Flare Corona can not only extend her hair to ridiculous lengths and block most forms of magic but also transform it into a wolf or set it on fire.Duel Masters has Mikuni-later named "Johnny Coolburns" in the dub-is able to flail his ponytail when he gets worked up enough.In D.Gray-Man the characters Jasdero and Devit are twins, in which if they sing their song and shoot each other (seriously), they turn into one entity that has an unbelievable amount of hair reaching his full height, which he'll often use to stab.Minatsuki "Hummingbird" Takami from Deadman Wonderland has this as her Branch of Sin power. This comes from his ability to communicate with hair, which is only shown in a flashback in the first episode with his afro telling him that he's some kind of freak for being able to talk to hair. Also chest, leg, armpit, and head hair in the case of Bobobo's relatives (one type of hair for each). Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo: Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo - although that's nose hair in his case.Halbet from Black Clover is a vain mage who uses Hair Magic that grows her hair to be prehensile and shaped into bladed weapons.Naturally, this carries over into her expy Yami in To Love Ru.Mostly she turns it into hammers, but it has also become spikes, fists, blades, porcupine quills, and a bell like the ones used in boxing matches. Eve from Black Cat uses her Shapeshifting abilities to use her hair as a weapon.Betrayal Knows My Name: Ashley has long hair that she can use to attack or grab people with.Mino Nenki from Basilisk can control hair as if it were his limbs, allowing him to do everything from wielding multiple weaponry with hair bundles to skewering victims with pointed strands.Assassination Classroom: Itona has prehensile hair literally made of Combat Tentacles the same kind Koro-sensei has.In Alien Nine the anime, Kasumi develops this when she gets eaten by the Yellow Knife alien earlier in the series, when Yuri freaks out as she's attacked by three classmates possessed by the aliens clamped on their heads, her borg turns into Prehensile Hair and starts killing all the aliens in the room.Empress Gehenna in the Korean manga Aflame Inferno uses her magical hair as whips, blades, shield, etc.See also Feather Fingers, Helicopter Hair. Even when this type of animate hair isn't in motion, it tends to look like its inanimate cousin Messy Hair. Can fall under Bizarre Alien Limbs.Ĭompare Expressive Hair, which is when a coif is more inclined to telegraph emotions than to strangle random passersby - although there can be considerable overlap between the two. However, there are acceptable justifications such as Functional Magic, Bizarre Alien Biology, etc. Depending on how it's used, Required Secondary Powers are necessary if the hair can support more weight than the wielder's scalp and neck.Ī subtrope of Artistic License – Biology, as hair is, by definition, a filamentous outgrowth of dead cells from the skin. To allow their fringes to- okay, you get the idea.ĭepending on the Writer, this can act as a Swiss-Army Superpower, and its strength ranges from forming a whiplash or picking up a spare weapon, to allowing characters to form extra arms, mallets, chainsaws, and throwing around boulders with a flick of their fronds. Characters with superpowers that allow their mullets to become murderous. And then there are the people who have the ability to make it move. Sometimes people have a hairdo so big it seems like it has a mind of its own, and moves of its own accord.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |