''"One must never underestimate the power of a good hairdo. I'd like to write a song about hairdos -- not about the people under them; then the 'dos have the power by themselves."''
8-->-- '''[[Music/TalkingHeads David Byrne]]'''[[note]]who, ironically, did not suffer from '80s Hair, with his hairstyles typically leaning sharply in the direction of FiftiesHair[[/note]]
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10You are flipping through channels. Suddenly a woman comes into view that has huge bangs.[[note]] ''British English'': fringe[[/note]] You can't help it. You shout "'80s Hair!" Be it the Jheri curl, wanton crimping, the feathered, hairsprayed and volumized big hair, the box cut, a SpikyHair punk cut or the mullet, hair from TheEighties [[{{Pun}} sticks out]].
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12As one can see from the photographs displayed at right, there never has been one standard template for '80s Hair, and the trend evolved along with the decade itself. The earliest examples were, at least for women, an outgrowth of SeventiesHair, after ladies switched from the long, straight, long "hippie" style of the late Sixties to the voluminous, wavy style (think Farrah Fawcett) starting about 1976. In the early '80s, bowl cuts and other longer styles from the '70s remained popular among boys and young men. Later, as the PunkRock aesthetic went mainstream, males also joined the fun, and both sexes increased the height and/or curliness of their hair and dyed it blond or [[DelinquentHair other vibrant colors]] and made it stick up with SpikyHair.
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14In the Black community, the Afros of the 70's gave way to box fades reaching the heavens, along with the Jheri curl (named after hair chemist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jheri_Redding Jheri Redding]]), hair that's been chemically relaxed and laden with enough grease to make Exxon jealous. Think Music/MichaelJackson. These looks were primarily popular with Black men; while some women adapted them too, most others went with the feathered and teased look mentioned above.
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16At the same time, the rise of the yuppie, the influence of the "preppie" look, and the resurgence of cultural conservatism under Reagan and Thatcher caused white-collar professional men to favor a clean-cut, slicked-back look harkening back to FiftiesHair. The closing years of the decade then saw a gradual phasing out of the style, especially for men, with boys' hairstyles getting shorter than they had been at any point since the mid-1960s, but often retaining the 1983-1987 glossiness and puffiness.
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18As a result of the decade's relevance in pop culture, these hairstyles have been constantly featured in many works on the ensuing decades, being notoriously portrayed in TheNineties and TheAughts as {{impossibly tacky|Clothes}}, and with the growing awareness and eventual removal of ozone-tearing chemicals in hair products, [[https://www.grunge.com/237452/the-80s-fashion-trend-that-literally-destroyed-the-ozone-layer harmful to the environment.]] TheNewTens' fascination with everything '80s however led to a brief [[PopularityPolynomial public revival]] of the same 'dos that ''no one'' would want to get caught dead with ten years prior. But thankfully this wasn't done to the same extremes as it was in the 80's, and the ozone-damaging CFC chemicals present in aerosol cans back then have been banned in most countries today.
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20Also a reaction to [[Series/KnightRider Michael Knight]], [[Series/MacGyver1985 MacGyver]], etc.
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22This trope even exists in {{anime}}, which normally has [[AnimeHair its own kind of crazy hair]].
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24When this occurs in material that is supposed to be set in the future (relative to the time it was created) you have an example of NoNewFashionsInTheFuture.
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26A SubTrope of FashionDissonance and BiggerIsBetter.
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28Compare GiantPoofySleeves, FiftiesHair, SixtiesHair, SeventiesHair, and NinetiesHair.
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30It's very rare you see a character with '80s hair waking up extra-early to fluff, blow-dry, tease, iron, crimp, and apply tons of hair product. They appear to have somehow [[RuleOfGlamorous magically]] woken up [[WakeupMakeup with the full 'do]], or you see two seconds of blow-drying.
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36[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
37* Every Creator/YuuWatase {{bishounen}} ever is all mullet.
38* Likewise, every single "young" Creator/RumikoTakahashi characters have the Floofy Hair syndrome.
39* Due to the eras when they were in vogue, anime with character designs by Akemi Takada and Atsuko Nakajima were all over this trope. Their early-to-mid '90s designs were no exception.
40* ''Manga/Bastard1988'' is a crowning achievement in '80s cheese, complete with giant feathered hair on most characters.
41* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' is notorious for this despite being a 2000s series. Many fans think that the mullet is a [[PowerMakesYourHairGrow symbol of power]]. Kubo never did get over the eighties, did he?:
42** Grimmjow's release is a rather glaring example.
43** During the fight with Ulquiorra, Ichigo begins sporting a mullet as well. Thankfully, it doesn't last very long.
44** And guess what? Aizen began sporting a mullet too.
45** After using [[spoiler:Final Getsuga Tensho]], Ichigo gets one again.
46** After the timeskip, Renji manages to get a mullet that comes out of his ponytail.
47* ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' is a rather glaring example... especially since it's supposed to be set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. JustifiedTrope, since it's noted that the Eighties has come back in fashion - Priss's band plays "oldies", aka Hair Metal/Glam Metal.
48* In the Karaoke Christmas Special of ''Manga/CaseClosed'', Tatsuya and his bandmates exhibit this.
49* ''Anime/{{Dancougar}}'' is another fantastic example. Especially notable is Ryo, who looks like part of a Hair Metal band. Then again, before becoming a SuperRobot pilot, he kinda was.
50* The original ''Literature/DirtyPair'' is an extremely notorious perpetrator of the Floofy Hair syndrome, especially Kei. And especially Yuri.
51* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' naturally had plenty of '80s hair since it was created in 1984. Notably [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTLNaWyogLza0cfdKPS-BjSsD6--UoIpGxOmg&usqp=CAU Ranfan]] and [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS_440inBB1KgQYLLpaVnp69Cq2N6wN6wcfxA&usqp=CAU Bulma]] (during the Mecha Frieza saga) possessed some massive and beautiful afro-like perms. Yamcha typically has long mullet hair, as well as kid Gohan briefly during the Android Saga. A few Saiyans have some very 80s hair too, such as [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/7/7c/ToraBorgosAndFasha.png/revision/latest?cb=20100609064824 Tora and Fasha/Celipa]] from [[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Bardock’s squad]]. There’s also [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQb756aOGiK_HcJCS4odeFYvAoiCyXxWKf1rg&usqp=CAU Zangya]] from ''Anime/DragonBallZBojackUnbound'' and her massive, curly Starfire-sized hair, even though that movie came out in 1993.
52* In ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', Bat sports a Mel Gibson-esque mullet once he grows up. Mamyia’s hair is also quite [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/40/99/f2/4099f2e14982422c356fb04c3d84920e.jpg massive and feathered.]]
53* The first ArcVillain in ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', Pisard, inexplicably resembles ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''-era Music/DavidBowie, and has a wild mane of [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] to match. Combined with the overall muted colors and look of the animation, it makes the 2004 show look [[{{Retraux}} at least ten years older]].
54* Every ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' show set in the UC era, due to the fact that the most notable of UC shows were made in the eighties. ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Gundam Unicorn]]'', set during UC 0096, keeps this for the sake of continuity, even though it ''started'' in 2010.
55** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'' gives us the franchise's crowning examples of this trope with Kyara Soon and Illia Pazom, both of whom wouldn't look out of place in ''WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms''.
56** It does get considerably better in the 0100s, with ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91 Gundam F91]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam V Gundam]]'' having much less '80s hair, having been made in the '90s.
57** ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' though featured some main characters like Kyoji who sport arguably mullets.
58** Kio Asuno in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAge Gundam AGE]]'' and Season 1 Saji Crossroad from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'' both sported what could be arguably mullets.
59** ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamThePlotToAssassinateGihren'''s artwork can look rather odd because of this. All of the new characters are drawn in the style of modern manga and anime, with bishie looks, and modern haircuts. All of the characters from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' are drawn with their eighties looks and hairstyles intact.
60* ''Anime/HeavyMetalLGaim'': This anime was made in the middle eighties, and the character's hairstyles reflect this. Nei Mo Han is a big offender, with her giant, floating mane, held by a hairband. And Daba wore a mullet when he was younger!
61* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Dio Brando: proof that the mullet existed in the 1800s. Ironically, his hair is a good deal shorter in the part ''set'' in the 1980s (albeit still kind of feathered).
62* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTOcg8aQzXSER-xjWdEUtRfODQSJR3CsaYsjA&usqp=CAU Ragyo]] and her husband [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/884985f055262330772dea87b948e069/tumblr_inline_n1amixAKGr1rj0how.jpg Soichiro]] are shown to have fairly '80s hairstyles during flashback segments.
63* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', where most of the male eye candy has standard nineties {{Bishonen}} hair, Akio's lavender mullet not only stands out sharply but wonderfully complements his [[CoolCar car]] [[TechnologyMarchesOn phone]] as well.
64* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' first aired in 1986. It shows! [[HotBloodedSideburns Sideburns]] abound, seriously.
