History Main / ImprobableHairstyle

* ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha'': Sana's mother, whose hair is a combination of this, NiceHat, and miniature mobile theme park for the family's pet squirrel.

* ''Webcomic/{{Blindsprings}}'' has a heroine named [[http://blindsprings.com/comic/002 Tamaura,]] whose RapunzelHair is literally twice the size of her frail body and entirely composed of RegalRinglets. She goes the extra mile by adding a dozen or so hair decorations, most prominently the [[FlowerInHerHair Flowers in Her Hair.]] She's also been [[FantasticNatureReserve living in the woods]] for about [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 300 years,]] sleeping in the dirt and [[EarthyBarefootCharacter prancing around barefoot]] through countless bushes, rivers and piles of snow, ''[[BeautyIsNeverTarnished and the only time when her hair is ruined]]'' is when she's taken outside her forest, and therefore the [[spoiler:reach of the [[NatureSpirit Nature Spirits]] [[MagicallyBindingContract that protect her]]/[[TheAgeless keep her from aging]]/[[GildedCage shut her away from the outside world.]]]]

-->-- '''[=AlMiles=]''' of [[Website/OutpostGallifrey The Doctor Who Forum]] on ''Series/RobinHood''

* There are actually artistic hairstyling competitions that take this trope to incredible levels. Past competitions have included entries such as realistic hair sculptures similar to the page image, the current page image for HelicopterHair (a literal hair helicopter woven out of braids, with motorized spinning propellers also made from hair), and technicolor CyberPunk AnimeHair stylings with TronLines formed by interwoven fiber optic cables.

* Rapunzel from ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' gives us a twofer. First of all she has over 70-feet of long golden hair (though the length seems to change everywhere they go) but it's justified since the hair is actually magic. When she reaches the kingdom's capitol, she gets a more convenient style when three girls somehow [[CompressedHair compress]] that huge mass of hair into a fiendishly-complex mass of ankle-length braids. Then [[spoiler: she gets her hair cut off into a perfectly styled and layered pixie cut. The hair was cut off in one go with a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade pane of glass]]]].

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* ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'':
** Samsonite is caught in a form of homeostasis that grants her utter and complete invulnerability. This includes her hair, which is always perfectly straight and hangs down to the middle of her back, no matter what she tries to do with it.
** Similarly, The Shield's power (a skin-tight impenetrable force field) keeps his hair shorn to the scalp.
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** Link's first [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda video game incarnation]] sported bangs that defied gravity, to the point that he appears to be wearing a baseball cap. [[AllThereInTheManual You wouldn't be able to tell in-game, though]].

** His dad has it too, and it's shown to be prehensile, as he uses it to pick up Gaz in "Gaz, Taster of Pork".

* ''Webcomic/{{Blindsprings}}'' has a heroine named [[http://blindsprings.com/comic/002 Tamaura,]] whose RapunzelHair is literally twice the size of her frail body and entirely composed of RegalRinglets. She goes the extra mile by adding a dozen or so HairDecorations, most prominently the [[FlowerInHerHair Flowers in Her Hair.]] She's also been [[FantasticNatureReserve living in the woods]] for about [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 300 years,]] sleeping in the dirt and [[EarthyBarefootCharacter prancing around barefoot]] through countless bushes, rivers and piles of snow, ''[[BeautyIsNeverTarnished and the only time when her hair is ruined]]'' is when she's taken outside her forest, and therefore the [[spoiler:reach of the [[NatureSpirit Nature Spirits]] [[MagicallyBindingContract that protect her]]/[[TheAgeless keep her from aging]]/[[GildedCage shut her away from the outside world.]]]]

