Don't ask why she has glasses in the eighth picture.
This is for a character whose eyes are always concealed, whether they're wearing shades, Opaque Lenses, an Eye-Obscuring Hat, or a mop of hair. It doesn't matter what they wear to cover up their vision, whether it's shades, a hat, a mask, etc. Point is that their eyes are never seen, so we never learn what their entire face looks like. Sometimes this is done to make the character mysterious or conceal the character's weird eyes. Other times, it's done to invoke an emo look.
Please note that this is not about how hiding their eyes expresses a certain emotion, whether it's angst or shyness. While that can be a bonus for this trope, it's not what it's mainly about. It's about a character who always has their eyes covered and they are rarely, if ever, seen. Also note that this is for characters who regularly appear, so minor characters don't count.
In Japanese media, obscured eyes (usually by bangs) is often used as a stand-in for being "generic" and can be used for the Protagonist of video games (including Eroge). This lead to the meme of any such character as having 'hentai protagonist hair'.
A Super-Trope to Hidden Eyes, in which the eyes are obscured only to show angst or terror. Can overlap with Eyes Always Shut (in which a character never opens their eyes) and The Faceless (in which a character's entire face is obscured). Also compare Never Bareheaded, which is the same thing, but with a character never revealing their head instead. Might fall under The Un-Reveal if a character is about to show what their eyes look like, only for them to be out of view.
Examples:
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Advertising
- An animated Partnership for a Drug-Free America from the 90s featured a kid named Davey, whose eyes are always covered by his yellow baseball cap.
- The Energizer Bunny's eyes are usually hidden by his Cool Shades (and in the case of the commercial parodying The Lone Ranger, the Ranger's mask). Since the transition to CGi, the Bunny's sunglasses have become an Expressive Mask of sorts, eliminating the need for proper eyes to be seen. Poked fun at in a Holiday 2016 ad
, where the Bunny takes off his sunglasses to reveal another pair underneath. That being said, there have been official plush toys of the Bunny that give him eyes (a given, as they'd look awkward otherwise), but its inconsistent as to whether they're beady or traditional cartoon-style eyes.
Anime & Manga
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You: Meme always hides her eyes under her bangs as she suffers from crippling social anxiety and can't stand for anyone to see them. It's so important to her that even in dangerous situations if there's any risk of her bangs being blown up (such as via wind or gravity) she'll keep a hand there to hold them down, personal safety be damned. It's implied that beneath her bangs she's actually incredibly beautiful... but given her hatred of attention, that's just all the more reason for her to hide herself.
- Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo:
- Besides some flashback as a child, the titular character has always worn his Cool Shades and never removed them.
- One of the Hair-Hunt Troops from one hundred years ago, Nihiru/Ringo, has purple hair with bangs that covers his eyes.
- Bocchi the Rock!: Played for laughs with Hitori's dad Naoki. His eyes are never seen due to him either being seen from the back, or something conveniently covering them, like his camera or his other daughter's arms.
- Digimon:
- Often, Digimon with a fully human appearance have their eyes covered by something and we don't see what's under it. Aversions often have their face obscured by a Cool Mask instead. Examples include Angemon, who has a helmet that covers up his eyes and we never see what his eyes look like underneath it, Angewomon, who is Angemon's Distaff Counterpart and wears her helmet the same way as Angemon, and Fairimon, who wears a visor that covers her eyes and never takes it off.
- Digimon Ghost Game: Angoramon's bangs usually cover his eyes. In fact, on the rare occasion that his eyes are visible under them, it's a sign that something's very wrong.
- Fairy Tail: Capricorn always wears opaque Cool Shades, and apart from brief moments when his eyes bulge so big out of anger that they're partially visible, he's never seen without them.
- Kirby: Right Back at Ya!:
- Tuff has bangs that obscure his eyes, and we never see what's underneath them.
- In "Tooned Out", Dedede hires three professional animators named Biggy, Boney, and Sleepy. Just like Tuff, Boney has long bangs that cover his eyes.
