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7	->''"Don't you love a 'do that always bounces back?"''
8	-->-- '''Barbie''', ''WebAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse''
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10	A character whose potentially complicated hair is drenched, burnt, cut off or otherwise misshaped merely has to shake their head to return it to the proper shape and volume. In extreme situations, this requires a few seconds of combing.
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12	Happens in live action, but usually done with a cut-away.
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14	Subtrope of RapidHairGrowth. Either the supertrope to or the positive version of StubbornHair. Contrast with ImportantHaircut, ExpositoryHairstyleChange, and CloseCallHaircut. Compare ResetButton and BeautyIsNeverTarnished but just for hair. May involve CompressedHair, which depending on the scenario may or may not be realistic. May enforce HairstyleInertia, where a character's hair remains exactly the same throughout their life. Compare ImprobableHairstyleSequence.
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16	[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] a hypothetical ContinuityReboot of ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'', nor with the hair of characters from ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''.
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19	!!Examples:
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23	* In the official Doujinshi Anthology of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', main character Phoenix Wright (who is known for having had AnimeHair ever since he was ''born'', despite not using hairgel or the likes) is shown with wet hair in two instances, which reveals that he's ''literally'' an "Instant {{Bishounen}}, Just Add Water". To get his hair back to its usual shape, he ''shakes his head twice and apply the hairdryer for approximately two seconds''. A very dumbstruck Edgeworth compared it to "Shape Memory Alloy".
24	* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Tsukishima cuts off the majority of one of Riruka's very long pigtails in a CloseCallHaircut. The next time she is seen the entirety of the ponytail is back and in pristine condition. It's actually a JustifiedTrope: she had been wounded by Tsukishima as well but Orihime healed her, and Orihime's powers work in such a way that she can easily make cut hair grow back to its original length. (Which she had already done to herself after Tsukishima attacked her.)
25	* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', Goku's fight against Tao Pai-Pai had a chunk of one of his hair spikes cut away, which promptly returned in a few panels. In the Cell Arc this trope is seemingly averted: Vegeta says a Saiyan's hair doesn't grow after they're born. The Funimation dub adjusted this "[[HairstyleInertia change shape]]".
26	* In ''Anime/EurekaSeven'', Eureka lost a significant amount of hair in episode 19 and eventually has her hair grown back in an instant by Sakuya in episode 41. She even reverts back to her very original hairstyle by the final episode.
27	* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Juvia (who has shoulder-long hair) and Freed (whose hair reaches his lower back) both cut their hair short -- Juvia when she joins the title guild and Freed after the Fighting Festival (in order to atone). When Freed is seen again one arc later, his hair is suddenly very long again. When Juvia finds out, after the Edolas arc, that [[ParallelUniverse Edo-Gray was in love with Edo-Juvia]], she suddenly grows her hair long again (she apparently thought it was her hairstyle that he was in love with). Possibly justified given that Lucy has a summon spirit named Cancer who [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway specializes in giving haircuts]], and can even grow people's hair back, which is something Lucy had him do for Wendy after the Tartaros arc.
28	* Gintoki in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' gets exploded in one of the later volumes (as if it only happens once), giving him a poofy afro. [[TheDitz Sa-chan]] [[NoFourthWall pleads with the writer]] to give him back his normal hair within a panel. Out of spite, perhaps, his hair stays that way for the next page.
29	* Many a CloseCallHaircut in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' has a HairReboot. Justified in that it's almost always Saiyan hair in question, which has different properties from human hair, supposedly. Either that, or it's RuleOfFunny in action. One particularly memorable (and grievous) example is in Movie 12, when Janemba manages to cut a ''huge'' chunk of Goku's hair off... and it's back within the next couple frames!
30	* Parodied in ''Manga/HoshinEngi''. Taikobo and Supushan are shocked by an electric-based opponent, causing them to develop afro and blonde curls, respectively. They stop in the middle of their fight to shampoo and blow-dry their hair back into its proper shape -- in ancient China.
