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10Some characters cannot be bothered to get their hair into a neat style, while others actually like their hair that way. All of them have Messy Hair. This is often used to set the character apart as unusual; it may indicate that they're a nonconformist, that they don't care about their appearance, or that they don't have the means to make themself look presentable, or that they are cool.
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12Frizzy, tangled hair is also commonly seen on characters who've just woken up (except if WakeupMakeup is in effect), which is TruthInTelevision for most people except those with particularly short haircuts. It often goes away by the next scene change with the assumption that they've run a brush through it offscreen but might stick around longer if the character sporting Messy Hair is NotAMorningPerson (for such people, [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee seems to be the best conditioner]]).
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14Long, tangled hair can be seen very frequently on TheOphelia, as part of that archetype's image of eerie, disheveled beauty; even sane, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} or at least saner]], people might have it, to go with their general theme of unusual looks. Untidy hair, particularly ''dark'' hair, is also one aspect of LooksLikeCesare. Fighters also tend to have it at shoulder length as BarbarianLonghair.
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16Brilliant but [[BunnyEarsLawyer eccentric]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor absent-minded]], or [[MadScientist downright deranged]] scientists often have EinsteinHair, which is a SubTrope, as is the WildHair found on animalistic or close-to-nature characters and {{Wild Child}}ren. ShonenHair sits at the intersection of this trope and AnimeHair and is generally found on spirited young men. Messy Hair is also very common on conductors and musicians.
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18Compare QuirkyCurls, UnkemptBeauty, and CurlyHairIsUgly.
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20Often overlaps with StubbornHair, as many characters with this look are just not able to create a tidy style, no matter how hard they try. Also subtrope of BadHairDay and {{Bedheaditis}}, of which messy hair can be a symptom, but [[StatusQuoIsGod usually does not last longer than 1 episode]].
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28* ''Manga/{{Bakuon}}'': Onsa Amano, more prominently in the manga. Rin commonly names her "moja" ("frizzy").
29* Sally from ''Manga/BlackClover'' is a sorceress with a MadScientist vibe, which may be one reason for her scruffy, unkempt hair.
30* Ryousuke's mother in ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'' began to [[SanitySlippage suffer from mental health problems]] after her daughter's death. She has an overall disheveled appearance. [[spoiler:When Ryousuke is reunited with her after he's sent to live with his dad while his mom receives treatment in a psychiatric hospital, it's shown her hair has been cut into a pixie cut]].
31* In ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'' Hideki's messy hair is commented on by several characters It's even stated that he looks weird when he tried to comb it for a date.
32* In ''Manga/DearBrother'', "Lady Medusa" Katsuragi gets the "Medusa" nickname due to having very messy hair, which seems to be pretty uncommon in Japan.
33* L's messy hair is another artifact of his [[BunnyEarsLawyer genius eccentricity]] in ''Manga/DeathNote''.
34* Sousuke is noted regularly in ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' to have rather disheveled, haphazardly cut hair. The reason for this is simple. He's a ShellShockedVeteran who reacts very violently when someone brings a blade too close to his head, so he cuts it himself -- with a combat knife.
35* Rakka from ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'' has messy hair due to the static electricity caused by her halo. Even after the static goes away, her hair is in a permanent state of messiness. It also doubles as StubbornHair.
36* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
37** Child!England had notoriously messy hair, and as an adult, it doesn't really get any better.
38** Greece's messy hair is actually the subject of one strip where he explains to Japan that he doesn't like the rain because it makes his hair curly and frizzy, and Japan gets confused because Greece's hair doesn't look any different from its regular, already-messy state.
39** Iceland's hair is described as looking "tousled" or "bedheaded" in a character chart by Himaruya.
40* Shirogane's fringe in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' isn't a deliberate choice on his part, it's bed head that he never has the chance to straighten out due to having to rush to school in the morning. Notably, flashbacks to before he had an increased workload as StudentCouncilPresident (and the one chapter where he got a good night's sleep), his hair is much neater.
41* The protagonist of ''Manga/{{Kasane}}'' has messy long hair in combination with her [[NonStandardCharacterDesign overly large eyes and sharp teeth]]. She's been bullied all her life for her looks and has insecurity issues.
42* Shuri's mother in ''Manga/KomorisanCantDecline''. Combined with the fact that [[EyesAlwaysShut she never opens her eyes]], it gives her a constantly exhausted look.
43* In ''Manga/KOn'', Jun has naturally messy hair that she struggles with every morning to get into place, and, according to her, it "explodes" on her if she removes her barrettes. Because she does care enough to go through it every morning, we don't often see it being messy... unless we see her first thing in the morning, such as in the anime episode where she spends the night at the Hirasawa home while Yui is with her class on a trip, or in ''Manga/KOnHighSchool'' on her own class trip. It's pretty sensitive to humidity, which she claims she can use to predict the weather, and indeed, offers such a prediction upon waking up.
44* ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'':
45** Shota Aizawa has long, rather unkempt looking black hair because he just doesn’t want to take time to style it. It actually is a bit of an impairment in a way because he wears it that way even though cutting it short would make it harder for opponents to tell when his Erasure ability activates. Shigaraki even points this out.
46** [[spoiler:Tomo Hagakure]] has long, messy hair as well once we finally [[spoiler:see her. Justified as there would be no point in trying to style it, given she's invisible 99.9% of the time.]]
47* Tomoko from ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' is an {{otaku}} with NoSocialSkills. Her long hair isn't usually combed too well.
48* Leo from ''Manga/PandoraHearts''. [[spoiler:Until his ImportantHaircut, that is. Though, some of it still sticks out all over the place.]]
