Basic Trope: A character's Berserk Button is pushed by interference with their hair.
- Straight: Alice does not let anyone touch her hair.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice doesn't let anyone go anywhere near her hair.
- If anyone touches her hair, Alice will try to kill them.
- If anyone even talks about her hair, Alice will try to kill them.
- Downplayed: Alice lets people stroke her hair, but not mess it up.
- Justified:
- Alice is vain, or vain specifically about her hair.
- Alice needs to put a lot of effort into styling her hair, and doesn't appreciate anyone messing up the results.
- Alice doesn't like being touched, period!
- Inverted: Alice wants everyone to touch her hair.
- Subverted: Alice does let Bob touch her hair in private.
- Double Subverted: But that's different 'cause they're very good friends or dating and he knows how to touch her hair properly (or because having her hair touched turns her on, which would make anyone else touching it awkward).
- Averted: Alice lets people touch her hair.
- Parodied: Alice has a whole set of rules concerning her hair, which are written down.
- Zigzagged: Alice lets some people touch her hair, but not others.
- Enforced: ???
- Invoked: Alice is fastidious about her appearance, and Bob styles her hair in a way that makes it easy to mess up.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice cuts off all her hair or wears it under a hat.
- Discussed: "Why don't you like me touching your hair, Alice?" "I dunno, I just don't."
- Conversed: "Some characters don't let you touch their hair."
- Implied: Alice is seen giving Charlie a dirty look when he touches her hair.
- Played for Laughs: Alice has crazy hair.
- Played for Drama: Alice has been dragged By the Hair when she was younger, which is why she doesn't like people touching her hair.
- Played for Horror:
- The mere act of even looking at her hair funny would cause Alice to dish out some of the worst atrocities known to human kind.
- Charlie decides he's had enough of Alice; He straight up shaves her bald. And perhaps then some with her scalp.
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