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10	->''"Listen, man! You can threaten me all you like, but let's get one thing straight; nobody, but '''nobody''' f*cks with the hair!"''
11	-->-- '''Yami''', ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''
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13	A specific type of BerserkButton, this character is extremely defensive about their hair and will quickly become angry if it is messed up or damaged in some way. Often used to indicate the character is at least somewhat vain as hair is often seen as similar to a peacock's tail--a display--and so it is a very easy symbol for vanity in general. Often played for comedy, expect these characters to have very outlandish styles.
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15	If it ''is'' PlayedForDrama, expect [[RapeAsBackstory sexual abuse and/or assault to be a major element in their backstory]], possibly including being dragged ByTheHair.
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17	Compare NotInTheFace
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20	!!Examples:
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24	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
25	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Candice Catnipp ''loathes'' getting her hair dirty, and will retaliate with bloody murder against the one responsible, even if they're one of the Wandenreich's [[TheDreaded Five Special War Powers]].
26	-->''"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW EARLY I HAVE TO WAKE UP EVERY DAY BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE SO I CAN DO MY HAIR, [[LadySwearsalot YOU FUCKER]]?!"''
27	* Himeko from ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'' cannot stand anyone touching her hair--unless it's Chikane. It's a result of [[spoiler:DomesticAbuse in her childhood]].
28	* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
29	** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''
30	*** Matt says this in a throwaway line. Like a lot of stuff in the dub, it sort of disappears into the ether after that.
31	*** During their duel, [=LadyDevimon=] manages to catch Angewomon defenseless in the back while Angewomon is struggling to repel [=LadyDevimon=]'s [[BarrageofBats Darkness Wave]]. However, instead of finishing Angewomon off, [=LadyDevimon=] chooses to [[JustToyingWithThem continue toying with Angewomon]] by [[ByTheHair grabbing Angewomon by her long blonde hair and swinging her around like a rag doll]].
32	*** This requires [=AtlurKabuterimon=] to step in and save Angewomon, but the now enraged Angewomon [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou rebukes him for interfering]]. She then uses [=AtlurKabuterimon=] as a launching pad from which she kicks off to shoot back towards [=LadyDevimon=], then BitchSlap her, initiating a CatFight between the two which culminates in [=LadyDevimon=] [[RoundHouseKick roundhouse kicking]] Angewomon to the ground while delivering yet another insult about Angewomon's hair.
33	-->'''[=LadyDevimon=]''': (''spinning Angewomon around by her blonde hair'') "Never did like that bleached look!"\
34	'''[=AtlurKabuterimon=]''': (''catching Angewomon'') "Are you all right?" \
35	'''Angewomon''': (''struggling to free herself from [=AtlurKabuterimon=]'s grip'') '''"Let me go! Let me at her!"''' \
36	(a CatFight erupts between [=LadyDevimon=] and Angewomon)\
37	'''[=LadyDevimon=]''': (''knocking Angewomon out'') "This game is over! You're grounded, goldilocks!"
38	** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': [=LadyDevimon=] once again catches Angewomon from behind in their second battle, and she once again grabs onto Angewomon's hair in lieu of delivering a killing blow, igniting yet another CatFight between the two.
39	-->'''[=LadyDevimon=]''': "You'd better stay out of it, blondie!"\
40	'''Angewomon''': "Try to stop me, you witch!"
41	** In ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'', {{narcissist}}ic BishonenLine Digimon Splashmon loses it when Gammamon's attack messes up his hair and [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punches him across the room]].
42	* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Android 18 hates it when her hair is damaged because it doesn't grow back.
43	* Josuke Higashikata, protagonist of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', is normally a dorkily cute NiceGuy... but say ''anything'' negative about his pompadour, and you're in for a world of hurt.
44	** Jotaro ended up pressing this particular berserk button with Josuke in the first episode of the series by saying that Josuke could make "stupid comments about [his] hair" to some girls later. Jotaro didn't even directly insult Josuke's hair, but that was still enough to set him off.
45	** Later on it's revealed why this is such a sensitive issue for him: when he was a child he got deathly ill and on the way to the hospital his mother's car got stuck in the snow. Suddenly a young man with a pompadour showed up and helped free the car; as a result, Josuke wears his hair that way in honor of his mysterious savior, and takes any slights against it as slights against the man who saved his life.
