History Main / PointlessBandAid

** [[spoiler: It wasn't always pointless, as it was originally applied to his chin after a car crash he suffered 30 years earlier. The SanitySlippage he was undergoing at the time caused him to forget it was there until the above quote, meaning his beard grew out from under it.]]

* Old Man [=McGucket=], the oldest living resident of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' (pictured above), has a pointless band-aid on his ''beard.''

* The main character of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' uses one for no good reason (although he does get beat up a lot). He's actually nicknamed "Band-Aid" by one of the other characters. He does have a small scar under the Band-Aid.

* In the second ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}'', Adell's younger brother, Taro, sports one of these on his left chin/cheek.

* Pictured above is Old Man [=McGucket=], the oldest living resident of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. Please note that the band-aid is on his ''beard.''

* In early ''{{Deadpool}}'' comics, Deadpool's rival T-Ray wore a bandage across the bridge of his nose all the time. According to a letter column it wasn't originally pointless, having been put there to hold his nose to his face after it ''fell off''; eventually his HealingFactor took care of the problem, but he kept wearing it for no real reason.

* Luke from ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoon Harvest Moon : Tree of Tranquility]]''.

** The first DLC character for the second game, Gaige the Mecromancer, has one on her cheek. Given she's a {tomboy}} who identifies as a punk, and medical technology allows much more serious injuries to be heal with a simple injection, it's most likely purely cosmetic InUniverse.
* Ryo Hazuki from ''{{Shenmue}}'' always has a white adhesive strip on his upper left cheek. In some early production images it's an ordinary Band-aid instead.

* Els Tasmin of ''Manga/MagicalGitlLyricalNanohaVivid'' had these at the start but were slowly phased out. Her first appearances showed her with band-aids all over her arms. During her match with Harry, the ones on her arms had disappeared, but she still had one on her knee. When she started appearing again as a more regular character, she no longer had any band-aids on her.

* Crazy Earl in the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' - games. Granted, in the first game he lives in a dangerous scrapyard infested with bandits, but the second game takes place much later and he still has a band-aid on the exact same spot on his nose.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', Gaige the Mecromancer has one on her cheek. Given she's a {tomboy}} who identifies as a punk, and medical technology allows much more serious injuries to be heal with a simple injection, it's most likely purely cosmetic InUniverse.

* Monta from ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' always wears a bandage on his nose as can be [[http://www.onemanga.com/Eyeshield_21/187/05/ seen here]]. When a fan asked about this, [[http://www.onemanga.com/Eyeshield_21/62/23/ it was confirmed he wears it just for decoration]]. Although this isn't the case for Monta, real football players will occasionally wear ''nasal strips'', especially receivers.

* Subverted in ''Manga/FlameOfRecca'': Recca's friends think the bandage on his face is just to look cool, but [[spoiler:it actually hides a katana scar he received as a baby]]. Double Subverted that when the reveal hits in, he just put the Band-Aid back and treat it like nothing happened, and that scar was never brought up again.

* Some people use them to cover scars or other facial imperfections that they can't or won't disguise with cosmetics.

* {{Deconstructed}} in ''Manga/{{Loveless}}''. At first it looks like Ritsuka is playing this trope straight, especially since he initially gives off an {{delinquent}} impression, but we find out later that he has [[DomesticAbuse a very]] [[AbusiveParents real]] reason for it.

* Riko in ''[=kissXsis=]'' always has a bandaid on her left cheek.

* Gingka from ''Anime/{{Beyblade}}'' has a Band-Aid on his nose.

* In ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'', SIE wears a Band-Aid on her left arm. The player never sees her get injured there, but she is a mercenary.

* Kazuma Suzuka from ''Franchise/TokimekiMemorial: Girls' Side'' always wears a Band-Aid under his left eye, perhaps as a shorthand to indicate that he's into sports.

* Orn "Dutchy" Ayers in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v4 is mentioned as wearing a Band-Aid over the bridge of his nose. His profile confirms that this is more of a personality quirk/casual accessory than the result of an injury.

* Jim Moralès of ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' always wears a Band-Aid on the left cheek. He's seen once putting on a fresh one, but we're never shown what's underneath.
* In the ''WebAnimation/ChibiAvatar'' shorts, Mai has a Band-Aid on her nose.

* Pictured above is Old Man [=McGucket=], the oldest living resident of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. Please note that the bandaid is on his ''beard.''

* In the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series, Detective Gumshoe has been wearing a bandage in the same spot on his left cheek for at least seven years. It's almost-but-not-quite {{lampshaded}} in ''[[AceAttorneyInvestigations Investigations]]'', when he asks, "Do I have something on my face or something?" to which the response is, "Well, actually..." The whole dialogue seems to be drawing attention to his Pointless Band-Aid, and then the punchline ends up being "haha, it's your face" or something equally ignoring it.

* Pictured above is Old Man McGucket, the oldest living resident of GravityFalls. Please note that the bandaid is on his ''beard.''

* ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'''s main character Seina Yamada wears a Band-Aid on his forehead most of the show. Initially it could be due to him being a CosmicPlaything, but after being enhanced he's almost invulnerable and still keeps it, so it fits.

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