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[[File:hyperspacearsenal.jpg|link=Excel Saga (anime)|frame|Those aren't hairpins!]]
This is an old gag. It's where someone seems to have a storage space set in his hair. Usually, that hairstyle is [[Funny Afro|an afro]], but not always. Why is he capable of doing this? Because he has
▲This is an old gag. It's where someone seems to have a storage space set in his hair. Usually, that hairstyle is [[Funny Afro|an afro]], but not always. Why is he capable of doing this? Because he has [[Hammerspace Hair]]!
A minor variation is when a character keeps things stored in his beard. Can also be invoked if a character's entire body is covered with hair.
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For times when it seems like someone's hair must have been hidden in hammerspace, see [[Compressed Hair]]. This is actually a real technique some people employ in street fights, so is often a subtrope of [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* As seen in the page image, Nabeshin from ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' would occasionally keep things in his hair. Like [[BFG|big guns]].
{{quote|'''Excel:''' That's some ''serious'' dandruff, man.}}
** Nabeshin's cameo in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' has him randomly fall over at one point, at which a handful of items fall out. Oh, and he himself was hiding in it before.
* A line from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Kotaro had just pulled a vial out of his hair, with only Chamo asking, "He hid it in his hair?"
* Lambo from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' keeps a bazooka bigger than he is in his hair.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho
* In the ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' movie, Yoko pulls a pistol out of her hair while fighting Adiane.
* ''[[
* Even when downsized to a puppy, the inugami Byakuei from ''[[Ga-Rei]]'' still manages to fit a huge double-bladed sword in his tail. His real size is a lot bigger, though.
** [[Never Mess with Granny|Fujiko]] plays it mostly straight: she hides ''shuriken'' in her, well, wig.
* In episode seven of ''[[Wandaba Style]]'', Michael Hanagata is wearing a spacesuit and gets a call on his cellphone. He manages to take the call without taking off his helmet by shaking his head, dislodging his cellphone from his afro. It's later revealed that he keeps it in there all the time. Also in episode seven, his [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|shoulder devil]] pops out his afro as well.
* Dasonu* Maso of ''[[Keroro Gunso]]'' can travel through space ''in his own afro'', then land wherever he
* In ''[[One Piece]]', Ivankov's head is so large he can hide ''people'' inside his hair.
* Iris in ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' hides her Axew in her bushy hair.
* Tails in ''[[Sonic X]]'' apparently is able to tuck away Chaos Emeralds in the fluff of his tails. In one episode he also gets a screwdriver from apparently nowhere, most likely his... Hammerspace Tail Fur?
* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy|Duo Maxwell]] from ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' subverts this trope. He wears hairpins...ostensibly to control flyaways, but actually used for picking locks.
* Garterbelt from ''[[Panty & Stocking with
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' has V.V. pulling a machine gun out of his hair. Somewhat subverted in that while the machine gun is [[Small Girl, Big Gun|bigger than V.V.]], it is smaller [[Rapunzel Hair|than his hair.]]
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Leonard Le Genie]] often pulls objects out of his beard, most notably a blunderbuss.
* ''[[Monica's Gang]]'' has Fluffy/Floquinho, a Lhasa Apso-like dog. Sometimes whole groups of people get lost in it!
* [[Modesty Blaise (comic strip)|Modesty Blaise]] likes to use her signature weapon as a hair pin.
* [[Older Than Radio|18th-century caricatures]] poked fun at the huge, elaborate wigs in fashion at the time, sometimes showing them used for smuggling.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Foxy Brown]]'', the title character hides a pistol in her afro.
* In ''[[Coffy]]'', the protagonist (like the character above, also played by Pam Grier) hides small blades in her afro. See below under [[Real Life]].
* In ''[[Braveheart]]'', William Wallace hides a mace behind his hair and down his back.
* In ''[[Ferris Bueller's
** This wasn't a special effect. The actress and director, between takes, wondered how many pencils she could hide in her hair... apparently the answer was "more than 4."
* In ''[[Leprechaun (film)|Leprechaun
* This occurs in the film and novel ''[[Hannibal]]'', in which Starling gives officers a pre-arrest warning that their HIV-positive arrest target likes to hide syringes in her hair, knowing that law-enforcement officers like to shove their suspect down by the head when putting them in the car.
* In ''[[Casino]]'', Nicky's wife hides a bunch of stolen diamonds in her hair to sneak it through the airport.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Done in a creepy way in Lorna Landvik's ''[[Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons]]'': the abusive husband of one of the women forces her to wear her hair in the same outdated, complicated updo that his mother favors. She begins to hide things in her hair - like rolled up tissues, candy, etc - to feel like she was subverting him.
* In the science fiction novel ''[[Steel Beach]]'', a member of an [[Animal Wrongs Group]] never bathes or cuts his hair or beard. A number of animals and insects live in his hair.
* In the ''[[Smart Junior]]'' books by The Princeton Review, Barnaby's impressive hair is known to provide whatever the team needs at a given moment.
* In Meredith Ann Pierce's ''[[Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood]]'', there's [[MacGuffin Girl|Hannah]] and her [[Fertile Feet|fertile tresses]].
* In the ''Corellian Trilogy'' of the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]],'' [[Non-Human Sidekick|Chewbacca]] keeps a few things hidden under his fur, such as a comlink (walkie-talkie/cell phone).