- Jujutsu Kaisen: Jujutsu Sorcerers cover their eyes to stealthily observe Cursed Spirits, as they often get violent if they know they're being watched. Satoru Gojo also does this, but for a different reason.
- Moriarty the Patriot: Blind Von Herder always wears a blindfold around his eyes. There's even an omake joke where someone takes it off and he's wearing another one underneath it.
- One Piece: Donquixote Doflamingo's eyes are always hidden behind his Cool Shades. The reason why has yet to be revealed, but a Flash Back shows that this was already the case in his childhood, and when a reader asked what was under his sunglasses, the author dodged the question by answering that he wore another identical pair of sunglasses. Whenever they are damaged in battle and the one time he is seen taking them off, alone in a private room, his eyes are conveniently out of frame, closed, or covered by his hand.
- Pokémon the Series:
- Before it was caught by Lana and given an Important Haircut, Sandy the Eevee in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon had fur that covered its eyes and occasionally gave it trouble seeing.
- In Pokémon Horizons: The Series, Nidothing's real life identity Dot has a purple mop covering her face. When she does pull up her bangs, her eyes have almost a permanently bored Tsurime look with thick eyebrows.
- Princess Jellyfish: Jiji's eyes never show up through her opaque glasses. Bamba and Mayaya have eye obscuring bangs, but in the manga, Mayaya's eyes show up in a few dramatic moments.
- In the manga, Mayaya explains she hides her eyes because when she was a kid, they earned her the nickname "contract killer" from the other children. She is forced to pull her bangs back when she becomes Tsukimi's model. For everyone's surprise, Mayaya's ferocious eyes are stunning, but she doesn't believe it when they tell her that.
- In chapter 84, Jiji takes off her glasses when she volunteers to replace Kuranosuke in the fashion show, showing her expressive black eyes. Bamba follows suit by pulling her curly hair back. Her eyes are big and clear (unluckily, the scene is in black and white, so its not possible to know their color.
- Usagi-chan de Cue!!: Benten no Chou always wears goggles that circle his head and have Opaque Lenses. This eyewear remains on his face whether he's in human form or in dog form. To compensate for his eyes being obscured, Chou has an Expressive Accessory hachimaki that tends to spell out his thoughts and feelings at the moment.
- Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!: Hana's younger sister Yanagi always has her eyes covered by her bangs.
- Zombie Land Saga: Kotaro Tatsumi never takes off his sunglasses. None of the main cast have ever seen his full face, and any scene or flashback that hints to his eyes will always obscure them. It layers onto his already Mysterious Past.
Asian Animation
- Banzi's Secret Diary: Banzi's shy boyfriend Hoyong deliberately has his hair obscuring his eyes.
- Lamput: One of the soccer players in "Soccer Punch" has hair that goes over his eyes, preventing him from seeing and making it hard for him to play soccer. Eventually, Lamput pulls back his hair, and he can see again.
Comic Books
- Judge Dredd: Since his helmet includes a shades-like mask, Judge Dredd is never seen from the nose up, as neither his head nor eyes have been disclosed.
- Monica's Gang: Doreen is always seen with her sunglasses, as we never get to see her eyes due to her blindness.
- Preacher: Cassidy never, ever removes his sunglasses. In the finale, it's shown to be because they're hideously bloodshot.
- Secret Path (2016): The Sinister Minister from the Residential School that Chanie Wendjak fled from is never shown when his face is visible. The closest we get is a shot that, while it shows the lower half of his face, still has a branch obscuring his eyes.
- Sunny Series: Greg, the boy Sunny's friend Deb has a crush on in Sunny Figures It Out, has long hair that covers his face. When Deb admits her crush on him and says he has dreamy blue eyes, Sunny is confused as she doesn't see his eyes much if ever, and they're never seen once in the book.
- X-Men: Cyclops usually wears his visor or glasses or shuts his eyes to control his Eye Beams. When he doesn't, his eyes aren't visible through the beams.