65** It gets ''more'' than a little weird during the Sanctuary/Golden Cloth arcs, where [[ThePhoenix Phoenix]] [[TheSixthRanger Ikki]] has a decently sized mullet hanging down, but when he donned the Phoenix Cloth's helm, his mane was suddenly drawn as flowing halfway down his back.
66* Oh ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', you and your love of [[http://pics.livejournal.com/gosurori_otaku/pic/00003093/s640x480 mullets.]]
67* Creator/ShirowMasamune works ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'', and ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' are all full of '80s hair, since they were all drawn in the '80s. The anime adaptations from the 2000s generally avert this by giving most characters altered haircuts.
68** Except for Togusa from ''Ghost in the Shell''. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/GITSSAC2-06.jpg The MacGyver mullet stays!]] This along with him carrying a (by that time antique) Mateba semiautomatic revolver and not having the same level of cyberization as his teammates add to the image of him being out of place.
69* ''Anime/{{Slayers}}'' stars a main character with a headband and some impressively huge bangs, even for an anime. Not much of a coincidence since the original novels began in the '80s.
70* Hibari's hair in ''Manga/StopHibariKun'' gets even more '80s than it normally is when she sings in a band.
71* Folken from ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' has a mullet.
72** So does Giovanni Gallo from ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'' (which was made by the same people behind ''Escaflowne'').
73* In ''WebVideo/WeddingPeachAbridged'', Limone mocks Pluie's "hideous devil mullet."
74* Quite a few of the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' guys have mullets, as mocked in WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries.
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77[[folder:Comic Books]]
78* Janice from the Daughter of the House story in girls' comic ''Mandy'' is a clear example, even though [[http://comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=6570#p86590 the story was actually published in 1990.]]
79* ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom'': Even though there’s no reason why his hair should grow, as his body is a metallic shell, Captain Atom [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDH-o8eRoKZJo4z-YTNm0OxK6rdaZlGAg7qA&usqp=CAU still rocked a mullet]] in the ''Extreme Justice'' series
80* [[Creator/GeorgePerez George Pérez]] seems to like this. Just look up his designs of ComicBook/WonderWoman from ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' and Marvel's ComicBook/ScarletWitch, [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOvVKGaxRftksTfOrHVMo5iIFoTMKZV3v4Ig&usqp=CAU for example.]]
81* The comic book sequel to ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', ''The Good The Bad And The Uglier'', presumably wasn't able to acquire permission to use a likeness of Clint Eastwood in the role of [[ManWithNoName Blondie]]. As a result, he's hilariously replaced with a near-perfect likeness of [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid Snake]], complete with a charmingly anachronistic mullet. Lampshaded in that the first scene in the comic shows Blondie walking into a barber's shop for a haircut, but it's a ruse - he leaves his boots under the barber's smock and escapes through the back door to surprise the sniper watching him through the window. When the barber offers him a complimentary shave and haircut, he frustratingly declines.
82* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': After moving out to California in the mid-'80s, and not long before the ''Armor Wars'' arc, Tony Stark was convinced by a hairstylist whom he dated for a while [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2jFwaruMg6VlHix115lKOhRTQaw04HEGw-Q&usqp=CAU to give him a perm.]] It lasted up until 1990, when some [[DependingOnTheArtist fill-in artists drew his hair inconsistently]] before a new creative team cleaned it up for ''Armor Wars II'', ditching the curly perm for good and eventually settling on a modern take on his classic haircut.
83* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Creator/JohnByrne decided to give ComicBook/InvisibleWoman a [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDGlwL3-eNzmak8cOvy11oZ8Mopn9Q2FltKA&usqp=CAU femullet]], while penciling the series.
84* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'': Fire. Ice even {{Lampshaded}} this at one point by saying that she and Fire looked like extras from a HairMetal video.
85* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': In one issue, when the kids go to a rock concert, the boys look relatively subdued while the girls--especially Dani and Illyana--are in full-on 80's mode with the hair ''and'' outfits.
86* ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'': In his 80s ''Teen Titans'' days, [[Characters/NightwingDickGrayson Dick Grayson]] had both a [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTpBaY78GhZlmxgDlStBAwT3jcCCl7SG0nK1A&usqp=CAU ponytail]] and [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRmKbQEgiY3jrFMOTK_TJaH721ThTrlj4QYDQ&usqp=CAU a mullet.]] Both were eventually ditched, although the mullet has come back a few times such as in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
87* ''ComicBook/{{Nova}}'': Richard Rider had quite the [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkSAJsnK_Nv0K_RjLo2SY2qQ93oqnNbPN3bw&usqp=CAU mullet]] for a while before upgrading to a [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSGjjsc6b5j1Sg9TnJfqLZlAXcXZ4Xd-9yC1A&usqp=CAU 90s ponytail]] that came out of the back of his helmet. Modern comics have greatly shortened his hair.
88* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNvJALmilaj3mKoScqXfybogjxiVtWCDPVcQ&usqp=CAU Exhibit A]] is Death of the Endless who’s unmistakably a ''Music/TheCure''-era Trad [[PerkyGoth Goth]] girl with her frizzy mane of black hair and [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSJsIlXtJSfsxRWJA8vETj_zg656SwRpQUzLQ&usqp=CAU Exhibit B]] is Dream of the Endless himself with his long '80s hair. What’s that? Creator/NeilGaiman [[AuthorAvatar has an extremely similar hairdo]]? Funny coincidence.
89* Infamously, the [[ComicBook/SecretWarsII Beyonder.]] Although the fact that he had no experience with the world and, therefore, no ''taste'' was certainly deliberate in his clothes, etc.
90* ''ComicBook/SheHulk'': For decades She-Hulk had a big [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTg5xfD1Oj3vxfERDwcd0ebmUIpgdese_HuZQ&usqp=CAU beautiful]] mane of hair but it was shortened before ''Civil War'' and has remained that way that since.
91* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': When Todd [=McFarlane=] drew the comic in the late '80s he not only gave [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spidey]] a new look but made his new bride [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane]] over by changing her hairstyle from her old hairstyle, [[http://www.comicsreporter.com/images/uploads/fffmaryjane.jpg (long and straight with bangs),]] to full-on [[http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/amazing-spider-man/309-4.jpg big, permed out Eighties hair.]] This is arguably justified. Since MJ is a fashion model and actress, it only makes sense for her to take to the latest styles (even if the look doesn't age well as real-world years go by). Fortunately, her bangs came back in the '90s as the look became fashionable again, and she's had them ever since. [=McFarlene=] also gave Peter a [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTI1I79g1hnlo0nvPbWrbBhqE1ZazcVxdzZow&usqp=CAU noticeable mullet]] as well.
92* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsEddieBrock Eddie Brock]] could be [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUecqSYtijT2Vd5qrj3uWDrXUX_-vuZuEW9EfuX4lXRt5ypp-N85EhJ6y2&s=10 seen with a mullet when undisguised.]]
93* ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'': Durham Red, particularly when drawn by Carlos Ezquerra.
94* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Even though it was during the '90s, Superman had a [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTye-qdIY8ddzVfo_Gg-mwoyiMGwUhVYiEYeQ&usqp=CAU mullet]] after his resurrection.
95* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': ComicBook/{{Starfire}} and that...''[[http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/bigimages/starfire.jpg thing]]'' she's got attached to her scalp. Her hairstyle has changed over time. It's [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRcjXu6XMLU4B2DQzNAgZFsNFFzSa23JLCVFQ&usqp=CAU wavy]] more-so than curly; it's incredibly long and thick, but it looks like normal hair nowadays. Her ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' depictions show her with straight hair, though they've both temporarily been shown with the original style as a MythologyGag.
96* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': In ''ComicBook/WolverineOrigins'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] makes fun of ComicBook/{{Daken}}'s mohawk-mullet combo. He gets his hand cut off for his trouble.
97--> ''(after imitating a telephone conversation)'' [[XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack It was 1986. It wants its hair...]] ''(notices the stump where his hand should be)'' ...back...
98** An amusing bit of HypocriticalHumor on Deadpool's part, since some flashback sequences show that Wade Wilson had a blond mullet that would do ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Liquid Snake]]'' proud when he still had hair.
99* ComicBook/WonderMan’s [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSwsd1oFviyjRYxxEPEsA6DVwSSmLn2t1q5FQ&usqp=CAU mullet]] seen most prominently in ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'' is something he won’t ever live down
100* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Despite being a promotion for an intended early '90s toy line in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanAndTheStarRiders'' Wonder Woman has such a [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZFpfvMgX_0CgDdgqmA0crZ1oXM-De4vIBkA&usqp=CAU massive amount of voluminous curly hair]] that it looks like she's got enough for at least four women. Wondy in general [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQzf0kpD5c5tYuTqjs-R9lkuXuQ2sGIha5r3w&usqp=CAU got a lot of this]], it wasn’t until the late '90s and 2000s that Diana’s hair becomes less massive and wavy.
101* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
102** [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsRogue Rogue]] got [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTexFMWAMxSF4YtplIILy9naU7s68uKPho5gA&usqp=CAU big]] [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZrAd-MGkb-fQpHVLISL0ovPU0ishTl7aqdQ&usqp=CAU hair]] when Marc Silvestri became penciler in the late Eighties. Later, the extra-dimensional Longshot joined the group, bringing his [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR8G_OEKl5J22sn7br29GHTim4l56Y2ExpJPg&usqp=CAU trademark mullet]] with him. [[ComicBook/JeanGrey Jean]]'s hair also remained [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRqKCCDnhOGwGN-7n7Zfq5sDrE8VnRQr5njJw&usqp=CAU large and wavy]] for quite a while. Topping all of them would be ComicBook/RachelSummers’ [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTM0GZqzv8W0aeUQCzAQcGkFExMmPHz9h5rRA&usqp=CAU (in)famous femullet.]]
103** Rogue also seemed to suddenly have gotten herself a gigantic perm with feathered bangs under Jim Lee. It didn't exactly help that she paired it with a headband.
104** ComicBook/{{Bishop}}’s [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-Z4ya9Tt_zR9En-VKT3KAZRotuVvbPlH3rA&usqp=CAU mullet,]] was truly out of control Eighties-style massive when he first appeared. Since then he’s either got a more sensible haircut or has shaved his head completely.
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108* Creator/{{Disney}}'s final two [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon animated canon films]] of TheEighties:
109** ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' managed to do this with non-anthropomorphic dogs. The fluff of fur on Rita's head looks awfully '80s.
110** Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''. Doubly impressive in that Ariel's hair is like that when she's out of the water and sopping wet. Not even the power of the ocean can defeat THAT volume. Underwater... well, hair spreads out underwater. This is why female scuba divers keep theirs short.
111* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal2000''. Also model Creator/JulieStrain, then-wife and muse of its maker Creator/KevinEastman.
112* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'':
113** Adagio Dazzle, the leader of the villains of the film, has a ridiculously poofy hairdo straight out of Hasbro's '80s franchise ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''.
114** The Crusaders (human version of the CMC) sport the same hairdos as their counterparts in "The Show Stoppers" episode from ''Friendship Is Magic'' during the BattleOfTheBands.
115** In the short released for the CutSong "Friendship Through the Ages", fittingly for the style of her segment, Pinkie Pie sports a very '80s-ish crimped side ponytail hairstyle, looking pretty much ''pixelated''.
116* Sibella, Elsa Frankenteen, and Phantasma of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool''.
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119[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
120* ''Film/{{Adventureland}}'', being set in the '80s, has a few good examples.
121* In ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'', Mozart is given a 1980s-does-1780s style wig to amplify is rock star-like status as a musical composer.
122* ''[[Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes Return of the Killer Tomatoes]]'' came out in '88, and it shows. Creator/GeorgeClooney's mullet is just the tip of the iceberg.
123* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'':
124** Claudia Wells wears her hair in feathery bangs as Marty [=McFly=]'s girlfriend Jennifer Parker, which were softened when Creator/ElisabethShue [[TheOtherDarrin took over the role]] in the sequels.
125** In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', the [[BrokenBird Lorraine McFly]] of [[BadFuture 1985-A]] wears her hair in a massive perm, which was inspired by female televangelists of the time, particularly Tammi Fae Bakker.
126* Eriq [=LaSalle=]'s character in ''Film/ComingToAmerica'' and his ''entire family'' all have Jheri curls, leading to a hilarious moment when his family stands up... and they all leave behind "juice" stains on the couch.
127* At the beginning of ''Film/CrocodileDundee'', Sue treks through the Australian Outback with gloriously feathered mane ''completely intact''.
128* ''Film/DoctorDetroit'': Monica's blonde hair is very voluminous, especially in the finale where it floats around her head like a six-inch-thick cloud.
129* Some of boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward's sisters in ''Film/TheFighter'' as evidenced in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTb085NFa3E this clip.]]
130* [[DestroyerDeity Gozer the Gozerian]] in ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' has a noted flat top, being marked by Ray as a target when the team fire their proton packs at it. In ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' ''the flat top returns!'' Even though Gozer is played by a different actress, [[spoiler: Peter even addresses Gozer as "Flat top" when he appears in a glorious BigDamnHeroes alongside Ray and Winston in the climax.]]
131* In ''Film/GirlsJustWantToHaveFun'', Lynne's hair gets progressively more outlandish. SpoiledBrat Natalie Sands's hair remains consistently puffy and frizzy.
132* Talena from ''Outlaw of Literature/{{Gor}}'' has some huge '80s hair, which the crew of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' take a couple jabs at in their commentary. This is despite being set on a whole other planet from Earth which is ostensibly in a MedievalStasis.
133* Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's character in ''Film/HardTarget'' has possibly the most hideous '80s hairstyle ever committed to visual media - a juice-drenched Jheri curl mullet that trails after his every jump, run, and roundhouse kick. Contemporary reviewers described the mullet as "a character in itself".
134* ''Film/HelloMaryLouPromNightII'' was released in 1987, and it's obvious! Almost every female character in the movie has '80s hair to the extremes, and a number of guys have mullets, even in flashbacks taking place in 1957. Jess is the worst offender. She had a full-on '80s afro!
135* ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}'', taken to extremes.
136* ''Film/JamesBond'':
137** ''Film/AViewToAKill'': the most shining examples in the series with Creator/TanyaRoberts's feathery bangs and Creator/GraceJones's box cut. To say nothing of the ladies' ''makeup''...
138** ''Film/LicenceToKill'': Creator/CareyLowell's massive perm before Pam and Bond go to Isthmus, then her short hair per the end of the decade's trend for the remainder of the film. Bond (Creator/TimothyDalton) is himself perilously close to having a mullet, meanwhile.
139** ''Film/GoldenEye'': Creator/PierceBrosnan kept his poofy ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' hairdo[[note]]this was done on purpose to appeal to Brosnan's fans from the show[[/note]] (but toned down a bit) for his first outing as James Bond; in fact, the easiest way to tell that he only filmed one gun barrel scene for his run as 007 is his big hair. He changed to a more modern style by the time ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' rolled around.
140* The 2015 ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' remake replaces most of the hairstyles with popular 2010s styles like sidecuts and [[DyeHard dyed hair]]. The titular Jem however has absolutely ''huge'', very long hair.
141* Played for laughs in ''Film/JoeDirt'', where the eponymous Joe Dirt has an ass-ugly mullet. It's actually a wig his mother put on him as a baby, on account of him being born without the top of his skull. The bones apparently grew and got infused with it, leaving poor Joe stuck with it.
142* Evidently, viewers of ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' were too distracted by...[[PaintedOnPants something]]... to notice that Jareth's hair is a damn good example of eighties hair. The protagonist, Sarah, wears another standard '80s style through most of the film but gets glorious '80s hair in the masquerade ball scene.
143* Creator/HeatherGraham in the 1988 teen comedy starring the two Coreys, ''Film/LicenseToDrive''.
144* Almost everyone in ''Film/TheLostBoys'' has Eighties Hair, especially [[http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/images/thelostboys.jpg the eponymous vampires.]]
145* In ''Film/Mario1984'', Mario's brother Simon has a perm.
146* ''Film/LoveLiesBleeding'': Jackie and Lou both sport very '80s hairdos, particularly the latter having a mullet.
147* The two female leads in ''Film/NightOfTheComet'' have hair that is so '80s it hurts! Their valley girl personas don't help things either.
148* When Jules and Vincent enter Brett and Roger's apartment near the beginning of ''Film/PulpFiction'', Jules calls Roger "Flock of Seagulls" because of his '80s haircut. The character is even referred to as Flock of Seagulls in the stage directions of the movie script.
149* ''Film/PurpleRain'' is glutted to the gills with this, in part because so many of the characters (not least the protagonist) are Black, and are sporting Jheri curls and the like. However, ''all'' of the characters under age 30 (and some over it, too) seem to have '80s Hair, regardless of race - with a few exceptions like the [[TheQuincyPunk Mohawk-wearing "punks"]] we see in the opening montage.
150* During the opening credits of ''Film/QueensLogic'', Al is driving around when he comes across a woman with full-on '80s hair, and can't resist commenting:
151-->'''Al:''' You don't know me, and I don't know you, so let's cut to the chase, shall we? Your hair! Hey, I'm just trying to be honest here! I don't know if it's a wig, or what, but I can work with that!\
152'''Woman:''' (''chuckling'') Go away, Al, before I do you with my hairspray.\
153'''Al:''' Hey, I'll come back later with some hedge clippers; we'll do a sexy hair-cutting thing!
154* ''Film/RoadGames'': The hitchhiker's feathered cut, the serial killer's beard and unkempt mullet, and the trucker's moustache and short back and sides.