* In the stand-alone Novel ''[[Airman]]'' by Eion Colfer, when an older friend and teacher is cornered by Marshal Bonvilain, the villain, Bonvilain says: "Now you probably have a dirk in your beard, or a derringer up your
* Everyone's favorite vampire executioner [[Anita Blake]] likes to hide ''a goddamn [[Machete]]'' in a spine sheath underneath her waist-length black hair, in case of [[Oh Crap]] moments. [[More Dakka|Or when her many guns run out of ammo.]]
* Apparently in [[Discworld]] it's a common skill among dwarfs to be able to hide battle axes in one's beard.
* Beka in the ''[[Tortall Universe|Provost's Dog]]'' series braids a spike into her braid in order to give whoever tries to grab it in a fight a nasty surprise, since as a proto-cop in a bad part of town she's well acquainted with [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty|dirty fighting tricks]].
* In Megan Whalen Turner's ''[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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{{quote|'''Shepard''': "How many of those do you have in there?"
'''Ronon''': "How many do you need?" }}
* Rudy something something (he goes by many names) has an actual door (of Cuckoondo) in his afro, from ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]''.
* In ''[[Danger 5]]'', Stalin can use his
== [[New Media]] ==
* Wrestling parody site Scoopthis.com had a [[Running Gag]] about [[WCW]] wrestler Meng's afro serving this purpose. At one point, [http://www.scoopthis.com/pages/article.cgi?file=articles/wrestling/075_afromeng.htm his fro ate Rey Mysterio]{{Dead link}}.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In the [[Neo Geo]] fighting game ''Savage Reign'', gymnast Carol fights with an Olympic pink ball; if thrown as a projectile, she produces another from underneath her hair. Her hair isn't much past her shoulder, and the ball is about as large as her whole head...
* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', Sazh keeps a baby chocobo in his afro.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'', Ozy goes out in a cold snap before his winter coat comes in. The result is that it comes in all at once, leaving him extremely fluffy. Millie takes advantage of this to hide things in him, up to and including a piano.
* In the
* Eddie from ''[[Emergency Exit]]'' can pull random things [http://eecomics.net/?strip_id=1031 (including
** This is eventually revealed to be because {{spoiler|he forced a portal ''into his skull'' to keep the villains from getting it.}} It's also apparently when he became such a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
* Rufus from ''[[Terinu]]'', being a fox [[Furry Fandom|furry]], has on at least one occasion hidden a locator unit for his ship in his ''tail''.
*
== [[Web Original]] ==
* "There is no chin under [[Memetic Badass|Chuck Norris]]'s beard, only another fist."
* Inverted: "[http://pahcfiles.com/pahc/blackeyes/windmill-beard.jpg There is a windmill in my beard.]{{Dead link}}"
* [http://johnsu.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=120#/d10r4ek This] John Su comic.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|
** And a ten-pin bowling ball, and sometimes Maggie.
* Gizmo Man of ''[[The Super Globetrotters]]'' had plenty of space in his hair.
{{quote|'''Fluid Man:''' Man, that Lou's better than traveler's cheques!}}
* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter grows a beard in which he keeps several birds.
* Speaking of which, here's a <s>
{{quote|''There was an old man with a beard
''Who said, "It is just as I feared!
''"Two owls and a wren,
''"Four larks and a hen
''"Have all built their nests in my beard!" }}
* Uncle Ruckus from ''[[The Boondocks]]'' suspect Huey is hiding something in his afro, when he's doing a commentary on the season one DVD.
* In the French cartoon ''[[Once Upon a Time]]'', the Maestro has a [[Hammerspace]] ''beard'' that reaches to his ankles, stores everything in the world, and possibly serves as a [[Godiva Hair|Godiva Beard]].
* Shag from ''[[Road Rovers]]''.
** He once hid another team member in his fur.
* ''[[Captain Caveman]]'' being completely covered in hair would often pull out things from his chest, anything from a skeleton key to a huge stone barbell, which he presses with ease. Often he could even pull live dinosaurs from it.
* Val Hallen in [[Dexter's Laboratory|Justice Friends]], in a one-off gag involving an X-ray.
* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' has [[Mad Scientist|Heloise]] keeping one of her gadgets in her ponytail.
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* The fattest sheep in ''[[Shaun the Sheep]]'' is sometimes shown to have all kinds of things hidden in its wool.
* Grandpa Smurf in ''[[The Smurfs]]'' stores a lot of stuff in his beard.
* The [[Harlem Globetrotters (TV series)|''Harlem Globetrotters'' cartoon]] had one of the [[Five-Man Band|team members]] sporting a truly epic [[Funny Afro]]. He also just took a moment of [[Rummage Fail|rooting around]] and whatever he wanted could be found in that 'fro.
* In ''[[The Owl House]]'', Eda can use her hair to store books, scrolls, and occasionally her [[Non-Human Sidekick]] King (who tends to be possessive if any other creature tries to live there); justified that she can do so, seeing as she's a witch.
== Real Life ==
* In 2008, [[Amy Winehouse]] (RIP) was filmed taking cocaine on stage, after apparently taking the vial out of her hair.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYoJTAUK0UM This kid].{{context}}
* As stated in the trope description, this is actually a rather nasty fighting technique: People put sharp things in their hair not for their own use, but place them there [[By the Hair|with the expectation that other people will attempt to grab their hair in a fight]].
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