Comic Strips
- Beetle Bailey: In addition to being Never Bareheaded, the titular Beetle Bailey wears either an Army soft cap or a helmet while at Camp Swampy, both of which cover his eyes. This doesn't seem to obscure his vision when Sarge is looking for him. The only time Beetle's eyes have been seen is shortly before enlisting in the Army, when his girlfriend asked him to remove his porkpie hat. She took one look, then told him to put the hat back on. In one strip, Sarge shouted "BOO!" behind Beetle to scare him and make his hat fly off so that Fuzz could see his eyes. Unfortunately, Beetle was wearing sunglasses.
- Calvin and Hobbes: Moe, the class bully, always has his eyes covered by his bangs.
- Crabgrass: Kyle, Kevin's older brother, always has his eyes obscured by his long black hair. In the January 23, 2023 strip, Miles even states he had no idea Kyle even has eyes.
- FoxTrot: Jason almost never takes his Opaque Nerd Glasses off; the few times he does, something else is always covering his eyes. The only time we see his (closed) eyes is when he's asleep in one early strip. In later strips, it's shown that Jason sleeps with his glasses on, and he apparently also wears them in the shower. You never see Peter's girlfriend Denise's eyes either, since she's blind.
- Knights of the Dinner Table: Newt, of the Black Hands, always has his eyes obscured by his fringe.
- Peanuts: Marcie always wears opaque glasses that obscure her eyes, and is very rarely seen without them.
- The Phantom: The title character wears an Irisless Eye Mask of Mystery in his costumed guise and always wears sunglasses in his civilian identity as Kit Walker. Jungle lore says that it is death to see his unmasked face. While he doesn't wear a mask or glasses in bed — suggesting at the very least that his wife is immune from the curse — his eyes are obscured by shadow then.
Fan Works
- Hybridized: As part of his Shrinking Violet nature, Anti-Juandissimo has his bangs grown out enough to where his hair covers his eyes.
- The LG NiiVerse: Dr. Awesomeness always wears goggles with Opaque Lenses due to Yue screwing up while transmutating her and making her eyes permanently bloodshot and very sensitive to light.
- In Through Her Eyes, Ruby Rose sports a pair of tinted goggles at all times. Since her Grimm eyes cause an overwhelming fight-or-flight response that result in people either fleeing/freezing in terror or attacking her in perceived self-defense, wearing goggles is the only way she can safely interact with others, including her own family.
Film — Animation
- Flint's dad in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs has a furrowed unibrow that covers his eyes throughout the movie, save two or three instances it raises to reveal his eyes, usually signifying his surprise or befuddlement.
- KPop Demon Hunters: Mystery Saja of the Saja Boys has his eyes completely obscured by his nose-length bangs. The one time anyone sees under them is Zoey, who says he's her type before smiting him.
- Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers: Farquard, the man servant to the late Colonel Beaureguard, wore sunglasses throughout the movie, but this trope was only subverted for 3 seconds at the beginning of the movie when he did take them off.
- Trolls World Tour: Barb's drummer, Riff, always has his eyes obscured by his beanie cap. The only time they're exposed in some way is when he peeks his right eye out of the beanie.
Film — Live-Action
- The Blues Brothers: Jake and Elwood are never seen without their trademark sunglasses until Jake removes his at the climax while pleading with his M16-toting ex-fiancee. Elwood never takes his off at all except for a deleted scene (where he was still wearing safety glasses).
- Dredd: Just like his comic book counterpart, Judge Dredd is never seen without his helmet, which covers both his eyes and head.
- Todd in the Shadows' kayfabe is always having a Face Framed in Shadow. In Suburban Knights, in order to preserve this while walking around in daylight, he wears a black cloth over his eyes and under his hood, only showing his mouth. An attempt from one of his team members to remove it gets a gun to their face.
Literature
- Bad Kitty: Stinky Kitty has eye obscuring bangs and in "Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty", it's noted that no one ever dares to see what his eyes look like under his hair because he smells so terrible.
- Some of the Mr. Men characters, such as Mr. Silly, Mr. Nonsense and Little Miss Scatterbrain, wear hats that obscure their eyes.
