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* ''{{Film/Matilda}}'''s titular heroine sports the same shoulder-length hairstyle with bangs as both a two-year-old and a six-year-old. Complete with the same hair ribbon.

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* ''{{Film/Matilda}}'''s titular heroine sports the same shoulder-length hairstyle with bangs as both a two-year-old and a six-year-old. Complete with [[IconicItem the same hair ribbon.]]


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* Interestingly in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', in a flashback shown with a young Artemis, she's pleading with Jade not to leave her behind. Artemis has her trademark TomboyishPonytail, but Jade is also wearing her hair that way, whereas in the present day she wears it down, implying that [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Artemis ties her hair in a ponytail because it reminds her of her sister.]]
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* Played with in ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'' 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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* Played with in ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'' ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' 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.]]



* Plot point in ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'', Rapunzel has to keep her hair long because it loses its magic when it's cut. [[spoiler: It's all cut short at the end]].

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* Plot point in ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Tangled}}'', Rapunzel has to keep her hair long because it loses its magic when it's cut. [[spoiler: It's all cut short at the end]].
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* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': Aziraphale hasn't changed his hairstyle since the Garden of Eden. Millennia later he still has the same short, slightly curly haricut. This provides a contrast with Crowley who has [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange a different hairstyle]] in every time period.

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* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': Aziraphale hasn't changed his hairstyle since the Garden of Eden. Millennia later he still has the same short, slightly curly haricut.haircut. This provides a contrast with Crowley who has [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange a different hairstyle]] in every time period.
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* In ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', Mira's hairstyle is the same now as she was in the flashback, having shoulder-length hair with a little tied up on the right side. The only difference is now she wears a star-shaped hairpin, due to the one encounter she had in that flashback.
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* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': Aziraphale hasn't changed his hairstyle since the Garden of Eden. Millennia later he still has the same short, slightly curly haricut. This provides a contrast with Crowley who has [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange a different hairstyle]] in every time period.
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** Mia, who is a child in the DistantPrologue, is drawn as an adult in the family tree. She still has the same hairstyle, minus the HairDecorations.

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** Mia, who is a child in the DistantPrologue, is drawn as an adult in the family tree. She still has the same hairstyle, minus the HairDecorations.[[ImportantHairAccessory hair decorations]].

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** A flashback to Cersei's childhood easily tells the audience it's her by the same partly up, partly down hairstyle that Cersei most often sports. Cersei does wear it differently multiple times in the series, but that's the one she most often wore up until her TraumaticHaircut in Season 5. This ends up played straight post-haircut as - despite time clearly passing - her hair remains short for the remainder of the series. WordOfGod is that it's a styling choice.
** Brienne of Tarth always has the same BoyishShortHair - even when she spends two seasons travelling Westeros in search of the Stark girls. Presumably one of Podrick's duties as squire is giving her regular trims. Contrast to Arya, whose hair is cut short for Season 2 but grows out during the course of her journey around the country.



** Averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', where the child Tidus has a different haircut and even colour. By this point, the graphics had improved to the stage where it was possible to easily tell it was the same character by the face, and the designers may have been showing this off.

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** Averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', where the child Tidus has a different haircut and even colour. By this point, the graphics had improved to the stage where it was possible to easily tell it was the same character by the face, and the designers may have been showing this off. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 The second game]] was rushed into production, with the result that many character models were reused and it appears that only Yuna and Rikku have changed their hair at all in the two year TimeSkip.


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* After Creator/KeriRussell's infamous haircut was written into ''{{Series/Felicity}}'' and the resulting ratings decline[[note]]Which probably had more to do with the show's time slot getting moved and many other changes that may have alienated viewers.[[/note]] - the WB came up with a mandate that the young stars of their shows couldn't change their hair too drastically. ''Charmed'' mentioned above was on the WB.


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* Creator/OliviaHussey has always been known for having her black RapunzelHair as in ''Film/RomeoAndJuliet''. The exceptions are a TwentiesBobHaircut in ''Literature/DeathOnTheNile'', fitting the film's 1930s setting and a shoulder-length cut in ''The Pirate''. She wears it a little shorter these days but still quite long.
* Creator/EmmaWatson was required by contract to keep her hair long for the ''Film/HarryPotter'' series. As soon as she'd wrapped on the last film, she shocked her fans by getting a pixie cut.
* Creator/KateeSackhoff was the opposite - required by contract to keep her hair short for ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''. She eventually got fed up at this and fought for her character to grow the hair out long.

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* Creator/LouiseBrooks was famous for her [[TwentiesBobHaircut 'black helmet' bobbed hairstyle]] which, though it only became popular amongst young women in the 1920s, she had worn since childhood.

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* Creator/LouiseBrooks was famous for her [[TwentiesBobHaircut 'black helmet' bobbed hairstyle]] which, though it only became popular amongst young women in the 1920s, she had worn since childhood. And when she resurfaced in the 1940s with long hair, people couldn't recognise her.


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* Creator/RoseMcGowan in her autobiography talks about the studio insisting that none of the actresses on ''{{Series/Charmed 1998}}'' could change their hair without permission from the president. She rebelled against this by dyeing her hair red and sarcastically saying they explain the change by a potion blowing up on Paige's hair (which they did indeed use). Apparently there was another "big to-do" when Holly Marie Combs (ironically the one mentioned above) changed her hair slightly - it was the same length but with some bangs.
--> "The studio feared people wouldn't recognise her. That's how dumb they think you audiences are. If a character changes their set look in any way, audiences won't know who they are looking at. I wish you could all be flies on the wall when studio executives and producers talk about you all. Believe me, you are looked at as sheep with no minds of your own."
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** Gets subverted in "Inperfect Storm", where one character was confused in part because of this trope. [[SheIsAllGrownUp She changed a lot since childhood.]]

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** Gets subverted in "Inperfect "Imperfect Storm", where one character was confused in part because of this trope. [[SheIsAllGrownUp She changed a lot since childhood.]]
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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 2 episode 20, the haircuts of elderly Doctor H. and Miss Peach, besides being white from old age, are the exact same as their normal counterparts.
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* In ''Manga/PokemonZensho'', Daisy had the same haircut as a child and Green had the same haircut as a baby. Misty is also depicted with her signature ponytail when she was younger.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': Characters rarely change hairstyles throughout their lifetime. Even Agatha and Professor Oak had the same haircuts as kids.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Most characters keep their hairstyles in flashbacks. Misty even had a sidetail when she was an infant.
** Averted with Ash's mother Delia in ''Anime/Pokemon3''. She wore pigtails as a teenager and only switched to a ponytail after having Ash.
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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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* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 1, when everyone ages up from the alien spaceship circling the Earth and making it spin faster, Weslie retains the little fluff of wool over his forehead. The trope is averted for the other goats, who have all accumulated some kind of change to their wool "hairstyles" during the RapidAging.
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* In ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'', BigGood [[BadassInCharge Sinbad]] has been shown to have the same, choppy, sideswept bangs and [[RapunzelHair knee-length ponytail]] with {{Ahoge}} since he was fourteen, fifteen years ago. Yunan and Scheherazade have also had the same hairstyles they have now.

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* In ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'', the BigGood [[BadassInCharge Sinbad]] Sinbad has been shown to have the same, choppy, sideswept side-swept bangs and [[RapunzelHair knee-length ponytail]] with {{Ahoge}} an IdiotHair since he was fourteen, fifteen years ago. Yunan and Scheherazade have also had the same hairstyles they have now.
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* ''VideoGame/TheSims'':
** This is enforced in ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', where almost every hairstyle in a particular age group links to an equivalent in every other age group. This means that Sims can potentially keep the same hairstyle their whole lives, unless the player changes it.
** This also shows up in ''VideoGame/TheSims4'', to a lesser extent. Teenagers, young adults, adults and elders all have access to the same library of hairstyles and clothes, so when a Sim ages between these age groups, the game doesn't generate a new look for them.
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* ''{{Series/Charmed}}'':

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* In flashbacks on ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', fat lazy slob Detective Scully was a much more attractive man when he was younger, but still had his trademark flat-top hairstyle. "Flat-Top" was even his nickname.
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* Miko from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is shown to have the exact same GirlishPigtails in flashbacks that she does in the present, which help to reflect her childish naivete. An ImagineSpot that she has in the Doujin spin-off also depicts her with this hairstyle as an adult.
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* A quick flashback in ''Anime/YuGiOh'' shows that the Pharaoh was born with the same multi-colored hair that he and Yugi would share throughout the series.

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* ''Fighting With My Family'' shows {{Wrestling/Paige}} as having the same stringy black hair as a child. In real life she's a natural blonde and didn't become black haired until her late teens.



** Emma has always had the same long blonde hair whenever we're shown her as a child or teenager.

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** Emma has always had the same long blonde blonde, slightly curled, hair whenever we're shown her as a child or teenager.


