History Main / HelicopterHair

This is most popularly done with female characters, especially those with long pigtails, and robots that have hair-like appendages. A few male examples exist however, and almost always tend to have sillier hairstyles. Even sillier are those that have mustaches that somehow do the same.

This is most popularly done with female characters, especially those with long pigtails. A few male examples exist however, and almost always tend to have sillier hairstyles. Even sillier are those that have mustaches that somehow do the same.

This is most popularly done with female characters, especially those with long pigtails. A few male examples exist however, and almost always tend to have sillier hairstyles.

Gain the power of {{Flight}}... through your hair! No doubt [[SpectacularSpinning spinning is awesome]]. Just please don't ask about the feasibility of it.

Gain the power of {{Flight}}... through your hair! No doubt [[SpectacularSpinning spinning is awesome]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'': One of the title hero's trademark abilities is to spin his hair like helicopter blades, giving him limited gliding ability (and in some games, genuine flight).

* ''Film/SpyKids2IslandOfLostDreams'': Gerti Giggles has high-tech hair ties that spin her pigtails in circles, giving her this ability.

* ''Film/SpyKids2IslandOfLostDreams'': Gerti Giggles' pigtails can spin in circles, giving her this ability.

Gain the power of {{Flight}}... through your hair! No doubt EverythingsBetterWithSpinning.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Slyphorama}}'' has this in the [[http://slyphorama.net/01-katri-kopter/ Katri Kopter]] strip. With a ''Anime/{{Beyblade}}'' rip cord, no less!

** Dixie Kong uses her hair to slow her descent in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' and ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble''.

* This is the subject of one Creator/ShelSilverstien poem where a boy who has been mocked his whole life for his long hair finally has enough and uses it to fly away.

* ''Film/SpyKids'': Gerti Giggles' pigtails can spin in circles, giving her this ability.

* Buffalo from ''OnePiece'' has hair in the shape of a propeller which he can rapidly rotate, thanks to him eating the Spin-Spin Fruit, and fly through the air. He has propellers on his feet too to keep him stable.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': [[Characters/AdventureTimeMain Ice King]] flies by flapping his [[WizardBeard beard]] as if it were wings. When he [[ImportantHaircut shaves]] [[GagHaircut his beard off]] in one episode, he [[TraumaticHaircut also loses his ability to fly and quickly falls down the moment he tries]]...

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': [[Characters/AdventureTimeMain Ice King]] flies by flapping his [[WizardBeard beard]] as if it were wings. When he [[ImportantHaircut shaves]] [[GagHaircut his beard off]] in one episode, he [[TraumaticHaircut also loses his ability to fly and quickly falls down the moment he tries]]...