49* Gold from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has a large, spiky fringe that combines this trope with {{Shonen Hair}}. Lampshaded by his mother at the beginning of his arc, when she's says that his hair is "exploding" again.
50* In ''Manga/PingPong'', Peco, after he [[spoiler: quits the Katase High team]].
51* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma Saotome has an enchanted hair ribbon because without it, his hair gets really out of control.
52* Nagisa's {{hikikomori}} brother in ''Manga/SatouKashiNoDanganWaUchinukenai'' keeps his hair in a messy ponytail. [[spoiler:He gets a haircut when he decides to join the Self Defense Force]].
53* Mika in ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'' has blonde hair that sticks up on top of his head. Not that this makes him any less {{Bishonen}}.
54* When oft-mentioned horror novelist Sen Takatsuki finally shows up in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', she turns out to be an UnkemptBeauty with major bedhead. Even when she does make an effort, it just results in a particularly messy bun piled on top of her head. It definitely helps establish her as a quirky, eccentric, and dorky character that exasperates her editor to no end. [[spoiler: [[BigBad At]] [[HalfHumanHybrid first]] [[OminousOwl anyway...]]]] Averted in the ''sequel'', [[spoiler: in which she cuts her hair into a neat short bob a few minutes before she confessed that she's a ghoul in public.]]
55* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': [[OneOfTheBoys Satomi's]] hair is always [[BoyishShortHair short and mussy]] because she barely earns enough to support herself and her kid brother. So hair care is a luxury she can't afford, and her fans [[UnkemptBeauty wouldn't have it any other way.]]
56* According to flashbacks in ''Manga/WanderingSon'' it's shown that as a teenager Yuki's hair had grown long when she refused to go to school anymore, after being forced into wearing the girl's school uniform by bullies in middle school. When we see a picture from her Coming of Age ceremony her hair has been cut but when she began [[UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} living as a woman]] she grew it out again.
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60* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': Multiple members of the Endless. Death and Dream have straight hair that sticks out in all directions, Despair's hair is snarled and ratty, and Delirium's is wavy and changes between various flavors of unkempt.
61* A FunnyBackgroundEvent in one of ComicBook/{{X 23}}'s early appearances in the ''ComicBook/XMen'' books: While Psylocke is casually and expertly braiding her hair preparing for a coming fight, Laura can be seen behind her struggling to emulate her. Once the fighting actually starts it's revealed she failed miserably and settled for a messy ponytail instead. Her hair in general tends to end up messy and out of place since she normally wears it long and loose (apparently she never quite gets the hang of braiding it).
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65* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': In this ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction, Sergeant Travis develops this kind of hair during his MadnessMakeover as his SanitySlippage worsens. It's later mentioned that Vivienne's [[DisappearedDad late biological father]] had messy hair.
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67* In ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' fanfic ''Bringing Me To Life'' two characters have this. Neo in the early parts with his almost always messy hair is a combined normal/just doesn't care example, while Max in the later parts has this as his normal hairstyle.
68* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':
69** Harry, as per canon. His bedhead is spectacular, his post-shower hair even more so, to the point where Carol bursts out laughing.
70** Carol herself has spectacular bedhead since she's NotAMorningPerson.
71** Hermione, also as per canon, though it gets a little more manageable with time. [[spoiler:This likely has something to do with the fact that she's the daughter of the more manageably curly/wavy haired Wanda Maximoff.]]
72* ''Fanfic/{{Contraptionology}}'': Doctor Stranger von Danger is described as having "a wild dishwater mane" and, in an equine variant of this, unshorn fetlock hair.
73* Whenever ''Anime/KillLaKill'' fan-artist Herokick draws Ryuko, they tend to draw her with messy hair, as illustrated [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150216024454/http://herokick.tumblr.com/tagged/ryuko-matoi here]] and [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/866d06a6bb9e367f9be2a8800377a86d/tumblr_nqpsk7ooB51smyvt8o2_1280.png here]]. It serves as a contrast between her and Satsuki, as the latter's hair is always neat, suiting her rather prim, proper, and practical personality, while Ryuko's hair alludes to her wild personality.
74* In ''Fanfic/PokemonStrangledRed'', Steven's hair becomes messy after his Charizard, Miki, dies.
75* Scorpius Malfoy in ''Fanfic/{{Returning}}'' gets this after only a few days at Hogwarts where his parents aren't around to remind him to brush his hair. It's one of the few visual differences between him and Draco at his age.
76* One of the main character's most iconic traits in ''Fanfic/{{FREAKINGENSOKYO}}''. Described as "curly-ass, dishwater-blonde Danny-Sexbang-esque hair, except with more grease".
77* In ''Webcomic/AlternateHistory'', Yue has messy, disheveled hair to go with the fact she's a Fire Nation prisoner.
78* Creator/VampireMeerkat depicts Edd from ''Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy'' with tangled hair that he keeps in his hat. It doubles as StubbornHair that won't keep tidy.
79* Downplayed in ''Fanfic/CadetScrap''. Sophie doesn't tie her hair back for her sparring match, allowing it to get a bit mussed up by the end.
80** Played straight in the story's prequel, ''Fanfic/WellMatched''. Sophie's hair is sweaty and disheveled when she removes her boxing headgear after the main fight.
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84* Hiro Hamada from ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6''. WordOfGod says this is because he thinks "cool hair should never look combed".