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** A variation in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. Garnet eventually gets an ImportantHaircut from waist length to chin length. A previous flashback to her childhood shows that her hair was that length previously.
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* ''Anime/MaquiaWhenThePromisedFlowerBlooms'': With the movie being extremely TimeSkip prone, this is used for some secondary characters who are introduced as children and later return as adults.
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->'''Vegeta:''' A pure Saiyan's hair does not get "shaggy". It maintains the same shape from the day that he is born.\\
'''Goku:''' What do you know? I never noticed!\\

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->'''Vegeta:''' A pure Saiyan's hair does not get "shaggy". It maintains the same shape from the day that he is born.\\
born!\\
'''Goku:''' Huh! What do you know? I never noticed!\\
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* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku has had the exact same spit curl in front of his face since he was a baby. It also happens to be his CharmPoint, as it's the first thing people tend to remember about him.
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* Music/BrianMay of Music/{{Queen}} has kept the same haircut (huge, dark, and curly) for the past 40 years, but eventually let it go gray in the mid-2010s.

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** Piper notably rarely changes her hair as the series goes on. By Season 3 it grows to waist length and stays that way. Even in a TimeSkip that shows her as an old woman, it's still that length. The actress who plays elderly!Piper was even cast because of her RapunzelHair.



* Addressed in ''Series/TheBrothersGarcia'' where other characters remark that Sonia has had the same hairstyle all her life. She then decides to get a radical makeover [[spoiler: but at the end she still looks exactly the same]].



* ''WesternAnimation/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.

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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.


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* Creator/HollyMarieCombs is known for having the same dark RapunzelHair since ''Charmed'''s third season, mentioned above.
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* Ruriko Tamiya, the titular "Dissection Girl" in ''Manga/FragmentsOfHorror'' not only keeps her hairstyle from childhood to adulthood, but also until her death from old age in the future of the story.

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* Ruriko Tamiya, the titular "Dissection Girl" "Dissection-chan" in ''Manga/FragmentsOfHorror'' not only keeps her hairstyle from childhood to adulthood, but also until her death from old age in the future of the story.
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* Ruriko Tamiya, the titular "Dissection Girl" in ''Manga/FragmentsOfHorror'' not only keeps her hairstyle from childhood to adulthood, but also until her death from old age in the future of the story.

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** Hinata has probably had the most hairstyle changes out of any character. In childhood flashbacks, Hinata had the same hairstyle she had in Part I. Come Part II, Hinata has grown her hair out. TheStinger of ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'' shows Hinata with short hair again as an adult, though it's in a different style than before. However, between [[spoiler:Boruto being a toddler]] and [[spoiler:Boruto going to the ninja academy]], she grew her hair back long. Then, by ''Anime/BorutoNarutoTheMovie'', her hair is back to the bob haircut she had [[spoiler:when her son was young]].

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** Hinata has probably had the most hairstyle changes out of any character. In childhood flashbacks, Hinata had the same hairstyle she had in Part I. Come Part II, Hinata has grown her hair out. TheStinger of ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'' and ''Anime/{{Boruto}}'' shows Hinata with short hair again as an adult, though it's in a different style than before. However, between [[spoiler:Boruto being a toddler]] and [[spoiler:Boruto going to the ninja academy]], she grew her hair back long. Then, by ''Anime/BorutoNarutoTheMovie'', her hair is back to the bob haircut she had [[spoiler:when her son was young]].before.


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* Nate and Katie in ''Anime/YokaiWatchShadowside'' have more-or-less the same hair they had as kids in ''Anime/YokaiWatch''.
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* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', the child versions of Liquid and Otacon are both wearing the same hairstyle they'll later have as adults (which has the effect of making Liquid's identity into TheUntwist...). Mantis's, on the other hand, goes from having a mop of shoulder-length bright red curls to being shaved bald.

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** Larry, Edgeworth, and Phoenix in the ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightTrilogy'' have this.

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** Larry, Edgeworth, and Phoenix in the ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightTrilogy'' ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Trilogy'' have this.



** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', Athena has this when we flash back to her childhood. [[spoiler:Pearl has the same hairstyle from when she was 8/9 when we see her again as a teenager, though slighly modified: Her bangs are longer and pulled to the side, hanging down and supporting a single large bead.]]

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** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', Athena has this when we flash back to her childhood. [[spoiler:Pearl has the same hairstyle from when she was 8/9 when we see her again as a teenager, though slighly slightly modified: Her her bangs are longer and pulled to the side, hanging down and supporting a single large bead.]] ]]
** If photographs seen in ''Dual Destinies'' and ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'' are any indication, Apollo's had his dual-antenna hairstyle since he was a very young boy. And according to [[spoiler:his father's Divination Seance, those antennae have been there ''since he was a baby'', when he was otherwise completely bald]].

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