Basic Trope: A character's hair is in pigtails to show their youthful nature.
- Straight:
- Summer, a child-like Genki Girl, sports a pair of twin tails.
- Summer, a bratty Tsundere, sports a pair of twin tails.
- Exaggerated: Summer's pigtails are enormous. She's also a huge Womanchild.
- Downplayed: Summer is somewhat more lighthearted than the rest of the cast.
- Justified: Summer's mother still cuts her hair. She has been wearing the same style for years.
- Inverted: Summer is the most mature, straitlaced member of the main cast.
- Gender Inverted: Spencer is a child-like Keet with a pair of twin tails.
- Subverted:
- Summer is introduced in pigtails. It was part of a costume for a play. After letting her hair down, it stays down for the rest of the series.
- Summer reveals her childish behavior was all an act.
- Double Subverted: Summer gets an Expository Hairstyle Change and regains her pigtails, symbolizing her restored link to her childhood.
- Parodied: Summer acts like a toddler.
- Zig Zagged: Summer switches between putting her hair into pigtails, putting it into a ponytail, and letting it down.
- Averted:
- Summer does not have pigtails.
- Summer's twin tails symbolize something else entirely, like the duality of her nature.
- Enforced: The show's creators are trying to make a character who looks as cute as possible to sell more merchandise. They choose pigtails to emphasize the character's cuteness.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Summer changes her hair to pigtails to make herself look younger.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Summer refuses to change her hair to pigtails, believing it would detract from her mature image.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Summer's hairstyle leads to people around her being condescending and treating her like a child.
- Played for Horror:
- Summer is a murderous Psychopathic Womanchild and her hair emphasizes that fact.
- Summer is a murderous Psychopathic Womanchild who kills her victims with her twin tails.
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