History Main / AnimeHair

** Villains Bakura, [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Dartz,]] and [[DarkSkinnedBlond Dark Marik]] all have very spiky pale hair that would put [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]] to shame. Bakura's evil form's hair resembles a cloud of white to light blue bat wings. Siegfried and Leon have [[HairColors magenta/pink hair]] that becomes ''brighter'' as they age. Kimo, Pegasus's henchman from the Duelist Kingdom arc, has a hairstyle like Tristan's, except it points ''straight'' upward.

* ''Anime/DeathParade’’ plays with this trope by giving the human characters realistic hairstyles and colors you would see anywhere in the real world. The supernatural characters, however, are given improbable hairstyles with impossible colors to match their exaggerated, intentionally two-dimensional personalities.

** Similar to Kenpachi, Renji's initial hairstyle has his ponytail spiking up to improbably levels (it's more tame after the time skip).

* Any character drawn by Chris Bacallo, but especially [[ComicBook/TheSandman The Endless]] and ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Console" Gumball Darwin and Anieas all get anime hair after Gumball tells them that they have to get to the final boss before they do. Specifically, Gumball has [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud's Hair and Darwin has Sephiroth's]] Anieas's hairstyle has a mix of [[VideoGame/TrinityUniverse Rizelea]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyBraveExvius Sakura]] according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

To see tropes about hair color, go [[HairColors here]].

* Half the cards from ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' have [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance thematic]] hairdos that border on the absurd. The other half have {{Nice Hat}}s.

* Sock from ''Webcomic/WelcomeToHell'' has his hair at about a 90 degree angle from his head when he removes his [[NiceHat hat]].

* IdiotHair--a single strand of hair that sticks straight up, usually to indicate low intelligence

* {{Ahoge}}--a single strand of hair that is usually [[ExpressiveHair expressive]]

* Eve of ''Manga/BlackCat'' and her {{expy}} counterpart Golden Darkness of ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' certainly qualify, given their ability to turn their hair into fists, blades, or virtually any other item the situation calls for.

** And then there's [[AwesomeMcCoolName Rocketbilly Redcadillac]]. Possibly one of the most perfect examples of this trope you can find. [[http://www.system3.com/wp-content/uploads/RocketBilly-240x240.png See for yourself]]!

** From ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', there's Hinata's gigantic strand of IdiotHair (even bigger than Naegi's) that sometimes ''[[ExpressiveHair wiggles]]'' during trial scenes, Komaeda's extreme case of bed head (which is also white,) Ibuki's multi-colored hair (complete with a pair of hair horns,) and [[AwesomeMcCoolname Gundam Tanaka's]] black-hair-with-greyish-purple streaks with one giant lock sticking straight up.

* RapunzelHair--impressively/unrealistically long hair

** Zero from ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' is probably the most well known example from the franchise; his RapunzelHair SamuraiPonytail combined with his {{Bishonen}} appearance caused more than a fair amount of ViewerGenderConfusion.

** There are some rather odd hairstyles, although largely confined to the supporting cast, apart from Grace's enormous (literal) HairAntennae. Noah has really long hair with PeekABangs and a ponytail that doesn't look entirely attached to his main hairdo, Vlad's hair has weird bits that stick up at the back despite having RapunzelHair (also bicolored hair; it's blond with black tips), Damien had a weird mullet-thing, Hedge's hair is basically a bunch of hedgehog spikes... the list goes on.

** Poked fun at in an EasterEgg in ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokaiTenkaichi Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3]]'', in which Nappa (having no hair to speak of) wonders if his goatee would grow if he went Super Saiyan. A Super Saiyan 3 form given to him in Dragon Ball Heroes confirms this to be his case.

%%* WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'s SkunkStripe hairdo.

* Depending on the artist, ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} sometimes ends up with hair antennae that defy gravity.

