History Main / HidingBehindYourBangs

* Talia al Ghul, a love interest of Franchise/{{Batman}}. Spoofed in "Batsman: Swarming Scourge of the Underworld", a comedic story in ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'', which depicts her shooting repeatedly at Batsman and missing because having one eye covered means she has no depth perception.
* In ''ComicBook/BeautifulDarkness'', Timothy's hair always covers the left side of her face [[spoiler:to hide the fact that she only has one eye]].
* Throughout her numerous looks, one of the stable features of Joseph Michael Linsner's ''Dawn'' is her hair always covering her right eye. To the point where, when her lover brushes her hair out of her face, he's genuinely surprised that she ''has'' a right eye.
* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' gives us Cassandra Hack with a generous helping of PerkyGoth.
* Jane in ''Insane Jane'' has this sort of hairstyle in scenes that take place in the present day, [[spoiler:to hide the fact that she practically burned half of her face off trying to give herself superpowers]], though it's difficult to say whether she styles it deliberately for this reason (she's kind of extremely delusional).
* ''Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}'' is often portrayed with these to the point that they are practically his trademark. That is when he is not in full ''badass'' mode.
* In Australian comic ''Webcomic/PlatinumGrit'', Nilson Kerr's right eye is never seen.
* [[{{Goth}} Moon]] from ''ComicBook/PocketGod'' has her left eye covered by a large bang. It's very rare to see even a glimpse of her eye.
* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'', Whisper the Wolf has her hair cover the right side of her face. It's also where she places her mask when not in use.
* Oyuki from the Archie ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' has this. The only time she ever showed both eyes was in a flash-forward to her in her twenties.
* Creator/MarvelComics villainess Viper wears her hair over one eye. Like Dr. Blight (see below), this is to cover scarring on that part of the face.
* Aarik of ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'' has hair covering one of his eyes to drive home the point that he's a TallDarkAndSnarky master swordsman.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Pris wears her long wavy blond hair in a sultry loose style swept mostly over her left eye and cheek, which hides the beauty mark that's visible when she's dressed as ComicBook/{{Cheetah}}.
* ''ComicBook/XFactor'''s OracularUrchin Layla Miller. After escaping from a future mutant concentration camp where prisoners get an M branded over one eye, she steals a wig to cover her brand.

* Thora Tavin from "[[WebVideo/KhyberShards]]" covers the left side of her face with her bangs after the time skip. Not only do they make her hard to read, but they also hide her [[spoiler: burn scar]].

* Thora Tavin from "WebVideo/KhyberShards" covers the left side of her face with her bangs after the time skip. Not only do they make her hard to read, but they also hide her [[spoiler: burn scar]].

%%* Freya in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. The low resolution of the character models make it difficult to tell, but the CG cutscenes and her character artwork show that her hair does cover her right eye.
%%* Lulu from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''.
%%* Illua from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2''

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'':

%%** [[TheHero Sora]]'s right eye is concealed by [[FieryRedhead his hair]] while in [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Monstropolis]] as a result of him becoming a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werecat]]. This is actually the ''fourth'' form to conceal his eyes, the others being in [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town, Christmas Town]][[note]]a mask or black Santa hat blocks the right eye[[/note]], and [[Film/{{Tron}} Space Paranoids]][[note]]his helmet stops people taller than him (eg: [[GuestStarPartyMember Tron]]) from seeing both eyes[[/note]].

* {{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. Figuratively, [[spoiler:she turns out to be the StarterVillain of the first volume [[BitchInSheepsClothing after initially approaching the heroes as an ally]]]]. In a more literal sense, 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]]]].

** Orochimaru gets this look in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.

For bangs that emphasize a character's sensual nature see SultryBangs.

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Meme Kakure is shy to such a degree that, since infancy, her instinctive response to intense embarrassment or being the center of attention is to flee using stuffed animals as {{Ninja Log}}s. Accordingly she wears her bangs low enough to cover her eyes and is highly sensitive to her face being seen to the point that she routinely prioritizes her bangs over other embarrassments, such as her skirt being blown up by wind, or even her own physical safety. To date the number of people who have seen Meme's face in full can be counted on one hand. Even Meme's own parents haven't seen her face since she was a baby.

