I could also heal from most wounds in a few seconds. Except if a bullet managed to penetrate my helmet. The ramp to our aircraft finished its descent. Well below us lay the endless lights of a megacity. I had no idea what planet we were on, or what city we were floating above, but I never did. I ran to the edge of the ramp and leapt from the craft. The city was larger than I had first thought, and the expanse of megatowers, lights, and structures spread out for as far as I could see in all directions.
I heard the growling of the other prisoners fill my headset as they jumped. I guessed we were about three thousand meters in the air, and I felt the wings of my armored suit expand out from my underarms to connect with the matching joints on my leg. There was no weight, no pain, no fear of being tortured, or shot, or poked with needles. There was only the roar of the wind, the blackness of the sky, and the ocean of city lights below me.
I could live here forever, but I would never be able to. The collar around my neck made any dream of real freedom impossible. The only pleasure I had was this fleeting freefall, and the violence that would soon feed the raging beast they put inside of me.
As I thought about the mission, a flashing blue arrow appeared in the far distance. I angled my body in that direction and felt the wind fight against the wings. It took me a few seconds to get the feel of my falling rate and adjust the angle of descent, but soon I was plummeting toward the destination like a missile. The visor on my helmet highlighted the auto-turrets, but I could see them pivoting slowly in a circle instead of focusing on the group of descending super soldiers.
As soon as she finished counting, the parachute deployed out of the back of my armor. The fabric deployed only fifteen meters above the roof, and it yanked me from the dive I had aimed past the building like a rubber band snap.
My legs screamed when I landed, and the shock reverberated up through my spine and into my skull. Had I been a normal human, the fall probably would have killed me, but this impact was just another drop of pain in my pool of agony, and my beast healed whatever damage had been done to my legs in a matter of seconds.
A beep sounded through my helmet, and I saw the alert on my visor indicate my chute had been released from the back of my armor. The material would disintegrate in a few minutes and leave no trace that we had ever been here. Well, there would be no proof of our presence except for the mountain of bodies we were about to leave in our wake.
It was hard to talk while my body was in this form, but I wanted to make sure the other prisoners were at my back. They all growled out their numbers in order when they landed, and I grunted out the order to advance toward the nearest doorway. The other prisoners ran behind me, and we zigzagged around the auto-turrets before we made our last dash across the open roof. The doorway looked to have an electric lock panel on the outside, and the female voice ordered one of the other mutant tiger-men to place his helmet cable into the drive slot of the thing.
He did so, and the door dinged into an unlock mode some ten seconds later. Subject Eighteen opened the door and then covered the top with his rifle while I swept my shotgun into the hallway of the megatower. There will be another hallway on the right where there is an elevator. There were dozens of closed gray doors, but no one came out of them to interrupt us. I wanted to scream at her across my headset, but I knew it would just end with my death.
Instead, I just focused on my running speed, and then readied myself for the guards who were probably waiting around the corner. Before prison, I had loved to run, and my powerful legs now carried me twice as fast as I could have ever hoped to sprint as a human. I hung to the left side of the hallway and then cut a hard right to turn into the tunnel where the woman indicated the elevator would be. Sure enough, two armored guards were waiting there. The men spun as I bounded toward them, and they began to reach for their pistols.
I threw my shotgun at the head of the guard on the right. My left hand swung out a half a second after I threw the gun, and my claws extended from my fingertips, pierced through my thick gloves, and slashed across the throat of the guard on my left.
He tried to scream, but my attack had separated his vocal cords, esophagus, and most of his neck with a spray of red that coated the hallway. The first guard was rocking back from a broken nose, and I caught the shotgun as it bounced back to me. A loud, wet, crack sounded, and the guard collapsed to his feet with a broken cranium. He was probably dead, and I grabbed his security card before my fellow prisoners rounded the corner. Biosample is on the north side of the building, opposite where the doors will open.
Bring the sample back to the roof for extraction. Subject Eighteen elbowed me gently, and then he nodded at the ceiling. I followed his yellow eyes and saw the security camera globe at the corner.