- Sprawl Trilogy: As part of her extensive combat augmentations, Molly Millions has had non-retractable one-way mirrors implanted over her eyes, so that nobody ever sees the latter. In Neuromancer, Case constantly wonders about her eye color — which remains an open mystery in the end, even after one of Molly's shades is broken in a fight.note Symbolically, the mirror shades represent Molly's inability to let anyone get close to her, emotionally, since the eyes are the windows of the soul and she uses technology to actively prevent anyone from peering into hers.
- Hogfather: Skazz, one of three students in the High Energy Magic Building of Unseen University, has a hairstyle that goes down to his shoulders all the way around. It's only because of his nose sticking out that Ridcully is reasonably sure he's facing the right way.
Music
- Gorillaz: Noodle wore long bangs in the media surrounding Demon Days (Album) (known together as "Phase 2"), hiding her eyes most of the time. While she didn't possess them for Plastic Beach (which were given to her robot replica Cyborg Noodle), she had a face-concealing mask in their place. The bangs have returned occasionally for later albums, but they're nowhere near as omnipresent as they were in Phase 2.
- Estonian hip-hop group 5MIINUST wear Cool Shades as part of their public image, but there's been a few times where they've been seen without them.
Puppet Shows
- Fraggle Rock: Boober's eyes are ostensibly hidden under his hat and shock of red hair. In reality, the Boober puppet has no eyes at all. This was the third major Muppet character Dave Goelz had performed with either hidden or no eyes, following Zoot and Bunsen Honeydew.
- Sesame Street: Barkley the dog has long bangs and his eyes have never been seen.
- Shining Time Station: Didi always has her eyes hidden by her bangs.
Tabletop Games
- In Duel Masters, creatures that look like cute anime girls often have their eyes covered by a mop of hair (example). The only exceptions are creatures of the Outrage race.
- In Nomine: Nybbas, Demon Prince of the Media, is famous for his reflective glasses, always flickering with static, that he never takes off. No demon in Hell remembers what his eyes even look like.
Video Games
- Everyone in AereA, for some reason. All four default player heroes - Jacques, Wolff, Jules and Claude - have their eyes obscured either by bangs or caps, while NPC characters like the Great master Guido, your senior advisor Eleanor and the concert hall's keeper Lorien, have their hair covering their eyes.
- In AFK Arena, Cecilia and Shemira always wear a blindfold. Both characters are blind; the former born that way, and the latter having literally cried her eyes out.
- Darkest Dungeon: As a stylistic choice, every human character has eyes framed in shadows. The only ones who have visible eyes are the abominations that have too many to hide, the Crimson Court vampires who have giant insectoid eyes as a side effect of their Curse, and the Gibbering Prophet who plucked them out and is carrying them in his hand.
- Deltarune:
- Kris' eyes are almost never seen, excepting a few moments they're dramatically shown glowing bright red. In Chapter 4, this results in them being completely unseen during the fight with Jackenstein, where the other party members can only be seen By the Lights of Their Eyes.
- In Chapter 1, Susie hides her hair behind bangs, showing how distant she is. In following chapters, she reveals them.
- In Chapter 5, Aqua has bangs hiding her eyes, emphasizing her Creepy Child tendencies. During a date sequence, she reveals three red eyes, then changes them into a single big red eye, but still hides it under other circumstances.
- Dead Ahead Zombie Warfare: All human units and enemies have their eyes concealed in some way, either with shadows coming from hats and helmets or eyewear. They're only revealed once they die.
- Endless: Francis has hair that covers his eyes.
- Amarant in Final Fantasy IX has an afro-like hairstyle that obscures his eyes.
- F-Zero: While many of the racers are like this, the most notable is protagonist Captain Falcon. The visor on his helmet has white triangles where his eyes should be, and in F-Zero GX and most entries in the Super Smash Bros. series, his eyes don't even have textures, that portion of his head's texture hidden in shadow.note
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel has Wappa Charlotte, a loudmouth who's eyes are always covered by her thick, curly hair, and even with alternate costumes, they are always obstructed by helmets, hats, or thick, opaque glasses. She reveals to Britz that she enforces this trope so people can't tell if she's really sleeping or not while on duty.
