History Main / HidingBehindYourBangs

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Noah has bangs that cover one of his eyes at almost all times. It's eventually revealed that he's hiding [[spoiler:a black, almond-shaped [[TheGreys uryuom]] eye]] underneath his hair, [[spoiler:because he's a HalfHumanHybrid]].

* Becky from ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', sort of. The eye "covered" by the bangs is actually fully visible, at least to the reader. This is probably meant to suggest that her hair is fine enough she can see through the bangs, but the art style makes it look more like her hair is solid but translucent, or that her eye is somehow ''in front'' of it.

%%* Graham Spector from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', complete with his ImprobableHairstyle.
%%* Koyomi from ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' is sometimes depicted in this way. Only his left eye gets covered.

%%* In ''Literature/BrothersConflict'', the Asahina twins, Azusa and Tsubaki, have perfectly specular bangs covering respectively the left eye and the right eye.

* In ''Literature/DateALive'', when she's disguised as a civilian, the spirit Kurumi Tokisaki's bangs cover her left eye because said eye [[ExoticEyeDesigns looks like a golden clock]] and it makes her stand out.

* Urushihara from ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' has hair covering his right eye. This has a double meaning showing his untrustworthy nature and his lack of social skills.

* ''Literature/IfHerFlagBreaks'': Mei has this hairstyle, representing her desire to remain emotionally aloof and guarded.

%%* ''Literature/MazeMegaburstSpace'' has Gorgeous.

%%* Ram and Rem, the twin maids from ''Literature/ReZero'', have bangs that are just enough to cover their left and right eye, respectively.

* Speaking of pilots with peek-a-bangs, Rei Fukai from ''Literature/SentouYouseiYukikaze'' has this. This befits his [[LonersAreFreaks attitude]] and his slightly unhealthy obsession with [[strike:[[HoYay CO]]]] [[CargoShip his own fighter jet]].

* In ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei,'' [[{{Hikikomori}} Kiri]] [[MeaningfulName Komori]] has one, and it is often played for comic effect: [[DoubleEntendre "I've only been opened by Sensei before,"]] and [[CatchPhrase ''Don't open it!'']]

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* Music/{{Aaliyah}}. Rumor has it she had a lazy eye.
* Bassist Alex James of Music/{{Blur}}, sometimes.
* Creator/AnnMargret was injured during a performance, and facial surgery left a scar on her forehead; since then she has worn long bangs or her hair brushed over one eye to hide it.
* Asagi, vocalist for the Japanese band D, always has his right eye covered.
* Most {{Emo}} fashion have hairstyles involving this.
* Singer Gabrielle has been known to do this as one of her many ways of hiding her lazy eye (she has also used sunglasses, hats, and an eyepatch to cover it).
* Ian Watkins of Welsh band Lostprophets wore an [[http://www.100xr.com/100_XR/Artists/L/Lostprophets/Lostprophets.jpg example for a while.]]
* Jimmy Page of Music/LedZeppelin
* Jonny Greenwood from Music/{{Radiohead}} is known for having these.
* [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/23/c0/43/23c0439367aa4833456091fc6488adbd.jpg Llamas and alpacas sometimes have these.]]
* Sometimes, Music/MichaelJackson had this look.
* Michael Score of Music/{{A Flock of Seagulls}}, as was famously spoofed by Chandler's 80's look in Series/{{Friends}}.
* Phil Oakey of the SynthPop band Music/TheHumanLeague.
* Music/{{Slash|Musician}}, best known for Music/GunsNRoses, is prone to this (often with added CoolShades).
* [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] briefly had this had [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/81d6acf3792e62630b719bc59de973ee/f1422bd95ed59f0a-ea/s400x600/49ba6b01a4456c2d5f91a4523dee305e800a8f20.png this look]] around the time the album ''With Teeth'' came out.
* Actress Veronica Lake, as mentioned above.
* You can [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by letting your bangs grow to the front of your eyes without cutting and then put the half of your bangs to the side of your face. In addition, use hair iron to cover up your eye even more and to look cool.
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* ''VideoGame/NeedyStreamerOverload'': Ame-chan's hair almost always covers her right eye to emphasize her introverted nature. The only time where it is visible out of her KAngel streamer attire is in file008.