Alphonse becomes distressed of that and comments how horrible his "hair" looks now. Katsura from Gintama has his hair cut off to be used as a trophy after apparently being killed by an assassin in the Benizakura arc. It eventually grows back. Shigure manages to cut Kagerou's hair with her katana; at first Kagerou looks genuinely pissed by the feat, only to reveal moments later that he was in fact kidding and that he doesn't mind his loss at all.
Dola: There's nothin' worse than having your pigtails shot off! Comic Books. In one of the opening scenes of the miniseries, the mutant Lorilei has her long pink tresses hacked off by mutant-haters.
Lex Luthor. Yup, Pre-Crisis Lex Luthor's original reason for turning evil was that, whilst he and Superboy were friends, one accident causes Lex Luthor To lose all of his hair prematurely! I'll get you for this, Superboy! Lex had just created living matter in the lab, and with it he was preparing a treatment to immunize his friend Superboy to Kryptonite.
A lab fire and Superboy's precipitate action to extinguish it destroyed the matter, and the fumes rendered Luthor bald. He resented both, but the destruction of his artificial life and the kryptonite cure were what really unbalanced Lex and maybe all those weird fumes had something to do with it The Mighty Thor : Karnilla the Norn Queen, sometimes foe and sometimes the helpful lover of his half-brother Balder, was abducted by giants to lure Balder into a death trap, and as part of her imprisonment her Rapunzel Hair was hacked off to little longer than a buzz cut along with her being forced into rags as a scullery maid.
Oddly for this trope, the cutting isn't shown beyond a panel of a lock of her long hair being held up to a knife, it's already done by the next panel. Odder still is the fact that she clearly hates her circumstances but seems to give no thought to her haircut, to the point of it never being mentioned by her or Balder when they're reunited- perhaps to emphasize the tenderness of the once famously handsome, now white-haired and paunchy Balder and his ragged, shorn, formerly glamorous lady-love not caring that they're both a sorry sight compared to their old selves and just being happy to see each other again.
Thor's own girlfriend Sif cared a lot when Loki shaved her head in a deliberate ploy to make her less attractive to Thor. Sif had the last laugh, though- Thor liked her new hair, which turned black after Loki backed out on paying the dwarves who made it out of gold, better than he'd ever liked her old blonde locks, and found her even more strikingly beautiful than before.
In Muties , Ankhi lost all of her hair overnight when her mutation first manifested itself. This was the beginning of her downward spiral into drug addiction. A modern Superman comic had Joker show up with a chemical which causes mass hysteria because Valhalla has a number of examples, both from Norse myth and comic-specific.
The first and most obvious is Loki's cutting of Sif's hair, which led to him being forced to replace it by Thor, and having the dwarves Brokk and Sindri forge new hair of pure gold for her, along with several other magical items. Played for laughs when Tjalve thinks he's getting one, but is in fact just overreacting to a slight hairstyle change. When Tyr gets his hair cut short, he acts like this. Originally it's played for laughs, but when it becomes apparent he was using his hair to cover his pointy ears which identify him as a Jotun, it very quickly stops being funny.
X normally has long and flowing black hair that reaches well below her shoulders, but when she first appears in All-New X-Men she's completely bald; likely due to either having her face melted off by Hazmat on Murderworld , or whatever it was the Purifiers did to her afterwards.
However in a nice touch by the artists, her hair grows back out to its normal length over the course of her attempt to escape from Cyclops's Weapon X base and subsequent conversation with O5 Scott.
Overlaps subtly with Expository Hairstyle Change ; Laura is suffering severe Trauma-Induced Amnesia while bald, and her hair growing back out coincides with her memories returning and shaking off her confusion over meeting the time-displaced O5. In a very special issue of Young Justice , Traya, the Bialyan-born adopted daughter of Red Tornado , was subjected to a traumatic haircut by racist classmates at her boarding school, ostensibly to avenge a classmate who lost her parents in a terrorist attack in Bialya.