* Taisei of ''Webcomic/{{Sakana}}'' usually has bangs that obscure both of her eyes instead, but sometimes one of them peeps out, depending on what makes the expression work. The reason for the concealment is that his eyes are naturally set in a particularly crazed expression at odds with his inherently friendly personality, so he grows his hair out to keep from putting people off.

* Reiko Yanagi from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has peek-a-bangs over the left side of her face. The trope in this case best accentuate her tendency to be "strange" (her Quirk is named Poltergeist, so her appearance takes cues from Japanese portrayals of ghosts and spirits).

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Meme Kakure is shy to such a degree that, since infancy, her instinctive response to intense embarrassment or being the center of attention is to flee using stuffed animals as {{Ninja Log}}s. Accordingly she wears her bangs low enough to cover her eyes and is highly sensitive to her face being seen to the point that routinely prioritizes her bangs over other embarrassments, such as her skirt being blown up by wind, or even her own physical safety. To date the number of people who have seen Meme's face in full can be counted on one hand. Even Meme's own parents haven't seen her face since she was a baby.

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Meme Kakure is shy to such a degree that her instinctive response to intense embarrassment or being the center of attention since infancy is to flee using stuffed animals as {{Ninja Log}}s. Accordingly she wears her bangs low enough to cover her eyes and is highly sensitive to her face being seen to the point that routinely prioritizes her bangs over other embarrassments, such as her skirt being blown up by wind, or even her own physical safety. To date the number of people who have seen Meme's face in full can be counted on one hand. Even Meme's own parents haven't seen her face since she was a baby.

%%* Yuzuru Otonashi from ''Anime/AngelBeats'' had this over his left eye when he was alive. He chopped them off when he decided to go back to school.

* Hilda from ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}''. [[spoiler:It's to cover her [[SuperSenses super-sensitive]] left eye.]]

** In the manga, Freckles [[spoiler:aka Doll]] has bangs that fall over a majority of one side of his [[spoiler:her]] face to cover [[spoiler:some sort of disfigurement or scarring and a very damaged eye.]]

** Erza, on occasion. It always covers her right eye, which is [[MagicalEye false and magical]].
** Freed, all the time, because like Erza, his right eye is weird. It only uncovers when he uses his darkness magic to transform. Freed's teammate Evergreen discovered a benefit Erza got from her magical eye the hard way, as Erza recovered from an Evergreen petrification spell in half the spell's normal timeframe.
** Alzack, until the TimeSkip. Could be a sign of shyness which he grows out of when he marries his longtime partner Bisca during the skip.
** Rogue, all the time as well, probably due to aloofness. [[spoiler:Less so with his future counterpart.]]

%%* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'':
%%** Hatori has this because he's blind in one eye.
%%** Another example is Arisa Uotani, or at least when she was younger.
%%* Lily C. Sherbert from ''Anime/GalaxyAngel II''.

%%** ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Alphonse Elric's body (shy, plus it makes him look [[TheWoobie cuter]]), and occasionally Ling Yao [[spoiler:and the second Greed]].
** In ''[[Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa The Conqueror Of Shamballa]]'') [[spoiler:Roy Mustang]], use his bangs to cover his eyepatch.
* Tsubaki from ''Manga/FutureDiary''. Her right eye is almost always covered by her hair. In the anime it is also perpetually closed after she is imprisoned by the cult, perhaps implying that it is missing or nonfunctional. In the short scenes of her as a child she has both eyes open.

* Chaos, the evil second-generation Angeloid from ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', has this hair style (until she is [[spoiler:defeated and becomes good]]).
* Ichimoku Ren from ''Anime/HellGirl''. Of course, he does this because his covered-up eye can be transplanted anywhere, essentially giving him the ability to see anything at any time. For extra badass points, the eye can be visible or invisible at his whim, so in addition to being able to see whatever he wants he can [[ParanoiaFuel scare the everliving hell]] out of whoever he needs to scare.

** Ino post-TimeSkip and the Fifth Mizukage have the sexy variant; the former wears revealing clothing while the latter is very flirtatious.

%%** Also, the Raikage's bodyguard Darui.
** [[spoiler:As an adult, Sasuke's]] bangs cover the left side of his face in order to conceal his [[spoiler:Rinnegan]].