31	* A late episode of ''Manga/KOn'' has Yui accidentally chop her bangs very short while trying to trim them, and they go back to their usual length in the next episode. [[BrickJoke However, a bonus episode that chronologically took place shortly after this incident]] [[SubvertedTrope shows her with her hair still cut short]].
32	* In ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'', the top of Nagasumi's head actually gets cut off. He's fine right afterward though.
33	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
34	** The eponymous Negi has occasionally has his HairAntennae sliced off in a CloseCallHaircut. It is back in the next panel.
35	** Evangeline's {{immortality}} extends to her hair as well. When Secundum destroys a bit of her hair together with her arm, both arm and hair are restored to normal in no time.
36	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire'': Jessie tries to capture a Seviper. She does badly... until Seviper bites off a piece of her hair. After Jessie gives it a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, her hair returns to normal in a few seconds.
37	* Subverted by Bokuto no Ryu in ''Manga/ShamanKing''. The guy gets a CloseCallHaircut near the beginning of the series and his hair spends the rest of the story adopting more and more bizarre shapes as it slowly re-grows and gets cut again. It does not regain its original shape until very late in the story (after becoming so complicated it had nowhere left to go).
38	* ''Manga/SoulEater'': Black Star routinely gets his ridiculous main hair-spike cut in two, messed up or cut off. It generally stays that way for the length of the scene, but is always back to normal by the next episode at least.
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42	* Rapunzel, in ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', due to her magical nature. She has to cut it constantly and she can't leave Fabletown for long periods of time, unless under a spell that prevents her hair from growing.
43	* Justified with ComicBook/{{Impulse}}. After he shaves his head, his hair grows back faster than normal due to his accelerated metabolism (though it's negated because he continues to shave it for a while)
44	* ''ComicBook/RedHulk'': Happens with the mustache of [[spoiler: General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross]]. It disappears when he [[HulkingOut transforms into]] his [[ComicBook/RedHulk superpowered form]], and instantly grows back when he reverts to his human form.
45	* In ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'', Hay Lin ends up lopping off her usual long twin-tailed hair to impress a boy in one story. However, when she ends up ultimately rejecting him, her hair ends up growing back quickly, which surprises her mother.
46	* This is a side effect of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s healing factor.
47	* While her hairstyle is very simple, the same goes for ComicBook/{{X 23}}, as well. Highlighted in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' when she's completely bald after escaping torture by the Purifiers, then over the next few panels of the following issue it visibly regrows to its normal length.
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51	* ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'' averts this when Rob accidentally uses shampoo mixed with hair removal cream. His hair goes from gone through stubby to normal length again in real time.
52	* Jeremy's blond mop does this in a couple of ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' strips:
53	** One strip has Sara drag Jeremy to a hair salon for an unkempt look that the former finds attractive. After they walk out, Jeremy ruffles his 'do with his hands, instantly reverting his hair back to its previous--[[StatusQuoIsGod and neatly parted]]--look.
54	** Another strip has the two of them walk into school, the blustery wind having blown their hair into wild tangles. It takes Sara a brush, careful work, and 5 or so panels to tame her hair back into order. It only takes Jeremy one panel and some head-shaking, much to her irritation.
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57	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
58	* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' with Emmett waving the brush in front of his bedhead and his hair instantly becoming perfectly neat. Granted, this is one of many, many limited animation gags because they are supposed to be minifigs.
59	* Similarly in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'', whenever Batman takes off his cowl, his helmet-hair spontaneously poofs itself into style. As an extra touch, it goes from the hairpiece used for Bruce Wayne in ''The LEGO Movie'' (slicked back) to a spikier style based on Creator/BenAffleck's appearance in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.
60	* Simba in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' shakes his mane after jumping in a pond and it immediately returns to normal.
61	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Ariel's hair manages to stay pretty much perfectly styled when she goes topside.
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64	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
65	* In ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', Foxxy Cleopatra's hair goes from a fairly flat style from being wet to her full-out afro after she shakes her head.