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%%* Wyn's hair from ''Literature/DimensionHeroes''.
* ''Shutter and Pencil'':
** Toki's hairstyles are something of an odd case. Her elaborate hairstyles (an example of such can be seen [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Reclining-in-Elegance-618926954 here]] and [[http://shutterandpencil.tumblr.com/post/160987843935/toki-in-a-beehive-done-with-marker-color here]]) can be rather probable in the sense her ''extremely'' long hair can make it so, however, one would have to wonder as to how she can maintain them or, for that matter, take her street-length hair and compress it to a bun or few.
** Her twin sister, Doki is an otherwise averted case, as her hair is shorter and wouldn't need high maintenance, anyway [[http://shutterandpencil.tumblr.com/image/161426335096]] [[http://img15.deviantart.net/9503/i/2016/045/3/e/a_picture_of_doki_by_akaichounokoe-d9d8ewi.jpg]].
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Tennyo's hair. Long, perfect, it looks like it would take ten hours to create, and all day to maintain. In fact, it refuses to do anything else. She can't get dyes to stick to it, so the color is unmistakable. It's impossible to cut. She can't get it into any other style. It won't stay wet even when she showers. She's stuck with it.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy's [[spoiler:fresh-from-the-coffin hair in "Bargaining" is neatly combed and has only a few leaves in it after she ''clawed her way out of the grave'']].

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.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]" has a black girl, Isabella, living in Venice in 1580, sporting pin-straight hair centuries before the development of hairstyling products and techniques that would allow for it.

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* ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'': The police officers who were trapped underground for a period of weeks or months looked very well-groomed on being freed, everyone with neat and clean hair and clothes, the men clean-shaven.

** An episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'', "Pursuit of Peace", [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope when Teckla Minnau — one of Padmé's handmaidens — hands her a pre-made wig in preparation for a Senate meeting.

** The Thirteenth Doctor is supposed to be ''[[DyeingForYourArt naturally]]'' blonde, but Creator/JodieWhittaker has a persistent problem with visible dark roots. (Her appearances in comic books, as well as toys and figurines, don't have dark roots.)

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** Gems' hair is part of their {{Self Constructed|Being}} HardLight bodies, which is presumably why it retains occasionally [[AnimeHair bizarre shapes]] in harsh conditions with zero maintenance. Garnet's [[FunnyAfro enormous, cubic afro]] in particular can [[https://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/File:Steven_The_Sword_Fighter_033.png support Steven's entire body]] without deforming. Even stranger, a large part of Blue Diamond's hair ''has no end'', forming a seamless loop into and out of her head.

** Uri from his season also fits with some odd-looking curls.

* Almost ''all'' of the ladies on ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' have long hair that is always worn loose and immaculately cut, styled, and taken care of, despite the lack of grooming products in the apocalypse and the sweltering Georgia heat. Not to mention the hordes of zombies that could easily snatch a survivor ByTheHair. In later seasons, even some of the men have impractically long hair, such as Daryl and Jesus.

* The original ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1980'' isn't exempt either. Harry Hamlin's Perseus sports a rather obvious 80s perm.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]] has a black girl, Isabella, living in Venice in 1580, sporting pin-straight hair centuries before the development of hairstyling products and techniques that would allow for it.

* In ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' Crixus sports a modern military crew cut. While the Romans did invent the military cut, it was more like the one Spartacus is forced to get. You're not getting it shaved that tight without electric clippers. Lucretia is a subversion. We see her with improbable red hair but the third episode reveals she wears wigs - which is TruthInTelevision for many Roman noble women. Also Spartacus's wife Sura has a modern layered haircut with a fringe.

* Speaking of ''Star Trek'', the Original Series featured some truly insane 'dos' on the heads of [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/a/ae/GraceLeeWhitney_as_Rand.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090328062515 female officers and crew]]. Somewhere on the Enterprise 1701 there was a top notch beauty parlor. As for the ''[[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/36/9e/97/369e974ad3e28a0da2b60265ea9a4a19.jpg Aliens]]''!!!