85* [[TomboyPrincess Merida]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}''. Her hair is not a reflection of her sanity or her quirkiness, but rather a consequence of her preferring more physical activities over traditional feminine traits such as taking care of her appearance. [[WordOfGod The creator]] of the character said that Merida was designed to give girls a more attainable role model and because of that, she was given messy hair to show that she has no time and/or interest in looking good. Considering that extremely curly hair is difficult to maintain, specially with medieval elements (Anti-Frizz hair products weren't invented) her hair is very realistic and {{justified|Trope}}.
86* Flint Lockwood of ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' has wild hair that he has to struggle to get to lie down flat.
87* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'': Wybie and his Other World doppelganger both have Messy Hair.
88* ''[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Frozen]]'', [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/497929302532644854/?nic_v1=1a%2BYJTXa1INP9yeZMKaPTrsDVxz1dTtsFCgak2i1OTp%2FS5XLKVyBWh%2BnSZWSe409B4 Princess Anna]] -- the "picture of sophisticated grace" after just waking up.
89* Wanderer from ''Animation/LeafieAHenIntoTheWild'' has long, messy feathers on his head that emphasise his mysteriousness.
90* Young Ellie at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', to represent her adventurous nature.
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94* [[LooksLikeCesare Cesare]] from ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'' is one of the [[UrExample earliest portrayals of this trope]] on film.
95* The killer in ''Film/TheFinalTerror'' has such long and messy hair that it works as effective camouflage.
96* ''Film/HarryPotter'': Bellatrix Lestrange's, Hermione's in the first two and seventh films. Newt the protagonist of the {{Prequel}} ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series also has messy copper-colored hair.
97* The appropriately named Eddie Hairstyle in ''Film/TheKnowledge'', who has very messy hair, which he is seen brushing. Janet mutters that she wishes he would do something about his bloody hair.
98* Aragorn's hair in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' tends to hang over his face in strings. Apparently, combs are not regular Ranger equipment.
99** [[FridgeBrilliance It is entirely possible that he keeps his hair like that to make his Númenórean features less noticable]].
100* Max, the [[MadMathematician reclusive math genius]] in the movie ''Film/{{Pi}}''. His neighbor tries to adjust it, but he brusques her off.
101* In ''Film/RiotOnSunsetStrip'', Andy messes up her own hair during her acid trip.
102* Mort Rainey's hair in ''Film/SecretWindow'' was described in one review as looking as though it was combed with an eggbeater.
103* ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'': Spock is introduced on Vulcan with longer, more unkempt hair while undergoing Kolinhar, the Vulcan ritual to purge remaining emotions. After he forgoes the ritual, returning to the ''Enterprise'', his hair has been trimmed to a more manageable style.
104* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': The only time Loki's hair is less than perfect is when he's [[spoiler:mourning for his mother]].
105* In ''Film/WarCraft2016'', Garona has a flurry of curls much like the page image, but bigger and likely impossible to comb.
106* Victor from ''Film/TheWildChild'' has a huge mop of tangled hair, as shown on the poster, until Madame Guérin gives him a haircut.
107* ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': 1973 Charles Xavier doesn't bother with his grooming because he's too depressed to care.
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111* In ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'', "[Passepartout's] brown hair was somewhat tumbled; for while the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva's tresses, Passepartout was familiar with but one of dressing his own: three strokes of a large-tooth comb completed his toilet."
112* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' picture book ''D.W.'s Guide to Perfect Manners'' depicts D.W. with messy bed hair in the morning before heading off to preschool.
113* Tally from ''Literature/CanYouSeeMe'' hates the sensation of hairbrush bristles so much that she almost never brushes her hair. Nell complains that her hair looks like a bird's nest.
114* Susan Sto Helit, granddaughter of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'s'' Death, apparently has supernaturally unmanageable hair as part of her general inherited oddness. On the rare occasions she manages to get it to stay still long enough to style it, she can actually feel it messing itself up again almost immediately. In later books, however, her hair manages ''itself''.
115** In Paul Kidby's artwork, she has a gigantic Bride-of-Frankenstein-toned ''afro'', based on the book's description of it as a dandelion clock.
116* Similarly, when we first meet Lessa in ''[[Literature/DragonridersOfPern Dragonflight]]'', she's grimy, with matted hair, since she lives disguised as a "drudge", or household servant/slave. Even she's surprised by how long her hair is once she gets it washed and brushed out.
117* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the titular wizard Harry Dresden has hair that remains perpetually unable to be properly shaped. The fact that he doesn't have any mirrors save a small shaving mirror (because lots of ''things'' can use mirrors as gateways) doesn't help.
118** Then there's eccentric medical examiner Waldo Butters whose hair looks perpetually electrocuted.
119* In ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'', Cala wears his hair in a messy braid. He just doesn't [[AbsentMindedProfessor care]].
120* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
121** Harry has hair that won't lie flat no matter what he does. His aunt at one point cut it embarrassingly short but it had grown back by the morning.
122** Hermione, meanwhile, has frizzy, bushy hair which she finds too much trouble to tame except on special occasions. (The films have given up the look around the third installment, alternating for Creator/EmmaWatson's naturally wavy hair instead. By the fourth film she also became rather blonde).
123** Harry's dad, who had hair just like his, used to mess it up on purpose because he liked looking as though he'd just been flying.
124** Luna, resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, has "scraggly" hair. It's probably naturally curly like Hermione's but is most likely a lot thinner, so it isn't so much bushy as scraggly.
125* According to the ''Literature/{{Heimskringla}}'', [[FounderOfTheKingdom Harald Fairhair]] swore not to cut his hair until he'd been made king of Norway, and as such had to go around being known as the slightly less impressive "Tangle-Hair" for the first part of his adult life.
