->''"Listen man! You can threaten me all you like, but lets get one thing straight. Nobody, but '''nobody''' [[ThisTropeIsBleep *bleep*]] with [[ImpossibleHairColor the]] [[AnimeHair hair]]!"''
-->-- '''[[DesignatedHero Yami]]''', ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''


This could be seen as a subtrope of HatesBeingTouched, but it's usually used to convey a completely different message about the character. Whereas a character who HatesBeingTouched is generally a very reserved or shy character, a character who tells others NobodyTouchesTheHair is in general the opposite - the point here is to convey pride and vanity. As TraumaticHaircut explains, the 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. Also, whereas HatesBeingTouched is probably about 50/50 comedy to drama, this trope is ''overwhelmingly'' comic.
Frequently these characters will have very outlandish styles that may verge on AnimeHair and may serve as a NiceHat minus the, well, hat.

If it ''is'' PlayedForDrama, expect [[RapeAsBackstory sexual molestation and/or assault to be a major element in their backstory]]. In this case, it may be resolved with an IntimateHaircut.
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!!Examples:

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[[folder: Anime & Manga ]]

* Himeko from ''KannazukiNoMiko'', as a result of [[spoiler:DomesticAbuse in her childhood]].
* Matt from ''{{Digimon Adventure}}'' says this in a throwaway line. Like a lot of stuff in the dub, it sort of disappears into the ether after that.
* Brook in ''OnePiece'' will try to prevent enemy combatants from contact with his hair at any cost. This is because being a 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 again(and considering his sole purpose now is to meet up with [[TeamPet Laboon]] again, he kinda needs Laboon to still be able to recognize him somehow). He protects it to such an extent that he loses his very first real fight in the series in order to avoid damage to his hair.
* Ryu / 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 gravesite 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.
* Jessie in ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}''. She caught Seviper barehanded when it messed her hair up.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* Tony Manero in ''SaturdayNightFever''.
* ''AceVentura''. "All right. THAT'S IT! This 'White Devil' thing has gone far enough! Nobody! Messes! WITH THE 'DO!"
* ''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."
* Charles Xavier in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' uses this trope. This is an in-joke to fans, since anyone who is familiar with the series knows that he goes completely bald.
* Princess Vespa 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.]]
* In ''AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'', the news teams come together for a fight and establish some ground rules:
--> '''Ron Burgundy:''' "Now before we do this, let's go over the ground rules. Rule number 1: No touching of the hair or face! And that's it! Now let's do this!"''

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* Soto the History Monk from ''Discworld/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.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* ''{{Cheers}}''. Sam is not only extremely protective of his hair, he's got hair care down to an exact science.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Series/InspectorRex'', where molested children in an orphanage freak out when their hair is being touched.
* Fonzie in ''HappyDays''.
* Uncle Jessie says this on ''FullHouse'', to the point where it borders on being a catch phrase.
* On ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Spike imagines Angel doing this while mockingly impersonating him.
** 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.
* Barbarino on ''WelcomeBackKotter'' was like this.
* In one episode of ''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."
* Ted from ''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".

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* In ''{{World of Warcraft}}'', Lor'Themar Theron, leader of the [[OurElvesAreBetter Blood Elves]], says the following quote when you click on him: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Do not. Touch. THE HAIR!!!]].
* Don Flamenco from ''PunchOut'' 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]]]].

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* Peter Venkman in ''TheRealGhostbusters''.
* Rapunzel in ''{{Tangled}}'' will let her hair be touched only by [[MyBelovedSmother her adoptive mother]], although this may be a case of having being told 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...
* 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.
* On ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', Johnny has this attitude.
* [[BlindingBangs Lee Kanker]] from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' 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?"
* Though there are no notable instances in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', the 4Kids opening theme song does invoke it:
-->You can look all you want/ But don't touch the hair!
* JerseyShore-reject Anne Maria from ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Total Drama Revenge of the Island]]'' works on her hair so much that even ''reaching out'' to touch it will set her off.

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[[folder: Real Life ]]

* Mitt Romney. His response to a political rival's threats to punch him? "[[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video?id=4081247 Don't touch the hair.]]"
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