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* L from ''Manga/DeathNote'' has these constantly. He's an insomniac.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Throughout the climax of "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]", the bags under Louis de Pointe du Lac's eyes are reddish and puffy because he's grieving for his brother Paul, and the loss has pushed him past his DespairEventHorizon. His situation is further exacerbated by the fear and stress brought on by Lestat de Lioncourt's NonhumanLoverReveal when the latter savagely murders two priests in front of Louis.

* In ''Literature/LilyAndDunkin'', Dunkin's mom has dark circles under her eyes when she [[spoiler:visits him in the hospital after his psychotic break]].

* These are the most recognizable feature of Reine Murasame in ''LightNovel/DateALive''. She says she has had insomnia for ''30 years''.

* In episode 5 of ''LightNovel/NakaimoMyLittleSisterIsAmongThem'', Shougo Mikadono's sister keeps calling him around 6 am every day for a week, which causes him to be sleep deprived at school. Then Episode 6 [[spoiler:reveals that it was Mei Sagara calling him, pretending to be his sister, to keep him from finding out who she really is, lest his father's company publicly scorns and shame his illegitimate daughter and Shougo's half-sister, once her identity is revealed.]]

* A few times in ''LightNovel/ReZero'', Subaru gets these. Not because of being sleep-deprived, the cause being the psychological trauma he experienced; the first assault by the Witches Cult and [[spoiler:accidentally killing Emilia which led Puck to [[ApocalypseHow destroying the world.]]]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'': Hyouka always has dark rings under her eyes. It's implied that she hardly sleeps due to her obsession with trying to [[ForScience find out how human reproduction works]] since the Japanese government has forbidden even basic Sex Ed from being taught at schools. So she used to trespass into gynecology clinics and maternity wards to ask expectant mothers about it until she was blacklisted. Now Hyouka spends every waking moment in her lab, or in the forest, studying the mating habits of mosquitos in order to learn the truth.

* Violet in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' has these, likely to complete the 'emo' look. They partially recede in the sequel.

Often used to show a character is tired to the bone after [[SleepDeprivation pulling an all-nighter]] are the Exhausted Eye Bags. These are circles of darker skin color than normal underneath the character's eyes to represent the RealLife phenomena of pigmentation that occurs around a person's eyes when they are physically exhausted, though in reality it would usually take more than a single night for this coloration to appear. Usually, it's a one-off situation and after the character gets some sleep they return to their normal appearance.

* ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'': Hyouka always has dark rings under her eyes. It's implied that she hardly sleeps due to her obsession with trying to [[ForScience find out how human reproduction works]], since the Japanese government has forbidden even basic Sex Ed from being taught at schools. So she used to trespass into gynecology clinics and maternity wards to ask expectant mothers about it, until she was blacklisted. Now Hyouka spends every waking moment in her lab, or in the forest, studying the mating habits of mosquitos in order to learn the truth.

* Faust VIII of Manga/ShamanKing has eye bags so severe that the heroes initially mistake it for eyeliner. He's a chronic workaholic due to his obsession with studying medicine and necromancy, and as a result they are both pronounced and permanent.

* In ''Fanfic/TowardsTheSun'', Zuko has these throughout his reign as Fire Lord due his constant overworking and lack of sleep.

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'': Simon Blackquill has the most extreme example of these you could imagine, along with white streaked hair as a result of being in prison for seven years, and he still looks good.

** In "Is There a Doctor in the House?", Mrs. and Mr. Read both have these after catching a cold. D.W. is depicting as having them also at the end of the episode from being exhausted doing chores. Arthur catches the cold, but isn't shown with them due to only having BlackBeadEyes when wearing his glasses.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang, Katara, Sokka and Toph ''all'' have bags under their eyes when they go without sleep due to being chased for days by Azula and her QuirkyMinibossSquad. Later Aang gets this when he goes three days without sleeping due to nightmares of the coming battle. His early morning training and late night shenanigans also mean that his friends get very little sleep which results in ''them'' getting ''another'' bout of exhausted eye bags as well.

** [=BoJack=] himself has these, from being middle aged and likely from being a heavy alcoholic and drug abuser.

* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': Molly, Tooey and Trini all get eye bags in "Turn on the Northern Lights" because they stayed up late the previous night.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': Ren gets some truly epic ones in episode "Space Madness."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stanley}}'': In "Caterpillar Countdown", Elsie gets these when [[SanitySlippage losing her mind]] due to be tiring of waiting for the butterfly to come out the chrysaslis.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': A few episodes has Steven getting exhausted eyes, one occasion being helping Kiki with her pizza-related dreams repeatedly.

** "[[Recap/TotalDramaTruthOrLaserShark Truth or Laser Shark]]": Dakota has a poor sleep due to Dawn's conversations with the local fauna. Come challenge time and she has major bags under her eyes that she initially tries to hide with sunglasses.
* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'': Peter suffers these as a result of being sick and not getting enough rest due to wall crawling heroics.

* From ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' the Donburiman Trio get these in the episode ''Donburiman Trio and the Mysterious Forest''. After being entranced so much by the charms of the princess from said forest that they pull all-nighters for her, [[spoiler: the princess actually being Dokinchan in disguise to get free donburi out of them]], they have dark purple patches under their eyes.

* In episode 5 of ''LightNovel/NakaimoMyLittleSisterIsAmongThem'', Shougo Mikadono's sister keeps calling him around 6 am every day for a week, which causes him to be sleep deprived at school. Then episode 6 [[spoiler: reveals that it was Mei Sagara calling him, pretending to be his sister, to keep him from finding out who she really is, lest his father's company publicly scorns and shame his illegitimate daughter and Shougo's half-sister, once her identity is revealed.]]

** [[http://eva303.smackjeeves.com/comics/1944472/006/ Shinji and Asuka have huge eye bags]] in chapters 13 and 14 because they haven't slept in nearly twenty-four hours (the latter because she was running away; the former because he was looking for her to talk her into returning home).

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', [[{{Bookworm}} Hermione]] is described as having shadows under her eyes to rival those of the constantly ill-looking [[CoolTeacher Professor]] [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Lupin]] when she pulls a few too many [[spoiler: time travel aided]] all-nighters in preparation for her exams.

** Marianne has these in her character portrait, as she barely ever sleeps for fear that someone is watching her. [[spoiler: After the time skip, these disappear from her portrait to indicate that her mental health has improved.]]

* In Creator/DrSeuss's ''Horton Hatches the Egg'', Mazie complains of having bags under her eyes. In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' version, she has [[VisualPun actual travelling bags]] under her eyes.* In ''Literature/HoshiAndTheRedCityCircuit'', Hoshi guesses, from the smudges under Sorreno's eyes and the fact that her clothes don't look like they've been changed since yesterday, that Sorreno didn't sleep last night.