66	* Played with in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', as in the future, all clothes come with in-built hairdryers.
67	* In the movie ''Film/BringItOn'', Kirsten Dunst's hair goes from wet to dry (and styled) very quickly during the carwash scene.
68	* A deleted scene in ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' has Bruce KickTheDog by setting his rival's head on fire (after a HumiliationConga that did make it into the film). Later, he made amends by regenerating the hair.
69	* ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' has a scene of Goku's hair gel only working a few seconds before it reverted to AnimeHair. Although drawing attention to it was hardly a good idea.
70	* In ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', Claudia's hair becomes curled and doll-like when she is turned into a vampire. Thereafter, whenever she tries to trim it, it grows back the same way.
71	* Parodied in ''Film/TheNakedGun'', Frank Drebbin falls through a ceiling landing in a room full of thugs, dirty and hair messed up. As he stands, he idly puts his hands up to his head, as if to just brush a little of the dirt away. One jump cut later and he is totally clean and not a single hair is out of place.
72	%%* The liquid-metal T-1000 gave itself a Hair Reboot in a scene late in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
73	* Played for laughs in spoof spy movie ''Film/OSS117CairoNestOfSpies'', where title character OSS 117 (a suave superspy played half Connery-era James Bond, half Inspector Clouseau) wakes up with brushy head, then passes his hands in his hair, which is instantly and perfectly styled as a result.
74	* Likewise in the spy parody ''Film/TopSecret'', when the female character gets off a motorbike with an instant cut to her with perfect hair.
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77	[[folder:Literature]]
78	* Literature/HarryPotter got this once as a kid overnight, as a result of a particularly bad haircut and accidental magic.
79	** In general, throughout the series, it's mentioned that his hair sticks up in the back no matter what he does. In the fifth book, Mrs. Weasley tries and fails to flatten his hair with a wet comb, much to her frustration.
80	** Justified in ''Goblet of Fire''. Hermione uses a lot of magical hair care product to make her normally-frizzy hair sleek, straight, and shiny. It wears off by the next day and she doesn't bother with it again, since it's too much trouble.
81	* It becomes a plot point that whenever Claudia in ''Literature/InterviewWithTheVampire'' tries to cut her hair, it grows back to the way it was, curled and doll-like, reminding her of her status as [[NotGrowingUpSucks an eternal child]].
82	* The manga version of ''Literature/MaximumRide'' applies this to the Flock; they all get new hairdos as an attempt to disguise themselves, but by the end of the next volume all but two of them go back to their original 'dos (Fang and Nudge being the exceptions). It's justified by the amount of time that passes in between.
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86	* Lampshaded in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven''. When Myrtle is resurrected by Misty after being burned at the stake, then shows up at the school no worse for wear, Nan asks her how her hair grew back so fast. Myrtle responds, "Darling I've been buying it in bulk from South Korea for years!"
87	* In one of the movie parodies on ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow'', after swimming, Carol Burnett wraps her soaking wet hair in a towel, and seconds later pulls the towel off to reveal completely dry, perfectly styled hair.
88	* First lampshaded and then subverted in ''Series/TheColbertReport''; after Creator/StephenColbert got back from the USO shows in Iraq, he first wore an over-the-top fake wig and since got increasingly blacker stubble.
89	* In one episode of ''Series/{{The Office\|US}}'' Michael tousles Jim's hair, which he manages to immaculately groom offscreen within the space of 2 seconds.
90	* In ''Series/OutOfJimmysHead'' the title character's hair sure stays perfectly neat in the movie despite having a ''[[ArtisticLicenseBiology brain transplant]]''.
91	* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' season 8 two-parter ''"Pete"'', Rimmer and Lister lose their hair while trying to cheat at [[PeelingPotatoes spud duty]]. They get it back a few scenes later when Kryten uses a [[TimeDilation time digitizer]]. Note that this subplot is the '' least'' silly part of this episode.