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

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Setsuna's hair probably isn't outright impossible. However, she has bangs on only one side of her face, a weird spiky ponytail on one side while the other lets that hair just hang down naturally. And judging by her picture on the Negima character page, there appears to be another random hairband on the '[[FashionableAsymmetry normal]]' haircut side of her head.

** Gundam really loves this trope, giving utterly ridiculous 80s haircuts to just about everyone.

* Many [[Creator/RobLiefeld Liefeld]]-style [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks 90s comics]] characters had ludicrously long, physics-defying ponytails that were occasionally mixed in with other hairstyles at the same time. Case in point: [[http://www.somethingawful.com/fashion-swat/comic-swat/5/ Shatterstar]].
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': Nero is completely bald, but has two thin hairs sticking out of his head, much like the antennas of an insect.

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* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': Legolas' miraculously tangle-free hair. Aragorn's, on the other hand, gets pretty grubby-looking.

*** Cloud Strife has an [[AnimeHair extreme hairstyle]] that he maintains '''perfectly''' through rain, snow, desert heat, motorcycle riding, Chocobo racing, RandomEncounters, falling hundreds of feet down through a solid roof, spending years being subjected to medical torture in PeopleJars, being sucked through an underground stream across the whole of the world and washing up on the beach having gone [[AngstComa so insane that he cannot even sit up straight in a chair]], and wearing a wig. {{Justified}} as the game's primitive graphics allowed little else for identification of the character, and because Cloud's unique hairstyle makes the character model continually stand out even against the game's busy backdrops. In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', where the graphics are much better, Cloud's hair is shown plastered down in the final scene - in a shocking image that's supposed to show Cloud at the point of losing his entire identity - but even then it doesn't budge that much.

* ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'':
** Samsonite is caught in a form of homeostasis that grants her utter and complete invulnerability. This includes her hair, which is always perfectly straight and hangs down to the middle of her back, no matter what she tries to do with it.
** Similarly, The Shield's power (a skin-tight impenetrable force field) keeps his hair shorn to the scalp.
* Toki's hairstyles are something of an odd case. Her elaborate hairstyles (an example of such can be seen [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Reclining-in-Elegance-618926954 here]] and [[http://shutterandpencil.tumblr.com/post/160987843935/toki-in-a-beehive-done-with-marker-color here]]) can be rather probable in the sense her ''extremely'' long hair can make it so, however, one would have to wonder as to how she can maintain them or, for that matter, take her street-length hair and compress it to a bun or few.

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* Speaking of ''Star Trek'', the Original Series featured some truly insane 'dos' on the heads of [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/a/ae/GraceLeeWhitney_as_Rand.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090328062515 female officers and crew]]. Somewhere on the Enterprise 1701 there was a top notch beauty parlor. As for the ''[[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KvGFPt21Owk/VNj9T6XON2I/AAAAAAAAE9w/f0bh2zRi5Fw/s1600/mara's%2Blook2.png Aliens]]''!!!

* Speaking of ''Star Trek'', the Original Series featured some truly insane 'dos' on the heads of female officers and crew. Somewhere on the Enterprise 1701 there was a top notch beauty parlor. As for the ''Aliens''!!!

* There are actually artistic hairstyling competitions that take this trope to incredible levels. Past competitions have included entries such as realistic hair sculptures similar to the page image, the current page image for HelicopterHair (a literal hair helicopter woven out of braids, with motorized spinning propellers also made from hair [[note]][[CaptainObvious The motors, however, were made from motors and not braided hair]][[/note]]), and technicolor CyberPunk AnimeHair stylings with TronLines formed by interwoven fiber optic cables.

* Wrestling/LegionOfDoom members Hawk and Animal took to wearing a flat top Mohawk and a hair cut purposefully designed after male pattern baldness, with paint in between the part in the mid 1980s.

* Leela from ''WesternAnimation/Futurama'' has a ponytail that goes to her breast level, and remains perfectly fine during all of her ActionGirl routine.

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