The classmate was horrified by this, and later offered to let Traya borrow one of her favorite hats while she waited for her hair to grow back. Comic Strips. There were two The Far Side cartoons involving a sheep was being sheared right before a big date. Larson claims he had a history of bad haircuts when he was a kid. Fairy Tales. In The Little Mermaid , the title character's sisters all trade their long, beautiful hair to the Sea Witch for a chance to save her, similar to how the Little Mermaid had to trade her tongue to become human in the first place.
This was a deliberate attempt by the evil old crone to rob Rapunzel of the ability to snag herself a man. In some versions, the crone did it when the Prince was using Rapunzel's hair to climb up her tower In the Babylon 5 fanfic Amphetamine Logic , Emperor Cartagia cuts off all of Londo's hair in front of the court to humiliate him and strip him of his high social status.
Londo later mentions that even being publically castrated wouldn't have been as bad, and all the onlookers are horrified as well. In a strange play on this trope, it's explicitly stated that it's not the haircut itself that's traumatic; it's what it represents: Isabella's complete loss of control of her life at the hands of someone who will do absolutely anything to her and her friends if it gets him what he wants.
In The Professionals fanfic Discombobulate , Doyle is rescued from where he is being tortured. On the way out his partner notices that his hair had been shaved.
In the sequel 'Scars', Doyle refers to the incident with 'why that was one of the worst things they'd done to him he couldn't explain. Dreamland University Redux : During one of their fights, Nightmare hacks Meta Knight's long hair off with a kitchen knife.
This comes after Nightmare had already tossed Meta Knight around and it's noted that Meta Knight had been working on growing it out for a while. Dungeon Keeper Ami : When captured by the Unraveller of Mysteries , Ami gets her head forcibly shaved in preparation for what amounts to a lobotomy.
The haircut itself was not traumatic, but what was happening around it was very much so. Ami only escapes because the Unraveller of Mysteries was detained by Crowned Death when he realized that Ami had been captured. A close shave indeed. Cao Cao gets not one, but two self-inflicted bad haircuts in Farce of the Three Kingdoms.
She laments losing the hair that resembled her deceased mother. At one point, she hires a prostitute, but since she's insane, she forcefully cuts the woman's hair to resemble Mordred before beating and abusing her. Pessimal 's Discworld -set tale Gap Year Adventures , Mariella Smith-Rhodes is inducted into her country's Army for conscript service and, like the other thirty-odd girls in Recruit Platoon Twenty-Three, is shorn of a lifetime's locks.
She takes this philosophically, reflecting that it's going to be easier to manage and will make service in the jungle less sweaty and unpleasant. It's Played for Laughs as part of her embarrassing attempts at small talk, but a major theme throughout the fic is ex-hosts recovering from the trauma of having their bodily autonomy stolen from them. In this case, it wasn't that The Stranger cost X-Pac his hair as it was the unexpected nature of the attack.
Making it even more traumatic was the fact that Michelle won the match! The way she was acting, you'd think she thought her hair was never going to grow back, ever. James wasn't too happy about his bad haircut, either, but he did not go to the extremes that Jessie did.
Queen of All Oni : After Right defeats Viper in their first one-on-one fight, he shaves off most of her hair as a trophy and as a reminder that he could have killed her if he truly wanted to.
And, as it turns out, Jade needed the hair for some kind of ritual. Happens to her again in the following chapter, when Ratso and Chow take her hostage and Chow shaves off some of her hair with a warning strike of his electro-sword.
And finally, when Jade abducts her for said ritual, she's shaved bald completely, so that Jade can paint symbols on her scalp. Throughout the story, Molly Holly is depicted as still traumatized from the head shaving she got at WrestleMania 20 even though it was six years ago! Afterwards, Michelle quits the company - but returns later.