126* ''Literature/HowToFlyWithBrokenWings'': Fox never combs his hair. Willem thinks it's because he's a former rock star.
127* Mike Donovan from ''Literature/IRobot'' is always described as having perpetually messy hair that rejects all attempts to tame it. It goes with his FieryRedhead personality.
128* Literature/JunieBJones. The illustrator's initial sketches for the character had her with neat hair until she realized it didn't suit the character.
129* ''Literature/JudyMoody'' Judy Moody is known for having messy hair with a curl on top.
130* In ''Literature/MeWhoDoveIntoTheHeartOfTheWorld'', the WildChild Karen's hair is so matted that Gorda has to cut off most of it.
131* Miyamoto Musashi (aka Shimmen Takezo) in "Literature/{{Musashi}}" is described as having hair like "a bird's nest". The fact that he never washed it because he didn't want to be vulnerable to attack while bathing probably had a lot to do with it.
132* Door of ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'' had tangled hair at first, as part of her general grimy and ragged appearance, but fixed that when she had a chance to bathe properly.
133* In ''Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'', Georgia describes her curly hair as "comes in two settings: long enough to tangle, and short enough to look like I haven’t brushed it in years. I prefer the short version." In her world, hair too short for an attacking zombie to grab is practical. She also really doesn't much care about her appearance, except for special occasions and her insistence on dying her hair back to her natural dark brown. She dislikes the blonde streaks created by the bleach used in the standard DecontaminationShower she has to go through regularly.
134* A style common among the inhabitants of the titular space station in the novel ''Literature/{{Paradyzja}}'' by Creator/JanuszZajdel, because combs with too fine teeth are ''illegal'' there. The protagonist, who likes his hair neat, thinks the local government is really overdoing the paranoia when they take his comb at the customs. [[spoiler: The local government knows exactly what to fear - it's mostly concerned with opressing the populace. Combs are banned, because they could be used to get rid of [[BigBrotherIsWatching miniature surveillance drones]] that anchor in people's hair.]]
135* Shock-headed Peter from ''Literature/{{Struwwelpeter}}'', who never once has combed his hair.
136* Sunshine from ''Literature/SurvivorDogs'' has messy, matted fur for no fault of her own. Maltese's are high-maintenance and are known for their silky, white pelts. As a stray dog running around in the forest, it's impossible for Sunshine to stay clean.
137* ''Literature/SwordOfTheRightfulKing'': The narrator can barely mention Morgause without also describing the "elf-knots" in her long black hair.
138* Eatbugs is an old TalkativeLoon cat from ''Literature/TailchasersSong'' with perpetually messy and [[ThePigPen dirty]] fur.
139* Kinkfur from ''Literature/WarriorCats'' is named because of his permanently kinky fur. It's possible that he has some curly-furred or rex-furred cat breeds in his blood.
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143* Hatter in Creator/{{Syfy}}'s ''Series/{{Alice|2009}}'' miniseries.
144* Kitty Sanchez from ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', when LettingHerHairDown.
145* In the episode "Soul Mates" from ''Series/BabylonFive'', Delenn comes down with this...[[JustifiedTrope because until earlier that year, she'd never had any hair to deal with, and doesn't know how to care for her hair]]. Ivanova ends up having to help out.
146* Bernard Black in ''Series/BlackBooks''.
147** ...also, every other character played by Dylan Moran, including his stage persona. As he himself says: "It's its own bioculture, I just leave it alone... we sleep in separate rooms."
148* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
149** The Second Doctor had an unkempt mop-top haircut as well as an [[{{Permastubble}} abiding five o'clock shadow]], both of which sets him off against the clean-cut First Doctor. He has his hair tidied in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E7TheMacraTerror "The Macra Terror"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld "The Enemy of the World"]], and apparently hates both the look and sensation of having it combed both times.
150** The Fourth Doctor has a mop of longish, aggressively curly hair. Messing it up from the Third Doctor's hairstyle with his hand is actually the very first thing he does after regenerating and it's usually tangled, though precisely how messy it is seems to have a lot of variation depending on the story (ranging from relatively smooth and tidy in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons "Terror of the Zygons"]] to a complete frizz in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E5ThePowerOfKroll "The Power of Kroll"]]). Creator/TomBaker refused to let the makeup team touch it after the start of recording because he felt it would be out of character for the Doctor to comb his hair while he was saving the universe -- see Episode 4 of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]], where he starts out with a combed bouffant which you can watch slowly coil up into a springy mess. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin "The Deadly Assassin"]], the Doctor claims his hair curls whenever he's thought up a good idea (or when it's going to rain).
151** The Eighth Doctor has messy, curly hair too, but longer and looser than the Fourth Doctor's. Both he and the Fourth are the resident [[CloudCuckooLander loopy romantics]] of the Doctors.
152** The Tenth Doctor has pretty unkempt hair, though the kind that's clearly deliberately messy. Like with the Fourth Doctor, the mess level depends a lot on the story.
153** The Eleventh Doctor had wild hair in his first season, but it was gelled to immobility from [[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol "A Christmas Carol"]] onwards because it was causing the hair continuity people a headache.
154** The Twelfth Doctor originally had short silver curls in Series 8, but it has grown out into a curly silvery mess by Series 10.
155* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', River Tam's hair is long, wild, and unkempt, partially because she's insane and thus doesn't seem to care a whole lot for it. Of course, she's the most "in-tune" of all the characters, being a psychic. In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', her hair is a bit more controlled, hinting at her growing sense of self-control.
156** In ''The River Tam Sessions'', the first session shows River's hair as being very neat and well-groomed. As she is experimented on and begins to lose her grip on sanity, her hair (and the rest of her appearance) becomes progressively messier.
157* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
158** Dr Harrison Wells starts the series with reasonably tidy hair, but it gets longer and more unkempt as time goes on. By the time [[spoiler: his true identity as the Reverse Flash is revealed]], 'distinctly ruffled' has become his hair's default state.
159** [[spoiler: Harry Wells of Earth-2]] has very messy hair that sticks up and out in all directions, which helps to indicate that he is focussing completely on his mission to [[spoiler: defeat Zoom]] to the exclusion of everything else.
160* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' features [[TheTwink Blaine Anderson]], whose naturally frizzy, curly hair isn't revealed until hair gel is banned by [[TheDitz ditzy]] [[StudentCouncilPresident Brittany]]. His arc in the episode was meant to show how even the character always presented as the most proud and comfortable in his own skin still has body image issues. The frizzy hairstyle then disappeared for two seasons, when Blaine attempted to rock the look as an ExpositoryHairstyleChange. Even his [[TheDitz best friend]] didn't recognize him.
161* ''Series/GossipGirl'': Fans speculate if Serena van der Woodsen even owns a hairbrush.
162** Dan's season five hair is considered by some to be its own character.
163* Parodied in the ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' episode "The Platinum Rule" when Ted spends the ENTIRE episode trying to get his hair messy in the exact right way to go impress a girl. At one point when he's about to leave he gets stalled when one of his friends messes up his messed up hair, and Ted returns to the mirror trying to re-perfect it.
164** Which is pretty ironic considering that Ted's hair is always a large spiky mess.
165* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Louis de Pointe du Lac is normally meticulous with his appearance, but when he's wallowing in the throes of depression in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]", his hair is disheveled.
166* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': David Haller's hair is usually messy or spiked up, indicating his mental health issues. It's slightly evocative of the original character's towering hairstyle.
167* Rodrigo in ''Series/MozartInTheJungle'' (and his real-life inspiration, Gustavo Dudamel).
168* ''Series/OddSquad'':
169** When she doesn't have the required amount of juice boxes in a day, [[TheAlcoholic Oprah's]] usual PrimAndProperBun becomes undone and her hair gets progressively messier the more she suffers from withdrawal.
170** In "Recipe for Disaster", Olive and Otto are shown in completely disheveled states, with knotted unkempt hair that has sticks and leaves in it as a result of them surviving a vortex of their own (unintentional) doing. They manage to fix it by the time they help Rainbow Robyn with her gardening as an apology for pinning the blame on her, but in helping her, they end up [[HereWeGoAgain creating another vortex.]]
171** During the climactic battle with a sick Olive in "The Curious Case of Pirateitis", she cuts a clothesline in order to use it as a rope to descend to the bullpen, which causes a large sheet to fall on Oscar and Odie. Otto also descends to the bullpen and helps Oscar up (as he is the one with the Un-Pirate-inator gadget) while Odie continues to struggle under the sheet, and by the time he manages to get it off after Olive is cured of her pirateitis, he is left with a messy head of hair -- his first original hairdo, since [[PlagiarismInFiction Oscar copied every hairstyle he ever had.]] He falls in love with it and decides to keep it, while Oscar begins to grow envious and has to hold himself back from copying yet another hairstyle of his fellow Scientist.
172** In "Rookie Night", Owen is shown with a messy hairdo after having participated in the "Running of the Wheelbarrows" portion of the titular event and going skydiving. Orchid also develops a bubble-filled hairdo later on when she comes across Olympia and Otis after playing in the Bubble Room.
173* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': Jim has messy, cowlicked hair until the end of the third season when he gets an ImportantHaircut. After that, it's not quite as messy, but not as well-groomed as the few episodes after the haircut. It's even lampshaded when Michael tries to imitate Jim in the second season by messing up his normally tidy hair.
174* John Sheppard of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' has perpetually messy hair, which helps to indicate his status as the resident MilitaryMaverick who is BrilliantButLazy.
175* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Emmet's (the Emergency Tactical Hologram on ''La Sirena'') hair is the most unkempt of the holograms, and not surprisingly, he lacks good manners (e.g. he's snoring on the couch instead of listening to Raffi).
176* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS01E15TheBenders The Benders]]", the daughter of the titular SerialKiller family has frizzy hair.
177* In ''Series/{{Taxi}}'', the character Reverend [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ignatowski Jim Ignatowski]] (Christopher Lloyd) usually had messy hair to go along with his regular drug use and "spaced-out" behavior. Here's a [[http://www.studyofsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jim-ignatowski-pic.jpg picture of the Reverend]].
178* Professor Jirou Ueda from the J-Drama ''Series/{{Trick}}'' always has messy hair and always looks like he just got up from bed.
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182* Music/BobDylan has this.
183* Robert Smith of Music/{{The Cure|Band}}.
184* Justin Pierre of Music/MotionCitySoundtrack
185* 2D and Noodle of Music/{{Gorillaz}} both have uneven, shaggy haircuts. Noodle pairs it with bangs.
186* Steve Bays of Music/HotHotHeat, with his untameable head of ginger curls.
187* Adam Gontier of Music/ThreeDaysGrace has messed-up hair.
188* Buzz Osborne of the Music/{{Melvins}} is known for the huge pile of messy black (or later on, black and gray) hair on top of his head.
189* Russian rock star Music/ViktorTsoi of the band Kino had wonderfully messy dark hair, good for throwing around.
