History Main / ScarfOfAsskicking

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* Shiina in ''Anime/AngelBeats!''

* In his youth, Guts of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' had a scarf. It became more badass in the new movies.

* Saya of ''Anime/BloodPlus'' wears one during her final battle.

* Sayoko of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' when in kickass ninja mode.
* The main nine cyborg characters of ''Manga/Cyborg009''. Since they were created by the same artist as, you guessed it, ''Franchise/KamenRider'', this is hardly surprising.
* Lavi in ''Manga/DGrayMan'' wears a long orange, later red, scarf.
* ''Anime/DieBuster'' loves this trope, especially if they can make said scarf flap around in the wind. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFppdq6vEPg Observe.]]

* Dogby gets one in the second volume of ''Manga/DogbyWalksAlone''.

** Trunks wears one in ''Anime/DragonBallGT''.

* Sakura from ''Manga/GetBackers'' brings it up to ImprobableWeaponUser levels.

* Shizuku from ''Manga/HayateXBlade'' sports the headband version of this.

** Holland gets a nice black, blue and white one [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-758.html in the second sketch]].
* [[CreepyCrossdresser Jakotsu]] from ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' has a purple one.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': All over the place in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]''. Joseph and Caesar wear them as part of their combat gear, while Straizo and Lisa Lisa both [[ImprobableWeaponUser weaponize]] them.
** Lisa Lisa uses a long yellow scarf as weapons.
** [[spoiler:Her son,]] Joseph, had one too.

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'':
** Kenshin wears one in the manga adaptation the live-action movie.
** And in the original anime and manga, teenage Aoshi has so much scarf that his face is half buried in it.

* Mutsu from ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'' wears a yellow one, and is one of the strongest of the [[JustForPun tit]]ular battle aliens.

** Black Star gets one as of chapter 62.
** Also Tsubaki.
** In Masamune form Tsubaki and Black Star's shadows BECOME this.

* ''Anime/SpeedRacer'': Go Mifune/Speed Racer wears a scarf-like, red neckerchief.

* ''Lots'' in ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee''. It helps that it's part of the letter bee uniform.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
** Yoko wears one... and [[{{Stripperiffic}} little else]].
** Viral picks one up after the time-skip as well - his Super Galaxy costume is a ShoutOut to Hayato Jin.
* Hime from ''Manga/YozakuraQuartet''.

* In ''LightNovel/No6'' Nezumi is almost always wearing his gray scarf.

* Mina Murray in ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', although her asskicking is generally more mental than physical.
** And she wears a scarf to cover her [[spoiler: neck scars from {{Dracula}}.]]
* ComicBook/MsMarvel's original costume. Her current costume still retains the visual element, but now it's a waist sash.
** [[Comicbook/MsMarvel2014 The new Ms. Marvel]] has since brought the scarf back into style.
* The Little Prince wore one. It flutters when appropriate. This was mentioned in the book as well, although the poor kid doesn't do much asskicking.
* Rorschach from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. But he keeps his scarf tucked into his BadassLongcoat.

* In ''Franchise/XMen'', some ComicBook/{{Rogue}}'s costumes include a scarf.

* The original film of ''Film/TheLadykillers1955'' had Professor Marcus sporting a very long scarf.

* ''Literature/LightningDust'': Crystal Eye wears a bright blue one.

* Sherlock in BBC's ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' wears a blue scarf.

* In one of the variations of ''[[Myth/KingArthur Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', Gawain gets one of these at the end to cover a newly received scar on his neck. As a show of solidarity, the other knights wear scarves as well.
** Another variation has a green sash. After Gawain tells the other knights about everything that happened, King Arthur laughs and decides that all the Knights of the Round Table should wear green sashes as well, in honor of his cousin's adventure.

* WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere usually wears a scarf to go along with her aviator goggles.

* LetsPlay/ManlyBadassHero is depicted with a red scarf in fan art.

** In ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'', has Rentaro Kagura aka Kamen Rider Shinobi who's a {{Ninja}}-themed rider with purple scarf. Likewise with Kamen Rider Woz when he uses Futurering Shinobi also has the purple scarf that Shinobi has on his suit.

* Your character in ''VideoGame/{{Journey}}'' wears on his/her cape a scarf containing energy used to perform flying. Scarves are charged when you touch a form of cloth, and to make them grow, you have to collect glowing symbols around the world of the game. [[spoiler:If you fail at evading the war machines, you will be caught on sight by them as a punishment, shredding the scarf apart.]] Since there's little to no violence in the game, it [[AvertedTrope ignores the "Asskicking" part of this trope]].

** Taken UpToEleven in the recent ''Batman/The Shadow'' crossover, where it appears as two billowing red sheets that always [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/9b4f76ed540597b23bbe197f3ee1d981/tumblr_op4l0aWDaP1ubea57o1_1280.jpg stretch beyond the panel and have no visible end]], which often makes them appear bigger than The Shadow himself. [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/9fb1bafdfbaab2490823363a83935be6/tumblr_otzkmz7bIA1ubea57o1_1280.jpg This panel]] in particular shows it as long enough to ''dwarf Man-Bat and Clayface in size''. Partially justified in that The Shadow is a master of illusion who frequently changes form as he clouds men's minds.

* ''VideoGame/Shinobi2002'' gets a special mention - the story goes that a programmer turned the scarf's length UpToEleven as a joke, and it was so popular it was ''increased again'' before release.

* [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Bang Shishigami]] wears one. [[TestosteronePoisoning It's as manly as he is]].