46	** Talking bad about his hair is such a BerserkButton to Josuke that, when Rohan Kishibe repeatedly mocked it, Josuke became ''[[BlindedByRage literally blind with rage]]'' and was [[NoSell complete immune]] to Rohan's Stand ability, which at that point trapped its victim through their vision.
47	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': {{Filler}} villain Fuuka goes from [[FemmeFatale flirting with Naruto]] to screaming in anger when Naruto manages to cut some of her long hair during their fight, shortly before paralyzing him to stop playing around [[KissOfDeath and steal his chakra and soul with her Reaper Kiss]]. [[spoiler:It turns out to be {{justified}} because her hair is actually her SoulJar, so she can't afford to let it get damaged]].
48	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
49	** Brook will try to prevent enemy combatants from contact with his afro at any cost. His motivation is one of the most serious examples of this trope: being a [[DemBones reanimated skeleton]], he considers it his only visible trait still the same from when he was still alive, and it won't grow back if it gets cut off. Why is this so important? Because his sole reason for staying alive after coming back, waking up alone and on a ghost ship and staying there for ''decades'' with no hope of escape, is to return to his friend [[TeamPet Laboon]], whom his crew left behind when they began their journey. Thus, he protects his afro to ensure that when the time comes, Laboon will be able to recognize him, and he takes the protectiveness to such an extent that he loses his very first real fight in the series in order to avoid damage to his hair.
50	** Subverted when Zoro chops off some of Hachi's spiky hair in their sword duel. Hachi starts getting angry about it, but then says he forgives Zoro, since it's just hair, so it'll grow back.
51	* Musashi/Jessie in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. It rarely comes up, but when it does, she gets ''dangerous''.
52	** During the Orange Islands arc, a group of Scyther chop her hair up ForTheLulz. Jessie is predictably angry and starts reciting the Team Rocket motto by herself.
53	--->'''Jessie:''' You insult my hair? Prepare for trouble!\
54	'''James:''' It used to be there, but now it's stubble!
55	** Probably a more notable example occurs near the start of Hoenn: a wild Seviper defeats Ash's Treecko. That same Seviper also outsmarts Team Rocket's attempts to catch it... up until the point where it bit off a large portion of Jessie's hair.
56	--->'''Jessie:''' AAAAAHHH, NOT MY HAIR! MY FLOWING HAIR IS MY TRADEMARK! Now I'm really mad! ''[{{death glare}}]'' You've made a very big mistake, Seviper!\
57	''[[[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises Seviper recoils]]]''\
58	'''James:''' Poor Seviper!\
59	'''Meowth:''' It knows not what it's done!\
60	''[Jessie delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Seviper before catching it in a Pokéball]''
61	* Ryo from ''Manga/ShamanKing'' takes a lot of pride in his hairstyle. Unfortunately for him, his hair getting sliced into increasingly weird shapes is a RunningGag, to the point where you can use his current hairstyle to follow the series' timeline. In the first episode, Yoh cuts the tip off his two-foot pompadour to scare him away from a grave he's vandalizing. During the first arc's StormingTheCastle finale, the whole thing gets cut down to the middle, leaving him with two half-pomps sticking out in a v shape. ''Both'' of these are then sliced off by ''Dracula''... only for Ryo to come full circle by [[RuleOfCool spontaneously regrowing his original pomp]] before kicking vampire ass.
62	* In the ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' series, Memetchi does ''not'' take it kindly when anybody tries to touch her curl of hair.
63	* ''Manga/WitchCraftWorks'': Ayaka Kagari has hip-length hair that she never cuts or lets anyone touch - when three bullies threatened to deface it, she responded by raising their body temperature until they collapsed and threatened to make their blood boil (literally) if they tried again. [[spoiler:This is because when Honoka Takamiya saved her when they were both eleven, all he asked for is for her to let her hair grow so she would be prettier. Due to her devotion to him, she won't change it anymore.]]
