History Main / ByTheHair

* ''Webcomics/{{Unsounded}}'': Siya grabs Sette by the hair and yanks her back to scream at her in her grief when Sette shows up yelling for Sara, Siya and Ruffles to try to protect them [[spoiler: after Sara died]].

* Chapter 73 of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' re reveals that [[spoiler: Mutsuki's father abused him by grabbing him by his bangs, dragging him to the bathroom and trying to drown him until he praised him. It's then implied that he raped him.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Entrapta has her hair pulled by Adora in her debut episode "SystemFailure" so she would be saved by a rampaging robot. Since her hair is prehensible and sensitive to touch (she giggles when someone tickles it), it must hurt more than regular hair, but that doesn't keep her from having it pulled a lot during Season 5:

*** After sending Vegeta flying into a lake, Frieza grabs the barely-concious Saiyan by his hair and proceeds to beat the shit out of him some more.

** ''Anime/DragonBallZ:'' In a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown fight]] that is already [[NightmareFuel horrifying,]] Spopovich grabs Videl by the hair, causing her to let out a bloodcurdling, high-pitched shriek, [[WouldHitAGirl shortly before kneeing her in the face.]]

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' during the Chuunin Exams, Sakura Haruno had to fend off a competing team of Sound ninja who came to fight an incapacitated Sasuke. One of the ninjas, Kin, grabbed Sakura by the hair and ridiculed her for spending more time keeping it clean than training her skills. Sakura grew some balls and cut it with her kunai, allowing her to escape Kin's grasp, and emerged with a short pixie-ish hairstyle, which she later kept.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: [[ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} Priscilla Rich]] tries to have Diana Prince's mind read by Gail Young by having Diana's hair pinned down by someone posing as a hairstylist who then left the room. Since Diana is Wonder Woman she just got up and broke the thing pinning her down by her hair.

* Nearly every [=YouTube=] video featuring two or more females fighting.

* The heroine in [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish mythology]] Grace O'Malley had long black RapunzelHair and her father joked she wouldn't be allowed to become a sailor because the hair would constantly get caught in things. She took the joke a bit too literally and shaved her head before becoming a captain.

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Entrapta has her hair pulled by Adora in her debut episode "SystemFailure" so she would be saved by a rampaging robot. Since she hax prehensible, sensitive hair, it must hurt more than regular hari, but that doesn't keep her from having her hair pulled a lot during Season 5:
** Mermista pulls Entrapta's hair apparently to stop her from commiting suicide by running into a group of Horde Robots, after the cientist runs away in tears because the princesses yelled at her. Entrapta has to explain she wants to track the signal of Horde Prime, so they'll be able to save Glimmer (who is kept as a hostage by Prime), for Mermista to release her, and the latter never apologizes.

* Happens in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' during the CatFight between Angewomon and Lady Devimon. Rather than just using her powers, Lady Devimon just decides to swing Angewomon around in mid-air holding onto her hair. In her second appearance, she grabs onto Angewomon's hair again.

* The film ''We Are Not Angels'' has a flashback where the main character thinks of his abusive father, who did this to his mother. She asks for scissors, ostensibly to cut her hair, and stabs her husband through the thigh with them while he's off guard. Smash cut to the protagonist sighing that women with long hair are prettiest and we have a really weird Freudian outcome of this trope.

* One advantage of BaldOfAwesome / BaldOfEvil is immunity to this.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: [[ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} Priscilla Rich]] tries to have Diana Prince's mind read by Gail Young by having Diana's hair pinned down by someone posing as a hairstylist who then left the room. Since Diana is Wonder Woman she just got up and broke the thing pinning her down by her hair.

* '''[[AmbiguouslyGay Jimmy]]''' of all people does this to Nazz in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' when he becomes convinced she stole his shampoo.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', Lee gives Clementine a haircut to prevent this kind of attack after one of the [[Main/ImAHumanitarian St. John brothers]] grabs onto her hair and pulls her back to keep Lee from attacking him, and one of the pieces of advice you can give her [[spoiler: as Lee is dying]] is to keep her hair short. At the end of the final episode of Season 3, Javier gives her a trim, making it more or less the length of a pixie cut, and in Season 4, [[spoiler: during her dream sequence, if that's what Lee's parting words of wisdom were to her, he examines her hair and says, "I thought I told you to keep this short," to which she responds that scissors are hard to come by.]]

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'': Rosa has done this to her daughter Maria.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Occurs during the Eines Lobby arc. [[spoiler: Spandam grabs Nico Robin [[StandardFemaleGrabArea by the upper arm]] at first while escorting her to the prison ship, while Robin's hands are cuffed behind her with power-suppressant shackles and she is mostly non-resistant. However, after Robin starts fighting back and trying to run, Spandam has to resort to beating her, striking her with his elephant-sword, and dragging her by the hair in order to keep moving.]]