%%* Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'' both has an EyepatchOfPower ''and'' has his hair covering said eyepatch. It's two eye-covering tropes for the price of one.

* Velanka, the BigBad's lover in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' has her bangs cover her left eye, marking her as a ruthless DarkChick.

* To show that the character is [[ShrinkingViolet shy and demure]].

* This appears to be a hereditary trait of the Kurosu family in ''VideoGame/Persona2'', as both Jun Kurosu and his mother Junko have it.
* ''VideoGame/Persona3'':
** [[LadyOfWar Mitsuru Kirijo]]. She even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in her VictoryPose.
** The male Main Character has the emo hair variant.

* Vicious from ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. Interestingly, besides making him look pensive and brooding (and, ok, sexy as hell), his bangs usually flop over his left eye-- the same eye Spike lost in an accident.

** ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong (sexy), Alphonse Elric's body (shy, plus it makes him look [[TheWoobie cuter]]), and occasionally Ling Yao [[spoiler:and the second Greed]].
** ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' has Russell Tringham who has the "sexy" variant, and (in ''[[Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa The Conqueror Of Shamballa]]'') [[spoiler:Roy Mustang]], who wears it to cover his eyepatch.

* Lisa Lisa (of & the Cult Jam fame) nailed down the sexy version in the music video for "I Wonder If I Take You Home".

** Vaati also has similar bangs in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]''.

%%* ''Anime/MazeMegaburstSpace'' has Gorgeous.

* Xerxes Break from ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' is missing his left eye under his hair. Cheshire also has this kind of hair. [[spoiler:Cheshire's hair covers his right side. His left eye is really Break's.]]

* Elizabeth from the series ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' hair covers her right eye and show more toward the shy side. [[spoiler:Also, it hides her MagicalEye.]]

* In ''Literature/DateALive'', Kurumi Tokisaki's bangs cover her left eye. Doubles as an EyepatchOfPower. The first four bullets (sexy, shy, deception and vulnerability) all apply to her.

* The painfully shy Nodoka from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' started out with bangs that covered her eyes during the first chapter, but eventually moved into this.

* Tobias, [[{{Bishonen}} Nando, and Sir Aaron]] from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', as well as the game characters listed below.
* ''Anime/PokemonHeroes'': One of Annie's eyes is usually covered by a few strands of her hair.
%%* Nyx from ''Anime/QueensBlade''.
* Both Gourry and Zelgadis of ''Literature/{{Slayers}}''; Zelgadis is the classic case of being less-than-social, while the kind yet [[TheDitz airheaded]] Gourry is, surprisingly deceptive.
%%* Fakir's hair in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' sometimes appears this way. It was combined with a SlipknotPonytail moment in the first season finale.
%%* Richard from ''Manga/RequiemOfTheRoseKing'' wears his hair like this.
%%* Seiji / Sage from ''Anime/RoninWarriors''.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'''s Viral has the emo variant.
* André from ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' loses the use of one eye roughly halfway through the series, and subsequently covers it up with his hair for the remainder of the series. Perhaps unusually, he does experience problems with his sight as a result of this, which becomes a plot point later on.
* Elizabeth from the series ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' hair covers her right eye and show more toward the shy side. [[spoiler:Also, it hides her MagicalEye.]]
* Speaking of pilots with peek-a-bangs, Rei Fukai from ''Literature/SentouYouseiYukikaze'' has this. This befits his [[LonersAreFreaks attitude]] and his slightly unhealthy obsession with [[strike:[[HoYay CO]]]] [[CargoShip his own fighter jet]].
* Count D and his grandfather from ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors''.

%%* Kirche from ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' combines this trope with dark-skinned redhead.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': José's one [[BigOlEyebrows very long eyebrow]] covers his right eye.

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* ''Literatue/GoToSleepAJeffTheKillerRewrite'':
** As young teens, Jeff and Liu have brown side-swept hair, which helps illustrate their SiblingYinYang. Jeff's hair sweeps over his right eye while Liu's hangs over his left eye. [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling Jeff is more short-tempered while Liu is more composed.]]
** As a 19-year-old SerialKiller, Jeff adopts a more punkish look. He has piercings, black ear gauges and a left side-shave, and the rest of his blackened hair (that isn't tumbling over his shoulders down to his stomach) still hangs over his right eye.