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas:
- Ryder's eyes are never seen since he never removes his sunglasses.
- Wu Zi Mu is a justified example. Missions after his introduction, CJ learns that Woozie is blind, and thus Woozie always wears sunglasses.
- Idol Manager: The Player Character has bangs that completely hide their eyes regardless of gender.
- Jinx (YTV): Dr. Frantic's eyes are always hidden by his green goggles.
- The King of Fighters: Shermie's eyes are always obscured by her hair. Some official artwork◊ manages to combine this with Hidden Eyes, somehow.
- In SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy you can customize any character with glasses. Shermie is the only character who places her glasses on her head rather than in front of her eyes.
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: A variant on the bangs form. The forest ostriches have bushy bang-like feathers on their heads that always obscure their eyes.
- Little Nightmares: The child characters tend to have their faces obscured with hoods, brown bag masks, or other assorted headgear. Even when they aren't wearing anything on their heads, their eyes are usually still hidden by their hair or something.
- Poke ALL Toads: The brave fairy has her eyes permanently hidden behind her fringe.
- In Pokémon, this is one of the standouts of Ralts, which debuted in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. They're clearly meant to be symbolic of shyness, as it's not particularly powerful and Ralts is sensitive to its trainer's emotions. While there were a couple of concept art pieces that showed that Ralts had the same eyes as its evolutions, they weren't depicted in any game until Pokémon Trozei!, 3 years after its release. Even in the latest entries, seeing Ralts' eyes usually requires looking at its Pokédex entry and rotating its model just right.
- Potion Permit: Victor's eyes are always hidden under his bangs, adding to his creepiness. They're not even shown in his portrait, making it look like he doesn't have eyes at all.
- Puyo Puyo: Maguro Sasaki's eyes are always covered with his hair. Only the other characters know what they look like, and they have never been shown to us. We do know, however, that they are able to attract anyone of any kind, as revealed in his story in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary. In fact, in the games that use 3D models, his eyes aren't even modeled.
- Resident Evil: Albert Wesker always wears sunglasses, up until the fifth game in the franchise.
- Saints Row: Johnny Gat almost always wears sunglasses whenever he's doing work for the Third Street Saints. His eyes are at their most invisible in the third and fourth games, due to the Art Evolution improving the graphics, whereas before, his sunglasses were just transparent enough or low on his face enough for the player to see his eyes. According to the writers, Johnny wears prescription sunglasses, which means wearing them actually is beneficial for his eyesight. Which speaks volumes about how awesome Johnny is.
- Shantae and the Seven Sirens: The warp room attendant always has her bangs covering her eyes.
- Dr. Eggman in the Sonic the Hedgehog games is always wearing a pair of shades that cover his eyes. At certain angles, his eyes can be seen in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
- Sprunki: You're not gonna' see Moss's eyes since they're covered up by moss.
- Super Paper Mario: Nastasia is almost always seen with opaque glasses on. The one time they're knocked off, her eyes are closed until she puts them back on.
- Team Fortress 2: The Engineer is always wearing welding goggles except when the player selects other cosmetics that replace it. There is no in-game option to reveal his eyes. If the Engineer wears the not-at-all eye-obscuring Reader's Choice eyeglasses, he wears them over his welding goggles.
- Them's Fightin' Herds: Vetr's eyes, and most of his facial features, are hidden away by his prodigiously thick facial hair.
- Valiant Hearts: The art style covers the eyes of adults to show that they have seen the horrors of the world. Children's eyes are therefore uncovered to display their innocence. In the sequel, the African-Americans are similarly drawn with eyes shown because they're optimistic and eager to prove themselves. Once James learns that his brother Freddie wasn't killed in action, but by racists back at home, his eyes are cynically obscured.
- WarioWare: Several characters, such as Jimmy T. (and by extension, his entire family), Orbulon, Dr. Crygor and 18-Volt, have their eyes hidden behind glasses (or in the case of Dr. Crygor, a visor) and are rarely, if never shown. Orbulon's eyes however, were barely visible in one cutscene in Twisted, (and his eyes can be shown in their entirety if the glasses are removed via hacking).
