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** Justified: Since it has been stated that a Saiyan hair never changes from the day they were born.

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** Justified: Since it has been stated that a Saiyan hair never changes from the day they were born.

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* Katara and Sokka from ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' both had the same hairstyle when they were single-digit aged as they do now that they're teenagers. The same is true for Azula, but ''not'' for Zuko.

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* Katara and Sokka from ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' both had the same hairstyle when they were single-digit aged as they do now that they're teenagers. The same is true for Azula, but ''not'' for Zuko. Zuko.
** Aang has [[BaldOfAwesome the same hairstyle]] at 112 as he did at 12. [[HumanPopsicle Technically]].
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* Played with in [[MeetTheRobinsins Meet the Robinsons]] in that Wilbur has to hide Lewis's hair in order to keep his family from finding out that [[spoiler:Lewis is Wilbur's father.]]

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** Hiruma, Musashi, and especially Agon are aversions. Hiruma started dying and styling his hair in middle school, Musashi's had three different hairstyles, and Agon went through atleast five different hairstyles in middle school alone.

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** Hiruma, Musashi, and especially Agon are aversions. Hiruma started dying and styling his hair in middle school, Musashi's had three different hairstyles, Musashi grew his hair out after becoming a construction worker, and Agon went through atleast five different hairstyles in middle school alone.
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** Hiruma and especially Agon are aversions. Hiruma started styling and dying his hair in middle school and Agon went through atleast five different hairstyles in middle school alone.

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** Hiruma Hiruma, Musashi, and especially Agon are aversions. Hiruma started dying and styling and dying his hair in middle school school, Musashi's had three different hairstyles, and Agon went through atleast five different hairstyles in middle school alone.
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* Mio, Ritsu, and Nodoka in ''KOn''.

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* Mio, Ritsu, Yui, and Nodoka in ''KOn''.




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* Played straight for most of the characters in {{Eyeshield 21}}. Especially noticeable in Sena, who has a serious case of {{shonen hair}}.
** Hiruma and especially Agon are aversions. Hiruma started styling and dying his hair in middle school and Agon went through atleast five different hairstyles in middle school alone.
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** Bart and Lisa have the same hairstyles as babies as they do now. The future versions of all three kids have roughly the same hairstyles as well.
** As a baby, Homer had two hairs on his head, similar to what he has now.
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* Wendy Garret of ''GunXSword'' has the same [[GirlishPigtails twin braids]] as a very young girl that she dons in series. [[spoiler: She's still wearing her hair that way years later, when she's shown as an adult.]]

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** Also in one episode we flashback to Steve and his friends at the age of four, in a montage we see them growing up together, never changing there hairstyle.

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** Also in one episode we flashback to Steve and his friends at the age of four, in a montage we see them growing up together, never changing there hairstyle.hairstyle.
* The main six kids in ''{{Recess}}'' when they were toddlers.
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*The AmericanDad animators always try to incorporate Hayley's headband into scenes where she is younger.
**Also in one episode we flashback to Steve and his friends at the age of four, in a montage we see them growing up together, never changing there hairstyle.
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** Pratically everyone besides Chouji, Lee, Tsunade, Sakura, Ino, Nagato and, Kushina.

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** Pratically Practically everyone besides Chouji, Lee, Tsunade, Sakura, Ino, Nagato and, Kushina.

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** Could be truth in television, many people are born with light hair that grows darker as they grow up - alas!



* See comment above. Is this troper the only one here to have suffered from browning hair?

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* See comment above. Is this troper the only one here to have suffered from browning hair?
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** Could be truth in television , some people are burn with light hair that grows darker as they grow up.

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** Could be truth in television , some television, many people are burn born with light hair that grows darker as they grow up.up - alas!