92	* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
93	** Avoided when J.D. shaves off his hair to show solidarity with a patient, but the next episode quickly skips to a month later when it's regrown, and does show a number of flashback scenes of his time without it.
94	** Appears somewhat in a later series, where Dr. Cox has a mysteriously shaved head in "My Night to Remember", only for his hair to be reset to normal in the next episode, three episodes before he eventually shaves his head onscreen in "My Long Goodbye".
95	* In ''Series/YoungSheldon'' episode "Blonde Ambition and the Concept of Zero", Missy tries to dye her hair blond, but it comes out a multicolored mess. Her hair is back to its normal color in the subsequent episode "A Resident Advisor and the Word 'Sketchy'".
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99	* ''VideoGame/AlwaysSometimesMonsters'': Belinda [[StoryBranching may opt]] to try a new hairstyle. If she doesn't like it, she flips out and tries to force the hairdresser to fix it for a {{Justified\|Trope}} hair reboot.
100	* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', during the first fight with Vergil, it's raining and Vergil's normally spiked-back hairdo looks more like Dante's. After you "[[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose win]]", he makes a motion with his hand to slick back his hair with his hand and his hair goes back to normal.
101	* In supplementary materials for ''VideoGame/DontStarve'', Wilson's hair always poofs back to its standard recognisable shape in seconds no matter what happens to it. The only exception is in the trailer for the beginning of the Reutrn of Them arc, where his hair stays soggy until the next shot.
102	* In ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy'', Jak's [[Anime/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan]]-esque antigravity hair flops down when he enters water (even if his head doesn't actually go below the surface) and immediately springs back up as soon as he leaves it.
103	* A cutscene in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' shows Sora in the water at the beach, and his hair gets soaked. All he has to do is to shake his head once or twice and his hair not only completely dries out, but also turns to its original shape.
104	* A strange variant in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': Trimming and restyling Furfrou's fur will cause it to look as intended for exactly 5 days, after which it instantly rearranges itself back to how it was when you first obtained Furfrou. You can also revert Furfrou's fur instantly by putting it in storage.
105	* Athena's wish in her ending from ''VideoGame/SNKGalsFighters'', [[spoiler:so that she can pass an audition--only to be told to cut it back down]]. The version of her used in the game is based upon ''The King of Fighters '99'', in which her hair was at its shortest at the time, neck-length (''2001'' gives her a pixie cut).
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109	* In a ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'' scene, Saber comes out of the bath and quickly puts up her hair in its usual style (a bun with a crown braid) with no tools or help from others.
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113	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'':
114	** In "Player Piano", Rarity's hair is a mess after having pushed the wheel-less piano for a while. When she "vamps up" to call for the Diamond Dog Boys' help, though, it gets back to perfect just by smoothing it with her hand.
115	** In "A Case for the Bass", the Flim-Flam Brothers' hair (and mustache) are blown straight by Applejack's guitar solo, but they get it back to normal just by shaking heads.
116	* ''WebVideo/AWalkInThePark'' has Amy Squirrel emerge from the shower and inspect herself in a mirror. Disliking her unruly hair, she shakes her head vigorously back and forth, until ta-da! it settles into a pristine EightiesHair style. "Bet you wish your hair could do that," she taunts the FourthWall.
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119	[[folder:Webcomics]]
120	* Lampshaded in ''Webcomic/AntiheroForHire''. Shadehawk actually chooses his hairspray on the requirement that if he's suddenly drenched, it'll dry off instantly. Commercially-available AppliedPhlebotinum at its finest.
121	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
122	** Subverted when Nanase's hair turns straight and black after a [[BroughtDownToNormal magic burn-out]]. She dyed it red again a few times, but it continued to grow (at a magically-accelerated rate no less), leaving her with mostly black hair with red tips. After regaining her magic, she continued dyeing it black for a while to keep the two-toned look. She eventually went back to red hair, although by that point she'd spent an entire real-life decade with various styles of black hair.
