Editing Hairbun

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| image            = Hair_Bun_Girl.png
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| first_appearance = [[337: Post Office Showdown]]
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<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Hairbun|Comics featuring Hairbun]].''</noinclude>

'''Hairbun''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. Like most characters in xkcd, she does not necessarily represent the same person from comic to comic. She is distinguished by her hair, set up in a bun. She can have several variations of her hair style, and occasionally uses glasses.

==Characteristics==
Hairbun is a minor character in xkcd. She appeared two weeks in a row in the spring of 2015 ([[1504: Opportunity]] and [[1507: Metaball]]) and was recognized as a "new" character at that time, though she had been used several times prior to then. 

However, after comic 1500 she has appeared fourteen times from [[1504: Opportunity]] to [[1756: I'm With Her]] (which was the second comic in a row with her). This is more than once every 20th comic, compared to only twenty times before comic 1500 which is only once every 75th comic, so there was a good reason for why she was not "discovered" before.

She is not the same character from comic to comic. She is mainly just another woman that [[Randall]] can use when he wishes to give a woman a specific characteristic so to set her aside from the more commonly used women, [[Megan]] and Ponytail. Often, she is depicted together with both Megan and Ponytail proving this point. (Ten appearances as of February 2016: [[703]], [[708]], [[1052]], [[1253]], [[1504]], [[1507]], [[1601]], [[1637]], [[1645]] and [[1756]].) She has, for instance, represented the mother of both Megan and [[Cueball]], see the list below under the list of Hairbuns drawn with glasses.

*In her first appearance, [[337: Post Office Showdown]], she is drawn with glasses.
**She also wears glasses in [[1756: I'm With Her]], [[1637: Salt Mine]], [[1110: Click and Drag]], [[1088: Five Years]], [[1052: Every Major's Terrible]], [[872: Fairy Tales]], [[863: Major in the Universe]], [[835: Tree]], [[566: Matrix Revisited]] and in [[410: Math Paper]]
***In [[835: Tree]] she portrays Cueball's mother and/or the wife of [[:Category:Multiple Cueballs|another version]] of Cueball.
***In [[872: Fairy Tales]] she portrays Megan's mother, a sleepy math professor.
***She wears sunglasses (as {{w|Trinity (The Matrix)|Trinity)}} in [[566: Matrix Revisited]].
***In total, up to "I'm With Her", she has used glasses nine times.
*Her first appearance without glasses was in her second appearance, [[378: Real Programmers]]. In the recent comics (past no. 1500), this is her most prevalent appearance.
*Hairbun can represent a real person:
**This is similar to Cueball who also represents real persons from time to time.
**This first occurred when she represented {{w|Emily Dickinson}} in [[788: The Carriage]]. In that comic, Emily is drawn exactly as the standard version of Hairbun, and she is labeled as such.
**It also occurred in [[896: Marie Curie]] where zombie {{w|Marie Curie}} is drawn as Hairbun.
***In the book ''[[Thing Explainer]]'', she is also used to represent Marie Curie in the explanation for ''The pieces everything is made of'' (e.g., the {{w|periodic table}}). 
*Her appearance, apart from her glasses, can also change. 
**In [[703: Honor Societies]], [[708: Sex Dice]], [[1511: Spice Girl]], [[1601: Isolation]] and in every instance in [[1608: Hoverboard]] her hair looks somewhat different, curly and with some kind of pony tail, but since her main distinguishing characteristic is the hair bun, these comics are included. 
**Her hair looks somewhat similar in [[1645: Toasts]], but without the ponytail appendage.
**Six times in total, she has appeared with different hair, though never with glasses.
**This leaves 19 times (after 34 appearances, 6 with different hair and 9 with glasses) where she has looked like the picture used on this page, and 15 timed she has looked differently. See the [[#Gallery|gallery]] below.
*There are some characters with hair buns that are not Hairbun:
**Since she is a grown woman, she should not be confused with Jill or any other small girls with hair bun like in [[1584: Moments of Inspiration]].
**In [[572: Together]] a woman looking like Hairbun is obviously Megan who has turned old during the comic, so this comic is not included here. But it could indicate that Randall often uses Hairbun to represent an older woman, as this was also the case in [[586: Mission to Culture]].
**A character with a hair bun was also featured in [[911: Magic School Bus]], but she is drawn in color and with a dress and represents the fictional character {{w|Ms. Frizzle}}. She is thus not included as a Hairbun.

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