190* Geddy Lee of Music/{{Rush|Band}} has been keeping his long hair a bit messy in recent years, though this is probably just a natural effect of having naturally curly hair that would probably be a Jew-fro if he kept it shorter. (He comments, while in very humid and hot Brazil in a short documentary, "Jews must have a hell of a time with their hair in this climate. We get the frizzies immediately.")
191* If there's a poster or painting depicting Music/SydBarrett, chances are it will show his hair either in a Dylan-esque frizz or messily straight down.
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195* In Myth/BrazilianFolklore, the Pai do Mato (akin to "Woodsfather" in Portuguese) is an enormous man-eating humanoid from the wild woods covered in fur with giant nails and long, messy hair, that towers over all trees and makes frightening screams. He is popular in the states of Alagoas, Pernambuco, Goiás and Mato Grosso, and due to his unkept hair, a common expression in those regions is mothers teasing their children by saying they look like the Pai do Mato when they haven't cut or taken care of their hair in a long time.
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199* {{Invoked|Trope}} in US Championship Wrestling on "Gorgeous" Gary Garvin, who takes great pride in his appearance. When Lexie Fyfe finally got a match with the meddlesome manager, one of the first things she did was mess up his hair.
200* As Wrestling/CarlitoColon's FaceHeelTurn settled in he decided to do as little as he could get away with his hair. No more shaving, combing, conditioning, or oiling. It doesn't look as bad as some wrestlers cutting promos on him would have you believe but it conforms to no popular style and has no consistent shape beyond "Afro".
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204* Lenore from ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' sports a ruffled black mop, fitting with her punk get-up and her lackadaisical personality.
205* Several characters have this in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest''. Some examples include Jonathan Jarocki and Lily Ainsworth, for starters. Chris Richardson of ''Evolution'' is also described this way.
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209* [[http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/ruddigore/web_opera/rudd11.html Mad Margaret]] in Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}''.
210* Moritz Stiefel from ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'' is almost always portrayed as having messy hair, as befitting his anxious, scattered thoughts. PlayedWith in the Deaf West Production, where Moritz's hair is slicked down but his Inner Voice (who represents his inner desires/true self to a certain extent) still has the trademark hair.
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214* ''VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo'': Satomi appears the same as she does in her anime portrayal - with her hair being short and mussy, [[PerpetualPoverty for the same reason.]] Though she never seems concerned about her appearance.
215* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'': Alucard has long, messy silver hair that he never seems to tidy up since being BackFromTheDead.
216* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': Debora's black hair goes ''everywhere'', ponytail be damned. It's more of a mane than anything. It reappears in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'' and ''VideoGame/DragonQuestX'' as a female hairstyle choice.
217* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', this is a commonly depicted trait of Namira, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of the [[DarkIsNotEvil Ancient Darkness]], associated with [[NightmareFetishist all things revolting]], [[NatureIsNotNice decay]], [[BodyHorror disfiguring diseases]], and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]. This combined with her black dress means that her appearance all but crosses into crosses into WitchClassic territory (minus the pointy black hat).
218* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', Yuna has bedhead following a tiring night of helping the injured and doing the sending at Djose Temple following the massacre on the Mi'ihen Highroad. Your other party members crack jokes and laugh at her for having bedhead, Wakka commenting "A summoner with bedhead? What's the world coming to?" It's only later that your [=PoV=] character, Tidus, realizes that he was the only one really laughing, and everyone else was just [[MirthlessLaughter laughing to keep going]].
219* Bernadetta of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is always seen with messy, unkempt hair, likely as a result of her extremely low self-esteem and not leaving her room. [[spoiler:She cleans it up after the TimeSkip and becomes more presentable]].
220* He may be in the process of [[BaldOfEvil balding]], but whatever hair Trevor has left in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' is always in a messy state regardless of how you decide to cut it.
221* Sabitsuki from ''VideoGame/DotFlow''. According to her in-game menu, she has "bed hair".
222* Link has quite the bedhead at the beginning of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'', before [[ClothesMakeTheLegend he gets his iconic hat]].
223* ''VideoGame/MusashiSamuraiLegend'': Musashi. [[http://www.gamershell.com/static/screenshots/7873/183567_full.jpg just look at him]]. [[UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi His real life inspiration]] did it to frustrate his enemies.
224* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', your teacher Sadayo Kawakami always has a messy bed head at school, due to moonlighting a second job in the evenings that causes her to oversleep and not have enough time to bother combing her hair in the mornings. The protagonist himself has unkempt curly hair, a visual indication of the trickster hiding beneath his meek facade.
225* ''VideoGame/TargetOfDesireEpisode1'': How many hours in the morning does Maria spend to get her hair that messy?
226* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'': Common among the main characters. Ichiban wears his hair in a fluffy not-quite-afro as a result of a botched [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_perm punch perm]], Nanba wears his hair in a wild mop that defies description because he is homeless and has very limited opportunities for personal grooming, and Adachi keeps his hair in a shaggy grizzled mane, which admittedly does look pretty good on him. All three characters are outsiders and misfits in some way, and their hairdos reflect that well.
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230* ''VisualNovel/MissingStars'': Katja's slightly messy hair emphasises that she's not the typical {{Ojou}} like she initially seems to be.
231* Wannabe MadScientist Okabe Rintarou of ''[[VisualNovel/SteinsGate Steins;Gate]]'' doesn't quite have the length to pull of EinsteinHair, so he must settle with this.
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235* More than half of ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'''s male characters have hair like this. In particular, Blitz (and therefore Raven) [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_profile_blitz_2453.png has hair]] that goes up, down, and all around.
236** Lampshaded when [[ShonenHair Riley]] is surprised that Alice remembers him.
237-->'''Alice:''' Hair like yours is hard to forget.