123	** Played straight in-universe when Tedd builds a {{Magitek}} watch to stop Nanase's rapid hair growth, which ends up backfiring and causing her to grow a ridiculous amount of hair. Sarah shaves Nanase's head before the weight breaks her neck, leaving her with a buzz cut. Just as she's making peace with it, the shaved hair disappears in a flash and conveniently gives Nanase her normal haircut back.
124	** Zig-zagged with Tedd, who got a haircut then turned his hair pink using magic. Shenanigans caused his hair to return to its natural purple colour shortly after and he's never dyed it again since, but he's kept his hair consistently short from that point on.
125	* Mocked in the webcomic ''Webcomic/FriendlyHostility''. Fox has to shave his head and face after a lice outbreak at his job. His hair stays gone and takes a long while to grow back, but he realizes that his goatee grows back just the way it was within seconds of being removed. He spends a strip doing nothing but shaving his goatee off repeatedly, watching it grow back, and giggling like an electrocuted heron.
126	%%* The current page picture is one of the few times where MediumAwareness makes an appearance in ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo''.
127	* Justified in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', when [[spoiler:Haley]] uses a magical hair growth treatment.
128	* ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'' has a RunningGag of every so often removing all of Ozy's (or, on rare occasion, Millie's) fur. After the shaving story arc, the following strips usually has a fully fluffy fox.
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132	* In an Amiga cartoon by Eric Schwartz, he has Amy the Squirrel come out of the shower and, after inspection in a mirror, simply whips her full-bodied hair around to dry it and style it perfectly in less than 3 seconds. She then [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] to {{lampshade\|Hanging}} it saying to the viewer, "Bet you wish your hair could do that!"
133	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''
134	** In "The Burden", Principal Brown waxes himself to impress Miss Simian, but the hair grows back in only a few seconds after he rips the old hair out.
135	** In "The Lie", Mr. Small tapes his face into a smile ([[ItMakesSenseInContext don't ask]]), and when he rips it off, his white fluff comes with it. When he appears again at the end of the episode, the fluff has completely grown back.
136	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' sometimes used this, but also plays around with it a little. In one episode, the beavers [[http://i40.tinypic.com/104rxub.png get shaved like poodles]], and before heading out to get their revenge, Norbert dashes into the closet, comes out with his fur completely restored, and tosses Daggett a replacement fur coat for him, too. In another, Norbert gets repeatedly electrocuted, and every time he has less and less fur as a result, which stays like that throughout the episode.
137	* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'':
138	** Happens to [[BumblingDad Jack Fenton]]: he has part of his hair ripped out by one of his ghost-hunting inventions in the first episode while his children are at school, but it is back to normal in the next scene he appears, which is set during that same day in the early evening.
139	** Happens a few times to Danny due to how often he gets zapped. An offhand sweep of one hand is usually enough to get it back to its standard [[ShonenHair improbable spikes]]. He {{lampshade\|Hanging}}s this once, when his human form gets helmet hair. After he transforms, his hair spikes back to normal.
140	--->'''Danny:''' Well, at least the hair's better.
141	* When ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' gives himself an exaggerated corkscrew pompadour for a big date with [[WhiteMagicianGirl Morganna McCawber]], Morganna offers to "fix his part", then sweetly uses her magic to intentionally put his feathers right back to normal (after briefly turning him into a yak by accident).
142	* Ruffnut cuts her hair in the ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'' episode "Free Scauldy" to use it to tie up a splint to help save the title character. By the next episode, it's back to its original length.
143	* Justified on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': After Timmy rips his hair out in frustration, his fairies poof it back on.
144	* This trope is parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when Peter's hair is shaved down to a mohawk. He says, "Good thing my hair is made out of Play-Doh." and squeezes out more hair like one of those Play-Doh crazy-hair toys, and styles it back to normal.
145	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', there's a robot you can call to make new hair when you lose yours.