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* See comment above. Is this troper the only one here to have suffered from browning hair?
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** More jarring is Maya. At the end of case 5 of Trials & Tribulations, [[spoiler: a picture is found of Maya and Mia as kids. Maya, likely only a couple years old in that picture, had the same long, top-knot hair she does now.]]
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* In the ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha TheMovie 1st Tribute Comics'' that doubled as promotions for the four manga running at the time of TheMovie's release, the ''[[http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8812/comics003.jpg Lyrical Almanac]]'' had Subaru making up her version of how she and Teana first met, complete with child versions of the two that were still sporting their teenage hairstyles from ''[=StrikerS=]''.
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* In the DisgaeaNovels, Laharl has pretty much the same hairstyle when he was little, his antennae was just shorter.
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\n* From the few flashback scenes so far, it looks like this applies to many of the main StarDriver characters--Sugata, Wako, Keito, Benio, George...
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** Could be truth in television , some people are burn with light hair that grows darker as they grow up.
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Allen doesn't fit this trope; he's been shown with two different hairstyles in his childhood. Some fans even mistook him for a different character because of it.


* Allen in ''DGrayman''.

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* ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' starts with [[AMinorKidroduction a scene of Flint as an 8-year-old]], and he has the exact same MessyHair that he does as an adult. Averted with Brent, who has a [[BobHaircut pageboy haircut]] as a kid,and a mullet as an adult.



* ''PhineasAndFerb'' has a lot of these. One of the most exaggerated example is Linda Flynn, since he had the same hairstyle when she was a baby.

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* ''PhineasAndFerb'' has a lot of these. One of the The most exaggerated example is Linda Flynn, since he she had the same hairstyle when she was a baby.
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* Brian from ''{{Spaced}}'' has a flashback to his childhood, and he even has a goatee beard then.

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* Brian from ''{{Spaced}}'' has a flashback to his childhood, and he even has a goatee beard then. Mike also has a moustache in the flashbacks to the tree incident (and young Tim has bleached-blond hair as well).
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** Pratically everyone besides Chouji, Lee, Tsunade and Kushina.

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** Pratically everyone besides Chouji, Lee, Tsunade and Tsunade, Sakura, Ino, Nagato and, Kushina.

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* Goku from ''DragonBallZ''.

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* Goku from ''DragonBallZ''.''DragonBallZ''.
** Justified: Since it has been stated that a Saiyan hair never changes from the day they were born.




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* Averted and played straight in ''{{Naruto}}''.
** Pratically everyone besides Chouji, Lee, Tsunade and Kushina.
* Natsu, Gray, Juvia, Lucy, and, Jellal/Mystogan from ''FairyTail''.
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* Takaki and maybe Akaki in ''FiveCentimetersPerSecond''.

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* Takaki and maybe Akaki in ''FiveCentimetersPerSecond''.
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* Larry (as seen in the trope image), Edgeworth, and Phoenix in the first game of AceAttorney have this.
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* Virtually all the non-adult characters of Homestuck from MSPaintAdventures are shown to have the exact same hairstyle throughout their entire lives.

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* Virtually all the non-adult characters of Homestuck from MSPaintAdventures ''{{Homestuck}}'' are shown to have the exact same hairstyle throughout their entire lives.

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Related to SameClothesDifferentYear.

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Related Similar to SameClothesDifferentYear.
SameClothesDifferentYear, only with hair.


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Click HairstyleInertia is the edit button phenomenon where adult or teenage characters who {{Flashback}} to start a time in their childhood are frequently shown to have the exact same hairstyle, though those with long hair usually have shorter-- but not short-- hair. Pigtails, ponytails, braids, or other hairstyles that require long hair are also shown to be stubbier and shorter.

May be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that having the same haircut helps audiences recognize the child as the younger self of the character, as is often used for SpinoffBabies.

It is not an ImportantHaircut-- those happen in series and are, as the title says, important to the plot. It is also not an ExpositoryHairstyleChange, which usually does not flashback to a character's childhood. This trope deals only with characters keeping the same hairstyle from childhood until the present time.

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this new page. trope sometimes applies to some characters in a work of fiction, but not to others.

