History Main / ClothingConcealedInjury

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* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': [[spoiler:Noelle hides the bruises [[DomesticAbuse she received from Loic]] underneath her clothes.]]
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* One flashback in ''Film/EveryLastOne'' shows an angry confrontation between Melissa and her father Jake. She tells him he is back home and to take off his sunglasses and look at her. Jake takes them off and it is revealed that his large wraparound sunglasses were concealing a huge combat wound on his cheek.

* ''Literature/TheCityOfBrass'': In the second book, [[spoiler:Prince Ali]] dresses to hide the fact that he's CoveredInScars from the neck down from a [[ElementalEmbodiment marid]] attack, which he only survived because he [[spoiler:let the marid [[PowersViaPossession possess his body]].]] He's so afraid of having to explain it that he even goes without changing or bathing for weeks--fortunately his mother, who is determined to protect him, figures it out.

''Fanfic/TheKingNobodyWanted'': Or rather clothing concealed disability. [[spoiler:The first time Jon meets Rys Chelsted, he observes that the new Master of Coin's long robe completely covers his legs. It's weeks, if not months, later before Rys has to lift his robe up while climbing a steep flight of stairs and Jon sees that he has clubfeet, at which point Rys' AppropriatedAppellation nickname "Aerys the Frog" and bitterness toward dwarves and hunchbacks being court fools take on a whole new meaning.]]
* In Chapter 6 of ''Life Goes On'', the sequel to ''Fanfic/BitterTearsAnAnonAMissFic'', it's revealed that Sunset has scars from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1 turning into a demon during the Fall Formal]] hidden under her clothes. She usually changes for P.E. in the shower stalls so people don't see them, but Sunset doesn't care at this point, so she changes out in the open to everyone's shock. Even her friends are shocked by this, as even ''they'' didn't know about them.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'' one-shot ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23076301 Brother's Intuition]]'', Barley walks in on Ian covering up a bruise on his chin with their mother's foundation. Ian claims that he got it from [[CutHimselfShaving falling while getting off the bus]], but Barley doesn't buy it, so he goes to the school the next day and sees Ian getting beaten up by bullies.
* In Chapter 5 of ''Fanfic/FracturedFates'', Hiroshi's shirt was hiding the electrical burns all over his torso, which were omitted from the case's Monokuma File.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Hinterlands}}'', [[spoiler:Gale's scarf hides the way her throat has been sliced open, which reveals her as a necromantic thrall]].
* In ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'', Scootaloo is revealed to be covered in bruises and scars, a testimony of what her alcoholic adoptive father [[AbusiveParents puts her through]]. In order to appear normal, she covers them up every day by using the makeup kit she gained from Sweetie Belle as a Hearth's Warming Eve present.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6208221/1/Velma-Dinkley-s-Beginning Velma Dinkley's Beginning]]'', [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma]] tries to hide the bruises she's gotten from Daphne's [[GirlPosse friends]]. She's afraid that if Shaggy, Fred, and Daphne see them, they'll tell her parents, which might lead to more beatings from the girls and she'll probably have to [[ReallyMovesAround move again]]. She wants to stay in Coolsville with her new friends.

* In ''Film/nothingButTheNight'', Mrs Van Traylen always wore long gloves to conceal scars she received in a fire years earlier.

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* Ever see a ballerina take off her shoes? The girls may be beautiful and graceful, but dancing ''en pointe'' turns their feet into a gnarled BodyHorror. In fact, ballet feet are often used as a metaphor for all the pain and dedication you ''don't'' see behind a skilled performance.
* Pretty much the only reason turtleneck sweaters exist is to hide embarrassing hickies on the neck after a night of lovemaking.
* Teachers, etc., have been advised to notice if a child is dressed inappropriately warmly for the season, such as long sleeved shirts in the summer, as this may be an attempt by the parent or child to hide bruises.
* A PoliceProcedural, the detectives interrogating twin girls about their mother's murder suddenly noticed that they were wearing sweatshirts despite it being very warm in the room. When they ordered them to take them off, they found numerous scratches and realized that their mother had inflicted them while trying to defend herself.
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* ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen''. Wounded and wearing a bloodstained shirt after a run-in with Anton Chigurh, Llewelyn Moss encounters three teenagers out drinking and pays $500 for the jacket one of them is wearing (and a beer). At the end of the movie, Chigurh pays a kid for his shirt as an improvised sling for a broken arm. The kid is willing to give it to him for free, but Chigurh insists he take the money for saying that IWasNeverHere.

* ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen''. Wounded and wearing a bloodstained shirt after a run-in with Anton Chigurh, Llewelyn Moss runs into three youths and pays $500 for the jacket one of them is wearing.

* In ''Film/SecretBehindTheDoor'', Miss Robey wears a scarf at all times to hide the disfiguring facial scars she received recusing Mark from a fire as a child. [[spoiler:Except she had plastic surgery to remove the scars during her last vacation. She keeps wearing the scarf because she fears the family's sympathy is the only reason she is keeping her job.]]

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', All Might (The person in the trope image) suffered a severe injury five years ago that destroyed one of his lungs and most of his stomach, leaving him an emaciated husk of his former self. While he's able to use his Quirk, One For All, to puff himself back up to fighting form for a short time, all of his clothing is designed to hide the scar left behind from prying eyes. For instance, his swimsuit is a one-piece that covers his entire torso and his hero costume is similarly well-covered.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', All Might suffered a severe injury five years ago that destroyed one of his lungs and most of his stomach, leaving him an emaciated husk of his former self. While he's able to use his Quirk, One For All, to puff himself back up to fighting form for a short time, all of his clothing is designed to hide the scar left behind from prying eyes. For instance, his swimsuit is a one-piece that covers his entire torso and his hero costume is similarly well-covered.

* In the ''Literature/{{Kane}}'' story "Undertow", Kane's lover Dessylyn is usually seen wearing a wide collar of leather and silk with a large emerald set in it, which hides a scar left from the time when she hanged herself.

** A non-injury variant; Vincent wears a hood to hide his TraumaticHaircut; he later borrows Paris's NiceHat, which is less concealing.

* Teachers, etc., have been advised to notice if a child is dressed inappropriately warmly for the season, such as long sleeved shirts in the summer, as this is usually the result of the parent or child invoking this to hide bruises.

* Taken UpToEleven in one {{Urban Legend|s}}, which has a man marry a woman who always wears a scarf around her neck. Depending on the version, he either slips it off in her sleep or she finally gives him permission to remove it on her death bed, whereupon her head falls off. This either [[MortalWoundReveal kills her]] or [[LosingYourHead makes her very angry]].

** In "Turnabout Ablaze", the final case of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'', Quercus Alba, the man suspected of leading an international smuggling ring, reveals a stab wound under his clothes, claiming he was attacked by a masked thief who came to burgle his office, justifying the thief's death at his hands. With Alba being an ambassador and the murder being within his country's embassy, this means the thief's murder will only be tried in Alba's country to his advantage. [[spoiler:However, as it turns out, Alba actually got wounded while he murdered fellow ring member Manny Coachen for being TheStarsceam. Coachen had managed to stab him once before being killed. As this occurred outside of the embassy grounds, Alba is able to be arrested and tried locally, especially since his diplomatic immunity was just revoked moments before.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheSupermen'': Wesker attempts this in Chapter 2 before trying to get to another Tricell base, since [[NoHonourAmongThieves he is very aware that his "allies" as Tricell would]] [[TheStarscream turn on him]] if they realised he was seriously injured. It would probably be less obvious than most examples of the trope since he isn't dressed [[ConspicuousGloves any differently]] [[SunglassesAtNight to usual]]. It ends up partially deconstructed, since putting clothes on over unhealed third-degree burns is incredibly painful (including quite a bit of skin coming off.)

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* ''Film/TheTerminator''. During the first car chase between the Terminator and the protagonists, he is hit in the eye by one of Reese's shotgun blasts. After some repair work, he uses his sunglasses to cover up the injury.