146	* In the short film ''WesternAnimation/AGentlemensDuel'', after Weatherby (the English suitor) musses his mustache with a GloveSlap, Dubois (the French suitor) somehow wills it back into place.
147	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In the episode "Dipper Vs. Manliness," Mabel tries to make Stan look nice for a date, which involves her shaving Stan’s ugly CarpetOfVirility. However, the minute she shaves it, the hair ''instantly'' grows back, as Mabel rapidly shaves the hair but to no avail.
148	* In ''WesternAnimation/HaileysOnIt'', Hailey attempts to give Scott a haircut and severely botches it, including leaving him bald in spots. It takes Scott just a few seconds to comb his hair back into its usual style, much to Hailey's confusion.
149	* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Jimmy gets his hair cut off thanks to [[AmusementParkOfDoom a deadly rollercoaster]] Lucius had strapped him into. The next scene it was back.
150	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
151	** Avoided when Luanne's hair is burned off in a propane explosion: it gradually grows back over the next several episodes.
152	** When Hank's cousin [[Music/ZZTop Dusty Hill]] gets his beard trapped in the safety belt of Cotton's Cadillac being used in a demolition derby, Hank cuts it off to free him. It is fully grown by the next scene.
153	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery'' had Diana end up totally bald due to a bad dye job. By the next episode, her hair is back.
154	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'', during "The Glass Princess" story, a few of the ponies are captured and their manes are cut off. The hair grows back instantly, making the {{mooks}} who cut it off goggle in amazement. ([[RealLifeWritesThePlot This was done because the writers were aware that the animators couldn't be relied on to draw the ponies with their manes cut for the rest of the serial.]])
155	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
156	** Occurs after Rarity [[ImportantHaircut chops off most of her tail]]. In this case, instead of growing back instantly, it only reverts to its normal length after invoking {{The Power of\|Friendship}} [[AWizardDidIt Magic]].
157	** Similarly, Princess Cadance's ragged, unkempt mane becomes smooth and flowing once she and her fiancé invoke their magic.
158	* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'': In "Pups Save An Underground Chicken", Ryder gets soaked by a water cannon and his gelled hair flops down. He dries it for about two seconds, and it spikes back up (either his hair is naturally poofy or that is some strong hair gel).
159	* ''WesternAnimation/RosiesRules'': In "Chef Rosie," Rosie accidentally spills water on Iggy's head. He dries it, causing it to get poofy, and as soon as he puts his chef hat back on, it returns to its normal style.
160	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': The episode "Chuckie's First Haircut" has Chuckie getting his first haircut and he has much shorter, neater hair afterwards. His hair is back to its original length and messiness in the next episodes.
161	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer shaves his PermaStubble, only to have it rapidly grow back as soon as he turns away from the mirror.
162	* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' Obi-Wan Kenobi's hair and beard were shaved off in order for him to disguise himself as criminal Rako Hardeen for an important undercover mission. His hair and beard have fully grown back in the episode following the story arc.
163	* The pilot of ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' centers around this trope, not only with Rapunzel's hair returning to its original length and color, but with the added effect of it becoming completely indestructible. The episode "Beginnings" reveals why this happened: When Rapunzel touched the black rocks, part of the Moonstone's powers which infested them were transferred to her hair so she can be protected.
164	* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', where Heather's hair is shaved at the end of the first season and she remains bald throughout the entire second season. This is unrealistic for the opposite reason: after several weeks pass, she really should have at least some hair again. Then again, she mentioned that her hair ''had'' been growing in, just "patchy and uneven". She probably re-shaved her head until the TDA special, where it's finally even.
165	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollz}}'', troll hair in general seems to have this quality, rebooting no matter how badly it's soaked or burned.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012''[='=]s version of Doctor Octopus lost his hair during the Season 1 finale, yet come the Season 2 premiere, he once again has the long locks he sported. [[spoiler: In Season 4, he sported a version of his ''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'' look, only to be purified after the Carnage symbiote bonded to him and was removed, restoring his earlier look, complete with long hair.]]
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