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[[File:50353 64480409304 5734985 n 6838.jpg|link=Love Hina|frame|Naru might be the trope popularizer, but she isn't a [[ditz]] at all.]]
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Two strands of hair that stick up from the top of the head and curve forward like antennae, a style most recently popularized by ''[[Love Hina]]'' and other works by [[Ken Akamatsu]]. Probably will belong to someone... [[The Ditz|lighter in disposition]] or in general intellect. Yet another way to quickly and simply add another visual quirk to a character.
 
If the character has only one strand, it is [[Idiot Hair]].
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== Anime &and Manga ==
* Anything by Ken Akamatsu, like Naru and Mutsumi of ''[[Love Hina]]''. Also appears in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' and ''AI Love you''.
** More specifically, Mai in ''My Santa'' has [[Prehensile Hair|prehensile ones]] which she refers to as her "unhappiness detectors".
** Saotome Haruna's from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' doubles as "Love Detector".
* ''[[Dear SDearS]]'': Ren. Manga [[Omake]] plays with the idea of them being real antennae for laughs.
** Also ''[[Zombie Loan]]'''s Shito, with an omake of these two making some sort of friendship based on their antennae.
* ''[[Ah My Goddess (Manga)|Ah! My Goddess]]'': Belldandy may be the [[Trope Maker]]. And [[Art Evolution|her currentend-of-manga character design]] has ''six'' of them.
* ''[[Tenjho Tenge]]'': Maya Natsume
** You mean [[Fan Nickname|Roach Girl]]?
* ''[[Saiyuki]]'': Sha Gojyo. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Son Goku <s>on occasion</s>. Whenever he gets tired of calling him "pervy kappa," he calls Gojyo a cockroach.
* ''[[Sketchbook]]'': Nagisa, who appropriately enough is an insect [[Otaku]].
* Momo in ''[[Manabi Straight (Anime)!|Manabi Straight]]'' has antennae (and hair) long enough some fans affectionately nicknamed her [http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=301734 "Cockroach-tan"].
* ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'': Hitomi Kanzaki -- thoughKanzaki—though her Emo version from [[The Movie]] doesn't have them. She has them as a child and back in a more recent flashback. Apparently they symbolize her sunny disposition that a bad case of teenager's angst took away.
* Yume in the first ''[[Somedays Dreamers]]''. They even had an episode where it played a role in the plot.
* Sakura from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]''.
* Azuma from ''[[Yakitate!! Japan (Manga)|Yakitate!! Japan]]'' has these with his hairband on.
* Gentoku Ryuubi (Liu Bei) from ''[[Ikki Tousen (Manga)|Ikki Tousen]]''.
* Tenma from ''[[School Rumble]]''.
* While ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'''s Ed Elric has [[Idiot Hair]] (despite [[Child Prodigy|not being]] [[Insufferable Genius|an idiot]]), his father <s>[[Fan Nickname|Hohopapa]]</s> Van Hohenheim has true [[Hair Antennae]] that stick out in front of his face. True to form, he's a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
** Kimblee, too, although as the resident [[The Sociopath|sociopathic]], [[Psycho for Hire]] [[Mad Bomber]], he doesn't fit the personality type at all.
* Yuri a.k.a. Angel Lily from ''[[Wedding Peach (Manga)|Wedding Peach]]'' has hair like this, although she doesn't fit the ditzy personality part of the description.
* Rei from ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'' has two antennae.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] [[Spin Offspring|ViVid]]'' has Rio, Vivio's [[Genki Girl|energetic]], [[Supernatural Martial Arts|martial artist]] friend. It stays there even when she accesses her personal [[Older Alter Ego|Adult Mode]].
* ''[[Yosuga no Sora]]'' has quite a few: Haruka, Sora, Akira and Yahiro all have those, but Akira's the one and only [[Cloudcuckoolander]] to boot.
* Shiemi from ''[[Blue Exorcist (Manga)|Blue Exorcist]]''
* Kanon Nakagawa from ''[[The World God Only Knows (Manga)|The World God Only Knows]]'' has these but is not really a ditz. {{spoiler|The goddess inside her however...}}
* Lettuce from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' has these when she transforms. Though they also change size frequently.
* Shishiwakamaru from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' was a pretty boy opponent to Team Urameshi in the [[Tournament Arc|Dark Tournament]]. Being a demon who only looks human and has a hidden nasty side, he averts most of the lighter traits of this trope.
* The titular Medaka from ''[[Medaka Box]]'' has these, though they're less noticeable than most.
 