64	* ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' has Victor. In this case, his hair is implied to be thinning out and he is in risk of getting bald, so his hair is a pretty sensitive topic. The fact that Yuri likes to poke his hair becomes a bit of a RunningGag. Eventually though, Victor grows out of it and lets Yuri touch his hair a lot more; [[spoiler:the fact that they become an OfficialCouple definitely helped]].
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68	* In ''[[http://are-we-weapons.tumblr.com/post/86936165205/noras-top-secret-plans-to-kill-everyone-but-only-if Nora's top secret plans to kill everyone]]'', she notes about [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Yang]]:
69	-->''ALSO DO NOT TOUCH HER HAIR. Blake said that is like instant death if you clip a single strand.''
70	* [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Dorian]], in ''[[Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook Life is a Roller Coaster]]'', refuses to go on any of the fast rides at the amusement park because he doesn't want to mess up his hair. When Varric lures him onto a ride and it gets just a little unkempt, he plots revenge.
71	* In ''Fanfic/StarOfWonderStarofNight'', Hime reacts with irritation after Chiffon throws a snowball at her hair, as she had just washed it.
72	* Ōtengu Masaie of ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheUndiscoveredSwords'' wears his blond hair in an elaborate crown braid and does not want it down within sight of anyone else. [[spoiler:When his hair tie snaps and his hair comes rolling down in a battle, he goes Shinken Hissatsu, slaughters all enemies and then [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness collapses to the ground sobbing and whimpering]].]]
73	* In Fanfic/TalesOfTheHungerGames, Johanna wore her hair in a long ponytail during her Hunger Games. When she finally subdues her final opponent (Signiall, the District Three boy), she refuses to grant his wish for a mercy kill over him yanking on her hair at the start of their battle.
74	--> '''Narrator''': She [Johanna] infamously proclaimed, 'don't touch my hair, bitch' and for each word of this that she said, she slammed the axe down on his [Signiall's] body, harder and harder each time, until she said the final word and his cannon sounded.
75	* ''FanFic/TotalDramaLegacy'': As Sierra says in "Aftermath: Double Trouble", Violet's dancing skills are rivaled only by her obsession with her own hair. As a result, she's very meticulous about not getting it messed up. When Chef hits her with a fan in "Reality Shogun", she exclaims "Watch the hair!". Later, in "Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself", she refuses to dunk her head into a fish tank not only because she's [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes afraid of fish]], but also because she doesn't want to mess up her hairdo.
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79	* Rapunzel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' will let her hair be touched only by [[MyBelovedSmother her adoptive mother]], although this may be a case of having being told by aforementioned mother that people would use her healing locks for their personal gain. She also does not want to talk about her hair much, to the point she neglects to mention its powers ("I have hair that glows when I sing") at a time when they may be needed...
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83	* Tony Manero in ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''. Interestingly enough, this seemed to be a theme with Creator/JohnTravolta characters; see the ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'' entry below.
84	-->'''Tony Manero:''' Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.
85	* In ''Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls'', a warrior of the Wachutoo tribe changes Ace's famous duckbill hair into horns -- to match the "White Devil" name they referred to him as -- during a duel. This pushes Ace over the edge. "All right. THAT'S IT! This 'White Devil' thing has gone far enough! [[LetsGetDangerous Nobody! Messes! WITH THE 'DO!]]" Then immediately subverted when the warrior continues kicking Ace's ass.
86	* In the GirlsWithGuns action ''Film/EnterTheEagles'', Mandy totally loses her cool during a fight when a henchmen missed a swing at her with a scythe, but cuts off a bit of her hair.
87	-->'''Mandy:''' I just had my hair done. ''[rips out the mook's hair]''
88	* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'': Undercover Brother is very protective of his Afro, including telling Sista Girl, "Don't touch the hair!"; telling Conspiracy Brother, "Don't touch the 'fro!", and beating up Mr. Feather when he cuts off a piece of it: "You mess with the 'fro, you got to go."
89	* ''Film/ComeDrinkWithMe'': Protagonist Golden Swallow keeps her cool long enough, until the villain Jade Face runs his sword a little too close to her hair.
90	* Charles Xavier in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' uses this trope. This is an InJoke to fans, since anyone who is familiar with the series knows that he goes completely bald. Xavier uses the Cerebro prototype for the first time, and Hank struggles with fitting the electrodes on his head.