238** Thanks to ArtEvolution, Paollo's fairly tame hair from book 2 becomes a mass of fluffy QuirkyCurls towards the end of the story. In the sequel, ''Webcomic/CityOfSomnus'', it's all over the place, constantly trying to get out of the ponytail Paollo tries to contain it in.
239** Speaking of ''Webcomic/CityOfSomnus'' - Paollo's father has the exact same hair as his son, except receding a little. His guard Danise's hair is similar. Come to think of it, a number of inhabitants of the guard village have very curly, messy hair, so it's probably genetic. Goji (who wasn't born there and arrived along with Paollo's group) also has a full head of fluffy, unruly curls.
240* Surprisingly averted by Tamaura of ''Webcomic/{{Blindsprings}}'' while she lives in the magical forest - she has a huge mass of hair and lives in a forest, but her hair somehow manages to look well-kept, though enormous. After she leaves the forest, her hairdo visibly disintegrates, hinting that it was held up by magic.
241* Bleu of ''Webcomic/CuantaVida'' [[http://tf2.skyscrapersoup.com/?p=218 has stupid hair]]. It always looks like that, by the way, it's not just hat hair.
242* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Sarah [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2003-08-20 wakes up]] with messy hair and on Saturdays [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2003-08-21 doesn't]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2003-08-22 bother]] to brush it immediately after.
243* In ''Webcomic/{{Godslave}}'', Edith has no WakeUpMakeUp benefits, which results in her waking up with an awful case of having a tangled mess on her head.
244* Zimmy of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' has messy hair with lots of flyaways as one part of her generally unkempt and dirty appearance, and Jack's hair has become steadily messier as he's become more Zimmy-like.
245* Several of the trolls from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carcinoGeneticist_5875.gif Karkat Vantas]], [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/terminallyCapricious_799.gif Gamzee Makara]] (easily the best example among them), [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/apocalypseArisen_7072.gif Aradia Megido]], [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100825013548/mspaintadventures/images/d/da/Nepetanohat.png Nepeta Leijon]], and arguably [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arachnidsGrip_8151.gif Vriska Serket]].
246* Phineas Kidd, the title character of ''Webcomic/KiddCommander'' has pink messy hair. "That hair gets stupider every time I see it, I swear to god." says Jocasta to Phineas, [[http://kiddcommander.com/?comic=page-80 p.80]]. Phineas loves her messy hair, which acquires with the art improvement a superlative "boof".
247* Nagisa from ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'' frequently has unkempt hair.
248* Vaarsuvius from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', while s/he was suffering the effects of trance deprivation.
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252* The "Crow Girl" strips by an unknown artist show the titular crow girl as having very messy hair. [[https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/2654704 This strip]] shows that she ''does'' brush it, but it gets messed up every time she flies anyway.
253* Pretty much the entire cast of ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'', save for Slender Man himself. It probably has something to do with the fact that the vast majority of the characters are (or at least are ''implied'' to be) BrainwashedAndCrazy.
254* If you look on the comment sections for WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's videos (...why would you do that to yourself?), you'll nearly always see people saying she needs to at least look like she's brushed her hair. Somewhat shallow FridgeBrilliance here; she's only ''pretending'' to be a girly girl for her reviews, she's not really.
255* WebVideo/{{VlogBrother|s}} Hank is often slightly untidy, as noted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpQl878E5iU this video from February 2007]].
256-->''Some of my friends were telling me last night that my hair is sometimes a little bit messy on Brotherhood 2.0. So, last night I went to bed with wet hair. I haven't actually touched it yet, so I want to see what it looks like in its preserved state. It's kind of... skateboard ramp going on, and a wave, and little tufts -- tufts like I'm a baby bird...''
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260* Anne's hair in ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' is a curly mess that inexplicably always has leaves and twigs stuck in it. Whenever she ''does'' clean it up, it's always back to being a mess [[StatusQuoIsGod before the end of the episode]].
261* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe Tales of Ba Sing Se]]", the first story involves [[TeamMom Katara]] and [[TheLadette Toph]] having a girls day out. When Katara wakes Toph up, Toph's hair is so messed up that it looks like a porcupine is sitting on her head.
262** Towards the end of Book 3, Azula’s once neat and orderly hair steadily grows more and more disheveled, eventually resulting in her cutting it quite messily out of frustration, likely symbolizing her worsening SanitySlippage.
263* On ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'', both Max and Emmy have bedhead throughout "Zak's Song" due to have been woken up at the crack of dawn by a call to Dragon Land well before they would normally get up in the morning.
264* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': In the flashback of "All the Best Inmates Have Daddy Issues," it looks like Ivy didn't bother to comb her hair to show how much of a disaster she was until she and Harley became friends.
265* Icarus from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' TV series has spiked hair that is assumed to have been fried when he flew too close to the sun (along with a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} few brain cells]]).
266* Zuri and Tiifu from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' have messy fur (and fur markings) to better help distinguish them, considering there is only so much you can do with lion designs.
267* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
268** Pinkie Pie, resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, is permanently knotted and messy, even after being ironed flat by a hairstylist (it repoofs in seconds) or being trimmed (it ''grows back instantly''). It becomes perfectly straight and lifeless when she's depressed, though.
269** In the very first episode, after Twilight's encounter with Rainbow Dash and her "rain-blowdry" technique, Twilight's mane is messier than even Pinkie's! It only goes away after Rarity gets her hooves on it.
270** Twilight's mane gets progressively messier and messier in "Lesson Zero" as part of her MadnessMakeover.