== Comic Books ==
 
== Comics ==
* ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'': Johnny C, after he {{spoiler|comes back from hell and most of his hair falls out}}. Literally, all he has left is hair antennae. He's... [[Ax Crazy|not]] [[Psychopathic Manchild|like]] [[Serial Killer|most]] [[Knife Nut|other]] [[Nietzsche Wannabe|examples...]]
** It symbolizes his newfound desire to shed his impulses and become icily efficient, driven by necessity rather than desire - [[Rule of Symbolism|like an insect]].
* [[Only Sane Man|Filemon]] from ''[[Mortadelo Y Filemon]]''. [[Prematurely Bald|That's all the hair he has]].
* Monroe, a character from a long-running comic series in ''[[Mad Magazine]]'', has hair like this, with the rest of his hair buzzed.
* [[X -Men|Quick]][[The Avengers (Comic Book)|silver]] has a backwards variant, though how much they stick up [[Depending Onon the Artist|depends on who's drawing him]].
* Pallo from ''Lions Tigers and Bears''. He has three coming out of his mane.
* In ''[[The Tick (comic)|The Tick]]'' comics, Barry Hubris (AKA the other Tick) has hair like this when out of costume.
 
 
== Video Games ==
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* [[Apollo Justice]], though they're not natural and he carefully gels them every morning. The form of his antennae are more like a double [[Idiot Hair]], though, with both strands pointing straight up without making a curve.
* ''[[Vagrant Story]]'': Ashley Riot's antenna actually manage to give off a retro punk vibe.
* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'': Seymour. Oh my dear God, Seymour -- thatSeymour—that is the craziest hair we have ever seen.
** Yunalesca has a more typical version.
* Tails from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has grown a little one of these. He always had a tuft of hair on the front of his head, but since the post-''[[Sonic Adventure (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure]]'' redesign it's become long and thin like antennae.
* ''[[Disgaea (Video Game)|Disgaea]]'': [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Laharl]] uses it to cheat his height. {{spoiler|Even when he's turned into a Prinny, [[Morphic Resonance|he keeps them]]. Helps identify him, although the laugh helps.}}
** [[Hair Antennae]] appear to run in the family, as King Krichevskoy also had them. {{spoiler|He loses them while assuming the identity of Vyers, but now they're back as of [[Disgaea 4: a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 aA Promise Unforgotten]].}}
* Ryoji Mochizuki from ''[[Persona 3]]'' has hair antennae, contrasting the rest of his hair, which is slicked back.
* In his third form, Haseo from ''[[.hack GU Games|.hack//G.U.]]'' has this.
* As befits a character who has butterflies as a motif, the muse Thaleia in ''[[SaGa 2|SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu: Goddess of Destiny]]'' has this type of hair.
* The female player character in ''[[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|Pokémon Black and White]]'' sports a noticeable one.
* [[Metal Gear Solid|Otacon]] sports a mild case in Metal Gear Solid 1.
* Makoto Kikuchi and Ritsuko Akizuki from ''[[The Idolmaster (Videovideo Gamegame)|THE iDOLM@STER]]''; the other girls sport mainly [[Ahoge]].
* Kaloria Cricket of [[Rance (Franchise)|Rance]] VI. Doubles as a [[Visual Pun]].
 
 
== Visual Novels ==▼
* ''[[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Clannad]]'': Nagisa Furukawa, her dad [[Hot Dad|Akio]], and her mom [[Hot Mom|Sanae]] (who has THREE strands of hair); seems to run in the family. Ushio {{spoiler|, Tomoya and Nagisa's daughter}} did not inherit the trait though.▼
 
▲=== Visual Novels ===
▲* ''[[Clannad (Visualvisual Novelnovel)|Clannad]]'': Nagisa Furukawa, her dad [[Hot Dad|Akio]], and her mom [[Hot Mom|Sanae]] (who has THREE strands of hair); seems to run in the family. Ushio {{spoiler|, Tomoya and Nagisa's daughter}} did not inherit the trait though.
 
== Web Comics ==
* [[Human Aliens]] in ''[[I Was Kidnapped Byby Lesbian Pirates Fromfrom Outer Space]]''.
* Girl in ''[[Cat and Girl]]''. They have become progressively longer over the years.
* Grace from ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]''. {{spoiler|They actually are antennae.}} Interestingly enough, as large as they are, they get [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|downright huge]] in her [[Gender Bender|male form]].
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', Princess Voluptua is a giant insect disguised as a woman. [[Morphic Resonance|Consequently,]] her eyebrows arch up high above her head, resembling antennae.
* ''[[A Miracle of Science (Webcomic)|A Miracle of Science]]'': Dr. Haas. Definitely not the usual personality type, being a dead-serious [[Mad Scientist]] with [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]. (And the antennae are used as one of the two main visual signifiers of his insanity; they instantly gain their ability to defy gravity when he's infected with [[Science -Related Memetic Disorder]].)
* From ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', Elan the bard, his twin brother Nale, and {{spoiler|their father Tarquin}} all have them.
* Zukaru and Daisuke from ''[[Fiyora Nya]]''
* Miriam from ''[[Out There]]''.
 
 
== Web Original ==
* When out of costume, Tumblebee of the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' has a pair of hair antennae.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
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** Well, considering his general motif...
** As does [[The Book of Biff|Biff]].
* ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]'''s Noximilien [[Big Bad|"Nox"]] Coxen had these before [[Start of Darkness|he went crazy]].
* Milo from Disney's ''[[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire]]'' has rather antennae-like bangs, befitting a bookish fellow like him.
 
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