Visual Novels
- The Great Ace Attorney: The eyes of Jezaille Brett are always obscured by either the rim of her hat or the mask she holds in her hand.
- Otaku's Adventure: The protagonist Otaku always hides his eyes behind his bowl cut.
Web Animation
- In Eddsworld, flashbacks to Edd's teen years depict teenage Edd with his bangs covering his eyes.
- Happy Tree Friends: The Mole, who always wears sunglasses, and Cro-Marmot, whose eyes are obscured by his hair.
- Zipped Up: Levi, a lovable, goofy cowboy who plays the banjo, has his bangs obscuring his eyes, but his eyebrows do all the talking.
Webcomics
- Crow Time: Edwin has long bangs covering their eyes.
- In DeathSitter the mysterious Fortune Teller that Felix encounters has her eyes covered by her red veil the entire time. She shows up later as a gardener, when Felix goes to the hospital. Her outfit is completely different and she no longer is wearing a veil, but her green hair is covering her eyes instead.
- El Goonish Shive: Tedd and Edward Verres both wear opaque glasses at the start of the comic, which hide their eyes. Tedd's eyes get revealed a year into the run (2003), at which point Tedd reveals he only wears his opaque glasses to hide his "girly" eyes, which he got bullied for. He later stops doing this, since he has accepted his androgynous appearance. Mr. Verres's eyes wouldn't get revealed until 2022 after his glasses got knocked off in a battle with Liam Tyrantslayer, at which point it was revealed he had heterochromia.
- Erma: Several of the Yōkai characters have this trait.
- Erma is generally seen with one or both eyes obscured by her long hair flopping in front of her face; she has only very rarely been seen (in her human form) with both eyes exposed.
- Erma's mother Emiko almost always has both eyes concealed by her long fringe.
- Mitsu and Momo, Erma's bratty cousins, have both eyes covered most of the time. When they're really upset about something they will show one eye. Neither has ever been shown with both eyes exposed.
- Hello from Halo Head: Pepper, an anthropomorphic dog, usually has both of his eyes covered by his hair.
- JL8: Young Bruce Wayne and Hal Jordan both wear domino masks that hide their eyes. While Hal would eventually reveal his eyes during the camping trip arc, Bruce has yet to be seen without his mask on (even when sleeping).
- In Lightning Made of Owls, Delkin's eyes are always hidden, sometimes by bangs, sometimes by opaque eyewear of some kind.
- My Bigger Boyfriend: Ocean's eyes are always covered by his long blonde bangs. His feature was only referenced in strip #40 when Lance asks Pride what he loves about Ocean. He answers that he fell in love with the color of his eyes. Which Lance gives a deadpan look to the reader.
- The Rule Of Death: The undead protagonist's eyes are always hidden in shadow, no matter the lighting, and the mysterious Grim Reaper-like antagonist (a fellow undead) always covers his eyes with his bangs. The Distant Finale shows that this is a universal trait of undead.
- Trying Human: The Majestic 12 have eyes hidden in various ways (bangs, Sinister Shades, a cloth with an eye symbol, etc.), except 6, who's an artificial lifeform, and 12, who's new. Except when he acts in cruel, inhumane, man-in-black ways, shadows or his own hair hide his eyes. Conversely, when 8, who normally has bangs, acts human, moral or vulnerable, her eyes peek out from behind the hair. Glassner, Herr Doktor of the Area 51, is wearing Sinister Shades. Hiddenness of eyes seems to symbolise inhumanity, in short, although Pigment, one half of a Battle Couple vigilante duo and an indisputable good gal, wears a pair of pink goggles when out heroing. But that might be to protect both her eyes and her identity.
- Wonderlab: The Penitent Girl and A Party Everlasting both have long hair that obscure their entire faces. With the latter, the most we ever get to see of their face is a single eye.
- Yokoka's Quest: Kalliv's eyes aren't can't be seen beneath his hair while in demon form, though in mouse form they're fully visible. When Copycat shapeshifts into Kalliv, he notes that his eyesight is awful, even without any hair in the way, while also revealing to the readers what Kalliv's eyes would look like uncovered.