271** In "She Talks to Angel", Fluttershy's mane and tail are disheveled once she gets Angel under control.
272* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Flashbacks show that in her and Eda's youth, Lilith used to have red frizzy hair before she dyed and straightened it in the present. As of "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E12ElsewhereAndElsewhen Elsewhere and Elsewhen]]", it's gotten curly at the bottom again.
273* Both the title characters of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' and Heinz Doofenshmirtz.
274* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'' Buttercup has a cowlick to visually distinguish her as the rambunctious {{tomboy}}.
275** [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 Original series]] episode "The Mane Event" opens with the girls waking up in the morning. Bubbles and Buttercup rise with their hair unkempt and disheveled. Blossom subverts this as she beams, waving her perfectly coiffed ponytail back and forth.
276* As first expressed in the ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'' episode "Coldfinger", whenever [=SheZow=]'s hair is messy, her powers won't work. Fortunately for her, [[CrazyPrepared she keeps a can of hairspray in handy]].
277* Amethyst from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is a messy and wild woman with long, uncombed hair.
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281* Creator/TimBurton's perpetually unkempt mass of dark hair has no doubt served as inspiration for many of his characters who are similarly coiffed.
282* Creator/NeilGaiman has untidy dark hair, at least in his author photos. This is probably the [[AuthorAvatar inspiration]] for the looks of several characters he's written, including [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 Morpheus]], Richard Mayhew, and Tristran Thorn, not to mention the picture book ''Crazy Hair''. One of his "about the author" notes includes the sentence, "He thanks you for the offer of a comb, but doubts that it would do any good." [[http://twitpic.com/2whf8o Even after a haircut.]]
283* Curly hair is often referred to as "messy hair" because many people assume it will be unstyled or not cared for.
284** When someone brushes it, the curls tend to merge into one giant puff ball.
285** And if you don't brush it people tell you you look like [[Creator/MarxBrothers Harpo Marx]].
286** And if it's secured back when you're asleep, it comes out of its tie and you suddenly bear a striking resemblance to [[Film/HarryPotter Bellatrix]].
287* Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, especially as [[Film/HarryPotter Bellatrix Lestrange]]. To the point that it was a genuine shock to see her with neatly styled hair in ''Film/TheKingsSpeech''.
288* A certain Albert E. Hey, with his smarts, Mr. Einstein didn't need to keep his strands looking maintained.
289* Creator/MiaWasikowska looks like her hair-care routine consists of two steps: 1. Wash it. 2. ''Maybe'' comb it. [[UnkemptBeauty Not that anyone's complaining.]]
290* Creator/DarrenCriss' hair is a curly mess. Fans will forever argue over whether he looks better this way, or with the short straight hair he had on ''Series/{{Glee}}''.
291** This is addressed on ''Glee'' when it's revealed that Blaine's hair is naturally curly just like his actor's, but he hates it and spends hours straightening it with gel.
292* Similarly, Creator/RobertSheehan cannot cut or straighten his hair without fans threatening (jokingly...we hope) to commit suicide.
293* Creator/ZooeyDeschanel's hair just seems to grow out of her head like kudzu.
294* Scout Taylor Compton's hair often borders on [[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls Flock of Seagulls]].
295* There are exhaustive books, websites, boutiques, and product lines aimed at trying to get hair like this to look good- usually, preferably, to turn it into QuirkyCurls (especially the many that are primarily pitched at a Caucasian market). Some are a little... zealous about the importance of embracing it (check out Lorraine Massey's "Curly Girl", with its twelve-step programme to a correct attitude to curly hair, and you'll see what we mean...)
296* [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Pittsburgh Steelers]] player [[https://www.google.com/search?q=Troy+Polamalu&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=dZK6UbePH-fE0QHqooHACg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1241&bih=584 Troy Polamalu]] is known for his long, wild hair. Not only is his shampoo endorsement deal particularly logical, but there are even jerseys with his hair printed over his last name, mimicking the way it sticks out under his helmet.
297* Music/JeffBuckley, he had quite a variety of hairstyles, but not a single one was neat.
298* Creator/MiltonJones is an example of this trope. However, it's mostly only when he's doing comedy. He thinks it makes him look funnier.
299* [[Music/JethroTull Ian Anderson]], early in his career, tended to look like a hobo.
300* General [[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Guerin_general_Jean-Baptiste_Kleber.JPG Jean-Baptiste Kléber]]'s hair looked like a lion's mane, only adding to his impressive stature.
301* Creator/JohnCooperClarke has distinctively messy black hair, reflecting his status as the "punk poet" of the late '70s/early '80s.
302* Creator/PeterJackson, combined with PermaStubble.
303* The late British comedian Ken Dodd combined wild hair with buck teeth, supporting his crazy, energetic image. The energy was real (he was working nearly up to his death at the age of 90), but the craziness covered a highly professional competence in his craft.
304* One of Creator/RobertPattinson's trademarks is his uncombed, basically almost punky hairstyle. Like with Mia Wasikowska, [[UnkemptBeauty this has not stopped him from being attractive]].
305* Creator/SallyHawkins' hair is so unruly, in interviews, you often see her brushing it out of her face.
306* Creator/RowanAtkinson's daughter [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/johnnyenglish/images/d/da/Lily_Atkinson_%282011%29.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20210608124314 Lily Sastry]].
307* Creator/PedroPascal sports tousled curls during occasions that don't require him to comb his hair, which grows more wavy the longer he goes without having it cut.
308* UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson's messy hair is legendary.
309* Aside from his beard, one of [[Music/JackStauber Jack Stauber's]] most distinguishing features is his unkempt blonde hair.
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