History Main / HairReboot

Subtrope of RapidHairGrowth. Either the supertrope to or the positive version of StubbornHair. Contrast with ImportantHaircut, ExpositoryHairstyleChange, and CloseCallHaircut. Compare ResetButton and BeautyIsNeverTarnished but just for hair. May involve CompressedHair, which depending on the scenario may or may not be realistic. May enforce HairstyleInertia, where a character's hair remains exactly the same throughout their life.

* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' season 8 two-parter ''"Pete"'', Rimmer and Lister lose their hair while trying to cheat at [[PeelingPotatoes spud duty]]. They get it back a few scenes later when Kryten uses a [[TimeDilation time digitizer]]. Note that this subplot is the ''[[TyrannosaurusRex least]]'' silly part of this episode.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':

* A cutscene in ''Videogame/KingdomHeartsII'' shows Sora in the water at the beach, and his hair gets soaked. All he has to do is to shake his head once or twice and his hair not only completely dries out, but also turns to its original shape.

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* The pilot of ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' centers around this trope, not only with Rapunzel's hair returning to its original length and colour, but with the added effect of it becoming completely indestructible.

* In ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', Foxxy Cleopatra's hair goes from a fairly flat style from being wet to her full-out FunnyAfro after she shakes her head.

A character whose potentially complicated hair is drenched, burnt, or otherwise misshaped merely has to shake their head to return it to the proper shape and volume. In extreme situations, this requires a 3 second combing.

* Justified in ''Goblet of Fire''. Hermione uses a lot of magical hair care product to make her normally-frizzy hair sleek, straight, and shiny. It wears off by the next day and she doesn't bother with it again, since it's too much trouble.

Subtrope of RapidHairGrowth. Either the supertrope to or the positive version of StubbornHair. Contrast with ImportantHaircut, ExpositoryHairstyleChange, and CloseCallHaircut. Compare ResetButton and BeautyIsNeverTarnished but just for hair. May involve CompressedHair, which depending on the scenario may or may not be realistic. May enforce to HairstyleInertia, where a character's hair remains exactly the same throughout their life.

Subtrope of RapidHairGrowth. Either the supertrope to or the positive version of StubbornHair. Contrast with ImportantHaircut, ExpositoryHairstyleChange, and CloseCallHaircut. Compare ResetButton and BeautyIsNeverTarnished but just for hair. May involve CompressedHair, which depending on the scenario may or may not be realistic.

* Happens in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''. Ariel's hair manages to stay pretty much perfectly styled when she goes topside.

* Happens in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''. Ariel's hair manages to stay pretty much perfectly styled when she goes topside. Though she is [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses a princess]].

* Subverted by Hokuto no Ryu in ''Manga/ShamanKing''. The guy gets a CloseCallHaircut near the beginning of the series and his hair spends the rest of the story adopting more and more bizarre shapes as it slowly re-grows and gets cut again. It does not regain its original shape until very late in the story.

* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' with Emmett waving the brush in front of his bedhead and his hair instantly becoming perfectly neat. Granted, this is one of many, many limited animation gags because they are supposed to be minifigs.
* Similarly in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'', whenever Batman takes off his cowl, his helmet-hair spontaneously poofs itself into style. As an extra touch, it goes from the hairpiece used for Bruce Wayne in ''The Lego Movie'' (slicked back) to a spikier style based on Ben Affleck's appearance in ''Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice''.

* In ''Series/OutOfJimmysHead'' the title character's hair sure stays perfectly neat in the movie despite having a ''[[YouFailBiologyForever brain transplant]]''.

* Similarly in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'', whenever Batman takes off his cowl, his helmet-hair spontaneously poofs itself into style.

* In ''Franchise/DevilMayCry 3'', during the first fight with Vergil, it's raining and Vergil's normally spiked-back hairdo looks more like Dante's. After you, uh, "[[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose win]]", he makes a motion with his hand to slick back his hair with his hand and his hair goes back to normal.

* First lampshaded and then subverted in ''Series/TheColbertReport''; after Creator/StephenColbert got back from the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome USO shows in Iraq]], he first wore an over-the-top fake wig and since got increasingly blacker stubble.

* a CG cutscene in KingdomHeartsII shows Sora in the water at the beach, and his hair gets soaked. All he has to do is to shake his head once or twice and his hair not only completely dries out, but also turns to its original shape.

Not to be confused with a hypothetical ContinuityReboot of ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'', nor with the hair of characters from ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''.

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