* [[TwoFistedTales Pulp-era]] hero Radio/TheShadow. Probably one of the earliest examples of this trope in fiction. Although the scarf itself is not a part of the original character design (it was the prominent red lining of his coat and the collar used to cover his face) but instead added in the character's DC series.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Wonderful}}'', Wonder Red wears a red scarf. It's her "battle scarf", and Taylor doesn't appreciate Sophia calling it dorky.

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** And of course, it is worth noting, it's ''cold'' at high-altitude. For every thousand feet up, you lose about five and a half degrees Fahrenheit. [[note]]About ten degrees centigrade for every thousand meters, for those of you [[WeAllLiveInAmerica not living in the US of A]][[/note]]. Cold enough for a UsefuleNotes/WorldWarI aviator flying upwards of twelve or fifteen thousand feet over Europe, much colder for a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII aviator in an unpressurized cabin twenty or thirty thousand feet up. Airmen were typically heavily bundled in cold weather gear which might even include a suit with an electrical heater which needed to be plugged in, although pilots of single-engined fighters got some heat from the high-powered engine they usually sat behind.

* Launchpad McQuack in ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck1991'' wears a similar aviator scarf as Della, but in white

* The protagonist of ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'', Hibiki, wears a pair of scarf-like things on her symphogear starting with season 2. With gems on the end for some [[BlingOfWar extra flair]].

** An anecdote from an eventful life of a famous 30'es Soviet test pilot Valery Chkalov tells a story that once upon a time Soviet brass wanted to get rid of the silk scarves for the pilots, considering them "bourgeous". Chkalov then invited the Commissar who pushed for that idea to a demo flight -- without the scarf, naturally. After the flight filled with looking back and forth from the cabin, the commissar ended up with a terribly chafed neck and the idea was immediately dropped.

* In the ''ComicBook/MegaMan'' comic series, Oil Man wears one over his face to hide his, ahem, [[ValuesDissonance lips of a certain offensively stereotypical persuasion]].

** From ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'', there's Makoto. This may be a subversion, as the scarf in question is said to be an oversized {{hachimaki}} worn around her neck according to some sources. Makoto, on the other hand, [[https://youtu.be/TCddPJGQzHo is not a stranger to five-star beatdowns]]. [[GroinAttack Ouch,]].

* VideoGame/{{Jak|AndDaxter}} gets one of these in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'' and ''VideoGame/Jak''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' : The so-called "holy shawl" is part of the traditional clerical attire of the Healing Church, meaning that most Church-aligned Hunters and bosses wear it. The earliest example is Father Gascoigne, who combines a tattered scarf with a BadassLongcoat and serves as the early-game WakeUpCallBoss. Much later, you may also encounter the BonusBoss Martyr Logarius, who sports the ''original'' holy shawl, as his gear's FlavorText explains that the Church has incorporated his personal style into their official habits to honor his martyrdom.

* Gundham Tanaka of VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair, who fancies himself an EvilOverlord, wears a long, dark purple scarf.
* The ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' games give [[RedIsHeroic the hero of the game a red scarf]]. [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Laharl]] of ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' has one. Almaz in the third game has a scarf too but, considering his [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]] status, the "of Asskicking" part is debatable. The lead Prinny in ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'' wears a red scarf that also prevents him from randomly exploding as Prinnies tend to do. Or rather, there's one scarf which is shared between a thousand Prinnies and passed down whenever one dies and the main character is whoever is currently wearing the scarf.

* [[VideoGame/GunstarHeroes Gunstar Green]] wears a blue one at the start of the Seven Force battle.
* [[VideoGame/InazumaEleven Fubuki Shirou]], [[AnIcePerson the icy ace striker]] of Hakuren, wears one. Also a TragicKeepsake.
* The main character of VideoGame/{{Intrusion 2}} has a flowing red scarf, and since he shoots laser guns at flying octopus robots while riding a giant wolf his status as an asskicker is pretty obvious.
* VideoGame/{{Jak|AndDaxter}} gets one of these in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'' and ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander''.

* Adol Christin seems to have picked one up in ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}: The Oath in Felghana'', and continues on to wear it in the seventh game of the series. It makes you wonder why it took so long for the developers to give it to him.

** Killer Bee also has a white scarf, and [[CrazyAwesome wears it well]].

** LadyOfWar and CatNinja Blake Belladonna wears a black scarf both as a small child (shown in a flashback scene) and as a teenager in her original outfit (Volumes 1-3).

** LadyOfWar/CatNinja Blake Belladonna wears a black scarf both as a small child (shown in a flashback scene) and as a teenager in her original outfit (Volumes 1-3).

* ''WebAnimation/RWBY'':
** [[BoisterousBruiser Yang Xiao Long]] wears an orange scarf in her original outfit (Volumes 1-3) and her current one (Volumes 7-8).
** [[LadyOfWar Blake Belladonna]] wore a black scarf both as a small child (shown in a flashback scene) and as a teenager in her original outfit (Volumes 1-3).

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' features the teacher Eraser Head, who unconsciously fits this trope [[ImprobableWeaponUser by using his otherwise impractically long scarf made of]] [[TechnoBabble steel wire alloy woven with carbon nanofibers]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser to kick ass]]. Eraser Head later goes on to share this trope with Hitoshi Shinso, a [[HeroicWannabe student from the General course who works to transfer into the Hero course]] [[spoiler:and successfully does so]] with some help and training from Eraser Head.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' features the teacher Eraser Head, who unconsciously [[InvokedTrope invokes this trope]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser by using his otherwise impractically long scarf made of]] [[TechnoBabble steel wire alloy woven with carbon nanofibers]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser to kick ass]].

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series, particularly those before ''Dynaman'', used scarves. However, they had to change into scarf-less spandex because it was a lot safer to do with stunts. However, X-1 Mask, Black Puma, and Koguma Skyblue wear them.