History Main / ImprobableHairstyle

** Notably averted by the Fourth Doctor, who, when he regenerates, has his hair and facial hair in the same rollered bouffant style with short sideburns (going only just below the cheekbone) that the Third Doctor had been wearing at the time of his death. His hair gets messed up while he's in sickbay, and he doesn't bother to put it back, which becomes his trademark hairstyle. He also grows his sideburns into their usual mouth-length shape over the course of the story, although they grow much faster than normal facial hair would. ({{Justified}} as he has just regenerated and his physical processes are shown to be in overdrive, with his heartbeat racing).

** The Sixth Doctor regenerated with an obvious perm.

* Garnet from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' is able to cut off her RapunzelHair into a perfectly styled BobHaircut with one slice of a dagger while her eyes are closed. Youtube anyone cutting their hair off with a blade and you'll find that no matter how sharp it is, it's impossible to cut through hair on one stroke. Garnet's hair also rapidly grows back to its original length in time for the game's ending which is only less than a year later.

** The Centauri are an entire race with an Improbable Hairstyle. Their [[RubberForeheadAliens primary difference]] from humans is that the males can style their hair into gigantic fans/crests up to a foot high.

* Martha Jones during the ''Series/DoctorWho'' two-parter "Human Nature" / "The Family of Blood." Since she was waiting for several months in 1913 at that time, a few people questioned how her hair was able to stay pin-straight in a time before most hair-care products.

* ''{{Rugrats}}'': Didi's giant orange triforce.

* TheAdventuresOfTintin: Tintin's quiff stays erect no matter what happens.

* ''TheSimpsons'': Marge Simpson's hair nearly always springs back into the same ridiculously-tall shape, no matter how it might get compressed or disturbed. She is shown as having a whole drawer full of hairspray, however, using several cans a day to maintain it. (It was pretty long even when she was a teenager, but not nearly long enough to become what it is now... and that was shortly before her senior prom when she ''first'' started wearing it like that.)

Maintenance-improbable hairstyle are hairstyles that are uncannily maintained while stranded on islands, planets, the past, spaceships... despite the lack of any hairstylist access. Like dreadlocks --Styled dreadlocks require regular maintenance.

* In ''DextersLaboratory'' Dee Dee manages to dye Dexter's hair blond in his sleep without him noticing. For that to work she would have had to prop him up and keep him that way while she pasted the dye on and left it to set. Then she likely would have had to use sedatives to stop him from waking up while she washed it. Or Dexter is just a '''very''' heavy sleeper.

* Averted in ''{{Carnivale}}'' in an episode where Libby's hair, curled in a style common to the time period in which she lives, falls flat and gets pretty messy after she spends some time stranded in the middle of a desert. Also, when Sophie leaves the carnival and becomes Justin's maid, her hair actually looks noticeably better groomed.

* A common feature of [[RobLiefeld Liefeld]]-style [[TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks 90s comics]]. Case in point: [[http://www.somethingawful.com/fashion-swat/comic-swat/5/ Shatterstar]], who managed to rock three different bad hairstyles at the same time.

** Petoetje has a high Afro hair cut, which gives him the unique opportunity to dance while jumping on his head.

* ''StarWars'' gives us Queen Amidala. During her first film appearance, every other scene, she's sporting a more improbable hairstyle than the last. Nobody seems to notice. Her daughter, Leia, is almost as bad. Those [[OdangoHair hair buns]] she had in the first movie took two hours for a professional hairdresser to do. [[http://skepchick.org/blog/2010/07/mythbusting-princess-leias-hair/ This]] is a list of her hair and its plausibility in real life.

* ''KamenRiderOOO''.

** Also, Philip from the previous series, ''KamenRiderDouble'', whose hair, although different from Ankh's, sports similarly flippy bangs (on the opposite side). During his BigDamnHeroes moment in episode 16, when he removes his motorcycle helmet his hair appears messy, but in the next shot it's as perfect as always, as if he didn't have the helmet on to begin with.

* While their normal hairstyles are pretty basic and easy to perform, many of the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' hairstyles when transformed, especially those post-''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' can get ridiculous.

* ''TheSimpsons'': Marge Simpson's hair nearly always springs back into the same ridiculously-tall shape, no matter how it might get compressed or disturbed. She is shown as having a whole drawer full of hairspray, however, using several cans a day to maintain it. And when she's younger it's long and flowing.

* {{Inuyasha}} has two locks of hair over his shoulders that remain separate from his [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy considerably long hair]] no matter what he goes through, up to and including getting smashed through cliffs.

* Garnet from ''FinalFantasyIX'' is able to cut off her RapunzelHair into a perfectly styled BobHaircut with one slice of a dagger while her eyes are closed. Youtube anyone cutting their hair off with a blade and you'll find that no matter how sharp it is, it's impossible to cut through hair on one stroke. Garnet's hair also rapidly grows back to its original length in time for the game's ending which is only less than a year later.

* In ''MarieAntoinette'', before she goes to France, she is very clearly seen with a modern hairstyle, complete with hair cut in layers and multiple shades of highlights.
* ''ClashOfTheTitans'' (2010): Perseus manages to maintain a ''buzzcut'' while travelling the world for months on end.
* In TheEighties version of ''ClashOfTheTitans'', Harry Hamlin in the original 80s film sported a dreadful 80s mullet uncharacteristic for Ancient Greece.

** Also, Elizabeth spending most of the last film on sailing ships with her long hair loose, in high winds. Her RabbleRousingSpeech should have left her head practically tied to the rigging.

* Alice's fluffy triangle in ''{{WesternAnimation/Dilbert}}''. It was lampshaded in the episode about Y2K when Catbert (the Evil Director Of Human Resources) points out that she spends a ''lot'' of time doing her hair and makeup in the morning.

** As a matter of fact, this IS a fairly simple hairstyle ''if your hair is long enough''. We're talking butt-length at minimum. Tie two ponytails where you want the buns to go. Then tie a plain knot at the base of each one and put a hair elastic on each ponytail where it goes into the knot. Done! It helps if you tie two hair elastics together over the top of your head and loop them under each bun to counteract gravity. However, the improbable part is how the loose hair doesn't turn into a complete mess just like any other long, loose hairstyle in real life.