91	-->'''Hank:''' Are you sure we can't shave your head?\
92	'''Charles:''' ''[annoyed]'' Don't touch my hair.
93	* Princess Vespa [[NeutralFemale refuses to make herself useful]] when escaping from the ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' prison complex until one Mook's stray blaster fire singes her hair, [[LetsGetDangerous then she picks up a blaster rifle and guns down all of 'em.]]
94	-->'''Barf:''' Not bad... for a girl.\
95	'''Dot:''' Hey, that was pretty good for Rambo!\
96	'''Princess Vespa:''' Let's blow this joint.
97	* In ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'', the news teams come together for a fight and establish some ground rules:
98	-->'''Ron Burgundy:''' Now before we do this, let's go over the ground rules. Rule number 1: No touching of the hair or face!\
99	'''Arturo Mendez:''' [[EveryoneHasStandards Of course.]]\
100	'''Ron Burgundy:''' And that's it! Now let's do this!
101	* ''Film/ThorRagnarok:'' Thor gets very touchy when it looks like part of being forced into the Contest of Champions (and then killed by its reigning champion) is getting his hair cut. His angry bravado very quickly turns into fear and then ''[[BigNo utter terror]]'' at the approaching NoodleImplements. Next scene, Thor's been on the receiving end of an extremely rough buzz cut.
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105	* Soto the History Monk from ''Literature/ThiefOfTime''. The book says that even the most restrained mind has a [[BerserkButton conditional clause]] somewhere, and Soto's is, "But not the hair. Don't touch the hair, all right?" He gets around the monastery's shaved-head rules by insisting that the hair is actually a separate creature which makes its home atop his dutifully shaven head.
106	* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'': In ''Literature/TheHistoryOfMiddleEarth'', Feanor is captivated by his niece Galadriel's golden locks. "He begged three times for a tress, but Galadriel would not give him even one hair." Jump cut a good many millennia to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Gimli (a rustic Dwarf) boldly asks for the same thing and Galadriel '''averts this''', affectionately giving Gimli ''three strands'' of her hair. So why did Galadriel cold shoulder his uncle from touching her hair but happily gave a battle-hungry Dwarf three locks? Because Galadriel ''knew'' Gimli would treasure her hair out of the goodness of his heart, while Feanor only saw her hair as a prize and symbol of power. Also because Galadriel had the ability to psychically see into the minds of others, and there is definitely subtextual implication that Feanor had less than pure intentions towards his niece.
107	* Otto Malarkey, a gang lord in Eoin Colfer's ''WARP'' Series, is very protective of his "luscious locks".
108	* Sophie from ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' is vain in general, but she's especially protective of her long, silky golden locks, because she sees such beautiful hair as proof of her destiny to be a princess. [[spoiler:When a werewolf guard lops it off as a punishment, she actually ''murders'' him without a trace of guilt, and she begins SlowlySlippingIntoEvil from there.]]
109	* Invoked in ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheJomsvikings'': The eleventh Jomsviking brought up to be executed is Svein Buason, a young man with hair "long and golden yellow like silk" who asks, as his last request, for a man of Jarl Hakon's bodyguard to hold his hair away from his head so that it will not be bloodied when he is decapitated. When Thorkel Leira is striking at Svein's neck, Svein jerks his head so that the blade falls on the arms of the volunteer who has wound Svein's hair around his hands, cutting them off at the wrist. Svein follows up with a joke:
110	-->''[Svein] then leapt up and said: "Whose hands are in my hair?"''
111	* ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'''s Ryougi Shiki is not fond of anyone even thinking about touching her hair. [[AllThereInTheManual According to Nasu and Takeuchi in an interview in the movie pamphlets]], Kaname, her older brother, was the only one she actually allowed to touch and fix her hair. Not even [[LoveInterest Mikiya]] was allowed this privilege.
112	* In ''Literature/TheWestingGame'', tugging or otherwise messing with Turtle's braid is a wonderful way to test-drive the LittleGirlsKickShins trope.
