History Main / BadassesWearBandanas

** In every incarnation, the titular main characters are depicted wearing these over their faces with little eyeholes to see through (Leonardo wears a [[BlueIsHeroic blue]] one, Raphael wears a [[RedIsHeroic red]] one, Donatello wears a [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] one and Michelangelo wears an [[VibrantOrange orange]] one). [[note]] In the original Mirage comics, they all wore red bandanas. [[/note]]
** The ninjas of The Foot Clan are a villainous example and their bandanas are usually depicted as being [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver the color red to go with their all-black outfits]].

** In every incarnation, the titular main characters are depicted wearing these over their faces with little eyeholes to see through (Leonardo wears a [[BlueIsHeroic blue]] one, Raphael wears a [[RedIsHeroic red]] one, Donatello wears a [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] one and Michelangelo wears an [[VibrantOrange orange]] one). [[note]] In the original comics, they all wore red bandanas. [[/note]]

* Edgar Frog in ''Film/TheLostBoys'' is a boastful GenreSavvy vampire hunter who wears a red bandana to look more badass and whose speech is a near constant impression of Creator/SylvesterStallone in further reference to [[Franchise/{{Rambo}} his iconic bandana-wearing hero]].

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny The Ultimate Showdown of]] [[{{Pun}} Ultimate Bandanary]][[labelnote:*]]Image is based on ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''. Clockwise from top: [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]], [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Roy]], [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood Richter]], [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Ike]], and [[VideoGame/MetalGear Snake]][[/labelnote]].]]

* ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'': Kei is almost always seen with her hair up and a band tied around her head to keep it in place, which serves as an instant visual signal as to which half of the TomboyAndGirlyGirl dynamic she represents.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokémon}}''

* May from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' always wears one.

* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', all [[HunterOfMonsters hunters]] save for Lily wear a bandana to conceal their noses and mouths like a mask, instead of wearing it on their heads like a headband.

** In every incarnation, the titular main characters are depicted wearing these over their faces with little eyeholes to see through (Leonardo wears a [[BlueIsHeroic blue]] one, Raphael wears a [[RedIsHeroic red]] one, Donatello wears a [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] one and Michelangelo wears an [[VibrantOrange orange]] one). [[note]] In the original comics, they all wore red bandanas [[/note]].

** In every incarnation, the titular main characters are depicted wearing these over their faces with little eyeholes to see through (Leonardo wears a [[BlueIsHeroic blue]] one, Raphael wears a [[RedIsHeroic red]] one, Donatello wears a [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] one and Michelangelo wears an [[VibrantOrange orange]] one).

* '' Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles:'' In every incarnation, the titular main characters are depicted wearing these over their faces with little eyeholes to see through (Leonardo wears a [[BlueIsHeroic blue]] one, Raphael wears a [[RedIsHeroic red]] one, Donatello wears a [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] one and Michelangelo wears an [[VibrantOrange orange]] one).

* '' Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles:'' In every incarnation, the titular main characters are depicted wearing these over their faces with little eyeholes to see through (Leonardo wears a [[BlueIsHeroic blue]] one, Raphael wears a [[RedIsHeroic red]] one, Donatello wears a purple one and Michelangelo wears an orange one).

* ''VideoGame/WarcraftII'''s cover art featured a human with a tricorn and an orc wearing a bandanna, giving both a nautical/piratical appearance respectively (as the game introduced naval combat to the series).

** Lani, an axe-wielding bounty hunter and minor antagonist from ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIX'' wears a bandana adorned with a feathered brooch.

** Many [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Sacaens]] wore headbands; almost all of them were badasses by default and the headgear may have been more evocative of BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins.

** The ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' DLC and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' redesigns of [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Roy]] definitely invoke this, giving his headband ridiculously long tails with tattered ends, on top of him being made to look significantly older.

* Petra’s bandana in ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'' also serves as her {{Iconic Item}}.

* Gunrock in the ''Videogame/PowerStone'' games wears a blue bandanna on his head to emphasise his working-class background as a miner.

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SubTrope of NiceHat or ScarfOfAssKicking. Compare with CoolHelmet, and a SisterTrope to FedoraOfAsskicking as well.

** Dizzy Wallin also wears a bandana under his [[NiceHat cowboy hat]].

* Parodied in ''Literature/ReaperMan''. When the Dean of Unseen University starts getting extremely gung-ho about blowing up things that have been animated by the excess life-force, he removes his hat, ties a strip off his robe, and ties it round his head, explaining that this is what they do in the Counterweight Continent. The parody is firstly that the other wizards think this is ridiculous, and secondly that the Dean is a very fat man in his seventies. He also won't stop saying "Yo!" or occasionally "Bonsai!"

* Parodied in ''Literature/ReaperMan''. When the Dean of Unseen University starts getting extremely gung-ho about blowing up things that have been animated by the excess life-force, he removes his hat, ties a strip off his robe, and ties it round his head, explaining that this is what they do in the Counterweight Continent. The parody is firstly that the other wizards think this is ridiculous, and secondly that the Dean is a very fat man in his seventies.

** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' Snake [[NoFourthWall points to his bandana and says that it gives him infinite ammo]].

* ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'': The titular character sports one in every movie, with the exception of the [[Film/RamboLastBlood fifth and final installment]].

* ComicBook/{{Elektra}} typically wears one.