Western Animation
- Animaniacs: Dr Scratchansniff's eyes are always covered by his opaque glasses.
- The Bluey (2018) special "The Sign" has a sheepdog couple. Bluey innocently refers to them as "those dogs with no eyes" and "those dogs who can't see".
- Captain Flamingo: Avi, the kid that always causes a strain of accidents that lead to a chain of events, has long bangs that covers her eyes. With the exceptions of him getting a bad haircut by a deranged, hair-destroying barber in "Much Ado About a 'Do'" or when his head get stuck in a fishbowl in "Alien Avalanche" and we see his pupils, mistaken him as an alien, we never see the rest of his eyes underneath his hair.
- Codename: Kids Next Door: Played with since we see their eyes from time to time, but all members of Sector V hide their eyes most of the time in different ways: Numbuh 1 with his sunglasses, Numbuh 2 with his goggles, Numbuh 3 by keeping them shut, Numbuh 4 with his hair, and Numbuh 5 with her hat's brim.
- From Cool McCool, there's Tom from the Harry McCool (My Pop, the Cop) segment.
- Courage the Cowardly Dog: Neither Eustace nor Muriel have their eyes revealed behind their glasses, and the rare times each of them do take them off, their eyes are always shut tight.
- Klunk from Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines has a mop of hair covering his eyes and his goggles are fitted on it.
- Dynomutt, Dog Wonder: The Blue Falcon's eyes are hidden by his beak hood. Sometimes, it looks like he has empty eye sockets!
- In Ed, Edd n Eddy, Lee Kanker's eyes are almost never seen behind her curly red hair. In The Big Picture Show, a quick shot shows her with three eyes, though that might have been an animation error or a smear frame.
- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants: Bo Hweemuth has long bangs, and we've never once seen his eyes underneath his hair, so it's unknown if he has the same Black Bead Eyes as everyone else.
- Futurama: The few times Professor Farnsworth takes off his Opaque Nerd Glasses, he is invariably facing away from the audience. According to Mom, they're milky white in color.
- Gravity Falls: Blendin Blandin is never once seen with his opaque glasses off. The one time he takes them off when Bill Cipher possesses him, he had Bill-stylized eyes, and the instant Bill leaves his body, the glasses are immediately back on.
- Square Bear of The Hair Bear Bunch has a hat that covers his eyes. When it's removed, he has a mop of hair over his eyes.
- Harriet the Spy: Recurring character "Purple Socks" is almost always seen with his bangs covering his eyes, with only a few times where we actually get to see his eyes (and those times are always brief).
- Hey Arnold!: Curly wears glasses in which the lenses completely obscure his eyes. He was once shown without them on in "Curly's Girl", though it's unclear whether they're really what his eyes regularly look like or if it's just Puppy-Dog Eyes that only show up occasionally depending on a character's mood.
- The Impossibles: Multi Man hides his eyes behind sheepdog-like bangs.
- Jelly Jamm: Ongo has eye obscuring bangs and, with the exception of when he looks through binoculars in "Queen's Birthday" and "A Day at the Races" and we see his pupils, we never see the rest of his eyes under that hair.
- Johnny Bravo: Johnny never reveals his eyes from behind his sunglasses, and in the rare instances they're removed, he either has Wingding Eyes or uses one of his beefy arms to cover his entire face until he puts his glasses back on. The closest we would ever get to seeing his eyes is the crossover episode with Scooby-Doo, where he and Velma accidentally switch glasses.
- Kaeloo: Eugly's bangs cover her eyes. They are seen for a few brief seconds in Episode 82, but usually kept covered.
- Jorel's Brother: To add to his sleazy personality, Nico is always seen with large unkempt black hair including bangs that always obscure his eyes. This was a minor plot point on the first episode where his dad, Mr. Edson, tells Jorel's brother that Nico's face got permanently damaged after a bike accident, but at the end of the episode, Nico shows off his unobscured eyes and they actually look unexpectedly beautiful, revealing the former claim to be a lie made up by Edson. This was also the only instance in the entire series where Nico's eyes were shown fully uncovered; one of his eyes is also seen poking out of between the hair in "Embarque Nessa Onda", but it just looks like a cartoonish eye this time.