113	* The titular characters of the ''Literature/RipAndRed'' books both don't like it when people touch their hair. Rip because he doesn't like anybody touching or playing with his dreadlocks, and Red because he's autistic, so [[HatesBeingTouched he doesn't like anybody touching him in general]]. They're both fine with [[AffectionateGestureToTheHead with the other ruffling their hair as a sign of the friendship and trust between them]], but everybody else is off-limits.
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117	* On one episode of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Roy volunteers Sin for a makeover from Thea so that Sin can look sexy/slutty and pose as a hooker as bait for a vicious hooker assaulter. Thea obliges, saying they'll do something about her hair, and Sin asserts that nobody touches the hair.
118	* ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Sam is not only extremely protective of his hair, he's got hair care down to an exact science. This is probably because it's eventually revealed that, as did Ted Danson himself, Sam wears a hairpiece. In [[Recap/CheersS8E10 one episode]] Sam offhandedly mentions that he has hair insurance.
119	* PlayedForDrama in ''Series/InspectorRex'', where molested children in an orphanage freak out when their hair is being touched.
120	* Fonzie in ''Series/HappyDays''.
121	* Uncle Jessie says this on ''Series/FullHouse'', to the point where it borders on being a catch phrase.
122	* [[PhysicalGod Glory]] from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', when she is [[NighInvulnerability hit on the head by a crowbar]].
123	-->'''Glory:''' Hey! ''[{{beat}}]'' Watch the hair!
124	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
125	** In "[[Recap/AngelS01E03InTheDark Into the Dark]]", Spike imagines Angel doing this while [[GagDub mockingly impersonating him]], references to the hero's SpikyHair being a RunningGag.
126	** In "[[Recap/AngelS02E08TheShroudOfRahmon The Shroud of Rahmon]]", Jay-Don is a very loud (as in flashy) vampire who has two main rules: never touch the hair or the [[SunglassesAtNight glasses]]. Angel stakes him to get into a heist by impersonating him. He gets rid of the sunglasses quickly but keeps up the fuss about the hair.
127	** After Angel gets turned into a puppet in "[[Recap/AngelS05E14SmileTime Smile Time]]", Winifred Burkle annoys him by going on about how cute he looks, "with the little hands and the hair." When she ruffles said hair, Angel tells her she's fired.
128	* Barbarino on ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'' was like this.
129	* In one episode of ''Series/BrotherlyLove'', Lloyd waxes nostalgic about how he and Joe's dad used to horse around together, and makes to muss up Joe's hair. Joe darts away and tells him not to do that. It's a long quote, ending in "Shoot me in the knee caps, that's good clean fun! But the hair is off limits."
130	* Ted from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' hates people touching his hair, but only because he spends hours every day arranging it to look ''just'' right. Subverted at least once, with Barney deliberately ruffling his hair and Ted deciding that the ruffled look is actually "awesome".
131	* In one episode of ''Series/{{Taxi}}'', Louie tries to tell the cabbies about his supposed sex life with Zena, wanting to whisper about it in their ears. He tries to move Bobby's hair away from his ears, only for Bobby to tell him, "I don't even let people I like touch my hair!"
132	* Zak from ''Series/GhostAdventures'' has expressed this several times at even the suggestion that it be messed with, such as the time they went to Fort Chaffee and saw the chair where Elvis had his head buzzed when he joined the Army and they jokingly suggested Zak do the same. His response was a NoJustNoReaction.
133	* ''Series/RedDwarf''. In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVILegion Legion]]", circumstances force Kryton to knock out his crewmates. The Cat: "Do what you gotta, but don't mess up my hair."
134	* ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'': After a heartfelt personal conversation, Venus says there's something he's always wanted to do.. and musses up Andy's hair. Andy laughs, but then notes "Ever do that again, and I'll kill you."
135	* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' parody of ''Theatre/TheWiz'' has the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz 1939]] version of the Scarecrow (Creator/RyanGosling) crossing over with the Wiz cast. Among other things, he's fascinated by Dorothy's (Creator/SasheerZamata) hair and wants to touch it. He's stopped by her LittleNo and DeathGlare.
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139	* In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' Carlos, owner of the hair in question, apparently doesn't feel this way himself, but the guy crushing on him, Cecil, ''definitely does'' and gushes about his "perfect hair" every chance he gets. When Carlos gets his hair cut, Cecil is so angry that he gives out the name and location of the person responsible and is positively gleeful when poor Telly the barber is found howling and clutching Carlos' locks of hair in despair at what he’d done.