* Ikumi Kaidou from ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' has his hair covering half of his face at all times. This foreshadows the fact that he's much more important to the plot than he initially lets on. Since Palus Abel has the same hair, presumably Kaidou's [[ViewerGenderConfusion fa- er, moth- parent Abel]] has it too. Given that Soldato J also is afflicted with this trope [[spoiler:after his helmet is broken and his eyes revealed]] one could argue that it's a trait of everyone from their homeworld.
* Seras Victoria spends so much time in volume 7 of the manga ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' with one of her eyes covered by her hair that she looks like a cyclops. This, of course, occurred at the same time that she ''TookALevelInBadass'' and makes her look even scarier. Since she was also recovering from a double dose of EyeScream at the time, it is quite possible that the concealed eye hadn't healed yet while hidden...
* Um Jina from ''My Heart Is Beating'' has a huge fringe that completely covers one eye and almost the other one. This is because she's still not living life the way she wants to. When she comes to terms with her problem(s) she starts tying it back.
%%* Suzushiro Isuzu fro ''Manga/TheMikosWordsAndTheWitchesIncantations''.
* Hazuki from ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', obviously showing shyness.
* Xerxes Break from ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' is missing his left eye and hides his empty socket under his hair.
%%* Butch in ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' has hair going over one of his eyes. Unlike his brothers, his design is based off his pre-redesign version from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998''. Butch is the EvilCounterpart (and SpearCounterpart) to Kaoru.

* Lag Seeing from ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'' hides the spirit amber that replaces his left eye with one of these; also functions as a hair version of the EyepatchOfPower.
%%* Touka from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. Her bangs often conceal her right eye. She's actually a Ghoul and a member of Anteiku.

* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheSevenReincarnatedSpirits'': One of the benefits of Erza's magical right eye is that she's immune to the fatal gaze of the basilisk. When confronting it, she (as Fay Dunbar) covers up her ''left'' eye so the immunity can be fully utilized.

* The eponymous ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' has his hair usually covering his EyepatchOfPower, which in turn covers his empty left eye socket.

* This was also deliberately invoked in certain scenes in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' and ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' where River's hair was used to obscure parts of her face during some of her less-than-lucid scenes.

%%* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'':
%%** Kratos Aurion, although whether it's the "deception" or "vulnerability" variant [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation depends]] on [[MrFanservice whether you're asking a fangirl]].
%%** [[EvilIsSexy Pronyma]].
* Captain Schwann in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', in contrast to [[spoiler:Raven]].

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}} Onmyōji]]'':

* Sucy in ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'' has bangs over one eye, as she's the creepiest of the protagonist.

* Astrid in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''. They're over her left eye when she's the toughened Viking, and away from her face when she [[DefrostingTheIceQueen starts warming up to Hiccup]], most notably [[spoiler:when she kisses him.]]

** The ninja Alchemist Warrior Shinobu Negoro has a large, triangular bang covering his left eye that symbolises his fighting style that relies on concealment, dirty tricks and his ExtraDimensionalShortcut powers.

* Decim from ''Anime/DeathParade'' hides his right eye under thick bangs. It serves to make him look distant, deceptive, and mysterious, and also serves as a veil to separate him from humans since he is [[{{Psychopomp}} an Arbiter]] of the afterlife. In the GrandFinale, we finally see what’s underneath: [[spoiler:his eye is normal. Chiyuki brushes his hair aside after he breaks down in sorrow, expressing his human empathy for the fist time. The veil has effectively been parted]].

* In ''[[Franchise/DotHack .Hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet]]'' the [[AIIsACrapshoot Vagrant A.I.]] Morté has this [[spoiler:to conceal her left eye which reveals her to have heterochromia as well as facial discoloration from TheVirus]].

%%* Chad from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has the shy variety. Kira Izuru has the emo variety.

* ''Star Spangled Rhythm'' ridiculed Creator/VeronicaLake's hairstyle in song, along with Creator/PauletteGoddard's sweater and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Lamour Dorothy Lamour]]'s sarong. The musical number's punchline was a "peek-a-boo bang" on the face of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, who is blamed for dictating the fashion.

* ''Star Spangled Rhythm'' ridiculed Creator/VeronicaLake's hairstyle in song, along with Creator/PauletteGoddard's [[SweaterGirl sweater]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Lamour Dorothy Lamour]]'s sarong. The musical number's punchline was a "peek-a-boo bang" on the face of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, who is blamed for dictating the fashion.

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