* The lack of this in comics is almost as absurd as its prevalence in anime. Aliens species (even ones from a thousand years in the future) have hair cuts and colors that would be perfectly normal today.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' provides some examples:
** ComicBook/NormanOsborn has got to be the only white guy over thirty in all of fiction with red-headed cornrows.
** Well, him and his son Harry.
** And Sandman.
* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. [[http://livingbetweenwednesdays.com/?p=1409 This page]] has a detailed analysis of his unusual and distinctive hair style.
* Wolvie's crazy hair is parodied by ComicBook/{{Lobo}}. Lobo's hair seems to stand up like porcupine quills all on its own!
* ''Lobo'''s crazy hair is parodied by Bloodwulf, who sticks his hand in an electrical socket to get it to stand up like that.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': Bart Allen -- Impulse/Kid Flash II -- is probably best known for his [[http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/5054/impulse54chillout.png insanely huge]] auburn hair and yellow eyes, so much so that they're an instant character marker. It wasn't part of his original design, but the first artist for his ongoing series exaggerated it to be such, and it's mostly stuck, though the length seems to be fluctuating wildly right now. [[http://community.livejournal.com/heartbart/13117.html Here's an analysis on how different artists (up to 2005) draw his hair.]] Walter West once quipped that it could serve as a cushion after throwing him into the air.

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** Massively lampshaded [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011019.html here]].

* In ''WebComic/{{Heartcore}}'', Ame has pink hair with green bangs, a style that has been likened to a strawberry.

* Tragically deconstructed ''Webcomic/{{Lookism}}'': While his now-blind mother thinks that he disappeared, Johan secretly visits her barber shop once a month using a false identity. While her lack of sight doesn't cause her to injure her very few costumers, the results are lackluster.

* LetsPlay/{{Pwnage}}: [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Kyle in their VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai video.
--> '''Damian''': [[Characters/DragonBallSonGoku He’s]] [[TheHero the good guy]] Kyle. He’s the the good guy.
--> '''Kyle''': [[LampshadeHanging I can tell by the hair.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''. Egon Spengler. Presumably it is s pompadour, but it is drawn like some sort of curl... tube... thing.
* Robin in the animated ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' is given spiky, upright hair (which according to one waking-up sequence requres half a jar of gel). And let's not even get into ''[[http://api.ning.com/files/uXaJct*Gcy7LLuKswZANE-6-0Yrwnm4nP2TES5eiwVM_/Jinx.jpg Jinx's]]'' hair. Considering in [[ComicBook/TeenTitans the source comics]] Jinx is bald, it might be fair pickens.

'''Fry:''' No thanks. [[{{Squick}} I make my own.]]

* When [[ThePsychoRangers the Rowdyruff Boys]] first showed up to mess with WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls, they had pretty normal hairstyles. But once Him resurrected them, in addition to removing their initial weakness, he made their hair grow out and spiked them up a bit. The girls' reaction upon seeing their new hairstyles, of course, is to laugh.

'''Blossom:''' ''(mockingly)'' Oh no, look who's back with mean hair!\\
'''Bubbles:''' ''(also mockingly)'' Oh, whatever shall we do?\\
'''Buttercup:''' ''(the same)'' How can we defeat their scary new hairdos?

* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' has an abundance of oddly-styled multi-colored hair amongst its {{Catfolk}} protagonists, that's quite deliberately {{Animesque}}, like Lion-O's raspberry-red ShonenHair mane, [=WilyKit=]'s bright-red purple {{Skunk Stripe}}d DelinquentHair, and her brother [=WilyKat=]'s IdiotHair.

* Zack Freeman of WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho has hair extends a ludicrous distance forward from his head. {{Lampshaded}} by Silus Stern, who occasionally refers to him as "the boy with weird hair".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'''s main character, the Korean-Canadian [[http://detentionaire.wikia.com/wiki/Lee_Ping Lee Ping]], has what appears to be a mullet with emo bangs, the top half of which is dyed bright red. His odd choice of hairstyle is constantly commented on, questioned, and mocked by other characters, though Lee himself doesn't see what the big deal is.

*** Emperor Mateus is proof that the series embraced this trope long before it became memetic. He sports what can best be described as an [[EightiesHair eighties-style]] HornedHairdo.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' villainess Ultimecia sports a fairly impressive HornedHairdo that bears some resemblance to Mateus'.

** Yugi Muto (pictured above) is an absurd example, as he has two sets of colored spikes. His bangs are yellow, with the rest magenta-edged black. This gets even weirder in a flashback showing the Pharaoh as a baby, which seems to imply that those actually are his natural hair colour(s), ''passing through a reincarnation''.