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142	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
143	* Wrestling/PamperoFirpo not only dislike having his hair pulled, but would NoSell any pain from it before stretching out the offender. Apparently pulling his hair made him stronger!
144	* Wrestling/BruiserBrody, and this was not just a work. He famously chose to bash Wrestling/DickTheBruiser in the head with a chair in the locker room instead of simply receiving payment for his match because Dick pulled his hair during said match after being instructed not to touch it.
145	* Wrestling/ShawnMichaels was notoriously protective of his hair in his prime, but he mellowed out after it began to start thinning and eventually just shaved it all off. Amusingly, Wrestling/SherriMartel was more protective of his hair than her own.
146	* Wrestling/{{Carlito C\|olon}}aribbean Cool detests the feeling of other people's hands in his hair, so you can naturally expect his hair to be pulled by someone at least once a month.
147	* Wrestling/{{Melina}} Perez will fly into a violent rage if anyone messes with her hair or nails...and sick Wrestling/JohnMorrison and Joey Mercury on those who manage to get away.
148	* Wrestling/AmazingKong hates having her hair pulled more than the sight of her own blood, not that this will necessarily stop her from pulling anyone else's. She once left [[Wrestling/BillyGunn Cute Cip]] on a stretcher for [[MisplacedRetribution being associated with someone]] who had gotten her hair ''cut''.
149	* Wrestling/BlackRose considers hair pulling more disqualification worthy than chair shots, as long as she isn't the one pulling hair anyway. Like Martel she's also protective of her tag partners' and managerial clientele's hair, sometimes more than they are.
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153	* Greaser-themed alien Greazer Clutch in ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' deals counterattack damage to anyone who damages his hair (it's a separate card). This can be troublesome if your heroes have mass-damage abilities, or it can be hilarious - for example, if the villain team includes Plague Rat, who damages everyone, hero or villain, every turn. The card representing his hair can't be destroyed, but if it runs out of HP, he automatically refills it to full (in other words, fixes his hairdo), and then deals ''himself'' Psychic damage (as having his hairdo screwed up wrecks his morale).
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157	* ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'': In the second chapter, when Flonne reflects a Fire spell Etna threw at her, the spell ends up hitting Laharl, whom immediately gripes that he had his [[HairAntennae hair]] just the way he wanted it. This, of course, motivates him further to capture Flonne.
158	* ''VisualNovel/DramaticalMurder'': Aoba doesn't like having his hair touched because it's unusually sensitive, which is why he lets it grow long without cutting it often.
159	* ''VideoGame/GloryOfHeraclesDS'': Axios will sometimes say "Not the hair!" when being attacked.
160	* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': In an example where the character's BerserkButton involves ''someone else's'' hair being touched, Flamberge does ''not'' like it when others harm "a single blue hair on [[[BigSisterInstinct her sister Francisca's]]] perfect head".
161	* ''VideoGame/NarutoUltimateNinjaStorm 4'': Starting in this game, Hinata's sister Hanabi is shown to have a complex about her hair getting messy.
162	* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': Dartrix are quite fussy about their hair (or the plumage that resembles it), and have been known to stop in the middle of battle to tend to it. Touch a Dartrix's hair in Pokemon Refresh and it will look ''ridiculously'' offended, [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/176/775/0e9.gif like so]].
163	** Several other Pokemon also don't like being touched on the hair or the head in Pokemon Amie/Refresh.
164	* ''VideoGame/PunchOut'': Don Flamenco has a battle quote telling you not to touch his hair. In the Wii version, [[spoiler:it's a wig you can punch off him, which [[TurnsRed angers the Don]]]].
165	* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'': Conroy Bumpus takes offense to insults about his hair, having his Dragon beat up the titular heroes when Max makes one wisecrack too many.
166	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
167	** Lor'Themar Theron, leader of the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Blood Elves]], says the following quote when you click on him: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Do not. Touch. THE HAIR!!!]].