155* ''Film/RockOfAges'' is of course chock-full of it, seeing as it takes place on 1987's Sunset Strip. Among the few actors who didn't have their hair to be restyled was Russell Brand (Lonny) who walked onto the set with a massive mullet already. Subverted somewhat, in that the hairstyles are modern cuts, clearly teased and blowdried that way. No one seems to have gotten the layered cut required to have true '80s hair.
156* The cheesy sci-fi movie ''Film/{{ROTOR}}'' is unabashed in its love of the mullet.
157* In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT50pk6SyTmOwjkilhYo-UhJnf20QQb08UbJg&usqp=CAU Khan and his followers]] look like the entourage of a hair metal group.
158** In ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' and ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', [[http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tsfshd/tsfshd0148.jpg Uhura]] sported a jheri curl.
159* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
160** Who could forget Sarah Connor's massive femullet in ''Film/TheTerminator''? Her roommate, Ginger, is no slouch either with a massive set of curls.
161** Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger as the T-800 also had a mullet of sorts only to get trimmed down after being burned by an explosion in an alley during an initial chase scene. By the time of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', it's gone and has been replaced his more familiar haircut, which in the second and third films vaguely resembles the first film's T-800's post-burned hairdo. The mullet would not return until ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' which the prototype T-800 had and ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' where the first film's T-800 makes a brief return in a timeline reset.
162** ''Terminator 2'' did feature John's friend Tim, who has one of the most '80s mullets of all time.
163* ''Film/VirusShark'': Duke Larson, the security on board [[UnderwaterBase the Cygnus Research Facility]], has a big mullet.
164* Of all things, ''Film/{{Watchmen}}''. Yes, it was set in the '80s, but Ozymandias's... floppy... side-banged... thing is the only really egregious example, and it stands out all the more strongly because of it. He still manages to induce all kinds of PerverseSexualLust anyway, because it looks damn good on him.
165* ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'' invokes this trope.
166* In the flashbacks to the '80s in ''Film/TheWood'', the common hairstyles for black men during the '80s are shown, such as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jheri_curl Jheri curl]] and the high top fade (basically Will's hair in ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'').
167* ''Film/WorkingGirl'' has some truly spectacular examples, particularly Creator/JoanCusack's hair, which defies the laws of physics.
168* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': The film's main setting is 1983.
169** Professor X, Havok, and Quicksilver can pull off the mullet look much better than a lot of the male celebrities of the era.
170** Raven Darkholme's crimped hairdo is a cross between Music/{{Madonna}}'s and Music/CyndiLauper's in the early '80s.
171** Warren Worthington III's curly mane is Music/BillyIdol-esque.
172** Nightcrawler's bangs come straight from Music/AFlockOfSeagulls.
173** Creator/RoseByrne likens Agent Moira [=MacTaggert=]'s hairstyle to ''Film/WorkingGirl''.
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177* Some female televangelists had big '80s hair. Examples include [[http://i54.tinypic.com/8xvvrr.jpg Rexella Van Impe,]] [[http://i54.tinypic.com/1198qkl.jpg Jan Crouch,]] and [[http://i52.tinypic.com/iyegir.jpg Beth Moore.]] Even when it's short hair, it tends to look like [[http://i53.tinypic.com/14w6rza.jpg Pat Benatar.]] The only time they truly drop the '80s look is when they're trying to distance themselves from their sordid, seedy past, for instance [[http://i52.tinypic.com/29wuauu.jpg Melissa Scott,]] and even then she seems to have adopted Sarah Jessica Parker's early, bookish look.
178* ''Series/AlmostLive'': The [[http://dictionary.sensagent.com/burnout%20stereotype/en-en burnouts]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UdUBH9cJx4 "The Lame List"]] sketch.
179* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'': Alex acquires a massive perm when she arrives in the 1980s. The first season sparked a brief trend in the UK with women seeking perms to emulate the hairstyle.
180* ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' in seasons 1 and 2, and in seasons 3 and 4 with Kelly (Creator/JennieGarth).
181* ''Series/BlakesSeven'':
182** Creator/JanChappell sported some truly awful perms, especially around the first season.
183** Creator/SallyKnyvette, who played Jenna Stannis, actually had to add extra hair in Season 1 to make her own seem fuller; fortunately, she was allowed to drop it in Season 2.
184** Soolin's hairdos in Season 4 ''scream'' early Eighties.
185** Contrary to popular jokes about B7 being all about jumpsuits and perms, Creator/GarethThomas and Creator/StevenPacey ''didn't'' actually sport perms. Both of them had quite fluffy, curly hair in real life, and grew it while on the show.
186* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Which, in fairness to it, did start in the 80s. Most of the cast kept their hair pretty reasonable, though. However, one episode in season 10 (which aired in the early 90s) has Lilith decide to trade her PrimAndProperBun for a perm. Poor Frasier can't stop himself laughing at it, which upsets Lilith. Rebecca appears to keep a straight face, only it turns out she's jammed her hand in a mousetrap to stop the giggles.
187* ''Series/TheComeback'': Lisa Kudrow's character has '80s hair, which is lampshaded when she brings out a poster of herself from the 1980s with the exact same hair and then mentions how much her hair has changed.
188* In ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'', when the other people in Rebecca's meeting (including the judge and opposing counsel) turn into a HairMetal band and sing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHU1EYeug4M "Textmergency"]], they all get '80s hair.
189** In season two, during "You Go First", Paula and Rebecca gain '80s hair throughout the song, which gets bigger with each shot!
190* Back when she was in high school, Emily Prentiss from ''Series/CriminalMinds'' was a goth with massive '80s hair. [[http://www.fanpop.com/spots/criminal-minds/images/7820397/title/emily-prentiss-goth-chick-80s-screencap Take a look here.]]
191* ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'': Christine Nelson, aptly nicknamed "Spike" in spades. It goes through several variations in Junior High, but by ''Series/DegrassiHigh'', she changes it to more of a mall hairstyle reminiscent of Season 1-2 Kelly Bundy from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.
192** Stephanie Kaye, being one of the most fashionable people at the school, has some very very 80s hair at times. However, during her period of depression, she lets it down all the way, looking more like a 60s girl.
193** Derek "Wheels" Wheeler's mullet, which increasingly grows from about season 2 of Junior High to ''Series/DegrassiSchoolsOut''.
194** Erica and Heather, the twins, and their crimped hair.
195* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
196** Many regular and guest characters in the '80s. Nyssa (played by Creator/SarahSutton) and Mel (Creator/BonnieLangford) are two particularly prominent examples Justified in Mel's case since she actually comes from the 1980s. So does Nyssa, technically, but [[HumanAlien from another planet]].
197** River Song (introduced in 2008) is known for her bushels of wild, curly hair.
198-->'''Eleventh Doctor:''' Oh, here comes the hair...\
199'''River Song:''' The hair! It just never stops!
200** The Sixth Doctor's [[WhatTheHellCostumingDepartment unspeakably bad]], [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes unspeakably]] [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece 1980s dress sense]] also came along with a bleached blond poodle-perm, as was all the rage back then. Even at the time, the combination of wild, bright curls and garish clothes made him resemble what River Song calls 'a clown put through a woodchipper'. In the same piece of diary, she suggests that the Sixth Doctor had actually been going for ''her'' hairstyle (based on a conversation she had about it with the Third Doctor) but had got it wrong.
201** This is used as a character beat in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day]]", which takes place in 1987 when Rose and the Doctor travel there to see her father before he dies. Rose is so shocked to see her younger mother with a massive curly perm that she briefly loses her composure and attempt to hide herself being a time traveller by noting that she's never seen Jackie's hair done like that as it's all straightened out in the show's present of 2005. Other background characters also have similar hair but not to the same absurd extent of curls as Jackie.
202* ''Series/TheFactsOfLife'': Especially during the 1985-1988 era. All four of the core girls -- Blair, Jo, Natalie, and Tootie -- have very '80s hair and fashions. George (George Clooney in his first major TV role) had this, as did Andy during his run, and then so did Pippa (Sherrie Krien, later known as country singer Sherrie Austin) when she came aboard in 1987.
203* ''Series/FamilyTies'': While Mallory was the only one to wear 1980s-style hair throughout the run, and Jennifer eventually began sporting such hairstyles late in the run, various bit and one-time characters sport these. The most obvious example was the 1986 two-part episode "It's My Party" (actually aired in 1987 as part of the fifth season, even though it was produced more than a year and a half earlier). Here, Jennifer's new friends -- all valley-type girls who are supposedly popular but instead are disrespectful to teachers, skip school and spend most of their time at the mall -- all sport blatantly 1980s hairstyles. Perhaps the attitudes of Jennifer's new friends, plus Alex's comment midway through the show about the girls ("I am running out of normal sisters") was meant as a sly commentary for 1980s style, fashion, and teen culture.
204* ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries''
205** Louis Robey is one of the few women who could make that big hair look work.
206* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Given that the characters were all teenagers in the '80s, the show was ''very'' liberal about this in the corresponding flashbacks. Most notable example is "The One With All The Thanksgivings'', with Ross and Chandler sporting ridiculous Music/AFlockOfSeagulls (and later Series/MiamiVice) haircuts.
207* [[JewishMother Beverly Goldberg]]. Her Eighties Hair has all the inobtrusive softness and tactile quality of a military helmet. It could withstand a direct hit. Other characters in ''Series/TheGoldbergs'', set back in nineteen-eighty-something, show attention to period detail: Lainey Lewis is an Eighties teen with seriously big period hair.
208* The ''Series/GossipGirl'' episode "Valley Girls" (a PoorlyDisguisedPilot for a spinoff series that, as of this writing, is in consideration as a MidseasonReplacement), which featured flashbacks to Lily's teenage life in TheEighties, was chock full of this, although it wasn't quite as extreme as actual examples from the era.
209* Robbie Ray of ''Series/HannahMontana'' wants his mullet back!
210* ''Series/HappyDays'': Many of the younger characters had very 1980s hairstyles and fashions. This, on a TV show that was set in the early 1960s (at the beginning of 1980) through approximately 1965 (by the time the series ended).
211* Seen briefly on an old picture of Ted's boss in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.
212* Detective [=DeeDee McCall=] on ''Series/Hunter1984'' usually had hairdos typical of the '80s.
213* In the late 1980s a pre-''[[Series/LoisAndClark Lois Lane]]'' Teri Hatcher appeared occasionally on ''Series/MacGyver1985'' and an episode of ''Series/NightCourt'' with huge hair.
214* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': Richard Dean Anderson is one of the few men who can pull off a mullet and have it look good.
215* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''
216** Bud Bundy had a mullet for a while.
217** The red mess on top of Peg's head is a typical case of '80s Big Hair.
218* Much like the ''Happy Days'' example above, this was pretty egregious on ''Series/{{MASH}}''; a series set in the early 1950s but filmed during the '70s and '80s. The hair and makeup of the actors and actresses therefore straddled the line between SeventiesHair and Eighties Hair, with Margaret's feathery 'do and BJ's hair and PornStache in later seasons particularly standing out. No one in the cast had the sort of haircuts one would ''actually'' expect to see from a military hospital unit of any era, much less the Korean War.
219* ''Series/MidnightCaller'': Jack's producer Billy Po's mullet, and his friend Deacon's flattop.
220* Murphy and Corky Sherwood on the first few seasons of ''Series/MurphyBrown''.
221* One episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' had Tim finding a high school picture of Tony with a particularly bad case of this... and showing it to Ziva.
222* ''Series/OneOfUsIsLying'': Janae has hers in a very '80s style during Season 2, curly and blowdried, though it's set in 2022. Given she's a very nonconformist person it makes sense that she'd put on this throwback hairstyle.
223* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
224** Astronema from ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' rocked some pretty glamorous (and voluminous) wigs.
225** Showed up every so often in ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''. Is it a New Zealand thing, or are they trying to say that it'll be back in style by 2025?
226* ''{{Series/Probe}}'': Austin's designer mullet and Mickey's post-dryer frizz with bangs are classic examples of the contemporary styles for men and women of the 1980s.
227* Several episodes of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' that take place in the '80s feature, appropriately enough, Eighties Hair; this is complicated by the fact that the show ''started airing'' in the late eighties, so some episodes that don't take place in the eighties feature it as well.
228** "The Leap Back" takes place mostly in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 1999]], yet Sam's wife and Al's girlfriend both have pretty standard '80s hair. (The episode itself first aired in Fall 1991.)
229* ''Series/RedDwarf'' although being set in the far future was filmed in the 80s and then 90s so of course had [[https://i.imgur.com/TZ9Ifmj.jpeg heaps of gloriously poofy and frizzy hairdos]], Lister actually keeps his locks to this day. It's especially noticeble in episodes like "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVHoloship Holoship]]" with characters like [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZmM2MDVlY2QtZDdkNC00YmZmLTkzNzItMjIyOGZjZDYzMzg4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTgyMzEyNDY@._V1_.jpg Nirvanah]]. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the flashback in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIBalanceOfPower Balance of Power]]", where the crew was having a "1990s Nostalgia Night" Disco party, covering up for why people would be rocking dated hairdos, less justifed the rest of the time.
230* ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'' is almost perfect when it comes to period flavour, but the mullets on both Robins kind of stand out.
231* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' actually had more obvious '80s hair in 1993 than in 1989. However, the [[BuffySpeak '80s-ness]] of the show is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that pop culture was largely '80s until 1993.
232* ''Series/SchittsCreek'' has new mother Jocelyn pining for her 1980s youth, and Moira encourages her to "rock on" despite her age. Jocelyn then gets a GagHaircut inspired by her love of the band Music/{{Poison}}.
233* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' started in 1987 and despite being set in the middle of the 24th century has some hilariously of-its-time styling. Deanna Troi's giant curly "cheerleader" look and Tasha Yar's intermittently slicked-back wet-look short hair are the worst offenders among the main cast, though we dodged a bullet as [[https://trekmovie.com/2012/07/28/watch-levar-burtons-star-trek-tng-event-qa-responds-to-jheri-curl-geordi-viral-image/ Geordi almost ended up with a Jheri curl]]. [[Main/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness The first series in particular]] is also rife with guest stars sporting [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bjorn_Bensen power]] [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Wyatt_Miller mullets]] and [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ariana the biggest]] [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Minuet of hairdos.]]
234* ''Series/StrangerThings'':
235** This show is a rare example where it's most notably pronounced on the boys instead of the girls. The two characters who most obviously fit this trope are [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRl2FR3X8RbNPuZBeNsztUbhWLgzm6wPCUwWKeHFgK4m5dg9fvJuMDXJlo&s=10 Steve and Billy]]. Both of them have mullets at some point, although Steve's is much more well-coiffed than Billy's, which is more scraggly. Steve in Season 2 is ashamed to admit that he uses Farrah Fawcett-brand hairspray to get his luscious mane. Dustin uses it to get a similar hairstyle for the school dance during the finale.
236** This imbalance is rectified when [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUEiyJ1KC_KOHGKdJ9hzcPJEt90quPGeKidQ&usqp=CAU Nancy]] starts sporting this in Season 3, adding some volume, curls and bangs to her hair. In Season 4, Robin joins in on the action with her straighter hair from S3 replaced with [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTy0aSt1lyvToA9XUrDM6MRd7K8cmnAK-6OWg&usqp=CAU a wilder and curlier crop of hair]].
237** The girls at the dance, who reject Dustin, have a pretty good hair farm between them, and it explodes when we see them again at the mall in S3.
238** [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBv1bNv6mHDPDCQXS6vt3RjMr6Hj-whRi03Q&usqp=CAU Joyce's hair]] in Season 3, whilst still low maintenance, is full and has heavy bangs. Eleven herself in Season 4 touchingly [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTr3reXi94Nu7dr9fhgNoBps80Andxu61xwfQ&usqp=CAU copies this style]] as Joyce’s adoptive daughter [[spoiler: before having her head shaved again.]]
239** Chrissy from Season 4 has a Music/OliviaNewtonJohn’s [[Film/{{Grease}} Sandy]]-inspired [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPCjDzI6lZT3VVllSR3a8r35HBbcwM8iKsTw&usqp=CAU fringe with ponytail]], then there’s Eddie who manages to outstrip everyone else in this regard with his [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQvuoFq38oyHdJP1-CjFEirdByKrx4vBmbqtA&usqp=CAU massive rocker do]] taken directly from his namesake [[Music/VanHalen Eddie Van Halen]] himself. [[spoiler: There’s also the BigBad Henry whom when [[WasOnceAMan he was properly human]], had some [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-OqRm7aEAdFFXK52iEcQpnYJnCoS30Ntlnw&usqp=CAU long locks]], that inexplicably get [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/22/51/6b/22516b76ab50ba0ca54e866ae162117a.jpg gelled back '80s style]] when reveals his evil nature. Though granted the flashback takes place in 1979.]]
240* Marion Moseby explaining the arrangement of photographs on his office wall in ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' episode "Risk It All":
241-->'''Moseby:''' And by the way, it's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro afro,]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jheri_curl Jheri curl,]] ''then'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-top_fade fade.]]
242* ''Series/TwentyOneJumpStreet'' was a huge offender. It's impossible to watch an episode without screaming, '''"EIGHTIES HAIR!!!!!"'''
243** The DistantFinale/[[TheDocumentary faux documentary]] had even '80-ish hair ''of the future''!
244* Diana from ''Series/{{V 1983}}'' switched from an elegant look in the two miniseries to classic eighties poofy hair when the series was launched.
245%%* Jimmy from ''Series/OutOfJimmysHead''.