* Many characters in ''Anime/SteelAngelKurumi'' have odd hair, but Mikhail's hair [[http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7039/86066808fw4.jpg takes the cake]]. Note that it's not wind that makes strands just float out there; they stay that way ''inside'', too, with absolutely nothing to move them.

[[caption-width-right:275:Why yes, these ''[[AcceptableBreaksFromReality are]]'' [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair my natural hair colors]]. Why do you ask?]]

Usually, the most important characters of the story will have wild spikes or a cool-looking hairdo in order to [[FlashyProtagonistsBlandExtras stand out]] among the [[OnlySixFaces crowd]]. It also helps to create a distinctive silhouette that will stand out in branding, media, and merchandise. It may be one or more different [[HairColors colors]] that don't appear naturally in real humans ([[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue]] is a popular choice). Sometimes the hair appears semi-transparent, with the character's eyes visible through it, although this presumably represents hair fine enough that it isn't completely obscuring, rather than anything outré.

** Gets a nod in [[Film/DragonBallEvolution the movie]] when Goku tries to slick back his hair for a party--only for it to spring back up. [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Bulma]] only has a few blue streaks in her hair, though.

** Lots of characters in the ''Poke''-verse have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair oddly-colored]], gravity-defying, or just plain wacky hairstyles. It's far more common to see a character with an improbable (or downright impossible) hairstyle than a realistic one.

* Fairly averted in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. While still different than what most people would see in real life, it's still fairly realistic. [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Blue hair]] is totally averted. A side effect is that this sometimes makes some of the characters (chiefly the girls) a bit hard to tell from one another.

* ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'' has a few of these. Aside from the typical [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair natural green hairs]] and gravity-defying spiky hair, one character even has green hair except for a small red forelock.

* Some characters in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' have this going on. The protagonist, Madoka, is a relatively mild example. Her hair is tied up into twin tails that ''could'' probably exist in reality, but would require a lot of effort and comical amounts of hair products. [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair It's also pink]]. While Mami's hair is a normal color, it's also styled in a much more elaborate way that's reminiscent of the ribbons she uses as a weapon. The sequel film, ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'', confirms that she curls her hair with magic.

* Yukio from ''Film/TheWolverine''. [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Down to the color.]] Director James Marigold has expressly stated his desire was to give her a more anime appearance, hence the AdaptationDyeJob.

* Franchise/{{LEGO}} employed full-force Anime Hair in most of the minifigures in the ''Toys/LEGOExoForce'' line, inevitable being that it was designed with mecha anime in mind. Interestingly, the accompanying {{animesque}} character art has everyone's hair looking ([[YouGottaHaveBlueHair relatively]]) normal, starkly contrasting with the minifigures themselves.

** The VideoGame/TalesSeries is pretty consistent about this. Basically everyone in ''Symphonia'' has fantastic anime hair, as do each of the main characters in ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces,'' usually because [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair you gotta have some outlandish colour of hair.]]

** And now, with ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia,'' it has reached both extremes. The male protagonist Jude has a relatively sensible shaggy black haircut...while his female counterpart Milla has thigh-length four-coloured tresses, complete with ''[[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green]]'' IdiotHair.

** Also from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', and inspired by Lisa Lisa from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'', there's Rose — a italian fortune teller. Her hair is ridiculously complex ...and also [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purple]].

* ''VideoGame/GraffitiKingdom''. Pixel has hair that could hold a laundry basket with ease, Tablet's head is dominated by [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings two towers]] of [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair cyan]] hair, his sister Palette has gigantic neck-wings of the same color and Deskel, one of the bosses, [[PrehensileHair uses his mustache as a set of arms]].

* ''VideoGame/AstraSuperstars'': Given that this game uses an Anime-style aesthetic, this and plenty of other anime/manga tropes are present. Lettuce has the ShonenHair sort of style that {{Stock Shonen Hero}}es would be expected to sport. Meanwhile in terms of unnatural real-life hair colors, Maron, Coco, and Sakamoto are [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pink, purple and blue haired]] respectively.