168	** And speaking of Blood Elves, one of the /flirt quotes from the male Blood Elf PC has him interrupting himself:
169	---> "Hey, why don't you come over here and-- ''Watch'' the hair!!"
170	* ''VideoGame/{{Wrack}}'' has one level where the hero, Kain, returns to base... only to find out from his partner, Fabian, that the aliens had attacked his home base during his absence and took off with his girlfriend. But what upsets Fabian the most, is that the aliens burnt half her hair.
171	-->'''Fabian''': Avenge my hair, Kain. Avenge my hair.\
172	'''Kain''': ...I hate you.
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176	* In ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'', King Arturia recounts her war with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Rience Rience]], an arrogant man who cut off the beards of the kings he'd subjugated and hung them on his robe. Arturia refused his demand for her (scalp, as she had no beard) hair and eventually defeated him, but word spread and many of her future opponents made a point of threatening her hair- especially [[IdiotHair the single golden strand]] that stood above the rest of it. Therefore, the strand became a symbol of Britain's prestige and undefeated king, so precious that even the queen was not allowed to touch it. (Also, the existence of SympatheticMagic in the setting means that someone with a lock of Arturia's hair could curse her, and by extension the whole kingdom.) When Shirou does, Arturia reflexively throws him ''six feet'' away, and when he unwisely repeats the act, [[spoiler:her SuperpoweredEvilSide comes out]].
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179	[[folder:Web Animation]]
180	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Yang Xiao Long has a long golden mane that is carefully styled in an asymmetrical way to [[FlamingHair look like fire]]. If Yang's hair is damaged in battle, her eyes [[TurnsRed turn red]] and her BerserkButton explodes. She punched Junior through a [[DestinationDefenestration window]] for grabbing a handful of it and blasted an [[BearsAreBadNews Ursa]] to death for cutting a single strand. During Volume 4 where [[spoiler:her father Taiyang is trying to get Yang back on her feet following the traumatic end of Volume 3 when she lost her arm]], Taiyang mentions that Yang first manifested her Semblance when she got her first haircut. This has lessened over the series as Yang [[TameHisAnger got a grip on her temper]], but never fully goes away, as a sleazy man learns the hard way when he tries to touch it and she [[TranquilFury very calmly]] punches him clear out of the building.
181	* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGamesShorts'': In "A Banner Day", Flash Sentry swats Micro Chip's hand away when he starts to accidentally get glitter in Flash's hair and shouts "Watch the hair, man!"
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183
184	[[folder:Web Comics]]
185	* ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}'' has Amber, who is sick and tired of people telling her to donate her incredibly long hair.
186	-->'''Amber:''' I know it's for a good cause and all, but so help me God, the next person who tells me that is going to become an '''''organ donor'''''.
187	* ''Webcomic/FlakyPastry'': Subverted.
188	-->'''Zintiel:''' Agh, my hair! You cut my hair! ''That was a mistake''.\
189	'''Mona:''' Getting angry over losing such a superficial thing as a hairstyle! Such vanity is just what I would expect from a minion of darkness!\
190	'''Zintiel:''' Huh? What are you talking about?\
191	''[Zintiel's cut off hair animates and attacks Mona]''\
192	'''Zintiel:''' I mean seriously. It ''was'' a mistake.
193	* In ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' Asmodeus gets an Apple logo lodged in his forehead after getting smacked by Seraph with her laptop. He appeals to the nurse to not touch his hair before she removes it.
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196	[[folder:Web Video]]
197	* Grog of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' is bald, but very protective of his magically-grown ''beard'', reacting with misery if it's singed or damaged in a fight. When it's partly shaved off by Vax as a prank, his player Creator/TravisWillingham ''snaps a mechanical pencil in half''.
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199
200	[[folder:Western Animation]]
201	%%* Peter Venkman in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''.
202	* In the episode "Life in the Past Lane" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', Jane falls for Nathan, a guy with fantastic dress sense, who turns out to be an aficionado of 1950s and '60s fashion. When the two cut the rug at a speakeasy-themed club, she runs her fingers through his... pomade. He freaks out, and runs to the men's room to fix his do.
203	%%* On ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', Johnny has this attitude.