246* Parodied in a skit by ''Series/TheVacantLot'' in which all the cast members go back in time and return with a period-authentic hairdo. All of them get admitted to an exclusive present-day nightclub except for Rob Gfroerer, who travelled back to TheEighties and returned with Mike Score’s hairstyle from A Flock of Seagulls.
247* ''Series/WandaVision'': Episode 5 “ On a Very Special Episode…” which is set during the 80s (and packed full of references to ''Series/FullHouse'', ''Series/GrowingPains'', ''Series/FamilyTies'', and ''Series/StepByStep'') [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSeKznXfWgveS3BtlMJEanJRLz-TEp4Dc6xgg&usqp=CAU Wanda]] and [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRaIl06KZWXMrK8uBkOcDXOk_SOXFcgmfK6SA&usqp=CAU Agnes]] have some truly massive '80s hair. Additionally Vision’s [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQSOKKm9V2YN-BgfdwqRNRdRzc8MK18Ru5fUA&usqp=CAU hairdo]] is taken straight from Creator/AndyWarhol.
248* Ryan Stiles in ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' sports an endearing mullet.
249* ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'': Pam-I-Am, who has a big, spiky tuft of fur on her head.
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253* A really funny one is the cover of the December 1985 issue of ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''. Barbi Benton is wearing a [[PrettyInMink sable coat]], and her hair is still several times thicker than the fur. That's how you can tell you have proper eighties hair.
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257* HairMetal got that name for a reason. Pretty much any band that falls into the category was known for its members having long, enormously poofed-up hair, even those with curly or thinning hair. The Music/{{Poison}} members in the page pic are one of the more extreme examples. It should be noted that quite a few of the earliest metal musicians were of Ashkenazi Jewish or Southern Italian descent and had hair like this naturally (at least, insofar as they grew it long). Indeed, Jewish culture generally forbids men from cutting their hair, resulting in glaring examples of both '70s Hair and '80s hair among Orthodox or Conservative Jewish men, regardless of the time period.
258* Visual Kei, especially when you look at the Visual Shock or Neo-Visual Shock subgenres, has plenty of it -- and Neo-Visual Shock only began its start in the mid-to-late 2000s, reviving the trope. The Kote Kei variant of Visual Kei also has some of this trope (as it descended from Visual Shock, which shares roots with HairMetal), but nowhere near as much as Visual Shock or Neo-Visual Shock.
259* Even in the more conservative world of Country Music, many of the top stars of the decade had 1980s-style hair; in fact, the gimmick became so prevalent that it had the ironic and even paradoxical effect of turning the mullet into a stereotypical ''symbol'' of American conservatism. Many of the female stars -- from Music/PattyLoveless to Music/RebaMcEntire to Music/DollyParton -- had very '80s styles, and even the male singers had these; Steve Wariner, on some of his mid-to-late 1980s albums, sports very '80s styles. The members of Music/{{Alabama}} had longer hair, but by the mid-1980s, were starting to wear them in distinct 1980s styles.
260* In many aspects, Music/TheBangles seemed more a [[TheSixties '60s]] band than an [[TheEighties '80s]] one. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pur1_3968.jpg Hair]] was [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tall_7244.jpg not]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/265f26c0_1694.jpg one of]] those [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5_3913.jpg aspects.]]
261* For most of his career, Music/BillyRayCyrus was known for his mullet.
262* Music/AFlockOfSeagulls has probably become better known for the lead singer's insanely '80s hair than their music (except perhaps "I Ran"). To point that a minor character in Film/PulpFiction is actually referred to as "Flock of Seagulls" due to his haircut.
263* Music/SigueSigueSputnik wore big, crazy, and colorful wigs.
264* Music/TearsForFears: Baby mullets, rat tails and curls, oh my! During their heyday, the band's [[https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/1*Q7uSYDt4P6AiHV-a4SG4AA.jpeg mullets]] were just as famous as their music. In fact, they're still being mocked for their '80s hairstyles to this day, which includes [[https://i.imgur.com/eKwQoU7.jpg this meme]] that compares their distinctive manes to a llama and a squirrel. Curt Smith [[https://pineapplestream.com/images/Musicbooks/Marks,%20Tannenbaum-I%20Want%20My%20MTV-The%20Uncensored%20Story%20Of%20The%20Music%20Video%20Revolution.pdf finds it unfair]] that he and Roland Orzabal seem to be picked on more often for their past hairdos than most other musical acts from that decade.
265-->'''Smith''': The downside of videos is, they're a reminder of all the bad fashion you went through. Our videos are kind of embarrassing, especially "Shout", but they're an endless source of amusement for my children: "Oh my God, you've got ''braids'' in your hair!" They laugh hysterically. It's not like we looked worse than anyone else. There were people who looked even worse than we did. So on a scale, we were somewhere in the middle.
266* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHGyipqYFr8 "Stop to Love"]] by Music/LutherVandross, backup singer Lisa Fischer's mohawk weave comes with its own laws of physics. Vandross's Jheri curl is also an example, but it pales in comparison to the mohawk.
267* In Music/{{Whitesnake}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg "Here I Go Again,"]] singer David Coverdale's luxurious locks compete heroically with those of his then-girlfriend Tawny Kitaen.
268* Music/DanielAmos, on the cover of their 1984 album ''Music/VoxHumana'', show up with large, strangely sculpted hairdos. The back cover {{lampshade|dtrope}}s it with another photo of the band, this time with a speech bubble declaring, "My hair points to the sky, the place I'd rather be!" (a lyric from their song "Home Permanent").
269* Music/MichaelJackson sported a Jheri curl on the covers of ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' and ''Music/{{Bad}}'', a hairstyle that was popular with African-American men during the '80s.
270* The Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock were guilty of this throughout their original run, but it was ''really'' extreme in the later years (see the trope page's pic).
271* Before becoming a successful solo artist in the '90s, Music/SherylCrow [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyNlL1ZN6WU sang backup]] for Music/MichaelJackson in the '80s and had '''ginourmous''' hair.
272* Limahl, of Kajagoogoo, had one of the most extreme examples. ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has portrayed him as an alien on account of this.
273* Peter Slaghuis and Bianca Bonelli had white bob haircuts and bangs when they were in {{Music/Videokids}}.
274* Thanks to PopCulturalOsmosis, spikey '80s hair is often associated with Music/TinaTurner, though this isn't entirely accurate. The only reason she's known for that look is that she made her big comeback in 1984 with the album ''Private Dancer'', and that was the fashionable look at the time, but she didn't stick to it longer than anyone else. When her career moved into the '90s and 2000s, her hairstyles matched the decade.
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277[[folder:Pinball]]
278%%* ''Pinball/HeavyMetalMeltdown'', natch.
279%%* Seen on all the female skaters in ''Pinball/{{Rollergames}}'', which was based on the short-lived 1989 TV show.
280%%* A lot of the NarmCharm of ''Pinball/LaserWar'' is the overuse of '80s hair on its futuristic warrior women.
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283* ''Pinball/DrDude'', whose hair is too awesome for gravity.
284* As with the band members themselves, ''Pinball/GunsNRosesDataEast'' features a healthy crop of eighties frizz on the various characters on the playfield.
285* Similarly, ''Pinball/{{Raven}}'' failed at being a convincing OneWomanArmy due to her immaculately well-coiffed hairdo.
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288[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
289* In wrestling - which arguably did every bit as much as any other corner of popular culture to promote this trope - '80s Hair is (just barely) OlderThanTelevision. Wrestling/GeorgeWagner - better known as Gorgeous George - is generally credited with being the first to grow out and tease his blond hair (although Wrestling/BuddyRogers, the original "Nature Boy", bleached his hair blond first), so that he sported a mullet as early as the 1940s. He then became one of the first big celebrities on American television, rivaling the likes of Creator/MiltonBerle.
290* "The Nature Boy" Wrestling/RicFlair had AWESOME '80s hair, and most wrestlers hung onto their mullets well past their sell-by date. (Wrestling/MichaelCole had a mullet well into the "Attitude" Era.)
291* Irma Águilar, Irma González and La Medusa in Lucha Libre Inernacional/Universal Wrestling Association and Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, during the eighties, naturally. Also joined by Wrestling/{{A|llJapanWomensProWrestling}}JW's Wrestling/DumpMatsumoto during the time period.
292* Ironically, Wrestling/HulkHogan, a figure who pretty much defines the '80s (and not just for pro wrestling fans) grew his blond hair long but never frizzed it, and even started to go bald at the height of his popularity.
293* Ryusuke Taguchi developed an affinity for big eighties hairdos as his Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling career went on, sometimes having an out and out {{Afro| ass kicker}}.
294* Wrestling/DragonGate fans knew Shingo for his mullet better than they did his face, leading to [[CrowdChant chants from the crowd]] about its absence when he changed his hairstyle in 2009.
295* Wrestling/DolphZiggler sported a frizzy blond mullet with no apparent irony. Combined with his exaggeratedly "healthy" tan, he looks a great deal like the late Wrestling/CurtHennig, a.k.a. "Mr. Perfect" (and, coincidentally, he used to have a theme song with the title of "Perfection") though he trimmed back his 'do (and may be undergoing a HeelFaceTurn to boot).