The second involved Trish Stratus. Trish and Victoria were slated to headline the FWF's first pay-per-view, but Victoria felt defeating Trish in the ring wasn't enough - she had to be humbled and humiliated, so asked for a hair vs. After losing the match, Trish cried while her hair was shaved off, but the fans cheered for her anyway.
Inverted in the third and last head shaving, after Victoria lost an epic match to Molly Holly. Victoria, having finally found the missing element of her career that one great match everyone will talk about , considered the head shaving a rebirth, as she announced her retirement as an active wrestler shortly afterwards, to become Commissioner of the FWF.
Downplayed in Rocketship Voyager. Afterwards she grouchily wonders if being a bald captain might start a trend. It didn't actually happen onscreen, but in one scene in Shadowchasers: Torment where Ben and Dugan are talking about Dugan's days in the Marines, Dugan who has been naturally bald all his life says that he was a helpful guy to have around when new recruits were getting military haircuts.
All he'd have to do if a recruit was reluctant was point to his own bald head and say, "Easy kid, yours will grow back. Sins Of the Father : Edward cuts Hohenheim's ponytail as he publicly kicks his father out of the family and strips him of his name. Hohenheim says afterward that he would have rather been beaten. When Obsidian tells him that he'd better not harm a hair on her head Achilles takes a fistful of Vale's hair and slices it right off.
It's popular Crimson Peak fanon that this happened to Lucille when she was institutionalized as a teenager. Fics often also mention her floor-length Rapunzel Hair at time of canon being a private Take That!
Films — Animation. George Sanderson from Monsters, Inc. He is always known for his tendency to get certain objects that originally belonged to human children such as socks onto his fur, and since all the other monsters think that making contact with children's belongings is considered deadly to them, poor George actually had to have all of his fur shaved off just for his safety and he's not very happy about it.
Fortunately, his fur grew back at the end of the film. Tangled naturally features this, being an adaptation of Rapunzel , but there's a twist: at the end of the movie, it's Flynn who cuts Rapunzel's hair.
Her hair has magic properties that heal the wounded and make the old young again why Gothel kidnapped her in the first place , but it loses its power if it's cut. When the villain stabs him, Rapunzel vows to stay with her forever if she'll be allowed to heal Flynn, who has been mortally wounded. By taking the option of cutting her hair before she does so , Flynn releases Rapunzel from the oppressive mother figure she's been stuck with for 18 years, knowing full well that he'll die as a result.
He gets better, as the last bits of healing magic that remain and Rapunzel's tears are good enough to save him. Films — Live-Action. When Big Al beats up Kat in. This actually upsets her more than the physical damage she sustains. In Amy And Isabelle , the mother Isabelle discovers that her daughter Amy had slept with her teacher and suffers a momentary breakdown because she had also slept with an older man as a teenager and that man got her pregnant with Amy. In a fit of rage she hacks off Amy's beautiful long curly hair.
Later near the end of the movie she takes her to the hairdressers to have it tidied up. Prime example being the Break the Haughty climax of Beauty Shop. Comes complete with Screams Like a Little Girl.
In Bent , as is custom for the prisoners in concentration camps, Max has his stylish hair shaved off. The boy-protagonist in Boyhood suffers mentally after having gotten his long hair cut short by his abusive step-dad. Unfortunately for Jan, Marcia still looked nice afterward, so her ego didn't get damaged at all. In the Girls Behind Bars film Caged , Matron Harper threatens this as punishment for any severe infractions notably against the wishes of the Reasonable Authority Figure. After Marie is found hiding a kitten in her room, she's punished by having all her long hair shaved off.
It marks the point where she gets completely broken from the doe-eyed good girl she was when she entered prison. The "Creepy Thin Guy" in the Charlie's Angels movie duology does this, as he has a thing for ripping out the hair with his bare hands and sniffing them.
The Crying Game. The last thing she wants to be is a boy again. The only way Dil agrees is that Fergus insists that he's doing it for love; she still cries as her hair is cut.