204	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'':
205	** Lee Kanker seems to have shades of this attitude towards her hair--she shoves Eddy away from her in "Look into my Eds" when he tries to move her bangs out of her eyes, and if she gets wet/injured/disheveled in any kind of way, she frequently asks, "Does my hair look okay?"
206	** Jimmy also frequently yells out "Hair emergency! Hair emergency!" when anything that might ruin his curls happens.
207	* Though there are no notable instances in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', the 4Kids opening theme song does invoke it:
208	-->Look all you want/ Just don't touch the hair!
209	* Motor Ed's EstablishingCharacterMoment in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' is him getting his mullet professionally done, only to throw a fit when the stylist cuts it a fraction of an inch. His StartOfDarkness, in fact, started when an employer told him he had to cut his hair - [[DisproportionateRetribution causing him to jump ship from being an engineer to become a supervillain instead.]]
210	---> '''Motor Ed:''' You don't clip the lion's mane while he roars! [[VerbalTic Seriously!]]
211	* ''Series/JerseyShore''-reject Anne Maria from ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Revenge of the Island]]'' works on her hair so much that even ''reaching out'' to touch it will set her off.
212	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Rarity is [[NervesOfSteel fully capable of handling]] all sorts of danger and regularly works under crushing amounts of stress. Her reaction to having her mane dyed green, however? [[LargeHam Quite loud.]]
213	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': Stanley gives [[WesternAnimation/AceVenturaPetDetective Ace Ventura]] a wedgie in the first of their crossover episodes (the one allocated in the season finale of ''The Mask''). Ace takes umbrage.
214	-->'''Ace:''' You messed the 'do. '''''And nobody messes with the 'do!!'''''
215	* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' pilot "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins" has Bubbles going postal on Fuzzy after his meat gun turns one of her pigtails into a chicken leg.
216	* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'' episode, "Lazy Daze", Zidgel tells Midgel, "I don't touch your buttons, you don't touch my 'do'."
217	* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has Gerald, who will constantly remind people to "watch the hair."
218	* In at least one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', Clover responds to an enemy accidentally cutting off a tiny strand of her hair by flying into an UnstoppableRage and pulverizing him.
219	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', when Billy gets sent to Asgard and switch places with a Norse warrior who gets sent to Earth, his parents see the warrior wearing Billy's hat and assume he's Billy, even though he clearly isn't, and he pesters them and their neighbors with his destructive antics. The final straw for Harold is when the warrior chops off the front of his pompadour ([[RuleOfFunny which houses]] [[WhoEvenNeedsABrain his brain]]):
220	-->'''Harold:''' Young man, you can be rude, break furniture, run up phone bills, shave the cat, and even harass your mother, but when you touch the pomp, it's go time!
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222
223	[[folder:Real Life]]
224	* Mitt Romney. His response to a political rival's threats to physically assault him? "[[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video?id=4081247 Don't touch the hair.]]
225	* John Edwards as well, who was reportedly very obsessed with his hair if [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politician_%28book%29 this tell-all book written by a former staffer]] is to be believed. Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3Q this video]].
226	* One common characteristic of autism is difficulty in processing sensory stimulus, with their senses either being under- or over-developed. For those who are hypersensitive to touch, even the gentlest ruffling, patting, or brushing of the hair may cause great discomfort and/or pain derived from what were meant to be affectionate and harmless actions.
227	* As very, very, ''very'' many Black men, women, and children across the world can attest, non-Black people often have a fixation on the texture and style of Black hair, prompting many to touch their hair without permission, regardless of whether or not they’re being InnocentlyInsensitive.
228	* Our page image is Music/{{Prince}} with Usefulnotes/MuhammadAli. But given Ali was his idol, the musician [[http://davidclarkcause.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Healing2-1024x810.jpg just had to let him touch it]].
229	* Empress UsefulNotes/{{Elisabeth of Austria}} was extremely proud of her famously long and beautiful hair, and allowed nobody but her court hairdresser to handle it, and even then only with gloves. The empress intensely disliked any of the natural effects of hairstyling (such as fallen hairs) and demanded that her hairdresser show her the comb with the fallen hairs after every brushing, and she would become so upset and angry when she saw them that her hairdresser began stealthily hiding them under her apron to protect herself from the empress' wrath.
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