Basic Trope: A large amount of hair is easily put into a much smaller shape.
- Straight: Alice removes her helmet, revealing herself as the heroic Knight of Dawn, and her long, thick red hair comes tumbling out.
- Exaggerated: Alice removes a fitted hat, and her long hair comes tumbling out.
- Downplayed: Alice's hair is only moderately long, and her helmet is fairly roomy.
- Justified:
- Hammerspace hats/helmets.
- Alice can magically change her hair's length. When she takes off the helmet she transforms it from short to long.
- Inverted: Princess Alice is known for her luxuriously long Regal Ringlets. Unbeknownst to all, however, her signature hairstyle is actually a wig — she's secretly cut her real hair short so that she can conceal her identity easier when working outside the castle.
- Subverted: When Alice unmasks, it's shown that she got an Important Haircut in order to hide her identity as the Knight of Dawn.
- Double Subverted: ...At least, it looks like her hair was shorter. Until she does a Hair Flip and shakes it loose, with the Hand Wave that she'd somehow tucked and styled it so that it fit into her helmet better (and just appeared to be shorter).
- Parodied:
- Alice disguises herself with a pair of Cool Shades and a bald cap; all she has to do is whip off the former, and the latter vanishes while her hair dramatically unfolds and ripples around her.
- Alice is a Shameless Fanservice Girl wearing nothing but a hat. She removes it and her luscious Godiva Hair falls down to cover her ... and she blushes in embarrassment.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice alternates between trying successfully and unsuccessfully to compile her hair into her hat or helmet, and not bothering with headwear.
- Averted: Alice modifies her helmet by either lengthening it so that she can fit all her hair inside, or putting in a place to thread a ponytail through.
- Enforced: The author really wants that big, dramatic reveal for the Knight of Dawn, but likes Alice's hairstyle too much to alter it.
- Lampshaded: Upon The Reveal, there's a Jaw Drop: "How did you fit all that hair in there?!"
- Invoked: Alice makes hats and is very fond of her long hair, so she makes a hat that can fit her hair into it and decides to make it easier by learning how to pile her hair on top of her head.
- Exploited: Alice uses this as part of her denial. When accused of being the Knight of Dawn she tugs on her hair and states that she wouldn't be able to get it under a helmet that size. She has a different way to manage it in reality.
- Defied: Alice tries to fit it under the helmet but gives up and lets her hair flow out from the back, unbound because the ponytail would look too obviously female. This becomes an iconic part of the costume.
- Discussed:Bob: How you do fit all your hair under there?Alice: ...you've never had long hair, have you, Bob? It's just a crown braid—I braid it, loop the braid up over my head, and use ribbon to tie it in place. All knights wear padding under helmets—they're not exactly comfortable, you know. My hair just gives me an extra layer of padding.
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Alice thinks she's a Master of Disguise, but it's really a Paper-Thin Disguise. When she goes for the big, dramatic reveal, her hair explodes into a Funny Afro, and she goes into a Heroic BSoD over her horrific case of hat hair.
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