Hair length in RPGs

Four months since the last one of these, I return with this series. If it isn't obvious, two games are currently taking up a lot of my time, which really has hampered any sort of writing drive I have. But I'm gonna take a bit of time off to describe something that is not just common for RPGs, but anime as a whole.

Also known as the Cloud rule, "the more outrageous his hairstyle, the more important a male character is to the story". Which is easy to correlate for the character mentioned in question, but also Sephiroth as well. Animes clearly love to make a hairstyle unique for a main character, because unique stands out.  Notice how it also says male characters, as most female hairstyles tend to not be outrageous in any way since there's so many options, while males usually have short bowl-cuts or other short, boring styles.

But then again, this is more of an anime cliche rather than an RPG cliche, and even then, there are still few examples. Not every man is gonna be sporting iconic Naruto spiky hair or the even spikier Yu-gi-oh do, which in many ways is already genetically impossible. Many males in anime generally have messy spiky hair or otherwise normal cuts, and the same holds true for most RPG protagonists (Ark from Terranigma, the guy from Robotrek). There's bound to be the long haired pretty boy villain (which is a different cliche altogether actually) like Sephiroth, Kuja, or Ghaleon, or the pony-tailed heroes like Fei from Xenogears, Justin from Grandia, or Ramza from FFT, but none of these hairstyles really are major stickouts. Fei's comes the closest out of those three, but even then, it's not a "high" style. Other examples would be blue-haired protagonists like Ryu from the Breath of Fire series or Vahn from Legend of Legaia, both of which have generally abnormal hair colors, though not necessarily as outrageous, just messy and in a weird color.

Bottom line is, messy or spiky hair will definitely stick out for many characters, but it's not truly the most important thing that should really define a character.