296* One of Wrestling/AdamCole's {{kick the dog}} moments in Wrestling/RingOfHonor was to shave the mullet off of Michael Elgin.
297* Wrestling/DominikMysterio sports a particularly obnoxious-looking mullet.
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301* One song in ''Theatre/InTheHeights'' has Nina sing "you can tell it's from the Eighties/By the volume of their hair''.
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304[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
305* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' shows many of the female characters in the early sourcebooks with Eighties Hair, particularly some of the color plates in the roleplaying supplement MechWarrior and early sourcebooks. Clearly, hairspray was never lostech to the Inner Sphere.
306** Natasha Kerensky in the House Kurita [[https://cfw.sarna.net/wiki/images/c/c6/Natasha_Kerensky_HKSB.jpg?timestamp=20190320032444 Sourcebook.]]
307** Space Pirate Paula "Lady Death" Trevaline sports one of these hairstyles in the 1988 [[https://cfw.sarna.net/wiki/images/9/9b/Paula_Trevalin.jpg?timestamp=20100505193423 Perhiphery]] sourcebook
308** For the men, Tormano Liao has been shown with a similar hairstyle, in a more recent [[https://cfw.sarna.net/wiki/images/a/a8/Tormano_Liao_3052.jpg?timestamp=20110319235643 sourcebook.]]
309* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' female miniatures sculpted by Dennis Mize often had anachronistically crimped hair, such as the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' miniatures [[http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Image:Partha-ravenloft-100c.jpg here]] and [[http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Image:Partha-ravenloft-115c.jpg here.]]
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312[[folder:Video Games]]
313* Paul Lee from ''[[VideoGame/BackyardSports Backyard Hockey]]''.
314* General Lionwhyte from ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' has extremely wild '80s hair; in fact, it gave him the power to fly. The Razorgirls also have fairly poofy hair- one of their idle animations is the pull out a can of hair spray and use it on themselves.
315* The Emperor from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' has this in spades in both that game and ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy''. Even more so, though, in the latter game, due to the voice acting sounding remarkably like Music/DavidBowie... and The Emperor's hairstyle looking much like [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} Jareth's]]. In fairness to the Emperor, though, he ''was'' originally invented and designed in TheEighties, so he comes by it honestly.
316* ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' was made in the 80s so this was inevitable. The most notable example is probably Poison, who has a giant mane of bright pink hair and a leather hat that would make [[Music/JudasPriest Rob Halford]] proud.
317* Although it came out in 1996 rather than '86, the first ''Franchise/FireEmblem Jugdral'' story, ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Genealogy of the Holy War]]'', features this in spades. Your army is full of huge fluffed bangs, waves like a sine equation, and even a couple of mullets. The midquel, ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThracia776 Thracia 776]]'', tones things down considerably--compare [[http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Fire_Emblem:_Genealogy_of_the_Holy_War the first game's portraits]] to [[http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Fire_Emblem:_Thracia_776 the second.]]
318* William Daughton from ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject 2: Buried In Time'' seems to have a flared '80s hairstyle, almost like Marty [=McFly=]; and An option you can pick for Gage Blackwood's auto-stylist in the first game is a mullet, although it's labeled "[=GeoWave=]". However, the computer tells you that it won't fit TSA dress code, so you don't get to have it for the day.
319* Demyx of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fame has a strange mullet mohawk hairstyle. This among [[BattleCry other characteristics]] leads to the point where he's usually compared to another [[Music/DavidBowie '80s hair icon]].
320* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'': There's a teenager with a mohawk in ''Reloaded'', though ironically, Larry exclaims that his hair is so seventies.
321* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' is [[{{Pastiche}} heavily inspired]] by 80s action movies, so is notorious for this:
322** Liquid in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' has some wild Eighties hair that looked a lot like the ''Music/{{Poison}}'' members in the example picture.
323** Solid Snake's iconic mullet from the first half of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', where it's intended to look like an uneven grow-out of the short haircut he'd had in the prior game (this awkward phase is TruthInTelevision). In the second half of ''2'' he rocks a softer, ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''-style mullet, and in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' he has a more sculpted one that's cropped on the sides.
324** Raiden in most of his appearances has shaggy, shoulder-length white-blond (or sometimes silver) hair with a definite '80s rock-star vibe.
325** Big Boss in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' had a mullet all the way back in TheSixties.
326** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' is actually ''set'' in the 80s, so it's inescapable. Big Boss, Kazuhira Miller, and Ocelot all have various cuts of mullet. Eli also has a mullet through HairstyleInertia, and Tretij has big 80s curls. Quiet also has a fluffy Eighties demi-wave in her initial appearance, though not for the main story.
327* This type of hair is common in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''. It's like Unova is having a huge trend of 80s nostalgia. One has a [[AnimeHair huge]] ponytail, the other a mullet. The trucker caps don't help. Both Professors Juniper's sport this, N's hair looks like a particularly long mullet in official art, Grimsley is rocking the Flock of Seagulls look, and even Emmet and Ingo have [[HotbloodedSideburns Nagaideburns]].
328* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'', Katrina sports an impressive mane when she plays up her appearance as a fearsome vampire. (It's much more subdued when she passes for a human, and when she sleeps.)
329* Carlos’s hair in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' while the game was released in the late 90s, his Creator/MelGibson’s mullet has come straight from the 80s. Billy from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'' has a pretty ostentatious mullet as well.
330* Police Chief Jim sports a mullet in ''The 11th Hour: The sequel to VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest''.
331* Mona and Lisa, [[DualBoss twin bosses]] in ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage 3'', sport a big frizzly and wild hairdo while wearing a skin tight purple outfit. The game was made in the early 1990s however, long after the 80s hairstyle came to an end.
332* Princess Peach from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' has had puffy hair since her modern design was introduced with ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels''.
333* Namco's VideoGame/WonderMomo, who debuted in 1987, sports the kind of ridiculously fluffy hair popular in anime of the time. While this is downplayed by TheNewTens webcomic and anime adaptations, her other appearances--such as in ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom''--keep it as a deliberate part of her look.
334* The "Sleeping Zelda" from ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' has puffy 80s hair despite the medieval fantasy tone of the game (on top of her being Really700YearsOld due to being put in a magical coma).
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337[[folder:Visual Novels]]
338* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' takes place in the summer of 1983. Keichi and especially Rika sport 80s hair. Rika has huge hair for such a small girl.
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341[[folder:Webcomics]]
342* Torg gets some of this during an [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=981122 eighties flashback]] in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.
343* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' does this to the Series/MythBusters in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2064.html this strip.]]
344* In one Q&A [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1292 strip]] of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Amanda and Lisa found themselves sporting outrageously large eighties hairstyles courtesy of magic hair manipulation fairies that may or may not exist.
345* In ''Webcomic/CinemaSnobReviewsFrozen'' (a fan comic where ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'' reviews ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''), Snob assumes Anna's bedhead is this, as he says she plays bass for a hair metal band.
346* In ''Webcomic/SatanNinja198X'', main and background characters have fashion styles drawn from movies across the '80s, and thus has many characters with spectacular 80s hair in all its glory.
347* Dominic from ''Webcomic/{{Unreality}}'' has a distinctly ridiculous Mullet.
348* In ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' Wonderella insults Queen Beetle's former hairdo after a [[http://nonadventures.com/2016/02/13/meet-the-beetles/ flashback sequence.]]
349* ''Webcomic/MalibuBySunset'': Every character has 80's hair. Literally
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352[[folder:Web Original]]
353* '80s Chick that looked like a female version of ''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]'' sported huge wild hair.
354* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
355** The members of [[FakeBand Limozeen]], Strong Bad's favorite hair metal band, all have long, voluminous, wavy blond hair.
356** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE99DifferentTown different town]]", one of the ways Strong Bad says he'd make the town different is that "Marzipan would rock", and it shows Marzipan with her usual blond hair done up in a ridiculously-tall feathered bouffant.
357* During WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'', the Makeover Fairy gave herself, the Chick, and Nella an '80s makeover, complete with '80s hair.
358* Convictor of LetsPlay/SuperPlayify took one look at the first monster silhouette seen in ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'' and decided that it had this hairstyle. She declared it to be a "Heavy Metal Yithian", complete with screen-covering text stating such.
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361[[folder:Western Animation]]
362* ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheRockersOutOfThisWorld'' was [[FollowTheLeader made in the image]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' so, naturally, the characters all have 80s hair. Barbie has huge, curly hair in contrast with her typical straight hair, while Ken has a mullet.
363* Another example from the '90s: Nightwing's mullet from ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]''. Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad...
364* Some of [[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead Beavis and Butt-Head's]] classmates have mullets and fluffed-up hair. While this might've been appropriate when the show premiered (in early 1993), it was ''very'' jarring by 1997 (the show's final year before its 2011 reboot).