- Legend Quest: Coyolxauhqui, the Big Bad of Masters of Myth, has her headdress always covering her eyes, though her nose and mouth are always uncovered.
- Sam the Sheepdog from Looney Tunes has this look going, potentially making him look more intimidating to Ralph, although his (completely normal) eyes do sometimes get exposed at certain times during the show. Justified, as this is what old English sheepdogs (Sam's presumed breed) actually look like.
- The Loud House:
- Pictured atop this page is Lucy Loud, who always has her eyes covered by her hair. Even her baby photos show her wearing an Eye-Obscuring Hat, and the Live-Action Adaptation, The Really Loud House, keeps her hairstyle from the animated series via use of a wig on her actress (though its pilot movie A Loud House Christmas features a couple shots with multiple characters wherein Lucy's eyes are fully visible). The reason why her parents let her bangs grow out, as said in "The Crying Dame", is that she kept giving what seemed to be a Thousand-Yard Stare to Lynn Sr. and Rita. Later in that episode, it becomes a Brick Joke when Lily pushes one of Luan's balloon animals away and it floats into a potted cactus; after it bursts, its eyes float over on top of Lucy's bangs, revealing the overall shape of her eyeballs. The movie A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice would finally reveal her left eye, when she's attacked by Hair Raising Hares pulling on her bangs during the climactic battle.
- Various other characters have their hair covering where their eyes should be as well, including Mazzy, Hank, Mick Swagger and Lucy's one-off animal counterpart Bella from "White Hare" (who has the unusual Furry Female Mane whereas every other animal character from the episode either has no representation of hair, a tuft of head fur, or uses their Ears as Hair).
- Zonk of the Bronto Bunch on The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show. Also Bad Luck Schleprock.
- Stick from the Posse Impossible segment of CB Bears.
- Big Billy of the Gangreen Gang on The Powerpuff Girls has parted his hair once to show he's a cyclops.
- The Raccoons: Schaeffer the Dog's eyes are always covered by his bangs.
- On The Ricky Gervais Show, Karl's girlfriend Susanne always has her bangs covering her eyes whenever her face is onscreen.
- Deputy Droop-a-Long on Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long Coyote keeps his hat over his eyes.
- Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's eyes cannot be seen behind his glasses. Whenever he's without them, his eyes are always closed.
- Teen Titans: Robin constantly wears his domino mask, even when on a date or hanging out with the other Titans, which hides his eyes. In his one significant costume change in Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, he wears sunglasses instead.
- Unikitty!: Hawkodile always wears Cool Shades. It is shown in "Action Forest" that he used to have bangs when he was younger, and when Eagleator steals his shades from him in that same episode, we only see him from behind before he covers his eyes with a blindfold. It's said that Hawkodile is so used to wearing the shades that his eyes can no longer tolerate the sunlight.
- VeggieTales invokes this with the design of several characters, like Pa Grape, Mr. Lunt, and Grandpa George. However, because of the art style of the show, they pull this off by not rendering the characters with eyes at all, leading to the occasional Lampshade Hanging.
- Big Gruesome of the Gruesome Twosome on Wacky Races. Also the Slag Brothers.
Real Life
- There are a number of dog breeds that have fur growing down from their heads obscuring their eyes, such as the Puli, the Komondor, the Briard, and the Old English Sheepdog. Notably, these four breeds are guarding or herding dogs, and hair over their eyes protects them from sunlight, rain, and dirt during their long time spent in the pastures.
- The Highland Cattle often has hair growing down over its eyes.
- Because of how their head feathers grow out, this can happen to two breeds of chicken. First, the Silkie's unique fluffy and fur-like plumage typically leads to this. The other breed consist of Polish chickens, known to sport distinctive crests of feathers that look like a cross between Anime and Einstein Hair.