Related to SameClothesDifferentYear.

And, barring the flashback, this may be TruthInTelevision, but just as likely is not.
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!!Examples:

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* Ichigo in ''{{Bleach}}''.
* Izaya, Shinra, and Kasuka in ''{{Durarara}}''.
* Lelouch, Suzaku, Nunnally, Kallen, Euphemia, etc. in ''CodeGeass''.
* Welkin, Isara, Alicia, Selvaria, and Maximilian from ''ValkyriaChronicles''.
* Mio, Ritsu, and Nodoka in ''KOn''.
* Kyoya and Tamaki in ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub''.
* Azuki and Mashiro from ''{{Bakuman}}''.
* Rei in ''HighSchoolOfTheDead''.
* Urashima and Otsuu from ''OokamiSan''.
* Kou/Ric and Nino from ''ArakawaUnderTheBridge''.
* Allen in ''DGrayman''.
* Shichika and Nanami from ''{{Katanagatari}}''.
* Rio, Kanata, and Filicia from ''SoraNoWoto''.
* Takaki and maybe Akaki in ''FiveCentimetersPerSecond''.
* Maya from ''OccultAcademy'' (down to an identical dress...)
* Everyone from ''AxisPowersHetalia'', except for the DoubleSubversion in the strip where England in the Middle Ages sees France's fashionably long hair and grows his out, only to have the style become unpopular. He plans on keeping it but lets France adjust it a bit. Instead France cuts it back to what it originally was, to England's chagrin.
* Goku from ''DragonBallZ''.
* Chiyoko from ''MillenniumActress''.
* Hazumu and Tomari in ''KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl''
* All of the gang in ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. Including Hanyuu though she is special since [[spoiler:it's when she was physically older. We see her as an adult in her human appearances but currently she is in the form of a preteen.]]
* Lucia in ''VenusVersusVirus''.

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* Young Clark Kent/Superboy, in continuities where he exists, has the same hairstyle(s) as Adult Clark/ {{Superman}} (short, slicked back as Clark, spit-curl as hero). In continuities where Clark ''wasn't'' Superboy, Young Clark usually has the spit curl.

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* Simon Tam, in the episode 5 flashback of ''{{Firefly}}''.
* Brian from ''{{Spaced}}'' has a flashback to his childhood, and he even has a goatee beard then.
* Rose Tyler, from ''DoctorWho'', has bleached-blonde hair, with noticeable brown eyebrows and roots. She was a natural blond when she was a small child.
* BuffyTheVampireSlayer is shown as blonde as a child in a flashback to Dawn's (imagined) birth. It has previously been established that blonde is not her natural color. Fan WildMassGuessing has it that adding Dawn into continuity somehow changed her hair color.

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* [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=345 Lisa]] of ''PennyAndAggie'', visually distinctive for her hair dyed varying shades of red and tied into six pigtails, is shown having essentially the same hairstyle [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=927 as a child]], only with shorter pigtails.
* Virtually all the non-adult characters of Homestuck from MSPaintAdventures are shown to have the exact same hairstyle throughout their entire lives.

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* [[TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]] already had her characteristic beehive as a toddler. Although apparently she wore her hair long and straight as a teenager, and then reverted to the beehive as an adult.
* Katara and Sokka from ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' both had the same hairstyle when they were single-digit aged as they do now that they're teenagers. The same is true for Azula, but ''not'' for Zuko.
* JohnnyBravo had his trademark hair and sunglasses as a small baby in the crib... as well as his trademark libido.
* Dib and Gaz from ''InvaderZim'' during flashbacks.
* Brock Samson of ''TheVentureBrothers'' animated TV show seems to have had his trademark mullet for a long time, even back when he was in college during an episode where team Venture and pals are taken hostage by a supposedly dead college room-mate.
* ''PhineasAndFerb'' has a lot of these. One of the most exaggerated example is Linda Flynn, since he had the same hairstyle when she was a baby.

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