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Hair Bun Girl is a minor character in xkcd. She appeared two weeks in a row in the spring of 2015 and was recognized as a "new" character at that time, though she had been used several times prior to then.  
 
Hair Bun Girl is a minor character in xkcd. She appeared two weeks in a row in the spring of 2015 and was recognized as a "new" character at that time, though she had been used several times prior to then.  
  
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. (Seven appearances as of February 2016: [[703]], [[1052]], [[1253]], [[1504]], [[1507]], [[1601]], [[1637]] and [[1645]]).  
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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. (Eight appearances as of February 2016: [[703]], [[1052]], [[1253]], [[1504]], [[1507]], [[1601]], [[1637]] and [[1645]]).  
  
*In her very first appearance, [[337: Post Office Showdown]], she is drawn with glasses.
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*In her first appearance, [[337: Post Office Showdown]], she is drawn with glasses.
**She also wears glasses in [[1637: Salt Mine]], [[1110: Click and Drag]], [[1088: Five Years]], [[1052: Every Major's Terrible]] and in [[835: Tree]] (in this latter comic she actually portrays Cueball's mother and/or the wife of [[:Category:Multiple Cueballs|another version]] of [[Cueball]]).
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**She also wears glasses in [[1637: Salt Mine]], [[1110: Click and Drag]], [[1088: Five Years]], [[1052: Every Major's Terrible]], [[835: Tree]] and in [[410: Math Paper]]
**She wears sunglasses (as Trinity) in [[566: Matrix Revisited]]
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***In [[835: Tree]] she actually portrays Cueball's mother and/or the wife of [[:Category:Multiple Cueballs|another version]] of [[Cueball]]).
*Her first appearance without glasses was in her second appearance: [[378: Real Programmers]]. And with the four recent comics (past no. 1500) this is now her most prevalent appearance.
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***She wears sunglasses (as Trinity) in [[566: Matrix Revisited]].
*In [[572: Together]] a woman looking like Hair Bun Girl is obviously Megan who has turned old during the comic, so this is also not included here. But it could indicate that Randall thinks of Hair Bun Girl as an older woman.
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***In total up to Salt Mine she has used glasses eight times.
*Since she is a grown woman - she cannot be the little girl in [[1519: Venus]], [[1584: Moments of Inspiration]], or [[1611: Baking Soda and Vinegar]].
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*Her first appearance without glasses was in her second appearance: [[378: Real Programmers]]. And with the recent comics (past no. 1500) this is now her most prevalent appearance.
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*In [[572: Together]] a woman looking like Hair Bun Girl is obviously Megan who has turned old during the comic, so this is also not included here. But it could indicate that Randall often uses Hair Bun Girl to represent an older woman, as this was also the case in [[586: Mission to Culture]].
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*Since she is a grown woman - she cannot be the small girls in [[1519: Venus]], [[1584: Moments of Inspiration]], or [[1611: Baking Soda and Vinegar]].
 
*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 fictive character Ms. Frizzle. She is thus not included as a Hair Bun Girl.
 
*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 fictive character Ms. Frizzle. She is thus not included as a Hair Bun Girl.
*She can, however, represent a real person, like when she was Emily Dickinson in [[788: The Carriage]]. In that comic Emily is drawn exactly as the standard version of Hair bun Girl, and she is thus included. This is similar to Cueball who also represents real persons from time to time.
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*She can, however, represent a real person:
*In both [[703: Honor Societies]] and [[1520: Degree-Off]] 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 here.
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**This occurred when she represented Emily Dickinson in [[788: The Carriage]]. In that comic Emily is drawn exactly as the standard version of Hair bun Girl, and she is thus included.  
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***This is similar to Cueball who also represents real persons from time to time.
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**In the book [[Thing Explainer]] she is used in the explanation for ''The pieces everything is made of'' (i.e the {{w|Periodic table}}) to represent {{w|Marie Curie}}.
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*In both [[703: Honor Societies]], [[708: Sex Dice]], [[1520: Degree-Off]], [[1601: Isolation]] and in every instance of her in [[1608: Hoveboard]] 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 here.
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**Her hair looks somewhat the same in [[1645: Toasts]], but without the ponytail appendage.
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**Six times in total with different hair. Never also with glasses though.
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*This leaves 10 times (after 24 appearances) where she has looked like the picture used on this page.
  
 
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Revision as of 16:07, 4 March 2016

Hairbun

Hair Bun Girl, as seen in 1253: Exoplanet Names
First appearance 337: Post Office Showdown
Appearances 87
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Hair Bun Girl is a stick figure character in xkcd. She is distinguished by her hair that is set up in a bun.

Characteristics

Hair Bun Girl is a minor character in xkcd. She appeared two weeks in a row in the spring of 2015 and was recognized as a "new" character at that time, though she had been used several times prior to then.

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. (Eight appearances as of February 2016: 703, 1052, 1253, 1504, 1507, 1601, 1637 and 1645).