Fergus: Do anything for me? Dil: Anything Fergus: You said anything. Dil: Girl has to draw the line somewhere. Thor: [meekly] Please, kind sir, please don't cut my hair Happens to a rape victim in Almost the Truth by Margaret Yorke. It's played on repeatedly throughout the book: she uses it as evidence of physical assault in court, her hairstyle is referred to many times even after it's grown out, and her father thinks about the incident often since he didn't witness the rape as he decides to take revenge on the rapist.
At one point in Animorphs , Rachel ends up having to sell 6 inches of her hair to an Iskoort in order to pay for the services of a guide-about-town incidentally named Guide. He wanted all of it. Rachel threatened violence. Guide compromised. He also wanted the last foot and a half of Ax's tail. Same basic story. Ax also describes how in Andalite society, someone who has shamed himself gets a certain kind of haircut or fur-cut called unschweet, with the idea being that their honor slowly returns as the hair grows back.
Inverted in L. Montgomery 's Anne of Green Gables —the haircut is because of the trauma. Anne attempted to dye her hair black, but it comes out a hideous green. People assume she had been come down with a disease that caused it to fall out, which was why she was absent from school for some time and came back virtually bald.
In one of The Baby-Sitters Club spinoff "Little Sister" books, Karen hates the short haircut she gets mainly because she didn't ask for it to look like that and tries various methods to make herself look nicer again, including repeatedly going by more "glamorous" names.
Luckily her hair is growing back by the end of the story. Happens in Becky's Horse , by Winifred Madison, when Becky's sister Mimi tries to dye her hair blonde and it comes out greenish. She has it cut, and stops being vain about her hair. In Belle Prater's Boy , Gypsy chops off her long blonde hair after having a flashback to a horrifying incident. She found her father after he'd committed suicide because he was no longer handsome. She has it neatened up at a barbershop, tells her friends at school it's the latest style, a "Dixie Pixie", and starts a new trend.
Scott Fitzgerald ends with the title character chopping off her sleeping cousin's hair as revenge for convincing Bernice to get a haircut, which is not only highly unflattering but due to the mores of the day all Bernice's male admirers now think of her as "loose. Once her parents and uncle die, her Aunt Mary doesn't want to keep her in the house.
She also doesn't want to drive all the way to the next town to put her in a home for girls - so she cuts all Louise's hair off and sends her to the local home for boys as 'Lee Irwin'. Not surprisingly, Louise seeks revenge when she's older. In the Celeste series, Celeste's mother cuts Celeste's hair while she is asleep, in order to force her to dress as a boy and assume the identity of her dead twin brother.
Bree is especially annoyed and tries to delay his entry into Narnia so that he won't undergo the shame of being seen with a ragged tail by the rest of his kind. It's not helped by how Shasta and Aravis didn't have anything similar to scissors and had to use a scimitar, which made the process actually quite dangerous and painful.
In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , the White Witch has Aslan tied down and his mane cut off before executing him the film shows that in the final battle the next day, she's wearing it around her as a Battle Trophy. From their hiding place, Susan and Lucy weep at the sight. When he is revived, his mane grows back. In the book Circle Of Blood by Alane Ferguson, the book's victim is found dead with her long braid cut off beside her. It later turns out that her killers were members of the cult she escaped from, and cutting off her hair was their way of stealing her beauty.
In The Color Purple Celie writes that Misters girls have hair that hasn't been combed since their mother died, being that it is so unmanageable, she suggests shaving the hair off and starting fresh. Mister disagrees and says that it is "bad luck to cut a woman hair. Twelve-year-old Donogh has shoulder length curls and is about to have them cut too, but they instead suggest disguising him as a girl as the Cromwellians will be looking for a boy. Thus he keeps his hair but has to wear a dress.
The Deed of Paksenarrion : This may ring a bit hollow given the rest of the terrible stuff that follows including actual rape , but a shaved head is one of the first things to be done to Paks during her five days of Cold-Blooded Torture.
The act invoked the more lawful established practice of tinisi turin "shorn sheep" , a punishment for military criminals. Considering that Paks' long, thick yellow hair is one of her defining features, it does sting.
The Demonata : "Lord Loss" Grubbs is committed to a mental hospital, he notes that his hair is cut quite short - "tighter than I'd like" - and it's not said if he grows it out again once he's checked out. The men also have their sidelocks cut off and the movie version shows the Rabbi with his beard cut off. In the first book of Doctrine of Labyrinths Felix has his hair chopped off with shears when he's sent to St. At first he doesn't understand why she's so upset, until he remembers that Ellen has been letting her hair grow long enough to braid.
In The Famine Secret when the girls enter the workhouse, they have to have their long hair cut short, presumably to control lice or disease. It's especially traumatic for Fiona, who had beautiful golden locks, and she protests against it. Deirdre meanwhile does her best to remain stoic, picking up her cut off hair and throwing it on the fire to help things along.
By the time the children escape the workhouse and flee home, the girls' hair has grown out again. Not content with this safety measure, he orders her to be dressed as a boy, and to have her long wavy hair cut very short. Aunt Fanny does this, causing Berta to weep in earnest. Nobody liked to point out there was a D in "wonderful" just then.
Berta was really upset about her hair. Vorrutyer: I must think what can be done with that hair. One might remove the scalp entirely, of course, but there must be something more creative Live-Action TV. Subverted in 3rd Rock from the Sun when an upset girlfriend cuts off Tommy's ponytail and hands it to him before storming away.
Tommy, an alien crammed into human form, reacts with something to the effect of "Wow, if I'd known I could get rid of that damn thing so easily I would have done it a long time ago!
The girl has long blonde hair, and the hairdresser remarks how hard it is to make the resulting haircut look nice, because the patients rarely want them in the first place. In the Israeli TV series Alifim had a gang of older students ambush the protagonist and give them unwanted haircuts before the end of term. It was mainly the boys who were affected, getting patches of their hair shaved off. But one victim was a girl - who had part of her pigtail chopped off. The boys shaved off the rest of their hair to give themselves buzzcuts, and the girl evened out the rest of her hair - which was still thankfully at least past her shoulders.
The Amazing Race used this as a Fast Forward challenge a chance to get a big jump on other teams twice. The first team to encounter the Fast Forward was a pair of professional models. Rather than seriously damage a part of their professional image, they decided against taking on the challenge and returned to the regular course. A husband-and-wife team, Uchenna and Joyce, came across this Fast Forward the second time it was offered.
Uchenna was already shaved bald to begin with, so Joyce bravely let her long hair be cut off. Fortunately, Uchenna kept reassuring Joyce that she was still beautiful to him, even after sacrificing all her hair, and Uchenna and Joyce eventually won the race and the million dollars that season. Every season of America's Next Top Model has a "makeover" episode which involves every surviving contestant getting new hairstyles. At least one girl with long hair will have a crying fit when she finds out it's getting cut short.
As the seasons go on, and the haircuts seem designed to neither make the model look better nor be more acceptable to the world of fashion, the line between "necessary sacrifice" and "traumatic hazing ritual" gets thinner and thinner. There was one girl who defined herself by her long hair. Guess what they did? Cut it off. All of it. Because that was how she defined herself. The poor girl performed badly for the rest of the time she was on the show because she was so traumatized.
Season 5's Cassandra, whose hair was cut short and who never stopped complaining about it , quit the show when Tyra wanted to cut it even shorter. Season 16 had the opposite case in Molly. The Diana Ross weave in the makeover episode irritated her scalp so much she was actually euphoric when she got her cut.
Inverted with one of the male models, who started out with short hair but got extensions put in to give him a 'Jesus' look. It was every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. Another guy was given a facial hair weave, with similar results. Subverted with another male model, who was shaved completely bald.
Initially horrified, he soon found that he suited the look and gave advice to the next cycle's contestants. Bad Lad Army - modern teens had to join the army. In the first season, some recruits underwent this willingly: they had a choice between a buzz cut and going fully bald.
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