Tomboyish Ponytail/Playing With

Basic Trope: A Tomboy wears her hair in a ponytail. "Alice: This is Bobbi.
 * Straight: Bobbi, the resident Action Girl, wears her hair up in a ponytail, unlike her best friend, the Magical Girl Alice, who wears it down.
 * Exaggerated: All tomboys wear their hair up.
 * Downplayed: Bobbi only puts her hair up when she's working. The rest of the time, it's down.
 * Justified: Bobbi's hair gets in her face when she's fighting if it's not up.
 * Inverted: Bobbi wears her hair down. Alice wears hers in a ponytail.
 * Subverted: Bobbi only wears her hair like that for the first season. In the second season, she wears it down.
 * Double Subverted: ...but that was only because she was attending a formal dress party (probably against her will) and needed to look elegant. The second the party is over, her hair is back to normal.
 * Parodied: The second Alice puts her hair up in a ponytail, she goes from a Distressed Damsel to a Badass.
 * Zig Zagged: The way Bobbi wears her hair varies from episode to episode.
 * Averted: Bobbi doesn't wear her hair in a ponytail.
 * Enforced: "Hey, let's introduce a Tomboy. She should have her hair in a ponytail. That's what tomboys do in real life, right?"
 * Lampshaded:

Carl: Nice ponytail.

Bobbi: Thanks. It's very practical for when I'm kicking people's asses, saving the world, or playing football."


 * Invoked: Bobbi realizes she needs to put her hair up in order to see properly, since she can't cut her hair at the moment.
 * Defied: "I hate the way ponytails look-- I'll just get a haircut!"
 * Discussed: "Have you ever noticed that all the tomboys we meet have their hair the same way as Bobbi?"
 * Conversed: "Why is it that all tomboys wear their hair in a ponytail on TV?"

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