History Main / BoyishShortHair

* One too many {{Pretty Cure}}s; most also tend to have red or orange hair. Examples include [[FutariWaPrettyCure Nagisa/Cure Black]], [[FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Saki/Cure Bloom]], [[YesPrettyCure5 Rin/Cure Rouge]], [[HeartcatchPrettyCure Itsuki/Cure Sunshine]], and [[SmilePrettyCure Akane/Cure Sunny]].
* Toyed with in the case of Ukraine from {{Hetalia}}, who has extremely short hair and dresses like a boy, but is more of a NiceGirl in personality.

* Nozomi, from Manga/CentaurNoNayami. Her boyish appearance is frequently commented, due to her hair and figure.
* Haruhi Fujioka of ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' sports one of these. The fact that it allows her to [[SweetPollyOliver pass for a guy]] helps to kick off the plot.

Compare TomboyishPonytail. Compare and Contrast BobHaircut, which is short but still considered feminine. Contrast LongHairIsFeminine. A subtrope of ExpositoryHairstyles.

* ''CodeGeass'': Kallen is a MsFanservice version of this. She is the Black Knights AcePilot and Lelouch's bodyguard. Her short hair indicates that she is not to be trifled with.

* Haruka Tenou/Sailor Uranus in ''SailorMoon'' is a short-haired {{Bokukko}}, [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl in explicit contrast]] to her lover, long-haired and feminine Michiru Kaiou/Sailor Neptune. She often wears masculine clothes in real life -- not because she's specifically crossdressing, but just because she likes them. (Though it should be mentioned that this happens more in the anime than the manga).

* [[BrainyBrunette Velma Dinkely]] from most continuities of [[ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo]], excluding [[ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated!]], which gives her [[GirlinessUpgrade slightly longer hair]].

* ''{{Claymore}}'': Claire, as well as a few other Claymores.

* ''[[SoulCalibur Soul Calibur II]]'': [[http://fenixware.net/fab/images/chars/game/cassandra-5.jpg Cassandra Alexandra]], is another example. Unlike her sister, Sophitia, she's brash and somewhat impulsive, but usually means well. In the fourth game, she's determined to destroy SoulEdge and free her sister once and for all. The length and style of her hair varies depending on the costume the player selects, but it's usually kept short.

* Anita King from ''{{Anime/RODTheTV}}''
Anita King combines BoyishShortHair with {{tomboy}}ish behavior and [[{{Odango}} Chinese-style hair buns]]. She's also an ArtificialHuman and strong enough to hold her own in a fight with adult men several times her size.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Resident {{tomboy}}, turned karate instructor, (post time skip) Tatsuki Arisawa has short, dark, spiky hair and has a TomboyAndGirlyGirl friendship with Orihime. Soi Fon, who is a {{tsundere}} and {{ninja}} also has short spiky hair. The two bear more than a passing resemblance to each other and have similar personalities.

* Anita King from ''{{Anime/RODTheTV}}'' combines BoyishShortHair with {{tomboy}}ish behavior and [[{{Odango}} Chinese-style hair buns]]. She's also an ArtificialHuman and strong enough to hold her own in a fight with adult men several times her size.

* Zoey from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', easily the most tomboyish of any of Dawn's female rivals and has short,spikey and fiery red hair.

* ''FinalFantasy'':

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* Gabrielle, Xena's sidekick on XenaWarriorPrincess provides the picture for this trope, and is also a perfect example, with her [[AdrenalineMakeover impromtu haircut]] being a symbolic conclusion to her ComingOfAgeStory, and of her maturing from being Xena's young sidekick and protegee, to a mature, independant, ''strong'' woman, and fighter, with skills on par with Xena's own.
* Marcy had a short haircut in a large part of ''MarriedWithChildren'', demonstrating her lack of femininity (she was [[LadyLooksLikeADude mistaken for a boy]] several times).
* Djaq from ''Series/RobinHood''. The first series involved her as a SweetPollyOliver with cropped hair; by the second series she was no longer hiding her gender, but kept the short hairdo.
* Captain/Major/Lt. Colonel/Colonel Sam Carter of StargateSG1 is a good example. She's definitely brainy (an astrophysicist) and an ActionGirl (she didn't get all those ranks for nothing.) However, she doesn't have much of a stereotypically masculine personality (though she is a StrawFeminist for the first couple of episodes) and she is definitely portrayed as super hot, though not sexualized.
* Starbuck, TheLadette and AcePilot from ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined''. She tends to reject many staples of femininity (for example she has little to no interest in having kids) in favor of trying to outdo the boys: fighting better, being tougher, drinking more, sleeping around more, etc. Notably, the only time when she in a position of helplessness for a prolonged period of time, (being a Cylon prisoner on New Caprica during the entire occupation) is also the only time that her hair grows out.
* Arya, the feisty tomboy from ''Series/GameOfThrones''. She loathes medieval female roles such as sewing, cooking, and dreaming of marrying a prince, and instead prefers beating her older brother at archery, learning how to fence, and so on. Cemented in season 2, when [[OddFriendship Tywin]] notes her unusual passion for history and [[ActionGirl warrior women]] from the past, and says that most girls prefer romantic tales about maidens with flowers in their hair and such. Arya's response? "Most girls are idiots."

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', Ellie has short, messy hair as a kid and she also used to be a {{Tomboy}}.
* TheSquadette Sergeant Calhoun from ''Disney/WreckItRalph.''
* IntrepidReporter Roxanne Ritchi from ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}.'' Combined with BrainyBrunette.

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* In ''SomeKindOfWonderful'', tomboyish teen Watts only wears masculine clothes and has a short haircut.
* Tomboy Scout Finch has short hair in the film version of ''ToKillAMockingbird'' (in the book, her hair length is not mentioned).
* The main character in ''Train'' is shown to have cut her hair short in the end, after [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge killing]] all the villains. It also probably symbolizes how she's serious about being on the wrestling team now, since witnessing your teammates being horribly tortured to death will apparently do that.
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* TheSquadette Sergeant Calhoun from ''WreckItRalph.''
* IntrepidReporter Roxanne Ritchi from ''{{Megamind}}.'' Combined with BrainyBrunette.

* Nozomi, from CentaurNoNayami. Her boyish appearance is frequently commented, due to her hair and figure.

* In ''Film/{{Up}}'', Ellie has short, messy hair as a kid and she also used to be a {{Tomboy}}.

* IntrepidReporter Roxanne Ritchi from ''{{Megamind}}.''

* Sergeant Calhoun from ''WreckItRalph.''
* Roxanne Ritchi from ''{{Megamind.}}''

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** And then there's Maggie Mui, who, while not as much a tomboy as Anita, could [[Bifauxnen actually pass for a guy.]]

* ''BlazBlue'' gives us [[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Makoto Nanaya]] and [[Characters/BlazBlueChronoPhantasma Bullet]]. Both have short hair in a series ''rife'' with RapunzelHair, and both are fist-fighting {{ActionGirl}}s.