365* In ''WesternAnimation/BeverlyHillsTeens'', the characters are so rich, they can afford to take this to extremes.
366* News reporter Terry [[MeaningfulName Bouffant]] from ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone''.
367* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': Gadget Hackwrench sports quite a long and poofy FurryFemaleMane. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Webcomic/OfMiceAndMayhem'' [[FanFiction Fan Comic]].
368* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Parodied. At one point, they go back to the '80s and see people with green, cube-shaped hair and the like.
369%%* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Motor Ed. ''Seriously''.
370* In the ''WesternAnimation/GreenEggsAndHam'' episode “You Only Mom Twice” when Sam and his mother Pam enter a time zone where they get younger at one point Pam is dressed as a punk rocker with a big pink mohawk, Sam asks what mission that was from she replies that it was from a bad hair decade.
371* Another 90s example was the [[{{Retool}} retooled]] second season of ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries'', which was largely modeled after the late '80s/early '90s run of the comics; thus, Tony got the mullet from the comics, though without the curls. Still made him look plenty badass, though.
372* All of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} and the Holograms'' have truly, truly outrageous hair. It's a near-perfect UnintentionalPeriodPiece full of late 1980s fashion.
373* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
374** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' had some characters with manes that resembled 1980s hairstyles. Twilight and Glory from ''Escape From Midnight Castle'' are obvious examples. Oddly the humans -- Megan, Molly, and Danny -- have simple, nonspecific hairstyles.
375** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
376*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie "Call of the Cutie"]] showed a photo of the teacher, Cheerilee, in TheEighties. [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim "Yes, I know, but honestly, that's how everypony was wearing their mane back then."]] The comics later do a flashback to this era. The whole arc is absolutely full of TheEighties, with the increasingly silly hairdos no exception.
377*** The Cutie Mark Crusaders have '80s hairstyles when they perform at the talent show in "The Show Stoppers".
378*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 "Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2"]]: The main characters all gain '''fabulous''' new 'dos after getting their Rainbow Power.
379* In the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Rage Against the TV", Mordecai describes The Hammer as "Blue, with a black mullet".
380* Defied on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Whenever they have flashed back to the 1980s (and the first episode aired in 1989, [[FridgeLogic so if you think about it they shouldn't have to do it in the first place]] baring the sliding timeline), Marge's hair looks the same as it did in the 1990s and later (not that it was very timely to begin with, being an exaggeration of Creator/MattGroening's mother's '60s beehive); and Homer has hair, but it looks perfectly timeless. This is especially interesting when you remember how parodically they portrayed SeventiesHair when showing Homer and Marge's high-school years. Of course, they started doing the '80s jokes in the early '90s, when the '80s had barely ended, so maybe they didn't consider those hairstyles unusual yet and decided to focus on popular culture and politics instead.
381* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Rainbow Quartz, being both a Pearl/Rose {{fusion|Dance}}, as well as an homage to ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'', has huge, long Jem-esque hair, complete with platinum blonde color, feathering, and pink highlights. Such hair, combined with long hair, also seems fairly common among Quartz-type Gems; Amethyst and Jasper have long, wild metal hair, while Rose Quartz has soft, poofy ringlets that would be a bouffant if there wasn't so much of it. Garnet has a square afro, giving her a synth-mod look. Greg had metal hair during his flashback appearances, and his current hairstyle is reminiscent of a mullet, only because he's lost all the hair at the front of his head and the hair at the back is rocker-esque long hair.
382* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Nose Mouth", Raven's idea of "fixing" Starfire is giving her giant blonde hair, which she doesn't take kindly to.
383-->'''Starfire:''' I LOOK LIKE THE RIPE BANANA!
384* ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}''. Oh ''lord'', the [=ThunderCats=]:
385** All the heroes, with the exception of Panthro and Jaga, have truly enormous hair. [[http://thundercats.wikia.com/wiki/Claudis Lion-O's dad]] has even more enormous hair, done in an impressive Elvis-like bouffant, with a beard to match. Well, they're cats. They have manes.
386** Unlike the heroes who can justify it as WildHair, Luna, leader of the late-series villains Luna-taks, had purple and white hair that could only be described as the '80s gone way too far. She made up for four of the six Luna-taks (two are bald, one is balding with long hair, one has a mohawk, and the other chick has perfectly reasonable hair).
387* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' characters tend to be stuck in the past -- witness Brock Samson with his mullet, and Pete White with his Flock of Seagulls 'do.
388* In the [[WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender 2016 reboot of]] ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', Keith's design remains fairly close to the original. This includes the original's '80s mecha pilot mullet, which [[TheRival Lance]] is not averse to taking jabs at.
389-->'''Lance:''' I'd know that mullet anywhere!
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392[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
393* The site Awkward Family Photos has [[http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2009/05/16/awkward-exclusive-bon-family-blowout one particular photo of a family portrait where everyone has extreme 80s hair.]]
394* Old nerd joke: "Astronauts always have puffy hair in orbit... but in the '80s, they still had it when they came back to Earth!"
395* [[Series/BeverlyHills90210 AnnaLynne McCord]] is [[http://www.joblo.com/moviehotties/images/profile-gallery/orig/galleryalm41.jpg keeping this]] [[http://www.joblo.com/moviehotties/images/profile-gallery/orig/galleryalm27.jpg trend alive]] in the present day.
396* It's often seen when some people get a faux hawk and it turns out bad, it winds up looking like a mullet.
397* [[AffectionateParody Affectionately parodied]] by the [[http://www.real-hot-bitches.co.nz Real Hot Bitches]] dance troupe. In 2011, though, they announced they would '[[http://www.mrsblacksmith.com/2011/02/11/an-almighty-celebration-of-the-gtard "cryogenically freeze themselves until the next 80s revival."]]
398* Creator/AlexKingston does her best to tame it down, but her wildly unruly curls are rather her trademark.
399* Shockingly common on Fantasy book covers, along with SeventiesHair.
400** The ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' characters tend to have 80s Hair in spades, especially the women like Tika, Kitiara, or Crysania.
401* Barry Melrose, whose mullet is its own piece of hockey lore.
402* Given hockey player Jaromír Jágr had a glorious mullet during the 90s, there is a group of his fans called [[https://twitter.com/30G30N/status/1372959234577461251 "Travelling Jagrs"]], each dressed in a Jágr jersey (including of the Czech national team and on occasion the All-Star Game) and with a mullet wig.
403* [[http://www.google.com/imgres?q=captain+america+meme&num=10&um=1&hl=en&tbo=d&biw=1185&bih=651&tbm=isch&tbnid=etj8B9KBjNTZiM:&imgrefurl=http://www.stuffistumbledupon.com/2012/09/18/avengers-meme-high-school-yearbook-photos/&docid=DklBzOYixvBuVM&imgurl=http://www.stuffistumbledupon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/avengers-as-high-school-students-yearbook-photos-meme-iron-man-captain-america-thor-hulk-black-widow-hawkeye.jpg&w=500&h=417&ei=0zGjUP7oKMG82wXe0oC4Bg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=900&vpy=313&dur=863&hovh=205&hovw=246&tx=173&ty=159&sig=104727198876952683792&sqi=2&page=1&tbnh=136&tbnw=164&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:18,s:0,i:124 Young Jeremy Renner's mullet]] is something of an inside joke for the ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 Avengers]]'' fandom.
404* A common joke/stereotype in the US is that [[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]] and [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]] are two places where '80s hair never went out of style, especially among women.
405* By the mid-[[TheEighties Eighties]], it had become difficult to watch any German [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Bundesliga soccer game]] without at least a dozen mullets on the field.
406* In Europe, mullets are as much an integral part (and a cliché) of TheEighties as tricked-out but not necessarily tuned-up cars and often even associated with the latter. In Germany, [[GermanHumour home of the Manta jokes]], one of the several names for the mullet translates to "neck spoiler".
407* Till this very day, a lot of middle-aged guys still use it. And general consensus is that they try to look cool but they fail miserably because it doesn't suit them. Nor is a good haircut.
408* The mullet made an unexpected comeback in American sports culture in 2020 during the breakout [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball football]] season of the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, which also served as something of a diversion during peak UsefulNotes/{{COVID|19Pandemic}}. Many Chants players, most notably star QB Grayson [=McCall=], sported mullets right out of the 80s, and the then-unbeaten team ''really'' leaned into it when it arranged a game against also-unbeaten [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} BYU]] on literally ''two days' notice''.[[labelnote:Background]]Coastal's original opponent that week had to pull out due to COVID issues. BYU was on a bye week but was actively looking to add a game to its schedule.[[/labelnote]] Unofficial game merch bore the tagline "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons_vs._Mullets Mormons vs. Mullets]]", playing off the notorious "Catholics vs. Convicts" used to promote the 1988 matchup between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Miami Hurricanes. Coastal won, by the way.
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