* The titular protagonist of ''Webcomic/{{Rain|2010}}'' often wears hairstyles that cover one of her eyes. To the point that it's become a RunningGag for other characters point out whenever both her eyes ''are'' visible.

Common in modelling as well as fiction, this is when a person's hair intentionally covers one of their eyes. Sometimes it's just for style, while other times it might function as an EyepatchOfPower, or cover a disfigurement such as horrible scarring or a blind eye (in which case its removal may serve as TheReveal).

* To show that the character is sexy and seductive.

* To show vulnerability, by acting as a fragile shield or barrier, e.g., the character is an asocial loner.
* To represent a veil:
** Wedding veils: as a signal that this is the serious LoveInterest, particularly when the male lead is a TheCasanova, this combined with a stunned look on the Casanova often means that he has [[LadykillerInLove finally fallen]], and wedding bells are in his future - if he doesn't die first, that is.
** The veil separating God from Man (see the Jewish Temple): implying the person behind it is mystical or supernaturally knowledgeable, maybe even a messenger from God.

In RealLife, the style is called "peek-a-boo", or, more recently, "{{emo}} bang", and was popularized by Creator/VeronicaLake in the 1940s (who was asked to change it when it proved impractical for women working in factories during the war).

A person with this hairstyle may also be victim to some of the same jokes as characters who actually have only one eye, such as lacking depth perception. A common emo hairstyle for males also features this and calls it ''emo fringe''.

Contrast HiddenEyes, where a character's eyes are temporarily in shadow to indicate a change in emotional state -- this is usually a more permanent effect and can mean many things.

For the real use of hair in a SceneryCensor situation, see GodivaHair. Compare OddlyVisibleEyebrows.

* Elizabeth from the series ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' hair covers her right eye and show more toward the shy side.[[spoiler:Also, it hides her MagicalEye.]]

* {{Exploited}} in ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades''. Upperclasswoman Vera Miligan has her bangs cut such that only her right eye is visible, which is {{foreshadowing}} that she's more than she appears. The bangs hide [[spoiler:[[DeadlyGaze the eye of a basilisk]], her secret weapon]]. However, as protagonist Oliver Horn notes in his InternalMonologue, the hairstyle is ''too obviously'' [[HideYourOtherness a clue that one of her eyes is special]]: [[spoiler:it's a distraction from her ''real'' trump card, a ''second'' basilisk eye [[HandBlast implanted in the palm of her left hand]]]].

%%* Graham Spector from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', complete with his ImprobableHairstyle.
%%* Koyomi from ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' is sometimes depicted in this way. Only his left eye gets covered.

%%* In ''LightNovel/BrothersConflict'', the Asahina twins, Azusa and Tsubaki, have perfectly specular bangs covering respectively the left eye and the right eye.

* In ''LightNovel/DateALive'', Kurumi Tokisaki's bangs cover her left eye. Doubles as an EyepatchOfPower. The first four bullets (sexy, shy, deception and vulnerability) all apply to her.

* Urushihara from ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' has hair covering his right eye. This has a double meaning showing his untrustworthy nature and his lack of social skills.

* Both Gourry and Zelgadis of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}''; Zelgadis is the classic case of being less-than-social, while the kind yet [[TheDitz airheaded]] Gourry is, surprisingly deceptive.

%%* Kirche from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' combines this trope with dark-skinned redhead.

%%* Ram and Rem, the twin maids from ''LightNovel/ReZero'', have bangs that are just enough to cover their left and right eye, respectively.

* Mahiro Yasaka from ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' has the shy version, but only in the light novels; the {{Anime}} adaptations parted his hair to shift it out of his face.

** Haizaki and Yagihara from ''Ares''. The latter is the biggest ShrinkingViolet in the franchise, while the former is an AloofAlly who wants to take revenge over [[ItMakesSenseInContext an educational programme which changed his friend for the worse]]. He used to be more cheerful in his childhood, when he didn't have peek-a-bangs.