1 | '''Basic Trope''': Short hair on a girl indicates tomboyishness or an ActionGirl. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice has short hair and is a {{Tomboy}}. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice is [[BaldHeadOfToughness bald]] and is a ButchLesbian. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': |
5 | ** Alice's hair is the shortest among other girls (but still quite long), and is a {{tomboy}}. |
6 | ** Alice is a {{tomboy}} with short hair, but it's in a traditionally feminine style like a bob or pixie cut. |
7 | * '''Justified''': |
8 | ** Alice is in the army; the dress code mandates short hair. |
9 | ** Alice gets into a lot of fights. Having her TomboyishPonytail constantly pulled presented a disadvantage, so she cut it off. |
10 | ** Alice wants to stand out from the rest of her GirlyGirl classmates [[LongHairIsFeminine who prefer their hair long]]. |
11 | ** Alice wants to be treated as OneOfTheBoys and has her hair short to fit in. |
12 | * '''Inverted''': |
13 | ** [[LongHairIsFeminine Alice's long hair indicates her femininity]]. |
14 | ** Alice is a {{tomboy}} with long, unkempt WildHair. |
15 | ** Alice's hair only reaches down to her chin, yet in every other way she's classically feminine. |
16 | ** Alice was TheLadette when she had long hair and was more masculine than the guys, but after getting a short pixie cut, she became a PrincessClassic archetype and the girliest character on the show, despite having shorter hair than any of the boys. |
17 | * '''Subverted''': Alice has short hair, but does things like sewing and cooking fancy dinners. |
18 | * '''Double Subverted''': But sewing is SeriousBusiness for the boys and men and the fanciness in cooking are in professional chefs' level. |
19 | * '''Parodied''': Alice's hair is accidentally cut short and instantly becomes a tomboyish ActionGirl. |
20 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': Tomboy Alice cuts her hair short and then lets it grow out long various times throughout the story. |
21 | * '''Averted''': Alice neither has short hair nor is a tomboy. |
22 | * '''Enforced''': Long-haired tomboy Alice decides to cut her hair short to fit her image better. |
23 | * '''Lampshaded''': Someone asks Alice if her having short hair means she's a boy now. |
24 | * '''Invoked''': Alice cuts her usually long hair short and instantly becomes a tomboyish ActionGirl. |
25 | * '''Exploited''': Enemies avoid Alice because of her short hair, not wanting to get beaten up. |
26 | * '''Defied''': Alice cuts her usually long hair short, but she is careful not to become a tomboyish ActionGirl. |
27 | * '''Discussed''': "Wow, you kinda look like a boy, because of your short hair." |
28 | * '''Conversed''': "Alice is a tomboy, if she doesn't have short hair now, then she will soon." |
29 | * '''Deconstructed''': Alice is a nice person, but her haircut makes people assume she's a ButchLesbian JerkJock. |
30 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
31 | ** Alice doesn't mind being seen as mean. The people she actually likes can see past her haircut, and it intimidates people she doesn't like. |
32 | ** Alice smiles a lot to assure people she's not a mean person. |
33 | * '''Implied''': Alice is TheGhost, but someone who met her offscreen mistook her for a man. |
34 | * '''Played For Laughs''': It's a RunningGag for Alice to be [[LadyLooksLikeADude mistaken for a man]] for having short hair and acting in a masculine way. |
35 | * '''Played For Drama''': [[WebVideo/WeirdSchoolRulesInHongKong Alice's school requires her to keep her hair long or wear a wig]], which frustrates Alice as she's not allowed to express herself. |
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